of the dead. oh, remain in the shallows. ah ah, with germany he's vice chancellor accuse is vladimir of holding the energy prices ranging across europe. but critics plain blurred little only got itself to play also ahead on the program with russian gave along the river here, unmanned aerial drones become a major component of that. fighting for don boss, we take you to the front lines where our correspondent builds up close to the effects of weaponized with

a senior indian government minister accuses us form a giant pfizer of having attempted to bully new delhi and to providing legal protection from any side effect submits kobe facts with good to help you with this for the news, our 30 minutes, all the global news and views from moscow starts. germany's vice chancellor has taken aim. vladimir directly accusing the russian president of being responsible for the energy crisis in europe. half of the gas supply to germany stopped because putin has cut it off. now the supply has been stopped completely and it will not come back to us. the help of these 3 power stations we will get back at least a quarter of what we have lost. well, it kinda seems like germany is vice chancellor seems to be not entirely in touch with reality. sure berlin is going to have to burn more coal. now,

to heat german homes, but it's the west that shot itself in the foot here. i mean, russia has time and time again reiterated that it is committed to fulfilling its contractual obligations when it comes to energy supplies. and it's done just that through the turk stream pipeline, and even through ukraine, although at a lower rate than took place last year, because kia back in may started closing down pipelines that were shipping russian gas to the european union. then there's poland, that placed sanctions on gas prom and then refused to pay for russian gas in rubles despite the fact that european union sanctions made it impossible to do otherwise. and at the end of the last year, they even seized and stole das problems. assets still on polish territory, and it could be argued as well that russia is just being made a convenient scapegoat here. because for years we heard this endless campaigning about green energy, even though critic said, we don't have that in place. we're going to need gas, coal,

oil. you also had western governments shutting down industries because of covert. and now we're seeing the side effects. but yet this is the problem rushes, the problem, the noise stream pipeline, sabotage in september last year. how did that effect as well? the gas supply in germany, a big issue, well after the series of explosions across these north stream pipelines, the swedish investigation confirms that this was an act of sabotaged by a state actor actually. and interestingly enough gas problem was not even allowed to participate in this investigation. this is something that understandably made moscow think that the west perhaps had something to hide. and it really to wonder, out of all of the global powers who would be most interested in destroying these pipelines and covering up an act of sabotage like that. mister yeah. who is interested in ukraine receiving money? ukraine gets money from us for the gas transit. it's us who pays them immediately. and despite the fact that they call us aggressors,

they take our money just like that. which money doesn't smell? who is interested in the russian gas supply to europe, and this is going only through ukraine, is it? it's the one who blew up the nord stream pipeline mobility. with another aspect. all this european countries are turning to liquefied natural gas supplies, particularly from the u. s. as an alternative to russian gas, despite much higher prices, take us through that. while, like you said, the european union's been investing billions of euro's into infrastructure in the hopes that liquefied natural gas can solve the european union's energy needs. and that's not only costing the european taxpayer a lot of money right now, because at the end of the day, this l. n g is going to make the import of any sort of of energy a lot more expensive. and a much of this price like is actually going to go straight into the pockets of american energy corporation. something that the white house was talking about, trying to accomplish, even before rushes, military operation began. first of all,

we are looking at opportunities to make up for lost cash l n g, from russia. we're on their way of turn, how see what we can do to do that? do dealing with our friends around the world as well. we think we could make up a significant portion of it. oh, that would be lost if it, if washington and brussels think that inflation and high energy prices aren't making ordinary people's lives difficult enough. so understandably, europeans have taken to the streets to protest these western anti russian policies . ah, ah,

now doesn't look like the western authorities are going to be changing course any time soon. but what's equally, as unfortunate as all of this finger pointing at russia for energy problems that the west clearly created for itself. but german attorney on ameritas, professor of law at the university of south africa, dr. i'm great thomas house and believes it's europe's crusade against russian energy, which has led to the certain prices. today. it is quite obvious that russia never stopped to supply any guess. it is in germany and european union in there have been something there. 'cause, i could even say again, it's bratia who, who publicly every day put in my full puts in, must be removed and no more guess from russia. and the general public was pretty bad for an increase in gas prices with the reasoning that out of sort of data for the ukraine. germany would not buy one gigawatt hour of rush guess. now that

germany economy depends. its energy economy depends $0.55 on natural gas and 45 percent on natural gas from russia to replace the very short notice that started importing natural gas liquified form. and n g. the price of gas in germany is not fixed for higher. the price for electricity has increased tenfold. the russian defense ministry say's its troops are taking control over another settlement in don bos, official state, the area of direction near solar door has been secured in the done yet republic. the m o. d also say you printing forces have suffered around 50 casualties in recent fighting in the area with 2 armored combat vehicles among the hardware destroyed. well, weaponized drones, they've become

a major component in conflict. they're used for conducting recognizance operations as well as destroying. of course the enemy positions are senior correspondent, mariah garcia, has been witnessing their effects these close to the front lines. roads are immortal. hazard. artillery is trained on every stretch. only trees of cover, even that scant. ah. some of the less the closest they are is 700 meters away. at 3 o'clock they're in a total of 3 directions. also a 10 o'clock and 12 o'clock and our boys are there to their rotating today that they're doing well. this area was recently ceased from ukrainian forces. they know every path, every clearing troops heading out to relieve those at forward positions. must be

extra careful. drones guide them along. ah, we're scouting ahead to make sure that the way is clear and that our boys will get there safely. these soldiers, mr. holland tears of the act, my battalions answering to the chechen precedent ramson could thereof, to ensure everything went smoothly. a flaw support team armed with an automatic grenade launcher, was ordered to dissuade the enemy from trying anything. some of the most intense fighting he's underway, ukrainian units are desperate to reverse russian gains along the river. here through the rotation was the success. but as the drone flew back,

it noticed something unusual. fresh fortifications and enemy troops concealed under the tree cover, or espana discovered enemy positions at a distance of 450 to 750 meters away from us. their group targets enemy fortifications, armor and vehicles. within minutes coordinates were reported to h q and orders went out to nearby artillery. hey beth. i'll be away. the mission had changed. they were now to keep it a distance and correct artillery fire with corrections were laid. the next barrage struck home. on monday i look like this is bunker right on the target that he repeat. this is modern warfare. this is the dominant form of combat across the front lines

artillery and drones. in the seamless leap, a link on the front lines. soldiers have learned to fear drones. they always watch and listen for the characteristic but that heralds a barrage of iron, fire, and shrapnel oh ad gasdio, haughty. well, on a related theme, berlin is resisting international pressure on sending its coveted leopard 2 tanks to ukraine on friday, a visit by the u. s. defense secretary was aimed at pushing berlin to give keith's they having machinery. now says washington itself is not sending any vets, thanks. a french politician has warned, of the dangers of such an escalation in weaponry. under pressure from american hawks e. u. countries are going into total delirium over the delivery of increasingly

heavy weapons to zalinski macro mave and donate la clerk tanks. american hawks won a world war in europe. we're seeing different european countries, hungary, croatia, close to them, serbia, they're all saying what was going on. why are the west or western european countries, or nato countries sending these weapons? it's not working. and now we got people like audrey wooster, who is the chairperson of the german armed forces association, which is telling the german government to stop sending weapons because it's depleting its own stocks. and we know this throughout nato. nato countries are deeply in their own stocks for i would say a policy which is which is not working in different countries. the small countries, i would say courageous countries like hungary in croatia or voicing their concern and saying, why are we doing this? what is, what is the use of this? this is pro, tracking the war, and it's driving us further into it which can at the end be extremely dangerous for us. which is interesting to see this, the smaller countries think that they don't believe in the war mongering rhetoric

coming out from the nato countries and within the u. fully european union's not just carling with the u. s. but amongst itself to crochet says, presidents had some pretty choice words for the e. u foreign policy chief use a barrel accusing the blocks leadership of having a condescending attitude towards members. things burrell, st. crecia memo last month filled with lies in which he treats us as if we were retarded. excuse my language, as if we had special needs. at some point enough is enough. this kind of treatment is deeply irritating. today they do this to hungary, tomorrow it will be some other bigger country. they want to bring into line. they did it to poland until recently to poland now gets past due to the situation in ukraine, but their turn will come again tomorrow. if the e u wants to progress it has to accept this diversity. the president

milosevic making those comments during a press conference in budapest with his hungary and counterpart. both countries remain opposed to the anti russia. the sanctions which they say only hurts europe, the croatian president also accused the use leadership of failing to acknowledge the individual of each of its members state. we earlier raised the issue with the head of the euro continent news on the analysis side, pierre, a manual to mom. the comments of her creation. the president reflects the huge struggle of power between a member states, nations and or european bureaucracy. european union bureaucracy would like to or use each crises in europe, internal and external, to add more power and her to were, impose its own views on the european project. and some member states are resisting,

especially your. now we're hungry, for example, her, which she's refusing over your interpretation of a rule of role of a european union. her and her, oh so it's approach on ukraine and no croix shot a siding mo week hungary, these 2 countries, corporation, hungary think a european union should better of the boat. are you europe, as she does ish, and, and not as an appendix of nate to in washington? jupiter got objectives modern barbarism. that is how turkey's described a protest by a controversial swedish danish political figure who publicly burn the koran on saturday in the name of democratic values. rasmus palin done sets fire to his lamb's holy book in front of the turkish embassy and spoke with the

permission of the swedish authorities during his speech. he also brandon turkeys, president on islamist dictator. paloton is known for organizing similar stunts in the past and was convicted of racism and denmark after forcing an anti islam video on social media. la fear his announcement that he was to embark on a koran burning tour during the muslim holy month of ramadan college public outrage and spark riots in sweden or turkey condemned the swedish authorities for a during the latest protesting it encourages hate crime and cra, also counsel the plot and visits of sweden's defense minister over the issue, which was aimed at resolving turkey's concerns about stock homes, paid to join nato. and according to t r t world editor at large use the firm, the events could weigh heavy on sweden session helped. i think it was trying to send a message that we are not ready to become a member of nato, and that's the way i start receiving it. because now me region exception bid.

and a potential ratification through these are the with a very positive issue that it probably can be considered dead on arrival. now, probably for the rest of the year. i don't think that the conversations don't get opened up. the images are now very busy that created a lot of outreach and like you get like a lot of outreach inside the muslim world, the proper you alienated many of the needle members who are advocating on trying to create some dialogue with to get to try to get you the ratified, we need it. so as the other day back home is now its own worst enemy, and it probably shot a silver bullet in its own. but india is tech minister, has accused pfizer of pressuring the country's government to give the u. s. farm, a giant legal protection in the case of side effects emerging from its corporate

vaccine. the allegation sparked a strong rebuttal by an indian parliament member himself was accused of supporting western jobs over domestically produced one just to remind all indians that fight tried to bully the government of india into accepting conditions of indemnity. and jerome ramesh kept pushing the case of foreign vaccines during covered. this is total mister minister. let not your ambition to climb the greasy pole. make you more of a liar than you are. in 2021, pfizer was among the 1st vaccine producers to apply for emergency use authorization in india, but it withdrew the application after the countries pharmaceutical watchdog requested clinical study to confirm the safety of the shot later the same year. india confirmed it wouldn't by 5 years job with report saying the company's the month for legal protection with the primary reason why the world economic forum and

dub off this week, pfizer is ceo, brushed off some questions about the vaccine safety and effectiveness. you said it was 100 percent effective, then 90 percent, that 80 percent then 70 percent. but we now know that the vaccines do not transfer . so transmission. why did you keep that secret? kevin, i said, i won't have a nice day until i know the answer. why did you keep it a secret that your vaccine did not stop transmission this morning to be called regarding the now regarding the lease that i said not reviews. and also, like i said, we're one of the 1st backs was for the youth. but later on we have the look back to be like no,

and most of the vaccine i'll be right back to be given up 2200000000. both of those back even a lot. so you need more into indigenous well thing with cobra controversies, recent studies by european n g o have claimed the e u vaccine deals, including again with pfizer. prioritize financial interests over public health concerns or to contribute or rachel morrison's been delving deeper into jerry cove . it the european union rolled out a block y q r code system as proof of vaccination for travel leisure. and in some cases, a condition of employment, even as reports started raising doubts about how reliable the shot actually was when it came to stopping infection transmission and even death. it's like there was

this interest in brussels to move fast and getting shots into arms as quickly as possible and getting this digital identity system linked to the job status into place as an incentive for people to take the shots. now for months, skeptical members of the european parliament have been demanding to know what kind of deal the blocks leadership actually signed with the manufacturers of these injections. we're talking here about 11 part racks, 4600000000 vaccines and 71000000000 euros of public money transferred to big pharma. and so far, neither the citizens who paid for all of this nor their elected representatives have been able to get full transparency on any of those deals. here's what new research just published by french and g o global health advocates and by the u. k based health, non profit stop aids, has to say about it. the you signed agreements cloaked in secret and resisted efforts to disclose any information. protecting commercial interest, we argue,

came at the expense of transparency around pricing, delivery schedules, those transfer clements and intellectual property commitments that could have helped increase global access to vaccines secrecy. in short, hurt public health with an unaccountable driver. the public have been taken for a ride. the reports also draw attention to the lack of interest on the part of certain big pharmacy. yo's, when it comes to accountability towards their customers, their and clients who received an ultimately paid for the jobs being average european citizens to make matters worse, fight as ceo, albert buller has twice refused to appear in front of her pin parliaments, cove committee to answer questions about how the contract negotiations were carried out. an old decision for a company who claims to be very transparent. it turns out defies in c e o. busy borla is also the same one who was exchanging private text messages with european commission present. ursula vander line the month before the pfizer contract was

negotiated. now, how do we know that? because vander lined, said so herself in april of 2021. and those texts have magically vanished, and wagner line doesn't really seem to be too interested in making an effort to recover them forensically. so earlier this month, european parliamentarians on the blocks proven 19 committee, expressed their interest in having fonder line answer to their committee on these contract negotiations by peering in person. but of course, she can just decline just like burleigh debt, which has now led the committee to request that berlin access privileges to the european parliament. he revoked and access to you. politicians for corporations and their lobbyists is pretty much priceless between january 20, 20, and september 2022 senior european commission officials and pharmaceutical lobbyists. i close to 100 meetings with 30000000 euro spent on you lobbying in

a single year. that's according to the ngo's reports which also touch on the lips service that the e u paid to global unity against cove. it. while at the same time gate, keeping it cove technologies and practicing as sort of medical apartheid by keeping the jobs out of the hands of countries that perhaps weren't in a very good position to pay big pharma as much as what europe was a bathroom lobbying and shady deals have made their way into the spotlight in the ear recently with the arrest of officials and personnel, accused of corruption over linked to lucrative could tarry and murat lobbying efforts. and now with this report suggesting that's just the tip of the iceberg. if the e u is serious, about transparency, at least as serious as vulgar line says she is in the wake of the target. then she really should be the very 1st to set the example along with her big pharmacy

e o bodies. instead of hiding from the people she's actually meant to serve ok, let's turn attention to the middle east, where thousands of people have gathered intel levine to protest against the newly formed as really government headed by benjamin netanyahu. demonstrators are demanding an immediate reversal of plan. you reforms including radical changes to the judiciary that would limit the powers of the high frequent protest, something held over the past number of weeks since the reforms were a nice can you government has been from the, the most hard line in the country history. aside from to dish or changes all of the 1st proposals, all thing you authorities was is really settlement expansion on palestinian territories, neglect the protest, 2 on the streets of poland, capital upon richmond, raleigh, to get their countries involvement in the ukraine complex. it comes from the prime minister vote to send some of his german meaning tongues to kiev. without waiting

for berlin approval. demonstrators waved, nor a banners. some written in the russian language thronged with demonstrators in paris on saturday to where people continue to vent their under. busy present mccombs pension reform plans, we'll see an increase in the retirement age. the protests followed a number of strikes across the country. notably, many of the demonstrators were of a young age says protests of again erupt in burkina faso over a continued french military presence in the african nation. demonstrators are demanding the european troops. leave the country along with paris is boss under an rti journalist census this brief report from one to it is because of

a large that where his i want him also, i country want peace. they said they are there to help us, but they are because it all misfortune, one them to leave the country to my message, to france, we are tired, she should leave our country. what is that? that is what creates problems for us and kills are people his friends has been here with us. we don't feel better. frontal itself is our terrorist process never helps any country. wherever france goes, it is to destroy and not to repair the govern. plus the nation story to push leader because the show and to increase the pressure of frame 3 goals for the meetings. the defense of luc allows the dispenser for hundreds in booking a parcel that close you in the house of the military day. the one who called the last 5. so please look i

love the request that it calls in relation between the 2 countries. finally, the secretary state of france will extension one there. and nobody talks about a massive luca lives with li willow out of p one going to our sister channel r t fronts has been forced to close. it's the consequences of a 9th package of russia sanctions on veiled by the european union. the channel saith the jobs and livelihoods of $123.00 french employees are at risk. previously, r t, from his bank account, was blocked in the country at the request of paris. his treasury department, moscow sees it, will use the same measures against french media in russia as a response. in a statement, the channels management said the closure will further road media freedoms in france

. the closure of i see france with the deafening silence for the french median journalist is on the defense stop and his dentures direction. because after our channel are the media will become the next target. among the reaction we got to this news was from investigative journalists, madiba madiba, who called upon a direct attack on democracy i think is a direct media. you know, it's a very good 2nd democracy. it's very, that's hold on an extra information. you know, i think that just shows the policy of funds and of the western western world. another grow on speaking up on the street in bog media to grow and speak about few more speech remote access information. i did a silence with other media houses, you know, because once once will allow one media house to get shut down, a sheet, opening up more attention, other media, you know, today's, our teens, most the seats more. so i think media house, of course,

the war need to speak in one voice like this, this, this, the center for that is, are a lot for now from the art international newsroom. but don't go too far as our programs are just beginning. see what's ahead, where you are today. next. mm. ah . i'm african dunphy and welcome back to going under ground rule. gusting all around the world from dubai. in the united arab emirates, this weekly un revealed up to 50 percent more journalists and media workers were killed in 2022 compared to previous years. that's a dead journalist every 4 days with accusations of miss reporting, fake news and war propaganda by the modern day, so called mainstream media. is it any wonder that.