i joy, that's right, fell out it will dest slavery? ah, bull aah! vladimir putin say's europe's own miscalculations resulted in their current energy prices confronting had on the narrative that brush it is weapon i think, or intentionally withholding gas where live to our correspondent in moments at an energy for him. in the capital, the german city of cologne gives the green light to broadcasting the muslim call to prayer a move, which is very much divided opinion there. right?

it's wrong. i think religion is something personal. it's nice for multiculturalism . i don't think it's bad, but i don't think it's all that great either. and the american taxpayers are still paying for the infamous border wall project despite joe biden, sledge to stop it. now it's cost for storing millions of dollars worth of rust things. steel keeps lighting on. ah oh, live across the globe, or run the clock? this is archie, great to have your company today. my name's you know, the 1st this wednesday speaking out russian energy week day one of its president putin has weight in on the gas price hike in europe on feel it. tough questions at this spelling watts, he call faults norris's over moscow strategy on the global energy markets. teresa

shirley, but as far as north stream too, was concerned at what opponents of the project have claimed that this is not a commercially viable product and rushes pursuing geopolitical motivations. well, you know, this is yet another piece of nonsense. just please pay closer attention to what i'm saying. this route is 2000 kilometers, shorter and quicker to our main consumers in europe than via ukraine. easy, 2000 kilometers more efficient. it's cheaper because transit is cheaper. and it's also cheaper for customers because the transit fee has to be included in the end price in particular for european customers. we are doing this despite our political differences. this year we have increased supply by 10 percent. again, we would very much like them to be grateful instead of only criticizing us more or less del further in to the events with ilia katrinka who's covering it for us. and you're going to see again, essentially with the european crisis as the primary background, we got

a very thorough break done from the president on energy. it's security and a whole lot more besides didn't we take us through some of his main answers if you will union hello there again. well, for a better understanding, i just want to give you quick insight into the context of mr. putin's latest remarks at the russian energy week 2021. so the a post cove, it powered, the man globally has been on the up. and this really led to major changes in the supply change at lead chains. loved to destroy disruptions and this in turn bud to shortages of supplies. for example, the in europe in particular, the prices for natural gas at one point skyrocketed to unprecedented levels and death that many analysts indeed call this

a global energy crisis. but in that time, specifically russia by some has even been blamed for politicizing the matter. and before that for years, moscow has been under fire for some of its infrastructure projects like dad, the nord stream, to in particular for a direct natural gas deliveries from russia to the northern coast of germany. and like i've been hearing from many experts here on they one of russia's energy we got there has been reassessment. and reassessment is also something that mr. brewton has been talking about. he also spoke about what he called mistakes on the part of some of russia's partners when it comes to their energy policies. so let's have a look at what else. the wash indeed are said about that with higher prices on

gas in europe are a consequence of a deficit of energy and not vice versa. and that's why you should not shift the blame for over the last 10 years. step by step go systematic flaws were introduced into the european energy system, and they lead to a massive energy crisis unit for any market. stability and predictability are important, and russia flawlessly fulfills its contractual obligations to our partners, including our partners in europe. we in short guaranteed uninterrupted gas deliveries to europe. we have every reason to believe that this year we will reach record levels of gas deliveries on the global market and due to one. ah, what exactly could help europe in this particular situation? what kinda make sure the prices go down. well, perhaps the answer is obvious. that is, extra supplies to the continent. and what mister pope said during that panel discussion was that whenever russia was request it for

a boost in exports the answer from moscow. the answer from gas from russia's gas, that was always yes. so russia never said no. and when mister proven was asked a direct question whether moscow was ever using energy as a political weapon. the answer from them, from his, from him, sorry, was straightforward. the answer was no one to ask you about it directly. has russia been using energy as a weapon? russia is not using any weapon capsule. if you've been paying attention, as for the economy where we're using weapons and what conflicts are we taking part and for the economy, this is not something we tend to use. this is what i call a politically motivated talk. if there's nothing to support in when it comes to saying that we use energy as some kind of weather at the end of the day, i guess the question is, how can you expect europe to believe you're a reliable energy partner when you're not supplying that energy via the pipeline or sewers. if you're a beautiful woman like what i'm saying,

one thing to you and you're saying a different thing to me as if you haven't heard what i said. well, mister president, with what was the same point was you and you said that you are not supplying gas through pipelines to europe, but actually, you're mistaken. you are mistaken. and all of those who feed on the information they receive, we are actually increasing our supplies to europe. the gas price increased supplies by 10 percent to an overall russia increase them by 15 percent. we have increased gas supply through pipelines by 10 percent and increased l and g supply by 13 percent. we are increasing and it will not decreasing our gas supply to europe. he's with this brings me to the key ingredient of the stability on the market for latimer pohden. this is, according to the russian leader, long term contracts for the exports of commodities. when the prices for natural gas in particular are linked with $1.00 price. it's now this also brings me to

something that's been a cause for concern among european politics. and that is russia sticking to the transit natural gas supplies to europe through ukraine, beyond 2024. this is what erupt once to that watermark says, well, what we need is contracts long term contracts to understand how much gas year needs in the future. and then, and in that case, we can then decide how much gas goes through the target stream. that's what the pipeline through the black sea is called, how much gas we can send through our north stream pipeline and to ukraine as well. but mr. poodle general answer to that was, yes, russia is ready to maintain its ukrainian transit. besides this, mr. went on to talk about something that doesn't really have to do with energy,

but this is something that the moderator asked, the russian leader that was about russians relations with washington and about armed security. mr. said that russia is ready to talk with washington ready for talks with washington on the revival of possibly some of the older treaties that washington abandoned under donald trump, under the previous cedars as well. or it's ready to hammer out new agreements, which is very important for international security and stability. but mr. message has been the same all the time. we have only been responding to whenever you were getting rid of the st. the, whenever you were leaving and out when it comes to the arms race. in fact, mister admitted there was an ons right between the us and russia. at this point,

russia is only taking measures and responds. so like i said, this was the number one method from the russian. yeah, thanks very much for taking us to through all of our grid for invest explanation. there. from earlier katrinka among has been detained after allegedly opening fire around school, runs in the russian capital. a woman, coal police, seeing she saw a man with a weapon. police no say the man was carrying a pellet gun. the school was previously put on locked on with photos, circulating a line of how the students barricaded themselves inside classrooms. the school is not being reopened with the children, though, sent home for the day. alright, let's get into some more global worlds. busy news now that we're across this

wednesday, the muslim call to prayer will be heard across close in germany after local authorities gave their approval for it to be broadcast. relied speakers, officials say the move as a gesture of respect, but many citizens stress such a move is at all with european culture, norms, glue and central mosque. how's being a flash point for anti muslim sentiment before the mirror as offended date, cities, decision this week? cologne is the ceo of religious freedom and diversity. those who arrive at the main train station a greeted by the cathedral, and accompanied by church, bells, medical and residence almost limps, allowing them. whereas in cool is from a sign of respect. the $35.00 mosques in the city will be able to play the call for up to 5 minutes. the initiative comes as part of an agreements between cologne officials and the muslim community mosques seeking it to broadcast that will have to comply with volume limits and notify neighbors in advance. we got

reaction to the, the city any thanks again can say, i think that's great because the muslim community is also included. this is also very nice for the muslims, just as the churches ring about the most can also make the call to prayer. i think this very great. tonight, i'll follow the 3rd. all it's nice for multiculturalism. germany says we're here. we also take care of muslims, which unfortunately some political parties don't do any more. it makes me happy when i hear it. it's a piece of home versus philosophy slim. i don't think it's bad, but i don't think it's all that great. either. i live directly opposite, so i hear it all the time. the fact that you now have to listen to what is being said, whether you want to hear it or not. i don't think it's the best thing. it does it feel as follows? i think it's wrong. i think religion is something personal. you don't have to bar all the people around with it when they call out and foreign language. i think

that's really bad because then the people don't know what they're actually saying. well, we heard from one a mom who sees as a good initiative because muslims are now and integral part of german society. i think it's a good initiatives, basically, highlighting the rights which are sounded in the constitution itself. muslims are, are part of this country. and this society and if they are part of the society, then it's a matter of representational every single day isn't so also as other religious groups are represented in germany. the same way, most of them should also be there is a fear in regards to song and, you know, we as watson, we have to do our part on a, to basically reduce this year. we got the thoughts of a social commentator as well, who believes germany has its own identity,

which needs to be protected. these is not the majority in germany. there's depending on which city you are between one or 2 percent, after maybe 5 percent and some big cities, 10 percent, that still 90 percent of non muslims. we have a certain condition and it's just the identity. and if you, if you see the skyline up cologne, how it is for the last centuries, be considered as a dominant factor. so it's tom said, the entity of cologne, every tradition in cologne. every believe in cologne. wherever you go, you'll find symbols of the christian identity. so to give away our identity is not carlo runs is not religious tolerance, religious tolerance is to allow these landed community to pray and moscow with head . but they should not dominate the sounds of the city of cologne. they should not announce for everybody to hear, but their law is greater than our christian god. to us mexico

proposed border offences causing yet more headaches for joe biden. we've got that story and plenty more. besides view this, our coming up in 90 seconds. this is our t ah ah ah, ah ah ah, ah with so i

know what happened to the idea of tolerance in our politics. conservative see their world being up ended. liberals view conservatives with contempt. of course the media only makes things worse. we all lost hope and compromise and peaceful coexistence with oh, hello again. no, despite jo biden's promise not to waste a single sense of american taxpayers money on donald trump's migrant fence project . busy it's been discovered that $100000000.00 worth of steel has been left

to rot on the us mexican border at picking up a story for this hour explaining more kilobit. now let's be clear, the money has already been spent. the american taxpayers already purchased these the old columns on order from donald trump, but now biden is president and taxpayer money does continue to be spent, but not on building a wall that we're paying contractors for a while. was almost 5000000 a day between d. o d and d h s to not to not build the border wall there, stacks and stacks of border wall panels. there has been a lot of talk about the cost of building donald trump wall along the border. but it turns out that the cost of not building the wall is also rather pricing the cost of the biden administration's efforts to suspend or terminate donald trump's trademark construction project had been tallied up to roughly one point $8.00 to $2000000000.00. the last contract was ripped up last week. now remember when biden

promised that he wouldn't waste any more money on trump's wall, which will be the policy of my administration that no more american taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a board, a wall. and that i am directing a careful reviewable resources appropriated all redirected to that. and well, biden's rhetoric doesn't account for the cost of letting all kinds of building materials go to waste. texans are not particularly thrilled with biden's decision, especially since the problem is along the border and only intensified. i think the money should be finished building all the materials needed to be done on a long time ago. it's not their money. it's our money. the tax payers we bought it, i figure that to go ahead and utilize material, go to their finish, the board wall, stop the flow, legal and the we

need it. by the minutes. this is the laura all the way the money do it on the border of mexico and macallan for 8 years. and it's like what they should do is finish the job of the border is about to be breached. so while americans are stuck with the bill for rotting steel, the country's ongoing financial woes and rising national debt are only getting worse, meaning there's plenty of places this money could have been better spent left wing radical democrats don't understand the phrase, waste of money to them money is infinite, it comes from nowhere, it grows on trees and they versus illegitimate emigration. if you're not trying to patch the united states of america full of illegal immigrants with no love for the country,

no understanding of the founding of the constitution of the way politics works here . and the plan is to fill up the country with them and then complain that it's racist not to give them citizenship. and so the right wing will fold politically and give it to them in the next thing. you know, all these millions of immigrants will suddenly be voting at which point. democrats will win every national election. 20 minutes past 5 pm here in moscow, moving on the new york health workers. how temporarily been allied to avoid mandatory vaccination against coven 19. it's after a federal judge extended an order from medics to apply for religious exemptions. now, as you'll be well aware, there's been a series of protests against compulsory inoculations. over the last number of months are t contributor nickel highs, filed this latest report. oh. 6 i see her outside of thurgood marshall court house, where cambridge,

the blasio is being held. michael kane is fighting for another injunction for all the teachers of new york, but specifically himself and 10 plaintiffs who were denied the continuation of the restraining order last week. and another court case, michael caine said he is optimistic that the judge will hopefully uphold justice to day. he said that the fight won't stop here and that he still has to prepare for what may come in the future. now people like michael caine said that they're unsure of how their family were proceed. our case is 10 plaintiffs who lost their jobs at this point are the majority of us are on unpaid leave because we would not get the cov id vaccine. and the majority of us also filed for exemptions, medical exemptions, religious exemptions, and the majority of us were denied those exemptions. we believe that the exemption process was fraudulent was a legal and unconstitutional a lot of teachers and health care workers who said the same thing. harvey said that this is a hill we're dying on that every now and then you just have to take

a stand. these protests are not something has only been happening to day. whatever day that i've been here. there has been a protest around the city and they said, this isn't going to stop any time soon until these mandates in. and what i'm finding here as a left is organizer is, it's almost kind of like a tower of babel culturally. because there are christians, there are transfers, there are republicans, there are left dest, you left the last year, people in just waking up, many more teachers in health workers are coming in, and even we think we're going to be getting police firemen. i think there's something important to note here. if you look around the crowd here, this isn't like a bunch of conservative way guys slept. we've been told by the mainstream media. there are people from what i said earlier, several different walks of life, black, white, asian, everything. and so there seems to be alyssa, misinterpretation if we're being charitable of the narrative, according to the mainstream media, we're waiting to hear. wow,

the results of this injunction. it could come today. however, it could take until thursday to come through. but when michael came, comes out, we'll go ahead and ask him how he feels the injunction were proceed going for the children right now in new york are suffering and you see it and reports that are breaking all over the place. people from central, who haven't been with children ever, are now power professionals that are working with disabled children as if anybody can come in and fill these shoes. i know i have not been replaced at my job. i'm a special educator and there are children not receiving their services right now because it rushes daily. corona virus infection on death rates are hovering near all time. highs with numbers in some regions, almost doubling over the past month. now, in a bit to try and curb the spread some regions of imposed compulsory vaccination for certain categories of workers as well as q r passes for people to get into venues. moscow, they most affected region,

has now launched free testing in 20 centers, including in the city's largest shopping malls. dmitri polk reports from one of them. we're here in the heart of russia's capital in moscow, on the red square in the gloom department store for a while, it's been a place where people can get vaccinated, but now it is also one of the 20 centers that gets out free. express, coven tests. these centers are being opened up as cases in russia continue to search in just the last few days. the number of new daily cases across the country has climbed to almost 30000 figures as high as last winter with most of them being in moscow. however, many medical experts think that this is actually reaching the peak and that these numbers is rising numbers and cases are actually due to more tests being readily and easily available. and that's kind of why the also thing that this could be signaling an end to the search. because the more tests, the more cases are confirm,

the more people are treated and less people get infected. well, this is the actual test site in the room where people have been steadily flowing in throughout the day to get their free express tests. all they need to show is their passport or a child's birth certificate. meet doctor andre logical. he's overseeing this test site and is responsible for making sure everything goes smoothly, and that the necessary steps are taken in case of a positive result. experienced this year, this express task allows you to discover if a patient is potentially infected within 15 minutes or less, it's your other guys go to sit on it so quick. how reliable is it a? so we, it's a special analysis that allows you to get results in a short time, and it's reliability is very high. nobody happens. but if the result is positive, will another test occur? them business law of now, of course, from the express test results, we tentatively assume a patient is infected. therefore, all of those who test positive are additionally tested via the p c. our method. and

after receiving the final results, we make a decision regarding treatment, or we decide to stop the self isolation which the patient d as to until the results are obtained well, time and take the test. hopefully no surprises me and that's it. now it is got to wait 15 minutes and the results should be in. well, trying to find out my test results on monday with fever. in my case, auditing, simple, i'm healthy, i can carry on with my daily life. not worrying about infecting anybody. so that's the test process, free, easy, and reliable medical experts hope that this approach will lead to much more tests being done, which will lead to earlier detection and better treatments of the virus. and

eventually that should result in a zip over the recent surge of cases across russia. frances top catholic bishop has stated that the country's laws must be above the pact of confessional, secrecy. earlier he had insisted, the child sex abuse couldn't be reported if it was revealed during confession. it's after a report on cupboard hundreds of thousands of sex crimes against miners within francis catholic church, with more on what indeed was said here charlotte dubin skein. parson frances taught bishop and now recanting from those comments that he made early this week, which provoked such few re here in france from individuals on the street to the french government themselves. this was eric do milan before who had suggested following the release of an explosive report which showed the links between the catholic church in france and child abuse over 70 year period. that the right of

confession should remain a secret between the individual who is confessing. and god essentially saying that that superseded the laws of the french republic. therefore, suggesting potentially that priests would not have to report child sex abuse that was confessed to them. he was therefore summons by the french government to explain himself. he now says his words were clumsy and that it is a time for the church to reflect the extent of violence and sexual aggression against miners revealed by the reports, obliges the church to reread his practices in the lights of this reality. work is therefore needed to reconcile the nature of confession with the need to protect children. well, that statement came after the french interior minister reminded him that the laws in the french republic are superior to the laws of the church. nor does she know

law, superior to law of the republic, and the question of the secrecy of confession is amended by the survey report. it is a professional secrecy, and it has exceptions such as crimes against children under 15. last week the saw the commission released it's exclusive report in to links of the catholic church with its child sex abuse. that report found that at least $330000.00 children had been abused over a 70 year period. that 2 thirds of the predators were actually the clergy themselves, for the church. that 80 percent of victims had been boys between the ages of 10 and 13. and that the church had not only failed to protect those who were being abused, but it had actually shielded their predators to now as a result for that, there have been calls for all bishops in the catholic church in france to resign with victim saying that the church here is out of control rubles,

casella led him. or i think that this is the demonstration. once again, the incomprehension and the out of touch, dimension of these men of the church, they have cut themselves off from society and the realities of life. and this has led them to be out of control when one is capable of committing so many crimes when one is capable of carrying out such a work of death than its concealment. it does indeed leave an aroma of crime against humanity which raises questions which raises serious questions. victims now waiting for the church in france to make a final decision over what compensation they are going to receive for the fact that they were abused by those with close ties to the church. here in france over that extended period. including for.