[000:00:00;00] a specific time. mm hm. ah, russia officially bands oil exports to any country complying with the g 7 price cap . the decree will come into effect in february. think a lot of society understand that. put plenty of people running. you train the head of a private u. s. military group that trains ukrainian soldiers admit that country is corrupt, while also confirming cabs true executed russian prisoners of war. and the latest

batch of lee twitter files revealed the usaa administration pressure the platform to prioritize information on coven vaccines, to fit the narrative of its policies with hello for moscow to wherever you may be. watching. welcome to this hour's top stories worldwide. i'm fearless about russia has banned the export of crude oil and petroleum products to any country. complying with the price cap earlier imposed by the west. moscow says the move is in response to the cap, which violates international law. our teens donald quarter has more as presidential decree outlined, special economic measures being taken in response to the western price cap on russian oil exports that was put into place earlier this month. according to the statement, russia will no longer supply oil to countries going along with this scheme,

effective february, 1st of next year, up until july 1st. and since president vladimir putin made this decree, we've seen the prices of crude oil as well as gas go up across the board in the international energy markets. now, this western cap on russian oil exports was set at $60.00 a barrel. and this was made in a bid to punish moscow for its military operation in ukraine. and even moscow before this, this cap price cap was that moscow was warning that if such a thing were to happen, that moscow would respond with not supplying these countries that go along with this scheme with oil. so this response is really not something that surprising. we should also not forget that much of the west has already completely embargoed russian oil. so this kind of price cap sets is really set up for countries 3rd party buyer countries such as india, for example,

or china trying to bring them into the fold of the west foreign policy goals. and we've seen all across latin america, africa, and asia, that very few countries are willing to go along with that. earlier on tuesday, russia's foreign minister said moscow has friends in many parts of the world and therefore doesn't need to focus on partnering with the you. we can see how the ruling circles of your countries are acting to the detriment of the vital interests and well being of their own citizens. it's enough to mention as an example, the u. s. ban on european states to maintain a dialogue with our country and the energy sector. of course, there will be no more business as usual with such counter parties. we don't intend to knock on a closed door or initiate any joint projects. luckily, the e u is not the only partner for us. we have many friends and like minded states and other parts of the world. if and when there is a bitter hang over on the european side from the current wrist of phobic. rage

followed by sobering up if there are clear nationally oriented politicians who understand the advantages of an equal and mutually beneficial partnership with russia, i assure you there will be no problems on our side. we discuss moscow's latest move, with senior research fellow of the global policy institute of london, george wiley and geo political analyst jovan longer. before we get to the perception that when russia is being sanctioned, left right and center, i'm not able to respond. so this is the response for from the russian president from the russian federation that will send that quote straight. that's not going to come in here and play your games as if now the oil and gas for the energy that has controlled only in washington, especially the european countries, are the ones that i have to suffer from dis decreased by the ones that are really sticking to russia,

i do to get them back from lunch. it's only the western countries are more of an issue that i show it would benefit him from the resources of russia. but i want to stop. what this does is makes clear to everybody else in the world that it is not in your interest to go along with g 7, e. you plan to impose the price gap. because if you do then note while for you. and obviously it is, you know, russia has pointed out a particular president who didn't want to have repeatedly, it is absolutely nonsensical. the stupidest idea imaginable that consumers can set the price. so he is essentially, by doing this by threatening to penalize anyone who joins in with price gap. he's actually getting the support of many countries in the world, the particularly commodities producers who are very upset about the idea that consumers will get to set prices. because of course, when consumers set prices,

they're going to set the price is as low as possible. the head of a private u. s. military group, which trades ukrainian soldiers has slammed the country as corrupt, while confirming that ukrainian fighters commit atrocities by killing russian prisoners of war. our tv or stano 1000. more into the story. the mozart group, an american private security company that proudly markets itself as a veteran military force providing training to ukrainian soldiers inside the country. it was founded by retired us marine colonel andrew milburn, who's been repeatedly put in a better style for helping out the key of in this time of need. yet, as it turns out, he is very, very far from a fan of ukraine. it's a corrupt of society the let you know. so i'm not, i'm not

a big fan of ukraine. it's not about ukraine. we're not like, i have to have you ukraine flank tied to my bag, but i'm not. oh my god, ukraine. so awesome. no, because it's i understand that plenty of people are running your train. it's not bad that it's about global norms. right? right. let's put food and while melbourne didn't mens his words death. but apparently there's a lot that the mozart group is morally prepared to forgive. and forget the cranium in violation of the hey convention. they're filming of a number of things that they're doing with p o. w 's is fine. i didn't. laura don laura bomb conflict. you can't kill due to, i mean, every nose surrender, i mean. and then now there was plenty of all this is something you wouldn't expect

to hear from the same person who publicly glorify the war in ukraine as just. and it's far from the 1st contradictory statement from milburn. in fact, his accounts of what's happening on the ground in ukraine have been all over the place in one c in an interview. for instance. the former curnow is unequivocal. all for and weapons sent to crane accounted for. i would say that the very last concern that the united states government you have right now is that these arms end up in the wrong hands. and it's almost like his evil twins and appears on c b. s. with a statement that sounds the polar opposite. i can tell you on arguably, sat on the frontline units, these things and all getting that. all right. drones switch blades. i fax that off. all right, body on the helmets. you name it. is it safe to characterize this is

a little bit of a black hole i i suppose if you don't have visibility of whether stuff is going and if you're asking that question then it would appear that it's black hole. yeah. now cave of course, wasn't impressed by the reporting and somehow managed to bully c, b. s to retract and take down the piece. but there have been heated concerns over western arms and being up on the global weapons, black market. this unverified footage, for instance, proposed to show us and european made rocket launches, meant for ukraine, ending up in syria and over and africa. the nigerian president has publicly blamed the conflicts in ukraine for crippling his country's security. regrettably, the situation in the saw heel and the raging war in ukraine service, major sources of weapons and fighters that boasted the ranks of the terrorist in late chad, region. weapons being used for the war in ukraine and russia are equally beginning

to filter to the region. all this comes as no surprise to anyone who's been following events in ukraine long enough over the years. and the nazi groups like the, as of the battalion that used to be reputation, li, toxic, and deficiency band from receiving west and weapons, have now being rebranded as heroes. ukraine's own image has been polluted so badly by rampant corruption for years. but this year, he somehow got the power to send any western media outlet who dares to bring this up. but as long as this can be weaponized to hurt russia, cave will continue to have its carte blanche. joining me now to discuss this as editor in chief of the grey zones macs blumenthal. welcome max. good to hear from you. good to see you fiorella, how you doing? pretty good. so these revelations are very interesting. the mozart group founder, as you have seen,

openly confessed that ukraine fighters are violating multiple laws and conventions by killing russian prisoners of war. he even went as far to say that ukraine is a corrupt expert in society. so one, why does he say this now? and 2, are you surprised by what he said? i'm a little surprised because a contrast with his portrayal in mainstream publications like the new york times, which wrote a puff piece about retired colonel andy milburn. he's kind of a famous figure in marine circles, and now he's running one of the biggest mercenary companies in ukraine. the mozart group. and he was portrayed of the new york times as being gripped by this fervent passion for defending ukraine and democracy. he had sort of a midlife crisis as after serving and the failed us interventions in afghanistan in iraq. and he's looking for a cause he could really believe in while making some money on the side. and he found it in ukraine. but then here you have him on this military groupie podcast called team house, and they're sitting there for 3 hours,

and the whiskey is flowing. they think it's like a cool, you know, guy time in the man cave having craft bourbon. and he gets loaded like after one hour, his speech starts to slur. and then he really starts to lift the mask and says, it's not really about ukraine for him. i ukraine is a screwed up society in so many terms. it's run by his word sick people and the soldiers are rampantly committing atrocities. actually one of the host tries to walk back the term atrocities, and he corrects and says, no, these are atrocities, and they are being committed there. so as a very candid session, a drinking session with colonel andy milburn providing a view of ukrainian society that he had a front seat to having train so many soldiers. and that u. s. media still refuses to tell americans about yeah, quite impactful. indeed, i'm his statement clearly contradicts the u. s. narrative that has been pushed

throughout. do you think there be any repercussions for him after this discussion and admission? i don't know. i mean, you look at the comments on the podcast and people seem pretty comfortable and excited by what he was saying and they loved him. i put them out on youtube, on twitter, i only had 2 minutes and 20 seconds. so there were highlights or lowlights if you want to call them that. and a lot of people were horrified or were just sort of surprised to see such candid admissions from someone who was working on the ukrainian side. but i don't think this will have any repercussions for the war effort as a whole, because this is what the $45000000000.00 already allocated for 2023 by congress, which just clapped like seals for zalinski is paying for it's paying for these atrocities. this unprofessionalism and the u. s. military intelligence apparatus is willing to go along with that as long as they get results, what are the results they want? it's what milburn and his buddies in the man cave said they were weakening, proven,

and destabilizing russia. well, with all of these admissions and revelations, why do so many in global mass media and international, just governments remain so silent about the atrocities committed by ukraine, that in so many are admitting to why as the host of team house said, we can't actually start abandoning our ukrainian partners at this point, even though in the u. s. military, he claimed that you would be done if you film po w's on, on camera being shot and summarily executed, as we've seen from ukraine as we side of harkey, as we saw. ah, more recently, not just for at russian prison prisoners being shot in their knees, but being executed. and, and, you know, another reason is just the deeply ingrained russo phobia in the united states, the hatred of russia and the support for ukraine as an anti russian proxy and not as

a country defending sovereignty or democracy. so in many ways what colonel milburn has himself said, he was horrified by actually delights many people who are supporting ukrainian effort. and speaking about the exposure of narratives on ukraine and the support for the west. in spite of them, we saw the twitter files reveal how the pentagon f, b i and other government officials manipulated information on what they deemed to be anti ukrainian, labeling it as russian this information. this isn't the 1st time it comes up obviously. but do you think that this will change at all any perception in the public with all of that the twitter files even coming into play? well, the twitter files are educating the public on what you and i fear all have experienced on twitter, the shadow banning. and we knew that there were state forces behind this that there was a great american firewall on any critical information out of ukraine or critical information about co that or any other government lead agenda. so we've seen through mat tie

evey's most recent threat of the about the twitter files that twitter maintained a foreign influence threat team that included members of the f b i as well as an, an other government agency or o g a which is code for the cia and that, that other government agency composed a presentation for twitter, about what they called accounts pushing, neo nazi ukraine propaganda. in other words, accounts talking about the reality of neo nazis in the ukranian armed forces and society. you were on that word cloud that they composed as well as my colleagues on upon pill and aaron, marty, and i guess that means that you were targeted with some kind of shadow banning or that us intelligence was encouraging twitter executives to sensor or suppress you. and my colleagues and anyone else who talked about this reality and so i'm glad this finally came out and we need to learn more. yeah, and i mean with all of us coming out and, and that happen, of course,

on the backside of seeing zalinski go to congress, as you mentioned, as former money. meanwhile, americans in the united states are clearly suffering. there is a blizzard left people, many, many people in the streets. what is at this point, washington's interests in continuing to support kiev. ah, you know, with the of course, the backside of the american public also getting seemingly fed up with this well, i ran into sen, joe mansion, the conservative democrat from west virginia has way into zalinski speech, who's kind of lost on the north east side of the capital, as bizarre, he was trying to lift a steel barricade to get himself in. so i caught him for a 2nd and i said, do you even know how many billions we've sent to ukraine? and in so many words, he said he didn't care. he said, i, we're going to send a lot more with this look of satisfaction on his face than what he meant was that his donors in the energy industry, we're getting basically kickbacks. they were profiting because we're just washing

money through ukraine as we did through afghanistan. it's going right back to the arms industry to private contractors to mercenaries like colonel andy milburn and to the energy industry which is doing so well. because europe is more dependent on us liquid natural gas than ever before, especially since the nord stream pipeline was blown up. so that's why i think senator joe mansion and so many other lawmakers clapping like seals for zalinski are so infused by this new budget. yeah. oh, well, thank you so much for a discussion, max editor in chief of the graham. thank you. thanks a lot for euro. ah, ukrainian president zalinski has held what he described as a positive phone call with india's prime minister. not long after he had stopped diplomat, i accuse new dully of capitalizing on the ukraine conflict by cooperating with russia. the opportunity for india to buy russian oil at a cheap price comes from the fact the ukrainians are suffering from russian

aggression and dying every day. if you benefit because of our suffering, it would be good to see more of your help addressed to us. ukraine's foreign minister made the critical statement during an interview with india's and the tv that came in stark contrast is a lens. he's recent discussion with indian prime minister or on the modi, on how to strengthen cooperation between the 2 countries. a new delhi based foreign affairs expert says the ukranian presidents, controversial track record means can't, can't be trust that to uphold a new piece deal. dylan ski has said that he expected india to come in and mediate a piece, but the question the ej is he is ready cause beast because adrenal or after when this military of the finished after do of 2 once a been 2 months,

then there we have negotiated group in a t, v had mediated between both concrete and we had received news that some, some such conceal progress that had been achieved to them. but suddenly he, he backed out. so, immunity that didn't sky as i had you, is not an independent lip. he is, he is your, his policy, you are the, he just got on the wall is ring, contort long somewhere. we all know what i mean from on river. it's wrong, either. you'd have nettle headquarters while from the united states. and yet another blow to diplomacy, ukraine's foreign minister has proposed holding peace talks at the un without inviting moscow to the table caps as it wants to organize the summit by the end of february, ukraine, stop diplomat. emphasize that keeps peace formula does not currently include russia,

the spokesman for the russian president and the 3 pest called claim that the kremlin was not aware that ukraine was allegedly preparing a peace plan. a political and foreign policy expert says that india can mediate the peace process between ukraine and russia. again, it's recently also deteriorated that he wants to have a peaceful settlement. and he is looking for a ceasefire. rip ukraine, keep hess to negotiate with moscow and to mos scrolled so has to initiate a dialogue with key risk such because ultimately a peaceful settlement is for the benefit of the country. senators for benny crypt are both the people as such. read that it's the ukrainian people are the russian people as such and it is good and healthy for global this also and for the globe as such. while the whole want as such chris to put in also supposed to be be was helping dea in relation to finding out

a peaceful settlement for to be in russia and ukraine walked. and i think india can take out role in their center. the recently released twitter files opened a pandora's box of revelations on how far washington is prepared to interfere in social media and even the personal health choices of citizens. just to keep its grip on the narrative. it's the latest in a string of western government scandals. this year, as our teeth marina quotes that are about explains the latest leaks of the now notorious twitter files show that washington was manipulating what users online saw regarding coven vaccines. well, maybe that's because key figures had something to gain from it. let's take a look at doctor anthony found t. this is america's top a health official, and he just announced that he will be stepping down as the head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and as chief medical adviser to president biden. well,

the timing is definitely interesting. do you know anyone who works for a social media platform doin or somebody who works for social media platform or at this time? well, i've had communications with mark zuckerberg in the past. do you know anyone else who works for a social media platform other than mark zuckerberg? when you say, do i know somebody who works? like do you have acquaintances, people that you know who work at social media platforms? well, a person who used to work as a software engineer for twitter was my daughter. so america, top health officials, daughter, worked with twitter. so in a position to potentially alter a few things according to her dad's wishes, who was in a position to benefit from people getting vaccinated. 27000 royalty payments were paid to 1800 and i and i age employees. can you tell me that you have not received

a royalty from any entity that you ever oversaw the distribution of money in research grants? oh, well, 1st of all, let's talk about this. you know, that's the question. have you ever overseen under received a lawyer payment from a company that you later oversaw money going to that company? you know, i don't know, is the fact, but i doubt it. joe biden's, chief medical advisor isn't sure if he profited from the pandemic excellence. well, we know how much wiser made $22000000000.00 in 2021 or a $1000.00 every 2nd. and we now know that the 1st maxine that was sold to the masses in america both literally and figuratively, wasn't even tested for efficacy before it answered the market. regarding the question around and did we know about stopping immunization before it's enter the

market? no. at these are, you know, we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market. and from that point of view, we had to do everything at risk. it's hardly surprising then that across the pond, the e u. prosecutor's office has now opened an investigation into coven, maxine purchases with all eyes on the european commission of presidents. it seems that arsole of under lion exchanged a few tax messages with visors c. e o. before cementing the multi 1000000000 euro contract, acquiring 4500000000 doses for 450000000 people. well maybe this case will shed some light on her involvement because so for the commission has refused to release any details about bonder lions roll in its negotiations. the commission can confirmed and the search undertaken by the president's cabinet for relevant text messages corresponding to the request for

access to documents has not yielded any results. we asked the commission to provide us with information on the preliminary nego patience for disagreement. scientific experts consulted and advice received timing of the talks, records of the discussions, and details of the agreed terms and conditions. however, none was forthcoming. hardly surprising. well, it took a couple of years to get the league slinking. washington suits footer's, covet policies. so we may need a few more to uncover what lies beneath the billions, if not trillions made during the pandemic. independent, china's specialist, andrew alone says that washington allows major u. s. corporations to profit from global challenges. first of all, those see americans who standards of our free freedom of speech, freedom of expression. and of course, that the united states been criticized in countries like china, russia,

and other countries for allowing freedom of expression on anything that even threaten their own national security of these countries universally known fact. they're big businesses, especially the so called military industrial complex is part of the the u. s. government machinery. so and then the big oil companies and the big coal companies. so they promote their, their own vested interest in even opposing climate change. for example, as to whether or not the big pharma benefiting definitely, i mean, of course they've, they've been ready for the hugely, with all these vaccines. and they turn on, you know, they're different types of scenes and, and, and different very and so, so i'm actually to make a lot of money on that. as joe biden signs,

yet another a bell to support key at this time with a price tag of $45000000000.00 in american advisor to ukraine's military and an interview to cnn said washington should approve supplies of cluster munitions to quote increase base lethality. the 2008 convention on cluster munitions bands such weapons as an detonated devices pose a danger to the public. the document was signed by more than 100 countries, including the majority of e u countries. though russia, the u. s. and ukraine were not among them human and labor rights lawyer dan cove, all acts as the call for supplying such weapons. proves washington doesn't care about civilians. what it will do. it will cause suffering to soldiers and civilians, but i don't think it will help you. crane when the war, they are anti personnel devices, they exist to, to main,

and to kill many times civilians. we know that the u. s. has in other theaters provide a cluster bombs, for example, in yemen. i don't think they care about the ukrainian people. if they did, they would have abided by the minsk agreements. instead, they allowed ukraine to continue to attack the don bass for 8 years, even before the special operations began in february. i is very clear to me that the u. s. will fight russian to the last ukranian the ukrainians are seen merely as cannon fodder for the united states. and that's a rob on this. our is top news stories worldwide for more 247 coverage had over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey rumble and gap. thanks for tuning and we'll see you back in 30.

ah. with play any measure the year 2022 has been transformative. the conflict in ukraine, global inflation, growing food insecurity. and the west demand that you are with this or against is dominated our attention on this addition of cross talk. we discuss some of these