is widely recognized that the global economy is weakening. there are many reasons for this inflation supply chain issues, high levels of debt, the conflict in ukraine, and the wes appetite for sanctions. on this addition of the program, we discuss how all these issues are changing the structure of the global economy. the russian back for says, excuse ukraine, disrupting a key evacuation route from c ever done yet by violating a cease fire within an hour of it opening. also, i had on the program a little bit, the green in president and his officials will have to negotiate with russia. we, as you repeat and share one continent and russia will remain part of it. process leader goes on to describe russia as a strong power in the speech in front of nato forces, as he calls for the key of to negotiate with moscow to reach

a peace deal. in the meantime, nato itself steps up. the rhetoric with the alliance is chief fledging long range rockets to keep on seeing ukraine must switch to the organizations weaponry instead of its current. i'll be your munition. thousands of high profile participants gather in rushes, northern capital for the st. petersburg, international economics, which kicked off this when the news around the clock across the world. this is art international. my name is neil . hello and welcome to the program. done by us forces have accused ukraine of disrupting a crucial humanitarian corridor. word that the russian military is initiated in the in buffalo city of c ever done yet. ukrainian troops allegedly violated to

a cease fire near the corridor within one hour of an opening. the printing military ticket opposition to in a chemical plant in the city. western media reports estimate $500.00 civilians are also inside the factory and would be able to flee via the evacuation written on contrast, lou ganske authorities say there's in fact around a 1000 civilians in the facility on their being forcibly hell to deter a potential incoming attack they add that only one civilian has managed to flee the plants, and he was unaware of the corridor being opened. luc ganske officials reiterated to that ukraine's military has been shelling residential areas thrown on bus ortiz eager chatelle of surveys the scene. not one of the attacks on the situation for ukrainian troops here near the la ganske people's republic is dia . this is something that all sides of the conflict seemed to agree on care of moscow and the international community. and the worse,

the more hopeless it gets for the ukrainians here, the more aggressive and deadly they become against civilians against ordinary population of the la guns, continental people's republic. the city of the network itself has recently, and you had a shilling, it hasn't seen in years right now. i walk amongst the ruins of what used to be a football stadium now obliterated by ukraine's grad rockets and dead bodies have only just yet been extracted from under the rubble. and the key of essentially is doing its best trying to convince the western audience that the need for and supplied weapons the need. foreign supplied artillery. but given caves, venge fullness given caves, desire and eagerness to take its anger out. an ordinary civilians, the longer the west will keep feeding this addiction of key of 2 foreign supplied weapons. the longer this agony will go on. amish done of reporting from the la

ganske people's republic. r t. francis president has affirmed that russia is a quote, strong power unsafe that ukraine must negotiate with moscow to restore peace on the continent. little bit jalap, the ukranian president and his officials will have to negotiate with russia. we as europeans share one continent and russia will remain part of it. russia is a strong power. therefore, i have never greed with an approach, according to which we would start a war with russia today and sick to destroy tomorrow. no. well, it is not the 1st time that semester, a crown house call for negotiations with russia, and he suffered a barrage of criticism for it from ukraine and other eastern european countries. however, nato members, germany hungry and italy have also supported efforts for peace agreement. the head of ne,

to has said he's confident that member states will assist here. been transitioning from soviet era arms to modern nato equipment emphasizing that ukraine needs more heavy weapons that says the blocks defense ministers are meeting in brussels today . eyes are committed to continue or providing the military recruitment that ukraine needs to prevail, including heavy weapons on long range systems. i expect that the summit nato allies will agree, a comprehensive assistant package for ukraine, helping ukraine for the longer term to transition from soviet mirror or equipment to morgan. nathan equipment. while to talk through that, we welcome live into the studio r t correspond charlotte duban sky. hi there, charlotte. so was weaponry. the main focus then of the nato chiefs remarked ahead

of that meeting between defense ministers today. it was one of the things that he brought up, but he also talked about this being a dangerous world and said that nato needed to be stronger as a result of that. and he said, for the 1st time since the cold war, that there would be preassigned forces for nato's eastern flank. when pressed on that he said they would be brigade size, were talking about $5000.00 troops at the maximum that could go a quickly to be deployed to some of these eastern frank countries. and he said that putins goal in ukraine was much bigger than ukraine. he said that it been clear when nato allies met russia. i in early of this year where they had basically said that what they wanted to see was that nato infrastructure and also troops that had been placed in countries of joined the block after $997.00 would be removed and he said, no, this shows that we need to be strong with this case, but when there was the discussions about ukrainian military, he was saying, you know, apart from the fact that they would be this emergency plan that would be put in

place at the summit in may at the end of june, rather in dread that the emergency needs to be crane would be dealt with later on wednesday. yeah, and the backdrop to all this, of course, is key, as i suppose relate place is the best word for it, insistence that they need more more weapons from the wares. how's that going dog yet? that's why the list keeps getting longer, whether that's on the vehicles tanks or other sorts of heavy weaponry ukraine keep saying we need more and more. i sultan burg was asked about the fact ukraine says it's only received some 10 percent of what it's been promised. he didn't really address that directly, but reiterated the line that we've heard over and over, that nato has given unprecedented support to ukraine. but it's not just to suttonberg that, that question is being asked. one u. s. officials who put exasperated will also ask with enough weapons, have been given her the ukrainians. correct to complain,

said nato allies are not serious enough about providing them the weapons. they say they need. i think the nato allies, individual narrow allies, have been extremely responsive in recent months. the list that they gave us early on in the conflict looks very different from the lists that we're talking about. now. we were heavily focused in the beginning on air defense. we're talking about a heavy rocket artillery. we have shifted the conversation. we've talked about armored vehicles. now ukraine has said the reason it needs to have more weaponry and more nato style weapons is because it needs to have parity with russia. but some are concerned that that really would tip the balance in ukraine's favor. now a reports are earlier, kim, i and i think a couple other people's i, charlotte,

because a village that ukrainian soldiers were getting western arms faster than they could actually learn how to use them. it raises a lot of questions. it does need to says it's been training ukrainian forces since 2014, and that not just the training, but the ongoing maintenance of any sort of equipment it keeps. ukraine is important . and what was highlighted recently is the fact that javelins that was sent from the u. s. to ukraine apparently turned up without any customer support being available. essentially, meaning that when the technology went wrong, which apparently it did on the field, that essentially they couldn't use them. the banks this question. first of all, our ukranian troops were ready to receive weston style weapons. and if they are, why wouldn't at be this tech support available? yeah, thanks very much. sure. take us through all of our t. charlotte dubin ski and let's dig into some of the points charlotte was raising . there we go, live now to michael maloof, michael's a former pentagon security policy analyst on this very welcome to the program.

michael ukraine sees it needs a plethora of weapons and ammunition from western countries. are those nations are the able to fulfill? do they want to fulfill all of key ebs demands? well, i think the i western countries would like to do that, but they have a logistical issues for themselves. and that is they their own current supply. and as, as, as european countries provide these weapons, they expect backfill from the united states. and the united states in turn has its own limited supplies. and in order to meet those demands on any persistent basis from here on out, which then raises the question, what is u. s. policy toward ukraine? ultimately, the u. s. is going to have to shift its production to

a more war war time production. if it's going to be prolonging this of this conflict and, and, and yet the, by the administration hasn't answered any of these questions in terms of what is the, what is the ultimate goal, what, what it, what are we going to be doing? and, and lot of that is predicated upon just what arms do you have to provide and, and, and the supply support and logistical support to follow. and what you're talking about is something that when i was at the defense department, i also encountered when i would go walking to the field and it, and that, that, that was an early 2, thousands and the, let me tell you, it has the logistical breakdowns have not have not changed since since that time, and it's get and it's more comp with it. well, because of not only the weapons that we're supplying, but, but coming in from other countries, which in turn we have to supply to them. yet the international elements, of course,

as well out to it, doesn't it? one specific example michael, ukraine officials have repeatedly accused germany of delaying weaponry supplies even saying that chancellor schultz is to blame for dead ukrainian soldiers and civilians. why is germany at the co or of those accusations? do you think? well, i think, well, i think the ukrainians are germany is the strongest european country and nato. there's no question about it. and i think that they take the lead him in the direction that nato countries are going to be going. and i think that germany is at odds with even sultan burg. and his approach is there are cracks in the in the natal solidarity if you will. and i think germany has been much more cautious given the political politics of the current chancellor is much more amenable to russia and as opposed to his foreign minister am i that? but the chancellor himself is being very cautious and,

and with germany right up there. next to near, near russia and the dependency that germany has the is, can't declare a war like the united states can, can force countries in themselves to, to commit to and get away with it. the, your parents have a lot more to lose than the united states by fighting this proxy war. so many lines about this conflict. they come out, michael and you read them and you think, oh, okay, but then you look further into it and it really is extraordinary. one of them we just spoke about with our correspondent, the u. s. a sending advanced weaponry, including multiple launch rockets systems to kiev, reportedly without ukrainian soldiers receiving sufficient training and actually how to use them. what's the consequences of something like that? oh, it's a disaster. you go to, you say, the whole idea is to entice and, and before the conflict arose, we, we dangle these a, these,

a little these toys, these exotic toys to them and, and the, and the next countries will, will go for it. and as a consequence, when they get committed, they get locked in on it, come to depend upon it, but are not sufficiently trained. there was no way the united states was going to be able to sufficiently supply and prolong the, the supply trains indefinitely without running into this very problem. now there may have been some troops, some ukrainians, trained in, in europe, particularly in germany. and, and, and, but there are very few, and when you're in the, when you're under battle conditions, you're under the stress and, and you find that some of your equipment is not working. and the, the guy who was trained is often some other area that makes it very, very,

i makes it impossible to deal with. and we're rely and more and more on higher and higher technology. when the basics are really sometimes even better. and i think we're going to be seeing a resort back to that. in fact, some countries do that. russia's doing that. they don't rely on very, they haven't field a very, very sophisticated equipment compared to united states. they, they've done it in volume. and people know how to use that equipment. you know, you're going to have, you're going to have losses because when the war, when you're more advanced, technologies are up against that they're going to knock about. but it's limited. yeah. and what we're seeing now is this is going to continue on and there's no remedy it hasn't. it hasn't been remedied in the 20 years. and i've been familiar with it. can i just touch shipper theater or aspect as well? you've got western government saying that they want long term peace, security in europe. that's the line. it always comes side. but then those same

governments, they rump up the rhetoric against russia, they send long range rockets to printing forces capable of heading tons in russia. well, that's gonna be a real problem. and i, i was listening to a interview that john kirby formerly from the pentagon, but now over at the white house was given. it was very, very vague on that. and you have no assurance. the bottom line is you have no assurance that those rockets are not going to be pulled up to the border and fired into russia and created and create a whole new level of escalation that we did not anticipate as it is the united states. and this nato allies aren't even meeting the, the level of violence that's occurring right now. and being able to sufficiently supply them yet if we allow the ukrainians to go ahead and make make the decisions. and that's what kirby was saying. well,

it's up to the crate and how they want to use the equipment. well, wait a minute. they're going to get you into a further war. if that if you don't have limitations or if you can supply this stuff without conditions and that, and when you're using talk about long range rockets, they can place them anywhere. and that's that only the bottom line on something like that is escalation. and it's pure and simple, and there's no way to no way to mask this and it's, it's just, this is, this makes the whole conflict embers. michael, as always, we thank you for your time, your thoughts and your expertise. miko moly former pentagon security policy analysts live in rti. thank you very much. mexico as president, has slammed nato's policy towards the ukraine conflict, calling it a moral. it comes just days after he refused to attend the u. s. hosted summit for the americas because washington refused to invite several other countries in the region. i'll supply the weapons and you supply the dead. it's immoral. how easy it

is to say here, i'll send you this much money for weapons. couldn't the war in the ukraine have been avoided? of course of could. mexico earlier said it wouldn't send arms to ukraine on, refuse to sign up to sanctions against russia under as manuel lopez open a door has advocated for dialogue, is the best way to resolve the conflict. ukraine is urgently cold in western countries to send more weapons or fears, but the current nato supplies may soon. dawn. well, mexico has become the leading latin american challenge to us in germany after washington excluded schubert. bennett will and nicko rank. you are all free. the subject of us sanctions from the summit of the america summit for the americans, i should say. historically the u. s. has been sent tro america's top treating partner, but he's not facing a new challenge from china. we spoke with a coordinator for the cuban venezuela. solidarity committee who stays the region is

now actively demonstrating more opposition to us dominance there, i believe is more than just cuba, venezuela, and you can weather, posing problems for us, had germany. even though a good number of the nations of latin america attended the summit of exclusion of bivens, they still announce and declared in the summer they were not happy with what was taken place. and it's a warning. it's a warning from argentina, from other leaders who said, you cannot continue this. the fact that the u. s. was hosting the summit of the americas, did not give it the right to decide who belongs mexico, with lopez over say, now we speak as a latin american nation as a latin american nation on behalf of all of latin america and the caribbean. and why love is over, as the most significant figure refused to attend the summit of the americas. that

will probably have some repercussion. but i think what's happening in latin america . and even in the rest of the 3rd world country, they're saying we don't want to be bullied anymore. and we will act in concert with each other to coordinate more together economically, politically and reject us had gemini, doesn't bring any good to the country. cannot the story to bring you today? german company, siemens energy has failed to deliver repaired gas turbines to russia on time to, to western sanctions. because of moscow, say russia has had to reduce natural gas sent to europe by the north stream pipeline, by 40 percent. the plant supplies due to the sanctions imposed by canada. it is currently impossible for seamans energy to deliver over whole gas turbines to the customer. against this background, we have informed the canadian and german government and working on

a viable solution. year last week, canada expanded its list of sanctions against russia, targeting the oil and gas and chemical industries. it hampered the return of key turbines that are manufactured in canada and must be product set, therefore, maintenance. the united spend sense european gas prices soaring into the double europe has been increasingly vulnerable to gas supply disruptions. as previously russia cut off recipient companies and poland and both curia because of their refusal to pay for the commodity in roubles. we heard from political analyst, alexander, bruno, who say european, people want this situation to be resolved as soon as possible. i think kind of, might allow for the turbines eventually to get back to germany. but will these turbines be then sent to russia? that's a very difficult question to answer, and this is one of the few ways they can put some pressure. because of course,

we've seen the other effects have been completely in russia favor. i believe russia has never had such revenues from gas because europe is increasing its import ahead of the fall where they feel they're going to be losing as not having enough supply. so the, there's a surge of demand. russian gas. so and germany, i'm sure would like for the, for the situation to be resolved because germany and italy, the 2 big, most largest industrial powers in europe are the ones that will suffer the most from this situation. now after all, jury a suspended, a long running cooperation treaty with spain. madrid has claimed that russian influence was behind the decision and those his be guy fell back then that algeria was more and more aligned with russia. so this decision to suspend the treaty

didn't surprise me in the commercial algiers suspended friendship and cooperation treaty after 2 decades. going as far as to bon old non gauss street, that's a mid escalating tension between algeria, morocco over the disputed territory of western sahara with spain backing rabbits claim to the land. algeria is one of madrid's main suppliers of natural gas, but last year shut off its pipeline supplies through morocco, leaving spain with just one direct link. it's relies on for continued supply. just to break that down further, the diplomatic ra between spin on algeria rapid limited made an abrupt you turn and sided with morocco in the lung, running conflict over western sahara and sent shock waves through the jury and government and stirred up tensions between the trading partners previously, madrid had been neutral and the conflict, but now openly support moroccan sovereignty over the contested area. on africa has

north west from a political sociologist who thinks the fact fane has chosen aside. and this is not conducive to resolving the conflict. governments in spain has made its choice, it does not want to have problems with the area, but given the circumstances of shifting geo politics, they chose a different path. it's a frozen conflict. there's no other issues. there's no other solution so far that was deemed credible and possible, but the one that was suggested by the government and, and frankly speaking, i believe that even though spain has chosen that path, i don't think that the conflict will be resolved any time soon because it's still within the city council at the u. s. has been going on for decades now since the independence and mostly during the cold war with the of the logical alignment dungee with camp and moral go to western come and no one really managed to get

demonic in the region. so i think it's high time that both countries rethink this policy of competition and they will be stronger together rushes main. i'm did. one of the world's biggest international economic forums has just started this wedding stay in st. petersburg with thousands of v i piece for over a 140 countries gathering for the 3 different. ah, well this set wedding stays open day featured several prominent guests in russian politics on the economics spear on the event, a strong attendees all over the world. for 25 years were a quarter of a century old up in st. petersburg. this time around this year focuses on innovations, investment opportunities on a global scale. and i, one of the remarks we got in this early was from russian,

a foreign ministry spokesperson re, as a heart of it. who says that, especially at this year, at the event has proof that western powers cannot isolate russia on a global stage. now which is which says yes, the west wants to cancel, asked to defeat as to dominate, asking, but at the same time they want to co exist with us or they need to fix something within their values and basic principles and develop a unified position if they believe in their policy of canceling russia and restraining our country's development in accordance with that policy, then they be isolating themselves. the whole world is watching. what's happening in asia, africa in the middle east are drawing their own conclusions about whether the west is a reliable partner meetings when russia is supposed to be boycotted by everyone in every possible aspect. well, that's what these people want. the new world order to be like the nation still goes for it. it goes for a hosting, a big international business gathering. it's called the st. petersburg

international economic form. it's been happening every summer for 25 years. $140.00 countries are taking part and it's always been a chance for russia's businessman and government officials to showcase rushes full potential and also laure investment. so what's happening this year? nobody's coming. and the st. petersburg rain. you know, it's famous. does it make it more pleasant? let's have a look at the venue. ah . well, the vibe is quite usual when you see all these bright cool monitors around you representing top russian companies. you always feel like you're part of something very promising. modern full of energy the main days of the form have not begun yet

. okay. the leaders of the likes of france or japan are not coming even though they have taken part in previous years. but mr. brewton is welcoming the presidents of, for example, catholic, stan, or armenia which are considered was as friends. and are part of a you reagan, economic integration, blog, which has taken ties in the european union as an example. and in the times of embargoes and boy, cause russia's really counting on friends like that. it's in our common interest to stimulate trade and investment. encourage joint technology development, strength and financial and stock markets increase. the sheriff settlements and national currencies. it is important to introduce and develop truly mutual beneficial integration models as it is already being done in the space of the ration economic union. right. a few seconds ago you heard vladimir putin mentioned something that's usually called

d dollar. arising giving up the u. s. dollar in transactions with russia's partners is something that's often widely discussed here in saint petersburg. the moto of this year's form is new world, new opportunities. that's exactly the essence of the event. russia is trying to turn sanctions, actually the effect of sanctions into new opportunities. the anniversary meeting is taking place at a difficult time for the entire international community. the long term mistakes of western countries in economic policy and illegitimate sanctions have led to a wave of global inflation to the destruction of the usual logistics and production chains and to a sharp increase in poverty and food shortages. but as it happens, prospects open up along with challenges every year at the st. petersburg, international economic form, one country as awarded the status of a special privileged guest. and this year, it's the turn of egypt,

the land of the pyramids. the number one event at the form is happening on friday, june, the 17th. it is called the plenary session, and this is where almost exactly 4 months after russia's operation in ukraine began . vladimir potent together was his counterparts will weigh in on everything that happened around the world and in russia in these 12 weeks. stay tuned. ellia katrinka with a walk and talk on a deep throat the day will bring you the big takeaways. the major developments from the forum with day one up north, ny, well under way, keep it here in our tea to ensure you don't miss a thing. ah ah.