things that with the time will you do a bama lee? you can do that a little bit more. ah, ah, moscow excuses ukraine's president of trying to start a world war that's after volume is the lens get calls on nato to launch preemptive strikes against russia. washington considers with tele, retrieve measures against saudi arabia to opec closest decision to cut oil production. and that is vice president biden's efforts to keep prices down. also coming up in the program, kenya sparks is a neighboring tons in year of genetically modified for juice. and to the east african country that's after nairobi left the bands out cycle a growing through crisis.

ah, for moscow to the world, this is our t international. my name is peter scott. with the top stories this, our must go claims that the ukranian presidents is calling for the start of the world war wishes top diplomat. sergei love rav even believed that the lensky had called for a preemptive nuclear strike on russia of jura, zalinski. but his little sl yesterday zalinski called on his western masters to launch a preemptive nucleus 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, a new to rise attempt by the links to the secretaries to claim that he meant something else or ridiculous. in this situation, zelinski, like his entire regime, has got a taste and he's beginning to dictate his own conditions,

both to nato and to the you able to live stream, show going, that'll 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 yog me 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 washing, 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 a possibility would even be in the worse. 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. she's 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 and 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 be 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 i did states as it has no plans to put nuclear weapons in poland and is important to note that the government and kia

is at this point, dependent on loans from the west of there were not being financially propped up by nato financial propped up by the united states in particular, and there was not a constant inflow of weapons that government would have fallen. and it seems like near strategy here is to escalate 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 that 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 russia is 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 black mailing is coming from the other side from the ukrainians, rapidly smee, 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 finding. 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 it here and to all our regulations about these arms. immediately, the western media cuts out certain keywords, paste 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. or meanwhile, the ukranian president spokesperson has buck trots on zalinski his words, and he explains the zalinski was talking about the period before february 24th and was actually talking about sanctions and not physical attacks. now this comes as joe biden says, the risk of nuclear armageddon is of his highest since the 1962 cuban missile crisis we discussed issue with the fall of guess. 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 club, 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 cruise, aching, the missiles out of cuba. that is the type of negotiation we need to day. 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 tax in any way russia is that. so the 3rd world war, because russia is going to retaliate against all natal member states, and that would be easy and over of europe and, and perhaps over humanity. once we start playing these kind of games. and i cannot

understand why the leaders of the of the west are urging themselves to commit suicide. i cannot understand that the u. s. secretary of state's anthony blinkin says that washington is exploring a range of responses to the opaque plus decision to cut oil production. the us is reportedly keen to secure cheap oil imports from venezuela and reportedly in talks to e sanctions on the maduro government. meanwhile, the largest u. s. oil trade groups wrote a letter to energy secretary jennifer granholm expressing concern that washington is considering limits in its fuel like sports to lower consumer prices domestically now they say the move could disrupt global markets, reduce domestic refining capacity, as well as 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 gas pipeline which runs from russia to germany. where might some americans have gotten the notion that the, by the ministration might have been involved directly or through a proxy in the destruction of the north string 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 so nor stream to, we will bring it in. 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 destruction of food, the nord stream pipeline, which i, i would bet was a us action, perhaps u. s. and poland. i this is, i don't really got to stop there. that's,

that's are quite a statement as well. why do you feel like that? that was the u. s. action? what evidence do you have of that? the house of ortiz, well depart, program asana, boy co joined. my colleague, nicky are in in the studio earlier and she brought 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 that 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 in many of the opec members are considered traditional u. s. allies 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 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 youth 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 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 all. yesterday often 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. it's not politically scientific as a scientific decision. it's an antique but it's, it's serving bab jack to practical national interest. then it's interesting to see

that they have the seminar 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 a, you know, it is a block 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 the bite and administration has been leaning heavily in air over the last here and the besides them that's reserve diminished by almost a 3rd from more than 600000000 barrels to someone about 400000000 barrels at the bite administration. announce yet again that they are going to release another $10000000.00 to try to hit to try to ease the markets and 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 are 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 with 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. note that when a couple of years, a couple of months in while the u has officially adopted, it's a, it's a package of sanctions against moscow. and that does include the full territories that recently joined russia. now the new restrictions include price cop on oil imports from russia by sea. although pipeline supplies on so fated in ports of some russia goods, including steel paper on plastic and now also bund. close that measures prohibit

some exports to russia, such as cold aviation equipment, uncertain chemicals, balinsa moscow's war, and that it won't sell energy to those countries that apply a price cup. while the sanctions are aimed at russia. serbian officials say that they are the ones who might 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 sure beers forced to buy more expensive iraqi oil and thus lose hundreds of millions of euro's they could have been used more effectively. belgrade based political analyst, alexander povich, says this, serbia is being punished for refusing to join what's he describes as an e. u suicide pox. all the serving high officials from the president prime minister

here at the minister defense. they just protested larry b, a man niger 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 of europe, which is not which is refusing to impose sanctions against russia. so this is also seen as a kind of a threat and a revenge. it revenge at serbia on quality. you for not imposing sanctions against russia. they're trying to deny serbia, it song geopolitical choices. it choices to be neutral. conflict in trying to wes, serbia q u suicide that meanwhile, the use of foreign policy chief has cold for a europe without russia. i think that the consonant should build its own political community without moscow for the foreseeable future,

and probably as long as bruton is in power. it is impossible to conceive of a new security order or piece architecture in europe, of which russia put in it would be an integral pause. russia remains a geographical neighbor and a 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 out an advertising campaign about whom they blame for high electricity prices, and that's is vladimir putin. but he is also, despite the fight that war saw has been one of the key supporters of sanctions against russia. now this all comes as 44 european leaders are holding it in for the meeting in prague to discuss the war in ukraine and the energy crisis as well as the economic downturn, russia bell roost were both bod, from attending the summit, and the meeting comes as an attempt to form a more inclusive union, that much law countries. it's a coney not parts of the you inside all sees rachel miles and i was more not 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 back home 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 virtues signaling 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. and 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. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski, set the tone sort of a he note for the virtue signaling, if you will, when he beamed in via video link to ask for surprise, surprise, more aid yours. so that quote, russian tanks do not advance on warsaw or again on prague. i don't, the only tank 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 actors, lensky is a tough act to follow for sure. but u. k. prime minister list trust, who citizens voted to lee lee, you showed 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 that are citizens voted to leave. trust must have figured that there will be a shortage of participants there urging euro 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 had the katie 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 were 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 and not to the latest from the head of san a region where 5 people have reportedly been killed after ukrainian forces,

allegedly stroked civilian areas where the suspect said to hi moss, missile. now here, the latest pictures that we have from the images are said to show the aftermath of death. it's like, 2 buses were destroyed while at least 3 people were also reportedly wounded. and now across to the republic of done yet square r t correspondence under a philosophy has been wounded for a 2nd time. he was slightly grazed by some shot note while reporting on a bottle in the area. and the falling footage contained some mildly graphic content . i get some yeah, new milk and i knew i was hit again. another small wound i knew, i don't need any metal for this is awesome. great achievement. 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 just, it's nothing to fuss about him. i'll recover from this in return to work. so mechanical whole thought is in russia's western kaloogian regions say that

a drone that came from the ukrainian border, which is about 200 kilometers away, crushed as a local military air base. now this map shows that the crash sites in relation to the russian capital, which is about 270 kilometers to the north east media reports say that the aircraft was shot down as it approached a military air base. and that no one was injured in that incident and over to african are where tons and he says no to g m o. that softer. neighboring kenya listed a 10 year been on the farming unimed ports 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. anthony is concerned that genetically modified foods might find their way into the country. kenya's decision to return to the open

cultivation of g m corpus was made after the worst drought in 40 years, which was exacerbated by issues in the global supply chain due to the war in ukraine which led some must hunger adama, gaba. the 2nd former presidential aspirants for the 2023 nigerian elections says that genetically modified food. it just isn't rights for africa. okay, he's not in the right click on the 25 foot where you have to use technology to modify the genes of that fi, you know, so that you can have high yield. but of course highly chemicals. this is a continent described in my not of disease in addition to the already exacerbated health issues that we have in africa. i don't, we're just trying to concede a logo. i'm challenging into, into all continent. and honestly, i don't, we are like full jelly to colleen. what if i think we are living with him capacity

to pull move on from simply because the middle dollar country from taking over the progression of $1440.00 in africa. 14 was the only export, declined on from produce the we find, you know, countries for export, not really the kind of where i'm produce the we can consume on it and know that we're coming to the point well by the global grinnell was on crisis is a 15 and disrupting the supply chain, we are unable to produce a home with annually hilda were willing to get from the was don't want to stick a neurological need in general to kill him. what if i for doug? me? likely be cubic allies also cause 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 renewal of can be able to remove the quantity of food that we can also mean discontinued south korea and the u. s. have been holding joints maritime drills in response to

a north korean missile launch. thus, after a south korean ballistic missile malfunctioned and crushed into the outskirts of the military base early this week, during a life i exercised conducted with american forces. now the crash which occurred amid heights and tensions with north korea caused panic on surprisingly among local local residents. that a local official where the incident took place accused to the government of using taxpayers money. the weapons that could threaten the countries own people. the short range missiles was acquits with a warhead that didn't designates on impacts, and no casualties were reported. well, the exercises begun just days after us vice president kamala horace visited south korea and a show of solidarity with sol as neighboring north korea runs of tests of its strategic arsenal. earlier this week, north korea testified a missile over japan that then fell into the pacific ocean. in response to that, japan and the u. s. urged the urine security council to take action accusing russia

and china of enabling the north korean nuclear program. when turn russia said that sanctions against north korea have come to a dead end and they have not achieved the desired results. e p r k has enjoyed blanket protection from 2 members of this council. these 2 members have gone out of their way to justify that he 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 counsel only who could on the colon. choosing las china and russia have tabled a joint resolution of the d p r 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 on june. june of russia and china have insisted that the u. s. south korean chills have per votes. north korea, but the are some busted, it's the you and did reject those remarks. say no, there's no equivalency between the 2 activities. elliott, north korea also accused washington on this allies of threat minutes with a military build up. international journalist eric summers believe that north korea sees it's nuclear and miss all programs as a necessary deterrent. i should say on behalf of china, because i'm a permanent resident of john. ah, the chinese position all along has been that there shouldn't be no nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula. china is a close to further nuclear proliferation. and so is russia. indifference is they

understand why north korea is resorting to this extreme measure because it's a freight 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, it 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 centered. hadn't weapons of mass destruction that didn't have any. so it was invaded and finally, us ukraine's president. volume is zalinski has again, cold for european lead us to send additional wet for me to key if the western media

says little about how ukraine could possibly pay these debts, that is incur and according to ukraine's finance ministry, the countries so. so a national debt is slowly creeping up to $100000000000.00, and that's equivalent of 2 thirds of ukraine's g. d p over the last year, around $60000000000.00 of the debt is owed to foreign states. but yet we spoke to economist an author, michael hudson, he says it's ukraine to pay is unlikely to be able to pay off its obligations to foreign powers. there's no way that you can pay the form that are running a huge deficit every year. and it's the poorest countries in europe and the most corrupt country in europe, the money that is called foreign that was not paid the ukrainians, it was paid to the collector credit. so like palomo ski and to mr. zalinski and other crooked, so immediately took the money from the i m f, and put it into their personal bank accounts and anima and other places. so this is

fictitious. it's not really your premium that at all. it is what economists call a fraudulent or odious depth. and i think russia should make this a test case on what is already a step, and it should somehow expand the idea of audio step to what many other american satellites and global cells countries. oh, those are the main stories this our do head over to all websites r t dot com for more and any of those stories that you've just seen on pizza scott, on the back again with another one down at the top of the hour. with a.