with belief systems, yeah, you all are to, you are remove, it was very impactful. when someone finally came along with no fear, no judgement, you heard my story did nothing to challenge. validate with roy says president says the you is delusional to think it can have an energy market independent outside power. but as the block is full supply info to us, natural gas, it cost $3.00 times higher than domestic rates. with fever representatives at the world cup conference date, a flag of the any military knew not seat as all but howdy and it hadn't been unfilled vice 5 times during that teams month against germany

and the catholic pope president hughes to minority ethnic groups within russia. as being the quote, cruelest soldiers of the ukraine conflict without providing any evidence to back up his claims with want to go out today. good evening where ever you are in the world. welcome to r t. internationalists just policy out. i'm. it's great to have you with us, i'm or to mommy. let's take a look at today's top stories as well as president my quan heads to washington dc to negotiate for lower gas prices. crucial liter says that essential amounts of begging or essential amounts to begging, as the e is obviously quote, the weaker partner it is a serious state of war, more serious than ever in our lives. i've come to the conclusion that we will buy gust from alice a 3 times the prize that is effect and will cause that correlation presidents or

ban molanda vetch has just said that europe quote, was under the illusion that it was going to create an energy market yeah, on the back of cheap russian gas, it cut itself off of because it didn't want to contribute to russian revenues, which provided the luxury of that illusion and also their green fantasies. but things have obviously taken a wrong turn when nuclear powered france is now scrambling to get its decommissioned and rusted atomic energy plants back up and running. france even fire the cold plant back up again. this week, the french ecology minister has said that the move quote in scribes in the closer plan of frances nuclear plants. so than wire you reopening it geniuses and green germany is also turning back to coal and firewood, as fears mt of its industry bailing to the us where there's actual fuel for them. so creation president, milan, which said that the reason why french president emmanuel my call is in washington

this week for a state visit with you as president joe biden is to quote, beg from a position of weaker partner for understanding and mercy, or more to point to beg for cheap gas during the visit, my call is set to pay o mas, $2.00 p f. shannona fall, the frenchman who designed washington d. c, who probably also remind biden for the millionth time of how france helped the u. s . when its independence from the brits in the revolutionary war, mac ho, kind of be like the old friend who appears of nowhere and wants to reminisce about the good old days. people who do that always. just want something from you. michael has been saying for weeks now that he wants to speak to the manager of the global gas station america because he isn't happy with the prices. but if you ask international energy agency executive director, fatigue below it's global gas station, russia that should be upset about having lost a client europe, lars,

the by far the largest market, largest clark for russia and russia lost his client forever. russia will be a loser off this edge of metal. see the thing about being a gas station is that you have something that everyone needs even milan of. it's pointed that out when he said that russia and the u. s. are quote, indestructible because they have unlimited amounts of energy for their deeds. well and for everyone else's needs. so it seems like the real loser here is the customer, europe, in this case, which is forced to go round to other global gas stations, demanding a discount like my call is doing with the us. american gas is $3.00 to $4.00 times cheaper on the domestic market. than the price of which they offer to europeans. these are double standards. you might also recall that just last year, german chancellor, all of schultz, his party was trying to lecture another, a global gas station cutter on human rights. but this week, berlin signed

a 15 year liquefied natural gas deal with doha. unfortunately, for german households and industry guitar, a gas won't arrive until 2026. but that's certainly gives europe plenty of time to drive around to global gas stations, whining, threatening bagging and charming. another resounding success for european policy and strategic forcing the future restoration of ukraine's critical infrastructure. as when the focus of a meeting of nato for minutes is currently underway in romania present, fulton is failing in his group look war of aggression. he is responding with more brutality. we see it wave after wave of the liberal missile attacks on cities and civilian infrastructure, striking homes, hospitals on power grids. this is terrible for ukraine.

the u. s. a secretary of state and they've been and has announced a new $53000000.00 system package to help repair ukraine's electricity grid. the fresh batch comes on top of $55000000.00 that has already been committed to emergency emod from effect the support. however, lincoln plans and the choice of words by the alliances, she again sold them both have drawn from flashbacks to a speech given by naked leadership 2 decades ago. when the tables will turn on the bombing of serbia. i'm afraid electricity also joins command and control systems if president milosevic really wants all of his population to have water and electricity, all he has to do is accept nate as 5 conditions and we will stop this campaign. but as long as he doesn't do cell, we will continue to attack those targets, which provide the electricity for his armed forces. well, leaders playing the typical who, whom game tactic is either glorious when they use it or evil when somebody

else does it. if attacking infrastructure that can be used to, for military purposes, and russia is on the record saying that they're attacking the power grid because it's being used to power railways, which are being used for troop movements. and transportation of equipment that nato is supplied to ukraine, which is basically entire logistics. then that by nato's own rules is a legitimate military target. the reason they don't like it is that they are not the ones doing it. it's russia this time. so it's, it's one of those doesn't matter what is being done. it's only who's doing it the who and as the comparison to $99.00 makes it abundantly clear. another day. another heads i'm having nothing to do with football from the world cup. spice fans. i'm full of flag with the emblem of the clinic near the abil battalion. however, the flag was confiscated by representatives from fever, just east alley. both us this report from or been saying go through this wall cup

is a i wouldn't say the fault 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 carper's 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 at the same way and roman xhylia and he's a former ukranian national team football us and who 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 as a battalion fee for our, the victims of frush and propaganda. i hope that the ukrainian 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, 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 the 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 a, with regards to not see type of sympathies that sir, 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 broad and what he was at the club. and 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 fans of the opposing team would bring him so much because of those that far, i believe that he holds on to now of course at this time, she felt manage to stop the waving of that near nazi flag in coordination with the

organizers 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, specially ahead of that iran usa game later on to other news. now from the woke up and go to the west african nation of synagogue has qualified ms group. i'm has made it into the final 16 the tournament for only the 2nd time in its history. the theme defeated equitable to one in their final march of the group stages. they progress out of the group and along with the netherlands, is only the 3rd appearance of so ago at a well cup back in 2002. and the event was held jointly in south korea and to plan the african team made it all the way to the quote the finals aah!

carter has summoned the russian ambassador to explain the controversial tweak in which the russian i'm to see and insisted that marriage should be between a man and a woman. the russian government has a long promoted traditional family values and even has and law prohibiting the endorsement of same sex relations in public. canadian officials of said the embassies, tweets a bit hateful towards the l g. b t. community ross is i'm boss of said by the statement, despite the controversy saying his country and the west often disagree about ideology. well, it was a surprise, as it reaction was a surprise. and actually our leads were not only in conjunction with our legislation adopted and also in response to the statement of by the canadian minister of foreign affairs made on november 24. so in total legislative process was criticized and we

answered to be the rather extensive explanation of what's going on in russia, a in interview of defending ad traditional values. and also with regard to expressing the we love for our people who want to lead for their traditional way of life is out for interference. well, it's obviously a double standard, but did see a, you know, i would see it kind of game of chess in that ideological stand between our san angelo west. well, it see have probably a demonstration of the mental optics of the current cabinet to prime minister to door cabinet. and the scale of say, a priorities are for us. it's so hard to logically explain me, take it as

a reality leave and actually things that probably canada or i will stand an issue. see don to interfere with on model in canadian, on affairs, domestic fairs, internal affairs, all the domestic fair. so father western states said he expected to canada and as a western states let us leave for we want so kathleen pope has singled out 2 minority ethnic groups within russia and the could cruise soldiers of the ukraine conflict without providing any evidence to back up his claims 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. we're both of our lead her to his put black in the to russian. republics is, well they have to say how can a spiritual leader, whose diocese includes the majority of the peoples of the world, allow himself to reason to primitively on the ethnic issue. to hear an assessment from the head of the catholic church about the cruelty of specific nationalities, namely barriers 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 an entire state like libya, were bombed without the participation of the barriers, chechens, and other people of russia. we heard from journalist martin j, an international issues security eggs that mugs le buddha and say the pope for mark's works to me. inappropriate foot for such a widely rivers, religious figure. it does seem very odd to buy bizarre thing. ready for that,

the catholic church to be well, frankly, racist. i mean us really want it isn't it? you know, it's, it's, it's really acting beyond his normal remit and making racist or ethnic political comments. that's not something we normally expect. so one has to question where this is coming from. i think ethos of this must be political. it must be a political message that he's delivering, which i think he's being asked to do. i suppose what he's expecting, he can achieve with such a statement is to be divisive. is to actually set one ethnic group against the other. exactly. sounds like a puppet, speaking with the ethnic nationalist ideology that is so pervasive in the regime. it strikes me as incredibly inappropriate coming from a pope considering that the catholic propes of history not only have a history of sending crusaders to the middle east,

but to northern europe against the law and the baltic peoples as well. and if there's any cruelty that we can look back on, it is certainly that of the crew. take crusaders re pardon and destruction when they thought to conquer the peoples of, of this part of the world for the catholic church going has been cracking down on the russian orthodox church and in the country this time with proposed legislation to seize religious artifacts, keys, rhythm, closer of reports following mass censorship, the silencing of any descent and countrywide state sponsored are so phobia. ukraine is now cracking down on the church as well. the cranium security service has conducted a search of an orthodox church in the city of yvonne of rankoff. local priests were

threatened with criminal charges over the alleged possession of bro russian propaganda. now this church is the latest target in a series of the ukrainian states. attacks on the orthodox institutions in the country last week gave conducted what had called counter intelligence measures in the countries historic key of pictures glover monastery, question and dozens of people. and once again claiming to have found pro russian propaganda. the claims were based simply on the fact that they used russian language in their religious services and old russian books. and so just for some context, even though um the gradient orthodox church officially split from moscow back in 2019, a number of parishes remained loyal to russia. but they also distance themselves in may of this year. on monday, a petition demanding a complete ban of the activities of the russian orthodox church gains enough online

votes to be considered by president zalinski. meanwhile, it's become a mainstream you of many ukrainian officials to suspect, any priest, any orthodox priest as a potential russian spy. this monastery comes under the moscow patriarch, which from the start has been destroying ukraine from the inside. therefore, we see all these monks as russian agents. so there's a very high chance they've been hiding collaborators. now it's certainly not clear what decision zalinski will it sake with regards to the orthodox church and whether this decision will affect the ukrainian church despite it's a formal declaration of independence. however, with a view that any priest could potentially be a russian spy, it seems that nothing sacred as the 1st shipment of free russian fertilizer heads to africa, the u. m. a praise moscow full the donation, which it says will help to avoid

a food crisis on the continent. our teams k to move in takes us to the details. the united nations confirms and welcomes donations of fertilizer provided by russia. the 1st ship has already departed, containing over 20000 metric tons of fertilizer. it's left the netherlands and it's heading for the african country of malawi. now in total, russia will be donating $260000.00 metric tons of fertilizer. these will be headed for african countries that would be having a food crisis without it are very much in need of this fertilizer in order to ensure their food supply. now it's important to note that the west has imposed sanctions on russia and make very difficult for russia to export grain as well as to export fertilizer. this deal basically refute a lot of the claim that we heard from western media. this notion that somehow russia was trying to blackmail the world and create

a food crisis. we're profit somehow from. it's important to be very aware of the facts here. russia is not materially or financially benefiting from this deal. the fertilizer will be exported, being given by russia with no compensation. it's also important to point out the ukraine grain deal. the details of it revealed that it largely resulted in brain ending up in european union, not in countries in the developing world that are having issues with food security . recently we heard the russian president vladimir, talk about how african leaders are confused, because on the one hand they hear the rhetoric of western countries saying they want to help countries deal with food security issues. but on the other hand, they see the unilateral sanctions imposed on russia, which make it difficult for these countries to get the food, the grain and the fertilizer that they need me get a newsletter company. leaders of several african countries have contacted me directly about this issue. they cannot understand what is going on because the

constant message is that assistance must be provided to the poorest countries and including on shoes that are not connected with food security to get these deliveries, even free of charge ones are being blocked. this is absolutely unacceptable, yet this is happening with the 1st ship. now fertilizer is already on its way. so to hear that despite efforts by western leaders do interfere, there is now no way to stop this proceeding after it by russia to move ahead with aiding the countries around the world that are struggling with food security. unacceptable. policies based on fragile assumptions and gay against international norms. but how the egyptians senate president, as described a damning resolution by the european parliament criticizing the countries human rights wriggled, the lawmaker claims the move is nothing short of the ease trying to revive it's

colonial past. we all received with displeasure the decision issued by the european parliament. unfortunately, these policies are outdated, reminiscent of a european colonial legacy and reveal nothing but a hidden desire to spread the culture of a particular civilization. these are issues that no free country, particularly egypt, will accept slide number via just within the last 18 months to improve human rights . you've implement says not enough. progress has been made in the country and has called for the review of the blog relations with cairo. the e u has also demanded the unconditional release of egyptian political activist and social media influences emo's being slammed by egypt. lewis chamber of parliament, as quote, a flagrant violation of the country independence allbriton guarantees of judicial

independently. we heard from a political science professor at hel, one university enquirer, who says the e is trying to interfere with egyptian sovereign laws, while the e had plenty of his own cases, that could be considered human rights violations. the west is trying to interfere in the egyptian sovereign. ah, lowe's and judiciary like a one of the observations of the european parliament resolution saying that they are a mistreating and violating the human rights of our lab. the fact that a lab factor is an activist. he was charged of criminal charges and he exhausted all 3 stages of litigation. that is a final word. so what you expect of the egyptian government to do to enter

a fear in the judiciary. let's play the devil's advocate. can the egyptian parliament criticize one of the european countries for not responding to stress s or s calls offer if you jeez, in the mediterranean who were drowning and not responding to them, killing hundreds of refugees in the immediate arena. and this is a serious chart. is this a criminal against humanity or not? is this a violation of human rights are not a devastating fire has erupt in a shopping mall in the russian city of crossville. you ask in easton, siberia, the blaze of thread across much of the facility consuming the roof and a portion of the for said sexy firefighters and other muncie workers are as the

seen unclear what ignited of leis authorities were alerted around 7 in the morning when there were a relatively few people at the facility, have been no reports of victims were closely following the story and bring you any updates as we get them. ah, but probably code is on the worlds apart and will be back here the top of the app with ah, it would seem we have reached the point of no return. after being the target of sabotage, the north stream pipelines will be more bold,

the mutually beneficial energy relationship. europe and russia had for decades is come to an end. the geopolitical implications are enormous in europe. is the biggest loser ah, with welcome to wells apart. an old adage has a god who rebel lee has no ears but a fool. one apparently has little foresight as rising with prices increased suffering around the world, the most accident countries continue restricting food and fertilizer. experts in that efforts to penalize their adversaries is hunger. indeed,

the best source for geopolitics when to discuss that i'm now joined by no. ron and shake professor of political science at pyro university professor. it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for you on to for your invitation. now let me start with your quite unusual academic experience, which includes having sanchez for both russian and american studies. given your understanding of both cultures. why do you think the russians in the american south so stock and i laugh, hey, dynamic. do you think red dust tend to be each other's dark doubles? oh, i think both of them are great, paul, worse than that. this mode because united states unfortunately won't to be the only great power in the whole board. but now russia is a packing a since sir. that's a very important to speech of kristen put in 2007, and then we on that her, her conference and

a multi letter and multi pooler system. it is normal. it is the norm of the, the globe is to have different powers, different culture difference validations of so i think what is the united states doing is that is this than the norm of the whole global? so it is unlocked and i think that it is very interesting for the whole grow what the united states doing. and i think that is also a south globe, a voice, a supporting crusher in moving toward the multi electoral and multi polar for system. because it is norm, well, and it is that what should be done and that is fair and justice for all of us. i, you wrote recently that on the policies of the west, for example, western sanctions. are there also hurting not only russia but the entire world,

and more specifically, even the western populations themselves. and i wonder how do you take a, do you think that saw the arrogance of western decision makers discounting this type of hiring? not only are to the rest of the world but to their own population, or do you think that's deliberate? i think i ye vista thresher, many times by the way, from fed up to the day they had 4 to 5 visits. i think her thank gods. russia has nothing, and i see that this sits, it's okay in russia. but her, the rest of the whole wards of the one was suffering from the sanctions. and as you mentioned, you'd have been them sells the software for suffering. as from my point of view, the one was suffering more and more the european. if we wanted to say war a lowes oh, suffering from that war. air would come ukraine and european then united states.