hello, bob, last protective own existence with ah, the people are confirmed dead in an explosion on the crimea bridge. bushes anti terror committee says the truck blew up, causing a huge fire. the reaction of the key for him to the destruction of civilian infrastructure reveals its terrorist nature. that was the response of the russian foreign ministry to some ukrainian official celebrate thing. the explosion on the crimea bridge ukraine had previously identified the crossing as a legitimate targets. ridiculous mos goes not buying hears attempts to retract president zalinski coal for preemptive strikes on russia by claiming he was

actually calling for functions. also on the program, a u. s. republican lawmakers, slums, the saudis is broiled back stabbers, following the opec plus decision to slush oil outputs. we are those says the u. s. is responsible for the energy crisis in this country with my name is peter scott. and welcome to r t. international. one story has been dominated the headlines all day. and of course, is that breaking news from crimea to bodies with one of a man and one and another woman have been recovered after a huge explosion on the bridge connects in the mainland with the peninsula. some care of officials celebrates in the news and his how russia reacted to that. the reaction of the key for him to the destruction of civilian infrastructure reveals its terrorist nature. now you can see now is video of the explosion captured on c,

c t, v. the russian anti terror committee says a truck exploded on the crimean bridge, which connects mainland russia and crimea, causing damage to at least 2 sections, as well as the large fire. local officials say a fuel tank. cold fire after the explosion with the cause of the blast currently under investigations. the fire, including one on a nearby train, has already been extinguished. according to the russian emergency, ministry and operational headquarters has been set up on the spot. the ministry of emergency situations of russia is involved in investigations into the cause of the train fire, with divers surveying the c bed, his local journalist, veronica cova, reporting from the grounds. when that comes come off before you are in those in residential areas and kurtz were knocked out by the black fires not visible on the bridge and the moon on the black column, the smoke is also dissipated. the bridge remains close to traffic like the all the trucks that came from crania, are being turned around. there are already several dozen cars waiting for the

promised, very crossing to open today at about 6 o'clock and emergency occurred and curt residence heard an explosion and saw a bar in the railway section of the bridge. according to preliminary information, a railway tank was in fire. now there are representatives of the ministry of emergency situations, goodbye drivers and what to do next. everyone has the same question. when will the ferry crossing the launch and what the tickets price will be? 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, right in front of us at the gas station. they raised the price of gasoline by few rubles earlier we discussed the incidents with sergei gunshot of president of the association of veterans of the anti terrorism unit alpha. and he said his thoughts on why the attack allegedly with carried out this time and this place. what did the

news, shirley? this act of sabotage corresponds with what the ukrainians had promised that they would try to blow up or tap the crimean bridge by any means. but so far as i understand, the americans have not allowed them to use the long range weapons that they supply to ukraine in order to avoid creating a precedent. however, it seems no one forbade ukrainian saboteurs from doing what they did. and i think it's clear, given the context that ukraine has now resorted to terrorism. i don't think it's a coincidence that a truck loaded with explosives. was there 6 in the morning? at the exact moment when there was an oil cargo train on the tracks near by the explosion, which happened at this time. and in this place, led to the fact that those fuel tanks caught fire. what bill was the b? i'm joined now in the studio by r t correspondence. marina call server. marina, thanks for joining us. again this our now we don't exactly know who's, who's responsible. no one has admitted to carrying out this

a legit at sight or what exactly happened there. but can you tell me what ukraine's reaction has been so far to this incident? absolutely, there ukrainian reaction has been very celebratory there that there have been posting on line about how thrilled they are, how happy they are, they are. and this is exactly what mighty as a kind of a rush in defense ministry spokesman was referring to when she was saying that the key of regimes reaction is basically testify says terrorist nature because we're talking about casualties now and their post in sweets on line. let's have a look at some of the suites that we've seen. let's start with the secretary of the national security and defense council of ukraine. he posted. good morning ukraine, and then aside video of marilyn monroe, singing her famous, happy birthday mister president's. it was like a mere putins 70th birthday. so their illusion that this was a gift or for vladimir putin. then we have the cranium security service, which is sweet, said the bridge is burning well and l her line there going things from the cranes

armed force as you can see it there on the screen. now that today's a great occasion. and then we had another one boasting, this was from the ukrainian defense ministry and it was boasting that soon the tories symbols of russian power have gone down and they're also threatening. what snacks? so ru skis. this actually, sweets was then re tweeted by the ukranian embassy in lithuania. we saw a number of ukrainian embassies around the world. sweet sing, and re posting some post from the 20th officials. so we had italy as well that we had georgia, for example, that reposed to the photo of the bridge burning with the message. good morning, we are with the ukraine, certainly making their feelings unknown and heard. and then we had some more sweets from the cranium embassy in singapore and the czech republic. let's see what they had to say. trimming bridge is not at its best these days. the large explosion in

massive fire was reported this morning along with the roadway section collapse and traffic suspension. crimean bridge is the one that connects temporarily occupied crimea with mainland russia. crimea is ukraine, and always deficient road and breach umbilical cords will not take root here. so we have at least 3 people killed that we know of so far, and we have ukrainian embassies around the world, celebrating and saying, well done. well, that was a bit about the ukrainian reaction to the bridge. what about the wida international community? how they reacted so far? well, it's still early, right, so we have in every hour we're seeing more and more countries speak up. again, ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this, but we are seeing countries like estonia and poland saying, well dawned we're behind you, ukraine. we're supporting you, and this is what we saw. some of the officials from huh. estonia and poland, se,

let's listen. i believe this target has been around for a very long time. it's tanya certainly welcome to this and congratulations, ukrainian special operations units who are expected to be behind the separation motivation. and i said it says sugar bomb for the soul, especially given yesterday was put in person. that is correct. he received such gift. i wish him more of such gifts to present the shingles. so we can see there was more such gifts for vladimir putin diplomacy at its best therapy, thus ha, that's all i have to say. imagine something like this happening in the united states of america or in israel, and we're getting statements like this from european comes in a very diplomatic, indeed, marina. now the war is obviously going on for about 7 months. now. have we seen any indication that this bridge could be a potential target for an attack? absolutely, we're seamless all along. even if we go all the way back to 2014, there could not let crimea go. and again, we've seen threat some of seen statements from ukrainian official saying that they will target any region that is pro russia or any region that voted to join russia.

they see them as a threat. they want to snatch those, those lines back, regardless of what people there have to say what they want, what they feel they don't care about that. so, and let's go back to the statement that was made by zalinski is adviser in the somewhere where he actually said himself that the bridge is the targets and they will not stop until they manage to take it down completely. we don't care about the crime in breach once we receive 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 just so he said at them say, he said himself, it was a target for them. and they were just looking for an opportunity to do something. perhaps this is how they found the opportunity to do it, and possibly we'll have to wait for any confirmation. if it was a key of the thanks very much, the date marina cindy. got your work, cuts out today. thank you. well, for more on that incident on the crime me in bridge, let's now cross

a live the crystal, the journalist, unfound of the bus inside the websites. thanks for joining us. crystal know what you will take on the ukrainian reaction to what's happened to this bridge. for me, it's a clear sign that there are behind this attack, the terrorist attack. for me, it's not the surprise of the rest of the sage said in the summer or the bridge was a target for them since a long time since it was built so. so me like pointing finger to kill without any doubt? well, no, you couldn't. officials have previously called us, we just heard by my colleague marina. they have said that the bridge is a legitimate targets in light of the do you think that russia has done enough to keep it safe? they had previously said that it would be secure from atlanta see an error type it

seemed that these truck didn't went through the scanner, which is normally planned to be used to check all the vehicles which get on the bridge. so i think the investigation should find what really happened was there are some people who didn't do their job properly. that's, i think certainly the case. and i think the punishment should be really exemplary to what this people, all the other people who are in charge of the security of the bridge and descend, that is not the game and that the 3 here use. and if you do a mistake, you don't do your job properly, they can have really huge consequences. now, of the key of hasn't taken responsibility for this incidents on the bridge yet. but what sorts of response do you think we could possibly see from russia? is this a big escalation in the conflict? i think it's a turning point, and i think really russia should reconsider the format of the intervention in the

don barza stepson's approach. the region in ukrainian general now are the calls to transform the special military operation into an anti terrorist operation. and i think it should be dawn. it's already a long time that ukraine has proved to be a tourist to state. i mean, they have keel. the several of our commanders, the head of the g, p. r, resource to fax, and they didn't hide about that. so it's not something you just, that's now russia has to officially a knowledge that ukraine to terrorist state and treat as such. now, do you think that this bridge was quite significant, logistically, what impact do you think you'll have on the people of crimea in terms of the supply of essential goods, may be russia's war efforts in ukraine? i think it will. i take temporary leave. of course, the supply of goods,

but i don't think it's impossible to compensate. i mean, until the bridge was built, rush already succeeded to import a lot of goods and everything necessary to crimea. so is just a matter of time to put in place. i've seen that the 1st variation begin crossing the car straight. sure. today. so i think it will, everything will be solved. and from what i see from the videos, i think the damages are, it's possible to repair it. i think in a few weeks. so i think it will, there will be some temporary, perhaps difficulties to, to bring some stuff but nothing really serious. so i think it will not deal a huge blow to to the peninsula. ok, well chris, go on. that's all we got time for me. afraid, journalist and found of the don't boss inside a web site. thank you very much for your thoughts then the incidents on the chromium bridge. you're welcome. the bridge is the main trade connection between

crimea and other russian territory. the damage has already cause traffic jobs that local petrol stations and authorities say that trains will be able to cross the bridge again. this evening. very is able to carry around. 100 people will also be laid on the damage could see the peninsula. how of a faith shortages of essential goods, but the head of the republic of crimea, that a gate accent of reassure people that there's enough food and fuel supplies for 2 months to the republic of crimea has plenty of fuel and food. he said, we have more than a month's worth of fuels and more than 2 months worth of for it was it that there are no risks or reasons for excitement at he's got with the here and now over to the dumbass, wherever the dental areas and civilian infrastructure of done yet st are been shelled by ukraine. that's according to local officials. the i'm at the footage. it shows plumes of smoke rising shortly after the strike. according to numerous reports,

a local printing house and wholesale deaf oak caught fire and several residential buildings were heavily damaged. investigations into possible casualties are currently underway and kia hasn't yet commented on that. while the incident in crimea comes as ukraine's president is now back tracking on his comments, urging a preemptive nato strike on russia. he claims he was misunderstood. and i said you have to do preventive kinks. not a dex yahoo! or just because at the shore that amber g at there as multiple and those do ab ruin . phoenix sank into m a. g, a z, a z addison, the term, a dumont embroidery, zekia gabled. it poor g o. blood in his ellen skin says that he was simply urging the west to impose more sanctions. and he claims that the kremlin is preparing society for the possible use of nuclear weapons. and he added that he would never call for nuclear armageddon as that would make him a tourist. the wedding he used however,

does translate from ukrainian literally as preemptive strikes. russian officials say they are unconvinced by zalinski backtracking. oh, we met a boy did. 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. or ridiculous spitzer in these 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 universe illegal. a 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 and to 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 warren 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 that there was. yeah. okay. and enough, that was a mistake. that was a, there was a typographical mistake. i, i didn't really mean that this i, i can't believe. i'm frankly hearing one i'm hearing of the winners of this years. nobel peace prize were announced on friday with the ukranian president's absence from the list. now he was nominated for the prestigious award by the european parliament back in march, which drew 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, no political price. it's a kind of nato nobel human rights prize. now, it's not a piece price. it's not a price. according to the will of alfred nobel, he wanted to be given to those who have quotation john,

most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies on the establishment and promotion of peace congress's. now none of the 3 organizations have done anything like that. one of them have called for arms to you crime. none of the 3 organizations are not the to who received it last year or president landscape were in any way mash, alfred, no bells will. and i'm on pulled by the fact. let me jan around the world. do ask, how can it come? how is it possible that this committee repeatedly can give the price to anything but this time amend abolition, et cetera. which was outfit. no bells were. this is a legal issue and should be investigated. how can you deliberately move away from

home, dead, and still be illegal organization royal boxed up as well. that's how one a u. s. republican lawmakers described to saudi arabia. overreacts move to reduce oil outputs the following. the opec plus decision, the other day of the u. s. officials are even calling for the president because of weapons supplies for the gulf kingdom. the saudis need us more for weapons than we need them. prison violence 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 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, not despite biden, once pledging to make, make a pariah. some of us congress members are also calling for re think of the countries relationship with opec plus, with saudi arabia, its actions being described as hostile to washington. meanwhile, the 30 minutes,

the state says the us itself is to blame for rising gas prices. the idea that you do include 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. 14 keller, morphine has more details on real decision, as well as the u. s. reaction to it's well essentially we have opec announcing that 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 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. hear some of what we've heard, what saudi arabia did to help put and continue to wage his despicable, vicious war against ukraine will long be remembered by americans. we are looking at all the legislative tools to best deal with this appalling and deeply cynical action. though the no peck bill is up for discussion, this is a bill that would allow the united states to sue opec countries take them to court, possibly have you escort, seize their assets. if they don't do i 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 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 to 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 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 is going on right now between us, well, companies and biden, about exporting oil from the us 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 the 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 at 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 to fleet or at the u. s. oil companies right before an election a british minister prompted laughter among the audience on a political t. v program after trying to play the vladimir putin card and that was instead of apologizing for the economic turmoil caused by the government's 45000000000 pounds, max cuts. what was black that the me a futon wants to do? he wants to be divided right now. he, i think people alone have to do with a simple apology to stay below if i change the policy. or, of course,

i'm sorry to do. the british government tax cuts package triggered the pounds fall to record lows while also pushing up inflation and interest. the bank of england implemented an emergency 65000000000 pound bond buying program to stem the crisis triggered by the government decisions in a recent interview. prime minister list just was challenged to admit she'd had a bud starts in office. so was she responded by blaming putin for domestic and global problems. well, let's remember what we were facing 4 weeks ago, but you explained some we were 5 are powerless to my clan. we and how we have all today and i use my question was, do you accept you've had a rocky start? what i am saying is that we have acted decisively in the face of very, very difficult international 2nd. let me where pete has been, perpetrating the warning light on the bad news doesn't end there. phil is just as

she is also in hot water over warnings of potential 3, our power coats during the approaching winter season. now she tried to downplay the phase, but failed to give any guarantees that britain's will not be left in the dark schemes to encourage people to use electricity. it's of pete times. i've been developed, but the proposal is already been slammed by many in the media. you can just see here, but it's called analyst alexander mckay says that britain's aunt buying the excuse to the problems are all bushes fault 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 site. 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 boots in or over even the energy companies in britain itself. so 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 free months. so this is a generational failure that has left britain exposed to the fluctuations of international energy markets. un, unable to produce so energy. the only solution in the immediate period is to end the chaos in the international energy markets. and that means ending the sanctions regime against 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. and now before we go, a quick reminder of our breaking news from crimea. 3 people have been killed after

the explosion on the crimean bridge, that's according to russian investigators. it comes as a truck, death, an 8th it on the bridge, which connects mainland to russia with the peninsula, causing damage to 2 sections as well as a large fire. the incidence is still under investigation with rational thought, his gathering information about the truck and its owner. some ukraine and officials as well as some the media now appeared to be celebrating the boss while russia's foreign minister says the reaction from kiev revealed its true nature. nicky are and will be here in around 30 minutes with any developments on the bridge. thank you very much for watching. ah ah.