ah ah, with gas prices skyrocketing, europe is set to lose even more of its supplies that through ukraine, as kim says, it will cut off one 3rd of the russian exports of that commodity that transit through its territory thoughtless of p. r stunt. that's how moscow describes cubes, attempt to reclaim stake island in the black sea. in an operation in which a number of elite ukrainian soldiers were killed, marquis of tries to intimidate people into not evacuating to safety a neighboring russia. a narrative is echoed by mainstream media outlets. we hear from don bass. refugees who have successfully refilled in russia. foolish war is

raised food prices as well. u. s. president joe biden, once again shift the blame on russia for surging domestic price inflation. but many americans doubt that it's all him, he's on the executive orders, and so it's his responsibility. and he thinks that the american people are dominant, the believe whatever you speak to them, we have home with people on the street here. why not? no 1st? absolutely. with broadcasting from us studios in moscow, this is our to international. i'm john thomas. it's certainly glad to have you with us. ukraine's that gas at transit operator has announced that on wednesday it will stop sending one 3rd of the russian gas that has regularly travelled through the country into europe. ukrainian operator has said that gas will no longer be accepted through distribution stations in the ganske, citing the conflict there is offered to transfer all the volumes to another check point in the russian border town of suda. instead,

russian export or gas problem has said that. 3 that scenario is impossible. gas prom has not received any confirmation of the circumstances of the force major clause. we do not see any obstacles for continuing to work in the previous mode. transit has been provided in full. there have been no complaints from the counter parties. the transfer of volumes to sujata based on the russian flow scheme is technologically impossible. meanwhile, germany's at top diplomat on atlanta burbock has said that on a visit to achieve that, her country intends to completely stop its importance of fossil fuels from russia. me, i, we have understood more than clearly that economic dependence does not bring security if the aggressor simply does not care about the well being of its people. and that is why we are decisively reducing our dependence on russian energy to 0 and doing so forever in germany is now looking for alternative energy provider to have

turned to the gulf stage of guitar to discuss boosting supplies. but the countries have reportedly failed to reach a deal due to disagreements over 2 conditions. now, cut our once a long term contract for at least 20 years, as well as a destination clause that would prevent the gas from being re routed to other european countries. berlin reportedly opposes those points as it appears, reluctant to lock itself into such a long term agreement without the ability to resolve the commodity. a co director of the institute for the analysis of global security gal lift is skeptical about whether those countries could ever clinch such a contract. many european and asian countries need to cut our l n g. but cut our has its own conditions and all of it is happening in an atmosphere of uncertainty. and quite frankly, very stiff competition because germany is not the only country. there are other potential clients that are eager to buy these natural gas. so i think that it will

take time to resolve it is not clear at all that the 2 sides will be able to agree . and if they do, it will take a month before we can see resolution. as you and other western powers have been actively looking for other energy suppliers amid their sanctions against russia. u . s. government officials have asked brazil's state run the oil company petro brass to increase crude output. however, it is said that the u. s. came away empty handed, the americans, the state department maintains it is doing everything possible to sort out the situation. but it seems it's not helping we are doing everything possible with our allies in partners to mitigate the economic impacts of russian actions on other economies like brazil. we are working with energy companies to serge, their capacity to supply energy to the market, particularly as prices increase. those sanctions are definitely

a double edged sword when it comes to oil, even if all these countries and sanction russia will stop by or from russia. russia will be able to sell this oil to other clients when it comes to gas, natural gas, the situation is much more difficult. it's much. busy more inflexible market, it depends on infrastructure, not every country can receive l, n, g. so it's a much more difficult market also requires long term commitment. sooner or later, all these countries realize that it's much easier to talk about sanctioning russia . the energy is much more difficult to implemented. russia. top diplomat sergei lab has denounced the use foreign policy saying the block has simply been following washington's lead and doing exactly what they're told by the us. maybe soon, the position of the chief diplomat of the will no longer exists because the e. u,

as practically no foreign policy of its own, it is in full solidarity with whatever approach the united states imposes. meanwhile, millions of people in the u. k. might be unable to pay their energy bills in the coming months as more prices rise are expected on fears of more coming. disruptions to supplies from russia's gas, like mike is from davinsky reports rising energy prices have been a concern for months. but now the reality is really hitting home u. k. households have already seen an increase of more than 50 percent bringing annual bills to around 2000 pounds. now there are warnings that this could shoot up to $3000.00 pounds a year by october. the head of one energy firm fee is millions of households will struggle to pay their bills this winter. it will hit incredibly hard and

immediately i think we will see a huge increase in pre payment customers, in effect, self disconnecting, not reloading their pre payment meter because they can't afford to do it. although the u. k has a relatively small dependency on russia for gas and oil energy firms are susceptible to huge price hikes if they buy on the wholesale market. now, sanctions against russia, as a result of the warring crane, have pushed markets hot as country scramble to shore up their supplies. some u. k. households are apparently taking drastic measures to try and reduce their bills, firefighters to issue a warning for people to stop burning. open fires in doors that came off to man was rushed to hospital for doing just that he was said to have been trying to avoid using his gas sensual heating. we know this is a difficult time and people are thinking about ways to reduce their energy bills,

but we're really concerned that they may be putting lives at risk by doing so. the fire brigade has said that this wasn't even a loan incident. they have apparently been more than a 100 similar cases in the past few months. now other stories about what people have been doing to stay warm have also emerged. the british prime minister was recently confronted about one of those. this was about a pensioner who rides the bus all day, apparently to avoid heating her own home for a strong and sparked anger when he boasted that it was, in fact he who had given pensioners a free bus pass kind of missing the point and rising costs are said to be impacting people's ability to even put food on the table. more than 2000000 adults in the u. k. say they've skipped meals due to a lack of finances. the extremely rapid rise in food insecurity since january points to a catastrophic situation for families. food insecurity puts families under extreme

mental stress and forces people to survive on the cheapest calories, which lead to health problems. here in the you to there are fears over rising energy bills as european leaders trying to agree on a new batch of sanctions to hold all oil imports from russia. there is still resistance from some members hungry leader has described this option as akin to dropping a nuclear bomb on his country's economy. while finland's former prime minister says that asked price hikes pinch households, public support for such measures against moscow could ebb away all of this could come to a head sooner rather than later. the deadline for e u countries to pay for russian gas in rubles, is looming. the block has said it will refuse to do that. meaning it now faces

supplies being cut off by moscow. russia has slammed as a senseless p. r. stunt ukrainian armed forces ever to retake snake islands, also known as many islands located in the black sea. after their campaign ended with dozens of ukrainian soldiers killed and heavy weaponry destroyed. now my gamble has turned out to be a disaster for ukraine. the thoughtless p r action of the key of regime to take snake island by victory de, led to the meaningless depths of more than 50 ukrainian fighters for including elite soldiers. the loss of 4 planes, 10 helicopters, 3 boats, and 30 unmanned aerial vehicles. russia took control of snake island in the beginning of its military operation in ukraine. give officials claimed at the time that all forces defending the islands had fallen during the fight when in fact many surrendered to the russian military. now ukraine is making an effort to retake strategic territories with as moscow claims direct help from the us and british

advisers. meanwhile, don't ask authorities report death in reason showing of the republics capital city with allegations that the ukrainian military committed the attack officials that claim that the several parts of the city of done yet were hit a warning. you may find some of the following images, disturbing. 2 people were confirmed, killed, and 5 others, including a child were wounded. local officials say the ukrainian military fired 10 missiles at the city on tuesday afternoon. cave has not yet commented on the incident. one closer of reports from one of the sites that was hit, ukrainian nationalists forces continues, showing civilians here in a city of floods. annette this, a market was bombed earlier in the day. as i understand multiple rocket launching systems have been used. and so from what emergency services toby, it looks like it's a cluster. munitions are 23020 millimeter

oh, rockets had been used. now we are located in a well very, extremely residential area and it's been showed continuously for the last 8 years as ukrainian positions unknown that are away. however, there are no positions of the next people's republic military here as once again, this is a residential area. this is a market that there is a school, there are residential buildings everywhere, basically. but as i've spoken to the local say here they said this have been going on for the last 8 years with us. it was, i don't know what to say. ukraine hates us and that's it. they want to destroy us. it's been this way for 8 years. the suburbs, especially, we have suffered for years, but now the situation has become much tougher. up there with the shilling has been taking place since may. 9th shells were flying towards the school, and markets were also on fire that the key of military hit every day. some shell fragments landed in my yard just a month ago,

the hospital was hit. my friend died from injuries after the shelling. they hit areas where lots of civilians lived over the last 80 days alone at least 107 people had been killed civilians. mind you, people here feel terrorized by the ukrainian military who continued shilling them every day. as gasoline and food prices hit new, all time records in the u. s. joe biden has once again shifted the blame on russia in an apparent effort to detect personal responsibility. we saw in march, then 60 percent of inflation that month was due to price increases at the pump for gasoline, prunes war as raised food prices as well. but the price charges have been happening at least since january 2021 a year before the russian military campaign in ukraine, amid rising costs for crude oil now around $100.00 per barrel. as partially due to

some u. s. refineries having closed during the pandemic with other ones currently operating on nearly full capacity situation was exacerbated when the us band imports of russian supplies of the commodity. well, joe biden, in his speech claims that he understands regular americans. his recent actions against russian energy have only pushed prices further upwards, as ortiz, rachel blevins explains president by then is now saying that tackling soaring inflation is going to be his top priority. moving forward, after it has already been up 40 year highs for 5 straight months. during a speech at the white house on tuesday, he said he understands why the american people are so frustrated. right now. i understand when it feels like i come from a family where, when the, when the price of gas for food went up, we felt it was a discussion of the kitchen table. i went, i want every america know that i'm taking inflation very seriously. and it's my top

for domestic priority. inflation has already been on the rise over the last year, hitting 5 percent last june and 7 percent in december. the u. s. federal reserve flooded the market with money and response to historic lockdown. during the pandemic now abide and says that he is concerned about inflation. he has also implemented sanctions rather against russia, claiming that he knows that they will impact supply chain shortages and that could lead to a global food crisis. as a result on top of that by and also continues to fuel both inflation and the conflict as he calls on congress to approve an additional $33000000000.00 and funding for ukraine. he's on the executive orders, nobody else. if you look at those signatures, there is, so it's his responsibility. and he thinks that the american people are dumb enough to believe whatever he's feeling them. why aren't you taking care of the people in

your own country instead of people in another country, a world apart? i don't get that like i live here. and you know, help me. i don't have too much faith in the car and ministration and i've losing faith in our government. various, it just becomes too political. we have homeless people on the streets here. so why not help us 1st? absolutely. everyone is struggling with it, especially people my age, the working class. you know, it's impossible to move up and it's really easy to go down. political commentator and radio host. steve gill says biden is focused more on ukraine than on solving america's domestic problems. you know, decades ago we had a president who had a sign on his desk. the buck stops here. now we have a president abiding, the apparently says the buck is everywhere, but me, you know, he's blaming putin for gas prices, even though gas prices started going up a year before there was any conflict in ukraine and those gas increases were because we were shutting off our supply, we were shutting off our energy independence and people are seeing the price is all

over town that the gas pumps just this week. gas prices in the united states, despite another $0.50 a gallon. and that has nothing to do with the war and ukraine. it has everything to do with law of supply and demand. we cut off our supply as a demand continues to increase and a, and by just trying to blame everybody bought himself for his own energy policies. i have bad news for the american taxpayers. not only are we sending tens of billions and dollars to, to fuel this war and to, and to push it further ahead. when the bill comes to, i guarantee that the american taxpayer is going to be sent to bill for billions and billions of dollars to rebuild ukraine while our cities are disrepair. while our cities have violence and crime on the rise, and while working families can't afford to put food on the table or gasoline in their cars, he's focused on everybody in the world except the united states and the people of this country. amid the ukraine conflict, thousands of people have sought refuge in neighboring russia. we have launched

a special project to cover their stories. here is a quick teaser for the 1st episode. some did manage to escape key of control territories and the flea to rush up like i learned a him way down until 2nd week when the concert begin on february 24th. we did not leave until the last moment since they did not let us out. we arrived at the russian refugee center ourselves, volunteers, medicine the border and offered us water and food. and while there's no place like home alone, i can definitely see her future in the small russian port city. she's in right now . i would like to return to see the city restored. i would return to normal life, but maybe here and talk to rogue. to keep, the government has been trying to intimidate people into believing it would be dangerous to evacuate to russia in a narrative echoed by mainstream western media. but many people have defined that warning and seem to be pleased with their resettlement in russia. here as part of

the 2nd episode of our special coverage throughout the past 8 years, keith made an example out of the de next and logan's credence every civilian can and will be at target. ah, ah he, she naturally can meet illegally my asking people to connect me my. when i did the school, did you catch except you, when they quoted cindy valera, one of the latest tragedies came just short of 2 months ago when a ukrainian ballistic missile hit the city of dynette, dozens of people cave considers its own citizens perished. mm. with

with many like this of family from the frontline town, a resume which is now under the russian control. drew very explicit conclusions out of all this. now we are not afraid to leave for another country. we are afraid to stay here. we are afraid that they will start selling here. we have small children, we are afraid for the safety of our children. we want some kind of stability caves propaganda. machine is spinning in overdrive spearing out. one fake after another. some as preposterous and outrageous as claiming the russians booby trapped dead bodies. all this misinformation eventually misfired and seated even more mistrust. he did,

we do not believe what ukrainian television says. we know that we used to live together, russia and ukraine. in addition, many of our families, a mix, both russian and ukrainian, i do not think russia should be feared. i am soviet in my identity. the children are also brought up that there is nothing to fear in the russian people. for us, february 23rd is still defender of the fatherland day and may, 9th is still victory day. we still celebrate, just like we used to in their pursuit to pain russians, grotesquely, evil ukraine's in for war battalions tried so hard. they went completely overboard . knew i had never been to russia, but i had friends and relatives there. i'm not afraid to go there. i scary here. ah! on tuesday, the baltic state of lithuania decided to reprimand moscow by declaring russia

a terrorist states and describing the military campaign in ukraine as a genocide. meanwhile, in a neighboring lafayette officials have been having trouble coming to terms with the fact that people still honor the soviet soldiers who liberated that republic from nazi forces in world war 2. i made commemorations of the allied victory in europe. this week. authorities in riga have used a tractor to remove an abundance of flowers, placed by thousands of residents of the latvian capital monument to the liberators . the authorities actions sparks a backlash with residents expressing their anger to the cities man that are going my dear mayor stack as if you think that by running over our flowers with a tractor, you can humiliate us, you are wrong. you humiliated yourself. you showed your weakness, your fear. residents returned to their memorial with more flowers and candles using them to decorate the area. police officer said that they saw st. george ribbons, which have been banned in the country and the rest of the number of people during

the event as well. the one man that you can see here in the 2nd was a civilian. and he was filmed, kicking flowers at the monument. police managed to save him, though from the wrath of the crowd. the later on tuesday, authorities closed off the perimeter of the monument, but people still gathered around him singing a renowned victory de song. about the china says a trick by washington to revise its position on taiwan. political status would come back to hurt the us. that warning came after the us state department edited its website to remove text about not recognizing taiwanese independence from china, or cheese, kill him up and reports. taiwan is china's sensitive spot when it comes to foreign

policy. and you can be sure to get a prompt and strongly worded response when you mentioned it, may have on the west. his latest modification of the fact sheet is a trick to obscure and right off the one. china principal history cannot be rewritten. the facts cannot be denied and right and wrong should not be distorted to me. so what exactly did washington do? well, they edited their website and they removed the part about not recognizing the island as being independent of china. here's what it used to say. united states recognized the government of the people's republic of china as the sole legal government of china, acknowledging the chinese position that there is but one china and taiwan as part of china. the united states does not support taiwan independence. and here is what it says. now obviously, washington plans to expand their engagement their taiwan is a key

u. s. partner in the indo pacific. the united states and taiwan share similar values, deep commercial and economic links, and strong people to people, ties which form the bedrock of our friendship and serve as the impetus for expanding us engagement with taiwan. china sees this as a straight up provocation from the united states there hinting at a rather strong response did on that such political manipulation of the taiwan question and the attempt to change the status quo across the taiwan strait will hurt the was itself. this bat seems pretty well timed with the us lead summit taking place in washington later this week. the block of 10 south eastern nations that surprisingly does not include china, is expected to discuss ways to counter beijing's influence in the region. in turn, the u. s. will continue to promote its endo pacific strategy released just 3 months ago,

just to show how much chinese people are affected by these plans. a poll recently conducted showed that 89 percent of chinese people view the indo pacific strategy as their regions version of nato. and they see it as a danger with u. s. media and politicians beating the drum against china. american public opinion has been impacted as well. a gallup poll, taken back in february, showed that 79 percent of us adults have a negative opinion of the country. also in april, a pew survey ran to china's unpopularity at 82 percent. so much tension currently going on in the world. the binding administration seems to just not have caused enough rockets. they now want to intensify the conflict with the country that is the largest on earth in terms of population and a major global economic player. it's not clear where the american people really benefit from this strategy of intensifying conflict across the planet will have

a change of diplomacy. the the original text was written at the time when with the influence of such realist from clothes of its type. diplomats such as henry kissinger, who was one of the architects of us, china policy and the opening. today we have a mishmash of diplomats driven by neo liberal neoconservative values which are want to project us power militarily, everywhere. that is not going to diminish in any way because china is definitely the existential the super power that's on the rise. the only way to resolve any to get back to diplomacy is of course to reduce that influence that does it for me this hour, stay with us throughout the day as we bring you more news and commentary, this is our team. ah,

i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point obviously is to great trust or rather than fear. i would like to take on various charlene with artificial intelligence, real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with oh,

a russian state will never. i've started on the northland scheme, davis with within the 50 bravo discipline. okay, so mine is 2000 speedy. one else calls with we will ban in the european union, the kremlin media machine, the state on russia today and split ortiz spoke neck, given our video agency, roughly all band on youtube said with me, oh, when i was shown seemed wrong when i just don't hold any

world, yes, to say proud. an engagement, it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah, if to deal with the letters that both both the mom's and and the deal with

grandma.