one with a, with russian lead force is established full control over luke down st republican territory. after the last t sitting there is taken also with the least 4 civilians, including 3 citizens from ukraine are killed in the deadliest ever ukrainian missile. i'll attack on russian territory. after thousands take to the streets on

clash wood, fully sinners. beckett's done, the president dropped plans the curb, the autonomy of a large republic within the country. under warning, you may find the following from it to the service. a call for justice i made claims of a cover all over the number of fatalities. the un demands an investigation into the debt. so at least $23.00 africans or pounds of moroccan security forces. after a cry tried to storm the border of a spanish and play with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well. this is a weekly and artsy alone. welcome on union. we begin with the latest from

the ukraine conflict. the entire territory of the lou gowns people's republic, counts being taken under full russian control. russia's defense minister directly reported the development to president putting our senior correspondent morocco. the of is, in lieu counts. can file this report, it was somewhat of the challenge getting into least the chance itself because ukrainian forces us as they withdrew from the city and it subs the entirety of them . they blew all the bridges leading into the city, the multitude of them dotted along the rivers of the circle, the city. but once we got in we were, we were surprised that so much of the city had been sped damage in comparison to other urban areas such as my review for which we reported from and which suffered tremendously because of urban combat street fighting. in this case, what we saw was that ukrainian forces, and that is

a moses of them. you had nationalist elements as well as the, the, the ukrainian military, regular military as well as a territorial defense units all mingled together under different command. and they had spent months digging out trenches, which for example, creased crossed the city. they had piled cars along major roads and intersections, mind different roads that lead into the city. again, a huge amount of effort that they had expended to make sure that as their leaders promised, they would defend lease a chance to the lust. they said that lisa johnston say better than he asked the battles for those 2 cities would determine the fate of east and ukraine. but now we saw that ukrainian elements pulled out of the city before russian forces reached the city proper. we talked to the locals, many of them welcoming russian forces. well, the majority that we,

that we spoke to saying that finally, finally they were rid of this, this wall, this fighting reunited with the rest of the guns from a province. but they said that ukrainian units inside the city will highly disorganized and demoralized as russian troops approached that was this organisation amongst them that all these huge what, what are the different command? there was very little collaboration and communication among them. eventually one unit decided to pull off seeing the situation as hopeless and, and the rest hectic. he followed suit, eventually none were left and in the city itself, all of them believing that they had been abandoned by their lead that so. so he asked his need, has had been reported. now the entirety of the guns, prominent province, the 1st, the province and ukraine, formerly ha, you crave that has now been entirely taken by local, by local forces. so that is the longest peoples province,

as well as allied russian troops and allied forces, as well as the, the offensive continues. now that the city is entirely under control, the offensive now toward slave ounce can cram a doors which ukrainian forces again promised to hold to the last. but as we've seen with, with lucy chance that may not be the case marked as they have now, as ukrainian forces retreated from the lou ganske republic heavily fortified positions in the area were left abundant. this exclusive footage shows deserted trenches on the outskirts of lesson chance. the hasty withdrawal of the soldiers meant many left behind personal belongings. following the end of fighting in the city local, something welcoming russian troops there. i moved is, deserves a home. with

a young region was. ringback i okay, some more developments this weekend, at least 4 civilians have been killed after ukrainian armed forces launched missiles, the russian city of belgrade. 3 of the victims were actually ukrainian citizens who had fled the country and sought refuge in russia. we can take a look at some eye witness footage. ah, reason,

re, the russian defense ministry sees ukraine launched 3 ballistic missiles loaded with clustering munitions outs, russian territory. all of them were intercepted meter, but must brief fell to the ground causing fire and destruction. more than 50 civilian buildings were damaged and some houses completely destroyed. rushes foreign ministry spokeswoman called the attack provocation. st gives good is emma. the goal is to keep regime is still frank with weapons on residential area. so this is not the 1st time this has happened, but we understand that this actions of the clips regime are not just coordinated with western curator. need it most likely be prompted by them as up. what this is done in order to pushes to strike back and then further increased the anti rationalist area. we have so far refrain from taking such step or so, but to really flowing developments very closely. and those who acton this way should know that the provocation continues. we will answer accordingly. as it, i see school is studia. will this attack on russia's border region of belgrade

appears to be the worst ever ukrainian bombing of russian territory. according to the regions governor, we're talking about 3 ballistic missiles here. these are high, highly precise a lot more than artillery. and they were armed with cluster munitions, which means that they were trying to kill as many people as possible. i mean, these cluster munitions are aimed primarily at killing people rather than damaging infrastructure. and despite the fact that all 3 of them were intercepted, mid air of the components from just one of the missiles landed and ended up killing at least 4 people and injuring for others. there was also, there were also dozens of apartment buildings as well as houses that were damaged in the explosions. and this all took place not anywhere near any sort of military installation. now this, these attacks actually happened around the same time that russian and lugens people's militia forces a retake, retook and liberated all of that. we've gone to people's republic and we do have journalists and on boss as well as in belgrade itself. and they were able to

collect some eye witness accounts of these attacks. so let's take a little more of them. there were explosions, one house was destroyed, one been down. that's what happened. obviously it wasn't the gas tank. exploding with there was a powerful explosion from the one side of the flat where i have a bedroom. the window is intact. and on the other side of the apartment, the windows were completely shattered. a ducal a pool, those one explosion, then another and another one. i heard the fire burning, i was in the hole and then my windows blew out. everything was knocked out. there's also a side to the story though that's equally as ironic as it is tragic. 3 out of the 4 people who were killed in these attacks were actually ukrainian citizens. so it looks like as key of attempted to hit russia below the belt by purposely targeting civilians, they really ended up shooting themselves in the foot. right. it is the deadliest attack, as we mentioned, dawn by ukrainian forces on russia, but it's far from the 1st time something like this has occurred. right. that's,

that's correct. as we heard earlier from maria's harvard looks like, you know, the bombing of civilian areas on russian territory has become an explicit goal of the ukrainian forces. i, myself was at russia's border region of rust off when the special military operation began. and it was back then that the ukrainian forces began targeting with artillery civilian areas on russian border regions. russell was one of them where i was as well as course bronze and bell grid included, was bombed at that time. one night the area that i was in was actually hit by over 40 shelves in just one night, fired indiscriminately at places that had no sort of military infrastructure close to it. so these bombings really are nothing new, but the fact that a handful of people were killed and that the ukrainian military used high precision ballistic missiles to aim directly at a residential area was really shocking. the respect president has said

he will draw plans in upcoming constitutional reforms to take away the rights for counter cal, puts them on a thomas region within his beck us down to secede from the country. it follows moth protests in the regions capital over knights with deaths and injuries reported those ride police broke up crowds. a warning you may find the following images disturb. oh, is this footage before to the show? people tending to wounded protesters and police using stung grenades on tier gauss against citizens. a states of emergency has been declared for a month in the region with authorities claiming the demonstrators were attempting to seize power. the republics help administer. those said thousands of people have been hospitalized. and while whose back us on central government admitted there are victims. it's yeah, to provide number

a local base reporter told us more uletha. currently, a state of emergency has been declared and a curfew imposed in care cal pakistan for a month whose becca stand has also closed the border checkpoint between care, cal pakistan and context on prior to that last saturday, this back authorities published a draft amendment to the country's constitution, it proposed to exclude the sovereign status of care, cal pakistan, and its right to secede from the country by holding an internal referendum. if this change caused discontent in the republic and this past friday, about 15000 citizens of pear compact stan stage the procession through the regions capital nucleus. the government of whose pakistan has been forced to take tough measure. soldiers from his becca stand and security forces were brought into care, cal pakistan, and they used to smoke bombs and tear gas against the demonstrators. as a result, at least one person was killed and several others were in germany. on friday night, the internet was cut off, but cellular service remained available. according to his becca stands,

internal affairs ministry, public order has been restored, but protests continued overnight. on saturday. on saturday, the president and prime minister of his pakistan flew to the capital of the region while the president promised to preserve the norms of care, col pakistan, and their right to secede from the country in the constitution. right now, the ration in the republic is returning to normal view, lee care carfax dan, as a sovereign republic, within his back a stand. it occupies about 40 percent of the entire territory of the country. about 2000000 citizens live. here is max care, cal tax russians. they live in peace and harmony, and we hope that everything will be fine soon. it does look like a tinderbox situation. there will keep a close eye. busy on it, but for now let's move on to the news that shaped the week. the un human rights office is calling for an independent investigation to the recent killing of at least 23 african migrants by moroccan security,

for some of the deadly incident took place. went around 2000 people, storm the border of a spanish enclave in northern local morning. the following footage is graphic ah well aside from those killed hundreds also wounded, including a 140 border guards. un say's moroccan authorities use buttons and stones to repel the migrants as they tried to skill offense to enter. what is you? territory rights activists claim police deliberately refrained from helping the injured. the incident later spark protests in the spanish capital human rights watch sees the skirmishes show the contrast thing. attitudes towards migrants from different continents on the other side, to curate. ukrainian. refugees are rightly welcomed with open arms. but here and elsewhere along europe's borders. we see a total disregard for black lights,

large scale attempts to climb over the fences around malea, post security concerns, but in no way justify the violence we have seen. will ortiz, racial blevins has been taking a look at why some migrants are being treated differently to others? 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 3rd 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 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 dehumanizing 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 it's the last that continues to metal in their home countries slush the prices of the pumps. that's the clear message to you as a gas station owners from president biden. you say they need to step up at a time of global emergency calls by the ukraine conflict. but that runs country to a recent joint letter by the fuel industry, which said the current crisis has rich going back years out. a lot of it is washington sold my message to the companies,

running gas stations in setting prices at the pump is simple. this is a time of war in global peril. bring down the price. you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you're paying for the product and do it now. today's situation did not materialize overnight and will not be quickly solved. although the russian invasion is undoubtedly exacerbating the situation. today's challenges are largely the result of high crude prices due to a supply and demand imbalance, logistics, re shuffling and policy decisions made at the federal and state levels over many years. but many u. s. refineries, which supply gal stations are working at almost full capacity. the industry has faced serious difficulties since march after imports of rational rebuttal. measures taken by the president, including the release of oil reserves on a plea to congress to temporarily suspend gasoline taxes have not improved this situation to any significant level. nevertheless, jo biden's,

i'd not to our saudi arabia to increase its oil production during his visit there later this month, commenting on the issue, he instead reiterated he's putting the blame for the record prices, the global food crisis, as well, squarely and russia. the reason why gas prices are up is because of russia, russia, russia, russia, the reason why the food crisis exist is because of russia. while labor rights lawyer, dung conflict believes the u. s. economic crisis has been some time in the making and has only been worsened by sanctions targeting russian. inflation was rising up even before the special operation in ukraine. and to the extent inflation has gotten worse since then and, and in particular, oil prices have gotten worse. that since then, that can be blamed squarely on the sanctions that the u. s. imposed on russia. it's

fired in full that, that inflation is going up and that the economy is probably headed to a recession. if it's not already in a recession. politicians trying to deflect responsibility from themselves. that's why they're blaming russia because they are going to lose elections over there. so they're trying to say, oh, it's not our fall, it's rushes fall, but the people aren't buying because you look at the polls. the polls show the biden's approval ratings are historic love and they continued you decline right now . now, some days ago, nato issued its new strategic concept on label russia, the quote most significant and direct threat to the block. however, not everyone within the nato alliance seems on board with both that and other key front and center policies with more. here's our t charlotte. to mitigate at the nato summit in madrid, the alliance made it crystal clear. just how it sees russia to day leaders have

endorsed naples new strategic concept. it makes clear that russia's russia pulses the most significant and dyadic threat to our security. but despite nato officials claiming that 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, permanent play, but other key block powers calling 1st swift ceasefire in ukraine and a diplomatic settlement that would allow all sides to walk away with a head held high to some degree. it's not clear just what nater chief yen stilton berg really wants either. 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 ukraine today. yours over a corresponds

a bit of course to prevent escalation beyond ukraine. and that's the reason why nato is 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. 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. however, that was all news to many native members who were seemingly unaware of this plan. and that, wondering if they needed to commit more troops to 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 is still a long way off, especially for russia. a still tim berg said really poses the most significant and

direct threat to nato members and their security, other seeming the high notes from 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 an quiz approval with both nordic countries, making concessions, which may come back to bite them. 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 list are journalists provoking widespread condemnation from kurdish and human rights groups. stock coma has sought to allay those concerns, saying that he would always follow a swedish lewis if it does though, that could potentially scupper 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 are

a pass 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. this week summit has been hailed as a success by nato. but for some, the seemingly desperate backward deals made it look more like the alliance is akin to a protection racket. with some countries extorting others left right and center. or earlier, vladimir putin said he was not surprised by nato quote, ante russian policies of the alliance continues to stick with its cold war rhetoric . so store on your students through the fact that nato has been preparing for an anti ration action since 2014 is no news to us. this is exactly what explains our decisive measures to protect our interests. nato is a rude amount of the past era. the ear of the cold war,

we have been repeatedly told that nato is changed. that is more of a political block now. but they have been trying to find an opportunity to boost it as a military organization. so here we go. they are now doing it. there's nothing new here in like a coin that in all a local mirror in finland. how suggested having an nato bass in his city of la pin ranta, located near the border with russia. in fact, the city is less than 30 kilometers from the russian. from here, moscow has warned it will be forced into a tit for tat response if such bases appear in finland on. swedenborg, nordic nations recently applied for nato membership. the finish foreign minister, however, stated there is no need to place nato forces on finland's territory. in contrast to the local moors, recent invitation, currently, finland does not need to host nato forces on its territory. finland has

a common border with russia and it is safe there. now. i left ross law not to political analyst, alexander poverty for his take alexander. good to see you. so we have a finish mirror suggesting placing a nato bass in his city close to the border with russian factors there, a 100 kilometers away from a quite a major russian cit. see i, if that happened, what reaction would you expect from moscow? well, 1st of all, i'm sure that the citizens of this city are thrills to know they have such a mayor was willing to take on russia. i'm sure that it will be an interesting election the next time he comes up for office, you know, and he knew you must wonder what same politician would want his city to be targeted by russian or anyone else's massage. and i'll, that's, that's strange, especially because of what we heard about what to finish the foreign minister said,

so, you know, maybe someone might think this is eccentric. but after we've seen what's been happening over the last few months and years, you know, i would say this is a deliberate provocation, and it was probably ordered from somewhere outside of the finished government. and i would say, washington, i would nominate washington for this. you know, they've been not dating the bear for quite a while now, and they're using well do using the poorer ukrainians as cannon fodder. you know, and they're using lithuanians potentially as cannon fodder. and now they seem to be willing to use those things as cannon fodder. and it's all about raising tensions in europe about manufacturing a non existent russian existence, danger m rack. and, you know, did they want russia to respond so that they can say,

ah, see, we told you how dangerous and threatening and mean russians are so, you know, i think that's the game that's being played right now. you know, and i think that, you know, moscow is not going to react to what a mayor says that they're just gonna buy their time. you know, it's, 1st of all, you know, it's not at all certainty channeling will join nato. we've seen what turkey wants. you know, turkey wants, mex, traditions from both sibling and sweden. i don't think the tennis or the swedish public are going to like that. they're not, i don't know if they didn't necessarily agree to that. so it's a question of whether family is gonna join nato at all. like now this mayor has all the sudden made finland, you know, has made russia pay a little bit more attention to its border with finland, which has been peaceful for decades now. you know, there are no russian troops of anywhere near the border. you know, so you know,

this once again, this is just a 0 sum game, a very dangerous game of russian roulette with the whole world. and you know, we stayed there now using ridiculous little chest pieces like like, like a mayor of some small finished talk god to help you know, the people who voted for him. that's all i can say. what are finland on sweden hoping to achieve by joining nato, alexander, do they really feel threatened by russia? now, i don't think, 1st of all, that are the politicians and gentlemen and sweden that decided to do this. and i don't think they're deciding because that's what the citizenry asked. you know, i think this is again, these people are obviously under direct influence and control of power centers outside of their countries. i would say washington anger for his place, london and 2nd place. you know,

some of some people in brussels as well. so you know, let's see what a referendum would say, you know, but i don't think, you know, they said that they don't plan to hold a referendum in on. i can see why, you know, there was some tough questions. would have to be post, you know, some, you know, someone might come and say, well why, you know, we've had, we haven't had any military problems with russia. ok, why do we want to have our cities targeted by russian missiles? i think that would cause some very unpleasant questions to be asked, you know, and so they're trying to kind of sneak in by the back door without asking their own voters. but again, i turkeys playing spoiler so it may not happen after all. alexander, as always, we appreciate your time alexander published political endless life from belgrade. kate just.