or remain in the shallows. ah ah! with your top headlines right now and i'll see you international scores of russian soldiers are killed in bond boss in a recent attack by ukrainian forties using americans supplied high mileage rockets . the deadly news was confirmed by russia's ministry of defense. this monday, the n 23 militant group may soon leave several key areas of the democratic republic of the congo may be on thursday. it comes off the months of violence against the locals. there was not given up in an old village before what sees the m 23 war started there is become a frequent problem with women raped in children killed in mass. i'm. it's

a situation that terrifies us. looking back at 2028 who sold a french military leave, the vast hello region in africa, or off the 8 years it's unseat she hottest operation, ultimately a failure in the program. we also recalls for lycos mass protests last year, and it was to economic crisis since guiding independence. largely, it was exacerbated by western sanctions on russian energy with reporting from all around the world from moscow and questioning the mainstream narratives. it's great to have your company with this program on archie international. the russian ministry of defense has confirmed that 63 russian soldiers were killed in a recent rocket strike by the ukrainian military in advance republic. they used american supplied high mos rockets as far as we understand, the attack happened on new year's eve,

more details now here's our corresponded equals, down 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 they hit too high amazon projectiles that 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 worrying on the side of king of the so called foreign legion. now also, but the incident in my cave ca, 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. meantime, russian authority say to drones,

have been shot down over the crime me in the city of steph estoppel, harris and the ladies images we have from the ground. clearly as night time, it's tough to make them out, but as we understand, no reports of any damage or casualties. now, this all comes as russia intercepted another ukranian draw near the as of the coastal city of bernard johnson was earlier on monday at this r, unverified footages to leave to show the work of local air defense systems. now the ukranian army has also shelled at 2 villages in russia in belgrade region, according to the local governor who says houses cause and local cemetery was damaged and another ukrainian drug, it's like occurred in the bronze creek in the past 24 hours. we understand one energy facility was damaged while in western russia for on years regional ukrainian drone was reportedly shot down by ad defenses. and all these developments came off of the russian defense ministry said it recently destroyed a number of ukrainian facilities that make unmanned aerial vehicles. the defense

ministry set the strikes against those facilities were conducted to prevent kia from carrying out attacks on the russian territory. while after months of violence, the m 23 militant group may withdraw from several settlements in the democratic republic of the congo, perhaps on thursday. that is, according to the east african community organization. now m 23 is it actually supported by the d. r. c. name over wanda, something it refutes, but the e u foreign policy chief isn't buying it. the you firmly urges one to 2 stops supporting the m. 23. unused all means to press the m 23 to comply with the decisions taken by the e. a. c. it's also firmly urges all states of the region to prevent the provision of any support to i'm groups active in the d i. c. outcomes as tensions escalate. again with her, a one bare accusing the d r. c of violating its s face for a 2nd time in 2 months, offer a military play and reportedly trespass were wandered territory on wednesday.

kinshasa had earlier denied it was an incursion calling the incident, the an unfortunate mistake. now the democratic republic of congo backed by the e, you insist that were wanda, is supporting the n 23 militia groups. those allegations are gotten, have been denied by k garley, according to a un report, due to m 20 three's activities and fighting within the biase. tens of thousands of people have been displaced in an attempt to deescalate tensions during the autumn. the east africa regional 4th deployed canyon troops. there is peacekeepers, locals, some of whom i spoke to us on the promise of anonymity. they say the atrocities of actually intensified why you seeking the dec would have no security on the people are suffering along. the have no access to food on the rebel. saluting everything in the fields and there was no kit, not been in our village before, but sees the m 23 war starts. it is become a frequent problem with many people have disappeared in some have been shot that

others have been taken away to a known location of them are combining people have died wise. both man and women and their bodies have been found in various places and was unequal. what happened to him and raped and children killed in mass? i'm. it's a situation that terrifies us because we're afraid the witness terrorists are doing in read sure. could happen in the city of go monica, all the 7 people taken hostage, you do not want to be ruled by am 23. we've asked our authorities now address the situation since we fear the worst yet. her i still respect human rights, and it's shameful to see all these organizations yet that are supposed to protect human rights. sitting on their hands in the face of such suffering, he began and bow. how a bendy 2022 saw the end of an 80th french military operation in the uranium rich west african sa hell region of the operation bought a cane, left thousands of civilians dead and many others displaced. so now straight to johannesburg, all these catabolic tattler with more 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 franz pulls out of the fire, read, the strategy is big one, ambition foot 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 like the 2020 to cut our welcome final, the former colonizer claims. it remains committed to security in the region with a street faith, paris fez. this, as is until thursday mission operation, bar con, came to an inglorious end. in the field of perception, berkin continues to occupy

a very important presence of 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 failed mission, spending 8 years in a hell it barely lived up to his promise. there is no noticeable change in the conflict. todd bade that is this a hell and f for france. the hottest are not only fill 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 north 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. fraud says if one is to invest in said history and culture with french speaking country. but what correlation is there between uranium mines in northern new j frasier, power plants, and french troops on the ground. and formerly, france is a transactional colonial power. the transitional government demands present, macro permanently abandoned his neo colonial, put on the loo stick and patronize imposture. to understand that no one loves molly more than more than once. in a monday letter to the united nations security council in august, molly, i choose from violations of its air space to collect intelligence for the benefit of terrorist groups in the sale and dropped arms and ammunition to them. and

chaired, added to french, was lamenting frances, in some errands. in his domestic affairs, the french president insisted french remain pan african language. in the face of former french colonies like grew elder 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, from the females entrenched and routed on the continent, self assured, and even some might be coaching and its arrogance by 2022. from the year of lessons where the former colonizer framed diplomacy on the continent is being reviewed,

and a different partner is being sought. only time will tell if this is a bad page, or if up dreka is really ready this time to bit front of got a lot of t enjoy and effect. so anti french sentiment also on the rise in neighboring but kinda fast. so, the countries president was overthrown in september and a coo of his alleged inability to deal with an islamist insurgency. protest has been set fire to the french empathy in the capital. at some demonstrations, if you look closely, protesters we even seen. in fact, waiving the russian tri color flags right there, perhaps ultimately calling the close to security ties with moscow. so we spoke with a bunch of foster activists and academic who says that power says, quote, colonial attitude to african nations, lies behind much of today's anti french sentiment in the ridge he's

independence. i read just it has an glory. our foresees this year, a french army in our area, and we can see it does force are just running out for seas and they did, they organize it, they planning to disorganized our own army. we don't have the ability to, to plan and organize our own foresees to attend or the need of the piece of security. so we gotta just say that it was, it reads troops for our a,

our government to do those for c, u e, in our e as in florida. cooper and some government id do a foresee or who are in get her our own, got them and or problems in to poor. c. c sees or that attitude of our school grow nice. i a n i talk to our attention now to sri lanka, where mass protests grip the country in 2022. a government economic mismanagement was seen as the main factor in all of this, but as our south asia corresponding to reports,

the situation was greatly exacerbated by western sanctions against russian energy. 2022 has been a hero. 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 a 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, not what 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 dates nice. was followed was daily parlor blackout widespread protest on the streets. blendy fields outside federal stations and all of that lead to the full of the long standing roger buckshot government. oh, in july, this is what sri lanka look like. government offices run a war. public broadcaster hijacked presidential dallas ransacked prime minister, offers set ablaze, and president having to fled the country. unceremoniously. a little port are based

in south asia. i have carla numerous pro us or what a decade. but nothing compares to what she long got witnessed this year. what, how did things go so bad? she langon biggest industry is up to resume and agriculture explore, i'd say, why the could own i want to spend to make kids the 2 of them sector, a ban on chemical fertilizers into duels by the den president with our biologic buckshot damage, the agricultural sector, the import dependent country ran out of money as 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 in face the challenges of this period. i'll re bed good bye to 2022 . the q was have gone away, but not being the supply is have somewhat priest on 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 foreign lend does tighten budgets, spendings and booths, revenues simply means wat trouble for the island nation. of $22000000.00 people range and sharma, r t, supply shortages on sky rocketing energy prices led to many countries seeing their highest inflation in decades this past year. and if you think things are going to get better and 2023, maybe think again, the i m f. a said it expects at least one 3rd of the world economy to be in recession. let's get the opinion malavar, the contributor. kristen, one of the most commonly used words 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 to unprecedented levels during 2022 hitting 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 shot and lost his inflation was 0 percent. but this he has 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 bare essentials. it sounds like something out 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 appeared to be entirely clueless about the matter. take

a look at bite and telling the wall that us inflation was 0. when reality it had reached a peak of 9 point one percent. actually just want to say number 0 to day we received news with our economy had 0 percent inflation. in the month of july 0 percent, that came as a shock to christine the god. the current head of the european central bank inflation has a 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 and monitors the entire global financial system. but have no fear. western lead is equipped to provide us with an explanation why you get it. as per usual,

it's all flat. they may putins fault 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 prudent price. i care at home, they fail to mention that over the past 24 months, the us and its allies 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 amount of 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 in inflation. even a basic history book show you this. the 1st example in modern history was the 929

wall street crash, which contributed to the di, economic conditions in germany, which led in part to the rise of adult hits law and the nazi party. there are now double the amounts of us dollars in circulation, then in 2019, no wonder inflation is through the roof when there is twice as much of the walter's currency circulating for the same amount of goods and services that's down to economy. it's not growing substantially due to the freeze, 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 banks 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 about the being forced into due to the inflated price of goods and services. these are called interest rates, which is set at a baseline by all governments. the banks justify this by telling us that they are being hit by the rising goods and services and need to charge us more so that they

won't go bankrupt. that's not to mention the rob a possible claim that they also need to charge us more in order to fund billions upon billions of a few crime in order to combat the energy crisis caused by the sanctions on russian oil and gas done. 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've maxed out your credit card, which now costs even more to pay off due to the increased interest. you become significantly poor. if you are poor up. so it's 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 nodding their heads and complying with us fiscal demands over the past few years with little to no resistance. this act is an isolation if 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, if 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 boss lee 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 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 de industrialized. we have to react with strength now. so is it too late for global lead us to reverse the

effects and counts of the us at this quite obvious game it is 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. at deflated us economy means that the cost of buying dollars will decrease. will this be enough to save that global economy? in my view, this is a huge gamble, no wonder, so many countries have had enough and now moving away from holding and 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. we will even bitcoin. if the us dollars ceases to be the be all and end, all of global finance. governments worldwide will have more sovereignty over their own finances and economies leading to a far more democratic multi polar walls. that will be a true free market. something that the u. s. allegedly, fort,

its war of independence for the south korea, as president had said, plans are underway to conduct military drills involving nuclear forces with america and mid rising tensions on the korean peninsula. 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. that planning information sharing exercises and training should be jointly conducted by south korea in the united states. well, that announcement came up in north korea, so that will the increase as nuclear arsenal this year showing has been test firing missiles. are this geopolitical rival to the south has been ramping up military drills with america in recent months. the south has warned that if north korea conduction actual nuclear attack would retaliate and destroy the pyongyang government. and north korea tested that the purpose of it's miss program is simply

to protect itself 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 heard from a j, a political expert, victor gao who says the military exercises will only exacerbate tensions on the peninsula. and just like united states and r o k, 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 being 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 resort to diplomacy, to solve the nuclear weapons program on the korean peninsula. but now if the united states wants to join the military exercise with the r o k forces using nuclear weapons, in addition to strategic bombers, this is not helpful to me. d notarization on the korean peninsula, it will make nuclear arise, asia and nuclear weapons. and a potential conflict on the korean peninsula, more likely, using nuclear weapons and strategic farmers to join ada exercise involving our own can on the korean peninsula should be condemned. because otherwise, it may actually contribute to completely the stabilizing the situation

on the korean peninsula. this is the last day that countries in that part of the world want to see some more news coming in now from don bass, where reports are emerging that are ukrainian military base has come on the fire. there are some of the latest unconfirmed images we have from the scene, and you can see an enormous blaze. fire fighters are they working to extinguish the flames? explosion in the area was reportedly captured live by a french tv cru. filming at the time ah no more updates on that story and the rest of all stories for you would r t dot com for the meantime. this is archie international. thank you for joining us. ah.