ah, ah ah accountable to know a cruise from r t and reuters a shelf while ukrainian forces while traveling in civilian cars in little guns republic, the 2 voices journalists injured and their driver killed in year. thank u. s. officials from both parties and she had growing concerns about where the financial and military aid ukraine's actually ended up. pushing the pentagon to keep track of the weapon shipment. under majority of greeks opposed nato's weapons deliveries to ukraine, claim a composer best to greek,

secure. ah . must go to the world. this is our see international i and peter scott. and these are the top stories this saturday morning to people, including the child were killed when the explosive ordinance detonated on a murder. you pull beach, according to local authorities. so says in the city indicates it was likely a land mine and russian forces are continued d mining operations in the area such as have been cleary matter. you pull on the surrounding areas, including the as of stolid steel plan since the end of april, according to local officials, nearly $12000.00 mines have been cleared this past month. and on friday, vladimir putin announced that mind clearing operations in the region are almost complete. the and not the neighboring lu danced. republic where cruise from archie and voices were hit by ukrainian artillery fire outskirts of the city. several in yet, sc correspondent,

eager to donna was in one of the cars that came into 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 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 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

a lot 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 hit. we saw a bright flash, the vehicle tipped over to the side and it was and it caught on fire was get caught to 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 le 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 that was the town of i several 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 ukrainian artillery artillery spot as and those who pulled the plug, pulled the trigger. they did manage to catch to jealous of a european news agency wrote as in their cross has and they successfully had their vehicle. and in ukraine arts he visited a hospital in the carcass region that was shelled several times during the fighting with her daughter saying injured civilians arrived every day. the resume must take her to the intensive care unit of she 75 years old. she just wanted to plant cabbage. that's what it led to. it's like these every time, but not

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

to ukraine by the u. s. concerns are going even among washington's democratic officials about where's actually ending up u. s. is also reportedly 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 britons brutal war and the american people expect strong oversight by congress and full accounting from the department of defense. meanwhile, there also concerns the republican party about where weapons since ukraine a going ortiz, kelly baldwin has more. lisbon warren has started speaking up and she's joined us. senator rand paul are 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 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. 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, by getting the 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. brisk 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 victoriously corrupt. but another issue at hand is the issue of arm. 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 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 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 of us weapon have ended up in the hands of terrorists extremists, but norco gangs and criminal element. there are some pretty legitimate concerns here as more and more us money and more and more us heavy weaponry is that to be delivered to ukraine. the, by an administration earlier said, it's agreed to supply kia with advanced weapon systems where the maximum range of 80 kilometers both which can also deploy tactical ballistic missiles with a range of up to $300.00. the system come 5 to 6 missiles with high precision. well, with a 300 kilometer range, the russian border city of brians could be reached, as you can see clearly on this month. but on years on small ends could also potentially be risk rushes repeatedly warned of consequences if such weapons are used to targets. bush and territory for rights analyst and founder of the human

rights defense center says the u. s. the long history of sending weapons to countries to meet its own political and military aims. i think this is pretty much the way the u. s. has been conducting business. i think it's of 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. ready to 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 a packages are literally going directly to the pockets of 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 american arms manufacturers to supply the weapons. so i don't think there's really a lot of desire for a lot of accountability for 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 need. so he's facing opposition to arman ukraine from within his own states. a recent poll in greece suggests a majority are actually opposed to supplying care with weapons, contributes rachel mars and has all the details. public opinion and group is increasingly urgent. matter of other european union countries over blah policies, the freshly published annual democracy perception index highlighted groups. outliers within the you, with only 22 percent of them wanting to retire with russia. and maybe you create conflict or reset your barometer poll, found the greeks are much less trusting of their sources of information about the conflict and of european agreement already. some of the countries, politicians also being not to support government policy. the leftist coalition parties, theresa colo degree government, on a new 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 would see some of grace's 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 her plausible deniability upper true origin. so why greece tumbled off the bandwagon the entry board a grunt of the 2011 economic crisis and for all of the use health greeks continue to suffer. grease likely have forgotten either that back in 2010, they boycotted german good in response to german officials, calling for athens cells greek islands to pay for it. dest grease owns buildings, companies and uninhabited islands, which could all be used for deb redemption greece. and also, i'm sure french as migration shock waves 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 sir, i'll be large bottles, you can save the world if you can't. first pay the rent. and the greeks are now grappling with prey tight for just about everything in their daily living and result of anti russian sanction. and their particular impact on european energy was i 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. so those are the situation has reached the point of no return for all the people that 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 instability, frustration,

and unrest, company 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. so i need a protest now emerging these from just showing both anti us and anti energy pray take 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 breaking point form agree, combusted, lee, and i did chris on stopper las says, sending weapons to ukraine directly all through other countries 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 also told the ukraine. and in this way, germany is no longer responsible for these weapons, and they would always say that that berlin act 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 a most important country to him that imposed the memoranda that 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 president vladimir putin says the west is shifting the blame for rising food prices around the world on to russia. it has a few prices have been rising for 2 years due to the cobit pandemic, and us 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 talk soon. 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 don barson 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 amounts 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 julian or persons remarks in part, married statements made by the head of the african union on friday during his meeting with the russian president, senegal. president, marquis saul said the sanctions imposed by the e. u and u. s. against moscow. threatened to undermine africa's food security that functional 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 so had to say was

pretty self explanatory. he blew out of 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 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 caught 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 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. now, at that press conference that meeting today in moscow, president putin, at once again reasserted that for him that africa is an important continent. i stood at all africa. the role of africa in the international arena, 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, without exaggeration, friendly relations, all 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, ok, you k at the 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 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 you know a continent like africa is going to get those food supplies that it says it desperately needs. meanwhile, the united nations warns the risk of famine in the horn of africa is worse and in and is not only the rising prices and chaos in the world markets. climate change is also an issue. somalia as well as parts of kenya and the few people have been hit by severe droughts unseen for at least 40 years. 3.6000000 lives stock have already died in kenya. any theo, p u to the harsh conditions. livestock farming is the main source of income from much of the local population. we spoke with some of the people that who described that dire situation. oh, my didn't know, garza not off. 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 know, say 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 got mom and the dog children are having malnutrition. the way they are walking, like 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. us administration can't imagine a new starts nuclear arms reduction treaty being signed when the current one expires in 2026 us according to some media reports with the bite and 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. new starts came into force in 2011 and limit the number of

missiles bombers and warheads, the u. s. and russia can have deployed joe biden, and let me putin agreed to extend the treaty for 5 years. back in january 2021. us and russian officials had held arms control for since then. but they broke down after the ukrainian conflict. started russian deputy foreign minister, early a highlighted the russia is open to continue those negotiations. the vice chair for the libertarian national committee of enviro believes that the u. s. is delaying the arms control treaty to punish russia over the ukraine conflicts i think right now the u. s. 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 brush in the united states, or they have the 2 largest nuclear arsenals in the world, reducing that stockpile of weapons has several advantages. one is if you reduce

that stockpile, it reduces the maintenance cost for each country. business stockpile means a less money is being taken away from useful things. that means 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 gets stolen by somebody, you're again, dealing with something with potentially catastrophic consequences. the russian embassy in lots fia, has expressed, is constant. so the authorities, the over courts, rejection of an appeal by alexander bianco. it was arrested for display on russian flag while protesting against demolition of a monument to soviets soldiers of the crowd. to remember the heroic efforts of world war 2 soldiers and not let the presence gets in the way of respecting the past,

no faces up to 5 years in prison. he spoke exclusively with his mother. after the cold decision was announced and she says the rule and it's unbelievable. porto visual hustle 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. yes, he is a home boy who loves to read, who knows 4 languages, including the state language. he is a citizen of lod fear, a 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 love, it 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. but he also spoke exclusively with alexander's lawyer,

who thinks that such a decision by a court is unprecedented. please 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 char, 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 a brush 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 is 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 located and over to india now, which has slammed a us state department claim accusing the country of human rights violations. the only report says the indian governments is a pressing it's muslim minority attacks on members of religious minority communities, including killings, assaults, and intimidation, occurred throughout the year. these included incidents of cow vigilantes, them against non hindus, based on allegations of cow slaughter or trade in beef. it is unfortunate that vote bank politics is being practiced in international relations. we would urge that assessments based on motivated inputs and biased views be avoided. revolt alleged the violence types took place throughout last year on minority communities in the country, and he responded that he doesn't see why a foreign government sees it's appropriate to comment on new delhi internal affairs

. we spoke to shashi cancer format, chief of police in the states of punjab, who says that the u. s. should not be interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. i'm. i think it's not what's, what's like nope, that is, i don't know if there's any in the talks about some of the other one. so this is the big to decide that we are already decided to go up and i'm sure that they're action. and then every know oily she's human like when they wanted to try and place it in on

one piece. it was not the big sponsored thing but they go try and do something with this kind of friction there. i each and every one was one point. so my position didn't have any what i was the one who i talk about the issues in india. exactly. my mind in the office. those are the main stories this our do head over to r t dot com or our social media pages for more on pizza. scott's and i'll be back again with more news at the top of the hour.

ah, i ah.