a business with a girl who's with headlines are right now and are to international as we get exclusive footage from the don best city of full a dod or the russian power military group. wagner says it's taken the area also in the program for you this hour and a quick warning of disturbing images. it is a decade since the antiques you had at french military operations started in the west african nation of molly. the concerns stand over its failure to address the cool political problems that ultimately brought chaos to the region. quote, the u. s. will exhaust itself fighting. that is the message from a politician in singapore. the u. s. house of representatives votes to launch an

antique china committee to deter what it calls chinese advances. ah, just my was off to 5 pm on wednesday here at our see international headquarters in moscow. straight to a top stories right now. and we do start with big developments on the don bass front lines as the russian paramilitary group. wagner says it has completely taken the strategic city of solid or the area is crucial for control that don't, they don't as republic. so also being the scene of intense fighting with ukrainian forces who are mixed in with western masters. oh, there are ukrainian troops above ground, just 2 kilometers from here, but that won't last long. or any of them under ground. i suppose. so let's go out and see this exclusive footage shows wagner, members on the head of the group inspecting an underground mine that was previously

used by key of troops to stole weapons. ultimately, wagner has been one of russia's most successful fighting forces in the ukraine conflict. the organizations chief failure, confirm that some remaining ukrainian troops in the city happy encircled with a deadline imposed for them to surrender by midnight. meantime, rushers defense ministry has also committed on the takeover of this key city. others in your work loosely defunct, the worst 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, oregon. i bring up a map for you to give you a clearer idea. solid thought is a strategically important location. and basically gaining control of it effectively paved the way for russian forces to press. he have troops out of this major city of our church office. it's a vital transport hub networks of roach and railways. basically, supply lines are there and the head of the donates republic said that off to solid,

odd a russian forces potentially will be able to move towards that of the key city of severs at the top of the map, right, that then the cities of crime, i taught us an sly vianza would theoretically be next in line in an interview to r t, the head of the donates republic. denise, but shouldn't emphasize that a solar dot has been a crucial point for the russian offensive to take control over what is essentially this entire region surprise 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 us about it. in as i did, the earth deliberation of sola. dar allows russian troops to go to the city of our cio mosque in more favourable conditions. would the liberation of solid? are we prepare for the liberation of the den? that's people's republic. we see that now the situation has changed, and russian troops have taken the initiative. and among our correspondence in the region is roman cosser. if he sent on yet. so he that now explains basically what

is that of the strategic significance of the city of solid announcement. so regards to salazar, came late on the tuesday evening. we 1st received the news that the fighters of the wagner group are now in control of the sensor of the city. later we got news from prologic, 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 house to house looking for the remaining ukrainian soldiers of air. according to their wagner group, for a small number of ukrainian soldiers are now hold up and are in a cold room 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 nest people's republic. now it houses one of the largest salt wines in europe and our previous leader 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 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 slogans and from a source of course that is all for major importance as well because the heavier fighting was taking place there back in it's when see 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. i was talking to popella to scott ritter now for mom, marine corps intelligence officer. now he says that the takeover of the dodd ultimately paves the way for russia to move on to our cio mosque and advance. please put it this way of. so dory hadn't fallen, but in the ukrainian defences that they have been building up for over 8 years from 2014 to 2022 would still be intact. and that would complicate extraordinarily, any russian offensive that has been planned when the remaining of 12550000 of mobilized troops finally appear on the battlefield. it was to follow sola dar, uh, the russians have put at risk of the ukrainian positions in bok. mood the,

the fact is that the defense of this area is going to become untenable and rather than risk and even larger cauldron, the cranes will have no choice but to withdraw and see, create a new defensive bill. further to the west, the capture of sola dar, the eventual capture of bark mood. the piercing of the ukrainian defences is an essential precondition for any follow on russian offensive operation. so this is a, this is a battle of tremendous significance and tremendous consequence for both sides. meanwhile, a series of large explosions reported in ukraine, 2nd largest city, how to cough around the very same time. so nevada was being taken by the wagner group. locals reported that a russian missile hit an ammunition deeper. a wet pyrotechnics were also being stored. you can see the pictures right, that we understand. the blasts continued for quite some time. by now shifting our

attention to the russian border region of belgrade, where 6 people have reportedly been wounded and the latest ukrainian shelling local authorities say one woman was hospitalized with severe injuries, after no fewer than 30 shell, to fight into her village. and now, as the russian and private military company, wagner makes advances in the ukraine conflict. the u. s. has or portly been trucking the organizations activities in global conflict. so let's get some opinion and, and thoughts here from la are to contribute them. his rachel, master, 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 into europe. that's according to western press reports, exciting diplomatic cables. one unnamed senior bite, an official framed 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 moral petune seas 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 to prune a toss in as many years. so all 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 paid day than their government job. and despite a cowboy reputation and incidents like when blackwater personnel opened fire and killed 14 civilians in iraq's niece 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 said of the conflict in ukraine. once it, multilingual former soldiers willing to cowardly had inter 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 who started back particular ball rolling in the 1st place. a decade since france began anti and searching operations and the west african 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. artes africa correspondence, catabolic tattler has details, concerns would be justified, really, when you look at the origins of french military involvement, particularly in this conflict, hit the areas the aim of operations of out was actually launched by for my phrase president, president holland, as a, as a response to a request that was made by molly and the un resolution called 2085, which was meant to stabilize the reason 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 burkina faso as well as me here and 18 months into operations about it was phased out with a much larger ambition. that of operation by con operation. but con was meant to

own, not only a support rather push back the terrorist action that we had seen from miley that has read into beginner fossil and neighboring j. but it was also meant to train some of the local militaries there and make sure that they're capable of defending and pushing back some of these terrors groups. and these terrorist groups are very and they are many. and they include the affiliates of al qaeda. now, it's very difficult to look back on the exit of some of the large majority of french are contingent there that we have seen it from last year and consider 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 he

had had basically pursued. and as i held region 10 years on the in is small conflict thrown. it is red hot with violence and incident go as far as from 2500 being recorded annually 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 going to win this war. 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 bag and have left, you know, the region as volatile and as 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 reason. 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 end remains concerned about the rising levels of violence, particularly violence that has been met it against civilians. and also the amount of, of displeased people that we have seen in the region and the ensuing bits just

about quarter past the hour here in the russian capital quote, the u. s. is uncomfortable with multi polarity. that's from a former singaporean foreign minister commenting on washington's pushed back against china from becoming a global power. haven't listened to this. us doesn't like multiple parity and is fighting against it. my fear is it will exhaust itself fighting because it will fail. the story continues online right now at r t dot com for the meantime though, down to earth or going stratospheric. russia has said it's saw use spacecraft, which is doc to be international space station has been damaged by a meteor, right, and will return to worth with no crew. the cross was previously slated to bring back to russian cosmonaut and a u. s. astronaut next month. or the damage from the space ro caught a small leak that raise concerns about the safety of crew members 70. they were to embark on that vessel. the russian space agency ross cosmo,

said it would launch another soil to the space station to bring those 3 space various back home, possibly as soon as february. now as part of it's a strengthening of economic ties with africa, china is constructing facilities for an oil field and the east african nation of uganda. and those areas are to be connected with a pipeline to bring the commodity from uganda to a port in neighboring towns. any of the export to global markets or the east african crude oil pipeline is to be buried underground in an effort to minimize impact on local wildlife habitat. when environmentalists have raised concerns that the route could still cost out of water pollution. where you can do government has presented the project as a way to bring people out of energy poverty and estimated 600000000 people in sub saharan africa have no access to electricity. or meantime get this. the european

parliament has actually condemned the construction of the pipeline and so that you should put maximum pressure on you can do all authorities to protect the environment and cancel the project. african political figures have condemned that sentiment as hypocritical, saying that while western powers express environmental concerns, they themselves are mining, mineral resources on the continent. we heard from an economic analyst who says the pipeline project would greatly contribute to economic prosperity and the east african region. 15 years to come, almost 8 percent of oil import will be within china saying that doesn't want to be either variable stage where it's reliable in one source only. so this comes as a chance for east africa to capitalize on this opening, which comes only once in the last time. and i think you start to get the region has the potential to much my technological but also it's 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 largely by expanding economies respectively, but also giving east africa that energy independent. it has been longing for because we know 4 to 5 that africa as a whole continent suffers from energy poverty. and i think it does rather for the west to given different requirements, especially at times whereby we need their technological and more support to champion our own projects will be resilient, but also more sustainable. who wonder is president has said his country can no longer accept refugees from the conflict riddle b. r. c. attentions between the democratic republic of congo,

a neighbouring rwanda had been increasing as d. r. c. national forces. find the m 23 militia group. when a d r c has accused wonder of supporting the militia group or wonder denies. i was allegations with tens of thousands of people who reportedly fled from the fighting and the rest of the eastern region across the board of straight into one. and the leader in rwanda associates country can no longer cope with the influx. we can are keeping 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. we must be a dumping ground of these people who are being deprived of their rights will be you ends. a refugee agency says more than 70000 people from the d. c. have fled to neighboring rwanda. the conflict, those displaced nearly $200000.00 and the director of the horn international institute for strategic studies. hassan cannot continue. he told us that the london

president is right when he says the refugee crisis should be of major concern to the entire international community. i mean only partly right, but he's not completely true that he's not going to add to the extend the majority of those. we're seeking refuge ethnic to these cause it also makes that one of them . but he is right in the sense that at least the problem on the continent, the t this when the world is an international, the international community has to take a lot more responsibility. what we have seen in recent month, especially past year, it's been a lot more focused, for instance, on the plate of the figures from ukraine and a lot less focus on the babies from the conflict areas. and it says on the continent where on cause he is right and you know, trying to call attention to international responsibility especially protecting that i so that it could use whatever. ah, all right,

so updating details from cobble where at least 21 people have died and dozens wounded, an explosion in afghanistan. capital, it's all according to local officials. i should warn you. you may find the following image disturbing. upcoming photo shows the aftermath of the blast with as we understand bodies, you can just about see them down there lying in the street. or the blast reportedly happened when a chinese delegation was due to meet the taliban at the foreign ministry. a government official, so they didn't know if they were present at the time of the explosion. and according to report, a suicide bomber tried to enter the government building. south africa's military has lost an investigation off to a video appeared on line, allegedly showing a group of soldiers throwing corpses of she hottest onto a fire and neighboring mos on big warning. this report does contain disturbing images. the south african forces have been assisting most on big government in its fight against insurgence. and one of the apparent soldiers in the video seems to

have a south african insignia is on his sleeve. or the military has said that if south african troops were involved in this, they will be brought to justice to 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, he says the incident that basically reflects what is a worsening situation in mozambique i was i'm the guy is in the middle of a scene and it shows how this it will and where for the civilian and for low, have you found in this for me all out for you because you can see cool people and it was

a because a flag. but i wanted to stop. i'm not saying that he's to come to was, i mean, yeah, a gun defense fall back on all study and the, the shows how am i right be right. you and it was, i'm just to remind you that i'm printing print one a people a solution, a government. 6 official for the civilians. so far haven't ever seen anything all along b and b a b. so the question is, how many are you listen?

i mean in me and no one is it. let's get back your company for this program on r t, a war correspondents covering the ukraine conflict. they say they're being deliberately targeted by key ups forces in retaliation for bringing the was attention to what actually is really happening on the ground in ukraine will be airing a special documentary throughout the day about why those journalists risk their lives for the profession. for now is a quick preview. aah! with a bunch of those disabled it pretty much. what ship with all the diesel

she has her mother. he's a global scale boy and with the with him. this thing is for us to warn you this will help with in the line up is with managed with why this is alta international so good to have you with us quote,

the us it uncomfortable with multi polarity before we go like to beijing. this statement coming from a former singaporean foreign minister commenting on washington's pushed back against china from becoming a global power. the u. s. doesn't like multiple rarity and is fighting against it. my fear is he will exhaust itself fighting because it will fail. the reaction comes off of the us house voted to create a special committee to address chinese military and economic advances. a representative might gallagher who is set to report the lead the group so that china's peaceful rise is just fiction. and the american government needs to get tough on beijing. well, let's learn more. crossing live out the vicksburg guy, the vice president of a center for china and globalization joining us live here on our international. so very good evening to you, sir, in a very warm welcome, as well as you know, as you just heard me say us lawmakers have voted to establish a committee to counter so called what they're calling the chinese threat. mr. go,

what exactly is the chinese threat? so so i sing, there are decision makers, all politicians of all kinds and shapes and colors in washington or c, devils on the wall. they see writings on the wall. they do not see there are continued a decline as a sign of major fundamental problems in the united states are regarding many different aspects of the united states, and they try to blame china for their own failure. now, one thing in the world is a megatron. that is the continued economic rise of china. china has achieved the economic transformation for the pastor, 43 years, also without launching any war of aggression against any country in the world. in the says, this is truly the best example of peaceful development, peaceful, grove,

lifting people out of poverty. for example, engaging with the rest of the world. doing trade with almost all the other countries. and china is now the largest trading partner with more than $130.00 countries in the world. therefore, whatever these politicians in washington want to do, will end up in failure. no one can stop china's peaceful development. i won't even go further to say that any attempt to deprive the chinese people of their right of economic development will be the largest a crime against humanity. the united states need to really look at its own problems at home, rather than blaming china for its own failure or victor. i wanted to pick you up on that because her essentially what, what when it comes down to it the, this, this new committee in washington, this committee to counter the so called chinese threat. but g thing that could be

a, a tit for tat reaction out of beijing eating beijing could do something similar to stop america. first of all, even if these politicians want to set up a 1000 committees, they will not change the fact that china is in the mega trend of peaceful development. china is already much larger than the united states as an economy if we use purchasing power parity. china is more than 135 percent that's of the united states and by official exchange rate. china right now is more less about 80 percent of that of the united states. and most of the economists forecast that before 2030, the chinese economy will surpass that of the united states. if we use official exchange rate, china is already much larger as a manufacturing country as a trading nation, for example, then the united states there.