gaming, he tells us what's behind this synergy, and if it's the future with joe biden makes a surprise visit to meet with president to the landscape. the trip becomes exactly 9 years after the deadliest day and the my done crew protest, which was the last, ober valley the us leader, also ahead ukrainians. they were planning to hold these positions for a long, long time. well, this particular sector, it fell in less than a week or 2 reports from the don. boss frontline, does russian forces break you premium defenses in, on a raw in the key city of our channels? africa must not be left in china's hands. that's the view of western political or

lead something unit security conference. as a new leader is paula. for a stronger presence on the continent. something basically is crucial with not at night here in the russian capital. this monday, my name's unit and this is r t international. we will get to those headlines in a moment. but 1st this our, some reach news reaching us from turkey. yeah. where another to earthquakes have been recorded. measuring $4.05 magnitude on the richter scale at both. again, check the country southern province of like you have to take the embattled area there, you know, right on the border with are mastery and it comes of course, some, 2 weeks after this. raise

a massive tremor. stuff left over $40.00 and dead in turkey, a 1000 more in syria. well, just the news lines coming into the latest quake. it was felt in lebanon, syria, cypress, israel. these are pictures that we received a little while ago from there, giving you a sense of the destruction day more on this. of course, when it comes into us from the a province where another series of earthquakes have hit the region. when we get gunners, they get to diction. doing that for us or i to our headline stories today, u. s. president joe biden has made a surprise visit to kiev, where he met with the ukranian leader nearly a year after the starts of the conflict. after photos, quite a few of them, the u. s. president sat down on reaffirm washington's on wavering support to

ukraine and pledge to send even more money on weapons. the new package, whereas half a $1000000000.00 is said to include hi, marge, amunition, and the tank systems are all we would go by and visit comes out. ukraine marks 9 years since the deadliest day of the my done protests in the government, which left dozens killed on more than 150 wounded. essentially, that was a precursor to where we are today. ortiz marina costs for a house they for rick donna. this is how it was portrayed in mainstream media, unarmed protest is done down in the street by the right police who were retreating from gifts. my dad square, i had to had lines of security forces a short distance away. oh, standing beyond the range of rocks and bottles, testers have home me shields and numbers. the police have water cannon and some

grenades, but this is what it looked like in reality. ah. after 3 months of confrontational caves, main square, the situation reached the boiling point, and the 20th of february, 2014 became the bloodiest they of them. i don lee been 49 dead and a 157 people wounded. this was the turning point. the protest could have died down, but they didn't, they got more violence. and the claim was that the violence was coming from the governments. a great way to force the cranes president, to succumb to protesters. the mans, 9 years on. and there are still no proof that government forces were shooting at protesters only evidence to the contrary. the snipers firing were from buildings

controlled by pro european protesters and based on forensic evidence, many of those who were killed and wounded were shot in the back or from significant vertical angles. whereas the police were right in front of them, or on the same level, at least with the top to bottom direction of his wounds. his position of the video and findings from forensic medical examination about the location of entry, wounds in his right side and back, indicate gunshots from that hotel and not from the bear could ukrainian special forces in front of him. several other eye witnesses including other my don protesters, a medic, and a german journalist also said he was killed by a sniper from the hotel ukraine. in particular from the 7th floor. there is more, the bullets came from hunting rifles. well guess what? government forces didn't use haunting rifles, but do you know who did? that's right. the protesters, something that was even documented on mainstream media conservancy built several

100 meters away. his firmly in the hands of the protested erection. just after 8 o'clock that morning, a news photographer managed to get into the building with his camera. when i come inside, i will saw the guys one come after me with jobs hunter, gun hunting rush. not exactly a clear picture, is it incredible? considering it's been 9 years, but what's more, incredible is the evidence that has magically disappeared. we must realize that the way the investigation was conducted unfortunately, did not give society answers to key questions. we have huge questions about the quality of the investigation. some materials simply disappeared, while in other points the investigation was sabotaged. this is the man who was adamant that the government controlled the laborers and not my don leaders like himself. so where is the proof?

know where to be found. apparently the shields and the helmets of those 2 were killed and entered. where are they gone? extract the bullets disappeared. recordings of live streams cctv from hotel krajina arrays. isn't that weird, even e u of special started wondering what was going on as we later find out from this leaked phone call. it's really disturbing that know that, you know, coalition that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened so that there is a stronger and stronger understanding behind snipers. they were, it was not but it was somebody from the new coalition. it's already discredit dates from very beginning, goes to this new college. yeah. it's really disturbing. bob, let's continue supporting them. anyway. after all, the west had been egging them on for so long. big story, newland flew in 3 times and was literally feeding pro european protesters. us

senator john mccain joined the party and courage and protesters to keep going, agreeing with them. but their future is in europe no matter what their democratically elected president wants or has decided to do. the people know that the united states stands with you in your search, or just for human, ridiculously. you got a curity or he can make hell and for the european future that you have chosen and the people your moment, this is about, you know, why no one else really. then why was the, was la, truly in ukraine's business discussing and planning who should run once we've all

heard the leaks conversations where the west insisted on that, then you get a new so become ukraine's new leader. and sure enough, there guy was installed and traveled to washington right away. so the crowds in the key of and the folks in washington got what they wanted. a pro western governments would know twice to russia, a scary prospect for those ukrainians who aligned with russia linguistically, historically, and culturally so they up to the streets, often meets in a brutal consequence. like the massacre in odessa were almost 50 of them were trapped in the building that will set ablaze, burn and i'm alive. this of course cemented clearly, the hatred between the 2 sides realized that keith had decided to our fate without asking us. they said that they wanted to be with europe and didn't need the ration customs union in russia to the things that were going on and key disturbed that hugely

the will know what happened after that crimea detached and joined russia. the civil war and don't boss started a need so began arming the key of regime with civilians terrorized for years. now let's take a moment to remember john mccain's words and key if once again this is about the future you want for your country. this is just the future uses this or what is this what he had in mind? surely the wife didn't expect rossa to allow a puppet regime to terrorize its civilian and arm up along its borders with hopes and dreams of being part of nato. every action has a reaction, and that was actions points to the fact that my done was a gateway. so a war was russia ran a cost rather ticking us through that. now, just hours before joe biden, surprise visit to kiev ukrainian shelling killed

a 12 year old girl and village in russia's western belgrade region. the governor there said the girl had been in the street talking to her father on the phone when 9 artillery runs pounded the area. later, another artillery strike on the same village called a woman and went to the man, according to the local governor, who said a poultry farm was also hits in the attack. well, our residential areas are hit by ukrainian shells. russian forces are advancing on the front lines. the ministry of defense has confirmed the taking of the village of press copy africa, a stronghold north of the in buffalo, key city of archer, most also known as back moot. r t t gr shit. down off reports from positions recently secured by russia's wagner, military company. a warning, some of the footage ahead is disturbing. ah.

less than 12 hours ago, the entire territory of this cargo railway station was under the ukrainian control . well, now it's wagner's domain from north fenwick, from north, there was fighting here in the night. military formations were in residential areas . machine guns and grenade launchers were firing here. sure. they had a great position for shooting our boat, but our guys took this railway area by storm pennyworth. the enemy lost about 40 soldiers out of a 100 of them. the others just ran away. and this ambulance on black military plates, which means it was officially on ukraine's army. roaster was no aid or humanitarian vehicle. it was used by keep troops to deliver reinforcements and ammunition with a disguise. it's crew found their final rest right next to it,

r o j america's go. these are us made weapons. they use this ambulances cover to deliver ammunition and food supplies were more secure with very low. you are strictly on good. i so mercenaries from south africa here, i saw your instructors, germans polish ukrainians from the i dar and as of battalions, as well as the ukrainian paratrooper brigade. there was a strong group here, made up of all they've got, they didn't want to give up our cham, oscar, the road we cut off was very important for them. they were using it to deliver ammunition and food. but now that road is no more thorough as well as is mercenary . well, now you have to brace yourself for some truly gruesome images. the defensive lies here in this building are held by u. k. mercenaries. this is one of them all. what's left of one of them

close quarter combat is what wagner excelsior fighter, who was among those who stool this building shares with me, what kind of resistance they had to overwhelm yours. machine gunners held up defenses in every stage. here those are, they were even shooting in corridors to the door. it didn't help them though. surely our guys know what to do so much. they entered the building the right way and covered each other. look, ah, the ukrainian command used this factory warehouse to shelter a tank ammunition crates are scattered all over the place. a roundly wagner fighters are telling me that the everything indicates that the ukrainians they were planning to hold these positions for a long, long time. but well, this particular sector, it fell in less than a week,

which means these are improved, some tank tracks spoke there. they made a trench probably for tank ammunition. they planned to hold this position for a very long time on the road and did a lot of preparation for that, but they managed to keep it for only 5 days. just unconsciously. what happened to the tank? i will talk over there about a kilometer and a half from here. it stir it was blown off here. russia has tightened the noose further on ukraine's garrison in back. moot. because all this is a prelude to the resounding crescendo of the fool of the city to the choo. wagner, i'm just done of reporting from the dumbass artsy kennel the story to bring you to day. the launch of the e. use new civilian mission in our media has been slum by moscow. the foreign ministry spokeswoman described thus nothing but on attempt to weaken russia's rule in the region. by emphasizing the exclusively civilian nature of the new mission,

representatives of the european union are lying. that is revealed with, in the definition of the use common security and defense policy. unfortunately, this is not the 1st time we've recorded the desire of the european union and the west as a whole, to gain a foothold in our ally armenia by any means. we see in these attempts and exclusively geopolitical background, far from the interests of real normalization of relations in the caucasus. everything is being done to squeeze russia out of the region and weaken its historical role as the main guarantor of security. will ortiz total quarter joins us know for more on the story high. donald, so you have the west there for pushing for a bigger footprint in the caucus as take us through. that and mosque was response. well, you know, as we just heard, maria's har of, of the 1st thing she said was that european officials are lying when they say that

this new e u mission to the region is of an exclusively civilian nature. that's because that this admissions deployment actually serves the interests of the european union's common security and defense policy according to the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman murray is a harv also said that this is not the 1st time we've seen the west and the european union tried to advance its geopolitical goals in our mania and the wider caucuses region, which historically we vis. this is a place where russia has been the main guarantor of security. now, just to give you a bit of background, open hostilities between armenian, azerbaijan broke out over the new gordon a car buck region, once again, back in 2020. and it was russia that negotiated the ceasefire. since then, moscow's peacekeeping force in the region has been successful in keeping tensions down. that's because russia is a party that's trusted by both r armenia and azerbaijan. so this new e, you mission to the region, which has representatives from states that are unfriendly to russia,

which is said to be a frown upon by azerbaijan, is likely to undo a lot of that progress that the russian peacekeeping mission has made in the region . and even potentially allow hostilities to escalate once again. yeah, we're away. further on vacations on this thanks very much. donal r. t correspondent donal quarter now africa is crucial for the future of europe and cannot be left in china's hands. i was the rather per georgia tech message coming from italy's foreign minister of the munich security conference in the discussion regarding the need for a stronger european presence on the continent. during the discussion, if we want to be the we for a stronger to europe among natal it in europe, a more presence in africa, look up african to look at africa is crucial for the future.

to leave africa in chinese and is a big mistake for everybody here. africa chose china as its largest trading partner in foreign direct investor. why is europe trying to drag africa into it? spat with china as well. they sound upset that the girl thereafter doesn't want to eat at their table in a school cafeteria. maybe she just likes to hang with different groups of people. okay. and what about american bases in 5 african countries? does the italian foreign minister mind that uncle sam's hands are all over africa? or is that no problem? because that's his body. how many times have we heard the west concern trolling africa as in lookout? don't let china just because it's a deck trop. turns out that africa owes 3 times more debt to western private

lenders than it does to china. that's according to world bank data. and someone else was back on the scene. evoking is neil colonialist fantasies regarding africa . again. chief, you diplomat, joseph burrell. i travel around the world and particularly in the countries of the south. i see how powerful is the russian narrative that wants to reduce the born ukraine to a conflict between the west and russia is powerful accusing us of double standard. we must debunk this narrative and explain how rush acts as an imperialist power. president micron referred to a neo colonial power. yes, it is what it is. let's call it by its name. it is an imperial attitude from a powerful neighbour that wants to take control of some country that belongs to its political sphere. big headline in the western press out of munich, screamed quote, western please over ukraine failed to sway global south. maybe the west is not as attractive as they seem to think they are, or maybe they don't understand the mindset of those they're looking to seduce.

here's the u. gadsden and namibian foreign ministers with some tips for the west on why their charm offensive isn't working. we were colonized and forgave those who colonized us. now, the colonizers are asking us to be enemies of russia, who never colonized us. is that fair? not for us. their enemies are their enemies. our friends are our friends. the bottom line is that money used to buy weapons would be better used to promote development in ukraine, in africa, and asia in the you itself, where many people are facing hardships. pretty sure that none of the self help books on making yourself attractive to others. say to tell them not to watch certain networks like r t to monitor or control who they hang out with, like russia and china, and to treat them like they don't really know how to handle their own affairs. so maybe the west should try getting some perspective

o way from their bodies. all these group think driven safe spaces like the munich security conference. ah, the white house has drawn condemnation from its european partners after announcing measures to support its green technology industry. leaders in europe claim washington is asking them to follow a protectionist policy that only benefits you us. our most important trading partner decides things in their own interest. they keep doing this. they want us to support them on china. the ways or achieve, i'll come by american that through joint action and common standards. well, the latest package in america's new infrastructure bill includes support for investment on the promotion of domestic production. and i'll tell you was there's a lot of zeros in those figures. 7 and a half $1000000000.00 for electric vehicle charging $10000000000.00 in clean

transportation projects and more than $7000000000.00 to develop electric car battery components, critical minute routes, as well as at raw materials as well. lot of money involved. well, let's talk live now to economist, the editor of the vert, shaft actual newsletter friend of the program as well. how much it welcome to the program. it does appear that europe, twiggy, what's, what's happening here? there's a lot of money, but a lot of it's going to be in washington's pocket. take us through what's got the mama mated here. well, if you regard all these green deal, all the things around the green deal in europe or the health program or inflation reduction act in the us, you will see that both of these programs are managed by black rock. so black rockers writing the text, what it is men for, and so on. and now the europeans wondering that it benefits us and them. so nearly

everything that comes from the u. s. against the people in europe, it's against the economy in europe. because america now wants to suck out europe for its own benefit, and they want to take, make sure that germany, especially, but europe, economies is under the thumb of the us and they cannot survive on their own. so the europeans are now, or some, or europeans are now recognizing that this is the case and that they did really bad behavior against the european economies. something else that i think doesn't get enough critical response, because maybe it's just not knowing about the issue. i q of net 0, not, it's been called a quasi religious drive to get fossil fuel emissions done to nothing. know, people support again thing it's going to be wonderful. it's going to harold, a new world. but other say it's going to be expensive. it's going to kill

industries, it's going to hit the purse of the pur and other negative fissures. and the thing here is that europe is all for it. the they're going for, they're pushing other countries as well, in africa cetera. but the u. s. hasn't signed onto a particular date to cover it. they're going to be using a lot of fossil fuels in the future. so europe is being hit the hardest here as well. not only am if you, if you recognize or if you as an economist, you would say, if i really want to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions, then i go to the biggest polluters and try to reduce the biggest pollutions. so just one day where the americans don't do war is saving more c o carbon dioxide than the german car user can save with not driving at all in the entire year. so this is just hippocratic at all and i don't think it is about

really the environment because why do you engineer data who are supporting this climate problem and so on and so on and do very high, expensive or very expensive programs, but destructive for the economy in europe and why are you doing all these things? you don't do this because of the environment. you do this because of economic dependence. this, this is the war of the us again, europe against germany, especially. and they went one after the next industry in germany, the banks, the car industry, the health industry. they take one after the next to really put germany down and to, to, to hire these companies to the us. as well as allocate comes in the back of wiley expensive at gas going from the u. s. to europe. there,

there is no big discount. there is, there european countries are, while european citizens, i should say, are paying through the nose for their friends across the gland. to, to make bigger profits. that's. that's true, isn't it? that's just fox. yes, this is not only, this is fact, this was forced to it according to say, my hearse. it's the us who blew up be, or who made to who are behind the blow up of the na stream to pipeline, to make it exclusively that only the u. s. and norway can deliver gas. and then before they really pushed the german energy industry towards a gas and they are the only ones delivering it. so this is all about sucking out the germans and knocking them down. and the german economy has a disadvantage by these super high price with energy prices,

but they cannot survive with. and i think business exactly what is about the u. s. is getting rid of a competitor with the help of their puppets in the european commission. oh, is food for thought when you're in the program? i can, thanks for your time today. we do appreciate it. economist on bert shaft, actual newsletter editor, i can hummer live on our to. thank you. now just finally, before we go on a fit this story and as the rocephin cation process for sweden and finland to join nato, drags on as a has been the nordic countries are still pushing to be accepted together. however, the alliance is secretary general. i said it's complicated and the 2 don't come as a package deal. the main issue is not that they ratified together. the main issue is that they ratified is full members as soon as possible. while finland's prime minister is seeking the to, to stay together in the bid, helsinki defense minister said they'd be willing to join the plot independently. it

comes to strict tia has held up sweden's ratification, citing the country's refusal to the port refugees that are great deems of terrorists just weeks ago on christ summoned the swedish ambassador following. as you may remember, a demonstration in stockholm that saw a right wing politician for the koran next to the turkish and the see george wally from the global policy institute london said nature's failure to push both applications forward. well, force the nations to join separately. finland were joined separately if because president air the guy isn't going to change his position on swim sweden, so they're not before the election and need to really calm just cold this you know, in this issue in the bay and month after month, it's already looked very stupid because it was going to rush this through last summer. it didn't happen because of turkey is issues. turkey has res. so it's been,

you know, dragging on and they can't really let this drag over much longer. so they're going to get finland then, and then say, this is a wonderful, great moment, you know, nato expansion continues and we hope that sweden will go in down the road. and that's what i hope that once again gets through the election, then changes positional sweden, all and nato is hoping. above all, everyone will be defeated in the next election and then wherever succeeds him will basically toss aside the objections of sweden's membership. but i think they're going to join separately now with the one year anniversary of rushes, military operation, and you can and on boss occurring this way. cross talk has been looking back on the past 12 months. that's how the conflict ship the region, the wider world. well catch peter and.