bellini divide people the the russian lead forces claimant. they are squeezing troops from lifted child, supporting them to retrieve east and r t. crew looks exclusively at how moscow's military is operating in the gods republic literally. seconds until it's about to fire towards $845.00 of the ukrainian forces. everyone else will fall to accept the democrats with us inflation. getting new records biden is accused of trying to shift the blame onto russia rather than dealing with problems of his own making. asian denounces the g 7 after the group announces a global infrastructure project to countered china's own belt and wrote initiative

the broadcasting lab direct for our studios and moscow. this is art international. i'm sean thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now we start with the latest from the war in ukraine, according to la guns ca officials. russian lead forces have significantly advanced in the city of lucy johnson in the republics northwest. ukrainian forces are now said to be retreating east from that area. fierce battles are understood to have broken out in lissy chance after russian lead forces to control of the areas around the city. as you can see from the map of the ukrainian army now appears to be blocked from the north, after q of troops retreated from sever, done yes. and also from the south, which has allowed blue guns for me to surround lucy johnson, or he would have done of got exclusive access to see how russian and allied forces have been operating in regards 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 1000 o. r to almost literally seconds until it's about to fly at the woods. a 45 percent of the ukranian forces. mm hm. 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 cave. since then for months now, it has been taking part in the d. nazi fine operations embedded with rushes, special forces at the much molars. this is our little baby. we took it from the

cranny, national gardener, key f a t 64 b v tank doesn't work well. the 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 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 onslaught on the key strategic town of our term of score bar moved is happening. basically. it's the gateway towards ukraine's city citadels. meanwhile, the ganske officials have said that all civilians chopped in the as art chemical plant in sever, done yet have now been evacuated. that's after the cities 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 several danielle raged. we heard

from some of the vacuous book, i'm happy that you came. this is the most important thing. we lived in hell for 4 months. no one on the road. 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. you see 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. danielle sk authorities say in the last 24 hours residential areas of the republic have been heavily shelled by give. 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 shouldn't stop artillery attacks on the center of the don units capital and in the central ukrainian city of crim. in truth, 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 key of claims. a russian missile hit the mall. but there is been no official response from moscow as of yet, the building is located across the street from a ukrainian machine factory reportedly used for repairing military vehicles on a russian diplomats to the un said it is no coincidence that the claim of russian involvement comes just before the latest nato summit and 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. 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. it 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 dots not working as simply because over 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 alliance bases in spain. the summit is expected to focus on the war in ukraine, an increase in military funding for key of 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 announcement by in stoughton, but 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 bug open. he said that he views russia as the biggest threat to our security by ours he needs the best. but we can see quite clearly that who is leading the question here. this is, there's been some expansion what 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 dialogue, they're prepared to carry on their war of aggression. i think we should try to

spell that he missed that night. so is a defensive alliance is not an aggressive machine. and while the u. s. faces record high inflation, the white house blames everyone except itself for america's internal problems. that's despite biden canceling offshore drilling and gas leases left and right. our keys kill them up and comments. as u. s. inflation keeps climbing, jill biden's, popularity keeps thinking, the rate of inflation in the united states is just surpassed a 40 year high, a whopping 8.6 percent. of course, the white house is happy to blame every one 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 who didn't, didn't make those decisions. joe biden did last, gas means higher prices, higher prices mean inflation. joe biden has cancelled the keystone excel pipeline, who did it shortly after taking office. he's also been canceling drilling and gas leases, left and right. energy and transportation costs underscore inflation in this country, and everything that we buy in biden will not absolutely will not take on the progressives. when it comes to drilling in america, he would rather go prostrate himself over in saudi arabia, and can legally reverse himself on his approach to the saudis, hypocritically. before he takes on the progressives as biden reaches out to countries that of 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, but republicans aren't buying what they could buy last year. is way more than now what they could buy this year and, and the americans are going backwards in their lives. but yet it's everybody else's fault except their former u. s. 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 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 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 sick. meanwhile, many americans are looking in the other direction, increasing pain, and their checkbox and wallet. at the same time, we've got the mid term november election approach. edging ever closer, rti, new york. the bodies of 46 dead migrants have been found in a trucks trailer in the. 3 state of texas, the states the governor has blamed the us president saying, calling the death a deadly consequence of biden's open border policy. these deaths are on biden, they are a result of his deadly open border policies. they show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law. officers arrived at the scene in the city of san antonio after a local worker heard a cry for help. on opening the trailer,

they discovered 16 other people, including 4 children suffering various states of heat related illness, alongside the dead. temperatures are understood to have reached at $39.00 degrees celsius. that's 102.2 degrees fahrenheit in the area, although it will have been far hotter inside the trailer compartment, 3 people were taken into custody and police are carrying out an investigation. the g 7 leaders have used this week's form to announce billions of dollars of investments in global infrastructure projects. that's in an effort to try and countered 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 worldwide 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 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 tomorrow? sure. don't playing china welcomes all initiatives that promote global infrastructure . what we oppose is to advance to political calculations and smith that belts and road initiative in the name of promoting global infrastructure development. since the launch of the 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 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 out 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 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 praise to 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'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 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 fields 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 to the opening of bangladesh is longest bridge built by a chinese company. now the structure, nearly 10 kilometers in length, is seen by china as a milestone in its cooperation with the south asian country, a communist. richard werner believes that the g 7 is fearful about china becoming a strong international power. and the rich industrialized countries have

dominated the global discourse and also the policies towards developing countries. because the majority of the world population lives in developing countries. and they've essentially been on the receiving end of the policy. but is that the policies have not been very successful. they have not deliberate growth and prosperity for developing countries. china stepped in and the to be much more generous, did not make all these are the logical political conditions as a pre condition of lending the money. and so now it seems g 7, g 7 fields. china is making too many in rows here and is winning on the international political battlefield, so to speak. so counter measures a being called. ringback for and been really what they should be saying is, okay,

the chinese approach is what's better. why don't we reform the, i'm a bang system and actually making much more dynamic 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 brick summit which ended one week ago. 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. now 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. and that number is now expected to increase as argentina and iran have formerly applied to join. according to russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman. when it comes to matters of event expense, there's even

a vast difference. the bricks summit hardly cost anything as it was held video conference that is in direct contrast to the opulence of the g 7 meeting. the g 7 summit was held in the very in 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 reports to say that the real price was closer to 200000000 a gte camaro john, a researcher 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 sort of brig,

developing war, you know, about a $188.00 countries. almost represented in the g 7. it's the 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 busy consuming enormous amount 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 and or certainly the ecosystem which is very attractive for the rest of the word. while western media continues to push a russian default narrative because it has no way to service its sovereign debt, a kremlin spokesperson says such statements are absolutely unjustifiable. maria

phenomena takes a closer look at the problems. bloomberg 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 country's 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 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 pariah status in crumbling economy. but it seems that says she story cold parallels had not quite accurate. back in 917

following the tobar revolution, russia saw a change of power with its new ruler, is simply refusing to pay off. sorry, that's up to mentioned, 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 here, 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 sovereign, 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. these statements

about the default are absolutely unjustifiable in this case because the necessary payment was made in may. the fact that you are 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 of default. so why all the big fos? all right, it's all about put in and have been 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 naturally completely nonsense. and as in this case, the money that especially the interests go to western banks and best and investors. and then they know one to open it for a short time to get their own advantage fulfilled. 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 in europe on 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 rubbed 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 simply not ready to take. and that is harmon, the foreign debt holders. it's also pushing russia out of the global financial picture, hurricane 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 russia found from the only one to be paying the price for a member of russian think tank at the council on foreign and defense policy. alexander loss of says that the situation is, in fact a strategic default of american banks limited. this is trying to arrange a corporation by cruising a show on issue. there is no default, those you know,

funds notice to do more. does not refuse to offer you this of litigation to serve the for your horse. a national has a fusion mom to endorse a condo system, who obligation owners action a chris one to comb with a super oh, so american, cris bought in banks and i seen you from american banks do not so cool. 0 regression to customers. look, make payments. us in the system or to default a former can banks to to decrease default is or, or, or what is or isn't oh, doesn't do to do on historically remote divorce. that does it for me this hour, i'll be back in just under $33.00 and a half minutes with another full and 1st look at you know, see what this is our to international. ah

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clear rushes name? to discuss that i'm now joined by guinea remark of how the roster to me just run rushes agency for international humanitarian corporation. it's a prima conference, a great pleasure to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. now your agency has a rather long title and a broad mandate. so to help our audiences understand what you do and how you do it, how is your agency different from us 8, which is perhaps your biggest reaches competitor? well, it's very much difference. in fact, you know, even not taking into consideration the long day before it is 8 years, a id is much shorter and more user friendly. i want to follow english speaking audience. could you even pronounce that also through? well, this is the part of the exposure to the russian culture. yes. so u. s. a i d 's much, much larger in terms of budgeting, 1st of all,

and then they have that function of international development. not of very much of all was fear of interest and of the thing that we're doing. we are much more concentrated educational issues on, on cultural issues like exhibitions and all the things that we would certainly refer to do much more on the national development. we're going to have that our governmental program that schools in english is school that way in the national development assistance full and you don't, you have the intention but don't have enough fund? no, we don't have enough funds. even with the funds that you're have, how much geopolitics do you have to take into account? because when you said they definitely they follow the american political life. i assume you all.