a with a little grey lisa, a foreign minister says that budapest wants to buy additional russian gas and can't get through the coming winter without it. is that you still goes with the repercussions of this country, russian sanctions. and you build that will decide for to rico's future with the u. s. is making its way to congress. the country is said to choose between becoming a us state independence or free association states. africa, criticizes europe. you turn cold to increase energy supply in an attempt to replace russian commodities up to years of that bike over new fossil fuel development projects across the continent. parts of

a stall to pre agenda. it's not only ukrainian or me that they're fighting against as positions very close to year full of foreign mercenaries as well on r t. crew joints. russian lead forces on the done yes, phone line where the army is now targets in ukraine's military positions, which give uses to relentlessly shells the neighboring city. often. yes. with thank you for joining us early this friday morning. my name is peter scott bringing you all the latest news here on our team for my headquarters here in the russian capsule. welcome to the program. awesome european officials continue to blame russia for their domestic issues. hungary to foreign minister has come to moscow to secure a new deal to buy russian. gus saying it's impossible to find alternative sources of the fuel for the coming winter. little so side boil side of muzzle,

whether we like it or not. and whether we want it or not, now it is impossible to purchase an additional 700000000 cubic meters of gas without russian energy sources. we can dream, we can blow balloons, but reality remains reality. with the recent hearing, the russian capital came the same day. europe approving you, package of economic sanctions against russia this time and if your resources were not affected, but previous restrictions already led to real energy prices in europe. that is dramatically dependent on russia's energy supplies, hungary, top diplomat said the europe can dream, but it will not be able to survive winter without russia, and it will not be able to buy additional unnecessary, 700000000 cubic meters of gas without moscow. he said that only 13 percent of what's needed is now pumped in storage is in europe, the number is almost twice as bigger for hungary,

but still it is far from enough to guarantee energy security, which is alarming. given that the winter is coming in a so lover of said the brussels empty russia, rather it is to blame for europeans suffering or sac delineation. what are we to the further development of our corporation is of course prevented by the outright was public policy pursued by washington and brussels. this means and unrestrained buildup of sanctions, without a sound analysis of their consequences for the very countries imposing that, what's listed there is a struggle within european bureaucracy which wants to subjugate everything and everyone, including national governments and wants to dictate conditions and stifle any descent. ukraine was another topic on the agenda, the hungarian foreign minister said that war is bad and that budapest wishes in one piece for its neighbour ukraine as soon as possible. and he called on everybody to do everything that is possible to promote peace. since the fire to make this

bloodshed and as soon as possible, miss oliver reminded that the crisis didn't start this february. and he talked about, he, pa, chrissy from european side that turned a blind eye to bloody who the target happened and peered back in 2014, but is in hysteria right now. there is hysteria over the fact that in ukraine, so all conceivable norms of international and humanitarian law are being violated upon the people are dying and it's true that people are dying. it's what we need to phase the truth and not brush aside the facts. so tell us that people are dying from indiscriminate showing by the armed forces and nationalists, italians of ukraine, of peaceful areas of dumbasses and other areas on the minister lover of also said that moscow hopes that russia's western partners, we understand soon, that it is very dangerous. and very counterproductive to fill ukraine up with more

than the weapons and this should be stop, so that the blood should ends in ukraine. meanwhile, a turbine, which is crucial for the transportation of russian gas to europe by the north stream pipeline, has not yet found its way back. thus, after canada agreed to send the newly repaired part back through germany, but the turbine is reportedly stuck there due to problems with documents. now is still on clear when the turbine will finally be returned on when the pipeline will be restored to full capacity. russia has restarted gas supplies to germany after completing an annual 10 day maintenance of the north stream pipeline, which was agreed in advance, but that still spark fears of more shortages in europe. the pipeline is vital for the year, especially for germany's economy. accounting for the lion's share of the country's energy imports will in aims to fill up it's gas storage units, but still has some way to go to reaches target. meanwhile, greece has become the 3rd e u country after spain and portugal, to turn down

a suggestion by the european commission to cut gas consumption by 15 percent. that you is still trying to reduce gas on electricity usage, amid massive price hikes and rising inflation. economist and political commentator i key hammer says that western leaders of aggravated the situation by spreading misleading news about the bushes energy policy. the problem is lying in the politicians and that personal ties to international networks and bay for bit them to put not into into, into operation the german population, the, the honorary man on the street, the middle then delhi need the not me to pipeline and they wouldn't have any problems about running this, but the have personal ties and this is why they are risking the future of the germany economy. the future of the john middle that and the future of our wealth,

just because we don't know to, to blame russia using gas as well as a weapon is making use. like most of these things that may i mention nowadays, and it's no secret that before anything should start the biden. and the obama already promised that they don't want germany and russia to work together. and this is one of the main strategies. so what they are blaming that russia is taking gas and oil as a weapon. it's just a hoax. they are taking or, and gas as a weapon. as they always did. ukraine's president voluminous de lensky has criticized the latest use 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. a little war then to stop. 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. we see how erroneous was the policy of some old leaders of european countries who made year apostage to gas supplies from russia. meanwhile, in his latest attempts to get more military aid from the west, ukraine's 1st lady, his address, the u. s. congress asking capitol hill to provide more equipments. vicki of troops with m a higher than m. lucia botulinum. your help is very strong. i while russia kills america saves lives. i am asking for weapons weapons that would not be used to wage a war, but to protect our home and the right to wake up alive in that home. as sure i'm asking for air defense systems that will stop these missiles from killing our people, killing our children right in their strollers with this comes amid growing concerns that weapon sends ukraine are ending up on the black market. earlier the head of interpol warned the criminals in europe and elsewhere are getting their hands on

some of the arms they use. law enforcement agency is echoed those 5th and says that weapons are already being traffic from ukraine to organized crime groups. meanwhile, kind of has reportedly admitted it has no way to track the weapons. it's sending to ukraine global policy research at george some. well, he says it's washington that wants to keep fighting, no matter the cost. it is a clear case of the things, but he's a real boy, is not the one who's calling the shots. the wonderful in the shop in 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. i will supply you with all the weapons that you want. and the europeans who have not resisted that all the american entreat is ready to go over the cliff. i mean, they are destroying their own economies. they're not able to withstand this coming economy crash. why the united space is just pulling the strings in the background

and they're ok. i'm in america suffering. anything like the way the europeans is suffering, the lens get off this dog or his cas always pro, need to address congress or from congress would be very happy to do so. it's always been obvious that the only reason that the us is sending weapon rate in the ukraine is to inflict as much pain as possible on crushes, giving them these weapons they know they're going to be used against. is like they say, oh, we told you granular not to use them against the russians or against russians on russian territory. one of course, these weapons are going to be use against in russian therapy every what he knows is, is, it's ridiculous. pretend that this isn't going to happen. oh, moving on now, a new bill paving the way for puerto ricans to vote for the u. s. a. in 2023 for

independence from the u. s. sorry, is making his way through congress, as despite voting against the bill. law maker hessel's garcia says it's an initial steps was the self determination of puerto rico. while today marks an important 1st step in the d colonization process of puerto rico. i could not in good faith support the passage of puerto rico status act in its current form. the colonization of puerto rico is a shameful part of our country's history. from the moment the u. s. took control of the island to a century of limited citizenship. the imposition of pro mesa and our failures in disaster response. puerto rico's relationship with the u. s. is rooted in a history of racism, exploitation, and oppression. the time is now for the process of d. colonization and self determination on the island dependence on the u. s. does not end with the colonization, the puerto rico status outcomes amid must protest taking place in the country. public anger was forged by soaring energy prices with hundreds of people taking to

the streets of san juan. to demand the constellation of the government contracts with us, power grid operates at luma. demonstrates his claim that despite frequent power outages, leuva has steadily increased prices and raised prices 7 times since 2021. the more representatives had this response for the processes. although we respect the right to protest, the reality is that some people prefer to play politics and ignore the fact that loom or inherited an electrical system that suffered years, in fact, decades of abandonment. that's cross live now. it's a novelist spokesmen for the puts recon action movement won. lopez bows a welcome to archie, international one. now the puerto rico state the sites would lead for 3 can choose between 3 options and those are state codes, independence or free association. why do you support a free association? will as you know, put it weakly seen it make trouble and in

a deep but basically a bankruptcy that has led to a met, massive debt of deb. and where do i go is in urgent need of being able to be colonized and become a suburb nation. given the fact that the recall has been colonized for so long. and then we can, people are so in, in many ways place in the middle of a struggle between cultures, between our own culture and the american culture, given the fed up, or we can, or, or, or us citizens. and that they belong to me. you know, me know me ambiance in the united states. we can recall in the united states post or. ready same fear, and because the station purport to go it's in the virgin matter and been able

to a sovereign nation and been able to construct if functioning economy put up the book on. it's a major necessity for puerto rico and the construction of the main productive economy can lead, of course, to the creation of the over over government in the states that can actually look and actually provide it with a better quality, a better life general than the one that we have now, but we can for pretty much in a public safe and pre authorization is it only. ready 3 option status options that are offered, which actually can, can provide for the, for your patience. or let me say, what was the other, what the status options are asking for, for what's in,

what's more important to them. the presentation option can provide the colonization sobering people and also take care of those main concerns that the other people, the other of the people that we can support other the status of mainly how to what's, what's, what happens to us and it becomes transferred to future generations, so it's still free association of science into a new seems like the best compromise between full states, hood and full independence, if i'm not mistaken. how much support do you think that the free association has among puerto rican people? well this is the, the problem with the association is that it's the only one of the 3 options that hasn't been actually defined. everybody knows what they do this all about.

everybody knows for independence, it's all about me. but francis issue is the only option that requires a certain degree of negotiation in order to, to at least be able to come up with a definition for the people to know whether, whether you bought him for an uncertain it we in the us. and we can get together not to pull additions and talking about experts in the different matters and get to where we can, experts and american experts and government experts can get together and come up with some kind of negotiation that can get that can lead to a definition of presentation, the people that will be a complete turn around and put in the political, the political scene will completely turn around and i'm pretty much certain that we association will become this option of most put away. and if i'm not mistaken,

there is some sort of educational program for puerto ricans to explain exactly what options is that they are voting for. someone calling the vote, one of the most serious attempts to de, colonize the island. would you agree with that? and if de colonization is so pressing, as you mentioned before, why not go for straight independence from the us? well, the thing you said, i think, yeah, that is one of the, one of the main attempts to recon legalize. what are we, what are we go? and i think also that this attend, has been put out and made it clear 3 things. first, the statehood is not available. and that actually one state who is on the table, the u. s. government immediately turns around. and those are ones who want to continue because declination pro process, and that's going to become evident more and more. and in this past,

in the committee hearings that they had just a few days ago in the natural resources hearing on the, on the project, it became evident that the republican party is not available. the 2nd thing that became evident is that the actual state, the colonial state, the commonwealth for this call is still available either even though they made an attempt now in the senate to present some project that makes it available in puerto rico. that's as see option. they say it's like putting, putting the colon e as an option for the colon station. you can imagine helps. and the 3rd, the 3rd option that officially is the one that must be define in order for people to understand what it. ready about because they get, they get confused. of course, in the panels, it is the full option that we talk about, that we should go ahead and, and try to look for it. but the thing is to put it in societies. so calling you to

understand the we have been calling me for 526 years and it's been, i would never be in a free country in any way. we don't really know what is what would be in a free country means and do you know, willing to make this, this job into independence? of course you have to know that we can history independence has been demonized and pro independence people here in puerto rico. i have been put in prison, have been follow up being changed, had been made in a stickler reports about them. and they've been changed school around all 12 years . and independence has been monterey and puerto rico, so people are afraid they don't really understand for free association, they said middle ground in which we were full sovereignty nation. and then we're

able to start building the economy that we have to be looking at. clearly, you have to understand that we can in this actual stage, we cannot produce anything. we could also produce any pretty much a country that is facing the capes, weakly speaking, and being able to gain the us to protect or a more strategic economic sectors. and been able to start building up the corner. me is the main objective of the becoming sober and apologies for interrupting you. you've made your position extremely clear, but not for us or we have time for now. for 3 can novelists, votes person for the ports, or we can actually move in on lopez bows. i'm sure we'll have you on again, as and when the ports we can people decide the future of their country. thank you very much for joining us today. thank you. thank you very much. you states have

started to sign. you can make agreements with foreign countries launched on the african continent that says the union scrambles to get new gas and oil supplies to replace russian deliveries ahead of heating season. now the deals include 15 agreements between the italian, an algerian governments, aimed at boosting gas and oil deliveries. at the same time, the french president has also agreed on stronger corporation in the energy sector with united arab emirates. the commission president did with us by john. this spring, germany tried to establish ties with senegal, while that you tried to find alternative gust supplies in nigeria. last month, the international energy agency, even called on african states to seize the moment on profit from the global energy crisis. over these policies appear to contradict the use of previous strategy for many years. the union has been thwarting any african initiatives on developing the fossil fuel sites on pipeline construction by refusing to fund them claim it was

vital to reduce global carbon emissions. this approach always on good african states which saw no alternatives for their developments or countries cannot achieve an energy transition in abandon the polluting patterns of the industrialized countries without a viable fair and equitable alternative. stopping funding for the gas sector would be a major obstacle. while nevertheless, fossil fuel production rates are currently increasing. for instance, south africa has already exported more coal in 2022 than in the previous year. african states have welcome to the new deals yet their own problems like regular power shortages and climate change remain. despite any changes, the former statistician general of south africa, dots of poly la hola, describes each decision as an active policy, claiming that the long term impacts on africa will be harmful for you know, to go to quote, encouraged, i forgot. what part of the sofa is the focus is it will step critique,

but when they actually suffer the slightest inconvenience of cold and fresh to the economy. oh, and the people, when you call them, then the ship to go. why should the piercing question, the, the more mileage or the more likely moral basis to proceed africa rebuttal didn't co wish in the 1st place. i forget very much about we've oh boy, you java is also and out with the question that one has to ask any resource that is abundant or well with the price of love you brought to our much ease. it's the case that belong game for europe to buy both resources for, for scrap, and then pro, process them, and then sell them back to us. we got it. the premium is future. why don't we use the image? why don't we use the brains law to see,

to eat that we can go between oil so that if you got cut from there is actually it not that you don't, i suggest solution to apartments. and then sadie, leave them there and say that we've, we've got to code cause our labels are threatened levels enough ago or has been threatened from colonialism forms lieberman low and back to ukraine. now where despite the ongoing battles between give and russian lead forces, some cities, excuse me, are restoring destroyed infrastructure with the phone line now moving away from the area. the minutes awful. billions highway in ukraine's upper ocean region is being repaired. road construction services are removing the damaged asphalt on their planning to repair 105 kilometers of highway. and it's awful and better just fell

under control of russian. that forces soon after the conflict began. meanwhile, in the dumbass done yet still faces relentless shelling from the ukrainian military which targets the capital city of the dense republic from the neighboring city of gave car, which is one of the most heavily fortified areas in the dumbass ortiz room. of course, if joined russian, that forces on the ground today we're working near the town alpha of div cow, which is still under control of ukrainian military. now we're here along with nascar international brigade who have been at the forefront of defense against ukrainian or me here in dynamic. now i spoke to a few soldiers and here hand they told me that it's not only ukrainian army that they're fighting against as positions very close to here are full of foreign mercenaries as well written. you could, you are the fog still. it's no secret. it's a fact that a lot of mercenaries are fighting for ukraine, both nato and the european union help them. it doesn't matter whether they do this

openly or not in, but yes, there is the georgia legion which is located opposite us. and there are also polls and americans. we came across them and everything has been filmed on video cameras . everything is recorded. they have very different uniforms. of course, they fight differently because they are instructors themselves in that we have been preparing for this for a very long time. and ukraine has been preparing for 8 years, and the nato instructors help him train them to supply them with weapons and teach them to use these weapons. ah, ah, ah.

ah, international brigade, but not consist mostly of volunteers from what i understand. it's really hard to get into this particular unit. now they have been at the forefront in this conflict against ukraine over the last 8 years. and of course, they have shown their strength over the last 5 months, as well as they have been at the front here in a day of god and deterring the ukranian army from entering this city. and they have been shilling ukrainian positions from where they at sac peaceful civilians. here in the next, i've heard the group go horny. this is the agony of hopelessness. like when an animal is cornered, it sometimes bites itself on the tail. why else are they shelling civilians? they probably hope the civilians will rebel and say stop this go and surrender. for

8 years the people endured this lawlessness and now all their agony is heavily concentrated. that's why they do this. ukrainian army have been div guy and pesky near, didn't ask for the last 8 years. so there are positions there have been really heavily fortified by the situation has changed drastically over the last 5 months. and the fighters off did not care. international brigade are waiting for their chance to liberate those cities. vermont costs are f r t done as people's republic. and finally, 3 syrian soldiers have been killed and 7 wounded in an israeli, as strike on the syrian capital on thursday. according to local state media. ah, this i'm, it's a footage shows. syrian air defense systems at work for strikes were carried out targets, insights belonging to the syrian military and pro iranian militias near damascus.

the explosions were heard over both the syrian capital and northern israel. according to local reports, the state run broadcast a s a and a citing a military source said most of the missiles were intercepted, blasio bang up to date with all the latest from around the world. do you feel free to head over to r t dot com for more stories and analysis? i'm, he's a scott, i'll be back again at the top of the hour. has the so called american century come to an end? if so, how did it come about? was it poor leadership or the mission can lead the world itself was always destined to fail and what follows the end of the american center?

aah ukraine. a big and rich country that's always been hand in hand with russia. until recently. 2014. a qu divides ukraine and leads to fratricidal war and on a war that continues to this on the edge of a large field near lo, ganske, the mass grave. local say that the people buried here are mostly civilians who are allegedly killed by ukrainian paramilitary groups in the summer of 2014 who does this but what i mean.