[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, president putin say is russia gas export to europe should now be paid for in brutal aiming to stabilize the currency wanted check the us dollar in international trade? nobody did issue if so i decided to implement the sets of measures in the shortest possible times transfer payment from natural gas supplied to unfriendly countries into russian roubles ukraine. russian. lead don, yes, republic. 4th is that they're taking control of more than half of the embattled city of mario po, within $105.00 thing that's included rate on $2000000000.00 buildings to sweet pass, ukrainian triple hiding inside of washington. step that pressure on china to join

the us led condemnation of russia with aging standing firm on its neutral stock despite threat of american factions against china's economy. ah, a very warm welcome. you're watching aussie international with the latest news update is good to happy with us. now russian lead forces are pushing deeper into the key port city of mario po, which has been seeing some of the heaviest battles of the conflict in ukraine camps . troops including the notorious, near nazi as of battalion refusing to give up even a single building without a fight. the onslaught has already led to what's been called a humanitarian disaster in the city. you might find some of the following images upsetting. thousands of civilians remain trapped inside mario poll without access to clean water,

fresh food or electricity. the russian military has been busy trying to get more humanitarian supplies. hunt is out to the locals. dawn. yes, for public troops on the front lines clearing out, civilian buildings used by ukrainian forces as bases. some locals are still hiding in basements to escape the violence. as many have been blocked from fleeing the city through humanitarian corridors, opened by russia. some residents who have managed to escape speak of atrocities, allegedly committed by ukrainian troops. oh robert who device you are the no, but i did hear the still alley nation national philology. not grindsley g. boy difficult really was little. it was renewed my the route. what do the pickup would be ready for the well, what would it be up? but it put new fios with, grew up in his thumb, looked before officer up thought you feel grandma walker through up with her mom, her mom of walk through. let's put some cartoon puts from his group. now we will

struggle really. how long is that? we're going to let you maria video via ftp 30 maria marcia. what a food you. we 3 over the are. i'm usually vowed yahoo, u, as in actually 3 like for you with them with him to it will be the to be around, you know, who them would you do? you, barbara, did you the people who don't with me while russia continues to target ukraine's military infrastructure throughout the country? as part of a stated goal to demilitarised the state versus defensive industry analyst. fresh footage of some of its high precision weapons being fired away, including caliber cruise missiles, launched my russian navy ship as an undisclosed location. plus they've shown pictures, advanced in postal defense without being fired. also said to be targeting ukrainian military science

or gas prices in europe. have searched more than 25 percent on wednesday following vladimir putin's announcement that european payments for russian gas will now be accepted only in roubles loop. and as it is showing of. so i decided to implement a sets of measures in the shortest possible time to transfer a payment for a natural gas supply. it's on friendly countries into russian roubles that is to abandon the use of all compromise currencies. at the same time, i would like to emphasize separately, the russia will continue to supply guess in accordance with the volumes and pricing principles indicated in the previously concluded contracts. unlike some colleagues, we value our business reputation as a reliable partner and supplier, which tourist will follow in his story for his art is dawn quarter. he joins me in the studio. now. don, thanks to come again. so what exactly was the russian president's message today? or president vladimir putin has basically ordered all payments for russian natural gas to be being sent to what he called actually unfriendly countries to be made in

russian roubles in the past. it's mostly been accepted in us dollars, but considering the level, the unprecedented level of sanctions that russia has had to contend with since the beginning of its military operation in ukraine. one could say that this is part of moscow's response to the west point, specifically mentioned that the overall trust and foreign currencies had fallen after a number of countries had actually basically a seized frozen russian assets abroad. so i will take a listen to what i said, there was the musical, if you need, you can, over the past few weeks, a number of western countries have taken illegitimate decisions on the so called freezing of russian assets. the collective west is essentially ended, the reliability of its currencies crossed out the trust in these currencies. now everyone in the world knows as they suspected, and now everyone knows for sure that obligations in dollars and euro may not be fulfilled. and to be honest, i mean,

we could say that moscow could have responded by turning off europe's gas taps entirely, but that decision, the decision they actually decided to take in relation to that really looks quite conservative. so it's been a few hours since the news broke out has to be any reaction from russia foreign customers yet. yeah, there have been a number of reactions from european energy companies. we specifically heard from the austrians. they do not seem very eager to start paying in roubles. no one has reached out to us yet. we also have existing contracts, so that is not agreed. we will continue to pay in euro. we have no other contractual basis. and one of germany's primary gas associations also said that it was irritated to hear that it now has to pay its obligations in rubles, perhaps this decision was also taken actually to strengthen the russian rouble. because we have to remember it's significantly depreciated after the west put those

sanctions that i mentioned earlier on russia. and just recently basically right after putting made these statements when the moscow stock exchange opened on that same day, $1.00 was worth under $100.00 rubles. and that's that, that happened for the 1st time since march 3rd, actually. and i also have to mention that ever since then, ever since watermark wouldn't statements, european gas prices have also been skyrocketing and these are just the immediate effects that have come right. just like ours moments after putting made the statements, it's no doubt going to affect europe in the coming days as well. so many things coming in with details. i thought he's gone quarter o supplies from russia and can extend to european markets have also had taken a hates after a storm damage to vital equipment and a black sea oil transport term and transfer terminal facility. the key hub in a caspian pipeline which transports massive volumes of oil company in charge of the site says we're passed could take weeks where the oil outlets expected to do up to

significantly authorities they, none of the oil has leaked into the black said the pipeline consortium, c o sais, the repair process is being hampered by the refusal of some western companies to provide assistance lower than the rooms though of, from the sewage to do. the affording of boil, of the marine terminal has been completely stopped. water treatment plans have been commissioned as we have identified, the damage shows that we have to conduct a full examination, but our divers are unable to do this due to the weather conditions you from the repairs are a labor intensive and high tech processing is we need a tanker to flush the lines without which we cannot start repairs because there is no confirmation from our foreign partners about the shipment of tankers for you, but the repairs will take at least 3 weeks. if we had continued to operate the terminal, the threat of a college of the black sea, it would have been critical to crush. but since we identified the problem in time, cuz the damage has not been done with us,

we have faced an unfair attitude from our foreign partners with the supplier for the necessary spare parts has been denied. foreign companies have officially informed us that they refused to cooperate orders in europe, russian, deputy prime minister, alexander novak st. moscow as closely monitoring the repairs. but the incident does mean that oil exports will be drastically reduced for weeks face of the city. when you get to know this is a serious negative situation for the global market as a whole, because the large volume of oil was transported to wild market through this terminal . from our site, we're monitoring the situation along with federal and regional authorities and the energy ministry doing everything to repair the damage as soon as possible. for some time, perhaps the 6 weeks supplies through this pipeline will either be reduced 4 or 5 fold or completely stopped from u. k. prime minister golden brown is calling for the creation of

a new international tribunal to investigate the russian president and those who helped plan the military operation in ukraine. clearly one of the options is for ukraine to say that if there is peace than they withdraw, they demand that present put them be brought on trial. but until that happens, and if that happens, of course, we would have to look at it. i think we should persist in our demand that he be brought to trial, innocent people, children, mothers are being terrorized bodies lying on the street and marry people. people not getting medical treatment. these are international crimes and they are crimes against humanity. but in this case, they are also the crime of aggression. 140 people in total, including former prime ministers as well as scientists, lawyers, and other politicians has signed the petition to create a judicial quality model. the on the near about charles for german ladies after world war 2 and almost one and a half 1000000 people out of

a targeted to 1000000 have already signed a public petition saying the russian president has committed the quote supreme international crime and also called for a special tribunal for him. however, some critics have pointed out double standards in the british politicians. downside of britain's own track record in a 2003 invasion of iraq and official u. k. u. k. inquiry and is a chill co report found the british interests were not under threat when london moved on to us leadership to launch a devastating attack on iraq. former indian foreign secretary can, was the balance is isn't clear what exactly they were tied british politicians are expecting to achieve with that petition i think with. ready only in the 19th century, this still fighting sawdust. i was usually amused when the russian, when the british defense secretary spoke to a group of british military officers,

reminding them how this war, how they had a legal this one and they can do it again. this still thing is a great game going on in century. i mean, why, why should one such come in so by gordon brown or any british politician seriously, they don't longer the british empire. they're not no longer even in the you in order to muster the support within the you and i think for such a funny, even if there was again signatures, you're going to get those kind of signatures. if you republic street passions on, on any issue, i think is astonishing at the level at which diplomatic discourse and diplomatic positions have descended to with the president biden calling, building

a wall criminal on one. if the issue is that he had invaded your game than those who invaded are going to be gone his. and are they also what washington has stepped up as pressure on china to condemn and sanction russia. however, beijing is arguments, it will maintain neutrality with think of poor foreign minister. i think the u. s. cannot stop the new multi polar world. china is already on the wrong side of history when it comes to ukraine, and the aggression being committed by russia, contrasting views between china and the u. s. threatened to inadvertently complicate already, fraud ties. america's different approach to the war and ukraine is the latest complication. the old cold war strategy of containment will not be viable in this emerging multi polar world. why, despite those comments from singapore, the u. s. isn't backing down and trying to influence china's stance on russia, going so far as to threaten sanctions against aging high tech economy. his policy

with more washington is added again. this time pressure in beijing to play by its rules and condemn russia's actions in ukraine. if china's semiconductor manufacturing international corp sells its chips to russia, we could essentially shut s m i c down because we prevent them from using our equipment. and our software. hazing will have none of it and refuses to give into intimidation. china will never accept any external coercion or pressure and opposes any unfounded accusations and suspicions against china don't be naive condemnation . it sounds naive to say that's not as a vision and that doesn't solve the problem. but is it really all about ukraine unlikely? the bigger goal seems to be washington's desire to break up the strong relationship between moscow and beijing. one example, last year the russian and chinese foreign ministers agreed there was more than one model of democracy. and that interfering in the internal affairs of

a sovereign state under the pretext of quote promoting democracy is simply unacceptable mineral. ready the united states forces other countries to accept american democratic standards shall draw lines based on democratic values in cobbled together small groups. this is a complete betrayal of democracy local min believer. the rule of law is not something monopolized by a small number of countries or global international legislation should involve all countries with equal participation you. the rules of individual countries should not be regarded as international rules either nor the standards of individual countries be taken as international standards and finding its not winning china over with the ukraine issue. the u. s. needs to find another excuse for sanctions. how convenient the state department is now targeting chinese officials for cracking down on religious minorities. beijing's response is, or to clear wave on the show me the u. s. statement is full of ideological bias and political lies, lines and smears china and wantonly imposed restrictions on chinese officials.

would you part of what were you as actions contravene the international law and basic norms governing international relations and grossly interferes in china's internal affairs strong? and as the chinese foreign ministry points out, the u. s. itself is no champion of human rights. do you show you on the ball or throughout history to me, the u. s. slaughter yelled, expelled, and assimilated native americans physically your geographically and culturally uncle, committing systemic human rights abuses in every aspect. huge will, these abhorrent crimes are more than enough to constitute de facto genocide by solitude, in its effort to drive a wedge between china and russia. the u. s. that seems will go to any lengths just so long as it doesn't have a strong enough opponent in the east. well, i think the u. s. is completely ignoring the fact it is human rights problems are arguably more severe than the countries that the u. s. has been sensually her look at at death rates of the black people,

q by the u. s. bullets and the u. s. has engaged in huge this formation campaign to demonize is adversary's if china sanctioned russia. the results are catastrophic, not only dead to peoples of both russia and china suffer from higher prices and to lack of goose and puts in its cornering russia is shown nuclear power. i don't think anyone want to see things even more dramatic to happen. increasingly, many analysts realize that any security solutions in the region we've got the involvement, all russia we're bit is faster. china is on the side of humanity. in general. i think it is what the right side of his tree and tails and washington's traditional middle east allies are also unhappy with the u. s. attempts to control global oil supply. some of the world's biggest crude export is, are increasingly with this thing america. and looking to bypass the use of the dollar in their trade ortiz,

rachel blevins expense. after years of involvement in the middle east, the u. s. now appears to be losing his grasp on some of the closest allies in the region on one major area energy. the vitamin ministration has been much calling on the opec close alliance to increase production by more than land in order to tackle storing energy prices. but they have repeatedly said no. now, the king of the credit card sal, and one of the top oil producers in the world. saudi arabia is responding to the latest tensions by strengthening its ties with china while it is currently beijing, the largest oil suppliers. saudi arabia is reportedly considering accepting the chinese you on for oil, so instead of the us dollar, now that has been around for years, but it could soon become a reality, and it stands just threaten the u. s. dollars dominance as the world reserve currency. so why would saudi arabia consider a move like this right now? well, they're not too happy with the u. s. and it's west now lives for housing unprecedented

things against russia, which just happens to be one of their most important opec plus allies. they're also watching countries like china and india actively looking for ways to work around those things and which means moving away from the us dollar. but while the us in saudi arabia have maintained in alliance on the surface, there are also competitors when it comes to oil production and the saudi. they're finding out just how much power they have right now. unlike the government of nearly every other major oil producing country, including saudi arabia and the other opec states, the u. s. government cannot open and close its own oil taps. it cannot compel oil companies to drill more. so when the war sent oil prices soaring, the government was powerless to bring them down. if they let us all occasions are not too happy about saudi arabia having the upper hand on this one would be an understatement. i hate the fact that we have to ask the saudis to produce more oil . i hate that the bite and administration has to figure out how to leverage our

relationship with saudi arabia to get them to do that so that my constituents aren't being squeezed at the pump. however, the white house denies that the saudis have turned their back on washington after reports that the kingdom was denying calls for president bite it. the president spoke with king solomon on february 9th, in that call. they set forth in affirmative bilateral agenda from climate to security. to energy cooperation. since that important call, our teams have been engaged at every level. there have been no discussions of subsequent calls at the presidents level given this regular and ongoing engagement . but it is not just saudi arabia that the u. s. appears to be losing its influence over the u. a has all their reportedly declined biden's call. and instead of turning to the u. s. for support. well, they're turning to a leader that the u. s. has spent years trying to overthrow that threat this week. officials hosted syrian president bashar assad and his 1st visit to the country since 2011. and that's,

i would say the us hasn't tried to use the current tension through the rewards even noting that the vitamin ministration sent a new batch of weapons to saudi arabia after denying them last year for pottery viet continue increases dominance as it moves away from the us, they are showing that they can live without america, but can the current american economy live without them? in washington, rachel bluff and archie, political analyst on our caf. say that major oil exporting countries are increasingly encouraged to ditch the dollar of affairs of falling on the heavy handed american sanctions. if 2 very important countries on earth economic world stage like saudi arabia and china decide to move away, at least partially from adopting the united states dollars dollar than others could and probably would do the same. this could encourage others to do the same. it may reflect

a certain type of frustration with the united states overall approach towards a conflict around the world. and it may also be just a tactical move to tell the united states who are not happy to raise production and root prices because you asked. so what's in it for us, the way the sanctions, the us sanctions have evolved or throughout the past decade is a worry for a lot of people for lots of countries. because not only the united states, it poses sanctions on certain countries, but it also imposes secondary sanction. and as long as you're dealing with the united states dollar, the u. s. dollar, then u r. m, at the mercy of these sanctions countries would want to move away from this heavy handed approach by washington and try to find a solution whereby they could actually plan

a fulfill to fulfill their needs in expertise in products and so on. moscow say that the shame that the international chess federation has suspended russian grand masters, their gay carrier, came from competing in their events is over his support for most goes operation in ukraine. the a 6 months suspension was announced. dr. kelly, i can sent an open letter to president putin voicing his support for russia's actions. but the international chess federation claims that such rhetoric is damaging for the reputation of the sport nicknames, the minister of defense, cardiac him became the youngest ever grand master. at the age of 12 and went on to win the world cup in 2015. he's also become the champion of several key international competitions over the years. because he, i can says he remains committed to his support of rushes moves in ukraine. despite his suspension from global chests, when you 1st of all that was even if it's not just 6 months of my life,

not an opportunity to just sit at home doing nothing we haven't selected to participate in the candidate tournament, which is the most important term for every chest player has a very tough and difficult selection that i've passed through the video. and now i'm simply devastated because my efforts have gone down the drain. i can compare it with cases when are sportsmen were barred from the olympics or other international competitions under any pretext. but on the other hand, if i could spin back time, i would do the same thing because there are situations where you can't stay silent . feeder has been extremely insulting, because chess was always supposed to be separate from squabbles and political difficulties. there have been no precedence of athletes being suspended for their position so far. if my appeal is not satisfied, i will probably be looking for sponsors and create a 2nd alternative organization that will adhere to the rule that sport is outside of politics. the winner is the one who plays better, not the one who is appointed by officials and joe biden. his approval ratings have

plunged to a new low of 40 percent, despite us presidents popularity usually soaring in war time. he's on a trip across europe where he gave a controversial speech on leading a new world order. is one of them. i see. one of the top military people said to me in a secure meeting, the other day. 6060000000 people died between 90010946. and since then, we've established a liberal world order and that hadn't happened in a long while. a lot of people die, but nowhere near the chaos. and now the time when things are shifted, we're going to, they're going to be a new world order out there. and we've got to lead it. we've got to unite the rest, the free world and doing it. meanwhile, the white house and western allies are mulling whether they can ditch russia from the g. 20 group of industrialized nations over the ukraine conflict. the g h, which has made up mostly of us the allies has already thrown out russia. but the g

20 contains numerous nations who do not want to take sides between the white house and the kremlin and won't draw moscow from the group. on the question of the g 20, i will just say this. we believe that it cannot be business, as usual for russia in international institutions and in the international community are what you're. the g 20 is a major platform for international economic cooperation with the participation of major economies in the world. russia is an important member and no member has the right to remove other countries. as a member, rushes envoy to indonesia, save many groups trying to expel his country. in addition to some in the g 20, i think that the west reaction with disproportionate. he also said one asian gee 20 member had pointed out that there is no mechanism for excluding marks. moscow and middle east nation, including saudi arabia refusing us pressure to cut kremlin ties when us are close to our live panel of experts. now, joining me is i did my job to,

to research to india today. joining us from new delhi, kelly connie's casala person of the international relations that the african nest nation congress use leak and harness began shooting due on the political, a senior fellow as pango institution in beijing. thank you all very much for joining us on the program. now 1st you keyma, as you think the us is actually in a position to lead a new world order as president joe biden is suggesting. i don't think this is the time to talk about a new world order. in fact, what is right now required is an attempt to bring about peace, you know, read the news escalations on both sides, you know, talk and talk a language of diplomacy, the language offer, nor the aggression rather than if you'd talk about the new world water. it's sort

of signifies as if you are already victorious at the time when the world is undergoing threw up and demick a kind of the, the entire global economies in a crisis. so, and as we, as you pointed out yourself, the american president biden's sort of popularity that at the historic lower 40 percent, that's the, that's should not be the time to talk about the new world order that president by didn't sort of move forward to doing one of the meeting yesterday. so i think this is the time for, you know, diplomacy a time for peace or time to bring about negotiations. not to time to sort of enhance aggression a time to sort of wish. busy nato into some kind of aggressive posture. that's what i feel personally. as chris on over to you now, we know not all country as

a countries are going to agree to an american lead world order. how do you think joe biden expects to go about trying to make this idea work in that case? thank you very much. i am, you know, as young people of the african continent and us as young people of south africa, a peace loving country. while worried that there seems to be a country in a world where there's $150.00 minimum countries, which feels that it has been elected pooly. thus, there is no convention where we met. then we agreed that america is going to be the lead of the world and therefore determined the time when there must be or not a new world order. and if they're inviting the world to what they call that new world order, where their participation in that world or that depends on your support for their expansionist and dominant m mentality,

will refuse to be part of that. because the se, in cause are fully once shame on you, america and the west have successfully full the world. and they are pointing themselves to be a democracy and freedom loving a nation. but the actions historically have declared them not to be such a menu. look at something as simple as nato. nato was initiated to respond to the soviet union. but what is the purpose purpose of nato? when the soviet union collapses 1991. instead of following the u. s. a side of nato uses that opportunity to expand. i mean, we stand with the russian people when they say enough is enough. we saw what happened in poland. we saw what happened in georgia and it is enough. and clearly we cannot allow ourselves people to come with guns yet and tell us that they're