and we need to make rules for the rest. because without out there, we can do a turkey agrees to admit finland and sweden to nato, lifting its opposition at green lighting the blocks in large meant something. russia considers a red line. russia to the phone, i'm counting on you to finally realize how ridiculous you look like when you just go with the ukranian propaganda. russia lashes out at its western colleagues during the un security council meet. convenient to discuss what here claims to be moscow's deliberate attack on the shopping mall in ukraine despite video evidence to the

contract with and with oil prices continuing to spike us officials quietly visit venezuela. despite previously declaring the country, a threat to us national security with broadcasting lot of direct mar studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. are now turkey has agreed to lift opposition to sweden and finland joining nato. the 3 countries leaders signed a trilateral deal in which tricky green lights. the admission in return for assurances, finland and sweden will stop support for kraidish forces on credit considers to be terrorists of the nato chief marked the breakthrough as a big step to further confine russia and didn't miss the chance to poke it moscow. all prison today is getting more neutral on these borders. so what he gets is the

opposite or what he actually demanded, and others to naples closer to source. we are domestic and legal stores are made for is will of course, wrestle waiting for the reaction from russia. what's interesting about this is it means that we are likely to see a further increasing of need to moving eastwards. it's something that is done since 1949. if you look at the map pair, you'll see how it's been expanding, particularly during the post cold war area where it ended up allowing countries to join which saw that colon glad the enclave of russia. that was surrounded then by nato countries. then steadily moving up to the baltic nations, which meant that it was right at russia's border. this idea that fin and in particular could now join nato would mean that some 1300 kilometers of board that finland shares with russia would mean that essentially nato is absolutely on russia's doorstep. there is no, nothing to question about in regards to this. moscow's consistently said it sees

this as being a red line. it sees this has been an aggressive move, and it's certainly likely that we will get something to that tune coming from the kremlin later today. now it really does sound when you hear the nature sexy general talk that as if they kind of egging on the crime they knew, look what we're doing. we are saying whoever wants to join us can join us and we will do just that. so that is likely to provoke some reaction to and russia is not the only one that has concern about this continued expansion of nato china to as it's concerns. china based close attention to nato's adjustment to his strategic concept. and his deeper concerns about his policies implications. we urge nato to learn his lessons and not to use the crisis in ukraine as an excuse to escalate worldwide confrontation or to create a new cold war. now,

nato has consistently said this is about strengthening its alliance, but some might be questioning at what cost is it doing that? now, turkey has been the lynchpin here, right? they have had some serious demands on this. they wanted to make sure that they are well for one of their, against certain groups the kurdish parties mainly who they considered terrorists. who are these groups and why is tricky so adamant against them? turkey has made a huge you turn when it comes to allowing finland and sweden to join the nato alliance. we've heard, for the last few months from president erred one of turkey, that this will not happen, that they were not happy about sweden and finland for many issues, particularly over these groups that turkey sees as being terror groups. now as part of this memorandum, this has been signed by the 3 countries, sweden and finland say that they repeat that they recognize the p k. k as being a terrorist organization. this is a kurdish group that has been fighting for independence in the southeast of turkey

. for the last few decades, they've also said that they will not be supporting the y p g in the p y d in future . then this is interesting because these are kurdish groups that normally operate in the north of syria. that of course, tensions in the past between the u. s. franks and turkey because turkeys alleged that the us and france said not just only supported them with trading, but of also given them weapons. so that's an interesting development and sweden and finland have said that they're now going to relocate any requests for extradition of groups that turkey sees as being terrorist individuals or aligned with those groups. and what you've really going to get from this is that turkey is pretty much got everything. it said that it wanted over the last few months at kurdish groups are probably feeling pretty betrayed by this signature of this miranda, particularly by turkey. this be a by yes, wheaton, which has been accused of sort of aiding it in the asked at the final plan hasn't

been laid out yet. of course, we'll get that all the summit and we are waiting for that reaction from russia. but what's really interesting is that for the past few months, nato's consistently said that what it wants to do is to keep a lid on the ukraine crisis, the war in ukraine, making sure that it doesn't spill over from its borders. russia's me see this as being the complete opposite of that by now essentially green lighting, or the accession of finland and sweden. we spoke to can stone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war movement, who believes that nato enlargement brings us closer to the on think. i expect that russia will continue to say what has been saying all along that nato should rollback its expansion towards russia. and we have to understand that from the russian point of view and from our point of view, even in here in canada, nato is an aggressive military alliance. and nato is responsible for dismembering

the yugoslavian federation. nato is responsible for 20 years of horrible war, and i've janice that it's responsible for the destruction of libya and that's turning it into a failed state. so it becomes, it brings us closer and closer to a, to the unthinkable. because nato has a 1st strike policy, it has a nuclear policy, and it's in the process of planting missile systems, aggressive missile systems and armaments in countries in eastern europe, which threatened russia. and the russians know that the game plan, as we have seen in ukraine, is to turn all these countries into nato countries with the intention of bringing natal right up to the russian border and doing to russia what it did to the u. s. lobbying federation. and a little bit later in the program and u. s. navy commander says if it comes to military conflict,

washington should mind the yellow sea to make china participate in negotiations. now let's go to the latest on the ukraine war. a child has been killed and 3 people injured in ukrainian forces showing of nova hoff come. that's according to his son authorities who say that of the for touch. great. you missiles fired 3 were intercepted by russian air defenses. and ukrainian forces are also reported to have showed it use of out there in the done, you have the people's republic, according to authorities. now, 10 grad rockets were fired at the city and the village of nova, motor car and love, co city and its suburbs were also targeted. elsewhere in regards to authority, say ukrainian forces open fire on the city of brianca where several residential buildings and a power line were damaged. they also claim that kim has used the u. s. donated and

142 high mars rocket system for the 1st time in a attack on the city of pretty wealth. meanwhile, heated debate at the un security council meeting, where western diplomats are investigating exactly what happened at a shopping mall on the territory under ukrainian control. still not counting about what's happening in the don bass. now here's a video of firefighters sorting through debris of the burned out shopping mall, which ukrainian officials claim moscow targeted, leaving at least $800.00 people dead. and in turn, rushes defense. ministry has denied to targeting the facilities, saying that it instead struck a factory in which your brains military had been storing weapons, just meters away. that triggered it, an explosion which led to the fire in the mall. now on this map you can see that the shopping mall is just 70 meters from where the weapons were being stored. while cctv footage from a local park shows the moment the air strike hit,

the building which then devastated nearby facilities suggesting that the missile attack did indeed target the factory. now, here is footage from the factory itself. the boss of the plant has said that the missile destroyed the building, however, there were no reports of any death or casualties. the russian representative to the un has related moscow's position to the council look edition would delineate or the answer shopping center was not affected by the strikes as it was some distance away . this can be seen on the surveillance video. hidden them all with me solves, would have destroyed it. video from ukraine, boogers shows the goods inside the shopping center were not affected by blood neighboring houses to the shopping center. we're also not affected windows, we're not broken, which would have only been possible if the missile exploded at a considerable distance from the area. we have no targeted civilian infrastructure and they're not doing it now. so i'm counting on you to finally realize how

ridiculous you look like when you just go with ukraine in propaganda. you just heard from the russian deputy ambassador paul janski's, and he pointed out that there is fatigue in western countries including the united states, about the ongoing conflict in ukraine and its economic consequences. and he argues that there is just a continued garage of saving news. i intended to justify the further supplying of weapons and funding to the ukranian government that seems to have no qualms about sacrificing its people. now it's pointed out that these allegations about the shopping center. they just don't add up fit in with the ghost story. they fit in with, with the allegations of that snake island, and these sailors being massacred when they weren't actually killed. it fits him with a whole pattern of deception before we heard from the russian deputy ambassador. we also heard from the ukrainian president himself who spoke over video. he was given

a platform by the representative of albania. he called for the un to find some mechanism through which they could declare russia to be a terrorist state and remove it from the verity council. then we also heard from the representative of the united states who echoed and offered support for ukraine, and then made some other interesting remarks. this is what the u. s. representative said before the 15 member body that leads the united nations that russia is war of choice has led directly to the destruction of crowded malls, grocery stores, theaters hospitals, and schools, and the innocent civilians inside them and make no mistake. deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects constitute war crimes. the united states supports all international investigations into these crimes, including those being conducted by the i c, c, the u. n. and the o. s. c. and i was support. we just heard from the representative of the states before the united nations for the international criminal court is quite interesting

as the united states is not actually a member of the i c. c. and furthermore, in 2020 us officials imposed sanctions against the international criminal court because it dared to investigate the crimes of us troops in afghanistan. so it's quite interesting to hear the usa offering support for the international criminal court. the representative of russia basically debunked a lot of the garage of deceptive information and pointed out that russia has supplied information to counter the claims that are being bandied about by western media. regardless of that fact, western media ignores the documentation. russia provides to show it is not committing crimes against civilians. both cube and western powers have dubbed the incident at the ball a war crime just by russia's denial. that is a field in which western powers have had more than their fair share of controversy . don quarter comments on why, according to moscow, it was the massive explosion caused by all that ammunition going off at the same

time that made the nearby mall catch fire as well. on top of that, the ukrainian cities mayor is saying that the malls management for some reason decided it wasn't going to shut the place down. if the air raid alarms started to go off, neglecting their re dilutes is a crime which the trinity it ups to has once again demonstrated the investigation, has revealed that the administration of amsterdam had announced on the 23rd of june that the moon would no longer be closed during arrayed alludes, if a high precision missile dealt that much damage to nearby infrastructure, imagined the destruction that an artillery bombardment would have wrought, according to a previous conclusion by the international criminal court. russia should be well within its rights to bomb a 70 meter radius around and the legend military target. why? while there is the case of antic tova and blood and markovich to former croatian generals who were acquitted of war crimes by the skin of their teeth. at 1st,

these western backed military men were found guilty of indiscriminately bombing towns as part of an offensive that killed $116.00 civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands in 1995 in the middle of the yugoslav wars the hague. originally decided that bombarding beyond the 200 meter radius of a military target was outside the bounds of reasonable error. the chamber found that the shelling constituted an indiscriminate attack on these towns and an unlawful attack on civilians and civilian objects. it was only after they appealed the ruling that the hague determines that 200 meters was in fact too strict. and so the croatian generals were led off the hook despite the fact that they had ordered the bombings of civilian populated areas up to 700 meters away from military targets. the appeals chamber unanimously found the child chamber erred in concluding that all artillery impact size located more than 200 meters from a target. dean's legitimate served as evidence of unlawful attacks the trial

chamber. early in the fight in the hilary attacks ordered by mister toby and mister markets were unlawful. so russia is being accused of a war cry after causing collateral damage 70 meters away from what it says was a military target, but western back to potential war criminals get away. scotch free for bombing civilians, 700 meters away. not only are the double standards, glaringly obvious here, but it also begs a couple questions. why in the world would ukraine place military infrastructure that close to a shopping mall? and why was the mall allowed to be open in the 1st place unless the authorities were trying to use civilians as human shields? washington could mine the yellow sea and pearl river delta to bring basing into the negotiation table if the event of a conflict of china, this is according to us navy commander victor, do know the united states must find

a means of disputing chinese c. control the u. s indo pacific command should aggressively pursue offensive mining capabilities to use in the yellow sea and pearl river delta mining. these 2 key waterways which strike at a known chinese vulnerability. now, in a willing essay for a naval mine warfare contest, victor do no claims mining the key economic regions of the yellow sea and pearl river delta would allow us to buy time and space for a counter attack that's in the event of beijing. launching a conflict through surprise and deception. however many think such a tactic would do little but further infuriate china with tensions have recently grown due to disagreements on us military support of taiwan. now the rise of china and developments in the asia pacific region are among the major issues being discussed at the ongoing nato summit, where australia, japan, new zealand and south korea are participating at the leader level for the 1st time

. earlier we discussed us china relations with former us marine and brian paralytic, who stressed that any suggestion of violence against china by washington has to be seen as a sign of desperation. measure of desperation when the united states is talking about resorting to violence with nuclear armed china. it seems like they have run out of ideas. they don't have any other way of solving these problems. so resorting to violence, it's a very reckless and seems desperate alternative to a real solution, a real viable solution. this is a holdover of western imperialism. that spanned generations are in a new era. and they should be trying to readjust their societies to play, construct a role amongst all other nations. instead they insist on imposing themselves upon all other nation. china has many, many ways to respond to the snow. it's heavily economically shipped magically.

i think united. ready states should not underestimate what china can do and response junior senior us officials have traveled to venezuela on the quiet, in an effort to bring home detained americans and rebuild relations with the south american oil giant. a meeting between officials received little coverage and was only mentioned during an awards ceremony hosted by president nicholas murderer who has previously been black balled by the united states that i see and know it's an important delegation that arrived in venezuela. they're working to continue talks initiated on march 5th to continue the bilateral agenda between the u. s. and venezuela and governments. relations between the 2 countries began to deteriorate rapidly in 2018 when the us refused to recognize the reelection of president nicholas madeira washington instead referring to opposition leader, one guy,

joe as the legitimate president. venezuela was also excluded from this month summit of the americas, which was held in los angeles. however, with oil prices on the rise, due to western sanctions against russia, washington has been forced to make overtures to its rival earlier this month speak of the house. as he blows, he even no longer could remember who one guy was, the person that you recognize, the leader democratic leader in me, today's not here. what do you think about themselves? 11 way here. by whom? why, why don't we take this message back to washington and i think sanctions against caracas, venezuela was one of the u. s. is biggest oil suppliers, but since they're in position in 2019 imports from the country have almost declined

to stagnation point. however, a 50 percent jump in oil prices and the worst inflation in the us in the years appears to be leading to a shift and it's policy, vice chair of the libertarian national committee in the u. s. are involved. i think the current crisis has forced the us to realize that anti venezuela sanctions have not worked. i think there's 2 things. first, there's a sort of self created shortage over here. when you create sanctions or other countries, you end up punishing just normal people in those countries and you end up punishing yourself oil things and are hurting american as much as they're hurting anybody else. so 1st, this is literally punishing yourself for somebody else's bad at for somebody else's bad action. but the 2nd thing is, i think americans and even the american government is starting to realize that sanctions are unnecessary to prove the utter failures of socialism. venezuela has

the largest confirmed oil reserves in the world and due to their just sheer and competence had been struggling. the problem with putting sanctions on venezuela. is it less people say it's not the socialism, but rather the sanction by lifting all things and opening come, we would trade. we can put this to a fair experiment and see can socialism work? and if not, let's get it out of it as well. striking argentinian truckers, a furious ad price hikes on fuel have brought traffic in wellness areas to a standstill. my blocking one of the city's major arteries of the truckers considered essential workers just months ago have gone from receiving a free fuel allowance to paying prices that have doubled in recent weeks. police tried to stop the drivers from entering the city center, so instead they brought gridlock to the capitals. highways. forty's, in 16 provinces, have chosen to ration fuel to 20 leaders for the vehicle, claiming supplies are non existent.

while european politicians continue to impose sanctions on the russian energy, some western companies are scrambling to avoid the possibility of a shut down. this comes after russia began to limit energy supplies to germany and other european countries due to the restrictions r t contributor rachel marston express. europe is facing energy supply problems, but german chancellor off schultz and other european leaders are denouncing the same fossil fuels that you countries desperately need. primary motivation, the rejection of rush and gas, miserable to align if we do have to realize, of course, that the future does not lying gas. this is very particular for germany. and this is something that is going to have an impact on the use of fossil fuels. coal and gas fargo, but german industry is sounding the alarm about a gas emergency and its economy minister is warning of industry shut down amid gas

shortages. as of last week, the country is now in phase 2 of 3 of its emergency gas plan, meaning a high risk of gas shortages through the winter time. germany's federal regulator has said that the scenarios are not pretty and mean either to build gas at the end of winter, or already very difficult situations in autumn or winter. germany's b a s f one of the world's largest chemical producers that makes products found and things like tooth paste. cars and medicines relies on cheap rushing gas to fuel $200.00 production plants. the largest integrated chemical complex in the world. executives are trying to avoid the possibility of a shut down to put it plainly, there is no short term solution to replace natural gas from russia. in the short and medium term b, a s f would still need gas. there really is no way around it. companies involved in

production of paper, metal or wood, could also be hit by the energy crunch, which shut downs, or downsizing of operations, raising questions about potential lasting impact on germany's job market. and manufacturing base companies will move production to where there is competitive pipeline gas, and this will not be in germany. you cannot correct 20 years of policy errors in 2 or 3 years. the german government has been scrambling to replace the russian supply, announcing back in march that cutter would fill the russian gas void in the short term in the wake of economy minister robert habits visit to cutter to discuss the issue. but german officials have been tight lipped ever since robert's hobbit and now stood a guitar with provide gas in the short turn to replace russian supplies. unfortunately, 3 months later, the german government can not or do not want to say whether a single cubic meter of gas will come from guitar in 2022. all of this has led to other european countries to treat the situation faced by europe sleeping economy

like the canary in the coal mine in assessing their own vulnerabilities. it's great if individual member states are able to feel that guest storage is before the 1st of november. but if other countries are not able to reach 80 percent, and especially big countries like germany, then you have to be aware that this will be a domino effect for the whole of europe. the c e o is a frances, 3 main energy companies have all called on french citizens who immediately and urgently reduce their energy consumption, evoking rationing, elsewhere in europe. they say that levels of natural gas are too limited to compensate for reduction of gas imports and go fear that the american defense sector also risk blowback from this global energy market. deregulation fuel by anti russian sanctions, the century aluminum plant in kentucky, the largest smelter in the us employing some 628 workers, has announced the shutdown of 9 to 12 months,

giving employees just 3 days. notice all due to what the company calls, skyrocketing energy costs. the problem for the pentagon is that it's the largest producer of high purity, aluminum in north america, the kind found an f. 16 fighter jags navy ships. boeing 740 sevens and the international space station consequences of prioritizing wishful thinking. an ideology of a pragmatic economic reality are already starting to bite economic consultant gender educator augmented mustafah thinks that western countries will sooner or later return to russian energy. as green plants cannot be realised so quickly anyway, because compass panels, for example, occurred same quantities of oil, all energy that is supplied by russia. it was much expectations or dreams, or residents cannot come to in one day and one here. and then, you know, it will take a 50 years or 100 years,

a trip being cooperation. and he read the other part of the world, the more expensive, the more people will push and the more people will not fear such increase. and because it have also another economic impact like pollution in the future, if you increase the commodities, i think the for a lot of unemployment will take place. oh you like foster parent food of fresh matter before. so there are later the will come back to the normal and this is russia energy and functions, which is very, very soon in my, in my, in my view in nationwide plot by americas. right. that's how the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, referred to the supreme court's overturning of a woman's right to an abortion. she added that republicans who had been pursuing the legislation could not be allowed to win a majority in congress. now close these comments are just at the latest example of

us politicians on the losing side of a democratic vote, claiming democracy itself has been prompted. back in 2016 president election loser, hillary clinton accused russia of helping donald trump, when by hacking the votes of american citizens, the claimant later disproved. and then, in 2021, it was trump himself, who seized the charge, egging on his supporters by declaring job by the presidential victory fraudulent as they storms in the us. capital. the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity. daniel mcadam says politicians only defended democracy if they went. they does not mean us to be a constitutional republic where the role of government is not to enforce the dictates of the majority, but to protect the liberty of the minority. they saw this coming when they established for us more than 250 years ago. and it's still true today. what we're seeing is the result of the increasing authoritarianism in the us society. you have

the politicization of every aspect of the american life, and that's why we see this kind of winner take all mentality. this aggression and it's driven by the mainstream news media to a large degree. the desire for clicks the desire to be caused divisions in society . it's driven by this and the main problem is the fact that government is far too big and far too authoritarian and getting more and more authoritarian every day. people like to call things democracy when they, when, right? if, if the, if the court rules in your favor, that's democracy. if they rule against, you will let some people have even said, let's kill the justices of supreme court because they ruled against them. so the problem is the idea that when things go you're with democracy and when they don't at some sort of a use or a patient of the process. and that's why we have this phrase corn by the left in the us, our democracy.