a with a ryland makes fresh accusations against moscow amid a fuel crisis caused by the backlash of western sanction. that's after russia temporarily shut down a key gas supply route to germany for scheduled maintenance. also this hour yet another forward position were. busy american and 777 houses. well based here you have a number of shells. these are how to judge. this is whole blood by almost direct impacts. we investigate hastily, abandon ukrainian army position, where u. s. made heavy weapons were apparently used to shalt on boss with us tries to pin the blame for the crisis insur longer on russia. as the south asian country

president confirmed team stepping down and widespread riots over the country's economic turmoil plus activists and friends cry foul over what they call double standards and the treatment of refugees from ukraine compared to those from other countries. we've all seen the ukrainians go through difficult times, but africa has also been going through the same thing from decades. why do they deserve to be better accommodated than other refugees? free from war and misery. we see many women and children from france has left behind on the streets today with 4 pm here in the russian capital. and you're watching our international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. but 1st, it will now be easier for residents of ukraine and the don boss people's republics, to get russian passports that's after vladimir putin and

a new decree to speed up the procedure. so how we're going to get more on that now from our correspondent eager dawn of high. they're eager. so what's behind this move? well, hey dawn. absolutely. now any person living anywhere in ukraine, if they have a ukranian passport? well, they could obtain a russian one easy and this geographical nuance that now the, this supplies to the entirety of ukraine is what is important about the store. because initially this measure, the streamlined procedure, these citizenship privileges, if i may say. so the only applied to those who to the residence of the dynette, scammed lou ganske republics. now then they were of course, breakaway regions of ukraine than they proclaimed their independence and were recognized by russia. then ukraine, southern regions joined this v i p club. if i may say so under, well, now, these regions are largely under the control of the russian forces. so now it has been expanded to include again, the whole country. now,

it could be speculated that this may be a hint of russia's intentions of its military special operation in ukraine. but so far, russia has not given any concrete claims, has not made any concrete claims to rhetorical wise apart from, of course, well liberating as they say, the de nets, angel guns people's republics territories. that's ortiz acres. donna, thanks for bringing us. those updates. there are fresh worries in the european union after russia halted the flow of gas through a key pipeline to germany called north stream one for 10 days. due to scheduled maintenance. germany's vice chancellor says european countries need to agree to tighten their belts in an attempt to get through expected shortages. germany is aware that the gas must be redistributed. we can only deal with a critical situation if we are in solidarity. we will continue to work on concrete

steps of co operation. however, the pipelines maintenance was agreed by all sides and advance and will last until the 21st of july. north stream one flows directly from russia to germany through the baltic sea and has been crucial for berlin last month through russia reduced the pipelines load by 40 percent after saying that some key hardware needed for the gas root. it's being held up by western sanctions. the pipeline accounts for around half of germany's gas in ports. now to get more on this, we're going to go live to our correspondent in paris, rachel marston. hi there, rachel. so what do we know about it for now? well nor streamline shuts down today for 10 days of maintenance. and ukraine is slamming canada's return of the repaired nord stream, one term mines to germany that will get it back into working order. he trains foreign affairs ministry, and energy ministry. call the return of the repaired parts for this vital european

energy lifeline. a dangerous precedent that violates international solidarity goes against the principle of the rule of law and will have only one consequence. it will strengthen moscow's sense of impunity. okay, so what exactly are european citizens supposed to do here in france for example, were on the cost of a massive heat wave with up to 40 degree temperatures forecasted over the next couple of weeks. france even has a statutory holiday in june every year in memory of the nearly 20000 elderly who died in care homes from a similar heat wave in the summer of 2003, but french economy minister, but no la math hardly inspires confidence that our leaders have any clue what they're doing. take, listen, let's prepare for a total cutoff of russian gas today. that is the most likely option. we have to anticipate and to put ourselves in order of battle as of now.

yeah, except that we're not ready for battle here. in europe, germany, the economy, you climate minister, robert havoc, you know, he cut down his shower time, yet again is though that's any kind of a solution for supposed develop nation to conserve energy. while german cities are playing to introduce warm up spaces this winter and the need to ration energy, you know, these things that you see in depression, era era, hollywood movies. you know, the, you is really jumped out of a plane here without a parachute. it went gung ho on sanctioning its own gas supply from russia. the proof that it went too far too fast. the fact that this plant maintenance shut down of north stream one is sparking hyperventilation by u officials who fear that russia could use it as an excuse to reduce gas delivery to europe or extend the shut down beyond the 10 days. and the italian oil and gas

company, any reports that its daily supply of gas has been cut by one 3rd. the usual volume, austria's energy company on v also reported a reduction by north stream. one operator gas from of 70 percent. when you was sanctioning russian energy, the blocks top economies just went along with it. and now with panic, as russia turns off, the top even temporarily. we're seeing that in reality that you is bitten off far more than it can chew. you know, it's kind of like the teenager who threatens to run away from his parents' home gets half way down his own street and starts panicking over his own foolish decision. rachel, thanks a lot for bringing us those updates on nordstrom one. meanwhile, residents of the town and the german state of saxony have received a letter from their housing cooperative, limiting how long they can bathe in an effort to reduce energy costs. the company has introduced a new schedule for heating and hot water distribution, which can now be used for only 9 hours a day during the week and for 10 hours

a day. on weekends, the changes affect more than 600 apartments with local residents, far from supportive of these radical measures. this is, i get your money. a man who lives here has decided to tell every one 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 his, oh, you know it's illegal, right? i know that for sure. cuz he certainly, he's not the one authorized to change. everything like this about did you receive any prior notifications? no, they just put up the announcement on the entrance. meanwhile,

a german princess says running the narrative of evil russians is quote, hypocrisy. because germany has been trying to stop using russian gas intentionally . you haven't been lost, we decided that we didn't want to buy anything else from the russians. it was our decision claiming that evil russians don't sell us anything is just hypocrisy. because we have been explaining to people for weeks that we can't get anything from them. because you cannot buy from criminals. but the funny thing is we have very willing to do business with other countries that use criminal methods in the same way off. and in another news, there's outrage in ukraine after canada approved the transfer of an essential turbine to fix a russian pipeline. despite western sanctions. the move came at the request of germany, which needs the pipeline repaired quickly. earlier i took a closer look at the background of that story. 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 sanctions. something key of 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 das 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. 1 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 you're up stop 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 tactic, 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 had still export and gas and the turbine that canada will be returning to germany is going after all,

to the north stream. 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. the german industry fee is a complete collapse if the gas supplies are not to restart. and we have a situation where the western governments are saying wanting to show off how 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 closed mass protests in albania, over social and economic issues have hit the capital city of toronto. demonstrations broke out amid rising fuel and food prices as well. as allegations of government corruption are demanding the resignation of the country's leadership after inflation reached double digits and fuel prices rose by 30 percent

o relock, as president has informed the government that he will resign. on the 13th of july, dates after protesters stormed the homes of both the premier and the president protest, her swam in the pool light and the beds and crowded the corridors of the leaders holmes demonstrators have occupied, continued to occupy those residences, accusing the government of responsibility for severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine and recent months, the protest her say they will remain at those locations until the leaders resign. here's a closer look at the events surrounding the latest chaos in the country with

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division. i believe i should as we speak, go on to a new resident, hopefully, the speaker taking on the beauties as the active president and leaving the b. what the fall base it off and all parties government, which would be most probably take days off the, the 13th of this month. so the people are going to go to. 6 be below rominger albia, president's house. we've only got all the good good brings the beauty of recent residents, all be pride, but it's the at the same day. so most of the other special government residents is all being robbed by the brit. this does fingers crossed for a bit or tomorrow, hearing, screw lunk up. the speech on was reported to you from. i'm both. are you a secretary of state antony blinking is once again pointing the finger at moscow. he says that wrought the russian military campaign in ukraine has caused rising food insecurity around the world, including in sri lanka,

thousands of kilometers away. we're seeing the impact of this russian aggression play out everywhere. it again may have contributed to the, the situations we locker were concerned about the implications that it has around the world. russia has denied washington's accusations, saying that western powers constantly blame moscow for events that have nothing to do with it. the chaotic events in sri lanka are a combination of money to protest, interrupted due to an unprecedented economic crisis and emerged in the south asian country, one before the ukraine conflict erupt. it. the crisis has been attributed to the covert pandemic which deprives the island nation of vital tourists revenue, human and labor rights lawyers on colic, dan colic rather says western capitalist interests are actually to blame for 3 long term. what's 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 $4.00 trillion dollars richer, and we're seeing this type of economic injustice throughout the world again, including entree locker. 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. meanwhile, rushes defense ministry says its forces have destroyed an ammunition storage depot for us, supplied rocket launcher launchers and howitzers in southeastern ukraine. moscow

also says the russian military has destroyed a weapons warehouse which stored more than $200.00 tons of foreign made anti tank missiles systems. earlier moscow said it had destroyed almost 2000 western made rounds for howitzers and rocket launchers, inside ukraine and, and on. boss russian lead forces have reportedly taken over 2 towns in the north of the done yet republic. i made attempts to move the frontline westwards to reach major ukrainian held strongholds in the area. according to soldiers operating their retreating, ukrainian troops continue to use civilians as human shields. and in the guns, the people's republic russian lead forces are advancing after taking control over the last key towns there. as you can see on the map, russian troops are moving further to the west to reach ukrainian stronghold in the city of severs russia. defense ministry says some ukrainian units operating in the area are in a bad state after taking heavy losses. are 2 more,

i guess the reports from the front line there quite. when we came here, listen so quiet anymore and artillery dual between russian forces and ukrainian forces and where courts bags, but in the here. sure. now the shell, whizzing over us and explosion, the other side and then return for a good thing. where in these, these ukrainian trenches bonkers and these are bunkers, the full sense. again, not much of a 5 year ukrainian troops abandoned. these are 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 they slip credit in teachers emblems. these stretch of the front lines from the city of shed they have asked obama 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 m 777 houses. we're based here, you have a number of shells. these are powdered judge, candace is all burned by almost direct impacts. you have a number of craters here, multiple rocket launch, a system and judging by the look of them. but we have in direct evidence that at least one cadden was destroyed. these are the was from the ties. 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, here you have the, the trenches down by the supports. and nevertheless, despite the fact that it was the assured the ukrainians somehow towel 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 a span of a week that we have found, destroyed, artillery positions where american houses was stationed. everywhere are shelves and powder charge, canisters shipped from us arsenals and abandoned by ukrainian troops.

but that isn't all. in one bunker, we found a fool memory cod with a number of videos recorded by ukrainian 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, said anything. the heads were 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 it and there are hundreds of similar videos that have been posted online and they are 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 unknown, 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, it has thrown others into the grinder. untrained and unwilling farmers teaches driver's musicians. and programmers who are more and more aware that they are being used as cannon fodder. or i'd guess the pharmacy from the la guns people to republic human rights groups in france have raised the alarm over refugees allegedly being mistreated there if they're not from ukraine, that some had claims that migrants from war tor nations in the middle east and north africa being turned away from french shelters, despite plenty of space for them. in the 1st reception center between $3500.00

places are left vacant each night. the state which has already been asked about this categorically refuses to accommodate vulnerable people from other countries. however, at the same time, several 100 people are sleeping rough. hundreds of protestors took to the streets of paris over the weekend to speak out against the legit double standards and francis treatment of refugees saying that middle eastern and african asylum seekers should be given the same decent treatment as those from ukraine. we heard from some of those demonstrators, one of them requested an anonymity to speak freely about their cause. because this is he did not tell you that ukrainians have been welcomed very quickly and with a right to be protected since the very beginning of the war. that's not the case for other refugees who are also victims of the war and abuses in their home countries. there are shelters with vacant places, while refugees are on the streets, especially afghans were mistreated by the police in public parks. these are double

standards, it looks like racism on a state level whose i want to see. we have all seen the ukraine is go through difficult times, but africa has also been going through the same thing from decades. i want to just the head of state and manila mc crohn to tell him to take a look at the africans to take a look at these children who have the same values, they are equal to the ukrainians. you think mr. mc wrong please? our children are suffering, i don't think the ukrainians are better than africans and vice versa. we are all equal. won't please mister mclaren. we need housing men to give a future to these children. she level took the on him. we've managed to walk him the ukrainians for a while and at a tremendous speed. i'm very happy that they've been welcomed with good manners, but why do they deserve to be better accommodated than other refugees framed from war and misery? we see many women and children whom france has left behind on the streets today. meanwhile, a new pole in the u. k. has shown that despite waning public support for key of britons would still rather welcome refugees from ukraine over those fleeing

conflicts. in afghanistan, syria and somalia, a former nigerian presidential hopeful, told us that europeans should stop treating african countries as 2nd class states. it is just really very, very clear, the worst and not the we have in your recently you've seen how it is when data for g is form. ukraine are coming over into france, and there's sort of the french and send it to say that blood people that are in did it for g, comes in the should fucking for the white with them citizens of general to come on. why doesn't look, if you see very clear the one the one to stand if you, nor did you feel, why do you have to work with friends? who are the most of you have to do with the problems of the field in the home country as a result of french action. if you found something you want to want to do is on colonialism free africa, you can let alpha go to get one to define the foreign policy, which

a lot of it goes to me. i want to find out what route women and what is the issue there shouldn't. you didn't have to ask you call them one of the global community. we have $13.00, that is part of the fight is break. can you order that is to leave the united niche on job for you? right? did i believe that you all to see these are, they are supposed to be needful? what are we africans have to begin to see until we define own futile in obviously coming new one or that day. we'll continue to be clear. just a 2nd class to class before closer to one thing that is not out on like, you know, go into another group you comes today. just in argentina, thousands of people filled the streets of the capital bun, osiris on saturday during independence day celebrations, to protest their government's failure to curb the country's economic crisis. o,

the country's minister of economy resigned last week as concerns over the negotiation of an i m. f, bailout deal worth $44000000000.00 and soaring, inflation running at over 60 percent with rising dollar, prices have hit the countries a population very hard. following the minister's resignation president alberto fernandez, called for unity and criticize the countries opposition for quote, disintegrating, the nation argentina, which has been struggling through economic crises for decades, made a $44.00 debt restructuring deal with the i m f earlier this year. and he, protestors blame the i m f for tighter economic policies. well, that's the end of our news broadcast for this our stick around with us for just about another half an hour and we'll be back with you. ah,

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to be shy the court. where did you wanna border a shell network with the questionnaire up in the pony sri media. sheila was nip, you know i for the most of them will be stupid. this is ophelia. i'm to consider a slightly goes with what was on the home. like, will you be for me like that? it doesn't come with the inquiries without us. michelle. she's streaming yet the russian speaking, se ukraine refused to accept the cruise outcome. people took to the streets of ukraine's largest cities that had been protest in hoc of odessa motto and zap our osha, mass protest broke out in the crimean autonomous republic and overwhelming majority of crimean citizens voted as a referendum to break away from ukraine. and in march 2014 crimea rejoined russia.