oh, an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will to part, we choose to look for common ground. ah agrees. foreign minister says budapest wants to buy more russian gas and won't get through the winter without it, as, as they used to goes with the repercussions of it. unfeeling. russian sanctions, africa, criticizes europe. so you turn calls to increased energy supplies in an attempt to replace russian commodities of the years of setbacks over fossil fuel development projects across the continent. as part of a stall to clean agenda. a new bill that would decides before to read because the future with us is making its way through congress. the country is said to choose between becoming a us state independence or for you association status. also coming up.

it's not only ukrainian or me that they're fighting against as positions very close to year full of foreign mercenaries as well as the crew joins russian lead forces on the done yes. on the line where the army is now targeting ukrainian military positions kia users to show the neighboring city of them. yes. ah. i mean, you live from our headquarters right in moscow. you're watching all see, my name is peter scott and here the top stories this hour while some european officials continue to blame russia for their domestic issues, hunger is foreign minister has come to moscow to secure a new deal to buy russian. gus and he says it's impossible to find alternative sources of fuel for the coming winter. little so side moral side of muscle,

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 rushing energy sources . we can dream, we can blow balloons, but reality remains. reality. there is in here in 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 is comp diplomat said that 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 that brussels anti russia rhetoric is to blame for european sufferings, delineation was re to the further development of our corporation. ease of course, prevented by the outright was a fabric policy pursued by washington and brussels. what this means and unrestrained builder of sanctions without a sound analysis of the consequences for the very countries imposing that was listed. there is a struggle within european bureaucracy which wants to subjugate everything to 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 and one's peace for its neighbour ukraine as soon as possible. and he called on everybody to do everything that is possible to promote peace talks ceasefire to make this bloodshed and as soon as possible,

mister law reminded that the crisis didn't start this february. and he talked about the pa, chrissy from european side that turned a blind eye to bloody who to tar. that happened in 2 years 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 been violated and that people are dying. and it's true that people are dying. what we need to phase the truth and not brush aside the facts. it will 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 love. rock also said that moscow hopes that russia's western partners, we want to spend soon, that it is very dangerous and very counterproductive to feel you clean up with more

than the reference. and this should be stop, so that the blood should end in ukraine. meanwhile, a turbine crucial for the transportation of russian gas to europe by the north stream pipeline has not yet found its way back. la comes up to canada, agreed to send the newly repaired parts back through germany. the turbine is reportedly stuck there due to problems with documents. now it's still unclear when the turbine will finally be returned on when the pipeline will be restored to full capacity, which as we started just applies to germany, after completing an annual 10 day maintenance of the node stream pipeline, which was agreed in advance but did still spark phase of more shortages over 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. berlin aims to philip 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 because the gas consumption by 15 percent, they use try and reduce gas and electricity usage, amid massive price hikes and rising inflation. well, economists and political commentator ikea amos as the western leaders have aggravated the situation by spreading misleading news about russia's energy policy . the problem is lying in the politicians and that personal ties to international networks and bay for bit them to put not going to into into operation the german population, the, the honorary man on the street, the middle then delhi, need the not me to buy plan 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 meadows 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 fake use. like most of these things that may i mention nowadays, and it is no secret that before anything she started the biden and 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 blame me that russia is taking gas an oral as a weapon. it's just a hoax. they are taking or, and gas as a weapon, as they always did you state. so start to design, you can make agreements with foreign countries, largely on the african continent. that's is the union scramble to get new gas and oil supplies to replace russian deliveries ahead of heating season. now the deals include a 15 agreements between the italian and algerian governments. aimed at boosting gas

and oil deliveries. the same time, the french president is also agreed on stronger corporation in the energy sector with united arab emirates as the commission president did with other by john the spring germany tried to sub his ties with senegal, while you tried to find alternative gas supplies in virginia, however, these policies do appear to contra dates use previous strategy. for many years, the block has been forcing any african initiatives on developing the fossil fuel sites on pipeline construction by refusing to fund them and claiming that it was vital to reduce the global carbon emissions. this approach has always on good african states, which so no old of the alternatives for that development 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. nevertheless, fossil fuel production rates are currently on the philip, for instance, south africa has already exported more coal in 2022 than in the previous year. and

african states have welcome the new deals yet their own problems like regular power shortages on climate change do still remain. the foremost statistician general of south africa, dots of poly la hola, describes the decision as an active hypocrisy, claiming that the long term impacts on africa will be harmful for you know, to go back to coach, giving encouraged africa to a pallet and called us, but you are so welcome is the focus, is it taylor will step critique, but when the actually suffer, the slight inconvenience of cold and fresh to the economy. oh and the people when you call them, then the she's to go quite the pitifully question the, the more mileage or the more likely more a basis to proceed. africa. robyn? coal. which in the 1st place up against very much about we've oh each other. it's also endowed with the question that one has to ask any resource that is

abundant or well with the price of that you're broke too much and 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 africa. it the premium is use. why don't we use the in is why don't we use the grains, la casita, that we can go between oil. so that the energy that come from there is a credit be admitted. you don't say, suggest solution, cruel puddles. and then saudi, leave them there and see the to leader. we move to quote, cause o levels are threatened levels enough ago was being threatened from colonialism forms leaving from ho in the news. a new bill paving the way for puerto

ricans to vote for independence from the u. s. in 2023 is currently making his way through congress. that is why voting against the bill lawmaker kesslin garcia says it's an initial step towards the self determination of puerto rico. while today, mark's an important 1st step in the d. cohen is ation 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 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 i've comes amid must protest taking place across the country . public anger was spot by soaring energy prices,

with hundreds of people take into the streets of san juan to demand the constellation of the government contracts with us. power grid operates at luma, demonstrates its claim that despite frequent power outages luma has raised prices 7 times since 2021. and lever represents is how this responds to those processes. although we respect the right to protest, the reality is that some people prefer to play politics and ignore the fact that luma inherited an electrical system that suffered years. in fact, decades of abandonment, the spokesmen for the puerto rican action movement one, lopez bows says the porter because the colonization is a matter of urgency and could make people's quality of life better. but the thing is that the per week and societies so colon nice to understand the we have been calling the for 526 years. and it's been will never be a free country in any way. we can still really know what, what would be and if we hope to know that we can history in the endless has been

demonize and brain grow. independence people will have been put in prison because the facial properties or it's in the urgent matter. recall in the united states of both ports are the same as the exterior and the construction of the productive roaming can lead of course, to the creation of the, of a government in the states that can actually look and actually provide weekends with a better. well, it is a better life in general than the one that we have now. washington's warning iran against helping russia amid the continuing ukrainian conflicts. that's why the us itself continues to for the war zone with huge amounts of weapons ortiz, caleb, and reports the u. s. secretary of defense has decided to chime man about who he thinks russia should be cooperating with around the world may issue iranian support

to, to russia. we were adviser on to not to not do that. we think it was a really, really bad idea. and then i'll leave that that well, iran and russia are getting closer together with more cooperation in the works. the iranian government is preparing to provide russia with up to several 100. you avi's that iran is preparing to train russian forces to use the jew avi's with initial training session, slated to begin as soon as early july, the us having the haitian that since training sessions has started for the iranians actually given those from to russia. we don't have any indications that the, that the sale has actually occurred. and so therefore, we wouldn't have any indications that there's been the training done on them. russia and iran have no problems or restrictions regarding military technical co operation. iran is based decades of sanctions from united states. after toppling

a u. s. backed dictator, it's 1979 revolution establishing the islamic republic. also, we've seen russia be faced with economic warfare from united states in recent years with washington openly trying to strangle its economy. now it's not really working out though, with the rubles still standing strong, but in such a context, why wouldn't iran and russia be cooperating more? so what if moscow and iran do expand their relationship? how will the united states respond more sanctions? it's also pretty rich for u. s. officials to be complaining about military cooperation. let's review the latest round of military hardware that the pentagon has dumped into ukraine. it is possible the u. s. could sell or provide ukraine with some us fighter platforms. and you think that's, that's possible going forward that there's us, there's a grip. him had a sweden, there's the euro fighter, there's a raphael surgeon,

there's a number of different platforms that good could go to ukraine. united states was also committed to spending more high mars munitions, precision guided artillery, ammunition, and tactical vehicles and other urgently needed support. in terms of our ability to track the weapons that are going in. and as you know, we don't have any forces on the ground. so that's a difficult for us to do. a number of us made weapons of already turned up on the black market. pentagon officials admit they have quite a hard time tracking where these weapons they send to ukraine, ultimately end up that has not stopped us. lawmakers from authorizing more weapons shipments as peace talks are stalling with washington, seemingly trying to stretch this conflict out until the last ukrainian, caleb martin, r. t, new york, and over to ukraine. our russian forces are targeting the ammunition defoe's on the $45.00 strongholds of ukrainian army.

ah, the russian defense minister has shed this footage of the tall swan multiple rocket launcher inaction. the weapons have been used on the phone lines to target 45 positions of the ukranian army. and officials say the weapon system has proven effective against well defended positions. meanwhile in don, bask, done yet still faces shelling from the ukrainian military, which is targeting the capital city of the den. yes, for public from the neighboring town of dave co, one of caves, most falsified strongholds in the dawn bus ortiz, roman culture, have joined russian. that forces on the ground today we're working near the town alpha of div cal, 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,

and 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. with the new security of 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. 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, awe

with international brigade bit nashika 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 the day of god and deterring the ukrainian army from entering this city. and they have been shilling ukrainian

positions from where they at sac peaceful civilians. here in done ask her to go, go horny. this is the agony of hopelessness. like when an animal is cornered, it's sometimes bytes 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. ukranian 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 that national international brigade are waiting for their chance to liberate those cities. romani costs are f r t done as people's republic. while ukraine's president is calling on the you for strongest sanctions against

russia. and you wave of must dismissals. the officials, as well as commonplace corruption inside the country have caused some concern in the west. ortiz fiorella, isabel explains. after backing presidents lensky with endless accolades for the last 5 months, western politicians and media are suddenly speaking out about ukraine's internal corruption, nepotism and instability that seem to have long played yet. this comes after the ukranian president's firing of several officials, including his once close friends. prosecutor general irina vented dick de la and the head of security service even began off. it's a delicate situation for u. s. officials as they've continuously defended and given ukraine billions of dollars. but zalinski is laid, his actions are being viewed by some as authoritarian. while the americans want to avoid backlash, that could make it more difficult for them to pass more aid for kids to situation also seems to discredit the popular western fantasy that ukraine is this democratic free country highlighting corruption and internal division as

a very real and present issue ukrainian, president of latimer zalinski dismissal of senior officials is casting an inconvenient light on an issue that the biden administration has largely ignored since the outbreak of war with russia. ukraine's history of rampant corruption and shaky governance. a western official close to zalinski z administration expressed concern to political that the move appeared to go in the opposite direction of the use request for keith to crack down on corruption and increase the independence of its law enforcement agencies. if it wants to become a member of the block, it looks like the lensky is firing people without any real evidence which screamed of a power trip. let's not forget that he basically shut down every single oppositional political party and ukraine. signing a decree, outlawing group seemed to be pro russian. he also merged all the media into one huge propaganda channel. it all sounds like the very authoritarianism,

the west accuses rush of so much so that even the media has noticed depressing, so close friends and uses the landscape. the top of the givers even would indicate definitely quite a corrupt nature to the governments of the concrete. and it shouldn't come as any great surprise that people who are not necessarily competent for the roles that they are then find themselves in these offices. what matters is loyalty, it can be understood in private when with the. ready media and politicians in the west discuss ukraine that this is deeply embarrassing, and that may be discussed, in fact, will be discussed in private, but the glorification of ukraine as an instrument of the last has to continue. the current situation also raises the question of how the landscape close friends got those high ranking jobs to begin with. many sol, but count off with no. law enforcement experience was unqualified for the job and

to close to the lensky to be given. such a powerful position, but ukraine's president stopped his cabinet and heads of top agencies with those close to him. imagine president biden appointed a friend from delaware as head of the cia who had no experience in intelligence. it's not very surprising that these people haven't performed well, but this shouldn't be surprising. last year ukraine ranked 122nd out of 180 in the corruption index. and before russia's military operation began, the media was happy to report on this. in fact, ukraine's corruption problem was one of the reasons the country was not allowed into nato. earlier, of course, on the 24th of february, ukraine suddenly became a beacon of democracy. inexperienced officials put it in by their powerful friend in an already corrupt system. doesn't exactly make a winning combination needed to fix it. there seems to be a consolidation of power around. so lensky. what i think also this points to is i'm

growing weakness of the regime was time as a team of great possibility for any country that the normal rules are an effect suspended. this is a gift to any government or any regime that feels that it needs to achieve certain outcomes in piece time. it's more difficult to do that because a qualitative and behavior is exposed. you know, the, the usual run of journalism will hold it to task and question. but in a war situation, we get to see the media raleigh behind the administration, the external and internal friends of the, the ukrainian regime rally behind the landscape. and of course, he can do no wrong. so when he does do something wrong, that can't be emphasized in any great way. it's almost as if all the idealistic pictures of ukraine that the media has been peddling all these months. we're ally,

ukraine isn't chaos. and the lens keys, actions pose him as a leader who is doing the opposite of cracking down on corruption. meanwhile, some may remain shocked. what cannot be denied much longer are ukraine's turbulent problems. the indian prime minister now render modi arrived a drew party member temporary residence in new delhi to congratulate her on the presidential election victory. celebrations broke out across the country as she was declared, the 15th president of india. after the vote count on thursday and india's ruling b, j. p. party members celebrated their candidates victory. people gathered to dance and sing in the streets. throughout the day a murmur held comfortable lead over the opposition candidate. on my honorable prime minister has given a message to our country for poor and tribal women move forward in the country and give him the opportunity to work among the people in the country ever since he

became the prime minister. he has increased the respect of women the central african republic has become the 1st country in the region to adopt crypto as an official currency. as an a bid to gain financial independence. impenetrable bureaucracy keeps us stuck in systems that don't give us the ability to perform. the solution was to rethink our economic philosophy because is unveiled is national digital currency called the sango coin. and it's allows investors to chip into the nation's economy via the crypto block chain. the project even offers a foreign invest, is a chance to buy citizenship in the country. and that's for $60000.00 worth of crypto. plus the currency also opens up one sales with 250 square meters, selling for $10000.00. charles mongo legal advisor to the democratic progressive party in malawi, when he told us about the prospects of this initiative for the african continent. it's good for. busy american economy,

a public how they might be challenges and including my internal lamps like he a lot. all right, so those might be the checks i was going to move on the for minute. i'm going to countries including my we are a dependent on the dollar might be challenges in terms of african countries. my c c a u. s. jim, in the countries. so those are the least i believe. i mean, but it's by the upside of this initiative. the central african republic has a lot of work ahead to make operations encrypt so currency, easily accessible. the country's digital infrastructure has many issues. the

overall number of incent uses in the central african republic is around 255000 people. and that means that 92 percent of the 4 and a half 1000000 population remain offline. and only one 3rd of the country's population uses mobile phones. winston sucky broadcast journalists told us about the possible challenges the country could face developing. it's not national crypto currency. full central republic to take this initiative. first of all, we'll have to look at what are the help in place, the right resources infrastructure. now facilitating the process of ensuring a treating treat in encrypt currency is easily accessible around us and now they don't have much of a stable internet in most part of the country. and you have access to smartphone and you know, crypto currency to be mostly it happens in a lot of smart phones and not many people who are currently being dedicated on how

the crypto market breaks. so i think it's a book there, but i think they need more policy direction and also regulation regards to what's and kills what company bought, wait crypto currency in the country. and finally, that have money to save an endangered polar bear with a jar stock in his mouth. the money found out about the animal's plight, thanks to a number of videos posted online, was soon after the 4 digit was posted, vets came to the animals rescue. the medics treated the best injuries and let it rest, following the procedures. and the bad will soon be sent back to its natural habitats . well, that's the route for now. my name is peter scott and i'll be back again at the top of the i will the latest news and views they will not see. i'll see them.