solutions going to we're going to have to drastically change direction to come up with this crisis. ah ah, russia's military size, it's killed, more than 50 top ukrainian officers, including generals and a cruise missile strike on a key command. post a rundown or the week's top story is off. you've exclusive report from the front line in a dorm by city of several don't yet square thousands of ukrainian troops plus the foreign mercenaries, i believe, to be trapped inside at chemical clubs with western sanctions of stuff in economic storm for the countries that impose or failing to take down russia, the economy, according to blood, may oppose in new deliver the keys to be to the st. petersburg. international economic for a

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 forecast about the prospects of the russian economy. have you not come? true? class has worked in time. secretary approves the extradition of julianna's songs to the us, where he faces up to a 175 years in prison. we look at the u. k. officials long history of links to the cia with a very well welcome. this is the weekly here on the international with the latest world news and a round up of the stories that shapes the week is good to have you with us. and we start with the latest from ukraine. russia's defense ministry, se is one of its cruise missile strikes, has killed dozens of high ranking ukrainian officers, including generals. you can get the latest now from

a correspondence in don't. yes grandma calls are for mom. good to see. that was certainly sounds like an important target has been hit here. so what else has russia's defense ministry had to say it was a very important target. indeed, as, as some of the top military personnel in ukraine was wiped out by russian naval based caliber, a cruise missile, according to the defense ministry, more than 50 people. that includes both the generals and some of the top officers have been killed as the result of that strike. now, according to the defense ministry, all these people were holding a strategy, a meeting when the missiles struck them. now this of course falls in line with what moscow's been saying all along, and that is if a russian territory is continuously been struck by ukraine,

that it will take action against solve the decision of making sensors in ukraine. now apart from that, so also over the last 24 hour periods, more than $600.00 a nationalist and militants, ukraine have been killed by the russian military as well. and those are very high casualty in numbers. indeed. and also considering the fact that ukraine's officials themselves have been saying that they been losing at least 500 men a day. and a russian commander says that these numbers are so high is because the ukrainian commands are throwing just about anyone and everyone into battle, including a lot of those people have no experience with weapons or military equipment and a speaking of the military equipment washing defense ministry also said that they destroyed quite

a lot of it over the last 24 hour period. and that includes then $155.00 millimeter caliber hobbit servers and up to 20 or armored vehicles which were delivered to ukraine by the west of the last set sands. a period man, thank you for the update that as ortiz, at remind cause of reporting from antonio, extend will be more russian, that lead forces. so they've taken full control of the turn of metal keena in the la ganske republic to see to the city of several don, yes, which they overrun earlier this month. the remaining ukrainian troops that are hold up inside a local chemical factory which has been blocked off local authorities, say some of the crania and civil ready come out and surrendered according to various estimates up to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers, including foreign mercenaries, are still hiding inside the industrial zone, ortiz ecos to honor found an exclusive report from the front line earlier this week . 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, were 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. i spoke it, fight is anal panicking. you can hear so on the walkie talkies. they want the vital to and we can hear it and their voices are poor

with from 80 and they fire to their own troops and on a tank move 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 when the i lot of mercer's there. the most that 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, i don't, is like a he it look, you know, below it. you buy me in a leaky. don't see. he shouldn't kill is fascinates he so let. but let me. e g, a ne,

grants and lee with a unique each year. the like he didn't, emma yankee, dickie still, you know? yes, but you know, you live like mama neil little lucy, chilly cookie. you at that go eat you sure. if it. 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 and was affectively

rendering useless when they did so. up to 60 civilians were sheltering here from the bombardments lunch still more much as it often when russia special aberration began. ukrainian troops immediately entered our city. they placed their armored vehicles in residential areas, drove round and started firing the sails, and our soldiers came in, the ukrainians retreated, and then the bomb does 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 than ask r t i don't. yes republic has suffered more than a week, have relentless bombardment by ukrainian forces with 19 people killed and a 102 wounded. in the last 7 days, tanya had city has been bearing the brunt of the shell. local authority,

say civilian infrastructure was targeted, including hospitals, universities, and residential blocks. and that hundreds of rockets and shells fired at the city were recently supplied to ukraine by nato countries. and some of the worst shelling the dumbass republic has seen in the past 8 years of the conflict. and one of the most heavily hit sites with a local market where 3 people, including a mother and her child, were killed on monday. the attack came during a particularly busy time at the scene where people were out celebrating the rush a day holiday. however, some western media outlets have not shied away from blaming russia for the shelling of don. yes, fearless me 2 ways from these marks and there are still quite innocent that dominates that i mentioned on by them also sion and go of good to to me of a for let's do on getting the in my 7 bushes. there was such an army as to cut, you know, to newman's mouth close there. okay. initial president was cleared, who would invest? the market was in

a rush and bacteria of don. yes. making it highly unlikely that the troops had shelled their own civilians. 3 days later, the german outlet quietly apologized in its blog, blaming, so called arrows for the claims in its broadcast. we discussed the situation with george ellison, an american investigative journalist working in dumbass. everything every sacked about this situation is obvious. all the evidence is very obvious. when shells are fired, 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 attach the attacks on, on the hospital, mariel. i show, you know, why would russia mucho, why would russia give humanitarian 8 packages?

and then children deal with people they get to life just doesn't work that way. it's not to, we military's work. one of the world's biggest, the most important business events, the st. petersburg international economic forum wrapped up on saturday of the several eventful days. ah, well, the main event was black, my postings keynote speech, his 1st to an international audience. this is the start of russia's military operation and don't boss and ukraine. the president noted that attempts to damage russia economically have actually caused more hom, to western countries themselves out easily. petrocca has the date house. 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. 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 to that is clear that this propaganda campaign has been em, remains an instrument of inflammation, wool, that we are strong people we can cope with any challenge just as our ancestors did go shares. officials 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 increasingly in the context of the inflation still, many developing countries have a reasonable question. why exchange goods for dollars in euro's which rapidly

losing weight? and 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 role materials in the coming is based on objective analysis. the process will be set in motion. mister poo last out at 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 week in 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 unfair. glover, louis for yes, 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 us and european iraq to say everyone understands the real reason 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 course of studio. we almost knew that latimer bruton was going to use strong language and throw 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. sure. but i think we'll 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, refrain that we will quit and leave 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 key of 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 convent. but then turned a blind eye to the violent overthrow of his government just days later, to washing 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. she will be by yes, and there was people in our country and in deliberated 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 the future. so a thorough explanation of russia's vision coming from st. petersburg. let's wait for the next step. from both sides was a speaking at the forum of the head of rushes gans prom who's stressed that there's been a global tectonic shift with new economic wells emerging to move away from the u. s . dollar. we run, karate 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 losing to 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 work, then we extracted our goods, our rules. we also caught up with norwegian, political scientist, gland decent at the forum. and he explained how russia's financial system has

defied all of the western economic precious sofa. 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 a spite and said supposed to be 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 well they, the economy is set to grow after a lot of the supply chains. chains have been reorganized. and so it's 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'd expected to receive it . 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 come back together. i think already though, this a lot of discovery of the economic pain, so this a lot of incentives for it to to find a way of a, maybe not going back to the way things work. but the finding some ways of working together again, ah, was several top european leaders made a surprise visit to key as this week, bringing a batch of new promises to keep arming the country are to contribute to rachel. marston has more, it seems like there's an unspoken contrast between western leaders to see who can virtue signal the hardest, by making the most trips to hear ukrainian president letters. lensky, british prime minister, poorest johnson visited, may,

as did canadian prime minister just, you 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 johnson went back. yet again, they marked all the usual follow us with me, all the usual cheerleading statements. the halls that been coming through a process been alongside ukraine since day one. we stand with ukrainians. who i'm peggotty. ukraine must resist and made more questionable promises. it wallack grain of italy wants ukraine to be a candidate for the european union right after whole, his next meeting promises you candidate status for ukraine. don't mean that it's

a done deal or konita and it is you. but we also told him, 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, didn't you? and while european leaders continue to pledge more weapons free grain, they'll have to get in line behind the other deliveries and hit a snag into conversion from promise to reality. much to be upset and 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 be therefore, procrastination with its provision cannot be justified. avina and now the pentagon as put the brakes on the by the administration plan to give you credit for and she wants the grade will drums, which can be, are we help our missiles or concerns that the equipment could end up in the hands

of the enemy? meeting 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, and b. c. news, citing biden 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 here 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 your brains favor against russia in at some point along the line,

there's going to have to be negotiated, settlement or what that entails. i don't know. i don't think anybody know some 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 and leader that are going to do so maybe beneath the surface of this p r trip to keep. the real goal was to try to use the whiskey incentive to get to the negotiating table. real event by dangling the candidate status. 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 of your place. as western pressure escalates to india remains defiant and that the world trade organizations restrictions on subsidized agriculture. the countries

commerce ministers, these new delhi will not be pushed around by external forces. old bow to threats are very good. visual developed countries signed a one sided pact to benefit their own farmers before the world trade organization was formed. they gave a raw deal to weak and developing nations. india has been fighting for the rights of its farmers and agriculture within the w t. o. no one can pressure india, we won't succumb to any pressure to push me geneva based at w t o that restrictions against exporting state subsidized crops. that thing they lead to unfair price is on global markets. such subsidies allow indian farmers to grow more weight and rice at lower costs. new delhi has said it plans to change the policy to support its domestic farmers and protect its national food security. india has seen recent tensions with the west keeping its close relations with moscow. amid the ukraine conflict is rejected, cools from the u. s. t who could get to cut imports of russian oil instead,

increasing purchase isil bit. it's heavily discounted prices. india is one of the top consumers of russian energy, while the u. s. is imposed and embargo on important self the feel from russian. here's the latest reaction from washington to new delhi stance. in my conversations with them, i've said, look, we don't have secondary sanctions. we can't band your purchases, but as you increase your purchases from russia, don't go too far and don't look like you're taking advantage of the pain that is being felt in european households and in the united states. and india, political expert told us that the u. i should treat india as an equal if washington really wants to improve relations with new delhi. well, i think one of the reasons why india has been under so much precious because the u . s. expected india is an ally off the us, which is what got down to the u. s. lines on line on the embargo and russian id. but i think for the west to nice to understand 2 things,

india and russia size has started senior, has the sovereign right to do what is info, self interest. and india has fame. and again, i've done some things that justified, for example, with ben israel with iran. it's worked, it's looked at, along with the western block. but russia, india, energy security spent a month in india needs to secure herself before moving on. and you don't, if you're thinking of buying who continue to buy, import oil and gas from the show. so i think it's india consumption do increase as much later than all of europe. and this is your 1st needs to reduce the purchases before they can make 2 in the morning. guess. doing with regards to russia, the rest has to deal with india, i think, you know. and then the 3rd part is it has to understand what constraints or destruction and we as a board with the west. but it seemed, and we cannot spoil our relationship with just traditional friendship with russia who is being a friend and has been with us to contin. it's, you know,

it's all important. jeopardize it's energy security just because you know, the rest of the country. we have a problem with a country beacon 2 or 3 countries. i mean at some point in, gosh, look at in the g security which is paramount. the book, again repeat, india has 1400000000 people in the energy security is paramount. now is the legal team behind julian assault with prof, has to formerly appealed his extradition to the us approved by britain's home secretary on friday. he is don quarter examines the curious connection between the u. k. decision maker and the cia the 12 year saga of wiki leaks co founder julian assad may be finally coming to its conclusion with washington set to enact its revenge. after 3 years in bel marsh, maximum security prison, you came home secretaries given the green light to extradite the whistleblower to the united states. allowing julian, a son to be extradited to the us,

would put him at great risk consent, a chilling message to journalists, the world over. it is an appalling symbol of how far the british and american governments 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 assigned 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 c i had plans to kidnap and assassinate the san the c i plotted

to kidnap the wiki leeks 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 ca for years she sat on the advisory board for a lobbying organization called the henry jackson society alongside lord james auburn, not defense minister, whose judge wife made 2 key rulings against assange since its creation in 2006. the groups never revealed to funds it. and at the same time it's hosted more than a few former c i a 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 a 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. the home secretary appreciate it shows performances. this is pretty agree, jewish creat. pretty bad. what has happened to the british nobles? there are no english nobles now it looks like they're just all vessels of the united states. i am ashamed of what it's 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 capture and put in prison for the rest to day lives. journalists, whether they be australians or uruguayan, zora i slander, 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 that have to be american citizen. so you know, how dangerous is that her independent journalism? well, let's compose a requiem for it because it's, it's a, it's mostly day. many thanks for joining us here in asi international this sunday. we're back in 30 minutes with more. see that ah.