aah! with a with the la guns republic, it's about to come on to full control of russia and its regional allies. according to the russian defense minister who stresses that moscow is doing everything it can to protect civilians. from over here, it's less than 500 meters to the positions of the ukrainian forces. oh, corresponded reports from the dorm by the front line. why don't you ask for the defending that positions from the ukranian army and preparing to advance a former french army soldier who has been volunteering as a medical work in ukraine, cries foul at what he calls western attempts to legitimize kids neo nazi troops who

are being supplied with weapons from nato countries. the, as a battalion is ukrainian military force, good officer was getting these weapons and ammunition and now it is part of the ukrainian army. right. how can friends and europe justify the fact that a neo nazi battalion has been provided with weapons and ammunition with the international community faces global challenges? china proposes the expansion of the brick alliance. the biggest change to the group in over a decade with orange and tina, and then to talk, turn to day with very well welcome. this is on see international with the latest world news out date is good to have you with us that says vladimir putin se is russia has faced down successfully beaten back a cyber warfare onslaught from a broad to you, sir. ski that i took,

no number of cyber attacks against russia has been on the rise in recent years. however, since the start of the operation and on bass and crane and the challenges on this matter have become even more pressing and serious issue, we can say that an information war of aggression has been unleashed against russia . nevertheless, today we can already say that this cyber aggression against us has failed along with the pressure of sanctions. not as you may ma, the la ganske people's republic, east coast coming under the full control of russia and its allies. as according to the russian defense minister who's providing frontline updates. burgers used to rumor shoe russian vignettes can la guns republic forces continue to extend their control over don bass territory. the full territory of milligan's crew public is about to come under their control. russian forces are doing everything they can to avoid civilian casualties. so humanitarian corridors can continue. since the start of the operation is more than 1377000 people have been evacuated to russia.

where they can show again also said the surrender of ukrainian troops is ongoing the as of south factory and mario paul with almost 2000 competence, including as of neo nazis, turning themselves over to russian. lead force is since monday, prisoners with serious injuries or wounds being taken for treatment to hospitals across dumbass. meanwhile, this an verified fatigue appears to show what keith is calling a bombing of a cultural hole in east in ukraine. the bombing was reportedly being used as an operating base by ukraine's military local authority. say at least 7 people have been injured in the attack. russia's defense ministry has not yet commented on the incident. and the fighting rage is on in other parts of dumbass with a kindergarten and several residential homes damaged by ukrainian walk ins. and they're doing is public safety of the boats of a,

according to local officials. they say at least one civilian has been killed in the shelling with more than 50 attacks recorded in the area over night. likes to report from the dumbass front lines close to the city of dawn. yes, correspondent visits positions of dpr force is tossed. withholding a strategically important area, as they say, it's time to make an advance auto ecos. donna reports. this is the most advanced. and evan, god, position of the, the net people republics, forces. just outside of, of day of come from over here. it's less than 500 meters to the positions of the ukrainian forces. right now this is a defensive position, so they are holding their ground and their artillery is firing. well to basically, to suppress any sort of resistance that may come from that side. but well, people over ukrainian fighters over there, they respond regularly and this position is being shelled well,

daily. the cross the field, a maze of trenches reinforced with concrete and dug some 3 stories deep into the ground. on this side, the ground is dented from the bombs and shelves coming down from keeps forces. but as often as the target the front lines, the ukrainians also bombed in that city itself was so like if i, if what weapons do the ukrainian force use? watering of thought, they have quite capable weapons, including flame throwers and mortars, also long range artillery. they have entrenched themselves extensively, then lead an escrow public's forces or firing back relentlessly in a bit to keep the enemy artillery at bay window for a yard unclaiming an article anyways from the north and the east russian troops are attempting a pin, some movement against the ukrainians in a day, of course, the primary objective of the militia here is to hold the ground until the village

is fully encircled, preventing anyone from breaching the perimeter. but the garrison is thirsty for a fight. poor things are quite intense here on the front line. so far we are doing fine, but we should be advancing with him. we don't actually have much time. most of the troops here are veterans who have been fighting against caves, forces since 20 to team for them. this war is unfinished business and they are determined to get it over with once and for rule hamburgers done of reporting from the don bass r t. a former french army soldier who has recently returned from ukraine has questioned why his country keep sending weapons to key. if he say such donations, help legitimize near nazi elements in the ukrainian military. we don't see here as the as off emblem, which is the same emblem used by the s as battalion. here it is. it has the same letter, n is just upturned. and here you can see the symbol of one of the battalions of the

3rd, right? it is a circle with the raise arranged to like stairs. the symbol is also reproduced here . and even without any changes, why i'm showing this so people understand different. see with what is succession going good? you need to because you're exactly. so they just turned the letter n, taken from the ss emblem, while the symbol of the 3rd right remains unchanged. it means the as of emblem to say neo nazi symbol of the ss. and the 3rd right, was image gamma movie. how can you describe and justify the fact that ukrainian forces using the ss and 3rd reich, symbols are now receiving weapons which france and europe is supplying to crane? just to make it clear, france and europe are sending weapons and ammunition ukrainians. the as of battalion is ukrainian military force, so was getting these weapons and ammunition and young, it is part of the ukrainian army. right. how can france and europe justify the fact

that a neo nazi battalion is being provided with weapons and ammunition through, through the, the french president has promised his ukrainian counts part of land. may the landscape at arms supplies to care will increase quote, intensity. meanwhile, the u. s, senate is approved a 40000000000 dollar aid package to ukraine, despite republican lawmakers. warning is a serious lack of oversight, of where exactly that money might end up new package. unlike a pre, this bill passed in march says nothing about prohibiting the sending of weapons to the as of battalion on teeth. caleb more and has the date house the united states has just passed a 40000000000 dollar aid package to ukraine. now it's important to know that previous us aid packages ukraine, providing weapons and other supplies, have stipulated that those supplies do not end up in the hands of the notorious as italian, the neo nazi fighting division in ukraine. none of the funds made available by this

act may be used to provide arms training or other assistance to the off battalion. now what's particularly disturbing is that this recent package does not include this language. it does not specify that the as a battalion cannot. ready receive assistance from the united states. what more it appears that weaponry from nato has apparently ended up in the hands of the battalion already. you look at the as a battalions official, twitter, they seem to be highlighting weapons like a matador. ready which is an anti tank weapon that has been among the weapons that nato has provided to you. grand appears they may already be getting their hands on on us weapons at this point. and we also have us official saying they don't know where are these weapons they send ukraine, go on and know who ends up, getting them in terms of our ability to track the weapons that are going in. as you know, we don't have any forces on the ground, so that's it's difficult for us to do. i couldn't tell you where the weapons are in

ukraine and whether the ukrainians are using them at this point. they're not telling us every round of ammunition they're firing and who and when. now it's important to note the united states is the top ex, border of weapons in the world, u. s. arms flow across the planet, and there are many instances of us weapons ending up in the hands of problematic individual. when the u. s. they withdrew from afghanistan. recently, we saw the taliban get it hands on some u. s. high grade, military weapons and hardware. and that was in the hands of the taliban. we've also seen in mexico, drug cartels often armed with sophisticated u. s. military grade weaponry. so around the world, us weapons often do end up in the hands of problematic individuals is something that many people around the world are seriously concerned about is the usa continues to escalate its anti russian rhetoric. the united states continues to poor weapons into ukraine who might be on the receiving end of some of these deadly

weapons. us congressmen, chip roy, has suggested that as american faith is searching inflation and other problems that age money would be better spent at home. and i'm wondering when we voted to go to or if he went, we're going to have a proxy war and we're going to get $40000000000.00 the ukraine, because we wanna what all fancy, what our blue and yellow ribbons feel good about ourselves. maybe we should actually have a debate in this chamber, a debate in this body because the american people expect us to do that. when the border of this country is wide open in cartels have control of it and send those pouring in. and we have $30.00 trillion dollars, a debt and gas prices are spiking and 1100 hours to fill a tank, a diesel, and we go blank, jack. $40000000000.00. and by the way, i'm looking at my colleagues on this side of the aisle on that same point. oh, i've been, mr. watson's been a really have a job ahead of them to explain of the rationale behind this, to the american people directly going into mid term elections in november of this

year. that silly mistake we saw what happened in our levy of canister were nearly $9000000000.00 weaponry. i was looked on the ground there. we have no tracking mechanism for where the weapons are going. how, whose hands it will go, go. inches are not simply the adds up italian of the roots, isis in the middle. each north african of drug cartels they're working for the region will be able to buy on the black market. many of these highly advanced weapon systems on the normally say, governments and state actors have access to our thing to a gummy of massive concern over the course. not simply that it's coming gauge meant, but over the course of the next decade, see where these weapons induct. we have real questions as to exactly how, where the, why we're providing this level of assistance order, the strategic goals and adventures hero, we just got out of 20 years of war in the united states of american is mere little appetite them and sensory to return to active conflict anywhere on this globe. so we're going to be a even pass a participant in that conflict. and we'll have go through american people's find

exactly what you're doing. the vice president and the european commission has won't european bias of russian gas against pang and roubles as requested by the kremlin, as the several companies start to open accounts in russia's gas from bank from which payments would be made. it is not normal. the contracts are very clear and speak of euros and dollars that is normal, not russian roubles. putins trick is to try and keep his central bank alive using foreign currency that is not allowed on. the sanctions. central bank is under sanctions and companies must pay euro's is that contract, stipulate? that is what the contract, se putin is demanding. breach of contract. earlier, the russian deputy prime minister sit around 20 foreign bias. it opened accounts with payment deadlines looming, rushes new payment mechanism requires bias in quoting unfriendly countries to open to accounts, wanting euros in a 2nd in rubles from which the payments will be made. germany, that unit,

and frances n. d r among companies who have said they will comply with the new mechanism. italian energy from in i has already said it will open it. we will account the commission has recently issued a revised guidance on gas payments, which does not explicitly forbid room dispos it. while european so moving ahead to cub reliance on russian gas and what seems to be a quest for independence. germany, a major importer of russian field is turning its eyes to a small oil rich country council. berlin recently agreed in energy partnership with the gulf stays with gas appliance targeted for as early as 2020 full. earlier that could tarry energy went to the minister without any rapid global transition from russian feel. someone in the range of 30 to 40 percent of the total supply of gas comes from russia to actually say that we, you know, europe can, can replace that guess. it's not practically possible.

iranian political analysts, professor science mohammed mirandi believes the ongoing, any decry, says it could have been avoided. europeans obviously miscalculated with regards to the sanctions and the supplies that they aid themselves. not only by pushing for the sanctions, but also by sanctioning countries like iran and venezuela. over the past few years, young to abide by american demands. they decrease the amount of capacity coil and gas in the world, thus putting themselves in this predicament. so they only have themselves lane. the germans are making a major mistake by counting on something that will take years to be developed and the gas will be much more expensive than the russian gas. so europe will no longer be competitive. and before then, we see economic natasha in europe, especially this coming winter because they continue to push 5 americans and 45 americans and to wrecking their own economy. rushes ripple has reached

a 4 year high against the us dollar flying in the face of unprecedented western economic sanctions. bloomberg financial analysts have named the rubel the world's best performing currency of the year. so far, it's already with more than 11 percent against the dollar since january after bouncing back from a massive tumble in late february. experts say the rebound, as a result of the russian government's policies that include demanding payments in rubles for the countries of gas export, as well as discuss these developments with demands for the university professor banking and finance richard one, i thank you very much for joining in the program always nice to see what's your reaction to the re post performance and do you think was the need? is there a worried that there sanctions don't seem to be working best of yes, i mean the sanctions haven't really had a significant impact. but not of the type that perhaps a lot of the european leaders where we're aiming,

or at least following the official statements. they want to hurt russia, but they're hurting the european economies and european consumers. and it's just the beginning of that pain. we are seeing a dramatic which from what used to be fairly free market economies to a soviet style system in which europe whereby, you know, regulations restrictions, quantitative rules, sanctions are imposed. and, you know, investors or just normal market participants traders, business people can't get on with their work and their business. because of these rules and restrictions from some bureaucrats and soviet style rulers, that seem to be based in washington actually quite interesting. so if you think this is just a temporary high for the way below, do you think can well,

how long you expected to last is not a temporary development. we've, we've seen a significant con, the mental and historic point in the rubel. i believe on the day prism put an announce the very small policy that henceforth the and the bias of russian energy exports, gas, or oil, various supplies, and all for so fuels will have to pay in the russian currency. this is actually a mechanism that many market participants know from the 1970 s. you know, the early seventy's, the u. s. dollar was in free fall of to $971.00 august when the u. s. government essentially defaulted on obligations, change dollars in gold, and then you know that there was a free float and everyone sold the dollar. everyone's fleeing from the dollar

because the u. s. all said huge trading current account deficit. so then there was a lot of thinking going on in the us. how can we strengthen the dollar and they came up with this much more complicated plan. what, what do the big exporting nations need? germany, japan with huge trade surpluses. they need very little from america, but they needed energy imports, oil. and so then they had to deal with saudi arabia. and then other while export is the only sell oil against the u. s. dollar and exchange for military protection and, and so on. and from then onwards the, the dollar strength and of course, at the same time, various measures were put in place by central banks to support this policy in the west. now, for russia, it's much easier to do this because russia is an exporter off, very badly needed oil, oil and gas in particular to europe. and so by demanding that this is paid for an

roubles, you create significant demand, and this is structural demand in the rural. so i think the rubel will continue to rise. let's also not forget that actually fundamentally, even before a sudden very brief, very dramatic fallen ruble in late february, early march. before then, the rule is actually on the values it should have been stronger. and the sort of weakness of the rural started with the early of sanctions up to $21415.00. and that had been largely politically motivated. russia didn't react because russia just let you know, market forces guide this, but there weren't really market forces. there were already western interventions and restrictions also, russian national debt government bonds. i really thought you know, last year and the year before were really undervalued. and i think what we now

seeing is people recognizing this. and we're getting back to the true value of the ruble and russian assets which is being much higher, should be much higher than it has be. i wish it a seems like some kind of twisted. i already did the western countries that impose to lease sanctions against russia in the 1st place and are experiencing spiraling inflation and, and prices at home. what do you expect them to do next? well, if they were rational, they would, they would analyze the situation and conclude ok. this is really not achieving any particular result because of the russia and on that's good to every one. looking at the situation. russia is not changing its policy, be the ukraine based on this. sure. so what is the fact is to actually completely damage and potentially annihilate a major economic power sources such as germany and the german industrial sector. therefore, let's quickly reverse this policy. now this will be if we lived in the rational

world, also where europe and european leaders had some decision making leeway. but as i said earlier, it seems they don't. i mean, they don't seem to be able to take independent decisions and i have to follow what the us is telling them in the us doesn't seem to care. now that's actually something that they should also think about how come that is so expensive to be an ally of the united states of america. perhaps these costs are getting too high about this is the hope we have, the europeans will start to think, well, you know, really does this with our lead. is it doing? it's following the west down into the abas, and this is really not working. we need some bigger changes including of perhaps the government and so on. so, so that's, i think, the only hope we have at the moment. it seems like the, you know, the unprecedented, see, think of russian assets in the us in europe really hasn't held the economies of those countries either. has it. that's right, that's right. of course,

you know there's, there's been p r measures trumpeted. and then the western media, you know, 1000000000 as acids, and we'll re, district them, whatever. but you know, the u. s. seized the afghan foreign exchange reserves, and they're going into some very murky channels and we're talking about billions as well that happened earlier. so that was really quite wondering what happened to russian citizens or even people that are citizens off now other countries, but of russian ethnic origin or used to be writers is just stealing that property. i mean, you can make a case for it, but then actually you're making a case for ending the rule of law. and that seems to be what we're witnessing in western europe in particular. that is highly concerning it. there's so much arbitrary sort of a tauriel intervention that is not based on the rule of law anymore that that probably could be the highest cost. we're seeing that the end of

a lawful government in western europe. we can going forward to how do you expect russia to navigate the ongoing pressure? western sanctions now could, must go consider adjusting is that you can make strategy as well. russia, as the largest country in the world endowed an abundance of natural resources, land and actually, you know, a fairly large population that is quite well educated, high educational standards for the scientific sector, very advanced. it's quite clear. russia is, you know, if, if you were to choose a country that had to be isolated because of foreign sanctions. russia is a pretty good watch choose. so i think russia has still many options. of course also let's get the sanction sanctions are mainly imposed by the u. s. on its

vassals. but there are many countries that are not part of the u. s. empire. and russia, of course, will increase trade with those countries. and that includes many countries in many parts of the world where the africa and latin america and in asia, south asia, central asia, far east. there's many options for russia. and many countries are, you know, they take a more neutral stance and they say, well, of course we'll continue to trade with russia because there's always skirmishes have, you know, there have been sort of, was going on particularly arranged by the united states of america. that the u. s. has been voted for half a century. so many countries will not be to phase by what's going on. because that's actually being in our daily business as far as the us is concerned to intervene in other countries. the only difference when the us does in the country seem to be very, very far away from the west. and where is he is it's about

a navy. so russia will expand its trade with other countries that don't follow this u. s. and post sanction regime. and has enough options for the economy to continue to well also of course, following this policy of impulse substitution, i've written about this before on to the sanctions after 1415 the russian economy is actually benefited from the sanctions, but cause its forced many, many sectors to produce more at home. and as a result, in many industries, russia has moved up the value added ladder and has begun to move away from simply exporting resources and has become an economy that is offering much more much more wide range of goods and services that previously had to be imported. and i think that friend will also continue, and i think russian will do well based on that many thanks for your time today to

me on for the university professor banking and finance. richard we're and i thank you. thank you. the breaks group of country spending more than 40 percent of the world's population is expected to welcome new members. that's off the china suggest to be alliance open it's doors. i think new countries may become the biggest change to the group. and for decade, china proposes to start the bricks expansion process, explore the criteria and procedures for the expansion and gradually form a consensus. argentina is understood to be the number one candidate to join the alliances. the country has been invited to attend a brick summit next month. the blog company includes brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa. they grew pains to encourage economic, political, and cultural cooperation between its members states. now the other countries in the line say they welcome china's proposal to invite new members. however, the relations between bricks and nato have been less friendly with china recently condemning western attempts to isolate russia over the conflict in ukraine. beijing

has also called on brussels to sit down the talks with most good brakes expert, elizabeth federal police says the proposed expansion of the lines means china is stepping up to a bigger role in politics. the proposal that the chinese foreign ministers put on the table as really to explore as these are the, the criteria and procedures for a possible expansion. but it's certainly part of this process of the way in which i think china sees the bricks in a broader universe of partnerships alliance. there's networks that it has been bolding and cultivating over over a number of years. i don't think this is this, this proposal is necessarily linked to what is happening in crime. i think it's, it's more about the way in which china sees itself in a, in a new sort of global construct. i. i suspect that the developments

in, in europe and, and nato may claim to that, but i can't see that as, as being the overarching reason to lanka has officially defaulted on his desk for the 1st time in its history. with spiraling inflation rates rolling power, black owls to us food and medicine shortages, pumping thousands of people to rally against the government. ah ah ah, this is the produce march organized by the into university student federation. the

mob been the president to sit down and demanded a volume to come up with something concrete. an operational, again is a, he's the know the burden of the gender public and arrest the man. god breeds andrea braves behind the chaos that was created. a new store like a last week there had been some ships coming there to the shores of anchor, especially carried fuel. these l. petra, at the same time gas, but that are no dollars in the government, treasury's to buy the stocks that are still in the shores of anchor. situation is getting worse each and every day. we are still keeping the fingers crossed, that something concrete would take place. this is do, john was reported to you from colombo store lanka, international relations specialists from alphena. and i believe the turmoil in sri lanka could destabilized the entire asia.