for throwing good money after bad, this is what's happening because of the west obsession to weaken russia when backing the failed regime in kip. this obsession is so acute that western leaders are sacrificing the well being of their own citizens. ukraine fatigue is only a matter of time. a moscow confirms a new strike against military targets in ukraine, including the bases of nationalist battalions with a run. 500 troops killed outside russian. lead forces that bumps in the den. yes, group help lead from per riot to partner joe biden touches done and saudi arabia on the final leg of his 1st middle east tour as president hoping to persuade reality boost oil production, the backdrop to that being petrol prices in the u. s. reaching record,

a new interim leader is appointed ensure like following days, all turmoil board saw a mass protest on the streets, the president leaving the country. i leave off britain, his resignation. we reported on the ground with europe shot itself in the lungs by bounding rushing oil and gas. so save the hungarian prime minister, his country house declared on energy emergency and made supply disruptions on sky rocketing energy prices in the loop with wherever you're catching the program. from today, welcome to moscow into the global use updates at the end of the working week. i'm, you know, neil, we start with the latest on the ukraine conflict. some 500 ukranian troops were killed. and unlike the tax overnight,

according to the russian ministry of defense. yes . for a job, the strikes was published by the m o d. it said several military assets were destroyed, including bases of ukrainian nationalist formations in the heart of the region. the done yet republic that comes amid the continuing advance of russian led forces in don bos. lu, ganske, republic, officials, se ukrainian troops are starting to retreat from the key city of severs. the authorities also accuse ukraine of targeting civilian infrastructure in the city of a 100 off, including a school kindergarten and hospital. they also reiterated that cube is using us supplied high mars and missiles systems in those attacks demo deal commented on thursday strike in the central ukrainian city of venus. the ministry sees a ukrainian military building was targeted while commanders were holding and

meeting with foreign weapons suppliers, yet flames. moscow hit several buildings in the city, killing $23.00. people still ahead in the program, neutralizing the dangers and r t follow is russian forces. they continue clean operations in the gaps republic making safe areas and founded by finance. ok. a lot of eyes are now turning to the last leg of jo biden's, middle east tour, his visit to saudi arabia where his plane has just touched dine. the part of the trip was raised more than a few eyebrows after the president previously about to make the country and i'd cast over the murder of journalists jamal cars shoji. however, now the word pariah has been quietly dropped in favor of partner. well let's bring in these cars for paul asleep on this. hi there are paula. yeah, quite

a you turn by president biden on we had as regards not language tickets through that and indeed the trip itself it certainly has been a u turn in terms of jo biden's commons and the policy of the united states. as you correctly said, the american president is now in jetta in saudi arabia. this is the 3rd and final leg of his trip to the middle east. earlier. he was in israel and the palestinian territories, not when by 1st came into office. he wasn't shy about calling saudi arabia, a pariah state. this coming from the lead of a country that often regards itself as the bastion of human rights, as the policeman, if you like, of the world. these are the words at biden, had then to make about one who now has become very close partner of washington. and i would make it very clear. we were not going to sell more weapons to them. we were going to make them pay the price. in fact, make them a pariah,

that they are. there is very little social, redeeming value in the present government of saudi arabia. well, it seems it's some pariah to partner because what we see now with biden is a complete turnaround. in fact, he seems to have had a change of heart to the point that now on his 1st trip to the middle east, he's put saudi arabia right at the top there. the question of course, being asked is why, why is he taking a blind eye to the catastrophic human rights record of saudi arabia and also to the role it's been playing in the war in yemen, saudi arabia has been accused of using excessive force and at the same time of indiscriminate shelling and bombing a being involved in a conflict in a way that doesn't help in the conflict and is purely motivated by jed as self interest. suddenly the answer is the answer of oil. you have a situation where because of the war between ukraine and russia, the americans are looking for new suppliers of oil. so they're hoping that by byte

and going to saudi arabia, they can increase the air, the distribution of oil to the united states. and at the same time decrease the price of oil. so certainly ironic and a lot of eyebrows been raised here in the region earlier on friday, biden left israel. this was after spending the morning in the palestinian city of bethlehem. there he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas a very short meeting in which bide and pledged millions of dollars to help the palestinians. and at the same time, he referred to the strong friendship he has with his while. and this has raised eyebrows, both in the palestinian territories and his well, it was a visit here to this country that many people see was really in favor of israel and speaking to palestinians on the ground. a lot were disappointed and angry that the americans had not place enough of an emphasis on their own concerns. and her own needs. taken her through the american presence trip to the middle east or to

corresponding policy or meal off the by then ministration is also facing criticism. in fact, it's been a case of double standards and a slot in the face. those words were used by human rights activists. and slumming whitehouse plans to set up a new international committee to investigate abuses in yemen, ostensibly at the hands of saudi arabia. he claims the proposed body is flawed from the off they're working on a very, very bad mechanism that can replace that un. first of all, the starting point is that the mandate is weak and 2nd, it is not independent at all. well, apparently the us state department is considering including representatives from yelman's presidential leadership committee in the new committee, not the council has close ties with saudi arabia who have been the focus of investigations themselves in the past. and i've gotten this as a u. s. congressional watchdog released a report last month stating the u. s. has not fully investigated its own role in

perpetuating human rights abuses in yemen. reports of also revealed up the saudi bombing campaigns in the country and a ledge war crimes were conducted with u. s. weapons. just on that very point in january this year, american weapons were reportedly used in an r, a strike in yemen, killing at least 18 people yet being americans biggest customer when it comes to arms, washington is said to be discussing, lifting a ban on the sales of offensive weapons to saudi arabia, if they can make progress in ending the war and in no agreements been reached. as yet so many journalists nasir r a v c. c. at new investigative committee will not be independent. the united states is coming to form or to create a committee what this committee would be doing. they say that they would, there will be be able from the bridge. then he'll council visit president. there's been council was made by saudi decisions. it is not independent. it is not to

neutral at all. so they are saying that we want somebody to, to, to whitewash the water crimes not to investigate to why it was that, that rhymes this would be if it happens if this committee is created, it would be, i think, at this synthesis for the human rights in yemen and maybe in the region. well, as we mentioned earlier, joe biden met with his palestinian counterpart in bethlehem on friday morning as part of his middle east tour. the visit to the west bank was marred by protest with demonstrators, angered by biden's support for israel earlier in the white house that i've hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bait for pallets. and in those the u. s. 6 to repair relations with this for biden's press conference with the palestinian

leadership wasn't with the norcross moment. waited the event journalist put a photo of slain al jazeera journalist sharina up to actually on a cher her killing back in may while she was coming in. this really operation in the west bank are raged, palestinians, and lead to both sides and the conflict, treating blame on while biden condemned the violence. the president had trouble pronouncing her name in the united states to suffer the loss as well, including the killing of charade. bu kaylee, while the u. s. heis of representatives has passed the national defense spill, that increases washington's military help to ukraine, but strikes a significant blow for humanitarian aid to gallop. and let's go through it because the bill will see congress said a new record for the country's military budget. at $840000000000.00 out is $37000000000.00, more than president biden had even requested. the figure includes another

$1000000000.00 allocated to ukraine over the new build bombs, the defense department from funding, any transport for humanitarian aid to afghanistan. the move comes despite the international rescue committee repeatedly warning now the current monitoring prices in afghanistan could result in even more depth compared to the 2 decades of war. the country has gone for a while. some us politicians on both sides of the divide. by the way of voice concerned that military spending is running out of control, history and international relations analyst, jamal what key believes washington's policies towards that kinda stuff are pledging the country into this. i believe that space is deliberately doing this because it wants to drive up again. it's done on my disability and neighboring countries, especially in central asia. this way, the united states could undermine the efforts to promote plan off road and

initiative that age to boost trade in your asia. the united states is passing through crisis economic crisis. they should not spend this money on be taking that into construction decaying infrastructure. they should spend this money on development plans in the united states when indeed, let's turn attention on the program to asia site. asia. sure. like as prime minister has been sworn in as acting president running with gret, miss single has promised to restore law and order in the country after recent demonstrations and violent protest gripped the country. now on thursday, the resignation of president gotta buy out roger pucks that was officially confirmed by the government. the news broke massive celebrations ruptured across the earlier the presidential residents will storm by protestors who blamed him for the country's economic impression. roger pox have fled the country eventually

turning up in singapore from where he finally offered to stand on new presidential elections will be held in parliament next week. despite many sure, lincoln's hoping a new chapter is now being turns and a brighter future is ahead. the country still faces a whole host of crises including a severe fuel shortage or t correspondence. runjun sharma picks up the story for us. these 2 with 3 i think monday morning. critical. i don't know. no. with

now, with a long time, we come to an end, let's be going to see what energy and food crises are reaching across to africa as well. with more than 2000000 people facing acute hunger in the central nation of commer rune. not submit a growing short of fuel in the country as well as footage shows drivers chewing of petrol stations, some waiting for days. the government's not pumping money into the markets to bring prices, john nuts, despite the international monetary fund, opposing state subsidies on feel local, say the situation income room is becoming desperate. i'm here to find diesel for my vehicle, which has been parked at home for 3 days. and wanted to bring my mother to the

hospital, there is no way because of lack of fuel. i've been lined up here since this morning at 7 am. unfortunately, they haven't increased the price. we're forced to take the fuel and leaders to the villages so we can put in our bikes, but it is a bad fuel. we have problems with it, as it spoils our bike engines. sometimes we learn, there are stations where we can find diesel, but they don't allow it to be taken with a canister. so now we have cars that have broken down dry. what do we do? do we put the car in our head to come and get fuel while the economic crisis extends well beyond cameroon, with an eye watering combined dash of a quarter of a trillion dollars. now dragging emerging markets closer to default. according to ben berg, the number of states for jing on the default of their foreign debts, more than doubled in the last 6 months. the worst that countries are home to almost a 1000000000 people of el salvador pakistan, gammon, egypt, named among the most wonderful theo,

of the national youth development agency in south africa, years, a full blown she military industrial is ad will you manage a crisis and we can manage getting the better migration we certainly need to going into libraries and he's an indicator of those 10. surely think of what we cannot make. decisions are often made based on police go mandates to prevent a domino effect. government, do we need to train fully and how they manage monetary policy over the next? ah, new delhi is sent to pass legislation that would put additional control on the activities of big tech companies. the decision stems from an investigation that revealed over skirted local laws. it has been fairly obvious to most people that big tech platforms have been using technology to gain the system and consumers both and have

abated scrutiny by constantly covering themselves with innovations. according to the indian minister for electronics, information technology, the new laws will bolster the countries cybersecurity, the official trends, a number of tech companies. i've been abusing legal loopholes to circumvent existing indian regulations. hooper is reported to bypass laws in a number of countries including india, to sustain the transportation ups, rapid global expansion. while it does really ring the alarm hon. a new chapter of growing confrontation between big tech and india is government. earlier this month, twitter challenge new delhi in a local court over state orders to block a number of the companies that cause we heard from an i t expert in the country who sees the indian governments that there are new laws will force technology companies, the global the giants to comply with national laws. we've seen that these rules are provided for criminal liability for the top management of these intermediaries. and

we've also seen that despite the criminal, i didn't treat the indonesia, these have chosen not in compliance. so someone on the line, the government now pushed in the direction of trying to come up with more cogent and effective methodologies and strategies for forcing the big tech companies to comply with the provisions of the law. that if you want to operate in india, then you will have to comply with indian law. that will be the basic principle that will have to be known, negotiate something else to bring you today. the hungarian prime minister said european economies of quote shot themselves in the lungs by battling russian fuel imports. that says hungry that there is a state of emergency over tightening energy supplies. initially, i thought we had only shutout ourselves in the foot, but now it is clear that the european economy has shot itself in the lungs and it is gasping for air. hungry is heavily dependent on russian fossil fuels for its

energy needs run 65 percent of its orland, even more of its gas, comes from moscow under the state of emergency plans hungry will not boost its own production of natural gas and expand its purchases from other countries, according to the plant price caps on utility bills for high usage households will not be left that we heard the thoughts of locals about these but is it? yes, we now we get the picture. well, we are sensitive to it because we are likely to consume more than the average and therefore pay more. but you can't save money on it. so if you need some hot water on a certain level, you do need it. and how could it not my pension is low, i have nothing else to say. deductions bands. i live on 49000 florence horror. i am outraged with emily. oh, i've heard about it. yes, i have a pretty depressing opinion about the whole thing, but i don't really want to deal with it. let's wait until the end of the year and

we'll see hungry was one of the few you states which refused to impose energy sanctions on russia. the spy pressure at, from the block, budapest said a european oil boy cut would be quote, an atomic bomb for its economy under stroy. it's stable energy supply, global effort, especially st. george zamarelli believes hungry was forced to remove the comp on gas prices as its neighbors. were taking advantage of the cheap supplies i think we had to was we had a very serious economic crisis because it's not just that we have inflation rates likely to get into digits in the very near future. but we're going to get essentially economic shut down, major factors. we're closed down who really terrible was the will back patient, high inflation. and there is depression. hungary had actually put a price cap on the actual prices. so many people were coming from

europe to buy the central here in hungary because it was cheaper and that's gone. now they remove all the cash on prices, gate, probably in order to discourage people from expected indulgence actual, but the prevents pharmacy from coming to hunger and buying up all the petro can mr. turner to or a story near the top of the our, the conflict and don boss where our senior corresponded morocco. steve, he's been following russian soldiers as a korean cleanup operations across territory. so they now have under their control, and just a warning before you watch, you may find some of the footage in his report disturbing. barely a week ago, the town of pre volleyer was controlled by ukrainian forces. the front lines may

have moved far away, but this is a clearing operation, a search for ukranian troops and hiding for weapons ammunition. and of course, the corpses left behind. you stood for sure with this doesn't seem to have been irregular ukrainian soldier. first of all, he had a beard, a multi can he war chevrons as you can clearly see and the servants were removed along with all other insignia and equipment is wrong. they never do this with regular service. men in my this is my to put him of the, of the see radical nationalists. neo nazis and foreign mercenaries hold a privileged position. they are always better av good, better equipped than ukrainian regulars or conscript of them. these are nato type bullet casings. they're mostly used by nationalists and foreign mercenaries. ukrainian conscripts are mostly equipped with old soviet weapons. at 1st glance, this may seem obvious what happened here. this man died,

he was left behind by ukrainian soldiers and his compatriots, who, who rad. but if you have a look at his injuries, it is obvious that he was torn apart by a shell, a mortar round. most likely, yet there is no more tod damage. here, damage from shrapnel, the windows are all intact. what this means is that he was likely dragged by ukrainian soldiers from somewhere he died very quickly. they left him behind, which means there's a high chance that they could have left a surprise here, such as a mine or a booby trap under him. this is a trick we saw employed by as of nationalists said mary, apple. they would mind the bodies of the fallen fighters and civilians alike. there is only one safe solution to tie a rope to the corpse and pool at a safe distance. the fields in front of his house had been turned into

a fortress by ukrainian troops. they squad of the act. my battalion made up of russian and chechnya, and volunteers allowed us to follow them as they went deeper into the woods, acting on a trip from the locals. where on a small island near the city of think and during the during the assault on the city, the offensive on the city is a re mouth with the 5, with hearing for gotten wrong me searchingly, i got to head have reported that they found a stash of weapon it was slow progress getting there. the biggest danger was minds and every one was constantly looking down. the other danger his ukrainian stragglers high. the desert is all those left behind and hiding in the woods. there were none. here. what we found was part of their arsenal

. bingo. that knows who i am, a warrior. these are vo gee 20 fives under barrel grenade launcher rounds. when they hit the ground, they bounce up to about a meter and a half and explode. very dangerous things. again, lease was slow going. ordinarily a weapons cache as big as these would have at the very least been booby trapped, but it seems order and military discipline, among ukrainians here collapsed suddenly and totally. they literally ran squadron macarthur's inc. this was their ammunition depot. them, this is where they waited for us to cross the river and all of this we're going to take, we had a look and there are no traps. and all of this is going to fly back at them. at the sentences have been on the same squad, which answers directly to the head of the chechen republic was amongst those who encircled and entered least he chanced they are now on something of

a brake tossed with less demanding duties such as clearing operations. but soon, that'll be back on the front lines. this time loaded with what the ukranian forces left behind or at gas d of r t for approval. yeah. lugens people's republic. i'm of them. okay. just coming up to half past 7 in evening this friday here in moscow time. soon for another trip to the cross talk studio. see who peter's got for company today. next live from moscow . this is our teen trust. ah ah, during the 2nd world war in nazi occupied poland molina was a farming region today as part of ukraine between 19431945 members of the

ukrainian insurgent army, led by step on bendara. nasa could thousands of poles in valeria, in a diabolical ethnic cleansing process. the mergers were particularly horrific and brutal villages were burned and property looted the bellini. a massacre is without doubt, one of the bloodiest episodes in polish ukrainian history. why are ukrainian politicians still reluctant to talk about these events? how to modern day ukraine and poland view this tragedy of the past? and why does the memory of aline, us to divide people ah ah, united states has always had

a variety of tools to use. and tax on other countries economic sanctions are, are often just the beginning. another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries that you're talking about here. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country to ha, we have a responsibility for the whole world and we need to make room for the rest. because without us there will be k b o.

a hello in welcome to cross talk. we're all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle throwing good money after bad. this is what's happening because of the west obsession to weaken russia when backing the failed regime in kip. this obsession is so acute that western leaders are sacrificing the well being of their own citizens . ukraine fatigue is only a matter of time with crow sucking ukraine. i'm joined by my guess, michael maloof in washington. he's a former pentagon senior security policy analyst in tampa. we have larry johnson, he is ceo of burg associates and a former cia analyst and us state department counter terrorism official and in los

angeles we crossed soupy and he is a strategic planning consultant, a private equity advisor and an independent economic analyst i, gentleman crosstalk rules and effect, that means if you could jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate larry, let me go to you 1st and tampa. what has this? the west succeeded in its endeavors. i'm backing ukraine in this conflict. um, a lot of money is being thrown at it. i mean i, i've lost track every single week. somebody else is throwing in money into the pot here, but it doesn't seem to be changing, quote, unquote rushes behavior. so how do you assess the relative success or failure of the west approach when it comes to ukraine? well, the west has been outstanding at deceiving and lying to its own people. other than that, it's been a complete fiasco. it's not changed a single thing on the ground of despite the constant propaganda that russia is failing russia's being decimated, although the russians are being led by a bunch of.