an engagement, it was the trail. when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look for common ground. the breaking news that dollar and off to you international, as russia warns about potential nuclear catastrophe in europe. but there's up what all your power plant once again comes under ukrainian shilling over the weekend of moscow holds. and through the night, told us atomic watched all over this precarious situation. i should warn you quickly, some disturbing images are coming your way right now. you're crania, and military off, as opposed to disturbing video online, showing the apparent torture of a captured russian soldier. when you, again, you may find the following. images distressing comes at the un calls for

a probe into ukranian troops. filming the alleged execution of russian prisoners of war. a western news outlets says it's verified the video in a rare admission that key at port is could indeed be committing war the so a lot of hard hitting headlines and downright disturbing stories in your monday program here on our team to national it is good to have you with us today while we're turning now for updates on our breaking news story, this our here on our to europe is staring a nuclear disaster in the face. that is the dia warning coming from russia over the situation of those up or, or she power plant. it once again came under ukrainian shelling over the weekend. the head of the russian nuclear agency cross at him held urgent talks all night long with a un nuclear energy watchdog over this developing situation. let's learn more now. crossing laptop corresponding eager to sign off. now with the latest on this breaking news, eager to hello again. to you, you know,

we've been hearing the warnings for months now and perhaps it's possible the various western officials are waking up to what is the true threat of a potential nuclear catastrophe. it would have been the day it would dwarf any catastrophe that europe has ever seen. well, most definitely, rory, the ceo of ra satin rushes atomic energy giant, was how i was holding a brief media conference here in the russian town of such an event at an atomic energy event here that it is organizing. and basically, indeed, has confirmed, the seo has confirmed that the situation at the suppose you nuclear power plant is indeed very, very dangerous. have a lesson i teach gifts and we were in talks with the i a e, a almost all night. we know that rafael grossi has held talks with european leaders and conveyed the concern. also, we informed the world community that the plant is at risk of a nucular accident. and it is obvious that key of considers it possible to allow a nuclear incident that will forever change the course of history in europe. and

with this very concerning statement, a well ross atoms chief, has only has merely chimed in to the choir. of all the voices in rush, all sorts of politicians of all calibers that have been indeed warning and cooling on the u. s. on europe on ukraine's allies essentially to stop keep to prevent keith from shelling these approach you nuclear power plant. now this is an accusation that key of itself has vehemently denied. and while point pointing the finger of blame at russia in turn, moscow has been saying that is absolute nonsense. the super bowl preposterous idea . this is what they've called it, that russia could be shelling the territory, but it is that it is now has control over. and indeed i did visit this approach. you nuclear power plant back in august and we were shown the debris, for instance, of a polish made combat drone, which was shot down over the plant before it had the opportunity, had the chance to deal any damage. and russia, of course,

doesn't have the russian military does not have polish may drones in its arsenal. and of course, we were also shown the scale of the devastation that was dealt to this approach a nuclear power plant. well, luckily, nothing critical that we observe that at the time, but indeed some of the, some of the odd, some of the destruction was quite significant. nonetheless, for instance, whole workshops were rendered operational, for instance, a cooling workshop. and so certain portions of the approaching nuclear power plants, a power plant, had to be shut down. now our visit journalist visit had coincided with the visit of none other than rafael grossey himself. again, the head of the international atomic energy agency, a u, and back to watchdog, an atomic energy watchdog. and so he had the chance to see everything that we journalists were shown. and since august, a small detachment of the i. e, a specialists, they have been present 247 from what we understand. at these approach,

you nuclear power plant, monitoring the situation, then kind underlining and backing. the concerns the russia has over the while potential threat that emanates from the facility and according for instance, to the latest statement over the spokesman for the russian president mitre pers cove. he has said that indeed i agrees that the threat is very real, although it abstains from our well appointing blame and while attributing blame as to who's responsible for the shelling. so again, the statement by ross atoms, seo, just again stresses that the threat is very real and well, of course, as you've said, the radioactive cloud, it will not respect any visa policies. yeah, you go to when you talk about the issue of apportioning blame for example. i remember when you were in august down there, there's apple or she planned for for the arrival of our fail rossi of the i. e a. and i remember very clearly it, people were looking at pieces of shrapnel from

a shelves that are being fired at that plant and the shrapnel. a lot of the chapel actually had nato serial numbers in there. and you say the i e a is not apportioning blame or perhaps one day they should have done off thanks for updating us with breaking news. see a later so a russian prisoner of war shown being held captive by ukrainian soldiers bound and placed in a casket, allegedly to be buried alive at his portal. what a chilling video shows posted by a ukrainian military officer on his twitter account. i should warn you, you may find this disturbing one. what do you know what joy missouri look here, why? i'm with. in a separate case, the un has called on key f to investigate video that emerged on the internet recently, reportedly, showing ukrainian force is killing at least 11 russian prisoners of war. a western

news outlets as it verify the authenticity of sun without footage. in contrast to the usual narrative of the west denying potential ukrainian war crimes, it does appear, the russian soldiers were indeed executed at point blank range. a warning you'll find this disturbing. it looks like most of them were shot in the head. there are pools of blood that indicates that they were just left there dead. they appears to have been no effort to pick them up or help them. these episode, the mass murder of 11 unarmed russian troops face down on the ground, hawkins back to the islamic states darkest videos into a conflict already savage. ukrainian troops have injected stark barbarity. already. ukrainian officials are trying to divert blame. video evidence shows that russian soldiers committed a war crime as while they were staging

a surrender. they opened fire against the ukrainian army. these excuse his toward mockery and condemnation. the blood pooled around each soldier's head clearly indicates that they were executed where they lay various sources of also confirmed who was behind the execution. ukraine's 80th assault brigade. we were able to locate a soldier who formerly served with the 80th which is based involve. he describes how he and other troops were conditioned to hate to show no mercy. anything russian was to be broken. lease was years before this conflict. ready wasn't result through the fact that ukraine says that the 80th brigade is not capable of such methods as simply a lie to exculpate themselves and blame russia for this. since i served there,

i know that this brigade can do anything either by order of the ukrainian security service, or by their own decision. they have no pity. while i was serving there, they were saying, when we come to the fight in the don bass, we will not take prisoners of war. they won't leave us alive. this soldier whose identity is concealed to protect his family. now, flights on the russian side, he had little choice. he says his father, who then also served in the ukrainian military, was executed several years ago after he threatened to fall complaint about orders he was given to shall civilian areas. the brutal murder of russian prisoners of war is not the 1st, not the only war crime. this is a common practice of the armed forces of ukraine, actively supported by the key of regime and ignored by his western patrons. this latest incident will only strengthen russia's argument that ukraine must

d not to fight. that doesn't mean only putting an end to volunteer armies, which march under nazi symbols. it also means an end to nationalist excess kidnappings murders and savagery which have terrorized ukraine for years. this time, even the u. n. has taken note, my colleagues are aware of the video of the mass shootings of russian prisoners by ukrainian soldiers and are looking into them. the incident must be promptly fully and effectively investigated and any perpetrators held to account. we also learned of an interesting fact that the 80th ere salt brigade was closely partnered with nato forces. but many years active duty us marines, trained officers and soldiers of the unit imparting upon them the alliances way of

conducting war. from the very beginning of the conflict, the 80th airborne, the salt brigade, was taken under the care of american troops, the marine corps. they had been training them both militarily and politically, brainwashing the brigade's military personnel. they instill this hatred in them. the u. s. military does not need ukrainians, they need a war with russia. when my father was killed, i realized that this was no active defense at all. it was completely in the interests of nato countries, and we were all just pawns. the army became even worse under zalinski. the nazi's war like this, even in world war 2, the just animals, i've made a choice. i joined the russian army and i do not regret it. perhaps they were rights atrocities committed by ukrainian forces, the mud and torture of civilians and prisoners of war, gouging out their eyes or shooting them in the knees. these incidents have drawn almost new condemnation from the west, which begs the question,

what depths can ukraine's forces sink to the food nato acknowledges. just who is he's that they've armed to the teeth. war at gasdio odds. he the ganske region, a geo politics specialist and a former u. s. moraine brine by letter. he spoke to us a bit earlier here at odds. he expanded on why ukrainian soldiers would even post such atrocities on my it's because of the impunity that the ukrainian forces have enjoyed throughout. not only this most recent part of the conflict, the russian special military operation. but since 2014, we don't hear anything from the western media about ukraine shelling the don bus region for 8 years, or any of the atrocities that had taken place from 2014 onward. and they know that no matter what they do, they'll get away with it. i still don't think the westfall pushed the issue at all

. the ukraine is still lying about these while at least one missile falling in poland, the killing to polish civilians. they're lying, even when in their best interests they should be telling the truth and in an instant like this, they want to keep the barbarity going. and unfortunately, no one, no one except russia and its allies will hold them accountable order moving from the front line. our people have been taken to the streets of the port city of odessa decrying power outages, which they say have gone on for days. the blackouts con mother, russia began targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure. as we understand, at least one of the demonstrators was detained by the security service and was late as seen, apologizing in a video posted by the regional administration. i should say, however, it's possible the person films may have been talking under duress, jean english. so we're due to power outages, i took the initiative and called my neighbors to block roads to draw attention to the problems that are apartment block by doing that. i violated public order for

which i'm sorry. i also understand might wrongdoing may be used by russian propaganda to discredit our state for that. i'm also sincerely sorry. i also do understand that we can stand 235 or more days without electricity. those protecting us suffer more and we should be patient. once again, please forgive me. the next time i'll behave more cautiously. i won't break the law and organize actions. that was mistake. it is good to have you with us today. as our frances defense minister says, his country has not ruled out a full withdrawal of its special forces from book he in a fast. so that's as tensions heat up in the west african country over france is military presence time to learn more now. crossing live to africa, correspondent cannibal a. tattler joining a ha, i see on this often in program from moscow. good. good to say you got a boat, so it appears in its early days yet, but it appears that france may not be entirely committed to actually maintaining its military presence in that part of the continent. what else do you know?

what else? what, what can you tell us beds, rivalry, what we've been seeing on the continent, especially particularly around this a hell region from a, from a french colonies is the rising sentiment against the prevalent for france in the, in the country. that would be countries of faith. but particularly there is a special resentment as to the presence of french military in the region. let's not forget that the french military in the region, the presence of that started back in 2014 with operation, but connie and then has not yielded fruits. as we've seen numerous insurgent groups rising to destabilize the health region and particularly countries affected would be molly would be chad and booking fossil and bulky fossil. what we saw on friday was a several hundreds of protest. this mainly young people who marched on the capital

of athena, fossil to group marching to demand the expulsion of the french ambassador in the region, as well as the withdrawal of the french military in the country of the whole. this was not the 1st as we noticed there was a much sometime last month and told us where the same was demanded of the french government and the french bosses. but nothing has happened yet. but what we saw on friday was. busy was really a wretched thing up if you will, in terms of the protest as there was a confrontation between the police as well as the protest. this which led to some of the protesters throwing stones towards the french embassy. the lead time moved on following the police disbursing that much with guess they moved on to, to a french military base rather in just outside google some 30 kilometers away from that place. and they had

a confrontation with french police. they and they still demand that front must move . and now this is part of a pattern as we have seen, over the last couple of months front was booted out of my li, following the new military rulership, in that country. and it seems that that flow has not ended and booked enough, but so it leaves the book in obvious, demanding that they haven't seen the front coming through for them. and that they blame the french military. despite the french defense minister praising the special unit of french military special ops in that country, the big, now this blame the french military for the continued insurgency that we have seen in that country. and most of bertino fossil is problems. now, when it comes to france itself, we saw the french that coming out this weekend really refunding to some of the criticism that he's received with regards to his country's conduct in african state

. and the response of france has really been stock standard if you will, would they blame any thing? and anyone else accept themselves and never been responsibility taken with regards to how the french have conducted business. and how they really moved from a position where they were the colonizer to new colonialism that they still have in terms of influence within these countries. considering that they still use the c f, a frank, which is really money and currency that's designed for strange colonies. and we're talking about countries that supposedly have had the independence for big k for now . but let's listen to frankly, the front of my land on the ground, rather, as he responded through some of the criticism that the french and the french government has failed with regards to his conduct in west africa. you could do that

. but this perception is fed by others. it's a political project. i know for many influencers, sometimes speaking on your programs, are paid by the russians. we know them a number of powers who want to spread their influence in africa are doing this to hurt. france hurt its language, so doubts, but above all, pursue certain interests. the problem with emanuel mac, crohn, and i guess numerous presidents before him is that they is almost no recognition of the edge of fee that up 3 can want. this is not something that is happening in as one of, in a fed country. there is a wave of on t frame sentiment that has really been growing in the hell countries in west africa and all of these up for my french colonies. that means that people feel that the not able to relate to france as a partner, or they're not at least treated that way that they've been dictated to. and people

are really looking for a new or tentative following years of colonialism and still front has a lot of vested interest in, in those countries, economies. and that carries on. but i guess the most beautiful of francis critic came from its neighbor, you know, surprisingly enough the new italian prime minister, georgia maloney who really went to town with regard to francis failings on the continent. and that they should stop playing a political game with people's lives. let's take a look and listen to the tale and prime minister, where so my middle, this is a child who acts in a gold mine in volcano faso. it's one of the poorest nations in the world, france, prince galani, al mani from kena faso, which has gold in return they demanded 50 percent of everything. burkina, faso exports ends up in the coffers of the french treasury of the gold at these child goes down the tunnel to extract mausoleums up in the coffin of the french

states. you know, so dissolution is not to take the africans and bring them to europe. the solution is to free africa from satin europeans who exploit it and allow these people to leave off what they have. what the french have failed to recognize is that africa is going through its own change that every country has its own developmental aims. and they even need to quell the insurgency and insecurity that has really the best that itself upon the hell countries, particularly in west africa, france has to be look at its relationship with, with the former colonies and now independent african states. it needs an interest spectrum. but more than anything, it's very easy to blame raja right now as europe has really made the russia into a bogeyman. that's not how russia viewed here in the continent. there was much isn't protest,

way young people were carrying russian flag and hurling until bring slurs. and that should tell you something about the sentiment that is prevailing on the ground and what people expect out of a partner. and perhaps that's why more and more young africans i looking eastwood for a new partner that they can really rely on. yeah. terrible. you talk about you talk about so many of the continent there who are starting to look eastwards. well it's, it's hardly surprising is vladimir putin and teaching thing. talk about that of the, both of this new multi polar world, the power shifting over that, that part of the world is shifting eastwards. it's amazing that africa is going through these growing pains right now, but certainly it seems to have a bright future or africa corresponding catabolic tattler. thanks for that. so cuba is, lita is right here on the russian capital is expected to hold talks with his counterpart vladimir putin about moscow. and havana of course are facing sanctions spearheaded by washington. and they're actually now poised to unveiled new economic

partnerships and opportunities, including a push to a decrease dollar dependence in global trade. let's get more details on that. now, with the fear rela, is about their nations may be thousands of miles apart, but it seems they are moving ever closer together. cuban president miguel diaz can now is in russia, and it's set to discuss very important political and economic matters with vladimir putin. the states already lend each other a helping hand in sectors covering transport, energy, industry and banking. back in february, cuba lashed out at the u. s. for targeting moscow with sanctions and announce nato's expansion to the east. both russia and cuba have become experts in defying and surviving western sanctions. now in order to grease the wheels of cooperation even further, the countries are even eyeing up the making of mutual settlements and rubles, and crypto currencies to circumvent the effects of sanctions on their economies and

further minimize the reliance on the us dollar. we all keep in russia on the sanctions, the circulation of the dollar is the main financial mechanism exist in there was the mutual payments though to die mechanisms are being developed at the level of the countries governments to change the situation not. 7 well, this leads to the key development of mutual payments via crypto currencies, but other private mechanisms are being discussed. and back in april, cuba began accepting russia that payment cards at a t m's. and we'll be accepting them at all stores by the end of this year. cuba itself has been under a u. s. embargo for 60 years now after fidel castro's revolution over through the u . s. friendly batista government, and nationalized property as belonging to american citizens. despite obama's efforts to resume ties under trump and bite in the u. s. has escalated the siege around the country lately, nearly every un general assembly members state voted in favor of

a cuban resolution condemning the embargo, save israel and the u. s. of course, since biden has been in office, the embargo has cost cuban economy. an estimated $6350000000.00, a figure that translates to more than $15000000.00 per day. the global pandemic proved another chance for cuba and russia to cement their ties. in january this year, moscow dispatched 20 tons of medical aid and supplies to the caribbean island. it was the 5th such shipment set in just 2 months besides cuba and russia's close partnership, eden has been an ally to both and both countries condemned us intervention and sanctions on it on china has also maintained vital economic relations with all 3 of the sanction nations. the conflicts in ukraine has further delineated clear lines of allies ship among the countries, the u. s. the nato have sought to vilify the meeting between russia and he was

president will not only outline economic partnerships, but it will likely also signal a move towards multi polarity, political support and a clear distancing away from western reliance since 1991. when the soviet union, so cuba has been very isolated, commercially, and economically i the fact that we now see every day in increasing multi polo world with chinese soft power. with the russian polls influence she was not as isolated as it has been now for decades. so this is going to bring some amount of relief to the 11000000 people of cuba who suffered for so long from the sanctions. i think any time sanctioned countries come together, it undermines the very meaning of the sanctions. the resume design sanction which is to isolate these different countries where this nick that i was, you know, china and when they come together that it's of birth. the overall effect,

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