u. k. have given loans to russian firms who can now no longer service them. it's unclear exactly how much banks have loaned to russian companies, but the experts of putting this number somewhere in the 10s of billions of yours. then there's of course, the potential for sovereign debt. default rushes central bank account access. it's assets abroad on his own course to miss re payments to its creditors. now, russia currently owes nearly $50000000000.00 to lenders in the west. payments are due within the next 2 weeks, one for $100000000.00 in interest. another of over $2000000000.00 among the countries levying sanctions on russia is switzerland. it's an unprecedented step for the financial hub that prides itself on staying neutral. but it's still being urged to take further action to reach is one of the world's most expensive places, and that's a no small part you to russian oligarchs. happy to invest their money. here. rudolph elma, used to be a top banker at the venerable missouri spank yoyo spare. today he is a critic of these financial institutions who came

have a great we can. yes. as we heard the war in ukraine is rippling around the global economy. the u. s. e u and u. k. have all sanctioned russia, but there are no sanctions coming from turkey. now there's pressure on wretched tie up air to want to change that as the head of a nato country. he has to live up to the policies of the western military alliance . but his careful not to alienate his russian counterpart vladimir putin. economically, there's a lot at stake for turkey. it's done, most famous. i us, sophia, one of the cities most important tourist destinations. last year, 4 and a half 1000000 russians visited turkey, more than from any other country. but now with the russian warren ukraine, bringing sanctions against russia, turkish hotel and restaurant owners expect for tourism revenues to drop significantly. the russians keep us alive here in istanbul, and at the again see when they're not coming. we're off worse. it's a fact that fewer russians will come, and that will be tough on turkey, it's economy already in distress. economists are worried the value of the rubel has dropped. so for russi

u. k. have given loans to russian firms who can now no longer service them . it's unclear exactly how much banks have loans to russian companies. but the experts of putting this number somewhere in the 10s of billions of yours. then there is of course, the potential for sovereign debt, default rushes central bank account access. it's assets abroad on his own course to miss re payments to its creditors. now russia currently owes nearly $50000000000.00 to lenders in the west payments you within the next 2.

have a great weekend. yes. as we heard the war in ukraine is rippling around the global economy. the u. s. e u and u. k. have all sanctioned russia, but there are no sanctions coming from turkey. now there's pressure on red chip tie up, add a want to change that as the head of a nato country. he has to live up to the policies of the western military alliance . but his careful not to alienate his russian counterpart vladimir putin. economically, there's a lot at stake for turkey. it's done was famous. i a, sophia, one of the cities most important tourist destinations. last year, 4 and a half 1000000 russians visit a turkey more than from any other country. but now with the russian warren ukraine, bringing sanctions against russia. turkish hotel and restaurant owners expect for tours and revenues to drop significantly. the russians keep us alive here in istanbul, and at the again see when they're not coming. we're off worse. it's a fact that fewer russians will come and that will be tough. on turkey, it's economy already in distress. economists are worried that the value of the rubel has dropped. so for ru

u. k. have imposed imposed sanctions on abramoff, which, which could see his asset seized. turkey criticize the invasion, but has not sanctioned russia positioning itself as a potential mediator jailed russian opposition leader election of only has been sentenced to 9 more years in prison after court found him guilty on charges of large scale fraud. please briefly detain of all these lawyers immediately after the hearing sort of on these already serving a 2 and a half year sentence at a prison camp east of moscow for a legit parole while asians, he's a vocal critic of rushes, president vladimir putin, where she was arrested last year after surviving a poison attack, which he blames on the kremlin miss and have only recently called on people to protest against russia's invasion of ukraine. okay, a couple of things on tango are here with me in the city or as emily sherwin who was based in our moscow bureau until the russian government closed it down. emily, so good to have you with this? of course

ukraine. facebook is among the platforms that have band rush and state media in the u and in ukraine in compliance with government requests. the u. s. and the u. k. have announced bands on russian oil imports, pushing petrol prices, sky high, mid sweeping sanctions against the russian economy over the conflict and ukraine. thousands of albanians have held protests over significant price heights in recent days. fuel prices have increased abruptly by 50 percent, and food prices have also risen significantly due to surging transportation costs. now the countries energy minister has urged albanians to cut spending on fuel for their vehicle. the sanctions harming ordinary russian citizens are unacceptable. that's how a representatives of the un secretary general responded to measures taken by western powers against moscow. and of the accusations that the sanctions will hinder a covert vaccine deliveries. our principal position has always been the sanctions on russia should avoid harming civilians. foreign companies have been pulling out of russia in response to the ukraine situation with major brands, including apple and mastercard. suspending busine

u. k, or have leave to travel to the u. k. if they want to do that and also means that they have assets within the u. k, at these assets will be frozen. so if that's a home, people won't be able to access the home. if that's a bank account, they will not be able to access the funds in that bank account. unless trust has said that nothing and no one is off the table when it comes to the sanctions. meaning that the crackdown or russians may still have fall wider scope than expected. thanks for your company here in asi, international as always, plenty most toys to be found on all websites. i saved them. ah, ah. ah ah, ah.

u. k, or have leave to travel to the u. k. if they want to do that, it also means that they have assets within the u. k. at these assets will be frozen . so if that's a home, people won't be able to access the home. if that's a bank account, they will not be able to access the funds in that bank account. unless trust has said that nothing and no one is off the table when it comes to the sanctions. meaning that the crackdown or russians may still have fall wider scope than expected. luscious ministry of defense has released and leaks document sent by attackers defense company to ukraine. in response to keith, inquiring if a drawing manufactured by the company can hold and spray aerosols and the long distance is asking life not well corresponded mine, gaseous. and we're on this more and get to see, well, can you tell us about this documents? and what does this suggest? well 1st off, this document published by the russian ministry of defense is a correspondence they intercepted rural, aquatic, otherwise. nevertheless, it is corres

super yachts owned by the russian billionaire roman abramoff, which are reported to have docked in turkey. the e u and the u. k. have imposed sanctions on a brockovich which could see his assets seized. turkey has criticized the invasion, but not sanctioned russia positioning itself as a potential mediator. and a russian court has found opposition. figure alexis, of all the guilty on charges of fraud. he has been sentenced to 9 years in a maximum security penal colony on top of the 2 and a half your sentence he is already serving. now only has denied the charges and says the case is politically motivated. speculation continues to grow that bela bruce will commit troops to russia's war against ukraine. the country has already allowed moscow to use it as a military base and place its weapons there. the bellagio leader alexander lucas shinkel was said, the country would not get involved in any military action, but he might not have a choice due to leaders demonstrating how close they have become. russia is vladimir putin usually keeps his guests at more than arms, language cooper. but not this one, bella bruce is

u. k? have a price, do american citizens have a price in this, in this process as well? i mean, you, you said something very important that i, i have already heard reports about malicious malware. ah, having impacts both in europe and the united states. because when you launch mall, where did the system it can have in it, but whether it was, you know, consciously targeted at, at the u. s. or not. but there are, there are these questions, which i think lee jones got right. which is, which is the price that those that are trying to defend against aggression are willing to pay, or whether they're willing to acquiesce your thoughts. li, well, i think you're right. i mean, it's a very interesting thing to say because i think that's quite a different view of sanctions to i think the mainstream of policy making certainly in europe other things as much desirable or weight along the part of most of the powers. and perhaps also the united states to combine sanctions with much wider suites of coercion because it measures i mean it's not possible to physically bomb the russian centr

u. k, or have leave to travel to the u. k. if they want to do that and also means that they have assets within the u. k, at these assets will be frozen. so if that's a home, people won't be able to access the home. if that's a bank account, they will not be able to access the funds in that bank account. unless trust has said that nothing and no one is off the table when it comes to the sanctions. meaning that the crackdown or russians may still have far wider scope than expected . well, thanks for your company here in asi international as always, plenty more stories to be found on our website. archie with l. look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about our personal intelligence at the point, obviously is to great truck rather than fear i would like to take on various jobs with artificial intelligence, real summoning with a robot must p

u. k, or have leave to travel to the u. k. if they want to do that, it also means that they have assets within the u. k. at these assets will be frozen . so if that's a home, people will be able to access the home. if that's a bank account, they will not be able to access the funds in that bank account. unless trust has said that nothing and no one is off the table when it comes to the sanctions. meaning that the crackdown or russians may still have fall white scope than expected. ah, was the phobia has been on the rise in the west as moscow's views on a conflict in ukraine have been silenced. and to find that worsted efforts to counsel russian culture, the country is hosting an international ballet festival. dedicated to renounce dancer and choreographer rudolph near a of including a collection of feature films and a photo exhibition ray of who passed away in 1993 is widely considered one of the greatest ballet dances of all time. he was renowned for his role in promoting russian ballet in the west, in defiance of political ob

u. k, or have leave to travel to the u. k. if they want to do that, it also means that they, if they have assets within the u. k, these assets will be frozen. so if that's a home, people won't be able to access the home. if that's a bank account, they will not be able to access the funds in that bank account. unless trust has said that nothing and no one is off the table when it comes to the sanctions. meaning that the crackdown or russians may still have far wider scope than expected . charlotte, many thanks for the update, dan thought he shot dimansky. no, russia is requested a probe into multiple cases of alleged torture by ukrainian soldiers. the criminal spokesperson says they will provide all evidence to a new special commission set up by the un just one particular disturbing example of many comes in a new pentagon probe. it lead to 18 green berets off with just reprimands. despite the investigation finding, they tortured enough guns soldier in 2018 so badly. they died hours later ortiz rachel blevins reports. there has b

u. k, or have leave to travel to the u. k. if they want to do that and also means that they, if they have assets within the u. k, at these assets will be frozen. so if that's a home, people won't be able to access the home. if that's a bank account, they will not be able to access the funds in that bank account. unless trust has said that nothing and no one is off the table when it comes to the sanctions. meaning that the crackdown or russians may still have fall wide scope than expected when they were paying union. and china will hold talks on friday with ukraine and relations with russia as likely on the agenda. beijing refuses to follow the western russia are the ones to ensure chinese neutrality. they use relationship with china has been complex in recent years. and now officials are concerned what well, baby in may play in the russia. ukraine crisis with china still refusing to join the west in denouncing moscow's actions. china was one of the countries that abstain from voting on the un security council resolution condemn

having me. right now. the u. s . and the u. k. have announced bands on russian oil imports, pushing petrol prices, sky high amid sweeping sanctions against the russian economy over the conflict in ukraine. thousands of albanians have held protests over significant price hikes in recent days. fuel prices have increased abruptly by 50 percent, and food prices have also risen significantly due to surging transportation costs. the country's energy minister has urged albanians to cut spending on fuel their vehicles. the foreign companies have been pulling out of russia in response to the ukraine situation with major brands, including apple and mastercard. suspending business, vladimir putin says he will make every effort to keep jobs in the country and with them in your care when you send them says we are not going to lock ourselves out from the world. we're open for work with all our partners to see corporation in this regard. the rights of those investors who continue their work in russia should be strongly protected for those who are

u. k? have a price, do american citizens have a price in this, in this process as well? i mean, you, you said something very important that i, i have already heard reports about malicious malware. ah, having impacts both in europe in the united states. because when you launch mall, where did the system it can have in it. but whether it was, you know, consciously targeted at, at the u. s. or not. but there are, there are these questions, which i think lee jones got right. which is, which is the price that those that are trying to defend against aggression or willing to pay, or whether they're willing to acquiesce your thoughts. li, well, i think you're right. i mean, it's a very interesting thing to say because i think that's quite a different view of sanctions to i think the mainstream of policy making certainly in europe other things as much desirable or way along the part of most of the nato powers. and perhaps also the united states to combine sanctions with much wider suites of coercion because it measures i mean it's not possible to physically bomb the russian centr

u. k. have been to 1000 huge volumes of supplies for ukrainians. volunteer say they've been inundated with help. charlie angela reports from london. this highly 7000 is being overwhelmed with donations. you can see i was injured children's clothes and shoe begging medical kids. being thwarted by volunteers as a call q blocking traffic down the road as london has come to drop off what they kind of got an extremely, extremely grateful and moved by general safety. and so you gotta be of the people always bringing it. i think i have every language of the walls in this room in their last 24 hours. at the moment we are looking for the transport companies that would like to schedule install shipments from london today, police andrew carrying on board that payoff. todd, this is what we'd desperately need now. they sent over to us ukraine. they'd might be full on next week. it might bureau just a collection points like this set up around the u. k. people join the call to stand with ukraine, but beyond th

u. k. have already banned any equipment and components needed to sustain military capabilities, as well as luxury goods. the u. s. is cut off russian oil and gas imports. the u. k . will phase it out by the end of the year while the e. u aims to become independent from russian russian energy, while before 2030 below russian flights have been banned from the u. s. u. k. and european aerospace, the u. k is also banned the private jets chartered by russians and western countries of frozen the assets of russia. central bank cut in the country all from $630000000000.00 in foreign currency reserves. some russian banks have been removed from the international financial messaging system. swift and hundreds of members of russia's government then business leaders, known as oligarchs, have been independently sanctioned or diplomatic editor. james base has more from brussels. e, u foreign ministers meeting earlier this week. in the 4 weeks since the invasion, they've already agreed for packages of sanctions

u. k. who have been on the front lines and im, ah, joining us to discuss the impact of the pandemic on frontline workers are 2 doctors from the u. k. national health service, also known as n h s. dr. mino this and dr. dan goya. thank you both for joining me on up front. deductive is, i'm going to start with you are in the u. k. there has been a mass exodus of health care workers in the, in a chess over 27000 staff left from july to september in 2021. that's the most in any quarter on record. the deputy council chair of the british medical association says doctors are leaving quote, due to punishing workloads, stress exhaustion, and sadly verbal and physical abuse. can you describe the told that this is taking on health care workers? so i think that when we look at the n h us, we have to ask herself the question that why is it that so many people have made the decision to leave the system until the work that they love so much you have to remember all of these health care workers sacrifice a lot of their own, a lot of their own life to be on the line to protect the british publics. why is it now t

have to prove beyond reasonable grounds. the abramivitch and other oligarchs based in the u. k. the have their finances and their assets here in cities like london, have to prove that they are directly linked to vladimir putin. nevertheless, up from overtures made it very, very clear that he wants is assets out of the country. he's happy to say good bye to a club that he had a popular roland for a significant amount of time. he was a took over the club in 2003 and on the weekend announce for a statement that he was making a very painful decision. to hand over care and stewardship of the club to the trustees of chelsea before now announcing that the club was up for sale, expect to be on the market for round $4000000000.00. a wealthy swiss businessman has his eyes on the club abramoff, which himself has made it clear that he doesn't have any direct links to vladimir putin. but if you believe many crumbling critics in russia, when the opposite is true, including alexia devonie, who listed abramivitch as one of $35.00 prominent only goes that he believed the british governments and o

u k, and the e. u. today, they've been phased further sanctions on russia. but what is your message to west and needed? my or message is that we have no time we earth observed that intense work crimes is increasing from day to day. we don't know which will be best in several hours. we really need to pro active action. we need lighter jets and planes. we need a different system in order to be able to protect them. elation in your trans acquaintance. we need to our gently, as the complex economical measures i means to put rushing like least beefed and to ban all russian banks from from swift. and because only several banks deprived from us to the system. so we have no time. and real solidarity has to be proactive. alexandra, much check from keith, working for the ukranian human rights organization center for civil liberties. thank you for speaking to algebra. thank you. well, there's lots more still to come this hour. hundreds of ukrainian refugees land in portugal after the government relaxes red tape to allow more of them in the country . ah, that just 36 chillies. the youngest ever president is sworn into office. we look at the ch

u. k. have broken up, i protested. a mansion believed to belong to an ally of russian president vladimir putin. the squatters wanted the property of all i got a postcard to house ukrainian refugees. sonya diego reports from london. well, we're in an area of london that's known informally as oligarchs quarter. namely, for the amount of super wealthy russian individuals who bought property here and the house of most interest in one day here is the house behind me. she belongs to the alimony market. very pasco, who himself has come on to you. k sanctions since last week. now the group that have taken it over, i said they want to give over the 7 bedroom property over to ukrainian refugees. and they've also criticize the government for not doing enough to help people fleeing the war. and they say that the u. k. government is doing more to protect the interest of those oligarchy. now, while the government was fiercely criticized for not doing enough to get refugee settled into the country, they're also launching a scheme cal

u. k. japan and e u. member states. germany is quoted, a breach of contract is the russian president justified to move them no more than western countries have taken illegitimate. decisions on the so called freezing of russian, i think we might get this collective west is actually drawn a line under the reliability of its currency so that you've already spoken about this across the trust in these currency to hear it or to get more on this i've been speaking to macau critique in his found and the leading analyst at ris energy. moscow, he was speaking to us from the law in capital rieger, and the signal wasn't great. but what he has to say is very interesting. so his, his take on what president putin is actually thinking well, basically i believe it's just about, yeah, it's sort of some sort of a rhetoric addressed to domestic audience. there are some presidents, one still solemn pay $3.00 or 2 in just declarations. and you said that the sales for foreign currency is her book, or have this group disgraced themselves a bit towards me. and so to read something that cannot, should be put into practice. i mean, we already heard from germany saying

u. k. will now have a duty free import quota of 500000 tons of the metal and return london will drop retaliatory tariffs on u. s. wiki and motorcycle. european commission is reportedly weighing capping gas prices and among other measures to stop rising energy costs. the price of natural gas has increased dramatically since russia invaded ukraine, and there are growing fears about the stability of europe's energy supplies in battle. chinese real estate developer ever grants. financial crisis continues to deepen. the company on tuesday revealed that lenders have seized $2000000000.00 worth of deposits from one of its subsidiaries ever grant. also that it won't be able to file it's 2021 annual results on time trading in the company. shares have been halted since monday chinese real estate developers are having a fire sale to bring some desperately needed liquidity back to their balance sheets . that's according to chinese media. and that the forefront is ever grant. the property developer with the highest mountain of debt worldwide. ever grand is over $300000000000.00 in the red. and it's not the o

u. k. as great have you on the program. can you just explain to us the rationale behind targeting, specifically oligarchs? well, in the russian economies, organized in the network of interconnected orders and the government. so it's extremely concentrated economy as well, meaning that a very few individuals control large chart chunks of the economy. so even targeting $300.00 individuals is a very detrimental to the whole economy. and the way the russian economic network works is that these large companies are co owned with the government. so that, that means that there is a kind of her ripper cushion effect on the whole network of this. and, you know, big cluster firms that are somehow connected to the government so that rise, that the impact will be very important. and so to these, all the guys have a lot of sway over vladimir putin. himself, can they, can they change his behavior if they are here to kill any? ha i believe that, oh, not necessarily. i do not have this information. i think that targeting large companies doe

u. k, have been very open about wanting india to come out and condemn russia. they've also the u. s. as commented recently about reports and indian media that india is buying $3000000.00 barrels of crude oil from russia at a discounted rate. that japan is unlikely to be so forthcoming, not just because of a shared interest, but it's just not the way japan conducts itself on the international stage. okay, thank you for breaking down for us elizabeth elizabeth, parent m live for us in delhi. turkey has become a sanctuary for russian anti war dissidence. turkish airlines. he is one of the few foreign carriers still flying to moscow. russian passport holders are allowed evasive free entry for 60 days. cinema casala met some of them in a sample why queuing to get into a cherry to rep concert in a stumbles category, district. hundreds of fractions here, united in showing their opposition to their countries war in ukraine and support for the ukranian fight to stop the invasion. most of them are young in a well educated russians. if you are either more in your, it's sarah phase me. you can g

as my pleasure, thank you for having me and it's not just the u. k. u. s. and e. u. switzerland has taken the unprecedented step of imposing sanctions against russia. well, the measures have a big impact on oligarchy, former swiss banker and wiki leaks. whistleblower rudolph. elmer says he has serious doubts to re she's one of the world's most expensive places and that's in no small part due to russian oligarchy. happy to invest their money here. rudolph, elma, used to be a tough banker at the venerable. it's very spank you leo spare. today he is a critic of these financial institutions who came to international prominence as a wiki leaks whistleblower in this right. on the lake, while a lot of money is invested in switzerland because banking secrecy protects the oligarchs. we have a strict secrecy law. guy halted because it's the government politicians and the judiciary support this because it is a huge source of income for this with a date for you, then try to stop rushes, brutal war against ukraine has put world wide pressure on switzerland to respond. it's like

u. k. have criticized this visit in terms of well kissed armor the labor leader had said, boris johnson is going cap in hand from dictator to dictator. and what he should be doing is introducing a win for tax on earth, put it on a, those are hydrocarbon produces here in the u. k. or which would enable energy prices to come down in this country. a win for tax is something that many people would like to see here in the u. k. but at the moment, the main criticism is on. as you were referring to those executions in saudi arabia, via killing of jamal i shall g, the journalist, and so on. well, this trust the foreign secretary has been saying that urge you to the situation, you crate, and the great threat that russia was posing it into international security. britain has to reach out to a government even if the british government doesn't like what they are doing well. i mean that is quite an understatement in terms of public opinion here in the u. k . so they are clearly sensitive to those criticisms,