[000:00:00;00] the who's moscow says it captured ukrainian, neo nazis muslim base justice and thus cannot be exchanged for russian prisoners of war. that as russia says that more than $260.00 ukrainian soldiers mostly from the nationalist, as all that battalion have surrendered at an embattled feel factory. the port city of marble. washington seeks to expand its own authority for investigating alleged crimes abroad. despite long criticising attempts by the international criminal court to probe alleged us court crimes in the middle east and 2 of the world's richest people,

openly criticized by the ministration for its alleged role in the soaring inflation . ripping america the like, has lived direct from our studios in moscow. this is our national. i'm john thomas . certainly glad to have you with us right now as hundreds of ukrainian fighters from a besieged factory and variable surrender to done by forces rushes. parliament suggests prohibiting prisoners from ukraine's neo nazi as a battalion from being exchanged. stalker said sir, ne of our position regarding the nazis here must remain unchanged. criminal nazi prisoners should not be exchanged me and these are war criminals. and we must do everything to ensure they are brought to justice. russia's defense ministry has announced that more than $260.00 ukranian service men, including from the neo nazi as of battalion,

have surrendered from their positions in the embattled seal factory invaluable. the captured soldiers have been taken to areas and done yet under the control of dumbass forces. moscow has guaranteed the prisoners of war will be treated in accordance with international standards. parties, garage done of comments from the site of the surrender. so you can see the military column of the da nets, people's republic hand russia both made up of civilian vehicles like dozens of buses. they go all the way down hill over there all the way down the street, also military vehicles and of course ambulances, including the intensive care vehicles as well. because, well, there's a lot of injured among those who are still hold up on the has of style steel seal works, which is just beyond those houses. right now. they're staying put, they're expecting, they're expecting, we're expecting a hundreds of people, hundreds of neo nazi fighters to lay down arms and well get on the buses. those who are injured, they will be taken to

a hospital and they will get treatment. there are those who are well still fit, those who are healthy, ah, well, they will be put someplace else with russia waiting for more nationalist of forces in multiple to surrender. some of those who lay down their arms in previous battles have decided to help the community while in captivity or t spoke with one of those volunteering at a local hospital. was to clean up the garbage was, the floors will carry food and also carry patients. we clean up all around the hospital and the street outside to change the look of the place. we didn't want to fight. why should we? i don't need it. at 1st we thought about escaping. but then we heard that a conscript soldier tried to escape, and as i found him and shot him, we decided to wait for the right moment when we could escape. when our commanders had all left, we were left alone not far from the school. so she went there and the russians were there, we surrendered to them, and they brought us here. once when we were at the school,

the commander told me that i needed to move a tractor. while i ran to start the tractor as they left somewhere, i started up, they drove out and waited for them. then and personal care i drove up and, and as a fighter got out was up. he asked me who i was told me to move 3 minutes away and 53 times, then told me to lie down on the ground. he came up. he started hidden me and wanted to burn my ear with a lighter. he twisted my fingers and stamped on them with his feet. he said he would take me to his guys, so they would throw me into a p. w me. i didn't know what they would do next. there was just taken out of the track. so despite the ukrainian troops laying down their arms, western media has portrayed the event as an evacuation that's relying on the words of ukrainian officials who said that the soldiers have quote left the plant with the support of numerous ukrainian and international organizations. they made no mention of the involvement of russian or done yet could troops. we heard from the investigative journalist, vanessa billy,

who says the establishment media is narrative, is crucial for the west portrayal of the conflict. this is an indication of the importance of this war to the last, you know, this isn't the existential war on so many different levels. there are now some mainstream major outlet, particularly in france. that is, and i think the new york times is addressing the war crimes committed against russian prisoners of war by the ukrainian forces, particularly the as of an id card battalion, for example. here instead of course, we see a very civilized operation. we see russian soldiers a tearing to international law to geneva convention tree thing. they as a brigade, soldiers and ukrainian forces with medical treatment, taking them to hospital, treating them with their respect and dignity that was not given to russian, peo,

w's. and the fact that worse than major is ignoring the difference in the behavior by size is indicative of their hypocrisy. and actually their criminal support of criminals. and they cannot admit that the russian forces that they have portrayed as the brutal invaders are the one thing with decency and humanity. cubes, defense administrator has published a video of its army, claiming it has pushed back russian forces and the countries border near hark of ukraine's 2nd largest city. but questions have been raised about the veracity of the footage. among other things, soldiers in the video are saying they came to the frontier on april 15th. but for some reason, the footage wasn't published until an entire month later. earlier. my colleague unit o'neill heard from correspondent maria phenomena about the matter. most of

western media have been very quick to spread this news that t if sold them and they were either not very professional, not very accurate with information that were offered or another guess is that maybe the idea was to make people believe that it was true that the friend enforces reached the border with russia in high to complete and pushing the russian troops back. no matter it doesn't matter. and i mean how close to reality toys and it seems a wasn't quite close to things on the ground. first of all, the days. indeed, the footage was released on may 15th, but the soldiers in the poor 30, or whoever the odd may be the actors. they say a for let's take a listen. i'm with,

with how to explain why i called them actors because later in other media was published, showing the same group of people in military uniform carrying. you can see it right now on the screen carrying the frontier post the same blue and yellow board to pose that these people are gathered around in the footage south. not astonishing is that because you can understand for morale, reasons doing that, but actually taping it, that footage of them lifting it through what seems to be a forest that's surely again. yeah. i think i'd someone decided to do is to film it so that now we can see that they were carrying these post to the film in does this ra choose and a site shows that it's not a real case and it's not a real frontier. and this whole thing was not true, but interesting is that this latest be do with these people carrying the post was mostly ignored by west media behind spreading the news. and even after it was clearly fake. they didn't even bother to, to remove this fake news from their painted thing else. i want to put out to the

reuters news agency. maria has seen questions raised for publishing an article using a photo claiming to show ukrainian soldiers on the front line. it, i think it's the sumi region, but the people in the picture they're carrying pink bowl guns. so that is pretty basic stuff, but can have huge ramifications as you were saying if it's believed yet again, this is information word that we're leaving and apart from having a real bloody will on the ground and stakes very high. who cares about the truth, but seriously like i without justifying, oh, at saft in it. thank news about military success is something that i can understand . you know, at least the aim is clear, but painful picture while you report on russians been repelled by ukrainians in similar region. i mean, to me, it's more like about disrespect to journalists. mm. as a whole and lack of professionalism. and if you read the comments to this, reuters tweet, you can understand the people. i mean, the ticket the same way i did. well, i never since when is a war being fought with pay ball guns,

or is this the new armaments that europe and the u. s a is paying billions for really at reuters. next time. get your photos correct. do you guys need to vet your images better? those are paint ball guns and masks. those aren't soldiers in combat. does anyone at reuters ever go to a shooting range or play pain ball? so yeah, it is a shame and you can see people a furious people are angry. but, you know, the saddest thing is that this is a blood to conflict and people from both sides are exhausted. not rotors, a tire, you know, may be on, you know, for reporting on ukraine. but people, they are a dying, they're suffering and they wanted to come to an end as soon as possible, and they want peace. and sometimes i think that we, as journalists as media community, we can try to help promote peace negotiations. you know, there were several rounds of talks, but eventually sadly stop. so we can try to do something to, to bring sides together to push them back to table. but we see the opposite. you

know, most of the media, they have fueling this conflict. and, you know, it doesn't help the u. s. senate has been working to expand is a war crime legislation to give us courts of jurisdiction over more international cases. washington has said it's a response to russia's military campaign in ukraine or cheese racial blevins comments. the united states congress is considering a new bill that would give american corps its powers to pursue individuals over allegations of war crimes committed in other countries. and they don't even have to be us citizens, perpetrators committing, unspeakable war crimes, such as those unfolding before our very eyes in ukraine must be held to account. we have the power and responsibility to ensure that the united states will not be used as a safe haven by the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. the new powers would expand the 1996 war crimes act was one really important distinction. americans no longer

have to be involved as a victim or the offender, but if the suspect steps vote on us soil, they can be tried in court. and there is no statute of limitations, meaning that the charges can never expire. while this change has been proposed before, it was always struck down in the past, over concerned that it would allow us to get a little too involved in other countries affairs. domestic prosecution based on universal jurisdiction could draw the united states into conflicts in which this country has no place and where our national interests are. slight. however, you as lawmakers appear to have had a change of heart, and they say it's all because of ukraine. well, american politicians on the freedom to target anyone in the world, they still don't want the world to put their soldiers on trial. any attempts to do so by the international criminal court have been met with severe backlash over the years, with the bush administration, even signing a bill into law to allow the use of military force in order for us personnel who

are detained by the i. c. c. while the u. s. isn't party to the court anyway, the trump administration actually went as far as going out sanctions against i. c. c. officials back in 2020 all because they plan to investigate the u. s. and its allies of, or allegations of war crimes, and i can't stand. so what justification did they give for those things? the president will not allow american citizens to be prosecuted by foreign bureaucrats. and he will not allow other nations to dictate our means of self defense. so it's ok for america to pursue and prosecute foreign citizens around the world as they see fit. but if america is alleged means of self defense, violate international law. and accountability is strictly off limits. american exceptionalism at its finest. in washington, rachel blevins, r t. the u. s. senate plans have come as the state department has launched a new program to analyze evidence of alleged war crimes in ukraine. the state

department has said the program will initially cost $6000000.00 and will examine satellite imagery as well as information shared on social media. russia denies targeting civilians, and has said that some suppose the scenes of war crimes in ukraine appear to have been staged. we asked international law professor francis boil on why the u. s. wants to expand its authority on a global level. so public relations exercise. part of what we are law professors called law fair using the law as a tool porter. i'm not denying war crimes might have been committed there by ukrainian forces and russian forces. this happens all the time in war, but this is not a good faith investigation by the united states. no, this is, this is law for using law as a to of warfare against the russian federation. certainly,

that's the way i interpreted. of course, there's nothing objective about united states government, investigating work crimes. went to the united states government, investigate more crimes and rac, where under bush senior they are killed about 200000 iraqis or in the iraq war 2 by bush junior, where they exterminated may be one point. $5000000.00 iraqis and bush and all the rest of his neocons are running around here. scott free. rising tensions between nato members, states, greece and turkey, as greece's prime minister, has used an address to the u. s. congress to recall numerous pass grievances with neighboring turkey. from an aerospace of violation to the invasion of cyprus, he called for the legislature to nicks a bag in administration, deal to sell advanced weaponry to turkey denouncing it as quote,

source of instability. the last thing that natal needs out of time, one of focus is on helping ukraine defeat russia's. aggression is another source of instability on nato's south eastern flank and ask you to take this into account when you make defense procurement decisions concerning the eastern mediterranean. the greek leader has been concerned about biden's proposal to approve $400000000.00 worth of weapons for turkey, including cutting edge missiles and equipment for anchors fleet of f. 16 fighter jets of the same time greece is processing a deal to buy the latest f $35.00 jets and i want to beats. but grace can be hardly called the only breaking point in relations between nato and turkey. as the main

agenda in brussels right now is to accept finland and sweden into the military block, but on cra, is against their membership based on the fact that both of those countries have supported forces. turkey defies as terrorists. now those northern countries, foreign minister, is reportedly planned to visit anchor to change its stance, but turkey appears, adamant in its concerns living in england. yes. how can we trust them? apparently they're coming to turkey on monday to are they coming to try and convince us? sorry, where yourselves out. above anything else during this process we cannot say yes to those who impose sanctions on turkey. on joining nato, which is a security organization, neither country sweden or finland has an open, clear stance against terrorist organizations. told on being a member of the military block does not mean that our grass should ignore its own national security. that's according to turkish university. professor virus, i'll be deli,

less has not yet our allies how big the conflict is. but gradually, the pressure from us at nate will increase because there is little like time left for the nato mother summit. and also the u. s. at nato made say, let's accept feel, and susan as members of nato, and then we will solve your problems. i have to say this is unacceptable solution for charging nato itself, one citizen and finance a membership more than these countries. because nato wants to close multi c to russia by turning the monk c into. and nate to late turkey has been supporting naples and management policy open door policy. mother, i have to say supporting nettles and lash pulse. it does not mean that

we will name new term g, ignore all national security. so that's, that says, see, with finance, how been supporting parents on the vicious against georgie, luda and sewell and hostile dinners, organizations enters at the home. the e commission has reportedly published a guidance on how member states can pay for russian gas as the block pushes forward . with its economic blockade against moscow, warning that opening ruble accounts could violate sanctions of the reported guidelines that advise maintaining payments in hard currency while letting us with russian entities convert them to roubles. you members, bulgaria and poland were earlier cut off from russian gas supplies. because they refused to pay in roubles to comply with a request by moscow. a france, germany, and slovakia have reportedly agreed to pay in euro's with subsequent conversions to

roubles. meanwhile, italian officials have even said that the country is ready to open. rouble denominated bank accounts to keep the gas flowing. italy's prime minister has underlined that the country's trade with russia remains in a gray area and is not currently violating the sanctions. there is no official pronouncement what it means to breed to breach sanctions. it's not, nobody's ever said anything about where the rules payments, breach sanctions, or no. it's such a gray soon. here, while the leaders debate about complying with russia's terms for gas payments in rubles, prices have searched that says the u. struggles with apparent shortages of natural gas supplies. amid the blocks attempts to cut energy dependence on moscow, russia is the president, putin has warned that if the you completely ends that russian fuel imports the

blocks economy could crash at guess what could i please get in the rejection of russian energy resources by europe means in the long term that the region will have the highest cost of energy in the world at, you know, it's apparent, the, as russian energy resources become destined for the areas. increasing economic activity will also move from europe to of the regions. this choice of economic suicide, of course, is an internal matter for european countries. we must act pragmatically and proceed with our own economic interests. fust. rudo cumby, the leader of environmentalists for nuclear energy, is convinced. there is no way for the you to cut its russian gas imports without going into a deep economic recession. it's an apparent paradox, but the situation for europe is that it is heavily dependent on its supply of gas. and the gas is very good throwing in the blood vessels, it is vital. therefore,

there is not really any choice than to accept the conditions that are caused by russia, even if publicly they continue to condemn many countries like france, have no cold, no gas or oil. europe has the vehicle energy, resources, 40 percent of the gas imports in europe. is coming from russia, so you can just write that away. do you need to continue to purchase russian gas? whatever is the means used to do it, it is needed. if it's not done, then it means energy will be lacking missing. and you're goes into deep economic recession as the cost of goods and services source in the us, americans are seeking answers for such high inflation. for many of them, including some of the richest people in the world, the figure is pointed firmly at the u. s. president and his administration, our case kill him up in comments. no one seems to be buying the biden ministrations

claim that the rising inflation is actually all the fault of russia. we have to rich man, no on mosque, and they those both speaking up and blaming bye for the increasing problem of inflation in the u. s. economy. here's what was said. they know inflation hurts the neediest to most, but unions aren't causing inflation and neither are wealthy people. remember, the administration tried their best to add another $3.00 trillion dollars to federal spending. they failed, but if they had succeeded, inflation would be even higher than it is today. and inflation today is that a 40 year high? the honest reason for inflation is that the government printed a zillion amount of more money than it had. this is not super complicated. this administration just doesn't seem to get a lot done. it's important to point out that jeff days, those is the owner of the washington post. he's a staunch democrat. you have a law mosque speaking there as well. and the 2 of them are blaming the by did ministration. now the situation is getting worse for americans. if you just look at the fafsa that this point that we're talking about,

8.3 percent rise and inflation in april. the producer price index is up 11 percent over last year. that's quite a significant increase. a goods are simply costing more. now we had the fox news. how is tucker carlson? lashing out at the biden administration for their handling of the economic situation in the united states. here's what tucker carlson said. people who run our economy in the us government cost inflation united states and they did it the old fashioned way by printing a ton of money very quickly. and that devalued our currency is printing a ton of money very quickly. always does. now a poll show that in taxes, for example, a half of the residents blame the biden administration for the rising costs, and that's to rating situation in the country. many americans are just not happy with the economic situation. they were led to believe that things would get better as the pandemic faded away, trump was supposed to have been responsible, and biden was coming in to save the day and fix things from trump's mismanagement.

but the economic situation seems to have deteriorated. a lot of americans are unhappy and mid term elections in which the united states will elect a new congress are approaching that people will be heading to the polls in november . so at this point, things don't look good for the democratic party of jo, by the main causes of inflation are very long standing policy of the united states and congress. and i would list 3 of 75 years of grossly excessive spending by congress on needed weapons and illegal unnecessary wars. incomplete incompetence of the so called federal reserve for the last 15 to 20 years or more. the reckless, foolish counter productive and self destructive economic sanctions. that the u. s. has placed on russia, china, iran, venezuela,

and many other countries. despite the ramp and inflation, the u. s. is said to pass its largest ukraine aid package yet on wednesday to send a total of about $40000000000.00 to kiff. but the list of lawmakers opposed to for their age to ukraine is growing 2 months ago. 3 republicans in the house of representatives voted against the 1st pro ukraine bill. whereas on tuesday, 57 republicans in the house supposed a request for weapons and humanitarian aid for chief. meanwhile, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has criticized fellow republicans opposing the aid as quote, isolationist voices. but democratic candidate, jeffrey young again also thinks that such an amount of military aid could be harmful. it's a disaster it's. it's completely wrong and

damaging. and if i had been in the us house of representatives, i would have been the only democrat to vote no. there is no way that this military aid can help defeat russia. that's impossible. it will only either be destroyed by russian missiles or fall into the hands of ukrainian nazis or that doesn't for me this hour. i will be back in about 33 minutes from other phone fresh look tuesday with our international ah. ah,

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ah, ah. hello and welcome to cross out. were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle, is the west sleep walking us all into world war 3. it sure looks like it continued nato expansion eastward, massive military aid for ukraine's and the drive to destroy russia's economy all point to a direct military conflict with moscow. did anyone vote for this cross starting the european war, i'm joined by my guess, ira flounders and jersey city. she is a co director of international action center in tasmania. we have had see he is a conflict consultant in a retired