because it might just change the wayne thing with the headlines or lansing international at the russians call people about sort of a law for all says he received a message from u. s. secretary of state anthony blakeman delivered by his egyptian count applaud, was right now visiting moscow. south africa models declaring that a national state of disaster amid a crippling energy crisis that regularly seized blackouts all across the country. u . s. exports of liquefied natural gas that set to reach record highs. washington makes the big buck satisfying the use hunger for energy, of course, all following the sabotage of russia's pipeline with setting the record straight from moscow and questioning the mainstream narratives.

welcome to your new zonati into the ukraine. conflict should be resolved peacefully . that's the message from the u. s. secretary of state, which was actually passed on to russia's foreign minister from his egyptian counterpart during that shad press conference that wrapped up here today in moscow . however, according to sort of a lever off, it's not entirely that straight forward. he says, the message actually means quote, the conflict should be resolved peacefully that his after russia is defeated, massacre or brim chemical story answering the previous question. the minister said that he passed on a certain message from the secretary of state lincoln who visited carol recently. and i can confirm that your voice, we've always said that russia is ready to listen to it. and we're serious proposal that would be aimed at settling this entire issue. and she, and in this regard with her once again via the minister, the statement, the russia should start being withdrawn leave. and then everything will be fine. with the 2nd part of the secure for mr. blake and didn't talk about this is what

the secretary general of nato said. what, visiting the republic of korea, she said in one of his speeches that russia must lose russia should be defeated in the west. can't allow craner to lose. this meets and comes just a day after the egyptian foreign minister mat over the u. s. secretary of state and his lincoln, which is why and how he had that message for surrogate lab work with sergio lab said is incomplete because what the was, it would really like to say is that if you cray loses, that means the world lose. and they took some time with the cranium prices that were there, a little longer works with them out much earlier and it was delayed for about an hour regular. did say that the spoke about the ukrainian crisis at length and he explained to his egyptian counterpart about the minsk agreements, for example, how no one was ever planning to implement them. when i say no one, i mean the frame ukraine and also the was that they were using it to buy time so

that they could prepare for a full scale escalation of the conflict. now aside from this issue, are they also discussed of course, bilateral trade, which we've seen that this time, the trade turnover has increased significantly to now $6000000000.00. let's hear some more about this in here. mostly you, our trade relations have reached historical levels. we've worked hard to reach the possibility to trade in national currencies and are doing everything to increase those value. but a lot of russia is a key supplier or grange of the world market to me and we look forward to further deliverance. and we are satisfied with our trade levels and lane, i think, reasons the piece of deliberate and expanding of the range of trade. camilla. we are looking for new ways to expand our wishes that you know, russia is also currently building and financing egypt for us. nuclear power plants is also upgrading their railways owners so many more projects updates much support

. they also discuss and not only international conflicts like ukraine, but also regional conflicts and the need to ensure the stability in the region. they mentioned iran dimension, or israel and palestine and the need for all sides to get back to the negotiating table as soon as possible endpoint the solution. libya was another country they spoke about, the political instability there, and the bible faction and the fact that the need to ensure that no selection sarah take place and that there is no interference from outside sources. south korea is considering, excuse me, had to beg your pardon, i should say south africa to beg your pardon? it's so considering whether or not to declare that of a national state of disaster, it's made of what that calling a debilitating energy crisis. now the move would, at the end of the day unlock extra funding and measures designed to and crippling power cuts that essentially roll across various parts of that country. it is necessary to have

a national state of disaster. this would enable us to have the instruments that would be necessary to fully address the challenge that our nation faces. i time to cross log now to our africa correspondence, catabolic tuttle joining us alive on the program. it's always good to see you, sir, but this does sound rather worrying if he would just take us to the background. how has the country gotten to this point carnival now, while rory there is much about south africa that still remain in the doug, you'll have to forgive the term the bottom there. but south africa has been perpetually dealing with these power cuts locally. they're called load shedding, and we've been to perpetually dealing with the face since 2007. and somehow we hope that the people will come without leaving the whole world know that we are hanging on by a thread. and the national grid is really just stuck together with think you paper and it's been a really frail over the last 6 months. in particular,

towards the end of last year, we had over $200.00 days of power had switch with sequence. we followed these have and without any risk by this has been the same. we have not known a single day without power cuts in the country. and at a minimum view, you shed some 5 hours without electricity at a maximum. we think that we are in there, by the way, we feel like it could, it could really go past anytime soon. people are people here talking about an entire grid collapse. that would mean that the country would mean a couple of weeks, at least, to restart the energy supply stream, and that has not gone unnoticed. of course, there is a lot of worry with regards to declaring the state of national disaster, at least from citizens who saw how government re exit, will be declared a state of national disaster during the height of the covert pandemic. here in the

country towards the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020. and some of the corruption that have been associated with such power with floods might that the national state of disaster would give one. i mean, essentially, rory government here in south africa, something called the p f. m a. does the public finance management acted, obliges every, every government official to adhere to a certain standard of rules and openness with regard to how, how does that, or why did or how jobs gotten in any case, but those things were, all, you know, flour trouble if you will and the coven national state of disaster, and other people here fear that such unfettered power going to the same politicians who really got us into this mess would be warranted and uncalled for the call for

a national state of the what made a while ago. but somehow the presidency took his time on it and he's only doing it now following consolidations with these ruling african national congress and the weekend and such an idea was talented. and i believe that had got overwhelming support. and that's why we here. but south africa is not alone here. it is also in partnership with the united states, the united kingdom, that you, germany and france over something called the just energy transmission partnership. now that is how south africa is trying to map its way out of its reliance on fossil fuels and making its way into green and spaces these 2 things in this country. as seen as conflicting that we essentially giving up our own coal, which we have in copious amounts. and we are going to re on the sun and on water and on wind, which is not necessarily in that much of

a band is in this country. but that did not stop jen and yell and the us treasury secretary who along with many of the american counterparts have been making a bee line for the african continent and making the rest of us wonder why all of a sudden. but here is her on south africa case in particular. as you know, south africa, this is the 1st country with a judge, energy, transportation, partnership or key to which the united states was proud to come in as a partner. kennedy and jim, again, this is representing only the interest that we have seen sol further fully from the west and they have been pushing the green agenda not only on south africa, but on the continent as a whole. you'll feel like

a guinea p when you're watching the, this new of european leaders who come to the continent looking for the same fossil fuel, claiming that they are doing an inventory of energy security. because i guess that from everything. but we and the pressure to, to not only conform but to lead in this green energy revolution. and one can only wonder how far we can go when we can even have been supply of electricity using our very own cold. well, as you were saying with the us treasury secretary john at yanna and doing her 1011 day tour of africa, essentially she was going to, she said she was talking about the cooperation of bilateral ties. but she was going there with a stick. as i understand telling african nations to comply with western sanctions, not to do business with russia, you talk about the new, the, the energy crisis in south africa right now, in egypt just a few 1000 kilometers to the north of south africa who is building the 1st for nuclear reactors there,

and as i understand russia and china both are interested in bringing nuclear energy to africa. so perhaps cut a boat the there will be light at the end of the tunnel. it's always good to see you. my friend, credible a tattler, will speak to you now the iranian president abraham rice, he is expected to speak to day and reaction to the statements coming out of talks between america and israel. emitted recent drone a talk on iranian infrastructure, washington and jerusalem, accused heroine of what they call exporting aggression. it's a time where many and international community, i would say, most of the international community have seen the true face of iran. they've seen the barbarism of this regime against its own people. they've seen how it exports aggression beyond its border and beyond the middle east. and i think there is a common consensus that this regime must not acquire nuclear weapons. we discussed

deepening cooperation to confront and counter a rance destabilizing activities in the region and beyond, just as around as long supported terrorists that attack israelis and others. others, him is not providing drones that russia is using to kill innocent ukrainian civilians about sizes. the iranian military confirmed that one of its ammunition storage facilities was targeted in a drone attack on monday, a several media outlets of blame jerusalem in washington. meanwhile, iran has summit, a senior ukrainian diplomat to explain comments by a high ranking official and keith or the advice of ukraine's president said it was no surprise that iran would be attacked and made claims has been providing military drones to russia for use in the ukraine. conflict. russia however, insist since drones are manufactured domestically and as tensions a high between israel and palestine. anthony blinkin a day after his meeting with the israeli prime minister heads to the west bank holding talks to the palestinian president. mac with us. here are the pitches for

you. up lincolns expected to discuss the palestinian authorities decision to stop security coordination with israel. ah, well, i was talking to the earlier in the program to political analyst and professor of the university of terror on a site mohammed mirandi. now he says that if the drone attack on iran was carried out by an ally of the west, they will be science. i think it's become the new norm where western countries and their proxy is like, is there any regime they carry out attacks and then they blame the victim? i mean, of course, the running intelligence would have to tell us ultimately what exactly happened. the drug strike was a complete failure. there was no real damage cause and it was, it was a flaw, the attack itself. but the important thing is that there's really regime carried out an act of war and which it does regularly in syria, which it doesn't god. yet,

as you rightly point out, there is complete silence in the west, and that is the, the world order that the americans and europeans want to preserve those laws. and international laws that they keep speaking about are where you abide by their rules, yet they don't have to abide by any rules. the russian ministry of defense says, the village of blood or that noise in the don't ask republic has now come on the russian control. the location is very close to the strategically important city of thomas, but also known as bach mood, where there is currently intense fighting. so hanging over now to our correspondent, remaining embedded in that region is what roman culture for russian armed forces are indeed edging closer to the town of r t almost in the occupied part of the nest republic, which was renamed as a board by ukraine. a few years ago, according to the defense ministry,

the settlements of a blog, o dot ne, a was cleared from the ukrainian troops as a result of a successful offensive operation. our defense been as free credit, so volunteers off of various assault detachments who made it possible with the fire support from operational, tactical, and army aviation miss our troops and artillery of this saturn group of russian troops. now the report stated that up to 50 ukrainian soldiers were killed in the area of the last 24 hours. also, a french made a caesar self propelled artillery mount u. s. maids and triple 7 artillery system. and a star b harvet sir, were destroyed in the area as well. now once again, had the city over to almost which was the renamed by ukraine in to city of barbara . back in 2016 is afar us paramount strategic importance, both to russia and to ukraine. it's only thank kilometers away from the recently

liberated city of salazar and a win on the battlefield. there will allow the russian armed forces to advance further towards the cities of sly, bounced and crumb a tor scan. that's another major stronghold of the ukraine military currently. and occupied territory of the nest republic. the chinese foreign minister has called for a strength thing and ties in the middle east. he said the creation of a free trade zone with a 6 states of the gulf cooperation council should be done quote, as soon as possible in a cold with his saudi counterpart, he announced the plans will underlining the necessity to further develop ties and infrastructure investment and high tech spheres. this comes in with the saudi masters, recent statement, detailing his country's openness to trading in currencies, other than the us dollar. there are no issues with discussing how we settle our

trade arrangements, whether it is in the us dollar, whether it is the euro, whether it is the saudi real well according to the for my being of the school of international studies in new delhi and rather cheerfully a, she believes the petro dollar puts countries in debt of the united states, will have a listen for yourself. it can change the balance of the global geo political economy. this is the material basis of the multi point was moving oil in trade to trade to the u on as soon as the economist said of a few weeks or a few months ago, could dig almost 600 $1000000000.00 out of the dollars own and bring china to the center of the world economy. so this is a huge step. and many countries want to shift to buying oil and major commodities with their own local currency, including india. that will save us $4000000000.00 of foreign exchange among

a lot of countries would like to do this because so far because of the federal dollars, every country has had to buy oil in dollars and make it for the strategic reserve. this country in countries into debt on the u. s. use of it to finance. it's whatever wars the great company for this program of the u. s. energy information administration forecasts record high gas production in the country and likely big profits to with l. n. g exports set to increase by 16 percent. let's get the opinions here of archie, contributor rachel marston online. as the green europe is fueling a black gold rush in the u. s. the nation's power authority, the energy information ministration, just announced the gas production has had a record high and it's set to spike even higher this year. and the great gas

station, i mean, the great state of texas also achieved a record personal best for natural gas output. exxon mobil hit the jackpot with record profits last year of $55000000000.00. so guess what? that means. green dreamers, it's big oil spending spree time. here comes another new exxon power plant for you to protest. scheduled for 2027 or 2028. sure. it's a higher than plant, but how's that hydrogen going to be produced? hydrogen is mostly produced from fossil fuels, inconvenient, dirty little secret there, but hey, that's okay, because exxon says it's going to bury that carbon footprint in the ground. and, well, who cares about the ground? right? it's not like it's air so big victory for the big oil bros in america, but not so great for europe, which is just basically hitched its wagon for the foreseeable future to us gas with no real end in sight, over this sov. with this over dependence, of course it's now expected that europe will hurry up and turn its green fantasies

into reality so it can reduce that dependence on us energy. but we see now how wonderfully that's worked out so far. if those green dreams weren't such a big bust than europe wouldn't be, so strap for power right now. after cutting off it's cheap russian gas, lifeline by dating, tangled up in its own sanctions, the same energy lifeline that subsequently mysteriously blue up. and as you can hear, you s officials are really broken up about that. i want to be clear with you today . if russia invade, you cram one way or another nord stream to will not move forward. if it's russian, raise emmys for truth crossing the on the border of ukraine's again, then there will be we, there will be no longer on our stream to we will bring in and i am and i think

administration is very gratified to know that lord stream too is now as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the see these pipelines that is more streamlined words from to what we're not pumping gas into europe at this time or through to never became operational. knew that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for, for the years to come. yeah, no more nordstrom to so sorry to hear about your divorce. hey, want to date, last year, european imports of us liquefied natural gas for 148 percent higher than in 2021. and they're paying multiple times more for it than they did for russian gas imports . or even compared with what the u. s. domestic market pays, but what's a little price? gouging between pals right? keeps things kind of spicy. european officials are high fiving each other right now because the lights are still on such high standards. they basically can thank the mild winter weather for that. actually, it's not like they found some kind of competence somewhere along the way,

but europe really isn't out of the woods yet. recent drops and wholesale gas prices have raised hopes that the worst of the energy crisis in europe is now behind us. that these hopes are misplaced. the large energy price shock still lies ahead for european court brits. we expect corporate gas utility bills to increase by over 100 percent in 2023 compared to 2021 in italy and spain for instance, against around 60 to 70 percent in germany, france and the united kingdom electricity bills are expected to rise borrow 35 percent of germany, but 80 percent in italy and spain. european countries like here in france are selling out cash just to keep businesses afloat with the cost of that u. s. energy coming down hard at the end of smart on those businesses. so they need help. german chancellor, olaf schultz said that that country would avoid a recession this year. but western experts are now saying that germany is actually in one with the economy contracting 0.2 percent in the last 3 months to december.

so things aren't exactly going as previously advertised for germany or for europe, but don't worry, europe has everything under total control, and that's why they're trying to dictate shower time for you and promoting turtlenecks is a viable energy strategy and it's big usa oil. that's laughing all the way in the bank. the united states is ready and willing to use nuclear weapons. that's the message from the us defense secretary lloyd austin as he pledged that america will defend south korea with any means possible. our commitment to the french of the or okay remains our employer united states, french farm mac and it's extended to torrance commitment and that includes the full range of u. s. the french capabilities including our conventional nuclear and missile defense capabilities. the secretary of defense arrived in sol for security tolls as

washington seeks to reassure the key asian ally amid alleged growing threats from north korea. this was official from both of us on south korea have warned up. young yang may be preparing to test this nuclear often for the 1st time since 2017. when the united states and south korea conducted a joint military drills and late december, north korea launched to ballistic missiles into the sea of it's the east coast, i should say in response, reportedly fees those drills as a provocation and a possible preparation for an attack. however, washington and sole describe their drills as purely defensive in nature. earlier, we will speak to don mclean, gail, the geopolitical analyst and author. he says as well, a large inconsistency in the policy. the u. s. is pursuing in asia, have a listen to the slightest miscalculation of the slightest misperception can lead to catastrophic results, particularly for the stability and security of the korean peninsula. and this is

what south korea is trying to do, is try to look for a middle ground in order to really alleviate the escalating situation. but at the same time trying to spearhead areas where it would be more secure. so it does not want to escalate the situation further, but however, because of the reality on the ground, there's really not much of an option for south korea to do or for north korea. on the other side, you have to understand that there is a significant inconsistency when it comes to us foreign policy, particularly in asia. so what we can expect is that is a grant in the grander scheme of things, you know, in asia, particularly the u. s. hopes to improve its image in strength and the geopolitical position and effectively balance against china's rise. but given the current reality isn't of asian, political and economic affairs, you know, achieving these goals will not be in the park. hence, you know, we are to expect more strategic competitions. geopolitical shifts, the patient in

a distribution of power. in an exclusive interview, iran's 1st lady has been speaking to ortiz, ox on a boy. and doctor john miller, i'm a holder, is a professor of education and psychology. she gave us all views about these dominic republics, often challenging relationship with us, son, some other issues as well them. but before we get there, i just want to say from me real research and the entire news tv, thank you very much for joining us. so my colleague union o'neill here at the top of the hour for the meantime here is, is exclusive interview on r c. with iran's 1st lady me the patel. i'm also the, let me start with the issue that has been a lot and the headlines recently, an, i mean the, the tragic death of our mos armine, which sparks ah, a reaction not only in this country, but also a broad, wider thing. these are tragedy costs, such an last sing and such

a broad response public response. i have enough food and i believe it with your permission. i would like to discuss this issue in depth. the thing you referred to as a tragic death when the news of which resonated throughout the world both is actually a new form of what we call the policy of intimidation. c, as a policy that america's carrying out against my country. iran is better than the very essence of american foreign policy is intimidation, says over the past 50 years, the u. s. has always thought to scare our variable into submission after they've sent their navy to our shores, says her, showing off their warships and their miss ailes north while they forced us into flawed and unfair agreements with them going on. it has always been about intimidation, towel for what you mentioned is just a new form of the same policy or that are more by doing this, the u. s. and wanted to say to as love with it, i'm right here in your very cities. i can take the terrorists the to the streets

and set cars on fire to they want us to submit it to surrender. and i assume this is a component of policy of intimidation that america has deployed and is pursuing against iran or fear to show a skewed picture of our country to the world are. i imagine that you to them now have a similar experience as dealing with america, as it promotes false narratives about russia to the rest of the world. alarm america exercises its power through the media. in other words, mass media is used to push intimidating narratives and falsehoods. that's their modus operandi, or the if you want to sell weapons. uh huh. make a country afraid of something and nobody at all. and so american to bully our neighbors being afraid of iran, they do the same to the global community. they want people to be scared. i agree with you that the west has always or has long used propaganda as a,

as a tool against countries that they disagree with. and that happened with regards to russia. there augusta run in with regards to many other countries. but if you look at the particulars of the story, you know, our young, 22 year old woman who was detained in tac run, it happened. she was visiting her brother. she was out of town and her family never got a chance to see her again. now, i know there are many speculations about what actually happened, that her family, for a long time was very bitter about the way how this whole situation was handled. i wonder as, as a woman, as a mother of 2 daughters as a university professor, i'm sure you have many similar students. what was your personal reaction not to the weight was played out and used, but to the actual tragedy, to what happened to that girl, to that the young lady and her family, my money, the way i see it as an iranian woman,

as any iranian woman would i certainly am distressed by this incident. in fact, i'm saddened by all of the incidents that have happened recently. but then again to drive the point home. both britain and america had been trying to infiltrate iran for years. there was this remarkable iranian woman who lived a 100 years before all that she was the mother of the shop. under the influence of britain and america, she turned her son against. i mean to be the sha son in law, which resulted in his execution with this is what they've always done, infiltrating our society and exerting their influence. sewing discord between family members and setting them against each other. they're doing the same thing to the entire iranian name.