and is this near ro, an indication that there is a reset in nato russia relation to the point where russia will still top the priority as the biggest geopolitical threat or challenge for nato? well, well, it depends because nato consists of many states and i agree with my colleague then brussels referred earlier that he said that these countries have different interests. so the baltic states, poland, they will remain very anti russian. and they will want to make sure that the nato keeps this mission. and meanwhile, the united states would like to focus more on china. and so, so it really, it depends. but i also think that there might be some shift in thinking because yes, it said that you that's are yeah, that you, well sorry, the europeans are not becoming more aware that russia and china are kind of in the same basket. other corporate in closer and closer, not just military by the way, but you know, technology is trade core doors financial mechanisms. so i think, but at the same time, i think there's also many recognizing specially france and germany, that it's made those own aggressive

and is this near ro, an indication that there is a reset in nato russia relation to the point where russia will still top the priority as the biggest geopolitical threat or challenge for nato? well, well, it depends because nato consists of many states and i agree with my colleague then brussels referred earlier that he said that these countries have different interests. so, and the baltic states, poland, they will remain very anti russian. and they will want to make sure that the nato keeps this mission. and meanwhile, the united states would like to focus more on china. and so, so it, it really, it depends. but i also think that there might be some shift in thinking because yes, it said that you that's are yeah, that you, well sorry, the europeans are not becoming more aware that russia and china are kind of in the same basket. other corporate in closer and closer, not just military by the way, but you know, technology is trade core, those financial mechanisms. so i think, but at the same time, i think there's also many recognizing specially france and germany, that it's made those own a

a to detach themselves from russia. we've ahead of the united states when france, italy, germany, them much. they like to have it better or cooperation reef, or russia, but not at the detriment to u. s. or, oh, e u relations. why? because or for example, of france as he's no own or m i t m bomb other own nuclear weapons, but germany does not have nuclear weapons where it behaves, but it cannot produce them each se, the share originally the u. s. and they depend on the american gra, umbrella, a. so they, they added a double truck position. they are a steel stick to nate, off of our security, and or to keep leadership. we've sat on undisturbed european countries war a suspicious of russia. at the same time, germany as an economic power. no perfectly that if you you were on germany wants to be strong economic, you know, the need russian on a cas a. so there is a defacto audience between germany and russia dumps of energy. so there's a very complicated world where you can have different audience. he's on a jo, strategic, or

to russia. but dos dependencies bring us independence on the other side from united states of america. so you create independence by having alternatives. and europe usually had a turn of my guess from russia, by liquid guess on the u. s. by all it could it had his own own oil. i co, a power plant. no. all of this thing. we just have shut down. cool, and totally plants. so guess is the only reliable energy source which remains. that means 1st of all, those who are the most critical to both russia have increase our dependency from get back. on the other hand, if we look now to rest job 1st, this dependency is not crucial or it should not be crucial. and 2nd, even the soviet union was a stable liver row of western european energy. so we have experiences with being dependent from rational energy exports and boost experience that are completely very good. but so how was it different now? how is it different now mr. crime? as you say, the soviet union was a reliable partner in sending gas into your fo

is russia going to play ball? because at the moment you are one of the dirtiest, polluting countries on earth. are you going to change? this is not true. dirtiest, and dirtiest once say that the russian natural gas is one of the dirtiest products. well, you are number 52 out of the 57 high—emitting carbon emission countries in the world, so i wouldn't say your performance is great right now. you may say out of 67 or 87, whatever. i mean, we know what we are doing. we have developed the most clean — the cleanest possible technology, both of production and transportation of natural gas and other resources, and we intend to limit and diminish, to cut down our carbon impact according to the state policy that was agreed in interagency format and presented formally to counterparts. we gave engaged in a meaningful dialogue with both the us, uk, european union, european commission, and we focused the work towards full implementation of this global agenda. you should also understand and recognise the role which russia

is russia going to play ball? because at the moment you're one of the dirtiest polluting countries on earth. are you going to change? this is not true. dirtiest and dirtiest ones say that the russian natural gas is one of the dirtiest products. well, you're number 52 out of the 57 high—emitting carbon emission countries in the world. so i wouldn't say your performance is great right now. you may say out of 67 or 87, whatever. i mean, we know what we are doing. we have developed the most clean, the cleanest possible technology, both of production and transportation of natural gas and other resources. and we intend to limit and diminish, to cut down our carbon impact according to the state policy that was agreed in interagency format and presented formally to counterparts. we have engaged in a meaningful dialogue with both the us, uk, european union, european commission, and we focused the work towards full implementation of this global agenda. you should also understand and recognise the role which russia plays i

and is this near ro, an indication that there is a reset in nato russia relation to the point where russia will still top the priority as the biggest geopolitical threat or challenge for nato? well, well, it depends because nato consists of many states and i agree with my colleague then brussels referred earlier that he said that these countries have different interests. so, and the baltic states, poland, they will remain very anti russian. and they will want to make sure that the nato keeps this mission. and meanwhile, the united states would like to focus more on china and the so, so it, it really, it depends. but i also think that there might be some shift in thinking because yes, it said that you that's are yeah, that you, well sorry, the europeans are not becoming more aware that russia and china are kind of in the same basket. other corporate in closer and closer, not just military by the way, but you know, technology is trade core doors financial mechanisms. so i think, but at the same time, i think there's also many recognizing specially france and germany that it's made those own

i'm, that's are the kind of actions that are taking place. nato would argue, from russia, russia would argue from nato mean that it's pretty pointless, continued with what appears to be a sham relationship. let's not forget though, the context of this as opposed to, for example, the, a, you old, for example, a countries on an individual basis nitrogen organization whose very existence depends upon the notion of russia modern days. russia not rochelle, a soviet union for many years ago. but mountain de russia as being an existence, your threat to the member countries of nato, with st. very recently that nato's sake seeking to expand it so old bit to actually now be countering china. which of course the you don't need any of these. a globes in your office to know that that's a very long way from the north atlantic, which of course was the original cecil reason rational behind i to itself. and so you've got a situation where it's almost inevitable. i thing an organization such as nato, and in terms of it's becoming not just a defense patch, but also a political force in its own right will

if they were not to be a confrontation, any more between nato on russia, russia will be in not e e, e e goods, china or ne, to have no job any mo. and they will be herb, little cooperation between germany and russia. france right. it just the franco german russian axis. and of course, that's not in v interest of united states with right, because are they want to maintain ne, to as a way to, to, to control europe on to devalue you rule. i, let's go back to charles here. i mean, i find it really whimsical to think that, you know, china is going to play a major role way in kane containing china. i think that's very rhetorical. i don't think the european polities want to spend enormous amounts of money. do you know the, contain russia? oh, i mean, no one's proven. it's actually a threat, but china, i mean, i think it's almost to the point of laughable. ok. the u. s. wants that the, the, the nato to be as part of its flank, but it doesn't really expect nato, the do very much. your thoughts, charles? i think sunny firm us, china is a major threat. not necessarily a military threat unless th

and the finger is wagging towards russia with many saying that russia is responsible for this crisis that been countless. i'd magazine articles, debates on tv and radio, and even front covers all suggesting this just like this recent front cover in germany on the focus magazine are which says that putin, his cast off energy to germany, that a, he's waging a war and he's raising the prices using gas as a weapon? well, that has baffled some in germany, including the countries outgoing chancellor anglo merkel. who is not somebody known to men, so words sized the skiff kiner to my knowledge. there are noses. russia has said we will deliver it to you, especially not with regard to the pipeline in ukraine. russia can only deliver gas on the basis of contractual obligations. and not just only like that was at the moment, russia supplies around 50 percent of the use gas. and during the pandemic that did taper off a little bit. but when it said that the supplies are back to normal at the moment, and there was some, unless you say, you know, this is nothing to do with russia. this is all a pro

but he said, that's going to be at russia's expense. let's have a quick listening to what that in the putin had to say. but also as a loony trellis. how can you fight for carbon neutrality if the energy balance in europe, in this case in germany, in terms of coal generation, is twice as large as in russia? turns out you can at someone else's expense, in this case, they tried to do it at our expense at the expense of russia, but i hope we will build a dialogue taken into account the interests of old parties. when did what you make it, al, it almost sounds like his occasion and the hypocrisy of it. what did you think? i mean, i mean his is right in the number and are you are you? i'm french and i know that the germans, i missing a lot of c o 2. and so yes, as the thing that we need to do is close those called higher power in germany. and either go into gas or going to nuclear, which determined do not want. so i mean, the energy transition is a step by step protests. and if we do not do a step by step process, if we go back to dogma, then

now, at the core of russia, nature, attentions, lies. most concerned about nato's expansion towards his borders. not only through formal acceptance of new members, but also through some sort of informal corporation, most notably with ukraine in georgia. and i would suppose that now when native feels certain weakness with the american, leaving them in such your disregarding fashion, there will be some need for postering. would you expect that to come come up again with that you know, more courting of georgia and ukraine and perhaps even more pride practical steps in trying to draw them closer in people. i think we've seen that with general lloyd austin statements, you know, those are just statements at this point and wish before but will yes, but i mean, you know, they restate the commitment i don't think that the biden administration wants at the moment to, to actually increase those commitments in practice because after all, it means this is absolutely basic geo politics, if you're facing at least as uses the need for vastly increased c

now, at the core of russia, nature, attentions, lies. most concerned about nato's expansion towards its borders. not only through formal acceptance of new members, but also through some sort of informal corporation, most notably with ukraine in georgia. and i would suppose that now when native feels certain weakness with americans, leaving them in such your disregarding fashion, there will be some need for postering. would you expect that to come come up again with that you know, more courting of georgia and ukraine and perhaps even more pride practical steps in trying to draw them closer in people. i think we've seen that with general lloyd austin statements, you know, those are just statements at this point and wish before but will yes, but i mean, you know, they restate the commitment i don't think that the biden administration wants at the moment to, to actually increase those commitments in practice because after all, it means this is absolutely basic geo politics, if you're facing at least as uses the need for vastly increased comm

but they have accused russia - difficult. but they have accused russia of- difficult. but they have - accused russia of reducing supply. russia says the new underwater pipeline would save your�*s sticky situation, but only if germany and brussels quickly approved the project to get it flowing. not everyone thinks russia is acting reasonably.— thinks russia is acting reasonabl . ~ ., ., , reasonably. we have long been concerned _ reasonably. we have long been concerned about _ reasonably. we have long been concerned about russia - reasonably. we have long been concerned about russia using l concerned about russia using energy as a tool of coercion and a political weapon, we have seen it happen before and we could see it happen again. i think it would be a mistake for russia to try to exploit this. i think that would ultimately backfire and on them and they think they should respond to the market demands for increased energy supplies to europe. increased energy supplies to euro e. ., increased energy supplies to euroe. ., , ., ., europe. that comes from more demand a

i'm, that's are the kind of actions that are taking place. nato would argue from russia, russia would argue from nato mean that it's pretty pointless, continued with what appears to be a sham relationship. let's not forget though, the context of this as opposed to, for example, the, a, you old, for example, a countries on an individual basis nitrogen organization whose very existence depends upon the notion of russia, modern days, russia not rochelle or soviet union for many years ago. but mountain de russia as being an existent shore threat to the member countries of nato, with st. very recently that nato's sake seeking to expand it so old bit to actually now be cancer in china, which of course the you don't need any of these. a globes in your office to know that that's a very long way from the north atlantic, which of course was the original thesis will reason rational behind i to itself. and so you've got a situation where it's almost inevitable. i thing an organization such as knights. i am in terms of its becoming not just a defense patch, but also a political force in its own ri

has russia been using energy as a weapon? russia is not using any weapon capsule. if you've been paying attention, as for the economy where we're using weapons and what conflicts are we taking part and for the economy, this is not something we tend to use. this is what i call a politically motivated talk. if there's nothing to support in when it comes to saying that we use energy as some kind of weather at the end of the day, i guess the question is, how can you expect europe to believe you're a reliable energy partner when you're not supplying that energy via the pipeline or sewers. if you're a beautiful woman like what i'm saying, one thing to you and you're saying a different thing to me as if you haven't heard what i said. well, mister president, with what was the same point was you and you said that you are not supplying gas through pipelines to europe, but actually, you're mistaken. you are mistaken. and all of those who feed on the information they receive, we are actually increasing our supplies to europe. the gas price increased supplies by 10 percent to a

i guess that could work for russia as well. so while dr. leven, thank you very much for your time, has been great pleasure talking to you. thank you so much and thank you for watching hope to see you again next week on well to part. ah mm hm. mm hm. all those driven by dreamers shaped by center some of those with ah, who dares sinks? we dare to ask a protest as poor onto the streets of rome, demanding world leaders to take action to stop climate change. as the italian capital hosts the g. 20 summit doctors in france worn, that budget cuts are leading to staff shortages that comes as top scientists claim . the national health care system is on the brink of collapse with the pandemic taking hold. once again, i see that cause it's the government is to blame for the shortage of medical personnel. fronts is the only country in the world that's been cutting funding during the pandemic, medical staff, the outraged pipes and ready to quit over and with and trash piles up in new york as sanitation workers. protests against the covey dot

the russia might attack. and russia will never attack any word that nato might defend. because you know, on the other hand, i regard unit a stuffy region in the west about a russian threat to invade the baltic states or, or pose does absolutely nonsense in crenan, georgia, that's a different matter. very close. there are ongoing frozen conflict. but now, this notion of red lines is key for both russia and neighbor. and i think, especially the russian level, prison pitching has committed the country to both flexibility and firmness in defining in defending those lines. which i think is a very, you know, significant ambition. and if i were one of the nader commanders, i would want to challenge that. do you think this sam? high stakes game will play out somehow in the near future d thing? nader will try to sort of test. those are read lines as the kremlin draws them well symbolically, you know, like the visits of that british warship or the destroyer to the black sea when they sample. that is not the real danger. know, but that's what i mean symbolically, they will go on t

if they were not to be a confrontation, any more between nato and russia, russia will be in 90. ye gods, china, or nay, to have no job, any mo, and they will be, or a better cooperation, or between germany and do russia for us. right. me, jack, the franco, german russian axis. and of course, that's not in the interest of united states. right? because are they want to maintain, ne, to as a way to, to, to control europe on to devalue you rule a. let's go back to charles here. i mean, i, i find it really whimsical to think that, you know, china is going to play a major role way in cain containing china. i think that's very rhetorical. i don't think the european polities want to spend enormous amounts of money. do you know the contain russia? oh, i mean, no one's proven. it's actually a threat. but china, i mean, i think it's almost to the point of laughable. ok. the u. s. wants that the, the nato to be about as part of its flank, but it doesn't really expect nato, the do. very much. your thoughts, charles, i think sunny 1st us china is a major threat. not necessarily a military thr

and the finger is wagging towards russia with many saying that russia is responsible for this crisis that been countless. i'd magazine articles, debates on tv and radio, and even front covers all suggesting this just like this recent front cover in germany on the focus magazine are which says that putin, his cast off energy to germany, that a, he's waging a war and he's raising the prices using gas as a weapon? well, that has baffled some in germany, including the countries outgoing chancellor anglo merkel. who is not somebody known to min, so words? says the script kiner to my knowledge, there are noses where russia has said we will deliver it to you, especially not with regard to the pipeline in ukraine. russia can only deliver gas on the basis of contractual obligations. and not just only like, at the moment russia supplies around 50 percent of the used gas in doing the pandemic that did taper off a little bit. but when it said that the supplies are back to normal at the moment, and there was some, unless you say, you know, this is nothing to do with russia. this is all a problem

in russia. at this point, russia is only taking measures in response. so like i said, this was the number one method from the muslim call to prayer will be heard across cologne. in germany, after local authorities gave their approval for it to be broadcast over lloyd, speakers, officials say the move as a gesture of respect, but many, so this and stress such a move is that all with european culture and norms. cologne central moscow. it's been a flash point for anti muslim sentiment before with the murder, strongly defending this week's decision. cologne is the city of religious freedom and diversity. those who arrive at the main train station are greeted by the cathedral and accompanied by church bells, many clone residents amused lamps allowing them whereas, and call is for me a sign of respect. the 35 mosques in the city will be able to play the call. busy from to 5 minutes, the initiative comes as part of an agreement between cologne officials on the muslim community mosques seeking to broadcast. it will have to comply with volume limits and notify n

borders. against the backdrop of calls to contain russia, nato was amassing his forces along russia's borders. the german defense minister should know very well what consequences such moves have led to in the past, both for germany and europe. or that rather stern remark came shortly after germany's defense minister, cold on nato, to be ready to deploy nuclear weapons, to quote, deter russia near its maritime borders in the baltic on black sea. and the berlin official was then challenged to explain her remarks. blue to white race reported this morning. the paint is contemplating deterrence scenarios for the baltic and black sea regions and possibly evolving air. deployed nuclear weapons. is this the best nate is prepared to take this is that's the path of to tear. and in this, and we must make it very clear to russia that in the end, we're ready each month. and that is also the deterrence doctrine in due to deploy, such means is to deter in advance. and so that nobody comes to the idea of attacking nato partners in the bull taken black c regions. and this is a commons coincided where

should russia attempt to use energy as a weapon? yet both of tend to blind eye to the putin regimes, deliberate efforts to pressure europe into accelerating the russian node stream to pipelines, certification process by manipulating europe's gas markets, and leveraging a severe energy crisis on the continent. i'm a call says angle of merkel is turning a blind eye to some apparent malign, influenced by russia, but angle of merkel herself has said that russia fulfills all of its obligations in these contracts that are voluntarily made between russia and the european union. the fog, it is a gift. this, if you ask me whether there have been orders that russia has taken and then fail to fulfill as it stands. now, that is not the case. that is, there are no orders that russia has said no will not deliver those to you and we're not pumping gas through the ukrainian pipeline. rather, russia can only fulfill orders that have been contract it out. so the question is really, isn't being ordered. the international gas union also praised russia

in russia. at this point, russia is only taking measures in response. so like i said, this was the number one message from the russian leader. the muslim call to prayer will be heard across cologne and germany after local authorities gave their approval for it to be broadcast overload, speakers, officials say the move as a gesture of respect, but many citizens stress such a move is adults with european culture alarms, cologne's central moscow has been a flash point for anti muslim sentiment before with them or a strongly defending this week's decision. cologne is the city of religious freedom and diversity. those who arrive at the main train station a greeted by the cathedral, and accompanied by church bells, many clone residents amused lamps allowing them. whereas in cool is from a sign of respect. the $35.00 mosques in the city will be able to play the call for up to 5 minutes. the initiative comes as part of an agreement between kaluan officials and the muslim community. last seeking to broadcast, it will have to comply with volume limits and notify

so russia never said no. and when mister proven was asked a direct question whether moscow was ever using energy as a political weapon, the answer was straight forward. the answer was no. i want to ask you about it directly. has russia been using energy as a weapon? russia's not using any weapon, if you've been paying attention, as for the economy where we're using weapons in what conflicts are we taking part and for the economy? this is not something we tend to use. this is what i call a politically motivated talk. if the, if there's nothing to support it when it comes to saying that we use energy as some kind of webinar at the end of the day, i guess the question is, how can you expect europe to believe you're a reliable energy partner when you're not supplying that energy via the pipeline or she was if you're a beautiful woman, like what i'm saying, one thing to you and you're saying a different thing to me as if you haven't heard what i said, mr. president with what was the same point was and you said tha

is spec, mailing us. russia is cutting off a gas and soviet dependent on russia. this is an old story if you go through the sanctions in america, hundreds of pages, if you look through, they always say the same kind of sink. and in the very end that make it clear point, they have interest as well. not only geopolitical engine, but also of course, economic interests. and here we are again. and that's the better for me. i'm, unless there have been some phantom applications that the russian side is unaware of confusing well, in the meantime, american liquefied natural gas producers on mass have been choosing to sell to asian buyers instead of european. right. simply because in asia they're ready to buy at a higher price. will anyone accuse them of waging a geopolitical battle? while they get some extra expert input on the story? now we're going to go live to international relations expert and program director at the vall die club, tim a fe, but a charles timothy, thanks a lot for joining us now. i want to start with this accusation. we've heard over and over that rus

let me remind you that russia was against nato expansion in 1999, and this is actually how nato-russia council came about. when mr. yeltsin visited paris in 1997 & the nato-russia relations funding act, basically this idea of the nato-russia council was a compensation for russia. the idea was that nato takes poland, the czech republic and hungary, former members of the soviet bloc, but in return , russia gets enhanced opportunities for dialogue. unfortunately, it proved to be not an equivalent exchange. i would correct a little bit my colleague, glenn. unfortunately it was not only the west that suspended the work of native-russia council. in 11999, when the western countries attacked yugoslavia, russia suspended all the work with nato for a few months. unfortunately it is a very bad situation when nato-russian relations are the first to suffer whenever there is tension. instead of being the last thing to be removed diplomatically, it is usually the first. hashem: teresa, whenever there is a tension between nato and russia you just need to look a little bit further west to the united s

now russia is pulling the plug on its permanent mission to nato. the complete suspension of its operations is in response to the alliance, kicking out a number of russian diplomats for a legit spike ortiz. fremont cost rift has more russian foreign minister made the announcement on monday saying that says, starting on november 1st, moscow will completely suspend the operations of its mission to nathan, and from now on any emergency communications between the u. s. lead block and russia will be done through the russian embassy in belgium, while an ambassador, alpha, nate member states in moscow chosen by the alliance can perform similar functions here in russia. so this guns, just 2 weeks after nato announced that it would expel a russian diplomats for a legit undisclosed espionage at its brussels headquarters. and that should be in effect on the 1st of november as well. well, according to the russian foreign ministry, it became yet another move on. nato's behalf to use the so called russian threats as a unifying factor for the alliance. and another

and that's not enough for russia as well. because in russia, temperatures rising even greater even higher and faster than you know, generally across the rest of the world. and for us, it will have some serious consequences, considering that vast parts of russia lie in digitally, can you see, and it is far north because it, of course we're thinking about that. you know, we're thinking about the quality of life of people. ah, we are looking, we are removing all kinds of landfills that surround pollutant poison people's lives. we are able to move. we're working to address that. you can share your thoughts if coconut no more look at our until a program he largest industrial centers, we have an entire program which you know, and i plan to address concerns. then overall we are doing well and we have, we have achieved even more if not for the i'm a crisis of 2008 sir. and michelle's biggest, our industry. oh, was complaining that if they started to introduce all those new technologies. although green technology is in many of the com

allow is tribes were repeated last month when russia rebel bruce held a joint military exercise. russia in turn insisted there was no hidden agenda behind those drills. and indeed, some of nato's concerns materialized a mandate that russia announced that it suspending the nato military liaison mission in moscow. after the alliance recalled the accreditation of 8 russian diplomats in brussels, we're commenting on nato's newly unveiled strategy. the credit spokesman said the blocks confrontational tone, proves that moscow was right to sabbath. there was no need for dialogue under these conditions and nato's new concept just goes to prove it. russia hasn't been under any illusions regarding nato. we know what to raise on to hatcher of this alliances . this alliance was not created for peace. who was created for confrontation, kayla suffering, a former austrian foreign minister. karen, can he still welcome back to our, to eager to happy with this? i'll these calls for a nuclear deployment, a sign of escalating tensions between nato and russia. how bad do you think it is at the moment behind

follows you and what has it meant for both of you to write about russia both from inside russia and from the west? >> yeah, so quickly, i left russia in the summer of 2014. i left to finish my book and it was the case that many of my sources in moscow were more and more uncomfortable with speaking with me there because the ukraine crisis was at its height. the west had just imposed sanctions on russia so i flew back to london thinking i would finish the book quickly but turned out the story had really followed me into the west. this was a stage where the putin regime had already accumulated so much power within its own country and it was now seeking to acquire influence in the west and begin its influence campaigns to try and undermine democracies in the west and the rise of far left and the far right and it became almost for me an ever-ending story and i could not leave and write the notes that i had from my time reporting in russia but it became a much bigger story about how russia was -- was seeking to expand its influence beyond its borders and, indeed, many of my sources also f

borders. against the backdrop of calls to contain russia, nato was amassing his forces along russia's borders. the german defense minister should know very well what consequences such moves have led to in the past, both for germany and europe. well, that stern remark came shortly after germany's defense minister, called on nato, to be ready to deploy nuclear weapons, to quote, deter russia near its maritime borders. in the baltic and black seas, the burden official was then challenged to explain her hostile comments. blue last white race reported this morning. the paint is contemplating the turn scenario for the baltic and black c regions, possibly involving air deployed nuclear weapons. is this the best nate is prepared to take it. that's the path of declaring given it. we must make it very clear to russia that in the end we're ready. and that is also the deterrents doctrine in to deploy sex means is to deter in advance. and so that nobody comes to the idea of attacking nato partners in the bull taken black sea regions. and this is her comments coincided with nato unveiling its new m

if they were not to be a confrontation, any more between nato and russia, russia will be in 90. ye gods, china, or nay, to have no job, any mo, and they will be, or a better cooperation, or between germany and russia for us. right. me, jack, the franco, german russian axis. and of course, that's not in the interest of united states with, right, because are they want to maintain ne, to as a way to, to, to control europe on to divide. you, you rule a, let's go back to charles here. i mean, and i find it really whimsical to think that, you know, china is going to play a major role way in kane containing china. i think that's very rhetorical. i don't think the european polities want to spend enormous amounts of money. do you know the contain russia? oh, i mean, no one's proven. it's actually a threat. but china, i mean, i think it's almost to the point of laughable. ok. the u. s. wants that the, the nato to be about as part of its flank, but it doesn't really expect nato, the do. very much. your thoughts, charles, i think sunny for us. china is a major threat. not necessarily a mili

chris, a crusade against both the russia and the chinese, the u. s. isolated south because it becomes less able to diversify pies and thus excessively reliance on the us. so i and i only use the bus and prioritize your so the solution is simply for the you, in my opinion, at least a diversified ice. so develop an independent foreign policy towards the extent is possible, as well as both the russians and the chinese and by all means keep the trans atlantic partnership alone, but also find a place in his chin on you greater your ation partnership with these marci ration hours he owned him and it, it seems to me when i, when i look at this here in kind of an echo with glen just said to us here is that in the u. s. takes it as a axiomatic that they did, the europe will go along to pursue or push forward a washington's foreign policy interests. you know, you take care of the russians for us and we'll take care of the chinese, or we want you to be anti chinese who. i mean it's, it's very derogatory and in the way i look at it, i mean, why should the, the

and is this near ro, an indication that there is a reset in nato russia relation to the point where russia will still top the priority as the biggest geopolitical threat or challenge for nato? well, well, it depends because nato consists of many states and i agree with my colleague then brussels referred earlier that he said that these countries have different interests. so the baltic states, poland, they will remain very anti russian. and they will want to make sure that the nato keeps this mission. and meanwhile, the united states would like to focus more on china. and so, so it, it really, it depends. but i also think that there might be some shift in thinking because it said that the u. s. r. yeah, the wells or the europeans, are not becoming more aware that russia and china are kind of in the same basket that they're cooperating closer and closer. not just military by the way, but you know, technology is trade core, those financial mechanisms. so i think, but at the same time, i think there's also many recognizing specially france and germany, that it's made those own aggressive polic

he says that russia's somehow weapon ising. it president biden and chancellor merkel committed to taking action. should russia attempt to use energy as a weapon? yet both of tend to blind eye to the puts in regimes deliberate efforts to pressure europe into accelerating the russian node stream to pipelines, certification process by manipulating europe's gas markets and leveraging a severe energy crisis on the continent. and the call says angle of merkel is turning a blind eye to some apparent malign, influenced by russia, but angle of merkel herself has said that russia fulfills all of its obligations in these contracts that are voluntarily made between russia and the european union. the fog, it is a gift. this, if you ask me whether there have been orders that russia has taken and then fail to fulfill as it stands now, that is not the case. that is, there are no orders that frush has said, no, we will not deliver those to you and we're not pumping gas through the ukrainian pipeline. rather russia can only fulfill orders that h

has russia been using energy as a weapon? russia is not using any weapon. if you've been paying attention, as for the economy, where are we using weapons and what conflicts are we taking part and for the economy? this is not something we tend to use. this is what i call a politically motivated talk. at the end of the day, i guess the question is, how can you expect europe to believe your reliable energy partner when you're not supplying that energy via the pipeline? you said that you're not supplying gas through pipelines to europe, but actually you're mistaken. you are mistaken. and all of those who feed on the information they receive, we are actually increasing our supply to europe. for the reality is there's a whole multitude of reasons for why demand for gas in europe is currently so high . and why supply use of gas and reserves of gas also low. so when you've got that high demand and you've got best, well, low availability, you get high prices, and that's what we're seeing at the moment we have heard from vladimir putin in the recent past. bo, saying

and the finger is wagging towards russia with many saying that russia is responsible for this crisis that been countless. i'd magazine articles, debates on tv and radio, and even front covers all suggesting this just like this recent front cover in germany on the focus magazine are which says that putin, his cast off energy to germany, that a, he's waging a war and he's raising the prices using gas as a weapon? well, that has baffled some in germany, including the countries outgoing chancellor anglo merkel. who is not somebody known to min. so odds says this gift kiner to my knowledge, there are noses the russia has said we will deliver it to you, especially not with regard to the pipeline in ukraine. russia can only deliver gas on the basis of contractual obligations. and not just only like at the moment russia supplies around 50 percent of the use gas and doing the pandemic that did it taper off a little bit. but when it said that the supplies are back to normal at the moment, and there were some, unless you say, you know, this is nothing to do with russia. this is all a problem th

always. russia is wrong. it's the message. this is fake news, giving only one part of the story and there are so good at that in new york in press. does it for me this hour? i will be back to another look at your weekly and about $32.00 and a half minutes. stay with us. ah, ah ah ah, oh also for eric room, identify 2 types of freedom, freedom from and freedom too. while we all idealize the letter achieving the former, the freedom from use and abuse is no small feat in this day and age. this is especially true for africa, which, for centuries has been exploited under all sorts of pretext. what needs to happen with the continent a truly take its deserve place in the world. are beautiful, chilled ocean with on what is his mid august or story. it'll cover the initial yoko noise in the middle. so with a 6 but something you would prevent them with the cool got that's message form. then there was your properties was for what fin the but on with a few years. right. what the, what thank you with some of them with he's got though. why?

well, you know, russia is very aggressive. want to watch on russia on, with talk to russia. but the problem is that nature is creating the very problems and then turns around and says, well, we are the solution to the problem because it, let's just say what happened in the last 2 weeks. they expelled these a mess and from nato and said, well, we're coming back on your, of your russian presence. nature. well, the russians just don't around the same way with either all this time being these accusations a song and we're closing down your office. and most of that nature uses that is your, are look at how aggressive russia is the same thing. when lloyd austin, the us defense secretary, last week he went to visit the georgia, you brain romania, and the last to george and you gray. the daughter nato membership is over for you. well, how does nato, the united states explained russia to respond to this very, obviously they go to respond with a considerable trepidation which so the guns are, are you see? we're right. aggressive look at how there, mouthing of the grading in nature. the

now, at the core of russia needs attentions, lies. most concerned about major's expansion towards his borders. not only through formal acceptance of new members, but also through some sort of informal corporation, most notably with ukraine in georgia. and i would suppose that now when native feels certain weakness with the american, leaving them in such your disregarding fashion, there will be some need for postering. would you expect that to come come up again with that you know, more courting of georgia and ukraine and perhaps even more pride practical steps in trying to draw them closer in people. i think we've seen that with general lloyd austin statements, you know, those are just statements at this point and wish before but will yes, but i mean, you know, they restate the commitment i don't think that the biden administration wants at the moment to, to actually increase those commitments in practice because after all, it means this is absolutely basic geo politics, if you're facing at least as uses the need for vastly increased

and the finger is wagging towards russia with many saying that russia is responsible for this crisis that been countless, i magazine articles, debates on tv and radio, and even front covers all suggesting this just like this recent front cover in germany on the focus magazine are which says that putin, his cast off energy to germany, that a, he's waging a war and he's raising the prices using gas as a weapon. well, that has baffled some in germany, including the countries outgoing chancellor anglo merkel. who is not somebody known to min. so words says this gift kiner to my knowledge, there are noses the russia has said, we will deliver it to you, especially not with regard to the pipeline in ukraine. russia can only deliver gas on the basis of contractual obligations. and not just only like with at the moment russia supplies around 50 percent of the used gas in doing the pandemic that did taper off a little bit. but when it said that the supplies are back to normal at the moment, and there were some, unless you say, you know, this is nothing to do with russia. this is all a problem

so russia sleeved itself as being ganged together against all the other nations. russia always preferred bilateral ties because with each individual western country, russia is militarily stronger. it's a big nation, and russia preferred that. so what look like, i know, you know, trying to sell them. oh wow, it's a signal, it's not so much a signal, it's a cons, did it. this is that this kind of consolidates. * the fact of the relationship with nate, you as an organization is on the kind of freeze is 0. but that doesn't mean that russian, the west will not have dealings. they will, but not through nato. and the mission was already very much dysfunctional. and russia wants to have this native mission and moscow closed, but nigel embassies are going to work here. so it's not as bad as it sounds you. but russia, as it has read repeatedly, accused nato of provocatively expanding military infrastructure closer. theresa, it's borders. you don't think there's a risk that the tension is good, good escalate further? well, there's always a risk of escalation. there's a possibility of a clash happen

should russia attempt to use energy as a weapon? yet both of tend to blind eye to the putin regimes, deliberate efforts to pressure europe into accelerating the russian nodes stream to pipeline certification process by manipulating europe's gas markets and leveraging a severe energy crisis on the continent. i'm a call says anglo merkel is turning a blind eye to some apparent malign, influenced by russia, but angle a merkel herself has said that russia fulfills all of its obligations in these contracts that are voluntarily made between russia and the european union. the fog, it is a gift. this, if you ask me whether there have been orders that russia has taken and then fail to fulfill as it stands now, that is not the case. that is, there are no orders that frush has said, no, we will not deliver those to you and we're not pumping gas through the ukrainian pipeline. rather russia can only fulfill orders that have been contract it out. so the question is really, isn't being ordered. the international gas union also praised russia as t

so russia same were very up and go ahead and certify. and once you view, we'll send more natural gas your way and, and what this leader of the, the green party is essentially saying is that blackmail you're trying to force our hand and we shouldn't certify it. here's what so crazy about this idea, guys, is it? if you think russia's terrible, you don't want to buy their natural gas and don't buy their natural gas and watch the price go up even higher. but it's so crazy to have european leaders who are completely dependent on russian natural gas angry that you're not sending us enough . and then when russia says well, then certify the pipeline that will send it directly to your shores. it doesn't have to cross land, it doesn't have to go to the existing pipeline. there's a new outlet of it they say, and we'll see if we get around to it. it's crazy in a higgs, no sense at all. and it's all about negotiating for power here. it's, it's just nuts and bend. i have about 30 seconds left here. but in terms of public relations, this does, this hur

now that has been debunked by both the leaders over russia and germany. and russia's ambassador to the you case as moscow is simply not withholding supplies totally, we're done with this whole. it's for political reasons. but guess pro, this isn't from station of course, while russia maintains that it's definitely not behind the increases in price in energy that we've seen here in europe. that hasn't stopped a very different story being puts across in the european media as well as media elsewhere. in fact, the very well respected news magazine focus has on their front cover of the latest addition, let me put and just underneath the headline, the cold. well, in this sense, in german, that means not the cold war within the latter part of the 20th century means the cold war in freezing. however, the headline that the so the headline says, lighting be, turns off the tops and drives up the price in germany. and it's a very similar message that we've seen across the median in europe. if we go over to the netherlands, similar headlines that we're seeing there al

so refusing to cooperate with russia with the case, we have fast turn from russia's envoy to the full day a feeling that something else, all the goals are driving them. it is possible that this whole story is connected with the escalation of sanctions prussia. and i think is down here, 20 years in the u. s. coalition invaded afghanistan would become free now in meltdown. families having to resort to unsinkable measures when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark. sorry. so i'm forced to tell a few of my kids to feed others, and there's no option leverage mentions from ah, this is been used on scene to national. my name is you nasha. paula, thanks for joining us. and facebook whistleblower is being accused of bias. it was discovered a sheet has ties to the democrats. it comes to us days off, a shrew, sad. the company was hominy, children, and stoking divisions, and an impassioned plea to congress for a crime down on the social media john and but i'm here today because i believe facebook's products harm children, stoked division and week in our democracy. the companies le

now, i don't always agree with russia, but how russia is being treated, how the intelligence services use every opportunity to create destabilization in russia. it takes me off. russia has reported more than 29000 cov it infections in the past 24 hours. it's the biggest daily figure this year, and mortality is at an all time i ortiz, donal quarter, hasn't details. russia identified that figure of sir, almost 30000 new cases across 85 different regions of the country of st. petersburg is one of the hot spots. the city identified over 2700 new cases in a single day, and that's the highest since back in january actually. and in moscow, unfortunately, the situation looks like it may be taking a turn for the worse as well. the capital has identified over $6000.00 new cases in the, in a single day, and that's the highest figure since 3 months ago. now, in, as for russia, in general, there was also a record breaking number of deaths in one day that was 9968 people killed. unfortunately by the crone of virus in one day. now are in russia, millions of people have been vaccinated, but there's a

in russia. at this point, russia is only taking measures and response. so like i said, this was the number one message from the russian. yeah, a lot of interesting lines in that talk earlier from the russian president, but frankly taken us through that. that is where we leave, then use our but i'll be here up the top in a few minutes with all your global news updates on what is a busy wednesday. in the meantime, let's have a look at what else is coming up here in our international over the next few days or so. i'm you know, neil ting bye for now. ah, ah, these people learn from their own experience. how vulnerable a business is to the bank. so he pushes my business over the age, pushes me right to the edge, bankruptcy. now i realize we were good. this isn't just the back that may be involved in this is the concept. see, firms is, is the lawyers, these people have got you want on this stories at a walk kind of whistle blower. tell people's marriages have broken up and lost their family homes and it is spectacularly devastating for people's lives. they hav