i mean, you well, yes, to see power. disdain becomes the advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground with another blog that was supposed to be the best piano of ukrainian defense that fo rob of quickly and abundance of nights i weapons on scattered rockets, explores what remains of the chemical plant and several have gone yet following the retreats of kias for with a chain good. now says the geopolitical machinations of g 7 countries off the group announces a worldwide to infrastructure projects to count to china's own global belton road initiative. dialogue that we worked for for so many years,

docs not on the table, don't smoke working. nights i was chief and i was a massive increase in the number of combat ready trips for the alliance with the escalation coming, despite international efforts to mediate peace in ukraine with as very one well continue, this is the international with the latest world news. it's a pleasure to have your company. moscow say for a of it's high precision missiles. i've had a weapons factory and k of which has been pumping out on munitions. the ukranian rocket launchers russians defense ministry also explained that kiev zone ad defend systems were responsible for housing, a residential building. the is to mozilla with chief regime, attempted to shut down high precision russian missiles with air defense system stations in the city. due to a lack of communication between those systems and ready apparatus to s $300.00. and

so our cross missiles were he'd by ukraine and book systems. and one of the missiles is believed to have fallen into a residential building. the response from the defense ministry came off to k of mad blamed russia. if a sunday's incident in which one person was killed and 6 others injured, including a child, when a missile hit a residential building and the ukrainian capital and other developments russian lead forces have been evacuating hundreds of civilians from the as old chemical plant. and the look on city of several, don, yes, which is come under the full control of the guns republics will thirty's, you want to terry, on efforts to run, to wait to help civilians who chose to remain in several don. yes, despite the fighting that russians defense ministry says that more than a 100000 residents of state in the city and its suburbs. some civilians have openings that the ukrainian army didn't help them evacuate and even sets up firing positions in science, residential areas. we heard from some of them will have done with us. yes. we are

grateful to you for everything for coming here and freeing us here from all the korean military did nothing to help us. they wanted to put in residential areas showing civilian buildings themselves and saying that the russians are doing it. i can't imagine what they will do to us when we meet them. they were right in the middle of residential areas with their tanks and armored vehicles mark. so that just because we wanna use, we're afraid that the ukrainians will now show us from lucy, chance of their army didn't help us evacuate the fired from all around our building . tanks and artillery were constantly driving around shooting where we lived almost a month. intense fossils tool into the industrial zone. as the ukranian army use, the as those chemical plant to shelter from russian forces who were taking control of the city, ukrainian soldiers were forced to retreat to prevent escalating losses and all the team visits at the factory to see what the cranium army left behind. yes, 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 basically we're about to see how they lived and what they've left behind, 3 things, but a recent exit loma, i think with, with this a teach with you. it's got, it's not ready to rush her when more to lim was with deputy therapy. atwood

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, problems by jo, 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 the no weapons will help them. hey,

justin sounds good now. we'll going down to the fortified basement, which was built earlier for those working in the assault plan, to shelter from bombs and artillery. 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. 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. all of his pores on a student with one of machine you specially was officially 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, assembled in the 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 give maintains that this was a tactical retreat that the troops, that they fell back to be $45.00 and more advantageous positions over there. a missing the fact that the set positions remained incomplete. encirclement, i'm again done of reporting from the a sort chemical plant r t. as the training on, he was forced to abandon his positions, many soldiers that been left behind by that command. as we hear from some of them, a warning now these captain sanchez may be speaking on address. now we were

abandoned by our own comrades, our officers. they fled with some soldiers, but the rest were left on the sellers. a lot of guys aren't coming home. we don't have a good president. he is not a politician. he is a clown. the ukranian army is a horrible mess. talentless young officers untrained with no proper management. in fact, everything turned out to be built on a lie from conscription to the army to this several high ranking officials from the you a have ordered to have also to help mediate the exchange of military prisoners between russia and ukraine. as, according to a report by russian news agency, reem, all of us the lead this month, the russians defense minister said more than $6000.00 ukrainian competence are being held by russia. however, said a, shall we do. did they care? they were locked in to negotiate a swap deal with moscow. and new york times, they says a huge network of american spies in ukraine operating out of care is one of the key

objectives is reportedly to manage weapon flows as the west provides billions of dollars worth of alms and equipment. the article says ukraine heavily depends on help for the us and its allies, but it seems that most of the us intelligence operatives in the country are acting in secret. the article contradicts previous reports about how the us like the clear picture of what's actually happening inside ukraine's army d 7 leaders have enough billions of dollars of investments into global infrastructure projects in an effort to counter china as expansion of power abroad theories. belton road initiative bathing, has condemned what he describes as the west's geopolitical imaginations. committed under the guise of promoting worldwide developments. for every better options for countries and for people around the world. to invest in critical infrastructure that improves the lives their lives. all of our lives delivers real games

for all of our people. because when democracies demonstrate what we could do all that we have to offer, i have no doubt there will, would the competition every time tomorrow shouldn't playing china welcomes all initiatives that promote global infrastructure. what we oppose is to advance to political calculations and smeared that belton road initiative in the name of promoting global infrastructure development. since the launch of the belgian road initiative, 9 years ago, china has always had head to the principles of joint consultation joint construction and shed benefits escalade. now, while he contributes a rachel monson, rachel, good to see is open at the latest on this g 7 challenge to china's road in belgium, route initiative. well at least the western lead g 7 block is getting to the point for once and emitting that their interests in foreign countries are straight up financial. so instead of invading countries under

questionable pretexts and hoping that a military footprint translates to an economic one, they're going to try and seducing the developing world with the sugar daddy approached by flashing the cash 600000000000 dollars worth. with a 200000000 dollar pledge coming from washington to add to the 300000000000 promised by e u countries. last year, the targets africa and latin america, german chancellor. all of schultz is framing it as an opportunity for g 7 companies to get their foot in the door in these markets, you think that if there was opportunity companies would already be there, the public sector alone would not be able to close to a huge investment gap we placed in many parts of the wood. this is why we are promoting innovative instruments, such as the emerging markets climate action front in order to mobilize private investment, to force sustainable infrastructure go

figure that they work, climate change in there too. so the plan is being sold as a means of playing catch up to beijing's belton road project locks in 2013. and now involving a $144.00 countries with an annual investment of 59000000000 dollars last year alone. washington has long struggled to come up with solutions to counter the chinese projects. as former c i, a director, and u. s. secretary of state, mike pompeo has explained china pedals corrupt infrastructure deals in exchange for political influence. it's bribe fuel debt trap, diplomacy undermines good governments and threatens to append the free market economic model on which so many countries depend debt chopped diplomacy, right? so in china doesn't it's a debt trap, but when washington does it or its allies exactly the same thing, you can be sure that it's purely for altruistic reasons. right? you think that with so many free market capitalist experts in washington,

they be able to figure out how to compete with beijing overseas, through honest, mutually beneficial and respectful trade relationships. but history suggests that whenever the west and particularly washington seeks to help the nations in need its 1st and foremost for its own benefit, even washington's post world war to marshal plan to rebuild the war toward european infrastructure was used to establish a cia frank company or multiple cia, front companies, they took 5 percent of that budget in european countries. so it's no hard to imagine how this new initiative could provide a pretext for securing a foothold in africa and latin america. where the west has been struggling to actively counter countries cooperation with russia and china. so far, only the marketers seem to be profiting from any of this with the whole idea being a rebranding of build back better worlds. it's a proposal that was table that last year's g 7 meeting in britain really not much

has happened since president joe biden is even struggling to convince opposition at home to support his build back better domestic infrastructure act. if the g 7 wants to now compete with china, by basically copying china's idea, there are already about a decade late and hundreds of billions of dollars behind. but hey, sure, go for it. why not? like i, rachel, many thanks for the day. sounds thousands, a contribute, so rachel marston than well staying with china's belton road initiative. the infrastructure initiative is seen successful results with the recent opening of bangladesh is longest bridge built by a chinese company destruction. any 7 kilometers longest st by beijing is a milestone for cooperation with the south asian country. ah, on the sidelines off the g 7 summit, the head of the european commission said she would like to see vladimir putin attends the g 20 summit late this year. so the european leaders can talk to the

russian president, i to, i, dish global is is better. i think it's better he does comes out to tell him to his face what we think. and then he should also take a stand by a post office. i meant to talk talking at the g 7 some and some of the leaders seemed more interested in shirtless vacation, photos of the russian president. rather than discussing global issues. britain's prime minister and his canadian counterpart joked about whether they should to undress to show that, that quote, tougher than fathomed person. would they be as tough if they're actually face to face? ah, what extensive dialogue with russia is no longer possible, as, according to nato's cheek. speaking ahead of the blog summit in madrid this week in thought and bergosa announced a massive increase in the number of combat ready nato troops. it will transform the

nato response force and increase the number or higher of this forces to well over 300000. so, so the meaningful dialogue we worked for for so many years, ducks knocked on the table, got smoked, working as simply because of russia's behavior earlier. up to 5000 demonstrators took to the streets of madrid, demanding the dissolution of ne, so on the shut down of a line space is in spain. protest is march through the spanish capital shouting slogans and brandishing anti nato banners. the monks limits imagery this week is expected to focus on finland's and sweden's bid to join the alliance, as well as in increasing military spending among nato members as well. some of the activists image would have been saying in response to 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. the nato is

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. it 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 cloud energy. nicer than nato only perpetuates the logic of violence that destroys our cities. our society that generates violence, it only escalates it by emily. nato's chief has also said that the block is due to approve a new tenure strategy that will label russia as the main threat to its collective security mosca was, we can win. the accused native escalating tensions as the block has been conducting both conventional and nuclear training in europe. however, the russian concerns have been sidelined in contrast to western hysteria. everyone goes latest decision to help neighboring bella bruce with nuclear capable. miss

styles ortiz donald quarter has the details, as nato continues to simulate nuclear attacks in eastern europe. russia has promised to beef up valerie as defense capabilities with nuclear capable missile systems and jet upgrades, teaching immunization 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 the 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 vladimir 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 seem 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

all 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's a difficult question, but with think to started, if you could help us in this regard, it would be really, really important. ok, well i missed, i'm going to so 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. and 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 do have nuclear weapons isn't, is, is another signal that it's not a defensive organization, that's not a defensive alliance. because when you have nuclear weapons that those are offensive. and i think that those and i think that, that undermines the argument by nato itself. it's

a defense of organization. the grace period for some of russia's foreign debt expired early on monday, raising the question of a possible default for the economy. was the media pursuing the default narrative claim, it could lead to house consequences for moscow. russia defaulted on its foreign currency, sovereign debt for the 1st time in a century, the combination of ever tough, a western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors. it's a grim marker in the countries rapid transformation into an economic, financial, and political outcast, a criminal interests. it has both, the will answer currency to service. it said sam says any default would be also official because it would be caused by sanctions. the issue was previously raised off, the russia was cut from the international banking system. swift following the start of the war and ukraine. however, moscow subsequently found ways to serve. if it's that, despite the restrictions, russia, finance ministry, say the required payment was made in advance on may 20th the crm and spokesperson

say, there's no reason to say russia would be actually defaulting. these statements about the default are absolutely unjustifiable in this case because the necessary payment was made in may. the fact that you are clear, withheld that money and did not transfer it to its recipients is no longer a problem. there is no reason to call the situation a default was getting more on this, not as close live to germany economist and lawyer florian hoffman. thank you for joining us on the program is good to see you now was the media. the russian was facing a technical default as the grace period for his debt expires, expires, showed such reports be taken seriously or they took the further example of with the media trying to watch it, the pressure on russia you know, financial transfers and nothing else. then accounting transfers,

you know, when you do business with goods in there and through transfer and you have to build up stocks and so transport, taishan, quantities and facilities. and in this case for the money, it's very easy to handle. you can cut off with with a booking block, and that's what happens if they are playing. they are playing a game, the western country still playing a game. and you know, they, they get, they pay for the, they open the rest for the oil money. but the rest of the transfer, it's not opened. and as in this case, the money that is specially the interests go to western banks and best and investors. and then they know one to open it for a short time to get their own of the advantage fulfilled.

and that's because of because they want to do a favor to the, to the russians. so if the kremlin is server thing is dead, like it said, it is and a default is being off, efficiently imposed by the way it is not legal for western powers to do such a thing. can you repeat the chris is a little bit slow. yeah. if the kremlin is server thing is that, like it said, it is, and this default has been artificially imposed by the west. is that legal for the western powers to do such a thing? you know, it's, it's, you can always do something which is also necessarily the naturally there's

a room for the fun leaving in the legal system. that thing is when you have to, you are responsible for then it can be miss miss. judging for the for the other side, you know, in this case the rest and side did everything, not, not confirmed, filled the payments, so therefore alone. and it's not legal to do any action against. so what's the media there? warning that a default for moscow would lead to harsh consequences for the country? so what kind of, what kind of consequences would it have? how would it change russia? can no christian, what do you mean but change the default? yes. yes. if the kremlin did, if moscow did default, how would,

what consequences would it have for the country had had any, any consequence? because everybody knows that the money is that russia is a very rich country. they don't have the 1000000000 and super 1000000000 liabilities as the american test. so i think all the rest of the roads, for instance, in china or other countries, and very many which do not do any sanction against russia. they have no problem with the situation of russia and they don't think that i don't think that any consequence would come out of a default flow in hoffman. jim, an economist and lawyer many thanks for your time and your insight. we really appreciate him. bergen. now there will be

disastrous repercussions for the whole world due to the worsening global food crisis. that's a stock warning for the un secretary general. the men costs, the farmers are fertilizers and energy fertilizers. prices have risen by more than holes in the past year. and energy prices buy more than 2 service harvard through be heat, including rice and corn, affect the 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. that the whole region which crosses central africa is expected to be one of the hardest hit. with more than 10 and a half 1000000 people facing potentials found in their conflicts in that vast area have left millions displaced. also in the horn of africa, the opiate somalia and kenya have been suffering from an unprecedented drought that has led to waters shortages,

humanitarian aid agencies that is extremely difficult to get help in to the areas in need. with both to alley or nurse india and co regional representative of the red cross in kenya, who says the impacts of climate change on the global situation in general, and making it harder for the african continent every day. well, work you want the ground to support the people. it is true that the situation has been difficult for a long time because there isn't on the region, has protract protracted conflicts that calls to displacement. like for example, if we speak about booking of a saw alone this some are 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 substitute subsistence farmers to produce food. and now of course, with the world situation and the rising food in fuel prices, this is just added another layer of your ability on this all region that has already suffered from food insecurity in the past. despite the dire situation in the whole, the west is seemingly focusing his attention elsewhere throughout the crisis. the amount of money received in humanitarian aid accounts, which is 9 percent of what the african region needs. however, when it comes to assistance for ukraine, the year when the us have this year, already provided several 1000000000 euros of both military and humanitarian aid. and yet the west continues to play russia for exacerbating world hunger. the same red cross representative says that with western focus elsewhere, it's difficult to attract attention to try and seize the continue year.