well, they usually just blame blind recruiting for the result, of course, rachel marston. well, we also discuss the issue with must rob sin, former new zealand deputy minister of foreign affairs. he sees many politicians live in a protected world distance from the general public. the sudden arrogance of power, of course, and in having the, the media media on your side and controlled, gives them arrogance. i think also their distance from their own population. they live in a protected protected world. the schooling they go where they live, how they're protected from whatever mistakes they make or forced upon their own country. it's, it's just part of the structure of the system or capitalism really in those countries that have developed and where those who really control the economies of those countries. the commanding heights of the countries listed together as a class at one source to apologize. the rest of them have to apologize, so they cover up for each other. it's not a question of morality, haven't morality the betterment of human kind. they haven't told the betterme

now for marty's contributor rachel marston, rachel, nice to see you now. quite a bold statement now from the ukranian president, a talent more on what this could mean for the development of the conflict, especially now that the ukrainian military's attacking territories that have just joined russia. so listening carefully towards zalinski is saying here, he's not advocating for nato to nuke russia. i think it's important to point that out. it's not talking specifically about nuclear weapons. he specifically using the term preemptive strikes. so conventional strikes, preventive strikes. now, these are unilateral strikes, it seems like he's advocating for when taken outside of the authorization of the united nations security council process. here's what kremlin spokesman dmitri pet scave, had to say and reaction this statement by president zalinski must be taken into consideration by every country in the world. and especially washington london and the you states. such statements are nothing else but a call to initiate a new world war with unpredictable disastrous consequences. and they mus

as archie contributor rachel marston told the program earlier, the problem with the west empowering allies to be its attack dogs against russia is that sometimes the proxy managers to chew through its leash or its harness. it then starts running around doing its business all over the neighbors yards, while loudly barking in excitement and even causing simple minded creatures to bark along with it. that is until the master shows up and drags it back into the yard and gets it under control. this is exactly what seems to have happened now between the west and its allies in 3 separate recent incidents. most recently, there was the crimea bridge explosion on saturday morning in the wake of the attack, ukrainian official celebrated on social media, crimea, the bridge, the beginning. everything illegal must be destroyed. everything stolen must be returned. ukraine. everything occupied by russia must be expelled. to guided missile cruise, a most gra, i'm the curse bridge to notorious symbols of russian power in ukrainian, crimea. i've gone down watson. it's in line russkies. representatives of eur

me also contribute to rachel. marston has more so up until now, europe has been able to fall back on some other energy options and sticking it to russian president vladimir putin cutting itself off from cheap russia gaster sanctions. specifically, the block had rely on liquefied natural gas from china, which as the world's largest buyer was selling europe a surplus. but even those options haven't been sufficient to avoid industrial closures rationing and winter blackout threats. but if you thought things couldn't possibly get a worse, well, they just might, yes, china is reportedly planning to stop selling. it's surplus to europe, the national development done reform commission, the nation's top economic planner, asked petro china co send opec and canoe guilty de, to keep winter cargoes for domestic use. a move by china to secure its own supply, could drain shipments to europe, and exacerbate the regions energy crunch in the case of a cold winter. imagine that a country actually place in the interests of its own people. first. maybe you should try that instead of sacrificing the bloc

that's also contributed rachel marston. thank you. one person in east africa dyes of starvation every 36 seconds. the grim statistic was published by ox from as the region continues to struggle with the worst drought seen in 40 years. now it comes as the un food and agriculture organization has urged a famine to be officially declared in somalia, where thousands could die due to food shortages if measures on taken immediately. we should not wait for a famine declaration to act because then it will be too late. the current drought is the worst that we've seen in the last 4 decades. it is affected about 7800000 people. so just to put things in perspective, this is about half a somali population. 90 percent of the country is facing extreme drought. the situation could be eased by increasing imports of agricultural produce with some plans arrive as part of the grain deal agree between russia, turkey and ukraine, which aim to help the world's poorest countries. over western promises all food aid to the most vulnerable nations have not yet

well as cost life to ortiz, contribute to rachel marston way to get to see you. could you take us through what happened in court? sure, so the french company la, found for the factory located between 11 and the turkish border that had just opened in the year, fired to the conflict and syria popping off in 2011 another western proxy war in energy strategic state. western back syrian rebels ultimately failed to our president, bashar, all sad, well gee, how does groups flooded the zone to exploit the chaos? so how does a company heap operating in inactive war zone? well, by paying off the g, hottest troops on the battlefield, where it's trying to run a business apparently. so last found, which merged with, with multinational whole thing group in 2015, just admitted in us court to get a characterized as a sort of employee and executive protection scheme agreed to pay a fine of 700 $77800000.00 to the us treasury and mocking the 1st time a company had been convicted in the u. s. of backing terrorists. now here's a taste of how their system works. we have to maintain t

that rachel marston has british prime minister richie sooner has just taken over the controls of the u . k. and he says, we will always stand with ukraine by standing with ukraine. he means billions in u. k. taxpayer cash weapons. now who's the we voted for that. certainly not the people of the u. k. soon ack slips into the pilot's seat when the country is literally at the point of impact with recession. and what's his symbolic 1st phone call to ukrainian president vladimir zalinski. a call during which to not promise to quote, stand in continued solidarity with ukraine. was there any indication that soon on his laser focused on britain's massive economic problems? while he did have a phone call with us president joe biden, who's been driving his feed on that trade deal with britain. but according to a white house statement, the call was not about trade. it was largely about vote working together to support ukraine encountering russia and china. so washington's priorities no mention of trade. many buying was confused about who he was talking to and whether it's united kingdom or just

of artie contributor rachel marston, german chancellor old schultz met with french president a menu in their call in paris this week amid their inability to find common ground on a range of topics. but it was all smiles. paris doesn't like that berlin is handing out cash to german businesses suffering from sanctions induced energy costs, which risks tilting the playing field in germany's favor within the blocks? common economic market. schultz has advocated for you enlargement, while back home prefers to seat aspiring members at his newly created you political community, kitty table. berlin wants the mid cap pipeline to transport algerian gas through francis killing announced to germany. but france, citing conveniently opposition from environmentalists as an eye on ultimately exporting its nuclear energy to the rest of europe. instead, michael, who dreams of an independent european defense also isn't thrilled with jeremy's complacency in subjugating it's defense policy to washington. but here's how they present all of these disputes in public. this franco, german engine, we've every in

all right, i'll take it over there. rachel marston. thank you. now ukrainian military intelligence organized the crimean bridge bombing that is, according to russia's federal security service. the f i speak says 8 people have been arrested in connection with the attack. the agency also states that explosives away hidden in a truck carrying rolls of plastic sheeting a used in the construction industry. the explosive device was camouflaged inside rows of polyethylene, construction sheeting, material on $22.00, pallets with a total weight of 22770 kilograms. and in early august, this year was sent from the c port of odessa to the bulgarian city of ruth. for the main point was that this terrorist attack was orchestrated by ukraine spy chief tedium, to don off with the help of a russian ukrainian and armenian citizens. as we heard, 8 of them have been detained so far were still on the lookout for the remaining. for now ukraine's intelligence services over saw the entire transportation and they oversold the transportation. let's have a look at the map

they contribute to rachel. marston has more. saudi arabia is accusing theme america . world police are trying to police global energy markets. now not just through attempts to cap sale price of russian oil, but by other means as well. people out of the think that emergency stocks, yes, had depleted, used it as a mechanism to renew for that market. while it is profound purpose was to mitigate shortages of supply. so we're learning now from western media report. so biden thought that he had to deal with this to boost oil production and your to lower prices in the wake of his visit to re out over the summer. but it sure doesn't sound like the saudis we're on the same page is bided. not only has that production have not materialized, but the devil's in the desert form in riyadh this week. the saudi energy minister said, quote, we keep hearing argue with us or against. is there any room for, are we with the saudi. ready people, so clarity, react isn't going to sacrifice its own revenue just to appease washington and making it and then bossing around the saudi hasn't really worked out well.

thanks for taking us through all of our t contribute our rachel marston. or i, let's say bring, you know, some hard hitting remarks from south africa as minister of mineral assets and energy from this week. at gwinnett, a mantell. she said that developed nations exploit african countries with crippling loads and isolation. he was speaking during the africa power week forum where top business men on policy makers gather to address critical challenges in the energy sector. developed countries. sometimes one do use o d regional countries as can impeach for experimenting as painful. i must say that because when that happens you'll get didn't sector as a, as a smaller economy you off was to be a coin. you don't way, diaz, off of those. you can think you kind of the origin and, and, and then until december and is that we have this partnership between our servers of over and you and you, it is a state of the 8.5. we learned quite impressive and retired. that's a gift. it's another gift, it's a loan, but over a concession alone, that is more about over it is up to

same pick up lines and probably won't even remember their names and afford lottie contrary to rachel marston, thanks very much for breaking down those 1st couple of days of the new british p. m wishes to knocking off his thank you. romanian senator has slammed the country's president for supporting ukraine, saying that the conflicts in the neighboring country is just none of bluecross business. no better meet them each on a div, easiest will. the will not allow a single thing to aggravate this conflict, which is not between russia nater, but between the russian federation and ukraine over territories that belong to russia in the past. and it is, it's business what it does there. this is not romania natal or the east problem. i think we were present romania and the remaining people or he resign my lease or was i comes as romania faces a political crisis from within. on monday the minister defense resigned due to differences with the countries. presidents in relation to the conflicts in ukraine . the minister has stated that the only way to finish the war is through negotiations with russia. n

there governments response to the crisis spilled over onto the streets or to contribute rachel marston has been taking a look at the latest moves by western politicians, which triggered that outrage. all the chaos in europe these days is a large part due to the fact that european leaders hardly ever take responsibility for their own actions. and because they don't consider themselves responsible, then they never really feel the need to correct or even when their action turn catastrophic heat. the current energy crisis, for example, rustles, reacted to, because they can ukraine by sanctioning their own chief rush and gas supply. and then blaming russian president vladimir putin for their actions. then when it became clear that europe was being hit harder by their own sanction than russia was, while the devil down again and again 8 times with 8 sets of stations broke up to up to date. the point of cutting themselves off from toilet paper imports at the time when even for the paper factories in europe based, skyrocketing energy costs are struggling to produce that the inability of so call

north african energy provider over multiple colonial era issues . paris based the rti contributor rachel marston offers her take on those developments. algeria has something that europe wants and needs specifically under use natural gas export potential. despite already being europe's biggest natural gas supplier after russia, norway, now this untapped potential has become even more important now that the you sanctioned it's other energy supplies from russia and is now desperate to find some new ones. so french prime minister, eighties, abed bell, and took 16 other french ministers on a field trip to algeria this week, where she's expected to inc. deals on economic cooperation, including energy. not like she's admitting it though. gas deliveries are quote, not on the table, according to her office. it's just a coincidence that french ministers are suddenly hanging around algeria like a bad smell. and it, algeria just happens to have gas potential in a time of dire french gas need, or that while the french ministers are in algeria, the e u energy commissioner is also set to attend an energy confe

here's the take of our tea contributor and all that rachel marston. what's the deal with western nations publicly saddlin? up on their moral high horses and looking down their noses at some countries, while more discreetly driving economic benefit from those same countries or at least attempting to russia is the obvious example here with the e. u constantly bad melting and sanctioning moscow on one hand while demanding that it continue to provide it with energy on the other. well, at least until it can wean itself off of the dirty authoritarian gas molecules. and now, 4 years after former chancellor angle and merkle stopped, german weapon sales to saudi arabia, citing the kingdoms involvement in the murder and dismemberment with a bone salve. washington post columnist and saudi activist jamal cash o g. inside the saudi consulate, nist stumble. well, it looks like berlin has had a change of heart. the german government has once again, green lit new arms exports to saudi arabia, including about $36000000.00 euros worth of ammunition for fighter jets. it

let's get the thoughts and opinion of ot contributor rachel marston. the european union is keen on sanctioning one of the west long time regime chains targets iran and mid ongoing protests in the country. and berlin seems eager on leading the charge with the demand for an you wide travel band and asset freeze of those considers responsible. berlin should know firsthand how sanctions can backfire and inadvertently target the people of a country. since that's pretty much what's happening right now in germany and across the e. u. under the blocks own anti russian sanctions, which were supposed to have target to russia, that ended up ultimately targeting their own energy supplied resources. but it doesn't sound like the german foreign minister is going to let reason get in the way of her ideological bender. we will ensure that the even poses entry bands on those responsible for this brutal repression and freeze their assets in the you. we say to people in iran, we stand and remain by your side. france, denmark, spain, italy, and the czech republic have joi

member states are apparently fed up with a lack of a joint approach is, are archie contributor rachel marston. it seems like officials here are getting a bit ahead of themselves. you have to wonder if there's an unspoken contest going on between german and french government members to see who can come up with the most ridiculous energy related propaganda. now we all know by now above the dwindling german shower times, but in the past few days, no fewer than 3 french ministers have showed up at work dress for the ski slopes. french economy minister between ireland math says he's ditching the suit and tie from now on to save energy. you will no longer see me with a tie but with the turtle neck. and i think that will be very good. it will allow us to save energy, to show proof of sobriety. not sure how showing up in a turtle neck when it was still hitting 20 degrees celsius outside in paris. last week is showing proof of any kind of sobriety or sanity energy related or otherwise . more like proof of may be an underlying medical condition if you're having to wear ski underwear to work in summer l

likely to come up with a more loosely police cap or the higher price than before to contribute to rachel marston has no. so this russian oil price shop was washington's idea. and the only countries willing to buy into it right now are the western dominated g 7 group of countries plus australia, and maybe south korea as well. and at a higher price than what us treasury secretary, janet yellen want it. so more like a $60.00 bow mark instead of $40.00 a barrel. and by the way, year old crude is currently averaging around $74.00 a barrel. so why the higher cap? because washington is worried about spooky investors and the free market, which is after all, a cornerstone of western capitalism. so the last thing that markets need right now is more volatility to add to the high inflation. but europe isn't happy with washington right now because it need much cheaper energy in the wake of sanctioning its own cheap gas supply from russia. brussels is also reportedly upset that the u . s. isn't as willing to act more recklessly with its oil supply, like you have and figures that this high price cap won't hit

i want to form a new group that supports this r t contributes. rachel marston takes a look at how it's safer for european politicians just to stick to condemning moscow. what's the deal with this western insecurity that demands countries to sites like you're either with teen usa or against it, like the whole world has just one big junior high school. italy has taken a pretty laid back approach in year. so the whole america, russia rivalry, and although a nato and you member italy, welcomed russian doctors to the country to help when rome was contending with the world's worst covert outbreak, former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi, whose back on the political part of the new governing coalition, is so friendly with russian president vladimir putin, that audio was suspiciously lead recently in which bruce coney spoke of communicating with and even receiving a birthday gift of russian baka from the russian president. he also gave his take on the situation ukraine. russian ministers have said on several occasions that we are at war with them because we are providing arms and fundi

rebuilding ties with moscow that could be a hard talk to accomplish as a, excuse me, on to contributor rachel marston now office asa, her opinion, the new one. listen. it's hard to believe that it takes courage these days to publicly advocate in favor of peace in europe rather than prolonging an armed conflict. but yet, here we are. that's our reality today. you have to wonder why there's such a lack of descent and leadership on the issue in europe when the u. s. is really the only beneficiary of the status quo as this successful german corporate executive suggests. and why is there such a taboo around the notion of europe standing up for its own interests in this mass? when the ultimate result is that the blocks economic engine germany is going to take itself out of global competition effectively to the benefit of the u. s. one for the german parliamentarian is even suggesting that russia now offer to help your a p in businesses suffering under western sanctions and square off against the u. s . over europe on the economic battlefields house whose war view themselves. there is only one way out of th

here as paris based the r t contributor rachel marston with her take are the u. s. and its allies enemies of france. a new video released by the french school of economic warfare to promote its annual research publication related to what it calls, quote the shadow wars that endanger our economy. strongly suggest got the case. it places frances rivalry with washington right alongside those with china and russia, which no doubt comes as a shock to a lot of westerners. it didn't spare germany either evoking berlin's push for you, why green economy that ultimately harmed the french nuclear power industry and its energy independence. just have a look at this video ah, with out, ah ah, ah. so you see there a reminder that when the us formed a new coalition with australia and the u. k. last year, the always dropped to the estimated $66000000000.00 deal for france to build its new summaries. we also see in the video a reference to the sale of frances nuclear know how to the americans when general electric bought asked them, which is a major case study at this school that re

such as a price cap and further anti russian sanctions seem to have mailed our t contributor rachel marston explains why. there were 44 countries united discussing the challenge yourself today, and it showed how much rushes isolated by ma'am, the new e u political community and invention of french president emanuel mac holds, consisting of the 27 nation block and 17 other countries most of which aspire to join the e. u has just wrapped up this inaugural p. r. exercise in prague. now the whole point of this event in prague, prague castle seemed to be to convince onlookers of european unity particularity in favor of ukraine and against russia. while papering over any other cracks in the solidarity facade. it. so the kind of thing that's been happening a lot lately within the, you know, we all know people like this in our own lives. they arrive at the party. it's all lovey dovey, kissy kissy and you know, darn well that in the car just before they got there. they had a huge blow apple just this week. for example, as brussels adopted 8 round of anti russian sanctions. belgium in italy sat on th

as you can see there, it did spill on to the streets, particularly in front. rachel marston are parse based correspondent, or contributor i should say, has been and taking a look at the latest moves by western politicians which triggered the outreach all the chaos in europe. these days is a large part due to the fact that your opinion leaders hardly ever take responsibility for their own actions. and because they don't consider themselves responsible, then they never really feel the need to correct or even when their actions turn catastrophic. the current energy crisis, for example, rustled, reacted to the conflict and ukraine by sanctioning their own chief rush and gas supply. and then blaming russian president vladimir putin for their actions. then when it became clear that europe was being hit, harder by their own sanctions than russia was, while the devil down again and again, 8 times with 8 sets of sanction broke up to up to date, to the point of cutting themselves off from 20 paper imports. at the time when even toilet paper factories in europe base was skyrocketing, energy cost

i spoke without a contributor, rachel marston. she's got more now and how the west's narrative to blame russia for all of its economic and otherwise woes. that argument is, believe it or not, losing ground. this new un trade and development report sounds. the alarm on central banks in developed countries raising interest rates and making life harder for people in developing countries and pretty much everybody else who's not filthy rich. let's face it to the point of triggering a recession, potentially. now, the value of currencies in a lot of these developing countries has already plunged against the u. s. dollar, making imports more expensive, while wages remain the same. this interest rate high trend started in the u. s, and it's been picked up by western allies in particular as a solution to counter the inflation caused by their own sanctions, policies on things like energy. now they're like a bunch of lemmings following washington right off a cliff, because it's not like even the fed wasn't warned by none other than the intern

it looks like all right, i'll take interpreter, rachel marston, always good to see you. thank you. in a stunning return, i left this candidate louise ignacio lou that the silver has been elected and brazil's next precedent off to narrowly seeing off the right wing and competing to ya. both so nato and what was a run off the former leader secured victory by just one percentage point. now the politically polarized south african nation was on edge until the very last minute when the results were finally announced. ah, the countries divided though, between those rejoicing in luna's victory and those lamenting both scenarios. los a, here's what some of the now new president supporters have to say is a way to the official announcement love to get to pick. i went in a flu, the seal them into hope, hope for better days. we hope the 2 will be happy again. the election of ruler, the silver is the peep and the victory. it is create a lot of creep, but above all, it is justice lula re presents justice. am i afraid of mueller not taking office? yes, i am. but we have hope we are fighting until

class photo from this particular summit, may to many thanks this d 1000 thought he contributes a rachel marston with it. he's house. now, already the use foreign policy chief called for europe in future with our russia, at least while president putin is in charge of the continent should build its own political community without moscow's influence award winning journalist. stand at a time martin j. c. a u is considering radical measures to isolate russia. when we talk about that, you're talking about brussel decisions. i think there's always a school to come in, usually brussels until that's when what we should be concentrating on with all of those plans. all those nuclear black box embarrass. galaxy is not wanting something radical like that. one of the one thing. let me just see if it is a group. you may think you want me to come to that. you know, let's take a look at the latest one, rushes care on region where 5 people have reportedly being told off. the ukrainian force relatedly struck civilian areas. this is the u. s. applied high miles missile system. here are the latest pictures we have

more inclusive union that might allow countries that are currently not parts of the u. ortiz of rachel marston reports the european union is hosting the very 1st ever meeting this week in prague for a brand new club called the european political community. or if you prefer the e u kitty table. earlier this year, french president a menu and mac, hong realized that there was pretty much no way that ukraine was going to be able to qualify for e u membership anytime soon. but wanted to somehow stretch the block to make it, and other outsiders feel included. none the less. so the block set up a sort of kiddy table of representatives from the 17 countries, a sort of russia free safe space where they can sit back and enjoy the virtue signaling by the other 27 members. dates while showering down on scrumptious snacks, nor doubt, paid for by the glock citizens who can barely afford gas to heat their own meals. and so why wasn't russia invited? this meeting is a way of looking for a new order without russia. it doesn't mean we want to exclude russia forever, but this russia, putins, russia does not have