i'm with fierce battle to re join in ukraine, southern port city of muddy bowl that does dance. republic forces continue to take the fight to the ukrainian military nationalist battalion with china. foreign minister heads to india for talked, the oil trade with russia and closer ties among eastern bloc states are some of the potential talking points during that is, in a hopes goal. they, you case the offense chief reveals plans to send british warships to the black sea of london condemned the video of the call calling it's the 8th significant national security risk building speaking to one of the price or later

ah one minute past 4 in the afternoon here in moscow this thursday, march the 24th i'm you know, neil. this is our team. international. ukrainian forces have claimed a russian navy ship has been destroyed by a ballistic missile in the countries southern city of burdens which russia captured last month. locals reported a huge explosion on fire in the cities port this morning, the russian defense ministry, and yet commented on the reported attack. also, 3 residents in mario pole are still trying to escape the city, which has been engulfed in bottles for weeks than yes. republic forces continued to

fight the ukrainian army nationalists battalions, they're claiming they have captured most of the area. many civilians remain trumped inside the city, though unable to flee via humanitarian corridors. greens and the russian military is assisting local forces. this exclusive for the shared with our chief shows the joint military and securing the residential buildings occupied by ukrainian forces in morning to another. over a headlines, the chinese foreign minister is on his way to india, to discuss trade with russia and other issues that says pressure grows on new delhi from the west to sanction moscow. over the conflict in ukraine, which the indian prime minister and the rent remotely has so far, refused to do the us and its allies have been making intense overtures to india thing they will replace goods already sourced from russia. well,

let's talk to r t. donal court, who has been following developments on this quite interesting developments as well . if you've got countries from the southern block, appearing to be rallying together to deal with what is a complex geopolitical situation. it take us through what is expected from the chinese for the to india and the rest and the yeah, that's exactly true. i mean china is diplomatic tor we have to understand is actually also coming on the backdrop of a massive pressure campaign by washington. basically to isolate russia from countries that want to stay neutral in the conflict in terms of the conflict in ukraine and basically play nice with both sides as for what's set to happen at this upcoming meeting. we can look at what was recently spoken about in the recent meeting between china and pakistan. one of the major points was the fact that both countries saw i'm the heretic effects that these anti russian sanctions are having on the world economy. and that's no doubt going to be one of the main points at

this upcoming meeting in india. and the reason for that is because also beijing and new delhi are being pressured by the united states because they've cut publicly come out against these western sanctions. being put against russia, this is just, i mean, despite the fact that india, for example, is one of the world's biggest consumers of russian military hardware, washington is trying to pressure new delhi into replacing that with american weaponry. i mean, also india recently bought as much as 3000000 barrels of discounted russian crude oil recently. and that was something that obviously the west was not very happy about the united states is not happy about india buying russian oil and wants to basically replace it from with, with other energy sources. and china also did not well react well either when washington said that russia should actually be excluded from the g 20 in a similar way that it was with the g h. with take a listen. what it said on the question of the g. 20, i will just say this,

we believe that it cannot be business as usual for russia in international institutions and in the international community are which of the g. 20 is a major platform for international economic cooperation with the participation of major economies in the world. russia is an important member and no member has the right to remove other countries as a member. now, another important point to keep in mind is that the 2022 bricks meeting is set that it's going to be taking place in china. so while washington tries to isolate russia from all these bricks countries, it's really, it's really possible with all these demands and threats that it's making, that it's going to end up isolating those countries from itself. we can go back to that recent meeting between pakistan and china. that i mentioned earlier, they discussed how they were going to resist western sanctions. and beijing also recently stood by russia and a recent draft proposal in the united nations for a draft resolution that just took place. so it really looks like these countries,

the washington's trying to alienate from russia are actually standing by it that it could be that this plan is going to backfire and was, yeah, it's fascinating to see how this one is going to play. because it's got a lot of ramifications don't quarter. thank you. well, senior chinese officials ultimate with their pockets on counterparts this week just to go through that with both countries in strong agreement against the western assumptions of russia. both babies far in ukraine along with productive dialogue. things are a little less insight to the opposition head of an upcoming vote of no trust in the pm. well, let's discuss those issues with shaheed or as a independent um list, an international security. first comment here, you're very welcome to the program on that latter appoint for shaheed. why do you think some parties are turning against them? run county? is this a real threat to his leadership?

okay, a little bit of an issue there with a connection to shop or shade. yeah. hi. you can hear me. it's unit here presenting in moscow. you've got a good line you gotta go to hear me. yeah, we're just talking about him. ron can 1st of all, there seems to be a threat to his leadership. is it real or otherwise? do you think with the members of his party going to the opposition? is that threat to him? i was prime minister of pakistan. well i think there's certainly a threat to must be aware. he is facing a no confidence motion in the box on parliament at the moment. let me remind you the promise to wrong hands. government is on enjoy a to 1st majority at the moment, so they are dependent on allies to, to, you know, kind of sustain their government. and that has been the case for the past 3 years. the no confidence motion is going to be,

it's going to be discussed in the parliament or the next several days. i think. and this is something really interesting because there's the 1st time in boxed on history that a no confidence motion has been brought against a prime minister who does not face any corruption charges. so it's really interesting time in august on history. and i think that the he is going to survive with cuts and bruises. ok. interesting. you will see how that plays. i just on the functions then show he the issue about china and pockets. they're worried about the spillover effect of sanctions on countries that have refused to impose sanctions or mass sanctions, at least on russia. how real are those concerns when that, when the 2 countries come together and what sort of impact do you expect to see on the economies of other countries? look, i think the other varies regarding the spillover effect and other countries of us

or rest and sanctions against russia is absolutely credible box on and china and have public knowledge that they have discussed this issue. let me remind you that's quite recently. taiwan has imposed sanctions. on russia, so they will not be providing microchips, they will not be fabricating microchips for russian companies, russian technology enterprises, etc. so the spillover effect has already started. what's interesting is that the us strategy to pressurize russia seems to be a selective application of punishment strategy. so they do not require countries like india, for example, that has abstained from the nations security council on russia. they are not being penalized, but certain other countries like bargain on or facing extreme amount of internal and external pressure to condemn russia or be part of the western lead sanctions against the russian economy. which clearly clearly are

a collective punishment strategy. and they're going to clearly heart, the russian people more than anybody else and west understands that. so they are trying to build this internal pressure inside inside russia to try and bring about a policy change. and obviously to spill or effect is absolutely the real and bugs ton and try and are certainly worried about it. thank on hand. china is diplomatic to her. are western auctions, do you think pushing the eastern block closer together? in fact, over, i think the, the rules based international order, as we are told, is not actually based on rules. let me remind you that almost 2 decades ago, when the entire world was told that the iraq has weapons of mass destruction, the entire weather. western leadership came on television came to the united nations floor and quite literally light to the entire world that we need to go to

war to substitute stop iraq from you know, firing nuclear weapons into britain or israel or some other country. i mean, it is really, really interesting that the western countries expect the entire global narrative to be on their side when they are the aggressors, but not the other way around. i mean, they are selective application of punishment strategy. it certainly creating a multiple world because that is exactly what they are trying to stop. the duration belt led by china, russia and some of the other regional hours like box on iran. turkey are trying to create a new block in the origin planes. what the western countries are trying to ensure that the post world war 2 dominance of the western order from economics, strategic, political point of your roommate, i think that is that that is a larger ambit under which this conflict is being fought. and to be honest with you

so far, the americans are asked to be, you know, are not succeeding and convincing any of so patient countries was let me take you back to the work that no, no, patient country would it for a, for the united states or any western country, other united nations be abstain from voting so yeah. their popularity as far as the public notice because it's, it's declining. yeah. a lot of issues we're gonna try and actually go through some of them later in the program as well. shaheed, thanks very much. for your take today, sure, he'd rather independent unless an international security 1st commented or talking to us from islam about today. i glasgow stern states rub up on t rush and pressure. easton block nations voice concerns about the situation. fuel by a recent statement from u. s. president joe biden on building a new world order led by western nations. as one of my,

as the one of the top military people said, man a secure meeting the other day. 60 or 60000000 people died between 191946. and since then, we've established a liberal world order, and that hadn't happened in a long while. a lot of people died, but nowhere near the chaos. and now's the time when things are shifted, we're going to be a new world order out there. and we've got a lead, we've got to unite the rest of the free world doing it already. or we invited a puddle of guests from china, india, and south africa to hear their views on that potential new world order headed by the us. if you talk about the new world water, it sort of signifies as if you are already victorious at the time when the world is undergoing threw up and demick a kind of the, the entire global economies. in a crisis, the american president biden's sort of popularity is that at the historic glory,

40 percent, that's the that should not be the time to talk about the new world order as young people are. definitely can continue. dennis as young people of south africa, a peace loving country. well, why did that be? seems to be a country in the world with $150.00 minimum countries, which feels that it has been elected to lead us. i mean, you look at something as simple as need to. what is the purpose of natal when the soviet union collapses $991.00. instead of following the u. s. a side of natal uses that opportunity to expand. i mean, we stand with the russian people when they say enough is enough. this is a indeed i want to say is that they don't weird to say there's a new global order under the u. s. you deployed the to lead. of course the number of people died that that's a bit scary. you know, people would ask us prepared to do something to involve beep

or in the war you crim that man, you know more people who to be killed. so this is a problematic to say the least 2 years a bull. when he became the american president was supposed to be the be sent a liberal, would use a gentle mental language. and now he called the russian president award criminal. i quote. and he talks about india, he says, india is shaky in isolating russia. that's not the language. it's consistent with a person who's trying to, you'd like to warn the trunk you the important place to discuss global economy. is that the mechanism to resolve economic issues? the challenges and the theme is the g 20, the, the rebate, a recovery after this pandemic. and he's not about the issues related to the

ukraine crises, their politics. ah, germany has accused moscow of violating gas contract terms. while serbia was agreed to work on transferring gas payments, inter russia's national currency. now that is all after vladimir putin ordered payments, be switched to roubles for gas deliveries going forward. the seller wants his goods to be paid in his currency. i think this is correct. we are interested in getting gas, and we will agree on what the payment terms will be, and they will be spelled out in the contract the announcement of paying in roubles as 1st of all a breach of contracts. we will now discuss with our european partners how we will respond to this the u. s. dollar has again fallen below $100.00 rubles while you gas prices have spike more than 25 percent with global oil prices increasing as well. now it's after president couldn't order that quote,

on friendly countries use the russian currency to pay for their gas imports. opening as it is. so i decided to implement the sets of measures in the shortest possible time to transfer payment from natural gas supplied to unfriendly countries into russian roubles. that is to abandon the use of all compromise currencies. at the same time, i would like to emphasize separately, the russia will continue to supply guess in accordance with the volumes and pricing principles indicated in the previously concluded contracts. unlike some colleagues, we value our business reputation as a reliable partner supplier, which to austria as former foreign minister curren can. i thought to this, we're witnessing the rapid rise of a global friend called di dollarization. it's all about an acceleration of something that they're already beforehand the franchise. the fragility from a state of the dollar in commodity trading was very clear in 2008, 2009. and this is the silver financial surprises of 2009,

which we moved out thanks to a very strong chinese economy. the has been of rigidity of the dollar going off. the u on i station is, is moving on the other. i sation. it's not something that can happen now in a very swift move, but it's a regional saying that the external reading like it was the example of saudi arabia and some other orange sellers. we have had to pause even the cases iran wishing to move out of the goal of to, to euro find a topic has been on the agenda. and what we see right now is like this region statement represent, put in is a tremendous acceleration. it's so it will definitely open up the new chapter of world trade. the u. a nato will hold a number of summits today to agree on an action plan for further anti russian

sanctions. ne, so secretary general yen stone and berg will hold a press conference later on developments less cross live now to our, your correspondence, charlotte dubin ski. joining us from at paris. indeed, tickers through what's expected to be talked about today. charlotte, on what may come out of that press conference just just about to starts will bring you an update on what's been said at that new to meeting. but we do know, going into the conference, nato was looking to assess it's longer term strategy as a result of what it described as a russian aggression. although it was quite clear, it not send troops in to ukraine. we understand ukrainian president as lensky has addressed the need to meeting in brussels today. so we'll be updating your what he said. but we do know that nato is looking to strengthen in the long term. it's

forces, particularly in the eastern flanks of the alliance. jen sort of berg said on wednesday that would include land see an air and also for new battle groups in countries such as book area, romania hungry, and slovakia that will now see 8 battle groups being on the east and frank basically all the way from the baltic down to the black sea and those also talk about what kind of assistance could be given to countries such as georgia and bosnia and herzegovina. we've installed some bug saying that nature needed to have learned lessons and must support those who he described as being under russian pressure. there was also a discussion about nuclear weapons. the secretary general of nato, accusing russia of contradictions in the messages that were coming out from the kremlin, saying that, you know, russia as a signal treated not using nuclear weapons. and that's not the sense that we're getting from press conferences. that's what he said. he also talked about the

possible use of chemical and biological weapons, saying that there was a real concern by nato allies that russia could be about to do that. and that if that would happen, there would be severe consequences, not just because of what would happen on the ground, but the possibility of contamination could then spill over into other countries, neighboring ukraine. and he also talked about warnings resulting around china. and he said that nature needed to address china's role in what was happening at the moment in ukraine installed in berg said russia was being supported by china and also accused china of spreading proper about ukraine and also about need to and saying that he knew join if the 1st time now was questioning the enlargement of the alliance, all these being discussed will be bringing you the latest as to what's been decided that this meeting here on our tea in the next few hours. yeah,

appreciate that. try to, thanks very much charlotte to ben sky, bring us right up to date on those summit developments. thank you. ok, another story to bring you today. the u. k. defense secretary has demanded. you should have checked on a video of himself being caught up by a hoax called ben wallace was film by 2 russian pranksters, one of whom posed as ukraine's prime minister. a wide range of topics were discussed, including ukraine, launching it's nuclear arms program. we would like to continue the nuclear program in order to protect ourselves from russia. it's a difficult question, but with think to started ok. do you think? i mean, i think more than being neutral, russia would really have that for sure. where we were, i know that we know this,

of course, but it's the one of the question that we're interested. but if you could help us in this regard, it would be really, really important. ok, well i missed prime minister on all those big questions. i think there's a question that i need to speak to my prime minister. the principal is we will support ukraine as our friend in the choices you make. now it should be pointed out that part of the video was censored by the pranksters themselves, as they say ben wallace gave away information, now would compromise britain's national security and respond stunning st. sais. the entire video was a risk to the country security that believes the russian state actors out there calling the to practice were responsible. the claim that they were acting on behalf of moscow was denied by the pranksters themselves. information revealed by the

defense secretary included plans to move u. k. ships closer to ukraine. we will, we will go into the black sea. i think we do to go soon in the black space, how close we go to ukrainian waters where the russians are currently have a blockade. i think we will be open to discussions about looking at that. i think the whole questions that the prime minister, including the security dialogue or security guarantee, we are happy to look at all of them with you. so we're not going to rule anything out. well, let's go live now to one of the aforementioned pranksters alexi. still, you are off, also known as lexus. you're very welcome. tell us, 1st of all, how difficult was it to settle the prank and get in contact with ben wallace's office and then the man himself? so it was not so it was not so easy because its 1st time we tried to reach him probably 3 years ago when he was

a maintenance general or credit criminal minister in the home office. but at that time they denied our request. and now we had a conversation with the secretary pretty old, and after that we decided to reach the secretary wallace and we used the concept that we got before from the home office. and then we asked them easy as possible to reach the same cabinet minister of defense and then they helped us. so the way it got gaps secretary was did you expect him to be so open on that call? well,

we used the program teams and of course we were not where were you surprised when when the he did not tell us something secret but some, some things that you had said where pretty interesting and probably you have seen then for we did wish him that we haven't kept some details on the because of the kind of brief for national security for the k. we try to keep it's in difference. so we did, did like a gentleman and did not post all that shit fits, but it was pretty sensitive things where it would be remiss of me not to bring that up and actually use central parts. as you say, of the video. we're ben wallace revealed information that would harm the u. k. national security, as you say, could you give us any more information,

perhaps not the full details, but as to what was said in the parts that you did not upload? well, some details where abouts, net cloud program that ukraine and d k has had already made. and that was some details about b o laps that ukraine already adds. and i can, i can explain what really he had said, but we just kept secrets. but some details were re insert ink and fission in his glance about black c and lance about additional governmental k and position about the joining of nater. so some of them what i can describe so why it's already posted in the video. ok,

what message tell us, where are you trying to convey to people perhaps with this frank, on the case defense, secretary, him in which you message. so what did you want people to take from it? i think that it's i can, i'm not the english person that some my friends from, from the u. k. they told me that he could not be in person who is responsible for the national security of such a great country like the u. k. and the country with the nuclear weapon and she, they're responsible, carson for all of those areas. so, and if it's easy to reach came by just a private person. so just you could, you could imagine what would happen if some persons from intelligence try to

reach him and to get all necessary information. so i think i could only advise to be careful in such moments understood. we've heard the response from dawning street. have you been contacted by the case defense ministry? personally, have you heard a message from them? yes, we have read from news that they just tried to ban our youtube video and but minister of defense did not try to reach us mid. but what is interesting that day in, in they are let are they mentioned that this is kind of propaganda kind of thrashing propaganda. but we did not add, it's his words, he's speech. so if it's a purpose,

and so then it's propaganda or secretary, what was it? she's words we didn't change anything. so we just make a propaganda of keys you it difficult question. but with that's all to are you afraid of any repercussions from your prank? and ben wallace, or indeed any of your other pranks. there's been a few nuts we are not. you know that we have already do big experience and we don't think that we will harm us when did that make something training? no. as i thing, have you thought, just finally, alexia, by your future practice, or you might be calling.