oh, i don't blame you on with a deal about one of your company. a little above level of the city of global us will give us bullet one ah, in abundance of nato weapons and scattered rockets are to explore what remains at the as odd chemical plant in several done yet after care forces retreated. another plant that was supposed to be the best in ukrainian defense that fell broad the 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 protestors who demand they stop re arming and resolve social issues with the latest attempt to destroy moscow's economy. russian gold worth around $19000000000.00 a year in exports. now a sanctions target with broadcasting from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. right now. russian lead forces say they are evacuating hundreds of civilians from the as our chemical plant in the loo, ganske city of several is done yet. this is as it is said, the cities industrial zone comes under full control of the local army. and for almost a month intensive battles tore into the industrial zone as ever done, you ask, as the ukranian army used to plant to shelter after russian forces took control of the city amongst the damage said to be carried out by key of forces was the wanton

destruction of a chemicals tank which led to the russian ministry of defense voicing fears of chemical provocations. the ukrainian soldiers have since left the plant to avoid large military losses. an rti team visited the chemical works to see what the ukranian 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 thing. but

i was like, oh, well norma, i think with, with this a teacher. but if you, if you look at it from that, the curator wouldn't work to lim with deputy through to project 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 hit, the roof destroying this position,

and bio from 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, then no weapons will help them. hey, justin, so looks good. now we are going down to the fort 5 basement, which was built earlier for those working in the adult plan to shelter from bombs, not hillary. you can on the sun, how much the defense was prepared here, 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 i'm a platoon of ukrainian soldiers all 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 world curtain and behind this curtain,

ah, american made javelin missiles, sure, of his wars on the spoken with one of the channels. but she was up to this place, give 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, the similar economy we're ready to use chemical weapons. apparently they just didn't have time or didn't get some kind of order. thank god, it didn't happen. now cave maintains that this was a tactical retreat that the troops, that they fell back to the 45 and more advantageous positions over there. amid thing the fact that the said positions remained incomplete. encirclement,

i'm again done of reporting from the a sort chemical plant out see thousands of people have joined a rally in germany against g 7, economies to demand action again, western militarization while screaming antiwar 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 the u. k. premier boyce johnson, and his canadian counterpart. joking about whether they should undress in order to show that they are tougher. then let me put a on the side lines of the g 7 summit, a burgeoning bricks. romance was brewing, indian, an argentinian leaders engaged in their 1st bilateral talks with when

a series hoping to turn the 5 bricks economy into 6 of the g 7 invited the do o, in the hopes that they would extend cooperation with the west. instead, the 2 embarked on private discussions which lead to a range of bilateral ties and investment, economic development and south south cooperation. that's as other g. 7 leaders focused on negative anti russian sanctions. when they could have been following india and argentina's, camaraderie, g contributor, or chico followed the bilateral talks. interesting me why the g 7 countries were holding up a joint strategy against russia. indian graham, in, sooner in the movie was meeting. i'm sitting in prison, alberto, but now this discuss bear by lecture relationship. i'm thinking in beijing, mr. fernandez has already shown a key interest in joining breaks, a grouping off, rosie russia, china india,

and south africa. then sir movie said that india has dude that democracy can deliver, and india is now ready for growth and development. and india is going to be at the forefront of development and growth in the was x. indian diplomatic g dog believes that western leaders are too focused on sanctions against russia and should be taking their lead from india and argentina where the war does not work from the moment decision. and now with all these sanctions and with all the issues connected with the food supply and so on, there is a deeper decision if the single was. but what we see today in germany and you say one thing is not a focus on the issues, but the focuses on sanctions,

more veterans, the foreign national warren, your brain, india and russia have sort by each other or the last 75 years is 947 when it became independent and india has always acted and was just right and just and work at thank is that says 300 independent or, and policy. and i think one of the things that india, as for the, this fight tremendously should some of the western sunday. as an example in all, if i'm be, must maintain it's friendship with everyone, especially with a new brand like russia. not for sharing jokes g 7 leaders have gone from playing games to blame games, specifically blaming russia for storing prices as their severe energy crisis continue into yet another year. we're 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 market. here in the g 7, i think what we're realizing is that the, the policy is 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 keep his r t's. and what i've got to have commenting on how western leaders call on people to sacrifice their basic needs to defeat russia. european leaders are as enforced, 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 mortar. for example, they came that if you don't shower for extended periods of time, weeks, the bacteria that bill 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 saves 30 percent energy ha showerhead should save us 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 in the summer. 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 car with him. green energy policies are being a raced in this economic self flagellate coal power stations of being sod up in germany and austria, the netherlands, and more war 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 put in 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 unless 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, in that in asia, 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 hummer and 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 for to, to get away from the fossil fuel. it's just a little story to, to get the people behind this control demolition of the worst on the economy. i think this is a very, a situation for the, for the profit states of the united states. why did they agree to, to ban oil, oil export. it is because 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 outside of blaming russia for rising prices. the west is on the lookout for more ways to undermine it. this time a ban on gold exports is trumpeted as the latest way to destroy moscow's economy. us secretary of state antony, blinking claims and embargo on russian gold woods strip moscow of around $1900000000000.00 in annual revenue. that is the 2nd most lucrative export. the russia has after energy, it's about $1900000000000.00 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 here. that significant it is unclear whether the rest of the g 7 nations will sign up to to the ban of the european council president has said that the you would 1st need to weigh up. who targeting, rushing gold would hurt more moscow for you countries? russia is one of the world's leading exporters of gold with $346.00 tons mind last

year. 87 percent of that volume is exported with the u. k. in switzerland, the main importers, when it comes to russian, made gold jewelry. however, the main consumers are india and china, andrew k, p long, a prominent international china specialist says the ban would come back to bite the west o. s a beans of exchange is only also. ready a very high value storage value, especially when the world begins at the confidence you follow me applying both, including china, india and other asian countries. as a storage at the end of the day. busy bending and go a lot going to event russia, receiving the revenue from go, i need a fair a and coaches more companies to why whoa, whoa,

completely news with with it. well, the thing and in this been useful as a weapon. so i think at the end is going to put the west up to $5000.00 people, took to the streets of madrid, to demand and the dissolution of the nato alliance and the closure of its basis on spanish soil. protesters marched through the spanish capital, shouting slogans, and brandishing anti military and anti nato banners. the event was orchestrated ahead of the organizations today summit to be held in that city agenda is expected to focus on finland and sweden's bids to join the alliance, as well as on an increase in military spending up to 2 percent of g d. p. such topics as well as nato activities in general continue to cause frustration with many people. think the proposal to increase military spending to 2 percent is truly

barbaric because it is very clear that this spending is detracting from other items on the nato as a criminal instrument of imposing imperialist measures on the rest of the world. and we should not belong in any way to this terrorist organization. i know that the existence of nato in itself is the only thing that sustains precisely this state of affairs. this system in which we live there is only a few who benefit from it and it will always be at the cost of the suffering of the working class. and then i cannot have nato only perpetuates the logic of violence that destroys our cities, our society that generates violence. it only escalades that. meanwhile, russia has frequently accused nato of escalating tensions. as the lions has been conducting both conventional and nuclear training in europe. however, these concerns were ignored in contrast to western hysteria towards the latest russian decision to help sellers with nuclear capable missiles or cheese on quarter comments. as nato continues to simulate nuclear attacks in eastern europe,

russia has promised to be fun. bella roost, his defense capabilities with nuclear capable missile systems and jet upgrades between leadership within the next few months will transfer its canada and tactical systems to belarus, which can use both ballistic and cruise missiles and both the conventional and nuclear versions across the carry. the missiles can be upgraded yet this modernization should be carried out the factories in russia. we will agree on how to do it and start training flight cruise accordingly. and of course, the mainstream media's framing, the move as a provocation by moscow since the beginning of russia's military operation and ukraine. they've tried to make it look as if it doesn't take to to dance the nuclear escalation. tango russia at war once again is bringing back cold war concerns about the threat of its nuclear arsenal. when let me putin announced his invasion of ukraine early on thursday morning. he warned that nobody should get in

his way or they would suffer grave consequences. every one understood that it was a reference to nuclear weapons threat from vladimir putin seeing this kind of behavior. and this kind of aggressive behavior. and this kind of nuclear specific rhetoric, no mention at all of the 200 strategic nuclear stockpiles that the u. s. has across 6 european nato states, or the over 250 nuclear capable planes that could deliver that colossal payload. in a moment's notice, on top of that, a number of western officials seemed to feel a little too comfortable about proliferating nuclear weapons. earlier this month, poland former defense minister and current m. p openly stated that the west has the right to give ukraine nuclear weapons. it was only after that provocation that russia's parliament felt the need to respond. she kosky provokes a nuclear conflict in the center of europe. he doesn't think about the future of the ukraine or poland. if his proposals are implemented,

these countries will disappear as well as europe. then there's the u. k is defense minister who said he supported key f in any of its negotiations after 2 russian pranksters posing as ukraine's prime minister, asked him about nuclear weapons. we would like to continue the nuclear program in order to protect ourselves from russia. it. so it difficult question, but with think to started, if you could help us in this regards, it would be really, really important. okay, well, i mean prime minister on all those big questions. i think there is a question that i need to speak to my prime minister ukrainian president. vladimir is the lensky. he made it clear even before russia's offensive began. the key of was considering scrapping. the budapest memorandum that prevents ukraine from having nuclear weapons. all things considered the west seems to have its wires crossed when it comes to who is provoking a possible nuclear conflict. here mr. brewton has,

doesn't want to unnecessarily escalate matters in nato knowing how paranoid native already is deployment of nuclear capable weapons is a signal that nato wants to escalate. that capability is there for mr. i think that that's one of the things that kid could be discussed if, if the west and, and the russians can get together and talk. and, but the fact that nato countries, in fact to have nuclear weapons isn't, is, is another signal that it's not a defensive organization. it's not a defensive alliance. because when you have nuclear weapons, that's a, those are offensive. and i think that those and i think that, that undermines the argument by native itself, that it, it's a defensive organization. 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 costs to farmers are fertilizers and energy fertilizers. prices have risen by more than half in the past year. and energy prices buy more than 2 service. whole harvard suby heat, including rice and corn effects, billions of people across asia, africa, and the america's. no country will be immune to the social and economic repercussions of such a catastrophe. isa hel, region that crosses 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. it agencies say that it's extremely difficult to get help in while an unprecedented drought has led to water shortages. we spoke to aliana sin yank away regional representative of the red cross in kenya, who says that the impact of climate change and the global situation in general are making it harder for the african continent every day. well,

working on the ground to support the people, it is true that the situation has been difficult for a long time because sir, there isn't on there. the region has a protract protected conflicts that cause to displacement. like for example, if we speak about booking of a saw alone, there's some odd, almost 2000000 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 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 farmers of the substitutes, subsistence farmers 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. the past will, despite the dire situation in this a hell, the west is focusing its attention elsewhere throughout 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 e u and the u. s. have this year already provided several 1000000000 euros of both military and humanitarian aid. and yet the west continues to blame russia for exacerbating world hunger. the same red cross representative says that with western focus elsewhere, it is difficult to attract attention to crisis that continue year after year. we try, of course sir, 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 receive 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 or conflicts that to receive more interest, more coverage or more humanitarians fans, it's just more difficult to attract at the same level of attention to situations that have been dragging 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 rolled in the d gate are all sold, the horn of africa is facing some of the was taught in like 40 years. but the 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 that does it for me this hour, stay with us throughout the day though, as we bring you more news and commentary, this is our team international. but have you with us with ah, yes, mr. absolute mccullough, with some of the free people winning up with god. can we generally, you know, she was come up with

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with ah, ah hello in welcome to cross stock were all things are considered line peter lavelle, the west has gone to great lengths to generate a false narrative about the conflict in ukraine. the cab regime is losing and badly so, and no amount of propaganda can alter this reality. this conflict will come to an

end, and it will be on moscow's terms. ah . to discuss these issues and more on joined by my guess, glen deason in oslo. he's a professor at the university of se or norway, as well as author of the book, russo phobia propaganda international politics. and here in moscow we have is that a monroe is the founder of the center, a political strategic analysis strap hole, or a gentleman, cross talk rules and effect. that means you can jump anytime you want. and i would appreciate it. we would start out with glen in our slow again, that the media continues to turn out a what i think a very warped impression, what's going on in ukraine, the conflict there. but i find which very curious and i think it's really important to talk about is that people that should know what they're talking about or is.