oh, for ever a team . this one it will. he's a specialist who did the very specific tasks. they all valuable they take years to trade and the for to, to equip are to find out how old the russian sniper from the viking group are aiming to be. one step ahead of the realities of modern warfare. russia top diplomat is in south africa where they're gay lab rob is due to sit down for talk to with both his counterpart in the countries the president bertina fossa gives french troops to one month to leave the country local se perez isn't actually

trying to help africans there with, we're happy about this because if france was really there to help us, terrorism would not have developed at this level. francis playing a double game is only pursuing its own interests. and on her condemn sweden over the public burning of the koran by a radical politician in stock all as true kia remains. the only country blocking the nordic nation from joining nato. a. this is a huge provocation. this is an attempt to get a reaction out of to our kia and the muslim world. this has nothing to do with freedom or democracy with coming to you live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the hour. welcome to the program. we began with rushes, her song rage at where at least one civilian has been killed and another wounded in

the ukrainian shelling of the city of no via coca. a private house was seen up in flames in the aftermath of the bombardment. several other civilian buildings were also damaged, as the ukrainian shelling hit a residential area. here's what some locals told us about the attack. 3 acres this hinges, munich who lives here, only civilians. of course, there are no soldiers here. it's good that the children had already left. we went to bed and then came the shelling. we've been working our whole lives with now we're old and have nothing. god help us, but we won't can't. but will you call the circle? the windows of the shelter were blown out in the house? the windows were shattered and even the iron doors were blown out on to the street . yes, i am left all alone here. i don't know what to do and where to go. i live nearby, i hear the shelling each day. every other day, they hit the city center. our organization is not

a military one. we help the population and that's it. there are no soldiers here and never have been a lawyer when your grand conflict has demonstrated the ever changing roles of modern warfare as soldiers are forced to adapt to the new realities on the ground. snipers are among those who face of the hardest challenges as they're exposed by enemy, drones and other technology artes. moran garcia caught up with elite sharpshooters from a russian military group called viking to find out about their tactics. and just a warning. the following report contains some graphic combat scenes. this graphic footage obtained by our t v shows an exceptionally brutal battle. soldiers of the 2nd army cool based and le ganske assault, a heavily fortified ukrainian position. a come in quite crawling on the barbed wire . once inside the perimeter, they strike quickly converging on to dugouts exits and blocking ukrainian troops

inside. they are caught completely by surprise. eventually surviving ukrainian soldier attempts to charge out what follows is a savage face to face fight 3 enemy dead to tap to the love. surprise one the day it is achieved in various ways. wait for the enemy to drop their god pound them and to cover with artillery. oh said snipers to keep their heads down. these are specialists pulled in the very specific tasks. they are valuable. they take years to train and a fortune to equip condo conversica. therefore with this

a t s v l 8 stalingrad sniper rifle, which is 338 caliber. it's an anti sniper weapon, but we mostly use it for anti personnel work. his partner carries something, a little more exotic made in america. and of course like a living last night of korean poker. this is a barrett m 107, a one on the plus side. it has a powerful round good for long distance operations. and also, i guess lightly ahmed vehicles on the minus side is heavy, ammunition is scarce and it's very loud. this rifle was taken from a group of foreign mercenaries killed by russian troops booth, massive and extremely loud. sometimes outweighs everything else that i was watching you prefer. the job is uneasy. this is the 21st century war. drones are everywhere, thermal imaging, drones, which are difficult to evade. also lots of artillery. you can't stay in one place very long. after every shot they tell us they have minutes to get away before the

3rd shelves come screaming in, they have to peek their targets. spotters and the officers always take priority. it's risky and challenging. work around hodge, my child lanyard. will you head out for an overnight stays difficult, psychologically, very difficult and physically demanding, but psychologically even more. he can't move is limited space. i guess the list goes on and on that every specialist weapon or tactic least conflict has spawned a counter. old military doctrines are dead and void. a new form of warfare is upon us. snipers are still trying to find out how they'll fit in. both sides in this conflict, have learned to fear snipers. neither sud spends any effort to armament to suppress or destroy enemy

snipers artillery tags, drones, everything is utilized to shut them down. this is an incredibly difficult job and it certainly isn't for everyone. and coming up later this hour, we delve into the inner workings of russia, famous wagner, private military group, which is made a name for itself on the battlefields of not only crane, but also africa. stay tuned. russia is foreign minister has touched down in south africa as he starts his latest diplomatic tour of the continent, sir, gala rob will meet his south african counterpart in port toria. later on monday, our g corolla law is in the country with the details. stay lover of arrived, he on the back of, of the chinese foreign minister who was also just recently in africa and

a 5 country tor way among some of his dogs, of course, included egypt as well as ethiopia. and there is a bit of a clatter when one considers what's going on here. ah, is no secret that during the saw she summit for russia in africa, that the plan was to increase trade between russia and africa to increase it to about $40000000000.00 by 2024. now cove it pandemic, as well as, as the ukraine conflict, have really put, paid to go sir, to those aspirations and have made it rather difficult to to envision such as such a number being attained. and russia is also trying to expand. what is traditionally, is niche market, which is energy mining and military for support on the continent and expending it into investments as well. and one looks at the investments that russia has steadily

and significantly made particularly around this i held reason. one is not surprised, but when it comes to south africa itself. so the rigor is seen as a big member of, of, of the continent and an important member within bricks as well. and that is something that russia will be looking to as it also plans to expand, not only within its traditional nice, but to go outside and look at other avenues that it could potentially have a corporation with south africa on french troops have one mentally burkina faso that's according to african countries, government press agency, locals have rallied and supported the ultimate and as they oppose the presence of french troops and working of fossil demonstrators were seen carrying signs, saying french army out of our house, national and even some russian blogs were also smaller that the event france

reportedly still has some $400.00 troops in the african country with the stated goal of helping fight as long this group. however, some local, say, the french troops, i've done virtually nothing useful. there's a local journalist with more groups that includes last week in a meeting with the student. so invest. he's edible, the main campus of the country, captain bram tower was implied, not in the coming days. important decision would be taken about the independence of the country. finally, it's about the places 1st, it will kill, they have one month to park, a decision that doesn't surprise looking at some point. we're happy about this because if france was really there to help us, terrorism would not have developed at this level. we want to have good relations with countries and not for them to come plunder us. france is playing a double game and is only pursuing its own interests. laziness we,

the young people won't change or we are very happy about this news and we wanted to happen. okay. my friends are still here when declared independence, but we are not really in dependent. the french were told to leave, but they said because they have their own interest here. very paused who fires for not doing enough. who saw the provincial of serious groups in book you know, clearly leave but for schools are not doing enough. i thought, go, fight totaled is a new one. it's a good decision. since we've been talking about independence for a long time. but we're still under the influence of france. we want our independence, but it's not complete. we have been at war and france is not able to help us against our enemies. a local civil society leader and political analysts told us that the deadline for the withdrawal, a french troops raise the african nation relief from its colonial legacy. i will move. this news brings is sense of dysfunction because i mean most gradually assume

for sovereignty and bring an end to the coroner domination. which delegates responsibility or sovereignty to order peoples which imposes with the forces like france those this day brings justice on relief of booking name was pio for independence. across in somalia, at least 5 civilians have been killed in a deadly bomb and gun attack by the local archive link terrorist group. i'm sure bob and a warning some of the following finishes graphic and you might find it disturbing. militants formed a government building and the country's capital of mogadishu. according to state officials, the insurgents needed a bomb before proceeding to engage security forces in a fire fight, killing multiple people, including 6 terrorist simoli as president declared war on all ship bob. last year. the group launched a series of deadly attacks in various parts of the country. here's with the

countries leader as said about the counter terrorist effort. but the, somebody of the one on the when i was elected, i promised that my government will carry out operations to eliminate josh above that because there is no other solution to these terrorists said wiping them out. a lot of bob emerged in somalia back in 2006 and has been fighting against the government speaking to impose its own interpretation of islamic law and the country, the group cornered international attention due to its recruitment of foreign fighters, including people from western nations the u. s. has designated the group as a choice organization. bob reportedly numbers up to 12000 fighters and its ranks. somali and security analysts broke down the government's campaign against the pub terrace for us. out of metal height now rod heron was a strategic town which was in the hands of terrorists for the last 15 years. but

now it has been liberated by the government forces. previously, operations were merely on a thicket by the government and the 2200 strong africa union peacekeepers both now the people of joined to wall opposite governments improve is relations with the public boosted confidence and has gone into operations into jets or festivals, with popular support which as lead to the recent victories hundreds of protesters have gathered in front of the swedish consulate and as symbol to express their anger at a recent burning of the koran in stock on paypal in turkey as largest city or picture of the danish right wing activists. who set fire to islam holding but outside the turkish embassy and the swedish capital on saturday. as of the 2nd day of protest in istanbul, turkey i slam sweden for allowing the koran burning to take place. deepening tensions between the 2 countries, that's as ankara is still walking sweden from joining nato. here's was some turkish

local, say about the controversial incident of assume this is a huge provocation. this is an attempt to get a reaction out of turkey in the muslim world. this has nothing to do with freedom or democracy. if the bible or the torah was burned, there would be an uproar. why is it acceptable when it is the koran that we have a feel to so i cannot accept this attack on the holy book of my religion. this is not toleration and it will not receive tolerance and this is not freedom, this is will garrity. this is unacceptable and it should not be forgiven with we don't want sweet and admitted into nato. it would be absurd. they should not be allowed in. they belittle or religious values. this shouldn't be done. i condemn them. when's it? maybe they shouldn't be invited and they shouldn't be supported because what they have done is wrong. this man has burned our holy book. now they are talking about visiting our country. they are talking about being accepted into nato. every one

must respect each other's beliefs. as a muslim, i believe that this action should not have been allowed archie correspondence at the end. nunez explains how the protest could affect relations between the 2 countries. as sweden is desperate to get your key as approval for its nato bed. these demonstration is a flagrant violation of the commitment of sweden under the tro. let from memorandum regan, the prevention of the propaganda of terrorist organizations. declaring to be bound by the commitments under threats were memorandum and delivering them ought to different matters. the statement comes in response to the latest protest where rasmus bolden and infamous fire rifle association set fire to the koran. holy book near the turkish embassy and sweden just one year after he is are the koran burning valley sparks riots across the country? he's official police. he should permit said that his protest was held against islam and against circus attempts to influence freedom of expression in sweden. not

surprisingly, the fire ignited waves of negative reactions across the muslim world. saudi arabia calls for spreading the values of dialogue, tolerance and co existence, and rejects hatred and extremism. this senseless and provocative is slum of foaming act hurts the religious sensitivities of over 1500000000 muslims worldwide. the incident heads must him sentiments across the woods and amongst serious provocation in response swedish authorities as resorted to the usual virtuous words and no action. freedom of expression is a fundamental part of democracy. but what is legal is not necessarily appropriate. but in books as a whole, it's many is a deeply disrespectful act. i want to express my sympathy for all muslims who are offended by what has happened in stockholm to day freedom of expression as part of democracy. fair enough, but incitement of hatred, awhile and stalwarts,

a particular group is criminalized and sweden, nevertheless, swedish police approved the permit. and it's not like they didn't know what would be going on there. as a prior cherokee cancelled the plan to ease it by the swedish defense minister to ankara and salmon sweden's ambassador over the failure to restrict the protest. it was the 2nd time in just a month when sweet as ambassador has had to answer to turkish authorities. 2 weeks ago, it was related to a stop during which occurred dish group hung a mannequin of targets president and stockholm. on the same day as the koran burning protests, hundreds of activists marched through the swedish capital in support of the kurdistan workers party, also known as e k. k. and even though the group was considered that cyrus organization, in the european union, it supporters protested legally with an official permit. little judge did it in this. so we offer more c p k. case demonstrations on the streets and install, come and warn about them. though the stronger the presence of the parliaments were

going to pay us a visit and our speaker of the assembly rejected that visit was gonna all this is happening at a time when the north country desperately need circus vote to be able to join nato . a stark, it is the only alliance members still holding back as verification. circuit demands that sweden clamped down on what it sees as terrorist and has also submitted an expedition request for those and sweden, with links to the p. k. k. in june 2020 to finland, sweden and circus signed a trilateral deal. guaranteeing that circus demand would be addressed in return for lifting its veto. but that hasn't happened yet. now once again, the west tries more than this is being tested. turkish political scientists own arson on gives all debt says some western countries are trying to provoke an aggressive response from ankara. oh, in sweden, a politician. m n a t. he burn holy crohn the name or for

freedom of speech. but i think that isis or american army or the smith, who burn, run in city, then they all serve 2 to one mean targets they want. they want to for what kind of a collection of civilization in the girls. and they're not just talking to islam, but they are talking to common values of humanity. they also organize the motivation against church in stucco. and just after this that, that when he burn graham, in stucco. so i mean that it's a kind of a same plant. they want to provoke and churchy to react in the accuracy big churches, a c design company. and we know very well that the, the, the best answer to this location is to use our right of little. it used to be the membership to native to online development. now as top talent,

an official and known regime supporters who bought a twitter verification sign are no longer marked as verified as a platform has scrapped their premium status. here is the reaction from the taliban . early the blue mark was removed from my account around a week ago, but in fact, it doesn't affect in any way due to the big number of followers on my account. the mark was given around 10 days ago, but a mass increase of my followers happened even before that wanted us to blue marks. important in the context of verification. we have to respond to people on a daily basis and someone can misuse the platform by creating a fake account. on the other hand, our accounts are verified, popular and followers know them. so any fake account will be quickly exposed as well or colleagues from time to time report of such cases it is say the platforms like twitter are helpful to expand our work, interact with more people to was better when we had the blue mark on our accounts.

as a native of the taliban accounts were g verified on twitter only a day after a b b. c report. criticize the platforms move to allow buying the blue check. mark twitter in a c o. e on must have not yet commented on the situation. here's what some users had to say about the news. dear b, b. c, do you have a problem with the taliban, or are you sharing your frustration that you still waiting for your blue tag? secondly, you shouldn't have a problem. twitter is run by a private company. so what they are the government now you have to accept that. are you fine with that ilan mosque was thinking of buying one myself but won't be doing it now. disgraceful. doesn't the blue take just mean they know who you really are. i. e are authentic. that taliban has also criticized twitter for what the afghans call a double standard policy that only disintegrates nations. emma better then. our government is not a threat to the neighbors better than we have united people of the whole of

afghanistan. the blue mark verification is also good for the world to formerly recognize the taliban as a legitimate government. twitter is not just a one man own company. it's a platform for the whole world community that everyone has a right to use it. if they follow a policy based on discrimination, welcoming some and refusing others, it will disintegrated communities and the nations it will reflect the mindset of the west rising against the east and developing countries. so this the western media is increasingly focusing on the success of the russian wagner private military group after it seized a key town on the front lines and the non us republic ortiz marina culture of discovery. the notes behind the music of the warriors, referred to as the orchestra. now everyone wants to know who these guys are, where they came from, and their secrets to success on the battlefield. we turn out something called the

wagner. b, u has announced sanctions on the russian private military company wagner as teachers to the wagner group. as we know at 1st popped up in ukraine. it all started back in 2014, when many russians watched this key, it was deliberately persecuting the people. and don boss, or one business man, decided to take matters into his own hands and create a group of professional fighters or a group of patriots. as he likes to call them through his popular social media and telegram channel will now get direct updates on the group's activities. if you pick, gordon has become very vocal and transparent about everything that is going on even admitting that his own son is part of this special military operation. but it's his trawling skills that really reveal his character. here's his latest response to reuters, when asked to comment on the white house, declaring wagner a transnational criminal organization. finally,

pmc wagner in the americans. our colleagues are relations cannot be called a clash of criminal gangs. that's who's in charge of the wagner group. but what about his fighters? while tensions between russia and ukraine were simmering after crime? me? every united with russia wagner took its guys across the globe, including africa and the middle east. hop in countries like syria and libya providing military training. and molly and saddam, and very quickly becoming a forced to be reckoned with will put a good deal. so the experience in africa in the middle east really came in handy over in syria. for example. we worked mostly on open terrain and in the ukraine there were a lot of fields in northern africa. we gained huge experience in urban fighting. such experiences really helps to launch what it more just brought to north africa were gained a lot of vailable urban combat experience. while in the middle east, it was mostly open to rain warfare. and in the c, a, r will launch how to deal with partisan warfare. it was during their stance in the

central african republic when the group 1st became famous, or what others half called infamous, after the murder of free russian journalists, who were supposedly there filming a documentary about its activities. the journalists didn't warn ross and officials about the trip, something which was customary when traveling to hot spots. they apparently showed fake un idea to local rebels and refused to comply with russian instructors. warned them not to cross certain checkpoints. this case is still shrouded in mystery. suspects range from exiled business suddenly fell for the off sky, who sent them there to begin with. as he has something to gain from discredits in russia. so local militia and france who controlled them at the time, russia for its port has always denied sending private military contractors there. but it didn't knowledge, send an instructors at the request of the c, a r's president, which proved to be a game changer. was russians fighting for

n c r played the for the good. everyone here is either full, military or associated with the security forces from william. this is info cation, a juicy, a job. here were primarily performing an international judy. when the special military operation in ukraine began, the wagner group switch focused and started recruiting more fighters. and this time it was in just professionals. you have any precaution visits of prisons and one of his most notorious. 2 new recruits, there was this man is guinea news, and depending which version you believe he surrendered or was captured in ukraine, where he allegedly confessed that he only joined wagner, cisco a prison. when he was returned back to russia during the prisoner swamp, he was later, brutally executed on camera for everyone to see was pretty gotten writing at the

time that it was a dog's dad for the dog, leading some to assume that it was punishment for treachery. and then you have videos like these way again, your peer garzon is grades in the convicts who have just returned from battle. and as manser in them like a father figure, i draw the by that i g. well done, guys who have one orders and metals and learned a lot. first of all, you learned how to kill your enemies. i wish you would not use this practice in forbidding territories. if you feel like killing enemies again, come back. second, there are 3 temptations. alcohol, drugs and excessive adrenalin release, i hope that the adrenalin you've spent during these 6 months was enough to get you through at least a month if you were able to. so that in earlier. now that the bargaining group is making significant strides in ukraine taken over entire towns almost single handedly. they're back in the headlines by judging by those headlines. the aim is as always, to smear them,

get rid of them or pet them against the russian government need in some to question the western sanctions. buranski for sure. he korean special horses, coord mercenaries who can see that we are much more qualified than them. no part of florida for in the presence of more say that the fear, the wagner, p, m. c. and that it is hard to find us because we're professionals with extensive experience. when they hear the name wagner, enemy sometimes immediately surrenders runs away. but the rod, those were the ones who joined the fight and try their luck. land you ukrainian forces were shocked by the effectiveness of wagner's fighters. these guys are heroes who defended the syrian people, other people of arab countries, disadvantaged africans, and latin americans became one of the pillars of our homeland without blinking or doubting. for a 2nd, you have to live or die. live by the rules, do it, you must. and what will be, will be, ah

ah ah you can believe whatever you want about the wagner group, but one thing is for sure. whatever they're doing on the battlefield is clearly working. and they don't seem to the going anywhere anytime soon. well, figuratively speaking, at least that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking.