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, this ours headlines stories, russian buck forces, excuse ukraine, of disrupting a key vacuum ration route from sea ever road 10, yet, 5, violating as far within an hour of it opening, also ahead new. but the green in president and his official flu have to negotiate with russia. we, as you repeat and share one continent and russia, will remain part of it in the speech in front of nato troops. frances leader, it goes on to describe russia as a strong power. so the goal for key to negotiate with moscow to reach

a p seal nato itself. step up the rhetoric with the in stilton berg pledging long range rockets take here and seeing ukraine must switch to the alliances weaponry instead of its current obvious urine munition. on thousands of high profile participants gather in russia's northern capital for the st. petersburg international economic forum, which kicked off this when the news from moscow to the world's. this is our pleasure to have your company today. my name's you. no, no, no. you don't by us forces have a choose ukraine of disrupting a crucial humanitarian corridor that the russian military's established in the embattled city of c, ever. vignettes ukrainian troops allegedly violated

a fire near the corridor. within one hour of it, opening the ukrainian military, taken up positions in a chemical plant in the city. western media outlets report that $500.00 civilians are also inside the factory. would be able to flee via the evacuation route. lou ganske authorities. those say there's a rhonda thought, isn't civilians in that facility, and that they're being forcibly hell to deter a potential incoming attack. they are that only one civilian has managed to flee the plants and he was unaware of the corridor being open on the gal sca officials meanwhile, reiterated that ukraine's military has been shelling residential areas throughout. don bass ortiz eager shut down of travel to the scene of one of the attacks. the situation for ukrainian troops here nichol against people's republic is dia. this is something that all sides of the conflict seemed to agree on k 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 lugens containers. people's republic, the city of the network itself has recently insured 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 he had 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 for and 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 care of 2 foreign supplied weapons. the

longer this agony will go on and make as done of reporting from the la guns people's republic, r t. francis president has a firm that russia is a quote, strong power unsafe that ukraine must negotiate with moscow to restore peace on the continent. meet lulu but jalap ukrainian 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 agreed with an approach according to which it would start in war with russia to day and seek to destroy tomorrow. while it's not the 1st time that's a manual mccrendon house call for negotiations with russia, and he has suffered a barrage of criticism for it from ukraine, other eastern european countries. however, nato members, germany hungry and italy have also supported efforts for a peace agreements. you know,

the head of nato has said he's confident that member states will assist key of in transitioning from soviet era arms to modern natural equipment. and for sizing that ukraine needs more heavy weaponry. earlier charlotte dubin ski expanded on nato chief yelton's stilton briggs remarks out of the blocks defense ministers meeting was happening in brussels to day follows. are committed to continue providing the military recruitment that ukraine needs to prevail, including heavy weapons and 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 or equipment to morgan. nathan equipment, 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 pre assigned forces for natives forced in flight. when pressed on that he said they would be gained size. we're talking about 5000 troops at the maximum that could go quickly to be deploy day to some of these eastern flight countries. and he said that putins goal in ukraine was much bigger than ukraine. he said that it be clear when nato allies, it met russia, a 80 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 1997 would be removed and he said no, this shows that we need to be strong in this case. but when there was that discussions about ukrainian military, he was saying, you know, apart from the fact that there would be this emergency plan that would be put in place at the summit at the end of june in madrid,

that the emergency needs to be crane would be dealt with later on wednesday. yeah. on the backdrop to all this, of course is key, as i suppose, relentless is the best word for insistence that they need more more weapons from the west. how's that going down yet? that's why the list keeps getting longer, whether that's armoured vehicles, tanks, or other sorts of heavy weaponry ukraine keep saying we need more and more as total burg was asked about the fact that 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 stop him for that. that question has been asked at one u. s. official seemed pretty exasperated when also asked with enough weapons 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 nato 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 need to stop 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 rapport or earlier, kim, i, it's, and i think i called a lot of people's, i shot it because it alleged 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 gives you queen 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 when the technology went wrong, which apparently it did on the field. that essentially they couldn't use them. that makes this question. first of all, are ukranian troops were ready to receive weston style weapons. and if they are, why wouldn't it be this tech support available? earlier on the program we heard from former pentagon security policy unless michael maloof, who believes the us doesn't have the capacity to provide weaponry to crane up the current pace. 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 ship it's production to a more war war time production. if it's going to be prolong in this conflict. and before the conflict arose, we dangle these, these little, these toys, these exotic toys to them and 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 prolonged the supply trains indefinitely without running into this very problem. 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. and that's what kirby was saying. well, it's up to the gradients, 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 the stuff without conditions. and i think that germany is at odds with even stolen berg. and his approach there is, there are cracks in the, in the nato solidarity if you will. and i think germany has been much more cautious given the politic politics of the current chancellor. i think that they take the lead in the direction that nato countries are going to be going. okay, i think another global aspect to this mexican was president, has slum nature, his 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 refuse 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 abra door has advocated for dialogue as the best way to resolve the conflict. when lexical was leading, the latin american charge against us had gemini, after washington excluded cuba, venezuela nicko rog, you all free the subject of us sanctions from the summit for the americas. historically, the u. s. has been central america's top trading partner, but it's not facing a new challenge from china. we spoke with a coordinator for the cuba and venice will a solidarity committee who sees the area is now actively demonstrating more

opposition to us dominance. there. i believe is more than just cuba, venezuela, and you can either 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 this summit, 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 belong mexico, with lopez is saying, 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, countries are 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. china call for increased trade within the bricks framework of nations. seeing the block is a vital force for regional economic growth. the bricks group in consist of 5 countries, brazil and russia, india, china. onsite, the africa, the blocks considered a symbol of a rising. most the polar world of its members seek to quickly economic cooperation. one another, a prominent russian official contract between the bricks approach,

another woman chunky fate and the dining room is a stabilizing factor in an increasingly turbo world. new for the brakes partnership isn't the aimed against anyone. unlike the u. s. u k and their allies, briggs, countries don't seem to impose upon others. a world order based on rules invented by the west. i'm convinced the bricks should play a leading role in resolving global issues. go up by the name. ok, let me talk you through some big figures, not rushing gas. 6 porter gas problem has just announced it's stopping the operation of a critical gas turbine and thus will cut supplies by the nord stream pipeline to no more than 67000000 cubic meters per day. in the gas prices, as you may know in europe, have been surging. our gas problem reduce supplies by the key pipeline as it's unable to continue using turbines by germany, siemens company, because western sanctions have hampered repairs,

a lot of information there. but let's try and break out dime. and europe has been increasingly vulnerable to gas supply disruptions as russia has also cut off recipient companies and poland on bulgaria because they refuse to pay for the commodity in roubles. in addition, german company giant as well, siemens energy, they fail to deliver those for per gas turbines to russia on time due to western sanctions. as we mentioned, because about moscow sais, russia has had to reduce gas sent to europe by the north stream pipeline. by 40 percent of what was previously plan due to the sanctions imposed by canada, it is currently impossible for siemens 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. last way, canada expanded its list of sanctions against russia, targeting the oil and gas and chemical industries. humphrey,

the return of key trouble, is that our money function in canada must be probably sent there for maintenance. the non spend sent european gas prices soaring into the double digits. we spoke to political or solicit, bruno, who's a european people want this situation to resolve this soon as possible. i think canada 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 fear 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. ok, another story to bring you to de following. algeria is suspension of a decade, spending cooperation treaty with spain, madrid i was plain 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, and algiers suspended the friendship and co operation treaty after 2 decades. going as far as to bomb all non gauss trade, amid escalating tensions between algeria, morocco, over the disputed territory of western sahara with spain backing whereabouts 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 that it relies on for continued supply. while the diplomatic ra between spain and algeria erupt, it when madrid made an abrupt you turned and sided with morocco in the long run and conflict over western sahara. the move sent shock waves through the l during government and stirred up tensions between the treating partners. previously, madrid had been neutral on the conflict, but now openly supports moroccan sovereignty over the contested area on africa's north west. we heard from a political sociologist who thinks that the fax machine has chosen aside is not conducive to resolving, not conflict. governments in spain has made its choice. it does not want to have problems with a jury, but a given the circumstances, the shifting geo politics,

they chose a different path with the 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 broken government and, and frankly speaking, i believe that even though spain has chosen that pat, 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 the east camp and morocco, the western camp. and no one really managed to big germanic in the region. so i think it's time that both countries rethink this policy of competition and they will be stronger together. while western countries spend billions of dollars on lethal aid for you, crane, the united nations is calling for urgent funding to prevent

a potentially devastating oil spill off the coast of yemen. un member states have pledged around 3 quarters of the $18000000.00 needed to remove an estimated 1000000 arles of crude from a decaying tanker ship in the red sea to find the additional money. b u. n. has launched a crowd funding campaign hoping to collect at least $5000000.00 within a fortnight. the tanker was constructed close to 50 years ago and then converted into a floating storage facility. now it hasn't undergone sufficient maintenance works and c, m, any civil war? a rough did in 2014 ok. yeah. a few questions surrounding that isn't there? let's said delve into them with the new stuff, a director of the asia center for studies translation. you're welcome to the program. so there we have, you know, let's work at this. we're western countries sending billions of dollars in military

stroke, lethal h, ukraine. but they're on able to pay another $20000000000.00 to prevent what could be a environmental catastrophe in the middle east and indeed spread a further. why is that? you think? first of all, thanks a lot for inviting me for this important program. however, she did go for the beth, according to the charter, been at nations environmental rights, became one of the fundamental likes of the human beings, the for some, for some sort. some sort of real need to be, to treat these environmental catastrophic issue, especially in the back seat. but now we see a lot of times, especially on the west and you and unfortunately it's not the way to bother dominic countries, especially you as greek breton and friends and for the middle east and the south country not on there. and i just see even via the popular of the video,

g crane including the other nationalities, living in a crane, whether in terms off. so shows that the normal and or if you, whether the accept that only the longed and the why it, jeez, disregarding what they are and it's regarding, you know, the other necessities existed over there. ok, the be a double standard, a very big and a few center because they just focusing on just the problems that near by their folders, but it is or disregarding any other problem away from their borders. and if you see also, we have a pop in and by the time we have a property, we have a problem in libya, we have a problem. anyway, we have a problem in somalia and all of them made by the west, especially the anglo saxon by rica. but unfortunately the b to got all of that. the

problem is i love about the we'll have one big of all things like that. and if you remember the whole team table, the walk, ok, they, i just want to talk, you know, the environmental issues as you well know, they've long been at the forefront of, of liberal western leaders policies. looking at the current problem in yemen. why do you think that positions changed? of as i told you, the west, the have that bill sanders intriguing with everything despite the has been summit up 26 in the scotland last fall. and they promised and give a lot of fun. and it's concerning such issues, whether if you come on the air or come to the floor, they are not permitted to do anything. they just shift because even be be, be,

have the vision of 20 or 50. this is according to the you. but the want to get the money and get the benefits from such matter. the vision is environmental vision. much should you follow the fan dues and the codes off you in order to fill you production lines that is in their view, environmentally friendly and environmentally equipment. but unfortunately, they just give me a touch copland and things like that, just to get the benefit if they don't have these materials benefits form involving in any kind of problem because she got, but they just using the media in order to promote that. you all the america, all pitching of friendship, protecting ok. and by the month environment and logic, advice and things like that. in fact, the do nothing like med as always. thank you very much for your time and your

thoughts on the program. i commend miss stuff. a director of the asia center for studies and translation in egypt. thanks a lot. by one of the world's main economic forums has kicked off this wednesday in st. petersburg. it is russia's premier showcase all its investment potential and has gathered thousands of gas from over a $140.00 countries for the 4 days of events. the the, the opening day house featured several delegates steeped in russian politics and economics, while the event overall now strong attendees from all across the world for a quarter of a century. now, $997.00. when it all kicked off for those years, a focus on innovation and investment opportunities always on top of the agenda. russian foreign ministry spokesman maria, it's a horror of essays that especially this year the form is proof that western powers

cannot isolate rash on the world stage was up with this deal. the boy, what has the west done? they've isolated themselves from us, but it's impossible to isolate us. the west has cut off partnerships and mutually beneficial cooperation, systematically destroying the entire fabric of our relations. yes, the west wants to cancel us to defeat us to dominate us. but at the same time, they want to co exist with us. they need to fix something within their values and basic principles, and develop a unified position that nobody, if they believe in their policy of canceling russia and restraining our country's development in accordance with policy. when they are isolating themselves, the whole world is watching what's happening. asia, africa and the middle east are drawing their own conclusions about whether the west is a reliable partner. is the swain 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 laur 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 your 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 his friends. and are part of a you reagan, economic integration block, which has taken ties in the european union as an example. and in the times of embargoes and boy, cause rushes really counting on friends like that. it's in our common interest to stimulate trade and investment. encourage joint technology development, strengthen 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.