a just a, do you mean with do use just the cleaning for losses. come on both. ah, europe sink deeper into political and economic uncertainty. that's after italy's prime minister stepped down at his coalition government collapse with party reports from the look on the people's republic where the ukrainian army has resumed showing civilians after failing to retake territory from russian led forces. we hear from some of the locals caught in the crossfire with most with flux. moscow warns that it will cut its oil supplies to western

countries if they agree to washington's call, to slap a price cap on russian oil imports. with band is set to elect its 1st tribal leader woman as president with a final vote count underway after this week. selection a just after 4 pm here in moscow and you're watching our international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. now to our top story, italian prime minister maria druggie has resigned. after the countries ruling coalition, government fell apart over a key vote. the political crisis in rome has stokes fears a further instability across europe. to get more on this now we're going to cross live to archie, contributor rachel marston. hi there, rachel. so what sort of ramifications are italians and europeans now bracing for? because of all everything that's happened,

druggie has had one foot out the door and the other well on the banana peel since last week, when he 1st offered to resign over his crumbling coalition with left and right leading populous parties, italian presidents, sergio, my thought ala initially refused druggies resignation, but this time it looks likely to stick. so what exactly brought him down? ultimately the populace left 5 star movement drug is the largest coalition partner, objected to the government's decision to send weapons to ukraine, particularly while economic concerns at home took a back seat. they abstained from the confidence vote along with former prime minister silvio berlusconi, center right populist fours i. italia, party and former deputy prime minister mateo san venus populist right leg party. italians are upset that the government is spent time fiddling well reimbursed, so to speak. and one of them you, i mean then again,

isn't it that i didn't expect this? it's a big surprise for everyone because this change leads to soul stump b. my think italians will now vogue less enthusiastically. there will be few people in the polls and less faith in government institutions. they are all responsible. we are coming to a disaster. i mean, i don't know the consequences for italians. i am wary because it is not the best development for us at the moment. unfortunately, we do not have competent people who govern athletics, but i'm over if, if we would have preferred drago to remain with his government all apart from dragged his name could be it is necessary to have a strong government because it is a critical moment for our economy and europe's economy so we're hearing echoes, they're of the same kind of frustration of citizens in france, britain and germany, for whom life as really a only become more expensive and difficult as a result of government's ukraine. policies particularity their sanctions on inexpensive. russia supplied european energy, which are proving rather costly for the average citizen in their daily life. just

to day, for example, european central bank announced an interest rate increase for the 1st time in 11 years. at a point 5 percentage point increase, there seems to be confidence among populous riot leaning parties in italy though that they have a decent shot at power and scoring an electoral win on the rebound after druggies unforced errors. there's certainly a populace wind that's building and blowing across europe and sweeping inside, longstanding establishment figures. and rather than the knowledge that they've fallen out of step with what the average says and wants of them, that is to focus on domestic problems and prioritize the interests of their own citizens. first and foremost, and correct course, some still think that it's all russian president vladimir prudence, fault that populace worth a more. let's say non interventionist and more cooperative foreign policy approach are gaining momentum. this guy,

mateo sal vini has just contributed to bringing down the drug government in italy, and now hopes that a new election will bring him to power corks are popping in the kremlin. yeah, well it's hard to see how the western establishment approach of blaming putin for western leaders, inability to focus on doing the work required at home to fix pressing domestic problems while digging their countries into an economic pool over ukraine is going to win them hearts and minds among their own people are at archie contributor rachel marston. thanks for giving us. those updates. ukraine's president has criticized the latest you sanctions against russia, saying they're not strong enough. that's after european countries failed to agree on further restrictions on russian oil and gas imports. alicia will linda stag this is not enough and i frankly tell my partners about it. i see russia must feel

a much higher price for the war so that it forces it to seek peace. should we see how erroneous was the policy of some old leaders of european countries who made year apostage to gas supplies from russia, people. and then however, you measures aimed at restricting russian energy imports are bringing more divisions among the blocks. members, as spain rejects brussels proposal to cut gas consumption by 15 percent until next spring, with some official saying they are ready to defend european values, but spanish families will not suffer gas or electricity cuts in their homes. this also comes as the hungarian parliament on tuesday passed a resolution giving national parliaments the ability to veto any wide legislation. and in the latest attempts to get more military aid from the west, ukraine's 1st lady has addressed us lawmakers asking them to provide more weapons to keep troops lydia from ohio to num those up with those num, your help is very strong. i, well, russia kills america,

saves lives. i am asking for weapons, weapons that would not be used to wage a warning, but to protect our home and the right to wake up alive in that home issue. i'm asking for air defense systems that will stop these missiles from killing our people, killing our children right in their strollers. us to put you through the little one . these calls go ahead growing concerns that some of the weapons sent to ukraine are being diverted to the block market earlier, the head of interpol ward that some of the weapons delivered to ukraine will end up in the hands of criminals in europe and elsewhere. the same concern came from the use law enforcement agency, claiming weapons are already being traffic from ukraine to organized crime groups. it also comes as, according to reports. canada has no way of tracking weapons donated to ukraine and doesn't take part of nato discussions aimed to deal with the issue of harm smuggling. but to get more on this, we're going to go live now to senior research fellow at the global policy institute, dr. george at somali, thanks for joining us on the program. so 1st of all, the zalinski now is openly pushing the you to impose more strict sanctions on

russia. now looks like that you is literally spoiled him. what do you think about that? well, it is a clear case of the pocket things that he's a real boy. so this is not the one who's calling the shots. it. no one is calling the shots is the united states. the united states is essentially given the landscape a blank check, telling him you go on fighting, you go on bellowing and yelling, and we'll supply you with weapons that you want. and the europeans who have not resisted the whole. the american, the treat is ready to go over the cliff. i mean, they're destroying their own economies. they're not able to withstand this coming economic crash. so while the united states is just simply bullying the strings in the background and they're ok, i'm in america. i'm not suffering anything like the way the europeans are suffering

. so the lens getting those, he's got the americans and his phone, and he can go on treating europeans with disdain. because the europeans deserve this day. was once the demands from the you to band russian gas and clear division between the block and its members. but if you decide to take this step, do you think every state will accept it? no, i don't think you will take this step. i mean, they already have no idea what they going to do after december, when they've committed themselves to cutting themselves off from russian russian oil. so they have no means at all of coping with no gas from russia. and you saw what happened when rushes to be closed down the notes the one pipeline just for routine maintenance, was absolute panic within your of oh my god, the restroom. going to open up the pipeline that this is for real and, you know,

there lion went off in the ation. the russians are using energy as a weapon. so, screaming, one minute that the russians are holding on because of where, you know, the energy next meant that we're not going to use, you know, russia thinking energy. they don't know what they're doing, but they know that there's no way at all they can cope without the imports of natural gas. what do you make of zelinski, his wife now asking us congress, the u. s. congress for more weapons? is this some sort of political move her usual dog? i mean, i guess the lens get off this dog or his cast or his pony to address congress or. busy fun, congress would be very happy to do so. i mean, he's got a receptive orders, he knows. we'll treat him with reverence. you know, just when he addressed the african union, only about 3 people showed up. now,

murder saw the latin american trade group has refused to allow lindsey to address them. so there are groups that he knows their captive audience. they're always going to listen to his entreaties. they're going to go on, you know, the rest of the world isn't terribly interested. they think it has to say, well, just got one more question for your doctor. it concerns the while the concerns that are growing amid weapons delivered to ukraine that are ending up in the hands of criminals. do you think the west's putting all of its efforts into preventing that from happening? i don't think i have any kind of ability to control what's going on, then you don't really have much of a will to do so. no doubt there are people working in into all of your goal who know about what's going on and they do express that concerns real concerns

because you know, these are the major serious weapons do a lot of damage. they're obviously ending up on the black market. but it's not going to be any serious effort to control it. i mean, government do the usual then. yeah, we're absolutely going to get on top of this, then all going to do it. and it's been known for some time that this is likely to happen. and we will have stories in the new york times in the united sate, of american intelligence officials saying, well, we really don't know what's going on and we don't have control over what goes on. so the reading pretty much just walking to and so it again is the americans are calling the shots, the europeans are going to pay for it because some of these weapon rate, the thing is, which are going to end up in the hands of gangs. they can do a lot of damage. i senior research fellow at the global policy institute, your doctor george some. well, he, thanks for joining us on the program. the us data or department of

treasury rather, has called on western countries to agree on a limit for prices of russian oil imports by the end of the year. but moscow says it will not sell it's crude oil on the global market unless it can turn a profit. if these price is being discussed are lower than the production costs, russia will not insure the supply of this oil to the world market. we will not work at a loss. the controversy comes as joe biden is pushing a green energy agenda in the u. s, which is expected to lead to further cuts and american fossil fuel exports. the already shorted stricken e u. american journalist manila chain explains. speaking outside of a former coal plant, turned wind power project over in somerset massachusetts. u. s. president joe biden call all the climate change a code read for humanity. he promised to take executive action to combat the climate crisis, but has so far stopped short of saying that he would declare this,

a state of emergency climate changes emerge. and the coming weeks i'm going to use the power i have is present to turn these words in a formal official government actions through the appropriate proclamations, executive orders and regulatory power. the president, how, although many of his allies in congress are urging him to do so, because this would unlock dozens of presidential powers available to him to take sweeping at real meaningful action to help get the, the u. s. to net 0 carbon emissions by the year 2030. now those powers would include things like halting the 2015 obama era crude oil exports the u. s. up until 2015 for many decades did not export crude. obama reversed all of that by declaring a national emergency bite and could also put a stop to offshore drilling and force manufacturers to ramp up production on

electric vehicles and other green energy related products. now this is all coming. as congressional talks fell apart, after jo mansion, the democrat senator from west virginia is using to vote a long party lines. the senate is split. 5050 right now in his vote is greatly needed for budget reconciliation and a very untimely explosion that shuddered. a liquid nat gas plant in texas, the free port ellen g plant accounts for a whopping 20 percent of the u. s. l and g processing, and 70 percent of that goes to europe and great britain. now that catastrophe has resulted in about a 1000000 tons of last l. n g for euro. but it's the issue of u. s. crude exports. that is garnering joe biden, a lot of criticism on the international level. that's because america's you allies

are facing stiff energy shortfalls. and was relying on those u. s. exports to help them move away from russian crude or russian natural gas dependency. now, biden has been criticized as not a good friend to europeans, as the threat of a cut off of american crude looms. as biden begins to yield to activists here, state side, and then ukraine cubes. army has reportedly attacked a munitions depot and the southern course on regent currently under the control of russian lead forces. local media outlets have said that there was a huge explosion after the strike. meanwhile, and on boss, the ukrainian army has stepped up, its shelling of civilian infrastructure, striking a residential area in the city of danielle st. several apartments have been completely burned down as a result of the attack we spoke with a witness of the shelling would, should have issues to deal with that. yesterday we went out you 3 of us were sitting here on the street and suddenly they started shelling. we jumped back into

the entrance and looked out. there was a fire burning with thick smoke billowing out. fire fighters came and began to put out the blaze. but it took them a very long time. about 3 weeks ago in apartments in this building completely burned on the 5th and 6th flores. i'm not sure. can you imagine our lives are being ruined because of this? no one knows when this will, and it's really frightening. this is the 2nd war i'm living through here with that and in the neighboring lugens people's republic, the ukrainian army has so far failed an attempt to reclaim territory recently taken by russian lead forces. key of troops have now resorted to a fresh round of showing, hitting some civilian areas, as ortiz, more at gazda, of reports from the scene. across the dom, but russian arma, troops criss cross, the roads leading to and from the front lines, helicopters and attack aircraft weez, endlessly overhead, sometimes with a wave,

for the troops below. ah, with changes to tactics and detectives, the makeup of forces here is ever in flux, units are rotated in and out. rest than rearmament, specialized equipment and armor. and so the cool when and where they're needed. very close, i would say to the front lines. and we've had again found that bmt terminator. what of russia's latest machines on the front lines. we've been asked by the crew not to show where this is not give jail location to, to potential adversaries as the ukrainian side. for these settle something of a 100 for these vehicles in their cruise. for the purposes of propaganda, the terminator specializes in protecting tanks by suppressing anti arma

capabilities and harassing enemy infantry. it has proved its worth why. we find ourselves again in belgrade of cur, after a series of failed counter attacks against it. ukrainian forces have been blindly shelling the town. it has served no purpose, other than angering the local population, who weren't fans of ki, have in the 1st place. but the milan literally a linda, it's pretty really what each school lee about, and i got a meeting that i thought my laundry. she came along with that on his facebook. when like when you have stella in what says lucy custody? this particular flag, the hammer and sickle is older than most of us. it has been with valentina since the 19 seventy's. it has become

a symbol for pro russian ukrainians. not because they support who want to return of communism, but because it is their heritage. and because ukrainian nationalists despise it, that, that, that the flock at this, at the mushroom la movers were underneath. we're actually excited. i'm saying, i'm saying e, i need enough that answers. i don't think you feel really valuable. that he is, i can often, if large, random, if you're on your last bill and i believe that floor in the back in us little italy will read. yes, the damn thing with read while valentina and tanya, our sisters have passed the flag onto russian soldiers here who are a 3rd of their age to carry the flag on woods. valentina has worked as a school teacher for half a said tree, and she is convinced that what keys did to her community will be avenged on years.

it's scott, him up with jones to never visually tackle voice. if school under wiley was musical, she is in panama. yes. like ideally food, you put out that he, he would he, some rattler federally aletha alan mercer to students with india to them really with the youth with nearly caught you to watch. and so my spring, you might get some i diginero calling from my theoretical neurons. and yet that boom around, can you get a new outfit for 18 years? smith, daniel, navigate laughs. adolescent just missed school or you sat him talking and living with valentina, his flag is now a balla of the 80th gods. tank regiment recently decorated and ordered by putin himself for bravery and heroism. they have promised that these flag will fly

wherever loose conflict takes them more. i'd gazda of our tea from the la guns people's republic. a former school teacher is expected to be declared india's new president after streaming, ahead steaming ahead rather in this week's election votes are still being counted across the country. but the final results do later are due later on thursday. let's now cross slide your t contributor r t t qu, who's in new delhi. hi, there are t. can you tell us more about the candidates and what's expected to change for the country under, under a new president. when the ruling party, the b j. b stand today, drop would be more if not just a school teacher who has risen to this position and really soon be elected probably in a couple of 5. the results will be announced, but she is also going to be the 1st driver to hold this position,

the highest office in the country a besides that she has served as the governor all which is a state in india. and she also is huge. it candidate, you know, with a lot of her because she not only is a tribal coming from a poor family, but also says made a woman should that also use a lot of her to hire got to do. the 2nd candidate was contesting. the position for the president of india is the actual to not who was union minister actually in the ruling party, that is the b g, b. but he switch sites and now is the opposite. shouldn't scan to be well, looks like about discipline. this is going to be reading interesting because since the drop will be moved is a tribal leader. she really most likely all. so some of the woods

from the opposition side because some of the opposition parties cannot afford to upset the tribal woods. there are around change tribals in the country that just said, you know, all 100000000 people. and this is the 7 states and union dentistry. off india and therefore misconduct, this is going to be very, very significant and also historic. but above all, the fact that the b g, b, we just seen as a front of a 2 party and many offerings. critics say that it says aggressive guns, a political force has rule and that it actually is going to do for the position is going to end of women, not only in the social sped, but also the political says. in fact,

it has in least the budget for tribal, ready, by compared to the previous government in a couple of hours. we really india. we'll see it's 1st drive the lead of becoming a be present or india. all right, our key contributor r t t cool reporting from new delhi. thanks for those updates. now in other news, the pulitzer prize board has refused to rescind the awards at handed out to leading mainstream media outlets for their reporting on the russia gate scandal. that despite the fact that all of the allegations of donald trump's collusion with russia proved to be false. artes caleb mauppin explains, does independent media exist in the united states? that's a question we keep coming back to the pulitzer prize board has come out in their own defense. speaking up and saying they were right to give a prize to the washington post and the new york times for reporting

a story that wasn't actually true. the long ago debunked russia gate hoax, donald trump demanded they review this award after the allegations against him failed to hold any water. these inquires prompted the pulitzer board to commission 2 independent reviews of the work submitted by those organizations to our national reporting competition. both reviews were conducted by individuals with no connection to the institutions whose work was under examination, nor any connection to each other. the separate reviews converged in their conclusions that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the control of the prizes. no facts were wrong. well, our review came up with some pretty different conclusions. here are some facts that were indeed discredited. let's start with this phone records and intercepted calls show that members of donald j. trump 2016 presidential campaign and other trump associates had repeated contacts with senior russian intelligence officials in the

year before the election according to for current and former american officials. this was debunked by james comi, then f b i, director and his testimony before congress. he concluded that this wasn't true. now he's no fan of donald trump and the f. b i. agent who opened the probe also agreed . we are unaware of any trumps advisors engaging in conversations with russian intelligence. officials at washington post reported that general michael flynn was acting as national security advisor met with the russian ambassador and promised the russian ambassador that when trump came into office, the obama heiress sanctions would be lifted while the transcripts of michael flames . conversations with the ambassador over the phone came out, and there was only one mention of sanctions. one of the problems him on the measures that have been announced today is that now f s b in grew a sanctions a sanction. and i asked myself, does it mean that the united states isn't willing to work on terrorist threats?

yeah, yeah. now this is just the tip of the iceberg. these prize winning stories had facts, way off. why is the pulitzer board standing by them 3 years ago? the molar probe came up with a big fat. nothing burger. in addition to that, it's now been proven that hillary clinton approve the spreading of fake news about russia. gate for political reasons. pulitzer board had an opportunity to save its credibility by withdrawing and award for those who reported these stories that were not actually accurate. however, they failed to do so. it looks like mainstream liberal media just wants to tell the democratic party line 2 of the 3 most influential papers, at least historically the new york times. and the washington post are virtually democratic party, broad sheets, and the new section of the wall street journal liens in the same direction. nearly all television network and cable is a democratic party trumpet. the pulitzer board will not even release a public version of its review. and show how exactly they came up with the

conclusion. that story is full of factual errors. we're still award winning journalism. this comes as trust from mainstream media among the u. s. public is sinking new polls indicate that only 16 percent of the u. s. public trust the newspapers and only 11 percent trust the tv news with awards being given out for fake news stories like this. that's hardly surprising. caleb martin, r t new york attorney and conservative activist ad martin says the pulitzer prize has lost its credibility because it panders to the democratic parties agenda polish your board. they say they undertook an investigation, but no one believes it. i mean, look they've, they, they gave those awards back at a time where the publisher was trying to reinforce the message that the new york times and the washington post and the, and the left democrats wanted to do. we know it was all a lie. so i,

the polar church either have to admit that it was a lie and they have to say, oh, we made a mistake, we were lie to or they have to continue the lie. and so they decided to continue the lie. so the polish your board has made it so the poll your prize has 0 credibility new york times in the washing post. they're just the voice of the left and the democrats. and they are not telling the truth. ringback a lot of the time when the media lies and is caught over and over again, the public isn't going to trust them. it's one of the reasons why. the great moment we're in is we have the ability to look for other voices. we can look through social media, we can look through other outlets to find voices. we trust because we can't trust the media. they lied to us to frequently. that's the news for this. our stick around for more and just about 30 minutes. ah

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