a with ah, opec plus members saith reportedly, mol further oil production cuts that says russia says it, whoa at fort to those countries which observe the use new price come in this way. talk new stories. the ear commission chief delete play post claiming 100000 ukranian officers have been killed in the war. the figure is 10 times higher than the one relief by ukrainian officials in august. and south africa president faces growing corruption allegations with the national parliament to consider whether to begin an impeachment process against them.

ah, a very good morning for martini internationalist studios in moscow. m. fiorella isabel in this is the weekly with the, our and the week top news stories from around the globe. welcome to the program. let's begin with the latest news hungry has accused the e. u. of harming its own economy. with the recently agreed price cap on russian oil that says budapest itself has remain 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 gap on russian oil. russia, however,

has repeatedly stated it won't supply crude 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. you member states have said they believe the measure will help stem inflation and stabilize oil prices. europe claims the new measure will help stop moscow's actions in ukraine by hitting the russian budget. but kia has criticize the move, demanding, the price can 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 oil producers. our teeth 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 e use russian oil band and g 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 and was tinkering has already created an 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. i'm cutting the gas flows to the european union,

thus normal honoring any kind of its pipeline contracts. we are facing an extraordinary situation, not only because russia has 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 e. 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 in either $13000000000.00 more. but european officials reserve accusations of price gouging for the use 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 weeks, you ban 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. russian hill 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 use sanctions? well, a 10 percent increase in revenues compared to 2021. that's according to the russian prime minister, the hooded reject 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. probably. 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 virtue signaling tax on themselves for their own energy supply. yet

another stunning achievement for the big brain bureaucrats in brussels. and new details are emerging in the hunter. biden laptops scandal, twitters new owner, ilan mosque has confirmed claims that the platforms previous management went out of their way to spencer controversial stories concerning the u. s. president, son. 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 masking knows how to make a headline and he is already referring to this as the twitter files. now this is supposed to be a line 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 is what was subtle and 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, entrust virginia ged, 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 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 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 of this t's 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 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. so as a minute, this is just getting started. iran mask is already promising an episode to of the twitter files, so we'll likely be right back here talking about this as those releases continue. that was our tease rachel blevins who brought us the story. we also talked to legal and media analyst lionel, who said that despite 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 an ellen 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 sure we knew this. there will be a lot of filing of arm is 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 chim 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 or 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 boy officials, republicans, will, will lead the charge and what happens eventually nothing. i hope somebody can be done. i hope we don't get bored with that because sometimes that we have a 3 day attention span. we are the 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 dis, crypto collapse? when you focus on one thing, the question you going to ask is,

what are you not paying attention to elsewhere, that also scares. so i crossed my fingers, i hope, but i have absolutely no feeling 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 their poor display, german players attracted attention by covering their mouth stirring a team photo to show they'd been silenced in their protest against the tarry homosexuality laws. german interior minister nance phaser was also critical of guitars, human rights abuses, guess on guitar, a television. we're pictured waiving the german team, good bye and mocking their protests. ah, although lagoon

could tarry fans also displayed pictures of former germany squad. player miss suit us, so who quit the national team after facing research abuse 1st turkish routes. and they weren't the only ones disappointed with the german teams approach to the tournament. back in berlin, german fans are upset that 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 pressured from above. as old 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. we only managed to turn this into a political discussion. we spoke took atari,

political economy specialists, doctor khalid al cotter who thinks germany has no right to lecture guitar and push its own agenda. i think it was not in the position to look at us on the human rights on moral values because they basically, they don't have it on the side. issues are mostly motivated by the success of cultural economic and political exploitation. and they are using this to exploit company and you are using it for other different purposes with a c or by racism, or by supremacy or whatever, or by a political, or economic or objective or to impose your culture on other nations. and discrimination is implemented amongst even their own citizen, based on this new city descendant origin. reese, i'm calling, you know, i'm do these allegations by the way again. so papa is losing credibility. now. i'm

just being counter productive and attracting more attention and more people to the tournament. and they are discovering the contrary to this accusation. so it's actually serving us when russian forces have given r t an exclusive demonstration of how it's tornado rocket launcher. is changing the game on the front lines. ah, in less than 2 minutes, the advanced piece of weaponry can identify a target, transmit the coordinates, an 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 front line is seeing the heaviest fighting, particularly near the city of already almost russian forces have ramped up there

offensive in the area this week, securing important footholds. this comes as the ukrainian military suffers 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 rift between ki evan brussels over the ukrainian armies just toll. after you, chief ursula fonder lay and claim ukraine have lost $100000.00 officers. the staggering figure was later dismissed by kit whose officials insisted this is 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 death will figure. however, the video which was posted on twitter was edited several minutes later with the part about casualties removes and on the e. u commissions official website. the tax of the statement now have those parts edited out. and he, you spokesperson later claimed the death toll 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 funder lay and 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 of their talking to ukraine? so we have 2 possibilities. either there are 100000, so just dead, or you commission just officially said they are lying. when we got ukraine while i was there several times, and i think 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 $200100.00 soldiers, which means altogether losses of something that we have the 1000. this is the number of ukrainian army before the russian prevention. this will be a catastrophe. it means that you quit your cradles just blotting out. oh, a recent prob reveals the south african president, cyril 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 and covering up a $4000000.00 saft from his farm back in 2020 some 580000 of which was subsequently found beneath his sofa cushions. the south african leader has denied all the allegations and says 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 local to have mixed reactions to the story. who got a lot of tricks, which has with every chin every month, my friend dinner. so the question is that why precedent they don't get the tricks. you put the money in bees brought, you know his places. so why come from that money? doesn't cushion over. i'm not personally thing that a priest in moscow. i just want to add the,

our politics to over think what happened if there's something that is happening in our government, it needs to be look at throughly, even over the management to get. i'm saying, not only the president, how do keep the such money under the carpet, and then you expect people not to keep that money out of the cab with rama positions if you just continue to pay per signal so lovely because there's not allocate the disney that that, that, that, that, that, but with what is not, is not a follow up report. what does in the say this, it maybe if you just that person, if you had a person, just say you have something to say, no, i am telling the president because of this and business. so there's no other than that. there's no judgement. ramirez, his case has divided south african society, what some demanding his resignation, while others claim there are more pressing problems for the country to deal with. i

think president, i'm sam, opposite is what many, many south africans accused a consumer being. i think sir, up of the spar, much risk and, and, and then jacob, summa, i mean, i mean, i mean, the 1st prison just such a huge amount of money are found in his, in his place. and there was a sort of can meet it being quiet about it, he had to take a jealous, but he was silly guys of africa to expose that and to start making noise about this . and i think maybe in media as well. and i think so i'm a process as, as, as, as, as now find himself in a casting issue situation. i think his language out to be called to, to, to, to resign. could i think i did it sort of guns con, allowed themselves to be led by such a president to has been found on numerous times to the wrong side of the law and not really sure. and i don't think that changes in anything. i think of, of, against really out about electricity, about water and sanitation about the education of their children about their

unemployment. and those are material things that democracy should 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 that i think i should worry us as so sat a test to do the indiscretions over president of the african national congress, lima in the 1st instance. and that we president obama post at the moment. and that is what is consuming us away from the real things that have to get in to our own poets. we credited and unemployment and we have lost a lot of time and energy in the states staying with house africa earlier this week . hundreds of people gather to protest the expected release of the murder of a south african anti apartheid leader, demons shaders, voice or outrage outside the prison, where the polish convict janice lawler says is currently being held, pending release. he was convicted for the 1993 murder of chris honey outside the

victims home. andrew, i'm coming yet to demonstrate our disappointment and also our demand for an inquest on the keeping of casino. what do are also doing it today is to absorb the anger of millions of south africans who agitated by what does live in south africa must bend up. joshua lucian must remain here. is not good. temple is our government. they must do something please. for i am here to show my support to the kiss hung from me to the se cbt into the amc and to the south african population in general. who believe disobey, unfortunately didn't unfair that johnny loose is at least on poles just days before his scheduled release. chris honeys, murderer was stabbed in prison. he's been behind bars for 3 decades,

and the course decision to free him had stirred up painful memories. r t corolla tot 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 unfortunate used as part of that statement of the 729 years in prison for killing south african communist parties, general secretary chris honey. the countries highest quote has grunted parole to polish immigrant. ya, 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 woods cause i know for us you will never die. cuz i never presented aspirational with 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. what i did this decision as can be reversed, where we, where we are, we just coming out of a meeting, consulting them, 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 treated arrogantly by the

constitutional court, which, by the way, we want to caution them in the seat of the constitutional courts. when you pass judgments, when, who passed just the the humbling this sincere we respect for them by the we saw our guidance, authoritarianism, disdain fullness, disrespect at a bit. charges basically saying we are in charge. that's absolutely nonsensical. and you don't just have to take the words of his comrades, chris, honey, was a man loved by the people yours, their cottage amman, yours, they're not to. monro far, rose, their men of dignity. is there a fighter for something that you want to achieve? the returns of the generation, he understood you manage, you understood sabbath cuz he had a stick of black. may shoot, you understood it exactly what. what is it that wonder? does it take this man as a sure soldier? does this george at edmund any guys simplified?

even now we still shocked about date, was the steward course. you are supposed to be a president. of course you are fighting for the rights for many the decision to release. yeah. lose. why lose on payroll leaves 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. you skunky, she finished why? this continued, if i can come to several of her, she's my to my friend. i don't read you had suddenly said to my family to myself, to my time ended, charlotte and her son. so you probably think over today chris honey remains a hero, not only in south africa, but beyond. and if south africa was robbed of nelson mandela by a part of kate,

then you lose were loose and his co conspirators robbed the country of its future cannibal. it had to have a lot of heat in johannesburg. and those were this our and the week's top news stories from around the world for more up to the minute news updates had over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on rumble. odyssey and gab, thanks for tuning. and we'll see you again at the top of the next hour. ah ah ah ah.