nations of historians, the french colonists are responsible for the deaths of one and a half 1000000 algerians a bomb. it is another story entirely. every single building has been torn apart. r t reports from the key strategic bottle towards city of art shemelle, also known as black mood. russian forces say they have taken control of the main parts of the city. india and russia. strength and energy cooperation with new daily's imports from moscow reaching an all time coming as the bricks group of nations overtakes the g 7 to become the world's largest economic blog. as regards the financial indicator with pensions in the middle east, east r random proposed to send

a delegation across the persian gulf to long time rivals saudi arabia. restoration of ties as part of an agreement brokered by china with, from moscow to the world. this is our to international, great, the hub, your company. let's get to our top story today. we begin with the latest developments and don boss, the head of it done yet. republic. how's said russian forces no control, 3 quarters of the bottle towards city of our cham off schools, so known as back route. the statement comes as often which are still being waged in western areas. there will be official added. the restoration of the embattled city is a key aspect going forward. arch him also kind of strategic importance. it's a transport juncture for real ways and roads. and maria are senior correspondent, murat, gas, the file this report as russian troops. buck,

right. it is often said that there has never been a war like this and in the swore that has never been is a battle that is the 1st of its kind. bachman lease battle he is in its final days. war marks, everything, man and concrete, not a single building has been left on damaged. i've seen almost every battlefield here in ukraine. mary, you both, for example, and seeing what happened and mario bla. i personally thought that it would never get as bad. but seeing bach what it is another story entirely, every single building has been torn apart. here you avoid the streets. open spaces are a life hazard. instead

you move through rubble through barely upright, high rise buildings and along shrapnel strew in alleyways. the stink of gunpowder explosives and smoke never fades. this was still a ukrainian position, controlled by ukrainian forces. when wagner troops assaulted this building, some chose to surrender. others put up a resistance here on the top floor where they burned alive and said weapons were used. the building is, is still burning. ukrainian positions are a near 18 meters away from us. these are wagner, private military companies, elite a. so troop scouts, they did. what every military textbook in the world will tell you is impossible to

attack head on a numerically superior fo, with greater fire power. fortified in a city, backed and armed by the world's biggest military block nato. and yet, here they are in the city center, breathing ashan overdosed on adrenalin. they have seized victory by the throat. so long as all our men are our greatest assets, they are professionals. we all brothers. every one functions is part of a mechanism. they give us a job, we get it done. i'm just grateful that there's work to be done. work for real man. our enemy is over there. in the supper, miss wilson were targeting it to make it easier for our boys. this is a good machine. it just takes buildings apart. they never let up, no break,

no pause. the orchestra plays night and day. ah. the ruins and asphalt of buck mort are soaked with the blood of ukrainian troops. average life expectancy for a ukrainian soldier on the front lines and backward is reportedly just for hours. and the evidence is everywhere in every building. another thing that we've noticed in baltimore, these so much of the clothes left behind ease is covered in blood. like this bullet bulletproof vest, blood, and gore. evidently, the armor plate was shot through. i mean, the door squeaks of and this is in the secret, the tremendous casualties. the ukrainian sir ukrainian forces have endured here in

baltimore. not that the going was easy for wagner. it wasn't, especially at 1st veteran ukrainian units put up strong resistance before they were cut down. but now, now it's mostly untrained conscripts, the key of sense to stall the orchestra tubes tell us they have no chance against arguably the world's most experienced shock troops left behind when they retreated, as usual, they leave everything behind including that. yes, this too. i have one and there's another in our squad. this is an american analog of the m g. 42. how long have you had it a week? where did you get the ammo? they leave that behind too. so you fine. add them with their own bullets. of course, how else we hit them with their own weapons. if you think about it, this is

a lot of ammunition, isn't it? the only there's loads and every outpost they leave behind a large amount of ammunition. this is despite the fact they keep complaining about ammunition shortages. they don't think about how they'll continue fighting problem because they don't want to. they're demoralized perma. so here's a question. where did you get the bear? the bear, the bear came to me so to speak. it just happened. our eyes met and i decided to take him along. you figured he was the one for you, hunker. yes, olga. olga. it was time to go. they had worked to do ukrainian resistances, crumbling and back mode. but the end isn't here yet. what roads to the city are left to ukrainian forces? i choked with destroyed alba and vehicles, many of which was supplied by nato states. as we left behind our backs, the city rocked and trembled to the to the viet saw bulls,

violent symphony with ceaseless melody of wool, orchestrated with corporate precision and almost religious fanaticism. this is the way of wagner. we're at gasdio ot from buck with no big news in the financial world. india's imports of russian crude have reached an all time high while march also mark 6 months in a row that moscow has been new daily's largest supplier, all the oil rushes exports to india. are followed in size by saudi arabia, iraq, and the united r a. m, ritz. prior to the conflict in ukraine, russia had a market share of less than one percent of india's oil imports. now the share arriving to india's refineries is more than a 3rd of all incoming supplies. will the increasing trade between russian india is

among the factors which has contributed to be bricks, countries overtaking g 7 nations. in g d, p based on purchasing power parity together with china, brazil on south africa, the per are the global east than at south country balanced, really to the group of 7 comprised of leading western nations and indeed bricks. concrete may welcome a new applicant in the soon future. apart from algeria, argentine and iran, which all submitted applications to join bricks, lawyer tunisia, has now also expressed interest. it's wish to join the block with african countries . a succession would give it major economic advantages and positively affect social conditions in the nation. philomena the last cross live night to r t contributor chris stands for his take all that morning to you, chris. just starting with g d p. report. interesting numbers, aren't they?

but host significant is it that the bricks now has bigger figures in terms of gdp based on the purchasing power. it's a brick the dime what it actually means for us. yeah, and i probably need to neither one of those big words. so we need to break it down to ways that you. ready measure the economic output of the country. one way is what's called g, d, p, your gross domestic product, and that is where you measure absolutely everything that the countries produce it. and then you have another form of measuring p, p, p, which is the same price power. and basically that means you, what you do, you take probably the most essential things that economy needs in order to, to grow and flourish. so one of the main main things is wayland gas, for example, and commodities and the output production and measure that. now in doing so, we've seen it was a actually a, a u. k based independent consulting group. ready acreage, acorn macro consulting,

quite an interesting group, if you take a look at their website and, and read a lot about what they do. and what they found is that the really, the, the bridge is completely out performing, performing the g on, on pretty much everything that is essential, that economy needs which, you know, this is a huge thing for the world because it means that essential things that the, an economy requires for growth and stability of being out performed by the like to be in the states for example. yeah. and you've got more and more countries chris, willing to join at bricks wanting to, to come together with those countries already. is that because of what's happening as regards the conflict, there's a fear of, of, of the u. s. and how they're weaponized, essentially the dollar saying, well, you know what we're going to do or a bilateral trade in currencies other than the dollar. and that's going to repel,

if it's for the bricks, what kind of knock on effect does not have economically for, for the bricks, countries. yeah, that's a great question. i think the economic effects are massive, right? i mean, we've seen what happened to countries that place their religious united states, united states, really, incredibly isolation. this policy will be in place from which basically we've been trying to get all of their partners to uninstall their business in the us, which is good for us. and she passed their own country. and i think they're looking at the looking at the other way. they're looking at, you know, bricks led by the to was last growing economies, china and india. and we think a completely different way in which the big block is behaving towards the policy people wish to join. i think that leading to it as well. i think people saying how much they were rewarded by me and i said, and telling line and also trading in the us dollar, which was that was the currency. the starting to see that that could be another way that's probably more comfortable for them and that people. yeah,

very interesting. see how this goes going forward. chris, just the touching out other aspect. i talked about record numbers of russian crude oil going to india. now that's been called an example of other taishan to western sanctions leading to the question just how effective have non western nations become in their ability to unite and join forces in, in the face of western sanctions. yeah, another great question. and i think showing that india is willing to participate in trade with russia. this degree is really the times that they're infected. we have to remember you'd in the india with the next, with this colony. it has traditionally high, strong tied to the united kingdom. and therefore, you know, the united states, which the united kingdom shape, what they call the special relationship, right. and your thing in the inside around and say, no, thank you very much. we're going to try it all on russia. it's not just an oil as

well. you know, we've looked at the way in which india work, mustering and buying my defense brushes, dependence, manufacturing output has increased, at least in the beginning, all of the conflicts at the current conflict with the united states. and i think it's showing that these functions, they can, they can keep trying them, but they're not working just finally as well. there was a point raised earlier by a gas, chris that said, you know, right now a lot of foreign reserves by countries are, are dollars are held in dollars from 60 percent or something. but that has been falling. you've got the chinese, you and rising as well. it, is it, these figures that's really going to tell us whether, you know this process of most t polarization, a world moving forward, more independently, those countries is not, is going to be in the tailored to take those figures. just going to tell more than,

than any talk by politicians, you know, and in that question and answer sessions, it's going to be the figures. absolutely. i think you're right, you know, and it's all going to be about the coupling of the global economy from the us dollar. i mean, we're seeing that just based on, on the, on the, for the currency exchange market, we seeing the value of the dollar in favor of the currency such as the chinese firm and b, which is an incredibly stable currency juice. the way in which the chinese said to manage the flow of it, you know, with the other alternative, like big point between 4 months ago it was valued at $17000.00 yesterday. it broke $30000.00 in value. would say investors lifting institutions clearly looking elsewhere and look into the future, which, you know, my opinion is going to be a dollar that but definitely far less relying on the dollar. and therefore the global economy less dependent on the united states. yeah,

very interesting. when you get down to the bottom line, isn't chris, thanks very much, our computer chris simms. well, i made a worldwide economic slowdown. asia remains at bright spot. that's according to the military fun which estimates indian charter will account for half of the world economic growth in 2023. while most advanced economies will see as chris was just breaking down their, their growth rates decline more and not plenty more. besides, on our food stuff from rivals to working together again around is funding to send a high level of delegation to saudi arabia as part of a deal brokerage in china. that restoring diplomatic relations between 2, ron unreal. after years of tensions, the iranian foreign ministry said the day taught will benefit the entire region

that i saw. so based on the subjects agreed in beijing, which is based on the joint statement of the foreign ministers of both countries, the official ties between iran and saudi arabia has been resumed on a practical level under developing story about the iranian saudi normalization. he said that on saturday, a technical delegation from saudi arabia visited iran and is still in iran. are paving the grounds for the reopening of the iranian, of this o. d embassy into juan, and the saudi consulate in the city of mac had. now we are expecting that a similar technical delegation from iran from b as longer public to visit saudi arabia in the city of rehab. and the capital react were an iranian embassy. we'll start working. and also in the city of judah, the saudi city of j, that were, and iranian consulate, while the establish there, of course, saw that delegation will visit 3. although in the coming days can on he said in the

coming 3 days, the impact, the positive impact of the normalization between iran and saudi arabia on regional and international law levels. and he said that already it has played out very well in the region, a bilateral agreements between iran and saudi arabia for resuming ties have received positive feedback on regional and international levels. therefore, able have a positive effects in the field of cooperation, increasing piece consistency, security and commercial and economic cooperation between iran and saudi arabia and other countries. we see that that normalization and there was an option of ties, was broken by china, a key player on the eastern block right now that country china, a host of the talks between iran and saudi arabia in the capitol, beijing. and we see that on thursday, iranian and so the foreign ministers visited and the city of beijing and officially started the diplomatic ties between in the 2 countries. and of kennedy also said

that that's a specific occasion and the resumption, the official resumption of the ties. whoa, bear many more positive consequences for the region and for the entire world when it comes to security. politics and even economy has some deadly news in niger armed a sealants have attacked army troops, killing 5 soldiers, who regarding a convoy of workers mining for gold. that's according to local reports. a militant insurgency in the west african country has caused chaos figures. despite a western military deployment, we spoke to officials and citizens there had both, se, foreign troops. i failed to bring any stability to the region. movie needed in opinions in the gen. so hell are that. we don't need these military bases that show no results. after more than 10 years of presence, there is no result because our families is still being killed. terrorist is still taking territory, terrorists a, chasing people from the villages. but those troops insist on staying is up to us to

choose what we want to know. because a much oh my they stayed in molly for years, but i have not done anything and here and neither. they just messed up with the people. what other people have been killed day and night, have they have good results? molly would not tell them to leave. ivan is looking as a citizen, in my opinion, this french and european troops have not done anything remarkable because i cannot tell you anything they have done to us. this needs to change. if they want to help, they should do so. if not, they can just leave on. yeah. if it is about fixing, they should fix their country 1st and we fix ours. foreign forces in the nation are largely made up of french soldiers with germany and sweden, also sending a contingent in 2013 france, launched operation services in west africa to combat islamic militants was unsuccessful in bringing security to the region. another french lead mission

operation by con, was later initiated, but again, violence in niger continue, seemingly all abated. and now after a decade of fighting militants in neighboring burkina, faso and molly french troops of withdrawn from there and move their base of operations in the hill to nature. just to show you as well as toby hundreds to the streets of measures capital to protest against the presence of french troops in the country. protesters at charles had see paris slogans with some of them calling the french army criminals. locals bois their discontent with the foreign forces, inability to bring security and stem estimate violence in the country. the secretary general of the movement behind the protest say, european troops presence in nature as brought more trouble then good to the country . once he did all will consider without hesitation, the french military, and all europeans troops presence in all territory. nothing but an occupation would

not need any of this military troops. if there is any kind of military corporation from that we can develop is support in training materials and information beyond intel reasons that concern us the ra, external reasons that concern neighboring congress. like molly, who accused in france with causing trouble and help in criminals and terrorist organizations. the cases before the united nations security council and brook enough also also told france to leave because they don't have good results. and worse, this campaigns are toxic for the security of the nation. we should conclude that france and its allies should leave niger, especially since micron has difficult is in his country as french people don't understand why he's insistent on addressing security problems in the sa held while his own country has social problems. the u. s. leads the way in saddling africa with debt. that's the message from china, which insist that america's role in the i m f. global lender makes it responsible

for resolving the issues that come with the burden. should hear you hunger calls your bell garcia, shoot the world bank and the international monetary fund to count for now as 70 percent of africa's debt owed to mal to actual financial institutions. the u. s. is the largest single shareholder of the world bank and the i m f and the financial capital from the u. s. and the europe is to biggest commercial creditor for african countries. they have responsibility in terms of resolve and africa's debt. we urge the u. s. to earnestly step up to its responsibility and make greater efforts to work on the substantive participation of multilateral financial institutions and commercial creditors in the handling over custodial issue so matter. well let's delve deeper into those remarks with arctic correspondence. lenovo, you couldn't k, welcome to, you know, for you debt such a crucial issue for countries trying to progress and become at more independent financially, particularly in the global south tickets through china's criticism of the u. s. as

regards well, good morning. of course, china is really urging the united states to earnestly shoulder is responsibilities and make a greater efforts to address debt issues in african countries while also accusing the u. s. off really avoiding those responsibilities towards africa, the debt to relieve chinese foreign ministry spokesman, a wind guard when been really made that call at a press conference as have just heard in beijing or when responding to accusations from united states and wall bank officials that china is an obstacle in african debt to relieve. now the chinese government has always said that the united states should stop pursuing africans into debt to arm instead. focus on averting a government default all chinese creditors' official and private provided

63 percent of the debt rescheduling. while accounting for 30 percent of the debt service due, we can see that the amount china suspended and the work associated with the suspensions far exceeded the rest of the g. 20. as well as china, none of you has been accused by some western nations of creating a so name death, trump situation enough that would give us a view of this sense on the continent about allegation as well. now you to remember that western lenders have initially blamed china for dead crises in africa as if just mentioned when the actual truth is that it's their own banks,

their own asset managers and their own oil traders that are far more responsible for these dates. and the g 7 seems to be letting them off the hook. in fact, china took part in the g. trent is dead suspicion not so long ago and during the per diem, because while western and private lenders did not do that, they can be no effect of debt solution without the involvement of private lenders. so it's really clear that the u. k. and the u. s. should introduce legislation to compel private lenders to take part in these the debt relieves a for the african continent. and another thing that we need to remember is that under donald tribes administration, the united states had criticized china for pushing poor countries into debts. now mainly that was happening through an indian for large scale infrastructure projects . it has warned those nations a risk losing control of strategic asses that if they cannot pay the chinese loans

backer. i think it's also important to note that african countries or more data to western lenders than they do to china. so it's really surprising that to the china as well. so it's really a tit for tat kind of situation currently as well. the vision is always so that it's willing to restructure it's there and put some other issues in place that make it a little bit easier for, for business to, to grow up because they're learning as well on the continent. no, for you all the pleasure avenue in the program. thanks for giving us a sense from the continent. as regards at ortiz, if you could get or i time for a tuesday visit to the world's apart studios next, find out who accel is engaging in conversation today. in the moment, stay close with

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mm mm, welcome to, well the part they hate us, our way of life, our freedom, our democracy for they think that has been the catch all justification for the united states to go to war or to impose sanctions. but little consideration for the cost of the consequences, or at least that was the case until washington moved to sanctioned the entire world and its efforts to penalize russia. have them arrogance finally been no more than they can chew. to discuss that, i'm now joined by sar flanders, an american political writer, and an anti war activist. sorry, it's great to talk to. thank you very much for your time. it's good to be here talking. now you've been part of an anti war. i'm anti a sanction group since the 9th and sixty's. and if we look at the american,

the all war expenses are spending over that period of time. what's really interesting that is that it's significantly increased off to the end of the cold war, which the united states, presumably one and the when the history of presumably and then how do you explain such a paradox that the americans chose to stand all that money on the war at the time of that highest historical glory. i'm arguably the most peaceful time that humanity has ever been to. well, the expectation at the end of the cold war is that there would be a peace dividend that this the billions and billions spent on war would now finally be used for social programs, desperately needed social programs in the u. s. and that the u. s. around the world would use that money and reconstruction in help for so many countries.