Costs for them the russians want to do it because it means profits and money for them great so 2 countries agree on this and the United States decides no we cant have this because they claim that this would somehow in danger to the Energy Independence of germany it would endanger europe in fact by pompei of the secretary of state is using this act essentially called the peace other protecting Europes Energy Security act of 2019 to justify why the u. S. Is placing same sions on germany and russia in order to try to block this pipeline as you said they already stopped a Swiss Company from being involved in it who quit the project with a very small amount left 93 percent of this pipeline is now constructed but the u. S. Doesnt want to leave it alone they want to stay involved and they want to literally force their will on these 2 sovereign nations who should have the right and the sovereignty to be able to say we want to be able to pursue this pipeline its in our best interest and the u.
Were allowed to drastic new measures to counter a 2nd wave of covert 1000 as case numbers surge beyond the peaks seen back in spring. Are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is R T International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us are now the french government has ordered the closure of a mosque accused of inciting violence the place of worship outside paris had posted a video calling for a campaign against a history teacher after he showed caricature of the prophet mohammed to his class on october 16th. Was beheaded by a terrorist the mosque leader earlier apologized for posting the clip but denounced the shutdown order. Everybody knows that i am a socalled moderate muslim that i call for tolerance open mindedness ive got the impression that they just need to throw someone under the bus and the mosque will be closed for 6 months starting on wednesday its leaders have been given 48 hours to appeal the decision in Court Members of the congregation believe the
Is a boom bust the one business show you cant afford to mess up their montecito going to washington coming up the u. S. Is expanding thanks to ramp up the pressure against the north thing to pipeline between germany and russia we have an expert panel standing by on the b. O. J. Is filing suit against internet giant google will discuss other nonsense to be the 1st of many antitrust lawsuit to break up the Worlds Largest tech company we have a lot to get through so lets get started. The north stream to saga continues as the United States is stepping up its efforts to block the north stream to pipeline which would provide natural gas from russia to germany u. S. Secretary of state my pump aoe says the u. S. Is creating a coalition of nations to help prevent the pipeline from being completed the pipeline is supposed to provide a major cost benefit to the german and. Market with natural gas being delivered directly without any intermediaries the u. S. Backed by poland baltic nations and ukr
Pipeline is supposed to provide a major cost benefit to the German Energy market with natural gas being delivered directly without any intermediaries the u. S. Backed by poland baltic nations and ukraine has long been seeking to disrupt the pipeline that will carry russian gas to germany via the baltic sea joining me now to discuss the us coca cola spends juan and former u. K. Member of Parliament George galloway thank you for being with us today ben already the United States has put placed thank sions on this project in fact in december of last year those sanctions forced a Swiss Company to abandon the project what is the u. S. Talking about doing this time. Yes so what the u. S. Is really doing and you know you know im not a fan of sanctions really on any level sorry i disagree with them pretty much in principle but this to me seems to be maybe the worst example of how sanctions are being used you have 2 countries here that have agreed germany and russia to have a natural gas pipelin
Will stay out of its funny that you mention my pump who who says that he believes that endangers europe because it would make it dependent on russian gas and then he says would endanger ukraine in his opinion he says in my opinion so opinions here and matter a lot georgia Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is saying that the u. S. Should stop speculating on our stream too and that it should now be a matter of principle for germany to actually go through and complete the project. Well ben is right this is a particularly egregious use of the sanctions weapon against remind you a close ally of the United States germany is not some Banana Republic in Central America germany is an ancient and big power d in the oil ally of the United States and of course the biggest economic power in the European Union by some distance it just goes to show i say in parenthesis how absurd the charge of the Trump Administration is somehow a puppet of the russians this is of course not just short of war ag