look at that to answer, there's a date or the biden's outgoing administration tries to supply, could find the blow against russia, with new sanctions targeting the major energy company, gas comb that i know you're directly in a while job. i didn't jokes about the devastating fires in california residents about state likes using the democratic leadership of being unfair pad. but they are also raising concerns about the fall, which is decision to send the critical firefighting equipment to leap rate. i think he's running a military launches an attack on the capital of the evan hitting international power station in the crowded central square. and that's also you have many of the

forces i set to move, subtract the us aircraft carrier any of this week. the pedals are welcome to our attention osh, the new center. with the latest update i have, michael question about washington has announced sweeping functions against the russian old industry positing that major editor you produce a gas from nest. now the restrictions came just about the week before due by didn't hands over the white house to donald trump, who has said that he wants to buy the ties with russia. now moscow has condemned to biden's last dates, maneuvering against the both drum and russia. some leave their mark on history, while others succeed only in leaving stains. biden is set to leave trump with scorched earth, and will complicate the prospects for restoring dialogue with russia as much as possible. the latest set of sanctions targeting the energy sector is part of that plot to now let's discuss this issue right here in the studio with

our to correspond to do my, my each are joining me right here. one is good to have you join me. so what do we know so far about this us sanctions under timing that they are coming up on board the by the registration has imposed a new sanctioning effort to squeeze russia's energy sector. now they claim this list of sanctions is the most significant one up to date, against russia's energy sector, toggling russian oil and a gas export. and this just comes a little over a week before biden leaves office. now, when asked whether the sanctions were discussed with president elect donald tr. * it seems that senior 5 and officials did not really give a clear answer, but they believe that this move is to give kids, as well as from administration. the oper ahead when it comes to negotiations with russia, do you pay also jump in the bandwagon,

sanctioning 2 major russian oil producers. both countries are targeting a gust from the nest and subsidiaries. this of course, will now create a challenge for donald trump, who campaigned on ending this conflict and had previously express skepticism on imposing additional sanctions against russia. and just a few days ago, donald trump told reporters that president put in is ready to talk and that they are having discussions on when to have this meeting. but let's take a listen at what the biden administration thinks of the situation. the next administration will have to make a decision about what they want to do. but we think that by taking these actions, it puts them in a better position to help find just and sustainable piece from this conflict. now as the vis sumption, this us sanctions is coming at a time when us president elect donald trump, is talking about setting up

a meeting with the vitamin put in like you had mentioned. and what do we know about that out. even though donald trump did not reveal a clear road map to peace when it comes to the conflict with your claim, he did criticize president joe biden's unconditional 8 to key of doing his election . and he also has vowed too quickly and this conflict between a russia and ukraine. and so as far as negotiations we understand still no call with who is that a day one or week one wants to. he wants to meet and we're gonna, we're setting it up. president button once to me is said that even publicly, and we have to get that were of, were that's a bloody mess. now it is reported that others hear a peaceful solution and they feared from upcoming presidency as reported that you

officials, i fear that this incoming press, the president trump, will overturn some of the sanctions that were already imposed against russia. officials in brussels have been reported to be concerned that a trump might reverse some of biden's decisions. or what i say is this us functions have affected a sub, an energy company that's cool, owned by gospel niceties. now how is this affecting the balkans now uh serbian president uh, alexander of which is called on his government to prepare for talks with president clinton because he has long claimed that the us plans through the impose sanctions on the country is made oil and gas company a company in which of course does from enough to hold a 50 percent thing. the serbian president also mentioned an upcoming meeting would present and put in the costs of the situation. and he has also announced that both ways is actually ready to purchase

a purchase. russell share of the key energy company in serbia image. this function you want me to use this lease really out of the probably wouldn't mean about 600000000 euro or something was to buy out the russian. shackleton, i mean, let's not get into that now, since due diligence was done before, so do we have different assessments in the previous period? so you don't buy the whole package because we have 29 percent of us. do you have small shareholders? do you by 50 percent of them are plus 6 percent. it can be $56700.00. it doesn't matter and we will try to avoid it 1st. but if it went to go in that direction, we would not sell it to others. we would buy it ourselves and we would have that money immediately, or whether we are ready to pay them right away. so alex, on the judge has a knowledge forthcoming challenge as regarding the potential us sanctions against the company. and recently following pulse with us officials. he admitted that he

didn't have many much good news to share with regarding the issue, the survey of the company. now spaces of financial sanctions from the us as early as next month, the u. k. and the you are also likely to follow in the us as a foot steps. but the serbian president didn't know that the us sections against the company due to russia's ownership of it. shares would not affect the belt bridge refusal to join the n t. a russian bandwagon. now as specifying that bold grade will fly to anyway, maintain friendly relations with moscow. oh, i don't. gas from on the other hand has set that to the prepared for this. they would not taken by surprise when it comes to the functions and this new measures generally. and they were prepared for a new us, but the actual assumptions about how russian companies which to the measures in the past, against the us sanctions and all of this. you know,

see thing from all sides as, as the, a quite a conflict to russia has become the most sanctioned country in the world. except that it seems to not have works the way that the was has been hoping for. for us, as in 2022, the g 7 nations created an oil price tap intended to limit how much revenue russia could make from its oil exports, except that they did not work the way they've intended to. and despite take very much coordinated efforts by the west to isolate russia and destroy russia, economically it's economy avoided a collapse that many economists tries to predict. and we're expecting now in early december, president put in also said that the west sanctions again smashed our senseless sense. russia has withstood the pressure. washington's allies continued to buying natural gas from russia even after restrictions. i made a report i poured into

a report recently published at you nations ball a record quantity of russian liquefied natural gas just last year. so clearly their way is not working the but instead of negotiating, it seems a bit bother shit themselves in the foot and force others to do the same. me by my each. uh uh, bringing us up to speed. yeah, thank you right now lets cross now live to stephen. got you to reset your of the institute of european studies in bel grade. steven, it's good to have you join me now. so washington has imposed functions against the may just said, be an added, gee company that is co owned by rush, those guys from. what are you interpret thing to all these maestro's wife now. and i will say it will be premature to rush with the conclusions. so far what we've seen is that before washington, before anybody else uh serbian president woodridge was grooming the public. that uh

uh, golf from my list, the company owned by golf. from here, i might be taken by a whole style. think over by the government. this comes, i made the biggest political crisis that what did you face? and just said it'd be out because they're a huge protest. beautiful kids that are protesting against this. so i would say the corruption scandal that ended up with the, the death of 15 people in the city on the side where on the part of the train station for a long time on time and so on. so perhaps voltage holds that in exchange for some concessions to the west. uh he can uh, get the support. uh, i guess his own people to continue the ruling and the, the consequences might be that's what it's sure. but i mean, the government takes the gulf from fair a,

with the hostile takeover. and then if restaurant is economically out, nato is automatically in. so this comes also in the final days of the, by the administration. and i think, i mean, the political crisis, what does is trying everything, uh possible, uh, to a get the political support from the west. at the same time, we hear our minister of foreign affairs mont, for george, who says that we need this traction. our strategic partnership with the united states and at the same time, serbia is breaking the $1000003.00 deals. it has with russia the deals that were. busy somebody supposed to buy some of the military equipments, so this all is happening, single pena sleep. the way i read it is the told to just trying to gain some or support from the west in order to avoid the political consequences. he faces here because the protests are really big and they are not going to going anywhere. all

right, not certainly, as president says, sanctions against the sub you and added, you company a part of a broader attack on russia and companies. why do you think washington is committed to such an attack involving sub yeah, right now. and we will see what happens. as i said, we should not pretty much truly rush into conclusion because the confusion is because we will see whether these sanctions will, would stand trumps administration. or was this some kind of a, a separate deal in the final days of vitals administration in order for a local players to try and get some of the political benefits. so i think that's the only time and we won't wait long to see what is going to happen. happen if serbia goes for a hall style. i mean, what is it goes for a hostile takeover. that means that he made some deals with nasal. either he made

some deals, you know, order to push raw shop away from the bulk of and from serbia in particular. and when we will see how would guess throw in react because there are ways for them to remain in the shareholders to remain already gone from meeting the needs of the company. said that uh it is stable that the public when you know it won't feel any difference. so i think that it is premature to talk about feed wall section sanctions because of the all of this uh that takes time at least 2 months. and in 2 months, and we will have you have an estrangement, washington, so we will see what is going to happen here. also, maybe there will be brought up on a conversation between washington and moscow regarding ukraine. and these conversation will involve, of course, the lifting of all the sanctions. so maybe that there is a rush to get the russian capital. i'll do the bulk of while there is still time

for that before the sanctions are lifted. to are talking about the bumpkins last year, croatia then, so it'd be an oil companies broken, a deal to transport. 10000000 tons of oil over the next couple of years through a pipeline. how do you thing washington functions affect the balkans generally. so, i mean, in general, of course, the washington, especially the, by the ministration in coordination with european commission was trying to get to nato and, and russia out in china as well. because they weren't, they're very concerned about the chinese capital. that is a very significant in the balkans, especially in serbia. so i think that that these they the agenda that was the general strategy of this pipeline. a connecting grace site and serbia existed the even since the was a lot of times when patients, serbia, were part of the same country. uh, but uh,

we will see what this really means because so are the oil. uh, was a russian oil was flowing through this pipeline pipeline regularly, also on from other uh, suppliers. but uh, we'll see what this means from freely. uh, because as i said, uh we are in the final days or by the administration at the same time. so you're being commission leaders, such as most of the lines are in agony, and they are trying to, um, to preserve the policies they have and may be in this uh, um, uh, breaking of deals, which is hoping to get the set staples. maybe you might have some to hold over some kind of protection from the structures in, in brussels because he is facing very severe problems with the, with the products that are happening here for months now. and that they're likely

to continue and grow. or why stephen guys have research or are they institute of european studies in bel grades? thank you so much for your insight. thank you for having me. spouse. novak as prime minister has doubled down on this criticism of the landscape about freed. so says it's key fob as inflicting economic damage upon his country and the european union as a whole was the last the decision to cut off russian gas supplies, fix or even threatened to retaliate by suspending age to the ukrainians. god knows what you guys, if you find him, president continues to damage us like this. do you currently in president continues to damage the entire european union like this. the slovak republic will show that it is a sovereign country at this moment, zalinski deliberately damages the slovak republic and the european union. and so, so what can we do? first, we can stop all humanitarian aid,

even what was recently approved by the government of the slovak republic. the 2nd possibility is that the government of the slovak republic is determined to significantly reduce or even completely remove various social benefits that have been given to credit and citizens who came to the slovak republic. since the start of the military conflict. well, and ukraine and brussels concluded to basically screw over e u countries lights of out here that we're still dependent on russian pipeline, vast transit through ukraine. and how they do that? well, by turning off the top about 10 days ago, meaning a loss of about $500.00. 15000000 annually. first of all that yeah. and the potential here to another $1000000000.00 from having to pay more for gas uh, from other sources and well brussels tosses. cash it keeps like it's wrapped around a stripper. cool. actually you member states of actually i can't seem to get any love at home. so so vacuum prime minister robert tito says that he's just going to

march right on over to the you in front of the energy commissioner and basically say hey, it's key for us, bobby make a choice. not that he wants to create drama. he says he isn't quote, interested in escalating tensions, but if the problem isn't solved, so that actually will have to take quote, hard reciprocal measures. shortly he says, when russell says that it doesn't see a problem here that they've been quote, working with the member states and with ukraine to prepare in advance for this scenario. which scenario exactly the one where the gas prices go up and blow a massive hole in the budget of you have another country, the says that the gas coordination groups not last week, which is, i guess, another merry band of dest jockeys. and well, they don't see any security or supply issues for the you at all. just uh, you know, the industrialization of germany,

skyrocketing debt and installation in france and the establishment regime changing itself right out of power across the u because national economies suck now. and now, so that, yeah, it's sounding the alarm, but other than that, no, no problem at all because the uses are there haven't been any price increases since the new year. a whole 10 whopping days as a result of this latest active economic suicide. and well, that's because the market's already hedge their bets that the you would, in fact do something really stupid to itself again, and that's already factored in this latest se, into their projections before the new year pizza had warned in his new years of dress that trying to stick it to put in by going further into the whole, paying more for data, having to subsidize your train even more because it also cut off its own russian gas transit income and dealing with rising gas prices across the blogs.

well, wasn't what winning was supposed to look like for the you, hunger, you can get russian gas through turkey at least. but it still recognizes how ukraine has basically screwed everyone over across the block. the development that led to the latest price increases was ukraine. cessation of the transfer of russian natural gas on its territory to central europe since the end of the ukrainian transit road in mid december. the price of natural gas on the european market has increased by 20 percent. now hungry is energy supply secure, but ukraine's decision to stop transit shipments it will lead to further price increases and create new competitiveness challenges for central europe and the european union as a whole. oh yeah, and the problem isn't just as well actually right now. there's also more dover, which was getting russian gas pipe to ukraine and into the pro russian enclave of trans mr. yeah. but then just decided to stop paying for it, wrapped up a $700000000.00 deck in the process. and then news about solving that problem by

claiming that they just own the russian gas problem, majority own gas company that was delivered yet. i think i'll try that with my own gas company after racking up some bills and just see how that goes. like, what are they going to do? you all produce any money you see it for many years. russia supplied natural gas. thanks to which in fact some trance and history a survive shift now, due to the decisions made by ukraine and the modem, rental for these trends and history a has lost that possibility. well, yeah, yes, it kind of figured that that's how this stopped like that would have turned out, but hey, nothing to see here. all is going great in the usa is good. i'm good you, it's hard to get by with electricity and gosh, voltages. the gas is running out and the right electrical blackouts, for example, today from 8 am to noon, and then from $6.00 to 8 pm. so for a total of 8 hours,

we didn't have electricity through the most of yes, there are difficulties because i used to wear a t shirt at home. but now i have to be fully dressed. it is become more difficult to live and we've simply doesn't look like these just to we are all tied to electricity through a mobile phones, all devices run on electricity. and naturally, these rolling blackouts are a surprise for some of those who have generators can cope with those who do not have generators are forced to rebuild their lives to the new so called reality might often break out the turtle next and have the sweaters across to you again because winter the storage is way down this year compared to the same time last year as 69 percent capacity down from 84 percent right across europe. same in the u . k, where it's 26 percent lower, but no, nothing really to worry about. everything's under control. you just have an e. u. member states of actually a downside here. they're going to take drastic measures targeting what it considers to be inactive economic warfare against it by ukraine. on the blocks cheap diplomat

tie, a callous to say that she's totally sure that, oh you countries are ready to continue to support ukraine to the point that the you will take over ukraine's bills to the us under trump kicks zalinski out of the basement and off their wallet, speaking like someone who clearly doesn't have to worry about being elected to the job by popular vote, looks like the clowns in charge in brussels. are intent on doing a high flying truck piece out here without a safety net. now despite preaching about assumptions, brussels keeps relying on moscow when he comes to energy. the latest data show that you imports of loss and liquefied natural gas rece the record high last year. and that's the spot, the block having flags to completely caught itself off from russian and it just supplies within a few years. now for more details on this story and much more, you can head over to our website

r t dot com the now the southern california is up in flames and the 100000 people have had to flee the homes as the entire neighborhoods are reduced to ashes at a desk o has risen to 10 of the 5 storms read across multiple frauds. california national guard is being deployed to los angeles to support local police as they were struggling with an escalating number of looting cases. they offer souls confirm the 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of leading. since the fire spotted local residents have been struggling to describe the trauma they have in your to be. as you can see, there's nothing less than i've been there for about an hour and a half and i don't want to leave this home. so i really can't put in towards everything that we know and love is go, not just this house, my whole city, go home and the whole thing like everything,

my whole neighborhood, everything. and i grew up to love and know is burnt. uh i'm, i'm, i'm devastated. for them, i'm going to say the pods, but i'm like i said, we each walked out with 2 pairs of clothing changes. and that's all that we have. however, i mean the devastation. some people apparently think it's a lot like my to a us president while discussing the price is tied to is vp and told hadzic quote, fire away. while a big green popped up on his face, a man and vice president, i know you're directly affected. so the firewall to point to the bottom line is democratic golf now in california have facing backlash over the sol, far inadequate measures to contain the inside. those are the types of the republican gov, that demanded by the countries leadership, but look out for its own citizens. instead of sending money abroad, you know what,

what is needed is for joe biden to stop getting money to the crane and start providing it to north carolina. and in this case, california and helping our fellow americans in securing our border instead of sacrificing america, just bored the with the wellbeing of some other countries across the globe area. we spoke with an international security consultant about all of these a rod most and says that the us needs to finally put the needs of its own people. fuss about those of other countries. the money that we're sending abroad. yeah. because uh, in the funds that were, were providing to the last 2 different conflict. so it goes to ukraine and other ones as well. that money could easily be turned back into it. so it comes to towards our country. and um, in taking care of our people here on the ground and i understand the military industrial complex wouldn't like that. but, but some of them would benefit still let's put a ukraine aside that that's

a low priority compared to the situation today. and we need to take care of our own people that we saw situation hawaii several years ago, people were offered $700.00 for a per home per family and give me a break. well. and then the cost is a tier is even greater and the impact is much more much more than what the fire is. it costs in hawaii, so it's a since it is um, we need to get our priority straight. and obviously at least what i've seen. so far the priorities are in the wrong direction and we need to take care of our own people. first, before we're taking care of uh and sending money abroad, is that in mind, use just money going down a black hole and into the middle is now usual, has conducted an attack on the capital of the admin targeting military

infrastructure. and that's according to the idea of media report, say that about the 1000 strikes with carried out jointly with the us and british forces hitting a central power station. and the city's main square during a pro guys are right now. ports located on yelman's western coast have also been on the fire. they've casualties have been reported so far. i'd be attacked came off to the movies i set to have hit an american aircraft carrier in the red sea area this week. yeah, maybe john lives who's saying i will call you t says that the movies are causing a lot of damage to these ready economy a this was actually the, a lot of just the coordinated the is that any us um, but it to she i pack so only a month and a half, probably because that a power states. and so i was supposed to not for his power station. i'm just so, so you connect me just to set a time to say that id and, and the us to head to the destiny shows community that they use as the coordination on the is that a 80 and a team? i mean, it doesn't have a, have a good a clue about where you many,

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