things that with with getting you weapons now you can be 100 percent. sure. we will destroy these slippers. amc wagner chief shares his insides on the war, ukraine with our correspondence saying the key city of our charm of also known as buck would soon all the runs presidential. is it china wraps up the 2 nations released a joint statement from the opposing political manipulation of the pretext of safeguarding human rights and democracy spain. one of the top carriers in the ukranian grain deal has been delivering weeks not to african states a need, but there is a lifestyle thing as disgusting, you know,

for human beings to be starving. and for the, for the president. although the priority to be fixed, it's almost like putting, you know, the value of human beings to that of like animals. and child trafficking remains a major problem in africa with 4 probation couples the latest to be arrested in zambia, attempting to smuggle children of the company with go to the world, you're watching r t international. my name is peter scott and these the top stories this hour. and we start off with the latest from the war in ukraine. officials in crimea say that local air defense system is shot down to ukrainian drones of the sea, close to the port city of 7. stop all. there's been no information on any damage or casualties. now this comes on the other side of the border. local ukrainian

authorities have confirmed multiple strikes in several regions. at least one strike on energy infrastructure facilities has been confirmed by the head of the western region of evolve. meanwhile, a shocking video reported released by the varden group has appeared on line, wanting to follow images are disturbing. this on verified video, allegedly shows scores of dead ukrainian soldiers in wooden coffins ready to be sent back to the ukrainian side as no information on where this video was recorded . but it comes as a situation for the ukrainian army, continues to deteriorate near the city of thomas known as bachman. multiple reports, the ukrainian forces are preparing to fall back from the region with fighters from the russian wagner group advancing in the area. the head of the group of guinea pig goshen says the city could be surrounded in a couple of months. in my 2 business florida, they're about 90 battalions inside or around by mood. that's about 40 up to

50000 people. the enemy draws up a new reserves every day. we can circle back, move in march or april, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. they are getting you weapons. now you can be 100 percent. sure, we will destroy these leopards. meanwhile, our correspondence is done. i've got a rare opportunity to speak with the wagner chief in person. he get his take on the situation on the ground on described how his fighters are leading the way in combat operations wanting. the support also contains some distressing footage. the few years ago this group was more mythical than real. now we stand in a large warehouse greeted by the head of the wagner company himself. the occasion is solemn, commemorating the self sacrifice of 2 hero pilots. the no man left behind principle in case of the wagner group had applies not just to personnel, but to symbolic relics of war like the remains of this russian bama jet. it was

shut down by the ukrainian forces during the fighting for the city of bar mood. when the pilots realised that while they were doomed, they directed the burning machine towards the enemy, towards their military column dying heroically themselves, while taking a bunch of foes with them. ukraine had already returned with honors the bodies of the pilots. the jets debris though, could only be retrieved now, as the wagner group is closing in on our chops. what? no, no, for a good one for this is flight 48. the guys are fuels we fulfill their desk. having cries to blame the enemy, territory rowing their military convoy, it's now time to commemorate what they have done. what in our charm of score, buck mote, it's wagner verses the entirety of ukraine's military might. no man knows the situation on the ground better than the group's chieftain. precaution. look out for

it for buckled astro bahamas one. why is it important? it's lead to paralyzed the korean army and it's already paralyzed. the enemy is deploy reserve troops, but were advancing in different directions every day, some where it's 50 meters and somewhere it's 100. we're fighting for each house for each square meter. there is a 40 fight area in every yard. then we see another familiar face. a fighter who starred in was believed to be a ukrainian propaganda video. the footage purported to show him being brutally executed, bludgeoned to death. alive well and back in the ranks, he cells debunked the sake. when i was captured, they beat me. i was tortured and pressed into saying what they wanted me to say. i got many threats. they threatened to kill me and dismember my body and post to

footage on line for my family to see were through the loo. oh yes, sure. decorated wagner command is also mingle in the room. they all are very aware of the new batch of heavy western weapons, though soon have to face on the battlefield. wagner's commander of artillery with the smoke. hence, his men have plenty of experience count for cruise using nato made weapons are about a true cover. this is not the 1st time we have encountered nato artillery. so we came here prepared when, thanks to lessons from previous experience against other nato artillery. i'm not going to say which one, but we met more than once and we met some more powerful artillery than the ones here on this front. i'm not going to share the details, but that experience has taught us a lot unusual. based on that, we have developed drug, well, life itself has forced us to develop new tactics for conducting artillery combat operations. no one here showed any disrespect or disregard to the pho skill.

yet no one doubts. wagner will come out victorious. i'm a good done of reporting from the dorm bus r t ah, in the news china and iran have issued a joint statements in which they both condemned the use of human rights on democracy as a pretext for political manipulations. the 2 sites reaffirm that they should follow the principle of non interference in the internal affairs of other countries. emphasizing that the democratic governance models of different nations should be respected. and they oppose political manipulation under the pretext of safeguarding human rights and democracy, interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, while inciting turmoil and creating division of a more details on this. let's go cross live now to c, d, t and correspondent phase phase. great. see you again. can you quickly take us through some of the highlights from abraham rice? he's a visit to china. while peter,

there are several significance of re sees trip in china. it's the 1st state visit by president, re see since you take office. and the 2 leaders, the met him, the 1st day of a racist visit, and they have also in the 1st day witness a series of cooperation documents issued. and the 2 countries also issued joint statement at the last day of races, visits in china, which is on thursday. and it really covers agreements on international regional affairs, including many details, for example, the total $200.00 piece bowed to respect and protect human rights of all countries based on each other's own conditions. and that they should conduct the non interference in other countries, internal affairs, and respect to the governance of all countries. and when it comes to peaceful and economic development, that the both countries aim to promote multilateralism and both countries called

for implementation of the run nuclear deal, which the, which is the joint comprehensive plan of action. and the joint mean read. the unilateral withdrawal of united states from the plan is the root cause of the current situation. so the 2 sides really stress, also stress that those united states and nato should be responsible for the current situation in afghanistan. and economically speaking, your faith ways have the country's plans to expand the cooperation. well, the joint payments really covers many, many perspectives, including economic perspectives. to be more precise, there are 5 sections and they are political perspectives, security and defense, economic development, educational culture and international regional theory. as i mentioned. so the 2 sides emphasize the importance of regional pieces, stability in crucial to the world security as well as the energy transportation and

the 2 countries condemned any form of terrorist attacks action. as mentioned, i can only perspective that really covers a wide range of walk ration. they have agreed to strengthen the cooperation in trade, agriculture, industry, renewable energy infrastructure, and health technology and fines. so those are with the fact to applies the added on . it's already existing long term comprehensive ties between the 2 countries is this me see between the 2 leaders, maybe symbolic of shifting global power. and these take 20 geopolitical shifts that we're witnessing at the moment. well, i would like to quote how china is vice foreign minister. don't me comment on the president races. he says that china is willing to work with like minded countries to oppose a german is empower politics and unilateral illegal ascension. but he also says

that there is no vacuum vacant in the middle east because the middle east has its own masters. the masters are the people all that. so he says they're trying to respect the rights of the people in the middle east and support them to resolve regional issues. and so china is really shaping an order that is based on a respect piece and wellbeing of people of all countries or your facial c, g t, n correspondence. pleasure is always to have you on the channel. thank you for breaking down the key moments of those meetings between those 2 leaders. ah thing one of the top 3 carriers of ukrainian grain deal by the black fee car door has been using the crucial wheat to feed is pigs to sell them more, poke abroad and boost its economy instead of helping some of the poorest nations as was initially believed to contribute. 3rd, rachel marston has more. remember all the talk about how critical it was to get ukrainian grain shipped out of ukraine to feed the hungry in africa and asia. well,

according to the latest real time data published by the united nations black sea green initiative, joint coordination center, the top 3 destinations for ukrainian grain are china, spain and turkey. and those 3 countries alone represent 46 percent of all exports. so we're talking, all exports being roughly $700.00 plus shipments of grain. china acts as the gateway to asia and turkey acts as the gateway to africa. but what's the deal with spain? spain domestically produces more than enough of the grain that it needs to feed its own people with grain for people accounting for just about a quarter of all the countries domestic consumption, the rest of the grade that the country produces goes to feed its livestock. and notably, pigs, spain is routinely ranked as one of the top, if not the top port producing country in the entire world. which means that with

all this grain being imported into spain, from ukraine, now it's hard to escape the conclusion that the countries literally picking out on ukrainian grain. and it's not like this is about making sure that cute little pigs roaming freely around the spanish countryside. don't go hungry, it's not about taking the food out of their mouths. more grain just basically means that more pigs can be churned out for poor to the economic benefit of madrid and ultimately to the european economy. which of course is great for europe. but when exactly was growing spain's pork industry used as a reason to unblock ukrainian grain? last month, spain was able to increase its meat exports by 79 percent overall. that's in part due to its ability to meet china's demands, to sell a 124 per cent, more spanish port to beijing compared to the same period last year. again.

wonderful for the spanish economy, but not exactly following the spirit or the letter of the deal to unblock ukrainian grain to feed. the poor. russian president vladimir putin has repeatedly raised the issue of food from ukraine being misdirected. when i finished give sure you don't know who was in way for korean. almost so grain exported from ukraine is south north of the developing and poorest countries. but to the european union states on the 2 ships out of $87.00 below that as part of the you out of the world food program. i'd like to say that just like money repeating countries. so a previous decade and sensory sector does colonize us. so they continue to do today to feel so just how much ukrainian grain is getting to the countries that need it most. well collectively they're getting about 15 percent of the total export volume, which works out to roughly one percent each. but guess is proud of those efforts,

spain. here's the status. we're administer patty himself and ukrainian authorities on the back last fall for their humanitarian initiative. green from ukraine. spain joins ukraine and the rest of its allies in this program, which is an honor, an immortal testament to ukraine's commitment against hunger in the world, even as it fights against russia's aggression and its indiscriminate shelling of export logistics infrastructure, which endangers millions of people who depend on ukrainian products, but hey, if hungry nations are getting a short changed on the grain, maybe there are at least getting some of the pork from spain after the pigs are done. stuffing their faces with it. currently not. china is the top importer of for followed by japan and then european countries like italy, germany and poland. so if the intent is truly to feed the hungry rather than just benefit europe's economy, the current ukrainian brain, steam is really missing the mark. now this comes on multiple african countries face

a looming famine. somalia recently hit by consecutive droughts is now approaching what aux from describes as one of its worst humanitarian crises in recent history. that's with over 700000, already facing farming and several 1000000 in need of humanitarian assistance. me while international bodies like the international rescue committee and action against hunger, where they warn that's almost 1000000 more people in states like nigeria, ethiopia, south, done an o this on the brink of farming as well. we discussed revelation on spanish policies with citizens of african states who expressed indignation for being forgotten over live stock on commercial interest. i think that's disgusting. you know, thought for human beings to be starving and for, for the, for the president. although the priority to be pigs, i think that is completely unacceptable. what did i think

it's, it's rather disturbing because you know, as africans we definitely needs more than what's currently available to us to consume by then if you really think about it, if that food is really going to pigs, it's almost like putting, you know, the value of human beings to that of like animals, the fee or out of the think big things more important than done us human being for us. he of the controversy comes amid strengthening relations between russia and africa, which are limited to only great exports. what's excuse me, but include various fields with bright development prospects in the future. that's the view of the director of the institute for african studies of the russian academy of sciences in her recent exclusive interview to see they can watch the full version throughout the day on nazi. but his quick preview, interestingly, in terms of technology, russia is particularly competent in areas that africa needs most energy, water,

purification, agriculture, medicine space technology. i t smart cities. these are all priority areas for africa through russia can offer africa lots of valuable engineering solutions to give you one example. we've created a certain type of fertilizer that when placed in the soil, stores moisture for up to 3 months. can you imagine how vital this is for african countries, most of which are located in the arid zone. if you put the fertilizer in the soil, and you don't need to irrigate for 3 months. so when it comes to energy and food security to developmental issues or the processing of mineral resources, that's something that africa has huge reserves of our geologists, our mining companies, our equipment, all that could really help them out. so on the one hand, this opens up prospects for russia, for our own development. and on the other hand,

by capitalizing on our technology, africa would be able to move to a new level of development instead of remaining a resource colony within the wider western system. for croatian couples, accused of trying to traffic children in zambia have been grunted bail and now waiting. the courts hearing in march, the for married couples from croatia were arrested in december while trying to leave the country with 4 children from the neighboring democratic republic of congo . and they claim that they legally adopted the mind that the charges were dropped by the court. but the couples were again detained at an airport in zambia, a local legal and covenant activist told us that the children were emotional as the creations tried to get them across the border, proposed to using force documents to pass through border control. if i'm children way, i crying endlessly, and it became with social consent to the owners of the lodge. and because of that,

it was lated these foreign question, nationals were trying to leave the via, through someone with up with, with what and that's how the way intercepted by the immigration department. what they did, in fact, was that they were found to do our passports, which were endorsed in the passport the child's name was endorsed. as having been adopted by the, the course admission was when the immigration department and the lawyer force me, i guess they've checked for the paper. they 1st picked it. they were forged with poli protected borders. it's relatively easy for criminals to target children in countries like the democratic republic of congo, moving them on to some via and then beyond. but child trafficking has been a major problem in africa for decades. now. somebody itself serves as a regional hub, one, nearly $400000.00 children are traffic in africa every year. western citizens have

been embroiled in multiple scandals involving child smuggling. last year for example, american foster parents were detained in uganda. the child trafficking charges which carry the death penalty to the citizens were also accused of torturing a 10 year old boy in the local arts. vist again says the child trafficking is a long standing major issue for the african continent. he showed his thoughts on the reasons behind the crisis. now what you need to understand, but this has been ongoing for a long period of time because of our port us board that we have been look at the 3 board does. second, your board couple board and one of the board melissa board via through board does not quite paula, especially the 5th to the quiet poor us board. that means that people are able to just cross into call and come back without showing any documentation. and they took advantage of that to put a knife to work with the locals, so that they could get the children and transport them human trafficking. i've

become of much calls saying that your video of things, especially in africa, well, but situations where you thought beyond lebanese being transported into this country through different border and in and very a very same and 5th condition they use content on trucks some day along the way, and that is what we are trying to fight. meanwhile, these really security minister has called for more jewish settlements in the occupied westbank territory. israel belongs to the jewish people. i'm telling the americans and the europeans stop being worried. this is our goal. this is our view . 9 towns is nice, but this is definitely not enough. we want much more statement comes, as israel approves the legalization of 9 said, i'll post in the occupied westbank with more housing unit law to be built in the

existence estimates according to the prime minister. benjamin netanyahu. me about the un security council dropped to the resolution, urging israel to cease all settlement activities. office maria phenomena has the details. this is baked hoglan, one of 9 jewish communities in the occupied west bank that israel security cabinet has rolled to authorize. these were so called wild settlements, considered illegal outposts, according to israeli law, built without government permission, but that's about to change. and mcmillan didn't like we heard about the news. we were excited happy. we came out dance together including the kids, even though some kids were already asleep. we're happy to continue building israel to see this country growing bigger and blooming hustler as the a shuffler. steven my wife and i was sitting on the couch at home, and suddenly we heard the news saying we were tearing up. we were excited and we wound hauled to celebrate with all neighbors. we've been waiting for these for a long time. some of these outposts started with 4 families, he guess was among them. in 7 years,

it grew to 35 families. that's around 100 people, most of whom i children. there are only residential houses here and a synagogue kids go to school in the nearby settlement. the nearest shop a some 20 kilometers away, but locals believe there is a bright future ahead and a hello i'm so we are striving to get bigger and established permanent houses. here we want to establish a big town of 700 families here in israel, in the jordan wiley, in this beautiful strip of lands we want to settle down if we're looking at only those things that we can see. we won't be able to see anything beyond that. welcome to warmly at home. these really government decision has sparked outrage hand control recei beyond the boulders, the 1st of his kind since 2012. this decision was a response to deadly terror attacks in east jerusalem that took the wives of 11 people, 10 of them civilians, including 2 children, fears and concerns. now are that the legalization will only provoke more bloodshed,

a number of european countries. and most recently, canada have old announced to legalize ation of this set, the outposts. the cabinet has also approved the building of some 10000 new units into in some area. these rarely term for the west bank palestinians are outraged. the move comes as israel carries out unprecedented demolitions in the neighborhoods of jerusalem. thousands of buildings that israel considers illegal will be turned to ruins. the satler's have their own view on how things should develop, say a switzerland. it is all right to be here in the tora, god promise abraham, that it is all right to be here. and it doesn't matter what other states say will leave here. we came here after 2000 years of exile and thank god we were privileged to establish a town here more than 475000 israelis leaving over 140 settlements in the west bank, which is also home to almost 3000000 palestinians. all of these settlements are

legal and international law. the palestinian authority has called delayed his decision and open war against its people and is now pushing for un security resolution to block the move israel on his part. he is working hard to convince the us and its western partners to veto this tap. the victory and the stand off will determine whether the place i'm staying in and now will become a new settlement, or if it will remain an illegal outpost. race in ocean r t from bay toggle up on the some in the west. the media are starting to admit the failure of sanctions against the russian energy sector was report, say, last year that russian companies did the most drilling in oil fields in more than a decade. but little sign that international sanctions actually work. so the number of new wells rose by nearly 7 percent with most key oil companies beating the previous year's results. it comes amid a russian energy band by the g 7 states on e. u with moscow, redirects and supplies to the east, making china and india,

the largest importers of russian oil and gas on the continents. where the russian energy states are, hasn't been his as hard by western sanctions as other companies which have stayed on the russian market. despite pledges to leave multinational oil and gas company, british petroleum is also keeping his stake in major russian oil company. ross nef . abundant plans to wind up operations as according to the head of the russian and giants or that will publish educating. we also seen the annual reports that b p, which holds almost 20 percent of the shares in our company, has revised the value of the stake and ra snapped that belongs to them up to 24000000000 dollars. so b p is still with us. earlier i discussed the issue with the former austrian foreign minister who labeled the actions by western companies including b, p, us, hypocritical. well it's, it's quite a surprise that a year later, b p has still it's around 20 percent as a shadow shareholder. if you want to,

despite all the announcements that were taken in the 1st week of dead operation, started in ukraine because they never actually wrote to note her to the russian authorities to formerly withdraw. i saw defacto, they're still in there and they, you are also what do you think that companies such as as b p and indeed other western companies are funded, difficult to cut their ties with russia. i have no idea what is the, what is the real motivation now behind her, how did the p management act and at the very case, but, ah, you could call it double standard hypoxia, see, because on the one hand, all of them want to give themselves dis, sir, green independent image. sure. we don't want to be in fossil fuels. we don't want to have anything to do with a. 3 with russian or energy supply, but on the other hand they are still in dera. and if further where some honest

reporting by western analysts and they would also have to, to point out that b, p is sir, is, is, is, is still with, with last left, not regarding russian russian oil. i'm under the price cap on russian or they've been numerous reports about rational be mixed in with the royals to sort of get around these sanctions or people buying russian oil through india. and indeed, does this plan suits or creates an oil or gas or bye thing in turkey. at what time do you think these sanctions are when it comes to rational and how well can europe and the rest the world do without it to be very blunt. we have an oil embargo for the 1st time to my knowledge in history, which is imposed by the bias and not by to sell us. and now we have to buy us our who put an embargo wire there. sanctions. 7 ah, my 1st reaction when they started to, to enter enter to sir. nonsense. it's very blunt. was our oil is d global

commodity pike's loss? it will always find its way. oh, so oil can be flowing around to close in many ways and it will always find its way . oh, so this obsession by the european commission, by certain c u leaders and that she 7 in toto to put i price caps to put all embargo self imposed oil sanctions. and this leads to nowhere because there's nothing that is more global than oil. that's her up for this. i do check out our website for the latest news and updates. my name is peter scotts, and i'll be back with another look at all the latest news in about half an hour's time. thanks watching. so what he's got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy.