a, a, with in done by the wagner, private military group report to taking a key suburb of our channels, also known as buchan with locals who were safely evacuated, helping sharing with i'm from our too much yesterday. wagner evacuation fortunate scandal, so many thanks to them for point was our for otherwise we would have died with loss . goes ambassador to the us accuses washington giving approval to kiev for the russian territory, including the crimea, and what's been called a potentially been century escalation. a lanka sees

it's hopes are high up, securing a much anticipated loan from the i, and that says india's external affairs minister steps in to help the country deal with its economic prices with one minute class in the evening. here in moscow this thursday, i mean neil, this is the news our on our and see our top story today. restart on the frontlines, have done boss the head of rushes. wagner private military company has said his forces have gained full control over a strategically important suburb. in archibald school, so known as back moot. now that sir barb ton of clay shift is less than 10 kilometers from archibald, the city, which has been a vital transport hub for the ukrainian military. they had the wagner group said, fears fighting is ongoing in near by early as previously the russian defense

ministry confirmed that wagner had made a solid contribution in taking this city of solid dar, another strategically important location in the region. meanwhile, locals in arch him also have thank the military company for helping them evacuate is good if your musk i'm from are to musk yesterday. wagner evacuation forces came with the many thanks to them for pulling the south for otherwise we would have died there. when we left the house and came under fire from the cracking ukrainian nationalist group and we had to drop down to the ground during the sheli, we crawled about 3 to 400 meters during the day. and at night we walked a very long distance and my grandmother couldn't even walk. we carried her on a stretcher. were very thankful to the wagner group, through or through during the vacation were taken out by the wagner grew, god bless them. the shelling has not seen for a 2nd or the last 4 days. although we showed no signs of being part of the military when you had was ukrainian forces that were shelling,

fortune to the electrical. it's very difficult in our chill musk right now. just like in march, april may be even worse since august would have been living in the basement of our house are not going out anywhere. ukrainians were shooting at us civilians because most likely they have political issues against us. we were evacuated by the wagner group. they came at night, they said we need to leave urgently. we were getting out of the ruins. as soon as we came out of the basement, the ukrainians started shooting nearby. let earlier we spoke with the ellis put collin editor in chief of finish news website and the media he say, despite the takeover of key cities and on bass being a major development for russia. the western media is dumpling, it of course. so in the military muse, bottled has very big importance and it's difficult for, for the foreign media to western media do accept the full bottom would oh, bad. but like i said, when we are talking about lobbying from a doors we are talking about fully duration of dorm was. and that is exactly what

the western propagandists are afraid of. they try to keep the beacher that gray ha, steal a bus ability to win a war against russia, each grade being to do but, but that's what exact exactly what they are doing. trying to convinced that there is the says, the said all these billions of dollars and a western military, oh, weapons to, to keep key of troops. meanwhile, rushes ambassador to the u. s. sais, washington has given key of direct approval for attacks on crimea using american weapons anatoly until us made those comments in response to an assertion by the u. s. state department that crimea is ukranian territory and therefore not off limits . commentators nameless humor that russia will not retaliate for texas territory.

it should be obvious to everyone that we will destroy any kind of weaponry supply to dis lensky regime by the americans or nato. isn't it clear that pumping a crane with mon weaponry no matter where it is produced in the u. s. or any other nato country will only lead to an increase in the deaths of civilians? the rhetoric of u. s. officials is becoming increasingly belligerent. after hearing such remarks from washington, the criminals and kia will feel complete impunity. the risks of the conflict escalating will increase once again, a lot of people regarding comment just now just calling it a potentially wiring escalation. we know about the patriot missile systems and theoretically tanks from america, theoretically, they're all being cold full by zelinski and kiya. what's the latest here? right, well the, so both actual supply of tanks from the u. k. and potential supply of tanks that we could see from other countries in the west really does present a serious possibility for an escalation and the current conflict. according to reports, france is already getting ready to send tanks to key of and like i said,

just now the u. k. has said it's sending tanks officially to ukraine and has actually been pressuring germany to do the same. now at the same time, there's not everyone in the west has been, has expressed as such willingness to take this conflict to the next level because we saw berlin say that they'll only send their tanks to ukraine if washington agrees to do so. and washington is saying, we're not going to do that right now. we just don't think we're there yet. the abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment. it's expensive. it's hard to train on. it has a jet engine. i think it's about 3 gallons to the mile with jet fuel. it's not the easiest system to maintain. naturally, this stance at washington has taken has actually upset quite a few germans who basically think that the u. s. is trying to sacrifice other people at the altar of its own foreign policy agenda, one german m p. a basically voice that opinion and also suggested that this is really risking bringing us closer to a nuclear confrontation. western tanks could ultimately provoke the use of nuclear

weapons primarily against germany. that seems to be the deeper reason why washington is so reserved on the subject of supplying tanks. but as forcing its ally to make those sacrifices like a vassal, one of the main questions we have to ask is why, why is the west allowing for such an escalation right now? and actually the german chancellor explained pretty well the west position on the, on this. and it's quite simple. basically, they see the west as good and they see russia as bad in order for the war to end. rush, us aggression must fail. that is why we are continuously supplying ukraine with large quantities of arms in close consultation with our partners. it is extremely important at preston. putin doesn't win this war. partly because it will be a tragedy for ukrainians, but it will in video dangerous for us. because then the message to alter italian, it is not only to putin but also all the authors. only this is that when the use group of force, when they're violet and national law, the it, she,

what they want. and that'll be a very bad and dangerous lessons. it'll make the world more dangerous and also more vulnerable. if we want to negotiate the peaceful solution to the war. ukraine, we need to provide 1000000 can support your crime. that's the only way. weapons, they are the way to peace. so the nato g against oldenburg, right? they don't know basically saying that more weapons and more deaf other way to peace . and just before him, donald, the old f. sholtes german chancellor, the man looking surprisingly optimistic didn't his job, didn't his defense minister just quit? yeah, that's right. and you know, this kind of rhetoric combined with these recent developments with the potential massive future supplies of western tanks to the ukrainian military. all that combined really makes it scary to wonder how far will the west go just to spite russia at the end of all this in my colleagues,

race you say on dollar quarter taken us through that earlier. now another story to tell you about today, india has reportedly stepped in to help sri lanka restructure it's dead. the island nation is seeking a 2900000000 dollar loan from the i m f to help find its way out of the big economic crisis. it's in taking us through that ortiz, we're in june shore that to lunk, i was hoping to get a nearly $3000000000.00 bill. our package from the i m f and to secure that it has to renegotiate loans with its foreign lender, mainly japan, china, and india. and india is 3 lancaster, 2nd largest bilateral lender, and which is via this with it over in del foreign, minnesota. off the edge, a shankar becomes extremely important. in fact, he landed in freeland got to do with the local time. he expected to meet with his counterpart or the tomorrow he's expected to meet with the president to 3 long car,

ron and vick from the thing and all that to talk on that restructuring. that really is going to be the key focus of this particular was it not in does also confirms that it has written to the math as far as these talks around that restructuring are concerned. so india has given its approval to the i m f a to give free long call that bailout package. the sheila got really desperate is looking at also she duncan, always india about $1000000000.00 only last year. india had given she long got around $700000000.00 on credit line. and this was when the crisis was added speak in july last year, july 2022 things had gotten really, really bad for 3 long. you'll remember those with all of the she was outside patrol station that makes 4 kilometers in kilometers,

but also the government offices were runaway. the presidential palace was ransack the faith broadcaster was hijacked, and the prime minister's office was set to believe the economic crisis now had really turned into a political and of humanitarian. one thing on the ground for sri lanka had become extremely extreme. need difficult, of course, that also led to the fall of the long standing roger puck shot government. but for sri long called the priority now is to read negotiate loans with it's for lenders. and that's what india is trying to help sri long called with for these debt restructuring talks between india and sri lanka. become extremely important because they do provide a glimmer of hope to the island nation of 22000000 people. now a russian ice hockey player in the us has been making headlines after refusing to

wear a gay pride themed pre game jersey philadelphia flyers defense men. even prover, off decided not to take part in the war will prevent citing his religious beliefs. choices my choices to say sort of myself and my religion. that's all i'm going to say. like i really personally well let's get more on this now and speak to r t corresponding kill up my pen, high very killer. i'm noticing the kill stories been getting quite a bit of support for his at the station as well. take us through the story if you will. sure. well, we've got a hockey player from philadelphia who says he doesn't want to participate in events that his team is involved with that glorify the l g b t, community and homosexuality, et cetera. he says that his religion just doesn't, you know, doesn't think that's a good idea that's not consistent with his religious beliefs. he's going to stay

true to himself. now the response has been quite negative for many leading voices, and it, we're in this situation where we're seeing an increased politicization of sports. there were similar issues regarding the l g, b, t concerns that were raised regarding the world cop could tar, et cetera. and now we have some leading voices, just piling condemnation on jam and, and you know, a basically, you know, having a meltdown over the fact that he is staying true to his religious principles and just doesn't want to participate in certain activities. this is what's been sat in response the national hockey league today needs to find that organizational $1000000.00 re evaluate how the support gay rights. because because that is insulting, nothing scares me more than any human being who says i'm not doing this because of my religious beliefs. because when you look at people's lives, you normally say that publicly in for what. but what you saw, ivan prover off can get on a plane any day. he wants him to go back to the place where he feels more

comfortable. i understand there's a conflict going on. maybe get involved. though we have a situation here where because this hockey player, russian heritage wants to stay true to is religious believes he's being told to quote, go back where he came from. this is quite bigoted language. the tv personality tucker carlson, recently commented on how bizarre it is that we have someone rush in origin sticking up for what's supposed to be an american value. freedom of religion, freedom of conscience. personally, not, you know, wanting to be involved in l g. b t things for his religious reasons is personal, believes the american ideal is that he should have the right to do that. but it seems like, increasingly spaces that are not political in the united states. bases like sports than education of children and other places are becoming a highly politicized. and if you're not on the politically correct side of these things, if you're not willing to take the side that is promoted by the democratic party and

the woke social media outlets, etc, you become the target of widespread scorn and condemnation. it seems like in many ways this is yet another sign of the date than the west in general are not living up to the ideals of freedom and clarity and diversity. they wants a spouse. thanks very much for taking us through the scale of up in our tea correspondent. another story to tell you about today, the world's biggest crypto currency exchange finance has been implicated in the scandal involving a smaller firm named bits lotto its russian born founder was arrested in the us on wednesday, the latter encrypt currency from accused of criminal activity on wandering $700000000.00. media reports claim finance was working as a country party for bits. little will a crypto exchange company was created in 2016. it's registered in hong kong,

the us treasury, department phase bits. plato has become a quote, safe haven for a criminal in can action with russian listed finance not find guilty, the founder of the exchange fists up to 5 years in prison. for more details on this arctic contributor chris adams joined us now in the studio . chris, 1st of all, your take on the allegations there. timing as well. yeah, the timing is quite interesting because we've, we've been, we've been covering hair on the, on the program for quite a while now. the f t x debacle in the fallout from that. but it just to be, i spent today sort of reading the release that we got from the department of justice yesterday last night, really on this. and it just read like a tabloid piece. right. it's got all of these, these bases claims. it that you know, that it's got all that, all the, all the qualities that you'd want. if you be to get capital piece in a newspaper, drugs, russia, and they even called him a crook. that's what they say at the top,

the platform with design full crypt. it's very interesting. it's kind of sort of like, you know, they've got to find another food guy for the food guy that they, that they had in some vitamin free to s t x, which they bought. so who do you go for? you go for the largest institution in the crypto. well the finance and interesting christ. you've got a background in crypto where you are also arrested and spend some time and come to the connected to that. are you reminded of your own case here in any way? yeah, there are quite a lot of similarities not in terms of, of sort of the activity here. i mean that there's clear, there's clear some sort of evidence here, but really it's in terms of jurisdiction, right. this is a crypt the current exchange registered in hong kong. they say china, but hong kong has a completely different set of laws to china about incorrect the one. and the gentleman in question is a russian citizen who was a resident in change in china. so how does the, how exactly, how the u. s. has the gumption to the core restriction on on him is quite crazy. and really they give us the quote here, which is really interesting to point out,

you know, they say basically that, that whether you break the laws from china all year or abuse our financial system, these are the, with our financial system. you will ask for it in the us court room. so basically it's saying no matter who you are, no matter where you come from. if we don't like you, well, we don't like what you're doing. we can just crappy, which is which he should be this generally, my opinion should be tried or investigated by you to contribute citizenship, which is the russian federation or the country of residence, which is china or the country in which he holds his legal entity, which is hong kong, just going back to the relation steals and it is, i saw some of the headlines myself, but whenever a russian suspect is arrested anywhere in the world. this was in miami, but you say the exchange registry that hong kong it must be the russian government . it must be linked to this state. that distinction is never really made but with other countries that is not in this case. yeah,

absolutely. that the things doesn't mean i think that's, that's a deliberate effort that you know, they say russian crime. but what does that mean? give us more facts. so there any more facts as to why you were led to that in this document. there are, it's very little factual evidence and a lot of big words that sound very scary. the actual currency exchange itself bits late. so what gives a sense of, it's still how important globally it is. yeah. it's relatively small. and until today, you know, i'd not even heard of it. i've been around this industry for quite a long time. figure to 700000000 signs like a lot, but when you contrast to others, such has been exact. i mean, the finance, i think that would be that the be not even half they trading volume on that on a weekly basis. right. is how much is going through that? but the, the other interesting thing is there's a really cleared at sort of point about with exchange exchange is what's called a peer to peer extra. and you know what that means just for on a home. that means it works a bit like e bay. so need a, you list that you've got something to sell and someone buys it from you. and then

as a platform with facilitate you connect thing and you paying that person, that's exactly how this, this worked out. so really there's a lack of understanding as well. and what they're saying in terms of understanding, you know, okay, did this guy have us bank account himself maybe? but he wasn't facilitating the actual payment himself. people were doing that between them and he was taking a cup in the middle. finance is being reported as a contra party to this and smaller crypto currency exchange. how does that fit in from what we understand what details is known about? yeah, it's really important to actually understand what they mean by counterpart. yeah. so binary is the largest trip to exchange in the world really the largest number of uses for sure. right. so you could a counterpart, it could be that you have an account from finance that you've given. the peer to peer system to receive will to send that crypt currency. but exactly how finance would know that you were doing that. you were doing that for some kind of a listed activity. it's very hard to prove. it's very hard to see. so it just seems again, it's, it's, it's a, it's, it's an accusation that is not based in the documents that we've seen on fact.

hopefully we're going to see now a lot more come out and we'll see the see if they can justify this case in before a grand jury that got to do it 1st to indict this gentleman to he's not been indicted yet. and. and then after that, you know, we can see but, but i think it's highly improbable that finance of colluded with a tiny little exchange with an office, he remarked, a city in russia and one in china. see, the can take, conduct russian crime fund money just doesn't make any sense. chris, before you go just the overall situation, that picture as it stands right now. we know that the u. s. the e u, and they've been talking a lot about crypto regulation, who will this case the effect that i think it's going to be another example that is, that is quoted in terms of the need for regulation. but my concern is that they're not going to go into the actual actual facts of what the regulation needs to be and how it needs to look because they thought they don't even hear. they don't even mentioned. like i said that this was a peer to peer exchange. it wasn't a centralized exchange, it wasn't like, are you giving the money and they were doing what they liked with it here. this guy

was acting basically as a middleman, and we have to have a regulation that defines the differences between different axes. you can't just say that spot bonnet. you have to understand why because criptos have to stay. it's not going anywhere. there's no way you could ever get rid of crypt unless you shut down the internet. so we have to see really how regulators are going to react to respond to this. but it's gonna be very interesting to watch. that's for sure, chris, appreciate your take art computer chris in from the program. thanks. now another story to tell you by today the united states turkeys, foreign ministers of hell, talks on improving unconscious relations within nato, while also addressing the sale of f. 16 fighter jets to the country. it comes amid some politicians in turkey, criticizing the nation's membership in the alliance. strong nato means a strong threat to turkey because nato usa is an enemy to turkey. let's get out of nato. yeah, those words firm turkeys have

a ton parties. sherman were in response to a video called strong turkey, strong nato, published by the country's defense ministry and weapons. they, the baton party at reportedly earlier started a national campaign, collecting thousands of signatures urging the government to withdraw from the military block while turkey ties within nato has been question recently after ankara put up a roadblock for sweden and finland for session. hoped to nato tricky president ridge of either one of them, of the scandinavian countries extradited around $130.00 quote. all terrorists, before his country's parliament will allow the membership said to go ahead. while washington's former ambassador to the u. n. john bolton said nature. we should consider dropping on cra, altogether from the block. the ball was good to welcome life, all to the program. you sephora. you said senator

t r t world welcome to you. indeed. you said, what is your take right now as it stands on relations between turkey and nato? well, it's the love hate relationship on both sides. both sides need each other. both sides can't live without each other, but at the same time it is that they're having problems moving together as well. to get a lot of national security concerns that nato's overlooked in they want to be mutual respect, mutual concern, or national security issues, most namely, the designated or in paris group noted the k k. that issue that nato at often overlooked at nato members had showed support for this group much to the dismay of military officials in to get so that's always be a big bone of contention inside the transatlantic alliance. now, you've paid the introduction to to also having a problem with that. we need

a membership id as well gave. we did a roadmap back that summit last year last summer and that we didn't build its obligation. this prompted the question that it made. so it is holding up process right now. well, nato officials are on the team, otherwise it doesn't look like it don't get ratified from tricky part in any time. and what about those call those resistance calls? you've got big beasts like john bolton saying turkey should be kicked out of the alliance altogether. what would be the consequences of that happening of turkey leaving natal if that were a possibility? oh, i think the most important part of your question was if that was a possibility there, there is no mechanism inside of nato to remove any member. and i don't believe that

any type of mechanism will be created to move remove any member. but let's say hypothetically, speaking, that was removed from data. i think it would have huge random at 1st of all, nato would be losing it, the 2nd largest army, it would be losing a he geographic actor, regional actor. and if you did the nato, it will look for another ally to fulfill that void inside of its national security . understand, you know, look or new defense department. so i think we does the work that that's a need to get, you know, well, being officials like john bolton, you cite the statement. these are just narrative is very well the rules and regulations the meeting is very well. the national security objectives inside

of the baton party chairman and others believe nature and the u. s. in particular could be hostile, more hostile going forward to turkey. if i'm cred doesn't change it's down. so you said on the, the, let's terrorists from the scandinavian countries and other issues as well. we've seen accusations like that before, but are we getting to a stage now where these voices, within trick you're getting lighter, that you know, it's not all about what the u. s dictates, done to other nations that countries like turkey, they have to be heard, they have to, their stance has to be listened to as well as other countries or in the lines. you know, 20 years ago. if someone made that it would have been considered a very marginal statement, but over the years it had grown in popularity and growing audience as well. many people inside to give you native,

sometimes with some get the use of nato's policy with concern. and i believe that the growing group, you have more of a group of generals inside the military structure that have more of the your ration view rather than a late to your political interest or taking over time. and nato had to be able to create a new role for the role that you played inside of need of 1984 era whole words done. there needs to be a new, special education of what we need to see more clear trent harry boat or what exactly need or want to do in the region as well. are you, are you worried in any way use if that turkey strategy that of, you know, putting the country 1st, but also having partners who could be construed to as enemies with each other.

you've got the f 35 fighter jet issue right now with america. you've got sending bruno to ukraine previously in the ukraine conflict, but there's also strong partnership between on career and moscow. if the country for want of a better word is trying to play all sides, then is there a sense that that could damage turkey in the long run? well, 1st of all, in this region, this region meeting, eastern europe, the black, the, the middle east, north africa balance has always been the key factor that keeps the peak in this region. and when you see the balance of this region temper with when you see the balance of this region broken, when you see that down between russia and nato, you've been what start one side or another. you begin to see conflict, you begin the war and it can actually more and more. so i think your kid has always

been on the side of town. right now when we look at your relationship with russia, why did we say it? cooperate more with it during the cold war, but one can also say that you compete with russia more than it does very before work, but it keeps it at a very happy down. and it's a very manageable relationship is. this is something that they don't need respect at the date. russia, your neighbor is not united neighbor, it's not a neighbor, it's not england. neighbor, it's an important great partner for your soccer. i think because part of the interesting part of the interesting part of it's natural incident nationally and they don't need to say that that they think that might be much your enemy that they need to talk. there's a lot of great areas in the part of the world and when the geopolitical strategy for this area are drawn inside of.