a with go a double play. you have to go so good on that, please. ah, breaking news on our team. the russian anti care committee says a car has exploded on the crimea and bridge, causing a fire and damage with the authority, saying a fuel tank or was set ablaze in the incident. the u. s. lambs, the saudis, as world back stabbers following the open plus decision to slash oil output. brianna that says the u. s. is totally responsible for the energy crisis in the country. and of ridiculous moscow isn't buying p as attempts to attract president for these call for preemptive strikes on russia by claiming he

was actually calling for sanctions with mosque out 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. the russian anti chair committee says a car exploded on the crimean bridge, connecting mainland russia and crimea causing damage and a large fire. here some video from eyewitnesses of the fire close up recorded on the bridge itself. officials say a fuel tanker caught fire after the explosion. a part of the road is reportedly heavily damaged. less cross live now to archie, artistic ignores it. on up for more details. igor, what more do we know so far about this incident?

will absolutely rachel, according to the latest information from russia's national anti terrorist committee, a truck indeed did go off on the automobile part of the bridge causing 2 sections of it to collapse. and also the adjacent train also caught fire as a 7 oil tank. 7 fuel tanks were. busy can be seen ablaze at the very tail of the train, and of course, the flames they engulfed the bridge as well. now, of course, the authorities are now trying to figure out as to what caused the explosion of said truck whether or not it was a terrorist attack, or just an unlucky coincidence. but of course here, mainly people believe that that was not that there wasn't a coincidence, but rather a pre planned attack on russia's civilian infrastructure. now also the authorities have announced that nobody was injured. nobody died in now well, in this, in this explosion. and also that they have already prepared

a fairy crossing to deliver goods and people to and from the peninsula. just a quick reminder for you before the bridge was built, this very cross, these very crossings were the only way for russia to get anything in or out of the peninsula. so this is not something. so this is not something that they did not did not prepare for, or this is not something that they are coming up with from the well for, from the top of their heads. this is something that they've been doing for years. in fact, this is something that was normal before the bridge was built, but of course, right now all eyes are being focused on the bridge itself. we're are when it can be restored. if the railway section can be operational after the fire and well, questions like that. our teeth igor jet are now thank you for that a day. royal back stabbers. that's what 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 upper plus doesn't reverse the decision to make drastic costs and production in congress. we should also explore ways to rein in up 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, just like joe biden, ones pledging to make riata, 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 thought minister of the state says the us itself is to blame for rising gas prices, which have nothing to do with crude oil supply. the idea that told you to do would

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 been finding shortage that has been in existence for more than 20 years. you have until refineries and 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 the united states. there is quite a bit of outrage on the 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 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 as court, 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. why can't the by 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 saudis and opec are doing globally, or, you know, negotiate to go 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, the 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. no, they're not 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 has 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, add an ear summit in prague. the box foreign policy chief justice burrell said the opec was decision to slash oil production was a response to the new e u. price cap, underlining that energy has become the main geo political issue. luca dale begged with their decision to decrease this reply of coil, which is a clear answer to our proposal to price of the means that the annual fee is becoming demotion. portland geostrategic issue today related with the war, but also with the balance of power into world. dozens of new and other leaders

gathered and the check capital on thursday in an attempt to find unity in their anti russian policies. the new political community format sought to disgust, 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 mailed our t contributor rachel marston 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 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 apple 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 didn't show none, the less turkish president air to one used his platform to law showed in greece over their territorial disputes in the region and accused the you 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 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. 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. poland also decided recently to demand reparations from germany for world war 2. and now greece is also seeking hundreds of billions of euro's, 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 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 of the summit,

which include bad timing and the 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 floor rooms and european 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, i'm glad, which is when we 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 from 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 positive outcome because germany is not going to pay anything further surfacing and to russia were discussed on the foreign sidelines with a surprising suggestion coming from poland. prime minister, who claim to russia's frozen assets in europe should be divided with part of them going to warsaw laughs. cuz i have pointed out one source that is relatively easy to obtain in terms of resources, the frozen assets of the russian, all yards 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 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 ball. 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 the $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, nodded ex yahoo just because of the show that amber g at there was an article and

those do prevent doing excited that m a g at that was that as an attribute don't want them priority to keowee key bullet poor jim latimer 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 zalinski is back tracking a tense. shobel we middle believed 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 him to wait for russia nuclear strikes and then say,

oh no. okay, then take this yog 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 keep regime, which the special operation was launched to neutralize order attempts by zalinski secretaries to claim that he meant something else or 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. good. legal and media analyst ally, and also this 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,

he 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 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, but things could be triggered once this starts, there's no calling it back, you know, did there was yeah, okay, and enough, 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 the winners of this. here is no valve. his prize were announced on friday with the ukranian president absent from the list. he was nominated for the 1st is award by the european parliament back in march, drawing criticism from some quarters. 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 un 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 over 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 combatant, in what would called either a military operation or a war who received aid peace prize? for, i think, obvious reasons. ah, 9 members of the organization of american states, almost one 3rd of the union have refused to vote for a u. s. backed resolution against russia. the list includes countries like brazil, mexico, argentina, and others. the document was aimed at condemning young scows, military operation, ukraine, and was supported by 24 other members of the american regional block. back in april, the organizations trip to russia is permanent observer status. i moved there was also opposed by several members of the union professor of latin american in

caribbean studies. daniel shaw says the policies of some regional states show that 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 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 boulevard and block countries have said, no, we're not going to go along with your foreign policy we can see very clearly that needle 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. what will this mean

internally in many of these countries? but these are massive confrontations within pay to, 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 moran 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 punjab 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 con on the capital and may of this year saw protesters reach parliament and clash with police. the former piano has consistently claimed the u.

s. is behind his ousting and is influencing pakistani politics. know when we will end to islamabad, the government will flee before we get there. this is a war for freedom. the change 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 t v program. after trying to play the vladimir putin card instead of apologizing for the economic turmoil caused by the government's $45000000000.00 pound tax cuts . what was that? the me a futon wants to do. he wants to be divided right now. i think people along with tough to do with

a simple apology to staple all you already like changed the policy holder. of course, i'm sure you do. the british governments tax cuts 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 lose trust was challenged to admit she's had a bad start in office to which she responded by blaming potent for domestic and global problems. let's remember what we were facing 4 weeks ago, but you explained some we were kind of 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 storm? what i am saying is that we have acted decisively in the face of very, very difficult international 2nd lives where pete has been perpetrating the war.

and you find that trus is also in hot water, over warnings of potential 3, our power cuts during the approaching winter season. she had to down play the fears, but failed to give any guarantees that britain's will not be left in the dark schemes do encourage people to use electricity at off times 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 fault is 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, 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 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, but nobody's buying it any more. i'm 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 less trust is at the end of this process and he didn't harassing a 30 year long mass, 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 is tanking the economies of europe and increasing energy and security. that's

all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news, and at days 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 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.