ah, sir ah, moscow condemns a decision by the g 7, an e u to impose a price cap on russian oil exports well below current market rates. that's after an earlier warning that it won't comply with the plan deal on must backs up allegations of a shadow censorship scheme by twitter. former management with the muzzling of the hunter, vide laptops group. apparently just the tip of the ice and a canadian opposition party calls for a diplomatic boycott of india's g 20 leadership over alleged minority rights violations. while it seems to turn a blind eye to ottawa's own, documented mistreatment of indigenous people

with just after 4 pm here. in the russian capital and you're watching r t international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. our top story, moscow has condemned the collective west's decision to impose a price cap on russian oil exports. the g 7 and the you have agreed to limit the price of russian oil supplies to $60.00 per barrel. that's around $20.00 lower than the current market rate. and this measure is part of sweeping sanctions against russia over the ukraine conflict. we deliver on the commitment of g 7 leaders to prevent russia from profiting from its war of aggression against ukraine, to support stability and global energy markets and to minimize negative economic spill overs of russia's war of aggression, especially on low and middle income countries who have felt the impacts of putin's war disproportionately washington strategists hiding behind plausible goals of

supporting the energy security of developing countries diligently conceal the fact that the current imbalances at energy sites are the result of their own rash, actions. with a tenacity worthy of better application. the collective west is trying to solve the problems it has created from scratch. rushes repeatedly stated it will not supply oil at prices below its market value. if it contradicts the country's national interests. moscow's also lashed out at western attempts to manipulate the commodity markets are to contributor rachel marston offers her thoughts now on the heating up of the energy dispute. so the european union has finally decided on a $60.00 barrel ceiling for russian oil. now i guess european commission president and defacto, i'm elected queen of europe. ursula vander line can rag about how europe is united for ukraine. together without partners, we stand united and firm in our opposition to russia's atrocious war. yeah, well, that's her didn't take very long. wagner line also tweeted that the price, capital,

quote, help us stabilize global energy prices, benefiting emerging economies around the world. sure. or a could spike prices in deregulate everybody's economy. and our particularity of benefits, europe, that really is having a hard time paying the energy bills. now that take of itself off of cheap russian gas, but not sure what planet she was schooled on in market economics. but former us treasury secretary, steve minucci and certainly doesn't agree with the idea of a price kept when he called it unfeasible last month. and quote, the most ridiculous idea i've ever heard look a price cap, the market is going to set the price. so if you put sanctions on at higher prices in a way, you're just making the situation worse. the big concern here among american officials who wanted a higher cap is a spike in oil prices and a deregulation of the global market. it's almost like there is pressure for the you to ram something through before the weekend to avoid the embarrassing optics of

getting to monday the day the price cap is supposed to be implemented. december 5th, and not actually having agreement in place behind the scenes. there's a lot of talking to you about how much this is already worth since rushing crude has already been selling for less than the proposed cap. and this move also introduces another risk factor. that is, russia's position is that they simply won't sell to any countries implementing the ceiling. but white house national security spokesman john kirby welcomed the news. a pros, carpool helped limit mister put his ability to profiteer off the oil market so that he can continue to fund a war machine that continues to kill innocent ukrainians. so we welcome the progress of our e e partners are making on this. the whole idea is to reduce rushes, revenues, so that vladimir putin can't spend it in ukraine or, you know, fulfill is amazon wishlist or maybe finishes christmas shopping. what kirby didn't

say is that the us treasury department has already granted exemptions to american companies transporting russian oil, even if they're transporting it to some landlocked european countries. as long as they abide by the priced out. so much for europe cutting off russian oil revenues. here's what the estonian prime minister cry a callous thinks is happening with the price gab. every dollar counts, every dollar that was negotiated down, mince an estimated $2000000000.00, less income for russia. the initial proposal was to set the price of $65.00. i think poppins who agreed to come down to $60.00. this means $10000000000.00 less for russia to finance of genocidal val against ukrainians. but europe has also been importing russian fuel transferred to the tankers of other countries off shore right before they offloaded into europe. and they're also buying it from countries

like china and india that have been bingeing on russian oil. and then, you know, selling it to europe and elsewhere. also since this price have only effects russian oil, transported by c, hungary, pipeline oil from russia has received an exemption to the cap. and the country's foreign minister said just a few days ago that that's the case so, well, harry also got an e u exemption to import russian crude via maritime transport until the end of 2024 . so that gives you an idea of how united the you really is on all of this. and by the way, japan has already reportedly been given a green light by the u. s. to keep importing russian oil from their joint project with moscow. one thing's for sure. though the so called defenders of the free market are pretty quick to throw out even their most cherished values and principles. if it means taking another wild swing at russian president vladimir putin, even though they're batting average so far,

isn't very good. if they were hitting home runs, they probably wouldn't be talking already about a 9th ram the sanctions. new details are emerging in the hunter biden laptop, scandal. twitter, new owner, ilan mosque has confirmed claims that the platforms previous management went out of their way to sensor controversial issues surrounding the u. s. president sung delegations were brought to light by a prominent american journalist. twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posty warnings that it may be unsafe. they even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases. for example, child pornography, ellen mosque knows how to make a headline and he is already referring to this as the twitter of files. now this is supposed to be you on giving the public a look into the inside decisions that were made within twitter, especially over the last few years when it comes to some of their more

controversial decisions regarding content, moderation. and what we're finding is that they were taking these tools that were used to target spam or violent content. and they were increasingly using them for political purposes. based on political figures, we're reaching out making certain demands and twitter was going right along with it . now we have a very lengthy recap of these files that was made by independent journalists, matt t i e e b. here's a portion of what he had to say. some of the 1st tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters. slowly over time, twitter staffing executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well. first, a little, then more often than constantly by 2020 requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. one executive would write to another more to review from the biden team. the reply would come back handled. now this all came to

a head on october 4th of 2021. of course twitter moved not just to sensor the release of the new york post story on hunter biden's abandoned laptop, but to actually block links to that story from being shared. whether it be post on twitter or even indirect messages to there have been a lot of questions as to what led up to that decision who made it. and of course, who exactly influenced it. now what we did learn from these files was that that decision was made at the highest levels of the company. however, it appears that then c, e o jack dorsey was not directly involved. here's what was said on that. the decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of c, e o. jack dorsey, with former head of legal policy and trust of a joy, again, playing a key role and amazing. so blood of the twitter hunter bite and laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of c. e o jack dorsey and how long it took

for the situation to get on. as one ex employee put it even after dorsey jumped in . now there are also a number of cases where the bite and team did reach out directly, not just about certain accounts, but also about certain tweets that they wanted taken down. and the biggest take away from this isn't just that the bite and team was reaching out is that the employees at twitter who were responding weren't giving them any pushback. and they were responding with terms like, handled to just go along with what was being requested of them without questioning why these were top government officials and figures and political figures who were reaching out and asking for content to be censored. what's notable is some of the reaction that we saw from employees within twitter that's mentioned in these files . you had employees going back and forth and really voice in their frustration saying they felt like these decisions were just being freelance when it came to this very serious content moderation that was happening. and speaking critically of what twitter was doing and of the precedent that was being set by it when it comes

to those reactions. again, we're just really starting to see that pushback. but this is a bombshell story about what twitter was doing behind the scenes now being laid out by its brand new c best cheese it up almost perfectly for those republicans coming in to power, who have already been concerned about the moderation that they've seen. of course we have to remember twitter previously took down the account of the sitting president donald trump. so you have republicans coming in with a vengeance here wanting to know why those decisions were made. and also wanting to make a name for themselves. and it comes to their response to this and take a listen to some of the reaction that we've heard from them. so far. we're learning in real time how twitter colluded to silence the truth about hunter biden's laptop just days before the 2020 presidential election in 32 days. the new house republican majority will get answers for the american people and the accountability they deserve says and that this is just getting started. he won mosque is already promising, and at the so 2 of the twitter files,

so we'll likely be right back here talking about this as those releases continue or to also spoke with joe ultman who hosts the conservative daily podcast and author, michael rectinwald's. both suggest the biden laptop story demonstrates deep ties between social networks in the u. s. and the political establishment. think that it's not just happening on twitter, happens on facebook and instagram, and all of the social platforms. when i find more disturbing, is that they just seem to go to the same gas lighting the american people walk past didn't say nothing to see here. and then they repeatedly lie. they have not told the truth to the people about anything in the 100 biden story. the laptops, 3 by itself is one piece of evidence, but if you look at tony bub lensky and the other people that came forward, that said that joe biden was actively involved in these, these negotiations overseas. and to see some of the things the laws that were broken that were put any american in handcuffs within minutes to see him living in

a $30000000.00 mansion have secret service all around him. i think it just flies in the face of, of what america is supposed to be about. right. it's just, it's become a lawless society and the white house and the, the, the cropped infrastructure they put around it, frankly, just has to go. yeah, there are basically 3 issues involved here. the 1st issue is the twitter. it's been revealed and we knew this, but it's really official now has been operating as the democratic party, oregon, essentially with democratic operatives running the company before ilan master over and may be a little bit now as well. the 2nd issue is that we have the question of government officials directing twitter to squelch particular speech, which is a 1st amendment violation. you'll hear a lot of people say, well this is not 1st of amendment violation because it's a private platform. well,

government intervention to squelch speech is a 1st amendment violation. and the 3rd issue is that we have election interference here. and it's a parent that we do. and that would be an in time donation on the part of twitter to the democratic party without any recognition or acknowledgement which is against the law. as india assumed the g 20 presidency this week, a major canadian opposition party called for a diplomatic boycott of new daily's leadership in the block over alleged human rights violations. you democrats are calling on the government to strongly condemn india's discriminatory anti minority laws. it's threats of ethnic cleansing, the persecution of minorities and the arrests of journalists and human rights activists in canada should reject any g 20 activities plant in kashmir,

and refuse to attend these activities while the human rights abuses continue. however, canada itself has been heavily criticized in recent years over claims of human rights abuses. in 2021, amnesty international issued a report exposing some horrendous findings. specifically, the remains of more than 1300 indigenous children buried over many decades at 4 former schools which were used to indoctrinate native americans into european culture. a commission concluded that over 4000 students had died while attending those institutions due to miss treatment or neglect. many indigenous people live on reservations with underdeveloped infrastructure and poor water supplies. there have been concerns that 1st nations, women and children face just for disproportionately higher levels of violence as well as also reported lack of health care facilities and emergency services in those areas. we earlier spoke with

a former senior indian diplomat who says it's normal for western countries to metal and other countries relations, but then refused to tolerate interference in their own. domestic affairs. canada is creating good problems with not only asi, but many other countries, including the shock. do you think it is perfectly normal for them to interfere in the internal relations among other countries? internal matter though in other countries, but will not tolerate any interference in did it. so this is zack, a double status that we see from law, many, many countries. and they hide behind the so called values of democracy and freedom of expression. but this doesn't, doesn't, doesn't apply when it comes to what they decide should be the normal freedom of expression. another thing is that they are used to this kind of thing because botch bodily because they just bottle the western world. it's protected bottom,

nato. it has got a strong relationship with united states, and therefore the thing they can do all these things with impunity because there will be no price to be. and this has been true now for so many, so many decades. but the world is changing. the world is changing, it follow shifting, for the rest of them have the same kind of dominance over international affairs as they had in the past. and not be billed more and more. see the double standard than the hypocrisy of these countries. and therefore in time in time, they'll be a blowback, and they will be a price to be for this this saturday marks the 38th anniversary of the bowl pol, ghastly disaster and india, which is considered to be one of the worst industrial disasters over ever to occur on earth. ortiz correspondent runjun sharma has the report. on the 9th december, 2nd, 1984 poisonous gas leaked from an american owned factory. union carbide and

spread silently throughout the sleeping city of bo paul. around 3000 people, died instantly. another $10000.00 died within the 1st 72 hours of the leak. around half a 1000000 are estimated to still be suffering from side effects. this is the epicenter off the walls, worst, industrial disaster, a disaster that changed the face of the city for ever 42 tons of toxic, mythical ice, the cyanide in famously known as m. i. c. gas escaped from this very factory and turned the city of lakes into a gas chamber 38 years later, the bhopal gas tragedy continues to want this town jape regarding snugger katy chola, gary busty, as well as other slum clusters within a 5 kilometer radius of the union carbide continued to be victims of poisoning most here live in extreme poverty. generation after generation suffers from the

aftermath of that deadly night shot and vigour whose parents survived the disaster lost their ability to speak and walk as soon as they were born. a common occurrence in the area, but there's little or no research on how to treat the children with such conditions to this date. there is no consistent treatment for the children off the gas tragedy on land up in all these years. we've been to many doctors, many hospitals, but no one has helped. they have no answer for why my children are suffering. it would be better to not live at all than to live like this friday every 2nd hall. next, the union carbide factory has a tragic story, wounds of 1984, yet to heal wounds that were caused by an american dream. for partner lol, getting the job at union carbide was a dream come true, but little did he know the job would cost him his child's life and break his family

. union goddard, where a my thought my life was set off to getting a job with an american company, but it poisoned on lives forever. the union carbide factory left a bitter legacy that continues to affect people. the soil and water contamination have led a high rate of chronic diseases in survivors such as cancer and tuberculosis. as for the survivors, the gas relief hospitals meant for them in the region have not been of much help either. this or any other a pound would fall short of adequately describing the for gravity off the disaster . perhaps only those who lost and lived through it truly understand. over the years, activists have demanded the weekends, get fair compensation. adequate medical treatment rehabilitation plan removal of toxic chemicals found in plants, premises, and punishment for the was responsible for the tragedy. but all this fell on deaf

ears rush. nadine dra, we took a job with a multinational firm in the u. s. and moved to rural pal 20 years ago to work for gas witness. these were the american corporations bears, and then the board of people of this country are fighting the riches and the wealthiest corporations of this word. the 2 american corporations. union carbide and dow chemical. and u. s. government has played an active role in ensuring that there is no justice in mobile. $500.00 is thrown too. yes victims. and that is how union carbide has escaped its liability for committing literally a genocide in the city. the fact that not a single person has been jailed for what happened and 1984 is the cause of deep been for the survivors. just is until jill, i'll far from sight goods and sharma. r t bone bod.

protests have once again engulfed the french capital. this time, doctors and lab workers have gone on strike in a bid to pressure the government for increases and funding of the health care sector. the 1st time in 7 years, medical lab analysts are on strike. hundreds of doctors protested in front of the health ministry, demanding a larger upfront fee for consultations. they've taken aim at the states plan to reduce funding for their departments to the tune of hundreds of thousands of years . meanwhile, the british prime minister says the u. k. is set to give police more power to crack down on unauthorized protests. for this all student, i sat down with old police chiefs to make it clear that they have my full support in acting decisively to clamp down on illegal protests. it is completely unacceptable. the ordinary members of the public are having their lives disrupted by a selfish minority that comes as western politicians have been keen to support anti

government protests elsewhere in the world. france, president emanuel macaroni has branded the protests in iran. a revolution. canada's prime minister has said everyone in china should be allowed to protest and express themselves. and the canadians were closely watching the demonstrations against beijing's 0 coven policy. the british p. m, meanwhile, has also expressed support for chinese protestors, but received online backlash over his backing of a domestic crack down on the same type of rallies in the u. k. this is a mighty display of blatant hypocrisy. keep going, sir. 2 days ago, she was defending the right of chinese people to protest and warning the government against repression. to day he says british protesters should feel the full force of the law. interesting justin trudeau and re, she's to not decide which protests are legal and illegal for canada, u. k. and the world on social media user responded to mr. soon. ock statement with

a map of the world showing how the west and its leaders have viewed police brutality against protesters. the countries marked in red represented good protests for western wheats and in blue. those that should be suppressed. earlier i spoke with international law specialist arnold's devil, a who believes that the e u works to secure the blocks collective interests, not nationally significant ones. we're seeing now more and more the system contracting itself under its internal contradiction. and in so doing now, it has to resort to more force because the money is lacking, the funds are drawing the i met, he's a hovering over the countries of finances and the manual micro let. so let's say it outright, these are some one was been placed, essentially biased from national interest. and his job is to make sure that the on the country goes on the lean regime. we've seen no other european level mechanism

put in place, such as a your gender for which is a collective, a 8th on da marie services of 8 new countries. they can be deployed at any moment. notice basically a welsh, any kind of up i'll be gone. i'll probably disturbances and then not from the country where the put the stick place. so it's all designed to make sure that there's no sense of kinship between the police forces and the pl testers. and how does the western media play into this sort of idea of western governance that you are just explaining while they've been accompanying the concept for the last 30 years now? so they are bought and fossil while deanthony edifice, the n g o complex. we've seen it in the human italian, a war for, you know, new market access to new market, new natural resources, re weaponized the human white regime, using those and yos that are heavy finance, either by western security agencies and all by already docs from western audi.

galks as it were, and basically you just kind of private eyes, you know, with a public policy what you presented under this kind of being agenda as food i say, if human rights agenda and so that, you know, the media can then take the concept and sell it to the public, as you know, no, it's perfectly normal. what we're doing and sometimes you have to, you know, you have to step up to the plate and, and, and force and ensure that our values. i put a promoted to all the world. alex and drop las is a porch for the people and not a stronghold for imperialists. that's the call coming from greek protestors demonstrating against military supplies being sent ukraine from the city. the u. s . and nato had been using the port as a hub to forward weapons to key at these latest protests took place near a railway that is crowded with american tanks and armored vehicles ready to be

delivered. you know, got got to be met with another news this weekend is, are in rome, is a conference called the mediterranean dialogues. global challenges and ways of resolving them is that focus with top government officials and a collection of leaders from think tanks and regional organizations and attendance . the annual event established by the italian foreign ministry as the aim of rethinking traditional approaches to solving issues and seeks to draft what organizers call a positive agenda. bidding me this year, the conference heard from more than a 100 officials regarding the big issues affecting the world. we spoke with hassan bill to lol, a prince of jordan, who expressed his hope that the conflict in ukraine will come to an end soon. we have only good wishes along to everyone with pleasure on the

one time today and on the other with as you well known. and i may have to ask is open to experience. once again, i hope with confrontation, release, we've gone from vision, wouldn't come through a peaceful home in russia. hello, jordan with the refugee issue? well, i think that this is an issue that we have to discuss in the conference over the agencies. and i believe a strong feeling of true standards comes with roger of on foundation. and in that context, with these into it potentially gonna be increased or not to your, your, your issue, your role in bridge. all that's all for this hour,

but stick around because we'll be back with more in just about 30 minutes here on our team international with long when i was showing wrong, when i was just a to see how it is being, becomes the advocate, an engagement it was the trail when so many find themselves worlds apart? we choose to look so common ground. ah

ah ah ah ah ah, i'm african retired in a big welcome back to going underground of the 10 month software where no longer in census city, london, and said coming to you from the heart of the middle east do by of the you can you press freedom restrictions made it difficult for us to bring you the stories, truth and balance you want to hear much has happened since we've been away with the nato proxy war on russia through ukraine.