now and talk with it's been 7 years since coordinator spray painted these insignia on walls of the school. it was shut down soon afterwards. in the stories that shaped this week give free is a former commander of a neo nazi battalion, convicted for rape and torture. in the dumbass, as part of an amnesty program for criminals with combat experienced fueling fears as in countries, panic over russia temporarily halting the flow of gas through the north stream one pipeline. that's despite the 10 days of scheduled maintenance having been agreed upon, well in advance for longest president caves into increasing political pressure and

resigns with the prime minister appointed in his place. but the mass protest show no signs of updating our team reports on location to create a state of emergency, a country. now, minutes each and doing everything again with broadcasting from our studios in moscow. this is our 2 international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now danielle authorities have confirmed 5 civilians were killed by ukrainian military shelling of the capital city over night. as artillery rounds struck residential buildings with, you know, they always have only a new place. new. ready didn't to give that i will be a don't going to go to the man you thought doing your monthly isn't,

wasn't that that he was the other, you know what you said he around this don't you see with another this footage of the aftermath, it shows damaged buildings and cars, as well as shell fragments and craters from the impact. danielle authorities say that more than 250 civilians have been killed by ukrainian attacks on the capital city since february. meanwhile, a notorious convict has been released by the ukrainian government as part of an amnesty program for criminals. with combat experienced roslyn une shanker, who was serving time for torture and rape among other crimes, led the infamous neo nazi tornado battalion in the longest republic between 20142015 locals fear he could now return to the area. our senior correspond with garcia, went to see what's left of the units. former base near the heavily embattled city of lucy chanced in ukraine and russia tornado. his a name that is soaked with infamy, a ukrainian battalion, so murderous sadistic and perverted,

that even the ukrainian government wanted them gone. yet, 7 years on half to their rest and disbandment. their headquarters still stands in what remains at the school. it's been 7 years since tornado spray painted this insignia under the walls of this school. it was shut down soon afterwards, the kids couldn't come back than what they had. ton these place into a, a torture pit full of misery and pain, but much more recently. just 2 weeks ago, another neo nazi volunteer battalion was also stationed here and that is as off they also the fall, the walls with their own insignia. you can argue which is worse as of nationalists butchered thousands of civilians and mary, you pull but tornado. it was so much more revolting. she even ukrainian officials

lim letter stolen when the tornado commanders were detained. their mobile phones were seized when there was some scary footage on those full incident footage of sex orgies and rape. there were rapes of under age girls. no one will ever know precisely how many people they mud tortured and raped. here the court case against through slime. only chicago and his henchmen consisted of 8th he tombs at more than a 100 witnesses and victims. but that is believed to be only a fraction of them, as locals told me, oh, a regular people in miners were brought here. who picked up people from bus stops, were going to their jobs. this according to the people who were taken here, they put people on their knees asking where to serve in the army. who are you waiting for here? go. there were looking for separate us. there were telling people you how to referendum here, so you are separate us. this is where they had a torture chamber according to accounts. they brought people here,

put them on their knees and so on. but of all of this happened here right here in this room. people came out with bruises beaten, and some were not found at all. new york, my friend son disappeared and still hasn't been found. oh, from a village alone, 5 or 6 people disappeared. i don't know why they did this. maybe because they are been there a followers and nazis. at its inception, in 2014 tornado was formed from the remnants of another disgraced ukrainian volunteer battalion, shot your risk a quarter of the volunteers who formed tornado. what convicts as they grew and recruited, that percentage only increased who got what us business. there were a lot of them with prison tattoos. convicts can easily be recognized by their behavior when we were picked up at the bus stop. i didn't have my passport with me . they checked us with some were released, but were not listed as

a resultant. i was on my knees in my former school. they tied my hands. i stood like that from 6 am to 8 pm, when one of them would come up and point to muzzle at my neck like this, and pull the trigger. it all up as well to either show. this was once, only jenkins caught us turns into a dump, a trash followed by, via ukrainian troops stationed here. now safe, still unopened. bear in mind though, that only shanker was arrested and tornado was disbanded in 2015 lot of time has passed, but people still remember despite everything and slum only shampoo, who ordered and oversaw uncountable. torches rapes and killings of civilians has been released from jail early by ukrainian authorities of the serving holy 7 years . he and his closest henchmen are once again together and have at their disposal

millions of dollars in nato weaponry. all the guns and power they need to chad a whole. the hate that they carry their regular store rosky 1000000. they came to me and sat. yeah. what's up? russian. it is. i told them, i guess looking for russians than should. everyone here is that i told them i was born here. i grew up here. you, i will die here is when you're looking for russians. i said, well should be then football. so that's what he did. they were doing something in the basement. they were walking around, dressed like nazis, as they were shooting at the cemetery. they had a shooting range. their people disappeared. we've dug up everything around here. no one knows where they have gone the slot only. shank, his release will only boost thrush his case that moscow is waging battle against those that brave few who hold ukraine, hostage against nationalism and radicalism, the legs of which the world has forgotten against hatred, depravity, and then

a phobia. given a human form for a gas day of r t, from believe all yeah, lou gods, people's republic. russia main gas, ex porter says it expects german engineering from siemens to fully meet its obligations when it comes to maintenance for the north stream. one pipeline that says gas problem has hinted, there's still no official documents from siemens to return a gas turbine. after repair work in canada or earlier canada confirmed, it would insure the transfer of the required turbine to germany to provide europe with russian gas supplies through north stream. one of the move requested by berlin was met with outrage in kiev with ukraine's president slamming it as absolutely inappropriate. and that's admitted, fresh worries in the you. this week after russia halted the flow of gas through north stream, one for 10 days, due to scheduled maintenance, leading some to a ledge that russia could be manipulating gas flows as

a political tool. germany's economy minister robert here back has said you countries needed to tighten their belts and follow dirty to get through expected shortages of the commodity and the pipelines, maintenance to last until thursday was agreed upon by all sides in advance. north stream one flows directly from russia to germany under the baltic sea. it's crucial for berlin as it accounts for around half of germany's gas imports, but he's rachel marston. comments had i said the solidarity is more important than ever solidarity for what collective suicide. it's easy nations, their weapon ising, their own energy policy, putting their own gas supply in peril with anti russian sanctions for which we, the citizens are paying the price of the pump. here in france, we're on the cost of a massive heat wave right now with up to 40 degree temperatures forecasted over the next couple of weeks. france even has a statutory holiday in june every year in memory of the nearly 20000 elderly who died in care homes from a similar heat wave in the summer of 2003,

but french economy minister between orland, they're hardly inspires confidence that our leaders have a clue what they're doing. 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, except that we're not ready for battle here in europe. let's face it, habits proclaimed that he cut down his shower time yet again. like that's any kind of a solution for supposedly developed nation while german cities are planning to introduce warm up space is this winter amid the need to ration energy? you know, those things that you see in depression era, hollywood movies, you know, the in, you is really jumped out of a plane here without a parachute, when it went gung ho sanctioning its own gas supply from russia. the proof, the fact that this plan maintenance shut down of nord stream one is sparking hypo ventilation by you. officials who fear that russia could use it as an excuse to reduce gas delivery to europe. org stand shut down beyond the 10 days. the italian

oil and gas company, any reports that daily supplies been cut by a 3rd of the usual volume. austria's energy company o m v also report a reduction by nord stream, one operator gas prom of 70 percent. when you say she writes her energy, the eas, top economies went along with it, but now was panic sets. and in russia turns off the top even temporarily. we seeing the u bit off more than it can chew. it's kind of like that teenager who runs away from home, gets halfway down his own street and starts panicking over his own foolish decision . journalist and political analyst, luca prevail, says it's becoming increasingly harder for you officials to justify their sanctions against russia, to their own voters. and taxpayers, all the politicians in europe, i trying to explain the, the, the very, very difficult things that we can go through in, in the coming months and years. probably all in it,

we're getting into recession. we have a 10 percent inflation in, on average, in your 8.5 or 8.9 percent. inflation and of the worst hit will be germany. that's terrible because this is the local motive of european economy of european industry. even if they could find out gas to replace russian gas, this would have to be bait not in you know, anymore, but in dollars. and we don't print dollars a year, so it's gonna get worse and worse, you have a voice is coming up by this princess. but also, for example, sequel and why. yeah, in france was set for one, something crucial that be the conflict in ukraine was not our conflict. and that she could not understand why we impose sanctions that harmless, much more than russia. so it's getting, you know, very difficult for politicians to explain this. and that they are trying to prepare

us re me for rationing. that will probably come in the auto but use of parliament has been demanding answers from spain over the deaths of at least 23 migrants who had been attempting to cross the border from morocco. spain's interior minister has been summoned to the european parliament civil liberties committee. after a local investigation concluded, the migrants died from some suffocation and not police violence. the deadly incident took place. last month when a huge crowd tried to rush into the spanish enclave of maleah, just a warning. you may find some of the following images disturbing. the ha fuel. all the debts we saw were caused by his fix, yet they were the results of over crowding and pushing by a huge number of people attempting to cross the border at once. probe also concluded that police officers didn't use any firearms or other leave the weapons. despite footage filmed at the border, showing the exact opposite. an estimated 2000 people stormed the frontier on june

24th. in an attempt to reach the spanish enclave on the african continent, some rights groups claimed the death toll could be as high as 37. un human rights office has adamantly asserted that the migrants were brutally attacked by authorities. we have received reports of migrants being beaten with baton kicked, pushed and attacked with stones by moroccan officials when they tried to scale the barbed wire fence, which is between 6 and 10 meters high separating morocco from the lyla or heard from an international policy consulting from south sudan, who suspects the authorities, have committed a cover up i think they kind of want to just keep them under the rug and maintain the status quo into i forgot about it. but now with the social media, the picture started showing up everywhere. the whole world thing was happening and it brought a tend to do an issue that could have remained small and could have gone unheard of for a while now. and so now they're under pressure to investigate. it's a good political strategy by them because now they're looking at ways to

investigate this and say that they're going to look into these issues and hold people accountable to ensure that they protect their reputation and look, look like their country that does can, is concerned about these people, but initially the objective was to maintain the status quo and hopefully all statistic passed by morocco getting pressure from the european countries, which it has political, economic relationship with them. so it's in their interest to ensure that they maintain that rhetoric, that these are criminals, that people entering the country legally, and they cannot backdrop and statements made before us. it make them appear weak. 3040 people were just murdered and gun down. i didn't show you that the lack of human life is valued in the area and it's a justification because that the actions that occurred there were wrong in people need to be held accountable, but seem as if the countries who shouldn't be investigating or protecting their own people while she long as president has officially resign the math unrest that has gripped the south, asian country shows no signs of abating. earlier protesters angered at worsening

economic and social conditions breached the prime minister's office. he was appointed as acting president on friday, but people are demanding that he stepped down as well. o, please use water cannons and tear gas against the demonstrators, but were unable to prevent them from taking over the premier's office. dozens of people were reported injured in clashes between the protesters and the authorities . parties. room june sharma has been following the mass rallies throughout the week . the goal, but i will protest still do that very much in force behind me. the president secretary did. now there's been an official confirmation, but the president has left the country and he's currently in all of these little things because she longer will need a new government. why is that? because somebody would have to negotiate with the i am in the international

monetary fund to get a good be allowed to beckett's, then she'd uncle would also need a good finance minister. now important to underline, deal that much. the focus also will be on the new government and how they tackle the massive challenges that made this particular government out. the new government would also inherited massive humanitarian and no, i know what about challenges. we had a state of emergency after president both of my own job shop in the country. now the administration is doing it every thing again, this boston crowd said, well joe gas jail have been used on the still remain adamant with

i'm going to show her mom in columbus. the president has reportedly fled to the maldives on a military jack. meanwhile, the new acting president has announced the creation of a special committee to restore law and order in the country. it includes the top officials from the military and the police surveyed the resigned leaders abandoned residents. i'm here in front of the residents housing, columbus for lanka. as you can see behind me 10 st. thousands of people, la steel, eagerly awaiting to walking to the presidential palace and to see what is the inside and what sort of a bill. and that was captured by the apprentice this on the 9th of july. and this particular human line is currently managed by the members of da da da, huge mass valley. the protest that was unveiled on the 9th of july, but still received the presence of the secret personnel as well as providing the necessary security. and also the official residents of the president boat. i bid

our deposit oh no, from his position as the president, there was a meeting among the members of the representative bodies that organized the early on the 9th of july. and the particular part, lee does at the apartment complex, which are organized by the speaker. so the protest, the organizers have refused to take part in that particular meeting, saying that david, have their own action plan for the future road map, yet is for a lanka. so this is to push on loss, reported to you in front of the presidential palace in colombo, for lanka. the severe economic crisis has plunged the country into chaos as much of the national debt is owed to western powers, or in the past half a century, the international monetary fund has given the nation. 16 loans with sri lanka, going through a series of so called economic stabilization programs, despite the huge repayment issues. for long as prime minister said that the 2018 world economic forum, the country would become wealthy within

a decade. it's no secret at asia as the economic engine of the future. and in our endeavors to make sri lanka, a rich country by 2025, we aim 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. independent journalist benjamin norton says, i am have policies for sri lanka have benefited foreign powers, not the people of that country. 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 and 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. to unlock, as economy has collapsed under the massive weight of foreign debts, culminating in

a default earlier this year. now several other countries face historic economic challenges and the possibility that they won't be able to make payments on their sovereign bonds. ortiz ritual blevins comments. days after massive protests sparked by dire economic conditions, lead true august president, to flee the country. some are now warning, but other developing nations could soon find themselves in the same position. in fact, the international monetary fund is warning that 19 developing nations are either high risk or currently experiencing debt distress. their warning that those countries which oh, more than $230000000000.00 to foreign bondholders, maybe the next in line to default on their debt. the biggest concerns right now include all, salvador pakistan gonna argentina and ukraine. so it comes as no surprise said those countries are getting special attention from the i am that the organization which has a long been accused of signing off on predatory loans for developing nations and

i'll talk so she long last month ended without a deal. the i m s, the managing director says it is looking forward to working with a new government in the near future. we have been reaching out to the biggest creditors to sri lanka to ascertain their commitment to engage so we can have that resolution. it would be better for the creditors to step forward, because then they have a better chance for the country to recover and for them to recoup more of their money. meanwhile, pakistan has been scrambling to make a deal with the i am that securing an agreement for an additional $1200000000.00 this week. but while that may provide some temporary relief, the nation has more than $40000000000.00 in debt payments coming up in just the next 12 months. pakistan is at a challenging economic juncture, a difficult external environment combined with pro cyclical domestic policies, fuel domestic demand, her unsustainable levels. the resultant economic overheating lead to large fiscal

and external deficits. in the fiscal year 2022 contributed to rise in inflation and eroded reserve buffers. but not to worry the i a math is assuring the world it has everything taken care of even as it continues to offer. 2 loans with no strategy for the developing nations they are working with to ever get out of that debt. we have to rethink how to act more in the direction of supporting countries early preemptively building resilience to these shocks. and that goes beyond the traditional focus of financial sector fiscal policy. as for the question of whether the i m f would be willing to forgive all of that, when it becomes clear that countries are being crushed under the financial load. well, that has yet to happen. some have tried to make the case for ukrainian debt jubilee for years now. but the western organization and its partners in the us in europe have only continued to add to that debt bubble, all in the name of unwavering support. that is it for me this hour,

but stay with us throughout the day as we bring you more news and commentary, this is our to international. glad every with ah ah need to come to the russian state. little narrative. i've stayed as i phone and ignore some scheme with equal benefits if that would be okay. so mine is 2 bottles, anyone else with we will van in the european union, the kremlin media machine, the state on russia for date and r t spoke neck. even our video agency, roughly all band on youtube said

with me. so what we got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk with

me the welcome worlds apart. some 30 years ago. just as the soviet union was about to collapse, frances fukuyama pronounce the end of history, giving a science expression to a pretty simple american craving for eternal dominance. this lot of the theory became apparent pretty quickly in part because what madison, the final analysis is not only where she is, but also where it begins in trying to understand or in ukraine and what it means for the rest of the world. how far down memory lane should we go to discuss them now? join, why we are research for the south african chapter of the southern east africa and

trade in which you have agreed to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me do just fine. it's great pleasure talking to you. and i think from reading some of your recent articles we share similar to space for neo con politics. you know, the intention of launching wars and the name of all the good against all the bad times or most of the times leaving scorching lines in the aftermath. but for some reason, this scenario is supposed to be happening over and over again. i cover the words in libya or in theory just a couple of years ago. and nowadays everybody forgot about it. it seems that the only one that exists in the media space right now, we're in the brain. and while it's pretty horrible, outcome for russia, 1st and foremost, i wonder why do you think this cycle of, you know, each new wor,

replacing the memory of the previous one. why do you think the cycle goes on? i think we have a global hedge among which is the united states and the united states has been taken over by a cabal of new conservative thing cuz and practitioners like victorian union and the k guns and so on. so go v dial, the famous writer called the united states, the united states of amnesia because you know, everything in the media is sound bites and is more psychology than fact. so we have the domination of the information space by the us with twitter, putting people like scott ritter off and so on. so there is the traditional manufacturing of consent. and even more concerning is that there is an over simplification of very complex issues. one can, for instance, at a human level b of

b against violence and against the invasion of ukraine by russia. but if you look at it at a geopolitical level, one can see that both russia and china being surrounded by american or nato military bases. and the assertion is that the nato is a defense of alliance. but i think the brown people like libyans or syrians or iraqis, we say that this is certainly not the case. and at least for the off on it. so, you know, the perspective from africa is that we want to be neutral, is a v, this war doesn't mean we don't have compassion with the ukrainians or the russians . and you know, both people are dying on both sides at the geopolitical level. one can see that the russians were backed into a corner and almost had no option. on the other hand, at the national level, one must respect the rights of the ukrainians, like many africans who are struggling.