yes, to see how these days because the active engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah, with a french president set to host saudi arabia's crown prince and his 1st e you trip since a scandal over a high profile journalists killing human rights up to advocates, lash out at macaroni for wooing the prince to get energy deals. also this, our congress prime minister says the e u is up against a wall with its proposed embargo on russian gas. while the blocks countries are divided on finding common ground and are corresponded reports from a danielle peoples republic city near the front line says he helps deliver

humanitarian aid to civilians coming under ukrainian shell with just after 6 pm here in moscow. and you're watching our t international. i'm donald quarter. welcome to the program. our top story today, france is the latest iep country to woo saudi arabia's crown prince who's come to paris for talks that says european leaders are desperately seeking alternative energy suppliers to replace russian imports. however, human rights watch dogs are crying foul over the courting of the saudi prince. i feel profoundly troubled by the visit because of what it means for our world and what is means for jamal shoji. and people like him. the visits by m. b as to france and joe biden, to saudi arabia, do not change the fact that m b s as nothing other than a killer. if environmental as thought they were the only ones who were going to get short changed with this energy crisis,

it looks like they're now joined by human rights activists. but it, when, when michael french president is constantly evoking the importance of human rights in different contexts. like for example, up paris is the birthplace of the universal declaration of human rights. how the defense of human rights is woven into europe's very fabric. but today, mohammed been solomon or effectually notice m b. s, is at the french presidential palace, which may or may not by the way, pale in comparison to the home where m b. s. is staying during his visit. we're talking here about a home that the new york times says, and b s owns through shell companies and it's dub the world's most expensive home by fortune magazine. the 7000 square meter, shocked to louis cat tells that it's really not far about a 40 minute drive around a kilometers from the famous chateau duff sire, which apparently inspired m b s's french home. now the crown prince of oil rich

saudi arabia was directly tied by western intelligence services to the murder of washington post columnist, activist and prominent saudi government critic jamal cash o g, who is reportedly moored inside the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey in october 2018. and then dismembered with the bones, saw french presidents always have been very pragmatic, casually, inconveniently, just, you know, setting aside lofty values when they happen to clash with french economic interests . and that seems to be the case here. francis big problem right now is that it's caught up in europe's energy crunch in the wake of use actions on russian gas prices. nuclear energy was on the verge of a programmed decline, about half of the reactors were out of commission and deliberately neglected when paris did an about face. earlier this year, and lobby brussels to reclassify nuclear energy as green energy. but questions

remain as to whether those reactors and the liquefied natural gas that france has been exploring in massive quantities from russia. since the start of the conflict in ukraine will be enough to power france through the fall and the winter. it makes sense. the m b s gets to an invite to the 80 z right now as the crown prince of an energy rich country. human rights optics, be damned, obviously desperate times call for desperate measures and well, maybe even desperate fist bumps with m b. s. which u. s. president joe biden would know something about he said, precedent for that earlier this month. a little bit controversially, didn't seem to do much good though and be asked and give biden any of the oil production guarantees that by him was looking for. and michael biden and other western leaders are making a big show for their citizens about trying to mitigate the energy crisis and with middling results. this is what this is all about. you know, we're bringing everybody in who can potentially help us with this problem. even

ignoring human rights if we need to, but it's all for one goal to make sure cost of living stays low. but the one thing that is within their power is to lift their own sanctions on their own energy supply. and they don't seem to be make any moves to do that. former senior advisor to saudi arabia's minister of energy told us that new contracts with the you are a positive step, but re add cannot cover all the demand on its own. if we increase our production, we can do it alone. denise, that all of last canter is doing at the same time or would one decision. and since the oil market is fungible, what if you take from either amount, if it's still france, then the same situation would continue to be at euro now is paying a high price for the sanction that they put on the

oil you is. and in a big, big, big problem it is energy shortage is the problem with the economy. and we think that the, the united states at ordering, they, you to do this and that they are now and up so that they abolish all the sanction in order to the, to relieve that economy or they wouldn't be. and the british him and the coming month, if not 2 years as germany seek solidarity from other members and it's attempts to ration gas imports hungry use prime minister continues to oppose and embargo, and russian fuel hungary has so far found ways to reach agreement with you on all anti russian sanctions, however, now we are up against a wall called the gas embargo. i suggest that the countries of the community do not

try to fight against it. i don't think i'm the only one who shares this view. meanwhile, germany's economy minister continues to insist that the e u is united in the face of gas supply shortages from russia. his statements came on tuesday when you government deliberated over a draft european law that would require member states to ration gas to protect countries from supply cuts. the main proposal was to reduce consumption by 15 percent with mandatory moves across the block if necessary. however, while germany, italy and some other member states rely heavily on russian imports, spain, portugal and greece are far less dependent. eventually the e u, supposedly united stands boiled down to fresh divisions that the latest talks and brussel. it shows that your mistakes through my job because europe is able to find union unity. i'm giving a strong sigma also in the day we're the flows of decimals to run or reduce them to

another 20 percent to putting on to russia. you won't split us. of course, a lot of compromises in this text. well, this is the way how europe operates. that's it makes sense that each of the association, yeah. shady measures just for the sake of sunny day, i believe. but when it comes to an auto security, this is mainly individual, the national governments responsibility, german attorney andre thomas house and told us that you, governments will crumble if they keep forcing energy policies on one another. well, you actually could mean political suicide for government because all 27 do you remember states our parliamentary democracy is based on multi party systems and the and if people have nothing to eat or of people cannot get to work anymore or if for if they have to come once a day for an hour to a communal shelter that's heated to warm up for an hour. and this is the emergency

plan for germany. and then they might very well i adverse lee and the boat in a different leadership. originally the heart of the you is italy, germany, france, in england, and england left in the brexton. there may be other breakfast, like a fractured for france. france is becoming increasingly wanted present mccall, who is probably the leader with the greatest foresight already at the ambassadors conference on $27.00. what was 2019 that so over 2 years basically said that the, the era of western had germany over the world has ended out. and he warned his ambassadors to, to become, to, to get acquainted with the thought that there are other powers that we are, that we have moved into a multi polar world already long before the military operation in ukraine.

and now we go to the latest news from ukraine. russia's defense ministry says key of forces are sustaining significant losses. with the latest deaf toll reaching at least 200 people. as a result of high precision, russian strikes on ukrainian military positions in the her son, region. and inside the daniel people's republic. moscow also says its missiles have destroyed 9 ukrainian military command posts in the past 24 hours, as well as 6 ammunition warehouses. it comes just a day after more than a 100 rockets for western supplied high mars launchers are said to have been destroy the 100 ukrainian truce. also seals. meanwhile, and one of the largest cities of the danielle people's republic called gore lapka. machine building plant has caught fire as a result of ukrainian shelton. he of military has reported we struck the plant 20 times fracturing the gas pipeline there. as of yet no casualties have been reported . the mayor of girdle of coast says that a bread making plant and

a residential building were also damaged by ukrainian attacks and the neighboring city of the scene of the is also being relentlessly shelled by keith's forces. ortiz roman closer reports from the ground there. 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 and the mind 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 terror valuable. i lost my legs. 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 is 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 and i want the money spend to buy weapons to be spent on ordinary people. for sydney, 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 loop it goes on and on on a daily basis. it's been happening for 8 years or late 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 today, 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 sued to them. no, he said, that's what locks in many high din baseman says, my house has been constantly hit by bomb fragment lama. we try to help people to buy medicines, to deliver food. you would get people helped by transferring money. no, we're holding on. you getting strong. got it. but we believe that everything will be fine with the union. yeah. well howard thrift. so. yes, in nevada 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 uncle, for if hearty, the nest people's republic. well, to discuss the latest developments on the conflicts we have with us today,

former republican senator and retired us colonel richard black. thanks a lot for joining us on the program. thank you for having me. the 1st thing i want to ask you about is russia's military operation. of course, we've heard from the western powers, they call it an invasion say that russia attacked ukraine without provocation, but russia has always said that it was the west and nato and ukraine, that provoked this conflict. so what's your assessment of those different positions? well, this war was planned, at least as early as 2014, when the central intelligence agency and british intelligence m. i. 6, i worked with the demonstrators and, and over through the duly elected governor or government, the president, you had a coverage at that point. the united states and this is under the president obama's administration,

they began flooding your crane with the weapons with words to kill russians in russia and russians in the, in the don bash and the ukrainian people. i don't think we're, we're anxious to have this conflict, but the cia had decided it was going to be done. the cia actually put in place. the members of the, of the, the new revolutionary hunter that took power in, in the ukraine. and from that point forward, i think the us and nato have orchestrated as president bruton may desperate effort efforts to ward off a war they began back even before the obama administration. during the

bush administration, there was a leaked classified cable that came from the us and bastard of moscow, ambassador william j burns. very good man from all that i can tell. he was appointed by president george bush and he, he said it very strongly worded our cable in which he showed that russia would be further eastward, expire towards into the ukraine as a military threat. what was happening is the nato was beginning to talk about nate, about the ukraine joining nato, which would have presented an extra sterile threat to the survival of the, of the russian nation. and so, so they knew precisely what was going to happen. they knew that the russian would

be forced into making a decision on whether to intervene. so what happens is there's actually a fairly significant war being waged by ukraine against the don bass to a lesser extent, crimea, but principally against the don bass. it killed about $14000.00 people, mostly civilians and and finally, towards the end of last year, the ukranian army had master a very major force of troops for an attack on the dawn bash and president booting head, he had made desperate halford's. he had actually put a specific piece proposals on the table with ne tro to begin a discussion about about demilitarize and ukraine.

nato simply dismissed it. and at that point, russia was forced into the position where they knew that if they did not intervene at that time, that the ukrainian army was going to launch a major attack on the don bass. and, and the president gave the order to cross the border and the special military operation didn't expect to encounter the resistance that they did. but that has led us to where we are today. the, the russian army is winning the war and there are just enormous casualties being taken by the ukrainians. president lansky himself admitted there were losing 200 men killed every day. i did some calculations based

on the last really bloody war. the u. s. which was in vietnam, i pointed vietnam, myself, and on a per capita basis ukraine is losing 60 times as many men per day as united states lost in this very body war in vietnam. so it's on sustainable, they cannot keep it up. they're losing the very best troops that they have. you can't just replace the troops of that quality. and i think it's, it's just a matter of time. i think ukraine has lost the war. and the world will go on because the nato, particularly the united states, has decided the war will go on their tremendous profits to be made by a lot of well connected songs and politicians. and it's really, it's really

a shame. it breaks my heart to see ukrainian soldiers die, breaks my heart to see russian soldiers die. all for the politics. i blame this on nato. i blame it on the president administration in washington. i think it's a great tragedy for, for all sides. well, as you correctly mentioned, of course, the ca, washington, nato, they were all involved in ukraine long before russia launched a special military operation. and this is all happening on the backdrop of a long legacy of nato military interventions in yugoslavia, afghanistan, iraq, libya, syria, do you on the, on that backdrop, knowing that information? do you think that western officials and media are treating russia's special military operation with impartiality? no, not at all. if you look at it, russia, since,

since the founding of the russian federation in 1991, it has been a relatively peaceful nation. guess it in her being in, in georgia. it didn't provoke the situation in georgia, but that was a tiny war. there were a total of $900.00 people killed on on both sides. same thing in trans nist year. very small or very tiny war. and other than that, the only really significant military action that rushes engaged in was in syria. now i am, i am deeply involved in what goes on in syria. i followed the war before it even began. i followed it when it started in libya and then jumped over. russia did not get involved until the war had been going on for 4 years. and it was only when find

way, isis, an archive. the 2 rick terror organizations threatened to potentially overwhelm president assad's forces in damascus. that russia reluctantly went in and they added their air power and they didn't put much in the way of ground forces into syria. but they, they were very helpful with their air power and help to tip the balance. and then syria took the war forward and had great success. but if you look at it, russia has been a peaceful nation, and they did not want president prudent, did not want to go to war in ukraine. and he was simply forced to the wall. he had no choice. he had to go in because it was either that or risk. the loss

of the entire country of russia was one thing that we've been seeing. even since 2014, when ukrainian troops went into dunbar, we've seen ukrainian forces continually violate the laws of war. and recently we've been seeing ukrainian forces using prohibited land mines, which key of earlier claim to have been decommissioned. we've seen executions of captured russian soldiers and ukraine has reportedly been trying to attack a nuclear power plant, controlled by russian forces in southern ukraine. do you think events like this? just don't fit the western narrative and that's why they're not really getting any attention or coverage. they're yes. the so the western media is very heavily censored when it comes to this type of thing. they present a one sided narrative. they, they take information from the ukranian government and they presented as though it's factual. where really often it's just, i'm done, for example,

early in the war the ukrainians put out word that there was a pilot that they called the ghost of kiev. and the ghost of kiev was, was a, a fighter pilot of such enormous talent that he managed to shoot down 40 russian fighter jet. and it turns out, and later this was admitted that the ghost of kiev, it was an exam, an exaggeration, it was. so it was total fiction, there was no foundation for it. it was just somebody writing like a comic board and they put it out in the western media, went with it and they said, oh yes, there's this tremendous hero. they did the same thing with the with the snake snake island where they, the ukrainians,

reported that there were 13 men. and when confronted by a russian warship, they use profanity and they, and they said we're going to fight to the death. well, in that case, there actually were 13 of ukrainians who were there. they were actually confronted by a russian warship and they immediately put down their arms and surrendered. the russians took him aboard the ship without anyone being injured. i took them back and within 2 or 3 weeks they were, they were returned to ukraine and as part of a prisoner swap. but this was, this was portrayed and it went through the media through the western media as though these 3 men were these incredible heroes. president lensky said he was going to make each one of them give, give the highest award, which i think was the hero of ukraine. and not in the mid anything they didn't,

they didn't exchange a single gunshot. they just simply said, hey, what is they did a sensible thing and they surrender. they had no hope against a russian worship. and but it was a total concoction. no, i normally, when i follow a war i, i follow intelligence and press releases from both sides. but i will tell you, i give very low credibility to anything coming out of your crane because they have simply deliberately fabricated, not just exaggerated, but just fabricated stories out of nothing. so i think i think there, there are always to be, to be question. so the issue a book was very, very important in boca was perhaps the,

the major war crime accusation was made against russia in boca was one of the, one of the places that was, was occupied in the, in the key areas. and the russians held it for utter, know, a month or month and a half. and then when they, when they left the, the old bare of boca was joy. she said, lord, wonderful waves we've been liberated and all of this, he never mentioned a single thing about people having been killed in the city. it was only 4 days after, after the ukrainian army had occupied booker for 4 days. that all of a sudden bodies started showing up and i was a former prosecutor, i was a career prosecutor in the, in the army, jag corps and. and so i looked at it and this doesn't look right because i've seen,

i've seen mass killings, particularly in syria where of followed the war very closely for many years. and usually where you have a mass killing people are brought together in one place and they're all killed. and the russian forces had had a month and a half to say there were people they wanted to get rid of. they could have gotten rid of them use you look as a prosecutor, you always look for the modem. what would be the motive for killing people as you're leaving? the city makes no sense. and then i looked at the, at the way that the, the bodies were on the video that was shown and was very unnatural. you'd have, you'd have someone deadline by the road here, and then 100 feet up the road. somebody else, they all had their, their hands tied behind them, but they were short, scattered and they were scattered right on the roadway. if you're going to commit

a war crime, you don't go in and say, okay, let's, let's do a right here on the sidewalk where everybody can see, no, you typically, you would hide people. and i tell people, but, you know, i've overseen hundreds, hundreds, thousands of prosecutions during my time. and i, we gather together the f, b i or the central intelligence or c i. but the military military, prosecutors, sometimes british bobby, anyway, we come together and i look at a situation and i'd say, you know, i've got a hunch that this is what's going on. take a look at this. and i'll tell you, looking at this situation in boca, i noticed that the casualties were wearing arm bands.

now they, there are 2 kinds of arm bands. if you are pro ukrainian, you wear a blue arm band. if you are either pro russian or you are just neutral, you were white arm band. well, from the pictures that i saw, nobody had a blue armed band. nobody, nobody had identified themselves as a supervisor of ukrainians. they were all wearing white arm bands, which meant either russian or, or just neutral. so my hunch and i could be wrong, i don't know what happened, but i'm very suspicious that what happened is that after the ukrainian army moved in, they identified individuals who had cooperated with the russian army while it occupied rocha and had.