oh, find themselves apart. we choose to look some common ground . a with headlines this hour, the part of a scandal known as a senior lawmakers are accused of taking bribes, leave the country and the document claim that nathan, providing $13000.00 eve about the move of the russian forces. so the credit men could conduct a tax included one in recent weeks with

the western african nation to root out terrorism. and welcome to sublease partnership with russia. we would like russia to become our ally here as well as all our partners. and we know that russia is a great power frushell wants to can help us in this area with good morning, good afternoon. good evening. whenever you are in the world. welcome. international . just gone 6 am here in the russian capitalized. it's great to have you with us. i'm more money. let's take a look at today's top stories. these scandal known as catalog has shifted its focus for morocco as the suspended vice president of the european parliament. and a senior italian lawmaker accused of taking bribes linked to the north african country. i'll take contributor rachel miles and dives in the it's certainly not the best look for the european union when the same officials who

are so keen to lecture every one else about democracy and transparency. now find themselves with the big mass right under their own roof at the european parliament when the scandal broke. earlier this month and belgian authorities rolled up suitcases full of cash at homes and hotels associated with european officials. all eyes were focused on cutters, a legend involvement in the shady lobbying practices associated with the scandal. particularly since the football world cup was on and cutter was the host country, and it already faced controversy over how it may have been awarded those games. but now morocco has been dragged into this fiasco as well. thanks in part to an alleged confession by former european parliament vice president eva kylie whom the you parliament recently stripped of her role and title, internal investigation documents obtained by the press suggest that kylie had

dealings with former italian. you're a deputy pierre antonio pans erie whom investigators alleged to have received cash from both cutter and morocco, and who just happens to be the founder and president of a think tank called fight impunity. she had prior knowledge of her husband's dealings with mister pan's airy and that suitcases full of cash had been moved through her apartment. when it comes to transparency of its dealings with foreign countries, the european parliament apparently draws the line at morocco and voted against, including it with cutter in resolution, demanding more transparency and accountability. here's the amendment to the resolution that euro deputies ultimately rejected. expresses deep concern about the allegations that morocco has also attempted to influence members, former members and staff of the european parliament through acts of corruption calls for the application of measures in line with those applied to the representatives of katara interests while investigations are ongoing. so i didnt

parliamentarians shy away from having a good look at exactly how they've been dealing with morocco. perhaps they're worried about what anyone poking in to that particular dark corner might fives. maybe a lot of proc roaches or rats scurrying around. particularly if questions target he asked about various parliamentary friendship groups or the role of antonio's like pans. aries in, acting as intermediaries or middle men of sorts under the guise of intellectual and academic respectability. it is long been an open secret that think tanks in the western world routinely served to launder foreign lobbying interests in the us. they've even gone so far as to bundle and donate foreign cash to candidates to public office. former you foreign policy, chief federico maurine sat on the honorary board of pans series, fight impunity. angio right up until the scandal broke. here's maurine telling you

. crane how to fight corruption way back in 2015. we have primarily focused on the need for conduct of the anti corruption reform, which is the key factor to allow the international partners to trust in ukraine and as if that wasn't enough. here maurine is again, 2 years later, underscoring the importance of solid ethical guardrails. for ukraine, the anti corruption institutions, as we discussed and as we agreed, must be allowed to do their work independently, with enough powers and resources to investigate, prosecute, and eventually ensure the conviction of those responsible for corruption. while it looks like you crane is well taken care of and they think they might be up to that she city. so how many board members like maurine of think tanks like pans aries, fight impunity in the u ha. bothered to take a look under the hood of those and yours and insist on the same kind of accountability, transparency and good practices that the

e u demands of other countries. apparently that doesn't even exist at the european parliament, yet as the scandal is proving european commission, president ursula vander line just recently announced after this whole scandal broke, that she'll get right on that now though economy probably right after lecturing the rest of the world, few more times on the greatness of european values. we heard from a spanish law professor who says no secret that morocco has been loving each lawmakers to get fishing lines in western sahara. the nation western sahara has not only course a task of political debauchery to go meaning. but it has also one economy, meaning the worst sense to her. now is the souls offer

huge benefits for the kingdom of morocco, no house below a number of a mental organization called the western sahara resource watch. the task calculated the amount of the money dut morocco receives exporting the phosphates from western sahara and also we know the money the european union gives to morocco to get a loud fishing in the occupied waters. western sahara morocco export mainly to the european union, not only but mainly it were to union. this is just a one issue where we know exactly that is corrupt corruption, a european union level. and actually, as i said concerning the members of the european parliament, this is not the secret that and morocco has been lobbying them.

ah, nozzler don't mass us fears. battles have been raging along the front lines rushes, wagner group of major fighting falls in the region, has been facing off against ukraine. troops, falcon forward, the strategically important city of our to mosque. you grains. government says that presence of answer, he recently visited the embattled city to meet with the officials and handout awards on the other side of the front line, the head of the wagner group proposed a meeting with the train in leader. you're stepping. i was sitting in the headquarters and they told me that zalinski had just arrived, but our guys are going to fire gunshots and morse code. if he pays attention, we could meet any time. what a yankee we just shot in morse code to say,

gears lensky. we're nearby and we're ready to discuss the issues. there has been in tens fighting for the city in recent months or 30 say that russian control over the area would facilitate a further offensive. and northern parts of the region, russian officials say that ukrainian ships in the city have been used in scorched earth tactics, deliberately destroying buildings and roads and using the local civilian population as human shields. they say the foreign mercenaries have refused to be deployed to the city because the cleaning forces have been suffering heavy losses. meanwhile, thirties, in russia, west in belgrade regions, se ukrainian forces have been firing heavy r 3 across the border into residential areas. one person has been reported wounded in the latest attack, at least 70 apartments and about 40 cause have been reported damage from the

artillery fire. the shedding has also impacts of production facilities and warehouses in an industrial her ankles, temporary power outages. meanwhile, in the regional capital of dennis ukraine, up to the fire has reported the hit, the same civilian hospital several times in the recent, in recent days, authority, se, residential buildings and a kindergarten have also been struck out. is roland casara reports on location o ukrainian artillery struck the city of the nest cas shortly before midnight on monday, once again, one of the largest hospital here in san vos, had been targeted, were standing right next to the building. and number 10 that were 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 department was as frog as well. now the 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 thankfully there was no one there except for the caretaker. now, once again, it was struck by ukrainian artillery by a grab missile, and we actually found the shell that was used. and i spoke to a ballistics expert narrow, this is a modified, modified, solved yet. shell are produced in slovakia, it's $122.00 millimeter a shell. and once again made in slovakia and supplied to ukraine by made. so countries and that 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 and 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 grabbed myself like what i just showed you, and of course, the other calibers much higher. $15552.00 millimeter and of course they cause a lot of destruction. many of the weapons that are being used to include cluster ammunition as well with that is designed to inflect as much damage as possible. joe acorda 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 water 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 or hospitals, 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 was damage to the neurosurgical building, which the staff are continuing their work. no matter what. today they all came to work to help people. our duty is above all else. while nato officials of said they don't want to direct conflict with russia recently, leads document claim that the block has been providing key intelligence to create and forces for tanks on russian murphy facilities. though he went reportedly obtained by a hacker and published on social media contains detail information about russia, murphy, hardware, and locations. for example,

it says to russian strategic bombers were base in the angles airfield in western russia. rou, crane is willing to abuse that information. and recently, to conduct a drone attack on back location. great. also unsuccessfully trying to destroy russian strategic bombers in southern as central russia with drones that were shot down. nevertheless, 3 russian soldiers were reported killed. and another 4 wounded will 2 aircraft were damaged. now the germans are suspected to be made by an american company. the linked document review reported the power locations of hundreds of rushman 2 vehicles. those include planes and defense systems. tanks and rocket launches in the conflict zone and deep within russia. those will ship on the back. see, we heard from a full us republican state who says that name to has become increasingly

aggressive. there definitely are people involved in these things who are hoping that the something that happened to trigger an escalation where were russia would make some sort of a rash move. and fortunately so far, president post has been a very cool come hand. who has, you know, he's been been very rational and delivered in his, in his actions. which is a very good thing because, you know, we're, we're so much closer to world war 3 than europe was in 1940 with the 1st world war. i was a part of nato, back in the eighty's when we, it was nato versus the soviet union. nieto was a defensive alliance at that time. but when the, when the, the wall fell one,

when the soviet union dissolved, the nato did not dissolves the worse. all packed dissolved. but nato remained is very real post force. and it became a force of aggression. instead of being a defensive alliance, suddenly started to move steadily eastward and, and it could only do this by creating an illusion that the russian federation was sort of identical to the old soviet union. but in many ways, it's exactly opposite to what the soviet union was. so so nato has become a very dangerous organization. there are people who are trying to trigger some sort of response from russia that would begin to escalate and involve all of nato been in combat. a huge explosion, not

a gas pipeline in central. russia has left 3 people dead and another injured. the line connects siberia, las central and western europe in creating territory. international market vices for the moments of commodity were immediately impacted. but the stabilizers feel a switch to another line. the russian company gas strong has said it was investigate the incident which occurred during maintenance. in recent days, you agreed to set a price cap for natural gas supplies at 180 years per megawatt hour. that's almost half the amount, but you powers are paying just 3 months ago. some prices for the commodity reach 340 years. several states within the blocked, sickly hungry, and the netherlands have actually opposed the restrictions saying they will cause further scarcity of the feel. the early him impose the price,

kept on russian or supplies. meanwhile, a number of companies in poland and germany have reported to the applies of deliveries all russian oil over the next year. despite the western price caps and other sanctions talk with in russian energy industry, the head of russian oil part. but the trans nest says european businesses are increasingly looking out for themselves a good deal of political assume if force come up with a gall titian's from poland or one thing. but they're also the rational representatives of business and authorities who understand very well the consequences of this absolutely absurd rhetoric on their economy go with. 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, which is and 360000 tons for december alone. and germany has already applied for deliveries in the 1st quarter in that you could please to she said,

the ear has artificial limited. the price of russia is applies at $60.00 per barrel to deprive moscow funds from elsie operation in ukraine. the most vo hoop proponent of that plan, poland, and even sold a higher price ceiling than the $1.00 eventually agreed was abused. but you spoke dorky. we cannot go back to this, to pity to this bad in criminal policy, which turned countries dependent on russia and offered, couldn't petro dollars was euros in dollars or so that put in, in russia could build a war arsenal, and could attack its neighbors. sitina alex, today we are presenting the most radical plan in europe to move away from russian hydrocarbons to be away from russian oil rushing gas from rushing coils. we are sand. this most radical plan is needed. him ugly. zach went to under sandwich, rudy, garry on behind all this energy caps and prices that cross live now said jack rosalind, best professor economics and politics at st. mary's college of california. jack,

so my fax is great. so good to have you on the show today, we have a busy on a and i am an interesting subject that is, i mean, many of us really don't know what's going on. but germany, i mean, politically 3 of declined or they've claim that companies that trying to buy russian oil or iron insisted that purchases will come from kazakhstan. i mean, how reliable is that plan after all these businesses need to feel right? well, you know, ass global oil is kinda like a water finding its way downhill despite the d tours and you didn't use, he makes it to its destination. ah, it's very complex. no global product with very complex supply chains. i, we're in a period year where the sanctions have a lot oil and gas had a lot of exemptions to then a lot of loopholes in the wording. for example, you know, they just said,

you just set the $60.00 a cap on a per barrel for, for oil. well, what, what happens if the price of oil, which is about $75.00 now of falls a further and of course, so russia's been discounting in, in it's less than $60.00 a barrel. soon, i believe, as the global economy slows. ah, does that mean that it's okay to buy russian oil? well, some businesses will interpreted that way. i'm, i'm sure there's others who want to, you know, shut down all flow of oil from russia, but we still got that southern pipeline providing oil. i, russia is still the 2nd largest liquid, national and natural gas suppliers to europe and behind the united states, but still very large ellen jeep will provider. so you know what you hear. the politicians declaring isn't really what's going on below the scenes by the direct players, the businesses and corporations themselves. although the politicians are trying to

close the loopholes that they're going to meet again on the oil cap. i they in february. well, that's a long time from now on, but they're not able to shut it down. you know, in all areas of, at all times, the big player here is the global slowdown of the economy. and the demand for oil is, is going to slow down and china opening notwithstanding i, and we're going to see a lower lower price for, for oil. and the saudis and others are gonna try to cut production as quick as they can. but they'll be behind the curve. this is going to be a glove oil out there in 2023 because of the global economy. and, and, you know, western europe probably be able to get its oil from other places. but will those places be re shipped russian oil? you know, that's one way around. it washes so that she got that. but brings me to my so my

next question, really, what happens if one country black gets it all from russia re, packages it may be mixed in with another country, the low making, 51 percent 49 percent and then just sells at $80.00 a barrel. so no, the going rate. i mean is that possible? is that one of the loopholes that you would so campo? absolutely, absolutely. it's probably already going on as a pilot, some of these exemptions, but you see the problem and i'll eat it all. looks the same. i mean you can test it for it's viscosity in its purity and so forth, but you can't tell if you are fil a ship with half russian oil, yellow and half nigerian oil. what a liquid really is. so i think there are, there will be a lot of loopholes. a lot of exemptions are loyal, we'll still get to maybe in a, in a diverted route from russia to europe. the same with natural gas because the

exemptions and, and the loopholes. it will slow down some, but i don't think they'll be able to really close that off completely. all the politicians will act as if the sanctions are doing just that. but the sanctions are full for holes. all right, let me, i think, my final question. is it realistic or how realistic is it that the plan to completely eliminate the ease of roughing gas and oil by next month, as they claim? i don't, i don't think that there's where they could be able to do it within 30 days. but you know, they'll, they'll maybe be able to tighten it up by march or april. we don't know what the picture is going to look like after that, but by then i think the global economy can be very much either stagnant or in recession globally here. and that just changes the whole dynamic, well as a different story, all together in the world economy is going to be something that i'd love to to see

about when they sin a professor of economics and politics stack last semester. thank you again so much for joining us here today, and i'll see my pleasure ah, might this move on? what a look to get through now the us, some basset, as nato has issued a warning that russia, i'm sorry, may i have the means to undermine the west military alliance. those 2 are increasingly sharing a toolkit that should concern the nato alliance. there's just no question that china and russia both working to divide the transatlantic partners the usa way and the size that efforts would be made to address threats from russia and china. the block has been seeking to expand in the nordics to counter russia, and the europe has been strengthening size with radio repository, providing nuclear capable momos and a face off of china. while the u. s. maintains the largest number of military bases

around the world turns the blame on rival powers. to increase tensions. we heard from a senior lecture at the british university of boss. he says that increased you will confrontations are responsible for the escalating tensions within eastern and western powers. it is that you put it cold tussle between the us and china and between the us and russia. this is leading to a kind of escalation, a because all the restriction export restriction of semiconductors and we did the technologies from the u. s. imposed on her allies in europe. give them a lot of difficulties now, because whenever they want to collaborate with china, in terms of industry and, and trey, they have to seek emissions and license from the u. s. department of commerce. this is making things very, very difficult for them not as a result, the us has to drum up these china threat in the mind of the nato,

trying to justify why all these measures are necessary and to, to make. and at the same time, trying to undermine the relationship between europe and china. so the u. s. a. you even giving more pressures to the european allies by dropping up all these kind of russia. china threats through natal, attention to west african, our 6 civilians. and these 2 soldiers have been reported killed in a series of attacks in both in the country have struggled to maintain security in recent years as fighting the national forces. i didn't have caused them death of thousands of people and driven an estimated to 1000000 from their homes. he says $39.00 linked to international terrorist moves have been killed in operations of this month alone. all te spoke when the country into a prime minister. he says secured, he remains a top priority,

and the country welcomes a partnership with russia. what are your priorities now? is it perhaps in the secure to sector? we some good? yes, definitely. currently security's a priority and brianna fossil and we talked about it. but in addition to the security sphere, we discussed other areas as well because the problem of security is complex with many parts. we hope that starting from now we will begin to resolve it. apart from that, it's necessary that our relations develop because we're all interested in winnie is closer to sing. russia could become an ally for broken episode in the fight against dallas. we swims with progress and we would like it, we would like russia become our ally here, as well as all our partners. and we know that russia's a great power and frushell wants to can help us in this area. well let's that brought you up to speed wraps out for this. our check out al tindall. com. we'll have more into a will in depth news. they can take them back a little bit over the alpha with

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