oh, a crimea bridge reopens for vehicles and trains across the curve straight after a massive truck explosion on saturday morning. with many in the west stand in ukraine celebrating the explosion. russia says the reaction were deals with terrorist nature of the key ever shame and this nato partners in stories that shape the weak us lawmakers slam saudi arabia as royal back stabbers following new plus decision to slash oil output. prion as those says, the u. s. is fully responsible for the energy prices in the country. and burkina faso the leader for use 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 the crimean bridge has been reopened for passage after a massive truck explosion on saturday morning. cars and buses have already started moving with a railway section, also open for cargo and passenger trains. here are the latest pictures. cars are now heading in both directions, accompanied by tropic 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 and during the bridge. here's the surveillance footage of the 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 the roadway and set a nearby fuel cargo train on fire. one chinese official warned the sabotage of critical infrastructure could spark a dangerous pattern. the explosion on creamy and bridge less than a month after a north stream sabotaged, opens pandora's box of this drinking infrastructure, and once it becomes new normal, the whole world will face raising security threats. meanwhile, western media outlets have been celebrating the daily, the deadly bombing of the crimea, and bridge the daily mail, even called it a birthday present for a lot of men who turned 70 on the eve of the attack. what's been described as his prize to bridge some headlines say the crossing of the symbol of so called russian occupation and called the bombing a blow to putin's war effort. the slavic police went even further sarcastically,

comparing the attack to the results of the recent referendums. this off for new regions during russia, while u. k. tabloid, the sun, and some ukrainian media suggest kiev special forces were directly responsible for the bombing. russia says the reaction reveals the terrors nature of the key every gene and it's nato partners. the reaction of the key regime to the destruction of civilian infrastructure reveals that stereos nature assassinations, acts of sabotage, destruction, provocations, and set ups. that is the logic that now binds nato 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 swifts the knife a little bit more about again, even though no one is confirmed that ukraine was behind that were seen some countries in particular in europe,

not only alluded to the fact that it was in the ukraine, but they're 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 expect it to be behind the separation motivation. alicia said it says it's a bump for the soul, especially given yesterday was put in 1st thing. they squeaky research such gifted logs. i wish him more of such gifts to present pushing those can you imagine of something like this happened in the united states or in israel or in any other country and 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 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 there would love to, to blow it up 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 of the collapse bridge. so there is happiness all around that 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 of the national security and defense counsel of ukraine. here he is saying, good morning ukraine and a side by side of the bridge on fire, and marilyn monroe sing, and happy birthday miss the president, of course, alluding to the fact that this is a great gift for vladimir putin 70th birthday. and then we had the ukraine's security service that sweets id 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 zalinski residential advisor this summer. he said that the bridge itself is a target and will be a target and they will try to destroy it as soon as they could improve it. we don't care about the crimean breach. once we perceive 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 will targeted to the point where she should. and it seems that

they found the opportunity and the way to do it. and they did just fats, 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 initial outbursts of praise for the attack, ukraine's presidential advisor put a different twist on the story hours later suggesting the incident was staged as part of the power struggle between russia's defense ministry and the f. s. b. however, the washington post has revealed a ukrainian government official admitted that he had a special services were behind the bombing. earlier. journalist thomas roper told my colleague nikki aaron, that it's ridiculous to see ukrainian officials repeatedly accusing russia bombing its own territory. russia always attacks itself, their bombing to nets, clear bombing the nuclear power plant, and they destroyed north stream to another bridge. this is the normal key of

propaganda. and you can look at history every time and conflict, something like this happens because it's the, well, the enemy, who did it, and trying to blame somebody else. it's obvious that russia wouldn't blow the bridge. it needs himself for, for supporting the crimea regional thing is possible that the u. s. was also aware turns to bone. the crimean bridge, considering the training officials have quoted a legitimate target for months now. well, i think they're not on the did not on, you know, i think van wolf, we know for example that of us has to confirm each tire, which is hit by how much work it's we know that the u. s. and the britons, the grits are planning offenses of ukrainian our together with the ukrainians and such and such an act of whatever terrible war how you call it. i would not have been done by keith without a support or at least knowledge of the western. the supporters in line with

ukrainian officials repeated backtracking is also president zalinski himself who was actively back pedaling on his comments. calling for a preemptive nato strike on russia. he claims he was simply misunderstood. and i said you have to do preventive kinks. not a dex yahoo! just goes out the shore, that abba g at the of multiple of those do up and doing excited through but g, a z, a, z, addison, the turbo, dumont brodis, give gabled it poor jim vladimir zalinski and says he was just urging the west to impose more sanctions claiming the kremlin as preparing society for the possible use of nuclear weapons. he added, he would never call for nuclear. i'm a get in as thou would equate him to a terrorist. the wording he used, however, translate from ukrainian literally as preemptive strikes. there was no criticism

from the west of the provocative words of the ukrainian leader. meanwhile, russian officials say they are unconvinced by zalinski is back tracking 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 yog 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 ordered attempts by zalinski secretaries to claim that he meant something else. a ridiculous spitzer enlist situations landscape like his entire regime has got a taste and is beginning to dictate his own conditions,

both his nature and to the union kirkland. you show you in the videos that comes as yo by then says the risk of nuclear armageddon is at as high as since the 1962 cuban missile crisis. we discussed the issue with a panel of gas. if there was any doubt 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 natal 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 crude, taking the missiles out of cuba. that is the time to go, she, we need today, but you don't see any of that happening from the us. you don't see the us helping to negotiate a solution and back you see them interfering to prevent solution from being agree to. so that is very, very troubling. now, to the latest from the russian region of done ask where the civilian was wounded after the ukrainian army showed the center of the regions capital. let's take a look at the latest images from the scene. the attack had 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 and ukrainian attacks across the don't ask republic on saturday. the don ask and move on sk republics. as well as the hearse on and zapper, she regions are now officially part of russia following the signing of official documents by president. on wednesday, the historic unification comes after locals and 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 the referendum as a quote, illegitimate sham rushes. ministry of defense says they have evidence that ukrainian forces have been using informants to identify targets and include civility is rtp orchard on up spoke to a man who were going to places of mass gatherings to obtain a reward and now faces up to 2 decades in prison,

we should warn you that his report includes an interview with a person in custody who could possibly be speaking under duress, bribes and brainwashing are the favor tools of caves, intelligence agents on the russian home front in the dawn bass. they look for people eager to sell the lives of their neighbors for a thin wood of bills. dennis here is one of those who fell for the temptation. me a whistle. some uncle, i went up for a walk with my dog. i saw a guy, i asked him for cigarettes and he gave it to me. i talked to him and he offered me a job. i asked him what kind of job. he said nothing much. i just need addresses whether a mass gatherings of people, young. if i went to look and gave him the address, he went to check when he returned, he said that he was satisfied with everything and offered me the equivalent of

$80.00 for one address. but locations of russia's military excuse or supply depos were of no interest for this client. all he wondered, was where mass gatherings of civilians were in a town cut off from water and electricity supply. there can be only a handful of such places, mainly points of humanitarian aid distribution, whole piles of baby food, diapers and medicine. leave no questions as to what this place used to be. this sports arena was repurposed, it served as a major warehouse for humanitarian aid, where the whole town of several dentist flocked to because that was something that they badly needed and still badly need. but now it stands, whole destroyed and burned down to ashes by the ukrainian military. this is one of the 1st places obliterated by ukraine's artillery. shortly after denise submitted the information by then it had dawned on him already what he was responsible for

and who his mysterious contact was. he wasn't phased by the realization though, and stuck to his newly found blood business memo one after he gave me the money and left that was shelling at this address and i heard from people that civilians died . that then he asked for more addresses. i found a hostile, where civilians were given water and gave the address to him. and 2 days later, there was shelling there after he was interested in other addresses. and i gave him the address of the hotel where humanitarian aid was given out. a thick stench of ash is still very present in the air here. this is one of the places that the ukrainian military had destroyed off to getting an anonymous tip off. apparently came from some one who relocated to several minutes from western ukraine. it came from over there, but the locals here, they don't know why the man the foreman chose this place,

because according to them, the military, the russian soldiers, they have never been here. dennis hands tremble now as he faces up to 20 years in jail for state treason. they didn't shake. they didn't slip though when he was providing more coordinates, which entailed another deadly strike organ real. there was a strike over there. one unexploded shell is still stuck on the roof. then another strike came over there. the guy was sitting here, it was around 10 p. m. he was killed by a fragment. for the 1st time, dennis has the opportunity to look in the eye of a person. he marked as a target on caves artillery maps. as a play a short message, the victim paused with us. for salt, chew those people are scum. what else can be said about them? people rebuild the infrastructure and they keep destroying it. and it looks like the shelling come with help of informers over poor little it's too late. now.

there's nothing to return to. the ukrainian command has been systemically, targeting vital civilian infrastructure elements in this war, toontown. a mac is done of report seen from the dumbass r t. royal back stabbers thoughts was some us lawmakers are now calling saudi arabia over reorders move to reduce oil output following the opec plus decision. the u. s. has blamed the kingdom for rising living costs in the country, while the saudi minister of state says america itself is responsible for high prices and the reasons are nothing to do with crude oil supply. every kitchen table cost is going to go up, not down. and i realized costs are going up from food and i was able to bring gasoline down well over a $1.60, by his engine, not because of what the russians and assad issues, not finish the idea. the told you doing good 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. o pac plus opted to coil 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, who they allege are damaging washington's economic interests. this comes after years of the u. s. praising the kingdom as a strategic partner, as applying the country with large amounts of weapons. some have even called for the u. s. to withdraw military support from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, the o 5 plus decision has echoed in the european union as well. according to foreign policy chief joseph burrell. the decision to cut oil production was a response to the you plan to adopt

a price cap. this comes in brussels and allison, a package of sanctions on russia, which includes a price cap and further restrictions on the maritime transportation of russian crude oil and petroleum products. however, lot, amir warned earlier that russia would stop exports and cases where a price cap was implemented. host of rtp worlds apart, ox on a boy go told us more countries are pursuing their own interests going against us. influence. the white has already described this move 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 for your interest would be forced to 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 ignored. 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 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. mister has done everything to the alley 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 in the 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 blaming somebody. so it's, we are also very, very interesting times, unlike the in the united states that have its own strategic all reserves. and the

biden administration has been living happily when it's over the last year or the besides that reserve diminished by almost a 3rd from more than 600000000 barrels to some with about 400000000 barrels. and the vitamin ministration announce yet 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 some respite but the problem is that when you are emptying your reserves are on such a short term perspective, the time to pay for that will come and it will come very soon because those resorts 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 the democrats, when they will have to address that problem, a couple of months down the line,

not even a couple of years, a couple of months and adding insult to injury. joe biden himself is being marked over the opec production cuts after he was caught speaking on a microphone during his trip to florida. oh, okay. president says no one apps with a bite and good appears. opec plus has done just that. i mean, other than opec bicycles, china stairs, russia, et cetera. joe biden, no one the biden. opec. when you start begging, you know, the gulf states when you are beg, middle eastern countries have changed their already declared policies. it's an act of desperation. it's an act of short sighted foolishness. when the solution is literally right in your hand, the relationship in the us and gulf states has not been particularly good at any point in recent memory. we have regimes that are propped up by the united states,

but still resent the united states for their infiltration and meddling. so it's not that the that the relation has gotten considerably worse. they just weren't very good to begin with with bite and try to convince them to change their mind. it's really showing that he himself was unwilling to change his mind. all that would need to happen to end the fuel shortage is to get rid of all the sanctions that prevent american companies, individuals from buying fuel. if biden was simply change his mind, then he wouldn't have to beg saudi arabia to change their minds. burkina, faso ousted leader, has fled to the neighboring west african country of togo after a military coup last sunday force his resignation. one of the reasons for the uprising is said to be widespread disdain for the country's cooperation with former colonial ruler, france, the military overthrow. the government is the 2nd qu,

bertina also has seen and just 8 months, supporters of the new government 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 call in the country to step away from france and build stronger ties with other nations. 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 while tree, lee. it's from who's responsible. they better move back, but we will look for another partner. city, lepeu, glochelle, 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. are france claims to help us, but it's not true. somewhat. france is depriving us ruining us. they should leave our country. now. we need russia. no jobs, no money, no business. we are poor. i sort of it, we are unemployed,

and the whole day we have nothing at all to do. and i know 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 in the country. france denies any involvement in the events occurring since yesterday in burkina faso. the french forces camp has never had paul on re sand. dow grew to me, but stay there, nor has our embassy. the new government, led by 34 year old captain ibrahim trial, warri believes that france is helping the ousted leader. lieutenant colonel dunbar is believed to have taken refuge in the french base at cam boynton. 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 killed their heads of state ignites terrorism and fuels. wars and genocides, but gina fossil expected assistance and protection from france and his luck just between a fossil other countries in the region did 2. in the j. the sentiment is the same. there are anti french slogans because we demand the immediate departure of the ball came forcing niger, which is alienating our sovereignty and destabilizing the saw here. the rise of the islamic insurgency in the us a 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 a finger to help them with the security in the region. molly has several pieces of evidence that these flagrant violations of malin airspace have been used by france to collect intelligence for the benefit of terrorist groups operating in the cell

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 former french colonies have had enough, they have started looking elsewhere for new partnership in their fight for sovereignty and peace in the region. gobble, it had oddity enjoyed his back. that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour with bruton is the aggressor poon chose is war. today, i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions with mr. cole strane that i speak

with you more in the rebranding. all imports of russian oil and gas turbine and imposing these sanctions. i brush your has destroyed the american customers, boomerang bay, where you're suffering the, i mean they key metrics really hitting people in the pocket book. boys and girls was honest there. i see you using your, your router visit or not you. this is going to impose severe cost on the russian economy immediately and over time. as i stated that i'm there about it, but we have list for the social and then use that for now started a little bit. it's this all the rules, remember him that you know absorbed it. so to pickup is fixed body. how did show that 21st century is with the asians it. russia is also an asian country and we need to develop military.