[000:00:00;00] a good time. a large fire or wraps and rushes donhauster for public as local officials. ukraine fire 6 time mars rockets at the city of love by after years of close partnership with saudi arabia, us now hauls the saudi royal back stabbers following the opec plus decision to slash oil output. with your current president is currently retract his earlier call for preemptive starts on russia, planning he was misunderstood and was referring to sanctions

a month out to the world. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins, and these are the top stories this hour. we began with the latest from russia, don escrow public where the ukranian army has attacked this city of low lights. let's take a look at some footage now from the eye witness is a large fire iraq did. after 6 high merge rockets were launched by the ukranian army at the city, that's according to local officials so far there have been no reports of any casualties. my love for royal back stabbers. that's why some us lawmakers are now calling saudi arabia over reorders move to reduce oil output as part of the opec plus decision. some us officials are even calling for the president to cut off weapons supplies to

the kingdom. the saudis need us more for weapons than we need them. president biden should make it clear that we will cut off weapons if public plus doesn't traverse the decision to make drastic costs and production in congress. we should also explore ways to raining up control over energy prices worldwide. this comes after the white house praise saudi arabia is a strategic partner selling them large amounts of weapons despite joe biden, ledge to make riata, a pariah when he was campaigning for office. some u. s. congress members are also calling for a reexamination of the country's relationship with 0 plus plus members with saudi arabia, as action being described as hostile to washington. here's our t caleb mop and with more well essentially we have opec announcing they will be reducing the oil output by $2000000.00 barrels per day. now that is rattling the

circles of power the day. there is quite a bit of outrage. 2 days since the announcement already we're hearing the leaders of saudi arabia being described as back stabbers, putting a night in the back of the united states. here's what we've heard from unanswered questions about 911. the brutal murder of journalists, jamal cas shogi, and the exporting of extremism to dubious jailing of peaceful dissidence in conspiring with vladimir putin to punish the u. s. with higher oil prices. the saudi royal family has never been a trustworthy ally of our nation. it's time for our foreign policy to imagine a world without this alliance with these royal back stabbers back stabbers. that is the language being used to describe the longtime ally of the united states, the kingdom of saudi arabia. and it appears that they consider this to be a humiliation of joe biden, at a, consider this to be hurting the economic interests of the united states. and apparently,

the united states feels that it has rights over saudi arabia's oil. you'll recall economist magazine recently, i, you know, over the summer they tweeted out, meet mohammed bin solomon, that's the count. brown, prince of south of saudi arabia, the millennial autocrat who controls our oil. now that tweet was deleted because it is not their oil. it is by right, the oil of the kingdom of saudi arabia, according to the constitution, ah, but apparently the united states feels it has some rights over it as do the british . now, at this point, what can the united states do? but rant and rave at the saudis for not doing what they want here. some of what we've heard, what saudi arabia did to help put and continue to wage his despicable, vicious war against ukraine will long be remembered by americans. we are looking at all the legislative tools to best deal with this appalling and deeply cynical action, though the no peck bill is up for discussion. this is

a bill that would allow the united states to sue opec countries take them to court, possibly have you escort, seize their assets, if they don't do what the united states wants, it would allow civil actions against opec countries by the united states in retaliation for move such as this, that bill is up for discussion. in addition to that, the military relationship between the united states and saudi arabia is being questioned. this is what's been said as well. i just don't see any good reason for us to maintain troops that are there almost solely for the purpose of protecting their oil fields and their security interests. there's no question that mohammed been solomon, the crown prince of saudi arabia, shears putin's world view more than he shares ours. doesn't appreciate american advocacy for democracy in the world. now it's been 70 years that the united states has been aligned with the kingdom of saudi arabia. they've been one of the most loyal allies of the united states and nato in the region. you can recall after the

1979 iranian revolution, the reagan administration saying that they would never allow such a revolution to take place in saudi arabia. that is a steadfast longtime partner of the united states. but now we're seeing the circles of power in washington, turning on them pretty rapidly in response to recent moves around opec people will recall the words of former us president george w bush, who said you're either with us or against us. and that kind of thinking seems to be prevailing in washington dc. meanwhile, energy has also been high on the agenda at an e u summit in prague. the blocks foreign policy chief joe, that burrell said the opec plus decision to slash oil production was a response to the new price cap, underlining that energy has become the main geopolitical issue. look a deal back with that decision decreased this supply of coil would use

a clear answer to our proposal. price. it means that energy is becoming the most important you strategic issue today related with the war, but also with the balance of power into, well, dozens of you and other leaders gathered in the chat capital on thursday, in an attempt to find unity in anti russian policies. the new political community format sought to discuss security and energy among other topics. however, efforts to find common ground on the latest measures, such as a price cap and further anti russian sanctions seemed to have failed. r t contributor rachel mars and explains why there were 44 countries united. discussing the challenge herself today. and it showed how much rushes isolated by now, the new e u political community and invention of french president emanuel mac holds,

consisting of the 27 nation block. and 17 other countries most of which aspire to join the e. u has just wrapped up, is inaugural p r exercise in prague. now the whole point of this event in prague, prague castle seem to be to convince onlookers of european unity particularity in favor of ukraine and against russia. while papering over any other cracks in the solidarity facade. it. so the kind of thing that's been happening a lot lately within the, you know, we all know people like this in our own lives. they arrive at the party. it's all lovey dovey, kissy kissy and you know, darn well that in the car just before they got there. they had a huge blow up all just this week. for example, as brussels adopted 8 round with anti russian sanctions. belgium in italy sat on their hands as brussels band, semi center steel products from russia, despite knowing full well the hit that their own steel industries risk taking as a result. so they just kind of towed the line but likely aren't thrilled about it.

so during this summit, craps did show none. the less turkish president air to one used his platform to lash out at greece over their territorial disputes in the region and accused the e. u. of supporting illegal activities masquerading his unity or solidarity. so he didn't mince words there. the block is upset with norway for maintaining high energy prices and profits. amid the gas crunch caused by brussels auto sanctions. german economy minister robert havoc brought up the issue of so called friends like the u. s. and norway exploiting e u countries desperation through price gouging. earlier this week, french president, michael used his summit platform to repeat his opposition to building a new gas connection between spain and france, which germany really wants. because it would allow cheap gas from north africa to flow into neighboring you countries and germany as well. but let's face it, france would lose

a market in the long run for it's l n g plans. if it supported the project, you k prime minister list trust was also in attendance and made a point of calling michael a friend. even though just weeks ago she said that the jury is out on whether he's a friend or foe for britain. but here it was, all smiles, kind of, she doth protest too much, perhaps the polish prime minister didn't miss the opportunity to pick yet another fight with germany. you showed with a here today, we often talk about the egoism of germany. it clearly shows that it cannot be the case that the european union's energy policy is being dictated by germany mental financial. poland also decided recently to demand reparations from jury for world war 2. and now greece is also seeking hundreds of billions of euros from germany for both world wars, $1.00 and $2.00 for the greek government and the greek society. this issue,

reparations from germany, remains open and its resolution, which is primarily a matter of principle, i think will be beneficial for all the countries and vault and the e. u. s. such, yes, it doesn't really matter than germany has been doing the heavy lifting for both of these net recipients of you funds as the blocks primary economic engine. and now berlin, which is staring down the barrel at d industrialization and rationing from you. energy sanctions isn't exactly in the best position to be stuck with bills to right. historical ross, italy was recently chastised by none other than european commission. president ursula vander line. the almighty queen of europe, herself just before voting in a populous government. so now italy finds itself teetering on the edge of pariah status at b. e. u. alongside that other perennial pariah hungry whose prime minister had this to say about brussels performance. russia has not been brought to it's nice at all . while european economy saw bleeding out,

it is evident that the policy sanctions must be changed. so despite it tends to project unity in prague, there's a lot more going on beneath the smiles in the class photo from this particular summit. senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london, george sam welly explains the difficulties at the summit by bad timing and a lack of unifying factors aside from hostility towards russia. a lot of these sessions, they have no real purpose. so, i mean, you know, there's so many of these kinds of forums and european council, the european parliament, european commission. oh, i see. so now that come up with a new one, the european political community and the invention of a man, a well mac wrong. and that doesn't do any work with other than what we still love, wonder ally, and the glad which is what will rule against russia. we will hate russia and that

that seems to be them mantra and nothing else that they know agreement on anything . there's no decision on what to do in the future, but we're all united in hating russia. the timing is not exactly a grade, particularly one who still of the why and keeps talking about european unity and suddenly both of them grieve, bringing up issues from 75 years ago and, and bringing such issues can have no positive outcome because germany is not gonna say anything, stephan ah, ukraine's president as now back tracking on his comments, urging a preemptive nato strike on russia, claiming he was misunderstood. and i said you have to do preventive kinks. not a dex. yahoo! just goes out this short,

that abba g at the of multiple of those. do ab ruin excited through, but g, a z, a, z, addison, a turbo, dumont, the prolific you gabled it poor jim. what a mere zalinski and says he was simply urging the west to impose more sanctions, claiming the kremlin is preparing society for the possible use of nuclear weapons. he added, he would never call for a nuclear armageddon as that would equate him to a terrorist. the wording he used, however, translates from ukrainian literally as preemptive strikes, russian officials say they are unconvinced by celebrities backtracking attempts. jo goodshaw davila, the winners of this big shopper, we met a boy. what should nato do? 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 after yesterday, zalinski called on his western masters, to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on russia. with this statement, he's essentially shown the whole world. more evidence of the threats emanating from the key regime, which the special operation was launched to neutralize ordered attempts, wise alaska secretaries to claim that he meant something else. a ridiculous person in these situations landscape like his entire regime has got a taste and is beginning to dictate his own conditions, both to nature and to the even younger. can you show you what is the real of legal and media analysts, lionel says, as in comprehensible to even discuss nuclear threats, have we as a species forgotten what nuclear conflict is? have we honestly do we need a refresher course into what we're talking about. i mean i,

i understand that we have various degrees of amnesia. tolstoy you said history would be a wonderful thing if there were only troll, but i'm hearing about this and i'm hearing about warren aggression as though we're playing some kind of a game. and i, i think this is the insanity even to be discussing this cavalierly because also it's not so much that a nuclear war could be triggered it or, or actually are directed, but things could be triggered. once this starts, there is no calling it back, you know that there was. yeah. okay. and enough, that was a mistake. that was a, there was a typographical mistake. i, i didn't really mean that this i, i can't believe. i'm frankly hearing what i'm hearing. the winners of this year is nobel peace prize were announced on friday with the ukranian president absent from the list. he was nominated for the prestigious award by the european parliament back in march,

drawing criticism from some quarters. the european parliament is proposing the president of ukraine as a candidate for the nobel peace prize. how is one of the actors in the war going to receive the nobel peace prize? aren't there others who fight for peace? why not? pope francis or the u. n. director there must be many others the whole notion of this peace prize. it's fascinating. you know, mahatma gandhi never received the nobel peace prize in 1953. george marshall, who was a secretary of state of new york of the us, received it. and people were very critical and curious because he had been a combatant. but it was because of his post war activities in 2009 bronco obama received the peace prize after being in office barely 8 months and years. something interesting in times of your there were very careful as sometimes not

even given out during world war one. there was no peace prize from 39 to 43. there were no peace prizes. and in 1948. i believe the year that mama gandhi a died, they said no one was entitled to it. if you look at the history of it, very rarely, if never, has there been an actual come battened in what would called either a military operation or a war who received a peace prize for, i think, obvious reasons. 9 members of the organization of american states, almost one 3rd of the union have refused to vote for a u. s. back to resolution against russia. the list includes countries like brazil, mexico, argentina, and others. the document was aimed at condemning moscow's military operation in ukraine and was supported by 24 other members of the american regional block. back in april, the organisation stripped russia as permanent observer status,

a move that was also opposed by several members of the union, professor of latin american and caribbean studies. daniel shaw says the policies of some regional states show that the era of u. s. domination is coming to an end prolong time. washington has been used to seeing the organization of american states since its founding in 1948 is an instrument of their policy. to have so much rebellion within their ranks comes as a surprise for how long could they control the foreign policy? specifically of a mexico in now brazil, argentina, and of course the boulevard and block countries have said, no, we're not going to go along with your foreign policy. we can see very clearly that nato is the principal guilty party that has brought this aggression to russia's borders. the era of us had gemini, of running roughshod over the country, sovereignty across the world is coming to

a screeching halt. look at the elections is urine in columbia. and what will this mean internally? and in many of these countries, these are massive confrontations within piddle, within mexico. it's ongoing in brazil, so there's no easy victories. there's no promises, but certainly every day, the foreign policy of these different countries in south america, in the caribbean, in all the 3rd world. and becoming more and more independent of washington pakistan's, former prime minister and man con, has claimed to multiple individuals, were conspiring to assassinate him. warning the names of the plotters would be revealed to the nation if anything should happen to him. a rally was organized by cons, party, and pakistan's punjab province, where he called out for a final march on his lawn, a bad calling on his followers to fight for real freedom against what he called the us imposed government con, organized

a march on the capital and may of this year were protest her parliament and clashed with police. when we will answer islamabad, the government will flee before get there. this is a war for freedom. the chains of slavery will not break by themselves. you cannot get freedom, you have to fight for it. at the moment, the u. s. has imposed their slaves as a rulers and we have to fight them. a british minister prompted laughter from the audience on a t v program. after trying to play the vladimir putin card, instead of apologizing for the economic turmoil triggered by the government, $45000000000.00 pound tax cuts. yet with blood that the me a futon wants to do. he wants to be divided right now. i

think people a lot thing has to do with a simple apology to hardly stay below ease. already i changed the policy holder. of course, i'm sorry to do them. as governments tax cuts package triggered the pounds fall to record lows while also pushing up inflation and interest rates. the bank of england triggered an emergency 65000000000 pound bond buying program to stem. the crisis triggered by the government's decisions and a new interview. prime minister list trust was challenged to admit she had a bad start and office to which she responded by blaming putin for domestic and global problems. let's remember what we were facing 4 weeks ago, but you explained so we left 500 power minister, my clan, we and how we it all today. i'm just going to use my question was do you accept you've had a rocky start? well, what i am saying is that we have acted decisively in the face of very,

very difficult international circumstances where pete has been perpetrating the war . and you find that is called that management. my side are not the well trust is also in hot water. over warnings and potential 3, our power steering the approaching winter season. she tried to downplay the fears, but failed to give any guarantees that britons will not be left in the dark schemes to encourage people to use electricity at all times are being developed. but the proposal is already being slammed by the media. political analysts, alexander mckay says, britain's aren't buying the excuse that the problems are all russia faults is trying the, the tax. it was pioneer by joe biden. earlier this year when he called the energy price arises in the united states, putins price site. that didn't work for joe biden. it's not working, fall is trusts. if you look at the opinion polls since august of this year,

they have consistently shown. busy that the british population blames the government over to 10 or over even the energy companies in britain itself. so. busy it's clearly a tactic that her spin doctors have told her to use the. nobody's buying it any more and blaming everything on the russian government is simply not going to be believed by people. if the lights go out, it's going to be trust that gets blamed, and her government is going to be pitched into an even greater crisis than it is in already. so how has the u. k, u k. the energy sector found itself in such a di, a condition that this is the end point of a 30 years of us various failed policies. and les stress is at the end of this process. and he's inheriting a 30 year long mass, which she is trying to turn around and failing to turn around inside free months. so this is a generational failure that has left britain exposed to the fluctuations of international energy markets. un,

unable to produce so energy. the only solution in the immediate period is to end the chaos in the international energy markets. and that means ending the sanctions regime against russian energy, which is failing to do anything significant to the russian economy, but is tanking the economies of europe and increasing energy and security. meanwhile in moldova farmers protested against the government policies this friday as a record high fuel prices have turned their life into a nightmare. protesters in moldova, have been flaring for several weeks now as demonstrators pitch tents near the parliament and presidential buildings criticizing the government policies. demonstrators are urging officials, including leader maya sand due to resign, blaming net for damaging relations with moscow, causing rising energy costs. that's as moldova state gas company refuses to honor its contract obligations to russia's gas prom. even though it is already said that

if it doesn't receive payment, it will shut down all supplies. farmers participating in today's protest about their struggles with the ongoing crisis broke out. we're in a deplorable situation because the prices that have risen simply do not allow agricultural workers to exist, not only to earn but to even exist electricity as expensive gas has expensive. everything is expensive. we in the villages will make fires and warm ourselves with dung, because our president has brought us to this to extreme poverty. on the same day rally joined by several local politicians and city mares to protest, soaring energy prices also erupted in the polish capital. demonstrators blame the government for incompetent measures to tackle rising living costs, claiming local governments are having to deal with the consequences by themselves. and on monday and neighboring germany,

thousands of people flocked to the street of saxon. he is sick watch you express their discontent with all off sholtes as government inability to deal with the energy crisis, as well as berlin's approach and resolving the ukraine issue. earlier we managed to talk with martin coleman, one of the leaders of the protest and free sacks me political party chief, who thinks that the energy crisis is just a marker and many other issues. german authorities, phase of noble recently agenda from one of the main gym and media outlets. accusers of standing for the interests of russia as were willing to buy its gas. his conclusion was that we are probably being sponsored by russia. this is a nonsense, of course. if my child wants to buy an ice cream, i could tell him that he is acting in the interests of the ice cream cellar. surely it's not like that. the desire to import gas is for our own benefit. there were a bunch of people who supported protests, for example, last monday,

more than 100000 people took to the streets of saxony. the way are politicians are dealing with energy issues and sanctions against russia. is just one of the signs of how bad things are going here. at least one person was wounded on friday after the ukrainian army, shall they, russian border village in belgrade region. this comes as mobilization efforts are still underway all across russia, with the bordering reagan's being one of the most active. we spoke to some of the volunteers who told us why they decided to participate. but the interest above young russell of most of the patriotic uplift in our border regions is quite high. we are well aware of how all this threatens us. we have understood this since 2014 civilians here are already helping soldiers in refugees. many have already been mobilized. there were many volunteers got loomed loosen with us, got the little we live close to the border. we hear explosions, the sound of artillery. below we understand everything perfectly. we are close to

all of this. until a person feels all this physically, he will not wake up in sight. therefore, we are ready more than others. level delicious, i use him. i will go to defend my homeland, my loved ones. all my friends from the belgrade region are ready to stand out for their families and friends for their homeland artes roman casara visited belgrade to see how the mobilization is going in the city. this used initiative sensor in the city of del girl already saw hundreds of mobilized soldiers. and when they come in here, this is what the process looks like. they submit their documents right here and then they move on to a medical exam. we have the doctors here and nurses and the potential soldiers receive a full medical checkup before there are enlisted into the army. now, according to the military who are sitting here or accepting these are potential

soldiers. there are plenty of volunteers as well as the people who were mobilized. unfortunately, they can accommodate all of the volunteers because and not all of the military professions are opened at this point. once all the paperwork is complete, the soldier moves on to this station where he gets measured for uniform. this is where the orders are taken. also, the soldier will receive a free cellphone and a free seen card so that he can stay in touch with his family. and friends, this station right here provides the soldier with a bank card where he will receive the salary from the government. also, regional government is making a one time payment to the family of the soldier limited amounts to $100000.00 roubles, which is