what we're facing, which is fashion with moscow opens and international terrorism prob, into a suspected attack on the russian german node stream pipeline. that's after several western media outlets claimed a warrant. you countries of a potential attack months ago local officials say things people are wounded in ukrainian shelling, of course on the attack comes after an overwhelming majority of people that voted in favor of joining russia. and china labels, washington are disruptive international rules. after us politicians accused the country of intimidating. i want

a committee a lie from our headquarters here in moscow. you're watching international. i was just on 5 in there in the russian capital. i'm peter scott bringing you the top stories this hour. the russian prosecutor general's office has opened an international terrorism investigation into a suspect to the attack on the russian german nod stream. pipeline me while several western media outlets claim the cia gave a vague warning to europeans of the possible attack. 3 months ago, the kremlin says the joe biden had pledged to sort out nod stream to of which had problem again us to come. this is a big problem for us because 1st and foremost, both lines of nordstrom to have filled with gas. all the systems are ready for punk grants, and the gas is very expensive. now this gas is escaping into the air for me to a ring. if you remember the statements that you as president made in early february

. he promised to get rid of nor extreme children. we don't know exactly where to learn and what we see a hysterical, euphoric reaction from polar 1000000 as they are thanking really less for this. we don't know what that means. either medium was the huge profits from american suppliers and liquefied natural gas each. they are very, very interested in continuing to weeks super profits. are we interested in this? no, we're not to make sure we have lost his gas or my route in europe. maybe jim is europe interesting in this room is germany. the engine of the european economy? are they interested in the longer pants are also in a very difficult situation right now to pick into like 17 reaction came after a form of polish top diplomat posted a photo of the massive gas leak and said to quote, to thank you. usa was sweden has said the cause of the pipeline damage could be an act of sabotage without suggesting a possible culprit. i projected back in february this year that you asked

interesting ukraine was about natural gas dales. but the apparent attack mold trim t, i remind she take notice there is no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from russia to western europe, including germany. thank you. usa. that sweets was very suspicious, and russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman even commented on it, asking whether it was an official admission of a terrorist attack. because at the moment, all signs up points in towards the united states. we're also learning now about sightings of american helicopters hovering over that area along the roots of the pipelines a few weeks ago. back in june, americans were boasting about conducting underwater drone experiments in the same area we're, one of the blasts took place. also, most importantly, i would say back in february, you as president joe biden, had warned that nordstrom to could become a target. and even us media are making that connection right now. let's listen. it

is true that blowing up north stream does not help vladimir putin. he would not do that. why would he? but that doesn't mean that other countries wouldn't consider doing it. they would consider it, and we know they have considered it because at least one of them has said so in public, if russian res at meas, tanks and troops crossing the are the border of ukraine. again, there are no, there will be we, there will be no longer a nor stream to we will bring in. and how will you do that? exactly. since the project and control of the project is within germany's control, i promise you will be able to do. and maybe they did, after all, they used to get 40 percent of a gas of, from russia. and now we had to reduce flows because of western sanction, technical issues. and now the gas flow has been halted completely. thompson and countries look for alternative sources with america being one of those sources. but

of course almost see here the side of the story. they're more interested in blaming, rasa, accusing that of an act of aggression. this for us. what of course means it would be like, shooting itself in the foot. but again, they're more interested in saying that this is all russia's faults, and poland actually seems to be their mouth piece lately. let's have a look. this is probably a signal from russia. this shows what means of mechanisms the russians are capable of resorting to in order to further de stabilize europe. now the head of the european commissions said that whoever is responsible, whoever is behind it, will have to pay for it. of course, that he didn't, they didn't specify a who yet trains presidential advisor already jumped on the bandwagon. accuser rashaw of an act of aggression saying that it's trying to create free winds her pilot. and as asking for more weapons, which is also very convenient. europe is already in the grip of this energy crisis . how will the damage to the pipelines now affect the people in europe?

we've seen the gas prices in europe skyrocket on these news. on tuesday they increased by 10 percent. but if we compare energy prices to the same time in september of 2021, for example, the increase to 100 percent. so consumers are really feeling it right now. and especially now when, when so we'll start there, very worried that they will not be able to afford to stay just stay warm. thoughts of the president of the german energy regulator has said that even though the market situation is tense right now, germany and europe are no longer dependent on nordstrom supplies and there will be just fine. so we'll see one winter starts. military journalists, vassily. 50 got of who's an expert in on the water technology says the sabbath, ours is the only plausible explanation for what happened. oh sure. the thickness of the pipe metal is up to $41.00 millimeter in. this is a lot. the soviet

t 34 tank had 35 millimeters of armor from above. these pipes also have a concrete protection up to 110 millimeters. you this crew series protection. so these could not have been an accident. this is devlin to the sabotaged. it is absolutely clear who ordered the back. in february, the american president said that the united states would deal with the north stream . and as for who could actually do this. back in the spring, i made a report about ukraine in combat swimmers who were trained by their italian colleagues. when this unit space was attacked by russian forces, the pulls took them to the baltic. it wasn't clear up until now. why were they evacuated? they're the seas rather shallow. the average depth is 50 meters. combat swimmer can dive to depth of up to 60 meters. when they tried to blame russia, it causes nothing but laughter. why is it russia? if russia can just turn off the tap, the united states still feels like role john dorm,

and the polls and ukrainians most likely did the dirt to work about and is trying to cut off euro from russian gas and wants to impose his own more expensive one the recent damage to the north stream pipelines has already led to a new spike in energy prices in europe. with the duct, the price of dutch gas, the local benchmark, or by $16.00 euro's which is $200.00 euros per megawatt hour. rising energy prices have driven tens of thousands on to the streets of the check capital. the rally organized by the check republic, 1st group, so demonstrates as gather in prague to protest against the countries membership in both nato and the you know, the 2nd such protest this month after $70000.00 people took to the streets 3 weeks ago to protest against sanctions. against russia, energy bills and am suffice. ukraine. meanwhile, over in spain, soaring inflation is forcing more and more people to stand in long queues for free food from non profit organizations. the line surf risen by 30 percent since last

month. as many families spend almost half of their income on food and essentials, many are trying to figure out new ways of making savings where possible. buy this local photographer. i studies and there are expenses that you didn't pay much attention to before, but now you have to tighten your belt in certain areas, especially though site with energy issues. for example, i tried to turn the light off to put on the air condition instead, because this summer it was hot and in winter it will be a bit cold. i'm looking for alternatives to lighting. i'm changing all the lights in the house to lance that consume less. as for the shopping least now i spend 100 years more than i used to before. in these conditions, you don't buy fresh meat or fish anymore. you have to look at cheap things. vegetables it have to be more restrained. also, i usually put the washing machine on at night because those are the cheapest hours for electricity. the shower is another important factor in saving, taking the relaxing shower after work has changed to taken

a quick shower because gas us reason a lot. these effects everyone, regardless of age or salary, life is more expensive with the same salary you had before. an uncertain future is coming, salaries are not rising. i don't know what will happen to us 2 years from now, but it doesn't look good at all. while ukraine has shelled a number of residential areas in courtesan, now this footage shows the aftermath of the attack. local authority said at least 6 people wounded as a college and residential building where hits one person is in a critical condition. and in the city of done yet, the park in the hotel, it was struck and damaged along with nearby park, cause as windows was shut it in the attack, no casualties have been defaulted, and ukraine hasn't commented on any of those incidents. ortiz at roman casa, have sensors. this report several, 155 millimeter shells frog the sensor of genetics on wednesday morning,

actually it was at 5 am. now the you just saw one of the craters from the shells. now, as a result, nearby hotel was damaged, the cars that were for us here were damaged as well. now, the generator at this hotel is, are completely destroyed as well. you can see her workers are now doing everything they can in order to restore operation of this hotel. now this hotel itself, ah houses. so workers from russia houses adjourn this and actually one of our crews that was at this hotel as well. archie arabic, in fact, thankfully no one was heard during this attack by ukrainian and nationalist by their hotel rooms were destroyed and they were forced to move from here. now other damages are in a vis a high school right here. you can see the windows have been blown out now this high school was also appalling stations during the latest the referendum. i thought it

had little look at how big the hole is in the metal frame. that's how powerful today's blast was. thank god, only one person was on duty at the school. at that moment, she managed to hide in a bomb shelter. at 6 a. m, i was already at the sight. he saw the damage. we will recover from this. i understand why the school was shout voting to place here yesterday, 4000 ballots from here, we're in favor of joining russia. now. the at zach was once again at 5 o'clock in the morning. the workers here did everything in order to evacuate the, the residence of this hotel as soon as possible. and of course, i spoke to one of them. he told me exactly what happened this morning. dearly bootable pickled 1st strike was at 5 am. we rushed to inspect the hotel. we told people to evacuate, and a few minutes there was a 2nd strike. every one was escorted to a bomb shelter. thank god,

it ended okay. without any casualties. this is yet another crates or a right in the center of the nest that was formed by another shell fired by the ukrainian military against civilian sins on peoples of public. once again, we are right in the center of this city very far away from any kind of military positions and we'll kind of far away from the front line as well. nevertheless, ukrainian nationalists to choose to continue to terrorize a peaceful civilian if they choose to continue to destroy civilian infrastructure. of course, the results of the referendum have been overwhelmingly in favor of julian, russia. but people are also hoping that once they join a russia all their hardships will and as well. and they will be finally able to live in peace. fremont, castro, r t don't as people's republic for this comes as the majority of votes

says in a dumbass and to ukrainian regions have cast their ballots in favor of joining russia. final results and the donors of public indicate that just over 99 percent voted to join russia with little guns for for big show and 98 percent voting in favor. in the regions of the pros and carry on polling results showed 93 and 87 percent, respectively. voting in favor of joining russia. the highest turnouts in the polls was in the done yes. republic, where over 2000000 people cast their votes, over 1600000 votes in the la guns for public. when both your son is up, roger over a 1000000, went to the polls give and his allies have slammed the referendums as illegal and refuse to recognize the results. we got to take of an international observer and we came before you. no surprise, sir, at all, or especially in the cases of for logan's can the nearest cur. the highest reasons because they are at guar. i was in don barza 2 weeks ago. i leave doh during one

week in don. yet sca especially and day and night where oh, green and bombings over all the city and the people there are told come out to lottery lottery means ah, somewhere any time you can die by a bombing didn't know, but you have only to leave to leave her as normally, as you can, so especially in these sir conditions, people wants to be a part of russia and be part of peace. with this comes as kia said, it would put observers from other countries on an international wanted list. we spoke to one of them, german journalist and author, thomas roper who is observing hassan. and he told us, what is all in general, ukraine tries to avoid the referendum and the election offices might be really a targets. it's question feeding and that's why

a 4 days they were more by elections with going around with even more bio stuff and making that people elect from their homes from this whole street to avoid big crowds of people. the mood of the people is quite interesting because i was a harrison which was supposed to be for, for russia, the most complicated area. but the heavy shelling of ukraine really changed the mood of the people in the last weeks. they told me this new everything, every city. so they came to the, to the election office is really in groups and they were quite happy. and i was there before and they were even afraid to talk them when they were pro russian because they were afraid the brush could leave and the that what the repression from the ukraine inside after that. and now they, everybody of them was searching for a camera. we had this, we were preserve us and we said camera and nearly everybody was ready to talk into the camera and tele, we went to russia, we was waiting for it. or other said, well,

we were against all this, but we seen what ukraine has shutting our schools and it's really civil and frustrating of course, as always will keep you updated with all the latest on the events. and the numbers are public's and those are the regions and what the future may hold for them. a with washington sets of votes on another, $12000000000.00 aid package rec, here, which does include military supplies. a recent polls suggest that many americans won their government to do more diplomatically and the conflicts in ukraine. ortiz, a cannibal explains tuesday. we have congress putting forward a vote for another, basically, $12300000000.00 to go to ukraine. and at the same time, we have the quincy institute coming forward with a new poll that shows that 49 percent of americans say that biden has not done

enough diplomatically to resolve the crisis in ukraine. then 47 percent of americans saying that they feel that they only want more a to ukraine, if it accompanies diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. now, quite a gap here. this is what the vice president of the institute had to say about it. americans recognize what many in washington don't russia warn? ukraine is more likely to end the negotiating table than on the battlefield. and there was a brewing skepticism of washington approached the war. just been having a tough talk, military aid, but light on diplomatic strategy and engagement. this policy was the indicate that the idea of just handing over another huge package $1000000000.00 do ukraine without engaging in efforts to resolve the conflict diplomatically is not something that many americans would go along with many americans just have their concern. so we see the democrats attaching this to the doc gap spending bill. now it's important to note there were funds that were originally allocated to go to deal

with coven and monkey pox that we're, we're re allocated to go for ukraine. now either this stop gap spending bill is passed by friday, or else the government shut down. this is the maneuver through which the democratic party can almost force members of congress to vote for this without having substantial debate. there are a lot of concerns about oversight oversight of ukraine. aid is sorely needed. the state and defense departments are handling billions of dollars in ukraine funding, but neither have permanent inspectors general in place to investigate and prevent abuse of funds. now there have been members of congress raised concerns about where these weapons are handing up without the element in the military satera. but this maneuver by the democrats is basically a way to prove that having that conversation either the bill passes or the government shuts down stop gap vending bill. meanwhile, it's important to note that the armed manufacturer, the old military industrial complex, the quite delighted i didn't move as

a practical matter, countries that have had to rely on russian equipment are going to find it very difficult to get even basic supplies from russia's defense, industrial base, it is an opportunity, certainly for industry members in the room. the democrats are possibly going to lose control of congress in november, the whole show that the democratic party, the biden administration, is not very popular. so it appears the democrats of trying to rush this through before they lose control of congress. but it's really important to know that the united states is godly boasting, about being a democracy. it is constantly putting down other countries alleging that they are not democratic enough somehow. but yet, in america, when it comes to huge amounts of military spending on ukraine and the central focus of us foreign policy, there is a very big gap between what us officials are doing and what the american people want. and over to asia now, where china has lost out of the us calling it's a disrupt,

the international rules of what it calls washington's interference. in the taiwan straits you go to the one, china principal is the prevailing consensus in the international community. and the basic norm and international relations. speaking of rules, keeping one's commitment is the most basic rule. if the u. s. cannot even keep its own word. how is it in a position to talk about rules and order a country like the can only become a disruptor? of international rules. well, that furious response by beijing comes out to us, vice president, pamela harris, accused china of committing provocations around i. one or former us secretary of state, my palm pale, called on washington to prevent a quote. chinese century. china has flexed. it's military and economic might, to coerce and intimidate its neighbors, and most recently, provocations across the taiwan strait. if we want to free 21st century and not the chinese century, the century,

which is using pink dreams of the all paradigm of blind engagement, must end on tensions over taiwan. increase to after us how speak. nancy pelosi visited the island last month. china called the move of provocation and responded with military drills around, tie one, i'm moving on to this month, washington approved more than a $1000000000.00 worth of arms sales to the island, which china considered it sovereign territory. then even more recently, joe biden said, washington would defend taiwan in case of attack for the washing the white house later, back, trite on that statement. they didn't classified those latest moves as a violation of both its territorial integrity and the one china policy observed by the us, vice president of the center for china and globalization of victor, gauss, as the u. s, does not treat the countries as equals. it is true that the united states is still hollowing out the one china policy of the united states, plays the taiwan card, as if that taiwan card will enable the united states to add on to the so called the

global hegemony. the united states really has a very or credit card. it does not deal with other countries as an equal on an equal basis. as the united states has the largest amount of was it has initiated against the other countries. either things 1945 or since 991, for example, or after 2001. this red card can be verified by everyone, anywhere in the world with whatever idea logical with global. this is the recall the united states has launched a more also gets more countries than any other country in the world of today. ah. and finally as energy prices continue to saw european companies including steel, unfertilized, the producers, are moving their production sites over the united states. meanwhile,

washington has introduced incentives for manufacturing falling announcements by number. if you companies that they are relocating many of the sites overseas, that's as they think to take advantage of an inflation reduction law approved by president joe biden. last month, relocation of the production science benefits, the u. s. increases g d p, and overall economic prosperity. anthony mueller, professor in economics at the brazilian federal university of g, p, says that there is a real threat of b industrialization in europe. the skiing, as no smith, not them it all started with nor stream t, which they didn't once open. then there were the problems with norton and one is the grinning crisis. and then there were the sanctions that they have backed us into a corner or so to speak and paralyzed at them. they've prepared the kind of a suicide to put it drastically. absolutely. well, the industrialization is underway. you're not in germany. it is, of course, the case that we see the large companies on the want side, global companies for which it's not too difficult to expand their foreign sites

because they already have some bare and they are already represented in the united states. and it is not that difficult for them to transfer more out who done more production to lease or production facility to be, but that is not the heart of the german economy. the heart of the german economy is the so called middle class. that is where the main quality jobs are, where you can earn very good money, were skilled workers are in demand. oh and the middle class is of course suffering the most and has no way out. you can just move small and medium sized entry per site. you can just move small and medium sized enterprises brought in one day and close them down. that tear is a very deep hole in the basic structure of the german economy. a whole so deep that even in the future i should. these energy problem is solved, which is rather unlikely, it cannot be stopped at the thought. this was a rob at 5 25 am moscow time this thursday morning. do you head over to our website

for more on any of those stories you've just seen? if not, i'll be back again at the top of the hour. thanks for watching. ah, watching it was a

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ah, ah. hello and welcome to cross off. were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle. at this point, it is almost a near certainty. the regions of ukraine, boating to reject kids rule will join the russian federation. and soon, moscow will protect these people. as nato's war on russia continues, how things will escalate? is anybody's guess. with cross sucking the referendums in ukraine, i'm joined by my guess, pepe escobar in bangkok. he's an independent geopolitical analyst and author specializing in eurasia in st. petersburg. we have gilbert, doctoral. he is an independent police.