a with joe biden, imposing the sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. so there is your boomerang, huh. ah, so is this our russia and ukraine conduct yet another exchange of prisoners of war? this time releasing 50 soldiers from each side. we heard from some of them as they arrived in moscow a. we were abused door church. they insulted us, only gave us food from time to time and hands go off to us. oh yes it is. have access to the main training base for the private market. the company was not one of russia's most successful fighting forces in the numbers for those present

phases expired in corruption accusations and the national parliament is soon to consider whether to begin an impeachment protest against them. under your federal law makers approve legislation to prohibit railway employees from conducting and labor for like a protest could cost the american economy $2000000000.00 with give i ended up doing good evening where ever you are in the world. welcome to our see international. it's just on 7 am here in the russian capitalized, it's great to have us. i'm right, mommy. let's take a look at safe stories. we start with the latest in the dumbass region as an emergency worker has been reported killed and 3 civilians wounded in the latest round of ukraine artillery attacks on the city of don't ask local officials say you plan your forces have used domestic and native supplied artillery shells for attack

areas throughout the republic. more than 30 times over the past day, public infrastructure and dozens of residential buildings were damaged by the strikes. a kindergarten was among the structures that was damaged for shortly no child was reported injured. in fact, we heard from one of the schools and please about what happened. we had the window shaking. every one ran out into the corridor and lay down on the floor. then the glass chatted. we were lying on the floor, so no one would be hurt. thank god, all of our employees are safe and alive. the building was badly damaged. 35 windows, the roof was damaged, the doors came off and everything was hit by missile frontman 0. there's no heating because the radiators were hit, so we shut him off. and the most important thing is that people are alive. nothing else matters. i have conducted yet another exchange of prisoners of war

over the past day. this time releasing 50 soldiers from me side. the 3 that rush and she was of arrived in the homeland, at the mercy air base in the master region. so far, the size of the conflicts have released a total of $500.00 prisoners of war since the beginning of last month. all c correspondent, english dental, has will details about the reasons for we are witnessing the latest prisoners of war exchange that just happened between russia and ukraine. this time, it was a 50 full 50 deal, meaning that russia has managed to retrieve 50 of its soldiers, bring them back to their families, to their loved ones and to their friends. they are leaving this military jet as we speak. now i'm being told that the feel it was, well, all of it's technicalities there was sorted out very quickly, meaning that, well, they seized the opportunity when they could and but it happened rather unexpectedly

quickly. i was told unfortunately, this means that the relative of these people, they haven't really been notified. and if you look closer, there are those who have been injured. they needed help. they need help with getting off the plane. so there's an ambulance here waiting for them. and again, it's unclear whether will these people, whether they were injured during the back during the battle, whether they were injured on the battlefield or if they received their a wounds in ukrainian captivity out rule. the stories of torture are not unheard of . we've had some spine chilling accounts for her harrison. we were abused door church. they insulted us, only gave us food from time to time. and hans coughed us. maybe they would, should near us, threatened to kill us by step in us to death beat us up during interrogations. the singer officer, always humiliated every one, constantly insulted us,

sir this up with false information about attacks on civilians. we were given food just twice a day for a small reasons. they didn't behave like human beings or in the prison involved. they force us to learn the ukrainian national anthem and sing patriotic songs. if we refused, we were forced to do squats and pushups, even though we were injured, they marked us. the prison warden insulted us to die. the buses will take all these people to a place where they will get the much needed and so long awaited proper rest. these exchanges is the only side where diplomacy still lives in the relations between russia and ukraine. the rest of the talking is done on the battlefield. the private machine company wagner group has been one of russia's most successful fighting forces in the dom bus. wagner sold his recently gained control over strategically important, tao, the dumbest republic. paving the way for

a possible offensive to take one of the reasons largest cities i'll see has received exclusive access. so wagner main training camp in southern russia and spoke with some of the soldiers there. his correspondent annette connect jenko with the report. the wagner, who hides it military company, is one of the most secretive organizations in russia. who are the soldiers, how i be trained, we are the 1st spell crew to get access to their main training based in southern russia. now we'll show it to you. mm hm. with

tier missouri it up that got that letter. i know such a person. oh sure. mm hm. oh, so i was saying i did almost a bit ago in his is about awards of our training ground here wants to stay in combat exercises are carried out according to a method. it's simple to complex off at 1st, our employees begin with solar training, and then they end up as a well coordinator teams. it's lisa, we individually train specialists for certain weapons, morters, and all kinds of artillery spaghetti. we also train snipers, our fighters come to us from all regions of russia. examples they also come from abroad for i see all our instructors have combat experience. each instructor has had more than one combat to work with them. because the instructor now of not come with your old kind of the token that the conflicts adibly as a full medical training is a sat of magic to path of some owl for 1st aid on the battlefield. so lots of the main emphasis is on what sample east will walk with directly during the performance

of the service and converse mission, this is flood. last a lot more than means. i used to stop bleeding with torn the kids, he must had exhausted, says make sure to tell employees about all stages of conducting and of occasions that wouldn't come get us cousin above laquatta. ah what to do all the good deals. any wells are trained encumbered sambo, sir, to be arminian. i came to wagner to further my education is military theory. is there any philosophy? wagner gruesome, filch the philosophies versus simpson. so we have one common goal to defend our motherland. but man has had to south africa where the country is soon to consider whether to be an impeachment process against the country. president who has been facing spiraling

corruption allegations, including a multi $1000000.00 embezzlement. all te correspondent, catabolic satler has the details. the i, me, is south africa seat of power, the union buildings, particularly the west doing of which is occupied by the countries number one citizen, in this case, settle from a puerto. but the question is for how long following the report findings of an independent panel that was set up by parliament, the president finds himself against all kinds of damming allegations. the back story to this is that settled? i'm a pause. i had a robbery at his private game farm in limpopo, in february of 2020, the president failed to tell the south african police services about the fed. robbery was also alleged that there was an undisclosed amount of money that was stolen, which was mostly in foreign currency breaching the country's laws against holding on to large amount of current or foreign currency without declaring it to the

reserve bank. and that is south africa. central bank. seldom opposite is now facing an appeal. he is fussed losing friends and his enemies and opposition leaders. i just waiting to actually take advantage of the live being president that they are currently facing. he could possibly face an impeachment process in parliament, and he may also face charges as a fitting president for failing to declare and breaking his own code of ethics that he undertook when he became president. the president has come out with the, with his books person saying that he may address the country. the question is to when and how the where no details coming forth as to that. but let's hear what people in the street the say you got a lot of tricks. was hust with every change every month. my friend you know. so the question is like the wipers? who don't they don't get the tricks. you put the money in these brought, you know,

just places. so why come from deadman does a cushion? i'm not personally thing that a person must go. i just wanted double politics to over think what happened. if there's something that is happening in our government, it needs to be look at truly even over the management to get. i'm saying, not only the president, how do keep the such money and do your carpet and then you expect people not to keep that money out there. the card with rama was a she, she just continued to be predict, know sort of because there's not allocate the dis, disney, that, that, that, that report is not, is not a far report. what does in the say this, it maybe if you're not that person, if you had a person just say you are some, the said no, i'm telling the president because of this and business. so there's no other than that. there's no charge that the findings of the report could not have come at a worse time for south africa. the country is currently facing severe electricity

shortages. and people have to enjoy as much as 5 hours without electricity every single day, nationally. and also that the high an endemic employment crisis unit in south africa with unemployment figures as much as 40 percent of those that are able to join the labor market being without work. south africa also has a serious problem of lawlessness and particularly corruption. and that has been seen in both the private and the public sector, but also felt on the street as generally, people have to endure the. the realities of that south africa is quite an unsafe country. all 3 things that settled, i'm up with us. government had promised to tackle the man was on an investment drive to try and bring much needed investment to the country in order to create job opportunities. terrible. if at 40 in pretoria, ah let say on the continent nigeria is president,

has claimed the weapons used in the ukraine conflict have ended up being obtained by insurgence in africa. regrettably, the situation in the saw heal and the raging war in ukraine service, major sources of weapons and fight, is to boast of the ranks of the terrorists in late chad region. weapons being used for the war in ukraine and russia equally beginning to filter to the region. washington has vain caves main weaponry supplier and it's been reported that both made the us political parties. now agree on the need to strengthen the monitoring of arms being sent to ukraine. some lawmakers, a saying that the current system is an adequate considering cranes high corruption rate. but there's no consensus on how it should be reformed and not the investigation has confirmed the weapons sent to you. great. from the us, britain and other nato countries ended up for sale on the dock web. these are

screen shows us some of the items this issue has long been recognized on an international level back in june, the head of info, warm arms being sent to green would emerge on the black market. he'll circled on countries that have been providing weapons to ukraine to more adequately monitor where those supplies and the former nigerian presidential aspirant. and dia pittsville strategist at the mood garber. the 2nd says weapons trafficking remains a serious issue. now we have the war. did you blue cross country feel how buildable of i've been working to that 13, what portion is what you know, i don't joining now. we have, you said we will see you moving into on on so he's very good mob of luck much and well with those are when to be shipped into our when people, when does the blind is actually of it is either of you and you will need to know

that we need to really come together to see what we can prevent are kind of what it again, if our president blew them off. when do you spoken about intelligence? i've been slowing in dr. aging, florida exacerbates usages it really out, particularly the serious because of them can not just talk anyhow. we help kid to one stroman 40 something to live on, on the, on those to what he's up on. the politics of mc child is actually one of the majorities, why we hope this is will juice, is that a home, you know, the e u has warned the wolf richest man element to do much more, to tackle this information on twitter. if he wants the platform to remain available to european uses, i welcome milan, musk statements of intent to get which a 2 point oh, ready for the a you digital services act will also be clear that they still huge work ahead. twitter will have to implement transparent use of policies,

significantly reinforced content, moderation, and protect freedom of speech. tackle this information and resolve and limit targeted advertising. the past legislation, this is a centralized enforcement of data protection rules, meaning cover oversight of major online platforms such as twitter. if the company is found to be incomplete in compliance, even it can be fined up to 6 percent of its global revenue and even banned from operating in the e. u. it all must cause this lab soon solve as a free speech. absolutely, and the said he would allow almost anything to be said on twitter. but his celtic acquisition of the company earlier this year cools quite a number of high profile celebrities. quit the platform, protest against policy changes such as of the reactivation of form of president donald trump's account. we heard from independent journalist levy who says the ease

criticism of twitter shows the book is uncomfortable with online freedom of expression. democracy is not to rule any more in your course. he would fight disinformation. but what do you mean? what do you call this information? the european commission is race. guess if a twitter is given free rainy people can comment as much as they want. if they have freedom because on twitter, real freedom will be lacking the subsidized stress. there is this warning shot by jerry one by european commission, but actually they know that they will have to, to, to which are developed in europe all continue its work and be free, as must wants it to be. ah, your federal lawmakers have improved legislation to prohibit railway workers from conducting and labor strike president joe brian as back that decision as

a nationwide railway protest could cost the u. s. economy up to $2000000000.00 per day. ortiz. caleb bolton has the story. well, essentially this bill would outlaw a potential upcoming strike. i would force the railroad workers unions. that's 4 different unions that represent 55 percent of railroad workers in america. they would force them to accept a contract that they have already reject it. now the unions themselves are saying that they will go on strike anyway, regardless of whether or not it is illegal, but the by the administration has long presented itself as a friend of organized labor. to know you've heard me say many times i intend to be the most pro union present in the most pro union ministration, american history. that's why credit to white house task force on work or organization and palmer to make sure the choice to join

a union belongs to workers along union is, are more fed, more support today in american public opinion than any time in 60 years now. that's joe biden. the u. s. president who has presented himself as the most pro labor pro labor union president in history is such a big, strong supporter of labor unions. but now he's pushing forward this piece of legislation that would outlaw a strike and basically take away the ability of railroad workers to withhold their labor in a strike. and he's saying, well, this has to be done because of the economic impact of such a strike. it would be devastating on the u. s. economy. well, many americans are looking at that and saying, well, what about all the inflation he's provide presided over. i mean, that's going to certainly have an impact on the u. s. economy, but when it comes to ukraine, now the u. s. congress, both the house and the senate are happy to open up their checkbooks and pass legislation in may. there was $40000000000.00 provided to ukraine by the united states in september,

an additional $12300000000.00 was passed by the us congress and provided to ukraine. meanwhile, if one looks at the polls, the u. s. public isn't deeply concerned about you. ukraine just isn't showing up among the top issues that americans are concerned about. americans are concerned about inflation, the economy. they're concerned about the danger of war. but this notion that ukraine and sending weapons and a do grant is one of their top concerns, doesn't seem to be a priority. but regardless, we'd now see the bind administration on the brink of essentially turning it back and really doing significant damage to one of the strongest allies. the labor movement taken away, the ability of railroad workers to withhold their labor and go on strike. meanwhile, when it comes to ukraine, an issue that americans have just shown in poll after poll after poll, that they aren't deeply concerned about. we've seen the bible ministration, never show any restraint, and go ahead and provide whatever is asked for whatever is needed in

a conflict that most americans just aren't interested in really the u. s. senate ruled against an amendment that would have given 7 days of sick leave to railway workers, which could have averted a potential strike in comparison of previous $40000000000.00 a package was passed by the side with an overwhelming majority. paid sick leave has been a sticking point of negotiations for railway workers. the approved legislation has provided only one extra paid day off. let's cross live now for civil rights attorney robot for to the robot. thanks for joining us here. ok, see now biden is supposedly pro union. i mean we silva and his sort of speech is bucking when he was running for president, yet his actions seem to oppose his woods. and what was the point of having unions if the government can just stop people going on strike?

well, you're exactly right. i also think the fact that wearing situation now, or the government gets to pick and choose winners and losers, them like a labor disputes of the government can come in and say that railroad workers have to work on that. what's to them was to stop them from saying that you can't have a teacher strike because that's crucial to the nation's economy. insecurity, what's to say you can have a bus driver strike that would cripple the major city. they are setting a severely negative president. i think biden, personally of the weird prague union president, but include the fact that he have to work in a congress where he does not have a majority in the senate that can pass anything that needs a filibuster. proof majority of 60 votes is forcing them into this position where they are between the rock of the economy collapsing under union railroad strike and the heart place of having to go against their core values. i think the severe toaster toys from prison biden are but their goal is to keep the american economy running. i mentioned you make a very is a plan they are in the 60 votes, was it is, is that the threshold? we now know that the paid sickly wanted by the is didn't pass us and it,

but congress does not have any problems approving billions of dollars. get that 60 those. when it's, when they're looking to send money to you, claiming what does that tell us about the government's pirates is here. until does 2 things. one, the american public will remain behind loo, support for the war. i longed brittany grinders to and custody. i think that of. ringback brittany greiner came home, you'll see you a support for continue funding for the war a collapse over night. and secondarily, we're also seeing the influence of the military industrial complex on congress. these republicans may hate everything to joe biden does what he love military contractor. so as long as lockheed martin is in your district or martin marietta, honeywell, or bowinger in these of a large military main factors that are making billions of dollars, hand over fist autism supply weapons to ukraine. they will make billions of dollars handle. we're 5th to restart the supply weapons that are being explained in the ukraine. that is why you're seeing. so was bipartisan support because at the end of

the day, the military industrial complex and the most powerful lobby, washington d. c. is a very the final is about the money. let's go back a little back to the strikes and these railway weather now with the pay to leave wasn't given the 7 days they were, which is i didn't think is on me though, but with the concession from the government is this lightning to push the unions over the edge or we like thing to see a strike. i think he will of because the union can simply put, can not allow themselves to be pushed into a corner. and if they ask for 15 days or sickly will to the very reasonable amount for the dangerous and the job of being a railway worker. you know, these are people sitting in the office pushing paper every day. and the people in congress, in the ceo's of the rail companies don't want to give them a guarantee. they probably have more opaque sick leave than that a, than any of those workers. so they have it pare down the 7 days in the seventy's. pare down to one day, i think the workers have to meet this to mind on the sand and say, look,

you can do what you want, but you cannot force me to work. you cannot enslaved me to corporations and we're going to stand up. we're gonna stand a standard for right and make the union make the company compromise, not the workers. no, i rather as always apply, had to lead you. so thank you so much for joining us here. artie was higginson says, thanks again for your time. but thank you. ah, right, let's move on now. the head of the european council met to with time as the dizzying thing on thursday. the tools came and made soaring tenses over the anti locked down protests in china. and it support from russia amid the grain conflict. r t contribute to rachel marson. is us ethel's, faced with rising energy cost inflation di, industrialization, and potential trade war with the u. s. u. think that when you're a pin council president shock me shed took a trip to beijing this week is priority. would have been to reaffirm the blocks

relationship with its top economic trading partner. like it's life depended on it. the block is created enough economic problems for itself right now as the result of its own leadership propensity for approaching everything. so heavy handed leads, you're an ideological prism, rather than a pragmatic one. like with russia around the ukraine, conflicts you think they might want to take a quick break from talking about ukraine's problems to focus on their own economic woes, which beijing just might be in a position to give them a hand with particularity, when she's in ping, encourage the political resolution of ukraine conflict during shocking michelle's visit solving the ukranian crisis through political means is in the best interest of europe and the common interest of all countries in eurasia. under current conditions, we must avoid escalation and expansion of the crisis and work for peace. jeremy shed couldn't see that as a point of mutual agreement and a launching pad to move on to their bilateral agenda. but apparently old habits die

. hard to resize, shocked me shed could not stop bashing russia and ask for the chinese prison it's held in doing so at the united nations security council. i'm sure that ally of russia she's in ping find will get right on that devoted before shop michelle's visit. there was a 4th of the, a lot of commotion in the european diplomatic community over whether he should cancel the trip entirely. and if not that he should be absolutely ready to wag his finger at the chinese president for the chinese government handling of the anti cove id locked downs and in suing protests. so what did shocking me should say to she didn't ping about the protests in china. while he told reporters that he underscored the important of the right to peaceful assembly and quote, the acceptance by society of the anti coated measures. just last year though, it was shock michelle, who was calling on europe to fight against citizen resistance to anti kobe jap.

mandates doesn't sound like he had too much interest in respecting the popular will back home when he decided to force compliance. here's a quick reminder of what anti cubic restriction and mandate protests looked like back home in europe. ah, with jeremy said also said the quote, european companies are available to provide vaccines if those vaccines are authorized by the chinese authorities. yeah. why not?

why not get the chinese protesters protesting against your mandates as well? so european big pharma is apparently willing to sell the china. you don't say what a shock you go, visit the president of a country and offer him a drug deal. did you bring any samples with you? maybe you could have asked if anyone wanted to go shoot up the vaccines in the bathroom right then and there. in any case, good luck trying to keep any big farmer revenues rolling in from china. if you ever carries out that sanctions threat, we had trauma, an associate professor china foreign affairs university says most go in beijing or emerging power have been transforming the global economy. i think 1st of all, that a global economy geography has already radically changed there. and it is already outside the full control by western

council. and this is so that these, the cali speaking and through the analysis of the recent historically produce john that he's a foxon. and so this is the reason why a rush in 2014 in china, 2015, already established and launched, they own a different alternative c stem of international payments, sir alternative to the st. deceased them. so it is ear cindy years of walker and why not against the west again, bought the because off the western and abuse, all st. shown 2nd on the sanctions and west then abuse. all of the no larson targeting the monetary ceased them out of they financially. influenza. right. up next, a rudy interesting though.