a, when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. a warning, disturbing images ahead. 3 people are killed after key of forces shall, residential areas of done yet. local official say, nato supplied shells. were you in the attack? berlin claims of famine that occurred nearly a century ago in soviet ukraine was genocide that says, residents of namibia say germany has failed to adequately a tone for a massacre. it's committed there around the same time making a stand congolese people protest against the presidents of a un mission in the country saying it's only worth and the security situation there as a ceasefire between the military and rebel forces break step with nigeria. as

president raises the alarm that weapons sent to ukraine or ended up in the hands of african militants. our t speaks with concern citizens in nigeria. now that the president knows that small arms end to the region, he should do something about it. because we don't want more killings, we just want to list a scope. i live close to the like chat basin and with what i've heard, it's not safe living there because some who traveled there had to escape because of insecurity. oklahoma, attack them with just after 7 pm here in moscow, and you're watching r t international. i am your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. now we start this news hour with the latest from the don boss region. at least 3 people have been killed and 5 more wounded after ukrainian forces shelled civilian areas

in the danielle people's republic. that's according to local authorities. a warning you may find the following videos, disturbing. officials say key of forces have launched dozens of artillery shells including those supplied from nato states against civilian areas since friday morning, a number of residential buildings and shops were also damaged in those attacks. ortiz, romano culture of reports from that area. and again, a warning some upcoming images are mr. ukranian nationalists continue to terrorize peaceful civilians. here in that done as one of the bodies is right here. behind me, this woman was probably walking into a store when a shell landed right here on the very busy street right next to her, her bus stop. judging from what i'm seeing here on the ground, her head was blown off. now there are plenty of shops here. plenty of pedestrians

are spoken to. a woman who was in the store. ah, well doing her work during the shilling and this is what she said. yeah, mother, i was working on a see machine when the 1st shell hit, the windows rattled, and when the 2nd felt the glass blew inside, i dr. run deeper into the building. then there was silence and the smell, something burning. i went out into the street and saw that woman and another wounded, and they say in a nearby store, another woman died. as the day progresses, the number of casualties continues to mount. there is another person who was killed by ukrainian nationalist, so looks like his body was ripped into 2 pieces and right next to him his his dog that he was proudly walking when ukrainians showed this area in the next. judging from the remains of, of this shell, ukraine used multiple launch a rocket systems to sar,

gets this neighborhoods and judging from all of the shrapnel holes in this building, this particular show was a design in order to cause as much damage as possible to take a look at this car, thankfully the owner was not in it, but it looks like its sustained quite a lot of damage as well from on call for a martinez republic sermon chancellor. all off schultz has held a phone call with latimer putin on security issues with ukraine. on the top of the agenda that says russia's liter criticize the west's destructive practice of army ukraine as keeping peace out of reach ortiz acres. dan of has the details. if you were to compare 2 major releases that were published both by the german and by the russian side, the latter one, the russian one. it would be much, much more informative and lengthy compared to that that came in the german language

and there from the german press service. and it kind of could be a hint at the fact that the russian president had a lot more to tell his german counterpart. for instance, of course, he brought up the issue that germany keeps the, it's arms pouring into ukraine, which is essentially if it's essentially fuel for the conflicts, it's arms, it's money and everything. so vladimir putin has pointed out that germany is doing everything that it can. and even beyond even even undermining its own defenses and its own defensive capabilities, germany is doing everything that it's fueling there. so conflict added of who's stimulates the all the nationalists, but battalions out there in ukraine, which are very, very, ideologically motivated. so the russian president has called on germany to reconsider its position. all of sholtes came to will he approached this phone conversation with an idea of looking like a dove of looking like a peacemaker. but really the conditions, the pre conditions that, that he once again has laid out in front of latimer pohden. those are occur viewed

as completely unacceptable by russia. for instance, all of short, he did cool on finding the diplomatic solution. we have to go back to the agreements, which we had in the last decade and have been the basis for the order of peace and security in europe. basically, he has been calling on the diplomatic solution through russia completely pulling out its troops out of the country. and moscow has repeatedly reiterated that this is out of the question that moscow will not sit behind a negotiating table. if these are the preconditions to talk also sholtes talked about, of course, how he wants to revert things back to how they were a, basically before the russian military operation in ukraine. but well, according to the russian foreign minister speaking just yesterday, that is out of the question simply which is up abusive and when at some point in time, all western neighbors and former porters suddenly become interested in somehow restoring

joint work on you broken securities, then restoration will not work because restoration means much what was before the rule, but there will be no business as usual business. so russia most definitely does want piece, but it doesn't want piece on the conditions or that the west is right now. basically laying out rushes foreign ministry has accused germany of distorting historical facts to serve its political agenda. that's after the boon to start passed a resolution to officially declare a famine that occurred around a century ago in soviet ukraine. a genocide to jerome and political elite attempts to belittle its guilt using artificially contracted acts of genocide by ukrainian nationalists radicals and blaming the u. s i saw for it, the german elite tries to whitewash the memory of countless inhumane crimes of unprecedented scale committed by nazi germany. in the 2nd world war,

the vast majority of german parliament members supported the move to claim the depths of millions of people resulted from a deliberate starvation campaign carried out by the soviet leadership under joseph stalin. despite the fact that the famine took place, not justin ukraine, but in other parts of the soviet union as well, including russia and moscow even provided food ukraine at the expense of other regions to end the hunger there. let's take a closer look at the toll ukrainians paid during the 2nd world war. 1.3000000 ukrainians died in nazi concentration camps and about the same number of troops were killed fighting the germans. 15 marshals and generals along the front where he from ukraine and 16 percent of the red armies entire personnel were ukrainian, which is 7000000 people. we spoke to conrad ren cassie's, a polish journalist, to discuss how the events of the last century are interpreted. we can discuss about the so called the whole the more for the catastrophe and grain and

other soviet regions in the 30s on the little like this on the political. but speaking about the lego bodies, he's absolutely clear. that's where it's not faced and not meet the definition lego, the thing you sort of did a side because there was absolutely no intent to destroy the cranial people, the friggin nation there. but on the political site, well, of course we can, we can, we could think about the d. motion element of that promotion of the, of government, vision of history. extremely dangerous. because well, we have to remember that the president never faced the navy and boundaries busts of the, of the gradient color. but we've, we've, hitler never faced and never discussed truly and honestly about that

taking part in the holocaust by creating the collaborative. so well, as i suppose, i have to remind that the ability to say what's the decline of the key of sites to accept the responsibility of grading. and that is for dental side against the police and julius, and also grading and people. while germany re, brands, the famine as genocide, berlin has refused to pay the citizens of the southern african nation of namibia, what they consider to be adequate reparations for colonial era massacre. let's take a look at what happened in namibia at that time. mm. mm mm. ah,

ah. the news although berlin agreed to pay namibia claims these payments are not reparations and will be paid over the span of 30 years on a quote voluntary basis. although this has outraged many namibian and the leader of the new maybe in traditional leaders association believes germany is trying to distance itself from responsibility for its past actions. it seems german is sir. where is specifically avoiding to deal with the

1st genocide dorothy of this entity. richie was committed unit 19. 0429 to no wait by germany in namibia or do they send on the bill? but it is not clear why exactly. they refer only to eat is 2 days in today stems while they have accepted the a manian genocide essay genocide, which also happened before 1948. so our position is that genocide is genocide and germany needs to deal with its own genocide before talking about other genocides that may exist ah, violence as erupt. it in the east of the democratic republic of the congo between government forces and rebels that despite a truce, that was. busy called last week,

the congolese government has accused the rebels of violating the ceasefire and of continuing to loot and fight. according to local officials, clashes erupted after rebel forces croft to major bridges in the region and open fire at the congolese military breaking a truce. that was reached at a summit a week earlier. the meeting called for a cease fire and the withdrawal of rebel forces from occupied territories. and although no withdrawal was observed, the fighting had ceased since saturday. a top general accused am 23 rebels of killing 50 civilians and kidnapping even more from villages near the conflict zone . meanwhile, the city of goma, which is the capital of the both besieged province, saw mass protests against the presence of the un mission. in the d, r c, demonstrators claim that after 20 years, the mission has achieved nothing. and even worse and the situation. protesters also called on the international community to take action,

to lift and arms ban on the darcy, which was prolonged this summer by the united nations until 2023. there's a look into what people on the streets had to say about all this. oh, sure to those who do we had deploring the complicity of deeds, national community. oh, no school on the east african community. if forces came to our country to fight alongside to campbell's armed forces, but fins, the ultimatum given should be empty. with hebrew rebels expired on sunday. we have seen the forces of the east african coming to become in active. i got him on, we're asking that the embargo and our republic, the dear seat to be lifted. and also to remind the international community we cannot continue to have people kill like that and remain calm. otherwise it shall sterile complicity with what we're seeing. now staying on the african continent, nigeria as president, has claimed that weapons used in the ukraine conflict have ended up in the hands of african militants. regrettably,

the situation in the saw hill and the raging war in ukraine service, major sources of weapons and fight, is to bolster the ranks of the terrorists in lake chad. region weapons being used for the war in ukraine and russia are equally beginning to filter to the region watts from luxurious presidents. that weapons from the conflicts of ukraine had found their way into the hands of extremist and elect charge region has come as no surprise to the people and the military that have been battling terrorist groups like vocal harm. for the past 20 years. i live close to the lake chat basin and with what i've heard, it's not safe living there because some who traveled there had to escape because of insecurity. local her arm attacked them and there is no food to sustain any one. the president says he knows that the place is not safe so he knows what to do. now that the president knows that small arms have entered the region. he should do something about it because we don't want more killings. we just want all this to

stop. so we can go back and continue with normal lives of fishing and farming. but here in may, through thousands of people displaced by conflict and now being integrated back into communities are concerned about the availability of weapons in areas where there will be a re settled close to the next chart. beasen. oh, if you look at law, the 2nd round program or, or devote out recovery process we started before you are in ukraine. so what is happening? ukraine is different than what is of an inborn noise. a peculiar thing. and i think we're focusing on what's on the ground as was well, cancer, now we're dealing with madam problem, but the government here in northeastern nigeria said it's not worried us. many odell regions may be simply because the bottle to this book or her i'm terrorist, an extremist has been very intensive over the last few years.

security for the child base in hop reason to be gone son of way. ponds from conflict in all the parts of the world becoming available yet on the list. 3, the regions of nigeria, the jet child, came out on our quote, actually a very sensitive speech of the fight, i guess. so the only thing and to mol with bonds will just make the fossil honda currency beatrice out of seen use, maybe green washington has been key as main weapon supplier. but following the republicans, recent takeover of the lower house of congress, both major us political parties now reportedly agree on the need to strengthen the monitoring of arms being sent to ukraine. some lawmakers say the current system is not adequate considering ukraine's high corruption rate. but there's also no consensus on how it should be reformed, and our investigation has confirms that weapons sent ukraine from the us. britain,

and other nato states, ended up for sale on the dark web. these are some screenshots of those products. the issue has long been recognized on an international level and back in june, that of interpol warned that arms being sent to kiev would emerge, emerge on the black market. he also called on nations that have been providing weapons to ukraine to more adequately monitor where those supplies end up by jerry and geo political strategist, ad damo garb. the 2nd says weapons trafficking, particularly on the african continent, is a massive issue awarded you blue cross country feel buildable of, of implementing 2 dot 134. what portion is what you know, i didn't joining now, we have use them. we will see you coming into on, on what he's learned, grandma, the company blood much, well, we plan for when to be shipped into our when people, when does the blood work to a little bit of cedar a few on you,

what would need to move that we need to really come to judah to see what we can to prevent the kind of which is will that wouldn't again, if old listed in the blue good of off 13, he's talking about intelligence or, i mean, we can smooth and dr. aging florida, exacerbate you soldiers, it really helps to commit suicide because all of them can just talk anyhow, we help connect to wound strong forties intelligence. i don't understand what is up on the politics of mc char is actually one of the majority is why we help this beautiful joseph that a communal view as aerospace and defense technology company, northrop grumman, is set to unveil its latest stealth bomber named the b 12 b $21.00 rater, the weapons contractor says it will be able to struck strike anywhere in the world . the b $21.00 rater will be capable of penetrating the toughest defenses to deliver precision strikes anywhere in the world. the b $21.00 is the future of

deterrence. the new plane is said to build on decades of experience that washington has had with the b 2 bomber seen here on your screen. design for intelligence gathering and to act as a battle command center. the aircraft is reported to also have the capability to be equipped with long range missiles and able to deploy drones, mid air, the set with delays. however, the launch originally scheduled for 2021 has now been pushed to next year. earlier we spoke with scott ritter, a former marine corps intelligence officer about this, and he says the new bomber won't end up meeting the u. s. military's expectations. there is no doubt that the, the unveiling of a weapon system of the order and magnitude of the b 21 bomber is done for political purposes. and when i say that, i mean deterrence to put a marker on the table, saying this is the united states. this is our capability. this is the weapon we

have. you don't want to mess with us because you don't have anything that's capable handling this weapon. and this is just means it's going to be an extraordinarily complicated piece of equipment in this complexity brings with production difficulties we, we saw this with the f 35 fighter and i'm pretty sure that to be 21 bomber is going to be going down the same route, a lot of money, and it's not going to perform anywhere near to the level today expect. meanwhile, the u. s. secret secretary of state told cnn that nato is looking to invest in soviet era weapon systems to help you crane. we're looking at every option to make sure that again the ukrainians get what they need and what can be most effective for them. some of that does go to soviet era systems that they've had in their inventory for decades. making sure that the ammunition is there for those systems. and in some cases that may require producing things that haven't been produced for some time. new york times also reports that nato was discussing,

investing in old weapons factories in the czech republic, slovakia and bulgaria. aiming to restart the manufacturing of soviet era shells as ukraine's armory still consists of of old soviet weapons. for the most part. meanwhile, new reports show that france is not able to provide more weapons to key of due to the state of its own supplies. scott ritter again, believes ukraine is a logistics nightmare for nato. we don't have anything left to give, therefore they're going to try and open up new production lines or to create soviet era ammunition to supply the remaining soviet era or chart pieces that are and ukraine. other bad, there isn't much left for you to give the european military industrial was not geared up for this kind of conflict. and it's clear that they don't have sufficient reserves. they've stripped whatever reserves they had to supply ukraine and bow their lift to the point where they can't even carry out their own self defense

requirements issue if called on to go to war. so it all under underscores. the fact that you, ukraine, is a logistics nightmare that nato's unable to support. at this point time, germany's defense minister is facing flack over concerns that she's failed to procure enough ammunition for the country. earlier in the week, she sent a letter to the country's finance minister asking for urgent funds to plug the gap . however, he made it clear that her request would not be accommodated. the sluggish availability of amunition and equipment is not caused by a lack of budge to refunds, but by complicated partly non transparency and inconsistent planning and bureaucratic ordering processes. it looks like germany has been trying to keep up with the jones's and has now placed its own defense capabilities in a real bind. western allies are obsessed with this idea of being present everywhere,

all around the globe. even just this week, when french president emanuel and my cove visited joe biden at the white house, there was a lot of talk about how the us expects france and europe to help out in the indo pacific, with a military presence to contain china. you know, on the other side of the world now for france, a kind of makes sense because it already has overseas territories in the region. but what's berlin's excuse for hanging out on the other side of the world? you know, we all have that body in college who wants to go partying drinking top shelf liquor every weekend. and you know, if you keep up with them who either end up broke or with a really bad hangover or both. now, in any case, the german military leadership has been talking since at least this summer, about quote, consolidating its presence in the end of pacific, sending a flea of ships there. and having troops joined western military exercises in australia. berlin also started hanging out in bosnia and herzegovina over the

summer to contribute to this fantasy of a european army that mac ho, in particular wanted to use frances military mission and africa to showcase well until france got kicked out of molly. but oh yeah, berlin has announced that it's going to stick around. and molly, now as well until 2024. so germany is so busy playing police man, running around left and right all over the world, trying to keep up with us in western agenda. wind containment and deployment, that it kind of forgot to look after itself looks. so now the defense minister is asking for cash to buy ano for german troops to use in case you know, germany needed to defend itself. and the finance minister just said no and accused the defense minister, poor planning, and yeah, well no kidding. because there are reports that germany has about 2 days worth of ammo to defend itself if ever needed to largely as

a result of giving so much of it away to ukraine. germany's greens have slammed the defense minister for the egregious lack of foresight. even before the russian war of aggression against ukraine, it was known that the bundeswehr was a long way from meeting natal requirements in the area of ammunition. it was unclear why ammunition was not at the top of the department of defense to do list by february 24th at the latest. however, the shortage of ammunition not only poses major challenges for the bundeswehr or partners in the e. u. a. nato also want to stock up on ammunition. the need for ammunition is great, but the capacities of the industry are tight. german cesar, all i've so it's threw himself in a firing line to defuse the criticism of his minister that's coming from all political sides. but the lack of ammo for self defense is a systemic problem for other nato countries as well that have been giving away all their stock to ukraine. estonia, for example,

faces the same challenge in staying property arms that's according to its defense ministry. the bus to decay to the national defense of nato allies have been very much focused on the out of area operations, where amunition requirements are not as large, which has some slavery into very low ammunition stalks is clearly unfortunate who had also coals with responsible. but now it's not true to time to play the blame game. now it's them to find solutions. maybe these western countries should be focusing on their own, actual defense rather than running around the world playing footsie with china or in africa, trying to keep up with whatever expansionist ambitions that washington throws on the table. in other news, lebanon's called on the international community to cooperate to help. and the syrian refugee crisis, which has led to hundreds of thousands of people taking refuge in the already poverty stricken country. the un human rights office and not

a relevant international organizations, must coordinate with the lebanese government through its competent bodies to solve this dilemma, the priority of this stage is to return the syrian refugee successfully to their country. of the situation here stabilizes waves of migrant started flowing across lebanon's border in 2011 when the syrian war 1st erupt. it according to the you and refugee agency, there are now almost $800000.00 refugees in the country. there are also 30000 stateless people and closing in on 10000 asylum seekers. what to do about the migrants has paralyzed lebanon's parliament, which is largely largely divided into 2 main groups. one wants to legally register all syrian refugees. the other wants to successfully returned them to their homeland. the caretaker prime minister had warned he would start deportations if western help wasn't forthcoming. what you get more on this now? we're going to cross live to political commentator, dr. marwan. osman,

thanks for joining us on the program. dr. so the lebanese parliament is completely divided over this. do you think that they're going to be able to reach a consensus moving forward? well, i believe that the parliament has a lot on its slate to begin with. i mean, at the syrian refugees issue is a very critical issue in the nice politics, but it's not on the priority list. sadly, of the an east parliament at the moment since we do not have a government and we do not have a president as of october 31st and a we don't have a, a government as of made. so even if it, if the parliament were to take actually decisions to either to board or to register these refugees and it wouldn't go into effect because we don't have a government. and in order to have a government, we have to 1st elect a president and the president will choose a prime minister and there a cabinet will be held. so this is a stalemate. it's deadlocked ad no further. a policies are being issued about the

matter. the crisis in lebanon is sitting hard, everyone including the refugees, as well, to add also to the injury of the lebanese institutions, the public institutions that cannot even serve the lebanese public themselves. and now is being also and heavily bombarded with millions of refugees. the numbers you mentioned are number the are international numbers, but the real numbers, according to that of unease authorities, is it's more than 2000000 syrian refugees added to that, about a 1000000 palestinian refugees and a 4000000 plus lebanese population in a very, very small sized country like lebanon. so i think that this kind of a dilemma is going to take a lot of time to be solved if it were to be on the priority list to begin with of the problem. but why do you think this is all being discussed in parliament now? i mean, after all refugees, i have been fly.