the usual solutions going to we're going to have to drastically change direction the are to come up with this crisis. with at least 5 civilians die. and the latest shelling of done yet residential areas by team forces or using nato 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 with president glad in recruiting says anti russian sanctions have failed many causing internal grief for the west. and so the number of sanctions is unprecedented. the plan was to squeeze brushes, economy, and drive down people living conditions. obviously, it did not work gloomy forecasts about the prospects of the russian economy have

not come through it. but there's international outrage after britain is home secretary orders the extradition of julian, astonished to the u. s. where he faith is 175 years in prison with broadcasting from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. right now, at least 5 civilians were killed and 12 more entered in the latest shelling of done yet residential areas, reportedly by ukrainian artillery local authorities claim. hundreds of missiles fired at the city where is supplied to ukraine by nato countries. this week has seen some of the most intense showing i've done yet skin 8 years of war. local authority, say civilian infrastructure was targeted, including hospitals, universities, and many apartment blocks killing dozens. among the locations struck was a local market diesel mon customer went there to assess the damage. ukrainian

military continues to terrorize innocent civilians here in the city of john nets. several districts were targeted by ukraine's artillery on monday afternoon. as the result, 3 people including a mother and a child were killed. there was a lot of advantage to houses, apartment buildings, the gas pipeline was damaged as well. fuel depot was also destroyed. now i'm at one of the places that were hit by shelling right here behind me can see firefighters are still working. trying to put out this blaze. now, a rocket from multiple rocket launcher landed are right here. this is a storage facility, as i understand is sort aerosols and stationary goods as well. so the entire building is now completely destroyed and that this kind of scenes we can witness.

so all throughout the city of the nest. this monday, there had been no damage to any military infrastructure and as civilians who continue to suffer from un cosser of arts, he done at people's republic. all sudden, some western media held russian forces responsible for the market showing. this is what a german t v news show said during mondays broadcast t alice needs to place fund is a max in the us. ok innocence, that the nets dimensions on by them. also sion angles get to to me, it has a file that slots i'm getting the mess even though. so stabilization, i me, is to clean it soon name and my bills that will come in as a president. first it invest, the market was in a russian controlled area of done yet, thus making the likelihood of moscow showing the city near impossible. 3 days later, the show quietly apologized in its blog, blaming,

so called errors for the erroneous broadcast. we discussed the situation with george last on an american investigative journalist working in the don boss. everything. every fact about this situation is obvious. all the evidence is very obvious. when shells a flyer, you can tell the direction that they're fired from. it's not very difficult. it's not rocket science. it's that they don't want to know. as long as they don't know, they can continue to blame russia, which, you know, again, is obscene, but that's where we are in this time frame missile attacks. the attacks on, on the hospital, mario full, i'm mucho, you know, why would russia in mucho, why would russia give you manager in 8 packages and then jump kill the people they get and do life just doesn't work that way. it's not to wait military's work. this

week, european leaders have rushed to visit ukraine with a new batch of promises to which they themselves seem skeptical. years are t contributor ritual margin with commentary. it seems like there's an unspoken contest between western leaders to see who convert you signal the hardest by making the most trips to hear ukrainian president letters. lensky british prime minister, worse johnson visited, may, as did canadian prime minister just to know. and you ask, firstly, joe biden and other talk us 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 loss of

me all the usual cheerleading statements, the halls that been coming through. frances, being alongside ukraine since day one. we stand with ukrainians, willa ambiguity. ukraine must resist and made more questionable promises it wallach graneye, italy wants ukraine to be a candidate for the european union. right after whole, his next meeting promises you candidate status for you. great. don't mean that it's a done deal. are going to be done and it is you. but we also tell them frankly, that this process will take time. there will be conditions that will 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, didn't you? and while european leaders continue to pledge more weapons free brain, they'll have to get in line behind the other deliveries and hit a snag into conversion from promise to reality. much to the upset a keep in was no, is no of of 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 be therefore, procrastination with its provision cannot be justified as xena. and now the pentagon as put the brakes on the by the administration's plan to give you credit for. and she was the great drums, which can be armed with 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 can end up in the hands of ukrainian neo nazis, or a terrorist hottest or disappear into the black market. meanwhile, n b. c. news. citing by the administration sources is reporting the bible, the secretary of state asked me lincoln and defense secretary austin to tone down their remarks in support of ukraine, which he thought went too far. risk setting, unrealistic goals, and coolly washington into a direct conflict with moscow. western european leaders like french president, a veteran that had already been chastised by for suggesting that ukraine considered

negotiations and concessions in the interesting piece. but behind that posture looks a tacit admission. realistically the conflict isn't likely to resolve ukraine's favor on the battlefield against russia. with align, there's going to have to be negotiated, settlement or what that entails. i don't know. i don't think anybody knows time 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 in lita did so maybe beneath the surface of this p r trip to heave, the real goal was to try to use the whiskey incentive to get to the negotiating table real event by dangling. the candidate status terrorist. and you have a good reason to start thinking about winding down the conflicts. it has

a crumbling economy, circulation, energy boss, falling ratings, and rating domestic scandals. these western leaders already have more than enough on their ukraine's previous president. petra, poor shanker, has admitted that the 2015 minutes peace agreements drawn up to end the hostilities in the dumbass meant nothing to give. he says that they were only signed to give the government more time to strengthen. militarily. jim's should is pretty good. how did the negotiations in minsk, which is what we wanted, we didn't trust put in dan, and we don't now. our task was to avert the threat or to delay the war. it was necessary to get 8 years for us to restore economic growth and build up a powerful military law. this was the 1st task and he was achieved. the men's agreements were brokered by russia, france, and germany to end the civil war in don bass. in the wake of the key of coo of 2014,

the dumbass regions of don. yet sc and lew ganske refused to recognise ukraine's new government instead naming their own leaders. give responded by sending in its military which sparked a civil war, which left tens of thousands dead after ukraine's military offensive failed. cue was forced to sit down for talks under the subsequent many deals that dumbass remained part of ukraine while you've agreed to give the republics of done yet. campbell guns autonomy along with their own elections. in the 7 years since the agreements were signed, the vote did not take place. when vladimir lensky replaced the persian co as president in 2019, he promised to boost to the peace process. however, those efforts also stalled failure to implement the misc roadmap and the continued showing of done yes. can the guns were among the primary reasons for russia to launch its military operation? in february kennestone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war, told us that the cranes previous president bears full responsibility for the

ongoing military, conflicts 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 agreement 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 done 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 lucon sco 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 and 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, a part of a pro put in the network name that influencing the governance political discourse.

we heard from an italian photographer who was surprised to find himself on the list . i'm going to guess for the popular korea, dela sanders 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 rezani, who co authored the article i asked her for evidence for at least one example of misinformation which i've 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. del sara. 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. archie is the only channel which got the idea to call me and ask 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 crane which started the policy of aggression against the russian speaking population of dumbass. i would also add that unfortunately in the last few 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 oppose the italian government decision descent arms ukraine. the latest

paul show that 60 percent of italians are openly against these arms 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 past time, go into the beach, considering this war to be something alien to their lives. vladimir putin has underlined russia, 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 easily per drank of 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 and 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. the plan was to squeeze bushes, 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. that is clear that this propaganda campaign has been em, remains an instrument of inflammation, wool, but we are strong people. we can cope with any challenge. just as our ancestors did, i faced holes in moscow see this as a key milestone in how countries around the globe will be switching to trade and national currencies. president flattery 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 store, 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 and of a role materials and the coming is based on objective analysis. the process will be set in motion. mister poo last out of his western counterparts for pretty much losing common sense. and literally, as he put said, forget thing about the interests of their own people. all in a bid to weaken 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 on there you go. up. but loony free us could arise and price isn't the problem. 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 us 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 latimer bruton 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 the speech almost sounded like a lecture for russia's enemy machine was lucian. but that was the way we will hear about this. so cold putin's inflation, who's listening to such nonsense, it's intended for those who can't read and writes, that's all people in our country and in the liberator territories. rephrase that we will quit and leave the russian liter 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 calls an

illegitimate cohen key of in 2014 1st says president putin. western officials agreed to mediate and guarantee a peace deal between ukraine's nationalist opposition and present in coverage. but then turned a blind eye to the violent overthrow of his government. his days later, the russian leader reminded the world how the mind and who was never accepted by the people of ukraine, south eastern don bass regions. when asked to buy ortiz editor in chief, whether hope keep defending the ethnic washing population there no matter what mister prudent insisted, that all the goals of the military operation will be accomplished by yet from their people in our country and in deliberative territories are afraid that we will quit and leave, will relieve 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 the future. so

a thorough explanation of russia's vision coming from st. petersburg. let's wait for the next step from both sides. also speaking at the form was the head of the russian gas export. a gas prom who stressed that the world's western dominated economic system has been undergoing drastic changes with the u. s. dollar weakening . well, variety mccook, the bretton woods system, 2 point oh is simply a paradigm that says our currency, our 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 or 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 norwegian political scientists at glen decent, told r t from the st. petersburg form that despite the western sanctions and economic pressure on moscow, the russian financial system has stabilized. what the west had, the plan for russia obviously didn't play out because the assumption was that while the 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 made into rubble . and instead with we see that the opposite us up. and so the, the rubel us is much stronger now than it was even before february. the financial system has been stabilized and, well, they've economy. it's set to grow after a lot of the supply chains, chains having to reorganize. and so,

obviously the short term expectation, the short medium to expectation of a lot of western states did not play out the way they'd be expected to see that the between the western russia, both sides are now expressing a lot of trust has been lost. and both sides argued that they've been preparing to effectively live without the other after this divorce. so it is hard to say how, how will 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, maybe not going back to the way things war. but the finding some ways of working together again, china has taken over from the us as the foreign power seemed to have the most positive influence on africa. this is, according to a poll among young adults from the continent of

a survey conducted among 18 to 24 year olds. in 16 african countries found that 76 percent considered china's activity as the most positive for the continent. pushing the u. s. into 2nd place and that results illustrate china's rising influence with investments. infrastructure development projects and affordable products listed as its most positive contributions. but colon china is a better friend than america. i think it's china because it believes in giving and receiving better with china. but that was on without china as better because it could take over the world economy in the future. i believe it's better to be closer to china than the us in the current reality. it's preferable to work with china, which has already daily shannon. i believe it's china, i think china can help africa more china's better because it brings its talent and know how here the u. s. recently sent a letter to 14 african countries urging them to reject grain imports from russia,

claiming it was stolen from ukraine. that's with some african areas being on the bring to famine, a white house spokesperson has admitted the us wants to prohibit sales of grain, an african national congress youth league chairperson told us that support has shifted to china as the u. s. is less respectful of the african population, is found china to be an honest country to do business with in comparison to the west, which when they arrived here they did not even see us as human beings. but instead they plowed our minute out of the sauces. they're the ones that bombed to heal ashima. they're the ones that formed, mach, i fact she does to test a nuclear bomb and just to protect and lasha. so we are students of history. we understand what the intention has been. they have been everywhere in the world where there's been a lot of sources, an image not to do business there,

but it could come age on the people of those kind of those countries. we are saying that we are going to have relations with the russian people, whether american america loves it or not. we will not be subject to western media, would try to came to the chinese people as a bad people who are in africa to do wrong things because we can visibly see here to help with development. and that to be here. and they see as if equals who they can enter into business with, not the people that they can spin from as the legal team for wiki leagues whistleblower gillian assange prepares an appeal after the british home secretary approved and american bid for his extradition or to don quarter comments 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 songs may be finally coming to its

conclusion with washington set to enact its revenge. after 3 years in bel marsh, maximum security prison, you case home secretary is given the green light to extradite the whistleblower to the united states. allowing julian assange to be extradited to the us would put him at great risk and sends a chilling message to journalists, the world over. it is an appalling symbol of how far the british 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, his son to the united states, the country that plotted his assassination, u. s. has been out to get a song 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 song 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 cia had plans to kidnap and assassinate the songs. the c i plotted to kidnap the wiki leagues founder spring heated debate among trump, administration, officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation. some senior officials inside the cia and the trump administration even discussed killing the signs, going so far as to request sketches or options for how to assassinate him. it turns out the u. k. is home secretary who just approve the 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 abra . not 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 intelligence service. we have a find the celebration of entities like wiki leave 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 ca when these are legit plans to do with san 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 assigns is likely now on his way to his doom to home secretary appreciate it shows performances. this is pretty agree, jewish pretty, pretty bad. what has happened to the british nobles or there are no

english nobles. now it looks like they're just all vessels of the united states. i am ashamed of what happened to our penal system. 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 to day lives. journalists, whether they be australians or uruguayan, zora ice lands, or if they live in antartica or in the arctic, we can get you because we're the united states and we have this law that we can apply to. anyone doesn't have to be american citizen. so, you know, how dangerous is that her independent journalism? let's composer requiem for it because it's, it's, it's mostly day that doesn't for me this hour,

but stay with us throughout the day as we bring you more news and commentary. this is our to international. glad having with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on a very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk with

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