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program, prime time boarding about the fragility of u. s. democracy. january 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup. special congressional committee investigating the attack on the u. s. capital presents it's finding, including previously unseen video of the violence. lawmakers with us democracy remains at risk thailand to give the green light to amount of want to consumers and grow as a country known for its strict anti drugs laws. many say it's high time for change . ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. western countries have condemned. the death sentence is given to 3 foreign fighters by pro russia court. the court self

proclaimed denette people's republic said the men are mercenaries paid by keith. the 2 britons and a moroccan are the 1st foreign soldiers to be tried by ukraine's russia back rebels . ukraine in the west of denounced the trial describing it as a sham and a violation of the rules of war. as go straight to d, w. correspondence. nick connelly, who joins us from mc alive and southern ukraine. welcome and nick. so 1st of all, tell us about the court that path the death sentences. this is a court formerly run by the respects impetus internet's could been in place since 2014. and these are essentially russian proxies, even in recent weeks, we've seen even more direct russian control of these authorities with people who've been governors, another top officials in russia being sent directly to run things on the ground. there are, we've get hearing talk at moscow that most people soon aim to annex officially done

yes. glue. hans regions may be adding the bits of the put asia and had so noblest in the south of ukraine that they have been able to occupy since the 24th of february. so the idea that this is somehow independent court that it's able to do anything against the wishes or without direct instruction. moscow is barely credible, is basically not real. so this is, it seems an attempt to scare people who are coming from mainly western countries to ukraine. to fight and ukraine side, it's part of the propaganda war. it's maybe trying to raise the stakes and maybe get some kind of deal longer term to get more russian prisoners back in return. but there's no real sense that this is anything except a p r. move and something to try. and i really scare people who've been thinking about coming in. and people have been thinking about going their after president zelinski invited. mad foreigners to come and fight when the war started. how significant a role are foreign fighters playing in this war? was difficult to get a concrete figures on how many people have actually come,

how many people have actually stayed by things important for 2 reasons. initially, it was about morale, building for ukraine, the sense that ukraine, even though it was outside nature, outside the u, that ukraine isn't on its own. the people around the world are paying attention that they care and they even willing to risk their lives to help ukrainians following this russian invasion. and the 2nd part, which is about technical knowledge, lots these people have backgrounds in nieto military's. and now that ukraine is basically forced to learn to use this equipment, getting from the u. s. the u. k. in other countries in very short space of time, it's basically all their soviet era weaponry has been used up in the past 3 months . there now just using the tiller stems that they're given because literally they're, they're, they're storage units are emptied. that's the intensity, the war here to having people who use these different types of equipment in battle situations is incredibly useful. the ukraine, y'all, me, that's basically training. that's happening on the ground initially because of the, the training provided by the u. k. and the u. s. officially, that is not happening in country. you're having ukrainian offices having to leave

the country to learn to use different bits of kit. so that's, that's the kind of important of that. as for the claim of these mercenaries, by that done yet, court will, that's also not, doesn't hold up, given the wages in ukraine's army, these people are getting official, ukraine, y'all, me wages. they are very, very modest by western standards. this is not a country, not a conflict where anyone would turn up for the money. this is definitely for, for people who are coming here for, for the idea, for the, for the symbolism of it. and the fighting, of course, is continuing both where you are there in the south, and of course in don bass were 6 ordinary thing. i'm here in mich alive, but 20 kilometers away from me. some extraordinary intense fighting going on artillery battles, the ukrainians action, this part of the country forcing the russians back because the russians have focused all their attention there on don bass around city of said the nets, basically throwing everything they had have at a very small part of the front lines, the russians are making progress, but much slow paced and they'd expected. basically a question of hundreds of meet the day,

not more than that. we've been hearing reports from so the nets for weeks now that they weren't expecting it to fall to russians finally, you know, tomorrow day, often it's just not happening for now that ukraine is holding up, but they are outgunned and outmanned at least and on bus. thanks, nick. i think doubly correspondent nick conley. in goliath. well let's look at the progress of this war from the failed attempt to take keep to the grinding slog of the battle in the dawn bass. they w reporter joel dull roy has been looking at russia's changing military goals. well, during the 3 and a half months of russia's invasion of ukraine, the front line has shifted dramatically. russia's initial attempt focused on the capital of keys and the 2nd biggest city of khaki have. but the ukrainian military surprised their world with a defined resistance pushing the underprepared russians back. after leaving here, they focus most of the units on the south and east and focus their efforts. instead on taking full control of the don bass region. the port city of mario poll also

became a major flash point. ukrainian troops held out there longer than anyone expected, under terrible conditions, but finally surrendered in may who after months of strong ukrainian resistance western military analysts say that russia is now regaining some traction rushes defense minister this week claim success in being able to open up rail connections between the occupied crimea, peninsula and russia. much of the recent fighting has been focused on the city of severe or don't. it's, which is a major chemical production industry. and it's a gateway to the rest of the don bus. western military analysts say that russia is in circling right, ukrainian troops and what is being called a cauldron, ukraine's own military command and say that they are out numbered their $5.00 to $1.00 and fighting is going on block by block. some analysts say that you create a piece to have given up attempts to hold the city, and instead trying to inflict what damage they can on the surrounding troops. the

situation is severe. donates is looking increasingly dire. the mer says the city has been reduced to a bombed out wasteland. with some 10000 civilians trapped and unable to evacuate residence. there are reportedly sheltering in a chemical plant in an iraqi echo of what happened in matter. you poll the past week of the russian resurgence has shown is that neither side can yet comfortably claim to have the upper hand. and that seeming victories can quickly turn to disappointing setbacks. phil joe, thank you joe doll, right? start a thailand to which is giving away a 1000000 free canopies plants to residents. and after becoming a ages, 1st country to legalize the growing and possession of marijuana. and grows will have to register with the government. and when marijuana is offered in food or drink it, strength will have to be limited and smoking in public could still lead to fines or even jail. there's plenty of public interest

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the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u. s. capital, as accused former president donald trump, of trying to derail democracy. after a year of collecting evidence, a committee to, to prime time television for the 1st public presentation of its findings, it featured accounts from senior trump white house officials as well as previously unseen video of the attack. the committee chairman described the riotous and orchestrated attempt to prevent the transition of the w reported newest political unless william blew croft can talk us through this. welcome, william. so i key takeaways then from yesterday's, this was televised across under quite a number of networks. yeah, it was, it was prime time a pm. that was the committee's goal. they wanted to try to reach as much and broad of an american audience as possible to try to reveal what one congress versus that would blow the roof off the house. i think that was said expectations rather high. i think we should importantly point out that,

that we are no longer the error of watergate or iran, contra, or we're in a much more partisan environment now that the comparisons to watergate, for example, are not so well founded. because in that case, the republicans turned against their president richard nixon. and in this case we have republican still in lockstep or many republicans in lockstep with donald trump . but for me, what was a big takeaway here was just how much the committee is trying to pin this. what happened on january 6th, as an orchestrated plot orchestrated by donald trump, that all the evidence as they're trying to point to leads back to donald trump. whether that is to politically damage him that he can no longer realistically run and be a threat politically in 2024 or be supporting a like minded candidates in 2022 or beyond, or even legally, to try to get any of this evidence to stick against not just advisors, not just supporters, not just people who are on the ground on january 6th,

at the capital, ah, meeting out this kind of violence, but donald trump, himself, those things remain to be seen of course. but that seems to be the big effort to of this committee, right? a way say that the makes it sound like this is not a committee that is necessarily fact finding. this is a committee on a mission to point blame off a form of presidents. so this sounds like a part is an effort. well, we should point out that the democrats who control the house and set up this committee did try to have a nonpartisan investigative committee, much like what we saw after 911, a republicans. i pulled all of their potential up candidates, so to speak, to sit on this committee. i. so there was an opportunity to have a bipartisan or a non partisan committee that broke down into the democrats, went ahead with what we're currently seeing, where it's 7 democrats and 2 republicans. the few republicans who have turned against their party and turned against donald trump. to side with democrats on this, they are obviously trying to show the evidence leading back to donald trump. and it

is important to note that regardless of where the legal culpability is, that's a decision for the department of justice. that decision for prosecutors and for courts. if donald trump is really legally culpable in any of what happened in the events after the election, what's important though is to note that this was there was coordination here on the ground. it wasn't just random people as we see here who got caught up in the spirit in the chaos of, of the moment. there were far right groups on the ground. there was communication in advance. this is all well documented evidence. there was some level of coordination and, and an intent here. the question is, is donald trump responsible for it? and that's something that, that courts and, and prosecutors are going to have to look at very closely in the weeks at, okay. and there'll be more of these to come. yes, they'll be more public hearings. and of course, more investigation, evidence being collected in the weeks leading up to november mid term elections that d. w will include cross, thanks so much quick look at our top story. this,

our ukraine and western allies have denounced a pro. russia caught in the don bass fo sentencing 3 foreign fives to death. i say the trial of the 2 britons in one morocco was a sham and violates the rules of a set you up to date more well news of the top off the top of the hour at the w business map with it out of duma is next a good thing hello guys, this is the 77 percent. the platform for africa's you to be beat issues and share ideas with.