might terminate supplies altogether. any energy policy is an idea not to struggle with russia. the republic of the congo strength, their resistance to blackmail in foreign offers. that's the message coming off to russia's top. diplomat, blonde in the country on the 2nd leg of his african tour with western countries. aren't they attempt to pressure the arb league, demanding its members 3 charged with russia? can brace foreign minister also receives a warm welcome for more than 20 representatives? all the organisation russian lead forces reach a key power station on the done yet frontline, according to officials from the people's republic on the opposite intensive firing is reported from but with bribing to defect r t gets access to a number of files from

a federal security service thing operation showing a failed attempt by key have to get russian pilots to switch song with wherever you're catching the program from today across the globe. welcome to moscow and to the news our here on our tea. i'm going to need russia and the republic of congo stunned against blackmail on being dictated to over global affairs. that is the message coming from the countries after russia's foreign minister arrived in the african nation earlier. stay, ellis, we both stance i, democratization of international relations for quality of all nations and global dialogue in line with the un charter who stand against dictatorship, ultimatums, and blackmail and relations between sovereign countries. our stance on the russia, ukraine crisis has remained unchanged since it's break out. it relies on the

position of the african union. we never want to how, what the wolves add fuel to the fire. from the outset, we want to keep dialogue with both countries to look for a way out based on negotiations. yeah, both countries, ministers spoke to the press after their meeting during which they also agreed to develop military and health care ties between the nation. sir gala ralph said moscow handed over the test to diagnose monkey pox as well of the ukrainian crisis . perils to discuss the settlement of other international conflicts, including the israel, palestinian situation and may be a trying to find a way a run those now several of rough touchstone in the central western african nation on sunday evening and right after stepping off the plane. as you can see there, he was grieved by the congress foreign minister and earlier today, he held talks with the countries president dennis sauce to newcastle, handed him

a personal letter from his russian counterpart. latimer that talks in the republic of the congo, mark the 2nd leg of the foreign ministers, african tour. on sunday, he was in cairo on the 1st stop of his 4 country trip. after congo he travels to ethiopia, and minister left ralph's diplomacy. push comes as american politicians have been ringing, alarm bells over what they call russia's quote, spreading influence on the african continent. something washington faith would jeopardize u. s. interest. during his visit to egypt, minister lover of hinted stuff, the west had really attempted to sabotage his meeting with members of the r. a bleak whose head he also met. i love you when i was on my way here, a protocol was shown to us that was distributed among the diplomatic corps by the

secretariat of the league of arab states. this protocol concerned the protest made before the legal vera states by a group of western ambassadors from the united states, france, germany, great britain, and a representative of the you. it demanded that our error friends, firstly, condemn, and secondly, reject all actions that russia is taking. it said it was impossible to sign any documents with us or take any pictures with us. the spinal edge western attempts to put pressure in the arb league states. the meeting in cairo was apparently conducted. busy in a friendly atmosphere with russia's foreign minister getting a warm welcome from at more than 20 representatives of the union, r t contributor rachel marston has been analyzing the position of the u. s. on the e. u. on africa here shorted africa has long been taking for granted as a western stopping ground humanitarian aid. and the global war on terrorism have typically been used as pretext for the u. s. and has european allies to swoop in

with an eye on africa's natural resources. and to give you an idea, just how much the west considers africa as it's turf tidied solution of global competitors. loughborough has previously spoken of kind of telling exchanges between himself and both his french counterpart, former foreign affairs minister, jacques eve, led to the yard. and he, you chief diplomat, joseph burrell, were gallagher, douglas, but you librium my dear colleague gene eve latrine, as well as joseph fall in september 2021. told me directly that russia had nothing to do in africa. neither by state means nor by private means. because africa is an area of interest of the you and france, the school. so usually for us, the problem for the west is that is spent years pratt falling all around africa and didn't seem to be getting a little bit tired of it. for us was leading an e u security mission, the to cuba task force in the hell region of africa since 2020. but it was kicked

out earlier this year after it failed so badly at stabilizing the country that the missions host country malley underwent to cruise. clearly a resounding success for the showcase of what a european union military alliance could achieve, which is an objective that has long been voiced by french president, a mentor at my home. malley has since turned to increased cooperation with russia on the security front. and it's a trend that we're seeing all across africa as western countries failed to deliver . and washington is reacted and it's typically subtle fashion to its loss of influenced by both threatening and trying to bribe african countries at the same time, the countering malign russian activities in africa act introduced in congress back in march targets african governance officials and businesses doing business with russia, a qualifies such dealings as manipulation and exploitation of africans sells

a lot leggy countering russian influence in europe and eurasia act of 2017. that led to the demise of the german russian gas project, nordstrom, to, and from which we're all suffering here in europe. now as citizens, sa, scramble for energy at high prices. it also sounds a lot like the countering america's adversaries through sanctions act, targeting iran, russia, north korea. and you know, all this legislation effectively just deters other nations from dealing with america's geopolitical competitors. and no doubt that by design, at the same time, the g 7 group of western allied nations pledged a $600000000000.00 plan for africa and latin america last month. so what do you think the odds are that the west will allow countries to both take that money and also to do business with russia and china?

it really does seem like an effort to compete with china's belton road initiative in the same regions. but well, it's a day late and a dollar short in already smacks of desperate attempts to keep africa squarely in the western sphere of influence as growing multi polarity opens up their options. ok let's cross live now to an african refers unless good news cob, again for his take on their circular robes trip to asia, to africa. his 4 country trip there, the visits all the russian foreign minister to the continent in general. first, how is it being seen? one is the local media saying local media is saying, wow, this is good is something that we have always been waiting for. even though i have got misgivings about it.

and why is that? hello, miss gibbons come from the fact that most of the african leaders do not have a kind of a what i would call a world view that positions them as leaders who are working for the benefit of their people. so whether it is that russians across the table, or is the american across the table, if they don't have you that, according to again, that with that again, equivalent of the millenium as you would have been go, this is what i need to do with my people and therefore, whatever comes across the table has to do with that rather than in with the need of the data. whereby now you find that kind of influence. and then you will find that you, this toggle between the east in the west provide for the attention of the african

leaders at the expense of the people. why at the expense of the people is there not mutual cooperation that can happen. if you take russia, for example, it doesn't have a colonial footprint. there's no real baggage for moscow going into africa and trying to do deals. i would say that what russia is saying, we can do it, not at the expense, but we can be mutually beneficial in this way. is that not something that countries such as the republic of the congo, maybe not the largest in terms of g, d, p, etc. but they see it maybe as a good thing. it depends on the condition of the african liter. it's not so much that to decide for america in terms of their intentions or whether their intentions are in a good place. what i'm worried about is that the african leader in the, the, or in where we're going in though does not express different so or

positions themselves as he does with people. and therefore, whatever deal that they have, whatever. but they have you most likely to be not because so your problem is more to do on a political level about the individual leaders themselves. not about what may be better for the people is, is more about both rather than just because i, the analyst, i come for the position. but if i'm a good leader, i'll be a good leader because my align with the values of my people. in this case, i'm seeing the majority of the leaders there. you are not lying with the values of the people. and in fact the, i mean that they do work is least likely to have their people. let's look at for example,

they call them. yeah. and how most of my or mean of the land, whether it's or, or the, the, the continent in the motor off on was hoping to benefit by doing that, the other going to be the 4th and go into the rest of the world. and all of that to be the investment on the resources that they have. because now what happens is, let's go back to what example was they need to go to a unit. well, that's good because a new product is usually for 50 times the price of the call all around the orbit. so in the, in the country it loses the, anybody in the product that the phone and they

also move the job for young people more than 50 percent of the young people on the continent. right. ok. and that's going to be there's no option to be your is a lot of interesting points as well. thanks for coming on the program, ensuring your views with us african a 1st analyst, good news called again. thank you. ok. now the european union is seeking to mitigate the effects of plans to cut off russian gas supplies. according to recent reports, some members of the block are not on board with europe schools to reduce energy consumption by 15 percent under asking for significant exemptions. so many countries have reportedly proposed to evaluate dependency and russian gas be for consumption cuts are recommended. the amount of gas in storage should also be taken into our county. this say you states which supply the gas to its neighbors are also

said to be on the exemption list, as well as europe's chemical and steel sectors. will not size germany's industrial plant sub, already reduce their production to, to record high energy prices. with over $500.00 companies making up 16 percent of the german industrial sector being effected so far by the price by carrying prime minister in victor or bon has raising the alarm over the cheery rating economic situation in the rear p and union thing. the block strategy and your train has backfired in the war. the western strategy is based on 4 conditions. the 1st is, the ukraine is not alone, and it needs anglo saxon instructors for the country to win the war with russia using nato weapons. the 2nd has sanctions which should weaken russia. the 3rd is the aftermath of sanctions, which we should have handled, but russia could not the 4th element as peace that we could have built. instead,

we are sitting in a car that has punctures in all 4 tires. it is absolutely clear that the war cannot be won this way. okay, to the latest on the conflict in dawn, the boss now of 4 civilians have been killed by ukrainian artillery, showing targeting, they look ganske republic, according to local authorities. the officials also accuse ukraine of using us, supplied high morris missile systems to fire the city of our ships. while the russian defense ministry se says high precision missile was destroy the non munition store for the hi. more systems as well as american supplied howitzers. and in the den, yes, republic, russia, lead forces are now conducting a clean up operation at a local power station. thing in dunbar, russia claims key or forces may be plotting to carry out a chemical incident in the ukraine, controlled and density of sloppy in order to frame moscow. moscow alleges $100.00

tons of hexing of a local factory could be targeted, which also put the local population as well as surrounding areas at risk of poisoning. so our team has gained access to files that according to the russian security services exposed to say, a plot by ukrainian military intelligence, the operation involved attempting to steal moscow military jets by offering a payoff to russian pilots to defect. but instead, russian f s b officers were in the other end of the line, reaffirm austin, texas through the, bought the for an exclusive, extended report. they say all is fair in love and war. and it seems key of agrees. its army has been losing territory weaponry and personnel in russia's special military operation to the great disappointment and surprise of ukraine's western partners, whose support and financing have been enormous. so he crane has been trying

alternative ways to reinvigorate its army hand, provoke treason in the enemy camp. they put a price tag on every russian combat piece handed over to the ukranian side by the russian military key. it was generous. hundreds of thousands of dollars for different types of weapons. war planes fetched the highest 3 ward and 1000000 u as dollars. but when there were no volunteers, keith took the initiative itself. for months, the ukrainian military intelligence services have been trying to contact a number of russian combat pilots. why? to persuade them to steal rush and fight debts and lend them in ukraine hammer for us. the most important go of this event is a piece of military hardware and the person who has defect it to our side. north, well, explain to you that our google is an airplane. you understand this perfectly well, and we're rated to pay for it. it's written in our parliamentary website,

this will officially pay a $1000000.00 for such things that we can negotiate with you or not. the median. i guarantee you reduce the miracles with if i these actions i had to show my negative attitude towards the leadership of the country and motivate the flight crew to betray the motherland. initially of course, i took it as a joke, but after a period of talking it became clear that i was dealing with representatives of the ukrainian intelligence service and their western partners also is proposed to get passports of european states. a comfortable life abroad was promised. but we all understood that this was impossible, and we had no friends among them. the crane inside thought they were talking to pilots. what they didn't know was that the russian f as b was aware of the operation and was monitoring all communications. how did they find and contact ration pilots for won't ukrainian. intelligence can obtain information about russian services from the internet,

photos on uniform with military equipment in the background. some comments on professional topics, other reason to turn to the user. the act on the sophisticated way they present themselves as foreign journalists, analysts, and recently don't even hesitate to speak on behalf of the russian media and state bodies. we see this activity and take appropriate measures. in most cases, people from care of introduce themselves as well as who they were ukrainian intelligence to earn the russian pilots trust they acted and professionally exposed the identity, their whereabouts and also shared some strategic confidential information. that's good. they believe so much in the possibility of organizing a hijacking that they reveal the layout of air defense systems, altitude maps, and lots of other useful information to us. this information was taken into account by armed forces in the course of the military operation, especially while using high precision weapons. there was a professional pilot's taken part in negotiations from key if side to with his

russian colleagues. he discussed technical details of the flight and safe corridors including precise maps and schemes. even though i gave you a root so that he would fly outside populated areas because there are a lot of man pads there and it will be difficult to warn them. the system we have is fine. we can give a command so that the air defenses don't work. it is 100 percent possible and i wrote to you about man. pets will give commands for brigades to band shooting a targets for one hour in one direction and the other. that's when russia security forces this coverage, they were dealing with specialists with exclusive axes. bush, we will make 3 entry points for you one and the kirk of area. the other one remains the same as before and we will make one south of dennis. when you cross our border, the contact line, your call sign will be 730. you say $730.00 warm c plus and we will know it is you

and will track you. but key if needed, guarantees to, to ensure that the russian pilots were real and actually had access to the jets that's key of wanted them to steal the ukraine inside asked for a video next to specific airplanes their number as agreed and advance. just for the video proof alone, ukraine shelled out $4.00 to $7000.00. then the question of how to pay the pilots emerged after all, western sanctions affected bank transactions between the 2 countries. so it was decided that cash would be handed over to the russians through delivery men and women. these sisters from moscow are the lost links in a long chain. they arrived in a russian town, took the money from their contact, and gave it to the pilot who secretly filled the moment later, rush and security forces detained, the person who had allegedly recruited the girls. and this is when an interesting

piece of the puzzle emerged. the man claimed he got the order from the notorious haste and grocer and bulgarian journalist had of the billing kat investigative news outlet known for its close ties to the british intelligence service. am i 6 o 4 drawers? he had told me, well, he didn't actually explain anything to me. you just told me the name of the courier who would deliver the money by train. i'm overwhelmed with emotions. i'm furious with crystal grocery of. i trusted him as a man who would never betray me. i would never have thought there would be such a dark deal there. so, similarly transpired that grows of ties with western intelligence agencies go far beyond just using their data and sources for his investigative journalism. in fact, it looks like he is a vital part of his secret operation led by ukrainian intelligence and not just ukraine in is there

a feeling that ukraine was not the only one behind this operation broke? obviously, the operation itself was carried out with the support of western and primarily british intelligence services. we know about group service involvement in m, i. 6, not only from statements in general, ukrainian intelligence has recently ceased to hide its ties with the intelligence services of nato countries. trying to take a place closer to their masters in washington and london. the long shadow of caves, european partners, was felt all throughout the months. long communications talk. why are we doing this? so the next time guys like you could come to us and fulfill the same mission, it's only possible if you confirm that everything is okay that you came and received the reward you were promised by our governments. this amount of money isn't much for our governments. plus, our european partners will agree to this the, you repeat partners were aware of another condition of the deal. a pot for money

key is also promised pilots and their families, citizenship, any european country. 2 passports were even issued. one slovak in and one romanian . the ukrainian intelligence incorporation with its allies in europe preparing the documents for the pilots wives in advance as a guarantee ukraine promised safety. not only for russian pilots spent for their families to can one trust them. here it should be understood that as soon as the members of the russian pilots family leave russia, they immediately become hostages in the hands of ukrainian intelligence services. methods of blackmail, threats, and pressure. relatives have long ago become an integral part of the activities of ukrainian intelligence. there are no moral or ethical restrictions for them. they would simply kidnap them. the fate of another potential participant in the operation was also vague. in any crew, flying bombers, there are several people, and the ukrainian side was especially interested in the ass you 34 and t you 22.

but what to do with the navigator? here had a solution. when you could look upon it, i was asked to knock out my co pilot and what would happen to him after that is not clear, even if he would have been kept alive. postal, unless he chassis shall come upon them. as for the navigator, we're currently working on the question of medication because there are other options besides chlorophyll and you need to know exactly when the pilot drinks coffee. before he gets on the plane. there are medicines that kick in 30 to 40 minutes, so it's very important to calculate the time correctly. sort of where you know, the effects of the medication may change due to the caffeine. so it would be better to drink some water after the coffee. the drug key a proposed is hard to come by in russia, the ukraine inside offered to provide the pilots with madison to drug their navigators. the contacts left the bag in his secret place outside

a town in southern russian deer and his special operation led by russia security services. that package was discovered. ukraine claimed the navigator would be safe, but it wasn't forthcoming on the details of how that would be achieved. i think it will grow, so i have nothing against him. he's become a hostage of the situation, so he'll be safe, of course, on our territory. we'll exchange him as a prisoner of war. it is a matter of time between one week and a few months. then with the ukranian side, still believing that the operation was a success and expecting the russian jets to wend on their air filled russian security forces made to be holes came public as 8th to say that the game was officially up. maria finacialow taken us through the report, the complications of russian energy for the us subject, tying the block off in north currently bothers the focus next on our debate show

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ah a ah hello and welcome to cross. well, things are considered on people, started russian special military operations. ukraine is tightened. nuts, it declares it must be independent of russian energy. well, at the same time, terrified moscow might terminate supplies altogether at any time. for the e u energy policy is an ideological struggle. ah, discuss these issues and more. i'm joined by my guess, george samuel in budapest. he's

a pastor in the guy which will be found on youtube and locals. and here in moscow, we have to meet bob and she's a political analyst and editor at you know me, internet media or a gentleman crossed up rules and back. that means you can jump in the time you want . and i would appreciate it when i start out with george in budapest, georgia. very simple question. does the you have a coherent energy policy because it seems like, you know, i don't want to use a heat metaphor, but i, well there their hair is on fire talking about how to deal with energy during the summer. in the upcoming winter. they want to cut so dependents on russia, but they're terrified as i said in my introduction that could be shut off. i mean, what is it? go ahead. yeah, exactly right. so we have. busy on the one hand, a president of the commission, we said we are going to cut us off completely.