ah, ah ah, the west fuel the a global inflation storm it through its short sighted policies back according to vladimir putin comments at the international economic form in st. petersburg. i think we're going, we'll hear about this so called to tins inflation, who is listening to such notes, since 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 market. 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 in dumbass for,

for the past 8 years. but it was always presented as a rush and aggression. i hope one day i can go and forget conflict. this charter, there's other 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 international and 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 is 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 chief editor in chief. my to go to 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. so let me write that in my 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. r t for tango 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. 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 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 human 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 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 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, 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 got so carried away in spreading the

smith that they themselves apparently believed it. when planning the economic blitzkrieg, they did not know to simply ignore the real facts of how our country has changed in recent years. these changes are the results of our planned work to create a stable macroeconomic structure in show food security, implement input substitution programs, full marin payment system, and so on. losses obvious answer to trade embargoes and also a hailstorm of anti russian restrictions by western countries was cementing friendship with the likes of beijing 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 poof, 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, it's all costs to making a colossal mistake. this is a mistake that will cost and daily. i have no doubts about this. as for all 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 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 obviously 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 a 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 forum, r t editor in chief for me to get into someone yon said it doesn't really matter. if the west here is russia or not as why don't we put it 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 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 it will do 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 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 before february. and the financial system has been stabilized. and while the economy is set to grow after a lot of the supply chains chain, so i've been to reorganize and so obviously the short term expectation, the short to medium term expectation of a lot of western states did not play out the way that they be expected to receive the 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. so there's a lot of incentives for it to, to find a way of a, maybe not going back to the way things work, but finding some ways of working together again. ah, look, ask republic official 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 a certain units has not been disclosed for security reasons. that's to avoid the prosecution. 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 crossroads 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 forest car 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 eventually got onto a road when we surrender to russian forces. 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 there 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 to williams 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 live on people not to come here. what did you know about the bus before? i mean from 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 were, were told 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 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, 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 are not meeting our editorial standards. miranda has resigned as a reporter, at least and 2 of the report. his articles pulled by the paper focused on the conflict in ukraine, one of which suggested negligence by russia after 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 fake 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 all the footage of the ukrainian showing of don yes, that left dozens of civilians dead to accompany stories related to the russian showing of care, 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 by 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 gwinnett, 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 news that is perpetrated the public perspective, certainly in the west, from the beginning of this people, they get hired in 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 if, if the public isn't getting the truth, it really is hard for a democracy, a republic to operate. european commission has recommended ukraine be granted. candidates 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 states us. 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 the movie today by the european european creation leadership to recommend ukraine as a designated candidate for you membership is mainly a symbolic p r on a move to project you solidarity ukraine. you commission prisoners 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,

i no kidding. michigan zone if you allows for border is movement within the zone. there is no way that country like ukraine, with a hot military coffee plant soil and poorly tracked weapons flooding in to supply fighters that include foreign back. ringback nazis could possibly part and awards 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 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, recommendation which comes

a day after the leaders of germany 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 in my 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 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. i've already expressed opposition to graves included in the block. and there can 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 you cray that well, hey, we're trying our best political analysts. nicholas medical village believes that the e u is desperate to ab ukraine to the block, but keith is entirely unprepared for such a move. i think this is a political stance that the you was a mustering moving now, because europe, your opinion has been doing anything can to try to ukraine inside. i think it's seen 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 the region 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 kind of 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. i'll buy that ukraine does not follow the criteria of copenhagen is really 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 of 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 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 firestick says that such decisions are not just worsening. the situation but could lead to a dire outcome, 3 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 canceled trains, or canceled. we're at 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 janice, shock, it's the system. so if, 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 and 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. process is being used ah, to hire a trophy. and we know that from history on that that can be done. and the u. k should not be doing that, it should not be engaging in, ah persecution. on behalf of the foreign power that is out for revenge.

that decision lead to international outrage, human rights organization, such as the committee to protect journalists and amnesty international have spoken up for us off the x tradition 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 wikileaks founder. allowing julian his sons to be expedited to the u. s. would put him at great risk incense or 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 in 2022, a london court has issued an official extradition order followed by the u. k. home office confirming it on friday morning with the leaks 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 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 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, 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 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 posted anonymously. that's part of the problem as well. so independent journalism, let's composer requiem for it because it's, it's, it's mostly due 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 our to international with russian state will never be as tight as on the northland scheme

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