ah ah ah, the headlines right now on our team to national as we get exclusive footage from the don't bass city of la dod with the russian power military group wagner, cuz it has taken the area also in the program. it's a decade since the on teach you hottest french military operations started in the west african nation of molly. but it concerns a stand over its failure to address the cold political problems that brought chaos to the region. quote, the u. s. will exhaust itself fighting. that's the message from a politician and sing, a poll after that. us house of representatives votes to launch an antique china committee, to deter what it calls chinese advance with

the very will welcome to you from the entire news team here at moscow. we've got your top stories lined up and we do start with big developments on a dawn bass front lines as the russian power military group. wagner says it has completely taken the strategic city of solid od i. the area is crucial for control in the don't ask republic and has been the scene of intense fighting with ukrainian forces who are mixed in with western mercenary. 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 voc, the members, and the head of the group inspecting an underground mine that was previously used by key of troops to store weapons. here the organizations chief earlier confirmed

that some remaining ukrainian troops and the city happy encircled with a deadline imposed for a midnight surrender. i. mr. pig ocean also symbolically brought salt to the mind, apparently mocking the western media, which has claimed he has business interests in the city. was gonna let me think of them so that there would be no rumor spread in the yes that we are fighting for souls. i have some you could insult with me. leave it to sola dar off to we go through it. a lot. russia is. our defense ministry has also commented on the fighting surrounding solid. others it goes. with default russian airborne troops blocked salvatore from the northern and southern parts of the city and the air force struck enemy strongholds. assault units are now fighting in the city. good old boy. so solid out as a strategically important location to bring it up on that map for you here. getting control of it effectively paves the way for russian forces to press key of troops

to flee this major city of traumas. it's a vital transport hub. we're talking about networks of roads and railways, they're ultimately supply lines. now, the head of the donation republic said that after solar dot russian forces would theoretically be able to move on to another city. that of said esque. then the cities all come a tortoise and slavish young's good, theoretically be next in line. and then an interview to odyssey the head of the donates republic. denise pushing emphasize that solid thought has been a crucial point for the russian offensive to the end of the day. take control of this in tire region. this was admitted to greece. could there 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 voted in the us. i did the earth deliberation of solid are allows russian troops to go to the city of our cio mosque in more favourable conditions. would the liberation of soul it? 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 that are among our correspondence are spread all throughout the region remains or roman cars, or if he's in don yet, you know, explains the strategic significance of solid. then asked and sir regards to salazar, came late on tuesday evening, will 1st receive news that the fighters of the wagon group are now in control of the sensor of the city. later we got news from a precaution and get it for going and sell the head of the wagner group. that's in 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 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 center of 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. now, previously, the also stations, one of the largest ammunition to peoples in east or europe as well, but some 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 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 lyons and from

a source of course, that is all for major importance as well, because the heavier fighting was taking place there back in its 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. we were discussing all of this i with scott ritter or former marine corps intelligence officer. now he says, the takeover of solid off ultimately paved the way for russia to move on to our offices and advance. even father was put it this way of soda hadn't fallen, but in the ukrainian defences that they had been building up for over 8 years in 2014 to 2022 would still be intact. and that would complicate extraordinarily, any russian offensive that has been planned when the remaining 82550000

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 bar 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 ukraine's 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, this is a battle of tremendous significance and tremendous consequence for both sides. while a decade since france began and te and such an operations in the west african nation of molly, there are rising concerns about a,

the lingering french military presence that i'm, it claims that it has ultimately failed. so accomplished intended purpose. ne africa correspondent, catabolic tattler has details. 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 former french president president a land 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 region. this operation quickly became a nun event, as a france insisted on securing rather the region and not just looking at molly. but beyond that, looking at molly booking a puzzle, as well as michelle and 18 months into operations about it was faced 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 molly that had spread into booking of 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 terrorist 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 ah 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 it had basically pursued on this i held region 10 years on the it is small conflict thrown. it is red hot with violence and incidents 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, abrasion, but con debt is 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. 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's, 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 part 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 and remains concerned about the rising levels of violence, particularly violence that has been met it. i gazed civilians and also the, the amount of of displeased people that we have seen in the region and the ensuing

bets. so they are jr. political chessboard keeps on shifting as western countries led by the us have clashed with during attendance. un security council meeting at washington accusing moscow of robbing africa of its resources and causing the growth of violent extremism in the hello region. russia dismissed the allegations saying they make a mockery of common sense. some delegation said again today that russia allegedly robs africa off its resources or facilitate the growth of terrorist threats in that part of the world. however, in reality, this is something that countries who made such remarks today due across the globe, including in africa, they wanted to plunder libby as resources so badly that they did not hesitate to destroy the country and to stabilize the entire to hell. so, when accusing russia, they simply market the common sense and the ability of african states to assess adequately the true causes of their outstanding problems and choose whom to cooperate with. russia is seen as an important partner by

a number of african countries in this. a hell including molly at night. jeremiah a, both nations have security and military cooperate. cooperation agreements, i should say with moscow, which says its role is basically to help maintain peace and security and defend the principle of african solutions to african problems with african problems, including poverty, violence and conflict are seen by many as a legacy of the continent colonial past. western powers, such as britain, france, portugal in spain controlled and exploited african resources during their rule. well, let's take this compensation of further crossing life to geo political analysts. joe sung joining us from south africa. very well. welcome to you. so thanks for coming on the program. we all know that africa is essentially the bread basket of the world. lots of countries are vying for a see to the table that china, for one, of course has russia. but now we have western states saying that russia is exploiting africa. is that, does that sound accurate to you?

i, thanks for having me. or there's no evidence of my show being exploiting africa in the 1st place. russia has never been colonized africa in any way. and the african people have looked at russia historical. we have a historical background that a lot of liberation movements from africa tend to this a bit, you know, for how these arms with food and many other things. so this is a reset button for russia to continue where it left off. that d colonized african state. so in africa we're not looking at russia as a country to, to colonize i, i shop at best to call countries partners. and i was then countries where they

will come in the country and in their conduct with one percent, with their most famous line of state african. so it does not, it does not reflect to us as russia being somebody don't just coming to look, dement also africa. no, we look, russia is a pattern. so we, we don't share the same sentiments from our friends in the west or so so, so your sentiments are your comments. i did do kind of go in contrast to what is being said by the western press, which i let, let's talk about this. all right, i mean africa, clearly, it's enormous. i would imagine there's room for everyone to get along. but why would you think the 2nd professional partners in the west? oh, why read over the russian presence on the african continent? you, you will know that when they had been attended of colonialism,

why don't you have somebody who stronger to look up. they obviously don't work with their work. have been in africa for a very long time and they came to africa to do a lot of experimental things. they use a pretty got a dumping for their use africa. well, many of us being controlled all these other things. they came here to experiment. but most given most put it in africa when they're sick, when they seek medical care, what they tend to, they tend to russia. so it is, it is no money for you to you and for the wisdom to speak the way they do everything, they touch it, they can, we drop in the money deletion if they have the machine guns on the mission. if they

in the, what's their mission? and so what is the, that africa must listen to the what all, why do we have them coming to africa? for example, whenever we africa, whatever the election europe was saying people. but when that is, in europe, we don't have people that live mentality must actions from the western countries. it does not lead the way. by the same day, you will find that in africa, the teja, that the crime, that any of the didn't come to meet the matter. it doesn't come from know what, but this is the action of now you start to want to bite you against the government because against their own government when subscribing to the way. and now they say is good only to find that the look at the best of all the groups of,

of the i see it's because of the envision of, of us going to stand on this level. it's totally is because they're pushing back that influence of the company took over the country. so in africa, we will always have a problem of the western partners when we don't have anyone to look into. but seeing africa is looking into russia, now you get the west start to make such a remark. explaining that whenever which when everything jo, i think i think it is fairly safe to say, sorry for jumping in. but i think it's fairly safe to say that africa continues to draw the eyes and the intention of the world today. jones sancho, the geopolitical analyst. joining us here live on arching into national. a great pleasure, having you with us on the program today. thank you very much for your time. thank you. we're moving to the middle east region malware. many have protested against

the newly formed israeli government headed by benjamin netanyahu lawmaker. from his part he is released to a statement that is well sure to be met with a response. normally i don't feel the need to justify myself or prefer jews to arabs in the state of juicy and yes to be this is a state of juice. i prefer jewish myers over mother and in general, in the state of juice, i prefer juice over these loyal errors. because i've taught middle correspondent maria phenomenal right now. hi maria. so nathan, yeah, was government has faced mass protests as of late and some even what the future may bring. what. what can you tell us about the current situation in the region? so yeah, hiring date, it hasn't been a month since benjamin netanyahu warning as the leader with those new government and the situation here on the ground seems to be bullied already with frustration, disappointment, and criticism coming from various parts of the society regarding the palestinian

affairs of scores, we hear more and more radical statements from different politicians open calls for violence and sometimes even what could be considered as justification of the killings. and we also see various provocative actions, like when the country's new national security minister resist alex and most because they hold this play for all moves. and that anger is certainly probably peanut is a law, but it seems not only them former member of the nasa railey parliament, ex army chief of staff called on tuesday for large scale national sit wising to protest against they didn't. yahoo governments move particular in regards to giving them more benefits and advantages to the countries grow in religious population that is already largely supported by this paid, financial and socially. let's take a listen. ladies and gentlemen, against the malicious and evil government, there is only one way

a large scale civil uprising, destruction of the justice system. unlimited political appointments, permission for the ultra orthodox to do whatever they want with their tax money. why would we agree? why would we accept this on our heads on our pockets, on our lives? we will never agree and well, some are not happy with ultra orthodox jews here in a row, having more power and get more influence on it. and the government with their part is now hold insignificant positions. the government itself seemed scattered, giving hard time to the representatives of this religious community, just as well after an extreme anti zionist ultra. also, the jewish sect that opposes the state of israel visit the camp of jeanine in the north of the occupied west bank, as they stated to stow, solely dirty with palestinians against israeli. the countries national security ministers threatened to deport them to syria. the peaceful demonstration just last

december was brutally dismantled by the country's police. so it seems that israel's new government that has already been called the most far right. and the country's history is so far failing to bring peace and harmony to the society. but it's quite successful in fueling the existing problems back to you. hi, maria. thanks for that. the quote, the us is uncomfortable with multi polarity. that's from a former singapore and foreign minister commenting on washington's pushed back against china becoming a global power. the u. s. doesn't like multiple parity and is fighting against it. my fear is it will exhaust itself fighting because it will fail. or the reaction comes off of the us house voted to create a special committee to address the so called threat from china. a republican congressman might gallagher who is set to report li leave. the group says that

china's peaceful rise is me. a fiction. and the american government needs to get tough on beijing. i was speaking earlier to pick the gal, vice president of the center of china and globalization. he says, the establishment of the committee is unlikely to make any difference whatsoever. and it won't stop chinese development. 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. and by blaming china for its own failure will not solve the problems in the united states. you may actually push the united states into greater mistakes. it is time for the united states to recognise

china is a global power to be treated as an equal rather than trying to hold and china down to the ground to men handled china as if there will be no consequences. ah, belgium has hit out at washington accusing it of an aggressive campaign to le european companies to the other side of the atlantic by promising support under that of the us inflation reduction act. for us, our partner, they call our industry and they tell them why are you investing in europe? you should come over to the u. s. cohen, german firms, and belgian firms in a very aggressive way. don't invest in europe. we have something better. i to bring on our also contributor rachel boston now joining us a live on the program. great to see you today, rachel. so the, the belgian prime minister seems pretty frustrated. what, what's, what's brought it to this point?

yes. so the belgian prime minister, alexander the crew, is essentially accusing the u. s. of predatory practices towards european businesses struggling with high energy costs under the use pro ukraine policy of basically trying to run european industry with as little energy as possible in order to stick it to russian president vladimir putin. so what the crew is saying is that the u. s. is literally picking up the phone and trying to seduce these companies to leave the you with cold, hard cash benefits. so this, by the administration law, the inflation reduction act is branded as both a way to reduce the impact of inflation on americans. and also as a means of fighting climate change, because he'd after be a really bad person to object to a law that both fights inflation and climate change, right? but ultimately it's a made in america law that lock so european parts and items for things like electric cars. it also incentivizes companies that move to an invest in america,

which is a pretty easy sell these days, given the fact that they actually have energy in the u. s. because they haven't cut off their supplier. so it's not like european industry can get by with you know, 3 turlock short showers and laptops instead of energy. french president, a measure in my home made a trip to washington late last year to remind biden that europe is supposed to be a friend. and that the inflation reduction act hardly treats it like one the sentiment that was also echoed by european commission president ursula underline mr . prudish, let's see. the choices made the objectives, which i share, especially the inflation reduction act, a choices that will fragment the west because they create such differences between the united states of america and europe. the all those that work in many companies in the us. they will just think we don't make investments anymore on the other side of the atlantic. and these choices can only work if there is

a coordination between us. so if we decide together, if we re synchronize, this is crucial. the official reduction as can also create distortions by, for example, privileging us firms. it is the by american logic that underpins part of the irony. it is tax breaks that could lead to discrimination and it is production subsidies that could discriminate european companies. so we have to address this so in mexico made it went to the white house last november, december by day, acknowledged to the french president during that trip, that there were quote, glitches in the new law. there also as a sigh of relief in europe. that may be a trade war had been averted, but now the reality is setting in here in europe that the u. s. really isn't keen on treating european products the same as those made in america. go figure, and it's continuing to exploit the energy crisis in europe. to pursue european

companies, so it's basically washington being washington and advancing its agenda, while europe naively pretends that washington isn't an economic competitor. oh, i don't contribute a retro martin. they're joining us live from paris, where it's nearly half possible in the afternoon. rachel, thank you. and i thank you for joining us here for this program. live from moscow. nearly half off 6. it always appreciate your company more news to come up when we return. that will be the top of the the news hello in welcome to cross stock. were all things are considered? i'm peter labelle. to can rashid has a not see problem? it's western backer is. don't want you to know about that been been data and nazi

collaborator is celebrated and ukraine is a national hero. however, the historical record is clear, been data and his associates are alleged to have committed genocide against poles and jews during the 2nd world war, the west is largely silent about this, the production ukraine. i'm joined by my guess, erin, good, and philadelphia. he's a political scientist historian and author of american exception empire in the deep state. and in london, we cross the adrenal confronting he is the founder of aka consulting and a born affairs analyst, or a gentleman cross groves and a fact that means he can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate, let's go to london 1st, early on one on january, 1st of this year the been data was his birthday was commemorated a 100 and what, 14 years ago officially commemorated in the national power in parliament,

parliament, and, and other official oregon's. and this is an atrocity, i mean this is really what this regime is all about, but you'd never, are hardly ever hear about it in western media. i will point out that the, the polish government strongly objected as they usually do. but it doesn't seem to have any impact. so this is a, is this the kind of regime that the west is protecting? it's going to london burst. yes, i mean, quite recently the, the chief of the om ukrainian on forces has been supported on the social media by posting a picture of a selfie of himself and next to the under the portrait of this stuff. and under uh you got me set up with a note saying that the ukrainian for the final and ultimate victory of ukrainian nationalism will be when the russian.