ah, mm. a huge the refusal of a number of western countries from having normal cooperation has already hit millions of europeans provoking a real energy crisis. and accuses the with the provoking energy chaos among its citizens. true to its refusal to trade with russia. also head on the program, german officials, reserves will only last until the ultimate russian gas applies are cut. well, some e, u members, mo, returning to coal. austria is former, a foreign minister also states. europe stands to cut itself all from russian energy may be called the impact would be much larger than just the old mental club that people might freeze or not. 3. it's not about with every laptop. i would

say everybody with around a 1000 ukranian, marines reportedly surrendered to russian lead forces. and mario got some members of key ebs nationalists battalions try to flee the battle rather than the key in bob city, r t follows russian troops as they see suspected. radicals here is one such suspect, he was found apparently sneaking nationalist position. she lives with battalion neo nazi with one minute past 6 in e being here in moscow this wednesday, april. the 13th. my name's you know, neil and you're welcome to the global use updates on our team. we are put, has warned that russia can easily redirect its energy exports to nations that need

them. the president out a that while western countries are suffering from rising prices and inflation. moscow as quote, alternative options. any of those that wouldn't offend, not only to the refusal of a number of western countries from having normal cooperation, including russian energy resources, has already hit millions of europeans provoking a real energy crisis. this is also reflected in the us prices and inflation is rising everywhere. that is unprecedented for these countries. of course, we also face problems, but we have alternative options and new opportunities are opening up for us. as for oil, gas and coal, we will be able to increase their consumption in the domestic market, stimulate and deep processing of raw materials, as well as increase the supply of resources to other regions of the world to where they are really needed. also significant, the head of germany,

federal network agency is the agency that overseas the countries energy needs recently claims to freshen, gas supplies are cut by berlin. germany's reserves will only last on till the autumn from our austrian foreign minister current. can i still told archie, it would be hard for germany to deal with the consequences of cutting the energy imports from russia? the impact will be much larger than just the old metaphor that people might freeze or not freeze should bear in mind that it's also all about the commodity natural gas for electricity generation. german government is taking also administrative, legal steps in preparing a gas supply emergency situation. they even talk about national, i station, conference cation or russian property. we can't imagine, i would say the ultimate outcome. you can see how pressure is filled up against

germany within the european union. it's not only from us, from your brain or by the public opinion. it's really from within the european union. the real issue right now is, how will it be accomplished that germany resigned to the fact that it has to agree on that imposed oil and gas embargo by the european union. it's not a very long time. i would say everybody was stuff and everybody's already suffering . karen can i saw, but despite the star warnings over its energy reserves, berlin is still seeking ways of completely stopping energy imports from russia, saying it's going to give up on gas in 2 years and cool before that. 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. just some background on this germany currently in port 35 percent of its natural gas from russia on berlin has acknowledged it will be difficult to rapidly remove russian energy sources from its supply chain. while the u. s. and the recently announced their intention to boost liquefied natural gas supplies, year by the end of the year. and the mid wave after wave evolve functions on russia . some of you members of being forced to reconsider their green plums on referred to using coal work to their reliance and energy from these years ortiz, donal quarter, 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 cold 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 windmills, 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 grease, 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 increase in a 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 in ports from coal, extracting countries like the u. s. australia and indonesia. $27.00 countries said they 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 ellen. g. then quickly moves also into renewables, especially really hydrogen shipping american l n g, across the atlantic to save the environment really with the environmental harm caused by chilling shipping and re gas defying natural gas. these countries might as well just use coal. just ask the experts building even more l n d 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 are likely to rise further, as demand increases. oh, how quickly principals are gone with the wind when the west doesn't get its way. another story to bring you today. russia's finance ministry house, the night allegations of the country has officially defaulted on its foreign debt. it insists it has enough reserves to meet its obligations, is willing to pay and it's ready to prove that in court. of course, we will sue because we have taken all the necessary steps to ensure that investors receive their payments. we will presenting caught up bills confirming our efforts to pay both in foreign currency and in roubles. it will not be an easy process. we will have to very actively prove our case, despite all the difficulties of credit ratings. agency s and p has lowered rushes,

foreign currency rating to selective default. it means s and p believes are increased risk. moscow will meet some of its foreign obligations us after russia decided to make its regular euro bonds payments in roubles last week. rushes dollar reserves are currently frozen jews to sanctions. but we spoke earlier to a russian lawyer, an international law expert who expects plenty of legal challenges from moscow in the near future. yes, usual, if i think in the future, we'll see court proceedings where it's possible to prove that russia had the capability to pay and it had enough reserve to meet the external obligations. but this capability was artificially blocked. there will be lawsuits proving the false measure. russia found itself in and that it did not attempt to evade from its obligations as for losses by foreign actors against the russian finance ministry. well, the credit this will have to go to russian court. i doubt anybody would do this in the near future. so far, even if we speak about technical default,

there will be nothing critical for russia. international markets are anywhere close for russia due to the sanctions. i see that while she's already doing a lot to inform its creditors that it is willing to meet obligations. even during the most extreme sanctions regime, top russian officials repeatedly say that russia is ready to pay. just give us a chance, if he give no chance, let us pain bugles, if he did not want rouble swell. how else can russia meet the obligations and talking big figures in the united states, consumer price inflation, us at a 4 decade high. the biggest such spike among the worlds develop the colonies president joe biden. he's refused to take responsibility for the crisis saying it's russia's fault. broaders and version of ukraine is driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world. 70 percent of the increase in price is a large gain from food price. i can gasoline. yeah, while the white house blame,

skyrocketing inflation on quote and price like inflation in the u. s. has been steadily rising for several months with gasoline costs accounting for roughly half of the monthly increase and the inflation rate itself is also up for debate independent data hub truth lation suggests that the real numbers are higher. according to the company, the actual rate differs from the official statistics presented in march by as much as 5 percent. not the conflicting data is driven by the government. so i did it calculation methods. the framework that the government is using is 100 years old and they have continuously tried evolve that versus taking a fresh approach in an age where we've got everything computerized, some more reaction, investor and financial commented a jim rogers say the accuracy of the official data has always been questionable, i've been watching the government inflation numbers for many years and they've never been right. the government has incentive to understate them and they do

understate them. anyone who go shopping knows that the inflation is much worse than the government says. so the government everywhere has an incentive to keep the inflation rate down so they have to pay less. it's not good for citizens. when governments don't care about citizens. i anyway, much of my life have known or felt that governments print a lot of money. it leads to inflation, places started going up in the us and in europe and other countries before any other changes in the last couple months, may be peace in ukraine tomorrow. we still are going to have inflation because staggering, staggering amounts of money have been printed and now we're going to have to pay for it. ok, let's delve into another offer headlines to reach today. bottles for the don by the city of maurice will continue to rage more than

a 1000 ukrainian marines are reported to have surrendered with the bulk of the fighting focus surrounding major steel plant. some suspected members of the neo nazi a's off the tell you of a partly been trying to escape the battle ground or senior correspondent broadcast you can tell us more from the grunt ukrainian forces surrounded in mary. you will have begun to crack almost every day, more surrender, sometimes entire squads and platoons. others shock off their uniforms and try to get out the skies the civilians. this is something that happens day and day out here in mary. opal's civilians or apparent civilians emerge usually in ones or twos . from the unlikeliest places they emerge the claim to be civilians. but then their stories don't match. who they, they seem, you know very unlikely to the local fighters who, who are detained them, who arrest them. usually they are searched on the spot,

sometimes stripped to check for bruises for bruises from rifle butts, as well as full bruises or mugs from heavy bullet proof vests. if you wear them for weeks on end, they leave marks. invariably, at least this always, this always happens or they are taken away for questioning. and very often it is found that yes indeed, this was a fight of the russian side has lease and lease of those who serve the nationalist battalion, such as as off battalion here is one such suspect. she was found apparently sneaking near nationalist position. you're going to lose that found she raised all manner of red flags, her behavior, her mannerisms, her clothes, her very speech through me, you lose your food. she told us very, very brave woman merging from the as of steel, industrial complex, which is under the nationalist. she is most likely fathers here tell us a sniper,

the as of battalion, neo nazi with alien. they use lot of women because women have a quality, generally speaking, of course that they can be very patient. they can sit and watch through a school at the same intersection. for example, for many hours. this is something that you know, has been for a very, very long time. it only got worse, as she told her story. it was full of holds, and the inconsistencies. yes, but i don't have any registration that can't be true. yes, it can. for 25 years. you haven't been registered anywhere. yes, that's right. here are all my documents. i'm telling you you're going to lose that phone. it's not worth filming me. if i'm so if you need something, boys, just give me a car please. where are you coming from the morgue or the school from them are. but you just said you were coming from the school. i said i was going to find my sister . don't you try to confuse me?

you won't be able to confuse me. trust me, everything's fine with my memory. enough, red flags were raised to warrant detaining her. she was driven to a base for further questioning. there we met another man, his story, even more remarkable here with, with with during questioning a huge number of images were found on the phone with love, simple last lawyer in britain, russian, a few gloria with

what you say, your wife downloaded it with my wife downloaded it maybe it spam or something. there are many, many more who have been detained. hundreds and hundreds of similar individuals. and every day, more courses they attempt to escape and circumvented, mary, you bill this guys, the civilians. their priority now is not the glory of ukraine, the 3rd, right cool, the area and race, but rather their own personal survival. more i guess. do you have r t from mary? you will the u. s. has officially resettle 12 ukrainian refugees over the past month. the spike president biden's pledge in march to allow as many as a 100000 ukrainians into the country,

citing the need for family reunions. 2 weeks since the president made that promise on brits of ukrainian refugees have been seen from the americas southern border with mexico. and while the, by the ministration is reportedly preparing measures to speed up the entry process for those fleeing the conflict, lansing them as particularly the presidents facing growing pressure over the slow ro, light of his program and wherever there are others at the border zone who have been waiting for entry much longer. a number of latin american migrant families have had to wait for nearly half a year to just be allowed to apply for asylum in the us. thousands of latino refugees arrived at the us mexico border every year. wherever only some 900 asylum seekers from latin america and the caribbean had been admitted since october. so one of the refugees described i think we also deserve the opportunity to cross the border. this should let us in because we're also playing it's death for and what we're running from. but it's still

a war. a war against gang refugees from somalia have also been struggling to get help from washington. despite fleeing a civil conflict in the african country, which the u. s. has been actively engaged in the un humanitarian response plan for the country, a scene only a tiny fraction of its funding from its usual donors. we heard the stories of some somalis now in a desperate fight for survival. ah, all right, great. a company you okay with as i say him out of that? no. okay. this is something we're already aware of. the ukrainian crisis started less than 2 months ago, and we've been stranded across the, our states more than 30 years now with liberty supporting us. now the ukranian crisis has stolen spotlight

with his animal that was even village facility years. we've been suffering from deteriorating living conditions, like griffey geez, and all countries a yellow new life. we've been here since 1991 after fleeing the war between the tribes in somalia of us only intervened to achieve its objectives, but didn't do any good for the somali people. and we came here in a group of 350 either the us nor the un provided any assistance to us with them as, as the model. so well only basically the you is destroyed somalia and did nothing

to support us. now we see that the u. s. and other western countries pay attention to was on countries. why? because the u. s. has an interest in them, otherwise they with her miss, i will never done anything good to i'm, i don't expect it to do so in the future. ah, can moving the program on russia and india have reiterated their strong cooperation and partnership has the country celebrates 75 years of diplomatic relations. this wednesday. the anniversary comes a against the backdrop of increasing pressure from washington. which wants india to join us led sanctions against moscow. new delhi has so far maintained a neutral stem from the conflict in ukraine. following us somewhat earlier this week, washington's top diplomat called and india to cancel its imports of russian weapons

on fossil fuel. and shorting, we continue to urge all countries to avoid major new transactions for russian weapon systems, particularly in light of what rushes doing to ukraine. every country is differently situated, has different needs requirements. but we're looking to how i should partners not to increase their, their purchases of russian energy. well, one of india is leading experts on relations with russia is deli, is putting its own national interest 1st on this, prepared to stand up to western pressure while maintaining strong ties with moscow . we had the meeting of ne prime minister with what you're meeting of the bread minister with president biden, as well as the physical meeting off the defense minister and foreign minister in washington. with the account about judging by the results of doing india is standing up to the pressure and continues to predict what india considers to be

it's for interest. india is continuing to maintain its relationship with russia, despite the pressure from the us and the west in general, to dilute our relationship with the russian federation. right now, india is interested in maintaining a neutral position on what is going on in europe. india is going through for the last, almost to begin with a program of diversification of am supplies. but the problem is, diversification does not mean what some others think. that in there is going to shift dependencies from russia to the united states. what india i want is these countries to help india build its own military industrial complex because india desires to be a great bar. it understand that those desires cannot be met if it continues to import arms in a large number. another aspect to this while many western brands have closed their

stores and stop seals in russia, in response to the countries actions in ukraine. indian retailers are in talks about filling the gap for major indian probably already signing initial agreements, more are expected to follow after russian, franchisee operators visits india next month, russian molten being exploring the possibility of bringing in brands from india, china around on turkey. we spoke to the head of a retail consultancy firm in india, so the girl believes the western point cuts ready, opening up new opportunities. i think we, we come, we are comparatively, go to all as well as any of us and they just come to what it comes to fashion. it comes to training. i was wanting to come still, i think and didn't go to meeting you and you were. and most of them have

a sustainable approach towards their products. and what is surprising when we started this whole thing, i didn't get a lot of messages and coming on with this platform. so some of the listening bang and they didn't obviously didn't like that. and then ran out of one to end. but i think somebody's lost in somebody's game. so i think in bangs and the dealers are very optimistic that the russian market and we will be able to guess which has been created not only by the western brand, but also brand, which probably are not existing in best buy segment. now the issue of free speech in the west is once again raising discussion mouse after the washington post newspaper ers, the bum on chinese channels for broadcasting a different viewpoint. by imposing clear rules for government outlets that result

in the removal of chinese channels. social media sites with land. another blow in service of ukraine was not the 1st time western media directly call for a band of other outlets. channels such as r t were repeatedly accused of spreading dis information. and being propagandists at the start of the war and ukraine, eventually there are broadcasts, including ers, were blocked in a number of countries including across europe. just to point this side as well. a recent poll shows a vast majority of chinese people survey believe the us is a hedge. human has been a bully over the ukranian conflict force in countries to pick sides and is not interested in de escalation. let's get the thoughts on all of this and speak to us journalist dave lind off. dave all was good to have you on the program. so you've got the washington post wanting chinese media silence now, as well,

such as russian media. what's your take when you read it? i will, you know, i, i, if i, if i might jump in on that lester, a little snippet of your story. i spent 6 years in china and hong kong and taiwan as a journalist for a business week. and i speak chinese and i was, this is back in the 90s. i was amazed at how popular the u. s. was in the ninety's are among chinese people, ordinary chinese people, intellectual people, you know it. and yet, todd, what the u. s. has managed to do with brilliantly, is to completely destroy that and are these polls are showing that in china, of the u. s. is viewed are very, very negatively now. apparently. ah, and i'm not surprised. i mean, the u. s. is talking about china, so great rival. and so what we see is china and russia, ah,

embracing each other because of us policies against both of them. it's a phenomenal turned from a, you know, what nixon and kissing her and see if it's, it's very interesting, isn't it? why are asking the to why our alternative workdays, such as r t suddenly deemed as such a threat? well, you know, you have to go back to historically look at the how the u. s. does things and you know, my own grandmother was a german teacher ah, in north carolina and at the, in the area running up to world war 2. and she lost her job because nobody wanted to have a german teacher. ah, during the war, which is really stupid when you think about it and you know, you, you ought to be ah,

learning the language of your enemy is that you can understand what they're thinking and what they're saying. the same thing applies to russian not being taught, you know, all through the cold war. you could not study russian in public school at what just simply wasn't offered, which again, makes absolutely no sense. this is them, an american mentality in, in o, shut off the world if you don't like it. and so now we're seeing that, ah, in our free, suppose it are media market that don't, isn't it? because you've got the west. dave, constantly harking on a by protecting freedom of speech. the freedom of press is what we build are, are countries on something like this from, from such an established daily? where does that leave that call? well, i mean, it, it, it, we have freedom of speech. i can go out on the streets, anything i want, no one's going to arrest me. nobody is going to harass me. i mean,

individuals might disagree with me and yell at me. i hold up a sign saying piece in ukraine or something. i don't know. i it, but i'm not going to be bothered by an official presence. i might be spied on. i might have my phone tap, but i will not be punished for a in any objective way for saying whatever are writing, whatever i want to write. but ah, so in that sense, it is a free society and the other sense, though, the media is ah corporate. and often in the case of television, licensed from the federal government and is very sensitive to its advertisers to which many of which are arms, industry companies. so it's not that free in terms of access to information. that's where you see the difference. and so banning channels like r t or any chinese ah channels and, and sources of.