some of these issues, and i'm with russia officially bands, oil exports that any country complying with the g 7 price tab. the decree will come into effect in february, 2nd, rob society. i understand that for new people running ukraine, the head of a private u. s. military group that frames ukrainian soldiers that admit that country is corrupt, while also confirming troops executed russian prisoners of war. the latest batch of leak twitter files reveal the u. s. administration pressure the platform to prioritize information on cobra vaccines to fit the narrative of its policies.

with hello and good morning from moscow to wherever you may be catching us from. welcome to the hour's top stories from around the globe. i'm here relas about russia has banned the export of crude oil and petroleum products to any country comply with the price cap earlier imposed by the west, which moscow brands as a violation of international law ortiz donald quarter, has more this 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 the 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, russians foreign ministers that moscow has friends in many parts of the world and

therefore doesn't need to focus on partnering with the e. u. 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 calendar 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 walley, and geopolitical analysts show longer before we get to the perception that when russia is being sanctioned, left right and centre are not able to respond. so this is the response 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 has control. when do in washington, especially the european countries are the ones that i had to suffer from just to creep by the ones that are, are really sticking to russia. i do to get up in bed, mom and she's only the western countries that are more of an issue that i show you that would benefit him from the resistance of russia that are going to suffer. what this does is makes clear to everybody else in the world that it is not in your

interest to go along with this g 7. you plan to impose the price guy. because if you do then note while for you, and obviously, as you know, russia has pointed out, particular president putin is going 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 the 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 are going to set the price is as low as possible. the head of a private u. s. military group, which trains ukrainian soldiers has slammed the country as corrupt while confirming that ukrainian fighters commit atrocities by killing russian prisoners of war. our

tv course donna dives 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 know, you ukraine flank tied to my bag, but i'm not, oh my god, ukraine. so awesome. no, because it's i understand that's plenty of people running your train. it's

not bad that it's about global norms. right. let's put food and while melbourne didn't mens his words there. 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 by lady laura laura vom conflict co 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 has been all over the

place in one see in an interview. for instance, the former colonel is unequivocal. all foreign weapons send to you. 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 ending up on the global weapons black market. this unverified footage, for instance, proposed to show us and european made rocket launch is meant for ukraine ending up in syria. 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 a battalion that used to be reputation, li toxic, and officially banned from receiving west and weapons, have now being re branded as heroes. ukraine's own image has been polluted so badly by rampant corruption for years. but this year, key of 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, he will continue to have it's called blanche 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. but then here you have him on this military groupie podcast called team house. like after an 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. ukraine is a screwed up society in so many terms. it's run by, in his words, sick people and the soldiers are rampantly committing atrocities. actually, one of the host tries to walk back the term atrocities, and he correct them and says, no, these are atrocities. and they are being committed there. so it's a very candid session drinking session with kernel and melbourne, 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 as the host of team. how said we can't actually start abandoning our ukrainian partners at this point. even though in the us military, he claimed that you would be done if you still p o w's on, on camera being shot and summarily executed, as we've seen from ukraine. 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 its 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 cape said they were weakening prudence and d, stabilizing russia. and africa is another region suffering from the unwanted repercussions of ukrainian crisis, as weapons initially designated for kiev. and up in the hands of local terrorist

groups, the nigerian president has blamed the conflict in ukraine for crippling his country's security. regrettably, the situation in the saw heal and the raging war in ukraine service, major sources of weapons and fighters the both to 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 a for peace keeper. and so don and molly says the west is responsible for the instability in africa due to its never ending aid of ukraine. for my partner in my view, the west has no other choice on, is it? the west is only risking its future. they realize now that everything is more or less lost, but they don't really want to lose face. the west thinks it can always restore its image, but i don't think that's the case at all. they are not in the best position right now. if you look at all these terrorists, a lot of weapons were acquired by them with the help of the west. in libya,

for instance, it was the west that caused everything, and then libya essentially fell. the sa hale origin of africa's now and chaos. these are all the games of the west, in my opinion. the recently released twitter files opened a pandora's box of revelations on how far washington is willing to go to interfere in the personal health choices of its citizens manipulating social media. 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 cost that ever explains the latest leaks of the now notorious twitter files show that washington was manipulating what users online saw regarding coven vaccines. or maybe that's because key figures had something to gain from it. let's take a look at doctor anthony found she. 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, surprised and by then. well, the timing is definitely interesting. do you know anyone who works for a social media platform doin or somebody who works for a social media platform or at this time? well, i'll hunt 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 ruling agreement from a company that you later oversaw money going to that company? you know, i don't know, is a fact, but i doubt it. joe biden is 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 like scene that was sold to the masses in america both literally and figuratively, wasn't even tested for efficacy before it answered the markets. regarding the

question around and did we know about stopping immunization before it sent to the market. now, at these them, 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 than that across the pond. the e. u prosecutor's office has now opens an investigation into coven, maxine purchases with all eyes on the european commission of presidents. it seems that arsole of underlying exchange, if you text messages with pfizer, 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 the search undertaken by the president's cabinet for relevant text messages corresponding to their quest for access to documents has not yielded any results. we asked the commission to provide us with information on the preliminary nego stations for this agreement. 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 sweaters, cove it policies so we may need a few more. so uncover what lies beneath the billions, if not trillions made. during the pandemic, independent, china's specialist andrew long says, washington allows major u. s. corporations to profit from global challenges. good. all those see americans that will standards of our free freedom of speech and 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 as 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. but as to whether or not the big pharma would benefit thing, definitely, i mean, of course they, they've been benefit hugely with all these vaccines. and they turn on, you know, they're different types of scenes and, and, and then with different very and so,

and so forth. and actually, to make a lot of money on the ukranian president, the lensky held what he described as a positive phone call with india's prime minister. this not long after he had stopped diplomatic, his new delhi of capitalizing on the great conflict by cooperating with russia. the opportunity for india to buy russian oil at a cheap price comes from the fact that 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. in a conversation with the indian prime minister modi, the ukranian president, expressed hope that india will help implement his formula for peace, which contains 10 steps to stop the conflict. one of which is the restoration of ukraine's territorial integrity president lensky. wrapped up by wishing the indian prime minister a successful g 20 presidency in 2023. and you deli based foreign affairs experts,

as the ukranian president's controversial track record means give, can't be trusted to uphold a new piece. deal again. and ski has said that he expected india to to come in and mediate a 5 piece. but the question here is he is ready for the piece because as we know, after when this military of, within the started to have to once been 2 months that we have negotiate and group in the middle between both countries. and we had received news that some, some such can see had been a few of them, but suddenly he, he backed out. so every entity in that didn't sky i had you, is not an independent live. he age here,

his policy, your, his, this got out of was, is really, can toward long term with. we all know what i mean sometimes with it's wrong. you know, natal headquarters was long that united to nigeria now were petro shortages have caused prices to skyrocket with the latest report by the national bureau of statistics showing a dramatic spike in transport costs compared to last year. according to the report and jerry and are now paying 97 percent more for domestic flights and 45 percent more for bus tickets in comparison to november of last year. from this past february, fuel shortage is spread from the capital to other parts of the country. as a result of the crisis, petrol stations are selling fuel higher prices and the one fixed by the government, which black market speculation is rising. the country, the only importer of fuel, the nigerian national petroleum company, says it hasn't of stock,

but there are problems with distribution. this comes amid a global energy crisis, with restriction placed on the imports of russian gas, nigerian politician, adama gar, by the 2nd says the anti russian sanctions have provoked the smuggling of oil from his country. nigeria, he's like every order country in the world is grossly dependent on energy. so when you have a fuel price going, all it means that you have hired or they're very high, possibly be on the situation is completely not connected with a series of global events. the sanction that is imposed on russia regarding for him petition due to the war between russia and ukraine is actually what is affecting what you see when doesn't shown what's imposed. the prices of provincial up it is supposed to been if it was nigerians, of part of the export of oil. what is unfortunate that there are so many criminal gung in cannot once they're more important than us mobile in out oil in nigeria.

well, the quota from or pick to produce about one point it to 2200000 bottles. plenty. but as i'm talking to you know, almost 500002 several 100005 day by day he's been stolen out of nigeria. most of our lives told him in collaboration with to put him back on us. and this boy is finding its way into european and american ports. you know, and is shutting our didn't is 14 down on our income and make you live much more difficult. ford nigeria. fortunately a to me, i think the issue is going to really not going to be that would force in 2023. taiwan has decided to extend its mandatory military service from 4 months to one year starting in 2024. that's as china began ramping up, its military activity in the taiwan strait over the weekend. just days after the u

. s. authorized a massive security assistance package to the island. china sent over 70 war plains and 7 ships toward taiwan in 24 hours on monday. in a show, a 4th taiwan official say it was the largest air incursion. to date, though no sirens were sounded that's after beijing condemned the u. s. decision to provide $10000000000.00 and security assistance that i pay the bite in administration labeled the chinese drills in this rate as provocative and reiterated its commitment to the islands defense. the united states is concerned by the people's republic of china's provocative military activity near taiwan, which is destabilizing risks, miscalculations, and undermines regional peace and stability. we will continue to assist taiwan and maintaining a sufficient self defense capability in line with our long standing commitments and consistent with our one china policy. tensions between beijing and washington escalated after us. how speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan back in august after

which other us lawmakers and foreign delegations also began doing up to visit the move sparked theory from beijing, which in turn launched unprecedented life fire drills and circling taiwan. victor cow, vice president of the center for china, and globalization says us is trying to instigate a conflict which goes against the interests of both the chinese and the american people. united states is not doing what president told the chinese leader in body. they are walking the wrong walk, while sometimes they talk to roy talk. if you read the dangerous mind of some of the decision makers in washington, they probably want to be the last de la taiwan, make all the money in the wrongful way and tried to instigate outbreak of military conflicts. and then they will come to the top of the claim in themselves as angels

. but i think the chinese people on both sides of the taiwan straits has enough wisdom to see through what the united states is doing. because what the united states doing is not for the fundamental interest of the people in taiwan. it is against the fundamental interest people of china and philosophically. it is also against the fundamental interest of the american people. because the american people do not want to see a wall prosy china and the united states for the sake of u. s. government support of ty was separatism as tension between washington and beijing. continue to store despite vitamins attempts to melt the ice. some expert say the biggest problems come from us. lawmakers who keep testing china's red lines for more on that head over to r t dot com. now to the

balkans, we're tensions in the north of coastal have been escalating. serbian locals have used lori to put up new barricades, blocking roads per sina. this comes up to reports, emerge that around 1500 soldiers of the break away coast of republic were put on combat readiness and could intervene in the north of the region. media report say close of the police had rented bulldozers to demolish the barricades, art contributor, nickel, a job which has more, serves the barricades in the course, coming up on the south for entrance in the city. that means that now completely for certain limits about it is in the north, of course we are cut off by the front of indians. and that means that they cannot pass into those regions from the serbian side of the matter that it was more than cross, which is the current, the only one crossing this works in the area and shut down for 2 weeks already.

service from the local villages, from the serbian side ship, also put up roadblocks and barricades insulin there, and there are people in counseling. in addition to that, sodium char feels was forbidden an entrance to possible. he tried to enter on the same crossing. now that it because it is in the serbians edition for, for the bates are to be in the last days before christmas week. his people, the russian ambassador said that this is a cruel violation of his basic human rights. and also even in the western diplomats said the same thing and everybody agrees that this is not the common practice. and this cannot affect the situation on the rain in any good way or matter unofficially . opinions asked the 2nd page. there are several things. one of them is basically to denounce the barricades to say that there are, there are an act of violence in there to denounce president and basically to

denounce his support for russia as well. that's our wrap on this hour's top stories worldwide for more 247 news coverage. head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey rumble. and gab, thanks for tuning in. we'll see back at the top of the hour. ah, ah ah

ah, by 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 us or against is dominated our attention. on this addition of cross talk, we discussed some of these issues and more ah, of that i was gonna just put on there that you that nobody mutual go log in with that nice. i'm with denise dillard. yeah, i got the company will read today. share that also sure use the mouth movable when they fitted over by the sick a smoldering.