a job is to broadview enough with you to go so good on that with a specialist who did the very specific tasks they all value but they take years to trade. the 422, equip our tank lines out how old wheat ration snipers from. the viking group are aiming to be one step ahead of the reality of modern warfare with russia chop diplomat as in south africa for survey lab. rog, it's down for talk to both his counterpart in the country president, christina vasa gibbs, french troops, one month to leave the country as local se perez isn't actually trying to help

africans there with. we're happy about that. because if france was really there to help us, terrorism would not have developed at this level. francis playing a double game and is only pursuing its own interest. and on car can then sweden over the public burning of the koran by a radical politician and stockholm. as your p remains, the only country blocking the nordic nation from joining made that sort of this is a huge provocation. this is an attempt to get a reaction out of 2 are key in 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 our welcome to the program. we begin with russia as her song region where at least one civilian has been killed and the wounded and

the ukrainian shelling of this say of no via cosca. a private house was seen up in the flames. in the aftermath of the wall, margaret, several other civilian buildings were also damage. as the ukrainian shelling had a residential area, there was some locals told us about the attack. acres sta just 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 get but will you call a 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. do 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 ukraine's army as intentionally hiding military targets behind nuclear power plants to provoke a russian military strike that according to the countries foreign intelligence service, which says that key f has taken such a dangerous step thanks to western support artes roman culture up has the details. according to the director of the, a, russia for incentives and service. they received reliable data that the ukranian armed forces are storing weapons and ammunition provided by the west on the territories of nuclear power plants in ukraine. now the head of the service, again, a risk and claims that the weapons in question are some of the most expensive that ukraine received from nato. a countries other statements also mentioned some missiles for multiple launch rocket systems from the united states called a high mar sub various foreign air defense systems, as well as large caliber artillery ammunition,

or the warning issued by rushes for intelligent service. clearly states that the forces of the key of regime are employing terrorist tactics in using civilians as shields. take a look. the ukranian military command hides ammunition depos behind nuclear reactors. if a large scale detonation of warehouses and the destruction of a nuclear power plant happened due to another stray ukrainian air defense missile than such, a tragedy can always be blamed on moscow. t f is absolutely convinced of this. given the silent encouragement by the west of ukrainian artillery strikes on the zap, hiroshi nuclear power plant had the foreign intelligence service as that. so what key is doing right now is a method often used by international terrorists. the only difference is that the hostages are not individual civilians but sense and even hundreds of thousands of residents of ukraine as well as neighboring countries. now the claims a maids are not unfounded. as ukraine had already shelled easter europe's largest

nuclear power plant in supper. roger region, where a nuclear catastrophe was narrowly avoided. the crane complex has demonstrated the ever changing rules of modern warfare as soldiers are for forced to adapt to new realities on the ground. snipers are among those who faced some of the hardest challenges as they're exposed by enemy, drones and other technology r t. moran garcia caught up with the lead sharp shooters from a russian military group called liking to find out about their tactics and just warning the following report contained some graphic combat scenes. this graphic footage obtained by our t v shows an exceptionally bootleg battle soldiers of the 2nd army cool based and la ganske assault, a heavily fortified ukrainian position a come in quite crawling under 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 capture the lud. surprise one the day it is achieved in various ways. wait for the enemy to drop their god pound them into 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 t 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. i think his partner carries something a little more exotic made in america at a perfectly midland flight of korean soccer. 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 of foreign mercenaries killed by russian troops booth, massive and extremely loud. sometimes outweighs everything else, no matter what, 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 offices always take priority. it's risky and challenging work or down hodge my talking with them. when you head out for an overnight stays difficult psychologically, very difficult and physically demanding, but psychologically even more, you can't move is limited space. i guess the list goes on and on the 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 15. both sides in this conflict have learned to fear snipers neither side spare as any effort through 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 where ashes foreign minister is sitting down for talks with his counterpart in south africa as sergey la rock starts, his latest diplomatic tour of the continent amid an international scramble to secure strategic deals. there are 2 corolla that is in the country with the details . thank he loves 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 or 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 important member with in 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 some of the locals in your hand. osburg told us that the russian foreign minister's visit were how both countries move forward together. believe that he has come into then it has to be a good thing for africa that he's coming yet do good thing. so that we can try to work forward and move forward as a country. maybe they're going to be a solution for this country. cut into experiencing a high high level of unemployment. the youth upside. most of the people working in because we are not more for india than we all with america may because we have a little bit more freedom. keep my go enjoy this. and this other africans just

choose to go with russia. and with america, french troops have one month to lee burkina faso that's according to the african countries government press agency, locals. i rallied and supported the ultimatum as they opposed the presence of french troops in burkina faso. demonstrators were seen carrying signs, saying french army out of our house, nationals and even some russian flags were also spotted at the event france. reportedly phil has some 400 troops in the african country where the stated goal of helping fight as long as groups. however, some local say the french troops have done virtually nothing useful. here is a local journalist with more foods last week in a meeting with students. so if you invest the keys edible, the main campus of the country come to the brim tower implied that in the coming days, important decision would be taken about the independence of the country. finally,

it's about replacing. so phase 2, it will killer. they have one month to park it decision that doesn't surprise looking at some point on 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. francis playing a double game and as only pursuing its own interests. laziness we, the young people won't change. we are very happy about this news and we want it to happen for us. so here we declare independence, but we are not really dependent. the french were told to leave, but they said because they have their own interest here. very pushed to friends for not doing enough to stop the progression of terrorist groups in booked, you know, clearly leave, but friends groups are not doing enough. i thought go fights 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 and french troops brings the african nation relief from its colonial legacy. well, this news brings is sense of satisfaction. because our armies must gradually assume for sovereignty and bring an end to the colon of domination, which delegates our responsibility or sovereigns, his order, peoples, which impose it with the armed forces like france, doors. this day brings justice. our relief for booking name was pio for independence. across in somalia, at least 5 civilians have been killed and a deadly bombing gun attack by the local are kind of ling terrorist group. all sure,

bob and a warning some of the following villages graphic and you might find it disturbing. militant storm, the government building and the country's capital of mogadishu. according to state officials, the insurgents detonated a bomb before proceeding to engage security forces in a fire fight, leaving multiple people killed, including 6 terrorists after somali as president declared war on all sure, mob. last year, the group launched a series of deadly attacks in various parts of the country. here's what the country's leader has said about the counter terrorist efforts. so mighty other one . earlier when i was elected, i promised that my government will carry out operations to eliminate tauscher bogged because there is no other solution to these terrorists except wiping them out. all sure, bob emerged in somalia, back in 2006 and has been fighting against the government seeking to impose its own interpretation of islamic law in the country. the group garnered international

attention due to its recruitment of foreign fighters, including people from western nations. the u. s. has designated the group as a terrorist organization, i'll sure bob affordably numbers up to 12000 fighters in its ranks as a malia and security analysts broke down the government's campaign against the i'll sure bob terrors were us out of middle height. ha ha, rod harris was a strategic town, which was in the home school, the terrorists for the last 15 years. but now it doesn't really british by the government forces. previously, operations were merely on a taken by the government and 2200 strong africa union peacekeepers both now the people of joined to wall offered a government improve is relationships with the public boosted coffee. it is and hes done into operations into judge offensives with popella support, which also led 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 and stockholm people inter kias largest city, or a picture of the danish anti islamic activists who set fire to islam holy book outside the turkish embassy in the swedish capital on saturday, as on the 2nd day of protest in istanbul, turkey, yes, lamb sweden, for allowing the koran burning to take place. deepening tension between the 2 countries that says on kara, is still blocking sweden from joining nato. here's what some turkish locals say about the controversial incident of us, and this is a huge provocation. this is an attempt to get a reaction out of to our kia in the muslim world. this has nothing to do with freedom or democracy. if the bible or the tora was burnt, there would be an uproar. why is it acceptable when it is the corolla we have up that the 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

vulgarity. this is unacceptable. and it should not be forgiven with we don't want sweden admitted into nato. it would be absurd. they should not be allowed in. they belittle our religious values. this shouldn't be done. i condemned them wended mimic 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. rashes. foreign minister in his south african counterpart are now addressing the media after sitting down for talks in pretoria, let's go ahead and listen in live. thank you very much based upon what you thank very much due to gene again, the minister of roe. let me thank you for being haines of

i think you would agree that our discussions have been very frank and open and wide ranging. and i am pleased to record the progress that was evident on a range of issues relating to the relationship between south africa and the russian federation. we at south africa attached great importance to fostering and deepening our partnership through strengthening our structured bilateral mechanisms. and so it is in this regard that i look forward to co hosting the 17th. i take session during the 1st quarter of this year. i look forward as well to the implementation of our commitments as discussed in our meeting. and to us having a continued closer working relationship am i say when we 1st met and i heard that growl, i didn't think we would become friends. but i believe we're friends, that our goal is to work unrelentingly toward the uplift vent of our

respect of nations. and to do so through the instruments of foreign policy that we have at our disposal. i believe our shape goal is to witness a significant and greater increase in economic, social, cultural people to people and scientific interactions between our countries. we've had the opportunity to review the status of some of the currently outstanding agreements and have reiterated our commitments in areas where some work remains to be done. i must thank you most sincerely for the additional scholarships that you announced that would be made available to young, some african undergraduate students. i believe most importantly, we should encourage our colleagues in other departments to be responsive to the

issues that we have identified as important for advancing our bilateral corporation . i look forward to welcoming you and your delegation back to south africa in the not too distant future for our bricks. meetings. and i wish you continued good health and the safe return home. and the longest things of africa next time you visit and i'll minister and back to you and thank you for this most wonderful meeting with you. thank you very much distinguished ladies and gentlemen and the outsides. let me sincerely thank once again, our assess african france, personally says african presence from a 4 sir. and sir minister of international relations,

anti national corporation analogy. ponder for the hospitality extended to us. we have stated to progressive development of fresh and so say african relations based on a solid historical foundation. we have fall, come to the consolidation of contents between different me as 3 as an edge and says the expression of for inter polar ment, hurry and into politics. changes in particular and tell can about turn are where a per t or russia, the nitrate, russia enter the african national congress. we have agreed on t intensify our work in a whole range of areas in order to uncover fully the broad potential of her ties. especially in the area of economics, we have decided to intensify the preparation for the 17th to regular mixture,

to governmental kmiec on trade. it cannot be cooperation magic panda is as co chair on the part of south africa on the year our per did. some is tough, natural resource in the college. a mistake is love, special attention at this meeting. he will be paid to the corporation and energy science and technical areas, as well as to the shoes of transfers and other kinds of infrastructure. they corporation in their piece, exploration of how to space. we have paid today's special attention to the need to broaden and develop communitarian ties. there is a demand for doubts in our countries are people's are very interested in developing context. we have a creed to increase the number of scholarships provide the toaster african colleagues in the framework of the federal budget of russia. we've talked

a lot about relevance international issues. our country's, our subsequent advocates of a more fair, inclusive democratic and poly centric architecture of the world older which would be based on the main principles of the un charter. the respect for this hover in the quality of all the states. and we are obviously speaking of fever for the increase in the role ofa, those africans, jani, and all platforms, including the, the context of their discussion regarding the reforming of the insecurity council. we have discussed l partnership and the your honor in it's different, different commissions and structures in g 20 in the obesity w in the framework of the kimberly process. as for t 20, we are at in favor of the interests of african countries to be

represented in this structure as the african union. in addition to the currents, members, we have discussed in details our corporation and framework of breaks. we all agree that, that this structure is an example of a truly multilateral and multi paula diplomacy, based on a search for a balance of interests. we share the priorities so, so sorry can champ diesel breaks you off, but you're still reduced. were in the what was the partnership for accelerated growth, sustainable development, and inclusive, multilateral ality. so we wish you all kinds of success in implementing the plans that have been announced so that they are promoted in every aspect. we've discussed settling the existing continents of the african continent, including of the great lakes area and the central african republic. molly,

self sued on the north of mozambique, and we are both for the opinion that it is up to the africans to decide how to resolve the issues on the continent of the south african role in resolving these crisis situation is important and the international community must support the directions and the paths chosen by african countries including as part of the african union and other sub regional organizations. russia will actively corporate and promote the resolution and various ations. and we are preparing african peacekeepers and providing all the necessary equipment to various missions and

organizations active on the continent. we are deeply interested in growing our dialogue and developing rushes of partnerships with the african union countries as well as a sub regional st. some regional entities, including those where south africa is an active participant. we discussed the preparation for the 2nd russia, africa summit, which will be held in late july this year in st. petersburg. and we assume that it's outcomes we'll build on the work done this part of the summit held in saatchi and will be helpful to develop our ties. there was a great interest from our african friends us to this event and a desire to achieve substantial outcomes. we have also discussed the special

military operation in ukraine, which is aimed at saving a civilian populations and preventing threats projected against russia at its borders. which has been done by the united states and its nato allies for many years. and we value the balanced and rational position taken by our south african friends on the hill. i think these talks have been very useful and have confirmed the good prospects between us and it. i am sure that the agreements reach to day will help provide a new momentum to the cooperation between our countries in various areas. thank you .

thank you very much. much so for mckenna, as they be, see themselves african broadcasting company. i am senior from south african, a broadcasting corporation. my question is to minister panda a question to both ministers. the world wants to hear good news in new york on, mister lovegrove pointed out that the question is willing to engage. are we likely to see the piece process very soon? and if so, in terms of mediation will be better place to as these 2 countries to come to didn't, she didn't table and to stop there was in your claim so that we don't continue

to experience or see the loss of lives from both sites and their last question, it's insulation to the military exercise in the indian ocean next month by both time and host that i felt like a day has been a mixed reaction to that engagement next month with people. some criticizing their move minutes appended to allow that exercise in the midst of all the tension in ukraine or the war in ukraine. from your perspective, what is the reaction and also to minister love? what is your reaction to the criticism that the timing is not correct? we should.