a day i'm with russian lead force is reportedly returned fire at ukrainian army positions in the done yes. republic as cubes forces are accused of relentlessly showing residential areas also ahead. yes. another forward position where american m 777 houses were base. here you have a number of shells these a pod at judge cotton's, this all bummed by almost direct impacts or she examines abandoned ukrainian army positions on former done by the front lines as keeps forces for treat westport,

germany braces for an even more severe gas shortage as russia says, it must turn off the north supreme pipeline for maintenance. last, despite canada, finally deciding to deliver a vital turbine for the route and previously hung up because of western sanctions. and the u. s. continues its usual narrative, blaming russia for all the world's crises, including the one now in sri lanka, ignoring the fact that the south asian country was gripped by economic turmoil long before the conflict in ukraine. with kathy live director of studios in moscow. this is our 2 international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. right now we started with the latest from done by us as a russian lead forces have reportedly returned fire at the ukrainian army following relentless shelling of residential areas in the don units, republic, bike heaves, forces the these recent

videos from eye witnesses purports to show artillery barrage is being unleashed on ukrainian military positions near the city of goal of go. meanwhile, in the neighboring lugens republic, local air defense forces have reportedly shot down in incoming ukrainian ballistic missile. that as deputy prime minister of ukraine has said, the country's military will launch an offensive on southern parts of their own country in an effort to expel russian forces. she has warned civilians there to urgently flee their homes and evacuate because otherwise they could end up being used as human shields. that is, despite the similar accusations from russia, saying the ukrainian and military as actually been deploying heavy artillery to residential areas to use the civilian population as human shields. that's as ukrainian forces have also been reportedly unleashing relentless artillery barrage is on the civilian neighborhoods. and on us, at least 3 people were reportedly injured in such a tax. on sunday alone, several residential buildings were damaged in the latest bombardment, including this one completely governed by fire, arching arabic,

correspondent was another reports from the scene. you thought through ukrainian forces are once again bombarding the neighborhoods are done as city and its surroundings. with a large number of rockets and shells. several of those shells hit this apartment building. following the attack, 1st responders from the emergencies ministry weighed out for some time. knowing well that the ukrainian forces will hit the same place again as they usually do. give us pretty load over there were 19 shells. i counted, 019 of them. while i was sheltering in the basement, they kept falling every 3 minutes. apparently they kept reloading and then firing again, we got through it somehow with some others were not so lucky. the other has got hit it so hard to guess where the shells will fall and explode next. ukraine's defense minister alexi resident coff has said the country's military has been suffering heavy losses as he asks western countries to provide more weapons. he says, key of his raising a 1000000 men army to launch and offensive into southern parts of ukraine that are

allegedly de facto controlled by russia. meanwhile, russian lead forces have continued to make advances in on bass to take the remaining parts of the don units republic, which is where i got the of reports from the front line. quite when we came head isn't so quiet any more, not tillery duel between russian forces and ukrainian forces, where courts bags, but in short, the shells. with whom do i send an explosion, the other side, and then return for the good thing. where in these, these ukrainian trenches bonkers and these are bunkers, the full sense. again, so not much of applied here. ukrainian troops abandoned these their uniforms belonging scattered all over the place. but this is very far from the front line.

nevertheless, craniums from the front line. when the conflicts began, nevertheless, ukrainians have built these steel, reinforced concrete bunkers. one of the place, huge thick doors inside here is where the sled credit in teachers emblems. these stretch of the front lines from the city of san francisco bar move is arguably the most violent of the conflict. the thunder of artillery only ceases when the guns are destroyed. yet another foreign position where american em 777 houses we're based here. you have a number of shells. these are powder judge canisters all burned by almost direct impacts. you have a number of craters here. multiple rocket raja systems and project by the look of

them. but we have in direct evidence that at least one cabin was destroyed. these are the, was from the tires. you can see the burn marks here and here. and this is a, this is where the back part of the cabman as it far this is where it dug into the earth. ah, he, you have the, the trenches down by the supports and nevertheless, despite the fact that it was the assured the ukrainians somehow dow, this out of here again perhaps to prevent a russian forces and allied forces from capturing those in what would undoubtedly, undoubtedly have been a p, our victory. this is the 2nd time in the span of a week that we have found, destroyed, artillery positions where american houses were stationed everywhere are shelves and

powder charge, canisters shipped from us arsenals and abandoned by ukrainian troops. oh, but that isn't all. in one bunker, we found a fool memory cod. with a number of videos we quoted by ukranian troops and left behind to be found if something were to happen to them. good personal simple bonaparte. when i got into position the 1st time that was shooting, it was complete shock to me. so shocking that i didn't know what to do, where to hide. nobody knew anything, nobody reported to anybody. nobody said anything. the hence was so irresponsible. nobody reported anything to anyone. i only heard about the dead, the wounded from the neighbors walkie talkies. why? i don't understand that angle. there are hundreds of similar videos that have been

posted online and they're often the same. the sad story of demoralized conscripts and drafted soldiers sent without any training into a brutal fight. the fates of these men are known as are the fates of thousands. upon thousands of soldiers, conscripts and foreign mercenaries whom ukraine has written off as missing in action. and in their stead, he has thrown others into the grinder. untrained and unwilling pharmacy teaches drive was musicians. and programmers who are more and more aware that they are being used as cannon fodder. or i'd guess the ot see from the la guns people to republic berlin should prepare for a potential permanent halts of russian gas imports. that's what germany's economy minister, robert, hey back, has said, amid russia's announcement of maintenance work for the north stream pipeline. to

start on monday, a regular germans are already feeling the effects of a lumen gas t. s. of it. one of the biggest housing operators in germany is restricting heating for tenants amid surging prices. the company, lenovo is limiting heating to 17 degrees celsius as the maximum room temperature at night. that's as the tenants are likely to face even higher utility bills in the near future. the residence of a town in saxony have received a letter from their housing cooperative, limiting how long they can bathe in an effort to reduce energy costs of the company has introduced schedules for heating and hot water distribution. hot water can now be used only for 9 hours a day and for 10 hours a day on weekends. the changes affect more than 600 apartments, with residents far from supporting the radical new measures. thus, if i get their money, a man who lives here has decided to tell everyone in 600 apartments. when they can take a shower. he even cut their heating off. now we want to find out whether he himself

will make such sacrifices. he shut the door, he doesn't want to talk. that's it of command. if you have indeed me. thank you. how have the tenants reacted to this? everybody resents this. it's simply impossible to get any response from the administration. something nice, a guy is it is not because of you know, it's illegal, right. i feel the for sure. coming suddenly he's not the one authorized to change everything like those about did you receive any prior notifications? no. they just put up the announcement on the entrance. meanwhile, ukraine's energy and foreign ministries have said that they are deeply disappointed with canada's intention to transport a gas turbine to germany necessary for the functioning of russia's nord stream pipeline. now the part had been sent to canada for repairs and was held there due to western sanctions against moscow. parties on corner has more for the west, talking tough and imposing sanctions against russia have become business as usual.

but when talking the talk demands walking the walk, we're seeing a bit of back tracking take germany is economics minister who says the north stream one pipeline that supplies europe with russian gas is a must not only for berlin, but for the whole continence energy market. we need capacities in north stream one to fill up our storage filled storage capacities in germany are not only important for the german market, but also for the european market and the security of supply in europe. a real 180 degree turn from what he said on the eve of russia's military operation and ukraine and doug boss. germany can meet its energy needs without russian gas, should energy prices skyrocket. consumers would receive assistance. the change of heart came as germany caught some serious, friendly fire from canadian sanctions. last month, russia's state energy company gas prom was forced to reduce the flow of gas along north stream, one by 40 percent. why? several turbines essential for the pipelines, proper functioning, were under repair in montreal,

and were blocked from being returned on time because of sanctions imposed by ottawa . so after a bit of begging from berlin to avoid making germany's energy crisis any worse, canada sidestepped its own sanction. something kiev was apparently crossing its fingers would not happen. if god forbid this decision is approved, we will undoubtedly appeal to our european colleagues that their approach must be reassessed. because if countries do not follow decisions they have agreed on about sanctions. how can we talk about solidarity, of course berlin would rather not insult its ukrainian proxies. so the german chancellor has been accusing russia of using gas as a political tool, instead of you know, admitting that the west is shooting itself in the foot with its own sanctions. to day we have to admit, russia uses energy as a weapon. no one actually believes that russia is reducing its gas supplies for technical reasons alone. for its part, moscow is reminding everyone that it has never failed to carry out its energy

obligations. we completely reject any hints or direct statements that the russian side is using gas or oil as a weapon of political pressure. there is a certain routine with gas pipelines and such work is carried out every year. russia has consistently fulfilling all its obligations in a still able to guarantee the complete energy security of europe, sidestepping sanctions, making up stories to avoid looking hypocritical. it might just be easier for everyone if europe stops trying to play hardball with the very country that's long provided most of its energy needs. as far as energy wars, or, or blackmail tactics. yes. the west has clearly dean playing this game a without question. russia did not impose any sanctions on on any country and did not refuse any exports. in fact, it still export and gas and the turbine that canada will be returning to germany is going after all to the next 3 me, one pipeline. germany's

a business leadership associations have urged the german government to take action. gas is not so important now, which is summer time that's in october and the german industry fee is a complete collapse if the gas supplies are not restored. and we have a situation where western governments are saying wanting to show off pro ukraine. they are on the other hand that the business and the economic leaders are want guarantees that the russian gas will keep flowing. ukraine's foreign ministry has fired back and heavy allegations from a u. s. congresswoman victoria sparts, who suggested kills top diplomat, derailed peace negotiations and even screwed up military deliveries. he says the republican lawmaker who was actually born in ukraine has brought

a so called russian propaganda into american politics. we advise miss sparts to sub trying to earn extra political capital on baseless speculation around the topic of war in our country and the grief of koreans, especially cynical or manipulations about ukraine and its leadership from a congresswoman of the cleaning origin. ukrainian foreign ministry also accused the u. s. lawmaker of undermining mechanisms for providing us military assistance to give that's after sparts called for washington to more diligently track its weaponry. being sent to kiev were concerns that such supplies could possibly end up in the wrong hands from our died as americans, with spending a lot of money in the wrong resources. we can have another president by didn't have to have a clear strategy in the line. he has to may not, you know, line the strategy with his action. he wants an action, don't go together. and we need to be able to make sure you know that this might

have been efficiently. and also that we have ability to be kind of our tech very so across live to radio host and political commentators, steve gill, this is an interesting one. so why is ukraine so concerned about calls for the us to more diligently track, if military assistance to that country? yeah, when there's smoke, there's fire, and if they are questioning accountability for how the money that the us taxpayers are sending the crate. if they're questioning, being asked, how's the money being spent? that tells me that money is not being spent very wisely or wells. and it's interesting that turns on and starts with, with beloved by the crania and government. and she was talking heavily about the need for the u. s. to intervene to send money to send funds for both $4.00 and $8.00 and $4.00 for military a. and now suddenly what she's saying by the way, we'd like to check the receipt. see how you're spending the money then somehow she's promoting russian propaganda. it's amazing how quick they've turned on her

for simply asking some legitimate questions. so transparency, international described ukraine last year as the 2nd most cross country in europe are western countries providing weaponry to key of considering such heavy allocations of entrenched corruption. i hope they are. i mean, we've had a long history of, of ukraine and the administration there being judge, one of the most corrupted ministrations. our president trump was put under fire for a phone call with president zalesky, asking him to investigate the corruption in his own country. and now of course, even asking the question, seems somehow as provocative or promoting rushing propaganda. you know, just few weeks ago we heard from the ukrainian foreign ministry and others that they had received about $30000000000.00 in total aid from foreign countries. which was interesting because the u. s. alone has sent over 57000000000 to ukraine. so there's a gap of about $27000000.00 or more. and the u. s. and getting ready to send another

$400.00 to $500000000.00. i think it's perfectly legitimate to ask why the gap in what has been sent by the us and what ukrainians are saying babe received. that is a huge amount of money that somehow is not really being counted or and simply asking them to be accountable is barely, again, being called russian propaganda by the ukrainian i think every congress and woman in the u. s. i would be asking the same questions as i was on the parts. well, this calls back to a lot of the problems that happened in the middle east. sparts decided concerns that ukraine could become a 2nd afghan instead of washington doesn't keep better track of the weaponry of sending there. what's your opinion? well, i mean we, we can't even keep track was coded dollars that percent throughout the us as literally hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars are really darby county for domestic lease. and i don't think anybody in the, in the taxpayer range of americans think that money being sent abroad, whether it's the ukraine or anywhere else in the world is being properly accounted

for. again, not to mix countries in regions too much, but we have literally set billions of dollars in us tax money to try and rebuild stabilize $80.00. and again, they can't account for the money. it doesn't look like it's actually done anything to benefit the people of haiti. again, as we're seeing billions of dollars and continued demands for more billions of dollars to be said by us, taxpayers, ukraine. i think you're seeing kind of a war fatigue. i think you're certainly seeing a taxpayer spending by americans as we have into our mid term elections. here i think this is going to be an issue. all right, now ukraine's presidential office has been very vocal elsewhere, but hasn't come into yet about this dispute. do you think that we could expect them to respond with due diligence or just ignore these accusations? i think tell, ignore it and hope it goes away. but i think that is congresswoman spart speaks up . you're going to see other starting to speak up and ask the question of where does the money going? why is it appropriate to ask for accountability and transparency? and you know, we've seen some stories recently claiming that some high official then ukraine have

been by swiss chalet is spending huge millions of dollars on their personal properties in switzerland and other location. if we can work to attract dollars of russian overdraft art and russian business people and what assets they have in other countries. why isn't it appropriate to ask what ukranian officials are doing when again, so much money is flowing into your brain? i think it's legitimate asked where it's going when it flows out. quite right, i was interesting to hear your thoughts, radio host and political commentators. steve gill, thanks for being with us on our international ah military personnel in sri lanka have been deployed outside the prime minister's residence amid a wave of mass riots that has thousands of protesters stormed at the homes of both the premier and the president. demonstrators have continued to occupy those residences, accusing the government of mismanaging of the economy and being responsible for severe shortages of food, fuel, and medicine. in recent months,

the protesters say that they will remain at those locations until the leaders resign. the speaker of parliament has said that the president would step down on wednesday with the latest details here. local journalists do sean voss possibly this? not so certain and the bar because stability as gone. so have 5, even a couple of ministers recently appointed have tended designated. so it's going to need to be an unstable. wanted to go to division and unstable economic supervision as we speak, go on to a new resident, hopefully, the speaker taking all the beauties as the active president and leaving the be what the ball major off and all body government which would be most probably take place after the 13th of this month, so the people are going to go to see if people are roaming or i'll be a positive house and i'll be a recent residence. i'll be pride, but it's the at the same day. so much of other special government residents as are

being robbed by the british does fingers crossed for a better tomorrow. theories for lunk up, this is john voss report and view rob colombo silica the mass riots have persisted for 2 days. here's a timeline of how the leaders residences were stormed. ah ah ah ah

ah, you are a secretary of state antony blinkin has resorted to washington's usual narrative, blaming moscow for the crisis in felucca. he has said that he rushes military campaign in ukraine has caused rising food insecurity around the world, including in sri lanka, thousands of kilometers, way we're seeing the impact of this russian aggression play out everywhere. it again may have contributed to the the situations locker were concerned. about the implications that it has around the world. he dramatic events in sri lanka are a result of the combination of months of protests due to an unprecedented economic crisis that hit the south asian nation before the ukraine conflict interrupted how

the crisis has been attributed to the coven pandemic, which deprived of the island nation of vital tourist revenue, human and labor rights, lawyer dank of alex as western capitalist interests are actually to blame for sri lanka. turmoil, what happened in sri lanka is the result of western capitalism run amok. this has nothing to do with russia and everything to do with the failings of western style capitalism. but of course, no one in the west wants to admit that. so they blame russia, western style capitalism unfettered capitalism has shown itself to be a complete failure. we've seen this in the united states in terms of the pandemic where we've had the worst, the most number of cases, the most number of deaths of any country in the world. meanwhile, the super rich have gotten 4 point. $25.00 trillion dollars richer, and we're seeing this type of economic injustice throughout the world. again,

including in sri lanka, this is not inspired by russia. this is inspired by people's own demand, their own suffering. and the west has no one else but themselves to blame, but of course, so they go and blame russia. us president joe biden, who previously lashed out against saudi arabia over claims of human rights abuses, is now going there, reportedly to push for more oil production. he defended the trip to take place later this week with a sprawling up in the washington post. we have to counter rushes, aggression, put ourselves in the best possible position throughout, compete china, and work for greater stability in a consequential region of the world. to do these things, we have to engage directly with countries that can impact those outcomes. biden goes on to praise rianne as washington's quote, a strategic partner for 80 years saying the oil rich middle eastern powers energy sources are vital at a time of soaring fuel prices. biden's trip to the region starting on wednesday.

we'll also include a visit to us ally, israel and the disputed west bank. biden has been badgering, gulf states, particularly saudi arabia, to increase the oil production to offset the u. s. embargo on russian supplies of the commodity. following a barrage of requests, narrow oil exporters have finally agreed to boost their exports. biden had earlier said he would, ostracize saudi arabia over human rights concerns during his election campaign in 2019, we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are. a former senior advisor to saudi arabia's energy ministers says western countries have been trying to shift their own responsibility for the crisis onto oil exporting countries. everybody is looking at the energy ex . exporting can it is as their candidate to blame and their name that blame game with. so there are always exports because this is not true. the problem is

the sanction economic center, including our intention. again, if russia from the european union being pushed and motivated the united states of america, so they caused the problem and they need to find that problem. and instead of being only an export when the new so. so i think, i think there is some kind of there, but it said that addiction and the policies of that was when the war and you're creating a start that they don't know what to do, they are into it. then i think that this is the only solution to i stack could i shot to impose additional sanction which is fighting back now you see the european union is bragging down to be and say should

that does it for me? i will be back in just over 32 minutes for another form for selection and say with us our international ah to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is on often has very dramatic development only personally and going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk. on february the 24th 2022. russian launched a special military operation in ukraine. the campaigns 1st major battle wasn't

operation to bring the city of murray. you pulled back under the control of pro russian. don bass with good, with

almost 3 months now, alexander had a cough skis, unit made up of volunteers from dun ask, has been fighting on the mario the front. or can you profit from previous conspiracy? i said, you're going to assume russia at the foot. you as they start to hear that i see people extend cable of postal room, you might get to that. but you sort of a little bit because you'll ah .