[000:00:00;00] a with a cruise and reuters a shell by ukrainian forces while traveling in civilian cars. little guns republic with the reuters journalists injured and their driver killed in the u. s. officials from both parties share growing concerns about where the financial administrate ukraine's actually ending up. in the pentagon to keep track of the weapon shipments . under majority of greeks and opposition government politicians opposed nato's weapons deliveries to ukraine. they could pose

a risk to greek security with just 15 am on saturday morning here in moscow. mine is peter scott's on wherever you join us from. welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis here on our to 2 people, including a child, were killed when explosive ordinance detonated on a mario beach that's according to local authorities. so it is in the city indicates it was likely a land mine russian forces are continued the mining operations in the area were since up as have been clearing mario pole and the surrounding areas including the as of style steel plants since the end of april, around $12000.00 minds have been made safe in one month, according to local officials. and on friday, vladimir putin announced that mind clearing operations in the region are almost complete. the and not the neighboring. luke danced,

republic where cruise for marty and voices were hit by ukrainian artillery fire on the outskirts of the city of several done. yet all corresponding eagerness donna was in one of those cars that came to fire. ah ah, we're just about to move into the town of several the nets. again, this is the latest town that was liberated and captured by the russian and the la guns. people's armies are here in dwelling, the la ganske people's republic as we were about to move into and drive into the town. we were caught amid a shelling. there were 2 vehicles, both civilian the 1st one there was there were our colleagues with the reuters news agency behind the wheel. a soldier with the acme, with the chechen act my battalion, we were moving, we were the 2nd vehicle following them. so again, both cars, civilian and so 1st we heard a couple of shells. a couple of shells landed

a good few doesn't meet has around us, so there was no cause for alerts of rule. this is a war zone. so these things they happen. the 3rd one caught the very 1st vehicle, the one moving in front of us. we did see it. apparently it was a direct head. we saw a bright flash, the vehicle tipped over to the side and it was and it caught on fire was get caught a blaze. so are the driver, the soldier he died instantly right there and well a to the 2 of the reuters crew all of them, they were injured. luckily, nothing serious. one of them has a broken arm and another was wounded in the leg. but you have just talked to the minutes ago, in fact, they are fine and they don't even need to be taken to hospital right away. they've told me they are going to la ganske and from la ganske, they will move to the next you know, themselves. so this is what they're doing, they're fine again. so there was, i mean, as fine as they can be. of course they have received injuries, but well, luckily,

nothing serious. and i just want to stress and point out that are well, obviously the ukrainians, they've saw us. they saw that there were 2 civilian vehicles go towards its was the town over several the nets and they were trying actively trying to hit our cars. it wasn't like they was shelling the general area we were with their target. and so well, they succeeded a full ma gsa to the ukrainian artillery artillery spots as and those who pulled the plug, pulled the trigger. they did managed to catch 2 journalists of a european news agency, reuters in the crosshairs, and they successfully had their vehicle limit more when in weapons promised to ukraine by the u. s. concerns are going even among washington's democratic officials about ways actually ending up u. s. is also reportedly 20 ukrainian forces operate multiple launch rocket systems . the u. s. government ascending billions and humanitarian,

economic and military assistance to help the ukrainian people overcome britain's brutal war. and the american people expect strong oversight by congress and full accounting from the department of defense. me mother, also concerns in the republican party about where weapons since ukraine are actually going, god sees kelly moping has more. elizabeth warren has started speaking up and she's joined us senator rand paul, a republican and we have a bipartisan call at this point for a, an inspector general to look into the dispensing of farms and weapons from the united states to ukraine. make sure they're falling into the right hands to make sure u. s. a is not doing things it doesn't intend to do. this is some of the letter that was put forward by both democrats and republicans expressing their concerns the sheer magnitude and speed at which the federal government is sending aid calls for robust oversight in terms of both spending and monitoring its use. as such, lawmakers should be working to ensure that there are guardrails on these enormous

spending. packages such oversight would ensure that the billions of dollars that the u. s. ascending arrives in the hands of its intended recipients and does not inadvertently line the pockets of war profiteers who are seeking to use this war to enrich themselves. however, despite getting reassurances from ukraine, the pentagon admit they don't really have a full proof plan about who will receive what's being sent to ukraine. risk of diversion is one of many considerations that we routinely assess when evaluating any potential arms transfer. ukrainian leadership have assured us that they understand the importance of accountability. now that's a lot of assessing that could go on. but at the end of the day, many people considered ukraine to be one of the most corrupt nations on earth. and many sympathetic voices to the united states and hostile anti russian voices have said over the years that ukraine is notoriously corrupt. but another issue and is the issue of arms now,

according to the global organized crime index published in 2021. ukraine has one of the largest illegal weapons markets of any country in the world. and it lives, at least any country in europe, and illegally traffic weapons are all across ukraine. this is what's been reported . there are 2 primary sources of elicit small arms and ammunition in ukraine. the diversion of domestic holdings and cross border trafficking weapons from eastern ukraine are becoming an important supply source for the black market. and there been examples of this already. one of the crime weapons used by the i'd states and exported by the states around the world. the javelin has apparently been up for sale, illegally costing around $30000.00. and at this point, people are looking over the record. what happened in syria? what happened in iraq, what happened in afghanistan, and how so many us weapons have ended up in the hands of terrorists. extreme is

that narco gangs and criminal elements. there are some pretty legitimate concerns here as more and more us money and more and more us heavy weaponry is set to be delivered to craig. about an administration earliest said, he says, agreed to supply kiff with advanced weapons systems are the maximum range of 80 kilometers, which can also deploy tactical ballistic missiles with a range up to $300.00. the system can fly up to 6 missiles with high precision. now with a 300 kilometer range, the russian border city of brianna could be reached, as you can see quite clearly here on the map, but on yours. and mullins could also be at risk rushes repeatedly warned of consequences if such weapons are used to target russian territory. let's go live now to pull rides and finally unfound of the human rights defense center poll. welcome to the international right. thanks for me on the show. now, how do you think the u. s. can trust ukraine's promise? they'll use the money on the weapons it sends over appropriately. given that we are

starting to see evidence of american web re givens ukraine not being sold on the market. well, i think that it comes to us as arming. it's, you know, its allies or its pockets or whatever around the world. there's also massive diverse. we saw the staff can stand up where the, where the inspector general that was set up to do this for literally for decades documented billions and billions of dollars that were siphoned off whining pockets of corrupt officials and everything else. so, but the art seems to be pretty okay with that because you know, i read those reports year after year for they came out and nothing changed and pretty much the money and the weapons kept flowing. and i think this is pretty much the way the u. s has been conducting business. i think it's at least going back to the vietnam war on the 1960, you know, they follow money and weapons to corrupt regimes and hope that enough of it gets through to the people they intended to that it meets their aim. so the state of political,

economic and military games and they kind of hope for the best. but on the other hand, it's not like they have a lot of alternatives in terms of who else to deal with. you know, in places like the ukraine or af ganna, stan, you know, once they kind of prop the regime, they're kind of stuck with it. you know, they're, they're not really doing a lot of changing. and i think it just depends on what your perspective is. i think that, you know, to an extent the, if the state of the name of the us government, of course, is a prop up to the king and regime and keep them fighting rush at all costs. on the other hand, if you know if the goal is to not inflict damage on russia than yeah, you probably don't care if who were the weapons, the money winds up that. and it's also important to note that a huge percentage of the so called aid packages are literally going directly to the pockets. and the bank accounts of american arms manufacturers will be supplying the weapons. it's not really than a thing of, you know,

the money is going to the premiums to buy weapons on the open, on the international arms market or whatever they're going directly to, or can arms manufacturers to supply the weapons. so i don't think there's really a lot of desire for a lot of accountability or you know, any type of transparency and how much of this money is being spent, which does kind of the norm, i think, since at least the 1960 now we are trying to see some ukranian politicians openly contradicting each other with statements about whether or not they're prepared to strike targets in russia with some of those american weapons. do you think this is partly the reason why we are seeing some american politicians from both sides of the spectrum? because more concerned about where this money is going the discussion to seem to be arise in now? well, i don't know. it is one of those things where, you know, we see people, i know if it's true or not, but the present, the president does. lensky is likely to be worth over half a $1000000000.00 and net assets,

which is kind of unusual for the leader of what was, what has been historically an impoverished country. and that you don't really see too much accounting about, you know, where to get this wealth from. so i think, you know, when you have a lot of politicians and in poor countries that have huge amounts of wealth. personal, well, it kinda makes the question where did they get the money and what did they do to get it? and so i think that to the extent we're seeing the beginning of bickering or recriminations or policy differences among ukranian politicians, i think just depends on you know, where it's going to go. and i think it's there at the military situation worse than for the korean government. i think there be more more pressure to undertake more desperate measures. so i think there's lots of why military conflicts also have a tendency of spiraling out of control. and there are

a lot of unintended consequences. and in the military complex, we touched on the, the economic situation of ukraine, and according to the lend lease, the country will eventually have to pay at least some of the money back to the us for what it's been received in the eighty's been receiving in your opinion, how likely do you think that is to happen? i mean, obviously it's economy was struggling before. this was even more so now why then can you tell me people think here about the united states support in england during world war 2. but the british government did not finish paying for their lend lease military equipment like the 1980, like literally decades after world war 200 and the british empire largely cease to exist. there were still paying off the american government for the weapons they received to dish to defeat the germans. so i'd say one of the big questions is if the korean government falls or ukraine seizes to exist, i'd say it's probably a pretty fair. that's pretty fair to say that the united states will not be getting

paid anything back. i think a lot also depends on the political stability of, you know, what regime is in power when the conflict is over and how they're going to view these doubts are these legal obligations. they can easily say that whatever depths these were, they were contracted by a previous government. they repudiate the data or the government. i'm not sure if there's a lot the u. s. can or would do. on the other hand, i think the, the, the good thing of the bad thing about the ukraine is, is that it has a lot of natural resources, which the good news is someplace to say, it's great to have natural resources. bad news is that other people want them. and i think to the extent that ukraine has minerals that has agricultural resources, it has gasser picture gas or petroleum products. they can easily see those goods either seized or embargoed by the u. s. a pressure payment later on

down the road and i think it was a long history of doing just that, you know, literally going back hundreds of years. so, but again, whether or not the us will actually get paid any, any other money as reporting to the loaner or give the landscape regime. i think there's an open question. well, after, wait and see what, how that transpires. pull right analysts and found the human rights defense since the thank you very much for your take on those weapons shipments to ukraine from the us. they for on the, on the show. nato faces opposition to army ukraine from within some with a member states or eastern poland. grief suggests a majority are opposed to supplying with weapons are to contribute to rachel mazda has all the details public opinion and group is increasing verging matter of other european countries over the blah policies. the brush published annual democracy

perception index highlighted groups. outliers within the you with only 22 percent of them wanting to cut ties with russia and maybe ukraine conflict or reset your barometer poll, found the greeks are much less trusting of their sources of information about the conflict and of european agree 40 some of the countries politicians also. ringback the not to support government policy. the leftist coalition party, theresa called the greek government on the new arms deal with germany for ukraine. the government must stop making decisions in secret on critical national issues even more so when the majority of the greek people are opposed to choices that pose risks to the country security and are contrary to our national interests, then you would see some of the old soviet style tanks swapped out for new german, one and given to ukraine. the idea is that they blend in on the battlefield. ukrainian text and allow plausible deniability upper true origin. so why greece tumbled off the bandwagon the entry board

a grudge of the 2011 economic crisis and for all of the health greeks continue to suffer. greeks likely haven't forgotten either. that back in 2010, they boycotted german goods in response to german officials, calling for athens to sell greek islands to pay for it. dest grease owns buildings, companies and uninhabited islands, which could all be used for depth redemption. greece has also been on the shore, french as migration shockwave parked by the do you open, the floodgates policies have ruled in unabated despite domestic protests. re officials have persisted in their agenda from the tranquillity of their large bottles. you can save the world if you can't, 1st pay the rent. and greeks are now grappling with prey pipe for just about everything in their daily living and result of anti russian sanction. and their particular impact on european energy was used to spend 800 euros on gasoline. now

it's 11021200 euro's i hope something will happen to help us show you guys the shock when you get the electricity. bill is huge. equally big is the indignation we feel when we hear the government talking about the relief measures. they are supposed to take what we have to do as to rise up in order to demand the increases are reversed and to increase our salaries. because those of the situation has reached the point of no return for all the people i am working all day out in the streets and this is what i hear what the people say. so. ringback in this climate of long standing and stability, frustration and unrest comes to use non stop messages about the need to back ukraine's nato that conflicts again thresh up, but that's turning out to be a tough cell increase with am i need a protest now emerging be from just showing both anti us and anti energy price hype protest, the question now is whether green is the canary in the proverbial coal mine when it

comes to how much other countries will tolerate of policies imposed on them by european lead. before reaching breaking point will form a greek ambassador, united, chris on toppling as sending weapons to ukraine directly. all through the country is only aggravates the situation. we are witnessing a very nice a diplomat. the game that germany is playing, because germany is sending hardware parents to the czech republic, to poland and to greece, which these countries will say to the ukraine at this way, germany is no longer responsible for these weapons. and they will always say that, that berlin at never sent weapons to the ukraine, basically, they imposed on greece a regime of austerity measures. well, we have many problems with germany in greece,

for example. first of all, they were they were the most important country to him that imposed the memoranda the ease you remember randa, on greece, which destroyed the economy and the social welfare of the greek people. one thing, the other thing is that, that germany owes greece for 450000000000 euros from a, from war reparations. but he may, putin says, the west is shifting the blame for rising fuel prices around the world on to russia . he says that fuel prices have been rising for 2 years, just the covey pandemic and us ministry policies. while the unprecedented sanctions against russia, which is one of the world's biggest food unfertilized produces of only made things worse to glosson, you look prettier than the metal. this unfortunate situation didn't begin yesterday,

and it didn't begin with the start of our special military operation in dumbass and ukraine. it began to take shape as early as february 2020. during the process of combating the consequences of the corona virus pandemic. it was necessary to restore the world economy and no better solution was found but to port a huge amount of money to support the population and businesses. but in almost 2 years, the money supply in the united states grew by 5.9 trillion. this is unprecedented. this is a mistake of the financial and economic authorities of the united states. it has nothing to do with russia's actions in ukraine than the british and the americans imposed sanctions on our fertilizers. realizing what was happening, the americans lifted the sanctions, but the europeans didn't. the situation on the world, fertilizer markets has only deteriorated because of this, which means there will be less harvest and the prices will continue to go up. this is an absolutely short sighted erroneous, and i would even say stupid policy that leads to a dead end with you later on,

presenter remarks in part mirrored statements made by the head of the african union friday, june. his meeting with the russian president synagogue present mackey's sol said the sanctions imposed by the u and u. s. against moscow. threatened to undermine africa's food security. it's also sanctions against russia have made the situation worse because we no longer have access to grain, especially wheat from russia. and most importantly, fertilizer, which poses a serious threat to food security on the continent. what mackey sal had to say was pretty self explanatory. he blew out of the water, this idea from the e. u that the sanctions, i not having an issue when it comes to this food insecurity, that contents like africa are having at the moment. he said, yes, they are, the sanctions are causing a problem that aggravating the situation when it comes to the exports of grain and also of fertilizers. and what he's calling for is there to be a resolution to ensure that there isn't widespread famine across the continent. i mean, we just had figures the other day showing that some 17000000 people just across 3

african countries are at the moment in food insecurity. we know across the world that lumber is far larger, some 323000000 individuals marching towards famine. so this is a huge issue at the moment. we know that the problem has been exacerbated, not just by the sanctions, as we heard from the head of the african union, but also by the fact that there has been this poor rainy season in parts of africa . so in a countries really concerned that this is a big issue that they can face this worldwide famine, and they really want something done about it. now at that press conference that meeting today in moscow, present putin at once again, we asserted that for him that africa is an important continent. are still to roll africa. the role of africa in the international rena, in general, in geopolitical terms, is also growing. we believe that africa as a whole and as individual states with which we have traditionally very good with us exaggeration friendly relations of africa,

has great prospects and proceeding from this, we intend to further develop our relations with the continent and this individual states. so present putin has previously said that he is willing to ensure that the grains does leave the ports in the black sea, but he has called on european leaders to ease the sanctions to enable that to happen. the eas says, look, there are no sanctions when it comes to russian ships that are carrying food or agricultural products, they can come to our ports. it is also said there are no problems with sanctions because the sanctions are impacting what russia can export to the e u, not 2 countries across the world. earth lavonne de leon has also made accusations against russia saying that it's using a blockade of the black seas. essentially blackmail, and she's also accused russian military of lacing ukrainian fields with mine. so all of this has been rejected by moscow at they said yes. okay, you k at their sanctions in the you only relate to the you. but as

a result of that, russian ships can't get insurance, therefore they can't make the deliveries. it said that the problem with the black sea is to do with minds that have been put in place by ukrainian military, which has made sure that the shipping lanes aren't safe to get the ships with the grain out. so these are the issues as far as russia is concerned, and it's saying in the ramifications of the sanctions, i've just been far wider than expected. the reality is the 2 sides need to get together to find a solution to this. if no, a continent like africa is going to get us food supplies that it says it desperately needs. meanwhile, the united nations warns the risk of famine in the horn of africa is worsening, and is not only the rising prices and chaos on the world markets climates is also an issue. somalia, as well as parts of kenya, an ethiopian have been hit by a severe drought on scene for at least 40 years. 3.6000000 livestock have already died in kenya,

uneasy opiate due to the harsh conditions. lifestyle farming is the main source of income for some of the local population and we spoke with some of the people there who described that dia, situation. oh, my didn't know, does a lot of we have lost many animals. you just can't find a grazing animal any more, since we have nothing at all have been swept by drought done. and there are as many as 60 percent of children, with malnutrition. people will perish if the situation continues like this. since we have nothing to do to earn a living my, you gotta gotta do, but we used to get food from the government. things have totally changed and we get nothing that'll herders have taken away. the remaining livestock to other areas for pasture and some animals died while they were on their way. and they do a mom and either children or having malnutrition, the way they are walking. you can see they're not ok, no milk, no food in the house, and they are really suffering. the drought continues all over here and we have nowhere to go and we are still waiting for food help. and finally,

the russian embassy in latvia expressed his concern to lot been authorities overcoats, rejection of an appeal by alexander to bianca. he was arrested for displaying a russian flag while protesting against the demolition of a monument to soviet soldiers. alexander urged the crowd to remember the heroic efforts of world war 2 soldiers had not let the presence gets in the way of respecting the past. in our faces, up to 5 years in prison, velocity spoke exclusively with his mother. after the court's decision was announced, she says the ruling is simply unbelievable. puerto visual hustle in the end, nothing good came out of it. the appeal was rejected. in my opinion, this is insanity. it's unreasonable for i have nothing to say. yes, he is a home boy who loves to read, who knows for languages, including the state language. he is a citizen of lat, via the patriot of his country. and right now this country wipes its feet on him. of course,

i didn't expect this because we don't have any laws prohibiting any flags. why did he go on the 10th? because on the 9th, once again, the government of lafayette wiped its feed on people who remember his great grandmother went through the war as a child, she went through occupation and he knows all this. and for him, it is a holiday and respect. archie also spoke exclusively with the alexander's lawyer, who thinks that such a decision by a court is unprecedented. we don't forget to share with others alter sad because unfortunately the district court upheld the decision of the court of 1st instance on the application of the most severe measure of restraint. alexander detention, we naturally filed a complaint with the e. c charles, soon as possible, because in our opinion, they detained him for something which in our opinion is not a criminal offense at all. i mean the demonstration of the russian flag, which is not a prohibited symbol in latvia,

as it turns out. everything connected with russia is now considered toxic. it's hard to say what to expect. you see, for example, i did not expect that for this, for non violent crime, he would be kept in custody. in my opinion, this is nonsense. therefore, to say what will happen is very difficult. i think that it's reasonable to assume that he's a boy for beating and also for intimidating others. so they would fear to the same he's holding on. there's nothing good in the situation where a 19 year old boy in fact a home boy was never committed. any offences is now in prison. there's nothing good and dad, i think moralists card on him as well as physically. oh, i saw the world is looking at 5 50 am moscow saw him on peter scott's on a be back again with another look at today's biggest stories in about half an hour's time. ah.

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