me the, the me in r t. crew reports from the front line of the several done yet chemical plants in the loo, guns, republic where foreign mercenaries find themselves trapped along thousands of ukrainian soldiers. the us has not fully investigated its role in human rights abuses in yemen. this according to a congressional watch dog report. and us big oil companies blamed by president biden for inaction, push back against the call to ramp up production, saying that he himself had previously encouraged to shift from fossil fuels. the

broadcasting lab direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international and shawn thomas certainly glad to have you. with right now, we started with the lugens can republic, city of 71. yes. square for mercenaries are believed to be trapped in a local chemical plant, alongside ukrainian soldiers. according to various estimates, up to 2 and a half 1000 troops are stuck in the industrial zone. russian and allied forces say that they have taken control of all of the city except for the plants as to where key of forces blew up. a can tainer laden with chemicals at the end of may. now i'm moving. local officials have called a provocation and crime against civilians. egos, don off comments from the front line. 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 the 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 cease fire 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 are formal. we're still going to go 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 when there are a lot of mercenaries, they're 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 look still, i don't. is it lookin below it? you buy me in? oh, leaky, don't you shouldn't you? is fastening 8th a cell that bus a, b, e, e, g, a ne, oh grants in lea. a unique it? yes. the like he, he didn't,

emma yankee sticky stuff. 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 effectively rendering useless when they did so. up to 60 civilians were sheltering here from the bombardments lunch till 4, much less 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 houses. 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 gosh, darn of reporting from several than ask odyssey and it is a 10th day of ukrainian artillery shelling for the city of done yet. square officials say western made howitzers were used to bombard schools, hospitals, and residential areas. we spoke to people who witnessed the way to showing yes like 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 it 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 as howitzers,

rage more and more lives are being lost, done yet grow. public officials say 176 civilians have died. and another $839.00 were wounded in the last 4 months in the republic. among them, a 7 year old girl who died in a showing almost 2 months ago. ah, on the open it up here it is. the sport, the rocket landed. these are the cassettes that were filled with all sorts of fragments. but there were 2 cars parked here and the explosions, right between them was there. and she was at the epicenter right in front of these 2, cause i looked out from the steps and she was just lying that i called to, i thought maybe she lost consciousness from the blow. and at the last moment she moved her legs and i just,

i thought she was alive. fuel began to flow from the college towards her legs, and then everything began to bon after that i yelled from my husband and ran out, picked her up by her jacket, and quickly ran with hartwell's entrance. in that, in the entrance, she took to breath and then she was gone. ah, she was very cheerful and kind gone. she had many friends in kindergarten, children still ask about my youngest, when childs generally afraid to will come yard. we go for a walk, so my so was not to see it all with his goal was our son. i saw him. it's very hard to live with allies to hold a i see needed and she knows nash,

i bring me a the promises more legal arms to ukraine that said during a meeting of the french german, italian and romanian leaders with president zones came to new policy. we will continue to deliver military equipment in particular, caesar artillery can and trucks, which will enable ukrainian soldiers to defend themselves more effectively against attacks by the russian army on ukrainian soil. the meeting took place in cave, where french, german and italian leaders arrived by train with air raid sirens sounding shortly after their arrival. before the meeting, they were taken to the suburb of independence, which kiev had accused russian forces of trying to use as a base to seize the capital. the leaders also back to ukraine's bed to join the union, saying the state can receive candidate status. it won't look great. italy wants to

crane to be a candidate for the european union right after the whole. it's next meeting. ukraine deserves candidacy because it's fighting for freedom and democracy. zaleski go my money. i'm a cream belongs in the european families and were supporting ukraine with the delivery of weapons. we will keep doing that for as long as it is needed from me. however, the french president underlined it that it wouldn't happen overnight, even if $27.00 members unanimously prove ukraine's bid to join. they will have to draw up an elaborate roadmaps where the procedure give will also gives me a face, a list of requirements, and that you will have to consider how we ukraine joining will affect neighboring states. moreover, menu micron stated that it is ukraine's responsibility to conduct peace talks with you. russia. not the use of moscow, though, says that it doesn't expect negotiations to resume. earlier we discussed the you leaders visit with russia,

the deputy ambassador to the united nations dmitri pollyanna sky, you believe that the trip was mainly organized to facilitate talks as there is a growing demand for a peaceful solution to the crisis within the u. new countries, including those leaders and keep all the local it will be controversial in their statements. again, there are very frequent leisure and statements. we've got some on them. the other hand there is bigger and bigger demand. these countries in the countries from the population, their rulers, to and this, to me while we come on, the moral that isn't braces, european countries more and more solutions. so these are crisis which is becoming a guarantee and security crisis. and it's quite clear that says all the, all the 3 of these crisis. so i think that the leaders continue to bear

in mind the moods in the capitals are quite new forums. and there is more and more demands for finding a peaceful solution from these crisis. it's communicate, it's the same as army islamic states. that's the message from a former american law enforcement officer who vehemently opposes washington's continued flow of weapons to ukraine. after he visited the war. twin city of multiple john mark do again served as a police officer in florida until he alleged widespread corruption, blackmail and nepotism in the sheriff's office he worked in, he says investigation was opened but not into the claims he put forward actually against him. he eventually received political asylum in russia, which doesn't have an extradition treaty with the u. s. after recently, returning from the done yet group public, he spoke to a colleague, unit o'neill, about the ukrainian atrocities he had heard about during a visit to the city of variable. 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. and i mean what they've faced from the ukrainian 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, you 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 targeting campaign to try to fire me. and so eventually i just

resigned. i said, you know, i don't need this my left and for 5 years i, i started with whistle blower website. so that good cops could go on 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 us government has not fully investigated its own role in perpetuating human rights abuses in yemen. this, according to a congressional watchdog report, which is what i've got. 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 it supplied. 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 loophole? 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 p g m. so precision guided munitions, for example, hooked the jets and used the air strikes very offensive. what the u. s. government did to avoid heavy scrutinise, sell the missiles in pots, 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, but 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 have 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. ah, 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 olympic games at a time when the country is a committee. so many human rights abuses, particularly in sin, gen, reports of russia's human rights abuses and violations of internationally mandatory law, or mounting by the hour. there is, of course, nothing new in this united states and nato have done to the world what they wield these past 3 decades. and no one could do a thing about it. dan koala, k. human and labor rights lawyer says america doesn't care about humanitarian costs . as it thinks, international law doesn't really apply to them. the u. s. has made sure that it would never be held accountable. right. the u. s. is not a member of the international criminal court. it is in fact, sanctioned the international criminal court. when it said it was going to investigate the u. s. for crimes in an afghan to stand. the u. s. under george

w bush actually passed the law that said the u. s. could bomb the hey, give the i c c. did investigate the u. s. u. s. is made sure the international law does not apply to the united states. it does not care about the humanitarian cause of the tours of the u. s. knew all along it back, samantha power, who was instrumental in making sure the u. s. would not be investigated or crime any. and she herself, years ago, predicted that millions of p m. and could die due to the war. but that didn't change her course of action didn't change the u. s. course of action and it won't because they don't care. us 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 wanted 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's said big oil in action had nullified his administration's efforts to soften inflation. but the company's claim, it is the u. s. president himself, who has radically shifted focus from oil production to green energy, yet now tries to move the blame to them. record rising, inflation has coincided with rise in distrust in biden, with his approval rating, falling to record lowes over the last 3 weeks or corresponding to mop and comments . working families across america are feeling the crunch of the rising energy costs,

the high gas prices. so now we have the white out coming forward with a letter directed it oil companies in america, urging them to an oil production in order 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 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 will come forward. instead, the white house simply does not understand the industry and they can't simply increase 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 boil companies to amp up production. this is what she said will companies, they have or 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 strategic petroleum reserve, the one, the 1000000 a day for the next 6 months. and so we need them to act oil companies find the statement to be particularly ironic as the policy of the white house has been pretty clearly to phase out fossil fuels. they are taking the opportunity of the high energy costs to push electric cars and 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 uses. they are now calling on oil companies in the name of patriotism to amp up oil reduction. many are looking at this as a great example of the erotic and not well thought out the nature of the by the administration's policies when it comes to the energy sector. one of the world's biggest and most important business events, the st. 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 form are de correspondingly. katrinka spoke to she don't look young off editor in chief of russia in global affairs journal. he says that

russia's minimum goal in ukraine is the liberation of don yet. and lou ganske 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 is of ration will, and it's quite all there is that the minimum program is as announced liberation of the territories of african bands. 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, every thing 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, 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

holes or maybe illusions that such kind of conflicts could be settled 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 decides from a $1000000.00 deals to chance meetings on the sidelines, we will make sure that you don't miss the moment that matter at the st. petersburg, international economic form all week long. the pakistan is struggling with natural gas and electricity prices which have rocketed 45 percent in the last month alone. the government is forced to continuously raise prices to meet international monetary fund requirements. the countries finance minister blames the former government and the global inflation for the crisis.

earlier, pakistan's planning minister was heavily criticized after telling the nation to drink less tea to partly save on important costs. here is what people think of the deteriorating situation. lot being dam georgia, the just forget about having me of 3 times a day. i wish to eat at least 2 times a day, but even that's impossible, right now it's terrible. a poor person can survive in these conditions. low shared, you know, electricity will just leave the show and sit here because there is no customer visiting fuel. prices have affected everything including our business. so what all of the household expenses have doubled. prices have increased to 100 percent. we have whole people, we can't do anything with the ones the sacrifices in this way. we'll die one day. there is no solution to sort of we spoke to the russian ambassador to box don, who hopes to come to an economic agreement with the government.

yeah, we're in touch over the issues of buying wheat or energy resources under the previous administration in wrong hon. and we're still in contact with lee pakistan is today. i would like to view for the exact details of the ongoing negotiations. do not compromise them, but i can tell you that we are negotiating in good faith. i think that both sides are interested in achieving and mutually beneficial deal. we need to proceed. they need our products and i think i hope that we will come on to some agreement as well as being 2020 because in that there were year, the likely sunny side spent 212000000 dollars

on russian wheat. and that was approximately one 4th of the trade turnover for that year. by that doesn't mean this our, i'll be back in 31 minutes with another full and fresh look at, you know, stay with this is our to international. oh, a

just what exactly is the west policy approach on ukraine should can't negotiate a piece or should it fight on indefinitely? and what is made those in the game? what does winning mean? meanwhile, despite sanctions prussia is creating political facts on the ground. in the united states has always had a variety of tools to use and tags on other countries. economic sanctions are, are often just the beginning. another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries that you're talking about and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country. the ha.