have a part of a scandal known as a gate shift. it's focus to morocco, a senior moment. there is a piece of taking dr. links to the north african country. li document claims that nature's been providing clean. tell justin he, the movers are brushing forces to the credit emergency conducting the facts and the new one, and recently the damage the russian bomb. most of these things with the interim leader with african nation to reach out terrorism. welcome to the solid partnership with russia. we would like russia to become our ally here,

as well as all our partners. and we know that russia is a great power in a brussel wants to can help us in this area a good morning. good afternoon. good evening. where ever you are in the world. welcome to our see internationalists just on friday am here in the russian capital . i'm as it was great to have you with us. i'm right, mommy. let's take a look at today's top stories. these scandal known as cuts are gay, has shifted its focus to morocco as a suspended vice president of the european parliament. and the senior italian lawmaker are accused of taking bribes, linked to the north african country. i'll take contributor rachel miles and shares her thoughts and sin deeper. it's certainly not the best look for the european union when the same officials who are so keen to lecture every one else about democracy and transparency. now find themselves with the big mass right under their

own roof at the european parliament when the scandal broke. earlier this month and belgian authorities rolled up suitcases full of cash at homes and hotels associated with european officials. all eyes were focused on cutters, a legend involvement in the shady lobbying practices associated with the scandal. particularly since the football world cup was on and cutter was the host country, and it already faced controversy over how it may have been awarded those games. but now morocco has been dragged into this fiasco as well. thanks in part to an alleged confession by former european parliament vice president, eva kylie whom the you parliament recently stripped of her role in title, internal investigation. documents obtained by the press suggest that kylie had dealings with former italian. you're a deputy pier antonio pans erie whom investigators alleged to have received cache from both cover and morocco and who just happens to be the founder and president of

a think tank called fight. impunity, she had prior knowledge of her husband's dealings with mister pan's airy and that suitcase is full of cash had been moved through her apartment. when it comes to transparency of its dealings with foreign countries, the european parliament apparently draws the line at morocco and voted against, including it with cutter in a resolution demanding more transparency and accountability. here's the amendment to the resolution that euro deputies ultimately rejected. expresses deep concern about the allegations that morocco has also attempted to influence members, former members and staff of the european parliament through acts of corruption calls for the application of measures in line with those applied to the representatives of katara interests. while investigations are ongoing to why the parliamentarians shy away from having a good look at exactly how they've been dealing with morocco. perhaps they're worried about what anyone poking in to that particular dark coroner,

mike finds maybe a lot of talk roaches or rats scurrying around. particularly if questions target he asked about various parliamentary friendship groups or the role of antonio's light pans. aries in acting as intermediaries or middle men of sorts under the guise of intellectual and academic respectability. it is long been an open secret that think tanks in the western world routinely serve to launder foreign lobbying interests in the us. they've even gone so far as to bundle and donate foreign cash to candidates to public office. former you foreign policy. chief federico maurine sat on the honorary board of pans series fight impunity angio right up until the scandal broke . here's maurine telling you. crane how to fight corruption way back in 2015. we have primarily focused on the need for conduct of the anti corruption reform,

which is the key factor to allow the international partners to trust in ukraine. and as if that wasn't enough. here. maurine is again, 2 years later, underscoring the importance of solid ethical guardrails for ukraine. the anti corruption institutions, as we discussed and as we agreed, must be allowed to do their work independently, with enough powers and resources to investigate, prosecute, and eventually ensure the conviction of those responsible for corruption. well, it looks like you crane is well taken care of and they think they might be up to that she city. so how many board members like maurine of think tanks like pans aries, fight impunity in the you have bothered to take a look under the hood of those and yours and insist on the same kind of accountability, transparency and good practices that the e u. demands of other countries, apparently that doesn't even exist at the european parliament yet as the scandal is

proving european commission. president ursula vander line just recently announced after this whole scandal broke, that she'll get right on that now though. economy probably right after lecturing the rest of the world, few more times on the greatness of european values. we heard from a spanish law professor says it's no secret that morocco has been loving e u. lawmakers to get fishing rights for western sahara. the asian western sahara has not only course a task of political jabante co meaning, but it has also an economy, meaning the worst sense to her now is the soles over huge benefits for the kingdom of morocco? no house be no, no, no. my mental organization called the western sahara research watch the task

calculated the amount of the money that morocco receives exporting the phosphates from western sahara and old. so we know the money the european union gives to morocco to get a loud fishing in the occupied waters. western sahara morocco export mainly to the european union, not only but mainly it were to union. this is just a one issue where we know exactly that. there is corrupt corruption, a european union level. and actually, as i said concerning the members of the european parliament, this is not a secret that and morocco has been lobbying them. ah,

after the dumbasses fierce battles of him ranging along the front lines rushes, wagner group of major fighting falls in the region has been facing off against increase. shoot full control of the strategically important city of r t a mosque. ukraine government says at present, zaleski recently visited the embattled city to meet with military officials and handout awards. on the other side of the front line, the head of the wagner will propose a meeting with the green and leader girls that when i was sitting in the headquarters and they told me that zalinski had just arrived about our guys are going to fire gunshots and morse code, if he pays attention, we could meet any time what the lamar is yankee, we just shot in morse code to say, here's the lensky we're nearby and we're ready to discuss the issues. but i believe that very intense fighting for the city in recent months does refer to say that

russian control over the area would facilitate a further offensive for northern parts of the region. russian official say that you can ships in the city of been using scorched earth tactics, delivery, destroying, building the roads, using the local civilian population as human shields. they say that foreign mercenaries of refused to be deployed to the city because ukraine forces have been suffering heavy losses. meanwhile, authorities in russia west in belgrade regions, a ukrainian forces have been firing heavy artillery across the border into residential areas. one person has been reported wounded in the next attack. at least 70 apartments and about 40 calls have been reported damaged in the arts. the re fire. the sharing has also impacted production facilities and warehouses in industrials earned uncle temporary power outages. meanwhile,

in the regional capital of donors, he, craney and artillery fire has reportedly hit the same civilian hospital several times in recent base authority, say, residential buildings and a kindergartener also been struck. ortiz, or roman coffer of reports on location o ukrainian artillery struck the city of the nest cas, shortly before midnight on monday, once again, one of the largest hospital here in san vos, had been targeted, were standing right next to a building. number 10, that was suffered a direct i hit by a mo, from a multiple launch a rocket system. as the result, at least one person was heavily wounded as the result of this attack a day prior to this or 2 people had been killed as another building building number 6 and you are surgery department was as frog as well. now that building behind me

it houses administration as well as a day time clinic. now it shuts at 4 pm and opens at 7 o'clock in the morning. so thankfully there was no one there except for the caretaker. now once again, it was struck by ukrainian artillery by a grabbed missile and we actually found the shell that was used and i spoke to a ballistics expert narrow, this is a modified, modified, solved yet. shell are produced in slovakia, it's $122.00 millimeter a shell. and once again made in slovakia and supplied to ukraine by made so countries and that these are the kinds of shelves that had been used against a civilians here in dan eskoville last month or or so of course many people and people had been killed and many more were injured as the result of these,

a chaotic and indiscriminate attacks against the sensor. various calibers of weapons are being used against dividends here and then as a grad myself, like what i just showed you. and of course, the other calibers much higher. $15552.00 millimeter and of course they caused a lot of destruction. many of the weapons that are being used to include cluster munitions as well with that is designed to inflict as much damage as possible. joe acorda salon yesterday around a p. m. there was the 3rd shelling in a week. the hospital and administrative buildings were damaged, doctor's provided assistance, a doctor on duty managed to hide behind a safe only but the water almost completely damaged. about 90 percent of the windows have shattered. there's no heating, 3 artillery strikes in a small area within one weeks. time is already a pattern. shooting our hospital is

a war crime. the staff are fighting for the lives of those wounded people are being helped as much as possible. we continue to work as much as we can. yesterday there was damage to the neurosurgical building, which the staff are continuing their work, no matter what. today they all came to work to help people and r duty is above all else receive. amid the relentless shelley in residential areas in the dumbass media report for the merge that ukraine's presence of as he passive is at washington in the coming hours to meet with us leader joe biden. the us recently unveiled a $1.00 trillion dollar government spending package, including $45000000000.00 for ukraine, made your referral, say the lethal aid will include featured missiles, systems, and precision bombs. here the officials have said that washington would not object to such weaponry being used in an offensive on crimea. while us who i'm self is art

supplies. great is deputy m ross's as the and has expressed this way at the organization's refusal to investigate. alleged rainy and drone shipments to russia . the u. s. says the un secretary general has basically been yielding to russian threats as cross alive now to russia's deputy. i'm back to those of the united nations, mister dmitri polio. see mister port so much for joining us here. i see on the show, nice nose is now the us says, the you in the sense that general is basically being yielding to russians. threats as the u. s. slams the u. n. for refusing to investigate, alleged iranian drug supplies. what do you make of that? i think that reflects just irritation of our west colleagues with the fact that the secretary general, the secretary of indeed doesn't move in the direction that they want them to move.

and this will be to sound team of inspectors or whatever specialists to ukraine to investigate, to litigation. so for us, using uranium drones invite lation of residential venture to assist you on. but once will be absolutely clear that the secretary general and the secretariat, if they acted this way, they will have violates with you in chapter. and this is absolutely it will be s o l t regis situation. we indicated this several times. it has nothing to do with the sufferers of the matter is the question of procedure and the respect for us chapter . so we clearly may though position and i think that will made it's convincingly enough. the stage for the criteria secretary general to refrain from any, any move towards the position that western countries want them to take. what sort

of threats would the american sort of mean? could they, could they enforce anything onto the, you know, the you for that matter. maybe they just extrapolate the text that they usually using when they want to achieve certain results from the you know, your member states by twisting their hands, sounds like mailing them. we do not use these kinds of methods. we are just referring to the charter of the united nations to the international law. we are saying that any investigations by the group for $20.00 to $31.00 would be legitimate in the light of international law. because this is not a group of experts and for to conduct any investigation. they need a clear mandate from the whole of the security council and not instructions from some of their members sound so far. there is no special mandate. on the contrary, there is an understanding insecurity counsel that especially will be highly

controversial to put it mildly and we think that it would be absolutely contrary to the un charter. so i think that the situation is absolutely clear from this point of view center thing mr. well, i have a, we hear of tens of billions of dollars in the u. s. e. u, england, everybody's funding ukraine. and yet when it comes to russia being supported by its neighbors or allies, it's a big problem. what do you make of? well, it's actually we repeatedly refuted these allegations. we're saying we continue to say that our military industrial complex is capable of, of procuring us with the type of weapons that we need. so we haven't come across any substantiated proof of users of these kind of you a these and as far as i was informed bilateral consultation between the radians and the ukrainians also resulted in the situation when ukrainians were not able to

produce any new results in you and bruce and no, but let's distinguish this substantial problem from the problem of procedure. so what we are now having in b u. m. is the clear, clear attempts of united states from this allies to twist the handle of the us to create areas and to convince them to come to degrade them to conduct some kind of investigation. which would be absolutely contrary to the mandates of these group of people working in the secretariat. so this is absolutely another another issue in data being tested. so you have that now we've heard that you claim persons that i see is suppose we will reportedly he's going to be visiting washington the next few hours. first of all is unusual for a warring present to leave the country. but is he what does the game or if he goes to that just asked more money or is he there and trying to get these patriot missiles? are they key, do you claim?

well actually, so that he is going to, to beg for more weapons, for more assistance. this is by the way, bilateral agenda between ukraine and the united states from this case. so provide, if he doesn't come to the u. n. i'm not involved in this issue. and i'm very happy about this and a demand for asking buses, deputy, i'm the you and thank you so much for taking the time. think you're doing us here on odyssey, but it's really nice. i thank you. thank me. while a us republican congress has failed at nato, could defeat russia in just 3 days. previously, he initiated legislation to enable the us to use military force to defend ukraine. in the event, all i'm escalation to discuss that issue. that cross the live mouths of former us marine corps, this officer, scott,

scott always opposes to see. so thanks so much for joining us now. what do you make of this sydney us, a visual, making such a bold statement about needs quickly defeating russia in a direct conflicts. is that possible? first of all, understand that he's not a senior us official. he's a congressman who is shortly to be out of office. if you take a look at his twitter handle and this is a man who he tweeted, this identifies as a member of an organization called nasa, north american fellows, organization. it's a, it's a mean generated twitter harassment group that knows when they, when they respond on twitter that what they're saying is nonsense. the idea isn't. but factual debate engage, responsible discussion is put out absolutely absurd, nonsense. an attempt to drown out any responsible discussion about what's going on in ukraine. so i think he's achieved just that. he tweeted,

absolute nonsense. i mean, 1st of all, and i'm kinzer is know anything about modern warfare is a air national guard pilot to fly something called the r b 26. it's a intelligence gathering twin prop plane that has 0 survivability in modern conflict to be flu, that aircraft over ukraine to be shut down in, in a matter of minutes. he knows nothing about ground, combat, large scale war, et cetera. so he's in no position to provide expert opinion on, on anything his, you know, he, this, this is grossly or responsible and given the fact it is a member that states congress, it's dangerously responsible because people might not realize that he's, you know, a member of this group are nashbow, they might think he's speaking in an official capacity and he's not going to be clear. and i did states cannot natal, cannot be russian 3 days. they cannot. it's just an absurdity. i. i found

a father just i dial it with ambitions to be famous on. so as i said, as he's off, he says he visited the front line in the city of our 2 of us with less consider it territory. what are your thoughts about him doing? i mean, is he that just a handout medals think well, i mean if, if this visit took place, it would be, it's a very dangerous visit for him. you know, this, this, this is an area of tremendous fighting. what's interesting is during the entire visit, we didn't hear any artillery and yet, you know, the russians are allegedly firing, you know, around every minute they had a wagner brag about fighting firing artillery wowza lensky was there. i don't know where this meeting took place. clearly it's a meeting designed to bolster the morale of ukrainian troops or suffering horrendous casualties in the fighting in this region. you know,

whether they did this in a remote location whether zalinski went to the actual count itself. we don't know, but it is part of a propaganda push that feeds into his visit to washington d. c. where he can say, i'm a wartime president. i go to the front lines, i'm worthy of continued american military support. so assigning, we have actually one out of time we'll get you again soon. adella, thanks again so much for joining us today. jeremy that while nita officials have said they don't want and direct conflict with russia recently, document claims that the blog has been providing keen tendency claims forces for tax on russian miss your facilities. the document reverse of the obtained by a hacker and published on social media, conveys detailed information about russia, murphy, hardware, and location. for example, it says to russian strategic bombing,

we're based in the angles field in western russia. ukraine is of use that information in recently to conduct a drone attack on that late vocation. you can also successfully tried to destroy russian strategic bombers in southern and central russia with drones that were shot down. nevertheless, 3 russian soldiers were reported killed and another full wounded wall to cough with damaged the drones all suspected to have been made by an american company. the big document revolted, the apparent location of hundreds of russia vehicles. those included planes and systems tanks and rocket launches and the conflicts and i'm deep within russia as well as ships on the back. see we heard from a full, the us republican state who says that need to become increasingly aggressive.

there definitely are people involved in these things who are hoping that something will happen to trigger an escalation where we're russia would make some sort of a rash move. and fortunately so far, president posen has been a very cool come hand. who has, you know, he's been been very rational and delivered in his, in his actions. which is a very good thing because, you know, we're, we're so much closer to world war 3 than europe was in 1940 with the 1st world war. i was a part of nato, back in the eighty's when we, it was nato versus the soviet union. nieto was a defensive alliance at that time. but when the, when the, the wall fell, when, when the soviet union dissolved,

the nato did not dissolve the worse all packed dissolved. but nato remained is very robust force and it became a force of aggression. instead of being a defensive alliance, suddenly it started to move steadily eastward and, and it could only do this by creating an illusion that, that the russian federation was sort of identical to the old soviet union. but in many ways it's, it's exactly opposite to what the soviet union was. so so nato has become a very dangerous organization. there are people who are trying to trigger some sort of response from russia that would begin to escalate and involve all of nato in in combat. cyber security, the u. s. have admitted committing cyber attacks on foreign powers during the mid

term elections. justify the move by saying the fall is going to be interfered in or could have interviewed the vote unless the u. s. have simpson we did conduct operations persistently to make sure that our foreign adversaries couldn't utilize infrastructure to impact us. we understood how foreign adversaries utilize infrastructure throughout the world. we had that mapped pretty well, and we wanted to make sure that we took it down at key times. this is the idea of understanding your foreign adversaries and operating outside the united states. washington has when and he's in rush, i'm the ron of meddling and it selections for many years. but for the recent mid vote, a seen a u. s. security official said there was surprisingly a lack of foreign interference. he said that rush and the wrong was supposedly not to focus on the u. s. they were too preoccupied by the ukraine conflict and the

wave. i'm a wave of process in the islamic republic. metals live out 2 journalists and foremost, sorry, analyst mr. john curio cool. john, always a pleasure to see so thanks so much for joining us. so much. matt lazy is mike, thanks. what do you make of these, these, these us cyber policy, this new s are opposed to the washington increments beyond it's borders. you know, i've never, i've never been of the belief that there was any foreign on involvement from russia or from anybody else. we routinely blame the russians, the chinese, the iranians, the north koreans. and then there's never any evidence that's ever presented either from the intelligence community or the white house, or the pentagon, or anybody else who looks at these issues. there's just this blanket statement that there's been interference or an attempted interference, and then no proof, no evidence to back that up with. yeah, it's, it's interesting our,

it's interesting, fertile, they owe police talk about it and yes, we did it this time. but this is, do you see a taking down of the countries infrastructure as an effective measure to prevent election interference? no, i do not frankly, taking down another country's infrastructure is an act of war. it's a violation of international law. you can't do that. and, and even if you could do it and wanted to do it, what would you hope to gain by shutting down hospitals or, or water treatment facilities or electrical griggs other than to cause human misery? so no i, i think that's an empty threat just because the consequences would be so dire and you would open yourself up to retaliatory attacks. it's just not something that civilized countries frankly, should engage in. so it's behind the old john walls or what's going on, hey, i me know, what was, why do they keep talking about these are, you know,

foreign power supposedly interfering with our elections? is it because they're not getting the result they wanted to every time something goes wrong. so alpha is there fall, is that the thing? i think that's a, that's a big part of it. and i think really the united states for a long time. i, at least since the obama administration has, has needed a bogeyman, a has needed a foreign enemy to, to point the finger at if there's something that happens that you don't like you blame you. blame someone over whom you have no control. you blame the russians, the chinese, the iranians, god forbid, you should blame the israelis or the french because they do this kind of thing as well. but it's, it's easier to blame somebody else for your problems than it is to acknowledge your problems and then try to improve them if we have, for example, a problems with our electoral system. busy then why don't we focus on fixing the problems in our electrical system. busy electoral system.