[000:00:00;00] i some of you, like, what did you do ah, appeared to me there to deliver his remark to the st. petersburg, international economic forum after his speech was postponed because of a massive cyber attack. ah, welcome to you. this is art international with the latest world news. thanks for joining us now. we're going to start off in st. petersburg and one of the world's biggest and most important business events. the st. petersburg international economic form has entered a 3rd day in russia is

a northern comp. i. so now pretty soon we will be crossing live it to the russian president as he addresses the forum. do. stay tuned for that as and when he starts speaking, we'll take you live at to saint petersburg. now, the russian, a deputy minister of economic development dmitri volva, has told us here from the st. petersburg form that attempts to isolate russia are destroying the global trading system. and the result is felt by economies throughout the world, carrasco figure out sir the russian federation despite completely unprecedented unilateral pressure remains a responsible participant in the energy and food markets. we understand how important this is and how much the whole world depends on the logistics changed, primarily related to food and energy supplies, support ship, any attempt to exclude a link from these chain will lead to a very serious consequence and to lead to skip a thought moreover, it will spread in different directions. russia provides 13 percent of the world's grain supplies for the world market. we account for

a 3rd of sunflower oil exports and 16 percent of rapes seed oil yet, last year, despite a worldwide declining food supplies to international markets, russia remained the largest grand exporter norma. we shipped for to 1000000 tons to 120 countries, but i know what is happening now in the food markets is not the result of any events or decisions taken in recent months. they use it with the problems now are clearly a result of mistakes and those actions that have been taken and that have been formed over the past few years, resulting in a growth of global inflation, financial, inflation, and food inflation. and this is trade protection ease, and he didn't start yesterday with the failure of supply chains in the pandemic. the sanctions of recent months have only worse and the situation that they actually provoked in all, but he's not. the main reason for what is happening is to do that. sure. reason for the deteriorating situation is undoubtedly intellectual barriers of exports and

imports and control tariffs and the violation of the freedom for the movement of goods, transportation and payments making sense, lease attempts to isolate russia. if you, as i have already said to not just break supply chain so but destroyed the very fabric of the global trading system. and the result of this is least fell by all the economy in the world. sir. they come on, we can see we're meanwhile break. samantha south africa is considering importing oil from russia and mitigate searching fuel prices, sky roxanne, energy costs of heavy economy hand and the countries minister, minerals, and energy now saves buying russian crude could provide a lasting solution. speaking to the countries parliament in cape town, he blamed anti russian sanctions for the global increase in energy prices. this is not last well was then kind of reminded that the economy of war day of where i lived disproportionately about sold over. and gunners like ours and

then women respond to that as a kinder who my for this one, cuz i can not be emotional if need be. if need be a photo directly. we should consider important kudos from pleasure at a low price, despite being pressured by the west to find out the sanctions. most african nations were made unwilling to give moscow the cold shoulder. south africa also abstained from voting for a un resolution condemning russians. military operation in ukraine and the country has continued strong economic cooperation with mosque. i'm the director general of the south african institute of economic research and innovation told our team from the sidelines at the spy. a for him, that working with russia is his country's best option. kind of currently south africa confronted, i think celebrating rate of inflation driving the prices higher is a big, big component of that is the cost of fuel to commonly known facts. south africa has

no real oil resources. to that extent, it is dependent on it. we also have challenges with electricity or just sticks, etc, but the order is over on the natural resources that are not available. to that extent, south africa has to diversify. we cannot remain solely dependent on the transnational corporations that card to supply. it has to act on behalf of its people, not in terms of the interest of the owners of those companies. it's also important to realize south africa is also investing in the new of both and a range alternatives, but those have not come online. and to the extent that it's still necessary for south africa to utilize the fuel, it has to look at how it's been received and working woodthrush and others make sense and they don't. yes, we're public. the capital city is now suffering a tense day of continuous attacks on civilians. census with official saying ukrainian artillery is being used to bombard schools, hospitals,

and residential areas. i have some of the latest postage from the scene showing smoke filling the sky and falling bloss in don't yet pretty early on friday. according to local officials to people have been wounded as a result of the late to shelling more russian forces continue to talk. ukrainian military science in response to the strategic release by russians defense ministry shows was being called the bombing of ukrainian military base in the country. south. moscow say society has been used to launch drone strike against russian lead forces. the defense ministry also say some of its other missiles trying to destroy the 8th ukrainian tank. and 3 on 10 units. me wanting to on bass, for and mercenaries i believe, to be trumped alongside ukrainian soldiers in a local chemical plant. miller, ganske, public city of several don yeske, according to various estimates, up to 2 and

a half 1000 trips of stuck in the industrial russian lead forces say they've taken control of most of the city except for the adult flaws. why k, as force is allegedly blew up, a contain a lay them with chemicals at the end of may and move local officials of cooler crime against civilians are equally dawn of reports from the front line. behind me you can see the black plumes of smoke. they are rising from the azores plant. there's about $800.00 may be meters to the positions of the ukrainian forces. in fact, were the only news crew to go this far deep into the territory of the town of several . the nets, in fact, may be only about 7 to 8 days ago. here were the ukrainian positions, but they had to fall back. now it's under the control of the russian forces, but you can clearly hear by the ambience, if i may say so, the fighting is very much intense. mm. yesterday we agreed on a cease fire,

the chemical plant. we went to hell rescue civilians and then the ukrainians took out a tank and started shooting at us. and a fight again broke out. when i was there yesterday, ukraine didn't want stop firing mortars. it fight is anal panicking. you can hear so on the walkie talkies, they want the battle to end. we can hear it in their voices for problem with from 80 and they fired their own troops. and then a tank moved to shell our positions. it was a typical scenario. ukraine moving to some to g place to make it look like we were doing the shooting, but we were actually standing there with white flags when the i lot of mercer's there. the most that british much of the food and dry ration is from britain and poland amid all this may. hm. hundreds of civilians are scattered around the towns basements and shelters. this one harbours around 20 people whose neighboring houses

were destroyed by the ukrainians. they say, look, still, i go, is it lookin below it? you buy me in leaky? does he show jill is fastening 8th, he select, plus it e g a ne grants in lea, a unique charity. the why he didn't, emma, she, they keep dicky stuff. you know, and this used to be a music academy over several minutes, used to be what it used to be to was renovated and you can still see in the details the amount of money and effort put into this place. but it is no more the ukrainians,

sheltered burning at andrews effectively rendering useless when they did so. up to 60 civilians were sheltering here from the bombardments lunch till one which was it . when russia special aberrations began, ukrainian troops immediately entered our city. they placed their arm on the vehicles in residential areas, drove round and started firing the sails, and our soldiers came in, the ukrainians retreated, and then the bomb does smashed us from our basements. we could see crane and tank shooting at our houses. these people beg of one thing to help them escape this hail . in the end, we'll leave with a ward of handwritten notes. it's phone numbers and messages they'd like us to pass to their loved ones in russia. i'm a gosh, darn of reporting from several. the netscape r t as ukrainian army strikes continue more and more lives are being lost on yes, for public official say more than a 100 civilians have died or nearly a 1000 wounded since the beginning of the conflict. and among been

a 6 year old girl. he lost her life in his selling recently. ah, mm hm. open it up. here it is. the sport, the rocket landed. these are the cassettes that were filled with all sorts of fragments. but there were 2 cars parked here and the explosions, right? between numbers there and she was at the epicenter right in front of the east to cause i looked out from the steps and she was just lying down. i pulled to, i thought maybe she lost consciousness from the blow. at the last moment she moved her legs on and i thought she was alive. fuel began to flow from the cause towards her legs, and then everything began to bang out and i yelled from my husband and ran out, picked her up by her jacket and quickly ran with her. while entrance in that in the entrance,

she took to breton and then she was gone. ah, she was very cheerful and kind gone. she many friends in kent gotten children still ask about lod. my youngest child generally afraid to will come yard. we go for a week so much so as not to see it all the new which is gone. was our son solely? it's very hard to live with allies to hold a a the present time secretary has ordered the extradition of julian songs to the us,

whether we can expand the faces up to 175 years in prison on espionage charges. we can cross live now to state sweeney international and it's all be morning star newspaper. thank you for joining us on the program. it's another blow to julian assigns. isn't it yet? not on. it's not unexpected decision, but i understand he doesn't have a chance to appeal one will. can you tell us? well, this is a, an incredibly dark day for journalism and it's an incredibly dark day for democracy in britain. i've spoken to many of my germ this colleagues this morning i'm, we're all incredibly concerned about the precedent. this decision has set, and as you said, quite rightly, it wasn't unexpected. and he has no further right to appeal. so the situation is, is that judy in a song, a journalist that was committed, no crime other than to expose the war crimes of the powerful nation, including the united states, is set to be expedited to

a country. let's not forget to assassinate him on the streets of london. allegedly the cia might compare the former secretary of state who was believe 2 masterminded . the plot has been summoned to explain this in by a spanish spanish court. so. busy this is very, very concerning and, but it's a litmus test now for the so called human rights organizations and the european court for human rights in particular which as we know. busy earlier this week, it blocked plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda from from britain. and we're hoping now that the european court of human rights is going to the same block. judy in assange is extradition to the united states. and then steve, when the international editor of the morning, star newspaper, thank you for the update. thank you. now the easy promise is more lethal arm see ukraine. frances lead,

a pleasure to deliver 6 more how it says during a meeting between the french, german, italian and romanian leaders with president zalinski mts. people say oh, we will continue to deliver military equipment. in particular, caesar artillery canon trucks, which will enable ukrainian soldiers to defend themselves more effectively against attacks by the russian army on ukrainian soil or sus deliveries are seen as not as significant as a new 1000000000 dollar package of weapons from the u. s. that was approved early this week and promises to deliver guided missiles for hi mas rocket launchers. with a far at least $28.00 countries. nato members mainly are engaged in sending military supplies to ukraine, which includes sophisticated and conventional arms such as artillery, anti aircraft in donte tank, weapons armored vehicles, helicopters and more. one of those countries, greece provide soviet era tanks, assault rifles and portable rocket launchers. this is occurring as the head of the greek community in the city of mario po,

locally asks athens not to provide ukraine with any weapons move most of it states for. can you imagine how we felt sitting in a basement senior role supposed to fend, treatise? i'm sure they bombed our greek settlement. one of them was showing a video on his phone, boasting look who bombed your village. i would very much like perhaps with your help to appeal to the greek people and the government and peace ministers to everyone. so that the years we don't want war was that we want peace. we want greece to hear us and not help the americans send weapons to ukraine. because with these weapons, if they kill greek, people here or greece couldn't get us out. but at least they could stop supplying people with the arms that are killing us. what's that? when we, while ukraine's representatives are still vowing to fight until the victorious and raising concerns from both the e. u and american politicians with white house officials saying the conflict should have

a diplomatic solution. president binding has also watched his subordinates to towing their desire to weaken russia and see it defeat ferrying. it is increased the give direct confrontation with moscow. earlier we spoke to russia's deputy ambassador to the united nations to meet your polanski. so he believes you delegation. he was also thinking it was dumps of peace talks. i made a growing demand within the below 50. there was a lot of fish for them to go for these 3 leaders. they were pretty much expected and they are expected also to exercise some influence on non presidents landscape. not only to provide arms to these country, but also to get engaged in meaningful consultations, new countries, including those leaders to keep all the local it will be controversial in their statements. again, there are very frequently and statements and we got some on them. the other hand,

there is bigger and bigger demands in these countries in the countries from the population, their rulers, to and this turmoil economy. so moral that isn't braces, european countries more and more and 2 solutions. so these are crisis which is becoming a guarantee and security crisis, and it's quite clear that says all the all the traits of these crisis. so i think that the leaders continue to keep in mind the moods in the capitals are quite different and there is more and more demands for finding a peaceful solution for this crisis. but you are, the president has been accused of playing blame games when it comes to us energy prices with florida, governor rone desantis stressing that he needs to take responsibility for his incompetence. he needs to take responsibility or was trying to blame other people. he's always trying to create

a scapegoat. and last week by and has been slammed by the big oil companies, often he requested they ramp up production to tackle gasoline prices that have almost doubled since last year. however, the industry's response wasn't exactly what the white house wanted to hear. while we appreciate the opportunity to open increased dialogue with the white house, the administration's misguided policy agenda, shifting away from domestic oil and natural gas has compounded inflationary pressures and added headwinds to companies. daily efforts to meet growing energy needs while reducing emissions. longer term government can promote investment through clear and consistent policy that supports us resource development, such as regular and predictable. lee sales, as well as streamlined regulatory approval and support for infrastructure such as pipelines. earlier by didn't said big oil always in action has nullified his ministrations efforts to soften inflation for the company's claim. it is the u. s. president himself who is drastically shifted the focus from oil production to green

energy. it now try to move the blame to then record inflation in the us as coincided with a lack of support. so by doing these policies, what is it people rating falling to record lows over the past 3 weeks on the corresponding kellum open gift is more on the dispute. working families across america are feeling the crunch of the rising energy costs, the high gas prices. so now we have the white out coming forward with a letter directed it oil companies in america, urging them to an oil production in order to drive the prices down and take the burden of the high cost off of americans that are frustrated with the rising costs . here is what the white house said in their letter. the crunch families are facing, deserves immediate action. your companies need to work with my administration to bring forward concrete, near term solutions that address the crisis and respect the critical equities of energy workers in fence line communities at

a time of war. historically high refinery profit margins being passed directly onto american families are not acceptable. now, oil companies will come forward. instead, the white house simply does not understand the industry and they can't simply increase the amount of output this easily. it's not a matter of simply pushing a button or, or pulling a knob that there are complex issues in arranging how much oil production is amped up or slow down. now many have also taken note of some statements made by the white house press secretary. she came forward and said that it is the patriotic duty of oil companies to amp up production. this is what she said. we'll companies, they have oil refineries. they have responsibility to what they have been doing is taking advantage of the war. and as i showed earlier, they have tripled. triple their, their, their income time to act, we have done our part with the strategic petroleum reserve, the one, the 1000000

a day for the next 6 months. and so we need them to act oil companies find the statement to be particularly ironic as the policy of the white house has been pretty clearly to phase out the fuel. they are taking the opportunity of the high energy costs to push electric cars as new energy. ready vehicles and other, other mechanisms that don't use fossil fuels, they want to get rid of fossil fuel. so at the same time the white house is actively trying to phase the arctic states off with fossil fuels reduce the amount of fossil fuels united states uses. are they are now calling on oil companies in the name of patriotism to amp up oil reduction? many are looking at this as a great example of the erotic and not well thought out nature of the by the administration's policies, when it comes to the energy sector. pakistan is struggling with natural gas and electricity prices which have rocketed 45 percent in the last month alone. the

government has been forced to continuously raise prices to meet international monetary fund requirements. countries finance minister blames they form a government and the global inflation for the crisis. earlier, pakistan's planning minister was heavily criticized on to tally the nation to drink less t to help save on import costs. here's what people think of better terry rating situation . lot be in danger, lou. just forget about having meals 3 times a day. were wish to eat at least 2 times a day, but even thus impossible, right now, it's terrible. a poor person can survive in these conditions, are low serving people, there is no electricity which i sleep, the shop and sit here because there is no customer visiting us. a few prices have affected everything, including our business, or what all are going to be. my household expenses have doubled. prices have increased by 200 percent that we have poor people. we can't do anything with the wants to sacrifice it in this way. we'll die one day. there is no solution, not our product here sort of,

we spoke to the russian ambassador to pakistan who hopes to come to an economic agreement with the governments. we're in touch over the issues of buying wheat or energy resources under the previous administration. all iran han and we're still in contact with li pakistan is out today. why wouldn't like to view 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 your proceeds. they need our products. and i think, i hope that we will come on to some agreement as was the 2020 because in debt, there were

a year. the sunny side spent $212000000.00 on russian wheat. and that was approximately one 4th of the total trade turnover. for that year, as the u. s. looks for human rights violations worldwide, it seems a bit fell to fully investigate its own role in perpetrating such abuses in yemen. as according to a congressional watchdog report, ortiz mark garcia has the details a quarter of a 1000000 deaths later, the united states still hasn't been able to figure out whether the $60000000000.00 of weapons that supplied the saudi arabia were used to kill innocent people. in fact, the united states openly admits they didn't even bother to try to find out there have been reports of extensive civilian harm in yemen. however, d o, d has not reported and state could not provide evidence that had investigated

incidents of potential unauthorized use of equipment transferred to saudi arabia or united arab emirates. joe biden came to power promising to wind america's role in the blood buff these yemen than to stop supplying saudi arabia with all the bombs and missiles they wanted. he promised to stop supplying offensive weapons. everyone cheered and clapped, than celebrated. and that was that, except who's to tell what an offensive or defensive weapon is. how's that for a loophole? u. s. military training mission officials told us that all of the equipment, the u. s. cells through f m. s to saudi arabia must be for defensive purposes in accordance with the arms control export act. however, these officials could not provide a definition for equipment that is defensive in nature when we asked how they distinguish between equipment used for defensive purposes and equipment used for offensive purposes. there are some weapons pgm, so precision guided munitions,

for example, hooked to jets and used for air strikes, very offensive. what the u. s. government did to avoid heavy scrutinise, sell the missiles in parts, thereby by possible the bureaucracy. we didn't sell them a missile. they claim we sold them pots and with instructions on how to put them together, all hands are keen. the state department had been selling p gm's in component parts, so that each individual transfer fell below the threshold, requiring congressional approval over the last 8 years. saudi arabia has made something of a habit of launching air strikes that big gatherings, so weddings and funerals and market places. plenty of times who the rebels in yemen have found the remains of us supplied munitions at the scenes. rockets and missiles bombs made in america,

yet somehow the united states has been unable to do the same. it turns out if you don't even try, you won't find anything wrong. centcom officials told that they do not know how d o d security cooperation officials in saudi arabia and u e would obtain the information necessary to determine whether u. s. origin defense articles were used in yemen by saudi arabia or u. e, against anything other than legitimate military targets, such as civilians or civilian infrastructure. this was a brief summary on how to wash your hands of all culpability. for one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world for 8th long years. it isn't particularly brilliant or slides. just bolden, somewhat shameless, what's really shameless is also doing all of this then coming out and demanding accountability from others, or even saying so, but saying you'll hold them responsible. we have, i have a long history of

a relationship with saudi arabia, one where we raise issues, where we have significant concerns on human rights and on a range of issues and one where we have had a long security relationship that has been in the interest of the united states, i in terms of this, it a specific strike and a reaction. obviously any time there's a loss of life, of innocent lives, that is a tragedy. ah, and we are, we are mindful of that focused on that. we and many other organizations have been saying that it's really impossible to have celebrate debate, the olympic games at a time when the country is committee. so many human rights abuses, particularly in sin, gen, reports of russia's human rights abuses, and violations of internationally mandatory law are mounting by the hour. there is of course, nothing new in this. the united states and nato have done to the world what they wield these past 3 decades, and no one could do

a thing about it. thank america. human and labor rights lawyer, st. washington doesn't think international law applies to the u. s. the u. s. has made sure that it would never be held accountable. right. the u. s. is not a member of the international criminal court. it is, in fact, sanctioned the international criminal court. when it said it was going to investigate the u. s. for crimes in an afghan, a stand the u. s. under george w bush and she passed the law that said the u. s. could bomb the a give the i c. c. did investigate the u. s. u. s. is made sure the international law does not apply to the united states. it does not care about the humanitarian cause of the tours of the us knew all along it back, samantha power, who was instrumental in making sure the u. s. would not be investigated or crimes any and she herself, years ago predicted that millions of p. m. and could die due to the war. but that didn't change her course of action didn't change the u. s. course of action and it