ah, a with russian lead forces claim they are squeezing a troops from melissa chance, forcing them to retreat. east in our country. crew looked exclusively at how moscow's military is operating in the public literally seconds until it's about 25 to 845 percent of the ukrainian forces everyone else's fault except that 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. beijing denounces of the g 7 after the

group announces a global infrastructure project to counter china's own belt and road 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 ganske officials, russian lead of 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. a fierce battles are understood to have broken out in it. lucy chanced, after russian led forces to control of key areas around the city. as you can see from this map of the ukrainian army now appears to be blocked from the north africa

of troops retreated from several done, yet scanned, also from the south, which has allowed the lu ganske army to surround lucy. chance ortiz egos, john of god exclusive access to see how russian and allied forces have been operating in lugens 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 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, key of florida, a t 64 b v tank doesn't work well, that works well enough. 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. we can work with it. the most important thing is that it works. or 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, the ganske officials have said that all civilians have trapped in the as a chemical plant in virginia have now been evacuated. after the cities industrial zone came under full control of don bass forces. more than 1000 people were reported to be trapped in the plant as fighting for control of several done yet. sc raged on. we heard from some of the evacuation. lucy, i'm happy that you came on. this is the most important thing. yes, we lived in hell for 4 months. while we lived together there, we tried to help each other with food and did everything we could the ukrainian army did not give us anything. they did not give us any food just once. they

provided 12 liters of water for 40 people. she knew that we powered lights from potatoes. we also had small flashlights, but we used them very sparingly, so we learned to walk in the dark. done yet, cathedral se in the last 24 hours residential areas of the republic have been heavily shelled by q. as a result, at least 5, the civilians have been killed in 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 dance capital. and in the central ukrainian city of crim and truck missiles have reportedly struct, a mall full of people. now this unverified footage, apparently from the scene, shows a fire and gulf in the building. at least 15 people reportedly died in the incidents and 50 others were wounded claims. a russian missile hit them all, but there has been no official response from moscow as of yet,

the building is located across the street from ukraine in machine factory reporting we use for repairing military vehicles in russian diplomats to the u. n said that it's no coincidence that the claim of russian involvement comes just before the latest native summit looks like we are dealing with a new butcher style ukrainian provocation. there are too many striking discrepancies already. exactly what the key ev regime needs to keep the focus of attention on ukraine before nato summit. ah, nato's 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 blocks summit. this week you will transform the nato response force and increase the number or higher. this forces to well over the 100000. 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 dissolution of nato and the shut down of alliance bases in spain. now the summit is expected to focus on the war in ukraine, an increase in military funding for cuba and finland and sweden's bids to join the alliance. the c sweeney. international editor of the morning, star newspaper says nato's aggressive policy towards russia is no path for peace. i think that this is announcement by in stoughton for today is quite astonishing. i mean, he said, is the biggest overhaul of united states forces since the since the cold war. but i think this can really only be seen as an act of aggression. one that takes us further away from pay in stone, but open. he said,

he views russia as the biggest threats to our security by i was, he means the west, but we can see quite clearly that who's leading the question here. this is, there's been a, a code to make function. 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 i think is a very clear message. the night is not interested in peace. it's not interested in dial. they're prepared to carry on their war of aggression. i think we should try to dispose any missed that night. so is a defensive alliance is not an aggressive machine. now, while the u. s. faces record high inflation, the white house is blaming everyone except itself for america's internal problems. this is despite biden canceling offshore drilling into gas leases left and right. our teeth kill them up and has commentary as us inflation keeps climbing,

jo biden's, popularity keeps thinking. the rate of inflation in the united states is just, are past 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 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 completely reversed themselves on his approach to the south east, hypocritical li, before he take on the progress of his bite and reaches out to countries that have long been targeted for us regime change like iran in venezuela for fuel supplies, many are left scratching their heads. it seems like he's more interested in importing oil from a 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 aim. and we would rather have lower gas prices in american and pollutants, iron fist in europe. i don't believe that the economic data just keeps getting worse. democrats are now focusing on guns, abortion, and memories of january sick. meanwhile, many americans are looking in the other direction, increasing pain, and their check books and wallet. at the same time, we've got the mid term november election approach edging ever closer. mom and archie, new york,

as ukraine's quest for more weapons continues the u. s. is this week expected to announce the supply of advanced missile systems? the deal and timeframe are yet to be fully agreed by both parties, but the us security advisor has confirmed america's intentions. we do intend to finalize a package that includes advanced, medium and long range air defense capabilities for the ukrainians, along with some other items that are of urgent need, including ammunition for artillery encountered battery radar systems. and the report comes amid a plea from the ukranian president to g 7 leaders gathered in germany for a meeting. the one sky has asked them to provide kit with more heavy weaponry in an effort to curtail military actions to winter summit participants expressed their readiness to expand assistance for as long as it takes since the beginning of the conflict in ukraine cave has received

a wide range of military aid from the us and its allies. the assistance includes howitzers, drones, helicopters, anti tank, and anti aircraft systems, munition and other equipment. the latest white house approved package of help amounts to $450000000.00 us dollars, raising the total sum it has donated to more than $6000000000.00. and the spring, the american defense department claimed that the onset deliveries significantly impact the course of the war. the aid was ascended to boost the re taking of last cities, reportedly proving the effectiveness of western weapons such as the howitzers. however, just a month later, ukrainian general refuted such statements claiming that a 3rd of those given needed to be repaired. after every use former marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter said he believes that the core problem is the inability of ukrainian soldiers to deal with more sophisticated arms. there was tremendous political

pressure to be seen as doing something. you train said they needed artillery systems. they needed them. now. if that was the case, the one weapon that we could provide now in great numbers was the m triple 7. so we, we, we, we pulled out over a 1000, and we, we ship them to, to ukraine. we gave them the ammunition ironically, no matter what we provide ukrainians, it's going to be a weapon that they've never trained on before. so right off the bat by giving ukrainians these new weapons, we make them less efficient, less lethal, and we don't give them enough. so when they bring them to the battlefield, with their reduced, we saudi, the russians are still coming at them with 10 times more artillery pieces. so it just, it actually by providing the training with these weapons were actually making it worse for them. in many ways. these are good weapons, if they're in the hands of people who know how to use them,

ukrainians don't know how to use them. so these are good weapons, orphaned children in the loo, ganske people's republic are just some of the latest beneficiaries of russian made . but we are always ready to protect you and help you because there is no difference between you and us. you are our children to earlier this week the russian army unit traveled to the town of her vall, skiing between it, ganske and danielle cities, laden with education supply, food and candy. they also spent time getting to know some of the kids are vasqua orphanage. i thought, well, it has been killing for many of those who lost their parents when the war throughout since 2014 further on up the road, the done yet capital has been living under every day showing for almost amongst our

keys or among closer av takes a closer look at the lives of those living there, along with their protectors. we are in the village offices, sharla on the outskirts of the city of dun etzky, ukrainian positions are about 250 meters away from where i'm standing. today we delivered a humanitarian aid to about a 100 people. in this particular village, i spoke to a local activists. the man says he cannot gather everybody here because it's really dangerous for everyone to gather in one place. so what we're going to do, we're going to leave her some of the foods here, that's the bread sands, goods, hygienic items. and people will come out here when it's safe and collect their rations. and now let's hear from this man here about the situation on the ground. he was wounded himself several times. hi, jenna. jo estrada's co actually. i don't want to put people in danger. there is

shelling every day or you people are afraid to leave their houses. god forbid, if something bad happens, how will i look people in the eye? i don't want to put them in danger by what is a vassily? the highlander? sure lives are right on the front line. his house was hit several times by the ukrainian artillery shelling. he's got a collection of shells and fragments that's landed in his garden yet, shall i production i thought yesterday was the only day. there were almost no shilling. she knew it's been impossible to even poke your nose out of your door. that's been our way of life. for the last 8 years, twice projectiles landed right in front of my house doors. we continued delivering humanitarian aid to the residence of the outskirts of the city of dun ask about a 150 people live in this particular place. this is right next to done that scare airport and also not far from the her positions of the ukrainian and nationalists.

now all these people, they been living under ukrainian shelling for the last 8 years and obviously the shelling had intensified over the last 4 months. nevertheless, they are saying that they don't want to leave their area of residence and so they're waiting for vis escalation to be over. these are some of their stories. what you want at a fit of it. the city has suffered massive shelling. got a shell us every single day. literally every day. now it's funny. but other signal it's social for her lady. what should i say? don't just have a look at the city still there. a shell crate is everywhere, buildings damage. i mean, we've been hoping that it will end for the last 8 years, but it is only getting worse. we are now on the front line on the outskirts of the city of done this on the positions of the sparta recognizance. but sally and the

legendary italian has been defending the city of the nest for the last 8 years. and they have been taking position from position from the ukrainian army right now. they are defending the borders of the nest can are just, are waiting to move further to free the rest of the dentist people. republic. right now i'm going to talk to one of the fighters of this parsa battalion to tell me about the current situation here on the ground for a junior commercial church. they are shelling the civilian infrastructure projectiles, destroy maternity, hospitals, schools, new buildings and civilian budget, grammar school. they are just destroying our city in before they try to hit us and destroy our position. but now they just targeting civilians. we are finding out where their positions are and wiping him out, so we are currently in the line of fire and the shooting continues right now and we have to keep distance between me and this. this soldier snipers are right on that side. and we have to cross this stretch of the road very quickly.

we made it god. while working here on the front line with the sports on. but sally, in the shelling had intensified. ukrainian positions are not that far away and hopefully they haven't seen our arrival because they've been known to target russian journalist. we are currently hiding in this and make sure bomb shelter. and the military told us that we can probably leave very soon as soon as the coast is clear. romano costs or have r t s people's republic g 7. leaders have used this weeks for him to announce billions of dollars of investments and global infrastructure projects. that's in an effort to try encountered china's expansion of power overseas through its ambitious belt and road initiative. beijing meanwhile, has condemned to such efforts as western geo political machinations,

committed under the guise of promoting world wide development for offering better options for countries, for people around the world to invest in critical infrastructure that improves our lives, their lives, all of our lives are, delivers, real games for all of our people because one democracies demonstrate what we can do, all that we have to offer. i have no doubt they will win the competition every time . go. so the plague china welcomes all initiatives that promote global infrastructure. what we oppose is to advance cheer 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 is which they're spending l just for example, last year. $59000000000.00 in just one year. and it's going to cost them $600000000000.00 worth for this project here. 100000000000 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, a 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 a 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 wood. 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'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 has done in the past apparently doesn't. this just isn't working any more shine of petals. 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 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 better world proposal table that last year's g 7 summit. meanwhile, beijing's global infrastructure initiative is enjoying tremendous success with a recent to highlight the opening of bangladesh is longest bridge built by a chinese company. the structure nearly 10 kilometers in length, is seen by china as a milestone in its cooperation with the south asian country. economist richard

varner believes the g 7 is fearful about china becoming a strong, international power. 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 it to be much more generous, did not make all these other logical political conditions as a, you know, pre condition off lending the money. i'm 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 of summit, which ended one week ago. economists to 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 elite g 7 economies. that's 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. and that number is now expected to increase as argentina and iran have formerly applied to join according to russia's foreign

ministry spokeswoman. now when it comes to matters of event expense, there is even a vast difference between the 2 bricks summit hardly cost anything as it was held videoconference, that's indirect contrast to the opulence of the g $7.00 meeting. the g 7 summit was held in the bavarian alps in one of germany's most expensive resorts with 800000 police officers providing security. the official cost for the $2.00 day event that was all about $180000000.00 euros. but media reports say that the real price was closer to 200000000 a g camara, john, a research editor at 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's still has a very poor the water mentality. it's sort of looks down on the whole sort of brig, developing war, you know, about a $188.00 countries. i've almost represented in the g 7. it's the irony is that the g 7 doesn't one. 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 busy consuming enormous amount in terms of putting it. whereas in the developing world, we are much more environment billy effective. we manage with less resources. so we are talking about and, or donate the ecosystem, which is very attractive for the rest of the word that does it for me to start. i

will be back in about 31 minutes with another full infrastructure to stay with this is our to international. ah, ah ah, the west is down to great lengths to generate the false narrative about the conflict in ukraine. the cab regime is losing in 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 term with lou with the my to be who has a lot of. well, mr. roger and you'd hear me. you got there? what could be away on suppress, ma'am? ah, we're pretty elena. ah, we just didn't sit in the.