ah, a, with the head of the british army issues a rallying cry to troops telling them they need to be ready to face russia on the battlefield. us urges opec and other countries to increase oil and gas production in an attempt to tackle the search in energy prices. as the commission plot candidate status for ukraine in some countries long on the fringes of the membership c at purely as a political move against russia. it's a matter of interest. ukraine is super, you're old enough to be against russia today, especially once in order to separate ukraine from russia's patronage and expand nato and borders further. so that's in,

there's nothing else with more civilians are killed by ukrainian artillery and the don bass. we discussed the issue with a french army veteran who fought for don. yes. forces in 2015 central finance gives no ha front line to come when they constantly hit the civilian resolutions. i had literally women, so many of the cold terrorism. when i always single day, there was victims villians if only be a gold terrorist state view of it. and with some live direct from our studios in moscow. this is art international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. another you case, new army chief has warned that he will start preparing a force capable of beating russia. there is now a burning imperative to forge an army capable of fighting alongside our allies and defeating russia in battle. we are the generation that must prepare the army to fight in europe once again. now the statements from the army general follow last

week's surprise visits by boys johnson keith rhetoric and echoed by the nato chief, the british prime minister, and also the u. s. i'm afraid we need to steal ourselves for a long war time, as the vital factor. everything will depend on whether ukraine can strengthen its ability to defend it soil, faster than russia can renew its capacity to attack. we must prepare for the fact that it could take years. we must not let up in supporting ukraine even if the costs are high, not only for military support, but also because of rising energy and food prices. it's time to learn the lessons. nato must intervene. let's officially acknowledge this and order the russians to cease fire. the alliance must go beyond the framework or cease its activities. meanwhile, president biden has announced a 12 package of weapons for ukraine this time worth $1000000000.00. the russian foreign minister says that the west goal is just to destroy russia. below they are

trying to achieve what they have already announced a long time ago, so that russia should know its place. russia has no right to its own voice in international affairs. russia must abide by the rules invented by the united states . that's all. and i think it's perfectly clear that they won't succeed. lauren douglas, communist party of britain, committee member, says the west is escalating the conflict in ukraine any to escalate this war? i think is extremely dangerous. i think it indicates really just how i'm fit for a face. anybody who's involved in foreign policy development should know how to actually converse with, to say other later, you know, we're not in a situation here where there is no race to the west from what's going on here. and estimates you situation potentially will, mike,

it was not just for the people try, it will potentially escalate and other countries in the war. and i think some of them is completely irresponsible here. and i think that, you know, what they're doing, potentially, you know, could, could lead to nuclear annihilation. mutual assured destruction was the strategy that was adopted in the 99 thing to the bottom. that, that, that's actually a whole new player owns rice of which was predicated on the, by the schemes. we now actually have western leaders who walk countenance single possible. it's a 1st use of nuclear weapons and you know, we can talk in nice terms, i think is dangerous. very, very dangerous statement comes with facing rising fuel prices along with a hike in the cost of energy, housing and food. u. k. gasoline sales have slipped 6 percent over the last 6 weeks

in comparison with 2021. the latest indicator that record high pump prices are hurting consumers. meanwhile, the cost of diesel has increased even more significantly. many people in the west are claiming their leaders are uninterested in domestic politics, focusing all their attention on ukraine. just yesterday, thousands of protesters swept through london, demanding lower prices and higher salaries. they took to the streets with posters and flags demanding that the ruling conservative party and its leader board johnson resign. locals. think that the government is completely out of touch with citizens . this government, a incompetent, i never work with me out with today. how much time can you tell about people cannot pay that. so i'm we will see in this country i will turn to 1989 and we will see

cons, pay, pay pay poll. the extraction is finished labor on everybody dry. we have nothing left to gave people who are in the home, me, children who are involved with benefit the law. i live in a line with them about in the 21st century in the 6 richest country in the world. we've got wanting 5 people who are missing a meal every day in what state their children. we got one in 6 rely upon food banks and on food donations in order to survive. energy costs doubled in april and everybody in the country has received an increase in the amount of pride in the

amount that they haven't supplied to their gas and electricity. we're in a situation where people will have to choose between hating and eating the you has already been forced to eat into its winter gas supply now in june, compared to last year when they started to use it in november. that's after a double blow with north stream capacity curb due to technical issues and the u. s . suspending. it's liquefied natural gas deliveries to europe for 3 months. meanwhile, the us treasury secretary accepts that anti russian sanctions are hurting washington as well. or to don quarter comments on the attempt to save the energy market, calling all oil and gas producers. it's time to flood the markets, at least that's what washington's hoping for. he's asking upon our domestic and international producers to produce more. it makes sense. joe biden has long been trying to rip the west away from one of its biggest energy suppliers, russia. today i'm announcing united states is targeting the main artery of rush

economy. we're banning all in ports of russian oil and gas energy. there will be no longer on our stream to we will bring it into a system manager. and if in fact, europe didn't have to count on russian oil, if they were energy independence, 400000000000 dollars of u sanction related losses, record breaking runaway inflation in the u. s. itself and washington's taking all this even further. it's recently slapped sanctions against a number of chinese and m roddy companies doing business with a ran one of a few countries that might be able to counteract the rapidly rising global price of oil. but washington seems more interested in its maximum pressure campaign against iran. so oil prices saw a sudden sharp rise after that decision is just the latest episode and biden's series of sanctions that leave world wide pain and suffering in their wake. for those who had rather laugh and cry means comparing biden's. tragic tumble from his

bicycle to the collapse of the economy. offer some sort of comic relief. others though, just want the price of oil to go down. asian boys hoping for a quick return of iranian supply to bring oil prices low amidst rising geopolitical tensions. i think of the united states responding to sylvia contrary, as is not what happened that was happening. ready ukraine because all the for the beginning is that they could use this column max lavetia and using our lawns. ready sanchez, could she be say, without realizing that this is old? oh, really backlash on their own. he called me on their likelihood that he was likelihood, and on inflation to make matters worse. histories repeating itself as washington's demanding. the european union stopped buying natural gas from russia as well. reports are already saying berlin, for example, may be hoarding gas to prevent a disastrous winter. we must,

and we will do everything we can to store as much gas as possible in the summer. and full gas consumption must continue to full. so more gas must be stored in storage, otherwise things will get really tight in winter. it's a come as no surprise that all these concert and says of the west's generosity towards ukraine have begun to change people's minds about the conflict. according to a poll, published by the european council on foreign relations, 35 percent of europeans are war weary and want to see a peace treaty signed with russia. only 22 percent want to see the war continue. that much is clear when you talk to the people on the streets of italy, for example, that mention that gasoline has an absurd price with 50 years of gasoline. you can't fill the tank again and i don't go out and i don't take the car and i go with the public transport. it is the only way that she's a gay with the subsidy that will be removed at the end of july or gasoline. price will reach to euros and $0.50. there is no solution. we are in

a catastrophe of homeless empress of holland titian's have not always been it out to the title. we hope there would be a more substantial intervention with her has become a difficult situation. i don't drive the car anymore. i write a vesta. the european union's helmsman, no doubt, see the fatigued riding on the wall with the calls of its officials for key of to come to the negotiating table, getting louder and louder. french president emanuel macro on said key of will eventually have to negotiate even suggesting that ukraine might have to give up some of its territory. a big no, no for ukrainian president vladimir zalinski. it is absolutely necessary to speak to petition and i would continue to do so as to french president for also the ann candidacy. it's up to ukraine to the side. i cannot decide to conditions for the end of the war instead of the ukrainian sol. decisions are made of ukraine leda and i don't the decline shipple team in a double mall. hm. but at least we needed was help co locators to fall. we need weapons full supports without any exception since hatchbacks or is this to everyone

who is stuck in 20th century with nations. interests of were treated tooth is dictates us advertise liberty at any rate. washington's insistence on putting politics ahead of common sense energy decisions might just see western economies take a harder tumble than bite and off is bike. and if this maximum pressure campaign continues on around what effect do you think that's going to have on east asian energy markets as a way to other countries? because there are some other way and, and pulse as far as the, the biggest customers on it. hold on, it's been waiting russia for a long time and i should be disrupted and the pressure are for so that's why russia is dating.

why he a. ready a so i think we see a and a very complicated i actually action kind of scenario. but at the end of the day, i was seeing recently, especially like in the station, the con, does the whale, why does equals asian meanwhile, you politicians are plunged into an internal crisis due to voter discontent with their actions and a perceived inability to compromise on external policies, namely in italy where members of the ruling, 5 star movement are at loggerheads over supplying here with arms. and in france, the incumbent president, to seemingly failing to get an absolute majority in a run off vote for the lower house of parliament. a manual microns party is

projected to receive up to 305 seats in the national assembly, a number below that necessary for unconditional leadership. that is the 1st time in decades that president has been unable to gain a parliamentary majority. mccullin's office believes the situation is hazardous and has promised to act the seat us situation is unprecedented. never before has the national assembly experienced such a configuration under the vent republic. this situation constitutes a risk for our country. we will work to build a majority for action. wall street journal report ties this division to the crisis in ukraine and the high inflation that followed, placing the blame on russia gas prices. edition also predicts that the same voting challenges might have weighed germany and italy both due to hold elections within the year. we spoke to your agent center executive vice president, earl rasmussen, who believes that reducing confidence in government is due to anti rush of

sanctions backlash and negligence towards the population. think it was lithuania or sonia i had a turnover. you had, you got trouble in bulgaria, right? now, italy also is going to travel and germany is going to get hit the worst sanctions that europe impose, had a dramatic impact. i think, aggravate a situation that was already going to be challenging and very, very much aggravated and it really has broken their economy. i mean, just stupid politicians making decisions that, that not considering the implications of those decisions at all. i also think that a lot of people who are, are really not pleased with the directions that the whole european is taking with the sanctions and, and what they're doing in that area as well. i, i, you know, you don't hear people talking about that, but they know that the decisions are impacting their lives and that the elite,

the political really, really don't care about the average person rushes defense ministry says cruise missile strikes have killed 50 high ranking, ukrainian officers including generals in ukraine's disney proper thrust region. and moscow says the strike occurred while a working meeting of ukraine's strategic commanders was taking place. russian officials have also said that some ukrainian units have flooded dumbass combat areas due to bad morale, poor psychological state, and the lack of support from key if over the last 24 hours, 400 ukrainian soldiers are reported to have been killed and dozens of pieces of heavy artillery destroyed. where is the footage reportedly shows done by forces firing artillery from the northern done yet republic at ukrainian position. bass forces have said that the ukrainian army is actively using civilian infrastructure as

a shield which complicates its work. meanwhile, the civilian areas around on yes, republics capital are still suffering from reported ukrainian attacks. at least one civilian was killed and 2 others were injured in the latest round of showing around 60 missiles also hit the city center i've done yet, leaving civilian infrastructure heavily damaged. there are correspondent, roman coastal discuss the rise and civilian casualties with one castell, a french army veteran who joined done yet, forces in 2015. what made you decide to come here to the next? don't bonacre's it do. when i was living in europe, i followed the european news agenda. i saw what was happening in our country as a human my down began. i thought it's what these events closely. i realized that not everything that was happening on my damn was in cranes will, will. it was american politics. he was not the people of ukraine. it was american politicians. you wanted to interfere and ukrainian affairs and change something. i

did not imagine they would be such a victims on my dad to work up, begun to notice that these in ukraine will being supported by euro. my didn't think that i live in the world war 2 euros or not students who openly show them, believe she clue that issue. and then people started being hello. nasa is your hands and don't ask them. and i decided to come see everything with my own eyes welder, miss you while you are. and i were speaking at another 3 people have been killed by ukrainian artillery internet. why is ukraine terrorizing and targeting civilians? civilians who still refused to evacuate, refused to leave the city of the left. i don't. yes, good yet. bug object, teach me when there is a war. when someone hits the military infrastructure, we're always civilian victims. but the central finance is not part of the front line. come when they constantly hit the civilian infrastructure, there was heavy weapons and it should be cold terrorism. this is what ukraine has been doing for 8 years. when every single day there are victims among civilians. they can only be called a terrorist state. they gave will pay

a $155.00 millimeter caliber artillery, so many systems of those that france handed over to ukraine. and this is what they are hitting civilians will. in addition, at the same time, president micron says that he wants the issue to be resolved peacefully or more than it is necessary to conduct peaceful dialogue. but how can such dialogue be conducted? the fam cell gives wetness the hill normal people. yeah, they just want to create a war until the last ukrainian remains on this decision was made by the u. s. what the hell of europe do against russia. the u. s. want to weaken both russia and the european union, and now they are killing to once more is only official to washington to weaken to power and create competition for the war. so as the european commission speaks in favor of giving ukraine you candidate status, residents of other candidate countries say that they feel cheated and discouraged. maria the notion, comments, and looks at why fear of and brussels look like honeymooners after ukraine was

recommended for a u. candidate status, but there still seems to be a little rough natural to spoil the barrel. yes, ukraine deserves european prospector. yes, ukraine should be. well come as a come to that country. good work has to be done, has been done. but important work also remains to be done. yes, important work. enormous work. let's take a look at the official list of demands. adopt a plan for reforming the entire law enforcement sector and media, as well as anti money laundering legislation and national minorities legal framework, implement the anti olga law. that's just a few of them. it sounds like there are many problems in the candidate country, and the goal is quite hard to achieve, at least in the near future. so will be, you turn a blind eye or is it ready to take a race?

next ukraine is asked to further strengthen the fight against corruption, the fight, but wasn't quite successful lately. according to transparency international, 2021 corruption perceptions index. ukraine ranked 122nd out of 180 countries close to zambia. but for the use seems ukraine doesn't even have to succeed. promising to tighten the fight could just be good enough. for the sake of justice, georgia also got a similar list of demands to become any u candidate like their versus find political parties and guaranteed media freedom. well, despite the country situation with the opposition, at least there actually is one in georgia. and freedom of speech seems much better . they are compared to key of beliefs, see never which the level ukraine has. similarly attained. overnight and georgia is not the only country facing such injustice. the waiting list joined the lead you

are paying club is long and some have been standing in line for decades like turkey, which has been sick in new membership for 35 years. seen ukraine simply skipping the q could certainly make such countries very angry. blue shirts. letesha, it's a matter of interest. is russia important? is turkey important than or is ukraine important? programmer, ukraine is suitable for year old enough to be against russia. optional. the u. s. supports anyone in other were in own for the european union in a material is actually of their own interest. so they have no interest to you or cultural rezo shall conditions in cyclical conditions may have jane predictor which could be for them to speed up. now, to isolate into an circle, russia, they especially want you to miss the order to separate ukraine from rushes, patronage, and expand nato. have orders further, so that's in, there's nothing else to lay out amongst them. eula, international law no longer exists. the european aluminum no longer try to re valley, so you frame the status or receive it. so it doesn't make any sense. and he,

when he made the whole labyrinth that is presented to the candidate countries, in the end, it turned into one decision for ukraine. but such concerns have been voiced, not only among candidates who are losing their patients, but even some e. u found in countries like france is roy the market in order to enter the european family as equals out, ukraine must revised history. legal. we should start glorifying nazi collaborators who killed tens of thousands of g o 2, despite of me by yar memorial existing glass. you st leading to it, isn't that we're stepping vent era, a man hero worship deal ukraine schools who himself killed tens of thousands of jews and was allied with the knots as a new conclusion here seems to be getting his candidacy through at by now pay later program, the question is, will it actually ever be able to pay up? perhaps it's still too early to ask such questions when engagement doesn't always lead to marriage? in any case, you leaders are due to decide on ukraine's candidate staters. later this week,

russia accuses lithuania of breaching international law and violating bilateral treaties after the villainous bands. the transition of goods between the russian exclaimed of clinton graham and the mainland. as an e. u. member state lithuania within the framework of sanctions violates a number of legally binding international legal acts affecting not only the obligations of lithuania itself, but also the u. as a whole, lithuania, as the flagship of the destruction of international law, russian officials have listed a number of international agreements which included fundamental world trade organization protocol, guaranteeing freedom of transit. professor of economics richard runner says that the decision breaks international law and could lead to grim consequences. actually, a domestic transactions of domestic transport between 2 parts of russia that have

to go through due to geography, another country. but therefore, sanctions cannot possibly apply because the russian internal transport that's happening. so that's the biggest flaw in this argument. and then of course, you know, the, the transport between russian pods is not actually subject to any sanctions. and also in any restrictions that are now being placed on colleen and rob region do not actually directly seem to come from the sanction regime. so it doesn't seem to make sense. there's parent valley. so rainy could turn out to be very, very serious, with very serious consequences. so i think it's important that people realize what they're doing is the aim here to, to stop the 3rd world war and, and have a nuclear war. is, is really what the west ones,

it seems totally unjustified. and, and criminal in proportions. on june 18th, lithuania implemented a ban on the rail transit of goods subjected to you sanctions, to clinic grad, which is sandwiched between lithuania and poland. the lift includes coals, metals, construction materials, and advanced technology around 50 percent of russia's exports to clinic grad. a local governor says that the e u is not following its legal obligations. we believe that this is a serious violation of the baltic states succession to the protocol, and a violation of the rules of free transit to and from the colina grand region. these are the obligations of the you in the baltic countries because that's without even seeing what an extremely serious humanitarian issue. this is an attempt to strangle our region economically with russia is concerned that the band may be increased to include transit by air and sea violating relevant treaties. as well peer manual

tallman, an expert in geo politics says russia is not feeling the effect of europe sanctions and the e. u is trying to find other waste of placing pressure between you is trying to test the limits of a rush hour reaction or it will be surprising that lead to any i didn't take that decision or we vote to if concerted before or european union or, or institution, son of a member state, so they try to, to see what your reaction of russia and obviously you easy name her in mode to try to, to put pressure more and more are on russia unseen. so there is no resort and no reaction about to route from russia. we for you, sanctions on ukraine operation and do you would like to refer you to any us or to we're put pressure on and you front against russia and

so no, you said no more escalation of from the lead to india beyond, behind new european union, china has launched a 3rd aircraft carrier named after the province opposite self ruled taiwan as it continues to bolster its military presence in the indo pacific region. the aircraft carrier was launched amid rising tensions with the u. s. over taiwan side was the chinese navies. 3rd such care only say the u. s. has more of the vessels at 11 of them from the move came after a recent statement from jo biden's that the u. s. would engage militarily, if majoring were to take military action in taiwan house yet we support the one china policy report. all that we've done read in the past. but that does not mean it does not mean that china has the ability, has the excuse me, the jurisdiction to go in and use force to take over taiwan. you didn't want to get

involved in the ukraine conflict militarily. for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes, you are. that's a commitment we made. we spoke to victor gowen, chair professor at su chow university, who said it's about time. the u. s. came to terms with china's rising economic and military power. 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, the chinese aircraft carrier, the full gym carrier, is the most sophisticated, conventionally powered 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 polish. 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. that does it for me this hour. i'll be back in about 29 and a half minutes with another phone for selection to say with the search engine. ah, [000:00:00;00] a