ah, with a can you ah, the crimean bridge reopens for vehicles and trains across the current straits after a massive truck explosion on saturday morning with many in the west and in ukraine, celebrating the explosion. russia says the reaction reveals the terrorist nature of the key evasion and its nato partners. and in stories this shape the news this week, some us lawmakers slum saudi arabia as broiled back stabbers, following the opec plus the decision to flush oil outputs. we are, those says the u. s. is fully responsible for the energy crisis in the country. and

burkina faso, those leader fleas, the country after anti french sentiment among citizens and the military lead to accrue last with thank you for joining us. this sunday morning. you're watching the weekly here on our team. my name is peter scott taken over from rachel blevins and these the top stories from the week just on the 1st. we start off with the crimean bridge, which reopened after a massive truck explosion on saturday morning. vehicles have already started crossing with the rail section, also open for cargo and passenger trains. now, here are some of the latest pitches from the bridge, and as you can see, cards, cars are now heading in both direction, accompanied by traffic. police russian officials say a successful test run the showed the bridge is safe. although one section of the crossing the most heavily damaged still remains closed. all vehicles and train are

being carefully inspected before entering the bridge. and here's some surveillance footage of the blast itself. the russian anti terror committee says that 3 people died in the explosion. the exact cause of which is under investigation. the attack destroyed 2 sections of roadway and said nearby fuel cargo train on fire. one chinese official one, the sabotage of critical infrastructure could spark a dangerous pattern. the explosion crimean bridge less than a month after a norse from sabotaged opens pandora's box and destroying key infrastructure. in 2000 becomes new normal, the whole world will face raising security threats. for meanwhile, many western media outlets have been celebrating the deadly bombing of the crimean bridge. the daily mail, for example, called it's a birthday present for vladimir putin who turned 70 on the eve of the attack. on what's been described as his prized bridge. some headlines say the crossing is a symbol of russian occupation and called the bombing

a blow to putins war efforts. the slovak police went even further comparing the attacks. the results of the recent referendums that saw for new regions joined russia. while you cates are boyd at the sun, and some ukrainian media suggest that keeps the special forces were directly responsible for the bombing, his rushes response to that. the reaction of the key regime to the destruction of civilian infrastructure reveals it stories. nature assassinations, acts of sabotage, destruction, provocations and set ups. that is the logic that now binds, made to regimes as partners in crime. they are really keen to emphasize that this is a blow for russia, that this is a devastating tragedy for vladimir putin and what a great presence just see, you know, god swiss the knife a little bit more about again, even though no one is confirming that ukraine was behind that, we're seen some countries in particular in europe. not only alluded to the fact that it was indeed ukraine,

but there also applaud in them for it. i believe this target has been around for a very long time. it's tanya certainly welcomes this and congratulations, ukrainian special operations units who are expected to be behind the separation motivation. alicia said it says shouldn't bump with a soul, especially given yes. so they were sports person. these great heroes have such gifted dogs. i wish him more of such gifts to present the single can you imagine of something like this happened in the united states or in israel or in any other country and 5. and then you would hear statements like that it's, it's a despicable really, especially when we know that 3 people died, people lost their lives. and this is what i mean when, when russia is saying that this reaction coming from ukraine and also those who are supporting it abroad. this shows that success, city of kias regime and the success city of the west. and also the terrorist nature of key of regime of the latest, the photos that were seen emerging from ukraine. our people actually taken selfies

in front of a banner. we can see it right now, a banner that they've put up all the explosions on the bridge. and what's interesting is how fast they managed to to get our banner up there. but also we're now seeing reports on line that the photo of this banner was actually circulating back in september. of course we know that the bridge was a targets all along that there is no secret to that. there would love to, to blow it up because of course it's linking russia to crimea. so again, here we saw that the 2nd largest banker in ukraine is already issuing debit cards featuring the collapse bridge. so there is happiness all around that this happened . let's not forget that 3 people died, but again, this doesn't concern them. they're just, they're tweeting things like, let's start by taking a look at some of the tweets we saw coming out as early as this morning. first of all, we have the secretary or national security and defense council of ukraine. here he

is saying, good morning ukraine and a side by side of the bridge on fire. and marilyn monroe, singing, happy birthday, mister president, of course, alluding to the fact that this is a great gift for vladimir putin 70th birthday. and then we had the ukraine's security service that sweets it on the bridge is burned in well greetings, from ukraine's armed forces. and that today is a great occasion. and we heard from zalinski residential advisor this summer. he said that the bridge itself is a target and will be a target, and i will try to destroy it as soon as they could do to employ. we don't care about the crimea breach once we've received the necessary technical options, it will become a target for us to go for that is nothing to discuss. we don't have an opportunity yet, but once we get it, we'll target at the point where she needs. and it seems i found the opportunity and the way to do it. and they did just that, even though now again,

they're saying that somehow russia did it. and this somehow helps us out knowing what way shape or form this would help russia. but again, those are the latest claims from t if of following an initial outburst of praise for the attack, ukraine's presidential adviser then suggested the incident was staged as part of the power struggle between russia's defense ministry on the f s. b. however, the washington post has revealed a ukrainian government official admitted that key of special forces were behind the bombing. earlier journalist thomas roper told my colleague nikki and it would be. busy odd, if russia were to target its own territory. russia always the text itself, there bombing to nets, clear bombing the nuclear power plant. and they destroyed not stream to another bridge list. the normal key of propaganda in you can look at history every, every time and conflict, something like this happens. ah, it's the, well, the enemy, who did it,

and trying to blame somebody else. it's obvious that russia wouldn't blow the bridge. it needs himself for, for supporting the crimea regional thing. it's possible that the u. s. was also aware turns to bone the crimean bridge, considering the training officials have quoted a legitimate target finance. now, well, i think they're not only am that did not, not only know i think van wolf um, we know, for example that of us has to confirm each tire, which is hit by how much work it's we know that did the u. s. and the britons, the grits are planning offenses of ukrainian our together with the ukrainians such and such an act of whatever terror or war how you call it. i would not have been done by keith without a support or at least knowledge of the western. the supporters or continuing with a theme of ukrainian officials, backtracking a peasant zalinski himself is actively backpedaling on his comments. calling for

a preemptive nato strike on russia. he claims he was simply misunderstood. and i said you have to do preventive kinks, nada dex. yahoo! just because at the shore that amber g at there as an article on those do ab ruin, dylan excited to remedy that via that as an attribute dumont improperly zekia key. bully, poor jim overload him. is a lensky insist he was just urging the west impose more sanctions, claiming the kremlin is preparing society for the use of possible nuclear weapons. he added that he would never call for nuclear armageddon as that would make him a terrorist. the wedding he used to have a translates from ukrainian literally as preemptive strikes. there was little criticism from the west of the provocative words of the ukrainian leader. meanwhile, russian officials say they are unconvinced by zalinski backtracking young the winners and was big shopper when that. oh boy, they, what should nato do? eliminate the possibility of russia using nuclear weapons. i once again appeal to

the international community as it was before february 24th, as we need preemptive strikes so that russia would know what awaits them if they use nuclear weapons, not the other way around him to wait for rushes nuclear strikes and then say, oh, no, okay, then take this yard of gera, yesterday, zalinski called on his western masters to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on russian. with this statement, he's essentially shown the whole world, more evidence of the threats emanating from the keep regime, which the special operation was launched to neutralize order the attempts by zalinski secretaries to claim that he meant something else. a ridiculous spitzer in these situations landscape with like his entire regime has got a taste and is beginning to dictate his own conditions, both his nature and to the union kirk or you show of you what is. now this all comes to us, joe biden says that the risk of nuclear armageddon is at his highest since the 1962 cuban missile crisis. where we discussed that issue with

a panel of guests earlier. if there was any doubt thus far, he is unhinged. i am concerned for his mental health. he is obviously willing to risk nuclear armageddon to preserve his regime. and i don't think that russia or other state leaders are that are dealing with him can any longer consider him to be a rational actor. and we also have to take this in the context of his recent actions . he has ordered his military forces in the law over the last 2 months to continually shell and attack with kamikaze drones. the zappa rosure nuclear power plant, whatever his absurd denials to the contrary. if western leaders do not immediately denounce his statements and back away from it, i think we have to consider them complicit if a data tax in any way russia,

that's a 3rd world war, because russia is going to retaliate against all nato member states. and that would be easy and over, over europe and perhaps over humanity once we start playing these kinds of games and i cannot understand why the leaders of the, of the west are urging themselves to commit suicide. i cannot understand that. i don't think they've learned last is from history, because i don't, i don't think they know history. i mean that especially in the united states. yeah . i mean, we should look to the cuban missile crisis or how to get out of it. you know, john f kennedy bob, you know, he worked hard to negotiate a deal with crew chef. it was a given take. he agreed not to attack cuba. he agreed to take nuclear

weapons out of turkey in return for crew. taking the missiles out of cuba. that it had been negotiated, we need to day, but you don't see any of that happening from the us. you don't see the u. s. helping i to negotiate a solution and back you see them interfering to prevent solution from being agreed to. so that is very, very troubling and not the latest from the region of done yet square a civilian was wounded after the ukrainian army shell, the center of the regions capital. let's just take a look at the latest images from the scene. the attack heads are residential building, the streets were fortunately mostly empty, with one person wounded in their home. now this comes as officials say, the 3 civilians were killed and 5 wounded in ukrainian attacks across the daniel for public on saturday. the next, unless guns republics,

as well as the caps on ends up at osha regions are now part of russia following the signing of official documents by president putin. on wednesday, the unification comes after locals in the territories voted in favor of the move and russian lawmakers, along with the nations constitutional court ratified the joining of the new regions . however, ukraine on western allies have condemned the referendums as an illegitimate sharman . i've refused to recognize the results. russia's ministry of defense says they have evidence that ukrainian forces have been using informants to identify targets that include civilians are eager to dan and spoke to one man who revealed places of mass gatherings to obtain a reward. and he now faces of the 2 decades in prison. and we should warn you, this report does include an interview with a person in custody who could possibly be speaking under duress, bribes and brainwashing, are the favorite tools of caves, intelligence agents on the russian home front in the dawn bass. they look for people eager to sell the lives of their neighbors for

a thin wood of bills. dennis here is one of those who fell for the temptation. me a whistle smoke of long i went up for a walk. with my doke, i saw a guy. i asked him for cigarettes and he gave it to me. i talked to him and he offered me a job. i asked him what kind of job. he said nothing much. i just need addresses whether a mass gatherings of people, young. i went to look and gave him the address and he went to check when he returned, he said that he was satisfied with everything and offered me the equivalent of $80.00 for one address. but locations of russia's military excuse or supply depos were of no interest for this client. all he wondered was where mass gatherings of civilians were in a town cut off from water and electricity supply. there can be only

a handful of such places, mainly points of humanitarian aid distribution hold piles of her baby food, diapers and medicine. leave no questions as to what this place used to be. this sports arena was repurposed, it served as a major warehouse for humanitarian aid, where the whole town of several dentist flocked to because that was something that they badly needed and still badly need. but now it stands, whole destroyed and burned down to ashes by the ukrainian military. this is one of the 1st places obliterated by ukraine's artillery. shortly after denise submitted the information by then it had dawned on him already what he was responsible for and who his mysterious contact was. he wasn't phased by the realization though, and stuck to his newly found blood business. obama m. o. one after he gave me the money and left, there was shelling at this address and i heard from people that civilians died.

that over then he asked for more addresses. i found a hostile, where civilians were given water and gave the address to him. in 2 days later, there was shelling there after he was interested in other addresses and gave him the address of the hotel where humanitarian aid was given out. a thick stench of ash is still very present in the air here. this is one of the places that the ukrainian military had destroyed off to getting an anonymous tip off. apparently came from some one who relocated to several minutes from weston ukraine. it came from over there, but the locals here, they don't know why the man the foreman chose this place, because according to them, the military, the russian soldiers, they have never been here. dennis hands tremble now as he faces up to 20 years in jail for state treason. they didn't shake. they didn't slip though when he was providing more coordinates, which entailed another deadly strike organ renewal,

there was a strike over there. one unexploded shell is still stuck on the roof. then another strike came over there. the guy was sitting here, it was around 10 p. m. he was killed by a fragment. for the 1st time, dennis has the opportunity to look in the eye of a person. he marked as a target on caves artillery maps. as a play a short message, the victim paused with us. for salt, chew those people are scum. what else can be said about them? people rebuild the infrastructure and they keep destroying it. and it looks like the shelling come with help of informers overboard awful. it's too late. now. there's nothing to return to. the ukrainian command has been systemically, targeting vital civilian infrastructure elements in this war torn town. a mac is done of reporting from the dumbass, r t royal bank,

stubborn. that's what a u. s. law maker has cold saudi arabia. overreacts moved to reduce oil outputs, us following the opec plus decision. the u. s. has blamed the kingdom for rising living costs in the country while the saudi minister of states says it's america itself is responsible for high prices. and the reasons are nothing to do with crude oil. every kitchen table cost is going to go up, not down. and i realized costs are going up from food and i was able to bring gasoline down well over a $1.60, by his engine, not because of what the russians and saudis is not finishing. the idea that we would do this to harm the us or to be in any way politically involved this. absolutely not correct at all with due respect. the reason you have high prices in the united states is because you have a refining shortage that has been in existence for more than 20 years. you haven't built refineries in decades. opec plus optim coats oil production by $2000000.00

barrels a day starting next month in the move cause anger amongst us. busy lawmakers with calls to reexamine ties with keel key oil producers who they allege a damaging washington's economic interests. now this comes after years of the u. s . praising the kingdom as a strategic partner, and supplying the country with large amounts of weapons. some of even cold for the us to withdraw military support from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. so big plus decision has echoed in the european union as well, according to foreign policy chief set burrell decisions. a coach, oil production was a response to the plan to adopt a price cob. this comes as brussels announced, it's a package of sanctions against russia, which includes a price cup and further restrictions on maritime transportation of russian crude oil on petroleum products. however, you may putin want earlier that russia would stop exports. in cases where price cup was implemented, the host of ortiz will depart focused on

a boy co told us more countries are pursuing their own interests going against us influence. the white has already described this move as a hostile act, and it's a very interesting wording because if you start from a promise that the rest of the world is supposed to be serving your interest and everything that's for your interest would be a hotel act. but i want to remind you and me, i'm sure our viewers also know that that saudi arabian menu will be opec members are considered traditional u. s. allies and the fact that they have pretty much ignored. very, very active american law being shows that things are changing in the world and countries are starting to pursue their own interest. a white house has yet again tried to put all the blame on russia. but i think the current division shows that even closest american alice and no longer paying attention to anything that washington is saying or doing directly pursuing their own interest by them.

ministration has everything to alley and made my menu with allies. the ear is the only one that seems to be left in the so called american camp. and surprisingly, the ear is, you know, it is a book of countries. it has absolutely no oil reserve. it would be interesting to see how it will be doing with, with that situation. certainly they will be blaming russia. but i mean, again, you cannot warm up with the homes of your citizens with blaming somebody. so it's, we are also very, very interesting time. unlike the year, the united states does have its own strategic all reserves, and the biden administration has been living happily when it's over the last year or the besides. and that's reserve diminished by almost a 3rd from more than 600000000 barrels to some with about 400000000 barrels. and the vitamin ministration announce yet again, that they are going to release another $10000000.00 to try to heat, to try to ease the markets and those,

those additional barrels will hit the market right around the time of the mid term elections that may provide some respite but the problem is that when you are emptying your reserves on, on a such a short term perspective, the time to pay for that will come and it will come very soon because those reserves will have to be replenished and they will have to be replenished with much higher prices, so it's essentially they are trying to use that strategic reserves to aid the biden's standing in the polls. but even if they win, even the democrats, when they will have to address that problem a couple of months down the line, not even a couple of years, a couple of months and adding insult to injury. joe biden himself is be marked over the opec production cuts after he was caught speaking on a microphone during his trip to florida. no one ever president says no one apps with a biden good and here's opec plus has done just that. i mean,

other than opec bicycles, china stairs, russia, et cetera. joe biden, no one to bite him. opec, when you start begging, you know, the gulf states when you are beg, middle eastern countries have changed their already declared policies. it's an act of desperation as an act of short sighted foolishness. when the solution is literally right in your hand, the relationship with us in gulf states has not been particularly good at any point in recent memory. we have regimes that are propped up by the united states, but still resent the united states for their infiltration and meddling. so it's not that that, that the relation has gotten considerably worse. they just weren't very good to begin with with bite and try to convince them to change their mind. it's really showing that he himself is unwilling to change his mind. all that would need to happen to end the fuel shortage is to get rid of all the sanctions that prevent

american companies, individuals from buying fuel. if biden was simply change his mind, then he wouldn't have to beg saudi arabia to change their minds. and finally, burkina faso as all stood leader, has fled to the neighboring west african country of togo after military coup, last sunday, forced his resignation. one of the reasons for the rising is said to be widespread disdain for the countries corporation with former colonial rule france and the military overthrow. the government is the 2nd period. it became fast as seen in just a month. supporters of the new government took to the street to celebrate showing a discontent with france by stepping parts of the french embassy on fire. bush and flags could be seen in the crowd of people called for the country to step away from front and the phone. the size of the nation are put on that as we've been working with france for a long time in the end. it's a bloody situation. people are starving. people are eating while tree,

lee. it's france who's responsible. they better move back, but we will look for another partner, city, lepeu flesh shall know more france, our choice is russia. france is stealing from us soon. we are starving. life costs are very expensive, but russia would be nice to work with. france, just plunder our resources. are france claims to help us, but it's not true. somewhat. france is depriving us ruining us. they should leave our country. now. we need russia. no jobs, no money, no business. we are poor, i sort of it, we are unemployed, and the whole day we have nothing at all to do. and i know the cool in between a fossil is the 2nd one this year, but the anti french sentiment has never been higher. many of the residents of the former french colony believed that france has a hand in the current situation in the country. france denies any involvement in the events occurring since yesterday in burkina faso. the french forces camp has never had paul on re sand dahlgren to me, but stay there,

nor has our embassy. the new government, led by 34 year old captain ibrahim trial warri believes that france is helping the ousted leader lieutenant colonel dunbar is believed to have taken refuge in the french base at camp wallington. in order to plan a counter offensive to stir up trouble in our defense and security forces, but it is not just the people of booking the fossil. many of the former french colonies seem to find reason to dislike france. they dislike the colonial nature that paris has with their governments, and there has also been anti french protest. they, the summer france cleans miserably to its former african colonial empire, which it planters exploits its resources, and instigates clues kills their heads of state ignites terrorism and fuels. wars and genocides, but gina fossil expected assistance and protection from france. and it's not just bertina fossil. other countries in the region did 2 in the j. the sentiment is the

same. there are anti french slogans because we demand the immediate departure of the ball cane, forcing niger, which is alienating our sovereignty and destabilizing the saw here. the rise of the islamic insurgency in the us a hell region is one of the reasons why france has come under fire. molly was left to fend for itself at the front, seemingly couldn't lift the finger to help them with the security in the region. molly had several pieces of evidence that these flagrant violations of malin airspace have been used by france to collect intelligence for the benefit of terrorist groups operating in the cell and to drop arms and ammunition to them. piece of security and stability of notoriously been elusive in this region of africa. despite the influence of france and several form our french colonies have had enough, they have started looking elsewhere for new partnership in their fight for sovereignty and peace in the region. gobble,

it had oddity enjoyed his book. well, those the stories the shapes, the week a on oxy international. my name is peter scotts and i be back again with another look at the top of the ali. thank you for watching with ah ah

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