ah, ah ah pet lines for this hour here on our t europeans brace for storing winter gas bills. while rushers president says record prizes a partially down to failed to policies and the you try to leave paris as domestic candidates, just swiss franc. just hold on, hold going us parents face and f b. i crack down to a speaking out against mosque wearing and that of critical race theory. also on the program, a new york ethics commission probes its own decision to allow former governor andrew cuomo to rake in $5000000.00 for his book about the pandemic that we hear

from the daughter of a care home cove. it victim in that state. his whole entire investigation appeals like one big show me, our family members and for us weaving nursing home families, there's their dad. they're not coming back. but that is exactly what he is. but u. s. coalition that invaded afghanistan with the country now in meltdown. families are resorting to drastic measures when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark side. so i'm forced to sell a few of my kids to feed others. there is no option leverage mentioned the phone with mid morning on thursday and a hefty program for you today here in ocoee international straight to your top story right now. so europe is in the grip of a full blown energy crisis, with natural gas prices soaring to an all time record. and households are already feeling the impact right ahead of the winter season.

ah mm. with now russia is europe's biggest gas supply at. and president putin has said the current shortages are partly down to the use and mistakes. he accused brussels of short sightedness for insisting on a switch from long tub gas contract to that of spot trading. let's try to understand exactly what that means and ill hobby discuss the issue with ortiz eco

to donald vladimir putin talk to russia's energy minister. and basically gave very clear instruction as to the country's actions and how russia will navigate this. well, this market price has because as of now you've seen the gas prices on the market and well as of now again, it looks like the winter is going to be very, very costly to the end of the line. european consume him. so the russian president, what he did, he called on the minister to see through that russia remains a loyal partner and doesn't make things any more difficult and pod than they already are. and that the gas from rushes will national gas export in company that gas from remains a faithful partner as well and follows the contractual obligations strictly prevalent restroom. as she does, she has prom believes that it would be more profitable for it to pay a fine to ukraine and increase the gas volume pumping through the new systems. but

there's no need for that. there's more pressure in the pipe, less c o 2 emissions into the atmosphere. everything turns out cheaper and at $3000000000.00 a year, it is necessary to fully comply with the contractual obligations for the transitive gas through ukraine. although it is more profitable to sell it on the exchange, but there is no need to put anyone in a difficult position, including ukraine despite the difficulties in relations. second, there's no need to undermine gas prompts confidence is an absolute reliable partner in all respects. so i think maybe understandably, with gas prices rocketing up, some people in the west, the pointing fingers at russia and, and basically suggestion is that they're exploiting as it's getting colder. and the price gouging that, that they're trying to just milk, as for will they can get what to put enough to sever the thing is i, the european lawmakers might have shot themselves in the foot here. and, well, of conceptually nukes the wallets of the end of the line, consumers of ordinary europeans. so here's,

here's the thing about natural gas. it's not oil. you can just, you know, get it one time stored in a barrel until you needed, and then you will access it. no, it doesn't work like that is to was be to speak to self speculative demand and excitement in europe. you propose stock trading. it can be done, but of course this can and should be done not in a spot in europe, but on an exchange in st. petersburg. but in general, exchange trading is not very effective because it carries a lot of risks. is not a watch shorts and ties or a car, or even oil that can be produced and stored anywhere gas is not sold like that on the market. so what the european lawmakers came up with, they decided that they would switch from contractual from contractual trade when they receive a gas steadily throughout the year. at the current market price, they decided that they would be buying the gas of the market and they would be, would be doing so in the summer when the demand is very low. so it's essentially

dirt cheap, but they would only ask for the, for gas in physical, you're physically receive it in the winter when they, well, obviously need this gas, but what they didn't well add into this equation is the fact that the simple pipeline infrastructure is simply not robust enough, it is too old and dated in ukraine. so gas from, even if it wanted it simply can't squeeze this much natural gas in such a short period of time. so the nodes for him to project would have held because the infrastructure is much new and they can put more pressure into the, into the pipes. but well, nordstrom to has been long opposed for political reasons, including by ukraine and poland. well, with a quote with ukraine, the irony is, well, is beyond comprehension here. so it's really unclear as to how many more steps and reciprocated russia will take and is ready to take. it could have been

a prevent that i think, and i think we've understood that in may june, july, that with the economy i starting to recover we've yeah, but if you did that then to live with it, we needed more than if the european commission came out to public a thing where we need more gas and we will if the price of the percent or market dominance. i think a put, you know, and the gap from way to have a look at this reprice. and i believe they would have pushed more gas in europe. and so therefore, we wouldn't be being such a dire situation today. well, the energy contrast definitely exposed divisions within the u. u of a green policies. the hungarian prime minister has blame, soaring cost on an over reliance on renewables saying you regulations should be changed. we spoke with a job and economist on publisher. i could have it, it is would be perfect for. busy the german and energy policy to

change to a green policy, but it wouldn't suit all the other european partners because they have completely different thoughts on germany and their energy supply. for example, the french, especially the polish, want to keep the like mailing position for germany. they don't want germany to be energy efficient energy independent with russian gas. they would like to be to keep the hand on the energy supply for germany. so. busy with the north korea to pipeline the energy supply would be a would be secured. and that's why these european partners don't want education authorities and the on to states are asking the government to use anti

terror laws and involve the f, b i against parents who protest against the way that children are being taught. the national school boards association sent an open letter to the biden administration . these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased. the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes for you to dare to tries to smear parents as domestic harris just reflects just how tone death, school boards and school administrators have become about the please of parents on behalf of their children, the u. s. attorney general has stepped in writing to the f. b i and criminal attorneys also announcing plans to combat what he called it, a stoping spike and harassment, intimidation and threat. so violence against various school personnel. my colleague mil harvey spoke with ot,

he contributed lauren chin who thinks that many of the accusations was simply blown out of proportion. the board's letter does site some specific incidents, but if you actually look at the video footage from those incidents, most of the quote violence that they site is actually things like parents refusing to wear masks. oh, keep a com no, no, no. what is your name? the guardian didn't talk about critical race theory, which is pretty much will be picking him how to hate each other. how that this was at these meetings a lot of what they side as actually being domestic terrorism or violence actually is just tantamount to some harsh words being said in terms of actual violence. though i believe there's only one or 2 specific incidents that were actually led to an arrest that were mentioned in that letter. i think trying to get the f b i involved at all, frankly, just reeks of political activism. instead of actually trying to put students 1st, and i think parents are completely justified in seeing this as an attack on their rights as parents,

the parents aren't shutting up for now though for the same the attorney general is going to conflict of interest in this case, what do they mean by the, the reason why the age is taking this letter from the school board association. so seriously is specifically because his daughter through marriage has ties to a firm that actually specializes in critical race theory, training or something akin to that. his family potentially might benefit financially from c r t actually being implemented in more and more schools throughout the country. how politicized a school life become these days seems like it's increasingly political. and there have been viral videos that have been leaked of students. sh filming their teacher is going on tirades against tromp systemic racism, america in general. we've even had teachers themselves posing to their social media accounts. i think a lot of parents have started to wake up that no, you cannot simply take for granted that in education, the public school system is the same as what was happening when we were younger. recently, dozens of parents of launch campaigns against co food restrictions other teacher

give a subject cold critical race theory is led to angry protest targeting school board officials who they accuse of violating the children's rights april chaplain, who was a mother to 4 children in the us state of georgia says many parents have simply had enough in today's culture, it's the government think that they, they, they believe what is proper and right and what should your children should be taught. and so parents are experiencing a very difficult time trying to, in that change and their local communities as it relates to what's being taught in the government school. people are starting to wake up and they're starting to recognize that wait a minute. this is not the public education system that i am familiar with or that i grew up in. and it's time for me to take my head of the fan and kinda pay attention to what's going on. because they don't like what's being propagated and pushed and down frankly, it's downright indoctrination to what their children are experiencing when they go

to school and they're supposed to be learning. violence is never acceptable. so there are instances where parents are crossing the line and threat to turn into physical violence, then absolutely those incidences should be handled on the basis of their own individual merit. but that's not what we see happening here. they're taking one or 2 isolated in some instances and trying to make it seem as if parents who are be humanly opposed to what's being caught to their children in a government school. former new york governor andrew cuomo is under yet another investigation. this time from the states public ethics commission over its own approval of his book on the pandemic. cuomo, who is miss steps to blame for thousands of covert deaths in care homes, is set to make $5000000.00. from the memoir, the daughter of one of those care home victims gave us her response to that of the commissions announcement. the commission has voted to approve the retention of

independent counsel to conduct inquiry into the legal and procedural operations of the commission. this whole entire investigation feels like one big show to me. you know, the ethics commission already allowed homo to keep the $5100000.00 he made off of his blood money book of lies. so frankly, i don't see the point and having the ethics commission investigate themselves. i want to try to be optimistic. and on its face, it's a small victory, and it's a step that browser earlier, but i'm a realist in a month encouraged by this move, our family members a for us grieving nursing home families, their, their dad, they're not coming back. so number one, he should apologize. number 2 is she give every said that he made all his book to his many, many victims, and number 3, what i hope and he won't voluntarily, he should do this, but i hope he ends up in prison. what he's done, cuomo is a big deal is just one of a series of scandals involving the former governor. he resigned in late august,

often numerous allegations of sexual misconduct. earlier in the pandemic, the governor was praised for his decisive action to prevent the spread of coven. but in february, it emerged that new york authorities had massively under reported deaths in nursing homes. it turned out that over 9000 patients had been prematurely sent back to care facilities, leading to thousands of preventable infections. tracy albino again, things quote, most lucrative book deal adds insult to injury. in the beginning, when colbert emerged in new york, she was telling us to go out, you know, don't panic, panic is worse than the virus. and then in the last minute, he panicked and he made really, really poor decisions. he hasn't been held accountable yet. his resignation as governor is not accountability, and that's nursing home. families not only want answers, but he needs to be held accountable. what he's done, he's destroyed our lives. hormones book, once again, is a blood money book of lies,

and it was written on the graves of over $16000.00 innocent senior citizens. and it's not only breeze in to write a book on how you conquered a pandemic in the middle of a pandemic. but it's still rate evil. actively omit jets from public health record to make money off of a book deal to my father's death may have been an inconvenient number that he left off the report to get a 5000000 dollar book deal. but to me, my father was my whole world. i think most of the come here on the program on our team, including our several russian prison officials, a fired over videos or literally showing inmates being told that story on a few more were back in just about 60 some ah

ah ah ah ah ah ah, a ah ah, so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be in arms. race is on offense, bearing dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how

that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk ah, good if you could join us for this program today, just mark 20 years since the us and its allies invaded afghanistan, toppling the taliban regime. and now when the wake of the western pullout many questions are still being asked, not least, why the taliban to offer to hand over osama. bin laden was rejected by the bush administration, though that of course, led to 2 decades of war lives lost, and at the end of it, all the militants back in charge. so reporting now from cobble on the cost of this war, our senior correspondent mud guest here. the afghan war and it's just shy of it's it's 20th anniversary, the the war a vengeance that was launched by the united states as revenge for 911 and quickly

morph into something else. one of the most protracted conflicts in modern history, an exercise, and a nation building before losing all lame and tylenol towards the end. neither the united states nor any of its allies, still knew what it is that they hoped to achieve. here. the end result is that it was unanimously considered an abject failure. metallic banners is back in control. and more absolutely than it was before the united states invaded afghanistan. and the question that we're hearing now in the halls of congress, in parliament, in europe, in, in the press, in there on television internationally is, is who the we lame. we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership in her senior ranks. that we do not grass a damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his

commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp why there was only so much for which and for home. many of the afghan forces would fight. this has been a 10 year multi administration drawdown. not a 19 month or 19 day neo, these scandal is no n yet over the americans calling it been ghazi on steroids, the republicans as well as ordinary americans that she, the end of the war is humiliating for america. they want someone held responsible, the biden, the miss administration, as well as the pentagon. so far they have done their best to absolve themselves of all accountability for what many americans again see as the catastrophe. they argue that the fault is with many american administrations that, that preceded them. and that is ignoring the tremendous financial cost of the war.

some that could have made the lives of americans and many of their allies at the taxpayers so much better and so much easier. ah ah ah ah ah ah, we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the highest child poverty rates of almost any country on earth.

from the perspective of a civilian, there is scott evidence here on the ground in afghanistan of any of that money other making its way here. aside from half finished clinics, him and broken roots, testament to record breaking levels of corruption that, that so brilliant siphoned off into the bank accounts of corrupt officials into the pockets of private contractors. though the evidence of these billions being here is in the hands of the taliban, the guns that they wield, stamped with made in america, the vehicles military vehicles left behind, industrial quantities, the town about her, of course jubilant. they have dismantled everything with the united states. built here, the human rights, the tolerance, the democratic institutions, and the matter of weeks. and they are jubilant. they have after 20 years of,

and so wretched and rebellion, believe they won. mm . by virtually any measure. this war was a failure in some respects, it even made things worse, from a humanitarian perspective, or a 3rd of afghans near an offer on the verge of starvation, with no hope inside the drugs manufactured and export to that of, of gustavo, kill countless youth worldwide from a geopolitical perspective, the taliban considered an international pariah since its inception is now having to be negotiated with it. i counted with even a, the un bob from a security perspective. yes, i'll cod that you'd have gotten

a stud. may have been degraded but, but something worse has taken its place and that is isis which has bound to the challenge to afghanistan. dominance, by the taliban. meantime, afghanistan's banks have almost run out of cash and people are running out of food less than 2 months since the taliban take over. and foreign aid is hard to come by with western donors, reluctant to deal with a new government, an aide groups, a warning of a major humanitarian crisis. and i know this is not easy with a needs to be some solution to the financial flows into afghanistan to ensure that at least salaries can be paid and that essential supplies, power, and water being 2 of them can be procured. the absence of that will seriously exacerbate vulnerability for ordinary afghans. severe hardship and afghanistan has led to a spike in crime including child trafficking. we spoke to

a man who admitted to the indefensible act of selling his own kids. he claims that was to feed his other children. they go up to cambridge anxious to get, had a good business and a happy life and conduce all that. but then the war began and we migrated here. my savings were exhausted formula and some people got some aid here. hodge, but the others did not. my pockets are empty now and i have no option left. but to sell some of my kids in the world and to fight for the survival of my other kids with the money i get that way. we get him to make him a patient. when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark side sellers of energy. i'm forced to sell a few of my kids to feed others. there is no option left from the previous government did not help me, but i hope this new one will support me. i'm not asking for support for myself alone, but for all these people living here like they are all from my tribe. but in michigan, all of us refugees here are one families. i asked for financial help for everyone. good as yoko for senior russian prison officials if being fired and

a criminal probe is been launched off the videos, appeared online, showing inmates apparently being raped and tortured assays. dimitri pal told us more about the hub griffith allegations. well, the russian prison service has announced that it is fired for of its employees in the seraph region, after videos emerged on line showing the elected torture and sexual abuse of inmates in one of the prisons in that region. now earlier this week, a team of investigators was sent to the region. so 1st of all, confirmed the authenticity of these videos and 2nd of all, to open criminal cases against anybody who might have actually had a hands in these violations. the federal. busy penitentiary service has said it will bring to justice. anybody who had anything to do with this abuse the videos themselves, however, were released by an organization called glock. that net as an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of inmates throughout russia's prison system. and apparently they have some 40 gigabytes of videos. busy and other materials,

allegedly showing the a rape and abuse of inmates throughout several russian prisons across several years . ortiz actually spoke with the head of the organization with him or a session. and here his comments on the ongoing investigation. well, we managed to identify almost all the perpetrators now lawyers and investigators will work with them. there will be more than 10 criminal cases based on those horrific scenes. among them was the head of security of the facility who gave the orders to filmed the torture and was told to have the footage over to the federal penitentiary service. in fact, that head of security that i was asking was talking about was one of those 4 people that were announced to have been fired in terms of victims. at this point, we know that there have been investigations opened in so that these 4 victims. however, some 14 other current and former inmates have come out and said that they or were also the victims of all this abuse. now of course, this whole situation has received a lot of attention throughout the internet. and of course,

the kremlin has also responded glenn spokesperson to me the best gulf. as i said earlier this week, that these videos aarp serious allegations and demand a thorough investigation. and that if all these videos are indeed confirmed to be authentic and true, that criminal cases would be opened up against anybody who had a hands in this of violence and abuse and abuse of power. all about horrific story just about wraps up by this new program for this whole power here on our t international. appreciate you spending your time with us here in moscow. nearly half past 10 now. mid morning on thursday. we're back soon with long for is your media reflection of reality in the world transformed what will make you feel safer?

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