[000:00:00;00] a, a russia claim, some 2000 ukrainian soldiers, including neo nazi formations and foreign mercenaries of been in circle just 20 kilometers from the heavily impossible city of sierra road done yet. also ahead on the program today. as the boys joke. yeah, thanks for the ukrainian forces for providing extra weapons and ammunition for that little unit for made weapons as well, like these rocket launches. this is the infamous british made and law fierce fighting comes to ahead in the ever doing yes, get a chance star t visits nearby and taken by russian forces some days ago. i'm much

anticipated. brick summits of emerging economies enters its final day with more countries joining the discussions. the event went ahead despite western attempts to so discord among members of china, calls on us hypocrisy after washington values to send medical help to earthquake, strict enough unless them this by huge amount of can offset still being held by washington with 4 in the afternoon here in moscow this friday, june, the 24th. my name's unit on the line. this is our t international k. let's begin with friday's, the latest on the ukraine conflict. heavy fighting continues in the near the city of sierra done. yeah, it's russia's ministry of defense say's to the south of that area for ukrainian

battalions have been encircled when the ukrainian troops have been completely surrounded. new settlements, of course, koya and latoya in total for battalions. if any circle which have up to 2000 people, namely about 1800 ukrainian military personnel, 120, neo nazis of the right sector, and up to 84 in mercenaries like the last 24 hours alone. 41 service men in this area have given up resistance and voluntarily surrounded the live now to our correspondent maria phenomena. hi maria. quite a few developments then. according to the russian military, take us through what's happening and the significance of it. yes. hi, unity people's republic of logan's case where a key battle is happening right now. rushes, defense ministry reports about steady success and effective and speedy advance of the joint. russian republican forces there as a result, full battalions of the ukrainian armed forces have found themselves and circled and almost completely blocked around the towns of gorski and the latoya. that is around

$1800.00 soldiers and officers over ukraine in armed forces. more than a 100 nationalist fighters and up to 84 mercenaries, as well as 40 armored vehicles and twice as many heavy artillery pieces. russia's ministry of defense also says that in the last 24 hours, 41 ukraine and military lay down their arms and surrendered. and according to the prisoners of war, the encircled quinton troops are now exhausted, morally down and disappointed because they say there is a huge lack of fighters in the area plus the supply of weapons, ammunition and fuel has been almost completely stop. let's take a listen, but you have to remember that their statements have may have been given the rest we will left without means of communication. we weren't able to speak either with a battalion or the brigades to get any task or understanding what positions to take

. we were completely cut off with no food and the water was the only possibility for us to save our lives was to surrender. we couldn't see the enemy to know where to shoot. if we didn't lay down our arms, we would have been killed without fighting. we were treated well, we were given food and water. we were sent to nowhere and were given nothing. no explanations were provided. not we were sent with no assistance like cannon fodder . so stories fought, street fights and continuing in the towns of the latoya and gordon, while the city of lucy chance, which is a big industrial hub in the region, which has been under fears, fighting for months now. and which remains one of the key last strong holes of the ukranian army in the region has almost also been completely surrounded and isolated . and once it's taken, i have to remind you the republics whole territory will be under the russian control r t correspondent,

maria phenomena taken us through that and just 20 kilometers to the north of their fighting continues in the strategic cities of severed own. yes. las a chance of russian soldiers are advancing. the army sees ukrainian forces may soon be in circle there as well, or correspond an eager ship l reports from the front line. this little village just outside of the city of several. the next is strategically crucial for the russian forces. basically, this is one of the main directions from where they are closing in the encirclement, the so called cattle around the ukranian forces in the town of lucy chanced on top of that. now that this place is under the control of the russians, what they did, they basically kicked out the enemy artillery from here because this place is a great vantage point overlooking the town of several minutes

with roger. but we got the boom. we started to move from house to house and were meeting fierce resistance. we drove the ukrainians out, the nearest houses after a 2 day battle right after that they moved to the other side of the street and held that position. but our forces started to get around them from the left and right flanks. we moved along and started to direct our artillery as they had trenches over there while we started to defeat them and move further along. and a little further. a group of around 15 or 20 ukrainian soldiers engaged us with polish mortar, such as we saw them in time, as the lugens forces were operating there and had warned us about the enemy. we decided to face the enemy from that position in that house where we saw them, but they didn't see us. we got around them from the right and a fear shoot out started, which lasted for 2 hours. then they directed artillery on us to help their troops to get out in him. so our soldiers had to move a bit and we left within 2 days,

we stormed the position again and drove the enemy out from there to there. ah so did you not think were the ukrainian soldiers executed our neighbors? he had been in the basement with us, but when the battle started, we went home for water and they went across the road to get things from their house . and then we heard shots, they didn't come back for days and it was too dangerous to go and check on them while the battle was going on. later when we went over to find them and we saw their dead bodies, ukrainian soldiers had shot them at point blank range. they clearly saw that they were civilians and they shot the man in the head and his wife in the back.

ah. as the boys joke here, thanks for the ukrainian forces for providing extra weapons and ammunition for their little units. foreign made weapons as well, like these rocket launchers. this is the infamous british made and law smaller one . this is polish, made another one. this is so get made and yet a another piece with all the instructions on it written in english. all these items are being successfully used against, well now against the ukrainian forces on this direction. oh, okay. to another headline stories today, the brick summit of emerging economies, brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa has entered its 2nd and final day. this year is much anticipated for him is taking place despite the wes attempts to put pressure on the groups members. the 4th thing summit kicked off on thursday with the 5 bricks leaders emphasizing the relevance of the forum in today's world,

as well as the need for quote true multilateralism. the 1st day wrapped up with the signing of a declaration, collagen developed countries around the world to stick to responsible politics. free economic progress as well as dressing the need for arms control. d 2 takes on the bricks, plus format with countries such as argentina ran on egypt joining in with the online discussions. and just to give you some perspective on the brakes. as regards hard figures, the total population of the group exceeds 3000000000 people. that's more than 40 percent of the world's population. the gross domestic product on the bricks group is $23.00 trillion dollars. no doubt equates to some 20 percent of the global market in trades on. experts expect that number 2, almost doubling the next 8 years, which would exceed the total sure of the u. s. l. e. u, and international trade. i spoke to the former director of the south african bridge,

the think tank, who believes that groupings development is a challenge to western in germany but need to know game to much more prominent story than to the action was turned away. and. ready with these economy, crises of critics, countries are looking to russia and looking towards themselves and i done continue. dependence on with 10 gemini, which can lead the american c opperation of critics. when indeed to be reading, because mentions can see that they cannot rely on trust with the, from the west. now that we will need to bring in part as a project. again, i mean, in the countries in

a way now it's not going even even more options than trying to make it on all also just to let you know, in the news line, russia's top diplomats has been holding high level talks with other patients, president and minister of foreign affairs circular from expressed this determination to settle the bubbling armenian or by jelly conflict as soon as possible during immediate conference. after the talks mister love roth also touched upon the current situation in europe. evil to so use mister sonata, the e u, and they too are currently trying to assemble a coalition. the intended to fight by enlarge a war against the russian federation. but we will observe the case carefully. the e u for the last several years has considerably changed this approach to russia. so the e u has been moving in the direction of ideologically aggressive rhetoric, characterized by rooster phobic. sentiments unusual and am i there is that any country that seeks e u membership has to support all the foreign policy initiatives or that organization leaders, including the ones made in this fear of

e russian relations. so, so for screwed up and what europe's healing as a historic move you leaders have voted to grant ukraine candidacy status to join the block despite the countries severe economic issues. but with the e itself facing its own money worries, belgium warns there'll be a long road ahead for keith. it's from digital, then he grant and e you, candidate status to ukraine is a symbolic decision. accession to the block will require a huge reforms, and time ukraine. se said so far received around $30000000000.00 in foreign aid since the beginning of the conflict with around one 3rd of the funds not needing to be repaid. additionally, the u. s. has reportedly pledged more then 50 for a $1000000000.00 in total with the e. u. finalizing another financial package. we're at just under 10000000000. and if ukraine eventually does make it into the european union,

it won't be the 1st member of the block way done by some half day financial baggage is the crux, while many will be jumping for joy over this news. they are soon likely to come back to earth with a big bump. ukraine has issues, big economic issues. the war has provoked. many of them, it can't be ignored. the parts of the country will have to be rebuilt from scratch . and that is going to cost a lot of money. early estimates from the u. n. suggest some $600000000000.00 with a price tag going up every day. the e u has already a marked recovery funds. we stand ready to take a leading role in the international reconstruction efforts to help rebuild a democratic and prosperous ukraine. this means investments will go hand in hand with reforms that will support ukraine and pursuing its european path. sounds like they've got it all in hand and maybe they would have, if you were paying countries, we're also not struggling with the own economies. think greece, for example,

it's long had problems off to emerge the cook, the books to join the euro in the 1st place. injection auster, injection of cash hasn't appeared to have worked. now is economies. of course the you struggle with the impact of inflation. greece is once more falling into the basket case status to see me again. what has changed is that we have seen the price of fuel has gone up and the invoices from the electricity companies are a great shock for everyone. i would say that people are afraid of the crisis in my restaurant business is definitely down compared to last year, because that will tell us that we have is huge. we're anxious, anticipating what will come, that we are struggling every day. so we can fill in the gaps, we generally things that difficult and i don't see things changing because prices keep going up. i asked the courses of everything, just keep coming now while our wages have dropped. so we don't have one now the choice but to work 2 jobs, average a process keep going up

a very difficult. we don't use all calls. we all saw motor bikes because they burned less fuel. we avoid going out, or just a coffee at most. greece has seen protests over the rising costs of living, and it's not alone in the u. ah. given the situation in ukraine, the e was likely to have to spend a lot of money over the next decade or so in a bid to try to revive its economy. can it do that at the same time as looking after its current member? whoa is, and now the you could also have to contend with the disillusionment of countries in the western balkans who will ready spent many years waiting to join the block. if countries that aspire to join the you face delays, they will reorient their policies and then we will have an increase of russian and

chinese influence in the western vulcan's candidate status seemed like an giant leap for ukraine. the next one, maybe insurmountable. i don't think that realism enters into any of the calculations here. we're talking about a symbolic statement. we're talking about a demonstration. why the commission and by worst look on the land in particular. but if you, if you apply massive force and coercion, you can get 27 member states to say that one and one is for it doesn't make one and one for. but it does get to create an illusion of solidarity and it, and it enhances the principle that motivates you today, which is strength and unity. the question of whether that strength is in confirm confirming and implementing absolutely stupid policies is not discussed. and the thing,

the program all no desperate rescue efforts continue enough gala done after this week's deadly earthquake, which left more than a 1000 people, dead. people have been digging through the ruins of their home is frantically searching for survivors. humanitarian aid is also struggling to reach where it's most needed. the quick with its epicenter inside the east galveston was the deadliest in the country and decades destroying. more than 1500 homes, the u. n. say thousands of children up the left in dire need of help. it's currently providing emergency shelters and food aid, the taliban government. those a more international aid is needed. rescue efforts have been hampered by international agencies leaving the country in the wake of the key arctic us withdrawal last year, nie washington's response to the plea for help, including supplying federal aid, has drawn the rough of china beijing, the invoice to the u. n. safety u. s. has

a responsibility to return to the afghan people. what is rightfully there's it is unreasonable, unjustified, and unacceptable to freeze the afghan assets. yet on the u. s. should respond to the appeals of the secretary general human rights experts, humanitarian agencies and other policies by unconditionally returning african overseas assets as soon as possible. $7000000000.00 in afghan central bank assets were earlier frozen by the us. that happened after the taliban swept back into power in august. 4 months ago, the u. s. president signed an order to release those offsets. however, the money is yet to be dispersed. and when it is, it's supposed to be divided between ship on the hearing groups, enough, get this done. and they fun for 911 victims in america, warmer afghan, present amid cars i demanded washington return all the money back to the afghan people who journalists below. so worry believes the u. s. has no rights to take

money needed by the struggling countries. citizens the united states can simply not rob got to be below the $7000000000.00 and say we're giving it to the victims of the $911.00 victims. you know, i mean it's also important that people like myself, lost all of my savings money that i have trusted banks with. so it is incredibly important to clarify and the people put the money. the money belongs to people who understand businesses. you know, it is actually quite cruel to just basically a bunch of african people for it. i mean, they live states in many ways because of the exit in that they had to where the americans contributed. and some ways to fall off one, the taller body alone. and it is important to mention that the afghan people continue to demand the united states release those funds as soon as possible.

there's also people in the west including former senior u. s. and western officials who continue to advocate and i want to sign is a country where millions of people face the risk of mass starvation. if it's not the bombs it suicide, it's actually a lot it's, it's such natural disasters. and the truth is that the bomb are not equipped, they're not able to help the victims. if there is a time, it will be right now to release those finals because they belong to the people on a stand. and that alone could actually provide some oxygen into the economy which isn't comma them. ok, another story to bring you to a, generating quite a lot of interest. a british subsidiary of the anglo swiss commodities giant lane corps has pleaded guilty to bribery charges related to it's all operations in several african countries. the u. k. serious fraud office, which brought the case against the company, said

a settlement hearing will take place in november. the s f o investigation expose that glen core via its employees and agents paid bribes of over $28000000.00 for preferential access to oil, including increased cargoes valuable grades of oil and preferable delivery dates. these actions were approved by the company across its oil operations in nigeria, cameroon ivory coast, equitorial, guinea and south sudan. glen court official said that the company expects to pay up to $1.00 and a half $1000000000.00 in penalty for its actions in the london court. hearing on tuesday, the company admitted it paid more than $28000000.00 in bribes to secure a preferential access to oral from african nations. further investigations into the companies alleged violations are currently being conducted by dutch and swiss authorities. where a former nigerian presidential candidate told us the case in his you just follows

a pattern of behavior by global enterprises in africa is not, it's not actually surprising to me that because if you look at what glen cora, be reading africa on so many of disc i know for middle global integrates a is a splitter too. so some of them take advantage of the crises that we have in africa to be able to make nonprofits in. the other thing might be out in terms of, i mean the solution. what you're going to make on your living, students continued in africa and i knew something that you need to very seriously view in this kind of kind of go clinical will be a little young company, dizzy european company. what about just took up africa? what about damages that you've been taught on to a citizen of disco practices? who is going to be responsible for the composition dakota from the to with to me? yeah, we're just, we're just kind of indictment. euro has no more outstanding to begin to get caught

africans as grossly caught up. in fact, nearby we are taught to be called by the corruption of the corporation that are going up to my environment. i'm is literally this was someone trying to say that it is a looking to be caught off. what i'm trying to see is that a situation whereby i'm africa and his grow and he's got to be caught up. he should be doing are wanting to know similar to the way we should do with evan court. you might want to have them on those who does come up to be caught up sort of there can be no you because you're the ones that can illustrate to bring you to day a far left us congresswoman has introduced the resolution designating india, a country of particular concern for legit religious freedom violations. new delhi has repeatedly denied the claim. slumming them as biased. the indian government escalated its promotion and enforcement of policies including those

promoting the hindu nationalist agenda that negatively affect muslims. christians seeks dallas and other religious minorities. while the move does not mean the resolution will necessarily be adopted, india has repeatedly criticize what its views of attempts intrusion pointing to the alleged bias of numerous american reports on the issue and quote, ill informed comments. the country's authorities have previously condemned congresswoman or more land for interfering in india's internal affairs. after her visit to the dispute territory of tash mirror, the relations between the 2 countries had become strained of late. the u. s. has criticized india's democracy and tried to pressure delhi to abandon its neutral stance over the conflict in ukraine and joined the sanctions regime against russia . a foreigner, for example, if we spoke to believes it's part of a concerted effort to undermine indian autonomy. i really, really feel that this is a motivated campaign and secondly,

i also created that you know, many people and then i get paid for the western world. i'm happy with india's strategy, allow me an independent wallison. so therefore, i do use the human rights scandal, essentially, to target a country like india. india is the 2nd largest nation, and the bigger one of the biggest markets. it is the fastest growing what i mean, even the randomly. and it's a market which everybody isaac, and do you guys in the states? also, we have a global comprehensive, has started the partnership well, amidst the situation in ukraine and all the cold, hard numbers that goes with it. sometimes the human side of the conflict gets lost . next we your 1st time what life was like and how it is now. if for those most

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