but in fact, every, especially against russia, if the sanction they have imposed has shown as on the line how much they don't with with swim thing ties as russia becomes new delhi talk, oil supply, india is foreign ministers, set to visit moscow to further these bilateral relations with the u. s. mid term elections looming hold for just trust and election integrity has plummeted off to both sides, accused each other of trying to fill victory with as western countries push to use more electric cars. the africans are the ones doing the heavy lifting technique, those vehicles running, and people in the democratic republic of the congo se then miners are being exploited by the develop. well,

they came here with promises of changing our lives. but this is not what is happening on the ground with men and women benefit from the minerals and other countries. when our husbands are dying, no one cares about our situation with a very welcome to you is just 2 and 6 pm here in the russian campus. so you're watching aussie international with the latest world news update is great to have you with us. now russia has become india's top oil supply, taking conventional providers, that saudi arabia and iraq new trade figures, the merge prior to the indian foreign ministers visit to moscow on monday for talks with his russian counterparts. about trip comes a made a growing ties between moscow and new delhi. we some polls that show a majority of indians consider russia the country's most reliable part, the agreeing, but defense relations with moscow of vice will for the country. respondents also said that the bricks group of states, which includes india and russia,

is the most beneficial platform for realizing the country's global interests. ortiz rendon sharma brings, is more tindale's. foreign minister tells wizard to moscow could not have come at a more important time with the world grappling with major food an energy crisis doctor as j shanker is duty drip is aimed at expanding cooperation between the donations during a period of whilst global challenges. energy will be a major focus off this trip, especially since the g 7 has conform plans on pushing for the price cap on russian oil. the groups moore was aimed at cutting rushes revenue, but could potentially hurt in del supplies. that's because where sanctions against russia are left, deprived of russian energy, while other countries, including india expanded their trade with moscow. russia has now so passed in the us traditional dominance suppliers, saudi arabia and iraq,

as the chief supplier of its oil for any conversations around energy security between u deli and moscow are becoming increasingly more and more important. despite specials from the west, india bought a phenomenal 9 lack 46000 barrels of russian crude birdie in october. it's highest ever monthly total. i don't think it will be, it will be willing to look at its energy relationship with russia, particularly as it, as it is so important for india, political economy and needs. and it is so important for india, strawman, man and woman. but moscow and new delhi share more than just oil, both a brick spot nor, and beyond economic and cultural partnerships. they share a long history of defense corporation as in the else foreign minister, recently himself acknowledged. we have, as you know, a substantial in men trio from soviet and russian origin weapons. and dr. men tree actually grew for a variety of reasons. you know,

permitted shulty weapon systems themselves. but also because for a, for a multiple dick western countries did not supply supply weapons to india and such, corporations are not in your recent cell. we buy a new deli based think tank or f stress that russia husband, india, most reliable thoughts? no. since have gained independence and 1947, we did a new in which this question was us and the billing other countries have shifted their support for india. and depending on the circumstances, shane and b, i have had a relationship with spence back since independence and has been going on strong since then. j. shank goes with it amidst the shadow of the green conflict and its fallout will be a significant 1. 1 that the west and the world would be closely watching. runjun

sharma, r t. you, danny. moscow is again being accused of interfering in us elections at this time in the mid term race to kick off this tuesday. speculation is swirling in western media that russia is using both to target democratic candidates, voted distrust it is running high. 15 republicans have written a less a querying few $140000.00 on verified balance base, they were mailed 1000, pennsylvania. they were told that they lay to the states election results will now be delayed. moreover, trust in the election system among the u. s. public appears to be sinking to 71 percent of respondents to a new york time. sienna college poll said democracy in america is on the rise. and also those who pose preliminary survey suggests republicans are likely to win control over both chambers of congress. one of the parties members have already threatened to shut off the money top to ukraine,

to contribute to rachel most and investigates the outcome of this week's u. s. midterm elections could very well impact on europe's options in ukraine. if you look, for example, at the used pledged 18000000000 euros and funding to key for 2023. from the use 27 country collective. every pales in comparison to the $17600000000.00 already handed out by the u. s. as a single country. so is it any wonder that there's been a lot of talk on the republican side of the aisle about reeling in what's routinely described as a black check for ukraine, republican house, minority leader, kevin mccarthy, who could take over? how speaker nancy pelosi job in congress, if republicans went house majority dare to suggest recently that washington should not issue a blank check to ukraine, sparking fears among establishment figures on both sides of the aisle. so ukraine has obviously become a big wedge issue in this election. now, according to the latest wall street journal poll, taken just a few days ago, just 35 percent of republican voters want to send more aid to ukraine. and that's

compared to 81 percent of democrats. so just over half of all american voters support more aid for ukraine still, but that's definitely being reduced to quincy institute pull last month, for example, found that over half of them also want negotiations even if it means concessions to moscow. now is stony as former defense minister, who is now a member of the e. u. parliament is among european officials who are really worried about o g o v p victory. i sincerely hope i don't do it, but this is a wakeup call. i am absolutely convinced that europe is not doing enough. crating, president, climbers zalinski is constantly browbeating brussels, demanding that its cash flow to him, be more like a fire hose than the current trickle. and actually, the biden administration is apparently unfamiliar with european red tape because he can understand why that you is funding ukraine at such

a slow pace. that's according to western press report. so there's a big question of what europe would ultimately do if a republican lead washington lost interest or its ability to put most of this bill and where brussels would get the cash to pay any more of that bill. amid ongoing economic hardship induced by its own anti russian sanctions, it's all a being mystery. europeans are paying record of breaking prices for gas and electricity, as despite the futile efforts of governments to reduce consumer costs. according to the latest date, a european household gas bills have doubled with with electricity following the trend up by more than 60 percent. and off the ear, governments pledged 550000000000 euros to offset costs to connect to consumers. concern politicians have now resorted to an advertisement promoting energy consumption.

ah, some media outlets are attempting to promote lowering the energy consumption as well. the sun tabloid has proposed to use alternative methods to clean clothes, even going so far as to suggest their clothes don't need frequent washing as people can just use vinegar cuts russian gas that has obviously become an e u motto this year, but it seems the block is not very willing to abandon all energy imports from moscow, according to europe's leading news outlet, politico, the union has actually increased year on year and ports of russian liquefied natural gas by over 45 percent from january to september. let's chrysler to, i guess, the journalist option we're tansy now to discuss this further, i've seen nice to see. so despite numerous attempts by ear officials to help their

consumers, the price is still going up. i was your perspective on europe's tactics. best bar. well, there are so many serious elements to it, but the fact that the murdock newspapers at some is resorting to tell, telling british people not to wash as often i mean the phrase, the unwashed masses comes from that great dublin founder, conservatism edmund work. so it does have a history and richie snack in egypt to day, i suppose, a follower of book, so keep them unwashed. but i mean, obviously there are consequences for disease that learn anything else. and this is all going to get worse because the european union, it's sanctions don't kick him against all russian oil for december. that's the shed you and february for russian, oil based products. this all the while learned 95 percent of gas storage is full. so up the road actually from do you by abu dhabi lc conference in the past

few hours, there was a major oil changes. they're saying actually 2023 will be much worse than 20. 22 is a long term problem. and of course, social unrest is the predictions from most or all accept, say, goldman sachs, the bailed out firm that we should, i used to work at. i think they say actually, natural gas prices are going to go down and things are going to get better. and actually, if you're getting a colder is the holiday season approach is well, they look like it is a prepared to back track, a critic, the coating and sustainable economic policies. well, this all stems, i mean, some say from the 20 o 8 crash when most of the world began trusting other countries. britain, for instance, is a peculiar case because it destroyed its coal mining, clean gold technology, even industry on the altar of factors,

hatred of trade unions. they didn't want nuclear power, maybe because britain was a terror threat because it had been funding, arguably is the most terrorist organizations around the world. and so it was woefully unprepared. didn't even have read, scrapped and destroyed since home installation policy. this in a europe where in germany calls show great pessimism about the future. one in 3 according to one poor thing they come by christmas presents. but of course, it's much more serious for the vulnerable, the poor, the existing role noble and the poor as others sink into that category. there is no preparation for this, the altar that they sacrifice the european people to. if a washington d. c and the united states presumably believes to regard as the republicans or democrats ahead of this week's mid terms. that the hope is there will be a huge market for american gas and energy to replace that of russia. because i have

to say most of it is russian energy reserves are stored in the gas storage tanks. they're not going to be there according to their own policy. europe is thanks. ashley. what do you think about these, their advice they put on tv, encouraging people to cut their energy consumption to that? now they'll be effective. goals show in germany for instance, the germans don't think they're going to be very effective. and i mean, what is this a situation where people are being told to wash less and so on and to use less and g. it's literally a way of mitigating the doubling. maybe more than doubling profits of your company, but huge subsidies being given to them. while the great unwashed masses are being told, cut down on your electricity usage. he really has excellent mobile. 3rd quarter profits in the past few days, reaching more than happy. 20000000 pounds,

and i got to say one seo inevitably in the past few hours, b, p. that famous company, which in another guy's work to overthrow the government of iran, said the senior gonna do any. the reason energy is flowing through europe today at all is because europe is paying a higher price than china. so this is, this is the macro level context of then telling the poor's people on television adverts and billboards use less. britain hasn't so far gone down that farther adverts, because i think even the british government, such as it is the changes every other month, believes they would be a bit of a bit of it might catalyze more social unrest. and yet the curious thing is option despite the pledges to cut down on russian seal. and it turns out european countries have reportedly actually increased their important russian gas. this. yeah, was this all about?

well, they certainly successfully hid that from their publics. they ban this channel and all outlets. the descent from the ne, to prevailing view. yes, they are. i mean, if you're opposed to russia, saving the people who don't. yes. the money flowing into rusher is coming from nato nations in europe because they have to hide that from their publics because it would all unravel. and who knows? europe, somebody could realize that russia decision to go defend the people of doing yes. had some kind of rush, you know, not just some fairy tale villains and the marvel comic times like the villains as a means of comprehending the critical your political junk to me now or found either . so i was in and yet some west and critics continue to accuse russia of using its energy expose as a geopolitical weapon. most of course the we've denied that was your perspective.

yeah, i mean the russian, there is some government repeatedly saying ok, well let's make a deal over the energy. so it's clearly not a weapon. it's just the fact that the americans are telling european vessel states don't my russian oil don't buy russian gas, those governments into until they populations don't teach your homes. the wash is much and if you are very, very poor. i, gena, this afternoon with hands day many thanks for joining your program. if you see a reset to bound the use of gas guzzling engines and switch to electric vehicles, all the name of green energy. but people in some developing countries say they're being exploited to produce batteries. the europe, selectric cause is what locals are saying in a democratic republic of congo, which mines a central minerals for the west. plus y'all, number been western mining companies are working on our land. they came here with

promises of changing our lives by giving us good jobs. but this is not what is happening on the ground with us. besides taking our land for low prices, we don't have jobs and we remain poor. and now they're going, forcing us to leave our own land. we cannot accept this at all. do men and women benefit from the minerals and other countries when our husbands are dying because of bad conditions due to the lack of proper jobs in the big mining companies? no one cares about our situation. western countries should do more to change our situation because they're getting too much from our minerals. one for one, but my husband died while working in the mine and the mining company hasn't given anything, not even in order to help out often, children, i cannot even afford for them to eat properly. there's no way to send them to school at the see of the world's largest producer cobalt, which is essential to car batteries. however, critics, if they use green energy agenda,

say such batteries on so green off the world as they contain hazardous metals, which are hard to recycle and require between 6 and 12 kilograms of cobalt cells of electric vehicles predicted to increase tenfold worldwide in the coming decade independent analysts the alk attend save african countries need to change their mindset and start reaping the benefits of that own countries, which is buyers tend to put the rules on the table, but that's way african countries don't understanding that if you process and transform locally, you're not in a rush to sell your products for survival, that's exactly what's going to put the balance between east and wisdom. with some countries and africa, african convent classical are trying to localize the edition in africa as far as we will use to. so wrote back, especially when we're just actually wasting the value and the money of the continent. and now the process is being changed

a little bit. and the intention is to use more and more local direct to go on. i and a jade and trying to localize jobs and investments, and the additional locally made tectonic changes as how savvy as president has described the mass resignation of sub officials in kosovo, and protested what they call a discriminatory local law president. the church has blamed christina for the full out to describe the situation as difficult. this is neither the 1st no the last time that serbia has been attacked on the issue of course of a. we are certainly talking about major political, almost tech tonic changes. there is no end to the madness in pristina, and all of this is supported by 2 great powers over currency. a bit of a turmoil because the resignations officer been police officers for union. so

yesterday, summer on the refund of police off and police from our cost me to resign them, return their uniform here and decide that which is more and more important. 7th, the police officers from the administrative process got it, and also returned their uniforms in the day or so. as of yesterday, the border crossings are entirely controlled by serial binion police officers. and until yesterday we can't mix the throw. so you and serbians in the pos for the forces controlling the entries and the people going out from or someone forget. so as of yesterday there are basically no more serbs in the police are units in the role that is in causal police force and continued to leave other institutions such

as the do. so one such as the mayor also said they're resigning. so you don't have a local authority here in norfolk also, and it's like the almost all yesterday we submitted our resignations, but now i want to publicly return the mandates to you. you will like to this not christina. the police know, sit on a, we got together to send a message that enough is enough of the oppression of serbs and possible mental he, you, people elected us not pristina causal authorities. as always, the language accusations thing, of course, that sort of the russian proxy that are not willing to negotiate the sabbath fashion factor. and that's where i mean, they don't like, you know, the reasons that led the service to this really,

really hard decision. believe all the petition, so it doesn't matter of brushing enough to sit back. i'm going to go see a table to try to find some reasonable solution that would be a sample for both sides. but once again, the show is the, it's not interested in something like that, but in it more prefers, as it did in the past 4 states. so now unilateral decisions and imposed by both force life a political analyst alex on the package to discuss this further many thanks for joining us on the program. nice to see you as a little take on what exactly the set the trying to achieve by resigning from their post thing cost about well, this is not the 1st time that to serbian leadership and also wanting to resign because over the past few years and they haven't they been the serbian population of course or has been exposed to increasing abuse?

i disrespect for their rights and also none of what was agreed and brussels under the under the european union hasn't been carried out by christians. so you know, in the search of getting there, they're just feeling more and more threatened. no, the west is not paying attention to them. please to not is not, not only not paying attention to them, but they're growing increasingly bold and aggressive against the serbs and cause civil boston and north and south. so you know, indiana, they just thought they have no choice, especially because a few days ago, a priest king, a prime minister, i've been quality in berlin, said that the brussels agreement signed almost 10 years ago under the auspices of the european union. he doesn't recognize it and he doesn't have any intention of

carrying out priest in his obligations, a chief foremost among which is to establish this association of serbian municipalities so deserves and northern coastal just felt like that. they have nothing to gain anymore from being in these institutions. and this was a measure of desperation. how to how effect it was on the pace. okay, but do you think it will be effective for, i mean, can percentage of the place to serve officials with somebody in our life? no, i do that dent anxious will rise. definitely what, what, what says what has happened over the past couple of days since the serbs have resigned in the western ah, diplomats involved in this process. they've called on priest enough to postpone this awful registration of play or process. they were trying to

impose a republic of possible license plates on the service and they didn't have him wanted have anything to do with it. and also they, they're asking priest in at, to start carrying out its obligations to establish the association of survey municipalities so that something that they've gained and, you know, maybe they should have done this long time ago, but we'll see fish and i was gonna respond because you know, the west has always just dealt with preston extremely softly with kid gloves. it's just verbal pressure. i, you know, if they really wanted christner to do something in the west, can do it because priest in our, in on the coastal banners without western aid western support. they wouldn't exist for more than a month. was ws president. he's quoting get a tag tonic change and he also says that he had previously convinced the 2nd officials and caused by to avoid resigning on multiple occasions. so it was

a message to think it's trying to send now. well, he st in the same sort of message, meaning that he's exhausted his appeals to the serbian, to the serbs and possible, you know, as i said, and as he, as the president said, he, he is here dissuaded them before rama resigning. but now he can't, because you know, increased and now says openly that they have no intention of, of respecting what they signed more than 9 years ago. what choice do you have? so, you know, that's what he means by tectonic changes. so either a priest and i was gonna respect what it signed, either the e you is gonna enforce what was signed under its own guarantees or the brussels negotiating process is dead. and you know, then we go back to resolution 1244 on un security council, and that's

a whole different thing. because so far, over the past 10 years, the e u has been totally in charge of the negotiating process. and it's been totally, it's been a total flop. it's been totally unsuccessful. so, you know, this is a sort of a crossroads. how do you see things going them? i mean, when it comes to the public reaction, how far you think it will go to protest will get much bigger in what sort of demands do you think we could see from them? well, the serbs have their basic demand, meaning postponed to solve, you know, forced change of license plates and start respecting your obligation to form the association of serbian municipalities. those are their main math. without that, they're not going back to the, to the institutions. they've made peaceful prop protests. ah, if priest doesn't do anything. and then there's going to be something, there's going to be a power vacuum in the north of north of cost of all. and what's gonna happen if

nothing happens if the west can't. busy first priest in it to do anything. then i probably the serbs in the north of course, organize, establish their own institutions, their own political institutions, their own security set ups. and they're going to have support of serbia because young. what else can, can they do? so today we have some on use in the sense that supposedly the ha l x mission idea or p and union mission and close the walls along with an unmet the un mission and close so that they're gonna take control of the police stations in the north but even if they do, you know, you still have the courts, you still have local, municipal municipalities. you know, you have public works and none of that, you know, none of that can be filled by, by foreigners. so we're going to have a vacuum and the service self organized fish than

a doesn't do anything. meaning if they're western sponsors don't make them fulfill their obligations. do you foresee western countries getting involved to help mediate a peaceful solution? while so far, it's been 10 years, they haven't done it. what they've done actually better with a finger to make form to perform its own obligations. but what they've done is give support to preach to now, you know, the 1st they recognize them as an independent state, you know, totally against resolution flow 40 for dental. they're also helping them build an army, which is also against resolution $1240.00 or so. you know, so far it's like there is a western client, it's the same as with the machine and we see how things turned out in ukraine. some was do the, the west takes a really sharp turn, which i don't imagine happening where you couldn't have a worsening situation. also,

i must say that the western powers are using this coast of christ crisis to us, put additional pressure on the government in belgrade to impose sanctions on russia because, you know, it's well known, serbia is about the only state and, and in europe that's resisting. joining the sanction russia. so this is also, i think, being really cynically used by the west to get serbia to impose sanctions on russia, turn away from both russia and china and maybe even join natal pasco analyst the alex on the package. many thanks for joining does. i'm at the international really appreciate your time. pleasure. as always, and thank you for joining us here as well. plenty more news updates on our website r t dot com and we'll be back in 30 minutes with the.