good luck with with these 2 quench any attempts of ukrainian forces to cross before is our team follows russian troops in their battles for strategic positions against ukrainian forces on the don best frontline, a top chemical weapons watch dog chief is awarded. frances highest national honor. this by a cover up scandal alleging a syrian chemical attack with fight and vows. he's all in on africa at the ongoing us africa summit. as you,

as the officials decry the influence of china and russia in the region with beijing slamming washington for turning the continent into a global arena, between power contact with africa is not gonna re enough a big public games, but the loan, the target of all the tree prussia from any country old person, washington should respect the will the african people with good morning from our tanner national studios in moscow, and welcome to the hours most pressing news stories from around the world. i'm payroll is about happy to have you join us. at least 3 explosions have reportedly raw the ukrainian city of har. cough local media, say several parts of the city are cut off from electricity and air raid sirens are sounding across the area. meanwhile, in the don bass, ukrainian force is targeted. the don, yes, republic. at least 7 times on wednesday,

according to local authorities, russian troops managed to destroy several ukrainian multiple launch rockets, systems, and weapons warehouses, helping reduce the intensity of the shelling r t corresponded. igor, start off reports from the front lines in these woods, just outside crim and naya danger lurks around every tree. what used to be one of ukraine's national parks is now one of the most heavily contested swathes of land. and the don bass. i need to put them to have the ukranian forces crossed the river and their mobile units show our checkpoints. our intelligence identified some of their strongholds here. their main tactic is to attack, so they mostly work in mobile groups. artillery is useless here. walking single file, we follow the only path deemed safe towards russia's positions. with

our guide leads us to what looks like a long abandoned hut, but the 1st impression of desolation is deceiving. inside we meet russian soldiers from the mortar, battery hidden in the thicket. not far from here. this is our battalions command, an observation point that we gather all the information about the targets and our battalions frontline. we decide what targets to attack with our mortars. i with globally this move is to quench any attempts of the ukrainian forces to cross the

for is that is surrounding all of us. ah, what you see here is the equivalent of close quarter combat in the world of artillery. this mortar team is only about 2, maybe 4 kilometers away from their targets. bigger guns and tanks provide extra firepower from further away to. right now, the woodland here is in the grey zone. and whichever side concedes the ambition to take it will have to give up neighboring villages and towns to suffering a painful tactical defeat. ms. dunn of recruiting from the dawn bass o t. earlier my colleague peters thought, spoke to johnny miller, a reporter for my rainy and press tv, who recently returned from don. yes,

he says he plans to continue his coverage of the conflict as most western mainstream media deliberately under report, the actions of ukrainian forces in the don bass to keep in line with their narrative. it's incredibly attention, dangerous. at the moment only returned a few days ago from the week before from saturday, 20 civilians have been killed one week alone and the sense of danielle is being shelves by ukrainian forces. and the important story to realize is that they are intentionally shelling civilians, markets around the area. i think the boss stations with bodies in the streets, use huffs, i you sense was hit the other day with 4 people were killed. and it's very difficult to see any military targets antoniette could civilian areas. ukraine is trying to, sometimes it's all good administration buildings. sometimes they, they often targets infrastructure like energy infrastructure school, sometimes just random shelling. so what do you think this is so under reported in

the western media? johnny? i think that's, that's the reason a news happens where the journalists are, i think there's been no mainstream outlets from british or american companies that have occasionally been french, german, italian. but any mainstream of what is a little is a lot of fantastic, mainstream, honest reporters working for mainstream channels in western countries. and if any of them were there living under the shelling avenue, apartment bombs going to the boss stations, the civilians in the streets that have no choice to report exactly what i've been reporting that the vast majority supports russia and ukraine is intensely selling somebody. and so i think that's why it's not being covered. fernando arias, chief of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, has been given france as high as national accolade. the legion of honor award. the o p. c. w was involved in a scandal over a legit theory and chemical attacks back in april of 2018 primary documents

released by the watchdog showed that no evidence of a chemical weapons a tap was ever found. however, their final report went on to accuse syria of utilizing biological warfare. then o p c, w inspector told the united nations security council that the organization issued what he called a sanitized report. further raising questions on the accuracy and reasoning behind such accusations. the u. k. france and the u. s. blame theory for the duma incident and began attacks on the country. in response, the mascot has rejected the allegation stating that the country had destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile. under a 2013 agreement, the syrian foreign minister has accused the p. c. w of falsifying its report on the legit attack civil rights attorney, robert patillo says the west has used allegations of chemical weapons to justify

their military actions abroad. france seems to hand these legion of honor awards out like candy. and indeed, busher allison actually received the same award years ago and actually sent it back in 2018 after the french accused him of the use of chemical weapons. then i remind people that these saying these in france, the u. k, the u. s. was saying what the accused rock of having chemical weapons and b u. so our production chemical weapons back in 2002, 2003 isaac justification from the launch of the a warning rock at which we now know were completely falsified. that colin powell and condos arise lie to the international community to build of the calcium bell i belonged to invade iraq, which led to the deaths of nearly a 1000000 iraqi civilians. so we have seen the western powers before views falsify claim to chemical weapons attacks. as a justification to expand and to as that stand there had to amount of power over the world. their main goal is to have a unit whole world, the quote unquote rules based order. but it says old rules only apply to people

that they say are the bad gods. the leadership of these organizations are almost always from the western power from the western nations. will there little input from south america or africa, or oceania or southeast asia? very rarely are these quote unquote, independent investigations, ever verify by other outside groups yet so many to check the inspector that you need an inspection for the inspector often we don't see that. so the concept with these things, having any legitimacy, they end up being a big, what we call an america. nothing burger, where you open the bun and there's nothing inside them. that's what these reports. and that's what these organizations are turned into because they don't have any international legitimacy. and they felt rebuild that after the build up to the iraq war. and they still suffer from this 20 years later. moroccan football fans had been wreaking havoc in the streets of europe since the nations team wants to know against france after

a long wedding street in this year's fif wildcat. oh, pensions are particularly high in paris, where morocco fans were reportedly setting off fireworks into crowds of french fans . city officials called on more than $5000.00 police officers expecting violence, regardless of which he won the match. police reportedly arrested 40 armed individuals headed to sean sandy say to take part in the violent clashes, claiming some had ties to far right groups. ah, fans clashed all over france with century old colonial tensions bringing out the worst on both sides. authorities for montpelier have confirmed that a 14 year old moroccan boy was killed after being hit by a driver fleeing

a crowd of rival fans. ah. and in brussels, police were forced to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds of moroccan fans, wood been shooting fireworks at officers, and starting fires in the streets. any one sporting a french flag was apparently a target ah, all in on africa, the u. s. president goes out of his way with multiple deals agreed upon an ongoing summit with african nations in an attempt to court the continent. that's as washington seeks to recover, influence in the region as the continent seeks new partnerships with china and russia. please now for a long time, good after success and prosperity is essential to assuring

a better future for all of us. not just for africa, united states is all in africa's future. we're still grappling with the deadly pandemic facing down war and instability address in economic challenges with global impact fighting, fighting, rising food prices, tackling the impacts of climate change. we can't solve any of these challenges without african leadership at the table. and i'm not trying to be nice, that's a fact in a bid to compete with africa's other partners, china and russia, the u. s. has already signed deals worth $15000000000.00 at the summit. biden is also expected to endorse the african union for permanent g 20 membership. meanwhile, beijing has slammed the u. s. for seeing africa as an arena for geo political games between global powers. that's in response to the u. s. is defense chief earlier comments that the continent needs to be swayed away from russian and chinese

influence were witnessing the purity, expand its footprint. a on, on a continent on a daily basis. and that creates problems that will be eventually destabilizing if they're not already. or we see russia continuing to peddle cheap weapons, employing mercenaries across the continent. and so the combination of those activities by those 2 countries, i think that bears watching. and certainly i think their influence again, can be the stabilize commercial media. human. we have the u. s. could view china africa cooperation with an open mind. africa is not gonna re enough. a big public games, let alone the target of all the tree prussia from any country. old person. washington should respect the will of the african people and take concrete actions to help africa's development instead of concentrating its efforts on smearing and attacking other countries. we spoke with joe altman, host of the conservative daily podcast,

who thinks that the u. s. is rapidly losing confidence among africans while look at the libyan cute coo and also look at what they did in sudan and look at what they did in, in other african nations, in the amount of interference and things that have done in those regions. it's like a bunch of school kids at a, at a high school. it's always like they're bad, they're bad, they're bad, but they never look at themselves. let's go back in time and look at what the u. s . has made promises over and over and over again in that region. they've done this for decades and they've never delivered. so they've said we're going to give you a, we're going to help you with, with development and those development in large part i spent a lot of time in africa and the middle east. those developments where china would come in and say, hey, we're going to do something, they always did it, but the us never did. i don't think that they, they learn from their mistakes and they definitely don't learn from history. and the thing, the thing that saddens me is the fact that they're, they're doing things that do not benefit the people of africa. and it's not as if we're pulling on both sides of a country and trying to, to help them and say, okay,

china is trying to help in the united states trying to help. and we're competing in that arena the united states just sees them as much like to do their own people in the united states as, as slaves to be enslaved or to use as ponds. and again, in order to great power or money to come, and the upcoming buys share of house democrats has lashed out at house republicans over the hunter bite and laptop scandal stating the suppression of the story by twitter is a relevance. he put out a statement on social media saying what he's going to focus on is 100 biden's laptop. actually is even more irrelevant that, that he's actually concerned about what twitter was saying about 100100 biden's laptop. this refers to the 2020 revelations, alleging questionable business feelings by hunter bite, and son of the us president, the new york post article containing the story was the price on twitter ahead of the 2020 presidential election. the story came back to light amid the publications

of the so called twitter files, the social media giants, internal documents released by eli musk. after his takeover of the company, they allege twitters, intentional suppression of conservative voices, including limiting the visibility of tweets. they also mentioned the deletion of donald trump's account, despite concerns of staff members on whether he actually violated any rules. back in 2018 congressman had loose cited the popularity of donald trump's account, while mocking the possibility of censorship against conservatives. this is a stupid, ridiculous hearing. only reason i'm still here is i want to enter some facts into the record. the top 3 you like to officials. number one, donald trump, over to vice president parents. number 3. speaker ryan, the notion that social media somehow sensory concert or folks is ridiculous. tad lose said government regulation of social media content would be unconstitutional.

but that goes against the materials in the twitter files allegations, which show how both political parties had influence over the platforms, content, moderation, with democrats. having more avenues to exercise control, the white house spokesperson was asked about twitter censorship. however, she also dismissed the story. we see this as a, an interesting or a coincidence. if i may, that he would so have hazard. lee would also have passively push this distraction. that is a, that is a full of old news if you think about it. and at the same time, twitter is facing very real and very serious questions about the rising volume of anger, hate and anti semitism on their platform. and how they're letting it happen. scott, you know hughes, host of our team. the $360.00 view says claims that the hunter bite and laptop

story is a relevant by democrats winds up with their previous attempts at suppression. what else would you expect from them? i mean, this was something that was brought up not only by conservative media outlets for just those that were considered to be impartial, media outlets. i know we hear on our tea tried to cover the laptop as much as possible and the result was, well, you were either threatened, you were either put lawsuits on you if you were a media outlet wanting to cover the 100 byte and laptop during election time you became under intense scrutiny, a lot of backlash public backlash not only from the public but also media colleagues. and so now to come to fruition that everything that the majority of those outlets were saying was true and even more extensive. the reality of it is we would not know this unless there would not have been someone was able to purchase twitter and make it open as to exactly the relationship between the u. s. government and the social media platform. how can you have trust and a system like the elections when you know that there are political parties that are

influencing one of the major ways that people get their information about the candidates from. so this is extremely concerning the real truth. so if we ever be able to get congress to act, that we can restore some trusting credibility into the way we get information that seem to be seen what they want to control, or they want to make sure that none of their dissenters are able to actually come after them and point out when hold them accountable. that is one thing that social media is good for it. it's holding the politicians accountable for what they do. and now we know that taboo amongst as. 1 as his democratic colleagues were those that were having conversations with the executives at where i'm sure it's going on a facebook if we were ever find out the truth. which also makes you wonder about the other media platforms, both traditional, like newspapers of washington post new york times, as well as broadcast media platforms. how involved and how close relationships have these media outlets had, with campaigns through the last 4 election cycles? rising inflation a crushing caught in me, all of this seems to matter,

little to american politicians as they have declared, the real problem picked up several u. s. law makers have announced bipartisan legislation to ban the chinese own social media platform. american politicians play the ab can be used to spy on us citizens. this isn't about creative videos. this is about an app that is collecting data on tens of millions of american children and adults every day. we know it's used to manipulate feeds and influence elections. we know it answers to the people's republic of china. tick tock is digital fentanyl. that's addicting americans collecting troves of their data and censoring their news. the bipartisan anti social ccp act as a strong step in protecting our nation from the nefarious digital surveillance and influence operations of totalitarian regimes. well, it's very hilarious to listen to those words because what they're describing, how they're arguing about how tick tock seems to be operating,

fits pretty closely with the details that are now emerging regarding how twitter and mehta, facebook and other outlets have interfered in us politics. take, for example, the hunter, biding laptop story, and this was a scandal regarding the son of the president of united states and his business deals and his relationships with his father and, and will recall on how it's been admitted that us social media giants worked to suppress it in coordination with the f b i. here's what we heard from mark zuckerberg. the distribution on facebook was decreased, but people were still a to share it. so you could still share it. you could still consume it, but we weren't sort of as black and white about it as, as twitter. we just kind of thought, i look if, if the f b i, which i still view is a legitimate institution in this country. it's so very professional on force meant they come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something that i want to take that seriously. now a new poll shows that 71 percent of americans say that

a truthful interpretation of the 100 biden laptop story may have changed their vote and could change the outcome of the elections in the united states. so the effort by facebook and twitter to suppress that story certainly had an impact. now, it's also interesting to hear the owners of tape talk accused of news suppression. let's not forget that social media outlets have dand r t. all throughout western europe, rti is being widely suppressed. it's been shut down from youtube, et cetera. and, and then you want to get into the other accusation that they make about data that i look into. the details they've been revealed by edward snowed about how data collected by us social media outlets and tech companies get handed over to the f b i. and how there is a coordination with the f b i. and this information regarding users activities is provided to the american

authorities without any warrant, no warrants or are needed. they simply go to the tech outlet and get the information. there's actually been a 260 percent increase in the providing of this data to us officials. and they've been getting it without war and the amount of data that they've been acquiring on us individuals as increasingly gone up. this is the information that's been revealed, and we also know what they tend to use this information for david's description of what you can do with metadata. and quoting a mutual friend steward baker is absolutely correct. we kill people based on metadata. so the hypocrisy in us condemnation of tick tock, allegedly suppressing news, allegedly interfering in us politics or allegedly collecting people's data for nefarious purposes. the world can hear the hypocrisy and what the us lawmakers are saying. as they pound the podium against chip talk,

the tensions are spiraling in northern kosovo as a serbian representative to the region has accused. christina, the government of seizing power in the majority serv, area of meter of itself with help from local police. this comes just hours after the officials of the self proclaimed kosovo. apply for you membership with belgrade, condemning the move and urging brussels to block it. our t contributor, nickel, our job, h. reports from the ground. see, find flows, doors to send in a visit or with respect for their own laws. and in the new city council, 60 new members, and there is an open day for elect to power without any dental practices. so basically, a month ago and all the sort of left insufficient service cost,

those positions the election elections were held and left early to share a new city or forces. and they did so by bringing in from the side their own additions who are now the city council, and amongst amongst then there is one sort of in so just a multi cultural perspective. and as i said without any, any law or a spec for, for this standard to job which can be implemented. and that came as a shock local service because they feel check again. they feel that they are, they are again being played out because they said new election games occur and they are now being governed by people. nobody shows and they were elected basically by brutal forces. the launch presence of police and army, securing this whole events in the center of nuclear 7th,

mostly by serbs earlier around 300 coasts of insecurity personnel were reportedly station and me through of it's a city. according to the serbian government, serbia criticize the move, asserting that kosovo had not carried out any of the agreements. key points. tensions have flared between belgrade and the coastal authorities in the northern part of the breakaway region, where serbian protestors put up barricades over the weekend, demonstrating against the arrest of a former kosovo sir police officer and made rising tension. serbia's prime minister said last week that the country's leadership was close to deploying security personnel to kosovo, saying that the lives of minority serves. there were being threatened. the russian ambassador to serbia told us that kosovo z e u membership bid was apparently sanctioned by brussels in advance. ah,

you see she in stern 3 of you would not all members of the european union recognize kosovo as an independent state. that means that e. u. does not have a unified position and cannot achieve overall consensus when it comes to this issue . however, if we take any country in the balkans as an example, even the process of submitting the application for you membership and a public declaration of such intentions is always agreed at the very political top of the you in brussels or cliff is to provide you the bold needs, if they wanted to, they would have already fulfilled the established agreements. but the west would have asked pristine a long time ago to find a solution to the issue of the serbian municipalities in kosovo radio in accordance with the appropriate mechanisms and instruments to guarantee the safety of the serbs and secure their rights. so that's why what angela merkel said regarding the minsk agreements is also applicable. in my opinion,

you're to brussels as agreements when it comes to kosovo. these are 304 years worth plead here. the russian federation can provide support to serbia or within the security council of the u. n. as its permanent member in that regard, our abilities are significant. for that to happen. we need to have an official invitation from belgrade to do so. that is the most important thing because kosovo is 1st and foremost a serbian question. you're good for us. this is an extremely sensitive issue because we have friendly relations with serbia. and serbia is our strategic partner . you operate, and those were the hours most pressing. new stories from around the globe for 247 using updates, head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow up on odyssey rumble and gab. thanks for tuning in. see again, next hour. ah,

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