if alice is only really, i'm getting to resist, i'll see how that strategy will be successful very particular time you sit down and talk a top headlines right now. and if you international scores of russian soldiers killed and gone bass and every single time while you creating and of course it's using a u. s. supplied hi mas rockets. deadly knew it was confirmed by russia's ministry of defense this month. with the m 23 militant group may leave several key areas of the democratic republic of the congo as soon as thursday. that is after months of violence against the local population. there was no, he's not been in our village before, but sees the m 23 war started. he's become a frequent problem. people are kidnapped, women raped in children, killed in mass. it's a situation that terrifies us. and all continuing,

looked back of the year that was 2022. so the french military leave the boston health region in africa after 8 years. it's and see how this operation ultimately of failure resulting in the displacement and death of thousands. real to recall are still anchors mass protests last year and the economic crisis is gaining independence, largely brought about by economic mismanagement, decimated by western sanctions on russian energy. with monday evening at 9 o'clock and we've got your top stories lined up, the russian ministry of defense has confirmed that 63 russian soldiers were killed on a recent rocket strike by the ukrainian military in the don't republic. i using american supplied high mass rockets. we understand the attack happened on new year's eve over now to our correspondent eco,

to stand off. scores dozens over what is believed to be russian fresh recruits have perished in this artillery attack, launched by the ukrainian forces over the new year's night. apparently under it was targeting the quarters over these people just outside the city of dynette. in the small town of my cave could basically it is believed that all those russian soldiers, they were stationed at what used to be a vacation. oh, college, it's building, so they were, this was their quarters and this is where at least for high mars rockets, according to the russian defense ministry. this is what the head, too high mars projectiles were intercepted according to the russian defense ministry. now this confirmation has come tucked at the very bottom of monday's media, released by the defense ministry in which they have also listed all the targets that the russians that the russian army managed to hit lately. for instance,

they talked how several artillery strikes across the front managed to kill some 74 in the mercenaries, foreign mercenaries that have been doing the bidding of the ukrainian side that have been working on the side of care of the so called foreign legion. now also, but the incident in my cave, for example, it has caused an uproar among the experts among the military experts here in russia . they've been asking questions as to how come show many people were stationed at a feeble or soviet era building. why weren't there quarters located in the basements and the under ground, and there have been repeated calls for a serious investigation of this so far, the russian defense ministry has already promised to provide all help it can to the families of those soldiers who have been killed or, well wounded as a result of this high mas strike. meanwhile, russia has an accepted a ukrainian drone near the, as of sea coastal city of, but a johnson,

it's coming from regional officials. this unverified footage is believe to show the work of defense systems. as we understand, no damage or casualties reported what the accredited army is. also shell 2 villages in russia's belgrade region, according to the local governor says several houses, vehicles and local cemetery suffered some damage. now another you create a drug, tako code in a bronze region early on monday, no one was heard. however, one energy facility was damaged while in the western russian province of what unusual ukrainian drone was reportedly shot down by ed defenses. now, all those developments come off to the russian defense ministry said it recently destroyed a number of ukrainian facilities involved in the production of u, a. v. as an unmanned aerial vehicles, the ministry of defense stated it was done to prevent kia from carrying out a tax on russian territory. while nato's chief has said that western countries need to be ready to provide long term military support for key f against old bug earlier

claim, the fastest way to peace in ukraine is to supply more weapons. then response to that, u. s. democratic party candidate for governor and kentucky, jeffrey young said mister stolen books should face actually 13 years behind bars. as far as mr. young is concerned, that's for helping to fuel the conflict. it may sound like a paradox, but military support for ukraine is the fastest way to peace if any arctic and makes no sense at all. but the fastest has to appease at this point would be, for is for the western united states, nato, the building to stop sending anything to ukraine except humanitarian aid for the civilians who have been displaced not send any more weapons, any more money. every us president from 945

till the present day has been an aggressor and a war. criminal nato is now under the direction of the united state. and mr. stoughton berg was chosen in order to support us imperialism to the camera. so he's a war criminal to specifically and your grade. after months of violence, the m $23.00. milton group may withdraw from several settlements in the democratic republic of the congo from thursday, as according to the east african community organization. but i'm 23 is allegedly supported by the d. r. c. neighbor, rwanda, something it refutes. the foreign policy chief, however, is not convinced by college denials. the you firmly just wanted to stop supporting

the m 23. unused old means to press the m 23 to comply with the decisions taken by the a c. it's also firmly just all states of the region to prevent the provision of any support to groups active in the d. c. that comes as tensions escalate. once again, with are a wonder accusing the d. c, a violating its s space for a 2nd time in 2 months after a military plan reportedly trespassed into one territory on wednesday. a kinshasa had earlier denied that the incursion in november was a provocation, calling it an unfortunate mistake. the democratic republic of congo, backed by the e. u insists that were won, they were supporting the m 23 militia group with weapons and ammunition. those allegations, again, have been denied by golly, now according to a u. n. a report, due to m 23 activities and increased fighting within the b r. c. a tens of thousands of people have been displaced in an attempt to de escalate tension. during the autumn, the east africa regional force deployed kenyan troops as peacekeepers there and

local, some of whom i spoke to us on the promise of anonymity. they actually say the atrocities have intensified why the security will have no security. the people are suffering a lot. they have no access to food, the rebel, so losing everything in the fields, there was no kit, not been in our village before, but since the m 23 war started is become a frequent problem. many people have disappeared. some have been shot that and others have been taken away to unknown locations. many people have died. both men and women and their bodies have been found in various places. people are kidnapped, women raped, and children killed in mass. it's a situation that terrifies us because we're afraid what these terrorists are doing, and we're sure could happen in the city of goma. all these young people, taken hostage, do not want to be ruled by m. 23. we've asked are authorities to address the situation. we fear the worst because terrorists don't respect human rights, and it's shameful to see all these organizations that are supposed to protect human

rights sitting on their hands in the face of such suffering. well, at 2022. so the end of an 8 year french military operation in the uranium rich west african. so hell region, the so called operation bar k, left of thousands of civilians dead on displaced under the premise of fighting islamist terrorists to johannesburg. now and art is credible at tattler with troubling details. hi, this is may try the former colonial power in africa. france is fast using influence on the ground and in the continent, this wave, if attempt to keep the power poster phrase president the manual micron. and i was in you africa strategy to be launched in 6 months. this is his government's response. as france pulls out of the say, i read it. the strategy is big one, ambition, but little on detail. france remains resolutely committed to the security of the

continent, acton, and support, and that the request of all african partners is from us really winning. or is it playing out a leg the 2020, to cut our welcome final, the former colonizer claims. it remains committed to security in the region with a straight face, paris fez. this as is until june, 3rd and mission operation. bar con, came to any glorious end in the field of perception. birkin continues to occupy a very important presence on social networks. it is necessary to put a clear end to it in order to switch to another logic. but it will also be logical for anyone to consider operation voc on a field mission, spending 8 years in this a hell. it barely lived up to his promise. there is no noticeable change in the conflict. what bed that is this a hell and f for france. jihadists are not only still in the region,

but they seem to be gaining momentum. according to the united nations, civilians have been displaced in their millions and they have also been killed in their thousands. the deepening of the protection crisis negatively affected the already dire humanitarian situation. the number of internally displaced persons rose to 397000 in the center in the course of the country. more than 1800000 people faced severe food and security and 2000000 children under the age of 5 are affected by acute malnutrition. francis, if one is to invest in said history and culture with french speaking countries. but what correlation is there between uranium mines in northern new j fresh power plants and french troops on the ground. and for money for us, is a transactional, colonial power. the transitional government demands prison,

micron permanently abandoned, his new colonial, put on the loose stick and patronize imposture to understand that no one love smalley more than moderns. in a monday letter to the united nations security council in august, miley, i choose from this a violations of its air space to collect intelligence for the benefit of terrorist groups in the sale, and dropped arms and ammunitions to them. and chaired, edit to french was lamenting frances interference in his domestic affairs. the french president insisted french remain pan african language in the face of former french colonies like rwanda rejecting it for english. instead, france was being rejected as an ally and rather viewed of a hangover of colonial times. instead of being humble, france blames russia and others. a number of powers who want to spread their

influence in africa are doing this to hurt france, hurt its language so doubts. but above all, pursues certain interests. for more than 3 decades, france seemed entrenched and rooted on the continent, self assured, and even some might see khaki in his arrogance by 2020 to prove the year of humble lessons for the former colonizer friends, diplomacy on the continent is being rebuked and a different partner is being sought, only time will tell if this is a bad page, or if africa is really ready this time to bid fronts over. gara will if at 4 r t in johannesburg. but i think the french sentiment also on the rise and neighboring, but kinda faso on the countries president was overthrown in september. and a qu over the legend ability to deal with an islamist insurgency. protest has been set fire to the french embassy and the capital was to go off to failing to storm it

. some demonstrations processed as well, scene waving the russian tri color. apparently some of them were calling for closer security ties with most of what we spoke to a bucking a fat. so activist and academic who says that paris is quote, colonial attitude to african nations, lies behind much of the and see french sentiment in the region. he's independence, our region lost. it has a glory. our foresees this year, a french army in our area, and we can see it does force are just running out for see and did. did they organize it? they planning to do is organize our own. i mean,

we don't have the ability to, to plan and organize our foresees to activate that the need of secretion of security. so we gotta just say that it was you reach troops for a i'll, it doesn't mean to commit that those 4, c, u e in our e as in florida cooper and some government id do a foresees on to get our own government programs and to put a, c, c, c,

a t chewed off. i will grow nice. i'm a very, very well and it is good to have your company because i was program from moscow that's. that's what our focus, not a sri lanka. but mass protest if you are a member grip the country in 2022. the government economic mismanagement was seen as the main reason for the anger. and as our south asia correspond reports, the situation was exacerbated by western sanctions on russian energy. 2022 has been a year or stronger for sri lanka. the country faced its worse our economic crisis since it got independence and 1948. the economic crisis soon spiraled into a political and humanitarian one. in april, sri lanka defaulted on billions of dollars of external deb, leaving died in nation with no food, nor fuel and no medicines. at least half

a 1000000 people fell into poverty and then not to forget the western sanctions on russia and 2022 that dragged the whole world into economic chaos. and further bunch of countries like sri lanka, that we're all ready struggling. do you think sanctions will help? it will only push prices up. so let's start with what's possible. let us look at the sanctions that have been imposed and ask ourselves if it's necessary, the sanctions won't bring russia to it's nice, but they will bring the rest of the 3rd world to each nice was all on the was daily parlor blackouts. widespread protests on the streets. lendy here was outside petrol stations. and all of that led to the fall of the long standing roger buckshot government. oh,

in july, this is war tree longer look like government offices run a war. public broadcaster hijacked presidential dallas ransacked prime ministers, offers set ablaze, and president having to flood the country unceremoniously a little port or based in south asia. i half covered numerous pro. yes. or what a decade. but nothing compares to what she. lunk a witness, this seal. what, how did things go so bad? she, lunk, on the biggest industries, up to resume and agriculture exploded. say why the corona water is spend to make killed the 2 of them sector, a ban on chemical fertilizers into duels by the then president with i be a roger buckshot damaged the agricultural sector. the import dependent country ran

out of money as its reserves completely depleted in november 2019 our foreign exchange reserves were at $7500000000.00. however, today it is a challenge for the treasury to find $1000000.00. we must prepare ourselves to make some sacrifices and faced the challenges of this period. i'll be back good by to 2022. the 2 was have gone away, but not the being. the supply is have somewhat restored what the inflation remains . the new government was hoping to get a $3000000000.00 bill out package from the i. m f. my december. but to secure that and had to renegotiate loans with its for lend does tighten budget spendings and booths, revenues simply means more trouble for the island nation. of $22000000.00 people range and sharma, r t, surging to bond off the cove, it supply shortages on sky rocketing energy prices that to many countries seeing

the highest inflation in decades this past year. and if you think these are going to get better in 2023, you might want to think again the i m f. i said it expects at least one 3rd of the well, the economy to be in recession. that's got the taken opinion. now avante contributor kristen, one of the most commonly used was this year was inflation, according to google searches for the word quadruple between 20202022. why? the sudden interest in this standard economic term inflation across the west search the unprecedented levels during 2022 hits on average 11.5 percent across the u. while in the u. s. supposedly the world's strongest economy, inflation climb to as high as 9 point one percent. but what does that mean for you and i, let's use an example. let's say you head to the supermarket to do your weekly shop . and last is inflation with 0 percent. but this is inflation is 10 percent. that

means that you have 2 options. pay 10 percent more than you paid for the exact same shopping you bought at the exact same supermarket last year. or if you can't afford it or can't borrow enough to do so, you'll need to remove 10 percent worth of the items from your trolley. that's pretty hard if you're trying to get by on the barrier central's. sounds like something else of charles dickens novel doesn't it? but this is actually a reality that millions of people face this year. what's more, western politicians appears to be entirely clueless about the matter. take a look at by the telling the while the us inflation was 0. when reality it had reached the peak of 9 point one percent. actually i just want to say a number 0. today we received news that our economy had 0 percent inflation in the month of july 0 percent. that came with a shock, the christine, the god, the current ahead of the european central bank inflation has just pretty much come

about from nowhere. apparently, inflation came out of nowhere. this is even more shocking. as before her current highly paid job, she had another such lucrative employment as the head of the international monetary fund. that's the institution that controls the monitors, the entire global financial system. but have no fear. western lead is a quick to provide us with an explanation why you get it. as per usual, it's all vladimir putin false. today's advisory board, confirm what americans already know. prudent price, i consider america hard. make no mistake in places largely the fall approval photos invasion of ukraine is driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world. i'm going to do everything i can to minimize pollutants price. i care at home. they fail to mention that over the past 24 months, the us and its allies a printed of bossed amounts of money, not seemingly understanding,

but for every single extra bank note you prints. each bill becomes more and more worthless, thus giving this money to institutions and companies that have a reduced demanding goods and services due to a more or less global lockdown. we'll have a knock on effect printing bossed amounts of money. tends to always cause what economists call hyper inflation. even a basic history book will show you this. the 1st example in modern history was the 1929 more st cross, which contributed to the di, economic conditions in germany, which led in part to the rise of the hits law and the nazi party. there are now double the amounts of us dollars in circulation than in 2019, no wonder inflation is through the roof when there is twice as much of the walter's currency circulating for the same amounts of goods and services that's down to economy. it's not growing substantially due to the fries forced upon the more or less by the global lockdown due to coven 19. so what's the solution?

and how do we get back to normal central bank feel that they have the answer? that's right. you and i need to pay more in order to fix the mess that they have caused. right now the central bank of the u. s. e u and u. k. are increasing the rates that you and i have to pay the credit credit. but many of us are being forced into due to be inflated price of goods and services. these are called interest rates, which is set to the baseline by all governments. the bank justify this by telling us that they are being hit by the rising goods and services and need to charge a small so that they won't go bankrupt. that's not to mention the rob a fossil claim that they also need to charge us more in order to fund billions upon billions of a few crane in order to combat the energy crisis caused by the sanctions on russian oil and gas. don't we all wish that we could offset our mortgage or credit card payments against someone else? unfortunately, the wall doesn't work like that for you and i, but it does for them. so what is the knock on effects of this?

the less money you have, but less you are going to buy. once you have maxed out your credit card, which now costs even more to pay off due to the increase interest. you become significantly poor. if you are poor up. so if your country and thus we start to see a steep decline into poverty for entire countries, it isn't rocket science to what this one out. but it's not all doom and gloom for some, especially if you are american inflation in the u. s. and across major european countries, so some kinds of flowing thanks to a number of restrictive measures conducted by institutions. halting among many things, the printing of yet more dollars into the now hyperinflation. casino we call the global economy. u. s. lawmakers have just passed the inflation reduction act, which has been met with pure disbelief by lawmakers globally. but predominantly those in the u that have been seemingly nothing that had some complying with us fiscal demands over the past few years with little to no resistance. this act is an

isolationist policy by the united states, incentivizing domestic productions of goods, putting foreign partners out and forcing them to produce goods and services inside the u. s, which is added to the already ravaging energy crisis and sanctions will become a catastrophe for the global economy. this means that as goods and services are produced domestically in the us, they will become cheaper for us consumers. whereas for anyone else outside the us that is used to buying cars, made in their country of origin, prices will become boston more expensive. this further implies the price for the rest of us, but decreases the price for anyone in the us. in layman's terms, this will result in the us economy, but best thing, the effects of the past few years on that people, but increasing the pain and suffering for every one else. the inflation reduction act has received so much additional scrutiny in europe and also in the rest of the world. there is

a risk that the i r a can lead to unfair competition, could close markets. and that's fragment, the very same critical supply chains that have already been tested by covet. we are in europe really at the point where we risk to be d industrialized. we have to react with strength now. so is it too late for global leaders to reverse the effects and counts of the u. s. at this quite obvious game it's playing? well, the answer to that is difficult. the u. s. also controls the world's reserve currency, the us dollar. most global governments in that central bank hold large amounts of dollars and bonds. a deflated us economy means that the cost of buying dollars will decrease. will this be enough to save the global economy? in my view, this is a huge gamble, no wonder, so many countries have had enough. and now moving away from home with again trading

in us dollars. they are now opting to hold currencies that have not been printed like, monopoly money, such as the chinese one, the russian rouble, even bitcoin. if the u. s. dollars ceases to be the be all and end, all of global finance. governments worldwide will have more sovereignty over their own finances in economies needing to a far more democratic multi polar walls. that will be a true free market. something that the u. s. allegedly, fort, it's war of independence for both south korea as president has said, the plans are under way to conduct military drills involving nuclear forces with america. amid rising tensions in that region, what we call extended deterrence was also the u. s. telling us not to worry because it will take care of everything. but now it's difficult to convince our people with just that. the u. s. government also understands that to some degree, the nuclear weapons belong to the united states. but planning information sharing

exercises and training should be jointly conducted by south korea and the united states. well, that announcement came off, the north korea said it plan to vastly increased as nuclear arsenal this year. john gang has been test firing missiles, as it's geopolitical rivals of the south has been well ramping up military drills with america in recent months. the south has warned that if north korea conducts an actual nuclear attack, if would retaliate and destroy the pyongyang, government, north korea has attested the purpose of its missile program is well for self protection against threats from america and south korea. the prevailing situation calls for making redoubled efforts to overwhelmingly beef up the military muscle to thoroughly guarantee the sovereignty security and fundamental interests of the republic. in response to the worrying military moves by the u. s. and other hostile forces precisely targeting the democratic people's republic of korea. we could hear from our regional geopolitical expert havoc to gao. and he says the military

exercises will only escalate the already heightened tensions on the korean peninsula. and just like united states and our okay, also need to really think about why dpr k had to develop its nuclear weapons. i think dpr k concluded that it needed the nuclear weapon to prevent the color revolution that the united states as be doing to many other countries to prevent a kind of military assault on dpr k aimed at over throughly the dpr k government. and therefore, i think it really takes the 2 to tango, the united states, in particular empty p r k, need to negotiate with each other, resulting diplomacy to solve the nuclear weapon program on the korean peninsula. but now if the united states wants to join the military exercise with the.