ah, ah, with a cruise, marty and reuters are shelled by ukrainian forces while traveling in civilian cause in little john republic with 2 voices. june is injured, and the driver killed in the attack. your officials from both parties shed growing concerns about where the financial, a military ag crane's actually ending up. pushing defense against keep track of the weapon shipments under majority of greeks and opposition. government politicians opposed nato's weapons deliveries to ukraine. then we could pose a risk to greek security

with we can just getting underway here in moscow. my name is peter scott and welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis. here are naughty to people, including a child were killed when explosive ordinance detonated on a matter you pull. beach that's according to local authority. sources in the city indicates it was likely a land mine. irish forces are continued d, mining operations in the area suffers, have been clearing, murder, you pull on 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, but the mid putin announced that mind clear operations in the region are almost complete. and not the neighboring lu danced. republic where cruise from archie, android says were hit by ukrainian artillery fire on the outskirts of the city of

several done. yet our correspondence eagerly done, it was in one of the cars that came into fire. ah ah, we're just about to move into the town of several dynette sk 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 little 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 a 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 his around does,

so there was no cause for alerts. after all, this is a war zone. so these things, they happen. the 3rd one quarter, 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 look ganske and from le ganske they will move to dynette ski 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 a towards the town of i sever the nets and they were trying actively trying to head 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 ukranian artillery artillery sports as and those who pulled the plug, pulled the trigger. they did manage to catch to john less of a european news agency, reuters in the crosshairs, and they successfully had their vehicle and ukraine arts. he visited a hospital in the carcass region that was shelled several times during the fighting . this had daughter thing and just civilians arrive every day with some of them, allegedly wounded by prohibited weapons. the resume mustn't take her to the intensive care unit. she 75 years old. she just wanted to plant cabbage. that's what it led to. it's like this every time, not

a single day passes without civilians with gunshot wounds being brought to us. and they use ammunition prohibited by the geneva convention. these are so called cluster charges which they scatter over a large area and have a delayed views even after the explosion. when a person comes out believing that the shelling is over, he enters the firing zone and gets injured. that every one is likely enough to stay alive. as stanza, as we are losing residence every day, more than the number of wounded varies, but no day goes by without some one wanted being brought to the hospital. and we were also in the firing line. the hospital was hit and now we even have patients in our damp basement except for the wounded who we move somewhere else. but they themselves don't want to leave because the basement even if it doesn't really mit hospital standards is the safest place. the son made more money on weapons promised

to ukraine by the u. s. consent argo, and even among washington's democratic officials, but where it's actually ending up, the u. s. is also report to the training ukrainian forces to operate multiple launch rocket systems. the u. s. government ascending billions and humanitarian, economic and military assistance to help the ukrainian people overcome, put in brutal war and the american people expect strong oversight by congress and full accounting from the department of defense. meanwhile, there also concerns new republican party about where weapons since ukraine going ortiz caleb open house more. lisbon warren has started speaking up and she's joined us sen ran 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 the usa is not, 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 concern. 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. is sending 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 the reassurances from ukraine, the pentagon admit they don't really have a full proof plan bout 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 consider ukraine to be one of the most corrupt nations on earth. and

many sympathetic voices to the united states and hostile anti russian. ready 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 prime weapons used by the i'd states and exported by the on 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 extremists 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 crane. the biden administration earliest said it is agreed to supply king with advanced weapon systems to the maximum range of 80 kilometers, which can also deploy tactical ballistic missiles with a range of up to $300.00. the system kind of 5 to 6 missiles with high precision. but with the 300 clients arranged, the russian border city aubrianna could be reached, as you can see on this map. but on years on small ends could also be at risk recess, repeatedly warned of consequences if such weapons are used to targets russia. poll rides analysts unfound of the human rise defense center says the u. s. has

a long history of standing weapons, the countries to meet his own political and military aims. i think this is pretty much the way the us has been conducting business. i think it's a lease going back to the vietnam war on the 1960, you know, they follow money and weapons to corrupt regimes and hope that are not how they get through to. ready the people they intended to that it meets their aim. so the state of political, economic, and military games, a huge percentage of the so called aid packages are literally going directly into the pockets of the bank accounts of american arms. then you factors 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 american 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 been the norm. i think of the 1960 nato is facing opposition to

army ukraine form within somebody's own member states. a recent poll in greece suggests a majority are opposed to supplying kiev with weapons off the contributor rachel mars and has all the details hello can pinion increases increasing of urgent matter . other european countries owe to block policies. the fresh published annual democracy perception index highlighted group citizens, outliers within the you with only 22 percent of them wanting to get on the ties with russia. and maybe you create conflict or reset your overall or pool found. the greeks are much less trusting of their sources of information about the conflict and of european agree victories. some of the countries politicians also seem not to support government policy. the left is coalition parties. theresa called the government on and you arms deal with germany for ukraine. the government must stop making decisions in secret, uncritical 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 will see some of grace's old soviet style tanks locked out for new german ones. and given to you create the idea is that they blend in on the battlefield with ukrainian text and allow for plausible deniability of true origin. so what i'm grids tumbled off that you bandwagon the entry door, the grunt of the 2011 economic crisis and for all of you cell greeks continue to suffer. grease likely haven't for going either that back in 2010 they boycotted german. good. ready response to german officials, calling for athens to sell greek islands to pay for that. grease owns buildings, companies and uninhabited islands, which could all be used for dead redemption. grease has also been on the shore front as migration shock, waves parked by the use open floodgate policies. have ruled in unabated despite

domestic protests, re officials have persisted in their agenda from the tranquillity of here ideological models. you can save the world if you can't. first pay the rent. and greeks are now grappling with price heights for just about every in their daily living and resulting and high rushing sanctions. and their particular impacts on european energy was i used to spend 800 euros on gasoline. now it's 11021200 euros. i hope something will happen to help us. so can you 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. so those are 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 in this climate of long standing instability, frustration and unrest comes to use non stop messages about the need to back

ukraine's natal conflict against russia. but that's turning out to be a tough cell increase with am, i need a protest now emerging these from just showing both anti us and anti energy prototype protest. the question now is whether green is the canary. in the proverbial coal mine when it comes to how much it is in other countries will tolerate of policies imposed on them by european lead before reaching a breaking point from a greek and busted. the leonardo as chris on thoughtless, says it's sending weapons to ukraine directly, all through other countries only aggravates the situation. we are witnessing a very nice a diplomatic game that germany is playing because germany is sending hardware parents to the czech republic,

to poland and to greece. which these countries also told the ukraine, that 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, 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 most important country to impose the memoranda the 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. russian president vladimir putin says the west

is shifting the blame for rising fuel prices around the world on to russia. is as the fuel prices had been rising for 2 years, due to the kobe pandemic, as well as u. s. monetary policies, while the unprecedented sanctions against russia, which is one of the world's biggest food, unfertilized producers. i've only served to make things worse. to dotson, you will get prettier than the middle. this unfortunate situation didn't begin yesterday, and it didn't begin with the start of our special military operation in dumbass in ukraine. it began to take shape as early as february 2020. during the process of combating the consequences of the crone of ours 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 impose 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 of putin's remarks. at least in parts, mirrored statements made by the head of the african union on friday during his meeting with the russian president, senegal present. mackey's saul said the sanctions imposed by the u on the u. s. against moscow. threatened to undermine africa's food security. the social 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 to the water. this idea from the

e. u that the sanctions, i'm 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 fertilizes. 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 than $323000000.00 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 other countries really concerned that this is a big issue that they can face this world wide famine and they really want

something done about it that press conference that meeting today in moscow present puting at once again, we asserted that for him that africa is an important continent and i stood little africa, the role of africa in the international rena, in general, into political terms, is also growing. we believe that africa as a whole and it's 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 president 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, tick ease the sanctions to enable that to happen. the ease says that 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. those lavonne, de leon is also made accusations against russia saying that it's using a blockade of the black sea is 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 cannot make the deliveries. it said that the problem with the black sea is to do with minds that have been put in place by the 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, you know, 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 you know a continent like africa is going to get those food supplies that it says it desperately needs me while the un was the risk of famine in the horn of africa is worsening and is not only the rising prices and chaos on the world markets claim is also an issue. somalia, as well as part of kenya and ethiopia, been hit by a severe drought and seen for at least 40 years before. 6000000 livestock have already died in tenure under the opiate due to the harsh weather conditions. live so far me is the main source of income for much of the local population. we spoke to some of the people there who described the dire situation. oh my didn't a daws on adel, we have lost many animals. you just can't find a grazing animal any more, since we have nothing and all have been swept by drought. we've done it. 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 model, mostly i got to got ortho, we used to get food from the government,

things have totally changed and we get nothing that'll curtis have taken away the remaining livestock to other areas for pasture and some animals died while they were on their way here in a go at mom. it either children or having malnutrition, the way they are walking. like you can see they're not okay. no milk, no food in the house and they are really suffering. there's a lot of the drought continues all over here and we have nowhere to go and we are still waiting for food hill and i thought about it and moving on now, amid the ongoing baby formula, shortage crises across the united states. president joe biden has claimed he was not aware of the crystals, the critical situation for at least 2 months after it begun. this statement however, does contradicts what the white house post person had to say on the matter. here's the deal. fig. i became aware of this problem some time in after april, early april, about how a chance it was. and so we did everything in our power from that point on,

and that's all i can tell you right now. and we're going to continue to do it. we get the job, i'm not seeing when the president knew or didn't know he spoke, but i know he spoke to that himself. so i'm going to let that stand. i am saying that we have been working on this. we as a whole of government approach has been working on this since the recall which was in february. one of the main reasons for the shortage was the closure of the abbot nutrition facility in michigan allegedly due to unsanitary conditions. because you did leave many americans to struggle to find baby food for their children. the shells were left empty. the factory remains shorts with no products been delivered and no substitutes available. where such contradictions in the us present statements are become increasingly common with white house officials often forced to publicly clarified the u. s. leaders, words, for god's sake. this man cannot remain power, but no, we're not advocating for killing the leader of

a foreign country or regime change. that is not the policy of the united states, as you know. and as you've heard of say, repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in russia or anywhere else for that matter. going to see when you're there, you've been there, you're going to see you're going to see women. young people stand understanding melody from dam tank to say, i'm not leaving. i would know the president's view and his position continues to be that we are not putting us troops on the ground to fight this war. and that's something we will continue to reiterate for american men in the us are increasingly dissatisfied with the current leadership, with us presidents, precarious position, and domestic political failures. being discussed, even in the u. s. mainstream media by their faces, thinking approval ratings, and he's looking to regain votes of confidence and show he can provide the steady leadership. he promised. during his campaign. garland nixon, an american political analyst thinks the bottom is losing the trust of his fellow americans due to prioritizing foreign policy over domestic affairs. we do find that

president biden often makes outrageous statements and his people within his administration will come out to try to correct him. and we have found frighteningly, i might add now that he's pushing back to the members of his cabinet, who go back and try to correct him when he make statements. i mean, that could literally start world war 3. he seems to feel that it's ok to make those statements and that he's actually angry at members of his staff or trying to to pump the brakes. a little bit approval rating is somewhere in the mid thirty's. his disapproval rating is up around 60 percent. people who would normally support the democratic party and or the president when in fact a democrat is in office, they are basically shaking their heads in disbelief. this issue is, in fact exacerbated by the president's reaction to the grain war by the extreme concern that the administration has with the great crisis. and it seems

that americans are comparing more and more the crisis in ukraine and the, the, the particular attention that the administration is paying to that as opposed to the crisis, the economic crisis here and in particular, the baby food crisis. because of course, as you know, that you know, when it comes to babies in children, that's emotional. so this is a major issue. and i do believe it the, the $40000000000.00 that was recently approved for the ukraine crisis has as made. people really look at this in a different, in a different manner. and feel as though that their government is not paying attention to the issues at home, o u. s. administration. consummation and you start nuclear arms reduction treats have been signed when the crow one expires in 2026, according to some media reports with a bite in administration, stepping up the flow of conventional weapons to ukraine intentions with russia high,

a senior administration official conceited that right now, it's almost impossible to imagine how the talks might resume before the last treaty expires. in early 2026. you start entered force in 2011, unlimited. the number of missiles, bombers and war has the us and russia can have deployed. joe biden, under the macpherson agreed to extend the treaty for 5 years back in january 2021. u. s. and russian officials had held arms control. so since then, they broke down after the ukrainian conflict started russian, deputy foreign minister earlier said that russia is open to continue the negotiations. vice chair for the libertarian national committee of enviro believes the u. s. is delaying the obs control treaty to punish russia over the ukrainian conflicts? i think right now the us is responding to the situation between russia and ukraine, basically through avoidance. and what that means is they're seeing

a situation which they say, we don't know exactly how to handle the situation. so let's just avoid doing anything at all. russia in the united states, or they have the 2 largest nuclear arsenals in the world of reducing that stockpile . of weapons has several advantages. one is if you reduce that stockpile, it reduces the maintenance costs for each country business. paul means a less money is being taken away from useful things that mean the russian taxes can be lowered, american taxes can be lower and people can use that money on something other than the very expensive maintenance of very dangerous weapons. you're also talking about security when you have these kinds of weapon security is paramount and if a weapon like that, you know, gets stolen, you know, god forbid a gets told by somebody you're again, dealing with something with potentially catastrophic consequences. and finally, the russian embassy in latvia expressed its concern to latvian authorities, a records rejection of an appeal by alexander to be argo. he was arrested for

displaying a russian flag while protesting against the demolition of a monument to soviets. soldiers under urged the crowd to remember the heroic efforts of world war 2 soldiers and not let the presence gets in the way of respecting the pass. in our faces up to 5 years in prison, philosophy spoke exclusively to his mother. after the course decision was the now and she says the ruling is unbelievable. 2 thirtyish rehearsal. in the end, nothing good came out of it. the appeal was rejected. in my opinion, this is insanity. it's unreasonable. i have nothing to say. oh, yes, he's a home boy who lost to read, who knows full languages, including the state language. he is a citizen of luck. they're 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 feet 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. what else? he also spoke exclusively with alexander's lawyer, who thinks that such a harsh decision by the court is unprecedented. though them forget the chair, but that there is 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 easy chair as 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.