ah, with striking the plot parties, what are garcia reports from the heart of the besieged city of are you both outside the as of field factory in which russia and it's allied forces are trying to pin down the remaining alleged ukrainian nationalist troops are t gets access to audio recordings of alleged conversations of ukrainian security forces and foreign journalists, nikia that contradict the mainstream media's claims about russian troops killing civilians. us broadens its pressure on china with nato expanding in the east and washington sending weapons to taiwan. ah,

harsh fighting in the city of mario pal as the russian army and its allied dumbass forces seek to pin down the last remaining ukrainian nationalist troops. ortiz, but i got to have reports from outside the as of steel factory, where the russian military has been advancing on the last pocket of resistance. most of mary jo, passivity and neighborhoods have been liberated by russian forces or some unscathed subs god and wasted by urban combat. ah, via alleys and yards. we walked as far as was relatively safe in the distance that 200 or so meters. he's the out of steel and our iron works plant, which is where most of the fighting is now concentrated here on the left bank of

mario port city, a vast number, thousands of ukrainian troops as well. and this is the majority at nationalists, nationalists, but piazza. but that if you could hear, that is russian artillery striking the plot. from here we launched our drone to witness rockets and shells pounding ukrainian nationalist positions. church was another one of them. ogre the situation as intense. we're engaging and gun battles is combat at close quarters. almost face to face the distance between buildings here as 50 to 70 meters, sometimes even closer. we've been advancing from the very morning all along the front line. the enemy is fighting backwards, but we're pushing the rest of them out to be as of steel factory linea. it'll be much easier when all of them are there for sending somebody for studying. now that

fighting has moved out of populated areas. russian and allied artillery is playing a greater and greater role of the positive note on them, civilians in the plot itself, which has opened up a host of open charities for russia to some russian artillery. they don't have to be so warri of civilian casualties. now the fight is moved into industrial zones, but with the fight discipline, they say they have heard on radio ah, english voices, so english and which voices which says that there may be or the holland holland is inside the plot. but they have also the rumors of nato instructed the con in the alpha industrial complex laddies, according to various reports again and verified instructors will offices from nato

countries such as germany, britain frauds, as well as neutral sweden. according to the latest report, the fighting. yeah. as you can, yes, is still very much fierce verbal dude with his son. they worked professionally in small groups. it would have been impossible to train locals to that standard, even in 8 years. we've seen foreigners, even dark skinned individuals twice. now. ukraine has launched high risk helicopter evacuation missions to mario boat. several helicopters have even made it out, though most were destroyed. the window of opportunity, though is closing with every day. more and more of mary, you will, is liberated, and chances are high that soon will find out just who these that ukraine and its allies are so desperate to evacuate. more ad gazda of arti. from mario book,

civilians in a designated safe zone in marble. se ukrainian troops forced them to leave their homes, then used those locations to set up a firing positions. leslie, it is what the esl, docile. we were, the one will be alicia. we were all going to bomb shelter, so yeah, people were forced out of their homes by the ukrainian military. they just came and said, get your things and get out. we asked where we should go. they literally said that they don't care and that is their building. now, this year it was a little her new mom. i've buried my mother and decided to stay here with the wound it. the scariest moment was when the resolve fighters came, some women asked them to leave, but they said, don't worry, we just need to check something out. and then they started firing. i don't know who they were firing it, but then they just left us. they used us as human shields. our location was then shell r t has gotten access to allegedly leaked audio conversations, allegedly recorded near kia, where russian troops had been stationed. they contradict the ukrainian government's version of the events that saw russia accused of deliberately killing civilians at

his man. if notional reports, our troops kicked out the russians. okay. and the troops went further. so the territorial defense force went in and they looted the village. they were looting houses and shooting, taking everything. they looted absolutely everything. first audio is a conversation between people of ukraine's security service, known as s p u, and one of them is apparent the on the ground in the little town of co, heidi, that's not far from the of the capital key of the around 100 kilometers west of it and what is he basically doing? he's describing what he saw there, what he discovered, they, well, why don't know, walking around maybe talking to residents, but that's unlikely because again, it's a little village and it has been and fierce fighting and fell under the control the russian army at the beginning of moscow special military operation and around the months later in the march, it was were captured by ukraine's forces. and shortly after that,

so called territorial defense forces, how they are volunteer battalions within ukraine's armed forces. they came in and this man from the audio he's describing their behavior in their actions while they were there. and you will hear it yourself now and you just heard a bit, right? ah, he sounds surprised from what he found out. and before we play another great, i have to tell you that there is another i town mentioned in these or do have the town of marlin knights not far from co. heidi and apparently these are these people, this battalion came from that place. let's take another miss from march 24th to april. 3rd, after the russians were driven out of sheer, the territorial defense force came in from mon. in short, during these days, they were looting. the looted everything they could. they kicked in the doors, they kicked everything. safes were opened, cars were taken away, they stuffed the cars with everything they found and took everything out. it turns

out that the musk of ites did not take anything but ours went in and completely plundered everything. there wasn't anything here already because of the fighting. no houses were left even what was left was completely looted by our own interest in is that, that this man can paris russian troops with these people from territorial defense. and later in this conversation, the one from the ground also have colleagues, whether these crimes and misbehavior by these people should be documented. and he get the on the yes, they should be fall a neat. so maybe we're going to hear any like, got an official statement from he of side soon. and there were many journalists, but we have to understand that there were only particular western journalists depart from ukraine and on the ground there. so this audio is a conversation between western journalists. it's in english, and again, one of them is on the ground in another town, which is also like 60 kilometers west of kiev on the same road as the town of

butcher that we have been here in a lot in the news recently. you remember about that, of course, but further to the west, and we can understand that this man, this journalist was sent there of course, to report, but particularly to try to find truth of crimes committed by the russian troops. and you will now hear that he actually fails to find any evidence to that. let's take a look. so basically, just to explain wayne both already anchor. so that, that place further on from boot check, it's been shell to pieces. besides missing whatever. there's no bodies in the streets at all. i've just phones of police forensic experts haven't seen any. they think that probably people are under the rubble or whatever they've been killed in the shelling evidence or any right. have you to hear? told one of the gen, a french guy said that he'd seen a body that had been killed by shelling. but then so in some of the we haven't

found that. but no excuses, nothing like that. so i don't know what the prosecutor was going on about. it's true, this place is gone far more selling damage than vulture. but in terms of extra additional killings, there's no evidence at all. and in fact, some of the old ladies is spoken to said the russian trees are really nice of them . they gave them food water interested in actually said to say, if you look through news reports coming right now out of the town of, but i don't know that these journalists mentioned, you will say completely different picture. you will read about piles of dead bodies lying on the street again, like in the town. and you will hear accusations and you will hear about mass killings committed by the russian troops. but these surely says there is no evidence to that at all. and sometimes, i mean it is journalists, i have a feeling that we live in parallel reality, and i just don't understand why it's happening because we understand that we have

to be recall shows with information where we cover war and military conflicts. because force reports can actually hurt, and now we see again coming back to the town of butcher, we hear about sanctions and like punishment. you know, and, you know, all kind of calls towards russia because they have already made a conclusion that russian troops committed lots of crimes, they before even any investigation. some western media outlets that have been overall devout in their support for kia, have now started to report on allegations of war crimes committed by ukrainian soldiers after footage which we can't broadcast because it's too disturbing, purports to show ukrainian forces shooting, captured russian troops. these claims have been largely ignored by western powers. let's take a look at what the new york times published recently. a video posted on line on

monday and verified by the new york times appears to show a group of ukrainian soldiers killing captured russian troops outside the village west of give he still alive, film these marauders look, he still alive, his gasping. a man says as a russian soldier with a jacket pulled over his head, apparently wounded is seen still breathing. a soldier then shoots the man twice after the man keeps moving. the soldier shoots him again and he stops at least 3 other apparent russian soldiers, including one with an obvious head wound who has his hands tied behind his back. can be seen dead near the victim. it's not only the new york times that that appears to be changing its narrative about ukraine. the washington post has also examined the neo nazi roots of ukraine's as of battalions suggesting that white supremacists integrated into the printing military could pose a future threat to the country. political analyst, alexander poverty, says, these reports are only small departures from an overall narrative painted by

western media against russia in an attempt to present a semblance of objectivity. i definitely think there's a lot of people being becoming aware of the media bias. this is damage control. this is a way to make themselves look objective, fair minded. in fact, what to do, what's happening is that they're kind of, they can't control the narrative to way they would like, you know, that can in mind these, you know, you can control the narrative because there was no internet. and so you could more tightly control or, you know, now there are just too many alternative means of information and real information. and real truth does get out and the knowledge. so the only way to deal with it is to admit part of it. and then make themselves look objective, but without changing their main narrative. and their main narrative is versus the

enemy. and just about anything that's done against russia is allows nato member states lead by the us are ramping up a provisions of weapons in cyber tech to countries in the endo pacific region, after china stood steadfast against us pressure to denounce russia's military campaign in ukraine. adding fuel to the fire u. s. is specifically arming taiwan amid escalation tensions between beijing ortiz, don court tried to only china and to taking a side and it failed. nato says it's done with talking and has moved on to saber rattling. we see that china has been unwilling to condemn russia's aggression and has joined moscow in questioning the right of nations to choose their own path. so i expect we will agree to deepen nato's cooperation with our asia pacific partners, including in areas such as arms control, cyber hybrid and technology. working more closely together will make us all safer

and more secure. so let me get this straight. nato supports ukraine's right to choose its own path, but not china's and the north atlantic treaty organization sure is barking orders far away from the north atlantic. we have seen that shine law is unwilling to condemn russia's aggression and bitching has joined moscow in cushioning. there are donations to choose their own pulse. this is a serious challenge to, oh, soul. it makes it even more important. don't respond together to protect our values as always, nato's following close behind the u. s. which has never hidden its burning desire to contain its main competitor, china only now, washington's inching closer than ever, towards a military confrontation with it. having failed to shame beijing and to thinking it's on the wrong side of history. the u. s. is switching gears into fear, margaret, it almost seems like we can't go through a month without some new revelation coming about china. in my mind,

the chinese are building a military that is capable of coercion, which requires us to have a strategy to be able to stand up to that coercion or defend the indo pacific in the broader world order that the u. s. and our allies value washington also claims china is acting aggressively by setting up military bases in the south china sea. instead, the u. s. says it should militarize the area again, the south china sea, $95000000.00 worth of american military equipment has been approved for ty, ones used to achieve that end, including patriot air defense systems. then there's august, the security packed between australia, the u. s. and the u. k. when it says it wants a free indo pacific, it clearly means one free from china. and so the pacts entering the growing arms race for hypersonic missiles. china, on the other hand, is sending out a warning to the west. don't provoke beijing. the way you did moscow, anyone who do not want to see the ukrainian crisis,

should refrain from doing things which may lead the other parts of the world into a crisis like this. as the chinese it goes, if you do not like it, do not impose it against others. all the while the west and its allies are fixing their bayonets in japan. recent polls suggested people want to break with the countries post world war 2, tradition of leaving defense matters up to the u. s. and strengthen its own national defenses. the european union with all its past rhetoric of peace, is also rearming with germany, for example, pledging $110000000000.00 to modernize its military. it's foreign affairs chief, even called the last high profile summit with china, a dialogue of the deaf looks like all is revealed about the west foreign policy when it doesn't get its way through diplomacy. it's our way or the highway. but maybe the u. s. is trying to have another war, like a you credible is not enough. so they have to was at the same time,

they want to challenge china over taiwan. we know there will be consequences as that about chinese foreign minister. you know, obviously this was it, it becomes true. it will, you know, there will be implications and consequences, you know, you can expect a strong response from the chinese side. so, so it's really bit confusing to see at this point of time, us send you message glossy to taiwan, to provoke china, to support the tower independence. that's something that we know. this is a red line for the chinese. it's a simply, it's hard to understand. simply acceptable. you can see right now there's a response that pop matching china. basically everybody says, you know this, the government has to respond strongly as soon as possible. russia type diplomats are good love. rob has cooled hopes for a breakthrough in peace negotiations with ukraine saying kia has back away from

previous promises. was system mover, assembled in response to the sprouting of realism in the cranium position. and our forces conducted the escalation in the directions of care and china as a gesture of goodwill, and to help with the movement towards an agreement and response. there was a provocation in butcher, which is immediately used by the west to announce a new batch of sanctions, as well as atrocities against russia, prisoners of war by ukrainian neo nazis could see scan when the still moscow has said to talk to me stumble were constructive with ukraine, appearing inclined to remain outside of nato and not acquire nuclear weapons in turn, rushes defense ministry promised to reduce its military activity around to give and the northern city of china and gulf. also, russia and ukraine were to postpone any decision about the future status of premier and the dumbass foreign minister said a lot of says care has shifted its possessions. however, in a signal that someone else could be pulling the strings. but the need to go to specify the inability to negotiate once again characterize is the true intention to

carry on its line of delaying and even undermining the negotiations through departure from the understanding is reached. we see this as a manifestation of the fact that the kiev regime is controlled by washington and its allies who are pushing president lensky to continue hostilities for those in a recent washington post article claim some nato countries want to see ukrainians fighting until the bitter end and a proxy war against moscow. us president joe biden has been open about arming and training ukrainians to engage in combat against russia. meanwhile, lafayette defense minister and a senior fellow at the atlantic council are also calling for more military support for ukraine. nato's chief yansa stoughton berg made it clear that more military support would be heading to ukraine. $9.00 towards support ukraine at the same time natal. so main responsibility is to protect and defend allow us and to prevent

this conflict from escalating to full fledge war between nato and the i'm russia. and the reason why we have last week. so the deployed $40000.00 troops on their direct net to command a, to the eastern part alliance, and also added more a troops under a national command, including a more us troops in europe. and this presence is to help prevent escalation of the conflict. washington, if they wanted to stop this, they could control because they do basically control zalinski could get him to agree to the terms and to come to a conclusion that they had agreed to even before the hostilities began. but this, this, but as long as they keep feeding the weapons this into, into the, into that country, ukraine will fight and there would be more slaughter on both sides. the intention of the west is basically to contain russia. it has

a far greater geo strategic purpose, and ukraine is just a cog in this, in this machinery of western, of the west of the u. s. lead unipolar world order. besides the fact that the u. s . has already handed millions of dollars worth of weaponry to care. they have resurrected the world war 2 era, lend lease bill to more efficiently, lend out military equipment to ukraine. that says western powers have also accused russia of committing atrocities against ukrainian civilians, including the town of butcher near chief. but there has been little coverage of kim's failure to evacuate people to safety, ukrainian presidents own advisor, lexi arrest of it. she has claimed that they knew about the approaching war, but didn't reveal anything to their citizens law. it was possible to tell the ukrainians that russia would attack when, when you, for sure that it would. but this would have proved master flow of 12 to 16000000

refugees. they would have blocked all the rows and then the army would not have reached the defense areas and the inhabitants would have to be crushed with tanks and shot. retired us air force, lieutenant colonel can ritathui isn't convinced that nato actually wants a peaceful resolution. nato feels it's, all they can do is to a mass forces and, and that kind of conduct a blocking action in case russia is intending to go further. you know, to the west, i'm not sure what they're actually thinking in this regard, but it certainly doesn't seem to be promoting, promoting a peaceful resolution. and it doesn't seem to be geared towards helping the ukrainian people. there are some thoughts that the united states wants to keep russia there, as long as it can to engage a battle on the territory of ukraine. and again, at great cost to a lot of people who live there in order to kind of bond russia down to kind of show

that nato mean something. it looks like the west, which is supposed to be a beacon of liberty, and free trade is not incorporating those concepts into it. so it's predicted strategy for a defense against rush, i guess you would call it grains. that president vladimir zalinski gave a speech to greece's parliament and presented statements by ukrainian allied forces in multiple, including ethnic greeks and even members of the neo nazi as of battalion inclusion of the far right battalion whose insignia is based on the nazi german wolf's angel symbol sent a rift through greek politics with opposition, lawmakers issuing condemnation and a wave of criticism, a routing on the internet the day of great shame for the greek parliament during his address. ukrainian president zalinski showed a video of a nazi his off battalion fighter, supposedly, of greek origins,

talking about the war. greek government officially whitewash as neo nazis nap sees are getting standing ovation in the parliament of the country that gave birth to democracy. unacceptable. she asked hell of greece prime minister allowing sir lensky to address greece. parliament topped with video of his off the italian, neo nazi member, shameful. former british diplomat william mullins and says is zalinski is inclusion of the as of statement has proven scandalous, and even eroded support for greeks ruling party. i think that this scandal of this as of a madman being allowed to even address a whole greek parliament is, is, is an example of the fact that greece does not have its own foreign policy. now it's highly embarrassing for the government. even the opposition is furious. about it, a former prime minister summit us is furious and i think we're going to see

a little more come out in the wash over the next few days. because it's not enough to say that this is just greek slapdash behavior incompetence. it goes deeper than that. so, and it's annoyed a lot of people and it's highly emotional, particularly because of the large greek community in the south of the ukraine. so those my initial comments, although i can also add that apart from the some greek political parties that refused to attend the the show in cyprus, the account party also refused to attend the show and possibly the biggest party in cyprus. so let me so say it's a shame that greece doesn't have the independence of hungary or turkey. you see. so it is a scandal, and i don't think it will cause the fall of the government, but the government will definitely lose a lot of votes. as the west ramps up sanctions against moscow seeking to cut

russian fossil fuel imports, european countries are set this year to pay more than 9 percent of their g d p's on energy sources, the highest share since 1981 industries struggling to cope with soaring fuel prices and regular people try to make ends meet amid surging inflation. the e wants to switch from cheap oil gas and coal from russia to more expensive supplies from the u. s. norway and cutter. r t examines who could really benefit from that form to do with russian gas. the question, keeping brussels bureaucrats up at night. a 3rd of the use gas supply comes from russia, a literary fuels, the european economy, the when the war and ukraine started, the block had a change of heart by speeding up investment and energy efficiency. every one can contribute in reducing our dependency on russian gas. and who was ready waiting in the wings to help when the you off. it's russian, a gas habit. washington, the war had betty broken out but already had dollar signs in its eyes. it's tragic

what's going on in eastern europe. and it saddens me to see the satellite images on the new screen that we've all witnessed this morning. but if anything, these high prices, the volatility drive even more energy security and long term contracting before the war, u. s. companies just couldn't compete with russian fuel, which was cheaper, closer, a more plentiful american ellen g hung around in the shutters, like the expensive cousin. no one in brussels wanted to ship gas across the ocean of massive tank as well by expensive terminals for loading and unloading for the events in ukraine. changed all that. and washington smelt the perfect opportunity to rest the you away from russia. after years of trying to for this month, i announce the united states of van all in ports of russian energy. to make it clear, the american people would not be part of subsidizing puny, brutal on justified organs people. ukraine has the time i noticed that we were able to take 2 steps when others could not. because united states is

a net exporter of energy with a strong domestic interest. and united states welcomed the european news powerful statement, early this month, committing to rapidly reduces dependence on russian gas. today, we've agreed on a joint game plan toward that goal. sure enough us, alan g export is are already reaping the benefits. his reported that they'll be sending out 11400000000 cubic feet per day this year. that's roughly 22 percent of the world's demand for l. n. g. o must double its share of the global market in 2020. an added bonus is that it will overtake the australians in guitar east. another added bonus, it's brought the fossil fuel industry, some breathing room. europe had been moving away from fossil fuels, while stateside the calls to go. green, grew daily, the oil and gas execs thought that time was up. but not unable. we commend the administration's focus on addressing climate change and share the goal of reducing

emissions across the economy. but we cannot let that objective detract from the clear and present need for continued responsible investment in oil and natural gas development. the only people who won't be so pleased, the ones picking up the tab. we have to be aware that the companies who have signed long term contracts with gas prom do receive gas at significantly lower prices than we have to pay in the l. n. g market, so there will be impact on our energy prices for the u. s. t o a win win. not only when it rake in the dollars at home, but now the broad soon it gets it p o boost, by seeming to be a reliable pon and ally in times of trouble. plus it becomes much, much richer. last, the europe, well is simply shifted a dependency from one country to another. and in its try for energy security, it might ironically have found itself more insecure than ever. that does it for me and i'll be back in about, let's say 29 minutes with more news and commentary. this is our team.