ah, ah, berlin makes fresh accusations against moscow as russia temporarily shuts down a key gas supply route to germany for scheduled maintenance. that's a made a fuel crisis caused by the backlash of western sanctions. also this our yet another powered position where americans and 777 houses. well based here you have a number of shells. these are powdered judge, candace, this will burned by almost direct impacts. marquee investigates are hastily abandoned ukrainian army position, where u. s. made heavy weapons were apparently used to sheldon boss. also the u. s. tries to pin the blame for the crisis in sri lanka on russia. as the south asian countries president confirmed,

he stepping down and made wide spread riots over the country's economic turmoil plus activists and friends cry foul over what they call double standards, and the treatment of refugees from ukraine compared to those from other countries. we've all seen the ukrainians go through difficult times, but africa has also been going through the same thing from decades. 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 with 5 p. m here in moscow, and you're watching r t international on your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. there are fresh worries in the e. u after russia halted the flow of gas through a key pipeline to germany called north stream one for 10 days. due to scheduled maintenance. germany is vice chancellor says european countries need to agree to tighten their belts in an attempt to get through expected shortages. however, the pipelines maintenance was agreed by all sides in advance and will last until

the 21st of july, or the stream one flows directly from russia to germany through the baltic sea and has been crucial for berlin. last month, russia reduced the pipelines load by 40 percent after saying that some key hardware needed for the gas root was being held up by western sanctions. the pipeline accounts for around half of germany's gas imports get more on this issue now from our correspondent in paris, rachel marston. hi there, rachel. so what do we do? what do we know about this so far? well, journeys, economy minister, robert havoc express concerns today that russia would use gas supplies as a political weapon, amid program maintenance, shut down of the north stream, one pipeline which normally transports gas from russia into europe. now havoc said that solidarity is more important than ever solidarity for what collective suicide

it's you, nations that are weapon ising, their own energy policy, putting their own gas supply in peril with anti russian sanctions for which we, the citizens here in europe are paying the price at pump, now here in france, we're on the cost of a massive heat wave. it's just about to start right now with up to 40 degree temperatures forecast over the next couple of weeks. france even has a statutory holiday in commemoration of the some 20000 people who died in the summer of 2003 in of elderly care homes as a result of the heat, but french minister of the economy. but we know the man hardly inspires confidence that our leaders, while have any clue what they're doing. let's prepare for a total cutoff of russian gas today. that is the most likely option. we have to anticipate and to put ourselves in order of battle as of now.

yeah, right. we're not ready for battle at all. here in europe, a havoc that german economy minister i mentioned earlier, he's proclaiming it to his own citizens and the entire world. how he is cut back on showers. and that's how he's sticking it to vladimir putin and russia. and that's how they're going to deal with the energy shortage. you know, the germany or german cities are actually planning to introduce warm up spaces this winter a mid of the need to ration energy. so, you know, these things that you see in depression, era, hollywood movies are all making or come back now. so be really has jumped out of the plane without a parachute. and when it just went gung ho in sanctioning its own energy supply. and the proof is that they this plan maintenance of the nord streamline of pipeline is sparking total hyperventilation by you officials who fear that russia could use it as an excuse to reduce gas delivery to europe or to extend the shut

down beyond the plan 10 days now the italian oil and gas company, any reports that its daily supply has been cut by about a 3rd and austrian energy company o m v also reported a reduction by a north stream one operator gas prom of about 70 percent of its usual volume. so they're starting to panic, even though this shouldn't come as a surprise. and well, you have to admit this is kind of what they said they always wanted, right? a, a draw down of russian gas in favor of windmill solar panels that apparently to start counting it right now. so in the u is sanctioning russian energy. it's talk industrial economies, france, germany went along with it. and now with panic and setting in is russia. turns off the top we're seeing the in reality the, you really has bitten off more than it can chew. it's kind of like the teenager who tells its parents, i'm going to run away from home and knows that all of its resources are there and it gets halfway down. it's on the street and realize is that, well,

maybe this isn't going to work out as well. i thought it would. rachel, thanks a lot for giving us those updates on the scheduled maintenance of north stream one . now, meanwhile, a german princess has accused berlin of hypocrisy and double standards over its approach to doing business with russia as opposed to some other countries. yeah, happened vicious, we decided that we didn't want to buy anything else from the russians. the americans force us to turn off nor seemed to which has since gone bankrupt. it was our decision claiming that evil of russians don't sell us anything is just hypocrisy. because we have been explaining to people for weeks that we can get anything from them because he can not buy from criminals. but the funny thing is, we're willing to do business with other countries that use criminal methods in the same way. i remember saudi arabia or china, where we grew, are sent to concentration camps. for some reason nobody is talking about that. so the moral treatment is only dished out whenever it's convenient. for me, there is a lot of ideology behind this. can we afford so much ideology and the question,

asking his who benefits from all this high call of always good. well, to get more on this, we're in across live now to journalists and political analyst, luke prevail. luke, thanks a lot for joining us on the program. so we just heard from that german princess who says it's hypocritical for berlin to blame russia for this fuel crisis. what's your reaction to her statement? well, it is and all the politicians in europe, i trying to explain the, the very, very difficult things that we can go through in, in the coming months and years. probably all we're getting into recession. we have a 10 percent inflation in, on average, in europe, $8.00 or 8.9 percent. inflation and of the worst hit will be germany. that's terrible because this is the locomotive of european economy of european industry. oh, you know, it. even if they could find

a gas to replace crash and gas, this would have to be played, not in, you know anymore, but in dollars. and we don't print dollars a year. so it's gonna get worse and worse, you have a voice is coming by this princess. but also, for example, sequel in oil in france was sent for one, something crucial that the, the conflict in ukraine was not our conflict. and that she could not understand why we impose sanctions that harmless, much more than russia. so it's getting, you know, very difficult for the politicians to explain this. and they are trying to prepare us really for ration that they probably come in the origin or in the run up to the maintenance berlin has accused russia of using gas as a political tool. do you think that's fair to say? considering the fact that this maintenance of the north stream one pipeline was agreed on in advance. yes, it was agreed upon in advance, and it is germany that stopped the true pleated on no strain to pipeline. and

so, you know, it's, it's not russia imposing it on your own. it's europe imposing it on russia to try to punish russia somehow for the ukraine issue. oh, but, but this is, this is totally wrong. we explained the country of what is reality and they are really putting us into a technical situation because they still claim that the future is when you will, blanche's wind and solar panels. but this isn't true. it's 2022 percent of energy in europe. and we have come to a maximum, we cannot have more, except if we use more gas to compensate when there is no wind or no sun. and so the gas goes coupled with renewable energy. so we cannot go to renewable. energy is at 80 percent, for example, as a project for the coming years in the green deal. this is completely duty cross,

ludicrous. so it's, it's frame the lying to the europeans. and again, they don't know how to get out of each lights, not the only little advantage is that where the heat wave that we have now, solar energy is exactly in sync with the heat weight. you know, the solar energy can produce a lot at midday. oh, when oh, it's very odd, so that's the only thing in these room to budge is that can be useful for the rest . it's really a huge problem that we put ourselves on our back. so we going into stagflation. we're going into recession. that coup last for very, very long time. well, look, do you think there's going to be any change in rhetoric from berlin after russia completes this maintenance and fully restarts the flow of gas? well, obviously they don't know how to deal with the situation. they don't know, mr. havoc is very nice, but he's a writer. ease of feel,

ologist and he's not the minister of economics that will last very long. i'm afraid . oh, he's agreeing of course on ecology. so on he what he says is, is completely out of whack. yeah. okay. that was what he says about. energy is, is unbelievable. you should have seen him in, in saxon, when he had to explain to the people who were refining alan or from, from russia that joe, from around the they're going to be on the dole. and the people asking him, i mean, why did you take this decision to sort of punish russia while you punish ourselves much more so you know, they don't know what to do. and mister schultz is so silent in all languages, so they difficult the compressor on that. we'll come back from canada and they will give it to, to russia to gospel. oh man, hoping that in 10 days gas from will re open the town. oh, we all hope so, of course, and joe, what they say about russia, which is preparing to,

to start altogether. where do they get that information? all right, look, rv, a journalist and political analysts thanks lot for joining us on the program. thank you. now it's been confirmed that the required equipment, a natural gas turbine will be returned to germany by canada, where the hardware has been undergoing scheduled repairs. the move requested by berlin was met with outrage and key f. as i explained more in detail in my following piece. 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 sanction something kiev 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 in salt. it's ukrainian proxies. 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. today, we have to admit, russia uses energy as a weapon. no one actually believes that russia's reducing its gas supplies for technical reasons alone for its part. moscow is 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. rushes consistently fulfilling all its obligations in

a still able to guarantee the complete energy security of europe, sidestepping sanctions, making up stories to avoid looking hypocritical. it might just be easier for everyone if you're up stop trying to play hardball with the very country that's long provided most of its energy needs. in other news, mass protests in albania, over social and economic issues have hit the capital city of toronto. demonstrations broke out amid rising fuel and food prices as well as allegations of government corruption, demanding the resignation of the country's leadership after inflation reached double digits and fuel prices rose by 30 percent o relock as president has informed the governments that he will resign on the 13th of july days after protesters stormed the homes of both the premier and the president. some of them swam in the pool, lied in the beds and crowded the corridors of the leaders. holmes demonstrations have continued to occupy those residents. demonstrators rather have continued to

occupy those residences, accusing the government of responsibility for severe shortages of food, fuel, and medicine and recent months. protest her say they will remain at these locations until the leader for is on. now here's a look at the events surrounding the latest chaos in the country with ah ah

ah, evidently the seabees are not so certain and devoted to go, stability has gone. so have 5, even a couple of ministers recently appointed have been designated. so it's going to need to be an on stage. i wanted to go situation an unstable economic situation as we speak go on to a new president, hopefully the speaker taking all the beauties as the active president and leaving the b one to fall basic off and on bobby's government, which will be most probably take place after the 13th of this month, so the people are going to go to. 6 the people loud rominger, i'll be

a positive house. we've only got all the good grease of the tv of each residents of the private. it's the at the same day. so most of the other special government residents is all being robbed by the professor. does fingers crossed for a better tomorrow? he had, he's through lunk up. this is john voss reported to you from columbus and i love your secretary of state antony blinking is once again pointing the finger at moscow . he says that the russian military's campaign and ukraine has caused rising food, food insecurity around the world, and human and labor rights at a human and labor rights lawyer dan cove. alec says, western capitalist interests are actually to blame for sri lanka, turmoil we're seeing the impact of this russian aggression play out everywhere. it again may have contributed to the, the situations for locker were concerned about the implications that it has around the world. brushes denied washington's accusations,

saying that western powers constantly blame moscow for events. it has nothing to do with the chaotic events and 3 long ca, or a combination of months of protests over an unprecedented economic downfall and emerged in the south asian country long before the ukrainian conflict erupt in. the crisis has been attributed to the coven pandemic, which deprives the islands nation of vital tourists revenue, human and labor rights lawyer, dan cove. all it says western capitalist interests are actually to blame for 3 long term oil. what's happened in sri lanka is the result of western capitalism run amok. 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 have gotten $4.00 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 demand, their own suffering. and the west has no one else but themselves to blame, but of course, so they go and blame russia back to the ukraine conflict. they will now be easier for residents of ukraine and the dunbar peoples republics to get russian passports . that's after vladimir putin signed a new decree to speed up the procedure, as ortiz eager is dawn of explains the process of getting a russian passport has been streamlined for every citizen of ukraine. and it's the geographical nuance that is important here and the story because initially these citizenship privileges they only applied to the residence of the den. that's and

logan's people's republics, well then, breaker we regions from ukraine, which have now proclaimed independence and have been recognized by russia. then this club has been expanded to include the southern regions of ukraine, some of them which are now under the control of the russian forces in a large part. so some could draw some conclusions. may be the saying that this could hint at russia's intentions in its special military operation. although officially, russia has not made any concrete territorial claims as to which regions it would like to will liberate, as they say. apart from of course, the territories known as the de nets and le ganske people's republics. meanwhile, rushes defense ministry says its forces have destroyed an ammunition storage depot for us, supplied rocket launchers and howitzers in southeastern ukraine. oscar also says the russian military has destroyed a weapons warehouse which stored or than $200.00 tons of foreign made anti tank

missile systems. earlier moscow said it had destroyed almost 2000 western made rounds, 4 howitzers and rocket launchers inside ukraine. and in don bus, russian lead forces have reportedly taken over 2 towns in the north of the daniel republic. i made attempts to move the front line westwards to reach major ukrainian held strongholds in the area. according to soldiers operating their retreating ukrainian troops continue to use civilians as human shields. and in the guns republic, russian lead forces are advancing after taking control over the last key towns there. as you can see on the map, russian troops are moving further to the west to reach a ukrainian stronghold in the city of severs. russia's defense ministry says some ukrainian union units operating in the area are in a bad state after they've taken heavy losses. ortiz moran gazda reports from the front line. they're quite when we came here,

isn't so quiet anymore. and artillery jewel between russian forces and ukrainian forces, where quote bags. but in short the shell with us and explosion, the other side, and then return for good thing. where in these, these ukranian trenches, bunkers and these are bunkers, the full sense. again, 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, crenan 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

creighton in teachers emblems. these stretch of the front lines from the city of san francisco bar move 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 em 777 houses we're based here. you have a number of shells. these are powder judge canisters all burned by almost direct impacts. you have a number of craters here. multiple rocket raja systems and touch by the look of them. but we have in direct evidence that at least one cabin was the sure these are the was from the ties. you can see the burn marks here and here. and this is

a, this is where the back part of the cabman as it far this is where it dug into the earth . ah, here you have the, the trenches down by the supports and nevertheless, despite the fact that it was the short the ukrainians. somehow, dow, this out of here again perhaps to prevent russian forces and allied forces from capturing those in what would undoubtedly, undoubtedly have been a p our victory. this is the 2nd time in a span of a week that we have found, destroyed, artillery positions where american howitzers was stationed everywhere, ah 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 poo memory card with a number of videos we quoted by ukranian troops and left behind to be found. if something were to happen to them. gwyn personal simple bonaparte. when i got into position the 1st time that 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 heads were 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 it and there are hundreds of similar videos that have been posted online 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, offers, missing in action. and in their stead, he has thrown others into the grinder. untrained and unwilling farmers, teachers drive was musicians. and programmers who are more and more aware that they are being used as cannon fodder. or i'd guess the of 40 from the la guns people to republic human rights groups in france have raised the alarm over refugees allegedly being mistreated there unless of course, there from ukraine. that some had claims that migrants from war tore nations in the middle east and africa are being turned away from french shelters, despite plenty of space being there 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 over the weekend to speak out against the legend. double standards and francis treatment of refugees saying middle eastern and african asylum seekers should be given the same decent treatment as those from ukraine. we heard from some of the demonstrators and one of them requested anonymity to speak freely about their calls. i didn't tell you that ukrainians 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, while 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 whose 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 just

the head of state in manila, crohn 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, won't please mister mc groan. we need housing, men to give a future to these children, philip of 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 to day. so closing. meanwhile, a new pole in the u. k. has shown that despite waning public support for key of britons would still rather welcome refugees from ukraine over those fleeing conflicts. in afghanistan, syria and somalia, former nigerian presidential hopeful told us that europeans should stop treating african countries as 2nd class states. it is, it's, it's really very,

very clear the, 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 decided to say that blood people that are in did it for g comes in class should fucking for the white with them citizens of general to come on. why doesn't look issue, you see very clear, the wonder if you nor did you feel why didn't you didn't have to. when i went to france to want to see most of you have to do with the problems, the difference in the home country as a result of french actually. if you 1st, you know, want to want to do me some community which isn't free africa, you should let alpha go to mit. want to define the foreign policy, which a lot of are going to be able to find out what we're going to make. what is the vision there should not for can you call them one of the global community?

we have one thing that is part of the fight is break. can you order that is to leave the united niche on job for you, right? did i believe that you all want to see these are they are supposed to be in need for? what are we africans have to begin to see until we define home futile in the obviously coming new order. david will continue to be a 2nd class to class before class of 2100 is not out on like, you know, do i mean to another group you comes to the trucks and argentina, thousands of people filled the streets of the capital, bon osiris on saturday during independence day celebrations to protest their government's failure to curb the country's economic crisis. ah, the countries minister of economy res.