but that is definitely not the case. and oh, do you know that he understand what is good for damnation? which is good for you'd see with ah, top headlines right here. we're not even national. the head of the wagner group says his fight has taken control of that village up class and i gotta but it's a key defense point, very d r from off also known as voc moved over 26000 to confirm dead off the catastrophic of troy to city, both turkey and syria, and as the death toll continues to rise, both countries are struggling to code. also in the program here one r t a problem showed report by an award winning american journalist on covering american involvement in the sabotage of the north stream gas pipelines. using nato drills in the baltic cup

with being such a busy week here. and i'll see international, so as we are highlighting that top stories will also run down this. i was immediate news as well. welcome to the week. so the head of the wagner group has said that it's fighters have now taken control of the village of kraft. my, i've gotten a key settlement north of october, also known as buck mood, that the development does increase pressure on ukrainian forces in the town. and at the end of the day, it opens up a, a further way to advance in that don't yet reach. and that's got the latest now from don bass, with ortiz eco to stand off. according to the chieftain of the russian private military company, the wagner group. if danny pre goshen, his fighters have basically taken the control taken over, they have captured the village of casner got out to the north of germ of scott is a very small settlement. it can be very hard to pinpoint on the map,

but it is very important. well, it tactically and strategically so far, we don't have much of a confirmation other than a video published by the media service, by the press service of the wagner group, where a bunch over a wagner, soldiers are standing next to a road sign that would normally be placed at the entrance into basically on the road heading into the settlement. so this is so far everything that we have. but normally the, this information that comes from gainey propulsion directly, it can be treated as a reliable because he himself has repeatedly corrected officials in the past who jumped the gun so to speak. and were too early to announce the successes of the wagner group. although it has to be said that neither the russian nor the ukrainian military officials have neither confirmed nor denied that this or in the formation . now, when it comes to class neg, i itself again, it is quite important that however small it might be,

it is located to the north of the town of thomas. and essentially, by capturing it at the wagner forces, well as they come closer to cutting off the supply routes that are used by the ukranian commands to delivery enforcements into the city of our tom, of which is a major hot spot in the don bass right now. basically the wagner's forces, they are fighting inside the city since last summer, and they have managed to make gains inside the town. but well, the ukrainian commands they have been sending reinforcements regularly and in a many have described this tactics as well. the tactics of cannon fodder, basically, they would send more and more people to die in back mode, basically to stop the advancement of the wagner forces with the more people with more people to just burn and shoot through. so right now, many military experts, they say that the tactics that the wagner group has adopted or when it comes to

taking the town of octomom, his basically to cut off the supply routes that the main roads leading to this town and out of 4 roads that were previously available for the ukrainian command, only one remains more or less safe to send ammunition to send to more guns, to send more military vehicles to send more people, more fighters into the city of r tom of and right now the since the casner garage village has full and it brings are close at the moment when this one final road becomes too dangerous. so potentially the biggest story of the week and what a tragedy it's been, you know, turkey and syria continuing to struggle with the aftermath of devastating earthquakes at hip, both countries on monday we understand now the death toll has surpassed 26000 ah,

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a ms. ross was lou families under there. my sons, my daughter, my son in law, they are still under the rubble. we hear their voices. they're still alive. there's no way to get them out. there's no machinery, there's a i'm with my grandson is 18 months, so please help them please. we can hear them have not got any news from them since the morning, please. there were the 12th floor. we can't reach my family, my grandson. ah,

it's been 6 days since the deadly earthquakes with rescue was continuing their search for supplies. sometimes miracles do happen. this would a chair showing emergency workers elated after finding a man alive, despite being trapped under the rebel foot dates, and as many other wait for. well, any news from their loved ones, artes peter scott, now reports from the ground and how the country is trying to come. what you can see behind me is a residential building that was once 8 stories high and is now been reduced to rubble. as you can see here, there are people that once lived in that building and then 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 way in the building when the earthquake struck. my grandson,

heron is 4 years old. he was also in the building. he says he may have got off relatively lightly, but that's of little consolation to residence, waiting for news of their relatives who are trapped, all those who are forced to sleep on the streets or seek shelter elsewhere. while government engineers go through the daunting process of ins, showing the thousands of homes here are safe to live in. once again, from the outskirts of the city of id, i'm on, it was instantly clear that it's been much more badly affect said the d a back here, which was around 3 hours drive away. now when we were coming in, there was a stream of ambulances, emergency service vehicles coming and going, there were shops, carrying heavy excavate, says to help with the efforts here. and there also funds puts with humanitarian aid unbalances had in, in to do what they could do, the sites and breed families struggling to contain their grief is all to common on the streets of at a yeoman. the temperatures still drop well below 0 at night. and that provide their own set of challenges to those who don't have

a home. many of the people we spoke to here said that help was slow to arrive in the days after the earthquakes hit took. he is president edward himself admitted that there had been shortcomings, but the relief effort now appears to be gathering pace. as soon as the earthquake struck, thousands of volunteers flocked to the airport in the stumble, to join the search and rescue efforts in the disaster area. although the him, he stumbled, i'm a lawyer originally from madonna, but now i live in his temple. i came here to rescue people from the class buildings . almost any of us could have found ourselves inside one of these buildings as a long road ahead for the city and others like it. and it's hard to imagine when his residence will be able to return efforts are now been directed to prevent a 2nd humanitarian disaster. in showing that those who survived the earthquakes don't die from cold and hunger. this is one of the latest temporary comes to be settled, india back here, containing some of the 623 tenths dotted around the city. there were no showers, and only the public toilet facilities in the park itself. close quarters in camps

a breeding grounds for disease. the people of turkey and syria can only hope that lessons from this tragedy will be learned. the city of aleppo near the turkish border was one of the worst affected areas and residents were forced to flee their homes and gather at shelters. or those are seeking refuge while they took a moment share their stories with us. and our model to him hovels, deadly at 4 am. we were sleeping in the house when we felt a slight shake, which soon turned into an earthquake. me. i woke up my children and went out to the street. the situation then became unbearable. the women and children started to cry and scream, or i'll even the palestinian refugee camp to inhabited houses opposite us collapsed . as me had by the handle have been living in our ben village for 30 years. we were sleeping when they asked they had the region, they quickly got dressed and laughed were man to our neighbors to where we stay for 2 days. after that, we came to our boston stadium, but she will help us live ive been displays before and i'm displaced again because

of the natural disaster. thank god, i'm safe and may god have mercy on the deceased. we came to seek refuge in the national stadium where we were welcomed and provided with the required assistance. but moscow has been providing a to both cookie and syria in the optima russian service min, helping to clear the deb re russian fire fighting across to be an extinguishing flame which are up that in 30 a after the disaster the russian, the rescue teams have also been quick to distribute medical supplies and other forms of humanitarian aid, where the countries the syrian presidents, even taking a moment to find moscow for its telling the friendly country. and wound surprised to see all the kind of support during this crisis course has been fighting terrorism in syria for the last 80 years now. and so when you support countries support the country or people who support them in every aspect of the

problem or anything they do, i think we think what you've done here is a great work because it the 1st time to touch it is that during the last 250 years . so we didn't have any fitness in that to got your, your team where very great and helping our team and saving many, many lives. however years long western sanctions, particularly from america, have been blocking vital aid from getting into syria right off of the disaster. they will look at it. so it's basically a rate on tracking with major airliners as we understand many of which carrying humanitarian supplies have been deliberately avoiding syrian territory for fear of punishment. now, as syria struggles to receive humanitarian aid, washington says syria only has itself to blame. and russia.

reality has been up until now at least that one country primarily has stood in the way of that. the russians have consistently threatened to use their veto when it comes to expanding border crossings. we're going to continue to make the case. countries around the world are going to continue to make the case, and we certainly hope that russia and all those who would stand in the way are hearing and see these just heartbreaking images. well, that is, as i said, a despite a few moments ago that russia has been helping it was actually one of the 1st countries to respond to the earthquake disasters in both totally a and syria with immediately flying humanitarian aid over there. but that was net price from the us state form. and by the way, it took until friday, 5 days after the quake for washington to announce plans to ease sanctions on syria . this is only because of mounting pressure around the world, like from countries like china, for example, in various humanitarian organizations. and we heard from local reporter mohammed oddly described how western restrictions continue to heard every day, syrians,

western confess, continue to impose those sanctions. those sanctions, not just now, but even during the years of for prevent the syrians from getting their basic needs . for example, if, if the syrian government wanted to get some medicine and medical supplies for the country, the central bank of syria will not be able to make any transaction as a result of such sentence. this is just one example of what those sanctions have been doing. an effect how they have been affecting the lives of the syrian people to us and western countries in general. do not care about history and people's about the lives of the syrian. how can you, how can n syrian civilian or individual here believe that the u. s. cares about terry and people while the u. s. itself and the us coalition killed hundreds of syrians doing the crisis in airstrikes on syria destroyed houses. the u. s. is looting serious

resources to the u. s. dividing the country by occupying parts in the north and north east and giving that oil some of that oil to the so called through the mac product forces. former us president donald trump said he said we're keeping the oil, we're not allowing the syrian government to get that all those statements and those act why they not have a clear proof that they do not hear about the humanitarian situation and fight, sir. yes, all they want is to implement their agenda over here. they want their political interests to be achieved. they want the country to, to, to stay divided the end of the day. they don't care, they do what they want to do. and even if it's at the expense of syrians live, massive story this week, and the western media staying mostly silent off the revelations. but nato states lead by us specialists, were allegedly behind the talk on russia's north stream to gas pipelines. according to an investigation,

washington had been finding the operation. get this since 2021. why does this isn't a sub as to pipelines, came up for more than 9 months of highly secret back and forth debate inside washington's national security community about how to best achieve that goal. sold out her veteran journalist seymour hersh, she revealed top us officials were well, they were essentially divided on their plans. the u. s. samples proposing essentially a bombing campaign with a delayed fuses to take out the pipelines. naval forces were pushing for a kind of a submarine gig of some sort, or the ideas were turned down in favor of a secret service plot involving a covert operation. u. s. officials themselves though, and you need to hear this for yourself. had previously openly made no secret of their intentions differ if russia invades then there will be, there will be no longer a north stream to we will bring it into. i am and i think administration is very

gratified to know that north stream who is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the see these pipelines that is more streamlined from 2. we're not pumping gas into europe that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for for the years to come. sy hersh has used unnamed sources to reveal the atrocities that they have to deny this. and they have to try and smear isiah sh, 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. the effect of the gnawed stream pipeline attack on the 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, tony blinking jake sullivan. the players, as he calls it on his substract, the norwegian prime minister join a store who served on the instructor bergman had of nature. the panamanian president florentine coaches. oh, 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 had, jake sullivan, antony blinking, and victoria newland have an effect. murdered. the operation of again during nato's annual navy drills in the baltic sea very close to the pines. you see right there. the timing was designed to mosque american and norwegian diapers from russian surveillance with top a terse, allegedly planting camouflaged, c, 4 explosives right there on the pipelines that was cover their tracks. washington officials decided to delay the destination for 3 months until the drills had wrapped up well. a so called independent investigative commission,

apparently helped to cover all that tracks. that's no way in america recording to hush his report with the u. s. informing as part as a possible unusual activity in the baltic sea in june, sweden, germany and denmark. they formed a group to probe, but fail to find any clues surprise, surprise, at the same time locking russia from investigating its own pipelines. of course that says european countries suffer the consequences of having cut off russian gas . well, you could imagine the u. s. immediately denied seymour hersh, his revelations, labeling them complete nonsense. have you or anybody else at the state department of any communication with german, norwegian ambassador, or other wise repairs on this matter? on the matter of string to on the matter of the latest allegations, it would, it would not be typical for us to engage allies in partners on something that is

utter incomplete nonsense. and it should be rejected out of hand by anyone who is looking at it through us through an objective lens through an objective lens, right? mr. net price right there from the us state department and you wonder why so many people today have an issue with a mainstream media? never telling you the truth is, lionel the bomb shell report doesn't surprise anyone because immediately after this happened, a lot of people said, wait a minute. this looks fishy bowlens. let's look at it this way. irrespective of, of the, your perspective or anybody's perspective, there are 2 different camps here. one, there's the official government reaction, which i think we can understand. i think it'll be a lot better to say, we'll look into this. thank you very much. as opposed to this is ridiculous, but i understand that. but the 2nd reaction, which is the most fascinating,

are the collective reactions of the media are saying, this is the media now. how dare he uses a name, a reporter, or on a name sources. let me ask you a question. who in their right mind, whatever's a yes, my name is so and so i work here today and also isn't it fascinating that depending upon who you are, an unnamed source is either a whistleblower. if you were to be commended or an unnamed source, a coward hiding hiding somewhere in the darkness. what i hope i hope happens is that this continues that independent journalist citizens civilian alternative, foreign journalists, hold everybody accountable and pursue this. don't abandon sy hersh don't turn around and say, well maybe, maybe he's, maybe he's over the hill after all he's using. he's using, you know, unnamed sources. deep throat during watergate, the hero,

deep throat was an anoint named source. there whistleblowers daniel ellsberg was it . so it's, i mean it's incredible if you like the result, then you love the journalistic practice. if you don't like it, then the people who say this are crackpot lunatics and psychotic conspiracy theorists. alright, we're running down the top stories of the week and told me stories of this out here on our international rushes. diplomat has wrapped up and enormous tour of africa. numerous contracts were signed in strategic security, energy and mining. it's we the tour aware. so again, for off was warmly welcomed across the continent. so for now, some of the highlights aah with

a port russian sudan consistently come out in the you and in supportive initiatives. aimed at ensuring a democratic world order based on the principles of multi polarity which are enshrined in the un charter in addition to political dialogue. in addition to foreign economic coordination. there are many tasks in the field of trade, economic investment, and humanitarian cooperation. we came out and support the efforts being made by the sudanese leadership to stabilize the internal political situation. said a lover of is arguably the most visible foreign diplomat on the african continent for the 2nd time in just 10 days. he was back in africa for another multinational tore this time, visiting molly mauritania and so dead lover of recently made headlines when his south african counterpart lady bundled, greeted him with open arms in pretoria. while there was little media hype about loves visit to the kingdom of esla teenie,

the continent only monarchy there too. he was met with hugs and smiles and allegedly asked by the country, senior leadership to stay longer as this and the chinese foreign affairs ministers, multi country tor, were taking place. the west was busy trying to counter the messages from beijing and moscow just days after the new chinese foreign policy chief made his 1st stop on the african continent, lending in addis ababa to meet with the african union chair as well as the ethiopian prime minister. the german and the french foreign affairs ministers also is it said the country claiming they were there to help with the peas and reconciliation process. following into years civil war in ethiopia, there is a growing competition with china, russia, but also other plays such as brazil or turkey. and this is why wesley is now

kind of worried, but it's a confusion between the worth. 20 new york brings the americans and he caught russia, china, brazil, turkey. oh, she take it. sure enough here. big political, oh economy. it's been felt for years, of course. but the ukraine conflict seems to have solidified the sense of us versus them. following years of neglect and half hearted commitment to the continent, the west has woken up to the call reality of strong ties. china and russia have been building on the african continent. when the us treasury secretary janet, the ellen visited synagogue, ends ambia. she took shots at american strategic folks, claiming that both russia and china bear the partial responsibility for the economic woes of the continent,

which is war and weapon new zation of food is exacerbated food insecurity and caused untold suffering. and the global economic head winds caused by the actions of a single man, president who is creating an unnecessary drag on african economy. but the west is also its own with enemy in its bed to win over the african continent. as officials continue their diplomatic blitz of various countries here, they also issue attending, contradictory, and at times derogatory messages appoint a best exhibited by the e. use foreign affairs chief. yes, you do. and 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 gardeners should take care of it. however, russia has proven itself as 30 ally to the african jungle. having supported many

a liberation movement as all across the vast continent, countries, but to free themselves from western columbia. and the visit to mauritania was just another display of the longstanding bilateral relations, which started back in 1964 lover of his visit to mildly surprised only a few. the military juanita which seized power following a cool 2 years ago. hes, from the very get go, leaned towards russia as a security partner, rather than to us the former colonizer france. in fact, fresh troops have been expelled from that country. with further accusations that france not only failed to quell the insurgency in this a hell, but actually supplied us to some of the rebel an extremist groups. the stabilizing molly lovegrove stopped by sudan,

a conflict written country in the east of the continent, which has been striving for stability, a mis political wrangling, and a fight on terror. cartoon. and moscow have already agreed to start discussions on setting up a logistic center or a naval base on the red sea, which will no doubt further put a variety in washington as well as brussels for a long time. the west bridge had they a quasi monopoly in many parts of rigor, machine what's up against somehow, and indeed ingenuity. over the years there's been a growing presence of china or russia. it's moving is economy. and what the west is worried about is losing their share and the clinic sector. i may say a political influence that worried and concerned with having less

political influence on the country. so we can see, despite the west push for african countries to distance themselves from russia, say gay lover of continues to be met with wide open arms and love. maybe because in the minds of many africans presented, he will always trump colonialism. got him on his shots of a lot of t enjoy and his back. so i made the week's highlights here. when i see one of the most scandalous stories was that of us journalist seymour hersh publishing revelations that america and its nato partners were. in fact, the true conspirators behind the violence, sabotage of russia, north stream pipelines. of course, the western media originally said russia bombed its own pipeline because that's the level of deceit, the western media today. here on our t international, we set the records direct. ah,

ah, with to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development only.