the usual solutions going to we're going to have to drastically change direction the are to come up with this crisis ah, a military. so if it's killed, more than 50 top ukrainian offices, including general with an a cruise method. like on a key command post. i'm gonna run down of the week's top story, the 18th, excuse a report from the front line in the dorm by city of several gone yet with thousands of ukrainian troops plus the foreign mercenaries, i believe, to be trapped inside a chemical clause with western sanctions. the 3rd up an economic storm for the countries that imposed them while failing to take down the russian economy. according to vladimir putin who delivered a key speak to the st. petersburg, international economic for the number of sanctions is unprecedented. the plan was

to squeeze brushes, economy, and drive down people's living conditions hopelessly did not work gloomy forecast about the prospects of the russian economy have not come through with britain's home secretary approved the ex tradition of juliet songs to the us, where he faces up to 175 years in prison, we look at the u. k. officials long history of links to the cia with variable welcome. this is the weekly, on the international with the late, as well as news on the ground to put the stories the shape the week if good to happy with us. i was thought with the latest from ukraine russians. defense ministry is one of its cruise missile strikes is killed dozens of high ranking ukrainian offices, including generals, corresponding to remind calls to represent on 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 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 self, 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 out 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 home answers and up to 20 armored vehicles which were delivered to ukraine by the west of the last set sands. a period. meanwhile, russian led forces, se they've taken full control at the time of metal cana and the la guns republic to

feast of the city of several tonia ask, which they overrun early this month. the remaining ukrainian troops that i'll hold up and for the local chemical factory, which has been blocked off nicholas dorothy say some of the ukrainians that already 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'll see the costano font and exclusive report from the front line earlier this week. behind me you can see the black plumes of smoke, they are rising from the assault plant, there's about 800 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. 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 fired 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. well, the, i lot of mercer's, they're the most that british much of the food and duration is from britain and poland and had all this, may. hm. hundreds of civilians are scattered around the towns basements and

shelters. this one harbours around 20 people whose neighboring houses were destroyed by the ukrainians. they say look still a go is like a new yet and looking below it. you buy me in leaky. don't see you shouldn't joke is freshening 8th. so let me let me. e g a doesn't need grants in lea a unique each year. they will i to he and eat dinner. yankee dickie still it. yes. life let mamma neil lou lou she choo any you what

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, logical form. as it, when russia special aberration began ukraine and troops immediately entered our city. they placed their armored 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 don't ask archie that only has for public has suffered more than a week of relentless bombardment by ukrainian forces with 19 people killed in a 102 wounded in the last 7 days. don't get city has been bearing the brunt of the shelling. close r t say civilian infrastructure was targeted, including hospitals. universities aren't residential blocks. and at hundreds of rockets and shell, fire cell spine to the city were recently supplied to ukraine by nato countries. and some of the worst shelling the dumbass republican last 8 years of conflict. one of the most heavily hit fights with a local market. why 3 people, including a mother and her child were killed on monday. the attack came during a particularly busy time at the scene, while 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 yeske to you're listening to voice fund is marked in the aust luca innocence that dominates that. i mentions on by them also sion and go of good to to me of, of her lead swans. i'm getting the in my season bushes, there was such an army as to cut, you know, soon humans must gloss the okay. initial president forced cleared who would invest . the market was in a rush and backed area of don. yes, making gets highly unlikely that the troops had shelled their own civilians. 3 days later, the german outlets quietly apologized in its blog, blaming, so called ours for the claims and its broadcast. we discussed the situation with george ellison, an american investigative journalist, working in the dumbass. everything every sacked 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 attached to your jacks. i'm out of hospital, mary. awful. i'm mucho, you know, why would russia in mucho, why would russia give humanitarian 8 packages and then jump kill the people they get into life just doesn't work that way. it's not to. we military's work. one of the world's biggest found the most important business events, the st. petersburg international economic form wraps up on saturday, off the several eventful days. ah. the main event was vladimir putin keynote speech, his 1st to an international audience that since the start of russia's military

operation in dumbass and ukraine, the president, no ticket attempts to damage russia economically have actually caused more harm to western countries themselves off easily. but franco has the details. it's almost been exactly 4 months since russia set 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 russ, as coping the number of sanctions, is unprecedented to plan, was to squeeze russia's 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 inflammation. wool 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 and recently 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, another raw materials and the coming is based on objective analysis. the process will be set in motion. mister pou last out. his western counterparts for pretty much losing common sense and literally as have would said, forget thing about the interests of their own people, all in a bed 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, eagle up, well doing free us the current rising prices and the problem with inflation with food and 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, i no one wanted to think about the interests of other countries, including the poorest deal. we almost knew that vladimir putin 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. lucien was lucian. 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 write, so that's all people in our country and in the liberator territories, refrain that we will quit and leave the russian 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 coo and 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 coven. 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, south eastern dawn, vast regions when asked to buy,

are these 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 yes and they are people in our country and in deliberate territories are afraid that we will quit and leave will we leave, can 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. well, also speaking of the forum was the head of russia's gowns. prom, hey, stress that there's been a global tectonic shift with new economic roles emerging to move away from the u. s . dollar. we run gallery 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 extract it. our goods are rules. we also caught up with the philippines ambassador to russia ego by land at the for him. 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 saw and the rush, us build continuous. despite that, they saw you know, current of difficulty. the philippines remains

a friendly country are we did not impose sanctions against ha, russia and various been an interest thought 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 find 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 resolved so that we will move progress advanced forward. ah,

russia has condemned the lithuanian ban on the transit of sanctioned goods to russia. is western enclave of cullen in grant. the governor of the region has called the e. u. countries made an attempt at economic suffocation. nelson grotesque daughter . this is also a significant, serious humanitarian issue. apart from being an attempt to strangle our region economically. however, we have definitely been preparing for such a nasty move from our neighbors. as a matter of fact, we have already built and commissioned the new ferry and together with the federal ministry of transport, we have relocated another cargo ship from other basins of the seas in order to redistribute goods prohibited by lithuania for transit hon. the bell effects around to 50 percent of transit commodities to kellen and grant, including consumer goods and construction supplies. local officials say the lithuanian restrictions are a violation of international laws as well as a complete disregard for the freedom of transit. however,

the ban on the transit of oil products doesn't come into force until august, the 10th, and the regions governor stacy will seek to ensure the restriction doesn't affect cullen and ground even after that debate. that date. well, according to lithuania, the transfer of certain goods and technologies were mainland russia to and from the colon and garage region through the you. country is prohibited under european regulations, will as discuss these developments with pierre emanuel tom on now head of the euro continent. geopolitical think tank many thanks for joining us on the program. now. the governor of the callan and grad region has quoted the when you move an economic suffocation i was your take on that statements. well, i think your latoya is trying to test the limits of a rush as a reaction. it will be surprising that lead to any didn't take that decision. we vote with concerted before or european union or, or institutions on other member states. so they try to,

to see what your reaction of russia and obviously you in her, in mode and to try to put pressure more and more on russia unseen. so there is no resort and no reaction about the route from russia. we for you, sanctions on ukraine operation, and do you would like to refer you to any us helped to put pressure on a new front against russia and so no, i think that's the strategy of a you, but you're not gonna effect at all. i think we're rush us position in ukraine, nor encouraging god because the or deliver goods by see, but of course or it, sir. you said no more escalation from lithuania,

beyond behind new european union? how do you expect this restriction to affect relations between moscow and lithuania? especially considering in a rush with one of the country's main trading partners. yes sir. what barty countries are in the future, or cannot or separate them separate totally from right shot because a really are very close a geography carry on feed even do so. they will endanger their own shunning, they will end in job security and very end in java or all nerve economy and are pushing the sanction 2nd bratia be because, or this is the interest of other member states, or are you on the united states or is going to have them in the future because we've all juggled geographical position that could perfectly take advantage of the

situation between russia under the board. dixie and herb crossed or of a to way we've action is moving done today. they've chosen for the wrong path and nothing. it would damage, or it could be more than russia. lithuania claims this restriction on colon and grant is in line with western economic sanctions. but just how legal is this move when it comes to international law as a if those laws are still relevant? of course is not legal because you're a winner, or there was a large amount of the you would to barge countries or lead to any particle. or there were negotiations about over the sir russian territory. an access of a russian to their own territory through a corridor room. and herb visser, easter disregard of for european union low. so we'll see or what we'd be negotiating a future. but we have seen much in this conflict between russia and the western

world. the west doesn't take into account a toll international law. all of assumptions actually are against international lo beach or on the from the e u. o or united states. so individual member states, so this is not surprising because are you european union claimer, but russia is not implement jeter shallow but to the european union. it's set france member states, it talk to disregard to, to international law for 14, when v curb and the numbers are a conflict to erupt. it, i don't expect any other countries to make similar moves against russia now. well, i think you of, it will be more, more, a split within european union member states. you a, for,

i would say are hobb line else like your poland martine countries who like to sanction, as much as possible. russia, but to more and more france, germany, italy, for example, who like you to promote negotiations and when you see the limits of the sanctions on the know versions of future. well, joe, russia is a biggest european country, a geographical east said neighbour of you and or whatever research in ukraine, it would still be there as a grid power. so it's time to negotiate and not to escalate sanctions here. and i know a command head of the you are a constant chair, political thing tank many thanks for your time. i made a rising international tension over taiwan. britain's defense secretary,

his claim that china's position on the issue will depend on the outcome of the conflict in ukraine. them all essays paging is now testing the waters ukraine matters because china is analyzing rushes 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 conflicts will encourage china to make a move on taiwan is comes as a us shift more of its military focus to the region. well, aging warns it may be prepared for a direct confrontation if i want to attempt to gain full independence from china. vic, to gal vice president of a center for china and globalization. so the us, it's behind western efforts to fuel confrontation over taiwan in order to provoke

china to try and stifle is rapid development. i think that the u. k. secretary of defense is really out of his mind is completely misreading this intrusion in ukraine is completely misreading the situation across the 2 sides of the taiwan strait. 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. i think the black hand behind the scene is truly the united states. i think the united states is very worried that china will sort of past, in terms of the size of the column of united states. want to promote this conflict or even 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. now as the legal team behind julian assange prepares to informally appear his extradition to the us approved by britain's home secretary on friday on he's donald quarter examines the curious connection between the u. k. decision maker and the cia the 12 year saga of wiki leaks, co founder, julie and 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 secretary is given the green light to extradite the whistleblower to the united states allowing julian assange to be extradited to the u. s. 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 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 sons' to the united states, the country that plotted his assassination, u. s. has been out to get us on 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 cia had plans to kidnap and assassinate assange. the c i 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 cia and the trumpet administration even discussed killing, assigned, 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 the such since its creation in 2006. the groups never revealed to fund it. and at the same time it's hosted more than a few former ca 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'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 of their lives. journalist.