a with the commission confirms the european union g 7 states and australia are to implement up price cap on russian oil starting monday, despite moscow's warnings. it will stop supplies for those who join the scheme. a feel on mosque backs up allegations of a shadow. censorship scheme by twitters former management with the muzzling of the hunter by them. laptops, group, paris li. just the tip of the iceberg. this is the epicenter, old was worse industry to dissolve. to dissolve to change the face of the city. for archie reports on the tragic events in india 38 years ago. one of the world's worst industrial catastrophes were a gas leak. at

a u. s. factory left 13000 people with just after 8 pm here in moscow. and you're watching r t international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. our top story, the european commission says the e u g. 7 states and australia have confirmed their intention to introduce a $60.00 per barrel price cap on russian oil starting this monday. russia, however, has repeatedly stated it won't supply crude at prices below market value. price cap will affect oil transported by c, roots on tankers, and any future revisions of the price limit will require a unanimous vote that is planned for mid january. the mechanism of that new measure hasn't been fully agreed on yet, and the you members believe that this step will help to stem inflation and stabilize oil market prices. europe suggests that this is

a tool to stop military actions in ukraine by depleting russia's economic resources . moscow, on the other hand, has condemned the move 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. glenn 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. moscow's also lashed out at western attempts to manipulate the commodity markets are to contributor rachel marston offers her thoughts on the heating up of the energy dispute. so the european union has finally decided i $60.00 barrel ceiling

for russian oil. now i guess european commission president and de facto i'm elected queen of europe. ursula underline can brag about how europe is united for ukraine, together with our partners. we stand united and firm in our opposition to rush us, atrocious war. yeah, well that's sure 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 care of itself off of cheap russian gas, but not sure what planet she was schooled on in market economics. but for me, u. s. treasury secretary steve minucci and certainly doesn't agree with the idea of a price cap 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, he 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 in 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 truth 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 prost carpool help limit. mr. put his ability to profiteer off the oral market so that he can continue to fund a war machine that continues to kill innocent ukrainians. so we welcomed the progress at our e partners are making on this. the whole idea is to reduce rushes revenue so that vladimir putin can't spend it in ukraine or, you know, fulfill his 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 price out. so much for europe cutting off russian oil revenues. here's what the estonian prime minister cry, a callous things is happening with a price gap. 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 man's $10000000000.00 less for russia to finance a genocidal war 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 affects 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 us 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. in the meantime, germany is set to receive new supplies of country liquefied natural gas after 2 sales and purchase agreements were signed covering at least a 15 year period. these agreements went to school, several of them on the 1st long term, and then g, supply equity, and to germany with a supply period that extends for at least 15 years. this consisted,

contributing to germany is long term energy secured. they also present a combination of between the 2 thrust a quote from spot, and you can put it many years to provide the reliable kind of energy supply solutions to customers across the globe. and to the 2 gentlemen and uses the deal, which is the 1st of its kind for europe will provide germany with $2000000.00 tons of l. n. g. annually. an american subsidiary company is also part of the deal and will be responsible for the delivery of the fuel. the german chancellor has welcomes this new deal as berlin has been scrambling to replace russian imports. earlier i spoke with dr. colleen, our cotter, a specialist and monetary policy as well as political economy and cotter. and he says german energy needs will be difficult to solve in the short term. so not a little this country will strike a deal because jeremy is in need of energy and a need to diversify its sources of energy and kind of provide

a reliable and sustainable source of energy. and in the meantime, i want also to secure a long term contract in order to generate income today isn't by it's economy. i think that to country will sign a t t in the future. but this will not sure this will not solve the short term issue, energy prices in and get them any or to europe. this tend think to sign a deal with that. i'm jeremy is in meet sooner or later. you know, they are in need. i know you cannot depend on when the city i think it's be mature enough that has been signed. longer term with, with asia, with of jeremy is 15 years, mostly contracted with the east asia over 20 to 20 years to decades and even over it's been known got recently with china what the 7 years. so i'm not surprised . and on the topic of germany lacking energy,

its national football team has been left speechless and shocked, and is on its way home from carter. after a lackluster performance at the world cup. it's the 2nd consecutive time the squads failed to qualify for the next stage of the tournament after an early boot from russia 4 years ago. the german team made its headline early in the tournament for politicizing. their 1st match covering their mouth stirring the group photo to indicate their hope to promote gay rights have been, which had been apparently silenced in cutter category, fans head back by holding pictures of former german player measured oh zill, who quit the national team. after becoming a target of racist abuse from his turkish for his turkish roots rather, german interior minister nancy pfizer, criticize the awarding of this year's world cup 2 cots are specifically mentioning the human rights situations situation in the country. dr. khalid i'll katara again

says that germany and the west are hypocritical to lecture other countries on moral values or human rights. i think it was not in the possession to us on human rights on moral values because they basically they don't have it done. the certifications are mostly motivated by the supremacy and the cultural economic and political exploitation. i think said the standard, i think the german in this case, the, you know, they just signed a deal with us. and in the meantime they are choosing us. so i think tomorrow, right, i think this is a courtesy and double is done by the worst and by the gentleman in this case, or the thought is such a bad country where the bad that right. so why accept the energy understand vestments? and in this case, to you know, their income. so for a state that's a while it's human rights. so then this is a property and you have no principle and no, i think if you are accurate and if you are correct anyway. and if you are not,

then you are lying and the, using this to exploit the country and you are using it for other different purposes with a more c, or by racism, or by supremacy or whatever, or by other political, or economic or objective or to impose your culture on other nations. their details are emerging and the hunter bite and laptop scandal. twitter is new owner and mosque has confirmed claims that the platforms previous management went out of its way to sensor controversial issues surrounding the u. s. president sun. the allegations 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 files. now this is supposed to be you, i'm 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 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 bite and 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 posted on twitter or even indirect messages. so 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 to 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 virginia, again playing a key role. an amazing so plot of the twitter hunter biden 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 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 push back. and they were responding with terms like, handled to just go along with what was being requested of them without questioning why these were taught 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 voicing 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 at 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. see this tease 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 this is just getting started,

e one mask is already promising and at the so 2 of the twitter files so will likely be right back here talking about this as those really says continue 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 a legit alleged human rights violations. new 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 said former schools which were used to indoctrinate native americans into european culture. a commission concluded that over 4000 students died while attending those institutions. many 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 nation, women and children faced disproportionately higher levels of violence as well. there's also reported lack of health care facilities and emergency services in those areas. a former senior indian diplomat says it's normal for western countries to meddle with other countries relations, but then refuse to tolerate interference in its own. domestic affairs. canada is creating the problems with not only option but read many other countries,

including the russia. do think it is perfectly normal for them to interfere in the internal relations among other countries. it doesn't matter that with other countries but will not tolerate any interference and then in building. so this is zack double status, that we see from many, many countries. and the hiding behind the so called values of democracy and freedom of expression. but this doesn't, doesn't, this doesn't apply when it comes to what they decide should be the normal freedom of expression. now the thing is that they are used to this kind of thing because partly because it is part of the western world, it's protected bottom, nato. it doesn't go to a strong relationship with united states, and therefore the thing they can do these things with impunity because there will be no price to pay. 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 the people more and more see the double standards on the policy of these countries. and therefore in time in time, there will be a blowback, and they will be a price to be for this the saturday marks the 38th anniversary of the bo paul gas leak disaster in india. it's considered one of the worst industrial disasters ever to occur on earth. ortiz correspondent ruin jones sharma has a story on the 9th december, 2nd, 1984 poisonous gas leaked from an american owned factory. union carbide and spread silently throughout the sleeping city. of pope all around 3000 people died instantly. another $10000.00 died within the 1st 72 hours off the leak

. around half a 1000000 are estimated to still be suffering from side effects. this is the epicenter all 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. jackport gosh nigger 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 as 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 from a doctor 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 study every 2nd whole next to the union carbide factory has a tragic story. wounds of 1984, yet to heal wounds that are caused by an american dream him for. but now 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 . bulio goddard, were i thought my life was set off to getting a job with an american company, but it poisoned on lives forever. the union carbide sightsee 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 to you rec losses. 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 account would fall short of adequately describing the 4 gravity off the disaster. perhaps only those who lost and lived through it truly understand or were 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 quit a job with a multinational firm in the u. s. and moved to about 20 years ago to work for gas

wittons. these were the american corporations where the board of people of this country are fighting the riches and the wealthiest vibrations 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 to yes, lykins. and that is how union carbide has escaped its liability for committing literally a genocide in this 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. justice and closure i'll far from sight who's in sharma, r t. beau bog. russian forces have been demonstrating to r t, the frontline performance of its tornado. multiple rocket launcher ah,

takes only 30 seconds to determine the target and transmit that information to the divisions control points. and it's up to 2 minutes from detecting the target to opening fire. it's being used to repel ukrainian attacks of which one of the latest on friday saw the city of daniel shelter, leaving at least 5 people dead and a dozen wounded ortiz rahman, culture of reports from the ground. there 5 people who are killed and another 14 civilians were wounded as a result of indiscriminate and chaotic, ukrainian artillery shelling. now 3 of those wounded are in this hospital at the moment. they are in intensive care, and doctors are trying to do everything they can in order to save their lives. mm hm. below the stolen sheets were before patients were brought to our hospital, 3 of them were hospitalized, and the 4th was transferred to a specialized clinic. all the victims have sustained blast wounds and shrapnel injuries. this is a barbaric shell in the city. it's

a real crime to attack children, women, and the elderly in a crowded city center at the end of the working day. there are no military facilities here at all. you know, it's not some courageous act to target civilians with heavy artillery. how several people were wounds. it's a right here in this says supermarket and the adjacent pharmacy, when the ukranian nationalist showed the very center of the city of done as canal the pharmacist. kennedy. he fell to the ground immediately as the ship began. and later on he administered 1st aid. so those people who were wounded dispute not to fetch a shell, landed at a quarter to 5. at 1st, we didn't understand what was going on and thought that it was a plane. we immediately hit our visitors in the storage room. we ourselves did not realize how we ended up on the floor after the mass of explosion. the whole pharmacy was in smoke and dust. the facade was destroyed. we provided 1st aid calm

to people down and prepared bandages. thank god, it's over. i can still see the remains of the grad missile that landed right here, right next to this residential building where almost all the windows were blown out . this car caught on fire right away and now it's completely destroyed. now several people were wounded here as well. there are still blood trails on the grounds over there. now, according to my sources in the military, there is a wondering ukrainian multiple rocket launches system, a near of dave, god that says shoots indiscriminately towards the sensor of the city and then goes into hiding. now over the last couple weeks, they'd been firing in civilian areas and as a result, several people have been killed from on call for have arti don't ask. republic. meanwhile, russian bela bruce have reached an agreement to expand joint regional security.

said to be in response to growing western threats. the move was announced during a meeting of the russian defense minister and the bell russian president in minsk. this is just a new machine if they want us to live peacefully in our region without looking at how it is consider from across the ocean. both russia and belarus are ready for this. if they want to fight to the last soldier, whether it's the ukrainian, or the polish, or even mercenaries, well that's their business that's they are right. so far, for example, are intelligence services. do not see that they are ready of her full fledged negotiations and to humanly negotiate, we will do everything that bella russians half to 2 under an open, real agreement. don't doubt it. in russia, a huge fire has broken out in a building in the center of the country's northern capital st. petersburg. this amateur of amateur video shows the fire, tearing through a one story car,

accessory shop, and according to local media, the flame spread to neighboring buildings. but have almost been brought under control since then. at one point the fire was said to have been covering an area of half of kilometer report suggested broke out in the oils and our maintenance department of that store. so far, no casualties have been reported. but said for this our stick around, cuz we'll be back with more in just about 30 minutes here on our to international. ah ah ah

ah, i mentioned retents in a big welcome back to going underground of the 10 months off air where no longer incense the 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 nature of proxy war on russia through ukraine still rages on now coming back to join me from rome to talk about the global transformation we are witnessing as the guest of our last show almost a year ago, asked to crook was a top advisor to the used to factor foreign minister. he advised the use high representative, a common foreign and security policies, the founder of angio conflicts forum.