russia had to be sacrificed these wi condition divest mr. boy from the law firm ricardo, capital, and that your knowledge of knowing that the cold war had begun with russia lead force to take control of the city of lifted chunks according to multiple reports. but it was the last major stronghold of ukrainian forces, new guns, republican nato claims russia is a major threat to european security as part of its new strategic concepts. also highlighting the challenge, allegedly posed by china. now pick wanting, you may find the following footage to setting out a wounded and dozens killed as crowds in morocco trying to cross the country's border with spain

plus with police with july from our headquarters here in moscow. yours, in the weekly here on the international i and peter scott, welcome to the program. where should lead forces have taken control over the city of little chunks? that's according to the guns republics, military on multiple reports from the area. so just raised flags over the local administration building a some locals greeted the forces i with just was the last major stronghold of ukrainian forces in little guns republic, a number of important administrative buildings in the city were allegedly destroyed by the withdrawing troops. some ukrainian forces are largely still hold up in the

outskirts of lucy chance with sporadic fighting. continuing in the area, look on script. public forces had been surrounding the city for a number of weeks with russian lead troops and circling lucy chance from the south or north, taking control over keep towns in the region. one of the last it is taken by the look, guns, republics army. earlier this week was several done yet. we heard from locals who were evacuated after ukrainian troops retreated from the area. oh sure. i'm happy that you came home. this is the most important thing. we lived in hell for 4 months . no one a little. we lived together there. we tried to help each other with food and did everything we could. actually, the ukrainian army did not give us anything. they did not give us any food just once. they provided 12 liters of water for 40 people. let you. she need you to hit . we powered lights from potatoes. we also had small flashlights,

but we used them very sparingly, so we learned to walk in the dark. of almost a month incense battles raged in the industrial zone of servitude. and yet because the ukrainian army sheltered in the plants after russian forces to control of the city, ukrainian military is accused of destroying a chemical tank which the russian m. o. d feared, could lead to a chemical incidents and i'll see crew visited the adults chemical plant to see what was left at the retreat of keeps forces. yet another plant that was supposed to be the bastion of ukrainian defense that fell rather quickly. this is the territory of the assault factory of the resort chemical plant. and just yesterday, the last ukranian troops ran uphill towards the town. of least he chanced. so now were among the 1st journalists who have been allowed in for some exclusive access. and we're basically we're about to see how they lived and what they've left behind . thing

thing. but i would like this a little drama, i think with sarah to solicit for a little bit and with to speak with you. if that is enough to curator, i wouldn't want to live with deputy looking for death, whether this was one of the firing positions of the ukrainian forces at the assault chemical plant. you can see here a western made r p g machine gun rounds. very interesting ones. the ones with the red tip, ah incendiary and the ones with the white tip,

they have extra piercing capabilities. also here, you can see the results of the work of the russian artillery. maybe even jets. because over here you can see the rounded hit, the roof destroying this position, and the photo from of what they leave. he goes to us and we use their weapons against them. the assistance provided ukraine, my nato was not affected if ukrainians do not have the spirit to fight that the no weapons will help them. hey justin. so now we are going down to the fortified basement, which was built earlier for those working in the adult plan to shelter from bombs, not hillary. you can on the sun, how much the defense was prepared here to place this is their sleeping quarters. you see the store, the ukrainian army could hold out for a very long time. this is one of the shelters at the resort plant where i'm a platoon of ukrainian soldiers. well slept. i had some rest here. there's

a bunch of bunk beds over here on the other side of the room as well. and a bit of an interesting detail here. part of this place is the well separated with the un refugee agency world curtain and behind this curtain ah, american made javelin missiles. sure. this war is on a student with one of machine you're specially was of the shipper in this place, gives some serious flashbacks of another factory over in the city of marie opal. the infamous as of style, where the as of neo nazi battalion was sheltering for quite a while. the only significant striking difference that i see here is that we find in every room these military grade respirators. since this one is a chemical plant. similarly, when he crenan army were ready to use chemical weapons, apparently they just didn't have time or didn't get some kind of order. thank god, it didn't happen. now cave maintains that this was

a tactical retreat that the troops, that they fell back to the 45 and more advantageous positions over there. a missing the fact that the said positions remained incomplete. encirclement, i'm a garage done of reporting from the a sort chemical plant. our t multiple explosions have been reported in the russian city of belgrade, near ukrainian border. according witnesses defense systems have been out for several hours. over several rockets have allegedly hit a number of residential buildings in the city. emergency services are the same, but no casualties have yet been reported. verified footage on social media shows thousands of locals taken to the streets of was becky, stunned. i've been reports of casualties among protesters. as roy police dispersed crowds with allegations of police brutality in a western republic of the country where a state of emergency has been declared for one month

the in the regional capital nucleus police had reported eastern grenades until gus against protest is demonstrated opposed, suggested amendments to the constitution that limits or automate from the federal government authority to say that demonstrates is tried to seize power in the region is the president has arrived in this at the scene. so show locals. the amendment won't change the region special status, but made no comments on the violent cautious and as always, will bring you more information as the situation develops. the morocco witnessed large classes earlier this week as thousands of people attempted to cross the countries border with spain and were repelled by police warning you may find the following footage distress in

the least 76 migrants and 140 border guards are reported, taught been injured in the incident, the un says the moral can authorities use the thousands on stones to repel the migrants as they tried to scale offense and entered the spanish ex claim human rights. i'd say the police also deliberately refrained from helping those who were injured ortiz. rachel blevins takes a closer look at the story. the stories of migrants who leave their home countries in search of better lives are often covered by the media. wouldn't involve europe or latin america. however, when it comes to migrants from africa, the coverage can be almost nonexistent. even when dozens of migrants were killed. as they tried to cross the border from morocco to spain. witnesses called it a blood bath. around 2000 people attempted to cross over the e u border leading to violent clashes with police. while the official death toll is

nearly 2 dozen human rights groups are warning that twice as many were killed. now the us has said it plans to launch an investigation. we call on the 2 countries to ensure an effective and independent investigation is held as a 1st step towards establishing the circumstances of the deaths and injuries and any possible responsibilities. and to ensure that accountability is guaranteed as appropriate, while authorities in both spain and morocco are defending their actions. the photos in video circulating on social media have sparked accusations that border police are trying to cover up the number of lives lost. it is shocking that moroccan authorities are reportedly preparing to hastily bury the man who died. this is crucial to ensure a full investigation into what happened as a clashes. the witnesses who survive said it was their dream to make it to europe while spain claims a sudden migrant search was the result of human trafficking carried out by gangs

frontal. if we're talking about an attempt to assault the fence that was evidently carried out in an aggressive way. and therefore what spain state security for susan moroccan gods did was defend spain's borders center left. 5 while the treatment of african migrants has been met with will, outrage, that stands in stark contrast to what happened on the other side of the atlantic, with the response from some in the us over keeping migrants there in cages. this administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the united states for immigrants where they are being brutalized with the humanizing conditions and dying. so where is that outraged now? and will there ever be any meaningful change for the migrant seeking asylum in the west? as is the west that continues to metal in their home countries. but the weekly here are not see need. so has adopted a new strategic concept with russia labeled its most significant and direct threats . the lines, though,

is having some difficulty agreeing on this under the key policies. as these shall davinsky reports at the nato summit in madrid, the alliance made it crystal clear. just how it sees russia. so to day leaders have endorsed naples, new strategic concept. it makes clear that russia's russia pulses the most significant and diet extra toilers security. but despite nato officials claiming their one big united front, some divisions are showing through the cracks, the u. s u k and eastern european members want to see moscow weakened permanently, but other key block powers calling 1st swift ceasefire in ukraine and a diplomatic settlement that will allow all sides to walk away with their heads held high to some degree. it's not clear what nato chief he n stoughton berg really wants either. on the one hand, he says that russia is this massive direct threat on the other. he continues to say

that nato doesn't want the conflict to spread. if this becomes a full scale war between russia and natal, then was it suffering damage, death, destruction at the scale, which is much, much worse than what you see in your crane to they yours over a correspond built of course to prevent escalation beyond ukraine. and that's the reason why nate was not a part of the conflict on the round. but that came hand in hand. with this hunting out of an announcement, we will transform the nato response force and increase the number or higher of this forces to well over 300000. so, so the meaningful dialogue we worked for for so many years. that's a knocked on the table that's not working. described as the biggest overhaul of natives, collective defense and of terence since the cold war. it made it sound like the

alliance was ready, perhaps for a bigger war. however, that was all nice to many nato members who was seemingly unaware of his plan. and that's wondering if they needed to commit more troops. the figure it turns out, was conceptual. the details of the nato force model, including its precise scale and composition, continue to be developed and it won't be ready until 2023. that's still a long way off, especially for russia. as dalton berg said, really poses the most significant and direct threat to nato members and their security, other seeming a high notes in the summit included the announcement that sweden and finland are about to join the pack off to all. there had been a lot of arm twisting by turkey to get an quiz approval with both nordic countries, making concessions, which may come back to bite them. in fact, even before the summit ended turkey threatened that the deal was still not done.

and as both countries continued to dance to it's tune, 1st, sweden and finland should carry out their duties and those are in the text. but if they don't, of course, it is out of the question for the ratification to be sent to our parliament. some of those thought to be on the less start journalists provoking widespread condemnation from kurdish and human rights groups. stock homers sought to allay those concern, saying that it would always follow swedish laws. if it does though, that could potentially scott, but the deal with turkey, then there is the fact that this summit, so the idea of european strategic autonomy crash and burn for years french president mac corners, hammer down the doctrine that you repass to stand on its own without the crutch of the u. s. president biden has other ideas. the united states will enhance our force posture in europe and respond to the changing security environment, as well as strengthening our collective security. germany meanwhile,

found it's back to the war and we'll now chipping more to nato's coffers. whether chance s sholtes really believes that they stand investing more in germany's and military defense is, is really a good idea is yet to be determined this week. some it has been hailed as a success by nato, but for some the seemingly desperate backroom deals made it look more like the alliance is akin to a protection racket with some countries extorting others left right and center. earlier my colleague nikki, are in disgust nato's policies towards russia and relations between his members. with a panel of guest they test his claims to pluck. it does not once a confrontation with my case, it was your take on that statement. i mean, it's just a ball faced lie and he knows it. nobody knows it. you know, when the secretary of defense of the united states states straight up, that the goal and objective of the united states, which is the lead to player and nato,

nato does not blame without american approval. nato's policy is to inflict as much harm as possible on russia in ukraine, so that russia will never again seek to entertain a similarly aggressive move that it didn't ukraine against anywhere else in europe . that means it the purpose, the mission is to chill russians. that is the mission of nato today, to kill as many russians as possible in ukraine without getting involved directly using ukraine as a proxy force. does it not look like the world is thinking into a new cold war while the cold war is already they may not be called by, by that name. in fact, in some ways it is worse than the cold war because in the cold war there was an effort by the united. ready states and the soviet union to find proxy was bought in distant geographies. but here, the west nato, united states and other,

they're fighting a proxy war right at russia door. and the enormous risks in this because things can escalate it and they can go out. and in fact, we're talking about hybrid warfare. and what is happening is actually hybrid warfare conducted by nato against russia. joe biden has claimed that a so called nato eye zation of europe is the only way to peace there. do you agree with that? if there's one thing that the conflict is exposed, is how much you is hostage of natal, the u. s. a. caesar unveiling right now that are you is not, is not, it's completely hijacked by us interest. and they all following and the in the going against their own people day. when you look at sealant in sweden, did they do the referendum and asked people if they want to join,

they won't do that. they're not real democracies and the supporting a stay clean. she's the least democratic, isn't opposition? or it's an anticipate the supporting nancy. any. it's a shame considering europe, history, or mean, while china was also mentioned in the updated strategy, branded as a systematic challenge. as leaders of the asian pacific states also attended the summits, beijing's top diplomats reacted with a warning saying the fur that nato enlargement could ignite a confrontation. in recent years, nato has been persistently expanding and provoking confrontation between groups of countries. the international community should be highly aware of this and should strongly oppose it. meanwhile, british foreign secretary list trust has called on nato member states to expand their global influence, including sending weapons to taiwan to deter potential chinese military action against the island. a senior fellow at the pan gall institution, which is

a china based thing. thank says the nato, his presence in the asia pacific would only destabilized the region. well, i think they are not happy in particular vigor apiece. they are not happy that the china did not join them to condemn russia, also imposed on russia. that the champion, at least the diplomatically holding russia, equals china and stand the security against russia. thank you. and the pressure of the state and the you are a week in that then, you know, basically the falling than to allow may be used as a tool against china in the us, the new cool, all china. so you can say nickel like being old china, china, right challenge their, into the value of your tea. and now we have you all for we are

also present at this make, it was from it that also how did they development could these that could be stabilized the higher we in the mid soaring gas prices, europe's plan to replace russian gas by the end of the has many officials unconvinced with even the nato chief saying the price of western sanctions imposed on russia is being paid by europeans themselves. europeans and they dollars, united states partners, they pay a price. there is no way to deny that, but that price is much lower than the price will pay if truth and gets his way by. you submitted force against the plantation, is about the price you have to pay. so pay for freedom. the so called price for freedom for the you implies cussing russian gas impulse buy $2.00 thirds of the next 6 months over that price is proving to be costly. in 2021,

the u. imported approximately 155000000000 cubic meters of natural gas from russia . that's amounts. it's around 40 percent of the east total gas consumption. the measures proposed by the u commission, even if all filled will amount to an annual decrease of only 53000000000 cubic meters of gas. many use it is in say the prices they are having to pay is too high . massey grandparents is at the end of the government, do more. of course, they're not taking into account that these increases are also linked to the sanctions that europe has made against russia. everything has increased from fuel to gas and then to electricity. no measures have been taken, everything has become difficult and this is affecting our lives. but then i absolutely disagree with what the chief of nato said. what he said is shameful. we citizens, we, italians, cannot pay for the freedom he talks about with your mind. meanwhile, as a country, we are the one where you pay the most taxes. these increases are destabilizing many

families who are no longer able to make it to the end of the month. all the sanctions are absolutely useless because they are not weakening the russian economy at all. indeed, they are probably harming as europeans more than they are. i and i will stop. the price of electricity has increased disproportionately, officials are taking advantage of all this situation to raise the prices of bills and all raw materials by many people, no longer have money even to do the shopping and to pay for the house. and in all this, they cannot even turn on the air conditioner because electricity really costs a lot about that too many increases, even the gas, it's all increased. i received a very strange gas bill within, justified increases that i still cannot understand. then the u. k, which has been among the loudest voices urging the ease and dependence on russian orland, gus may now stop supplying gas to main on europe, haughty contributor rachel mazda reports in the scramble. the stock up on gas supplies amid anti russian sanctions. choking off affordable supply is in every man

or country for himself. analysts have explained to london's guardian newspaper that under sea gas pipelines, transport gas from the u. k to continental europe operated by the u. k. they offload gas to europe in the summer months when britain doesn't have enough storage capacity for it. then in the winter time, the gas is sent back from the e. u to the u. k. when it's most needed there. but the newspaper talks about the possibility of the flow of europe simply being cut off. if a gas french hits britain, a british government spokesman, referred to emergency procedures in the extremely unlikely event of a supply emergency. national grid gas have longstanding emergency procedures in place to protect the integrity of britons gas network. all countries have such plans, and there is absolutely nothing to suggest that these emergency procedures would be needed. now. our priority is to continue working together with our e. u partners and allies,

to and reliance on russian oil and gas. it's possible that post brags it u. k is faring better than it's you neighbors, a spokesman for the you case, national grid power network doesn't foresee any energy shortages. the u. k has been well supplied with gas throughout the year, with reliable supplies coming in from the u. k. is north, siri sources and from norway, but even evoking this last resort of restocking u. k. gas at the expense of the you kind of flies in the face of all the u. k. governments talk of how western nations are all unwavering in their unity and solidarity in support of ukraine. they are facing real real pressures. they are having to source energy from elsewhere, but they are doing it. they are making the effort. they are making the sacrifice. that's because they see that the price of freedom is worth paying. this is something that it's worth a standing up for together, but the, you would totally understand the need for the u. k. to take care of itself 1st and

foremost before helping out it's closest allies. right. well, it seems that the idea is raising eyebrows in the you like those of bart, yon hovers, the president of the european network, have transmission system operators for gas. i would definitely recommend they reconsider stopping me into connection. so well, you can, you were once family pre brags it when push comes to shove, maybe the kind of access that goes with living under the same roof isn't a given the b as protracted, political turmoil, and worsening living conditions, spots must protest on friday the . 2 from the scene showed the parliament in the city of brook barricaded with protested, ty is on fire. the columns of black smoke within rising from the building and

surrounding area, the deteriorating situation in the country. on the 3 morning political party done heads with pockets and sewing prices, as posts pushed libyan to take to the streets all across the country. days earlier, the you and adviser to tripoli, proposed managing the ones prosperous african nations all revenues to encourage democratic elections. know highly we are working together with the international community to create a temporary financial mechanism to manage libby as huge oil revenues. why is this necessary? because as long as there is no movement towards elections, as long as there is unlimited income from oil, the struggle for executive power in libya will continue for the next 40 years and therefore, it is necessary to reduce the appetite of rivals in the struggle for executive power, stephanie has a long record and working at the u. s. diplomat here i'm speaking world, she's definitely a product of the us state department. now. she's one of the top un official dealing

with the ongoing problems we live in. and apparently, she's not alone in thinking these methods could work. this mechanism could provide a short term pseudo governmental function until elections take place. so the sooner that happens, the better for all libyans, the record of the united nation in libya, has left much to be desired than 11 years than the nato bombing campaign topple the womic. those with government that industrialized and essentially created modern libya. now 11 years is not a short amount of time. hillary clinton was so excited and saying they were on the road to democracy in progress. i'll say this for the libyan people. i think president obama made the right decision at the time. and the libyan people had a free election the 1st time since 1951. and you know what they voted for moderates . they voted with the hope of democracy. conditions in the country continue to be believe the country currently has over a $179000.00 internally displaced persons. 803000 people currently require

humanitarian assistance. certainly not the human rights paradise. the nato promise . when they swooped in promising they would supposedly topple a dictator, but it gets worse. so now after toppling their government and casting the country into years of chaos, the u. s. a is saying that the best way to move forward is depriving libyans of the revenue created by their own natural resources. they are rallying the international community for this aim with oil production. now slowing down and the country that was once africa, top oil exporter, the oil prices are that to keep rising once again as world leaders and producers negotiate. caleb martin, r t. new york. the new stories shaped the week here on our international form on any of them do head over to r t dot com. i'm pizza scott, and i'll be back again with another look in just over 30 minutes time. ah

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