some argue that russia could and should do more to help. >> russia could be more helpful. our numbers show that russia could easily increase the gas it is sending to europe by 15%. ros: the accusation that russia is restricting supply connects back to the state on company gazprom and the pipeline it has to the eu, called nord stream 2. that has been completed but not yet switched on, which some analysts believe is relevant to the supply coming from russia. >> gazprom canarry more supply to europe but refuses to do that, saying that we will do that if you accept gazprom's terms of ndling nord stream 2. very simple. this is pure black male. -- blackmail. ros: there is already a pipelin in place called lord stream 1. nord stream 2 runs alongside it through germany and doubling the supply capacity to europe, but it is waiting final approval from european regulato. russia, for its part, has denied restricting supply in order to create pressure on those regulators to give nord stream 2 the go-ahead. the russian foreign minister has been talking about these issues the bbc hardtal

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 29326 coven infections over the past day. that number significant, it is the biggest daily figure this year, and mortality is at an all time high r t l quarter can tell us more. 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 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, in russia, millions of people have been vaccinated, but there's also

gas reserves. russia says that's not the case. in fact, russia says it's willing to step up to the hour of need of it to you repeat neighbors. and increase the supplies of gas to meet those needs, those demands. but what needs to happen for that to take place is the certification of the north stream to pipe. this is a pipe that was completed last month and would see natural gas be able to be delivered directly to germany. but before that can happen, that certification needs to take place. that is something that you find out. some illnesses are likely to discuss this week as they meet to discuss this entire crisis. but the idea that you finance ministers are discussing bread and butter subjects like energy bills and how people are going to pay them really gives you a sense of how this crisis is. and as they scratching their heads, looking for a solution, there are tens of millions of households who are concerned about what this winter is going to bring the difficult choices that they will have to make it. so i, the heat that homes

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

still refusing to cooperate with russia on the case, we hear firsthand from russia's envoy to the body a feeling that something else that goals are driving them. it is possible that this whole story is connected with the escalation of sanctions pressure on this exactly 20 years since the u. s. coalition invaded afghanistan with the country now in meltdown. family sarah, having to resort to unthinkable measures when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark. sorry. i'm forced to sell a few of my kids to feed others. there's no option left with y'all. welcome. thanks for joining me here on rti into boiling gas prices. some been reduced to somewhat of a sigma after intervention from vladimir putin who said that russia will ramp up exposed to europe addressing the continents energy crisis. on wednesday, the president added moscow would continue its commitment to ukraine with regards to gas transit. as she says, she's just prom believes that it would be more profitable for it to pay a fine to ukraine and increase the gas volume pumping through the new systems. but there's no nee

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 person 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 anglo merkel is turning a blind eye to some apparent malign, influenced by russia, but anglo 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 bee

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

to slap new sanctions on russia. i would be no string to pipeline in light of europe's energy crisis. it comes to the days up to vladimir putin splash, so ramp up natural gas supplies to europe as prices hate record highs. also, donald corta took my colleague, you know, neil's through the details. they're basically being accused of trying to artificially keep the price of natural gas as high as possible. but that actually announcement by the russian president vladimir putin to boost to europe's natural gas supplies, caused a price decrease of 20 percent. right after that, amid this energy crisis, and just 2 days after that, we heard from us congressman michael mccall, who said that the u. s. should resume sanctions against russia in connection to the north stream to pipeline. and why? 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 putin regimes, deliberate efforts to

well, you know, russia very aggressive want to watch on russia on mostly gauge with talk to russia . but the problem is that nature is creating the very problems and then turns around, well we are the solution to the problem because it, let's just say what happened in the last 2 weeks. they expelled these diplomats and said, well, we're coming back on your of your russian presence. nature. well, the russians just don't understand what we were tired of all this time being all these accusations, we're just going to no longer take part in all the same time. we're closing down your office and most of that nature uses that you are looking how aggressive russia is. the same thing with lloyd austin, the us defense secretary here. last week he went to visit the georgia grade romania and the last to georgia. and you gray, the daughter nato membership is open for you. well, how does nato, the united states expect russia to respond to this way? obviously they go to respond with considerable trepidation which then show them about dogs or are you saying you are right? or aggressive look at how mo

so obviously russia is not going to want to be made out of the bud guy here. what can you do with regards the pricing? well, man, you're absolutely right. and the thing is i, the european lawmakers might have shot themselves in the foot here. and well, of conceptually nukes the wallets of the end of the line, consumers of ordinary europeans. so here's, here's the thing about natural gas. it's not oil, you consciousness, get it one time stored in a barrel until you needed, and then you will access it. no, it doesn't work like that. you can't store natural gas. so what the european lawmakers came up with, they decided that they would switch from contractual from contractual trade when they receive a gas steadily throughout the year. at the current market price, they decided that they be buying the gas of the market and they would be, would be doing so in the summer when the demand is very low. so it's essentially dirt cheap, but they would only ask for the, for gas in physical, you're physically receive it in the winter when the, well, obviously need this gas. b

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

russia offers to alleviate europe's gas issues. and our interview about antony blinken who has thoughts on the energy crisis. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: welcome back to the european market open. at 20 minutes until the start of cash equity trading, and we expect a rebound. the u.s. market, wall street rebounded toward the end of the session on the back of the better news flow around the debt ceiling. u.s. futures also point higher. gas prices are a big story in europe. russia is offering relief to europe, but with strings attached. after a chaotic day that saw benchmark rices rise 40%, vladimir putin says russia could stabilize problem by exporting record volumes of fuel to europe. while not mentioning the dormant nord stream 2 project, the current route was more expensive and polluting. secretary of state antony blinken hoped russia would not use the situation as a foreign policy tool, and that high energy prices highlight the need to transition to new energy. secretary blinken spoke with francine lacqua in paris, talking about

is plaque, meaning 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, they make it clear point. they have interests as well, not energy political means, but also of course, economic interests. and here we are again. and that's the better for me. i mean, 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? on russian news, the president vladimir putin has ordered a non working week for russians nationwide from october 30th to november 7th in an attempt to stop the spread of the corona virus. for more on this, let's cross live to moscow correspondent danny armstrong. hey there, danny. what els

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

do you think russia are going to try to exploit this? i think it would be a mistake for russia to try to exploit this. i think that would ultimately backfire on them, and i believe they should respond to the market demands for increased energy supplies to europe. well, critics of moscow have continued to accuse a rush of artificially inflating the price of gas. the latest comes from ukraine. international gas transit operator says that russia's own state—owned energy because prom, has reduced the amount of gas it roots through the country. —— gazprom. they say just sent from january to september this year was down by more than i7% compared with the same period in 2020. the ukrainian operator accused russia of creating an artificial gas supply bottleneck in order to weaken both it and the eu. earlier, the chair of gazprom's board of directors blamed european countries for not securing guaranteed long—term gas prices with them. translation: the fact that| gazprom has been supplying europe with just for 50 years shows that it is a r

i do not mean russia now forget about those sanctions against russia, but the sanctions also persist against states that are in dire need of international assistance. no, nothing like that happens. everything remains the same. and where are the humanistic principles of western political thought? in fact, it turns out that there is nothing there is only chatter. at one point during his speech, mister prudent began making some fundamental assessment of where western liberalism is heading and spoke quite a lot about a concept of traditional family. something that's very important for the russian leader vladimir putin spoke out against a raising the boundaries between genders and also runing the concept of their traditional families. though mister putin did say that he's okay, would that happening elsewhere and the world? but he didn't want this to be aggressively imposed on russia. besides, this president vladimir putin addressed their criticism of the russian government for being too conservative. according to mister potent, moderate conservatism is the way to go up the stage from my p

it is about blaming russia and preparing for another war. you have heard the gym and 57 who is talking about even having the tommy option against russia. this is a i pressure is a statement that we haven't heard even in the end of the cold war. we are back in the 984 in the late seventy's where people are openly using crap and things that, that help them to gain confidence, emotion. it's not often someone disappears entirely from a list. so infamous the f b i most wanted, but that's what's happened to the mom said to be one of the key figures in january capital held riots in washington. he was caught on camera telling people to storm the building and then ushering them inside. it's got some including members of the republican party raising questions about who exactly the mysterious figure is kellum up and picks up the story for us. an individual featured and videos calling for people to enter the capital building even before the january 6 capital riot and was seen on the day. january 6, ushering crowds into the capital building has been iden

first of all, what is russia kuza bindle? while you know, they're basically being accused of trying to artificially keep the price of natural gas as high as possible. but that actually announcement by the russian president vladimir putin to boost to europe's natural gas supplies, caused a price decrease of 20 percent. right after that, amid this energy crisis, and just 2 days after that, we heard from us congressman michael mccall, who said that that the u. s. should resume sanctions against russia in connection to the nord stream to pipeline. and why 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 putin regimes deliberate efforts to press 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. and mccaul says, anglo merkel is turning a blind eye to some app

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. well, russia has reported almost 29400 cove infections in the past 24 hours, a significant number. that's the biggest at daily figure this year, and mortality is out on all time. i. let's get the full story behind nothin with ortiz, donal quarter. donna, indeed, big numbers give us a sense of what it means and how it's been, reacted to. well, russia identified that figure of 30 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 new cases in a, 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 tha

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

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

the relationship between nato and russia is now at the low point. it has not been more difficult since to handle the cold war on that. i've been raising the alarm over supposed russian threat over the past few months with concerns coming to ahead in april when russia conducted drilled on its own territory. but close to its board with you cried simon lamas, tribes were repeated last month when brush and bela bruce held a joint military exercise, a rush of return insisted there was no hidden agenda behind those drills. and indeed, not of nato's consent. as materialised, or monday, russia announced it suspending the native military liaison mission in moscow. after the lines recall the accreditation of 8th russian diplomats in brussels commenting on nato's newly unveiled strategy. the credited spokesperson said that the blocks confrontational tone, proves that moscow was right to separate tight. there is 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 kn

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 are not supplying gas through pipelines to europe, but actually your mistaken you are mistaken. and all of those who feed on the information they receive, we are actually increasing our supply to europe. well, the reality is there's a whole multitude of reasons for why demand for gas in europe is currently so high, and why supplies of gas and reserves of gas also low. so when you've got high demand and you've got but, 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 pasto saying that once ru

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

it's that prospect of instability and uncertainty in russia. and, you know, in many respects, putin has to kind of prop himself up or basically give people the kind of confidence that he is going to kind of stay in power by mobilizing all the time against a common enemy or against an external force, and that's the united states. and that puts us in a dangerous position, as well, because, you know, vladimir putins always railing against the west, railing against the united states, to present himself as the champion, as the only person who can protect russia and russians against hostile external forces. >> you served in the george w. bush administration and the obama administration. the day after president trump's inauguration, you write in your book tha you attended the women's march outside the white house. so you clearly had some concerns about president trump. and the very next day, you were offered a job in the white house, in trump's national security council. and you write, and i've heard you say, that you thought you could contribute some

in april, when russia conducted drills near its border with ukraine, and last month when russia delruda held a joint military exercise, russia has insisted there was no hidden agenda behind those drills on monday, russia announced it as suspending the nato military liaison mission in moscow. after the alliance expelled a russian diplomats, the kremlin spokesperson says nato's new strategy proves moscow was right to sever ties. there is 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 the res, on the answer of this alliances this alliance was not created for peace. it was created for confrontation. austria is former foreign minister ones that nato's hostility is making europe and even more dangerous place than at the height of the cold war. as we have heard from mister 1000, back and john to manage the it's the regular for a, sorry, it's the regular last sentence that you access. they send and of course, you know, open for dialogue, but the general dialogue hasn't been there for y

and last month, when russia and bellows held a joint military exercise, russia has insisted there was no hidden agenda behind those drills on monday. russia announced it is suspending the native military liaison mission in moscow. after the alliance expelled 8 russian. diplomats amongst spokespersons, as nato's new strategy, proves moscow was right to sever ties. there is 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 the res, on data of this alliances this alliance was not created for peace. it was created for confrontation. austria is former foreign minister ones that nato hostility is making europe and even more dangerous place. then at the height of the cold war. up the f herbs from 2000 back and the german defense minister it's, it's the regular rhetoric. it's the regular last sentence that you after statement . and of course we're open for dialogue, but that generally dialogue hasn't been down for years. and in particular was regards to whiting additional countries ange

in april, when russia conducted drills never to board with ukraine, and last month when russia and bella roost held a joint military exercise, russia insisted that there was no hidden agenda behind those drills. a monday russia announced it suspending the nato military liaison mission in moscow. after the alliance expelled 8 russian diplomat, the criminal spokesperson says that nato's new strategy proves that moscow was right to sever ties. there is no need for dialogue under these conditions, and nato's new concept is goes to prove it. russia hasn't been under any illusions regarding nato, we know what the raise on diatra. this alliances, this alliance was not created for peace. it was created for confrontation on earlier in our tier former austrian foreign minister warned that native hostilities making europe an even more dangerous place than at the height of the cold war. we have heard from stalsen back and the german defense minister it's, it's the regulatory, sorry it's there i go last, last sentence that you asked to statement. and of course we're open for dialogue, but that genera

because russia is not renee's got any contracts, it's not supply. that's not that anything like that. what do you think it's been getting so much thick? i think the answer is fairly obvious. it's because the other people who are just as responsible as a russia ever was, or they are not willing to take any responsibility. and so what they're doing is simply pointing the finger at russia and hoping that the blame for the high prices, which is profiting them, goes on mr. porton, and, and russia rather than being distributed into the whole structure of what the sides energy prices put in, is quite right when he says that the decision to the united states about liquefied natural gas or the decisions in germany about the north stream pipeline. and what to do with their own, a nuclear energy cut down. all of these decisions are responsible. you can't point your finger at any one of them. but you can point the finger at the very small group of very powerful corporations and government that could of that should of but did not take the steps necessary. so we

has russia been using energy as a weapon? russia is not using any weapons. if you've been paying attention as for the economy, where are we 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 to which there's nothing to support it when it comes to saying that we use energy as some kind of weapon 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? because she was, if you're a beautiful woman, but 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, 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 are mistaken. you are mistaken in all of those who feed on the information they receive. we are actually increasing our supplies to europe because prom increased supplies by 10 percent. and overa

just really going up one way at what's russia's going to do it to just this new reality? well, human, essentially, as you said, vladimir putin during a very high profile cabinet meeting. he's took to russia's energy minister alexander nova, and he has given very clear instructions to the minister at russia and its national gas exporting company gas promo that they must remain loyal and good partners. faithful partners of the e. u. even though the current situation with the current market prices of gas sticking to contractual obligations means a profit loss. a loss of profit for gas problem have a listen. as bruce, as she does, she has prom, believes that it would be more profitable for it to pay a fine to ukraine and increase the gas volume pumping through the new systems. but there's no need for that. there's more pressure in the pipe, less c o 2 emissions into the atmosphere. everything turns out cheaper and at $3000000000.00 a year, it is necessary to fully comply with the contractual obligations for the transitive gas through ukraine. although it is more profitable to

and here in russia as well. facebook being a tight lipped on what the exact cause, my babe lost on something. this big happened was in 2019 and it took quite a few hours for services to get back on line. we'll talk to our corresponded a bit more about what's happening a little bit later in the program. next though, opening a pandora's box that expose a on tax havens has revealed how some of the world's rich and famous hide their wealth. among the names mentioned, our former british premier, tony blair, and incumbent check prime minister andre babbage of the league details how politicians, business leaders and celebrities avoid taxes using secretive offshore companies. and the pandora papers also single at the united states as a leading tax haven. i spoke to correspondent donald court who went over the 1st releases for us on whether there is sensational as expected. people definitely were anticipating something as big as what happened in 2016 when the pat, when the panama papers were released. but actually, this

you know, europe has a supply crunch, and russia has the gas to supply it. russia does instantly benefit from care in the market. they want high stable prices, and they want to be seen as the reliable partner. some are words soothing words i guess which we rarely get from mr. potent actually helped reverse that. 3540 percent jump over night in natural gas over in europe. desson element of, of ross are playing politics but is also an element of a lot of money having been invested in noise being do not just on the russian side from the european side as well. going german chancellor angle america has been vocal in support of russia as a supplied partner. speaking at an e u. balkan summit in savannah, she stressed moscow's always stuck to its contractual obligations. the fog. it is a gift of, if you ask me whether there have been orders that russia has taken and then fail to fulfil as it stands. now, that is not the case. various, there are no orders that russia has said no, we will not deliver those to you, and we are not pumping gas through the ukrainian pipeline. rather, russia can only 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. 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

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

soon as i sit here, russia is massing troops on the ukrainian border. as i sit here, russia is mobilizing new military power in the arctic ocean and so on. china is mobilizing its military in the south china sea and bearing down on taiwan. i don't think we should seek a cold war, but it is a period, a new period of normative battle over democratic values in the world in . and i think democracies of the world have to recognize this and rise to the challenge with figuring out how to deal with the rise of china is the great challenge of the 21st century was gotten more authoritarian over the past decade, state champion and alternative to western democratic capitalism that gives dictatorships like china's an incredible vulnerability should a day come when that regime is no longer able to provide economic growth, it will no longer have any reason to stay in power. and the only choice it will have, therefore, if it wants to stay in power, is to use increasing repression and increasing violence against its own citizens. ah ah. so in 2014, i was the leader. we

well, you know, the nato russia relation, the sort of microcosm of russia us relations now. and nato has been increasingly irrelevant. we've seen, you know, stolen bird desperate for attention desperate to be noticed. the by did ministration, has really not treated nato any more relevantly than the trump administration did. so i think what you're seeing really is desperate for attention on one hand and some be a little deeper on the other hand that we can get into. well, you're right, i think it's like, look, look, we're doing something, even though if it might be counterproductive to what the overall goal would be. but daniel, you know, do you think, you know, our package stated this was an, obviously, because of the response to expulsion of russian diplomats that i had to think back and, you know, there's a pass between the 2 countries. do you think these years and i almost decades of accusations by nato countries which continue to be proven wrong and wrong time time again, without any apologies or reconciliation actually played a factor that this just might have been just

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