ah ah ah our correspondence gets caught in ukrainian shelling of done yet because at least 4 people are reported killed in the latest attacks by kias forces. a breakdown of democracy does the assessments, given by the european parliament to hungary, states into the country can no longer be considered a told democracy. and russian president vladimir putin condemned the west. then it's cultivated, the idea of destroying russia for decades on sticks to use ukraine in order to achieve this goal. with

thanks for joining us for the weekly early this sunday morning. here on our see, i'm pizza. scott's bringing some of the top stories from the week just gone. but 1st, we start off with the latest from ukraine. one person has been killed and 2 others wounded in ukrainian shelling of a village in russia's belgrade region. that's according to local authorities. another ukranian deadly as shelling attack was reported by authorities in done yet . so on saturday, a warning you may find the following images disturbing. ah, this footage from done yet shows some of the victims and the devastation caused by the 6 rounds of shelling in for hours. local authorities have reported 4 people were killed and 8th injured with fragments of french. how is the shelves found that the scene are corresponded?

they got caught in the incoming fire while reporting on location ukrainian forces resumed their shelly on saturday. we can see an injured woman here . she's getting medical help right now. this is in the city center here. have so far been 6 rounds of shelling and it's currently ongoing. sh soon. good. what? some of losing it. we're done with those of us that don't know. selling him he didn't um, but the weekly now. well, on friday, another round of shelling hit her son in the south of ukraine for people will f debt as the city center was allegedly, they are targeted by at least 5 us applied high mas rockets according to russian

batch authorities there. now this footage is believed to show locals running from the blast. 13 people were initially reported wounded, but one woman later died in hospital rockets stroke the building of the regional administration during a meeting between the officials, the head of the local labor department was wounded while her driver was killed. keith has claimed responsibility for the attack, calling its legitimate yes, besides suffering from selling increasing numbers of civilians are been injured by so called butterfly landmines, which can cripple people in seconds. ortiz, roman coast of census, this report from the city of genetic artillery is not the only danger. facing the people here in the nest. ukrainian army have also been using so called petal mines, or butterfly mines against the civilians here in de nest. this is what they look like, completely unnoticeable to the naked eye. and if

a person is steps on this mine, it will make that person for life. now, i can pick this one up because this is a merely an imitation. but you can see what it looks like. it's very small, it, it can fit in the palm of my hand. and once again is completely unnoticeable over the last 6 months. more than 60 people have been maimed for life by stepping on to a small petal. mine like this injuries our limbs, people's lives that have been completely torn off. according to local authorities, there are still thousands of these anti personnel mines around the nest people's republic that have not yet been discovered right now there warning all of the population to be very, very cautious right now, mentoring the hospital here in done ask the trauma center where they treat most of

these patients, i will speak now to the chief of the local trauma center. whole. tell me exactly what him and his staff are dealing with. but a conductor will certain people get very serious injuries when they come into contact with these objects. often their feet get torn off. this mind is dangerous because during the explosion, the me in the 2nd or damage in element is assholes or soil. these elements, in fact the skin and sub normal muscles in should never picked them up. you should immediately called the emergency services. this mine is designed to cripple people, not to kill them. and this is much more frightening. ukrainian nationalists continue shelling of the city of the nads not only with heavy artillery but with these so called betel mines as well. the weather here. is it changing right now as well? that means we're about to get a lot of for mud,

a lot of snow. that means that these are shiny mines will be completely unnoticeable. and that also means that doctors at this, from a sensor will have a lot more work from on call for of our t done as people's republic. staying with the weekly, the hungarian prime minister has compared to e. u. unseat russia. sanctions to energy midgets imposing sanctions on an energy giant. that's as the u parliament earlier stated that hungry can be considered a full democracy. artie contributes a rachel marston, takes us through the details. european leaders haven't stopped talking about how much they want ukraine in the u. and how keith is virtually the embodiment of european values. just this week. you commission president ursula vander line said during his swing, to keep that quote, the essential process is well on track. it's impressive to see the speed, the determination, the preciseness with which you are progressing. she also said that ukraine needs

quote more business, more income through the you were talking here about the country recently considered to be the 2nd most corrupt in europe and rank 122nd out of the 180 countries on transparency internationals, corruption index on par with zambia, galvan and mexico. now compared that posture with the e parliament's motion approved this week in a 433 to 123 vote. adopting a report concluding that hungary has become a quote electoral autocracy. meaning that european values and democracy were under systemic threat in that country. we deeply regret that the lack of decisive action on the part of the european union has contributed to the breakdown of democracy and the rule of law and fundamental rights and hungary making the country a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy, hungary as not a democracy, it was more urgent than ever for the parliament to take the stance, considering the alarming rate at which the rule of laws,

backsliding and hungry. the report sites a range of issues from academic and religious freedom to minority rights, but also judicial and electoral independence. the report could have literally been written about ukraine, yet the you and it would have been flattering yet the you desperately wants to shoehorn ukraine into the you. it comes at a high cost, but our freedom, the international peace order and democracy is priceless. you now can see that it could come to an end with victory for freedom and democracy. ukraine's problems haven't gone unnoticed, including by western mainstream media and human rights. organizations like amnesty international members of ukrainian forces and paramilitaries, also subjected detainees to torture and other ill treatment and used detained civilians as pawns for prisoner exchanges between the warring sides. credible allegations emerged of torture and other agree just abuses by ukraine's so called volunteer battalions. eater, and his off. last year he had his main political opponent, arrested,

and his assets seized by the state. at the same time's lensky shut down 3 of ukraine's most popular television networks, channels that not coincidentally, had criticized him. the e wants ukraine so badly that it has created a new european political community set to meet for the 1st time on october 1st kind of a kitty table of countries that aspire to e u membership. so if you crane and hungry face, the exact same criticisms except ukraine's are far worse with ukraine. of course, being worse, ranked for its problems than hungry, which already passed the sniff tasks well enough to get into the e in the 1st place than wise the block drooling over ukraine while spanking hungry . it can't have anything to do with the fact that hungarian prime minister, victor, or bon is against sanctioning russia and his forged ahead with new russian energy deals. while the block cuts off its own supply can it? it sees the brussels definition of democracy and european values,

however lofty they are, are synonymous with a hearing to you and promoting this global as to jetta. and when that particular box is checked, everything else apparently takes a backseat. ah, the head of nato's military committee has admitted to the alliance begun planning the expansion of the block near russian borders several years ago. the statement comes after nato leaders agreed on a significant build up of its forces on his eastern flank by 2023. just the ukrainian conflicts were talking about the biggest overhaul of our military structures since 1949. the planning for that started several years ago. but now we're implementing it. the block plans to increase the number of high alert forces on his eastern flight to more than 300000 soldiers in the near future. and nato countries have pledged to increase defense spending of despite russian red

lines, the money, the block stop expanding to the east and not include care in the alliance. while ukraine is not a member of nato, the international miniature alliance has been a key player. and it's ongoing conflicts with russia. when michael milofa, former senior security policy analyst of the year 60 defends where he thinks it was washington's decision to break the principle of nato's non expansion towards russia as opposed to or that nato members. it's actually the united states was the one who was leading this effort, going back to the clinton administration to go against an agreement that a bill clinton gave to, to, to, to russia. that it would not seek to expand. but all the while it was. and now we're seeing that nato is looking for a new agenda, and we saw it just very recently in their closing statement. so to now and not only including the arctic, but also china as a,

it's something to keep an eye on. and russia has, had, had made it clear this latest last december, in statements to the united states, united states, i don't think the europeans would have done what they, what has now occurred if it weren't for the united states and the neocons with neo conservatives within the u. s. government pushing, pushing, pushing this agenda and trying to take advantage of it. probably thinking that nothing whatever that russia would never do will ultimately happen during the shanghai corporation organization. something has beckett's done earlier this week, but he may putin blame western powers for manipulating ukraine to fight against russia. in the british, in the city for decades, the west has been cultivating an idea of a straw in the soviet union and then russia, they've always wanted to see our country disintegrated. now they've started using ukraine to achieve that goal. no. this week vladimir putin met with the leaders of china. iran, india, pakistan,

and turkey. moscow agreed to sell russian natural gas to anchorage with 25 percent of the payments to be made in roubles. he also slammed the e u thing to the block lifted sanctions on russian fertilizer exports only to ignore the needs of developing countries and called russian indian relations. a particularly privileged strategic partnership with more key points from the, from it's his maria phenomena. but 2022 s. c o summit. the biggest in the shanghai corporation organization is more than 20 year history has been called a historic 1. 14 world leaders from the origin region have gathered here and it was becky stunned summer cons. to discuss a new world order that they now witnessed emerging as the west seems to be added to lose its influence and trust globally. the voice of non western centric alliances like the seo is louder than advert. the food crisis is among the key problems

addressed during the summer and summer con global supply chain. with the pandemic and the ukraine crisis of course, disruptions in global supply chains. as a result, the entire world is facing an unprecedented food and energy crisis, and the s c o must take effort to develop reliable, resilient, and diversify supply chains in our region. for this better connectivity is no doubt needed. but at the same time, it is also important that we give each other full transit rights. not only i see our countries as some of the world's largest grain producers and exporters have addressed that problem, shall that say they're ready to offer a solution ketchel. but muted russia's increasing great exports from world markets this year will be 30000000 tons. next year we will increase it to $50000000.00 tons . 90 percent of our food goes to the markets of asia, africa in latin america. we know how important fertilizes are for solving the food shortage. the day before yesterday, i also informed mr. gutierrez about the 300000 tons of russian fertilizers piled up

in e u. c. ports, we are ready to transfer that free of charge to developing countries. i would like to ask you and secretariat to influence the european commissions decision, not in words, but in deeds to demand from their colleagues and the european commission that they lift these obviously discriminatory restrictions on developing countries and provide access for russian fertilizer city to those markets. as well in the summits final document yessir, declares economic sanctions, if not imposed by coin security council are incompatible with the principles of international law who team has denounced the restrictions as economic selfishness, yet gibbering miracles. striking example of this selfishness is your pin commission's decision to lift sanctions on russian fertilizers. if it turns out that only they can by our fertilizers, and would about the world's poorest countries who were, although often referred to as an anti west ally. the assay, all claims to not be against any other country, a block,

but that doesn't mean it is without enemies, should the jewish and as the world is entering a new turbulent phase, we must cross the trends of the time help strengthen solidarity and co operation. and contribute to building a closer s c o community with a common future guardian. we must support each other to ensure security and development. prevent external forces from inciting color revolutions and jointly oppose interference in the internal affairs of other countries. under any pretext. iran is getting ready to become the 9 member say, 9 prove it shares. yes. your family's value. so are you out here in recent years, economic and political much literalism has been, syria threatens, and the american government is trying to impose its entire demands and laws on the nation community and contravene sovereignty and independence with all its pulling and has to put the extensive use of completion on its agenda and oddly, american unilateralism seeks to hold countries back from the independent path of development. today they had high corporation organization unites 20 countries with

a combined population of 3 and a half 1000000000 people. that is half of the world with 5 more states, including 3 arab countries now announce to be soon joining the seo. the alliance is for jan. had to become global superpower. that simply cannot be ignored. regional tional r t from someone account, it was a becky song over 200 armenian and as a by johnny service personnel were killed this week, according to new figures from both countries. now, the deadliest border classes between buck who on europe and since the 2020 conflicts armenia says that the by johnny forces attacks that the men inside armenia and targeted civilian infrastructure. explosions from artillery and jo strikes were reported by armenians. this is in shortly after midnight on monday boats buck who has rejected claims, then it was only targeting military installations in battalion retaliation for

publications from armenia. the truth between the 2 sides came into a sites on wednesday, but the situation on the border still remains tense. things are also heating up in the armenian capital. that's where protesters have been trying to break down the gates of the national assembly, demanding the prime minister's resignation of crowds, where i get up to the armenian p. n bout to sign a piece deal. as many protesters accused nichol nicole passion yon, of betraying his country by appeasing as by john, pushing on report a little more make it earlier this week that your yvonne was about to recognize, but whose territorial integrity in the future treaty considered by many as readiness to recognize as a by john hovering over the disputed not going to come by region. so to, to also help in the, i mean, in cities layman to deescalate the conflicts a c s t o. monitoring mission arrived in armenia earlier with more details on the mission. r t correspondence eager has done a reports. generals of the c s t o lines have their hands full lately. secret

maps are rout. schedules are packed with confidential meetings. security crises between former soviet republics are putting the block to the test. so mean there by john. catherine was over 30 right now. we're following a specialty as view monitoring with some of the representatives with instruction to themselves armenian desert by john share a decades long mutual animosity in 2020, transcended into a full out war in the go and a car back a breaker. we're region predominantly populated by armenians, that as thereby john considers its own. it took the sides just over 40 days to sign a tentative piece deal broken by russia. and lately, it looked like everything was falling apart. ah

military hardware and facilities aren't the only targets in this latest clash between armine and as there by john this very much civilian home and a frontline village was shelled just a few days ago were being told that the round hit straight and fell straight through the roof well, at midnight, this used to be the bedroom. so only by sheer chance, by sheer luck, no one was home. and so nobody here in this household was injured. several 1000 kilometers to the east to other former soviet republics have added fuels to the flames. on paper, tajikistan and kyrgyzstan are both military allies, both member states of the collective security treaty organization, as they are very trigger, happy to bowman,

shoot each other over yet another territorial dispute ah ah, mending the ties between the 2 is yet another task, c s t o chiefs are expected to handle in both cases the solution lies in the to plan matic, not military plane, says the russian general leading c s t o special mission in armenia as long as of the shortest nar, today's task was to visit the territories where the clashes took place where the armenian positions were subjected to fire damage, which as we try to be as objective as possible, it is written in the ass harder of the collective security treaty itself. that priorities are given to political and diplomatic methods with mixing when we try to resolve issues peacefully as much as possible with rushes,

push for the new global order of affairs. international organizations face new challenges, inevitable transformations. and the latest stress test, the collective security treaty organization is going through, might mean that the block, too, is not immune from change. hamburgers, dawn of reporting from armenia. archie on the world's most renowned medical journals has released a report suggesting that the pathogen leads from a us lab could have been responsible for the coven, 19 pandemic. the once the report comes after 2 years of research, and despite us claims that the virus originated in china ortiz fiorella, isabel explains over 2 years after the cove at 19 pen, dang, mac. put the world in a frenzy respected medical journal. the land set. finally reports what many were crucified for saying that while the origin of the virus is still unknown,

it could have been leaked from the u. s. lab. we must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillover seriously until we have sufficient data. overwhelming evidence for either a so a no tickle research related origin is lacking. the jury is still out. more than 2 years into the pandemic. the search for the origin of sauce covey to remains incomplete and inconclusive. the medical journal published a 58 page report on cove at 19, but the mere suggestion that the so called the lab league theory might not be a conspiracy. after all, has sparked much criticism from the cove. it misinformation police who have been denying such claims for 2 years. labeling those who questioned the mainstream narrative conspiracy theorists. this may be one of the land sits most shameful moments regarding its role as a steward and leader in communicating crucial findings about science and medicine. it's really disappointing to see such a potentially influential report contributing to further misinformation on such an

important topic. so clearly some are refusing to accept that they could have been wrong. but that's not the only and apparent disinterested investigating this theory with any urgency. there's also been strong resistance when it comes to revealing the findings of the research. independent researchers have not yet investigated. the u. s. laboratories engaged in the laboratory manipulation of sars co v like viruses, nor have they investigated the details of the laboratory research that had been underway in ruin. moreover, the u. s. national institutes of health and i age has resisted disclosing details of the research on stars covey related viruses that it had been supporting, providing extensively redacted information only as required by freedom of information act lawsuits. perhaps these details may not make the media and those censoring dissenting voices looked very honest, considering it was the media and particularly the liberal media that were the leading voices in denying any notion of

a man made virus. it came from an lateral source. it didn't come from the lab. people looked at the genes, the transmission was likely from animal. the human is quite clear in this case that it came across through animals. why did you dismiss the lab league theory as, as credible? i didn't dismiss anything. i just said it's a high likelihood that this is a natural occurrence from the environment of an animal reservoir that we have not yet identified. but this isn't the 1st time that issues of transparency have arisen regarding western reports on the crone of virus pandemic. in the summer, the chair of the lancets cove at 19 commission said there was a real campaign to block an independent investigation. i want clear independent scientific investigation and transparency. one way to do this would be a bipartisan congressional oversight investigation that had subpoena power. give us your lab records, your notebooks, your data files, of virus drains and so forth. but we know right now we're operating in an

environment in which the government is working to hide the data that we need to make a real assessment. the report also suggests that people were blindsided and unprepared for the crisis. but let's not forget western arrogance and exaggerating their ability to handle it. another report from 2019 said that the developed world was best place to be able to get through a pandemic. but that wasn't exactly how things unfold. it. it was widely assumed that the united states in europe had the strongest pandemic response capacities and would fare best in a pandemic. the 2019 assessment failed to predict the poor quality of the public policy response to the pandemic in the european region in the region of the americas and the much higher quality of response in the western pacific region and number. so i right, according to the world health organization itself, that's from cove it in the western pacific were 266000 while deaths in europe or

estimated at 2000000. so the stereotype that the developed western world would fare far better than the poor, backward rest of the world didn't quite play out as expected. neither did the blanket statement that everyone questioning the narrative was a lunatic spreading misinformation. like in many other areas, it seems that the lack of transparency from western organizations, the media and politicians, leaves a lot to be desired. one thing is certain, the jury is still out on the origin of cove at 19, and people will continue to ask questions. putting trust in the western handling of major crises is serious doubt. well, those are the new stories, the shapes, the we care anacio hope you having a great weekend, whatever you're up to. i'll be back at the top of the are. but we'll to paul without find a boy co is coming up next. ah,

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a a welcome to wells far back in 1955 when the soviet liter nikita khrushchev was visiting in did you total close that most going your daily where so most that if the engines where to come from, the mountains helps the russians would be at their side price for almost 70 years and be a russian in partnership is still going strong. despite mobile peebles and times divergent interests. what keeps the 2 together while also pulling them apart to discuss that i'm now joined by my major, done a senior fellow and they observe their research foundation in india. mine's great, great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. happy to be here. now, as i mentioned, india has been pursuing its path of strategic balance. been russia with the soviet

union on the one hand on the west for why some time. and i think it never before hasn't been so challenging and so rewarding. but you are still arguing in favor of india reducing its reliance on russia. why is that you've been reading my pieces? well, i think it's not so much about reducing reliance on russia as it is about taking positions that are more in keeping up with a global outlook on the nature of conflict. so i think there is a distinction to be made on the one hand, india and russia, the former soviet union have had a very strong, very deep historic relationship. and i think in the region that both countries inhabit, which is the region region. there's no question that indian need strong partners. so there is that reality. however, they specifically in the context of, i would say 2 things. one is the invasion of ukraine in february this year,