yes, ma'am. we sonya, hey, it's not in virginia. oh headlines right now. you're naughty, international vladimir putin arrives in india on only his 2nd trip abroad since the south of the pandemic roles are coming just a day ahead of the president's plan video conference with joe biden. i got the message from joe biden. there's the western media goes into overdrive with allegations of an imminent invasion of ukraine and with europe and the grip of a winter of discontent over soaring energy prices. a group monitoring the fuel puppet. he warns that household heating bills and the u. k. could soon double also in the program here. what are t vaccination cooperation? the best way to beat the pandemic?

that's according to the president of the international federation of the red cross . speaking to us here at ashi international in boston. ah, and into the evening hours we go here and moskowitz shift off the 6 p. m. now in a very busy monday, which is exactly how we like it here at ok. so vladimir putin has arrived in new delhi where he and indian and prime minister and no render mowdy are holding a bilateral meeting. the 2 leaders are expected to exchange views on key international issues, including joint work within the g 20 bricks and the shanghai cooperation organization. i rogers, foreign and defense ministers are also there. they touched down just about a day earlier and have already met with their indian counterparts. and the country's leaders have already expressed that positive outlook to watch the upcoming negotiations. media. we see india as a great power,

a friendly nation relations between our countries and developing and looking into the future. i'll positions on very many issues coincide. we continued to develop our relations both in the international arena and in the military sphere. they conducting joint military exercises both in india and in russia. we grateful for the attention to this part of our work. we intend to continue working in this direction. agreements concluded today in various fields will help expand our corporation. our defense partnerships are strengthened through joint development and joint production. so with all the of our letters of elements, his correspondent ortiz roman kazora. there is a lot of significance concerning this set, but indeed, this is russia, presidents only a 2nd. foreign visits during the pandemic are the 2 leaders of russian india were supposed to meet in 2020. as

a response to the render mode is a visit to the economic form in have lighting voss taka. unfortunately, the global pandemic had altered those plans center the meeting is taking place right now. indeed, the russian representation is quite big. there in india with the foreign minister, sergey allowed rav and a russian defense minister survey showables, arriving to speak with their indian counterparts. now, as for vladimir putin, in recent days, he stressed the talk about the importance of development of relations with india and his 1st that's the country of india, is one of the most authoritative sensors of multi polar world at the moment. now to, as for the trade relationship between the 2 countries, well, it's been growing recently as well as we're talking about the 2021 numbers they are at the 8800000000 earlier are russian foreign and defense minister met with their

agent counterparts in that 2 plus 2 of formats and they discussed a key originally regional issues and those include the asia pacific and the situation and central asia as well. russian foreign minister, sergey laval stressed that the 2 countries will stand together in the face of attempts to change a dialogue to some other kind of a different format. we will, as we've expressed our serious concerns to our indian friends about the activities that united states is engaged in hair under the banner of the so called indo pacific strategies creating closed blocks structures here. now the russia, india summit is sake in place ahead of let him have pollutants on line thoughts with his american counterparts. joe boyd and, and reasons. escalations of tensions regarding ukraine. meanwhile, back in india, early

a russian defense minister sergey shaw ago said that cooperation between russia and india is growing each year and it's an old time high. now certain contracts and protocols had been signed during this visit, visits regarding a small arms and also military operations. of course we will hear more details about that when we hear the joint statements of russian president vladimir putin and indian prime minister there and ramadi. well, i spoke with the professor and dean of the gender al school of international affairs doctors for amateur dahlia. he believed the talks between putin and modi, or a clear sign of the strength of their partnership. i think for russia it helps to show is that is not only china, it also has india on each site and that helps to count better. you know, i knew western adams to isolate russia. india has never gone along with any american, and he should needs to isolate or law impose sanctions audible why court russia did

that in 2014, also, or after the crimea. or was it integrated into russia? barack obama administration are reminded that the we should know, join sanctions and why got russia, we know what did that, and i show school by years so we would hope that better sense prevails. we are also talking to the west on the issue of sanctions threatened sanctions on india because we're buying the s 400 from russia. and we have categorically bought them with russia. it's a special partnership. we can never abandon them. moscow has rebuffed claims as poise to invade ukraine, saying they back no relation to reality. also adding that it's the americans who are actually acting belligerently in that region. well, that is also western media and politicians ratchet up speculation about a possible full scale war. according to some reports, european intelligence agencies gave that version of events very little credibility that is, until washington stepped in. many allies were not convinced that serious things

were happening. we were surprised about this intelligence gap. how and why the u. s . we're seeing things that we were not seeing if i have to compare soundbites from before this info and then at the nato meeting and rega, there was a big shift towards the u. s. version of things. the new wave of tensions comes of the us and russian presidents prepared to hold the video cold within the next 24 hours. but joe biden, the pound, he looked in no mood to negotiate. yes, oh, of course, the diplomacy is out and red lines of that to be crossed when the big bad wolf is planning a land grab ring a bell. a similar warning came in the spring when russian troops gathered for snap training exercises. and again, when military drills were conducted in crimea, and only recently moscow was supposedly the mastermind of the qu,

in key of remember the currency of no mean either because it didn't happen. in fact, none of the predictions came true, but this time apparently it's different. this time, it's the real deal, and to feed the fair, even drawing up the criminal battle plans the new year offensive. and for the umpteenth time this year, russia is forced to defend the presence of its own troops on its own land. russia is not a threat to any country. the deployment of russian troops on the national territory is our sovereign roy and no one's business. it is nato on its members states a recklessly moving their military forces and infrastructure to the russian borders . so what is washes red line, us spy pains jetting towards rushes borders. passenger jets with hundreds of civilians on board, diverted because the nato re complain was too close and wouldn't respond to ground

control. the actions by the u. s. air force created the threat to civilization and the fact that the catastrophe was averted over the backseat doesn't mean that the u . s. and nato can go on the risk in people's lives with impunity. the latest american war ship sailing into waters bordering russia, but the shows was nature. you know, a us warships is now and to live luxury. and what we can see through binoculars will the crosshairs of other than sisters excused him, a little on or multiple missile systems just across the. it was a bit more to look at where nato's military infrastructure is located, just a short distance from our borders. in romania, holland bush plants and we saw defense systems have already been deployed and they can easily be converted into offensive missile systems. it targets us, it only takes a matter of minutes to change the software distribution. now, instinct tells me that if a russian destroy was spotted steaming into new york harbor, it would be a flaming red line for washington. but believe it or not for us all, this is

a pink line at best. the real issue is nato, or rather, nato's expansion and expanded it has from this humble state in 1990 to this empire in 2020. now back in the day, russia was promised, nater would grow, not one inch eastward of berlin. wel, that's berlin. so no, it's not an inch. it's over a 1000 kilometers. and now it's knocking at rushes door. ukraine joining nato and we've been talking about it for a long time is a red line for us. the continual drawing of keys into the military orbit of the alliance, the de facto start of natives, assimilation of the military infrastructure of this country. and the desire to turn it into a foothold for confrontation with russia could all cause severe negative consequences and destabilize the military and political situation in europe. but lucky for nato, it's got a get out of jail free card because in politics, well promises are made to be broken. where is that? where is that written down?

where is that from? was written down. and under that rumor, this friend of mine will enrich good nature, think what you want us to acknowledge it. in the meantime, the us on phased by its terrible track record of predicting russian behavior is covering its bases and drawing up some economic functions. you know, just in case i'll throw nothing screams diplomacy more than getting your threats in a row before high stakes meeting. and of all this talk or invasion is going to wondering just what is going on. why don't you check out the views of scott ritter at r t dot com or scott ritter is a former us intelligence officer. he says he's not buying what the tabloids are selling you can read. why right now? in the meantime, here on the program, a brits could soon have to pay double to heat their homes. that's according to u. k. fuel poverty monitor, citing a plan to increase to the energy price comp. next april. the cost of living in the

u. k. is that it's highest level in a decade with household energy bills, the biggest driver, when the costs of essential services go up. those on the lower thing can get his hardest estimated at some of 4000000 british households are currently behind on their energy bills. each and every winter, roughly 10000 deaths nationally caused by cold homes. and the latest polling suggests half the country is more worried about the cost of heating than it is about anything to do with cove it? well, we spoke with james anderson, the founder of a company that provides emergency heating to the elderly, assess the u. k. government is not doing enough to help those in all those facing fuel poverty. the few, quite sure the united kingdom is better because the usage is very high. the cost is very high with usage. people that have to pick which we, he think of the whole all putting it on the table. in my opinion,

my honest opinion, the comic are not taking any steps at all who read you through you or who pompey within the united kingdom in the correct manner across the channel. there's a bit of a warmer affleck there because governments are dishing out aid to help poor homes as well as businesses get through the winter. our correspondence, charlotte do britsky investigators. as the bitter cold hits europe, everyone is doing their best to stay warm. but as natural gas prices are 5 times higher than they were a year ago, there is a real concern that states across the block could face shortages or even potential blackouts. many including luca here in paris face a winter full of difficult decisions, says quantities, oh no, yeah, and we have already received a reminder for the charges for heating once that's increased, while at the same time we have less heating. so myself and several tenants are

really worried about the choices we will have to make. people are already having difficulty, so it's not easy. we feel a little neglected. people living hand to mouth is worrying a, becoming more normal in some of you rips richest nations. that facilitate liberally feel safe, we'll have to make choices. we will have to buy cheaper foods that are less nutritional. we have problems like that. people will lose their health toes if millions of people in europe are already living in energy poverty. and there are fears that this figure is about to see a steep rise. europe's energy crisis has been building for months. now. governments across the block of tried to put in place measures in an attempt to alleviate the strain on households. for example, here in france, the poorest households are to receive a one off payment of

a 100 euros to help them shield. from those price rises, italy is put in place a 3000000000 euro aid package. while the spanish government has passed emergency measures that redirect billions of euro's from the profit of energy companies to consumers in a bid to lower their bills. yet despite such measures, many fear they simply will not be enough. what is the structural problem in an achieve policy shaping and policy making in many countries is who is really in charge. we have an interaction of various authorities, bodies. and on the other hand, we have seen various governments being very much occupied with themselves. so there is an energy in my eyes, it's still not yet having the priority. it should house throughout the e. u. member states are facing the same issue over various sources of energy,

including natural gas. why? well, although the pandemic saw large scale industry and even workplace is pretty much closing down when the locked downs were lifted, the demand short, straight back up. and the companies just haven't been able to keep pace. to add to that the e u is also trying to move towards renewable energy, such as wind power, yet low winds. in 2021 meant that there's been less renewable energy being produced . these have always been days bits and of generates where experts have been warning against a possibility of you broke up in a t offer a stance still in the world of renewables. photovoltaic and went fox. the one that is now in the thought of come back is nuclear. at that i

always say within to european union, not only that we don't dispose of a common attitude policy. we don't even dispose of something like a common energy mentality. it may say, because that is a completely different attitudes to for instance, you can a g o east and west of the rhine, some e u countries, i'm the u. s. still opposing rushes, completing nord stream to pipeline, saying it would make europe for to reliant on russian guess others who say the link is vital so that people can keep homes at reasonable prices. such political games could end up pushing more people into fuel poverty. this winter and even cost them that lives show the g blue sky party, paris like more people to come here on the program including canadians, stranded in south africa, struggling to make sense of a government rules for returning

a home post omicron. we're here from them and some of the stories after the break ah ah ah ah ah, ah oh, when i was shown seemed wrong. when oh please. just don't hold any

world yet to shape 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, are just 120 past the hour here in the rotten capital i. russia has reported its 1st cases of the new cove. it variant all micron. it was detected and 2 out of 10 people who had just returned from south africa. now the new mutation which was 1st detected in south africa, has been steadily spreading. a 40 countries reporting it, or the news train is said to be more contagious than previous ones, although at present is not thought to be any more deadly. scientists are welcome to

adapt existing vaccines to fight the new strain. and a short time ago, i spoke with microbiologist, yorkie bussey. can you explain to us how the new strain works against one's immune system? so i'm looking very carefully and i know people are other people are also looking very carefully the data coming out of south africa to get a glimpse of what will happen in russia. and right now the growth of the, the spread of this wires against the background of immunity to delta does not do good. there is a very little date on that. unfortunately, so far, one piece of data when we have is that the people who got infected previously with delta are more likely to get re inspected with on the chrome compared to the people who are how people who got alpha green fact. so on the crown looks somewhat different from the viewpoint of our news system up now the delta and uh on previous there in state. and so that might mean that we may need some additional explaining

to the community of what the bar season. that is actually the same parts and maybe the vaccines we'll ultimately have to be tweaked or that from the health care viewpoint vaccine mandates. probably be a good thing. because, you know, there is 40 percent of its native people that we have here in russia are definitely unacceptable. we have a functional, obscene with proven efficiency, brought both within and outside russia. sputnik and the people really should take it. the canadian government has being accused of leaving at citizens in the lurch and south africa without a clear way of getting back home. a confusing rules have been imposed by ottawa in the wake of the new omicron variant, allowing flights only through one particular appleton frankfurt. it all seems a bit bizarre. a correspondent in south africa is policy of with this report. dozens of canadians off stranded in south africa. after the canadian government

announced it would not accept the result of covetous done in this country. the uproar led to a last minute change. now if people could fight to frankfurt and only frank, but no other german city and you arrived in canada within 48 hours of leaving south africa, you'll be let in confusing and stressful to say the least. we know you've now heard the bad news that you're not going to be able to board the flight night. a group of travelers with kicked off a flight at the last minute after they arrived at the port and we're ready to board a plane out of the country. first came the announcement that canadian citizens were only and now to fly back to canada via ethiopia. where they would have to get out of the a port go to a hotel, do a covert taste and wait for the results. but get the e c o p a is on canada's no fly list because of the civil war they. ottaway is potentially prepaid to hom, its own citizens safety, rather than have them do a code test in this country,

canadians are stranded in south africa. they're definitely trying to get assistance from this government. they're having to jump through hoops just to find an affordable pcr test or a safe flight back home. it really struck me that it is citizens, really trying to help citizens, citizens of south africa and marquez citizens of canada. it's not the government's trying to help citizen. and i think it really needs to be the other way around the canada saying we trust south african scientists enough to block our own citizens from getting home and put so many different obstacles in place for them to get home. but at the same time, we don't have time enough to take them so you can't be tested in south africa. and that makes absolutely no sense to me. when a goldman was in south africa with her husband, where she celebrated her father, when he was 90th birthday, she was one of the lucky few to get to frankfort some way she spoke with us while

in transit. basically you need to have it just leaving for the african. you just get on the fly for germany, then you need, you know, in trends that they will be robbing toronto. we have a case, we then have to current teen in a hotel. and so we get back negative if it's negative, we allowed to go home that have to current teen for the full team days as well as get a taste on day. and even if it's negative, we still have to quarantine for 14 days. i just don't understand why they want to fix that problem me, but then in place to maintain that it's actually causing chaos. in south africa, i've had a group of what we've been over like a few weeks now to 100 people and it was in a panic. so those canadians come and there's a massive scramble to swap tickets by new ones and get covert test results. no mean feat weighed in south africa's covert figures are wising and the pasting centers cannot promise they'll get results out quickly. options are running out for those canadians stuck in the country as they try to navigate confusing travel rules.

simply to get back home. pointlessly our teeth, johannesburg, south africa le failure to provide equal worldwide access to vaccines may result in new strains emerging. thus the warning from the president of the international federation of the red cross who gave an interview to r t, discussing with me not just the war on cobra, but also the migrant crisis in eastern europe. and there was some county 9 european union, for example. we administer that though dosa while in africa we sta, louisa raised that tisa temper sandy moodle need engrossed with 0 percent. so something that says moral gas set of what we are ready to rule so far, we are ready to scale up our activities in africa. but the lady shoes about validated the, the vaccines, to have access to the vaccines. we have to put pressure on the pharmaceutical companies. there, you will be an union, the united states, a u. k. we invested the be on self dollars, sir, in the was so cha,

due to the duel, to make this vaccine accessible. so why the boy discount in the developing counties that, that have not derived that to have access? i think these it should be a common gold, not something that said belong to the, to the, from a central young company is the beginning. they believe me, i did it on them. it got to be politicized. to look at, they did, they did the level of the fake news that day, even political lisa had to spread around the world. so this is something that unfortunate has been pretty decisive. bukosa he test to do with the field to people . it's up to the political leader to follow they, they advise is coming from their sankey community to least and not to them to war. read them to avoid, to do, to vote at the, on the same level a diesel to the media is an important responsibility. yes, and tv community and people the media and the governments are continuing to

ring the alarm bells over this very end. but we're having the w h o. the chief australian medical officer and the south african medical association saying don't panic. what do you say we should follow the, the advisors coming from the idiot? upgrade, shaw, and his scientific community so dwarfed and a political lead us and the government's out. substituting a there this and given community in dealing with a call in 19 and, and this is the, the deal to may davie and sat in terms of our over, ah, did, did, did the reason why we have these new vari answer. so we have cold, it would, you may be the internet, so we doubt i brought my vaccination without giving access to any human beings up to the vaccines. the risk of new volumes sat, hayes age of very high aga, and we can not blame. also, these is another aspect, the data for as is at nissan of concern windata. we can not blame the south africa scientists, a tool to ha, for a heavy anger. i opened a door to the scientific community about these new discovery galaxy

i think was i was a good idea. unfortunately, it is not working as expected. so the number of distribution out of the vaccine. so i'll go on my callback sir, is i ism, is not sole high aga and we, we expected much more ride themself. general she from the international community and there, and they had the idea. it was a good idea. he was due to give the priority and then some distribution by callback . so today medical doctors to the nazis that are working on the front line. and unfortunately this is working or less. this is keep a sense so far. so then i'm, they said very, very, very low and that is issa eyes and i did aspect of the advent national committee should take as easily in consideration. so we have to do more in terms of distribution and giving access the better was good cross with this part of the international federation, i think and at the moment is there doing a, a good job?

of course, this is not, not a mid term or long term solution idea hosted in a shelter area, but so far they are in a warm environment. and then we are engaging in attic discussion we day in the government of mendosa tool to find either solution. now for them and put on the unfortunately we don't have access to the board to unfortunately i'm not even nineties eyes or he's on a full consent for my says that i'm not surprised about a european union and they were just county ira reacting in dealing with the human beings, this is and i'm wondering if we are losing got a lot of humanity because he's not about every county has the right to set up policies for migrations. we have not question. it's about diety, the humanity on which we have to, to treat every human beings. this is the only point that we are raising that mr. rocker. and i spoke about 2025 minutes. you can watch the full, unedited interview right now. if you like it r t dot com, what is right now to hop on 6 on monday evening here at moscow we were turned at

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