ah, a with at least a 5 civilians die and the latest showing of done yes, the residential areas, reportedly by key of forces who are also reportedly using need of weapons to target civilian infrastructure. european leaders line up to visit ukraine to promise many things that they themselves are skeptical of including supporting cubes. you association president vladimir putin says anti russian sanctions have failed. many causes internal grief on the west itself. the number of sanctions is unprecedented. the plan was to squeeze rushes economy and drive down the people's living conditions. obviously,

it did not work gloomy forecast about the prospects of the russian economy have not come true. plus there is international outrage after britain is home secretary, orders the expedition of julian assigned to the u. s. where he faces 175 years in prison with broadcasting lab direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international and john thomas, certainly glad to have you with us. as we recap, the weeks top stories are now at least 5 civilians were killed and 12 more injured in the latest shelling of done yet residential areas by ukrainian artillery local authorities claim hundreds of missiles fired at the city were supplied ukraine by nato countries. this has seen this week has seen the most intensive shelling of the done yes, great. public capital am 8 years of war. local authority, say civilian infrastructure was targeted, including local hospitals,

educational institutions, and apartment blocks killing dozens. meanwhile, in the neighboring lugens republic, russian and allied forces have taken control of the city of several done yet. square ukrainian soldiers appear to be trapped in a local chemical plant with no way out. the local authority said to some of the troops have already surrendered, according to various estimates, up to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers are thought to be stuck in the 7th dunny ask industrial zone alongside foreign earnest mercenaries are eager to don off. comments from the front line. behind me you can see the black plumes of smoke, they are rising from the azores plant. there's about $800.00 may be meters to the positions of the ukrainian forces. in fact, we're the only news crew to go this far deep into the territory of the town of several. the nets, in fact, may be only about 7 to 8 days ago. here were the ukrainian positions,

but they had to fall back. now it's under the control of the russian forces, but you can clearly hear by the ambience, if i may say so, the fighting is very much intense. mm. yesterday we agreed on a cease fire, the chemical plant. we went to hell rescue civilians and then the ukrainians took out a tank and started shooting at us. and a fight again broke out. when i was there yesterday, ukraine didn't want stop firing mortars. it's fight isn't our panicking? you can hear. so on the walkie talkies, they want the battle to end, we can hear it and their voices are poor with from 80 and they fire to their own troops. and then a tank moved to shell our positions. it was a typical scenario. ukraine moving to a strategic place to make it look like we were doing the shooting. but we were actually standing there with white flags. the i lot of mercer's, they're mostly british. much of the food and dry ration says from britain and

poland. amid all this, may, hm. hundreds of civilians are scattered around the towns basements and shelters. this one harbors around 20 people whose neighboring houses were destroyed by the ukrainians. they say, look, still a go. is it looking below 30? you buy me in a leaky. don't see you show. jill is freshening 8th is so less but it it doesn't need grants in re in a unique it. yes. they will. i t i t sticky stuff, you know, and this used to be a music academy over several minutes. used to be what it used to be to was

renovated and you can still see in the details the amount of money and effort put into this place. but it is no more the ukrainians. sheltered burning at andrews, effectively rendering useless when they did so. up to 60 civilians were sheltering here from the bombardments lunch. still so much was it. when russia special operations began ukraine and troops immediately entered our city. they placed their arm on vehicles in residential areas, drove round, and started firing me sales. and our soldiers came in, the ukrainians, retreated, and then the bombed us, smashed us from our basements. we could see crane and tank shooting at our houses. these people beg of one thing to help them escape this hell. in the end, we'll leave with a ward of handwritten notes. it's phone numbers and messages they'd like us to pass to their loved ones in russia. i'm a gosh, darn of reporting from several. the netscape art see this week. european

leaders have rushed to visit ukraine with a new batch of promises to which they themselves are skeptical. here is art, he contributor rachel marsden with commentary. it seems like there's an unspoken contrast between western leaders to see who can virtue signal hardest by making the most trips to hear ukrainian president learners. lensky, british prime minister, worse johnson visited, may, as did canadian prime minister just, you know, an u. s. firstly, joe biden, and other u. s. officials. the western press had been asking when leaders of european countries would come to visit. so finally, the leaders of france, germany and italy made pilgrimage this week, right before us johnson went back. yet again. they marked all the usual us with

me all the usual. surely they miss the halls. the people who are francis being alongside ukraine since day one. we stand with ukrainians. who am peggotty? ukraine must resist and made more questionable promises it. wallach. greener. italy wants ukraine to be a candidate for the european union right after the whole. it's next meeting promises you candidate status for ukraine. don't mean that it's done deal are going to be done on that issue. but we also tell them, frankly, that this process will take time. there will be conditions, there'll be a roadmap which will be made by the commission to be fulfilled, and therefore they will not become a member of the european union to morrow. and while european leaders continue to pledge more weapons free gray, they'll have to get in line behind the other deliveries and his neck and the conversion from thomas to reality. much to the upset of keith. it was no, is no above put him on the ocean. we keep telling our partners that ukraine needs

modern missile defense systems. our country does not have them at a sufficient level yet line, but it is in our country. and right now it is the greatest need for such weapons in europe will. therefore, procrastination with its provision cannot be justified as xena. now the pentagon, as put the brakes on the, by the administration plan to give you credit for and she wants the grade drums, which should be on the hellfire missiles, over concerns that the equipment could end up in the hands of the enemy. meaning russia, ali, they don't seem to be too concerned that it could end up in the hands of ukrainian neo nazis or a terrorist jihadists or disappear into the black market. meanwhile, n b. c. news, citing biden administration sources is reporting the bible. the secretary of state asked me blinking and defense secretary, we'd often to tone down the remarks in support of ukraine, which he thought went too far. risk setting, unrealistic goals, and calling walking into a direct conflict with moscow. western european leaders like french president,

a veteran that had already been chastised by for suggesting that ukraine consider negotiations and concessions, interested peace. but behind that posture lurks a tacit admission, realistically to conflict isn't likely to result ukraine's favor against russia with the wind is going to have to be negotiated, settlement and what that entails. i don't know. i don't think anybody know sometime to come to the city. it's up to you crying to the side, we kind of decide to conditions for the end of the war instead of the ukrainians. all decisions are made by the coin and leader, i don't think so. maybe beneath the surface of this p r trek to heave, the real goal was to try to use the whiskey incentive to get to the negotiating table real amen by dangling, the candidate status tourist. and give him good reason to start thinking about

winding down the conflicts because of the crumbling economy. certainly inflation and energy boss, falling ratings and rating domestic scandals. these western leaders already have more than enough on their plates. i political commentator anthony webber says that european leaders are clearly putting their foreign policy agendas 1st. if i said he was citing is more important for me, say, this is a foreign country, not for me to recall the interests of my own. my own country is the true, he didn't need to go to the ukraine then, but it's almost like he is trying to off stage the 3 key here, man leaders, a messy for france and cool sort of to pull from was from the media. and via apparently we're trying to look at

some piece initiatives in return for fast tracking id you and see the to retrain and see you because i got the master the key point and says that it does seem to prime minister at a time with a national royal strike claiming money, economic problems in the u. k. and the new fuel crisis, lowest of things, which is not catching policy. ukraine's had previous president, petro jenko has admitted that the 2015 minutes could piece agreements drawn up to end of the hostilities. and the dumbass meant nothing to kill. he says that they were only find to give the government more time to strengthen militarily gyms. they are truly pretty good. how does the negotiations in minsk and which is what we

wanted? we didn't trust, put in then, and we don't now, our task was to avert the threats or to delay the war. it was necessary to get 8 years for us to restore economic growth and bills of a powerful military. this was the 1st task and he was achieved. the men's agreements were broken by russia, france, and germany to end of the civil war in don bass in the wake of the key of crew of 2014 the dumbass regions of done yet. sc and lugens refused to recognize ukraine's new government. instead, naming their own leaders, cave responded by sending in its military, which part to civil war, which left tens of thousands dead after ukraine's military offensive failed. king was forced to sit down for talks. under the subsequent means deals. the dumbass remained part of ukraine while king of agreed to give the republics have done yet again to god's autonomy along with their own elections. in the 7 years since the

agreements were signed, the vote did not take place. now when the americans on the replaced prussia, go as president in 2001, 900, a promise to boost to the peace process. however, those efforts also stalled and give failure to implement the midst roadmap and the continued shilling of done yet, scandal. ganske were among the primary reasons for russia to launch its military operation. in february kennestone from the hamilton coalition to stop war told us that ukraine's previous president bears full responsibility for the ongoing military conflict. in his own words and in front of the entire world, he has admitted that during his entire term as president of ukraine from 2014 to 2018. he undermined he deliberately sabotaged the immense agreements he bargained in bad faith. and therefore, he is an author of the current military conflict in ukraine and should be held

responsible after the war if there is some kind of tribunal and asked for the countries which guaranteed implementation of the minsk agreements, including france and germany and the o. s. c. these countries, they bear responsibility, they were either fools or accomplices of parish ankle because for 8 years they did nothing to stop the, the horrendous loss of life in the nets and the turning of a 1000000 people into refugees. so they too are to blame. clearly, there was a war being plotted against the people of the donnette and consequently republics . and when they tell us how much they care about the people of ukraine, it's not true, it's not true. it wasn't true in yugoslavia that wasn't true in afghanistan wasn't true and in libya, wasn't true in iraq. this is, these countries are just ponds in

a great global game of the u. s. empire. an italian newspaper has compiled a list of individuals that says are involved in so called russian propaganda publishing their names and photos. the article in korea dela sarah claims 10 individuals among them reporters, as well as a professor and a senior diplomatic official are part of a pro put in network aimed at influencing the governments political discourse. who heard from an italian photographer, who was surprised to find himself on the list? ah, we'll get other bottle of korea dela said his publication is something awful because all those who are mentioned in the article are being accused of spreading fakes and supporting what they call russian propaganda. besides that, it doesn't offer any kind of an example of evidence which supports their statements . i am being accused of pro russian political propaganda. but what proof of this allegation do they have? i spoke directly to their deputy director fiorenza ciriani,

who co authored the article i asked her for evidence for at least one example of misinformation which i have ever spread during my career. and she failed to provide any. i told her that the allegations made by the newspaper against me are very serious. the problem is that at the moment we are being compromised among people who follow such newspapers as korea, dela santa people are being discouraged against listening to our news and opinions . and it's a real outrage. the thing is that not a single italian newspaper, a tv channel, asked for an interview with us. art he is the only channel which got the idea to call me and asked for my opinion about the situation. in fact, i have never been an unequivocal advocate for russia. i'm just doing my job by reporting what i see. i had already been following the conflict for 8 years and all these years i had a clear view of who was the aggressor. i saw that it was the ukraine which started the policy of aggression against the russian speaking population of dumbass. i would also add that unfortunately in the last 2 years,

russia was somewhere in the vicinity. and that somehow served as a constraining factor to avert reprisals against these people. i kept doing my job . i completed my last mission in april, during which i recorded everything that i encountered, interviewed people. and now i can't figure out how it is possible that my professional view has been rejected in italy. italians continue to vehemently opposed the italian government's decision to send arms to ukraine. the latest polls show that 60 percent of italians are openly against these armed deliveries and favor a diplomatic solution to this conflict. over all the majority of italians are tired of following the war, they show ever less interest in war related news. many italians have become thinking more about their pastime, go into the beach, considering this war to be something alien to their lives. vladimir putin has an underlined rush, a strong response to western efforts to hurt the russian economy. he noted that attempts to damage the country economically had caused harm to western countries

themselves. are cheese li pacheco, comments? it's almost been exactly 4 months since russia sent its troops to ukraine. and countries in the west launched a different kind of war against russia. an economic war, so it was time for the man in charge on the russian side to give an update. and he chose st. petersburg as the stage to tell the world how russia's coping is. the number of sanctions is unprecedented to plan was to squeeze brushes, economy, and drive down people's living conditions. obviously it did not work gloomy forecasts about the prospects of the russian economy have not come true to that is clear that this propaganda campaign has been and remains an instrument of information wool that we are strong people we can cope with any challenge. just as our ancestors did, oh, sure. i saw in moscow. see this as a key milestone in how countries around the globe will be switching to trade and

national currencies. president vladimir prudent for his part, painted a marquis future for traditional reserve currencies. first and foremost, the was dollar was luke and recently in the context of the inflation still many developing countries have a reasonable question. why exchange goods for dollars in euro's which are rapidly losing white? the conclusion is that the economy of imaginary entities is being replaced by the economy of real values and assets such as food energy, another raw materials and the coming is based on objective analysis. the process will be set in motion. mister pou last out at his western counterparts for pretty much losing common sense. and literally, as he puts it, forget thing about the interests of their own people, all in a bid to week and russia, president putin also brought up how russia was being blamed for economic hardships all around the world, which according to the russian leader,

is totally wrong and fair eagle up, well doing for the current rising prices. and the problem with inflation with susan energy supply, gasoline and the energy sector crisis. all of this is a result of systemic mistakes and the economic policy of the current administration in the u. s. and european bureaucracy, everyone understands the real reasons. huge sums of money were printed in this money was used to purchase goods and services outside of western countries on global markets, taking over supply no one wanted to think about the interests of other countries, including the poorest. we almost knew that vladimir putin was going to use strong language and pro punches at the u. s. and allies. but the president got very tough, perhaps even tougher than expected. and this speech almost sounded like a lecture for russia's enemies shamelessly sham. but i think we'll hear about this so called putin's inflation,

who is listening to such nonsense. it's intended for those who can't read and write . so that's all people in our country and in the liberator territories, refrain that we will quit and leave the russia. leaders spent quite a while explaining in detail while he ordered the start of rushes, military operation in ukraine. he also pointed out how the painful conflict initially unraveled after western leaders sponsored what moscow called an illegitimate cohen kiev in 2014 1st says president cohen, western officials agreed to mediate and guarantee a peace deal between ukraine's nationalist opposition and present in a coach. but then turned a blind eye to the violent overthrow of his government. days later, the russian leader reminded the world how the mind and who was never accepted by the people of ukraine, southeastern dawn. vast regions when asked to buy ortiz editor in chief, whether hope keep defending the ethnic russian population there no matter what

mister prudent insisted, that all the goals of the military operation will be accomplished. she will be by yet familiar with people in our country and in deliberate territories are afraid that we will quit and leave. will we leave and use them. we will support the people living in these territories, of course. but in the end, only the people who live there will determine their future. so a thorough explanation of rushes vision coming from st. petersburg. let's wait for the next step from both sides. also speaking at the forum was the head of russian gas exported gas. prom who stressed that the world's western dominated economic system has been undergoing drastic changes with the u. s. dollar weakening. well, glad him cook the bretton woods system 2 point oh is simply a paradigm that says our currency are rules. they tell you how you can use their currency. what you are allowed and not allowed to do in the west makes the laws,

but we're seeing the dollar lose. it's a gemini, as payments in other national currencies are on the rise. and finally, the paradigm itself is changing. the priority is being given to another formula, goods, money, goods, we sell gas, then we extracted our goods, our rules, europe has abandoned long term contracts. that means that for those long term contracts that have not been concluded or extended capacities have not been created as a result. spot markets are a liquid. we warned europe about the consequences we were asked to build nord stream to. we built it, but it was not certified. meanwhile, gas prices in europe have surged on the news that russia is to stop using a crucial turbine for the nord stream pipeline. moscow says western sanctions have prevented adequate maintenance work and will cut supplies via the station by a further one. 3rd to no more than 67000000 cubic meters per day. europe has been increasingly vulnerable to gas supply disruptions as russia also stopped deliveries

to recipient companies in poland and bulgaria recently following their refusal to pay for the commodity in roubles. earlier in the week, moscow said that it was reducing gas sent to europe via the nor do stream line by 40 percent of what was previously plant after german company. siemens energy failed to deliver repaired gas turbines to rush on time. due to the sanctions imposed by canada, it is currently impossible for siemens energy to deliver over whole gas turbines to the customer. against this background, we have informed the canadian and german governments and a working on a viable solution. last week, canada expanded its list of sanctions against russia. toggling the oil gas and chemical industries. it hampered the return of key turbines manufactured in the country and must be sent back regularly for maintenance. the announcements and european gas prices soaring into the double digits in europe. the

rise in energy prices has had a far greater impact on one country, more than others. italian consumers have been battered by skyrocketing prices as the country is so dependent on imported fuel. a gasoline has an absurd price with $50.00 euros of gasoline, you can fill the tank. i don't go out and i don't take the car and i go with the public transport. it is the only way with the subsidy that will be removed at the end of july. gasoline price will reach $2.00 euros and $0.50. there is no solution . we are in a catastrophe with holla, titian's have not always been up to the task. we hope there will be a more substantial intervention and has become a difficult situation. i don't drive the car anymore. i write a vesta. the philippines ambassador to russia you go by lynn has told our team that the country is very interested in doing business with moscow. despite western

sanctions in the russian foreign ministry, the prince. that the philippines, that big sate principal possession in the united nations on the situation in ukraine. we are praying with the rest of the world that the situation gets resolved soon and that the piece will return on the other question. i'd be relations between that the philippines and the rush. us build continuous despite this, are you the current of difficulty? the philippines remains a friendly country? are we did that? the bullet sanctions, again, sa, bratia and the various been an interest in both the level of government from the russian side and of course of business. the business interests philippine all business men are interested in penetrating gamino, big advantage of the russian market. at the same time that in a rush and business versus an even tourists are interested to visit the philippines and take

a look at what the philippines has to offer. and the same thing are goes for filipino consumers becoming interested in russian products, russia, tourism. so i think at the bottom line, people to people basis relations, continue this by the press and difficult these, the press and challenges which we hope will get to resolve so that we will move progress advanced forward as the legal team for ricky leeks whistleblower gillian assange. prepares an appeal after the british home secretary approved and american bid for his extradition or cheese on quarter comments now. on the curious ties between the decision makers and the u. s. main intelligence body. the 12 year saga of wiki leaks co founder julian assange may be finally coming to its conclusion with washington set to enact its revenge. after 3 years and bel marsh, maximum security prison, you case home secretaries given the green light to extradite the whistleblower to the united states. allowing julian ascend to be extradited to the u. s. would put

him at great risk and since a chilling message to journalists, the world over, it is an appalling symbol of how far the british and american government's commitment to human rights has declined. any one 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, u. s. has been out to get assange since 2010 when he published hundreds of thousands of classified documents. they illustrated, the american military's apparent disregard for civilian life and potential war crimes committed during its wars throughout the middle east. over the years, the charges from conspiracy to hack us computers to publishing classified information as prohibited by the espionage act, have had a san staring down the barrel of up to 175 years in prison. and as he awaited his extradition ruling a yahoo news report surfaced,

claiming that the c i had plans to kidnap and assassinate assange. the c i a plotted to kidnap the wikileaks founder spring heated debate among trump, administration, officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation. some senior officials inside the c i a and the trump administration even discussed killing, assigned, going so far as to request sketches or options for how to assassinate him. turns out the u. k. is home secretary who just approved a sanchez extradition actually has ties to the cia for years. she sat on the advisory board for a lobbying organization called the henry jackson society, alongside lord james albert, not a defense minister whose judge wife made 2 key rulings against assange since its creation in 2006. the groups never revealed who funds it, and at the same time it's hosted more than a few former cia directors at high profile political events. one of them was mike, palm pale, who called wiki leaks, a hostile intelligent service. we'll say for the celebration of entities like

quickly to be both perplexing and deeply troubling. what he likes, walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. he was also in charge of the cia when these alleged plans to do assange harm were made. understanding that and the fact that the society paid patel $2500.00 pounds to attend a security program in washington. it should come as no surprise that assange is likely now on his way to his do. i personally thought that juliana sanchez, unbreakable. however, he's only human. she's severely suffering from pro so much chase. he said m is suffering from psychological don't to, from all these years when he's not being he's not, he's not sleep and keys them annoyance.