ah, a with the west, a field, a global inflation storm through it's short sighted policy. this is according to vladimir putin comments at the international economic form in st. petersburg. and we all hear about this so called to tins inflation, who's listening to such nonsense. everyone understands the real reason is huge, sums of money were printed and this money was used to purchase goods and services outside the western countries on the global markets, with an exclusive interview or 2 spoken to american mercenaries captured during battles in northeastern ukraine. they did start reporting on the fact that there

has been conflict in dumbass for, for the past 8 years, but it was always presented as russian aggression. i hope one day i can go home and forget a conflict and just try to live on people not to come here. usa today is now recognize that some of its pro ukraine articles vilifying russian troops with fuel ard from our studios here in moscow. this is our 2 international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you. right now, vladimir putin has shared his take on the global economic crisis, as well as russia's reaction to the unprecedented sanctions from the west. he was speaking at one of the world's biggest and most important business events, the st. petersburg international economic forum. the is

one of the main topics of friday's discussions was of course, the military operation in ukraine. ortiz, editor in chief margarita simone young, was the moderator at the form and asked the russian president about the future of don best jewel. but by yet some iron was people in our country and in the liberated territories are afraid that we will quit and leave. will we leave? can you send them? we will support the people living in the territory. but in the end, only the people who live there will determine the future and we will respect any choice they make him up with him. so let me put and weighed in on a range of topics. in his speech at the st. petersburg, international economic form. they included now the so called a blitzkrieg of sanctions against moscow has failed in the president also mentioned an inevitable and the unipolar world order, and the importance of technological sovereignty to insure russia can produce and

provide for itself while avoiding international self isolation artistically. katrinka has more from before. well, we almost knew that as of latimer potent was going to use strong language and throw punches at the u. s. and allies, but the russian president got very tough, perhaps even tougher than expected. and you note the speech almost sounded like a lecture for russia's geopolitical enemies. mister bruton also lashed down at his western colleagues for what he called losing common sense. and also literally forgetting about the interests of their own people. all in a bid to we can russia, president putin also brought up how global economic hardships were being blamed on russia. constant the which according to the russian leader, is totally unfair and something wrong with shameless lucian. but the consumer

will hear about this so called pu tins, inflation, who's listening to such nonsense. it's intended for those who can't read and write that. so russia and our actions on liberating dumbass have absolutely nothing to do with it. the current rising prices and the problems with inflation, the problems with food and energy supply, gasoline and the energy sec to crisis. all of this is the results of the systemic mistakes in the economic policy of the current administration in the united states and the european bureaucracy. that's the reason and that. so for them, the beginning of our operation is a lifeline that allows them to blame their own failures on others. everyone understands the real reasons. huge sums of money were printed and this money was used to purchase goods and services outside the western countries on the global markets, taking all the supply. no one wants to think about the interests of other countries, including the poorest ones. the world is changing very fast than these changes are

revolutionary, says latimer potent. he also believes that while these changes are inevitable, american and european governments are actually going against the course of history and are stuck in the past. plus mister prudent blamed the threads of a potential famine in the poorest countries purely on policies chosen by the leaders of the us and allies. he said that the sanctions led to enormous fertilizer price hikes, which clearly worsens the food crisis. when it comes to the effects that the sanctions of had on russia, president potent noted that they are much less serious than expected by the authors . why? because of how russia evolved in the recent times. some are construct, sir. does that make sense? if the construction of western sanctions was built on the false thesis that russia

is not sovereign from an economic point of view, that it is critically vulnerable when they go so carried away in spreading the smith that they themselves apparently believed it felt when planning the economic blitzkrieg, they did not notice to simply ignore the real facts of how our country has changed in recent years. these changes of the results of our planned work to create a stable macroeconomic structure in show food security, implement, impose substitution programs, full mar in payment system. and so on. ross's obvious answer to trade embargoes and also a hail storm of anti russian restrictions by western countries was cementing friendship with the likes of bay ging or new delhi. and also a number of other countries in different parts of the world like latin america or africa. but mostly in the east, however, as we heard from president putin, the importance of close ties with china and india was clear, long before the events of 2022 policemen meas,

miasma. a multi polar world is inevitable for you and those who cling to their imaginary global lead, its all costs to making a colossal mistake. this is a mistake that will cost and daily. i have no doubts about them. as for our relations with asian countries in general, and with china in particular, we did not just stop building relations with them in connection with the latest event of recent months. so yes, we have been doing this because in asia and in china, the creation of new centers for the development of the world, it has become quite the same goes for india. there are also about one and a half 1000000 people with a markets in economy, a developing very intensively african and latin american countries are also actively developing that. i mean so right, that was the session pool of very strong and very important messages for those who weren't actually in that room, but were very far because they either boycotted the form or called on others to do

so. the question is though, whether any of that is going to be taken into consideration by them on the sidelines of the forum r t editor in chief margarita manion said that it doesn't really matter if the west here is russia or not as what have been put in has made moscow's position clear enough for the people. i mean, yeah, well it's not so much the speech that matters to me. but the emotion that i felt while listening in the confidence that had a therapeutic effect on me and on our people in general. it is clear that the speaker was calm, confident in a great mood, very friendly people who are not sure of their well being in victory. don't talk like that. and they don't spread such emotions around them. but it was important for me to hear that we will not leave that the people who want to stay with us will stay with us and that their decisions will be important. it doesn't really matter if the west hears us or not. we're in a stable track and we will not. we're away. russian federation council deputy

chairman konstantin casa charles told our team from the st. petersburg forum that each new package of anti russian sanctions creates more problems for the west. i expect even stronger controversy. we become to solve the with because each and every package appearing does create more and more problems for the west itself, not for russia. russia has managed to overcome the previous thanks, and a package of the russian economy is not here to enter the door and into pieces. of course, they are still going strong. no doubt about this. and the resources of the russian economy are a few good enough in order to not to be afraid of any further developments on their site. on the other side, the ethics of that thanks and policy heath the rest and economist more and more so i am not sure that the severance package will ever appear at all.

and it appears it will not read any unbearable consequences for the russian economy. and it will probably create certain problems, but again, we are not afraid i will. guns, current republic. officials say some ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in the city of 70 done yet at a local chemical plant. their officials say that the number of those who surrendered and their affiliation to certain units has not been disclosed for security reasons that to avoid prosecution. the relatives of those who have laid down their arms according to various estimates, up to 2 and a half 1000 troops. including foreign mercenaries are believed to be hold up in 7 done yet 6 industrial zone and with more ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries

laying down in their arms. some also were recently captured in northeastern ukraine . r t correspond room on cost of spoke with to us fighters who are currently in captivity. you tell me the circumstances around your capture or did you surrender? how did it happen? we were in, i don't know the location, but we were indeed like a forest park area. we engage in combat with russian troops. the ukrainians were retreating and we were asked to cover their retreat. when we were covering them to the russian force ran over ran our position. we had to like fully retreat and when one of my colleagues and i waited about 3 hours in a fight hole, just to make sure the coast is clear. after those 3 hours,

we ended up walking 4 through the woods for about 5 hours. we eventually got onto a road. and when we surrender to russian forces on what's, what made you make your way out here to, to grant are initially why wendy conflict started on february 24th. i saw a lot of news. and again, i now believe that there were propaganda from the west side. not specifically just america, but the west as a whole. that is that right? russian forest work. it like indiscriminately killing like civilians and do my travels. i did not see that say it was probably my naive miss my stupidity for coming here with not a lot of knowledge of the conflict as a whole. i hope one day i can go home to my wife and family and

forget the conflict and just try to let other people not to come here. what did you know about the bus before having come here? i was reported or, you know, prior to like january, february of this year, i really knew i couldn't even tell you where you amazon, him out, to be honest. we were not getting that news, but when things kinda started mumbling up and then kicking off here, they did start reporting on the fact that there had been conflict in dawn bass for, for the past 8 years. but it was always presented as russian aggression in that area. we were not told about any ukrainian attacks were what we're talking about. the ukrainians is that they were in trenches for a ready to defend you. now if you like it, it's still your shirt. oh, it's not my war, it's not my war. i feel for the ukrainian and people i feel for the russian people, you know, i feel for everyone involved because war is, is terrible regardless of the circumstances. i don't know why the west focus is,

is just sending weapons, weapons, weapons, money, money, money. there is a diplomatic solution to this problem somewhere. but it's going to take some time to get there. and i just think that they're at this time, they're not willing to deal with it. so they'd rather just give a bunch of stuff to ukraine and let it be ukraine's problem. i would say to anyone who is thinking about coming over, think really long and hard about why you're doing it and what can happen and, and if this is really your fight, if this is really something that you need to be doing, couple words about those interviews are taken on independently verify what those soldiers said. we also cannot maintain the veracity. as we ask you to keep in mind that those interviews were done as they were held in captivity. now the fake war over the conflict in ukraine is still going with an american newspaper. usa today now recognizing its tendency to fabricate facts. after a reporter was fired for inventing sources in articles,

the only reveal that some individuals quoted were not affiliated with. the organizations claimed and appeared to be fabricated. the existence of, of individuals quoted could not be independently verified. in addition, some stories included quotes that should have been credited to others. as a result, usa today remove 23 articles from its website and build a platform for not meeting our editorial standards. miranda has resigned as a reporter. at least 2 of the reporters articles pulled by the paper focused on the conflict in ukraine. one of which suggested negligence by russia after it took over the zap erosion nuclear power plant. in the 1st weeks of the war, while a 2nd focused on the brave ukranian women fighting russian troops also deemed to be based on fake quotes. the publication has apologized for the articles and fired the reporter who wrote them while pledging to improve their fact correction system

. the story is now join, a veritable library of shame pumped out by western media since the start of the war, including an incident where reporters used old footage of the ukrainian showing of don yet because it left dozens of civilians dead to accompany stories related to the russian showing of cave earlier i spoke to steve gill, a radio host and political commentator who told me that it is terrifying that newspapers continued to publish such life. i don't think anybody believes, if this was the only reporter engaged in this kind of making up quotes, making up stories, it takes a culture to produce that kind of outright by a pattern. and i think the real irony is this is a publication that does the fact checking for facebook, and they can't even check the facts within their own newspaper. and jeanette, which owns usa today as newspapers throughout the united states, back to the fighter pilot. that was the ghost of gm that was supposedly shooting down dozens of, of russian aircraft turned out to be true. you had the sailors,

the ukrainian, the ground forces that were taunting a russian work ship that supposedly got obliterated, turned out to not be true. and those are just a few examples of the fake news that is perpetrated the public perspective. certainly in the west, from the beginning of this people, they get hired at newspapers by editors that have a liberal band with their supervisors that have a little bit of journalism colleges that they go to that have a liberal that they come in with a perspective that is not necessarily a, an accurate world view and then it gets promoted with, with not only who hires them but who promotes them. so i think it's a major problem. we've seen it in the us for a long time. and i think it's a dangerous problem because it's, if the public isn't getting the truth, it really is hard for a democracy. a republic operate the european commission has recommended ukraine be granted candidate status in a 1st step towards membership. but the commission chief says kid has

a lot of ground to cover before the country can take part in the so called european dream. the commission recommends to the council 1st that ukraine is given european perspective. and 2nd that ukraine is given candy, that status. this is of course on the understanding that the country will carry out a number of further importantly forms and we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us the european dream. so is move today by the european european creation leadership to recommend ukraine as a designated candidate for you. membership is mainly a symbolic p r. how to move to project you solidarity with ukraine. you commission prisoners, lavender lane made it clear there that there are a lot of conditions attached to moving forward. what's called a number of for the reforms needed by ukraine. and yeah, i no kidding michigan zone. you allows for borders movement in the zones. there's

no way that country like ukraine, with a hot military coffee fight swollen, poorly tracked weapons flooding in supply fighters include foreign back neo nazis could cause the lead part of the border result with the rest of the b u, with those weapons and fighters able to roam around germany, france, nbc, when you, that's just absolutely ludicrous and would prevent present and obvious threat to the rest of europe. now ukraine was routinely derided by western media tanks, pre conflicts for authoritarianism, incorruption, all which now seem to have just magically banished the european commission has found that ukraine over all is well advanced in reaching the stability of institutions guaranteed democracy. the rule of law, human rights and respect for protection of minorities and has gradually approximated to substantial elements of the e. u. a queen, in many areas. a recommendation which comes a day after the leaders of germany, france and italy expressed theirs. corbett does not confer candidate status. we

ought to remember that the 1st step on the past, the membership. but those are the cause of the eastern european countries. heading into a european council summit on the issue next week. now to move forward all 27 member states that you must agree, but even if they do full membership, free cray could be many, many years away. something that fresh president a member id my call has been pointing out, leveled bundle. we do not have the rights after so many weeks of war and such a difficult moment to tell the ukrainians to come back later and that for a signal must be sent. now. yes, we all ready now to recognize your status of candidate to you membership. but we also told them, frankly, this process will take time. there will be conditions, there will be a roadmap, which will be made by the commission to be fulfilled. and therefore you will not become a member of the european union to morrow. still, there are no guarantees, i think it's important to remember that is fine. denmark in the netherlands,

for example, have already expressed opposition to ukraine's included in the block. and there can't be any dissenting e member states for ukraine to get the green light for at least the commission's announcement today allows the leadership to tell ukraine that well, hey, we're trying our best political analyst nicola medical venture and believes that the e u is desperate to ad ukraine to the block, but kid is entirely unprepared for such a move. i think this is a political stance that the u as mustering moving now because europe, european union has been doing anything can to try to get and ukraine inside. i think it seeing today that it's losing ukraine with that there's a possibility that it may be using losing ukraine, and it's doing it. you can to try to, to push the ukraine into the region in some way or another thinking that may be ultimately, this may put fresh on russia to stop,

to stop the ongoing military activity because maybe a few crane were in the european union. this would, this would stop russia which, which is absolutely wrong. and if we look at the details, if we look at the ukraine today and the conditions entering the european union, we see that ukraine efforts, practically, none of the conditions said to the european union fundamental criteria set out by the european council itself to, for any european member to enter, the european union are not met by ukraine today. so having the head of the council saying the ukraine can enter the european union all by that ukraine does not follow the criteria of copenhagen is a joke. the u. s. media claims that the white house did not intend to ramp up rhetoric over the ukraine war to quote, defeating russia. statements made by the country's defense and state secretaries back in april, apparently caught president biden by surprise. during their whirlwind april trip,

austin appeared to expand the u. s. goals in ukraine saying publicly that the administration wanted the ukrainians to win the war against russia. lincoln had publicly aligned himself with the remarks biden thought the secretaries had gone too far, according to multiple administration officials familiar with the call. washington's rhetoric over the war in ukraine has gone from helping ukraine to protect themselves and to defeating russia to it should be ended with diplomacy. experts say a softer approach may be a possible consequence of biden's ratings, problems which force him to turn to domestic issues. retired us air force. lieutenant colonel ken krakowski says that the white house, his main goal, is to reshape its image before further elections. all right. as i just mentioned, 10 crew tasking retired, lieutenant colonel says that the white house has to reshape its image. it is surprising because of the secretary of defense and the secretary of state are

supposed to be the the mouthpiece of the president. it seems like they may have, you know, that they're working on maybe their own agenda. you know, there's a, there's interest that the pentagon may have and certainly the state department may have that are actually incompatible with what the american people want. and i think maybe biting for all of his faults. and maybe the doubts that we have about his mental capacity. he is sensitive to what the people want. we have elections in this country coming up in november, congressional like elections. they're not going to go, jo biden's way. he's under huge pressure. americans in the rest of the world are not interested in world war 3. they're also not interested, given our economy here in the united states and in europe and around the world. they're not interested in $40.00 to $60000000000.00 of aid being dumped into eastern ukraine with, with no accountability which, which has been reported even in our own domestic media. that there's no

accountability for any of the finances. the weapons in the training. it's basically a, a half hazard, mishmash of, of aid. and so that's not selling very well. ah, joanna songs faces up to 175 years in prison on espionage charges after legal approval by the british home secretary, his wife and legal team denounced ricky leeks, co founders, extradition order to the west process is being used ah, to hide atrocity and we know death from history. oh, good. that can be done. and the u. k. should not be doing that. it should not be engaging in, ah persecution on behalf of a foreign power that is out for revenge. that decision leaded to international outrage, human rights organizations, such as the committee to protect journalists and amnesty international, have spoken up for us off. the extradition of julian assange to the united states

to face trial on charges under the century old espionage act as a blow to press freedom with implications for journalists everywhere. we urge the biden administration to live up to it stated commitment to a free press by dropping all charges against the wiki leaks founder. allowing julian his sons to be expedited to the us would put him at great risk incense, a chilling message to journalists, the world over. we call the u. k, to refrain from expediting julian assange for the us to drop the charges. and for a songy to be freed hard to believe, but it looks real. every serious press freedom group in the world has protested this. it is an appalling symbol of how far the british and american government's commitment to human rights has declined. anyone in this country who cares about freedom of expression should be deeply ashamed that the home secretary has approved . the extradition of julian assange to the united states, the country that plotted his assassination assumptions that legal case has been going on for years in 2019 as asylum was revoked in ecuador,

and embassy in london. he was arrested by u. k. authorities and sent to the bell marsh, maximum security prison in 2020 extradition hearings began. and a year later, the presiding judge concluded that it would be oppressive to extradite assigned to the us due to his health. but that decision was overturned, less than a year later when a london high court agreed with the u. s. to extradite. now in 2022, a london court has issued an official extradition order followed by the u. k. home office, confirming it friday morning. we are giving some published classified information about the iraq and afghan wars. revealed the video of us soldiers indiscriminately slaying civilians, proof torture and prisoner deaths due to the miss treatment to add one time of a prison camp and exposed pro clinton media biased and scheme to push bernie sanders out of the presidential race. we spoke to raymond l mcgovern, a former cia officer who sees assumptions, extradition as

a requiem for independent journalist. this is the broader problem here. if people in the united states think they can use the espionage act of 1917, my andrew against german spies to pursue capture and put in prison for the rest the day lives. journalists, whether they be australians or uruguayan, zora ice lands, or if they live in antartica or in the arctic, we can get you because we're the united states and we have this law that we can apply to. anyone doesn't have to be american citizen. so, you know, how dangerous is that? how, how damming will that be when somebody wants to write next time some cables or try to get them released? in addition, of course, you have a surveillance system imposed now not only in the united states, but in the u. k, in other places where it's sort of quite a trick to get such

a sensitive material to where it can be hosted anonymously. that's part of the problem as well. so independent journalism, let's compose a requiem for it because it's, it's, it's mostly did and it does it from, it's our, i'll be back and let's say 31 minutes with another full infrastructure news. say with us, this is our t international. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very particular time time to sit down and talk with

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