the student is going up at the moment, but at this point it's okay to film to stay with general. ah, washington offers moscow ideal to secure the release of to americans reportedly in exchange for convicted arm dealer mixed or bowed. ukraine goes from the begging bowl to the judges, bench with kiev now demanding charges be placed against several us banks over us over russian financing cancellation of us house speaker, nancy pelosi trip to taiwan would signify. a victory for beijing says washington, as us, china frictions continue through areas of wine and russia, extreme wholesale environmental norman 5 area with teen oil and gas fields already

discovered and coming. we want to live in boise energy sector and as the west repairs a new batch of sanctions on moscow with a price cut on oil exports, russia, bleeding oil company is expanding with a new business project with good morning for moscow. pleasure to have you with us. i'm fear ella is about here with our latest stories for this hour. washington is proposing a trade with moscow for the release of to american citizens. the deal would reportedly involve russian arms dealer, victor bow and basketball player, brittany griner, and convicted by paul. we lead earlier the house said the u. s. is preparing to take the quote, extraordinary steps to bring the americans home. we made

a substantial offer to secure the release of paul whalen and brittany griner. the president and his team are willing to take extraordinary steps to bring our people home for more on this less cross live to our corresponded kayla mop and to hear more about this possible exchange. so caleb, what do we know about this proposal coming from washington? well, at this point we're hearing talk of perhaps what sounds like a prisoner's swap. the idea is that victor boot has been long held in us prisons might be released in exchange for russia, releasing brittany greiner and paul whalen. and this is quite an exciting idea. it would certainly be meaningful in the lives of all 3 of those individuals. now, at this point that we've heard us secretary of state anthony blank and touched on the matter and say that it could be that he would soon be discussing this with his

russian counterpart. here's what we've heard from blanket i plan to raise an issue that's a top priority for us. the release of americans, paul whelan, and brittany griner, who been wrongfully detained and must be allowed to come home. we put a substantial proposal on the table weeks ago to facilitate their release. our governments are communicated repeatedly and directly on that proposal. and i use the conversation to follow up personally. and i hope move us for the resolution place, it would be the 1st meeting between the us secretary of state and the russian foreign minister to take place. sense russia, special operation began and that would certainly be significant. now, just a quick rundown, the individual being discussed in this potential prisoner swap. victor boot is a russian r dealer, an entrepreneur. he was arrested by the u. s. f. b. i tape recorded having a hypothetical conversation that led to conspiracy charges have been serving and

u. s. federal prison. now, brittany griner is an american basketball player who was convicted on trial, essentially at this point for possession of marijuana, bringing drugs into russia. and paul wayland is the convicted spot. it was an american who has been convicted of spying against russia serving a prison them. so the idea is that these 2 americans might be, you know, trade, and if this happened, it wouldn't be the 1st time that such a prisoner swap to play that we can recall. there was the incident where russian pilot constantine yara shank go, was released and traded for trevor read, who was the national of the united states. so people be watching the situation. it's important to know that at the moment, moscow has not commented on the issue and they have said that they haven't been contacted by the united states about it. we're only hearing about this from the us side at the moment. well, thanks so much kayla. that was our chief caleb martin. thanks very much. me. all

right, let's cross live to civil rights attorney robert, but t o. welcome, robert. thank you so much. what do you think of the timing of this proposal with relations between russia and the us? so low? well, you know, i think it's interesting, i was on wherever jesse jackson earlier discussing this issue of brittany griner and others. and what we've seen is that there's many social media outcry pushing for the release of miss griner personal every status. of course, as part of it, her being a member of the african american community and a member of the l. g b t q. community here, america, lead to many people spinning place and a lot of emphasis on her release. and i think that it does a prison incident in international foreign policy. and the idea that social media and a mess up writing writing came chain state department policy by the that's what we're saying here. right. and victor about has already been in jail for almost 15 years,

but more than half of his sentence, why would the us want to exchange him right now? well, but i believe that this is a prime opportunity one and under us law, normally for the individual isn't federal prison. they do give the opportunity to apply for parole after about 60 percent of their sentences up. so that's right. and why, what mr. bout has served us for, for in this situation where you have us nationals who are also being held the amount of time turns out to be about even given the, the nature of the charges against all 3. and that's why it turns out to be fair trade between the parties list at the perspective of the state department. ok, and is there any reason to believe that the current administration is doing this to gain political points? this looks pretty politicize with president biden's rating being so low. idle knows against political points, because this also sets a negative precedent going forward. what will stop the iranians, for example, from kept kidnapping you a celebrity,

and they wanted one of their nationals to be released to chinese government, turn detaining algebra james, when he's visiting on or to getting personal, released on their side of things. it's that same person precedent that the state department does not want to have. i think this will be used in a very rare circumstances on the international stage. russia seen as being the defender of russia speakers around the world. whether it be in kalynne and greg or on trans new stereo, and they will have a very vested interest in bringing their people home. the united states felt the same way with regards to bringing their, their national home up, particularly given the charge and given the nature this is change. so is this an equal trade or which side do you think could possibly gain more from this? still? i think the, the russian side it to gains more from the steel own. brittany greiner, the skews though not drug trafficking, but according to her testimony today in court, accidentally for getting a, a cartridge that belongs to a vape. and her bag that was, that is illegal, and russia respects the sovereignty of fear, nations. but i think that's

a big difference between that and being a arms dealer as honest about was, can get to know. so i think russia comes out on the better end of this tray, but given the nature of the publicity around this has changed the use of wanting to make this a swap. and so overall, do you think the shows that despite this conflict, us by everything going on with ukraine and washington a wash ukraine brush in washington? and do you think that moscow in washington could still negotiate this and strike a deal like, do you see this as a positive side which could maybe lead to a resolution on other issues? no, absolutely. i think the what would sing though, the course of the last 30 years, the lou coming together of international policy between the east and west, a thawing of that cold war as it would be. and i don't think you will want to go back to the distinct separation between east and west. i think a negotiate settlement is going to happen in crane. nothing it negotiates, settlement is going to happen in the exchange of these individuals as parties, prisoners change. i think that the name of the world is coming together as we've

seen, a international trade stronger than ever. so you cannot have nation simply being a part and thing because of that will come to a resolution on this diplomatic hopefully will not lead to widespread violence around the world. civil rights attorney robert patio. thank you very much. thank you. ah, cancellation of us, how speaker nancy pelosi is plan visit to taiwan? could be a victory for china. that's the warning from senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, as quoted by a bloomberg reporter earlier china, told washington that policies visit to taiwan plan for august would have serious consequences. beijing says it would take forceful measures if the u. s. house speaker follow through on her plans. it would be the 1st visit to taiwan by an american official in 25 years. this comes amid growing concerns over tensions between beijing and ty,

pay over the possible consequences of policies visit. and while some us officials are fearful of a potential conflict with china, other politicians such as former us national security advisor, don bolton, and senate foreign relations share. bob menendez are apparently sure she can't. she shouldn't be deterred pushing for serious confrontation with beijing. you know, the whole idea that we're worried about chinese rhetoric shows how misplaced our policy is. this is a question of how america conducts its own foreign policy. and thank you very much . decision king will conduct, it's a way we want to conduct it. can we send a constitutionally denominated official to china? are we going to back down because she's been paying is shaking his fist. if we can allow the chinese to dictate who can visit taiwan and who cannot, than we have already seated, tie one to the chinese. if they can veto everyone in the world who wants to come to

tie one than taiwan will be isolated. so i think she has an absolute right to visit and i think the support of taiwan is important. all right, lest thou cross over to benjamin child professor at paris, school of technology and business. welcome. so what do you make of the latest statements coming out of washington encouraging nancy pelosi to go through with her plan visit to taiwan. i think these are pinnacle nations to balance our suburban concession that's going to be made possibly by the 2 leaders later today. and it is a sort of a political performance by nancy lucy, washington. washington is drink hawkish. but lucy said she didn't know what i mean by prison. i didn't think that the military, the thing will get good. i get to was. she said, maybe it was a fear that a plane would be shut down. so deep the position in position of it,

no flights. so it's clearly on the paper by knew by the chinese come this by the, which the chart with china. you surely response feels fiercely loose. it really is that china i want because there is simply no way for the chinese to back down a light previous us allocation and see is the speak open 2nd 19. so see to us president yeah, china says it will have to take forceful measures to pelosi visit. do you think that washington expected a different reaction from beijing? oh well no. it's cut over escalations happen quite a few times. it take changes between the 2 sides. i highly rehearse and i consider technical, deep dramatic changes which a wave or something more substantive, especially during the talks the painter to this day we felt a little see actually this been china and nothing more dramatic would help them.

and the u. s. does not officially recognize taiwan as an independent country. do you think that this could change anytime soon? indeed, po is not consider formerly an l. a u. s. so the u. s. is not obliged to help high one when attacked creates argue that to us, strategic ambiguous policy on taiwan might have changed given to reach a speech wide by. busy currently protecting taiwan, when by china and also the fonts for teachers, i want funds afterwards by the white house that has been no change in policy. so it is not hard to imagine that this is all of a series of efforts to contain china, as well as to specialize china to come down russia for military operations in ukraine and china to join the rest and countries to sanction russia. among other things,

induce it to be vibrant and ministrations. how as when you were actually liking for us to want to be today extended our war against the mainland china. that's, i think you could taiwan or some defensive left them to close to the war to both sides. so what do you think we can expect from today's plan? talks between bite and z, g, paying amid the tie, wants tensions? well, by now the us intelligence should have almost enough information to tell whether in some presidency will be able to continue on is a 35 year term as president of china at the same time, b, or know the item is facing a very top return election with sharp declining popularity, reckoning patient is just commonsensical that no easy concessions could likely be made to the outgoing bargaining. cy from china as one should wait for the new company to negotiate a new dues, except that if you could possibly be made. busy when the open side makes

a huge confession to save himself from using the russian. well, it sounds contradictory to say one so winning support by citizens. but by you've been a huge confession. so you've paid way for concession. one is to a pure, hawkish. now, inflation is on top of the quality of your agenda, and debt can be alleviated with china. so we're moving chariots on the china. what is the concession to the u. s. as much as a concession to china. it is a remains to change and i remember that this. busy from era carry, impose on 300 stuff in the indian changed imports. and you said that those mission circulated fighting would remove the some inputs along 10 a. but at the same time, you could possibly ratchet that by announcing new investigation under section 3. 0,

one at some has to be some of the trends. that's benjamin child, professor, paris, school of technology and business. thank you. benjamin's. thank you. ah. now to the latest from ukraine. russia's defense ministry says to high position strikes, have killed 200 ukrainian soldiers in the southern city of nichol love. russian missiles are said to have targeted a concrete factory where calves troops had set up a base. moscow also says strikes have destroyed for ukrainian military command post in the past 24 hours in the dep. that 3rd region and arm stockpile was targeted and more than a 100 rockets for western supplied high mars launchers are said to have been destroyed with a 120 ukrainian troops also killed. meanwhile, in the dawn bus, ah,

multiple explosions have shaken the city of don. yes, as local authorities say ukrainian forces targeted residential areas there using nato supplied. heavy artillery for civilians are said to have been killed and at least 3 others wounded with the city's infrastructure, also sustaining heavy damage. that says, don yeske officials have developed a draft agreement on the establishment of a tribunal to try mercenaries fighting for ukraine. however, some have already been sentenced, such as british fighter 8 and as lane who faces a death penalty after being accused of mercenary activities. as lynn has been knocking on every door in an effort to escape the sentence, but still has little help from his very own government. i'm just calling to see if there's any update. so much situational away. in my case,

i mean a, i mean we, we, we are continuing to me to press, wait, we need to you know, like, i think the thing is, this is it's, it's quality trickle. it's quite a difficult difficult situation. in fact, we are trying to we a have been speaking to the foreign office in asking them to help my situation to like, to try and organize some sort of negotiations or diplomatic efforts to help me returned

to my family. and you know, i've, i've made multiple attempts to them like every week and, you know, it's, it's the same, same thing again, they tell me all this work going on, but there's never any or it's all talk in no, like physical, like mike visibility. it's the same thing from that. it has been from the very beginning that we're working on your case, your top priority, and this is what ukraine said. they said, i'm a top priority yet. i'm still here and i've seen friends who go to the exchange. there's been free free exchanges since i've been in captivity. friends have gone, but yet as ukraine say, i'm a top priority and i'm still here. and it's the same with the british, the british government. i asked them like, have you thought about trying to at least contact to be imagined tate, or at least if you train doesn't want to speak? maybe you guys can like be a meditator between the 2. and i says like, no we, we don't want to do that because the people is not official. and i said to them

like, yes, the depot might not be official. however, you guys speak to the syrian y, p g and syria, who aren't sufficient. i was there in 2017 when britain sent representatives from, from the government to work on it. and they speak with a certain code curtain certain curds like what b, g, they're not recognized by anyone in the world. so it's, it's hypocritical for the british government and told me they can't speak to the dpr because the official but yet i know they speak to the say and why fi g, even though they're not official. ah, keith says that want washington to hand over more effective multi role at 16 fighter jets instead of single roll. a 10 attack plants aren't the contributor. rachel marston explains how ukraine has gone from begging for western help to boston around its patrons. the west has been bending over backwards, trying to accommodate ukraine's requests, since the outset of the conflict and some of them as been pretty wild call for

weapons resulted in european union countries, giving away their own to the detriment of their own national security costs for sanctions. resulted in the u, sanctioning its own gas supply to the detriment of their own citizens and industry . ukraine president vladimir zalinski had even asked the west for a no fly zone over ukraine, which could feasibly have led to a direct arab war and conflict and shoot out between nato and russia. thankfully, he didn't get that. the message constantly being peddled by zalinski towards the west is that its efforts aren't enough. it's never enough. and now ukraine wants to go after prominent wall street establishment figures personally, alleging war crimes against ukraine by executives of j. p. morgan chase city group and hsbc. according to one of zalinski economic advisors in order all of these companies,

richer route that are in meet them. ready were armstrong m a r and nansen war agreement? so basically you want to, to see them prosecuted for war crimes, is what you're saying. is the same adviser had previously contacted heads of the financial institutions to tell them how to run their companies demanding that they refused to engage with companies that sell in trade, russian oil or gas or in russian energy chairs like gas prom, ross, snuff flu coil and v toll teams zalinski is threatening to pursue the managers of these wall street companies, personally, all the way to the international criminal court, which the u. s. doesn't actually recognize. in fact, the united states passed the head convention ox in 2002 during the global war on terrorism, which allows the u. s. to liberate any american or a citizen of an allied country held by the court. presumably, much to the disappointment of some that would probably also include wall street

executives the same. impunity with which washington sparks foreign conflicts, including the one currently raging in ukraine. also means that zalinski is facing an uphill battle in boston around american financial interests. ukraine also apparently wants to participate in american cancel culture now and cancel prominent figures. it dislikes an entity link to the who ukrainian government has just published. a list of russian propagandists featuring prominent us elected officials, journalists, and academics who even dare to question the conventional western narrative on ukraine. and these figures on the list include republicans, senator ram paul, former rep, tulsa javert, a democrat from hawaii, university of chicago professor and international relations theorist. john mearsheimer, an pulitzer prize winning journalist, the lang green walls. meanwhile,

over here in europe, ukraine is telling the you to ask of russian citizens filling up visa applications, whether they support rushes role in the conflict in ukraine. different polls show that over 80 percent of russians still support the war, they should not get access to the free world. it'll be interesting to see how far the west actually goes in allowing team zalinski to call the shots here in the west . maybe zalinski can achieve the impossible, actually succeed in cleaning up wall street. while the group of 7 rich, as the economies reportedly aims to have a price capping mechanism on russian oil exports in place by december, 5th, rushes largest oil company is beginning a new project in northern siberia. r t 's. maria fin notion of gifts as an exclusive look from the site in russian's extreme north, beyond the polar circle with the arctic ocean, just 500 kilometers away. this is where russia extract much of its oil when they

says, well, stock oil project and cover is supposed to 2 areas of one enriches extreme hostile environmental northern siberia. with 13 oil and gas pill don't really, it is covered and more coming will be one of the biggest all projects in global energy sector ever. its entire we source base amounts at $6000000.00 tons of premium oil rushes, largest company runs napped is behind this multi $1000000000.00 project. the company c o has dub, divorced off, and noah's ark for the oil based global economy. and i see a few in russia given its energy potential and a portfolio of 1st class projects such as boston, oil can fulfill long term global needs for affordable energy resources. and it certainly is an arc of salvation like noah's ark was stuck. oil is the biggest down the only project of such scale in the world. and it is also the only project

capable of having a stabilizing effect on the energy market. drill and here is not easy, but it is happening across the oil field, loan powerful, all rig quotes, and russian made, they can more 6 kilowatt going to be well very fast. and also coil project is expected to produce 100000000 tons of oil annually by 2030. not only the project ambitious, but also eco friendly. for example, he doesn't burn the natural gas extracted along with the oil. instead, using it to produce green energy for the projects needs and make no mistake. animals are safe to the pipeline runs at a certain height above the ground measured so that local animals can easily pass. and denise was especially important. the oil running in these pipes is claim to be of a premium quality that is strictly checked in numerous laboratories on every stage

of production and your primary restore current grade differs from russia's flagship heavy heroes. it is lighter, much easier to refine and what's more important law sulphur, it smells oil. i by the way, hand it is yet to be named, then you oil will receive its name or brand after it's finished versions, formula is ready. be full that it is referred to by the place it is extracted from like then car. i key cluster of the big project. this is the banker's central parts . how as they call it here, the oil fields kitchen. this is where oil is extracted from the liquid palm from the on the ground. this is what this complicated net of pipes service for. this is where the ready oil is stored in those are there wars and from here it goes to the pipeline. is that some during the implementation of the roster coil project, the station will be the starting point for the transportation of oil to the north

from the van cord cluster, almost 800 kilometers of trunk lines are to be billed to cross rushes, no than timely peninsula as well as a major oil terminal on the coast of the cot, i see, to deliver the oil to the buyers. ah, a with ah. and that will only be the 1st stage. the

construction will go on after the terminal starts functioning until it's able to process at least $100000000.00 tons of oil a year. this will cover one more year ago, there was a see here since then. an artificial plot of land has been built a unique structure in the climactic implementation of the time year region. now the pals are being submerged. the depth is more than 20 meters. time is a harsh region for both work and housing. the projects proximity to the northern is the root, is a competitive advantage, has a drastically reduces costs for transport in the oil and lower as the projects dependence on politically unstable supply chains that makes the oil more affordable and reliable for customers around the world. plus, the company says that 98 percent of all the equipment here is domestically produced . when according fannan, we're at a new facility, the polar power plant. this is the heart of our new project. it will provide the capacity for the start of the vast stock oil project in the future development of

the oil fields. we use russian turbines. these are the 1st turbines of this kind produced in russia. there are no equivalents of this equipment with similar capacity in russia right now. this is ours, it's new and it's russian, and that is awesome. but foreign partners are also welcome to participate is u l. u a. the project lives on and develops as planned, inevitable difficulties are being overcome, but we are full confidence that all the tasks will be completed. we need to do this before the big flood. we will be glad to see our friends take part in this noah's ark construction project for the global economy. ration oftener r t reporting from timer peninsula in russia's northern siberia. and thou, as this ours headlines, thanks for tuning into the program and we'll see you back again at the top of the hour.