as the floor, his 1st name about the the arts he examines how russian forces are repelling the printing and offensive on the front lines on the public package that joins a long list of countries rejecting the west demands to choose between the us and china saying it won't be caught in the middle. and the 26th annual st. petersburg international economic form kicks off and russia's northern capital. as over 17000 participants from 130 countries,

attend the major economic event. we bring news and special coverage right here on our t, the coming to live from the russian capital. this is archie international. i'm rachel bl ovens here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. and we begin with the latest updates from the complex in ukraine, as russian forces advanced in various strategic directions. according to defense ministry reports. now they say that 7 and a half 1000 new printing and soldiers had been killed and wounded in battle since june. 4th, that's according to russia's ministry of defense, who added that, ma scout target site station and key ads. reserve forces for and mercenaries, camps, and weapons and equipment. depos ortiz edwards. it off examines how russian forces are holding the line all across the front line. ukraine's troops are robust of

the counter offensive has commenced, and russia spares no effort to nip that in the bud. these go on the refutation of a sniper rifle. and now a 152 millimeter caliber packs, a might see punch the lies on the southern front. chief has so far, pendants hopes on crushing rushes defensive lines there, but to no avail. he outside the town of lisa jones, ukraine is pushing relentlessly to but all to a similar result. the

big guns of the backbone of keeps offensive. so counter battery fire is vital for russia. lucas now and that's our group as coal sniper is because we were very accurate, the shooting hating and destroying, and we talk it's we even receive the challenge for the granting is for know to read to you, but we didn't accept it because they were very cunning so the key to success is to work as fast as possible to work in a cohesive team. that's good. everyone must perform that you just quickly and not interfere with the others who was suffered into don't pass artillery fire accounts for an overwhelming majority. it tends trenches into school, which stuff melts. my incentive rate's everything in its path.

he tillery has proven once again that it is indeed the god of war makers done every poor thing from the don't bass oxy. don't make us choose a side. that's the message from pakistan, which is during the long list of countries who rejected the west call to sever ties with china, in an effort to punish washington's opponents. we have a history of being in a close collaborative made with the us. we have no intention of leaving, not focused on also has the reality of being in a close collaborative made with china. and until china suddenly came to everyone's threat perception. that was always the case to go further, ends up on this are taken care of your original mars enjoys me here to discuss. rachel, it's great to have you here in studio. so pack us down is not the only country to feel pressure from the us to choose partners. is it?

yeah, well pakistan's definitely feeling the heat there. and i'm sure it's just a total coincidence. the pakistan also just took it's for shipment of directly shifted, rushing crude oil a few days ago. and, and here's the key part. they've paid for it in chinese. you want so i can only imagine that the u. s. is probably not too thrilled about that. and this is all happening by the way, under prime minister should by star reef. and he's considered the more pro west prime minister of recent years. you have him on con, who's no longer prime minister. and there's a lot of speculation as to why he's not. and he is always cited, you know, anti pressure from the west against him. so the fact that this is kind of a shared position in pakistan right now is, is quite interesting. this was not pushed along with the, with china. and um, and this is also coming after years of us aid, which former us president donald trump suspended. and he just, you know,

being the business man he has, he didn't feel like he was getting his money's worth because he likes to delegate. like he delegated to turkey everything that was going on in syria, which allowed the us troops to withdraw ultimately as one of his campaign promises and with pakistan, he was expecting them to do all america's dirty work against the taliban. and so he wasn't too happy that that didn't work out for them in afghanistan. and um, you know, single for us, for a minister also recently spoke on behalf of other countries in the southeast asian region saying that, you know, they also would really like to sit out all this us trying to drama. and they're telling china in the us, look, guys, take it out into the parking lot, have a blessed a, a certain member states, including obviously seeing and falls, want to maintain good relations with both the us and aging. the one make our strokes. we will refuse the troops is kind of looked like hostage video. so even washington's allies are getting

a little bit concerned about what they're witnessing here, the getting the sense that washington is looking for a fight with china. and they're also trying to talk them down from the situation and we have christine like out here who made them let them know just tried to do that recently. i don't know. i'm not complying, and of sort of the polarization of the world would lead to or less economy gross. so i think this is something that should be by all means avoid it. all right, so not all of washington's allies or former allies want to play the fields and want to do business and deal with china and the us. some of them are squarely choosing account. we have south korea and japan. so there's us leverage there. because, well, one of the reasons could be that there are us bases and those countries, it's kind of hard to, to play the fields when one of the guys of sleeping on your couch meeting. so,

you know, they're, it's, they're not billy, no mates on every level. at this point, washington regions right now, even with all of these calls to avoid conflict, it seems like things are still escalating between washington and beijing. what more can you tell us about that? well, we just heard that tony blake and the secretary of state is heading to beijing this week. and there were even some unsubstantiated rumors floating around earlier this week that the u. s. was thinking of evacuating its citizens from taiwan, which would indicate definitely an escalation in the wrong direction if you want to try to avoid conflict. the state department flatly denied it, and china was not in the last asked about these reports has circulated on online in the united states. i've just returned myself for meeting nobody else in each other . so i'm glad you called. i did not know the relevance situation. you mentioned, however, what i do know is that when the us side talks about standing up with table on what it really does is use time on as pawns and can and folder in order to serve the use

strategy of using tell you want to contain china the united states has even formulated the plan to destroy the time on it is believe that outside one compatriots will clearly understand that the us would hom time on and sell it to way is. all right, so everything that we've been seeing from the us in china has been not very good in terms of the attention that's been created. there's a lot of posturing going on, but we also remember this bible wounds, finger pointing accusations flying round about beijing, helping russia, which they denied. they said, look, you know, but if it gets to a point where there's a risk in terms of a potential world war, of course, at that point will get involved. now, there's definitely been some back order back stage behind the scenes diplomacy going on as usually happens in the situations. so this blinking trip this week may just be because, you know, china and the us bringing things to the very front of the stage and publicly signaling at least some kind of normalization of relations. or i'll certainly a lot of moving parts there are taking here be original mars then. thanks so much

for breaking that one down for us. and meanwhile, more than a 100 people have reportedly died in nigeria after their boat capsized. search and rescue operations are still ongoing. the incident occurred in the west of the country on the niger river. the victims, including women and children, were returning from a wedding on monday. morning state police report that 103 people died and more than 100 people were rescued from the boat. experts say that such incidents are common in the region for many use poorly maintained and overloaded vessels for transport. former us president donald trump has pleaded not guilty to $37.00 charges over alleged miss handling of classified documents. he said the case was fabricated against him to sabotage the upcoming election, which is the most evil. and hey, is abuse of bell or the history of our country. very sad thing to watch. it corrupt

sitting president had his top political opponent arrested on fake and fabricated judges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty. right in the middle of a presidential election, this is called election interference and yet another attempt to rig and steal a presidential election. more importantly, it's a political persecution, joe biden will forever be remembered as not only the most corrupt president of the history of our country, but perhaps even more importantly, the president are together with a band of as close as thugs, misfits and marks has tried to destroy american democracy, i'm here out in front of the court house, where in the last few hours we had donald trump pleading not guilty to 37 different counts of miss handling classified government documents. and at this

point, uh, we have now heard from donald trump and many of his supporters and many republicans in congress who see this is simply an effort to meddle in the upcoming 2024 elections. donald trump made his court appearance. there were thousands of donald trump supporters outside the court house. and then donald trump returned to new jersey where he gave a message on the indictment to his supporters. they want to distract from the real espionage and the real crime. so let's use president trump to do so. let's go out and let's indict president trump, so they don't talk about the $5000000.00 bright. remember, they impeached me for asking the simple question about biters grew up dealings in ukraine and now they see that once again i was right. i was right, i was totally right. joe biden, and the radical left can take foreign bribes and be totally protected. republicans, all, you must finally get tough,

you've got to get tough. you got to get tough and you've got to show when you arrest your leading political opponents, we no longer have a democracy. you have a nation that as we are, is in serious, serious decline of a nation in serious that lie. now in his message, donald trump said they want to take away his freedom. he said they want to take away my freedom because they, i won't take away yours. uh, that was one of the memorable quotes from his message to supporters and many are linking the timing of this indictment with the new revelation about the biden's family and their alleged corrupt dealings in ukraine. and the revelation that the f b, i seems you of covered up and protected that investigation from being made public. and there's a lot being res, now, by republicans in congress about dividing family and their dealings and connections in ukraine. so many are wondering if this is not only and a half or 2 metal and prevent donald trump from being successful in the 2024

election. which fold indicate he would win if it were held today. but on top of that, many are looking at this and asking the question as to whether or not this is done to distract from the revelations that are now surfacing about dividing family and their connections and the efforts to pc all those things. so at this point, there's a lot of cynicism. there were many of donald trump supporters out in front of the court house to day protesting donald trump was greeted by many of his supporters in new jersey at a rally where he just gave that rousing message. there are many people to look on this as a dark day for american democracy, where it appears the department of justice is being weaponized against one candidate in order to secure the re election of another. as the case against trump is under way or a public, and senator has accused washington of double standards by ignoring accusations against president joe biden demanded that

a series of incriminating audiotapes be made. public of the 4 national possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between m and a 100 by, according to the 1023. the 4 national possessors to audio recordings of phone calls between him and then vice president joe, by these recordings were allegedly cap as any sort of insurance policy for the, for national in case that he got into a tight spot. congress still lacks a full, incomplete picture with respect to what that document really says. that's why it's important that the document be made public without unnecessary redactions for the american people to see. it is alleged that the recordings, which are under investigation link 5 into the sacking of ukrainian prosecutor, the u. s. president is also accused of threatening to withdrawal. $1000000000.00

and u. s. military, a 2 key f as investigations and to be creating an oil company, bereavement, or hunter, by that was on the board of directors, or not brought to an immediate and the alleged incidents took place when biden was vice president of the i director christopher reg is also under the spotlight, he is accused of heavily sensory the unclassified but incriminating tate, the house oversight committee breton to hold right and contempt of congress after he ignored it. subpoena talk show hosts, beef laws were believes that trump's indictment was pushed to cover up new allegations of jo biden's, corruption scandal, a good timing of the announcement of the indictment was about covering up the news that broke on the same day that you know, there were documents that existed in and phone records that existed for all the calls that allegedly have joe biden. and his son hunter talking to arisen officials

about getting the prosecutor in the ukraine at the time. fired. and allegedly they got paid $5000000.00 a piece for doing that. so that would that think the timing was designed to get that out of the way and make sure that that by the story wasn't covered at all. but i think ultimately this indictment was gonna happen. they've been working on it for a long time. if there is, in fact, bribery that took place, i think it puts a whole different uh, take on, on the uh, our support for ukraine. it calls a lot into question and not the least of which is uh, is joe biden's uh, a survival in the presidency as far as now you're being impeached and, and removed from office possibly. so i think we have to keep an eye on that around and present abraham racy is in nicaragua, on the 2nd leg of his latin american tour at a rally in the nation's capital, raised the stress of utility of american sanctions as a shared value. so vermont in and venezuela and people emily,

call me cause the us wanted to paralyze us with sanctions and threaten with, with our nation wasn't paralyzed, which i didn't have it during the threats and sanctions into opportunities for that and have made great progress the shuttle should know that the new global order will favour though score is the western gemini, to the pursuit of independence nor freedom and justice. enough is what really unites ball than the uranium and venezuelan revolutions arrived in the correct nation. what makes it is a significant economic sanctions issue race instead of the process and the driver president for his bar when it comes to the pressure of his country under the pretext of human rights and

democracy. this is very much life its own and the rhetoric changed towards the assignment again is actually one day and then we'll come see us and boy, and with the west which doubts its democratic values should respect the silver in will of other people's own who vote in their government, but unfortunately, western nations do the opposite. they live out of democracy and human rights and what we have seen many times out the west tramples human rights all across the globe. the on monday beginning with the 2 sides and we $1000000000.00. this is

so the see so we see the original country situated at the drawer is known as it is or the place for us the 26 annual st. petersburg international economic forum has kicked off and russia's northern capital right here on archie will be bringing new special coverage throughout the week. the

awesome $17000.00 people are set to attend to russia's biggest economic event. our team is hard at work at the heart of the forum earlier artes union o'neill outlined teams of the st. petersburg economic forum in 2023. a very warm welcome to space at 2023 and this and petersburg, international economics for them. people have been streaming in all morning for day one of the influential event. now, why they're coming here at people from more than a 100 country delegates from those countries as well as you've got thousands of participants here talking about the big global issues affecting the world. and of course, at russia. now the focus this here is on, at the american bar, the global side is a big issue, of course, in terms of at feeding the world in terms of,

of getting those renew ties between russia and that area as well. just to give you a sense, there is a move away from, from e u countries from nate. so towards the middle east, of course, i mentioned the global south africa asia. it starts on central america as well. big number of guests coming at for that. the sectors here that's being spoken about, you're talking about the i t at tourism financial. of course a lot of folks around here at talking about how they can develop with the rest of the world as well. and i agree business pharmaceutical industry. so you can imagine for the next 4 days until saturday, there is a lot to discuss and we're going to keep the discussion team going figures. joining me is the host of ortiz world, a part r t corresponded at sound a boy. i've sent it a lot going on today. business is the theme, but the overriding at issue test solve written development for the forum. can you

maybe brief knocked on why that is the, the big feet? because i think around the world, there is a sense of exhaust trends from the way things have been going up until recently. these uni polar western dominate, that's modelled at a cruise privileges benefits primarily to itself. and we see these big development then it's also only about this here, but i mean, i think we've seen it for the last day care so that many countries want to develop on their own terms. and they want to that own piece of the international pie. and they want to see the world not as a sort of melting cold, melted to american, the worst and specifications, but rather as a mistake, where each society, each country can afford that own solutions develop according to its own, to their own paces, or according to that own cultural specific ations, but the discussion wouldn't be not about what those pieces need to be,

how they should look like whether they should be like the west or rather, you know how we can exist in a mutually beneficial in synergetic manner. and this form is still pretty much international because many parts of the world are represented. new mentions, latin america, you mentioned the africa asia has huge representations. russian regions, various russian regions are representative here. there's going to be a lot of discussions, a lot of debates today, a lot of contacts made as well between and not just international countries, but particularly russian as well. so for those russian companies, it's perhaps a daunting step into perhaps the territories that they weren't sewell favorites, but that's becoming more and more the common themes. so that's going to be something that's going to be of a, for most important going forward. actually, they one always has been about local development and about local businesses, small, medium size, big businesses. but this time around,

russian businesses have no choice but the to develop and depend on themselves in order to move forward. as you know, russia is under very significant the, their western sanctions, which force many companies to called the watson connections. but they're looking for ways to develop here in the russia and also to establish new connections with the rest of the world with africa, with asia, with many other regions, but do it in a different way in a way that respects local populations and leaves. and, you know, benefits and the profits here, russian entrepreneurs, businesses have gone abroad of them they, they've, they've gone into industries. they're not because of sanctions. perhaps it was forced on them, i think was plate so was a necessity. is the mother of old invention. that money that the knowledge is coming back. no interruption. what, what's the opportunities for the world's biggest country,

but something like that. i don't really know which, but also capital people uh, new ideas. uh, yeah. is it, you know, it was a hard choice for many of the businesses and some of the businesses here have to choose whether they want to develop here domestically or whether they have to go abroad. then the was made that choice, very sharp, but a lot of companies that certainly most of the companies representative here and made a decision that, you know, russia still have lots of potential and it's not just some assets potential. i mean, this is a huge me reach of country not only in terms of minerals, you know, oral gas and metals, but also human potential and human capital. i mean, we, russia is leading in many technological areas. it's a country with very advanced public taking a logical services. you know, it has lots of people who are working and trying to, you know, substitute some of the products and services that we use to get from abroad. ran

out and developing them here. and, you know, developing them uh, with a potential of exporting them around the world, having a little taste of us. um, it was the moscow government stand where you could catch an android serving up some delicious ice cream with a very righty of flavors to choose from such as mint chocolate chip and vanilla. the cherry on top is how it delivers it to you and a miniature subway car. the previous events from the u. a. e also made an entrance of the form with a traditional all nail sales performance, according to get the performance which lasted more than an hour. included delegates and all white clothing and even prox, see you a was the guest of honor at this years for on the sidelines of the forum. we had an opportunity to talk with the ceo of leading ladies africa,

who says that russia is helping africa rise again. this is some image in the applicant of life, not only of less pressure to liberate ourselves from colonial, but it is a way to move the african giant that's been slippery to say, wow, africa deserves. tools celebrates and in the hands it's suffering. it's better i share that was very when we needed friends is the same emotion. now that's a way to move a giant, which is enough for when most of africa by 2, for each independent russia enjoying the soviet union. when they didn't have that much resources, they should, whatever they had with us to help us. russia was on the ground with us. some of

us were trained in russian russians, shared data sources with us. so it is in times like this of the memories of our relationship with wash quite russia never colored like any african country that moves and lo twice. marcia was our friends when we didn't have friends . we know that sometimes we might get into some little trouble for as much time, but we decided that up to dentist just to cultivate and then be on this to see why do we don't supports or like conflicts during the times where we need for the truth to be told, it is time now, and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here with more of our special coverage from the st. petersburg, international and economic form at the top of the hour,

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