dollars. it can t pay it back in another currency but russia now says that it will repay investors from unfriendly countries, quote, unquote, unfriendly that have sanctioned russia in rubles and different currencies. now russia has a total of $121 billion worth of debt that s due in various different countries, but this particular payment it has to make in u.s. dollars f. it doesn t make in dollars and it makes it in rubles, it will be deemed to be in default of its debt. interest rates could spike and this could push the russian economy further into the doll drums. one of the reasons they say they can t pay this back in dollars is because they ve lost access to the dollar market. $315 billion worth of currency reserve have been frozen as a result. so, again, this is all about sort of strangling of the pursestrings for russia but it
need that manpower to get even if you could get to kyiv to fight and take the cities. that just a lot of manpower. and then remember every inch of ground that the russians take they have to occupy. and this is an unfriendly and that s more soldiers. so it s very clear they don t have the manpower to do this and they talk about bringing in , you know, russians and troops, these other places, the best trained russian troops have already fought and been exhausted. so the people that you re bringing in , they re not going to be quality troops. they re not going to fight better. so it s not surprising that the russians are consolidating this . this often happens when you attack people as you attack and take that cost resources and fuel and ammunition and people and if you exceed your grasp, you then become vulnerable to counterattack. so one way will you protect from that is you consolidate your gains and that seems to be what s happening here when you look at russia potentially
if you don t do those things the dismissals are void. that is the case in the uk as well. if you re going to make more than 100 redundant sure that you have to notify the government. different. in the uk if you don t notify the dismissals go ahead but you pay compensation. if you don t notify advanced the dismissals are void which means they don t take place. thank you for your thoughts on all of this. and of course just to say to our viewers who keep you up to date as today progresses. let s get some of the day s other news. energy ministers from the g7 have rejected demands by vladimir putin, calling for unfriendly countries to pay for russian gas in roubles. french president emmanuel macron added paying for the gas in the russian currency was not a option . brazilian presidentjair bolsonaro has decided to replace the boss of state owned oil giant petrobras, joaquim silva e
is unlikely to fade. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome. it s 6am in singapore, and 1am in moscow where president putin stands accused of blackmailing european countries over supplies of russian gas. on thursday, mr putin threatened to stop supplying gas to what he called unfriendly countries if they weren t willing to deal in the russian currency. he signed a presidential decree stating that buyers of gas had to open rouble accounts in russian banks from friday. germany one of the main buyers of russian gas says it won t tolerate any attempt at political blackmail . mr putin s ultimatum is an attempt to boost the russian currency which has been hit by sanctions following the invasion of ukraine.
Moscow [Russia], March 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the procedure for the fulfillment of obligations to Russian natural gas suppliers by foreign buyers, which stipulates that all contracts for pipeline gas deliveries with companies registered in unfriendly countries must be settled in rubles.