and for stacy, oh, beautiful jewelry. and how about ha ha. luxury auto bill again for mag? you know it money laundry is highly regal. copier cookies. what has a report? ah, gas prices in europe had a new record with the german government warning people to prepare for a close to freezing months. meanwhile, the countries energy regulators yet to grant an operating license to the now fully completed, gnawed stream to gas pipeline. the white house declassified report revealing its suspected for years that the mystery sounds that supposedly attacking us government stop abroad were not unknown russian weapons, but chirping crickets and poland accuses the e. u of blackmail for threatening to withhold cache from regions that don't recognize l g b t writes, we get some reaction, a ride to nothing,

and everyone has this rise view of in union should find another way. i believe that the european union should not interfere with what's happening in the whole in that order. ah, hello good to abby with us. it's friday evening here in moscow. and this is art internationals, world news at 11 with me calling bright. now with winter, just around the corner in europe, reco gas prices continue to sweep the continent. but germany, it's still yet to grant certification to nord stream to the gas pipeline is technically completed, but it still needs permission to operate from the german energy regulator. here's artillio katrinka remember the times when bitcoin prices were setting one record after another and everyone was going wow, when is this going to stop? well, this is a very rough comparison, but this is pretty much, very similar to what's been happening to the prices for natural gas in europe. at

this point, when it comes to the gas futures in europe, 1000 cubic meters of natural gas is currently worth around $1200.00. and this is a historic record. but unless you are a crypto enthusiast, the price of bait coin really for now isn't something that is affecting the everyday lives of everyone. but for now, european households are inevitably dependent on the price of natural gas and how difficult the situation is at this point for european consumers is reflected in this ad, which is being played in germany at this point. have a look. i

while european gas in power supply and demand hangs in the balance, the major participants in the market are looking to rushes nord stream to project as a sign of hope. the project is intended for direct natural gas deliveries from russia to the german northern coast. and it could double the flow of russian natural gas to europe. however, it has not been certified yet, even though it's technically complete, that process has begun at the beginning of september, but it could take up months or even more than that. first, it's the german energy regulator that needs to give the project the green light and then a draft is passed on to the european commission. and we've already heard from one of the major players on the market that because of this bureaucracy, it could be that north stream to may not help european consumers this season. the

certification of the pipeline, as far as i know will be so light, it will probably not be able to help was out this winter. the nord stream to pipeline has quite a few enemies in eastern europe, for example. and also across the atlantic, american companies are keen to sell liquefied natural gas to europe. however, now all of a sudden europe does need more natural gas because of the economic situation. and at one point, even rushes energy giant gas from was accused of purposefully creating a situation when prices are high. however, in gas from they're saying that they are only fulfilling their contract obligations and they are ready to help you're about to export more gas. and this is something that has already begun and what gas from really needs right now is infrastructure. they're saying give us the greenlight for the, the exports through nord stream to and we are ready for it. so at this point,

the ball is in the european bureaucrats court of brussels has a, he was mentioning, acute, his gas prom, of manipulating supplies and prices at a time of urgent need. but the russian energy firm insists that it is meeting all of its contractual obligations. in their entirety earlier and i'll say a foam austrian foreign minister told us that a huge states only have themselves to blame e, you customers only come our customers among many of us, we are competing with china with india for so sometimes they pay simply higher prices as lack of planning, it's mismanagement, i would say energy politics has also to do with securing supply with affordable prices with bringing energy to the customer. and here we have seen mismanagement that we have been focusing only on moving out of forsythe, not anymore allowing companies tool to invest and foster, but it's

a completely whole major dilemma. it's definitely not that the russians are not delivering that to the russian energy companies, such as gus from fulfilling that contract. but the issue is many for, and the situation that we are in is one of and a cheap for the fission. and in an energy transition, you cannot seem to move out of anything without moving into something. and this has been the case in germany, period firefighters of the latest sector of the french population refusing to buy out a new mandatory covert vaccine laws, almost $200.00 in the south of the country in suspended without pay. and told that they could only return to work when the jabbed the charlotte to ben's good report. now getting a sense of what the resistance is here from key work is across france to the idea of not just the obligatory vaccination, but then showing that you've been vaccinated by the use of this health parts. this

is a health pass which you show not only for some places of work, but also for cafes, restaurants, bars, cinemas, cultural places to show that you've either had to vaccination shots a if it's pfizer or astrazeneca, or the one if it's the johnson and johnson, all that you've had a recent test that shows that you cobit negative, but for these key workers, they have to show that they are w vaccinated to be able to continue to work. however, in the southeast of france, in region, just above the city of niece, almost 200 firefighters, have since been suspended because their refusal outright to comply with this new regime. they have said, we're not showing you whether or not we've been vaccinated to. we don't know if they've even been vaccinated. this is more for them about the idea that they are refusing to give over that information to their employees. and as a result, they've been suspended likely, according to the new regulations without pay as well. at now, just to give you a sense of how many individuals that is at this is about 13 percent likely to have

a pretty big impact. it's not the 1st time that firefighters and shown resistance to this idea of the health path. we know that some unions even took a case to the european court of human rights in august. they may have failed, but the union says it's going to continue to fight for the cause. the aim is not at all to increase the number of strikers or protesters, but to protect staff who do not wish to be vaccinated and who are waiting for a solution. it's not just firefighters, either. this is something that is impacting other key workers, such as health workers. here in france, we understand that there are around 20000 medical star. this could be doctors and nurses care staff caregivers who have been suspended since this obligation to show that you've vaccinated car came into force on september 15th. however,

while there are 2700000 workers in the health sector here, franklin, you might think, oh, well, you know, 20000 isn't that many unions have told us every member of staff that is lost, every member of staff that is not working. that has a wider impact, an impact on the services that they're able to offer, as well as of the staff who continue to work. and we've heard that while originally this health pastor is only supposed to be in place until about november 15th, the government is already muted. the suggestion that it could be looking at legislating to make that health pass obligatory up until the summer of 2022. she can imagine if people have been angry up until this point, this is likely to only solidify that and get even more if that goes ahead. hey, to the south caucasus. and another turbulent twist for the small nation of georgia is larger than life. former president mccall successfully has been arrested. i was off the, returning to the country from exile. and apparently for the 1st time in 8 years,

the georgia prime minister had vowed to arrest him if he returned the whole quarter explained why suckage philly's back and why the authorities wanted while he is facing some hefty prison time. that's for sure. and now the prosecutor's office is saying that they're investigating him for the additional offense of illegally crossing the border into the country. now we have to remember that the former george and president has been living in ukraine since 2013. that was after his 9 years of power back in georgia, a kia gave him citizenship. he was even the governor of odessa for a quite a while there. but during his time in ukraine, he was actually accused of several crimes back in georgia, 2 of which he was a convicted of in absentia. now those crimes are the killing of the head of the united georgian banks, foreign department, and the killing of a government deputy, which together have earned him 9 years in prison. and we also heard from the prosecutor's office that this sentence is not up for appeal. now the controversy

surrounding suckers really actually doesn't and there it was his administration that was power in power when war broke out in the region back in 2008 soccer really tried to accuse russia of instigating this war. but actually, the international community has really has recognized that the responsibility actually lies with him. in the missions view, it was julia which triggered off the wall when it's attacked. syn valley in south city with heavy artillery on the nights of the 7th to the 8th of august, 2008. now why would suck as freely return to a country in which she's a wanted man? well, he actually announced his plans earlier in the week on facebook, claiming he was, he would return and quote, so take part in saving georgia. now interestingly enough, this coincides with local elections that are going on there in which his former party is challenging. the current ruling administration, but as of now we've heard from his lawyer, he says that he cannot get in touch with suckers. really. the georgian ambassador

to ukraine has been summoned for more information on to what's going on. so the events cur, surrounding the store are really developing quickly and will be on top of it as they develop in infesting weekend in georgia. still ahead this hour though, on rp, the mysterious buzzing syndrome, which left american diplomats and embassy staff sick, co, russian weapons were blamed. but i knew the declassified us report suggests a much more natural explanation. without the reports after the break. ah, ah, ah francis mc chrome recently said quote, the europeans must stop being naive when we are under pressure from powers, which at times harden their spans, we need to react and show we have the power and capacity to defend ourselves, vold words. but does europe have the political will to actually defend itself?

ah, if you would expect to be of non government could be in the image of liberty, a seat. and i'm sorry, this is a wrong expectation. be you will have to see is that you want me to go on as, but there will be cooley entities. you can't impose the esther democratic system of a plant evolved and the political order with again, the u. s. department declassified

a 2018 documents advising that enigmatic noises supposedly plaguing us, buys and diplomats abroad were actually to the local insects. but that admission hasn't stopped the u. s. establishment of media spinning into a frenzy that the sounds actually came from mystical russian weaponry. kevin, having all the details from marty's constantine rosco, while according to recently emerged a document, this whole story might be just a big conspiracy theory. and it, what's really interesting here is that a caricature chirping might have been falsely taken out for the sound of this science fiction weapon on this whole mishap actually triggered the whole thing. we believe the recorded sounds are mechanical or biological in origin, rather than electronic. the most likely source is the end is short tailed cricket. the recorded odo signal is with high confidence, not produced by the nonlinear detection of high pow radio frequency or ultrasound pulses. while it all started back in 2016, a with 21 usaa service members in cuba when they experienced this medical symptoms

including ah, headache, dizziness of fatigue on nausea, anxiety, cognitive difficulties in memory laws. and then, similar cases were reported in china in 2018 and then in some other countries. while there have been speculations in the american media, and they often were backed by their cia sources, dads out of the russians, or the chinese have come up with this cotton edge. never seen before. weapon that targets us service members around the globe, causing this, ah, vicious injuries rushes behind sonic attacks that lead to brain injuries of u. s embassy personnel communications intercepts that suggests that the russian intelligence agency was involved with now russia is the leading suspect nbc news has learned according to 3 u. s. officials, the main suspect of the intelligence agencies. russia did it. well, one of the things that sparked this exact suspicion was this in a weird noise,

heard and a recorded by you as diplomats in cuba before they felt ill. and while now it turns out that this could have been just rowdy insects and not necessarily the super weapons. ah, what's also interesting is that it's not actually the 1st time this has been noticed in 2019 to american re surgeries, herani similar analysis. and they looked into the same recording concluded that this were crickets, not something allison. some reason their findings were brushed aside in this conspiracy theory to con a life of it's own some of the mystery. so the think it's crickets, whether drove the people crackers at the end of the day, but you don't know as to speed saying that these people to say they went through some, some pretty em, the heavy symptoms did have that blue still not really sure why then sure, so the symptoms are for real and in the same report that di shoots down this microwave weapon theory actually confirms that audio as personnel may have been suffering from some mass mental disorders. a possible explanation for the reports

of symptoms is psychogenic illness. jason, believe such psychogenic effects may serve to explain important components of their port at symptoms and mid september, the cuban, a group of cuban a researcher is also announced at the claims of secret sonic weapons were not scientifically acceptable. and they attributed this symptoms to you. ah, what they called a mass psychosis on the part of usaa service members. now, whatever caused this mysterious illness, it apparently has become a big thing, an issue for the american diplomat serving abroad because we know that there have been around 200 incidents of havana syndrome, stiff date. and just last week, us lawmakers passed the how think american victims afflicted by neurological attacks act or havana act, which actually is given the cia millions of dollars to compensate the personnel affected on a new fisher and the major volcanic eruption in the canary islands is raising

further fears for residence on la palmer lava floater advancing towards the odds. biggest town having ready for the evacuation of villages in that path for 2 weeks now. there are also warnings that the toxic gas created when lava had sea water could spread to continental europe. a 1000 buildings have been damaged on the spanish territory with more than sick 1000 people, slaying their homes. the islands being declared a disaster. so ice rushes 1st. royal wedding in more than a century has taken place in a lavish ceremony in saint petersburg. grand duke george mahalo voyage romano, the descendant of the russian imperial family, tied the knot with his italian fiance earlier this friday is the grandson of the last empress 1st cousin, who fled the country and declared himself ruler in exile. after the 19th 17 revolution ended. the monarchy and with ovalo down on the right, royal event, he is a coach dawn of. well, it is certainly a 1st for russia in many, many years in over a century. of course, that's because the groom,

the jew here he is coming from the he's a descendant of the russian royal bloodline, but that's not the only thing. monarch eric about this wedding. it is also the number of guests hundreds of people have decided to well attend the ceremony. some figures very, very colorful, which is already quite royal in scale and lavish, but also many european aristocrats, dukes. and even the last king of bulgaria decided, well to come and wish the new with some luck. and if i may say so the crowning jewel of this wedding as well is the venue. of course, it's the st ice axe cathedral a while as an historic church, one of the most beautiful in all of russia. and it, well quite very well associated with the russian royal blood line. so yeah, it is a sight truly to behold, but well, this as all things royal against this wedding was not without its controversies,

because the main question is to is as to how much claim on the throne the groom really has here because his, his relationship with sar nicholas the 2nd rushes last czar who, along with all of his family, including his children, was well put to death by a firing squad on the orders of while the communist revolutionaries back all the way back in 1918. so this duke, the groom, here he is the great grandson of the cousin of nicholas, the 2nd russia's last czar. and that cousin will he kind abdicated and he even pledged allegiance to the revolutionary authorities back in 1917, only to change his mind later in exile in europe. but whatever controversies is the rest about this wedding, well there still, it will let the experts to decide as to what to do with them. and we will wish the newly weds the best of luck. of course. bowlens justice minister says the countries

being blackmailed by the e u by threatening to withdrawal funds and regions of fail to recognize l g b t writes for districts have already back down and revoked policies that discriminate against the gay community a last month for european commission told the regents that it would withhold over a $120000000.00 euros if the declaration remained in force. during the summer. brussels initiated legal action against poland for alleged violations of l g b t writes. but not everyone's happy with the a you intervention butcher versus you'll notice i believe that the european union should not interfere with what's happening in colon at all of her for they should not act like that. especially if the city deserves that money and should be given such carnal tease and sanctions of this type should not be imposed. horsemen gone. i think the european union is right now. government is very heavily fall bakery. i agree with europe and everyone has this rise. you have in union should find another way, is them the voice of i'm not a sign of pro l g

b t zones. but on the other hand, everyone has it right to their own life communion and a part of the european union. it is very unfair. such things should not be complied . here is the man and here's the money just for their completely separate matters. i think nothing should be done by you and you to that. there is no such need in poems because you don't have to fool anybody. a local governors justified there, you turn saying that they're not ready to be accountable for the financial loss. i want to export. we heard from told us that such an approach by the e. u to maintain unity in the block is a path to dictatorship. every local power should act according to the wheel. and i have a lot of a degree of power, especially in this case, especially in this case. so i, you know, i'm not trying to him to the subject of nato mato, cuba evolved lesbian gauge on gender song. i'm talking about the general you the general principle. there should be a while. it is specter by the european union unless they appear

wants to become a south assault all talk receipt of the dealership, i think is the very democratic choice. i think the former communist count is like paula local municipalities. local bobbins is so local powers. they have power enough according to the constitution to act are called you today will. i think it is something which is completely legitimated and should be understood and should be allowed. also the center of the reclaims, of multiple voting violations in last weekend's german election. in one instance, ballot papers were delivered to the wrong districts and also that some people were left queuing for hours outside polling stations. the government since submitted that there were several incidents across the country. yes, yes, i mean these incidents have been discovered and they are being discussed intensively in such a major city in germany,

in the city where we are. and i think that is exactly where it belongs. there with more on what exactly went wrong during the elections. he is on us to say a toma trevor. ah, it all started when mock election forecasts for accidentally at 2 days ahead of devote to public broadcast to briefly displayed a ticker was the projected results union evening quiz program. and today's lather. only hours for for pollock station close to the free voters party leader also seated forecast results. the publication of paul's and projections on election day is strictly prohibited, was fines up to $50000.00 euros. but the party had claims. this was an accident. you'll be an adult smith. impunity, we will clarify this with the federal returning officer. it was just a mis apple nissan. there was no intention to break any laws she to bookstores and and some districts voters had to stand in line for hours. some even had to wait

well after the official closing time of 6 pm to cast a boat. the delay was caused by incorrect ballads being distributed to the wrong neighborhoods. the labels on the ballad boxes did not match the content resulting in hundreds of people voting for candidates from other areas. and due to high number of wrong tickets and therefore difficulty counting votes. one of the berlin districts had to publish estimates instead of results. it also took longer to deliver the correct ballots because streets were closed due to the bell in my refund on the same day which about 25000 people attended. the marathon should not have taken place on the election day. the most important act to which citizens express political will, must not fall victim to a commercial sports event. if the entire city center has paralyzed traffic, that is an extreme obstruction. mm balance. she collection official even admitted that she knew about the labeling issue back in august,

but ballots were shipped anyway. so following widespread criticism for a serious of organizational and blunders, the cheap election officer has an asked her resignation, visually sh goodman. we will have to seriously investigate whether voters were not able to cast their vote. this allegedly happened because they were not provided with a sufficient amount of ballad papers, all the correct ballot papers. an election is only democratic when all voters are able to use their right to vote. finally, a full investigation and to mismanagement is still being conducted. was its conclusions expected next week. after that, experts predict legal challenges to the results that may start pouring in? okay, that's your hourly update from the moscow newsroom. plenty more from all t dot com on our youtube channels as well. cross talks next on the growing desire in europe to stand up for itself and rely less on external powers. ah,

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ah. hello and welcome to cross, not where all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle. frances mc crone recently said, quote, the europeans must stop being naive when we are under pressure from powers, which at times, pardon there stands, we need to react and show. we have the power and capacity to defend ourselves. bold words, but does europe have the political will to actually defend itself? cross stock in european security. i'm joined by my guest, donald's as soon in london. he is a meritus professor of comparative european history at queen mary university of london. also in london. we have damian wilson, he is a former european parliament communications adviser, and in our slow we crossed england deezen. he is

a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of the new book, europe as the western peninsula of greater eurasia. right gentlemen, cross off rules and effect, that means you can jump in any time you want, and i always appreciate damien, let me go to you 1st in london. reflect upon the words of they were french president, we have to, europeans have to stop being naive. now we've heard this argument about european defense before over and over again. is it bring is it doesn't have more meaning now in life of recent events, or is this just bluster and europe? will this continue down the path that it's been on for the last few decades? go ahead in london. well, peter, i think that term that europe has long had never taught for having its own military force. one of the, the key stomach books to that ever being realized in the past was obviously the, the presence of great britain, which, which never liked the idea. it's interesting now that now that they're out of the picture that that micron has now assumed the role of.