ah, a with a need to establish something like this, a command center. any place is good enough even this cemetery bart, if it's heavily fortified positions are bonded by the premium army near the ton of a russian and allied forces continued the mining territories taken from forces. the saudi crown prince meets with the turkish president in anchor of the final scope of his middle east, with 2 align views on key issues in the region. the trip comes ahead all president biden's arrival in riyadh next the actions of the west church.

all countries globally, vladimir putin delivers a message to world leaders, including on sanctions ahead of a key, some itself, the bricks group of major emerging economies to be hosted with 8 at night in madagascar in ankara. and here in moscow this wednesday, june the 22nd welcome to the global news update and artsy, immune and own you. we begin with the latest on the ukraine conflict. there has been an explosion and an oil refinery in the ra stuff region of russia. after a drone was apparently flown into it, the moment was caught on camera on it's circulating online. the utility of the regional emergency services said nobody was injured and the fire has already been

extinguished. reports also suggests there were 2 drones, both ukrainian russia claims up to 500 ukranian soldiers have been killed in a strike of shipyard near the city of nikolai, of military equipment was destroyed as well. the defense ministry claims key or forces are suffering heavy losses. and the one battalion reportedly fled without orders, having lost more than half its troops. fighting continues in this city of silverton, yet skin, the loo, ganske republic battled something raging there since early march. local authority, say the city was shell from the direction of the assault amaco plant, where ukrainian fighters are located, flushes continue amid ongoing evacuations of the factory. 30 civilians reportedly fled from there during the day, while de mining operations are ongoing in the dunbar. republics,

ortiz eager sedala visited. one of the areas still to be cleared a fortified position abandoned by the ukrainian army near the town of papa ny, with so heavy fighting last month with the special forces of the russian army. we are right now moving towards the positions quite recently captured from the ukrainian troops. and we're about to see the fortifications that they have both directed and dug into the ground. well over the past 8 years. and we're about to see what's left of them after the work of the russian artillery jets and well infantry. i don't care when you are not as good as the sort of mute on him. yet. crunches deep enough to safely shelter a man of average height sprout across the area. amid concrete laden fortifications we find western supplied weapons ukrainian troops abandoned in

a hurry as they fled. logo us with this is a permanent fortification. if we go inside, we can see the reinforce doors. they are made of thick steel with sand inside. going further we see another door of the same type and these are the firing positions. each of them has its own zone. these windows are reinforced as well with thick steel as we saw before on the inside here, the position is draped with his best. if so, cannot catch fire. and this tell the same firing position, which you have just seen from the inside, looks from the outside. the extra protection in the front, on the sides as well. you don't have to be a military expert to see that it takes a lot of firepower to will overcome and kick the forces out of a fortification like this one. the. and these are the remains of a cluster munition that the ukranian force is used against death for my own

abandoned well of fortifications. these type of munition is bound to pretty much all over the world. as we explore this labyrinth, we make a disturbing discovery. the ukrainian positions spidering across the fields here in all directions, and if they need to establish something like this, a command center, any place is good enough. even the cemetery, there's no red lines, it seems full key forces in this warm ethics is expendable decency is in excess. i mean there's done of reporting from the don bass. see just another note to bring you today. the 1st foreign ship has left the port of mario since the start of the conflicts ceiling along a corridor set up by the russian navy. it's a turkish cargo vessel called the czar concord was damaged during fighting in the city. but since been repaired on a new cruise,

it off the us attorney general house visit ukraine. murray, garland, was there to establish an american effort to help fines and prosecute what he's called russia's war criminals. the team will be led by justice department, staff, members, and outside experts i states is sending an unmistakable message. there is no place to hide, we will, we and our partners will pursue every avenue available to make sure that those were responsible for these atrocities are held. garland has tapped veteran d o. j prosecutor, eli rosenbaum to lead the departments new war crimes accountability team who will be tasked with coordinating efforts with ukrainian officials and other international law enforcement groups. now the. 6 irony in this appointment rosenbaum is known as the nazi hunter. i probably don't need to explain why that's ironic, given the known position of ukraine's is off battalion. but nonetheless,

the u. s. has a long history of what the international community has called war crimes. and it's certainly not in the position to point any fingers given america's foreign policy appears to be that of any action with full impunity. you can go as far back as the 900 sixty's when the u. s. blanketed the tiny southeast asian country of laos, with bombs, that averages out to nearly drops every 8 minutes for 24 hours a day for nearly a full decade, killing thousands of innocent civilians. 2 of those, my own family members are and more recent memory of visceral one. the 2007 video depicting american apache helicopter gunners shooting down and killing nearly a dozen iraqi civilians then in 2017 as the us and coalition forces ramped up their campaign against isis in rock assyria. the so called capital of the caliphate. that

city of some 300000 residents, was decimated by western bombs. a 2018 report by amnesty international outlines, the 10s of thousands of coalitions strikes on rocca with mission by the west, to unleashing some 30000 artillery rounds. amnesty international said this in their report. there is strong evidence that coalition air and artillery strikes, killed and injured thousands of civilians, including and disproportionate or indiscriminate attacks that violated international humanitarian law and or potential war crimes. so would be abundance of evidence of us more crimes across the globe throughout the 20th century. is it at all reasonable for the us attorney general to call the actions of any other country, a war crime when the u. s. has evaded justice for at least a century. hypocrisy is bipartisan. here in the u. s. capital in washington,

manila, cham me. well, let's said dell into some manila points with john mark dragon from a us marine geopolitical on list blogger. good to see you again. your initial reaction, john, to, to hearing us experts are leading a team, investigating potential war crimes in ukraine. would that be an impartial prob no, no, it would not. and i don't know whether to laugh or whether to be outraged. but the very thought that the united states who's killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians since the, since we started the 1st gulf war could ever engage in some kind of war crimes. court is just outland ish. could we expect the crimes of the ukrainian neo nazi a softball battalion to be prosecuted in this investigation as well?

i'll just remind the viewers the team garlan said will be led by the departments, best known nutsy hunter, eli rosenbaum. yes. so look, the united states, they are always looking to prosecute those that they don't like. and they are protecting those that they do like, and this is just isn't, this isn't just external, it's internal as well. you see all the conservative members being prosecuted where people like hillary clinton has gone free further crimes for decades. yet, there were many media articles as you well know, where western journalists essentially praise the new nazi groups despite not so long before that. absolutely trying to, to decimate them, but why do outlets ignore their crimes? now you're talking about white supremacy killing units. you know exactly what the west has to not have been fighting against for some time. yeah. it's,

it's ironic that you mentioned that because just in 2001, 902021, congress worked to designate diaz off battalion as terrorist organizations, extremely terrorist organizations. and now they're giving them weapons. why? because they have an agenda and their agenda is to destabilize russia and to keep their money laundering operation. continuing in ukraine, you got members of the new nazi battalions going to be tried in russia. john, for war crimes. what kind of introduction reaction do, do you suggest is going to come from the on, from the court itself? what do you expect the comes to be? what, what do you think the big picture is going to be her? you know, i think it's going to be a very fair procedure, but you know, the western media is not going to depict it that way. you know, every, every thing that happens in rushes involved in, they put a spin in and say,

how bad russia is in this and that, and i, you know, you have, you have this, these recent cases of these americans that have been smuggling in narcotics. and they get arrested just like they should and just like they wouldn't any country, but, you know, now, now the u. s. is painting them is of been arrested for political purposes. i mean, it's just, it's ridiculous. and the u. s. isn't immune itself from committing war crimes, although it appears not very often keen to investigate those to the exact letter of the law. no united states, they're the cover up artists of war crimes. ah, i mean, look with that, look what happened just just recently when biden pulled out of afghanistan killed an entire family of what 11 people i think it was and they did their best to hide it for as long as he could. and the whately outlier, i outright lied about it all marked organ,

former us marine geopolitical. ellis and blogger live in rti. thanks today. pleasure. on egypt, jordan and turkey, the saudi crime, prince mohammed bin fell. mom has been touring the region, apparently seeking to align the country stances on key issues as next month summit with joe biden noon. let's go through this anchor. it is the final destination in the prince's tour, being his 1st visit since the murder of journalist jamal shot g and. busy assemble almost 4 years ago, something not since a wedge between the countries. the princes trip kicked off on monday as he met the egyptian president to discuss security and stability in the area. and also signed off a $7700000000.00 package of agreements and jordan and also been on the royal i generate after years of strain relations between the 2 states, mostly due to flushing. hughes on the regional political science

professor said a sedan told us the saudi printed visit, comes up with a re shuffle of alliances in the region with less countries now willing to please washington, he has to make sure that when the king dies, he will not find any trouble among the regional ball and the company he wants the oldest ball to stand by him. well, he's going here and there to provide. he cannot make assistant or so to prepare for the visit off to the by the way, ignore the area for one year and a half. and only because of the korean crisis and the oil and gas ishall, he began to change his mind even before the cleaning and crisis alliances. and everything was he saw the image on the one hand and then you had another alliance. and this

changes. now, we have a lot of things that happened in the, in the last few months that should the area wanted to vary the action and have some kind of peace because of the day. can you repeat it? can only some dishes, today, it is not nobody's interest to play ideological games. there was no business today . all the areas are suffering economically and being federal dollars from the gulf states. but they will not go as far as to please the americans, because they know that one time the americans, me offended and well, in the meantime, joe biden's plan visit to saudi arabia. amid the growing global energy crisis has raged human rights groups. they alleged the president is putting business over his own vows to make the crime prince a quote per ryan because they showed you. kelly biden has made it clear that there won't be any direct consequences for mohammed bin selman, some murdering cash shogi. unfortunately, the visit is the equivalent of

a presidential politan for murder and m b. s would receive it. is the boynton issued license to kill more casualties? it is the trail for jamal cache. ok, the yeah. and then under the trail of the democratic party, credited the last 3 years. one day he's calling the saudi crown prince names and the other jo biden's apparently on his way to re add to ask him for a favor. washington's begging saudi arabia to lower global oil prices by increasing production. i think you will meet with the saudi crown prince. he has asked for all suppliers around the globe to increase production. that includes opec that includes our domestic oil and gas producers. he's asking for an increase like other leaders around the globe, except biden himself says he's not actually going to be meeting with the crown prince. with it should come as no surprise that there'd be confusion in washington about where to stand on this. after all the u. s president's long had it out for prince

solomon's government. never since the murder of saudi dissident journalist jamal cas shoji in 2018 on the campaign trail biden promised he would pull no punches when it came to disciplining the saudi parias state could show. he was in fact murdered and dismembered. i believe in the order of the crown prince, we were going to in fact make to pay the price and make and in fact, pariah that they are at the same time the mainstream media looks like it's trying to help bite and safely backtrack on all the mean things he said about prince salman in the past. articles about respecting each other's core interests and bite and needing riyadh have become more and more common as of late following the trail of money in oil though. and the real reason for biden's, 180 becomes crystal clear. in the near term, the companies have a very powerful mark. incentive prices are high and their profit and profit margins are high. and what we are encouraging is that they take those and put those profits

to work to increase production. how quickly washington ditched its moral posturing once its feet were held to the fire. all of a sudden, saudi arabia's indiscriminate bombing campaigns and yemen are of no interest to the united states. the same campaigns that have drawn international condemnation as war crimes, and largely have relied on us support. goes without saying human rights groups aren't exactly happy about those developments. there's a part of me that understands why diplomatically we've gotten to this point, but it's also frightening and enraging kush oh jeez, fiance wasn't exactly thrilled about it either. by noon you were for me the so the president in the you meet with jamal hope this executor. nice honoring your sir and jamal by meeting m b. s. if you have to put polio over the principal and expediency over value, can you please, jo, buddy, he's on

a proper rail and what happened to his pillars? surely it was easy for bite and to talk about principles before he became president, but problems as big as a global energy crisis, sometimes called for sacrifices to be made. still going to saudi arabia, whatever happened to exploiting america's own energy resources. the head of his travel to the middle east. next month, we urge the president to prioritize unlocking u. s. energy resources that are the envy of the world. instead of increasing reliance on foreign sources. this administration is not looking at $22.00 actual american oil companies like those in texas and midland, texas, keystone oil pipeline and, and the dakotas and united states that goes through canada. all the things that divide ministration, shut down on day one. and so with all of these people that the millions, the job, the cost, the gas prices storing july, it is still going overseas. try to shift the blame to somebody else or to try to

find reprieve somewhere else. anybody other than healthy american companies, helping american employees, helping american businesses with their, our own in home world? no, no. the story to bring you to day, amid enthusiastic rhetoric from the european block on ukraine's membership turkey who had shells been waiting for the approval to join the union for more than 20 years, has no fund old words of welcome turning, cold. turkey today is further away than it was in 1999. the accession process is merit based and therefore it is very much in the hands of the applicant country. turkey was granted you candidate status back in 1999 though 20 years later, the european parliament suspended talks on the countries alignments limit human rights concerns about this by dr. being a long term ally of the block on key challenges including the migrant crisis caused by the syrian war. the company's president believed turkeys

a session should be encouraged. as he states, the ukrainian crisis reasserted the strategic importance of turkey for the you. we got reaction to the situation from a political scientist. i just said that it was a political, economic, and the geopolitical mistake that turkish governments wanted to join the european union. and today this fact is revealed once again. it's wanting to have an equation relation, a with the european countries. but it's another think to, to be a country that you don't try to use against against asia against russia, iraq, again, you know, and that they, turkish national interest and also church nation. and this has never requires being a part of the european union, because turkey is not just as you look in country,

but turkey is a euro, asian country. so i mean, if you look them up, you will see that one part of thirty's in europe and the other parties in asia to stay in the gates gateway or, or you're open to rates, is not there today. the turkish, it isn't for kids national interest. i guess some very interesting remarks from vladimir putin earlier, he said the bricks, members of emerging economies are preparing to develop an international reserve currency in the near future. not a statement comes out of the some of the grouping, which is also the 1st major multi lateral meeting with russian participation since february. the summit begins on thursday and will be held on line with china. hosting president putin has expressed his support for a child has moved to promote alternative world order in the form of a global security initiative. she jenna pang said the crisis in ukraine has shown that expansion of military box leads to instability on the world must unite against

the politics of quote, brute force. while no more put, not a doubt, the current problems in the world economy of the consequences of the west. so next, it's then you must seller's agent businesses. russian entrepreneurs has to do business in difficult conditions. when western partners neglect the basic principles of market economy, free trade and in viability of private property, what will the west pursues and especially irresponsible macroeconomic course, uncontrollably printed money and accumulating on secure deaths. at the same time, they are constantly introducing more and more politically motivated sanctions and strengthening mechanisms of pressure and competitors. there is a deliberate breakdown of cooperative ties, transfers and logistics chains are collapsing and all this is contrary to common sense and elementary economic logic, and that it goes against the interests of global business and negatively affects the well being of the population of all country agent zone was to move, you mean that on the economy? yeah, some it gets going tomorrow and the head of at the head of the institutes are strategic

. russian, chinese corporation. a think tank, police are the bricks, grouping right now. i place a never more important role in the geo political system. me stand sure we believe bricks is quiet and important growth and the current system of international relations. this either multi polar world and bricks is supposed to bring harmony to the international relations for all that the group plays an important role is now the ground for chinese russian dialogue. i believe the tele country should stand side by side with each other within the conditions of modern world. europe must urgently prepare for a complete whole to russian gas exports this winter. it's according to the head of the international energy agency who claims moscow's decision to reduce gas supplies to european countries in the past week or so. may be a precursor to further cuts. where were some of you politicians have acknowledged that their own sanctions. policies are having a blowback effect. we're urging member states to ramp up investment and renewables

. ireland doesn't rely on gas from russia, but relies on gas from other places. but if the overall market is disturbed, which it is both by rush his own actions, and indeed by our sanctions, then there are consequences around availability moraine mcginnis know r t contributor rachel morrison offers her take on what's been happening on the continent as regards he energy crisis, european union to connie was an airplane. it was just, you know, kreuziger law when the folks in charge suddenly cut the gas, say, take that fusion and now they're nose diving and mapping, mashing, all the buttons on the control panel trying to figure out how to save themselves. and that reality is now spilling out into the open. they're basically telling the passengers, you know, those of us living here in the u. n. are just so on. the ride that they have lost control may read. mcginnis, that you commissioner for financial stability. like wow, she has quite the task ahead of her. judging by that job,

the surgeon just said that b e. u is looking at increasing investment in renewables. yes or no, she got the memo, but germany use big renewable energy champion is urgently going back to cool because of this self inflicted energy crutch. mcginnis also said we under january not realizing that by february we would really be alarmed about our lack of resilience when it comes to energy. and she added that we rely on russian fossil fuels. so we're looking for alternative supplies. and so basically these folks didn't make sure that they had their own oxygen mass launch when sure their own economic survival before rushing to assist ukraine and taking the russian dependent you energy market with their own sections. meanwhile, canada use close ally is also trying to find a way around its own sanctions against russia's gas bomb, so that it can get some nord stream pipeline turbines that will be repaired in montreal, back to siemens energy company in germany. under its own sanctions. canada won't

allow itself to provide any components that could be used in the gas pipeline. in the meantime, gas from besides significantly reduce gas load, germany sparking talk of the potential energy of urgency. so by sticking it to putting canada has also sunk it to its close allied germany. so it's no wonder that jens plugin or foreign policy adviser to chancellor will have schultz is now asking why germany's future really, asia with russia isn't being discussed as much as german weapon or ukraine. you can fill many newspaper pages with 20 margins, but there are fewer, larger articles about how our relationship with russia will be in the future. you just been so upset with ukraine, but it's now trying to figure out a way out of its own self. and you tell that, you know, all i can say let's just hope that they figure it all out and come to their senses before all of us. here, crush, at least a 1000 people have been killed in a huge earthquake. thou shook us down the stone on wednesday morning. more than

1500 others were injured according to tell authorities. the quake was centered on the south west of the country could also be felt in neighboring pakistan. rescue efforts are complicated after many international agencies left off chemistry after the taliban take over the country last year. and they pay off with all of the u. s . military from its longest war in history, also unprecedented rainfall and flooding and india and bangladesh and destroyed millions of homes and left more than a 100 people in the heavy rains 1st started in march and have left hopeless people struggling for food and medical supplies. the u. n's, children's charity unicef as one of the potential health catastrophe. hospitals are out of action and more than a 1000000 children or a need or shrink is economy has completely clubs not. is the frank assessment of the countries prime minister with people that are suffering for months from food, electricity,

and fuel shortages. the situation is so dire that the south asian island nation can't even afford to purchase, essentially, like imported oil. you can get a fuller picture on the story by checking out torched sure. like is economy documentary airing throughout the day. here in our t. corolenko has become the, from the southeast asian country in 2022, unable to pay its foreign debt. this totals $51000000000.00 tree lanka is the 1st country to face such a huge crisis. but apparently it won't be the last of to the west imposed sanctions against russia. ties between supplies and consumers, whatever. so several other nations risk being supp. honda or lana gates no doesn't belong. he can only afford one meal a day because on wages like only a 100 to a piece a day. and it's only enough for 3 loaves of bread and 250 grams of doll for a family of 5. but i'm have enough money to eat properly. danica, westport,

the kids always ask him to my food, but we can't afford it. today. it's ordinary people who are suffering from the sanctions imposed on russia, and it's resulting economic meltdown. now able to pay the expenses gone, men need to understand the pause of the people. these few sensitivity must be crash . i with those brochures to play with what's happening now in the world arena. rising oil we prices and so forth is having an impact because we are one community. russia has been marking the 81st anniversary of the nazi invasion of the soviet union in the 2nd world war. no one of the great patriotic war.