[000:00:00;00] a with russia says its forces have killed hundreds of foreign mercenaries and destroyed multiple ukrainian military assets inside the done yes, the people's republic with a decisive battle for control of the area in full swing and a neighboring lugens to people's republic. our correspondence joins a russian combat patrol that is mopping up hostile resistance from ukrainian troops dressed as civilians and the recently recaptured city of charles with controlled agree with the now cooling for backup was hostile potential host up in the park with building and he just took a short,

many ukrainian soldiers who were left behind have now change them to civilian clothes. plus oil prices are on the rise in the wake of jo biden's, much hyped, but ultimately lack luster trip to the middle east with saudi arabia saying it will not jeopardize its relations with china in favor of throwing the u. s. a. financial life. mm hm. and sri lanka is acting, president, slams whitford sanctions against russia, saying they are only bringing 3rd world countries like the impoverished south asian nation to with hello there, you're watching our international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. up to 254 and mercenaries have been killed in russia's latest strikes on ukrainian military sites inside the done. yeah, it's people's republic. that's according to russia's defense ministry. here's some

of the latest footage released by mox moscow showing multiple rocket law says against targets in the combat zone. defense ministry also says its forces have destroyed ukrainian nationalist formations in the countries. sure costco region, as well as multiple military assets inside dunbar says russian lead troops press on with their advance. however, some areas in the people's republic are still coming under. relentless shelling by ukrainian forces on this footage was released by the mayor of the city of gotten that done yet. people's republic showing what local officials have described as ukrainian artillery shelling of a residential neighborhood. several houses and a cafe were reportedly damaged in that attack. in the neighboring lugens people's republic, russian forces are restoring order in the key city of lucy. chance capture recently retaking the area are senior correspondent more i'd gas do you have joined some of the troops on patrol there as they encountered armed resistance from hostile

stragglers? yes, isn't with control that we will we the now calling for back up as a hostile potential hostile in an apartment building and he just took a shot. the police control. the problem is that many ukrainian soldiers who deserted maria were left behind or who were left behind, have now changed into civilian clothes and a hiding in the apartments that they have broken into. so can i stop on when you, who do i get ahold of bob? i've done this. weaver now been us to leave all rather escorted away from the area. the display special operation on the way reinforcements of arrived. they're going to sweep the building a high,

high rise 9th floor apartment building floor by floor apartment by apartment in order to catch this person who fulfill it for a 3rd day that has been taking pot shots. i. 5 with rolling through every day more ukrainian desert is and stragglers of found some come in peacefully, others play, hide and seek. why did you decide to change it to civilian clothes and abandoned new military units? also, there was no sense in going anywhere. it's either a bulletin, it had or a criminal charge. i'm a local so i decided to stay. so you felt it was futile to continue to fight us indeed. and we were constantly retreating. where should we go to next to europe? for miss hall and why didn't you try to leave the army earlier? if it were so if we left would be shot, why our own the forces?

what every captured ukrainian soldier has confirmed is that morale amongst their forces was disastrous. the crating of whom was felt abandoned, but it felt like cabin fog and he didn't like it. and it will look the morale in my units, who was very low as we were constantly retreating with and didn't have enough ammunition. the commander stay far from the front and came out only to perch. i saw that personally. well, i was in the city with every day the city's commandant tells us chaos and lawlessness. rashid like water, strengthens. but there is a long way to kill yet. these one thing to when the violence of the crime and the looting yell with entirely another, with public, that they will to become back with her before i'd gasdio t firmly. she judds god's people's republic. oil prices are on the rise in the wake of joe biden's trip to the middle east where he failed to

secure more accessible oil imports for the u. s. market. but to get more on this, now we're gonna cross live to ortiz, correspond, and kayla mop and hi there, caleb. so what exactly went wrong with biden's hopes of wooing washington's arrow partners to bail out the usaa oil industry? sure. well, as you're very aware of the american people are quite unhappy about the rising gas prices and many hope to the jo biden's trip would result in convincing the saudis to increase oil outward and lower the price of gas. well, that did not happen. and the trip is also not going well on other fronts, the king of saudi arabia, or i guess, rather the crown prince mohammed, ben, solomon and, and joe biden, they exchanged what many are referring to as a fist bump, a chilly fist. bob, not a handshake, but a bist bomb than many are wondering about the irony of that sense. joe biden did

claim when he was running for president, that he was going to make saudi arabia a pariah state. but as you can see, he's now bist bumping with mohammed ben psalm and the crown prince. in addition to that, we understand that joe biden has offended his host to some degree, asking the crown prince if he was responsible for the killing of jamal shoji and getting quite a response. this is what was said in response to joe biden, confronting the k. it has not worked when the us tried to impose values on afghanistan and iraq, in fact, it backfired. it does not work when people tried to impose values by force on other countries. now the american people that were hoping for a lower price of gasoline had been disappointed. the media is raking biden over the coals for his chilly fist bump with the government. he once said when he was trying to make a pariah. and the saudis are also unimpressed. with biden's attempts to, to confront them about the killing of jamal to show you. so it seems that the trip

is bailing on 3 front. not another success story for the bind administration. archie caleb and thanks a lot for bringing us those details. also while on his visit to saudi arabia biden tried to assert us leadership in the region, noting that washington will not leave a quote vacuum to be filled by moscow or beijing. saudi arabia's top diplomat says re adds relations with the u. s. and china are not mutually exclusive. we want to be able to deal with everybody in china is our largest trading partner. we build bridges with people. we don't see one s exclusive of the other. earlier we heard from an indian foreign service veteran m k. barbara cool, mar who says that washington's latest attempts to drive its rivals away from the middle east are too little too late. kind of a binding to a new policy would be at the big track as in the

1982. been down the place to an extent to cutting russia going forward. i didn't know that we know was there in the final phase of the soviet union? no, this is it that, that he was attempting by getting the so you get to pick up the i think miserably. this is, this is why i think on this because i think the naturally of this would be that it's not dying before so that it starts grading, its oil, which i know we already have seen. but so let's just see from russia and any addition on that, so we can do it on the basis of reach in big point from russia. in other words, it's what brings us,

we ship in the middle of the machine that the nation. i mean, it's dangerous by dimensions and to be bad for when we saw the big missing and the aftermath of biden's controversial trip to the middle east terran has slammed his policy in the region, accusing the u. s. of spreading iran a phobic sentiments. the u. s. is once more trying to create tensions and crises across the region through relying on the failed policy of iran, a phobia, a joint statement released after biden's trip to israel emphasized us lead efforts to prevent her on from building a nuclear weapon. biden has asserted that the u. s. could use military force against iran as a quote. last resort. earlier this week, rounds president promised

a harsh response to any escalation by washington or its allies, political analyst and researcher christopher holly says the u. s. in israel c, a ran as a geopolitical threat. he runs in $79.00 after the overthrow of the shot. they don't want to listen to washington, they wanted to have their own by foreign policy they, they are very much for a different type of world order. and so you, what you see now is that you run is interested to join russia, china and other countries to really build that. and that ultimately threatens wall street in c, u. s. military hegemony. and if there is nato's overarching a global dominance. so it's, it's very much a nerve wracking for the elite in washington and in new york city, in brussels, in vienna and geneva. and the sad part is that the fight and stick with to the middle east. the 1st one in his presidency was marked by is strong and to iran

sentiment. and that was both in israel and also in saudi arabia. and we have to realize that this is jerusalem declaration that fight inside with the israeli authorities are either in the it really is quite shocking because they're still me being this military option, the table and the really the have you done as it's i get? so i think very, very much that this is a dangerous situation, and the iranian government is correct if you run to phobic, they are spreading it all over. the western sanctions against russia are only bringing suffering to 3rd world countries like sri lanka, that's according to the impoverished nations interim president. speaking at an international forum for preventing hunger and famine. let us look at the sanctions that are being impose and asked ourselves, is this nancy? it is sanction being rachada reeds means the sanction own been russia. believe me,

but it to ring the rest of the dogwood to its knees. meanwhile, so long as government has imposed fuel rationing in the latest attempt to bring the country's economic turmoil under control. that's as people queue up for hours or even days to fill up at petrol stations. so long as energy minister has even urged residents not to wait in vain saying that only limited supplies will be handed out . throughout this week, the country has been reeling from a profound crisis that has left it unable to import sufficient amounts of essential goods including fuel. some people have even been observed fighting over gasoline, has many residents are faced with a very difficult choice having to buy fuel or food. archie corresponded runjun sharma explains house relaunch. it are coping with the crisis. a shortage of fuel in a bankrupt country has led to prizes of all commodities including rice, wheat, fruits and vegetables, going to the roof with inflation at more than 50 percent. the prices are burning

a hole in the buckets of she. lincoln's. ordinarily this market would be buzzing with people at these above the now with the prices of basics going up drastically. things that change something like a banana. see, for example, is also become a luxury for many, it's very expensive compared to the full months and will be don't consume fluids. like those days we just get this issue. so people have to bring money. this is robin beans are not normally make the moment the island nation is running out to foreign currency, deserves to import essential items and its impact is hitting hot. lucas now counting on the changing political landscape of the country to reshape their economic future. despite gustavo roger, buck shells, resignation, protest, continued sri lanka. it's d 100 and the crowd champs have gone from. gotta go back to ronald, go back. why people still hillary?

i'm not at home. you may ask. not far from the demonstrations is peter sons lean invalid? what day in these small alleys? we still buy a house. it's around 7 in the evening. and regina has just started making dinner. she has to feed a family of freaks, including her 2 children with no gas. she was a scary thing to cook. her she is just about finished cooking and has been above a got she now family are going to eat the meal incomplete darkness just like most days, the power won't come back for the next 5 hours or so. although the cuts have gotten better from a month ago, but it's still a daily affair. by dwelling on godaddy, it took her only able to give all children milk once to day, damsel 3 times previously, because men's powder is not too expensive. we tried to feed our children 3 times a day where we can barely managed to do it more than once or twice. we counted and gab basic madison fall, children,

there are no on to buy out except local pharmacies or even at hospitals. routine, east tory is not just hostelry. it is the story of many of the 22000000 people in the country. and unlike the daily bava cutouts they plight will last much longer than a few hours. with no telling when things will improve runjun sharma in colombo, 40 the u. s. government funded a company that advised facebook on which accounts to sensor and delete on that network. that's according to a new report which has shed more light on washington's meddling and social media, as ortiz, rachel blevins reports. it is no secret that social media networks like facebook and twitter have spent the last few years targeting accounts. they claim are guilty of spreading dis information, but when it comes to which accounts are removed and of course, what is considered false information? the question then turns to who is influencing those decisions?

and that was certainly the case when facebook deleted dozens of accounts linked to the opposition and sudan last year. as the countries military sees power from the us back transitional government, we removed 53 facebook accounts, 51 pages, 3 groups, and 18 instagram accounts in sudan that targeted domestic audiences. and were linked to individuals in sudan including those associated with the future movement for reform and development, a political party and sudan. we found this network after reviewing information about some of its activity shared by researchers at vaillant projects. phase that gave the credit to valence projects, a company that describes its mission as investigating dis, information, and supporting newly formed governments to help them survive. it's work is being made possible by donors that include the u. s. agency for international development . an organization previously used by washington to try and cite regime change in countries like cuba. in fact,

according to league documents obtained to reported by ment press news. valan projects received to $1200000.00 from u. s. a. id for its efforts to counter dis information. washington has a special interest in sudan as the country's leadership had been the subject of the agencies office of transition initiatives following a government over throw in 2019 following months of a nation wide non violent movement. the establishment of a civilian lead transitional government in august 2019 represented a historic democratic transformation and an opportunity to further u. s. interests in sudan in the region also prevail and projects itself. it's worth noting that the company's founder and direct or a meal con, is a former reuters and b, b. c reporter that you check out his linkedin profile. he has a gap of around 10 years, during which time he went to work for the british government, providing information support for the armed opposition in syria. after leaving journalism, he has worked primarily for the british government as an advisor and consultant in

asia in the middle east. since 2013 a meal has been primarily focused on syria, providing political and media supports opposition, political and military groups fighting the regime and extremist organizations including iso and al qaeda khan is now involved in information campaigns on the home front with the link documents revealing that his company provided a 2 stage plan for tackling anti vaccine sentiment in the u. k, which included the collection of public data. they worked alongside the royal institution last an organization where prince charles of the patron and queen elizabeth cousin, the duke of kent is the president. now, as for the message that was delivered by this campaign, they reportedly worked with a prominent youtube or with the goal of convincing the public to support getting the job. the findings will be used to devise a campaign that utilizes youtube or abigail thorne's existing platform to achieve a measurable cognitive shift in the target audience. this will be achieved by incorporating

a defined thought driven action is the outcome of the approach. and it doesn't stop there from facebook. hiring a former nato press officer to lead its global intelligence strategy to twitter, hiring dozens of former f b. i. agents and recent gears to handle everything from crisis management to information integrity. the same social media platforms that have been known to profit off of. 6 and miss handle your data are continuing to increase their ties with the u. s. intelligence community. but the fact is slipping under the radar while they're busy targeting so called dis information that doesn't pander to their agenda. political analysts, dakota, lily says that the money trail means the u. s. is using taxpayer money against its own citizens. these are millions of dollars which coincidentally is also taxpayer dollars. being used to sway opinions of people across the world and especially of people in the united states. you know,

it's unfortunate that not only is this being done covertly, but also it's being done against people, the american people themselves. evidence. this is just the latest in a long string of evidence that proves that the united states intelligence community, as well as, you know, social media companies, artificial intelligence, marketing, etc, are all interwoven in a way that is very detrimental for democracy. political uncertainty has increased in pakistan as violent. clashes reportedly erupt between members of opposing groups after local elections, which saw the former prime minister in wrong cons. party. when in the country's most populous region, the group gained a majority of 20 seats in the pool and job assembly. the voters seen as an indicator for next year's national election. and the movement for justice is one of the country's major parties and is led by former premier iran con. the election

victory comes as the nation deals with a dire economic situation, caused by the highest inflation in 13 years. the moron khan is now calling for fair and free elections early in pakistan and says any other path would only lead to greater political instability and economic chaos for the country. earlier this year he was ousted after the federal parliament issued a no confidence vote and con, accused the u. s. for inciting a conspiracy against him and his own government. washington has denied these accusations but geopolitical analyst. hassan aust long shod says the election results indicate pakistani society's power to determine their own future. so this come back us to see in those terms. it's unprecedented. it's unique, it's significant. it's transformative and it sends a clear signal to the problems that be in boxes, that the focused on society is not good as the politics and they are going to be

determining the future. so lead to their own initiative behind every event. there is a, there is a reason there is a cause and it gives me a significant, you know, reason to believe that a bronze ouster was definitely the result of some sort of displeasure that the u. s . had with them run hon and i believe that one of those reasons would be his statement made last year, i believe in june when he said in response to a question where the box on would give it basis or overflight rights to the u. s. and he categorically said no, and that became the famous absolutely not statement that he has been using to rally is support based on bikes. now moving over to france, accusations of racism are about more than 100 refugees and social workers have gathered outside a reception center for ukrainians in paris, demanding equal rights for migrants from other countries,

while accusing french authorities of favoring white asylum seekers. little yet there is a whole group of migrants who come here from various countries to denounce the existing differences in treatment. there are only 30 ukrainians inside. the rest of the facility is empty. the question is, why, and we know the answer. it's the racism of the state which leads to other people having to go stay on the streets. he often like them. we demand the same rights as ukrainians, neither more nor less housing and paperwork. some people come here from many countries of several nationalities, from sudan to eritrea, to afghan, as dan. and we all form a collective of people who fight for equality and against racism. and that means obtaining housing and documents for everyone, no matter the color of their skin or their nationality. put on okay, go over to europe or people there. good. give a close to him. unlocked all through. got a mouth dog gone. has a nod to another,

been old multitude on not another one. we'll have also like him problem. protesters also say refugees fleeing from africa are risking their lives travelling through the mediterranean sea. they often fall prey to human traffickers . those who do make it safe, only end up facing discrimination and a denial of basic rights in europe. earlier this month, african refugees already cried foul over what they called double standards by french authorities and dealing with mike. but to get more on the story now, we're going to cross live 2 political analysts, nickel markovich. thanks for joining us on the program. nicola, we've seen african refugees repeatedly complain about race based discrimination. what could possibly be the reasoning behind such cases behind such cases? i'm not sure it's race based discrimination is just shows the negligent and incompetent of the french authorities to tackle immigration. it's also showing how

politicized the whole ukrainian immigration and is going on around french press has open centers for ukrainian, which are apparently empty, where they're not enough to create. is there what they're talking about? there is something on mainstream media say that trap is open doors that is helping ukraine and we're finding out that the centers are half occupied. i think what it shows essentially is that france has no strategy, no problem whatsoever to greet the immigrants coming from abroad. i think ukrainians, a small, tiny bit of the map of the great numbers of immigrants coming over to france each year. but it shows that immigrants coming into france have no housing, some of the people and coming into the centers. don't speak french, there's no courses pair for them. there's no jobs waiting for them. and it just shows that these past years, governments in france, whether they be from the left or for the rights, have no program, have an open door policy, but have nothing. once the immigrants arrives, there's nothing found for them and this is, this is beginning. this is the beginning of the big problems for the immigrants as

you heard in your and in the interviews and also for the french. because the french society is getting every, every day more divided on the subject. well, how do you think these events bear on the fact that france as well as other european countries claim to be dedicated to redeeming themselves from their colonial past? well, actually i think this is a false. i think that if this were the case, they were there from the 1st of all, not, not, not be directly present in lots of these countries where the immigrants are coming from. i think, why is france all of a sudden receiving a lot of immigrants from a dentist and maybe this has something to do that for the past 20 years, france has been keeping up with nato in afghanistan to overturn the country and to dollars the country. and the same going on in different african countries, so it's been transported to redeem itself. it would not directly get involved in these sovereign states in africa and in asia and the rest of the world. i think this has a lot to do with a lot of french corporations for cheap labor and who hope that these immigrants

will be competing on the markets in france and also in germany in spain, and was local workers. don't forget that in france, over 9000000 people, that's more than 196 french is living under the poverty line and says, why does it become a major problem for french because they are going to be competing for scarce for, for a job which. busy are scarce, more and more scarce and in france, this is, the problem is that the big corporations actually got maybe not behind it, but they're taking advantage of this. and there is, again hypocrisy in the western and what media western politics thing that we are open to or that we want to greet immigrants, but nothing is being done to greet immigrants again, if i'm going to greet people in my home and i want to make sure that they're going to, they're going to joy. they're going to make sure they're going to bed. i'm going to make sure that they speak the language that they understand the culture that i can have education for them. they're going to have a job for them. so that, that within maybe a couple of years, they can get integrated and i'm going at the same time, explain why there is this policy and why it could be,

it could be in the interest of the nation to greeted people. that's not done. that's not being done at all. and i think that some of the people are just taking advantage of this and they're watching the french, poor french and immigrants fight for the same jobs in these difficult neighborhoods where the politician don't is. and i think the risk taking advantage of the divisions at the base while people are speaking about immigration and fighting for jobs. they're not taking care of what's going on at the, with, in the policy in the policies of the state. and of these major corporations who can take, who can take advantage of the low prices for no wages, for workers last political analysts, nickel and markovich. thanks a lot for your insight into that. thank you. ah, a trial after a conviction, that's what r t has called a new statement from the british media regulator off. com, which is accused our outlet of failing to deliver impartiality. the watchdog has even threatened new sanctions against r t, despite the fact that it already revoked our

u. k. license 4 months ago. the logic of these decisions mirrors the one guiding their delivery many months after off comes revocation of our t license. it is a trial after conviction, and our t is guilty of being russian and daring to voice a point of view and show facts unacceptable to the british political and media establishments. ortiz not the only media outlet hit by sanctions as russian news agency. sputnik is also in the blacklist across the european union. earlier the european commission president proposed banning 3 other russian broadcasters. while in may, us announced it would stop providing broadcast equipment as well as technologies for russian state own channels. international editor of the morning, star newspaper steve sweeney considers the move by off. com and attempt to control the narrative in the u. k. this is in reality, this is state sponsored censorship on i don't was unprecedented scale. this is the