ah, ah, i'm with russian that lead forces claims they are squeezing key of troops from lucy chance, forcing them to retreat. east in r t. crew looking exclusively at how moscow's military is operating in the loo, ganske republic. literally seconds until it's about to fire towards a 45 percent of the ukrainian forces everyone else's fault, except the democrats with us inflation hitting new records. biden is accused of trying to shift the blame on to russia rather than dealing with problems of his own making. invasion denounces the d 7 after the group announces

a global infrastructure project to counter china's own. built in rhode initiative with broadcasting, lot of direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now we start with the latest from the war in ukraine. according to luke ask, officials of russian lead forces have significantly advanced in the city of lucy chance in the republics northwest. ukrainian forces are now said to be retreating east from the area of fierce battles are understood to have broken out in the lucy chance after russian led forces to control of key areas around the city. and as you can see from the map, the ukrainian army now appears to be blocked from the north. after kia troops retreated from several done, yet scant, also from the south, which has allowed the loo ganske army to surround lucy chanced parties. eager. john,

i've got exclusive access to see how russian and allied forces have been operating in lou ganske 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 this out o r to almost literally seconds until it's about to fire towards a 45 percent of the ukrainian forces. mm. mm hm. ah, with

. and what you have here is a disguised trophy tank. it used to be ukraine's t $64.00, 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, he have rowdy, a t 64 b v table. does it work well? it works well enough, but 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 car, ah, as the russian forces advance in the don't buy new areas become available for journalists, and this is one of them. this is where the onslaughts on the key strategic town of

our tome of school by moot is happening, basically, it's the gateway towards ukraine's city citadels. meanwhile, danielle authorities say in the last 24 hours residential areas of the republic have been heavily sheldon. by here. as a result, at least 5 civilians have been killed and 24 injured now. 40 said, a number of ukrainian rocket launcher systems have subsequently been destroyed, which should stop artillery attacks on the center of the danielle capital. and in the central ukrainian city of kremlin, chug, missiles have reportedly struck a mall full of people. this unverified footage, apparently from the scene, shows a fire engulfing the building. at least 15 people repeatedly died in the incident and 50 others were wounded. he had claimed a russian missile hit the mall, but there has been no official response yet from moscow. the building is located across the street from a ukrainian machine factory reportedly used for repairing military vehicles. a

russian diplomats to the un said it's no coincidence that the claim of russian involvement come to just before the latest nato summit looks like we are dealing with a new butcher style, ukrainian provocation. there are too many striking discrepancies already. exactly what the key of regime needs to keep the focus of attention on ukraine before nato summit. nieto chief has announced a massive increase in the number of combat ready nato troops calling russia a major threat to western security. now the announcement comes ahead of the box summit. this week it will transform the nato response force and increase the number of our high read 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 rational behavior. earlier,

thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of madrid, where the summit will take place. they demanded the dissolution of nato and the shut down of the lines spaces in spain. the summit is expected to focus on the war in ukraine, an increase in military funding for kia and finland and the sweden's bids to join the alliance. 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 is an announcement i in stoughton and today is quite astonishing. i mean, he said it's the biggest overall of those 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, but open. he said he views russia as the biggest threat to i was security. i was, he means the best we can see quite clearly that who,

who is leading the question here. this is, there's been some expansion east we know over the next few days, it like to this week that they're going to be discussing in sweden's membership. all, all that. well, i think it's a very clear message to nato is not interested in peace is not interested in dial. they're prepared to carry on their war of aggression. i think we should try to spell any made that night. so is a defensive alliance is not an aggressive minutes. while the u. s. faces record high inflation, the white house claims everyone except itself for america. internal problems that's despite biden cancelling offshore drilling and gasoline left and right ortiz kill them up in comments. 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 to 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 couldn'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 himself on his approach to the south east, hypocritical li. before he takes on the progress of his bite and reaches out to countries that have long been targeted for u. s. regime change like iran and then his whaler 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 or aid. we would rather have lower gas prices in america 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 and their checkbooks and wallace. and at the same time we've got the midterm november elections approach edging ever closer, tailored. martin artsy, new york g 7 leaders have used this weeks forum to announce billions of dollars of investments in global infrastructure projects. that is in an effort to

try and counter china's expansion of power overseas, through its ambitious belt and road initiative. busying, meanwhile, has condemned to such efforts as western geopolitical machinations, committed under the guise of promoting world wide development for 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 are, delivers real gains for all of our people because one democracies demonstrate what we could do all that we have to offer. i have no doubt that will win the competition every time. don't. shadow playing. china welcomes all initiatives that promote global infrastructure. what we oppose is to advance ju 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 joint

construction and shed benefits. 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 in which they're spending l just for example, last year, 59000000000 dollars in just one year. and it's going to cost them $600000000000.00 worth for this project. to 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 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 a true 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 placed in many parts of the world. this is why we are promoting innovative instruments, such as the emerging markets, climate confront in order to mobilize private investment, to for sustainable infrastructure. china has a huge lead on this, even though there 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 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 and i said it's bribe fuels and debt diplomacy. of course that never happens right. washington has never done anything with respect to drives 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 better world proposal table that last year's g 7 summit. meanwhile, beijing's global infrastructure initiative is enjoying tremendous success with a recent highlight, the opening of bungler gushes, longest bridge built by a chinese company. the structure, nearly 10 kilometers in length,

is seen by china as a milestone in some cooperation with the south asian country communist richard. berner believes the g 7 is fearful about china becoming a strong international power. the 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 it to be much more generous. did not make all these other logical political conditions as a, you know, a pre condition off lending the money. and so now it seems g

7, g 7 feels china is making too many inroads here and is winning on the international you know, political battlefield so to speak. so countermeasures of being cold. ringback for, but really what they should be saying is ok, the chinese approach is works better. why don't we reform the, i'm a bang system and actually make it much more direct geared towards helping truly helping developing countries. meanwhile, the g 7 summit is coming to a close after 2 days of discussions with no significant commitments so far. which can't be said for the bricks summit, which ended one week ago. now, when it comes to matters of evident expense, there is even a vast difference. the bricks summit hardly cost anything as it was held via video conference. that's in direct contrast to the opulence of the g 7 meeting. the g 7 summit was held in the bavarian alps in one of germany's most expensive resorts

with 18000 police officers providing security. the official cost for that $2.00 day event was $180000000.00 euros. but media report say the real price was closer to 200000000 economists see the meeting of bricks, countries, brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa as extremely promising as its collective g. d. p growth exceeds that of elated g 7 economies. that is quite a feat as the population of bricks, nations amounts to more than 3000000000 people around 300 percent larger than the population of g 7 countries. a gte kumar. job. a research editor of india today says that despite the g seven's grand rhetoric, we are witnessing the end of its dominance. so in the last 40 years, the g 7 has really slid down. it has basically become much weaker than it used to be in terms of foreign policy. it still has

a very poor the water mentality. it sort of looks down on the whole sort of brig, developing war, you know, about a $188.00 countries, almost unrepresented in the g 7. it's the island news that the g 7 doesn't want. the mock is to stay open. it's the power or leg by the bricks which ones the market to stay open in the g 7 countries that people sort of end up. busy consuming enormous mileage in terms of putting out those. whereas in the developing world, we are much more environment effective. we manage with less resources. so we are talking about an alternative ecosystem which is very attractive for the rest of the word. while western media continues to push a russian, that default narrative because it has no way to service its sovereign debt to

kremlin spokesperson says such statements are absolutely unjustifiable. not me if notion or comments lomberg 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 a political and economic pariah. it's a grim marker in the country's rapid transformation into an economic, financial, and political outcast. the nation's euro. bonds have traded at distress 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 era. for now, the default is mostly notable for its symbolism as russia's 1st foreign debt default since $918.00, reflecting the countries international parias status in crumbling economy. but it

seems that such historical parallels had not quite accurate back in 1917 following the tobar revolution. russia. so a change of power with its new ruler is simply refusing to pay off. sorry, that's up 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 pending, suffering, 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 so the payment has been completed in full. these statements

about the default are absolutely unjustifiable in this case, because the necessary payment was made in may. the fact that you're, claire 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 foss? all right, it's all about put in an even tie to financial squeeze on moscow. they open this risk for the oil money, but the rest of the transfer, it's not open. 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 investor. and then they now want to open it for a short time to get their own advantage fulfillment. and it's

because they want to do a favor to the, to the reference panel of 13 banks and asset managers ask 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 transacting euro bond payment 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 also pushes russia out of the global financial picture, hurricane investors, and depriving businesses of their benefits while some media are 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. and let's 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 russia is far from the only one to be paying the price for it. remember of russian thing tank. the council on foreign and defense policy, alexander lucy of says that the situation is, in fact a strategic default of american backs limited. stacy is trying to arrange

a cooperation bye. i cruising a financial crime. there is not due for the finance minister to do not does not refused to fulfill disaggregation with your horse. with a mountain doors and the corners just who obligation all the action they can correspond to comb or their super american correspondent banks. i think if american banks do not so pills allegation to customer look, make payments. i think this is not a default for american banks. strategic is default is or what it is or isn't, doesn't due to the financial problem, oldenburg or the doesn't for me this hour, i will be back, let's say in 35 minutes with another full and fresh look at your new stay with us,

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