ah ah, our headline stories, the russian defense minister orders troops on the front line to increase their operations to prevent kiev forces from striking civilian areas. the crimean peninsula may be a target for a high mars missile system supplied to key by washington. that's according to ukraine's defense ministry. also, saudi arabia says it has no extra capacity to boost its own production beyond 13000000 barrels a day tending hopes of high global energy prices being significantly ease. much didn't this appointment of recent gulf kingdom visitor job and the u. k military is to resume joint training with kenya,

and they will continue using white phosphorus, munitions in drilled. locals living near the firing line, shared their health fears with us here last month for should not be until otherwise we are going to die. no one has ever volunteered to teach us about it. we are in great danger with, from moscow to the world. this is our international a great the have your company for the weekend news update. i'm, you know, neil, the russian defense minister has ordered troops to step operations in all areas of the ukraine, conflicts own stating it's needed to prevent key forces from targeting civilians in dawn buff. what strikes are continuing against ukrainian troops? the m o. d said one brigade in particular near the key done yet republic city of subversive, has suffered heavy losses with around 600 troops killed and russian or strikes over

the past 2 days. moscow and some 200 ukrainian soldiers on foreign mercenaries were also killed by high precision weapons in the city of nikolai, of ukraine could use it's us, supplied high mars missiles systems to target crimea. that's according to the country's defense ministry, less cross law. to ortiz rahman, cosser of hi rema, take us through what's been threatened on the ramifications of it. all of these threats or nothing, you would be hearing about them for quite some time. ukrainian authorities have threatened crimea time and again. however, none of that has materialize. so far, well, according to the representative of the defense ministry off ukraine, the crimea has become

a military hub for russia from where it's moved from where it starts the attacks against ukraine. so it is considered to be one of the main sagas of the ukraine, a military and one of the main sagas officers long range of multiple rocket launch systems received from the united states. but for now, keeps plans to at sac crimea using a multiple launch a rocket system from the yes as simply impracticable because they don't have a long range missiles for those high mars assistance from the united states. now, an attack on crimea will only be possible if possible, if they do receive those 300, say, kilometer range and missiles from the united states. but one of the conditions that the united states against the ukraine when delivering those multiple launch

a rocket systems is that it doesn't target the russian territory and say, here's what they said to function purposes only. does that mean they cannot use the high mars to go on the law firms and expelled the russians from church or they hold? ukraine is defending their territory. anything they're doing on the territory of ukraine is defensive in this context. the on the formal assurance is that they will not use these systems to target russian territory. no russian officials have stated time, and again, that's a crimea is under full protection at all times and all the facilities there and all the infrastructure as well. and russian foreign ministry also added that any weapons delivery from overseas it, so ukraine will become

a legitimate saga for the russian forces, as well as logan's cans and has peoples republic people's militias. now at the moment, the united states have delivered at least 8 high mars multiple rocket launch systems to ukraine, and 2 of those, according to the russian defense ministry, have already been destroyed. speaking to us from the danielle republic ortiz remind culture if thanks from them. and while a huge flow of western arms on financial support continues to port in to ukraine, questions are increasingly being asked if thus leading to weapons smuggling in europe. the e u doesn't seem to concern though, recently reiterating not the ukrainian government is a reliable ally. you has no reason not to trust a government as weapon supplies provided by e. u. member states are used in ukraine for intended purposes. defend its people against a brutal russian aggressor. smuggling claims are often simply lies. so if that's

the case, then why did the block just announce plans for a new support hub for internal security and border management, which is expected to focus on preventing weapons, most of which are supplied by nato members from being smuggled out of ukraine. this cons after nato members were so quick to send billions of dollars in aid, and now have started to admit that they can't fully trace where it's all gone. and they're concerned about those weapons making a returned to europe in the wrong hands. it's hard to avoid trafficking or smuggling. we didn't achieve it in former yugoslavia and probably won't avoid it in ukraine. as soon as the weapons us island em promotes will try to benefit from the availability of weapons. so we have to expect that these weapons will be traffic, that they will show up not only in the, in the neighboring region of a conflict soon, but we have experienced that this weapons might be traffic to other continents. in

fact, the is, law enforcement agency has been warning about the smuggling of arms out of ukraine since april, noting that while there were requirements for oversight in the past, since the west has started its flow of legal aid earlier this year, those provisions have reportedly stopped being enforced initially, ukrainian officers maintained registers of firearms handed out to civilians. however, this was abandoned because the war continued on and so firearms were distributed without data. however, key as yet to voice the same concerns. instead, ukraine's foreign ministry is criticizing calls from us lawmakers to establish proper oversight, claiming that it would limit the flow of weapons and helping russia and the process . however, while the e. u is now planning to create an agency that will at least look into the issue. the u. s. is not quite there yet. the united states takes our responsibility

seriously to protect american origin defense technologies and prevent their diversion or elicit proliferation. so we are actively engaging with ukraine to ensure accountability of the assistance. well, that is the official statement from the biden administration. the reality on the ground is a very different one. there have already been reports of us javelins being sold on the dark web for a big discount with the sellers, openly admitting the weapons will be smuggled over the polish border and barrels of oil. as also notable that not all of the politicians in the u. s. congress are living in the same blissful state as senators ran paul and chuck grassley have called to the office of inspector general to be allowed to conduct investigations into where the aid the u. s. ends to ukraine actually ends up and those calls came before the government watchdog admitted this week that the pentagon was refusing to be transparent on ukraine. related funding. as the department of defense is

building processes and procedures to ensure the transparency of the reporting for the ukraine supplemental funds, we identified multiple areas of concern that if not adequately addressed, could reduce the traceability of ukraine supplemental funds and the transparency in the department of defense reporting the question now becomes, what will your abs, newest agency find and will they be able to stop the smuggling, or will they discover that those weapons they were so quick to send could end up being a major national security threat to their own countries. yeah, this is insanity. what is happening here? it's, it's pure insanity. and i think that's why the united states is starting to wake up to the fact that, you know, it, it a bit, you know, if these weapons are used in a manner which results in the deaths of the, you know, political allies or citizens of allied nations in europe, there's going to be the united states is going to be called to account. and i think

they're trying to put in place a system, at least gives them the, the ability to say, hey, we tried our best, but we didn't try our best if we were trying our best, we would have been to sit on the accounting process the moment we had to weapons over ah ok, another news line to bring you to a u. s. state department has approved a potential 108000000 dollar package of military support to taiwan, saying it will help the island territory repel potential friends. the proposed dale will contribute to the sustainment of the recipients vehicles. small arms, combat weapons systems, and logistical support items enhancing its ability to meet current and future threats. now it would be the 5th package of u. s. weapons sales to taiwan under the biden administration. the deal will include the purchase of spare parts for military vehicles and provide logistical and technical support. it's reportedly aimed at boosting taiwan and military readiness

on compatibility with the u. s. army of china considers i want to part of it's territory and has promised to return it by force if necessary. meetings demanded down the u. s. avoid quote, military collusion with taipei in order to enhance america. china relations. we spoke with china for his analyst picture tao, who believes by sending arms to taiwan. washington is escalating tensions and the u . s. sales. obama just serves the only purpose of feeling the tape is more, i think the u. s. strategic ambiguity, israeli misleading. the american people, it's misleading, is allies to the west. it's misleading. everyone else in the world. the united states has no legal right to interfere in the taiwan affairs or to become an obstacle to the national renew vacation of china. i think what the

united states is doing is getting involved in a civil war. i'm finished in 1949. we want to prevent the resurrection of civil war, but whatever the united states is doing is adding fuel to the fire and the may really cost the resurrection of civil war will be a disaster in the cross street relations. saudi arabia doesn't have the capacity to boost its oral production beyond $13000000.00 barrels per day . that's according to the countries crime prince. the united states came after jo biden's visit this week. the u. s. president was hoping to persuade the kingdom to off it's i put considerably to ease the pain americans are currently feeling out the bumps and high astro prices are soaring, inflation. they are all further denting bibles ratings. back home and following is meeting with the home. had been so mom, the american president admitted,

there won't be any immediate ease on fuel costs in the us. you didn't have to visit . i suspect you won't see that for another a couple weeks. america needs a saudi oil. this is in light of the ukraine, russia conflict, not only do they want oil from saudi arabia, but at the same time they want to buy that oil at a cheaper price. now on his arrival, joe biden's welcome was installed, contrast to the welcome of the previous american president, donald trump, when he visited saudi back in 2017. what if i hadn't got was a 1st pump from the crown prince before being ushered into a room for meeting with the saudi king, solomon at a press conference afterwards. bide and said that the 2 had disgust saudi defensive needs and wants to the normalization of ties. with his role, a journalist asked the american president whether or not saudi was still a pariah state to which the president chose not to answer, but there was a lot of laughter from the saudis prison. this of course, refers back to commented,

died, and made when he was on the campaign trail. i with thank you. thank you. now the americans voice seen themselves as the policeman of the world as the bastion of human rights. and joe biden himself has said that when he would consider which will leaders to deal with what would be of paramount for him was democracy and respect for human rights. that the country had, he seems to forgotten all of this. he now, prior to his visit to saudi arabia, the us, the security adviser said that they were aiming for they to be no vacuum in the middle east for russia and china to take over. at the same time. of course, a lot of the concern of biden's visit has been creating an axis against iran, and particularly palestinian leaders and the palestinian street. were aware of this with a criticism that prior to going to saudi arabia biden wasn't israel and in the palestinian areas for 3 days. that he found only 3 hours to visit the palestinian city of betty

hill and meet with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. so a lot of the focus of the visit here in israel prior to going to saudi arabia, 40 american president, was consolidating this axis against iran. the thing on this story retired u. s. her force officer attorney could tell us he believes riyadh and opec no longer of the influence they once enjoyed this anyway, b is not the global supplier that it once was on. there are many competing sources of energy and even with saudi arabia used to be they dominated opec and they don't anymore. i mean, opec doesn't, doesn't have this way that it used to have. so this idea that, you know, you go, you want to, well, you go to saudi arabia, well, it's, it's a global, fungible commodity. and so anything that they didn't even minor increases even accepting lower prices, which i don't think they'll do. even that will not make

a fundamental difference, certainly in american oil prices or global oil availability. i think if you look at the numbers, you know, i think by noon just blowing smoke, i don't think he has looked at the numbers. the numbers aren't, aren't in the united states favor, or the western side favor in terms of seeing the saw, your rebate can solve it, oil crisis. it cannot, it does not have the capacity to do that. through africa, where the u. k. military has announced it to resume a joint training program in kenya, but locals are fearing for their health after commanders previously admitted. they had deployed white phosphorus during drills in the former british colony and will continue doing so. they say, claiming there are quote, legal purposes behind use of the chemical substance. ortiz don quarter, can phillotson great britain's once again, conducting military exercises in its former colony of kenya,

the 2 countries just signed an agreement for closer military co operation. and british troops are cleaning up after the latest drills to make sure the locals don't get hurt. the canyon of friends forced in the u. k. army come together to conduct a range sweep of the unexploded ordnance on the kenyon training areas that we use here. and to educate the people that live here on the dangers of that unexploded ordnance and to educate them so that they don't pick it up that and play with it. and they don't cause a danger for themselves. so everything should be fine, right? not exactly. the queen subjects have a long history of breaking the rules and violating people's rights in the region. for example, their use of white phosphorus which international law prohibits when used against military targets near civilians. international humanitarian law allows the use of white phosphorus for certain methods for certain uses, and that's what we use it for. so we use it to create illumination at night, so we can fight to night. it also produces smoke, which provides

a smokescreen for us to be able to fight. sure, the brits technically aren't breaking any rules by using it for smoke screens and light shows. but that doesn't mean people living near their playground of war are happy about it. i'm. i e o got most of us, especially the elderly and children know nothing about the white phosphorus, and that is why the british army training unit will keep on using the substance and that no one has ever valencia to teach us about it. we are in great danger. e o e o kids was i couldn't believe close to the training grounds. we're not say, i'm really scared because no one is listening to us. why fuss for should not be used here till otherwise we're going to die now. and then under that i was on the white. phosphorus is very dangerous, but the british army will always put on lives in danger because no one will question him. they think they are above the law musically since last year, british soldiers even started a raging forest fire in the area to this day, they've gone unpunished and london's not entirely admitting blame accidents do

happen. it's not great and we're really sorry. and we really wish it hadn't happened. we are doing everything we can to mitigate those circumstances and put in place measures to ensure it never happens. again. that's not even to mention the kenyan women who are allegedly raped and even killed by british soldiers. despite the many complaints kenya and the u. k failed to take effective measures to investigate such claims to bring the alleged perpetrators to justice, ensure adequate reparations for the victims and prevent further attacks. who knows if justice will ever be served for these crimes? seeing as it's unlikely any one will hold them accountable. one thing looks pretty clear though things would be better if the british army left altogether lift trade restrictions. now to help avert a global food crisis. to combine call from the world trade organization, the international monetary fund on the world back to 2008 crises taught us that

imposing global trade restrictions leads directly to increases in food prices, removing export restrictions, and adopting inspections and licensing processes that are more flexible help minimize supply disruptions and lower prices. the joint stay meant details. the $25.00 countries currently have restrictions on food exports affecting 8 percent of the global food trade. the situation has been exacerbated by the price of fertilizers which have doubled in a year. a combination of those factors puts more than 300000000 people across the world at risk of food and security, and worse. below g 20 finance ministers gathered in indonesia on saturday to address global food insecurity. however, divisions over the ukraine conflict prevented any practical decisions from being reached according to the u. s. representative. indonesia house call for trade restrictions to be lifted. so disrupting global supply change can be restored. economist and commentator i k hummer agrees,

stating politics must be put to one side to save lives. they have to limit the restrictions now because they see that this is a shock in the old leg as we saw, as we would call it match shooting themselves. so this is all a mixture for a dramatic economic catastrophe that is coming in from the w d. you might be those people who are trying to keep the pace for the politicians who are really stupid politics. this is, this is a property. what you see from all these people all over, if they are spending hundreds of billions for weapons and 1000000000 for food. this doesn't really make anything on the same side. they are killing while they are putting into fire or trying to put into fire food places. and this is just

ridiculous. they, it is her property. it's just far for the media to make out another story to make these people. the politicians look look well after a week, so of economic and political turmoil, inter lanka, which dump and died when the president fled the country and liter quit the countries parliament meant this began to begin electing the next leader. the process is set to be completed by wednesday. sure link is currently gripped by a severe fuel shortage which has resulted in miles long queues at petrol stations. the nations power, energy minister safe, the government is now discussing, potentially buying fuel from russia. he also notes the start of petro russia, with the latest on the developments. here's our t rouge and sharma, the bottle minister, or sri lanka. i had a press conference saturday afternoon, lucas time, and announced the introduction of the national few. we fall in an attempt to ease

out long q was outside federal stations. none of us will allow gender public to put cheese a guarantee to court off every single week. but how will this work? now one vega will be able to register under one id god and then if you walk code will be allocated for each way. good. this should have done sometime back about the technology they should have used to, i think a month ago, because it's model is a timing issue because they need to be getting to us, i think is a good idea about the practically, we have to see how we can book i couldn't, but i just have to know, since it's still saying it's not i'm unable to and being unable to register those being. let's see how it will be perfect. that now it doesn't one defining picture of the economic crisis mc lanka that has been the long q, the garzon took dogs schedule for my was outside the patrol station. now this

sounds like a temporary small solution to a very, very big problem. and whether or not it will walk or not will know in the weeks to come clashes between striking port workers and police in the german city of hamburg on friday, left 5 protesters and 5 officers injured according to local media. ah, dos worker's hell the demonstration to demand pay increases, but the protests soon escalated into violence with police using pepper spray and buttons to disperse workers in several german which went on strike this we thoughts as a new report reveals more than 13000000 germans are now officially below the poverty line coming in mid soaring inflation. the fall light from the pandemic. i'm the conflict in ukraine. ah,

let's turn to don bus again. finally done yet. republic authority. same more than 250 civilians have been killed in the republic since february. a med continuing shelling by ukraine. local are thorough. he's also confirm. 5 civilians were killed by at ukrainian missiles in done yet city over night while on saturday morning. another person died falling strikes. shelling has become a norm in cities. close the front line or senior correspondent, auth gasdio, visited one area now under the control of russian lead forces wanting you may find some of the footage in more outs report district for about a week now. the town of bella, god of gut, has been a frontier community. it is mangled, severely, mangled by the endless. in the incessant shelling and the tags, they have also been several close quarters battles as cranium. ukrainian troops

have attempted to stem the village out of the wooded areas that rise above it in the hills above it. the community is remarkable for one reason. a lot of civilians still left here, but reaching them is in and of itself a challenge. the ground, the very air in bella. gov could reverberate with war in the shadow of a 2 story apartment building, sat around a rusty makeshift stove. we found a group of civilians, full pensioners and a 15 year old boy. i always hear a few steps from the bomb shelter. it was big as the wookey, what they give, the really got the sound of these extensions that we can hear. now, we've been hearing them for 4 months. it way. what nearby is, aren't you afraid? we used to now it's difficult to get east to it,

but we've accepted this reality city. i miss dorothy quickly that way. what they have gone through has left its mark. would of them a jittery on the edge and so weary, but make no mistake. the shelves and blasts are only part of the reason that treatment at the hands of ukrainian soldiers made it so much worse. that as you had described is, are protected and they call themselves the punishes. yet the ones cause i did they say to you go with yes to us. now it protects us. only name. you said that the law . siemens have been torture you. they would walk around and loot, but they would smash our pickles foods and drinks and then right on the walls with swear waves where it now the russians wouldn't get them want your as to be wired up close to where does all this hate come from? what do you mean where from it so that propaganda, they are brainwashed. you know all. but the majority of garnishment across the don bass civilians liberated territories. tell the same story that ukrainian soldiers

despise them, viewed them as pro russian. not anywhere near nationalistic love. they hated them, but that went food. ways to look at the exhausted elsa. we're growing. i am minus the was injured to the love and you love it when he goes to the dang. but was you with the really it would earn us as the year to year? her viola gets it, get lots of the more. how do goes the younger couple home willis? mother is not took a course, but charlotte postal initiative if you'll, if she can you hear us with that rosy pursuit? yes. when collins for suppressive this bella. gov kirk was the last major settlement to be liberated at the la god's

people's republic. it was symbolic by the entire region lost the key if that may explain why they have tried her race it from afar. that is after trying to fight it back up. close both jessica on us volumetric from with all of our machine gunners put her there at sack 1st. when you're the question, he only had one ammunition bells. was he fired? well covered his retreat. i spotted 2 of them here. i hit one and his partner drags him over here on april 1st. this is where he applies her, said you can see the bandages scattered around martha when you're welcome. lease was ukraine's last attempt at storming bela got of her with infantry. the ukrainian troops who died here were left behind by the survivors. this has become something of a trademark of ukrainian forces, leaving behind their dead and then writing them off as missing in action. his

family will still have hope and here he is abandoned by his compatriot. we will know his school side it was, or like, if what the money i thought about hollywood. they then fired back with this have a look at this launcher model. pretty much the machine gunner got away with a concussion. i shanika looked on my feeling is that there were on something to sneak up. they were walking out in the open as if they were high and drugs. we've heard the same story before, and mario bu, nationalists, who could fight without eating or drinking, or sleeping for days, who most likely had the access to amphetamines and stimulants. much like here. but they didn't help around bella, god of cur, houses and basements. those that weren't destroyed are strewn with the belongings of ukrainian soldiers. small, they couldn't hold the settlement to fight.