the the, this is the story of freedom and democracy in so called free west. it seems to me that only clinically insane people or those for obviously bias can believe in it is very easy to promote freedom of speech and practice it when it's only your speech that counts. and no one else's. ortiz, editor in chief bloss washington sanctions against this shovel as an impressive dented, silent single, but medial eclipse. coming as the whitehouse continues to talk of freedom of the press veto except that direction. the united states respects and champions freedom expression. but we will not stand by as r, t and other actors, carrier corporate activities in support of russia's nefarious activities. we should not be treated delta inferior dots out for it because responds to

a us proposal to give that confident 2 permanent seats of b u. n. s c, but without a veto power, we hear from a panel of gas on the continuing fight to be heard. why do we also have a frontier to push it this week? so the reason why is because will turn to point to on to position themselves on the internet when the, when i think he's going to be very big, quite discriminated suit for the best that, you know, under 15 seats, particularly john will be the best modelled on crowds gather in the west bank and took it to more than the difference of a turkish american activist pills earlier this month. by is really the, with the top stories from the past 7 days and right off to the moment developments as well this sunday. welcome to the weekly on our to international accusations that

r t is working for, rushes and intelligent services are non sensical. that's according to the channels editor in chief, marguerite, to someone you know, most responding to the us laughing a fresh round of sanctions on this journal. with washington claiming our global broadcast, some social media channels spread dangerous north. that's which looks cool. it's very easy to promote freedom of speech and practice said when it's only your speech that counts and no one else's. what's even more amusing is that they choose organizations of collaborating with intelligence services, which implies were some kind of intelligence unit ourselves. that's absolutely nonsense. we're not any part of the intelligence services. perhaps we would like to be. maybe we could hide better if that were the case, but we've learned differently were journalists and we continue to do our general istic work well with more on how the whitehouse rolling plastic crux done with

punishments for those who spent the 1st from it. so here's our t corresponded, shorter parent all to we like to bring news, the news, but it seems for many in power in the us. they weren't all to be the news itself for the 2nd time in a month. senior members of the by didn't administration have accused all to of being part of a network trying to lou of the world into it's with russian, represent this information. to subvert and polarized screen of the societies extends to every part of the world. a response. today, the united states, united kingdom and canada, are launching a launching a joints diplomatic campaign to riley allies and partners around the world to join us in addressing this web post by r t and other machinery of russian just information and corporate influence. archie also secretly runs the online platform african stream across

a wide range social media platforms. now, according to the i was website, african stream is and i quote, a pan african digital media organization, basically exclusively on social media platforms. focusing on giving a voice to all africans, both at home and abroad, is in reality the only voice it gives is the kremlin propagandist. the united states respects and champions freedom expression, but we will not stand by his r, t and other actors, carrier corporate activities in support of russia's nefarious activities. 14 big allegations. another claim made by the state department was due to all reporting here at all to support for ukraine is waning in many countries. one of the reasons not the only reason, but one of the reasons why so much of the world has not been as fully supportive of ukraine as you would think. they would be given that russia has invaded ukraine and

violated rule number. one of the international system is because of the broad scope and reach of r t. we're proud again to just information and allies are spread to millions, if not billions of people around the world. the global south was also mentioned as a lacking in support for ukraine. however, a narrow woods countries in the global science have chosen their own sol burton pulse and have done so since day one of the conflict. we are not new drugs from the very beginning. we have taken sides and we have chosen the side of peace. and we will continue to engage with this country on the basis of done with respect. but we're not to tell us what to do. and we expect to do as not to tell us what it to fox chest and that no one should have any doubt that will make our decision within the framework of strategic wisdom and equity. the west, on the other hand, led by the u. s. as use threats to try and force these countries and it's kona and

to impose sanctions on russia. i've been glad to see again the strength of the international alliances come together to, to support you printer that is in its efforts to defend itself. and so i think that's the important the piece here is to try to protect and preserve the international order we understand is a long relationship with russia and india has to make it sound determinations about where it's wants to be on, on the scale hauled by the action over friendly nations. in fact that the keys dots of more than baths, apparently we don't. yeah. unless we're actually spies on those accusations. went viral with the main stream media laughing it up, all these press office to saw this. it was time to be candid. we'd been broadcasting straight out of k t p headquarters all this time. no, but seriously,

we're running out of popcorn. just sit and watch what the us government will come up with next about us. he has the winner on social media, c, r t. c in the state department. we're running have to be here blind. i mean, kind of mocking the administration's assess on sanctioning them at this point. we do not laugh at that. that is very serious. and we take that very seriously. all these edits, harring, she also took umbrage with the allegation, the channels to and lists off spies, marguerite, assuming you, i'm suggesting that bob's lincoln's occupations should have been projected closer to home. then you suddenly see that it's a classic case of projection. as people say, the guilty party always has the red face, their media, their foundations, the new york times, and all the others published leagues daily. what are these leaks? they receive orders from intelligent services, right? this right,

that they have long since merge with each other. if you look at who runs the foundations and often the media there either families of intelligence employees, former intelligence officers or future once they flow from one or getting his ation to another. i have nothing against intelligence services, but it's simply not the case for us. and of course, all of these are, these are ations against all channel come less than 2 months before the us presidential election at the time when the race between kamala harris, who's expected to continue the democrats, the love of russia bashing. and donald trump, who's being clear, he wants to end the ukraine conflict, remain neck and neck. preemptively, blaming all t may seem like a good way to secure the votes, which when you do suggest, why are they doing this now? closing down banning? well, it's clear they have elections and wants to distract from some things, but most importantly ahead of those same elections, they don't want such a large number of people to know the truth. they need to silence everyone. this is

the story of freedom and democracy in the so called free west. it seems to me that only clinically insane people or those who are obviously biased can believe in. it's almost okay at all t is always being question more because we let our audience question the narrative and make up that mind without telling them that you want to think. while the whitehouse product is the silence russian like lips representatives of leading bricks, media organizations have convened and multiple for a summit brushes, foreign ministry spokesman, warning, guess that they could be next. and washington said, bless the us isn't challenged on it's actually our t comments. more info jobs from the event itself was washington ponders why the global side agent towing its geo political line one, i'm sure is being quick to merge on perhaps why the size the african president has

taken aim at structures in place. internationally which hold back the content from being an equal partner. serial rama poses. comments came in response to washington's proposal to give to permanent states at the un security council, but without any veto power. not having a continent of 1300000000 people represented on the security council, diminishes the role of the united nations. we cannot have a 2nd class participation as africa on the un security council. we demand and require that we should have serious participation. well, this week, the united states and i'd say it's will support having 2 new permanent states for african countries in the 1st ever known and permanent seats for a quote small. busy island developing nations, but the american envoy to the un stopped short sun calling for the prospective new members, the whole veto powers saying washington believes that right. you could make based security concepts work, dysfunctional. we don't want to give up our,

our veto power. and we do think if we expand that veto power across the board, it will make the council more dysfunctional. have indicated that we support 2 permanent seats for africa. how that plays out on they ask a continent will be up to the africans to well declare. so the africans will determine who those permanent, ma'am, they're gonna run and have to be voted on by $193.00 members. but who are their candidates for this? so they've decided that themselves has not for me to tell. they are for good, right? you need to take the south africa, or you need to take a jump or you need to, to, to, you know, to kenya. they will determine who will run for their seats. with the us proposal spark debates among african leaders with the rwandan president, offering his insights on which of the confidence $54.00 countries consider that the council one permanent seed would have to be held by the african union commission.

i'm 2nd seat by an african country on rotational basis, not held by any single country permanently. we discuss the move with our public gas . so say given only 2 sites, the such a big, diverse continental ready places that for can a difficult position. what i see where it is going to be very big sites will sits on the will get so feminine since obviously guys, uh not uh, it's not the case of a, uh, the content which is very davis. the best option here is the log file. once it's going to uh, once it's going to own the african union and the other one, the 30 us page on the board is it's going to be very disciplined. if this is adopted. i think it will be a very difficult decision uh to detect because i don't think there's any of the kind of times that the minutes another maybe we can use a right to go all the time. i just did what example, you know, 6 i maybe that's,

that's getting weight, but i think uh the government is for now that you know under or did things it's based on a particular agent would be the best model. i think the approach on that is why it also comes me to come off of one to be working um support each any point 3 dot dot has the capacity to was timing in on this call on behalf of walker can do this legwork on 3 and i do, they have such capacity because my address is like a mini africa. if we go and then the youngest democrats, the largest economy and so on. so, so we need to point $3.00 to $1.00 of our twenty's dental global ship. people hire until far. indeed, there was a while ago. i know the whole thing is we don't want to give you do so because you don't want to get into some of the activities we would do the payment to your interest. don't let me do a visit important, but then why don't we also have the country the way they want to spend the once in

a way, just like we would push it this way. so this is why is all the goals will turn to control? i'm still positioning themselves, i've been doing it blah, blah, blah. or why? again, grunting house a middle initial on your own visual image, additional and just do nothing visual to do. because this we saw memorial services for a 26 year old turkish american activist who was killed with a shot to the head by the idea earlier in september. hundreds gathered in the policy and instead of nobliss on monday to pay their last tribute with the deceased woman's body wrapped in a flag of palestine before being sent on to trick ha, i should or had seen protesting orthodox jews supplement expansion at which displace locals. the idea of opened fire during the demo. it was the same, but i, i know they cover very high precision. uh she was standing there. she was

actually, she was around and she wasn't moving. they had all the time to target targeting horizon. even if you are the olympic champions of stone flooring, you wouldn't make half that distance disability. the message. and the message is that no resistance to is really cool though, and you live in will be tolerated. and they know that they will not be held accountable. and they know that because no one hold them accountable, it is the same for that that it really uses to perpetuate. in genocide, we'd complete impunity in gaza. the ceremony in the westbank was a symbolic one. later, the family or i should or transferred her body to trick here for the funeral that was held yesterday. the countries, justice minister sinatra,

was launched its own investigation. incidentally, incident in a move that's been welcomed by the victims. this is casey. when i learned that our government has not given up on this senseless murder and has opened up an investigation, i was very happy. i hope, for the same from the american government as well. she is a citizen of that country. therefore, the american government also has a responsibility wherever in the world there is injustice, oppression, or the killing of one of its citizens. america swoops in like the eagle and assembled them. but when it comes to israel, there can be an effort to overlook things. hundreds gathered, indeed in the family home of issue is get aged, a turkish american do a citizen that was shot and killed by his really forces in the west bank in depaula city in territories. now, this is a topic that has been the attention of the turkish media as well as the locals, as well as policy makers throughout the country. and one of the fundamental talking points has been the fact that i should know is the age. it was a us nationals,

the fact that the united states has not shown the support that many assumed a us national would receive, has become a great talking point. but more importantly is the rhetoric that was discussed. the is really mandatory issue statement suggesting that the killing of i should know it was an accident that she was killed by work is a fire or that is really military sauce. forces essentially fired upon a group that they deemed threatening and provocative in the west bank during a protest, protesting and legal is rarely settlements, however, and there are a number of rhetoric and new statements and new information that is arise, suggesting that that was not the case. we understand that the bullet that entered ation was sco went in a straight and linear line, not indicated of which is a fire or something that would constitute an accident. on the contrary, the bullet entered her school, killing her instantly. video footage also arise from the events of that day, suggesting that she was 100 or 200 meters away from the scene at the time of these 400 meters away from these really cypress that shorter and killed. there's also

a witness. testimonies, her friends have travelled from the united states and different parts of the world to her family, home into them, to show their support, to, i should know it is, get a good. this is a, this is a talking point that has gotten many interested for many different reasons. one of them is, of course, the fact i think is really military and these were, the government is killing people indiscriminately met us down in 2003. rachel corrie was killed by the israeli defense forces in a very similar matter. we understand in 2022 american palestinian journalist showing up that was killed by his really military forces. it seems that because really military was tearing off these attacks, killing national, some different parts of the world indiscriminately. but when it comes to the united states, of course, there's a different rhetoric and sentiments involved is over the course of the past few years. the united states has express outrage, but when it came to the case of bison, who is a good, the dual national and the us citizen, the outrage just was not there. and more importantly, the church government says that they are doing everything in their power to insurance. that's tyson is it does receive justice. those responsible are brought

to justice. they're investigating this incident particularly. and there are hopes and at least the probability that the trucks come well, use this as a case study to provide at the i c, j. and it's case with south africa against israel. nothing is being swept under the rug in the nord stream, pipelines, sabotage and investigation. that is, according to german chancellor, laughed schultz who was responding to moscow. his criticism of the german pro bus quote, absolutely not transparent, nothing is being covered up. that should be absolutely clear. we want to bring those who did this to justice in germany if we can get hold of them. well, austria is biggest utility company will stop purchasing and selling russian gas next year. the decision falls under the pretext of ensuring no one is financing most school by purchasing resources from the nation. now europe's energy

commissioner earlier claim that the you is also ready to live with all impression gas. front of a through ukraine were main fully committed to complaints and the stays out of russian gas, which can be done without challenge in europe centers just security of supply. she sounds like got friends who comes over for coffee every 2 days to tell you that she's totally done with her relationship, even though she's still living in the same house as her acts and won't actually move out since it also said that quote, the volumes that some companies are still receiving from national also do not allow her to blackmail us any more. there are alternatives available here that russia, you can move out and cut all ties any time it's just waiting for the next guy to come along. some leaders in europe have been giving some serious tie to that take though, like, uh, gary and for administer peter c hotel. who said that without russian gas, his country's energy security can't be guaranteed and that it's quote, not a question of ideology, but of physics and mathematics. the sounds like

a teenager in their room staring at a poster, a brad pitt, and just waiting for the minor detail of him to actually show up at the door. meanwhile, it is still dependent on russia for nearly 20 percent. if it's gas supplies, as the blogs own state of the e u energy union report, underscored this week here, see how to again, with you have another one of his dad lectures on the energy issue. he's hungry does not receive my oil from russia. we will simply not survive. we will not be able to supply the country. why? because we don't have an adequate alternative infrastructure. there is another pipeline that runs from croatia from the adriatic coast to hungary, but it does not have enough capacity to supply hungry alone. we also have to consider slovakia, which relies on hungary for its oil supply and simply has no alternative. and to some extent, the czech republic is in similar situation. wow, that sounds like a lot of needs. one is that perhaps some other energy suppliers could exploit

nothing like neediness for that, which is exactly what the us did when it made a move to replace russian pipeline gas with its own shipped liquefied alternative at multiple times, the cost. guess that isn't going so great now though, because earlier this month, the western press was citing a brussels base think tank and reporting that in the 2nd quarter of this year that you was back to importing more gas from russia than from the us with a low you demand and high stocks, apparently minimizing the desire for the price, your american option, and relegating the us to 3rd place as a supplier to the you behind your way and russia. not exactly a shocker though, considering what former european central bank president mario druggie said this week about the diary impact of replacing russian gas in his new you competitiveness report, you was able to satisfy its demand for important energy by procuring ample pipeline guess which accounts for around 45 percent of the use natural gas inputs in 2021.

but the sol, so relatively cheap energy, has no disappeared at huge cost to europe. the u has lost more than a year due to the growth while having to re direct method fiscal resources to add a just subsidies and build a new infrastructure for important liquefied natural gas minor detail, right. listening to the energy commission, or do you think that there's all sorts of other theaters out there just ready to step in and give the block whatever it needs? well, here's the us based institute for energy economics and financial analysis. the think tank with the latest dating report, you could say an assessment of the use actual chances with several of those potential suitors allergy info's to your from the us decreased by 50 percent year on year. those from cas are dropped. so the one beside those from nigeria felt 43 percent. conversely, impulse from russia, well up 11 percent. looks like for all it's cost at public whining about russia and

talking about ending the relationship for good in favor of something better. the you is still at least feeling its boots on the down low. seems like all of this rhetoric is just really about keeping up appearances, ported in from the country. he lived in for decades for feeling a language test, an elderly residents of each member say deluxe via has been kicked out to all of the baltic nation after a set of laws were enacted. standing and exam must be passed, but you will be forced to leave your home. thousands more ethnic russians could not face the same fate. equal or a pump data had lived in lafayette since he was 11 within half a century. and it was the port it despite being murray too locked in since he also left behind his mother and saw him who have known citizens status with limited rights under new migration laws. the locked in government crackdown and residency rules for russians, forcing them to take language, test, and other processes to stay in the country even if they've lived there their entire

lives on cost rest spoke to your a, but then you'd restrictions quite literally tearing families a part to lead g yeah. i lived in re got and 2 years ago a law was passed regarding the requirement to take an exam. in the latvian language, it changed significantly. national list ended up in the admissions committees so to speak. it became very difficult to pass the exam. it required a deep knowledge of the lab fee and language. by the way, many russians in riga know and pass the lab fee and language exams. but the attitude towards russians is something entirely different. the fact is that i obtained russian citizenship in 2018. my knowledge of the latvian language was mediocre. my father was military and we moved to latvia when i was in the 6th grade . however, we learned the language using 2nd grade textbooks. back then in the soviet union,

there weren't as many issues with the language as there are now. it used to be rare to hear russian on the streets of riga. but the situation has changed. a multitude of people who didn't know either russian or lab fee and moved to the city. so you started having problems after obtaining your russian passport in 2018. can you elaborate on this? yes, i was not a citizen of latvia, but since i didn't have the right to vote and was limited in my rights, i decided to accept russian citizenship. the thing is, i am russian. so for me, it was normal. i went to the embassy received my citizenship 6 months later and continued living in riga. yes, i have family, my wife, son, and mother, all of whom remained there. for example, my wife has latvian citizenship, while my mother and son are non citizens, they aren't being expelled. but as a russian citizen,

the new law enacted 2 years ago required me to take the exam. i tried to take the exam, but the announcements about the exams came at the end of the summer. when i tried to call those commissions, they didn't answer. i couldn't even register for the exam. i tried everything, but it didn't work. then i received a letter stating that i had to leave laps the by november 31st, 2023. so i left you of course, please tell me at the very beginning of our conversation, you mentioned signs of nationalism. i understand that these signs of nationalism are becoming more and more obvious, particularly in latvia. you talked about how are you good, self has also changed, demographically, people from rural areas are moving there. have you personally, or any of your family members or their acquaintances? encountered any forms of nationalism, i can tell you that among ordinary people in riga, there are no problems. sometimes that someone from a village comes and doesn't know russian. but in riga itself,

there are no issues. every one speaks russian. every one, the problem lies within the government. you understand that people have very little influence on this. practically nothing. those who are put in service to the americans serve them. but in terms of human interaction, there are virtually no problems. there are fascists, there no doubt about it. but the entire system silently serves these fascists. for example, doctors have been forbidden to communicate and russian, and grandmothers and grandfathers. they are don't know lexi and good luck understanding what the doctor is telling you. however, one on one doctor certainly understand everything and communicate in russian, but at an official level that is prohibited. speaking of documents, when applying for residency, they ask questions like, who's cry? mia?

or who's done best and similar things. when you receive the order to leave lexia, could you have filed any kind of appeal? could you have argued that your whole family lives here? you know, i couldn't do anything and there was no one to accept those appeals. there is no institution that accepts such appeals. it's just impossible. so i had to leave. i got into my car and left the territory on november 31st. the order to leave the country was on signed and on sealed. it looked like a payment receipt for an apartment. i can't even imagine what was in your heart at that moment when you read that paper. you know, i'm glad to be in russia really. but on the other hand, it's definitely a hardship because my elderly mother, son and wife are all there. it's very difficult. my wife is a citizen of lafayette, so she obviously won't be expelled. neither will my mother nor my son. they are not citizens of russia. they are not citizens of lab fee either,

but this has been going on for a long time since the ninety's. they cannot vote and have other restrictions as well. but for people like me who haven't left, all social benefits have been cut off. free health care is completely absent, assistance is provided only for large sums of money, even calling an ambulance, their costs insane amounts. so there's no health insurance for such people. no, that's the thing. literally, everything is being an old. i could have stayed there, hidden, but it's impossible to live like that. i can't live like this. do you stay in constant contact with your relatives now? constantly. every day. what do you talk about? how they are doing, how i am doing so we feel close. so we don't feel divided, that's why we communicate all the time. 5 to 6 calls a day. seeing a loved one. seeing my mom, seeing my son, it's all pleasant. does it help? of course it helps. it gives me a re.