ah ah, for headline stories this our, the european union fails to agree and how to protect citizens and businesses from soaring energy bills. but saying it has launched the hunt for who's to blame for the heated market and freedom or a possible 175 year prison sentence. putin as an artist, faith rests in the hands of the u. k. sally, forth of an extradition appeal hearing to the u. s. for the whistleblower starts to day in london with allied to correspond. a chilling warning from the united nations would say that situation in afghanistan is so dire that half the countries entire population could face acute mountain nutrition. this winter with many died, we hear from the organization a really big for deep,

terrifying trinitarian crisis. even today we're talking about 19000000 people. well, as we say, can be food secured that he's experiencing hunger on a daily basis, ah, blind from moscow? this is our team. my name's unit a little a 30 minutes of news and views starting on the eu has failed to agree on how to shield consumers and european companies from soaring energy bills. although brussels know says it's looking for who to blame for the price bank. the commission competition department has begun collecting evidence about market behavior of main gas suppliers with a view to detecting any anti competitive behavior in the energy market. the use investigators,

though avoided naming any potential culprits. the emergency talks were held on tuesday, members from the 27 member states gathered in luxembourg, hoping to come up with new anti crisis measures ahead of the winter season. some suggestions include a tax cuts for small businesses, as well as social support for a vulnerable household, unless predict there'll be no sign of the energy price surge easing before the spring. meanwhile, soaring fuel prices are begging the question of how far would you drive to fill up your tank? and it seems the answer for some german motorists is abroad. increasing numbers are traveling across the border to get their petrol. a much cheaper prices under the piers that could be a journey they will be doing for some time with all the political talk at home focus on green energy or europe correspondent peter oliver reports from the polish bumps. the cost of living in germany is on the rise. it's clear when you go to the supermarket and see the prices of fruit vege. it's even clearer when you go on to

the full course of paint chill stations. and what we're seeing really is the unstoppable force of rising fuel prices colliding with the immovable object. that is german reliance on the automobile. it's prompted some german motorists across national boundaries like coming here to poland in order to try and find a cheaper alternative to filling up. driving across the border, just refuel is particularly worthwhile. if the price difference is a high and the distances are very short, germany has some of the highest fuel prices in the european union. and to break down this whole situation into its most basic form, if you wish to fill up a full tank of fuel on the side of the river odor in germany, it would cost you around 25 years more than if you were to philip here. in poland, i spoke to some people who made that journey from germany to poland. in order to

fill lead time today. you know, of course everyone is worried about prices. i've heard they could tripled next year and you got some prices going up everywhere. i'm worried filling up the tank will become too expensive, as i depends on my car, if in the far away from public transport, what is supposed to do own good. good, also, the price is unbelievably high. we are oh, shocked. i do worry back to lot and it's happening all around the world in germany and here in poland as well. it's not just in poland, but this is being seen with savings of almost 50 euro cents per liter. drivers have been going from germany to the czech republic to fill their tanks. it's cheaper than in germany. the price here 30 percent lower. that's why we're here. 3 way coalition talks to form a new german government between the social democrats, greens and the free democrats are continuing. and what to do about price high

expose at the supermarket. and the petrol station is set to be a big part of both with some suggesting but a cut to taxes, particularly when it comes to fuel is the only way forward. however, that's likely to be contested by some who would say that lowering taxes on fossil fuels sends out the wrong message when it comes to germany's strife the carbon neutrality. meanwhile, german drivers may well be forced to cross national boundaries more in order to make sure they can philip. so less feature all of a r t on the german polish border. ok, some news just reaching us on the program to bring you a passenger plane flying from cairo to moscow. believe to be done. the jet of airports at one of the city's main reports secured an emergency on this turned around and is heading back to cairo. the reason for the emergency is

not yet known, report say a distress signal was sounded around 30 minutes into the flight, bringing more details on that as soon as we get them. so a passenger plane flying from cairo to moscow has occurred. an emergency has turned to ride is heading back to carry any at all significant details on the story. we're bring them right to imprisoned wiki licks thunder. julian sons finds himself back in court today as a to day extradition hearing gets under way in the u. k. the high court is considering an appeal by the u. s. over a previous ruling to block the whistleblowers extradition. he's wanted by washington to face 17 charges of espionage and one of conspiracy to huck. a government computer, if convicted, he could face a prison sentence of 175 years a for

let's go live now to outside the court and speak to ortiz shelby edwards dusty. shelby a. we're seeing a lot there are behind you of julianna, so i'll just supporters. they have seen plenty of full stones over the years. take us through what to head today. if you, with a 2 day hearing of the expedition hearing forward, you had now kicked off at the united states is now appealing to us a ton of money made by british george back in january, i thought to the united states. so that was a decision based primarily on the rest of the day. the pow wow. and trying to trying a new is i've already presented a not

the play and a maximum security prison in the united states. and that even 2nd sentence, a that also on hearing the sound of mental and physical health isn't as bad as has been made on the drugs actually with the united states or you could actually prevent him committing suicide. extradited, interestingly though, during the day is a parent via video neg, do his el how, but the noise acting for the united states say that his health is completely adequate of the united states and want a net road. and one of the compromises of classified information in the history of the united states and if found guilty and convicted with about 75 years behind boss, because you haven't got i team council a pacified documents related to the board in iraq, afghanistan,

one of conspiracy to hack it from the computer to do so, this is what the guy is really all about. but of course it is a 2 day hearing a day. let me the opportunity to kinda sinusoid present, hey, this whole again is gone, but today already there are plenty of protesters behind me that are here in a defense of given this thought. and just before the court hearing, i guess a few hours with the fiance of june and you said that you must be free junior class will not be here in person today. it was denied that opportunity, which i think is outrageous. that can be only one decision here. that is no extradition. us has abused the laws, the agreement with this country. it's abusing the expedition agreements with this

country in order to have this hearing today. it has to come to an end. julian has to be free representing here, that's on twitter, all of you that his help wasn't completely the theory thing was that a lot of the month, you know, years now, and that has been more revelations that they all of your potential game changes. in this case, i say, how is that one of them salad morris that the old say, even mentioning at the last time, c, ha, ha ha. that she was taken aback by just how thing. he was many medical professionals saying that no mic that the radio just half of their bread i'll pay taking his life could really be. but the most mama revelation really i problems in the fall that thanks to an investigation have on people that us intelligence office . i in the nation that revealed the a actually kidnapped during the sergeant even as fascinate

a while. he was hold up in london, ecuadorian embassy. now i saw just lewis say that it shouldn't be ample enough evidence. so i was part of the case. and finally, out for a motivated, i came again earlier today john ship and the father of units on he was here on the streets of london banking protested, embracing them saying that this campaign will not be over until june. this honorable freely. oh, in a condition a, a moving on to them.

so the next i was really is going to be jam packed. absolutely. crucial for the face of june assigned to put it on like pay to reach any concrete decision really. because if the united states it's successful in the next 22 days, the case will be sent back to another call that then could make a decision in many appeals could happen until then even to reaching the c frame court as well. in the meantime, however, i think back from maine within the prism of fellowship where it is and it's not expected that he will be taught to fail any time soon with a really all he that you should be walking free with the wall prime. and in fact, those chemical notes, whole prime should be in the position that he is facing at the moment. one of the

fans out moment so that i played with this again from said more. if you said, i said, if he did that, we all, the really quite crucial that the purpose of this is that it isn't just about to decide. this is just about the story of one mind. but actually, i sense in the fundamental principles of journalistic freedoms and basic, right, for people to access information and really the right to tell the truth and do the right thing. jody, thanks very much for bringing us a sense of what is happening outside the high court today. ortiz shoddy, edwards dash 2. well, the hearing comes after a number of potentially game changing developments that could influence the long running battle over julianna's sound. just fate right now though there remains to be seen whether the court will take them into consideration as ilia pacheco takes us through. when last month's journalists revealed an alleged cia plot to

kidnap or even kill julian assange. many of those who read it must have thought, wow, if the mightiest of spy agencies was so keen to get rid of the whistleblower, it's really a miracle he's still alive if the claims from september report are true, it just shows how much he's loathed. busy by anyone in charge in d. c. for his partner though, and other problems activists, it served as another chance to convince the rest of the world. what washington's real intentions are when it comes to assange. this is a game changer going into the appeal because it shows the true nature that true origins that show criminality of the yes, actions against joanne. now reports that the ca conceited kidnapping, kill in essence have cost even more doubt on the reliability of us promises. and thirdly, exposed to political motivation behind this case. a quick reminder of what was

revealed in september interviews with an entire team of former trump officials suggested senior members of the administration supposedly requested options for killing assange. one of these alleged options included engaging in a shoot out in the streets of london. if you read all the gory details, you'll be amazed by how hollywood it all is. that was back in 2017 when we colleagues published a damming investigation. and to see i hacking tools, this is just how embarrassing things got for the us system. it's a point at which you'd expect the people and organizations involved to react or rather fail to react by saying no comment. but my compare did. they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the central intelligence agency. maybe they didn't, maybe as a cop, just made it up. but you should, i take seriously my responsibilities to protect that information. this can be seen

as pompoms confirmation of the assange kit, not oh, kill story. why else would you want to prosecute those sources? speaking about classified activity only a few months ago and i slattich news outlet reported on some eye opening testimonies by key witness in the u. s. indictment against the weekly founder. very embarrassing for the was justice system to if true. the iceland national admitted that almost all of what he said while being questioned by the f. b, i consisted of lies proffered an exchange for immunity from american prosecution. bmw ah, this activity was sits include attempts to hack into the computers of members of parliament and recalled that conversations in fights thought us. and now mister

stunted that the sancha never asked him to hack or access phone recordings of m p. 's more deceptive language emerges in the upper mentioned judgments where it states the songs use the unauthorized access given to him by a source access equivalence. websites of iceland used to track police vehicles and reaction to that. edward snowden said that it was, i'm quoting the end of the case against julian sanchez, wishful thinking, edward if only for once, someone and the obama trump, or the biden administration, gave a damn about what you've been saying or what the leading press freedom activists have been sounding the alarm about hypocrisy. first and foremost, it is a damn name, indictment that nearly 20 years on virtually no one responsible for alleged us war

crimes committed in the course of the afghanistan and iraq was, has been held accountable, let alone prosecuted. and yet the publisher who exposed such crimes is potentially facing a lifetime in jail, right? by the looks of it be a new faces in the white house and the administration or not so new or outright old . forget even thinking about the idea of any of them showing mercy for julian sanchez. more than half the entire population of of gala stan could face acute malnutrition this winter with many died. of the dire warning from the un, which is demanding immediate action. latest report stays a record $22000000.00 plus soft guns will suffer from food insecurity. while almost $3000000.00 children under 5 are at risk of dying from the nutrition. not is amid the precarious state of the economy, which has been heavily dependent on foreign funds for years. around 40 percent of

its gross domestic product has been international 8. well, the crisis follows killed us withdrawal after a 20 year military presence there, the taliban class by much of the world as a terror organization, rapidly reached control of the country and captured its capital couple. since then, western countries along with international financial bodies of holsted, their 8 payments, the us food and agriculture organization, as were in the worst, is yet to come. ah, 1st and foremost situation today in afghanistan and looking forward is really, really alarming. let's remember 70 percent of afghans people live in rural areas involved in agriculture. so the drought has had had a massive effect already. that's why early on this year we were already sounding the alarm for this or the discouragement hearing crisis. children all the worst hit a few days,

a few weeks of deep hunger can lead to stunting, it can lead to wasting. these are secondly, look at the short term. we're talking about the country in which agriculture, as i said it's, it's, it's 80 percent of livelihoods that you know, it, it's the most important sector in terms of people's lives in this collapse is now done with looking at massive displace. there are thousands of health clinics that are struggling at a time when because of the, the crisis, the needs are going up. we're starting to see more and more children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. the clinics need need money for the doctors of the salaries of equipment, et cetera. a really big, broad, deep, terrifying, communitarian crisis. well, even today we're talking about 19000000 people who are, as we say, acutely food insecure, that means they're experiencing hunger on a daily basis. and as you said, we haven't seen the worst yet. the projections are the by the end of the year and next year, 23000000. that's more, that's 55 percent more. ringback than one out of every 2 afghan men,

women and children will be in that situation. in september, a high level meeting in geneva took place a $1000000000.00 was pledged. not that about 275000000 has arrived in the hands of human terrans fm. i and organization w, p. unicef. so one of the money that was pledged has yet to arrive, but who quite honest, it's only gonna be dropping the ocean. the situation is, is deteriorating so quickly, so dramatically the scale and the speed at which the humanitarian catastrophe, which military crisis unfolding heading towards catastrophe, means that unfortunately far more money is required. you're watching r t international still ahead. a prominent supporter of the funding, the police in the u. s. no claims dysfunctional policing is to blame for skyrocketing crime in minnesota. that's coming up short. ah.

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a join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. the let's start with the ongoing turmoil in northeast africa where the sudanese prime minister has not been released. he'd been detained along with his wife on monday. and the military take over the country. the military chief who led the crew claimed yesterday that the prime minister was detained for his own safety. he had been staying at the general's house. the military over throw sparked widespread rage across the country with people pouring off the district to vent their anger. the images of chaos ensued done led to global condemnation of the crew, with washington piling on the pressure. we've already made clear that we are

pressing paws on significant aspects of our economic assistance to sudan. and we will look at the full range of economic tools available to us in coordination and consultation with regional actors and other key countries to make sure that we are trying to push the suit the entire student, his political process back in a positive direction after the significant and alarming setback of the specify what mr. sullivan was alluding to there. the u. s. state department earlier and on the whole to hundreds of millions of dollars in economic aid to the country in response to the but just who does the decision hurt the most? a question, our senior correspondent, not guess the it has been looking into in this day and age, almost nothing is sacred off limits. you can weaponized anything, trade, culture information. it doesn't have to kill all it has to do is hurt. in light of these developments. the united states is pausing assistance from,

from the $700.00 off the $700000000.00 in emergency assistance appropriations of economic support funds for suzanne. this was badly needed money for one of the poorest nations in the world, but it came of all sorts of political strings attached thick cables of them. as a door assistance often does they are weapons behave do as you are told or will cut you off. the problem is the people who get cut off usually aren't the ones that misbehaved. like when the us froze of ghana stands bank accounts. president biden is not hurting the taliban, or the current regime. this is really hurting every day. afghans and the united states will push them into further poverty. take my word for it. while in afghanistan, i didn't see a single hungry taliban fighter. i saw thousands of civilians, the boy out in the streets, willing to sell family members for food because they weren't getting salaries

because of ghana, sons. bank accounts had been frozen, but no magazine among them. and this sort of carrot and stick approaches seem frequently. we stop paying a lot of a to them and they will not see that money again until that here to the agreement. but they built a damn that stops the water from flowing into the neil. and you can't blame egypt for being a little bit upset. i had a deal done for them, and unfortunately, if you have broke the deal, which it should not have done that was a great mistake and sought the united states, cut hundreds of millions of dollars worth of health care and education and development aid to the government of ethiopia, the suspension of a proved pointless that little besides irritates ethiopia. and of course de leon, stop countless healthcare and education programs or take palestine for ever at the

receiving end of those u. s. h cut. what does that achieved this administration is thereby targeting the most vulnerable segment of the palestinian people and depriving refugees of the right to education, health, shelter, and dignified life. but that was old child's play compared with what transpired in venezuela helped along by ruinous us sanctions. they struck as venezuela was going through an economic crisis and that resulted in near complete. he cannot make annihilation inflation at half a 1000000 percent of fantastical figure, but with very real consequences. you'd think that lessons had been learned that pulling aid to poor nations is like pulling a meal from a hungry parson. the leads aren't the ones that suffer and starve that isn't the reasoning behind age cuts. think cynical, think heartless? the idea behind pulling aide is as simple as it is cruel, to compel the, the angry,

the hungry and the desperate masses that rise up against their own rulers. that the elite truly fear crime rates are skyrocketing in the city of minneapolis and the states democratic representative has pointed the finger directly at the police, accusing officers of not fulfilling their duties. that's despite ill hon. omar, being among the most vocal advocates of the funding, the force a t o n y e. um let's see here. oh, to the citizens v m. minneapolis. department is y m. o please me. t

now for bill dear. oh, so far this year there have been $75.00 homicides in the city that's off 114 per cent. compared to the same period in 2019. it comes as the minneapolis police department house lost more than $200.00 officers due to funding cuts. and numeral, but activists claim to funding the force is not enough. unwanted, entirely replaced with a so named department of public safety. minneapolis was the center of a massive wave of protest last year following the death of george lloyd in an altercation with a police officer. while ent riots erupted nationwide and led to a vocal de, from the police protest movement, we got the thoughts of retired police officer. dominic is about the issue. the number one thing, the people whine of doing for political purpose. when it comes to defending the police says it's a gut ral gut wrench. a reaction that they're looking at because you have your

constituents, if they're trying to get their votes from, i'll look at it as they're going to get rid of police as blame police. let's to fun them, whatever she wants to put into place to department of mental health to take over this. you're just, you're asking for problems. this comes from not allowing law enforcement to view their job and not being backed properly. and you're going to see such a disaster unfold in my personal opinion and experience with law enforcement. one of the main reasons that crime rates keep growing up is lack of prosecution. the state attorney would always try to lessen a charging ah, to, to win more prosecute prosecutions, which would put them in about a better position for reelection. but you just, you see a lot of stuff like that, which puts people a criminal back on the street. and it perpetuates a cycle, you need to go back to the constitution, you need to have like police officers do their job. let's stop ditch, you know, before we go to break and some news that we were.