for the appraisal i need to ask you to give me a call when you, when you get in with dr. first and who lose lose lose one of the ah, just another blog that was supposed to be the best piano ukrainian defense that foe rather quickly. and abundance of nato weapons and scattered raw kids. fancy explorers. what remains of the, as all chemical plants in several donia is following the retreat of ts forces. beijing denounces the geopolitical machinations of g 7 countries. off the group announces a worldwide infrastructure project accounting, china's own global belton road initiative, plus dialogue that we worked for for so many years. dots not on the table don't

smoke working. nato's chief announces a massive increase in the number of combat ready troops for the alliance, with the escalation coming to find some international efforts to mediate peace and ukraine. ah, very well welcome. this is auntie international with the latest world news, it's good to have you with us. i. we start with some news just in from ukraine where miss sauls have reportedly struck a mold full of people in the central ukrainian city of cramming. chuck, causing a massive blaze. this is the latest on verify how much of 32 apparently from the scene showing a massive fire routing from the building. report say they could have been up to a 1000 people inside the mall during the attack. at least 2 people have reportedly been killed and 20 wounded k of claims of russian missile hit the building,

but there's no word from moscow. so far. previously, russia has that it only has hits military targets will keep you updated on all the latest. those stay with us for that but most essay is full of its high position missiles have hit a weapons factory in kiev, which has been pumping out on munition via cranium rocket launches. roches defense ministry also explains that key of zone at defense systems were responsible for hitting a residential building. that is to remember to believe regime attempted to should. high precision russian missiles with air defense system stations in the city are due to a lack of communication between those systems and ready for us to s 300. and so our cross missiles were, he'd why you couldn't and book systems. and one of the missiles is believed to have fallen into a residential building. locally, the response from moscow's defense ministry came off the key of mad blamed russia for sunday's incidents in which one person was killed and 6 others injured, including a child when a mess, a miss all his

a residential building and the kindergarten in the ukrainian capital. and other developments russian lead forces have been evacuating hundreds of civilians from the adult chemical plants. and then the guns city of several don. yes, which is come under the full control of the la ganske republics authorities. humanitarian efforts are underway to help civilians you chose to remain in several don. yes, despite the fighting that russia's defense ministry saved them over the 100000 residents of state in the city and its suburbs. some civilians have openings that the ukrainian army didn't help them evacuate and had even sets up firing positions inside residential areas where we heard from some of them what items are. so we are grateful to you for everything for coming here and freeing us from here from all the crane in the military did nothing to help us. there weren't deployed in residential areas shelling, civilian building themself 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 our tanks and armored vehicles mark. so the 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. they fired from all around our building tanks and artillery were constantly driving around shooting where we lived for almost a month. intense fossils tore into the industrial zone as the ukrainian army used, the assault chemical plug 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 visited the factory to see what the ukrainian 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 as thought factory of the resort chemical plant. and just yesterday, the last ukranian troops ran uphill towards the town of least 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. thing. but i would like to learn more or less with this a teacher. but if you, if you look at it from that particular share, i wouldn't want to live with deputy looking for death. whether this was one of the firing positions of the ukrainian forces at the as lot 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 by your from us. 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. so now we are going down to the fortified 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 place this is their sleeping quarters. you see the store, the ukranian army could hold out for

a very long time. this is one of the shelters at the assault plant where a platoon of ukrainian soldiers while slept. i had some rest there. 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. all of this war zone has spoken with one of machine. your best peoples of each that are here. this place gives some serious flashbacks of another factory over in 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 similarly,

when the economy were ready to use chemical weapons, apparently they just didn't have time or didn't get some kind of order hung goat. it didn't happen. now cave maintains that this was a tactical retreat that the troops, that they fell back to the 40 fight and more advantageous positions over there. a mid thing, the fact that the said positions remained incomplete. encirclement, i'm english done of reporting from the a sort chemical plant, art c. as the ukranian army was forced to abandon his position, as many soldiers have been left behind by their commanders. and we heard from some of them a warning. those captains soldiers may be speaking on the duress. now, we were abandoned by our own comrades or officers. they fled with some soldiers, but the rest were left on the sellers. a lot of guys aren't coming home with. 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 u. a have offered to help mediate the exchange of military prisoners between russia and ukraine. that's according to a report by russian news agency re another state. this month. russia's defense minister said more than 6000 ukrainian competence are being held by russia. however, said a sure you did that k of is reluctant to negotiate a swap deal with moscow. meanwhile, the new york times se says a huge network of american spies in ukraine operating hours of care is one of the key objectives is reported to manage weapon flows, as the west provides billions of dollars worth of bonds and equipment. the key of the article says ukraine heavily depends on help from the us and its allies. but it seems that most of the us intelligence operatives in that country are acting in

secret. the article contradicts the previous reports about helping us, like the clear picture of what is actually happening inside ukraine's army. now g, suddenly to 7 out billions of dollars of investments in the global infrastructure projects in an effort to counter chinese expansion of power abroad. who is bells and rhode initiative paging has condemned when it describes the west's geopolitical machinations, committed under the guise of promoting worldwide developments for offering better options for countries and for people around the world to invest in critical infrastructure that improves the lives their lives. all our lives are, delivers real days for all of our people because one democracies demonstrate what we could do all that we have to offer. i have no doubt there will when the competition, every time go. sure don't play china welcomes all initiatives that promote global

infrastructure. what we oppose is to advance to political calculations and smith that belts and 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 prince, suppose of joint consultation drunk construction and shed benefits. so instead of invading countries under questionable pretext, and hoping that a military footprint translates to an economic wind, it looks like now they're going to try to use a teaspoon of honey, rather than vinegar. and it's going to cost them $600000000000.00 worth for this project. 200000000000 pledge coming from washington. and that's supposed to add to another 300000000000 promised by the u. last year. now the targets africa and latin america and the white house said last sunday that american companies were working on various projects. for example, he cited solar power project in angola, vaccine manufacturing facility in senegal and modular reactor in romania and

a 1000 miles submarine telecom cable to connect singapore to france through egypt and the horn of africa. pretty ambitious. but is it realistic or is it just window dressing? german chancellor, olaf schultz seems to be at your believer. he's framing it as an opportunity for g 7 companies to get their foot in the door. the public sector alone would not be able to close to huge investment gap we placed in many parts of the wood. this is why we are promoting innovative instruments such as the emerging market climate action front in order to mobilize private investment to for sustainable infrastructure. so the reason behind all of this is that these g 7 countries which are mainly western lead, are trying to compete with china. and it's 10 year olds belt and road initiative which young, which they're spending now just for example, last year,

59000000000 dollars in just one year. so china has a huge lead on this. even though there's a lot of criticism coming from washington. and it's longstanding, they're realizing that they have to find a way to compete with it because criticizing it as former c, i a director and former u. s. secretary of state mike pompei o has done in the past. apparently, business just isn't working any more shine of petals, corrupt infrastructure deals in exchange for political influence. it's bribed fuel debt trap, diplomacy undermines good governments and threatens to append the free market economic model on which so many countries depend, right? so in china does it, it bribe fuels and debt diplomacy? of course that never happens right. washington has never done anything with respect to bribes and underhanded activity in africa. right. ever all you have to do is look back at history with respect to these kinds of initiatives. the most obvious example being the marshall plan to reconstruct post world war 2, europe,

5 per cent, at least of that budget, went to setting up cia front companies in european countries. it's hard to imagine how this new initiative could provide a pretext for securing a foothold in africa and latin america. and the west has been struggling to actively counter countries cooperation with russia and china. so far, only the marketers seem to be profiting because as i said earlier, this is just a rebranded initiative from the build back. better world proposal table. that last years g 7 summit in britain, china basically has about a decade lead on this and hundreds of billions of dollars. but let's see what happens me. well, china's infrastructure initiative is seeing successful results with the recent opening of bangladesh is longest bridge built by a chinese company that struck to nearly 7 kilometers long as seen by a beijing as

a milestone for cooperation with the south asian country. let's go live now to which is verna and economics professor de monford university u. k. many thanks for joining us on the program i were to deploy. does the d 7 ones a campaign to rival china's belton road? yes. well, i think the belgian road initiative that china launched has been very successful and it's success is really the reason why the western countries are trying to come up with a count to measure. which is ironic because of course the built in road initiative in itself was in response to an alternative to the or a well established postwar, bretton woods i'm of world bank type of approach to developing countries and, and essentially it's an approach that said it would help these countries to develop, but there is not a single country that actually has successfully developed and moved decisively from

developing countries status to develop countries status in the past 70 years under the i m f world bank system, which is why in china offered an alternative and the key feature of tentative is that china was mainly literally aiming to help these countries development policies and advance their economic growth focusing, particularly on infrastructure investment, funding providing funding without the usual i'm, if we're buying strings attached to the g. 7 countries have enough funds available to go forward with proposals that i mean will taxpayers approve of such projects? do you think will taxpayers have not been asked and will not be asked? you can see that if you look at these are amazing, huge projects. they've been going on in the past of 6 years in europe that the majority of taxpayers would really disapproval. whether it's, you know, what,

what happened in a sense 2020, under some kind of virus campaign program. providing huge funds or companies that produce mosques quite expensively and, and things like that. i mean, the amount of money throwing up the stuff like that. and of course now with western countries providing billions of billions, billions for and the regime, establish boca, and ukraine. so taxpayers on being asked, and i think that's the same in this case with the other question is, you know, is there enough money? where do they get the money from? well, the money that's going to be provided is going to be money in the currencies of the provider. so we're talking about largely at the us and also western europe, the euro. well, they can just create this money in the beacon at folk it out. and the eurozone

banking system can created it is really a question of whether these developing countries that would be boring this money. assuming this is going to be loans, whether they can repay them in foreign currency or, or whether the funds will be less in terms of loans, but perhaps more like a development aid and the gift which i doubt we'd like to, again talking about loans. will these loans than be combined with conditionality? as is the principle in western europe and north america under the i'm a working system that yet remains yet to be seen. what do you think the g 7 countries are so concerned about the growth of china economy and it said infrastructure projects abroad doing so well? well, because it says it's, it seems, it appears to the she 7 countries to be

a challenge to their dominance. the, these rich industrialized countries have dominated the global discourse and also the policies towards developing countries because the majority of the world's population lives in developing countries. and they've essentially been on the receiving end of these policies. but these policies have not been very successful. they have not deliberate growth and prosperity for developing countries. china stepped in and appeared to be much more generous, did not make all these other logical political conditions, a pre condition off lending the money. and so now it seems g 7, the g 7 feels china is making too many inroads here and is winning on the international a political battlefield,

so to speak. so countermeasures are being called for, but really what they should be saying is, okay, the chinese approach is works better. why don't we reform the, i'm a, what bang system and actually make it much more directly geared towards helping, truly helping developing countries. i should run an economics professor at mumford university many thanks for your time. thank you. on the sidelines on the g 7 summit, the head of the european commission said she would like to see vladimir pearson attends the g 20 summit later this year. so the european leaders can talk to the president to president the russian president i to i, glover 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, a position off the top so can get the g 7 summit, which sets bank tax payers almost $200000000.00 euros. some of the leaders seem to more interested in shirtless vacation photos of the russian presses. and rather

than discussing global issues, britain's prime minister and his canadian counts party, been jokes about undressing, to show that they are quote, tougher than vladimir putin posted. ah. but i think they'll get a chance to show how tough they really are, as the criminal has confirmed putin willis. hence the g. 20 summit in november, extensive dialogue with russia is no longer possible that according to nato's chief speaking ahead of the block summit in madrid. this week in stoughton bergosa announcing massive increase the number of combat ready nato troops. you all transformed 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 that's knocked on the table, got settled working as simply because of russia's behavior. and he, up to $5000.00 demonstrators, took to the strength of madrid, demanding the dissolution of nato. and the shut down of alliance spaces in spain, protested march through the spanish capital shouting slogans and brandishing anti nato banners. the blog summers imagery this week is expected to focus on finland's and sweden's bids to join the alliance, as well as on increasing military spending among nato members. as well as some of the activists image would have been saying in response. it's nothing 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 or 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. they 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 nice of it. nato only perpetuates the logic of violence that destroys our cities. our society that generates violence and it only escalates at about only. yeah, author and journalist thomas roper believes that nato doesn't want to conduct dialogue with russia and is actually aggravating. the crisis i, i would say quite, quite aggressive. let's not forget to sum up to $300000.00 soldiers being ready to be deployed at the board of usa usa, but of russia. so, no country can be happy about this. even if the reason might be on you are making money. anyway, this is an aggressive, aggressive potential. so for russia, this will be an alert. well, when we look in the world outside the media bible of the western world, i think this is understood, i think, is a quite aggressive. see, i quite have the feeling that europe a people forget what, what means

a war. i to doesn't want to talk to russia, excuse russia, from, from everything from all possible a sessions where they could talk, and they tell ukraine to go on fighting. so not natal wants to prolong the war. i don't know whether they have any wreck last because they are going on escalate nato . she fans also said that the block is due to a pre, the new 10 year strategy. they will label russia as the main threat to its collective security. monica was frequently accused, nay, too, of 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 amongst as latest decisions held neighboring bella roost with nuclear capable missiles artes donald quarter has the details. as nato continues to assimilate nuclear attacks in eastern europe, russia's promised to beef up bella, roosters defense capabilities with nuclear capable missile systems and jet upgrades moving in with me. so it,

within the next few months will transfer as kunda and tactical systems to bella. luce, which can use both ballistic and cruise missiles and both the conventional and nuclear versions across that carry the missiles can be upgraded yet this month. my zation should be carried out at 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 as 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 potent 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 plains 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, and nuclear conflict in the center of europe. he doesn't think about the future of all the ukraine, poland. if his proposals are implemented, these countries will disappear as well as europe. then there's the, you case, defense minister who said he supported key ever 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 is it difficult question, but with think to started, if you could help us in this regard, it would be really, really important. okay, well, i mean, prime minister on all those big questions. i think there is a question to, 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, mister fulton has, doesn't want to know, 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 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 authentic. and i think that those and i think that that undermines the argument by native itself that it, it's a defense of organization. the grace period for some of rush is 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 harsh consequences from oscar. russia defaulted on its foreign

currency, sovereign debt for the 1st time in a century, the culmination of ever tougher 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. mcclendon insists it has both the will and the current see to services debts and say that he default would be artificial because it would be caused by sanctions. the issue with previously raised off to russia was cut from the international banking system. swift following the start of the war in ukraine. however, moscow subsequently found ways to services that despite the restrictions versus finance ministry says the required payment was made in advance. on may 20th, the criminal spokesperson said, there's no reason to say russia would be actually defaulting. these statements about the default. they're absolutely unjustifiable in this case because the necessary payment was made in may. the fact that you are a clear withheld that money and did not transfer it to its recipients is no longer

our problem. there is no reason to call the situation of default. and then the of the russian thing tank, the council on foreign and defense policy, alexander law says, says the situation is, in fact, this is a strategic default of american banks lose those who throwing torres workers are cruising. oh, so there is no to for those funds. to law does not useful through the solution will. so for your horse a solution has a fusion loan to endorse a system who own a section one to go to the american banks. i see you from a can banks lot. so cruiser.