the news, the news russian by forces accuse ukraine of disrupting a key of buck you ation route from your road done yet by violating the fire within the hour of 8 openings. also ahead on the program, looking at 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 from leader goes onto the scribe, russia, a strong power called break. here to negotiate with moscow to reach the steel nato itself,

stepped off the rhetoric with its secondary general pledging long range rocket. sticky saying ukraine must switch to the alliances weaponry instead of his current sylvia. during the mission, some thousands of high profile participants gather in rushes, northern capital for the st. petersburg, international economic forum which kicked off this wednesday. the news live for moscow. this is our t, my names, you know? no, neil, i'm 30 minutes of news and views start dunbar forces, how they choose ukraine disrupting a crucial humanitarian corridor that the russian military is established in the embattled city of sierra road done yet. ukrainian troops allegedly violated a ceasefire near the corridor. within an hour of it opening the ukrainian military

taken positions in a chemical plant in the city. western media outlets report that $500.00 civilians are also inside the factory and would be able to flee via the evacuation root lou ganske authorities though. say there's double that around a 1000 civilians in the facility and they're being forcibly hell to deter a potential incoming attack. the officials are the only one civilian has managed to flee the plant, and he was unaware of the corridor were being opened. but while ukrainian forces set up the fences out bands factory, the abandoned positions they'd occupied nearby or corresponding the acreage down of is near the facility examining a former stronghold of the ukrainian army. there. this was the ukrainians forces last bastion last holding ground just outside of separate the nets. and well, just outside of the industrial zone of the amazon plan, which is by the way,

just about a kilometer away from here. this is from where they fled, with a joining the regimen and joining civilians who are being effectively held hostage there. now in a speech in front of nato troops, frances president, that firm, that russia is a quote, strong power, said that ukraine must negotiate with moscow to restore peace on the continent. meet little bit jelly, 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 greet with an approach, according to wish we would start a war with russia today and seek to destroy to morrow. no. well, it's not the 1st time that a manual mecropolis called for negotiations with russia, and he suffered upper garage of criticism for it from ukraine and other eastern european countries. however, in nato members, germany hungry in italy,

of also supported efforts for a peace agreement. meanwhile, the head of nato, i said he's confident that member states will assist kevin transitioning from soviet era arms to modern nato equipment. emphasizing that ukraine needs more heavy weaponry. yen stilton bergs remarks came ahead of a meeting between the blocks defense ministers in brussels. ah, laws 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 preassigned forces for nato's eastern flight. when pressed on that he said they would be gained size. we're talking about $5000.00 troops at the maximum that could go a quickly to be deployed to some of these eastern flag 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 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 $997.00 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 they 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 yet on the backdrop to all this, of course is key, as i suppose, relentless is the best word for it. insistence that they need more more weapons from the west. how's that going down? yeah, that's right. the list keeps getting longer. whether that's armored vehicles, tanks, or other sorts of heavy weaponry ukraine keep saying we need more and more as thought and berg 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 in that. that question is being asked at one us official seemed pretty exasperated when also, if enough weapons hacking, getting heard the ukrainians. correct? to complain that 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 list 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 armoured vehicles. now ukraine has said the reason 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 earlier, kim, i, it's, and i think i called a lot of people's i, charlotte, 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 us 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, 1st of all, are ukranian troops ready to receive west install weapons? and if they are, why wouldn't it be this tech support available? sure, gibbons be talking me through that earlier. we also heard from former pentagon security policy analysts, michael maloof, who believes the u. s. doesn't have the capacity to keep providing weaponry to ukraine at 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 us policy toward ukraine. ultimately, 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 not sufficiently trained . there was no way the united states was going to be able to sufficiently supply and prolonged the supply train 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. gas in europe have been surging on the news that rushes to stop using a crucial turbine for the north stream pipeline. moscow. se western sanctions are prevented. adequate maintenance work and will cut supplies via the station in

question by a further one 3rd to no more than 67000000 cubic meters per day. europe has been increasingly vulnerable to gas supply disruptions. that's russia also stop deliveries to recipient companies and poland and bulgaria recently over their refusal to pay for the commodity in roubles. earlier in the week, moscow said it was reducing gas sent to europe, 5 in north, streamlined by 40 percent of what was previously planned after german company, siemens energy failed to deliver repaired gas turbines to russia on time 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 governments and working on a viable solution. indeed, last week, canada expanded a list of sanctions against russia, had targeting the oil, gas and chemical industries. it humper the return of key turbines that are manufactured in canada and must be sent there pretty regularly for maintenance.

they know it's been sent to europe in gas prices soaring into the double digits. we spoke to political analyst, alessandra bruno, who said, european people want the situation to be resolved. as soon as 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 are 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 of the largest industrial powers in europe are the ones that will suffer the most from this situation. the u. s. south extended a waiver to allow certain energy related transactions with russian companies to take place until december 5th, the same day that the you intends to start enforcing an embargo. again, seaborne in ports of russian oil or joined lived by ortiz, rachel blevins. to go through this hi there, rachel. this us decision to continue to allow energy deals with russia, appears to contradict the west overall sanction strategy. like is it evidence not to some degree that the initially intended approach is faltering take us through all that? all the contradictions certainly do seem to be endless. here. now,

when it comes to the numerous things shows that the u. s. has imposed against russia, there appear to be more questions than answers starts to feel the impact of their own measures. just month after washington announced unprecedented sanctions against moscow. well, the media now admitted that the binding ministration is concerned about the effect those measures are having at home rather than abroad from soaring gas prices and inflation to concerns over a global food crisis. the united states right now is really hurting, and that's just the beginning. in fact, even officials from the us treasury are now admitting that they're concerned about the over use of sanctions against russia. all of that comes as reports are saying that the u. s. government is even encouraging american companies to purchase russian for fertilizer in order to increase supplies overall. but actually the

question of whether is that would violate the sanctions the u. s. currently has in place? well, the answers are not entirely clear here. the story that the sanctions are causing the problem i think is deeply misleading. sometimes companies are confused about what's allowed and what's not. and we will try to clarify so that they're able to go forward. but we are also working pro actively by trying to inform companies about what they are allowed to do. now, as for the question of who is to blame for the current crisis here in the us. well, president biden has tried to put the blame on everyone from russia to republicans in congress to even former president trump, essentially everyone other than himself, even though biden's own approval rating continues to remain your record low. racial thanks very much for bring this through to our team. rachel blevins and let's dig into some of the points that rachel was bringing up there with geopolitical on

market unless tom longo live on the program. hi there tom. so we have an extended period for the us to do deals with russia over energy does not contradict the west overall sanction strategy. oh sure. but, you know, no one ever when broke overestimating the idiocy of western economic policy on, as it pertains to either russia or china. honestly, sanctions ever work, they always hurt the sanction or more than the st. anthony. i have been watching this scene myself. these were never the sanctions or rush were never going to work . worst sanctions on iran didn't work. so in just in basic general terms, it was never, it was never going to be a successful strategy. and we could see before the war even broke out, i was saying and many others, all in my, in my circle were saying the same thing that we have a cost push inflation problem that, that stems from all lack of supply of basic commodities. and then you try to take

the world's biggest producer of the marginal pound of copper therm, gas barrel of oil out of the market. and you don't expect there to be a tremendous blowback like every, the prices are all set the margin. if you tried to remove the russians from all of these markets, all these mighty markets, all the commodity prices are going to just rise tremendously. and eventually the blowback on, on the, the sanction or is going to be far worse than the sanction me. and if you look at cold hard figures despite sanctions, russia still receive $800000000.00 per day from oil and gas sales. that's even more than last year given tom that russian revenue has soared along with gas prices. do you think the strategy all of the functions and the 3 pushing them will be question no by western powers or just go on regardless. i don't know. it's really hard to tell the problem here in the us that we can handicap the job. he's going to

probably take control of congress and fall. the problem is, is that the g o p on balance is even more anti russian than the democrats are right . they, it's nice at the dnc to spend the last 5 years or 6 ratcheting up anti russian sentiment within democrats. but that's only just to make sure that when the g o p is in charge, that they have bipartisanship, and in europe, it's a far more complicated scenario because the european are so dependent upon russian commodities, certainly, russian energy and russian for advisor and other things on those lines, so i think that ultimately at the end of the day as much as the lead, the political and the people to stand behind the political leadership oligarchy, alec on the davos crowd. those people are all committed to this policy because they have a bigger grand strategy. but i don't know that that's going to outlast the, the populist outrage over the cost of food energy. right, that's the,

that's the big race that's on here is whether or not they can survive politically long enough to, you know, crash everything and try and build it back better later before everybody just, you know, pulse with their heads. and i think that's the real problem, and i think this is the split you're seeing with a nato within the european union, even within the american political system. i don't believe at all, for example, that the fad was happy with the sanction proceed. but the treasury was to the treasury was all on board a bit along with bite, and i think biden and the treasure department, for example, are aligned with the european powers and this, whereas on the other side of it, i think that the federal reserve has looked at the situation, remember john durham, pow stating humphrey hawkins testimony saying no one consulted me as to whether or not we should do these. i did it. that's a very interesting point. it leads to what i was going to say next, because short term for certain maybe be on the the financial functions appear to have bach fired dramatically for western economies,

the u. s. dollar in particular. so where are those measures adequately calculated? always at rushed through, get some headlines, get, get some barking from from other allies on this. oh, i think that this was a shock and awe campaign that they made the mistake of thinking that russia is organized the same way that the us in europe is which is that the oligarchs control the governments. and so if you sanction the oligarchs and you take their money away from them, the delta and the politicians, and they stop this and you know, overthrow potent. i mean, i think the, the, the rhetoric coming out of both europe and the united states, certainly from new york on march, the conflict lindsey graham and victoria new one. the others very clear about what the strategy was. i mean, you could see it everywhere. you can see it from all the, the neoconservative style, the think tanks, you'd see it from the even the, the british tabloid presses while i was very, very clear about what their goals were and i looked at and they said that's never going to work. this, the russian, because the russian government is bigger than the oligarchs are within russia.

putin has done an admirable job of him retaining the russian state and superior position to the the financial guards. and therefore, they never had, there was never any worry that the shock and awe campaign, the initial shock of it was going to work. and therefore, all the, the russians had to do was, you know, wait everything out and just wait for everything. this run a war of attrition, financial attrition which are very good at. they've been doing it for years and it's similar to the kind of war of attrition that they're grinding through, the ukranian army and don bass right now. it's a very similar strategy at all along multiple idioms. right? so most of the theaters that financial political and military theaters that they, the russians are running affectively the same strategy. ok on the line. that's what i say, tom, just to, to touch upon briefly as well. slowly, little by little, it's starting to come out that biden administration officials have reportedly express concerns about the sanctions have increased inflation and food insecurity.

you know that those comments are emerging. will those issues get worse if the sanctions remain in place? is it as simple as that? it's a mix. thanks. it's like just the sanctions. we've been dividing the ministration lined, everybody and everything. ok. i wrote an article recently talking about the fuel blending issues for, for a renewable fuel blending. right. that's, that's part of what's driving the cost of diesel fuel and gasoline here domestically through the roof. because we have to, these refiners have to buy bio, bio mass offsite blended credits. right? so, and by the ministration is also moving the blending 15 percent ethanol to the gasoline ones. we don't have enough corn or corn socks for to 5 year low when planting is behind the curve, whole 9 yards. so it's not just the sanctions here. it's a full court press by our own government, intentionally trying to destroy our own connie. i'm that serious when they say this

on. and i don't say this lately either. i, it's the only thing that makes any sense. they're not incompetent, they're vandals, and they're trying to do as much damage to the, to the american economy, leave the incoming g o p, as many economic political, military poison pills as possible. breach typical strategy within us political circles on the next, when the other party is about to take over, the other guy always leaves a whole bunch of poison pills that you know that, that the gum up the legislative session going forward. and i think that's where we are. tom, thanks for your time today. appreciate it. tom longo, you're geopolitical market almost life already. one of the world's biggest economic forums kicked off 1st wednesday in st. petersburg. it is russia premier showcase of the country's investment potential, has gathered together thousands of gas from over $140.00 countries for the 4 days

of the well, the opening day featured several delegates in russian politics and economics. while the offender overall has drawn attendees from all over the world for a quarter of a century, now focusing on innovations and investment opportunities rushing, foreign ministry spokesman maria harbor saying that, especially this year, the form is proof that western powers cannot isolate russia on the world. stage up with this usable, like 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 coexist 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 that policy, then 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, right brain 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 businessmen 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, doesn't 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 what's his friends,

and are part of a eurasian economic integration block, which has taken ties in the european union as an example. and in the times of embargoes and boy cause russia is really counting on friends like that. it's in her common interest to stimulate trade and investment. encourage joint technology development strength and financial and stock markets increase. the sheriff's 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 regime economic union. right. a few seconds ago you heard vladimir putin mentioned something that's usually called di da. arising giving up the u. s. dollar in transactions with russia's partners is something that is 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 economics, 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, ah, every here at the saint 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 that is called the plenary session. and this is where almost exactly 4

months after russia's operation in ukraine began. vladimir potent together was as counterparts, will weigh in on everything that happened around the world and in russia, in these 12 weeks, stay tuned. among the ag guests that are ti spoke to out the for him today was young. will ye, general director of the company hoping china and this book about the future prospects for ties between russia and it's roughly developing neighbor to was a little slow. you tours of sher russia and china are great friends. our countries have trusted relations and trade economics and politics were continuously developing our bilateral ties. rush and china have prospects for cooperation and green energy in nature conservation efforts. that includes producing next generation cars that utilized new types of materials. our countries have successfully overcome the crisis cost by the pandemic, leanne. so i am confident that this experience will allow us to continue to

successfully develop. i'm sure that through our joint efforts, our countries will cope with the current supply. disruptions of certain goods include your vulgar, she will as ilya was talking through earlier. there is so much planned off north this week and that is where we come in. we'll make sure you don't miss a thing that is planned there at any of the major developments, any of the big takeaways that may be lost in the plethora of talk, steals, and meetings on the sidelines on their an online r t. how's you covered by for now? oh, lou is widely recognized of the globe.