and ah ah, ah ah, the timothy tins pledge to boost the gas flow to europe finally takes some hint down to the markets. it comes after reco breaking price surges this week. we've seen some e u members question brussels energy policy. let's go fowls a count to request to the global chemical weapons watchdog to the us sent questions about the alleged poisoning of kremlin critic alex in the valley. despite the o. p. c. w. still refusing to cooperate with russia on the case, we hear firsthand from russia's envoy to the buggy because there's a feeling that something else how that goals are driving them. it is possible that this whole story is connected with the escalation of sanctions prussia. honest,

exactly 20 years since the u. s. coalition invaded afghanistan, country now in meltdown families, they're having to resort to unthinkable meshes. when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark. sorry. i'm forced to sell a few of my kids to feed others. there's no option left. ah, oh, i that great to have your company watching auntie international 1st to sell boiling gas prices have reduced to more of a sigma after intervention from vladimir putin. he has said, the russia will ramp up exports to europe, addressing the continents energy crisis. on wednesday, the president added moscow with continuous commitment to ukraine with regards to gas transit. a strong chavez guess from believes that it would be more profitable

for it to pay a fine t a crate 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 buy anyone in a difficult position including ukraine despite the difficulties in relations. second, there's no need to undermine gas prompts confidence as an absolute reliable partner in all respects. let him have it in statements and the subsequent letter in the gas price surge has seen some in the mainstream media changing the tone when it comes to the node stream to pipeline. and more generally on rushes rollers and europe's key energy supply of concerns of a mosque as alleged attempts, diesel oil and gas is leverage of seemingly reduced at russia,

wants it to be approved. but i don't think wash is really doing anything wrong here in europe. has a supply crunch, and russia has the gas to supply it. russia does instantly benefit from care for the market. they want high stable prices, and they want to be seen as the reliable partner. some are words soothing words, i guess, which we rarely get from mr. potent are actually helped reverse that. 3540 percent jump over night in natural gas over in europe. an element of russia playing politics, but is also an element of a lot of money having been invested in noise being do not from the russian side from the european side as well. outgoing german chancellor angle of michael has been vocal in her supportive rusher as a supply partner. speaking at an e u. balkan summit in slovenia, she stress moscow's always stuck to its contractual obligations. the fog is our

gift. if you ask me whether there have been orders that russia has taken and then fail to fulfill as it stands. now, that is not the case. various, there are no orders that russia has said no, we will not deliver those to you, and we are not pumping gas through the ukrainian pipelines, rather, russia can only fulfill orders that have been contract it out. so the questions really isn't have being ordered. vista, russian leader also put the current crisis in the are been gas market down to the use of rushed push for a green transition that coupled with the brussels decision to switch from long term gas contracts to immediate spot trading. current volatility can be traced back to april the ship, but it all came to a head this week and left you to pin citizens, delving at deeper into already strained pockets. ah.

maintaining a trusted energy partnership between russia and europe is a key focus of an international gas form that's taking place in st. petersburg. stay 3 of that gathering on correspondingly. patricia is there. and on the side lines, he caught up with the seo of the association of european businesses tansy of shilling . in the end, her pragmatism prevailed. it also showed that the interests of different stakeholders need to be taken into account. there is no sense in insisting on a,

on one perspective and denying a to the fact that others view a project differently. you need to sit together. so it also showed the need for international cooperation the, the fact that now the stalemate has been overcome. and that we have avoided or a complete blockage of the project is actually very good news. as europe, as a soon as association of european businesses, we've also always been very clear that we are against the application of sanctions, especially in an extra territorial perspective that we think this is a purely commercial project. and we also think that the european energy security is something that should be decided in europe. natural gas has a, an actually tremendous role to play as a transition shoe. we are here talking now about the traditional fuel mix that we

need to move away from. and move to greener or energy sources. but there is also a way how we need to bridge this process between a status that is the current status and, and, and future desires status. when the wake of the gas price search, spain said the european commission should negotiate gas contracts on behalf of all the members states. instead of the present system where individual nations agree their own contracts. the proposal our government is making is that the commission negotiates on behalf of all 27 member states. what we propose is a strength and co operation. but not everybody is happy with the dreads proposal. critic say that it encroaches on the sovereignty of individual states, alternative germany, party, m e. p, gunner, beg, please. the scheme would run counter to the eas own current rules. it clearly contravene article $194.00 of the eel treaties. there is

a very bad habit on the part of the war. institutions themselves, as well as many bank states to disregard its own goal. they think their national interest justifies a breach of the treaty. they don't hesitate to ask others to disregard the treaty. now, as a purely hypothetical scenario, if the treaty didn't dis ally would i support this proposal? when it depends on the perspective? is it necessarily sensible for a country to shop it's energy supplies with everyone else? this pretty little sort of data t, the power to bother you repeat countries with germany generally. so i'm not sure i bought a solution. on the other hand,

what is the german government likely to because it ever has any regard. fritz, a country's national interest. it's quite conceivable that the german government will choose to disregard the treaty and do what isn't in its own country's interest . the russian foreign ministry has filed the count to request to the p. c. w. 90 states and 44 other countries officially submitted a list of questions to the body demanding moscow. give details about the lead poisoning of kremlin critic alex in a volley. russia said to several times the curb of chemical weapons what stock is bluntly refusing to cooperate. any one who calls on russia to conduct an investigation incorporation with the o. p. c. w. in to what happened to miss in a valley needs to once again be reminded of the facts. a year ago, russia replied to the technical secretariat of the o. p. c. w for technical assistance on the article 8 of the convention,

but we never got any help. now in august of last year and a van a fell ill while on an internal flight to moscow, after an emergency landing, he was taken to hospital and placed in an easy home. he was later lifted to germany at the request of his family doctor's there in berlin, said valley had been exposed to the navi chalk, nerve agent. ultimately they blame the russian government. both russian officials and medical professionals who treated the valley claimed no poisonous subs. substances were detected in his body when he was in the russian hospital. moscow's repeatedly asked both germany and the o p. c to be for a joint investigation to making a recovery. and i've only returned to moscow where he was arrested and sentenced to 2 years in jail for breaking his parole conditions relating to a corruption case. we spoke with the russian representative to the b. c. w. alexander shogun, who gave us 1st hand information on the latest developments there's

a feeling that something else other goals are driving them judge for yourself to day. i was not allowed to speak for more than an hour. the pretext were different. for example, the absence of the bulgarian representative who should have been reading the appeal of 45 countries. i asked the ambassadors of the united states, great britain to britney not want to hear the answer from russia. there was no desire to listen to us. apparently other goals are being pursued. it is possible that this whole story is connected with the escalation of sanctions pressure. ah, we wanted to do a joint investigation and what do you think the technical secretariat began to drag out the whole thing? one of the excuses was that there were no similar incidents from the u. k. all the u. s. were putting forward a counter request within the same framework and expect that france sweden and the technical secretariat will never last on the same questions that we asked earlier. we close this subject with the request from 45 countries and sent

a counter request. the ball is on their side. ah, let us give them some nato countries of working with substances cold, navi, chuck. i recall the statements of the check president who said in his country there were laboratories where work is carried out with the substance called a tooth rio which can be attributed to navi chuck. the pretty sight admitted that in there potent down the bar, a tree. what was carried out with substances from the family of navi choke the united states is the only country that is not freed itself from chemical weapons. 140 peyton's had been developed there for the use of ammunition that contains chemical warfare agents such as no v choke. so they march 20 years since america and its allies invaded afghanistan, toppling the taliban regime. now in the wake of the west and pull out many questions being asked elise why the taliban offered a hand over a sum of been lot. and back then was rejected by the bush administration. i led to

2 decades of war with countless lives lost. at the end of it all the militants aback in charge, a senior correspondent reg as the of reports from cobble on what the conflict achieved. 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, is that it was unanimously considered an abject failure. but taliban is, 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's, in europe, in the press and he there on television, internationally is he 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 and nursing arrange 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 bolt, i, administration drawdown. not a 19 month or 19 day neo. these scandal is nowhere near over the americans calling it been ghazi on steroids, the republicans as well as ordinary americans that see the end of the war as humiliating for america. they want someone held responsible, the biden,

the mish administration, as was 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.

you're 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 ever making its way here. aside from half finished clinics in 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 the industrial quantities, the town about her, of course jubilee. they have dismantled everything with the united states. built in the human rights, the tolerance, the democratic institutions, and the matter of weeks. and they are jubilant. they have after 20 years, and so wretched and rebellion believe they was, ah ah, i 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 exported 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 card that either. candice thought may have been degraded but, but something worse has taken its place in that is isis which has bound to the challenge to afghanistan. dominance by the taliban. afghanistan's bank sab, almost run out of cash, and people are also running out of food less than 2 months after the taliban took over. and to that, foreign aid is in short, supply. western donors are reluctant to deal with the new government and charities . a warning of a major humanitarian crisis. and i know this is not easy,

but that needs to be some solution to the financial flows into afghanistan to ensure that at least salaries can be paid. and that is sensual supplies, power, unable to being 2 of them, can be procured. the absence of that will seriously exacerbate vulnerability for ordinary afghans. we spoke to an afghan man who is now living in die of poverty and to admit it to the unimaginable. some might say, indefensible. act of trying to sell his children. he claims it was an attempt just to get money to feed the rest of his family back home. and i wanna go up to cambridge anxious to get had a good business and a happy life and could do smaller. but then the war began and we migrated here and my savings were exhausted formula that 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 and to fight for the survival of my other kids with the money i get that way. we get them and they give a patient. when your stomach is empty,

you can't think about the dark side, salary 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, my name is you can all of us refugees here are one families. i asked for financial help for every one night i slammed his door shots to nearly half. the russian delegation to the alons, citing arise and malign activity will bring a reaction from moscow after the break policy makers in the federal reserve bank and jo bye to the present. thanks. america is so freaking stupid, that they can make them believe that picking up a worthless, shiny round object. and going hocus pocus over it magically turns it into

a trillion dollars that they can deposit that at the federal reserve or the treasury to somehow mitigate that. $300000000.00 debt crisis. i'm a new mc c o n smith. the allows only been problems and much was going to invite everybody's lloyd. that wasn't to do it. that was the feature that the people who does owing to the internet is owned by a fleet to join me every thursday on the alex, simon, sure. but i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. oh,

facebook whistleblower is being accused of by senators discovered that she has ties to the democrats comes days after she said the company was harming children and soaking divisions in an impassioned plea to congress, calling for a crackdown on the social media jot. but i am here today because i believe facebook's products harm children, stroke division and weaken our democracy. the company's leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram saver a won't make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits for people. congressional action is needed. they want salt this crisis without your help. or francis halgert now is being represented by a co founder of whistle blower aid. namely john ty, who himself is a former official in the obama ministration. here the co founder of the organization, the hopes whistle blows with legal aid is mark zayed. he was

a legal rep for alexander of inman. the white house staffer who sparked trumps 1st impeachment. what's more, it turns out francis hogan has been regularly donating to democrat affiliated organizations all working to get more democratic candidates elected in america, legal and media analysts line on believe that halligan's sudden appearance rings, alarm bells. she said, what got her id as initially was that friend of hers friend fell down a i guess the rabbit hoyle whole of conspiracy theories are and, and, and hate. how big it, oh, come on. this is classic bathing for what is considered to be in a right wing conservative. i'm surprised you didn't say white nationalism or white adrian or where i mean, seriously, i think me about of coverage or he actually made or the attention you paid to children being victimized that was rather de minimis compared to the overall kind

of obscured message. it is interesting how she came out of nowhere and i know there's a lot of interest as to who she is and where did she come from? man? why did she get blue checked so quickly and she was, she just started twitter on october. now that doesn't mean anything in it of itself, but there's a lot of people who are saying, oh, this is interesting. i believe nothing, nothing, i am toll. whatever the news is, it is an insinuation, it is a suggestion. it is a presumption of truth. i don't believe any thing. russia is how this delegation to nato nearly hugged with the alliance, appearing vague in offering explanation why in all late diplomats were bought from his brussels. h. q. laska says the move shows natives clearly not interested and improving relations. alcorta hospital, nato made that decision to expel those 8 russian diplomats on wednesday. and so why

was this diplomatic mission cut in half? well, according to nato, no reason in particular, this decision is not linked to in the a particular events. these are undeclared, russian intelligence officers. ah, on the, on the we have seen an increase in russian malign activities. sky news said that these diplomats were suspected of espionage and even suspected of killing people. i mean, is quite a 180 from nothing in particular, right now the kremlin has responded. danny shock this move by nature surprised us, but it was not an expected. we were shocked plates and pertinence because there were no official explanations of the reasons behind it. at the same time, the campaign started on social media a smear campaign characterized by a number of fakes and straight up this information, a voice from the site of nita. now rushes foreign minister, sergey laugh. rob did have a talk with stolen berg about convening the nato,

russia council for talks, but so far nothing's been agreed on. so we're gonna have to see how relations go from here. because of that with of this we and half and i have see that mm or so when i would show the wrong one, i just don't hold any world. yes to safe out. this thing becomes the advocate and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. oh, the way of life reindeer herders leading

a traditionally nomadic lifestyle in the tundra is similar to a parallel reality. while the main drive, the hood, women carry the weight of the household work on their shoulders rather than with with however, in the vast expanse of russia, there is a spot where a housewife could secure a regular employment status. it's in the final semester with the by did ministrations decision to leave. afghanistan was correct in long overdue . however, the way america's longest war ended is a different question. it was a botched affair. the generals will most likely never be held to account,

put alone marine. we can, colonel does face court martial. is this justice ah hello, i'm max kaiser. this is the kaiser report. hey, we're going to do a little bit of magic right here, stacy? well, to do magic in eve, either cards or coins. well, i've got this little tiny coin here, but you know, like the biggest forces in the universe are quite tiny, like a collapsed star. and being like it really dense mass which sucks and all sorts of it has very high gravity. well, this coin is going to save the day because, you know right now in america,

everybody's talking yet again. the last time they talked about this was $22009.00, the trillion dollar platinum coin. now again, of course, a trillion dollars. what 1213 years later, is not nearly as much as it was back in 2008, back in 2008. we, you know, the richest man on the world was like, warren buffett, and he was worth like $40000000000.00. now it's jeff bezos and either mosque and bernard or no, and they're worth like $200000000000.00. so it would have to be at least $40000000.00. but you know, the have, i'm here reads to prevent potentially catastrophic debt default. and increasingly vocal chorus is saying that the treasury should issue a small platinum coin, give it a value of one trillion dollars and deposit it at the fed. so max, my trillion dollar coin, my children, bella aquinas special. so they go for a mere trillion. i'm going to call it a sex cillian toine. right?

we're going to have full sex telling has trillion is very dr. evil, as we said, it's are not that much anymore because you see a trillion dollars only has 12 zeros. a sex dillion coin has 210 is on at fac, rescued the entire global financial system. wow. the we're, we're going are the way venezuela. they're lopping zeros off much their currency in america. they seem to be dedicated at adding zeros on. but i have a question for you. i would like to get your thoughts on this shoot. this idea that mentoring a trillion coin is somehow going to mitigate the problems of the debt that america has and the debt to fault. so why can't we just be honest about this and say that america has defaulted on it's on it's sovereign obligation because one trillion dollars as you point out with the are roughly 30 trillion dollars in exposure. and if you add the unfunded liabilities of medic.