ah, ah ah ah, preparing for the worst this winter, europe commits to a 15 percent cut in gas consumption until next spring. but on a voluntary basis with numerous exemptions to the energy savings. well also ahead one, do they ask me a question? are you produced? was i should you must, you mustn't. when you do it, i'm sort of, i sort of, you get those presidents spell out his foreign policy views coming after talks with rushes, help diplomats, who's in the east african country on the latest stop, all of his tour across the continent with the city of done yet comes under

further shelling from ukrainian forces. dumbbell so authority says psychiatric hospital and an oil terminal where hit on point to us supplied weapons being used with across the globe around the clock. this is our t grid. thank you with us today for the news run up. i'm union o'neill, e u countries have committed to a 15 percent reduction in gas consumption until next spring. although the small print shows that the energy saving plan is voluntary and comes with a pretty sizable heft of exemptions, it follows russian energy. john gallus problems announcement that it's to further cut supplies to europe from wednesday. you chief 1st of underline, praise the blocks moves saying it shows the unanimity of member nations. i

strongly welcome the endorsement by counsel of the regulation to reduce gas demand and prepare for the winter. it is a decisive step to face down the threat of a full gas disruption. thanks to today's decision, europe is now ready to address its energy security as a union. the only really entity on this issue is the countries that refused to cut their gas use, agree that those who have had no choice and no alternatives should really well. yeah, ration their supply. so there's really no solidarity at all in brussels. the central request that all $27.00 member states reduced their gas consumption by 15 percent. this is really all about the entire e. you coming to the rescue of germany, the blocks top economic engine, which lacked the courage to stand up to american pressure to sanction its pipeline projects with russia. and then stood idly by while that you did exactly the same thing all apparently without any viable back a plan for their own national economy. berlin, me to really foolish, strategic mistake by depending so heavily on renewables when it's pretty clear that

they aren't ready for prime time. so berlin a, gone by brussels, talked a good tough game about being strong and independent, not needing any russian energy. but, well, i guess was all bluster because it's still so reliant on that russian gas that freaked out over attending maintenance shut down of the nord stream on pipeline. and is now panicking again over gas primes reduction of delivery volume by 80 percent starting tomorrow. so to give berlin hands the blocks number states have decided today that if brussels ever imposes the 15 percent cut as a binding measure, well, in all their spirit of unity, they'll just opt out. that's the kind of unity over which you officials are all pad each other on the back to day. it really can't make this stuff up. malta, cypress, ireland, and portugal aren't connected to the you grid aren't reliant on gas. and well, they want to maintain their independence and sovereignty france almost made the same foolish choices that jeremy did by launching headlong into green energy. but then a dodged

a bullet when at success really lobbied brussels to reclassify nuclear power as green earlier this year. so now it figures that they can just fire up a few more radioactive energy plants again and whether this turbulence. so as a french ecology ministry says they really were cool with brussels proposed dictate . we do not want to introduce uniform objectives that would not be adapted to every one's reality and which ultimately would not have an impact on our ability to export gas to our neighbors. greason, spain had also said no to the proposal, insisting on maintaining sovereign control over their own supply and hungry is while already in king. the russian gas deals even as the rest of the u. rings. it's hands over how it can possibly continue to keep ukraine president library zalinski happy without completely bleeding out their own economies. oh, and by the way, they really can't keep them happy clearly because he's been popping off yet today, even as the you states were meeting, repeating his mantra, that the you have to head back with even more sanctions,

apparently oblivious to the fact that sanctions are exactly why the situation in europe is this bad as much as the you is paying lip service to the idea of solidarity and making a lot of noise about it in public. the reality is that the increased pressure is causing any unity to start falling apart at the seams of german economist and publisher i q. homer believes its ordinary europeans who land are paying the price for the e used plan to cut gauss consumption. i'm afraid that these european bureaucrats really think that they are in charge and they can take the order of ordering people . busy that to limit their consumption of, of guess not beneficial for their own people. they're not only paying more for the gas. they have, may get limits on what they get. and on top, they using that jobs because the companies are breaking apart. and on top,

the euro is losing ground and is getting worthless and worthless. so no holiday and i'm a think in these foreign countries any more. this is an uncontrolled demolition of economy with an impoverished man of the european people. russia's top diplomat has hinted a key cause of europe's energy crisis lies in pure politics, surrogate, love rov, stress that the nord stream to pipeline which connects russia to germany. but currently doesn't have berlin's operational approval. is capable of meeting demand just what was the was now witnessing the bus around the decision by gas problem that one more gas turbine of north stream one has to be taken to maintenance. and the e. u is conveying some extraordinary energy session on the matter in this regard i simply wanda, there are rules which provides secure operation to the pipeline. did i get it right? that way of being urged to violate the rules as particular german representatives during the as far as i'm concerned, germans of famous have been committed to rules. how can they cool for the violation

of rules on which dependence the security of people, when it comes to the north stream to it, is completely ready to make up for the demands of europe, which needs this particular fuel. however, it's close for purely political reasons, can put you in a circle of ralph was speaking from uganda. on the 3rd leg of his african tour, russia's foreign minister met the country's president. and while speaking to the media, afterwards, both confirmed their refusal to polarize the world. this was, we are looking for a win, win, win, win for vivid, avoided in the, was on disposable. so this, this idea over rivalry, it's not part of the british and movement struck to, you know, otherwise we should be quartering with those who knows a little slavery from you. but we, we forgot about the, and we're moving for when that was the court rule. one day they asked me a question, are you perused or for a was a should you must, you must think i'm, when did you where do you think my,

my minute job is to be pro somebody i am throw away should've spent resume to candice president gave the only right answer when asked whether he's pro western or pro eastern politician. an answer which you can expect from a serious political figure. but unfortunately, right now, these instincts have colonialism emerge in the politics of western countries when they demand the whole well take their side and running against all the others. we also discussed the root causes of the unfolding energy and food crises, african friends understand that the origins of that have nothing to do with the military operation. when it comes to bilateral relations. we agree to keep that in mind and look for opportunities in the energy and food sectors, which wouldn't depend on the whim of western partners. rushes for minister is an on a gas here on the side stresses all the time. the delegation has been accepted at the presidential palace. this is where labranz met both his counterpart and the country's leader. we'll gun days, a long term strategic and economic part. no,

russia, that was one of just a few countries supported the gunners independence from bridge empire, gandhi's highly dependent on russia's grain, their global food crisis, that followed western economic sanctions against russia was among the key topics on the agenda. well, russia is very active here on the african continent. the west express has concerns about that, and he's trying to put pressure on all right. you know, players working together with moscow organza is a sad country minister law visits as part of his african tour. next comes ethiopia . yeah. just to reiterate, minister love roth was in egypt on the republic of the congo as part of his 4 country trip. after you get the asked, maria said there he travels to his final destination. ethiopian. mr. la ralph also spoke with representatives from over 20 or a league nations earlier that the u. s. department of state spooks personally

dismissed the significance of but rather concluding not the true demonstrates how isolated russia is. it is becoming clear that russia is recognizing that his own actions have caused it to become a with we have good relations with russia. all countries of africa have sovereignty and are free to choose their own policies. look who are stance on the russia. ukraine crisis has remained unchanged since it's break out. we never wanted to how with the wolves as fuel to the fire? well independent global affairs analyst and pay yeah. kegler many say's african nations are hobbies engage with any partner? they just don't like being dictated to i think it's very kind of by country,

by general. it's very positive because, you know, i think i need as many tape i can get as many security by that it's can get western countries tend to impose their values. and i've been on up to 10 countries. russia in china are just larger champ, portrayed and for atlanta. so it was in countries are willing to meet up again, can do that quite the same way. they are willing to meet with the rebate, quite and not, and not pieces without their own human rights. and detrimental, homosexual people, for example, and be willing to take the payment on the same time, but not to them. and so i said, and i think everyone is what it comes with, taking up the kinds of life is enough. okay, and i want to keep focus on africa now on the program because an empty un protest in the democratic republic of congo has left at least 10 people dead, and more than 50 injured. the footage you're seeing now purports to show members of

a un peacekeeping mission in the d. r. c. firing shots of the crowds of protesters . according to media reports, troops used to go live bullets to disperse demonstrators and looters. you and officials have yet to comment on the instruments. the peacekeeping mission in the country has been facing increased criticism for its perceived failure to stop fighting in the conflict torn east of the country. well as energy and food crises continue in many parts of the world, it's left many struggling to simply survive inter lanka, food inflation, has exceeded 80 percent. a recent government decision to restrict fuel imports came of the country faces a severe shortage of foreign exchange reserves. supplies of sea food in local markets, a crucial food staple too. with the country generally hit by a luck of a century. those sea food stockpiles running very low ortiz runjun sharma has the

report a around 20 kilometers from sheila, gauze, largest city, colombo is elecom, though he is community official men is deeply affected by the crisis. the lack of fuel has meant that they haven't gone fishing for d is both headed out to see or is a rare sight of the 75 whistles based here today. only 9 hatfield and the luck to go fishing would love 90 percent of the votes. sad grounded here because of lack of fuel, they'll fishermen, community are finding it extremely hard to say of the fishing sector employees one tend to feed on cost population and helps to feed many more. i took out my boat off to 3 weeks today. it's been very tough for us on the island also exports what fish

do not crabs and prompts to several countries, including china, japan, as well as the us. now majority of these orders cannot be fulfilled right now. we don't have fewer for the boats, boats, conroy for long days and calm. good. i'm actually going to need you to get drawing . so the season is actually supposed to be the seasonal problems and coffee those days. if you dig with last year, december, drones, wind up to around $500.00. that's been now we go. 1000 monkey. one kilogram. norma to an a fish. yeah. second ed by the local to do on live and from the range of 430200. well, did i go up to 700? sure. yeah, just to both use the price is only getting was with only in these days, very expensive. if we were to leave a message all day. mm hm. how often do you come here now? once a week?

no price the now you are not able to afford to fix it. if you go the big question, remain. will the new president on or become a thing you be able to stop the island from thinking deeper into the crisis and will the people give him a job to do so? prince, ensure ma, sri lanka, r t, god willing, we're not going to see a recession. the words of president biden who appears to be seeking help from a higher power to save him from some potentially crushing g d p. numbers coming up where the recession, my view, my, our b o, from this rapid growth to steady growth. and we'll see some coming down. but i don't think we're going to got really well, well, there's no official definition of recession. it is commonly considered as

a common me shrinking for 2 consecutive quarters. the white house seems to disagree instead, proposing to take a quote holistic look at the data the by the administration odds. in this case, the country is not in recession, even if gdp ends up falling in the 2nd quarter of the year. 2 with g d, b in america shrunk, 1.6 percent in the 1st quarter of this year. us treasury secretary jelena yellen claims rising inflation in the country can be controlled. the current rate sets 9 point one percent the highest number of decades, which is putting pressure on american consumers with food energy and rents continue to get ever more expensive. even c n generally seen as a pro democrat, cello head art, democratic, and us president joe biden for apparently misleading citizens. you can't fake this . no, i was just. i was laughing to myself with that in my view thing that caitlin highlighted, it doesn't really matter what you think it's. there's a there is a technical definition too straight quarters of negative economic growth will chew

politic on markets, analyst tomlin go say's the u. s. government is out of touch or doesn't much curve with what's happening in reality joe is, is, is that is out the launch on this. it's very clear that we're looking at we're looking at a recession and that's fine. actually the, the thing that's really worrisome is that everybody's afraid of it. it's about the midterm elections, not kid ourselves. the democrats are looking at an historic wide downs this fall in, in the mid term elections. there's no way of getting around that. at this point, all they're trying to do now is just trying to find away the problem and hope that they can massage the situation to the point where they can say, well, you know, experts say that it's not really a recession that we have 2 quarters of g, negative gdp grow, this is the product of what happens when the echo chamber and d. c is insulated as it is from outside ideas. and that's just simply where we are

here. these are talking points. these are a political the law action strategies that could only be birth inside of and out of contract. ok. so out of touch with what's going on on the ground in reality for real people the us, as a non said, we'll send a high profile diplomatic delegation to the solomon islands in august, not comes after china and the south pacific nation earlier assigned a security deal in april, washington plans to boost the u. s. aids program significantly on the island stuff is, according to americans and buster to australia. the upcoming visit to all of us is not the 1st this year to the country. another american delegation previously met the nations prime minister and raised concerns of growing chinese influence in the south pacific region. beijing slumped us criticism of the chinese deal. let us know

there's a security agreement at with the solomon islands. well, in 1093. the us state department close they. it's embassy on the islands now. almost 30 years later, washington plans to reopen the american embassy in the capital city. honey are according to us and buster to westerly carline kennedy. a chin do show senior fellow at a beaching base. think tank opera his inside to us earlier on washington's interest in the pacific. the us obviously and the vision to strategic competition with china . so this is a part of the competition so called, well trying to self is not competing for the us. the question the off the ask, are you like competing full was? so there's a constraint in the us somehow. as the backyard, you know, it's really, obviously this is the backyard. you know, be sure to be the dominant force. we are entering a market polar new order, a market polar audience,

where the u. s. is not the dominant force and in more is not the dominant force and the least. so this is a new reality. and if us refuse to accept the new reality, you know, who knows, they have this is tom electric power, steel might result the to the military method. and then there will be some conflicts in other news line to bring you today. it's really defense minister benny guns, so says his country house, that means and the ability to contain or runs nuclear program. iran is a global problem. it is not just israel's private problem. we're able to seriously harm and delay the nuclear program. the israeli defense minister also claim restoring the 2015 nuclear deal would only be a delaying tactic, which would eventually lead to around he phase returning to a nuclear weapons plan to run the position on its nuclear policy, has remained on change according to the iranian foreign ministry who said it is

purely peaceful for fuel purposes, not weapons, and is monitored by the international atomic energy agency. world studies, dean of the university of tara sighed. mohammed mirandi believes both israel and washington's position on iran is contradictory. railey and americans are in a sort of paradoxical position because on the one hand, on the one hand they in the went to me like to dismiss iran capability. on the other hand though, they exaggerate some so called threat of iran, the iranians are very clear that the only deal that is acceptable to run is a good deal. and maximum pressure sanctions on behalf of the americans and europeans have failed. so if they think that by using sanctions or by threatening me wrong, they're going to get more confessions their mistake. and today they're the ones who

are in trouble. their economies are found during their, in economic crisis, their social crisis. and they have a crisis in europe, so there are no position to put extra pressure on iran. a psychiatric hospital in done yet has come under attack from ukrainian artillery, showing according to local authority. the official saying oil refinery in the city was also targeted by key forces during using us supplied highmore system. intense exchanges of artillery fire is taking place along the entire frontline and on boss with no lead ops. as last week, the russian defense industry has released footage of tech helicopters, inaction. it comes as russian forces continue to target, you friendly and military positions with the m. o. d. seeing around 40 foreign mercenaries were killed in a single strike by high precision missiles. in the past 22 hours. the advance

continues at lou guns for public officials say russian lead forces have taken control of the key course power plants and the clean up operation is under and be high. the front lines in the done yet republic, russian humanitarian services. they've been delivering more aid to villages most in need of. it are teased for mon cost, he's on the grinder and talk to those thankful for the supplies. village is still under 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 alone. and a russian humanitarian emission has been delivering food here for quite a few months. and according to the people, if it wasn't for them, they would be starving. we just look at what i thought this isn't our 1st time here

. we've been 4 or 5 times since this is my 3rd visit. anybody in this time we've never was a standard humanitarian package. each box contains around 15 kinds of products apart from food. we've also brought valuable things like water filters thrown in the weight of our cargo today is to new half tonnes 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 don't work, but somehow the people founds out that the humanitarian aid was brought. and as you can see, there are now coming from everywhere cassie, people from coming from afar. and this shows how much this humanitarian aid is needed. so, so, so close to reporter, we've had no pensions, no salaries for 6 months. some shops have opened, the prices have gone up 3 times. rather 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 hauser that watching federal ship all my it's very needed help him. we are refugees. we left a broken house and everything in it, but we took only a few bags with us. lindsay were grateful for the healthy battle in the village of storm lane of cut became a home or 2 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 doesn't want 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 when he was told to come down and sit tight with them. after a while he was told it's time to leave and to you civilians as

a shield who lives. he didn't even turn to us, but it's unlikely he could take 2 strong men as a shoe anyway, huddled for scalars, no vis 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, if arte don't as people's republic i'm dancer lot for now, but more programs get going in moment say close to see what showing where you are today. good by ah

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why not just throw you way. now i'm frederick is stein. you way now she she away not, i will be can leave the key only. so my grandma, the hutto nicely nice with she was not when you come, daniel, let the bill of the session a stronger solution. but the most a, c q u h. it will not, the key is a family could not, i owe me december 2013. the lowest peaceful year in the history of the united ukraine is coming to an end. the euro. my dance movement is gaining momentum into protests, of prompted by the government's decision to suspend the signing of the association agreement with the european union, georgia ala marshall mud, you mud, do your super.