support we choose to look for common ground. with ah, that was an enemy. movable rocket launcher systems strike on monday in good r t follows russian troops in their fierce battle for a stronghold of ukrainian horses in a don. yes, suburb. foreign policy is not a joke. african union officials respond to jeremy's criticism of the russian foreign ministers, africa tore as moscow built closer ties on the continent. american, british, and other european delegation demand that african countries to stop cooperating

with russia and avoid breaking away from the common agenda of which the west seas as the restoration of colonial dependence in a new form that says russia pop diplomat condemned western countries for what he calls there at times to re colonize africa and pressure it to stop for the continents relations with russia. ah, good evening for mark international students in moscow to wherever you may be catching us, welcome to the hours most vital stories from all around. i'm fear allies about we start with the latest on the ukraine conflict rushes, defense ministry has said 135 ukranian troops have been killed and injured. as rushes continue its advance into the don bass, as well as the report a destruction of multiple ukrainian armored vehicles along the front line. russia

also says it shut down a plane and intercepted 14 missiles. among them, nato supplied high mars rockets. intense fire fights continue as a russian troops advanced on the town of murray. inca a don. yes suburb, which since 2014 has been a strong hold for ukrainian forces. ortiz mar, gosti, of reports from the front line. ah, that was an enemy multiple rocket launcher systems strike. one might think that is exactly where we're heading. wow. or 24 hours in mud, inca began now. here a flashlight ease timed him out to suicide. slowly, half blind,

we stumbled to our temporary refuge. this is the bunker where we're spending the night here in martin co, relatively relatively safe. the previous occupants here were ukrainian troops who were literally as you can tell by the wools burned out of here. but this is also the answer as to why the battle for martin ca 5 gave kapinsky. why these battles the taking so long? and that is because these bunkers are everywhere built over the last 8 years by the ukrainian military. built in completely nondescript places above us. this is just a small family whom a private residence of downstairs was unarmed store and the barracks for ukrainian soldiers. power is rationed, food, water, ammo, and fuel. i carried 4 miles before they get here. nothing is wasted in the early hours of the morning. we woke up to what fight as here. cool,

an approximation of hell. a deafening call for the blasts and explosions, pure and utter violence. without end all of this footage, we filmed in mere hours ah, both for those view of good bundle grow or all these the tie area covered in smoke is way ukrainian positions up to 300 meters

away from us. currently, russian artillery of all fronts and colors more does houses was air craft tanks ah ah, the she held on ukrainian or you credit troops the battle for monica has dragged on for almost a year. most of it is now under russian control. ukraine and its supporters, they publicly admit now, will never serious about peace talks. it was cover, they spent 8 years preparing for war. they turned my income into a modern day fortress, almost impregnable. almost. whoa

. each would choose russian to $25.00 close support to close ground support their craft coming in very low flooring there and guided munitions rockets and getting out before you gradient at the feds. us have a child constantly. de la gordon lodge who's day by day, month after month. russian troops have demolished ukrainian fortifications. here here has said thousands of drafted troops into the meat grinder to hold my anchor. but there is little doubt that the city will soon be taken from us as thoroughly. frankly, this is unpleasant for us destroying these buildings. the city it hurts our souls,

but we have no choice. this is our land. the enemy has thrown its reserves at marin county. they use their troops as cannon fodder. they pluck any holes with corpses of their own soldiers. they spare no lives, no digging said if it were pushing, but there are difficulties. the enemies resisting and digging in their fighting for every house, but were pushing them back and advancing. ah oh. a rounded mud, inca artillery is everywhere. lease automatic. my launcher, the what shall yoke, is it feared, thing. ah, muddy nga is strategically vital. it is a gateway to that yet. if you crane loses it, it will be

a devastating blow to morale. both civilian and military. kiev understands this. it is willing to pall thousands of its troops on to the pile, to hold halter modica, which may well be an approximation of hail. or i'd guess the of our t from madigan as a fighting rate is on and nato states confirm the delivery of tanks to ukraine. claims the military alliance isn't a party to the conflict are outright lies. that's according to russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman. clock id just renewed it. how can this people seriously see they're not sight of the conflict as they are. i'm going to send troops and jets. and what about sending tanks? i'm just trying to find a new logic, a new sense in it, but there isn't any and convenience unit people for usage of tanks, their maintenance given them signals. this is pure hypocrisy, criminal hypocrisy. not just an attempt to avoid uncomfortable questions. it

solitary lice. we hear it says the sorry of the conflict, while actions of the west proved the opposite. in fact, nieto and the west and general fight against us to keep nationalists, to regime easter in. despite agreeing to san tanks, the care of washington has warned, the vehicles won't be deployed any time soon. the abrams require advanced training for the ukrainians to operate them, as well as the vista catered supply chain set up near the front lines. a notorious u. s. government hawk has spilled the beans on caves upcoming offensive in the spring while admitting that the country won't see any american tanks on the battlefield before then. abrams, as you know, are very sophisticated tanks and they require significant training. so even as we approved them yesterday, it's gonna take some time to get them to the battlefield. so this is not something that's kind of appear in time for the spring offensive. what we as we know,

which brings it, which under scores what i said, you know, we've been asking for this for 6 months. if you started 6 months ago, they'd be all ready for the spring offensive. so what, what, what happened here? who's, who's to blame for this? u. s. defense contractors continue raking in the money as more lucrative arm sales poor and for ukraine. the state department has admitted that the war is good for business with american weapons manufacturer, seeing a massive boost and profits last year. artes kayla mopping investigates who's lobbying the arm straight and making the big bucks in the you us. the announcement at western tanks are headed to ukraine. had the defense contractor, lockheed martin all set and ready to roll. lockheed stock is all over the battlefield with their mobile artillery rocket systems. they're javelin missiles and they are patriot air defense systems all making an appearance. lockheed martin is going to be ramping production on f sixteens in greenville, south carolina to get to the place where we will be able to,

to backfill pretty capably any countries that choose to do 3rd party transfers to help with the current conflict. us state department data says that weapons manufacturers made huge profits in 2022. the grain conflict was a huge game changer with a 49 percent boost in profits over 2021 and new contracts are currently in the pipeline now to oversee new arms deals. the house and senate armed services committee has appointed 8 commissioners to review biden's foreign policy. not surprisingly, they came straight from the defense contractors, me. i in the

in the the pentagon can't even keep track of all the billions of dollars poured into it consistently failing multiple audits. the white house wants to keep the war and ukraine on a role and military corporations have no objections. ukrainian embassy has even hosted military corporate ations as guests of honor is known forever that ukraine is the most corrupt country in europe. the entire mainstream media in the west knew that up until february 24th of last year. and then they conveniently forgot that that particular thing when they began praising the plucky democracy in ukraine and how they're fighting for our values. well, it's certainly widely known that the u. s. military contractors,

lockheed martin racy on the others, have made record profits out of the ukraine war. but the entire system is corrupt. you have a revolving door between government officials and so called private sector defense contracting firms and their executives. you put in your time in government and then when you're out, you get a very, very well paid job in one of these companies and that's what drives the profit. so these companies are not driven by patriotism or even any concern whatsoever to the real u. s. national interests, they're driven by deep, deep corruption in the u. s. government. and in these companies that are tied to the u. s. government to the detriment of all americans who are forced to pay for them. the u. s. marine corps have re opened their base camp laws on guam island. u. s. general david burger says bolstering the military presence in the pacific region is aimed at promoting regional defense. we don't want to fight to

get to the fight. we want to already be inside. so if there's a conflict, the stand in forces are already forward the role of the marines in guam on that side of the international dateline as to reinforce the policy of deterrence, which is the underpinnings of our national defense strategy. camp laws is under construction still and will reportedly become fully operational in 2024. up to $5000.00 marines will be stationed there for a price tag of nearly $8000000000.00 with japan contributing $3000000000.00 to the project and the u. s. the other 5, the u. s. as recently also bolstered its military assistance to taiwan, promising to provide extended military training to the taiwanese army to deter a legit chinese aggression. the bided administration is also set to reopen its embassy on the solomon islands. also, a region of dispute between washington and beijing nelson. wong, vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact and international studies says that

such politics is not likely to contribute to world peace and stability. it is not in the interest of china to make any drastic actions towards what's happening in the wall. or as i said, quite clearly, it's a domestic affairs of the us. but when you use china's threat, as the excuse to build up the military base, this is something that is long. china is not russia, and taiwan is not ukraine. but we do see that her, there are countries that are trying to, to make this comparison. and they're trying to, you know, to alienate at china and tried to exit, may to russia and a vicious, this is not very compress macintyre, a, to promoting woke piece,

curating this, a term china threat. this is very wrong because china is not going to become a threat simply because a few countries keep calling it a threat. ah, germany's foreign office has received backlash from african union officials. after criticizing the russian foreign ministers efforts to enhance partnerships during his tore across the continent, artes africa corresponding corolla, thought le, gives us the details on reaction to european sentiments in the region. the russian foreign minister lever off is an african not to see leopards, but to bluntly claim that ukraine's partners want to destroy everything russian. here's a thread with all of his evidence. hi, german for an office. your boss n, alina bareback, visited the african union based in one of the more than 20 african countries that

germany enjoys reciprocal diplomatic relations with. did she come to see animals? or is the continent of africa? it's people and wildlife. just a joke to you here on the cotton and it was really encapsulated by carlindo who responded to the german foreign office. really, i think relating with most african feel that the germans cannot simply act like they don't have a legacy of their own. and they were not part of the great colonial story of how europe over to africa, and really deprived of its development. she was reminding germans that here the b i here on a foreign policy basis. and they have relationship, a reciprocal relationship with more than 20 african state. and that wouldn't be here. they also had to look at a free control such as animals. and, you know, not necessarily for africa development for us here on the african continent is

really as source of great heard and point that if bill you know, saw to the day and it plays into a bigger narrative. now it's one thing for the german, 4 of us to say that no, that was all said in chest, that the leopard, in this case represented tanks of ukraine. well, they is no war. that's been what on the african continent. and for a long time now, a free kind of felt ended lead as new saying that this is not going to be a platform for year old to have is geopolitical war on, or for any superpower actually to come here and speech a war on the african continent the will not have with a literal or people romantic was being held here and it goes into the bigger story . and you know, part of the story of that, they say that the german for an office that if they say that this was all just a joke, epoch, alondo points taken and sorry,

we value our african partners. our tweet was in no way intended to mean offense. instead that this means german made leopard tanks. we wanted to call out the lies that russia uses to justify its imperialist war of aggression against ukraine. the sad part is that they say that they were attempting to clear the air and correct miss the lover of on some of the misinformation here. well, no one on the african continent actually expects an explanation out of russia. the continent was pretty firm when the war started, that it will not be engaging in any kind of rhetoric between through um ours, and that they clearly understand the position of germany. and what the natal ah, grooving, had done to push russia to the place that it is to day. we believe that europe still views africa within the prism of colonialism within the prism of less then and be, have still to treat as all look at africans as equal people with their own urgency

. and this reminds me of the that the, the comments by e u. foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, who really stared up emotions of his own. when he said the following. futile is a garden. we had built a garden avenue, she works is the best combination of our political freedom, economic prosperity, and social cohesion. that the human kind has been able to build this 3 things together. the rest of the world must of the rest of the goal. it's a jungle and the jungle could invade the garden. and the gardener's should, they gave it. they were here scouring around, looking for all kinds of alternative to russian gaz that had been placed under sanctions. the of the ones who consistently come to this continent looking, asking,

begging, and instead of looking at as a equal trading partner, continue to look down. let's cross now to political analysts, dr. hun, how to move a welcome to the program. thank you for to be well, germany's been of the talk of so much controversy lately. what do you make of these latest tweets by german officials and what i think it done is actually, it was not so much to say the ignorance of some of the official but also basically to actually explore what some of the people actually think about africa and what they actually think when they are relating to africa and in what kind of land they actually place, you know, africa or africa lead it. so that way in the site and you find exposure of the

kind of people that you've african now goes into by the told, for example, at a later date, you know, oh, time fee gemini, or any of these other, you know, you can power has been at the back of their mind, they actually know that this is what they actually go back and they don't actually think we are coming to the table as you know, capable people as people who have something to offer. but rather as people who they've seen, you know, can be taking a job and feel, explain it. well, given these comments, is it fair to say that the west still has this colonial attitude when it comes to africa and further is it, is it fair to say what the russian foreign minister survey lever of said that they seek to re colonize the continent? yes, it is bad to say that and for now what, what will know what to call it, the colonial, the, by the state, of course,

the stroke bombed into many phrases over the yes. and now it's more, you know, colonialism. so just stay and, and so that is something that is behind. so when you talk about some of these problems they, no, no, no, no, we have prospect stage now. but now we are in a state of neo colonial and we are in a stage of imperialism. and these all have the them characteristics as colonial, except brandy in a different way. ready yet it is actually that, that actually back is what you've been proper date and onto the quantity in many other ways. and that's why it's very important for africa moving forward to be aware of some of the, you know, gimme and some will be, you know, tactics instructed that to use by piece you can, paul, is because what they think of us we got, you know, has not been transformed over the yet it is still thought of place that is,

that needs to be, you know, fully exploited. the place that he's, you know, needs to be civilized, horton quote, but actually behind the so called a vision, actually, that continued exploitation and question of africa and any people, any resources, without much duration for actually be african and tell you that it is in your opinion what are the aims exactly of these western states saying that they speak diplomacy that they see cooperation and africa? do you see any sort of lights to perhaps them shifting their, their tactics? or is it going to be just more of the same that we've been seeing for the many decades? if it's basically the same, what i would say is it's self interest and we can run away from self interest. and when to purchase, come to the table. it comes to their own interest, and when power is come to the table with africa,

they come with their self and their interest is one economy. call it. and bill will aim to mark my profits. by all means plus the book. and doug, we have done over the years now when asked because you've also to come to the table . definitely it will come will be on, you know, self interest to the table. but i think i've been core of all of these did the, by the end of the day is going to lie on, on, on, on, on the part is that come to the table. and in this case, now after the guy when he comes to the table from one position is coming from and, and from one point or people mission, is it coming from an i think this week and now an explosion. of course, you're blessed, social media with the internet and so we're able to look at when we come to the table. and so that way you can type and help you to know that yet we, we would definitely need to opperation. but this corporation has to happen at

a more equal level, but the question needs to be people really treated as equal will they ever treated as equals? and that is obviously the big question that has to be solved at the end of the day . but help interest cannot be denied while political analysts doctor had moves, they thank you very much. thank you. the west wants to maintain its exploit state of policy toward africa, that's according to the russian foreign minister who lambasted western countries for so centuries long, plundering of african resources survey, la rock, made the statement during a media conference with his area, tray and counterpart, while visiting the country as part of his tour of, of the continent. lamb, american, british, and other european delegations regularly come to africa and very stubbornly demand that african countries stop cooperating with russia and avoid breaking away from

the common agenda for which the west seas as the restoration of colonial dependence in a new form. the establishment of a multi polar world is an objective and unstoppable process. however, the collective west, the united states, nato, and the e. u, which are completely under washington's control, are trying to reverse this, but their efforts are futile. the most the can count on is some slight inhibition of li project, of course, of history that i'm fortunately, the fuel, the fuel. we can cut in, can you pang humanity in got rid of it? got to so i mean a school proper and piss of grief and dummy notion that have in godaddy turmoil a most him and savaging. and finally, for centuries that has an forbidden gray ease. and he says

a byproduct of directly for you see ok. germany and containment that they have put, pursued in their fast the case during his trip to eritrea survey live, rob also visited a monument to legendary russian poet alex xander, push in russia. foreign ministry spokeswoman underlined africa has positive attitude to the world renown writers legacy. while also criticize ukraine for demolishing thumb russian historical monuments, we been following russia's foreign minister on his african tor. here's archie's donald quarter with all the details. richard survey lab rods. last stop on his latest diplomatic tour of africa and today's press conference. we heard be a retiree and foreign minister speak a lot about his country's disdain. for washington's neo colonial policy. he pointed out that nato is at fault for the ukraine conflict for constant attempts to cling on to the unipolar world that emerged after the fall of the soviet union. nurses,

foreign minister said he agreed with this view and appreciated the position that a retreat has taken in the you. and in regard to that, he also reiterated that moscow is against interfering in the affairs of sovereign nations. in contrast to the west, neo colonial policy lab, rob said that this is why russia and a retreat have a good relationship based on mutual respect. now i was able to pass 3rd day live rob about russia's position on the recent tiger. a peace agreement in the region and why the european union did so little to help bring an end to that conflict. with right now, it is very difficult to understand the policy of the european union, especially after they signed a declaration on full cooperation with nato. only a few days ago, they really need to decide already what kind of future they're planning for themselves. there's nothing we can do to help of that, and we're not going to interfere lever. i've also mentioned a number of neutral projects that russia and a retreat plan to implement,

to develop cooperation in the mining military and agricultural sector. and lastly, russia. foreign minister also said moscow will take steps to protect a retreat from the west, illegal sanctions and further projects that potentially come under their umbrella. and that will no doubt ensure that friendly relations between the 2 countries will continue to grow freedom. and another african youth, russia is cultivating cultural ties within the continent. as it unveiled a bust of astronaut yury godaddy. and earlier this week, rushes the r c embassy along with the country, all oh countries, oldest university build up bus for the, for the 1st man in the face. and his opening speech, the nation's russian ambassador emphasized the significance of the occasion, which symbolizes a growing friendship. between the 2 states, according to the diplomat, moscow will continue to explore space and welcomes all interested parties to cooperate.