ah ah, with mccraney enforce is launch a fresh barrage of at least 80 devastating rockets that done. yes, city on sunday after 5 civilians were killed by shelling there overnight. and in our rundown of the week's top stories, it's been 7 years since coordinator spray painted this insignia hon. this school it was shut down through pumpkin would have cut loose, a convicted neo nazi battalion commander who raped and tortured people in dunbar. so he can return to the conflict. so despite his criminal record with countries panic over russia, temporarily halting the flow of gas through the north stream one pipeline. although

the scheduled maintenance was agreed to in advance with cluster along coast prime minister is sworn in as interim president, replacing the previous leader who resigned to bid mass protests which show no sign of abating. our correspondence reports from the c a country. now the administration is doing everything again with all their you're watching the weekly on our, to international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. now ukrainian forces have fired more than 80 grad rockets into the capital of the done yet people's are public on sunday. that's according to local authorities who have accused key of troops of deliberately targeting residential areas. finance, 5th,

officials say 5 civilians were killed by the ukrainian shelling of the capital city over night. as artillery rounds struck apartment blocks. here's some of the latest footage of the aftermath. showing heavy dam heavily damaged buildings and vehicles in the area, as well as impact craters from the explosions. according to danielle authorities, at least $250.00 civilians have been killed by ukrainian attacks on the people's republic since the start of russia military operation. in february, we heard from one of the locals who has been living under dame shelf wood. but you know, they always have only a new play nation. didn't belong to that. i believe in going to go to the man. you don't do it. you must. they, with the know got margin of every oh the every you know what you said you around this, don't you see with not others you and in the neighboring lugens, the people's republic local officials say to people have been killed by a ukrainian rocket strike using us supplied high mars artillery systems,

6 residential buildings plus a bus depot and a sanatorium have been said to have been severely damaged and the latest attack. now, according to russia's defense ministry up to 200 ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries have been killed so far this weekend. as russian forces continue striking military targets in southern ukraine. oscar was also confirmed the destruction of a stockpile of nato supplied missiles in the city of odessa, plus an american made artillery system and for control units are said to have been neutralized by russian strikes and elsewhere, a ukrainian cargo plane with around 11 tons of weapons and ammunition, including mortar shells and landlines has crashed in greece. that's according to serbian authorities who tracked the flight after its take off from the balkan country. the plane was destined for bangladesh, but the pilot had requested an emergency landing in greece after apparently experiencing an engine failure. all 8 crew members were killed in the crash,

which creek authorities are now investigating. and a notorious conflict convict has been released by the ukrainian government as part of an amnesty program for criminals with combat experience. roof land on the chicago led the infamous neo nazi tornado battalion and the guns people's republic between 20142015. and he was serving time and ukraine for torture, rape, and a number of other crimes, san boss locals. now fear that he could return to the area network senior correspondent, more i guess he went to see what's left of the extremist units. former base near that heavily embattled city of least a chance in ukraine and russia tornado. his a name that is soaked with infamy, 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. that headquarters still stands in

what remains at the school has 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 this place into 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 mario bull, but tornado. it was so much more revolting, say, even ukrainian officials swam letters thong when the tornado commanders where detained them. of alphonse 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 doris lamb, only shanker and his henchmen consisted of 8th he tombs more than a 100 witnesses and victims. but that is believed to be only a fraction of them as locals told me, oh, regular people and miners were brought here. they 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 wire to serving in the army. who are you waiting for here? there were looking for separate us. they were telling people you hold a 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. all of this happened here right here in this room. people came out with bruises beaten and some were not found at all. yeah,

my friend son disappeared and still hasn't been found from a village alone. 5 or 6 people disappeared. i don't know why they did this. maybe because they are been darrow followers and nazis. at its inception, in 2014 tornado was formed from the remnants of another disgraced ukrainian volunteer battalion shocked your task. a quarter of the volunteers who formed tornado. what convicts? as they grew and recruited, that percentage only increased. we'll go with us because there were a lot of them with prison tattoos. convicts can easily be recognized by their behavior. we were picked up at the bus stop. i didn't have my passport with me. they checked us with some were released, but some were not as a result and 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 the muzzle at my neck like this and pull the trigger. it all off, i don't. this was once only jenkins caught us. turn into a dump a trash while by, via ukrainian troops stationed here now safe, still an open 3rd, mon, those its only shanker was arrested, and tornado was disbanded in 2015. ladon has passed, but people still remember the spice. everything that was slum only shingo who ordered and over saw 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 pallor they need to chad

a whole. the hate that they carry their luster rosky 1000000. they came to me and said, you know what's up russian. i told them already. guess looking for russians than should every one here. i told them i was born here. i grew up here. you. i will die here and you're looking for russians. i said, well, should me then the football with the played. 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 therapy bucket people disappeared. we've dug up everything around here. no one knows where they have gone. the slot only shake who's release. we'll only boost thrushes case that moscow is waging battle against lose depraved. few who hold ukraine, hostage against nationalism and radicalism. the likes of which the world has forgotten against hatred, depravity, and xenophobia. given human form for i'd get the of our tea from pre valia la gods

peoples republic gas prom says it expects german engineering firm, siemens to fully meet its obligations when it comes to maintenance of the north stream. one pipeline that's as russia's main gas exporter has entered there still no official documents from siemens to return a gas turbine. after return, after repair work in canada, earlier canada confirmed, it would insure the transfer of the hardware to germany to provide europe with russian gas supplies via nordstrom one. berlin requested the move, which was met with outrage and key f with ukraine's president slamming it as absolutely inappropriate. that's made fresh worries in the you this week after russia halted the flow of gas or north stream one for 10 days due to scheduled maintenance. it's lead some to allege that moscow could be manipulated gas flows as a political tool. germany is economy minister says you countries need to tighten their belts and solidarity to get through expected shortages. the pipelines maintenance is set to last until thursday and was agreed upon in advance by all

sides. nordstrom one floes, directly from russia to germany under the baltic sea, and it's crucial for berlin as it accounts for around half of germany. gas imports are t contributor rachel marston has more on the story had i said the solidarity is more important than ever. solidarity for what collective suicide it's a nation. so weaponized their own energy policy, putting their own gas supply and peril with anti racial sanctions for which we, the citizens are paying the price of the pump. here in france were 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 hardly inspires confidence that our leaders have any clue what they're doing. let's prepare for a total cut off 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, 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 the shut down beyond the 10 days. the italian oil and gas company, any reports that its daily supplies been cut by a 3rd of the usual volume. austria's energy company o m v also reported a reduction by nord stream,

one operator gas prom of 70 percent. when did you sanction roger? an energy that used top economies went along with it, but now was panic sets in 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 analysts to luke prevail says it's becoming increasingly difficult for you officials to justify anti russian sanctions to their own voters. and taxpayers, all the politicians in europe by trying to explain the developing, very difficult things that we can go through in, in the coming months and years. probably all we getting into recession, we have a 10 percent inflation in, on average, you're a point 5 or 8.9 percent inflation and of the worst it will be germany. that's terrible because this is the locomotive all european economy of

european industry, even if they could find gas to replace russian gas, this would have to be paid, not in, you know, any more bought in dollars. and we don't print dollars a year. and so it's kind of getting worse and worse. you have a voice is coming by this princess. but also for example, sequel in a while. and from what i said for one, something crucial that the, the conflict in ukraine was not our conflict. and, and she could not understand why we impose sanctions that harmless, much more than russia. so it's getting, you know, very difficult for the politicians to explain this. and they are trying to prepare a sway before rationing that we probably come in the auto the use parliament wants 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 state back to investigation. and morocco concluded that the migrants died from suffocation not police violence. the incident took place last month when a huge crowd of people tried to storm the spanish enclave city of melia, in north africa. just a warning you may find some of the following images disturbing. all the depths we saw were caused by a 60 s. they were the results of over crowding and pushing by a huge number of people attempting to cross the border at once. according to the moroccan investigation, police officers did not use any lethal weapons. despite footage filmed at the border showing exactly the opposite and estimated 2000 people stormed the frontier on june 24th. in an attempt to reach the autonomous spanish city, some rights group say the death toll could be as high as 37 people. and the un human right and the human, the us human rights office has adamantly, as asserted that the migrants were in fact,

brutally attacked by moroccan security forces. we have received reports of margaret, been beaten with battens caked, pushed and attacked the stones by maroka and officials. when they tried to scale the barbed wire fence, which is between 6 and 10 meters high, separated morocco from 1000000 or t heard from an international policy consultant from south sudan, who suspects that the minute the moroccan authorities have committed a cover up. i think they kind of want to just keep this under the rug and maintain the status quo and totally 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 is 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 statement before us. it make them appeal week 3040 people were just murdered and gun down at the shows 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 some of the countries who shouldn't be investigating or protecting their own people also long as president has officially resign the mass unrest that has gripped the south asian country shows no sign of abating earlier protesters angered at worsening economic and social conditions breached the prime minister's office was appointed as interim president on friday, but people are demanding that he stepped down as well.

the police used water cannon said tear gas against the demonstrators, but were unable to prevent them from taking over the premier's office. dozens of people were reported injured and the clashes and r t. s ruin june sharma has been following them throughout the week ago. but i hope you just did it very much. info . as behind me the president secretary did. now that's been an official confirmation, but the president has left the country and he's currently in all of these little things, but she lanka 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 will also need a finance minister. now important to underline,

good. that much of the focus also will be on the new government and how they tackle the state of massive challenges that made this particular government out. the new government will also inhibited massive humanitarian and no i know challenges. so you can add a state of emergency to president both of my own job shop, then the country. now the administration is doing everything it can. the sponsor called said what john gas jail have been you with still remain adamant with your mom in columbus so long as former leader has reportedly fled to the maldives on military jet. meanwhile, the new interim president has announced the creation of a special committee to restore law and order in the country. this group includes

top officials from the military and the police. earlier, a local journalist took a closer look at the former leaders, abandoned russ. i'm here in front of residents, housing, columbo, sri lanka, as you can see behind me 10 cent thousands of people are still eagerly awaiting to walk into the sir presidential palace and to see what is the inside and what sort of a bill. and that was captured by the apprentices on the 9th of july. and this particular human line is currently managed by the members of the organizations that carried out the huge mass valley. the protest that was unveiled on the 9th of july, but still received the presence of the security personnel as well providing the necessary security. and this was the official residents of the president bought alberto de boxer who volved to step down 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 party leaders at the apartment complex,

which was organized by the speaker so of the protest. the organizers have refused to take part in the particular meeting, saying that david have their own action plan for the future road map yet in sri lanka. so this is michelle voss reported to you in front of the presidential palace in colombo, sir lanka. severe economic crisis has plunged the country into chaos as much of the national debt is owed to western powers or the past half a century. the international monetary fund has given the nation 16 loans with sri lanka, going through a so called economic stabilization program series. despite the huge repayment issues, the countries prime minister said at the 2018 world economic forum, it's re lanka, would become wealthy within several 7 years. it's no secret that 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 f policies for sri lanka have benefited foreign powers. instead of the countries people 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. as we just mentioned, sri lanka, economy 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 of failing to pay back on their own sovereign bombs

. ortiz, racial blevins reports on that days after massive protest sparked by dire economic conditions, lead tree, longest president to flee the country. some are now warning, but other developing nations could soon find themselves. 2 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 that those countries are getting special attention from the i am math, the organization, which has 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 rising inflation and eroded reserve buffers. but not to worry

the i a map is assuring the world that has everything to in 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 debt 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 as partners in the u. s. in europe have only continued to add to that debt bubble, all in the name of unwavering support. that's all for the weekly here on our, to international stick around for more and just about 30 minutes. ah,

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let it be an arms. race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical time. time to sit down and talk with me on welcome to wells fargo some 30 years ago. just as the soviet union, it was about to collapse. francis fukuyama pronounce the end of history, giving a science expression to pretty simple american craving for eternal dominance. the

loss of this theory became apparent pretty quickly in part because what matters in the final analysis is not only work history as but also where it begins in trying to understand the war in the ukraine and what it means for the rest of the world. how far down memory lane should we go to discuss them now joined, ply, we asked teo researcher for the south african chapter of the southern and east african trade institute. it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me as we'll do just fine. yes, great pleasure. talking to you and i think from reading some of your recent articles, we share a similar to space for neo con politics. you know the intention also launching wars in the name of all the good against all the bad and some times to or most of the times leaving scorching lance in the aftermath. but for some reason,

this scenario is supposed to be happening over and over again. i cover the words and libya or in theory and 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 is the we're in the brain. and while it's a 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 amman, which is the united states, and the united states has been taken over by a cabal of new conservative thinkers and practitioners like victoria new lynn and the kagan and so on. so garvey, donald, a famous writer called the united states to the united states of amnesia because you know, everything in the media is sound bites and it's more cycle.