a shiny your get me when you buy, when you sit on with that, buy mia? a top headlines right now here one r t, at least 4 civilians are killed and 10 injured, including children as ukrainian forces. talk at a fairy crossing area and the huff song reach and it's all according to local officials. the one survivor describes the time i'm sure of what i saw, the military was not there. it was a column of civilians, just people who wanted to evacuate from the city and go to a safer place. also, no agreement on any gas price cap is e u. leaders clash over the deepening energy crisis with both germany and hungary up posting and attend by that block to create

a so called unified policy. also in the program, i protested tons deadly. and the african country of chat, leaving at least 50 people dead on hundreds injured. it's off the police report to lead use lethal force against the crowds opposed to the front to back up with . so i'd into friday night. we go here at moscow just after 7 pm here on the russian capital. this is all to you. so for people who are being killed and 10 injured, including children, when a fairy crossing point in the heart of certain regions came on to fire overnight by ukrainian forces. this is according to local officials. now authorities say 12 us supply to high mileage. rockets will find the area with 11 of them, reportedly intercepted by russian ed defenses. a p a confirmed the night time attack, but says no civilians could have been hon because it could. he was in place.

ukraine also claims that could only of hit russian soldiers disguised as civilians . however, the statement is very much contested by some of the survivors. this has been needs us. i'm in the hospital right now and everything is fine. take a look at the shard. they took out of me, there was a miss house strike by the ukrainian army on the antonio sky bridge. we stood with a column of journalists and waited for the crossing. every one could hear the air defense systems working and got rather used to it. i was sitting in the back seat and heard an explosion. i felt glass falling on me and a colleague pulled me out of the car and covered me with his body. that saved me. he's also fine, but i'm sure of what i saw. the military was not there, it was a column of civilians, just people who wanted to evacuate from the city and go to a safer place. but one store, i remember the defense is firing. my colleague asked me why i was hugging her,

but i was trying to cover her with my body. she was injured, but she's been treated now. unfortunately, are edited died. we just wanted to get to the other side and continue all work. there were not soldiers. we don't carry guns, we didn't record anything on the bridge. we didn't have any duties that we wrote in a coven. unfortunately, we were caught by the shelling. we want to stop doing our job and shot our mouse. there was ukraine's botched efforts will keep telling the truth. so the waterway is actually being used to transport civilians from the city of hudson, as the nearby bridge is impossible due to ongoing shelly, a local authority say the fairy crossing is continuing to spite the attacks. now the plan in question intends to move around 60000 residents from the right side of the den, up a river to the left bank authorities announced the start of the process on wednesday, saying it should last around 6 days was the moment the local authorities have come up a were the a number of people who were killed during this attack by the cranium military at

the moment. 4 people are dead ends. at 13 people are wounded and they're being treated at nearby hospitals at the moment, according to local authorities. ukraine fired at least as well of us made. hi martha, multiple rocket systems. 11 of those have been intercepted, but so one of them had hit the target at this very crossing local officials are also saying that this particular rocket was also filled with cloth for munition, in order to maximize the civilian casualties and to maximize damage as well. now key, if indeed had confirmed this strike however, they said that no civilians could have been killed or wounded in this attack because it was a curfew hour. um, and they also said that those people who were killed could have been a russian soldiers dressed as civilians. well now would you have already

a confirmation that indeed there were civilians that were killed among them is a russian tv producer. there are also people from the local press corps as well. local authorities are saying that said this particular point is all always full of civilians at any given time of day or night. let's have a listen. radio boldness that knowledgenet glitched with the opposite side may claim there couldn't be civilians as the curfews imposed. but everybody knows that after the bridge was damaged, the summer the people spent all night at this river crossing. moreover, while curfews imposed people are sleeping in their cars near the crossing, they are in the queue and they have no other option. this crossing is only for cars, so all the victims were sitting in the cars. of course, there are huge queues now as everybody wants to leave the city, fearing along with shillings terror attacks by ukraine and even possible flooding in case hoff sky. hydro electric power plant is hit by guided missiles and is partly or completely destroyed. now this is not the 1st and unfortunately not the

last i am that ukraine is that are getting civilian population and we're all doing it successfully as well. according to a russian military command, nato had been a long demanding from the ukrainian authorities to continue their offensive no matter the cost to where it says civilians or civilian infrastructure. i was speaking just a little bit earlier in the program with a sociologist and human rights lawyer, martin tulsa, how he says that key f must have known about the ongoing civilian mass evacuation. yes, so if you look in the past, we have seen this, the government didn't respect the humanitarian international law. the military and international law says clearly to billions of the civilian population, enjoy general protection from the dangerous post by acts of law in international conflict. and they may not be target of military attacks. and in case of doubt,

the person or group of persons could say that that has not to be attacked is the population remains. if the 1000000 population, even if you do us, the most of them who are not civilians so that you train hand side must have known that there is about to ation. and they must have known that the has been civilians . they start not general release short lot or a rocket effect. the rocket, which we sent through in that region, because that was the risk of the thing, civilians and kipling civilians. so international you do to you monetary law. this is a walk, right? if you could have your company today, a summit of e u leaders has failed to uphold a united front on the decision to impose

a price capital russian gas with both germany and hungary refusing to rush into an agreement that apparently has no official plan. the e u commissions proposal on the gas price cap is like going to a bar and telling the bar tender you want to pay half price for your beer. not going to happen. customers can reduce energy prices, only diversification and competition can. and that is the leader to that well in the night last night, desperately want everyone but you know, especially russian president, why recruiting to retain from its energy crisis. meeting is the everyone is united . but anyone listening to what victor or von said there, for example, can tell that there's really no consensus among all of these members states. and the idea of a christ kept that you can dictate to the world how much they can charge you for energy is exactly the kind of arrogant, counterproductive ideological fantasy that while you'd expect from the block to the point where some of them like hungry and germany are just not waiting around for

this brain dropping to fully ripened, but other than their unity propaganda. already have no actual results report from their meeting except to that they agreed to keep working on any rank you european council, president sharp. michelle e, you council has reached an agreement on the energy you didn't see. and so there is a prevail agreed to work and measures to contain energy prices for households and businesses. sounds like you're celebrating the fact that they simply agreed to keep meeting, you know, we should all try that next time at work. that's what accomplishment therapy and citizens are taking for pools here. pretty much are struggling under crushing inflation and energy belt and warm fuzzy feelings of european unity aren't going to power their heating or put food on their tables when they really need to do so today. not no week, non a few days or whatever else. these are we can get around to working on this problem . next, unity is not going to power the german industry. that feels that you either,

which is why germany isn't waiting around for a block, why pollution? and had already decided to throw 200000000000 euros out the problem just to keep the country afloat, but french president emanuel mac whole does not like germany is handling its own sovereign affairs. i think our role is to do everything for that to be european unity and for germany to be part of it. this is how i see my function in my role. i think that is not good for germany of europe to isolate itself. the sphere is that its country to go their own way and start doing whatever they want to deal with this crisis caused by brussels on policies. then risk completely deregulating the european common market. it's a bit late for that though brussels impose the sanctions against its own interests, demanded adherents and unity of its members states, and then left them defend themselves while they figured out what to do about it. beyond yelling at people how to dress and shower to save energy or pay better yet, just don't use energy at all. as european commission vice president cron timmerman

now just saving energy, not using energy is the cheapest energy, obviously. and this is not just something that is discussed between between here i'm, i'm not trying to, to convince you because i don't need to, i know you, you agree with me, but it's something that i hear everywhere in europe now. yeah. not using energy certainly is the cheapest energy. so the bottom line here is that still really every country for itself and every citizens for himself or herself and paying the bills that are piling up while the european liter figure out when they connect it around the champagne and celebrate their unity. so good to have you with us for this friday program here will not see germany is facing an almost constant increase in producer prices, which for 2 months in a row of written by a record 45 percent year on year. this producer price index,

it basically it keeps track of goods and services. so by manufacturers, i'm producers on the whole sales market. now let's be clear about this. what's measured is the speed of the price rises and this speed has been increasing. ever since the start of last year, the dynamic show it's energy prices that have been mainly responsible for the surge and producer costs, meaning the increase in energy prices have been the most rampant, while other products demonstrate a more steady rise. well, let's learn more about this right now. joining me here in the studio is ralph t niemeyer, basically that the chairman of the german opposition group for german sovereignty and constitution of variable. welcome to thank you for joining us here at asi international. ralph, you heard the numbers just now talking about essentially the rate of inflation and also that of the speed of inflation as well. these days are let us break this down ralph into, into layman's terms. how bad is the current economic situation in germany right now?

well, thank you very much for having me 1st, but i would say it's more of a structural crisis. now we look at the distraction and may be recall at the d industrialization. very that a straight thing through germany right now. do you industrialize, how do you, how do you explain that? what do you mean by the? well it's, i was had structural problem that resulted maybe from, from the financial crisis, from 2018, 2000 and not all the way back to 2008. you're saying that started then? yeah, i observed at that time as a brussels correspondent, how the creator bubbles, huge bubbles of a trillion or 10 trillion euros that are hanging over our heads. now when we talk about inflation, we have to think, what does it mean? it's not only depriving paper and just procreating people from, from their earnings and savings, but it also means somebody is gaining. so we saw during the pandemic, for instance,

like in the financial crisis, we saw a huge increase of income on the upper side. you mean, like, you know, the, the big surgical companies and the, well, it is and banks and the banks as well all day. but the 1st ones that got rescued by mrs. merkel and the european stability mechanism as they called it in those days. and she said at that time, in an interview to me, and i asked her how many more banks need to crash before someone shops down this casino, she said, well actually she was forced to do that. otherwise something bigger would happen that she could not control. so know, think of all the depths that we created in the years, 200820092010 these that published. and now bursting and raining down onto the goods market that also fueled inflation. but hold on us, i just just can jump in here. ok, so i understand as well me, it's one thing to go back to 2008, 2009. and these debt control mechanisms and saving the banks and all that. but it wasn't long ago we had, as you mentioned, the whole coven crisis. they were banks at the time,

central governments printing huge amounts of money as well. so we now seeing the cumulative effect of the past 1215 years now exacerbated by covered. yeah. well, it is actually, and i think they used to cope with that me as a cover up for 2 things. first, for the collapse of the economic system, let's call it the capitalistic system is going down at the moment. it's the 4th time that you 3 and now is be the heat. sorry. you think the powers that be know there's a collapse in the system coming? well, they may be desperate to do something that they think they can rescue their system . but apparently i don't see that they can rescue that because too many doubts cannot be paid. so you have to do a hair cut. that means you have to cut some the know it's most stupid to cut down the real economy. and to have people, businesses, s m, a's and industries producing industries kept down. this is what they force us to do

now. and of course, with the energy crisis that is looming since several months. now we know that we have huge energy costs because of the war of which other people called special operations. but we have both sides of some interest and the interest from the american side to is probably to rescue their capitalistic model. so they do it at the cost of ruining our german and european economy. now hold on a sec. ralph, how are you? what's the connection here? how are you saying that america is happy to do well at the cost of the german and european economy? what are you implying? because then they to deal with sanctions as a totally different one than ours. we had at the beginning of the mr. biden. tell mr. charles and the white house that he has raised to stop not stream to pipeline. at the same time, mr. biden said he would not import any oil from russia anymore. a few weeks later

in june, he met. so you saudi prince in riyadh, and he bought a huge stock of oil, that saudi arabia is getting from russia. so they are circumventing down rules, but they impose them very strict on, on germany, we are not sovereign, that is my problem here. hold on a 2nd. so we are not suffering, that's the problem. so if you're not suffering, then who's the one holding the reins? well actually as the americans do you really think? so if we say that we're not see people pounds all over us calling us conspiracy theorist. i mean, you've heard all the stop before, but you're saying to me that german is not sovereign. yeah. and since august, 2nd 1945, we are waiting for a peace treaty. and then in 1990, we got unified, east and west germany after the collapse of the bill involved. that would have been

the time to close the trapped of the 2nd world war by a peace agreement. right. and i spoken with president gorbachev to salvage union at that time and i asked him, wouldn't that be the right time? no. and he said, oh, yes, we soviet union, we offer that. but the americans wouldn't want that. so here you go. we still have, i have many american friends, don't get me wrong. i loved them. but i had my problems with americanism, but imperialism, imperialism had these a look at us as not as allies. we look at them as allies, but they look at us like as a colony closing date. this is something that putin has said, you know, either you or a friend of america or you're essentially a vessel state or you're a problem child in the, in the global family. you say it when, when old was fighting and the americans were fighting many was especially under the normal monopoly piece. l'oreal mr. obama. they started was that nobody else would

have done probably, but that was in syria in libya. color brings, well the revolutions are sprag is that happened in his ideas of the presidency we see is done by to german city of ramstein. they have the air base and they, they conduct for geo political reasons. and for satellite connection raisins they are conducting all the wars that they are fighting by drones around the world. they are fighting them from germans island. i was said the germans, we are peaceful. we had vowed that never, ever. should there be war coming from german soils, or perhaps not the problem, ralph? because you know, the military industrial complex. it's got so many politicians and it's back pocket . so they've got stocks and shares in these big military industrial, complex companies. whether it's, you know, the, well, i could name would be a systems as well. lots of people, skunkworks, you know, all these other ones too, which is just going back quickly. it's interesting how you mentioned that,

you know, that, that had genamin side of it all and then and imperialism as you called it. but what about this? i mean, we'll come, we'll come back to germany a moment, but, but the multi polar world right now, but the read that really is both thing in many, many parts of the well you're seeing or some a saying, a shift and power that's going eastwards in the world today, if that is the case, then washington can't be pleased with the current state of affairs. now it also goes southern ways because we see brazil. we see many african nations, not only south africa, but many other african nations awakening and say, listen, we also need to do something for ourselves and not the colony. and so i saw last week at the energy conference in moscow, and i saw many african leaders who are coming to, to shake hands with mr. newton and you know, they don't isolate russia, there was no isolation. apparently they were even told don't do the photo all with the russian president avoid letting that happen,

but they were getting him and i know that it was, it was appalling. but it, you know, it's nice to see that people can think for themselves, and that's my point where i say, i don't need anybody to tell me what we and germany have to do. ok, reset. sorry for the boss that we had started, but i say we have to come to a conclusion. we cannot always do what others are telling us because we are ending now again for the 3rd time in 100 years, in a situation where we don't want to find us sending arms to a party that is in conflict with the russian federation. i mean, how bad can it be? it's 70 ideas. no, but how, but help bad. can it get ralph? because if you think back to the e. u foreign affairs minister, joseph burrell, and just the past week or so he's been, he's been making some pretty prophetic and pretty doomsday scenario statements. he's been talking about black swan not just one black one,

but he's been talking about a whole flock of black ones. he's, he also said the other day that we always feel that certain things might happen in the world. we didn't think they would happen. now they are happening, but he said, what we didn't realize was that these changes are happening so quickly. what does he mean by that route? well, maybe that we have to realize that for instance, german export to china has increased by 27 percent in the last 12 months, as well as it has decreased by 29 percent towards the united states of america. which is our natural trading partner number one or used to be. so you see the shift, the economic shift, and geo politics being reflected in this crisis that we see at the moment, the war that the americans fight and ukraine military wise against russia. they also fight in economic way against us. germans. i feel this is it. so this is, this is, you've got this kinetic conflict in ukraine where essentially as many would agree

as a proxy war between nato countries and russia that the staging ground, the very unfortunate staging ground is, is ukraine. but there, there are much bigger implications right here. so you've got the flashpoint in ukraine, but the world itself ralph is in flux at the month. yeah, we all have to regroup, be, have a situation where we all have to come to our senses and have to see where do we stand, what do we want to do? and of course, the right to self determination for every nation is becoming an issue. now, because as i mentioned, african nations who never had that true independence. i mean, also the european africa agreement is not the very fair partnership agreement. they call it e p a. that's not very fed like neo colonial. so i can't blame african lead us now for not going full and say, oh, listen, hang on a 2nd, we rather cut own deals and we don't mind. now, mister putin, we go and we talked to him. you saw that when, when the prince of saudi arabia,

okay. he's from a rich country. when he came and, and said to, to put in that he will do the deals with him directly and not sell to the americans anymore. mr. biden was i'm to be to same night and he said, oh, now i'm very disappointed. that's right, and i, i have to look elsewhere. i think he will go to venezuela again. you will hear well, morrow, now to speak times already. oil. well, it's very heavy from fun, whether it needs to be refined to barber heavy crude oil. don't have it right. stay ready. such a good point and i wish we had more time for it. but when you talk about saudi arabia and africa, let's talk about the bricks. riyadh wants to join the bricks. you've got the ceo of course family grouping. well, you've got saudi arabia that wants to move to national currency with china for the energy trade. russia and china already making those moves. what does that mean? it means by petro dollar. ralph, this is not no time at all, but i would just ask you if you were to address our view as right now,

and you want to give them a full cost or even a warning as to what the immediate short term holds for the future. as we know it, what would you say to the person who's watching this program right now, where we have to and was wherever they are. this is number one, so we have to talk to each other and that can be a reason not to talk to each other. had really not talked to the soviet union. during the darkest times in the seventy's. we would not have the unification of my father that ralph named maya beautifully said that the chairman of the job and opposition group for german sovereignty and constitution, a great privilege having you with us. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me. thank you. thank you for joining us here. we are into national, the latest protests of a deepening political crisis and the african country of chad have left as we understand, at least 50 people dead, more than $300.00 wounded off the security forces reported use lethal force to break up the crowds. i should warn you some of the following images you might find

disturbing. the countries been on the military rule since last year, when the president was actually killed while visiting troops. a protest of rage since it was announced earlier this month that the army would remain in power for 2 more years. meanwhile, the country's former colonial power of france has condemned to violence, but denied any connection to the crisis. calling the situation, quote, chad's internal affair gnawed over now to r. i forgot, correspondent, cut up all attack, leave taking us through more details of this crisis that is continues to unfold. in chad. this has been a country in turmoil following the death of it's for my leader, a man who ruled with an ironclad fist really miss that edris debris. he passed away while he was on the front line of a military offensive and operations fighting the rebels in that region. now as you

know, chad is a very strategically important country for western countries, but particularly for france, it is a former colony. but ever since it got its independence in 1960, the country has not really enjoy did the fruits of what would be a democratic states. mister de b has been in charge of that country for 3 decades. and in that time, he has used his strong military and security apparatus to quell any resistance that challenged his authority. but following his death in april, the 2021, his son mohammed, debbie, or more popularly known as mohammed coca, took over the as the head of the transitional military government. now this government has pushed back on the original, agree to date that the 20th of october would be the day when the transition ends and en asha

a democratic rule. now what has not been said largely is that that was pushed back by mohammed's debbie. rather, he was pre pushed the date back for the democratic dispensation to october 2024. now for opposition parties, civil society as well as general cheddie. and this was not a palatable decision. and the particularly might, yesterday on the capital city 2 boys dead. and as a symbolic way of saying that they deserve the right to choose their own leader in their own governments. but i really think that what really stirred the pot was when the all testers took to the offices of the national union for democracy and renewal, which is the political party of the current leader of the transitional government to mister sel, ark absorber. and upon setting their allied, that's when really things intensified. but deliver, remember here, chaired still remains one of the poorest countries in the world. in fact,

according to the u. n. is the 5th poorest country in the world, and there has not been any kind of sovereignty, even post independence from france. that's always been a sense that the country has been ruled almost by satellite from paris. and there has not been a single ruler and leader in that country who has not done so with the blessing and support of paris. now for france to come and deny its involvement here. considering the economic power it wields in that country, as well as the political clouds that it continues to enjoy. and the military exercises that its been part of in that country, france cannot deny a complete responsibility. they are at least culpable by dead best. they are just as guilty as the transitional government. now, the former, the former foreign minister of that country, who now happens to be the

a you leader, miss thumb mussa fucking. muhammad tweeted that he sees this as a suppression of people's rights to demonstrate and called former cessation to the violence and end restoring of peace, nor at covering all corners of the globe. here from moscow and archie, international. great pleasure having you with us. we are back soon with lulu for the show, the ukrainian people what the soviet parties and stood full and who was actually fighting the invaders. cedar cough fuck was ordered to conduct rain strategy grade all the way to the co pay the mountains. during one such incursion, they destroyed a large supply of oil along with the oil fields that provided them up with fuel cup like school.