ah mm ah, this is one of the fiery positions that the eyes of battalion you fire back. you may look like a regular fox all. but in fact, it isn't because the tunnel running all the way under ground under the cause of our correspondent report from the other stall, fight chamber, you pull away. the last pockets of ukrainian fighters in the city has surrendered. bush and underneath forces are now in full control of the facility where ukrainian troops have been hiding for months. joe biden signs legislation to send $40000000000.00 to you cray enough, despite the u. s. store being with his highest inflation rates in for decades. bite and blames 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 opposed as an attempt by sweden and finland to join nato, unless they address encore, a security concerns. we look at the rising division within the western military alliance and the un calls for increased international efforts to help africa saw held legion way. 18000000 people are on the brink of starvation under a persistent threat of terrorist attack. with committee alive from our headquarters right here in the russian capital. you're watching the weekly here on our international. my name is peter scott. and here are the top stories from the week just on the last pockets of ukrainian military resistance. emer, you pull out, surrendered at the as of stall

a steel plants which had been under siege for almost 3 months. almost 2500 ukrainian troops have laid down the arms of the facility in recent days, of the captured ukrainian troops could face a tribunal for legit crimes against civilians. moscow has reaffirmed that all those prisoners will be treated in line with international norms. ukraine has expressed hopes to exchange them for captured russian troops. meanwhile, russian underneath forces have started the mining operations of the as of style facility ortiz, eager to join us reports from that factory. this is the, as of so few words. recently this says weren't new nazis and radicals of all shapes and flavors will lock 2 and shelton. both we are not season regularly breaking. for example, if you with this is one of the fiery positions that the eyes of battalion use, people fire back, you can look like

a regular foxhole. but in fact, it isn't because it's tunnel running all the way under ground under the hostile seal work. so they k p a months ago and they were waiting hear, trying were expecting key of expecting for someone to save them, all of them. but that didn't happen. eventually they received the order to rent it, so they did all the $200000.00 of them. so essentially, yeah, but, but it may seem like a very strict would event spots out with he is struggling with evacuation. well maybe that's how they come about mission logically and very few or some wrote it. some said it like it is they surrendered. they chose to be prisoners of war. they are now in good hands of the medics and the internet. people, republics. 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 minutes people's republic and russia. and there's been no question about what's going to happen to them. a ration going on behind me because they bring the places leaving. but as soon as this operation firm and progress as well, i will definitely show you more of this place. i think it's donna proposing the as of style still works. ok. see some of the surrendered soldiers have been spotted with the parent nazi tattoos. some have a school and bones image on their hands, mimicking the totes and cop symbol used by assess troops or those have the thieves resembling an iron cross. a german miniature ward of the 3rd reich. among those who have surrendered imaginable is an as of battalion commander and his a closer look at the group itself. ah, with

with i was arrested by the as often as the human. the bet me on the head and legs for the chain fired the gun close to my ear,

threatened to shoot me in the head or to 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 o'neil. they are what they are will elsewhere on the front line, russian humanitarian workers have made a number of accusations against the cranial authorities, treatments of the civilian population. both goes accused the ukrainian army of neglecting the needs of the local population on even shelling residential buildings and killing civilians, including in the city of nikolai africa in little ganske republic. now ukraine hasn't commented on those allegations yet. moscow stays on saturday alone. it's evacuated. another 20000 people away from phone line areas to russian territory in the northern ukrainian region of har curved, legit russian shelling has damaged several buildings in the city of laza via ukrainian president. zalinski is official telegram channel had a video of the shelling and he wouldn't 7 people including an 11 year old child,

which hasn't commented on those accusations either. now, western media outlets have frequently been portraying the ukrainian minutes to surrender at not equals as of style factory as an evacuation for marine corps intelligence analysts, scott bits. it says the technology is part of a battle of how the warring sides are perceived. the reality is, so it doesn't take a huge stretch of the imagination to paint on the defense of murray, a pool, and as of stall plants as heroic and to use this is a rallying cry. and this is a battle perception over reality. you know, the perception of an evacuation implies that there was a negotiation and here was able to prevail in the negotiation to successfully extricate the defenders of murray, a full trauma, the russian grasp. i think that's why that they're portrayed that this way because

to say otherwise that this was a desperate plea for survival. and that the only reason why the defenders are mario full or alive today is because of the humanitarian nature of, of russia. ukraine can admit this, that would be to admit defeat. so ukraine is spinning in a way that makes it look as though ukraine somehow won this battle and was able to negotiate the evacuation of the survivors. united kingdom is reportedly planning to send weapons to moldova, to help these european country protect his cell phone, perceived russian threats both with britson already arming ukraine. an immediate poll claims in london wants to keep the war 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 sat in the

war in ukraine, a boost to their political fortunes. now the u. k. has been among the strongest supporters of ukraine boys, johnson, even visitor care to pledge his personal backing for the war efforts. last week, london approved more than a 1000000000 pounds of military a to ukraine, with some senior u. k. officials even saying the key of can legitimately use western supply weapons to target russian territory. this comes as boys. johnson's government is under increasing criticism of home over the party gave scandal, in which he attend to parties joined covey, low downs, where you k communist party secretary, robyn griffith, says the prime minister is using the one ukraine to discharge 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 stretch around 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 his name is a, there is a sameness in 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 stroke of ukrainian blood. a, it's all looking very, very cynical, and although nobody is riley calling johnson very strongly at the 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. meanwhile, joe biden assigned

a $40000000000.00 aid package for ukraine despite republican lawmakers wanting. there's a serious lack of oversight into where exactly that money might end up. you with congressman chip. roy emphasized that america face a surging price inflation under the problems that a 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 look all fancy with our 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 and cartels have control of it. and fennel is pouring in and we have $30.00 trillion dollars, a debt and gas prices are spiking and $1100.00 to fill a tank, a diesel. and we go blank, 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 struggling,

some meets even their most basic needs is the annual inflation rates in the country remains close to 40 year high. the producer price index, which tracks how much manufactures get full products at their initial sale, rose 11 percent from a year ago, and that's according to the bureau of labor statistics. a u. s. oath ortiz are trying to lay the blame on bushes president, buddy nathan with the us inflation crisis. stuff had long before the warn ukraine, as ortiz kennimore and explains. it's all putin's fault, they're saying and over and over i'm going to do everything i can to minimize prudence, price i care 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 vladimir putin. it is really cool. is price hike in terms of gas prices continuing to go in the wrong direction. it is blue tags, like 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 as long as 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 for move. interiors is proud a statement. and the statement basically says a proposed program is not a decision to issue specific leases or to authorize any drilling or development. this is from y'all's office. so it looks like you are on his shut everything down

that, you know, york with the i am, i am sorry, i am sitting in this hearing and, and not my god, somebody that 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. whitehouse 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. in the news this week, former us president george bush and most he dismissed as a slip of the tongue condemned the quote and justified on brucell invasion of iraq . he then quickly declared, he meant to say, ukraine, not iraq, but human rights watch that it was the freudian slip of the century. the result is an absence of checks and balances in russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly 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 i'll ever know the true number, but in the millions, literally in the millions of people in there, a war on terror, cuz 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 that was passed in the days after 911, and they're still using to this date. 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 bomb countries and you kill a 1000000 people, but you do it as the british and the americans is 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 giving 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 was 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. turkey has said he will oppose finland on sweden joining nato unless it's, you know, to countries address on cars, concerns about what's the support for it calls terrorist organizations. finland, unsweetened applied for membership, this week mark and an end to their long history of neutrality. of fernando, quite a long border with russia and turkey amended the finland, unsweetened de, with kurdish militants, allegedly have it in those nordic states. western leaders have expressed confidence though 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 new country joining autism. rachel blevins has more 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 a plan which brings up the importance of nato's democratic system, where everyone gives us a and everyone works together. native promotes democratic values and enables members to consult and cooperate on defense and security related issues to solve problems still 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, and in this case the nino member who objects to washington's plan is turkey, as it accuses finland and sweden at ties to groups. it considers terrorists here, these terrorists 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 winter design, a 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 as 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. target has been a 5th column of islamism, imbedded 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. oh, turkey meadow, let it go. when i go to china, let it go too long. 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 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 members accuse hungary of holding the law 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 you silent and even block those who challenge the plans of the loudest voices and an alliance well and it would appear those royces only favor democracy when they are

getting their way in washington. rachel blevins r t. moving on now, the un has cold for increased international efforts to help africa saw held region where an estimated 18000000 people are on the brink of starvation. you ins, assistance, equity general for the continents. how sounded the alarm of the persistent threats of terrorist attacks in the mid african region. it delays 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 groups as indescribable. but future generations will also pay the price over a decade. now this belt of land under this, how does it has been trapped in violence? the region is home, some of the world's deadliest terrorist groups, which continue stage attacks killing both civilians and government soldiers. last year, death from terrorism in the south region accounted for 35 percent of the global

total. and international authorities have so far failed to prevent an escalation in the violence. almost a 1000000 people have been forced to flee the countries due to looming dangers. with another nearly 3000000 internally displaced. we spoke with an associate professor at the university of south africa. he was sure the crisis is actually stemmed from the foreign interference in the region general his him continued to continue to exist in that region because the original nature i'm just doing gotten it was off immediate. tardies did talk soon. the are i little bit friends in miley colonizing dead, and susie and our veterans all the west and forces. our fleet are in disney gotten mildly the main unstable. their content end of the got remains on goes over here is all the western countries, those international choices. when they enter,

then most of them they came from there we visited or about lodge and i and i, jen dies not on bonds in de luca. but there are 2 port, take the interest of their west and county and does it inform them we find. we need to understand our yes, there will be in general conflicts among the people of the same issue. but my argument is done. most of the cases, the divisions are freely from outside by external forces and finally, francais, cold on libya's rival governments to sit down for negotiations as falling a recent round of armed clutches in the capital, tripoli. but ironically, powers was the 1st order, is planes to bomb the b a join nato is a 2011 military intervention which held the top of the government of long timely debt. more market, duffy, i plunged the arab country into a decade of time on ortiz rome, across every port a decade after the western military intervention, the libyan capital,

tripoli has once again descended into chaos. as gun fights break out between rival factions a good deal, etc. vanished from libya as soon as its long time leader more mar gadhafi was violently murdered and the country tumbled into a civil war. to later stand off is between newly appointed prime minister. 5 key by sugar and arrival premier abdul hamid baber. but chicago was named prime minister by the country's eas, based 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 country's crisis of legitimacy failure to hold elections and constant civil conflicts have already transpired. info, humanitarian catastrophe. the united nations says more than $800000.00 libyans now require targeted humanitarian assistance. migrant to sign m. c. k and refugees in libya including size and return to libya by the libyan coast guard as to being intercepted, i see 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 and major regional economic flare, it's struggling to day learn moxie can oil production has fallen by about 600000 barrels a 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 still in, 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 wrongdoing in its actions. washington may refuse and deny and continue to say it champions virtues, even if the whole world robs the american noses 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 has a free election the 1st time since 1951. and you know what they voted from moderates. they voted with the help of democracy. and now, after 11 years of conflict unleashed by a nato and the united states, do the citizens of libya have any hope left for such a democracy. nazarov phenomenon is peter scott's, and i'll be back again at the top of the hour with another rundown of the weekly here and our to international blue

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