That adopt price limits on the commodity in response to the use decision to impose a cap on russian export. And the u. S. National debt source to historic hiv as the country borrows more money, tell finances budget deficit a mid 40 year high inflation rates, a mosque out to the world. This is our to international. Im rachel blevins, and these are the top stories this our we begin with the latest in russia. Ukraine conflict where 90 ukrainian troops were killed and multiple military vehicles destroyed in the cross merely mon area. On wednesday, according to the Russian Defense ministry, russia withdrew its troops from the strategic city and, and on us republic. Last week to stop its forces from being and circled by the ukrainian military. While the head of the dont screw public says the situation around cross the lawn is stabilizing some online media report suggest russia is regaining some territories and a counter offensive. So there has been no official confirmation. R t. Z eagle, or you dont, off reports from the don bass frontline. These rushes new defensive lines on the very edge of the form elegance crew, public before ukraines counter offensive. This town, than far off from combat was in the midst of revitalizing its peaceful, mundane life. Now, all these efforts have been uprooted. Remini once again i proclaim found this is were rushing through you free, successful counter offensive on this front. They are trying to learn by their mistakes and they are building up their fortifications quite hastily. But what is staggering to see here is their locals. Theyre going about their daily lives. There are just, well they go to supermarket, the life just goes on for them as if nothing has changed since the ukrainians captured more territory and well came closer to their homes. Many ran to safety as ukraines troops approached, but many stayed too, and often not out of desperation, but with a clear intention and principle at the foundation of this heart wrenching choice. Later in the spring. As 3rd nath, im sure that the russian trips will not leave us. I want to believe in the basque until february, the 24th. I do not one war, and now i do not want to be with ukraine because its kara right here. Now. Its carry many people i leave in a panic. Well then he has left, the neighboring street is empty, you go to bed and you dont know if hell wake up. How long will it be . After all, we are human beings and we all have one light. If youve got a hot locals here are defying the threat of inevitable persecution and even torture of the pro russian population. If the town fools amid shillings they go about their daily routine. The towns, tiny mark had shrunk to a fraction of its former size. For one merchant here, a personal, devastating tragedy conclusively sold the stay or leave dilemma. Well, well talk more topical error every year for good. Oh, for them to you. Here you, when you were you . Russia is busy amassing troops on this part of the front. The garrison is partly made up of volunteer veterans who have been repelling caves outnumbering forces for weeks until receiving an order to retreat. Reinforcements are being drawn here to answer your browser. We are trying to hold the territory and russian help is coming. Every one, support and fighting spirit is already rising. National still farther. Our troops are advancing. The artillery is firing accurately. The infantry are at their posts and after the fighting spirit is excellent, every one is ready to fight for their land. Boy, russia lost control over large suites of land over the past 30 days. Now its carrying out a total realignment of forces aiming to curb ukraines advance stop it and restart the offensive. Im again done of reporting from the don bass r t ah o pac plus members, including russia and saudi arabia had approved a major cut around 2000000. 00 Barrels Per Day in their crude output. Its the biggest reduction in over 2 years designed to prop up prices on world markets. Saudi arabias Energy Minister explained the reasoning behind the decision. We are not in the gambling business. We have to be careful. I have had a 75 years of experience in this field. I would like to challenge anybody who could come and say, weve been through a situation assimilated as it is today. And if we are not to be a tentative old ticket, likely lecture either did and look at what is happening, did backpedaling . Theyre trying to cut a catch up. We cannot afford playing, catch you. So on the one hand, we have the intentions of the e. U. And the wes, which are crystal clear, they want to punish russia with low oil prices by introducing a price cap. On the other hand, we have the group of all producers called opec plus, which is surely interested in higher prices for years. They have been achieving that through limiting their output. And guess whos running the show as the biggest players when it comes to opec plots, thats saudi arabia in russia. Now i do want to point out that washington work hard to convince the oil which gulf countries not to agree to an output cut. So the number one question right now is what comes 1st for saudi arabia and its opec plus allies, their own economic interests, or friendship with the us today, the answer was given. Opec plus decided to go for the move that would drive the prices up. This is said to weaken the efforts by the west, anger the us apparently, and help russia at the end of the day. Now this is what perhaps led to the following exchange between a journalist and the saudi Energy Minister at that press conference in vienna. The gas price is widely seen in europe and much of the western world as having been manipulated by russia, which is cut supply. People will know, see, so the arabia and the core members of opec, an opec plus, cooperating with russia to try and raise the oil price it will with the simplicity of david will be the of you there. Do you went to twisted to, to your and fine . Its your prerogative. Its short, right . Its with weve been collaborating with opec plus countries ever since december, 2016. So it is not an accident of, of mutual convenience. If you could, could. This is not the only exchange between the saudi Energy Minister and the western media. The official refused to answer questions from reuters accusing the agency of disrespecting saudi arabia and spreading inaccurate information about the countries policies. Referring to an article based on anonymous sources, claiming oil price collusion by riata and moscow. Alex solar from richardsons agency. I had 2 questions, specialist linux, i have to talk to you about. Sure you got it wrong. Ok, i knew you hadnt got it wrong twice. You did, i did, i did not do a proper job. You talked about that i should doing this and that. And actually the day that your story came out. No one from marsha talked to me nor i talked to anybody from russia. You repeated that again with another 10 of a story with priority to that. That is, how would you address her level of law congregating at all into 100. 00 price that is not to but if you have question dedicated to others, but not me, im not talking to roy until you would expect the shores, which is the Energy Minister on behalf of gashodi government. The move. Com is the same day that you agree to a price cap on russian oil to start in december and a new round of sanctions. The move bands Maritime Transportation of russian oil sold above the cap, sat by g 7 members. Hungary who is Prime Minister is repeatedly question the effectiveness of the e. U. Sanctions. Policy stressed earlier that this moved doesnt cover pipeline oil. Moscow has responded, stating it will not sell oil to those unwilling to pay a fair market price. So the managed, well, prices are 37 percent higher than last year, in case the price kept mechanism is implemented. I would not rule out a rise in prices since there might be a deficit. Any country that will now be buying our resources, well have to make a decision on whether it will pay according to the market instruments, which means making purchases on a competitive basis. If the decision is made by a company on its own, it risks not receiving the resources, since that would mean no profits for russia, and would likely lead to a decrease in the extraction and relocation of resources to the media were quick to point at the opec plus Production Cut as a personal failure of the us president , as they may bring gasoline prices up a month before mid term elections. That as the by an Administration Reportedly made last minute efforts to convince gold states to give up such a move. With the white house meeting the cut with an angry reaction. The president is disappointed by the short sighted decision by opec bloss to cut production quote us, while the Global Economy is dealing with the continued negative impact of food and invasion of ukraine at the time when maintaining a Global Supply of energy of paramount importance. This decision will have the most negative impact on lower and middle Income Countries that are already reeling from Elevator Energy prices. Joining us live now to go further in depth on this is arvin bora, the vice chair for the Libertarian National committee. Arvin is great to have you on the program today. Now, how much of a blow could these Production Cuts be for biden . And the democrats ahead of the upcoming mid term elections. The Production Cut to a certain extent are outside of bidens control. But when its completely inside by the control is the wealth of sanctions against multiple Oil Producing countries, russia or on venezuela . I mean, once again, the foolishness of, of things is now catching up because the other thing, so its not that people are going to say, oh, by didnt, didnt negotiate well enough with saudi arabia, that you know, what your rates are going to do or not do is not really under, by the control what theyre going to say is look how stupid the shape the things were. Look how short sighted it was to prevent the American People from being able to buy fuel from whoever they want to buy it from. Yeah, were certainly starting to see the impacts of those decisions. Now, the binding ministration reportedly made a last minute effort to make opec plus members change their decision. That of course, followed the president visiting saudi arabia personally, the summer. Now given recent events, what can we read into the state of the current relationship between the u. S. And gulf states . The relationship to us in gulf states has not been particularly good at any point in recent memory. We have regimes that are propped up by the United States, but still resent the United States for their infiltration and meddling. So its not that that, that the relation has gotten considerably worse. They just werent very good to begin with with bite and try to convince them to change their mind. Its really showing that he himself was unwilling to change his mind. All that would need to happen to end the fuel shortage is to get rid of all the sanction that prevent american companies, individuals from buying fuel. If biden was simply changing his mind, then he wouldnt have to beg saudi arabia to change their mind. Instead, we continue to stay in issuing statements and trying to convince them otherwise. Now what do you make of the fact that given everything the by ministration is that all of the ways that it is tried to convince saudi arabia to do it at once, that riata still went along with these Production Cuts. And also with russia on this one, the, i mean, the fact that they didnt listen to the United States and thats again, thats nothing new is. I dont know, theres been any point in recent history where gulf states have been listening and, and following the instructions of the american government. Its really showing that you, if, when you start begging, you know, the gulf states, when you start beg, middle Eastern Countries have changed their already declared policies. Its an act of desperation as an act of shortsighted foolishness. When the solution is literally right in your hand, i mean simply removing things and would end the fuel shortage essentially immediately. Now, speaking of that desperation, if biden doesnt go the route of addressing any of those sanctions, and possibly removing them, do you see him turning to us oil reserves again . And what risks could this bring to global and g u. S. Markets in the months to come. I mean, i think its fairly likely that he would turn to the reserves. I mean there, the risk of turning to reserve is not that that particular harm the economy, the risk of trying to reserves you might run out of reserves. And if you do run out of reserves, then youre in a real situation. So, so i think that the risk over there is much worse than an economic risk. Its a risk of literally just running out. And so well do it almost certainly will it have an Economic Impact right away . Know, could have a long term Economic Impact. Absolutely. I mean, if you, if the United States runs out of its reserve, the economic consequences, the bad would be fairly staggering. Overall certainly continue to follow this one and see what comes out of it. Arvin for a vice chair for the Libertarian National committee. Thank you for your time and analysis. Thanks for me on poland wants Nuclear Weapons on its territory or sauce says it has discussed the possibility of joining natos Nuclear Sharing Program with the u. S. Washington, however, says, is unaware of the request, but the polish president seem to adamant that he was Nuclear Warheads in the country. The 1st problem is that we do not have Nuclear Weapons. There is no indication the polar will get them in the near future. But there is always a potential to participate in the nato Nuclear Sharing Program. We have spoken to the u. S. Leadership on whether they are considering this possibility. Its an open issue. The Nuclear Sharing Program enables those nato states without atomic weapons to participate in planning their usage by the block. It also allows those states to apply for storing a portion of the blocks Nuclear Arsenal on their own territory. So far, the u. S. Is the only Nuclear Power in the alliance is relocated some of this atomic weapons and other member states, namely in belgium, germany, italy, the netherlands, and turkey. Now this comes as western media is accused of creating a hysteria by claiming that russian president vladimir, who is prepared to use Nuclear Weapons in ukraine. Moscow has firmly denied such allegations saying that initiating a nuclear war is unacceptable. Lets cross a live it now to the co director of the International Action center. Sarah flounders. Sarah is good to see you now. Why do you think that poland wants Nuclear Weapons on his territory now, out of time when the western press is stoking 3 years of a possible nuclear war, poland wants to do everything may tend to be of service to nato, and the Us Government in this war and every escalation, every way that they can find to further help that escalation, they will certainly do, might be a statement of symbolic importance. But it adds to a whole fever pitch that the u. S. Is creating of a risk of nuclear war use of Nuclear Weapons in your and it is a goes with us plans which are in every way to to do everything to undermine europe. Its economy. And now even this talk of Nuclear Weapons. Now poland, roland, this is a huge increase and its military budget in and also there appeals not only for Nuclear Weapons, but for more us troops to be stationed in poland and Eastern Europe and europe as a whole. So its, its one more step where there are 2 of the temple they already have the largest by category by gdc, military budget of any of the nato countries. Wow. And now you mention what this would symbolize, but at the same time could pulling the involvement in the nato shared Nuclear Weapons program. Be a step towards the country having its own independent Nuclear Arsenal. Well, thats what theyre talking about. And we just have to keep in mind that and that even bringing Nuclear Weapons to europe, storing them there for years involving other countries has been carried out by the United States since 19 fifties. And there been huge movements in europe calling for the u. S. To remove Nuclear Weapons instead, theyve modernized in every sense and sought to involve more and more countries. So it is a danger, a real danger for all the people of the world and especially of europe to even engage in such constant talk and threats and trying to up the ante more and more. And they have a country at their the has willing to play that role calling for Nuclear Weapons to be held in poland. At the same time, increasing the military budget, increasing the number of troops falling for more us troops in the us certainly seems to have a lot of control here. So why do you think that the binding administration has not responded to poland request so far . Do you think that washington wants to deter bolen from having Nuc