time to sit down and talk with parliament, be saturated with unconditional hatred towards russia. these parliament will support any measure that goes against moscow policies, even if it will not bring any benefit. the sponsors of this resolution want to push us to war as over 50 members of the european parliament reject resolution to brand russia, a state sponsored terrorism over strikes and ukraine. we take a look at the west. impunity all targeting civilian infrastructure in war. wanting our next story has some disturbing images with you and now says the video showing russian prisoners of war who are report to the executed are highly likely to be

authentic. as russia says, at least 11 soldiers were killed up there with mccain a fast. so it's a shot, the style region faces are rising in red with more and more volunteers going forward to defend the nation. it is true that 40 percent of the territories and terrorist control, but i hope that with this group together will be able to restore the whole nation or this is a national cause. we have to fight for that. and with the group stage of the fee for well copy get signed, full swing. we look at how the football tournament is my it in control with . thank you for joining us. mid day this sunday, you're watching the weekly here on our team. the national mine is peter scott's, and these are the top stories of the week just gone. we start with the laces from

the done yet republic where you cleaning and shutting has killed one civilian and winded another on saturday according to local officials. let's take a look at some of the latest pictures from the scene, as you can clearly see here, the civilian apartment building has been heavily damaged. local officials report that the ukrainian shutting of civilian areas in the don bus happens on a daily basis. when meanwhile, rushes latest mis solid sides on targets across ukraine. how disrupted the flow of western weapons to the conflict. so that's according to russia's defense ministry, which i did that the strike did not targets ukrainian capital as claimed by key. if we got a letter from a bit of the strike has disrupted the railway transfer of the ukrainian armed forces, their reserves, foreign weapons, military equipment and ammunition to combat areas. i would like to stress the fact that not a single strike was carried out on targets inside key of all of the destruction inside the city declared by the regime is the result of falling ukrainian and

foreign air defense. missiles fired from residential areas of the ukrainian capital footage has been circulating on social media, showing, debrief from a missile, said to have been found at the scene in kev march. with the word lift. this appears similar in style to the written on an air defense system. the washington reports list and ukraine weeks ago. this comes as ukraine faced blackouts across the contract, a series of russian strikes that targets that its energy facilities must go says the goal is to weaken kids opperation capabilities as a response to the flow of western arm supplies to ukraine. meanwhile, a number of western leaders were equates to condemn moscow for the stripes on ukraine. for instance, french presidents and manuel micron branded the socks a war crime which cannot go unpunished. unsafe secretary blanket in particular, so that the russian strikes all targeted against civilians. but russia's representatives, the un slammed what he called western double standards, think he has blockade of crimea,

and the dom bus was ignored as the west accuses russia of targets an infrastructure in ukraine. it's accused of hypocrisy over its own military interventions in the past. are marina cost of a has more once again the u. s. a slime in russia for something the americans themselves have done on a regular basis. let's take a look at their own appall and tactic, shall we? me the 1999 later on. salt against yugoslavia, the targeting of civilian infrastructure, the bombing of radio television, serbia, the use of cluster bombs and even depleted uranium. legitimate target nova man and roll it is even if and we'll wait a minute, you have to let me finish and then go ahead. no, but what, what i said was we would give them the warnings. it was part of their command

control system was approved as a legitimate target under the laws of land warfare and went through the us government. i mean, i respect amnesty international. i think they are good organization but, but we only care what human rights organizations have to say when there are slime in our enemies. maybe that's how he wished he could have ended that sentence. well, in that same conflict made so hit a passenger train and later got tangled up and damage control explanations. first of all, the pastor drain was not targeted. the pilot instructions were to go after a bridge and not the train. he felt as the launch that missile, that all of a sudden is at the very last minute the train suddenly came into the field of view . but whatever it was, it was going faster than the actual speed it with the actual in real time speed showed that the pilot actually moved the targets so that it would hit the train. well, i don't have any. well, i should work till of course he done since the 70 a day military time paying ended with thousands of deaths and injuries,

tens of thousands of houses destroyed, as well as hundreds of kilometers of roads and railway airports, hospitals, schools, cultural monuments, even the building of the chinese embassy, where 3 chinese journalists were killed and dozens injured, a terrible tragedy or no more. when collateral damage is the us likes to call it will a un report later showed that made so also use cluster bombs in an area with no military objectives. the use of the organ rocket with a cluster bomb warhead was not designed to hit military targets, but to terrorize the civilians of zagreb. i know the case of the paul and tactics inaction. the 43 day air bombardment of iraq during operation desert storm. precision guided weapons targets electrical plants, oil refineries, and transportation networks. this led to acute malnutrition,

an epidemic levels of cholera and typhoid with harvard research is forecasting, but at least a $170000.00 children under 5 years of age will die in the coming year from the delay the facts of the bombing. but civilian suffering didn't seem to bother washington at the time. according to the u. s. air force iraq civilians were apparently not innocent because they supported their government. the definition of innocence gets to be a little bit unclear. they do live there and ultimately the people have some control over what goes on in their country. that sure sounds like civilians warfare game around 200000 iraqis were killed by direct violence since the us invasion, plus the are necessary devastation the left behind effect the millions of others and questions regarding the necessity to target certain places remain as strikes on civilian power facilities and now miss syria cause serious civilian suffering and the legality of the attacks on media installations is questionable. human rights

watch does not understand the military necessity and rational for these attacks and calls on the united states to explain him fully. the attacks caused significance in long term damage and the civilian cost was high. the loss of power was a huge impediment to the proper treatment of war winded. the loss of power created a water crisis in the city of ghana, some 2015 repeated the u. s. has tried to destroy the trauma hospital, ron by doctors without borders in condos. 42 people were killed in the attack, including patients, caretaker's and emissary. staff members, the pentagon said it was not a war crime, it was unintentional at tragic strike that was due to human and technical errors. well, here's another error. fence civilians including 7 children who were killed in their home last year after the us intelligence missed took an innocent afghans who worked for food, n g o for an ice. this member,

a tragic mistake is what they called that. and the subsequent air force review all the circumstances around the strike found. you guess that no violation of law including the law of war. libya was another country to face nato's ras. at some point they debilitated the country's water system by targets and critical installations, including a water pipe factory. in brenda, they claim that was good daffy's military storage facility, concealing of rocket launchers. but when asked to provide evidence, nate, so satellite images showed that one rocket launcher identified near the facility they, surlier was still there perfectly inside after the nato attack. so what was the point in that? the destruction of the gym, or left the for 1000000 libyans without drinking water, appall, and tactics. indeed, now these are just a few examples of nato's and washington's military approach and errors. the only

problem is that very few dare to call them out on their epic blunders, no matter how many lives are taken as a result. and now they have the nerve to call out russia for targets in critical infrastructure in ukraine. when that's the west, go to strategy each and every time. the double standards continue. while volume is de lensky, cold on the you and sir dobbs, another anti russian resolution to quotes, condemn any form of energy, terror, or european parliament resolution branding, russia. a sponsor terrorism was slammed by moscow. he bought the body as a sponsor of idiots his m. so many peas have also criticized the move with one member from france telling r c that he believes the resolution will only serve to escalate sanctions. so can appellate you. i think it's normal that the actions of the e u lead to an escalation of the conflict instead of contributing to the conclusion of a peace treaty. having voted this week for resolution, recognizing russia as

a state sponsor of terrorism. the european parliament pursues exclusively its own communicative tasks. since there is no concept of a state sponsor of terrorism in the european legal system, i call our parliament is saturated with unconditional hatred towards russia. this parliament will support any measure that goes against moscow's policies, even if it will not bring any benefits. the e u has exhausted all possible means in this war. we are already at the stage of preparing a 9th package of sanctions against russia after 8 months of war. and some believe that it is necessary to insist that beast shameful sanction being pose and moscow, which we did not want to apply to the taliban movement in afghanistan. nor to his lammas groups in the sa, held up what is left for us after the exhaustion of all possible sanctions against moscow. it leaves war, the sponsors of this resolution, want to push us to war and stand with the conflicts in ukraine. the un now says the videos showing the executions of captured russian soldiers a highly likely to be authentic new organization has called for an independent

investigation into the incident and a wanting you may find the following. images, disturbing. video is said to have been filmed by ukrainian troops showing captured russian soldiers have apparently been told to lie on the ground. the 2nd film from a drone, appears to show the same group of soldiers in the same area now lifeless on the ground. it's alleged that this 2nd video shows the outcome of the incidence. a russian investigative committee says that at least 11 soldiers were executed. meanwhile, the incident is also called the attention of the western mainstream media. your times, for example, studies has verified the authenticity of some of the footage in sharp contrast to the history of denying potential ukrainian walk ons. it looks like most of them were shot in the had the repose of blood that indicates that they were just left the dead there appears to have been no effort to pick them up or help them. another shilling video appeared this week online, which is posted by

a ukrainian military officer through twitter account. it shows a person reports and the russian prisoner of war bound and in a casket, allegedly said to be buried alive again under the warning, the falling images are disturbing. what do you mind? what joy look away for me. yes, marine brian bell takes boat swati early and gave his thoughts while you courteous soldiers would post such things online. 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 westfall push the issue at all. 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, and then spent like this. they want to keep the barbarity going. and unfortunately, no one, no one except russia and its allies will hold them accountable. and sticking with the war, russia and ukraine have carried out a 3rd prisoner exchange. this week. he sighed, trading 9 captive returned emerson service men are set to be transported back to moscow for medical care. and we had a chance to speak with several of the troops on here, their stories know what's available now because you, i'm overflowing with emotions and relief and i'm in my native land. i'm grateful to the ministry of defense. thank you very much for getting our guys out. just because when we were taken prisoner, it was harsh. we will know nice for a very long time. i will soon see my family and children. this is the main thing,

and i love rather we were in different places in different presence and the treatment was different in one place. it was tough in another, it was bearable by one, the president sighing. when has resigned, as the chair of the ruling democratic progressive party after the foot significant losses in municipal elections on saturday, the pole was a crushing defeat for ty, one's rolling party, and this worse results in decades when in just 5 out of the 21, municipalities up for grabs, while a sensibly local election, democratic progressive party had framed the votes as an opportunity to show defiance to china, claiming that quote, the front line of democracy was under threat from beijing for the message failed to connect with the electorate as they voted overwhelmingly for the opposition form and signed the by many to be pro chinese,

came to rome to victory in the mayor all and towns, elections, winning the crucial male seats into one's capital. i paid the parties campaign focused on the timing, east of men handling of the cobra. 19 pandemic on the development of a vaccine. it denies being probation, however, favors close to size with the mainland and holding the one china principal. a long standing agreements which governs relations between the 2 less cross live knots, ross, find gold, asia political risk analyst who's currently in high ones. capsule. a good evening for you. ralph. thanks for joining us today. good evening from ty, thank you all. how do you think that came see managed to win the majority of regions in these municipal elections while your faults are not now it's a great question because the way you phrased it, how did they can't he managed was when a lot of politicians from the d p, p are actually say we last, so it's not so much that the go mean offered specific policy ideas for local

governors. it's more that the p p, the democratic progressive party actually proposed a number of very log candidates in one example in a very large city, your original candidate had to withdraw from the race after which found that he had plagiarized to master's degree. they had some candidate selection problems. and also as you mentioned, there are framing of this election to be about trying to 5 on relations in the future of democracy. is we now know that this is just not what the voters want to hear. they want to hear about local issues, traffic, the cost of housing, things like that, the same local issues that voters in a local election anywhere around the world are going to be concerned about. and this was not the election for discussion about national defense or taiwan sovereignty and things of that nature. so did you think this have any significant change for relations with beijing given the came see it's supposed to have approach

on a position, but he has thought the distance itself from the i think recently. i think in the coming hours we're going to see statements from the chinese government or state media portray that way. and of course, they don't like the policies of the democratic progressive party at the central government level, which does not follow what people call the 1992 consensus where the 2 sides agree. there's one china, as you said, but they interpreted differently. so the current government doesn't support that policy. go mean don. i historically. so i think, yeah, we'll see that from china will be saying that this was a rejection of the g. p piece. china policy, i think really remains to be seen again. that's not really how people here are going to be looking or analyzing this election resolve. but the important thing in this regard is the next national election for president anti wants legislature is not very far off. it's in january 2024. so it's only a little bit more than

a year from now, which means that now that we're done discussing issues of local governance for a local election that occurred yesterday, the conversation here in taiwan will immediately turn to issues of national importance. and so i want relationship with china and moving on from china. what do you think about relations with washington now, which is obviously step so pissed off by one in recent months, most notably without provocative visits by nancy pelosi. what do you think of that? ross? certainly the republicans during the trump administration when a enjoy a majority in one or both houses of congress have had a very strong relationship with the current government here in fi, watch the democrats to try to patch that up a day. and you mentioned pelosi vision, that was one step towards doing that. to say that we're equally supportive of taiwan as republicans can be. how this will play out as we move into tie rod's presidential elections using whether or not the government of y. she's going to

play fever. it's in the firewall election and try and push a more pro. you ask your anti trying to candidate a little too early to tell you. we also have to kind of changes occur with bite as far as policy key, which is typical after mid term election. anyway, we're given that it's funny. when these people seems focus more on local issues such as the, the covey, 19 vaccine, rollouts. and another thing is, do you think is a certain amount of fatigue with the, the china taiwan relations is set in there? that's very possible, especially again the d p. p. made the focus of what was supposed to be a local election, and people are, of course, are cognizant of the rescue. and we saw that when pelosi visited and trying to engage the march large scale military exercises. people know about the risks they don't necessarily want to really think or talk about it every day. no, i can certainly understand. and finally, the president said, sighing when resigned,

as i believe is, tradition, is not significant. and is it too early to predict? well, that could mean in terms of presidency and a couple of your time. andrea, just to be clear, she resigned as chairman of the democratic progression part of course, as eventually we'll still go until may 2024, even though the elections in january. there's a very long transition. per jeff. there's still actually is a lot of times a year and a half in her presidency. but the answer your question, we can answer it with the phrase lame doc, because she is immediately away. and doc president at the election is only 13 months off. she's no longer the party chairman and they have to pick their next presidential candidate because she's term limited out. so they're going to have a very, very intense internal fight in the coming 6 months to pick. there are presidential candidates and the winner might be somebody who says, i can be the most anti china person. we certainly hope to hear more from you as fight progresses. russ feingold, asia,

political risk analysis. thank you very much for breaking down those election was fascinating to get your thoughts over to africa. now where molly's government has bond, french funded, and jos admitted deepening route with paris. their transitional government has decided to ban effective immediately. all activities carried out by n g o operating and molly with funding, material or technical support from france, including in the humanitarian field. the inter and pm said that the move was in response to the halt of french shade, the african nation earlier french presidents, a manuel by crone ended his country's years longer barking antiterrorist operation in the style. but the consequence of recent experiences. earlier we spoke to a conflict resolution specialist who gave his take on the current engines. today, relations between the 2 countries are extremely tense, almost at the point of no return when there are such loud attacks in the media. the purpose of both the french and the molly and authorities,

all the points that my co and paris are gaining today have nothing to do with it. and at the same time, the strained relations between bama colon paris make it clear to ask how much we should expect to return to normalization of cooperation, normalization of partnership between molly and france, and this can go on for a long time. so it is obvious, the bummer cohen paris today, or any contradictory dynamic in terms of mutual cooperation and partnership. as mentioned, french attempts to show security in the saw how have not succeeded, with a quarter of old service, aside from the confidence occurring in the region. that's according to a study from the african union center for the study of terrorism, which fallen in 2000 people have been killed across the style this year alone. we spoke to a security analyst earlier who believes that the french military presence is only further destabilize the region. a systems of africa is not alden, because friends is in there was, has corrected

a war situation. and people are alleging that france is the one that, i mean, i've had this and also helping logistically to that is to destroy and create a disability ition of this a hell in order to get there are a sources of africa. so this issue will not even stop at molly is now also affecting fossil melbourne country. and in the dead, a withdrawal of drew from molly, come into new york in new jersey. we have a society that's been hasn't themself, who as you ted against the friends prisons, because frances became, is becoming more or less the ally of the evil forces in this a hell. i mean, less of you had is molly's neighbor, burkina. faso is also fighting a terrorist. threats and crowds have come to the country's capital to volunteer for its defense. the governor is seeking to recruits around $50000.00 more troops to

fight against the ongoing jihadist insurgency. thousands of people have been killed by extremist groups over the past 7 years. the countries previous president was overthrown by the military 2 months ago, allegations that he failed to deal with the rising threats. 30000 troops have already been recruited in the latest drive, and we heard from some locals who expressed their willingness to fight their country no much their age. no 1000 years and nobody took a square centimeter of our territory. i was 16 and i decided to join the army. if one day my country is attacked, even if i am 80 years old, if i can raise my little finger than i will join the army. by volunteering and bringing my stone to the construction of foreign nation, a nation under threat under tera, it is true that 40 percent of the territories and a terrorist control. but i hope that with this recruitment together will be able to restore the whole national territory. i think that everyone is asked to contribute

to the work. this is a national cause. we have to fight for that. it doesn't mean that every one will carry a weapon, but what we can do to help we will do. and finally, to the world cup where england's football fans have been banned from dressing up as medieval crusaders looking to attend much as in cutoff reports say the move is in response to the historical context of wars between christians and muslims. the could spark anger in the arab country. and in this footage we can see could sorry police not letting funds with berber flags into the match, evidently mixing it up with l. g beats. he regalia. however, the barbers are indigenous africans, the majority of whom live in morocco, as the world's biggest football events on the controversies continue is aussies eagerness done of with more. but this was, i'm, as it is, the fee for world cup has the reputation for bringing a sporting tactical to the fans every 4 years. the one that's kicked off in casa is no exception. on the contrary, this year's event has already become

a source of drama, both on and off the pitch. on day 3, already saudi arabia's team sitting in the modest 51st place in the global rankings, made headlines off to beating the world's top 3, argent fina. and the devastation of the messy devotees could only be managed by their rivals. triumph. who seems we're excited to remove every barrier and every duel that could stand between the team and the trophy. oh, the me, i think the even the saudi king took notice of the show when declaring the next day a national holiday. the tournament also quickly took

a political turn to even before the ball was kicked for the 1st time. in fact, in the run up cutter had repeatedly warned that the stands are no place for activism. mainly addressing the advocates for l g. b t writes that alone caused a storm in the western media, while some european politicians profusely ignored the rules theme. germany covered their mouth ahead of the match with japan in an act of protest as fever, bound captains from wearing l. g b t colored arm bands. the stunt didn't do anything for them on the field though. as the game turns into a major upset for the european favorites and other clothing items that drove the spotlight away from sports was the scarf of the hungry and presidents c feel is noticed. it featured a map of so called greater hungry, which includes parts of more than ukraine and some other european countries safe to say those ations weren't exactly impressed by the land grab. the promotion of

revisionist ideas in hungary does not contribute to the development of ukrainian hungarian relations and does not comply with the principles of european policy. a quick glance at historical maps in the viennese ministry of foreign affairs has confirmed initial suspicions, according to which tresley thanielle, the kingdom of hungary ceased to exist around 100 years ago. a political stunt came from team a wrong to they refused to sing their national anthem before getting thrash 6 to buy england. but global quantum to what we have to accept that the conditions in our country are not right. our people are not happy. we are here, but it does not mean that we should not be their voice or we must not respect them . hurricane men did not evade controversy either. well, helen, anyone was we also could have asked just as english reporters did to cara's why you are the head coach of the country that killed innocent people in afghanistan and iraq regarding discontent towards the queen's funeral costs in winter expenses. yes

. and in general, the atmosphere at the world cup has been rather uncomfortable. fans from israel, given an overwhelming public support for palestine in kata had met if i, if you just mclean unofficially lately in oh, of his leave. recently the city facing luhan. i'm a little from the see another body, soya simons, mom. it's been less than a week and already the tournament has yielded a very rich harvest of scandal. both sports and politics wise. all to show this year's cup is going to be the one to remember. well, those are the new stories, the ship, the week here on our, to international for more on any of them do head of with while websites are t dot com, i'm p to scott's my be bought with another log in around half now is to me.