the, they should know that response will follow at lightning speed. we have all the tools which no one else can now post on. this is what vladimir putin declares will be moscow's response to any outside interference against offensive in ukraine. they wake up call for european governments to consider crisis elsewhere in the world. as india's top diplomat refuses to take a hard stand against the war and ukraine and calls on western nations to pay more attention to problems in asia, no gas for poland and bulgaria until they pay for their imports in roubles. as russia turns off, the jobs, the commission chief slammed the decision as unjustified and unacceptable. and as the u. s. a continues to send thousands of its weapons to ukraine,

some defense contractors or warning of shortages. but that's as they clock up, huge profits. the broadcasting wide from our studios in moscow. this is our international john thomas . certainly glad to have you with us. now we start with the latest on the war in ukraine. a series of explosions have been reported in the city of a set of sun in the south of ukraine. as the local tv tower was allegedly hit by an air strike. the videos posted on social networks show massive glass and the remnants of projectiles. reports said the attack came from positions held by the armed forces and air defense system was immediately engaged and the tower didn't suffer critical damage. some resident said, rushing tv channels in the city were off the air as a result of the strike. but the broadcasts are now said to have been restored. there was no immediate comment from kids on the matter. meanwhile,

that we are putting, says moscow will retaliate quickly and decisively to any outside interference against its military operation in ukraine. the russian president told that to federal lawmakers during an official visit to saint petersburg on wednesday is list auto was named it. it's if someone from outside decides to interfere in the ongoing operation and will post strategic threats unacceptable to russia. they should know that our response, i'll follow at a lightning speed. we have all the tools which no one else can now boast. ult. i'd like to stress that all the toss of our military operation and don't bus and ukraine will be successfully tackled for sure. our soldiers have managed to avert a real danger looming over russia. the russian president, vladimir putin certainly shed a lot of light on the current state of the conflict and ukraine at this meeting with legislators in st. petersburg. most importantly, he said that all of the objectives of russia special operation are going to be accomplished. he said that russia was always in favor of ukraine as an independent, neutral country. and that moscow cannot be blamed for the failure of diplomacy to

work things out in response to economic sanctions. putin said that russia has the potential to become a world leader in the field of technology. and that all measures possible will be taken to defy attempts to isolate the country. now we also heard from the russian president on a plans by the ukrainians to attack crimea and done boss. let's take a listen. no whom news. as a friend, russia favored the establishment of an independent ukraine. back them, we expected ukraine to become friendly, that we will move forward together, bolstering each other, and the new historical context. suddenly, nobody expected an anti russian nation to spring up on historical russian lands than ukraine was pushed towards a direct confrontation with russia. okay, i'll remind you. unfortunately, the plans including a military attack on crimea and dumbass were enshrined in ukraine's doctrine documents, and the crating people were destined to become a consumable material generation. now it's important to note that russian president vladimir putin statements come as we're seeing more and more attacks on russian

territory that moscow was blaming here for explosions were heard throughout russian border regions including belgrade course and veronica. these nobody was killed or injured, but these are far from the 1st such attacks actually, and we've been seeing them happen more and more often as of late even back at the beginning of the military operation. when i was reporting in russia's border region of our staff, we saw a lot of shelling there as well. but what's different right now is that western officials are now openly calling for ukrainian troops to attack russian territory. let's take a listen. it's completely legitimate for ukraine to be targeting in rushes depths in order to disrupt the logistics officer already reacted to that statement. it said that if the cranium were to attack russian territory with u. k provided weapons that russian forces would retaliate by attacking decision making centers in kiev. but this all really looks,

these attacks are just one theater of what looks to be a larger confrontation between russia and the west. in fact, he said that this is all actually happening on the backdrop of a long waged economic war by the west, against russia, to isolate rushes economy, and that the west has shown little willingness to sit down at the negotiating table . daniel mcadams, executive director of the wrong paul institute for peace and prosperity says, the west and the us in particular or wrong to be ignoring pritchens warnings when it comes to the ukraine war. one thing that's been very consistent this entire time is the president putin has done what he said he's going to do this goes back to december when the new documents for a new security architecture, when you're doing, et cetera, et cetera. he's done what he said he would do it, he should be taken seriously. i think it's very clear that the, that the u. s. and it's nato allies are attempting to ramp up support or ramp up the transfer of a weapons to ukraine. they believe their own rhetoric,

they believe that russia is bluffing. obviously the us must know that this is a desperate situation for ukraine. why are they continue with and why more importantly, why is it in any remote way in america's national interests, every provoking a war over the borders of ukraine? no one has answered that question yet. india is foreign minister, has resisted calls from the west to take a hard stance against the war in ukraine, and instead says problems in asia should take precedence. we spoke about the claim . i could also, i remember less than a year ago. what happened and i've kind of stood with an entire civil society, was to me under the bus by the world or we initial set of challenges which you know, i would say impact on the store that again, quite candidly,

we've been hearing for the last 2 months a lot of our lot of arguments from europe, so you know that things happening in europe and asia should worry about it because these could happen in asia. guess what things have been happening in a shop for the last 10 years. now, europe may not have looked at it so, so you know, it could do this could be a wake up call for europe, not just in europe. it could be a wake up call for europe to also look at ation. india has so far defended its neutrality over the war in ukraine as it maintains close ties with moscow, ukraine. it has been a central topic of discussion between the indian administration and western counterparts for the past 2 months. the top diplomat there has insisted that india needs to rid itself of the idea that a foreign power could define that country and it should not need to seek approval from the west. we've got a reaction from a former senior official in the indian foreign ministry who pointed out numerous

tragedies in asia that were ignored by europe. we are being given someone's about how we should behave. and i think the minister should go was right to point out the show me more prices where very close on the song on the problem of the internet isn't and to which the europe in countries paid no attention. did not hear the concerns of the nation countries. so i think that he was quite right in pointing out that if not every country looks at the problem from the perspective off, it's a job the fee and national interests and the european perspective on this is not necessarily shared by other countries around the world. i think that

there have been so many tragedies in asia and africa, of which have been completely ignored by the fact many of these strategies i've been caused by the policies off many, we are going powers. i just have to look at a bunch saunders vietnam, those libya city still more going on in yemen. and so many other places around the world, the new africa he's probably rising. i think that we should all be concerned about the life of human beings of suffering all around actually on so vows the conscience on russia has shut the taps on its natural gas supplies to poland and bulgaria. the

energy giant gas prom cited those countries. failure to pay for their imports in roubles on time, and added that any unauthorized use of transit gas destined for other buyers could result in for their cuts. that use chief has slammed moscow's decision as unjustified the answer by guests. from that, it's unilaterally stopping delivery of gas to customers in europe. is yet another attempt by russia to use gas as an instrument of blackmail. this is unjustified and unacceptable. and it shows, once again and reliability of russia has a guess, supplier, you were, was quick, took years moscow black male in the to you countries that are almost completely dependent on russian gas. the president of the european commission now says that the work should be intensified to bring as much director with the union as possible to minimize the negative impact from this decision. and also she says, a very interesting thing that right now, poland and bulgaria are receiving energy from their neighbors. so they are

continuing to receiving russian gas. but just someone else is paying for that. and gas prices, of course, are much higher which sounds a little bit like observed various european politicians and experts claimed repeatedly that europe is not capable of giving oppression gas. and this is why and this tending that many countries have already accepted pain in the way russia ones among them. hungary, austria, germany here is austrian, a chancellor explaining that it's items we'd be doing thought the we, i mean, the ostrich mineral oil administration stock company accepted the payment terms as the german government and the payment conditions were found adequate to comply with the conditions of the sanctions, it was important for us and, and this is very important for you to make it clear. the states can still pay in your is a doors or any other currency. they just have to open accounts in rushes gas from bank. so that later their payments are converted into roubles, so it doesn't make a big difference actually. plus gas from claims if notified,

both poland and bulgaria in advance about the suspension of the ration guess if the payment is not made. so this is actually what happened. they were warned, not threatened, right? the russian presidents spokesperson also stresses that this decision is rush reaction to numerous unfriendly step stores more so you know that the country's economy has been, he dramatically because of numerous packages of economic sanctions. so who's black mailing, who that's the question ready? seeing of course, a huge cost of living crisis in europe. is that, or a disconnect between what officials and seeing how people are actually dealing on a day to day basis is going to make the, the current situation worse. while europe is dependent on russian energy and of course, given adopt would fail immediately. and everybody knew that, and everybody was aware about the consequences and they have been talking about that. now we see that the market is in turbulence. clearly european gas prices rose

by as much as a fees. but a sad thing is that ordinary people are those paying the highest price we hear right now, for example, that some people in europe now have to choose between paying their energy bills or buying food because it's getting hotter and hotter everyday to afford was my colleague union o'neill, speaking with marshall for notional earlier, now london has said that it will be russia that suffers the most over its gas payment rules. claiming that turning off the champs for bulgaria and poland would only lead to greater global isolation from moscow. putting gas supplies will have a very damaging effect on russia as well because it is becoming further and further, more and more, not just a political pariah but in economic brian. the article very clearly needs to be torn down because this is a very serious problem. there is a real yes and by the relationship that has existed between europe and russia. if you look at the shadow of the russian gash and you're going to be just, i don't $14250.00 b, c. m, you know,

the crashes of europe is actually 5 times out of shima. so i would rather have, you know, want to see me goes making it is having that judgment and actually trying to solve the current crisis. i think you want to research to jewish as the war and ukraine enters its 2nd month. grain exports have been significantly cut, raising concerns about potential hunger on a global scale or to show depend, sky reports. oh, cloud zone. but the feels why seeds should have been clunky, remain empty, of course, ukraine. the consequences for global food supplies could be catastrophic. this crisis could throw up to 1700000000 people over one 5th of humanity into poverty, destitution and hunger on a scale not seen and decades. ukrainian, russia on known as the bread basket countries they are which in food, all soil,

it feed people across the world between the account to something like 30 percent of the world production of weaken volley a low effect, the ball corn and more than haul full sunflower oil prices are already increasing. there are difficulties finding some basic items, but there are warnings that there is far worse yet to come. the conflict is causing suffering far beyond its borders, including through the twin impact of rising food in energy cost. this is exacerbating pre existing hunger crises for many countries, including in the horn of africa, this a hell and the middle east, which will threaten political stability if we don't act fast. the threat of famine will increase for millions of people who has been clear that these problems have been caused. falling, russia, the books, foreign policy chief is said that it is russian. so just so important in field

preventing ships leaving poor for the cause. any issues, all those including you and organizations have counted that saying the biggest issue facing food supplies, all the sanctions imposed by the west supply chain and logistical disruptions on ukrainian in russian grain and oil seed production, as well as restrictions on russia's exports will have significant impacts on food security. as i told the u. n. secretary, general sanctions or a double edged sword. as he isn't grown that this conflict could become entrenched . these concerns about farming and christ is likely to become rooted even deeper. and just the way things in more military weaponry, there are some that are questioning whether this could fertilize the war and help food insecurity grow, add to that the bands on russian oil causing global spikes in energy costs that increasing pressure all costs over all the world bank and also the food shortage

trade following the world could be a could be on top of a catastrophe. one that could drive tens of millions to the edge of famine. solar g musky oxy. paris global military spending has now surpass 2 trillion dollars with the u. s, sitting firmly on top of that mountain, the latest figures show it spends more on its military than the next 9 nations combined. some are increasingly questioning whether the country has gotten its priorities the right way around. it comes as president biden's approval ratings hit a new low with 37 percent of respondents strongly disapproving of his performance. the survey shows people wants to the government to focus more on inflation and storing gasoline prices, as well as concerns about surging crime rates, immigration, and election integrity. also of concerns to americans is that businesses are

raising their prices and getting ever bigger profits. a recent study has shown that the average profit growth is currently around 50 percent. and some big name brands like the retailer motel, have clock in incredible numbers up to thousands of percent since 2020 political analysts. garlan nixon believes the us government's priorities are not what the public wants them to be. what we're looking at is a country that has its priorities upside down and inside out. and here's what i mean. you know, the, the duty, the 1st duty of a government is to take care of the needs of the people. our government now takes care of the needs of a very small group, a very powerful, well, the oligarchy. so the military spending, interestingly enough, is partially about maintaining world hedge money. well, that's falling apart, but trying, trying to maintain world edge of a germany. but the other big part of it is it's about enriching

a small group of very wealthy people. our government has been wholly captured by the powerful oligarchy. i mean, we always use the term oligarchy. we're referring to russia, ukraine, or other countries. but none of those oligarchy are nearly as wealthy as the jeff bezos in the line marks in the co brothers in america. and they have wholly captured the u. s. government. so if you look at the priorities of the u. s. government in who they're representing, one could argue that yes, they've got their priorities and in order because the people that they are representing are getting in rich as far as the other 330000000 of us, we no longer rank very high and their list of priorities ukraine is important to the of the neo cons, to the beltway insiders, the pro war. and i'll use this term, fascist pro or beltway insiders in washington, d. c. they c u green as the top priority, but the people on the street are concerned with, you know,

feeding their children and keeping a roof over there. the u. s. will face a shortage of figure, anti aircraft systems in 2023 because so many have been sent to key of to our new crime. that's the warning from the arms manufacturer and major u. s. defense contractor raytheon. however, the conflict has been good news for raytheon, according to the company's recent report. it clocked up sales, almost $16000000000.00 in the 1st quarter of this year. that's up 3 percent over last year. now this financial boost comes courtesy of figure missiles being one of the major weapons delivered to ukraine, as well as javelin anti tank missiles. since russia military operation began 1400 anti aircraft systems have been sent to key of forces with some officials, estimating washington has given away nearly a quarter of it's stocks to curb. the shortage, the u. s. defense department and seeking more military equipment to be distributed by other organizations. the department is asking for air defense,

anti armor and other systems from across the military industry. and it's exploring ways to ramp up production. former cia analyst larry johnson says defense contractors, fees on conflicts to drastically push up spending on arms. united states congress is poised to sought to up the defense budget to 800000000000. not more. so these companies are not hurting at all. this is, you know, they love this trying to think because it gives them a rationale to justify expenditures or weapons systems. the stinger missile is 1st built in 1981. this is the equivalent of sending 1981 lot to somebody as a new audible this last number to it is a weapon system that frankly was designed for technology in the 1980s. and over the last 30 years, the united states has never flawed a country that actually had a real error. so now there's

a weapon system is being used in ukraine. and it has not been used effective when i was been in the stingers in 1986 was not the central intelligence agency. we were dealing with it in terms of arming the enough ghana stand to shoot down the soviet telephone. it was effective back in the 1980s, but it had still had limited effect. we're now in 2022. this is the technology it's, it's 41 years old. i don't care how much they've updated. the foundation of it is, it's a 41 year old weapons. basically, united states is giving away a weapon system that's not obstructive against the 1st world, military and rush is a 1st world military. as the u. s. military spending stores the countries secretary of state antony blinking, says it will support wants efforts to boost its military strength to repel what they label as chinese aggression. the bite and administration is determined to make

sure that taiwan has all necessary means to defend itself against any potential aggression, including unilateral action by china, to disrupt the status quo that's been in place now for many decades. in response, a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has said the country rejects lincoln's quote deplorable statement. he also emphasized the importance of maintaining peace and stability in the taiwan strait. chinese financial analyst, frances loon believes washington's plans for taiwan are simply about deterring beijing. us continue to fly to taiwan to try to try and i'm taking over my lawn. that is, that the policy, you know, can be applied to taiwan for that case is going to be selling

more, but still not be selling the most advantage rep and what everybody want to see if they will make this quote, nothing changes. i think that would be the best for everybody that you and said, trying to economy a so much so in, in the china where the us, us, china, so they, they have to talk to each other. russia has slammed as a provocation, ukraine's promise to occupy the neighboring breakaway republic of trans. mr. if mulled over request and key of earlier accused moscow of the stabilizing the situation. their transmitter is a breakaway region of mult, over where russian peacekeeping forces have been station since 990 s. it also has

a long border with ukraine. the security situation in the area has deteriorated in recent days, due to several reported attacks, a local residence explains, pushing as can could me in recent days, a number of unfortunate events have happened in trans and mister, several shots were fired at the state security ministry to tv towers are blown up in the village of my act. then there were attacks on a military unit in the village of bar county and the largest ammunition depot in europe. in the village of cold last night was also attacked. like many residents are panicking and leaving, but there are those who remain calm, reacting to ukraine's statements to occupy transistor. while dover has said the only situation, the only solution is a political one. but the head of the trans mr. has said, efforts are already under way to drag it into a wider conflict. here is the view of local parliament member andrea so fun off in regard to give stance. you're pretty much, we need to view the interview of various stove it as well as some other statements

by such characters as bodacious in a deliberate provocation. and at the same time, an attempt to force trans needs it to make statements that can be used against us. so we have to keep the powder dry, how security forces do that. but at the same time, we understand that both way and the russians can be provoked to do some unreasonable steps. ukrainian leadership is now trying to provoke russia in different areas. it seems trans east has become a hostage of this situation to some ukrainian politicians. look at it as rushes ally, relying strictly on facts we can assess accordingly. the attack on tourist paul as well as the explosion that the radio mos transmitting russian radio to ukrainian territory, as well as some other actions. in any case, it can be seen as a provocation. we proceed from the premise that as our president said, those attacking the state security ministry building hate in ukrainian territory. a russian pilots serving jail time in the u. s. on smuggling charges has been released in a prisoner exchange between moscow and washington. the russian foreign ministry

said that the exchange took place as a result of a lengthy negotiation process. constantine, yada jenko has already arrived in moscow and met with his family. he had been sentenced to 20 years and a u. s. prison back in 2011 for a legit involvement and a drug smuggling scheme supposedly uncovered. during a sting operation in the west african nation of liberia, russian officials have claimed he was abducted jenko said that he was tortured after being taken into custody. now shanker has now been swapped for former us marine trevor read. who has jailed in russia for striking a police officer ja shank goes, jailing sparked a dispute between the us and russia with moscow, claiming the arrest violated the vienna convention on diplomatic relations. russian politician marina booth, who also previously service, failed time in the u. s. on allegations that she was working as an unregistered foreign agent says, there is indeed a problem with torture and other excessively harsh treatment. in american presence

the united states. they didn't care about their own citizens. they just didn't want russians to go home because it would mean that they have been unjustly serving time in the us prison. also they, as i did when i return, they could tell the truth that american prisons are not like they show movies. and they actually do talk to people psychologically physically and they do or keep them in a very hard condition. there is a big difference between what the medic i'm say and what they actually do. and obviously the gesture makes change. gesture means that russian diplomats found words and found an offer to the united states that they, they couldn't reject. and it just means that this is incredible victory or russian diplomats for despite all the hard situation of the world's andrews before they're in the united states, they found

a way to successfully finish the negotiations. and that is a for me, this are i will be back in about 31 minutes with another phone specialist. you look say with a start to international the the ah ah

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