ah, with one of the firing positions that the battalion you people fire back, you can look like a regular foxhole. but in fact, it isn't because there's a ton of running all the way under ground, under the spell, or corresponding report from the as of style. factory matter, you pull it when the last pocket of ukrainian fighters in the city, it's surrendered. russian and done. yet, forces are now in full control of the facility where you credit troops have been hold up for a month. ah, joe biden signed legislation to send $40000000000.00 to you create enough, despite the us driving with its highest inflation rates in for decades by to blame the price inflation on russia. but not all americans are buying into it. you can thank the activity of vladimir putin for invading ukraine and pulling as long as i

was with all due respect. madam secretary, that's utter nonsense. turkey opposes an attempt by sweden and finland to join nato . unless they address i'm power is security concerns. we look at the rising division within the mit. the western military alliance un calls for increased international efforts to help africa saw how region by 18000000 people on the brink of starvation, under persistent threats. a terrorist attack with welcome to the weekly here on our team. my name is peter scots, and these are some of the stories that shaped the week the last to pockets of ukrainian military resistance. i'm mary. opal has surrendered the as of style steel plants, which had been on the siege for almost 3 months. almost 2500 ukrainian troops have

don the arms of the facility in recent days. the captured ukrainian chiefs could face a tribunal for a legit crimes against civilians. moscow, as we affirm that those prisoners will be treated in line with international norms . ukraine has expressed hopes for exchanging them for captured russian troops. meanwhile, russian underneath forces have started a de mining operations of the as of salvatore ortiz egan has done a report from the facility is p, as of sal feel was recently this cesspit weren't new nazis and radicals of all shapes and flavors will lock to and sheltered both we are not season regularly pregnant with club. this is one of the fiery positions that the as a battalion you fire back, you can look like a regular foxhole. but in fact, it isn't because there's a tunnel running all the way under ground under the hostile seal works. so they k p

a months ago, and they were whiting here. frying were expecting key of expecting someone to save them and while evacuating them. but that didn't happen. eventually they received the order to brenda, so they did all 200000 of them. so essentially, yeah, but, but it may seem like a very strict with events, but also with struggled with evacuation. well, maybe that's how they come about mission. logically, and very few and some wrote it. some said it like it is they want to surrender. they chose to be prisoners of war. they are now in good hands of the medics and the next great republic. but they're telling me they've been telling us that their wounds, well, they're very poor state. they're infected because, well just because of the conditions that they've been staying at. but those who are healthy, well, they have been placed in penitentiary facilities of both the,

the next people's republic and russia. and there's been no question about what's going to happen to them with ration going on behind me because they bring the place as a believing. but as soon as this operation verbal progresses, well, i will definitely show you this place. i'm a guest on a proposal. he has of stealthy works. see some of the surrendered soldiers have been spotted with a parent, not seats at sous. some have a skull and bones image on their hands, mimicking the total comp symbol used by ss troops or the substitute resembling an iron cross. a german military ward of the 3rd rife among those who have surrendered him or you pull isn't as of battalion commander and has a close to look at the group ah, worth or just with

with i was arrested by the as often as be human. the bet me on the head and legs for the chain fired the gun close to my ear, threatened to shoot me the head or should my feet. they humiliated me and said they were going to rate me. they threatened to bring my wife and daughters in and talk

to them in front of me. i could not eat for 3 days. was one of those many battalions did the key of will need yield. they are what they are. while elsewhere on the front line russians, humanitarian workers have made a number of accusations against ukrainian authorities, treatments of the civilian population. moscow accused the credit army of neglecting the needs of the local population and even shelling residential buildings and killing civilians, including in the city of nikolai africa in the low ganske republic. ukraine hasn't yet commented. moscow also says that on saturday alone it's evacuated to the 20000 people away from the front line areas to russian territory in the northern ukrainian region of hard cove. a legit russian shelling has damaged several livings in the city of laza via ukrainian president the landscape official telegram channel had a video. all the shelling thing is we did 7 people including an 11 year old child which has not yet commented on those accusations for we discussed the latest

developments with the executive vice president of the region. sense a think tank rasmussen and investigative journalist edward sali, we've got a very, very, very strategic well plan, methodical approach being done by the russian army. we're located no credit given here and it's. ready lately, the opposite direction so, so from a media perspective, they don't want to necessarily surrendered. so i think is a very, very, very good approach that president took here and isolating the city, putting the, basically it's a prison. they are essentially in until they really had no choice either they star themselves or, or die of injuries or, or render some out this, this is a move that their leader should have done a long time ago. several weeks ago. the defeats of the forces are in the as

a still plan to install and to send it to mary opal. they represented what could be considered to be the most trained. most zealous, most committed forces that you're creating an army had. and also this is, it's a victory that of the entire world can't deny. right? it's something that has been a question here on the west for watching the war. one is able to factually or journalistically deny that the group, the thing placed on trial, the leaders, the soldiers during placed on trial are neo nazis who committed war crimes. the west will presented by ignoring it down playing it, and of course, condemning russia for carrying out these very just judicial actions. the united kingdom is reportedly planning to send weapons small dover to help the eastern european countries protect itself from a perceived rush and threats. however, with britain already arming ukraine,

a new media poll claims that london wants to keep that wall going for its own ends almost unnoticed by the world. the path to a cease fire is being complicated by some long distance belligerents, 3 top members of the united kingdom's government. prime minister boris johnson. foreign minister list trust and defense minister ben wallace have all starting the war in ukraine a boost to their political fortunes. u k has been among the strongest supporters of ukraine boys, johnston's even visit the key of to pledge his personal backing for the war effort . last week, london approved more than a 1000000000 pounds of military 8 ukraine with the senior u. k. officials even saying the key of can legitimately use western supply weapons to target russian territory. this comes as far as johnson's government is under increasing criticism at home of the party gates, a scandal in which he attended parties during covey, lo downs. but you k communist party secretary, robyn griffith, says the prime minister is using the war in ukraine to destruct away from crises back at home to really much in the interest of boyish johnson and those around him

. in fact, to see this, this conflict continue in ukraine so that he can continue to structure the place and appear on various stages around the world, posing as a great champion of the ukrainian people. of course, we know from goddess johnson's past record, the moment it suited him to pull the plug on our support for ukraine. he would do it. and that is, is a, there is a se, mentioned circulation in britain to some extent, which is the britain nato, and the united states. and the european union are prepared to defend ukraine to the last drop of ukrainian blood. so it really is, it's all looking ready, very cynical and although nobody is really calling johnson very strongly at the. ready moment i think that could change,

especially as the cost of living crisis gets worse. the government refuses to help people and we're sending 3000000000 pounds of military and other assistance to the ukranian government. joe biden has signed a $40000000000.00 a package for ukraine last, despite republican lawmakers warning there's a serious lack of oversight into way exactly that money might end up us congressman chip. roy emphasized that as america faces surging price, inflation and other problems that aid money would be better spent at home. and i'm wondering when we voted to go to or if we were going to have a proxy war and we're going to get $40000000000.00 to ukraine because we wanna what all fancy, what are blue and yellow ribbons? feel good about ourselves. maybe we should actually have a debate in this chamber, a debate in this body because the american people expect us to do that. when the border of this country is wide open in cartels have control of it. and fennel is boring in and we have $30.00 trillion dollars,

a debt and gas prices are spiking and 1100 hours to fill a tank, a diesel. and we go when jack $40000000000.00. and by the way, i'm looking at my colleagues on this side of the aisle on that same point, many americans are serving to meets even their most basic needs as the annual inflation rates in the country remains close to a 40 year high. the producer price index, which trucks much how much manufactures gets for products are their initial sale, was 11 percent from a year ago. now that's according to the bureau of labor statistics. and you are so thought these are trying to lay the blame squarely on russian president vladimir putin with the us inflation crisis started along before the war ukraine, as ortiz kelly, balkan explains, it's all putin's fault. they're saying it over and over. i'm gonna do everything i can to minimize prudence, price hike here at home. you may have noticed this week that your gas prices have gone up. i want to talk to you a little bit about why a lot of it has to do with latimer putting in. it is really cool. is price hike in

terms of gas prices continuing to go in the wrong direction. it is good tag, this is what we're talking about. the data actually shows prices had been rising for quite some time. they did not start with events in ukraine. some people are actually looking into the facts, checking the data. you can thank the activity of vladimir putin for invading ukraine and pulling us oh, nice those with all due respect. madam secretary, that's utter nonsense. in january of 2021, the average gas price of my state was $2.07. 8 months later, 8 months later, long before vladimir putin invaded ukraine, that price was up over 30 percent and it has been going up consistently. since alley is pointing out, that biden should be shouldering some of the blame his administration's energy policies have not exactly been a stimulus cancelling leases, pushing windmills and solar panels stopping drilling. all of that is going to lead

to energy prices going up. the biden is sticking with these policies. moving to your just proud a statement. and the statement basically says a proposed program is not a decision to issue specific places or to authorize any drilling or development. this is from y'all's office. so it looks like you're on his shut everything down that you know your for to i am, i am sorry i, i am sitting in this hearing and, and not my god, somebody this shuts down the american people are getting pretty sick of this. polls show that they don't buy the idea that russia is to blame, or that it's their patriotic duty to accept all of this out of blind love for ukraine. bumper stickers at gas poms across the country are giving joe biden, some of the credit. he apparently deserves white house, wants to blame inflation on the russia, ukraine war in eastern europe. but the u. s. itself went to war in iraq and afghanistan and more, and we didn't see inflation like this from it. joe biden. inflation isn't my fault

. it's because of putin's price hike. okay. also joe biden, and you get 40000000000 and you get 40000000000 and you get 40000000000. it's not putin's price hike. let's call it what it really is. bite inflation. the buck ends with me, but putins price hike and everybody is responsible for the huge mess i created, except for me as biden's, popularity keeps sinking amid controversial economic policies. one has to wonder how long before he blames that on putin as well. caleb martin, r t new york. and another news this week form a u. s. president george w bush and waltz. he dismissed as a slip of the tongue condemned the quotes unjustified unfruitful invasion of iraq. he then quickly declared that he meant ukraine and not the rock and human rights watch said he was the freud instead of the century. the result is an absence of checks and balances in russia and the decision of one man to

launch a holy, unjustified, and brutal invasion of iraq. i mean, of ukraine. correct. anyway, i talked about a freudian slip, i think that's the mother of all. freudian slips a really exposes the whole hypocrisy of the situation that we're in right now. is that men like george bush and women like honda? lisa rice, they've killed i. who knows, really, i don't think will ever know the true number, but in the millions, literally in the millions of people in there a war on terror. because that's they are the ones who started the war on terror. and that's been used to bomb 19 different countries, the authorization for the use of military force. and there was passed in the days after $911.00 and they're still using to this day. that's the u. s. law, it's not an international law. it doesn't have any legal basis outside the borders of the united states. this is the twilight zone that we're in is that if you invade countries and you bon countries and you kill a 1000000 people, but you do it as the british and americans. it's okay. you're, you're

a liberator if you're russia and you're not allowed to have security concerns and you're war criminal and it's very clear cut as this guy ever received as much of a bad rap as they're getting put in right now. no, no, he certainly hated, but not, not to this level. i mean, no one band americans from buying houses in the, you know, in band american food or american trees or american cats or american music. no, none, none of this happened. there's nothing like that in europe. or, or in the west, he got away with it and he's standing up there now giving lectures about about invasions took. he said he will oppose finland unsweetened, jody nate. so that's unless the 2 noted countries address on cars concerns about what this is of port fall, what he calls terrorist organizations, finland and sweden applied for membership this week mark and it ends their long history of neutrality. now, philadelphia, quite long border with russia searcy has demanded the finland and sweden deal with kurdish militants allegedly hard. but in those nordic states,

western leaders have expressed confidence that on cars objections will not be a roadblock for the membership process, and it does take all 30 nato members to agree on a missing a new country ortiz. rachel blevins has more on the story. nato is back in the headlines as the u. s. fights for finland and sweden to become the newest members of the alliance. but not everyone is on board with the plan which brings up the importance of nato's democratic system, where everyone gives a say and everyone works together. neither promotes democratic values and enables members to consult and cooperate on defense and security related issues to solve problems build trust and in the long run prevent conflict. a native decision is the expression of the collective will of all 30 member countries. since all decisions are taken by consensus, in this case, the nina lender, who objects to washington's plan is turkey, as it accuses finland and sweden at ties to groups. it considers terrorists here these terrace designation for the courtesy and workers party or p k k. and it's

affiliate has also created conflict with the u. s. as washington has supported kurdish rebels in syria. and that's not the only area of contention between the nato allies as a media attacks on turkey kicked off, they reminded the public that the u. s. still hasn't forgotten about one turkey signed the deal. the purchase rushes as 400 air defense systems back in 2017. when you can't win by traditional rules, go around them. there was a lot of thought given toward banishing turkey from nato anyway, especially after president air dawn bought russian s 400 air defense systems from moscow 3 years ago. perhaps now is precisely the moment simply to stand up to these loan strong men who have managed to burrow their way deeply into democratic institutions. and while nato was on the hunt for new members, turkey's disagreement with washington hasn't even led column as in canada to call for it to be expelled from the alliance altogether. expelled, took it from nato, that should resolve multiple challenges until now. turkey has been

a 5th column of islamism embedded within the west to undermine it. that sentiment can also be found in europe, where a guest on polish tv argue that turkey would be better off and in alliance with russia. next time, turkey, let it go to russia, go to china, let it go to long. good. now, if you're wondering whether it's possible for nato to get rid of one of its members, well, this isn't the 1st time media talking heads have attempted to put turkey on the chopping block or a made the argument that it is perfectly legal for the country to be expelled from the alliance and it turns out nato isn't the only one looking to get rid of its core democratic principles when they get in the way. european union is also openly questioning whether it should keep similar policies in place, which is notable as some member states accuse hungary of holding the block hostage . because it won't agree with their plan to impose an oil embargo against russia. i have always argued that unanimity voting in some key areas simply

no longer makes sense if we want to be able to move past. so given these calls to silence and even block, those who challenge the plans of the loudest voices and an alliance when it would appear, those voices only favor democracy when they're getting their way in washington. rachel blevins r t the un, how's cold for increased international efforts? to help africa saw held region where an estimated 18000000 people are on the brink of starvation, the winds, assistance section general for the continent has sounded the alarm over the persistent threats of terrorist attacks in the mid african region. it leaves terrorism and insecurity continue to spread devastating the lives of millions of people. civilians are often the main victims of terrorist acts. the suffering and loss of civilian populations at the hands of terrorist grapes is indescribable. but

future generations will also pay the price of over a decade. this belt of land under the so hard as it has been trapped in violence. the region is home from the world's deadliest service groups such as al qaeda and let me state affiliates which continue to stage attacks killing civilians and government soldiers last year. death from terrorism in the style region, accounts for 35 percent of the global total and international authorities have failed to prevent an escalation in the violence. funds recently scaled down is engagement in the region from its former colonial state molly and we spoke with an associate professor at the university of south africa. we show the crisis in the south hell has actually stemmed from the foreign interference in the region. carol, he's in continued to continue to exist in dr. jim because they're in nature. i'm just doing gardening was of immediate. tar. he stayed time soon. we are a little bit range in miley colonizing day. and

a susie and our veterans, all the west and forces. awfully gar, in disney gotten mildly the main unstable their continent. oddly got the mains on. the board you goes over here is all the western countries, those international forces when they enter, then most of them the tim. com, they're refis it in or but large and i and i, jen, dies not on bonds in the as of deluca. but there are 2 port, take the interest of their west and county and does it inform them we find who we need to and i stand on. yes, there will be in general conflict among the people of the same issue. but my argument is that the most of the cases, the divisions are freely from outside by external forces. france has called on libby as a rival governments to sit down for negotiations for the recent round of armed crushes in the capital. tripoli. i want to say, paris was the 1st to order,

explains to bomb libya, ger nato's 2011, a miniature intervention, which helped to toppled the government of long time. neither mom it as a momma gadhafi, it turns the our big country into state of turmoil ortiz room across reports. a decade after the western military intervention, the libyan capital, tripoli has once again descended into chaos as gunfights breakout between rival factions. a stability vanished from libya as soon as its longtime leader, more mar, gadhafi was violently murdered, and the country tumbled into a civil war. the latest standoff is between in yula appointed prime minister 5,

he by sugar and arrival premier abdul hamid de baber. but chicago was named prime minister by the country's east base parliament in february, but his un backed rival. the bay bar is based in tripoli, and it has refused to step down. but sugars arrival in tripoli sport a gun fight, and he later made a decision to leave the capital. despite our peaceful entry to tripoli, without the use of violence or force of arms and our reception by the r, will people of tripoli, we were surprised by the dangerous military escalation carried out by armed groups affiliated with the outgoing government. libya hasn't seen a lasting peace in over 10 years. the countries crises of legitimacy failure to hold elections and constance civil conflicts have already transpired inside humanitarian catastrophe. the united nations says more than 800000 libyans now required targeted humanitarian assistance migrant to sign m. c. kits and refugees

in libya including size and return to libya by the libyan coast guard. after being intercepted at sea while trying to reach europe faced arbitrary detention during which many reportedly experienced ill treatment, sexual assault, forced labor and extortion bound groups, smugglers and traffickers. for some reason, nearly all of the latest recipients of so called american democracy happened to be oil rich countries or had some sort of other natural riches to offer libya was no exception. once a major regional economic flare, it's struggling to day learn moxie commercial production has fallen by about 600000 barrels day losses or at least 60000000 daily. what this be happening if the unprovoked military intervention in libya, by a us led coalition had never taken place, would the country have collapsed and the multiple arm groups thrived. if gadhafi

was phillip bower is hard to say, since the responsible party, nato always seems to disguise its regime change operations. with good intentions, nato played a vital role in protecting civilians and i'm proud of what we have achieved. we did the right thing in the right way and we achieved the right result. i saw that with my own eyes in tripoli. the united states certainly isn't one to admit any wrong doing in its actions. washington may refuse and deny and continue to say it champions verges. even if the whole world robs the american know this in their errors. i'll say these for the need been people. i think president obama made the right decision at the time, and the only been people had to free election the 1st time since 951. and you know what the voted from moderates. they voted with the help of democracy. and now, after 11 years of conflict unleashed by and they though, and the united states,

do the citizens of libya have any hope left for such a democracy? or those the new stories that shape the weaker on our, to internationalize peter scott's on the back again with another look at the top of the hour for ah ah

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic and development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult. i'm time to sit down and talk ah, ah ah

ah, you started the war against the dumbass republics in 2014, but the authorities didn't take civilian casualties into consideration. ukrainian armed forces moved remorselessly towards that goal. taking control of the rebel regions capital was done as new guns really or of course i mean be what there is to use going was level of a bunch of almost something. what are the blog.