after the conflict in ukraine started the e. u shut its air space to russian plains, and partially halted visa facilitation. thus denying rushers officials and business people privileged access. a 7 e u nations of tightened entry rules for russians and suspended the issuance of short term visas. and made calls for quoting this to an outright travel ban. the e u commission rule the possibility out citing quote, the law of the land. we spoke with a political analysts, anthony webber, who raises the question as to why the russian public has now been singled out. people should have the right as individuals to do what was what is called what well they won't see, but i, i think this whole issue of saying people have been, come, treat columns, travel and i have these would have made sure, well, what connotations, i mean would you say 2 whole people from saudi arabia, none of our citizens could travel because of our policy in yemen. or would you say, i don't think from afghanistan can travel because of the policies of the child. and i mea

now, according to the e. u plan which is officially enforce, are the blocks members need to aim to reduce their gas consumption by 15 percent until the end of march next year. the overall goal is we understand is to say 45000000000 cubic meters of gas creating the option of falling back on reserves in the event of a shortage. no author and journalist thomas fancy says these measures will do very little to save europe as that leaders and politicians have already lost that of the energy war. to moment where seem very few concrete steps being taken towards energy reduction was seen mostly symbolic actions such as public building, tiny lights, off and so on. there's been no actual action taken on energy reduction. and that's because truly reducing energy consumption to europe. i requires some pretty radical measures when talking about rationing energy . the industries potentially rationing energy to households. and so no one has the courage to actually take those measures. and i think that this cool for 15 percent

ready accept the text that the e u has put forward. as far as i can tell from the crest reporting it, ron has attached some additional conditions and demands that it wants to be met. and if the iran is not prepared to accept the e u text, i imagine that u. s. will probably also have some changes that would like to say, has iran has raised 3 separate issues, which the u. s. considers to the extraneous to text. first iran, what sanctions lifted on the i r g c or companies associated with the i r g c. second, iraq want some guarantees that even after president biden leaves, the white house you, westfield continued to honor the agreement. and 31 once the i. e, a investigation in to past nuclear activities to the end. and as i said, the u. s. considers each agrees to be extraneous to the agreement and is not prepared to accept any of. so i think it's very much an america's interest to revive the j. c. p away, i think it's in your raj interest as well. so i don't quite understand why supreme leader hon lu continues to procrastinate. whether

the entire e u depends on them. so it's not exactly surprising that they would be sobering up, faster than other e u, members to the dire economic reality of the ideologically driven sanctions. france is also facing pressure from polish prime minister, mateus moral wiki. on paper, all member states are equal, but the political reality shows that the weight of the german and french voices is dominant. we are dealing with a formal democracy, but a defacto oligarchy, where the power is held by those who are the strongest. pretty tough words there. it sounds like he's bracing for france to come to its senses over the ukraine conflict before the country is stuck. having to introduce rolling blackouts this winter like neighbors, switzerland has already proposed. these pressure tactics are like kids taking cash from their parents while threatening to tell all their neighbors how badly they're being treated at home. in case russian president vladimir putin hasn't noticed and keep hoping that he does the e is clearly united.

now it follows as a group of politicians who called on the e. u to deny russians vacations in europe, while the country continues at war and ukraine. moscow slammed the initiative as a rooster phobic saying has been 80 years since sentiments similar to these origin remarked by finland and estonia were lost, voiced on the continent. it's not right that at the same time as russia's waging and aggressive, brutal war of aggression in europe. russians can live a normal life travel in europe, be tourists. it is not right. stop. they sheen. 2 recipes as to russians. visiting europe is a privilege not so human rights. i child from russia, shut down, it means washing and countries. each of these is neighbors to russia, carried batten time to, and tourist from russia. now, the most important sanctions of the close the borders because the russians are taking away some one else's land. the new calls come as a russians already face a host of travel restrictions. after the conflict in ukraine started the use shut its air space to russian plains, and partially h

ah, the e u has been getting increasingly involved in the ukrainian conflict. the block now considering conducting a large scale military training program for ukraine. he had armed forces. let's get some opinion, i thought, say without the contributor. rachel, must the rhetoric from some leadership figures in europe is growing increasingly militaristic and seems to be laying the groundwork for greater aggression and involvement in the ukraine conflict. the european union's chief diplomat, joseph burrell said on monday that the blocks defense ministers will be considering a proposal at their meeting in prague next monday and tuesday to get involved in training ukrainian troops on e u territories. and when i believe it seems reasonable that a war that is lasting and looks set to last requires an effort. not only in terms of supplies of material nicky, but also in training and assistance to the organization of the army. and, and i hope it will be approved that will not be in ukraine. it will be in neighboring countries which already have training missions, britain

e. u. countries are sitting power consumption caps before the bought russia supplied 40 percent of europe's gas. replacing that just before the winter, it is practically impossible. in july e, u energy ministers agreed a voluntary plan to catch their guests consumption by 15 percent starting in august . the e u says if it's fully cut off from russian gas and the winter is cold, it could had member states economies by as much as 1.5 percent of gd. pay of germany is one country where the u. coal embargo will have an impact dominant kind joins us live from a power plant and berlin at dominic, what is june? germany doing to prepare in a sense what gemini is doing is what the proprietors of the cuff tucked behind me. the factory behind me have been doing for some time they have divested themselves of russian coal. they've got rid of that dependence on russian coal. basically the factory protest by made, they said that once the war became clear and ukraine, they decided to move away from russian

south africa slammed the e u of a newly imposed tough import regulations to put it citrus industry at risk of the already serious global food prices continues to with no reaction. i who cares and the us how speak at nancy pelosi brought us off the fall out from her care free visit to taiwan, which of course pushed beijing and ty, pay right to the brink of military confrontation, bus. pakistan's opposition cries foul over a crack down on altitude, prime minister cons allies. as his former aid is erected for allegedly abetting mutiny with it is at 6 am on thursday, august. the 11th here in moscow and a very good morning to you from all of us here at alta, international ammonia spills and risks over an environmental disaster. that's off the ukranian army shelling of a local brewery. and don, yes, leaving one person dead to wounded and severely damaging and ammonia holding tank ultimately leading to a hazardous situation in the guys above the city. now the incident took place at a 10 p. m. local time. although don't ask emergency services have managed to stop the ammonia leak fire, as we

and germany says to proposal has already been put up for discussion within the e. u. it follows as a group of politicians are called on the e u to deny russian vacations in europe while the country continues its war and ukraine. moscow slammed the initiatives as a phobic saying it's been 80 years since similar sentiments were, were made in on the european continent. also, though, now apparently this, the whole possible initiative is getting support by officials in estonia and finland. it's not right did. at the same time as rush, his waging and aggressive, brutal war of aggression in europe. russians can live a normal life travel in europe, be tourists. it is not right. stop a sheen to resist to russians. it is it in europe is a privilege not so human rights are child from russia, shut down, it means washing and countries. each of these is neighbors. to russia carried the badge in time to an tourist from russia. now the most important sanctions of the close the borders because the russians are taking away some one else's land. while they are new coals. com, as russian

there have been days of protests and the government has been pushing for the e. u to release those funds with before the government take surreal. convincing step. i don't think the european institutions are in a hurry to provide the money. and the more we wait, the higher is the cost of financing the budget deficits here and get people fear that inflation will just keep on climbing even if apricots, or particularly be plentiful and cheap this year. in other business use. shares in alibaba have been falling off the u. s. authorities threatened to de list the chinese e commerce company in new york. that is, if it doesn't comply with auditing requirements, report what the announcement comes as tensions between washington and aging, grow over a range of issues including technology, human rights, anti one pilots. janelle, i look tanza have voted in favor of a strike. it could mean further disruptions during the busy summer travel season. the punch unit is demanding a 5 and a half percent pay rise. strikes and staff shortages have already forced carriers to cancel thousa

there have been days of protests and the government has been pushing for the e. u to release those funds with before the government takes a real convincing step. i don't think the european institutions are in a hurry to provide the money. and the more we wait, the higher is the cost of financing the budget deficit. here and cure of people fear that inflation will just keep on climbing, even if apricots, or particularly be plentiful and cheap. this year. moving on us manufacturing is growing at its lowest rate since the early months of the corona virus pandemic. a key index of factor activity has hit a 2 year low, according to data released on monday, the institute for supply management. so it says production is also slowing and orders a shrinking figures suggests that we can demand for factory products is taking place as the u. s. economy struggles from an enter my, let's get more on this for my a correspondent at the new york stock exchange. teddy austro teddy. always good to have you on. just explain to us boy sally's behind this slow growth. while rob, this is a

the e u says the move will cost russia 8000000000 euros a year. a small sum compared to oil and gas revenues that you had imported roughly half of its black hole supply from russia. just over 20000000 tons call from the u . s. south africa and australia are expected to replace those imports. the you plans to ban russian crude oil by the end of the year read a correspondent barbara vessel is standing by in rotterdam. barbara, this is a major commodities. have a major hub for all shipments. there. rotterdam, what have you been seeing leading up to this band? can, can someone tell just by looking that companies are racing to get this call in? no, you can't really distinguish this coal that you see on this river barges here behind me from any other cold. of course, if an expert came geologically, geologically, it's different from where it comes from either south africa or india, australia, or russia, of course. but the hub of rotterdam as of today declares no more russian, coal, 0 shovel or bucket. it's gone. there was a peak in may when really, all t

the e u and, and the u. s. envoys will go from here to bell grade where they'll have talks with the serbian present, alexander lou kitsch. but the thing is, this both sides cost of own serbia started a dialogue process 11 years ago and they're supposed to be much further on. and a conclusion that cost over once for mutual recognition. but instead they're drifting further apart kemp than asthma. they're in cost. those capital, thank you. families in poland embracing for a tough winter. the country is facing widespread coal shortages after russian imports of fuel with band. unlike the rest of europe, poland relies on coal rather than gas. the power and heating andrew simmons traveled to cattle with her to see how people are preparing for the cold months ahead. poland prides itself on its potential for being totally independent of russia for its energy needs. but there's a problem. it's a shortage of coal, not gas like the rest of europe. ref our rules, coal seller is normally stocked up for winter by now. but

k no longer an e u. member, of course, regulators have agreed to pass higher cost along the households to the tune of an 80 percent increase in the average energy bill. alright, my colleague, cassandra sought joins me in studio for more on this. cassandra walk us through the significance of these numbers, it can be a little confusing, right? these are big numbers and they can sound a little bit hard to wrap your head around. but think of this as the cost for a megawatt hour estimate in the next year. it's a mix of all sorts of different kinds of power. it's kind of like a fruit basket right? with a bunch of different varieties. the problem here, the culprit so to speak is that natural gas has become a very expensive for her. it's been sore. it's been soaring of for over the course of the years. so that's bringing up the price of this megawatt hour as a whole. and this is significant, like you mentioned, because of inflation and higher energy prices are ready and this is a record high. this is putting a l

the e. u. a hold an emergency meeting on september 9th to discuss an intervention in energy markets. on monday, german year had power prices, essentially the cost of electricity contract in 2023 reached a record high, $1000.00 euros for a megawatt hour. the climbing natural gas prices of recent days are largely responsible for those higher prices. now compare those german prices to last year when the same contract cost, $85.00 euro's a megawatt hour. that's an increase of a whopping 1100 per cent. there's a similar dynamic going on in france where nuclear power accounts for the bulk of electricity generation. but reactors have been turned off due to maintenance and cooling issues related to the heat wave. now in the u. k, no longer an e u. member of course, regulators have agreed to pass higher cost along the households to the tune of an 80 percent increase in the average energy bill. all right, my colleague, cassandra son joins me in studio for more on this. cassandra walk us through the signi

the e u and the e u. member states remain committed to the use one china policy, the reaction within the european union to air pelosi putting wheels down in taiwan is remarkable by its deafening silence. it's one thing for you to pay lip service to what it calls the preservation of peace in a rather boiler plate statement that apparently took a. busy whole day to come up with. but why is it so suddenly shy about taking sides in this, when they're usually so quick to shoot off their mouths when it's far too late? especially when speaking out could act as a counterweight to washington provocation and prevent conflict or even war. if the e you had done the same in ukraine, that is, have the courage to stand up against washington's constant provocations on the russian border. then maybe it would now be bearing the brunt of its own, ideologically driven anti russian sanctions. and sure, nancy pelosi, a speaker of the house is the 3rd top ranked american official. but she's also a career as on public. i tell wh

the southern branch of the pipeline transits, ukraine, and supplies the e. u with about 10 percent of the oil buyers from russia. the northern leg of the pipeline which runs through about the roofs, poland and germany has not been effected by the stoppage kremlin, has said that sanctions are hurting the e. u much more than russia by limiting the blocks access to energy. and we discussed this with dr. george muley, of the global policy institute of london. he says that europe proves again that it's politicians are the only ones to blame when it comes to the ongoing energy crisis on the continent. you're probably getting very vulnerable because it's actually quite difficult to get the oil to check. the alternative, the check republic is that it would have to go through. usually very complicated process owner is actually in better shape because you can actually get the oil from probation. and so the channels where the general public is more vulnerable, but all it's still going to show is that it's the european union that is messing around with the energy flows. e

and some of the e u. member states appear to be following the same practice. this, as estonia plans to close its borders to russian citizens with shank and visas issued by tal and the european commission has also said the issue of tourist visas for russians is now on their agenda. is are to contribute rachel martin with our thoughts and opinion. funny, remember how that you reacted when former president of the united states, donald trump did exactly the same kind of thing in 2017 and signed an executive order to stop issuing visas to people from random list of countries here. charge around libya, north korea, somalia, syria, venezuela and yemen, citing national security. but we do not discriminate on the basis of nationality, grace, or religion. not only when it comes to asylum, but in any of our other polis, no one can be deprived of his or her own rights because of their place of birth, their religion, more than any city. this is written in our constitutions, both in europe and in america. this is who we are. this is our identity. this is something we cannot

and that is a compromise a suspension is going to be harder for russians to enter the e u, but they're certainly not banned from doing so. you talked about or talking to us from parish latasha. thank you very much. do you know, the warning ukraine's dominated talks in moscow between the foreign ministers of iran and russia, the 2 sides of get closer as both nations and i was subject to us sanctions tech on has refused to directly condemn russians. invasion of ukraine. the u. s. is accused around supplying moscow with drones, a claim to find denies the bottom. and this is also discuss the iran nuclear deal. if michelle mission plenum, g, s g. we've also talked about the settlement of the iranian nuclear program and administer thanked us for our very committed position there in terms of negotiations and getting this nuclear deal on the table again. and we insist that all the sanction should be completely done away with in line with the un security council decision that he should act up here on the call. carefully reviewing the draft texts for revival of the nuclear deal. we are looking i

e. u. country to its knees while doing nothing to help you brain. ah, good morning for mosque out to the world. i'm paula is about here with our top news stories from around the world. a pleasure to have you join us. at least 7 ukrainian shells have exploded in the vicinity of this oper, rogia a nuclear power plant, as calves on slot against the city and southeastern ukraine, where the facility is located continues. that's after the un secretary general met with president lensky to urge to for the plants safety. meanwhile, the mining operations continue across the territory abandoned by can't force as our tv gosh darn off. takes a closer look at the russians. national guard sappers working in don bath, one of the main rules of the don bass that of written in blood 2 is follow the roads and do not go astray. we have broken this rule to day, but only because we're in the good cans. in the good hands of the sappers of rushes, national guard, essentially, they have found only to day 7 anti tank minds that will laying around the roads in the fields. ever

last week's trilateral toltz with an e. u foreign affairs chief of joseph burrell, aimed at normalizing ties, but fail to find any common ground. inventions rose already of this month when the cause of thorough. he's moved to ban serbian documents and license plates. and international if has commented medical gas search believes there are external forces, adding fuel to the fine thing to bear in mind that slavery don't really want to go to the loads. you need to say that back on the farm, the outside is the ones who started the part in the 1st i made it impossible to solve and keeping it. and so by supporting one side that supports well national side against the other side, which is the safest serbia. what we are talking about when we introduced and refusal of concession is the nato side, which bombed its way into cost a lot, crated, the biggest military base since vietnam in cultural, state and cultural. ever since of the cultural defensive to compromise. because the us is allowing him to make demands and no concession expec

netherlands. reports are now drawing attention to the other members on that list. saudi arabia and the u. e. noting that more than a 3rd of the deals, the u. s. just made we're done with governments that they have a long accused of human rights violations. we were not going to in fact, sell more weapons to them. we were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them in fact, the price that they are. and in the same way that they have drawn attention from human rights groups. so has egypt, which has secured more than $2000000000.00 and a deal with the u. s. this year. but despite arguments that the white house could still intervene and could put a stop to around $300000000.00 and direct military support. similar to the way it said, it would hold $130000000.00 and funding at the start of the year due to human rights concerns. well, president by then has yet to take any action the consistent pattern of human rights abuses committed by the egyptian government. and evidence that u. s. military equipment has been used and such violations should require the administration to suspend all

well, it's a small cut into russian revenues, but a big sign of solidarity for the e. u. member nations beginning and import ban on russian coal to day. the u says the move will cost russia 8000000000 euros a year. a small sam compared to oil and gas revenues that you had imported roughly half of its black hole supply from russia. just over 20000000 tons, call from the u. s. south africa and australia are expected to replace those imports. the u plants to ban russian crude oil by the end of the year or at a correspondent barbara vessel is standing by in rotterdam. barbara, this is a major commodities. have a major hub for all shipmates there. rotterdam, what have you been seeing leading up to this band can, can someone tell just by looking that companies are racing to get this call in now .

we discussed these restrictions on other e policies, with russia's representative to the e. u. la merritt, she's off ah, soccer said yesterday, statements of european politicians. they contradict common sense and numerous political and legal obligations of the you, though, looks like racism and discrimination. and the fight against discrimination is the foundation that the you itself and the western well posed as the foundation of democracy. as for the closure of borders for people who have shing and visas issued by european countries, this from a diplomatic point of view is nonsense. at the moment, e visa code is not provide for the complete ban on the issuance of short term visas . the introduction of such a restriction on the basis of nationality would mean a step towards restrictions on race skin color. sexual orientation east state has the right to issue or not to issue a visa to a citizen of some country. that is, it is an individual decision. if such a practice is introduced in relation to all citizens of a country, it is unpractical and unrealistic because there will a

but the e. u was importing roughly half of its black coal from russia, with germany, poland, and the netherlands, the biggest buyers call from the u. s. south africa and australia is expected to replace those imports ass senior european correspondent, barbara vase or reports from rotterdam in the netherlands. there are many source of all the world rounds, so rotten harbor says what they see now is called from south africa, cold from columbia, from expert, or even as far as history of the problem here is, or is the price because prices have been tripled since last year now the price of increased transport, of course, because really that's a way to go for frasier and do you use, we'll see a further driving up of the prices. and we have a further complication. this river barges here like the one in the bank. and they can only be loaded up to the 3rd of their capacity at the moment because the river right and the mass i'm trying out rapidly because of the drought this summer. and so that again pushes

now, despite an energy crisis taking hold in the e. u, poland, presidents as calling for the dismantling. now the nord stream to pipeline, which was built to supply gas from russia to europe. well, let's get the take on this from r t contributor rachel marston. hi, rachel. yeah, it appears e u. countries want to get gas prices under control, but at the same time get rid of their dependence on russian gas. tough one. yeah, well, officials across the european union have really been pushing the unity rhetoric really hard lately. but as various member states start eyeing tough times on the horizon with energy inflation and cost of living crises that really, i mean, it looks like it's going to be tested this solidarity. so some countries are on such a blah blind anti russian footing that they're promoting scorched earth policies. for example, polish. the pools president is now saying that he wants to see the north stream to gas pipeline dismantled, which would literally burn the energy bridge between russia and europe. now these radical remar

in most of the e. u. germany in particular, expect it to burn a $100000.00 tons of coal per month this winter. meanwhile, the eas grand plans for green energy appear even further out of reach. that's after western democracies launched a so called groundbreaking international energy transition partnership with south africa. the british prime minister stressing that last year the cut that cooperation with pretoria will create a precedent with threads of transition to clean energy while u. s. president joe biden promised to conduct the transformation quickly. at the moment, the west is efforts to support green energy are clearly on the back burner as it seeks to dig more coal from south africa. meanwhile, the return of fossil fuels continues to fuel animosity with clashes breaking out between eco activists and police. in the german city of hamburg at the weekend, officers resorted to baton and pepper spray as protesters, demands for green energy threatened to boil out of control som express deep this taste

according to the only official statement from the e u, the block is not rushing to publicly support the move of the u. s. representative at all. we have seen the recent media reports about the arrival and taiwan of the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi. we don't have any specific comments to add. we encourage the peaceful resolution of the issues in the strait. the e u and the member states remain committed to the use one china policy. i will ask you to take all this from our tea contributor rachel marston. hi there, rachel. we know you officials like to talk, but not exactly a flood of reaction coming from them. is there a regarding policies that to taiwan yeah, the reaction within the european union to air pelosi touching down in taiwan is remarkable by its deafening silence. exactly. it's one thing for you to pay lip service to what it calls the preservation of peace in a rather boiler plate statement that it put out that it apparently took a whole day to come off with, which is kind of unusual because they're so used to mo, thing off so quickly when it comes t

for example, we're seeing public officials using b, e. u. engineer gas shortage as an excuse to reduce public services. now, public swimming pools, both near paris and in the south of france, have made news recently when local governments said that they were shutting them down for the rest of the summer. to save money, the mayor of catherine. yes. which is in the south of france said the high costs now mean that she has to choose between purchases like organic food for kids, school lunches, or the pool. so the pool got the axe during one of the hottest summers on record. so you can see the ball is already rolling on rationing, even in anticipation of a shortage later this year. and we haven't even begun to see where the knock on effects might pop up. now to make matters worse, norway, which is otherwise known as europe's battery, produces hydro electric energy that it typically exports to the you and to the u. k . but now it's saying that because it's lacking water because of the dry and, and heat and now feels that it will be able to step

that's the latest planned by e. u. leaders who are now turning their eyes to mozambique to try and replace rushing gas. mostly because the 3rd largest gas reserves in africa and is now set to receive millions of dollars in aid from the block. according to an internal e u document, it aims to strengthen the security of billions of dollars worth of western gas projects in the country. such projects were threatened last year when violence by islamic extremist threatened the northern gas rich province of cobbled delgado. however, previous please for military support from the you appear to have fallen on deaf ears. the combat involves high cost for our partners. they will not continue for a long time forever and operations can be affected if there is no support. the european union is aware the your plan, however, is yet to receive any backing if approved support will be limited to know lethal equipment. despite mozambique requests for a more serious commitment, in the meantime, western company say they are ready to begin e

the prospect of e u membership was supposed to encourage costs of owen serbia to become good neighbors. but e e was now cooled on any sort of expansion. and as a feeling here and in serbia that the prospect of full e u. membership is now beyond the horizon. now is the graffiti supporting rushes invasion of ukraine suggests. serbian sympathies lie with moscow. the main issue is that how, when the e u is not in how the russians are getting in, every one knows that her, that serbia, it's hash not yet been, and distancing itself from. ah, the russian invasion in ukraine. russia is still very much interested in having a next font. a next font is the balkans, serbia's president alexander view church says sir politicians on civil servants could stop working in cost of institutions. if the new license plates are imposed, kosovo prime minister of incur t, there is an escalation to a wider conflict. nato says its troops are ready to intervene. if there's a risk of violence, bernard smith, al jazeera pristina, kosovo. a former us police officer has pleaded guilty for her role in the death of bria