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with just after 6 pm here in moscow, and you're watching r t international. i'm donald quarter. welcome to the program. strengthening business ties and developing new ways of economic cooperation. that's the agenda of the 4th russian chinese energy business forum where she's being paying and vladimir putin shared messages for, for the need to further cooperate a mid to western pressure. but to get more on this now we're in across live to our correspondence, fiorella, isabel fiorella. take us through what's happened and what we can expect from the for. right, so the 4th russia, china international energy business forum took place in moscow on tuesday and kicked off with russian president vladimir putin and president, teaching ping both addressing the event and acknowledging the ever growing cooperation between the 2 countries. in spite of western pressure and a challenging political international landscape. despite the complexity of the

international situation, relations of a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation between the russian federation and the people's republic of china continue to develop in a positive direction. china is willing to work with russia to forge a closer energy partnership, promote clean and green energy development, and jointly maintain international energy security and the stability of industry supply chains. the forum focused on maintaining agreements between the 2 countries and also expanding on trade and economic development. several announcements were made deputy russian prime minister, alexander novak noted that russia and china are already using their national currencies and their gas contracts, and are actively seeking to seek in dependent independence from western back swift and try a new form of payment. they are also looking to

a potential energy alliance between russia with pakistan and conflicts. and the 2 latter countries already have a positive relationship with china. and as far as the g 7 countries and their attempts to put our oil cap on russian oil, russia has stood firm against this. and this attempt to impede it from reaping the profits of its sales, saying that this is unacceptable, and that they will simply stop supplying to countries who actually push this agenda in spite of how low the prices may go. this is, of course, russia has other markets in china and india which have high demand. but the e. u is finding itself in a precarious situation with the winter coming. it has no other options for affordable gas that it has relied on heavily for a very long time. all right, our case farrell. isabelle, thanks for bringing us those details. it's yet another day when something other than football is making the headlines at the world cup spanish fans

unfurl a flag with the emblem of ukrainian neo nazi as a battalion. shortly after, however, the flag was confiscated by representatives from journalist he saw li brought us this report from guitar or been saying, go through this wall cup it. i wouldn't say the foot will being overshadowed by issues off the field, but certainly them taking a more prominent role not by accident, perhaps without the western media seeking to use this wild card as a bull horn for promoting their own causes. and in the latest episode of controversies, you've seen this issue from the spain game where a group of fans wave the as of battalions flag. of course, a neo nazi group. hugely controversial group play, whose existence in the ukrainian military forces has been a source of real concern to those in moscow and policy makers. there.

now you think that everybody would be united in supporting the security at the stadium who removed that flag, who instructed those people not to carry that flag, but not everyone sees it the same way and roman xhylia and he's a former ukranian national team football of actually spent time playing football in spain, and he was one of those who took the facebook in a post that he has since deleted. praising at the us or battalion fee for are the victims of russian propaganda. i hope that the ukraine and football association and the ministry of youth and sports will also respond to such shameful behavior of the fee for representatives. and for those single celled organisms that prohibit our flag been raised in the stance, i hope they will apologize. and finally study the real history of the issue and not according to the kremlin back media. now those claims might ring hollow one looks at the history of this particular of football player romans. those really has taken

the social media before to praise the as of battalion. he's posted pigs with an image of stephen ben darrow, who's of course, one of the big, neo nazi collaborators who groups like out of battalion, look up to go with great respect and also a post. he posted himself a photo opposing with the numbers 1488 of course more symbolism that by. ringback with regards to the nazi type of sympathies that so unfortunately many in those ukrainian armed forces seem to have when he was playing in spain. as i mentioned before, he was playing for a club called at c, f. true who and broader. and while he was at the club, he was kicked out for holding extreme political views. and in fact, in one game that he played in the spanish league, the game had to be called off because, or some of the funds of the opposing team bring him. so much because of those that

far i believe that he holds on to now of course at this time chief, i've managed to stock the waving of that near nazi flag in coordination with the inside the organizes and the security at the stadium. they to been kept busy by other issues. for example, iranian riots as a supporters of the riots is in iran also trying to wave slogans and banners. and increasingly, we're seeing the security at teams here at the stadiums cracking down on that, especially ahead of that iran usa game. later on. in other news, the head of the catholic church, pope frances has labeled to ethnic groups within russia, the cruelest soldiers of the ukraine conflict. when i speak about ukraine, i speak about the cruelty because i have much information about the cruelty of the troops that come in. generally, the cruelest are perhaps those who are of russia, but are not of russian tradition such as the chechens,

the variety and so on. now the pope's remarks did lead to a huge push back in the 2 russian republics. here's what they had to say. how can a spiritual leader, whose dice this includes the majority of the peoples of the world, allow himself to reason so primitively only s mc issue? to hear an assessment from the head of the catholic church about the cruelty of specific nationalities, namely burritos and chechens protected civilians is at least very strange. we don't have to go too far into history to recall that the capital of a european state, the city of belgrade or in the entire state like olivia were bombed without the participation of liberty, us churches, and other people of russia. ought to get more on this story. now we're crossing alive to international affairs and security analyst marks la moda. thanks for joining us on the program mark. first, i want to ask you just about the pope's statement. basically. i mean, it sounds like something that would come out of the you know,

out of key i've actually rather than the vatican, what do you make of the statement itself? yeah. it does. it exactly. sounds like a puppet. speaking with the ethnic nationalist ideology. that is so pervasive in the cave regime as if they're speaking through the pope's mouth, which is, i have to say, somewhat surprising to me because as, as far as popes go, at least i was under the impression that i was, i think, were many people there pope francis was considered more progressive in many ways than, than previous popes. so to hear him speak this way and to try to divide the russian peoples between those of ethnic russian identity and those of other identities. russia is a multi ethnic, multi confessional federation. there are some more than $200.00 indigenous

ethnicities within russia and dozens more non indigenous. there are 5 major traditional of state supported face. one amongst those is the buddhism practiced by the butter yacht of the far east. and another is the soupy islam practiced by the judge and both of whom pope francis for some peculiar reason. reminiscence of the key of regimes fascist tinge, ban the right f. no nationalist ideology as, as being crueler than others. it is a bit bizarre and it smacks not only of racism, but of some animosity towards these 2 particular peoples because they are represented of different religious faith than christianity in russia.

buddhism and sophia, who i'm in particular and it, it has to be said that it is use all of the regime ideology, this, this band or ideology to depict the russians as in a z at chord as if there's something wrong with asians or that there are so many multi ethnic peoples within russia, which russians regard as with a great deal of pride and compare that to the ethnic nationalism that is so dominant with the regime in, in today i find it to be rather reprehensible. they hear this echoed by the pope. there are indeed martyrs in ukraine. those would be the people of east ukraine who have been bombed, politically repressed by the forces of the west back. you have put your jean since at 1st seize power in 2014. i would respectfully address pope

france is that he needs far better sources of information than that can use to with this racist just id, ology, which is so prevalent among the vanguard of the key every year. so what's interesting about this actually is that these comments from the pope have basically come alongside him seeming fair minded, actually was calling for peace talks to end the conflict as well. so it's hard not to think that he was met with some closed, you know, some close to our criticism following that, leading to this new narrative. what do you think on this sort of jekyll and hyde attitude towards it? yeah, i think it's fair to say that he has either been inundated by a certain amount of propaganda or lobbied specifically with such. and

i see do see that as a market change from some of the more balance statements we have heard out of the pope prior to this. what exactly that is, we know that he met with family members of the neo nazi a's off. but with, with some of those who were prisoners of war of russia before they were exchanged a prisoner relief, i sincerely hope that that is not the influence that pope francis has fallen under that of a's off. because that would be a dark day for the entirety of, of the catholic faith throughout the world. all right, international affairs and security analysts mark sl about a thanks for joining us on the program. thanks for having me. after years of smearing truly in a song, several major western media outlets have made an abrupt view turn there. now calling for the u. s. government to end its case against the wiki,

leech co founder this group of editors and publishers, all of whom had worked with the sancha, felt the need to publicly criticize his conduct in 2011. but we come together now to express our grave concerns about the continued prosecution of julian, a sorry for obtaining and publishing classified materials. this indictment sets a dangerous precedent and threatens to undermine americans 1st amendment and the freedom of the press. well, it certainly makes sense that major news outlets would speak up about the fact that a journalist who published information has been stripped of his human rights as being threatened with extradition and prosecution under the espionage act in the united states. but what many have note it is that this statement seems to very much contradict the town of these publications earlier. and we will note that when julian assigned was being held up in the ecuadorian embassy and when he was dragged

out of the ecuadorian embassy, these publications weren't speaking up on his behalf. rather they were helping to build the case by bas marching, his character running him through the mud. he has proved a highly problematic even embarrassing champion for the principles of press freedom in the public's right to information. even mister a sanchez friends have described him as difficult, a narcissist with an outside view of his importance. it's probably too late for his sons to recover his former glory. but if you could give up his futile struggle against extradition and show a little respect to the spirit of justice system, that would at least be a 1st nas through step. now it's also important to note that these words from these publications that now say they support mr. sam's. are they echoed a full blown media campaign to essentially demonize your innocence to justify any state repression levied against him. it was a full blown mainstream media assault to justify what was happening. let's review

what was being said on television at design for a decade go and some of the worlds have tried to shut. we can leaks down. and today, julian assange, the head of wiki leaks, and draco malfoy, his biological father has finally been arrested. you could tell that living inside the embassy for 7 years, has taken its toll. here he is back in 2012. yeah. that compare that to today. i mean, amazing. the guy went in looking like draco malfoy came out look like dumbledore. it weekly spanner julian assigns was also arrested in london where he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy looking like santa claus with a manifesto. they're all not a i haven't on my look, look at him like in just a few years. he went from bond villain to crowd surfing hobbits. now, while focusing on obscure criticisms of hassan, just personality or his appearance, mainstream media seemed to have forgotten what he reveal review the revelation is

about real crimes and real scandals that came to light due to work a wiki leaks ah, ah, a now the biden administration has given no indication that they have any intention

of dropping the charges or the expedition case against julian, a song to the u. s. department of justice says they continue to pursue extradition and that they will continue to pursue extradition for the time being. now the u. k home secretary did approve the extradition of julian assange, because u. s. officials have promised to treat him humanely, whatever that means. so at the moment, julianna's on his legal team is appealing that decision that he would be extradited to the united states. american legal and media analyst, lionel says it's unclear why the western media is suddenly changing its tune about assange. but the previous smears against him should not be forgotten. if you listen to this, absolutely implicit in feckless commentary by today's a canoe shanty. just making fun of the way he looks, you know why he looks like that. let me tell you,

it's called torture. that's why you look like that. and i like to see any of those brave journalist see if they can withstand a week of this. this is something which absolutely galls me, julian assigned whether you like him or not, whether you care for his personality is a hero. something must be happening. why all of a sudden, what changed? what information are they privy to? what sensibility were they exposed to that made them say, wait a minute. oh, by the way, all collectively, simultaneously is some kind of a choreograph fashion. they all decided, i think that maybe there's something to be said where he was actually a journalist. i haven't the foggiest, but i will tell you there should be a follow up better tauriel as to how, how just, how imprisoned these people were. i can't believe how these journalists and they do the new york times high and mighty,

and dare i say if you go back in your read what they said, their actual statement, it doesn't even provide a bill of particulars as to why it's almost like a oh come on, enough's enough. i guess he's a journalist, it was rather we look warm and tepid at best. while the u. k. government stance on a song which has seen twitter users call out the foreign minister for hypocrisy. after he denounced the arrest of a b, b. c journalist in china. they also highlighted a new law passed this year, granting police in england and wales, more power to restrict protests deemed unacceptable. media freedom and freedom to protest must be respected. no countries exempt the rest of bbc journalist out of lawrence in china is deeply disturbing. journalists must be able to do the job without intimidation. i assume you've actually read the police and crime bill of 2022, james. you know the bill brought in by your government. hello. have you read the

repressive laws you tories have passed in the u. k. lately, you can now be arrested and jailed if police even suspect will protest. don't like our banners find. we've shed info on social media about a protest tore britain. welcome to north korea or on tim's well, to get more on the story we're going across live to former emmy p and author godfrey bloom. thanks a lot for joining us on the program. godfrey. now 1st of all, what's your reaction to the foreign ministers tweet? do you think the, these accusations of hypocrisy are accurate? yes, there scandalously accurate. i've never seen anything quite like it when we were protesting here and i was amongst protesting against the draconian lockdown we at which we now know destroyed the economy and didn't work anyway, which i was saying at the time people were being arrested very roughly handled by

the police indeed the police and the government being backed up by the media. all the journalist was screaming for more draconian, long down. i'm talking about senior german this over here like andrew nail, jeremy vine. so all these people, the editorials of newspapers, asking for more and more brutal, locked out on the people, and people would take it to prison. testing find very heavily. and now all of a sudden they've changed their tune and i'm not quite sure how they've got the almighty goal to do that. i'll talk to the exchequer. jeremy hunt was calling for chinese style locked down 2 years ago. his daughter works in china and he was saying that they've got it right. the chinese have got it right. and he's being saying that right up until quite recently. this is absolutely scandalous and asked for julian assigned with just been hearing about. we have an extraordinary situation where they've driven

a coach and horses through the principles of english law. there's no habeas corpus . he's been tortured by psychological torture. in solitary confinement for years, it's on national shame. and we're going to hand him over to the americans where he will probably go to solitary confinement for the rest of his life. this is absolutely scandalous and totally against the principles of natural justice. i'm deeply ashamed of my own country handed this well, given everything that a sanchez been through, as you just said, what would you say about the amount of coverage it's gotten in the u. k. media? well, you know, that's really quite astonishing. he's not being covered here. at all, it's been barrett, it's been suppressed. the baby she hardly ever mentioned the thing. i'm not sure about this turn around, but you see what you've got to understand is that with a trillion dollar budget trillion dollar a year budget by the military industrial complex in america, that's billions and billions of pounds,

which can be scattered around to journalists who read out the cia briefings on these matches, we have very senior journalism who simply sit down and read what the latest c i a handout is. there's no concept or serious journalism at all. i'm sure he's disgraceful. i don't know quite how these things are going to change when there's so much secret money sourcing around with unaudited cia budgets. well, in the case of drilling assigned to how independent do you think the u. k. is in connection to the extradition decision in the face of pressure from the u. s. is the u. k. capable of making a truly independent decision on that? no, we did sign a ludicrous document with the united states to let them explain to anybody to will because i have a digital system which was built about reproach beyond reproach, which is ludicrous. we all know that to be stupid. they signed that under previous home. secretary of the labor got but it was a communist enough when he was

a university. notwithstanding that i don't quite know how we're going to get forward on this. on any subject we do in britain. exactly what washington tells us to do. it doesn't matter whether it's syria, whether it's the crane, whether it's libya, the horn of africa, and on we do what the americans tell us to do a lot of american friends. but we've got cut out ties are dangerous ties with washington. or given that relationship between the british and american states, do you think the general public in the u. k. has any influence on this case? now because the, the british electra taunting phones were repairing on repairing. here a, nobody in this country will see me because we're not and out to watch. i'll tell you we're supposed to be the free to say no such thing and you, your previous speak uncovered. then camping down on social media,

we have things like hate crime, which actually means if you disagree with the gut line, you go to prison. that's happening also instantly and either. and the police can do just what they like. and of course, the government told the police to do. and so if you're, if you're against a government post, you've locked down an edgy democratic procedures by the government. you get fined or sent to prison or lock town. but if you're demonstrating in favor of the government by the eco demonstrations, for example, the role cops are paid by the police for blocking out major most wages. it's political leasing, which we thought we'd never see in this country historically is just based. we don't have a political place in history, but we do now. all right, former m e p and author godfrey bloom, some fascinating points you brought up there. thanks for joining us on the program . that's all for this. our stick around for more news in just about

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