[000:00:00;00] ah ah, let him a person slammed accusations of rushes, involvement, and the killing of civilians and ukraine's boucher calling the incident. i pay a staged fate. russian. that forces edge, closer to victory, and don bassetti of mario post saying they've now taken full control of the local port correspondent is on the ground tanks rolling to assault the final stronghold of ukrainian radical troops with the opec group of oil exporting countries. one, the e u of a potentially was

a supply shock across those intensifies it's functions against russia. ah, hello and welcome. it's 8 pm here in moscow. and this is all t international with the latest news headlines. now president putin house dismissed the allegations of a civilian masika in boucher calling them fake during a media conference with his bella, russian towns apart. because when you go to would you just when i talk to my western colleagues about boucher, i asked them if they saw what happened in rocca? did they see how that syrian city was completely destroyed by american aircraft? and there really were a lot of corpses there decomposing for months, but nobody seemed to care about it. and nobody recalled it. just like they don't recall the hundreds of peaceful civilians killed in ghana. stan, when a single strike would kill hundreds of people. but nobody talked about it,

but they sure did talk about all the staged provocations in syria, like the imitation of chemical weapons used by the government. and later it turned out that it was all fake, just like boucher really why report and statement is the most recent reaction from moscow to the situation around the quinn and town of butcher and key of accusations that earlier russia's defense ministry already called provocation. and a disturbing v do apparently showing dead bodies lined on the streets of butcher, but key of presented as the unique evidence to atrocities committed. they said by the russian army a fake. meanwhile, germany already says that the west is about to increase already imposed sanctions against russia, following boucher again. and the countries media seems to be in his terry over what they think happened there and voices calling on punishment for war crimes. they talking about russia, of course, total embargo on russia's energy and more weapons to ukraine,

louder and louder every day, and all that before any independent investigation into what exactly happened. while it seems that all the conclusion is, have already been made and russia is already being punished right now, including economically, some peel talk about benito fact check in and proper investigation. here is germany's foreign minister. we have massive indications of war crimes in the, in the courts will have to decide. but for, for us, it is central to secure all evidence. while some already investigating and turkish outlet has just recently published the results of their research to reported the debunk, the new york times report which has been widely used recently to push accusations of atrocities in butcher onto moscow. the thing is that new york times presented images from max our satellites, claiming it was taking between march 9th and 11th. but the investigators apparently

proved that on these particular days, these particular satellites were covered in a different area. and they proved that using the sun called program, it is a special program that can clearly show that. and another image presented also by new york times. also showing dead bodies lying on this trees claimed to be taken on february 28th. but again, the investigators proved that it was taken much later on april, the 1st day after the mayor of butcher officially confirmed and his vizier message posted on social media that the russian army had already left the town. so there is still more questions than answers, and it is clear, it seems for everybody now that it should be investigated exactly what happened in an experts from the university of indonesia, said. western media outlets are trying to shape global opinion. and by promoting only one side of the story, in my con, in war, there are 2 important things to sickle. our military,

low fire and information were fair in terms of physical there for us. thing you train on paper is last, but in information war ukraine, it's not alon. crane is supported by the western media, mostly of the word the word has information on leave from the western side. so the purpose of such propaganda is clear to save the word of the noun and this, there will be a reason for the wes to accuse the russian leaders as a word, creamy knows the latest news related to what happened in which in my account is part of this information where the battle for the dumbass city of mary paul has entered his final stage where the russian at forces

saying they've now fully retaken the local port. the remaining ukrainian radical troops reportedly hold up inside the as of steel factory, with russian tank sound, moving in for a decisive strike on the east. one called is more against the report when the thing this several delivery of the art was docile. corporate, which is the last frontier before the adult film, the software ready nationalists of may. first i have with them to try a follow these guys. these buildings are amongst the last still held by ukranian nationalists on the east bank of mary opal outside the industrial zone. there also a nest of radical nationalists, snipers,

and machine gunners. hooley tanks could reliably dislodge these buildings, fortunately, are devoid of civilians. more than a 100 still held as human shields by nationalists have taken refuge in a nearby school school number 56. the tanks are careful not for far at it. the people inside are among the last held hostage by ukrainian nationalists. if you were speaking about the situation in mary u. par the residential parts of the city have been liberated, some individual pockets of resistance remain such as sleepers and other troops hiding in basements and multi story buildings. but it isn't over yes. fierce combat . most of it's close quarters, still rages across mario pl. unlike regular ukrainian military troops in the city who have surrendered in their hundreds,

the nationalists show no such eagerness to end this with the eval filica. he'll be back with it quite quickly. as you can see with which these tide is replacing. this once withdrawing to the rearm. resupply and take a short break that's in here. those are then with the liberation of the last few residential areas. still held by radicals. a new phase will begin

a full out assault on the vast as of steel and iron works complex and they're, the nationalists will have no more civilians. to hide behind. more, i'd guess the of archie for mario bull. the pentagon said it cannot confirm allegations of chemical weapons use in mario paul, off the as of neo nazi forces inside the city, accused russia of attacking that with some force of chemical agents with at least 3 people allegedly hospitalized. as a result, care defense ministry says it's trying to verify this information, or the russian military has not commented on the claim. the pay group of oil exporting countries have worn the european union of a potentially worst of a supply shock. if the un to intensify its sanctions against russia, we could potentially see the loss of more than $7000000.00 barrels per day of

russian oil and other liquids. exports resulting from current and future sanctions or other voluntary actions. considering the current demand outlook, it would be nearly impossible to replace a loss in volumes of this magnitude. in the u. k, a new study from the center for economics and business research phase, the cost of living crisis as well in truly arrived in the country. the center predicts the biggest ever fall in living standards since the 1st data was recorded 70 years ago. i mean, while you remember, look, some book it was that the new package of sanctions currently being discussed within the union would heavily impact germany's industry and later spread across europe. ortho and russia analyst marci mccauley. believe some countries will now be scrambling to hold oil ahead of the imminent economic crisis. will they be? you can in fact say no future investment, financial investment in russia. well, that's very weak and so on. but what they are banking on, what's your opinion?

and americans are bank on that reduced organ gas revenues from russia, which was result from the europe in union buying less oil and gas from russia. this will gradually have such an impact on russia that it will, in fact, reduces activities in ukraine and perhaps even withdraw him ukraine. because at present russia he said exporting more gas, more or to europe than ever before. because the europeans want to build up preserves, they opec. of course, russia is a major player in the bank. the american devoss, the saudis, to increase are good. and they basically said no, because relations in saudi arabia and united states over each tower and present that the own situation is not seen by most europeans as really

a critical point. because they have been estimates that by the end of the year because of increased output throughout the world, price will come down to about $900.00. but they can cost an interest in increasing prices because it is a cartel. and therefore, when is to listen to what they have to say, and it would mean that every country now we try to get as much as possible in the short term in case that shortages later on this year. france is gearing up for a high stakes presidential race. as french president, emmanuel mccrory goes head to head with the national rally party chief marine the pen in round 2 of the election, a po finds a 3rd of fall left can that there is a loop mellon. shaun's boat is wood back mcclung one. 5th, fever le pen, but the vast majority of right wing eric for move support is will support le pen and only 8 percent micron. but we discuss how the situation could develop whitley

pens, coordinator of activities abroad. my cohen pools, you know, for the past few years has been very, very low. so i think what we're going to seem 2 weeks is also a lot of people who do not want him again for another 5 years. and i'm convinced that those people will then vote for marine instead of of, you know, another 5 years with macro. however, what was surprising is mental shows who actually present the extreme left. and that's, that's what we not sure about because they have spend millions party have been, you know, those past few years, criticizing my home like very fiercely. so that's why i'm not so sure that you know, the majority of his voters will, will for him. when they say, you know, like, don't vote for me or in defend. again, my call has been despised by, you know, by a lot of people. and i think we underestimate the resentment that the french people have against this president. you know, he has been and i remember,

but 5 years ago he was sold by everybody has been, you know, a genius, you know, someone is going to save the world pretty much and has been just like of failures and flaws after flaws bowling plans. he completely stop using russian energy employees by the middle of 20. 24 could be accelerated even further. according to germany's economy, ministry, independence from coal can be achieved the fastest by autumn. as far as oil is concerned, we intend to do that by the end of the year and gas by the summer of 2024. we are currently checking how to create the necessary conditions in order to speed up the process even more so many tiny employees, 55 percent of its natural gas from russia. berlin has acknowledged it will be difficult to rapidly remove russian, so says they said, from a supply chains, the u. s. on the european union say they will boost supplies of liquefied petroleum gas from other countries by the end of this year and at the escalating backlash off

sanctions. some e members have been forced to revert to using co as they work. he cuts that reliance on russian gas ortiz, don't course, and explains them across the european union painful losses for the green agenda and frances recent presidential election, the greens didn't even get the 5 percent needed to reimburse campaigning costs. and in germany, a choice between harming vladimir putin and sticking to sacred green principles. spoiler alert, berlin chose the 1st one and decided to return to call so much for what world leaders were saying. just a few months ago. countries are turning their back on coal. the end of coal is in sight. on the contrary, coal is returning with a vengeance. why? the west is willing to go to any lengths to hurt russia over its special operation in ukraine, even if it means playing dirty and replacing russia natural gas, not with solar panels, not with wind mills, but with dirty old coal. there is a temporary role for coal,

which we had hoped would be out of the energy mixed by the end of this decade. but it will stay longer. we will need it until we find alternative sources until the time even the greenest government will not phase out coal, italy, romania, bulgaria, greece, among others are all reviving their call industries, even the world's greenest utility company, or stead is now stock piling coal, however much we hate it. we are very likely going to see a temporary increasing coal use compared to the trajectory that we have been in for countries that can't extract enough call at home. they're already ramping up imports from coal, extracting countries like the u. s. australia and indonesia, $27.00 countries said would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 55 percent by 2030, and they're back in the coal mines. it looks like the use head is in the sand at the same time because brussels is telling everyone all as well. what we will do in the next couple of weeks is work towards what i call the re power you initiative. and as part of that,

we want to accelerate the energy transition. the core of what i'm offering is a long term strategic relationship that starts with l n. g. then quickly moves also into renewables, especially hydrogen shipping, american, ellen g, across the atlantic to save the environment really with the environmental harm caused by chilling shipping and re gas a flying natural gas. these countries might as well just use coal. just ask the experts building even more l n g export terminals would lock in fossil fuel infrastructure and pollution for decades to come. so who wins out from the west? stubborn attempt at spiting moscow. the fossil fuel executives who progressives have hated for the past several decades. cold prices have jumped 10 fold and are likely to rise further as demand increases. how quickly principals are gone with the wind when the west doesn't get its way. as fresh, full outside the ukrainian presidents recently televised speech to greek parliament,

which included an address from as of neo nazis. aussies ramon concert reports from a star, a greek village inside dumbass, with reaction from locals. the village of stella is located about 50 kilometers from dawn esque. it's known as a regional centre of a greek culture where locals still honor their ancestors traditions. the shifter was up on the 1st, which has had a showcase room. but since 2001 has become a whole greek museum, all the exhibits are household items by greeks and steel. many of them are hand made. over the last 8 years of the crane civil war, stella saw a major economic decline duties for online position. and many have opposites for life elsewhere. despite the fact that troops were never stationed within the village boundaries, it's been shelled continuously by the ukrainian military. civilians have been killed, homes destroyed,

and critical infrastructure damaged. the roof was damaged by shrapnel, but we received donations and managed to fix it this year. the greek flag on the roof remains damaged, though we'll restore everything when it becomes peaceful. here, we've seen who's been firing at us. it's the ukrainian army. it was very scary. locals were outraged when the korean president zalinski appeared in greek parliament via video conference, along with 2 members of this, all battalion and militant structure accused of neo nazi affiliation and war crimes of by the united nations. or he, russian troops have brought death and destruction to a place where ukrainians and greeks have enjoyed peace and prosperity for centuries . moreover, russia has begun to porting people from the south of ukraine just oh, it's a matter of days so on. and now i asked you to listen, not only to me who is far from marry you paul, but also to these 2 defenders of mary you, paul, who are there right now? that's the whole history is being erased. the concentration camps have been

forgotten. everything is being forgotten, but we know about it. we learned this history, we remember it, but ukraine has a completely different history. one that has beneficial to them. how is it possible to accept that we're not against the ukraine, but there should not have been this new emergence of nazis. some of the wrestler, the worst thing was the abruptness. it could have been quite for a few days. and then there was shelling all of a sudden, we don't know why there's no military personnel in our town. there's economic hardship here. we have to survive the residence. so the village of still, i've been living on the front line for the last 8 years, and i've been visiting the locals for all this time as well. and each time i've never seen any soldiers over the nest people's republic army here, they've always been located on the outskirts of the village. nevertheless, this place has been continuously shelter. many people civilians have been killed

as the result. so we can still hear the sounds of shelling from far away, but so low calls hope that all of this will end very soon and they will get a chance to finally rebuild their place of birth room on quarter of artie. still, i don't ask people's republic. ah, well, we can now return to one of our top stories. this our berlin's plan to completely stop using russian energy imposed by the middle of 20. 24 could be accelerated even further. that's according to germany's economy, ministry. while as discussed this with our panel of guests, so we we have which is a professor at the monford university like dr. ica ha, my economist and publisher and gal left co director of the institute for the analysis of global security. many thanks to all 3 of you for joining us on the program. always a pleasure. first question to i could please. now a spokesperson for the german economy. ministry has said that

a country could completely cut his dependence on russian energy in 2 years. is it a plan that looks viable to you? no, this is more i wish than a plan. i think they have very poor advisors. they have not the clue how they will manage. this is just the wish and they are telling this story all over to, to calm down the people, the economy especially, and nothing more. it's not realistic. questions and gown, please. the united states promise to provide europe with gas appliance to replace imports from brush, cut the us imports cover the needs of the whole of europe, though not at all. the united states has a limited capacity in terms of its l. n. g exports. there are fixed number of liquid faction facilities that oil and gas industry will have

to really up its production. after having been told for the past year of the bided administration, that they are public enemy number lines and they should have been treated with all kinds of regulatory barriers that prevented them from increasing production. so i don't see how the industry will respond to an administration that has been so anti oil and anti gas and anti fracking by simply immediately ramping up production and investing billions and billions of dollars in new capacity. i just don't see it happening. i question to richard place europe is basically cutting itself off from the resources it depends on will it be able to find alternative supply that similar price is low and if not,

it's then who's going to buy the burden of the new cost. right, well the answer is no. i mean, opec today came out with a statement saying that it's impossible to replace a russian production. and it's true also for the gas applies germany, germany, and it will not be able to make up for this in the short term. and therefore, the only way is to actually keep importing russian energy as should the government decide not to do that. then of course, the government is shutting down the economy, which will be quite shocking if it hadn't happened to some extent already since march 2020. so we're still in this phase where the government is unofficially restricting the economy and it's getting worse. and of course is increasingly affecting a number of other sectors. we talk about energy now, but there's other important sectors like food supplies that we also have to be concerned about ica. yeah. do you think the e u has been to rational,

maybe even till aggressive in shutting down its own oil and gas and colon gas infrastructure? i mean, just a few months ago, wildly does gathering glass go into the world's dirty fossil fuel, coal with dead and buried. but now we've seen quite the opposite. it depends on what you want. it depends on what is that a good gender agenda is to destroy the dominic economy to get inflation high and to increase the dependency on on the us. especially the, the potential for the us to black mayor, germany whenever they want. because the u. s. would be on the to the sizes for the energy supply for germany, then they do everything right. but there's a sabotaging of germany and what they don't realize. and i think that is the common sense in the european elements that when they destroy the german economy, especially the german middle,

that then the anti you will fall apart because they are living on and dominate expenses all over. so i think what they do and very aggressive politics, that is ideology driven and not good for the, for the german people for the european people. so it just depends on what the agenda is. i don't think they have a good agenda for europe and i especially especially not a good good agenda for germany and where you can read all this stuff in the great reset program from plus swap and it's world economy for with it's only got that they already described this ages ago that they want to destroy the. ready economy the old production economy because they believe they could, they could take over europe and connect europe closer to the us and cut off the rest of the world. but i don't think this will work. and the reality now already

shows that these are strategies who do not work, who are not thought through. and it will come to time when the people realize and this time will be very, very shocked me. especially when the, when the energy supply doesn't re, doesn't laugh any more when they need to re change the anti program and return to rush r and other suppliers to get the gospel gal washington. so it intends to achieve the deprivation of russia from a bonus income from the export of gas and oil of destroying moscow status as a leading energy supplier. is it all going to work out his plans for the us? absolutely not. first of all, let me just make a point here. anytime that you moved from pipe gas to l n g, you are essentially moving from it's like moving from standard gasoline to supreme gasoline. ok, so you're imposing

a tax on your society by moving from cheap gas to much more expensive gas. so this is a tax that all europeans will pay if this program the of the you and us concocting together will succeed. but we will not get to it. i think what we will see is that the people of europe, the ordinary people, not a diverse crowd or not the league, not the brussels, bureaucratic, or have been practicing faith based energy policy for decades. now, are the real people, they were rebel, they will not accept, they will not stand up to this. they will go out to the streets and that will, they will and this to read because you cannot run an economy like the p,

an economy based on this faith based energy policy. you have to be grounded in reality. these are the lives of real people, real society, real workers, people that need to put food on real foot on real tables. and i think within one or 2 months we will have a completely different conversation about all of these. and one final question to which should place 27 countries of pledge to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by the 2030. but now the found themselves by using coal or so much for going green. but whether it's original goals, even realistic in the 1st place, probably not. and now we've got a very good excuse for, for ditching them as some countries like france have done. and therefore, so the question is, what is the intention? what is the goal? there is a possibility that, you know, as we heard, the governments will maintain the need to move away from fossil fuels

despite and, and perhaps they will argue precisely because of all the, the problems now supplying problems due to sanctions. and therefore, they will argue, possibly, well, we have to take that price and it's worth it because not only for political ideological reasons now in this military situation, but also because the environment demands that there is actually quite a reasonable likelihood that this will be the party line that will be pushed while economies collapse. unemployment rises, supply chains, dis, integrate and trumps down to get empty. now this seems to be in fact, as my colleague said earlier, very much in line with some of the programs pushed by some of the visionaries and