[000:00:00;00] a hi william's prime minister warns that european economies will eventually snap off the you introduce the 8th rounds of sanctions against russia, including an oil price cap. also with binding monks off, he was caught praising himself on the same day. opec plus the cut over production with us media bronzing, the move, the president's personal failure to the new york times from phil. is that the u. s . intelligent belief key f was behind the assassination of russian journalist, saudi a duke,

and not confirming moscow's finding with a very well welcome miss. have 16 pm here in the russian capital. misses aussie international with the latest at world news update is good to have. you with the e. u has officially adopted. it's the 8th package of functions against small sco, including the for formal ukrainian regions that have recently joined russia off to referendums. there any restrictions include a price cap on oil imports from russia by sea. although pipeline supplies on not affected. some imports of russian goods like steel, a paper and plastic are now also bands. plus, there were measures prohibiting e u, exposed to russia, such as coal aviation equipment on certain chemicals. despite agreeing to the sanctions from brussels, from e u leaders. and now openly admitting the block is heading for an economic disaster . we are risking a massive

d industrialization of the european continent and the long term consequences of that might actually be very deep. our populations are getting invoices which are completely insane. at some point it will snap. i understand that people are angry. people don't have the means to pay for it. i think contributor rachel moss and things deeper into how the spiraling energy crisis is affecting europeans. on one hand, the european union says that it still considers these regions part of ukraine, but on the other hand, it's treating them like they were indeed part of russia by including them in their anti russian sanctions. now the e u has also decided to slap a price cap on russian oil to 3rd countries through maritime trade. so the e wants to dictate the price at which another country russia can sell its oil to other customers. that's a super modest good luck with that. meanwhile,

opec plus met yesterday in vienna and decided to cut production by $2000000.00 barrels a day, which the u. s. has already worn before the meeting. it would consider a hostile act. interestingly, saudi arabia, despite supporting slash production yesterday, didn't raise prices on it, sales to asia or to europe today. but the u. s. it already seems to be looking at a backup plan in the event that it continues to have to cut into its strategic reserves to absorb price and supply shocks. and that plan harry involves easing up on sanctions against venezuela. so what's the catch for venezuela? venezuelan president nicholas maduro would reportedly have to hold elections in 2024 and engage with the opposition in exchange for us sanctions relief. shirley hill sees that opportunity knowing how wonderfully reliable washington is at keeping its word. just ask, ron, for example. apparently times are so tight for us energy that the white house is

even considering an oil export ban. so this all leads europe in pretty deep trouble after the u. s. bullied it into sanctioning its own energy supply and may half have even had something to do with attacks on the nord stream one and 2 pipelines that supply the continent as us, mainstream media outlets and their guests have been increasingly suggesting how to listen. where might some americans have gotten the notion that the by the administration might have been involved directly or through a proxy in the destruction of the north stream pipelines? why would they think that they certainly didn't watched on russia today? or t has been pulled off the air when they learned from joe biden himself, he's the president. there will be no longer the norse tube to we. we will bring an end of the secretary state. in the bite administration, mr. tony blanket bragged about how great the sabotage of north stream was and were quoting. it's a tremendous opportunity said tony blanket. it's a great thing, not

a tragedy, a victory. so after enabling europe in getting itself off from other energy options, the u. s. gets to swoop in and name its price and according to the german energy minister yesterday, well, that price is just too high. some countries including friendly ones, sometimes achieve astronomical prices for their guess. of course that brings with the problems that we have to talk about. the u. s. contacted us when oil prices shot up and the natural oil reserves in europe were tapped as a result. i think such solidarity would also be good for curbing gas prices. not sure exactly what he expected. it's almost like he got played good thing may have that energy priced cap option that they can always put into play like they did yesterday against russian oil. right. well, yesterday the saudi energy minister said, quote, we don't know yet how the cap will be executed and who's going to commit to it and

what will be the impact of it? well, the, you did everything to align itself with the washington led to western agenda on ukraine, but instead of being tossed a bone by washington, it looks like it now risks being left out in the cold. and, well, i risk getting very cooled by joining me in the city. and now is the host of ortiz? well, it's a pause pro, ground locks on, a boy, cogs on many things. the coming is always lumping is the in this day. so as we know, the opec plus the exporting block members approved this major cut to in that crude output yesterday. and we know that the us, todd's beforehand leaned on a ally, saudi arabia not to do this. the hard to think the us is feeling now and in life. well, the, the white has already described this move as a hostile act. and it's a very interesting wording. because if you start from a promise that the rest of the world is supposed to be serving your interest and everything that hurts your interest is done. everything that's for your interest

would be a hostile act. but i want to remind you, i'm sure our viewers also know that, that saudi arabia, many of the opec members, are considered traditional us alice and the fact that they have pretty much ignored . very, very active american law being shows that things are changing in the world and countries are starting to pursue their own interest. i just want to mention that russia is not a member of opec, even though there was a specific statement coming out of the white house that mentioned putin and the negative impact of put in the quote unquote invasion of ukraine. the white house has yet again tried to put all the blame on russia, but i think the current station shows the even closest american alice no longer paying attention to anything that washington is saying or doing, and directly pursuing their own interest. yesterday often this decision was made, i spoke to the former advisor to the saudi any day minutes. and he said, you know,

this decision is not emotional is not politically scientific as a scientific decision. do you think it will be seen that way? i'm not sure it could be described as scientific. i mean, in the world of politics and geopolitics and you cannot mix everything is practical . i think it is definitely not ideal logical. and on top of that, saudi arabia has been buying russian oil all be of the oil that has been diverted from the western market, from the european markets when to saudi arabia directly. so it's not scientific, but it's, it's serving the objective, practical, national interest and the, you know, it's, it's interesting to see that they have the seminar to do that. primarily because the, by the mysteries has been everything to alley. and they mot menu with allies. the ear is the only one that seems to be left in the so called american camp. and surprisingly, the ear is, you know,

in the book of countries it has absolutely no oil reserve. it would be interesting to see how they will be doing with, with that situation. certainly they will be blaming russia. but i mean, again, you cannot warm up with the homes of your citizens with blaming somebody. so it's, we are also very, very interesting times. we know difficult tons or head for people in you. what about consumers in the us? what does this mean for them? well, if it is also an interesting question, because unlike the ear, the united states does have its own strategic all reserves and the bite an administration has been living happily when it's over the last year. the besides that reserve diminished by almost a 3rd from more than 600000000 barrels to some with about 400000000 barrels. and the vitamin ministration announce yet again that they are going to release another $10000000.00 to try to heat to try to ease the markets and those, those additional barrels will hit the market right around the time of the midterm

elections that may provide summary slide. but the problem is that when you are emptying your reserves on such a short term perspective, the time to pay for that will come and it will come very soon because those reserves will have to be replenished and they will have to be replenished at much higher prices, so it's essentially they are trying to use that strategic reserves to aid the biden's standing in the polls. but even if they win, even the democrats, when they will have to address that problem, a couple of months down the line. no, they've been a couple of years a couple of months. i didn't, i didn't admin's reputation has taken a b thing over the past few months. quite a few scandals of how do you see his future as you, as president? well, you know, if the american electoral system were as transparent and democratic as i believe it used to be, then i would be able to answer your question. but given what we've seen over the

last couple of years old, the manipulations around and electoral proceedings as well as all the candles of conflict of interest within the biden family. and the ability to manipulate the press to such an extent that all those glaring violations and glaring self serving deals would be ignored. i can tell you one thing i can tell you here though, nick, is that it's interesting that this whole thing has added together not another potential impeachment article to the republicans very long dose here on how they can impeach by them. because just this just last september and it came out that while the united states is facing such a major shortage of oil, it's sold around $10000000.00 barrels out of the strategic all the reserves to the chinese, to the chinese company. some shares of which are owned by a hunter,

biden's investment firms. so while the situation is pretty, pretty dramatic, this process hearing very glaring, very obvious, profiteering still goes on and, you know, it's, it's pretty amazing to see how the all schemes continued despite the fact that the situation is pretty, pretty daring. and i'll be realistic possibility the bided might be in page to be american public thinking. the same thing i think impeachment is a, is a hard call because if you actually know would be the proceeding for the impeachment, that it would be difficult to carry out. but i think at this point of time, the situation in the united states, a political situation and that elleon nation of the republican camp is so high that they would be very much you're willing to take her erect revenge on by them. and his people in the court of public opinion because they are already numerous, numerous articles that could be brought to the for including corruption, very obvious corruption,

not only ukraine. this is something that trump tried to explore. but nowadays we, you know, we also have, they say latest example of the chinese company profiteering from the american reserves. so i think they will definitely try to use dive in the electoral campaign that's for sure on. i wish we had more time to chat. thanks for coming in. looks wonderful. i can be with you for the white house has reacted angrily to the plan production plan, calling it short sighted. some media outlets have described it as a personal failure of us president joe biden, as it may further push up gasoline prices a month before that countries, mid term elections. the production cuts with agree despite the bind and admin, purportedly, and making last minute efforts to convince gulf states to abandon the pans while adding insult to injury job bonds and being furthermore over the opec production cuts off that he was called boasting in

a hot mike incident during his trip to florida. no one president says, no one would abide in, but it appears opec plus has done just that. i mean, other than opec bicycles, china stairs, russia, et cetera. joe biden, no one bitin opec, it all mockery is not made equal and the better of the mockery has a, a firmer grasp in reality. i'm in florida right now where hurricane hurricane and just pass, you know, luckily for us pass to the west and then made landfall north people here, a supply chain issues, a natural disaster cause to think this is going to be among if not be costliest. hurricane potentially in american history, and you're going to have american citizens who have to wait for federal funds if they can ever get them living through all sorts of issues back home while seeing the government's bite and make international decisions that are only going to

exacerbate the existing problems back home itself, sanction russia, try to interfere with russian production of natural gas to europe. basically, caused problems for everybody. and then when you have these problems, you have to go begging, grumbling on your hands and knees to other countries that you've been striving to get independence from in the 1st place. the policy makes no sense. i'll say, well, correspondent andre for little has found himself wounded for a 2nd time. well with that well covering the ukraine conflict. the plastic card when he was preparing a report on the an on going back in the don't. yes, with publicly have a warning for view is now the following. the teach contains graphic content appeared some your new meal care. i knew i was hit again. another small wound and i don't need any metal for this. it's awesome. great achievement. it had me right here in my hip. it's not a big deal. i'll go get an x ray. it probably didn't strike any of my bones so it's

nothing to fuss about. i'll recover from this and return to work. a new development in the case of russian journalist dahlia, duke, and he was killed in a car bombing in mosca region. in august, the new york times says that us intelligence officials believed that elements within camps governance had authorized the attack. washington has reportedly denied involvement. mosca has expressed doubts about those claims of criminal going for months. you formation that the kremlin has was provided by the russian security services. it has been established that ukraine was involved in the murder and is clear who organized and committed the killing. if news reports are true that us intelligence has agreed with those conclusions than it is a good sign. and i hope that would not be an attempt by our american colleagues to relieve themselves of culpability for any of keeps preparations for potential terrorist activities. indeed, it was surprising, wow. the new york times did point the finger at e grain,

which is quite astonishing because of these days whenever key of does something bad . the western media either turns a blind eye toward or appears to whitewash gives actions. but in that report, you'll find other crucial lines about american officials. it's claimed that they weren't involved in it whatsoever. american officials said they were not aware of the operation ahead of time and would have opposed the killing had they been consulted. afterward, american officials admonished ukrainian officials over the assassination. they said, did you just hear how that sounded? it almost seems like it's only natural for key of to act on washington's orders. a concept that is perfectly fine and that doesn't really surprise anyone anymore. anyway, going back to the burger, the victims car exploded in august on the outskirts of moscow. daria, do, you know,

was the daughter of a prominent anti western author and political commentator, alexander duke. and she worked as a drollest and as a political scientist. and in this country, she was famous for her anti ukrainian views, and also for her vocal support of the russian military operation in ukraine. 2 days after the car bombing, the russian federal secured the service announced that it was a free plan bombing that was carried out by 2 ukrainian citizens. and so now even western media doesn't shy away from saying that the new york times report corroborates the findings by the russian authorities. now here's how you crane reacted to that story. and the new york times a senior advisor to ukraine's presidential chief of staff told the new york times that key of had nothing to do with the killing. and he also said that in the times of war,

any murder should have some kind of practical significance. and according to mr. paul, the lack someone like do get out. wasn't a tactical or strategic target for you. great. we have other targets on the territory of ukraine. i mean, collaboration is some representatives of the russian command who might have value from members of our special services working on this program. but certainly not do gonna right now. key of is enormously depended on all kinds of support by the us, including media support. whether this report in the new york times was some kind of signal to mr. zalinski, the president of ukraine and his administration. we don't know, but it could be while ukraine size is determined to hunt down, anyone who believes to have collaborated with russia british tabloid, the daily mail has published an article about the apparent extra digit judicial

killings as science. a former senior official is saying the ukranian troops can even shoot such individuals on site. a manhunt for collaborators has been declared their lives are not protected by law. our intelligence services are eliminating them, shooting them like pigs. the daily mail revelations come as a surprise, as it's article contains a number of accusations against the russian military and russian intelligence allegedly committed atrocities. but a significantly bigger part of it is all about her merciless ukrainians are hunting, all those loyal to the russian forces and joined forces administrations on the ground and killing them like pig. this is something that one would never expect from a democratic country. ha, that's the west pushes everybody to believe ukraine is. the article also says that has revenge killings orchestrated by ukraine. special forces have been recently increasingly well organized. here's another quotation. let's take

a listen. others are being tracked down and slaughtered by resistance fighters. a list passed to this newspaper by a cave government source identifies 29 such retribution killings. with 13 more assassination attempts that left some targets wound it. well, it's true that we never heard things like these from a daily mail kind of media, but it's not for the 1st time that we learn about key regimes. war on all those who are they believe and collaborating with the russian and joint forces on the ground earlier r t made an exclusive report on as you agent till. yep. and the to whose job was to organize terror acts and murders targeting pro russian politicians throughout harrison's region. and earlier this week, we heard at personal advice from ukraine's vice prime minister saying, collaborators run away. that a tragic thing is that keeps term collaborator is in fact include a very wide range of people from those who actually held the russian military on

the ground to those who simply agreed to receive humanitarian aid from moscow. she, literally, anyone who agreed to stay in the area after russians to control. we now hear reports about massive arrests of teachers. doctors sit ordinary workers and the areas left by the russians and we year that's up to 40 people, get detained every day. this is what ukraine's defense ministry says, and i have to remind you that these are just normal, simple people doing their everyday job. and even some of you, politicians started questioning this kind of democracy. let's take a listen. the e u says ukraine is fighting to defend democracy from authoritarianism, brushes, authoritarian but western governments plus the media are misinforming by failing to call out anti democracy measures in ukraine, while dissenting voices in the e you are being silenced. this is also authoritarianism. getting back to daily mail

publication, the feeling is that although admitting that ukraine is behind a great number of revenge killings the papers somehow just to find them by saying that d at another uncomfortable truth is that some ukrainians having did been assisting russian ministrations on the ground while the fact that later they were hunted and killed like pigs, is actually not considered as uncomfortable. but as discuss this now with a american journalist antagonist why it read many thanks for joining us on the program, it's nice to see today. and so why it, why have mass media out as being pretty reluctant to call out he abs crack down on the so called collaborators? that's a great question. very important one. i think personally that this has to do with basically a refusal at this point among any of the mainstream media outlets to do anything that could be perceived as somehow going against the key regime as somehow giving

support to russia. you know, this isn't the 1st time we've heard the kind of remarks we know from top, the ones, the advisor alexi arrest of which, who issued a statement last month, thing that ukraine has changed, there will be no sentimentality for collaborators and occupier if you want as far as the se aunts and uncles who came to ukraine to teach ukrainian children to love russia will be impressed, isn't the best punishment is a prison term for the state treason. and of course, this is also coming. as we've seen a report from al jazeera that also tended to paper over the brutality of the ukrainian regime. they spoke to a soldier just days ago who described having retaken a city and treating the members of the orthodox church as potential traders. they said, we see all the monk as russian agent. so there's

a very high chance they've been hiding collaborators all of this point to an atmosphere of fear of intolerance, of fascism. but again, it's sadly going unreported in western media outlets. you know, the, the viewpoints of many people in the west is of a democratic country fighting and authoritarian states. you mean, does this mean the violence committed by this democracy can be ignored? i just a lutely at this point. i think ukrainian soldiers have no reason to believe that they will face any punishment for these kinds of retaliatory measures for murder. right? that's what it is when you kill somebody on the basis of suspecting them of collaboration, that is murder the block. ok. we think we have a nice line, unfortunately. sorry,

while i was just saying what it says, so, but let's try to continue and hopefully that connection will be fine. i want to ask you, those individuals who decided to side with russia, do they deserve more detailed coverage by the western media? would it be more objective if they, if that was with a case absolutely. in a same society, in the same world, these would be given equal coverage to the supposed victims of russian soldiers. they would be, frankly, given more coverage because from everything i've seen, these kinds of retaliatory measures are happening at a far higher rate being carried out a far higher rate by ukrainian or the certainly than by russian forces. who as far as i can tell, have gone out of their way to explain that those, the ukrainian people, the people, these hounds and not their enemies, even those who have loyalties towards the regime. there is

a massive double standard here in the media coverage. and i look forward to a day when we are able to return to some level affinity. although at this point, i don't think that looking terribly likely anytime i do expect any reactions to follow that the after the western media exposed to be the extra judicial killings by kids forces. i would hope to see that frankly, i don't think we will see anything. i think we are talking on one of the only platforms right now that is willing to report on this. unfortunately, as i mentioned, these kinds of stories simply do not go with the general narrative being cultivated among western outlets. which would like for their audiences to believe that ukraine is a thriving democracy, some kind of beacon of freedom in europe as opposed to the state of fascist terror in which ukrainians find themselves today. some of those who were voted in

this daily mail piece include, anton garrett shank, both that interior ministry advisor, who is one of the founders of the middle board, it kill list. i was placed on that list last week, many journalists, i know who work with r t have been placed on the hill list. but all of that, again, is not being reported in mainstream media, either a member of the repair in parliament and make wallace. he recently said that, ignoring these, any anti democratic news by ukraine's leadership basically, amounts to disinformation is a sign that you know, people all ready to speak out. well, mc wallace is certainly quite a brave man. i believe he is also on many of these lists that this point or having spoken out against these human rights abuses against these kinds of fascist terror techniques. unfortunately, he and other members like clear daily other members of european parliament are exceptions. at this point,

i hope that soon more members of european parliament will have the courage to speak up and to stand again, these kinds of tactics and to make sure that, you know, europe is actually walking the walk and not just talking to top. many thanks for joining us on the program today. i really appreciate your time under inside with a speaking to. 5 american journalist on the list, why it's read. thank you. i thank you for joining us. hey, archie, international as always, plenty more stories in that base we found on our website r t dot com, but we'll be back in 30 minutes with more. ah

ah ah . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully very critical time. time to sit down and talk