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since we're not almost a people for me, it's time to move on and see what we tend to fall. the tumbler said committee to return back home. there is no support from the nomination. high commissioner, again, united miss, i don't care about chug or send people the headlines off you international. the price of natural gas spike. $1200.00. a 1000 cubic meters. offer an explosion that a keep high finance touch or russia to transport to dance from siberia, europe. companies in poland and germany active, secure russian oil imports for the next one year. to find warsaw being one of the most vocal supporters of related to price cap on russian energy use, electricity is being restored in russia as belgrade region talk to ukrainian, shutting left almost up to $50.00 without power under civilian wounded soul.
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according to local authority, on twitter, file number 7 is showing no trace to russian meddling is 105 laptops dog. however, it does show lindsay of the input from the b i the to have with us for this i was program live from most good. this is so 3 people have a portly died and one has been injured in a huge explosion on the gas pipeline in a part of central russia. the video right now, you see which we understand was a short nearby. at the scene, you can see the fire smoking, emergency surf, say, leak in an underground pipeline led to the blast, and subsequent blaze of the line transports gas from western siberia to europe and crosses the russian. you premium border at the quarter screech and unused on the
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explosion, though the end of the day did caused the price of gas in europe to jump know it all comes off to the european union on monday, adopted at the highest level. it will pay for a gas that $180.00 heroes per megawatt per hour to give a sense of number gas prices. briefly reach $340.00 euros in august, but since deflated the move was decided despite opposition from several influential states within the block, including hungry and the netherlands. and here's the take on this, the volunteer contributor rachel must. while the ink is even dry on this new e gas price kept struck today and already the hungarian foreign minister is sounding the alarm on more potential tinder are being added to this total dumpster fire of bad policy that the block has created for itself. it's too bad that doesn't keep us warm here in the you because everything would be all set. so have a listen to the hungarian foreign minister. what he had to say. the price come to
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be introduced to natural gas is bud harmful and dangerous, but it's still being introduced despite this. so today it's another big bottle with brussels. now hungry knows what it's talking about. when it comes to price caps, they tried imposing a cat on gasoline and diesel prices just in the past year. specifically to protect hungarian households in the run up to the countries parliamentary elections in april. and they ended up having to nick, sit earlier this month. why? because foreign companies cut their fuel shipments to hungary, causing supply shortages. now that led to panic, buying and long lines gas station. so it's no wonder that hungry voted against the european union. now trying to do pretty much the same thing and capping the price, it now says that it will be willing to pay for gas ostensibly to project european households. so this price cap of a $180.00 euros is well below the $275.00 euros that the european commission wanted, which would have been so high that you have to wonder, it's almost ridiculous. you have to wonder if they just wanted to make
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a symbolic p r gesture with all of this. just to be able to tell your opinions, look, we're doing something for you while actually doing nothing. if only because doing virtually anything else. risk screwing up, supply and pricing for the e you more than they already have. every time they pound the desk, slap on anti russian sanctions than wait to see what other damage they've caused for themselves. this time, a handful of european countries wanted a much lower cap and the energy minister of one of those nations reese cost us struck us. has said that quote, anything between 150, under 190 euros to a 100 would work. i think a 188 will give the right signals to the markets. not sure that the european union has inspired much confidence as the market whisperer when energy and inflation are so high as resulted 3rd policies. the german gas lobby had said earlier today that
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the idea of controlling gas prices was a quote, political illusion that was destined to fail in practice. that sounds like a pretty logical assumption if one was looking at this through the prism of actual, you know, logic and reason. but as usual for the e u, it's all about virtue signaling about unity cheering, about having come to an agreement, whatever that may be. making europeans think that they're doing something to help the average person, even though the whole reason, the average citizen is in this whole mass to begin with is precisely because of the use constant tinkering. or meanwhile, are a number of companies in poland and germany have apply to secure deliveries of russian oil over the next year. but as despite the western price caps on sanctions that a targeting the russian energy industry, the head of an oil pipeline company, trans nafta, believes businesses in europe are increasingly starting to look out for themselves . a good deal of political here. if boys come up with the politicians from poland
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are one thing, but they're also the rational representatives of business in authorities who understand very well the consequences of this absolutely absurd rhetoric on their economy. although they announced that from the 1st of january, they would not be taking oil from russia. we've recently received applications from polish consumers for 3000000 tons of oil for next year, and 360000 tons for december alone. and germany has already applied for deliveries in the 1st quarter, and then you cover the application comes with the e. he sets a price cap of $60.00 per barrel on russian crude. or the limits applied earlier this month is said to be aimed at depriving moscow of funds to conduct its military operation in ukraine. however, the cap also sees existing sanctions relaxed, allowing european countries to buy russian oil. i'll be it at the cap price. most a vocal proponent of the plan, poland at early a, sorta higher price ceiling than what was eventually agreed upon your most reduced.
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but you were supposed to you, we cannot go back to this to pity to this bad in criminal policy, which turned countries dependent on russia in offered food. and petro dollars was euros in dollars. so that putin in russia could build a war arsenal and can attack its neighbors. today, we are presenting the most radical plan in europe to move away from russian hydrocarbon away from russian oil rushing gas from rushing coals. this most radical plan is needed him ugly. talk over some shudder and not the rushes belgrade region where ukrainian artillery show the border area, leaving at least one person wounded this all according to local authorities. the power outages have also been reported as a result of the onslaught. the electricity supply has now been restored a truck no damaged warehouses and production facilities in one industrial zone and emergency cruise as we understand continue to work in that region. meanwhile, ukrainian artillery has also hit a civilian hospital in don, yet for the 2nd time in 24 hours,
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local authorities say residential buildings and the kindergarten also came under fire. well, a correspond that remaining in the region is roman cousin ref o ukrainian or artillery struck the city of the nest shortly before midnight on monday once again, one of the largest hospital here in dunn boss had been targeted, were standing right next to the building and number 10, that was suffered at direct i hit by a mo, from a multiple launch a rocket system. as the result, at least one person was heavily wounded as the result of this attack a day prior to this. so 2 people had been killed as another building building number 6 and you are surgery departments was a stronger as well. now that building behind me it houses administration as well as a day time clinic. now it shuts at 4 pm and opens at 7 o'clock in the morning. so
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thankfully there was no one there except for the caretaker. now, once again, it was struck by ukrainian artillery by a grabbed missile. and we actually found the shell that was used. and i spoke to a ballistics expert narrow, this is a model for modified solve, yet shell produced in slovakia. it's $122.00 millimeter a shell. and once again, maidens slovakia and supplied to ukraine by and made. so countries and these are the kinds of shelves that have been used against a civilians here in den eskoville last month or, or so, of course, many people people had been killed and many more were injured as the result of these a chaotic and indiscriminate attacks against the sensor, various calibers of weapons are being used against dividends here. and then as i
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grabbed myself like what i just showed you, and of course the other calibers are much higher. 15552 millimeter. and of course, they cause a lot of destruction. many of the weapons that are being used to include the cluster munitions as well with that is designed to inflict as much damage as possible. so cool of the salon yesterday around a p. m. there was the 3rd shelling in a week. the hospital and administrative buildings were damaged, doctor's provided assistance, a doctor on duty managed to hide behind a safe. but the walls are almost completely damaged. about 90 percent of the windows have shattered. there's no heating, 3 artillery strikes in a small area within one weeks. time is already a pattern. shooting out a hospital is a war crime. the staff are fighting for the lives of those wounded people are being helped as much as possible. we continue to work as much as we can. yesterday there
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was damage to the neuro surgical building. the staff are continuing their work, no matter what. today they all came to work to help people. our duty is above all else receive trans, has condemned rwanda of her backing m. 23 insurgents who are fighting against the democratic republic of congo forces in the eastern part of the dia. the asi, a paris says called upon the size to follow a regional piece process established in neighboring countries. france condenser on to support for the m $23.00 group and calls for the lawanda and they were all be processed to be fully implemented. however, earlier there were wondering, the president denied all the accusations, saying that conflict in the d r. c is not his problem. the problem was not created by rhonda and it is not drawn this problem. it is congress problem. i cannot be responsible for congolese or rwandan descent in congo who are being denied did.
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rights of citizens was speaking just about other in the program with ortiz, catabolic cutler. and he told us about the relationship between france and re wonder and the french role in the history of that part of the world. relations between rhonda and france have been testy and they even reached a point of very little relations and communication between the 2 countries. this follows of course i choose agent that one has made of a front of the culpability that paris head with regards to that one. the genocide that happened in that country in 1994. the one that has always had a problem with the role that it says front flayed during the genocide in 1994. in rwanda, then they have made, they have opened cases against people that they deem to be responsible. and we're talking and condemning priests were talking see me ranking military officials of
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the hutus who committed these crimes on the, to the minority in rwanda. now, despite these cases being opened, as far back is $995.00 from to dig a later, we still have to have a trial in france or an extra edition of these would be a choose person to stand trial in rwanda. the f b i metal in the hunter abide and laptop scandal and sought to censor it on twitter of according to a brand new series of twit so revelations. the 7th trunk of twitter fall shows that despite hysteria about russia meddling about 2020 elections or twitter saw a little to no indication of we all removing 2 distinct networks of accounts. the 1st network of accounts totaling approximately 345 were law to be inactive. the 2nd network of accounts total approximately 10. the accounts included in this enforcement action have little reach and low follow accounts. one,
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what we saw in these twitter files is basically an admission from twitter that russia's social media diabolical, social media, threat to american democracy, was very much imaginary. actually, still, that didn't stop the f b i from pressuring twitter into giving the mainstream media, whatever it possibly could to point the finger at russia, but pretty much every time it came up empty, and every time it came up empty, twitter was forced to admit that it's all lot of insinuations, but not a lot of evidence. don't know what about, what about the, let's just address that of hunter biden's laptop. the whole, the whole scandal around that because the end of the day it's getting mentions now, although it was essentially swept on the carpet when it started coming out. right, right. well, i mean, this is actually a key issue in the last us presidential election, and it was also something that us intelligence officials almost immediately back then denounced as some sort of fake russian propaganda story. i mean,
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it was the perfect justification for the f. b, i to pressure twitter into suppressing that story and that's exactly what it did. this is justin from experts which brings through is there was a had that happen separately and they loaded the hacked materials from the laptop the magically appeared at the repair shop in delaware, were recommending a warning plus the investigation been in further information. now there's even speculation that twitter got a heads up about this story ahead of time because actually twitter was sent 10 different documents from the f b i just a day before the new york post publish this story. and just hours after the article went public, twitter suppressed, of course, again, we don't have any confirmation of that, but doesn't seem unreasonable. so, i mean, do you think you think it's fair to say that the f b, i was putting a lot of pressure on twitter or what are your thoughts? well, based on what we've seen in these twitter files, the f b, i did everything it could to get as much as possible from twitter. and there was even talk of them, potentially bringing in congress people into it. let's take a look at what that said. we have seen the sustained, if
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a coordinated effort by the intelligence community to push us to share more information, they are probing and pushing everywhere they can, including by whispering to congressional staff. this pressure from the f b i seems to have been so frequent and so intense that twitter was even paid over $3000000.00 just to process the bureaus requests. a lot of a lot of these requests even were met with demands from twitters management for a warrant that they, they must have been so potentially in breach of people's privacy. right. so this journalists that released all this, he's already calling for an investigation, and i'm sure you know, a lot of people who are following the story would be unlikely to object to that. so glad to have your company for this program for moscow. so get this neo nazis and white supremacist thought the biggest threat to western society today. that's according to the un secretary general, antonio gutierrez, who highlighted the role of right wingers in the recent qu,
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with typed in germany. it has been demonstrated that the biggest sweats of federalism to day in western countries come from the extreme rides, mule, nazism, and white supremacy. these is clearly a strength and we must fight that threat within almost determination. and what has happened in german? he's just one of the examples of this, this threats to, namely, to democratic societies that on pool earlier this month, a $25.00 members of a german right wing group whoa rested on suspicion of trying to overthrow the government. officials say the suspects include members of several, far right extremist groups. gutierrez, however, made no mention of right wing groups in ukraine such as the neo nazi asoft battalion or i dar, which have been accused of exploiting the war to spread their ideologies. one british soldier who joined amazon has defended them claiming they are quote,
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decent guys. by accident i joined dissolve unit. that would have been my last choice of a unit to go to, but i'm pretty glad i did. they're not the monsters in psychos that i would envisage neo nazis to be. i mean, they're not all like that. a lot of them are decent guys just with stupid views. of course, like now to thomas roper ortho and war correspondent to what take this conversation . father, always great to see you. thomas. thanks for coming on the program. on this tuesday, you heard it right back with yet as, as, as quite rightly highlighted the dangerous rise of the far right in europe. but no mention whatsoever of the far right in ukraine. your thoughts? well 1st of all, it's interesting that called terrorist seeing this just a few days ago there was, there was a lucian against new naturism fascism. and it seemed phobia in the u. n. in the general assembly, which was denied by the west. so when they say this is dangerous,
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or i asked whether vote in the general assembly of the united nations against that regarding ukraine. yeah, well, i have been in one of the headquarters of the, as i've been a battalion variable. and this was really actually a museum of especially symbols. there were even icons with hitler. i haven't seen this before. so yeah, no way to commend it. we have to remember that terrors from a native state and where it came from politically so that it's understandable, but there's nothing objectively. right? and guess what? he said, having it might just just going to say sort of a jumping it, but i remember about 678 years ago the u. k. press, for example, daily mail, yellow pages, the saw all that kind of stuff. they actually had, they briefly had front pages showing all this kind of neo non c symbolism and paraphernalia in parts of ukraine that was showing this front page on the u. k. press 678 years ago. now there's no mention of it at all. i mean, thomas,
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i wanted to ask you, ukraine is going all out to join the e u right now. now it has been proven thereon neo nazi battalions, a neo nazi ideologies in that country. that shouldn't be a fear for european politicians to embrace this country. if indeed it is wielding neo nazi ideologies, well put it another way. they should fear if they are honest about their fear of this. i don't, georgie. but if they invite a country with this geology, what does this say about brussels and the youth? this is the question i would ask because examples for this i georgia, we have ukraine, very much. i even your nose news showed kids camp where, where the kids of 10 years old were trained to some cars. actually, cars about told the russians or more people that you can, you are not a lot of people, but this is not, does not concern russian because they are more people. so this think and ukraine west and you know about this, and now they forgot about that. they're just have to look at the archives. so is it
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a concern when you think about the past 8 plus months when billions of dollars worth and billions of pounds worth of weapons have been flowing pumped into ukraine as the american states secretary defense, he said, he said russia has got to bleed for this conflict in ukraine, so they really are trying to make russia bleed. but at the same time, a lot of these weapons are landing off in the hands of lapse of neo nazi italians in ukraine. this is a well documented fact. shouldn't that be some concern among western politicians about weapons ending up in the hands of neo nazis in not only in their hands, they also go to extremist groups like in africa that were already weapons from ukraine, africa. so yeah, it should be. but again, we see that what the e u and the west is concerned about officially. it's not that what this occurrence concerned about the reality because otherwise they would act in another way. we see that their words and actions don't fit thomas,
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i wanted to ask you and it's going to be a pretty sensitive question. so just just bear with me here, but you know, some of these neo nazi units in ukraine, they have been accused of torturing and murdering russian prisoners of war. this is well documented why has there been no clamor by the u. n. for these incidents to be investigated and they're good question. we have to look at the committees who's sitting there, you know, if the human right there was the last human right guy and you're in the you and who, what was the name of god, who always complained about torture of a sams he left. so maybe there, now i didn't see this, the biography, but maybe now there are people from the west and who don't want to make a scandal out of that. and we have to look at the concrete biographies to, to check what they're doing there. and of course, on the pressure which, especially as is putting on other countries and in the u. m. the see that african countries vote against russia,
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but this is only worth nothing. it's empty words. but if it comes to sanctions, they don't join the west. so, so the pressure in the un on, on people on states on representatives is very high. and i think this explains a lot, thomas roper author and a war correspondent, we really need to get you out onto the other big mainstream news channels. so you can start enlightening the masses as to what's really going on in the state of affairs with a wealth today, thomas roper, great to see, we'll see you again soon. thank you. that's good to have your company for this program. meantime, e u figures are examining allegations of ukrainian attacks on civilian areas in don bass. i dozens of speakers, the don bass witnesses conference being held in the portuguese capital, a detailing claims of key of atrocities in the region of participants to discuss the use influence on ukraine and the 2014 government coo and kia the resulted in 8 years of conflict with its own yes can do against republics. photos on show portray
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the off the market, the cranium tax on a residential areas of don bass. we heard from a number of speakers at the conference who expressed outrage the actions of forces . i think ukraine act like these because they know that the most part of population in the bus, they are pro russian. they speak, russian is their culture. a big part of this population felt betrayed by the main leaders of ukraine and by the west. and they decided to took the power, repeating the same way in the west of ukraine, these seizing the power in and that's why i teach you grain the shell every day cities liked, and yet school ah, cooling and enduring. so you in people right? no one, not over to master. think that's her shocked. be demoss. the was the fact that
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her i seen her. how am ukrainian now are me is a shelly anger. i gave her against people law because her when the for example, i was he in then? yes, girl or a in go to love car, or it was not mouth to see. that's where a people killed or in the street to saw it is something that, sir, ah, we cannot turn at sceptre and we can not accepted that to her. this is opinion girl also, because her over westerner whitman's reformer, italian prime minister, has said the global community has forgotten the path of peace, resolving the conflict, and instead of shifting, fueling it with pumping more weapons into ukraine. and the latter is something we've seen at a recent pledge by the british prime minister re she soon act. we said the u. k was sent another quarter of a 1000000000 pounds worth of lethal a to key of
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a lot. is marina cause revo looks now at what is being described as the war versus peace rivalry among certain western politicians haven't listened to this. while more and more prominent figures i encourage, and peace talks between russia, ukraine, the west, is trying to make sure things stay as they are. we must be clear that any unilateral call for a cease fire by russia is completely meaningless. in the current context. i think it would be a false call. we have no illusions that to a 2 piece negotiation. that would be possible in the immediate future. it's our job to continue to sustain our military support to ukraine. so they are in the best possible position on the battlefield. so that if and when diplomacy is ripe, they will be in the best possible position at the negotiating table. that moment is not right now. of course, it's not now that send ukraine
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a few more $1000000000.00. sell some more weapons, tried to ostracize rush a little bit more, and who cares how many more people lose their lives? well, this time it was former us secretary of state, henry kissinger, who spoke in favor of peace talks. the time is approaching to build on the strategic changes which have already been accomplished and to integrate them into a new structure towards achieving peace through negotiation. how their, who that was pretty much their reaction from p. f straight away. unfortunately, even after 10 months of war, mister kissinger did not understand anything, neither the nature of this war nor its impact on the world order. henry kissinger has stated that last, may he propose the sci fi, a line along the borders existing before the special military operation began, which would see russia abandoned these 4 new territories and hold on to crimea. and that would become subject of further negotiations after
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a ceasefire. and we've already heard a similar proposal from elan mosque. remember, it also didn't go down very well whether one likes it or not. crimea is absolutely seen as a core part of russia by russia. crimea is also of critical, national security importance to russia, as it is their southern navy base from their standpoint. losing crimea is like the united states losing hawaii and pearl harbor he was ridiculed, scrutinized and dismissed. as of who had some propagandists were proposing and negotiated solution, and now we have a political heavyweights with decades of experience proposing as similar plan. and everyone's mocking him for it's all supporters of simple solutions should remember the obvious an agreement with the devil. a bad piece at the expense of ukraine in territories will be a victory for put in and the recipe for success. for autocrats around the world, the preferred all calm for some his, a, russia,
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rendered imposing by the war. i disagree for all his propensity to wireless. russia has made decisive contributions to the global aqua libra young. and to the balance of power for over half or millenium is historical roles should not be degraded. but it seems that the west is seeking exactly that and will not stop until russia is degraded weekends and humiliated. something which is highly unlikely, a term that the west like sees. so how many more people have to die? how many countries have to suffer before the west realizes that it is time to encourage peace talks instead of arms sales? we heard from investigative journalist i daniela's are on this now. he says, ukraine hasn't been truly independent since the western backed mind. on qu of 2014, have us nice things in negotiations or should, should definitely take place there more urgent now than ever. but they've got to be
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realistic in order, in order to succeed and realistic needs. recognizing that there are certain territories that russia will not. and really cannot give up the u. s. a know, extended nato, farther and farther to the east with the idea of essentially correct surrounding and crippling. right. and eliminating it as a major military power. and so, so certainly that, that tendency that long march has led to the last lead to the war and is leading to the destruction of the ukraine. but the u. s. doesn't care because it's perfectly happy to sacrifice the ukraine to its own interests. but then again, it's also happy to sacrifice the e. u to its own interests. and that's exactly what we're seeing. i just wrapping up this online program like.

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