[000:00:00;00] a with berlin makes fresh accusations against moscow as russia temporarily shuts down a key gas supply route to germany for scheduled maintenance. that's submit a fuel crisis caused by the backlash of western sanctions. also this hour with another forward position where american and 777 houses will base. here you have the number of shells these, the powder judge status. this will bud bye. almost direct impact. or he investigates a hastily abandoned ukrainian army position where

u. s. made heavy weapons were apparently used to sheldon boss us tries to pin the blame for the crisis in sri lanka on russia. is the south asian countries president confirmed. he's stepping down and made widespread riots over the countries, economic turbans with pm here in moscow. and you're watching our 2 international, i'm donald quarter. welcome to the program. there are fresh worries in the european union 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 and attempt to get through. expected shortages over the pipelines. maintenance was agreed to by all sides in advance and will last until the 21st of july, or stream one directly flows from russia to germany through the baltic sea and has been crucial for berlin. last month,

russia reduced the pipelines load by 40 percent, and after saying that some key hardware needed for the gas root was being held up by western sanctions. pipeline accounts for around half of germany's gas imports in ortiz. rachel marston has more on the issue. german economy minister, robert havoc express concerns stay at russia when use gas applies as a political weapon. amid the program maintenance shut down of the north stream. one pipeline which normally transports gas from russia to europe. havoc said that solidarity is more important than ever solidarity for what collective suicide it's easy nations, their weapon ising, their own energy policy, putting their own gas supply in peril with anti russian sanctions. for which we, the citizens are paying the price of the pump. here in france were on the cost of a massive heat wave right now with up to 40 degree temperatures forecasted over the next couple of weeks. france even has a statutory holiday in june every year in memory of the nearly 20000 elderly who died in care homes from a similar heat wave in the summer of 2003, but french economy minister between orland,

they're hardly inspires confidence that our leaders have a 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, except that we're not ready for battle here in europe. let's face it, habits proclaimed that he cut down his shower time yet again. like that's any kind of a solution for supposedly developed nation while german cities are planning to introduce warm up space is this winter amid the need to ration energy? you know, those things that you see in depression era, hollywood movies, you know, the, you is really jumped out of a plane here without a parachute, when it went gung ho sanctioning its own gas supply from russia. the proof, the fact that this plan maintenance shut down of nord stream one is sparking hypo ventilation by you. officials who fear that russia could use it as an excuse to reduce gas delivery to europe. org. stand the shut down beyond the 10 days. the

italian oil and gas company, any reports that daily supplies been cut by a 3rd of the usual volume. austria's energy company on v also report a reduction by nord stream, one operator gas prom of 70 percent. when did you sanction roger? an energy, the ease top economies went along with it, but now was panic sets in, in russia turns off the top even temporarily. we seeing the u bit off more than it could chew. it's kind of like that teenager who runs away from home, gets halfway down his own street and starts panicking over his own foolish decision journalist and political analyst lucrative a told me that it's becoming harder and harder for european officials to justify their sanctions against russia to their own taxpayers and voters, all the politicians in europe by trying to explain the to the very, very difficult things that we can go through in, in the coming months and years. probably all in it,

we're getting into recession. we have a 10 percent inflation in, on average, in europe, $8.00 or 8.9 percent. inflation and the worst hit will be germany. that's terrible because this is the locomotive all european economy of european industry, even if they could find gas to replace russian gas, this would have to be paid not in utah anymore, but in dollars. and we don't print dollars a year, so it's going to get worse and worse. you have a voice is coming by this princess. but also, for example, sequel and why young in france, who has sent for one something crucial that be the conflict in ukraine was not our conflict. and, and 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 rationing that probably come in. the old german princess has accused berlin of hypocrisy and double standards over its approach to doing business with russia. as opposed to other countries. you haven't vishal us. we decide that that we didn't want to buy anything else from the russians. the americans forced us to turn off nor soon 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 is, who benefits from all this call is always good when speak leave. meanwhile, it's been confirmed that the required equipment to natural gas turbine will be

returned to germany by canada, where the hardware has been going on schedule, undergoing scheduled repairs. the move requested by berlin was met with outrage and key f, as i explained more in detail and the following piece. last month, russia state energy company gas prom was forced to reduce the flow of gas along nord 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 here 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 insulted ukrainian proxies. so the german

chancellor has been accusing russia of using gas 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 is 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. russia has 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 europe stops trying to play hardball with the very country that's long provided most of its energy needs. meanwhile, 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. protesters are demanding the resignation of the country's leadership after inflation reached double digits and fuel prices rose by 30 percent . ah, so long as president has informed the government 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 beds and crowded. the corridors of the leaders houses demonstrators have continued to occupy those residences, accusing the government of responsibility were severe shortages of food, fuel, and medicine in recent months, the protest, her se, they will remain at those locations until the leaders resign. here's a closer look at the events surrounding the latest chaos in countries who's

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possibly the supervision he's not so certain and the political stability as gone. so who fires even a couple of ministers who were recently appointed, have tendered designated to it's going to need to be an unstable. wanted to go situation an unstable economic situation. as i'm fees, a new residential police, the speaker taking all the duties as the active president and leaving the b $1.00 to fall basic off and all body government, which would 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 president. how's your day will be good. i'll be good. good for you. so the tv of, of recent residence of the prime minister at the same day. so myself, other a special government, a residents as i'll be in the room by the protest, does fingers crossed for a better to morrow theories for lunk up because john was reported to you rob

columbo silica u. s. secretary of state antony blinking is once again pointing the finger at moscow. he says that the russian military operation in your, 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 locker were concerned about the implications that it has around the world. russia has denied washington's accusations, saying that western powers constantly blame moscow for events. it has nothing to do with the chaotic events in sri lanka are a combination of months of protests over an unprecedented economic downfall and emerged in the, in the south asian country. long before russia's military operation began. the crisis has been attributed to the coven pandemic, which deprives the island nation of vital tourist revenue, human and labor rights lawyer. den kabbalists says western capitalist interests are

actually to blame for so long as turmoil. what's happened in sri lanka is the result of western capitalism. rando 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 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 demands, their own suffering. and the west has no one else but themselves to blame, but of course,

so they go and blame russia. the family of slain al jazeera journalists, sharina elbow. our claim has demanded to meet joe biden. during the u. s. president's visit to israel later this week. the relatives of the palestinian american reporter who was shot dead and may have accused washington of turning a blind eye to his real role in her killing in the days and weeks since in his railey soldier, killed serene. not only have we not been adequately consulted, informed and supported by u. s. government officials. but your administration's actions exhibit an apparent intent to undermine our efforts toward justice and accountability for sharon's death. instead, the united states has been skulking toward the eraser of any wrongdoing by his railey forces, from the failure to immediately ensure an independent and impartial investigation. your administration's engagement has served to whitewash sharina, killing, and perpetuate impunity. shuree novel aqua was fatally wounded on may 11th reporting on an israeli army raid on

a palestinian refugee camp in the west bank. she was shot dead in the middle of armed clashes despite openly wearing a blue press. best un human rights office. probe concluded that she'd been killed by idea fire, however, the u. s. and it's as railey allies claimed, there's no reason to believe the killing was intentional. television has not yet held anyone. accountable journalist on middle east analyst robert in la cash says it seems like washington is eager to sweep the incident under the rock. i think the u. s. fire in administration, use this as it is somewhat of a nuisance, and that seems to be the way they're treating it from the get go. the state department came out with a statement in which essentially said that trusted israel to investigate this case and said that it had the wherewithal to conduct a thorough investigation itself. it's clear that the israelis did not want to investigate it primarily for political reasons. and of course, you know,

it's very rare that they hold their soldiers properly accountable when they kill palestinians and american citizens as well, to be honest with you. but then later on now they've conducted this investigation essentially, according to that selim israel's talk, human rights organization. this was a whitewash wants the united states state department said that it pulls for accountability and justice. on the other hand, what it did is it gave israel a get out of free card by saying that there is no indication that they have to say that this was an intentional killing. when, for instance, an investigation by cnn suggest that it was perhaps intentional. all of the evidence against the israeli forces, but just that assessing intent was the u. s. was able to conclude who actually committed the murder in the report. i had a biden's trip to israel. iran has slammed a u. s. lead plan for

a joint air defense system in the middle east to round says the move is aimed at countering the islamic republic and will only aggravate the regions security situation. the u. s. comes up with such ideas without having a correct understanding of the regions realities and only with the purpose of fueling iran, a phobia, and creating divisions among the regional countries. the proposal of this issue is provocative in the islamic republic of iran. views these remarks as a threat to national and regional security. iran was criticized by the u. s. and some arab countries for its ballistic missile program and support of armed militias, while the white house earlier confirmed that the enhancement of military cooperation, including air defenses, will be on the table during the u. s. president's trip to the region with israel, an old rival of a ran being the 1st state by then we'll visit according to reports. washington is also discussing the resumption of offensive weapons sales to saudi arabia. but to get more on this, we're gonna cross live now to to ron university. professor said mohammed mirandi,

thanks a lot for joining us on the program once again. ok, so how do you expect the u. s. is planned to influence relations between washington and to run well, relations can't get much worse. the united states, of course, accuses the wrong of arming malicious. but it forgets that those militias that iran have has on they are, has will law. that's what they are looting too. as well as a part of the government in lebanon. it has government ministers, it has parliamentarians and it liberated the south of lumber, lebanon, from israeli occupation. and the iranians have also supported and funded and aided and trained the popular and mobilization force and iraq, which liberated the country from isis the same isis that the united states, turkey, and countries in the persian gulf region, along with nato and israel were supporting. so it wasn't for iran support for these

groups. our region would be in a, in a terrible message, syria would have fallen, iraq would have fallen lebanon would probably have fallen. and therefore, the united states really should be thankful that iran oppose it's immensely destructive policy. but i don't think anyone in iran takes the us this idea of a joint project for air defense for the region very seriously that the saudis with us support fail. again, miss allison drones from yemen. and yemen of course, has very is very limited in its resources compared to ron's missile and drone capabilities. it's really quite small. so when the americans and the saudis fail against yemen, they really can't do much against iran. what, what do you think the u. s. is trying to achieve with this new plan along with it's other so called defense policies in the region. i think the americans are,

of course, as usual trying to milk the saudis, and other oil rich countries in the persian gulf, which are inherently weak regimes. remember the saudis, in the m rockies together failed in a genocide war against the probably the most, the port most poor country in the world. yet they lost a war despite being supported by canada and the europeans and australians and americans with all their military equipment and advisors. they failed. so. busy but still they, they feel insecure, they need american weapons to stay in power. these are the dictatorships, they, they, they don't depend on their support. so they can easily be mil and, but also i think the americans want to draw the saudis, and now there's closer to, to the united states and away from russia and china. so i think there are a host of different issues, but i don't think that the americans really can do much in europe in the united

states. they're, they're lurching towards crisis. and if the saudis in the, and the countries in the persian gulf region look carefully, they'll see that americans and europeans are going to have difficulty taking care of themselves of the coming months. well, how would you assess? sorry, we just ran out of time there. that's a sad mohammad mirandi turan university professor. always a pleasure having you here on the program grains foreign ministry has fired back at allegations from ukrainian born u. s. congress woman victoria sparts. after she suggested the ukranian president's chief of staff has derailed peace talks and even sabotaged. u. s. military deliveries have accused the republican lawmaker who is also responsible for the lend lease program of trying to capitalize on the conflict and ukraine or an undisclosed attempt to bring back in some miracle politics. the classic

narrative suppression propaganda about the ukrainian leadership's village ties to russia to drag the country to you as domestic politics, where di smith sparts to stop trying to earn extra political capital on baseless b collation their own to topic for in our country. and the grief of ukrainians. republican law maker has travelled to ukraine several times since the start of rushes, military operation, and claim she's familiar with the situation on the ground. sparts is allegations against key of are a rare case. as most us politicians have refrained from criticizing ukrainian officials, the american congresswoman has made a variety of accusations against andre aramark, the ukraine's, the ukrainian president's chief of staff. according to some of her claims he mismanaged negotiations with moscow. i had of russia's military operation and also delayed purchases of virgin's military equipment while avoiding the appointment of an independent anti corruption prosecutor for ukraine. the american law maker has

also asked for accountability for weapons deliveries to key f from our side as americans. we've been in a lot of money and there are 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 a boards an action don't go together. and we need to be able to make sure you know that this money spent efficiently and also that we have ability to be accountable to our checks. very radio host and political commentator, steve gill, says key f was sorry, sorry, right, there's steve gill says that they've been quick to dismiss legitimate questions raised by the us. congressman, i think they'll ignore it. hope it goes away, but i think that is congresswoman spartan speaks up. you're going to see others starting to speak up and ask the question of where is the money doing? why is it inappropriate to ask for accountability and transparency? and you know,

we've seen some stories recently claiming that some high officials and ukraine have been buying swiss chalets, spending huge millions of dollars on their personal properties and switzerland, another location. if we can work to track dollars of russian overdraw arts and russian business people and what assets they have in other countries. why isn't it appropriate to ask what ukrainian officials are doing? what against so much money is flowing in the ukraine? i think it's legitimate ask where it's going. when it flows out, president trump was put under fire for a phone call with president zalinski asking him to investigate the corruption in his own country did. and now of course i even asking the question to seem somehow as provocative or promoting russian propaganda. u. s. secretary of state has praised former japanese prime minister sions obeyed during a surprise visit to tokyo, just days after the ex premier was shot dead during a campaign event. all bay did more than any one to elevate the relationship between

the united states and japan, to new heights with friends, and when one friend is hurting. the other. friends shows up. play can also said he handed japan's incumbent prime minister some letters from the us president for members of our base family who held a private funeral for the country's longest serving premier and tokyo la bay died and hospital last friday, shortly after being shot at close range by a lone gunman during the campaign trail, a 41 year old suspect was arrested at the scene and is now under investigation. following the assassination of all bay biden ordered american flags to be flown at half staff at the white house, former pentagon security analysts. michael maloof says the u. s. moves are somewhat surprising. well, it definitely is a little unusual for the united states to put the flag half staff for foreign foreign, national. but on the other hand, i think what i think it's all a political gesture on the part of biden,

to show the closeness of and reinforce daily the closer between the united states and japan was our bay who actually helped create the quad, which is really aimed at china, so when you have a lot of countries in that region, we're all competing. the reliance on the united states as a backup of the united states were to diminish that influence. then there will be a lot more confusion. and because those countries will all go in their own direction and that might not be of such a bad thing. and i question the u. s. s. position the china is trying to dominate that, that those countries. and in that way, i don't see that. but they are a large country, they are influential. they're like the united states in terms of influence. but and now you know, you have the 2 powers competing with one another. and it could inevitably reach

a crisis level and it has in some areas. so this is something that has to be very, very tempered and very and be very, very careful. the people from bosnia herzegovina and around the world are commemorating the 27th anniversary of the rebranding. tragedy in 1995, which was used by nato as a pretext to bomb serbian positions in the region. the town of for a brenda came under the control of bosnian muslims in 1992, a civil war broke out across bosnia herzegovina, following its hasty recognition by the west. since 993, the town was demilitarized and controlled by a dutch un peacekeeping battalion. however, over 5000 armed men remained in the town. continuing to raise serbian villages, the bosnian serbs launched an attack intended to stop the raids enter entered the town, but finding it abandoned by the militants. during the events, most of the towns civilians had remained behind at a local un base. however,

you and soldiers said they saw no signs of wrong doing there. it wasn't until months later, after a headline hunting american journalist went into the area that he claims to a found mass, rape allegations were later used by nato as an excuse to intervene and the cost of all conflicts and bomb serbia. now to discuss this further, we are joined by serbian political analyst alexander poverty. thanks for joining us on the program. most western politicians and media outlets have been blaming the tragic events on the serbian side. what do you think they've refused to consider? well they need, they need a scapegoat because the west had a key role in the outbreak of the so warren bosky and he had to call in and got you know, they need this whole narrative about the serbian aggression in order to take the blame off themselves and they also need to put the blame on the serbs in order to

be able to better control this entire region from boston. you had to go in and practically the whole. busy or former yugoslavia, so you're not big concocted this narrative of genocide. ah, but you know. busy they have no real prove debt. all they did was they, they made this kangaroo court called the international criminal and trivial tribunal for formerly dislike. they nato and allied countries, they financed this tribunal. and the tribunal had both judges and the prosecution on its payroll. and they got the kind of verdicts that they needed for political purposes out. there is a very, there's a very, very important ah, testimony from the moslems threatening to police chief. and we sent this on camera several times. and he said that he was at a meeting with the former, are now late bosnian muslim mom leader alleys a bagel

h sometime in 1993 and off is a beggar which said in front of at least 10 people that bill clinton told him that they needed a figure of 5000 victims before they can, before nato could intervene. so, you know, they got to it and that they got it. they manufactured an even bigger number than that just to be able to off. as you said in your introduction, you are a to invite nato intervention and that's what they got. you know, so ever since then, you know, each year they berry what they, what they say are victims of genocide. but there's no independent verification of the body or their dna identification. nobody knows where these bodies are really come from and nobody knows the cause of their death. so this is just a narrative. that's part of this whole was neo colonial policy. i'm just keeping