ah ah ah, it's a fur know to blackmail when it comes to foreign affairs. that's the message from russia and the republic of the congo after talks between the countries talked diplomats with the yellow robes african thought in full swing back his study business community is keen to develop trade relations with russia. thus, as the president of the pakistan business for him notes the attractiveness of the russian markets for the countries exports and restricting the flow russian energy giant gas drum says it's taking another gas turbine. offline, the maintenance coating already reduced the flow of the euro by almost half an

seeing the media spike in europe's gas prices. with thanks for joining us early this tuesday morning. my name is peter scott to bring you all the latest news here on our see from my headquarters here in the russian capital. russia and the republic of the congo stand against political blackmail, unbidden, dictated to over global affairs. that's the message coming from the countries talked diplomats during the russian from ministers historic visit. the 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 blackmail in relations between sovereign countries. for our 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. and in the congo saga lover, i've also met with the countries presidents with the global few crisis being one of the key issues that both talks mr. love, once again stressed that russia doesn't seem to create obstacles, to exporting grain from ukrainian ports. are these maria financial has been following the foreign minister with his tort 9 full swing congos leader who has been ruling the country since 1979 and new all soviet and russian leaders. since leon e brashness greets said, a gay lover of like he is a family member. the 2 sides discussed a wide range of issues including mutual efforts in libby's 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 laboratory for this study and prevention of the spread of dangerous

infectious diseases. russia stop diplomat came to africa at a hard time to confirm that moscow and its partners in this region has tail on the same page with just so sudden shim lenders, we cooperate 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 loughborough visited as part of his threat indic african to work. before congo was aged russia's plans on the african continent. a huge, but not everybody seems to be happy. it is becoming clear that russia is recognizing that his own actions have caused it to become a prior foreign minister lever august to you to engage with countries to try to slip says try to stem the onslaught of outrage against rather just a hat of labor on his visit, a group of western diplomats sent a petition to the egyptian government and the arab league,

calling on condemning russia for his special military operation in ukraine. not to deal with moscow and even not to take pictures with lover of the arab legs. answer was clear, mister la grove is already here in ogen done, and other busy day full of high ranking african meetings. as a had a theory, a follows. the russian side expect small criticism and disapproval from the west. but as moscow says, these barking will not stop the caravan, you'll see the metal people on their social media and media. when you see how people are really thinking that it's a very good opportunity for the african not only for call may be c, like a very, very positive sign for the russia come come back in africa or something. so it's also because of the context in which we are going through the most of the country future. for example, in every country lately, the mccracken public school is facing the issues of security. it's really giving

hope to people to come to expect more in terms of security and also got on tea for example, leadership and also terms of, you know, big into you and they feel like you in the, you have more positive decisions in terms of the support of russia on the vehicle. so it's really giving a sense of a home. well definitely comes rejoined men in the 5th off region in general. was our correspondence mentioned earlier, so yellow rove has now arrived in use. uganda. he 3rd stopped on the 4 that was on monday night and i was already held a short meeting with you got the count starts and his schedule to meet the country's president. later on tuesday, several trip will wrap up in ethiopia. i said, a lover of continues his african visits are to contribute to rachel. marston analyze is what it is about africa that so fixates the u. s. and the you, the problem for the west is that it is spent years pratt,

falling all round 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 my comb. 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 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 nord string, 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 to 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, plenty opens up their options over at spec is done now, one of the countries that has not embraced the western trade blockade of russia, where the president of the park has done business for him, says the business community in the country is looking forward to strengthening trade ties with moscow. the forms head of the russian markets hob as a huge growth potential for pakistani exports. both current bilateral trade is hampered by banking sanctions imposed against russia, as well as under developed logistical routes between the 2 countries. marcus dunn's

exports to russia amounts 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. if tre berries are removed in the textile agricultural medical sectors. however, international lawyer and global affairs analyst has on as long shot leaves the new governments in his lunch, but may not take up the 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 bronx to russia, it wanted 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 in the end all of their entire geopolitical outreach. as

you know, diplomacy is a delicate balancing act and one relationship should not be exclusive of 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 good. 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 us, let risks western alliance so. so it's possible to balance out both, but unfortunately the current government of august found to be viewed 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 that it will take offline one of the turbines that helps from gas through the nod stream, one pipeline to germany. the company says the move is part of routine maintenance and that means that from wednesday the already restricted gusto to europe will be

caught by close to another 50 percent. well, earlier, you know, neil discuss the issue with ortiz, rachel blevins. 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 those 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 in to it is, it is very tense 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 already 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 india, cheryl companies and nearly 20 percent of them so that they were already pulling back on production due 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. 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 neurons during one pipeline is going to affect the overall supply. and of course, how europe is going to respond to it. united states is engaged in a proxy war with russia, and ukraine is the battlefield. us the view of former cia officer raymond mcgovern who says the continuance across moscow's red lines only leads to escalations in the conflicts. now this view is shared by many, including former us secretary of state, henry kissinger, who are states that more than once that ukraine should serve as a buffer zone between the east and west from its u. s. scholar john mearsheimer also believes that the u. s. and its allies are the ones responsible for the ukranian crisis. and i must be said that the majority in the west div, you rushes auctions in ukraine as an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country. both is to the post that alternative opinions are finding their way on to the political arena. as some european leaders such as hungarian p.

m, v to albany, origin the block to take a different approach to the war in ukraine. let's discuss this extreme a complex question. let's go now to our guest, the former jay officer himself raymond, good mcgovern raymond, welcome to our, to international. thank you. now you are one of the people who said that u. s. a. nato behavior in and around ukraine is seen as an existential threats by moscow. could you elaborate dots on that, please, and explain what's red lines in your view were crossed. will the red lines are a shed? well, earlier but the key time was in 2000 and age when the idea of ukraine and ga, joining nato became very current. and then fern foreign minister sir gala for off. and he still foreign minister call the us ambassador and it says,

you know what yet means bill versus the ambassadors who are think so. well, lover of said, look, nance minuets, you try to get ukraine into nato. we will have to consider whether we will have to intervene because there's likely be a civil war. we don't want to do that, so and yet means yet, don't even consider it. now the cable that he wrote back to washington was called net means net rushes, red lines on ukraine and nato. and mr. burns sent that cable back. we know we have the cable because of wiki leaks, or wiki leaks released it. as so, birds played a straight that was on february, 1st, 2008 or 2 months later on april 3rd, 2008, or ukraine and georgia. we're in a what we're ne, nato declaration at of summit in progress. and that the summit declaration read or

ukraine and georgia will become members of nato. now, things so pretty quiet there on this issue from 2008, until 2014. when there was a clue in kia now, or it's very clear who arranged the clue because we had for warning, 2 and a half weeks before on of all things. you chew your job. it carried an intercept that conversation between 2nd under secretary of state, victoria nolan, and their bet, and the u. s. ambassador here at picking up the people who had become prime minister after the coo and saying that to joe biden would come in a to, to glue it altogether at the end, because they needed an international personality that was on the 4th of, of february, 2014 to and a half weeks later,

the go happens, yada the of the russia friendly prime minister of ukraine. young polish was thrown out and that the nazis were given very, very influential positions in the regime of a fellow named yet. yet she hadn't got who was named in this is just shifting conversation. so that's where it really started going down the drain, the crew and everyone recognizes that it was who that was planned by the west and we have as i say, victoria newland on tape. actually cursing you using the f word, say, we don't care where the you feels about this. we're going to go away. now, i'm sorry, positive interrupt. and non nato would say that is an exclusively defensive organization and poses no threat to russia. and what seems like

a lifetime ago now there with sensitive hints that russia wants to join the military alliance. do you think that if russia had been allowed to join, ornate, had engaged with russia in a different way back then? we'd be living in a very different world now. we would indeed matter of fact, when the berlin wall fell and when the soviet union fell apart, a very, very sensible president, president george h. w bush for whom i worked at close range and decided to talk with mister got to shove and say, look, we're not going to take advantage of your situation. he said to the secretary or say to moscow in early february 1990 and the secretary of state promise, we will not move nato one inch to the east if you

accept her real united germany. now, having lost 26000000 people to a united germany just a couple of decades before, i can imagine what a bitter pill that was for. mister garvin sharp to swallow, but he swallowed it. he made a deal. and of course, bill clinton, this, the president that succeeded george h. w. bush renamed down the deal, accepted 3 countries right off the bat to help him win election because there were lots of pauls, there were lots of checks, there was some hungarians in the western states that he had to win to become president. so it was a violation of a promise, and under george h. w bush was conceivable. had he won reelection that russia would have become part of a wider european security arrangement that was not to be that was a tragedy for all concerned. yes, and let us part,

it's where we are today and fast forwarding to today. russian officials have now said the moscow's aim and ukraine has changed. amid the growing presence of american supplied rockets on the ground. what are your thoughts on that's this is a major event. we have the, just the foreign minister of russia making an announcement saying, look, we had limited our objectives to the bus to, i don't yet skin ganske. we've changed that. that substantially changed his words. now we're going to expand and with reason we have to expand has to do with geography. can you get that geography? why he graphy? because there wish this a play, the kinds of missiles with ranges of about 50 miles right now,

that can endanger our troops in danger, our gains in the dunbar and elsewhere. so we're going to have to move our front line up so that that long range of medium range artillery will not make us phone or bowl. now, the sad thing is that this has been missed in the western press, and it's been sort of miss by our that is in the us defense secretary austin, who said when he had the nose, he says ha, instead of reacting to the, to the news that things have changed. russia strategy is much more forward looking . it's going to go farther west and said that he should ha, now that the ukraine leadership is real happy. that high mars really works and they not, i use it. high mars is high mobility artillery rocker system not as 50 miles range . and there is a prospect that us would give even

a range of 180 miles which would lead ukrainians if they wished it. not only crimea, but that, that bridge that connection crimea was russia proper. so this is very, it's a very dangerous situation. has she, as you see a move upset because it does not seem as though our defense establishment realizes how dangerous it is. and i dare say the only way to kind of interpret that is that they just as soon see escalation for, for the region, the washington, the defense secretary already gave notice to weaken russia. well, that's not gonna happen. russia has all a high chords in ukraine. and if they keep doing this and they will until the mid term elections in november, it's going to escalate to a point to a point where somebody's going to have to back down. and the people are talking sense. now are the iranians and the chinese who this week issued very,

very strong statements endorsing mr. poaching, and what he has done, the chinese saying, look, washington, you started it, you fanned the flames. now you have to end it by creating conditions for negotiations that make sense, but there's no, there's no feeling in washington that, that this thing could escalate out of control more than that either. certainly no sign is that any side is backing down here. and obviously, the western countries that have impose these sanctions on russia are certainly feeling a blow back affects of those sanctions, even if they're not yet being felt in russia. and we do see the u. s. is currently facing challenges and it caused by its sanctions on russia rising inflation just like in europe. do you think americans can afford this stance and ukraine economically for much longer? how sustainable is this military?

8 on support for ukraine? well, americans are finishing inflation and other hardships here. and yet the people who control who control the money and the money that goes to our defense establishment. they seem to be in charge. i worry more about the european se, i don't know what economists in europe went along with the ones in the white house for these sanctions, which i'm going to hurt europe much more than that will hurt the united states. this little game that's being played with fresh and gas. what's going to continue as could be a very cold winter in western europe, and there will be some government who will fall. and does the u. s. want to be responsible for that? well by and by it's going to be looked on as responsible for it and maybe

77 years after world war 2. the parents are finally recognized that they don't have to do everything that the us tells them they have to do well, the former officer, ramen, mcgovern, i believe we had some synchronization issues with your video that we could hear you perfectly fine and you made your thoughts perfectly clear as well. i'm afraid of all we've got time for as much as we'd like to discuss this quite expensive topic, much for the thank you very much for your insights, for joining us today or nazi. you're most welcome. canadian farmers have gathered in ulta where to show solid darcy with that dutch colleagues. they're also protesting against new environmental laws which could affect the livelihoods the me. hundreds gathered near the dodge embassy in canada,

the capital to voice their concerns about. i'm saddam's plan to quit all emissions wise, 50 percent. now they say it will directly affect production potential and damage and all ready shaky financial situation for farmers. canadians themselves dealing with the new burden of taxes on russian fertilizer, john to no farm as no food outside the building. in the past month, the farmers have you started to block highways and distribution centers in the netherlands that processing against regulations that would in some cases for pharmaceutical herds and modernize facilities in the hope of causing nitrogen and ammonia emissions. earlier, ryan cursed like a canadian farmer, told us that there are changes that farmers can make themselves without being forced to do so. by the government. there's going to be a lot of sentiment and worry about what that might mean for the bottom line of these producers and mixed reactions to that. i think that there's still could be more opportunity for us to be heard and really outlined different types of storage

programs like the for n, a night nutrients stewardship program, where we do see a reduction for leisure without having huge impacts and yields what the for, are standing for right source of the fertilizer, the right rate, the right time in the right place. so i think that there are fish and sees that farmers could be implementing without having kind of a forced hand reaction from government. so i think that we want to make sure that as we try to move more towards the green agenda that we're not putting farmers in the red. and that they're able to take advantage of this as a, as a benefit of, you know, a price, a price increase or, or know, taking advantage of the value that they add a result of going green. and not just simply, you know, having to have a forced reduction in yield. as the farmers are forced to buy governments. let's rob 520 h a m, moscow time. do head over to our website for more on any of those stories. if not, i'll be back again the top of the hour with another rundown of all the latest news

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