a robot must protect its own existence with awe. he has them on the western long range. rock kids may have dire consequences, warns rushes top. diplomats it is also a direct provocation, aimed at pulling western countries into direct military hostilities in europe. they are politicians. some are ready to sponsor this madness for the sake of satisfying their own ambitions. you're going to be a good afternoon. this is paula desperation and make the destruction of the ukrainian military is deadly shelling of civilian areas and the don. yes, republic tries the ominous warnings of summer fuel shortages go unheeded.

as western latest press on with a band on russian oil imports. despite ordinary people facing thawing prices, everything is doubling up going up the food as well. everything but the ridge is not good enough for us all region to survive. i will welcome you watching on t international with the latest world news is good to happy with us. now ukraine wants to receive long range rocket launchers from western countries in order to draw those nations into a direct conflict with russia. that's according to the foreign minister say, i love rob speaking off to a summit with the gulf co operation council in saudi arabia. i thought sure to be a booth for the tombs of dissipated, so on the unavailable and proprietary manner in which the key of regime demands weapons from it's western patrons goes beyond the bounds of decency and diplomatic communication. it is also

a direct provocation aimed at pulling western countries into direct military hostilities. of course, the same western politicians understand these risks. i must say that in europe, especially in its northern part and they are a politician, some are ready to sponsor this madness for the sake of satisfying their own ambitions. but serious countries in the you certainly understand the unacceptability of such scenarios. school and we have also heard signs of reasonable assessments of such scenarios from washington. washington has agreed to send a new $700000000.00 military aid package to ukraine. that includes advanced us made rocket launchers. i'm, our system is capable of hitting targets up to 300 kilometers away, but only if equipped with long range rounds. however, joe biden has refused to provide such long range missiles to ukraine, saying he doesn't want. he has military to be able to fi them into russia. well, the u. s is only agreed to send rockets with a maximum range of 80 kilometers, but that could still be enough for ukraine to hit. russian territory is firing near

the border as, according to anonymous u. s. officials cited by the new york times. despite these warnings, the state secretary said, care has promised that it will not use the american weapons to fight into russia what the system is being provided. the ukrainians have given us assurances that they will not use these systems against targets on russian territory. ah, there is a strong trust bond between ukraine, the united states, despite ukraine's president promising not to attack russian territory. border regions in the countries west have come on to increase shelling by ukrainian forces in recent weeks. several people have been killed in the russian regions of belgrade and cask and others wounded in for it. on edge. these and verified images purportedly showed some of those attacks while russian air defense systems have also reportedly intercepted drones and missiles launched from ukraine. according to blaine can trust exists between care of and washington. but between moscow and zalinski, there is none. as

a criminal spokesperson underlines. little was told to reach a mood to be trusted. one must have experience of cases where promises were kept. unfortunately, there is no such experience here at all. on the contrary, the whole course of events showed that starting of zalinski main election promised to end the war in the southeast of ukraine wants him for all the promises have not been kept region. the race to arm ukraine has sparked divisions among a you members with countries divided on whether to opt for a military or a diplomatic approach as he contributes to rachel marston has more crass or merging on the western front over they continued supply of what she cried washington in london represent one camp that also includes some central and eastern european countries. they believe that ukraine is capable of calling back increasingly lost territory from russia control. sh if only they were provided with the right weapons . and that's why you, as president joe biden says that he's now authorizing new precision rockets for

ukraine, capable of hitting targets, 80 kilometers away. that's double the current capacity is part of the new $700000000.00 weapons package from uncle sam. but i wasn't long reluctant to provide these longer range weapons given the risk of escalation. but now by launching himself right across his own previously declined red line and going all in banking. everything on promises made by ukrainian officials not to use these long range weapons on targets inside russia. i know what the people are in the united states are saying, where someone in the white house are saying that we might be using them to tech russia. look, we're not, we're planning to attack russia. we're not interested in russian federation. we're not fighting on their territory. it's been like getting a teenager and he's your ferrari because he promises easy on use of speed by road in new york times. often this week that washington doesn't seem to oust russian president vladimir putin for power or to start to conflict between russian nato. we

do not seek a war between no, so in russia as much as i disagree with mister potent and find his actions and outrage, the u. s. will not try to bring about his house the in moscow so long as the u. s. o our allies on not attacked, we will not be directly engaged in this conflict. we do not want to prolong the wool just to inflict pain on russia, but late for that considering me crazy and fighters are already and continue to be nato arms. washington's objective by says, is to help you re re take don bass while getting leverage at the negotiating table . maybe you can start by showing you training, present a lot of years once you where exactly that table is. because apparently he and his officials are having a lot of trouble finding it and making a re, there he stays. ryan shot gun on this reckless jury ride is none other than british prime minister. boris johnson. like britain often dies when washington embarks on misguided foreign military adventures. johnson has been acting on his american

counterparts to provide weapons while insisting that there be no negotiation between crane and russia. the prime minister shared his conviction that ukraine would when supported with the right level of defensive military assistance. he urged against any negotiations with russia on terms that gave credence to the kremlin false narrative for the invasion, but stressed that this was a decision for the ukrainian government. but france and germany are increasingly divorcing themselves from the rhetoric of their new allies. paris and berlin's reluctance to provide long range weapons is dictated by their doubts about ukraine's ability to reclaim any territory from russia control. particularly after the loss of don, that they consider been negotiated peace is in ukraine's best interests rather than a strategy that relies on the unpredictability of military force. president emanuel micron and chancellor shouts once again emphasized to president putin that any

solution to the war must be negotiated between moscow and cave. frustrated, ukrainian officials have been browbeating france and germany over the slow speed of weapons deliveries from over the weekend, puts in warranties, french and german counterparts. president a member not call and chance. there are a lot shorts of the risks of flooding grade with western weapons, saying that it could cause further. it was a sheet of the situation and also aggravated humanitarian crisis. but when france, germany can talk sense into washington, the london forest ultimately give and the pressure still remains to be seen. respect to angelo juliano a political and financial analyst who says there is clearly division inside the year when it comes to members relations with russia. you have a good cleaning radical camp, which is the, the basic state you have, poland, you have germany that look like it's clean, it's clean. and then you have a more rational or the more rational state that as she the see the that this is not

going to work. it's not, it's damaging the economy and it's not so much energy, russian economy, one that has to us to who benefits all those sanctions. and at the same time, us, he's pushy euro in to this economy, suicide. and so it is only a money laundering process where you have the lease in the us are going to get witcher. and keep in mind that this is not an expenditure from the u. s. actually, this is lend lease agreement. at the end of the day, somehow ukraine will have to pay the bill, the diplomatic path lead. russia has been abandon, it's under pressure e. remember at some point ukraine was i, she willing to see don any willing to make some concession territorial concessions were coming to dom bus in the academia and at some point a back track. the reason is that ukraine is no more southern states since 2014 to cool. it was no more

democracy and no more southern states. the delivery of more advanced weapons is particularly worrying for civilians. and the don, yes, people's republic where local authorities say a residential area was shelled several times by ukrainian forces in the last 24 hours leading to several casualties. a warning you may find the following. images upsetting among the victims was a woman, a 46 year old mine worker who was killed while she slept at home. her son was also wounded in the attack. we visited the site of the tragedy and found the victim sister in a desperate state. nobody below this is the actual boucher allah. because what i bring along this is bring his ball in your lug nominally to bid you lie, you go to sleep. you crate. an artillery killed a 46 year old woman who lives in this house. apparently she was

sleeping after and night shift at work. she works in a coal mine that says nearby rocket landed right in her house. her bedroom is right over there. and the piece of the rocket hit her right in the neck. hi ms. long all the addendum legends, me and her sister was also org that's i am but so she heard the sounds of

shilling and rushed back to her house. you will are not on board you your little national, influential thrush, my wisdom is madelyn. let me no more. when you, when you get all your mule was born, what would bear the mercy has some of the latest footage from a residential area and a don? yes. republic. this allegedly come under ukrainian shelling several homes have been heavily damaged with a number of people, including children, said to have been injured in the attack. or europe could face fuel shortages this summer as a stalk warning from the international energy agency chief se cautioned that the current european energy crisis was much bigger than the oil shocks of the 1970s. when the main holiday season starts in europe and the u. s. fuel demand will rise,

then we could see shortages, for example, with diesel petro or kerosene, particularly in europe. back in the 1970s, it was just about oil. now we have an oil crisis, a gas crisis in an electricity crisis. simultaneously, the pulse tier has already seen gasoline prices thaw in europe rising. any 40 percent? well, diesel prices have seen an even shaw pay increase of almost 45 percent hitting all time european highs. amid the rising price is a you, late as a preoccupied with a fresh round of sanctions against moscow, as they've announced a ban on the majority of russian oil pumps to the block, to coming to full was by the end of this year. now, despite resistance from hungarian prime minister, victor alban, who says cutting off oil supplies, would be like an atomic bombing of the country's economy. the german government is attempting to help those suffering from rising fuel prices, implementing a temporary 3 month tax cost on petro, as well as introducing

a $9.00 euro monthly public transport pass that germans are decided on whether the measures will actually make a difference. yeah, man, if this is picked by going, as i hope we and germany have the highest fuel prices in all of europe, that's all due to the tax. this is only a partial relief from that. i mean, i find the whole discount a bit silly to the 9 euro public transport pass is great. but lowering the fuel price at the same time as counter productive. once it's in principle, i think it's good to keep the price of fuel. hi, it is because i think it's simply madness. how many cars are driven, at least private cars are ford to phone. you can see it at the petrol stations just before they announced the tax county prices went up. they haven't even decided on oil yet, but later on, oil prices will also go up on teams. oh, and only the corporations will earn money from, you know, the bar across the english channel brit. so also fasten, pleased with the rising costs of living as they accuse they governments of not

doing enough to help ease the burden on ordinary people. the civil fucked is the price. and guess it doesn't make sense. it's ridiculous is doubling, everything's doubling up, going up, food as well, everything but the bridge is not good enough for us. all region to survive. i'm spending more money is in every thing. it's not even to the food it's. it's in the electric. if it's, if it's in everything that you have to do, the everything is going up to 4th going up. the gas going out. the input essential things have gone up. international energy expert mondo solomon believe sanctions on russia will destroy the eas purchasing power and europeans will really feel the cold. this coming winter, the west sanctions auto hurting. the com is old goes on in boise, you them rather than russia. there is a limit on what you spend on energy prices and being

skyrocketing in energy bill. i mean, i know of, you know, have a son hi vivian. but even them banged through the nose. the indications is that energy bryce is going to stay with us for quite a why. because as i said, there is hardly any sped of production capacity or, or refining capacity. so they have to cool with higher prices for longer b. and when you add un sanctions against the russia, these prices can only go one way and that's upward that we destroy that. but if you think polar, and of course, some of them would feel because a wind guard of this coming, the elite is half tentatively agreed to cut off rushes largest bank from

the belgium based international transaction that network swift the move intended to disconnect. burbank from the global financial system as part of a 6th round of sanctions to pressure russia to end the conflict in ukraine. but the bank says it was already prepared and the new mesh will not have a significant effect. disconnecting from swift does not change the current situation and international settlements. domestic transactions do not depend on swift and will be carried out by the bank and the standard mout. suburban previously shifted to a russian based system as an alternative to swift. most banks in the country have already switched over to the network according to the country's national central bank. national authority say it's financial system has been prepared for the shut off and has already withstood the initial shock of the western sanctions. meanwhile, mastercard, c. o has said swift may even cease to exist in the next 5 years, although the company later attempted to clarify his comments to say that he

believes the network would not operate in his current form in the future. elsewhere the south asian country of bangladesh is that it's considering adopting a new payment method to save money invest in mitch mitch $15.00 believe the world has changed too much for swift to remain to be predominant platform for international transactions. i've never seen in my career which has been long and extensive in finance. i've never seen sanctions that were successful and i think that these were well telegraphed in advance. i think it's more of a public relations gimmick to have these and an actual impact that it's going to have. i think the world has changed pretty drastically. we're not looking at a situation that was in the 1960 seventy's eighty's or ninety's. this is a new new era and you know, in crypto came around, you see that people are able to transfer things fairly quickly and a lot more efficiently and cheaply. and i think that that is a big part of the system. i think, i think that alternative payment systems that have been set up in russia is not

isolated by itself in a bubble. when people don't realize is there are several countries that are using a different way to transact. and the u. s. dollar. a gemini, might have seen, you know, might be over in about 5 years, because india, china, iran, brazil, u e, and saudi arabia, a couple other middle eastern countries and asian countries are in for using different types of alternative payment systems are transacting oil, the petro dollar, which is now no longer the petro dollar, because oil has been trading. and remember, just the chinese currency. so i think that the landscape in the financial markets has changed, and it's evolving like everything else is unfolding. global food crisis cannot be solved without supplies from russia. and ukraine not according to the un chief, is warning comes amid further delays, a vital shipments to other regions,

including africa. earlier, i discussed the situation with auntie shawna dimansky. at the moment, we are seeing this massive rising food insecurity in africa. we've heard now from the african union, the head of the union saying that, you know, there is a catastrophic situation that could enfold across many countries, particularly on the continent. he said that they're already there. 17000000 people have food insecurity in just 3 countries, including in ethiopia. and he says that for him, it is clear what is causing this issue at the moment. our countries are very concerned about the side effects of the disruption caused by the payment system being blocked by swift over sanctions. when the swift system is interrupted, it means that even if products are available, the payment becomes difficult or impossible. when you look at the figures across the world, it's even starker than that some $323000000.00 people are said to be marching towards food insecurity at the current time. so was the western reaction to all that we know that said,

the european union is very clear that it believes that the problems have been caused by blockades of ports on the black sea. it says that russia is doing that. russia is essentially terrorizing or black mailing people when it comes to issues around food at the current present. ursula vandalay and is saying that, you know, it's those blockades which are the problem. and the fact that russia is apparently, she says, putting mines in the ukraine in wheat feels russia is not only blocking the export of export of ukrainian wheat. it is bombarding warehouses where wheat is stored deliberately. of course, you know that they are also mining the fields where ukraine could have the next harvest of corn. and i want to be very clear. we have no sanctions on food and agricultural products, no sanctions on that. now, there is a question about whether that's true or not. either there are some people said,

how is it possible for russia to put minds in fields when it hadn't already managed to get at that point in ukraine? so there's a question about how that is happening. of course, as russia is increasing its territorial gains, why would it also want to increase territorial gains in fields that have mines in? surely, that would be a danger for it. soldiers. we've also been hearing from the russian foreign minister, so gay laugh of who's also said poo poo. some of these things that the european union said at we know the earth, lavonne. delane has talked about the idea that there are no sanctions on rushing ships that are carrying food. for example, ab, he's turned on said, well, yes, that's the case. but if the russian ships can't sail because they can't get the insurance and they can't take the food out. he's also talked about the fact that the sanctions opposing a problem when it comes to the logistics of getting the foods out. and russia said it is looking and willing to clear these blockades of the black sea ports. but one of the big issues there isn't just out whether the problem,

as she said about whether or not the ships could come in and out, is the fact that there are mines that he says have been put there at by ukrainians themselves. what she means it's just absolutely not safe for the shipping roots to be used at the moment from humans. a brochure to the main problem is the absence of the free exit from ukrainian ports through minefield set up by the ukranian military. in addition to ukrainian grain which is locked up due to the policy of the key of regime, there are also problems with the export of russian grain. although western countries vocally state that there were no sanctions on grain for some reason, they are shamefully silent on the fact that ships carrying this grain have actually fallen under restrictions. all the logistics and financial chains related to the supply of grain to world markets have been sanctioned by our western colleagues. says gala, for of clear that for him it's the sanctions that are causing the issues here and not the war on the ground in ukraine. so we have, is this dire situation, a dire global situation here?

surely it's within everyone's interests to lift some of these sanctions and get this food out. well, that's what russia has been calling for. it says, if you do that, we will be able to end some of these blockades. but we know already that the recalls for the european union to introduce another round of sanctions, our presence lensky of ukraine. addressing european leaders early this week said we need a 7th package of sanctions that could possibly include russian gas and. and that could be even more catastrophic. the reality is what needs to happen is for the west, for ukraine and russia to get around the table and make an agreement to allow the shipments of grain and also fertilizer to, to be able to leave those ports in the black sea. taiwan president has enough plans to deploy u. s. national guard units on the islands. the official also urged american lawmakers to approve it further security deals with ty pay is comes amid the increasing chinese military activity around taiwan, which paging does not recognize as an independent country. the u. s. department of

defense is now proactively planning cooperation between the u. s. national guard and taiwan defense forces. we look forward to closer and deeper taiwan u. s. cooperation on matters of regional security. however, despite the colace from ty pay, the u. s. recently turned down, ty one's request to join a key regional trade organization called the india pacific economic framework may, while rival china has conducted his largest military exercises in the area this year. launching 35 digits into ty, ones as space. china's foreign ministry has even threatened to use force against what he calls us back to separatists on the island. recently the united states has frequently made moves on the taiwan issue saying one thing and doing another instigating support for taiwan independence forces which will push taiwan into a dangerous situation. professor benjamin charles, i think he was supposed to be interested in

a possible proxy war between china and taiwan. you will be surprised if the u. s. u is promised to fully protect time one, given that the u. s. has already lost is credibility. the funding is friends of many countries, especially when those friends have lost strategic value to the us. we're still with sometimes to us in the interest to support a prolong proxy, more to we can is 4 point. so across the war is do possible exposure to the local household, south korea, and japan, and perhaps australia as well. scientists have discovered a decades old leak of potent methane from algeria is largest gas field. a field to europe has been banking going to make up for its short fall as this drives to move away from dependence on russian gas. with the you working on legislation aimed at curbing such methane emissions from fossil fuels. the leak severely complicates

it's climate goals. according to new satellite research, the leak has been affecting our jerry as a global warming impacts affinity for decades. the country already has the 3rd highest methane intensity of production among global oil and gas suppliers. last year, 12 percent of the use gas came from algeria with 2 thirds of spain and portugal annual imposed coming from the country. meanwhile, russia are accounted for 45 percent of a you gas and norway for 20 percent. charlotte tungsten, a lawyer with client. if it was closely monitoring the negotiations that said, the ego has a vital opportunity to change is the upcoming methane legislation. at the moment, there is little incentive for companies are governments of gas exporting countries to clean up their domestic industry through its upcoming methane legislation. the e u has a vital opportunity to change this by requiring that methane which is currently leaked as instead captured and used. this would help dismantle the argument for new gas extraction as well as the enormous damage that methane leaks are causing to our

climate. independent journalist charlie boyle, say everyone wants to protect the climates, but europe is now facing more challenging problems. so by saying, it's not much of a surprise if you go back only to last year towards the end of last year. we have a big climate conference on the time and i thought it was pretty much all word, no action. we really, i'm sound like a broken record. i really need to start coming up with a long term plan as to how you're thinking. you're going to deal with renewables because obviously they've got the cost implication. if you just take united kingdom and as an example, natural gas lessons go got multiple times. and then we got renewables, which we haven't investors, as long as much, we should, we should have done. we did a master supplies from russia. there's a culture reading crisis in the u. k as well. so i don't think we can really afford to, to go to, to green at the moment because this is a long term plan. like,

as i said before, so i don't think i'll be much reaction to it it's, it's another some by some of what i think it's going to be very difficult. i mean, just looking for 6 months from now, the spike in energy as a whole, sort of calm down little bit. but the current situation with regard to russia on the, on the switch from, from russia to some of the other countries. what's not going to do heading into the fall, the winter in europe. so that's the real danger point to the moment. many thanks for joining us here on our team international. and as always, you can find plenty bal news discussion and analysis on our website policy dot com ah, a

whole when i was shocked, seemed wrong when old rules just don't hold any world is to say proud disdain becomes the advocate. an engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. a with hello and welcome to cross top were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle in less than 3 months. the west ukraine narrative has been turned on its head. ukraine is.