similarly with, with mm ah, russian military said it killed more than 50 top ukrainian officers including generals and a cruise missiles twice. when i take command post i'm going to run down all the week's top story though. i think the exclusive report from the front line image done by city of several don't yet quite thousands of ukrainian troops plus foreign mercenaries. i believe, to be trapped inside a chemical lesson. sanctions have set up an economic storm for the countries that impose them while failing to take down rushes economy. according to vladimir putin who delivered a key speech of the st. petersburg, international economic for the number of sanctions is unprecedented to promise 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 not come through with britain's home. secretary approved. the extradition of julian a songs to the west where he faces up to 175 years in prison. we look at the u. k. officials long history of links to the c. i a very well welcome to you. this is the weekly how naughty international with the late is world news and around the put the stories that shapes the week is good to happy with us. that we start with the latest from ukraine, where russia's defense ministry phase. one of its cruise missile strikes is killed dozens of high ranking ukrainian offices, including generals ortiz, my calls are everything done. yes. with the details. 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, the ministry, more than 50 people. that includes both the generals and some of the top officers have been killed as a 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 has been saying all along, and that is if a russian territory is continuously been struck by ukraine, that it will take action against some of the decision making sensors in ukraine. now apart from that, so over a for a 100 nationalist stands at $200.00 militants, had also been killed over the last 24 hour period. 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 a military equipment and a speaking of the military equipment, fashion defense industry also said that they destroyed quite a lot of it over the last 24 hour period. and that includes $755.00 millimeter caliber harvesters and up to 20 or armored vehicles which were delivered to ukraine by the west of the last set sands. a period me my russian lead forces say they've taken full control of the of me till can i. and he looked down square

public to thess of the city of several don yeske, which they overran early this month. the remaining ukrainian trips that hold up in the local chemical factory, which has been blocked off the local authority, say some of the ukrainian 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, i see the cost on a 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 ceasefire. 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 motors. it fighters and al panicking. you can hear so on the walkie talkies, they won the battle to and we can hear it in their voices, performer with from 80 and they fired their own troops. and then a tank moved to shell our positions. it was a typical scenario. ukraine moving to 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 the most that british much of the food and dry ration is from britain and poland and had all this, may him, hundreds of civilians are scattered around the towns basements and shelters. this

one hob was around 20 people whose neighboring houses were destroyed by the ukrainians. they say, look, still, i go, is like a he had them look the below big. you buy me in leaky. i don't see that he showed you is fascinates, he sell that. but let me it doesn't need grain simply, a unique creature. the lanky eat dinner, yankee dickie. still you know? yes. but let, let mamma, lou lou lou shit you any you at

that go about e? sure. even if it. and this used to be a music academy of her 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, affectively rendering useless when they did so. up to 60 civilians were sheltering here from the bombardments logical homer was it. when russia's special operation began, ukrainian troops immediately entered our city. they placed their armored vehicles in residential areas, drove around and started firing me sales and our soldiers came in, the ukrainians retreated, and then they 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 and written 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 in ask are to see that on yes. republic has suffered more than a week of relentless bombardment by ukrainian forces with 19 people killed in a 110 wounded in the last 7 days. don't get fit. he has been bearing the brunt the shelling local authorities say civilian infrastructure was targeted including hospitals, universities, and residential blocks. and hundreds of rockets and shells fired out the city were recently supplied to ukraine by nato countries. it's sort of the worst shelling the dumbass republic has seen in the past 8 years of the conflict. one of the most heavily hit sides. it was 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. more people were out celebrating the rush

a day holiday. however, some western media outlets have no side away from blaming russia for the shelling of done yes. to you list me, which one is marked and there are still cognition that don't that, that i mentioned on by them also sion and go of good to, to for let's do on my seat in bushes. there was such an army as to what you know to name and some clause. the initial president was cleared who would invest. the market was in a rush and back to area of don. yes, making it highly unlikely that the troops had shelled their own civilians. 3 days later, the german outlet quietly apologized in his blog, blaming so called errors for the claims and it's broadcast. we discussed the situation with georgia las and an american investigative debate, investigative journalist, working in dall bass. 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, mario full. i show, you know, why would russia in mucho, why would russia give humanitarian aid packages and then kill kill the people they get to life just doesn't work that way. it's not the way military's work. one of the well, the biggest and most important business events, the st. petersburg international economic form, wrapped up on cents a day off to several eventful days. ah,

well, the main event was vladimir putin keynote speech. his 1st to an international audience that since the starts of russia's military operation in dumbass and ukraine, the president notice if it attempts to damage russia economically have actually cause more harm to western countries themselves. ortiz, ill try and cut was that for us. 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 the number of sanctions is unprecedented to 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 and the instrument of inflammation,

wool that we are strong people, we can cope with any challenge just as our ancestors did. oh, sure. i was in moscow. see this as a key milestone in how countries around the globe will be switching to trade and national currencies. president vladimir putin 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 and euro's which are rapidly losing white? the conclusion is that the economy of imaginary entities is being placed by the economy of real values and assets such as food energy or another role materials in the coming is based on objective analysis. the process will be set in motion. mr. brewton last out at his western counterparts for pretty much losing common sense. and literally, as he bowed said,

forgetting 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, global learning could arise prices and the problem of inflation was 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 federal chrissy. 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 deal. we almost knew that latimer bruton was gonna 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 away, 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 write. that's all cleveland al 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 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 days later,

to washing the to reminded the world how the mind and who was never accepted by the people of ukraine, south eastern don, vast 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 some people in our country and in deliberative 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 russia's vision coming from st. petersburg. let's wait for the next step from both sides of the speaking out. the forum was the head of russia's gas prom who stressed that there's been a global tectonic shift with new economic rules emerging to move away from the u. s . dollar. ron galard, him cook 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 extract it. our goods are rules. elsa caught up with the philippines ambassador to russia eco bail and at the forum. and he told us that the country is very interested in doing business with moscow, despite the 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. i still got the newest despite the saw you the current of difficulty. the philippines remains a friendly country. are we did that the both sanctions against russia and the various been an interest in both the level of government from the russian side and of course of business, the business interest, filipino business men are interested in penetrating, coming, big advantage of the russian market at the same time that you know, russian business versus 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, rush out the resume. so i think at the bottom line, people to people business relations continue despite the present difficulties, the present challenges, which we hope will get resolved so that we will move progress advanced forward.

ah, an italian news outlet has published a list of people. essays are involved in spreading so called russian propaganda in the country. they also article in korea dela, sarah claims 10 individuals, including journalists, as well as a professor and a senior diplomatic official, a part of a pro putin network aimed at influencing italian politics. we interviewed a local photographer, he was surprised to find himself on the list and had slammed the publication as a smear campaign. ah, i'm a widow. rest of the 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 arts. he 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 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 oppose the italian government decision descent arms ukraine. the latest polls 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 pastime, go into the beach, considering this war to be something alien to their lives. china has overtaken the us as the foreign power with the most positive influence on africa.

as according to a poll among young adults from the continent, and they said they conducted in 16 african countries, found that 76 percent of respondents considered chinese activity as the most positive for the continent. while the approval of the u. s. well, has fallen to 72 percent from $83.00 in a previous poll pages increase influence as opposed to the being attribute to investments infrastructure development projects and affordable products provided for africa. but china is a better friend in america. i think it's china because it believes in giving and receiving better with china, shutting down that china is better because it could take over the world economy in the future. i believe it's better to be closer to china than the u. s. in the current reality, it's preferable to work with china with b, i believe it's china. i think china can help africa more china is better because it

brings its talent and know how hear what the us recently sent a letter to 14 african countries urging them to reject great imports from russia. despite the fact that some african regions are offering on the brink of famine, to, to assure to supplies wines how spokesperson has admitted the us wants to prohibit the sale of grain allegedly stolen from ukraine. allegation that russia has from the denied and african national congress, usually tampa in total. the local support to ship it to china because the u. s. is less respectful to both african 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 sauces. they are the ones that bomb to heal, shima. they're the ones that one. my gosh, i just to test a new clip or, and just to put in the last year. so we are students of history. we understand what

the intention has been. they have been everywhere in the well, the web is a source is an image not to do business there, but to still and put carnage on that people of those kind of those countries. we are saying that we are going to have relations with the russian people, whether american america labs, it or not. we will not be subject to western media, would tries to paint 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 us as equals who they can enter into business with, not the people that they can spin from amid rising international tension over taiwan that britain's defense secretary has came, the chinese position on the issue will depend on the outcome of the conflict and

ukraine. than wallace, se paging is now testing the waters ukraine matters because china is analyzing russia's experience. you see the issues around taiwan. this, the war in ukraine is ultimately about the west. resolved to defend its values. that's it. therefore, all sorts of people who have a different view of the world, or indeed who are our adversaries or our competitors, will look and tests that resolve and see and be able to engage how far they can push it. according to the u. k. official, a russian victory and the con faith will encourage china to make a move on taiwan has come to the u. s. shifts more of its military focus to the region while basing was it may be prepared for a direct confrontation. if taiwan attempts to gain full independence from china, well, let's discuss these developments with our vice president of the center for china and globalization. thank you for joining us on the program. it's good to see you. thank you so much ago. what do you may call the u. k. defense secretary state but

was sort of signal, do you think he's trying to send here? first of all, i think that the u. k. secretary of defense is really out of his mind is completely misreading the situation in ukraine has completely misreading the situation across the 2 sides of the taiwan strait. allow me to emphasize that whatever your grain is, it is a sovereign country ever since. 1991 and whatever problems there are between russia and ukraine. they need to solve them either through all walk all through peaceful negotiations. taiwan is very different. power is part of china and there is only one china in the world. it is generally acknowledged by all the countries in the world, including ironically, the british government and the united states government. so no one should mislead themselves as well as the rest of the world. to claim that taiwan is not part of

china. waco, taiwan is part of china, and taiwan independence is a dead end. it is the united states and britain and several of these countries, which are great in promoting taiwanese independence and the chinese mainland, where never allow that to happen. the people on both sides of the truck pie one straight will not allow taiwan independence to happen at all. it's a dead end. what do you think western countries and now so heavily focused on the issue of time when most those have aims, could they possibly be pursuing that? well, 1st of all, i think the black hand behind the scene is truly the united states. i think the united states is very worried that china will soon to pass that on the united states in terms of the size of the column. as a matter of fact, the chinese economy is already larger than that of the united states will be used, pledges impala parity,

and china as much larger than the united states across more than $200.00 major items of production. for example, island or cement chemical fiber, you name it. as a matter of fact, the chinese production normally would account not only larger than that of the united states, it counts for more than 50 percent of the global production. so the united states have been trying many, many different cards, for example, hong kong she and john independence tibetan independence, but they are failing all these attempts. they now zoom in on taiwan, believing that the taiwan cod is most effective because they may trigger a war between the 2 sides of the taiwan strait for they forget the tower. the issue is not an overnight issue. it has been there ever since. 1949 saw china and the chinese nation have all the patience we want to promote peaceful reunification. we do not want to see war breaking out between the 2 sides of the

taiwan straits and eventually people of the same nationality. that is the chinese people on the 2 sides of the taiwan strait star killing each other. this is not what the chinese people want by the united states. want to promote this conflict, or you will provoke this confrontation as if this is the most effective cod. they can bring china into a wall and through such a war they can hold china's peaceful development. the chinese people, i'm much greater whistler than this. this also comes at a time when baiting has lost his faithfully chinese designed and built to ad across carry. i said, to what extent do things such developments are worrying for the us and its allies? well, the united states need to come to terms that china is growing and growing very, very fast. it is growing much faster than the united states,

and the chinese military power is constantly on the rise. this 3rd, that chinese aircraft carrier, the food jim carrier, is the most sophisticated, conventionally power the nuclear power aircraft carrier. to date it is the most sophisticated, and i would not be surprised if the next aircraft carrier, china, will produce in the matter of just couple of years will be nuclear power. so in this says, the united states need to come to terms that charnise growing. china is becoming a more and more important power. and the chinese military might, is something that the united states cannot ignore. and they need to come to terms with that. eventually, china will be one of the most important countries in the world, but we promote peace rather than agitating for war in this world. and this is all happening, of course,

near china. so is in far away from the hens as americans do you think baiting might consider sending some of its naval ships and our craft closer to the us? as a matter of fact, in terms of the capabilities, the chinese navy can sell it ships all the way to the pacific coast, all the united states or the atlantic coast or the united states. as a matter of fact, over the past 10 years, also, chinese naval ships have made many port visitors to the american cities, both on the west coast as well as on the east coast. i think if you see that the chinese naval ship already made its appearance off shore from australia or near the city in the west, perv, you will not be surprised if you'll see more such naval presence in the united states offshore waters. for example, dea, hawaii, all along the kind of for the in coast. i think this probably will be.