we choose to look for common ground in the news. good well, gesture. russia says it has pulled its troops from ukraine snake island to facilitate the un back to exports of grain cutting off speculation on the global food crisis. plus, we must not promote a famine. that's the message from the pakistani foreign minister as she urges in the us to unfreeze afghanistan's assets amid a severe economic crisis. ah, nato's summit in madrid wraps up with the block branding china, a strategic priority for the 1st time. that's after labeling russia

a significant spread. i made ukraine conflict. we put the blocks evolving strategy for discussion in the west nato, the united states and other, they're fighting a proxy war, right? russia, ukraine is nothing less than an extension of nato's military power conflict as exposed to how much the use hostage of nathan in the us, the broadcasting lab direct from studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now, moscow has withdrawn its troops from snake island, a strategic point in the black sea seized by russian forces when the conflict interrupted in late february. no, russia says the move is an act of goodwill to support un efforts to facilitate ukrainian grain exports to the global market. thought the russian armed forces

completed their assigned tasks on snake island and withdrew their garrison from there on june 30th as a gesture of goodwill. thereby, we are showing to the global community that russia is not hindering un efforts to organize a humanitarian corridor to transport agricultural goods from ukrainian territory. to this decision will not allow kia to speculate about an impending food crisis by saying it's impossible to transport grain due to russia's total control of the northwestern part of the black sea. snake island is located close to key shipping lanes and is near to the major part of the jessa experts. note that it's convenient location makes it possible to control air and sea space from the territory. she had claimed that russia's control of the area was an obstacle to ukrainian green exports. supply chain disruption was one of the main topics between the russian and indonesian presidents and talk in moscow. on thursday, the indonesian president, fresh from a trip to kiev, said that he had come up with

a message from his ukrainian counterpart, but neither side to provide the details joker. we don't, the current g 20 chairman, also expressed readiness to serve as a mediator in the ukraine conflict. although the main focus fell on the global food crisis, lima minute us, but your goal is to both 0. we have repeatedly emphasize global market destruction was caused by many years and respond macroeconomic policy that are conducted by a number of countries that have used to perform the sanctions imposed against russian follow russian brain and fertilizers only further nice table tuition actually gone, gone for the situation and for tonight, which is a very important thing for the global community and hundreds of millions of suffering. going to count the disruption of when you. and i appreciate the fact that president bush and said that russian guarantee was safe supply for tonight is

from russia. but also from ukraine. pakistan's foreign minister has urged a western countries to lift sanctions on the galveston where millions of people are on the verge of famine. the tele bonds return to power last year lead to the abrupt end of foreign financial aid. despite the us previously forking out massive sums during its occupation of the country. how is it that 3 trillion dollars were spent on the war? but today there is not even $10000000000.00 for the survival of afghans. i don't understand this in the current situation. it is not a good idea to continue to starve afghanistan and risk and economic implosion that . and that is exactly what will happen if the country remains locked out of international banking and at foreign assets remain frozen. we must not promote the famine, the west hard line stance on the new taliban government has helped fuel a simmering economic crisis in afghanistan with the countries financial sector particularly hard after the u. s. froze $7000000000.00 worth of its overseas assets

. us has repeatedly called for western aid for afghanistan, while warning of a looming humanitarian disaster. with more than half of the country's population of $40000000.00 people said to be facing acute hunger. earlier this week, washington pledge to provide some $55000000.00 in humanitarian aid to afghanistan. however, some critics are saying that they drop in the ocean compared to how much money the us and its allies. its been funding their 20 year occupation of the country that ended in chaos last august as the nato back government collapse. just days after western troops left, we heard from us, if do ronnie pakistan's, former envoy to you, and have ron, who says the severe crisis in afghanistan that directly affects its neighbors. in particular, pakistan as well as the immediate neighbors are the ones have been telling them to unseat that hours of range then $1000000000.00 and he's going to

is that right now? one son is facing a minute didn't basis almost 90. 5 percent of the people are below our to live the people selling needs and also selling the children. so this kind of situation has come up and, and we are what it because the major trust it further out was they will head words. so it isn't. in fact if something happens in the one, so immediate neighbors will be effected. the major, especially 5 percent a senior policymaker says that he is disappointed with a lack of progress after the latest round of u mediated talks between the u. s. and iran to potentially restore the nuclear deal

that failed to pan out. unfortunately, not yet the progress the e u team as coordinator had hoped for. we will keep working with even greater urgency to bring back on track a key deal for non proliferation and regional stability. the u. s. spokesperson has been quick to blame iran for they lack luster talks claiming that tariff ron has rejected an ear back to draft deal. but iran says it's all washington's fault. as the western proposals included, nothing of economic benefits to the islamic republic. jo biden's administration has so far failed to woo iran back towards an international nuclear energy deal which was cracked by donald trump in 2018. we heard from independent journalist, look, we're very, who says the european powers want to revive at trade with he wrong because they desperately need gas for the coming winter. the europeans are concerned because they would like to continue trading with iran in, you know, sense some donald trump imposed harsher sanctions. moreover,

the more important thing that brings us back somehow to the special operation in ukraine is the fact that the europeans are desperately looking for gas for the coming winter. and iran has a large reserves of gas as oil, of course, and large reserves of gas down not develop, get as state a state should be if the needs of europe have to be met. but that's to hold for the future. and behind this conversation, scene doe, between americans and iranians in different rooms with mr. law, right? going from one to the other did how many issues linked to the, to the situation ukraine? russia is to help egypt to build its 1st nuclear power plant cairo says it has given approval for construction of the future plant by rushing state,

atomic energy corporation, rough adam. now the plant is to be built in the city of l. double on the mediterranean coast. and will consist of 4 power units with reactors based on a russian design. ross adam has also agreed to supply nuclear fuel to the plant, along with assistance and training for the 1st 10 years of its operation. the company's director general says that the plant will help secure egypt technological future in the greater middle eastern region. ah, the nato summit wrapped up in madrid on thursday with the block dubbing china, one of its strategic priorities for the next a decade. the 1st time it has introduced such a policy during the summit, the nato chief, also stressed of the alliance, wants to avoid open confrontation with russia over ukraine, despite earlier labeling moscow. a direct and significant threat archie, contributor rachel marston brings us the details. important to say this is the a meeting of the western military industrial complex marketing firm. basically,

they made more promises of weapons for everyone. ukraine themselves, all using the fear of russia and china for saber rattling, but that's not how stolberg sees it. if this becomes a full scale war between russia natal, then was it suffering damaged, death, destruction of the scale, which was much, much worse than what you see in your crime today. you also have a, a core responsibility, of course, to prevent escalation beyond your credit. and that's the reason why the 9th was not a part older conflict on the wrong. well, what else did stilton bird say? he said that the final session at their summit focused on threats and challenges from the middle east, north africa, and the south region. he also said that they reviewed progress in the fight against terrorism. that's interesting. i didn't know that they are into that still or at all because french president, a mentor in my call, has said that nato was brain dead. he said that in an interview with the economists

last year, and he said that nato is that way because it should have pivoted away from russia towards counter terrorism. and so it's, i guess, news to a lot of people, including maybe french president emanuel racquel. that is our priority. just because they say it is doesn't mean it actually is. we'll have to wait and see what happens. as for the other nato members, leaders law let's see what they have to say during their press conferences, turkish president as at aero, remember, he lifted his veto to sweden and finland joining nato. he calls it a diplomatic victory, which makes you wonder exactly what kind of concessions were made to turkey. we, we know it involves the curts, but we haven't heard many of the details. german chancellor off short. he said that the west would not lift sanctions against russia. if peace was concluded with ukraine on conditions imposed on heave, so no end in sight to these anti russian forever sanctions. well, joe biden certainly seems happy about being able to expand nato. the u. s.

president has become a little too carried away with his geography. is taking switzerland for sweden briefly. now. biden also doesn't seem too sure about who's actually fighting, who in ukraine, we're going to stick with ukraine and all of the allies who stick with ukraine as long as it takes to in fact, make sure that they are not defeated by, by ukraine, and issues in ukraine, by, by, by russia we got the telephone, he suggested we call the leader of self switzerland. switching. my good, my goodness, i'm, i'm getting really anxious here about expanding nato or sweden. meanwhile, in madrid, thousands of people repeatedly took to the streets throughout the nato summit to protest against the blocks policies this year. spain is marketing the 40th anniversary of it's a session to nato. the summit was dominated by the ukraine conflict and the alliances efforts to provide more weaponry to keep. the masses of protesters,

however, focused on nato's endeavors, claiming it is no source of peace as they called for spain to withdraw from the block. in australia, 7 in 10, people say that their governments alliance with washington increases the chance of being drawn into a war in the asia pacific region. a war that would be against national interests. that's according to an annual foreign policy poll conducted by the local institute . a prominent city bay thinktank, but despite the concerns, more than 80 percent of australian say that the alliance is important for their national security, that is mid growing tensions between beijing and cambra after australia as leader attended a nato summit for the 1st time. china has warned that the expansion of u. s. military ties in the asia pacific region could provoke a confrontation. earlier, my colleague nikki aaron discuss nato's swiftly evolving strategy with a panel of guess they test his claims to pluck does not once a confrontation with most cases it was you will take on that statement. considering

the fact that many ukrainian trips were trained by nato instructors and are fighting with weapons supplied by the us, let alliance. i mean, it's just a ball faced lie and he knows it. nobody knows it. you know, when the secretary defense of the united states states straight up, that the goal and objective of the united states, which is the lead to player and nato, nato does not blame without american approval. it's nato's policy is to inflict as much harm as possible on russia and ukraine, so that russia will never again seek to entertain a similarly aggressive move that it did in ukraine against anywhere else in europe . that means it the purpose, the mission is to chill russians. that is the mission of nato today, to kill as many russians as possible in ukraine without getting involved directly using ukraine as

a proxy force. ukraine is nothing less than an extension of nato's military power, right? now, does it not look like the world is thinking into a new cold war which could involve even more countries than in the 20th century? well, the cold war is already, they may not be called by, by that name. in fact, in some ways it is worse than the cold war because during the cold war there was an effort by the united. ready states and the soviet union to find proxy was bought in distant geographies. but here, the west nato, united states and other, they're fighting a proxy war right at russia door. and there are enormous risks in this because things can escalate it and they can go out. and in fact, we're talking about hybrid warfare. and what is happening is actually hybrid wall conducted by nato against russia. there was the, this other european conflict,

deliberately august traded in because of a failure to accommodate genuine security concerns. biden has claimed that a, so code nato is ation of europe is the only road to pace there. do you agree with you? there is one thing that this conflict is exposed is how much you is hostage of need to in the us. things are unveiling right now that you is not, is not it completely hijacked by us interest. and they all following, and they're going to do their own people day. when you, you don't get into them. did they do the referendum and asked people if they want to join? they won't do that. they won't do that. it's not this selling freedom and democracy, but now they're not. they're not real democracies and the supporting estate you clean. she's the lead them aquatic. there's no position. it's an,

as he stays the supporting, nothing any. it's a shame considering the europe history yet another test of a u. s. hypersonic missile system failed on wednesday. that's according to media reports confirmed by a pentagon spokesperson, jim gorman. it was the 2nd time in a year that a test of such a system by the pentagon, had gone awry. us officials did not specify exactly what had gone wrong, but had said a problem occurred after the ignition of the test asset. the failure comes as russia, china, and even north korea step up, development of more advanced missile systems capable of invading interception and surpassing the speed of sound. however, it is not the only problem the pentagon is facing right now. as the u. s. army is having its worst problems recruiting since the vietnam war. i can get them up and comments. joe biden says it's time for more us troops in europe. looks on the

ground and poland. it's on the ground and baltic stays time to send in the marines with scratch beneath the surface of the overseas bravado. and you'll find out that the u. s. military is having some problems on the home front. one of them is recruiting. this is the start of a long drought for military recruiting. the military has not had such a hard time signing recruits since 973. the year the u. s. left vietnam and the draft officially ended. 2022 is the year we questioned the sustainability of the all volunteer force. recruitment for the u. s. army was only 40 percent of target numbers. the air force was 4000 short. the air national guard and the army reserve are also short and won't meet their expected numbers. so they are turning to help from the silver screen. i've got a whole generation excited about naval aviation, excited about coming and doing military flying and joining the service our whoa,

whoa, and movie it. by the way, all the la excited all over again about why for the us military. so it seems that out of desperation, they've actually changed the rules they now except recruits without high school diplomas and with tattoos on their hands. and next, that's been outlawed for years. also confidence in the u. s. military among the u. s. public has significantly decreased after last year's debacle in afghanistan. u. s. public trust in the american military went from 70 percent in february, all the way down to 45 percent in december. and the policy of the u. s. military are also bit off putting to many americans. this is the story of a soldier who operates donations patriot missile defense systems. it begins in california is a little girl raised by 2 moms. for some reason,

this attempt to woke up by the u. s. military is not causing an inflow, fresh, blind, and prism that is not particularly surprising at all, but it keeps going. the u. s. navy is now raising awareness about pronouns or l g b t bride. using the right pronouns is really simple way to affirm someone's identity. it is a signal of acceptance and respect. if it's a signal of acceptance and respect, how do we go about creating a safe space for everybody? that's a good question. a really good way to do that is to use inclusive language. now the new woke optics might be one thing, but there are real problems that the u. s. military has failed to meaningfully address. among them are suicide and sexual assault. the brass are holding summit on these matters, but incident persist. what's the problem? well, it appears commander in chief joe biden isn't as popular as he might think years, but also appears that the bungle pull out of afghanistan as cause

a lot of rank and file was in the military to lose confidence in the chain of command. also, that won't make over is not really a big deal with the fighting men and women and dying for america now doesn't seem to be so popular. now, america is continuing with its usual habit of picking fights across the planet, but it may not have the personnel or the morale to back up those fighting words. the military is not seen as really heroic. it's not seen as particularly patriotic. it doesn't have any big winds to kind of broadcast it success where it hasn't been overtly successful. and it's also seen increasingly as associated with big government and americans increasingly don't trust their government. and that would include the military as well. young people and their parents have relative friends, cars and brothers, uncles and aunts who have returned from some of these wars,

particularly afghanistan and iraq. and they have returned damage either psychologically physically or both. many of them can't work. many of them have had personality changes. most of them are advising the young nephews and nieces and sons and daughters not to go into the military. it's not what you're seeing on top and it's, it's something very different. hong kong is celebrating 25 years under chinese rule. with friday, marking the day, britain relinquished sovereignty over its than the colony. they had over agreement, outlined a governing principle of one country to systems for a period of 50 years. china's president, she's in ping, took his 1st trip outside of the mainland since the pandemic to celebrate the anniversary. in his rival speech, he stated that hong kong had been reborn of fire. he noted the successive principles that had allowed the city to have its own system of government and also to take charge of its legal, economic, and financial affairs. earlier,

we spoke to russia's consul general to hong kong eagerness. i get off who highlighted the importance of the one country to systems principal. this is not good, so of course the career or the last 25 years, we have seen the implementation of this policy. it's unique in its content and form, and we can confidently say that yes indeed, it has passed the test of time. it has proven its viability and given good results . now is now more and more integration of the 2 economies. and it gives a kind of synergy fact for both the development of the megacity and the development of china itself. therefore, the success of these reforms, the success of these formulas of one country to systems is very of this. but as a result, we can see what economic successes have been chiefs by hong kong and the successes, mainland china has achieved and eats achieving of that as a for me, this hour i will be back and let's say 36 minutes of another full and fresh lecture

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ah ah hello and welcome across the top where all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle, the north atlantic treaty organization is a peculiar thing. it claims to be a defensive military alliance, but it aggressively expands and that expansion is directed at russia. and it's clients that ukraine is losing a war. nato actively supports. essentially, nato has decided to double down on failure.

cross talking nato, i'm joined by my guess. got rid or in del mar, he's a former intelligence officer and united nations weapons inspector in tens. meaning we have had see he is a conflict consultant and a retired u. s. foreign service officer. and in madrid. we have wyatt read. he is a journalist with sputnik news, high gentleman, cross hoc rules and impact that means can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciate, scott, let me go to you 1st here. you know, i'm just a talk show house. i'm not the smartest guy on earth, but you know, let me ask you a simple question. that's new strategic concept that the nato is developing here in madrid. what, what i would say 30 blind mice joining together. so the west is expanding ne, 2 again in response to a war, predominantly caused by nato expansion. is this wrong? okay, do i misunderstand something here? go ahead scott. no, i think you can calculate it actually perfectly. i mean, you know, the other interesting thing happened is a nato finally said, look, we're,

we're not partners with russia anymore. well, natal has been a pardon with russia ever. nato's never taken partnership with russia seriously. and we now know thanks to yon stone burge, maybe slip of the tongue. the nato has been preparing to fight russia since 2004, and that is for the last 8 years. so all we're seeing right now is natal finally being honest, you know, and saying ok, well this is what we're going to do. it it's, it's what they wanted to do all along to reinvigorate the alliance. so, stripping away, any pretence of being a defensive organization, and acknowledging straight up that it's so purposes to confront. russia i did by the natal people to take a closer look at what's going on in the ukraine, where the proxies being destroyed before seriously tried to cross russia. but at least they're going to go through the motions. ted, ted, so, so it's very interesting here. so there is no longer a pretense to pan european security, because if you want pants, european security,

you have to include russia. but really what now we've had and, and scott's right from e. i would say it shows the centrally from the very beginning of nato and of, and of course, after the end of the cold war, this is directed at russia, excluding russia. you cannot have pan european security without russia. that's something they don't seem to understand or want to acknowledge. go ahead, ted. here i have to agree for many years. i've been saying that the nato claims to have partnership arrangements, if not more than that with, with just about everyone in your below. very clearly. that's not the case anymore, and you know, the mask is finally slipped the cats finally out of the bag. but for many years it was, it was only practical allies like say, germany didn't want conflict with russia who insisted that there was no way that they would support russia being named as public enemy number one for nato. well, that's finally changed now. now russia is the most significant and direct threat to

our security and a piece of stability in the euro. atlantic area. ok. and so why you're there and that when in the belly of the beast as it were here with the, the facts being created on the ground and the battle field and ukraine doesn't seem to really impacts their thinking whatsoever. you would think just the records, you know, like, while this hasn't worked out, they're facing a catastrophic strategic defeat. and they just double down. i mean this, this is a pathology here. i'm sorry, go ahead. bye. yeah, absolutely. i mean, you look at some of the remarks coming out of gen stolen burg, for example, nato secretary general, and they're practically giddy. they view this as, as an incredible opportunity. it seems and knowledge, not just rush, obviously, but it's fine as well. you know, this document published by nato sites, a deepening strategic partnership between the people's republic of china and the russian federation. and they're mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules

based international order. they say this run counter to our values and interests as nato. so obviously now it seems not just a, a nominally defensive alliance aimed at re militarize in europe, back to cold war levels against russia, but now against china as well. so really, yeah, i think i'd, i'd have to agree with your other guys. say it's really impossible to interpret what's happening in europe is anything other than re militarization back to cold war era levels. exactly. you scott, the, and this and it with the adding sweden and finland here, which, you know, the, the, you, nato's border with russia now is expand like 800 kilometers this, it gets, is far more dangerous with its expansion now. now of course, the russians have made it very clear that they're not so miffed about that because they don't have any issues with them. but you know, the more countries that.