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with well it is so good to have you with us for this. i was program live from moscow. this is anti international. what we do start now with major developments on the don't bass front lines are, this is as the russian power military group wagner has essentially taken complete control of the strategic city of solid data. now the area is crucial for control of the dynamics republic, and has seen intense fighting between russian and ukrainian forces. the ukrainians, though mixed in with numerous western mercenaries of the following footage shows wagner members and the head of the group inspecting a mine shaft that was early a use to buy the key of troops to stole weapons. wagner has been one of russia's most successful fighting forces in the ukraine conflict. the organization's chief has confirmed that some remaining ukrainian troops in the city had been encircled with a surrender deadline looming at midnight. rushers,

defense ministry has also commented on the takeover of this key city. others in one of those we just thought that was like the russian airborne troops blocked salvador from the northern and southern parts of the city. and the air force struck enemy strongholds. assault units are now fighting in the city as a result of the attacks on ukraine's army up to 80 servicemen that are one tank, 3 armored fighting vehicles and 2 cars were destroyed, stores in the direction of done. it's one of the settlement of pot gardonia in the dynette some people's republic was liberated by russian troops during successful offensive operations, or new or whatever venue. now solid out is a strategically important location. now getting control over it effectively pays the waiver russian forces to press cubes. troops to flee the major city. it is a vital transportation hub. networks of roads and railway lines as well. have been used to basically supply this area. and the head of the donation republic has said that after solid,

odd russian forces will also be able to move towards another key city. that of sabbath that is coming up on the map and the cities of climate taurus couldn't study, on se, would be next in line for full russian control over the don't at script public. well, our correspondence is remaining in the region. it is of course, oddities of romance, culture refuse, now reporting on what is the significance of solid are now coming under russian control. well then asked and sir regards to salazar, came late on the tuesday evening. we 1st received a news that the fighters of the wagner group are now in control of the sensor of the city. later we got news from precaution and getting forgotten him. sell the head of the wagner group. that's his units are now in full control of the city. not only that on roads to retreat for ukrainians are under artillery control of the wagner group as well. at the moment, the clearing operation is underway in the city where the soldiers are going from

a house to house, looking for the remaining ukrainian soldiers there. according to their wagner group, for a small number of ukrainian soldiers are now hold up and are in a coal drawn in the sensor or for the city. and we are waiting for the news where the city has been completely freed from ukrainian and nationalist. now the city of salazar is a certainly very strategic, very important for the next people's republic. now it houses one of the largest salt wines in europe and our previously also stationed one of the largest ammunition to peoples in east or europe as well. but so more than that, the city is a strategic for the remainder of russian forces. as by taking it, it now paved the way to the city of thomas, which ukraine had renamed as bach board when it's overtook of the city back in 2014

. and so once that operation is complete, the russian forces can move to other heavily fortified the cities of slogans and from a source of course that is of a major importance as well because the heavier fighting was taking place there back in it's when t 14 as well, as there are many, many people that left those area, many refugees and of course are all waiting to get home as soon as possible time to learn more here on the program costing life now to a jury. political analyst and former us marine john mont. duke and joining us here on the store and are you into national john? great to see you. thanks for joining us here on the program. i know you've been across the news wise and checking out what's going on. the late is not that of the bargain group. essentially taking control of its key strategic town of solid. dar it's so it's been battled over now for at least a couple of days. there's a high ridge area in the area. i understand it was a very advantageous position for ukrainian troops to be defending. what will the

takeover of sola da now mean? i guess, for the russian offensive in the region. well, 1st of all, it, it gives a lot of, it gives a big moral boost. you know, to the troops. because this was harder and battle. and on the opposite side of that, it is a very big blow to the cranium. military, it's a big load to the credit military. and i guess in terms of logistics in terms of personnel, in terms of equipment, i guess also in terms of morale, what would you see now happening? what, which way do you think the russian troops are going to move forward? now? are they going to can continue moving westwards, or do you think they'll settle down and just secure the area? well, i think i think they're going to continue west and when, when that's going to happen, i'm not sure. but, you know, the weather in the terrain is now favorable to russian forces. russia has been

building up a large presence in the region. so, you know, i think maybe now or very soon would be a good time for them to start pushing, pushing west. so we had our senior correspondent, but i guess they have join me in the studio in the past 24 hours here at c. he spent basically the past 7 months down in that part of the world. but he was saying that in, in this region when it comes to our chum off score, back to move, or solo dodd, that when soldiers were captured from the western side motor, i was saying that they would get what they call a trophy radio, a trophy walkie talkie, when they patched through, they heard polish, they heard german, they heard very, very little ukrainian. what's your thoughts on that? well it's, it's no secret that the western media is hiding the fact of a huge foreign military presence. ah, we aren't the,

we, as in the right, well, i should say the russian side is not fighting ukraine. they have been fighting nato for quite a while. and now it's becoming more and more apparent because, i mean, let's face it. the ukrainian military is basically finished and, and they are scrambling to find anybody they can to fill the ranks. john, what do you, what's your opinion about the russian paramilitary group of wagner saying that it was essentially solely responsible for taking full a daughter without that of the larger russian military look is there's there's no hiding the fact that wagner is a fantastic group. they are highly skilled, highly trained, highly financed. ah. but as far as them taking without any other russian support, i don't know, i can't speak to this. maybe it's just,

maybe it's just battle, feel bragging or maybe it's factual. but, you know, i think a lot is going to be shown in this situation in the upcoming days and weeks are marked are gonna geopolitical and listen a former us marine joining us here live on asi international. great to have your input. thanks for your time. good, good to have you, bye. for meanwhile, a series of large explosions reported in ukraine's 2nd largest city hot call for around the same time that solar daughter was taken by the wagner group. locals reported that a russian missile hidden, ammunition depot, where pyrotechnics were being store. you can see the pictures via self. apparently those blasts continued for quite some time. all right, shifting now to the russian border region, the russian region of belgrade was 6 people ever been reportedly wounded in the ladies ukrainian. shelling a local authority say. one woman was hospitalized with severe injuries. often no

fewer than 30 shells were fired into her village. well, you can check out our t dot com for more analysis on the battle portfolio, dog and other russian military activities going up and down the don baths front lines. now as the russian private miniature company of wagner does make advances in the ukraine conflict, we understand the u. s. has reportedly been tracking the organizations activities in global conflict zone. so let's get more and the opinions and views of artic contributor rachel mazda, american officials at the highest level, have been busy spying on the russian private military contractor. wagner group all the way from ukraine into africa, and even in to europe. that's according to western press. reports exciting diplomatic cables. one unnamed senior bite and official framed it this way. the u. s. government is concerned about the extent to withdraw grows interfering and sovereign countries, internal politics,

violating human rights and robbing them of mineral wealth. there is significant evidence that wagner halls counter terrorism tactics in places like molly a worsening the situation by creating more opportunities for extreme exploitation. last year molly chose the wagner group for a new partnership after picking out french forces whose efforts to secure the country were so spectacular, that there were 2 poo they tossed in as many years. so while the u. s. government is busy obsessing over this russian private military company. it might be worth remembering that it was the u. s. government that created the very blueprint for modern day security contracting when a certain eric prince, the son of one of the republican party's top donors at the time he was also a good pile of then u. s. president and former defense secretary dick cheney. and so eric friends treated blackwater, which went on to obtain lucrative know, bid security contracts for the u. s. government in the middle east during the u. s

. global war on terrorism officials from the cia and the pentagon conveniently slid over to blackwater for a much more lucrative pay day than their government job. and despite a cowboy reputation and incidents like when blackwater personnel opened fire and killed 14 civilians in iraq sniffer square in 2007, the u. s. private security model has gone on to thrive, lucrative job offers with western and private military contractors, reportedly started popping up right from the very set of the conflict in ukraine. once it, multilingual former soldiers willing to cowardly had into ukraine for the handsome sum of up to $2000.00 per day, plus bonus to help rescue families from an increasingly grim conflict. okay, so apparently that isn't a problem for washington. they have nothing to say about job offers like that. instead, american officials are preoccupied with the wagner groups presence in places like

serbia, where the group announced last month to have opened a cultural center to better inform and educate russian ex pats working against moscow from serbia. sounds kind of like serbia was looking for some hired help in preventing the country from becoming a flop house for regime change, chancery targeting moscow and its allies. the real problem with the wagner group for the west is that it competes with western private military contractors. and serves to protect the interests of clients that depart from the western agenda. if the u. s. government has a problem with that. now, they might do well to remember that they were the ones he started back particular ball rolling in the 1st place. level correspondence are covering the ukraine conflict. they say that being deliberately targeted by key ebs forces and retaliation for bringing the world's attention to what is actually happening on the

ground. and here at ots, he will be airing a documentary throughout the day about why those journalists risk their lives for their profession. here for now, is a preview ah, with what should with

this with . and it is quarter past thou here and most goes where the good to have your company for this program. a russia has said that it's saw use spacecraft, which is dr. the international space station has been damaged by a meteorite and will have to return to earth without a crew. now the craft was previously stated to bring back to russian cosmonaut and a u. s. after next month. the damage from the space rock caught caught a small leak that raised concerns about the excuse me,

the safety of the crew. if indeed they were to embark on that vessel again, the russian space agency, ross cost masa said it would launch another saw use to the space station to bring back those $3.00 space fairs potentially. next month. we have a pair ah, well south africa, a military is launch an investigation after a video emerged on social media appearing to show a group of soldiers throwing corpses into a fire and neighboring mozambique. i should warn you, this report has disturbing images. now south african forces, happy in assisting mose. i'm because the government in its fight against insurgence . one of the apparent soldiers of the video has south african insignia on his sleeve for the military has said that if south african troops are involved in this, they will be brought to justice. the south african national defense force does not condone in any way the acts committed in the video. those who are found guilty of such acts will be brought to book. what is shown in the video is unacceptable and

must be rejected in the strongest possible way. we heard from a international relations expert at the bias, miguel, he says, the incident reflects basically what is a worsening situation in mozambique? yes, i'm the guy it, it makes me a scene and it shows how this equation and where for the civilian and for law you found in this one. all right, so because you can see the pool of people and it was one of the sometimes so just because it is a flag by one of the stuff you're not saying that when he's to come to was on the control of this a defense fall back on all study and the b shows how my human right the value. and it was just

to remind you that i'm going to print a human to read people a solution corny in some of the government to ensure a for the civilians. so far we haven't ever seen anything on these and the a deal because some of this, so just want to do so the question is, how many are you listen? i mean for me then in muslim and no one well, so while some parts of africa are plagued by violence, the former conflict zones on the continent have been securing peace with support from one of the world's top economies. that would be china. beijing is new, foreign minister appointed last month, has begun his time with

a major trip to africa, including appraising a new sci fi deal. and he threw a chinese top different amounts. have been visiting africa during the 1st year in office at a tradition over the past 3 decades and more details now on the importance of this world when meet and greet with anti africa correspondence, catabolic touch as visit to represents 2 things as an opportunity for the new chinese foreign minister, minister king to actually come and familiarize himself with africa, but also an opportunity for him to relay what china's vision is for his cooperation with several african countries over the medium to long term. now this visit comes amid a really challenging times for a lot of african countries. they have been going through what they've, we've experienced, or what you might call food shortages, and also a crate crash cash crunch for following the global pandemic. and on top of mind,

for african leaders and for african states has really been about how do we restructure dead in order to avoid potential defaults by several countries or other . this is an opportunity for china starting, of course, in ethiopia, which is the headquarters of the african union, where they build a $200000000.00 um headquarters. they, courtesy of the chinese government that has been a blessed upon this country. but of course there is a deeper relationship. the bilateral between china and india. china has been there in terms of food aid and has also played a pivotal role. one of the unsung heroes really behind ethiopia is peace accord between the warring factions of the federal government and the te gray people. this is a very, very interesting time for the continent. africa is also being caught by global super powers, france, as it's been expelled from country to country. the united states is trying to

reject and rekindle is relationship with the continent following an ag absence. and it finds china here and changed as the continent leading investor and more and more russia is gaining significance and influence as a pot now of choice for several of getting nations particularly dealing with this gauge of conflict. but the other issue is how through this quite ship africa is being forced to choose. and one who doesn't is there was, is fendy when he says out that because the minister of the fence, who has lamented the waste and how they have tried to play africa. washington threatens africa, not just south africa, of having anything that is even smelling of russia by no means that he hold any penances. and she is an old friend of the west. and she really, i think you leave a feeling that is really growing on the continent than more and more the continent

might find better partners, quality partners and corporation as they look to the east. now as part of it's a strengthening of economic ties with africa, a china is constructing facilities for an oil field in the east african nation of uganda. and those areas ought to be connected with a pipeline to bring the commodity from uganda to a port in neighboring towns, india for export to global markets. the east african crude oil pipeline is to be buried on the ground in an effort to minimize the impact on local wildlife habitat . environmentalists to raise concerns at the root could still cause water pollution . uganda's government is presented. the project has a way to bring people out of energy, poverty, and estimated 600000000 people in sub saharan africa. they have no electricity. now the european parliament, however, has condemned the construction of the east african pipeline, saying the e, you should put maximum pressure on uganda and authorities to protect the environment. the african political figures have condemned that statement as

a hypocritical, saying that while western powers express environmental concerns, they are themselves mining, mineral resources on the continent. we heard from an economic analyst who says this pipeline would actually greatly contribute to economic prosperity and the east african region. 15 years to come, almost 8 percent of oil input will be within china saying that doesn't want to be a variable stage where it's reliable in one source only. so this comes as a chance for east africa to capitalize on. these are bending which comes only wants to last them and i think you start to get the region has the potential to must my technological but also a political influence. that it capitalize on this cooperation for its benefit from local content enhancement to job creation, to technological trust. but more importantly,

revenue from oil exports will benefit gladly by expanding economies respectively, but also giving east africa that energy independence. it has been longing for because we know for the fact that africa as a whole continent suffers from energy poverty. and i think it does rather for the west given different requirements, especially at times whereby we need their technological and more support to champion or project to be resilient, but also more sustainable. who run does president has said his country can no longer accept refugees from the conflict ridden b, c. tensions between the democratic republic of congo and neighboring rwanda have been increasing as be off. the national forces fight the n 23 militia group. b r c has accused wonder of supporting the 23. insurgents are one that has adamantly denied over the 10s of thousands of people reportedly fled the fighting and the

eastern region across the border into wanda. and the leader says his country can no longer cope with the influx. we cannot keeping host refugees for which we are leader on held accountable in some way or even abused about refugees as a result of ethnic cleansing based in another country. we must be a dumping ground of these people who are being deprived of their rights. the u ends at refugee agencies as more than a 70000 people from the d. r. c. have fled to neighboring rwanda. the conflict has displaced nearly 200000. we heard from independent journalist, i got it on a bloomer. who said that the refugee situation of the region is catastrophic. we also got the views of an expert at the university of south africa to me and o'con, who says that western involvement perhaps could also be fueling some hot spots in the region. day humanitarian situation is a very catastrophic is specially eaten

a in kenya, reaching ya. i deep is kim where you can see more than 100000 people are staying there without any assistance. and people were hoping that was the am to do tweaking, withdrew from, from, from a, those village occupied by the yeah, by the m 23. so they can go back and continue their usual activities, especially problem. but unfortunately that hasn't happened issue or coaching disorder. she knew not street got, but the west is part of the good old. the fundamental expert cation would re, dot their west from c, r go off of 2 world lamps, and not allow people to use it and admit kidneys to try to his all. it's bob to

himself cause we're going to expect your team. busy entire vision by introducing our community, but that should not be done by excluding off weekend, so i'm down minute dates in the process and using god talk what your new car did. i said we gave you access to resources enough. and many more details on that story online right now at r t dot com. thanks for joining us for the program live from moscow returning with more of your well, what headlines that will be at the top with ah,

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