a be a russian back for says blame key for disrupting a major, a humanitarian car, a door from the city of several of them yet for the 2nd day in a row that says, fighting continues up the adult chemical plant on the city culture. also coming off on the program, trains military threatens the shell, a major bridge connecting crimea to mainland russia. that's right after the usa said they'll send another $1000000000.00 military aid package, the key at the largest since the beginning of the conflict. the leaders of germany, italy, and france make their 1st war telling visit to kiev as

a manual mccolan called for negotiations between ukraine and russia to help bring in a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars or ink on day one of the st. petersburg international economic forum will give you a right across the developments that matter on thursday, 2nd day, that's delegates from over 100 countries to said russia with live for moscow with a full 60 minutes of news and views ahead. this is our t international. my name's neil. hello and welcome to the program. at least 7 civilians helping killed then ukrainian rocket attacks over the past 24 hours in the loop gowns. republic that's according to local officials. most of the casualties were in the city of stuck out of the city often yet because also suffered another day of selling report say massive fixed lotions were heard

throughout the city on thursday, else were in the done yes. republic, 14 residential areas are reported to have come under fire, leaving one mom dead and another wounded. dpr official say the shelling was conducted with the use of multiple launch rocket systems than yet. city has been enduring, continuous shelling by key of forces among the targets earlier in the week. wasn't maternity hospital well, a see far in several done. yes. in the loop guns republic was allegedly violated by ukrainian forces this morning, causing a planned, she, military and corridor out of the city to be cancelled. it is not the 1st time ukrainian forces have allegedly disrupted evacuation attempts. the ridge was initially opened on wednesday to allow civilians sheltering in bunkers beneath the salt chemical plant on the outskirts of the city to leave our teeth eager shit.

dela filed this report from the city an industrial area, the size of a small city, ukrainian troops sheltering in its catacombs, mingling among civilians who aren't allowed to leave. if you're getting the as of style flashbacks, you're totally right. this is the resort plant in several of the nest where recent history is repeating itself. ah up to a 1000 civilians are estimated to be trapped at the assault chemical plant. russia has made an attempt at a humanitarian sees far, but ukrainian artillery had other plans. this was the ukrainians forces last bastion last holding ground just outside of several the nets. and well,

just outside of the industrial zone of the resort plan, which is by the way, just about a kilometer away from here. this is from where they fled over. they're joining our, the regimen and joining civilians who are being effectively held hostage there. the sci fi was botched as give forces shelled what was supposed to be a humanitarian corridor. also hitting it with tank grounds, only one elderly man in a come whatever may attempt eventually managed to get out. the bloody stand off around the plant continues as key of refuses to accept that yet a another massive surrender of its troops is looming over the horizon amish dawn of r t c. o. ukraine appears to be sending mixed messages about its military targets after the countries top general said the coach straight bridge linking the russian mainland to crimea could be targeted. he added that the

crossing could become the quote number one aim since it provides a way to deliver resources. the claims contradict the ukranian president's previous promised that he would not attack russian territory upon receiving western weaponry . the courage straight bridge is target number one for the ukranian armed forces. this is no secret of their military or our military, or their civilians or ours kids. when you have fired at russian territories across the border, which really me know, we are not interested in selling civilities. we are not terrorists who shell civilian neighborhood unique. what about the ukrainian generals? threats came right after the u. s. president approved the largest military aid package to key since the beginning of the war, another $1000000000.00. he had the moms don't in there though with presidential entity, no asking for more powerful rocket systems, which the u. s. and nato say, they are ready to send for our seattle is john korea believes washington wants to

keep the conflict going long as possible. the united states makes these, these policy decisions to send millions and billions of dollars of arms to ukraine. i don't think that they care on capital hill, what zalinski says, or whether or not bombs are going to fall in on the russian side or the ukrainian side. i think really all they care about is making sure that u. s. defense contractors continue to churn out, weapons to send to ukraine because they get paid for them, and they keep the economy going and they keep americans employed. so as far as the u. s. is concerned, it's better for the u. s. if this war drags on as long as possible, and the u. s. can make that happen by continuing to supply weapons and weapon systems to the ukrainians. french leader,

a manual mccrendon coles for peace talks to continue during a meeting with ukraine's president zalinski that happened today. mister mcqueen, german chancellor, will have shelter. i'm italian prime minister mario drug. they are all currently in ukraine. the trio of european leaders made the trip a sizable divisions, helping emerging within the u over support for key ebs demands in the conflict. now the trio, travel to key, if by train with air raid sirens in the city, sending shortly after, at their arrival before the meeting, they made their way directly to the suburb of or a pin, nor the leaders had been criticized in care for not providing ukraine with the steel of weaponry, it's been asking for on for not visiting the country sooner, but the french president is trying to mitigate the situation to a different story situated i have always been consistent. france has been at ukraine side since day one, and president zalinski himself has always wanted to talk with president putin. what

we for wanted to do by coming here is to see all this for ourselves to pay our respect and admiration for the courage of the ukrainian people. and to be able to have this exchange with president zalinski as well as to talk about the future. or less cross live now to our, to contribute our rachel marston in paris for more on this. rachel, so there you have the 3 leaders of major european nations landing, or traveling by train, i should say to key of and you crane. can you give us a sense of the expectations from this summit? what does ukraine want? what does europe want to give ukraine? yeah, well that's really interesting comment by french, present. imagine mcclung and tell you something about the way communicates in minutes. these leaders of france, germany in italy, represent the european union economic engine, which right now is stalling. it's clear under the use own anti russian sanctions in the or ideological response to the conflict in ukraine. it's their own political

interests. it's in their own political interests back home that these leaders are now increasingly saying that, you know, we can allow this to drag on forever. so is unsurprising that french president amendment back home with central parliamentary majority, for example, is an a title of this weekend against it's a left leaning coalition, amid sanctions related, rising inflation and energy costs. i pivoted is roderick recently towards more of an emphasis on and go she to peace. now my home is known here in france for playing both sides of the court, so to speak from the middle when he speaks on any given issue, whether it's coded or conflict to whatever, which is known here as is all mental tactic, french for at the same time what it means in the case of ukrainian conflict is that macintosh yearly for ukrainian victory says that he hopes the ukrainians when promises them. france is full support, but at the same time,

he's also saying that negotiations are inevitable and is trying to coax. you've created president one sky to negotiate table while making zalinski think if he eventually gets to that. and we're seeing table that it was his own brilliant idea . and that's what i see in this, in the quote that you just played reason or more to nationals and police. 3 western european visual strongly suggest that they are not true believers in some kind of military victory for ukraine, or in the notion that, that permanent marginalization of russia is in any way realistic, unlike their counterparts in eastern europe or in washington, italy run. mr. mario foreign minister would you mind remember, laid out a point keith plan last month, which is the least key seems to be pretending either get a memo or it doesn't exist while lambasting anyone even suggesting that confessions are needed to end the conflict and german chancellor role actual, well, he's been around the mark, if not either by ukraine,

the officials for dragging its feet or delivering our products as a weapon. so the public space of this meeting is also a dirty and important. that's what we're seeing you, michael door. well, we need to be seen, but couldn't very well be an intervention aimed at better managing the lens keys expectations of his western european partner. rachel, thanks very much for taking us through the rti kind of get our rachel morrison in paris. now in a bid to check staggering inflation, the u. s. central bank has raised its key interest rate marking the biggest one time increase in decades. the federal reserve raise the rate by 3 quarters of a percentage point pushing its benchmark rate to a range of 1.5 to 1.75 percent. the hike which will affect consumer and business loans is the 3rd since march, the biggest in almost 30 years. we spoke to professor of economics jack rasmus on

investment manager, mitch firestone and optimism about the move was in short supply from both they feel they've um, almost lost control of inflation and the markets and investors have been pushing the fed and the government to get more aggressive to raise rates. and that's what's really behind all this. but you know, it's interesting. i listen to jerome this morning, you know, and the chair with a chair and he indicated that, wow, this is really about doing something about demand driven inflation. and you ask, is the fed really can't do anything about supply? well, the problem is supply i'd problem is the commodities inflation that's going on now managed to do with the war. and the sanctions also has to do with supply chains that are still, you know, in trouble after cove. it has to do with the supply chain issues with china

shutting down because a co ver awhile and it has to do with speculators. i don't know how he figures that the doubling interest rates as fast are going to avoid a recession. there's no doubt there's going to be a recession in this country. just a question of how soon i think we're in a recession, but i think the recession can get much worse. because i think the consumer is already tapped out pretty much people's wages haven't gone up to compensate them for the amount that the prices be. inflation has gone up, so this is the mismatch. and the problem and with interest rates going up, it, it makes the problem exponentially worse. so can consumer spending should slump even more in my estimate, which will cause a worse recession. and i think that they've taken inappropriate measures, had they done things properly a few years ago. they could have avoided this problem. but the biggest problem is

when you print money out of thin air for over a decade and inflate your balance sheet to ridiculous levels. and in the federal government starts spending money by printing money. you have a problem and that's why we're seeing epic inflation everywhere or separately the u . s. has extended a waiver to allow certain energy related transactions with russian companies to take place on till december 5th. no, that's a key date because it's the same day, the e you intends to start enforcing and embargo. i can see born in ports of russian or ortiz, rachel blevins has been looking at whether the west initial or allied punishment approach to moscow has paid off. 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. your 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 or no admitting that they're concerned about the over use of sanctions against russia. all of the 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 i see the question of whether that would violate distinction. 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 proactively 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 u. s. o, 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 as biden's own approval rating continues to remain your record lows. okay, we're going to take a quick break here on our t, but after that we're going up nor to the st. petersburg international economic forum. the see which delegates r t is not to have a quick chat with today. ah . oh

well she's news media cards and like if you speak russian, keep your voice down while out and about a couple don't put your human symbols on display a little speech nice. all right, so you guys don't talk to strangers. 7 i avoid noisy gatherings and rallies a marsh. we've eaten your colleagues and perhaps also your friends think you're guilty because you'll russian . a

specific social timing. mm. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms. race is often very dramatic, that development only personally, i'm getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult, time. time to sit down and talk with who is the aggressor today? i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions. today. russia is the country with the most sanctions imposed against it. a number that's constantly growing for each of the problems to cause a problem with my lower wish were banding all imports of russian oil and

gas duty. i, franky, with regard to joe by imposing these sanctions on russia, has destroyed the american economy. so there's your boomerang, ah, ah, hello again. one of the world's latest events of its kind, this st. petersburg international economic forum has entered its 2nd day and rushes northern capital. this year the showcase is being held under the slogan, new world, and new opportunities. ah la spite, a boy called from a number of western officials and businessmen, foreign guests from more than a 100 countries are in attendance looking to clinch lucrative contracts. some have

all ready achieve that goal with hundreds of millions of dollars worth in deals already signed on the events opening day. this thursday, more than 70 discussion sessions are scheduled to give participants an opportunity to weigh in on a wide range of issues from international trade to green energy. and r t also got the chance to speak with russian foreign ministry spokesperson that maria harper. she said, the u. s. isn't concerned that the sanctions against russia are hurting you, economies. us reduces competition with allison is up of them, isn't that is to me. yesterday you spoke with western journalists, there was even the little dispute. how difficult is it to talk with them? go out, it was an absolute, i did not go or it's absolutely the same if you stay strong in your positions than it's possible to change that we have our position and it's unchanged. it has its

own values and meaning and is based on facts and reality. that's why western journalists are worried and i'm not, i know my task and understand what my personal beliefs are. of course, the intensity of our work has increased because so much fake news has emerged. but this is more of a problem for the west for its liberal society because they are filling themselves with so much disinformation that they are simply losing their audience. they are eroding even the little trust their audience has for traditional media. they're hiding so much in the reports that people will soon simply start to disconnect from reality. though i in doug though, and i also believe when western journalists come to your briefings, they continually make accusations about russia void and international law. there's a sensation, good. they're trying to get some kind of confession from you. are there any mistakes in the military operation that official russian representatives can admit to say, diploma?

says dylan is not no proud of the international justice system stipulates equality of all before the law. if someone considers themselves above the law but chooses to remain within the system than the system doesn't work. when i hear american shouting about russia or making accusations about not observing international law, i have a question for them about whether america's observing international law and to what extent they are actually interested in preserving international law and how much they have undertaken efforts to destroy the international justice system, every government can have its own views on international processes. and russia recognizes their right to the own policies and views. but they are not letting us do the same. they are rejecting our national policies to preserve our national interest. these are sovereign domestic and foreign policies conducted in accordance with international law. i believe the time has come for us to stop having to continually justify ourselves and simply present our grievances against their

liberal system. which has led the world to the brink of a global collapse by unilaterally imposing sanctions that reflect upon themselves and impact other regions in the world by supplying weapons to a country. for many years has been killing its own citizens and has done everything to destroy international law. we have responded to the sanctions, very pragmatically, and the situation has turned out in our favor. i am confident that the us previously considered the consequences of the sanctions for the you and figure that they are permissible. it's actually in the interest of the us to restrict the capabilities of the you, because the u. s. doesn't want any competitors. so hitting russia and letting that ricochet back at the you is ideally within the u. s. plans. got the bull sheila's. how's that work? journalist can interview you at your briefings, but see can do the same thing with other officials abroad or whatever. what process?

i think this is an issue of free speech. the west is refusing to allow us to question them even going as far as to block our t as a media outlet in our country. the situation is quite the opposite. we're open to any media, but when there are sanctions opposed against us, they aren't giving us accreditation. they're not giving us visas, and we're imposing sanctions in response. maria, a heart of that to r. c. well, as mentioned, are a guess from all across the world in attendance in st. petersburg, including a representative of the egyptian business community who said that there is strong potential for increased economic ties between russia and the north african country . let's have a listen to the i think it is a lot of areas that we can't expand. so even in this, it off year, our exports, russia wisdom, about 57 percent. which is a indication that the possibility of expansion is already there. i

liked very much of the slogan all about congress, and this is what they said in the previous seminar building. plus, i think being here is a, is a very good opportunity to build trust between the port. oh, we have, we were discussing this morning, but i think safety agreement between egypt and your asia, which is 5 different countries among the russia. and that's the way these did the trade between this and we're talking about the industrial in russian industrial zone on this. we can have it come on the zone and that will increase 3 between the 2 countries. and a look only include facebook allows russian goods to penetrate other markets

of egypt that has access to like africa, markets out of market. even european well, from 1000000 dollar deals to chance meetings on this sideline, we'll make sure you don't miss the moments that matter at the st. petersburg, international economic for all week long. ah, pakistan. they struggling with a significant increase in energy costs and the picture appears to be worsening dramatically. the government has no res, minimum prices for the 3rd time in the past 20 days. the price of natural gas and electricity is up by 45 percent since last. the finance minister asked, claim the price hikes were due to global inflation and blame the previous government for the crisis earlier. pakistan specially appointed minister for

plumbing was heavily criticized after telling the nation to bring less tea to help save an important protest against the deteriorating situation. helping held in major cities, le hor, karachi, the capital islam about in recently been den georgia just for gas about having meals 3 times a day. we wished to eat at least 2 times a day, but even that's impossible, right now it's terrible. the poor person come survive in these conditions. would you need to know where there's no electricity? we just leave the shop and sit here because there's no customer visiting us and the fuel prices have affected everything, including our business. what all my household expenses have doubled. prices have increased by 200 percent. we uphold people, we can't do anything with the ones to sacrifice in this way. we'll die one day. there is no solution. her father or pakistan economic crisis has been the center of

it. domestic political showdown, former prime minister, em run, come the post 2 months ago and a parliamentary vote of no confidence maintains he's the victim of a u. s. so we'll go straight to because of this close ties to russia. the u. s. s shrugged off those claims. the ost came after come visit moscow just as the conflict in ukraine was erotic. he said he wasn't aware that russia would begin it's military campaign. well, i'm joined live now on the program by the russian and buster to pakistan, dunny la gann h. you're most welcome to the program. thanks for having me. and i'm a huge fan. thank you, sir. a pakistan is grappling with an economic crisis. is the country expecting any help from russia and if so, what specifically can ma school provide do to ease the situation? i think that both countries are experiencing some economic problems. i think

basically the whole world is experience experiencing the problems. so basically what we're talking about mutual support and how will implement itself. can you give us some details as to perhaps that's going to go forward in the future? i can tell you that we were in touch over the issues of buying we or energy resources under the previous administration of iran, hon and we are still in contact with the parking sign in sign today. i wouldn't like to give for the exact details of the ongoing negotiations do not compromise them, but i can tell you that we are negotiating in good faith. i think that both sides are interested in achieving and mutually beneficial deal. we need

proceeds. they need our products, and i think i hope that we will come to some agreement as well as in 2020, because embed there a year, the pakistan side spent $212000000.00 on russian wheat. and that was approximately one 4th of the total trade turnover for that year. yeah, and just expanding another buster, a recent interview of years to pakistan, the media went viral in which you discussed him run comes visit to moscow, and the issue of russia selling discounted wheat and oil. can you tell us a little bit more about that? i definitely definitely his excellency in ron con, visited moscow and definitely he's raised the issues of.