ah, ah, with ukrainian forces launch a rocket attack on a military base near little guns just one day after a deadly attack near have stone left, 7 people dead. kiev releases a convicted commander the far right battalion who was found guilty of murdering and faltering people in the dumbass. that's as part of an amnesty for criminals with combat experience. with the euro flies to parity with the us dollar for the 1st time in 20 years. with some european politicians now saying the sanctions imposed on russia are a mistake. and feline because president confirms he's stepping down amid widespread

riots over the nation's economic turmoil. we visit the residence of the prime minister, which has been occupied by protesters with moscow to the world. this is our t. i'm peter scott. bring you the top stories early this wednesday morning. welcome to the program. we start off this always from the latest news from the dumbass. the ukrainian army has a types of military base close to look ganske with there is some image is captured by eye witnesses. several ukrainian ballistic rockets were reportedly downed by air defense systems in the area. the local authorities say some rockets still managed to reach their targets so far no casualties have been reported. nice comes just one day after the talk by the ukranian army on the city of nova healthcare in the russian controlled region of

san least 7 civilians were killed in 18 more injured in. that's incidence. now this footage shows the aftermath of the deadly attack. local authorities claim the u. s . delivered high mas multiple bucket launches will used, striking a fertilizer warehouse. ukraine and officials say it was the russian modesto, who, meanwhile, and authority as criminal, has been released by the ukrainian government as part of an amnesty for convicts with combat. experience russell and honest shanker, who was found guilty of murder. unfortunately, the charges that the infamous far right. tornado battalion between 20142015 back in february, ukrainian president followed him in the lensky approved the release of convicted criminals. if they were willing to join the fights on the front line, our teeth rod garcia has that story. pasano he sanker was viewed as something of a monstrous figure even inside ukraine when he created the tornado. who volunteer

battalion at the moment of its creation, a quarter of the personnel, the fight of the joined up but convicts and mostly made up of fighters from the shock georgia voluntary battalion which was itself disbanded shortly after its creation because of the various atrocities that they committed such as tortures such as murder and such as using human shields. they, for example, their headquarters. we're located in a school and they set up a camera and the basement which they used to record tortures and mud as of separatists as well as civilians. wealthy civilians who they kidnapped in order to in order to extract from their families from their businesses vast amounts of money . there was rape a lot of rape gang rapes as well as rapes involving miners. in one instance, quotes heard about a 10 year old girl that was kidnapped and raped over

a period of many days by members of tornado fighters from the unit until that girl's death. i've actually, the organization received such infamy that they would disbanded by a government decree. a number of members refused to surrender to the government forces to special forces sent to apprehend them. and it was a protracted siege, the least of their atrocities and crimes spanned ac tunes. which were hud at ukrainian courts after tornado itself was disbanded and only shanker was arrested. there were more than a 100 witnesses as well as victims that reported things that quite frankly shocked ukrainian society. previously, a number of his associates had been released from prison in the opening a days of the conflict between russia and ukraine. but the senior leadership, those believed to be behind the mojitos crimes. they were locked up until until now

. and it is believed that the a decree, the order to release them must have been approved by the president himself or someone very close to him, a high up in the government. because hey, again, because of the shock waves that tony shanker and what he did, said through ukrainian society, back in 2015 was convicted for rights. radicals are released from prison by keith to fight against russian forces. washington blames moscow for spreading disinformation about neo nazis in the ukrainian military. the us state department has dismissed russia's narrative about near nazism in ukraine as anti semitic was because of prisons events, his jewish roots. when critics point out that ukraine's president villa dimmer zalinski, who on the 2019 election in ukraine with 73 percent of the votes, is jewish himself with family members who were killed by nazis. the kremlin disseminates false narratives, attempting to deal jeremiah,

his jewishness the kremlin falsely claims the worst nazis were actually jews, and seeks to down play the role of anti semitism in nazi ideology. and many of the accusations by western states failed to mention ukrainian, neo nazi battalion such as as of an ida or recent speech by present zalinski to the greek government given while besides 2 as of fights has received huge backlash from greeks. volume is zalinski also compared the conflicts in ukraine with a holocaust while addressing these railey parliaments. though, even before the conflict began, both you and i'm western media condemned ukrainian, neo nazis for violating human rights. earlier we got to take of some investigative journalists working in the dorm bus. 60 new and as is, but i use it in ukraine so, so pretend that they do not exist. and then they are not a threat for me is just completely amazing. and they are really dangerous, they are the more ideologically phonetic and ukraine, the,

these battalions were the 1st to shoot against civilians, ended on boss in 2014, when the war begun. zelinski had, during years ago. and since now, people in his government who are openly neo nazis, i mean did me throw your rush. we knew nazi the founder or one of these new analogies battalions ease. now an advisor to the head of staff of the, of the ukranian army judges in skis or is, are of you origin which doesn't change the fact that e as in is government people who are opening new nazis. and for him it's not a problem. especially in 2014, when this 1st started on the fact there was driving down the street and we were literally behind the lines for over a year. now seas and nazis, i'm not even sure if you can call some of them deal because of their actual

background from the early spring in 2014 late winter, 2014. they were murdering people across the us. and this should never stop the murder, the rate watcher. it's been a stable as long as they've been around in war who they are in of the news. the u. s. president. earlier hosted his mexican counterparts in the white house. the leaders remained courteous, not despite the host attentions between the 2 countries and in the line, the necessity for further corporation on critical issues such as migration. mexico also agreed to continue helping his know the neighbor with energy supplies us amid the ongoing us fuel crisis. we're waiting for the prices to go down and we have decided that it was necessary for us to allow americans who live close to the border to go and get their gasoline on the mexican side at lower prices over. there

are still a plethora of issues that remain unresolved. for example, just last month, the mexican president snubbed the summit of the americas forum organized by washington. the also recently said the western policy ascending weapons to ukraine has failed and suggested the conflicts could have been avoided. how easy it is to say here, i'll send you this much money for weapons. i provide the weapons and you provide the dead. it is immoral, couldn't the war in ukraine have been avoided? of course it could. the policy failed and look at the damage. it causes the loss of human lives. the issue of ukraine is very prescient in the mind of the united states and mexico. i am low called the involvement and the sanctioning of the, of the west a, a cross error. so it's, it's not just a matter of, of him disagreeing. it's a matter of and looking at it as an error. this is also push and low closer to his latin american cohorts as we have been seeing. what then about the american content

itself recently, am low, decided to not attend the bite and democracy summit of the americas held in los angeles. and he decided this because of the exclusion of venezuela, nicaragua, and cuba. because the united states does not consider them democracies, but rather ad autocratic governments. this is why he decided not to attend enough with their champion summit of the americas, if not all countries of the american continent are taking part is very hypocritical of the united states. because meanwhile, they're trying to talk to venezuela to get some oil because of the situation going on with the sanctions against russia. they refused to recognize nicholas my daughter as a legitimate president. lopez over a door is taking a stance and pretty much showing us that he is standing with latin america and he's trying to get closer to those relationships and build upon them as well. no. one of the big issues, the stumbling blocks between the countries is always immigration. when such

meetings happen, how is that issue? developing mexico has been telling the united states to provide temporary visas. and the reason that there's so much, so many of them stay here illegally is because once they go into the united states, they can't leave mexico to for mexico or will be unable to return to make that money. so this has been something that has been talked about since a bush administration in terms of that. and of course, recently we've seen the just the unfortunate advance in san antonio, texas with the death of migrants that were found in this truck in this trailer. and the vast majority of them were from mexico. so there's going to be that, that, that focus on curbing this, the u. s. is increasing mexico, violating human rights. why? so the united states is, is accusing mexico of, of being at fault for the death of journalists of not tending enough to the drug problem. but imo, has particularly particularly denied. that's pretty much saying that he does not

believe that he is at fault and pointing out the hypocrisy of the fact that the united states is the one persecuting a journalist trying to extradite julian assange and giving him a whole life sentence. sheila, yeah, if he's brought to the us and given the maximum sentence of life in prison, a campaign should be launched to dismantle the statue of liberty in new york that was gifted by the french because it will no longer be a symbol of freedom. essentially, trying to its or international jurisdiction over the free press. ah, the euro has reached parity with us dollar for the 1st time in 20 years. this comes as some european politicians label the sanctions imposed on russia as a mistake or in a constant house so far been hits hotter than moscow also contributed. rachel marson explains the leader, frances largest opposition party in parliament mowing. the pen of the national rally party is sounding the alarm about the european union's anti russian sanctions . being more damaging to france than to russia and calling to sanctions. the root

cause of inflation is some show. i think that mo, you sanctions against russia turned out to be completely ineffective. it is, in fact, sanctions have enriched russia, in particular, the french have been sanctioned more than the russians. so i think it's a big mistake that selzer of austria is getting the same bad vibes. it's of at the muslim. if we continue like this, now, there are only 2 options for you afterwards. whoops. alcohol, or psycho tropic drugs that i said start alcohol was basically okay. but why simply take these officials word for it. if anyone needs quantifiable proof that the you has weekend, it's on economy through sanctions. the euro is now almost exactly at parity with the u. s. dollar for the 1st time in 20 years. the use currency started plummeting against the greenback around the time. it went nuts and started handing out anti russian sanctions like halloween candy. and it's now down 12 percent since the beginning of this year. that's great news for americans,

maybe who want to come hang out here in europe this summer, but it's also good for rich americans or corporations interested in buying up european interests. it's some kind of fire sale prices. meanwhile, the russian rouble reached its highest value in 7 years last month and the big loser and all this wells, europe, to the competitive benefit of the u. s. on the global playing field. moscow has pivoted to the global self. but where is europe going to pivot? now, except right into uncle sam's arms, the you had every opportunity to adopt a policy towards the ukraine conflict that didn't involve harming primarily its own interests. instead, it's forging ahead and re quarterly preparing a 7th round of anti russian sanctions pushed by nordic and baltic countries. you sanctions are working so well well against you countries that french economy minister bully nolan air is talking about cutting the power supply to some french

companies or what he calls load, shedding plans that slow down or stop the company's energy consumption. 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, the financial times in neighboring britain has already evoked the u. k. national grid, dis, emergency plans of cutting yas to the e. u in the event of a u. k shortage, which would make matters even worse. and when you know it, the u. k is already preparing for that worst case energy scenario with talk of energy bills. they could climb to $3300.00 british pounds per year. and already the purchasing power of u. k. citizens has taken a big hit, the energy market consultancy cornwall insight attributes, the dyer forecast to an energy market that has become increasingly more volatile

amid uncertainty over the gas that russia sends to europe. sales volumes are falling to a rate not seen since the depths of the pandemic as inflation continues to bite and households cut back spending discretionary purchases were hit hard, especially white goods and homeware, while consumers also traded down to cheaper brands in food and non food alike. yeah, in other words, uncertainty caused by sanctions that the you imposed on itself and it's very on citizens shall anchors parliaments will elect a new president next week and not follows the storming of leaders, residences by processes, emitter severe financial crisis. in the south, asian nation, demonstrated continued to occupy the residences, accusing the government of being responsible for months of acute shortages of food, fuel, and medicine. the processes say they will remain at the prophecies until the leaders resign is a closer look at the chaotic events ripping the country. i'm here at the private

residence of the prime minister on every commerce eager along with this particular residence and residence, which is almost next door which belong to the younger brother of 1st, ivan historic recover cigna. they were both set on fire and allegedly looted by the people, a group of people who were keeping the property on the 9th of july that his last saturday night after the massive rally demands to rally that was conducted and creating a beep of force. so to get rid of the government at the same time, the president gustavo de boxer, and the next in line was to ask the prime minister also to step down from his fort for you as the prime minister. because the able alleging at the prime minister came into prover not to feel to the part of the people, but as a safe guardian to the current government, which is led by that i de boxes. so i'm walking into the private residents and the

entire the residents, the entire property easing ashes. at the moment, it was told yesterday by the prime minister unremitting that he was planning to donate most of his library, which had more than 2500 valuable books to some of the libraries at the same time. but to some of the schools are nearby, and at the same time, some of the donations were targeted and some of the donation to work. he was planning to give it to his own alma mater for college columbia, which is almost a couple of blocks of it. so this is where most of the damage had taken place at the same time, the teacher media. and the idea that walking at the moment, which leads to his ordinary personal library are all in ashes. but through some of the person of friends and some of the members of the security personnel,

some of the books that were there in the library had been rescued by them. but most of them have been burned down. and even at the moment they looks, it is not working in the plumbing system, have been damage and nothing can be basically taken. taking out of this entire property, the entire house, entire residence, the private residence of the prime minister on recommit cigna are in ashes at the moment. this is my private precedence and this is our family home. this house is about 10400 years old. actually, this house was built by ha, now we do our dinner and a and would you rather know from my mother's side, and i have 4 generations now with

a 5th generation. vasa has lived here. so i was very sad to see this house in the state, or when i arrived on the, on the morning at about 7 o'clock or into houses vandalized and looted. and then the damage wasn't done. and it's a great loss. only thing is because we had a lot of historical documents and some, and also historical artifacts. and paintings which belong belonged to the colonial eda. as you see there was mashed up and and most of the some of the story goes okay with artifacts all gone. now, it's not the money i'm concerned about. it's actually

a sentimental values and the historical real belongings, which would have gone into another generation. i am sad about this and i'm sad about people who broke this kind of violence. this is not, not what you should do if you need a change. so when you walk through, you can see how the level of the damage that it had been created. the as a result of the action and some of the, a group of people who were jump in to the property from the parapet valve. and the problem is actually this had happened there during a time when it was manned, and it was safe, guarded by some of the members of this yolanda our force and they were here. and this all the created, this all were done during such a time. so still,

investigations are being carried out who carried out these and who were the main, the parties responsible for the devastation that had been already created here. this all comes as for luncheon faces of major cannot make crisis. most of the countries external debt is owed to western countries. over the last 50 years, the international monetary fund has given the faith 16 loans and shall anchor has gone through a host of so called economic stabilization programs through the i m f. although of the 2018 economic wrote a kind of like forum, sherland as prime minister said the government plan to make sure lanka, a rich country by 2025. it's no secret that asia as the economic engine of the future. and in our endeavors to make sri lanka in rich countries by 2025, we aimed to include asia even more and leverage strategic access to emerging markets ranging from india, pakistan, china, japan,

and south korea to association of southeast asian nations. was to lancaster, former ambassador to russia, says the u. s. is wrong to buy moscow for the crisis. the gun is not said does sir, course now, america and his western colleagues, blame russia for every little thing and even the situation with the grain. what is the connection between grain and the crisis introlatta cat? we do not buy grain and have nothing to do with it. the west also has its interest in sri lanka as a geopolitical object. this is an important future object history. the reports that america and western colleagues are interested in, they can be used to control in their, the indian ocean and nearby countries. they will be able to rule the world however they want that therefore, the sri lankan crisis benefits them. they will pretend to help isolate, but this won't be the reality of letters. the european union has approved a new batch of age for ukraine on tuesday,

with the total amount of the blocks financial assistance to keith. now stunning its over 2000000000 euros. i am delighted to inform you that we have agreed on a 1000000000 euros micro financial assistant to corinne, which the commissioner would like to provide for lou carrying before the summer break. indeed, commission has announced the exceptional macro financial assistance program after 9 a 1000000000 euros, and something which has been endorsed by european a council both in may and june. so we are currently currently following up on this work and the intent to present as i have next levels of us as soon as a possible. however, western humanitarian aid ukraine does not always reach its goals. cases of the legal sale of humanitarian aid online are becoming more frequent in the country.

local media site corruption and ineffective control over how humanitarian aid is spent. as the main reasons for this are the footage here shows searches during which offices exposed another instance of the sale of western humanitarian aid. the suspect sold food that was intended as aid for the worst effects ukrainians. as a result of such cases, ukrainian volunteers continued to collect money from ordinary citizens for the basic needs of the ukrainian army. and that's despite western multi $1000000000.00 assistance, was worth the leaders voice concerns that russia won't turn the gas tubs back on. the ukranian president has slammed all to work and called on acceptable. the decision to return to germany. the gas turbine is currently stuck in the country due to anti russian sanctions. the decision on the exception to sanctions will be perceived in moscow exclusively as a manifestation of weakness. russia has never played by the rules in the energy sector and it will not play now unless it's the strength with

a disputed. so bind is vital for the node stream one gas pipeline. it was previously sent to canada for schedule repairs with alter, refusing to return it to germany because of unseat russian sanctions. well, it's late, it's agreed to send it back to prevents a worsening energy crisis in europe. despite the fights, the key of met the move with outrage, the returning of the turbine was welcomed by the european commission on the u. s. state department cross live now to lawyer and you chew, but david fry. hi, david. welcome to the program. thanks for joining us. thank you very much. now coming to the decision to return that turbine was quite clearly, obviously welcomed by europe amid the dia situation with gas supplies. but at the same time also has decided to impose for the sanctions on the energy sector in russia. do you agree with president zelinski that moscow will see the return of this equipment as weakness? who knows everyone's going to spin it for political purposes. what's clear is that

the policy that has been enacted in the west has been punishing the west more than it's been punishing russia, the object of the sanctions. and you have boris johnson getting ousted in europe. you haven't germany. expected to experience one of the worst crises possible coming in the winter. and you have these western nations who have been imposing sanctions on russia to punish russia which have only been punishing the western nations. and of course, they're going to try to find a politically acceptable solution to backing out of those sanctions in a manner that saves face because the sanctions were avionic. and arguably the policy has been avionic in of itself. what would you suggest the alternative to sanctions would be given the current situation? well, i don't, i don't see that's the case. i don't know what the optimal solution would be. it depends on what your perception of the conflict is. whether or not it's a regional conflict. that should be escalated into international world war 3. arguable not being able to propose

a proper solution or the perfect solution does not mean that the proposed measures which have been penalizing the western world more than the russian world or actually totally ineffective. have resulted in the ouster of one european leader and maybe even another. and which might account for why germany is saying, give it back to us. we need to pull ourselves out of this, this, this whole into which we've dug ourselves under the pretext of punishing russia when the only people being punished by these measures have been the west. given the current situation with gus supplies in europe, how relevant appropriate would it be for the landscape to demand that also we reverse this decision to return that turbine. i don't know, i don't know what the actual impact of reversing this particular decision would be . but what is, seems to be abundantly clear is that the policy that has been enacted in the west to sanction russia for its illegal aggressive war. and the ukraine has not been punishing the right people. i'm not sure that i agree with sanctions in general,

having seen how they materialize themselves in real life. but what's clear that the policy is being enacted by the west have not been achieving the desired goal. so what does a typical government do when things that they've been doing don't work. they double down. what does the rational government do? they step back and reassess what the west has been doing. what european union has been doing has not been working. whether or not it's even been it's tough to even be remotely sympathetic to russia because if you get called a russian apologist whether or not it's been a conflict that the west should have been getting involved in the 1st place is arguable. but what's not arguable is what they've been doing has not been punishing russia or russia citizen. it's actually been putting, punishing germans, europeans, americans. and i think the rest of the world has probably gotten fed up with. it was certainly a multifaceted problem, david. and we could talk about it for hours, but unfortunately,

we weren't out of time. david fry heights canadian lloyd and youtube. thank you very much for joining us down the program. thank you. was the latest? well, news here on our see, mine is pizza scott's. i'll be back again at the top of the hour, but do you feel free to check out more stories on video content on our social media pages? ah, the u. s. foreign policy had joseph burrell laments the west has failed to win the battle of narratives when it comes to your great, well, that's not the only battle of narratives. the west is losing. the entire neo liberal project is being called into question. it's legitimacy quickly you wrote a.