the just don't have to shape out and engagement because the trails when so many find themselves boils, the parts we choose to look so common ground the the archie examines our russian forces are repelling the premium offensive on the front line of the calls for public pakistan. joins a long list of countries rejecting the west demand to choose between the us and china, saying it won't be caught in the middle. and the 26 annual st. petersburg international economic form kicks off in russia's northern capital. as over 17000

participants from 130 countries attending major economic event, we have a special coverage for you right here on our t, the coming to live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel glover. here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. and we begin with the latest from the complex and ukraine, as russian forces advance and various strategic directions. according to russia's ministry of defense, they said that over 7000 ukranian soldiers had been killed or wounded in battle since june. 4th rushes defense ministry abbot that moscow was targeting sites, stationing cabs reserved forces for an mercenary camp and weapons and equipment. depos, our cheese equals, you don't know, 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 to meet the caliber of packs a mighty punch it 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 least chance ukraine is pushing relentlessly to, but all, to a similar result. the

big guns of the backbone of cubes, offensive. so counter battery fire is vital for russia. and that's what it does now, and that's our group as coal sniper is because we were very accurate, the shooting, hating and destroying and to be targets. we even received the challenge for the ukrainians for know to redo roll, 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 to interfere with the others. one suffered into don't pass artillery fire accounts for an overwhelming majority. it tends trenches into school, which it melts. my incentive rate's everything in its path are

here, tillery has proven once again that it is indeed the god of war i make is done every closing from the don't bass oxy. don't like us tears aside. that's the message from pack us about who has during a long list of countries who reject it. the west calls to sever ties with china, in an effort to punish washington's opponents. we have a history of being a close collaborative made with the us. we have no intention of leaving, not boxed 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. pakistan's definitely feeling the heat there and i'm sure it's just a total coincidence. the pakistan also just took its 1st shipment of directly shift 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 us 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 wes prime minister of recent years. you have in wrong 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, and i, i 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 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 is, 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 why of his campaign promises and with pakistan,

he was expecting them to do all america's dirty work against the taliban. so he wasn't too happy that that didn't work out for them. he and i've gotten a stand and you know, single for us for our 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 the china drama. and they're telling china in the us, look, guys, take it out into the parking lot, have a listen option member see is including all the ceasing and falls. want to maintain good relations with both the us and aging. don't make us through we will refuse to traverse this kind of looks like hostage video. so even washington's allies are getting a little bit concerned about whether, when this thing 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 um christy log out here who just tried to do that. recently. decoupling

and the sort of the polarization of the world would lead to less economic growth. so i think this is something that should be by all means avoided to 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. um, so there's us leverage there because well, one of the reasons could be that there are us bases and those countries, it's kinda hard to play the field when one of the guys of sleeping on your couch. so, you know, they're, it's, they're not billy, no mates on every level at this point, washington 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 blinking, 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, but, but as you need to talk to someone to call or you do not know the relevant situation, you mentioned, however, what i do know, is that the one that us side talks about standing up with the table on what it really does is use time on as pawns and can and folder in order to serve the strategy of using taiwan to contain china. the united states has even formulated a plan to destroy time on. it is believe that outside one compatriots will clearly understand the us when home tell you on and sell it away. right. so everything that we've been seeing from the us in china has been not very good in terms of the

tension that's been created. there's a lot of posturing going on. but we also remember this bible loons, finger pointing accusations flying around 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 where we get involved now to there's definitely been some back counterpart backstage behind the scenes diplomacy going on as usually happens in the situations, so this is the lincoln trip this week may just be the china in the us bringing things to the very front of the stage and publicly signaling at least some kind of normalization of relations. 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 9 year 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 were rescued from the boat. experts say that such incidents are common in the region where many used poorly maintained and overloaded vessels for transport. the president of iran is in nicaragua, on the 2nd leg of his latin american tour at a rally in the nation's capital. he stressed the futility of american sanctions and the shared value. so the people who have been targeted by the an empty comment, hard slut dining room attached to us wanted to paralyze us with sanctions. and threats with our nation wasn't paralyzed, which i do have during the threats and sanctions into opportunities and have made great progress in speech. people should know that the new global order will favor those who are resist western germany, to the pursuit of independence. freedom and justice, and that is what really unites both the uranium and venezuelan revolutions arrived in the correct 2nd by the free nation. what makes it is

a significant economic sanctions by the way, racing said that the process as far as 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 change towards the assignment again is actually one day and then we'll go see our son moines with the west, which doubts its democratic values should respect the silver and well of all the people who vote in their government. but unfortunately, western nations do the opposite. the live of democracy and human rights and what we

have seen many times how the west tramples human rights all across the globe. the americans over on monday, beginning with some of the 2 sides and we $1000000000.00. this is essentially so the sea so we see the whole country situated in the western hemisphere

at the drawer is known as it is for the 26 annual st. petersburg international economic form has kicked off and russia's northern capital right here on r. c will renew special coverage throughout the week. the, the key theme of this years for him is sovereignty. now that includes tech culture and national traditions, which are all present at the various stands of attendees. around $17000.00 people are set to attend russia's biggest economic event, including the participation of leading economist companies, heads of states, ministers, finance, yours and scientists. around $130.00 countries from around the globe are expected to participate,

including those from the asia pacific africa and latin america. adding a little taste to the summit was the moscow government stand where you could catch an android serving up some delicious ice cream. that's right, with a variety of flavors to choose from. the include mint chocolate chip and vanilla. the cherry on top is how it delivers it to you and a miniature subway car. the participants from the u. a. e. made an entrance as a forum with a traditional all male dance performance to perform it, which lasted more than an hour. included delegates in all white clothing and even prox, the u. a. e is the guest of honor at this year's forum. for more on this, let's go live now to ortiz union o'neill, who is hosting our exclusive coverage. alright, unit and this for i'm has ice cream, entertainment,

and important conversations on the multi fuller world. what more can you tell us the yeah, i haven't signed the ice cream. yeah. they'll have to do a, a deeper dive into that. but it's all been going on today on day one of the st. petersburg international economic for almost coming to a rock. now, after, what's been a busy day of at delegations discussing, debating all the alliance is coming together, meeting up at places like this. that's why the for him is important. you know, business people, scholars all, all coming together for a, for those meetings, unimed very happy to say we've kept one of the best in going to speak know, to show, let's we, who is the chairman of the chinese entrepreneurs union in russia and also who is the position of general director of the china cheng tongue international investments are you're most welcome to the program. how do you view?

first of all right, now, the relationship between russia and china, the growth of trade seems to have gone very wide, very high this year. despite the western sanctions, your view on about the last year that i get out to nobody's russian, china are good neighbors, reliable partners. a lot of model last year and the trade between russia and china was now $190000000000.00. and i'll find them good. approximately 31 percent of traits in face here. a lot of january to april and the trade between russian, china and it also was almost $70000000000.00 looking for lots and the growth with 40 percent, which we thought it was the at the end. you can make an approximation till the end of the year. and the trade between ross and china property would not be

a problem to reach $200000000000.00 us $50.00, which will exceed all the target that we have used by a little mass or the number of the huge volume must, from china. of science, machine machinery and from russia to china because it's an oil gas and coal over the course. which of these kind of commodities, which is more than last year. very, very large figures involved in terms of the most promising sectors for china is investments in russia. what are they, the most of the ones that i see to you to join the approach? not for the operation to the russian china, there is a lot of sectors, oil, gas, and coal, mineral resources, and agricultural produce has also increased in comparison with the last year

corn with rain solely beans from russia. also, the volume has grown supplies to china and vice versa, from china to rush machinery, automobiles, china supplies, more vehicles, for example, through russia dennis last year. i think the prospects for the trade could be agricultural prod, use from china to rochester, automobiles and especially machinery and all kinds of equipment from china to rush . and that's the most promising things. are there any farther yours, in that regard to, to the development of fund support infrastructure from china to russia? stuck with a huge, not put in the other one to 3. so somebody i'm assignments,

for example, during the sanction financial expirations, financial transactions between china and russia only 70 percent is based on of the national pairing seems rebels and un and asked for the transportation for structure and the i guess that's worth doing. it has great impact on the trade grow with the wind rush and china. so it is a relevant manner. and it has to be result especially the border regions between washington. china, say that we need to expand throughput capacity for the treatments of the commodities. it's a very poor terms of business here, chinese companies in russia. how hosted departure of western companies and affected

chinese business here. the no movie, the consumer store, the photos that i see. we see that the trade between washington chinese growing in comparison with the last year. and of course during the sanctions, not i see it. it's a visa for russia. it's a challenge i and for the operation between china and we're actually more, it's a great opportunity to get to that because that's why many chinese companies use something you might as a uh, probably get some of the to introduce the new projects. matthew projects to develop cooperation between our countries. how job you with the songs, you know, the last not going to fill out. i think so even though go to for a sanctions for more. but it's a great opportunity for compensation between rushing china, big issues up the, for

a big discussions of the, for them are a by doing in trade, in your own currency. in terms of the chinese you, it's getting popularity across the world. why are more and more countries starting to move away from perhaps trading in american dollars? and is that something that you're focusing on the water bottle? it's nice to keep an eye on us to us as the traits within russian chinese growing. it's a fact. so for the moment i have us forcing support a device here in my rushing china are using the problem. national counting says more and more july assessment transactions sort of lead you out, which helps to make my brutal and you on more stable. and secondly, it's also useful for the popularity of the chinese you android in, on global scale,

russian china, our neighbors. and we have both the vast operation in trade and investment and so on. top of the other 2, i'm the one that's on the, to the out on the, just so using, based on your current place to go help us to increase the trade. it will help with that as well. in terms of, of energy coming from russia. how important is that to satisfy the growth of, of chinese energy demand? no, and is that going to continue in the future? the keys? i us. yeah. and then when those up i was, i'm a, by the brushing china. they complement each other in many ways. that's why russia

is supplying resources to china. and china is a great market. and based on your consumption by ok, supplies in china is developing to those economy. and so we can, somebody, it consumes a lot of resources, and roches and neighbors. so it's convenient to supply resources for and profit to china. and china needs to have the russian resources. and then china can supply russia with the automobiles, with machinery. so my china needs russian markets and so forth. the potential consumption for traditional resources for di, traditional commodities. it's a stable market in china and from rochester. and i'd be cultural producers also growing more and more often i sort of so your various resources very result of what i mean for commodity is all the live manufacturing agricultural produce. i think it will increase the supply

will increase also in the future. what's your impressions of the, the composition of the, for in this you're looking to the global cells and, and the wider world from here in russia, despite west here and attempts to isolate russia. hi, do you, how do you see the importance of events like this? the make ought to precisely until it is how you look. you guys get to imagine while we are representative. yes, of the chinese insert printouts in russia, and we are also a representative call from a chinese company in russia almost every year where i participated in the st. they don't daniel me. petersburg had them got in the 2nd on like for us, be to the gotcha with chelsea. kay forsin. so we got in these here we not is that there are more chinese participants in comparison with the last year. and they be, besides north sea chest and of course,

defend damage was the problem. but now the restriction of the restrictions that you were released and the injury. so we had to try and these companies are interested in looking for a for to introduce to cooperate with it's their russian partners. so it's a great plan for him to ask for him in st. petersburg for chinese investors or wants to look for partners. so it's a great platform, i look further for that. how does chinese business community see the, the prospects for the development of in ports of goods to the russian market? the last i look at that is keeping, imagine us here as the union of the china is on the trip for nurse when the in broncho and the you have more than enough to you for the 1000 companies and branches. we are actively involved in the mounting berries project, see the yard looking to trade all the china has

a huge market. so as well as out of, from russia, we also have a lot of so it has commodities and a lot of resource. so there's a great cultural freddy's farming there. i use like a saddle. you to not worry about most of you. e. sure actually is not. he was he was a somebody, you'd be the and they are all set to leave developing therapies. absolutely. and they are, i think of the issue for our students here that in the future to these project based commodities. so direct birds will also increase you know that in 2022, a lot of western japanese korean brands that worked in the russian market for a long time. at the left, not people were accustomed to them. come chinese goods, replace those brands that the russian buyers were. so we used to

know cuz often the files gabriel, the are in the japanese brands. they have the chrome from russia. he was put in the shiny of the brand. so they came to rush to have the right to run the guest. i told him not a month ago. i think it's only normal and i sense something like that is happening to rush and consumers get it so that you guys get what the and the you are interested in a chinese a lot and they commodities. and that you replaced the western amount of the luckiest you need to put you at the for the vehicle. i think the, the russian consumers they will get accustomed to the, to the chinese commodities. and they will like them just briefly on that will chinese manufacturers localize their products to suit the specifics of the russian market. it is not going to be an area of growth because as people have the largest unit, i think your chinese,

the factors are about you. so why you parked in which you have a nice maiden, always selves there while i commodities in ross to they also plan and they think about what i see is starting to manufacturing the ross. you know, for example, automobiles on a machine and brand new to 1000, down the line with a lot of dues manufacturing in just 3 years. or i see it what the story is about for really and you know, so why you get to it as auction as good marketing. and the whole thing with that is because a lot of russia will have more and more chinese commodities that will be manufactured in russia. joe left swing the chairman of the chinese entrepreneurs union in russia and general director of the china ching tongue, international investment. many thanks for your time today. truly enjoyed. thank you . bye bye. thank you. thank you very much and obviously we leave it then from day one, just the closing stages of the at st. petersburg, international, economic for them. fascinating array of guess old for the day we'll have more

tomorrow. right, right the week. keep with our change national from saint peters for me to be able to look back to you if they want us any indication of what's the kind that we have a lot to look forward to this week. those are to union own neil, thank you so much for your coverage. the former you as president donald trump has pleaded not guilty to $37.00 charges over alleged mis 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 or corrupt . sitting president, had his top political opponent, arrested on fake and fabricated charges, 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

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