from europe finds itself to be very vulnerable. rejection of russian energy is not only slowing europe's economy, but also bringing on a recession. what's worse? europe's economic woes for self inflicted is europe attempting suicide? ah. correspondent comes on the ukrainian selling one on the front line with russian troops as here from military twice to be back. moscow supported ukraine's castorena and called region with counter offensive as a ploy to drum up more weapons supplies from the west. according to russia, to be run and toys plus the, a reflection on imperialism and colonialism in the wake of the book is queen is death. there's outrage in africa. a video from the b b. c, claiming london. how to warn relations with formally exploits

with belgium rebels against a 5 count on russian gas import calling the proposal from the commission, a totally political with a very warm welcome to you with for pm here in the russian capital. and this is international with me to get. aaron, i'll be start with ukraine. where keeps forces have suffered heavy loss is trying to break russia's defense. there's in the north east, in called region, that's according to local moscow backs or forties. some unverified homage of footage from the area proposed to carry the sounds of fierce bottles that ah, reinforcements have been sent to the region as you can see and it's it's,

it's from the ministry of defense that ukraine claims on specified a territorial games. well, most stays, that key of has exaggerate, to be performance of this military fighting of escalating on the outskirts of the city of bella clay, that's a to russian back. so doris east, they say the key city a piano is being defended by russian forces, despite attempts at sabotaged moscow states that ukrainian attacks in nikolai has on the cast stone region have also been repelled. our correspondent came on defiant from cats forces while reporting from the front line and close life. now to our senior correspondent mind dancy asthma, right. i understand that you were a quarter and a ukrainian shelling on the front line. katie, tell us more about it and what have been the latest developments on the ground

where you are well, the push, as you saw, was from verizon region, which is where we are now. this is where the ukranian counter offensive, but god, the aim of it isn't entirely killed. we moved here over the past week, ukraine suffered huge casualties and boom, material that is tagged vehicles, armored personnel carriers, but also troops, potentially thousands of ukrainian soldiers who perished here over the past week on the hill saw fraud and all for just half a dozen villages that they managed to retake. there isn't any understanding of what the objective was now. that offensive you said to on the height of that again, thousands upon thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps of ukrainian troops are being driven across fields across the open to towns

and villages that again hold very little strategic value. jonathan, this is christina green, has retaken several villages, but of course there can be no talk of any breakthrough, and military experts are well aware of this. but the west media have already trumpeted that the ukraine has launched a counter offensive which needs to be supposed by new western weapons. thus had the necessary media background was created for the median in ramstein, which is exactly what zaleski and his west must is wanted. and this means that there is every chance that the ukrainian conflict will continue to be filled with new deliveries of quest and weapons. here in here saw the ukranian counter offensive has been all but dull that there are barely any efforts being made now to to move forward. there were 2 small attempt yesterday, both of them beat and back again with with losses for ukrainian troops. the. 3 feds

of, again, is now centered on havoc of where about 2 dozen and that is, according to the ukranian side, villages have been re taken after cost that we have no idea of yet, although already ukrainian channels, various channels on facebook and telegram the represent ukrainian units ah, whining about huge casualties. ag spare, expressing concern, the soldiers are being used as human shields as, as cannon fodder for russian, artillery and guns. and that losses amounting and huge already though, we have seen footage of rush and convoys of russian special forces being loaded on to helicopters. taken to the front lines in order to resist the plan, you have had to veil again, the aim of which isn't entirely clear what they have achieved so far as caused. tremendous panic among locals, we have sheep kilometers, your long queues of local spear civilians with their families trying to escape into

rush and control. territory depot to russian control territory into russia itself to was scapes, perhaps reprisals from nuclear troops. ukrainian nationalists for working with them for not resisting russian troops. russian forces. nevertheless, the situation is still unfolding. the russian high commanders is confident this, these, the tab in case of regent a re take of villages liberated re taken by russia will be muted as was the attempt in kept saud more. as many thanks for that update has been speaking to ortiz at senior, corresponded mine downstairs there. thank you. and meanwhile, an italian report has been wounded by a ukrainian mind while covering keith's movements in the south of the country. russian soldiers came to his aid with his foot. it shows the damage vehicle that have been carrying the journalist to the contact line. he was abandoned by

ukrainian soldiers had been accompanying him. his driver died on the spot as, according to rational authorities. there were some 1st hand accounts from those at the theme with me now we were in position when we heard an explosion. we reached the car and realized it was a foreigner who da da speak russian. well, we understood that he was of military journalist, marcia, from italy, from milan. we gave him 1st aid as he had multiple shrapnel wounds. he was then given something to counter the pain. and after that, we pulled him from the car and carried him through the minefield. ukrainian troops were firing at us and we staggered our movements so as not to get hit. but in the

end, everything went fine. while the journalist is now receiving medical treatment, his life is understood to be out of danger. ah, quite elizabeth's, the eldest son is to be officially proclaimed king charles the 3rd on saturday, currently 73 years old. charles will be the oldest royal to be declared king in british history. britain has begun a 10 day morning period to mark the passing of queen elizabeth, who died on thursday. the age of $96.00 at palmera canceling scotland. she was the nation's longest serving monarch with her reign, having spawn 7 decades supporters have been gathering outside london's buckingham palace. and others have been laying flowers at british embassies worldwide. moscow and paris several so host it ceremonies in her honor and blood. my putin has expressed his condolences right to alter the queen's death. the bbc presented a video showing the history of her relations with africa, claiming it was over all positive and long standing. but many africans expressed in

much different view before the outlet blogs. comments on the post repeat off to me, we take a look at queen elizabeth, the 2nd brutal colonization and subsequent destruction of african countries. please don't insult us. it's called a colonialism. what is a longstanding relationship? one that is abusive because england abused africa big time, and it's time for united kingdom to pay reparations. we never had a relationship with elizabeth. it was imperialism and colonialism. meaning it was forced into us colonial relationship. for more details as close to assay correspondence, corolla toddler, thank you for joining us, corolla. i now understand that some africans have been outraged by the bbc's tweet . i can give her some more background on the issue the bbc is seen as trying to sanitize the legacy of queen elizabeth the 2nd,

especially some of the atrocities that happened here on the african continent to ring at the reign of colonialism and bed does not necessarily match with what has been presented by alternative media. the queen is largely seen in the continent as somebody who did visit somebody who came on a lot of african safaris, but did not re lift a finger when it came to doing things that would actually empower the independence . and the economic development of african countries shall legacy here remains ed best though a contested legacy. and at west this very sketchy, she is still the scene largely here, as, as a person that enabled african states to gain independence only to have them as friends on the global stage. but also like the she was seem lively as someone who did nothing during the height of atrocities, and particularly in a case of south africa during a party where, where her country,

the united kingdom refused to put sanctions on south africa. so at best it remains a very, very sketchy legacy. her 70 year reign as queen, she never once acknowledged the atrocities that her family inflicted on native people that britain invaded across the world. the british royal family stands on the shoulders of millions of slaves who are shipped away from the continent to serve the interests of racist white capital accumulation at the center of which lies the british royal family. ah, ah. okay, many thank. so for that update, i saw the correspondent caribella toddler, beth, thank you for staying in britain,

newly appointed u. k. prime minister liz trust has announced a plan to tackle europe the energy crisis. does she immediately face backlash or opposition? politicians who say the proposal would fail to help ordinary people. it seems that the government has decided to deal with this energy crisis of the facts of ordinary hard working with 150 years worth of golf under the grind and gp at as absolute motto to turner back on that resource at a time when people are facing huge energy, both the prime minister is right to recognize that immediate support leased to be combined with longer term action. but i'm afraid fucking, but a dash for gas in the north sea will not cut bills nor strength from our energy security. but they will drive a cochin force withdraw efforts to fight the looming climate crisis. the government has lifted a ban on fracking,

full shale gas in england as part of his efforts to restore domestic phil supplies . our practice, of course, was halted 3 years ago and made opposition from activists and local concerns over environmental damage. alexander mackay, a political analyst and editor of red star radio, say the prime minister appears to lack a long term solution to the crisis. they run into a series of political problems last time. the government tried this 10 years ago and has no sign that they have a comprehensive plan to develop these energy sources to a degree that would actually impact upon the, the bills that people are paying at the moment. and the, the, the other stuff regarding the support to an individual household is mainly around the freezing of energy prices at the current level of over 2 and a half 1000 pounds a year. they have decided to go ahead with a strategy of essentially i'm trying to stave off the crisis for the winter and

hope that they can get into the spring of next year. and some other solution will present itself. so none of what has been announced this week actually deals with the, the long term problems that have been facing britain in the energy sector for almost 1st years. it's a short term is response from less trust designed to generate headlines mainly and will make it look as if she is doing something. i see no evidence that list trust or had chancellor quasi quite anger or any of the others in the cabinet have a longer term view than just evading or the immediate crisis. ah, belgian will not agree to a price cat on russian gas. that's according to the country's energy minister who said that the proposals are purely political. our intention, 1st and foremost is to bring prices down, a cap on only russian gas is purely political. i don't see the added value in that . we will not agree to this for the 1000 as close lives till i contribute to rachel

martha now. rachel? nice to see you. so what do you make of the belgian? any do ministers, remarks? there is things like there's another stumbling blocks, a, b, e, u to remain united when it comes to rushing gas. well, european union energy ministers are meeting today in prague where 70000 or so protesters came out against european energy sanctions and rising costs. just a few days ago, all focus is on the blocks energy price and supply problem. earlier this week, european commission, president ursula vander line later, a plan for the block to make it through the winter now that it sanctioned so much of its own energy supply, that its reeking far more havoc on the e. u, than on russia. van der line called for a price cap on russian pipeline gas to quote, cut rushes revenues. thinking that it would prevent russia from pursuing its objectives in the ukraine conflict, which should blow up in the use face about as well as its other virtue,

signaling and manipulation attempts have if it ever decides to implement that price cap. vondell line also said that a price cap on all important gas from russia, including non pipeline liquefied natural gas is currently being studied, but not on the table. belgium is one of at least 10 you countries that wants to take that idea even further with a price cap on l n g imported from all suppliers. and not just singling out russia politically, as you mentioned in the initial clip. so basically, now that b u has made a total mess of its energy market. some block officials believe that they should be demanding discounts. it's a bit like walking into a store and demanding to get things for a lower price than ever. when else comes into the store, just because you mismatched your own finances, it's hard to imagine the u. s. a major supplier of l n. g,

agreeing to provide it to the you at whatever price the you chooses. what happened to this whole price cap idea of being about denying putin revenues? now these politicians are basically emitting that it's just about saving themselves from the mass that they've made of their formerly free market by considering it for all countries. now, the u sanctions policy has been a bit like when you try to cut your own hair, you know, you give it a for shot, it comes a little bit crooked out, you realize you messed up so you cut it the other way. it still crooked. it's even worse, it's getting shorter and sure you cut more and more, some point, maybe you realize that what you really should have done is just stop and think before doing any more damage. let's just say that wagner, lion seems to be finding it hard to put down those scissors. many thanks for those days. alsace, auntie contributes a rachel marston speaking to his life from paris. a

major western publisher that owns the news outlets politico and business insider has called for a ban on the chinese on social media platform, tick tock, citing a need to secure the privacy of uses. tick tock should be banned in every democracy . we have at the moment, and now you've talked with dealing with china, we hand over personal data to the chinese government. it is of course a tool of espionage, usually words like democracy and ban. don't walk hand in hand. democracy is about the free exchange of ideas, a market place of interpretations where the people get to make up their own decision, but not when countries like china come into the picture and similar to how r t has been banned across europe for daring to challenge the nato interpretation of events in ukraine either follow the globalist line or you must be silence. that's the way a lot of western voices are talking these days. notice that no one's calling for

a ban on instagram or facebook or google, despite their well known relationship with the u. s. government and it's intelligence apparatus. do you remember the cambridge analytic a scandal? 87000000 facebook users had their personal data turned over to a private firm that used it for political purposes. outrage and law suits and sued on average, how many data points to facebook. how about each facebook user? i do not know off the top my head, so the average for non facebook platforms is $1500.00. it's been reported that facebook has as many as 29000 of data points for an average facebook user will. in many, many talents of this story are the original bad guy, or the guy who took the data from facebook and sold it to cambridge analytic guy, the political firm in a word. was it wrong to do that where you wrong? ah, at the time where the thing we're doing anything wrong that was just our normal business as usual practice. i think right now absolutely are viewed as wrong. now that we

know how people feel about it, she spook has disclosed a 3rd parties can access to what you may have thought was private information. studies show that social media outlets are constantly tracking you and collecting your info. instagram was found to be the most invasive of the apps with 70 percent of your personal data collected and stored. whistleblowers, like edward snowden have told us over and over about how u. s. security agencies are in need deep and americans private information. the facts are there, if you care to hear them drop our chip is essentially an application that the an essay can push to your phone either through. i'm tricking you to download software, essentially via one of those mechanisms. they send software to your phone that essentially takes over your phone and allows in essay to send commands to it that collect your data that monitor your s m s, the turn on the microphone, the camera,

et cetera. donald trump tried to get tick tock band for alleged shiny his ties, and he failed to do so. so now this wealthy german dob for says it's time to get this censorship process going again. he owns business insider and politico among other publications. so his opinion matters, i guess it's not enough that alternative voices are being banned from many platforms. now this, censorship has got to extend to making sure that alternative platforms cannot compete. they say it's in our national interest and that free speech has to stop somewhere. well, many americans are looking at the rising costs of gas and food struggling to pay their bills and asking themselves, who is all this censorship really serving? caleb martin, r t, new york. let's take a quick look at some of the other events from around the globe. now, thousands of cubans have march to incentive havana asking the countries patron saint for help fighting countries was the economic crisis and decades known as

catchy. so local, see her as a symbol of mercy and unity. the traditional procession was deemed after a 2 year break of the corona virus pandemic. me more than in a 9 need to high, not to other freedom fighter. who were this, did the british empire has been unveiled in the countries capital into prime minister and arrange remote inaugurated monuments to independence hero natal g. so pounds contra, those he broke with mahatma john davis, who ally was germany and japan during world bullshit, was he thought the couple, the colonial regime in india, the belgian capital, hundreds of local taxi drivers have rallied against the protest. follow a recent probe into the company's operations which showed how expanded its business in europe, while apparently violating laws and you regulations. french presidents among mcclellan is also one criticism of allegation he secretly aided lobbyists in france

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ah. hello and welcome to crossed out. were all things considered? i'm peter lavelle. as winter draws near in temperatures, drop europe finds itself to be very vulnerable. rejection of russian energy is not only slowing europe's economy, but also bringing on a recession. what's worse? europe's economic woes are self inflicted. is europe attempting suicide? ah, cross sucking europe in crisis on joined by my guess michael hudson in new york. he's a professor of economics at the university, missouri, kansas city, as well as author of forgive them their debts in paris. we have his own brick mall . he is a political commentator. and in london we cross ed, real consumptive. he's is founder of a k consulting and a foreign affairs analyst or

a gentleman cross sack rolls in effect. that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciate. let's go to michael person, new york. i'm titling this program attempted suicide given what's going on the last 6 months in europe in the western world in general. is that an appropriate title for what's going on? well, i'm not sure that they are realizing that it's suicide. it's more so they're following a u. s. policy, which is the u. s. wants to kill europe, but really think it over the americans are the great beneficiaries of this, especially the oil industry that is cleaning up as the oil prices go up and that's strengthening the dollar. the euro's going down, the british pound is absolutely punching it's right now. $1.15 this morning and the, apparently, the europe is run by nato amount by the elected politicians. and miss bare bach of the foreign secretary said yesterday in poland,

but she doesn't care what the european voters while she's going to support your brain. well, imagine the politicians saying they don't care what the voters say that she's in there. and she is going to do what she's agreed with the united states to do to boycott russia. let me, let me go to going to go to parents young. i mean, how do you explain that? i mean, i agree with everything that michael just said there. i'm but i thought europe in america were comrades in arms and it comes to their proxy war against russia. but, you know, the, the, the 2 players to get the short end of the stick are obviously ukraine and europe. but, you know, in europe, this seems to continue to cow to washington when it's not in there, no interest whatsoever. is there any explanation for that? go ahead in paris. i want to emphasize, you know, a bio flies and there was name i forgot the one you said that the ball brimming was.