opinions with us is come with a goodwill gesture. russia says it has pulled its troops from ukraine's snake island to facilitate the un banked export of grain, cutting off caves and speculation on the global food crisis. we must not promote a family. that's the message from the pakistani foreign minister as she urges the u . s. to unfreeze afghanistan's assets amid a severe economic crisis. what next to for nato? as it's some, it wraps up with the block branding china, a strategic priority for the 1st time, and russia being labeled a significant threat. and we put the blocks evolving strategy for discussion. what is happening is actually hybrid walk conducted by nato against russia. ukraine is

nothing less than an extension of nato's military power. the idea here was to contain russia, and yes, my goal was to go for the big price. the chief china and lurching from one set back to another. the pentagon is scrambling to phil. it's worse recruitment, drive and decades, while the latest u. s. hyper sonic missile tests failed with broadcasting live direct our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. first. let's begin with the latest developments in the war and ukraine where russian and lucas forces are advancing on campus positions in the republic. city of lucy, chance forces loyal to care, have been driven out by the cities, oil, finery, and

a rubber factory. that's according to the law ganske 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 it killed. while another $500.00, including foreign mercenaries have been observed abandoning the city ortiz eager to join us, such as this report from the front mine. ah, this was ukraine's panelled with large stronghold in the la guns republic. and these are exclusive, previously unreleased shorts 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. you're

almost done with looks, 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 trip 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 along with the total number of foreign marks here 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 wrote a sub i shot on your left arm, but i am a lawyer. i'm a lawyer should i knew that he wasn't. ah, i didn't think i did or so did i mean i will put she'll go in

a little after that. i own you. crane wound, prisoners of war taken here. talk of how they've been treated by their command, admittedly, possibly under duress. primo, why shouldn't that a her infertility an out in your position? is 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 lucy 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 all ready partly in control of that place. i'm again done of reporting from the don bass frontline r t. moscow has withdrawn its troops from snake island,

a strategic point in the black sea seas by russian forces when the conflict ruptured in late february. now russia says, the move is an act of good will to support you and efforts to facilitate ukrainian grain exports to the global market. so it's not the, you know, question. russian armed forces completed their assign tasks on snake island and withdrew their garrison from there on june 30th. there's 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. this decision will not allow the key of 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 a desa experts. note that it's convenient location makes it possible to control air and sea space from the territory. he had claims that russia's control of the area

was an obstacle to ukrainian grain exports. supply chain disruption was one of the main topics between the russian and indonesian presidents and talks and moscow. on thursday, the indonesian president fresh from a trip to camp completely so that he had to come with a message from his ukrainian counterpart but neither side provided details dorado. 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, and when you decide to go to the bows here, we have repeatedly emphasize global free market disruption was caused by many years of irresponsible macroeconomic policy conducted by a number of countries that have refused to admit the fault of the policy, the sanctions imposed against russian and follow russian exports of grain and fertilizers. have only further the stable situation actually gone for discount for the situation, the food and fertilizer supply, which is

a very important item for the global community at hundreds of millions of suffering on account of lisa disruption. and i appreciate the fact that president portion said that russia guarantee was safe supply of fertilizers from russia, but also from ukraine. pakistan's foreign minister has urged western countries to lift sanctions on afghanistan, where millions of people are on the verge of famine. now the tele bonds return to power last year lead to the abrupt end of foreign financial aid. despite the u. s. previously forking out massive sums during the 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 risk and economic implosion that. and that is exactly what will happen if the country remains locked out of international banking and its foreign assets remain frozen. we must not promote

a famine. the west to hard line stance 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 its overseas assets. the u. s. 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 had to be facing except under. earlier this week, washington pledged to provide some $55000000.00 in humanitarian aid to afghanistan . however, some critics are saying that that is a drop in the ocean compared to how much money the us and its allies spent 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 dirani pakistan's, former envoy to the u. e and k. ron, who says that the severe crisis and i've got to stand directly affects its

neighbors in particular, pakistan as well as the immediate neighbors ones have been telling the americans to unfreeze that thousands of rooms, 10000000000 dollars. and he's going to is that right now? one son is facing a magnitude and bases almost 90. 5 percent of the people are below our to line the people selling needs and also selling the children. so this is kind of situation has come up and, and we are worried because i didn't trust it. susan i that's the i was they will head towards part so he didn't do to asian. in fact, something happens in the one. so immediate neighbors will be effected. the major can especially britton's prime minister,

has touched on the controversial subject of the falkland islands with argentina's leader in what he called a frank exchange. he compared the inhabitants right to determine their future with ukrainian crisis of the sovereignty of those who live on the islands remains a tough subject with both london and when us aries lane. claim relations have been turbulent since the 2 countries fought a short war 982 over the islands, more than 8000 miles from the u. k, which britain, one in the 10 weeks of fighting, almost 1000 soldiers died force. johnson claimed that the u. k had vindicated falkland inhabitants, right? to be british i just said it had been 40 years since the u. k. had vindicated the principle that falkland islanders should have the right to determine their future under basic diplomatic principles and have the right to be british. i made the point, we were spending a lot of our time talking about ukraine, where the principal at stake was the right of sovereign independent people to determine their future. johnson, forrest johnson shows the pure historical hypocrisy,

the united kingdom in using terms and examples that completely contradict each other to say that the people of falklands, whose territory they occupied have the right to self determination. according to principles of democracy, is a real deception. we all know that the code and population the falkland islands was settled and the past inhabitants who will keep on the same lamps, were completely expelled by the military forces of the british occupation. in 18. 33 people from argentina were never allowed to return to these territories. this is not the same as what is happening in the dumbass, which we know russia has no population of russians. people now live in the dom must have lived on these terraces with tens and hundreds of years. these 2 situations are completely different, but boris johnson uses them as he is comfortable in the conditions he needs and in the interests of his country. and his closest partner, which is the united states that on the united kingdom, continues to adopt the u. s. international policy. it consists of creating conflict situations in order to confirm their own, if not opponents, than even enemies,

as they now call them, which of russia and china, and the nato some image which showed it very clearly because they said it publicly hobby. ah, russia is to help egypt build its 1st nuclear power plant cairo says it has given approval for construction of the future plant by russia, state atomic energy corporation, ross adam, now the plant has to be built in the city of l. dobbin 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. on the nato summit, wrapped up in madrid on thursday with the block during china, one of the 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 argued contributor rachel marston brings us more 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, much worse than will to see him. ukraine today. jewels over a chorus visibility of course, to prevent escalation beyond ukrainian. and that's the reason why an 8th was not a part older conflict on the ground. well, what else did stolen 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 emanuel, my call, has said that nato was brain dead. he said that in an 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 and his at arrow on. 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 kurds, but we haven't heard many of the details. german chancellor off schultz. he said that the west would not live 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 has become a little too carried away with his geography, mistaking switzerland for sweden, but, and 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 ukraine, as long as it takes to in fact, make sure that they are not defeated by, by ukraine, in ukraine, by, by, by russia. we got the telephone. he suggested we call the leader of south switzerland switch. and my good, my goodness, i'm, i'm getting really anxious here about expanding nato sweeten. meanwhile, in madrid, thousands of people repeatedly took to the streets throughout the nato summit to

protest against the blocks policy. this year, spain is marking the 40th anniversary of its session to nato. the summit was dominated by the ukraine conflict and the alliance's efforts to provide more weaponry to kill the message. the protesters, however, focused on nato's endeavors, claiming it is no source of peace as they called, forced into withdraw from the blind. in australia, 7 in tenant people say that their governments alliance with washington increases the chance of it being drawn into a war in asia pacific. a war that would be against national interests. that is, according to an annual foreign policy poll conducted by the local institute, a prominent sydney base to the think tank. but despite the concerns, more than 80 percent of australian save that the alliance is important for their national security. that's a major growing tension between beijing and cambra. after australia leader attended a nato summit for the 1st time. earlier, my colleague nicky aaron discussed nato's swiftly evolving strategy with

a panel of guests. they test his claims to pluck does not once a confrontation with my case. it was your take on that statement, considering the fact that many ukrainian trips were trained by nato instructors and now fighting with weapons supplied by the us let alliance. i mean, it 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 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 he not 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, it'll, liddy day 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. the was the this other european conflict, deliberately august stated because of a failure to accommodate genuine security concerns. what's your take on nato labeling russia? i think the most significant and do read torres. there's no surprise here. i've been reading papers, thank papers for a long time, depending on papers and the more recent ran corporation papers and it was always clear that they would escalate. the idea here was to contain russia and you also, my goal was to go for the big price, which is china. keep in mind that china was already in the target in 1965 in the good papers. those plans are not done over the overnight if they will plan 50 years ahead. so i'm not surprised. it's going to be an escalation,

but they are desperate desperate because in front of them, it's no senior is nor leave yet, you know, iraq, we are talking about based on super power. and it's back. it's not alone. it's not along the bricks. we bigger than the g 74 times bigger, and we can see people actually backing silently backing booking and he's not alone . it test of a u. s. hypersonic missile system failed on wednesday. that's according to media reports, confirmed by pentagon spokesman tim gorman, 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 a problem had occurred after the ignition of the test asset failure comes as russia, china and 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 worth problems. recruiting since the vietnam war are killed me up in comments. joe biden says it's time for more us troops in europe, on the ground in poland on the ground involved next day. i'm just turned in the marine, 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 numbers. 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 come in and do a military line, enjoying the service. our hope is that it's people go in this movie by the way, all the other side, all over again about why for the seems that out of desperation, they actually change the rule. they now except for fruits without high school diploma and with tattoos on their hands and next that's been outlawed for years. also confidence in the us military. i'm the u. s. public has significantly re after last year, the 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. it's a little girl raised by to mom. for some reason, this attempt to get by the us military is not causing an inflow rash belie and for some that's not particularly surprising at all. have you seen the us army commercial m, other calling the most pathetic excuse for recruitment ad? it's even dawning. any form, they lost the focus of their target audience. don't worry. i've seen the u. s. army recruitment ad, and there is a girl called emma, who has 2 moms. i feel completely safe. i recently watched emma's video and i wondered if i was watching a u. s. army recruitment video or a netflix originals trailer. 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 it also appears that the bungle pull out of afghanistan has cause a lot of rank and file was in the military to lose confidence in the chain of command. also that woke 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 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 relatives, friends, cousins, brothers, uncles and aunts who have returned from some of these wars, particularly afghanistan and iraq. and they have returned damaged, either psychologically physically or both. many of them can't work. many of them have had personality changes. most of them are in facing 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, britain relinquished sovereignty over it. van colony had over agreement outlined a governing principle of one country to systems for a period of about 50 years. that president shooting ping praises to keep the power to administer the hong kong as they are firmly in the hands of patriots is essential for safeguarding the long term governance and security of hong kong. at no time should this principle be allowed to be compromised. protecting the power to administer is protecting hong kong prosperity and stability, as well as the interests of a 7000000 hong kong residents enjoy the packing of the motherland. while staying connected with the world is a notable strength unique to hong kong, the strength cherished by both hong kong residents and the central authorities.

chinese president, using 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. you noted that the success of principals that they 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. even a detox, who highlighted the importance of the one country to systems principal over the last 25 years. we have seen the implementation of this policy. it's unique in his 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 results. now is now more and more integration of the 2 economies. and it gives the kinds of synergy facts 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 very over this. as a result, we can see what it can nomics successful have been chief by hong kong and the successes, mainland china has achieved and eat achieving that doesn't for me and 32 minutes. i'll be back with another full infrastructure to stay with us. r t enter national ah, i get the bill girl. it's been a i think is 70 percent of even 80 percent of so be below for why should they be fuel say, i want to approach and they go, it means i want this best buy this one. me not a toyota sale,

possibly so. and then we'll proceed with ah, ah hello and welcome to cross 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 its kline state. ukraine is losing a war. nato actively supports. essentially, nato has decided to double down on failure. cross stocking 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 sack rules and impact. that means you 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. this 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 nate to, again, in response.