[000:00:00;00] a battalion reportedly on the brink of defeat in the besieged ukrainian city of murder. you poll, we take a closer look at the house. i'm in the west, appraising the ukrainian units, despite that neo nazi background on this my thing in murder you pull is focused on the city steel with some residents hope of finding the relative to they haven't heard from in weeks. there's a lock in the besieged city. you wish to speak to ash, get a band over in pakistan, ousted prime minister in wrong con, launches a campaign to mobilize his supporters on the streets,

demanding new elections. the could return him to power with moscow to the well, this is our international. i'm peter scott. and these are the top stories. this our the russian defense ministry says the port in the besieged, ukrainian city of multiple is under the control of russian lead forces. that's following intense battles. with fighters from the nationalist of the battalion is uttered all hostages, including foreign nationals, allegedly held by other fighters in the ports and surrounding ships. had been released, remaining units of the battalion of apparently been surrounded on, prevented from retreating, the former paramilitary units, which since 2014 is been a part of ukrainian military as featured prominently in the media. as ortiz, donal quarter explains. not long ago,

westerners were mostly in agreement that the neo nazi as of the battalion was horrific. 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 semite 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 meal 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, what they are in 2018 as off sister organization called national drew gina was rolled out and 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 drew gina quickly distinguished itself by carrying out to graham's against the roman and l. g. b t organizations and storming a municipal council. earlier this year, g of 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 regina 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 key f 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 8 intended for the ukrainian government. a year later, us, 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 the 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 his to live 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 than shoots a man twice after the man keeps moving. the soldier shoots him again, and he stops. and the minute to 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 resolve 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 have 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. we heard from geopolitical analyst and for me, us marine brian bill. it's a cute so does that. western power is used as a 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 all, 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 put 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. the official armed forces are 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 murder, you will continue to suffer from food and water shortages as life in areas free of fights. and these, some com, humanitarian aid is that last reaching the area? all right guys, the reports, my you the weather here in maryville 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. it come here with their documents,

with various identification, to get these permits that check the, 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 and my renewable this baby. what 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 pull 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 of the cities currently in is, is

a difficult task. everyone must be clothed. everyone must be fed, kept warm. that is in of itself difficult, but getting everyone papers giving out papers, checking people's identities, especially given that people who are still in shock as still terrified from the ordeal that they have to go through. and the treatment that they receive from ukrainian nationalists. we've all heard that testimony, the entire population of mary apple was held hostage, ukrainian nationalists would shoot at anyone trying to flee. the world hasn't seen the like since isis jihadists held hundreds of thousands as human shields in mo. so what family was realtor miranda from nathan? occurring in opportunity to nivi. lucy. sabrina was i? yes there william. that of nivi to let you know coming up with julia from nursing. moved from our delivered city through forgot to,

to look of data from with them really. literally from frontier luke, i'd like a coil. you foreseeable future? no, no, it's not. private dna can after closing program yet unit nip, shout. every one here went through this, each and every one of them has their own horror story. but some happened ended. yes . the you'd rather have been years. her son didn't have any. yeah. holla, it's not possible. there's no papa. so i was just, all i, you know, what is on as a sex good here it was, you lose, you get the river who did as a stance gain is to cook. if the minister to them or when use brush of i thought of you get a motion, but you she woke up to see what your wish is. she didn't ski dash gets a year which the wish that us was to push at me at your 1st dollar dues. at the moment i don't give them to me. nichole heard them when the games,

a lot of them are probably is digital. but his muscles will nadine eat him 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. or i guess the f r t for mario book has been revealed. the u. s. is officially re settled just 12 ukrainian refugees of the past month. now, despite president barton's pledge in maastricht said, as many as 100000 ukrainians into the country, citing the need for family unions parties, rachel blevins looks at the gap between the promises made and the reality on the ground. the mine and 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 it set 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 it's all comes as the us border patrol has already predicted that there would be a record breaking 3rd of migrants looking to cross over the us mexico border the spring. i think we also did you have the opportunity to cross the border this should let us in because we're also playing. 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 interesting influence in the direction of the coverage are 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 turn defense 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 raise the on 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 u. s. decide more weapons ukraine. it never is

mentioned that this trend of supplying weapons do a country only leaves you instability and chaos which then creates more refugees. this is 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,

for all of the countries where the u. s. has instigated wars 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 and then use the ousted prime minister of pakistan. iran con has last campaigns come by to office con was overthrown by a vote of no confidence in parliament. just days after blocking a similar attempt, he held a raleigh on wednesday in the city of peshawar on these, calling on his supporters to take to the streets throughout the country and a bid to force fresh elections. oh, my fellow brave pakistan is we don't accept the shameless government. i assure you, until this government announces new elections. we will stay on the streets and

continue protesting. you have a big responsibility, and you don't bow down to any one. you don't bow down to superpower whether i am elected in government or in opposition. i will not allow my nation to participate in other countries was well, that address we just heard was reportedly delivered to tens of thousands of people . it comes after a similarly large protests were held in a bid to topple him. the ostrich prime ministers slammed those processed during his last days in power saying they were orchestrated by the us in a plot. so asked him that is something that the white house has denied. the newly appointed government alleges they've inherited an economic mess falling cons leadership. one early response to that has been to restart talks with the international monetary fund over re paying a bailout. those talks which did stall during cons tenure. we spoke with an international lawyer and geopolitical analyst, who said that many supports the former prime minister and feel the crisis cannot be

blamed solely on him. i don't think this is a fair assessment of the situation that a state in 2018 when yvonne fun office, he had to get a broken economy. 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 you to be nice with these opposition parties on for many of the countries going to be very divided by premise and not months. b, d, i and the limited support 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 there is a foreign conspiracy. that is our 1st thing that is happening in the country. this

is forced reading happening for their eyes. this is of black me and therefore even more gone given not give these people to you is to provide financial aid to north african countries. emitter few crisis has been exacerbated by the war ukraine, as well as sanctions against russia. multiple countries in the region have closed trade size with russia, which they used to see as a challenge to its influence. the u. n. sexy general laid by the challenges of surgeon commodity prices. certainly 6 countries count on russia and ukraine for more than half of that within ports, including some of the poorest and most vulnerable countries of the world. and price is what already on the rise. but the war has made a bad situation far worse. this is the world's largest wheat supply, and the major producer fertilizers each. it receives around half of its imports

from russia. another 30 percent from ukraine must go claims. a few crisis is due to sanctions. while they use top diplomats, your said burrell alleges moscow is attacking ukraine's wheat storage and ports. political analyst, lawrence freeman says that the west isn't concerned with africa's interests because they are to blame the idea that you'd be sanctioning russia now, which is a major reproduce, are obviously exporting trading in wheat is going to be severely reduced if not eliminated due to the financial sanctions and this is an issue that's been raised now by the west. we're 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 food production. is a massive food shortage throughout the world. in prior to the comfort

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 receiving conditions for the last several years. the european union and united states in the west, in general, have now do not have a policy for developing africa. as western countries look full turnage to russian gas, one option is algeria, which of course is geographically close to europe for relations between algeria and some western states. and not always straightforward as r t show davinsky explains well that you look east towards the crating 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, apollo, sorry. and then as noted, you've had the resurgence of hard right forces with in spain. so i think it's fair to say that in terms of islam of phobia that it's doubts or probably deeper in terms of having deeper roots in spain and in france. believe it 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 fork. more. and algeria takes that quite seriously as well. they should tensions have risen further in recent weeks with spain. a key is just doing a massive you tune. now for years, madrid has supported a un sponsored referendum to settle the issues over this disputed territory of the

western sahara. now it's chosen a 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. while g is 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 under biden,

the white house is now pushing algeria to also think hard about each feature. washington has a very long memory. and even though there are those who might have forgotten the time, and algeria opened his doors 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, 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 explorer of 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 fat hers tend to complicate relations between washington and algeria. and i don't make that 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 . 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 that 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 archie, paris president joe biden has condemned russia's actions in ukraine as genocide. he also, once again blamed the u. s. cost of living crisis on the russian leader. your

family project. you're doing a fill up your jack novice, should he and john were there a dictator? declares war commit genocide, half a world away. yes, i called genocide has become clear, clear recruiters are trying to worry about the idea of the baby crane biden has and shied away from condemning rushes actions in ukraine in increasingly strong terms. labeling the russian leader a war criminal last month. the sentiment was echoed by canadian prime minister, just intruder who agreed that genocide was an appropriate label. germany's ola sholtes has avoided escalating record rhetoric with president micron, also cautioning against using that word. oh, be careful with such terms today because these 2 peoples are brothers. it's madness . what's happening today? it's unbelievable brutality and return to war in europe. and i want to continue to try the utmost to be able to stop the war and restore peace. earlier we spoke with the former u. s. air force, lieutenant colonel,

who told us the war of words is part of the wider political game to detroit attention away from domestic issues. of course, it's very intelligent and sophisticated and he knows his history and he's precise in his language. biden is none of those things. ok. he is. he's not particularly intelligent. he's not precise in his language. he doesn't know his history or he doesn't remember, and i'm not sure which which the case is. and so he has definitely by has definitely gone off the reservation, so to speak in using the term genocide. and i think it's important to know where he 1st used this term. and he was addressing a union, a local union in the midwest. so he was talking to the democratic core support, what's left of it for biting. and he's speaking kind of in

a campaign that is looking not at ukraine, not at europe, not even if the economy he is looking at what's happening in november, the mid term elections for congress. it's not looking good for the democrats and biden is doing what he can to kind of excite his base. and i think that's really why he's using that term with one of the terms that's coming out of the white house and has been for several weeks now. is the, the putin gas height, i think he's calling it, he's blaming high gas prices here in america, on putin, in the invasion of ukraine. not on any of the things that he's done, even though of course, you know, our economy is not in good shape. and gas prices have been rising for a long time, but he is he is seeking to shift the blame on what's going on in ukraine. well, that's all for this are for more stories and in depth analysis. do head over to r t dot com as well as our social media channels and on other drama accounts. and also for me,

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