an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah, both euro pole, interpol, bring the alarm over that possible influx of weapons from ukraine making their way to terrorist and criminal groups all over the world. in an attempt to turn it back on russian guy off the e u looks to african states urging them to produce more fossil fuels. is this by years all refusing to offer any help or money to the industry, their carbon emissions concern with it's not only ukrainian or me that they're fighting against as positions very close to year full of foreign mercenaries as

well. an rti cru joins russian lead force is on the done yes. frontline, where the army is now targeting ukrainian military positions locations which have reportedly been using to sheldon neighboring city. done yet. a security forces in crisis hits for like a raid, the main on think government protest come while a senior veteran lawmaker is sworn in the new prime minister. ah, just after 4 in the afternoon. that's friday, july. the 22nd here in the russian capital. i'm you know, neil and you're welcome to the news our on our t weapons flowing into ukraine could end up in the hands of criminal gangs. now there's, according to the european union agency for law enforcement cooperation, which also said, such networks are active in the region and may attempt to smoke alarms out of the

country. there is a risk that these weapons and military goods will end up in the hands of organized crime or terrorists. but let's talk more in this weather correspond rachel blevins. rachel, a good to see you. it isn't the 1st warning either. the weapons in ukraine could potentially end up in the hands of criminal even terrorist gangs. what's more, know, and what is being talked about here, right? europe's top law enforcement agency is almost making it more official. now, sending out that warning, that weapons are actively being smuggled over the border into europe. of course, we have to remember, these are weapons that were given to train as a form of legal aid. now they're coming back to europe and being sold on the black market. now this latest report from the agency specifically noted that it found alarming risk of weapons smuggling. and it also said that they are concerned that those weapons are going to get into the hands of criminals and gang. it also went

on to note that there was evidence of a build up of arms and ammunition along the border, indicating that this is a problem that is likely much more widespread than it's being reported. now all of this comes as interpol, secretary general has spoken out that this is a concern. and if there's likely not much they can do to track all of those weapons, take listen to the latest. once the guns, full silent in ukraine, the illegal weapons will come. we know this from many other theaters of conflict. criminal groups tried to exploit these chaotic situations and the availability of weapons, even heavy weapons, we can expect an influx of weapons in europe and beyond. we should be alarmed, and we have to expect these weapons to be traffic not only to neighboring countries, but to other continents. now, even though he hasn't received much coverage, this has been a major concern. as the u. s. and his allies started the steady stream of weapons to ukraine, and especially as the binding ministration has admitted in the past that there's

not much they're doing in order to try to even trace those weapons. richard comes of the wife of the ukrainian president, made a rarer visit to the u. s, and appears to be weapons related to does ukraine's 1st lady made a special trip to washington d. c. and there she has the kind of usual meetings with talk to us officials that included secretary of state blinking and also president biden, just before his cobra. 1900 diagnosis was revealed. but she then went on to of course make an address to congress. now, similar to pass messages that we've heard from her husband, she called for even more aid from the united states and also made a specific note about wanting more weapons. here's the latest that she had to say. to surely, i'm looking for something. now i would never want to ask what i'm asking for weapons were in it. now, as for those questions about accountability for all of the weapons that have been sent and all the weapons that could stand to be sent over to crane,

that was on the topic of discussion during that visit this week. so were then, does washington stand on this? they are continuing to sign off on one military aid package for you create after another. and that's right. you know, the u. s. is still acting as if this isn't a problem, right? even though they had their allies in europe, no speaking out about it, saying that it is becoming a very real concern. while the buying and ministration still continues to say that they have assurances from ukraine and that is what they are relying on. here's the latest they're the u. s. very severely takes our accountability to guard american origin, defense applied sciences and forestall their diversion or elicit proliferation. whereas shared within the ukranian authorities, dedication to appropriately safeguard and account for us weapons. so it's a very important break that we're seeing here between the us and europe on where now europe is saying that they're concerned, they're trying to find some way to combat this very real problem. the united states still continues to say that it is relying on those assurances from ukraine and that

it doesn't seem quite the same problem because of course, those weapons are not being smuggled in the united states right now. ration thanks very much for taking us through our tea correspondent rachel robins. thank you. meanwhile, the russian defense ministry said within the past 2 weeks for advanced. hi mars us . rocket launchers had been destroyed in the battlefields. the m o. d also say that forces destroy the school building in the city of crime. a tourist, which had reportedly been transformed into a temporary shelter for the nationalists battalion, called the black 100 up to 300 militants, were said to have been killed in the attack when it comes, as ukraine forces continue to fight in the den. yes. can lou ganske regions know reportedly they're heavily using the high mars rocket systems to attack tons in both republics. so the city of finance is sol saundra, tuck from the neighboring city of of div car,

one of the most fortified strongholds in don bass ortiz, mon costs have joined russian lead forces on the ground. he sent this this report. today we're working near the town alpha of div cal, which is still under control of ukrainian military. now we're here along with nascar international brigade who have been at the forefront of defense against the ukrainian or me here in the next. now i spoke to a few soldiers and here, and they told me that it's not only ukrainian army that they're fighting against as positions. very close to here, a full of foreign mercenaries as well within you to could you are the fog still, it's no secret. it's a fact that a lot of mercenaries are fighting for ukraine, both nato and the european union help them. it doesn't matter whether they do this openly or not. but yes, there is. the georgia legion which is located opposite us. there are also poles and americans. we came across them and everything has been filmed on video cameras.

everything is recorded. they have very different uniforms. of course, they fight differently because they are instructors themselves. you know, we have been preparing for this for a very long time, and ukraine has been preparing for 8 years and the nato instructors help him train them, supply them with weapons and teach them to use these weapons. ah ah ah, ah. international

brigade, but not consist mostly of volunteers from what i understand, it's really hard to get into this particular unit. now they have been at the forefront in this conflict against ukraine over the last 8 years. and of course, they have shown this frank over the last 5 months, as well as they have been at the front here in of dave and deterring the ukranian army from entering this city. and they have been shilling ukrainian positions from where they at sacked, peaceful civilians here in the next her degree coordinate. this is the agony of hopelessness. like when an animal is cornered, it's sometimes bytes itself on the tail. why else are they shelling civilians? they probably hope the civilians will rebel and say stop this go and surrender. for 8 years, the people endured this lawlessness and now all their agony is heavily concentrated . that's why they do this. ukrainian army have been in have div guy and pesky near

the nest for the last 8 years. so there are positions there have been really heavily fortified by the situation has changed drastically over the last 5 months. and the fighters of bit nascar international brigade are waiting for their chance to liberate those cities from on cost for f. r t. done as people republic or i, let's me, well know to another of a headlines stories e use states are ramping up cooperation with several african countries to secure vital energy resources. that's the block, scrambled to get new gas and oil suppliers to replace russian deliveries ahead of autumn on the corner seasons. some examples here 15 agreements were made between italy allowed urea in the boost and gas and oil supplies. france at reached out on developing ties with the united arab emirates in the energy sector. the u commissions president earlier assigned to deal with our body shop to double gas

imports from the country. and germany establish ties with semi goal to reduce its dependence on russian energy. however, all those policies appear to contradict the use previous strategy for many years. brussels has been 40 african initiatives to develop its fossil fuel sector and pipeline construction and refusing to fund the efforts the e. u claim that was vital to reduce global carbon emissions. the other approach was met with heavy criticism of african states. so no other alternative for their economic development or countries cannot achieve in energy transition and abandon the polluting patterns of the industrialized countries without a viable fair and equitable alternative. stopping funding for the gas sector would be a major obstacle. and nevertheless, fossil fuel production on the continent is on the right south africa has already exported more cool in 2020 to them in all of last year. african states indeed have

welcome the new deals we've just been speaking about yet their own problems like regular power shortages remain. and director of economic modeling in south africa describes to us the e u decision as an act of hypocrisy, claiming not the long term impact on africa is going to be home for, you know, to go to coach hitting a cottage. that's up. i didn't go up to is a focus is a terrible step critique when they actually suffer the slightest inconvenience of cold and fresh to the economy. any resource that is abundant, the price of that will drop to a much can easy. it's the case that belong game for europe, for by both resources for, for crap, and then pro, process them, and then sell them back to africa at the premium you future. why don't we use the brains, la casita that we clean go between oil so that the

energy that come from there is a credit greet you don't say, suggest solution to apartments. and then suddenly leave them there and say that a leader we've been to, quote, close our lives. are threatened levels enough again or has been threatened from colonialism from slavery. hello. sure. like is new president is busy forming his government after taking over the top job on wednesday. he shows and veteran politicians, danish gonna war, denounced the new prime minister, the spikes attempts to bring stability to the crisis. hit nation mass protest continued into friday morning. o. local security forces arrested several people unclear the main camp. the protesters had occupied for more than 3 months. they had been demanding the south asian

countries leaders resign over the economic chaos being witness. army and police arrive in trucks and buses shortly after midnight. removing 10 sun, protests bummers. the armies also security presidential office in limbo party correspondent runjun sharma, reports not from the city in the dead of the nie tree. lincoln army as well as police force clamped down on several protesters. they've cleared the grounds off the presidential secretariat, which happened occupied by the protesters full weeks. several people got injured last night, including the fuel, john liz: as far as we know, 8 people at least 8 people have been arrested so far, gone for his green, which essentially has been the face of these anti government protests has also been cleared by the sri lankan army as well as the police force, remembered, went around and become a single, got elected as the president ought to be longer he did see that he is harshly going

to deal with the troublemakers. and this is his attempt to restore law and order in the country. okay, and updates on a story we've been speaking about for some time now. the moroccan association for human rights has slammed both moroccan on spanish authorities for last month's tragedy in which dozens of migrants die or are missing while attempting to storm a spanish enclave in north africa. this unprecedented encirclement which highlights the new inhumane practices in the role of gendarme reactivated with force just after the normalization of moroccan spanish relations. the migrants were once again attacked daily to prevent them from settling in this camp. almost 6 kilometers away from the lyla. at the same time, as the severely injured migrants piled on top of each other, were crying out for help and moaning in pain and agony. the public forces continued to violently dragged the arrested migrants before piling them on top of their

compatriots without taking into account their health condition. in order to handcuff the migrants and put them down on their stomachs, some migrants were trampled while continuing to receive in justified blows from the public forces. now that the lethal incident in late june led to the dance of 27 asylum seekers with another 64 people missing many more migrants for injured house police pushed by crowds using force. the dead strew global attention to the treatment of sub saharan on north african migrants the president of the american association for human rights mohammed amin abdur believes immigration policies need a complete re thing to avoid such incidents happening again. we believe the main cause of this tragedy is the result of the migration policies pursued by these countries. any attempt to avoid responsibility is only an attempt to hide the fact that these policies are the main cause of this tragedy. this catastrophe, this migration policy will be the cause of other tragedies if it is not stopped.

the report in a play or rather is already playing a key role in shaping public and international opinion about what happened on the day of the trans am. now, using this report, we will also try to ensure that morocco stops playing the role of a gendarme for europe in spain. and that the migration policies pursued by morocco, the european union, and spain change any, become more loyal to migrants and comply with international human rights agreements . a new bill paving, away for puerto ricans, to vote for independence from the u. s. in 2023. is making its way through congress, despite voting against the bill lawmaker his, his garcia, saves it some initial step towards the self determination of puerto rico. while to day marks, an important 1st step in the d colonization process of puerto rico. i could not in good faith support the passage of puerto rico status act in its current form. the colonization of puerto rico is a shameful part of our country's history. from the moment the u. s. took control of

the island to a century of limited citizenship. the imposition of pro mesa and our failures in disaster response. puerto rico's relationship with the u. s. is rooted in a history of racism, exploitation, and oppression. the time is now for the process of d. colonization and self determination on the island. however, dependence on the u. s does not end with di colonization. the puerto rico status on comes in moss protest taking place on the island. public anger was sparked by soaring energy prices with hundreds of people taking to the streets of some one to the mon, the cancellation of the government's contract with us power grid operator luma. demonstrators lane, despite frequent power outages, the electricity company has res prices 7 times since 2021 luma representatives had this response for the protesters. although we respect the right to protest, the reality is that some people prefer to play politics and ignore the fact that luma inherited an electrical system that suffered years in fact,

decades of abandonment. while spokesman for the puerto rican action movement one lopez bows, essays, puerto rico's di colonization is a matter of urgency and could make people's quality of life infinitely better. the thing is that the put a weakness, societies, so colon, nice not to understand the we have been calling you for 5216 years. and it's been will never be a free country in any way. we can still really know what, what would be free for you to know that what we can history in the list has been demonized. and i will go independent people who have been put in prison because of the sexual report for resort. it's in the urgent matter recall in the united states of both for the same fear and the confession of a productive economy can lead of course, to the creation of the, of

a government in the states that can actually look and actually provide weekends with a better while in a better life, in general, than the one that we have now, the us sounds warned around against offering any kind of help to rush over it. so fence of in ukraine, but comes, washington itself is flooding the water zone with huge amounts of weapons or to kill up up and picks up the story for us. the u. s. secretary of defense has decided to chin man about who he thinks russia should be cooperating with around the world may issue iranian support to, to russia. we would advise aurora to not to not do that. we think it's a really, really bad idea and i'll leave that that. well, iran and russia are getting closer together with more cooperation in the works. the iranian government is preparing to provide russia with up to several 100 you way

bees that iran is preparing to train russian forces to use these. you ladies with initial training sessions slated to begin as soon as early july. does the u. s. have an indication that those training sessions have started, that iran is actually given, is trying to rush on. we don't have any indications that the, that the sale has actually occurred. and so therefore, we wouldn't have any indications that there's been the training done on them. russia and iran have no problems or restrictions regarding military technical co operation. iran is based at decades of sanctions from the united states. after toppling a u. s. backed dictator, it's 1979 revolution establishing the islamic republic. also, we've seen russia be faced with economic warfare from the united states in recent years, with washington openly trying to strangle its economy. now it's not really working out though with the rubel still standing strong, but in such a context,

why wouldn't iran in russia be cooperating more? so what if moscow and to iran do expand their relationship? how will the united states respond more sanctions? it's also pretty rich for u. s. officials to be complaining about military cooperation. let's review the latest round of military hardware that the pentagon has dumped into ukraine. it is possible the u. s. could sell or provide ukraine with some us fighter platforms. and you think that's, that's possible going forward that there's us, there's a griffin at a sweet and there's the euro fighter, there's a raphael. so there's a number of different platforms that good could go to ukraine. united states was also committed to sending more high mars munitions, precision guided artillery, ammunition, and tactical vehicles and other urgently needed support. in terms of our ability to track the weapons that are going in, as you know, we don't have any forces on the ground. so that's,

that is difficult for us to do. a number of us made weapons have already turned up on the black market. pentagon officials admit they have quite a hard time tracking where these weapons they send to you. crane ultimately end up that has not stopped us. lawmakers from authorizing more weapons shipments as peace talks are stalling with washington, seemingly trying to stretch this conflict out until the last ukrainian, caleb martin, r t new york. okay, another story to bring you this, our site, america's mercosur. a trade block has rejected a request from the ukranian president and to address an upcoming summit of the group host nation park. why said agreement couldn't be reached between all members to ally vladimir zelinski to speak is mercosur has determined that there was no consensus for such communication. therefore, the ukrainian side has already been informed that under these circumstances there are no conditions premier closer to be able to talk to the ukrainian president. the

marcus or common market is made up of argentina, brazil, uruguayan parkway. the group represents the 5th largest economy in the world with a combined g d, p of around 2 trillion dollars. the main objectives of the blocker economic policy development on generating business and investment opportunities through market integration. the president lensky has addressed many national parliaments since the beginning of the at conflict, including the european parliament, the world economic forum, and the united nations in an attempt to raise funding and support for ukraine. chief editor of weekly newspaper opera, monday through new weltman believes marcus returned on sullens case request to address the summit because of economic interest. primarily, it's not yet clear which countries were against is elaine st is, is speech at demarcus who am missing, but it's none that both as in tina and brazil have important deals

with russia. and i'm trying to maintain an independent, it stands in did you trend in conflict? i think that the reasons for an event or opposition to o crenan presidents but submission would be link it to does economic interest that the main prior math a matter for adopting dees all that policy in relation to the training conflict has to do with the relations with the relationship that each moment pass in the real that it should move it in the region has with new white house. the closer at government is to washington, the more likely it's to take as stance against moscow and in favor of keith. i believe the practical effect is very lito or known at

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