sees him to isolate russia, the west is isolated itself. with a need to establish something like this a command center. any place is good enough even this cemetery artsy visits heavily fortified positions are funded by the ukranian army near the total of a russian allied forces continue de mining territories taken from forces also had on the program, the saudi crime prints on the turkish president announced a new era in by lateral and mom had been so much trouble to my gra, on the final stop of his middle eastern tour. that lining use on key issues in the region on comes ahead of president biden's trip to react next month with the

actions of the west her to all countries. globally. monetary delivers a message to world leaders, including all the sanctions. they have a key summit of the bricks prove, major emerging economies being hosted by china with chrome must go to the world. this is our t pleasure of your company today. my name is, you know, we start with the latest on the train conflict. there is been an explosion on an oil refinery in the rust off region of russia. after a drone was apparently flown into it. the moment was caught on camera on the circulating allied if you still are you, the regional

emergency services said nobody was injured and the fire has already been extinguished. reports also suggest there were 2 thrones both said to the ukrainian monroe, russia claims up to 500 ukranian soldiers have been killed in a strike on his shipyard, near the city of nikolai, of military equipment was destroyed as well. the defense ministry claims key of forces are suffering heavy losses and that one but tele and reportedly fled without orders having lost more than half its troops. fighting continues in this city of sir, we're done yet in the new guest republic or something raging there since early march local authority say the city was shell from the direction of the assault chemical plant where ukrainian fighters are located. clashes continue amid ongoing evaluations of the factory. 30 civilians reportedly fled from there during the day . while the mining operations are ongoing in the past,

republics are to eager shit. dollar visited one of the areas still to be cleared. 4 to 5 position of bummed in 5. you finish army your, the ton of us laugh which 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 while over the past 8 years and were about to see what's left of them after the work of the russian artillery jets and well infantry . mm hm. i don't show up when you when i was going to be sort of mute on them, yet crunches deep enough to safely shelter a man of average height sprout across the area and had concrete laden

fortifications. we find western supplied weapons ukrainian troops abandoned in a hurry, as they fled, logo of the welto ships that research. if 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 sir cannot catch fire, and this is how the same firing position, which you have just seen from the inside, looks from the outside. there's 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 well overcome and kick the forces out of a fortification like this one. ah,

and these are the remains of a cluster ammunition that the ukrainian forces used against their former 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 are 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 bulky. forces in the swarm ethics is expendable decency is an excess. i mean there's done of reporting from the don bass c. just to tell you about this, the 1st foreign ship has left the port of mario since this starts. busy of the conflict ceiling along a corridor set up by the russian. maybe it's a turkish cargo vessel called the absolve. concord and was damaged during fighting in the city, but has since been repaired. the new crew fights the u. s. attorney general

has visited ukraine. mary garland, was there to establish on american effort to help keep find and prosecute what he's called russia's war criminals. the team will be led by justice department, staff members. hello, todd, expert. united 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 accountable. garland has tapped veteran d o. j prosecutor, eli rosenbaum to lead the departments new war crimes accountability teams who will be tasked with coordinating efforts with ukrainian officials and other international law enforcement groups. now the. 6 irony in this appointment roman bomb 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, but how 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. so you can go as far back as the 1960 s. when the u. s. blanketed the tiny southeast asian country allows, with bombs that averages out to nearly draw 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, or more recent memory. a 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 rocca syria, the so called capital of the caliphate. that city of some, 300000 resident, was decimated by western bombs. a 2018 report by amnesty international outline. the 10s of thousands of coalition strikes on rocca with admission 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 our potential war crimes would be abundance of evidence of us. more crimes across the globe throughout the 20th century. isn't 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 or at least

a century. hypocrisy is bipartisan. here in the u. s. capital in washington, manila, cham will. former us marine political commentator john mark dugan recently returned from don buff. he told us he fears the investigation won't be impartial. the united states, they are always looking to prosecute those that they don't like. and they are protecting those that they do like just in 2001, 902021. congress worked to designate the as 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, a new era in bilateral ties. that's what's been announced by the saudi crime,

prince and the turkish president during the prince's visit to ankara. when this thing was, the 3rd day of my home had been some months, middle east tour, with the principally seeking to align the country stances on key issues as next month summit with joe biden looms. it was been salmone 1st visit the tricky since the murder of journalist jamal cas shoji in istanbul some 4 years ago, something that since placed the wedge between the countries. the royal trip kicked off on monday, the prince murphy gyptian president to discuss security stability in the region. the 2 signed off on a $7700000000.00 package of agreements, and jordan was also on the royal itinerary. despite years of strain relations between the 2 states, mostly due to clashing views on the regional conflicts who s welcome on to the program? political analyst uncommon, tara huff, call him a stuff for her. take good to see you. turkey doesn't exactly have the friendliest

of relations with saudi arabia, neither of those egypt or jordan. so what is the crime prince thinking here on is the time you coincidence ahead of the coming meeting with joe biden? the line is very bad, but roughly speaking i think m b s as he is known, is actually seeing that there is a great shift regional shift, mainly due to the, the war between russia and ukraine. and i think the, the impact that it's had on energy markets for a country such as saudi arabia means that it has to review its entire strategy, its entire foreign policy. in particular, as it has failed to be on the right side of this political spectrum over the past 10 years, in particular, on the case of syria. now syria has been a major a saw point for the region because obviously all countries regionally scored badly on that. mainly turkey. everyone assumed that asset with,

for every one assumed syria would collapse. and all the predatory countries would come in and sort of collect the scores that hasn't happened. and so many countries, many arab countries, and of course, turkey has now had to review its position. and all these meetings are in fact due mainly to the energy market. but also how to move on from syria and take further relationships in a new direction half. so hope you can hear me a little better. now, i'm cra and reared have announced the new iraq in bilateral relations. but do you find that feasible? the backdrop, of course, to finding mutual solutions, being jamal kashodi, is killing in assemble on the public strong reaction to it. well, i think and again, is a politic politician, 1st and foremost, and his principles again to pick, put aside, assuming he has any. but for that, for the purpose of being 1st re elected and also appeasing the population,

which is greatly suffering from the collapse of the turkish currency and the cost of living at the moment. so saudi arabia is a major partner, it's a very, it's office, very many the critic deal. it opens up new markets. and of course, there's always that argument that because between 2 major mas in countries, cooperation is always possible. and you can always move on. and i think that that argument for both opinions from both countries is the one that they will capitalize on and work on in order to move the relations in a new direction and in a more positive direction. honestly, given the, the economy climate at the moment, just to expand on something you said earlier, saudi officials say the visits goal is to coordinate views in the region to those 3 countries ahead of jo biden's visit to saudi arabian next month. why do you think we're seeing such an initiative coming from re out well, i think,

1st and foremost, given the, at the state of the energy market, i think many of the major oil producers in saudi arabia is obviously one of the biggest, is actually the, the shift, there's a shift in around the negotiating table countries such as saudi arabia, how far more leverage, given the price of oil and gas at the moment. and therefore they're in a far better position to impose their will, which they weren't a few years ago. so i think based on that and based on the volatility of the market, i think that they using this situation to their advantage and obviously making the most burst for the economy, but also for their standing and their prestige in the region, which is something that saudi arabia has greatly about in particular in regards to its major rival and almost fo iran, how likely is it that rhodes interest in regional cooperation no will actually last after the biden summit. jordan, for instance, already has a history of broken aid promises made by the saudis. oh, that's

a very difficult question to answer because obviously you know that the region is so often volatile. you also often have these eruptions over terrorist activity for islamist extremist examine groups that always kind of tend to change, change the lap the political landscape of where people stand. but i think what the soon chris says has revealed was that mutual cooperation and actually the working in the region is far better and is far more worthy in terms of stability, both individual countries and for the economies. as i said before, everyone sort of called it wrong on syria. everyone assumed that the situation would be resolved within a few weeks within a few months and best. and of course asset has survived and syria has survived equally with yemen as well. this was a conflict that was supposed to last a few weeks, a few months at best, and we've now over 5 years and it's still ongoing. so i think people like her and b, s, and other regional arab leaders have realized that actually working together and cooperating

. and at least aiming for more stability is actually far more lucrative than trying to capitalize on the weakness of another in order to increase their, their standing in the region. all right, thanks for your time on your thoughts. very half. so cover myself or journalist political analyst, uncommon to her. now in the meantime, jew biden's plum visit to saudi arabia, amid the growing global energy crisis, has outraged human rights grant. the alleged the president is putting business interests over his own vows to make the crown prince a quote, pariah because of the cashandra killing biden has made it clear that there won't be any direct consequences from mohammed ben salman, some murdering cash shogi. unfortunately, the visit is the equivalent of a presidential politan for murder and m. b. s would deceive it. is the boynton issued license to kill more casualties. it is the trail for jamal cache. ok for yemen. and if the trail of what 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 he 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, she's not actually going to be meeting with the crown prince. with important, 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 bite and 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 them 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 the 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. mister, by noon you for me to. so dave, you as president in the you meet with jamal hotness executor. nice honoring your sir, and jamal by meeting m b s. if you have to put all your over the principal, an expert in the over value. can you please, jo, buddy, he's on a proper rail and what happened to his pillars? surely, it was easy for biden 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 exploring america's own energy resources, the head of his travel to the middle east next month, we urge the president to prioritize unlocking us 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, midland, texas, the keystone world pipeline, and the decoders in united states. it goes to canada, all the things that the vital administration shut down on day one. and so with all of these people the, the 1000000, the job, the cost, the gap, right for a job, i did still going overseas to try to shift the blame to somebody else or to try to find reprieve somewhere else. anybody, other than healthy american companies helping america employees help in american businesses with their, our own home oil production?

well, amid enthusiastic rhetoric from the european block on ukraine's membership. turkey, which has been waiting for the approval to join the union for more than 20 years. now has finds all 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. some background turkey was granted you candidate status in 1999, though 20 years later, the european parliament suspended talks on the countries alignment. i made human rights concerns this by bankrupt being a long term ally of the block on key challenges including the migrant crisis caused by the syrian war. the countries president believes 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. earlier. i just said that it was

a political, economic, and the geopolitical mistake that turkish governments wanted to join the european union. and today, these facts is revealed once again, it's wanting to haven't quit the relation of e 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 against utah. and today, turkish national interest and also church nation. and this has never requires being a part of the european union because turkey is not. busy just that european country, but turkey is a euro, asian country. so i mean, if you look them up, you will see that one part of turkeys in europe and the other part of storage is in asia to stay in the gates gateway or, or european rates is not there today. the turkish,

it isn't for kids national interest. ah, now a lot of interest about this next story. vladimir putin has said the bricks, members of emerging economies are preparing to develop an international reserve currency in the near future. the statement comes out of a summit of the grouping, which is also the 1st major multilateral 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 china is moved to promote on alternative world order to a washington dominated one in the form of a global security initiative. she didn't ping said the crisis in ukraine national and the expansion of military blocks leads to instability. and the world must unite against the politics of quote, brute force, while latimer put, not a doubt. the current problems in the global economy are the consequences of the western actions that you must seller's agent business. a russian and to pronounce

has to do business in difficult conditions. when western partners neglect the basic principles of market economy, free trade and in vile ability of private property, what will the west pursues and essentially irresponsible macroeconomic course uncontrollably, prince and money, and accumulating unsecured deaths at the same time, they are constantly introduced 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. it goes against the interests of global business and negatively affects the well being of the population of all countries. rome was move. you mean that on the yeah, the bricks upcoming summit will be an interesting one because china also hinted that the block is expected to begin an expansion process to include new rapidly developing countries. we'll see how that on falls. the program director, me all of the valve i discussion club has been mulling the potential candidate my

expectations in terms of the expansion and the ranks of the brakes economies is that it will likely be done on the basis of one by one addition. and i think it will take quite some time because initially the economies will have to agree amongst themselves on what the precise criteria and what the conditions will be on the accession of new countries into the breakfast club. but i think in the coming years we will see one or 2 countries joining possibly it could be argentina, or it could be large economies such as indonesia or saudi arabia. basically, i think it will most likely be a developing economy from the g 20 and the most likely candidates are the 3

that i mention another news line, the russian foreign minister, travel to terror run where he met with the iranian president this week, sir, gala for all to day visit include talks on the iranian nuclear deal, also known as the g c, p. o, way agreement, which has been on hold for almost 3 months off. the reading officials will also focus on the crises in ukraine, syria off gala st. europe must urgently prepare for a complete whole 2 russian guests exports this winter. that's according to the head of the international energy agency who claims moscow's decision to reduce gas supplies, to european countries. and over the past week or so may be a precursor to further cuts. whoever somebody you politicians have acknowledged that their own sanctions, policies are having

a blowback effect. were 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. that statement from raid mcginnis, the rti contributor rachel marston, has been offering her take on what's been happening on the continent as regards the energy prices. european union to connie was an airplane. it was just, you know, cruising 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 the 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 was 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 the 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 even make sure that they had their own oxygen mask on to insure their own economic survival before rushing to assist ukraine and taking the russian dependent you energy market with their own sessions. meanwhile, canada use close ally is also trying to find a way around its own sanctions against russia's gas from so that it can get some nord stream pipeline to revise 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 promise had to significantly reduce gas load germany sparking talk of the potential energy of urgency. so by sticking it to puting, canada has also socket to as 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 weapons 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 can, you know, all i can say, let's just hope that they figure it out and come to their senses before all of us here. crash or i some world news in brief now at least a 1000 people have been killed in

a huge earthquake. that shook afghan us on wednesday morning. more than 1500 others were injured. according to the taliban authorities to quake was centered on the site west of the country. i could also be felt in neighboring pakistan. rescue efforts are complicated after many international agencies less of understand after the taliban takeover of the country last year. and the key arctic withdrawal of the u. s. military from its longest war in history. while unprecedented rain fall and flooding in india and bangladesh of destroyed millions of homes and left more than a 100 people to the heavy rains, 1st started in march and have left because most people struggling for food. the medical supplies the un children's charity unicef. wonder if a potential help catastrophe. hospitals are out of action more than a 1000000 children or a native virgin help. russia has been marking.