ah, a disturbing video appears online reportedly showing a premium soldier murdering captured russian p o w. and you had another instance of alleged war crimes committed by ts forces. also ahead, right now we are just outside the small town that it is outside of the city of that it is a major gradient gold or russian special forces unit operating close to exceed craniums don't hold the public. as the russian army ramped up, it's offensive in the area with russia says new revelations about us involvement in

the north stream explosions where no secret has washington had previously been opened about its intentions to take out the key russian pipeline in europe. and russia is foreign minister, sergey lobrado, is conducting talks with the leadership of the north african nation of sudan is the last stop on his latest tour of the continent as russia works with african nations to strengthen their ties. and view economic arises 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 was shocking foot. it reportedly recorded by ukrainian soldiers as they allegedly killed russian prisoners of war and a warning you may find the following images gravely disturbing. doors the

road. but are you going to build the g o g, g i in these unverified images, a ukrainian soldier allegedly shot a russian service in the head. you can see one of the captured soldiers wearing a white patch, typically warned by the russian troops. there had been numerous other accusations of ukrainian soldiers killing russian prisoners of war. the u at has documented several of those cases and called for a thorough investigation. regarding meanwhile, a massive barrage of ukrainian artillery shelling in the doughnuts. republic on wednesday killed 2 civilians and wounded for others, including several children, local authorities, se ukrainian forces fired more than $100.00 artillery rounds and civilian areas in the region. a number of apartment buildings and a shopping center were damaged in the assault and a massive blaze or rubbed it in the center of the regional capital. russians

defends ministry reported that about 75 ukrainian soldiers were killed near the city of oakland or in the dawn esque region. within the last 24 hours. several ukrainian armored vehicles were also destroyed as russian forces have been conducting and offensive in the area. arches eager, shadonna observed a russian special forces unit there hears his report. right now we are just outside . the small town of the that is in turn is outside of the city of dynette. it is a major ukrainian stronghold. and right now we're following in the footsteps of a russian special forces unit. and basically what they're doing, they're going to be launching a heavy pansy tank may sell, but they won't be targeting any machinery nor tanks. rather they will be working on hitting command centers inside again,

the major ukrainian stronghold which will most fell just a couple of weeks ago. with c'mon, they managed to reach reinforcement and right now the army has a hard time, has a hard time getting hold of it. but i'm being told, it's just a matter of time until this small but difficult stronghold force ah, [000:00:00;00] with

ah, this spot to watch is the project i'll being carefully guided towards its target. and when it connects, he doesn't hold back emotions with just local them. washing ukrainian armies operate at a collision course here. keep forces positions have been reduce to smooth batch of apartment block buildings on a hill top. it's a dominating a height, yet the ukrainians are trying to expand their zone of control. the russians, on the other hand, for no effort throwing plenty of their resources into the battle. this infantry tanks, every kind of artillery piece. as combat helicopters, brain fire from above fueling as it got deleted, but the enemy is detected and destroyed every day by the forces of our intelligence

and dots. hillary is the same everywhere. attempts by the ukrainian army to counter attack were repulsed up to a company of soldiers and heavy equipment were destroyed. but such special anti tank units don't suffer from a shortage of targets. and as natives, leopards challenges and abrams tanks bound for ukraine get a fresh coat of paint. they wait, wait patiently for the hitler's to get even longer. i'm a gosh done of reposing from the dumbass oxy. in the neighboring zapper. if she read yet, russian authorities, they, they have prevented an assassination attempt on the head of the city of bird yards . here is voted from the law enforcement operation. these images of the raid were provided. i have multiple security forces, members of an organized criminal group have been arrested. their belief tavin involved in a series of killings of local officials as well as several attempted murders,

rash as foreign ministry, says new revelations about us attacks on the north stream pipeline system were expected. as the us leadership had blatantly threatened to get rid of the key rush and gas supply route in europe, we have repeatedly voiced russia's position on the evolvement of the u. s. and nato not think that they did not hide this boasting to the whole world about the intention to destroy the civilian infrastructure, through which you are perceived russian energy resources. we also regularly noted the reluctance of denmark, germany, and sweden, to conduct an open investigation and opposition to russia's participation in it. and this, despite the fact that our country has incurred huge costs, those revelations were made by award winning investigative journalist seymour hersh, who says that the attack on russia's north stream system was carried out by the u.

s. with norwegian involvement. after months of diligent planning. by the decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than 9 months of highly secret back and forth debate inside washington's national security community about how to best achieve that goal for much of their time. the issue wasn't whether to do the mission with how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible for you as has been corrected. and i, any involvement in the covert attacks on the north stream pipelines. but an essay whistleblower edward snowden is unconvinced. he said it's not the 1st time for washington referencing his own experience a decade ago. when evidence of the u. s. government, spying on his own citizens, was rejected by top intelligence officials testifying before congress. the united states was not involved in the nord stream explosion. can you think of any examples from history of a secret operation that the white house was responsible for, but strongly denied?

besides, you know that little mess, surveillance, careful, a pulitzer prize winning, former foreign correspondent for the new york times, says that the u. s. denials of the pipeline is hack. have a little to no significance. that is something that we've seen in the past. not only with seymour hersh, his reporting, but other investigative look at looks at our investigation into activities that the government wants to keep secret. i think that's the standard response. i didn't surprise any of us and i think they had to respond quickly because they couldn't let it just lie out. there was some kind of a without a denial, but not denial. again. doesn't mean much. we look at how these things play out. eventually more information comes out that supports this initial reporting until it becomes very hard for them to deny. that's usually what happens

. our teeth. marina kosovar brings us the timeline of the events. it's one, see 21. there you are. so nato are already irritated by the north stream one gas pipeline because they see it as a threat to western dominance. and now north seemed to was nearing completion, which would double the amount of cheap russian gas flow into germany. something had to be done. and this is how it went down according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning. so joe biden authorizes his national security adviser to create a group. so come up with a plan to get rid of the pipelines by the end of the year. jake sullivan convenes a meeting of a new task force, men and women from the joint chiefs of staff, the cia and the state and treasury departments. they hold several top secret meetings in the building right next to the white house and during their

brainstorming sessions. the navy, for example, proposed as using a newly commission submarine, sir sold the pipeline directly. the air force discusses dropping bombs that could be set off remotely. and the see, i just argued that whatever was done had to be done covertly the cia director at the time william burns authorizes an agency working group. so craft a plan for a covert operation that would use deep sea divers to trigger an explosion along the pipeline early 2001 c to the c, a working group reports back to sullivan's inter agency group. we have a way to blow up their pipelines. meanwhile, a few slip ups with regard to nordstrom to we continue to have a very strong and clear conversations with our german allies. and i want to be clear with you today. if russia engage ukraine,

one way or another nord stream to will not move forward. if russia and reach at meas tanks of troops crossing the a border. you chris, again, then no, there will be a we, there will be no longer a nor stream to we will bring it into the cover surprise of a biden's ambulance in discussions and are wondering what it means for their mission. the cia is william burns, apparently said to it, but how and when? well that's when nor way answers the picture in march as you members of the american seam fly there. so meets with the norwegians, secret service and navy. the norwegian navy finds the right spot for the explosives and the weights of camouflage them, so the ra suddenly the doesn't spot them. no way apparently also suggests the ideal cover it supplant the minds during the annual nato exercises in the baltic sea, which take place in june, june,

swine seats when see to the nato exercises began and the minds are planted. the white house starts having doubts about its genius plant and asks if the mines can be detonated at a later date. so it doesn't look obvious that they did it. the americans in norway now have a new problem. there. have to find a way to do it. the explosives could be triggered by a sono bully dropped by a plane at short notice. it would have met a sequence of unique low frequency tonal sounds that would be recognized by the timing device and trigger the explosives on september 26th, 2022, and a which a navy p a surveillance plane makes a seemingly routine flight and drops or so on, or bowie. a few hours later, the high powered sea for explosives are triggered, and the rest is history. to go further in depth on this,

let's cross live now 2 option returns the host of going underground to get his take on the revelation. action is good to see you. great to have you on the program today. now let's start off by talking about the reaction here because there have been concerns expressed among politicians and in the mainstream media. that the revelations by investigative journalists, seymour hersh relied on unnamed sources. but at the same time, don't those same media outlets tend to use anonymous sources when it comes to their reporting? why do you think they're suddenly concerned about that? he adds complete data hypocrisy. sy hersh has used unnamed sources to reveal atrocities in abu ghraib, and most famously the my lai massacre people can watch. aren't you going undergraduates? i heard from her rumble channel. it was a band from rebroadcast in britain, and youtube have deleted it, and they have to deny this and they have to try and smear aside hersh. because what

he is saying in effect is that the biden administration is responsible for perhaps one of the worst environmental and geopolitical terror atrocities in history. this is on the scale of 911 or even worse. where are the green groups? greenpeace were saying they were going to investigate the impact of the environmental impact of the north stream attacks. where is all of that? because it was apparently the largest me then linked a leak in history. the european journal of health in 2015 said 200000 people die beach winter across the european union. the effect of the nord stream, man pipeline attack on prices of energy in european countries is incalculable. or perhaps finally, people will start to realize how many people were in effect killed because of and of course irish names them victoria newland tourney, blinking jake sullivan. the players as he calls it on. as a substract,

the norwegian prime minister journal store who served on began stockton bergmann, i had of nature, the panamanian president florentine, of course, his own, who hosted the training deep sea diving training for this terror atrocity. we don't know how many hundreds of thousands of people, joe biden, and jake sullivan, antony blinking, and victorian newland have an effect. murdered. absolutely, and as a fax will likely play out for years and years the con. now at the same time, speaking of that mainstream media reaction and there was one article which criticized hirsch's work, saying it looked more like a blog post, apparently overlooking, as you noted his reputation as a distinguished journalist. why would you make of these attempts to all of the sudden down play his credibility? despite everything he has done in his career, it is in effect, a blog post. it's on his sub stack. and as he makes clear in his introduction to the sub stack,

he feels it is the outlet that gives him the most freedom because implicitly there is no freedom in nato countries. they have to try and smear him desperately in a way because as me, if sy hersh is right, and i think most people around the world, the international community, when it comes to ordinary people believe that means that at the highest levels of us government, there are people leaking information because they too are disturbed by jo biden's terror atrocity. where is he getting the information from disgruntled people at the highest levels inside he says, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning, of course, like any good journalists, you will not really reveal his sources. but there are people in the, by the ministration, perhaps in the cia, perhaps in the f. b. i perhaps in the norwegian government, perhaps in panama, perhaps in the state department, lincoln's own state department that don't want this. i should also say that whilst they try and smith hersch,

this doesn't reflect well on the russians. why did the russian secret services, why would they not able to get this information? russian security council was nikolai per patricia. i have no new information. his reaction on this, a bombshell literally explosive report does. russian security services don't have any information about the largest terror atrocity on a pipeline connecting rusher and germany. so it's interesting that there are people gnawing away at power in, in the bite and administration. and hopefully we'll see more leaks of what terror antics around the world they are playing at as we speak. yeah, certainly a lot of questions there. now let's get into a little bit hirsch's decision to use sub stack to publish these revelations there . rather than going to a mainstream media outlet, someone that you would think would want to carry such a bombshell report, why do you think that he made that decision and what kind of precedent do you think

that it sets? yeah, laughably, the washington burst says democracy dies in darkness. i. one other aspect of this as i hush revelation is that there is no informed consent in nature nations. this story is not on the front page of every newspaper in the european union or in the united states, the belligerents that with russia through ukraine. that's why he has to put it on sub stack. and if there is no freedom of the press, i mean they are clearly frightened of it. why on earth is this program where on right now being banned in europe and in britain that really terrified of the truth getting out there in any questions being us. then if there is no informed consent, there is no democracy. so no longer can britain, the european union in the united states call themselves democracy because they keep banning media media and suppressing it. and in a sense,

sy hersh having to publish on sub stack and many other journalists. of course, he's one of the greatest shows and proves there is no ability for journalists to get their message out to the ordinary working people of nato nations. and therefore, there is no democracy in those nations. it seems as though they only want to use that term when it works for them. now let's get into a little bit of the response, or really lack thereof, that we've heard from nations and specifically germany because one of the biggest things that seemed to come out of this report. it wasn't just that the united states wanted to make sure that germany didn't rely too much on russia. it was that the united states wanted to make sure that germany didn't become too powerful, so much so that it didn't need to rely on the us. what do you make of the response that we've seen so far from europe, given the fact that the united states is supposed to be one of their closest allies? as in go in as a look at is a macro meeting as

a lensky in paris. after yesterday's bizarre. a presentation by the ukraine leader in london of the british parliament to realize that the whole of europe, germany included, which is arguably affected most by the nord stream, a terror attack by the bible ministration. it's a complete utter mess, and i think, i mean years to come, historians may ask, how was it possible this mass hysteria for zelinski, for supporting the so sanctioning of their own people. but i think many may reflect on the idea that the powerful in nature, nations and again this rely, relates to the idea of the them not being democratic. is that they are so out of touch with the ordinary people on the streets of europe and the streets of britain, those in power, that they don't even understand that they are so out of touch and that.

so i play an explosion like this, which has arguably killed so many of their populations is still not important enough to give an urgent press conference. where is shots? where the opposition parties in germany? nothing. nothing particularly. and the media follow suit? asked certainly endless questions given just how much is at stake? ashton returns the house, they're going underground. thank you so much for your time minutes. i thank you rachel rashes foreign minister survey. barbara is currently in the north african nation of sudan for talks with top officials as the final stop on his tour of the continent. his visit comes as media reports say us and european officials also were set to meet up with the north african countries leadership around the same time. live, rob stewart, of the continent has been widely considered a success for the countries he visited with numerous high level meetings,

exploring new horizons for russia's economic ties with the continent. r t is corolla. that law has the details. well, the long serving russian diplomat visits a sudan with the country very much in the midst of internal and external conflict. as you know, the in the middle of a political dialogue which will, which should at least deliver a, a technocratic government before bill of, of a, a civilian government and mr. lover over there, to meet with his counterpart in the style dig. and they will be talking about the areas of investment and trade and how to strengthen those, and particularly because who then it is if way is situated, it finds itself as a very g o d o. strategically important location. of course these visits advisor g, a lover of have not gone unnoticed. and some, some might say that they've,

they've been actively encountered by the west because they see mister love isn't here as a, as a rather shift in politics and a potential threat to their dominance with regards to the african agenda we've heard. although with unconfirmed media reports that many of the top deep royce and diplomats of western countries are also looking to visit the continent, but particularly visiting sudan. and i find that very peculiar that he has almost been preceded, or rather succeeded in some cases by different european countries who also prevent the foreign affairs minister to con. tell whatever mister love roof has been building. i. e, how he went to molly to strengthen the ties in the country. following the

insurgency that have been rep, that country for, for numerous months now, little lover of africa visit all in all, i guess, has been somewhat of a, a celebration. he was welcomed with the owner, hence open, and he has, he has yet to see a closed all in south africa, which was his 1st thought was very strategic because it was, it was big south africa. if an important part name the study agrees in the southern african development region, and it was pretty much the same when he went to s, a teeny minister lover of found himself being asked to stay a bit longer. and that's how much his company and his visit has been valued here on the continent. and the song carried on and on from bomber call to no shot in in more attain yeah, just the other day mr. mr. love is very much, oh, well, come here and he seen of the comrades and most african countries are looking into diversification. looking at how the,

the multi paula world is manifesting right in front of the eyes. and they also want to take advantage of that on movement. more than 13000 people have been killed in a devastating series of earthquakes, the rip through turkey and syria in recent days, numerous people have lost their entire families. with so many people trapped under the rubble of collapse, buildings seeing the total devastation around the epicenter and turkey are appalling form. our high rise apartment blocks have been reduced to nothing but heaps of concrete. were signs of people trapped under the rubble getting more difficult to attack. nevertheless, the search for survivors goes on. international rescue teams, including russian ones, continue to arrive to affected areas to provide assistance in those efforts. russian airborne forces have been involved in extinguishing fires that erupted as buildings collapse amid the earthquake. this verdict shows a russian b. e. $250.00 is plain dancing. believe it in

a turkish port city on the mediterranean coast. the devastation caused by the natural disaster has debilitated turkey as transport infrastructure in the southern region. an amphibious aircraft able to land on the water, are a good option for tackling issues. there are g correspondent, peters thought hazard from local residents. another affected turkish city. they expressed desperation about loved ones who have been lost amid the rabble. now what you can see behind me is a residential building that was once 8 stories high and has now been reduced to rubble. as you can see here, there are people that once lived in our building and they're now waiting for news of their relatives who in many cases are still stuck under the rubble. i want to wait here because my son, his wife and guests, and 6 of my relatives were in the building when the earthquake struck. my grandson herron is 4 years old. he was also in the building. i haven't received any word

from the family. and asia isn't alone. as of wednesday evening, the death toll india buckets stood at 144 people with almost 1000 wounded. as the sun begins to fade 3 days after the earthquakes, so does hope. the survivors will be rescued from the rubble. that doesn't stop relatives anxiously gathering around destroyed homes desperate for any news of their loved ones. because i can't say enough completely lost hope, but it's been 3 days now. and his gain difficult to remain optimistic that my oldest sister and had 2 children will be found a life. i would like to send all my blessings, deville's people who lost their lives in this disaster. i would also like to wish that those who were injured will get well soon, understandably good progress, slow going frustration mounts with each passing hour. many of the people i spoke to india back here were angry that more support from the government or the

international community hadn't yet reached the city. 3 days after the quakes, white island, we want more support for the rescue teams. we can't go back home because it's not safe, and there is no peace for us there. some waiting here for news about my 6 cousins. into the pots of d, a backyard. you could almost be forgiven for thinking that life goes on as normal. the city may have got off relatively lightly, thus of little constellation to residence, waiting for news of their relatives who had trapped oh, those who were forced to sleep on the street or seek shelter elsewhere. while government engineers go through the daunting process of is showing the thousands of homes here are safe to live in once again. peter scott, the backyard turkey, all t, one of those earthquakes recorded at magnitude 7.8 was the most powerful in the region in almost a century water kia and syria were the most affected. the tremors were felt as far away as egypt and even the central asian nation of cause, expand so far,

inter kia alone, more than 12000 deaths have been confirmed, and over 62000 people injured in syria. about $300.00 buildings have collapsed. the northern city of al, up near the turkish border is one of the areas most affected residents were forced to flee their homes and have been gathering at shelters for they are provided with necessary accommodations. meanwhile, western sanctions, particularly from the u. s. had been blocking vital aid from getting into syria after the disaster. as you can see on this map, major air carriers avoid entering syrian territory. china has demanded that the u. s. remove at sanctions against syria. beijing said the us embargo on syria has disrupted aid supplies and made the humanitarian crisis in the middle eastern country. even worse. the u. s. has long been engaged in the syrian crisis. it's friggin motor strikes and hush. economic sanctions have caused huge civilian casualties and taken away serious means for subsistence in the wake of the