all social media, if it's available in your country and remember you can continue to watch, will going underground episodes on odyssey and latino come see very soon ah, a battalion on the brink of defeat, the besieged ukrainian city of mario full. we take a closer look at the media coverage of the far right. are a military for us fighting in murder. you full is focused on the city still works. the residents hope of finding their relative to they haven't heard from you. weeks stuck in the besieged city. you're with despite president joe biden's pledge to take steps as many as 100000 ukrainians as part of refugee program. only 12 has been officially recession

and over in pakistan, ousted prime minister in run, call, and launched the campaign to mobilize the supports on the streets, demanding new election. the could return to power with you're watching r t international. my name's peter scott's on revenue. joining us from welcome to the program 1st, the russian defense ministry says the ports in the besieged, ukrainian city of murray. you, paul, is under the control of russian lead forces following intense battles with fights is from the nationalist of battalion. it's added all hostages, including foreign nationals, allegedly held by a fight in the port on surrounding ships. had been released, remaining units of the battalion have apparently been surrounded and prevented from retreating. the former paramedic paramilitary units since 2014, a part of the ukrainian military has featured prominently in the media ortiz,

don't call it looks the eunice background. not long ago, westerners were mostly in agreement that the neo nazi as a battalion was heretic. after all, who wouldn't be upset with statements like this one? the ukrainian nations mission is to lead the white races of the world in a final crusade against semi lead under mention. that was a quote from andre bill etzky, one of as our founders, and its 1st commander in 2014. he was elected to parliament and served for 5 years despite the whole country. knowing that he founded not only patriots of ukraine, but also the social national assembly. these were 2 neo nazi organizations that became known for attacks on ukrainian minority groups around the same time as all was integrated into the national guard making ukraine. the only country in the world to have neo nazi regiments in the official armed forces and president vladimir zelinski still doesn't seem to lose any sleep over that age off battalion

that is said to be nazi affiliated organization, operating as a militia in your country said to be committing their own atrocities. i was one of those many battalions of what they are in 2018 as off sister organization called national drew gina was rolled out. it became a modern equivalent to hitler's brown shirts and pledged undying loyalty to bull. etzky wasn't long before they also began to terrorize ukraine's minority populations. the jews gina quickly distinguished itself by carrying out to graham's against the rome and l. g. b t. organizations and storming a municipal council. earlier this year, g f announced a neo nazi unit will be monitoring polls in next month, presidential election. ukraine's former interior minister and close friend of bullet ski quickly gave national georgina his full support. while the growing piles of human rights abuses began to grow even faster, a man with

a mental disability was subject to cruel treatment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence by 8 to 10 members of the as of and don bass battalions in august, september 2014 a resident of mary you, paul, was detained by 3 service men of the as of battalion. he was continuously interrogated and tortured. he complained about being handcuffed to a metal rod and left hanging on it. he was reportedly tortured with electricity abductions, robberies, extortionate executions. amnesty international pleaded with keys to get a leash on its neo nazis, but to no avail. in 2018, the u. s. ban sending weapons to the eyes of battalion. but as a national guard unit, it could still receive military aid intended for the ukrainian government. a year later, u. s. democrats tried to add it to the countries list of foreign terror organizations, but yet again, they failed. it's clear that the threat we face today is of a self radicalized gunman. somebody who has been radicalized online,

whether it's in accordance with g haughty ideology or a global white nationalist, neo nazi group. take a look at the tactics of ukrainian military and isis, for example, you'd be hard pressed to tell them apart. human shields, torture prisoner executions. the new york times, which typically tries to whitewash the crimes of these neo nazi regiments, even verified one of the many videos portraying them on the internet as undoubtedly authentic. he's still alive, film these marauders look, he's still alive. his gasping, a man says as a russian soldier with a jacket pulled over his head, apparently wounded. it seemed still breathing. a soldier then shook demand twice after the man keeps moving, the soldier, shoot some again, and he stops. and the minute russia steps in saying it actually wants to put an end to these injustices that people have complained about for so many years. all of the sudden neo nazis are given a free pass. for the time being. we're making

a narrow exception for praise of the czar regiment strictly in the context of defending ukraine or in their role as part of the ukraine national guard. so many in the west neo nazis had become nationalists. war criminals have become patriots. how easily people have put 8 years of crimes and terror out of sight and out of mind, just to stick it to russia. well, earlier we heard from geopolitical analyst a former us marine bryan berlin, tick, who told us western powers use the other battalion for their own purposes. i think that they had always tried to use as obs battalion and other groups like it for their own ends. but they weren't very open about it. so the incorporation of as off and other groups like it into ukraine's armed forces. i think it says a lot about the type of direction that the u. s. wanted to ukraine into. i think that they,

they helped encourage that as often other groups have been the beneficiaries of as you said, weapons and training provided by the west. and so yeah, it's a way of trying to normalize it. and paper over the fact that you, you have actual, not the organizations in ukraine that are part of ukraine's official armed forces, not paramilitary. they are gangs, they're actually part of the military. this is just them trying to normalize it and paper over it. and is battles rage on around the city steel plants, residents of motor, you will continue to suffer from food and water shortages life in areas free from fighting these some. com. if your monetary aid is lost, reaching the area on the road goes the report. now you as the weather here and mary, you full has taken a turn for the worst. nevertheless, there are hundreds of people here all waiting to receive permits,

permits to walk round the city that come here with their documents, with various identification to get these permits that check. good. good. the people who submit these documents up. i actually the individuals written in them and they need these permits to avoid any misunderstandings. we must bear in mind the fighting, still rages in my re you will this baby one of the liberated areas, but it is still dangerous until avoid any misunderstanding. people here get these permit. you can probably tell by the state of mary, you bull, that many people are having trouble with documents that they've lost them, burned in the files. and the fighting with we're carrying out a population census issuing people passes so they can move around the city. some documents always survive, we're using now. but even if people have no papers, their relatives can come to confirm their identity. understandably, there of course difficulties getting

a city of running the size of mary you pull from scratch from from the wreckage and the ruins that the cities currently in is, is a difficult task. everyone must be clothed. everyone must be fed kept warm. that is hearing of itself difficult, but getting everyone papers giving out papers, checking people's identities, especially given that people he are still in shock. as still terrified from the ordeal that they had to go through. and the treatment that they received from ukrainian nationalists, we've all heard that testimony. the entire population of mary, opal was held hostage. ukrainian nationalists would shoot at anyone trying to flee . the world hasn't seen the like since isis jihadist held hundreds of thousands as human shields in mo, self. what family will share with i'm around the corner in the afternoon opportunity to review that with my younger william nick of navy to let you know

career opportunities to play with nursing, move my delivered it in through to the doctor to look into other thoughts from with them really mostly for quite a lot of work. a coil. you prefer trainable food of me? no, it's not for within akin after closing all day, yet he made nip, shout. every one here went through this, each and every one of them has their own horror story. but some haven't ended. yes, but you'd want to fed neosha suddenly get hold of ebony ukuleles. they do not look muscle. there's no papa. so i was just all i you know what? it's on as a 2nd here. it. oh you lose. you got to re record it as a stance against the cook. if the musicians no more when you crash away, not ivy gilmore, but he shook up to see what your wish is. shouldn't skita sh gets ye rich gibberish at us? of a, supposedly at your worst, i knew you was at the moment. i don't give them to. i mean if you go to them

when the games a lot of the more popular is digital phone is puzzles. nadine, so even with people from all over the world have reached out seeking news of family and friends trapped in mary. you both these lists and permits being compiled now will help them more i'd guess d a r t for mario, but it's been revealed. the u. s. has officially resettle just 12 ukrainian refugees over the past month. and thus, despite president jo biden's pledge in march to accept as many as 100000 ukrainians into the country, citing the need for family reunions our season. rachel blevins now looks at the gap between the promises made on the reality on the ground. the mining ministrations promise that the us would accept 100000 ukrainian refugees certainly has not become

a reality with the latest data showing that just 12 ukrainian were accepted through the united states official refugee program. now the white house is putting the blame on the us legal system as the department of homeland security reveals that nearly 3000 ukrainian crossed over into the united states through the us mexico border. so the question then becomes, is the, by an administration planning anything to maybe get it a little bit closer to the goal that at that for itself. while reports are saying that they are looking at some sort of a parole program where refugees would be able to come into the country as long as they have sponsors here in the us. and already advocate through refugees or raising concerns about that kind of a program. noting that it would keep refugees from getting access to certain benefits and protection there inventing this new approach to parole, which provides no security, no safety net. and so that's worrying and leaves the applicant at the mercy of the

backlog and broken asylum system if they want to stay here permanently. meanwhile, thousands of refugees who are not ukrainian are raising their frustrations and concerns as they are trying to gain access to the u. s, and they're fleeing violence from their home countries in latin america. and there's all kinds as the us border patrol has already predicted that there would be a record breaking surge of migrants looking to cross over the us mexico border the spring. i think we also do have the opportunity to cross the border. they should let us in because we're also fleeing. it's different what we're running from, but it's still a war, a war against gangs, given that ukrainian refugees aren't the ones benefiting from us involvement in their country. the question then becomes, well, who is and in order to find that answer, we just have to over to the pentagon, where reportedly they are hosting the leaders from the top

a u. s. weapons manufacturers on wednesday, for a meeting where the main subject is making sure that ukraine is supplied with weapons and ready for war for years and years to come. so it appears as though once again, those who aim to benefit off of this complex are the ones who the u. s. government is listening to the people who have the most interest in influencing the direction of the coverage or weapons makers. they have the most direct financial stake in the way we cover issues of war and peace. unfortunately, they are interested in more war and less peace when it comes to the mainstream media. their coverage here is not much different. for example, if we look at former ca, director turned event secretary leon panetta, he used one of his many, many recent appearances on the and then to talk about how the u. s. just is not sending ukraine enough weapon and that no point or is it mentioned that i also reportedly has ties to raytheon,

which is one of the largest defense contractors here in the u. s. and yet with all of this, talk about the need for the us to send more weapons to ukraine. it never is mentioned that this trend of supplying weapons to a country only leads to instability and chaos, which then creates more refugees. this is the u. s. policy always to make great promises and come through on nothing when it comes to the people themselves. so with millions of refugees, once again, us policy is to give assistance to almost none of them. and to instead, impose on the surrounding countries an enormous dislocation. at this point, the biden administration has managed to process, they managed a process in march 12 ukrainians who had refugee status. and by the way, this happens all the time. look at the hundreds of thousands who were promised refugee

from afghanistan, not much different in iraq and syria. in libya were all of the countries where the u. s. has instigated wars and kept them running for years and created an enormous dislocation of peoples who really are forced to leave their own country and then live at the very dislocated life and enormous expense in the surrounding country. the asteroid prime minister of pakistani iran con, has launched a campaigns combined. so office call was overthrown by a vote of no confidence in parliament days. after blocking a similar attempt, he held a rally on wednesday in the city of special law and is calling on his supporters to take the st throughout the country and a bid for the fresh elections. oh, my fellow brave pakistani, we don't accept this shameless government. i assure you,

until this government notes is new election, we will stay on the streets and continue protesting. you have a big responsibility and you don't bow down to anyone. you don't bow down to the super power. whether i am elected in government or in opposition, i will not allow my nation to participate in other countries was that address we just heard was delivered with tens of thousands of people. it comes after a similarly large process. we're held in a bit to topple in the ousted prime minister slum those processed during his last days in power. seeing the orchestrated by the us in a plot to oust him as something the white house does deny. the newly appointed government alleges they've inherited an economic mess following cons leadership. one early response has been to restart folks with the international monetary fund over re paying a bailout. those talks which did stall, joey cons,

tenure. earlier we spoke with an international lawyer and geopolitical analyst, who said that many support, the former prime minister, i fear the crisis cannot be blamed solely on con. i don't think this is a fair assessment of the situation. that's a survey in 2018 when i'm on fun office. he had to get a broken to point to me when he leaves the country. he has done a few things in the mean, the development of the economy. so i think it's unfair to leave it on for that and you know, i believe the large not need to be nice. these opposition parties on the country is going to be very divided. would be a limited support that your position has begun and government is looking at a nation. sure. but the united states people of august are not really behind the prime minister because they feel that it

is a foreign conspiracy. that is on this thing that is happening in the country. this is forced reading happening for their eyes. this is a black me a little bit more going not give these people the you is to provide financial aid to north african countries in need of food crisis. this been exacerbated by the war in ukraine as well as sanctions against russia. multiple countries in the region of close trade ties to russia, which you see is a challenge to its influence. the u. n. 60 general laid the challenges of surging commodity process. 36 countries count on russia and ukraine for more than half of that with importance, including some of the poorest and most vulnerable countries of the world. and prices was already on the rise, but the war has made a bad situation far worse. or is the world's largest wheat supplier, and major producer fertilizers with egypt,

receiving half of its imports from russia, another 30 percent from ukraine. moscow claims the food crisis is due to sanctions . while the top differ much your said, burrell alleges moscow is attacking we, storage unfolds and ukraine. critical analyst, lawrence freeman, says the west is concerned with africa interest because they are to blame the idea that you'd be sanctioning russia now, which is a major reproduce, are obviously exporting trading in week is going to be really reduced if not eliminated due to the financial sanctions, and this is an issue that's been raised now by the west, but that really has not been of great concern in for the last several decades. and that's where it has to be corrected is. so africa has to become self sufficient in production. is a massive food shortage throughout the world. prior to the comfort was

rushing creek, they were tens of need africans facing food insecurity. this crisis did not just developed in the last month. this has been developed b and stay on the recently conditions for the last several years. european union and united states in the west, in general, have now do not have a policy for developing africa. as western countries look for alternatives to russian gas, one option is algeria, which is geographically close to europe. but relations between algeria and some western states are not straightforward is r t show davinsky explains well that you look eastwards you crane in the wall there. it's a way that it needs to keep its eyes on other issues bubbling up to yoseph burrell

. the books, foreign affairs chief recently hinted it concerns in africa. now while he specifically mentioned molly, there is another african nation that could be problematic. algeria, ah, that standoff over western sahara could be about to have, why did geo political ramifications? what's happened is that spain has moved much closer to morocco's position on western sahara. this is seen in algiers as being a threat, if not a liquidation of the right of the people of western sahara to so the termination

under the leadership pull assario. then as noted, you've had the resurgence of heart right forces with in spain. and so i think it's fair to say that in terms of islam of phobia, that is a dash or probably deeper in terms of having deeper roots in spain and in france, believe or not. because keep in mind that arab and muslim forces rule spain, or for hundreds of years. and that rule is, has not been forgotten as part of traditional contemporary spanish folk more. and algeria takes that quite seriously as well. they should tensions have risen further in recent weeks with spain. just doing a mess, save you turn now for years mature, it has supported a un sponsored referendum to settle the issues over this disputed territory of the

western sahara. now it's chosen site. spain considers the autonomy initiative presented by morocco in 2007 is the most serious, realistic, incredible basis for resolving the dispute that apparently went down like a lead balloon in algiers. gas pump from algeria to spain has been lowering in recent years, but in 2021 it's still made up around 43 percent of imports. well, i'll g as isn't likely to turn off the taps. it has suggested that prices could change spain's position on the western sahara also brings this in line with washington. under donald trump, a deal was struck to recognize morocco's claim on region. in return from normalizing relations with israel and applied in the white house is now pushing

algeria to also think hard about is feature. washington has a very long memory. and even though there are those who might have forgotten the time, and algeria opened the stores to the black mountain party of the united states of america, i can assure you that washington has not forgotten. washington has not forgotten that at one time, algeria in terms of a title with recent book, was considered capital of the 3rd world. that is to say, algeria was seen as a militant, exemplar of arab nationalism, a militant explore about her nationalism that was quite friendly to the palestine liberation organization and indeed is still friendly to the palestinian resistance . and i think that all of these fact tend to complicate relations between washington and algeria. and i don't think that's going away any time soon as the e. u is looking to reduce russian energy imports. algeria could be the perfect ally,

it's geographically close. it already has pipelines running to spain, and it's thought to have fairly vast energy reserves. but it may not be that simple . a recent policy brief by the european council warned that european leaders seem to be unwilling to stand up to moroccan demands. and in doing so, are seeing their credibility being undermined in algeria. so unless the block can find and then maintain that very tricky balance plans to substitute some russian for algerian energy could be nothing but a pipe dream challenge even sky r. c. paris. nordic countries. finland and sweden and now considering applying for nato membership, blaming russian aggression in ukraine for forcing them to reconsider the neutrality . the european security architecture have changed fundamentally,

after russians invasion of ukraine. we have deepened our native partnership until now hand in hand with sweden, ever since russia it legally and exit crimea. there is no other way to have security guarantees done under nato's deterrence and common defense ass guaranteed by natives. article 5. well, during the cold war, these countries, alongside austria, island, and switzerland decided not to enjoy and political and military alliances. however, back in the 1990 is all neutral states became a part of nato's partnership for peace program. and that's allows them talk of our way militarily and peacefully with a blog, but without full membership. well, it's recent polls show a majority of swedes unfinished. now in favor of changes the media still hesitant to join the alliance. we haven't upset any one for 200 years. is be very good for us. you know, when we join nato we're part of a bigger for such. i don't know. i,

i don't think it will be good situation in, in the russian. you karen, it's so strange and badly. so i think we should do exactly the same as student and i think a little bit to see how things work that work out in your going on. rushes says the session of finland, unsweetened. the nato goes against russian security concerns. those reiterate to join folks before the war and ukraine began, board dismissed by western powers. the criminal states is such a move will be seen as a provocation and could lead to quote reciprocal measures. a political consultant on that. it's a we spoke to said the question of nato membership for the states is part of a u. s. political strategy that could backfire on those nordic states. if they're part of nato, if they're under the united states, they're like

a puller. they're like a subsidiary of the u. s. u. s. gets to make their security decisions. it gets to sell them. it's very high price weapons and it lou, they lose, they lose their freedom. they lose their economic advantages too. it's a, it's a very bad and stupid thing to do. on the other end, the u. s. is so powerful and it can really turn the screws on them. the u. s. is planning all these future wars and of course, the u. s. does nothing but have happened, but have wars, and it's amazing. i have never seen this much attention to my, my entire life. they do a war. nobody looks at what's happening to the war in yemen. all the other wars, the u. s. is fighting. nobody pays attention, but because they picked this as a way to get to destroy russia, on which i hope to goodness more to happen on all kinds of terrible things follow from them. now from the story we're across aero nazi, there is

a scandal brewing in the u. s. after a law professor made what's deemed to been insulting remarks about indian women on their country. and i was doing an interview on fox news. so take, you know, the brahman women who come from india and they're taught that they are better than everybody else because they are from a lease. and yet, on some level, their country is excuse my language was the pennsylvania university law professor also came under criticism for controversial comments about black americans, claiming their quotes resentful towards western achievements. professor walks his comments come amid a faculty review, launched in january off to formal complaint, alleging her promotion of white supremacy as him. the statements of also sparts outrage on social media. neurologist, jamie wac. singles out indian women says brown. women are jealous of american success. i think it's the other way around.