ah, the news, russia and the republic of the congo stress their resistance to blackmail in florida. the 1st message coming after russia's top diplomat in the country on the 2nd leg of the african of western countries. apparently attempt to pressure the arab league, demanding its members break ties with russian countries. foreign minister also receives a warm welcome for more than 20 representatives of the organisation restricting the flow russian energy. john gas problem saves it, taking another gas turbine offline for maintenance, cutting the already reduced energy flow to europe by half from wedding c,

which has resulted in immediate spikes and gas. bribing to defect r t gets access to a number of files from an f, as the single operation showing a failed attempt by key to get russian pilots. just switch the news around the clock across the world. this is art. see, welcome to moscow into the global news round up. i'm, you know, new. russia, i'm the republicans the come go, stand against political blackmail, mom being dictated to over a global a 1st. that is the message coming from the countries after russia's foreign minister arrived in the african nation earlier. say alice, we both stand 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 who are stance on the russia? ukraine crisis has remained unchanged since it's breakout. it relies on the position of the african union. we never wanted 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 complete, you don't. both foreign ministers spoke to the press after their meeting during which they also agreed to develop military, economic and health care ties between the nations besides by law relations. the officials also exchange for using global events as well as the ukranian conflict. the per covered long running crises such as the sun off between israel and palestine on the turmoil in fragmented libya with both stressing the need for including all political powers to reach a settlement there. well, sir ralph touched on in this central western african nation on sunday evening. i

was greeted by the congo lease leadership on monday. he held talks with the president dennis substitute guess so, and handed him a personal letter from last year, putting a political analysts from the neighboring democratic republic of congo, feels russia's diplomatic push in africa. could win over supports. you'll see the comment of people on their social media and new deals with. you see how people are really thinking about it's a very good opportunity for the african not only for call may be like a bidding, a very positive sign for the russia come come back in africa doing something. so it's also because of the, the context in which we are going to the most of the country future. for example, in country later, mccracken, public school is facing. the issues of security is really giving hope to people to come or expect more in terms of security and also got on

t what he's up for leadership. and also in terms of, you know, being un, like un, me have more positive decisions in terms we do support for us on the football. so it's really giving a sense of the hope will definitely come rejoined men. and that's what the coverage on, in general, the talks in the republic of congo, mark the 2nd leg of the russian foreign ministers, african tour, sunday. he was in cairo on the 1st stop of his 4 country trip. after congo he travels to ethiopia. you gums latour comes out, the american politicians have been ringing the alarm bells or for what they call russia's quote, spreading influence on the african continent. something washington face would jeopardize u. s. interests. during his visit to egypt, circle of ralph hinted about the west had already attempted to sabotage his meeting

with members of the ar oblique whose heavy met the when i was on my way here, 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 league of arab states by group of western ambassadors from the united states, france, germany, great britain, and a representative of the e. u. it demanded that all arab friends, firstly, condemn, and secondly, reject all actions that russia is taking. he said it was impossible to sign any documents with us or take any pitches with us, with the spice allege western attempts to put pressure on the arb league states. the meeting in cairo was conducted in a friendly atmosphere with russia's foreign ministry getting a warm welcome from more than 20 representatives of the union. r t contributor rachel marston has been analyzing what it is about africa that fixates the u. s. and he, you, so much 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. senate 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 its turf to the exclusion of global competitors. la ross has previously spoken of kind of telling exchanges between himself and both. his french counterpart, former foreign affairs minister, john eve, low to the young and e, you chief diplomat, joseph burrell. murray. was amy gallagher. my dear colleague, john ye, lo, drew young as well as joseph burrell. in september 2021 told me directly that russia had nothing to do in africa. neither by state means no by private means, because africa is an area of interest of the you and france sooner. the problem for the west is that it is spent years pratt falling all around africa and african

seemed to be getting a little bit tired of it. france 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 he a european union military alliance could achieve, which is an objective that has long been voiced by french president, a mentor and mac 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 bo, threatening and trying to bribe african countries at the same time, the countering malign russian activities in africa act deuced in congress,

back in march, targets african governance officials and businesses doing business with russia, it 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's 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. another story to bring you to day a big development russian energy john gas problem has announced it's to take offline, one of the turbines that helps pump gas through the north stream, one pipeline to germany. the company said that sit was for routine maintenance not means though. from whedon stay. the already restricted dust though to europe will be cut by another, almost 50 percent. the announcement caused some immediate spike and prices passing the benchmark of $1800.00 per cubic meter. a correspondent rachel blevins told me

more. we know this pipeline was already down to 40 percent capacity. and of course, these cuts come just days after the pipeline went back online, following routine maintenance. now guys promise saying that they're going to have to take another turbine down. they say that it's due to technical difficulties and the need for even more maintenance. and we've seen really just this ongoing saga involving the north stream one where gas problem is also saying that they still have not received back that turbine, that they've been waiting on, which was sent off to canada and then held up due to a lot of back and forth over whether or not canada was even able to release it because of course the west has so many sanctions on russia that that turbine gotten to the cross hairs well now gaz promise saying they did receive some documents on its return. however, those documents lead to even more questions than answers here. so there still is a lot up in the air regarding this very vital pipeline that europe still continues

to rely on even the head of this news, the general mood in europe regarding energy, where it's coming from was far from boy. and it is, it is very hands right now and, you know, you see this growing crisis, we've seen these skyrocketing energy prices that only continue to sore. and yet the response from top leaders and europe has not been to lead to any sort of meaningful answers. so far the european commission is now saying it expects countries with a block to simply cut their consumption of natural gas next month by 15 percent. now reports are saying that member states are, are ready speaking out and asking for exemptions, saying that that simply is not a possibility. and when it comes to the real world, impact of those skyrocketing energy prices, we see that everywhere from the homes that are seeing those large bills to also the production germany specifically saw

a survey of into shrill companies and nearly 20 percent of them said that they were already pulling back on production due to the fact that they simply could not afford it. now, surely, there are a lot of people in europe who are thinking that they just can't go forward like this, but the prime minister of hungry is the one who's actually speaking out. here's what he had to say about the situation in the war of 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 is sanctions which should weaken russia. the 3rd is the aftermath of sanctions, which we should have handled, but russia could not. the 4th element is 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. so there is still a lot up in the air here, especially when it comes to looking at how this latest cut to the north stream one pipeline is going to affect the overall supply. and of course,

how europe is going to respond to it. americans have no reason to worry about a potential recession. thus, according to the us treasury secretary, who said despite slow economic growth, there are jobs for those who want to work. this is not in the economy that's in recession, but when a period of transition in which growth is slowing, and that's necessary and appropriate. john ellen also said, rising inflation in the country can be controlled thus despite the rate surging to 9 point one percent in the past month. the highest that's been in decades. miss ellen's optimism is insured by everyone, either including a former advisor to barrak obama, who said the recession is almost inevitable. meanwhile, pressure on american consumers continues to increase with food, energy and rent becoming ever more expensive. that's all having

a big impact on president biden's ratings, which i've just reached yet another all time low. but let's cross live now to new york on our corresponding kil, up, my been hi there, caleb. yes, spiraling inflation record low ratings for joe biden. but according to the treasury secretary, things are pretty ok, but to the public agree? well, a new poll shows that less than 60 percent disapprove, basically almost 60 percent of americans disapprove of joe biden handling in the country. and that whole matches many of the recent polls that have been conducted, joe biden is just not going overwhelmed with the american people. they are not thrilled, but earlier this summer there was another poll that added quite a concerning result. and it showed that roughly a quarter of americans were so alienated from their government that they felt this is 25 percent of americans felt it may at some point in the future,

be necessary to take up arms against it. talk about a big statistic there that is quite shocking about a quarter of american said that when pulled. now this discontent with the biden administration has manifested itself on the street as well. this is jill by the 1st lady being confronted by a heckler recent incident that happened. take a look the now it's worth noting that biden has provided his critics with a series of bloopers with which to mock him. biden seems to have a bad habit of reading the instructions either from his notes or from the teleprompter, saying things like, repeat the line. take your see. you give brief comment. so it seems that he, he's not clear when he's reading from a teleprompter or from notes,

what are instructions, what are the words he is actually supposed to say? there's also been some other flubs that folks have had bond with, you know, he talked about the selfish native american troops while he was in saudi arabia. but at the end of the day, the primary factor driving the distrust and frustration with the biden administration is the 40 year high inflation. the rising cost of gas and food americans are unsatisfied with joe biden's performance. that is pretty overwhelmingly clear. ortiz caleb month and bring us up to date on that. thanks. caleb. well, it's delve into some of the points. scalable. is talking about there and speak to a guest. editorial director for the reactionary times news and commentary side, julio river. hi there, julio. yet, jo, by not in the rudest political help right now and according to polls, americans are overwhelming the unhappy with him. but according to the administration, it's not his fault is up defense for oh no,

it's not at all. i mean, if you look at all the failures of the budget and ministration has started on day one with his executive orders, you look at the border crisis. you wanted to whole a border construction. immediately after he won the election, he was running around in the media, talking about the possibility of legalizing up to $11000000.00 illegal residents that cause the search to the southern border, which we're still dealing with. you talk about the energy crisis in america. you know, he tries to blame the conflict that's going on in your grade for the rising price of energy in america. but the truth of the matter, if he was handed an energy independent country, we were a net exporter of energy. we didn't have to go this route, but because of the radical environmentalist green agenda of the modern day democrats that we had to go into this direction. and because we were dependent on foreign powers to get our energy, what's going on here that has affected it, but we didn't have to go in that direction. joe biden deserved his poor poll

numbers bottom line. joe biden also faces continuing mockery over his constant bloopers, which some call a general lack of awareness. no, i understand, hulu. none of us are medical experts, but are these incident something that happened to all of us occasionally? or is there's something of a real cognitive decline being seen since he took office? well, that's the magic phrase right there. cognitive decline, i mean, i'm not a doctor, you're not a doctor, but we can all see it. i mean, there, the obvious, especially for americans. i think the global stage even the global stage, now more than he has been since he was vice president obviously. but americans have been well aware of his decline for the better part of a decade. quite honestly. you know, when he was in the 2nd term of brock obama, he was seen the liability of god forbid something would have happened to president obama. they had been stuck with joe biden back then, and this is 10 years later in the flood are constant. they're fast, they're furious. and i think it says something, you know, systematically about the by did administration that they and do something like use

different, let's say our tech color for his teleprompter to advise him what he should read and what he should not read. and what's instruction and what's actually his declarative statement that he's making out to the american people into the world with very, very embarrassing for america. remarkable reading is upon taking office biden by the sheer number of votes he received with the most popular president ever know his poll numbers put him lower than any president has ever been. is there anything he can do to turn back the clock and get that support back? i think the dye is cast at this point. i mean, as far as him being the most popular president, if you look at the way the last presidential election was administrated with the widespread mail. 8 balloting, you're talking about the, the widespread ballot harvesting all these tactics that were real kind of put into place by the democrats. you know, i really don't believe that he was the most popular president at an odd duration. you know, in our history, i just really don't believe it on, but the bottom line is, you know,

we're couple of months away from the mid term of the economies doing bad inflation out of control. the energy crisis isn't going to get big entirely before the election. yeah, prices are starting to come down, but that's after a lot of suffering from the american people they, i think the american people are ready to go in a different direction where we permanently install our energy independence in go the way that we were headed under president trump ok, well, the fuse of julio rivera editorial director for actually times on our tea introduction. thanks, julio. thank you so much. the r t has gained access to files that according to russia, security service, expose the fail plot by ukrainian military intelligence. the operation involved attempting to steal moscow's 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, re, if

a national takes us through the bought the fur and then exclusive extended report. they say all is fair in love and war. and it seems, keith agrees, it's 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 ukraine has been trying alternative ways to reinvigorate its army and 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. warplanes fetched the highest 3 ward a 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 still 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 defected to our side. or explain to you that our google is an airplane. you understand this perfectly well, and we're ready to pay for it. it's written in our parliamentary website that will officially pay a $1000000.00 for such things that we can negotiate with you or not. the 1000000 i guarantee you to reduce the mere global because 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 as 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 ukrainian side thought they were talking to paula's 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 context ration pilots for what ukrainian intelligence can obtain information about russian services from the internet, photos and uniform with military equipment in the background. some comments on professional topics, other reason to turn it 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 key 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.

not 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 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. young. okay. even though i gave you a route so that he would fly outside populated areas because there are a lot of nan 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 force as discovered, they were dealing with specialists with exclusive access bush. we will make 3 entry points for you one and the character varia. the other one remains the same as before and we will make one south of dennis. when he cross our border, the contact line, your call sign will be 730. you say $730.00 warm c plus and will 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 key of wanted them to steal the ukraine inside asked for a video next to specific airplanes their number as agreed in 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. a grocer at 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 you've 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 gross. if 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 you create an intelligence and not just ukraine in. is there a feeling that ukraine was not the only one behind this operation group? 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 shadows key of european partners was felt all throughout the months long communications.

why are we doing this? so the next time guys like you could come to us and will feel 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 in cooperation with its allies in europe. prepare 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 and 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, hostile, my chances 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 and 30 to 40

minutes. so it's very important to calculate the time correctly, sort of, or, 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 of proposed is hard to come by in russia, the ukraine inside all for it to provide the pilots with madison to drug their navigators. their contacts left the bag in his secret place outside a town in southern russia. during 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. in when you get grocer, 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 you.