he an idea of with a russian lead forces advanced into battle securing the strategic city of several done yet. it had been a key, strong hold of key of troops in the loop gowns. republicans also ahead if they need to establish something like this, a command center, any place is good enough. even the cemetery are t visits heavily fortified positions abandoned by the ukrainian army near the ton of pop ass, ny says, russian allied forces continued de mining territories captured from via troops with protest. does g 7 leaders gather for us? some of the in germany with crowds also voicing their opposition to nachos

involvement in the ukraine conflict with arms deliveries. it is an objective intervention by nato, and we do not know how exactly we will escalate. we must therefore take decisive action against his throat or an also in the stories that shape the weak you and more ins, not to somalia is plunging into a severe, enduring food prices. children starving to death quote, before our eyes with what they told stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well. this is the weekly on rti welcome. we begin and on bus were after a major russian lead offensive the key city well separate than yet has been taken under the full control of the loop ganske republics armed forces. this is the latest footage we've received from the assault chemical plant. the last hide of

ukrainian troops in the region, they were forced to withdraw from the city which had been used as a military stronghold. hundreds of civilians who were trapped in the area are now being. he waited to safety. while the successful offensive came about after russian led forces entered the nearby city of the said, chance can pushed back the ukrainian military there. as you can see in the map, luke guns troops block key forces from the north, while the latest advance of russian soldiers saw them take the southern front and those ukrainian forces retreat ortiz krisha down of has been exploring the fortifications, left abandoned in the area. special forces of the russian army, we are right now moving towards the positions quite recently captured from the ukranian 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 mm. with i don't know when you might not as good as this was mute on him, 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 as well to the community. 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 will overcome and kick the forces out of a fortification like this one. ah, and these are the remains of a cluster munition that the ukrainian force is 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 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 full key forces in this warm ethics is expendable decency is an excess.

i mean there's done of reporting from the don bass, c and, and other developments the russian defense ministry say's 3 ukrainian military brigades have been hit by cruise missile strikes. the missiles had training centers for troops in the western part of the country. the ministry claims the ukrainian army units targeted have not lost their combat. readiness can no longer be used as a strategic army reserve. this year's group of 7 summits of leading developed economies kicked off in germany. india has been invited as a special guest. the group upon me 6 to entice the country towards the club and force new delhi to abundance neutral stance. over the ukraine conflict r t contributor our teacher crew can tell us more. yes, i especially guess at g 7 summit on june k states. the

summit is 2 day long and the g 7 nations are looking to a dies india to worse than europe and abandon its neutral stance over the conflict in great. but the u. s. has said that india has been invited to d 7 only because the agenda is d and diverse and it is not really about dr. linked to india. oh, russia. at the same diet, it's quite interesting that in and b, u. s. along with some a ban on new import subtraction during the d 7 summit, the there are also planning to impose application gap on the brand i saw ration or in the g 70 days are

clearly trying to project an image of community and following to remain together and strong messages with no small port is proven coming on from the beginning award winner can with aggression form while i think in dice, it is unlikely that it is going to change these out me, russia. it hasn't been gained saturday and has also very clearly said that if you knew to bye, i gosh, yeah, i know on the stocking you're from

a response to the needs and it's relationship re, russia, whatever the trading arrangements that india puts in place with regard to the purchase of crude oil all over the world are determined purely from the consideration of energy security of india and there is no other consideration. i'm the same time. gina is why the fees are we shall be invited to the g $7.00 summit. what is interesting is that jean investing has already stated that he wants to join bricks and be off the group where russia and india together, china and south africa, y yesterday, the movie to see a wrong jenny, as the indian dies or out in germany, not guess what going on simultaneously? i guess the need to increase the conflict in you. it seems that the g 70,

that's nice to me or not. but it is not clear how the projected unity is going to florida. i guess. so now you where india is openly and clearly maintaining is strategic independence. me about indian diplomats. roger dog read told me he believes western leaders are too focused on sanctions against russia, rather than talking matters such as the free crisis and the economic downturn. afterward, the war does not work from the moment position. and now with all these sanctions, with regard to the issues connected to the food supply and saw, there is a deeper fish. and it seems like what we see today in germany. and one thing

that is most of the focuses on sanctions more plan through the national water you put in india and russia by each other or the last 75 years or 1947 when it became independent. and india has always acted and was just right and judge walker. thank is the 1st 300 independent foreign policy. and i think one of the things that in this fight tremendous fisher, some of the restaurant fund b as an example in all and be, must maintain its friendship with everyone, especially with new britain like russia, while thousands in munich, frustrated by the policies of the g 7 have made their feelings clear during a 2nd day of protest. there. demonstrators claim there's plenty of talk,

but little action from the group on big issues. some are also demanding natal end. it's arming of q l database readers and cooper. i work with the resistance group because we are totally against this war escalating and ukraine. we had a great fear that nato will openly intervene and unfortunately it is already doing so with the arms deliveries. it is an objective intervention by nato, and we do not know how exactly it will escalate. we must therefore take decisive action against this threat of war, i guess on a difficult situation. first because of the corona and i make no because of the rain prices. the prices and things i have to take a leadership role and i don't see that happening. so i wrapped it in madrid, where a nato summit is said to take place next week. demonstrators are demanding an end to what they call the tie rama co military alliance for nato to hold supply case

with little a. german law may occur on retired air force, colonel gerald austin believes the west is so far from complete unanimity when it comes to sanctions against russia because they want to send a message. ok, the west and united, but i don't with if united, they tried to show united way toward, towards russia. and what i see is that there are also some critics in the unity because we see the different interest in the way they talk. i hit russia certain sanctions, we see that the russian oil can be freely exported with greek tankers around the world. and there's a high demand for, for russian market. and we're also people in the west trying to escape inflation and tend to buy gold. so i think just the price will rise,

but it will not fit the russian economy that in that way, as you do with nation seeing, germany will never reach it's common goals that we talk about and using drummond, coal for, for production of electrical energy. and we will company dramatic to drain the really have much more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in germany than, than, than before. so germany will never reach its climate goals. somalia is starving to death before our eyes. that was the stark warning. the un issue to g 7 leaders this week ahead of today's opening runs of the summit. it said only a must have an immediate increase in thumbs can stop the country and from the sending into a catastrophe caused by a great famine. somali as part of an extensive crisis on falling on the african continent, despite a global appeal for the country along with a few be on site su down to attracting pledges of $6000000000.00. the u. n. saves

only 3 percent of those funds. have actually been received the u. n's children's fund. unicef has also warning that almost 8000000 children across 15 countries are at risk of death from starvation. and then a bid to tackle the food prices. enough ricka. the e. u has pledged an additional humanitarian package, but it's estimated to be much less than europe is providing for one country, ukraine with more and how the funding is drawing up. here's ortiz policy or i'm a good spot to cancel the waste of johannesburg. where when he typically doesn't have a job and wanting for people like the rest of africa is patient and insecurity. maybe 15000000 children are managed on this continent. now to fight famine in the last year, european union spend $1800000000.00. compare this repeat 4300000000 dollars more than twice that number, that the e u has spent in ukraine in just the last 4 months. the ear foreign policy chief

joseph borrow. it uses the russian president vladimir putin, of a deliberate attempt to create hunger in the world in order to push out on the eve to lift the sanctions. one can not imagine that the millions of tons of wheat remain blog ukraine. you are the director who will be puller for the hunger pieces that really walk right. but in africa, 12 people die upon get every minute. statistics that existed long before the ukrainian crisis. not only does not acknowledge it's disproportionate spending in ukraine, it's doing very little to help fight famine. it's excuse and i want to insist that it's not coming to be in sanction shall reach, create dangerous crisis. our sanctions don't target foot don't out of the 4th july . african leaders disagree, the chairman of the african union court on brussels to provide relief for imported

cereals and fertilizers. it is aggravated by european sanctions on the method of payment. we want to play, but it comes impossible. so we are asking the europeans for the same mechanism as for gas and oil. so far that coal has fallen on deaf is boiling, says that the sanctions on russia are not responsible for the global through crisis . and an african countries should not gain any special stations. feeling that to people who live here way food is scarce and becoming more so. policy on t, johannesburg. but african afer, especially as a call called dog stays as critical. the content receives food assistance under urgently, in order to hunger and over time in africa, the focus has to be on number one, emergency food assistance can help people in repartee and id and people have been

displaced to conflict number to helping some people are and they get access to funding and assistance in order to improve agricultural yield and ensure that they are able to provide for themselves because it is one thing to provide humanitarian . but also lead, give up for people to work with africa. had the potential to become a good economic powerhouse within the world if given the opportunity and provided the necessary for developing countries in the europe, in the united states and canada to provide assistance in to provide support. and it help akron country implement developmental initiative to reduce poverty, increase employment, create opportunities, and improve governance and contribute to social economic development. while the west blames russia almost entirely for the food crisis, but lot them are putting us back up. some of the accusations seen here,

brush or is waging a cynical grain more easing. it is a chill to make seed prices skyrockets and destabilize entire countries. nothing is preventing food and fertilizer from leaving russia. and only one country is blocking food and fertilizer from leaving ukraine. and that is russia is austin. of today we are seeing a deliberately inflated hysteria over the termination of ukraine and grain expos throw the plexi poults. i would once again like to stress that russia doesn't create any obstacles to transport the grain from ukraine and he's ready to provide the free passage of ships carrying grain to international waters. we have a mutual understanding here with the un, but we still lacking constructive approach from the key of authority. all well ahead of a southern african cluster of the red cross and red crescent told me he fears. global focus has shifted from the hunger emergency happening there. right now humanitarian age and i've been in the ideal world. yes, we want it to be fairly distributed. what we do know is that that's not the case.

if i look at my continents and we've been shouting the hunger crisis boy a few months now, and this situation is going to get was where seen that the we need not get in. where seen that are the regions i get in the focus. i'm not to say that one humanitarian situation is more better or worse. a one person is better or worse off in terms of getting the aid. but what we are saying is that, that a does not get in always to the people that needed the most on the continent that i represent wasting children that are starving with people that are also dying because of them all of no lack of food. so the situation is really dire, we're saying that more focus needs to be given to the continent so that at least humanitarian workers like got a new military organisation. god can really step up in terms of getting up our action. well, let's keep attention on africa because the western african nation of molly was in the morning this week after a text by jo. how the terrorists last weekend left?

132 people did local se, islamic extremist selectively gun don't civilians. ah ah ah it is on your jaw they came. they said to the people, you are not muslims in the few lani language. they took the men a 100 people went out with them after 2 kilometers. they systematically shot people with a demo with the massacres are very painful for me. and it's the

same for all miley. we can't sleep at night when we think about the situation that multi is going through. what's not good terrorists must stop with these barbaric axis. our armed forces are working. we have to accompany them without prayers. 3 days of national morning began on tuesday with the government pledging to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice. the attacks were some of the deadliest in molly since the outbreak of fighting a decade ago when tore ag separatists rose up against the government, taking advantage of the chaos re by islamists, militants. molly house faced the string of civilian massacres. this year was extremists and criminal groups take whole, plunging the country into further crisis and kill them in, you know, on that comes against the backdrop of frances 9 years of attempts to secure the region against an enlarging terrorist present. the molly and prime minister,

however, has previously claimed that paris itself fueling turmoil in the country pump out this ill moment, williams and grand. there is the french authorities, are carrying out genuine political media and diplomatic terrorism against our government, with the aim of overthrowing it. don't you create chaos? you armed people, you tell them to go into vide molly? the separate as clearly said that it was france, there was behind the separate movements of 2011 from libya. the leaders of the move and said francis instigated them to invade northern molly and divide it and create an independent state. yeah, let me show you this week as well near bring burkina faso civilians held a rally, demanding an enter frances military operation in favor of other support including russian to curb terrorism regional experts. ali to encourage claims french troops are proved ineffective and come bobbing islamist attacks in the region of speaking about operation service, it can be stated that it failed because not only did molly fail to regain

a significant number of territories occupied simultaneously by independence fighters and islamic terrorist groups, but at the same time, this operation gave the opportunity for the molly, an army to return to its former glory. many have pointed out with regard to the military actions of france in this region. the ineffectiveness of military cooperation between the participants of the french mission, the 1000000 army, as well as the combined forces of their cell 5 legs. the shortcomings led to the fact that ultimately france was unable to put an end to the security problems associated with terrorism. as of now, the reason is completely abandoned in terms of joint military operations. since each army fights in isolation, without making efforts to harmonize and structure joined efforts to an instability associated with terrorism, the current security situation is connected with withdraw the army of burkina faso with a termination of a joint military operation of molly and shares, as well as the unforeseen and uncoordinated withdraw a french troops. and as

a result of all this hell has become a very unstable region, opened all kinds of hostilities. now with a key of officials urging the west to send it more lethal weapons, the miami police department has responded in an unusual way. it's set up a voluntary gun buyback program aimed sending those weapons to ukraine. and we just finished our, our guns for your brains on my back. and it's been a while since we have one of these available. looks like a few of them after we were there, combination and work on them will be fit to send over to our friends over in your brain. accuse of car is formed in miami with people eager to cash in on the deal. according to the guns for ukraine program, police are offering $50.00 for guns, a $100.00 for shot guns, and $150.00 for high powered rifles in total. 68 guns of so far been collected with official telling it as

a successful program. or perhaps just to put that 68 number in some perspective. more than 35 percent of adults in florida live in homes with guns, while almost 350000 people are registered holders. the controversial scheme saw people take the social media, the slum, the pdf. so the miami police have apparently figured out how to use taxpayer money to get americans to give them guns, which they can then sell on the international black market under the pretense of helping ukraine kind of brilliant evil, but brilliant miami police tried to explain their illegal gun bye back m p d is using sympathy for ukrainian forces as a ploy to get guns off the street in the belief this will make their residence safer. how do police buy back something they never actually owned? yeah, guns are too dangerous for our streets because inexperienced or unethical people might get a hold of them. but please let us send them over there to volunteer malicious and

we'll give you money. if there's a blue and yellow flag, suddenly guns are a good thing. well, let's get the thought so let from former us marine geopolitical analysts, john mark, doug and hi john. you also solo as a police officer in florida. so what is your take on what is happening here by may or may police chiefs what they're initiating? yeah, this is a, this is crazy. first of all, we're going to get a bunch of legal and non working firearms that would be dangerous to any ukrainian troops that would have them. but even more, more, more than that, you know, we saw what happened in the last gun giveaway in ukraine. and the ukrainian government was giving a k 40 sevens to the citizens of key of gang members who started running around and shooting other citizens of key of this is a disaster unfolding right before our eyes. media report suggests some $68.00 guns

and total hopping collected so far. so is this a genuine attempt to help you create a more of a p r? o is probably a p r stunt. how does the program fit in with federal and state laws? john, does the police department have the authority to buy guns from, from people, take them and send them to another country? it's just the seems to be so much at play here that it's, it's hard to know where to begin. yeah, so that's a good question. now, i've worked departments before where they've had gotten gun buyback programs, and usually the firearms are taken and destroyed. but it's interesting to think of all the different laws that they're going to have to skirt to send these weapons most likely illegally to ukraine. you know,

given that us officials are so concerned about gun control right now, is it surprising they're happy to send them to another country without the ability to track their use. they're just giving me a month or whatever happens happens. yeah, and like i said before i, we already saw what happened with the last going give away and key of all sorts of innocent people got shot from, from this insanity. and now they're going to be getting shot with american weapons . is there a danger? the public my view this as police paying more attention to a foreign issue than dealing with the problems of say, mass shootings at home. well, you know, the police have never really done too much to combat mash shootings at home. i mean we, we saw the response and vitality where the cop just sat around on their lunch break for 77 minutes while the children got slaughtered. so yeah, i mean, maybe this is a way to try to save face, but it's not really looking very good for me. what,

what was your colleagues to your former colleagues in, in the police department in florida? say when, when there would they have a say in schemes and programs like this, john, or will they just have to go along with it? well, i mean look, they, they have to go along for the ride. i've actually spoken to a couple of them today about this program and they were laughing about it talking about how ludicrous it was, but they have to nonetheless, go and meet the public and give them cash in exchange for weapons that who knows where those weapons were used before perhaps against the police. yeah. and you know, that's a good point because a lot of these weapons have probably used in crimes. and if they're getting sent to ukraine, you know, that's, that's one piece of evidence. it's never going to be found. yeah it's, it's quite, it's quite a, a program. it's quite a scheme, isn't it? john, thanks very much for your time. there. always appreciate the program from a us marine on geopolitical analysts, john mark. doug,

thanks robin. robin's your up of the week. that was, but our news teams busy putting together all of sundays, latest developments to i'll be here friday evening to bring them to you live for moscow. this is our international the oh, connected the we are, the threats and the threats escalate to a big part of it is the way in which also information knowledge is being restricted and could street the imposition of certain restrictions on flow of information. branding needs to be counted, it cannot be that a single narrative determines what's happening in the well mm.