ah, ah, ah ah, pushed and led forth to take control of the city of lucy chanced. according to multiple reports, the city was the last major stronghold of ukrainian forces. in regards to republic . nato claims that russia is a major threat to european security and its new strategic concept. also highlighting the challenge, allegedly post by china. a warning you may find the following footage disturbing. ah, hundreds of wounded and dozens killed, as crowds in morocco are repelled by moroccan and spanish law enforcement while

trying to cross the countries border with watching the weekly here on our international line. peter scott's bringing the stories that shaped the week. but we start off with the developing story from russia, where multiple explosions have been reported in the city of belgrade, near the ukrainian border. the according to witnesses ad defend systems have been, are to for several hours. or several rockets have allegedly hit a number of residential buildings in the 50 emergency services are the scene with at least 3 people wounded and russian forces have taken control over the city of little chance. get caught in the guns, public military and most school reports in the area. and this is john was the last major stronghold of ukraine. you forces in the guns, republic, and

a number of important administrative buildings in the city were allegedly destroyed by the withdrawing forces. some ukrainian troops or allegedly still hold up in the outskirts of lucy johnson with frantic fighting. continuing in the area we heard from locals, greeting the russian lead forces pushing, indescribable happiness. we've been waiting for 8 years. look what ukrainian army have done here. this was a provocation. they sent a fire truck to collect water and then fired a shell. many people died. and then they immediately came and said it was russia who attacked you guys. you know, the guns republic forces had been surrounding the city for a number of weeks with the russian lead troops encircling little chance from the south or north. taking control of key towns in the region. any of this week are eager to don. i've got exclusive access to see how russian and allied forces have been operating in lou ganske was ukrainian now a russian trophy weapon the soviet made. the 64 thank is successfully

thinking bought in the the nazi vacation ration just outside the town home. our germ of literally seconds until it's about to fire towards a 45 percent of the ukrainian forces with and what you have here is a disguised trophy tank. it used to be ukraine's t 60 fool, but was captured all the way on the outskirts of caves. and spent 4 months now, it has been taking part in the d. nazi fine operations embedded with rushes, special forces at the much molars. this is our little baby. we took it from the cr, any national gardener, key of florida, a t 64 b v tank doesn't work well. the works well enough. there are

a lot of screw ups actually because ukrainian army didn't know how to service it properly. i think we need to pull out all of these american electronics and we can work with it. the most important thing is that it works for her. ah, as the russian forces advance in the don't boss, new areas become available for journalists. and this is one of them. this is where the onslaughts on the key strategic town of our tome of school by moved is happening. basically, it's the gateway towards ukraine's city. citadel's ah, verified footage on social media shows thousands of locals taken to the streets of was becky stunted abbey reports of casualties among protest is, is riot police dispersed crowds delegations 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 have reported eastern grenades until gas against processed as the demonstrated oppose suggested amendments to the constitution that limits the autonomy from the federal government. authorities say that demonstrates to try to these power in the region is back, president has arrived to show locals. the amendment won't change the regions. special status was he made no comments on the violin crushes will bring you more information as the situation developed. the brutal clashes have taken place on the moroccans. spanish border has thousands of people attend the cross into the spanish ex clave in northern africa, the migrants were repelled by both countries security force. now, quick warning, you may find some of the following images disturbing. the least one to

3 migrants have been killed and hundreds wounded. including 140 border guards. un says the moroccan authorities use but tons and stones to repel the migrants as they tried to scale offense to enter the spanish exclaim human rights activists say that police deliberately refrained from helping those who are injured. the instant later spots protests in the spanish capital. human rights watch says an investigation is required unclaimed, the skirmishes show the difference attitude towards migrants from different continents on the other side of europe, ukrainian refugees are rightly welcomed with open arms, but here and elsewhere along europe borders, we see a total disregard for black lives large scale attempts to climb over the fences around below, post security concerns, but in no way justify the violence we have seen. are these rachel blevins takes a look into why some migrants have been treated differently to us. the stories of migrants who leave their home countries in search of better lives are often covered by the media would 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. as 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 un 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 and videos 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 survived 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. but until it's done what we're talking about in attempt to assault the fence that was evidently carried out in an aggressive way. and therefore what spain state security forces and moroccan guards did was defend spain's borders center left. 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 in dying. so whereas that outraged now and will there ever be any

meaningful change for the migrant seeking asylum in the west? as it's the west that continues to metal in their home countries over so migrants troubles don't. and when they make it to the u, amnesty international as accuse the commission of sending a blind eye to the illegal detention of thousands of arab on africa, migrants in lithuania, including cases of abuse and discrimination in the treatment of asylum seekers. also highlighting the contrasting treatments of ukrainian refugees in the u. refugees and migrants have been held for months on end in squalid prison like centers in lithuania, subjected to serious human rights violations, in the hope that they will voluntarily return to the countries they fled from. there have been numerous reports of ill treatment, some amounting to torture. detainees have also been placed in isolation and bitten by dogs if they try to escape. a psychologist who worked at the center is currently under investigation for alleged sexual violence against detainees in his care is

going to be worse now. after seeing the treatment promise to ukrainians, because people here cannot take it anymore. we are under horrible pressure to go back to our countries. is this the humanity they are talking about? we also want to help people coming from ukraine because we already saw that we already lived, that we already felt that the sad thing is we are in a dark place. we are going through a terrible time and we are hopeless. what hurts the most as when i follow the news and see how the world show solidarity with ukrainian refugees and how they treat us here with you, amy and, and your commission officials have yet to respond to these allegations. i'm just the international also documented cases of racial abuse, including the use of offensive slurs being used against men and women of color while in lithuanian custody. i have been locked up here for 10 months already. we don't even know where we are. somewhere near the boat of the refugees are only people of color. there were white tea, but they were all released almost immediately. please help us help us. we want to

be released. they took our freedom. we need your support. as amnesty international also pointed out that ukrainian refugees are receiving both benefits protection from european authorities, as well as a warm reception for many residents of the you who even let ukrainian refugees stay in the homes. nigerian politician a dom gobber says the welcome ukrainian refugees have received an e you compared to the treatments of those from africa. and the middle east exposes global disparities. discarded between them are people on those people of color that are not or people is becoming so entrenched because they've got to kind of watch them. all right, if you're talking about the responsibility for the, for, for the general population of the warranty. if you're thinking about the q responsibility to be able to manage everybody based on the issues that there might be having, we can not how ukrainian, jeez,

running into the you can please get in all to him ended up as a human beings, while the people of colo, like people of africa, the middle is a blessed human in a place where they call a saloon location, which is like more julie berry. i'm not, it's not like a detention center. so it's like they're technically being put into prison. deny. that's why i want to proceed off asylum so, so this is, this is really not good of what all this is. this is just an sole perfectly human nato has adopted a new strategic concept with russia labeled. it's most significant and direct threats. he lives though, is having some difficulty agreeing on this under the key policies. as alice ac shallow 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 died threat to orange 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 a heads held high to some degree. it's not clear what nato chief he in 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 damaged? death, destruction at the scale,

which is much not worse than what you see in ukraine today. you all's 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 ground. 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. this forces to well over 300000 so, so the meaningful dialogue we worked for, for so many years. that's knocked on the table that's not working, described as the biggest overhaul of native collective defense and parents 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 left 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. a stilton 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 that had been a lot of arm twisting by turkey to get anchor is 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 unless both countries continued to dance to it's june. first, 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 lay start journalists provoking widespread

condemnation from kurdish and human rights groups. stock homers sought to allay those concerns, 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 mc corners, ham, about 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. the, for some,

the seemingly desperate backroom deals made it look more like the alliance is akin to a protection racket that some countries extorting others left right and center. well, earlier my colleague nikki, are and discussed nato's policies towards russia and relations between his members . with a pile of guests they test his claims to pluck does not once a confrontation with most cases it was you will take on that statement. i mean, it 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. it's 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 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 during the cold war, there was an effort by the united 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 there are enormous risks in this because things can escalated 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 i 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 us things are unveiling right now that you is not, is not it completely hijacked by us interest and they all following and they're going against their own people. they do when you look into them, did they do the referendum and asked people if they want to join they won't do that . they're not real democracies. and this reporting a space you clean, she's the lead them aquatic. there's no position. it's an, as you said, the supporting nothing, any. it's a shame considering europe history. meanwhile,

china was also mentioned in the updated strategy and branded as a systematic challenge. as leaders of asian pacific states also attended the summits, beijing's top diplomats reacted with a warning. is that the further nato enlargement could ignite a compensation. 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 lives trust has called on nato members days to expand their global influence, including sending weapons of taiwan to deter potential chinese military action against the island. a senior fellow at the panel institution, which is a china based a think tank. so the need, those presence in the asia pacific would only be stabilized the region. well, i think the particular bigger apiece. they are not happy that the china did not join them to dance russia also impose on russia east bed, the champions,

at least, the diplomatically holding russia equals china and the security against russia and the pressure of the united states and the european a week. and then, you know, basically the falling than to allow me to be used as a tool against china in the us, the new cold war china. so you can think of it like being old china, china, right challenge their values and get your tea. and now were you planning for, we knew we present at the summit that also in our development could be that could be stabilized the higher we hope that

the mid soaring gas prices europe's plan to replace rushing gas by the end of the year has many officials unconvinced with even the nato chief thing, the price of western sanctions imposed on russia has been 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 use military force against the plantation, is about the price you have to pay for pay for freedom. the so called price of freedom for the you implies cussing russian gas imports by $2.00 thirds over the next 6 months. or if the price is proving to be costly. in 2021, the u. imported approximately 155000000000 cubic meters of natural gas from russia . that's amounted to around 40 percent of the total gas consumption. the measures proposed by the commission, even if they filled will amount for an annual decrease of only 53000000000 cubic

meters of gas. many use citizens say the price is they are having to pay are already too high. massey, what i thought is, at the end of a, could the government do more? of course, they are 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 any better than i absolutely disagree with what the chief of nato said. he, what he said is shameful. are we citizens, we italians cannot pay for the freedom he talks about. we're still main. 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. they leave 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, most of 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. you know, 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 bet i received a very strange gas bill within justified increases that i still cannot understand. and then those of whether you k, which has been among the loudest voices urging you to and dependence on brochure oil and gas may now stop supplying gas demand on europe. i'll see, contributor rachel moss and explains in the scramble to 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 c 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 posts brags you 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 c resources 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 the closest allies. right. well, it seems that the idea is raising eyebrows in the you like those of bart, yon homers the president of the european network of transmission system operators for gas. i would definitely recommend they reconsider stopping the into connection

so well the u. k. and you were one family pre brags it when push comes to shove, maybe the kind of access that goes with living under the same roof isn't given. the democratic republic of congo has reopened its borders with rwanda and burundi, easing diplomatic tensions in the region. the central african nation temporarily close this borders after a congress soldier was shot dead by rwandan police in a shootout. the congress city of goma vincent coincided with an escalation indifferent attentions between the neighbors, congo, accuses rwanda of supporting a militant group and $23.00. fighting in the east of the country, the leaders come from the same ethnic group as one does. the president and 33 is named after an agreement signed back in 2009. this saw them officially become part of the dfcs armed forces. however, in 2012, the group claim, the governments had violated that's agreements. unseat gomer,

but was soon forced out by the candidates military. it has recently been classified as a terrorist organization. a local reporter brings us, this reports from goma. terrorism is one of the main concerns for the people here in gama, in democratic republic of congo. it affects hunger, safety in a vacation. in fact, all the aspects of their lives to torture on commerce usa. we're concerned about the n 23 cherished group because it spreads to fake promise that it will liberate the congolese people. we don't want the same situation and go monica m avante, poor c. m, 23. commit atrocities and causes massive population displacement in our country. as you and the victims are always congolese people them when threatened anybody, the m 23. we supported by country sanchez, amanda and trenda. the movement is now categorized as a terrorist organization, and we will defend out how to re there much when it's

a movement known as em. tennessee is the biggest terrorist threat in this region. it wants to this of allies and controls areas which in my new role was celsius and lance, almost daily attacks on the concern as government. early june, the m $2.00 and $3.00 shelves on military position, killing 2 soldiers and enduring 5 later it's captured they cd of luna, gunner 60 kilometers northeast of gama. marking a dramatic escalation intention. the government lacks sufficient manpower and we celsius to push the rebel back. and the police, the entire country kinshasa needs the help of its neighbors in fighting the terrorists and welcomes re sent king as it now's meant that is deploying the regional forces to assist 8. but the government doesn't want rhonda to be the part of. it's

a resent united nations report saying that they empathy are planning to seize the business district in gama. if they do, the dia may collapse because this is extremely important to raid higher. their repetition will be fed to far beyond its borders. gillam balloon may for r t gama. just before we go, some breaking news from the russian border. city of belgrade, where residential areas have been targeted by a rocket attack. latest reports say that 3 people have been killed with 4 more injured, including a child, 11 palm and buildings and 40 houses have also been damaged, as always, will bring you any updates as and when we get them with us all for now, for any more on the stories that you've just seen to head over to r t dot com. i'm peter scott on the back again in around 30.