oh yeah, huh. oh, a with the west fuel the a global inflation storm through its short sighted policies. this is according to platinum portions. comments at the international economic form in st. petersburg. i think is the way we will hear about this so called hooton's inflation, who's listening to such nonsense. everyone understands the real reason. huge sums of money were printed and this money was used to purchase goods and services outside the western countries on the global markets in an exclusive interview or 2 spoke to american mercenaries captured during battles in northeastern ukraine. they

did start reporting on the fact that there had been conflict in dumbass for, for the past 8 years, but it was always presented as rush and aggression. i hope one day i can go and forget conflict in this charter to live on people not to come here. i say today is now recognizing that some of its pro ukraine articles vilifying russian troops are based on fake information. with broadcasting live direct from studios and moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. 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 form.

the is one of the main topics of friday's discussions was of course the military operation in ukraine. r. t's editor in chief margarita manion was the moderator at the form and asked the russian president about the future of don bus. she will be by yet some new people in our country and in the liberated territories are afraid that we will quit and leave. will we leave? can use the moment, we will support the people living in these territories. 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 them. so i got him putting weight in on a range of topics in his speech at the st. petersburg, international economic form. they included how the so called was creek of sanctions against moscow has failed. the president also mentioned an inevitable end of the unit polar world order, and the importance of technological sovereignty to ensure russia can produce and

provide for itself while avoiding international self isolation. artillio jenko has more from the for well, we almost knew that vladimir putin 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 know, the speech almost sounded like a lecture for russia's geopolitical enemies. mr. brewton also lashed out at his western colleagues for what he called losing common sense. and also literally forgetting about the interests of their own people. busy 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 simply wrong, no shimla solution. 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 sector 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 and these changes are

revolutionary, says latimer potent. he also believe 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 putin blamed the threats of a potential famine in the poorest countries purely on policies chosen by the leaders of the u. s. and allies. he said that the sanctions led to enormous fertilizer price hikes, which clearly worse and the food crisis. when it comes to the effect that the sanction of had on russia president noted that they are much less serious than expected by the authors. why? because of how russia evolved in the recent time. so my concern is that makes sense in the construction of western sanctions, who's built on the false thesis that russia is not sovereign from an economic point

of view that it is critically vulnerable. they got so carried away in spreading the smith. they themselves apparently believed when planning the economic blitzkrieg they did not notice was simply a globe, the real facts of how our country has changed in recent years. these changes that the result of our planned work to create a stable macroeconomic structure in short food security, implement input, substitution programs, former and payment system, and so on. russ, it's obvious, answer to trade embargoes and also a hailstorm of anti rushing restrictions by western countries was cementing friendship with the likes of bay jing 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 booth and the importance of close ties with china and india was clear, long before the events of 2022 needs. a multi polar world is

inevitable. and those who cling to their imaginary global leadership at all costs to making a colossal mistake. this is a mistake that will cost and daily have no doubts about this. 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 events of recent months. so years we've been doing this because in asia and in china, the creation of new centers for the development of the world has become quite obvious . the same goes for india with are also about one and a half 1000000 people with their markets and economy developing very intensively african and latin american countries are also actively developing that. i'm sure you so right, that was the session full 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 form r t editor in chief margarita manion said that it doesn't really matter if the west hears russia or not. as vitamin putin has made moscow's position, clear enough for the people to me now, 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 the 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. 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 norwegian political scientists to glen

jason told our to you from the st. petersburg form the despite of the west's sanctions and economic pressure. the russian financial system has established what the west had. the plan for russia obviously didn't play out because the assumption was that as well done before the end of the weekend, effectively, the russian economy was going to be decimated. the financial system was supposed to collapse. the currency was served by the said supposed to be a made into rubble. and so instead we, we see that the opposite has happened. so the, the ruble, us is much stronger now than it was even it before february. and the financial system has been stabilized, and while they, the economy is set to grow after a lot of the supply chains, chains have been reorganized. and so, obviously, the short term expectation, the short to medium from expectation of a lot of western states did not play out the way that they be expected to receive

the air between the western russia. both sides are now expressing a lot of trust has been loss, and both sides argued that they've been preparing to effectively live without the other after this divorce is. so it is hard to say how, how would we come back together? i think already though, there's a lot of discovery of the economic pain as so there's a lot of incentives for it to, to find a way of a, maybe not going back to the way things war. but the finding some ways of working together again. alright. lugens chord, public official, se switching gears now, ligand square a public official se sum ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in the city of 70 done yet at a local chemical plant. their official said that the number of those who surrendered and their affiliation to certain units has not been disclosed for security reasons . that's to avoid persecution of 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 several genetics industrial zone. and with more, you can, in soldiers and foreign mercenaries laying down their arms. some also were recently captured in northeastern ukraine. now our correspondent roman coast of spoke with to us fighters who are currently in captivity. and keep in mind we cannot independently verify what they've said or maintain the veracity of their words. as these interviews were conducted while they were in tiffany. 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 in the like a forest, corky 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 on the rush and 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 final 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, what's, what made you make your way out here to, to your great are initially was wendy conflict started on february 24th. i saw a lot of news. and again, i now believe that they were propaganda from the west side. not specifically just america, but the west as a whole that says that right russian fort worth it like indiscriminately killing like civilians and do my travels. i did not see that say

it was probably my naive miss my stupidity of 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 start a family and forget a conflict and just try to the people not to come here. what did you know about the bus before i 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 was on them out to be honest. we were not getting that news. but when things kinda started muddling up and then kicking off here, they did start reporting on the fact that there had been conflict in dumbass 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 that were told about the ukrainians is that they were in trenches ready ready to defend you now. i feel like

it's it's still your shirt. oh, it's not my war. it's not my work. 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, you think really long and hard about 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, the fake war over the conflict and ukraine is still going with an american

newspaper, usa today now recognizing its tendency to fabricate facts after a reporter resigned for inventing sources in articles. the old, it revealed, at some individuals quoted, were not affiliated with the organization claimed and appeared to be fabricated. the existence of other 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 web site and the platforms are 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 these project nuclear power plant. in the 1st weeks of the war, while a 2nd focused on you, brave ukrainian women fighting russian troops also deemed to be based on fake quotes. publication has apologized for the articles and fired the reporter,

who wrote them while pledging to improve their fact correction system. the stories now joined a 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 done yet that left dozens of civilians dead to accompany stories related to the russian shelling of kiff earlier i spoke to steve gill, a radio host and political commentator who told me that it is terrifying, that newspapers continue 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 buy a pattern. and i think the real irony is this is a publication that does the fact checking for facebook, and they can 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 tea 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 ben 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 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 if, if the public isn't getting the truth, it really is hard for a democracy of republic to operate. the european commission has recommended ukraine be granted candidate status and

a 1st step towards membership. but the commission chief says, key of 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 states us this, 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 we've moved today by new york european creation leadership to recommend ukraine as a designated candidate for you. membership is mainly a symbolic. he are gonna move to project you solidarity that ukraine. you commission prisoners that of underlay and made it clear there, that there are a lot of conditions attached to moving forward. what's called

a number for the reforms needed by ukraine. and yeah, i no kidding. michigan zone you allows for border is movement within the zone. there is no way that country like ukraine, with a hot military monthly client soil and poorly tracked weapons flooding in to supply fighters to include foreign back neo nazis could cause the lead part in order to resolve with the rest of the you with those weapons and fighters able to roam around germany, france, italy, spain, when you, that's just absolutely ludicrous and would prevent, present an obvious threat to the rest of europe. now ukraine was routinely derided by western media tanks, pre conflicts for authoritarianism and corruption, all which now seemed to have just magic. we banished the european commission, has found that ukraine overall 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. yes,

the recommendation which comes a day after the leaders of germany, france and italy expressed theirs. corbett does not confer candidate status. we have to remember that the 1st step on the path to membership but boosters 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, if you must degree. but even if they do full membership for ukraine could be many, many years away, something that french president a man read my call has been pointing out little 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 therefore a signal must be sent. now. yes, we are ready now to recognize your status of candidate for you membership, but we also told them frankly, this process will take time. there will be conditions that will be a roadmap, put 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 playing denmark in the netherlands, for example, have already expressed opposition to ukraine is included in the block. and there can't be any dissenting e member states for ukraine, yet 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 at nicola medical, which believes the you is desperate to add the ukraine to the block, but keith is entirely unprepared for such a move. i think this is a political stance that the u. s. mustering moving now because europe, your opinion has been doing anything can to try to get ukraine inside. i think, and seeing today that it's losing ukraine. with that, there's a possibility that it may be using using ukraine, and it's doing it can to try to, to push the ukraine into the european in some way or another thinking that maybe ultimately, this may put pressure on russia to, to stop,

to stop the ongoing military activity because maybe a few crane were in the european union. this would, this would this stop russia which, which is absolutely wrong. and if we look at the details, if we look at the ukraine today and the conditions that drink european union, we see that you crank a fish. 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 ukraine can enter the european union all by that ukraine does not follow the criteria of copenhagen is really, it is a joke. the u. s. has imposed sanctions on companies from china, the united arab emirates and iran in an effort to stop them selling iranian crude oil. the united states is pursuing the path of meaningful diplomacy to achieve

a mutual return to compliance with the joint comprehensive plan of action. absent a deal, we will continue to use our sanctions authorities to limit exports of petroleum, petroleum products and petrochemical products from iran. the new measures block financial transactions with the firms or those affiliated to them and threatens those deals with them. the sanctions are aimed at choking iran's oil dependent economy to prevent it from developing suspected nuclear technology. however, due to the current fuel crisis, they have also contributed to a spike in world crude prices. investment manager, mich, fire steam, says such decisions are not just worsening. the situation but could lead to a dire outcome. green new deal, baby, and net 0 in the u. k. of course they couldn't pass the ballot box. so this is what they're trying to do. they're trying to disrupt the production of fossil fuels. i mean, if you go back, you can find the tape. joe biden said, if you get selected,

he will and fossil fuels, and this is what they've done. i mean, yes. yes, g is a big part of stopping funding for exploration for oil companies. cutting the funds so that there can't be exploration. so people have alternative energy. you're going to see rolling blackouts in the west coast of america this summer and across america. supply chain disruptions all because there's not enough fossil fuels. you're also seeing across america, you're seeing flights or canceled trains, or canceled. we're at about $120.00 per barrel now they could go much higher. they could double from here. if this supply is cut off or some exhaust janice shock, it's the system. so if oil prices continue to go up and inflation goes higher, you're gonna have further supply chain disruption and you're going to have price increases that most of america can't afford, which will cause a problem. a big problem when people are hungry,

bad things happen with julian assange tracing up to 175 years in prison on espionage charges after legal approval by the british home secretary, his wife and legal team denounced the wicked weeks co founders extradition order to the u. s. process is being used to hide atrocity and we know that from histories that that can be done and the u. k. should not be doing that. it should not be engaging in prosecution on behalf of a foreign power that is out for revenge. right? decision to international outrage, human rights organization, such as the committee to protect journalist and amnesty international have spoken up for lunch. the extradition of julian, a son to the united states, to face trial on charges under the century old espionage act as a blow depress freedom with implications for journalists everywhere. we urge the

biden administration to live up to stated commitment to a free, pressed by dropping all charges against the wiki leaks founder, allowing julian assange to be expedited to the us would put him at great risk incense, a chilling message to journalists, the world over. we call him the u. k, to refrain from expediting julian assigned for the us to drop the charges and for his sons 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 american government's commitment to human rights had 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 assigned to the united states, the country that plotted his assassination massages legal case has been going on for years. in 2001, 900 asylum was revoked in the equitorial embassy in london, where he had been hiding since skipping bail. he was arrested by you k authorities and sent to the bell marsh, maximum security prison. which 1020 expedition hearings began. and a year later,

the presiding judge concluded that it would be oppressive to extradite assault 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 expedite. now in 2022, a london court has issued an official expedition order, followed by the u. k. home office, confirming it on friday with leaks published classified information about the iraq and african wars. revealed video of the us soldiers indiscriminately slaying civilians, proves torture and prisoner deaths due to the miss treatment at the guantanamo bay prison. camp and exposed pro clinton media biased and a scheme to push bernie sanders out of the presidential race. we spoke to raymond l . mcgovern, a former cia officer, sees assumptions, extradition as a requiem for independent journalism. 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. a lives journalist, whether they be australians or euro, why ends or ice lands? or if they live in antartica or in the arctic, we can get you because we're the united states or 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 damage 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 states, but in the u. k. and other places where it's quite a trick to get such as sensitive material to where it can be posted anonymously. that's part of the problem as well. so in dependent journalism, let's compose

a requiem for it because it's, it's, it's mostly dead. or that doesn't mean it's our i'll be back in, let's say 31 minutes with another full and fresh look students with a starts introduction. ah, i ah a with

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