well, to part, we choose to look so common ground a with this ours headline stories, russia say it has sufficient funds to pay its foreign debts and rubles in response to washington barring moscow from fulfilling its obligations in dollars with media . once again, flushing the default north with also coming out the russian president, visits wounded russian soldiers in moscow hospital wishing them a fuss. recovery party explores the bunkers of the as old style. still plant in mar, you pole, where female fighters sheltered during this scene,

she found weapons, guns, equipment, and cetera. and this bunker here used to show to women, look his, their beauty products over here over here as well. on the side african president sounds the alarm saying that i'm thinking russian sanctions are hurting quote, bystanders states, particularly african nations with many already impacted greatly by the on demik trucks with just after 8th in the evening and doris salaam and true islam. and here in the russian capital, welcome to the global news roundup. an rti. i'm unit o'neill, we will get to those headline stories in just a moment. but 1st breaking news coming in to us from ghana, stan, at least 9 people are reported to have been killed after to bomb blast. hit many buses in the city of mazar, e sharif. that is in the,

at north of the country. also, we are hearing about the afghan capital capital been hit by reported terrorist attack with a series of explosions at said to have occurred. some of the information coming out about that the local police see at least 2 residents were injured in an attack on a well known mosque in the city. so at 9 people reported dead in a northern afghan at city after a series of bomb bloss. there any and all verified information on that will bring it to you later in the program. the u. s. is pushing russia to announce a technical defaults after washington bard moscow from paying its debts in dollars to american banks. moscow says default is not on the card, however, stressing it has the cash to pay investors and is simply being stop from fulfilling its obligations. our senior correspondent, murat, gas. they have told me more earlier what the united states sexually has done now is

by revoking this license, that means russia will no longer be able to pay in dollars. it's bondholders operating through u. s. bank. so paying americans, institutions, banks, investors, who have throughout the past few months, who have all fluted all the russian debt that they have very few still hold on to russian debt. and we've, we've seen this compressed trumpeting about a potential russian default. how's russia going to get out of this? but ultimately it's, it's all a show because what do you, what do you think when you hear someone's galant, a default, or bankruptcy, or bankruptcy, it's that they've brought out of money was to pay off their obligations. in this case, that isn't the truth. russia has plenty of money. it's just american bags of, of stops. russia are for, for mar, paying out lose loans in us dollars. that makes it the opposite of what happened in

$1098.00, for instance, which people might be thinking there's parallels to merit in terms of the dollar gate, then being shut to russia. what does it mean for moscow? while the united states has made no secret of this very little change, because ultimately this isn't a default in the classical sense. russia has said that the, it won't call this a default. whether it's a technical default has some pundits and financial analysts of have come to call it . but ultimately russia says it'll continue pain yet it's obligations of coupons, monthly payments in rubles, and the united states is pretty much said the same thing. you know, not a whole lot will change if fresh is unable to find a regal way to make these payments. and they technically default on their debt. i, i don't think that really represents a significant change in russia situation. they're already cut off from global capital market. what will, by the way change is, is in,

in this type of energy crisis across the world with, with fuel prices in, in california, in asia, you know, in, in africa, all sort, few parts of the d's of gasoline for electricity. and the issue here now is that because of what some us financial institutions and pundits will cool a technical default. russia russian ships, for example, shipping as well as air freight will have to pay a higher premium insurance premium, which will be included in the build for russian few. and eventually those same western consumers, they're all going to have to pay more even more for their fuel, which they will keep buy. i much in russia has anticipated such a moves by washington. what are they doing to shield themselves from those sections? well, as, as putin said, russia had spent years preparing for

a sanctions onslaught to suit. we're seeing that which, which has been unprecedented thousands upon thousands of sanctions which have restricted bratia away from western capital markets. and latin were putin has said, now is, is the time to adapt. you who are you? i have already said. and i would like to emphasize again to day that in the new conditions, the russian economy will certainly remain open. moreover, will expand corporation with those countries that are interested in mutually beneficial corporation. the actions of some countries ng to isolating themselves from russia even to their own detriment, shows how important it is in the modern world to diversify traffic flows and expand corridors in the direction of responsible partners. carmen time again, we had heard biden officials and in europe all come out and say that we're willing to hurt ourselves to hurt our people's for the sake of getting that button. and this is, this is the case a with, with these bonds because ultimately it is by the investors both in the west and he

in asia. but had suffered because of the sanctions because of the effect of any tactical default that they might declare. and it remains to be seen how far they will go and how, how much they're prepared to hurt themselves and their people in order to, to, to be seen as getting that putin. no, i had an interesting discussion last hour with economist professor richard verna. one of the things he said, he believes washington is damaging the international financial system with the move if the aim is to punish russia is very strange, because essentially, the usaa saying, oh, russia doesn't have to service instead. and we're preventing them from, from servicing it quite a running because the u. s. has put all of resources into the i m f and the world bank in the last 70 years in order to get countries that borrow internationally, to, to make sure that they really pay their coupons in time. so we see that the international

finance is very much political to essentially, i think the real story is that, trying to make russia look that which is kind of child is really if you think about it, i mean we've got a series international situation and they're playing games like that. now the regulators of the us say that then on allowed to, to deal even at arm's length with russian banks that are simply trying to meet the international obligations. then you are really damaging international finance because it's not a situation of a default default is when a country can't pay and or, or decides not to pay, but that's really not the case. rushes absolutely able to pay it. debt to g d. p ratio is one of the very lowest in the world. less than 20 percent. and most countries, including the us, have a massively higher figure. let me pay the visit to

a military hospital in moscow where a wounded russian soldiers are receiving treatment. it's furnished with well, it's the 1st time the president has visited soldiers. personally, since the starts on the ukraine conflict together with russia's defense chief, he checked on recovering soldiers, spoke to medics, and thanked them for their services, accountants as the russian ministry of defense, it's more than $200.00 localities. and that than yet, people's republic, i've been taken under control of the russian army since february, with all on the ground itself in the conflict. russian suppers have de mine the waters off the mario coast, and opening the city port for civil shipping. the ministry of foreign affairs says 5 foreign vessels left the port to day, which could be significant in terms of grain exports. we'll talk about later. at d,

mining works are still in progress on the territory of the obstacles steel plan. it's under the full control of that done yet republic forces following the surrender of 2000 ukrainian soldiers last week, including those from the neo nazi hours off italian official say those who are accused of war crimes will stand trial in that done yet. so republic ortiz, eager to sit down of explorers. now what life in that factory was like during this synch, this is the room where we found weapons, guns, equipment, well, arm of, et cetera. and this bunker here used to show to women, look his. there are beauty products over here over here as well. but judging by the amount of well military paraphernalia that we found, they were no civilians. in fact, in the back of this room, there's a rocket launcher. so not only did they live here, they also fought here. they're still move of their clothes hanging on the rope

after they washed these big reserve. was they still have water in them and well, here's how they slept. for example, there's another little nook over there with beds more beds here mattresses. it's obvious that women who used to live here some of them had children. and it's puzzling at best as to why they weren't allowed to surrender. and to get the kids to safety earlier e gory shut down off later in the program, poland points the finger at germany over a ledge, broken promises to replace tanks that the country sent to ukraine. we've got that story and we're anti russian sanctions are hurting innocent countries that have remained neutral on the ukraine conflict, not is, according to the south african president. now the sanctions that have been imposed

on russia are going to have and are having an overarching impact. even those countries that are either bystanders or not part of the conflict are also going to suffer from the sanctions that have been imposed against russia. will african states only just beginning the recovery following the pandemic or among the most vulnerable cove at 19 savagely damaged their economies pushing millions into extreme poverty. anti russian sanctions have led to disruptions in supply chains with food on fuel prices rising in recent months. many african nations are highly dependent on russian and ukrainian imports. as those 2 countries produced nearly a 3rd of global wheat and barley on 2 thirds of the world's exports of sunflower oil. the direct and indirect impacts of the conflict in ukraine were recently underlined in the united nations. the war in ukraine as threatening to derail development progress in african countries. the direct impacts of the crisis in africa include trade, disruption, food and fuel price, spikes, macroeconomic instability,

and security challenges. there are also the in direct impacts of the crisis to consider, which include imported inflation, difficult energy transitions, and a potential geopolitical realignment. the negative impact of anti russian sanctions was reiterated by the south african leader during a meeting with the german chancellor of shorts is on a visit to i forget to try and gain support for you frame. despite many countries, there are maintaining close ties to russia. notably south african russian ties go to my to soviet times when the ussr supported the anti apartheid struggle in the country. south africa has refused to condemn russia's offensive in ukraine's become the countries president met with his german counterpart to discuss diversification of energy in ports on climate change. so the african investigative journalists, madiba, madiba, believes western sanctions will only lead to a protracted global price system. section steward issue has never been adjusted, never being about, you know, they've always been,

that will cause more stability. they've always been that cause more harm to cause a terran crisis was than petula tried to impose us to follow the r one sided approach with the cost. what's happening in your grid, you know, without looking at the facts and evidence with regards to this issue. you know, and the only reason why the german counselors in south africa is because they was all coal. so this is just there to, to, to push their own agenda to push their one sided approach because what's happening to the entry, try force. so that get into condemning russia. i feel that i listen western countries feel that you know, there with an african constant feeling. and so they feel the rushing into the educational sense on their own, touched on their own people, the left no choice, but essentially the lowest in countries in the waste. with this and she was with this and she, russian sentiments the lowest inch people, the rest of the country. i mean for the rest of the war to recover. another aspect of america's presence on the continent is africa. command known as a free. com. it's has bases in numerous countries there in the u. s. also recently

approved drone strikes in somalia alongside a troop deployment in the nation with a brake on all of washington's increased attention towards africa. here's ortiz, policy, or somalia. one of the poorest countries in sub saharan africa has become the latest focus of american military expansion on the continent. washington says by growing if you with africa, command african, it will protect african. we're aligning our global counter terrorism efforts with where the threat to americans is most acute i'll ship bob in somalia simply has to be among our highest priorities on that school that america's military mission. so it says is not so military. after all. this is a repositioning of forces that are already in the area to continue and advise and assist and training mission. with the purpose of enabling a more effective fight against al shabazz to come was established in 2007 and from

the start was not very welcomed on the continent. and things haven't really changed . people on the continent still don't like america's presence, wasn't a job and the americans are back because they see an advantage to take over the remaining resources and continue to enrich themselves. we have little to no chance of getting help to stop them from taking our resources they are posing as if they are helping us. but they have their own agenda and the benefits they get in return . they are benefiting from whatever they are doing in africa. there is something they want don't find them intimidating until they try to manipulate our resources and luxury haven't what we've come for. it's so hard to gain in their tied to take it as their own and glue to get away from us was we worked really hard to be where we are good. and it's not surprising that africans, on jumping up and down civilian casualties from american air strikes have steadily

declined as have violations of international law. amnesty international says american operations in the east african nation of somalia have killed civilians despite africans denials. this 1st regular public report acknowledging the united states, africa commands role in civilian casualties as a welcome glimmer of transparency in more than a decade of deadly military operations. that until now have been shrouded in secrecy. and then there's the lack of assistance for west africa and the south. so the united states is not leading there by any means, but we're trying to support our partners, our contributions are pretty small, some training, some equipping, helping with some logistics, helping with some intelligence. and so my us are, that's what we're doing there to help our partners. the u. s. is not in the lead in west africa, not to forget the history of american military presence elsewhere in the world. like in the middle east, for example, where anti american sentiment runs high. and

u. s. operations had devastated countries. it's really no surprise then that africa isn't beating it's drums at the latest us endeavors. poland has accused germany of breaking promises on replacing tanks, war source, sent to you, crane that comes amid mounting tensions between the u states. so they attempt to balance domestic interest with foreign policy. art is your correspondence. charlotte dubin ski picks up the story. once again, we're seeing massive criticism from poland, against germany, and against its policies. this time, as you mentioned, this is to do with a broken promise that's all over tanks. this is because germany apparently promised to send brand new tanks towards poland. a for poland sent its soviet era tanks to ukrainian forces. poland says it's done that, but it's still waiting on those tank deliveries. and the polish president is pretty

furious about that. they have not fulfilled this promise. and frankly, we are very disappointed about this. a spokesperson for the german government says it stunned by these accusations. in subsequent negotiations, poland made a specific request to supply modern tanks of the leopard to a 7 type. the problem is that the german army itself has a small number of these tanks about 50 units and the rest must be delivered later. they are not ready but must still be produced. and this will continue for a long time. things also not looking particularly rosie elsewhere in europe. either we had on tuesday evening this declaration by victor opening hungry of a state of emergency in his country. he said that's as a result of the war in ukraine, but also the crippling economic impact that, that's have a not just in hungry but essentially across the european union at the moment. a

hungry, me know, has been a major obstacle for the you getting to pass it 6 set of sanctions. this is a set of sanctions that would see oil band. this is russian oil band in for the next year or so. and hungry is being really clear that that would have a big problem, freight economy. victor opens that it would be like dropping a nuclear bomb on the hungarian economy. like we see the war and the sanctions from brussels have lead to massive nomic upheaval and drastic price increases. the world is on the brink of an economic crisis. hungary must stay out of this war and protect the financial security of families. with this requires room for maneuver and the ability to act immediately. the government is exercising its right under the constitution to declare war time, state of emergency from midnight to night. well, this will allow the government to respond immediately and protect hungary and hungarian families by any means possible. is also question about the timing of this

announcement by victor over not only is it just a few days before there's another e u summit where ukraine will be discussed. but it also came just a few hours off the present. zalinski of ukraine announced that polish citizens in ukraine would get reciprocal rights mirroring. the rights that at poland has just given ukrainian citizens. now, there are quite a number of hungarian citizens in ukraine and it could be that victor open is perhaps angling for that kind of deal to now hungry as well as italy and cyprus. of all. also, apparently, behind the scenes been urging the e u to explicitly call for sci fi in regards to that war in ukraine, they want russia and ukraine to put down their arms and to start really negotiating peace. this puts them at odds with other e. u. member states, particularly poland, but also the baltic members as well, who have been pushing the you to look at more military assistance for ukraine. and

also they want harshest sanctions against russia, not just an outright ban on oil, but also an outright ban on gas to. now we've also heard from the commission president to is pretty hawkish. she's been talking at deb or saying what she wants to see is that there is a clear outright win for ukraine. and of course all of this could come to a head in the next few days as you need is meet at that summit. another summit where we will see crane being the main discussion on the table. and just to out to charlotte's piece, we spoke to political commentator john brick mont, who says it's normal for country. so our divisions based on self interests, especially in war time. well, let me start with the general mark is that this is saying that victor, he has many fathers, but the defeat is an orphan. so i think everything depends on what's going on in the ground. and you can, if russia is defeated,

that's the hope that you can is winning, as they say. then of course everybody would be united. but if the opposite going on, which seems to be the case, as far as i know, then there will be a lot of divisions. and the polls are be funny because of the one hand, they would like germany to get all their energy supplies with russia. in order to catch the germ of the question economy, why did we actually cash cash, the german economy? and at the same time, they would like to german, to be, to give them the most advanced weapons. i mean, the arrogance of the bose is just beyond belief. no, there's never been consensus on any on a day on anything. if you look at it, it's always, you know, a negotiation and then the thing, and i don't know who is going to treat them of whom i don't see the germans being out just in that you see also the conflict between turkey in case i mean talking he's a book member of nato,

and they've been out of all kinds of issues in particular say police and nothing is done to overcome that. the unity of need to and the you, there's not really is the fact that these are different people. and these different people have different interest, and there's something which they always want to forget. they always want to ask if there was a nation that you have been people, and that's not the case. so they will be have the divisions all the time. and especially in the case of situation of war can on a story to bring attention to today. turkey president has placed a cut all ties with his great counterpart, accusing the countries prime minister of deliberately antagonizing and correct in an address to us congress last week, tennessee. they go to stick in our meeting with the greek prime minister. we had agreed not to include 3rd countries in our disputes. despite this last week, he had a visit to the u. s. and warned congress not to give us fighter planes. this year

we were supposed to have a strategic council meeting, but from now on there is no one called mit. so touches in my book that i will never accept meeting him because we only walk on the same path as politicians who keep their promises. who have character and who are honorable, will you please also note the last thing. the last thing that made to meet at a time, one of focus is on helping ukraine defeat russia's. aggression is another source of instability on nato's southeastern flank. and ask you to take this into account when you make defense procurement decisions concerning the each submitted to you. as you be aware of the to nato members have been at loggerhead for decades over market time. and energy issues that divide it island of cyprus and most recently migration reject. ty, berto, and also expressed concern about nato basis, being built in race will turkeys taking

a stance against sweden and finland to currently opposing their nato membership. it, it accuses stockholm on helsinki of harbouring members of the kurdistan workers party, which entre considers a terrorist organization and also wants the country to lift the sanctions imposed over turkeys, military operation against kurdish lashes in syria. geo politics consultant piero manual to man at believes the rift in nato is forcing the block to ticket that defense. the united states are on one side used talkie as him. oh, from state to to contain russia in the south. but also they dont trust, aver, or tarkey, which is 2, a balancing between united states on russia and the united states is opening new military bases in greece or to, to make greece there are made ali, eastern mediterranean and content turkey as well. so this is why there will be more

and more or rivalry between greece and turkey, maybe is increasing is defend defensive position, but cannot play any more and offensive her position. it was a tool for united states to export american interest to were or to continue enlargement of nato to end cycle russia. and because of a crisis, you could, you couldn't, you will not be able in the long term to enter nato. and then it means this is a or a defeat for nato. it's mean sir, nate talk cannot expand and is not able to be expansion is to order of united states. now a term we're increasingly hearing these days is d globalization. but is the world actually becoming less connected on how big an issue is at global economic woes,

particularly with supply chains, have given rise to a debate about a possible crisis. one of the main consequences of equalization is the impact on food production hunting arise and protectionism. several countries have really bond exports to maintain stability on domestic markets. indian authorities have stopped wheat exports, subbing exported 7 and 1000000 tons last year. malaysia said it's reducing chicken exports on to $40000000.00 tons from $100000000.00 toms the previous year and indonesia, they're a major producer of palm oil has also suspended exports. we spoke to numerous experts who said the long term solutions must be put in place to solve the issue, service the whole or we have to differentiate and make a distinction between the 2 meanings. if we mean the global order and globalization that belongs to the global order,

which is controlled by the next states, and we did it to many of the united states and our cost of the united states. as a consequence, a lot of that, you know, i mean that will be a weakness like illegal migration, which is a very big human it to be a problem. of course, of course, that the violence whether domestic and international and a lot of bad issues will take place. according to the, i think in the long run, we need to find more sustainable solutions solutions that are an antidote to globalization. but in the short term, i do think things like terrorist things like protectionism, protecting domestic markets, protecting domestic wages and price stabilization, etc. i do think these are good policies in the short run, but in the long run we need to rethink the rules of the game and rethink the rules of globalization and international trade. well,

that's her lot for now from the newsroom. me here in the art studio, but say close. more programs get going in moment. see what showing where you are. right? ah, i the business and you agree in the daily shoes you me to comes, graham. when you lose, you got to really just such an upgrade the ceiling and provide you with such a shock or even opt out of the different sort of impulse shelf worship community thrown with them the probably in your summer with.