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excited skirts. a warning, disturbing images follow. one person is killed in the tax. also have you credit in troops prepared to defend lucy challenge for months and months everywhere with the city there. odd galaxy, fred just flood through. they take a lot of work on our tea crew explores what have been the last ukrainian strong in the loop, bounced republic on the same day, russian and allied forces secured full control of the region with the price for natural gas in europe reaches more than $1700.00 per cubic meter, top german, a fission is more than the worst yet to come. now says berlin turned to kat are seeking an alternative cheque russian gauss supplies with

i'm you know, to leave with your global use. rhonda, this our welcome to the program. we begin with some breaking news from the u. s. were 6 people have been killed and dozens more hospitalized after a mosque shooting out a 4th of july independence day parade. in a suburb of chicago. the suspected shooter is still at large. local authorities immediately counselled me events and asked people to avoid the area the morning shooting took place despite a large police presence along the parade route. we'll have more on the story later in the bulletin. ok to the latest from the conflict in don't pass where ukrainian troops are actively shelling residential areas of the near city. these are said to be the latest pictures from eye witnesses. artillery shells with a car park which sparked a huge fire oakia forces have intensified their attacks on civilian

infrastructure and done yet scan surrounding areas over the past them. on monday, shelling had a railway station on the food market. there's also report starts, an apartment block was struck in the in a separate shelling, instant one person and woman was left dead and wanting to find the following images disturbing. these are some images of the victim. the woman's car was hit by shrapnel after a shell, apparently london close by her husband was taken to hospital with injuries. will it come the sounds? the entire neighbouring lou ganske people's republic was taken under the control of russian led forces on sunday confirmed after listen chance scan. nearby areas where secured, the city had been the last major stronghold of ukrainian forces in the republic. russia's defense minister reported the development directly to prison,

fiercely bruised and support the defensive operation was successfully carried out to liberate the territory of the against people's republic. the total losses of the crating army is $5469.00. at this moment, russian forces de mining the city of less a chance and surrounding areas delivering humanitarian aid and providing medical assistance to civilians. ukrainian trips who are forced to retreat from. busy literature they left fortified positions abandoned. here you can see the footage of some of the deserted trenches. ortiz, senior correspondent, morocco ghost, the visited the city. was the battle for control of it came to an end. getting into least chance is no easy task. ukrainian forces blew every bridge to the north, south, east and west of the city. there was never much concern for civilian well being. this a chance was always looked down upon by ukrainian nationalists as an inferior pro

russian city. luncheon hannibal, i says we're out of severe hooked up ranch, another worthless ottoman rush and colonial. no one expected ukrainian forces and lisa chanced to collapse so quickly and so completely the 2 months kia promised lucy chance wouldn't be broken easily for 2 months. ukrainian troops prepared to mounted the feds. that would wolf marry you both. what is entirely apparent is the ukrainian troops prepared to defend lucy tongue for months and months everywhere, all over the city. there are galsen trenches flood 1st. they take a lot of work. every major intersection in the city is blocked off like lease with rows of vehicles. complicated from civilians as well as broken down vehicle that

you can see it. intersection and all 4 roads needing here are blocked off. something happened. something happened that forced ukrainian troops thousands upon thousands of them to leave, to flee some guns to run from what we gathered, speaking to locals. this organisation was rife, the myriad of ukrainian units were demoralized and believe that they were being abandoned at least a chance. when one unit decided to retreat, it began an avalanche. eventually no one was left. the city had that suburbs were liberated entirely in just ours. my landfill, mister jones, fear. we knew they had a great concentration of troops here and that there were many civilians. so we learned them out of the city and slowly whittled them down. they didn't have the strength, material,

or spirit to resist here. all of ukraine's military might. and you could say the army itself was in merry you, paul. they were apparently trained, apparently prepared, and apparently knew how to fight. and yet you saw how our fighters beat them here. they do not last 15 minutes in a fight. they did in mary you, paul, but they do not hear. the people have lisa chance go, overjoyed, the city is largely intact. new mary, you will hear the fighting has ended and spirits have lifted i want to showed with joy, just imagine where citizens of russia can you imagine how we lived here? not very well. i want to hold in my arms so as soldiers who are fighting has been 4 months of hell, the ukrainians behaved like in humans. thank you so much, larry,

to the liberators. glory to the russian soldier. if we had not waited for you. i dunno, we'll, we'll have happened to us. we prayed for you. thank you for coming. unfortunately, it's thought entirely over yet a tremendous amount of minds and booby traps were planted even and around the city was many ukrainian troops have got into hiding. and the now being rooted f, this is one of the barracks where you quit in tombs, the meeks of the said, there's a variety of different services involved, territory and flaws, as well as regular, as well as national through mixed up. can they leave this well squalid condition put in every room with we there's a thorough community uniform scattered about and that is a major problem because when you have easy credit and so just as they felt that they were being abandoned, they took off a uniform,

stopped them changed into civilian clothes and mixed with a local population. catching them is a matter of time. the city still being kid and more being found all the time. but the liberation have lucy chance is a turning point. lugens is now entirely free of ukrainian troops. and the ukrainian military has demonstrated it is no longer in the fighting shape. it once was more, i'd guess the of r t from the la ganske people's republic. oh, are i, let's we're turner to are breaking you story this hour, the must shooting of an independent stay parade in the u. s. which was left at least 6 people dead on dozens were hospitalized. a gunman open fire along the parade route and highland park, illinois, near chicago. the shooter is reported to be still at large. some police are now searching the area, and i witness called the moment of the shooting. uncover?

oh oh, let's speak now to ortiz, rachel blevins. rachel, hello. a day of celebration. beginning with a deadly shooting. what more is known about what occurred while the shooting is reported to have started just after 10 am local time in highland park, illinois, which is a suburb about 30 miles outside of chicago. now we saw those witness videos which were the 1st to hit social media. witnesses on the scene said that they heard about $20.00 to $25.00 shots ring out. and there were also witnesses who said that they saw the gun men on the roof of a local store shooting out into the crowd. now were still waiting for confirmation on exactly what that motive is on exactly what led to this deadly shooting. but so far it has really been those witnesses speaking out of social media sharing that

just hectic, horrific scene that rang out at their 4th of july parade, which caused it to come to an abrupt and, and also caused all of the surrounding suburbs and their grades. as well, so far we know that there are at least 7 law enforcement agencies in the area that are helping to respond to this tragic situation. can we focus on the u. s. as a whole lot because with the cost of living crisis, a lot's happened since last year's independence day. and then yeah, it really does seem like almost a different world when you look at just one year ago. and you know, when it comes to the united states, you have americans that are dealing with not only this ongoing violence, but also an increasing political divides skyrocketing inflation, which remains at 40 or highs. and you may think, what does all of that have to do with independence, davis traditional holiday solar version before the americans that decide that they want to have their basic backyard, barbie,

they are now spending 17 percent more this year than they were just one year ago. and for the americans who decided that they want to go check out their local fireworks display on some cities, those shows have now been cancelled due to staffing shortages. and of course, we can't talk about staffing shortages without mentioning the airline industry in the united states, which this weekend alone sought thousands of cancellations due to a lack of staff. so certainly a lot going on there as we continue to see more and more protests coming up across the country. yeah, average american security very frustrated about the economy on deletes as well. not happy with the leadership coming from the white house that appears. and that's right, you know it's bad when you've got everyone from big billionaires to hollywood actors actually now publicly calling out president biden. these latest comments were in response to his tweet, where he blamed a gas station companies for the current soaring gas prices. take a listen to the response there. bouche inflation is far too important

a problem for the white house to keep making statements like this. it's either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics. when you lose liberal billionaire, washington post owner jeff bezos, you have lost the ideological war. if the biden administration is out of touch with billionaires, imagine how the average american worker feels. now when it comes to your state level politicians, they really aren't doing much to help me. they're here and they're actually responding to the problems that americans are seeing now, by using it to argue back and forth when it comes to politics, which is of course, when many of them do best, here is the latest that they had to say on that. i urge all of you living in florida to join the fight or join us in california. we still believe in freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to choose, freedom from hating the freedom to love. don't let them take your freedom. so definitely

a lot of problem is that unfortunately not many solutions being introduced there. yeah. and a lot of it directed up to by the administration. how, how's joe biden responded? well, president binding continues to blame really, anyone other than himself. we've heard him spend money trying to put the blame on russia, even as polls show that americans just aren't buying that excuse. and as administration really isn't helping him here. i mean, we've got vice president comma harris, who is somehow even more unpopular than binding himself. and she's continued to be criticized for her responses to the basic problems that americans are facing, such as laughing off some of those storing gas prices and how americans are responding to them. so when it comes to this traditional holiday, there's certainly a lot of frustration volt all across the country from americans who feel like their government is focusing on really anything other than their own country ortiz, racial blevins. thank you. well, natural gas prices in europe have shut up to more than $1700.00 per cubic meter,

a rise of around 25 percent since just the end of june. that's of european countries search for alternatives to russian gas. top german officials are warning the situation in their country could become much worse if russian gas is no longer received and there are average winter temperatures. our current reserves will be enough for only a month or 2, taking into account our obligations for gas deliveries to other european countries . we have a real emergency because of the gas shortage is entire branches of industry are in danger of permanently collapsing in the aluminum glass. the chemical sectors, such a collapse would have massive consequences for the entire economy and jobs in germany. of europe led by germany is seeking other gas suppliers to replace russian energy, including cats are. but the middle east nation is seeking a long term agreements, while the e u needs

a shorter deal to hit its pollution reduction goals. the potential contract, if side will also need a few years to come into being as infrastructure would need to be built. german delegation, led by vice chancellor robert hubbard visited guitar earlier, but no deal has been reached yet could tardy economist, dr. holly to catch any say's doha expects to be treated as an equal partner with the man it's requirements be fulfill the point of discussion or issue is regarding duration of the contract once once long, about 20 years. but this is complicated by the german government wire line. when you say, want to mission by it person by, they want the basically over the proposed period of the contract like the on, also one through lincoln did dutch benchmark guitar 120. i think

it's going to be in europe, but this is a boeing by the you. so as you can see, these each currently is searching or aiming. and the other wants to maximize the isolation over the sergeant. over this, coming to y, germany wants to limit dependents on in both and wants to maximize the state cation of energy sources to probably they would have, they would email for the benefit of both of them. if they are going to pass on a ship, it has to be a reliable source of energy supply in the war. even at the peak, when the united over the country does not apply to you got to provide. so it's stable, reliable, and germany wants to get the price. i think it's fair for these kinds of

initiatives, anger, about record fuel prices in the u. k. so the key parts of the countries motorway network almost grind to a halt after protest her stage a goes slow, large choose of traffic soon formed behind the demonstrators, a total blockage of the biggest bridge connecting and on wheels, so no traffic at all crossing for more than an hour, the protest game as the latest figures show, the average price of petrol reached the new eyeopening high of $1.00 per liter on sunday, while diesel is now almost averaging to pines, but the government still refuses the cut fuel judy to any significant level okay, no story to keep you across is becca cell authority, say 18 people have quote, died because of injury sustained during unrest in the countries. thomas province of

colored cal puts them a further 240 were wounded according to the officials last week. the central asian nation unveiled plans to curtail the autonomy of the region sparking violent protest r t 's maria for national. how's the latest for us from the respect capital, the dudley clashes in the countries north western region erupted last week, but that's only on monday that that it was back. authorities confirmed the casualties including among civilian population. the protests and protocol buxton were prompted by planned constitutional amendments that would have stripped the republic that by the way, occupies wrong one 3rd of the countries territory of its autonomy status basically, and any form of local self governance and actually take its right to secede from was pakistan, local people were not quite happy about that and they took to the streets to protest trophy after that there was back liter flew to the region that made a turnaround. promising to drop the amendments to the constitution regarding the

republic status, and early on monday, the country's parliament voted to maintain the republic 70. they protest led to violent clashes between demonstrators and police. let's take a loop now, but i have to warn you that some years may find the following. images disturbing. huh? mm. oh, oh, hold on 40. 0, it's a state of emergency has been declared throughout the whole region for a month. shortly after the clash is erupted with authorities claiming some demonstrators attempted to seize the power. it is reported now that more than $500.00 people have been detained and the countries president warrens that

a new call for separate seasonal mess ride will be firmly crushed in line with the current legislation. the european parliament has held a special session, looking into the recently full clashes between moroccan security forces and migrants on the border between a spanish enclave on morocco. the commissioner for homer 1st call for an investigation to help establish the facts you and hcr the i u. m and africans union have called for investigations. so have you in this debate tonight? i fully support these courts. the priority now is to help the wounded and established effects. the immigration policy is incomplete. we are lacking a comprehensive and european policy on migration and asylum. and that's why it's urgent to adopt the full pact on migration and asylum

with thousands of people across spain on friday, protested against the police violence. $37.00 migrants were killed last month as the attempt at the storm. the spanish anthem of india. protesters gathered in a central madrid square are seen here holding signs and banners, videos on photos of the bloody border. insulin sparked outrage among human rights groups, as well as out the united nations. will flooded shows, hundreds of migrants involved. a warning. you may find the following image is disturbing. aside from those killed, hundreds were also wounded, including a $140.00 border guards. the u. n. c's moroccan authorities, use buttons and stones to repel the migrants as they have tried to scale offense to enter. what is the use of territory rights activist? claim police deliberately refrained from helping the injured well, we spoke to a global policy specialist with a focus on the socio economic and political development of africa,

who believes the in you desperately needs to strengthen europe's migration system. i think the situation very trust is because it's piece of the fact of a violation of human rights, of violation of human dignity and absolute disrespect to vulnerable people who are trying to escape prosecution and escape violence and escape wherever they're coming from. and trying to seek a new life. i think it's very tragic that the comments made by the spanish president and the reaction by the moroccan and spanish government regarding the situation. and i think it's very sad and tragic and people should really be disappointed. morocco seem to have evidence and pain praise a police action, this even acceptable. i don't think it's acceptable because these are, these are state for a consider respectable, global global sphere. and they should conduct and independent investigation into these actions and hold people accountable for complicit and committing such a trusting. it says massacres and it's a completely unacceptable and

a sustain. and the reputation of both countries in many european countries fear that the entry point for a country due to the ascendancy, the meaning of one person is able to enter the stay in italy. they can find their way to other countries, which is a big plus, i think this is an issue that has to be addressed. how can they ensure that they have a strong immigration system that enhances coordination between the different member states, but also ensures the human dignity of some of these migrants for clean conflict, putting environmental that's than 3 different challenges. while it's been commented at western sanctions against pressure being felt right across the world with energy costs going through the roof in the south, east african countries and was on big, angry logos took to the streets over surging fuel prices. now the nation's energy regulatory authority launched on friday the introduction of yet another price point . the 3rd such increase since the beginning of the year. it's also having a knock on effect on the price of other basic products such as rice oil sugar bread

truck for ortiz. paul, is her husband, seeing the situation for herself. this was matoney terminal port in mozambique capital city. the push ok. it's been expanding for the last 2 years because of donations from the united states and european union. but the timing could not beat more off, especially since traffic to here has declined significantly. ever since russia and ukraine faced off. or does the cereals fertilizes and feel, hadn't been coming into the country because they can't get out of russia and ukraine? weight supply chains are heavily disrupted? it puts african, a very difficult situation. as we know, food security in africa is a big issue. and africa has not yet self sufficient in terms of grain production. so being put in a position where you have to choose between people, the needs of food wise and in the global scale of what's happening is very

difficult. and so very hard question to ask of africa. what is done generally is spike the food prices on the international market. let's talk about flowers, specifically, even if your country is not sourcing directly from russia, ukraine, on the scarcity or the fears of scarcity from the canyon and russian markets have driven prices up across the board. and so you, having african countries have to deal with that. when we eat and bread, our one of the things that government subsidizes here, along with fuel, the prices of food, fuel, and fertilizers not only here, but across africa, a climbing to a quote high's. most beacons can already feel the pinch and things are only going to get worse. i would say glad. i mean the, if the government doesn't do anything, it's bad because a lot of people are starving here in mozambique. they have to change things because we are suffering a lot. they need to talk in parliament. we want to live in peace and we want to eat

because people are starving here for them yet we depend on our monthly salary, but doesn't cover half of what we need to buy it. so fuel and food are things we struggle with in our country and the people from western countries and money, but it doesn't cover even 50 percent of the countries needs. so it's not fair. the west isn't suffering from this. we are a detector in mozambique. i'm worried about my son and what the future will be like . everything is bad here at the prices are getting higher, but how are we going to stop it? i'm worried for the future in the middle law. mozambique has never grown enough crops to feed herself. there is no capital investment from government, no commercial farming, and no phone investment because of the political instability. the barren fields show that local supplies have been used up. add to that the drought at the last 2 years, and the result is starvation, hunger, and malnutrition. mostly because amongst the 10 poorest countries in africa, situated on the south eastern coast of africa,

it's often ignored by the world. but the crisis here is very real and growing by the day policy r, r t, the pu to mozambique. well, political and economics analysts wilker diet says it's not only ukraine who's in dire need of help. just fully and crazy and was m b. s one big impact in other areas. how do or is so if you see on not on you for the food there it is, but you see under stress or carry, i know that i have a defector resulting with this increase safety situation quinn junior. we don't have any plane b to survive for next month, so we need to one solution for this moment to, to put, stop in and use conflict, but equal in dual right. now at this moment, after all i on the ukraine and for good to problems here enough. so we need to,

to make a focus not only on ukraine, but here in africa also. so we need to know some organizations no day after you got need help. ok to the u. s. where the pentagon, i said it won't elaborate on ukraine's losses in russia's military offensive because it doesn't want to do moscow's job. we're simply not going to do rushes, big data analytics or intel work for them. however, i think we have discussed what we can when it is knowable, demonstrable and objective. yet that statement raised a few eyebrows in moscow. seeing us the russian defense ministry house being disclosing the number of ukrainian losses since the beginning of the conflict. such a limited casualty coverage from washington is also leading to a split among american law makers. with some questioning whether u. s. officials betrayed the crisis in 2 kind of terms. it comes with flashbacks, of the 20 year campaign in afghanistan,

sil reverberates around the white house as previous victorious assessments about american involvement, their fuel scrutiny of current comments. we heard from former c, i a analyst on this, john curry, aka it's always been us military policy to, to make the situation on the ground look more positive than it is. we did this throughout the war enough dentist and certainly we did this in iraq. we did it in, in vietnam famously, the neo conservatives of the republican party used to be the ones that wanted to jump into every international conflict they saw. and it was the democrats that were the, the party of peace. and in terms of the us public, a recent poll find that 44 percent of americans had an unfavorable opinion over jo biden's handling of the conflict in ukraine. additionally, a majority of respondents said that the country's military footprint should be reduced and not domestic issues. be prioritized john.