a joe biden imposing the sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. so there's your boomerang, huh? ah, moscow accuses ukraine's president of trying to start a world war. after volume is lensky appeared to call on nato to launch preemptive strikes against russia. washington considered retaliatory measures against saudi arabia after opaque plus decisions a cost of production. and despite president biden's efforts to keep prices down, also in the program, kenya sparks fears in neighboring tons the near of genetically modified for juice entering the east african country. that's up to narrow b lift bands, help tackle

a growing through crisis with july from our headquarters here in moscow, you'll watch in art. see welcome to the program. i'm peter scott's. and here the top story is at one p. m. moscow time. a moscow claims the ukrainian presidents is calling for the start of the world war, which is top diplomats, that of gala rav even claimed. zalinski had called for a preemptive nuclear strike on russia of chiller zalinski, but as well. so yesterday, zalinski called on his western masters to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on russia. with his statement, he's essentially shown the whole world more evidence of the threats emanating from the key of regime, which a special operation was launched to neutralize. attempts by the links to his secretaries to claim that he meant something else or ridiculous. in this situation, zelinski like his entire regime, has got

a taste and is beginning to dictate his own conditions, both to nato, unto the u. realistic, shuffling little moiety. what should nato do, and eliminate the possibility of russia using nuclear weapons? i once again appeal to the international community as it was before february 24th. we need preemptive strikes, so that russia would know what awaits them if they use nuclear weapons. not the other way around him to wait for rushes nuclear strikes and then say, oh no. okay, then take this. yeah, well, the remarks that we heard from the ukranian leaders simply don't match the portrait of reality. that those who observe the situation are aware of, for example, we have washington saying they're not aware that russia would even be capable of using a nuclear weapon. and we have other words from washington saying that they are not sure that, that such a plan or possibility would even be in the works. and at this point, we have russian officials coming forward and saying these very serious words that

we've heard from the granting president have very serious ramifications. he's calling for a new world war. now this is the reaction from russian officials interested in this statement by president zalinski must be taken into consideration by every country in the world. and especially washington london in the you states. such statements are nothing else but a call to initiate a new world war with unpredictable disastrous consequences. and they mustn't go unnoticed by the west. now the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman pointed out that zalinski is a san really fueling a nuclear war that he's become a, a monster who can destroy the planet. if you want peace, you don't call for pre emptive strikes and a nuclear escalation. that seems to me what the ukranian president has done, and it fits a pattern of escalation here. now, recently we saw the polish leader go as far as saying that poland was willing to host nuclear weapons from united states. when united states says it has no plans to

put nuclear weapons in poland and is important to note that the government in kiya is at this point, dependent on loans from the west of there were not being financially brought up by nato financial propped up by the united states in particular, and there was not a constant inflow weapons that government would have fallen. and it seems like near strategy here is to ask a late as much as they possibly can to try and make this conflict as serious as desperate as extreme as they possibly can. and at the same time claim that they somehow want peace. now it's important to note that ukraine announced they were attempting to fast track join nato to join the nato alliance. very, very quickly. something at the white house said they were not even informed up. sounds like a desperate move from kiya and the white house was not cooperating with them on it . now the foreign ministry spokesperson for russia, maria's a car of a. she pointed out that essentially you have western media playing up this idea

that rushes a nuclear threat. when in reality it is the key of government that continues to attack the nuclear power plant, putting the danger of a nuclear disaster before the world. and that now with these calls for a preemptive strike by the ukrainian leader, looks pretty clear that the nuclear blackmailing is coming from the other side from the ukrainians, openly. smith, the western media is a tool in the hands of the western intelligence agencies. they're trying to implant a nuclear rhetoric into the public discourse, accusing russia of conducting nuclear blackmail, whiny. this is how the machine works. as soon as russian officials say something, for example, about our position of not having been the 1st country to actually use nuclear weapons. or absolute adherence to all our regulations about these arms. immediately the western media cuts out certain key words, pace them into their articles,

and throws everything else away. fabricating something that is exactly the opposite of what we stated. this escalation from the granting leader should be taken seriously by everyone. however, the western media seems to have turned a blind eye to the actions of zalinski. now at this point, we'll be waiting to see what the global reaction is from these provocative remarks from the grain president that are pretty tantamount to calling for world war 3 involve ukrainian presidents post 1st and has by charts on zalinski his words. he explained that he was referring to appeared before february 24 and was actually talking about sanctions a not physically a physical attempts. this all comes as joe biden says, the risk of nuclear armageddon is his highest since the 1962 cuban missile crisis. we discussed issue with a panel of guests. i don't think they've learned lessons from history because i don't, i don't think they know history. i mean that especially in the united states. yeah,

i mean, we should look to the cuban missile crisis or how to get out of it. you know, john f kennedy werner. you know, he worked hard to negotiate a deal with crew chef. it was a given take. he agreed not to attack cuba. he agreed to take a nuclear weapons out of turkey in return for crew, aching the missiles out of cuba. that is the type of negotiation we need today. but you don't see any of that happening from the u. s. you don't see the u. s. helping i to negotiate a solution and back you see them interfering to prevent solution from being agreed to. so that is very, very troubling. if there was any doubt thus far, he is unhinged. i am concerned for his mental health. he is obviously willing to risk nuclear armageddon to preserve his regime. and i don't think that russia

or other state leaders are that are dealing with him, can any longer consider him to be irrational actor. and we also have to take this in the context of his recent actions. he has ordered his military forces in the law over the last 2 months to continually shell and attack with kamikaze drones. the zappa rosure nuclear power plant, whatever his absurd denials to the contrary. if western leaders do not immediately denounce his statements and back away from it, i think we have to consider them complicit if a data ducks in any way russia, that's a 3rd world war, because russia is going to retaliate against all nato member states. and that would be the andover of europe and perhaps over humanity. once we start

playing these kinds of games and i cannot understand why the leaders of the of the west are urging themselves to commit suicide. i cannot understand that u. s. secretary of state's antony blinkin says that washington is exploring a range of responses to the opec plus decision to cut oil production. the u. s. is reportedly keen to secure cheap oil imports from venezuela and as importantly, enforce the sanctions on the maduro government. meanwhile, the largest u. s. oil trade groups wrote a letter to energy sector. jennifer granholm expressing concern that washington is considering limiting its fuel exports to lower consumer prices. they say the move could disrupt global markets, reduce domestic refining capacity, and alienates u. s. allies. that's as a prominent fox news host points out that joe biden had said himself that the u. s

. would quote, bring an end to the north stream pipeline, which runs from russia to germany. where might some americans have gotten the notion that the by the administration might have been involved directly through a proxy in the destruction of the north stream pipelines? why would they think that they certainly didn't watch than 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 nurse team to we, we will bring an end. and then we crowed about how great it was after it happened. we had nothing at all to do with it. and if you don't, by that story uncritically, if you have any questions about how exactly that might work, you're a disloyal american, shut up, be to stretch new food. the nord stream pipeline, which i, i would bet was a us action, perhaps u. s. and poland. i, this is certainly got to stop there. that said, there are quite a statement as well. why do you feel always that there was a u. s. action?

what evidence do you have of that? the house of ortiz, well depart, program asana, boy co joined my colleague, nicky, aaron, earlier in the studio to break down the ramifications of the opec plus production cuts. 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, done everything that's for your interest would be fulfilled, act, but saudi arabia in many of the opec members are considered traditional u. s. allies and the fact that they have pretty much ignored a very, very active american law being shows that things are changing in the world. and countries are starting to pursue that own interest. the white house has yet again tried to put all the blame on russia, but i think the current division shows the 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 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 or 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 profit tearing, 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 i'll guess today 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. is a scientific decision. it's not intending but it's, it's serving bab jack to practical national interest then the, you know, it's, it's interesting to see that they have the seminar to do that,

primarily because the vitamin mr. she 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 a, you know, it is a book of country that has absolutely no reserve. it would be interesting to see how there it will be doing with, with that situations, unlike the e, the united states does have its own strategic oil reserves. and they bite an administration has been leaning heavily on it air over the last here. and the besides that reserve diminished by almost a 3rd from more than 600000000 barrels to someone about 400000000 barrels and the bite administration announce yet again that they are going to release another 10000000 to try to hit 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 respite. but the problem is that when you are

emptying your reserves, are on such a short term perspective at 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 if the democrats, when they will have to address that problem, a couple of months down the line, know that when a couple of years a couple of months. meanwhile, the u has officially adopted its 8th package of sanctions against moscow. and that does include the 4 territories that recently joined russia. the new restrictions include a price cup on oil imports from russia by sea. but pipeline supplies are not affected . impulse of some russian goods, including steel, paper, plastic, and also bund plus. the measures prohibit some e u. exports to russia, such as cold aviation equipments, uncertain chemicals. now,

moscow's war that he won't sell energy to those countries that apply a price cup of you sanctions are aimed at russia, so beneficial so that they're the ones will have to pay the price. the european union has again proven that 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 bulgaria was not. serbia is forced to buy more expensive iraqi oil and thus lose hundreds of millions of euros. they could have been used more effectively. or belgrade based political analyst, alexander povich, says that serbia is being punished for refusing to join what he describes as an a you suicide, packed all the serbian high officials from the president prime minister here to minister defense. they just, protested larry, be a man, you guess manager, because it is a practically sanctioned measure against serbia. and you know,

we all know why that is, is because serbia is the alone country in this part of europe practically in all europe, which is not. which is refusing to impose sanctions against russia. so this is also seen as a threat and a revenge at revenge at serbia on quality you for not imposing sanctions against russia. they're trying to denies serbia, it song geopolitical choices. it choices to be neutral in a conflict. don't try to west serbia. you are the you, suicide. bear with me while the use foreign policy chief has called for a europe without russia. adding that the constant should build its own political community without consideration for moscow. for the foreseeable future, and probably as long as putin is in power, it is impossible to conceive of a new security order or piece architecture in europe, of which russia's put in it would be an integral part. russia remains the

geographical neighbor and the member of the international system. but right now we have to build a european political community without buttons russia. meanwhile, polish energy companies have rolled outs and advertising, campaign abouts, whom they blame for high energy prices. and that's is vladimir putin, and it's also despite the fight that war. so has been one of the key supporters of sanctions against russia. now this all comes as 44 european leaders are holding an informal meeting in prague to discuss the war and ukraine. the energy crisis as well as the economic downturn, russia and belarus were both bought from attending the summit. and the meeting comes as an attempt to form a more inclusive union that might allow countries that are currently not parts of the u. as all sees rachel moss and explains, the european union is hosting the very 1st ever meeting this week in prague for a brand new club called the european political community. or if you prefer the e u kitty table. earlier this year, french president a menu and mac,

hong realized that there was pretty much no way that ukraine was going to be able to qualify for he you membership anytime soon. but wanted to somehow stretch the block to make it, and other outsiders feel included. none the less, so the block set up a sort of kitty table of representatives from the 17 countries, a sort of russia free safe space where they can sit back and enjoy the virtue signalling by the other 27 members. dates while showering down on scrumptious snacks. your doubt, paid for by the glock citizens who can barely afford gas to heat their own meals. so why wasn't russia invited? this meeting is a way of looking for a new order without russia. it doesn't mean we want to exclude russia forever, but this russia, putins, russia does not have a seat. the kidney table participants also have the opportunity to try their hand at a bit of virtue signaling themselves in preparation for their possible eventual integration

into the block. he cranium, president vladimir zelinski, set the tone sort of a key note for the virtue signaling if you will, when he beamed in via video link to ask for surprise, surprise, more aid eagles so that quote, russian tanks do not advance on warsaw or again on prague i don't the only take advancing on the e. u is the massive brakes truck full of cash that the west keeps sending to ukraine while european struggle to pay the bills. professional actor zalinski is a tough act to follow for sure. but you k prime minister at least trust, who citizens voted to lead the you shown up anyway to give zalinski a run for his money in russia bashing department. nothing says democracy more than a leader showing up to address a block to better citizens voted to leave. trust must have figure that there will be a shortage of participants there urging europe to quote,

stand firm against russian president vladimir putin. as she said in her address, apparently the seating plan for this thing was a bit of a nightmare with serbia and kosovo. both the katy table and turkey add the kitty table wanting to launch pitfalls at the adult table, specifically aiming for greece. it's not like any written conclusions or declarations. we're going to come out of this thing. getting a class photo taken without any one ending up with chewing gum in their hair or bunny ears flashed over their head would already be considered a major accomplishment. but no doubt vladimir putin is quaking at the site now to the latest from the head of san region where 5 people have reportedly been killed after ukrainian forces allegedly stroked civilian areas with a suspected high mas missile. here are the latest pinches we have with images are said to show the aftermath of dots at sight. she bosses were destroyed while at

least 3 people were also reportedly wounded. and across to the republic of done yet now. well, t correspondence under a philosopher has been wounded for a 2nd time. he was slightly grazed by some shock knoll while repulsing on a bottle in the area. now the following footage does contain some mildly graphic contents. i get some yeah, meal meal care. i knew i was hit again, another small wound, i don't need any metal for this is 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 him. i'll recover from this and return to work here. oh, it's african, i'll wear tons in. it says no to g m. o, not comes after its neighboring country kenya lifted its honey bun on the farming on imports of genetically modified crops. we are not open to such genetically modified technology. kenya's move has no effect on us. we will keep on utilizing

the hybrid op varieties as our various studies maintain, that we have enough in the very best hybrid seeds that are commercially viable and more productive than g m. it's, antonia is concerned that genetically modified foods might find their way into the country. can use decision to return to the open cultivation of g. m. crops was made after the with drought in 40 years. and that has been exacerbated by issues in the global supply chain. which of course, due to the war in ukraine which led some mass hunger, a damo gob of the 2nd former presidential aspirins for the 2023 nigerian elections . when he says that g m food is not right for africa. africa is not in the right. one genetically modified foods where you have to use technology to modify the genes of that food. you know, sort of, you can have high yield, but of course highly chemical ice. this is a continent described in my not of disease in addition to the already exacerbated

health issues that we have in africa. i to, we're just trying to concede a logo i'm challenging into, into our own continent. and honestly, i don't to, we are like full jenny to colleen. what if i think we are living with him capacity to pull move on from simply because the middle dollar currently from taking over the progression of $1440.00 in africa. fortune was the only export declined on farm produce the we find, you know, countries for export not really the kind of where i am produce the we can consume on it and know that we are coming to the point well by the global grinnell was on crisis is a victim and disrupting the supply chain. we are unable to put his own food annually. hilda, we're willing to get from the was done. what is technologically been generically more if i for doug me likely be chemical. i also got a lot of problems for the other guy don't to write this kind of thing. i didn't africa should be able to have, is talk to where we produce old bristle natural environment since we have the land

mass. and the capacity under natural, i'm in all of can be able to produce the quantity of food that we consume in this quantity. and finally, south korea and the us have been holding joint maritime drills in response to a north korean missile launch. lots after a south korean ballistic missile malfunctioned and then crushed in the outskirts of the military base. earlier this week, during a life i exercise which is conducted with american forces. now the crush which occurred amid heights intentions with north korea, caused panic among the local residents. and surprisingly, i'm useful official in the city where the incident folk place accused the government of using taxpayers money for weapons that threatened the con, his own people. the short range missile was equipped with the war, had that didn't designate upon impacts and no casualties were reported. the exercises began just days after u. s. vice president kamala harris visited south korean, a show of solidarity with sol as neighboring north korea rumps or protests of its

own strategic arsenal. earlier this week, north korea testified a missile over japan answer and it fell into pacific ocean in response to pon and the u. s urged the un security council to take action, and they accused russia and china of enabling the north korean nuclear program. russia, in turn, has said that sanctions against north korea have come to a dead end without achieving the desired results. dpr k has enjoyed blanket protection from 2 members of this council. these 2 members have gone out of their way to justify that t dpr, kay's repeated provocations and block every attempt to update the sanctions regime . in short, 2 permanent members of the security council have enabled kim young on. this is a clear effort by china and russia to reward dpr k for their bad actions and cannot

be taken seriously. by this council, only will credit nicola choosing the china and russia have tabled a joint resolution of the dpr k with the intention to ease the humanitarian situation on the ground. create a favourable atmosphere for mutual trust among all parties and resume dialog on the korean peninsula issue. the un security councils deliberations should contribute to dialogue rather than fueling escalation and on. for said, china have insisted that the joints you s south korean drills have per vote north korea, but the u. s. embassy to the u. n. b j to those remarks saying that there is no equivalency between these 2 activities only at north korea. also, cues, washington and its allies affecting it with a military build up international generalist eric? some i believe the north korea sees it's nuclear and missile programs as a necessary deterrent. i should say, on behalf of china, because i'm a permanent resident. you know,

that chinese position all along has been that there should be no nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula. china is suppose to further nuclear proliferation. and so as russia differences, they understand why north korea is resorting to this extreme measure because it's a cray united states has had military forces stationed in south korea adjacent right to north korea since the korean war. and just before the recent missile test is conducted, yet another large scale on military operation or military exercise alongside the south korean army. so it's not hard to imagine the mindset of north korean leaders who seen this and think we better show that we're not like iraq was

some years ago when it's center weapons of mass destruction that didn't have any so it was invaded that's how the world is looking at $127.00 p. m. moscow tie my name is peter scotts, and i'll be back again with another look at today's biggest stories in about half an hour's time. thanks a name when i was shown seemed wrong. when all proofs just don't hold any new world, that is to say, proud disdain becomes the advocate. an engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground.

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