an engagement a trail ah, when so many find themselves? will the pardon? we choose to look for common ground. ah, russian authorities investigate a drone bombing that struck the headquarters of the black sea fleet. and the crimean city of sev austell. vladimir potent lays out rushes new naval doctrine of national security and self defense. as the country celebrates navy day, the key here is the capabilities of the navy. it is able to respond immediately to any one who decides to encroach on our sovereignty and freedom. and in the weeks top stories, rushes foreign minister gets a warm welcome, as he visits for african nations that despite western pressure for them to snub

moscow with by their you're watching the weekly on our team international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. now we start this news hour with breaking news from kosovo, where air raid sirens have reportedly been heard amid the latest flare up of tensions with serbia. some local media have reported clashes between serbs and people from kosovo, with people said to be gathering in large crowds on opposite sides of a disputed border crossing and setting up road blocks in the area. this comes after serbia's president reportedly warned about an upcoming military operation by kosovo to sees a border crossing with serbia. it would begin at midnight on sunday. serbian president votes, which is expected to make an urgent statement on the situation in kosovo in kosovo . shortly will of course, keep you updated on all of that. ah,

russian authorities are investigating a drone bombing of the headquarters of russia's black sea fleet. 6 people were wounded in the attack. in the crimean city of civil stobel and official say, and improvised you a v bomb could have been used, but it's not yet clear where it was launched from pitcher full remove around 6 am. there was an explosion in the courtyard of the police headquarters. the attack was carried out by an unmanned aerial vehicle. there were no deaths, but 6 people were heard to staff members sustained moderate wounds. the rest have already been treated for light injuries for security reasons. today's plan to public festivities in self estoppel have been cancelled or however there is no cause for panic and our law enforcement agencies have already been mobilized. the attack took place amid annual navy day celebrations with crimea governor saying they've now been put on hold and the city locals have been asked to stay indoors as authorities assess the potential of further attacks. moderate terrorist threat

level has been declared in the city to facilitate the increased activity of russian security services. meanwhile, rushes defense ministry has released footage of its latest attack on a new and ukrainian field base inside the done yet people's republic. up to 50 ukranian servicemen, to howitzers and 10 other units of military equipment are said to have been hit by russian missiles. this comes after residential areas inside the city of daniel came under fresh shelling by ukraine's forces. some locals have posted no footage of the overnight attacks. ah, this on verified video apparently shows multiple explosions over done yet. local officials say ukraine's forces fired nearly 500 different shells at the city on saturday alone, leaving one person dead and 9 others wounded. oh,

some of the ukrainian shells were filled with fanned anti personnel mines, which have now been littered across the city of vignettes. russian led sappers are now busy defusing the explosives, which are small in size and could even be mistaken for toys by children. ortiz from one culture of reports from the ground there. ah, sap herself. the nest people's republic have a very busy day to day on sunday. as hundreds of little minds were dropped on the city in residential areas. right now they're scouring this area in order to find and destroy those mines, so that they don't hurt any of the civilians. these battle mines are all over the city of the nest at the moment. now they can explode at any time. now, they're designed to maim and not to kill, of course, so they can cause a death of

a person, but so these minds are everywhere. internet's at the moment. if you can point the camera this way, a local residence, they're pointing out that there are mines here to make sure that sir, no civilians approach them now. but once they're dropped, they can explode at any point with any moment within 40 hours. and right now, engineers as sappers are working all over the city to try and make sure that all of these mines are destroyed. ukraine continues shelling, civil in areas of the nest are right now as i speak. they may look very small, but they're a very deadly to young children. they may even look like toys. so once they approached the may pick them up, the result will be either death or the could become disabled for life.

should i reach them yet as a warning? i live near by, so i heard the explosions last night. i almost confused it with fireworks, but then i looked at the window and saw the pedal mines were used to all of this. so i just went to work as usual, the sappers d mind part of the streets, so the people can move about the ukrainians, want to eliminate us, the people, but we're strong. they don't want us here, but we won't leave. we are patriots what? no one will be able to put done, it's gone. it's nice jim, luckily than you can please help from russia. here in then, as has been instrumental the last few days, especially when ukraine began a bombing of the city and covering the entire area with those. that's all minds. as you can see, a russian engineers well russian engineer core are here working to try and make sure that no civilians are hurt in this. well, you can only call it

a terrorist attack against civilians already. one person was hurt by these pets will mines. rwanda also have ard t. the nest people's republic. oh, now we go back to our breaking news story, air raid sirens and clashes have been reported in the kosovo city of metro visa, near a border crossing with serbia for more. we're going to go now to belgrade based political analyst, alexander povich. alexander 5 is thanks for joining us on the program. so what's the latest you're hearing from where you war? well, the latest is a, you know, the president of serbia said that you know, at, at midnight on costs. so security forces of so called costs are going to start stopping people from crossing into from serbia proper into all the costs of all providence, which serbia still considers its own. it doesn't recognize its independence and

they're going to make them, you know, whoever has papers a republic of serbia, papers id papers for license plate, they're going to make them change them to temporal either temporary to temporary id . and also to take up a temporary license plate and also for the service we're living in the northern cost of all you know, they're going to give them 2 months to she was changed life place to have official so called fossil white plates. you know, i'm servicing north, don't want to be part of bill. it's a price then it may, it was a best buy. all right. all right. and so, you know, at that time this was late june, our president plan will ask for that

because of those security forces would start cleansing campaign of the serbs in, in northern castillo. so it's a tense situation. we had a similar situation a year ago where the authorities of the so called cost of attempted a similar thing regarding license plates. and they actually did send us special forces a bad time into the northern part of coastal, which is majority serbs and up and so i sure. yeah i, you know

we are i well, you know, there's a lot of speculation in the media. the cost of all military may, sorry, actually as we're actually running out of time here, and also the connections a bit bad, but we're going to, we're going to see if we can come back to the story a bit later. alexander poverty belgrade based political analyst. thanks for joining us in the program. the russians invited investigators from 2 international organizations for a probe and to keep the legit shelling of a detention facility in the den. yes. people's republic where 50 ukranian prisoners of war were killed. all scout says ukraine carried out the attack on the site located in the town of land of car, which blames russia while care blames russian forces warning. you may find the following. images disturbing. united nations and the red cross have been invited to probe friday's showing of the detention center, which russia says was carried out with

a u. s. supplied hi mars. rocket artillery system. dozens of p, o w's remain in the hospital. after the attack, oscar was called the shelling a direct provocation by key of made possible by american weapons, adding that ukraine has subsequently tried to cover up its role in an apparent war . crime carried out to intimidate its own troops. earlier i interviewed canadian at journalist eva bartlett who was at that scene. this is clearly an intentional strike on this facility. and it's notable by the way, i went to the a hospital that was treating some of the injured after going to this prison. and although we weren't able to go inside to see the prisoners, they were in critical condition. a doctor did come out and give a statement. and he said that the prisoners are in critical condition and they are undergoing surgeries, they're being given the medicine and the care that they need. and now i just want to point out the irony that russia is giving ukrainian presents of, or medical treatment. no matter, you know,

in spite of the fact that these are you and he combatants and it is ukraine that is caused, that is inflicted there of potentially moral injuries on them. here's a perfect example of an out now war crime committed by ukraine went western weapon reach and it is russia that is mopping up the mass. how do you think this incident is going to affect the morale among ukrainian troops currently in combat? well, i mean, we seen many, a videos being shared on social media and telegram, etc. of ukrainian troops saying like we don't have support from you know, our commanders were being or in some cases were being fired upon by our own army. were being deserted, were being sent out to the front lines who are not equipped to fight our being sent to our death at so i would say their morale was probably already quite low. but i mean, this is just the next blow, i mean a day even they were again, ironically in safe hands in russian imprisonment because they were being kept safe,

they were being fed, et cetera. but nonetheless, they were targeted by their own government to mean it's, it's, it's, i can't imagine they could have any morale at this point. we've seen similar things in syria. we, we had in syria a terrorist, whether there are al qaeda, free syrian army, isis, et cetera. intimidating civilians from it wouldn't be the same as surrendering. but from crossing from terrorist held areas into syrian government areas intimidating down by threats that the government would rape or execute them. so we, and we've seen the same kind of strategies that have played out in syria are being played out in ukraine. or we're gonna go back to our breaking news story now in the balkans between kosovo and serbia. we're going to go cross to our guest to we lost connection with just a little bit ago. alexander published. she's based in belgrade. he's a political analyst. hi there again, alexander. so i just wanted to continue our discussion. i wanted to ask you about

the speculation in the media that kosovo military may attack serbia within several hours. what do you think about that? well, they're not going to attack serbia. what they might do is that they might attack to serbs in the not in the north of coastal, which of course, it is officially part of serbia. so they're not going to attack serbia proper. but they might attack the serbs in the northern part of castillo, and they did this last year. so it wouldn't do. it wouldn't be something that wasn't done previously. last year we had a similar crisis where the prime minister of so called castillo, tried to impose this saw visa, coastal license plates on the serbs in northern close. so and they refused, of course. then he sent in special forces and actually, you know, they out of beat up some mas serves in northern plus, oh, and serbia at,

and the army to the border to the administrative border. they had to send some helicopters and it was a pretty, i was a pretty hot ah issue. and then the you brought broke her temporary kind of agreement. and i'll be happy that you gave them time to come up with a permanent agreement. but it hasn't happened so you know, i, something's going to start happening starting at noon. i mean at midnight probably they meet what they made. you saw the so full. busy civil believe it might start start hopping. busy all from in, from serbia proper into course of all and make them take temporary license plate temporary ideas. you know. so you know, and it's incidents might start happening. and you know, that's what the serbian president is concerned about, especially because the west is not doing a thing to prussia. the costs of authorities are you not to back down to la

respect previously signed agreements. and you know, this is a very similar problem q. what was happening in ukraine for 8 years with immense agreement. you know, we have you or european powers brokering a peace agreement which and then they didn't press one of the sites to him. you know, in your brain that impressed ukrainian sites and hearing gap. they haven't pressed the also aside to implement in agreement that was actually broken by the new you. that's why we have what do you, what kind of response do you think we can expect from other countries after what's going on right now? well, you know, the thing is we'll see how serbia respond. serbia can't allow for the serbs in northern costs of to be you know, to be abused again,

physically or otherwise by the so called cost of a security forces are the, wes probably won't do much. you know, the thing is ever since the ukranian conflicts started as serbia has been under great pressure from the western capital to impose sanctions on russia. you know, on serbia, along with breast cancer, to go in again, serbs living there were the only countries here that having a whole sanctions in russia. we're surrounded by natal funds or are you a nato? and so the work for very, very anything, the restaurant you are gauge the russia. so, you know, i re sure here in belgrade that the west is actually using the cost of obedience to pressure or downgrade, and just serves, in general are alexander prophets,

belgrade based political analysts. thanks for joining us on the program for bringing and bringing us your insight. thanks for having me. ah, the sunday marks navy day in russia national celebration honoring sailors and their ships. countrywide. the main parade took place in saint petersburg featuring a flotilla of the navy's finest vessels. here are some of the highlights. ah, a similar parades went on across the major port cities in russia and even beyond

russia's fleet as the in the syrian city of tortoise. also joined the celebrations and in the ukrainian port city of bear johns, which is currently under the control of russian lead forces. and celebrations, proceeded there. after years of being restricted by ukraine, navy day is not only about the ships and the sailors, but also about coastal defense ship builders, maintenance, and other services. among the many participating dignitaries was president putin who also unveiled russia's new naval doctrine. the document sets the main threat to russia's national security in the world ocean as the u. s. as course towards dominant us and the growth of nato activity. here's how vladimir putin laid out moscow's maritime goal is to let jamie would use my upgrade. i was mentioning that i need the we have openly marked the boundaries and areas of russia's national interests, both economic and vital strategic ones at i'm not sure. first of all, these are our arctic waters, the waters of the black sea, but a whole sc. see,

bearing sea, also the baltic and coral straits you and we will protect them firmly by all means . the key here is the capabilities of the navy and it is able to respond immediately to any one who decides to encroach on our sovereignty and freedom. our navy successfully and honor fully carries our strategic mission is on the frontiers of our country and in any parts of the world's oceans are a union better. what can we got? reaction to the newly signed doctrine from air marshal m. mathis, warren and indian air force veteran and the head of the peninsula foundation think tank. he says the document signals that russia and tends to firmly protect its interests. it's a very important signal because it actually signals the russia willing to predict the interest anyway to call the glow as an important i lay a fresh semester. i think i would bring the calls in the process. and if you look

at what happened with the might be the early 2000. ready ill lot of people who look forward to live and look that action by the way, back again. not just for any specific interest with respect to the family, but more importantly for the global button and a balance of power system to be in the world. india, china will play a major role in getting the word table and the more balanced mode, rationalized global government system i would say, or the next 20 years that would make their life. and this is what i hope i'm in that context. something country is recovering, it's, you know, traditional string them great staples of stimuli. so this may be needed in the bottom that copies or foreign minister survey lab. rob conducted

a trip to for african countries this week and received warm welcomes everywhere. that's the spike calls from the west to isolate moscow. it is becoming clear that russia is recognizing that his own actions have caused it to become a we have good relations with russia. all countries of africa have sovereignty and are free to choose their own policies. who are stance on the russia? ukraine crisis has remained unchanged since its breakout. we never wanted to how with the wolves as to the fire sergey lab rob's visits were deemed such a success that the u. s. secretary of state is now also set to travel to south

africa. the democratic republic of congo and rwanda. washington announced to the new trip for august, just 2 days after lab rav wrapped up his visit. ortiz maria financial covered his tour agent, congo, uganda, ethiopia, truly historic tour. at a time of isolation, russia, the world's most sanctioned country, is supposed to be struggling, losing ties and partners. but instead, it's foreign minister to was the african continent with a bang airplane land that 4 times in 4 days and for a different african country than everywhere. russia. 7 diplomat was accepted as a high leverage back to get that as a brand in ethiopia, they lay the floor with fresh green grass, a symbol of respect and everlasting friendship. in a gander, a leader not seen without a mask since they called 19 out break, made a notable exception for love rav he had nothing on his mouth but

a smile in congo. the hogs smiled, and jokes that greeted lover were more representative of an old pals reunion rather than formal diplomacy. a, in each country, they all saw it. the same rush, enjoying overwhelming appreciation for supporting african anti colonial movements. more than half a century ago while recognizing the independence of african states. this report been with us for the last 100. ready years, how can we be, what the money a, how can you have been to somebody who was never hom, does the venues fall labrems tree were picked carefully and wisely. a no gonna. he was greeted by a veteran african ruler and opinion leader. while in congo it was the turn of a regional influencer at the country's hound since 1979. and then on to kyra. an ad

is ab, about they had quarters of too powerful regional bodies. the arab league and the african union both said they had failed pressure from the west ahead of the visit. but i'm 40 right now. these instincts of colonialism emerge and the politics of western countries when they demand the whole well, take their side and running against all the others. one day they asked me a question. i know bruce wolf rose. i should, you must, you must think i wanted you. why do you think my men job is to be pro somebody i am through i should've in fear of provocation african union ambassadors asked for a meeting in russia's embassy while the arab league was less intimidated. although asked by western diplomats not to be pictured with lab rob in protest at russia's actions in ukraine, they gave a rather clear response. the west with his sanctions and condemnation basically pushed russia closer towards asia and africa. but as soon as it realised they could

backfire, they tried to fix the situation by blame in russia, by blockading ukraine's grain exports and restricting the trade of russia's own fertilizer. reuben's actions have had the consequence of inflicting pain on the people of kenya and on other countries throughout the world. he is hurting the people of kenya in order to benefit his own situation from his own perspective. but africa didn't seem to buy it, although there are no direct functions on the, on the, on the wis. stokes russian ships for all coding on a number of ports, plus lumber off came to africa with good news. a deal was reached to resume grain experts from the black sea. it will bring relief for developing countries on the edge of bankruptcy and the most formidable people on the edge of famine. and tulip

stabilized global food prices, which would already at record levels even before the war, a total nightmare for developing countries. and with the west, realizing that russia to blame for everything car didn't help. it used a very unexpected joker. no, he didn't, didn't yet. russia is one of the last imperial colonial powers. it has decided to invade a neighboring country to defend its interests. that's the reality. it's a bitter irony to hear such sentiments from the leader of the country that has been colonized in africa for decades. that has basically never stopped seen, the continent has its own property, years after independence movements to called have to use in it as a backyard for nuclear tests. and as an endless base for free natural resources. the russian foreign minister is not the only one to in africa the. they also making the journey on the french president,

but you add them back to their didn't you when they had of the us agency for international development. analysts say it's like when you call was played out in africa with rival trying to get english as well. yes. and now however, while others had just woken up the africa as a partner, russia, every real friend has always been here. raven austin, m id from africa. and now it's time for an update on our breaking news story. air raid sirens and clashes have been reported in kosovo in the border town of metro. it's called the coast of all security forces. have apparently blocked a key border crossing with serbia and say that people with serbian id will no longer be allowed to pass. earlier serbia president warned about an upcoming military operation by coast of all to seize a border crossing with serbia that would begin at midnight on sunday. in while the

serbian defense ministry has rebutted reports that its forces have entered kosovo. that's all for this. our thanks for watching the weekly on our international and we hope you have a great day. mm. i ah

ah mm. mm. mm. welcome to, well, the part when the americans live pakistan support than driving the soviets out of afghanistan, they quietly look, be either way to allow is about to put the finishing touches to nuclear bomb, fast forward some 40 years and the same actors, the same powers at loggerheads he up again this time in ukraine who's present and earlier this year and now he's cultures intention to develop again, it's new, clear military capability what the americans look away yet again, if it's worth to.