will support, we choose to look for common ground a, [000:00:00;00] with the mayor of john. yes, says the republican capital has come under the most intense attack since 2014 as ukrainian poor says lodge 40 missiles at the city overnight. the top chemical weapons watch dogs chief is awarded. frances highest national honor. this by a cover up scandal alleging a steering chemical attack back in 2018 bite and bows. he's all in

africa at the ongoing u. s. africa summit. as us officials, the pry the influence of china and russia in the region with beijing slamming washington for playing power games on the continent. africa is not arena for big public games with the loan, the target of all the tree prussia from any country old person, washington should respect the will of the african peoples with hello and good morning for martine, are national studios in moscow. i'm from wherever you may be catching us while them to the hours most pressing news stories from around the world. i'm girl, isabel and we have knew this just in from the embattled don. yes. republic. where the mayor of don. yes says the city has come under the most ferocious shelling and 8 years.

the ukranian forces fired 40 rockets overnight, damaging multiple civilian infrastructures in the city center. heavy plumes of fire could be seen hanging over the city as buildings and cars caught fire. this on verified footage from witnesses shows, buildings have been heavily damaged. no information on casualties is available yet . as fighting continues in the dawn by the russian defense ministry says several ukrainian attacks have been repelled in the lugens republic are to correspond the eager stano followed russian troops on the front lines as they battle for key positions in the region. in these woods, just outside crim and nice danger, flex 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 down for the ukrainian forces, crossed the river and their mobile units shall 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 on the bottom of 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 and observation point, but we gather all the information about the targets in our battalions frontline,

we decide what targets to attack with our mortars. i them with globally this mood is to quench any attempts of the ukrainian forces to cross the forest that is surrounding all of us. lou, what you see here. the equivalence of close quarter combat in the world of artillery. this mortar team is only about 2 may be 4 kilometers away from that

targets. bigger guns and tanks provide extra far power 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. amicus dawn of reporting from the dawn. gus artsy and coverage of the conflict and ukraine can often be imbalanced, as there are very few western mainstream media correspondence reporting from the ground in the da boss. earlier. my colleague peter scott, spoke to johnny miller, a reporter from iranian press tv, who recently returned from don yeske. he says he plans to continue his coverage of the conflict as most western media deliberately under report. the actions of ukrainian forces in the dawn bass to keep in line with their narrative. it's

incredibly tense and danger. stay at the moment only returned a few days ago. from the week before, from saturday, 20 civilians have been killed. that week alone and the sense of danielle is being shells by ukrainian forces. and the important story to realize is that we are intentionally shelling civilians are markets around the area. i think the boss stations of bodies in the streets use huffs or you sense was hit the other day with her 4 people were killed. and it's very difficult to see any military targets antoniette scott civilian areas. ukraine is trying to sometimes it target administration buildings. sometimes they, they often targets or infrastructure like energy infrastructure schools, 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 with the civilians in the streets that have no choice to report exactly what i been reporting that the vast majority supports russia and ukraine is intensely selling civilian. so i think that's why it's not been covered. fernando r, e s, director general of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, has been awarded the legion of honor award. frances highest decoration, despite presiding over the organization as it was embroiled in controversy 4 years ago. the o. p. c. w was involved in a scandal over a legit syrian chemical attacks back in april 2018 primary documents released by the watchdog show that no evidence of a chemical weapons a tap was found. however,

their final report went on to accuse theory of utilizing biological warfare. then p, c, w, and factor told the united nations security council that he questions the accuracy and reasoning behind such accusations, dating be, investigating team had doubts the attack took place at all. the findings in the final report were contradictory where a complete turnaround with what the team understood collectively during and after the due duma deployments. and by the time of the release of the entire report in july 2018. our understanding was that we had serious misgivings that a chemical attack had occurred in 2019 weeki weeks. expose the o. p. c. w's internal documents in a miranda to the chief,

it was mentioned that around 20 inspectors were concerned about the findings of the final duma report and went on to say the report did not reflect the views of all inspectors involved in the end. the final document was authored by a separate group that operated outside of syria. the u. k. france and the u. s. blamed syria for the duma incident and began attacks on the country. in response, damascus has rejected the allegations stating that the country had destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile. under a 2013 agreement, the syrian foreign minister has accused the o. p. c. w of falsifying its report on the legit attack civil rights attorney, robert put the lo, says the west has used allegations of chemical weapons to justify their military options abroad. france seems to hand these legion of honor awards out like candy

and indeed, bush or i'll assad 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 in the use of our production, chemical weapons back in 2002, 2003 isaac justification from the launch of the a warning rock and 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 gone 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 or, or these are 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 were 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 nation seemed lost to nail against france after a long winning streak. and this year's people were out got

oh, tensions 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 team won the match. police reportedly arrested 40 armed individuals headed to sean said leave it to take part in the violent clashes, claiming some had ties to far right groups. ah van clashed all over france with centuries old colonial tensions bringing out the worst on both sides. authorities from montela, i 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 here gas and water cannons, to disperse crowds of moroccan fans who had been shooting fireworks at officers and starting fires in the streets. any one sporting a french flag was apparently a target all in on africa. the u. s. president goes out of his way, agreeing on multiple deals at 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 russia and china. 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 friday, friday, rising food prices, tackling the impacts of climate change. we can't solve any of these challenges without africa leadership at the table, and i'm not trying to be nice. that's a fact. in a bid to compete with africa as 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. defense chiefs earlier comments that the continent needs to be swayed away from russian and chinese influence. we're witnessing the purity expand. it's footprint a on, on a continent on

a daily basis. and that creates the 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 show the combination of those activities by those 2 countries. i think that that bears watching and certainly i think their influence again, can be the stabilizer. also on the issue, we have the u. s. could view china africa cooperation with an open mind. africa is not in arena, a big public gamble, but let alone the target of all the treat trasha from any country old person. washington should respect the well, the african people and take concrete actions to help africa's development. instead of concentrating his 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 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 were 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 game in order to great power or money to come in the upcoming vice share of house democrats has the lashed out at house republicans over the hunter biden laptop, scandal stating the suppression of the story by twitter is irrelevant. he put out a statement on social media saying what he's going to focus on is 100 biden's laptop. and she's 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 u. s. president, the new york post article containing the story was suppressed 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 giant internal documents released

by elan mosque after his takeover of the company. they allege twitter is intentional suppression of conservative voices including limiting the visibility of tweets. they also mentioned the deletion of donald trump's a cow, despite concerns of staff members on whether he actually violated any rules. back in 2018. congressman ted lew 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 fax, enter the record, the top 3. electro officials, number one, donald trump, number to vice president parents. number 3. speaker ryan, the notion that social media somehow sensory conservative folks is ridiculous, said lou 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, that he would so have hazard lee, twitter or so have, has really pushed 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 an anti semitism on their platform and how they're letting it happen. scotty, now here's host of the $360.00 view. says that claims that the hunter bite in laptop story is irrelevant by democrats. lines up with their previous attempts ads the prussian 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. 1 as is 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 economy. all of this seems to matter, little to american politicians, as they have declared their real problem, tick tock. several

u. s. law makers have announced bipartisan legislation to band the chinese own social media platform. american politicians claim the app 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 chick talk seems to be operating bits pretty closely

with the details that are now emerging regarding how twitter and met up facebook and other outlets interfered in us politics. take, for example, the hunter, by the laptop story will recall 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 dr. berg. distribution on facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed 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, hey, look, if, if the f b i, which i still view is a legitimate institution in this country. it's a very professional lawn force and 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 election 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 tick tock, accused of news, depression. let's not forget that social media outlets have dand r t all throughout western europe. r t is being widely suppressed, it's been shut down from youtube, et cetera. and then you want to get into the other accusation that they make about data that. let's 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 the f b i and how there is a coordination with the api i and this information regarding users activities is provided to the american authorities, without any warranty, no warranty 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 warrants the amount of data that they've been acquiring on us individuals as increasingly gone up. this is the information it's been reveal 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 toward baker is absolutely correct. we kill people based on metadata, throw. busy 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 these us lawmakers are saying. as they pound the podium against tick tock, us politicians have called for the expulsion of russia from the un security council fighting moscow's role in the ukraine conflicts. the russian federation has carried

out and the legal premeditated unprovoked and brutal war against ukraine. resolved that the house of representatives urges the president of the united states to limit suspend or terminate rights and privileges that the russian federation exercises in the security council of the united nations. this ban would not be possible under the un charter russian media, however, has already faith numerous bands and crackdowns, which could get worse as a new, a new draft. blacklist reportedly includes rush and media figures and outlets with r t being among them. an international organization protecting the rights of journalists has refused to support russian media in a response to our team requests for comments, since it does not view russian media as unbiased. the committee's refusal to live up to its stated aims comes as a member of germany's main opposition party proposed more measures. namely the creation of

a committee to control the spread of so called russian media propaganda. the danger of so called pro russian fakes has been named as a key threat to the european community. such comments come amid recent reports that are teased german language channel uses 3rd party outlets and youtube channels to spread. information. author and war corresponded. thomas roper called this step on democratic in the constitution of germany. there's written that no censorship is happening in germany. it's written, there are the fact that the a european union with just some kind of a decreed could, are for force germany into censorship. is already something very interesting that they are now also whatever freezing our cheese as the assets and so on is just the next step. but it doesn't have anything to do with what is called democracy or even freedom of speech, freedom of media. and this is quite interesting,

i'm that when we think we have some kind of a free speech or free media and germany them, that when we now have her or shall become, shall have an office which registers lee or media, or even users who just expect press another opinion and the government has and that's our wrap on the hours most pressing news stories from around the globe for 247 news and updates head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey rumble and gab. thanks for tuning in, we'll see you again next hour with a look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about

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