ah, a with the u. s. allegedly weak his out for an economic lifeline to its political rivals in venezuela. washington proposed the sanctions on iraq and exchange with chief oil and the way because the opec plus decision to slash its crude output portion to reportedly lobby for vote against russia at the un general assembly to condemn the accession of for new regions to the country. we think exclusively to russia's deck, with the latest to use functions could effectively cut off the country from russian oil supplies,

while some other european leaders war national economies will eventually snap as a result with very welcome. this is all the international with the late as world news update. it's good to have you with this. our now the us is reportedly desperate to secure cheap oil imports from venezuela and is said to be in talks to ease functions on the madura government and exchange energy supplies. this comes off to the opec plus group decided to slash the oil outputs, which is expected to keep the fuel prices high. this is a for amanda. we're looking at was all her have. meanwhile, opec plus met yesterday in vienna and decided to cut production by $2000000.00 barrels a day, which the u. s. has already warned before the meeting. it would consider a hostile act. interestingly, saudi arabia, despite supporting slash production yesterday,

didn't raise prices on its 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 to prevent his waylon? 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. believe 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 have 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 be going to do the secretary state in the by the ministration mr. tony blanket bragged about how great the sabotage of north stream was and we're 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 use 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. they have that energy price 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,

a risk getting very cold. the launch is to you as the oil trade grapes rotate, let it's an energy secretary jennifer ground hun saying that there are 2 sons that washington is considering limiting. feel like sports in order to know a consumer prices. they said this move could only disrupt a global markets to reduce domestic refining capacity on the alienates u. s. allies. the host of our t, the well, du pont program. on, on a boy, i joined me in the studio earlier to break down the ramifications of the opec class move. as we know, the i plus the, or the exporting block members prove 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. i 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 warning, because if you start from a promise that the rest of the world is supposed to be serving your interest, done,

everything that's for your interest would be forced to act. but saudi arabia, in many of the opec members, are considered traditional us, alice and the fact that they have pretty much ignored the very, very active american law being shows that things are changing in the world. and countries are starting to pursue their own interest. the white house has yet again tried to put all the blame on russia, but i think the, the current division shows the even closest american alice and no longer paying attention to anything that washington is saying or doing, and directly pursuing their own interest. just last september and use came out that while the united states is facing such a major shortage of oil, it's sold around 10000000 barrels out of the strategic or the reserves to the chinese, to the chinese company. some shares of which are owned by a hunter biden's investments for him. 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 yesterday, often this decision was made, i spoke to the former advisor to the saudi any d minutes? and he said, you know, this decision is not emotional, is not politically scientific. is a scientific decision. it's no different, but it's, it's serving the objective, practical, national interest the, you know it's, it's interesting to see that they have the stamina to do that. primarily because the bottom ministration has done everything to alley and made my 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, it is a book of countries. it has absolutely no oil reserve. it would be interesting to see how they will be doing with, with that situation, unlike the in the united states does have its own strategic all reserves. and the

biden administration has been living heavily on it over the last year. and the, besides the reserve diminished by almost a 3rd from more than 600000000 barrels to somewhat about 400000000 barrels and the vitamin ministration. and i'll see it again that they're 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 mid term elections that may provide some response. 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 as 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 though the democrats,

when they will have to address that problem, a couple of months down the line, those have been a couple of years a couple of months. meanwhile, the e u has officially adopted his 8th package of sanctions against moscow. including the 4 former ukrainian regions that recently joined russia. after referendums, there they new restrictions include a price cap on oil imports from russia by sea. although pipeline supplies are not affected. some importance of russian goods, like steel, paper and plastic on now also band plus that all measures prohibiting e u exports to rushes, such as coal aviation equipment and certain chemicals. despite the e. u. sanctions being aimed at russia, serbian officials say they're the ones who will have to pay the price while even in the you itself, them top officials of warning the europeans will buy the bronze of the political decisions in brussels. the european union has again proven that is a club of countries that once had their soldiers install and grad. the only

consistency in this policy is revenge upon free people. serbia was forbidden to import russian oil through the adriatic pipeline, but bulgaria was not sure beers forced to buy more expensive iraq oil and thus lose hundreds of millions of euro's that could have been used more effectively. we are risking a massive de industrialization of the european continent and the long term consequences of that might actually be very deep. our populations are getting in voices 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. there's not discuss this with serbian political analyst alexander path h, joining us from bell. great many. thanks for joining us on the program. it's nice to see you now, and as we know, serbia is not in a you member, but it gets the importance of russian oil through the territory of some other european countries. so how is serbia expect it to be impacted by these latest to use sanctions?

actually, serbia gets oil about 70 percent. i think through a pipeline that goes through croatia creation as a member of the g. u and croatia is the one we initiated this this measure that's directed directly to prevent serbia from getting russian much cheaper russian oil pipeline ration so that we have by what well like iraq exam one year. now, today she like that you have on until december because you know, both all the serbian high officials from the president prime minister to the minister of defense. they just protested very demon against niger because it is of

practically sanctioned measure against b. and you know, we all know why that is, is because serbia, the alone country, you know, in this part of europe practically in all of europe, which is not which is refusing to impose sanctions against russia. so this is also seen of a kind of a threat and a resigned revenge as serbia on the part of the you are not imposing sanctions against russia. as serbia interior minister, he says that the policy is aimed at against the freedom of the people. what's your take on not statements it's true. you see they are trying to deny serbia, it's all on political choices. it choices to be neutral and a conflict. they're trying to interact with serbia. you use suicide

backs. you know, obviously, as the belgian prime minister said, things in danger of industrialization and they want to pull everyone in, including serbia, we're getting cheaper gas and the rest of the little because we're not we're not, you know, i'm like, well, what's, what's cheaper gas but 10 times cheaper gas, but then i'll be punished toys. and so, you know, you're right at g, m a r r l i can and you officials have said that the decision on whether to effectively allow western vulcans access to russian oil will be reached before december. at the countries of the western vulcans even have a say in this, so will they just have to follow us policy you

see if you bloss access through our pipe by a pipeline that goes to an e u. country like asia, serbia doesn't have much to say about it. it's not. it's not running through serbian derrick. it's running through and you can then it will be done. if you happen happen you. oh, yeah. it just keep, make you promise to do to other funky them, but it, but there's nothing serious between offered and not that, but now they're actually trying to finish through probation on which is actually frank, suddenly solemn or against therapy by actions a lobby. you have this measure there, do you is

a met and they just want everyone else to be a part of this message they've made. they've made with their literally crazy sanction against russia, which are the main reason for this energy crisis for the inflation upcoming good prices. and serbia doesn't want to be a part of the money. thanks for joining it on the program today. i really appreciate your time and your insight into the math and we've been speaking to serbian political analyst. alexander, thank russia is calling on a un member countries to accept the new reality and recognize the referendums on the session of full new regions to the country. i submit a massive lobbying campaign, reportedly on the where the, when general assembly as the us and it's all i think, to drum up support for a vote against russian. we can now discuss this exclusively with dimitry poly on

ski rushes deputy envoy to the us many thanks for joining on the program. it's really good to have with us today. so what exactly do you think the us and it's either expecting to achieve with this upcoming vote to the general assembly? well, hello. i think it's quite, it's told us they really want to mobilize supports and to show that their initiatives, their interpretation of what has happened is having considerable supports of why the young membership. but it's a difficult task for them to complete those quite clear because a lot of you members, member states have opened their eyes and they absolutely aware of the fact that there are many nuances to destroy jason. and that's in fact, we're now having not conflict between russia and ukraine as the west claims, but we have the conflict, the proxy war of not of need so against russia, ukraine until the last degree. and then of course, effect their,

their assessments on the situation. and the reports came that the us, he's using every till every available to till that it's diplomatic. awesome. the last part of this law being f says, how was i compatible with the principles of democratic voting though? i think that the u. s. is viewing the whole world as it's playground, the you and that's something that should really rubber stamps the decisions that i made in washington. this is the perception of many people here in the country. i just came from the un headquarters. i had several meetings on different topics, so with my colleagues, many of them complain that in the campaign of him twisting on like meal and threats, he's in full swing and it's very difficult to, to show the way from, from these 4 countries who have vulnerable economic system sounds,

economic situations, and this is of course very much deplorable. it's the right that this is because nothing to do with, with democracy. and this has nothing to do with the freedom of speech. it's just the family of the united states to mobilize the support under their decisions on the institutions that the profitable for them to, to people ongoing their leading position in the world affairs, which they are very keen to preserve together with their allies. so what are your expectations for the vote to the general assembly? are there any countries which you think could back russia despite all of the western pressure? there are countries that quebec, russia, again, this is a question about the referenda. this is the question that goes much, much further. it's about the perception of these countries in the world, the perception of the world by these countries. so we'd say it's a bigger question and the local countries understand if we have

a support. so the question is whether the countries that support us will be brave enough for different reasons to display these supports openly. and i know that many countries have fears about about the consequences of their position. this is of course, very deplorable, but these are the reality that we have at the end that the company of intimidation on hand twisting ongoing and will be ongoing for several days. i think still while it's very difficult to predict the results, numbers matter of course, but i think what matters war is what we hear from our colleagues. what we see in the way they vote that way, they defend their positions. we saw it recently in the security council where the western tried to, to bring about a very direction resolution and the supports that they got for the it was,

was far from what they were expecting to get. and so this was of course, the kind of disappointment sounds and now they want to see grades and other reality and the general assembly, they really hope that they will be able to convince or other to force as many countries as possible to align with them to support the anti ration draft, so that is being presented to the general assembly, but i don't think it's an easy task for them. do you think we can expect a response for moscow in the aftermath of the vote where we're already given our response. we have given our assessment of these documents of the efforts that are trying to really make jason in the u. n. and in the world. so more devices. so the independent countries are a old settled choice of our western x partners, which many countries do not share,

but not, not everyone in the world has the meals and the guts to withstand these kind of unprecedented pressure that they are now facing. this is a very difficult task where understand these, but again what, what values most would be each year. a lot of waste is with understanding of our reasoning with understanding of the current situation, no matter how our west neighbor is trying to present the situation. the eyes of international units. and so this current lobbying campaign and the un general assembly comes off the russia, vetoed, and resolution security council. what else do you expect the us to do to drum up support against russia at the un? yeah, they're already doing it. they conduct bilateral meeting, they have mobilized as far as we know,

a lot of members of political establishment who make direct calls, visits, whatever. so they're using every, every tools disposal to try to force the answer to, to conduct it in the way that they would like to have it in terms of the numbers in terms of the supports. but again, this is not guaranteed because everybody feels that the un membership is, is more aware of the new system, the situation now than it was for the beginning of the special needs reparation of february. they have a lot of arguments to process and it's not very easy for to, to get there supports for the initiatives that could be detrimental to the world's peaceful stability. this is quite clear. and as a permanent member to the un security council, russia can veto resolutions that but how much leverage does moscow have the general assembly? journal assembly, of course, is

a different tool. it's the most important body of the united nations, to the robot is to maintain international peace and security with the security council. and there, this is already long established tactics of our western provenance to bring to the general assembly issues which are responsibility of the security council doesn't help very much of the activities of the un confuses a lot of people. it gives mixed signals. and while this is the tactics the want to show in the world that there is close to universal supports of anti ration initiatives. natasha is allegedly isolated that she wants to be friends with us and does the picture of the try to keep floats when the reality is different from this picture. of course, they're very supportive. they have to just try to distort this. be sure they use a different methods you and is an important platform and important to us from the

world. and that's why now our opponents are very, very eager to pretend that the you and these together with them that is aligned to the flags of those, those who who call us been aims. but again, i don't think this is guaranteed them. this is much more nuanced course. let's wait till the for the results of the votes. and again, figures matter, but what we hear, what we get from, from, from our colleagues, from developing countries, metrics so much more than me or e. smith is some might be looking at this lobbying campaign and viewing it as a western attempt to maintain it, a germany, to what extent would you agree with us completely, this is part of the western blow up. what i would say agenda now to maintain

this, he gemini, and this is the only thing that the west is obsessed, right? because they chose these proxy war with russia and ukraine. they understand what other speaks to speak. so very high. that's why they want to, to get enrolled there at the expense that's on the one hand to get into direct question with russia on the other hand. so enable ukrainian forces and the mercenaries that the detachment rained by the west to inflict damage to russia. so we can the russia, so they don't really see as part of their struggle of their campaign against russia. that's why they were very keen, of course, to win this company. so we can rush as much as they can. what we absolutely aware about this and our partners international are, are also very much aware about these. this is not about russia, this is not about russia party position in the world. this is about the

independence of a lot of countries. this is about the freedom of elation themselves. opinions of the countries of international arena. so the stakes go much beyond the relations between the russia and the west mistakes go to the direction of what kind of the world is being shaped up. what kind of you? sure, we want for us, for our children, for the cold to national community. and the, the voices that we hear from a lot of countries show us that the attempts for western countries to promote only one narrative, profitable for them, are meeting with a lot of skepticism. to put it mildly and sometimes at least once. and again, this is much more than the situation between russia and ukraine. this is the situation between the west and the developing countries. the western china, the west and india, brazil,

and many other countries that really have their own interests, their own use of the world. and we're not afraid to weighs them and to oppose the views that donald to lack their positions. and if we can recall the case of kosovo now, the disputed independence, of course, of, of course was based on a western bank referendum. so what's the reasoning for, denying people in these new russian regions the, the same rights? essentially i have to correct you because there was not even no referendum in call . so there was a decision of the parliament. this is also very important seem to remember to recall. so the cost of keys is of course the blades on the police and evidence of double standards that the west is trying to promote in case of for, for the renders that have just taken place at the moment when cost was seeking in the band on the west used every tools at its disposal to prove

that the costs, the ones have every right to to be freed from serbia from yugoslavia to exist as a, as an independent nation. and they were active promoters of course. so in the band and sounds a lot of them recognized also in the balance. now when the situation about people of the us, people of the region. so if you grade who suffered, so for a long time from you bringing fresh from and from segregation and from the for the a when these people claim that they have the rights to shoot was the way they want to leave all the western countries choose absolutely opposite fuel, they say that, well, of course, and this is not the case. they don't have the right to to express their opinion on their future and the pressure is not right. and so on and so forth. it's, it's all looks very fake and very pathetic. i would say for international specialist, especially on international relations or, or lawyers. but the west,

the tries to pretend that these are the cases because no relations whatsoever. we think of course, always, it was a very bad precedence that the west decided to promote the conflict. it's a very heavy blow to international legality answer. so the way we pursue. ready all these cases, but if the, if the west was insistent in cost of all the western system fill in the key. so for if a rambo, that took place recently, that would be logical. and following the dumbass referendum to russia as a top envoy to the un fastening up ends here, he said that a security council meeting that self determination is considered a democratic choice only if the west approves it. so what are your thoughts on that statement? well, of course supports the statement, the west tries to, to be the, you're the, the supreme judge of the emperor, the one who decides who has the right to do something or who doesn't have the same

rights. this is, this is already a candid look. very faith, the argument that we hear from, from our west colleagues in this regard, they are not convincing. or they try to present things that way that is profitable for them. that is helpful for their course. and there was, is to support support what your grand regina key regime in the state new price and well this is, this is reasonable for those who follow the discussion. i security council where we have arguments are really gaining more and more support. and we see that a lot of countries understand what, what is real estate here and what is the core 4th of our arguments in this situation. many thanks for speaking to us today, really appreciate your time. we've been speaking to meet your polanski, russia, the deputy invoice to the un many thanks.