a, with the refusal of a number of western countries from having normal cooperation has already hit millions of europeans provoking a real energy crisis. latin america, nick uses the west of provoking energy, chaos among its citizens. due to its refusal to trade with russia. also coming off on the program, jermel officials born reserves will only last until the autumn, fresh and gas supplies are cut. while some members, mo, returning to coal, austria is former, a foreign minister also states. europe starts to kind of sell for from russian energy. maybe possibly in fact we did much larger than just the old metal club and that people might freeze or not 3. it's not about to do with. i

would see everybody like that. everybody is a 1000 ukrainian marines reportedly surrender to russian lead forces in marty. you've got some members of p, f nationalist battalions. try to flee the battle ground in the heat on the t r. t follows russian troops. us they see suspected radicals. here is one such suspect. he was found apparently sneaking nationalist position. she moves like replied with battalion neo nazi with wherever you're counting the program from today. welcome to moscow and to then use our in our team. my name's unit on the bottom here. put in house, we're not russia can easily redirect it to energy exports to nations that need them

the president out a bout while western countries are suffering from rising prices and inflation. moscow has, quote, alternative options any of those that wouldn't offend, none of my notes as 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. and of course, we also face problems, but we have alternative options and new opportunities are opening up for us to ask for oil and gas and coal. we will be able to increase their consumption in the domestic market. you stimulate and d processing of raw materials as well as increase the supply of resources to other regions of the world to where they're really needed. in that it was a lot of the head of germany. federal network agency about is the agency that

overseas the countries energy needs recently claimed that if rushing gas supplies are cut by berlin, germany's reserve was lost on till the autumn, former austria and foreign minister cotton can, i shall, told r t. it would be hard for germany to deal with the consequences of cutting energy inputs from the impact will be much larger than just the old metaphor that people might freeze or not freeze. bear in mind that it's also all about the commodity, natural gas for electricity generation. german government is taking all sorts of administrative legal steps in preparing a gas supply. emergency situation is even talk about nationalized station confiscation 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 car in can i saw in conversation with our team now despite the stark warnings of rich energy reserves. berlin, they're still seeking ways of completely stopping energy imports from russia, saying it's going to give up on gas in 2 years on coal before that. independence from coal can be achieved, the fastest buy 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 to give you a sense of what we're talking about germany currently in ports, 55 percent of its natural gas from russia. berlin has acknowledged it will be difficult to rapidly remove russian energy sources from its supply chain. while the u. s. e, you recently announced their intention to boost liquefied natural gas applies to europe by the end of the year. the mid wave after wave of sanctions on russia. so i mean, you members have been forced to reconsider their reading and refer to using coal as they work to cut their reliance and energy from the east. your sar teeth dollar 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 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 heart 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 increase in

a coal use compared to the trajectory that we have been in. for countries that can't extract enough coal at home, they're already ramping up imports 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 eaves 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 the hydrogen shipping american, ellen gee, 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 g export

terminals would lock in fossil fuel infrastructure and pollution for decades to come. so who wins out from the west? stubborn attempt that 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. the russian defense ministry has had 9 stopped the 8th off battalion. a nationalist battalion has been fully cleared from murray. you both bottles for control of the don boss, republic city at reached really from the beginning of the war or a senior correspond mariah garcia if is there ukrainian forces surrounded and merry. you will have begun to crack almost every day, more surrender, sometimes into squads and platoons. others shock off their uniforms and try to get

out the skies the civilians. this is something that happens day and they out here in mary. opal's civilians or a parent civilians emerge usually in ones or twos. from the unlikeliest places they emerge, they claim to be civilians, but then their stories don't match. who they, they seem, you know, very unlikely to the local fathers who, who are detained them, who will rest them. usually they are searched on the spot, sometimes stripped the check for bruises for bruises from rifle butts, as well as full bruises or marks 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 serve the nationalist battalion, such as as off battalion. here is one such suspect she was found apparently

sneaking near nationalist positions. you're going to lose that found. she raised all manner of red flags, her behavior, her mannerisms, her clothes, her very speech. so to 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 father's. he had tell us a sniper, the us off battalion, new 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, 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. 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 during questioning

a huge number of images were found on whom love simple last roy with many rotten with the meeting with you say your wife, downloaded it. my wife downloaded it. maybe it was spam. or something. there are many, many more who have been detained. hundreds and hundreds of similar individuals. and every day, more a court as they attempt to escape and circumvent that, mary. you, bull disguised,

the civilians. they are priority now is not the glory of ukraine. the 3rd, right, cool, the area and race, but rather their own personal survival. more i'd guess the of r t for mario po. can other story to bring you key have says the leader of the country's largest opposition party victor med viet truck has been detained on the orders of presidency lensky. for months he had been under high sir. s, but managed to escape after russia's operation began with his lawyer, claiming he'd received death threats outs. his address, here's won't the ukrainian leader how to say about the rest maroon also believe will see him. i think, especially cynical of him to use military comfort. he tried to disguise himself like such a soldier, such a patriot or sticking mister med viejo quarles placed under house arrest last year accused of treason. he denies the allocation calling it political repression. after the starts of the conflict, his party was among a number of opposition groups whose activities were suspended under martial

presidency. lensky has offered to exchange mister med via trip for captured ukrainian soldiers. moscow has yet to comment on the proposal. political commentator john brickman believes the arrest is scandalous. disclaimer intimidating no, to have a disability go prisoner who mediated publicly on the social media and then propose is to exchange a king and politician against capture the king. and so just, you know, the exchange is between. so just that's 2 way exchange and then the political opponent, it's really quite extraordinary. that again, underlines the fact that you can it's not the unified counseling. there are people in the east wood into our culture and people in the west to lean towards the west. and you know that this politician that's being put on the house i've asked before the war. and there was no protest about that. there's no point there was anything that you can do a just the west on chris below beneath them,

it's just unbelievable. i've never seen that in my life. it's been reveal the u. s . has officially resettled 12 ukrainian refugees over the past month. that is this by president biden's pledge in march to allow as many as a 100000 ukrainians into the country, citing the need for family region. let's discuss the issue with our tea, corresponded rachel blevins in washington, d. c. good to see rachel. it does appear a pretty staggering gap, is there between what was promised and what's actually happening on the ground. take us through it. yeah, the binding ministrations promise that the u. s. would accept 100000 ukrainian. refugees certainly has not become a reality with the latest data showing that just 12 ukrainian were accepted through the united states official refugee program. now the white house is putting the blame on the us legal system as the department of homeland security reveals that

nearly 3000 ukrainians crossed over into the united states through the us mexico border. so the question then becomes, is the, by an administration planning anything to maybe get it a little bit closer to the goal that it set for itself. while reports are saying that they are looking at some sort of a parole program where refugees would be able to come into the country as long as they have sponsors here in the us. and already advocate through refugees or raising concerns about that kind of a program, noting that it would keep refugees from getting access to certain benefits and protection they are inventing this new approach to parole, which provides no security, no safety net. and so that's worrying and leaves the applicant at the mercy of the backlog and broken asylum system if they want to stay here permanently. now meanwhile, thousands of refugees who are not ukrainian are raising their frustrations and

concerns as they are trying to gain access to the u. s. and they're fleeing violence from their home countries in latin america. and there's all kinds as the us border patrol has already predicted that there would be a record breaking search of migrants looking to cross over the us mexico border the spring. i think we also do have the opportunity to cross the border. they should let us in because we're also fleeing. it's different we're running from, but it's still a war and war games gang. so given that ukrainian refugees aren't the one benefiting from us involvement in their country. the question then becomes, well, who is and in order to find that answer, we just have to look over to the pentagon, where reportedly they are hosting the leaders from the top a u. s. weapons manufacturers on wednesday, for a meeting where the main subject is making sure that ukraine is supplied with

weapons and ready for war for years and years to come. so it appears as though once again, those who aim to benefit off of this complex are the ones who the u. s. government is listening to the people who have the most interesting influence in the direction of the coverage or weapons makers. they have the most direct financial stake in the way we cover issues of war and peace. unfortunately, they are interested in more war and less peace. so once again, when it comes to the main stream media, their coverage here is not much different. for example, if we look at former ca, director turn defense secretary leon panetta, he used one of his many, many recent appearances on cnn to talk about how the u. s. just is not sending ukraine enough weapons. and at no point was it mentioned that i also reportedly has ties to raytheon, which is one of the largest defense contractors here in the u. s. and yet with all

of this, talk about the need for the us to send more weapons to ukraine. it never is mentioned that this trend of supplying weapons to a country only leads to instability and chaos, which then creates more refugees taken us through that story from washington d. c. r t corresponding rachel blevins. ah, russia and india have reiterated their strong co operation and partnership of the country celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations. this wednesday. the anniversary though comes against the backdrop of increasing pressure from washington. which once india to join us led sanctions against moscow, new delhi has so far maintained neutral stamps on the conflict. then you, following a somewhat earlier this week, washington is top diplomat cold on india to cancel its imports of russian weapons on fossil fuels shoring maritime security. 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 our partners not to increase their, their purchases of russian hill. one of india is leading experts on relations with russia. se daily is putting its own national interest 1st and is prepared to stand off to western pressure while maintaining strong ties with moscow. we had the meeting of the prime minister with what you are meeting of the prime minister with president biden, as well as the physical meeting of 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 a relationship with russia,

despite the pressure from the u. s. 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 om supplies. but the problem is, diversification does not mean what some others think it does. that india 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 is desires to be a great bar. it understand that those desires cannot be met if it continues to import arms in a large number. while talking of relations between the 2, while many western browns have closed their stores on stop seals and rush in

response to the countries, actions in ukraine. indian retailers are in talks about filling the gap for major indian bronze. i've already signed initial agreements to do that. more are expected to follow up the russian franchisee operators visit in the next month. russia malls being exploring the possibility of bringing in brands, not just from india, but also china around on turkey. we spoke to the head of a retail consultancy firm in india so so gar, well believes the western boy caught this already opening up new opportunities. i've been, we've come, we are comparatively thought all as well as any of us. and they just come to what it comes to fashion. it comes to train. eigen wants to want to live and it comes to i think, and didn't brands out a very unique and most of them have a sustainable approach toward their products. and what is surprising when we

started this whole thing, i didn't get a lot of messages and coming on when it is bad problems. some of the best bang and they didn't obviously didn't like that in them then is out of going to enter. but i think somebody's lost in somebody's game. so i think in bangs and retailers are very optimistic that the russian market and we will be able to pull them, which is created not only by the western brand, but also brand, which probably are not existing in best buy segment. the issue of free speech in the west is once again raising discussion that's after the washington post. urge the bomb and chinese channels from broadcasting in the us 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. but it's not the 1st time western media us

directly call for a ban on other outlets. channels and use agency such as r, t and sputnik, where repeatedly accused are spreading disinformation and being proper gun. this tools at the start of the conflict and ukraine, eventually our and other broadcasts were blocked in a number of countries including across europe. you know, a recent poll shows a vast majority of chinese people surveyed at believe that the u. s. as a hedge, has been a bully over the premium conflict force in countries of pick sides and is not interested in de escalation. u. s. investigative journalist have lind off, also believes washington's using a tech picked up. it has been happy to deploy many times. this is, i'm an american mentality in, in o, shut off the world. if you don't like it, we have freedom of speech. i can go out on the streets. anything i want. no one's gonna arrest me. nobody's going to harass me when that, since it is a free society in the other sense though, the media is ah corporate. and often in the case of television,

licensed from the federal government and was 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 channels and sources of news is um, antithetical to freedom of information, but not too freedom of speech. can know the story we're keeping across today. a court in kenya has paved the way for nearly $1500.00 people to sue the british army for starting a fire during exercises in the country last year, which resulted in 2 debts. it follows a petition by the local community seeking compensation. the petitioners claim is

that officers of british army training unit kenya caused a huge fire that ravaged more than $10000.00 acres of land, causing massive damage to flora fauna and the people living in close proximity to the ranch. further that following the fire, residents of la vega and wild life in that area were forced to flee from the area because housing, how winds continue to blow over the la vega hills? the wildfire destroyed around a quarter of a huge conservation ranch on was length. as we mentioned, to the death of 2 people. one of them was killed after being hit by a vehicle helping to contain the fire. the other died later due to breathing difficulties. the british army readily trains in the area and has been paying land owners to do that since colonial times. wherever locals are increasingly questioning their activities. march, you got the when the british army was training in the forest, they started the fire which quickly spread and covered the area with smoke. it was horrible when they detonate explosives in the forest. they interfered with the

climatic and weather cycling. all villages, since clouds that bring rain, i'm to food with hans calls and surrounding areas to be dry. it's all about hunger, no food, no water, and nothing can be cultivated, you know, area. and you mean i was in the area when the fire started, my grandchildren have suffered a lot, they inhaled the smoke and know they have i and breathing problems. they should stop the ongoing training here with immediate effect because the explosives are harmful to the environment and we see how we might be affected again. or community lawyer kelvin ker by claims locals are still suffering from health issues since the fire, nancy is there needs to be a serious discussion and turning relations between canyon's on the british on during the finance events, there are so many cases of active with cases of magic attacks, cases of breathing difficulties, of course, the thought is out of the chemical component and military with that i left behind

the cause of training. so when cause a fire activity is chemical, i say deals and that smoke we can only say mildly that a handful to the community members. this community members are finding naughty live so that they're still suffering. such a relationship, i believe, is not sustainable, especially when i'm really tidy. i've been living with a community for decades. they at least ought to be very vulnerable, and they need to be communicative so that these communities able to understand the underlying issues. boris johnson should resign over the party gate scandal. bobby's the opinion of more than half of all those quiz than a new nationwide pole in the u. k. comes after police find the prime minister for breaking at lock dawn rules while as subsequent full apologies, have sparked

a backlash of criticism. you made the rules, you broke your own law. just go. the prime minister and the chancellor had insulted the millions of people who faithfully follow the rules. this is a government in crisis neglecting a country in crisis. both boris johnson and his chancellor, russia sooner coverage acted calls to resign a police investigation fund. they had breached the very cobit laws created by their own government, or as johnson has repeatedly insisted that all guidance was followed. general secretary of the british communist party robert griffin believes the prime minister is guilty of much more than just the party gates scandal. well, as with most things of polish, johnson says we can't really taken at face value and give it any great credibility . i shouldn't think he is. sorry until i don't. i suspect he doesn't even realize the gravity of the offense since he is coursed. i suspect he would survive

a vote of no confidence. quite honestly, there are many good reasons why a bonus, young son should resign or be sacked. i'm afraid this word would probably have to come some way down the list between far more serious offences and actual negligence than he is guilty of a trade in british media. you know, must be one of the most reprehensible and irresponsible in the world. are media flipped from one crisis to another, from one sensationalized calendar to another, the know back on your grades. and of course not will be to the exclusion of them very serious conflicts and issues that really should have some attention. ok, let's finally bring you to south america, where ecuador is newly appointed. interior minister is in the spotlight after the opposition claimed he has openly admitted.