ah, with making use this our on our, the, the moment a massive blast of rocks. the crimean bridge is called on c, c t, v, the russian anti terror committee say the truck exploded, causing a massive blaze. it's just the beginning, that's the reaction of the ukrainian president's office to the explosion on the crimea bridge with previously stating several times that the crossing is a legitimate targets. ridiculous mos goes not buying kids, attempts to retract president zalinski is called for preemptive strikes on russia.

by claiming he was actually calling for sanctions also in the program, the u. s. slums, the saudis, as royal back stop as following the opec close decision to slash oil output. we are those says the u. s. is fully responsible for the energy crisis in the country with 12 or 1 pm on saturday morning in moscow moneys peter scott and wherever you joining us from. welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis here on oxy. and we start with breaking news this out from crimea. the russian anti terror committee says that the truck has exploded on the crimea bridge, connecting mainland russia and crimea. that's caused damage to at least 2 sections, as well as a massive fire. now this is the latest video of that explosion, captured by c c t. v. officials say that's a fuel tank. a coal fired after the explosion with the cause of the blast currently on the invest again. and the large files, including on

a nearby train have already been extinguished enough, according to the russian emergencies, ministry was crossed now to r. t correspondent, marina corranio call. so that is joining me now in the studio. obviously, a very fluid situation developing story. what can you tell so far about what's happening on the ground, rena locals heard an explosion at 6 in the morning local time over there. and that explosion was followed by a huge fire. and the reason why there was a huge fire was apparently, according to the latest reports were getting that truck was loaded with explosives . and this leads us to wonder what happened at the entrance to the bridge. because we know that they have special equipment that's supposed to check for chemicals, drugs and explosives, of course. so what happened there? why was this truck track wants to track what's dismissed? and the question here, i guess, would be to the personnel worked in there because especially during the sensitive time. and we know that for me has been a target before we'll talk about that

a little bit later. but why wasn't this talk contracts, and why didn't they see reusing that special equipment that there were explosives on the truck and the head of premieres parliament straight away said that ukrainian vandals must be behind that? well, as you say, we don't know exactly what happened and how this truck was allowed on to the bridge or who's responsible. but given the current situation, what's the ukrainian reaction beamed to this incident on the crimean bridge. of course investigation just thought it so it's quite early to say who is responsible but our writing, if we go by the reaction we're seeing from ukrainian officials, not even just ukrainians, regular people, but officials, they are thrilled if we take a look at some of the tweets of that they've posted, we will see how they're saying that this is just the beginning. get ready for more russians of what snacks. so if we have a look at, for example, there is one suites that is mentioned in good morning ukraine. and it has marilyn

monroe and the song of course, salute into thank you mr. president's right, happy birthday and all that. so they are basically, they're not only happy, but they're saying thank you for doing that. and this makes us wonder if this is an official admission because there are several of those. we also have another one with the bridge show and that says, how on the bridge, it's burning well greetings from ukraine's armed forces, which makes you think again, is this an official admission? and this is something that moscow is also asking we, we saw from among the russian defense ministry spokesman. so let's have a look at a little bit of the reaction and what moscow had to say at the very end crimea, the breach, the beginning, everything illegal must be destroyed. everything stolen must be returned to ukraine . everything occupied by russia must be expelled. to guided missile cruiser muscular and the curse bridge to notorious symbols of russian power in ukrainian,

crimea of gone down watson. it's in line russkies. the reaction of the key for him to the destruction of civilian infrastructure reveals its terrorist nature . so with to see in the excitement, we're seeing more threats. it's almost like they're saying, well done. this is what we did and stay tuned for what we are about to do next. and again, this makes us wonder, and this is not the 1st time we're heard about the pro ration regions being targeted. worth by 10. the crimean bridge itself back and june zalinski is the advisor even set it straight up. he said that we will do something to the crimea, burge, let's take a lesson student employee. we don't care about the crimean breach. once we've received the necessary technical options, it will become a target for us. there is nothing to discuss. we don't have an opportunity yet. but once we get it, we'll targeted a point where she ended. so maybe they've got that special equipment that they

don't care what happens. they're planning to target that maybe they found a way and this is what we saw happen. and what's worse is that they're saying, see what happens next. what's next? the line russkies. that's have a luck. indeed, watch. watch this space marine, thanks very much for later. some shows will be the last time you in the studio. give me all the developments on what's happened southbridge, thanks very much. marina. the bitches. the main connection between crimea and other russian territories. the damage could see the peninsula phase shortages of essential goods. his local journalist, veronica, co cobra, reporting from the ground. who is it has not heard him sound like now we are on the territory of the former church, our porch here, we have established a car park for trucks, all the trucks that came from crimea being turned around. there are already several dozen cars waiting for the promised ferry crossing to open. today, at about 6 o'clock, an emergency occurred in cut short residents heard an explosion and saw

a fire in the railway section of the bridge when yoko, according to preliminary information, a railway tank was on fire. now there are representatives of the ministry of emergency situations who advise drivers on what to do next. i assume everyone has the same question. when will the ferry crossing be launched and what the ticket price will be better was ma'am, there is a small private gas station here where a q of several dozen cars is lined up in the city. there is a rush for fuel. now, gasoline runs out very quickly. i right in front of us at the gas station. they raise the price of gasoline by a few roubles that he's got her thought with incidents in crimea comes as ukraine's president is now by tracking on his comments, urging a preemptive nato strike on russia. and he claims that he was misunderstood. and i said, you have to do preventive kinks, not a dex yahoo! just because at the shore that amber g at t as in order to port and those do. ab ruined, phoenix sank into m a. g. a. there was a zara sna term,

a dual month in florida is ago. gabled with poor jim of allowed him is the landscape insist that he was simply urging the west to impose more shocked, more sanctions. and claiming that the kremlin is preparing society for the possible use of nuclear weapons, he added that he would never call for nuclear armageddon as that's what equates him . busy it's her wrist. the wedding he used however, translates from ukrainian literally as preemptive strikes, russian officials say they are unconvinced by zalinski backtracking. oh, sure we metal moiety. what should nato do and eliminate the possibility of russia using nuclear weapons? i once again appeal to the international community as it was before february 24th. we need preemptive strikes, so that russia would know what awaits them if they use nuclear weapons, not the other way around him to wait for rushes nuclear strikes and then say, oh no. okay, then take this yog me of cheddar yesterday. zalinski called on his western masters

to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on russian 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 the attempts by zalinski secretaries to claim that he meant something else. a ridiculous spitzer in the situations landscape with like his entire regime has got a taste and is beginning to dictate his own conditions. both his nature and to the union kirkland issue of union legal media analyst lionel says it's 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. tall story 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 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, it's interesting, okay, and enough, that was a mistake. that was a, that was a typographical mistake. i, i didn't really mean that this, i can't believe. i'm frankly hearing one, i'm hearing the winners of this years. nobel peace prize were announced on friday with ukrainian prisons absent from the list. now he was nominated for the prestigious award by european parliament back in march, which drew some 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 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 u. s. 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 ah 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 pun battened in what would call either a military operation or a war? who received a peace prize for, i think, obvious reasons you know, the news royal boxed up as well. that's what some us lawmakers are now calling saudi arabia. overreacts moved to reduce oil outputs that's following the opec plus decision. but the u. s. officials are even calling for the president cars off a weapon, supplies to the gulf kingdom. the saudis 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 traverse the decision to make drastic cost and production in congress. we should also explore waste rainy notebooks control over energy prices worldwide. the white house has long praised saudi arabia as a strategic partner, selling the country large amounts of weapons, despite joe biden, at once,

pledging to make ready 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. the saudi arabia's actions be described as hostile to washington. meanwhile, the saudi minister of state says, the juris 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 a refining shortage that has been in existence for more than 20 years. you haven't built refineries in decades. will has ortiz, caleb moore with more details on that decision by re, i'd, as well as the u. s. reaction to it? 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 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, 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 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 week was deleted because it is not their 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 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 as court, seize their assets. if they don't do, i want the united states wants that would allow our 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 muhammad 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 allows the travelers 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 i 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, you know, negotiate to go on right now between us, well, companies and biden, about exporting oil from the u. s. a to europe. so,

you know, let's get across more of the supply problem, u. s. and raise prices, even more. prices are going up faster. 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 his nothing really different going on, except it's a good excuse to blame of the saudis and opec. i said, pointing the finger at the u. s. oil companies right before an election. meanwhile, energy has also been ohio on the agenda. it's an eas summit's over in prague, the blocks foreign policy chief. you said barrels said that the opec plus decision to slash oil production was a response to the new e u. price cap on the lining. that energy has become the main geopolitical issue. a good deal, beg, was their decision to decrease the supply of oil, which is

a clear answer to our proposal to cap price avoiding. he means that energy is becoming the most important view strategic issue today related with the war, but also with a balance of power in the world. dozens of e u. another leaders gathered in the check capital on thursday. the new quotes political community format sought to disco, security and energy among the topics of f as to find a common ground on issues such as a price cap and further anti bush and sanctions appear to have failed. archie contributed. rachel marson has more. there were 44 countries united discussing the challenge herself today, and it showed how much russia is isolated by now. the new e u political community and invention of french president emanuel mac 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 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 and 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 you of supporting illegal activities masquerading is 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 year to day, we often talked about the algorithm of germany. it clearly shows that it cannot be the case that the european unit energy policy is 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. 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 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 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 saudi. now, 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 was senior research fellow of the global policy institute of london george some early. he explains the difficulties of the summit, which include bad timing and a lack of unifying foxes, aside from the stance on russia. lot of these a sessions, they have no real purpose. so, i mean, you know, the, so many of these kinds of forums and here would be in 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, well man, wrong. and that doesn't seem to be any well with other than what we're still up. one there, lion declared, which is what we're all against russia. we will hate russia, and that's, that seems to be them management. they will nothing else. they no agreement on anything. so there's no decision on what to do in the future. but we're all united

in taking russia. the timing on is not exactly great, particularly when who select from there. why am keeps talking about european unity and suddenly poland and greece. i'm bringing up issues from 75 years ago. and of course bringing us like issues. oh yeah, i can have no, it was also bobo wanted to have outcome mine because germany is not going to pay anything from the list. for the steps against russia were discussed on the forums. a sidelines with a suggestion coming from poland prime minister. he claimed that russia's frozen assets in europe should be divided with some of them going to waffle. 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 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 enterprises that their companies get some part of that money. why then it will come up immediately from the baltic states from what jack, republic, slovakia, hungary and all the countries germany probably wouldn't dare do it. but other countries was say, one of the us was 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, i don't think it will work. it will be on not the bickering dispute within the 27 european countries to know who will get what mine british minister prompted laughter from the audience on a politics show after trying to play the vladimir putin card, instead of apologizing for the economic turmoil caused by the government's

45000000000 pound tax cuts was glad that the me through to wanted to do. he was to be divided right now he using i think people a lot have to do with a simple apology to my disabled already. i changed the post, or of course, i'm sorry, you british goodman's tax cuts package triggered the pounds fall to record lows while also pushing up inflation and interest rates. the bank of england even implemented an emergency 65000000000 pound bond buying program to stand the crisis triggered by that decision in the new interview. prime minister, this choice was challenged to admit. she had a bud starts in office to which she responded by blaming putin for domestic and global problems. let's remember what we were facing. 4 weeks ago that you explained

some we left 5 times of power minister, my clan, we and how we all today. and i 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 2nd level where pete has been perpetrating the war and you find it on the bad news doesn't. and they're fil is just because she is also in hot water. over warnings of potential 3, our power coats during the winter, and she tried to downplay the phase, but failed to give any guarantees the britons will not be left in the dark and plans to encourage people to use electricity during off pete times are being developed. but the proposal is already been slammed by many in the media political analyst, alexander my case, as a britons just aren't buying the excuse that the problems are all russia's fault is trying the, the tax. it was pioneer by joe biden, the 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 hootin all 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. this is the end point of a 30 years of us. various failed policies and list trusts 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 3 months. so this is a generational failure that has left britain exposed to the fluctuations of international

energy markets, 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 is tanking the economies of europe and increasing energy and security of whatever you're up to this weekend. i hope you're having a good one. my name is peter scott, on the back in around 30 minutes, please. they today from all the programs they are not we're education of love isn't was also conceived by hitler who formed the general plan also for the colonization and german ization of eastern europe.