unique organization in the history of the world. what they were trying to do was to simply do nothing short and build the most powerful and most deadly biological weapons program that the world had ever known. a bad my life coverage on the on screen. and they're trying to ban me from politics because there's a case of condemned against m. ron count speaks exclusively to r t. and the aftermath of the former pakistan prime minister being charged with threatening current government officials, also ahead with argent credit, forced to evacuate after getting caught under artillery fire while following the

found. so russian troops in the done yes, republic i'm brazilian cartoonists, uses his arc to call light ukraine for what he said. he's all they war crimes against the most vulnerable in tampa, with the residents became the 1st victims of mines, especially children and the elderly. i'm trying to do the work that we can warn civilians. it's an attempt on my part to assist on the 3rd world of the western world economies developed one forbes commentator describes europe with inflation in some you countries now higher down in mexico. with broadcasting from moscow to the world 247. this is our t pleasure to have your company for the news hour. i mean in the west expects. there runs are going to be our problems,

but that won't happen. was former pakistan prime minister m ron count and told r t during i'm exclusive interview. this thursday. the wide ranging discussion came shortly after on islam abad court extended his bail and his ongoing pseudonym terrorism case at home. their mid doesn't do terrorism case, the ban my live coverage on, on, on, on screen. and they're trying to ban me from politics because there's a case of contempt against me since i left office 4 months back. never has there been such a public response for, for any political party as it is for my body today? the government is panicking. they out there watching us growing popularity. we. we swept the by elections and the biggest province and punjab. the other 2 bi election which we slept so there,

but scared and that's why they're clamping down. if we go back mister cam to when you are interested from power in the spring time, you've mentioned several times that certain documents exist that confirm foreign interference in your removal from power. are you in any position to tell us what those documents may be? well, the, the sofa and the conversation between the bugs on ambassador and washington, and the under secretary of state of the you of the u. s. there's a conversation between them where he threatens the august sunny investor. that unless i am wrong, hon was removed as a prime minister in a no confidence emotion that but that still wasn't table as yet that there would be consequences for bugs on. the biggest problem is that western countries expect their problems to become problems. well,

some background to what he was speaking about there in april, i know confidence both removed and run, come from the country's top political position on the x p. m. has been holding rally's regularly since earlier this month. his chief of staff was arrested on charges of sedition. mister count also insist ship our girl was tortured by police . something officials denied it was an accusation and words used in a campaign raleigh to take action against the police chief and a judge which led to the terrorism charges he's currently immune from arrests on till his next high court hearing on august 31st and run con came under intense international pressure for visiting moscow earlier this year. pakistan's former prime minister told r t he was just seeking to boost economic ties. well look, you know, country is foreign policy must be for the benefit of their own public. 220000000 bug, a son is elected me. my brian,

he had to be there. what is good for that? their benefit, their rights, that interests that has to be my priority. and so, what i had took the trip to russia, and this was all the stakeholders. why on board? the idea was that we would improve our relationship with russia. and we would, you know, we have trading it links with russia. we want to improve the trading links. we already were a pipeline. a gas pipeline was, was being planned 56 years back before i came to power. so we wanted to cement that contract and then we wanted to buy cheaper oil from, from russia, as well as wheat, $100000000.00 bargains, sundays of hon. 50000000 below the poverty line. 15000000 just above the poverty line. when the prices go up, when inflation bites in western countries, they only,

they just have a drop in the standard of living in the country, people go below the poverty line. they're going to have to square be the day. so my interest was the people up august on and obviously this didn't go down when a lot of other issues were raised as well. with former pakistani prime minister m ron con, our full exclusive interview with him, you'll be able to watch it. it is a comprehensive sit down later in the day here on our t k. let's turn attention on the program now to the latest developments in the ukraine, conflicts russia's defense ministry claims. more than $300.00 ukranian troops had been killed in the past 24 hours among the troops, fatalities were said to be more than $200.00 reserved soldiers, who were targeted in a strike on the chopped leno railway station, nuts in the south, east of the country. on wednesday, kia claimed at least 25 civilians were killed on more than 30 injured in the strike

and the real restoration which had blamed on moscow. russia has repeatedly stressed . it does not target civilians. while i was russian and allied forces advanced on the territory of the done yet republic, the time of our b of one of the main i post of ukrainian fighters is not being encircled. now it's a strategic point. as cube is accused of regularly shelling, done yet. and the other talents from positions there are correspondent inertia dollar reports from the frontline. we're not crew that he's in, came under a tillery far. ah. right away, the village of elk grove sky wipes out any doubts. it is still very much

a front line. we're here to join in a lead russian special ops unit supporting the offensive on this part of the front . with suzie venues of affordable ukrainians, abandoned their positions, as always in a hurry. they took away all of their inventory. you can see a 4 made jacket here. madison's 1st aid kits, and over here is their fortification trench. so the main purpose of this fortified area, just outside the village of krakowski, was to north allow this village to be encircled from the south. now also this position was where the ukrainian forces tried to briefly gain a foothold after it was clear that the village itself had fallen. there is nothing

but vast open fields and sporadic forest belts between this place and keeps force. his next strong hold of the town of our jobs, we are quite literally treading on egg shells. here, upon abandoning this position, ukrainian troops rigged the whole area. they used cluster munitions to scatter hundreds of anti personnel mines all over the place. such munitions are explicitly bound by the geneva convention, or the mind goes off in a rather anti climatic fashion, but its intention is not to kill but raw, the cripple, a person, the blast is more than enough to tear one's foot right off and as ukraine's troop retreated, they made sure it's not just infantry, but heavy vehicles to that. we'll have to advance with extreme caution. sap as have their hands, full extracting anti tank minds to ah,

russian motors and how it says he abound enemy positions around the clock. ukraine's artillery pulls no punches either something that we witnessed 1st hand ah thought, yet keep troops efforts to stool rushes advance proved to be futile with the main fighting, already engulfing the streets. who are to a mosque magus donna reporting from the don bass. r t. another aspect of all about to tell you about the petrol sky district in done yet, because been shell by ukrainian forces, with anti personnel mines. that is, according to local officials who said the attack occurred on wednesday. now,

it is not the 1st time he has been accused of using mines bound under international law. their reported regular use in the front lines in dunbar for rally in moscow, which was aimed at bringing international attention to the issue of one of those who saw the protest was a brazilian artist who then created a work showing the menacing nature of the exclusive carlos like truth said, his intention was the highlight war crimes being committed on the most vulnerable more is the 3rd, this is my work was to show the civilian population, the danger of these explosive devices, the adult, the cities, their inhabitants are the 1st victims of mines, especially children and the elderly, their international treaties regulating the production and use of these mines, in my opinion, they should be completely banned. i believe that the use of these mines in cities is a war crime. there are clear examples in history combo, dea and then goal assist greatly from these minds. even after the end of the was

they continue to operate. it's time to decide which side you're on. it's important to understand what's at stake. you can't stun decide. i quite clearly understand that russia was pushed into this conflict. this is the fault of nato expansionism. it was necessary to create a certain situation which was done in ukraine in order to put pressure on russia, push it into conflicts, justify western sanctions, and attacks on russia as during the cold war the full, i'd from the sanctions against russia over the conflict in ukraine has turned europe into quote, the 3rd world of the western world economies. that's according to a senior contributor in forbes magazine. it comes with figures show european stock markets are done a full 22 percent compared to last year. with your tick here is r t contributor rachel marston, parentally, it's investors who are starting to wonder whether the european union is on the verge of becoming the 3rd world of western economies. according to that forbes

article, and you really have to wonder why heads of state across the block are just sitting there, slack jawed, and just letting it happen. what's even more troubling is that no one's talking much about how the you can pull out of this kamikaze tailspin. but the new piece in forbes dropped some clues as to possible outcomes. micro traders are looking for 2 signals for europe and the world economy. these are a ceasefire in ukraine, or europe becomes so desperate this winter on supply chain. so stretched that it has no choice but to relax some sanctions or convince non you partners to be label and tongue ship rushing, commodities to look in compliance with the own rules, but really doing an end around. now your leaders are behaving like they will by my see a one day german chess are off. schultz is in canada, bragging about a 5 year hydrogen energy project, while his own industrial plans are staring down the barrel that shut down right now

. now the next day, berlin is back to firing up cold plants and yesterday, french president amendment my co rebroadcast to the meeting with ministers. you know, the kind that is not usually for public consumption. now the message, apparently wine frances, to here is that the end of abundance, and there's need to make sacrifices for freedom. now, doubtful friends citizens feel more free right now as their currency crashes and cost of living skyrockets, along with energy prices. you know, we're talking here about the 2nd largest economy in the u after germany, and that helps to keep the economies of the other members states of fro afloat. now france thought it could bank on nuclear to replace gas from russia. but now we've learned that it can only get about half of its nuclear power plants operating. so the big problem is that no one really knows where these top you economies are headed and investors citizens would like to know where all this is going. and it's pretty clear that the leaders of the nations themselves, art inspiring confidence in their moose. instead, they're acting like they're just bystanders to a crash when reality they've aided and abetted all this at every term by supporting

self harming top down sanctions. at the eas, supranational level to the detriment of their own economies. now, these heads of state were elected democratically to uphold their own citizens interests above all else. and when you have to read the riot act here on citizens about how their way of life is ending as mac hold in yesterday, then there's no doubt you failed miserably in your basic duty as an elective head of state. now, at least the leaders can still brag about being unified in their failure, as they bury their own responsibilities and elected officials inside the black, you box, and hide behind the unelected. you commission present ursula vander lane, skirt, or pansy. whatever the case may be. you know, it may be that warm and fuzzy, unity talk will heat europeans homes and put food on their tables this winter to pay for ukraine. that's the message of prime minister of boris johnson to britain's who he says must injure storing energy bills, poverty, under quote, catastrophic winter all to insure victory for keith. is it sensible

to pay for british taxpayers to support freedom in ukraine? i say it is absolutely vital, and we've got to continue to do it. oh, mister johnson's words came during a surprise visit by the art going p. m to ukraine's capital. the u. k itself is currently suffering from sky rocketing inflation, which is on truck to hit 18 percent in early 2023, according to some predictions that that would be the highest inflation peak in some for decades. here's how it boris johnston's calls for people to be prepared to pay the price have gone down with some just imagine being so wealthy, so privileged and so utterly lacking in empathy that you can't see that people in poverty suffer, struggle and die in a crippling financial crisis, this is everything that's wrong with boris johnson. you don't balance this war on

the backs of suffering british children and thereby escaped the government's responsibilities to those kids. voice johnson playing the champion of all things ukraine, when he's a busted flush on the home front is utterly transparent. so he's obviously making a last ditch attempt at being an international statesman. after being such a monumental disaster domestically while with prices soaring and wages falling further behind them, british trade unions of launch, the campaign called enough is enough. it's meant to put pressure on the government to tackle the cost of living crisis. the movement is calling for a real pay rise for workers energy bills to be slashed at the end of food poverty and more taxes on the wealthy. one leading union leaders said it's time to turn the anger of the working class into action. the working classes back, we refused to be humbled. we refused to wait for politicians and we refused to be poor. any more mclension? well, general secretary of the communist party of britain, robert griffin,

safety. you guys currently witnessing a level of strike action hasn't seen for decades, and that's something the incoming prime minister is going to have to tackle immediately. people really aren't quite as stupid as the the zone be pro minister in this policy. i'm those who want is position, seem to think they are and for people to pay. the bills is not, is not money that's going towards support in ukraine in the wall. it's money that's going straight into the coffers or the dividends of the oil companies and energy companies and their shareholders public. undoubtedly the public or rally and 2 initiatives, such as enough is enough, as well as the other campaign in bodies. there's support for strike action level that i certainly haven't seen for decades in britain, there's a lot of sympathy for workers who are fighting back against real terms coach in

their pay and fire and re fire and replace policies and so on. so there really isn't upsurge of anger and it means that when the new prime minister takes over in early september, they are going to be confronted by that title wave of protests. ok . on a related scene, the international monetary fund has risen. bailiff negotiations, which are lanka, and a bid to alleviate the severe economic crisis. starts in golf, the country, the i m m. i m f. delegation met with local officials to discuss necessary reforms to economic and financial policies. now, negotiations earlier in the summer, they were abundant when, as you can see here, civil unrest roughly over the crisis which has resulted in the severe lack of fuel and basic necessities. the in suing chaos lead to the fall of the government and

the president fleeing the country before quitting. let's get the take on this from academic specialist in international relations shamal. fernando, in colombo, you're most welcome. the previous meeting, as mentioned with the i m f, and was abandoned over civil unrest since then the government's collapse, the president's quit. how likely then is it there will be constructive talks, nod. thank you very much. i mean top level, our discussions, how begun in sri lanka, dia miss delegation, division 3, learn, come to learn. government is expecting about $2.00 to $3000000000.00 bailout package. and the delegation has requested with the 3 lincoln authorities to restructure to sustainable liberals for the sri lankan economy. by raising its revenue to about 11.9 percent in the next half of the year by $223.00 as little

as reducing the debt. i'm in the budget difference from 9.9 to 6.9. so with this, there could be a stop level agreement, but however, the bilateral, with the 2 major doing those, like china and japan, to that $3500000000.00, that's out of $9000000000.00. and this is unfolding situation in true. i'm covered . i and miss delegation coming to foreign. that really package. yeah. and the question is, is it actually going to work if a deal is reached with the i m f? would that be the economic lifeline? the country needs to save itself? well, it's going to be a tough time because it doesn't, the auster to mistress test scott are textual checks will be raised. job cuts will be there. and about, i guess about 5 or a half a 1000000 people lose their jobs. so with that to run the business cycle will be

a big challenging. however, at this point, a bailout package is required from a much natural organization. may jo, traditional donor countries like india and other countries, traditional neighbors hall hoping or sri lanka. so at this point, the goldman needs it, but the people are going to be challenged by australian issues. so why are they going to need maybe increased new delhi health even further than not given the scale of the crisis? i imagine the question is, whatever happens from these talks, will i am if help be enough on its own? for this country need $6000000000.00. even if a bailout comes from the i even if it's going to be $2.00 or $2.00 to $3300000000.00 sold to bridge the gap. i don't know anybody, nation like india. let's china and other nations who need to come and help or they

need that got to be filled up to 6000000000. so definitely debt restructuring, the china and japan is the key for you, mr. linda. soft liberal agreement. that's what the reports are saying. so this is what i can see. your point shall just. busy on some western headlines, we've seen this like a crisis call the quote chinese death trop. can you just briefly take us through that on your take on it? so rare large are all just thought to our own print. 1000000000, that's only 10 person. so the bilateral for this year, the china as well, less japan still dad kept the point $5000000.00. so it's about 150 or 2, or one, just the old off know who are sri lanka as good, but how we will learn. going to also has been much organizations, the world bank,

nation development banker on long term and short term knowns. so the current level stands at 114 percent of the total g, d p, which is quite high. so this is so raw, what's the role unfolding situation that really has to do on the restructuring, the scroll and monetary policy tightening. mitchell, now we watch with interest of these talks. what comes out of them? thank you very much for at breaking it does not get demick specialists and international relations from colombo today. shamal. fernando, thank you. the head of the red cross delegation to russia. bela bruce sees the crisis in ukraine, has no directly affected more than 17000000 people. though we praise the major global response, there's been to help millions of displaced and suffering civilians. the 4 functions national thing fits in

both the kaufman and truly are political borrowing is was responding. you couldn't call them today 1000000. so the place people had to manage all those caching systems as well as they are, all right. and so on, people spark plugs wealth and does your preparers for difficult winter? the red cross is trying to mass additional resources. john entwistle again, sees the organization quote, as in it's for the long haul. we are here

in town for the hearing. it was, the source assumptions were closing, and so the shelves are very and who do article among that response or national feel the way it costs more increasing along with the national students working with you for a long and way over to place you on the ground and we can support from the,

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