a ride to meet that week. are that with grain, lisa have that ah, breaking news r t a russia cute is ukraine's president of trying to start well. war 3 of the florida midland state coast for a pre emptive nuclear strike against russia. bind nato. you were 3 is out for an economic lifeline to his political rivals in venezuela has washington reportedly prepares to eat functions on caracas and exchange for cheap oil in the way. can be opec tough decision to flash? it's crude out with the latest the sanctions could effectively cut off the country from russian, oil supplies,

or some other european leaders want. national economies will eventually snap as a result with they were well configured. this is all t international with the latest world news update is good to happy with that we thought with breaking news most go say ukraine's president is calling for the start of world war 3. now, off the vladimir zalinski judge nato, to carry out a 1st strike using nuclear weapons against russia. shobel we metal boy did not. we need preemptive strikes so that russia would know what awaits them if they use nuclear weapons. not the other way around. to wait for rushes nuclear strikes and then say, oh no. okay, then take this the us is reportedly desperate to secure

cheap oil imports from venezuela and is said to be in talk to each sanctions on the madeira government and exchange for energy supplies. that's going to be opec plus group decided to slash its oil output, which is expected to keep fuel prices high. have we had what fine and hard to say answering, press media questions on the opec plus decision this appointment. and we're looking at what alternatives may 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 worn 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 parents involves easing

up on sanctions against venezuela. so what's the catch to prevent his willa? 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 content as u. s. 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 a norse tube to we will begin 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 may 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 to bone by washington, it looks like it. now, risks being left out in the cold and well, a risk getting very cold. the largest you as the oil trade groups wrote a less su energy secretary, jennifer granholm saying they are very concerned that washington is considering limiting feel exports in order to know a consumer prices. i said this move could only disrupt to global markets,

reduce domestic refining capacity and alienate to us allies. most of aunties worlds apart. program asana, boy co joined me in the studio earlier to break down the ramifications of the opec plus 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 lean donates ally saudi arabia not to do this. i think the us is feeling now and in life. well, 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 a hotel act but saudi arabia and many of the opec members are considered traditional us alice and the fact that they have pretty much ignore 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 that even closest american alice and no longer paying attention to anything that washington is saying or doing 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 all the reserves to the chinese, to the chinese company. some shares of which are owned by a hunter, biden's investment 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 old schemes continued despite the fact that the situation is pretty, pretty daring. and all. yesterday off of this decision was made, i spoke to the former advisor to the saudi energy minutes and he said, you know,

this decision is not emotional is not politically scientific as 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 vitamin ministration has 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, in the book of countries it has absolutely no oil reserve. it would be interesting to see how there will be doing with, with that situation, unlike the, even 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 and that's reserve diminished by almost as 30, from more than 600000000 barrels to sound. what about $400000000.00 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 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 though the democrats, when they will have to address that problem, a couple of months down the line. they've been a couple of years a couple of months. okay, let's go back to our breaking news story. now. we're reporting on how you train president vladimir lensky is urge nato, and his latest video message to carry out the 1st strike against russia. moscow has

responded, saying, ukraine's president is cooling for the start of world war 3. essentially, let's go live 2 independent journalists after recounting to discuss these developments. often good to see you. what do you make a lot of landscape later statements? are you surprised that the president of a non nato country is calling on nato to strike russia? well, i have to say, i've only just heard about this. i'm not sure whether zalinski, the de facto a puppet of the united states and britain at least financially. because as their populations, as the u. s, population suffers eric and ian with untold numbers of deaths as britain suffers the prospect of many thousands of winter deaths there, pouring billions into the government of zalinski. and the idea that zelinski, our former comedian thinks that perhaps you thought it was a joke is most tragic comic joke so far. yet here of

a nuclear strike on russia and him trying to pressure the biden administration. i think a lot of people have been saying in the past few days or a week or so after the lord stream pipeline attack, we were expecting a syrian style, a false flag area, chemical attack style, nuclear dirty bomb to make the world listen to washington. as regards fighting russia and vladimir putin, this is a completely different different piece of news of a different caliber entirely. the idea that he is the telling biden. and presumably, presumably nato leaders stalking berg and so on. come on, have a, have a limited nuclear attack on the russian federation. it beg his belief of book what you to and zalinski is constant requests for more heavy weaponry from nato. but the, now we're taking it one step further. do you think many people will be surprised by

this development? so was it just a matter of time? some progressive commentators were saying that eventually nato nations will lose patience, particularly the ones that bank rolls lensky, the united states, and britain. in particular, they will lose patience with him. some might point to the new york times headline that i know is being covered on the r t today, which suggested that ukraine, that was responsible, ukrainian intelligence, was responsible for the environmental catastrophe in europe or in the north stream . pipelines were blown up with explosives. now was that of the sign that at least even the new york times realized is that to that they, if it russia broke returned pipeline. is it your take? the fact that he's now said this shows the kind of level of negotiations and talking that he does with vaughan delay, and that from brussels with her laterally,

lawrence johnson, because this trusts of london. and of course, joe biden and blink. and is this the way talks about moscow with a nuclear bomb? appreciate if tack this would be strategic not even to tackle. i suppose the question now is how seriously do expect this statement to be considered by the us and its allies? luckily for you and the united states and british treats all media dissenting from the views given by nato and military companies abound not less. so in the united states was in european union. so they'll be trying to keep this one quiet just as they haven't followed up with a new york home story about the fact that the ukranian intelligence could be result . they're responsible for the attack on the north stream. so they will try and hush this up. no doubt, and presumably there are ways to heads, even in the pentagon,

and in the corridors of nature as it does in brussels. that realized any kind of preemptive attack would result at the complete annihilation of new york lamb in paris. and berlin within minutes, i chose to make this clear to our view is at home. you understand that president lansky didn't mention the use of nuclear weapons. each is called for a 1st strike against russia just to make that clear to everybody at home. and i've seen it, do you think the as the lensky, my kids be saying these words and his video message dictate perhaps, is some thought to scare tactics to both to his own image. do you think if just words? i think he doesn't need any bolstering reserve image vogue magazine map his way from the front cover. bob stars and celebrities like guard or ben stiller, the comedian hang out with them at the propaganda. master propaganda or attack to promote him in the west as been unbelievable. it's going to be difficult,

arguably for the forces of powers that be in nato nations, to somehow nuance this to say, this is not a sign of desperation. this is a sign of a truly in kiev, speaking in the way that he does. usually they'll kind of silence it, but hopefully the power of social media and band media dissenting from the nature stenographer line. we'll get this information that and make the powers that be around the world. the global sounds that learned bridge countries realize that zalinski, arguably if he continues like this must be stopped at all costs. not because of the fact that he is needlessly injuring and killing ordinary ukrainians alone. russians because he poses a tear and present danger to the people of the world. thank you for talking to her as our shane. really appreciate your time for thinking. 2 independent journalists.

ashley, mackenzie. i mean, while the e u has officially adopted in the 8th package of sanctions against moscow, including the 4 former ukrainian regions, there was any joint russia after referendums there they knew restrictions and could a price cap on oil imports from russia by sea. although pipeline supplies are not affected, the main ports of russian goods like steel of paper and plastic are now also bands plus there are measures prohibiting e u exports to russia, such as coal aviation equipment, and certain chemicals. what is by the e u. sanctions being aimed at russia, soviet officials say they're the ones who will have to pay the price. well, even in the you itself, them top officials, the warning that europeans will bear the brunt of the political decisions in brussels. the european union has again proven that it is a club of countries that once had their soldiers install and grad. the only consistency in its policy is revenge upon free people. serbia was forbidden to

import russian oil through the adria attic pipeline, but bo guerria was not. serbia is 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 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. now, great base political analysts, alexander pavlovitch, say, serbia is being punished for refusing to join what is essentially an e u. suicide pact. all the serbian high officials from the president prime minister to the minister of defense. they just protest, larry b, a man niger because it is practically sanctioned measure against serbia. 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 know, imposing sanctions against russia. they are trying to deny serbia song geopolitical choices. it choices to be neutral in a conflict. they're trying to interact with serbia to be suicide. while ukraine say they're determined to hunt down any one he believes to have collaborated with russia. british tabloids, the daily mail has published an article about the apparent extra judicial killings of science, a former senior officially thing that ukrainian troops could even shoot such individuals on side a man hunt for collaborators has been declared. their

lives are not protected by law or intelligence services or 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 bush's everybody to believe you buy 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 low 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 that took was 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, collaborator is 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, ordinary workers, and the areas left by the russians. and we year that 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 these 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. given back to daily mail publication, the feeling is that although admitting that ukraine is behind a great number of revenge, killings with papers somehow justifying them by saying that another uncomfortable truth is that some ukrainians, having deed, been assisting russian administrations on the ground. while the fact that later they were hunted and killed like pigs is actually not considered as uncomfortable. 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 and which ukrainians find themselves today. some of those who were quoted in this daily mail piece include anti 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 kill list. last week, many journalists, i know who work with rti have been placed on this kill list. but all of that, again, is not being reported in mainstream media. either a german media outlet has debunked a claim by k of defense ministry, which alleged that russian soldiers tortured people and a northern ukrainian town. now that's allegation came off, the key of troops said they had uncovered a box filled with hundreds of gold teeth in territory previously held by russia,

ukraine's defense ministry tweeted about the discovery, claiming the crate was found a long find. would it called torture tooth of the ukrainian allegation when viral accrue from germany is billed to magazine, visited the town, and found a local dentist who said the teeth were actually part of his personal collection. he was directly asked if the teeth actually came from dead people who, oh gosh, no. they come from people i've treated over the years. i pulled those teeth out because they had gone bad. okay, let's deeper into the story now with independent journalist jason, michael, i thank you for joining goes on the program. do you think that you're creating a claim about russian torture victims would have been taken seriously if it wasn't for the revelation from german media? well, absolutely, it would have done, you know, this, this image is the quintessential image of the holocaust. the narrative of

genocide is one of the ukrainian government has been keen to practice since the abberly week of the war in standpoint 0. my own website on the number of others, we the bunk, the claims made about booker, you know, very much creating the foundations of a narrative about a russian perpetrated genocide. and of course, in the european imagination. when we look at images of golds telling from teeth, we think of immediately think of ice pitch and instructions teeth from that all these during the holocaust after the graphing of juice. this is a very clever image, and one that you know, resonates with one of your deepest fears. and of course, this war is very much the mobilize ation of ideas in the west against the east. again, russia in particular. so yes, if this had not been debunked, this was a very powerful image. and one that would be want to convince

a lot of viewers who wouldn't be otherwise. looking to dig deeper into the story. what sort of reaction do you expect to the gym and media report from kaz? well, i imagine the reaction fees from kia will be very much the same as we go from, from an book in the past. this essentially what we're looking at in a propaganda machine is looking to utilize these. are you in probation the well on the car? i'm willing to know war. silent on out which is binion's when, when book of the came in and please stop talking about and mistaken was truth. the gold will be therapist, our island when when duties failed to meet those $45.00.

now in this particular case, of course, the ukrainian claim of war crimes turned out to be fake news, but that's thanks to the work of german journalists from other allegations from key i haven't been researched independently, those will still take on that situation. well, might, might take a quite simple that, you know, we can't make any objective determination on any of these things until things have been thought or thought. only respect as just because certain things have been proven to be different. formation of fake news doesn't mean the thing is this is an act of. busy situation and didn't war, it's very difficult to see the fall. so a yes. certainly when it comes to claim for the last people we should be relying on or confirmation this, the claim of genocide are the lakes of joe biden. the american president and european leaders decent posture off east. when we list eddie admiral,

for the united nation. he made it clear that the claim of genocide is illegally determined by a neutral investigation. and i think back as, as soon as possible. yes. and just because we've always the number of different probation doesn't mean that it's all not through. we don't know the, the, the, the most important thing here is a clear investigation. and thor, sorry, we've been covering today, is the virtual crank down on pro russian supporters and ukraine is key, of course. and collaborators. do you think that's part of the story is getting enough independent media coverage independent media coverage? well, yes, certainly online this, this is a fairly concerning piece of information and it's quite want to look at this piece

of news, particularly considering that the definition of collaboration in ukraine also covers little old ladies who received aid packages from russian therapist. people is very wandering and the other thing is the war on the collaborators and the ongoing board on the ethnic russians. the ukraine really points to what will be actually the real genocide it's not being accumulated in the way. it's certainly not an island, certainly not made in them back at the war. ukrainian regime again, russians nice and you've been has been ongoing since the market for the data in 24 in and and yet we are having all of the attempt to create a narrative of a janice by russia against ukrainians, which definitely isn't being supported any way then the mainstream veering west in nations is that ukraine is a democratic country, of course,

fighting against no authority and state, but does not mean that any atrocity, the war crimes committed on ukraine's part just be ignored. well this, this is n v, the manufacturer of consent to the manufacturer of the news one or one covered since i think the 1917 by norman chomsky and all those yes, inconvenient and use is simply ignored and only in the past few years of the really getting to ad direct with the, the, my time mastercard during the vietnam war, as in the past few years. but even unity directly. so american war in iraq, afghanistan, all well made to an atrocity, certainly in the face of any problems or what news and government to fight to pay

attention to. atrocities committed by the ukrainian won't be given any good in the west. many thanks for talking to us. i really appreciate your inside independent journalist, michael. thank you and thank you for joining us here on the international. don't forget you can keep up to date on all the latest news updates by checking out our website. i don't come in with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be in arms. race is often very dramatic.