a cd and the one you put up a list of all, but with ah, a top headlines right now here when i see that we understand at least 4 civilians are killed and 10 injured including children, ukrainian forces target a very crossing area and quote, a song region, this is according to local authorities. one of the survivors are described i'm sure of what i saw. the military was not there. it was a column of civilians. just the people who wanted to evacuate from the city and go to a safer place. no agreement on a gas price cap. you leaders clash over the deepening energy prices, germany and hungary, opposing an attempt by the beloved to create a unified policy. also in the program from f. b, i re,

to vanishing on that suspicion grows over the disappearance, open award winning american john list. it blew the lid on a ledge. u. s. military cover up also still the company this program with a lot of stories hitting us today here at odd international in moscow, we bought north florida stores for you on air and online as well. keep in mind you can always catch up to date the latest r t dot com. roy sushi, by the way, welcome to this. i was program. as we understand 4 people have been killed and 10 injured, including some children. it's a fairy crossing point in the heart of song region came on to fire overnight by ukrainian forces. it's all according to local officials. now authority say that 12 us supplied high mas rockets were fired at the area. 11 of them are posley,

intersected by russian air defenses. the waterway was been used to transport civilians from the city of her saunders. the nearby bridge is impossible. jude her continuous shelling ocoee of did confirm the night time attack. but said no civilians could have been hom because a curfew was in place. ukraine also claims it could have only hit russian soldiers disguised as civilians. however, that statement is a well being contested by at least one of the survivors yesterday was for needs as i'm in the hospital right now and everything is fine. take a look at the chart they took out of me. there was a missile strike by the ukrainian army on the antonio sky bridge. we stood with a column of journalists and waited for the crossing. every one could hear the air defense systems working and got rather used to it. i was sitting in the back seat and heard an explosion. i felt glass falling on me and a colleague pulled me out of the car and covered me with his body. that saved me.

he is also fine, but i am sure of what i saw. the military was not there. it was a column of civilians. just people who wanted to evacuate from the city and go to a safer place. where the moment the local authorities have come up with a number of people who were killed during this attack by the crane and military at the moment of 4 people are dead ends. at 13 people are wounded and they're being treated as nearby hospitals at the moment. according to local authorities, ukraine fired at least as well, of us may the high mars multiple rocket systems, 11 of those had been intercepted, but so one of them had hit the target at this. they're very crossing local officials are also saying that this particular rocket was also filled with collage for munition in order to maximize its civilian casualties and to maximize damage as well. now he indeed had confirmed this strike. however,

they said that no civilians could have been killed or wounded in this act because it was a curfew our ah, and they also said that those people who were killed could have been a russian soldiers dressed as civilians. well now would you have already a confirmation that indeed there were civilians that were killed among them is a russian tv producer. there are also people from the local press corps as well. local authorities are saying that said this particular point is all always full of fi civilians at any given time of day or night. let's have a listen. radio boldness, knowledge led cliches to will the opposite side may claim there couldn't be civilians as the curfews imposed. but everybody knows that after the bridge was damaged, the summer the people spend all night at this river crossing. moreover, while curfews imposed people are sleeping in their cars near the crossing. they are in the queue and they have no other option. this crossing is only for cars,

so all the victims were sitting in the cars. of course, there are huge cues now as everybody wants to leave the city, fearing along with shillings terror attacks by ukraine and even possible flooding in case the car of sky. hydro electric power plant is hit by guided missiles and is partly or completely destroyed. now this is not the 1st and unfortunately not the last time that ukraine is, that's are getting civilian population and we'll do it successfully as well. according to russian military commands, nato had been a long demanding from the ukraine and authorities to continue their offensive no matter the cost to whether it's a civilians or civilian infrastructure. i time to learn more here in our international coaching life to us at you ologist and human rights lawyer. there's modern bolts are very good afternoon to you. martin. welcome to the program. a great to have one key of insists that were no civilians at that river crossing when it conducted the night time attack. i think one big point that's kind of been

neglected here, is that right now? 60000 people are being evacuated from that region over the river right now. so essentially, russian control territories key f must know that there's a mass eve that going on. why, why would it even allow its troops to shell overnight when such a thing is happening? if you look in the past, we have seen this, the government didn't respect the humanitarian international law. the many terry international law says clearly that civilians of the civilian population enjoyed general protection from the dangerous post by acts of law in international conflict . and they may not be target of military attacks. and in case of doubt, the person or group of persons is put that as not to be attacked is the population remains. if the 1000000 population, even if you do us,

the most of them who are not civilians so that you create site must have known that there is evacuation and they must have known that that's been so 1000000000 so they start not geno release. sure. not a rocket the rocket, which really is where they are sent to in that region because there was the risk of getting civilians and kipling civilians. so international you do to monitor that national law. this is a walk, right? if you abuse that well, this doesn't have been analysis out there in common tree from some of the military experts out there, same to the high mos rocha system. as you said, it's fairly and indiscriminate with the way that it does explode over enormous, enormous areas. now the key of authority is a saying that they can have been any civilians who across the river at the time it was 40 minutes into a curfew. well, you might imagine in the state of conflict when you got 60000 people who were

trying to get out of the region, it would perhaps be a 24 hour venture. i couldn't say i wanted to ask you, mr. korean, that i most off. he's a chief of the regional administration. he claims that journalists from the tv channel can bria, are either among the dead or among the injured we haven't, couldn't, that here will not see the m s. m is mostly quiet only a. p has a right thought, right? now, martin, why is something like this when civilians are essentially collateral damage? why, why is something like this getting so little mainstream attention? yes, if you look at the mainstream media and the moment in the. ready european, germany and all the nato countries. then we are confronted with that information like we know in war the truth, it's very hard to be told and the truth dice us and it's

a very long sighted narrative which is going on. i remember when the national out that of the ukrainian u. s. g, which is an abuse as well. the international humanitarian law. the media just wanted very short need about it and then ukrainian government to throw out and in the national out of your faith. and that was the default of all sorts of very one sided for both of because the government set enough to say that decided to be taught in this war. for example, the army would dream $5000.00 soldiers premium, which to the wrong direction. there must be neither station and diplomatic offences

instead of going to one site and leading to conflict with the claim cannot be ukrainian base. this law only can be negotiations just so this one. yes for you. you know, marty, you talk about a lopsided narrative regarding the ongoing conflict in ukraine. i'm is, it's hardly surprising though, because most of the big channels out there are owned by the very nato member countries that russia is fighting in ukraine. right now. i want to ask you to talk, commander of russia's military operation, says that nato was long cold for key after launch and offensive on her son region. i guess maybe that that could be to do with why 60000 people are being evac right now. is that what you think we're seeing at the moment the key of is poised to launch an offensive on the her so on or if not already engaged? i think it's not only a decision, but it's the natal decision. we know that since some months know that into the

james news given to us that the us for especially the government in the negotiation which had been going on and talking to fight and negotiate. and so then we know that the text you printing and we're going to get into with the allies in the nato. so i think of this stuff because well, the large part of the german peace says we have to stop this. we have to say clearly to the u. s. government, we don't want your wall destroying europe and we have to say clearly to the. ready training and government, we don't provide you with any education for you. so just want you to go to cation that would be in big off the majority of your people in europe,

in germany. but that doesn't mean that in a moment, and especially the green coffee is playing a very aggressive role. and the only chance atlantic role that it was only in favor of the us government in the us, me and just destroying us. i might indulge them psychologist and human rights lawyer. great to have you on the program. thanks for your time. thank you as well. but some of it all. the e u leaders has failed to uphold a united front on the decision to impose a price cap on russian gas with germany and hungary refusing to rush into an agreement that has no apparent official plan. the commission's proposal on the gas price cap is like going to a bar and telling the bar tender you want to pay half price for your beer. not going to happen. customers can reduce energy prices, only diversification and competition. can the methods the leaders who met?

well, into the night last night, desperately want everyone, but, you know, especially russian president vladimir putin to retain from this energy crisis meeting is that everyone is united. but anyone listening to what victor or von said there, for example, can tell that there's really no consensus among all of these members states and the idea of a christ cap. that the you can dictate to the world how much they can charge for the e for energy is exactly the kind of arrogant, counterproductive ideological fantasy that while you'd expect from the block to the point where some of them like hungry and germany, are just not waiting around for his brain driving to fully ripened, but other than their unity propaganda. they already have no actual results to report from their meeting except to that they agreed keep working on it. according to european council president shot michelle e, you council has reached an agreement on the energy you didn't t. and so there is a prevail agreed to work in measures to continue energy prices for households and businesses. sounds like you're celebrating the fact that they simply agreed to keep

meeting, you know, we should all try that next time at work. yeah, that's what an accomplishment. so european citizen whom they're taking for pools here pretty much are struggling under crushing inflation and energy bill. and warm fuzzy feelings of european unity aren't going to power their heating or put food on their tables when they really need to do so today. not no week, non a few days or whenever out these are we can get around to working on this problem. next, unity is not going to power the german industry. that feels the you either, which is why germany isn't waiting around for a block. why? pollution? and had already decided to throw 200000000000 euros out the problem just to keep the country afloat. but french president, emmanuel, michael, does not like how germany is handling its own sovereign affair. i think our role is to do everything for that to be european unity and for germany to be part of this. this is how i see my function, my role, i think that is not good for germany of europe to isolate itself. the fear is that

if countries go their own way and start doing whatever they want to deal with this crisis caused by brussels on policies, then risks completely deregulating the european common market. it's a bit late for that though brussels impose the sanctions against its own interest, demanded adherence, and unity of its members states, and then left them to send for themselves while they figured out what to do about it. beyond yelling at people how to dress and shower to save energy or pay better. yeah, just don't use energy at all as european commission vice president cron timmerman now just saving energy, not using energy is the cheapest energy. obviously. this is not just something that is discussed between between here i'm, i'm not trying to, to convince you because i don't need to. i know you, you agree with me, but it's something that i hear everywhere in europe now. yeah. not using energy certainly is the cheapest energy. so the bottom line here is that still really

every country for itself and every citizens for himself or herself and paying the bills that are piling up. while the european leaders figure out when they connect it around the champagne and celebrate their unity and emmy award winning american john list, renown for investigating national security issues is said to have disappeared after the f. b. i rated his home and reportedly seized classified information from his computer. that's a lift the lid on this without correspondent fear rela, it's about, well, they use most about freedom and democracy. both the trump and bite in administration have been widely criticized for targeting journalists and their sources. a recent, scantily covered story of a national security investigative producer who disappeared without a trace after f b. i. agents read it has home doesn't quite help paid the u. s. is reputation in a positive light, even though there's not many details available on the morning of april 26th,

2022 federal agents rated renowned a, b. c. news producer, james gordon meeks apartment in arlington, virginia. the raid came as a shock to some of his neighbors, one who described at least 10 heavily armed agents in mostly unmarked vehicles. they didn't stick around, they took off pretty quickly and headed west on columbia pike towards fairfax county. most people seeing that grain vehicle would think it is some kind of tank, but i knew it was the land co bearcat that vehicle is designed to be jumped out of . so they can do a raid and that kind of time. it can return fire if they're being fired upon the f . b. i confirmed the raid adding that, although there's an ongoing investigation and nothing more could be sad, meeks has not been charged with a crime. but sources claim that federal agents allegedly found classified information on makes laptop is to make, is unaware of what allegations anonymous sources are making about his possession of

classified documents. as such, documents exist as claimed. this would be within the scope of miss to make a long career as an investigative journalist covering government wrong doing press inquiries on this issue. troubling for different reason. they appear to be based on statements from a source inside. the government is highly inappropriate and legal for individuals in the government to lease information about an ongoing investigation. adding feel to the fire is mix last tweet on april 27th agreeing with an x. the i analyst about how the u. s. is using the war in ukraine to learn russian fighting tactics and have been doing so since 2014. the story gets weirder as meek seems to have disappeared, at least according to his colleagues. he fell off the face of the f and people asked, but no one you down, sir. he resigned very abruptly and hasn't worked for us for months. and even weirder as meeks latest project was the claimed hulu documentary, $3212.00 on redacted,

exposing how the pentagon covered up the conditions said bled to the deaths of, for you, a special force of the niger in 2017, during a battle with isis ah, we asked why did the 4 men lose me alive? no. ready one would give us an answer. we're really started cooking something didn't add up. interestingly, brian epstein the other producer who worked on that project also swiftly left abc earlier this year before his disappearance meet, gave an interview and spoke extensively on the dangers and injustice of the cover up. we need to have accountability, we need to have accountability, lung, the leadership leaders must hold themselves accountable. and that did not happen here. the leaders, the men who sent these young guys in a battle on a patrol that resulted in one of the most fearsome battles of memory in a country were, most americans have no idea. we have combat church they,

they basically disappeared. they not only didn't stand by their men, they did not hold themselves accountable, and somehow they were not punished. most notably months before meeks vanished, he was finishing work on a book for simon and schuster titled, operation pineapple expressed the incredible story of a group of americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in afghanistan. he co wrote the book with lieutenant colonel scott man, a retired greenberry, but after april 27th, all traces of his, his association to the book were deleted. simon and schuster has rubbed his name from all press materials. the 1st sentence of the jacket previously read. in april a, b, c. news correspondent james gordon. meek. got an urgent call from a special forces operator serving overseas. now it says in april, an urgent call was placed from a special forces operator serving overseas. so where is james make and why exactly did the f b i rayed his apartment? we don't know for sure, but what this case might do is set

a scary president for us journalists who cover the national security apparatus. good with us today. the u. s. has warned the palestinian nationalist group hamas, but strengthening its ties with a serious government will only worsen its relationship with washington. it's not regimes outreach, this terrorist organization only reinforces for us. it's isolation. it harm of the interest of the policy and people and undercuts global efforts to counterterrorism in the region and beyond will continue rejecting any support to rehabilitate the assad regime, particularly from designated terrorist organizations. like i'm os, while on the other side of it theory as president bush on our side has welcome the reconciliation of relations with a how much movement though it's following a decade long absence, declaring it a sign of the future of the middle east. hum office also emphasized that it

believes the move is a big step in the right direction. this is a glorious, an important day in which we come back to our dear syria to resume joint work. we are restoring our relations with syria, with the consensus of our leadership. this is a new start for joint palestinian sirian action for cooperation between the 2 ground to hold and 2012 and due to the palestinian militant movements discontent with syria and government policy on the eve of what the mainstream media called a civil war in syria. now from 999 hum acid used damascus as a headquarters for its overseas relations. with a whole new round of cooperation does come amid similar moves between other middle eastern states after a fairly long pause. an example of that, well, the egyptian president recently paid to david, it's a cutter, after a 4 year rif, between cairo and doha, mocking what he labeled quote, a new era in relations. iran is continuing talks with saudi arabia, with

a view on resuming diplomatic ties, and reopening embassies closed in 2016. and ankara has attempted to reconnect with egypt, recognizing the need to reset and improve their relations well. we did hear from regional expert met mustafah. he says, countries are creating new alliances outside the traditional us sphere of influence america. most of the time you're flying to more do re any dispute not to settle a dispute? because according to the multi ration, i can play on the 2 parties, but not to make them stomach and having like a joint agreement, settlement to give them we're going to be against each other and support, you know, minutes is and the balance between each other and this is exactly what it is doing, like the bill trying to put like a sedition between 2 neighbors, lovers to friends, just so get the benefit for the maximum. i'm just to have the supremacy and the uni

electrical system. there are a lot of good to political intentions from the other part of the world which will and which suffered from the uni electrical order of the settlement will be more beneficial and will be adventurous on the b, b, b, b. and to do, especially then as a 5th and the a that's, that's on our attention to the ongoing national congress of the chinese communist party, which is outlining the country strategy for the next 5 years and far beyond. ah, so alongside our domestic and foreign policy objective, so the congress which does wrap up this weekend, is soon expected to reveal the members of the countries of leadership committee that of the politburo. we spoke earlier in the program with a c, g

t n correspondent. don't who? who explain the significance of this decision? how to look at this. earlier in the day, the 3rd group meeting of the precede him of the 20th c, p. c. national. congress just has just concluded which listed the out candidates for the 20th c, p. c. central committee and the central committee on discipline inspections. were these are very us significant groupings. because when you know, when the c, p. c, national congress is not in session. the c p c central committee will make the decision general secretary of the central come media shooting being he used to serve as the deputy secretary of a county party committee and party chief in a cd over named dule, ain't sounding for jim province. and the secretary of shanghai municipal party committee and the his decades of experiences he had a governor over 100000000 people that could equivalent to some small european countries. so yeah, this pretty much on wraps up the whole congress and other changes in person now,

including ministers from different organs will also be brad. julie announced until next to march at least 150 people, including women and children, have been killed in a 2 day period and the just the latest ethnic classes in sudan. it is the deadliest outbreak of violence in the northeast african nation in several months. as we understand, a crowds took to the streets in the state of blue nile that's about 500 kilometers south of the capitol, where the killings occurred. they condemned a long lost in conflict between rebel groups, mainly comprised of the birth of people in the house and tribe, all of it over a land dispute. according to the head of a local hospital around at 86 people were injured in classes during the rally by witnesses reported a gotten, a fire adding to some buildings were also set ablaze. now some, a sporadic bothers between the tribes as resulted in around 1200 people being displaced according to the un, original analyst of mickey m. a good. i believe that un peacekeepers have failed to

ensure a quote, unbiased media for the conflicting side of rational and impartial media. it's back then i nation, mission all day. any doubt you have a problem instead of making mediation and then we can solve the problem because the part of the alliance and the loser to them and the back. and i have more bought out of the group that by unit. and this is made the whole unit and i live that need. now there is a fantasy for a mediator. this is a problem. now the latest protests over

a deepening political crisis in the african country of chad. i've left at least 50 people that so it's going to stable than $300.00 or so wounded off the security forces didn't use a lethal force to break up the crowns the countries i've been on the military rule since last year when the president was killed while visiting truce protests, re, since it was announced earlier this month, that the army would remain in power for 2 more years. meanwhile, the countries of former colonial power of france has condemned to violence, but denied any connection to the crisis. calling the situation, quote, chad's internal affairs i, that's just about it for now. here on our to international from moscow. thanks for joining us and sharing a time with us here. i lots of stories on ortiz telegram channels as well. up to date by the minute. for the meantime, though, we are back the top of the hour, ah,

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has failed. it is the west that is feeling economic pain and ukraine's energy infrastructure is slowly being degraded. common sense would dictate a major rethink for these people in power. that is inconceivable. and do you mind shooting? you mean? yeah, with me look on your bill says that it did not sit down with b one b o mode or what is the minimum spoken with statistics i used to do with williams. sure. the units for those i don't know how much.