brown a, [000:00:00;00] with this i was top headlines on off the international as rushers, foreign minister plains, the west for the deliberate incitement of the culprit in ukraine. lab are also accusing international bodies of i well turning a blind eye into the violation of human rights by p. yep. with ukrainian forces shell donnette city. once again, 6 people are killed with the referendum on joining russia on the way and just walking forward disputed regions over the next coming days. the attacks continue to

intensify with her should i just a prisoner exchanging 55 soldiers returned to russia, while ukrainian service men handled over by moscow does include the members of the infamous as all but talia also in your program. here with our t center goal says it opposed as mounting pressure from the west, pushing africa to choose sides in the ukraine conflict. that's how the us threatens the continent with sanctions over the usage of russian energy while at the same time, claiming that never any co, well i wasn't extremely busy day for your well by headlines you're it off the international. it is so good to have you with us. now,

the latest shutting by ukrainian forces or not donuts, city has left 6 people dead, 6 injured. that's according to look officials, i should warn you about assistant graphic images. now residential areas have been coming under attack since the early hours of the morning. they do continued that fast, right? they're blown up by one of the shells, body parts scattered and another shell hit the roof of an indoor mock. it all this shall income's just a day before a referendum to join. russia has held in the republican thought, his murat gazda, if now reports plus 24 hours, have seen a series of tragic events, especially what happened earlier of styles going in then. yet, people hear about these, are these latest shillings these, these new casualties of people are becoming de sensitized to them. nevertheless, 6 people killed 6 injured among those killed

a 14 year old go. these were bearing in mind that even though this was at this point because of ukrainian bombardment, which is blind in character with little purpose, but the so tara, amongst the civilian population, that every single day there's a new tragedy in the nets. berries, my son, where is he? where tell me where they all are. my son was on the bus with miguel, i should let each of the shell hit here. the man is lying here there, some others mama, i am lucky that i survived. i saw the shell fly in here just moments before you like a good deal. and then eunice was somebody at the shoulders for 8 years and they just continue to ask them why they're shelling there in humane. yes, wonderful. here was shelling by the ukrainian army may directly hit the bus and there was another 2nd hit further away in the city. in the 2nd strike, there were no casualties been the 1st here. 6 people died including one child. the

wounded were taken away, they will be okay. that was of course, all and i in then yet square these shelling can news lou. we expect more casualties every, every day. here in your song are the ukrainian military yesterday attack with american high mas missiles, a fire station, which were, which didn't have any military targets in the vicinity, anywhere near, but as well as the uni river crossing the connect your son to the east and back of the near port river, it is the only crossing by which this entire city is supplied with, with food, with medicines, by which people take their loved ones, relatives to hospitals who elsewhere on the other side of the river. civilian crossing was also struck. thankfully, fortunately, it wasn't in use at the time that the platform itself, the bulge, was significantly damaged in multiple, another city, zappa, georgia,

someone planted a bomb in a closed shop, 6 people injured there. i am the acts of terror that is being now investigated. believe to be conducted by ukrainian nationalists to once again spread tara, amongst the civilian population. on the eve of the 5 day vote referendum across multiple provinces regions and breakaway republics, the nearest law gods have sought. suppose you where people will give would be given a very simple choice, whether they would like to vote to join russia. now security here, ease ease, on alert. on high alert, i would say ukrainian bombardment, publications are expected to morrow everywhere where the vote is taking place. perhaps to scare people away from voting in this referendum, but the what it has served to do this endless shelling the, these are active acts of terror is,

is turn. and we have noticed this turn even lose people who supported ukraine, who were against russian presence here to turn them against ukraine. now that they've seen what kiev is doing, so it's all going down on friday. don bass, her song and apology will hold referendums on whether or not to join russia despite the outright condemnation of the west. moscow says it will support the decision of the people and also increases defense in the regions. there's a lot of security concerns about the next few days. the voting will continue until tuesday now, just a bit earlier in this program here on r t i had the host of will depart with me on a boy. and she joined me in the studio to discuss the timing and the significance of the looming referendums. aaron massa, significance historically geopolitically, but what i would focus on is the military significance because essentially by supporting this referenda, what russia is saying is, well, it's, i think, a nice trolling of nato charter,

an attack against them will be an attack against us. and that completely changes the way this military operation will be perceived both in moscow and hopefully in the west as well, because it will allow russia to use different kinds of armaments. it will allow russia to use different kinds of strategies, and i hope that will impact decision making on the western side as well. because, you know, ascending weapons tend to be far against what russia considers its own territory. is something different. and certainly things i put in is up in the anti right. how as well, i'm very conscious. they said, yeah, and i was what you were blinking in america was saying, just have a den he's in his. he said in your here in washington, we're really worried with genuinely worried about what photon is planning to do. and you know what, i'm glad to hear that frankly works on it. it's good to show washington a good to say to here with a not a bluff. he said, yeah, yeah, that's why i like. yeah, he's actually pretty straightforward edition. he's not hiding behind the rhetoric. he says what he means and what he's going to do. it's not hard to make sense of what is in his head. there are so many criminologist in washington who for some

reason just cannot take put his worst strength and he's always very direct about his intentions. it was at the issues daughtry's for 1160 years. we firmly learned that it's mostly dangerous for russia to weaken its sovereignty even for a while to abandon national interests. during such periods, the very existence of russia was threatened to waiting for us to make such mistakes . again, we will not succumb to black mountain. intimidation will never betray or lose our sovereignty. and by strengthening it, we're developing our country. sovereignty has become the means of survival and development. it's an ability to make the decisions for your people, what the west has assumed until now until now is that essentially it was always a between national south south hope access to prosperity. the whole idea of globalization is based on the idea that you can participate in the global economic system. if you play along with the west, if you play along with washington, and that's why the west always introduces sanctions,

tries to limit the country's dissipation in the global economy. as a way to punish down for the recall sentence, or for that disagreement with western wisdom. it's not just russia, but all the countries major countries have benefited from globalization be china, india, south africa, brazil, many others who are here, for example. they're all saying that, ok, you know, what we'll economy is not the american economy. it's not for the american leave to grab it for all of us, and we all have to leave find the ways of living in this world in mutual respect, but also mutual benefit sticker on the account here at our national we will be having very special coverage on the referendums in these regions which getting underway and roughly 24 hours or less, locals will be voting on whether or not they want to become a part of russia. you can read much more about that on our website. otherwise, just stick around with us here at the international aah!

who's so in the meantime, a prisoner swap has taken place between moscow and kiev. the russian defense ministry says 55 russian military service men have arrived home from ukrainian captivity and now receiving the necessary medical care. will douglas laws look as a result of a complex exchange negotiation process? 55 servicemen of the armed forces of the russian federation done yes. can lu ganske republics, who were in mortal danger in captivity were returned from the territory of ukraine controlled by the key of regime tonight,

all military personnel have been transported by military transport aircraft to the territory of the russian federation, and currently in medical institutions of the russian defense ministry was doing the return service men have been given the opportunity to contact their relatives and being provided with all necessary psychological and medical assistance. the russian troops landed wednesday at a military airport named moscow. a members of the notorious, neo nazi as off, but talon captured during the seizure. mary apple were among those exchange for the russian serviceman, several western fighters, all mercenaries, including 5 british and american national, who had previously been sentenced to death by a don. it's court. they were all released with many of the russian soldiers when they were freed, were quick to contact their family members to let him know everything's okay. so cut her should i just know that everything is fine, wipe your tears. everything is okay. so it presented. i see you and everything is

fine. i just, i tend to russia alive while the british prime minister let's trust, has made a statement about wednesdays, prisoners of war, exchange appraising ukraine's president, but well taken a swipe at russia. i thank vladimir zalinski for his efforts to secure the release of detainees and saudi arabia for their assistance. russia must end the ruthless exploitation of prisoners of war and civilian detainees for political ends . and we discussed the prisoner swap with a journalist option with tense. it will be almost humorous. so if it wasn't so tragic, i know that they had a via the prosecutor. the international criminal court has just been speaking of the un general assembly in the same major talking points kind of way. but the idea of the british prime minister, british prime minister, talking about treatment of prisoners of war after, as you just mentioned, abraham mussa that case the existence of guantanamo, you will never hear anything from the i. c, c, or washington, or london, or any major bower about the fact they still have

a detention to what you can in ocoee by cuba. and how far does one have to go back for british treatment of prisoners of war? whether it be in south africa, can you offer the libyans eventually nature? why with the prisoners of war treated in the so called war on terra, let alone ireland. you think, let's trust, we think you more about ireland and given the northern ireland protocol and the torture of irish people in that war. instead of treating about the fact that the supremacy of international law as regards prisoners of war should be always upheld . so russia's foreign minister sort of a lover off, he claims that collective west has been escalating the war in ukraine, not even hiding that its main goal is to weaken. russia is comments or came during a meeting of the un security council nathan fornia. so the not solution that was in the position of those states that pump military equipment into ukraine is cynical.

and it doesn't hide the fact they wanted to plate and weaken russia by prolonging the conflict. the collective west. kendall's, the fire, and it is with impunity. why really punish yourself william. this is not latent racism against russia, but outright racism. now i, let's get the latest from new york as our correspondent caleb muffin could to see you today. so we had an awful lot of statements from mr. survey laugher off the russian foreign minister. can you run down some of the highlights? sure, well this was a meeting of the un security council that is taking place during the un general assembly when many heads of state from around the world are here in new york. now, the meeting opened up with reports, accusing russia of many things, not substantially presenting any evidence from there. we heard from the u. s. secretary of state antony blinking now who pounded the podium against russia. we heard shina come forward and talk about how fact finds a q into the truth, not serving

a political purpose. and then all eyes were on the security council chamber when we heard from the russian foreign minister, sir gay labrat. now he choked to the floor of the 15 member body that leads the united nations. and he gave remarks, exposing all of these facts that are widely ignored and international, and us aligned media. when he spoke, he pointed out that while the united states seems to continue to maintain the idea that the government based in kiev is some kind of democracy, the reality of their actions on the ground with their food blockades and their suppression of political dissidence just doesn't match that narrative, here's what we heard from the russian foreign minister at the security council below go a few months. so those kids is imposed to financial energy and transport. blockade of dumbasses. his residence will cut off from social benefit, pension salaries, banking services, education and health. care they deprived of basic civil rights under the claim of

the fight against russian aggression and separatism in ukraine. the persecution of distance is intensifying. we have no doubt that ukraine has find he turned into a totalitarian state of the nazi kind where the norms of international law flouted with impunity just now the russian foreign minister also described other realities of what is taking place on the ground. he described the burning of both books and people by forces that admire those who collaborated with the nazis during the 2nd world war, then are pushing pro hitler narratives in ukrainian society. he went on to furthermore, describe how weapons provided by the united states are being used to commit crimes against civilians and how there has been a huge effort by russia to document these crimes. despite being ignored largely by international bodies. here's what he said. but at the music you, william, who did no military or strategic targets were hidden. this settlement shall by

ukraine. any civilians have dumbass. suffer is not surprising that ukrainian armed forces employ terrorist tactics when using civilians as human shields. now the russian foreign minister describe the upcoming referendums in which the people in the don das regions will have the right to determine their future after that right was taken away from them by the government that was imposed on them by the united states. after the 2014 year old maiden qu in kiev, now the peoples of eastern regions will have the ability to wrap up. the turn regions will be so white. an important moment when the russian foreign minister had an opportunity to make the international community aware of facts that the united states and its allies have worked very hard to obscure in their efforts to demonize and isolate russia. well, that all sounds good kaylee, but i doubt the western press. so western political leaders are going to make any mention of lateral statements of the un security council would appreciate your

report countable season. no africa is not willing to choose sides in the war and ukraine, that's at least the message coming from senegal during the un session, alluding to the mounting pressure on the continents leaders coming from the wes i. e. it's more like that of a coalition of the willing who have been pressuring african leaders not to use russian energy missile. president, africa suffered enough burden through his history that it does not want to be the place of a new cold war, but rather a polish stability, an opportunity that is open to all of its partners on a mutually beneficial basis. some african countries depend heavily on imported grain from russia and ukraine. and the west is blaming moscow for weaponized in food african states. though i'm trying to stay neutral about the ongoing conflict while receiving support from moscow on getting greater influence at the un and more of a say in a post colonial era. this comes as the united states threatened african countries with sanctions, if they, by russian energy. although at the very same time,

president biden insists america never forces any one to take sides. we do not see conflict. we do not seek the cold war. we do not ask any nation to choose between the united states or any other partner. when i spoke earlier in the program to a legendary independent chair, political analyst escobar, he questions the western issues towards africa, the bread basket of the world. it's a mix of racism ingrained racism in the atlantis is elite. and the fact that after the only thing that africa is good for is plundering, which is the history of colonialism and neo colonialism for the past 20300 years. europeans came up with this absolutely toxic sanctions, reggie. and now there are sanctioning very poor countries across africa, depriving them of grain and per license that they badly need. and even though you

went this week, once again admitted that the spectre of famine across africa is absolutely horrendous. this tells you how the u. s. priorities are they basically you have the hard core priority, which is african, which is wrong, military zation and ya, lee, which is educating young to africa leaders, which is basically brain washing, young africa, into applying new liberalism to africa. so none of these programs such sustainable development so the indian ruthie hit a record low against the dollar on thursday. it comes as the u. s. federal reserve is hinting at a more aggressive rate hike the curb inflation. we discussed all of this a bit earlier with ortiz, but on june sharma, this is a weekend, so the engine to be, have bonded with i felt the b has broken leaky against the us

total and beyond looking out for the decline, the currency. i saw the thing that one thing is happening, the court or the aggressive read. hi god, by the us federal reserve for the 3rd consecutive day in the are you in for that to be the feel all recession as far as the join us? so do you actually think the global market economy and the we can, a currency is not just the case with india, a new one. but what's happening is that in asia, i feel they're facing the same sort of problem. there is a lack of india is expected to into rain. that's what i've been given to understand because they don't want any sort of knee jerk reaction. but it was, we had to wait and watch to see what's the result of us to put it simply here in the tearing inflation to be precise. imported in creation. you see india

economy that is a dependent on and be in for all sorts of commodities like oil and then bio for ones television goals. and now you don't have to be more to buy the steam commodities we are really looking at. is the import to get miller and l g bills to get hired and all this is a big concern for right now. it's good to have you with a full this program. a conservative legal group is suing a pennsylvania county and the us so illegal usage of ballot drop boxes and the 2020 presidential election. so i think suspicious screenshots of surveillance camera footage now, according to pennsylvania, is election rules mailed and absentee ballots. should number one ballot per person, however, the following images or excuse me, from surveillance cameras show that individuals will visibly dropping more than 2 ballads. according to those who filed the complaint,

at least $300.00 invalid and void ballas with a positive into just one drop box, though apparently is enough to change the outcome with a 2020 electron less less mol, crossing live. now to steve malta and american t. v. and radio host, a syndicated columnist and political commentator. always good to see you, steve. thanks for coming on the program. why has it taken so long? i mean, when, when the election 1st happened, steve, it was, it was a case if there was there were why spread allegations of fraud? widespread allocations and, and frankly, the left leaning complicit media really turned a blind eye to all of this. why is it taken so long for the republican support has to file these allegations and why now? well, i think what they're trying to do and, and i think this is a smart thing for republicans to do. and i wish donald trump would do it. and that's look ahead. forget what happened in 2020 and look ahead and i think that's what this case is, is focusing on. this is in chester county pennsylvania. these photos are recent and

people are a, believe it or not in the united states, you know, in advance of november. they are voting. and, and, you know, when i, when i 1st started out, when my parents voted, you voted on election day. there were some exceptions for military, of course, absentee ballots, and some other exceptions. but now, early boating starts monday, 3 for the election, which i think is, is terrible. so what's going on here is you have to 24 hour, a drop off boxes in this county, there are 13 boxes, but 2 are 24 hour access and they're not man. and they have these photos of people, as you said, that as we've seen up dropping off more than one ballad. and as you correctly stated, you're only allowed to drop your own ballot with your own. won't know what's going on is not legal. so to people from the trumpet ministration, steven miller and mark meadows run an organization called america's 1st legal. they

are suing on b half of 4 residents of a club, augusta chester county, and they are claiming that they will be irreparably harmed. if this is not corrected, if this situation is not corrected and at these votes that have been dropped in that box are white are not wiped out. they want them not to count already. so this is looking ahead. this is for november, the mid term elections are set, are going to happen in a little over a month. people are already voting or, and they're being proactive here. and i think it's a good thing. see what i've heard some people saying that when it comes to, for example, on the midterm elections, they say that the democrats are going to win in a landslide because they're just going to steal it again. well, i don't know about that. i mean that the polls show the democrats with a slight lead and, and, and certainly keeping the senate losing the house though. i think look, there's a lot of people in this country and it's not just republicans that don't trust of going forward because of what happened in in 2020. there were

a lot of unanswered questions, and of course you're right about the media. i mean the media of the left wing media likes to call them deniers. that of course, refers way back to a holocaust deniers. they put it in the same category. al gore did it with climate change deniers. and now it's election deniers. but of course, there are many democrats who denied donald trump's legitimacy, including hillary clinton for a while. so it's a double standard, but i think this is a big test. i think we'll see what happens here in the mid terms are and hopefully in the, in the 2024 for presidential race and things will get back on track and the doubts will be gone. but i think this is a very important start. what's happening in pennsylvania with these dropboxes because it's just right for fraud. the possibility is just, it's like hair dropped the ballots and, and it's against the law. so i'm glad they're doing this. steve, i've seen the analyst cell. they're telling, telling trump not to linger on the past and, and to look to the future. but when,

when biden, and he's done this a number of times, joe biden, to you as president, has cold, he's refer to trump supporters as extremists and a threatened to national security. d g, i mean cotton knows what he's doing, but still teach. he think that invigorates the opposition. that's a cost that balance with even more passion. i think it invigorates republicans and, and, and you talk about the double standard. look it, you know, it was joe biden who said twice once when he was campaigning for hillary. and once and 16 and once when he was running for president, i'd like to punch donald trump in the face, hoary book, or new jersey us senator said, my testosterone makes me want to punch trump in the face. chuck schumer came out and threatened to supreme court justices f in anticipation of the abortion decision . he said, you won't know what hit you if you are, if you, if you vote a certain way, i echo that. we just had a senator from alaska democrat say on the, i'm sorry hawaii on the floor of the senate last week that the abortion decision was

a literal call to arms literal call to arms. and nobody talks about that. all they do is demonized. trump supporters and mag, a supporters has some kind of domestic terrorist and i hate violence on both sides . but if it's, if it's wrong for one, it's gotta be wrong for the other state. there's been a lot of talk, especially from donald trump, that the democrats have been essentially throwing america under the boston destroying the country. and certainly, he's been saying that for quite some time now, you know, obviously in 2020, when the democrats clinched the election in one way or another. since then, you know, we've had, am, i don't know politicized social movements, or b, l, m, l g, b t q, the transgender agenda, sending billions to ukraine at a time when the average american can't even afford to put petrol in that car. do you think the average american is pleased with a state of affairs right now in the u. s. of a? no, i don't, i don't. and the economy is the main issue. you know, the left is trying to push this abortion that this is what's going to motivate democrats. and this is the, the only thing on their mind is abortion, abortion,

it's not up to paul is showing abortion down the list. an economy of inflation education because as you're right, the l g b t q tried trans movement is taken over the schools and taken over the teacher's kindergarten 1st grade. second grade, parents are labeled domestic terrorists if they want to speak up for their kids. so no, i think, i think republicans have an opportunity here to just point all these things out. even on abortion, the democrats fabre, abortion on demand route 9 months only 30 something percent of americans yield outweigh what the depth, the republicans have seemingly given that issued up to the democrats. you know, when they say it's a woman's body, they mean all the way through to 9 months, that's not where america is. so on every issue crime, i think the republicans have a winning issues on all of those and it's up to them to get the message out. t v and radio host, syndicated columnist on political commentator, steve malls spoke,

joining us life is always love our chats. appreciate that. thank you. me too. thank you. and thanks for joining us here for this program from moscow. it's auto international. i roll re sushi. it's been a pleasure having you with us. ah ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be in arms. race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. very k, to kill time time to sit down and talk.