ah ah, ah, local authority say russian troops of in circle the ukrainian held city of archibald in that done yet, griff public that comes just the day after rushes, military cuts off a major supply route for key forces. also ahead in the program, the i m. f predicts the russian economy will grow in 2023 even after western countries claim sanctions imposed on moscow will destroy a stomach claims from a once top adviser to former british pm forest johnson who claims the u. k. government is controlled by a quote, deep state,

the idiots who are elected. don't this site with night at night here in moscow on this the 1st day of february. i'm like, this is the news our on our. let's start with the latest updates we have from don bos, local authority, savvy, ukrainian health, city of archibald school, so known as back moot, is becoming increasingly encircled by russian forces. now dot com, the south rushes m o. d said on tuesday that the village of black go noise in the than yet republic has come under moscow's control, not by taking it. russian forces have cut off a main ukrainian army supply route to the key city of our cham also, there's been intense fighting in the area in recent months with western media reporting that ukrainian forces have suffered heavy losses. our senior

correspondent, murat gasdio, followed some of the troops on the front lines whose task it is to target combatants from long distances. a pair of combinations plough the ground on roots to their positions. the enemy is far away. they are safe until they start firing upon it from a foot out of it. if they're from o'corrley, this is a to s one was d cause self propelled howard surfacing good for enemy troops. vehicles, fortifications, it's biggest plus is its mobility. we can fire and be gone before the enemy reacts more than $10000.00 of these were built. it is fully amphibious and can sail with very little preparation. that's quick, reliable, and packs a punch. this target enemy infantry on the move.

the crews are veterans of the 2nd army. cool. they are lu ganske, locals and many have fought here the nationalists since the beginning almost a decade. yelton. yep, no spell no, i'm not. sire. i understand that we have to do this. i have my children, family, and parents. we only have one path forward to victory until about the middle of november, the initiative. he was firmly on ukraine side, but was able to stop you graves offensive as launched several of its own. and now artillery is and firing and defense, but rather in offense, russian forces have broken ukrainian lines around the cities of buck morton's ugly daughter fighting there. he's ferocious,

but smaller limited assaults are under way elsewhere. ukraine's military reserves are stretched thin losses. evidently, our enormous service aged men around the country are being kidnapped and forcefully sent to the front lines. don't i no opposition? no resistance is tolerated. any one who speaks out publicly against this is branded a russian agent to collaborator, to the center, is crushing hundreds, even thousands of civilians are mobilized every day. corner that work in the streets and even at home. and handed a one way ticket to a battle ground from hell more. i'd gazda of r t from logan's fraud, extortion,

and sexual harassment. this scans all of us base private military grip. most art has been swept up in the groups funder and re milburn, has been accused by the organization, financial director of those miss deeds more. in fact, a 26 point lawsuit has alleged mister milburn of taking bribes from private businesses. i'm persuading the ukrainian military to protect specific private assets. he's also been accused of having a relationship with a ukrainian woman who was getting paid $900000.00 us dollars per year to be a personal assistant about numbers, reportedly 4 times the company's average compensation for a similar employee. the moose r c o has rejected the accusations. i'm instead claim the company's financial director wanted to quote cell most art to the taliban. but under melbourne has confirmed the group will re brand, though with the same people involved today was the last day for the motor

group, the motor group. and today, the name an entity had become the subject of litigation and a distraction from our core mission, training, ukrainian soldiers and briskly and civilians. but the mission and the people continue. well, it's not the 1st time that mr. milburn has spar controversy. previously, he gains attention by revealing he's not a fan of ukraine's government. it's a corrupt of society. the let you know. so i'm not, i'm not a big fan of ukraine. it's not about ukraine. we're not like, i have to have, you know, you ukraine flank tied to my bag, but i'm not. oh my god, ukraine. so awesome. no, because it's i understand that funny people running ukraine need cranium. it's in violation of the hey convention. they're filming of a number of things that they're doing with p o. w 's is by lady laura

laura vom conflict. or earlier we spoke to independent journalists option return, see who interviewed and re milburn. just a few days ago option outlined where he believes the real focus of the probe should be hey, who cares about any allegations against the ceo, the mozart group. the allegations are not about identity politics, sexual harassment. however, serious allegations may be. the allegations are that are a former senior colonel in the u. s. marine corps has been aiding groups in ukraine to murder russians. that is the serious allegation. no other allegation is of any importance. real question is why our private mercenaries are like the black water template being used to fight and kill russians and perhaps ukrainians in don bass after the british secret services. and the american special forces were sent

in after 2014. there are now people from these european union countries and the united states and britain in the conflict, actively supporting nazi linked forces to kill russian soldiers. it, sir, it's a sad fact that i suppose that many will die, and many would perhaps even understand what they were fighting for. who knows what the truth is between these private groups. all we do know is the amount of money circulating around ukraine, or whether it be the alleged corruption of zalinski in kiev, and the how many who knows how much is mean recycle through u. s. weapons companies. northrop grumman, raytheon, lockheed martin, and boeing have $66000000000.00. was a congressional approval last october, 55000000000 center in the past 12 months to who is getting the money. where is the money going? is the money really going to the united states weapons makers and some well placed

people in the key of zalinski regime and kev. now, despite a bombardment of western sanctions, russia's economy is actually predicted to grow this year. the i m f says it'll increase by point 3 percent in 2023. at the same time, the us financial agency delivered a blow to britain's economic coast, but forecasts of its gdp contracting by point 6 percent. that's all against the backdrop of european politicians. profit ice and the end of the russian economy since last spring was to dive deeper into the map and see which one this to, to buy artsy caught you, peter, chris, sam's. hi there, chris. hey, yes. not exactly. going to plan them for western states in their own words, they wanted to destroy the economy, bring russia to its needs, pick us through what the i m f report is suggesting that absolutely. and, and so again, the i m f is not, no friends, russia, right?

it's a, you know, a western back institution that we've covered this on the program a week really, we've been talking about how, you know, they, they lend vast amounts of money and put a lot of economies into sort of what i could debt slavery. right? so these reports coming out, they've been forced to admit that the russian economy, in spite of all of the demon, glean prophecies of western power, is growing. and as you said, other countries like the united kingdom, that is really since greg's it and sort of hide itself to u. s. foreign policy. as shrinking even even european nation. they're really shrinking, in spite of sending billions upon billions of dollars of weaponry to ukraine. neglecting their own economies is clearly what i can see from this report. if i didn't live here, chris, i looked solely at western headlines. i believe that i was in queues for stale bread around the clock. i couldn't have shoes to where, you know, it's all. so do you main glue in those regards? russia and then this comes out. absolutely. i think, i think it's the same with me,

right. people think, you know, if we speak the people back home and all the time i get, oh, have you got enough to eat you starving? but you, alex, is you and i can tell anyone that ever speaks to us. it's completely off the functions, the completely ineffective in terms of all day to day life and what we're going through. and just seeing this report shows us that the economy in russia is growing, in spite of russia not printing billions upon trillions of dollars in order to sustain its economy. but don't have to take our word for it. so we have a look at her look at a few western politicians and what they were saying about russia only a year ago from today. let's do it. the sanctions measures we impose today, i think without question for the most consequential ever levied on russia and arguably, the most consequential ever levied in history. rushes industry is in tatters. and it is the kremlin that has put rush us economy on the path of oblivion. in

concert with our allies, we will agree a massive package of economic sanctions designed in time to hobble the russian economy. so i think from union we can see that, that, i mean it, it really isn't. i really, we see bar johnson, he only only i think was last week, decided to take it upon himself to travel to ukraine. again, in spite of him having to resign over all of the sleep, that is the, the ministration was, you know, part of the fact that it was so the lender wants to name a, a street off the him. the fact is we can just see that everything that he said, everything that vonda lion said, and let's not forget the us live on the lion. you know, this is the woman that was very tied up to the i m f in terms of our previous career. and then obviously white house spokesperson telling us that it didn't include russia. absolutely untrue with fine. and you know, other on the list, if we look at other analysis, i've been reading it all day. this thing that the russian economy could even support that at the u. s. in a couple of years time. incredible. chris, thanks for taking us through all that our to contribute our chris in on the program

. thanks a lot now, western but policies have again become a source of discontent in asia. this time, pakistan suffering after its national currency plummeted to a historic law against the us dollar in recent days. following the washington based us, we were just talking about their international monetary fund, pushing islam about to lift exchange rate controls and raise taxes in the country. locals are not happy, they say the i m f, the month of significantly worse than pakistan's economic crisis bus to got up in the past. life was good, but you know, the recent price hikes unbearable bill. in the past we was to wiley, but now it looks hard on a job that no labor, no wark, everything is expansive. it's very hard to and brad for the family. if prices go up, we would have no work. i did, i, i think the i m f is just creating a drama when actually the i m f job is meant to be to help stabilize economies if

they need financial help. but here the i m f is driving us to a default. if the government claims they are signing a new program with the i m f and everything will be fine. i don't believe this for many decades. we have seen that the i m f. programs have done nothing to better our economy. actually, they've destabilized our economy. i think the i'm of can play a positive role that even the i m f program is not helping the poor, but it's very useful for our rulers. this political system is for them, not for the people, for that. well, a representative from the i m f. arrived in islamabad on tuesday, talks will continue for several days as the country seeking to unlock a $6000000000.00 plus bill. i'd loan from the organisation in anticipation of the visit pakistan's, government res, gasoline at prices over the weekend, fulfilling one of the lenders conditions. another demand by the way,

is reducing fuel subsidies, which had been seen as a success in the country. that's as the majority of pakistan is indeed rely heavily on not help from the government countries, industry is also dependent on them to reduce the effects of rising energy prices, inflation to that, risen to $24.00 and a half percent we heard from dr. osh fac hassan can from the pakistan university of sciences and technology. he said that if pakistan's economy hasn't been proved under the previous 22 i m f programs. it's a sign that islamabad should refuse the 23rd, but it wouldn't until goes to the i miss. there is no such thing as that. something good is happening to the, to the economy. design of the policies of the i'm, this is such that it damages economy. i think here's a different see of the country on the international financial industry. this is

what we have been seeing since 19 for the last 34 years. we have seen elderly program, this is the 22nd program are together. so if you can only count doesn't improve in bring it to program. so the i believe it means that it will never improve as long as we continue to be under the i. but for them, and that is why i'm saying that i'm doing 22 to 3. that is in the next. busy to 4 to 5 months. when this program is going to add the most, as edition decided that noble, i'm not program, that it will be the only, you know, there's been a shift in opinion among polish people about the conflict in you. crane not according to a new opinion poll by the worse or enterprise institute that claims citizens are

now seeing more of russia's point of view. the poor quiz people on 8 issues raised by moscow about the reasons for the military offensive. last year, a 3rd of respondents agreed with at least 4 of the points. now that number has risen to 41 percent. it was find that people age between 25 and 34 also most likely to agree with the statement well differing attitudes towards the conflict of also be noted by some western media outlets. there is no evidence that the people in governments of the global south course suffering most from the economic consequences of the war are turning decisively against putin. in india, supposedly allied to the west. a recent poll found that more respondents blamed either nato or the u. s. than russia for the war in ukraine. well, very happy to say that george is on the welly senior research fellow,

the global policy institute joins us live on the program to talk this story through . hi george, good. the see you. i, you know, were you surprised by, by those numbers they, that you among the polish population now coming a little bit more round to a more rounded view, perhaps a little bit surprised. i'm not frankly surprised at all. the public opinion in europe is not following the lead of the political elite, of anything public opinion has been very unenthusiastic about getting involved in the ukraine and paying the price with through economic sanctions. i was a little surprised that polish public opinion seems to be. 1 increasingly within the mainstream of the european public opinion, because poland generally tends to be the most hostile towards russia,

among all of the nations in europe, with the exception of the baltic states. so the fact that poles and particularly young poles, according to this pole, are also very skeptical about further involvement in ukraine. i think it's very interesting and, and is a striking commentary of that on the failure of europe's political leads to persuade public opinion. yeah, perhaps the, as you said, it was younger people seeing how it's affecting them in their, in their pockets to going forward. this survey is only in poland, george, but do you think, is it perhaps indicative of wider feelings coming across europe the west in general? or is that, is that too hard to say? no, no, i think it's very much within the mainstream of public opinion. the problem is that the european lead has been getting themselves more and

more entangled in ukraine and failing completely, failing to shift public opinion to persuade the public that there are some vital european national interests involved in ukraine. and particularly that the sacrifices that, that demanding from the public is somehow an important vital strategic objective. and so what we're getting is the only noise is that come from the la, from the lions on the enemy, in a bad box. and the emmanuel microns about how these, the normal stakes involved in ukraine. but the problem is, i'm persuaded and we can see that by the fact that there are no demonstrations, no demonstrations whatsoever. anywhere on behalf of ukraine and against russia. you know, think that if they public felt about in the way i'm in

a babel feels about them that that'd be, be demonstrations everywhere. you know, russians out and so on. there aren't any. and that were the real disjunction here between the lead opinion and the opinion on the street. whom do you think there's more than 2 main reasons for that? is it, is it, as i said they, the course the expense, know that it's hitting people in their everyday life and house being for a while, but maybe that's becoming acute now. is it a tiredness of the conflict that the piece talk must happen enough? the sense now of people in polls like this, what's your sense of that? what i think the economic aspects are important, but i think that there was skepticism of, from the beginning. and that is that this dispute on where the eastern border of ukraine should be. it's just simply not of any real

interest. do your opinions. i mean, your visit? well, ukraine is not a member of the european union is not a member of nato. so this is a dispute among brother nations. i mean, they, you know, that it's, it's, it's gone on for a long time. it doesn't have anything to do with us. and above all, russia is a nuclear soup about. and so therefore, there is some concern that the more you get involved, and the more you antagonize russia, the more dangerous of the world is. i think that feeling has been there for almost from the beginning before the economic impact of the sanctions really began to be felt. just finally towards will governments be keeping a watchful eye on public sentiment like this, or do they not really care about being on popular at home? and they just want to continue with their agenda,

what they said they're going to achieve against russia. i tend to think that is the last. i think that in almost every country, newer weather has been an election of the elections have expressed disenchantment with this policy. unfortunately, these political elite, they live in these bubble, you know, in brussels and strasburg, they meet, they talk among one another, they reinforce one another's views, the issue all of their statements and communicate. and they have absolutely no connection at all with the way the public thing. so unfortunately, i don't think such polls are going to make a huge impact for the time being. i think the things get more dangerous that's, that's different. but for the time being, i don't think it's gonna make much of the impact as a whole list on the 31st thought you give us george george, i'm well a senior research fellow of the global policy institute. many thanks today.

some pretty startling words from the former chief adviser to boris johnson, dominic cummings house claim that the u. k. government is heavily influenced by a sodium deep states and britain in which accountability to voters is far from a primary consideration. there are kind of deeply entrenched institutions which actually practically control huge amounts of watkins with 0 to very little democratic insight, or even a knowledge and understanding the deep se, israel, the deep state actually controls vast majority of government. and most of the elected people have no understanding or involvement of what's going on. that's just a fact because a lot of what's happening right, that is really get screw, sheep, shoot, confusing or difficult. often what's up thing is very good. sensible. intelligent officials with genuine public service who actually understand what the hell's going

on fall better than the idiots who are elected. aren't you trying to stop? did you chew or be elected, doing terrible things and oxford university graduate, who's been working in back rooms as a strategist for the past couple of decades. serving more recently a strategist for the pro brags campaign and then as chief strategist for former british prime minister boys johnson. what cummings is clearly suggesting is that democratic elections are just window dressing. it's all just a big charade. the former top 8 explains how these deep state actors hid behind anonymity and made decisions on things like coven related locked downs, travel restrictions, and anti coven jab mandates. clearly they weren't worried about having to answer to the public coming, talks about the systemic, undermining of democracy with all the no sales of ordering up a pizza. and around the same time that cummings was musing about the deep state, a whistleblower came forward in the british press to disclose that the british army

spied on coven lockdown critics, including high profile journalists, work i'm is doing should never have happened this domestic monitoring of citizens seem not to be driven by desire to address the public's concerns, but to identify leverage for compliance with controversial government policies. fact that this political monitoring happened under the guise of contrary misinformation highlights how without serious safeguards, the concept wrong information is open to abuse and has become a blank check. the government uses in an attempt to control narratives on line. contrary to their stated aims, these government truth units are secretive and harmful to our democracy. so is this what cummings was talking about, sending the military to spy on those who oppose the narrative and rules crafted by the faceless, deep state actors he spoke of. who then use that information to craft responses

that the 1st battalion of idiots and moron as otherwise known as elected officials, can go back out to the front lines and defend in part by branding anything else that contravenes or contradicts the official narrative, dis, information. how exactly do they manage to square all that with the image of britain as a free democratic and transparent system to which other countries should aspire? sometimes under the threat of sanctions, sounds like perhaps the u. k. should 1st try holding itself to that standard and see how it goes. okay, more big money to tell you about the u. s. is preparing a $2000000000.00 plus military aid package to ukraine. this time reportedly including longer range rocket sought by t f to regain control over crimea. it comes as earlier, a top ukrainian official set a deadline to take over the peninsula. by this summer,

the u. s. government funded, pulled in 2013 that revealed the largest portion of respondents living there are mostly identified as russian and had what they called a warm attitude towards russia. in 2014 and a referendum held in crimea, residents voted to join. the russian federation mosque was repeatedly stressed. the vote was based on the fundamental international principles of self determination, but that's largely being ignored by the west for most crimea, and considered the 2014 dismissal. and then president, yellow, co bitch, a coup. afterwards, they stood against the policies implemented by the new government which targeted russian speaking people or culture. one of the reasons crimea decided to separate from ukraine and become parts of russia. but former us marine geopolitical and was brian for letting believes washington

a decade ago was testing the waters in crimea with its poles milling. a qu, and ukraine was on the horizon. we can see how, how desperate the regime has become and also their western sponsors, their, their success on the battlefields is non existence. and what they're trying to do now is find some sort of political leverage over russia. and by my threatening crimea, they feel that they can achieve some, some of this leverage before the u. s. engineered, coo and key have almost a quarter. wanted to join the russian federation before the u. s. engineer cool. and then during the code, we saw the violence, we saw the u. s. we saw an anti or russian regime in the power. undoubtedly, no one in crimea wants to be a part of that may have been spared the worst of this conflict from 2014 on workers when you really think about it. why would u. s. government conducting this phone? 2013 in the 1st place and if you refer the entire thing,

conceived the type of questions they were looking for. false line, socio economic, ethnic linguistic lines. but they could exploit the next year during their engineer qu, they wanted to see what, what they could do regarding crime. yet if there was anything they can do, the fact that everyone even then wanted to identify it as russian or even wanted to be a part of russia. this, this has been an inconvenient pack that they've tried to paper over from then all the way until now. lobbies are a lot for now on a busy news day on this the 1st day of the great do stay with our to international because in moments i to peter lavelle and guess with another slice of cross talk action coming your away a with.