a common ground in a with officials of itself became public of course of the spoon to plan to make a obtain permission to enter. that's of the said, the anita stresses tell grades and tend to defend his countrymen. first of all, the call i can say is that we will ask for peace, but i will tell you right away, there will be no surrender. and serbia will, with in the city populated north, simons and gunshots. so as to protest is set up barricades while police closed crossings connecting it to mainland serbia. when tow is

coming, germans call for the north spring to pipeline to be opened ahead of unexpected severe energy shortage. as europe intern coldest part of the year. a lot of money has been invested in north street to and i was just lying around. i think if we put the pipeline into operation, that is match gas could flow as really avoid harming your own people. open ne, 3 and 2 and contradicting the way. spin, view islands, 1st lady faces a backlash over her core for sci fi and negotiations by both sides in the ukrainian conflict. with hello and welcome to our international coming to you live from us studios. here in moscow. i'm paula leah, and from me and the team a very well well come on this the 1st day of august we start with breaking news

authorities and the self proclaimed for public of course ever has postponed a controversial plan that would have made search for quiet entry permits until september the 1st that some a turmoil in so populated areas with bell. great saying that the brakes were public plans to start police operations. they said the president has court for a de escalation but earlier stressed that the rights of serbs must be protected. so someone with a cousin, all i can say is that we will ask for peace, but i will tell you right away there will be no surrender. and serbia will when if they try to start persecuting the serbs, bullying the serbs, killing the serbs. serbia will when you for video circulating online reportedly from culture that shows police on the move off . the closing to checkpoint is linking the break a region with mainland serbia after protest as road blocks police of came that they

were shot at. no casualty also be denied in hold due to the large amount of misinformation that the priests administration intentionally puts on the air and that is being spread through faith accounts on social networks and certain websites. the ministry of defense states that the serbian army has not crossed the administrative line and has not in any way entered the territory of kosovo and many. here. the sirens heard and the northern city of metropolis mixer and obedient populations are divided by a river. the nature lead peacekeeping force in the region is seen in the city and says it's ready to intervene in the pin situation. the recent turmoil in the contested region began to plans were known to ban serbian car. just ration from august the 1st and to make so entering the region require permits all the plans

have now been postponed until september, flooding mid cassini, the onion soup politician and diplomat, gives us his take on the origins of the dispute, and how it can be solved peacefully it's based in authority's lab by, by, by the, by, i want to the guy who is attempting to do misuse the moment when russia and serbia is not lies the most popular in the west. so he probably expected that he's unilateral actions will be let go and won't be prevented. the west is very,

very successful in ukraine. so, and other france would be another risk for them. and a prime minister of so called the independent clause. so there is no loan for ease, extreme is approaches and is not always completely obedient to the washington. and the was at least not the expense which we used to see with his predecessors. we still have to be call shows and, and to to see out how this situation will develop in the coming days. tensions between bell great and christina has been escalating

since last year when the self proclaimed republic also band concert with serbian license plates and deployed its own forces on its northern border with mainland soviet backseat and both sides managed to settle the dispute. customer unilaterally declared his independence back in 2008, but many countries, including russia, china, spain, and serbia, did not recognize us. the international community has been quick to react to the escalation in serbia. nathan has already stressed its readiness to intervene in the country with the you foreign policy chief, stating that the european block will help to regulate the conflict. open issues should be address 3 you facilitated dialogue and focus on comprehensive normalization of relations between kosovo and serbia. essential for their you integration, pulse, the kosovo forces prepared to intervene if stability is jeopardized in the north of kosovo. nato also continues to fully support the normalization process between

priest dina and belgrade, through the you facilitated dialogue and cause all parties to continue negotiations . the coast of a force will take whatever measures are necessary to keep us safe and secure environment in kosovo at all time in line with its un mandate. so been american journalist and blogger and voice message thing said that you has no right to dictate its position for serbia. given that some of the blocks members states do not recognize the self proclaimed cost of a republic. you appointed itself sort of a legal guardian of course, of all with this whole legal mission. they technically delegate the viceroy there that the un viceroy. but the irony of the situation is the burrell comes from spain and spain is one of the 5 member states that did not recognize course of all the e. you honestly cannot broker this because they already said their bottom line is, serbia must recognize co civil. but 5, you members themselves do not. so the block is really sort of

a paradoxical position and they don't have a leg to stand on. and besides, everybody in the region as well as elsewhere knows that the obedience answer directly to the u. s. and it's really the americans the want to negotiate with, in order to resolve the conflict. and so you, you basically have the service and the obedience locked in, that mutual struggle. and then you have the us and russia as sort of, you know, big brothers on both sides. and there's currently obviously very strong proxy conflict between them and the balkans risks getting dragged into that because of the crisis in ukraine. and that further complicates things. winter is coming as the energy crisis. it's countries across your prior to the coldest part of the year residence of germany's largest island, react to the whole of the north seem to pipeline calling for to be put into operation. oh,

and i have some questions for german is government and the e. you. what problems do you have with russia? a war crimes country you say? in that case, you should also have the same problems with the us. where do we want to get gas from? then saudi arabia, that's a dictatorship to the power of 3. we might as well not do that. so avoid harming your own people. open nord stream to and then it's all good. the smile on a lot of money has been invested in nord stream too. and now it's just lying around russia and germany just have to find a compromise and talk to each other. that's always the case. there's no other way than i do think that the north stream to pipeline has to be completed. a lot of money has gone into it, including from our state, and i am of the opinion that it should be put into operation. we're always talking about the gas crisis and we're always told that the gas crisis was caused by others . i don't see that way. i think if we put the pipeline into operation, that his match gas could flow as we need building them,

intervene while elsewhere in germany, the city of hanover has cattle hot water in public buildings in fear. the shortage of gaston season lay buildings for quiet hunting. it comes with gas from it. he says, no, it's been one pipeline capacity to and yet 5th of its total due to siemens, refusing to return a turbine in a process to living less gas to europe as the energy situation between russia and the e intensifies of the ukraine crisis. the pipeline is a major route for russian gas to europe. meanwhile, environmental activists are concerned that a rush to buy firewood in the netherlands could lead to a deterioration in equality statistics. so sales of wood stoves have increased by around 30 percent. as many people, fia energy prices could skyrocket, one in finland, shops are expected to close for several hours each day for wind energy saving purposes. europe, however,

is not the only continent and the throes of an energy crisis. with more and more south asian countries now being severely hit, report say the crisis will, woodson further ortiz, rachel blevins, looks at the energy situation in some of the world's poorest economies. energy costs continue to saw around the world, and while europe and the u. s. are typically in the spotlight. the growing crisis is making conditions even worse for the nations and south asia. take bangladesh, for example, which has been forced to schedule power cuts for its residence. the developing nation relies heavily on energy imports from the middle east, and it is feeling the crushing combination of increased prices and decrease supply and energy isn't the only cost rising with inflation soaring to its highest points as 2013, the country's economy continues to struggle and hundreds have taken to the streets to protest against their government and its response to the crisis.

ah, the international monetary fund has said it's considering offering bangladesh alone that will feel like temporary relief. and it has also said at sites on true longer, which has already seen its share of nass protests that saw some officials flee from the country and right on cue, the last, sri lankan president angered the public when he didn't agree to another deal from the i and that, but sri lanka, new leader says he has made a deal and he's hoping it will help address the current economic crisis that has seen inflation sore to over 60 percent. to avoid even more protests like the ones the country has already seen. ah.

and even i'm not even due to the economic crisis, it is impossible to live in tr longer if there were better political leaders. this wouldn't have happened that eminem. there is no income for my family these days. so i decided to send my son to the middle east so he can have a better life there. i'm unemployed at the moment, but i used to have a hotel. i have 2 children and i dont know how to feed them. on may wonder if sri lanka will be able to get out of his current debt crisis with the help of an organization that has long been accused of signing off on predatory loans for developing nations. the situation involves more than just money and at a time line supply is already tight. the world food program says that the remaining petrol reserves and tree longer are not enough to help the nation survive. she

lanka, which is also struggling to gain access to fuel as is economic struggles, have led to concerns about whether it can keep up with the payments. remaining, petrol reserves will likely be insufficient to meet normal needs. the situation has impacted almost all aspects of daily life boarding people's ability to find and go to work and interrupting schools and government services. i and then there's pakistan which is phasing many of the same problems as its economy struggles amid surgeon cost. inflation is over 20 percent there, and the government announces weak that it would be forced to raise energy prices in order to stay on pace with power generation costs. the impact is being felt by millions of pakistani this cost of living crisis is tipping millions of people into poverty and even starvation at breath taking speed. and with that, the threat of increased social unrest grows by the day. as a result,

those rising prices continue to hit some of the poorest economies in asia from all sides, with many fearing that the impact will be felt by millions for years and years to come jump is you're right now is suffering from a severe and as a crisis i was, there's a crisis of the price of important oil and imported gas protected liquefied natural gas. ellen, gee, the reason for the high prices is i saw is 2 fold. one was the economy of the world recovering from that coverage that we should split the world to live with that terrible downtown quite apart from the health issue. a revival budget combined combined with the war in ukraine. the sanctions which are being put in place by western countries. so this has so co collection of west july,

and this is how to disastrous effect on price. president vladimir putin has stated that the russian hypersonic missile, zircon will soon be in use by the countries armed forces. the 1st 2nd will be delivered to the guided missile for gate. admirable course coff. they usually me me, she analogous to latest and they are con, hypersonic missile systems should be noted have no analogs in the world for which there are no obstacles. their delivery to the russian armed forces will begin in the coming months that i see. so con is a hypersonic anti ship cruise missile with a top speed of 3 kilometers per 2nd. the missile can hit various targets, including those, both at land and sea. it is reported to travel at 9 times the speed of sound, with the maximum range of approximately 1000 kilometers. how fast does

it take that con, to reach its target? well, it would take 11 seconds for the con to cross from the waste of moscow to its eastern end. the con is able to cover the distance of 600 kilometers in 3 minutes. and that's approximately the distance between berlin and vienna. former pentagon security policy analysts micro maloof believe believes that the introduction of the con, into the russian fleet changes the strategic balance of power. i think it changes the whole strategic order of things. and, and what i'm particularly concerned about is the fact that it's also a submarine capable that you could actually then put the submarines wrote off of both close, close to the united states. this sounds very, very, very strong message show. think go to washington, that they've got to stop this confrontation and containment idea. and as long as they continue doing the, the new, the, the nato, a push towards the federation. i think this kind of

a weapon system could be deployed right off of the west coast. it's a very, very serious development. and i think the pentagon is quite concerned about it. francis national new agency has been slammed on social media for allegedly supporting fascism and trying to whitewash kids. sympathy for neo nazi groups. that comes after recent twitter post by the a f p. a post describing the ukranian, president's core for evacuation of civilians from the don best region was accompanied by photo that included a coffin with a wolf fungal displayed prominently will single was the emblem of various german antarctic military units. gin world war 2. and it's still is globally by far right groups today. many people have voice concerns about western media. posting such pictures from ukraine. mission impossible find a picture from ukraine without

a nazi symbol. if b, y, are you casually displaying not to assemble some the coffins of dirt ukrainian troops without comment? seems you guys are blind? the picture quoted in the article clearly has a nazi as of symbol over the coffin. very shocking and world war 2. you fought denazi's, and in 2022, you support them. it's been a growing defense of ukraine's near not include from western media outlets since the beginning of the conflict in ukraine. and that's despite early reports by the c, e and the you in about the atrocities committed by these units. well, it's called live now to steve jill and radio host and political commentator. thanks so much for joining us. the white washing of ukraine's near nazi groups appears to be on the wives in western media. why do you think they putting a blind eye to these actions? i think the western media has been all in painting the ukranian side of this

conflict as being the good guys and, and russia being evil in the process while ignoring the videos and the pictures of, of not just the regiment with the coffin that you mentioned. but also just pure swastika flags have been probably held up by a, by some of these militia. i think it's just part and parcel of, of the us media taking aside in this conflict rather than reporting the facts reporting what's actually going on. there hasn't been much coverage of the militia assault in the da bass region that is terrorized folks and any ukraine for a long time. there was no u. s. coverage of that. and it's interesting that the coverage of the ukraine, russia war right out, has moved to the back pages of any pages of the newspapers. as russia seems to be making games. they're not putting it on the front pages of the newspaper, like they were when they were claiming that ukraine, but somehow winning this more. as you quickly say, they said he does seem to be

a selective narrative. what can be the consequences for such selection on waste and view as given that they are often deprived as you say, of alternative coverage of the conflict and ukraine? you know, i think it's really unfortunate that you're not having independent journalists that are on both sides of the conflict i've, i've imbedded a couple of times with us troops in iraq during the iraq war. you want to have independent journalist reporting what's actually happening rather than simply relying on, on the propaganda that is dispensed by both sides all too often. i think that for example, right down the international red cross is being invited to come in and try to find the truth out of some of the bombings that are being claimed by western media and ukrainian media to be the false, the russians. and yet they're being blocked from coming in, the more independent reporting, we can have the more journalistic reporting we can have them, what's actually going on, hopefully depressed some of the propaganda that's been such

a big part of this war. it's been a crazy war where you have presidents lensky and his wife, in the midst of this conflict, posing for a vogue cover. i can't imagine during world war 2 that went or else would have posed for the cover of cigar aficionado. at the height of the blitz bombing by the nazis in london, it is just bizarre, that this has been such a propagandized war. and you've got us celebrities supposedly traveling in war zones for, for photo ops, but not to get the truth. as if it does seem bizarre, you have also on social media where you it's voice and concerns over the use of nazi imagery in photos that a company, ukraine reports 5 ways to media. do you think that all of this could be affecting the west? the narrative? yeah, i get, i think it's one of those bizarre twist. the people are complaining about western media showing those nazi images. now. a lot of americans may not recognize the wolf

symbol, but they recognize the swastika. and it's interesting that they're posting those pictures and then some people are complaining about the photos. don't you want the american and western media to know what those folks are waving as they go into these battles who, who they are aligned with and have been aligned with since world war 2? i think it's again an interesting twist. and this whole narrative that the truth is, is a tag while lives are propagated. how been interesting that you say that as russia's making gains. so the story is making it to the back pages. do you think this is, this is the case, or do you think it's just that the conflict has been going on for so long that it's inevitable that it is not in the, the news headlines? i think it, it is because the, the u. s. media took such a strong side and they were painting, ukraine is blameless. for the conflict, the west is blameless for the conflict and that everything was brushes fault. they've pushed the propaganda narrative pretty hard and it's hard for them to back

up and start to report the truth. at this point, you are seeing some glare logan, tucker carlson with fox news and others have been starting to speak the truth. they were speaking it all along. they just didn't get much, much voice, but i think on one hand it's been intentional. on the other hand, i do think it's a war weariness and certainly a taxpayer weariness in the u. s. as the bill for what we're expending on behalf of ukraine keeps going up and up and up, the lindsey keeps asking for billions more. our congress has been willing to, to write blank checks for a long time. and i think the, the american people are getting really weary of that. and that may be part of why the media is putting it further back in the papers so that people will forget how much of our money is going to support lensky and his regime. and that's the will continue, is how do you believe the current situation is affecting public support in western countries for ukraine? you know, i think it's been unfortunate for a long time that, that there hasn't been again, that journalistic integrity of what's actually going on. so that people can,

can make good decisions in democratic countries where the popular vote is important . you have to have it informed and involves people. and if you're getting misinformation, dis, information and outright propaganda, i think it skews the whole system. i think you see it on both sides. i think, you know, young people in the united states are getting an increasing amount of their news from social media or from comedy shows. and i suspect the same things happening with some of the young russians as well. that's that they're, they're more captured by the, the, the social media than the, than the real media. nobody's thinking skeptically. and i think on all sides of the reno that is bad at that news. bad news, steve, jo, radio host and political commentator. thank you so much for joining us here and giving us that kind of insight. thank you. the, the irish president has been urged to clarify his country's dance on the warn ukraine after a letter from his wife on the situation was met with

a public outcry. sabina higgins has called for peace negotiations, a position which of it you country shed just a few months ago. that however now contradicts the width and i and then narrative that russia is solely to blame. she was a good sized and irish times. editorial things was quote, disappointed that it did not encourage any ceasefire talks that might lead to positive settlement. the 1st lady's remarks have been met by condemnation, from within your own country. mister higgins is entitled to her personal opinion and to express it, although i believe that she is totally wrong to try to see an equivalent in the positions of ukraine and russia. it is incumbent on the president of violence and now express, clearly the strong support of the people of ireland for the people of ukraine. independent, independent journalist, jason, michael, things that island which is not part of nature. it's still under pressure to follow the width perspective on the wall and a line with ukraine. we have to bear in mind, ireland is not aligned, it's not

a native member. it's neutral by its constitution. but there is a great deal of political pressure in island for some kind of alignment with natal at this time and growing, but it's not supported by public opinion. it was also quite shocking. the reaction from the, the political and the media establishment, an island which would certainly draw a picture of it being almost an act of treason or sedition. or for anyone in public life to ask for a sci fi and piece, really, the irish political establishment is out of touch with the irish people. and michael de higgins and his wife are very much in tune with the opinions of irish people. well, that brings us to the end of the need for this hour. we'll be back with you in about 30 minutes with an update. but of course you can always head to our website

at rp dot com for more time the news. i'll see you at the top of the hour. thanks so much for joining us. the long when i would show the same wrong when old free joe, don't the rules. yes, to fill out the thing because after an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look for common ground. ah, 3 church hills

goal was to preserve the british empire. the united states wanted an open world there which american dollar could penetrate, which american trade would have access everywhere and to market. and to labor had 2 resources around the globe. so they had very different kinds of conflict. the interest with john chill installing of an impending attack on the u. s. s. huh. in the face of great danger, he seeks an alliance with russia. stolen doesn't reply. he doesn't trust churchill

at 4 o'clock this morning, the hitler attacked and invaded russia suddenly, with our declaration of war without even algae, megan, the german bomb rain down from the guy a been the russians in russian danger is therefore our danger and the danger of the united states 2 days later us, president roosevelt also gives a speech supporting the ussr. but there are other political forces in the united states. territory makes his speech in december of 41 and the senate is as if the russians are when they wish to the fort, the germans, that if the germans are, when we support the russians and that way, let them destroy each other.