a going in with with moscow confirm new strikes against military targets in ukraine, including the bases of nationalist battalions with iran by on. good russian laid forces that bumps in the done yet script like taking from walden to give to another, there'll be no more humanitarian aid deliveries from the u. s. to afghanistan after congress green lights, new defense bill promises more military supplies, tooth graders, one. so i had on the program from per raleigh at partner joe biden touches done in saudi arabia on the last leg of his 1st and middle east tourist president hoping to

persuade the reality to boost oil production, the backdrop to not being petrol. prices in the u. s reaching record highs with interest leader is appointed. insure like out for the president of the country, reside the economic crisis there, rages. we report from the ground with broadcasting from moscow. this is our t. my name's unit o'neill on 30 minutes of news and views start. now. we begin with the latest on the ukraine conflict. some $500.00 ukranian troops were killed and unlock the tax overnight. according to the russian ministry of defense. yes. for the 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 and the done. yet republic comes amid the continuing advance of russian lead forces in dumbass. though against republic, official se ukrainian troops are starting to retreat from the key city of subversive. the authorities also accused ukraine of targeting civilian infrastructure in the city of the hell off thing to a school kindergarten and hospital. they also reiterated that kid is using u. s. supplied hi mars miss all systems in those attacks. the russian m o t also commented on thursday strike in the central ukrainian city of v nits. the ministry st. ukrainian military building was targeted while commanders were holding a meeting with foreign weapons suppliers, bulkier claims. moscow had several buildings in the city,

killing 23 people. the british foreign office has blamed russia for the death of a u. k. citizen detained in the done yet republic. paul uri was arrested in april around the accused by the republics authorities of helping to hire foreign mercenaries on the london insist he was a humanitarian worker. ortiz from on cost rove as more 1st from the bus. according to the human rights, almost women of the nice people's republic zarina morales, of british officials, including the foreign office, were embassy in moscow. and even some members of the british shall parliament or all notify that people who re was actually captured. and she also added that said during the initial medical checkup pull yury was diagnosed with a number of for chronic illnesses. and i'm going to outline just us some of them for you that includes insulin dependent diabetes. i'm damage to the respiratory

system, kidneys, and a number of diseases to the cardiovascular system as well. now she said that is a british officials were also notified about his illnesses, however, that it had been a no reaction to the news of his capture or about his illnesses and, and his people's republic. prosecutor's office also confirmed that he did indeed died from our chronic diseases and they also shared some details about the charges that he was presented with your liberal quarter to advance can release the genetic republics. prosecutor general's office is investigating the death of the detained you cases. in colliery ivy named he is accused of helping to recruit mercenaries according to preliminary data. his death was the result of the chronic disease as he had when he was provided with all necessary medication and was getting timely and qualified medical help. while the hospitals are public. officials insist that says paula eurey was instrumental in helping train and recruit

mercenaries. the british foreign office blames a russia for the death of the case. citizens saying that say he was nothing but said aid worker. so there are inconsistencies there. but myself been here in dentist sky requested right away to find out more about the circumstances surrounding the death of this say u. k. national. so besides the statement from the prosecutor are also good visit the prison, where he was held and actually spoke to a couple of his cellmates. and they also confirm to me that he was getting all the medical help that he needed to have a lot of pain and difficulties to breathe. we tried to help him as much as we could. and i helped him to get contact with a doctors and medical stuff here at also not a hospital in prison. oh,

he was treated fairly by with a knowledge of his previous history, medical history. and from one full, we'll say, with works to new diagnoses, a hospital at the moment, we're waiting for official documents from the dentist people's republic regarding the death of the, the u. k. a national i here in captivity at once. we get those documents, we will share all of them without viewers. okay, something else to update you on. on a busy news day, the u. s. house of representatives has passed a national defense bill that increases washington's military help to ukraine. but strikes a significant blow for humanitarian aid to afghanistan. big money, that bill will see. congress said a new record for the country's military budget at $840000000000.00. in fact,

that's 37000000000 more than president biden had even requested. that figure includes another $1000000000.00 allocated to ukraine. however, the new bill bombs, the defense department, from funding any transport for humanitarian aid to couple of despite some democratic party members in congress. stressing the importance of help for afghanistan scanning on his face. and one of the most horrific him in italian crisis on the planet. we should be doing allison in our power to deliver him an italian assistance to the good people, not made this limit. indeed we can supply. the move comes despite the international rescue committee repeatedly warning that the current humanitarian crisis enough galveston could result in even more debts than the recent 2 decades of war in the country. us lawmakers on both sides of the political divide have also been voicing concern that military spending has gotten out of control history. international

relations analysts, jo, what team believes washington's policies towards that galveston is plunging the country into anarchy. i believe that the united states is deliberately doing this because it wants to drive up again on the, on my disability and neighboring countries, especially in central asia. this way, the united states could undermine the efforts to promote plan off world and best initiative that age to boost trade in your asia. the united states is passing through crisis economic crisis. they should have spend this money on the, i believe, taking that transaction decaying infrastructure, they should spend this money on development plans in the united states. president biden has arrived in saudi arabia on the final leg of his middle east to her, but part of the trip has raised more than a few eyebrows after the president previously vowed to make the country

a pariah over the murder of during this jamal cas shoji but there's no calling the nation, a partner telling me more earlier ortiz policy or on friday afternoon, the american president departed from israel. he fee directly to jaida in saudi arabia, making him the 1st american president to make this fight. because of course, saudi arabia does not recognize israel. earlier on friday, the saudi government announced that was opening, it's a space to israeli pain. so that is a 1st, the american president ahead of his visit did say that his purpose was to reset relationships between america and saudi arabia. but as you correctly mentioned, it wasn't so long ago that he referred to saudi arabia as a provider estate falling. the 2018 killing of the saudi journalist jamal kashodi. now the americans have always made out that they are the bastion of human rights, that they are the policeman of the world if you like. and it was this with us in

mind that joe biden had these harsh mart remarks to make about saudi arabia not such a long time ago. 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 while father making them a pariah. we now see joe biden reaching out to the saudis in an offer of partnership and friendship. he certainly seems to have turned a blind eye to the heavy criticism that washington has laid on the saudi government in the past, over what it has caught it. indiscriminate activities, shootings in yemen, the americans voice criticize the saudi role in that conflict. and at the same time, they've turned a blind al, to saudi's catastrophic record of human rights abuses. the question of course, is why and the answer. so he's very clear to people here in the region. it is because of oil following the russia ukraine war. you have the americans now

urgently seeking new partners to provide them with oil. so it's clearly understood that this, as my joe biden is in saudi arabia, and he also wants to receive, not only more supplies of will receive it at a cheaper price we are. you did hear from the you a security adviser saying that another reason for this visit is that the americans wanted to make sure that they would beat no vacuum in the middle east. that would allow for russia all for china to move in. another issue on each end of course, will be the formation of an axis against iran. we so he saw that earlier when biden was here in israel and the palestinian territories. a lot of that discussion did revolve around he ran and it will be interesting to see what comes out if anything, from his trip and from his meetings to saudi arabia. meanwhile, the biden administration is facing accusations of double standards elsewhere in the middle east. a human rights activist us slammed white house plans to set up a new international committee to investigate abuses in yemen,

ostensibly at the hands of saudi arabia. he believes that proposed body is a flawed initiative right from the off. they're working on a very, very bad mechanism that can replace that you n's. first of all, the starting point is that the mandate is weak and 2nd, it is not independent at all. according to reports, the us state department is considering including representatives from yemen, presidential leadership council, in the new committee. that is very significant because the grouping has close ties with saudi arabia itself has been the focus of investigations over the war in yemen . and it comes as a u. s. congressional watchdog released the report last month, stating the u. s. has not fully investigated its own rule and perpetrating human rights abuses in the country. probes have also reveal up to saudi bombing campaign in the country, and alleged war crimes were conducted with us weapons in not 30 regard in january this year, american weaponry was reportedly used in

a nurse strike india. and you remember this killing at least 80 people react is among americans big. this would be if it happens if this committee is created, it would be, i think, at this centers for the human rights in yemen and maybe in the region. well, 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 though, was marked by protests with demonstrators, angered by biden's support for israel had all that's the white house allies. hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aid for palestinians of the you essex report relations with the state. but some residents, all bethlehem that we spoke to ult, ignored by the us despite the high profile, is that i think it is it to little. hm. it's like a legit visit to the church. you see our president, you can see what,

how much of the time he's been to his room and how many times you spend and all sites and oversight. he spent like just one hours. we are under before 73 years. i don't think just like this visit. we can put a points out of the situation. i don't think anything will move, you know, we've been under this tuition for nearly 70 years. we are okay, but do we need the freedom? so we hope so. some of our suffering guest palestinians should see the will he should see how we present a check for the even a pest. very free that check what not like we do. he came just from head like a beast with another country, like he is flies come from here. back to sort of the area if he came to, if he came to do like you know, to movies here, you have to war carter. you don't talk about 2 hours so one hours here. it's not that, not enough. you know? well biden's press conference with the palestinian leadership wasn't without an

awkward moment. they awaited the event journalist but a photo of slain al jazeera journalist, serene and black, lay on a chair or killing back in may. while she was covering on this really operation in the west bank, outraged palestinians, and lead to both sides in the conflict. treating blame and wild biden condemned to violence. the president had some trouble pronouncing her name in the united states to suffer the loss as well, including the killing of charade. blue. ok. ok, lee? sure lanka, his prime minister has been sworn in as being president ron wicker missing has promised to restore law and order in the country after recent demonstrations and violent protest grip the south asian country on thursday. the resignation of present gossip by a raja pack that was officially confirmed by the good news broke massive celebrations, erupt it across the country or during the week the presidential residence was

stormed by protestors who blamed him for the country's economic implosion. roger pucks fled the country eventually turning up in singapore from where he finally offered to some new presidential elections by the will be held in parliament next week. much will despise many sure. lincoln's hoping a new, brighter chapter is ahead. the country still faces a whole host of crises including us. if you're a few of the shortage arctic are spawning range and sharma x off the story. a with me. i think monday morning. here to go. i don't know.

with now, with people a long time will come to an end. let's be going to say well, energy and food crises are raging across africa as well. with more than 2000000 people facing acute hunger in cameron not submitted growing shortage of fuel in the country. let's show you this footage, drivers chewing up petrol stations for days, some of them. the government's not pumping money into the market to bring price is done us despite the international monetary fund opposing states subsidies on the fuel, local se, the situation in cameron 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 are broken down dry. what do we do? do we put the car in our head to come and get fuel? the economic crisis extends well be on camera and with an eye watering, combining debt of a quarter of a trillion dollars. now dragging emerging markets closer to the default according to bloomberg. the number of states verging on a default off their foreign debts as more than doubled in the last 6 months. the worst said countries are home to almost a 1000000000 people with el salvador pakistan, ghana, and egypt. you're the most vulnerable head of the national youth development agency

in south africa. if you're a full blown humanitarian disaster is eminent, that you many can definitely does not the way you manage getting the impact on migration. we certainly need to be going into the library and he's an indicator of potentially think of what we cannot make. decisions are often made based on please go to prevent a domino effect government. do we need to be carefully in how they manage monitoring policy over the next? ah, each foreign policy chief usa barrell has a nice the block will not recognize russian passports issued to don bow stress number continues to grow loving report and simplified the procedure of acquiring the travel document for residents or don bus 3 years ago. citing the dire humanitarian situation and the conflicts on the time was pleasure. the welcome live

onto the program. martin doors are human rights lawyer on member of the left party in germany. martin, welcome to you. how is such an a nice spend compatible with democracy and human rights embraced by the e. u. people have simply expressed their will to get russian passports, should they not, then just get one. of course that's not competent because if someone is getting a passport by pre will accept, it doesn't matter if one government like the government of the country which the late that's possible. so if anyone wants to have a pass was russia, germany or off the u. s. a, the other country should accept that passport, i think, as well. we have some law in the u. p. n. human rights convention and international law as well, which means that people shouldn't be discriminated in this course discrimination.

often people are gone. us who don't have any problems and the longer because maybe the ukrainian passport has worn out and then they get a new cost from russia and as well, it should be accepted. yeah, it opens up a pandora's box. i would suggest martin legally recognizing some citizens passports, but then not others. yes, it's like, if you will, at least then need to be a special instrument to find out who has no real russian calling on the russian cross border will be done by the people. this means that there is a non equal treatment of people. and of course, that open some kind of you will have a lot diplomatic to was. i think that should be turned around a $180.00 degrees and they should be diplomatic way to open

a new dialogue to war and new dialogue to acceptance of each that we one and another, measuring up each other which as well complicated situation for every normal citizen, so that is the wrong way. the european union is going now to my mind. i was looking at a russian international passport earlier. it does not specify where it was issued that region. so will that then lead to restrictions affecting all of brushes, citizens, potentially. there's so many issues around this decision isn't there? yes. well that's, that's what i meant before. it's not clear whether passport it's now russian prosper given to russian citizen who came from, let's say, last off, and already been done by fitness. and so of course it open the door what i would

try re treatment was accusing somebody having such a document. it's, it's something i don't know, i didn't have no long research on it. to my mind isn't kind of strange new mechanism of dividing people in different class citizens. and that is something which isn't competent with human rights, with international law and with other legislation. and it's against, as well as a pragmatic way of treating every citizen of a country. and then equally, if this does go ahead, what kind of reaction do you expect, perhaps from moscow to follow? if you have no action and reaction match could be the same, but what kind of escalation spiral could be? i think that leads into something like non respecting the documents of another

country, open stalls which leads into more and more intimidation of the world. and this is not what we are looking for as human list, or if human rights lawyers, as all the people will see that at least we should keep to the rules were given to the international community by the united nation. and given the european union by the european convention of human rights, where discrimination as well is banned and called called ego. so i think this is opening dos which we don't want to come through. so all of them come across the process and the union should say and try to fall. so you repeat the commission and the you will union to not to a step like this because it just is something normal citizens that can be the way

coming out of conflict. speaking to us from hamburg, martin told her human rights lawyer unsocial a just thank you. thank you, miss. well, have a nice, you know, the hungarian prime minister said european economies have called shop themselves in the lungs by biling russian fuel imports. that says hungry declares a state of emergency over type thing, energy supplies. initially, i thought we had only shot ourselves in the foot, but now it is clear that the european economy has shut itself in the lungs and it is gasping for air. hungry is heavily dependent on russian fossil fuels for its energy needs around 65 percent of its oil aren't even more. busy of its gas comes from moscow under the state of emergency plans hungry will not boost its own production of natural gas. some expand its purchases from other countries according to the plumb price caps on utility bills. for high usage households,

they will not be lifted. and we heard the thoughts of locals about this game, but it is a good 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. well, i live on 49000 florence horror. i am outraged again. i have 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 laundry was wall of a few. e, you states which refuse to impose energy sanctions on russia. this, by pressure from the block, budapest said a european oil boy called would be quote, an atomic bomb for its economy and destroy its stable energy supply, global

a for especially georgia. zamarelli spoke to me earlier, he believes hungry was forced to remove the cap on gas prices as its neighbors were taking advantage of the cheap supplied 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 world of fact lation high inflation and there is depression. hungary had actually put a price 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've, they removed all the cash on prices, gate, probably in order to discourage people from excessive indulgence

on petrol, but the prevent pharmacy from coming to hungry and buying up all the george zamarelli. now as we enter the weekend, do keep on top of all the developments affecting your world today by giving our website some of your strolling time, a promise you will be bored from the team on myself. you normally, bye for night. ah . with . 2 yet the bill guzman, i think, is 70 percent of you been 80 percent of serbian view below for us.

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