ah ah ah, in the headlines this saturday, russia and ukraine feel a deal to resolve the longstanding brain issue, opening up like the ports where ukrainian brain exports us despite the west repeated allegations of moscow weapon, ising food and fueling the global hunger crisis. terrorists and criminal groups may use western weapons supply to ukraine into poll and europe, whole report. organizations bring the alarm of the ongoing influx of weapons in the country. a

member not over there in rooms. and this entire field is packed with the dumbass republics deal with the aftermath of the withdrawal of gives forces replenishing imo stalks and dealing with mines in great deal with early saturday morning in the russian capital. i'm peter scots and his how the world's looking as we had in the week. russia and ukraine have separately assigned a deal on establishing a corridor for ukrainian grain exposed to leave black c ports. the agreement was broken earlier by turkish, and you had mediators in a stumble with assigning, being seen as a landmark step in averting a possible world. few crisis reports in the black sea will be unblocked under the agreements. ukraine will not d minus ports, but will provide ships with safe passage for the exports of agricultural goods. the

deal. we'll also see russia, turkey and ukraine, operates a joints coordination center. should any incidents occur during the shipments? cargo ships heading to ukraine will also undergo checks for weapons, not something the russian defense minister, how stressed is vital logics. this coming through. so it's important for us to inspect ships for the presence or absence of weapons and military equipment. the inspections will be carried out on ships entering and exiting the black sea. the urine expects full scale movements of grain ships to begin in the next 2 weeks. according to the organization's estimates, the deal will allow the exports of up to 5000000 tons of grain from ukraine monthly . the u. n. chief antonio terrace praise the deal to they. there is a beacon on the black sea. the beacon of hope, a beacon of possibility. the question has not been what is good for one side or the other. the focus has been on what method is most for the people of old world,

between the 2 countries, russia and ukraine, they supply about 25 percent a quarter of all the reach that's consumed in the world. and so they, difficulties we've had in the past 45 months. while the conflict in that part of the world has been raging, hasn't created, created based severe difficulties for many, many net food importing countries. i think this, this move to sign disagreement, finding both parties to allowing the, the movement of these critical products. i think this is a good day. i understand that we prizes globally have fallen. and this is a very, very welcome development. in a separate memorandum signed on friday, moscow and the un agreed to insure the russian agricultural products on fertilizers which world markets without restrictions. this comes as the west continues to play

moscow for deliberately blocking ukrainian ports, unprovoked king of food crisis by using grain as a weapon. and that's something russia has repeatedly denied. the foreign ministry of russia said, fridays deal proves that such allegations are groundless. i threaten us though, for sure. it's gratifying that washington and brussels have stopped obstructing the achievement of today's agreements. the signing of the memorandum between russia and the u. n. has once again underlined the absolutely artificial nature of the west attempts to put the blame for problems with grain supplies to the world markets on russia. green deal comes as the west coast for even more sanctions against moscow over the ukraine war. economist eddie cross again believes that the impacts on russian food exports will greatly affect other countries across the world. fresh plays you drove in the whole industry globally, and any direction or any sanctions. breakage in terms of the availability of those products to global markets would have profound and long term significance. when you

have a contract between these 2 states which disrupt global markets, it has profound implications for the whole world. and i don't think that was fully appreciated at the beginning of this if a said, but i'm glad that sanity has prevailed and that we and at least the west is not opposing very substantial developments. because i think if they had continued to insist on this blanket sanctioned program against the russians, it would have had very profound implications for the rest of the world. stuck in the middle of a blame game over the global food crisis between russia and the west. the most effects in region, africa should do his best to save itself, as most problems are of the contents of making. well, that's according to a statement by the trade director of the u. n. economic commission for africa. our food market. so experience in a shock that is coming from outside the continent,

but why we're experience in this shock is because we have very low intra african trades in a great culture and grew foods. if we had done better and loved the full potential of the, grew cultural sector who didn't be experience in what we're experiencing today. you an estimate of 60000000 more people will experience hunger this year compared to 2021. and while the west places the blame squarely on rushes involvements in ukraine, 3 years of your records show, a growing trend in the african food crisis. are activists points out that without immediate aid, the number may grow, potentially causing a humanitarian disaster in africa. earlier we spoke to dr. jacobo joseph from nigeria, who defended the you and representative statement. criminal i think is development relies on increasing self sufficiency. one of the developmental principles of ca can countries told us prior to our chief sufficiency. and so this blame in

african countries is norma part of the part of the development part of that. and we believe as africans, if we developed a we to develop, we must actually look inwards and be able to come to bed. that it will be necessary for the population. you know, the population in africa is grow when i mentioned rage. so no doubt this functions and it was the sanctions, the global energy prizes definitely the continent of africa relies almost 40 percent on grand. we and all that grains from russia, and you could weapons flowing into ukraine, could end up in the hands of criminal gangs. now that's according to the european

union agency for law enforcement corporation, which also said decision networks are active in the region. i 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. this is just more of an official warning now coming from europe, top law enforcement agency, the weapons are actively being smuggled from ukraine into europe and being sold on the block market. now this latest report from the agency notes that there are alarming risk of weapons smuggling and that those arms are getting into the hands of criminals and gangs. it also notes that they found evidence of a build up of weapons and ammunition along the border, indicating that this problem is likely much more widespread than is being reported . now interposed secretary general rather has already warned that this is a concern and that there's not much on their end that they can do about it. take a listen. we had to say once the guns fall 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 this hasn't received a lot of coverage, it has been a major concern as the us and its allies have started that steady stream of weapons to ukraine. and especially as the binding ministration is admitted in the past, that it can't do much in order to attract those weapons once their son overseas. and this comes hot on the heels of the life of the ukrainian president, making a rare trip to the u. s. that's weapons related to that too. right. ukraine's 1st lady visited washington d c this week and she had sort of visual meetings with top us officials and included secretary of state lincoln as well as president biden, just before his cobra. 1900 diagnosis was revealed, but she also went to speak before congress. and you know, similar to some of the addresses that we've seen,

her husband give the u. s. congress. she also called for more aid from the united states and for more was, here's what she said, is it as pushes i'm asking for something, and now i would never want to ask, i'm asking for weapons. now as her, those questions about accountability regarding the weapons that already have been sent, or that stand to be sent to crane. that wasn't really part of the conversational, you know, the united states still is acting as if this isn't a problem. may because because it's not happening to them. but the latest statements that we've heard from the u. s. have been to continue to say that they have received assurances from ukraine and that they are relying on those statements . the us very severely takes our accountability to guard american origin defense applied sciences and forestall their diversion or elicit proliferation where is shared within the ukranian authorities, dedication to appropriately safeguard and account for us weapons. so a pretty notable break there between the us and europe, right? now and it remains to be seen how that will affect their alliance overall. however,

after the announcements of a possible threats, europe will appear to buck truck slightly saying they have full confidence in ukraine officials as the charts a truck, the flow of weapons. earlier we spoke with an alms control experts had ca, who on the contrary says it's practically impossible to control such a huge arms influx. there's always diversion. there's always profit taking by someone somewhere and where that happens and where there's black or even gray market weapons that are being traffic that happens in every situation where the weapons are being supplied into a theater war. some of them are going to end up in criminal hands. i worked in the political military bureau at the department of state for 2 years in the mid ninety's. i personally reviewed thousands of applications for export licenses for arms and related technologies. and i can tell you that even at that stage, a lot of it was cursory on the part of the state department in the u. s. government

. in general. beyond that, you're relying on something called end user assurances, which is basically what the us dividing ministration is talking about that the cranium. government is promising that nothing will happen to the weapons once they're providing to them. they are, they are assuring the donors that there will be no further movement of those weapons, which frankly, they can't do. they don't have the where with all the track, all the stuff that's coming into their country right now. they're getting flooded with weapons and jack knology and ammunition in ammunition in particular, is notoriously difficult to keep track of the russian defense ministry says that over the last fortnight's version, let troops have destroyed for american slide high mas, multiple rocket launch systems, and that's something ukraine has rejected as fake while the phone line is been post west in the territories under the control of russian lead forces, people are discovering what's left after the ukrainian troops withdrawal. this includes stocks of heavy weaponry imported from western states as well as mines in

greenfields ortiz broadcast via reports and wanting to view some images in this report are distressing. kia has thrown tens of thousands of troops into the fray to hold what it still controls. a defensive line now, stretches from the town of cbrtc, the solider, and from their tobacco. smoot and all along, ha tillery batteries, july day and night. ukrainian forces have dug tens of kilometers of trenches, spanning this defensive line to dull rushes edge in artillery. but they holy protect from conventional fire. the t o s one nicknamed salts at milk or sun blaze in russian is a form of barrick rockets artillery system. each impacts creates an enormous pressure blast wave that new trenches can protect against. and these how being used in greater and greater numbers,

to decimate ukrainian lines and morale. here in the vicinity of the town of solider, the defensive line east, bending russian forces along with allied units, have been able to push enemy troops out of several settlements and strongholds. within the past week, the bodies of ukrainian soldiers and nationalists fighters lit the countryside that positions overrun. we now as a forward position near the village of step of come, one of the conditions ah, with which we were permitted here is that we can't tie this place to any specific area. so amongst our viewers, ha, ukrainian intelligence offices and they are eager to spot where to strike. and the less here in these trenches, we found yet more native true trophy weaponry. now, in the service of the new guns people's republic,

these are $284.00 millimeter grenade launchers, rocket propelled grenade launchers. one of them is a heap round or a high explosive anti tank missiles. and these again were scattered all over the area. ukrainian troops have also planted thousands upon thousands of mines, including band and g. personnel, munitions, along the defensive line from shiv. escobar moved in order to stall the russian and allied advance fields of wheat and sun flowers turned into death traps at $1.00 and $2.00 tank mon, there's another not over there. therein rose and this entire field is packed with them. and this is relatively dangerous. that cow is heavy enough to set off an anti tag wide,

and some of them were so close together that there could be a chain reaction. but cows are one of the casualties here regularly. the troops here say they hear the bras when these, these cows that have been abandoned, explode minds designed to tear apart and leave little of livestock clearing these alone. the mines plotted already will take decades. but as the front lines shift, many, many more mines will be planted in fields for us in the long new defensive lines. crane off to rule, still has millions left. or i guess the of r t 4 tla didn't yet people to republic. the u. s. chief of space operations has confirmed that ukrainian troops have been provided with certain capabilities coming from the us itself. spaces important him and we've seen them in this.

in this conflict commercial spaces provided a been helpful to, to ukraine as well. now there have been a number of publications and major media outlets showing this satellite systems have been used for military purposes in ukraine. and one of them is eli musk satellite system. starling, which has given a critical communications lifeline to cranium, forces that's according to the air force magazine. now styling can fly up to 130 miles or about 210 kilometers over war zone to beam down high speed internet access . this allows frontline ukrainian troops communicates with a chain of command stretches hundreds of kilometers install. it relies on satellites that are in low earth orbit, which means they are able to receive and transmit information faster than traditional communication satellites. earlier i thought for a former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter and he sure there can be connectivity between humanitarian and

military or communication capabilities. if you want to use a certain communications capability for humanitarian purposes, it needs to be totally dedicated to that purpose. the moment there's crossover with the same system that you're applying for humanitarian use, you now are using for military use. all of those systems can be deemed to be military in nature. we make it very clear what humanitarian law says. there can be no connectivity between the 2, none whatsoever. what the law must is doing. and ukraine is absolutely unacceptable, and actually push legitimate humanitarian workers lives at risk. because if you're operating one of those terminals, you are now a legitimate military target. and if i was a russian, i would view every single one of you on most terminals in ukraine as a hostile target, worthy of being destroyed as soon as it's detected. ah,

so like his new president is busy forming his government after taking over the top job on wednesday. and it shows in veteran and politicians in ash gonna what dina, as the new prime minister. and despite attempts to bring stability to the crisis, it nation mass process continued into friday morning. ah, local security forces arrested several people and cleared the main count. the protesters had occupied for more than 3 months. they had been demanding the south asian countries leaders resign over the economic tailspin, witness. army and police arrived in trucks and buses shortly after midnight's removing tents and protest. but as the armies also secure the presidential office in colombo, the correspondent region sharma is on the ground. in the dead of the night, sri lankan 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 for 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 golfing is 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 thing he got elected as the president, austria lanka. he did see that he is harshly going to deal with the trouble makers . and this is his attempt to restore law and order in the country. us congress speaker, nancy pelosi reportedly warned the countries secretary of state anthony blinking, that's if he wants label russia a state sponsored terrorism. then congress will that's according to politico, the criminal gave an immediate response. tupelo, c, expressing concern over his statements. we hold

a very negative assessment regarding the consequences of such a step. although on the other hand, hardly anything else can be done to further spoil relations between russia and the united states. this comes after nancy pelosi accused russia on these presidents of being responsible for price hikes worldwide inflation. the u. s. a. house march for countries us state sponsors of terrorism since 1984. and if this decision is made, this will put russia in a list with iran, north korea, cuba on syria. the states is severely limits, us relations with the country on subjects it to various sanctions. now let's cross live to gregory copley, president of the international strategic studies association. gregory, welcome to the program. nancy pelosi as reports of the post the state department labor, russia, a state sponsor of terrorism. do you think it makes the most sense to do so, given the sanctions that the u. s. has already imposed on russia?

you're looking at from the point of view of strategic logic and that doesn't even come into it. virtually all u. s. foreign policy is about us domestic politics, and this is an election year, a very, very crucial election year in the u. s. and then he believes he is saying things for a domestic audience, knowing that it will make and the administration looks strong in the, in the, in relation to the russia, ukraine conflict. and this is a fairly popular jingo, ethics sort of statement. and frankly, nancy police, he's concerned with how the rest of the world in general statement is a little concerned. she is only concerned about the domestic political agenda. and arguably, although us russian relations are very, very bad at the moment. this is not going to do them any good. so you think it's just a part of the ongoing war of words and the moments and that it's unlikely to come

into fruition. it could come to fruition and that's the, that's the problem. i mean, the u. s. has a habit of instituting foreign policy additions on the basis of domestic political pressures. and that's what's happening now. and of course, to undo that that would take some political effort in the future. but right now, washington, the white house of the congress, particularly the democrats in congress. don't care about anything other than looking good for the midterm elections in november this year. and particularly sunday came, what difference would it make if russia were to be labeled a state sponsored terrorism by the u. s? well, it just for the defense, the divide between she was a east and west. what we're saying is a creation of a new cold war, which has a lot of similarities with, with the last one. the difference being today that the rest of the world does not

necessarily subscribe to everything that the united states says. the united states has lost tomorrow high ground over the recent years, and really struggling to define itself and struggling to build a new coalition of allies. and it does have some very strong allies, very supportive allies in the democratic states like the britain and the like. but the reality is that it is just saying the same by much of the developing world africa, middle east, and lot of asia as just another competitive people's support. what your thoughts on this, in your answer, just then about the moral high going to obviously russia isn't the 1st country to launch a military intervention. us has launched efforts in iraq, syria county is done libya and yemen and is obviously negatively impacts those

countries. do you think washing just have the moral high ground to criticize what's in this respect? well, i think that taking the moral high ground is something you do for political, devons is not necessarily based on, on the realities of politics. i mean, if the united states really was changed to take the moral high ground, it would have been criticizing turkey for the invasion of cyprus, 974 and as continued occupation. and yet, the united states allows turkey to get away with that without any criticism. so when you get an arbitrary criticism, one country or another, but you leave out major offenders. and by the way, the major med is like the people's republic of china, which is taking a number of aggressive moves and really not necessarily invading other countries, but doing other things. and you know, they're not getting criticized by the by whitehouse, over frankly,

it's difficult to say which country in the world today can even come out of the moral high ground. it's only a very complicated world. we live in the moment. gregory a copy president of the international cedric studies association. thank you very much for your take on nancy. pelosi has comments on russia. italy's right wing, brothers of italy party are leading in poles following the resignation of the italian prime minister. we saw the ruling coalition. government collapse after a key votes. the political turmoil in rome has stopped fears in locals too. with mario drago decision to step down coming amid a challenging time for italians. this, it's a shame, but we have lost a very relevant person in quite hard times. await us prima with a new government, we will have to demonstrate our national and international credibility. if the

government does not respond or manage to communicate with europe effectively, there can be negative consequences. obviously, europe needs to have reliable partners. it's a disaster disaster. we have made a mess of this and the consequences will be very serious. drug his resignation comes as italy continues to struggle with high inflation, increased boring costs, and a food priced crisis due to droughts in the country. the p. m. support initially fell apart when the left leaning 5 star party abstained from a confidence votes on a 26000000 euro cost of living package, part of the group. it also split with drug over his hard line of continuing initiate for key f advocating a diplomatic approach. instead. meanwhile, the brothers of italy, which has formed a coalition including mateo, selby's rights wing league and silvio berlusconi as far as the italia, is pulling ahead of the main center left group, the democratic party, we heard from international relations expert dario revolt,

who believes that mo druggie had no choice but to leave office. i think he has no other option for the moment in the the, in the fact that he's government that was arriving already at the end, it was becoming impossible to go one. it is much better 40 that he now to decide to try to have a new government that only the battle. so we to say the actions, we the say how strong will be the next government for the moment, it looks that that their central right may be the future we know about that so easily easy for the moment. they are stronger than the strongest among the 3 big parties are composing the center right inside that these parties. there are a lot of parliament that is, that the do not agree that choice is made by the government concerning gracia and who cry. but it is too early for now to understand that what they will do once

should be on file without a b, b, they demographic past it. well, that's how the world is. look in, it's ha, 5 in the morning. moscow time this saturday. my name is peter scott. somebody back again with another look at today's biggest stories in about half an hour time. i'll see it in what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race group is often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk

with if anybody's been trapped in an elevator, 20 minutes could be pretty long time. right. and the load trapped in an elevator for 20 minutes. not knowing what's gonna happen, not knowing where you are, the suits of sensory deprivation. i think about that if your life 20 minutes about an hour, not at all, you're in the intercom is nothing i was trying to get you out. i was keeping you in is your communication ah, that's existence. ready ready ah.