power, but whoever is behind these should be investigated. those who are behind this should be brought to justice with the must go to the world. this is our international. my name is peter scott taking over from fiorella isabel, and these the top stories at 10 am pasco time. thanks for joining us. russia is sets about the exports of crude oil and petroleum products in february to any country complying with the price cut imposed by the west. which moscow has branded a violation of international law. our teeth done a quarter picks up the story. this presidential decree outlined special economic measures being taken in response to the western price camp on russian oil exports that was put into place earlier this month. according to the statement, russia will no longer supply oil to countries going along with this scheme, effective february. first of next year, up until july 1st, and since president vladimir putin made this decree, we've seen the prices of crude oil as well as gas go up across the board in the international energy markets. now, this western cap on russian oil exports was set at $60.00 a barrel, and this was made in a bids to punish moscow for its military operation in ukraine. and even moscow before this, this cap price cap was set. moscow was warning that if such a thing were to happen that moscow would respond with not supplying these countries that go along with the scheme with oil. so this response is really not something that surprising. we should also not forget that much of the west has already completely embargoed russian oil. so this kind of price cap sets is really set up for countries 3rd party buyer countries such as india, for example, or china trying to bring them into the fold of the west foreign policy goals. and we've seen all across latin america, africa, and asia, that very few countries are willing to go along with that. lillia we discussed moscow's lated move, senior research fellow of the global policy institute of london, george some wally and jill. political analysts, jo mulanda. before we get to the perception that when russia is being sanctioned, left right and centre are not able to respond. so this is the response from the russian president from the russian federation that will set the record straight. that's not going to come in here and play your games as if now the oil and gas for the energy that has controlled one day in washington, especially the european countries, are the ones that i had to suffer from just decreased by the ones that are really sticking to russia, i do to get up in bed. mom, geez, only that was in countries that are more of an issue that i show it would benefit him from the resistance of russia. but i want to stop. what this does is makes clear to everybody else in the world that it is not in your interest to go along with this g 7 you plan to impose the price gas. because if you do then note while for you and obviously as you know, russia has pointed out, i think it will present that repeatedly. it is absolutely nonsensical. the stupidest idea imaginable that consumers can set the price. so he's essentially by doing this by threatening to penalize anyone who joins in with price gap. he's actually getting the support of many countries in the world, the particularly commodities producers who are very upset about the idea that consumers will get to set prices. because of course, when consumers set prices, they are going to set the prices as low as possible. the head of a private u. s. military group, the trains ukrainian soldiers has slammed the country as corrupt. will also say that ukrainian fights is half killed, russian prisoners of war ortiz, egotist, none of the story. the mozart group, an american private security company that proudly markets itself as a veteran military force providing training to ukrainian soldiers inside the country. it was founded by retired us marine colonel andrew milburn, who's been repeatedly put in a better style for helping out the key of in this time of need. yet, as it turns out, he is very, very far from a fan of ukraine. it's a corrupt of society the let you know. so i'm not, i'm not a big fan of ukraine. it's not about ukraine. we're not like, i have to have, you know, you ukraine flank tied to my bag, but i'm not, oh my god, ukraine. so awesome. no, because it's i understand that funny people running ukraine. it's not bad that it's about global norms, right? right. was per patient while melbourne didn't mens his words death. but apparently there's a lot that the mozart group is morally prepared to forgive and forget the cranium in violation of the hey convention. they're filming of a number of things that they're doing with p o. w 's is by lady laura laura bomb conflict. you can't kill due to, i mean, every nose surrender, i mean. and then there was plenty of all this is something you wouldn't expect to hear from the same person who publicly glorified the war in ukraine as just. and it's far from the 1st contradictory statement from milburn. in fact, his accounts of what's happening on the ground in ukraine have been all over the place in one see in an interview. for instance. the former colonel is unequivocal. all foreign weapons send to you. crane accounted for, i would say that the very last concern that the united states government you have right now is that these arms end up in the wrong hands. and it's almost like his evil twins and appears on c b s. with a statement that sounds the polar opposite. i can tell you on arguably, sat on the frontline units, these things and are getting that. all right. drones switch blades. i faxed them off. alright. body on the helmets. you name it. is it safe to characterize this is a little bit of a black hole i i suppose if you don't have visibility of whether stuff is going and if you're asking that question then it would appear that it's black hole. yeah. now cave of course, wasn't impressed by the reporting and somehow managed to bully c, b. s to retract and take down the piece. but there have been heated concerns over western arms and being up on the global weapons, black market. this unverified footage, for instance, proposed to show us and european made rocket launches, meant for ukraine ending up in syria. all this comes as no surprise to anyone who's been following events in ukraine long enough over the years. neo nazi groups like the as a battalion that used to be reputation, li toxic, and officially banned from receiving west and weapons, have now being rebranded as heroes. ukraine's own image has been polluted so badly by rampant corruption for years. but this year, key of somehow got the power to send any western media outlet who dares to bring this up. but as long as this can be weaponized to hurt russia, he will continue to have its cod blanche. the contrast with his portrayal in mainstream publications like the new york times, which wrote a puff piece about retired colonel andy milburn. he's kind of a famous figure in marine circles. and now he's running one of the biggest mercenary companies in ukraine. the mozart group, but then here you have him on this military groupie podcast called team house. like after an hour his speech starts to slur. and then he really starts to lift the mask and says, it's not really about ukraine for him. ukraine is a screwed up society in so many terms. it's run by in his word sick people and the soldiers are rampantly committing atrocities. actually one of the hosts tries to walk back the term atrocities, and he correct them and says, no, these are atrocities. and they are being committed there. so it's a very candid session drinking session with colonel and melbourne, providing a view of ukrainian society that he had a front seat to having trained so many soldiers. and that u. s. media still refuses to tell americans about as the host of team. how said we can't actually start abandoning our ukrainian partners at this point. even though in the u. s. military, he claimed that you would be done if you film po w's on, on camera being shot and summarily executed, as we've seen from ukraine. but i don't think this will have any repercussions for that war effort as a whole, because this is what the $45000000000.00 already allocated for 2023 by congress. which just clapped like seals for zalinski is paying for it's paying for these atrocities. this unprofessionalism and the u. s. military intelligence apparatus is willing to go along with that as long as they get results, what are the results they want? it's what milburn and his buddies in the man cave said they were weakening putin and destabilizing russia on africa as another consonance suffering from the unwanted repercussions of the ukraine crisis as weapons initially designates. if a kid have ended up in the hands of local terrorist groups, nigerian presidents has been in the conflicts and ukraine for crippling his country security. regrettably, the situation in the saw heal in the raging war in ukraine service. major sources of weapons and fights is the boast of the ranks of the terrorists in late chad, region. weapons being used for the war in ukraine and russia are equally beginning to filter to the region a form of peacekeeping. so donna, molly says the west has contributed to the instability in africa. you see it's ongoing support of ukraine. for my partner looks, the west is only risking its future, then they realize now that everything is more or less lost, but they don't really want to lose face exempt from the west thinks it can always restore its image. but i don't think that's the case at all. they are not in the best position right now. if you look at all these terrorists, a lot of weapons were acquired by them with the help of the west. in libya, for instance, it was the west that caused everything, and then libya essentially fell. thus sa hail, origin of africa's, now and chaos. these are all the games of the west and my opinion. in the news, the pentagon has delayed its response to u. s. congress on america's electorate role in a 2017 s like in nigeria, that claimed more than a 100 civilian lives. in september, the sex your defense was cold to reveal details of the strike. but the deadline is now 3 weeks overdue. the intercept, publication highlights that the unwillingness to respond may be an indication of guilt. the formerly secret african document obtained by the intercept suggests that the u. s. may have launched this rare internal investigation because it secretly provided intelligence or other support to the nigerian armed forces who carried out the deadly strike. well, according to the documents seen by the intercept, us africa command launched a secret investigation just days after the attack as displaced persons camp, the documents calls the s strike an example of u. s. nigerian operations. although africans, officials denied involvement in the incidents, nigerian researcher from human rights watch says it's washington's unwillingness to provide clarity is troubling. upon dickens, failure to provide information and documents to determine possible u. s. involvement in, in a strike that took manny civilian lives in northern nigeria. does not bode well for the u. s. government's expressed commitment to transparency and accountability. it sounds a worrisome message that at minimum the defense department isn't willing to engage on an issue affecting countless lives and may even reflect an attempt to evade responsibility. will those killed in the air strikes had been fleeing the conflicts in northeast. and now jerry, where the govern, there is fighting militants. nigerian officials have expressed regret of the attack . a low correspondence brings us more details 5 years ago, and i didn't mutually as strike sheets as civilian comp and the board at all. no 4, ron, 180 kilometers from maple gree, claiming that the life of at least 115 people, including children and humanitarian walk us the pentacles called one investigation into the u. s. military involvement in the r tricity has thrown reaction from me degree residence i live and submitted it to, but she li, this investigation is very good because we have ways for so known to know what happened. but no one said anything. even though it's light, we want to know you conducted the attack. we know america, the war paula. but whoever is behind these should be investigated. because this will put everyone off making similar mistakes in the future. and we don't want this investigation to be politically influenced to put a lot of children and families died and some have been made homeless. so are not and are there are, even if the air force got such intelligence from america, they should conduct a thorough check on the site before bombing it. it's after a massacre has happened. the 2 countries trade blame when people have died. those who are behind this should be brought to justice and moving on. now the latest batch of switzer files has revealed that the biden administration put pressure on the social media giants. so in short tweets when line with its covey 19 policy ortiz marina call server has more. the latest leaks of the now notorious twitter files show that washington was manipulating what users online saw regarding coven vaccines? well maybe that's because key figures had something to gain from it. let's take a look at doctor anthony found t. this is america's top a health official. and he just announced that he'll be stepping down as the head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and as chief medical adviser to president biden. well, the timing is definitely interesting. do you know anyone who works for a social media platform doin or somebody who works for a social media platform or at this time? well, i've had communications with mark zuckerberg in the past. do you know anyone else who works for a social media platform other than mark zuckerberg? when you say, do i know somebody who works? like do you have acquaintances, people that you know who work at social media platforms? well, a person who used to work as a software engineer for twitter was my daughter. so america, top health officials, daughter, worked for twitter. so in a position to potentially alter a few things according to her dad's wishes, who was in a position to benefit from people getting vaccinated. 27000 royalty payments were paid to 1800 and i and i age employees. can you tell me that you have not received a royalty from any entity that you ever oversaw the distribution of money in research grants? oh, well, 1st of all, let's talk about this. you know, that's the question. have you ever overseen under received a ruling agreement from a company that you later oversaw money going to that company? you know, i don't know, was a fact, but i doubt it. joe biden's, chief medical advisor isn't sure if he profited from the pandemic excellence. well, we know how much wiser made $22000000000.00 in 2021 or a $1000.00 every 2nd. and we now know that the 1st vaccine that was sold to the masses in america both literally and figuratively, wasn't even tested for efficacy before it answered the markets. regarding the question around and did we know about stopping immunization before it's enter the market? now, at these and you know, we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market. and from that point of view, we had to do everything at rest. it's hardly surprising than that across the pond. the e. u prosecutor's office has now opens an investigation into coven, maxine purchases with all eyes on the european commission of presidents. it seems that arsole of underlying exchange, if you text messages with visors c, e o, before cementing the multi 1000000000 euro contract, acquiring 4500000000 doses for 450000000 people. well maybe this case will shed some light on her involvement because so for the commission has refused to release any details about bonder lions roll. in its negotiations. the commission can confirm the dis, search undertaken by the president's cabinet for relevant text messages corresponding to the request for access to documents has not yielded any results. we asked the commission to provide us with information on the preliminary nego ations for disagreement. scientific experts consulted and advice received timing of the talks, records of the discussions, and details of the agreed terms and conditions. however, none was forthcoming. hardly surprising. well, it took a couple of years to get the league slinking, washington suits sweaters, cove it policies. so we may need a few more to uncover what lies beneath the billions, if not trillions made during the pandemic of china, specialists under long says the pandemic provided a profitable business opportunity for some u. s. companies. first of all, those see americans that whose standards of our free freedom of speech freedom of expression. and of course, that the united states been criticized in countries like china, russia, and other countries for allowing freedom of expression on anything that even threaten their own national security of these countries universally known fact. they're big businesses, especially the so called military industrial complex is part of the the us government machinery. so, and then the big oil companies and the big coal companies. so they promote their, their own vested interest in even opposing climate change, for example. but as to whether or not the big farmer would benefit thing. definitely, i mean, of course, the, the benefit, the hugely, with all these vaccines and they turn on, you know, they're different types of scenes and, and, and then with different varying and so on, so forth. actually, to make a lot of money on that i, $1.00 has decided to extend its mandatory military service from 4 months to one year starts in 2024. now comes as china is become ramping up. it's miniature, to within the taiwan straits over the weekend. and that's just days after the u. s . or fries a massive security assistance package to the island. so i sense over subs. yeah. craft on 7 warships towards taiwan on monday. so i want officials say it was the largest airing cushion, sedate, and that's up to beijing condemned. the u. s. s. decision to provide a $10000000000.00 in security assistance. i pay the battery ministration label the chinese jill's in the straits as provocative and reiterated his commitment to the alans defense. the united states is concerned by the people's republic of china's provocative military activity near taiwan, which is to stabilizing risks, miscalculations, and undermines regional peace and stability. we will continue to assist taiwan and maintaining a sufficient self defense capability in line with our long standing commitments and consistent with our one china policy. attentions between beijing and washington fir, the escalade said after us how speak and nancy pelosi visited taiwan back in august of to which more us lawmakers begun to visit the moves bugs fury from beijing, which in turn launch unprecedented live fire drills and circling the island leads gal, vice president of the senate for china and globalization as the u. s. is only funding the flames. one of the united states is not doing what president told the chinese leader in body. they are walking the wrong walk, while sometimes they talk to roy talk. if you read the dangerous mind of some of the decision makers in washington, they probably want to be the last dealer to taiwan, make all the money in the wrongful way, and tried to instigate outbreak of military conflicts. and then they will come to the top of the claim in themselves as angels. but i think the challenge people on both sides of the taiwan straits has enough wisdom to see through what the united states is. dewey. because what the united states doing is not for the fundamental interest of the people in taiwan. it is against the fundamental interest people of china and philosophically. it is also against the fundamental interest of the american people. because the american people do not want to see a war prosy, china and the united states for the sake of u. s. government's support of tie was separatism. the main beneficiary of the ukraine war with us, how russia's foreign minister described the u. s. role in the conflict in the washington is seeking to prolong the term all by footing here with weaponry. the united states has been doing everything possible to prolong the conflict and make it even more violent. the pentagon is openly preparing american defense industry orders for years to come, constantly raising the limit of military spending. the key regime is being pumped up with the latest weapons receiving samples that have yet to be sure to western forces. let joe biden signed another a bill to support kia this time, amounting to $45000000000.00, an american adviser to ukraine's military and an interview to c n n. so that washington should approve supplies of cluster munitions. to quote increase base the fallacy with 2008 convention on close to munitions button such weapons as on detonate devices, pose a danger to the public. the documents was signed by more than 100 countries, including the majority of you countries, the russia, the u. s and ukraine went among them. human and labor rise, slowed down. colleagues, as the coal for supplying such weapons is reckless. what it will do. it will cause suffering to soldiers and civilians, but i don't think it will help you. crane when the war, they are anti personnel devices, they exist to, to main, and to kill many times civilians. we know that the u. s. has in other theaters provided cluster bombs, for example, in yemen. i don't think they care about the ukrainian people. if they did, they would've abided by the men's agreements. instead, they allowed ukraine to continue to attack the don bass for 8 years, even before the special operations began in february. i is very clear to me that the u. s. will fight russia to the last ukranian, the ukrainians are seen merely as cannon fodder for the united states. and finally, the e. u is one of the main loses of the ukraine conflict. so that's the message from the former vice chancellor of austria and in seats office will depart. and i can see the full version of the interview on our website artic dot com. but here's a quick teaser gelatin ported fishing days. we faced the situation where political interests are given more importance than freedom of expression and democracy, belittle with all of this contradicts the principles of peace, democracy and freedom of speech. but it's a very sad situation which is now happening in europe as citizens, with other opinions faced accusations of treason, stigmatization, and marginalization liberals. ultima blame that people fail to acknowledge what occurred long before the current events and arm rush of it because of certain incidents, felt itself encircled. and then the initial cou over through the democratically elected ukrainian government. more than 10000 russian speaking people in eastern ukraine died as a result of this school. moreover, we remember the recent comments from former german chancellor angela merkle, who said from the start, nobody took the minsk agreement seriously. nobody expected them to become a basis for long standing piece. obviously, they were signed with only one goal to give ukraine more resources and strengthen it prior to a conflict with russia to buy at time, instead of reaching long lasting peace in europe. such moves were made with full knowledge of their consequences. the e u is one of the main losers of this conflict. as the u. s. now dictates its actions. we see that a record number of companies went bankrupt, forming businesses are unable to stay afloat and people are under threat of unemployment yet many have already lost their jobs. it's mostly moreover, we face rising prices. it affects a lot of people. more and more people can't afford to pay for usual goods and services. so europe is suffering to this. in fact, europe is destroying itself. it is losing its competitiveness as industries are moving out of the union. that's a rob for this. so i'm pizza scott's on the back again at the top of the hour with all the latest news views and analysis right here on oxy. i hope to see of them. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah a ah with ah let i was a got there then you don't you have any mutual gov i can add that nice. i'm with denise dillard and i got a 3 will read today. share that office. you use the mouth with movable when they feel that we buy these. a small things are going to both are still my we group where it was. if god forbid it, as you might say, i did it on the buddy boy, still playing yet. don't you think he got a dish? because well, it exactly because it was now you only can neglect which moves and he's not, but i am a with 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