ah ah, for sure bands or likes both to any country complying with the g $7.00 price cap, the measures will come into effect in february, also this hour. it's a corrupt society. i understand that funny people running ukraine, the head of a private u. s. military group, the trains ukrainian soldiers says the country is corrupt. also saying that kids troops have executed russian prisoners in the pentagon continues to delay a response about this role in a deadly air strike in nigeria in 2017. that resulted in more than

a 100 civilian deaths local residents demanded investigation. we know, and maverick is a war power, but whoever is behind these should be investigated. those who are behind this should be brought to justice. ah. must go to the world. this is our see international. my name is peter scott. these the top stories this our welcome to the program. russia has been the exports of crude oil and petroleum products to any country that complies with the price cap imposed by the west. just set to come and so forth. in february, moscow's branded, it's a violation of international law is done. the culture 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 bid 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 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 oils. 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's 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. uh, oil and gas experts that cabala says versus leading those all countries that the outside of opec. while the implication will be interesting, what i the end of the day, it will be in the positive interests of russia, because this is what i want everybody to understand across the blue. when you talk about oil and gas, you are talking about an international commodity here. and we know about the oil car tell call, or peg, or peggy, very from oil cartel kind of prizes across the globe and production. what we should also remember that the non opec members actually lead by russia. so every time you think about saudi arabia, i've been very strong oil nation. i'm a member of opec. you have to look at russia in similar capacity because russia is

leading all the members are not simply mean, i mean, any attempt to, to come up with policies or strategies will not be in the interest of russia. i mean, yeah, we should put some level of retaliation. in the news, russian security forces have filed a terror attack in the north caucasus. ducal prints were killed in a shootouts after they opened fire when trying to escape. according to intelligent services, the men willing to unnamed terrorist organizations and a suspected of working under the instruction of ukrainian special services there were said to be prepared, in fact, in the north corks. this region, after which they plan to leave for ukraine to fight against the russian army of esse be offices, found a home may bomb, a machine gun and a pistol at the scene. the 3rd 4 possible accomplices continues on the head of a private u. s. military group,

which trains ukrainian soldiers has labeled the country corrupt. well, also saying that you couldn't, your fighters have killed russian prisoners of war. 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 funny people running ukraine. it's not bad that it's about global norms, right. right. i spoke to, to 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 if in this time of need. yet, as it turns out, he is very, very far from a fan of ukraine. but apparently there's a lot that the mozart group is morally prepared to forgive and forget the ukrainians 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. laura don laura bomb conflict had killed due to, i mean, every nose surrender, i mean and then now there was plenty of them all. this is something you wouldn't expect to hear from the same person who publicly glorified 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 foreign weapons send 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, sat on the frontline units. these things are not getting that. all right. drones switch blades by facts. they're not. all right. body armor helmets. you name it. is it safe to characterize this is a little bit of a black hole. 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 repeated 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. 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, 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 have russia, cave 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 jean 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 cracks and says, no, these are atrocities. and they are being committed there. so as a very candid session, you know, 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 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. 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 clap 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 putin and destabilizing russia will. officers another region of suffering due to the conflicts in ukraine speaking its original summit back in november,

nigeria of presidents claimed the weapons initially doesn't need to for kids have ended up in the hands of local terrorist groups. you'll said the was threatened in his country security. regrettably, the situation in the saw heal in the raging war in ukraine service. major sources of weapons and fights is the boast of the ranks of the terrorists in lake chad, region. weapons being used for the war in ukraine and russia are equally beginning to filter to the region. well, the form of peacekeeping. so don, and molly says that the west has contributed to the instability in africa, jews who is ongoing support of ukraine. from our products, the west is only risking its future, then 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 is now in chaos. these are all the games of the west, in my opinion the number of children suffering due to an extreme droughts across ethiopia, kenya, and somalia has more than doubled in 5 months, according to the un children's fund unicef, more than 20000000 children are risk of hunger thirst on deadly infections in africa. well, collective and accelerated efforts have mitigated some of the worst impact of what had been feared. children in the horn of africa, i still facing the most severe drought in more than 2 generations. according to unicef, at least 2000000 children in ethiopia, kenya, and somalia will need urgent treatment for acute malnutrition. now says 24000000 people face water shortages, while children across africa face labor exploitation, gender based violence on sexual harassment. let's discuss this issue with liquor.

van deville, unicef deputy regional director for easton and southern africa league. thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. i know you're currently in africa. can you tell us about the challenges that you're facing there? well, thank you for paying attention to this very important, sir. oh yes, because we have for seen increasing challenges for the children in our region. a year just mentioned the horn of africa. so these are the 3 countries, somalia, canyon, ethiopia, and i'm based in kenya, and we have for our colleagues all across the year. 3 countries seeing a tremendous deterioration of the situation of the children in these countries that are affected by dropped. you just mentioned that had said them severe as droughts in many years and the fact that in for 2 years. and unfortunately, we are going to the 6 field reigning season,

making the situation even worse, and we really need to prepare for the worst case scenario. so or less rain is again, less walter, less livelihoods, and increased acute mountain krisha disease outbreak. and of course of food insecurity across those 3 countries that are really affected severely by the draft . yes. go ahead. yeah, the rainy season as was always, isn't looking through promising next year either. what, what sort of assistance do you need to help mitigate some of these disastrous effects on these droughts? yeah, these are indeed a series of activities in the interventions that we conduct together with the government's local authorities. and of course, our own, the un family. together mid to end jose, community groups, we go into the communities and the 1st and foremost make sure that the communities

have access to safe. walter safe wants her immediately and on the longer term, but also clean a sanitation to prevent further disease outbreak and really understanding and access to so washing hands and those i gene practices. now this bill avoids further deterioration, but meanwhile, a lot of the children have seen a mountain creation in their families, and especially to youngers really are at risk for severe malnutrition and for us to really help them. there's only one particular intervention that is really required, which is ready to use, public feeding or dose. children get very intense feeding and their families need to sit with the children and make sure that they take that they refer to feeding. so they recover. and then they can then be released and continue living on the

regular foods. but if you're really severe, malnourished, regular food don't do the trick, you really need to be exposed to a very intense feeding of practice. and that then the also a built your resilience for the child and protect the child much better to some of the disease outbreaks that we see. of course, we've seen a cholera, but also measles are. you might know that missile is a very dangerous disease, especially for the younger children. and if children are well nourished, the risk is much higher or if they catch me so that they would actually and pass away. so these kind of interventions are acute and i really life save me. meanwhile, we also have the families, for example, emergency cash. so they can buy their own food and they can find ways of surviving. because very often the likelihood has been disrupted and be of course

try to have the kids as much as possible in school. so they can continue learning, but they're also protected because a school has his protective environment and our children go there day. they learned a very teacher keeps an eye on them and the children keep an eye on each other. but they'd be seen if they're such a high level of stress and displacement that some of those child protection risk that me see are really increase your to your so. yeah, sorry, apologize for interrupting your to touching. oh my, my next question, are you certainly facing quite a diverse range of challenges in the situation that seems extremely dire? but if, if you would just could you elaborate please. on the other challenges after the immediate effects of the droughts that we should also be concerned about, you start to mentioned about the, the, the education and the child labor child marriage and uneven f, g m. could you,

could you tell me about these challenges on how they are linked to through the drought? absolutely. what you see is dead. so of course families tried to survive and they tried to go to coping mechanisms that are and that they're used to and that they feel is protecting their family, especially girls. and that means, for example, in those societies that are traditionally marrying out their children and girls, especially fairly young. at that they go back to the practice thinking that that will protect their children and a girls to married them to family or friends or a different to a relative from urban setting. so dad charles can actually go and be protected in the new family. so we've, in fact in ethiopia, we've seen a non doubling austin number of young children being married off. also the stress levels are very high for those families trying to literally find walter find

in next meal, protect the children, seeing the children falling sick. so distress level are quite high and a social fabric of a society of the community is really decrees. people have left a village, people are internally displaced. so down some of those protection issues like you say, sexual abuse expectation might happen more. and children also taken away from school or to or fetch water, which is much ferdinand before or work in the land. if they're still some land to work on or work otherwise. and that of course, if you are further away for your community that also increases the risk of those. so children to be exposed to violence or to other dangerous situations. so these are all your know, secondary impacts which are extremely important for unicef to tackle and to address wendy program in those communities that are really extremely affected by the

drought and everything that comes with an if these aren't just as a risk perpetuating the cycle of of, of poverty and shortage of education though, and just lusting for it for years and decades. no, you're right. i mean of course education is always to hope for, for every society and every family and every child individually. so that is something that we immediately need to repair. it's for us. another way of life saving intervention is getting those kids back to school, getting them learning and also to be able to give, to resend to the family, to take decisions. for example, some of the emergency cash, we have seen quite of positive interventions that the families then are less stressed, they can afford her own walter and food. and then they sent the children there easily to school. also we use of course, is schools as a way to,

to reach our families and the children at mental health programs, child protection programs, and some of them more health related like vaccinations or hygiene practices. so you can be used to school setting for other programs that are just as important in the sense you don't just look at your press release now and you have this appeal for, for 759000000 next next year, 2023. as well as an additional 690000000 full for long term investments to help children and their families. now this year you're struggling to 3rd to raise these funds. but the, to some countries it almost seemed like pocket change. what was it so challenging to get this money that you need? well i think 1st of all the increased our demands because the situation like you said has not improved. the drought is keep, it keeps on going. so the needs are higher and higher. so there is,

so not only unicef, we have a un family that is looking for money. everybody has their own mandate and they need to find a funding together in the war. and we do this together. we haven't a joint appeal, but of course things are not as easy since we have many emergency in the world. we have already coming down turn also in our countries in the region due to cold fits of you, seeing them increase and need for our debt relief. so a lot of the social investments in the countries might, you know, might go to other expenditure. so it is not an easy environment to raise funds, especially because the funds that we need are constantly increasing. and they are also increasing not only because of the number of children that are affected,

but also because of some of the inflation and the price increase that we see across the world. and so we are, we are also need to deal with those challenges at the same time, will become val unicef, deputy regional, right? so for eastern unsolved. so then africa. thank you very much for your time today. and we wish you all the best in your endeavors. and, and help in suckle those most to the challenges you're facing. i thank you very much. thank you very much. ah, i'm moving on now. the pentagon has still not responded to the u. s. congress on america's a lettered roll and a 2017 s. strike in nigeria that claimed more than a 100 civilian lives. in september us, secretary of defense was given 90 days to reveal details of the strike. that deadline has now passed. with the intercept, news website suggests that the unwillingness to respond may be an indication of guilt. 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 document seen by the ins set us africa command launched a secret investigation just days after your 2nd a refugee come, the documents calls the air strike an example of u. s. nigerian operations. although african officials have denied any involvement in that incident. and jerry and researcher from human rights watch says that washington's unwillingness to provide clarity is troubling upon dickens. failure to provide information and talk commence to determine possible u. s. involvement in a strike that took manny civilian lives in northern nigeria. does not bode well for the u. s. government's expressed commitment at transparency and accountability. it sounds worrisome message that at minimum, the defense department isn't willing to engage on an issue affecting countless lives. and may even reflect an attempt to evade responsibility with those killed in

the strikes had been fleeing the conflicts in ne, in nigeria, where the government's fighting militants. nigerian officials have expressed regrets of the attack. a local correspondence brings us more details 5 years ago and one geron military. a strike hits the civilian camp in the border town of around 180 kilometers from maple cree, claiming the life of at least 115 people, including children and humanitarian walkers. the pentecost called one investigation into the u. s. military involvement in the atrocity has drawn reaction from middle green residents, navy and sally should it to. but she, this investigation is very cute because we have ways for so long to know what happens. but no one said anything. even though it's light, we want to know you conducted that sac. we know and merrick is a war paula, but whoever is behind these should be investigated. because these will put everyone

off making similar mistakes in the future. we don't want this investigation to be politically influenced. a lot of children and families died and some have been made homeless. so are not and are now 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. i do love all for now to head over small websites as was off telegram channel for the latest breaking news and updates. in the meantime, money's peter scott's. i'll see a right back here at the top of the hour by fortune. ah ah, ah, i

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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 morn ah cross stocking 2022. i'm joined by my guest here in moscow, gs ivy morrow. he is the founder of the center of political strategic analysis trap . all we also have maxine schwarzkopf. he is the director of the center for advanced american studies at moscow state institute of international relations. and in budapest we cross the george samuel alley. he's a podcast her at the, at the gaggle which can be found on youtube and locals. are gentlemen crossing roles, in fact, that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciate george. let me go to you 1st in budapest, i suppose it's kind of an understatement on the, on the, on my party. but what was the event to the idea,

the person that transformed this here? because i think all of us would agree, maybe not on what did it the most, but it was a transform of transformational year. go ahead, george. a transformational year because of what happened in february was the end of the post cold war era. the end of the era of the unit bowl a moment in which the west got to demand that this is the way the world has to be ordered and everybody have to jump to it. and russia shattered that equation. and by doing that and by withstanding everything that. ready west nato, the united states through added to the mother of all sanctions that they boasted the all of the weapon system.