a joe biden and imposing these sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. so there's a boomerang self, a demand for western long range work 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 and are ready to sponsor this madness for the sake of satisfying their own ambitions. you're going to be a this is paula desperation, amidst the destruction of the ukrainian military's deadly shelling of civilian areas and the don, yes, republic chance ominous warnings of some a few shortages go on. he did as west the latest press on with

a band on russian oil imports. despite ordinary people facing thorn prices. everything is doubling up going up the food as well, everything but the bridge is not going up. or are you gonna survive with a warm welcome you watching? are 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 cham, so dissipated, so on the unavailable and proprietary manner in which the key of regime demands weapons from its 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 there are politicians who 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 fire 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 here has promised that it will not use the american weapons to fight into russia what the sisters be provided. the ukrainians have given us assurances that they will not use these systems against targets on russian territory. 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 cast and others wounded, inferred on as these and verified images purportedly showed some of those attacks small 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 the lensky, there is none. as a criminal spokesperson underlines littlest to

a degree and not 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 show that sorting of zalinski is main election promised to end the war in the southeast of ukraine wants him for all the promises have not been kept. the race to om, ukraine has sparked divisions among a you members with countries divided on whether to opt for military or a diplomatic approach as he contributes to rachel. marston has more crap merging on the western front over the supply of whether it's to crate. washington in london represent one can't that ultimately some central and eastern european countries, they, ukraine is capable of calling back increasingly lost territory from russia control . if only they were provided with the right weapons. and that's why us presidential bible says that he's now authorizing new precision rockets for ukraine,

capable of hitting targets 80 kilometers away. that double the current capacity. it's part of the $700000000.00 weapons package from uncle sam. but it was long reluctant to provide the longer range weapons given the risk of escalation. but now by launching yourself right across to the previously the wind read all i have going all in banking. everything on promises made by cranium. officials not to use these long range left on target inside russia. i know what people are in united states are saying, where someone in the white house are saying that we might be using them to a tech rush. ah, to look. we're not planning to attack russia. we're not interested in russian federation. we're not fighting on their territory by getting a teenager to keep your ferrari because the problem is easy or is it the speed by rogue in new york times often this week at washington doesn't seek out the russian president by recruiting from power or to possibly be 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 creating fighters are already and continue to be nato arms. washington's objective by says, is to help you credit rating on bass while getting leverage at the negotiating table. maybe you can start by showing you training, present a lot of years. let's see where exactly that table is. because apparently he and his officials are having a lot of trouble finding it and making their way there is days. ryan shot gun on this reckless jury ride is none other than british prime minister boys. johnson, like britain often dies when washington embarks on misguided foreign military ventures. 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 korean 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 this low speed, or whether it's deliveries from over the weekend puts you in warranties, french and german counterparts. president, in my call and chance, they're all i've shorts of the risks of plenty of great with western weapons saying that it could cause further. it was a sheet of the situation and also aggravate the humanitarian crisis. but when france, germany can talk sense into washington, the london forest ultimately given 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 cap, which is the, the basic states you have, poland, you have germany that look like it's clean extreme. and then you have a more rational or the more rational states that i,

she the see that this is not going to work. it's not, it's damaging the economy in is not so much energy. russian economy. one has to us to who benefits old or 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 u. s. are going to get witcher. and, and keep in mind that this is not an expenditure from the u. s. actually, this is land lease agreement. at the end of the day, somehow, ukraine will have to pay the bill department. think parts lead rush has been abandon. it's under pressure. i remember at some point ukraine was i, she willing to see don a waiting 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 a sovereign state since 2014 the cool. it was no more democracy and no more

sovereign state. the delivery of more advanced weapons is particularly worrying for civilians in 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. yeah, but he lost his but i should be shallow because what i being alone then this is bring his ball in your lug nominally. did 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 a night shift at work. she works in a coal mine. that's a mere boy rocket landed right in her house. her bedroom is dry over there. and a piece of the roach it hit her right in the neck. hm . i mean. 6 i via addendum legends, me and her sister was also work at that time,

but so she heard the sounds of shilling and rushed back to her house. you will not on board your woburn i shall you, blue shall thrush me wisdom. nigel has let me been with you when you, but i'm you won't. but boy, with the modem is his head 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 stark warning from the international energy agency chief, as he 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. price is saw 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 ma'am, 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 will leave. would i find the whole discount a bit silly to the 9 year old? 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 high. it is because i think it's simply madness. how many cars are driven at least private cars. oh ford to so 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 fuel and only the corporations will earn money from, you know, the bought fish meter across the english channel brit. so also fosten pleased with the rising costs of living as they accused 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 put them up. the gas going out, the input essential things have gone up. the national 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 own goes on in boise, then rather than russia, that is it how much you spend on energy prices and being

skyrocketing in energy bill. i mean, i know of you does have some high sons of living, but even them are banged through the nose. and the indications is that energy price is going to stay with us for quite a why. because as i said, there is hardly any program to capacity or, or refining capacity. so they have to cool with higher prices for longer b. and when you are you with sanctions against russia, these prices can only go one way and that's upward. and that really destroy that, but if you think well, and of course, some of them would feel the cold winter 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 its 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 and invest in mitch mitch $15.00 believe the world has changed too much. swift to remain me. 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 euro 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 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 in, 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 crises 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 discuss the situation with the side 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, there was the western reaction to all this. 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 and 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 to that point in ukraine? so there's a question about how that is happening, and 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 love of who's also said poopoo some of these things that the european union said we know the earth lavonne. delane has talked about the idea that there are no sanctions on russian 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 the ukrainians themselves. what she means it's just absolutely not safe for the shipping roots to be used at the moment. for bills of blue shirts of the main problem is the absence of the free exit from ukrainian ports through minefield set up by the ukranian military shoes. and 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. so you said 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 are present . so landscape 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 leap as puts 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 coming to 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, ones request to join a key regional trade organization called the indo 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 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 would be surprised if the u. s.

u is promised to fully protect taiwan, given that the us has already lost is credibility, defending is friends. all ready 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 proponent, so across the war is do possible specially through the local household, south korea and japan. and perhaps i, australia as well. scientists have discovered a decades old leak of potent methane from algeria is largest gas field. a field europe has been banking going to make up for it should fall as it drives to move away from dependence on russian gas. with the you're working on legislation aimed at curbing such methane emissions from fossil feels. the leak severely complicates its climate goals. according to new satellite research,

the league has been affecting algeria is global warming impacts affinity for decades. the country already has the 3rd highest methane intensity of production among global oil and gas supply is last year. 12 percent of the used gas came from algeria with 2 thirds of spain and portugal annual impose coming from the country. meanwhile, russia are accounted for 45 percent of you, gas and norway for 20 percent. charlottetown, said a lawyer with clients who was closely monitoring the negotiations. that said the ego has a vital opportunity to change its upcoming methane legislation. at the moment, there is little incentive for companies or 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 not 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 the big climate conference. so i'm sort of the time that i thought it was pretty much all words, no action. we really, really need to start coming out 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 example, natural gas alone is go got multiple times. and then we've got renewables, which we haven't invested anything loc as much. we should, we should have done. we did a master supplies from russia. there's a culture reading crisis 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 much reaction to it. it's, it's another son by some right. when 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 what. but the current situation with regards to russia and the on the, on the switch from, from russia to some of the other countries what's going to do heading into the, for the winter in europe. so that's the real danger point to the moment. many thanks for joining us here on our t international and as always you can find plenty will new discussion and analysis on our website policy dot com lou ah ah,

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