i think he'll finish with a germany braces for an even more severe gas shortage. as russia says it must turn off the north stream pipeline for maintenance . that's despite canada, finally deciding to deliver a vital turbine for the route previously hung up because of western sanctions. yet another power position where america and 777 houses, well base. here you have a number of shells. these are part of the charge that has this whole bud by most direct impact on examines abandoned ukrainian army positions on former done by the front lines as gives forces retreat westward from our side is americans was

spending a lot of money in the water resources. we get a u. s. congress woman demands more tracking of military weaponry being sent to ukraine. he says she is seeking to hinder aid to the country and the u. s. a continues its usual narrative, blaming russia for all the world crises, including the one that is now in sri lanka. ignoring the fact that the south asian country was gripped by economic turmoil long before the crane conflict with broadcasting lab direct my studios in moscow. this is our international, and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now berlin should prepare for a potential permanent halts of russian gas imports. that's what germany's economy economy. mister, excuse me, robert, you back has said i made it russia's announcement of maintenance work for the north stream pipeline to start on monday. north cream,

which flows directly from russia to germany under the baltic sea has been of crucial importance for berlin. now the route accounted for 55 percent of germany's gas imports last year and 40 percent in the 1st quarter of this year. then last month, russia reduced to supplies through the pipeline by 60 percent, saying that it required equipment whose servicing was being held up by western sanctions. canada was preventing a turbine from being sent to the pipeline, but then eventually backed down and allowed the part to be transported to germany. much of the, to the ire of ki, of, with both ukraine's energy and foreign ministries. lashing out about the move parties on quarter have commentary for the west talking tough and imposing sanctions against russia have become business as usual. but when talking the talk demands walking the walk, we're seeing a bit of back tracking take germany's economics minister, who says the north stream one pipeline that supplies europe with russian gas is a must not only for berlin, but for the whole continents energy market. we need capacities in north stream one

to fill up our storage filled storage capacities in germany are not only important for the german market, but also for the european market and the security of supply in europe. a real 180 degree turn from what he said on the eve of russia's military operation and ukraine and doug boss. germany can meet its energy needs without russian gas, should energy prices skyrocket. consumers would receive assistance. the change of heart came as germany caught some serious, friendly fire from canadian sanctions. last month, thrushes state energy company gas prom was forced to reduce the flow of gas along north stream, one by 40 percent. why? several turbines essential for the pipelines, proper functioning, were under repair in montreal, and were blocked from being returned on time because of sanctions imposed by ottawa . so after a bit of begging from berlin to avoid making germany's energy crisis any worse, canada sidestepped its own sanctions. something key of was apparently crossing its fingers would not happen. if god forbid this decision is approved,

we will undoubtedly appeal to our european colleagues that their approach must be reassessed. because if countries do not follow decisions they have agreed on about sanctions. how can we talk about solidarity, of course berlin would rather not insult its ukrainian proxy. so the german chancellor has been accusing russia of using das as a political tool instead of you know, admitting that the west is shooting itself in the foot with its own sanctions. to day we have to admit russia uses energy as a weapon. no one actually believes that russia is reducing its gas supplies for technical reasons alone for its. 1 power moscow was reminding everyone that it has never failed to carry out its energy obligations. we completely reject any hints or direct statements that the russian side is using gas or oil as a weapon of political pressure. there is a certain routine with gas pipelines and such work is carried out every year. russia has consistently fulfilling all its obligations in still able to guarantee

the complete energy security of europe, side stepping sanctions, making up stories to avoid looking hypocritical. it might just be easier for everyone if you're up stops trying to play hardball with the very country that's long provided most of its energy needs. as far as energy wars or blackmail tactics. yes. the west has clearly been playing this game a without question. russia did not impose any sanctions on on any country and did not refuse any exports. in fact, it had still export and gas and the turbine that canada will be returning to germany is going after all to the next 3 me, one pipeline. germany's a business leadership associations have urged the german government to take action. gas is not so important now, which is summer time that's in october and the german industry fee is

a complete collapse. if the gas supplies are not to be certain, we have a situation where western governments are saying one thing is to show off, oh, her ukraine. they are the, on the other hand, that the business and the economic leaders are want guarantees that the russian gas will keep flowing. regular germans are already feeling the effects of a looming gas deficit. one of the biggest housing operators in germany is restricting heating for tenants amid surging prices. the company, the nova, is limiting heating to 17 degrees celsius as the maximum room temperature at night . that's as the tenants are likely to face even higher utility bills in the near future. the residence of a town in saxony have received a letter from their housing cooperative, limiting how long they can bathe in an effort to reduce energy costs. the company has introduced schedules for heating and hot water distribution. hot water can now

be used only 9 hours a day and for 10 hours a day on weekends. the changes affect more than 600 apartments with residents far from supporting the radical new measures. this is, i get your money, a man who lives here has decided to tell everyone in 600 apartments. when they can take a shower. he even cut their heating off. now we want to find out whether he himself will make such sacrifices. he shut the door, he doesn't want to talk. that's it of command if you have indeed me. thank you. how have the tenants reacted to this? everybody resents this. it's simply impossible to get any response from the administration ago. and it is not because, you know, it's illegal, right? i'm actually for sure coming suddenly he's not the one authorized to change everything like this. how did you receive any prior notifications? no, they just put up the announcement on the entrance. now to the latest

developments from the don bass, russian lead forces have reportedly returned fire at the ukrainian army, falling relentless shelling of residential areas in the done yet republic by caves, forces the videos from my witness says, purport to show actually barrages, being unleashed on ukrainian military positions near the city of gordon. meanwhile, in the neighboring lucon republic, local air defense forces have reportedly shot down an incoming ukrainian ballistic missile. meanwhile, a deputy ukrainian prime minister says the country's military will launch a counter offensive on the southern parts of the country. in an effort to expel russian forces, she wants civilians there to urgently flee their homes because otherwise they could end up being used as human shields. that despite similar accusations from russia, that the ukrainian military has actually been deploying heavy artillery to residential areas. so specifically, to use the population in those areas as human shields,

that's as ukrainian forces have also been unleashing relentless artillery barrage on the civilly neighborhoods. in danielle, at least 3 people were reported injured in such a tax. on sunday alone, several residential buildings were damaged in the latest bombardment, including this one completely gutted by fire, r t. arabic correspondence has nasir reports from the scene. me to do the whole lot of ukrainian forces or once again bombarding the neighborhoods have done as city and its surroundings with a large number of rockets and shells. several of those shells hit this apartment building. following the tech, 1st responders from the emergency ministry weighed out for some time, knowing well that the ukrainian forces will hit the same place again as they usually do. give it to us pretty low the. there were 19 shells. i counted, 019 of them. while i was sheltering in the basement, they kept falling every 3 minutes. apparently they kept reloading and then firing again. we got through it somehow with some others were not so lucky that other has

got hit. it's her heart to guess where the shells will fall and explode next. grains that defense minister alexia resident coff has said that the country's military has been suffering heavy losses as he asks western countries to provide more weapons. so key is raising a 1000000 men army to launch and offensive into southern parts of ukraine that are allegedly de facto controlled by russia. meanwhile, russian lead forces have continued to make advances in the don bass to make it take the remaining parts of the dynamic republic or cheese, where i got your reports from the, from one quite. when we came here, listen, so quite any more and artillery jewel between russian forces and ukrainian forces. i'm quote bags, but in the me here. sure. the shell with us and explosion, the other side and then return for good thing where nice these ukranian

trenches bonkers and these are bunkers. the full sense again, saw not much of a 5 year ukrainian troops abandoned these their uniforms belonging scattered all over the place. but this is very far from the front line. nevertheless. premiums from the front line when the conflicts began. nevertheless, ukrainians have built these steel, reinforced concrete bunkers. one of the place, huge thick doors inside here is where they slip great in t shirts and limbs. these stretch of the front lines from the city of chevy escobar mac is arguably the most violent of the conflict. the thunder of artillery only ceases when the guns are destroyed. yet another foreign position where american am

777 houses we're based here. you have a number of shells, these are powdered judge canisters all burned by almost direct impacts. you have a number of craters here, multiple rocket launch, a system and judging by the look of them. but we have in direct evidence that at least one cabin was destroyed. these are the was from the tires. you can see the burn marks here and here. and this is a, this is where the back part of the cabman as it fall. this is where it dug into the earth. ah, he, you have the, the trenches down by the supports and nevertheless, despite the fact that it was the assured the ukrainians somehow dow this out of here again perhaps to prevent russian voices and allied forces from

capturing those in what would undoubtedly, undoubtedly have been a p, our victory. this is the 2nd time in the span of a week that we have found, destroyed, artillery positions where american houses was stationed everywhere, our shelves and powder charge, canisters shipped from us arsenals and abandoned by ukrainian troops. but that isn't all. in one bunker, we found a fool memory cod with a number of videos recorded by ukrainian troops and left behind to be found if something were to happen to them. corporal simple bonaparte. when i got into position the 1st time i was shooting, it was complete shock to me. so shocking that i didn't know what to do,

where to hide. nobody knew anything, nobody reported to anybody. nobody said anything. the hence was so irresponsible. nobody reported anything to anyone. i only heard about the dead, the wounded from the neighbors walkie talkies. why? i don't understand that angle. there are hundreds of similar videos that have been posted on line and they are often the same. the sad story of demoralized conscripts and drafted soldiers sent without any training into a brutal fight. the fates of these men are known as are the fates of thousands. upon thousands of soldiers, conscripts and foreign mercenaries whom ukraine has written off as missing in action. and in their stead, he has thrown others into the grinder. untrained and unwilling pharmacy teaches drivers, musicians, and programmers, who are more and more aware that they are being used as cannon fodder. where i'd

gas do you have, see from the la guns people's republic, ukraine's foreign ministry has fired back at heavy allegations from us congresswoman victoria sparts, who suggested gives top diplomat derailed peace negotiations and even screwed up military a deliveries. he says that the republican lawmaker who is actually born in ukraine has brought so called russian propaganda into american politics. we advise miss sparts to sub trying to earn extra political capital on baseless speculation around the topic of war in our country. and the grief of koreans, especially cynical, are manipulations about ukraine and it's leadership from a congresswoman of a cleaning origin. ukrainian, a foreign ministry also accused the u. s. lawmaker of undermining mechanisms for providing us military assistance to kiev. that's after sparts called for washington to more diligently track its weaponry being sent to carry over concerns that such

supplies could possibly end up in the wrong hands. from our side as americans, with spending a lot of money in the water resources, we can have another president by didn't have to have a clear strategy in the line. he has to may not, you know, line the strategy with his action. he's words and actions don't go together and we need to be able to make sure you know that this might have spent efficiently. and also that we have ability to be kind of our tech, very radio host and political commentator, steve gill says kim has been quick to dismiss legitimate questions about spending as so called propaganda. when there is smoke, there is fire and if they are questioning accountability for how the money that the us taxpayers are sending, do you crate if they're questioning, being asked, how's the money being spent? that tells me that money is not being spent very wisely or well. and it's interesting that congresswoman sparts was, was beloved by the premium government. and she was talking heavily about the need

for the u. s. to intervene to send money to send funds for both for an aide in for, for military aid. and now suddenly what she's saying by the way, we'd like to check the receipts, see how you're spending the money then somehow she's promoting russian propaganda. it's amazing how quick they've turned daughter for simply asking some gentleman questions. we're seeing billions of dollars and continue demands for more billions of dollars to be said by us taxpayers to ukraine. i think you're seeing kind of a war fatigue. i think you're servicing a taxpayer spending 50 by americans as we have into our mid term elections here. i think this is going to be a mission, military personnel and sri lanka have been deployed outside the prime minister's residence amid a wave of mass riots. that's as thousands of protesters stormed the homes of both the premier and the president of demonstrators have continued to occupy those residences, accusing the government of mismanaging the economy and being responsible for severe shortages of food, fuel, and medicine. in recent months,

the protesters say that they will remain at those locations until the leaders resign. speaker, parliament has said that the president would step down on wednesday with the latest details. here's the local journalist to sean voss. probably this not filled with and the political stability as going. i'm still here. fire. even a couple of witnesses were recently appointed, have been designated, so it's going to need to be an unstable. wanted to go situation an unstable economic situation as we speak go on to a new resident, hopefully the good take it off. you fees as the active president and leaving the b $1.00 to fall major off and all party government, which will be most probably take place after the 13th of this month. so the people are going to need to. 6 see if people are roaming around would be a positive house. you told me that i would be a recent resident of the prime minister at the same date. so myself,

other special government residents as are being robbed by the protest as fingers crossed for a better tomorrow. he had a screw lunk up. this is john voss reported to you from columbus for the mass riots have persisted for 2 days. here's a timeline of how the leaders residences were stormed. ah ah ah, ah ah

. ah, you as secretary of state antony blinking hasn't resorted to washington's usual narrative. blaming moscow for the crisis in sri lanka hears, he has said that russia's military campaign in ukraine has caused rising food insecurity around the world, including in sri lanka, thousands of kilometers away. we're seeing the impact of this russian aggression play out everywhere. it again may have contributed to the the situations we were concerned about, the implications that it has around the world. russia has denied such accusation, saying that western powers have been blaming moscow for things and isn't involved

in the dramatic events in sri lanka, or a combination of months of protests due to an unprecedented economic crisis. is that emerged in the south asian nation? long before the ukraine conflict erupt, this crisis has been attributed to the co damage which deprived the island donation . vital tourist revenue, human and labor rights lawyer dam kovachick says western capitalist interests are actually to blame for us for long term. well, what's happened in sri lanka is the result of western capitalism run a mock. this has nothing to do with russia and everything to do with the failings of western style capitalism. but of course, no one in the west wants to admit that. so they blame russia, western style capitalism unfettered capitalism has shown itself to be a complete failure. we've seen this in the united states in terms of the pandemic where we've had the worst, the most number of cases, the most number of deaths of any country in the world. meanwhile,

the super rich had gotten 4 point. $25.00 trillion dollars richer, and we're seeing this type of economic injustice throughout the world. again, including and sri lanka. this is not inspired by russia. this is inspired by people's own demands, their own suffering. and the west has no one else but themselves to blame, but of course, so they go and blame russia. human rights groups in france have sounded the alarm over refugees allegedly being mistreated if they're not from ukraine. that is a mid claims that migrants from a war torn nations in the middle east and north africa are being turned away from french shelters just by plenty of space for them. in the 1st reception center between $3500.00 places are left vacant each night. the state which has already been asked about this categorically refuses to accommodate vulnerable people from other countries. however, at the same time,

several 100 people are sleeping rough. hundreds of protesters took to the streets of paris on saturday to speak out against alleged double standards in france's treatment of refugees saying middle eastern and african asylum seekers should be treated as well as those from ukraine. we heard from some of the demonstrators, one of them requested anonymity to speak freely about their course with you didn't tell you that you premiums have been welcomed very quickly and with a right to be protected since the very beginning of the war. that's not the case. for other refugees who are also victims of the war and abuses in their home countries, there are shelters with vacant places. well, refugees are on the streets, especially afghans were mistreated by the police in public parks. these are double standards, it looks like racism on a state level who's i want to see. we have all seen the ukrainians go through difficult times, but africa has also been going through the same thing from decades. i want to address that head of state in manila, mac ron, to tell him to take a look at the africans to take

a look at these children who have the same values. they are equal to the ukrainians . you think mr. mc wrong please? our children are suffering, i don't think the ukrainians are better than africans and vice versa. we are all equal, it won't please mister mc grown, we need housing men to give a future to these children. she level to durham, we've managed to walk in the ukrainians very well and at a tremendous speed mode, i'm very happy that they've been welcomed with good manners. why do they deserve to be better accommodated than other refugees framed from war and misery? we see many women and children whom france has left behind on the streets today. meanwhile, a recent poll conducted in the u. k. shows that despite winning support for ukraine, britons still would rather welcome refugees from ukraine over those fleet conflicts . in afghanistan, syria and somalia, former nigerian presidential candidate, admiral garb. the 2nd says ear pins should stop treating african countries as 2nd class dates. it is, it is really very, very clear, the worst and that the we have in your recently you've seen how it is

when data for g is form ukraine coming over into france. and there's sort of the french and send it to say that blood people that are in did it for g comes in, should fucking for the white with them citizens of general and come on by the same location. you see very clear, don't stand if you, nor did you feel why didn't you didn't have to. when i went to france to go and see most of you have to do with the problems the dishes in their home country as a result of french action. if you want to want to give me some colonialism free africa, you should let out go to me, i want to define the foreign policy, which a lot of are going to be able to define the i'm a group one moment. what is the issue there? shouldn't you didn't have to, can ask you called member of the global community. we have 13, that is part of the 5 is breaking you or that, but it's doubly united niche on job for you, right?

did i believe that you all to see these are they are supposed to be a need for the and we africans have to begin to see that when can we define our own futile in the obviously coming new order day and we'll continue to be treated as 2nd class to class of class incidents in the one thing that is not out on like, you know, do i mean to another group you comes to the tracks? $33.00 and a half minutes. that's and i'll be back with another full and fresh look to say with us much international. ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only really i'm getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time to sit down and talk

who is the aggressor today? i'm authorizing additional strong sanctions. today russia is the country with the most sanctions imposed against it. a number that's constantly growing. a list of course renewed as you speak. i'm believe senior mostly mine or wish you were banding all in ports of russian oil and gas, new g i g with the letter from, you know, we're going to go to joe by imposing these sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. so there's your boomerang with

welcome to wells apart. historically, europe has been the center stage for humanity longest and bloodiest wars and judging by the recent events in and around your brain, you may know before we over asia, on the other hand, despite its enormous diversity, has been relatively few rational conflicts. much of this tried to witness was inflamed or fuel from the outside, but the east continues to gain and trace and the west continues to flounder. can the asian tigers keep themselves from becoming hue territorial to discuss it? and now joined by 3 comes from the poly professor of chinese studies as the job.

hello natalie university in your daily progress is great to see you. great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for the invite. so let's start with something that is very close to home, my home. that is, and by that i mean the conflict in your brain which is to enter it's 6 months. you wrote before that despite it's remoteness, it has many implications for countries around the world. what would you say is its main effect on asia, as specifically on the political and power dynamics within the continent. i can go for the factors so we can learn from the conflict are in the last 121 days. and one is the leadership strategy. roles and responsibilities are there is a lot of title walking here. and by all the leaderships,

the address lines are clear, are hover or the or suit of these are and the result of this hasn't become problematic in the past 6 months since february 20 for the title walking is done by russia. ukraine, europe are united states, china, india, ah, every other country is doing this type drop box. number one. number 2 is the warfare preparation. i v heard of the song, the russian general saying by march 5th to beverly wind up be our operations, special operations. however, we are still looking our doors are in our military campaigns. there is a huge logistics build up that is necessary. national mobilization is.