ah, i'm with washington offers moscow a deal to secure the release of to americans reportedly in exchange for convicted armed feeler, victor boot. ukraine goes from the begging bowl to the judges. bench with cab now demanding charges be placed against several us banks over russian financing. cancellation of us, how speaker nancy pelosi strip to tie one would signify a victory for beijing. as washington as us china frictions continue to 2 areas of one and riches, extreme hostile environment from northern. find the area with 13 oil and gas fields, or what it is covered and more coming. we one of the biggest all projects and going

will energy sector average. and while g 7 reportedly aims to establish a price tapping mechanism on moscow's oil exports brushes, biggest oil company is beginning a new project in northern siberia. ah, good morning from moscow, wherever you are, welcome to the program. i'm purely is a ball with the top news stories this our washington is proposing a trade with moscow for the release of to american citizens. the deal would reportedly involve russian arms dealer, victor boot basketball, player, brittany griner, and convicted spy paul whelan. earlier. the white house that 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. the report that we're hearing is that there's the possibility of a prisoner swap with victor boot, the russian arms dealer who's been held in us prisons for quite some time being traded for brittany griner and paul whalen. 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 usps secretary of state antony 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 heard from blanket i plan to raise an issue. that's a top priority for us. the release of americans, paul wilson 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 the release. our governments are communicated repeatedly and directly on that proposal and i'll use the conversation to follow up personally, and i hope move us toward

a resolution. now there's been no confirmation of this from moscow. nothing from the russian side about this deal. now, just a quick run down on the individual being discussed in this potential prisoner swap . and 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. he's been serving and u. s. federal prison. now brittany griner is an american basketball player who was convicted on trial, essentially 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 traded. and if this happened, it wouldn't be the 1st time that such a prisoner swap. so play that we can recall there was the incident where russian pilot, konstantin, you're a, shall go. i 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 it would be the 1st meeting between the u. s. secretary of state and the russian foreign minister to take place. sense russia, special operation began and that would certainly be significant. i spoke earlier with civil rights attorney, robert patina, who believes that the public outcry about writers case has pushed the white house to initiate negotiations with moscow. what when santa said there's my social media, i'll cry, i'm pushing for the release of miss griner on her celebrity status, of course, with part of it being a member of the african american community and a member of the l. g. b t q. community here, america. and went to many people are spinning appointment, lot of emphasis on her release. i think the, the russian side are to getting more from this deal. brittany griner was to so i'm not give drug trafficking, but there are, according to her testimony today in court, accidentally forgiving a a cartridge that belongs to

a vague and her bag that was there was illegal in russia was 1st the sovereign, do you fear nations wildly with a big difference between that and being a arms dealer, as mr. bell was him 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 is change the use of only to make this on swap. and now to the latest from ukraine, russia's defense ministry says to high position strikes, have kill 200 ukrainian soldiers in the southern city of nic alive, russian missiles are said to have targeted a concrete factory where camps troops had set up a base. moscow also strikes have destroyed for ukrainian military command post in the past 24 hours in that then net proper therapist region. an armed stock pile 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. mean mile in the don bass. 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 had been killed and at least 3 others wounded with the cities infrastructure, also sustaining heavy damage. the neighboring city of jani. yes. in nova taiyah is also being relentlessly shell by sources are tease roman cars are of reports from the ground. ah, the city of yes, in nevada is shown on a daily basis. shilling continues right now as i speak. it's adjacent to the capital of our nets, and the people here are injured and are being killed every single day. right now, i'm going to speak to some of the people which were wounded by ukraine in the

military, just recently, loyal for dinner. i was feeding dogs that day when the shelling began in the mines started exploding somewhere up the street, but then one exploded just near me. i did not even feel it. i don't know how i survived, molested or bubble at her valuable. i lost my leg. i was in the yard when the shelling began. i got up in the morning on 2 legs, and the next thing i knew i was in intensive care with one of which i was brought there in a tank. i've been in hospital since may, but now i'm going to be discharged and i want to go home. i really want peace. i want the money spend to buy weapons to be spent on ordinary people for sitting near dinner with recently. it's civilians that suffer not the military. the showing goes on every day to day. for example, we have a new person wounded, a man who went out to throw out his garbage and got hit by shrapnel, which it goes on and on on a daily basis. it's been happening for 8 years, 8 long years of shelling. they are showing peaceful people. it seems that they are

not even aiming just ravaging the city. there are hundreds of elderly people here in eastern nevada who have absolutely no access to food, water, or electricity, and they rely on humanitarian missions. in order to survive to day, we brought some food, vegetables, fruits, canned goods. of course these people are also relying on others who live here use in the mother who will deliver the food to them. no, he said, that's what vall many hide in basement. my house has been constantly hit by bomb fragments. we try to help people to buy medicines, to deliver food. you. people help by transferring money. we're holding on getting stronger, but we believe that everything will be fine. well, our trip to yes, you know, they had to be cut short because really heavy shilling began and just to be

safe, we decided to drive back to her desk. however, our mission today was complete as we delivered food and medicine to the people of use in nevada, from on call for hearty the nest people's republic. that's as dying ask officials have developed a draft agreement on the establishment of a tribunal to try mercenaries fighting for ukraine. however, some have already been sent and such as british fighter 8 and as lynn who faces the death penalty after being accused of mercenary activities, azlan 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 on my situation or my case. i mean, no, no. i mean we, we, you know,

we are continuing to, wow, to press a b. i a, it's a difficult situation that we are trying to with a lot of people every week i've been speaking to the foreign office, asking them to help my situation to like try and organize some sort of negotiations or diplomatic efforts to help me return 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. it's all talk and no like physical, like, like 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 x changes 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 a meditator at least if you trained doesn't want to speak. maybe you guys can like be a meditator between the 2. and i says like, no, we don't want to do that because with detail is not official. and i said to them like, yes, the depot might not be official. however, you guys speak to the syrian white, pg and syria,

who owns official. i was there in 2017 when britain sent representatives from, from the government to barney, and they speak with a certain code curtain with 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 to tell me they can't speak to the dpr because the official but yet i know they speak to the say and what the g, even though they're not official kev says they want to washington to hand over more effective multi roll f. 16 fighter jets, instead of a thing. oral a 10 attack planes are ti contributor rachel martin, 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 meeting. ready are crimes, b a r and nansen war criminals. so basically you want to to see them prosecuted for

war crimes is what you're saying. yeah, this. ringback 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, luke oil, and v told 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 recognized. 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 dared questioned a conventional western narrative on ukraine. and these figures on the list include republican senator, ram paul, former rep, tulsa gabbert, a democrat from hawaii, university of chicago professor and international relations theorist, john mearsheimer, and pulitzer prize winning journalist, the lang green walls. meanwhile, over here in europe, ukraine is telling me you to ask of russian citizens filling up visa applications, whether they support russia's role in the conflict and 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 zelinski can achieve the impossible, actually succeed in cleaning up wall street. cancellation of us house speaker nancy pelosi is plan visit to tie one would 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 the taiwan plan for august would have serious consequences. beijing says it would take forceful measures if the u. s. house speaker follows through with 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 in while some us officials are fearful of a potential conflict with china. other politicians, such as former us national security advisor, john bolton, and senate foreign relations share. bob menendez are apparently certain she shouldn't be deterred. pushing for a 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. busy to china, are we going to back down because vision 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 the can veto everyone in the world who wants to come to taiwan, then taiwan will be isolated. so i think she has an absolute right to visit and i

think the support of taiwan is important. maybe it's a performance by nancy c. m. washington. washington is drain hawkish. but those who said to shoot, you know, what i mean by person by didn't think that the military, the thing will be a good idea to which there is almost very little chance situation where we need to metric military like us and the child chinese, i want to see that happen, i think these are small screen to pay for more parts in terms of being trained to talk of the 2 leaders today. and especially when they meet in person in position of it, no flights. so it's really on the table by the, by the chinese come this friday, which it's hot with china. you surely response field be, it was

a really big china be said i want because there's no way for the chinese to back out earlier. my colleague donald quarter discuss the ramifications of the ukraine conflict, western economic sanctions, and the mainstream media of empire. russia onslaught with author column is in political cartoonist federal. it's all different when it's your country just as you doing the thing that you say other countries shouldn't be doing hypocrisy as rampant in international politics as well as domestic politics. and you know, it's, it's all, it's, it's so extreme though, in this particular case that, you know, it's kind of depressing and transparent for anyone who's actually paying attention the, the united states media was really actively complicit in the war against afghanistan . and i would say, even now, with the effect of the sanctions on afghanistan, they're pretty much being ignored or shrugged off. you know, the, all the,

all the rhetoric is always brought back to, well, what are the tall about doing, you know, what, what united states is keeping afghan government money. so yeah, though, it's, so there's no comparison in the way that these, these 2 issues are framed or covered by the united states, mainstream corporate media. well, i want to ask you about one of your cartoons. it's called the if we were on the other side of the ukraine, russia crisis showing how the u. s. would have reacted if missiles were aimed at them from a nearby country. and that exact same situation as actually happened before. back in the early sixty's, obviously with the soviet union deploying missiles into cuba and the americans didn't like that. i mean, do you think they've forgotten historical lessons here? well, most americans don't really remember historical lessons in the 1st place in order to forget them. so it's not really actively taught, and, you know, historical context is just not presented in american news account. so nobody ever says, well, okay, so in 1062 during the cuban missile crisis,

this happened. but this is a different scenario. it, 1st of all, it's not a different scenario, and it's impossible to imagine the united states, tolerating, for example, mexico or canada, becoming anything less than friendly to the united states in any way if the soviet union were still around with canada, be allowed to join the warsaw pact would they be allowed to talk about joining the warsaw pact? no. want to bring the conversation into the realm of sanctions. i really want to hear what you have to say about the fact that of course, we've seen unprecedented western sanctions against russia since the military operation and ukraine was launched. do you think they're going to be successful and can european union countries survive without russian energy sources? well, the sanction seemed to be very effective at hurting the western academy and driving up inflation and energy prices in the united states and it's western allies. you know, i've just moscow for, i've been here for 24 hours since i got here. it does not look like it's on its

knees. economically. the only surprise about the sanctions failure is that it's really unraveling so quickly. i mean, here we are in the middle of the summer, you know, eastern europe isn't not in dire need of heating oil. and what's going to happen when the winter comes, we were expecting this to really start to hit november and december. it's all, we're already seeing the effects you've present biden's already having to try to talk down the possibility of an eminent recession or maybe the possibility that the u. s. economy has already entered recession. so, you know, the effects are, are there, i don't, i, i think, you know, russia saw it was coming and was prepared. ukraine's president is not satisfied with the current situation in the country and also not positive about its future. that's according to a us congressman who has just recently returned from kids. zalinski feels like he is losing slowly, that the bite administration is basically helping him play for a tie. the most recent arms package to ukraine from the u. s. was worth

$40000000000.00. congressman waltz calls that irresponsible stressing that it is still unclear where those weapons eventually end up adding to numerous similar concerns. voice by western institutions, including the pentagon, while interpol in europe whole plate claim. there's a risk of weapons ending up in the arms of terrorist across the continent. this comes as e u states also cut back on arms deliveries, which according to congressman waltz, frustrates the ukrainian president. meanwhile, there's disagreement in congress itself with some politicians asking for a re focus on domestic issues or china. part of it is natural, just because it's not in the headlines. we can't allow domestic politics to overshadow the fact that there's genocide going on in ukraine right now. if this gifted new crane passes are totally ukraine will almost equal the entire military budget of russia. we should not forget that the soviet union collapsed in large

part, not because it was defeated militarily, but because it ran out of money and attempt to save you crime, we will doom, or will we do in the united states to such a future. political analyst garland nixon believes that the west uses ukraine to make money from weapons sales and to manipulate international order. united states has an old carrie remoted here. this is about a futile attempt to preserve usa germany, to preserve the u. s. economic, military and political rule over the world and ukraine is just upon for that. it's just a, a tool to be used for that to, to poke russia. and ideally as far as the washington foreign policy team would, would be concerned ideally to weekend russia. the leadership now is completely and totally attached to the washington neocons, and they're going to have major problems because the people in europe expect their

leaders to look out for their best interest and they are doing the opposite. so i will keep an eye on europe. we see government after government falling, so they're making money off of it. they're trying to use this thing to, to manipulate the international order. and the, i think ideally for these people, the weapons will just make this thing work a little longer and they can, they can fill their pockets while they're while the group of 7 rich, as 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. the notion of gives us 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 extracts much of its oil when they says, well, folk oil project that cover is $52.00 areas. a one enriches extreme hostile

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