ah, ah, with russia officially bands, oil exports to any country comply with the g 7 price cap. a decree will come into effect in february. it's a corrupt of society. i understand that for the people running ukraine, the head of a private u. s. military group that trains ukrainian soldiers admits that country is corrupt . also confirming cab's troops executed russia prisoners of war. and the pentagon continues to delay a response about its role in a deadly air strike in nigeria in 2017. that resulted in more than $100.00 civilian

debts as local residents demanded investigation. we know and i refused to war paula . but whoever was behind these should be investigated. those who are behind this should be brought to justice. the latest batch of twitter files reveal the u. s. administration pressure the platform to prioritize information on cobra vaccine to fit the narrative of this policy. ah, hello, and good morning for a month. so to where ever in the world you may be catching us from. welcome to the hour's top stories from around the globe. 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, which moscow brands as a violation of international law ortiz donald quarter, has more. this presidential decree outlines 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. first 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 bids to punish moscow for its military operation in ukraine. and even moscow before this, this cap price cap was set. 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, russia's foreign ministers that 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 you 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 rissa for big rage, followed by a sobering up. if there are clear nationally oriented politicians who understands the advantages of an equal and mutually beneficial partnership with russia, i assure you there will be no problems on our side. we discuss math, those latest move with senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london doors, am wiley and geopolitical. i analyst gum along that before we get to the perception that when russia is being sanction lifted to this point. 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 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'm going to give you after them, but not only the western countries, but more and see that i show it would benefit 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. 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 for a 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 this price guy. 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 the 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 r t z 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 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 ukraine. it's not bad that it's about global norms, right? right. let's pub 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 violating laura

laura bomb conflicts in kel, due to, i mean, every nose surrender, i mean, and then there was plenty of them. 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 see in an interview. for instance, the former colonel is unequivocal. all 4 and weapons sent to ukraine 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 that on the

frontline units these things are not getting there. alright. 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 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 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, he will continue to have its cod blanche. the 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 word sick people and the soldiers are rampantly committing atrocities. actually one of the host tries to walk back the term atrocities, and he corrected and says, no, these are atrocities and they are being committed there. so it's a very candid session drinking session with colonel and melbourne, providing a view of ukrainian society that he had a front seat to having trained 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 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. but i don't think this will have any repercussions for that 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, prudent and destabilizing russia and africa. and other regions suffering from the unwonted repercussions of the ukrainian crisis, as weapons initially designated for care and up in the hands of local terrorist groups. the nigerian president has blame the conflict in ukraine for crippling as countries security. regrettably, the situation in the saw he'll in the raging war in ukraine service, major sources of weapons and fights is supposed to the ranks of the terrorists in late chad. region. weapons being used for the war in ukraine and russia are equally beginning to filter to the region, a former pace keeper. and so don and molly says the west is responsible for the

instability in africa. d to it's ongoing support of ukraine. for my father looks, the west is only risking its future gunners. they realized now that everything is more or less lost, but they don't really want to lose face. exempt from the west thinks it can always restore its image. but i don't think that's the case at all. they're 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. and 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. peers clashes between palestinians and israeli forces have erupted in this city of ramallah. protesters demanded the release of a body belonging to a palestinian prisoner who died in an israeli jail last week following a year long battle with cancer. a heavy military presence and the use of tear gas

was fought it. at the scene, nasser abo hotmail, had been serving numerous life sentences since 2002 for multiple convictions related to the death of israelis. he died last week after being diagnosed with cancer in august, but israel refuses to return his body to his family, the palestinian commission for detainees accused israel of quote, deliberate medical negligence. the pentagon has delayed its response to u. s. congress about america's role in the 2017 air strike in nigeria that claim more than a 100 civilian lives. in september, the protection of civilians in conflict caucus called on the secretary of defense to reveal details of the air strike. but the dead line is now 3 weeks overdue. the intercept attributes, this unwillingness to respond,

is due to the countries direct involvement in the tragic accident. the formerly secret african document obtained by the intercept suggests that the u. s. may have launched this rare internal investigation because it secretly provided intelligence or other support to the nigerian armed forces who carried out the deadly strike. according to the documents seen by the intercept us africa man, launch a secret investigation. just days after the attack at a displaced persons camp. the publication claims that an american reconnaissance plain circle. the cab just before a nigerian air force playing bomb the area, the document calls the air strike an example of a u. s. nigerian operations in a year and researcher from human rights watch says washington's unwillingness to assist in providing clarity is worrisome. bound to guns, failure to provide information and tal commends to determine possible u. s. involvement in in a strike that took manny civilian lodge in ne nigeria does not bode well for the u

. s. government expressed commitment to transparency and accountability. it sends worrisome message that at minimum, the defense department isn't willing to engage from an issue affecting countless lives and may even reflect an attempt to evade responsibility. the camps residents killed in the air strikes had been fleeing the conflict in north eastern nigeria where the government is fighting militants and had thought they were safe in the area. nigerian officials have expressed regret over the attack. a local correspondent brings us more details. 5 years ago and 9 children mutually as strike seats as civilian comp and the board at all. no for wrong. 180 kilometers from maple gree, claiming that the life of at least 115 people, including children and humanitarian walk us the pentacles called one investigation into the u. s. military involvement in the are tricity. how strong reaction from

a degree residence and i levy, i'm issued it to, but she, this investigation is very queued because we have waited for so long to know what happened. but no one said anything. even though it's light, we want to know you conducted the attack. we know and merrick is award, paula, but whoever is behind these should be investigated. because this will put everyone off making similar mistakes in the future. well, we don't want this investigation to be politically influenced. a lot of children and families died and some have been made homeless. so on, on our calendar, or even if the air force got such intelligence from america, they should conduct a thorough check on the site before bombing it. it's after a massacre has happened. the 2 countries trade blame when people have died. those who are behind this should be brought to justice. the recently released twitter files open day pandora's box of revelations on how far washington is willing to go to interfere in the personal health choices of 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 r t, the marita costa river 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'll 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 ruling agreement 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 swenton $2000000000.00 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 sent to the market. now, at these and 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 rest. 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 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 confirm the dis, 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 a preliminary nego ations for this agreement. scientific experts consulted and advice, received timing of the talks, records of the discussions,

and details of the agree 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, a small dose, the american thought was standards of our free freedom of speech and freedom of expression. and of course, that the united states been criticising countries like china, russia, and other countries for, 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 it 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 didn't benefit the hugely, with all of these vaccines. and they turn on, you know, they're different types of scenes and, and, and with different very and so, and so forth. and actually to make a lot of money on that, taiwan has decided to extend it mandatory military service for 4 months to one year, starting in 2024. that's a china begin ramping up. it's military activity in the taiwan strait over the weekend. just days after the u. s. authorized

a massive security assistance package, the island in a show of force, china sent over 70 war planes and 7 ships towards ty, one in 24 hours on monday. thai want officials say it was the largest airing hers into date, though no sirens were sounded that's after beijing condemned the u. s. s. decision to provide $10000000000.00 and security assistance to taipei though byte. it administration labeled the chinese drills in the strait 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 in your taiwan, which is to stabilizing risks, miscalculations, and undermines regional peace instability. we will continue to assist taiwan and maintaining a sufficient self defense capability in line with our longstanding commitments and consistent with our one china policy centers between beijing and washington escalated after you as how speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan back in august after

which other us lawmakers and foreign delegations also began killing up to visit the move sparked fury from beijing, which in turn launch unprecedented live fire drills and circling the island. victor gao, vice president of the center for china and globalization, says the u. s. is trying to instigate a conflict which goes against the interests of both the chinese and 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 largest dealer to 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 have 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. despite might, in the sense to pull the heat tensions between washington and beijing continue to rise. some experts say the biggest problems stem from us law makers. to keep testing china's clear red lines for more on that story and others had over to r t dot com. and now to the balkans were tensions in the north

of kosovo have been escalating. serbian locals have used lori to put up new barricades blocking roads. christina, this comes after reports emerges at around $1500.00 soldiers of the breakaway kosovo republic were put on combat readiness in could intervene in the north of the region. media reports a post in police had rented bulldozers to demolish the barricades, r t contributor nickel, a job which has more serves. they put the barricades in the course, coming up on the south for entrance in the city. that means that now completely for 30 minutes about it is in the north of kaufman and are cut off by the o been from the vineyards. and that means that they cannot pass into those regions from the serbian side of the matter. that the more the cross think, which is the current, the only the crossing that's what i've seen and shut down for 2 weeks already.

services from the local villages, from the serbian side, and also put the pro box in barricades insulin. there, there are people in cars that are in addition to that sodium, patriarchal feels, was forbidden engines to possible. he tried to enter on the same crossing that better because it is in the serbians edition for, for the bater to be in the, in the last days before christmas week. his people, the russian ambassador said that this is a cruel violation of his big human rights and also even in the vest and diplomats and the same thing. and everybody agrees that this is not the common practice. and this cannot affect the situation on the rain in any way or matter unofficially. albanians ask the 2nd page. there are several things. one of them is basically to denounce the barricades to say that there are there an act of violence in therapy to denounce brandon and basically to denounce his support for russia as well.

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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 little bushel i was to flood there's a lot of the study toby house, toby, a co thornhill. bully moses. i'm them a tool for them. a 3, a see, a 361 touch brothers. it will show the sisters i'll put below and.