worrying the the breaking news on r. c, a large fire rock on the cursor bridge connecting mainland russia and the republic of premier was authorities. thing a fuel tanker caught fire in the incident. us lambs, the saudis, as whirl back stabbers following the decision to slash oil output. riata though says the u. s. is fully responsible for the energy crisis in the country and ridiculous moscow isn't buying. he has attempts to attract president bull and call for preemptive strikes on russia by claiming he was actually calling for sanctions

the 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 a large fire on the current bridge between mainland russia and crimea. here's some video from eye. witnesses of the fire close up recorded on the bridge itself. a part of the road is heavily damaged. officials say a fuel tanker caught fire, but it's not yet clear what might have caused this 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. as of now, no injuries have been reported. c, navigation in the area has not been stopped, will bring you any updates as soon as we have more

earlier in russia, don s republic, the ukranian army attacked the city of yellow via. let's take a look at my witness footage from the scene. a large fire are rapid. after 6 high march rockets were launched by the ukrainian army at the city thought to, according to local officials. there have been no reports of any casualties so far. royal back stabbers, that was some us lawmakers are now calling saudi arabia over re honors, move to reduce oil output following the opec plus decision. other us officials are even calling for the president to cut off weapons supplies to the gulf kingdom. the so these need us more for weapons than we need them. prison 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 rein enough control over energy prices worldwide.

the white house has long praise saudi arabia as a strategic partner selling the country large amounts of weapons, despite joe biden, once pledging to make riana a pariah during his presidential campaign. some u. s. congress members are also calling for a re think 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 that 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 mob. it has more details on real 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 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 and you know, over the summer they tweeted out, meet mohammed ben 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, that 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 dc. why can't but get american oil companies to increase the output? they just won't do it. because 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 saudi isn't opec, are doing globally, you know,

negotiate is going on right now between us, well, companies and biden, about exporting oil from the u. s. to europe. so, you know, that's going to cause more of a supply problem. u. s. and raise prices, 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, and there's the so called fires and everything and the real bottleneck is at the refining capacity. and that's been manipulated. i believe 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 . meanwhile, energy has also been high on the agenda at any summit in prague. the box foreign policy teachers at 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. luca dale begged with their decision to decrease this reply, awful coil, which is a clear answer to our proposal to price. it means that energy is becoming the most important jew strategic issue today related with the war, but also with the balance of power into world. dozens of e u and other leaders gathered in the chat capital on thursday in an 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 price cap and further anti russian sanctions seem to have failed. r t contributor rachel marsden, explains why there were 44 countries united. discussing

the challenge as of today. and it showed how much russia isolated by ma'am, 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 this 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 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 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 none, the less turkish president air to one used his platform to la showed and 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 with 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 brittany. 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. she showed with a here today we often talked about the eggers mom of germany, is clearly shows that it cannot be the case that the european unit energy policies being dictated by germany. 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. as 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 write historical ross. italy was recently chastised by and 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 the you alongside that other perennial pariah hungry whose prime minister had this to say about brussels performance. russia has not been brought to sneezed at all while european economy sa, bleeding out. it is evident that the policy of 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, the global policy institute of london, george sam welly explains the difficulties at the summit, which include bad timing and a lack of unifying factors aside from hostility towards russia. lot of these sessions, 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 o. s. c, the, now they 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 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 select on the why and keeps talking about european unity and suddenly both of them grieved bringing up issues from 75 years ago. and, and bringing such issues can have no possible while the outside myself, because germany is not going to pay anything. further, steps against russia were discussed on the forum, sidelines with a surprising suggestion coming from poland. prime minister,

who claimed to russia's frozen assets in europe should be divided with part of them going to warsaw. i left because i am, 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 his 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 then it will come up immediately. fraud, the baltic states from check republic, slovakia, hungary and the countries germany probably wouldn't dare do a bit of a conscious. we'll 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 all, i don't think it will work. it will be another bickering dispute within to $27.00 european countries to know who will get what mine 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 goes out to show that amber g, a t as in order to port and those do ab ruin excited that m a g, a z, a z addison, the term a daunting priorities ago. gabled it poor jim latimer zalinski and says he was simply urging luez to impose more sanction. claiming the kremlin is preparing society for the possible use of nuclear weapons. he added, he would never call for nuclear armageddon eyes that would equate him to a, to her, as of the wording he used. however,

translated from ukraine literally as preemptive strikes, russian officials say they are unconvinced by zalinski is back tracking at 10 o. d, shobel, who in middle moiety, 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 me of cheddar 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 sort of attempts by zalinski secretaries to claim that he meant something else or ridiculous. but so 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 union. kirk, when you show you what is the legal and media analysts lie and all 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 warren at russian as though we're playing some kind of a game. and i, i think this is 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 on directed, but things could be triggered. once this starts,

there's no calling it back, you know that there was the okay, i did of 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 what i'm hearing. the winners of this year's 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 corners. 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 on 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 is 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. brock 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 combatant, in what would called either a military operation or a war who received aid 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 resolution against russia. the list includes countries like brazil, mexico, argentina, and others. the document was aimed at condemning moscow's military operation. ukraine and was supported by 24 other members of the american regional block. back in april, the organisation stripped russia, its permanent observer status. i moved it 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 how the era of u. s. domination is coming to an end. 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 were dian 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 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 this year. in columbia, and what will this mean internally 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 becoming more and more independent of washington pakistan's, former prime minister, m ram con, has claimed 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 con hardy in pakistan's job province, where he called on his followers to march on to his lama back and fight for real freedom against the current government. the last march, organized by icon on the capital and may of this year, saw protesters reach parliament and clash with police. the former piano has consistently claim the u. s. is behind his ousting and his influence st. pakistani politics. and when we will answer islamabad, the government will flee before we 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 our rulers, and we have to fight them. a british minister prompted laughter from the audience on a tv 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 i wanted to do and he wants to be divided right now. i think people a lot thing have to do with a simple apology to hardly say below you already changed the policy holder. of course, i'm sure you do. the british governments tax cost package triggered the pounds fall to record lows while also pushing up inflation and interest rates. the bank of england implemented an emergency 65000000000 pound bond buying program to stem. the crisis triggered by the government's decisions in

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 were saying, so we left lifetime power minister, my clan and hawaii is old and i am just going to use my question was, do you accept you've had to rocky stone? well, what i am saying is that we have acted decisively in the face of very, very difficult international circumstances where pizza has been perpetrating the war. and you find that trust is also in hot water. over warnings of 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 to encourage people to use electricity off peak time. the are being developed, but the proposal is already being slammed by the media. political analyst,

alexander mckay said britain's aren't buying the excuse that the problems are all russia's faults. these trying the, the tax it that was pioneered by joe biden, earlier this year when he called the energy price arises in the united states. putin's 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 to turn all over even the energy companies in britain itself. so. busy it's clearly a tat tape 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 markets. and that means ending the sanctions regime against russia 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 late as our top story. several reports have emerged of a large fire following an explosion on the current bridge connecting mainland russia in crimea. for some video from eye witnesses of the fire close up reported on the bridge itself. a part of the road is heavily damaged. officials say

a fuel tanker car fire, but it's not yet clear what might have caused death. movement on the bridge was suspended. as you can see, thick smoke as billowing from the fire and can be seen from a distance. as of now, no injuries have been reported, c navigation area has not been staff will continue to follow the story and bring you all of the updates as we have them. 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 with with

bruton is the aggressor tune chose is war. today, i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions. but i think you chose williams, a stranger, as he speak on the union with him when the machine branding all in ports of russian oil and gas turbine in imposing these sanctions. i brush your has destroyed the american. in fact, there's your boomerang, i re suffering the i think he is really hitting people in the pocketbook, boys and girls as others that are you using in your, your router visit or not you. this is going to impose severe cost on the russian economy immediately and over top of that on there. but we have listings are some things that for them are started a little bit. he made this all the emeralds, remember him very and to absorb it. so that.