ah, ah ah, remember this was i have a question for our american partners. tell us which legal act you and christina respect name, at least one of the self declared republic call to vote is western bankers over a border escalation with special forces reportedly deployed on both sides also ahead in the program. these are the backbone of the russian. not hillary here. recruit like this one daily gets a list of talk and gotten so crew that we're breaking here every day on our team. crew reports from

a flash point area on the dumbbells front. lines. observing the common boss operations upper russian artillery with a former vice chancellor of austria admits the e. u has in fact harmed itself with sanctions meant to pro, to bring more scope to its needs. at least internal twitter messages, proport the show, the platform twisted its own rules to donald trump while he listed you as president with just after one in the afternoon here in the russian capital list. monday. great. have you with us today? i'm you know, in the tensions are on the rise in the balkans. how's bell grade? say's the western back break away republic of kosovo has been violating established peace courts after the semester. they created

a monster 23 years ago and finish making it in 2008. i have a question for our american partners. tell us which legal act to you and christina respect, do respect the you and charter or resolution $1244.00 or the brussels agreement, or is it the washington agreement? the note me about it name at least one of these acts the pristine. a respects name one the you to the americans respect whilst name, at least one weeks ago. one of the protests in kosovo erupt. it on the weekend when ethnic serv demonstrators erected roadblocks to prevent the prominence serbian national from being taken by authorities to costs of those capital. cost of all officials gave the protesters a deadline to remove the barricades by sunday night. but the roadblocks reportedly remain in place. the law sir b as leader repeatedly said, belgrade is ready to officially inform nato about it will send troops into the territory, our t contributor and nicholas you shall for some more insight into events present to

the press conference after the meeting of serbian security council. and he stated that the government will stand firmly with people in council and advise them that we may not provoke in any manner international forces there that is the case for and of course the members of the coastal police forces. and he said in the same way that there are rural cations on the other side. and he said he expects. and he has speculations that may be obedient to try to conduct full flavor ration to attack the international forces and to q setups for that. so they have reason that is an excuse to attack and remove the barricades in their own blogs as well. now better kids are staying walks will still be there is also as president, would you said, you know, to be the harvest since he became president of serbia. and he said that our army

is directly on the administrative line between corso and central serbia, and that it will answer to any type of publications. if you took curtis toward the serbs situation, the currently is beautiful at the barricades, but nobody can tell with certainty what tomorrow ring. well, let's bring you an overview then over the last few days or fractures. few days, serbian armed forces were reportedly deployed to the administrative board with constable, allegedly, in response to similar measures taken by possible authorities. but its belgrade comes in for a criticism from the west. germany's foreign minister said serbia's actions were unacceptable charged, completely rejected by belgrade patrols from the use peacekeeping mission in the self declared republic then arrived at the barricades as local serbs attempted to

keep costs of o police arch of their neighborhoods. well, we discussed the potter a keg situation with a serbian political eval. if he sees western powers, have turned a blind eye to crimes committed by cost of all being the ins because it serves their own political interests. they won't rest until they have the clean possible which can join made so and you know, that's the game that's damn game have cost of all unites with all dania and to enlarge nato, the west react only one that serves that in self defense. they never react absolutely never. when close to all data is engage in aggression violence against the serbian minority. if they've made incursions into the north, they've kidnapped people or not people. they've respite people without cause. they've broken into people's houses and the nate nato, or the you haven't done

a single thing. you know, they, nobody has, has faced any consequences. you know, this is a big jeer political game and they're using a people as pawns and they don't care if there's going to be another ethnic cleansing, or another genocide inspector, encouraging kosovo unilaterally declared independence from serbia back in 2008, following a series of devastating wars in the former yugoslavia that independence has been recognized by some western countries, including the u. s. and certain you member states, while belgrade and other nations, most notably russia have always insisted that kosovo is part of serbia parallel. something drawn between the current bulk intentions on the ukraine conflict of serbia's president address the reported statement by former german chancellor angle and merkle. interesting this, she was cited by the media saying last decades,

minsk ceasefire agreements where primarily meant to give key of time to strengthen its military. oh, no. we saw that historically important statement by angela merkel. i'm surprised and i'm still checking in every way to see whether it's possible that she said that she is a woman that i greatly appreciated. for me, that statement is almost unbelievable if it is confirmed. if kiev had not wanted to fulfill the minsk agreements, that sheds a completely new light, it cannot change the fact of who attacked whom. but in many ways it changes the fact and relationships within what has been happening since 2014. and that's a clear signal to me whom you shouldn't trust. blocks under a public again, touched al knob issue thing of the west as essentially 100 kosovo. the tools to use in its independence movement. it looks the same thing the west was doing with ukraine buying a time so that it could arm itself. so it has to go to

a natal training while over the past 9 years, you know, nato has been training, postal dance. they've been building an army for them, which is totally illegal. the same practically the same situation as with many agreements and ukraine, meaning the west, that's one side here, the barriers and cost of all, and you crane care government, where the side that's not required to fulfill any part of the agreement that it's signed. thinks that it can do what it wants and actually feels that the support of the west to actually commit aggression commit ethnic cleansing ah, can, let's move the program now to developments and on bass, at least 9 people have been reported wounded in artillery shelling by ukrainian forces authority, se civilian areas where targeted in done yet, sc city,

the local officials, also state nato supplied, artillery was used along with grand rocket launchers. the latter are not precise weapons and designed to cause destruction on a wider scale. ablaze erupted out a market that was struck in the attack. dozens of residential buildings were also reported damaged, as well as a school kindergarten on a hospital. we heard from a resident of one apartment building that was head you know, they've been firing since 5 am it here right here. i fell out of the chair that came on site and there was already a fire, the windows blue out. i don't know what to do. no. well, fierce bottles had been raging on the front lines of dawn passed between russian and ukrainian forces. r t correspondent, eager shit down. i've got access to one of those flash points where he observed a russian artillery unit in action. fine, weather is hardly

a good omen here to the ukrainian theatre of war. this weekend, the gloom of december made way for tentative sunshine for russia and ukraine. it only meant they could finally take full advantage of the drones, as both armies rushed headlong into attack. these rocket miss our systems are the backbone of the russian artillery. here with every crew like this one daily gets a list of targets. and at least can be more than 10 targets long. and basically, dozens of crews like this dozens of vehicles like this. they're operating here in the forest between criminal and lima and spots of every day. the grand

walketh launcher makes an immediate escape. the slightest delay can easily turn it from creditor into prey, the sunday. so both armies attack on a collision course and russia made a point in overwhelming the enemy in artillery fire. to nip every assault in the but i feel about unit. our targets are mainly the enemies manpower. we are also targeting fortified enemy positions. if there is something more significant, we hit the headquarters, the positions of enemy artillery, our intelligence is working. so we have visual confirmations of the strikes on video the months. so would you crate russia glued prisoner exchange funds to the extent of thousands and sources on the ground? tell me over the weekend battles, have you did fresh harvest of captives for moscow soldiers duped? it out on the battlefield to the tune of cubes. fresh attacks against cities under russian control, a fiery inferno engulfed haymarket. internet's a rest,

sports of civilian bustle. in the otherwise battered city. the shelling followed an overnight high mars attack against a holiday recreation center. in milly, topple, local officials revealed it left at least 2 people killed. and 10 wounded. all expectations that russia's infamous winter frost could push both sides towards a low and the fighting, shattered against bloody reality. the endless darkness of war is all that dwells in the morbid conflict between russia and ukraine. i'm a good done of reporting from the dumbass r t k to another of our headline stories to day. a former austrian vice chancellor has admitted that the western sanctions against russia have backfired, causing great damage to the e. use economy that we've been through a lot lately,

which survived the sanctions policy that misled us under the pretext that the sanctions policy would bring russia to its knees. the russians have doubled their business. there is no question of bringing russia to its knees. it's all on the country, we say how austria homes itself and how europe homes itself, where we ourselves actually suffered more from the sanctions. and we see rising prices for electricity and gas for food and europe. more, more people will suffer from this. so after the european union cutting itself off from russian oil and russian gas, european industry and households can't afford to pay the high costs of the remaining gas, either that's in the reserves or imported liquefied natural gas from the us, priced at 2 to 4 times the u. s. market rate as french president imagined macklin complaint to joe biden during his state visit to the white house earlier this month . so europe made a mass of its own economy with its own sanctions and is forcing every one to lie in this mass. as european politicians are now routinely pointing out foolish,

the problem is we're going to destroy what's left over from our industry. the few businesses who stayed are contemplating moving to another country, for example, to the u. s. where energy is much cheaper. one last thing, the genius of our ecologists and our elliots. you noticed that with the conflict and ukraine we gave up on russian gas and rushed towards american guess the famous ellen. gee, you noticed that even the cold just stopped criticizing this type of guess? what do you know where it comes from? jessica, as for russian, guess it's putting her stop deliveries towards europe, not in cable. no, it's us who boycotted the russian guest supplies. we said we don't want it any more . and he said, we will not supply to you any more than it's been far too long since european commission president ursula vander line, promised europeans, some relief. even as energy bells continue to pile up. so what's brussels brilliant idea to fix its mass to cap the price of gas? now, it seems that they're desperate to fix the situation of their own making as kremlin

spokesman dmitri passcode explains amid the absurd and frantic desire as the european se to get rid of their dependence on russia. they do not say at the same time that they want to exchange one dependence for another. that is, they have now changed their dependence on russia for dependence on american liquefied natural gas. it's exactly the same dependence. there is much less reciprocity. and now when the europeans lose billions of euro's every day, the united states is now earning billions of dollars there. but there's another problem. the european commission knows full well. that setting the cat to low could mean screwing up the blocks energy market even more than it already has. there's also the question of which countries could actually stop selling gas to europe altogether. because, well, since when does the customer demand a certain price that they will pay? we're talking about global energy markets here by the e is basically saying that it wants to haggle over the price of gas. like it's

a dog eared 4th hand comic book on sale at the local neighborhood draw sale even the european central bank is warning of the risk of financial instability with this move as are some you countries like germany and the netherlands. the european commission knows the risks, which is why it's just paying lip service to the idea with a price caps so high. that is virtually useless. a $275.00 euros per megawatt hour . europe's natural gas is trading right now at about a $135.00 euros per megawatt hour. and even at that price, people and businesses are struggling. so there are 12 you countries now demanding a lower price cap somewhere between $200.00 and a $150.00 euros. and those 12 countries could very well, vito, anything hire as the blocks energy ministers meet to tackle this issue. this week.

not only has brussels jeopardized, its own energy security and economic security, but also its military security, as it ships its weapons off to ukraine. that hasn't gone unnoticed either by european political and industrial figures. melchor's stalks have disappeared altogether, but who continues the sands, arms, and ammunition to zalinski? let's stop this complete madness. brenda's fair. previously it had more than 2000 leopard 2 tanks. now there are about $300.00 of them. it may still be able to defend osburg with them, but not berlin. the good news is that it's still not too late to pull out of the nosedive, but unfortunately the pilots at the controls here in europe seem more interested in proving that everyone is on board and united as they hurdle towards earth cheering . bam, take that boon will. as rachel just took us through, the e. u has been bearing the brunt of the anti russian sanctions. in particular,

the blocks largest economy, germany. now some of its top manufacturers struggle with the worsening energy crisis. high natural gas prices have created a situation where importing ammonia from overseas was cheaper than manufacturing it ourselves. it's the company's biggest crisis since the 2nd world war, where living hand to mouth. germany's industrial sector has been had particularly hard by disruptions in supplies of russian natural gas. the majority of companies in the recent survey said they would consider reducing production or halting it completely to cope with escalating energy costs a while german struggle to heat their homes. this winter, the former german colony of namibia has invited them to come, enjoy the warmer climes of southern africa that humans a welcome to come here. now me be is known as german. his little sister would have said is that look like the german cities. this is your 2nd home here,

a piece of germany in africa. you can live and work here at cheer in the winter. you dont have to fear the high heat and costs in germany. and like in germany there is no threat of a black out here. we always have electricity. yes, an intriguing invitation isn't just going through it. the movie has introduced a specialties of her so called digital nomads, facilitating temporary residency for germans who can at work remotely to qualify. one must have an income of at least 2000 euro a month, which the government says would be more than enough to have a nice life in the nation. including with traditional germans staples beer on worth . but not every african country is not welcoming of germans, south africa's ambassador to russia, how strongly criticized berlin's energy policy towards the continent. the germans are quite aggressively pursuing their policy in search of new markets. they came to south africa to discuss green energy transition issues. at the same time,

they themselves increased the import of coal from south africa on a huge scale. the irony lies in the fact that south africa has practically suspended the production and use of coal for its own needs, and now sells it to germany. earlier this month, germany is a colony minister made headlines when on a trip to south africa and the may be called on both of those countries to resume coal mining for export. despite continuous western pressure for the continent to switch to green energy, we heard from ain and libyan journalist essays african states must be treated fairly in global trade. the way geopolitics have changed now is speed. that's the world that's looking at to check the lucky co partners, just like everyone has, has been calling for our presume that some of the sentiments are very critical. that maybe people who bit africa from. and they explained that you will get other than people that are looking at, like they're dealing with an equal partner in terms of trade, africa is pretty much be needed by any other if i took the water at ease to

regularly. but i think now it's even more interesting that at the interest in africa proceed from originations is becoming bigger. the question whether is that, where the african countries doing enough tip, the maximum or that could come with this avalanche or interest bead from the e or anywhere else are in the world. and also the relationship between africa. impression in general, it's been that did put it i think it was at so many as bring back into colonial times in africa was to fight its independence. may be the what is that, you know, she was like if the relationship between africa, english, it keeps depending and also keeps growing. then the context and the fight to access africa or materials might actually be difficult. africans might end up failing to do, maybe that i should try to not in a story we've been following for quite some time. now the new boss are twitter. ellen musk has been direct. he says the company seems right now like both a social network and a crime scene. after

a leak of internal company shouts alleged to show the platform broke its own rules to bound. then u. s. president donald trump, in the past we exam to to policy violation from a world leader due to the public interest value. i'll be dropping the public interest now and any new violation could be a trigger for me to understand. in this specific case where a change in our public interest approach for his account to say any violation would result in suspension. the ban on trump violated twitters policy of on bias, moderation and recently exclaim, that company staff had spent months seeking a way to do it. the internal messages appeared to show that some employees initially resisted calls to bomb been president trump, but the pressure soon ramped up on the move went ahead. this might be an unpopular opinion, but one off ad hoc decisions like this that don't to pay a rooted in policy or in my humble opinion as slippery slope. this now appears to

be a fit by an online platform seo with a global presence that can gate keeps speech for the entire world. while it's become apparent that either must have been supporting efforts to expose allege wrongdoing by vague companies former management that includes claims twitter staff had suppressed information that could of been unflattering to democrat joe biden, as he was running for president 2 years ago. while leaks purport to confirm the platform used a so called shadow banning system to limit the visibility of tweets by conservative users. we spoke to broadcaster and political commented, or steve gill, who stays mosque is trying to rehabilitate twitter after deceitful moves by the company's pos management. i think because we're seeing what's actually in the twitter files, the emails that went back and forth. what we're saying can be trusted is interesting. you're not seeing the f, b i that the intelligence agencies,

the other businesses. they're not denying the accuracy of these emails and tweets. they don't like them, but they're not denying the accuracy. and i think as we see more and more coming out and it looks like the next big trying to information is going to relate to what was being done with coven vaccines. we now have a senior officials with some of the vaccine companies at bidding that it was not tested as thoroughly was not as safe as they claim. so this goes beyond just the political entry that was being dealt through twitter. it goes to be propaganda. that was put out there was forcing people into vaccines that were not nearly as safe as we were told, not as test because we were told. so a lot more revelations are going to come to light that i think are going to be found credible by those who are actually in the arena. are they just donald trump that they were banding? they were banding conservative voices, they were banding, other media outlets. they were even banding comedy sites like babylon be, and others that were satirical. they were doing anything they could to silence

anything that would hurt the by did ministration. the intelligence officials who were operating with them department of justice officials who were cooperating with them. this was essentially a 2 in the dark at twitter and now it's coming to light and hopefully that will be full prosecution of those who are involved. i think ultimately trump will return to twitter and full force in part because his alternative truth social has not got the traction. i think you would have liked. and i think all of the attention on twitter, people coming back to twitter, lead donald trump, to look for where he can have the loudest voice. i think moving forward, that's going to be back to twitter. steve has taken us to the end of this 2nd used block. now, how possible is a negotiated end to the conflict in ukraine? that is the question. the cross talk crew are grappling with today, and it's right ahead 6. mm ah

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[000:00:00;00] ah, hello and welcome to cross stock. were all things are considered on peter level? what is the possibility of a negotiated end to the conflict in ukraine? there are some indications. nato has shifted its position from total victory on the battlefield to the need of negotiations. at this point, this is unclear. the biggest barrier of course, is the lack of trust. ah, discuss these issues and more. i'm joined by my guess, glen these and in our slow, he's a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of the book, great power politics in the 4th industrial revolution. and here in moscow, we have to meet 3, bob and she is a political analyst and editor,

and he knows me internet media project or gentleman cross our roles and the fact that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciated. ok, so i was going in oslo. glenn, you know, with the over the last week, couple of weeks here with getting a lot of mixed signals out of nato to the point it seems to me looking at their discourse, is that it's turning into a modicum of panic. i'm worrying about escalation and the were the need for negotiation on the rhetoric that ukraine is, winning seems to be fading away. so read the tea leaves for me. what do you, where we are, where are we right now? go ahead. well, in any conflict it's, it's not easy, but it's possible to foresee when each party will be inclined towards negotiating. so for example, when both sides believe they can win this little chance of negotiation. obviously,

nano has been quite optimistic that they could, that they could win, which is why a lot of the rhetoric has been very, very wallace, color aggressive. so russia will be defeated on the battlefield as forest. johnson said, you know, bad piece will not be accepted. and so essentially, nothing short of a full victory would be acceptable. some even talked about it taking back crimea and you know, so it was very extreme. but now of course, we said the winds have changed to some extent that the green army a suffered vary greatly on the battlefield. now, how much of the manpower and the equipment has been exhausted? the ability to supply them is also reduced significantly or so. the weapon store just across to on being depleted. also the economic impact on this is causing much concern, especially in europe. as a result, you will see the political will and to continue this war, also declining. so so there's