ah ah ah, in abundance of nato weapons and scattered rockets are to explore is what remains at the as a chemical plant and several done yes, after forces retreated. another block that was supposed to be the best, the end of ukrainian defense that felt rather quickly basically were about to see how they lived and what they've left behind with . that's what excites the leaders of g 7,

not massive crowds of protesters who demand they stop rearming and to resolve social issues with the red cross band help for 1000000 suffering from famine in africa. stressing that new conflicts are shifting focus on the continents ongoing troubles with quite guessing live up from our studios in moscow. this is our to international and john thomas certainly glad to help you with no rush and lead forces. say they are evacuating hundreds of civilians from the as a chemical plant in the lucon city of several done yet. this as it is said. so he's industrial zone comes under full control of the local army. now for almost a month intensive battles tore into the industrial zone at 7, jenny asked as the ukrainian army used, the plan to shelter after russian forces took control of the city. among the

damages said to be carried out by king of forces was the wants in destruction of a chemical tank which led to the russian ministry of defense. wishing fears of chemical provocations, ukrainian soldiers have since left the plan to avoid large military losses nor t team visited the chemical works to see what the cleaning army left behind. yet another plant that was supposed to be the bastion of ukrainian defense that fell rather quickly. this is the territory of the assault factory of the assault chemical plant. and just yesterday, the last ukranian troops ran uphill towards the town of lucy chance. so now were among the 1st journalists who have been allowed in for some exclusive access, and we're basically we're about to see how they lived and what they've left behind thon .

but i was like, oh, hold on, i think with sarah or to smith but a little bit with this a teacher. but if you, if you get it from that, curator, i wouldn't want to lim was, would you could blur deputy, looking for death, whether this was one of the firing positions of the ukrainian forces at the as a chemical plant. you can see here a western made our p g machine gun rounds. very interesting ones. the ones with the red tip, ah incendiary and the ones with the white tip, they have extra piercing capabilities. also here, you can see the results of the work of the russian artillery. maybe even jets. because over here you can see the rounded hip, the roof destroying this position,

parallel and spiral from of what they leave here, goes to us and we use their weapons against them. the assistance provided ukraine, my nato was not affected if ukrainians do not have the spirit to fight well then no weapons will help them. and i hey justin. good. now we are going down to the fort 5 basement which was built earlier for those working in the assault plant, to shelter from bombs, not hillary. you can on the sun, how much the defense was prepared here to do place. this is their sleeping quarters . you see the store, the ukrainian army could hold out for a very long time. this is one of the shelters at the resort plant where a platoon of ukrainian soldiers will slept. i had some rest here. there's a bunch of bunk beds over here on the other side of the room as well. and

a bit of an interesting detail here. parts of this place is a well separated with the un refugee agency will. curtain and behind this curtain. ah, american made javelin missiles. sure. this was the one i spoke with one of the machine you specially was of the shipper here. this place gives some serious flashbacks of another factory over the city of murray opal. the infamous as of style, where the as of neo nazi battalion was sheltering for quite a while. the only significant striking difference that i see here is that we find in every room these military grade respirators. since this one is a chemical plant, a similar little economy, we're ready to use chemical weapons. apparently they just didn't have time or didn't get some kind of order and got it didn't happen. now give, maintains that this was a tactical retreat that the troops, that they fell back to the 45 and more advantageous positions over there. a mid

thing, the fact that the set positions remained incomplete. encirclement, i'm english done of reporting from the resort chemical plant art c. meanwhile, ukrainian officials claim russian missiles hit a residential building and key of on sunday. city officials say one person died and 4 people were hospitalized including a 7 year old girl. 24 other people were evacuated to safety. the russian defense ministry is yet to comment on the incident. however, moscow has repeatedly said it only targets military facilities. the thousands of people have joined a rally in germany against g 7. economies to demand action against western militarization, while screaming anti war slogans. but internal and global issues appear not to be as interesting to g 7 leaders as vacation photos of the shirtless russian president with u. k. premier boyce johnson and his canadian counterpart. joking about whether

they should undress in order to show that they are tougher than glad to put them out with united. but i don't know the west is united, they try to show it united way talk towards russia. and but what i see is that there are also some tricks in the unit because we see that, that different interest in the way they try to rush a certain sanctions either the russian or it can be free exported with greek tankers around the world. and there is a high demand for russian on work, and i don't see that that will work. also people in the west trying to escape

inflation and tend to buy gold. so i think just the price rise, but it will not fit in the russian economy that in that way, as the rest and nation think germany will never reach. it's kind of go over that. we talked about using german code for production of, of electrical energy and will come in a dramatic situation that will have much more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in germany than before. so germany will never reach it's kind of goals. after sharing jokes g 7 leaders have gone from playing games to blame games, specifically blaming russia for storing prices as their severe energy crisis continues into yet another year. or see just how critical this is every day the entire world is feeling, the impact of russia is brittany war and ukraine. and on our energy markets here in

the, in the, in the g 7, i think what we're realizing is that the, the parties over for russian hydrocarbons. so everybody's fighting new ways of adapt. this comes as gas and electricity prices continue to rise in western countries with many ordinary people suffering from high inflation and storing gas bills. meanwhile, g 7 leaders appear more interested in ukraine than fuel prices, reportedly committing to provide indefinite military and financial support to cheve . here is our tease broad gosh, do you have commenting on how western leaders call on people to sacrifice their basic needs to defeat russia? european leaders as enforce trying to convince hundreds of millions of voters that they couldn't help to stop booting by for example, showering less my counterpart from the netherlands recently told me proudly that they had launched a campaign intended to cut the average, showering time from 10 minutes to 5, it is

a powerful response to vladimir putin's intention of dividing our society by way of higher prices. yes, a powerful response indeed. german pundents of even come up with tips to help people shower less and use less war more that for example, they came that if you don't shower for extended periods of time weeks, the bacteria that bull bloom across your body will start eating the death in the stink off of you. that's actually in build than many germans are shaking their heads. the symptoms were not, it always sounds so banal, replaced the shower head that say that you said energy ha, showerhead should say this from posing from god. so if you see the total, it adds up quite a bit. after all, there are a total of $40000000.00 households in germany. they're even coming up with names for this stuff. operation thermostat, in italy, in public spaces, schools outs,

where you could only use air conditioners to cool to 25 degrees celsius. and the saba and heath to only 90 degrees celsius in the winter exceed those. and you potentially face funds amounting to thousands of euro's france is following suit, energy efficiency and energy saving play an important role. if we reduce the heating temperature, 80 degrees on average in europe, or that of air conditioning directly to replace the entire supply as not strain. what's worse, years and years, even decades of commerce and green energy policies are being a raced in this economic self flagellate co palace stations of being sod up in germany and austria, the netherlands, and more all regulation as flying out the window for reference burning coal produces twice as much carbon dioxide as burning natural gas twice as much. and by the way, this isn't rock bottom. europe still have some way to go before officials sink that

continent to that level. and we have to be honest, it's not over yet. more people will be affected, the high energy prices will only gradually be passed on to consumers. i see a great determination to not allow proven to get away with this war. even if it comes at a cost phrase and the winter boil in the summer. shower less and pay more for water for fuel, for power, all in the name of beat in putin, by, by less natural gas from russia. accept. and this is what you're appeared. officials haven't told people all last rush or natural gas that europe doesn't buy . just goes to asia to china, to india, that in denisia, elsewhere, all that self inflicted suffering pushed on europeans by the same leaders who led them into an energy crisis. and for was apparently for nothing

we spoke with, i commer an economist and political commentator who claims that the crisis is becoming very severe for america's closest allies. though it's basically about crushing the economy. it's not about building something up, but the people in the green or to, to get away from the past few, it's just a little story to, to get the people behind this control demolition of the worst on the economy. i think is a very t v. a situation for the, for the profit states of the united states, and they want to have more, they want to put more pressure on the proper states. and they are hardly able to, to carry these big, big losses. we are facing the biggest crisis in all history. so that's not less than the dollar, and the euro is on jeopardy. why did they agree to,

to ban oil, oil exports. it is because of the current fees as they are now, are in jeopardy. and i think this is, this is an emergency meeting of the, of the americans who have some big issues going on. otherwise i couldn't explain why joe biden is coming over to this meeting. us secretary of state antony, blinking claims that any embargo on russian gold exports will strip moscow of around $19000000000.00 in annual revenue. that is the 2nd most lucrative export. the russia has after energy, it's about $1900000000.00 a year. and most of that is within the, the g 7 countries. so cutting that off, dying access to about $900000000000.00 of revenues a year that significant it is unclear whether the rest of the g 7 nations will sign

up to the band. the european council president has said that you would 1st need to weigh up who targeting russian gold would hurt more moscow or you countries. now russia is one of the world's leading exporters of gold with trinity for the 6 tongues mind last year. 87 percent of the volume is exported with the u. k. in switzerland, the main importers, when it comes to russian maid gold jewelry. however, the main consumers are india and china. the more this we can live to andrew k p long, who is a prominent international china specialist. thank you very much for being with us here on our international so if you get right down to it, what would a boycott of russian gold mean for the global market? i mean, how could it hurt russia and would you expect it to be successful? well the exchange is only also.

ready a very highly value storage value, especially when the world begins at a conference, you would follow up with the kind of money printing echo one or take it and also they use all you. busy all those last 2 sessions and other countries. so i think that is a part of the european union member states on many countries and go, including china, india and other asian countries as a storage value. and also as far as the, you know, the band is not the very best because they're all the 3rd party and part of those transactions, which is the monitor that is there part of the outside of the lease

for a month or so g 7 countries as far as this is, according to the latest report this morning, only for all over the 7 g 7 countries and sign it with the just think that there are countries with, by the way, they look at the bank and go get them. he's. ready out of the country which i've lost sight of is the go all that kind of the book station or transactions are 5 sections with russia and pointed out russia is a good deal all the energy ready. busy energy to do but also. ready as well as largest, wider fertilizers and agriculture, and has the almost seem to be horse one is open

as or sort of a boat. i don't think of walk on the road. we hold a position or a sanctions on russia. there was a great deal of actually a great deal with it, you know, for somehow the west side of things and the way and there is a kind of narrative is going on with the, the end of the g. i almost blind to what happened on the ground with losses and are you bring up a really good point to previous boycotts have damage the west more than they've actually hurt russia? could this also be the case here with this gold bad? well, in a way, yes. ok, because at the end of the day, the bending and go is not going to event. russia probably

see, think the read you go, i need a fair, a and coaches all countries the why vote? because as i say, we'll kind of be getting to news with, with, well, the thing and in this been used all as a weapon. so i think it's going to put west. now this is a question that is specifically directed at your expertise g. 7 countries have openly stated that the global infrastructure initiative is designed to counter china's push to exert a political and commercial influence across emerging economies. does this mean g 7 countries are on the path to economic confrontation with china? ok, what so? i mean, this way, what i do is i'm kind of part of the sense we have with

a patient with china with. ready going on for many years already and then even though that the. busy at the g 7 seem to be talking about a lot of money. it still remains to be seen where one is coming from. because the accounting to a large extent on the bottom that where's the finest road is largely funded by the state. and then, and the with road initiative as a kind of investment where's the gross main bill, hospitals of roles, highways and so which made by the sector companies in the west of chemo. so i think that this is, again, at least now. all right. and what are the odds that this could actually

work? i mean that the g 7 initiative could actually undermine china's influence in developing states. oh yes, because the lead and the what i station campaign is already cause considerable damage in china's image. but the end of the day the developing world. busy getting more or a call into the you see the year 2030 the what i think will work out for 6. people said that there was only 2 g, 7 importance. there is no longer what it was say 20 of those years ago. so i think that the, the influence of times of the better in countries, the countries in africa, latin america, asia, they are really bought today and they was. busy foster's, he called and they'd be. busy infrastructure it rolls off of those schools,

highways and ports. and there's a lot of $230.00 countries around the world. but only for the 2nd one, you know. ringback so i think that the reality all this, and yet they all, as i said to get it too much and wishful thinking too much so, you know, feel by the western right now, andrew, the there is this big global push meant to compete with china's ambitious belt and road economic initiative, do you think it can be successful in this competition? well, i think it sorta has already said open the that the well comes with all this. busy because for the developing world is really in the structure, it's not giving them

a financial aid has fail over the past the well the 61 is born. want to teach the people who fish then getting the fish and teaching them things like that with people with most of those. so all these are part of the infrastructure which the, where it will be a few weeks or less is not the way and use the the for g. 7 alternative because it is a bit too little too late. now switching back to russia briefly, bloomberg says russia is facing a technical default as the grace period for its debt has expired. should such reports be taken seriously or are they just for the example of western media trying

to wretched up pressure here in russia? well, it looks like what's the so the other bass is that people, i mean, we haven't seen and so that in fact, you will, that's been strengthening of because of the height or what is the height of price this whole slide with. so this is the revenue all russia, all those, some trade in go sale. but then it is that there will be. busy the problem energy a problem. so i think that because of the way with 40 we don't, i don't see any evidence of any people you bring a good point about the strengthening ruble. they're not the kremlin also insisted

it has both the will and the currency to service its debts and calls these claims artificial. is it legally possible to push russia into default? well, i mean everything is possible. but i think that the one with the even though the russia quality is thought way, i mean is that the both sides one well but all get a. ready as a lot just proportion all the. busy was both lies and look out for all this for it, all the gas and the prices. so i think that this is there is no cost to replace that with from the beginning of the united states. and because all this energy. busy of life is based on pipeline we're ready. ringback by line a much easier and so on. and that's why you or the

countries i'm trying to find out how they can go with this. so you post a while ago, a shower and a function so. so just think that there is a walk on there. all right, interesting conversation. andrew k, p young, a prominent international china specialist. very interesting to hear your thoughts looking for the future conversations. now there will be disastrous repercussions for everyone because of the worsening global food crisis. that is a stark warning from the un secretary general. the main cost to farmers are fertilizers and energy, for the wisest price is ever isn't buy more than hole in the past year. and energy prices buy more than 2 service offered through the heat, including rice and corn,

affecting millions of people across asia, africa, and the american. no country will be immune to the social and economic repercussions of such a catastrophe. these are hell regions across a central africa is expected to be one of the hardest hit. with more than 10 and a half 1000000 people facing potential famine, their conflicts in that vast area have left millions displaced. agencies say it is extremely difficult to get help. there, while an unprecedented drought has left to water shortages, we spoke to al yona cindy ankle, a regional representative of the red cross. and kenya who says that the impact of climate change and the global situation in general are making it harder for that african continent. every day we are working on the ground to support the people. it is true that the situation has been difficult for a long time because there isn't on there. the region has pro truck protected

conflicts that cause to displacement. like, for example, if we speak about book enough, i saw alone this some are almost to me and people that are displaced within the country. and although also some 2000000 people that are that have a right to the country from other places in the region. and then also the climate shock, so more and more at this region phase is facing the impact of the of the climate change. so all these combined factors have an impact on the capacity of the pharmacy of the substitutes, subsistence farming to produce food. and now of course, with the world situation and the rising food in fuel prices, this is just added and not that layer of their ability on this all region that has already suffered from food insecurity in the past. despite the dire situation in sa hell, the west is focusing its attention elsewhere through the crisis. the amount of money

received in humanitarian aid accounts for just 9 percent of what the region needs. however, when it comes to assistance for ukraine, the u and the us have this year already provided several 1000000000 euros of both military andrew military and aid. and yet the west continues to blame russia for exacerbating world hunger. earlier we spoke to that same red cross representative on the situation in africa. we try, of course, ha, to draw attention on not just to the conflict who are very high on the get receive, who received a lot of media coverage and received a lot of attention, but also to some of the protracted crisis that has been, have been going for many years, and it is true that as opposed to some of the new a conflicts that to receive more interest, more coverage or more humanitarians funds. it's just more difficult to attract the same level of attention to situations that have been tracking for years or

sometimes decades. we need long term solutions and we need also innovative solutions. because like, for example, if we speak about the impact of climate change like now, for example, if we speak about a hail they're facing, the, was drilled in the decatur. also the horn of africa is facing some of the was taught in like 40. yes. but these situations we can no longer treat them as emergency situations because they have become so frequent and so severe because of the increased impact of climate change on the continent. so we just need to come up with new ways to address those issues because they're long term issues. and we need to be very creative, finding long term, sustainable, innovative solutions to these problems or that is for me with our i will be back in the fe 29 minutes of another phone for us which means to.