we even do not see them, the bone bus from somewhere from all the space underneath a a brush and lead forces say they are advancing in lugens could claiming the ukrainian military is forced to retreat east from the city of lucy chance. and archie cru looks at how moscow's military is operating in the republic. it's literally seconds until it's about to fire towards a 45 percent of the ukrainian forces with inflation hitting new records. biden is accused of shifting blame to russia rather than dealing with internal problems. beijing denounces the g 7 after the group announces

a global infrastructure project to counter china's own built and wrote initiative with broadcasting live director studios in moscow. this is our g international and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. and we start with the latest from the war and ukraine, according to logan's officials. russian lead forces have significantly advanced in the city of lucy. chance in the republics north, west ukrainian forces are now said to be retreating east from that area of fierce battles are understood to have broken out in the sea chance. and that's after russian lead forces took control of key areas around the city. now as you can see from the map, the ukranian army now appears to be blocked from the north after cuba troops retreated from several done yes. and also from the south, which has allowed to look on scar me to surround lucy, chanced ortiz, you guys, john of got access to see how russian and allied forces have been operating in the

guns was ukrainian. now a russian trophy weapon this soviet made the 64 thank is successfully thinking bought in the b. that's if occasion operations just outside the town of our to him of literally seconds until it's about to fire towards a 45 percent of the ukrainian forces. lou ah, with

and what you have here is a disguised trophy tank. it used to be ukraine's t 60 fool, but was captured all the way on the outskirts of caves and spent 4 months now. it has been taking part in the d. nazi fine operations embedded with rushes. special forces at though much molars. this is our little baby. we took it from the cranny, national gardener, kiev, rowdy, a t $64.00 b. v tank. does it work well, that works well enough shita. there are a lot of screw ups actually because ukrainian army didn't know how to service it properly. i think we need to pull out all of these american electronics and we can work with it. the most important thing is that it works for the as the russian forces advance in the don't bass, new areas become available for journalists. and this is one of them. this is where the onslaught on the key strategic town of our tome of school moved is happening

basically. it's the gateway towards ukraine's city citadels. meanwhile, danielle consort, say in the last 24 hours residential areas of the republic have been heavily shelled by here. as a result, at least 5 civilians have been killed and 24 injured authorities said a number of ukrainian rocket launcher systems have subsequently been destroyed, which should stop artillery attacks on the center of the dani it's capital and in the central ukrainian city of criminal, true missiles have reportedly struck a mall full of people causing a massive blaze. this unverified footage, apparently from the scene, shows a fire engulfing the building. at least 15 people reportedly died in the incidents and 50 others were wounded. he claimed a russian missile hit the mall, but there's been no official response from moscow. as of yet, the building is located right across the street from a ukrainian machine factory reportedly used for repairing military vehicles. not

a rush diplomat to the un said that it's no coincidence that the claim of russian involvement comes just before the latest nato suddenly looks like we are dealing with a new butcher style ukrainian provocation. there are too many striking discrepancies already. exactly what the key regime needs to keep the focus of attention on ukraine before nato summit. nato's chief has announced a massive increase in the number of combat ready nato troops calling russia a major threat to western security. the announcement comes ahead of the blocks summit. this week it will transform the nato response force and increase the number of our hybrid, this forces to well over 300000. so, so the meaningful dialogue we worked for, for so many years. that's not on the table that's not working as simply because of

russia's behavior. earlier, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of madrid, where the summit will take place. they demanded the disillusion of nato and the shut down of alliance basis in spain. now the summit is expected to focus on the war in ukraine, an increase in military funding for t of and finland and sweden's bids to join the lines. steve sweeney international editor of the morning. star newspaper says nato's aggressive policy towards russia is no path to peace. i think that this announcement by in stoughton berg today, is quite astonishing. i mean, he said, is the biggest overhaul of forces since the since the cold war. but i think this can really only be seen as an act of aggression. i'm one that takes us further away from pay in stockton berg open. he said that he views russia as the biggest threat to our security by ours he means the west,

but we can see quite clearly that who, who is leading the question here. this is there's been some expansion east that we know over the next few days. it like this week that they're going to be discussing finland and sweden membership. all of that, i think it's a very clear message that nato is not interested in peace. it's not interested in dial. they're prepared to carry on their war of aggression to be i think we should kind of dispelled any missed that nato is a different alliance, is not an aggressive machine. while the u. s. face is record high inflation due to rising fuel and gas prices. the white house continues to win, everyone except itself, or just kill them up and coming. as us inflation keeps climbing, jo biden's, popularity keeps thinking. the rate of inflation and united states has just surpassed a 40 year high, a whopping 8.6 percent,

and of course the white house is happy to blame everyone but itself. joe biden knows how to point fingers pretty well. today's invasion of ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world. 70 percent of the increase in prices in march came from the put in price hike. i'm doing everything i can to bring down prices and address of put in price hike. u. s. strategic petroleum reserves are depleted, more than they've ever been down to levels we haven't seen since 1987 who didn't, didn't make those decisions. joe biden, last gas means higher prices, higher prices mean inflation. joe biden has cancelled the keystone ex l pipeline, who did it shortly after taking office. he's also been canceling drilling and gasoline is left and right. energy and transportation costs underscore inflation in the country, and everything that we buy in biden will not absolutely will not take on the progress. when it comes to drilling in america,

he would rather go prostrate himself over and saudi arabia and can legally reverse themself on his approach to the saudi's, hypocritical li. before he takes on the progressive as bite and reaches out to countries that have long been targeted for u. s. regime change like iran and venezuela for fuel supplies. many are left scratching their heads. it seems like he's more interested in importing oil from long time foes than allowing american firms to rev up their drills. the democrats say that it's all about going green. republicans aren't buying what they could buy last year, is way more than now. what they can buy this year, and americans are going backwards in their lives, but yet it's everybody else's fault, except their former us president donald trump, who would like to return the white house after the 2024 election is not impressed either with washington's current politics we have never had anything like what's happened with energy and energy costs. it is no longer energy independent

or energy dominant like it was just 2 years ago. it's a nation that is begging vet, as well as saudi arabia for oil. yet biden always seems to find a way to circle back to russia dodging any personal responsibility. very aim, and we would rather have lower gas prices in american and prudence, iron fist in europe. i don't believe that as the economic data just keeps getting worse, democrats are now focusing on guns, abortion, and memories of january 6. meanwhile, many americans are looking in the other direction, increasing pain in their check books and wallet. at the same time, we've got the mid term november election approach and you never close taylor mop and rti new york g 7 leaders have used this weeks forum to announce billions of dollars of investments in. busy global infrastructure projects, that's in an effort to try and countered china is expansion of power overseas

through its ambitious belt and road initiative. beijing meanwhile, has condemned to such efforts as western geopolitical machinations, committed under the guise of promoting worldwide developed, offering 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 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 . would the competition every time? don't sure. don't playing china welcomes own 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 principles of joint consultation,

drunk construction and shed benefits. so the reason behind all of this is that these d 7 countries which are mainly western lead are trying to compete with china and it's 10 year olds belt and road initiative, which yeah, which they're spending now just for example, last year, 59000000000 dollars in just one year, and it's going to cost them $600000000000.00 worth for this project. you under 1000000000 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 a 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 a huge investment gap. we praised the many parts of the world. this is why we are promoting innovative instruments such as the emerging market climate at confront, in order to mobilize private investment to for sustainable infrastructure. 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 pompeo has done in the past. apparently just this just isn't working any more shina 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, 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, it's hard to imagine how this new initiative could provide a pretext for securing a foothold in africa and latin america in 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 that build back that are world proposal table that last year's g 7 summit. meanwhile, beijing's infrastructure initiative is enjoying success with the recent opening of bangladesh as the longest bridge built by a chinese company. the structure,

nearly 10 kilometers in length, is seen by china as a milestone. in his cooperation with the south asian country, economists to richard vernon and a business professor benjamin chow. believe the g 7 is fearful about china becoming a strong international power. china's spell enroll in asia. they have started in 2013 is 9 years now. the investment is about $200000000000.00 so far and it was a $16000000000.00 alone yet, or last year did the project was about, ah, beauty connectivity, beauty under developing countries. so that dell, more goods trades can be done with china and also the rest of the world. it and china, things they say, we mean situation and the, the worst, my, not my, or my not thing that same way. and the, these rich industrialized countries have dominated the global discourse. and also

the policies towards developing countries was the majority of the world's population lives in developing countries. and they've essentially been on the receiving end of these policies. but as these policies have not been very successful, they have not deliberate growth and prosperity for developing countries. china stepped in and peered 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. and on the international, i am in a political battlefield, so to speak. so countermeasures are being called for, but really what they should be saying is ok,

the chinese approaches works better while we reform the i'm of what bank system and actually make it much more directly geared towards helping truly helping developing countries. while western media continues to push a russian default narrative because it has no way to service its sovereign debt, no kremlin spokesperson says such statements are absolutely unjustifiable. ortiz, mary, if notional comments now add to take a closer look at the problem, slumbered, and later, most western media were quick to report that russia has defaulted on its foreign debt for the 1st time in more than a century. the reason, at least according to the mainstream media, is the sanctions have turned moscow into political and economic pariah. it's a grim marker in the countries rapid transformation into an economic, financial, and political outcast. the nation's euro. bonds have traded at distressed levels since the start of march, the central banks, foreign reserves remain frozen,

and the biggest banks are severed from the global financial system. and to support their claim. some media have looked back more than 100 years to revisit a long gone iraq. for now, the default is mostly notable for it. symbolism is russia's 1st foreign debt defaults since 1918, reflecting the countries international parias status in crumbling economy. but it seems that says she story, co parallel of her not quite accurate. back in 917 following the tober revolution. russia saw a change of power with its new ruler, is simply refusing to pay off. sorry, debts, not to mention the fact that back in the present, the harshest economic sanctions adver experienced by russia has failed to smash the country's economy so far. it's certainly interesting that back then foreign bond holders were among those heap, the hardest, some things the current situation may also repeat with key investors from other countries likely to be the biggest losers who want to ever see their money again.

and this time around, according to moscow, russia is fully ready to fulfill its financial obligations while it's our pending supper and that amounts to $40000000000.00. moscow was required to pay back $100000000.00 in interest rates on to europe, bonds by monday. and the kremlin and say the payment has been completed in full the statements about the default are absolutely unjustifiable in this case because the necessary payment was made in may. the fact that you're 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. so why all the big fos? all right, it's all about put in and even tied to a financial squeeze on moscow. they open this risk for the oil money, but the rest of the transfer, it's not opened and they play that game because they want to do

problems wherever they can't. but it's necessarily completely nonsense. and as in this case, the money that especially the interests go to western banks and best and investors. and then they now want to open it for a short time to get their own advantage fulfillment. and it's because they wanted to do a favor to the, to the russians. a panel of 13 banks and asset managers asked the us treasury to allow trading and russian assets temporarily. so that investors who wagered on moscow defaulting, can be paid what they're owed. plus the western bank in charge of transact your bond payments has simply stopped accepting roubles, which was part of most goes turns on return. and it's that clients are no longer allowed to transfer any rub to ng bank. our cash correspondent in moscow, in favor of your euro, clear bank account. it certainly looks like russia is more than ready to give,

but it's the west that's simply not ready to take. and that is harmon, the foreign debt holders. it's also pushing russia out of the global financial picture, curtain investors and depriving businesses of their benefits while some media, a reasonably asking who's actually bearing the brunt. this default is unusual because it's a result of economic sanctions blocking transactions. not because the russian government has run out of money. moscow's finances remain resilient after months of war. and russia continues to receive a steady influx of cash from sales of oil and gas. still a default would be a stain on the country's reputation that will linger in investors, memories and probably push up its borrowing costs if it is able to tap international capital markets. analysts agree that it's a very rare situation when a government that has the funds to cover its bills, it's been effectively forced into default. but it seems that this is exactly what's

happening and rush is far from the only one to be paying the price for $8.00. remember of russian sing tank is the council on foreign and defense policy. alexander also says that the situation is, in fact a strategic default of american banks. this is trying to register for christian by a cruising a show on national gra, there is no default. those user finance minister 2 do not, does not refuse to fulfill disaggregation to serve for your horse. a racial has a fusion long term doors are all the closest to who all on vacation owners, action taken. and chris, one to comb, or the super american, cris bought in banks are asking you from american banks. do not so close allegation

to customers now do not make payments. i think this is not to do default for american banks. strategic is default as or, or what, what is or isn't, doesn't due to the financial coming from older boring protesters have taken to the streets of the us to voice anger. had a supreme court ruling that overturned the nearly 50 year old federal constitutional right to have an abortion. oh wow. way i was in march to to voice their anger in washington and dozens of other events could place country wide. at least 10 states have effectively band abortion since friday ruling while a for the 2050 not have laws indicating they could outlaw, were extreme limits on abortion. has been a dizzying week for the us legal system with not only group productive rights,

but also the mas parking controversy. politicians from the ruling at democratic party were among those angry with the supreme court's decision. this is a crisis of our democracy. the supreme court has dramatically overreached its authority on the united report has decided that they do for all of america to pin to their personal religious and moral views is a very different scenario to the frustration of january 6. the last year when democrats slammed those voicing their right to protest, a decision that they disagreed with in that instance they were supporters of democratic nemesis, donald trump, who had stormed the legislature to dispute the results of the 2020 presidential election ortiz rachel blevins. comments. days after the united states supreme court

overturn the case of roe vs wade, politicians across the country are reacting and they're encouraging americans to take to the streets and protests. some are even questioning the state of democracy . however, while top democrats in congress were quick to criticize those who question the u. s . government, after a rally and support, then president donald trump, led to the storming of the u. s. capital. they are now saying it is more than okay to do so. and they are certainly not holding back the women that are going to try to stop the witnesses. we will decide them the

morning. the radical supreme court is this rating american rights and endangering there's health and safety that the congress will continue to act. to overcome this extreme isn't and extremism and protect the american people. but if we were trying to january 6, 2021, this same politicians weren't nearly as supportive of any kind of civil unrest. in fact, they openly condemned it. it is outrageous. what happened to us that the capital of the united states was invaded by domestic terrorism. on this day, last year, a mob of domestic terrorist stormed our nation's capital. it was installed on our democracy. it was installed to in our constitution assault on the congress that the united states. you make no mistake, our democracy was on the brink of catastrophe that day. the call to action in this case has been to encourage americans to flood the streets and to make their voices

heard. but that hasn't come without a reminder from politicians that people also need to vote the right way. because the 2020 to mid term elections are right around the corner. and it didn't take long for a members of the far left wing in chief, a movement to translate those calls for action in new calls for violence as a rallied in washington, d. c g. yeah, so what does that mean for the protestors who are now gathering outside of the homes of conservative justice is on the supreme court and calling for harm against them. and the aftermath of january fixed demonstrators and writers were called extremist and domestic terrace. their faces were placed on wanted posters and they were targeted by the f. b. i. with the help of large corporations handing over bank statements to help federal officers so far at least $865.00 people have been

charged. but what is the difference between the americans who question the legitimacy of a presidential election and the americans who are now questioning the legitimacy of a supreme court decision. it appears that it all boils down to the message sent by the politicians who need their votes, as they claim that one side would lead to the downfall of the u. s. while the other side would be it saving grace. as it does it for me this hour i will be back in just under 32 minutes. another phone fresh look to new say with the such international ah ah ah

ah ah ah ah hello and 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 any more, i'm joined by my guess, glen decent in oslo. he's a professor at the university of se or norway, as well as author of the book, russo phobia propaganda in international politics. and here in moscow we have exactly a miro. he is the founder of the centre, a political strategic analysis strap poll or a gentleman. crosstalk rules and effect, that means you can jump any time you want, and i would appreciate it. we would start out with glenn 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.