mean, meanwhile, despite sanctions, russia is creating political facts on the ground. the me can recur reports from the front line of the separate chemical plant and the lucas group public where foreign mercenaries find themselves trapped alongside thousands of premium soldiers. with the u. s. ever on the lookout for human rights violations worldwide, it seems that they have forgotten to probe their own with american abuses in yemen . still unchecked. according to a congressional watchdog report. the u. s. big oil companies blamed by president biden for inaction push back against his calls to ramp up production, saying that he himself had previously encouraged

a shift from fossil fuels. the gets more direct from our studios in moscow. this is our t international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. and we start with the guns republic of 70 done yet. square for and mercenaries are believed to be trapped in a local chemical plant, alongside ukrainian soldiers, along according to various estimates, up to 2 and a half 1000 troops are stuck in the industrial zone. russian and allied forces said that they have taken control of all of the city except the plant as not where key of forces blew up. a container laden with chemicals at the end of may and move. local officials have called the provocation and crime against civilians are cheese equals donna comments from the scene. behind me, you can see the black plumes of smoke they are rising from the assault plant.

there's about $800.00 may be meters to the positions of the ukrainian forces. in fact, we're 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, the chemical plant. we went to hell rescue civilians and then the ukrainians took out a tank and started shooting at us. and a fight again broke out. when i was there yesterday, ukraine didn't want stop firing mortars. it's fight isn't our panicking. you can hear so on the walkie talkies, they want the battle to end. we can hear it and their voices are poor with from 80 and they fire to their own troops

and then a tank move 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. the i lot of mercenaries, they're mostly british. much of the food and dry ration says from britain and poland amid all this may, hm. hundreds of civilians are scattered around the towns basements and shelters. this one harbors around 20 people whose neighboring houses were destroyed by the ukrainians. they say, look, still a go. is it look, you know, below it you buy me in a leaky? don't see that he shouldn't joke is bless me he said, but let me eat it. ne girls entry again eat eat. yes. they will. id number

90, sticky stuff. you know? and this used to be a music academy over several minutes, used to be what it used to be 2 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 home, which was it. when russia special operation began. ukraine and troops immediately entered our city. they placed their armored vehicles in residential areas, drove round and started firing me sales and our soldiers came in, the ukrainians retreated, and then the bombed us smashed us from our basements. we could see crane and 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. a mortgage dawn of reporting from several in ask archie it is a 10th day of continuous ukrainian artillery showing in the city of daniel were officials say western made, our teachers were used to bomb our schools, hospitals, and residential areas. we spoke to people who witnessed the latest showing. yes, mac, are you like silly? i was in my room and my son was there. i just eaten and 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 us. 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. as howitzers, rage, more and more lives are being lost, done yet. republic officials say 176 civilians have died. another 839 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 order. open it up here it is. the sport, the rocket landed. these are the cassettes that were filled with all sorts of fragments. there were 2 cars parked him and the explosions right between them 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 pulled to, i thought maybe she lost consciousness from the blow. and at the last moment she

moved to legs. i thought she was alive. fuel began to flow from the call towards her legs, and then everything began to bon. i yelled for my husband and he ran out, picked her up by her jacket and quickly ran with her twice entrance. that in the entrance, she took 2 breaths, and then she was gone. ah, she was of i cheerful and kind gone. she had many friends and kindergarten. children still ask about what my youngest will child generally afraid to will come yard. we go for a walk, so my so as not to see at all with his goal was our son. i saw him. it's very hard to live with ally to help with that i see needed a notion,

nash. i blame me z, merging awesome near him, gave them me notions. it's the same as arming islamic state. 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 my uncle, john mark duke and served as a police officer in florida until he alleged widespread corruption and blackmail and nepotism. in the sheriff's office he worked in, he says, an investigation was open, but not into the claims he put forward, actually, against him, eventually received political asylum in russia, which doesn't have an extradition treaty with the u. s. after recently returning from the dungeon square public, he spoke to my colleague union o'neill about the ukrainian atrocity he heard about

during a visit to the city of 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 face from the ukranian forces. there have just been terrible being used as human shields being held hostage is being shot by snipers for trying to evacuate. and this is straight. i get this straight from these people. they tell me this, you know, it's difficult to hear these stories from these people. so in dumbass everything seems to be quieting down a bit. they're rebuilding and mary oval as a stall has cleared out, i was in as of stall, even in the catacombs. and the people are trying their best to get back to normal life. the western media likes to leave out a lot of important details about the true nature of what's happening because they

can't afford to, to expose themselves as supplying the weapons to some really bad people in ukraine . which they are. can we touch then 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 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 into me until the time were 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 online why the u. s. looks for human rights violations were worldwide. it seems that it has failed to fully investigate its own role in perpetuating such abuses in yemen. this is according to a congressional watched 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 is supplied to saudi arabia. we 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 harm in yemen. however, d o d has not reported and state could not provide evidence that it 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? 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 to jets and used for as strikes, very offensive. what the u. s. government did to avoid any scrutinise silva 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, our 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 and 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 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 specific strike and a reaction, obviously any time there's a loss of life of innocent lives as i was 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 half a day and 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 and law are melting by the hour. there is, of course,

nothing new in this. the 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, kabbalah k. human and labor rights lawyer says america doesn't care about humanitarian cost. as it thinks international law doesn't 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 stan, the u. s. under george w bush actually passed the law that said the u. s. could bomb the a 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 and making sure the u. s. would not be investigated or crimes

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 you requested a ramp up production to tackle gasoline prices that have almost doubled since last year. but the stress 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 by the said, big oil inaction had nullified his administration's efforts to soften inflation. but the company's claim, it is the last president to 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 a rise in distrust in biden, with his approval rating, falling to record lowes over the last 3 weeks, or t correspondent kill him up in comments. working families across america are feeling the crunch of the rising energy costs. the high gas prices, so now we have the white house 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 costs off of americans that are frustrated with the rising costs,

here is what the white house said in their letter. the crunch of the 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 in fence lying 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 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 strategic petroleum reserve, the one, the 1000000 a day for the next 6 months. and so we need them to act oil companies, find these statements 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 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 fuel the 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 the nature of the by the

administration's policies. when it comes to the energy sector. pakistanis 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. other 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 import costs. here is what people think of the deteriorating situation. lot been damage, although just forget about having me of 3 times a day and we 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. no shirt, you know electricity, which has leaf the soap and sit here because there is no customer visiting us. fuel

prices have affected everything including our business. so what all the household you can double prices have increased by 200 percent. we pull people, we can't do anything with the one the sacrifice in this way. we'll die one day. there is no solution. right? we spoke to the russian ambassador to pakistan who hopes to come to an economic agreement with the government. where in touch over the issues for buying we or energy resources under the previous administration of iran, han and we are still in contact with the marcus time is today. i wouldn't like to give 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

proceeds. they need our product. and i think, i hope that we will come to some agreement as well as in 2020, because in that there a year the bike is tiny side, spent $212000000.00 on russian wheat. and that was approximately one 4th of the total trade turnover for that year. 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, form is held under the slogan, new opportunities in a new world. the russian president vladimir putin will speak at the plenary session of the forum

today. a speech r t will be covering live on the sidelines are correspondent, really a patrol co spoke to the location of the editor in chief of the russia in global affairs journal, about the ongoing war and ukraine. 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 where this information will end . it's quite all is that the minimum program is as announced liberation of the territories of the national bonds peoples republics, which are recognized by russia inside, administered to 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 its troops. and also, and crimea over to you. great. 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 and such the beginning,

i can imagine that both rash inside and less than the side have the hopes 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 now, despite a boycott from a number of western officials and businessman, guests, for more than 100 countries are in attendance, many are seeking to clinch lucrative business deals. some have already achieved that goal. with hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts already signed in the 1st 2 days of the forum. earlier, we got reaction from international affairs analyst, yvonne, it to me a favor who explained how russia has been dealing with the impact from western lead sanctions. harder for europe to get 3 to freshen gas due to

their obstacles, to quickly substitute it visa, american one or the liquefied gas coming from valan g. all the same politics. so we'll try to call me in the near future, i believe. and we should also think about strategic decisions about the redirection of our gift supplies on be international market. the western initiators have sanctions freely to course, the color of the russian economy, russian financial authority to manage the situation, actually liquidity with their internal ruble, financial infrastructure, at the same time, the longer term effort, so may be huge. so the world bank assess the decline of g b and so we will have problems in the number of great just because me due to the extra control we should not collect the damage. the damage is realistic in many

governments of, for their family countries. they are not joining their western stations review, right? how, where we're businesses in these countries have to take into account the threat of secondary sanctions for the actions in the u. s. gave for you when it comes to economy. though the internal politics, this is not just russia, this is corey 900. the problem in the management of the call to me while it's easy to blame it on the russian president on russia in general. but we should take our own faults into the cows. from $1000000.00 deals to chance meetings on the sidelines, we will make sure that you don't miss the moments that matter at the st. petersburg, international, economic warmth, all week long statements. ah

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