just a moment, just to see, did you see the studio both? there's no room you lation says diesel. you don't both. ah, breaking news on all t international ukrainian officials say multiple cities across the country have been hit by miss scott targeting energy sykes and needing to widespread blackouts. also this hour while the west to push it to ukraine agenda most of the world once they pay the full solution. that's the message from russia as foreign minister at the own. go in the g. 20 summit on nato's chief ukraine to keep fighting on the battlefield. but some u. s. officials, according to the pace told,

saying k as cannot beat russia buying military me with very welcome to you from all of our team here in moscow. this is alta international with the very latest news update. it's great to have your company this. our ukrainian officials now confirmed that keith has been targeted by miss styles with strikes, also reported in several other regions across the country. ukraine's president's phase 85 miss selves were launched by russia. local authorities and multiple cities claim that infrastructure lights have been hit and the mayor of care has announced that half of the ukrainian capital is currently without electricity. blackouts have also been confirmed by forties and other major cities, while russia has not yet commented on these latest developments. moscow has previously said, however,

that it targets ukrainian military and energy sites in order to degrade the country's armed forces. well, let's bring in a guess. now to discuss this, but let's close to live to form a pencil and senior security policy analysts. michael belief, michael, many, thanks for joining us on the program. so what do you make of this latest wave of strikes on ukraine, which the countries officials have called unprecedented? what could be strikes the aiming to achieve? well, i think there are warnings to you, the landscape, and against this backdrop, of course, you have the to the, into the heads of the intelligence services, both of the united states and russia meeting and turkey to discuss what i heard about 2 weeks ago was an overture from moscow that they would like to have a cease fire and to, and to have talked to begin. and i think that this may be a warning to zalinski who continues to hesitate and, and who heaps on other conditions or even wanting to have a cease fire to that,

that his infrastructure is, is, is in peril. and that it could be the beginning of, of a much larger campaign of, of what of a winter effort to do to take, take it back at the altogether. so i think that moscow sent him warnings on the one hand, but also trying to give the united states and the allies a chance to convince zelinski to sit down and start talking. this comes of course as the g 20 summit has carney on the way and bali. do you think that this will affect the direction of talks in bali? no, i don't think so. bali was for other reasons and and ukraine and was just an aside. it's having some effects upon mr. lab ra personally, but i think that there are other issues at bali to discuss

ukraine is i think there's a lot going on behind the scenes right now with respect to ukraine. and i think that, that the united states needs to get to to lensky and tell him to start sitting down and, and having a discussion. well that the thought in, from the vitamin iteration as well, we'll leave it up to the landscape is which is call. but you have the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who is new sounding more like the secretary of state by the same we should have the discussions and blink and who's a near conservative very, who really push this along with other near conservative then the by the ministration due to not only overthrow ukraine initially back in 2014, but also to push this agenda to isolate russia is quieter about all of this and they want to they,

they would like to have our zalinski pursue regaining of any territories. but the europeans, the united states, the american people, and then now what, what we've seen in the elections from and the possibility of the house going republican, the is, the assistance may be drawn up. come january. i come back to these like his striking moscow's repeatedly, been saying that they specifically targets ukrainian military and energy science in order to degrade the country's armed forces. doesn't look like that. strategy has been effective sofa. i think it will be because the there is talk and zalinski is beginning to wonder. well, maybe he should consider all of this. it's having it. so it's impact. i think that it was the lensky doesn't finally do it. i think they were going to see the winter offensive begin once once it's cold enough. but, but if you're,

if you're knocking out infrastructure and you're hitting the military targets that leaves him with not too much at hand to, to waits a continuous conflict. and the united states has already told him that they're having increasing difficulties in and continuing the logistical support and without actually going into a full full time military production at home. and there is no basis or national security imperative that the american people see to do that right now there. russia was never the, never the threat to the, to the united states or to europe as nato has been to russia. so i think that people are really wondering what is this thing all about. and i think that it's more of a geo strategic vendetta that the united states,

particularly biden and victoria newland and company. have the other near cons when, when you have our own military chief calling for discussions, he sees that this is going nowhere, it doesn't accomplish anything. and there's no strict geo strategic advantage to it . and as you know, the previous borrowers of russian missile starts on ukraine came in response to last month said the bombing at the crimean bridge. so it makes you think, what, what kind of sparked these latest strikes, whether it is a tit for tom's it's, i think it's a to, to encourage mr. zelinsky to start listening to his, to his mentors, through his handlers in the, by the administration who are, are now suggesting that there be these discussions. i think it was very, very significant. that the head of cia and the russian intelligence service came together and actually met that that's quite significant. that tells me that there's

an interest to try to get this thing working and try to come to a conclusion. rather than just to prolong this thing indefinitely. but zaleski has got to come around, but it's also imperative that the, by the ministration start putting that pressure on very quietly but firmly that this is, this has got to stop. and people are going to continue to support the, at the level that they have as it is between now and january. what i think is going to happen the biden administration, because it's still predominantly all democrat, is going to try to push another $50000000000.00 military package through if they can get it. but that's going to be the last for raw when it comes to that kind of funding further, it's money we don't even have for that matter. but, but at the same time where we're, where we're the logistical support come. the fact that the chairman himself has his

intervene and made comments about continuing this unabated is significant because he signally that even the united states does not have the logistical support and surplus that it used to have prior to the prior to the ukrainian crisis. michael, to what extent could such strikes, encourage or push ukraine to really sit down and talk and try to negotiate the facebook with russia? well, if you're, if you don't have any more water, you don't have any more food and your, your electricity is. busy knocked out and your supply lines are being interrupted that that should be a very tell tale sign that the, the message is coming in loud and clear and, and the ukrainians are not going to be get and do not have the, the level of support. it's not continuous that they think it's and if they think it's endless, it's not. i think that and where and political messages are being sent from the

united states to that effect. and it's, it, it, the, by the ministration needs to be a little more firm, as i pointed out, that to on the landscape to accept that. and to come to terms to, to have a, sit down with, with the russians and, and work work things up, settle for half a loaf rather than nothing but they speaking to form a pentagon, senior security policy analyst, my colleagues, michael, always a pleasure. many thanks for sharing your insight with us. thanks so much bubble. overshadowed by growing tensions, the t 20 summit opened in indonesia on tuesday. the road is watching to see if leaders can agree and closing joint statements as divisions deepen over the conflict in ukraine. the

most of the world has not. so i did with the west on the ukraine, conflicts pass the message from the russian foreign minister, his leading moscow's delegation of the g. 20 summit and barling correspondence, maria phenomenal is that for us? so many expected this year's d 20 to be tough for russia ahead of the global gathering here in indonesia is bali longdon for example. sad that the venue could be used to confront moscow and call out who to also we expected to see some extra moves towards even deeper isolation, both political and economic of moscow. that was the german tense was appeal again before this summit officially started on the u. s also had plans to turn this event into an anti russian platform. it's picking up the press conference that he gave at the end of the 1st day of the 20 here, a foreign minister, law grove, sad that's far from everybody's ready to support this rhetoric or to push in for

a story. and the answer is very simple. no one except the west and it's close to satellites joined the anti rushes sanctions. it is impossible not to touch on this topic because the west makes a priority to fro the ukrainian situation into any discussion. for 3rd world countries calling for a peaceful settlement for agreements, they know perfectly well with this processes hindered by ukraine, which is legally been negotiations with russia. and i have to say, we're heard a lot here proving that the indonesian president, who is the cost of the j 20 summit, has asked the western leaders to tone down their rhetoric against russia. well, china said that russia too important to be excluded from global former, it's only for years we support russia and it's where the role in the g 20 summit, russia has strong influence in various spheres of cooperation of the world's community. no one dares to deprive russia of its true right to participate in international multilateral negotiations. it seems that the razor division within

the west itself, we more more often hear words such as peace and negotiations from different west and politicians and officials. the view now seems to run out of sanctions imposed on russia, had a chance to ask for mr. la rog, whether we actually can take this as an official shift and if so, what could we expect? let's take a listen gentle shop at georgia. you never know what's going on in someone else's mind. short periods of mutual understanding with the european union evaporate quickly. just a day, i had a brief conversation with president micron, reaffirmed his intention to maintain contact with vladimir potent to find some kind of agreement and resolve the whole situation as he put it through force. i told him once again, all the problems are on the ukrainian side, which categorically refuses any negotiations and put forward obviously, unrealistic conditions such are inadequate in this situation. agrees. the man intrigue of this year's day 20 was and still remains whether hates members will be

at all able to come to a consensus over the final declaration as the group which brings together 19 of the world's major economist gloss the you is torn apart by internal divisions over how to approach russia, ukraine conflict, the document is to be signed on wednesday instead of a lover of russia's. foreign minister said that some western countries wanted this document to be politicized. and they wanted to include condemnation of russia's special military operation in ukraine on behalf of the entire group. that would mean rushing, clued in, in that as absurd, of course was indo china. saudi arabian brazil refused to move and they refused to accept this condemnation. so now we have to wait for the end of the summit here to see what the final edition of the declaration will look like. washington steps off his efforts to persuade more countries to acts against russia,

key american, pardon that the u. e. has refused to take sides according to the arab countries presidential adviser, the u. a. he has no interest in choosing sides between major powers. indeed, that is the central principle that we will not under any circumstances, sacrifice our sovereignty. darby is an important partner of washington in the gulf region, with 5000 american troops now stationed in the emeralds. however, several us democrats and congressmen have cooper those soldiers to be pulled out from the u. a. as off to the opaque truss group, which includes the emirates agreed to slash its oil output, which washington has spoken out against. this comes his days after the washington post published an article fighting classified us intelligence documents, claiming that average abi has been met. link in american politics and accusing the our country activities with them blink as with ambling espionage. the u. a denies

the accusations and say that the influence of the us is a product of decades of cooperation and diplomacy. when it's not discussed this with on a rather chan, noise for mac, dean of the school of international studies at jo. a hollow, never university. many thanks for joining us on a program. it's great to see you. so what do you make of the you a refusal to take sides in this global power struggle with the u. a now i think is firmly part of the trend towards the polarity and strategic autonomy. meaning they have to make their own choices. they don't want to be part of any developing blocks. and they will do transaction with whichever side benefits them. and they can see that it's an irreversible system of multiple lo world. and that's where they're going along with

the rest of the global. so what do you think this situation say it's about washington's influence on it's our life, including the way, i mean, what sort of shift are we seeing here when washington had a very strong influence on account of 2 things. one is because in is of course that they gave them protection and security very often this was constructed because of the kind of conflicts in, in west asia, through the united states used to come out as an arbiter. but actually, it was also provoking conflicts. and the 2nd was the fact of the petro dollar, when in their 70, on $7374.00, they moved debate the us debate from the gold standard, and instead offered to a saudi arabia for that, that oil would be invoiced wouldn't be in dollars. the consequence was that the u.

s. was benefiting and was able to negotiate and haven't a say in almost every oil dean. so all of opec until recently was thought of this because of the saudi influence. but now with china and russia and others offering to buy oil even in also currency and buying significant amount of oil, they have a choice. so this is precisely the issue of exercising choice of agency of autonomy. and that is the reason for this choice of multi polarity strategic autonomy, which often operationalize in this kind of multiple out. do you think we can read into the timing of that us media report, which accused the way of meddling in american politics? there's a tiny mean, anything,

of course it does because this was the time when just before this of a month ago, president biden tried to number one, ask old bank, especially the saudis, to cut down oil production, which they pack the refuse. second, there was the sabotage of the, of a pipeline and the saudis, and on the pick all should be very, i suppose that they could be next in this kind of and why politics has always been central to the collective. this politics in west asia, north africa and wherever there is boy and so, and before that the gulf cooperation council also came out in favor of neutrality and opposing sanctions. so it seems to me that the us did hit back on the u a by saying that they were intervening off. they had told russia earlier that they were into reading and then you know,

the snow provocation start and lead to something bigger. so i think you a, another will also say that look of the prefer of working with all sides and we are no, no, no, go kind of satellites safe to the us. and we don't want to be just how critical do you think the pe plus decision to cut or production is going to be in terms of relations between the us and this traditional our partners. i think the u. s. is making a list of problems, but at the moment they, they have no leverage because there is a n d crisis in europe. their allies are suffering and they do need energy, annoying from different sources, especially since russia is not providing them the kind of oil they wanted. because of, you know, we know the reason us so the, so that is why,

but nonetheless, the united states will hold it against them at a particular time and for that legal fit countries. i knew we need to strengthen itself to continue making these individual choices. this good, so comes of course the us as pushing for more countries to take songs against russia. and so what's your assessments? all those efforts so far, little washington can persuade more countries to take it side when washington was would invest the pressure. i know that because i live in india and we can see that on the other thing they try to do is kind of, you know, wrap up the conflicts between countries for so for example, they're always pulling up the threat perception between india and china and saying that who is going to come to india a if you know if china attack with india has onset back by saying we're quite capable of handling things by laterally. but smaller countries who do not have the same kind of capacity can come under pressure like philippines, for example,

which or philippines and some others which had to cancel some of the defense agreements they had with russia on account of us pressure. so the us pressure is dead and it will increase because that is the strategy for a uni paula world order that they wish for us and they're looking for allies in this order. so a lot also, i mean of course these countries would like to resist and they have resisted so far . but this complicated relations that they have that each other and they have been regional and humans or regional. great fars also makes a difference. so i think door for, for a multi, for the world, we'll also look at that in order to see that, you know, rich countries coming onto which side didn't have to see the micro politics within

this, within this all school. many thanks for joining us on our end to national this evening . it's great to get your thoughts and your and find on the mass that we've been speaking to on a rather to know the form of dean of the school of international studies that jo hollow, nova university. many thanks well as the world cup football tournament prepared to kick off on sunday in capsule, the us national team has redesigned its logo to incorporate a flag symbolizing gay pride, now homosexual as he is illegal in casa, and the country has drawn scores from european lawmakers and human rights organizations for alleged mis treatments of it's l g, b, t plus community lead counselors, labor minister to claim that western media is conducting a smear campaign on his country, saying politicizing sport is unacceptable. any. we do not want to close the door to constructive criticism, not at all. however,

they should not be any politicizing and misinformation. what would i live now to the editor of the 5 pillars? muslim news website, russian and sally? many thanks for joining us on. the program is great to have you with us now. no so long ago, buquet foreign secretary was heavily criticized off the he went on television telling sports fans football fans who were traveling to casa, to be respectful. all of the traditions of this country and the laws of the lands and he was a lot of trouble with the viewers and people across the u. k. and now we have america doing the opposite way, really and incorporating this reading by flag into his, its kids to see this is a sign up sign from the us. yes, i mean, the whole western political and media establishment have lost a campaign against casa in the run up to the world cup,

despite the fact that culture is actually a key western ally, and i, as a muslim and the editor of a muslim website, i can't i can't find it really insulting. i think when you go to someone's country, you respect the laws, you respect the culture, even if you don't like it, you respect to you by the law. but what's western media is encouraging for us to do particular when they got cut, that is break cuts re law. so cutter is a place for homosexuality. is brown. it's illegal because it's considered to be sinful, according to islam law. and that is the case in the vast majority of muslim countries in the long, even some normal them countries, you'll find that homosexuality is lower. that is the culture of conservative culture. but what having basically pro eligibility propaganda prevalent during the walk up. and not only that alcohol is something which is banned in cuts basically, and it's being allowed in france zones. well, having israeli is flying directly from tel aviv to doha. this is something which is also bound because kata has no relations with israel. so culture is literally

changing its law because of this western cultural imperialistic onslaught. and what we've seen over the last year or so is, you know, politics needs to be kept out of school, basically because it's in russia happening span. we've seen all this, you know, pro ukraine propaganda with the world's most famous sportsman, being used as a kind of propaganda device. we've seen, you know, palestinians or arabs find and, and band. so kind of waiting, palestinian flags and stadiums. i think the way forward is literally key politics as well. we cannot agree. there are no universal human values. we can't agree. so let's respect each other and keep politics from school completely by someone might argue that, you know, tattle has the great honor of hosting this massive well the vents that welcoming these countries and, and people from all across the world with different cultures and different traditions. incorporating a different flag or different sign on to the badges of

a uniform. is it a really a big deal to cassandra? you expect a stern response? oh, i think they the walk up is all about expanding brand cuts up, and obviously they have money to burn on someone who lived in cut up several years . i know the country very well, and they're all legitimate criticisms. by the way to make of capture the, the main one. no one talks about is metric us base in a sent home. it's basically based and it cuts it was used to launch the war against iraq. afghanistan, it's used to try and, and intimidates and spine on the muslim world. now that is, but as my main gripe against cuts a migrant workers, it's actually an issue. and there also is institutional lives, racism, cuts up. however, the fact is, the western countries have whole hosted major, you know, football tournaments for, for decades movement, no one ever talks about what the euros were held in britain last year in england last year, no one told about the invasion of iraq and afghanistan, treatments, minorities, in england, so western, basically, western nations get

a free pass when it comes to these come human rights issues. whereas the focus is really placed on cut. and i put it down to, on the, probably the most something, you know, kind of underlying this vicious vitriol against cut because ultimate was a before cutter is a place where a lot, lots of west money is basically a nation cut, cut that has huge investments in the united kingdom, lots of brits lived that holiday that. so what's underlying this campaign? it's obviously islam, a phobia, other car minutes to have the case media of leading a smear campaign against. but i would argue that all countries do come under scrutiny and criticism when they host world events. i remember when the olympics was held him aging in london, and there was a plenty of media scrutiny and articles saying that the country is not ready for shambles. do you not agree? no, i don't agree really because i mean, i covered those events as well,

especially the london olympics and yeah, there were a few articles and media outlets talking about certain issues in the u. k, but it wasn't overwhelmingly vitriolic. most people were talking about the sport and they were talking about perhaps the, the legacy of the lympics. but they weren't demonizing a country. they weren't encouraging sports people to break the law of the united kingdom. because let's look coolest faded spite. this was the western media i'm politicians are doing. they are calling for sports people like harry cane who, you know, the captain of england who has pledged, where l g, b, g, arm bands. when he runs out for that 1st game, i think it's against iran in a few days time. now let's this is basically cut breaking cuts, re law cutter is a sovereign nation. you know, and ultimately i would like to cut the stand up for itself. i would like to see, you know, that under normal circumstances, anyone that does,

that would be arrested and deported. now obviously they're not going to do that. the hurricane is too much of a high profile sportsman. but i think culture has lost a lot of, you know, legitimacy in the eyes of the muslim world, because they're buying down to this west and pressure. and they are basically suspending the national sovereign laws for one month during the wilcock western nation would do that. they just wouldn't tolerated, or you mentioned earlier how you think sports events become increasingly politicized. is it even possible to separate the 2 now other well, it should be um, quite frankly, because, you know, sports is a world wide thing. football is something which doesn't belong to the west, doesn't belong to england, or no european nations or it belongs to the whole world. the whole world is into football and sports, you know, by extension as well. and we should all be a part of that process. but we can't really be per week feel excluded from this process. certainly.