ah, ah ah, breaking news on archie reports emerge of a large fire on the purchase bridge connecting mainland russia and the republic of crimea, a fuel tanker appears to be on fire with the cause still unclear. the u. s. williams, the saudis, as royal back stabbers following the opec plus decision to splash oil output. reorder those to us is fully responsible for the energy prices in the country. and are ridiculous. moscow isn't buying, he as attempts to retract president going, please call for preemptive strikes on russia by claiming he was actually calling for sanctions

with from moscow to the world. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins, and these are the top stories this hour. we begin with breaking news from crimea. several reports have emerged of a large fire on the current bridge between mainland russia and crimea. the video is still yet to be verified, but appears to show fix, smoke billowing from a fire on the bridge, and the distance report say, a fuel tanker caught fire and there was an explosion. but it's not yet clear what might have caused. it will bring you more details as soon as they come in. earlier in russia, donnelly republic, the ukrainian army attacked the city of yellow vayas. let's take a look at some eye witness footage from the scene. a large fire are rapid. after 6 high mars rockets were launched by the ukrainian army at the city,

that's according to local officials. there have been no reports of any casualties so far. royal back stabbers, that's what some us lawmakers are now calling saudi arabia over reorders moved to reduce oil output following the opec plus decision. other us officials are even calling for the president to cut off weapon supplies to the goals, kingdom. the sodium 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 rainy notebooks control over energy prices worldwide. the white house has a long praise. saudi arabia as a strategic partner, selling the country, large amounts of weapons, despite joe biden, once pledging to make reorder a pariah during his presidential campaign. some u. s. congress members are also calling for a rethink of the country's relationship with opec plus members. with saudi arabia's

actions being described as hostile to washington. meanwhile, the saudi minister of state says the u. s. itself is to blame for rising gas prices, which have nothing to do with crude oil supply. the idea of the told you to do this to harm the us or to be in any way politically involved this. absolutely not correct at all with due respect. the reason you have high prices in the united states is because you have a refining shortage that has been in existence for more than 20 years. you haven't built refineries in decades are to caleb mop. it has more details on re out as decision and the u. s reaction. 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 in the united states. there is quite a bit of outrage. it's only been 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 journalist 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 long time ally of the united states, the kingdom of saudi arabia. and it appears that they consider this to be a humiliation of joe biden. they 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 mohammad been 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, they are oil. it is by right, the oil of the kingdom of saudi arabia, according to the constitution. 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 prudent 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 bin 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, long time 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. d. c. was cross live now to dr. jack ratner's, professor of economics and politics at st. mary's college of california, sir, is great to have you on the program today. now some us, all makers are calling saudi arabia royal back stabbers, despite the u. s. appraisingly king them as a strategic partner for years. so why do you think that the u. s. is so angry at this move now? well, you know, they're trying to blame and off shore development here with the cutting of production when they really ought to be looking their own back yard. i mean,

why can't, by get american oil companies to increase the output, they just won't do it. because what the american oil companies are doing is raising prices at home to make up for this slowing of demand. well, it's the same thing that the saudis and opec are doing globally, you know, negotiate is going on right now between usa oil companies and biden, about exporting oil from the u. s. to europe. so, you know, that's gonna cause more of a supply problem. the u. s. and raise price is even more prices are going up fast, the u. s. a. partly because the oil companies are shutting down to refineries. you know, they're not, they're having these a regular maintenance. and then there's the so called fires and everything and the real bottleneck is that the refining capacity. and that's been manipulated. i

believe i am, we got prices going up sharply into your side. i believe. you know, another $0.25 a gallon in california. it's already more than $7.00 a gallon. so it's really interesting that you see a u. s. pointing the finger at saudi arabia and not at its own oil companies who aren't really cooperating very much either. yeah, as mid term elections coming up may be helping as politicians want to at least have someone who they say they can blame. and speaking of placing the blame, we have some democrats saying that we ought as move was deliberate to hurt the you asked while the king them is saying that the u. s. itself is to blame for rising gas prices. so, oh, is really to blame for those rising prices and how do you see those relations developing, especially when we're hearing the statements that we have over the last few days? well, you know, as far as the rising retail prices, it's, are you a soil companies and refineries that are largely responsible for the surge at the

retail level going on at the global level. you know, when you get an announcement of 2000000 barrels of production cut a day, then you've got the global speculators who really set the price in the short term. you know, the oil futures market, they're the ones who are jacking up the price in the short term because we haven't even had the real supply cut yet. but yet the prices are global. crude are going up . so you got to understand that there is this 3rd player in the mix, and these are these big financial speculators that move the price a lot globally in the short run. yeah, now this isn't the 1st time that joe biden has called on opec plus to increase production and received not much of a response. so is it fair to call his summer trip to saudi arabia fruitless at this point? oh yes i, it was a big failure. you know, he didn't come back with any agreement and just

a sort of verbal agreement at the time that the saudis would increase production by a mere 100000 barrels a day. and all that's, that was nothing that was a token gesture, but by the sod is looked a global economy is slowing down. the oil companies are looking 36 months out. and they know this, and they know sales from a revenue volume is, is going to decay, decrease, so they're raising their prices and they're doing that everywhere. globally, any u. s. i mean, that's just the way the global oil market works. you know, it's a monopolistic cartels and so forth. so no, there's nothing really different going on, except it's a good excuse to blame of the saudis and opec. instead of pointing the finger at the u. s. oil companies right before an election. that is great inside, as always professor jack ross, miss, thank you for your time. my pleasure. meanwhile,

energy has also been high on the agenda at an e. your summit in prague. the box foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, says the opec plus decision to slash oil production was a response to the new price cap underlining that energy has become the main geo political issue. luca dale begged with their decision to decrease this reply coil would use a clear answer to our proposal to price a means that the annual she is becoming the most portland jew strategic issue. today, related with the war for cultural with italians will fall into will. dozens of you and other leaders gathered in the chat capital on thursday and attempt to find unity in their 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 prize cap and further anti russian sanctions seem to have failed. archie contributor rachel mars then explains why there were 44 countries united discussing the challenge yourself today. and it showed how much rushes isolated by ma'am, the new e u political community and invention of french president emanuel mack holes 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 seemed 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 me, 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 of 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, nonetheless, turkish president air to one used his platform to la, showed 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 its 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 talked about the eggers from of germany. it clearly shows that it cannot

be the case that the european unit energy policies being dictated by germany of poland, also decided recently to demand reparations from germany 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 economies saw bleeding out, it is evident that the policy of sanctions must be changed. so despite the tend 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 of the global policy institute of one that george sam welly explains the difficulties at the summit, which include bad timing and the lack of unifying factors aside from hostility towards russia. a lot of these assertions, they have no real purpose. so, i mean, you know, there's so many of these kinds of pool rooms and you'll be in council,

the european parliament, your commission. oh if see now that come up with a new one, the european political community and the invention of a man, well mac wrong. and that doesn't do any work other than what we're still on the line and the clad, which is what will rule against russia. we will hate russia, and that's, that seems to be them mantra and nothing else with a no 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 of them, the why and keeps talking about european unity and suddenly both of them greed bringing up issues from 75 years ago and, and put, bringing issues can have no software while the outcome

because germany is not going to pay anything further subs against russia were discussed on the forum, sidelines with a surprising suggestion coming from poland. prime minister, who claimed russia's frozen assets in europe, should be divided with part of them going to warsaw, lipscomb. i have pointed out one source that is relatively easy to obtain in terms of resources, the frozen assets of the russian oligarchs, and the russian federation. these assets, amount to approximately 350000000000 euros. and today, these funds can be used for the benefit of ukraine, which should be rebuilt with this money, which could also be used for the needs of you and polish residence. i don't understand how poland can justify that their enterprise is that their companies get some part of that money. why them? it will come up immediately from the baltic states from check republic, slovakia, hungry and the countries germany probably wouldn't dare do it. bit of

a conscious will say, one of the us, what about our companies? so this is an ill fated this request from bowl. it won't work sorry, missed the prime minister. you know, i don't think it will work. it will be another pickering dispute within to $27.00 european countries to know who will get what money. ah, ukraine's president is 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 because at the shore that abba g, a t. as in multiple of those do apprehend doing excited that m a g, a z, a z addison, a term, a dual month priorities ago. gabled with poor jim latimer, zalinski insist 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 nuclear armageddon, as thou would equate him to. it's her as the wording he used, however, translated from ukrainian literally as freedom strikes, russian, officials say they are unconvinced. basil and easy backtracking attention. she could beat me, lean jabal when that old booth it. 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, to wait for rushes nuclear strikes and then say, oh no. okay, then take this 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 order attempts by zalinski

secretaries to claim that he meant something else. are ridiculous. in these situations, lensky, like his entire regime, has got a taste and is beginning to dictate his own conditions, both to nature and to the e. u. kirk, when you show you in the video zebra, legal and media analyst, lionel says, as incomprehensible 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 the were only true. but i'm hearing about this and i'm hearing about war and aggression as though we're playing some kind of a game. and i, i think this is the insanity even to be discussing this cabin literally,

because also it's not so much that a nuclear war could be triggered it or, or actually on directed like things could be triggered. once this starts, there is no calling it back. you know, did there was, yeah, okay, i to know that was a mistake. that was a, that was a typographical mistake. i, i didn't really mean that this i, i can't believe, i'm frankly hearing one. i'm hearing 9 members of the organization of american states, almost one 3rd of the union have refused to vote for a u. s. back 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 of its 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 state show that the era of u. s. domination is coming to an end. that article is for a long 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 mexico in now brazil, argentina, and of course the bullet aryan 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 orders. 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 this urine in columbia,

and what will this mean internally? and in many of these countries, these are massive confrontations within pedo, 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, are becoming more and more independent of washington. 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 caused by the government. $45000000000.00 pound tax cuts. what does that mean? suton wants to do, and he wants to be divided right now. i think people a lot thanks. tough to do with

a simple apology to stay below. you already changed the policy holder. of course, i'm sorry to do. the british governments tax cut package triggered the pounds at fall to record lows while also pushing up inflation and interest rates. the bank of england implemented an emergency 65000000000 pound bon buying program to stem. the crisis triggered by the government's decisions and a new interview. prime minister lose trust was challenged to admit. she had a bad start and office to which she responded by blaming poon 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 gonna use my question was do you accept you've had a rocky storm? well, what i am saying is that we have acted decisively in the face of very, very difficult international 2nd level where pizza has been perpetrating the war.

and you find that trust is also in hot water over warning as a potential 3, our power cuts during the approaching winter season. she tried to down play the fears, but failed to give any guarantees that britain's will not be left in the dark schemes . you encourage people to use electricity at off peak times are being developed, but the proposal is already being slammed by the media. political analyst, alexander mckay says, britain's aren't buying the excuse that the problems are all russia's faults, is trying the, the tax. it was pioneered by joe biden, earlier this year when he called the energy price arises in the united states. putins price like that didn't work for joe biden. it's not working full 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 foods in all over even the energy companies in britain itself. so.

busy it's clearly attaching 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. this is the end point of a 30 years of us various failed policies and list trust is at the end of this process and he's inheriting a 30 year long mess, which she is trying to turn around and failing to turn around inside 3 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 market. and that means ending the sanctions regime against russian energy, which is failing to do anything significant to the russian economy,

but as tanking the economies of europe and increasing energy and security. before we go, let's return to the latest on our top story. several reports have and merge of a large fire following an explosion on the coach bridge connecting mainland russia and crimea. there is some unverified video of the fire close up recorded on the bridge itself. report say as you will, sanker caught fire and there was an explosion. but it's not yet clear what might have caused their authority. same movement on the bridge was suspended. as you can see, thick smoke billowing from the fire on the bridge can be seen from a distance. will bring you any further updates and just 30 minutes. good among you more and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour. ah,

i don't see this conflict as being one over values. that's not to say that there might not be differences in values between, you know, elements of the us population or elements of the u. s. leadership and elements of the russian population in russian leadership. there may well be some differences, but i don't see this conflict as having to do with that. i see this primarily as really, frankly, a proxy war on russia's border that is being pursued by the u. s. and the neo powers. mm hm. the eradication.