ah, ah, ah, washington offers moscow a deal to secure the release of 2 americans reportedly in a change for convicted arm feeler victor boot. ukraine goes from the begging bowl to the judges, bench with p f. now demanding charges be placed against several us thanks over russian financing. cancellation of us. how speaker nancy pelosi strip to tie one would signify a victory for bridging as washington, as us, china frictions continue to areas of wine and wishes, dream horsepower, environment and northern side. the area with 13 oil and gas fields all wooded it's covered and more coming will be one of the biggest all projects and boy will energy

sector advert. and also i had, while g 7 reportedly aimed to establish a price tapping mechanism on moscow's oil exports. russia's biggest oil company is be getting a new project in northern siberia. ah, good morning for moscow, wherever you are. welcome to the program. i'm curious about with the top 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 by paul whalen. 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. oops, 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, we've heard u. s. secretary of state antony blank and touch 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 rundown on the individual's being discussed in this potential prisoner swap . victor boot is a russian arms dealer and entrepreneur. he was arrested by the u. s. f. b, i tape recorded having a hypothetical conversation that led to conspiracy charges, and he's been serving in u. s. federal prison. now now brittany griner is an american basketball player who was convicted is based on trial, essentially at this point for possession of marijuana bringing drugs and to russia . and paul whalen is a convicted spy, is it was an american who has been convicted of spying against russia serving a prison. so the idea is that these 2 americans might be, you know, traded, and if this happened it wouldn't be the 1st time that such a prisoner swap. so play, so we can recall there was the incident where russian pilot constantine ers jenko was released and traded for trevor re was the national of the united states. so

people be watching the situation. it's important to know that that would be the 1st meeting between the u. s. secretary of state and the russian foreign minister to take place since russia special operation began and that would certainly be significant. earlier i spoke with civil rights attorney robert patio, who believes that the public outcry that greeted graders case has pushed the white house to initiate negotiations with moscow. what we've seen the said, there's many social media outcry pushing for the release of miss griner per celebrity status, of course is 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 lead to many people. spinning appointment. lot of emphasis on her release. i think the russian side actually getting more from this deal. brittany greiner the q, so not the drug trafficking, but according to her testimony today in court, accidentally for getting a, a cartridge that belongs to

a vague and her bag that was illegal in russia respects the sovereign. do you fear nations? i think that's a big difference between that and being a arms dealer as mr. about was going 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, the willing to make this on swap here says that want to washington to hand over more effective multi roll f. 16 fighter jets instead of the single roll, a 10 attack lanes are to 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 outside 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 cost 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 routes that are in meet them. ready were arc arms, b a r and nansen war criminals. so basically you want to, to see them prosecuted for war crimes, is what you're saying. exactly. 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, 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 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 republican senator, ram paul, former rep, tulsa gabbert, a democrat from hawaii, university of chicago professor and international relations theorist. john mearsheimer, an pulitzer prize winning journalist, the land greenwald. meanwhile, over here in europe, ukraine is telling the 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 zalinski can achieve the impossible, actually succeed in cleaning up wall street cancellation of us. how speaker nancy pelosi is plan visit to tie one would be a victory for china. at least that's the warning from senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, according to a bloomberg reporter earlier china told washington that policies visit to taiwan plan for august would have serious consequences. a jing says it would take forceful measures if the u. s. house speaker falls 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. and 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 chair. bob menendez are apparently certain he shouldn't be deterred. pushing for a serious confrontation with vision. 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 shouldn't paying is shaking his fist. if we can allow the chinese to dictate who can visit taiwan and who cannot. then we have already seated taiwan to the chinese. if they 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. is a solar before we go performance by then c, o c in washington, washington is going hawkish for those who center should you know what i mean by

a prison fight in saying that the military, this thing will be a good idea to say there is almost very little chance a situation escalate may true, then a terabyte u. s. and the child chinese site want to see that happen. i think these are smokescreen to pay for more of that so far in terms of between 2 talks of the 2 leaders today. and especially when they meet in person, most frequently, not in position or they've known flies. so it's clearly on the table by the, by the chinese homeless body, which, which hot re, china, you surely respond fields fiercely. lucy, really visit china taiwan because there is simply no way for the chinese to back

and now to the latest from ukraine, russia's defense ministry says to high position strikes of killed 200 ukrainian soldiers in the southern city of nic alive, 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 that then it broke throbs 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 ukranian troops also killed. and meanwhile, and the don bass, the multiple explosions of shake in the city of don. yes, as local authority, say ukrainian forces targeted residential areas they're using natal supplied. heavy artillery for civilians are said to have been killed and at least 3 others were wounded in the cities infrastructure. also the saving heavy damage,

the neighboring city of gasoline. nova taya is also being relentlessly shelved by q of forces r t. roman cancer 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 and military just recently. loyal filled in the hood, i was feeding dogs that day when the shelling began in the mine 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 her bubble of her valuable. i lost my leg. i was in the yard when the shelling began, and i got up in the morning on 2 legs. and the next thing i knew i was in intensive

care with one 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, which i really want peace. i want the money spent to buy weapons to be spent on ordinary people. for sydney, rudy. murph 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 look, 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 listen to them. no, he said that the football of many hide in basement. my house has been constantly hit by bomb fragments. we try to help people to buy medicines to deliver food. people help by transferring money. we are holding on getting stronger. we believe that everything will be fine with the union. you will howard trip to yes. in nevada, it has 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 cost for a hearty dentist people's republic. meanwhile, going ask officials have announced 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 aden oslyn, 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 help. thanks so much situationally my case. i mean there's no, that's why i'm taking mexican update something we, we, we all get continuing to suppress which people we need to speak to. you know, like i think the thing is that this is quantity trickle.

it's quite difficult. it's difficult situation that we are trying to weigh a lot every week. i've been speaking to the foreign office and asking them to help my situation to like to try and organize some sort of negotiations or diplomatic efforts to 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. it's all talk in know, 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 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 a meditator at least if you train doesn't want to speak. maybe you guys can like be a meditator between the 2. and he says like, no, we don't want to do that because detail 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 core curtain with certain curds like what the 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 depot because the official but yet, i know they speak to the say and why fi g?

even though they're not official? earlier my colleague donald quarter discuss the ramifications of the ukraine conflict. western economic sanctions and the mainstream media is anti russia, aren't lot with author columnist and political cartoonists. ted rall. 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 wanted 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 sanctions seem to be very effective at hurting the western economy 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 sell it was coming and was prepared. ah, russia state owned gas company has blamed western sanctions and siemens in action for a reduction in its gas applies to europe. gas from says the german company has failed to fill its obligation to repair russian turbines, which significantly complicates the operation of the nordstrom one pipeline. the reduced to risk of the for the anti russian sanctions were imposed. we had no problems with obtaining the repaired engines for replacement. the situation today

is completely different to back in may. we expected one repaired engine from siemens, but still haven't received. it didn't with the sanctions situation, risks preventing the return of the turbine engine to russia while sending other engines for repair is also on the agenda. moreover, there is an issue with an engine not working due to emergency failures should you know, siemens is not working to eliminate these problems. so, so the turbine trouble has force russia to slash its gas deliveries to europe, to just 20 percent of full capacity. which places extra pressure on the continent, we're gas prices. i've already spiraled to $2500.00 per 1000 cubic meters. the west continues to accuse moscow of using gas as a political tool. despite the fact that russia as long warned of the need for pipeline repairs, we know that there is no technical reason to do so. this is a politically motivated step, and we have to be ready for that. and exactly, for that reason, the preemptive reduction of our gas demand as

a why strategy. we heard from economic consulted, i mean, i, you of the who says the european union itself is responsible for the current global energy crisis. actually, these acquisitions are actually becoming very childless from the european union. not all the countries actually are agreeing with this. the polish energy minister and also the spanish energy minister did not agree with the energy reduction agreement that was made on tuesday by the council to cut down the energy consumption by 15 percent. and all these things are actually because of the, of the actually, the u. s. is worried that when the winter comes, you're going to be issued. and there are also blame in russia for this. and russia

should not be the only thing that should be blamed for these actions, because you have these on policies to cut nuclear power to, to it's consumption, of course, for energy. all those decisions that were made by the u. r. parts of this problem. and russia should not be blamed for this alone. while the group of 7, which is economy is reportedly aims to have a price copy 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 for notional, gives us an exclusive look from the site in russia's extreme, know 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 supposed to 2 areas. one in russia is 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, the largest one company rugs nan 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 a scale in the world. and it is also the only project capable of having a stabilizing effect on the energy market. drill in here, it's not a thing, but it is happening well across the oil field. room, powerful,

all rigs total russian made. they can more 6 kilowatt, going to be well very fast. and also coil project is expected to produce 100000000 tons of annually by 2030. not only the project ambitions, but also you can 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 measures so that local animals can easily pass. and denise was especially important. the oil running these pipes is claim to be of a premium quality that is strictly checked in numerous laboratories on every stage of production. when your primary restore current grade differs from russia's flagship heavy euros, it is lighter,

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peninsular, 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 year. this will cover wioa more

a 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 have being submerged. the depth is more than 20 meters. time is a harsh region for both work and housing. the projects for exigency to the northern is the route, 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 and the future development of the oil fields. we use russian turbines. these are the 1st turbines of this kind produced.