a, a with russian lead forces claim it. they are squeezing ci of troops from lithia chance, forcing them to retreat. east in r t. crew looks exclusively at how moscow's military is operating in the loo, gone for public literally seconds until it's about to fire towards a 45 percent of the ukrainian forces everyone else's fault, except the democrats with less 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 the g 7 after the group announces

a global infrastructure project to counter china's own belt and wrote initiative with broadcasting live direct. more studios in moscow, this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. and we start with his latest from the war and ukraine, according to le ganske officials. 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 lucy chanced after russian led forces to control of key areas around the city. now as you can see from this map, the ukranian army now appears to be blocked from the north. after key of troops retreated from ever done. yet scant. also from the south, which has allowed the lugens army to surround lucy chanced ortiz eager to donald

got exclusive access to see how russian and allied forces have been operating in lou ganske was ukrainian. now, a russian trophy, weaponless, soviet made. the 64 thank is successfully thinking bought in the b. that's if occasion operations just outside the town of our 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, but was captured all the way on the outskirts of cave. since then for months now, it has been taking part in the d. nazi fine operations embedded with rushes. special forces at though much. melissa, this is our little baby. we took it from the cranny, national gardener, key of florida, a t 64 b. v table. does it work well, that works well enough. shita. boy, 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 her. ah, as the russian forces advance in the don't boss, new areas become available for journalists, and this is one of them. this is where the onslaughts, on the key strategic town of our term of score by moved is happening. basically,

it's the gateway towards ukraine's city citadels. meanwhile, ladon sc officials have said that all civilians trapped in the as on chemical plant in sever danielle have now been evacuated. that's after the city's industrial zone came under full control of dumbass forces. more than 1000 people were reported to be trapped in the plant as fighting for control of sever done yet raged. we heard from some of the vacuous i'm happy that you came home. this is the most important thing we lived in hell for 4 months. now, minor room, we lived together there. we tried to help each other with food and did everything we could actually, 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. let you see, julie said it, we powered lights from potatoes. we also had small flashlights,

but we used them very sparingly. so we learned to walk in the dark. tonya kazora's say in the last 24 hours residential areas of the republic have been heavily shelled by to you. 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 done yet capital and in the central ukrainian city of crime. and true 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 reportedly died in the incident and 50 others were wounded. he claims a russian missile hit the mall, bought so far, there has been no official response from moscow as of yet, the building is located across the street from the ukrainian machine factory reportedly used for repairing military vehicles. a russian diplomat to the un said it's no coincidence that the claim of russian involvement comes 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 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 block summit. this week, you will transform the nato response force and increase the number or higher. 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 bases in

spain. the summit is expected to focus on the war in ukraine, an increase in military funding for t if and finland's and 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 announcement by in stoughton, but today is quite astonishing. i mean, he said, is the biggest overall 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 that he views russia as the biggest threat to our security by ours, he means the best. but we can see quite clearly that who is leading the question here. this is, there's been some expansion where we know over the next few days,

it like to this week that they're going to be discussing finland and sweden membership. all, all that, i think is a very clear message. the nato is not interested in peace. it's not interested in dialogue. they're prepared to carry on their war of aggression. i think we should kind of dispelled any missed that night. so is a defensive alliance is not an aggressive machine. while the u. s. face is record high inflation, the white house blames everyone except itself for america's internal problems. this is despite biden canceling offshore drilling and gasoline has left and right. our t is to kill them up and 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 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 couldn't, didn't make those decisions. joe biden, last gas means higher prices, higher prices mean inflation. joe biden has cancelled the keystone x 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 is 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 south east, hypocritical li before he take on the progress of his bite and reaches out to countries that have long been targeted for u. s. regime change like iran and going his way, le, 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 can buy last year. is way more than now. what they can buy this year. and americans are going backwards in their lives. but yet if everybody else's fault except their former us president donald trump, who would like to return the white house after the 2024 elections 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 venezuela and saudi arabia for oil. yet biden always seems to find a way to circle back to rush dodging any personal responsibility or use 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 in their checkbooks and wallace. at the same time, we've got the midterm november elections approach edging ever close. caleb martin artsy 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 time frame are yet to be fully agreed on by both parties,

but the us national security adviser has confirmed america's intention. 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 a virgin need, including ammunition for artillery encounter battery radar systems. the report comes amid a plea from the ukranian president to g. 7 leaders gathered in germany for a meeting. zalinski has asked them to provide him with more heavy weaponry in an effort to curtail military actions till winter summit participants expressed their readiness to expand assistance for as long as it takes. now since the beginning of the conflict in ukraine, kev has received a wide range of military aid from the us and its allies. the assistants 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 in spring, the american defense department claimed that the arms at delivery significantly impact the course of the war. now the aid was said to boost of the retaking of last cities, reportedly proving the effectiveness of western weapons such as the howitzers. however, just a month later, you can in general, refuted such statements claiming that a 3rd of those given needed to be repaired after every use for marine corps and children's officers. scott ritter said that 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 of them, and we, we ship them to, to ukraine. we,

we gave them the ammunition a ironically, no matter what we provide ukrainians, it's going to be a weapon that they've never trained on before us are 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 lethality, the russians are still coming at them with 10 times more artillery pieces. so it just it actually by providing ukrainians with these weapons. we're 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 logan's cook people's republic are just some of the latest beneficiaries of russian aid. 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,

a russian army unit traveled to the town of pear involved between lugens and unanswered city. laden with education supplies, food, and candy. they also spent time getting to know some of the parabolic scheme. orphanage has been catering for more for many of those lost in their parents in the war of 2014 for their on up the road. the don units capital has been living under everyday showing for almost a month at his room on cost of takes a closer look at the lives of those living there, along with their protectors. we are in the village offices, sola on the outskirts, the city of dun etzky, ukrainian positions are about 250 meters away from where i'm standing here 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 us some of the foods here. that's bread tins, 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, jana your stood as co at your lead. 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. why, what is it? 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 not 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 communitarian aid to the residence of the outskirts of the city of don't ask about a 150 people live in this particular place. this is right next to done netscape airport and also not far from the her positions of the ukranian and nationalists. now all these people, they've been living under ukrainian shelling for the last 8 years and obviously the shelling had intensified over the last 4 months, nevertheless. and 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 to 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 i lose signal. it's social for the lady. what should i say? don't just have a look at the city. so there are 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 off the sparta reconnaissance. but sally and the legendary that sally and 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's 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 had just destroying our city in before they tried to hit us and destroy our positions. 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 shilling 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. and god, well working here on the front line with the sports on that sally and 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 the bomb shelter and the military

told us that we can probably leave very soon as soon as the coast is clear. romano costs are of r t the people's republic g. 7 leaders have used this weeks a forum to announce a billions of dollars of investments in global infrastructure projects. that's in an effort to try and counter china's expansion of power overseas through its ambitious belt and road initiative. beijing meanwhile, has condemned 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 games for all of our people because one democracies demonstrate what we can do all that we have to offer. i have no doubt there were

the competition every time over. she don't play china welcomes all initiatives that promote global infrastructure. what we oppose is to advance to political calculations and smith that bell to road initiative in the name of promoting global infrastructure development. since the launch of the belton 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. 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 a 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 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 for 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 does it, 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 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 vernon believes that 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 actually been on the

receiving end of these policies, but the 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. 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 directly 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. the 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 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. and when it comes to matters of event expense, there is even a vast difference. the bricks summit hardly cost anything as it was held videoconference that is 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 800000 police officers providing security. the official cost for that $2.00

day event was $180000000.00 euros. but media reports said that the real price was closer to 200000000 a g kamara 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 still has a very poor the water mentality. it sort of looks down on the whole and sort of breaks the developing world, you know, about $188.00 countries. i've almost represented in the g 7. it's the irony is 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 busy consuming enormous mileage in terms of putting it. whereas in the developing world, much more environment billy effects to we manage with less resources. so we are talking about and or done it, the ecosystem which is very attractive for the rest of the word or that doesn't for me, this are, i'll be back in just under 32 minutes of another full infection you say with us, this is our international oh ah ah,

i work to get me started. i had a few missions there. one time, man, a guy that fought against the soviets. then he told me it was such a pleasure to fight with you. because you fought, honestly. we saw your soldiers. we fought against those. you fought against hoss directly at the same time you will build the hospitals, schools and all the stuff bought those americans, we even do not see them. the bomb bus from somewhere from all to space on the feet full. so i

just a, a a hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things 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 ladies.