the way the team is being credited to another bank have specific social concerning the top headlines on off to you international as we get exclusive footage from the don by city of solar dod, where the russian power many true group wagner. so that has taken the area also in the program for you and a quick warning of disturbing images. south africa launchers and investigation, dr. a video circulates online, the piracy showing a group of its soldiers burning the corpses, obviously hottest in neighboring mozambique. also with a decade since the teacher had, as the french military operation started in the west african nation of molly, but concerned to stand over its failure to address the cold political problems that

ultimately brought chaos to the region. the uncovering the world from moscow. and what a day it's turning into some major stories in your program today. here we're not you international welcome to them. we do start with big developments from the don bass front line, just the russian power money to group. wagner says it's completely taken the strategic city of solid. the area is crucial for control who donates republican has been the scene of intense fighting with ukrainian forces who are very thoroughly mixed in with numerous western musson aries. oh, there are ukrainian troops above ground, just 2 kilometers from here. that won't last long. i haven't or any of them under ground. i suppose. so let's go out and see at this exclusive footage our shows of wagner, members on the head of the group inspecting an underground mind,

was previously used by caves, troops to stole weapons. a wagner has ultimately been one of russia's most successful fighting forces in the ukraine conflict. the organization's chief earlier confirmed that some remaining ukrainian troops and the city have been in circle with a deadline imposed for them to surrender by midnight. meantime, rushers, defense ministry has also committed on the takeover of that key city. others in any of those i just thought it was like russian airborne troops blocked, saw the dar 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 service men that are at one tank . there were 3 armored fighting vehicles, and 2 cars were destroyed north alone in the direction of done. it is one of the settlement of pot gardonia where the nets and people's republic was liberated by russia. true player and successful offensive operations are new or whatever. well, i thought as a strategically important location,

we'll bring up the map for you to give you a better idea me getting control of it. basically, a paved the way for, for russian force is to press key of troops to flee, or the major city of our cha mosque right there on the map. it's a vital transport hot, there networks of roads and a railway lines as well. basically used to supply routes. now the head of the don as for public has said that a after full a dod russian forces will then be able to move on to that of another key city. and that is the city of severs just in the top of the map that then the cities of crime i taught us and civilians would be next in line. theoretically, if a full russian control over that of that done yet with public wealth, interviewed to us here at odds, he at the head of the donuts republic, denise per shilling. he emphasized that solid r has been a crucial point for the russian offensive to basically take control of this entire region. cig burns was admitted to greece could bur zalinski, uses some kind of anti crisis. when the situation gets hot, we saw how solid or did not leave the news pages some days before also wasn't

enough. i did. the deliberation of sola dar allows russian troops to go to the city of our chill mosque in more favourable conditions. would the liberation of solid are we prepare for the liberation of the dan? that's people's republic. we see that now the situation has changed, and russian troops have taken the initiative already. also how important is this move our correspond in the region is roman culture f basically explaining from don yet sca how significant the city of that are is now as is coming under russian control. well then answer regards to salazar, came late on 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 the garage and you'd get it regarding and 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 house to house, looking for the remaining ukraine and 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 all 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 sold wines in europe. now previously the also stations, one of the largest ammunition to peoples in east or europe as well. but so more than that, the city is strategic for the remainder of russian forces. as by taking it, it now paved the way to the city of

a jo mosque which ukraine had renamed as bach board wanted to 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 us lions and from a source of course that is all for major importance as well because the heavy 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 who are talking to a former indian diplomat m. k by the coma who told us that the victory such as the one installed a dog, a could have a detrimental effect on well, the morale of ukrainian troops and perhaps therefore the next town to fall could be our channels. and see from what i can see even the rest of the week, you said a lot of records even there it is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain

that magic is granting acknowledgement that the russian people who got getting slowly getting the so psychologically bedding well. it does capture the nation posted by the walk, has a lot of bedding on the putting in post at deployed in buffalo. and i have a feeling that therefore, you know, days or weeks the week coming up as i can see that happening. meanwhile, a series of large explosions reported in ukraine's 2nd largest city hot coffee, or on the same time that solid auto was taken by the volcanic group. a local report that a russian missile has an ammunition depot, where pyrotechnics will also being stored. you can see the pictures for yourself,

but that's across not allowed to be that of the russian border region. we're talking about belgrade. 6 people have reportedly been wounded in the latest ukrainian shelling. local authorities say one woman hospitalized with severe injury is often no fewer than 30 shells were 5 into her village. well, you can always learn more about exactly what's happening on the front line down there, all t dot com with analysis about the battle for solid, odd and other russian military activities along the front lines of don bass. the updates are being posted 247. now as the russian private military company, wagner makes advances in the ukraine conflict, or the u. s. has reportedly been tracking the organizations activities in global conflict zones. let's get the views and opinions of arctic contributor rachel monster. 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, citing diplomatic cables. one unnamed senior bite and official framed it this way. the u. s. government is concerned about the extent to withdraw gross 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 extremis 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 prude, a toss in his 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 traded 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 callaway reputation and incidents like when blackwater personnel opened fire and killed 14 civilians in iraq's niss who are 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 is. ready 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 a 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 or had. so russia has said that it's out for use spacecraft, which is doctor the international space station has been damaged by a meteorite and will return to earth without a crew of the craft was previously slated to bring back to russian cosmonaut under a u. s. astronaut. next month, now as we understand the damage from the space rogue caused a small leak that raised concerns about the safety of crew members. if indeed they were to embark on that vessel, the russian space agency, ross cosmo said it would launch another saw use to the space station to safely bring back those 3 space ferris next month is ah, was great. have you with us for this program from moscow? a decade since france began anti and surgeon operations in the west africa nation of molly. there are rising concerns about the lingering french military present

summit claims that it has ultimately failed to accomplish its intended purpose. so let's get details now. a crossing live to our africa, correspond the cannibal, a title of details on this carnival. great to see you. but what, why would there be concerns? and when, what is paris saying about this? well, rory concerns would be justified. really, when you look at the origins of french military involvement, particularly in this conflict had 2 areas. the aim of operations about was actually launched by for my french president, president holland as a, as a response to a request that was made by miley and that you and resolution called 28th and 5, which was meant to stabilize the region. the mission was contingent of some 5000 soldiers, which way initially meant given rather a,

a narrow mandate and the it turned out to be quite popular locally and had some serious gulps in terms of successes. in the early months. this operation quickly became a nun event, as a france insisted on securing rather the region and not just looking at miley. but beyond that, looking at molly, booking of fossil, as well as the jet, and 18 months into operations about it was phased out with a much larger ambition. that of operations by con operation. but con was meant to own not only a support, rather pushback, the terrorist action that we had seen from molly that had spread into booking of fossil and neighboring. the j was also meant to stream some of the local militaries there and make sure that they're capable of defending and pushing back some of these terrorist groups. and these terrorist groups are very and they are many. and

they include that affiliates of al qaeda as well as the movement for unity of the hide. is them in west africa. but the also, among others included the tor reg rebels. and they have been occupying the sa hell region that the region that is now full of conflict, you know, following 10 years of friends, military existence there. now, it's very difficult to look back on the exit of some of the large majority of french are contingent for that. we had fruit here from last year and considered this any other thing except a colossal failure on the part of france. and it was also becoming clear, i think, given to france as well, that it was going to be impossible to win in any meaningful way the war that it had

basically pursued on this i held region. now, this was all of something that started following the cool, that ousted marine president, troy ari. back in 2012. that's the precursor to launching of operations about. but as we stand now, 10 years on the region is small conflict of conflict thrown. it is red hot with violence and incidents go as far as from 2500 being recorded and really in 3 of these countries. now, france of course, was never going to admit that it was unable to secure the borders of its former colony. and that it was wing to win this war. it's rather wanted to say face, as we heard president emmanuel mc crime to as the end of last year, saying that they will reject the french strategy when it comes to africa. and how

they cooperate or rather operate in several african countries. now this mission that, that replaced operation a subaru operation, but con daddy's, it was also populated by not just the french army, though. it was also members of the e. you states, as well as the americans that have now with tails between their legs turned back and have left at, you know, the region as volatile and it's open to insurgency. the same thing. they said they were there to protect against and it, it, it really, you know, gives room if you will, for more insurgent activity in that region. now these countries, while all visibly seeing the pot that was not played by france, the inequities of its military and its inability to really secure the region. and they started one at a time,

looking eastwards and looking towards russia as they are preferred to cooperation for military partnership. and to deal with some of the insurgency that we have seen there. now it goes without saying that the you and remains concerned about the rising levels of violence, particularly violence that has been met it. i gazed civilians and also the amount of of displays people that we have seen in the region and the infant death. i doughty, africa correspondent cannibal a tattler. thank you. i thank you for joining us here for this program. south africa's military has now launched an investigation after a video appeared on line, allegedly showing a group of soldiers throwing corpses of jihadists onto a fire in neighboring mozambique. i should warn you, the report contains disturbing images. a south african forces have been assisting mozambique government in its fight against insurgents. and one of the apparent

soldiers in the video has a south african insignia on his sleeve. or the military has said that if indeed a south african troops were involved in what i calling this wrong doing, 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 our international relations expert to bias miguel. now he says the incident reflects at the end of the day, the general worsening situation in mozambique. yes, it is a scene and it shows how this is william. i've gotten worse for the civilian and follow the phone in the swimming pool housing. because on the, on the you can see pool of people and it was sort of the

sometimes so agenda because it is a custom flag. but i wanted to stop up here. i'm not saying that he's to come to was on the yellow on the form for all of us to come to finish, fall back on the study and it shows how my, my ride. i've been fighting with it yet and was i'm just to remind you that i'm printing from a human to read people a solution. corny did with some of the government. 6 official for the civilians. so far haven't ever seen anything all along these and lea a deal because all of this,

so just wanted the saw that the question is how many are you listen? i think we're meeting in was sunday and the no one is it was as part of its strengthening of economic ties with africa. china is constructing facilities for an oil field and the east african nation of uganda. those areas are to be connected with a pipeline to bring the commodity from uganda to a port in neighboring constant, a f export to global markets. the east african crude oil pipeline is to be buried under ground in an effort to minimize any impact on the habitats. but environmentalists have raised concerns at the root could still cause that of water pollution. or you can, this government has presented the project as a way to bring people out of energy poverty in estimated 600000000 people in sub saharan africa have no access to electricity or the european parliament however, has condemned the construction of the pipeline and said the e, you should put maximum pressure on new gun dental authorities to protect the

environment. the african political figures have condemned that sentiment as hypocritical, saying that while western powers express environmental concerns, they are themselves mining, mineral resources from the continent. we heard from an economic analyst who says the pipeline project would greatly contribute to economic prosperity in the east african region. 15 years to come, almost 80 percent of oil imports will be within china, saying that doesn't want to be either variable state. you might need to rely on one source only. so this comes as a chance for east africa to capitalize on this opening, which comes only once in the last them. and i think i east africa, 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 bike funding in the corner means 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 for projects will be resilient, but also the most sustainable through one does the president has said his country can no longer accept refugees from the conflict riddled b c. tensions between the democratic republic of congo, a neighbouring rwanda. the been increasing as d. r. c. national forces fight the n 23 militia group. the d. c is a q is for wonder of supporting surgery. for wonder, has been either allegation,

tens of thousands of people who reportedly fled from the fighting of the rest of the eastern region across the border into rwanda. rwanda's leader says his country can no longer cope with the influence. we cannot keep being host refugees for which we are later on held accountable in some way or even abused about refugees as a result of ethnic cleansing based in another country. and we must be a dumping ground of these people who are being deprived of their rights. but who ends at refugee agency says more than 70000 people from the d. r. c. have fled to neighboring rwanda. the conflict is displaced nearly 200000. we heard from independent journalist a delayed balloon, who says the refugee situation and the region is catastrophic. we also got the views of an expert at the university of south africa to me. santa colon day humanitarian situation is a very catastrophic is specially eaten up

in canary chin. ja id is kim where you can see more than a 100000. people are staying there without any assistance. and people were hoping that once the m to tweak and withdrew from, from, from a, those village occupied by the yeah, by the m 23. so they can go back in continued their usual activities, especially problem. but unfortunately that, that hasn't happened. is your question, please order, she forgot that the west is part of the only the fundamental expectation would be that there were some stay out of african blames and i'll speak up to using

mckinney to, to try to resolve these problems. of course, we're going to expect you to the entire venture by introducing our community by should not be done by next to do not weekends or i don't mind doing the poses. and using that opportunity cottage as we gave you access to the source. if you are this is rp international law for moscow. so my news just coming in right now as we understand, a huge blast has been reported in afghanistan, capital capital, where it's now just after 5 p. m. i should warn you, you may find the following images disturbing the upcoming photo apache showing the aftermath we understand their bodies lying in the street by the explosion, reportedly happening outside the building of a kind of stones of foreign ministry. now the spas details include that the sound of gunfire was reportedly heard or all the time of the explosion. the meantime, that's all we've got for you right here on our team. international will get you the

details that i would they come in before we wrap up with our program here in our t, saudi arabia has promised billions of dollars a financial help to pakistan on the south asian nation and tries to stave off a sovereign default pakistan has suffered from a spite of economic hardships, particularly due to devastating flooding that ravaged the country's agricultural or based economy of the financial pledges followed senior level talks, including with a saudi crown. prince riyadh said it would increase its investments in pakistan's economy up to $10000000000.00, while also wrapping up its central bank deposits. that of 5000000000 pakistan has been negotiating with the i m f to continue a bailout program with its foreign reserves, reportedly fall into an 8 year low. we did hear from you can make expert chart here with us who told us the money from saudi arabia. it will only be helpful if it comes right now. is the support is going to come right away. then i would say that

this is general support, and i will say that this is, this shows very, a clever diplomacy by the huge stuff that he rented. he was able to bring support from saudi arabia. i would be very appreciative of. so the gesture and i would think that this party side army has, you know, he's done a very good job and he's achieved very good. i mean, he's very good a diplomacy also i would say that provided the it is for coming right away. but if it doesn't mean if it is only pushing us into signing another agreement or the i'm if been, i'm not sure whether it's going to be very hard for us to send out. a scramble for aid comes off the pakistan experience. just one crisis after another, over the past year, a disastrous flood that covered a 3rd of the country effected over $30000000.00 people didn't cause an estimated

$30000000000.00 in economic losses. and there was also a spillover, a violence from nearby was torn off, gaston and the ouster of then prime minister iran con, as well. we heard from a strategic phase expert aside, mohammed ali who says the financial aid to pakistan will reflect upon the countries global standing a national response, and the financial commitments that pakistan has received in general is quite encouraging. and i think it reflects 3 things. it reflects that international recognition of the deal turn off climate change. number 2 respects the understanding of the international community about the significant and important so focus on as

a member of the community. and number 3, it also presents that the pocket on a mission, a critical challenge related to the financial implications of the very disastrous. and i think the foreign policy in the foreign office of buckets on has been successful in highlighting the gravity gala de and urgency of the solution to then i that'll be just by wrapping up our program here on our team international. that story doesn't continue online on our website r t dot com for the mean time that that's it for now, we're back in about half an hour with

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