anyways, with the policies over before with johnson, he says he's stepping down as britain prime minister that he failed to impress paula conservative on the home front, despite roaming up military support for ukraine. our country is facing immense challenges. my firmly believed that the public are ready to hear that truth. president biden says, he scrapping afghanistan, the status is a major non nato ally that comes almost a year off of the dissolved with us. and then to collect that left the country disarray and with no cash plus with they were treated

all of this flu from the united states. huge about how the judges will fall. of course, going to discover independence of us supplied weaponry hastily, abandoned by ukrainian troops on the front line that says russian lead policies took control with global news update here and all the international coming to you live from us studios here. most guy, thank you for joining us. i'm sure that even sky british prime minister boys johnson has announced his resignation. it comes off the 3 is an office that have been mod by a succession of scandals. all of roy's questions about his leadership. now his time at the helm of british politics is coming to an end and made extreme pressure from his fellow conservatives. now,

johnson had found himself engulfed in yet another controversy over alleged harassment by a government deputy chief whip. now, despite initial claims that the prime minister wasn't aware of the whips previous discrepancies when he was appointed to position it late to turn by the force, johnson had actually been away. now this week, scandal was the latest involving the u. k. government, which has included the legal gatherings that downing street during the cove, it locked down. now while the latest scandal is considered to be the straw that broke the camel's back and is prompted the master resignation of government officials, the rising inflation and worsening economy have been called. major fact is the treasury chief is one of the 1st government officials who resigned this week highlighted disagreements with the pi mrs policies. in general. our country

is facing immense challenges. i firmly believe that the public are ready to hear that truth are people know that if something is too good to be true, then it's not true. they need to know that whilst there is a path to a better future, it is not an easy one in preparation for our proposed joint speech on the economy next week. it has become clear to me that our approaches are fundamentally to different. now amongst the challenges mentioned by the former chancellor, is that deteriorating economic situation? inflation rates in the u. k. r. a 40 year high, and experts, and i warning that the country has the highest risk of recession amongst major developed economies. feed sweeney, is the international editor of the morning. so newspaper says, the economy is firing much worse than boys. johnson would have people believe, i think soon like it is saying that johnson has deceived the public over the state of the economy. those kind of, you know, the, the statistics that we're not necessarily focusing on. so the britons much,

much poorer than johnston's making out the economy isn't upon the state. the current account deficit is ballooning sterling is in free for the day interest cost arises. we've seen here the biggest national rail strikes in decades. the baggage handlers are about to ground planes are going on strike. health workers are going on strike teachers about a team for industrial action as well. because, you know, with those the cost of living crisis, ameliorating people's living conditions. so this could again force and force the situation to develop into the growing demand for a new general election now well being grilled on britain's domestic problems. post johnson has frequently in the last few months, trying to shift the focus to the conflict in ukraine. political analyst stand, journalist alexander mckay says the british people have refused to foot the bill for johnson's foreign policy. campbell boris johnson adopted the the so called

cause of ukraine because he was already getting into trouble domestically. and from his point of view, a wall where he could play it being a wall leader without actually risking very much him from his perspective, was perfect. he could rally the conservative party around him. he could play the part of the heroic defender of democracy without risking many british soldiers at all. and of course, he made a fail gamble lab, because whilst the poles may show that the british public supports ukraine, the british public is going to allow the or which is to allow the british government to support ukraine at their expense. they're not prepared to have the prime minister run around, runs a key every 5 minutes when he gets into trouble at home. to stage the photo was, was zalinski to get out of the escalating problems that his government has caused on the homefront. and people are very well aware of this, you ask them whether they support ukraine. they might say yes,

but you asked them what the government should be prioritized, and they'll say the economy, they'll say the cost of living crisis. now as ukraine remains the priority of focus of western powers, all t looks at u. s. weapon resupply to ukrainian troops was abandoned on the front line as they retreated. we're going to have more on that later in the program. now the u. s. president is revoking afghanistan, special status as a major non nato ally. job biden's announcement comes almost a year off of a humiliating american polite left off kind of standing tatters without any funds to rebuild. i discussed the situation earlier with auto correspondent don quarter. the taliban has been in power for almost a year now, and only now is washington revoking afghanistan status as a major non nato allies to the united states. basically, this is washington admitting utter defeat in the u. s. is longest war in its

history. i mean, the american forces fought for 20 years. washington spent 2 trillion dollars just to prop up an ineffective and corrupt government in kabul. and in the end, the taliban around to stay. and on top of that, it's also got tons of state of the art american weapon read that was left behind during an embarrassing and chaotic american military withdrawl of in august of last year. okay, so we've got a situation in afghanistan and humanitarian situation that is really worsening. has there been any promise from the us about how it could help the ask people sort of less than a year, essentially off to, to bundle them? sure. we've heard a lot of promises from the united states from washington for example, a devastating earthquake took place in afghanistan just a couple weeks ago, and washington pledged $55000000.00 to help in the humanitarian efforts there. and that brings their total in the last year of humanitarian aid, up to $774000000.00. so now the united states, the thing,

it's the biggest humanitarian, a donor, and f dana stand in the world. but there's just one problem here. all of these millions of dollars are really drops in the pond when you consider the fact that the united states has frozen over 7000000000 dollars in foreign reserves owned by the f dana stand central bank. and it's all because the white house is afraid that money is going to get into the hands of the taliban. as part of our ongoing work to address the humanitarian and economic crisis in afghanistan, president biden signed an executive order to help enable certain u. s. based assets belonging to afghanistan, central bank to be used to benefit the afghan people. the executive order is designed to provide a path for the funds to reach the people of afghanistan while keeping them out of the hands of the taliban and malicious actors. well, that's what the us had to say. what's the telephone? the reaction been to these a pledges so far? well, naturally they see it as quite hypocritical. and despite all of what washington's

been saying, all this promise to aid the, the taliban is actually saying that washington has completely cut off its humanitarian aid to the country. let's take a listen to what they said. bothers be to the market after the transition of the afghan regime last year. unfortunately, the west stopped all humanitarian aid. they not only politicized humanitarian aid, but also forcibly froze $9000000000.00 us dollars for the afghan people. on the one hand, they claim to defend human rights, but at the same time, they are violating human rights. when we call on the u. s. and western society, not to politicize humanitarian 8, but to unfreeze the assets of the afghan people. now it's important to understand that this is all taking place while a humanitarian crisis is ravaging the country. over 800000000 people are in need of medical assistance there. and that earthquake, i just mentioned earlier, actually killed over 1000 people. so the united states is really talking to talk when it comes to humanitarian assistance, but it looks like washington isn't willing to cut a real deal with the taliban so that it can walk the walk in that regard. now as

cash strapped afghanistan struggles to keep its economy afloat in the wake of that disaster. so thick as dawn was just talking about by china has thrown couple of financial lifeline. it spoke down to an $8000000.00 humanitarian aid package to help the country recover. from those off the shots, the taliban has praise that live. who china has provided us with a we should not be silent at this moment. we are grateful to him. now as part of the relief efforts, beijing is also handed over more than $6000.00 tons of rice struck canister on china. and it's help immediately after that earthquake hit the country. in june. political analyst nelson won't say beijing couldn't help, but extend to helping hand to its neighboring country. i wouldn't say that there is a political behind a, because honest on there's

a neighboring country right now. and so when it crosses happen, responded immediate by sending over, you know, age when the systems over the place. and shell came over. so a moment a to start absolutely an act of military and a what can the u. s. say because they are. yes they, they have also expressed their willingness to, to provide financial aid to help us start and during this. but in the meantime, let's do not forget that was given you moving back 7, billing us dollars money. so that's correct. yes. that sounds to me and this is very hippa right now,

let's turn our attention to the 2nd most sanction nation in the world. it's iran, which is coming to a fresh batch of us restrictions this time. washington has targeted 15 individuals and government entities of the blaming turan, for a lack of progress in talks to revive and international deal on the countries nuclear program. while the united states is committed to achieving an agreement with iran that seeks a mutual return to compliance with the joint comprehensive plan of action, we will continue to use all our authorities to enforce sanctions on the sale of iranian petroleum and petro chemicals. last month, iran and the u. s. tried to negotiate a result shouldn't of the agreements under the previous deals from 2015, washington has asked her on to curb its nuclear program. if the country wants western sanction lifted, some of the restrictions were earlier imposed by that than president donald trump

scrap that multilateral deal with iran. however, sharon says it will not bother to any american demands which it's cool. extravagant geranium officials have also a free refuse to agree to any additional concessions beyond what was in the field. peel back in 2015 university of to rome. professor s i. e mohammed brandy says the u. s. has a poor track record when it comes to sticking to its obligations under international agreements. us as a history of arrogance toward iran. in the past, every time the iranians agreed to some sort of reproach, ma, with the united states, the american stab them in the back, the united states is constantly seeking a deal where they do polls so they can violate the deal. so the right thing and till we have guarantees that the americans won't cheat on until the americans live . the sanctions that prevent the fall of the implementation of the deal. when we

can't have a deal, the united states and the europeans have antagonized so many powerful countries that they've actually pushed them close to each other and away from western power. so, in my opinion, the downfall of the western empire is mostly, or at least a large extent, you know, doing to europe now, as the energy crisis rages across the continent, squabble has broken out amongst party members in the german parliament with some calling for a limited loan ship the news stream to gas pipeline, to get more fuel from russia. that's despite the claiming that the economic war that the west is waged against moscow has failed.

we're just going to bring you some reaction from berlin very shortly. if you can just bear with us. this is over. see a big problem. of course, europe at the moment when it comes to issues over the inflation that europe is seeing at the moment, i will time bringing more on that later. but now let's go to the war in ukraine where the net officials say that 2 boys and a girl age 7 are amongst the latest victims of ukrainian army shelling in the republics capital. now ho hospital and the kindergarten are also said to have been hit, northwest of the next city. the russian defense military is also published this video showing the ukranian army being targeted by artillery fire. the images show rushes grad, artillery units which working close cooperation with drawings, which provide them with data on possible targets that could be something such as a military vehicle. meanwhile, in the neighboring accounts were public which russian lead forces now claim to have

complete control of ukrainian troops have apparently left behind in abundance of us, supplied munitions. this includes round the long range, how it says it's believed that these weapons were discarded as the troops fled the front line positions near the city of leafy chance ortiz correspondent lurid garcia looked through that abandoned. also, the sight of a tremendous explosion. just, just look around at the center was here, and all the trees were knocked back by a block that i can't even imagine. and i know that this was very recent because it's like a sauna here, the, the earth itself. this is still smoldering, touching least these metal, for example, is like touching a hot capital. now this was apparently a ukrainian truck transporting american shelves. m

7777 shells. those are artillery that have been provided for key of he is one of the shells that was scattered in this blast. there's nothing like this in the ukranian arsenal or what ukraine inherited from the soviet union. but again, they were apparently hiding in the woods as many of their troops and forces did around this a chance. they were apparently spotted in and struck. we've fired with assistance from the locals. and evidently, no one's been here yet. the russian troops haven't even found this place yet. this is while i will find m. 5491 rocket propelled shells for the m 777. how it's a supplied by the united states with a lot of pomp to the ukrainian military. now these are improved and more expensive

versions. they fly even farther over here is evidently the artillery shot way, where ukrainian troops stationed there artillery. moreover, the m 795 shelves. these are regular not rocket propelled shells. this is all evidently dumped in a hurry. why, while he is the reason russian count a battery fire, some of the shelves laying here had been fitted with fuses for imminent use. the american howitzers here were undoubtedly damaged this close to impact craters. but whenever less evacuated apparently, urgently by ukrainian troops, they left behind everything else. during our short search, we found not only shelves, but huge amounts of propellant charges. us army think a t v also a huge amount of power. the charges in these containers,

these are full full again of us, 1000 left behind by ukranian troops as they were treated rule this flown in from the united states to supply the ukrainian military here between lisa chance quick ukrainian troops fled from and the city of city of sc we found a network of trenches and fortifications which were also abandoned is another dug out, either via the trenches and dug out doughty, his forces areas over there was another one. we won't go down the high chance. it's highly likely that at least than what we've dug out there are surprises. mines would trip was booby traps left behind. we'll leave this to professionals. the locals in a small village of 2 dozen houses, want the place cleared as soon as possible. they've had enough of blasts and the

glad to see the backs of ukrainian soldiers than they were positioned all over there. they kept firing. the windows in my house were shaking, and of course there was returned fire. did you ask them to move farther away? we would have had to approach them 1st, was a dangerous, we didn't want to get involved with them. no one knew what they could do towards the end. likely fear likely see chance this area could have been defended for weeks . but again, ukrainian soldiers and naturalist fighters choose to flee another sign that morale among them is far from what it was more. i'd gazda of our tea from the la guns people's republic. ah, now turning from russia has set off on a new trading re that will see containers travel more than 7000 kilometers through iran and then on to india. the 1st goods departed from the moscow region just early this week. and then now headed to mom, by the journey comes with the

e. u and u. s. further seeking isolate russia, former world market through sanctions last month, the test cargo of $41.00 tons left st. petersburg for iran. and then it travelled by road and then owned by ship to india, president vladimir putin has said that russia wants to turn the caspian basin into a major logistics hub. well let's get more reaction to that now and that speak to rob jeff secretary, who's a former secretary for eastern affairs in india is foreign ministry. thanks very much for joining us on, on the international. i just wanna ask, what's your assessment? all the efficiency of this new trade route. how do you think, perhaps this is going to help, not just the economies of russia and in india, but also perhaps their own to i think that this is a very good idea. we've been talking about this in north south trade route for

a long time where to find in our to is being or operationalized with a trial cargo. i'm sure to do well. but there are a couple of things i want to mention. one, the level of trade between india and russia needs to go up earlier. we are taught that this could be a ruled on so for sending goods from india to europe. but given the tensions between the rest and russian out is, i don't think that is very practicable in the short term. so i think both russia and india need to look at each other as a, as more attractive and more intensive trading partners out in all the raw materials. it could be consumer. good sir. so many other things which could be done or the 2nd point which i want to mention here is that it is not just commodities. i think we should also look at this route as

one way. busy we can transport energy, specifically oil and gas. and that brings me to my 2nd question because that's quite a key thing here. because when we talk about oil and gas, which i think that the e u in other countries now as to want to put sanctions on. all right, you have done that to what extent you think this root could help russia and eve neuron bypass. they sanctions the day imposed by the western world. i think very much, it is possible because a in all russia is a major exporter of gas. and now as it appears the, the european markets are going to be shut off will certainly greatly reduced. and india is a, is an energy deficient country. we need more gas and oil, which is why over the last few months are in ports of oil from russia have increased very dramatically. this is, of course,

coming by the sea route. but as far as gas has been sent, i think gas is a rush. i would also be looking for new markets. and india would also like to have rob or diversified supply of gas at cheaper rates. now, just as russia and germany in the 1970s had done the gas for bite steel, and that was the beginning of the, of the cooperation between russia and the west on the economic side, the soviet union and the risks as similarly i think that we should look at gas pipelines from russia incorporating also the possibility of getting gas from does up cost on the minister on the caspian basin. iran, maybe they could be swapped beetles, maybe the gas doesn't have to be transported all the way through the bush and gulf

budget can be, you know, consumed in the northern regions of iran and iran can give it gas from its food. it's annette. the board of wonder abbas and then this could be shipped to india. in fact, it is a longstanding proposal which is. busy on private companies, an indian company has been making and which has been discussed. i levels that there could be an under c gas pipeline from iran to india by omar, and some feasibility studies have been done in this regard, is just that nobody has taken it seriously because russia was not interested. there had a very good lucrative market for gas in europe, which is our ending india. busy was on is buying mostly gas by ellen gee, which is of more expensive. so a gas pipeline project of the kind that i am envisaging has

a very good strategic importance. and it was talked about, and you talked about the economic, i increasing bilateral trade being important that they could be increased much more between russia and india. we've heard that russia's ambassador to india says moscow expects that to go up by 40 percent this year. i'm how much bigger do you think that that turnover could actually get to see this kind of massive trade between the 2 countries in the future? well, given the size of the respective economies, i think that currently the freight is about $10000000000.00 easily. we know somewhere like $3040000000000.00, and this is one of the, it's a strategic matter because the relationship between russian india is somewhat weak on the economic side. and if we can raise the economic interaction on the level of trade and corporation that will solidify the strategic partnership also. currently,

i think there's an overly, we are overly dependent on defense products and maybe something in the oil and gas sector. but in order to have a more sound and broader foundation, we need to double shiver. now, for example, this talk that, you know, indian consumer goods could be russia, they could be in, you're not going to be in progress there. so if russia orient fits pinking, little bit away from europe and to large countries like india, i think we could do a lot more. okay, thank you so much. we'll leave it there. that was ravage secret. the former secretary for eastern affairs at india is foreign ministry and as the energy crisis has been raging across europe, but we know that there has been this squabbling, the german parliament amongst members of one party,

some calling for the limited launch of the new stream to gas pipeline to get more fuel from russia. now there's been this claim as well. if i can make war that the west is waged against moscow has perhaps failed sanctions in energy policy do not work. they should at least slow down the russian military. however, these energy sanctions actually benefit russia, we still need to negotiate with moscow and even consider putting the north stream to pipeline into operation for a limited period of time. if needed in case the flow of gas cannot be guaranteed, otherwise. economic was ruining us. no russia lift sanctions get gas, but not screen to hear if necessary. now the head of the left party in the boondocks, the co ever disagrees with ernst and the, the parties new stream to advocates. they stress that restarting negotiations with russia is not policy policy. germany halted certification of the pipeline following

russia's offensive in ukraine. the pipeline was set to direct double the amount of gas to germany, which would have ease the pressure on european consumers. the. let's get more on this now and crossover life to dr. ki, hey, ma, economist and political commentator, thanks for joining us here on naughty international bodies. germany's energy crisis . i mean, it seems, every day i pick up a paper and i see something new like whether that's restricting hot water or the potential for industry to say we can't run our factories. well, the energy crisis in germany has never been this severe as now. never, never in history, most people don't even have the slightest clue because the german propaganda is very, very carefully with just slipping out little little little things about how severe

this thing is. if the german crisis increases, so that gas is not flowing in towards the end of this year, many companies will shut down and they will probably never open again. because once you have destroyed some economic chains of where, especially in, in east germany and with the petrochemical industry, then the industries will be destroyed and they will open somewhere else. and germany with this politics. it very easy. artic quality is not a very good habit for doing business then anymore. it's not very reliable because we have reliable sources. rusher and politics destroyed this on purpose in the name of the great reset, and you did new green deal and all the stuff that plow swap and he's only got gang decided for germany and europe. so what we are facing now is really the.