my indiana. oh, i can send more. a month, a month. i think you bought a crimea bridge reopened for vehicles and trains across the courtesy. great after a massive truck explosion on saturday morning with many in the west and then ukraine celebrating the explosion. russia says the reaction reveals the terrorist nature of the key every team and its nato partners. in stories that shape the weak us lawmakers slammed saudi arabia as royal back stabbers, following the opec plus decision to watch oil output. reality though, says the u. s. is fully responsible for the energy prices in the country. and breaking up fast of leader police the country after anti french sentiment among

citizens and the military lead to a crew last week with from moscow to the world. this is the weekly, on our t international. i'm rachel blevins and these are the top stories of this week. and today we begin with the latest from the russian region of don, ask, one civilian was wound it after the ukranian army shelled the center of the regions capital. here are the latest images from this scene. the attack hit a residential building, the streets were fortunately mostly empty, with one person wounded in their home. this comes, as officials say, 3 civilians were killed and 5 wounded in ukrainian attacks across the don escrow public on saturday. that on ask and lugens republics as well as the hearse on ends . ap roshi regions are now officially part of russia following the signing of

official documents by president. on wednesday, the historic unification comes after locals in the territories voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move and russian lawmakers, along with the nations constitutional court ratified the joining of the new regions . however, ukraine and its western allies have condemned their referendum as a quote illegitimate sham. the crimean bridge has been reopened for passage after a massive truck explosion on saturday morning. cars and buses have already started moving with the railway section, also open for cargo and passenger train. these are the latest pictures. cars are now heading in both directions, accompanied by traffic. police russian officials say a successful test run show the bridge is safe for youth. although one section of the crossing the most heavily damage remains close,

all vehicles and trains are being carefully inspected before entering the bridge. and here's the surveillance footage of that blast the russian anti terror committee says 3 people died in the explosion. the exact cause of the destination is under investigation. the attack destroyed 2 sections of railway and set a nearby fuel cargo train on fire. meanwhile, western media out was, have been celebrating the deadly bombing of the crime in bridge the daily mail, even called it a birthday present for a lot of me or who turned 70 on the eve of the attack on what's been described as his prize to bridge some headlines say the crossing is a symbol of so called russian occupation and called the bombing a blow to the war effort. the slavic police went even further sarcastically, comparing the attack to the result of the recent referenda saw for new regions

during russia. while the u. k tabloid, the sun, and some ukrainian media suggest key special forces were directly responsible for the bombing. russia says the reaction reveals the terrorist nature of the key every gene and it's nato partners. the reaction of the key regime to the destruction of civilian infrastructure reveals its terrace nature. assassinations, acts of sabotage, destruction, provocations and set ups. that is the logic that now binds nay, to regimes as partners in crime. they are really keen to emphasize that this is a blow for russia, that this is a devastating tragedy for vladimir putin and what a great presence just see, you know, god flip the knife a little bit more about again, even though no one is confirming that ukraine was behind that were seen some countries in particular in europe. not only alluded to the fact that it was indeed ukraine,

but there also applaud in them for it. i believe this target has been around for a very long time. it's tanya certainly welcomes this and congratulations, ukrainian special operations units who are expected to be behind the separation motivation. alicia said it's a suitable for the soul. his specially given yesterday was put in person based grecki research such gifts. i wish him more of such gifts to present the single can you imagine of something like this happened in the united states or in israel or in any other country in 5? and then you would hear statements like that it's, it's a despicable really, especially when we know that 3 people died, people lost their lives. and this is what i mean when, when russia is saying that this reaction coming from the ukraine and also those who are supporting it abroad. this shows that success, city of kias regime and that success, city of the west, and also the terrorist nature of key of that regime of the latest, the photos that were seen emerging from ukraine. our people actually taken selfies

in front of a banner. we can see it right now, a banner that they've put up all the explosions on the bridge. and what's interesting is, is how fast they managed to to get our banner up there. but also we're now seeing reports online that the photo of this banner was actually circulating back in september. of course we know that the bridge was a targets all along that there is no secret to that. and they would love to, to blow it off because of course it's linking russia to crimea. so again, here we saw that the 2nd largest banker in ukraine is already issuing debit cards featuring the collapse bridge. so there is happening all around this happened, let's not forget that 3 people died. but again, this doesn't concern them. they're just, they're tweeting things like. let's start by taking a look at some of the suites we saw coming out as early as this morning. first of all, we have the secretary or the national security and defense council of ukraine. here

he is saying, good morning ukraine and a side by side of the bridge on fire, and marilyn monroe, sing, happy birthday miss the president, of course, allude into the fact that this is a great gift for vladimir putin 70th birthday. and then we had the ukraine's security service that sweets it on the bridge is burned in well greetings from ukraine's armed forces and not to day is a great occasion. and we heard from the landscape residential advisor this summer. he said that the bridge itself. busy is a target and will be a target and they will try to destroy it. as soon as they could do scoops in fluid, we don't care about the crimean breach. once we perceive the necessary technical options, it will become a target for us, where there is nothing to discuss. we don't have an opportunity yet, but once we get it, we'll targeted to the point where synergy. and it seems that they found the opportunity and the way to do it. and they did just that. even though now again,

they're saying that somehow russia did it, and this somehow helps us. i don't, i don't know what way shape or form this would help russia. but again, those are the latest claims from keith. following an initial outburst of praise for the attack ukraine's presidential adviser put a different twist on the story several hours later. by suggesting the incident was orchestrated as part of a power struggle between russia, defense ministry and the f. s. b. however, the washington post has revealed the ukrainian government official admitted that he had special services were behind the bombing journalists. thomas roper says it's ridiculous to see ukrainian officials repeatedly accusing russia of bombing as own territory. let's discuss this live by crossing now over to talk show host steve malls berg. steve is great to have you on the program today. now the key yes is blaming russians. maturity forces for the bombing of the crimean bridge,

despite the washington post revealing that ukrainian government official admitted key was behind the attack. so who do you think is likely to be responsible? and what do you make of this? continued allegation that russia is the hind tact like this one. well, i mean, i have absolutely no idea who, who is behind it. i know that earlier, as you said, i mean the ukraine was, was not claiming any responsibility they did manage to put out a postal stamps very quickly. but for the, from the post office in celebration if you will, of, of what happened. but i don't know who did it, and you know, the report in the washington post and the believe it or don't believe it. but i don't find any of this surprising. i mean media is by one of my fortes and i studied for decades. and you know, i'm not surprised that the media would react in, in a certain way. i'm not surprised that government would react in a certain way. i've kind of befuddled that. it's that it's shocking or surprising

that countries that are against what russia is doing, are celebrating and mocking russia. and, you know, and countries that might support russia or, and russia included, are accusing ukraine. i mean, this is a warm, i mean you could expect that kind of stuff. i don't see anything unusual or, or, you know, or fascinating to by looking at this. i think this is exactly what one would expect, both from the media and from the countries involved in the war and supporting various they're either russia or ukraine in the war. so i'm, i'm not shocked by any of it. yeah, and i know in some ways it seems like business as usual, especially when you a western allison politician, gloating over the deadly bombing of the bridge where 3 people were killed, even describing it as a birthday present for vladimir putin. now why do you think that they're praising what was potentially inactive state sponsored terrorism by ukraine?

do you think that there is any concern about the truth eventually coming out here? and if that's the case, could there be any backtracking from these politicians or even media outlets that are celebrating? and at the moment i'm a little confused again. i mean, if, if you crane did this during a war, i don't understand. i mean, i don't understand why that would be considered a terrorist act or whatever in war. you know, people get killed is people dying. and ukraine has people in this on this bridge and maybe others inside a rush. i don't know, but i'll tell you what does disturb me, and what does bother me and what does keep me up at night. and that's the nuclear rhetoric on all sides. i don't like what vladimir putin said about the thread of using nukes, i despise what the zalinski said about. and he wants nato to preemptively strike russia with nuclear weapons. and i'm disgusted by what joe

biden has said about armageddon in response to all this. i mean, there's no place for any of this. there, there has to be an off ramp and i hate that term, but everybody's using it in the past couple of days. so i'll use it. there has to be a real president of the united states would have said look, let's take a deep breath, which was hillary's phrase, i hate it, but, and let's arrange talks. i'll mediate. i'll sit between the 2 sides. let's, let's talk and get things done. this cannot escalate to the point that people are talking about. that's what we need to, to be concerned about the end of the world, which i mean is mind boggling that i'm saying it. but nobody's saying that in politics or really even in the media, they're just not in the, in the mainstream media in this country. the conservative media is saying that you want to talk a carlson on fox. he's saying that other conservatives are saying that like, whoa, is this what we want to die for?

so i just think that that's where we should be concentrating on acts of war during a war reaction to it. you know, not to belittle anybody who picked this topic at all. that's not my intent, but that doesn't move me at all. that's. that's a war. yeah, there certainly is a lot at stake care talk to her steve from osburg. thank you for your time and commentary. thank you. in line with ukraine and officials repeated back tracking is also president zalinski himself who is actively back paddling on his comments. calling for a pre emptive nato strike on russia. he claims he was simply misunderstood. and i said, you have to do preventive geeks, not a dex, yahoo, just because of the shore that abba g at the, of multiple of those dope ruins doing excited the image if there was a 0 in the turbo, dumont brodis gilkey bullock poor jim vladimir zalinski insist he was just

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 called for a nuclear. i'm a gettin as that would equate him to a terrorist. the wording he used, however, translates from ukrainian literally as preemptive strikes, there was no criticism from the west of the provocative words ukrainian liter. meanwhile, russian officials say they are unconvinced by zalinski is backtracking attempts shuffle. when little boy did, 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 job. after yesterday, zalinski called on his western masters to launch

a preemptive nuclear strike on russia. with this statement, he's essentially shown the whole world, more evidence of the threats emanating from the key regime, which the special operation was launched to neutralize sort of attempts by zalinski secretaries to claim that he meant something else. a ridiculous but so in the situations landscape like his entire regime has got a taste and is beginning to dictate his own conditions, both to nature and to the younger. can you show you what is this comes as yo by then says the risk of nuclear. i'm and gallon is out as high as since the 1962 cuban missile crisis. we discuss the issue with a panel of das. if there was any doubts thus far, he is unhinged. i am concerned for his mental health. he is obviously willing to risk nuclear armageddon to preserve his regime. and i don't think that russia or other state leaders are that are dealing with him. can any longer consider him

to be a rational actor. and we also have to take this in the context of his recent actions . he has ordered his military forces in the law over the last 2 months to continually shell and attack with kamikaze drones. the zappa rosure nuclear power plant, whatever his absurd denials to the contrary. if western leaders do not immediately denounce his statements and back away from it, i think we have to consider them complicit if they go back in any way. russia, that's a 3rd world war because russia is going to retaliate against all nato member states . and that would be the end of, of europe and perhaps over humanity once we start playing these kinds of games. and i cannot understand why the leaders of the,

of the west are urging themselves to commit suicide. i cannot understand that. i don't think they've learned lessons from history because i don't, i don't think they know history. i mean that especially in the united states. yeah . i mean, we should look to the cuban missile crisis for how to get out of it. you know, john f kennedy and, you know, he worked hard to negotiate a deal with crew chef. it was a given take. he agreed not to attack cuba. he agreed to take nuclear weapons out of turkey in return for crews aching the missiles out of cuba. that is the type of negotiation we need today. but you don't see any of that happening from the u. s. you don't see the u. s. helping to negotiate a solution and back you see them interfering to prevent solution from being agreed

to. so that is very, very troubling. royal back stabbers, that's what some new as lawmakers are now calling saudi arabia overreact, has moved to reduce oil out, but following the opec plus decision, while the u. s. cost saudi arabia's actions hostile to washington. the saudi minister, as states says that america itself is to blame for rising gas prices, which have nothing to do with crude oil supply. 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. there is no question that mohammed bin salman, particularly the crown prince of saudi arabia. shares hooton's world view more than he shares ours. he doesn't appreciate american advocacy for democracy in the world . the idea that hugging to include would do this to harms any less or to be in any

way politically involved is absolutely not correct at all was to 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, indicates opec was opted to cut oil production by $2000000.00 barrels per day starting next month. the move caused anger among us lawmakers with calls to reexamine ties with key oil producers labeling react as actions as hostile and damaging washington's economic interest. this comes after years of the u. s. praising the kingdom as a strategic partner, as supplying the country with large amounts of weapons. some have even called to withdraw us military support from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, the opec plus decision has echoed in the u as well, according to foreign policy. chief joseph route, the decision by o 5 plus to cut oil production was a response to the european union's plan to

a dr. price cap. this comes as brussels announced in a package of sanctions on russia, which include a price cap and further restrictions on the maritime transportation ration crude oil in petroleum products. however, water or food warm earlier there, russia would stop exports, in the case of a price cap being implemented. post of rtp world, depart. oksana boy go told us more about the opec plus decision to cut oil production. the white has already described based north as a hostile act, and it's a very interesting wording because if you start from a promise that the rest of the world is supposed to be serving your interest and everything, that's where your interest would be fulfilled, act. but i want to remind you and me, i'm sure our viewers also know that, that saudi arabia, in many of the opec members are considered traditional

u. s. allies. and the fact that they have pretty much ignore the very, very active american law being shows that things are changing in the world. and countries are starting to pursue their own interest. a white house has yet again tried to put all the blame on russia, but i think the, the current division shows the even closest american alice and no longer paying attention to anything that washington is saying or doing directly pursuing their own interest by them. ministration has done everything to allie and made my menu with allies. the ear is the only one that seems to be left in the so called american camp. and surprisingly, the ear is, you know, it is a book of countries, it has absolutely no oil reserve. it would be interesting to see how they will be doing with, with that situation. certainly they will be blaming russia. but i mean, again, you cannot warm up with the homes of your citizens with the blaming somebody. so it's, we are also very, very interesting times,

unlike the year the united states does have its own strategic all reserves and the bite an administration has been leaning heavily on it over the last year. the besides the reserve diminished by almost a 3rd from more than 600000000 barrels to some with about 400000000 barrels and the vitamin ministration announce, hear it again. that they are going to release another $10000000.00 to try to heat to try to ease the markets and those, those additional barrels will hit the market right around the time of the mid term elections that may provide summary slide. but the problem is that when you are emptying your reserves on a such a short term perspective, the time to pay for that will come and it will come very soon because those reserves will have to be replenished and they will have to be replenished at much higher prices, so it's essentially they are trying to use that strategic reserves to aid the biden's standing in the polls. but even if they win, even though the democrats,

when they will have to address that problem, a couple of months down the line, all of them in a couple of years, a couple of months were keener facets, ousted leader, has fled to the neighboring west african country. of cocoa, after a military coup, last sunday, forced his resignation. one of the reasons for the uprising is said to be widespread disdain for the country's cooperation with the former colonial ruler, france, the military overthrown. the government is the 2nd qu, bertina also has seen in just 8 months. supporters of bertina foss, those new government took to the streets to celebrate showing their discontent with france. by setting a part of the french embassy on fire. russian flags could be seen in the crowd as people called for the country to step away from france. i'd build stronger ties with other countries are put on that as we've been working with france for a long time in the end, it's

a bloody situation. people are starving. people are eating wild tree, lee. it's france who's responsible. they better move back, but we will look for another partner. city, love, who pleasure. no more, france. our choice is russia. france is stealing from us soon. we are starving. life costs are very expensive. russia would be nice to work with. france, just plunder our resources. ara france claims to help us, but it's not true. so what france is depriving us ruining us. they should leave our country now. we need russia. no jobs, no money, no business, we are poor sort of it. we are unemployed, and the whole day we have nothing at all to do on monday. the cool in between a fossil is the 2nd one this year, but the anti french sentiment has never been higher. many of the residents of the former french colony believed that france has a hand in the current situation. the country france denies any involvement in the events occurring since yesterday, and burkina faso, the french forces camp has never had paul on re sal grew to me, but stay there,

nor has our embassy. then you government, led by 34 year old captain ibrahim tri, warri, believes that france is helping the ousted leader lieutenant colonel dunbar is believed to have taken refuge in the french base at camp winston in order to plan a counter offensive to stir up trouble in our defense and security forces, but it is not just the people of booking the fossil. many of the former french colonies seem to find reason to dislike france. they dislike the colonial nature that paris has with their governments. and there has also been anti french protest . they, the summer france cleans miserably to its former african colonial empire, which it planters exploits its resources, and instigates clues kills their heads of state ignites terrorism and fuels, wars and genocides. but gala fossil expected assistance and protection from france . and his luck just bertina fossil. other countries in the region did 2 in the j,

the sentiment is the fate. they are anti french slogans because we demand the immediate departure of the ball came forcing. nyja, which is alienating, are so grantee and destabilizing the saw hill. the rise of the islamic insurgency in those hell region is one of the reasons why france has come under fire. molly was left to fend for itself at the front, seemingly couldn't lift the finger to held them with the security in the region. molly had several pieces of evidence that these flagrant violations of malley and aerospace have been used by france to collect intelligence for the benefit of terrorist groups operating in the so hell and to drop arms and ammunition to them. piece of security and stability of notoriously been elusive in this region of africa. despite the influence of france and several form of french colonies have had enough. they have started looking elsewhere for new partnership in their fight for sovereignty and peace in the region. got

a bullet that oddity angeles back. that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all of the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour. ah. ah pohden is the aggressor tune chose is war. today i'm authorized with additional strong sanctions with groceries. if you click on that, we'll need to moisten, moisten the branding all in ports of russian oil and gas turbine and

imposing these sanctions. i brush you as destroy the american. in fact, there's your boomerang by way of suffering. the i key interest really hitting people in the pocketbook, boise was almost there. i see you using a router business related to you. this is going to impose severe cost on the russian economy of immediately and over time, re some, as i stated the that on there by the we have list. those are so many that for them i started a little bit famous this all the emeralds, bamboo i am very and absorb it. so it's a, it's thick body hub. did show that 21st century has been asia. russia is also an asian country and we need to develop military cooperation. similar to what nato does in europe. propose lower gibberish official for, to swing by, look at. and there are

trade was the search for new markets import substitution. the word sanctions has become part of our data vocabulary neutralizer, flooded with more and more reports of restrictions. however, sanction that has an instrument of influence and nothing new. they've been used against russia for decades. some through america guaranteed here is paul, is that you can still upstairs with no nina, convenient, i'm looking for, you know, move how and then did the united states come up with this concept of sanctions instead of real military action operation sanctions can be imposed when you don't know what to do. does the united states want to go to war with russia over you? craig? i can tell you right now bed. that would not be a popular outcome. a given the fact that russia has 6000 nuclear weapons,

we have 5500 in any war with russia, with a 10 because a global temperatures rise by say, 200000 degrees. meaning the end of the world today, russia is the country with the most sanctions imposed against it. a number that's constantly growing most restrictions against individuals, the rest imposed on organizations. some experts compare the measures to financial nuclear warfare when you don't have a military option. economic sanctions is the politically expedient of alternative, but it's an alternative that doesn't really address the problem it's supposed to address. it's done to a fees at the moment when the quality or figure switch us on the problem was to crochet neuroses. kick on and get her lawyer out. according to me, it is a pasta noon. brought it up shift. but if you, thanks. if that was totally medina, but the way we 3 gets you to the new lease on which through songs. ringback with machine you.