not the thing for me as a church up, i'm here, but then you have a group of even within erica look like human gloves on good. that. that would choose this deal. it is different. she has a credit as long as this boy do it right. but i don't want that to get to that do oh ah ah, this is our top headlines right now. what are a few international as peers forces fire, heavy artillery across the border into rushers of belgrade region, hundreds of ukrainian refugees flee to those areas from cities recently seized by key as

a some of the asylum seekers side fears of upcoming repressions by key at the authorities in their homeland deadly escalation are up to between armenia and as are by john over the disputed and i've gotten no cut back. reach emilia says 49 people were killed as a by john denies. claim did attempted any type of invasion and the u back try on imposing price limits on a russian, an issue, supplies according to a leak document. the book struggles with shortages are the sanctions. it's already imposed against with all florida to say headlines for you today on this program. it is a busy day in the newsroom here at moscow, straight to because right now it's about the ukraine conflict, where authorities and rushes belgrade region claim ukrainian forces have been firing artillery across the border, hitting the edge of europe,

the attack left one person dead and at least 4 others wounded old, well ukrainian citizens who had recently fled to russia. now this comes as hundreds of ukrainian refugees flee into russia as was recommended by the russian backed head of the region. the russian army and volunteers of help. the evacuation of the belgrade authorities saying the refugees are being provided with all that necessary care and will be given temporary housing. well, the whole influx of refugees was triggered recently when kiev, as military forces took back a control over a number of towns that in the hottest region will bring you a moving map here on the program to give you a better idea, a russia withdrew with troops from ukraine's northeast region, claiming it was re deploying them southward into that of the don't. ex republic. this is the former front contact line right here. a kid has retaken the key cities of holocaust. is you me and that over bella clare right here as well with claims of

threats being made against any one as we understand who has cooperated with russia . the climate under business, is it all collaborators and all russian specialists who come to ukraine, all russian officials, teachers, kindergarten workers, should know that they are criminals, and that there will be no sympathy towards them. otherwise, either depth or prison awaits them all about elaborate or is must pay the maximum price either legally or physically in terms of combat. now fears about ukrainian action in the we claim the territories have been growing after the countries deputy prime minister said some russian teachers there had already been arrested as we understand they could now face up to 12 years in prison. well, let's learn more about this going live now to war, correspondent thomas roper, who is joining us this afternoon here. we're not the international great to see you today. what are your thoughts on this rhetoric coming now from ukrainian officials that anyone perhaps who has been helping russia in any way in the hot gulf region

could face some sort of retribution? no surprise. and they changed the legislation in the last month like this. and well, everybody who was working with the russians in these territories has to be afraid of, of consequences, not from, from kias teachers, whatever somebody was working in the city administration just for, i don't know, providing the city with with electricity. and they are all in the eyes of ki, of collaborators. and if we think this till the end, this means they would say, well, i don't know, maybe half of the population would be, would be in prison after that. and there's a big question that's almost because ultimately, you know, russians have so many relatives in ukraine and so many people in ukraine have relatives in, in russia here it's, it's, it's almost like they're just being driven against themselves at this point. is it possible that if you are ukranian and you have relatives in russia and you speak to

these relatives in russia? is it possible that the key of authorities could come over to go off to someone like that, a potential civilian, just having contact with someone in russia more than possible. i have talked in the don't boss to people who were afraid to tell anything. what of in front of cameras, because they were afraid and these were even well formal ukrainians in the dumbass regions. and they were even afraid for, for the relative switch lift and you could and the key of control to territories. if there phase would show up in t v or somewhere. so this dangers absolutely real and no surprise. what about, what about or no prominent organizations like amnesty international? you know, these organizations that we're supposed to look up at, look up to as leaders, you know, would you expect any comment from amnesty international? of course not. we have see this last record report where amnesty accused kia of war crimes and afterwards amnesty republic just for that. this is something you an

amnesty is fineness from the west and is an instrument from the west. so i don't expect anything from them because they keep silence somehow since 8 years already since the thing and number started. so i don't expect anything from these organizations. obviously, obviously thomas are always 2 sides to every story and hear it. i say we do our best to bring every angle to what to what is right now, the biggest store in the world, and that is the conflict in ukraine it's, it's difficult to try and get a straight answer when you look at certain press outlets. for example, i've got family and friends who live in europe and elsewhere and, and typically they get one side of the story from the western press. why is the western press literally so leaning towards one side of the story, it's almost like it doesn't want people to know what the other side of the story could be. yeah, i agree. mm hm. we have so many things which are, which have been happening in ukraine and the western presses just, just not mentioning it at all. they could say, well, this,

this happens that it's right because it's ok because all they say, and what russians claim that this happened, but we say no and we, we are right because and then, but they just, many things are not mentioned in the western press at all it concerns many, many topics, especially regarding ukraine, is it lists the fact that there, there are several topics in the world and happy over the past few years where there's only one accepted narrative on the storage today. but that's something we'll have to get into another time, thomas roper. wal correspondent, always good to see you. thank you. thank you. bye. well, meanwhile, several videos for you. now here with the program showing western mercenaries reportedly helping ukrainian troops take back control of local settlements. that these have emerged online boys where the car we owe a lot of fight gear. sho,

washington says recent success is by ukrainian troops on the front line of being the result of western support and guidance. a key of says the backing of partners have been pivotal to its advance. clearly we've seen significant progress by the by the ukrainians, particularly in the, in the northeast. and that is a product as i said, of the support we provided. but 1st and foremost, it's a product of the extraordinary courage and resilience of the ukranian armed forces and the ukrainian people without support. we will not be able to return our lands and i'm really nice at myself. and i'm quite candid about this. well, i mean, while i, us democratic senator mac wanna says american intelligence is working very closely with kia but providing all sorts of logistical data and information of military analyst scott ritter believes that the west at the end of the day is using the

soldiers on the ground to fight some sort of proxy war against russia. the army was fighting russia right now in ukraine is no longer a ukrainian or it's a nato army. it just happens to be manned by ukrainian troops are supported by nato intelligence by natal communications, by nato command, staffed by natal logistics, and by or in the mercenaries, there is a large number of them, apparently participating in this current offensive. they played a role in penetrating the russian defense is carrying outraged behind the russian lines and, you know, doing some of the reconnaissance work, et cetera. so they're an active participant in this conflict. but the u. s. is willing to fight russia to the last ukranian. he doesn't care about ukraine when he cares about is doing as much damage to russia as possible, and you're using ukrainian conflict to achieve that goal and objective. i went out

to one of our correspondents in don bass, who spoke with a captured ukrainian soldier who admitted to fighting alongside that of foreign most and aries. his roman cars. according to open source reports of scores of nato instructors have descended on ukraine of the last 8 or so years in order to train ukrainian army to combat the nets and logans to people's armies. also, over this period of time, thousands of foreign mercenaries have joined various nationalists battalions of ukraine who have been active in the war, crimes against civilians in done nets and elegans. now, some of those mercenaries have already been caught and convicted to death by local courts for their actions. so now some of them are still at large. some of them have deserted their positions. now, earlier i spoke with the one prisoner of war of the ukrainian or me here in dunn,

that's how the man's name is said anneal or no pre ankle and sometime in the united states. so he was very active in speaking to these foreign mercenaries, so who were in his battalion? this is his story. americans. these men were americans. if you can look closely, you can see the american flag patches on that chests on see speaking in great measure, they influenced us only in raising morale. they lifted up our fighting spirits, but how effective they actually were. i cannot say more, some and even deserted their positions. and position was the hottest spot in the war. if we do not include mario poll, we were in key f. they said that they didn't need this after that we never saw them again. there was also a situation when as soon as these men arrived, we had to get up in the morning to to the shooting and gunfire which we sat there and they looked at us with open eyes filled with panic. asking what was happening. then they realized this is a real wall and they had

a machine gun and they broke it. they broke it so they could retreat. that was such a fiasco for us. they took such expensive piece equipment and they just took an axe and broke it in to then they just retreated 50 meters and sat there to speak. honestly, nobody in our command told us anything about any kind of foreign formations that was supposed to be with us or what they were going to do. officially, they said that the reason for their presence, as many of them are actual soldiers who fought in the war in afghanistan, is that they are fighting for democracy. this british guy said that they came to protect democracy. they came to share their experience with us. they came to create some kind of influence. so to conclude, zahn, he, on the pre uncle was not so really impressed with the, those mercenaries who he had come across and that he wasn't impressed with their weapons. or either as they were all seeking a soviet, made a kalashnikov or now to a big story here on our tea. that's really getting very little mentioned in the

western press. no surprise, because the e. u has stepped back on imposing price limits on russian energy supplies. this, according to a report lead leak document showing the block, opting instead, to increase taxes on the profits of energy companies less learn more, and they'll deeper live now to paris, an arctic contributor rachel marston, joining us here in the program. good afternoon to you, rachel. so lo and behold, at the end of the day, the e finally understands that you can't put a price cap on energy. that doesn't even belong to you. yeah, a leak draft of the european union's plan to deal with. sorry, energy prices across the block suggest that member states couldn't agree on a price cap for russian gas. this is according to media reports out today, commission president ursula vander lan is expected to address the issue definitively on wednesday. but so far it looks like france and pollings idea to kept the use supply even further is set to lose out to the better reasoning of the

netherlands, denmark, germany, and the commission itself, which all opposed the idea of an energy cap for fear that suppliers will just sell their product to other customers that pay better for all the talk of us solidarity with the u on ukraine. it's not like american gas company is going to just give it away. speaking of paying customers, germany was probably hoping to become one of iran's paying customers in the event that have revived nuclear deal. could have lifted western sanctions on iranian fuel . because chancellor or olaf schultz seems pretty bummed out. the deal hasn't yet happened. but the old and i regret the turan has not yet given a positive response to the proposals made by the european coordinator. berlin is also getting flock from sanctions, advocates and environmentalists over its unwillingness to stop the shipment of russian uranium processed in germany to power frances nuclear plants. thankfully,

the u hasn't sanctioned atomic fuel yet, which would be catastrophic on nuclear reliant, france speaking of which the eiffel tower lights are getting turned off earlier. now, each day, here in paris to save energy, was actually pretty funny that when cities around the world lit up monuments to pay tribute to queen elizabeth's last week in the wake of her death, paris just turned off the eiffel towers. lights too completely, you know, shut it all down. markets respects well, you know, he looked around the world, you saw the union jack colors lighting up monuments. he saw the queen's face on them here was just shut it down. it's probably cheaper. well yeah, was certainly the cheapest way to go. so france may just want to keep looking for excuses, looking for people who pass away to pay respects to every day by shutting lights off, because it looks like the countries energy crunch and europe's could get even more complicated. it turns out that a subsidiary of the state owned energy giant in

a 20 to false are deaf last 60000000 euros by eroni asleep, selling electricity. they didn't actually have on the european wholesale market. now they're not sure if this is a human error or some other kind of error, but the end result, well, possibly power cuts with the u. k. and spain specifically being alerted. and while that you is realizing the challenge of breaking from russian energy, the u. s. is now worried about where it's going to get its weapon, grade aluminum. the senate has even sounded the alarm in a letter or to the pentagon. so despite the multiplication of headaches, that western allies are giving themselves and their own citizens. some still think that they're sticking it to russia. sanctions must be reflected in the everyday, lots of ordinary russians above. oh, we must continue to provide ukraine with all forms of support and be prepared to impose even stricter sanctions. well,

it looks like the most recent surge of western solidarity consists of many of these allegations coming to the independent realization, the isolating russia from the global supply chain without taking a hit themselves is not going to be as easy or cheap as their ideological virtue, signaling for rachel, thank you. still talking a bit about money here as ukraine expects to receive another installment of financial aid from the european union. we're talking about a 5000000000 euros locals in gaza, as one can imagine they're still suffering from a lagging reconstruction process. many of them fear it will take years will fail before they have a warm home to live. and this comes off to ukraine is going to receive $3000000000.00 more later this year. it's bringing new financial aid, told to 8000000000 for 2022. so the meanwhile palestine has gone, well, let's see, you know, $862000000.00 in total over the last 22 years from the you get

a closer look with local journalist. so not come out in early august, is that i enlarged a 3 day military campaign again there, but it's in and it's the mac you heard movement in gaza getting at least 50 ben athenians including women and children, as well as when did i about the 360 others. is it early on me then carried out dozens of the air strikes. again that has dental building military sites and civilian properties under the bed that they are belonging to. that is them. if you had movement in the area, they are 2nd most powerful armed. but athenians in that course that include the total cost of the destruction, may go up to $230000000.00 barrels for the housing sector and $800000000.00 to compensate to those infected in the economy. industrial and agricultural gather that basically needs financial donor to reconstruct the damages they made that unit

their barriers in the a wars there between 2008. and the 2014 a promise of assistance to the bell homes, androids, and support. gather civilians have been voting and poured some time. however, the local residence of the course that english art afraid of bending more years before rebuilding their houses. as a very construction for profit. if they're going to slowly and be garza amid not donors abs. yoga been, they get a bunch of 100. a month ago we were at home and these rarely army called our neighbors at 11 am and told them that they would bomb our house. we'll run away without taking anything with us. 5 minutes later, the house was boned with a reconnaissance me style, and then it was targeted by a to me, sales from an f, 16 war player. and i had all of the house was completely destroyed law and we became homeless black and we don't get funding. we won't be able to rebuild on how we can hardly afford our food. green and university educations by the duffel. but

after targeting the tower was 8 bombs without any prior warnings. it led to great destruction and made all the housing units on an bearable, displaced dozens of families, including more than 50 children, more than 50 women, and more than a $120.00 men were very apprehensive, especially since the situation in the gaza strip is very difficult and there are many facilities that have been destroyed and previous wars that have not yet been reconstructed so far going on it. but i'm sick watch hands of the lake, of inter leicha interest in the bailiff if you are him in gaza, which at the same time seem to be interested only in boring, more and more money a being through that grade. but on a lower than i am, i hope israel full a responsible, a women he'll to the donors to help us yet. but we are asking the donors and instead of paying the full money to ukraine, to finance the reconstruction in garza because our situation is more difficult than theirs would have been under siege for men and years. alana peakley and i'm addressing my message to the international and arab to noon. and we urge you in the

name of human rights and friendship with the palestinian people to expedite the restoration of this tower. and the rest of the facilities destroyed in the gaza strip to enable people to restore their lives as they were before the recent israeli aggression that bel athenians ask and not much income better than with the amount of money given to give by the west. they only need to revenge that houses and live in bees, as well as the other communities are rung. the where do that are in the program. here or not. we spoke with garza political activist mateo, a bomb survey, who says the western world has a tendency to turn a blind eye to the hardships of every day palestinians. we, we had all this and we, all of the international community stood on one leg to urge their people to resist. i think today the better senior people, our lives alone in the front and compensation of the brutality. 70000 bad as

being in a house house is going to lift after the 2014 aggression or more than 50000 better in and also where a butcher the damage after 2021 question. none of them were obliged to beat about so we are in front of another phase of the ongoing suffering which actually, which actually takes the place in front of the whole water. so those, actually those double standards reveal it clearly how fragile the standards of national community, how will project the human values that they are claiming they have it's good to have your company today. so the european council says a recent escalation in fighting between armenia and other by john is extremely worrying. the council is president called for a complete and sustainable seas fire. and that says armine, as prime minister nicole washington has said that at least $49.00 soldiers were

killed in a fierce battle overnight with the death toll was, we understand still being assess. meanwhile, i'll go to by john defense ministry who's disclose multiple casualties among its military forces. explosions from artillery and drone strikes were reported by armenian citizens shortly after midnight. armenia says, as by johnny forces have been targeting civilian infrastructure by john has ultimately rejected that claim, saying it's only directing fire military installations in retaliation for quote, proper patients from the armenian side. now the armenian defense ministry says 7 locations, including civilian areas were affected by the fighting journalist gave us this report about the recent escalation, as were by john's armed forces, used artillery and military drones to attack sovereign armenian territory. and the battle that began around midnight september on september 13 after midnight, units of virginia forces you there to receive them smarter than you release,

open contents, fire smoke tenuously on various sections of armenian as a bridge. any border in the direction for meaning positions and initial cease fire called for the fighting to end at 9 am. but the answer by johnny army has continued to shell the armenian border in violation of the agreements. according to the official information 49 people were killed on the armenian side. it's unclear how many casualties were on the answer by johnny side, the armenian army as completely combat ready, we will fight for our lands. the answer by johnny army has attempted to move forward from their positions, but the armenian army has succeeded in pushing them back. so updating it with this angle, now that armine is national security council has officially appealed for help from russia, as well as moscow lead defense block, the c s t o, and the united nations. meanwhile, azerbaijan defense minister has said the escalation was a response to the armenian military placing land mines on as by johnny roadways. a local journalist from by who has more sources close to the missile

defense also informed as a result of yesterday's complementary taken was by john the armed forces destroyed the infrastructure. armenia continues to be on the, on the other by john a 1000000 border and this infrastructure new could pose a potential threat to security. they added that it will take another 5 years for me to restore it at night sabotage groups of domini and armed forces using the montagnier terrain and exist in gaps and ravines. mind the territory sent supply roads between the position of those by johnny army units in different directions. it also said that it was an army has taken control over strategic points on the border, which would put a threat and danger for the positions or whether it was done a military unit. it was on the line that by johnny army didn't have an intention or

goal to invade armenian territory. i'm glad you can join us for this program here on our tea. moscow is accusing the us of placing potentially devastating bio labs near russia's borders and then apparently lying about them at a recent multinational conference about the a few in geneva. let's learn more, please don't call joining us here in the studio today. great to have you with us on this story, dawn going to tell you, i mean i've been hearing about this for months and sudden outlets in the western press even said that america and some of it's european partners may have up to 40 bio weapons labs across parts of ukraine, but apparently now there's a new angle to it, you know, more than i do. well, according to russia is deputy foreign ministers today because he says that it's the extremely dangerous nature of these pathogens that are being used in these u. s. funded by labs located in ukraine that constitute the evidence that they're being used for the purpose of rating weapons,

according to the call moscow as time and time again presented documents evidencing this specifically to the united nations and correlation with the biological weapons convention. and nevertheless, none of moscow's concerns have been addressed. they fallen on deaf ears, and apparently it's no coincidence either. apparently it's part of the u. s. is conscious policy in terms of biological biological research. in the former soviet sphere, we didn't mean to cancel the behavior of our american counterparts and the ukranian proxies during the meeting has raised questions. their bid to present themselves as a target of unjustified attacks and to demand apologies, descended into rudeness and attempts to change the subject. in other words, they did everything they could to disrupt the meeting with the way. it's been a lot of allegations of a months now on about about the circle of american bio labs operating in ukraine, apparently also with the understanding and help of various european professional partners to, i guess,

i guess if you are america and you do want to have bio weapons lab, you want to keep them far away from the home and what better place to have them than on brushes? doorstep like indefinitely. we had any reaction on this latest angle from washington or key of washington actually acknowledges the existence of these bio labs just says that they're not intended for the creation of weapons, but for biological threat reduction when it comes to the potential outbreak of the seriously dangerous pathogens in the region, as for kiana, they've basically acco disposition, but, you know, according to russia, this is a very strange position. recalls have has also said that based on the way the united states and key as have conducted themselves on this issue with russia, it's suggests that there's pot, potentially a different agenda here. go, i don't think we have time to get into that potential agenda, but just to quickly don't before i let you go, have we had any other reaction from the international community on this or is it pretty much in my mum for meantime, while the u. s. s allies have either said nothing or they've just echoed washington's position. on the other hand, china has actually more so echoed russia saying that these bio labs are dangerous

and they've demanded more explanation as to their purpose from washington. we've also heard from the u. s. s. more traditional enemies like north korea, which is also said that they're a u. s. provocation, and they recognize the independence of the guns convenience people's republics. there. and we've even heard from americans who are already drawing parallels between these bio labs and the business interests of hunter biding nuclear. and i still really scary stuff. i don't know quarter thanks very much. thank you. well thanks for joining us here for the south broadcast live from moscow headquarters art international a busy day for all of us here at moscow. we are back soon with more. ah ah

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