[000:00:00;00] a with that done yet, the people's republic says it's gained control of 220 localities from ukrainian forces since the war erupt. 3 months ago. and russia doubled down on terrorism accusations against ski of troops in the dumbass. protesters demands at stricter gun control laws after yet another mass shooting at this time, at a school in texas, tens of shock waves through the nation and the political tensions in pakistan flare up after hundreds of members of the outed prime ministers party have been arrested with 2 reportedly killed in classes with police. with broadcasting lab,

direct my studios in moscow. this is art international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now the don, yet people's republic has announced that its allied russian lead forces have taken control of 220 localities since the conflict ruptured in february. the port city of marble is the largest of those places pictured as a former ukrainian artillery position at the as of stall steel factory, which was the epicenter of 2 months of intense fighting in mario. this is footage of a recently taken village near the town of nova care which ukrainians have nicknamed new york. the village has recently been under continuous shelling by key of forces in the neighboring lucon square public ukrainian military attack on a town killed 3 people and wooded 14 on friday. meanwhile, russia's defense ministry has double down on claims that key of forces have been engaging in terrorism against civilians, particularly on accusations that ukrainian neo nazis have called for genocide

against russian and greek minorities in the dance republic. british journalist, steve sweeney, who recently visited you can says he faced arrest and death threats while reporting there is your history. with my colleague unit o'neill earlier, i thought it pulls it to go. i'm actually inside you create and to try and get to the truth about what's happening there because as your views and, and your cell will be what to where the british media reporting is now incredibly restricted. so you have the, the times, the telegraph, guardian, the b, b, c channel for guy news. all really were producing identical reports from kevin, from live, but don't deviate a tool from the, from, from the government, bind from the data line on, on what's happening. so i thought was a journalist really is mine, my job, my duty is to report the truth, the truth, the truth matters. so that was why i thought it was important to,

to get in the report on the ground. and there was a number of stories ready to i wanted to check out. i traveled in to live in western ukraine. i travelled in from, from poland where, you know, that crossing is, is still open. and i have to say that the 1st thing that struck me really was on my coach on the way. and i was opposite and with a tattoo of a gun on his face, dressed in fatigues. now, you know, we don't really judge by we shouldn't really judge by appearances, but yeah, i think that told me really everything that i needed it needed to know before i even entered and, and the city itself was essentially full of fascists and mercenaries. people in the military fatigues using civilian transport networks to enter and to ukraine. i'm whether any checks on those people are getting in any questioning as to where they were going, etc. i mean these, these people, this is the, i'm

a read is that the people the addressed in military fatigues and then coming to fight on the ukrainian side. a welcome with open arms so that they rolled the red copper on the back and you don't treat it as a hero and not see harmony i went in on with a pendant camera and you know, what happened to me was very stark contrast. i mean, if i was going with it sheet for 2 years and a gun, i said i'm going to kill russians then i would have been very made very welcome. instead, what happened to me once i was told that, you know, aust quizzed about my business in ukraine. told i was a spy. told that i would be a, i rested and tortured. and the indication was possibly worse than that, which means that they would have potentially killed me. great ether being made to whitewash this will rehabilitate the the as office either like having no influence

in ukraine or or, or being just simply misunderstood nationalists. i deconstructed this and the b b. c showed what i could only describe as a 9 minute master classic fascism does a denial. as russian forces make advances, interview crenan, conflict. western nations are continuing to push their same old rhetoric, calling for ukraine to accept know terms of a quote dictated peace and to fight until the end. despite the obvious signs that the key of forces seemed to be losing ground, r t corresponded among causal reports. brushes, recent advances amid the conflict in ukraine have split western politicians into 2 camps. some are calling on key of to accept moscow's demands to reach a quicker piece. others are pushing key of to flight fill. the last man standing more weapons, no talks, no compromise. this is a very strong signal to all other aggressors potential criminals,

that if you commit a crime and you are not destroyed within 3 months, then everything is in order. everything can stay like that, or the startles of violence. i know that we also agree on this point. we're not doing anything that would make nato a party to the conflict. that would mean a direct confrontation between nuclear powers. it is rather a matter of making it clear to prudent that there will be no dictated peace. ukraine will not accept that, and neither will we know dictated thee, says the german chancellor, but the reality on the ground says otherwise. in the next republic, thousands of ukraine's most experienced troops are now close to encirclement. the forces of villa ganske republic have almost completely regained control of the republic. saratoga re, russian forces are making advances in the south and the north ends. all the western funding and weapons sent to the key of regime doesn't seem to be helping to change the situation. on the front lines, we'll break around the bull bull temp we've lost to the russian army in terms of

pace. the russian side has managed to gather its reserves before we could put, were lagging behind. and that makes the situation at the front extremely difficult . ukraine's soldiers have been surrendering by the thousands and have scathing words for their leadership. although it was the best option for us when we heard the military vehicles coming, we took off our helmets and body armor and went out. or she's like wheel secretary . absolutely no one wanted to fight. we all wanted to leave. they said you're the border patrol. they won't make you fight, but they deceived us and sent us here. want the full show in mid march. i received an order from the brigade commander to dig a trench. they needed it to bury about 50 of our soldiers. among them were my friends. it turned out the commander simply covered up the losses and then lied to the families of those who were killed. even the west, steve sat main cheerleaders, and armed suppliers are starting to doubt the chances of their ally. putin,

at great cost to himself and to, to rush movies, continuing to chew through ground. in dawn vass, he's continuing to make a gradual, slow, but i'm afraid palpable progress. so why did the weapons and money keep flowing? if for many realised they're fighting for a lost cause? the truth seems quite obvious ends and will rather sad. key of and their friends in the west are pursuing a so called scorched earth policy and the dumb boss to leave as much infrastructure destroyed. and as many civilians effected as possible before their retreat and leave it to russia to deal with a group of legal experts has accused russia violating a un convention against genocide. they say it's an independent analysis. and the 1st official, such allegations against russia since the ukraine conflict erupted in february, our senior correspondent august, you have examined the quince? well, they claim to be entirely independent. they say that all of their financing comes

from within the united states, but then you look at the roles list, the staff listed. most senior staff are well that they're, they're familiar crowd. there are all people who have worked for the united states state department for the pentagon, for the u. s. military, that people from stratford, which is known as the shadow cia there, there from the atlantic council, which is rapidly anti anti russian. i think tag, which for years is called for, for more and more hawkish behavior by the united states and its allies against russia. nevertheless, the news lives institute doesn't, doesn't make any secret of what its mission is and that is the fashion and to enhance u. s. foreign policy, our purpose is to shape you as foreign policy based on a deep understanding of regional g i, politics and the value systems of those regions. well, they're, they're alleging that russia and this is their, the,

their words in the russia could reasonably be accused of genocide, of all intent to commit genocide. now they, they may call all sorts of arguments which are entirely based on ukraine's point of view and what ukranian officials and ukrainian media, both of which are in war propaganda mode of said, citing examples of various as they say, atrocities carried out by, by russian troops that there was no sort of any effort to verify the thing, no sort of effort to, to check whether this actually happened or whether this is just as it seems. entirely war propaganda from ukrainian pundits anonymous witnesses and the likes. it would be interesting if for this report had mentioned the sorts of things that ukrainian officials have said, i want the word russians to be forgotten in the carcass region. i want the word

russians to be forgotten in the loo dance can donate sick regions. we have a full moral right to kill these non humans all over the world, calmly and with a completely clear mind over an unlimited amount of time and in the largest possible quantities. if they had been investigating ukraine's intent to commit genocide against russia, they would, i guarantee you have had a much more solid case because what their case rests on his by accusing rush of the intent to commit genocide. they say they're facts to improve, to back this up is the bladder, mere putin and several russian officials of over the years said the ukraine and russia, a brotherly nation. that they are one people. and you know, in this is a stretch of facts, a stretcher. and exercise, you know, in self deception, to claim that because russia says that ukraine and russia, ukrainians, and russians are one people,

it means that motions want to erase you gradient culture and the ukranian identity, which couldn't be further from the truth. there's a plethora of disinformation and miss made that miss statement of facts in this report. basic basic fact. and the end result is that the united states that the boardman, than us media can and again wave about a shoddy report. that twists absolutely everything. it can twist to accuse russia of a genocide based on the testimony of ukrainian officials. former senior pentagon security policy analyst, michael maloof says conflicts like the one unfolding in ukraine are almost impossible to independently analyze. i think given all the sides that are involved in, in this conflict, i don't know that you can actually come up with a so called independent report or an analysis. and there's always going to be influences from various groups and entities in coming up with these kinds of

reports. it's curious that the allegations that they are saying against russians are perpetrating themselves from the ukrainian side in the eastern portion of the of ukraine. namely, hitting infrastructure and given the comments that were just made. i don't think it's a genocide at all. it is the fog of war, and it is war. and it's, you don't have what you had in the rwanda situation, where there was a concerted effort by one tribe to eliminate and annihilate every member of another tribe. you just don't have that here. so i think it's gross exaggeration. it is a, a narrative that you're trying to push and it doesn't, it still does not fulfill the very definition of what is regarded as genocide under the geneva conventions. in spite of the fact that many,

many lives have been lost. it texas law and for spent official acknowledged on friday that officers made critical mistakes in responding to the mass shooting which left 19 children dead. the tragedy has caused a wave of protests with several 100 demonstrators recently, gathering outside an event of the us national rifle association. to demand stricter, gun control loss of demonstrations have erupted after a massive shooting took place in texas earlier this week when it's in new jersey, killed 19 students and 2 teachers at a school and wounded 17 others. there haven't been more than 200 shootings in the u . s. this year. people blame the national rifle association and tax laws that allow teenagers to get guns. but some us sen say that there's a link with russia saying that russians are sponsoring the association. the dark money operation run by the national rifle association. it has immense if secretive political clout,

it's impossible to track the money flowing in and out of the r a because it's not properly disclosed. but there has been evidence. step russian money has flowed into the r a and we heard from investigative journalist, rick sterling, who thinks that these shootings are a symptom of toxicity in american society. i think most americans would look very skeptically at their blaming and blaming russia for the events in all the texas. there is a lot of pressure and criticism of the national rifle association. and beyond that, the weapons industry, which has been profiting, what's much less criticized is the defense industry, which of course is, is the, is the elephant in the room. and to with their recent, the congressional decision of $40000000000.00 of weapons and other resources to, to ukraine. i think a lot of people are fed up with the,

with the violence. i think it's definitely the case that this is symptomatic. the problem isn't just that a problem teenager could buy weapons, but it's really a symptom of a sick society. in some ways, the violence, the alienation, the individual ism, they're all shown in these roofing events. what seem to be happening every few weeks now? and when it comes to other acute problems, like searching inflation, higher energy prices and a global food crisis. western powers are trying to find a scape goat, seemingly refusing to accept that they themselves could be to blame in any way or the contributor rachel marston examines these issues. a new line among western lead seems to be that russia is responsible for the entire on the most. even those that predate the conflict in ukraine, invoking the impact of the ukraine conflict on energy and prices. as we look at the

global gdp, it's hard right now to see how we avoid a recession. but wait a minute. why did marginalizing russia economy supposed to be a minor detail or russia know being set up to take the blame for decisions made by western leaders themselves? putin's invasion of ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world. ukraine and russia are the one and 2 largest wheat producers in the world where 3 they are shut down. we saw that in yesterday's inflation data. but western media headlines all throughout buy in change is told and walks a delicate line on inflation. cnn. that's a month, it's joe biden. inflation said the wall street journal in march of this year, but not according to joe biden. it isn't. it's felt and united nations secretary general antonio debt is also set last week that russia is causing global hunger and uneven recovery from the pandemic. as already puts many developing countries on

the brink of dep default and restrictive sex to financial markets. and now the russian invasion, ukraine, exemplifying the so they think all these factors, climate change covered 19 and the an equality. but western supermarket shock suffered from supply chain problems related to labor shortages linked to the coven . 19 pandemic m related restriction and post by western government. well before the conflict in ukraine, global food systems, experts here banker highlighted and recent un security council meeting. i want to start by explicitly saying that the russia, ukraine war did not start the food security crisis. it simply added fuel to a fire that was long burning. a christ this we detected tremors. from long before the coven 19 pandemic exposed the fidelity of our supply chains. russia, and even be blamed for a potential increase in global carbon emissions. that's right,

global warming. the rationale is that western nations are now pledging to build new infrastructure to welcome yeah, shipments from elsewhere, other than russia at a time when the green idealists wanting gas completely phased out. but again, russia is not responsible for those decisions and hardly controls how other countries choose to react political turmoil in pakistan has been rising as the new government has increased fuel prices. and they reported bid to unlock, i am a funding for the country. people say the previous government would not have permitted us. i'm would give them a call. let me ask, what con would do? he had maintained the price at $150.00 pakistani rupees. when this government jumped to $180.00 pakistani rupees, they have no idea that the increase in the oil prices affects the rest of the prices. but nobody is there to ask them. when you, when you're off with the ministers are inside air conditioned rooms, enjoying air conditioned cars,

and they do not care at all. they are corrupt people and they blame him, ron kon, here the thought. everybody in this country knows very well. the previous government signed an agreement with russia to get oil at a 30 percent discount, but this new controversial government is buying oil just as the u. s. told them to, they are buying expensive oil. they are creating a mis that's after media reports have said that 248 members of cons, party have been arrested with something injured while taken into custody. they faced various charges, including violence against police con, has said that 2 members of his party were killed during the round up in classes with law enforcement officers. journalists and political analyst. java drama says that the current government is simply following the u. s. orders. government hasn't really been close to the origin because it is on the depletion of the armis, which is controlled by the u. s. u. s. was very unhappy with the former prime minister because it made it clear that the the,

the show was get was very to give us on, on 30 percent confession. and he's the economy of the pockets on has been a very bad position in any one of the economy back on track. i think when he was removed, there was a public backlash because there was already an american. cindy mentioned fucking song. and when people came to know this is jim june's agenda was stalked by. americans, i think then people are turn oregon hundreds of paul's and she's gone. the farmer farmers on the street con, has held a series of rallies to demand fresh elections. after he was outed in a no confidence of vote by the national parliament in april, in scenes of unrest earlier in the week, demonstrators clashed with police while officers use tear gas and barricades to keep people from entering the capital. on thursday, comment gave the current government and ultimate of mending early elections and valid consequences if his proposal isn't met. within 6 days,

the protests have been put on hold since then. rider and global policy analyst, cited mohammed ali, so the con stamps a much better chance if the massive show of support on the streets continues. if the government government can resist him on cons, pressure, and sort of wise and improved economy, then it can seriously ident enron. honda re election prospects. but if the current government does not manage to improve the economy as much as it wants to, an enron con, can exploit the inability of the current government to manage and improve the economy than it is possible that enron con, can return to bar the group of latin american countries are

boycotting the u. s. hosted summit of the americas next month, af, after the by the administration officially excluded. the venezuelan and nicaraguan government, cubans president has openly refused to attend government a long way to go. we all recognize that the government of the united states conceived it from the start. this summit of the americas are designed it in a non inclusive way with all the process involved in the position of the united states government. and i can assure you that i will not attend you under any circumstance. the summit of the americas is coming up with the way forward, cannot be exclusion as the united states of america intends to do. in the misnamed summit of the americas. the way forward cannot be exclusion discrimination against entire nation, such as venezuela, cuba, nicaragua, did he not feel nor lip? when would that be ended? but i say from here to the united states or forget it. and maria, we are not interested in being at that summit. we are not interested earlier a u. s. senior diplomat said cuba,

venezuela and nicaragua wouldn't be invited to the summit because they quote, do not respect democracy. the by the ministration, however, has been pushing for better time with that as well, particularly easing energy sanctions to get more oil from that south american country. daniel shaw, a professor of latin american studies at the city university of new york, says that the era of us imperialism in the americas is coming to an end. biden's been trying to shore up support for this summit of america. but it's an absolute fiasco at this point. many countries across south america and the hemisphere are going to stand with the excluding countries with nick, with cuba, with various well, with bolivia, mexico is spearheading this ever to say, hey, we're all going to sit down and everybody should have a voice. not just the country us imperialism. prioritize is because they control those countries. with us to try to do is divide and conquer. there defining russia

as the main energy giant right now, that's the number one enemy. so they want to do back room deals with design as well and see if they can guarantee more oil employees. but venezuela in leadership is a world where there is multiple rarity in different. ready pulls and centers is of power is long overdue us germany economically diplomatically, militarily is. ready winning every day, and we can feel that and the empires exploding from within all of these races ways i misses school shootings. us is reputation is in all time low internationally. you must attempt to take over. twitter is continuing to make waves. this week, investors sued the billionaire and the platform itself over alleged market manipulation, while handling the acquisition process of the lawsuit focuses on alleged wrongful

conduct by musk during the acquisition process. in particular, his latest statement is that the agreement could not move forward as is according to the complaint. this drove twitters stock down and thus benefited musk boss who also notes that he took a financial advantage of a delay to disclosure of his stake in the company. when it exceeded 5 percent, allowing him to continue to buy shares at a discount by delaying his disclosure of his stake in twitter, muskie engaged in market manipulation in but twitter stock at an artificially low price. earlier in the musket bounced the temporary suspension of the transaction for the purchase of twitter in order to take time to identify the proportion of fake accounts. he has insisted that a 5th of the accounts on twitter are fake investors think this is an attempt to get a better price for the social network. more on this we can cross 5 to michael rectinwald's former and while you professor and author of the google archipelago, thanks for being with us here on this. it kind of an interesting take. do you think that,

you know mosque is attempting to manipulate twitters share price so that he can inquire it for less money? i don't think so. in fact, you know, his bid was over and above the share price of twitter at the time by lead up in dollars or so. so i think that there is no indication that this is manipulation. i think that he learned about the number of boss and fake accounts on the network, and twitter assured him that they would only be 5 percent. but we've seen that many, many people are being followed by the counts. we saw that joe biden went and bought a 50 percent of them, of his followers or fake. so, you know, there's every reason to be concerned because he's been misled by twitter itself. i think. and you know, this is just, this comes, this last food comes on the heels of a major attack against a mosque by the well mob,

by the whoa cartel who is trying to do everything in its power to keep them from taking over twitter. if we go down the rabbit hole just a bit, if musk is found guilty in this case, what penalty could he face? would be some sort of speak be fine. i don't think it would be very appreciable in his, in his round. i mean, it would him that much, but it's very unlikely except that the government, it's politically motivated against them. the federal government has a, has a definite vendetta against them because they do not want one of their major work. and one of their major apparatus and of the democratic party being taken over by someone who said that the democratic party is the party of pate. and that he's out, he's not, he's going to republic them from now on. so this makes his bid more troubling to the powers that be if i mean,

do you think that the situation itself could affect must desire to buy twitter? will there be a recalculation of the value of twitter shares? as a result of all of this? i mean this possible, but i don't know that he's, he's going to back down, but it's very interested in acquiring twitter for various reasons. some of them are l to a stick, but others are rather self interested. i mean, he can use twitter as a major platforms to promote his other products, neural link and of course, as well. and his other space and his other ventures. so it's an ideal instrument for him. and it makes perfect sense for him to actually take it over. i don't think that he's going to try to use the current law sued as a way out. or the fact that the boss are probably more than twitter has acknowledged as the way out. i think he's just trying to close the deal, but you know,

to make sure that he's not buying something that's largely inflated. everybody who's a public figure has fake followers or boss. i have the followers, unfortunately. but investors also think that the story of fake twitter accounts also serves to lower the stock price. what do you think about musket, the desire to find out about the number of fig twitter accounts? is that a legitimate avenue for him? i think it's a legitimate concern because we're sort him that only 5 percent of fake. so it certainly has every right to say listen, we said 5 percent are going to finding out from reports that it's much higher. that would be a problem and we could try to lower the bid on that basis. and frankly, that would be a legitimate basis. but i don't see how you can sue him for that because as a matter of fact, it was promised that it would be 5 percent or less. so you know,