as any bigger solicitor who will they should, i see it appears to notice to pick up from that were stamped it a when a bundle of 11. i think it's enough of a lines right now. one off into national as russia wants, that ukraine's latest security proposals towards western allies are a to record to world war 3. e, u chief ursula vandal and state of the union speech is all about ukraine, potentially ignoring that have skyrocket again. inflation and energy crisis and other issues affecting ordinary people within the block. india is government that poses a ban on rice exports in an effort to increase domestic availability as devastating floods. whitehouse, regional office with

director worldwide headlines for a wednesday life. moscow. this is alta international are very welcome to you, so being shackled into key of servitude. that's how moscow's describe, newly proposed ukrainian security guarantees. they've been drafted with the help of an ex nato chief and are expected to be signed into approval by more than a dozen european states. i got some clarity on the issue just a bit earlier in the program with our correspondent egos, dan, off. the very basic bottom line is of with these of these proposals that have been drawn up by the way, by cave and nato together is to provide ukraine with all perks that a natal member state gets, but without actually declaring or ukraine and giving it the status of a member state of this block essentially, or there are a few points here. for example,

a bunch of european nations and nato member states that they will be obliged, according to these proposals to invest into ukraine to provide ukraine with arms shipments. secondly, they would pledge military action in case ukraine's well security is compromised in case you crane is threatened, or they will be conducting joint exercises, nato, and key of and so on and so forth. the proposed guarantors of all this would be the u. s. u k. canada, a bunch of european nations like poland, italy, and et cetera. and so they would have the same obligations in front of ukraine are, as they do in front of any other nato member state preventive measures like within the realms of the military finance. so it is really an all encompassing an effort. it is an all encompassing proposal that is very, very much global and in its magnitude, it could be very significant when it comes to both the fates of ukraine and well,

the natal block, his house, zalinski, and his nato counterpart. how the? well, how they discussed and how they announced this, these proposals have allison, this one. this is the key issue. this great big 1st step was everybody you've done a great job is done a lot and work together as a team lead. but this is just the 1st step, but it is the 1st, but an essential step hello. do. so of course keith, once this deal here wants this out of the proposal state and drawn to something more concrete. because again, it is quite a lopsided key of gets everything the american military industrial complex gets loads of money and loads of orders under europe world europe has to provide everything kind of sounds like this is all going to be crossing one of our putin's red lines. you got to tell me here, what kind of reaction are we getting out of moscow to this? well in moscow, in the kremlin now,

they did not missed their words. they said that it was due a direct path to world war 3. this is a quote to, by russia's former president, of course, dmitri madrid of. and again, this goes, this brings nothing to the table when it comes to, you know, restoring peace in europe. if you like it, it does exactly the opposite. because if you were wind towards, you know, february january, december, when russia, when moscow was voicing its security concerns, it wanted exactly the opposite. this was the main reason that russia started. it's what it calls a special military operation because it did not want ukraine to potentially sometime become a nato member state. here's how this these proposals were described by the spokeswoman of the russian foreign ministry. maria's a heart of again heavily sentries. good. either. this will tie the hands of the european union in such a way and put them under such savage, so vile dependence that they will never recover to their former economic growth and development. now that they, in such a difficult situation, they have proposed such

a terrible shackle and to find in their blood, it will be a never ending horror. so we have this kind of further coagulation of ukraine or kia with it. so western professional partners here, we've had a reaction out of moscow that was pretty firm, one might say, any reaction out of brussels yet? well, so far there's no indication that these proposals were drawn up in any shape or form together with brussels. it's as if they were held almost like held hostage. so this is what we're getting, this would keep is going to get, this is what the us is going to get and you are going to provide everything. so again, time and time again, we've been hearing these statements coming out of brussels coming out to various european countries. there thing, okay, we are eager to provide money to loan money to ukraine, to provide weapons heavy military equipment as well, but only to a certain point. and many nations have already stepped forward saying that the limit has been reached. if they were to send more weapons to ukraine than they

would be taking them away from their own forces. so, but no can do. and almost up to every statement we, we've seen more and more alms pouring into ukraine, including from europe to, from the united states. of course, a lot of them, but from europe as well. it's as if they're being strong armed into providing more and more weapons so that they potentially could, later will strike deals. and you know, purchase, said weapons from the united states because their own safety and security is being compromised by all by this, you know, by, they still flow by the stream of military equipment that they are providing to ukraine. so europe, it doesn't seem that europe is excited about this thing. and while huge amounts of advanced western arms has been handed over to ukraine, a key and says it's still not enough than cold out germany in particular, ukraine's talked about so it's, he's not happy over berlin's refusal to send it's modern bottled tanks and armored

personnel carriers insisting that his country needs them now. disappointing signals from germany, while ukraine needs leopards and martyrs now to liberate people and save them from genocide. not a single rational argument on why these weapons cannot be supplied only abstract fears and excuses. well, in our key, every demanding advanced leopard, 2 tongues, which cost a $10000000.00 euros each, as well as mazda infantry fighting vehicles to replace hardware reasonably destroyed in the conflict. now, after this point, the western countries have been supplying mostly outdated, armored vehicles. but this isn't the 1st time that key of officials have well taken a swipe at berlin for not doing enough. although germany's defense minute has said that its military aid is actually reaching the limit we have handed over an unbelievable amount from the reserves of the boon to the fair. but i say at this

point quite clearly that we have reached the limit. alright crossing, i've got to get the thoughts and all of this from a human rights lawyer and social interest at martin volta. joining us on this program this afternoon. a very well welcome to use germany's defense minister insisting there are limits to the country's military aid to ukraine. what's your thoughts on that? yes, i think she's right for the limit. and then from the point of view of humanism that everyone wants peace negotiations has to be brought over and no more so weapons through the ukraine. when we look clearly, the u. s. is that using the region, the doc training to use ukraine, produced a russia and bringing over the 2nd world war and germany of the routing countries doing good. if the ambulance stopped walks, the ukrainian government created government is not really democratic. they

supported by the conducting a war and want to draw other countries in traditional and we as a peace movement in germany, the majority of the peace movement and those who are human as we would like to that, the german government. anyway, it stops any support with weapons because we don't want to endanger europe in a 3rd. if the u. s. interest one, the ukraine to fight on and type on. and it's not the european interest. i think there has to be a turn around, but the german government, now they say they don't want to export more anymore. weapons are not leo cars. and it seems like a flip for you, but it does seem like a flip flop. you have one thing out of out of, from german officials, then you, then you hear another thing i did want to ask you, certainly some of the tanks and military hardware that have been sent from various

nato countries into ukraine. some of them, a cold war relics, i mean, some of the tanks, they stop production in 1982. why haven't a western powers been providing modern equipment another long range missiles the key of has been requesting. oh, that's different reasons for that. the 1st reason is that the german government know wants to provide when this vs with new weapons and so they try to get rid of old stuff and it's like a cynic, cynic measure to provide revenues 3 with money and such a wall. but then as well, i think there is the different actors in germany, then some actors who are a bit more offensive and totally transatlantic, like the green coffee. mr. big. and the devil would mr. lynn who would join more aggressive stuff if you very straight. and then there is other, as well,

who are a bit more, let's say, different use it and they, they get it like to be part of the social democrats controls coming from. but the other part of the social democratic trans atlantic as well. so there's the title, kind of struggle in between the different ideas what to do next. but that's a lot of pressure in the german mainstream. and even in part of the left that there should be more exports of the ukrainian government and should be supported even though that knowledge that they are still qualified fashion. and that they are not really democratic. martin daughter, human rights lawyer and socio all the just joining us live here in archie international. great to see you. thanks so much for that and thank you for joining us here for this program. turning to the latest now from don bass. ukrainian artillery shelling has reportedly killed 4 civilians in the village, north of gorda lapka,

that's in the donuts republic over the last 24 hours. it's off the local officials and the neighboring lu ganske republic said at least 2 people died in a ukrainian strike on tuesday. i should warn you, you may well find the following images to stopping. will show the aftermath of the attack which hit the city of the list. it chanced. officials say the shelling came during a humanitarian aid delivery to locals. and it won't apparently, us supplied high mos rockets that impacted that area. meanwhile, the governor of russia belgrade region has reported renewed ukrainian shutting on a village that over the border where at least 2 people were wounded. locals as we understand have been evacuated. it comes a day after a ukrainian refugee was killed and full wounded in a similar attack by keith's forces using american military hardware. now hundreds of ukrainians have now fled to russia, following a recommendation by the acting head of ukraine's ne, in hardcore region. the influx of refugees was triggered recently when keith's

military force is re, took control of a number of towns in that region and fears of ukrainian reprisals. and those territories have been growing with threats being made against any one who had cooperated in any shape or form with russia. he is what one of the refugees told us lunch this hubs 3 of them, the shell and stars. it and they fired at the administration and shops shops where there were russian products. they were looking for people with russian passports and they tortured them. these were the national battalions. the chron enormous seemed to be okay. but the battalions didn't carry for was women or children. they didn't even speak ukrainian or russian. we thought it was very scary to state. could have your company today. china may be hit by us sanctions over its bid to re integrate taiwan. report say that washington is preparing a package of sanctions to deter beijing from what the u. s. as calling an invasion

a taiwan is still not officially recognized by most of the un countries, including america. let's high one vote, considers itself independent from china. i want to emphasize that no country or person should underestimate the strong determination and firm will of the chinese government and people in defending our national sovereignty territorial integrity and realizing the re unification of the motherland. tensions between china and taiwan dramatically escalated the recent months of last week. taiwan staged 2 days of live fire drills. a back in august of china held its largest ever military exercises around the island territory of china's display of power. the u. s. state department announced $1100000000.00 worth of arm sales to taiwan, saying this was vital for taiwan to maintain a sufficient self defense capability. life now to andrew long and international independent, china's specialist joining us hey, live on this program on our t international, a very warm welcome to you. so just last week,

the u. s. state department, announcing $1100000000.00 and arm sales to taiwan, saying its vital for its security. ah mister long, what, what do you think is a, is a weapons sale of that size and, and degree to tie one is not going to deescalate pensions. do you thing? well, let's just keep these on sales in perspective. regardless of the size, it is authorized by the taiwan relations act, acted by the united states many years. and so it is that the us government isn't power is act, but the supply these weapons does not necessarily mean that. busy on there or declare the jewel independence, an effect of the pie one enjoys a great deal of also call freedom of movement without violating the one china policy. but,

but the fact of the matter is the united states has been trying to haul out the one type of principle. the one find a policy by using more and more senior pictures to visit on creating more and more the magic space i want to perform as if i want to separate country. now the pollution visit was. ready the law school as it were on the camel's back, and hands leading to this military exercises by b j, around taiwan. now the latest report about the united states thinking of he ended sanctions. now this is really out of the old. ready because a rating is not preparing and needed in nation. there is no indication that beijing government is carrying war, but i'll call you by law literally the beijing terry hall. this

meant, well, the long be decades ago, beijing already and act at the end is a session, but provide the one china policy. there is no indication to begin with. he needs to the love nation for angela. i'm so i'm so sorry to interrupt. now i do ask for your forgiveness piece. i've got such a little time here, but, you know, i interviewed the foreman new zealand for my deputy foreign minister who told me a few days ago that he said that the u. s. in that part of the world in the age of pacific, he actually said the u. s. has been bullying. china for very, very long time. obviously, you know, taiwan is in china's back yard. it's nowhere near america. i mean, it reminds me of the u. k. in the full claims, i wanted to ask you, what is the us doing over there with all of its rights of freedom of navigation passages through the south china sea and all of this nancy pelosi and these ongoing delegations of u. s. officials flying, they went when china keep saying, stop it,

what is washington trying to prove and that part of the world on tucson, so all the bible immunizations is trying to prove to and the republican party. busy that is acting. busy tougher on china than the other side. and, but there is a bipartisan consensus on the existence of the american hedge money. so i'm going to try to do is a little rivalry in but also internationally by that wants to show them that he's not the lead. all american lead a will or not, but this behavior, as i said, it's been going on by some time and it's only that on the part of the ministration is really close to the

a breaking point. but even though we're with the breaking point, there is no indication of airing for the nation. so this idea or sanctioning china was something to have done is quite extraordinary. is a direct location is totally unpleasant. andrea, i mean, yeah, i do just, i'm so sorry. i'm jumping one more time, but i've got a little time left. last question for you please. 20 seconds left. it, in your opinion, is the population of taiwan. are the people that satisfied with the current situation? well, the a support it in education according to the latest polls or more than 60 or 70 percent of post and at the unification. but on the other hand, if you look at it that you did the trigger a beijing reaction. so it boss majority one as

well. and then of the latest, oh, there's no indication that the people in case of that as a really in china innovation, it would be able to defend themselves. all wanting to depend. i want. busy so i think that we have, we're seeing a kind of a very funny scenario upon people that they just want to. so if the state. ready both united states who should get and one of them further and b j has already said that. busy you push it for and really i want to be an independent country then that todd is going to have no other option. and then he'll honestly say, well, before you do that and even you will not be fair to do it immediately. we're going to impose sanctions on on you in the anticipation of what you do agree to it in the current state of geo politics and geo economics. the 2 biggest

boys on the block keep on locking horns or andro longer international independent china specialist. always a pleasure. thank you very much. thank you. thank you for joining us here on this program on our to international. so get this natural gas prices of soar to over $2250.00 euros per 1000 cubic meters. that's rising about 200 euros shortly after e u chief of sullivan, the land delivered her state of the union speech. on wednesday, she focus much more on the ukraine conflict than others, perhaps urgent issues for ordinary europeans, particularly that. but the energy crisis is, is not only a war unleashed by russia against ukraine. this is also warn our energy. it's a war now economy. it's a, we're on our values. it is a war on our future. it is about autocracy against democracy

frequency. oh, so amanda lamba wearing her ukrainian colors, the yellow jacket and the blue shirt. those are odds. he's are rachel moss and all contributor. joining us now live from paris, good afternoon to you again. any reaction from e? you? politicians are regarding vandalay and wednesday night speech. anyone tuning into the you commission president. ursa vander, lane's annual seed of the european union speech this morning could be forgiven for thinking that ukraine was part of the you when. of course, it isn't right yet because that's all she could talk about despite brussels own sanctions policies, amid the ukraine conflict being single handedly responsible for downloading costs of living hardships on european citizens. so europeans wanted to hear what brussels planned to do for your opinions to ease their pain on everything from energy pricing to inflation. several members of european parliament rob sat with what wagner lane had to say, you surgeries, could you just have to speak to citizens to business?

so i can promise you that none of them is concerned about the russian friend, but they are concerned about is that they are having to deal with the damage caused by years of devastating policy for the body. of course, we have her talk about general policies, but the objective must be to look after the interests of european citizens and respond to that concerns at all. i have come here with the gas bill that people asked me to show you 2130 euros. people are worried about not being able to hate their homes this winter. because all wall energy security and mitigating high energy prices. these are most pressing task. the situation we are facing is very difficult. your opinions are angry, the time will soon come when you have to stand before a judge and say what you have done for the european dream. or some of their commission told us that the sanctions will bring russia to it's nice. we just don't, you promised us that the sanctions would hurt russia multi repeating,

and the prices are continue to skyrocket. and all these time russia has happened, li profited from the energy market to it's almost as if ukraine is just a convenient excuse to avoid longstanding problems that have long played the you listening to vander line, you think that everything in europe was going pretty well, which of course, it really isn't. brussels is also apparently committed to staying the course on its ukraine policies, which are proving to be nothing less than disastrous for the use economy and for its people. and as if to illustrate how oblivious she has voluntarily and announced that you energy companies would have their profits kept. the commission has proposed introducing a profit ceiling of a $180.00 euros per megawatt hour for coal nuclear and renewable energy companies in the e. u. and using the so called excess profits as a solidarity contribution to offset the energy crisis and dump it all probably into a big black hole slush fund, which the e u is so good at doing now. this kind of language,

solidarity contribution with excess profits. 33 percent of their excess profits are going to be used for this. apparently, that's really uneasy language to free market capitalists which the west is supposed to represent terms of their values. so now instead of the russian or for an energy price cap that some member states wanted initially it's e, you companies that are going to be paying the price for the use ukraine policies. so much for the western free market. i guess the commission also proposes a reduction across the block of electricity consumption by 10 percent until march 31st of next year and an obligation for member states to reduce use by 5 percent during peak hours. this ignores the fact that some countries have already cut their consumption like finland, for example, which is down by 50 percent already aren't natural gas consumption from january to august compared to the same period last year. overall, the whole speech was like a mix tape of the use greatest hit. she talked about expanding the block to include moldova, georgia and ukraine, when there's hardly enough cash to go around already. she made

a lot of noise about green and digital transitions, which just sounds like a pretext for taking more control over people's daily lives. she announced a new 3000000000 euro investment fund for energy, the hydrogen energy, while ignoring that brussel sanctions and the need for immediate energy have single handedly revised fossil fuel projects and infrastructure. it just sounds like the leadership in brussels from vander, line to chief diplomat. joseph burrell, are totally russia obsessed to the exclusion of pretty much everything else. we cannot live sanctions until they have had their effect. they may not have had an immediate impact. it is like going on a diet to lose weight and being upset that you haven't lost kilo's and kilo's after just a couple of weeks. so while they're focused on sticking it to russia and to russian president vladimir putin, low income spanish families are now finding it harder to afford healthy food basics that's according to l mondo newspaper. a new survey also found the 85 percent of them worry about the impact of the ukraine crisis on their daily lives and say that

life has become 30 percent more expensive. so all europeans suffer vander lion is basically telling them to not ask what can be done for them, but what they can keep doing for ukraine to paraphrase that famous sons by john f kennedy. i dont see contributor rachel mawson. thank you. shifting gears now to a central africa where 60 farm associations of ask the government officials to invest into the domestic agricultural industry to help ease the dependency on food import side. as basically given the ongoing current crisis, we need governments in central africa to give us the means and resources so that we can produce enough seeds. because now we don't have a sufficient amount to insure our food sovereignty. there is an urgent need and the farmers organizations are very willing to solve the food crisis and in the south of the continent. the situation is dire with economic and environmental factors

contributing to a potential humanitarian disaster. in zimbabwe, 3800000 people without a stable supply of food and in a book and a fast. so that number comes to 3, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 in gambia. over 300000 people are desperate just to find their next meal. but we spoke with associate professor of the university of south africa to me, babies, silicon who believes the food problem and poverty on the continent will be growing until the u. n. adopts more flexible policies. the reality is that while we are, you know where to where the gap between division, who keeps on going and going every day, every hour. i know that each i've been coming to each other because you do have 2 of them. it is that nothing will change and especially where we are to do with all these. i'm d a. d,

a regions all reach out based on the case in general. so some extending outages, but we'll continue to see this. kept going and food becoming a public, as long as the united united nation or the old general does not playing flexible policies, total key for those who are poor and those who i need to get a chance off of the consequences. what about the rest of the post, which is i've got, i think god is one of the 20 and then i can get consequence of this. it kind of functions. now as the main rice exporters to the southern africa have been dealing with very poor harvests. the situation is due to get worse as massive floods in pakistan. and india set to cut imports from these nations is about helping exporting full 1000000 tons per year in the past to south africa. and new delhi had been a steady contributor of $21000000.00 tons per year,

but it seems those days are over. meanwhile, the price of the commodity could rise off to the indian government and the export of broken rice, which is used to make starch and rice flour. and you deli, made the move to protect its home market. let's get details now. the disturbing details with shots. it's already been the export to wheat, and now the indian government has put a blanket ban on exports of broken rice. additionally, a 20 percent duty is also being placed on the export of all non boss maddie mal rice, barring to premier, were i tease the sol, comes into effect after the 15th of september. when this notification came on, if evening, lot of consignments were already either emerald ordered under preparation, and they were ready to move to the ports. we estimate that it on the $5.00 to $7.00 like guns or would.