i did a ah, goodwill gesture, russia says it has pulled its troops from ukraine snake island to facilitate the un back to export of grain cutting off to speculation on the global through crisis. plus we must not promote a famine that is the message from the pakistani foreign minister as she urges the u . s. to unfreeze afghanistan assets amid a severe economic crisis. 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 threat. amid the crane conflict, we put the blocks evolving strategy for discussion with nato united states and other there. if i think of roxy war 2, right, they had to rush out the door. ukraine is nothing less than an extension of nato's military power conflict as exposed how much you is hostage of nato. and the u. s. and one set back leads to another. the pentagon is scrambling to fill its worst recruitment drive and decades, while the latest us hypersonic missile tests and up in failure with broadcasting lab direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. let's 1st begin with the latest developments in the war in ukraine where russia and the logan's forces are

advancing on keeps positions in the republics city of love. she chance of forces loyal to kia, have been driven out of the cities, oil refinery and rubber factory. that's according to the lugens people's republics, ambassador who added that all significant roads in the area are also now under control. however fierce battles continue elsewhere in the city with more than $300.00 ukrainian soldiers now reported killed while another $500.00, including foreign mercenaries have been observed abandoning the city arches eagles . john of sent us this report from the frontlines. ah, this was ukraine's panelled somewhat large stronghold in the la guns republic. and these are exclusive, previously unreleased shots of how it was overtaken by the russians here and in the

neighboring villages. they met the resistance, not only of ukraine's regular army, but also foreign mercenaries. yahoo obviously i think from least lines the enemies waiting for us to enter from here. but what do we need to do? firstly, we don't yet know what is in these areas where trick wise are waiting to explode. so during the nights these areas will be examined by intelligence groups. we'll go from east to west and here from north to south, after checking the territory and securing here will close the flank with the total number of foreign maxine was estimated at least in the hundreds soldiers of misfortune, lifeless bodies of some of them were left at the battle fields, some were captured like this polish colonel. so just so i should,

i knew this done that i am a lawyer. i'm a lawyer. sure. i knew that lot. ha ha. or the bills or thing i did or so did i mean i will put chavonee with both of them, but i own ukraine, whom prisoners of war taken here talk of how they've been treated by their command admittedly, possibly under duress. why shouldn't let her in captivity and out in your positions there? nothing is clear there. the commanders are not doing anything. can you explain to her fellow soldiers that if they surrender, how will they be treated at times better than their the remaining foreign guns for hire? those who survived, at least they ran out of this place, ran out of the town of several denette crossing this river and into the town of least chance, which is very clearly visible behind me. as are the plumes of smoke that are occasionally rising above its sky. like the battle for the town was still ongoing,

and the russians are already partly in control of that place. amish done of reporting from the dawn. bass frontline r t. moscow has withdrawn its troops from snake island strategic point in the black sea seized by russian forces when the conflict erupted in late february. now russia says the move is an act of good will to support your efforts to facilitate ukrainian grain exports to the global market. it's not though you are now crushed, a shot russian armed forces completed their assign tasks on snake island and withdrew their garrison from there on june 30th as a gesture of good. will hon. thereby, we are showing to the global community that russia is not hindering you end efforts to organize a humanitarian corridor to transport agricultural goods from ukrainian territory. to sort of this decision will not allow key of to speculate about an impending food crisis by saying it's impossible to transport grain due to rushes. total control of the northwestern part of the black sea snake island is located close to t shipping lanes, and is near to the major port of odessa experts. note that it's convenient location

makes it possible to control air and sea space from the territory. key of the head claimed that russia's control of the area was an obstacle, she ukrainian grain exports. a supply chain disruption was one of the main topics between the russian and indonesian presidents in talks in moscow. on thursday, the indonesian president, fresh from a trip to king, said that he had come with a message from his ukrainian counterpart, but neither side provided details of yoko we, dodo, 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 dilemma when you're us, but your, your list of, of materials and we have repeatedly emphasized the global food market disruption was caused by many years of irresponsible macroeconomic policies conducted by a number of countries that have refused to admit the faulty of their policies, the sanctions imposed against russian and fellow russian exports of grain and

fertilizers have only further de stabilize the situation that should wishlist we were done when a gun gun and ap thank we discussed was the situation the food and fertilizer supplies, which is a very important icing for the global community at hundreds of millions of suffering. going to come until at least a disruption of when you and i appreciate the fact that president bush and said that russia guaranteed a safe supply of fertilizers from but also from ukraine. pack your sounds. foreign minister has urged western countries to lift sanctions on afghanistan, 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 afghan histone and rescan economic implosion that

. and that is exactly what will happen if the country remains locked out of international banking and it's foreign assets remain frozen. we must not promote a famine. the west hardline stands on the new taliban government has helped fuel a simmering economic crisis in afghanistan with the countries financial sector, particularly hard hit after the u. s. froze $7000000000.00 worth of his overseas assets. the u. s. has repeatedly called 4 western $84.00 f gonna stand while warning of a looming humanitarian disaster. with more than half of the country's population of $40000000.00 people said it 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's a drop in the ocean compared to how much money the u. s. and its allies spent funding their 20 year occupation of the country. now that ended in chaos last august as the nato back government collapse,

just days after western troops left. we heard from us, if durante park is on its former envoy to the u, a. e and t have ron, who says the severe crisis in afghanistan directly affects its neighbors in particular, pockets don't as well as the immediate neighbors ones have been telling them to unseat that hours of rooms. $10000000000.00 and he's in. is that right now on one side is facing a minute didn't basis almost 95 percent of the people are below the poverty line, the people selling needs and also selling to and so this kind of situation has come up and, and we are worried because it is your trust it for the vision that out the i was they will head boards 2 to 2 asian in fact,

if something happens, you know, one so immediate neighbors will be affected. images, especially as senior policy maker says he is disappointed with a lack of progress after the latest round of you mediated talks between the u. s. and iran to potentially restore the nuclear deal 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 nonproliferation and regional stability. and us spokesperson has been quick to blame iran for the lack luster talks claiming that a ron has rejected and you back to draft deal. but iran says it's all washington's fault. as the western proposals included, nothing of economic benefit to the islamic republic. jo biden's administration has so far failed to iran back towards an international nuclear energy deal, which was scraps, find all the trump in it. 2018. we heard from independent journalist luc renee,

who says european powers want to revive a trade with iran because they desperately need gas for the coming winter. the european side consent because they would like to continue trading with iran. you know, since donald trump being posed harsher sanctions, moreover, the more important thing that brings us back somehow to the special operation in ukraine is the fact that the europeans, 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 the hope for the future. and behind this conversation scene go on between americans and iranians in different rooms with mr. more i going from one to the other did how

many issues linked to the, to the situation you can russia is to help egypt build its 1st nuclear power plant cairo says it has given approval for construction of the future plant by russian state atomic energy quote corporation, russ adam of 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 item 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 the plant will help secure egypt technological future in the greater middle eastern region. on the nato summit, wrapped up in madrid on thursday with the blocked up in china. one of it's strategic priorities for the next decade. the 1st time it has introduced such

a policy. during the summit, the nato chief also stressed 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 up details. important to say this is the a meeting of the western military industrial complex and 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 not worse than will to see him according to the rules of a, a core responsibility, of course, to prevent escalation beyond your credit. and that's the reason why a 9th was not a part older conflict on the wrong. well, what else did stoughton berg 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 interview with the economist 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, a miracle that is now a 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 of erewhon, 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 occurred,

but we haven't heard many of the details. german chancellor, olaf schultz, 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. us president become a little too carried away with his geography, making mistakes here and there, switzerland 1st waiting for example. now biden also doesn't seem to sure about who is actually fighting, who in ukraine we're going to stick with ukraine and all of the allies to stick with your grade. as long as it takes to, in fact, make sure that they are not defeated by by ukraine. an issue in ukraine, by, by, by russia. we got the telephone, he suggested we call the leader of 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 of this year, spain is marking the 40th anniversary of it's a session to nato. the summit was dominated by the ukraine conflict and the alliance whose efforts to provide more weaponry to give 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 it being drawn into a war in the asian pacific theater war that would be against national interests. that's according to an annual foreign policy poll conducted by the low institute. it prominent sidney based a think tank, but despite the concerns, more than 80 percent of australians say that the alliance is important for their national security. that's admitted growing tensions between beijing and camera

after australia's leader attended the nato summit for the 1st time. earlier my colleague nikki aaron discussed tomatoes, swiftly evolving strategy with a panel of guests. they test his claims. the block does not was 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 now fighting with weapons supplied by the u. s. lead 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 go on objective of the united states, which is the lead to player and nato. nato does not blame without american approval . nato's policy is to inflict as much harm as possible on russia in 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 now 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 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 they 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 walk 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. joe biden has claimed that a so code nato is ation of europe is the only road to pace there. do you agree with that? if 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 look at clean and 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 necessarily freedom and democracy, but now they're not. they're not real democracies and they're supporting a safe clean. she's the lead them aquatic. there's no position, it's an, as you said, the supporting that any, it's a shame considering europe history. a test of a us hypersonic missile system failed on wednesday, and that's according to media reports confirmed by pentagon spokesman jim gorman. it was the 2nd time in a year that the test of such a system by the pentagon had gone awry. us officials did not specify exactly what had gone wrong, but said the problem had 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 evading interception and

surpassing the speed of sound. however, it's 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 are to scale mob comments. joe biden says it's time for more us troops in europe. boots on the ground in poland on the ground involved next day. i'm just turned in the marines. the scratch beneath the surface of the overseas bravado, and you'll find out that the u. s. military is having some problems on the homefront. 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 in 1973. the year the u. s. left vietnam and the draft officially ended 2022. as the year we question the sustainability of the all volunteer force recruitment for the us army was only 40 percent of target number. the airport 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 in joining the service. our hope is that it's people go in this movie by the way, but they'll be all we get excited all over again about flying for the seems that out of desperation, they actually change the rule. they now except recruits without high school diploma and with tattoos on their hands. and next that's been outlawed for years. also confidence in the military. i'm the us public has significantly decreased after last years debacle in afghanistan. us public trust in the american military went from 70 percent in february, all the way down to 45 percent of december. and the policy in the us military are also a bit off putting in many americans. this is the story of

a soldier who operates donations patriot missile defense systems. it begins in california with 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 of 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. freidman. using the right pronouns is really simple way to affirm some one'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 world objects 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 woke may go over is not really a big head 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 its 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 strands, cousins, brothers, uncles and aunts who have returned from some of these wars, particularly afghanistan and iraq. and they have returned damaged. i'm 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 gun it's. it's something very different. hong kong is celebrating 25 years under chinese rule. with friday, marking the day brittany relinquished sovereignty over its then colony. a hand over agreement outlined a governing principle of one country to systems for a period of 50 years. china's president and she's in ping took his 1st trip outside

of the mainland since the pandemic to celebrate the anniversary. in his arrival speech, he stated that hong kong had been reborn of fire. he noted the success of 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, eager sa get off, who highlighted the importance of the one country to systems principal. this is this get to the last 25 here. so you 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 liability. and given good result is now more and more integration of the 2 economies. and it leaves a kind of synergy fact for both the development of the mega c t and the development of china itself. therefore, the success of these forms,

the success of these formula. one country to systems is very over this. as a result, we can see what it nomics successes have been chief by hong kong. i'm the success in mainland china has achieved, and it's achieving that as a for me. this are i will be back in 33 minutes with another phone for selection and stay with us or change national ah. that the deal good for you to say? i think is 70 percent of even 80 percent of so be a be below for why serbia in the future say i want to approach an aide go. it means i want this best buy this one. me not a toyota sale. possibly talk to log in and then we'll proceed with

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economic sanctions are, are often just the beginning. another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries that you're talking about here. and there has to be an effort to demonize country and the leader of that country. ah, we have a responsibility for the whole world. and we need to make rules for the rest. because without out there, we care. why on every the 24th 2022, russia launched a special military operation in ukraine. the campaigns 1st major battle was an

operation to bring the city of murray. you pulled back under the control of pro russian don bass with do i.