see what that battle has done to him. i feel like life might be coming to an end. we are in a conflict situation with the largest and most powerful employer in such a situation. it's remarkable to survive the stab in the back and from events. it's frustration us, 3 of its allies, the us, the u. k. street. yeah, leave it out of a pacific security alliance type re china that does joe biden makes them borrow things lit up what the deal partly for guessing the name of the trillion prime minister naked boers. and i want to thank that trouble down under the thank you very much,

appreciate and privacy also, i had this hour a while european markets real from wedding phase records surgeon, natural gas prices with a not phone effect on the pockets of customers. we look at the root causes of the crisis and rushes parliamentary elections. it's just a day away. we'll bring you the full break on this our, on, throughout the 3 of the news wherever you are counting the program from today. welcome to moscow, and 2 more teams are national always great to have your company, you know, new a stub in the back. a french diplomat didn't hold back this week in describing a pacific security park between 3 of its allies, the u. s. the u. k. and australia seen as an attempt to counter beijing

less cross live now to our u. k. correspondence show the adverse dusty for more on this shudder. good to see you. can you take us through the main points indeed of the agreement and why from this so upset by it? well, put it this way for the french, it seems like australia was only with it till a better offer came along, which invariably it has in fact, australia, originally off france to help with something marine mission and it's just walked away, scrapping a 90000000 euro deal with the french to sign this, instead, with the united kingdom and the united states, which was now being described by the french as a stop in the back strong foundation, the will did the jungle. france has just been reminded this bitter truth by the way, the u. s and the u. k. of stub to in the back in australia, the american choice to exclude the european ally and partner such as franz from a structuring partnership with australia at the time when we're facing

unprecedented challenges in the, in the pacific region showed the lack of coherence that france can only note and regret. so instead, australia has signed this new security packed with the united kingdom and the united states over growing concerns over china. now when that deal was struck, all of the leaders talked about shared values, shared interest, and the need to secure peace and stability and the indo pacific region. now, under the best deal, all 3 nations will share the defense. state are and secrets you name it on strategic areas including artificial intelligence, a cyber security and of course, and you can defend now of radia will acquire a new killer submarine, make it the 7th country in the world to acquire. and you can a sub, in fact, the only other time that the united states offered such capabilities was to the united kingdom some decades ago. so it's a very grand gesture indeed,

but it's all just for on taking this all quite badly, but also neighboring countries in the pacific region as well. like new zealand have been long working towards nonproliferation in the region. but of course, china to isn't too happy with this. in fact, china's embassy in washington says, the west these to shake off this cold war mentality. and that the pact seriously damages a regional piece, was striking in all of this though. and all of the leaders were coming together to make that announcement is that none of them acted, the, what china, in fact the pac totally ignored the elephant in the room and said, it's not directed any one country. but the fact of the matter really is, of course, china is a superpower. it does dominate the region, so there's no doubt whatsoever. it's a deliberate challenge to that dominance. the question to all answer though is why now that is one thing that many people are doing. perhaps it is good to provide

some context. here by dint, of course, has long been saying since he took the white house, that america is back all this lea a session costs into some serious doubts with the collapse of afghanistan and the taliban takeover with both the united kingdom on the united states, withdrawing from africa stone. so this pact is in some ways an attempt to try and put back these allies on the military map trying to assert its military might across the world and try and put the horrors of africa the star behind them. but the question really is, is it as easy as the chevy? thanks for taking it through the to k correspondence. chevy edwards dusty. well, let's say what this story and i'm happy to welcome onto the program. now dave sweeney. nuclear campaigner, speaking to us from melbourne, australia, and prime minister scott morrison davis. since this deal is not about acquiring

nuclear weapons, is heaping completely transparent in not how can any one be sure there won't be atomic warheads on board the submarines? that's a very good question. and the prime minister hasn't been transparent in the development of this proposal. australian woke up in the early hours of this morning for international coordinated statement from the latest our country and the us president me a prime minister presenting. this is a fight complaints. this hasn't been discussed, it hasn't been considered kansas and it is a very significant strategic departure course. so there are real concerns as you by dana fi about nuclear creek and particularly about astray, acquiring or developing a dependency or launch on nuclear weapons. now the prime minister di making this announcement has been very clear decided this is not going to be the full run, a to a domestic civil nuclear industry, which is

a contentious issue in australia. he's also said that it is absolutely not astray as intention to acquire nuclear weapons. and he spoke that that's the case value. but for many in australia, many in the region were saying that a stria has today on terribly, and secretly entered into a nuclear advice to st. the military pac with to nuclear weapons site. is that a net gain for regional stability and pace and cooperation in the world? there's many saying no missing, strong calls on the story. i'm calling minister to keep a thick to his assurance that is tribal, not to develop nuclear weapons. why ending the try and government opposition and hostility to the united nation trading on the prohibition of nuclear weapons? and in fact, signing that to send a message to jakarta, to cambra and biting that actually is try to is up to defense of that. the not about the nuclear weapons capability so proud the minute has refused to commit to

that. how is this being taken? dave? generally, in australia because you've got the opposition there slamming and de la green party, i believe, called it the subs, floating churn nobles in terms of the public. those who know about this deal, if it has been made widely public, are they behind the government on this or not? well, it's very early days, and most people are cry been quite frankly, i think most people are quite shocked. this is not a just sort of discussion or the perception that try and have all that self in role in the world. so there is a high level of surprise, certainly a topic the conversation explained front page news in the late story news in the 3 year old i, as you could imagine there are feeling there is some very hawkish style defense and foreign policy security. and the truth that a welcoming list and saying it could set forth their site real consent to the thing, right? by the grain for many cross benches and independent politicians. serious reservations,

right? try and live about compliance with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and other requirements. many people are typical, many people are asking questions about safety, security name out there, asking questions about cost and consequence. well, just all my last part, dave, the streaming government, i believe, has not disclosed how much they're actually paying for this. still another time when the economy is reeling from the pandemic, do people need to know how many billions are going to be spent on nuclear submarines for their country the taxpayer is paying for it? look, absolutely because the cost is phenomenal, right? that's right. i ripped up at your u. k. correspondence that literally ripped up an agreement with brent that was a $19000000000.00 stray, an agreement that is a very large sum of money. now, we have not been inform on any compensation corporations or any extra money that will be required the pipe, the frank for the navarro consortium. we have not been can advise at all about the

cost of this new proposal, but it will be at least $90000000000.00 like nuclear power submarines more expensive than that's a vast amount of money. and as you say, you try an economy, like many economies around the world. how is the impact that the pandemic many people are saying? it's really the best thing. so there are, there are the concerns that are about nuclear rotation by cell. so about our role in the rage and then about security and safety issues. the nuclear. there are a wide range of concern indonesia, the pacific new zealand. many other players are looking in a, the disbelief or anger or at least concerned about a position to not can i put it to you though? whenever it's truly a speak side against china. they get hit by china with massive sanction given the regular punishment. beatings for beijing, is it understandable though that camera would want to bolster its alliance with

traditional friends the u. k. the u. s. there's no question the destroyer in china, the relationship is very strong. there's also no question. the destroyer is very dependent on chinese economic activity and that's, that's a real point in a leverage point that you've identified. but there's many people sign in the best way to the size influence on biking to align one cell are predominantly in overwhelmingly with the us and is continuing to try and independently positioning and it's other people's way supply results and our resource leverage, particularly in extractive minerals and natural resources gives us a real opportunity to, to push back on by gene. and that, that makes more sense than a multi $1000000000.00 nuclear eyes ation project that will take decades and rises, all sorts of unintended consequences, security issues here and abroad. all right, well thank you very much for coming in the program,

sharing those thoughts on indeed concerns. dave sweeney anti nuclear campaign or live from melbourne. thank you. well, our friendship between washington and camber might not be as close as it seems when a nice thing the security deal president biden appeared to forget the name of australia prime minister scott morrison. thank you bores me and i want to thank that fell down under thank you very much appreciated as to privacy australia, the u. s. and friends have repeatedly cited the supposed security threat from beijing in the indoor pacific region were chinese. the dominant power and the signing of the aka security pack comes just months after britain and infuriated the chinese by sending its worship to the side china sea to join, so called freedom of navigation operations, led by the us. china has condemned the new alliance calling and threw back to the cold war. countries should not build exclusionary blocks targeting or harming the

interest of 3rd parties. in particular, they should shake up there. cole were mentality and ideological prejudice. we spoke about australia's choice of military partners and where it could be leading with economics. professor benjamin show an anti war activist. richard becker. there's no explanation. why are the u. s. and the u. k. now, at this time helping us trail ya develop a nuclear power suite of submarines and then turning around and saying this will advance the world peace. clearly this is about another war. this is about a war that is being prepared against china. the us leaders, they talk about the endo pacific, which is of course the term was made up to enable us to explain us leaders explain, bringing more countries into the anti china alliance. the surrounding china on the

surface received at the u. s. and the new k is empowering australia to have the nuclear submarine. i think the under one key reason for this empowerment is the us in the ability to provide more defense budgets to support this large spending of nuclear power, some variance. so it says it is forcing australia to share the cost of maintaining such ships and also strategic positions. and also. ready forces into soap toilet and also in the pacific region, especially now that there is increasing tension between china and australia. so china is watching very closely. the next steps of this free country alliance. another of our headline stories today, europe is really from a price shock on its energy markets. natural gas rates hit an all time record on

wednesday of almost a $1000.00 per 1000 cubic meters. let's see how that looks like. really a roller coaster wednesday. the priest picked up $980.00 that's more than 50 percent higher than 2 weeks ago. by late evening, things had come down somewhat, but analysts are warning of further volatility. the current crisis is being played partly on energy policies being pushed by western government says r t. charlotte to pinsky texas with news the gas prices of historic highways. many people are already. busy concerned about the difficult decisions that lay ahead high school and also it's a bit scary, it's purchasing power that is decreasing. that puts more money in the pockets of shareholders of big companies. it will be quite difficult for many households. some will not be affected much, but most will be the price of gas is already high enough. i've already decided not to eat my apartments for a while longer. it's quite difficult in winter,

but it's still in habitable. if i put the heating back on at home, the bill easily climbed 250 years a month. i'm worried about this increase and the fact that will have in my bills and the cost of living with what we have left at the end of the month, it will be complicated except for the money. so forgot. i hate my home with gas if increase the price of a year, a time will come when we will no longer be able to afford to keep ourselves warm. you policy is a real issue here in europe, across the block, significant numbers of people say that they just simply call to food to keep a home room enough. prices. why? this is only like you to point further, particularly for those who income such as pension is soaring. prices have been blamed on a variety of faxes through the web and even the taco between european and asian bias liquefied natural gas. all of this has led to gas reserves long wishing

levels. so why is you really facing such a potentially winter? that is not purely a supply problem. it's not purely a supply chain problem. this is a monetary induced problem. part of what politicians do in this case is they've tend to concoct conspiracy theories to cover up for their own failures. so in the case of europe, everybody read to blame russia. i think there's a lot of scrambling and it starts now around the world to try to figure out how to get the fuels to people who need it for the, for the, for the coming winter. but it's a little bit late in the day to be thinking about this right now. so i think we're headed for a very difficult 6 months. it's also claimed that the, you have been aggressive with a shutdown of coal and also its own domestic gas fields, coupled with a heavy carbon taxation. while at the same time, it happens doesn't quite enough to make up for that by committing fully to carbon

future this tremendous attack on fossil fuel chills going on all over the western world. you know, in the name of abating climate change and so on. but it's been very reckless and, and it's, and it's really has injured the capacity of the markets to respond to, to pi signals and to demand properly. so you have all these factors working in. so you've got the supply restrictions, artificial in many directions, regulatory restrictions and so on. and all of these things are combining from an economic point of view to drive up prices that are going to make people to tremendously suffer and multifarious ways of now and for the next several years. so what is the solution will be you, companies could hook to compete at a higher level with asian counterpart for liquefied natural gas food. that

does mean that there is the potential then the higher prices and phase always russia last week. the long awaited new stream to pipeline which runs under the baltic sea was completed no big concern, 55000000 cubic meters of gas directly to your repair per year. that's enough to supply 26000000 household annually. russian company gas says it's ready to feel void that according to the country's government could solve europe's problems . there is no doubt that launching nord stream to as quickly as possible would significantly balance out the price of natural gas in europe, including on the spot market. that will though, depend on the certifying the pipeline quick shawl fish and accepting that it may need to both to supply from russia. so what all you repeating governments doing

right now will, spain has already intervened to attempt to shield its population from higher prices, new emergency measures, we'll see profits from that energy companies being used to cap the increase in gas prices. meanwhile, italy has said it will look at changes in energy sector to combust of expected 14 percent rise in retail power prices in the next quarter. what's clear is the, you need a strategy, and if it's to push ahead with plans to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, it needs to be deeper quickly. so the tv sci fi, paris, there is just a day to go, not be for russians, cast their ballots in elections for the state, doom, and that is the country's lower house of parliament. so let's take a brief look at how the process will actually work.

the who's the right throughout the week, we've been examining those 14 parties all hoping voters will be putting a tick in their box. let's look at another couple of them. the russian party of freedom and justice is among the left wing functions. taking part, it's pledging to build a more equal society with greater access to free education and health cur. the parties leader told us why he thinks they deserved people's votes. ready to slip what we sent for civil rights and freedoms and gotten people's rights to teach in their own languages and really practice their religion. and we aimed to create

a social state. we did not have the goal of establishing a left wing party. we are a wrote civil movement and this is what makes us unique. there is no time to divide people into left and right. we need to call each of citizens that can challenge the criminal and bureaucratic system. it is one of the younger policies on the russian political landscape. it used to have the word communism in their name, but they rebranded themselves still though their policies, they gravitate towards socialism. well, a lot. they are, in fact, their program is built around the idea of well creating a socialist state out of russia. he is how the leader of this party describe his intentions. my young, my aim is to develop the people as a political nation, rely on national consciousness. all modern countries rely on that. we need people to realize their responsibility for their lives and for their fate. the formation of a civil political nation is our main goal. without this, russia will be just

a colony that is used to serve other people's interests every year. russia's population decreases by a male in the health care system has essentially been destroyed. it exists only for the well off. to rectify this, we need a clear government funding plan. there should be a decent level of support below which the state has no right to fault. these should be laid down in the constitution. there can be no commercial health care system in russia. today we cannot the chief results at the legislature level because we are in the minority. our goal is to appeal to the hearts and minds of people. we have to leave in dignity. we have to be a free people without being afraid of anyone. so they may be saying that there is no point in dividing parties to left right center, but still they are an incredibly left leaning party. again, they want to create a socialist state, how to prussia, the advocating for free health get. and i just saw 3 health care and education, which russia already has,

but they want to expand to the just how free it is and to reduce to drive, to a minimum, the amount of paid institutions in these fears. now, it is also one of the somewhat dwarf parties of russia, but they are not wanting. they want to change that and dwell to become, to get the 1st representative in the russian parliament. or is it done off now? another party competing in the election is rather enough, meaning mother learns it's a right wing nationalist movement advocating for traditional values. it's demanding tougher immigration rules on once moscow to spread its wealth to the regions rather, not clenched the wrong one and a half percent support in the last election. it's like many parties can heating, they've got work to do. the party church took us through the main points of their manifest, which in the morning, every official should pass the test for patriotism and live in russia. if officials

administers have families living here and not there, they will do everything to raise the standard of living in this country. while we go to left russia, if they want to work here and live there. if officials are required to live in russia, then a 3rd will immediately disappear. health care is one of the states priorities as well. it's possible to rebuild our health care system in less than 5 years. the question is whether people really want that to happen, where the officials want it, they're all using private cab. i also voted against pension reform. i think the liberal blogs let the president down. they told us there is not enough money, but it's not true. and it all gets going in less than 24 hours as the clock ticks towards election 2021. we'll continue our special coverage throughout the day. the a vast majority of americans are unhappy with the country's direction under the

biden administration, according to a new nationwide poll or us corresponding kill him up and asked why joe biden was supposed to end that rising anger left over from the trump. here he was supposed to bring a new level of political peace to the country. remember, the last administration left us a dismantled and unworkable system. we are dedicated to achieving and quite frankly, working around the clock to replace the cruelty of the past administration. well, that did not happen. a new poll from cnn shows that across party lines, 75 percent of americans say they are angry or very angry about the direction of the country is moving in a mid rise in crime corona virus. the immigration crisis, record inflation, among other issues. let's find out exactly why people have a beef with biden. he's destroyed, or i know the world, not just as country the world. first of all, the things with it isn't always doing. and i believe with the whole off guy,

nathan doing, he just screwed up totally. the whole again a stanford go wrong. you say he's making mistakes or perhaps do i do draw a gun at the whole thing? wouldn't be honest and he's not real. he's not the president, he's not. people are controlling him. a lot of people aggravated disappointed with the way the cobra coverage is going. know could handle things differently, but what president couldn't the lack of leadership? i don't think he's got a grip on anything that's going on at all. the white house, so it's rising trajectory come to a sudden halt. jo biden's approval ratings are now in the negative. the president was promising to be our fix it man, but now more than 8 months in it's looking like things are pretty broken. this has been caused by this prevalent, not just that entire cabinet, the administration starting with the horrific way that we withdrew from back in a stand the way that we left. not only the people here, but the way there are still american civilians track and down and then you go to

some of these born days. there is no text the other where july and he had these border policy has not dealt with the and you see the tinge luck, the people coming to the border wonder not tested for coven 19. they're not, they're not looked at. they're not read. there's a lack of transparency among administration. keep moving, credibility. you've moved the popularity every day, joe, by and every ministration seems to do something that just makes it worse, fight and does not care. he's not doing anything that is bringing back the truck to the face of the american people on both sides of the aisle. he seems to be making matters worse. the extradition of prisoners from country to country itself on trial next than our documentary hawking justice. stay close for that. it's an insightful watch.

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