the, the small scale says a russian missile strike of killed over 60 ukrainian service men in the city of sue me on sunday while noting the cab uses civilians as human shields. process board minister reveals that western military staff were also at the see not used to we have the facts about who was at the facility that was hits in assuming there was a meeting of ukrainian military commanders there with their western colleagues. servicemen from nato countries are there and they are directly in charge. everyone knows this. meanwhile, donald trump claims the incompetence of his white house, predecessor, and lot of here's the landscape for the conflict in ukraine, saying that it could have been avoided. and 32 people are killed

in yemen after the us military palms. a ceramics plant that's according to local authority, the just after 8 pm here in the russian capital. and you're watching r t international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. our top story, more than 60 ukranian troops were killed and the russian strike on a military meeting and the ukrainian city of sumi on sunday. as, according to russians, defense ministry, which added the key of is using civilians as human shields. of the armed forces of the russian federation used to as conder, em tactical missiles to strike the venue of a meeting of the command staff of the severest, tactical group in the city of so me as a result of hitting the target more than 60 ukrainian service members were killed, the keyboard team continues to use the ukranian population as a human shield, placing military facilities and holding events with the participation of service

members in the center of a densely populated city. this is the 1st official statement by the russian defense ministry. essentially them confirming the claims that the previous new world floated by, the ukrainian officials themselves that the strike did not carry was not carried out just out of the blue very to targeted a very high profile meeting of ukrainian combined as over the whole tactical group syndrome now, the initial reaction by ukraine was to accuse russia of nothing short of a terrorist and deliberate attack against the civilian population. by the using a cluster munition, the males, the ukrainian town of kind of top which is in the sweep region. he was very quick to lash out at the local governor and the head of the local uh, security services office of ukraine by essentially accusing them of being not just behind, but basically over doing everything that led up to this tragedy. you know,

auditor, mr. art you organized an awards ceremony and send me the military personnel of the 117th brigade. as far as i know, he was warned that this should not be done. but the head of the administration ensued me to gather the military in the city center. and also rockets don't just come flying for no reason. no, he was not the only one to accuse the local officials over organizing vice mass gathering of ukrainian service been at the very heart of a very bustling civilian town. on a sunday, i mean one ex ukrainian and pe, he joined to his outrage and one acting ukrainian and p muddy on a busy glass. she went even further. she accused the ukrainian commander in chief of the ukrainian on forces general, serious. and she said that, well, that's basically his style, just complete disregard of civilian life whenever they decide to green light. this sort of event is sort of a gathering at the same time,

some footage that emerged from the site to be attacked. it also contradicted the version that it was a strike against civilian targets, like the images over ukrainian military pickup truck, with a tactical insignia on its side bogged right outside the convention center that was targeted. and that was struck in one of the military administrations of ukraine. they, uh, they released nothing short of an epitaph go for, for one of the, one of the very high ranking ukrainian offices. in fact, the deputy combined of ukraine's 26. the 26th of tillery brigade at whole, kinda know who they openly admitted, who parish, not on the front lines, but ensued as a result of russia's strike. but again, all these discrepancies in your brains version and accounts of events. it's nothing to be, it's nothing to be surprised over a because this has been revealed as an official stance of the ukrainian government,

by the head of ukraine's military intelligence. his for you want them to during the war. that's knowing the whole truth is unnecessary. i think otherwise, people may have different opinions because not everyone is adapted to perceiving hard truths to it is not necessary to test people with this. everything should be dosed. now is the last the has been using this truck again. assume it as an example, the poor thing to demonstrate rushes unwillingness, and that rushing is no dedicated really the, to the piece process to the ongoing piece negotiations. but for that to work key of would essentially need a close to human limits. the international unanimity in the belief that it's the ukrainian account of events that is in the right and admittedly, zalinski did get something close to what he wanted. he did get some headlines and

he did get outrage coming from europe. everyone knows this war was initiated by russia alone, and today it is clear that russia alone chooses to continue it with a blatant disregard for human lives. international law and the diplomatic efforts of president trump, such a russian to tax demonstrate the state of russia is a legit, willingness for peace. instead we see that russia is relentlessly continuing its war of aggression against ukraine. strong measures are urgently needed to enforce, to cease fire. europe will continue to reach out to partners and maintain strong pressure on russia until the blood should ends and adjust and lasting peace is achieved on ukraine's terms and conditions. now, europe has been ukraine's most loyal audience. like you have, for instance, germany's john so let in waiting, who has confirmed he's open to the idea of supplying germany's long range taurus may solve to ukraine. if of course, the european union green light such

a decision of berlin by the way, which is right now, the current administration that is very much hostile towards this idea because it fee is for the escalation that doesn't one things to escalate even further between russia and ukraine, especially when the peace process is ongoing. at the same time you find the european nations, they find themselves less and less likely to unconditionally side with ukraine. because they realize that ukraine isn't just withholding truth from its domestic audience, but from them to the also his statements by the landscape, like the ones he just made in an interview to america's uh, cbs, in which he openly admitted that he doesn't really, is not really looking towards the and looking for the piece towards between to happen between the him and russia. he's looking for more weapons and he wants a for the voice to continue. so this is what they're hearing and that's why some

countries they have a they have a pronounced way of expressing sip or to ukraine like, uh, from send, like the uh, incoming administration in germany. but others not so much and that's a risk. and that's a risk that is set to grow and especially given that the american but from is still very much dedicated to the peace process that they have initiated versus foreign minister has also weighed in survey lab. rob says the targeted event was attended by nato staff for among those running the show when ukraine less used to, for us to, to we have the facts about who was at the facility that was hits in to me. there was a meeting of ukrainian military commanders there with their western colleagues core, either under the guise of mercenaries, or i don't know who service men from nato countries are there and they are directly in charge. everyone knows this. the new york times recently explained how the

americans have played a crucial role in the tax on russia from the beginning. without that roll most long range missiles would not have gotten off their basis at all. in response to a reporter's question, donald trump has said that the conflict, a new crane started because of biden enzo lensky is incompetent and could easily have been prevented. the mistake was letting the war happen. divine were competent and of zelinski were confident. and i, i don't know that he is, we had a rough session with this guy. he just kept asking for more and more that were should and never been allowed to happen. that were, i worked for years and photos wouldn't even bring it up. and as soon as the election was rigdon, i wasn't here that more started, there was no way that we're should have been allowed to happen. or we get more on the story now. we're crossing live to crystal in the on his she's the deputy chief or doctor of international reporters. crystal, thanks a lot for joining us on the program. the russian foreign minister said that nato

troops were meeting with ukrainian commanders when they were hate in to me. but so far, no western state or nato has made a statement, can we expect an official reaction from the block? i don't think so. it's like every time we have heat, some places where there were no meetings between and need to express or so called in structures or concealed or all you want to, to name them and the there are you creating counterparts. it has always been a heat in keep secret by these guarantees because of course, it would be, i think, a big social problem for them to admit that they have like, well, if you show troops, so if you show soldiers or officers or war in ukraine and we're dying there because officially these countries are not of the war with russia. so i think that we're continuing this way to keep it secret. pretty convincing sions and the,

and the use them of the liver to obtain the silence of the family do so that they don't protest about what happened. when his latest interviews, the lensky said that there's been a reality shift, and washington is now contaminated with pro russian narratives. how can peace negotiations continue with such an attitude? you think of all, i think the negotiations would be a really difficult uh, because the landscape of course has no interest into uh, peacefully, uh, you know, uh and the war. i mean for him, the more the war continued, the better it is for him. he's making a lot of money on the war and plus if the war and the end of the marshal lo and so they have to organize evictions. and of the small mind, which would be the in for him, because a lot of people have resentment against human in ukraine. people now are hating him and i think a lot of people would like to kill him. so i think he knows perfectly the day the

war is he has to free the country very quickly. so for him it is better to continue this way. let's ukrainians being killed. make money on that and prepare for he's fleeing when, when everything we'll get to the point where it's impossible to continue from suggested on social media that the russian strike on. so me was done by mistake, and ukrainian officials responded by calling trump's words propaganda. one outrage, ukrainian m p even called for an f b i investigation into russian influence in the white house. so what does that say about how you creating officials are viewing their influence on us policy? would you say, is that the ukraine during hold, the bite in years was updating almost everything over over seen has, i mean, with the burden on me? station they had really like a, you know, uh, seeing friendship blink check. you know, i mean, i mean, they give them almost everything they want it, all the weapons even give them if 16,

which are no being destroyed the by the they are russian air defense. so the thing is that they used to continue to be seeing like, you know, a little tried to whom the parents are neighbors saying, you know, and, and now there was one parent, we say no. and and, and so we are where i see this is terry co crises around that. like okay, uh for the chart that we see that you don't love me. yeah. and, and know for employee pc that'd be like you're under russian if you want to use the same kind of, you know, uh, so it's called eco reaction is just it's, it's need to be different between a charge and a country, but we see the same mckinney's in here, well the us present also claims that the conflict would never have started if you were in charge. how accurate do you think those statements are? or i don't know, because even during the trump, i mean it's your 1st term for administration. the you said you was were already

providing ukraine, a lot of weapons, intelligence and so on. so i think here trump is trying to, to play the role of the good guy, you know, and putting the role of the bad guy on by then. and he's administration, which is understandable. i mean, is continuing in some points. he's a political campaign against you, the opponents, but i think the perhaps, yeah, was with trump, if you would have been in the same configuration then no. and knowing this in nothing, the situation that you had in the 1st time and date where you had to fight with all these accusation of the russian interference ensued and so long. and he could not really made the poly pc won't be this time. we have seen you had detect immediately the us said, and all the systems which were fighting against team during his 1st name and date. and so perhaps even if you would have been in such a configuration,

perhaps you would have discussed with russia instead of just shifting away the proposal to discuss about the security warranties at to the continued to levels. that's russia, this propose of the russia as pushed in december, 2021. so i don't know if you would have read the avoided the war, but i think perhaps it would have considered a bit more of the russian proposal. all right, chris, down the deputy chief protector of international reporters. thanks a lot for joining us on the program. you're welcome bye. despite donald trump's anti war rhetoric on ukraine, the us president has a very different approach to yemen. the american military has been relentlessly bombing the arab country country for nearly a month, claiming to target only who the sites. but officials dare say that most of the victims have been civilians. latest stripe reportedly claim as the claims at least

$32.00. how many lights? by time footage shows the aftermath of the bombing of ceramics factory on the western outskirts of the capital city of santa locals are coming through the rubble looking for survivors among burned down buildings and to bring trump himself. recently came under fears, criticism. after he posted a video claiming to show how are us strike on a who the military meeting took place. many officials said that americans actually palmed a tribal gathering of civilians who were celebrating the end of ramadan. meanwhile, the who, the stand defiance and claim that they've shut down yet another american drone using their own anti aircraft systems. how do the way up our air defenses successfully shut down an american m to 9 reaper drone while it was caring out across the emissions. and the aerospace of the hydro governor to the drone was down to using a locally made surface to air missile this march, the 4th to drill and shut down by our air defenses. in 2 weeks and the 19th since

the beginning of the promised conquest and secret jihad campaign in support of gaza at the shop, esteban carrillo is the head of news at the cradle and he says that washington doesn't seem to know who exactly as bonds are killing indiana it sadly, yet another example of this you meditation of, uh they are people in particular, right? uh, yeah, a year and a half into a guy. so genocide, suddenly the depths of us so many children. so many women have to come almost secondary, do anything else that is happening in the world, and now it is the same with them. and we did, we really need to highlight here that a human on the outside of the human need armed forces are the only actor in the world is acting up on international law to stop genocide and how are they treated well in this manner as the images on the screen are showing right now we've seen discriminant attacks on cbs targets the ceramics factory. yet back on the travel

gathering that was a marking, be in the room of them and for i eat a which trump also tweeted in a case that is truly astonishing. that the not drive more international outpatient because all of a sudden you have the us president tweeting us, nothing beyond essentially so, and suddenly it's again the double standard that be too many station of the population of these, of these regions. these are the types of policy begin targets in government are a more often than not they the result of the united states, not having the intelligence about where onset, a lot of the leaders are located where they're up. uh, nissan are a heating or the launch platforms are because they have a video medium and for a one a year and 3 months at this point, joe might have started the something in the, in the community amenities. i'm sure i have enough meet the munition to then in the meet. the china is reportedly halted exports. so some of its rare with the minerals

crucial for the global automobile and space industry. latest move is said by some analysts to be the next step in the trade war, recently triggered by the us. it comes as beijing calls on donald trump to completely cancel his so called reciprocal terrace. in turn, the american president has warned, he's not backing down. nobody is getting off the hook for the unfair trade balances and non monetary terrace barriers that other countries have used against us. especially not china, which by far treats us the worst one has been exposed, is that we need to make products in the united states. and that we will not be held hostage by other countries, especially hostile trading nations like china, which will do everything within its power to disrespect to the american people. so what does the immediate future hold us? commerce secretary says he has little doubt that president trump and chinese leaders change in ping will read and it will reach an agreement. washington has now

ramped up terror ups on beijing to 145 percent, which is responded with its own heavy duties of 125 percent. probably we've had a soft, uh, the way i would say it is is soft on trays. you know, uh through intermediaries and those kind of comments, but all we all expect that the president united states and, and president, she of try that will work this out. chinese lawyer and academic victor. dow explains why washington simply cannot have the best of both worlds. when it comes to the economy, the united states now has its us stall as the dominant courtesy in the wells. and if you don't know the dominance of the dollar by logic, the united states has to rob traits deficit. so that's the basic reason why the united states over the decades has been running a trade deficits with the rest of the world, including with china. so the united states cannot have the kagan units, i, the,

they bought us dollar as the tires in the world, which they refused to do. all, you'll start to move manufacturing jobs back to the united states, to, let's take deeper into what mr. dallas means for a moment, us president donald trump imposed sweeping new tariffs on imported goods to curb the trade deficit. that means that other countries are sending the us more goods than the us to sending them imports being bigger than exports. america is getting more cheap goods in exchange for dollars issued by the federal reserve and bonds from the us governmental among other assets. and the trade deficit itself itself affects the overall balance of payments moving it in the direction of a general deficit. however, as long as the us continues to purchase more, it's also sending more money into the global economy and everyone keeps using those dollars. this is where the trip and dilemma comes into play. meaning that when the us spends more on imports, it pumps more box into the global economy,

making the greenback a currency that's readily available. eventually, the money that the us spends often comes back in the form of investments. however, if terror successfully shrink the trade deficit, then they could restrict the flow of dollars abroad. and while trump's higher ups are meant to boost the us economy, supporting production and jobs, the trip and dilemma suggests that maintaining the dollar status as the world's currency requires america to accept the deficits to maintain global liquids or they get more on the story now or and across live to investigative journalist david who in day and thanks for joining us on the program. david, the seems to be a conflict of interest here between the needs to protect the u. s. domestic economy and preserve the dollar status as the world's primary reserve currency. what do you think can be done to avoid the so called trip and dilemma when short term policy

contradicts this long term international policy without crashing the global economy? so i think 1st of all, that needs to be some sort of pragmatism that comes into play. i think those who are empowered, washington right now are very, ideologically driven, which i guess you could say is some of the admirable. but the thing with people who i highly, i do want to be driven, it's about the times of causing the damage shot tech. i think that's what we're witnessing or worry about. because as you rightly said, there's an error and contradiction in the american economic world. it's you said was the, it's built on the use leads at the international position of us store. so it's was one of the needs this so structural inefficiency where the production takes place elsewhere. like in the days. yeah. south america. consumption takes place in the us, feel bad or bodied currency. that's the world for the us consciously annoying the

bills. so this idea that you're going to overturn the entire world economies overnights then on fire, bring all disclose it, manufacturing jobs back to america, many of which never existed. america press these. and then, well, in the course of doing that, you're not taking into account the fact that it's not such a simple issue as many building factories in the us. there's also the issue, all of the fact that the us a label market has been engineered to be in line with this sort of consumption. typically they call that the usa. so there's a, there's a quote just for me to quote from steve jobs where he says that anyone who says that the reason that iphones i've made in china. because the times cheap labor doesn't long stabbed what it is that china stopped being a cheap label. countries, maybe it stopped being a cheap label 100 many years ago. and the reason why production is cause that

trades that in china is because there's a lot of available skills. this is q multi nation available in large numbers day. he said that, that the, the engineers who told the i phones that if you were to shreds how that meets your busy engineers of us, you could barely feel a little confusing for football stadiums of them in china. and that's why it's more efficient to produce china, so that kind of economic inefficiently cannot be solved by merely imposing types of, you know, use, slimy, was top down solution overnight. but hey, con producing america. i saw how that fixes everything. that is not going to work, so trump needs to be a lot more pragmatic needs to be a little more humble about understanding the true situation of the american economy . that despite the fact that he has the was, was bible currency. that value reason, tiny notion though it's entirely up to official what would you say that donald trump is moving forward with these terms, understanding these risks that you just outlined, or is it going in blind?

that's. that's a very difficult question to answer. i think that she as an individual might potentially be going in blind, but i don't think the people around him applying people. i mean you surrounded by people who have a nose really well, now's to know what is going on. so i think there's a more ideological thing at play here. there's this idea that the, the u. s. economy industries by some 22nd century will be driven by a guy in both nations. so basically all the production, those needs to happen elsewhere. any more. you can bring back all the productions of us, get robots have the, i do it. but even if that way, which is, you know, for the sake of argument that still doesn't explain what his bank wouldn't happen to 300000000 americans. who would that be effectively being random officer needs overnight? so again, i feel like there's a little, i don't logical fire that you can sense coming from the like,

likes of the firms. but again, you don't get the sense that there's a lot of loans. i'm thinking that it's gone into it's, it was something that a lot of economists of course, think about when they hear about protectionism, tire ups of over a 100 percent. they think about the great depression. i mean, protectionism is understood by historians to be one of the main causes of, of that. do you think that if this goes that this can go far enough to cause a sort of a global recession on the level of the great depression? or maybe could china take a step to become the sort of air to the throne of globalization and read some economic rewards? what do you think? i think is more likely to be the 2nd scenario i. i definitely don't think there's gonna be 1959 style global crash. i think it will be economy is just for me to be different now because of the economy that existed then have maybe 2 or 3, you know,

holes, they go back on, you know, it's a lot more multiple. so, you know, i believe that the chinese people, chinese, for him in his style that the chinese find ministry spokesperson managed even a few days ago, which i thought was, was very telly. and it said something along the lines of, well, china is existed for more than 5000 years. for most of the time it was the united states were fine, will be find it out to us. the world is much bigger than the us, which i thought was a very telling statements that's a gives us a so window into how the tiny spoken is thinking of this, that they're not thinking of inside surprises, dancing, love, it's, i don't know which unit seats on demands any re shaped vehicle holdings may go up the entire world as well. going back to one of the things you mentioned when i, when i asked about is trump going into this blind or not? there are some officials and as administration that are at odds with this, of course the long moscow has publicly come to blows over this with one of the

trump's trade advisors. so what do you think that says about the sort of unity of the trump administration going into this and the sort of cohesion that it for lack of or lack there of rather that were of having at the beginning of this sort of the deployment of tyrants. i think it did say it goes to the heart. so one of the basic contradictions updates, lots of this sort of jerry writes. mean the idea is that some people have voice and well, so while they agree, that's the, the, it's the so we have the god given position, offsets and also the welsh to the child. yeah. social 3. come on, the supremacy. the kinds agree on how you think about that as it should be a call. so people, i did almost believe that the us and the west by extension has, is god given rights to cherry, pick talents from the rest of the world and as you big so basically,

cherry pick the rest of the world as they see stage. wow. the sort of j d by inspection, denise, the more i solutions idea which comes from the same that goes to simple thinking, but it's kind of different. and that, that's, that's the sort of idea let you all think that we see. we started seeing was actually able before the job selection way on the issue of the so go to each one of the visa for itself most because of a public supports it of the age on the the, the program. because he believes that, that potentially how the us main james technological supremacy by reading the best of talent from the rest of the world. and basically putting them in, you know, indentured servitude for the, for lack of a better to. whereas the of the other fax, everything provides we the closest i believe that's, you know, it's america best that you know, everything we have here is no way the greatest country in the world. we don't necessarily would need to treat.