hello and engage with the trail. when so many find themselves, well, the more we choose to look for common ground. ah, your top hat lines right now and i'll see international a scores of russian soldiers are killed in bond bass in a recent attack by ukrainian forces 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 month of violence against the locals. there was no key that happened in our village before it sees the m 23 war started. there is become a frequent problem, a women reaped and children killed in mass. it's a situation that terrifies us. looking back at 2022, sold a french military leave,

the vast hello region in africa after 8 years. it's an antique, she hottest operation, ultimately, a failure in the program. we also recalls for lancaster mass protests last year and it was to economic crisis. since getting independence though, largely, it was exacerbated by western sanctions on russian energy. with that. so reporting from all around the world from moscow and questioning the mainstream narratives. it's great to have your company with this program on out to you international. the russian ministry of defense has confirmed that 63 russian soldiers were killed in a recent rocket strike by the ukrainian military in a dynamic republic. they used american supplied high mos rockets as far as we understand, the attack happened on new year's eve. more details now his corresponded,

eager to start 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 talk to 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 k 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 so 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, harrison, the latest 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, it will come as, as russia intercepted, another ukranian draw near the as of the coastal city of. but johnson was earlier on monday this unverified for teachers to believe to show the work of local defense systems. the ukranian army has also shelled 2 villages in russia's belgrade region, according to the local governor who says, houses, cars and local cemetery was damaged and another ukrainian drug. it's like a code in the brianna creation in the past 24 hours. we understand one energy facility was damaged while in western russia for anya regional ukrainian drone was reported shut 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 said the strikes against those facilities were conducted to prevent here from carrying out attacks on the russian territory. while after months of violence, the m 23 military 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 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, i just wanted to stop supporting the m 23 and use old 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 supports you. i'm groups active in the d, i. c. now it comes as tensions escalate again with rewan bear accusing the d r. c of violating its s space for a 2nd time in 2 months, offer a military plan, reportedly trespass for wandering territory on wednesday. kinshasa had early denied

it was an incursion calling the incident an unfortunate mistake. now the democratic republic of congo backed by the e you insist that were wanda, is supporting the m 23 militia groups. those allegations, again have been denied by k garley, according to a u and report due to m 20 three's activities and fighting within the d asi. tens of thousands of people have been displaced in an attempt to deescalate tensions during the autumn. the east africa regional force deployed canyon troops. there. as peacekeepers, local, some of whom i spoke to us on the promise of anonymity. they say the atrocities of actually intensified. why do you say keep down? 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 keep not been in our village before, but sees the m 23 war starts. it is become a frequent problem with many people have disappeared and some have been shot that

others have been taken away to a known location in lubbock. and many people have died wise. both man and women and their bodies have been found in various places and wasn't what my app. so women raped and children killed in mass. i'm. it's a situation that terrifies us because we're afraid the witness terrorists are doing . right. sure. could happen in the city of go monica, all these other people taking hostage. you do not want to be ruled by am 23. we've asked our authorities now address the situation. so we fear the worst. he asked 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 or in the face of such suffering, he began them bow. how a bendy 2022 saw the end of an 8 year french military operation in the uranium rich west african sa hell region of the operation barricade left thousands of civilians dead and many others displaced. so now straight to johannesburg, authorized 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 pulled out of the fire, 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 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 essence, and teen surgeon, mission operation, bar con, came to any glorious end in the field, of perception,

birkin 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 field mission funding 8 years in the for hell. it barely lived up to his promise . there is no noticeable change in the conflict. todd bed, that is this a hell and f for france. jihadist 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 process . it was to invest in shared history and culture with french speaking country. but what correlation is there between uranium mines in northern new j fresh power plants and french troops on the ground. and formerly, france is a transactional colonial power. the transitional government demands present, micron permanently abandoned his new colonial, but 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 this of violations of it. yes, base. to collect intelligence for the benefit of terrorist groups in the sale and dropped arms and ammunition to them. and ted 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 raw 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. but as you certainly interests for more than 3 decades, from the field in training and rooted on the continent. self assured, and even some might see coaching and its arrogance by 2022 from the year of humble lessons where the former colonizer framed diplomacy on the continent is being

reviewed. and the 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 from level. got a lot of p enjoyed is back. so anti french sentiment also on the rise in neighboring but kinda fast. so the country's president was overthrown in september, and a cou of his alleged inability to deal with an islamist insurgency, protested, set fire to the french embassy in the capital. at some demonstrations, if you look closely, protestors were even seen in fact, waving the russian tri color flags right there. perhaps ultimately calling the close to security ties with moscow. so we spoke with a bucket fast. so activist 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, our region lost. it has no glory. our foresees is surely fresh. an army in our area and we can see it does force. i'm just looking out for these and dead. did they organize their planning to disorganized our own? i mean, we don't have a possibility to, to plan and organize our own foresees to attend for the need of the piece of security. so we gotta just say that it was, it reads troops for it. i'll it doesn't mean

to let those 4 c, u e in our e, florida pupil and some government id do a foresees or so into our own government programs. and to put a, c, c, c, a. that attitude off our blue glow nizer a very, very wrong, and the last time. turning our attention now to sri lanka, where mass protests gripped the country in 2022. a government economic mismanagement was seen as the main factor in all of this, but as our south asia corresponded 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 dead, leaving died a nation with no food, no 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 niece was followed was daily parlor blackouts. widespread protests on the streets, blendy fields, outside federal stations, and all of that lead to the fall of the long standing. roger buck shall government i in july. this is war tree long gone. look like government offices run or war. public broadcaster hijacked presidential dallas ransacked prime minister's office, set on please. 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? yeah. what, how did things go so bad? she long gone. biggest industry's up to resume and agriculture explore, i'd say, why the corona, water spend to make cans the 2 of them sector, a ban on chemical fertilizers into duels by the then president, with our beer lodge above shot damage. the agricultural sector, the import dependent country, ran out of money to them, 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 re bed good bye to 2022. the key was have gone away, but not being the supply is have someone 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 unless revenues employee means more trouble for the island nation of 22000000 people. region 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 in 2023, maybe think again, the i m f, a set of expects at least one 3rd of the world economy to be in recession. let's get the opinion malavar to contributor chris adams. one of the most commonly used was this year was inflation, according to google searches for the word quadruple between 20202022. why?

the southern interest in this standard economic term inflation across the west search to 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 had 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 battery centrals. sounds like something out of a charles dickens novel doesn't fit, but this is actually a reality that millions of people face this year. what 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 your grade 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 printed of bossed amounts of money, not seemingly understanding, but the 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 who show you this. the 1st example in modern history was the $929.00 more st cross, which contributed to the dia,

economic conditions in germany, which led in part to the rise of adult hitler 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 to, to cobit 19. so what's the solution, and how do we 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 banks of the u. s. 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 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 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 all fit 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 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, 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 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 boss lee more expensive. this further, we 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 u. s. 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 the fragment, the very same critical supply chains that have already been tested by colored 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 leaders 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 u. s. dollar, most global governments and that central banks 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 the global economy? in my view, this is a huge gamble. no one de so many countries have had enough and now moving away from halting and trading in us dollars, they are now opting to hold current sees that have not been printed like monopoly money such as the chinese one, the russian people, even bitcoin. if the u. s. dollars ceases to be the be all and end, all of global finance governments wald wide will have more sovereignty over their own finances in economies leading to a far more democratic multi polar walls. that will be a true free market. something that the u. s. allegedly fault. it's war of independence for south korea's president has said,

plans are underway to conduct military drills involving nuclear forces with america and mid rise intentions 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. but planning information sharing exercises and training should be jointly conducted by south korea in the united states or that her mouth twitter came off to north korea so that will increase as nuclear arsenal this year, showing has been test firing missiles as, as geo political arrival to the south has been ramping up military drills with america and recent months. the south is warned. if north korea conduction actual nuclear attack, it would retaliate and destroy the pyongyang government, and north korea attested that the purpose of its missile 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 our okay, also need to really think about why d p r k had to develop its nuclear weapons. i think dpr k concluded that it needed the nuclear weapon to prevent the kind of revolution that the united states has been doing to many other countries to prevent a kind of military assault on dpr k aimed at over throughly the d,

p r. 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. you know, she may need no garage zation 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 bombers to join ada exercise involving on 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, the ukranian 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 of firefighters. 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 on the rest of all stories for u r t dot com for the meantime. this is asi international. thank you for joining in for .