a with with the headlines for this, our naughty international intensify thing. and in session gunfire, as a russian troops pushed ukrainian armed forces out of the key frontline city of philadelphia. also in the program of warning you may find the following image is disturbing. the south africa opens an investigation, not for a video surfaces, allegedly showing its soldiers burning the corpses of jihadists. they were fighting in mozambique at least 17 supposed be impeached. peruvian president hetero castillo killed in recent, collapses with police locals. there have singled out the new president as the root

of the crisis. put it here on the police officers were shooting at us. we call him president of paris the unable to walk to to resign because you are a murderer. with the right setting the record straight here, one ality international with both sides of today's biggest stories. welcom, do you want news straight to the conflict now in ukraine, way intense fighting has been reported in the dot net square public. as a russian troops advance on strategic areas in that region. at the head of the republic says that the town of sola daughter is close to being on the full russian control. natalia in today's program. i. i discussed this and other recent developments with our senior correspondent now, ah, wagner units on the fringes, on the west of the city. so ukraine has school. but last that you have prominence, ukrainian journalist coming out and say, look it's, it's over, we're going to give up solid on the point these if they give up solid duck,

the road to cry, come a tourist and slow vance a to key cities in easton, ukraine, that road will be open about the ukrainian, the fed slide, and that is from buffalo to solider than on to the city of save. if it is all entirely, a natural defensive law which is wide, was taken, the russian forces so long term to break through and there on the, on the cost now of breaking through. it's a natural defense of law because on the eastern side, throughout this geographic area, the ground, the, the geography such that solar dot m bachman and see it has, ah, are above so that they're high up. and the ground gently, slopes away, and the russians have be forced to assault from the doubt up. and that is in solid, on the case of solider that has been almost exclusively the wagner group in bottom with their also incredibly active. and i was there, i was

a include the boy in vladimir africa, which is the outskirts, basically just be on solid. and that is as far as we will able to get because the, the situation is such that you crate would just roll tags out and shoot cuz it could see everything down below and shoot at anything that move. and you had small groups of wagner, $89.00 people, a so troops, basically making a dash 100 meters, finding a crater somewhere and hugging down. they could be there for a deva, for 2 days without any supplies. just hunker down up front, so close up with ukrainian troops. and it just be a neat grab that, that take one crate and then the net that find that you say ukrainian troops. you talk about a meat grinder, you've spent so much time down that you've been down there for nearly 7 months mode at. is it all ukrainians that russians are fighting down the? no, it isn't it, isn't it?

it used to be but slating claim a knife for a job, which is just just north of, of service territory. sectors of the front line. good. that the troops there that give us the radio captured radians, trophy radios at captured from, from, from enemy forces. and we'd listen and that have all sorts of buttons of pre coded encrypted radio. you click on one channel and you don't hear german speech. you really hit german speed, you click on another and you don't hear polish speech and polish speech was predominant in ta sexes. of the front live that would only be polish speech. there weren't any ukrainians that we knew all for that the troops knew of on the other side, ukraine's losses in solid are in button would have been they've been catastrophic. they've been ukraine, admit so itself. president zalinski has come up, tom and tom again and said it is hell on earth. what is happening there? but to give credit where credit is due, the wagner group has proved to be

a lot formidable force and absolutely formidable force. the, they, the, the strategy and tactics that they use are designed to, and half succeeded in depleting the best of ukraine's units. and we're talking here special forces. we're talking, well prepared mercenaries, or all foreign forces that have arrived to help to grant a. we're talking about brutish regulars, which is, which is what they are regulars on leave sent in, in the entire units the attachments or severely depleted on the solider and on the bottom line which, which has caused ukraine to pull units out of other areas such as up north there came in last martha and threw them into the meat grinder that is solid up. but yesterday, in solar dog, we had fighting in the center of the city around the, the, the mayor's office, the city ministrations. russia is fighting the best of the west. right? here, these soldiers, these mercenaries, they're getting

a latest technology from nato and from america and from england as well. and, and yet, it, it's not going in their favor right now. let, let morale let. let's bring this back to the russian side here. so they show you the russian defense minister as announced reforms to military operations in ukraine and syria. so shoot them over since i knew i my parents in taken into account. our experience in the special military operation to supreme commander in chief has set a number of tasks for us. the main one is to take measures for the qualitative renewal of the armed forces and increased their combat capabilities. we must constantly analyze in system a ties the experience and actions of our groups in ukraine and syria. you see the issue here is that yes, russia is saying that we've, we've amassed a huge amount of experience. we've seen what works. what doesn't that mean? we're not only talking about military vehicles and, and the houses and more 1000 helicopters and fly control systems radios. we're also

talking about taxi, you know, in the future, in this mass mod more, what russia needs to focus on, what we need less of, what we need more all, and all of this is coming together to define rushes, army rushes, military going into the future. well, if you want to learn more about what exactly is happening on the front lines and gone, bass r t dot com has updates for you 24. well, it's a good to have your company for this program live from moscow to the south african national defense for says an investigation has been opened offer video and online appearing to show people wearing an as of yet on identified defense force, uniform throwing dead bodies onto a fire, i should warn you. there are disturbing images ahead of the incident. it is believed to have happened last november in mozambique,

clear from which countries are soldiers in the video of from but one of the soldiers has what appears to be a south african flag on his sleeve. now south africa is helping mos on big fight regional jihad is at the moment. and the south african national defense for says that those responsible for this will be brought to justice. once force is committed, they form part of a combined force and fall under the command and control of south african mission. in mozambique, south africa only supports their mission. logistically time to learn more on the program costing live. now to tobias miguel, the global relations export a very warm welcome to you. so thanks for joining us here on our team international . what, what is your immediate reaction to what is essentially a gruesome video? who do you think is responsible here or what you do. it's not coding and it was done because it,

it didn't make it seem as it shows how it will but in the, for the civilian and how the phone in this hopefully because you can see a pool of people and it was supposed the south african. so john, because of this is a banjo, it's south african flag. but what does the south african that saying that when these trouble come to was on big yellow on the forms for all of this, a public defense fall back on the control over the study. and it shows how my human rights are being violated. it was, i'm just to remind you that when to print one, a human to read people a solution. corny did was some of the government to ensure

a good professional for the civilians. so far we haven't ever seen anything on, on these and the if you have what's the deal? because some of this, so just what to do. so the question is, how many are you listen? i think we'll meet that in with you. i mean, sorry to bother you, you talk about the violation of human rights and, and, and i absolutely hear what you're saying. the video is supposedly from november last year, white to bias. why do you think only now it's surfacing online. 7 is that the saw just because they didn't get to 16 for all know the bottom to get on for home maybe. but then they were owned in front and they went back to their places. i wouldn't want to pin with the family

because those people who work up there for me or even went home and someone maybe she had to do. because i assume that i, when mission you're not allowed to share with that. that would be the case. but go home would be that someone was the baby said disgusting, video and at the site show in the way what's going on in the war i gave harold isn't something so you think you think someone perhaps trying to draw attention to what's actually happening the in mozambique to bias, you say, it certainly looks like south african uniforms, as you said, they have a what appears to be a south african flag on, on their arm bands that, that is yet to be confirmed, i should say. but i wanted to ask you to bias. so south africa has been fighting jihadist in most, i'm big, but we all know that mozambique has an enormous amount of natural mineral, wealth titanium, gold, coal, graphite, copper, rubies,

the list goes on and on the bread basket of the world. is that why certain group saw searing in on that part of the world, or is that something else going on to bias a this one? how many men in boston or a post root cause? a pro, this is one of the features, probably monday, but i wanted to do one of the kind. so you have a problem with the resources. like, i mean it will be gone to, i am on unless it seems like school. what are the tools and it is, it makes it very likely for with schools. but also this would be a place where father, mother, actually,

we have some interest. so we haven't been a follow. well, one of her sources, but we have many countries fighting there, a little bit brooks war. so my fee, and that was a really, really interesting information that you're relaying to us here at auto international to boss. really appreciate you having on the program by the way is, is the fight against that? she hardest to mozambique. is it still ongoing or, or has it wrapped up by now a, a, a group. it's

11 if i'm not mistaken. so they find, i guess it is still going on because this one will failed with issues on the spot a fight then. and they might, you know, some of the people would you make a fight? so this one, i will, the government forces together with us. what we have them by default, we won't genome. i'm not a problem

. is it all event in the broader sense? and so it doesn't seem to by that most, i'm because stephanie called the attention of much of the world these days at the bias mikaela global relations expert. joining us live on auto international, really grateful have you on the program. thank you very much. thank you very much. i turning our attention to peru now where at least 17 civilians have been killed in heavy clashes with police and supporters of the impeached president petro castillo, hit the streets to protest against the current government. ah, with a hundreds are reported have been injured, including at least $75.00 police offices, as locals attempted to take over the international airport. and the demonstrations are aimed at interim president, dina, but a lot of the day who is heavily supported by washington with the protesters meantime saying she has got to go for europe on the term of the police officers

were shouldn't, at us we call a president of perused the unable to walk to, to resign because you are a murderer. i don't know who is going to defend us who is going to look after these children who are traumatized. these children who are becoming fatherless motherless orphans, the state is not going to come to see us. we have wounded comb, race wounded villagers. and while the us has not condemn the violence of the former president of bolivia even might, allies has asked the u. n. and the international community to take notice of what's happening on the ground. we call on o n u c i d h human rights organizations and social and indigenous movements of the world to join their voices, to demand respect for the lives of our peruvian brothers, defenseless victims of repression and exclusion. politics. oh, we're talking big implications here. the chinese national currency is about to get

a major boost in latin america amid a huge trade deal with argentina. that china is already one at one of our gym. tina's main economic partners and the currency swap, deal for the equivalent of roughly $20000000000.00. certainly has good timing. the south american country has been looking to increase its foreign currency reserves to fulfill economic guidelines as dictated by the international monetary fund. a china is argentina's, 2nd largest trade partner behind brazil. it's also the 2nd biggest destination for argentinian exports. now the currency exchange deal is to facilitate payments between the 2 countries in what currency chinese you, one and we heard from economic ex. but if the font cause not on what are potentially enormous implications, china has a stable money and monetary policy, as well as the world's biggest international reserves. so china

is promoting a monetary policy towards optimization of its resources and richness. looking for an autonomous, a locally very bred dominant monetary expansion where it will be a benchmark for the world. when you have a strong money, everybody goes after this strong money school to the gresham law. it's natural that the r continuance will look for more activities towards china and with a chinese strong you one. the merging godfrey's, such as brazil, russia, india, china, south africa. i have with more and more time with in these last years better, higher,

stronger presence in lots of forums. so too big part of the bricks is really very important for our and dina and our in dina. because of its enormous political and economic crisis to look for more participation. i so i could have your company for this program. australia has rejected an asylum request from an alleged chinese spy, despite expressing previous support for him, the media even portrayed him as a hero. so let's try and understand this a bit better. with a correspondent marina cost. his name is lit stung. wong leitz young, but his definitely no james bond than the when you look at all the evidence, it's amazing that australia and the west fell for his act to begin with. let's start from the beginning. this man 1st appeared on australian national tv a few years ago, claiming to be a chinese spy. this is where he revealed that his mission was to further beijing's

interests primarily in hong kong and taiwan. among his claims was that as an undercover agent, he kidnapped booksellers, whose works angered the chinese government that he infiltrated universities and stole military intelligence and weapons. that he undermined the protest. movements in hong kong, manipulates at the election results in taiwan and embezzled public assets. there and of the west a at all up after all it fit their anti chinese narrative. so jackpot, this young double, 07 was paraded on national t v and portrayed as a hero, a hero in need of protection. haven't spilled all this. he about his home country was for alien authorities, also joined then initially ignoring issues such as his young age and the lack of these hell in his stories. and the fact that everything he spoke about was already in the public domain. i'm of the view that anyone who's willing to assist us in

defending our sovereignty deserves our protection. i think he deserves our protection and our support. hostile foreign intelligence activity continues to pose a real threat to our nation and its security. i have no doubt in my mind that he would be the subject of severe consequences. were he to return to china? china was adamant that the west was being conned by this camera. happy spy. their version was that this, the factor was actually a fugitive. who was under investigation for fraud in china? actually, the facts a clear for this fraud who became a spy? this is a totally absurd loophole written screenplays concocted by anti china forces. they even released footage of wine leaks young in court in china face and the fraud charges where he seemingly admits to be in a liar on earth court documents and witness statement seems to corroborate china's version of the story. bots may be this intriguing fairy tale was target to pass up at the time for the western media since it was soon

a period of really tense relations between australia and china. their lowest points in almost 50 years with accusations of election modeling, human rights violations, and china allegedly weaponized in trade. sometimes it really is a case of wishful thinking, but it seems that finally australia and the west half caught on one has not only been accused of committing fraud against an australian citizen, but he was also denied asylum. a decision that was a pallet by the australian appeals tribunal, partly because they now have doubts over his claims. and how, if at all this tribe, you know, can safely find that wang was engaged in espionage activities. it will be interesting to see how much coverage this fi force would get after it has backfired on the west . but it just goes to show once again how sometimes ideology overwhelms you and you just can't say notes. her good spy thriller, even if it is

a bunch of fiction. we heard from a political expert, tim anderson, he's in sydney. he says that australian relations with china have deteriorated over the years. and he actually blames washington's foreign policy and american media outlets for the degradation. mister wang, it seems as a little bit too far out on a limb, even for the australian authorities and the background that wasn't 50 years ago in schools, we were told australia as part of china. and we were all encouraged to learn asian languages and, and of course, the economic relations with se, asia and china grew and grew him at china has been australia's biggest trade partner. and this was the case until 4 or 5 years ago when washington turned around and decided, you know, with obama's pivot to asia and trump's economic war against asian companies. and then nancy pelosi is trip to taiwan that are a stranger. unfortunately, the, the, the clutch of politicians are extremely weak. they can't really resist joining in

with the washington campaign. but it went wider than that. it was the media promoting these things. that's true. the corporate media that promotes all of these are the lightest campaign from washington. it's also academics. we had a number of academics coming out early on saying this man was credible and it added to all of the what was known about china and so on. of course, what really upset the story was back at the beginning 3 years ago. there was already opponents of beijing who was, i know this guy as a fraud. he is a liar. there was taiwanese intelligence officer, retired one people in hong kong was supposedly the victims of beijing who were saying don't believe this guy, he's a fraudster. so all of all the wanting sounds were out there from the beginning. but nevertheless, the story proceeded. supporters of brazilian a president lulu to fill for have hit the streets of major cities around the country to do so basically, to show support for the government. it's following

a violent attempted coup in the nation's capital. ah, some participants of the pro government rallies have gone as far as to condemn with the attempted crew was a terrorist attack. his local reporter michelle de mayo in sal parlor with more details on the riots and crew were 10 k families as well. okay. de la sate us, we're and one of the main streets of so paula, the largest city in brazil and national demonstration is going on behind me. and now in defense of democracy and against the court town to that took place last night in the federal capital of brazil, err so far. 1500 people have been detained for participating in the court. and the justice ministry says that these people could face up to 20 years in prison. the other charges are destroying the government headquarters in brazil, air, and the theft of weapons, ammunition and classified documents from state intelligence services. president

lula. the silver has just met with $23.00 governors and 4 representatives of other subjects of the federation to develop a clear plan for all levels of government to prevent any further attempts and disability zation. all of this is due to the fact that in addition to the actuals of the purchase, their tax on federal buildings in brazil, there are camps of extremist groups that advocate for an armed intervention and a cool that have been working for 2 months already. all these camps are being liquidated in the capital and in rio de janeiro. so paula and other major cities. nevertheless, these extremist groups are trying to set up barricades on the streets and commit other acts of disability ation. after meeting with the governors president lula, the silver walked with them round the leaders official residence, clearly demonstrating unity. he said they will work together to protect the countries democracy. people say that they don't want amnesty for the violent protesters. they want all the people involved in the right to be held responsible

for the attempted. cool. let's listen to their state. thought of some of the keys. we're here to defend democracy in president lula who was recently legitimately elected. we were against the attempt to crew organized by a part of the population that is far from reality, where blow up in 2018 when both scenario one, the left to success did this. and now when lula one, we need to accepted today's the day to fight for his victory. last year, people came out to defend democracy and speak out to gaze. the cool attempt brazil's capital will continue to remain in the state of emergency until the end of this month, just as ministers secretary at ricardo capella remains in charge of public order. while the governor of the federal district in bernice russia was removed from power for a period of 9 to days upon a decision by the supreme court. this is the situation at the moment. the news is constantly being updated. brazil is going through a very tough period because it has been only 7 days since law officially became

president. these attacks on the institutions of power are the most serious since the beginning of democracy in brazil will monitor the development of the situation . so would you be surprised to hear alleged russian influence on twitter during the 2016 u. s. presidential campaign had no significant influence on voters. that is the conclusion of a new study by the new york university center for social media and politics. it follows years of mainstream media reports alleging collusion between moscow and former u. s. leader donald trump, so called russia game theory, claims that fake news and russian social media bots helped swing the election in trumps favor. however, no concrete evidence has ever been presented though to back up. these are longstanding accusations, with a dossier on which the claims were based, later discredited as a source of the latest study as blown. another major hole in the russia game theory finding that u. s. citizens will more interested in domestic news rather than so called domestic

intelligence reports. the study also found no direct evidence that an alleged russian influence campaign impacted people's political views. here's what one of the studies authors had to say. my personal sense coming out of this is that this got way over hyped, and then we have this data to show we can't find any relationship between being exposed to these tweets and people's change in attitudes. earlier we spoke to john list on author daniel lazar. he says, despite the fact that the collusion narrative was fake, the mainstream media reporting had are well americans believing that donald trump was in fact a russian puppet. we knew it was a big, a big deal over nothing but the press would not be deterred. it was intent on mounting a ferocious anti russian campaign. i mean, there was a step astonishing. there was no evidence. and in fact, the robert mueller report showed that there was no evidence to support collusion.

but the democrats promoted it at every opportunity and they were backed up by the press and by the intelligence agencies. so americans, for more than 2 years, were led to believe that collusion was a real thing that donald trump really was a russian puppet. and i'm, i'm not trying to defend trump by the way, i'm, i can't stand the guy. but the, but trump did not need russian help in winning the 2016 election. he was able to do with the old fashioned way on political grounds by appealing to american voters that's from the hot spots across the world to one of the coldest. the temperature in parts of russia has dropped to minus $42.00 degrees celsius or minus $44.00 fahrenheit and with the streets covered in snow and ice locals and the city of jack .