a squint daryl ah, with the wet fuel, a global inflation storm it through its short sighted policies. bats according to vladimir putin comment that the international economic form in saint petersburg. i think we are going, we will hear about this so called, who tins? inflation, who's listening to such nonsense? 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. in an exclusive interview, r t spoke to american mercenaries captured during battles in northeastern ukraine.

they did start reporting on the fact that there had been conflict and on mass for, for the past the years. but it was always presented as a russian aggression. i hope one day i can go forget conflict unless i try to learn people not to come here. usa today is now recognizing that some of its pro ukraine articles vilifying russian troops are based on fake information with broadcasting from our studios in moscow. this is our 2 international one. 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, who, speaking at one of the world's biggest and most important business events, the st. petersburg, international economic form. the

one of the main topics of friday's discussions was of course, the military operation in ukraine, or cheese editor in chief margarita simone young was the moderator now the forum and asked the russian president about the future of the don't us, she will be by yet some people in our country and in the liberated territories are afraid that we will quit and leave, will we leave and use them. we will support the people living in these territories . but in the end, only the people who live that will determine the future. and we will respect any choice, they make him up with him through us. right. but in the potent weighed in on a range of topics in his speech at the st. petersburg, international economic form included how the so called blitzkrieg of sanctions against moscow has failed. president also mentioned an inevitable end of the unipolar world order, and the importance of technological sovereignty to ensure russia can produce and

provide for itself. while avoiding international. self isolation are too late for tranquil, has more from the form to produce. 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. mister putin 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 all in a bid to we can russia, president putin also brought up how global economic hardships were being blamed on russia constantly which, according to the russian leader, is totally unfair and simply wrong, lucian was lucian. but at the consumer,

we will hear about this so called putin's 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 ministration 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 vladimir 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, mr. brewton 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 worsens the food crisis. when it comes to the effects that the sanctions of had on russia, president putin noted that they are much less serious than expected by the authors . why? because of how russia evolved and the reason times so mark. and so, sir, does that make sense in 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. they go so carried away in spreading the smith that they themselves apparently believed it. when planning the economic blitzkrieg, they did not notice was simply ignored the real facts of how our country has changed and recent years. these changes of the results of our planned work to create a stable macroeconomic structure in short, food security, implement input, substitution programs, full marin payment systems, and so on. losses 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 2020 to the police,

commuter nice miasma. a multi polar world is inevitable for you and those who cling to their imaginary global leadership at all costs and making a colossal mistake. this is a mistake that will cost and daily. i have no doubts about this enviva. as for relation to the 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 yes, we have been doing this because in asia and in china, the creation of new centers for the development of the world has become quite obvious. ideally, the same goes for india. there are also about one and a half 1000000 people with their markets in economy and developing very intensively african and latin american countries are also actively developing that i mean, the child. so right, that was the session full of a 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 side lines of the forum r t editor in chief ma, together to some manion said it doesn't really matter. if the west here is russia or not, as vladimir 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, 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, glen decent, told

r t from the st. petersburg form that despite the west sanctions and economic pressure of the russian financial system as stabilized. 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 most supposed to collapse. the currency was 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 i've been to reorganize. and so, obviously, the short term expectations, the short medium term expectation of a lot of western states did not play out the way that they'd be expected to receive

the between the western russia. both sides are now expressing a lot of trust. that's been loss. and both sides argued that they've been preparing to effectively live without other after this divorce as so it is hard to say how, how would we come back together? i think already though this a lot of discovery of the economic pain. so there's a lot of incentives for it to, to find a way of a, maybe not going back to the way things were, but finding some ways of working together again. ah, lugens republic officials say some ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in the city of several done yet. at a local chemical plant, official say 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. a relatives of those who have laid down their arms. this,

according to various estimates, up to 2 and a half 1000 troops, including foreign mercenaries, are believed to be hold up in $7000.00 yes. industrial zone and with more ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries laying down their arms. some also were recently captured in northeastern ukraine or to corresponding among cosser of spoke with to us fighters who are currently in captivity. 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 force car, key 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 for to 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've actually got onto a road when we surrender to russian forces on what. so what made you make your way out of here to ukraine are initially why 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 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 the 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 bubbling up and then kicking off here, they did start reporting on the fact that there had been conflict in mass 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, we're talking about the ukrainians is that they were in trenches for a ready to defend you. now i feel like 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, or 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 stuff to ukraine and let it be ukraine's problem. i would say, tend 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. one thing that we want you to keep in mind about those interviews is that we cannot independently verify what they're saying at or we can't maintain the veracity of their words. as those interviews were taken under captivity. we think 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 resigned for inventing sources in articles, the old it revealed at some individuals quoted, were not affiliated with the organizations claimed and appeared to be fabricated. the existence 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 other platforms 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 approach of nuclear power plant in the 1st weeks of the war. while a 2nd focused on the brave ukrainian women fighting russian troops also deemed to be based on fig quotes. and the publication has apologized for the articles and

fired the reporter who wrote them while pledging to improve their fact correction system stories. 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 shilling of don yeske left dozens of civilians dead to accompany stories related to the russian showing of kear 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, bent by their supervisor to have a liberal 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 candidates status in

a 1st step towards membership. but the commission chief says keith 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. first, that's 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 it will be today by the european european racial leadership to recommend ukraine as a designated candidate for you. membership is mainly a symbolic p r. how to move to project you solidarity 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's and yeah, no kidding shing in zone, you allows for borders movement in the zone. there is no way that country like ukraine, with a hot military monthly fight soylent, poorly tracked weapons flooding in supply fighters include foreign back neo nazis could possibly part in the border result with the rest of the you with those weapons and fighters able to roll around germany, france, italy, spain, when you, that's just absolutely ludicrous and with duran present, an 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 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 queen in many areas. a recommendation which comes

a day after the leaders of germany, france and italy express. there's corbett does not confer kennedy status. you have to remember that the 1st step on the pass 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 agree. but even if they do full membership, free cray could be many, many years away, something that the french president, a member id and i call has been pointing out level 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 for you membership, but we also told them frankly, this process will take time. there will be conditions, there 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, i've already expressed opposition to grades inclusion in the block. and there can be any dissenting e member states for ukraine, yet the green light for at least the commissions announcement today allows the leadership to tell ukraine that well hey, we're trying our best political analysts, nicholas medical, which believes that the e u is desperate to ab ukraine to the block, but cheer is entirely unprepared for such a move. i think this is a political stance that the u. s. mustering, moving now because europe there, european union has been doing anything can to try to ukraine inside. i think it's seeing today that it's losing ukraine with that there's a possibility that it may be using losing ukraine. and it's doing if you can, to try to push the ukraine into your opinion in some way or another thinking that

may be 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 entering the unit, 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, you crank and enter the european union, i'll bite that ukraine does not follow the criteria of copenhagen is really, it is a joke. 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 at petroleum, petroleum products and petrochemical products from iran. the new measures block financial transactions with the firms or those affiliated to them and to threaten those dealing with them. the sanctions are aimed at choking iran's oil dependent economy to prevented 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 firestick says that such decisions are not just worsening. the situation but could lead to a dire outcome re new deal, baby, and net 0 in the u. k. of course they couldn't pass the ballad 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 the 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 cancel trains, or canceled grad about $120.00 per barrel. now they could go much higher. they could double from here. if the supply is cut off or some exhaust genus shock, it's the system. so if, if oil prices continue to go up and inflation goes higher, you're going to 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. huge fires have broken out at a petroleum plant in the chinese point, city of shanghai. the blazes started after an explosion show casino pecks ethylene glycol processing plant, leaving one person dead. another company says that the fires are under control, sina packs, the china petroleum, and chemical corporation is the 2nd largest oil producing company in china. and one of the largest in the world with julian assange facing up to 175 years in prison on espionage charges. after legal approval by the british home secretary, his wife and legal team denounced the wiki leaks co founders, extradition order to the u. s. so says is being used ah, to high atrocity and we know death from history on it 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 lead 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, found his legal case has been going on for years now in 2019. his asylum was revoked in the ecuador and embassy in london, where he had been hiding for years since skipping bail. there 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 it would be oppressive to extradite assigned to us due to his health. but that decision was overturned, less than a year later when a london high court agreed with the us to extradite now and 2022 london court has issued an official expedition order, followed by the u. k. home office, confirming it on friday morning. rickie leeks. published classified information about the iraq and afghanistan wars revealed video of the us soldiers

indiscriminately slaying civilians, proves torture and prisoner deaths due to miss treatment at guantanamo bay prison. camp and exposed pro clinton media bias and a scheme to push. bernie sanders out of the presidential race. we spoke to raymond l. mcgovern, a former cia officer who sees a sanchez 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 catcher and put in prison for the rest the day alive. 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 are trying 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 posted 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 dead. when it does it for me, this hour, stay with us throughout the day though as we bring you more news and commentary, this is art international by dealing with

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is on of funds. very dramatic, a development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk with ah, let's get the the cold water could throw me it's riverside. this is the growth of.