very dramatic and getting to desist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time to sit down and talk with another twist in the dispute between russia, the over and natural gas supplies moscow responds to the west price cup by designating its own value for the commodity. good. sometimes our colleagues and 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. with also ahead on the program of the blazer reps that are major death storage facility in the north african nation of morocco. i'm in a series of explosions with the u. s. denies violating international

law after the world trade organization ruled in favor of hong kong in a commercial dispute between washington and the chinese engine. this with friday, december, the 23rd 1 pm here in the russian capital. my name's unit to leave on. this is our t international. moscow house responded to a western imposed price camp for russian natural gas supplies by saying it will set its own value for the commodity to be sold. that london mere putting also said he's repeatedly warned the e u of the possible consequences of metal. some 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. you're homeless. now they don't know how to get out of this position 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 the state gas exporter gals prom from fulfilling obligations under foreign contracts. if they violate national guidelines. the specifics of moscow's price designation are to be determined by the end of next week. president putin also had some forceful criticism for the u. s. which he said has long been trying to undermine the post soviet world, including by exerting influence over ukraine. or you are my colleagues, rory,

so shayhan, donal quarter, discuss the russian leaders stark assessment with russia scholarly moves until we now say the u. s. is 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 and 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 in 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 percent. and on top of that, indicators connected to unemployment and inflation have been kept very low as well

. a stroke associate, you can limited that's for the economy despite to predict, to collapse devastation and catastrophe. none of the kinds 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 thing said, don joe, during this press conference was one of the, one of the questions from a member of the press. what was i? he asked us, 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 russia's defense industry, wasn't it? right? and it was also discussed alongside one question that another journalist asked regarding the possibility of the us supplying the key of regime with patriot missile systems. this is something that vladimir putin said, okay, let the west do that. because the patriot missile systems are 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 key halves soviet, basically, mainly soviet 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. after 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 process of the tyranny. now that was another very important moment. we just heard their 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 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 will as we just heard russia's g d p decline this year and only a fraction of what had been predicted due to this new western sanctions are t spoke with belgian independent journalist luc ravi, who says 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, at our sanctions when necessary to bring the car a rush to we sneezed, but we are all armies. energy wise, it is the situation miss dunbar, we had mine a stand last week for us. it's a terrible winter, i mean he rushes minus then his mind frequent. but here people start to realize that we had a huge problem of energy. no, no fuel, no gas, no, no one, no,

no solutions for oil, with mouth and 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 here. oh, so our economy encounters and rushes seems to do well. ok some news coming in to us from pakistan's capital one policeman has been reported killed on at least 6 people injured in a suicide blast in islam about a warning you may find the following images disturbing. according to local authorities, police stopped a suspicious vehicle of a checkpoint with 2 people inside a man and a woman. as officers inspected the car, the man, apparently detonated explosive strapped to him to civilians were among the injured

as well. of course that policeman, islam about inspector general the carry to red alert in the city immediately after the attack. it's believe the vehicle was making its way to the countries parliament building. pakistan's interior minister said the quote, terrorists were headed for a high value target in the capitol, which would have caused heavy losses. the all flawed turnkey tele, on pakistan group has claimed responsibility for the deadlines. a major gas storage facility near morocco's atlantic coast has burst into flames. amid a series of exclusions, no casualties have been reported as of now. ah, firefighters are said to have contained the blaze media in the country report. a ghastly could have been the cause of what we're seeing know on screen. there are concerns about other flammable materials being kept at the facility to local journalists. sarah s a lob spoke to the program. murder,

we all know them. mm hm. maybe i get storage facility goes up in flames today, and there is a lot of footage that wouldn'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 a storage, it's close to people and evan families and citizens lady leave in near the facility, have evacuated to surround the people are hearing the explosion so far as far away about 10 kilometers. so it's very tier to fi in in doll. it's mary anne. it's very dangerous 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 welcomed the ruling 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 ortiz kill him up and has been following mystery. boy, you're saying the long standing pattern of the united states flouting international norms and agreements all while condemning others and pounding the podium about a rule based global order. it's not just the hong kong labeling disagreement last week. the world trade organization found that these steel and aluminum terrorists 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 preserving you, especially 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, us 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 was 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 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 we certainly will not join the i c, c. we will let the i see, see, die on its own. after all, for all intents and purposes, the i, c, c is already dead. the 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 national stage.

more and more countries are citing with russia with china, the says overstepped its bounds, but the u. s. simply does not recognize any bounds. 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 interest 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 representative. i've represented americans abroad. we've had trouble living 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. a sick of the scams are sick of allies and we go, we are now going to reap a bitter harvest of all the horrible things you've done or the past 25 years. returning on the news hour to africa,

where rwanda has reiterated its ultimate denial of obligations, not its been supporting the m $23.00 in search and 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 rwanda has put in place to guard its borders with support for any particular arm group in d r. c. it's hard to offer a wonders 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 a choose rwanda for what it says is wonders role with the ongoing tases in north keeble. 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. thing that they had a hand in the main thing maintained for genocide, particularly i choosing the french truth with face and in one day 1994 of participating in some of the human race atrocities than 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 relations here are bound to get testy as time goes. because right now this will not be helping as accusations, then contact his asians chief of flying and more european nations are more likely to be implicated in this regard. but franz did inquire into the role laid by its troops in rwanda during the genocide, but they abandoned that dom, that inquiry saying that they found no evidence that its troops have participated in any human rights violations. now india is one country which has stood resolute despite western pressure to stop trading with russian

a business for him to strengthen economic ties between the 2 nations was recently held here in moscow with a new multi polar world order. a focal point of view of it. breaking that down for us ortiz sophie in units. 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. if you get your bring him, 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 notion that trading with russia somehow immoral new

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 importance of discount at rush and crude oil becoming it stopped by for the 2nd month in a row in december. and now you daily's 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, russian and engine 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 taking oil gays, coal fertilizers,

right. but india has got a lot of products and then bit products are very expensive. it did come in order during the coal wade and after this go with the transported them become very expensive. so a new product i know is physically ready, really expensive. so these are right then once it happens it, this will start the whole ania yoga. you know, i agree that will be in the russian market. lately is indian spices i over the indian clothes. so many things with fat coming once the good is cheaper tradition. participants also discussed further economic cooperation between the 2 countries. as well as what can be done legislatively to create a more favourable business climate. and also relies 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 party until the moscow exchange watches this would reflect

its demand. among russian import is annex sports is so i think this is one of the most important elements to accelerate our mutual settlements in national currencies . negotiations are actively under way 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 in. the bank was organized by the indian business allies with the support of the moscow department of foreign economic and international relations. the business council for cooperation with india, and there was congress foundation. the ration in 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, ukraine's envoy to the u. n. her said his country will always stand together with america as he posted this, a u. s. flag in the yellow and blue of the ukranian national butler. don bos

residents were quick to respond with condemnation, saying that a sleigh revealed who's really in charge in key f. and he wouldn't sledge, mister, they will stand together for as long as it takes. we all understand, that's a charade. what ukraine wants from the west is money in weapons. this is all just ridiculous. oh no, america, 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, who did release, and this is pure idiocy in my opinion. this demonstrates complete slavery. no other comment is needed. ukraine's president zelinski visited washington on wednesday for 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 declared it wasn't enough to see me coincide with the trip. the us said it will

provide advanced patriot missile systems to peer interesting as well as much bloom until the editor of the grey zone investigative news site has posted on twitter. an exchange he had with delegates representing the ukranian diaspora. as they made their way to congress, let's have a look out that video not is 45000000000. not enough. no, not enough yet. 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? no more than as of the value. there's no more as a values where we're train and recruited back into a former professional army over the last 8 years. so the neo nazis were brought into the army. no, no, no nazi fernando mean? so no answer about if crane is a democracy, why did zalinski ban 13 opposition?

party national law. we've got the national marshal law sounds on democratic. why did he band the russian wing of the orthodox church? the russian special wanted at certain serving as a treasonous organization and with found, with materials that were legal and financing that the enemy war against innocent people. i oppose the assault on don. yes. do you the shelling of the people have done yet. do you oppose that? no, no. are you why, why are civilians being killed and done yet? lugens, 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 diaz pro 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. i'm 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 at the capital was actually hoping

to be the one reporter who actually asked critical questions of our representatives here in the us on why they were going to authorize another 45000000000 dollars to continue this dangerous proxy war. throughout 2023 and what i found was a completely locked down capital. it looked like the days after january 6th, except the offenses 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, how many billions we've sent to ukraine, we're going to send a lot more. do you want to send more? oh, absolutely. amazon. all in all, we're all in. lacks bloom and tells report now as u. s. lawmakers from both main parties approved sending more money and weapons to ukraine of millions of americans are at risk of losing their medical coverage. a recent reports addresses a provision in the new $1.00 trillion dollar u. s. spending bill saying states could start terminating people's medicaid

coverage next year, media law, unless lionel says that it's unfair to make american citizens suffer from the government's decisions to keep shipping funds overseas. 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 get, 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. we say enough in a hugely controversial developments. the u. s. senators passed the 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 will bear relief to the

american taxpayer. calls billions of dollars are subject to be and seized and transferred. it will be a bad day for all our guards. i want to bring attention to the timing of this as well. the senate, some of the came just a day after the u. s. president announced that fresh military aid package, the key of worth just shy $2000000000.00. the bill has to be approved. busy by the house of representatives before it can be signed into law by joe biden. political commentator, steve gill, said, washington offsets seizures from russian officials, business men and entities will do little to alleviate the u. s. financial burden its support for us lead to it is certainly a moral and it is just definitely wrong to 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 one said the difference in the right word and the almost right we're the 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 they call them private business people. then some americans might be a little bit more outbreaks the same way that lindsey graham and others would be leading the screams and howls of outraged 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 of the u. s. government. and i don't know what we're going to get in terms of our return on investment. as president, lindsey, he tries to term it for the billions of 100000000 or so to be put into ukraine. there will be no return on investment for american taxpayers. it will not be repaid . steve, gil, taken us to the end of this news block, but stay close because another fresh slice of cross talk action is coming your way and moment. got your teams debate on this discussion show next and i'm back at the top with all the stories effecting your world.