ah, ah ah, opec plus members states reportedly mol further oil production cuts that says russia says it will export to those countries which observe the use new price taps . in this week's top stories, the commission chief to lead proposed claiming 100000 ukranian officers have been killed in the war. the figures 10 times higher than the one released by ukrainian officials in august. and south africa's president faces growing corruption allegations with the national parliament to consider whether to begin an impeachment process against

ah, good morning from our international cedars in moscow on fiorella, isabel, and this is the weekly with the our and the week top news stories from around the globe welcome to the program. but 1st, to the latest news, hungary has accused the e. u. of harming its own economy with the recently agreed price cap on russian oil . that's as budapest itself has remained exempt from the oil embargo. during the negotiations on the oil cap, we thought a lot for hungarian interest, and in the end we succeeded. hungary was exempted from the application of the oil cap. once again, we have managed to protect the security of our country's energy supply. that reaction came as the e u. g. 7 states and australia confirm their intention to introduce a $60.00 per barrel price cap on russian oil. russia, however,

has repeatedly stated it won't supply crude at prices below market value. the price cap will be activated on monday in parallel with the use embargo on seaborne russian oil. the 1st revision of the new cap is planned for mid january and will need a unanimous vote to be approved. u e u. member states have said they believe the measure will help them inflation and stabilize oil prices. europe claims the new measure will help stop moscow's actions in ukraine by hitting the russian budget. picky has criticized the move, demanding the price cap be cut in half. meanwhile, moscow has strongly condemned the move and will attend the opec plus meeting on sunday to discuss the next steps for the world's oil producers. r t contributor rachel mars then picks up the story. so the ball is totally in the court of opec plus oil producing countries now led by russia and saudi arabia, as they meet this weekend to discuss how to handle the use russian oil ban. angie 7

price cap set for implementation on monday, december 5th. the e, you took a typically ideological position with its price cap and ban, and must now pretty much be holding its breath and wondering what russia and opec plus are going to do in response. that's not exactly a position of strength and control the blocks. endless tinkering has already created energy price and supply crisis to the point of d industrialization. because europe is in a reality, dependent on the fuel that it keeps trying to sanction ban price cap all for virtue signaling purposes for ukraine. european leaders keep blaming russian president vladimir putin for their own choices. you cannot count on russia. it is deliberately, from cutting the gas flows to the european union, thus normal honoring any kind of its pipeline contract. we are facing an

extraordinary situation. not only because russia is an unreliable supplier, as we have witnessed, over the last days, weeks, months, but also because rushes actively manipulating the gas market. look, if russia was really withholding energy from the u as european officials constantly claim, then why has the block been quietly and massively able to import russian liquefied natural gas since january? to the point where russia is still the blocks, 3rd largest supplier, they're paying 5 times more for it compared to last year. so about another, $13000000000.00 more. but european officials reserve accusations of price gouging for the used top l n g supplier. now the u. s. the fact is if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the u. s,

because they are selling morega in at higher prices. and because they're selling more weapons, despite all the railing against russia for being stingy with energy for europe. well, it turns out that almost half of all diesel that was ultimately supplied to europe was russian making it the blocks largest diesel supplier by a longshot. so wants to bet that despite the upcoming ban on russia diesel, that the e u has set for february. well, they might find a way to just keep importing it. speaking of which, it turns out that the share of undetermined or undisclosed buyers of russian crude has spiked considerably according to tanker tracking data. wonder who that might be . experts have also pointed out that even in the run up to next week's e u van on russian oil and the g 7 and you price cap, europe has none. the less been the talk buyer of all russian fossil fuels,

rochelle and g has to continue to flow. we need that on the global energy balance. it's already tight enough as it is. i think most european countries are indeed happy to turn a blind eye on this. so you might be wondering how much of a loss in revenues has russia actually taken since the e u sanctions? well, a 10 percent increase in revenues. compare to 2021. that's according to the russian prime minister, the whole, the gazette as the budget revenues from january to september higher than expected. they increased 10 percent compared to the same period last year of approach 20 trillion roubles. so apparently, all the e u really seems to have done with its anti russian energy sanctions for ukraine, is find a way to impose a virtue signalling tax on themselves for their own energy supply. yet another stunning achievement for the big brain bureaucrats in brussels. new details are

emerging in the hunter bite and laptops scandal, quitters, new owner. ellen musk has confirmed claims that the platforms previous management went out of their way to sensor controversial stories concerning the u. s. president, son, he allegations were brought to light by a prominent american journalists. 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 masking knows how to make a headline and he is already referring to this as the twitter files. now this is supposed to be even 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 were 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 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 is 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. an amazing, so blot 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 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 are 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 are 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 it's 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. now take 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. so this is just getting started, you want mask is already promising and episode 2 of the twitter files, so we'll likely be right back here talking about this as those releases continue. and that was our team. rachel blevins who brought us the story. we also talked to legal, immediate analysts line all who said that this, by all the hype over the story, things are unlikely to change as the democrats are far too powerful. well,

i think it will now under and eli musk administration. i've kind of tell you something. this is almost like the 1986. her aldo al capone's vault episode. they opened it up and nothing was there. we knew all this. is there anybody in the world who said i didn't know that? do you mean to tell me that that twitter is actually shadow banning and eliminating certain voices based upon merely and purely political reasons? i'm shot, we knew this. there will be a lot of filing of arms. they'll be hearings, you know, how many times all of the heads of silicon valley and big tech were marched into congress zuckerberg and jack dorsey v as zoom and jim cook from apple and they point their fingers and they threaten. this is the, this is the challenge with, this is the point. section 230,

you are uploading of the communications decency act. this is what grants these people, immunity, these corporations. if you take that away from them, it all fold, but they never talk about this. so what you see is a lot of posturing, a lot of tweeting a lot of news programs where various voice official republicans will, will lead the charge and what happens eventually nothing. i hope something can be done. i hope we don't get bored with that because sometimes that we have a 3 day attention span. we have attention span of a gnat, and there are also cases. let me also remind you, huge cases would china with s b f with a complete and total that? does this crypto collapse when you focus on one thing, the question you're going to ask is, what are you not paying attention to elsewhere? that also scares. so i cross my fingers, i hope, but i have absolutely no ling of,

of confidence that anything will ever come of this because it never does. while the knockout stage of the world cup has just begun, one of the favorites, germany is on its way home from guitar. after exiting in the tournaments group stage in a disappointing performance. aside from the poor display, german players attracted attention by covering their mouths during 18 photo to show they'd been silenced in their protest against could tarry homosexuality. laws. german interior minister nancy phaser was also critical of guitars, human rights abuses. guess unk atari. television were pictured waving the german team good by and mocking their protest. although lagoon had tori fans also displayed pictures of former germany squad player miss

suit a zill who quit the national team after facing racist abuse for his turkish roots and they weren't the only ones disappointed with the germans teams. 7 approach to the tournament back in berlin, german fans are upset. their players seem to pay more attention to politics than to their own game. but definitely this would of course, distract the team. this is a very probable reason. of course, it's a lot of stress. they must have been prussia from above. coming to school for yes, this is the likely version to be honest. all these discussions about the arm band are exclusively our domestic whims. talk to people from other countries who are participating in the world's cup. they're only thinking about football games. we only managed to turn this into a political discussion. we spoke took atari political economies specialist, doctor khalid al cutter, who thinks germany has no right to lecture guitar and push its own agenda. i think

it was not in the possession to lecture us on human rights on moral values because they basically they don't have it done. the certifications are mostly motivated by the basic supremacy and cultural economic and political exploitation and the in this to exploit the country. and you are using it for other different purposes. with a more scripted marco see, or by racism or by september seat or whatever or by other political or economic or objective or to impose your culture on other nations and discrimination is implemented among even their own citizen based on the descendant origin race problems. and these allegations, by the way, against that is losing debility now is being contact a productive and directing more attention and more people to the top. and they are

discovering the contrary to these issues. so it's actually serving us way russian forces have given r t and exclusive demonstration of how it's tornado rocket launcher is changing the game on the front lines. ah, in less than 2 minutes, the advance piece of weaponry can identify a target, transmit the coordinates and open fire. it's being used to fight back against ukrainian attacks such as fridays and don, yes, which left at least 5 people dead and a dozen more wounded. the don bass frontline is seeing the heaviest fighting, particularly near the city of audio. most russian forces i've ramped up there offensive in the area of this week, securing important footholds. this comes as the ukrainian military stuffers heavy casualties. a story covered even by western mainstream outlets. with the new york

times reporting an unending stream of ukrainian casualties at local hospitals. just this week, 240 wounded soldiers were reportedly admitted in one day. this comes amid a risk between t evan brussels over the ukrainian armies death toll. after e, you chief ursula font early and claim ukraine had lost $100000.00 officers. the staggering figure was later dismissed by keir, whose officials insisted this was classified information. it is estimated that more than 20000 civilians and more than 100000 ukrainian military officers have been killed so far. as you heard there, the chief mentioned only officers as casualties, which means regular soldiers, territorial defense units, and mercenaries are not included in the overall decimal figure. however, the video which was posted on twitter,

was edited several minutes later with the part about casualties remote. and on the commission's official website, the tax of the statement now have those parts edited out. and he, you spokesperson later claimed the death whole figure was inaccurate. adding it was obtained from unnamed external sources. however, she didn't provide any explanation on how this information ended up in founder lane, speech, author, and more correspondence. thomas roper told us such a huge figure. if true, would be catastrophic for kids. it disturbs there in the western and ukrainian narrative of the ukraine winning the war. it's interesting. i have found an announcement from the speaker of the commission who said that the figures were just incorrect. they were in estimation and who are not very correct. and so they deleted it, and they just used this figure to show the cruelty of russia. but then i have a question. does that mean that the you commission is officially lying all the time

they're talking ukraine, so we have 2 possibilities. either. there are 100000 soldiers dead, or you commission just officially said they are lying with gotten ukraine while i was there several times. nothing. the estimation of 100000 is quite correct. the problem is you have to see if it's 100000 really dead ukrainian soldiers. i think we have an additional 200000 rounded soldiers, which means altogether losses of something like 300000. this is the number of ukrainian army before the russian intervention. this will be a catastrophe. it means that you create your cradles just blotting out. ah, a recent prob reveals the south african president sterile rama fossa may have broken anti corruption laws. this is in the wake of a multi $1000000.00 money laundering scandal and an independent panel accusing him of similar crimes. according to the accusations, the president aided in covering up a $4000000.00 theft from his farm back in 2020 some 580000 of which was

subsequently found beneath his sofa cushions. the south african leader had denied all the allegations and insists he earned the money legally. while confirming a robbery took place, he said the amount stolen was much smaller than alleged. we spoke to south african locals. you have mixed reactions to the story. who got a lot of tricks. which hutch with reaching every month, my friend do you know? so the question is, how do i proceed then they don't get the tricks. you put the money in b brought, you know his places. so why come from deadman does a cushion over? i'm not personally thing that a prison must go. i just one day our politics to over think what happened if there's something that is happening in our government, it needs to be looked at truly even over the management to get. i'm saying,

not only the president, how do keep the suck money under the carpet and then you expect people not to keep that mind the odor, the cub with a lot more positive. this is to just continue to be able to know so lovely because there's no alagood this thing that, that, that but, but look what is not, it's not a follow report. what doesn't the say this? it maybe if you're not that person, if you like a person, just say your have something to say no, i'm telling the president because of this and business. so it does know that there's no judgement. the rom, afo's, his case has divided south african society with some demanding his resignation, while others claim are more pressing problems for the country to deal with. i think president sam opposite is what many, many south africans accused a consumer being. i think sir up was a spar, much risk and, and, and then jacob's humor. i mean, i mean, i mean, he's the 1st president of such

a huge amount of money are found in his, in his, in his place. and he sort of can meet it being quiet about it, the ticket jealous, but he was silly guys of africa to expose that and to start making noise about this . and i added a maybe in media as well. i, i think so. my process is as, as, as, as now find themselves in a casting issue situation. i think he's not reach out to be called to, to, to, to resign. but i think that it sort of guns can't allow themselves to be led by such a president who has been found on numerous times to the wrong side of the law and not really sure. and they don't think that changes in anything, i think sort of against real audi, doubled electricity about water and sanitation about the education of their children about their unemployment. and those are material things that democracy. she's actually at the moment we have been for almost 12 years consumed way the battles of the ass and each time it involves the president and bat, i think,

issued what he asked as of at a test to do the discretions over president of the african national congress that resume well in the 1st instance, and that we presume drama post at the moment. and that is what is consuming us away from the real things that have to get into to our own politician quality and unemployment. and you have lost a lot of time and energy on this. the same with south africa earlier this week. hundreds of people gathered to. 2 palletized the expected release of the murder of a south african anti apartheid leader. demonstrators oyster our rage outside the prison were the polish convict. janice wallace is currently being held, pending release. he was convicted for the 1993 murder of chris honie outside the victim. home avenue, i'm coming yet to demonstrate our disappointment and also our demand for an inquest

on the kidney look. what do i also doing yet today is to absorb the anger of millions of south africans who i dictated by what does up in south africa must bend up. joshua lucian, muslim, maine, it is not good. the police are government, they must do something, please. for i am here to show myself put to the kiss hung from me to the it's a c p into the amc and to the south african population in general. who believe disobey, unfortunately, den unfair that johnny's release is released on po just stays before his scheduled release. chris honey's, murderer was stabbed in prison. he's been behind bars for 3 decades, and the court's decision to free him has stirred up painful memories. artes corolla talked, le picks up the story ya,

new swallows is said to have been stabbed in his cell y, one of the inmates. and he has subsequently been rushed to hospital. the statement by the correctional services says that there was an unfortunate fare being incident and the sentiment that is really grabbing south africa on twitter and other social media platforms is why was the word and fortunate used as part of that statement of the 7029 years in prison for killing south african communist parties. general secretary, chris honey, the countries i ask what has granted parole to polish immigrant? yeah, new swallows. one of the issues at the knob of were, loses released from prison is that he must serve the rest of his parole conditions here in south africa. and was given a permanency residence by the minister of home affairs in order to keep him here. part of the deal is that he cannot use his polish passports or his identity in

order to leave the country. chris honey was considered by many as the natural successor to nelson mandela and a radical who would have brought much need a change to south africa. that judgment has seemingly opened up old wounds cuz i know for us he will never die. because i never presented aspirational for people's liberation. he was a fighter for our people who have rolled out a program to protest this thing to show our displeasure and were taken other legal steps and going forward. so this decision, as can be reversed to where we, where we are. we just coming out of a meeting, consulting our lawyers, and we've been in touch with them over the last few days to see how to take up this meta illegal. because what was done was crated arrogantly by the constitutional court, which, by the way, we want to cushion them in the seat of the coast to snow courts. when you pass judgments, when you pass just the humbling this sincere respect for them by the we

saw our guns authoritarianism, disdainful mis disrespects at obit charges basically same. we are in charge. that's absolutely none forensic um and you don't just have to take the words of his comrades. chris holly was a man loved by the people. you are the cutter jim on yours, they're not to monro far. or is there one of the community? is there a fight for something that you want to achieve to terms of the generation? the understood you manage you understood? south africans yet us to the black nation. he understood it exactly what. what is it that we wonder? does it change his mind as a sure soldier? does a soldier admin any dies, simple 5. even now we still shocked about it because you still have a quick you are supposed to be a president, of course was fighting for the rights for many the decision to release. yeah. news . why lose on payroll lives?

a bitter taste of injustice and even resentment. because he has never come clean about his motives or the people involved in his crime. for the honey family, this is a bit uphill to swallow discount keys finished. why continue? i can come to someone who can get my to my husband. i don't know if you had something that would be fed to my family to myself, to my time ended. sure. my son. so he probably clench you today, chris. honey remains a hero, not only in south africa, but beyond. and if south africa was robbed of nelson mandela by our politics, then you lose, we're loose and he's co conspirators rubbed the country of its future cannibal. it has have a lot of heat in johannesburg. those were the sour. the week's top news stories

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