russia with his 5 year applies and so was installing never wanted to exclude does exclude russia from western pain. from western economist ah, a for the u. s. military and you claim who directed to russia to report on a mike here. also in the role of u. s. intelligence in the conflict, he had a satellite phone and a computer provided by the c i. every day he would call his contacts and he would get some information about the positions troop movements and so on and so forth. a 100 civilians, including children, are injured this year. ukraine continues got 3 bond landlines throughout

residential areas and they've done that. the public front to world can be made a scapegoat for africa problems all run into a war for implant. according to prison law, my head of this for nation or of the continent coming and made much recent opposition to paris is present in the region. a nigeria awaits the announcement of the results of the country's presidential and parliamentary election as a vote counting continued to pass as a result are already close in friction among some candidates with good afternoon and welcome to international broadcasting alive from moscow, is just past the hour and as always, it's great to have you with us. i'm, well, i have um, let's take a look at the top stories. this are allegations of war crimes,

the presence of the far right and even c i a involvement. these are just some of the revelations exposed by a former us mercenary in ukraine, who recently defected to russia. john mcintosh, a full us soldier, signed up as a fighter, the ukranian army at the start of the conflict. shocked by what he saw on the ground, he became this illusion and fled for his life, often gathering information about what was happening around him. his odds, he's more, i guess, years exclusive interview. for almost a year for my u. s. army soldier, john mcentire, was a foreign mercenary in ukraine. donna, men on boys 3. 0 oh, when you get a new game. earlier this month he defected to russia. he

bought everything with him. papers filed intelligence and maps. the thing is he always meant to 1st question is why, why are you here? i mean, well the reason i came to you craner 1st place, you know, on the communist, i'm an anti fascist and we have to fight fascism everywhere. you know? so on our came when i came to ukraine, i knew that i would try to give as much information as i could about, you know, anything would be helpful and a defect across lines. the problem is, is when i was in a harkell, i was going to swim across and i found out ahead of snipers and position. so if anybody i, and actually found out that the cyprus referred to factor is not for actually our protection. they are actually anybody to try to defect. they would shoot them, you know, since march 2020 to john served in ukraine's foreign legion and nationalist

battalion carpet's k c h. he saw and documented the ukranian war machine in all its ugly glory from the inside. he became part of it. god bless you, great. god bless america. but you, russia, russia, russian, russia. can i ask step on this slow glee, her own father, thrasher. russia. less time when own, you know, had to become more nationalistic, more not sophistic, you know, do in the videos where you didn't. and yeah, yeah, of course of course is part of it to maintain our cover because i got to become new . you know, to me, if i'm going to be with him, i got to become them, you know, and doing hitler salute, stepping rush and flags, everything. what about clubs were to start, you know, on my 2nd day and ukraine,

we were in the level of and we were in like a school, but we were in like the basement. and what they did was i have a group of people roma, but they call them gypsy, you know? and what they did is they take the refugees and put them above us. and the soldiers below that way, if they bond to school, they say look, they bomb the school for refugees. and this is a common practice. and don as car cove, we occupy civilian houses. next house is that people are still living in that way. if they bomb and kill civilian, they bring in the news crew and they say, look at this house, they blew up and they killed the civilians. but what the camera doesn't show used in the left to the right is our houses are filled with military. you know, of course i haven't seen seen this in person. thank god, but i know that a lot of captured russian soldiers, they'll take in, cut the genitalia with a knife and everything and cut them, cut their stomachs open with their throats, cut their heads off and stuff like this, you know, really horrible. horrible stuff was the work of nationalists and she was just yeah,

just extremist in different organizations as all no contracts with them. yeah. they were foreigners, they didn't even take part with any of these. yeah, they told you earlier, they had shot 3 people in the back of the corners from portugal refinance and they're wanting some argentine, are they proud? yeah, they're proud john documented everything was in his phone, his head and then the papers he brought along. when you, when you came over he said give you a spot that you hand over for example, bases and stuff. lease. yeah, yeah, of course intelligence agencies, of course, everything from the command structure names, you know, weaponry, everything. and i was successful and no more than successful. john also testified about how deep us involvement in this conflict ease. there has been

a usaa participation in the war when i was in the international legion, there was a he was like a military intelligence officer from the navy. and he listened. yeah. and he had a, well, he was in the foreign legion and he had a satellite phone in the computer provided by the c i. and every day he would call his contacts and he would get some information about the positions troop movements and so on. and so forth and durham, his name. yeah, yeah. what was it? i might not. what was his name? is he on so? sorry, i can remember 1st name at least um there's like marcus or something like that. like, for example, they would provide like grid coordinates. the wealth of information he has provided is already being used by the russian military and law enforcement have least walk crimes. and now even more names to them or is years of work ahead. but we had

one final question for john a year after all is a long time. if he, i mean, they're going to watch this. they do, they're going to see this. yeah. busy people, the people you, you serve. good. yeah. what would you say to them? all fair in love and war. you know, it is what it is aspires exist, you know. and i'm a spy. and mission mission accomplished with yes, awesome. more at gas, dia r t, from moscow. war than 250 according troops have been killed as the russian murphy continues its advance for the de nest republic. according to the defense murphy, these spoke exclusively about the latest updates on the front lines of the head of

the dentist republic. dentist pushes him and a switching metal center. one of our tel mosque is really in the spotlight right now. recently, 2 settlements were liberated america and jaga met with us, which allowed wagner to get closer to settlements. that allowed them to squeeze the ring tighter around or tell moscow taking into account that there are no longer any roads or enemies supply lights. there are not under fire under the operational control of our units. this greatly complicates the already difficult situation for the enemy in the city itself work a little harder. we also saw that the enemy blew up the dam, trying to slow down the advance of our unit 14, but could not create critical difficulties for our trip. see, the enemy continues to transfer additional reserves, which characterizes the severity of the battles that our units are conducting. daniel sco, sometimes our troops, wagner div, do the impossible, but move forward and you will see there are significant improvements in the update direction as well. in the questionnaires to split, just suddenly jill,

it's of shows to look at how flag everything is being done by the other side to the feet are all means i'm it, all this is being done using civilians and we did get that impression because he showed me that on which my practical social, this is already they established practice of the armed formations of ukraine in general, the ukrainian regime to create the most difficult conditions for the civilian population swells. and this is what the current blockades are connected with. and those that have been in place since 2014 will the, at some point, which with this tactic became even more cynical. we see the better and seen and terrorist organizations. so 3 children, 93 people have already been angel, including 8 children from pedal mines dropped by drunk. so some his name, g, g. as in crane scott, his bond battle mild throughout residential. there isn't a dentist. the public auntie is ruined. closer visited and local, half of the way he spoke to the child injured by the dead. the weapon several

districts here in dallas have been under fire by the ukrainian military in the last 48 hours. as a result, several people were wounded. all of them are being taken to these hospitals, but apart from a shilling residential areas, ukraine are all so planting, so called petal mines mines that are designed to make a person for life. these people are also in this hospital right now. we'll talk to the head doctor who will tell us about them. missionary answered when i give her flipper since last summer, we've been actively receiving the victims of petal mines for 2 or 3 people a day. we worked with the media, inform the public that the injury from such a mine is very severe and immediately leads to a handicap. it's almost impossible to say the foot and the lower part of the leg. unfortunately, many of our civilians, including children, have suffered from this insidious mine. children are stepping on them. some even picked them up by raising awareness we managed to reduce the number of such cases,

but they still exist. one or 2 a week. 93 people had become victims of the soul. colds at that's all or butterfly minds, his thought of the special minutes. reparation of those 93 people. 8 were children . one of the latest victims he is in this dorm right now. his name is mazar. i will talk to him and go tell me the story of how it happened. was it a shall so story told rosie when i was returning from the store, i met some friends and stopped to talk to them. there were all the people walk in there on the road site. when i got into the car, i stepped on a paddle mine. it wasn't visible. all the garage in the area was trampled the image . see, for those white eloquence isn't the windows and you must say, do i with the, with us for i want to take up sports. if i can muster, feel yet he stopped on the man on the side of the road. there is cross next week. so many people had walked past, but he was unlucky. the doctor said his like as much as they could. you can see for

yourself what condition the like is in the thing is are all intact. but we're still need to see how they will move in function. you whack constantly under fire. when i was on my way to the hospital now there was have a shelling shell recently fell into the courtyard. all the windows were blown out. everything is in a white folk, it's dark on the right side of the house, the corner was completely destroyed. it's very scary. almost 4 and a half 1000 people have been killed here in don abbas by ukrainian artillery since the start of the special military operation. 132 of those victims were children to right now as i speak, the shilling offer residential civilian areas here in the nest. continue him as the day progresses. we might hear half more victims from lancaster f r a t. the next republic. emanuel micron says paris were made drawn into

a competition for access to africa. the fresh for president was come ahead of his upcoming tribute to the continent which could prove eventful after a strong recent opposition to france's presence. there is the take of odyssey contributor rachel larson. let's face it, knock holes. big new french strategy in africa. speech was always going to be about how paris was going to maintain a foothold in africa after being booted out of its traditional stomping grounds. so that's a hell region where it's stability and security and counter terrorism operations lead to who's in places like molly and she had us running around with about as much discipline as french kids on a school greg talk about terrorists. so african countries are increasingly opting for deeper cooperation with russia and china as a result of basically france. and wes fiascos are increasing fiascos and not mix harris and the west in general,

really nervous. so now michael has just announced that he suddenly does not believe in military contests between countries, i guess because france is losing on that footing in africa. so he's just going to change the rules. now. i mean, kind of like we did in preschool and we are playing games. we didn't like that. we were losing, he basically said that africa should not be reduced to grounds for a military measure in contest. so he's declaring a quote end of a cycle for france in africa. frances military footing has been used by others. he says to say that france only had a security agenda. so what is michael's big idea now? well, there was a clue that was going to be about money when he made a positive reference in his speech, frances financial community of africa's fall come. so it was the currency that existed in france before the euro. he referred to it as one in france as big contributions to the continent. but here's what italian prime minister george

maloney sad about the ca hawk in 2018 where so monday, you know, this is a child who acts in a gold mine in booking our fossa. it's one of the poorest nations in the world, france prince colonial money for burkina faso, which has gold in return. they round at 60 percent of everson, burkina, faso exports and jump in the coffee of the french treasury. the gold that this child goes down the channel to extract mostly ends up in the coffee of the french state. so the solution is not to take the africans and bring them to europe. the solution is to free africa from sat to europeans who exploited and allowed his people to leave off what they have. so now michael wants to build on that, where he considers a wonderful symbol of french african cooperation, which is quite controversial for a lot of africans, especially with respect to sovereignty over their own currency. to focus on investments in health care, education, digital technology, sports culture,

small business. it seems the macro has literally just discovered soft power. so instead of going into african countries under the pretext of helping with security and sticking around long after the situation gets even worse in hope of eventually scoring some natural resources. so basically, the american model not call is now proposing to go in with footballs, french style, philosophical debates, maybe some johnny holiday cds with the hope that all of this might ultimately help to shake loose some sweet, sweet african resources. presumably, he said that france is going to defend its interests, but also do a respectfully of africans. not sure how admitting that you're taking a different approach to manipulating them as being respectful. but okay, looks like washington is also trying to see if it can be self serving li, influential by using sweetness and candy instead of bombs. literally, that is what you as 1st lady joe biden did recently in the media by giving out

candy eminem's to kids. of course, all these investments that mark hold talks about will ultimately benefit french firms in africa. that's always been the case with us in western investments on the continent. but it seems like they're trying really hard create this kind of p, r friendly guy, image of candy and rainbows, all white washing their militaristic, field, militaristic, and background of militarism. all kind of trying to portray russia and china as the bad guys amount to the latest developments from the general election in nigeria. road counting is underway to determine the next president i'm parliament of africa's most populous nation. a

preliminary results show the people's democratic policies candidate, i think who obama has a good one, west and, and 4 north eastern states wallets. in the booth on the ruling old progressives, congress party leads in 6 regions, mostly in the west, while the labor policies peter o. b got the most, both in full states, including lagos, which was lost by state government to this policy for the 1st time in decades. early the state of cano has been won by another candidate representing the new nigerian peoples policy. and while the results of the world continued to be announced, some candidates have already declared that concerns about the results. peter obese labor policy stated that it has lost confidence in the results being collated and announced demanding

a revision of the results or the complete cancellation of the elections. peter o, b won a majority in the she states of legal, but the policy representative believes the results were under estimated is not i see with that, that is it to representation of the, of the electrodes of it. we know and now it just know on the news on the exam, probably not that much, you know, the cheese. so shell you more than what was before. 2 peter, all these rivals from the democratic people's party ills rejected the preliminary results. mod, singing protests on monday, i am seeking to stop the election through the course. the apc campaign council has accused the palsy of attempting to throw the country into constitutional crisis. on these african correspondent cannibal at la grange. this will they changed in the

year was to have electronically transmitted, revolves to the ionic server in a boucher being transmitted electronically. and ionic has been unable to do so in many of those instances must abaca general because the other hand has said that it's becoming of ironic and the security forces to not address the issues that have mod this elections. and those include voters oppression, our violence as well as intimidation that have come to mob these results saying that without addressing those they, they give further illegitimacy to the results that are being announced from a boucher. but here's the picture. as we know so far, foreign observers have also called on, on ionic to not overlook the irregularities that have come to characterize these results. seeing that anything less than that gives

illegitimacy to the bad results. but here's the picture that we know so far. a p c, b lead here by bowler to know who has captured or has managed to win. at least 6 of the 37 states that make the federal republic the a p. c. as those who followed by the p v that the people as democratic party and they are led in this or in this regard by article backup. and they have claimed 5 states, according to the results coming out of a boucher and those states include adama or soon gone bit. yorba and can fina state casino plus is the state that mama dubois to the incumbent of nigeria emanates from that is something unheard of. that you find that the state of origin of the current head of the is being one by the opposition. but of course,

the 3rd leg in the stick. so puzzle is the labor and labor being represented by the old b as also according to the results emanating out of the correlation. santana, boucher claimed for states and those dates are nice that our all new going auto as well as where we are right now. the state of lagos, which is traditionally seen as the stronghold of general, a man who is seen as the invisible hand here, who continues to dictate how the machinations of power continues to happen in this state at the very least. and remember, this is important in the sense that it affects how the elections are ren. no candidates are regardless of how much vote they get can when the national elections, if they do not achieve that 25 percent threshold in at least 2 thirds

of the states in nigeria, that means they have to win at least 25 percent of $24.00 states in order to qualify to become president. and if that criteria is not met, that means we are in for our re run of these elections. the be the v and labor as well as many others while a party space, a walk out yesterday out of a boucher theme, that they feel that the results emanating out of the correlations that i really do not have any fan and do not have any legitimacy when it comes to how the state is read, but that is not the call that we're finding out of a pc, which of course is the leading in terms of number of things. one. and they're saying that the and the result announcements must continue as is because they feel

that any of their grief parties knows exactly where to go. should they have any grievances. and that was one of cause is the nigeria court of justice. so a lot of stake i'll see is the best place to be for all the updated on the elections and the future. the nations 220000000 people will the next full years. all the big developers right here with what you covered with ross's top different survey lever will with the indian capital for a meeting of g 20 foreign ministers on wednesday. international corporation. i'm not certain in the position of the global south on the internalization arena and

made a rising western russia are exposed to be on the agenda. all seekers sorta runjun shaw my examines the details of the upcoming high profile love robes with india is extremely significant in the backdrop of growing bilateral dies between the 2 countries. as western sanctions against russia have meant that by default, corporation between the 2 countries has accelerated, all relationship with russia, i think has been extraordinarily steady. it has been studied through all the dublin and, and global politics. so as i said, again, you know, the opposition, perhaps it's their job to criticize, it would be nice if they do it with a little bit more information and i could issue in the us, russian, all import search to a record in january in moscow ruins of talk oil supplier, do new delhi, but it's not just energy, other sectors as well. for example,

there's been a nearly 400 percent jump in russian merchandise in ports. now the 2 countries also aimed to continue working on facilitating trade in local currencies. now what could be discussed in the need is also approaches and cooperation of existing institutions, such as the f, c, u, and bricks. this meeting is one of the biggest events ahead of the final g 20 summit in september this year. and for the more the government for this meeting, the focus really will be on multilateralism need for reform and food and a miller g security. now the challenge for india is that these very rural issues could be overshadowed by the western demands for india to condemn russia. something that we saw last week in the g 20 finance ministers needs in bank lou.

it is our hope that india will use their influence with russia to support an end to this conflict. and as foreign minister j shankar has said and to the conflict according to the principles of the un charter. but in deals largely kept a neutral stance on the conflict. declining to blame rochelle for way to remember in dallas. been seeking a solution to dialogue in diplomacy in dallas also consistently abstained from un. what's against moscow? diplomatic sources say that india will continue to maintain a neutral stance on you. queen d. c. b shall be perfectly. i'm since the beginning of the developments in ukraine, india has insisted dome resolving this dispute through dialogue and diplomacy. india is ready to contribute to any peace process. so india will have to walk in a tight diplomatic rule so that under it's presidency, the foreign minister tells me,

does not go the same way. but the g 20 finance ministers meet did or say for example, the same outcome as the g 20 summit in bali in november exposed. believe that in dallas or at the highest level, where require a diplomatic balancing act like no other for this week and 4 months to come over. this is our, my colleague, louise, sushi will be here at the top of the album before he joins you on board campus as well as a pot. i might have already with you all a terrific aah with

ah! with welcome to well depart. being part of europe, if not geographically done culturally, has been a century long aspiration for the countries and its periphery, especially russia and truncate. they emulated european customs and taste, tried to borrow its best practices, but always felt sure the all over snobs why they're enlightened european neighbors

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