a, with that you for that a party visit a home in the done yes. republic, way civilian was killed in an attack by you can enforce an indian community in russia provides critical medical supplies to people in the dumbass as part of a newly established charity fund. and brent oil prices exceed $125.00 per barrel. as you move to impose a partial embargo on russian imports of the commodity and sanctions against russia, impact the blocks economy

with broadcasting lot of direct mar studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas, certainly glad to have you with us. now, a chemical storage tank has reportedly exploded in a western part of the conflict, written lew ganske republic. these images purportedly show the blast at the as of chemical plant in the city of surveyor done yet. local officials have blamed ukrainian forces saying that the storage tank appeared to have been detonated ukrainian army and said to have been in control of the industrial area at the time of the incident. a meanwhile in the neighboring done yet republic, a residential area was shelled several times by ukrainian forces on tuesday with at least 6 people killed, including a 5 year old child. now we need to warn you. falling images may be disturbing. now,

among the victims was a woman 46 year old mine worker who was killed while she slept in her home. her son was also wounded in the attack, but was able to survive. we visited the site of the tragedy and found the victim sister in a desperate state. if you have any news on this, is that i should be shallow because what i believe on this thing is ball in your log, nominally give you my gms id. ukraine and artillery killed a 46 year old woman who lives in this house. apparently she was sleeping after and night shift at work. she worked in a coal mine that says nearby rocket landed right in her house. her bedroom is right over there. and the piece of the rocket

hit her right in the neck with me on the bridge loan. this idea, dad legends, me i'm her sister was also or cadets i am but so she heard the sounds of shilling and rushed back to her house. you will, i'm not on board. you know, we're done. i shall use lucia. rush me a wisdom. he modelers. i need them with when you when you but i'll yeah, once done,

boy. what is this, what they're the is this is margo both of those appointed for we will go. good, ready shall were no damage and if you did so didn't, but anybody did it on shocked danielle china. so dog boy wants to badness gonna be bernabei sewell, og square, got ours. the bigger mom stood up, i believe in indian community. and russia has set up a funds to help refugees and soldiers in the dumbass. the initiative titled disha after the hindi word for direction has been sending relief supplies to residents of the war torn region. and the foundation has done 2 shipments of medicine already this month and says that those supplies are only the beginning. the deliveries are taken to russia's border with the don bass republics and are then handed over to

local administrations. he heard from the initiatives founder who says he feels it's his duty to help the people of don bass in solidarity with russia. this in doris and the society. this her, this there in daughter sincerely. so we are a mix of families. so that's what i'm getting that we are doing by heart the don't any. yeah, nobody ask us a lot of people needs are all of these think not only my thought is our duty and modern duty also, if there is no reason to say that the soviet union i india or do do the same thing. what 2 friends are doing? so we are helping each other. so nothing more. meanwhile, and video has emerged from the city of the valve near the polish border where

ukrainian refugees arriving from the war torn eastern part of the country were denied humanitarian aid from the united nations because they were speaking russian incidents developed into a heated argument. i knew to you johnny, come when you are. i see him with him. think i do know move you thought you when you a on i have like a numerous ukrainians speak russian as a 1st language, especially in eastern areas where the conflict has been the most pronounced in the

don. yes. can lugens for republics, russian is spoken by more than 90 percent of the population. neither the un nor kia has commented about the footage from level of labor and human rights lawyer. den cavellas says that there is no justification for such actions. this is clearly a pretext that this person is using to deny russian speakers aid because he doesn't like russian speakers. very disturbing. and honestly, it kind of underscores how this conflict began and the peoples of the dumbass, most of whom speak russian. and what we've seen from the government in key is racism and discrimination against the russian speakers. and we see this in this video and it's illegal as a woman, points out, this is un aide,

but it appears to be ukranian who decided they're not going to give it to russian speaking. again, there is no justification for that. obviously, if people are hungry and need to be given to them that you know, we can understand the need for food and water in any language. right? or e leaders have tentatively agreed to cut off rushes largest bank from the international transaction network. swift, the move intended to disconnect, spare back from the global financial system is part of a 6th round of sanctions to pressure russia to end of the conflict in ukraine. but the bank says it was already prepared and the new measure will not have a significant effect. disconnecting from swift does not change the current situation in international settlements. domestic transactions do not depend on swift and will be carried out by the bank and the standard mode. spare bank

previously shifted to a russian based system as an alternative to swift. most banks in the country have been already switched over to that network, according to the national central bank, russian authority say that the countries financial system has been prepared for the shut off and has already withstood the initial shock of the western sanctions. meanwhile, mastercard, c. e o has said swift may even cease to exist in the next 5 years. also the south east, south asian country of bangladesh is considering adopting new payment methods to save money there as well. i from one this we can cross live to investor and author mich, fire steam. a thanks very much. how you doing? good. good. good. thanks. what's your opinion on this burbank being cut off from the swift system? is there anything that is a big deal here? well no, i don't think it's a big deal. i think that it was expected and i think that you know, the sanctions i've never seen in my career which has been long and extensive in

finance. i've never seen sanctions that were successful. and i think that these were well telegraphed in advance. i think it's more of a public relations gimmick to have these and an actual impact that it's going to have. i think the world has changed pretty drastically. i mean, as, as you're aware of the central bank of russia, set up with the s p f s system years ago. and china also has the cross border inter bank payment system as competition. now i would say something like 95 percent of the transactions now go through swift. so that's, you know, that's as it is right now. but i think that there are a lot of alternatives and alternative payment systems since crypto currency started . and we're not looking at situation, we're not looking at a situation that was in the 1960 seventy's eighty's or ninety's. this is a new new era. and you know, in crypto came around, you see that people are able to transfer things fairly quickly. and a lot more efficiently and cheaply. and i think that that is

a big part of the system. i think, i think that alternative payment systems have been set up in russia is not isolated by itself in a bubble where people don't realize is there are several countries that are using a different way to transact. and the u. s. dollar. a gemini, might have seen, you know, might be, be over in about 5 years. because india, china, iran, brazil, u e, and saudi arabia, a couple other middle eastern countries and asian count countries are in for using different types of alternative payment systems that are transacting oil, the petro dollar, which is now no longer the petro dollar, because oil has been trading in, remember, remember just the chinese currency. so i think that the, the landscape in the financial markets, it has changed and it's evolving like everything else. i think war is unfortunate. i think that they should have never happened. i think there should have been compromised, worked out, i think kooler had should have prevails but, and i don't see why this was escalated instead of being de escalated. and i think

now is the time to de escalate it, but nobody is talking about it and it's are rolling off the pages here as inflation has 20 percent in the west, which is a direct result of the sanctions. we do know that something has to be done and that turkey is actually talking about trying to mitigate some sort of an agreement. but if we get back to the financial system right now, you mentioned some alternative payment systems that are competitors of swift. are they potentially better and why aren't more people using those? well, look, i mean it's what people are comfortable with. i mean, everybody's plugged into the swift system. it has been because that was the, that was the benchmark price, you know, benchmark transaction system for setting up enter bank payment instruction. so everybody is familiar with that system. i mean, obviously if somebody comes out and builds a better mousetrap their money and at a cheaper price or at a discounted price, like i'm sure that china's cross border inter bank payment system is $1.00 of those

alternatives that people start to use if they transact a lot with china and they want to transact and remember, i think what's going to happen is what you're seeing when the sanctions came out. i think that the rubel, the highest print that i saw was around 139. people are saying that it traded higher, and now it's actually strength into a position stronger than when the original sanctions were initiated. because the central bank raised interest rates to 20 percent, which was a prudent measure, given the situation in the attack on the currency, as well as using gold gold stand, defacto gold standard for the currency. now that is what is going to be the game changer for the different countries that i named the 10 or 12 countries that are involved. if they come up with a currency that's commodity based, whether it's copper, whether it's oil, whether it's silver gold, as long as it's a fungible product that you can exchange the paper for, rather than just

a promissory note to repay, that's a game changer. it's going to be interesting that that's the way i think the markets will head. it's certainly gonna be interesting to watch this all play out and different countries start working with each other in their own currency as well, mich, fire time, investor and author. very interesting to hear your thoughts right here on our international. thank you. are now the price of brent oil has exceeded $125.00 per barrel. as the e u moves to impose a partial embargo on russian supplies of the commodity. some you states, particularly hungry, have opposed to the measure due to heavy dependence on imports. of russian oil or cheese on quarter comments now on how the sanctions are affecting the use economy. you sanctions, round 6 is locked and loaded this time brussels as aiming for a near complete ban on russian oil by the end of the year. to night, european commission agreed as 6 package of sanctions. it will allow of ban on oil

imports from russia. the sanctions will immediately impact to 75 percent of russian oil imports. and by the end of the year, 90 percent of the russian oil imported in europe will be banned. after seeing the damage wrought by the last 5 sanction packages on the very countries that deployed them in the 1st place, many europeans aren't convinced anything's going to be different. this time. sanctions may have harmed russia's credit worthiness, but the 70 percent surgeon, world gas prices alone has supercharged its balance of payments. it's current account, trade surplus according to its central bank, is now over 3 times the pre invasion level. at the same time, sanctions are clearly hurting countries in western and central europe who are imposing them. banning bore russian oil is only likely to push already, skyrocketing energy prices even higher, and it won't just affect the u. v. use decision to band, the majority of russian oil imports will cause the barrel price to go higher, still spelling yet more misery for fuel prices in the u. k. the same goes for

germany. rising prices and economic uncertainty are causing serious problems for a large proportion of the population. more than one in 3 fears, they will no longer have enough money to cover their living expenses. here we have an especially severe case. the german economy has been ravaged by record breaking inflation, standing at 8.7 percent for may. that's the highest. it's been since the 1970s to make matters worse. the more ominous threats of a global food crisis is also a menace to the entire world. sanctions, no, no subtlety, millions of innocent people across europe and far from its shores will suffer as food and energy prices. sor supply lines, are disrupted, trade links, collapse. the victims are overwhelmingly the poor with all this bad news that's followed. europe's anti russia sanctions. one has to wonder if the politicians who passed this latest package had been living under a rock. how bad do things have to get for them to get out from under it?

last year, european countries accounted for almost half of russia's exports while china took in almost a 3rd. but since january this year, the export of both russian gas and oil to beijing has been reduced to drop. it has been beneficial to russia as the price of both has significantly grown. ah, a former lawyer for hillary clinton has been found not guilty of lying to the f. b i in 2016 about donald trump's alleged ties to russia before the verdict. former u. s. a general attorney bill bar said that the case which became known as russia gate represents a grave injustice to both the american people and the former president. i think whatever you think of trump, the fact is said, the whole rushing thing was a grave injustice. who was a, it appears to be a dirty political trek. there was use 1st to hobble them and then potentially to

drive them from offers. it was a gross injustice. who was, it was and it, and it hurts united states in many ways, including what we're saying in ukraine these days. you know it, it distorted our foreign policy and we have the not guilty verdict for michael sussman, which indicates that the jury did not believe that what he said to the api i constituted illegal deception of the f b i. but regardless, the trial at this point is making headlines because of the bomb shell testimony that it appears that hillary clinton did indeed sign off on the spreading of unverified rumors linking donald trump to russia. and it was the hillary clinton campaign that originated those rumors that found their way into the press. this is what we heard. i discussed it with hillary as well. i don't remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was pe, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter. she agreed with the decision. so it was the so called russia gates,

a story that actually originated with the clinton campaign. now they worked with fusion, g p, s a british firma that engages in intelligence and research and developed no more. i more of a case for what they had decided they were going to go with media, then laughed it up as a result of this bombshell testimony. from the michael sussman trial, we have donald trump saying that he feels only partially vindicated by the fact that this is now in public record that russia gate originated with hillary clinton . this is donald trump. this is one of the greatest political scandals in history for 3 years. i had to fight her off and fight those crooked people off and you'll never get your reputation fully back. where do i get my reputation back? now? william bar, the former us attorney general, says that this essentially leaking of unverified rumors and the efforts by the

clinton campaign to promote this idea somehow trump was conspiring with russia in order to win the elections. that this not only affected the political career of donald trump and the trump residency, but it actually affected us foreign policy. so there are global consequences to this decision made by the hillary clinton campaign that is now in public testimony given at the microsoft mon trial. michael. dr. maybe acquitted that bombshell testimony has huge implications. we spoke with a former aid to us president ronald reagan and a former cia officer. they both tend to believe russia gate was created to destabilize us russian relations, where the brother, the frog declared that one of his goals was to normalize relations with russia. he is sure, a major threat, the power of the military st complex which needs an enemy.

so an ordinary 1st person will see in all of this with danger of military conflict between russia and the united states. so i think that's what bill bar sees. so now realize that he made a mistake when he was 30, don't know and did not just stop working close. he could have stopped good leaders with tony though he could have ordered investigation, the overseer of the f. b i of the democratic party. but he did not promised it. most americans still believe in russia gate after the election. oh, it's really easy just to accused the russians of defeating hillary clinton rather than seeing how her campaign pretty much did her in,

in any case. and it became easy to drum this, russia, russia, russia syndrome. so that most people still believe it. now when i say the media, i'm talking about the new york times, the washington post, the mainstream media, the t v outlets. unless we, honest analysts can get some play in our media at the, the countries for doom to believe that mr. poo, gene is the devil incarnate that the russians russians. russians are responsible for all manner of evil, including 4 years of donald trump. and we're up against a hard place because the dangers of escalation in ukraine are very real and very dangerous. germany plans to increase military spending as the governing coalition and the main opposition party have reached

a deal for the increase of them all sport to speak as following the outbreak of war in ukraine. i announced in the german parliament that we would spend more on defense under the deal to allocate over $100000000000.00 euros for defense was reached 3 months after initially being announced by the german chancellor, olaf schultz, germany, that defense spending is to reach 2 percent of its g d p, a target stipulated by nato, the spending includes cyber defense and support for partner countries. however, german politician, academic and lawyer going are back says the ukraine conflict is used as an excuse for germany to increase its defense spending and cast blame for a worsening economic crisis. is important to bear in mind that the recent decision to increase military spending is a departure from decades of previous policy. the official justification is,

of course, the kind of conflict in ukraine. the government you is that this is a threat to native security. as a result of which they have to increase military spending on the whole nature is spending about 15 times as much on the military as the russian federation, or even more. the government is also trying to avert attention from a worst. and the economic crisis at home and the conflict in ukraine is a welcome excuse that they can blame. the recent survey revealed that the majority of respondents from 20 countries outside of europe would it be against severing economic ties with russia. the poll also showed that many respondents blame nato for the conflict in ukraine, and the negative views of russia were largely confined to western countries. r t a

contributor rachel marston comments the result of the largest annual survey revealing what people worldwide really think about democracy has just been released and it provides a snapshot of google sentiment about russia know surveys in asia, latin america, europe in north america, the citizens of 20 countries indicate that they don't want economic ties to russia cut over the credit conflict. they include greece, kenya, turkey, china, israel, egypt, that jury indonesia, africa, carry out the philippines, hungry massacre, thailand, rock, malaysia, root, and 40 right. now mexico sticks out here and may also help explain what's going on behind the data. at least in part it might be coast allies, the united states and canada mexican president, under the open door, affectionately known as m. loach, has resisted falling into log step with is north american allies with respect to

their anti russian narratives. and taken more of a not aligned approach on that issue and on other issues as well. now, morocco and turkey also on that list and taking a similar stance piece would be there, close allies in europe. not a line that is asked for bracewell, you back in march that there was division among grief over the use anti russian sanctions. pretty much right from the get go. but another 31 country citizens do favor breaking economic relations with russia. ukraine, the survey says, and those 31 countries, 20 of them are in europe. they're joined by nations like canada, united states, australia and switzerland. now, oddly enough, when you add up all the in favor of cutting time with russia and those against cutting ties, the total respondents for each country is nowhere near 100 percent. for pretty much any of the countries surveyed. and in some cases post or how is that closer to the

50 percent markets. so in terms of methodology that raises some questions about what's missing and why and what those people, the missing respondents who seem to be miraculously absent from a 100 percent theoretical total. and, you know, it makes us wonder how their views might have changed the results. but the fact that nations whose leaders share a common narrative on russia would be on the same page is really hardly surprising one final and that there is also another new survey out. and it's a, you got a survey of 14 different countries and all of them, all the countries except one lane data rather than russia for the conflict in ukraine with syrians slating to blame equally between the 2. or that does it for me, i will be back in just over 32 minutes with another full infrastructure news. say with this is our international. ah,

look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about personal intelligence at the point, obviously is to place trust rather than fear with artificial intelligence. real summoning with obama protective own existence with less than 3 months, the west ukraine narrative has been turned on its head. ukraine is not waiting is

steadily losing. the west is not unified. in fact, divisions are wide me. the russian economy is weathering, massive sanctions. western economies are in trouble. will blame 1st with awe with me. hello, welcome to worlds of heart. the tragedy of the war in your brain is still visceral

and so dramatic that it may easily conceal other group of persons. and i've been victims of the russian western clash which has already adversely affected many countries, especially in the global south l is the seemingly far away regional conflict theme from the largest and one of the most accurately diverse countries in south america . well, to discuss it, i'm now joined by juice, and 4th professor for economics at the university of south follow in brazil. professor schwartz is great to see you, great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me in your show, and i hope who will go smoothly through the conversation. despite all the glitches that may come up during, you know, the why fi connection that i'm using right now. there is indeed a huge distance between the 2 of us urines and paul. i'm in moscow but i'm sure people are in your half of the woods are also.