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are killed in the deadliest ever ukrainian miss. i'll, i talk on russian territory after thousands take to the streets and clash with police in his back as the president drop his plans to curb. we are told me of a large republic within the country coming up as well. i want you may find the following footage with a call for just this i made claims of a cover off over the number. busy of faith, tell it to the un demands on the investigation into the debts of at least $23.00 africans of the hands of moroccan security forces after a crowd tried to storm the border of astonishing with it. they tell stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments

as well. this is the weekly and r t. hello and welcome. i'm you know, we begin with the latest from the ukraine conflict. the entire territory all fell. lou ganske at people's republic has been taken under full russian control. russia's defense minister directly reported the development to president putin. our senior correspondent, murat garcia, is in lou ganske on 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 its suburbs, 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 comeback street fighting. in this case,

what we saw was that ukrainian forces and that is a motion 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 of trenches, which for example, creased, crossed the city they had piled cause 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 least a chance to the last they. they said that lisa chance can save it at the next. the battle flew through cities with the tub and the fate of he said, you crate. 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 while 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 gods palmer 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 you, it's 11, 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 in, in the city itself, or the believing that they had been abandoned by their lead that so. so he asked his need, has had been reported. now the entirety of la guns promised a province the 1st, the province in ukraine, formally 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 on to the last. but as we've seen with, with lucy chance that may not be the case. and just to continual on morale was saying, as ukrainian forces retreated from the law against republic heavily fortified positions in the area were left abundant. this exclusive footage shows deserted. trenches on the outskirts of less a chance. the hasty withdrawal of the soldiers meant many left behind personal belongings. following the end of the fighting in the city local, something welcoming russian troops. i moved

it is a give you a calendar with on during the past week, a prisoner exchange took place with both at russia and ukraine, handing over a 144 captured soldiers apiece. the russian defense ministry said the swap was authorized personally by latimer boskus 895 percent of the return p. o w's which included service men from don bouts were tortured by their ukrainian captors. some

of the soldiers called their experience. if little one mazama, we were exchanged, i can't describe how i failed, only emotions, people in ukrainian captivity face different conditions. someone is beaten, someone is tortured with electricity. there's moral pressure. not to mention what relatives fail. oh jingle, go down a little good. i am very grateful, i would like to thank the command, despite all the difficulties, they made some concessions in order to exchange us soldiers. the main thing is that they wanted us to return home for this. i want to say thank you for the fact that we will see our family soon causes her rooms for suits of thank you for doing all this quickly. and without hesitation, knowing that there was hope, i constantly believed that our people would exchange us. and here i am at home in russia, where another development over the weekend to tell you about at least 4 civilians have been killed after ukrainian armed forces launch missiles at the russian city of belgrade. 3 of the victims where ukrainian citizens, who had fled the country and sought refuge in russia. let's take

a quick look at some eye witness footage of a ah reason why the side is not on the russian defense ministry. sage ukraine launched 3 ballistic missile was loaded with cluster munitions out russian territory. all of them were intercepted mirror sh, but mass debris fell to the ground causing fire and destruction. more than 50 civilian buildings were damaged and somehow as, as completely destroyed. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman called the attack a provocation. st keeps go. it is emma lee. the going 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 the actions of the police regime are not just coordinated with western curator near, but most likely prompted by them is up. but this is done in order to push us to

strike back and then further increase the anti rush. no exterior, we have so far refrain from taking such staff out or so. but we'll, we'll be following developments very closely. and those who act on this way should now bid the practitioner continue issue. we will answer accordingly and said, i see school is cynthia, will this attack on russia's border region of belgrade? it appears to be the worse to 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, 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 the wagons 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 listen. lou logan, they were explosions. one house was destroyed, one burned down. that's what happened. obviously, it wasn't the gas tank exploding wishes. there was a powerful explosion from the one side of the flat where i have a bedroom, a window is intact. and on the other side of the apartment, the windows were completely shattered or do hello poor, good 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 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 brians and belgrade 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 to know the story or across. today the it was back to president and said he will draw plums in upcoming constitutional reforms to take away the right for cora cal paxton, autonomous region within who's becker's done to secede from the country. it follows mass protests and the regions capital overnight, but deaths and injuries reported as right. police broke off, crunch a warning. you may find the following images disturbing. oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. footage reports the show people tending to wounded protesters on police using

stem grenades and tear gas against citizens. a state of emergency housed being declared for one month in the region with authorities claiming the demonstrators were attempting to seize power. now the republics health ministers have thousands of people have been hospitalized on while who spec us and central government admitted there are victims. it's is yet to provide a number, a locally based reporter thomas ward. augusta, 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 in context on that. prior to that last saturday, it was back, authorities published a draft amendment to the countries constitution. it proposed to exclude the sovereign status of care ca, pakistan. and it's right to secede from the country by holding an internal referendum. this change caused discontent in the republic, and this past friday about 15000 citizens of care compacts danced,

age the procession through the regions capital. nuclear is the government of whose pakistan has been forced to take tough measures. soldiers from his pakistan 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 injured. 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, whose becca stand flew to the capital of the region while the president promised to preserve the norms of kara kal paxton no right to secede from the country in the constitution. right now, the situation in the republic is returning to normal. kara cow faxed, an as a sovereign republic, within his pakistan. it occupies about 40 percent of the entire territory of the country. about 2000000 citizens live here is max care, cal packs,

russians. they live in peace and harmony, and we hope that everything will be fine soon. or i, let's move on to the news that shaped the week. the you and human rights office is calling for an independent investigation into the recent killing of at least 23 african migrants by moroccan security forces. the deadly incident took place when around. 2000 people stormed the border of a spanish enclave in northern morocco, wanting the following. footages graphic ah side from those killed, hundreds were also wounded, including a $140.00 border guards. the un say's moroccan authorities used buttons and stones to repel the migrants as they tried to skill offense to enter. what is e u territory rights activist? claim police deliberately refrain from helping the injured the incident. leaders for our protests in the spanish capital human rights watch seized. the skirmishes

show the contrast thing, other truths towards migrants from different continents. on the other side, akira ukrainian refugees are rightly welcomed with open arms. but here and elsewhere along europe, sport us, we see a total disregard for blacklight large scale attempts to climb over the fences around malea, post security concerns, but in no way justify the violence. we have seen 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 would involve europe or latin america. however, when it comes to migrants from africa, the coverage can be almost non existent, 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 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 men 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 until it's time what we are 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 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 west that continues to metal in their home countries slash the prices of the pumps. thus, the clear message to american petrol station owners from president biden,

who said they need to step up at a time of global emergency caused by the ukraine conflict. but that runs country to a recent joint letter by the fuel industry, which said that the current crisis has roots going back years of a lot of it is done to u. s. government policy. 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. many u. s. refineries, which supply gas stations are working at almost full capacity. the industry house faced serious difficulty since march after in ports of russian oil were bomb

measures taken by the president, including the release of order reserves on a plea to congress, to temporarily suspend gasoline taxes, haven't improved the situation to any significant level. nevertheless, joe biden slide not to al saudi arabia to increase its oil production during his visit their leader this month, commenting on the issue. he instead reiterated he's putting the blame for the record prices, as well as for the global food crisis, squarely in 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. will labor rights lawyer duncanville believes the u. s. economic crisis has been some time in the making and has been worse. and by sanctions targeting russia,

inflation was rising even before the special operation in ukraine. and to the extent inflation has gotten worse since then, 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 fault, it's russia's fault, but the people aren't buying it because you look at the polls. the polls show the biden's approval ratings are historic lows and they continued you decline right now . some days ago, nato issued its new 2022 strategic concept on labeled russia the quote most

significant on direct threat a block. however, not everyone within the nato alliance seems on board with both that and other key front and center policies with more. here. shortage charlotte dubin ski. 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 tried 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 the 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 damaged? death destruction at the scale, which is much not worse than what you see in your crane to they yours over a corresponds a bit 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 not 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 that won't be ready until 2023. that is 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 seemingly 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 anxious 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, our 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 mc corners, hammer down the doctrine that you are past 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 backroom deals made it look more like the alliance is akin to a protection racket with some countries extorting others left right and centre. when earlier vladimir putin said he wasn't surprised by nato's quote, ante russian policies on the alliance continues to stick with its cold war rhetoric

. so store on you students still 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 interest. nato is a rude amount of the past era. the ear of the cold war, we have been repeatedly told that nato has 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, there now doing it. there's nothing new here. in the meanwhile, a local mirror in finland has suggested having a nato bass in his city, located near the border with russia. lapin. ranta is just some 60 kilometers away from the russian city of v. bourg and half that distance to the frontier. itself, moscow as warranted will take retaliatory stamps of military technical nature if such bases appear in finland and sweetness, both nordic nations recently applied for nato membership. the finish foreign

minister, however stated there is no needs to place the blocks forces on finished territory. in contrast to the local moors, recent proposal. 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. well, political analysts and culminated alexander poverty believes nato is attempting to escalate attentions between europe and russia. you know, i would say this is a deliberate of provocation that was probably ordered from somewhere outside of the spanish government. it's all about raising tensions in europe about manufacturing a non exist rush in existence of danger and threat. and, you know, if they want russia to respond so that they can say, ok, see, we told you about dangerous and threatening and mean russians are. so, you know,

i think that's the game that's being played right now. this never should have happened. natal really shouldn't be existing. it should have been disbanded, want to worship when the warsaw pact was all the problems we have today in europe are because natal still exists and nobody can say why we needed natal after to berlin. wall fell, you know, but obviously now it's, it's clear that the military industrial complex in the was needed made and no one else. but, you know, it's imperiling peace in the whole european and even your, your asian land mess. all right, i was, we enter a new week. do keep right in the know by taking a look at our website all the days. big developments on plenty of informed analysis on opinion. always just a click away

r t dot call bye for now. for a, with a ton welcome to oil to part for the last 3 decades since the collapse of the soviet union. russia has been floundering through an identity crisis. i'm sure about what it is an insecure about what it wants to be. do you believe configuration with the west proved short sleeved on the brother on the reciprocated,

while the relationship with the rest of the world was more talked about than attended to. and then came the military operation in your crane. that changed absolutely everything. what does it leave russia in the search for its own identity and relations with others? to discuss that i'm now joined by federal kiana research director of the vall died discussion club. so there is great to see you in the studio again. thank you very much for coming over. thank you for reminding me. now in psychology, the 4th decade of life is usually associated with a mid life or an identity crisis, which could be quite critical is make, if the manifesting problems are not attended to in time or if they are allowed to accumulate. and i wonder if we can also apply that metaphor to russia, which now finds itself in pretty unprecedented circumstances, both externally and internally. yes. but the question is whether this identity