the the me and our team crew reports from the frontline of the say we're done yes, chemical plant, the la guns republic where thousands of ukrainian soldiers find themselves trapped . us has not fully investigated its role in human rights abuses in yemen, according to a congressional watchdog report and u. s. a big oil companies blame the vice president biden for inaction push back against his call to ramp up production thing that he himself had previously encouraged. a shift from fossil fuel, the

guessing my direct, my city is in moscow. this is our international one, sean thomas, certainly glad to have you with us. right now. a residential area in done yet has been sheltered by the ukrainian artillery for a 10th day. this is according to local authorities, their official se ukraine's army has used western made howitzers just to bombard residential areas. we spoke to people who witnessed the showing. yes ma'am. are you like still? i was in my room and my son was there. i just eat and then was having arrest. my son was running and shouting, leave him leave. i couldn't understand what he was talking about, but then the explosions came from. we are working remotely now, so there are not many of us at the school. children are becoming to use to evacuating. we have to regularly carry out evacuations to the shelter, and they now react like it's normal. we have been living here since 2014. no one has left and every one is kind of accustomed to it. and to the guns republic,

city of 70, done yet square, one of the most intensive battles is ongoing. russian and allied forces have that they have taken control of all of the city except for the large chemical plant. as us ukrainian forces appeared to be trapped inside as the last bridge that would help them escape has been destroyed, according to various estimates up to 2500 ukrainian troops are stuck in the industrial zone along with a large number of mercenaries from us. britain and poland cheese it was done of comments behind me, you can see the black plumes of smoke, they are rising from the a zone plant. there's about $800.00 may be meters to the positions of ukrainian forces. in fact, were the only news crew to go this far deep into the territory of the town of several. the nets, in fact, may be only about 7 to 8 days ago. here were the ukrainian positions,

but they had to fall back. now it's under the control of the russian forces, but you can clearly hear by the ambience, if i may say so, the fighting is very much intense. mm. yesterday we agreed on a ceasefire at the chemical plant. we went to help rescue civilians and then the ukrainians took out a tank and started shooting at us in a fight again broke out. when i was there yesterday, ukraine didn't once stop firing mortars. it's fighters are now panicking. you can hear so on the walkie talkies, they want the battle to end. we can hear it in their voices approval. we're thrilled with from 8 am. they fired at their own troops and then a tank moved to shell our positions. it was a typical scenario. ukraine moving to a strategic place to make it look like we were doing the shooting. but we were actually standing there with white flags. while there are a lot of mercenaries there, but mostly british, much of the food and dry rations,

as from britain and poland amid all this may. hm. hundreds of civilians are scattered around the towns basements and shelters. this one hob was around 20 people whose neighboring houses were destroyed by the ukrainians. they say a kindred woman esteemed he then let you. yes it looks dea i don't is it looked below the d o by me in my leaky. don't see that you shouldn't kill is 1st name is so lead plus a, b, e, and could in yup, no we, i knocked arrow again. this ideal since it we still don't

know if he needs she wasn't sure if it meant e g a doesn't need grades in b a unique. it could ensure that they were a key. he didn't. emma j sticky. it and this used to be a music academy over several minutes, used to be what it used to be to was renovated and you can still see in the details the amount of money and effort put into this place. but it is no more the ukrainians. sheltered burning at andrews, affectively rendering useless when they did so. up to 60 civilians were sheltering here from the bombardments, logical for much of it when russia special operation began. ukrainian troops

immediately entered our city. they placed their armored vehicles in residential areas, drove around and started firing missiles. when our soldiers came in, the ukrainians retreated, and then they bond us from our basements. we could see a ukrainian tank shooting at our house as to what's going on. why are these people beg of one thing to help them escape this? hell? in the end, we'll leave with a ward of handwritten notes. it's phone numbers and messages they'd like us to pass to their loved ones in russia. i'm a good done of reporting from several than that sc. see the leaders of france, germany, italy, and romania are currently backing immediate. you candidate status for ukraine. that's after meeting and chip with ukraine's president zelinski lessons. the people who have france has been alongside ukraine since the one we stand with the ukrainians. without the big unity, ukraine must resist and when it was killed,

italy wants ukraine to be a candidate for the europe. ian union right after the whole. it's next meeting. ukraine deserves candidacy because it's fighting for freedom and democracy. the landscape. wanted to cream belongs in the european family and warranty, and we're supporting ukraine with the deliveries of weapons. we will keep doing that for as long as it is needed from me. however, the french president underlined that it wouldn't happen overnight, even if $27.00 members unanimously approve ukraine's bid to join the states. we'll have to drop an elaborate roadmap for the procedure. the candidates also faces a list of requirements to meet and the european union will have to consider the situation in neighboring states. last week, the president of the u commission also spoke about giving candidate status to ukraine. although many key members are positive about the idea for membership could take years or even decades, the meeting took place in cave where french and german and italian leaders arrived by train with air raid sirens in the city sounding shortly after their rival.

before the meeting, they made their way directly to the suburb of yet a pin, which he had accused russian forces of trying to use as a base for seizing the capital. the visitors promised more support for the state, including additional legal aid such as caesar, how, how it's her guns and more money for reconstruction. european leaders also promised sanction against russia would remain with president wednesday, proposing even more now the french italian and german leaders had previously been criticized by ukrainian authorities for not providing you with the scale of weaponry. it has been demanding and for not visiting the country sooner. yet, even during the long awaited trip, no documents were signed. moreover, moreover, manual mccrory stated that each country's won't be conducting negotiations with russia instead of ukraine as it's a task to be accomplished by itself. russia,

though, says that it can hardly expect ukraine to return to the negotiation table. earlier, my colleague, you know, neal discuss the you, leaders visit to ukraine with russia, deputy ambassador to the united nations dmitri apollyon ski. he says that it was organized mainly to facilitate talks as there is a growing demand for peaceful solution of the crisis within the u. there was a lot of lot of bullshit for them to go for these 3 leaders. they were very much expected and they are expected also exercise some influence on non presidents landscape. not only to provide arms to this country, but also to help get engage in meaningful consultations and to accept the situation as it is. that's the hope. so at least from, from russia to you, leaders on the visit said the key must decide whether to negotiate with russia but,

but earlier in the last week or so, that was quite a strong stance. the key of should negotiate. why do you think that policy appears? to have altered b u countries, including those assembly leaders to keep the local it will be controversial statements. again, there are very frequently belligerent statements when we got some on them. the other hand, there is bigger and bigger demand in these countries, in the countries from the population of their rulers, to and this turmoil, the comic tomorrow that isn't bracing european countries more and more and cheap solutions. so these are crisis which is becoming a guarantee. and security crisis, and it's quite clear that says all the, all the traits of these crisis. so i think that the leaders to keep in mind the moods in the capitals are quite

a few forums. and there is more and more demands for finding a peaceful solution from this crisis community. and so the same as arming islamic states that the message from a former american law enforcement officer who vehemently opposes washington's continued flow of weapons to claim after he visited the war torn city of marble, john mark duke, and served as a play officer in florida until he allegedly widespread corruption, blackmail and nepotism in the sheriff's office he worked in, he says, an investigation was open, but not into the claims that he put forward, actually, against him. he eventually received political asylum and russia, which doesn't have an extradition treaty with the united states. after recently, returning from the done yet square public, he spoke to my colleague union o'neill about the ukrainian atrocities he heard about during the visit to marble. so i've actually been there 6 times since the

special operation began and the situation is pretty grim in terms of the civilian population. i mean what they've faced from the ukranian forces. there have just been terrible being used as human shields being held hostages being shot by snipers for trying to evacuate. and this is straight. i get this straight from these people. they told me this you know, it's difficult to hear these stories from these people. can we touch them on, on why you came to russia, john mark your report on corruption within the sheriff's office? at what point did you realize there was a come into silence you so immediately after i came forward, we had a group of guys run around beating black people. and immediately after i've reported this to my supervisors, there is a target and campaign to try to fire me. and so eventually i just

resigned. i said, you know, i don't need this and i left and for 5 years i, i started with whistle blower website. so that good cops could go on and expose the crimes being committed by their governments in their departments without them fearing retaliation. and ever since, at the moment it had been a constant criminal investigation. and to me, until the time where 45 f b i, agents rated my home in the crime, the crime that i'm wanted for now is 19 counts of wire tapping for recording dirty police officers and posting on the president has been slammed by big oil companies after he requested they ramp up production to tackle gasoline prices that have almost doubled since last year. but the industry's response wasn't exactly what the white house wants to hear. while we

appreciate the opportunity to open increased dialogue with the white house, the administration's misguided policy agenda, shifting away from domestic oil and natural gas has compounded inflationary pressures and added headwinds to companies. daily efforts to meet growing energy needs while reducing emissions. longer term government can promote investment through clear and consistent policy that supports us resource development, such as regular and predictable. lee sales, as well as streamlined regulatory approval and support for infrastructure such as pipelines earlier, biden said big oil in action had nullified his administration's efforts to soften the inflation. but it is the us president himself who has radically shifted focus from oil production to green energy. yet now he is trying to shift the blame to the oil companies. record rising, inflation has coincided with rising distrust in the biden administration, with his approval rating. falling to record lows over the last 3 weeks,

are to correspond to kill them up in comments. working families across america are feeling the crunch of the rising energy cost. the high gas prices, so now we have white out coming forward with a lot of directed it oil companies in america, urging them to an oil production border to drive the prices down and take the burden of the high cost off of americans that are frustrated with the rising costs here is what the white house said in their letter. the crunch at families are facing, deserves immediate action. your companies need to work with my administration to bring forward concrete, near term solutions that address the crisis and respect the critical equities of energy workers and fence line communities at a time of war. historically high refinery profit margins being passed directly onto american families are not acceptable. now, oil companies to come forward. instead, the white house simply does not understand the industry and they can't simply in

crease the amount of output this easily. it's not a matter of simply pushing a button or, or pulling a knob that there are complex issues in arranging how much oil production is amped up or slow down. now many have also taken note of some statements made by the white house press secretary. she came forward and said that it is the patriotic duty of oil companies to amp up production. this is what she said. oh, we'll companies, they have oil refineries. they have responsibility to what they have been doing is taking advantage of the war. and as i showed earlier, they have tripled. triple their, their, their income time to act, we have done our part with the, to treaty petroleum, reserve, the one the 1000000 a day for the next 6 months. and so we need them to act that oil companies find the statement to be particularly ironic as the policy of the white house has been pretty clearly to phase out the fuel. they are taking the opportunity of the high

energy costs to push electric cars, add new energy vehicles and other, other mechanisms that don't use fossil fuels. they want to get rid of fossil fuel. so at the same time, the white house is actively trying to phase the states off the fossil fuels reduce the amount of fossil fuels united states use as they are now calling on oil companies in the name of patriotism to amp oil reduction. many are looking at this as a great example of the erotic and not well thought out nature of the by the administration's policies. when it comes to the energy sector. the us government has not fully investigated its own role in perpetuating human rights abuses in yemen. this, according to a congressional watchdog report, but i guess you have comments. a quarter of a 1000000 deaths later, the united states still hasn't been able to figure out whether the $60000000000.00

of weapons that supply the saudi arabia were used to kill innocent people. in fact, the united states openly admits they didn't even bother to try to find out there have been reports of extensive civilian, harmon, yemen, however d o. d has not reported and state could not provide evidence that had investigated incidents of potential unauthorized use of equipment transferred to saudi arabia or united arab emirates. joe biden came to power promising to wind america's role in the blood bus these yemen than to stop supplying saudi arabia with all the bombs and missiles they wanted. he promised to stop supplying offensive weapons. everyone cheered and clapped and celebrated. and that was that, except who's to tell what an offensive or a defensive weapon is. how's that for a new poll, b u. s. military training mission officials told us that all of the equipment,

the u. s. cells through f m. s to saudi arabia must be for defensive purposes in accordance with the arms control export act. however, these officials could not provide a definition for equipment that is defensive in nature when we asked how they distinguish between equipment used for defensive purposes and equipment used for offensive purposes. there are some weapons pgm, so precision guided munitions, for example, hooked to jets and used for air strikes, very offensive. what the u. s. government did to avoid heavy scrutinise, sell the missiles in parts, thereby by possible the bureaucracy. we didn't sell them a missile. they claim we sold them pots and with instructions on how to put them together, all hands are keen. the state department had been selling p gm's in component parts, so that each individual transfer fell below the threshold, requiring congressional approval over the last 8 years. saudi arabia has made something of a habit of launching air strikes that big gatherings,

so weddings and funerals and market places. plenty of times who the rebels in yemen have found the remains of us supplied munitions at the scenes. rockets and missiles bombs made in america, yet somehow the united states has been unable to do the same. it turns out if you don't even try, you won't find anything wrong. centcom officials told that they do not know how d o d security cooperation officials in saudi arabia and u e would obtain the information necessary to determine whether u. s. origin defense articles were used in yemen by saudi arabia or u. e, against anything other than legitimate military targets, such as civilians or civilian infrastructure. this was a brief summary on how to wash your hands of all culpability. for one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world for 8th long years. it isn't particularly brilliant or slides just bold an somewhat shameless waltz. really shameless

is all for doing all of this. then coming out and demanding accountability from others, or even saying so, but saying you'll hold them responsible. we have, i have a long history of relationship with saudi arabia, one where we raise issues, where we had significant concerns on human rights and on a range of issues and one where we have had a long security relationship that has been in the interest of the united states, i in terms of this, it a specific strike and a reaction. obviously any time there's a loss of life, of innocent lives, that is a tragedy. and we are, we are mindful of that focused on that. we and many other organizations have been saying that it's really impossible to have a celebrate that they are the elliptic games at a time when the country is committing so many human rights abuses,

particularly in sin, gem reports of russia's human rights abuses and violations of internationally mandatory law or melting by the hour. there is of course, nothing new in this united states and nato have done for the world what they wield these past 3 decades. and no one could do a thing about it. one of the world's biggest and most important business business events the petersburg international economic form has entered its 3rd day in russia's northern capital. this year, the form is held under the slogan, new opportunities in a new world. the on the sidelines of the for a marquee correspondence. tilly of betraying co, spoke to fyodor luciano of editor in chief of russia in global affairs journal. he says that russia's minimum goal in ukraine is the liberation of done yet. can look

on people's republics. what could the borders of ukraine look like when this conflict is over? to be frank, i'm not sure that even our leadership knows exactly what the situation will. and it's quite all there is that the minimum program is as announced liberation of the territories of the national guard people's republics, which are recognized by russia inside administrative borders of ukrainian or bless ukrainian regions. i don't believe that it will be the end of the operation, because now we have a rather in a military logic, raining, which means that any stop of the military advance would mean that the other side will regroup, will use the polls, use the break to prepare for, for the response, basically,

everything we hear from russian officials, both in moscow and on the field, give us the feeling that territories already taken by russia. why russian army will never return back to your great previous, the west to wanted russia to completely withdraw troops and also hand crimea over to ukraine. now, there are quite a few voices in the west that are calling on to stop giving weapons to you. great. and also what they want is ukraine to lead goal of done bass. why the change in rhetoric in such way the beginning? i can imagine that both the russian side and west side have the hopes or maybe illusions that such kind of conflicts could be set to

some kind of agreement. but it didn't work probably could not work either. so now we have this particular situation when the military force only the side hi, from a $1000000.00 deals to chance meetings on the sidelines. we will make sure that you don't miss the moments that may matter at the st. petersburg international economic form all week long. the china has overtaken the u. s. as the foreign power with the most positive influence in africa, that's according to a survey among young adults in the continent. the survey was conducted among 18 to 24 year olds in 16 african countries and found that 76 percent considered china's activity as the most positive for the continent. pushing the u. s. which finished

the 1st in the poll just 2 years ago into 2nd place. now the results illustrate china's rising influence on the continent with investments infrastructure development projects and affordable products listed as its most positive contributions by calling china is a better friends in america. i think it's china because it believes in giving and receiving better with china. with china as better because it could take over the world economy in the future. i believe it's better to be closer to china than the u. s. in the current reality, it's preferable to work with china. taylor, me. i believe it's china. i think china can help african more china is better because it brings its talent and know how year we spoke to african politics and economy analyst lawrence, k. freeman, who says china has proved its success in africa. unlike the u. s. in terms of reality, in practice, china and through it,

he's actually making a much greater contribution to african nations in collaborating with them to build absolutely necessary vital infrastructure projects. united states and europe in the whole west in has actually failed to make these kind of long term investments and support african nations in their infrastructure. us recently sent a letter to 14 african countries urging them to reject grain imports from russia, saying the food was stolen from ukraine. that's as much of africa struggles with critical food shortages, bringing some areas to the brink of famine, white house spokesperson has admitted the us wants to prohibit sales of grain in african national congress youth league chairperson told us that support shifted to

china as the us didn't treat africans like humans. what i can say is, we are working with other countries to prevent the sale of grain that has likely been stolen from ukraine. we've found china to be an honest country to do business with in competitors in to the west, which when they arrived here, they did not even see us as human beings. but instead they plowed our mineral resources. they are the ones that bombed to heal shima. they're the ones that, like i said, she just to test a nuclear bomb and just to protect him, lasha. so we are students of history. we understand what the intention has been. they have been everywhere in the world where there's a lot of the sources, an image not to do business there, but to still and could come age on that people or both of those countries. we are saying that we are going to have relations with the russian people, whether american america loves it or not. we will not be subject to western media.

would tries to paint the chinese people as a bad people who are in africa to do wrong things. because we can visibly see that they're here to help with development, and that to be here. and they see as if equals, who they can enter into business with. not the people that they can spin from that as a for me, this are, i'll be back in about 31 minutes with another phone for a new say with us are to international the i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we

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