well, the u. s. is accused of undermining chinese sovereignty and tie. one paging has both feet and americans backyard. china's influence in latin america is growing with ecuador, the latest country to announce a free trade agreement with beijing, and kudos production, trade and investments minister julio. jose prado announced that the administration of president dmo la su, seeks to achieve a free trade agreement with china. this year, ecuador, and you are guar, palomar, colombia, and nicaragua in finding such agreements, well, 21. latin american countries are also part of aging cells and road initiative. since 2002, china is total trade with the latin american countries has sky rocketed from $18000000000.00 to the $450000000000.00 in 2021. the gregory will pack save us dominance over latin american countries is waning. china is offering much better conditions in terms of its investment in terms of the deals it's offering to latin america. and so it's making it a lot more interesting for the countries of latin america to switch towards china instead of t

s. energy secretary jennifer granholm has instructed the nation's top refiners, including exxon shelby p and chevron, to refrain from exporting fuel at a time when america is european allies are in deep need, given the historic level of u. s. refined product exports. i again urge you to focus in the near term on building inventories in the united states, rather than selling down current stocks and further increasing exports. granholm cited quote, historically low inventory levels of gasoline and diesel in parts of the country as the justification for looking out for america's interest. first. the last thing that biden and the democratic party need right now heading into the november mid term elections is a fuel shortage. that risks handing victory to the republicans. brussels was led straight down the garden path by washington and sanctioning its own cheap gas supply from russia. recalled back on june 27th, that the e u and the white house issued a joint statement saying that they were quote, working together to find ways to further reduce rushers, energy derived revenues in the coming

a year asked the disastrous u. s. military withdrawal left their country in texas. ah, according to a recent poll, 50 percent, all americans think the war in afghanistan was a mistake. the u. s. senate has also criticized the bind and administration for the hasty withdrawal describing the post pull out the legacy of american betrayal. artes donald court, asthma, people clinging on to a plane for dear life, only to fall to their deaths, a suicide bombing chaos that was kabul. one year ago, as the u. s, withdrew its troops from afghanistan, that was, according to joe biden, a success 20000 people evacuated the safety. that number's more than double what most expert solar possible. no nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all history. the only the united states had the capacity to will believe you to do it and we did it today. if biden's disorderly withdrawal succeeded in doing anything, it was depriving the u. s. puppet government in couple of any chance to defend itself in the run up to the pull out u. s. air support for the afghan military was cut off.

or the u. s. is accused of undermining china sovereignty in tie one. beijing has both faith in america's bank chaos. china's influence in latin america is growing with ecuador, the latest countries who are not a free trade agreement with beijing. i could always production, trade and investments minister julio, jose prado announced that the administration of president guillermo le su, seeks to achieve a free trade agreement with china. this year, ecuador join. you are quite panama colombia, aunt nicaragua, in signing such agreements or 21 latin american countries are also passive aging belt and road initiative. since 2002, china's total trade with the latin american countries have skyrocketed from $800000000000.00 to nearly $450000000000.00 in 2021. journalist gregory will puts face at americas dominance over latin america. the latin american countries is waning. china is offering much better conditions in terms of its investment in terms of the deals it's offering to latin america. and so it's mak

s. and in europe either is very easy. the u. s. is a net exporter of energy. the years a year is a net importer of energy. this tell it to the entire story. so these high energy prices to some extent can be beneficial to the entire yours economy. while in the europe, in the euro zone, high energy prices are please burn on households on companies and will make the european economy will end to read a recession in the 2nd half of this year. which, which shows us that there is a clearly to speak, recovery to speak normally, developments going on us being much stronger than the european economy. to what extent can the european central bank try and control the framework around inflation, try and, and put the brakes on it. to some extent, we can try, but there is no later that can bring down energy prices, where the european central bank is currently trying to do is to break down inflation expectations to show people to some financial markets, to show companies that they, there will not be a so called wage prices fires going on. so this is for them why they will cont

s. economy? german energy firm winters has resisted pressure to pull out of russia. the war. how long can it keep working with the russian state and driving less cars are taking the china streets? does the home grown technology mean? there's now no room for tesla. this is d to be a business. i'm of what's in berlin. welcome to the program. you figures show us exports, hit a record high in june goods and services totaled over $260000000000.00. that's up 4300000000 on mays figure, which was itself or so. record sales of oil, natural gas, gold, and aircraft contributed to the rise. the u. s. also narrowed its overall trade gap for the 3rd consecutive month. however, a surgeon import sorts trade deficit with china. rise to a new record. let's get more in this from our correspondent at the new york stock exchange teddy australia teddy just explained to his walks behind this record level of exports from the united states. yes, rubble the exports. i certainly contributing to this extraordinary shrinkage in the trade deficit here in the united states. what seems to be driving it, our

but how much can we read into it's about the states and the u. s. economy. german energy firm winters, has resisted pressure to pull out of russia over the war. how long can it keep working with the russian state and driverless cars are taking the china streets? does the home growing technology? there's now no room for tesla. this is due to be a business on what, what's in berlin, welcome to the program. you figures show us exports hit a record high in june, goods and services total over $260000000000.00. that's up $4300000000.00 on mays figure, which was also a record sales of oil, natural gas, gold and aircraft contributed to the rise. the u. s. also narrowed its overall trade gap for the 3rd consecutive month. however, a surgeon import. so it's trade deficit with china rise to a new record. let's get more in this from our correspondent at the new york stock exchange. teddy australia teddy just explained to his what's behind this record level of ex boss from the united states. yes, rob, all the exports. i certainly contributing to this extraordina

u. i originally sourced from the u. s. and cutter. the problem could to cause pipelines between britain and the e to close. and the new york times is reporting that the looming energy crisis is causing germany to reconsider and nuclear energy, a power source over which berlin has absolutely lambasted paris for maintaining. so i guess the better send gret a tumor over there to yell at them. maybe perhaps she can beat zalinski in a screaming match because really all of economic and environmental harm, including the refusal to fire up to nordstrom to pipeline, which let's face, it's just sitting there, gathering dust is being done in the name of ukraine. i say yes, the government rules it out. we face difficult months ahead. but it is clear that we stand firmly on the side of ukraine and we stand behind the sanctions that we agree together with the european union in the international community. and it's noticed europeans who are suffering, but also folks in the global south. europe is also apparently dragging along countries like pakista

s. economy. to have an energy firm went as hard. yeah. has resisted fresh air to pull out of russia of the war. how long can it keep working with the russian state? driverless cars taking to china street does the home grown technology is now no room for tesla? this is d to be a business, i'm of what's in berlin. welcome to the program. you figure show us exports, hit a record high in june, goods and services titled i have a $260000000000.00. that's up for point $3000000000.00 on mays figure, which was itself or say, a record sales of oil, natural gas, gold, and aircraft contributed to the rise. the u. s. also narrowed its overall trade gap for the 3rd consecutive month. however, a search and imports saw its trade deficit with china rise to a new record. let's gamble in this from a correspondent at the new york stock exchange teddy australia. teddy just explained to his what's behind this record level of expos from the united states. yes, rob, well the ex works are certainly contributing to this extraordinary shrinkage in the trade deficit

while u. s. president joe biden promised to conduct the transformation quickly. at the moment, the west is efforts to support green energy are clearly on the back burner as it seeks to dig more coal from south africa. meanwhile, the return of fossil fuels continues to fuel animosity. looking clash is breaking up between eco activists and police. in the german city of hamburg at the weekend, officers was ordered to baton and pepper spray. as protesters, demands for green energy threatened to boil out of control, som express deep this taste over the countries import of african resources labeling the move modern colonialism. we heard from independent energy analysts had blonde, who says the e u is putting pressure on countries to di, carbonized, while purchasing increasingly more coal from those very same areas to probably mexico for the year in the sense that they've made massive commitments, public commitments to de carbonized, they are a economies and this certainly seems like a regular basis,

s embassy. in chia who claims russia is seeking to seize electricity from the sap rosy nuclear plant, cut off ukrainian consumers, and sell those power supplies at the currently storing market prices by destroying energy infrastructure. the key of regime is putting millions of people in europe in danger of a nuclear disaster with washington turning a blind eye. the power plant is the largest in europe, and the shelley has sparked fears of a tragedy. worse than sure, no, both russian forces took over the facility in march as they swept through cranes east at the start of their military campaign. moscow has recently spoken with the un secretary general about the risk of continued fighting in the area and has invited specialists from the international atomic energy agency to inspect the plant the you and has said it would be ready to facilitate such a visit, but only of the specialists enter from the ukrainian side of the frontline and if he ever agrees for us marine corps intelligence officer, sco

she also pinned europe's energy crisis on the u. s . president, suggesting that similar repercussions could be in store for the everyday average american. we discussed gathered stones with ernest, resolution of the eurasia center. she was exactly right. she, her statement as far as that, this is not about ukraine. it's not about european values. it's not about democracy, it's about regime change. it's about containment of russia and ultimately regime change. and ultimately, i would say dismantling of russia as well. i think similar is happening. we've got another play going on with taiwan. and china also felt the gabbert colonel mcgregor grand greenwald, the whole list of them. unfortunately, they're not widely heard in most to the media. it's completely controlled. it's projecting whatever the policy of the government is adding. if you listen tennis, nbc, or cnn, it's like somebody wrote a script from them and they're leaving, you don't even have basically the saying the same thing over and over again. it's healthy gabbert right on

's, atomic energy team arrives in the ukrainians on of zel felicia. i made reports of potential damage to a nuclear plant. ah, i'm about this and this is all to 0 live from doha. also coming up a iraq declares 3 days of morning was funerals are held for those killed in the latest violence. scenes of desperation, al jazeera joins the pakistani army as it works, to deliver aid to flood victims. the hell gorbachev dies, age 90. 1 more leaders reflect on the legacy of the man who helped to reshape global politics. ah, we're going to begin in ukraine for investigators from the u on nuclear watchdog have arrived in the ton of zapata asia home to europe's largest nuclear power plant . they're going to be checking the safety of the plant once they're able to gain access is to us the facilities under russian control. but it still run by ukrainian staff. grain and russia have accused each other of shelling around the nuclear plant was infuse, of a possible disaster. had been many calls for this visit by the international atomic energy agency. the head of the ag

s. department of energy itself. there are literally hundreds of billions of dollars on the table for this. what some call a watered down build back better deal. as you may recall, the original deal was dead on arrival because of west virginia, senator joe mansion. he wouldn't budge and that bill got 0 republican support. so here was this inflation reduction act and mansion again, nearly placed toiler on that one. but as bill gates himself admitted in a recent video interview with bloomberg, that he picked up the phone and began dialing. he called joe the president himself, he called senate majority leader, chuck schumer, boned up jo, mansion and everyone else on the energy committee. it's invited all of these people to a private dinner to discuss this bill. now nobody really knows what all went down that night, but gates tacitly admit that he helped get the i r a over the finish line. now here in the us, things like this are supposed to be done and discussed in a more transparent manner. usually on the floor of the

and energy press, a u. s. court ordered 3 drug store chains to pay $650000000.00 for their old and the countries hope you're crisis. walgreens, walmart, and cbs must pay the amounts to to ohio counties and compensation. the costs of fighting appear in addiction. the retailers deny complicity, and the crisis saying they sold pills prescribed by licensed dr. germany airport, have hired fewer foreign workers than anticipated. german government had planned to fast track work permits for several 1000 for an airport workers, mainly from turkey to help to ease travel cables. over the summer, however, only a $150.00 such workers have been hired. frankfurt airport parents company says in most of the workers available, did not have the necessary wall of occasion. and staying with the asian sector, new york to london, and roughly half the time of a normal passenger plane. that's the promise behind this jet here. the boom overture, a supersonic airplane that exists only on paper at the moment, but is already racking up

s. law that incentivizes certain renewable energy investments are to uganda. now where the government has invested over $50000000.00, an electric mobility through a public car manufacturer, kiera motors corporation started as a student project. but 10 years later, it's begun commercial production with some pretty innovative designs. boarding uganda's facility bus that jumped on luckily designed their foot to name sita for must a bunch of petition. when a full single judge, the kola bus can cover up to 300 kilometers in our for an average food to shift. we can no longer afford to wait for the future and then we say all can now everyone else is by using electric godless as a jump on board and produce we have to set now so that by that time that into our wild is using one the electric cars, we are also playing in the same field as well. at least blunt east of the capital campolo you going to has invested over $50000000.00 in state on kiera motors to start must production of electric vehicles including concept solar buses that cancer martinez, lee run. as they cha

u. i originally sourced from the u. s. and cutter. the problem could to cause pipelines between britain and the e to close. and the new york times is reporting that the looming energy crisis is causing germany to reconsider and nuclear energy, a power source over which berlin has absolutely lambasted paris for maintaining. so i guess a better send gret, a timber over there to yell at them. maybe perhaps she can beat zalinski in a screaming match because really all of this economic and environmental harm, including the refusal to fire up the north stream to pipeline which less faces just sitting there, gathering dust is being done in the name of ukraine. i say yes, the government rules it out. we face difficult months ahead. but it is clear that we stand firmly on the side of ukraine and we stand behind the sanctions that we agreed together with the european union in the international community. and noticed europeans who are suffering, but also folks in the global south. europe is also apparently dragging along countries like pakistan

this is kaitlin's wallack, a steel analyst at the u. s. based non profit global energy monitor. the 1st layer is to make sure your electric arc furnace unit is running completely on, like green energy. but then you need to make sure that the reducing agent and the direct reduce iron plants is hydrogen. but that's not enough. you have to make sure that that hydrogen is actually being produced through an electrolyzer that's operating on 100 percent green. i'm renewable energy serve time for hydrogen, right? well, unfortunately, there is a catch. you need a lot of hydrogen like really floats, makes mole the steel into you out of hydrogen would require about 6000000 tons of the gas just to satisfy the steel industry. hydrogen, if you need almost as many wind turbines that you have to date is not impossible, but it is a logistical nightmare. and one of the big challenges is where we build these hydrogen production facilities needs to happen in places that have that renewable energy capacity. the problem so far is lots of steel making regions don't have that capacity at lea. don't hav

s. causing massive turbulence on the global energy markets, which have poor countries particularly hard, but at least europe is united. right? well, maybe not counting those opting out from the gas cuts or polish which wants the rest of europe to keep their hands off polish. guess russian president vladimir putin may not be quaking in his boots at all this stellar competence, but europeans sure. maybe as winter approaches and that's all for this hour's top news stories moran, the world up next r r. t documentary, fascism, a history dissects the atrocious ideology and points out that it existed long before today. unfortunately, it looks like it is not going anywhere anytime soon. stay close by and i'll see you again soon. offense. very dramatic developments only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical. i'm time to sit down and talk ah, the 1st time in history, an entire country's culture has been cancelled. the very modern weapon cancel culture. the desert. wonderful. i wish i feel my last little one, but you can't just me sitting

s. causing massive turbulence on the global energy markets, which hit poor countries particularly hard, but at least europe is united right? well, maybe not counting those opting out from the gas cuts or poland, which wants the rest of europe to keep their hands off polish. guess. russian president vladimir putin may not be quaking in his boots at all this stellar competence, but europeans sure might be as winter approaches. as he mentioned earlier, the use anti russian sanctions had spread in any crisis beyond europe to regions as far away as south asia. when mass protests have wrapped it in bangladesh, 100 the demonstrators have taken to the streets of the city at darker to cry, foul if the government's failure to curb a 50 percent hike in fuel prices. some of the protesters have set fil stations on fire. police are on the street to try and call the unrest. dozens of demonstrators have reportedly been injured in clashes. the government is considering a series of measures to overcome the crisis. including a request for a $4500000000.00 bailout from the international monetary fund. acr

those 3 major companies put together with the u. s. from chevron and frances total energy is made $55000000000.00 this past quarter, and it's not just oil and gas blend cause the world's largest coal ship are also made record profits and plans to pay an additional $4500000000.00 and dividends. and buybacks to shareholders out while companies are reaping the benefits households are struggling to pay high energy bills. food prices of also such they've risen around 50 percent since 2019. the u. n says more than 50000000 people across 45 countries are now on the brink of famine. well, joining us now from london as adi. i'm sure of it. he's a senior research fellow, the oxford institute for energy studies and also author of the book, trading and price discovery for crude oils. thanks so much for joining us on counting the cost audio cell by asking you what you make as good terrorist. a suggestion because i know many economists would argue that taxing profits at a time the short supply could backfire in the long term, it would definitely bac

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crisis. legal experts say u. s. law does not prevent the united states from providing material assistance. 4 days after a lightning strike ketchup was biggest oil storage facility. the blaze finally seems to be under control. but analysts say the loss of 4 supertankers will only aggravate cooper's already critical energy crisis. with most claims extinguished rescue workers have now entered the disasters and for the 1st time to search for missing firefighters. and while the lights is still on for some, he was energy crisis is set to become critical. ed augustin, al jazeera maintenances cuba. ah, and let's take you through saw the headlines here now da 0 now for me, u. s. president donald trump says he's invoke the 5th amendment and refused to answer questions under oath. and a court deposition in new york. the case involves allegations, the trump organization misled banks and tax authorities about the value of its buildings and golf courses. gabriel alexander has more from new york. it is an investigation that's b

partnership with the m r at the u. s. export elite, 72000000 tons of a l. n g a year, well ahead of malaysia and 70 you countries like portugal and italy and spain obtain large amounts from algeria. but to import liquefied natural gas infrastructure is needed. europe is setting up investments. it has a lot of catching up to do. germany is only now building its 1st failing g terminals. nonetheless, gas market analyst hi co lumen says germany is coping quite well with the current trickle of gas from russia. it still injection the storage facility is ongoing. main reasons that the state is supporting this injection or entitled a special entity to injections and sit there for quite a while. so we're not and really crisis models. but on the other hand, the very high prices, of course, a concern for everyone in the market and take your social concerns will future economic development. what's going to be the case in the next few months? so when, when winter comes. yeah, i think it depends. of course, in some respects it depen