ah ah ah, the head of russia wagner group say, fight isn't taken the don't yes, but public village of class and i got the key footholds. there are 2 more school for known as back moves which the ukranian i've been fiercely defending for months . but $30000.00 that confirmed dead off the catastrophic earthquake had turkey on syria. the death toll continues to rise. both countries struggle to cope with the fallout. and a bombshell report by an award winning american journalist to lead to the u. s. involvement and sabotaging the north stream gas pipelines. using nato military exercises at the baltic sea to cover their tracks.

a very welcome. you're watching the weekly on our t international bringing you the latest world news update along with a roundup of the stories that shapes a week. good to happy with us. now, the head of russia that wagner military group has confirmed that his fighters have taken control of the village of class and i a garage in the don't. yes, were public getting a new foothold for 9 months, longer salt on the city of your mosque, also known as back moot, which is still held by keeps troops. the development increases pressure on ukrainian force is in the case city, a vital transportation help the key abs 4th is on potentially paved the way for further advances which could lead to russian forces, taking full control of that had done yet for public ortiz egleston. a report from don bass with the latest. 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 visser in formation. now when it comes to class ny itself, again, it is quite important. however small it might be, it is located to the north of the town of thomas, and essentially by capturing it at the wagner force as 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 bath 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 our chops. because basically, to cut off the supply routes, 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 thomas. and right now the since the casner, garad village has fallen, it brings a close at the moment when this one final road becomes too dangerous. ukrainian president vladimir lens, he has posted photos on his social media of a ukrainian soldier dawning insignia resembling that, used by nazi germany. here in a screenshot of the post where the ukrainian lead

a course on citizens to unify you can see a thought just bolting the controversial patch on his shoulder, ironically, receiving hundreds of likes in the following hours. exact say, make in each known as the death's head was used during the 2nd world war by ss units. that one hitler's extermination camps. and this isn't the 1st time valencia is posted photos with such symbols, and another picture which has since been deleted the latest god was also seen wearing the same nazi air emblem the ukrainian president has since gone on the offensive and stating that such narratives contradict his country's history? the ukraine on your news and ukraine in real life are 2 completely different countries. and the main difference between them as ours is real. you are told we are nazis. but could of people who lost more than a 1000000 lives in the battle against naziism support naziism? we talked to jeff political analyst on mach duke,

and he said that such posts repeatedly appear on the ukrainian leaders. social media is not something that western media would objects to be fi, this time and time again. when they, when they don't have a p, r person to review every single thing that they are doing. we are seeing this type of symbolism use consistently. even if you remember a few months ago, i think it was m b c news had some guy giving the standing front of a ukrainian flag and giving the nazi salute. so, you know, this is very consistent in ukraine and you know, their belief systems, half of probably don't know what the symbolism means because they're just a bunch of talking heads. and the other one is, it's not in their interest to speak about such things. you know, they're not allowed to buy their, their, of their corporate masters,

cookie and syria continue to struggle with the devastating aftermath of earthquakes which have both countries on monday, with a desktop now exceeding $30000.00. ah, [000:00:00;00] with them they have torn my hotel out. we're completely broken. no for the new modem for

ah . does it? does it monday? she'll say this was a miss ross was a new family is under there. my sons, my daughter, my son in law, they're 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 no error

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 12 full. we can't reach my family, my grandson. ah, he's been 6 days since the deadly earthquake and rescue without continuing their search for survivors as sometimes that miracles do happen at this, but he shows elated. emergency work is after finding a man alive, despite in trapped under the rebel for days, while many others wait for news on their left, one se peter scott reports on how the country is coping with a disaster. 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 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, heron is 4 years old. he was also in the building. the city may have got off relatively lightly, but i said little consolation to residence, waiting for news of their relatives who were trapped or those who are forced to sleep on the streets or seek shelter elsewhere. while government engineers go through the daunting process of ensuring 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 affected. 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 was shrubs carrying heavy excavators to help with the efforts here. and there also vans of pots with humanitarian aid and volunteers had an end to do what they could do. the sites are buried. families struggling to contain their grief is all too common on the streets about a young man. the temperature still talk well below 0 at nights and that provides 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. the key is presidents are to one himself, admitted that it 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 a donna. but now i live in this tumbled. 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 this city and others like it. and it's hard to imagine when

it's 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 set up india back here, containing some of the 623 tents dotted around the city. there are 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 learnt. a theory and city avelaire pony, the turkish border was one of the worst affected areas. residents were forced to flee their homes and gather shelters. their seeking refuge had from advanced and i'm altima hovels, deadly at 4 am. we were sleeping in the house when we felt a slight shake, which soon turned into an earthquake. 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 leave in 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 stayed for 2 days. after that, we came till i bustled stadium. i this even help us live. i've been displaced 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. more russia has been among the 1st to aid both nations with a service and helping clear daybreak. and it's 55 think craft extinguish in flames, which you run into following the quakes. moskos rescue teams have also been quick to distribute medical supplies and the other forms of humanitarian aid political effect areas. serious president, assault has personally expressed his gratitude for russia's health 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 support to support country or people support them in every aspect of the total problem or anything the best do i think we think what you've done here is a great work because it the 1st time you have to have touch it is that during the last 250 years complete. so we didn't have any citizen that the got your, your team where very great and helping our team and saving many, many lives. however, the west for years long sanctioning of syria, particularly america, have been blocking vital aid from getting into syria after the disaster. as you can see on this mob,

major carriers with humanitarian supplies have been avoiding the syrian territory as a struggle. the nation struggles to receive the help it needs washington, particularly the state departments ned price say serial has only 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 or 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. i took 5 days off of the quake, shook the country for washington. so announce plans to ease sanctions on syria. i made mounting pressure from states like china and humanitarian organizations such as the red present. we heard from the local report in honda. dolly who describes how western restrictions are hurting everyday people. western confess,

continue to impose those sanctions. those sanctions, not just now, but even during the years of for prevent the theory and from getting there a basic need. for example, if, if the syrian government wants us 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 the sanction. this is just one example of what those sanctions have been doing an effect. how would they have been affecting the lives of the syrian people, the u. s. and western countries in general do not care about history and people's about the lives of the syrians. how can you, how can n syrian civilian or individual here believe that the u. s. care is about 3 and people while the us itself and the us listen, killed hundreds of syrians during the crisis and tried to say on syria, destroyed houses. the u. s. looting serious resources to the us of dividing the country by occupying parts in the north and the north east and giving that oil some

of that oil to the so called through the product courses. former us president donald from said you said we're keeping the oil, we're not allowing, but they're in government to get that oil. so those statements and those act why they not, it is a clear proof that they do not hear about the humanitarian situation inside syria. all they want is to implement their agenda over here. they want their political interests to be achieved. they want the country to stay divided the end of the day . they don't care, they do what they want to do. and even if at the expense of syrians live this week, the media landscape has been shaken by revelations that nato states lead by us specialists were allegedly behind the attack on russia, new street to gas pipelines. according to the investigation, washington had been planning the operations in 2021. why does this isn't 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? that one journalist seymour hersh revealed top us all parties were divided on that plans with the us as well as proposing an aerial attack. utilizing remote detonating explosives and snable forces pushing for a submarine strike or the ideas were turned down in favor of a secret service plot involving a covert operation. us officials, ones you need to hear this for yourself, has previously made no secret of their intentions. if russia invades, then there will be, there will be no longer a north stream to we will bring it into. i am. i think the administration is very gratified to know that north stream q is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the seat. these pipelines that is more streamlined, we're trying to we're not pumping gas into europe that offers tremendous

strategic opportunity for, for the years to come. sy hersh is used unnamed sources to reveal atrocities that they have to deny this, and they have to try and smear this. i hush 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 at the effect of the north stream 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, tony blinking. jake sullivan, the players as he calls it on his substract norwegian prime minister join a store who served on the instruction book now had of nature. the panamanian president florentine

a corte so 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 victorian newland have an effect. murdered. the operation began during nato's annual navy drills and the both exceed close to the pipelines. the timing was designed to mask american uns norwegian divers from russian surveillance with sabbath says allegedly plans in commerce launched sea for explosives. now to cover their tracks, washington officials decided to delay the destination for 3 months until the drills had wraps. a so called independent investigation commission apparently helps cover the tracks of allies, norway, and america, according to her. she's report with the u. s. informing as partners of possible unusual activity in the both. ecc in june, sweden, germany and denmark formed a group to probe, but failed to find any clues, one single tediously blocking russia from investigating its own pipelines. well,

that's as you were paying countries of the consequences of having lunch and dancing ports cut off. the us immediately denied the american journalists revelations, leaving the labeling them complete nonsense. have you or anybody else? armand? of any communication with german, norwegian, ambassador, or other allies, are on this matter. on the matter of north between 2 on the matter of the latest allegations, it would not be typical for us to engage allies and partners on something that is utter and complete nonsense. and that should be rejected out of hand by anyone who is looking at it through us. through an objective lens. are legal, immediate, under this law, you know, questions why the way the media has largely remain silent on the investigation. the bomb shell report doesn't surprise anyone, because immediately after this happened, a lot of people said, wait

a minute. this looks fishy bottle. and 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 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 say 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 whistle blower. 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 as a while. 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 that you love the journalistic practice. if you don't like it, then the people who say this are crackpot lunatics and psychotic conspiracy theorists. the pockets songs government has said to impose a new electricity talk from a citizens in order to satisfy

a demand from the international monetary fund. to really for a long awaited bailout package, islam about has called the new reforms, painful but necessary for the country to receive a one point. 1000000000 dollar trunk from the i m f. well do tax is that the only requirement set by the i m f, which is still in talks with pakistan over the release of the loan. the international finance agency also was islam of bonds who end tax exemptions for its export sector, and raised the price of petrol and gas in the country. by extend has agreed to use these new masters to raise $630000000.00 in taxes by june to prove that they can pay back its upcoming debt. back in 2019 the i m f. agreed to lend packet on $6000000000.00 followed by another $1000000000.00 deal the next year. however, islam about has yet to see any of that money, while its economy slides closer towards the risk of default. the country has already been hit by record inflation as humanitarian dissolve, the following law is devastating floods. millions of civilians remain at risk of

hunger and disease due to contaminated waters across pakistan. a political economist told us the i m. f isn't interested in helping the people of pakistan, it only has about turning prophets into the ality. i'm. it does not get either we at able to fulfill or not i did we, we are facing some problem or not. they are only concerned about the terms and conditions because if we look at the, i may have, they are doing this in a, this alone, they give the loan out of the money to the countries just to meet profit off or off of that. the at least interested what would be impact on the social set up of the country. you can see this is not going back to sun. if you the look at the history of what i'm dealing with, the countries like if the latin america, argentina and the but as the or you can talk about the european countries hungry or the grease. the, i'm not concerned about the social life or the condition. i didn't go walk us on

video card. we will be able to implement. it is a beneficial part, but people are, it has an impact on the people come on people. they are only in frustrated to their program and made, and they want to make sure that the other, when he should be going to come back to them to bid the profit and dbi did. so this is aldo question. he would talk about it on the morality or bad taste, or i'm or worse i am. it doesn't have to have any interest in these things. and he, thanks for keeping his company here in our, to international this sunday. we're back at the top of the hour with more receive them with ah,

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mm. and welcome to wells the part, the year of 2020 to upset the apple car, the international politics in more ways than one. but the launch of the russian military operation in ukraine has definitely been divided that historical timeline into before and after. not only for those with the direct stake in the counseling, but also for those watching from the sidelines. what will it take to ride the car? them get, besides moving towards peace. well, to discuss that i'm now joined from toronto by need a deep and dust from the senior researcher at york university and author of several books on relation between india and the countries of the former soviet union. dr. it's a great on a great pleasure for me to talk to thank you very much for your time. thank you. thank you. and i thank you for the invitation and giving me the opportunity to

speak with the audience through your media. and i have been following trade and r t . so i'm really happy to be part of this show. that's amazing because i found your personal and academic background extremely interesting. and i think it provides a unique vantage point on to this conundrum. because you splash years growing up and studying in both russia and ukraine, then you went on to further your academy career in the west while also keeping in touch with your country of origin in to reach as long strive for a balance position. so i think you have this unique combination of both proximity and distance to everybody involved in this war. and i'm wondering what do you find yourself in all of this? not only as an academic, but also as a human being. i haven't spent a lot of my time in russia as well as in grade during my early i got the kids i

was in russia and then i also started in the ukraine in the if a international relation institute as my specialization is international relations again to weekly, i have been involved with this region for now many decades and i have been working and my research is focusing mainly on the street region. so i have some sort of understanding and clarity of the present situation and why it is today like this and why it appears, whatever it is today. because this is, as we all know, this is not a one day or 2 day conflict. this has been going on for many years and as i mentioned that i have lived there, i know this 2 countries, people are very much of connected with each other, their culture to see they're very similar to each other. and do you have relatives as well as it within their family either father or mother or grandfather and