oh ah, another twist in the dispute between russia and the ego over a natural gas supplies that moscow responds to the wes price gap by designating its own value for that commodity. in sometimes our colleagues have partners surprise me with their unprofessional decisions. now they don't know how to get out of this position and are trying to regulate gas prices as well. also ahead on the program with a massive glazer wraps out of major gal storage facility in the north african nation of morocco amid a series of explosions. and the u. s. denies violating international law

after the world trade organization ruled in favor of hong kong and a commercial dispute between washington and the chinese region. this with for moscow to the world. this is our take, great to help you with us for the news our. my name's unit o'neill. moscow has responded to a western imposed price count for russian natural gas supplies by saying it will set its own value for the commodity to be sold out. vladimir putin also said he's repeatedly warned the e u of the possible consequences of meddlesome policies. yes, in england, in general, you know, sometimes our colleagues and partner surprise me with their unprofessional decision . soon after all, at one time it was the european commission that imposed on us the transition to so called market pricing for gas. and we persuaded them, i personally did this,

we persuaded them in brussels not to do this, said that the gas market does not work this way go, it will lead to serious consequences to a surgeon prices. you know, this happened right now to deal with now they don't know how to get out of this position with it and are trying to regulate gas prices as well. to russia accuses the u. s. and other western actors of attempting to artificially manipulate the international markets. new russian legislation freeze this state gas exporter gals prom from fulfilling obligations under foreign contracts, if they violate national guidelines. now the specifics of moscow is price designation or to be determined by the end of next week. president putin also had some stain criticism for the u. s, which he said, has long been trying to undermine the post soviet world, including by exerting influence over ukraine. earlier, my colleagues worry,

sushi and dull quarter discuss the russian leaders, stark assistant with russia scholarly morrison. can we now say the u. s. as directly involved in the conflict, the u. s. has been dealing with this for a long time. it's been involved in trying to undermine us an influence ukraine since soviet times. our opponents have always tried to divide us and then tried to manage the separate parts. i'm getting nothing new here that the idea of ukrainian separatism was born a long time ago. well, the russian president of course, spoke a lot about how the a west was trying to stoke the flames of nationalism and ukraine long before the soviet union even collapsed. but the russian president also spoke a lot about the russian economy. of course, he said that it's fair to a lot better than many people in the west had predicted back in march in february of this year, despite predictions that russian g d. p would fall by double digits. it's only actually fallen by 2.5 per cent. and on top of that, indicators connected to unemployment and inflation have been kept very low as well

. a stucco says so you can limited that's for the economy despite to predict, to collapse devastation and catastrophe. none of the kind has happened here. moreover, rushes indicators are much better than many g 20 countries. this applies to the main macroeconomic indicators like g d, p. yes, there is a slight drop. i said earlier that the drop is 2.9 percent according to international experts, but now it's less 2.5 percent. one of the main indicators around the world is the unemployment rate for us, it is at a lower level than before the pandemic back. danny was 4.7 percent. now it is 3.8 percent. our labor market is stable, our financial market is stable. i thought that one of the interesting things said don dirt during this press conference was one of the, one of the questions from a member of the press. what was i? he asked, is russia running out of miss aisles and the conflict in ukraine, but also, ah, certain western partners and ukraine who are fighting russia they,

are they running out of weapons as well? a, quite a lot was said about rushes. defense industry wasn't it? right. and it was also discussed alongside at one question that another journalist asked regarding the possibility of the u. s. supplying the key of regime with patriot missile systems. this is something that a vladimir putin said, okay, let the west do that. because the patriot missile systems already outdated and it would take such a long amount of time for american troops or whoever to train ukrainian troops on how to use that. but in terms of the weapons stockpiles, like you were talking about before vladimir putin said, there is a huge difference between the ukrainian defense industry and the russian one. because while he abs soviet, basically, mainly soviets and weapons stockpiles. they're actually already on the brink of running out while moscow has plans to actually increase its own stockpiles in the near future. we just know we whoo, suitable in january rush, we'll have a new frigate in combat service with new weapon systems. we're not being

provocative, but this will strengthen our strategic forces. despite these being medium range systems, their speed characteristics give us an advantage. as for the patriot systems, they are old and do not work in the same way as our as 3 hundreds. but nevertheless, those who oppose us consider the patriots as defensive weapons. well, okay, we'll just keep that in mind. and there will always be an antidote. those who do this are only prolonging the conflict. our goal is not to prolong the military conflict, but on the contrary to end this, we strive for this and we will continue to strive for this it approach to virginia . now that was another very important moment we just heard there putin emphasizing once again that russia wants to see an end to this war. this is something we've heard reiterated by russian officials for a long time. now they say that the west is to blame for this conflict being drawn out because it's given a blank check when it comes to weapons and munitions to the key of regime. putin

also said that this policy basically directed directly contradicts what the russian government wants for both sides to sit down at the negotiating table and find a diplomatic solution. well, as we just heard, russia's g, d p declined this year and only a fraction of what had been predicted due to that slew of western sanctions. though r t spoke with belgian independent journalist luke river and say the e use economy has suffered more than moscow from its own sanctions. gus, well, we were told by the germans, by the french, by our leaders in the west and our sanctions when necessary to bring cow russia to we sneezed. but we are all arnie's own energy wise. it is, the situation is unable. we have mine a stand last week for us. it's a terrible winter. i mean he rushes minus done is quite frequent, but here people start to realize that we had a huge problem of energy. no fuel, no gas, no, no one, no,

no solutions for oil. all within months on m. long term solutions, not before years from now. our economy in tatters, everywhere. i mean factories closing. the cost of life is increasing. we have for 10 percent, 12 percent inflation. we can't get energy. this is terrible and they don't have an answer on so our economy encounters and rushes seems to do. we'll catch her story. we're following now in africa. major. a gas storage facility near morocco's atlantic coast has burst into flames amid a series of explosions, no, no casualties. have been reported as of now. ah. yeah, incredible image is there on fire fighters has said to have contained it maybe in the country report a ghastly. it could have caused the fire or concerns about other from of all

materials being kept up, the facility to local journalists, sarah et al. ob spoke to the program earlier. we all know them. ham mindy, i guess storage facility goes up in flames today, and there is a lot of footage that couldn't shared online shows a huge flames. and the gas storage is in the city near the court where you guys and other flammable materials are stored. this storage of it's close to people and evan families and citizens laid leave in near the facility. have evacuated to surround the people are hearing the explosion. so for as far away about 10 kilometers. so it's very terrifying in it's mary anne, it's very dangerous. there's something else to tell you about today. the world trade organization has rule about the u. s. violated international law by labeling

import, specifically from hong kong, as being generally from china, beijing. welcome to really and said the u. s. was politicizing trade issues. washington though, has rejected the decision unsafe the w t o is in desperate need of reform or t scale up up and has been following the story. or you're seeing is a longstanding pattern of the united states flouting international norms and agreements all well condemning others and pounding the podium about a rules based global order. it's not just the hong kong labeling disagreement last week. the world trade organization found that the steel and aluminum tariffs passed by the united states were also in violation. the united states shot back that they strongly disagreed with how the treaty was being interpreted. the united states strongly rejects to float interpretation and conclusions in the world trade organization paddle reports. these doubled sale panel reports only reinforced the need to fundamentally reformed the w till this been settled on was system. the bite

and administration is committed to preserve and us national security by insuring the long term viability of our steel and aluminium industries. and we do not intend to remove the section $232.00 duties as a result of these disputes. so even though it's a longstanding agreement, u. s. officials just say that it needs reform. they go right along with what they're doing, saying they have no intentions of adjusting their policy. whenever you don't like the results, just declare that the system is rigged against you and continued doing what you want to do. let's recall the reaction of u. s. officials when they did not like the world health organizations findings in an investigation of woo hon labs. here's how they respond it across the board. the united states believes as a general matter, when we're at the table, we can help shape events. and when we're not in the w h o, we don't have any influence that it is functioning the way it's intended to function by re engaging with the w h o. the united states will be in

a position to push any necessary and needed reforms. and to be clear, there are necessary and needed reforms, according to the logic of u. s. officials, a system functions the way it's intended to when the united states gets what it wants and when it doesn't, it clearly needs reform. and until then it can be disregarded. it doesn't get any more blatant than the international criminal court. long time war hawk, john bolton, who served in the administrations of both donald trump and george w bush was very angry and outraged at the i. c. c was investigating the actions of u. s. troops in afghanistan. he said the i, c, c has got to go. we will not cooperate with the i c. c. we will provide no assistance to the i, c, c. and they certainly will not join the i c, c. we will let the i c, c die on its own. after all, for all intents and purposes,

the i, c. c is already dead us, we will ban it's judges and prosecutors from entering the united states. we will sanction their funds in the u. s. financial system, and we will prosecute them in the us criminal system. the president will not allow american citizens to be prosecuted by foreign bureaucrats and he will not allow other nations to dictate our means of self defense. but now after withdrawing from the i, c c and going all in against it, getting it was sanctions. the united states now suddenly loves the i c. c, because it's talking about targeting russia. the i c. c is good if it's targeting somebody we don't like, but if it dares touch us, it's got to be abolished. the hypocrisy is pretty hard to over look. so when you, as officials talk about a rules based global order, they mean rules for the but not for me or do as we say, but not as we do. it's not about principles are right and wrong,

but about making sure that certain entities remain at the top of the food chain. it is dig itself into a corner and we see that country is increasingly isolated on the international stage. more and more countries are citing with russia with china. b, y says overstepped its bounds, but the us simply does not recognize any bones. it does what it wants when it wants to suit its own interests. and we have to be very clear here when we speak about its interests, meaning the government's interests or the interest of major corporations that the u . s. government almost never acts for the benefit of its own citizens. again, i'm speaking to someone who is represented. i've represented americans abroad. we've had trouble leading abroad living in nato countries, even in the u. s. government would never even help them. the fact is that the you in its allies are increasingly isolated. the world has woken up, and they're sick of being bullied. the sick of the scams are sick of the lies and

we go, we're now going to reap a bitter harvest of all the horrible things you've done or the past 25 years. ah, rwanda has reiterated. it's other ment, denial of allegations of it's been supporting the m $23.00, and sturgeon group, which is fighting against national forces across the border in the democratic republic of congo. that using rolanda of support to the congolese armed group m 23 is wrong and distracts from the real cause of continued conflict in eastern d r. c. it is a mistake to conflate the measures that were wanda has put in place to guard its borders with support for any particular arm group in d. r. c is pod to offer one the script that they have consistently fed that they are not to be blamed for the m $23.00 rebels and be dissociated themselves from them and deny any accusations of their finding. but of course, this was also further exacerbated by the fact that france has come out to openly

accuse rwanda for what it says is wonders role with the ongoing tases in north cable. we are witnessing the return of a tragic situation in the east of the d. r. c. it is unbearable and unacceptable. there are responsibilities and france has no difficulty in pointing them out. m 23 must stop fighting, disengage, and return the occupied territories. rwanda, as it must be named, must stop supporting m $23.00. we must put an end to the repetition of history in this region. this comes on the back of, of rwanda accusations towards france fame that they had a hand in the main to maintain for genocide, particularly i choosing the french troops with fish and in one day 9 to 94 of participating in some of the human rights atrocities. that we saw during the genocide and facilitating a safe passage and a safe haven for some of the people who are responsible according to their london

government. for if we're starting that genocide than we saw in 1994 and on the return of that is that france is also accusing rwanda or openly for the 1st time. at least this follows the american accusation of the theme thing that the to gully government is to be blamed for your support for the un sanctioned m 23 levels. but the relation here are bound to get testy. i as time goes, because right now this will not be held being as accusations and contact his asians, she are flying and more european nations are more likely to be implicated in this regard. but franz did inquire into the role laid by its truths in rwanda. during the genocide by the abandoned that, that enquiry saying that they found no evidence that its troops have participated

in any human rights violations. no india is one country which has stood resolute despite western pressure to stop trading with russia. our business for him to strengthen economic ties between the 2 nations, was recently held in moscow with a new multi polar world order, a focal point of the event breaking that down for us ortiz sophia nunez. the i m. f announced in september that india had become the world's 5th largest economy, speeding up from 11th place in just a decade, and judging by the congress current policies, it has no intention of slowing down. india's growth potential has not gone unnoticed with other global international players such as russia, eager to join it. you give your opinion, india is one of the world's leading countries in terms of economic growth. its population will soon be bigger than that of any country. new delhi has vast diplomatic experience in settling various kinds of problems and it has authority

and a strong reputation in its region. in the wake of the ukraine conflict, india rejected the western ocean that trading was rushing, somehow immoral. you daily has insisted that it would shop whatever it gets a good deal for its people. following through on that pledge, india has increased its emperors of discount at rush and crude oil becoming it stop by for the 2nd month in a row in december. and now new dell is decision to embrace the concept of self determination is reaping the benefits in dis, inflation. has he, the year low? well profit from fuel experts keep getting higher. but the mutual beneficial relations between russian india don't stop with oil ration and indian business political and public sector leaders have gathered at the 13 russian indian business forum in moscow. this week. the theme of this year's meeting reads as an integral partnership between india and russia in the new world order with a focus on health care information technology, logistic banking,

and the oil and gas industry, as well as other national projects. we are digging oil, gays, coal fertilizers, right. but india has got a lot of products and this products are very expensive. it did come in order during the co way. then after this go with the transport, them become very expensive. so a new product had not, no, physically, ready, really expensive. so these are right then once it happens in this room, start the whole ania yoga, you know, iowa, that would have been the russian market lately is immense vices, iowa, in includes so many things who thought coming once the good is cheaper transportation participants also discussed further economic operation between the 2 countries as well as what can be done legislatively to crate in more favorable business. climate can also relies to russian financial authorities and making great

efforts not only to do price quotes for the repair as soon as possible, but also to make it a full fledged trading parties until the moscow exchange watches this would reflect its demand among russian import is the next supporters, so i think this is one of the most important elements to accelerate our mutual settlements in national currencies. negotiations are actively underway to accelerate the development of the logistics route between vladivostok and janai and other ports of india, which would also contribute to a significant increase in cargo flows from russia to india. helene. the bank was organized by the indian business alliance with the support of the moscow department of foreign economic and international relations. the business council for corporation with india, and there was congress foundation. the russian indian business forum has become an important platform for highlighting issues and opportunities related to a business sized between russia in india and for ensuring the continuation of the progress and development of both nations care want to show you this for they

ukraine's invoice to the u n, as said his country will always stun together with america as he posted this a u. s. flag in the yellow and blue of the ukranian national banner. sh don bos residents for one were quick to respond with condemnation, saying the display revealed who's really in charge. and if you wouldn't slip through mister, they will stand together for as long as it takes. we all understand that a charade. what ukraine wants from the west is money and weapons. this is all just ridiculous. oh no, america, of america ready, sanders will go on for as long as it needs and who needs it? it is american south. it will continue these for very long time, as long as they can benefit from it. liberalism, this is pure idiocy in my opinion. this demonstrates complete slavery. no other comment is needed. ukraine's presidency. lensky visited washington on wedding stay, where he met with joe biden, and gave an address to congress in which he pleaded for more weaponry. lensky

expressed gratitude for the current supplies, but said it just wasn't enough to see me coincide with the trip. the u. s. that it will provide advanced patriot missiles systems. here in the mac blumenthal editor of the grey zone investigative news site has posted the on twitter exchange, he had with delegates representing purportedly b, ukrainian diaspora, as they made their way there to congress is 45000000000. not enough. not enough. got that. how much? how much more should we give to ukraine instead of our own people? do you, do you do support the as of italian or no more of it as of the value. there's no more as a values where we're train and recruited that into a former professional army over the last 8 years. so the neo nazis were brought into the army. no, no, we are not see them not a minute. so no answer about crane is

a democracy. why did zalinski ban 13 opposition? partnership law? we did not know martial law sounds undemocratic. why did he band the russian wing of the orthodox church? and i still wanted extra to serving as the keys in his organization. and with found, with materials that were legal and financing the enemy war against innocent people . i oppose the assault on don. yes. do you the shelling of the people have done? yes. do you oppose that? no, no. are you wired? wired civilians been killed and done yet? lugens and you oppose that there was a small anti war protests on east capitol right at the front of the capitol. and as i was standing there, i ukrainian jasper delegations just rolled up, started taking pictures, and i began questioning them. and you saw the exchange right there. i think it was very revealing. and these are actually significant figures not only in the diaspora,

but within the ukrainian government itself. i didn't know they were coming. i didn't know who was coming. i just showed up in the capital was actually hoping to be the one reporter who actually asked critical questions of our representatives here in the u. s. on why they were going to authorize another $45000000000.00 to continue this dangerous proxy war throughout 2023. and what i found was a completely locked down capital looked like the days after january 6, except the fences were lower. there were no members of congress, although i did catch a last sen. joe mansion who basically refused to speak to me. senator, do you know how much we've, how many billions we've sent to ukraine. we're gonna send a lot more. do you want to send more? oh, absolutely, amazon all in all, you're all in close us lawmakers from both main parties approve sending more money and weapons to ukraine. millions of americans are at risk of losing their medical coverage. a recent report addresses a provision in the new $1.00 trillion dollar u. s. spending bill seeing states could start terminating people's medicaid

coverage next year. media analysts line, i'll say it on for to make american citizens suffer from the government's decisions that keep shipping taxpayer funds oversee. we're looking right now in the united state at a 1.7. think about this trillion dollar omnibus bill. american citizens are say, 1.7, true trillion for what we're wondering, where are we going to pay for our operation? what it, what is our goal? are you suggesting? does this intimate, that we are involved in a war that we are a participant in this, that, that we are a coal combatant? does? is that what this means? because if it does mean that i don't think a lot of americans were particularly care for that. we never signed on to this. we're getting to the point right now where people don't really understand it. and

frankly, maybe common sense may prevail. because the one issue that nobody is talking about is peace ending it. this is say sion of hostility, that said it is somehow absent and void from the, from the rubric of conversation. maybe i hope we're getting to that point where we say enough or let's say keep attention stateside because in a hugely controversial development, the u. s. senate has passed a motion to use assets sees from russian nationals in order to finance ukraine's war effort. the initiating lawmakers said it would come as a relief for american taxpayers. this amendment would allow that part of justice through the secretary of state to transfer proceeds from seas oligarch, assets, or other sanction entities to the people of ukraine. it will be a godsend to the long suffering people of the ukraine. it will be or relate to the

american taxpayer calls billions of dollars are subject to being seized and transferred. it will be a bad day for all or guards. well, this is interesting. the senates move came just a day after the u. s. president and the fresh military a package to care worth, just shy of $2000000000.00. so if there's something in the timing, i'm not sure will. the bill, though, has to be approved by the house of representatives before it can be signed into law by joe biden. we got some analysis in this, including from political commentator, steve gill, who said washington's, i'll said seizures from russian officials, businessmen, entities will do little to alleviate the u. s. financial burden its support for a key of has let it is certainly a moral and it is just definite, the wrong. the think that we're going to somehow repay american taxpayers with money stolen from private individuals who are simply business people died the rush . the crazy thing about this is that the mark twain,

american humorous once that the difference in the right word and the almost right word difference in whitening mit. but it's interesting that they're using the term russian all regards to it, to refer to these russian private business individuals. because if they call them private business people that some americans might be a little bit more outraged. the same way that lindsey graham and others would be leading the screams. and how's about rates? if russia and china and india and other foreign country were taking private us business assets from individuals? because those countries disagree with the practices and policies, the u. s. government and i don't know what we're going to get in terms of our return on investment as the present, the latest, you try to term it for the 100000000 or so to be put into the ukraine. there will be no return on investment for american taxpayers. it will not be repaid. global food prices are soaring, and it's all russia's fault, at least so it was the narrative in the west attempting to separate fact from

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