ah, when so many find themselves worlds apart? we choose to look for common ground. ah, here relief is a former commander of a neo nazi battalion, convicted for rape and torture in the dom boss. not as part of an amnesty for criminals with combats experience. the joe biden soon to begin his 1st presidential visit to the middle east. we look at how rising tensions may throw a spot in the works with israel being the 1st stop the euro slides to parity with the us dollar for the 1st time in 20 years. some european politicians now thing the sanctions imposed on russia or mistake. and she lined because president has reportedly fled the country after his decision to step down and submit

a wide spread riots over the country's economic turmoil. we visits the residence of the prime minister, which has been occupied by professors with from moscow to the world. this is all the international. i'm peter scott. these the top stories this hour. we start with some of the latest news from the don boss, ukrainian army as a target ministry based close to la ganske. the there is some image is captured by eye witnesses, local authority to say the attack was carried out with us delivered highmore, munitions. several rockets were reportedly downed by different systems in the area, but some did manage to reach the targets. so far, no casualties have been reported. now this comes just one day after attacked by the ukranian army on the city of nova care home in the russian controlled region of san

at least 7 civilians were killed in 18 more injured in the incidents. now this footage shows the aftermath of that deadly attack. local authorities claim us delivered. high mas, multiple bucket launches will use striking a fertilized warehouse. ukrainian officials, however, say it was a russian ammunition depot. in the dorm bus, the city of lucy chance is starting to see some semblance of normality following the withdrawal of ukrainian forces. units of the guns republic forces are clearing both on the streets. as rebuilding work begins with the locals, welcoming the arrival of russian forces to learn newly. shortly we're shooting even back in 2014. the ukranian soldiers told us when we leave them, we will destroy everything on our street. we shall. 10 times all of the rounds came from close by kitty. so we are deeply grateful for what you've done for liberating

lucy chance 0 as we've been waiting for this for 8 years. meanwhile, latoya's criminal has been released by the ukrainian government as part of an amnesty for convicts with combat experience. it was land on his shanker. he was behind the bars for torture and rape among the charges. lead the infamous, neo nazi tornado battalion between 20142015 or back in february ukraine. present volume is zalinski approved the release of convicted criminals. if they're willing to join the fights on the phone line, osmotic sd of pixel da story refinery. 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 only shingo and the tornado battalion, his gang, which is what they came to be known as was said to suppress separatism in the guns,

which is why they made their headquarters near the city of lucy chanced. recently liberated city of lucy chanced the 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. eventually, the organization received such infamy that they would disbanded by a government decree. a number of members refused to surrender to the government

forces the special forces sent to apprehend them. and of the 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 you and but the senior leadership, those believed to be behind the ma, heinous crimes. they were locked up until until now, and it is believed that the decree, the order to release them must have been approved by the president himself or someone very close to him. how high up in the government. because hey, again, because of the shock waves that tony chicago and what he did said through ukrainian

society back in 2015 lamented the release of convicted for rights, radicals from prison by key of to fight against russian forces. washington blames moscow for spreading disinformation about neo nazis in the ukrainian military usa department has dismissed russia's narrative about neo nazism in ukraine as a distortion of the history of the 2nd world war. president putin and his information and propaganda apparatus exploit the historical memory of the soviet fight against nazi germany to fabricate a pretext for their unprovoked, brutal war against ukraine to serve its predatory ends. the kremlin is exploiting the suffering and sacrifice of all those who lived through world war 2 and survived the holocaust accusations by some western states failed to mention ukrainian far right battalions such as as of an ida recent speech by prison zalinski to the greek parliament given while besides 2 other fighters received a huge backlash from greeks,

the ukrainian embassy there responded to saying that as a regiment had been reformed. volume is lensky also compared to the conflict in ukraine with the holocaust while addressing the israeli parliaments. though even before the conflict begun, both you and on western media condemned ukrainian, neo nazis for violating human rights. earlier, we got to take some investigative journalist working in don't bust 60 new and as is better in ukraine. 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 9 now people in his government are war are openly neo nazis. i mean,

did me throw your rush? we knew nazi the founder of one of these new analogies battalions ease, now an advisor to the head of stuff of the, of the ukranian army judges. in caesar of you origin, which doesn't change the fact that e as in these government, people who are opening new nazis and for him it's not a problem, especially in 2014. when this 1st started on the sack, there was driving down the street and we were literally behind the lines for over here. 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 is never stop the murder rate. well, sure, it's been a staple,

as long as they've been around in who they are in the news president joe biden is set to visit israel today as part of his fort dates for the mid least and is expected to focus on emerging are of israeli military partnership to combine the alleged to threats posed by iran for many question whether his visits would actually contribute to the regions security or make an already unstable situation. even worse. that of the american president's visit. israeli soldiers clashed with palestinians. dozens of protesters through stones of security forces, who in turn fired tear gas and arrested several people. the demonstrates is sought to the streets to denounce settler talks, which please allegedly turn a blind eye to ortiz policy. it takes us through what we can expect from job gardens, visits the region. please let left the room here in israel as joe bite and touches down for the 1st time as president. and the thousands of police deployed is come in

place for visiting dignitaries. so what's new on the agenda templates ready? prime minister yet yet he says he ran is the main issue under discussion. israel will not stand idly by while iran tries to attack us. we will discuss with the president and his team, expanding security cooperation against all threats. i can say is he's in favor of a more integrated and stable middle east, but he's also suggested 8 new middle east in may. so given the problems, some accuse the current meter off steering up in ukraine. little wonder these criticism that this will st. pete d stabilize the region further. the injury of foreigners in the region will not create security and stability, but is itself the main cause of tension and regional rift. america raises such issues solely with the aim of sewing. i ran a phobia and division among the countries in the region. ango, at brutal killing of al jazeera janice. shaheen absolutely hasn't faded,

and her family is still seeking justice. they accused biden of white washing these wavy armies. actions and social pressure is quite high too. when biden enters bethlehem from jerusalem, the 1st thing he sees will be this wall painting the wall painting as an expression of our rejection of the american position on the issue of the assassination of ob lockley and a condemnation of the american report. chris is also mounting on his way to human rights in the latest i don't see at night at palestine and christian organization is always accused of meeting the criteria of an apartheid state. just the latest voice to the chorus of international organizations denouncing the country's humanitarian track record. it is abundantly clear that israel meets the definition of the crime of apartheid under international law, both through the laws, the state has adopted and its inhumane practices. israel actively works to promote separation and segregation through a biased legal regime that offer specific rights and privileges to one group at the

expense of the other to maintain its domination. for an israeli jew, there are no restrictions to move and elected or make his i'm not making things easier, quite the contrary. when they come up with statements like this. if there was a button, i could press that would take all the arabs and put them on a train to switzerland. may they live amazing lives there? i wish them all the best in the world. i would press that button a button like that does not exist. apparently, we were destined to exist here on this land in some form. it's still a question where the biden will address these issues at all. and while is well, has condemned one ukraine. it did not doing sanctions or weapons delivery, rushed from the waste. they asked israel no bigger fan of israel with lindsey graham for stinkers. and apparently israel said no, i'm not get on the found israel. you know, we stand up for israel with the iron dome that is well in russia has a temporary cooperation in syria. putting tel aviv in a tough place as the middle east looks to me further from the usd of influence. is

this a tangible biden to finally get closely aligned the region fully on board? or is this an opportunity to create yet another military alliance in and really unstable world? oh will bite and finally do what is clear to so many in the world and stop giving is roles, special treatment policy a r t telephone. moving on now the euro's reached parity with the us dollar for the 1st time in 20 years. and this comes as some european politicians label the sanctions imposed on russia as a mistake. adding to the continent so far has been hit harder than moscow, or to contribute to ritual. mazda 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. nissan shaw, i think

a bit more ease sanctions against russia turned out to be completely ineffective. and this, 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 loose now, there are only 2 options for you afterwards. alcohol, or psycho tropic drugs that i say our alcohol is basically okay, but why should we take these officials word for it if anyone needs quantifiable proof that the u 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 believe lynette 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 evoke the u. k. national grids 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 diary 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 the you approved a new batch of aide for ukraine on tuesday with the total amount of the blocks financial assistance. the key of now stunning, its over 2000000000 euros. i am delighted to inform you that we have a great one ability only rose micro financial assistance to which the commission would like to provide for, you know, before the summer break of a western humanitarian aid ukraine. does not always reach its intended goals. cases

of illegal cells online are becoming more frequent in the country. local media site, corruption and ineffective control over how a dispense is the main reasons behind this. now this footage shows searches during which police officers exposed another instance of the sale of western humanitarian aid. the suspects sold food that was intended as aid for the worst effects of ukrainians. as a result of such cases, ukrainian volunteers continued to collect money from ordinary citizens for the basic needs of the ukrainian army. despite western multi $1000000000.00 assistance . or despite the unprecedented volume of a, this being provided to kiev ukrainian president still found cause to criticize his western partners this time. just let me also work for its quotes on acceptable decision. sir. it's an augusta by currently stuck in the country due to unseat russian sanctions to germany. 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 the dispute, the turbine is a key components of the node stream one gas pipeline. it's had previously been sent to canada for scheduled repairs with also refusing to return it to germany because of anti bush and sanctions. elated by tribes on agreed to return it to prevent a worsening energy crisis in europe. give was furious at the move, but the return of the turbine was welcomed by the european commission on the us state department. canadian lawyer and you chew, but david fry hates, has said that the western countries will try to back out of the involvement in the ukrainian conflicts as it becomes increasing the unpopular key of and my key and i presume means zalinski has been operating on the basis that the west was going to fight this war with russia by proxy through ukraine. they might have been right if this war had ended in 2 weeks or a month. like everyone said,

it was going to this war between ukraine and russia, which is unpopular to say more of a regional war than an international war was morphed into a war by proxy against russia. and when it's cost canadians, americans, europeans, more than they are interested in sacrificing for what most people perceive to be a regional war, they start to back off in terms of public opinion. and we've seen it in terms of what happened. divorced johnson, we've seen it in terms of what's happening for calls for merkel to resign germany. they're going to try to back out of this unpopular war, which is not gone the way they wanted. they're going to try to back out of it casually, discreetly over and tell zalinski too bad. now you're on the road, which is probably what he wants from the beginning. but for the fact of the west thought they could use ukraine to fight a proxy war against russia. and finally, shall anchors parliament is expats and so late in the presidents at some point next

week after the incumbent leader has reportedly fled at the country after his residence was storm by protested, amid a severe economic crisis in the country, while demonstrators continued to occupy the residences of the leaders accusing the government of being responsible for months of acute shortages of food, fuel, and medicine. the processes say they will remain other prophecies until the leaders resign says a close a lot of the chaotic events. they're currently ripping the country. i'm here and the private residents of the prime minister on a become a singer along with this particular residence and residence, which is almost next door which belong to the younger brother of prime minister and recover cigna. they were both set on fire and allegedly looted by the people, a group of people who were came in with the property on the 9th of july that his last saturday right after the massive rally the man to relieve that was conducted

creating a people for so to get rid of the government at the same time, the president to go to be a deposit. and the next in line was to ask the prime minister also to step down from his portfolio as the prime minister, because they were alleging at the prime minister came into prover. not purely through 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 residence and the entire the residents. the entire property is in ashes at the moment that he was told yesterday by the prime minister on recommendation 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 donations over 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 web for most of the damage that taken place at the same time, the teacher navia and the idea that i'm 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 with the clubbing 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 rick, i'm a senior are in ashes at the moment, this is my private residence and this is our family

home. this house is about 100 or 100 years old for generations now with a 5th generation or so has lived here. so i was very sad to see this house in this tate. it's not the money i'm concerned about. it's actually a sentimental values and for historical middle along which would have gone into another generation. i am sad about this and i'm sad about people who broke this kind of violence or 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 there 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, natalie ringer, a tie when it was manned and it was safe, guarded by some of the members of the show lanka, our force and they were here. and this all were created. this all were done during such a time, so still, investigations are being carried out who carried out these and who were the men, their party is responsible for the devastation that had been already created here. now this all comes as shall anchor faces a major economic crisis. most of the countries external debt is owed to western countries. and over the last 50 years, the international monetary fund has given the state 1516 excuse me. loans shall

anchor has gone through a host of so called economic stabilization programs through the i m f. although at the 2018 world economic forum shall anchors, prime minister said the government plan to make lanka a rich country by 2025. it's no secret that ages 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. the u. s. government as complete domination over both the international monetary fund and the world bank. the u. s. government is the only member that has veto power over the decisions of the bodies. and we've seen that throughout the global south in particular, the i m f in the world bank have been involved in imposing structural adjustment programs. that force countries to cut social spending,

privatize their natural resources, and then sell off their assets to western corporations. usually the i m f demands that a country cut, pensions, reduce the minimum wage, basically implement policies that are bad for the people of the country and are good for the interest to foreign corporations. and it's very likely we don't know, of course, what's happening inside the talks between the sri lankan government and the i m f. but it's very likely that the i m f was demanding these conditions that were simply unacceptable for any self respecting sovereign government of sri lanka. we look at the history of the i m f. conditionality is that have been imposed on countries like sri lanka. they have been very arduous and they have been very undemocratic demanding that the country violate its own economic sovereignty in the interests of foreign corporation. so if we can learn anything from history, i think we can conclude that it's very likely that the sri lankan government was unwilling to given to these unreasonable demands for the 17th time. what was the

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