new friend and the west appetite for sanctions on this edition of the program, we discuss how all these issues are changing the structure of the global economy. ah ah, i walk amongst the ruins of what used to be a football stadium now obliterated by ukraine's grad rockets. intense fighting continues in the low guns republic asi visits destroyed stadium in one of the cities under fire from kids forces. trillion prime minister calls on china to lift damage in trade sanctions refers to beijing, has concrete requirements of its own. and joe biden finds himself in hot water, the claim, and he's changed the economic situation in the us for the better as inflation rates

in the country continue to skyrocket with from moscow to the world. this is our international, my name is peter scott. and these, the top stories, this our the city of donors came under heavy bombardment from ukrainian forces on choose as, according to local authorities with russia using care of using cluster munitions to attack the city. meanwhile, fighting discontinue in favor of danielle in little guns republic. russia plans to open a humanitarian carter in the city on wednesday, and that would be to allow civilians to leave a chemical plant where ukrainian forces have hold up. now, after russia destroyed the crucial, crucial bridge, cutting ukrainian forces off from the key have controlled areas. the gun school authorities, reports that ukraine's military has been showing civilian areas and kia is yet comments on those allegations. ortiz eager has done

a visit. the scene of one of the attacks, the situation for ukrainian troops here near the la ganske people's republic is dia . this is something that all sides of the conflict seemed to agree on care of moscow and the international community. and the worse, the more hopeless it gets for the ukrainians here, the more aggressive and deadly they become against civilians against ordinary population of the la guns containers, people's republic. the city of the network itself has recently, and you had a shilling, it hasn't seen in years right now. i walk amongst the ruins of what used to be a football stadium now obliterated by ukraine's grad rockets and dead bodies have only just yet been extracted from under the rubble. and the key of essentially is doing its best trying to convince the western audience that the need for and supplied weapons the need for and supplied artillery. but given caves venge

fullness given caves, desire and eagerness to take its anger out an ordinary civilians. the longer the west will keep feeding this addiction of care to foreign supplied weapons. the longer this agony will go on. amish done of reporting from the la ganske people's republic r. t. on monday, danielle face, what local officials called the worst shelling by ukraine since the conflict started in which 7 people died. when the buildings hit was a maternity hostel intensive care unit from which this image which was circulating on social media was apparently taken. the child is understood to be in border prep born prematurely and so couldn't be disconnected from the ventilator. medical personnel remained with the baby, who did pull through an archie crew made their way to the hospital. say, what happened? dangers could any monsoon, there were some babies in the intensive care unit, one of whom, in the rather serious condition, was placed on the ventilator. the rest also need his oxygen supply,

so it was impossible to move them into the basement. so the doctor's followed the scheme we had developed over the past 8 years and stayed near by in moments of danger, ready to cover the babies with our own bodies. if needed, i'm on the roof of the maternity hospital that was shelled by the ukrainian military. one of the rockets landed right here, making a huge hole in this roof. now this top floor is completely destroyed. there were dozens of women here in this matter into hospital when the shilling began. this delivery room, in particular, one woman was here and ready to give her birth. and when i artillery struck, all the windows were immediately blown out, credit vertical grey stella. we were standing in a hallway waiting for blood pressure to be measured. we heard the commotion and ran into the basement. the supermarket started in the morning and lasted until around,

luna. and then in the evening, stronger shelling began so fresh the walls. the windows were shaking. we ran to the basement and spend the night there. women were giving birth right in the basement. some were undergoing surgery, of course, it was scary for the like, it was they were undergoing a sicilian law section in the basement. there was no other option for them. when you move this were relying here on the floor and them all of us pregnant with we're crying, had a nervous breakdown of reserve and love the mothers who were expected to give her birth hands are regular conditions had been forced to flee into the basement from the hercules cried, they continued for more than 2 hours, and fortunately, no one was killed or injured. i look arch up the headlong. i'm shall leave occasion when's calmly because this has learned how to behave in such a situation. so they managed to cult as always finance. what i want to say is that this is the place where children, when you lives a born does then and mother doesn't give birth to has sounds to send them to walk

all the cruelty that we have seen over 8 years, mary opened another citizen humane for the sole reason that the 21st century human life is not valued. this much certainty hospice all now lies almost in ruins, very close, very near and dear to my heart. and so my camera man as well. this is where his son was born 4 years ago, and my god daughter was born i here as well. so it's very painful to see what happened here. this building will now be forced to close to be closed until further notice and they will evacuate a door continues serving a women given birth at a different location because it's just simply too dangerous here or moscow has slammed. western media is apparent. silence on the shelling, accusing it of ignoring ukrainian attacks in the region. meanwhile, a german t v. new show has to report claiming that it was russia, not ukraine, that attacked done yet, which is a long time stronghold of pro russian forces. to support his allegation,

it broadcast images from a devastated marked in the city where several people died. t a listening to wage front is a marked and there are still cognitions that donates dimensions on by them or session angle of good to to me it has a for let storms. i'm getting the in my seat in the show still session i me is to come in it soon in math, close there. okay, initial president. first 3 it invest will. earlier we discussed the situation with journalists, chris del, near the founder of news outlets. dumbass, insider, and american investigative journalist, george ellison, both of whom are now working in the numbers. everything, every fact about this situation is obvious. all the evidence is very obvious. when shells are fired, you can tell the direction that they're fired from. it's not very difficult, it's not rocket science. it's that they don't want to know. as long as they don't

know how they can continue to blame russia, which, you know, again, is obscene, but that's where we are in this time frame. missile attached to your jackson on hospital and mary awful. i nature, you know, why would russia in mucho, why would russia give she manager in eat packages and then children deal with people they get into life just doesn't work that way. it's not to leave military's work. most of the wisdom media that just stick to the western narrative in that. so i will give an example in france, most of the of the media are funded by the state they receive submissions. so if they don't stick to the ocoee, she'll narrate either the state can just get the dimensions in the all these media they will go bankrupt. so they just stick to the position of, of the, of the government. that's all i need to say. my thinking in north of countries. so for me it's not a surprise. it's not

a surprise. it's 8 years like these either the under report or the hide. we the real to protect your, of these war crimes. because of course, as the western countries are supporting ukraine, it would be very bad to explain that the ukranian army is committing war crimes. by schilling maternity is hospitals, schools, and other civilian infrastructures. over to australia. now where the prime minister has called on beijing to lift sanctions to improve relations. thus, as he prepares for the 1st talk to the chinese minister in almost 3 years, both for beijing things don't seem to be that simple. china and australia have been attempting to reset their relationship. beijing is cameras largest trading partner, but diplomatic relations have soured. the rift emerged in 2020 with dispute service, such issues as foreign interference, the coven 19 outbreak and chinese investment. by 2021,

china hit several australian industries with economic sanctions. now the newly elected australian prime minister is asking for those measures to be lifted. it is china that has imposed sanctions on australia. they need to remove those sanctions in order to improve relations for beijing though things aren't that simple. it's listed 14 grievances that need to be addressed. gosh, i draw ways to improve china, australia relations. there is no auto pilot mode. you should see a reset requires concrete actions. the ice may have been slightly cracked with defense ministers from the countries hosting their 1st meeting in 3 years. but it's still rock solid. tensions are also high over the solomon islands. china says australia is promoting us, lead competition in the region. australia says it's concerned about a possible chinese military base there. in response to longstanding issues,

china has placed sanctions in the form of hefty tariffs on products such as wine and barley from australia. we will not allow any country to re benefits from doing business with china well ground as the accuser, and smear and china and undermine in china's core interests based on ideology. it seems the pressure has all been a bit too much with a new government saying it's time to ease off. we would certainly like to see those sanctions in those tariffs lifted their damaging our economy. they're making life harder for some of our employers and workers here in australia. and so obviously we would like to see those measures lifted clearly. no matter who you are. sanctions aren't welcome. when your on the receiving end miss handling the tie, one situation and threatening chinese national unity will have a detrimental impact on beijing. us relations at the latest warning from chinese officials to the u. s. count spots filling a face to face meeting in looks back to taiwan. question effects the political

foundation of china us relations. it will have disruptive impacts if it's not appropriately handled. any attempt to obstruct or undermine china's national unity will be doomed to fail. tension between john and the us have been escalating since president biden said that washington would defend taiwan if china with the launch site on friday during the 1st ever face to face meeting between the u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd austin, and chinese defense minister way thing. the chinese official warned if anyone dares to help taiwan splits from the country, beijing would not hesitate to respond militarily. meanwhile, beijing has declined to support western sanctions pushed by the u. s. against russia. with continue to trade between the partners, muting the effects of those sanctions. this does comb as chinese national currency . the u on has strengthened after the i. m. f increased its holdings, making it the 3rd largest, holding in the official reserve behind the euro on the dollar. the only thing

growing use in cross board international payments between is trading partners reflecting it's such as a top currency director of geopolitical economy. be search group radhika, dis i it says the use of the chinese currency will expand further. china has been working this very interesting, very balanced approach that it's been taking as far as china is concerned. it can continue to expand the use of the ram in b for trade, for investment and for also other productive uses. so china is fine as far as the united states is concerned, it's in big trouble with the sanctions against russia. it's pushing china and russia closer together. and so there's increasing evidence that you on is also good, is, you know, basically the russian is increasingly becoming part of the chinese payment system. the ruin of course, has strength then. so increasingly increasing russia, china trade, we essentially offset any damage that, that,

that the west is doing to the russian economy. and, and at the same time, by putting sanctions and countries like russia, the united states is preventing and of course, putting everybody else on notice of their money is no longer safe. the sanctions by further recognizing the dollar this time against a systemically important country like russia, it's only going to undermine the donor more because, you know, already for the last 2 decades, people have been wanting don't recognize the donor. you are going to want to mind in the donor system, where the united states seems to be, you know, has gone, i hadn't done it anyway. so this is what you get for doing that. you as president joe biden is facing an online backlash after saying he doesn't want to hear complaints about skyrocketing consumer prices or the us inflation rate sitting a 40 year high. i don't want to hear any more. it is la, reckless for changing people's law to that twitter was quicker, is gone,

with many users pointing out that the change bite in is taking credit for is not for the better. he's changing people's lives. that's a fact by turning america into a 3rd world country. i'll take the american people aren't buying this talking point for $5000.00. man who caused the problem angry. you don't like his problem. in addition to blaming the former president trump and republicans in congress for 40 year high inflation binding, again, trying to claim that soaring gas prices were russia stalls. i'm never there my power to blood tunes gas price. i just said she and very ukraine has got up a $1.74 gala because nothing else with that. however years on twitter, we're good to point out the hypocrisy with some comparing biden's current statements to his tweets while trump was in office. the president needs to stop

blaming others and do his job. it's hard to believe that this has to be said, but unlike this precedent, i'll do my job and take responsibility. i won't blame others, and i'll never forget the job isn't about me. it's about you. in washington, rachel vladin's. archie well, i've now steve gill, radio host on political coleman. say to steve, well, consulting international. thanks peter. no president joe biden. they said he's not responsible for this price. i can, that has changed the economic situation for the better. what's your take on that? why this, this latest rent reminded me of a of a child putting his hands over his ears going no, no, no, no, no, i don't want to hear that. the criticisms are valid, the facts are clear. he has not done everything much less anything to blunt the price increases in the oil industry. in particular, the u. s. could go back to the trump policies, start drilling again, start exporting oil and gas, and that's all the resources again. and a lot of the,

the pain, the americans are feeling it, the pump would go away. the problem is joe, by doesn't want to do anything to fix the problems that he's created because he would have to, backed up on the things that he has done. you know, he kind of reminds me all that peter, of, of those trucks that have that beeping sound. when they backed up, he was telling us, he would make the saudi king, a pariah in the world. and now he's going and begging for more oil. he has to reversed itself constantly, and again, maybe we just need that beeping sound. it's constantly ringing like a truck backing up. so it definitely sounds like he is on a puff. the rest of the treasury, sex is reportedly admitted concern about the possible over use of functions against russia. do you think that they've gone too far in punishing russia and it's conflict in ukraine? well, it's certainly been helpful to russia. the sanctions have increased the ability of russia to export their oil and natural gas. they're basically property in the face

of the sanction. so it's not really doing any harm to russia is doing great harm to the american consumer to our economy. and i think is one of the commentators pointed out it's, it's pushing russia into the arms of china. and i think russia would frankly prefer to have good relations with us. but the u. s. policies under the by did ministration are literally pushing them into the arms of the chinese and i don't think that's good for us in the short term or, or in the long term. now obviously, president biden as often used to tin is escape go physically, putins, price, hide photo, do you think people in the u. s. are buying that? i don't think they're buying it at all. i mean by the inflation is the real issue. it's a 40 year high and growing as, as the numbers show, gas prices were spiking from the moment that joe biden took office because he had declared as a candidate and then implemented as president. the elimination of us is power in,

in the natural gas oil drilling arena. she put the procedures in place, but the policies in place to, to basically strip america of its energy independence. and now he's trying to find anybody and everybody to blame, instead of the buck stops here. he's the buck stops everywhere. but here, presidents and i think american people are saying it's why you're seeing democrats looking at mid term election starting to panic, started to admit the washington post just a week ago. read it out of tauriel. a pining how it will be good for the democrats to lose in the mid terms, because somehow that will, that will free them to, to pursue their policies in the minority that they haven't been able to fully achieve in the majority when they start explaining why losing is good for them, you know they're losing. so going forward, do you expect the body to make anybody call changes to his policies? and obviously in the mid terms you're going to, you're going to expect these policies to be reflected in the midterms. i don't think you're gonna see a change in the, by the administration, and i think that he is direct when he and has

a better structure saying they really can't do anything about inflation at this point between now and november. those numbers are essentially baked and they just have to eat an appetizing meal that they've prepared after the mid terms where i think republicans will get a big red waves, taking a long enlarge control of the house, probably taking the senate by 3 or 4 seats. i think you will see policy changing much the way that our president clinton after his 1st 2 years and office saw see change at the ballot box. he changed course dramatically. i don't know the job. i will because the, the less way that will have even more power in a smaller minority will, i will let him make a radical changes. i think he's pretty much baked into the next 3 years as well. are ready, host of disco commentators, steve gill, great to have you on today. thanks very much for your insights. sanctions imposed on russian energy and libya shifting down its oil fields. western

experts feel the oil price. oil prices could reach $175.00 per barrel by the end of this year. joe biden, however, promises that the situation is under control, as ortiz at caleb morgan explains. libya's oil production is down to almost 0 and pretty soon the commodity could cost roughly a $150.00 per barrel. maybe even a 175. actual gas prices are also rising. the joe biden assures us we should not panic. why? he has a plan. amid all this turmoil biden has decided to blame oil companies. he says they aren't drilling enough. exxon made more money than god this year. and by the way, nothing's changed and they're not buy one. they want to say about all companies. you talk about how we have they have 9000 permits to dru. they're not drilling. why aren't they drill so much for green energy, right?

i guess it shows things are bad enough. the u. s. president has decided to stop worrying about the solar panels and start pumping oil out of the ground. but it also shows that joe biden doesn't really understand the industry when the white house started calling around in a panic. they thought shale oil production could grow sharply in the near term, like in a matter of months or quarters. they were shocked to learn that that's like asking for blood from a stone. it's almost impossible. the oil markets and prices are a global issue. and though joe biden won't admitted publicly, he is clearly trying to build some kind of international united effort will recall how the saudis rejected him back in february. they have continued to rebuff him. the crown prince will not return jo biden's calls. so now the president of the united states is getting on a plane and heading for re awd all while pretending the purpose of the trip is not energy markets. it may be some of the saudis don't relate to anything having to do

with an it happens to be a larger media taking place in saudi arabia. that's the reason i'm going, and it has to do with national security for them or israelis. i have a program anyway, it has to do a much larger issue than having to do with you. and if perhaps oil does become a topic of conversation, the president of the united states will not be begging the white house press. secretary assures us that just won't be a fair description to view engagement with saudi arabia on energy security. as asking for oil is simply wrong and a misunderstanding of both the complexity of that issue and our multifaceted discussions with the saudis, venezuela, iran, and other countries. the united states has been trying to crush now need to supply oil to the united states. along with europe, the french president, mac crohn, decided to not leave his people out in the cold. he went ahead and bought russian liquefied natural gas. your grain expressed frustration. the simple answer is,

of course, this is not the way we consider how our allies should behave themselves. those are actions that contradict the words and provide a whole different context on the cause of the french president, a manual macro. the biden white house is reassuring us that everything is under control, that they have a plan. however, if you look at the rising prices, the international markets and the reactions to us leaders, it certainly doesn't look that way. the biden whitehouse says that they have a plan. however, if this is a plan, it's a pretty sloppy one. caleb martin are to new york most cross live now to investigative journalist. edward saw edward welcome to the international. thanks. or do you think it's right for joe biden to beg oil companies to boost production given the practical implications of doing that? and do you think that even if they did, they will be able to make a dent in the price? oh no, it's absolutely unreasonable,

and it's actually quite ignorant. on behalf of the president, the united states, 1st of all, the united states position and the petro dollar, and our role in this world order has been we, we have a military backing, many of her actions. we have large g, d, p, a very industrious people. all these factors have led to america being a great partner, a great i see enemy, if you decide to cross us as our nation has shown over the last 100 years, i think that we're tough country to fight when it comes to oil independence or it comes to all security problem we have right now is no one fears our precedent. everyone is looking at this man and saying this man has no idea what he's doing. and then the look. i speak to men and women and all sector i'm, i'm a christian, i talk to many people in texas. god bless texas and god bless the all men in texas . i spoke to me today on the subject list. look at joe pipe has no idea what he's doing when he's telling to ramp up all production. listen, the problem is the goal, the supply chain. the problem is that 30 to 60 days out for when the 1st time we

can up any refinery work. i think that job would be better served, not trying to force our allies to turn off the power, turn off industry, but instead, try to come the table. what if we really gone out of this war in ukraine that we started? i mean, we've actually destabilized the entire world and a direct answer a half years that i think president biden is, is more involved and controlled the stipulation destabilization of the entire global economy rather than some kind of he so order or a resolution to this crisis on talking of resolutions and diplomatic talk somebody about in is going 3rd of his saudi arabia next month. and he to say it's do with the national security. but do you think that the energy market might crop up during his talks there? i'm watching what's happening in libya. very close. i know everyone is saying wall, how is president biding going to be received? how is having been salmone going to treat the incoming president? i think that's a little bit of political theater. i think it's a little bit of

a distraction. my eyes and the eyes of many. the experts in the all industry is on libya or the news. now it's official. 1.1000000 barrels of all been removed by force in this case, not there's any, you know, got active god in the sense of the they can't keep producing at 1. 1.1000000 barrels of all been reduced from the all supplier. this is globally here, daily. now we have one of china's biggest allies unable to provide oil to china. just turns out i was looking into this, the group that was used to enforce the shut down, shut down of the libyan economy and oil production to china and italy and other countries. well, the run by men khalifa, hossa police have done this man. turns out he spent about 30 years, the united states party, going back to libya during the cood overthrow lug duffy list. man. he lived next to langley got his us citizenship. and i have to wonder if he's now being used by the us, the cia to further d,

stabilize what could be an issue. but china and russia are so sent an interesting theory that edward noticed the u. s. has imposed sanctions on many countries know around the world, venezuela an inner and iran oversee springs to mind, but now it's almost like it's been tapping hum to been as whaler asking for oil. do you see the do you think this smells of hypocrisy? it doesn't a snow for parker, see, it's a prime example of the fracturing and balkans ation of our country. now look at this. so look at the government if they would ask for example, right now me a strong american man. go to war with dennisville. i go to war with iran, i'd say no, i'm kind of things to do at home. i've got things to protect here. they are unable to marshal this sense of unity and as a nation because right now being lead really to, to hell itself. our economy isn't the toilet. we have a gas. i mean everyone with stock, my gas. how about housing prices? how much the doll itself, not being worth what it used to be worth the problem right now with america weaponized, the dollar is the dollar survived on it. being stable, ok,

all they're doing right now is empowering a new multi polar role order with china and russia at the helm because they can actually offer stability. we can offer that and i, it's a saving. grace is the balkan ization is taking places like florida where i am. the greatest state in the union may be its own country one day. while in india, we just did a story on the, the i, m f, increasing this whole is of the you on a moving from oil to gas. now, in the u. s. to europe, france has increased the supplies of gas from russia, which is understandably, and raged key of what do you think this tells us about front and no intentions on the lions on russian gas? and how easily do you think europe will be able to cut this reliance on that commodity? i think it's piped. you literally to think that no funny reliance on russian energy i, russia, fuels all europe. i think for a manual crow, this actually was a very same, very same response to the ridiculous asked by the west. i think that ukraine may not be

a country soon. i think the russians are finishing off the remainder of the russian forces. but that in regard to manual con, specifically here, i think a manual micron knows that his country is itself on the brink of a revolution. it's not that long ago that we had the yellow coat little jackets, the revolutionaries which were simply men and women blue collar workers, truckers, were thing. i'm not going to pay an extra carbon tax on my gas. i'm not going to deal with with and elected officials telling me how to live my life and making my children starve. mechanical chronic chose life in the sense life for his country life for his, his government, because he would probably cause a revolution if he tried to do this ridiculous attempt at cutting off france or any other country. it's a matter from their primary energy source, which is russia. well, edward sol investigative journalist, thank you very much for your take on the turbulence world energy market to the moment. great to have you on a bus, you take care of you. so i was looking at 5 30 am moscow time i'm.