hello, bob must protect its own existence with ah, russia and the republic of the congo stress their resistance to blackmail in foreign affairs. that's the message coming after russia's fault. diplomats london, the country on the 2nd leg of his african told the pakistani business community is keen to develop trade relations with russia. as the president of the pakistan business form knows the attractiveness of the russian markets for the countries export and restricting the flow russian energy giant gas problems as is taking another gas turbine, offline from maintenance causing already reduced flows to europe by almost half an

immediate spike in europe, just crisis with frontier live from the russian capital is for 1 am on tuesday morning here in moscow. mine is peter scott murphy, joining us from welcome to the program. now russia and the republic of the congo stand against political blackmail and been dictated to over global affairs. that's the message coming from the country's top diplomats during the russian for ministers. historic visitor move was to poems a we both stand for democratization of international relations for equality of all nations in a global dialogue. in line with the un charter, we stand against dictatorship, ultimatums and black mile in relations between sovereign countries. for stance on the russia, ukraine crisis has remained unchanged since it broke out, and it relies on the position of the african union from the very beginning. we did

not want to do as the romans to add fuel to the fire. we wanted to reach out to both sides to find a negotiated solution. in congo, mr. love also met with the countries presidents with the, with the global food crisis being one of the talks key issues. so get over once again. it's just that russia isn't the seeking to create obstacles, to export in grain from ukrainian ports or seeds. maria phenomena has been following the foreign minister with his talk now in full swing. congos leader who has been ruling the country since 1979 and new all soviet and russian leaders since now on a branch of great set, a gay lover of like he's a family member, the 2 sides. this cost a wide range of issues including neutral effort and leave is reconciliation process . congress president is preparing a huge conference there with representatives of all tribes and forces invited. russia supported the idea and also creation of a joint labord theory for this study and prevention of the spread of dangerous

infectious diseases. russia stopped implement came to africa at a hard time to confirm that moscow and its partners in this region. how still on the same page, we just have to initiate them this week. oh, operate closely in the international arena and we have practically identical positions and most issues. we appreciate this cooperation with our friends from the republic of congo, congo was the 2nd country labrono visited as part of his strategic african to work before congo was aged precious plans on the african continent. a huge, but not everybody seems to be happy. it is becoming clear that russia is recognizing that its own actions have caused it to become a prior foreign minister. elaborate speaking to engage with countries to try to slip, to try to stem the onslaught of outrage against rather just ahead of labrems to visit a group of western diplomats sent a petition to the diction government and the arab league. calling on condemn and russia for

a special military operation and ukraine not to deal with moscow and even not to take pictures with live or all the arab leagues answer was clear. mr. law roof is already here. you know, gotten done and other busy day full of high ranking african meetings. they had a c o. p, a follows the russian side, expect small criticism and disapproval from the west. but as moscow says, this bar king will not stop the caravan. you'll see the metal people on their social media and medias when you see how people are really thinking that it's a very good opportunity for the african not only for school bus may be c, like a very, very positive sign for the russia come come back in africa doing something so you know, so it's also because of the context in which we are going through the most of the country future. for example, the number in country later in the mccracken public school is

a big issue of security. it's really giving home to people take on the aspect more in terms of security and also got r t for example, leadership. and also in terms of, you know, being un like you in the, you have more positive decisions in terms we the support for russia on the vehicle for 3. so it's really giving a sense of hope for the african rejoined men in fiscal africa jones. in general i was our correspondence mentioned earlier, gayla rove has now arrived in uganda. his 3rd stop on the saw that was on monday night. we've already had a short meeting with his gun, the counterpart and is scheduled to meet the country's president later on tuesday trip. we'll wrap up any moment. get off, continued his african for our tea contributor rachel marston. analyze is what it is about africa that so fixates the u. s. and the you. alfa 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. laughter off has previously spoken of kind of telling exchanges between himself and both. his french counterpart, former foreign affairs minister, shaw eviler to the young and you chief diplomat, joseph burrell was amory gallagher. my dear colleague, john ye, luxury all 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 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 of 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. it already smacks of desperate attempts to keep africa squarely in the western sphere of influence as growing multi polarity opens up their options. and buckets done now, which is one of the countries that has not embraced the western trade blockade of russia, where the presence of the pakistan business for him says the business community in the country is looking forward to strength in trade ties with moscow. forms had odds that the russian market hobbit a huge growth potential for pakistani exports. both the current bilateral trade is hampered by banking sanctions imposed against russia, as well as under develop logistical routes between the 2 countries. parties, tons,

exports to russia amounted to more than 170000000 dollars last year, but the forms chief said that could grow exponentially in the near future to as much as $2800000000.00. that's a trade barriers are removed in the textile, agricultural and medical sectors. however, international lawyer and global affairs analyst has done as i'm shot, believes that the new governments and he's done about may not take that opportunity because of us pressure. i don't expect much from the con, current government. and the reason why i say that is because in my view with this government has come with a specific agenda, which is to undo all the good work that had been done by the former prime, the state and wrong on who had extended all the price to russia, you want to expand montana to create with russia. it's unfortunate that they see it as a 0 sum game because for them appeasing washington d. c is the be all and the end goal of the entire geopolitical outreach. as you know, diplomacy is

a delicate balancing act and one relationship should not be exclusive off the other . it's not, i don't or you can always have a relationship at all or more countries. we live in a month and after. but, you know, i always give the example of neighboring india, which has maintained a close relationship with russia, which is a legacy of the last few decades. at the same time, india has managed to get very close to the us, let risk a western alliance. so it's so it's possible to balance out both, but unfortunately the current government of august will view it as a 0 sum game because they have been given a script. they have been told that you have to undo the work that was done by iran . russian energy giant gas problem has announced it's will take offline one of the turbines that helps pump gas through the nord stream, one pipeline to germany. now the company says the move is parts of routine maintenance, but that means that from wednesday the already restricts of guests of europe because by close to another,

50 percent oxy correspondent rachel blevins has mal 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 from is 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 crosshairs will now gas 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 intense 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. we're thinking that they just can 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. 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. gloom around europe's energy is still growing due to western lead. unseen russian sanctions, that's as europe tries to win, itself offers. and gus impulse, what's experts predict gas prices are set to remain elevated for years to come? less cross live now the christopher black, international criminal lawyer, chris felt welcome to asi, international. thank you from you so far. well, the life months now russia has been under sanctions imposed mainly by us that western powers us over its aggression in ukraine. what do you make us sanctions in general as a political tool? well, they're obviously alicia illegal. i mean, philosophically, when they would use the word sanctions, quote, in quotes, it's an attempt by somebody who consider themselves superior to the rest of the world that they can punish somebody else. so that means that they think they're

superior to the part of the countries that are punishing, so called the philosophically moral illegally and illegally anathema to every everything civilized in the end. there are a negation of the united nations charter, which prohibits any country or any group of countries from imposing economic embargoes on any other country, except through the orders of these security council, united nations. and this has not been done. so it's really an attempt by the west to impose economic war on russia under the guise of some quays, illegal concept leg sanctions, but it's all a legal impact is just nothing but gangster isn't legal or illegal? would you say that the sanctions imposed on russia over the conflicts in ukraine are proportionate? where you can, i don't think you can even use the word proportion very illegal period. the can't

be proportionate. even if such a concept was allowed in some sort of legal universe, they're not proportionate because they're meant to cripple russia and destroy the rushing people, just as they use them against libya and iraq. you slog. and now the many other countries in the last 40 years, they are economic warfare. look what they did to iraq. when madeline albright admitted to the deaths of $500000.00 children through american sanctions on iraq was worth the price of bringing down to him, saying this is the kind of a moral criminal gangs tourism, which is now the foundation of the so called rules based order. i mean, you could also argue that many military interventions are illegal and went into the country protests against such an intervention. what are the alternatives to sanctions in the global diplomatic arena?

the alternative is to use international law diplomacy in his national cooperation, respect of sovereign nations, and their right to pre determination to run their country's the way they see fit to negotiate agreements between nations, to arrange relations between nations and regions of regional countries. to create an order in the world which would create well, many people i call a just world order that is a world order in which the benefit of the people of the planet is the main purpose and objective. and not the interest of the financial, industrial capital of the united states and britain and germany. now util, solice and your previous on. so you said that the u. s. based rules based on the us lead rules based already called international gangs, tourism. do you think we're seeing a shift away from a unipolar world or has the conflict and ukraine on the cement the existing so

called world or did you think we've seen it? the more multi polar world at the moment? i think there's a rush has actions in ukraine, shattered the american attempt to impose a universal unipolar world order on the world. the attempt by the americans to extend their gemini across the planet has stopped. it has stopped right there in ukraine, and russia has stopped it. china is stopping it. iran is stopping event is rarely cuba, vietnam, and all the other countries that are resisted the united states and its allies for the last 40 years. in fact, since 950 after the 2nd world war, the korean war, which was the 1st major war. and it was also illegal, an active aggression and every other war the united states is engaged. and since then, has not been an intervention, but outright aggression, intimidation, bullying, and they use assassination schools and so on to get their way. so the world is

being run by gangsters. since 1945 really. where the united nations, as an attempt created where the soviet union united states and so on and riches of world war 2 to try and maintain some sort of semblance of peace in the world. but now, after the collapse of the soviet union, they have 6 saves. now rejected on international law. we saw that with the murder of president milosevic. when he was kidnapped from yugoslavia, they attacked us love. you can have taken to britain for through a show trial. they murdered on the nato, sell in the old to stop a prison and chevron. and we saw where the kidnapping of men long ago, in canada, on american orders. we seen it with the crew in mind, and coo and recruiting 2014 the world now is resisting and must resist and help and support russia and china and all the other countries or south. and the 3rd world's former 3rd world,

so called to combat and resist the attempt by the united states, britain and his allies, to control the world for their own financial interests are not the interest of the western people, because they don't give a damn about the interest of the western people, they only care about their financial industrialists who are going to make money off the people of the world when they try to exploit them. or christopher black, international criminal law. absolutely fascinating talking today. thank you very much for your time of join us here on the national. well, americans have no reason to worry about a potential recession. now that's according to the us treasury secretary, who said that despite slow economic growth, there are jobs for people who want them. this is not in the economy that in recession, but we're in a period of transition in which growth is slowing and that's necessary and appropriate. done at the ellen also said the rising inflation in the country can be

controlled of despite the rate surging to 9 point one percent in the last month, which is the highest has been in decades. mcellen's optimism isn't shared by everyone, including a form advise. it's a bark obama, who said a recession is almost inevitable. special on american consumers does continue to increase with food energy, and rents becoming ever more expensive. and with jo biden's ratings reaching another all time low point ortiz kill. more pin has been looking at the public support for the presidents. polls indicate that the biden administration is not popular. 59 percent, almost 60 percent of americans seem to disapprove of the job. the job is doing. and that is consistent with other polling data that has been taken. an interesting poll that came out earlier this summer showed that 28 percent of americans felt that it would at some point be necessary possibly to take up arms against the american government. that's how alienated that they feel. now this discontent has manifested

itself on the streets of america. here's a recent incident where a heckler confronted 1st lady jill by the now joe biden has provided his critics a series of bloopers, of which they control him on the internet. and point out his flaws, joe biden seems to have quite a habit of reading off instructions either in his notes or in a teleprompter. not being clear what it is he supposed to be speaking about and saying, and rather what it is that our instructions, he says things like now take your seat, repeat the line. now make further comments. he continues to do this as he speaks. there are also some other notable blobs where he talked about the selfishness of. ready troops in saudi arabia, for example, but at the end of the day, the driving factor behind jo biden's unpopularity is be inflation. which is that

a 40 year high, the rising cost of gas, the rising cost of food. americans are just not happy with the buy new ministration and it's performance. and it's so real director for the reactionary times news and commentary side truly, rivera. he believes that joe biden is presidency big on his downward spiral from day one. if you look at all the failures of the budget 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 ukraine for the rising price of energy in america. but the truth of the matter, if he was handed an energy independent country, i think the route of the economic crisis, the america facing it, and really every sector has to do with leadership. i mean,

joe biden is incompetent. the democrats have become economically incompetent. joe biden deserved his poor poll numbers bottom line. and finally, russian lead forces say they've destroyed 2 ukrainian boats with suburb thirds in ukrainian waters. south of nikolai of russian. artillery also has a default with ammunition for american slide. high mas launches and unintended exchanges of auth. through fire are taking place along the entire front line in dawn by the no bates since last week. meanwhile, in dungeons city, russia, if your monetary services have delivered another batch of 8 to the city on the fire, is all these roman cos ref. village is still arms or fire and it's very difficult for people to bring of food here. so all these people are relying on humanitarian aid. there are at least 1200 residents that live in this village sher alone and her russian humanitarian mission has been delivering food here for quite

a few months. and according to the people, if it wasn't for them, there would be starving. we just look at what our for this isn't our 1st time here . we have been 4 or 5 times. so this is my 3rd visit. this time we brought standard humanitarian package. each box contains around 15 kinds of products. apart from food, we've also brought valuable things like water filters in the weight of our cargo to day is 2 and a half tons over all since the war started. we've brought some 600 tons social away and i thought i'd say never been in this village for about 10 minutes. mind you there is no network here sold the telephones on work. but somehow the people found out that the humanitarian aid was abroad. and as you can see, there are now coming from everywhere cuz he, people from coming from afar. and this shows how much this humanitarian aid is needed. local fulton, hon. order. we've had no pensions,

no salaries for 6 months. some shops have opened, the prices have gone up 3 times for the last time i got my pension was in february, and that's it. there's no money to pay for food. and this, this is a significant health. so that watching federal ship almost, it's very needed help. human, we are refugees. we left a broken house and everything in it. we took only a few bags with us. we're grateful for the healthy bottle. the village of storm lane of cuba came home to hundreds of refugees from other areas that ukraine is currently shelling very heavily. now right now i'm going to speak to a one of those refugees he and wants to be shown on camera because his relatives are still on a territory controlled by ukraine. but he has some very important information to share. gotcha. on color, one ukrainian sold her head from the shelling in our courtyard. i call him in and hit him in the basement. he repeatedly used his walkie talkie asking for further

instructions. he was very afraid, but he was told to come down and sit tight. after a while he was told it's time to leave and to you civilians as a shield. he didn't even turn to us, but it's unlikely he could take 2 strong men as a shield anyway. for scalars, this village saw some of the heaviest fighting since the start of this special military operation. although it's a relatively quiet here right now, we can still hear the sounds of artillery. this village of the moment is also hosting refugees from other parts of the nest people's republic still under control of the ukrainian military. but be in here. there are always these constant reminders of the arm conflict remark author of r t the nest people's republic. well as her up for now. my name is peter scott, on the back again at the top of the hour with all the latest news and views carol naughty. ah

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