russia had to be sacrificed. he's as don't, we should be like dish davis, mr. ford from us as a lot of some ricardo capital and mitchell knowledge of knowing that the cold war, the gun with headlines right now here when i see into national as we speak exclusively to a former american mercenary in ukraine who defected to russia revealing what he says a war crimes committed by keith. he also describes the role of us intelligence agencies in the conflict and ukraine, satellite phone and a computer provided by the cia. and every day he would call his contacts and he would of information about the positions troop movements and so on and so forth. nearly a 100 civilians, including children, a wounded, over the past year as ukraine sketches, unsee personnel,

land mines throughout the residential areas. and the donates republic also in the program, france wouldn't be made a scapegoat for africa problems or jordan to a tug of war for influence. that's according to president macro. this is for nation tour of the continent, picks also me to rising antiques, french with no shortage of your news. this our naughty international. it's just after 4 pm local time here at moscow. and our top story right now may catch you off god allegations of war cry. the presence of the far right and even c, i a involvement. these are some of the revelations exposed by a former american mercenary in ukraine, who recently defected to russia. john mcentire, former u. s. soldier signed up as a fighter in the ukranian army at the start of the conflict. ultimately shocked by

what he saw, he fled for his life after gathering information about what had happened to all around him. let's get to this exclusive interview with our senior correspondent for almost a year for my u. s. army soldier, john mcentire was a foreign mercenary in ukraine. dana min on boys l o n a good, a 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 who 1st question is why, why are you here? i mean, well the reason i came to you craner 1st place, you know, on a 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 lives. the problem is, is when i was in our 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 cut pots 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 step on this slide will glee, her own slaughter, thrasher,

russia. the time when own, you know, had to become more nationalistic, more not cystic, you know, doing that, explain the videos where you didn't and yeah, yeah, of course of course is part of it to maintain my cover because i got to become new . you know, to me, if i'm going to be with them, i got to become them. you know, and doing, you know, hitler, solute step and russian flags everything. what about clubs were to start, you know, on my 2nd day and ukraine. we were in a 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 i 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 done as car calls. 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 use to the left and to the right is a house is 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 a cut, the genitalia with knives 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 you know, compress, receive people union. yeah. then you them. yeah. they were foreigners. yeah. did. they didn't take part with any of these? i told you earlier, they had shot 3 people in the back of the corners from portugal refinance and now wanting some argentine, are they proud?

yeah, they're proud john documented everything was in his food, his head and then the papers he brought along. when you, when you came over, you said you, 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 to 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 on the war when i was in the international legion, there was a he was like a military intelligence officer from the navy. and he was, yeah, and he had a, well, he was in the foreign legion and he had a satellite phone and a computer provided by the sky. 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 to him, 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. oh 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 who have leased some war 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're going to see this. yeah. busy people, the people you, you served with. what would you say to them? ah, i'll fair in love and war. you know, it is what it is aspires exist,

you know, and i'm a spar. and mission mission accomplish. also goes with her. yes, awesome. more at gas, dia archie from moscow. meantime, more than 250 ukranian troops have been killed, as russian forces continue to advance in the dawn at republic, according to the ministry of defense. now we spoke exclusively with the head of the republic, denise pushing about the latest updates on the front lines and the surgeon that'll center one of our tell mosque is really in the spotlight right now. i've recently 2 settlements were liberated, so severe kafka and jaga. now, willis, which allowed wagner to get closer to settlements, that allow them to squeeze the ring tighter around our tumble system, taking into account that there are no longer any roads or enemies supply lives. there are not under fire, under the operational control of our units. hobgood, this greatly complicates the already difficult situation for the enemy in the city

itself workable. we also saw that the enemy blew up the dam, trying to slow down the advance of our units, but could not create critical difficulties for our troops. see, the enemy continues to transfer additional reserves, which characterizes the severity of the battles that our units are conducting. bunyan sco, sometimes our troops, wagner teams do the impossible, but move forward. i wish there was significant improvements in the update to direction as well. in the questionnaires to us to adjust that on the deal at so if you're still at health, like everything has been done by the other side to the feet are all means of it. all this is being done using civilians and we did get that impression because it 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, so this is what the current blockades are connected with. and those that have been in place since 2014 will do. at some point,

this tactic became even more cynical. we see the better and seen and tear restore going to zation. so 3 children, 93 people have already been named journal, including 8 children from pedal mines dropped by drunk. so some his name to g. yes . are ukraine continue to scatter petal mines throughout residential areas in the don't ask republic. ortiz, or roman closer i visited a local hospital where he spoke to a child who was wounded by that deadly weapon. several districts here and on ask, have been under fire by the ukrainian military in the last 48 hours. as a result of several people were wounded, all of them had been 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. machine swimming, a video of

a flip the since last summer we've been actively receiving the victims of petal mines for 2 or 3 people a day. we work 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. $93.00 people had become victims of the so called that's all or butterfly minds, his thought of the special minutes reparation of those $93.00 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 shell? so straight old 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 side. when i got into the car, i stepped on a paddle mine. it wasn't visible. all the garage in the area was trampled image. see phillip or another one student, the withers, and you must say, do i went on to the with us for i want to take up sports if i can muster, feel yet he stopped on the man on the sound of the road. there is cross next week, so many people had walked past, but he was unlucky. the doctor saved 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 still need to see how they will move and function, whack constantly undefined. when i was on my way to the hospital now there was have a shelling. i shall 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 done

a boss by ukrainian artillery says the start of the special military operation, $132.00 of those victims were children are right now as i speak, the shilling all for residential civilian areas here in the next continue hen as the day progresses, we might hear off more victims from on calls for f r t than that's republic. while the russian ministry of defense has said that a ukrainian drones attempted to attack civilian infrastructure in russia's craft at our cry region and the republic of abigail, according to the statement that drones were taken out by electronic warfare units, all the russian armed forces parties. rachel blevins has details. russia defense ministry released a statement saying that it ordered 2 attempts by ukraine to carry out drone attacks on russian soil. on monday night, according to the statement, the attempted attacks involved unmanned aerial vehicles and they were targeting civilian infrastructure in russia. southern regions, however,

russia was able to intervene before any damage was done. now this comes amid reports that an unknown drone crashed in the moscow region. you're a gas problem building. those reports were confirmed by the governor of moscow, and representatives for gaz prompts said that an investigation is ongoing, and that involves the f s b. now meanwhile, on tuesday morning, all civilian aircraft to and from the programmable airport in st. petersburg were briefly suspended amid reports that there were some type of an identified flying object and that it required an investigation. now, notably, the russian defense ministry did confirm that it carried on exercises in that region. however, they did not say whether they were investigating some type of an identified object, notably the suspension has been lifted and the airport is fully operational at this time. we'll continue to follow the latest and bring the updates as they become available to mold over now on the capital where it's quarter past 3 in the

afternoon where hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets to protest against the countries pro e u. government formed earlier this month to me showing life pictures here on our residents gathering in mobile with capital of our kitchen. now so raised that concerns of the government energy policy fight the previous communist resigning. they accuse the new cabinet being responsible for soaring energy prices and inflation. protests of demand at the countries president my a stand to resign. little stories that restricted access to the area to try to prevent more demonstrators from entering the city center. in the country protests have been going on since of last year. law enforcement agencies and the central african republic reveal details of their investigation into the attack on the head of the russian house to meet tree c t. the official was injured by an explosive device sent to him an apostle last year. now mister c t suffered severe injuries,

i should say in the december attack and was evacuated to russia. the possible contained threatening letter calling on the russians to leave africa. the police investigation found footage of the person who sent the package, but that suspect has yet to be detained. now the russian house is basically an office by strengthening cooperation between russia and the c. a r. nadia and my colleague motor how money spoke to dmitri c. t who shared his experience of being attacked for promoting russian culture in africa before a good notice that they have a parcel of a man detail post office in monday with the use of the flat drive for me. so the next morning i sent my employee to recover it. she brought it to me. when i was alone in the office, i boxed it, there was indeed a flash drive. so i took it into my hand and via wireless, plugged into the, the hub i, i noticed that it was heavier than a, then it should be. then suddenly message came, i thought like this. and so

a flash of light. when i looked at my hand and the weather is nice, but i used to been saw a bunch of bonds and meet russia you previously to, to negotiate peace. i'm bring stability to the region. you feel that you will probably a person nothing to do with russian miles, but any ideas who this guy the he he reappeared with the appeal some time ago like in the summer. and he suddenly insisted to give me information that links this saying to him over the number of errors fedex included in the plan question, need your trash and to encourage it, i never gotten actually. and then this attack happened. i started pursued. let us the investigation is conducted and it revealed the explosive. i was effective. it

was made in 11 o'clock just something you can make up in the garish and the yield was comparable to the yield of 40 millimeter ground. it's like, wow. and if a fairly effect and the mystic which near the levers the cia allegedly probably heard that you were going to get some information about something that they didn't want everybody to know about. and that's how they talk. yeah, i mean it's all right and then there is like an installation and we see i don't know if you have a footage. there is a footage of the fender of a letter. my, this is a white guy, right? male and his thirty's forty's. who says this package from taco, you think the worst is still? so trying to push this near colonialism practices in, in african it's really hard for you to, to talk about. but do you see an evidence of that? i have

a perception of the situation. there may be no more colon is de facto no more. derrick dominant governance, but there is the economic dominance. right? it still happens that the african nations are tired of the arrogance of the rest. were of them imposing rules of african countries and they vote from competition vote from russia. they welcome to china. they need this to to allow them to develop . and they see nicko parts in russian. and manual macros says paris will not be drawn into a competition for access to africa. french president's words come ahead of his upcoming trip to the continent, which could prove eventful off to a strong recent opposition to france as presence that let's get the take of anti contributor. here's rachel marston. let's face it now cause 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 coups in places like molly and jihadists. 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 west fiascos are increasing fiascos and not mixed harris and the west in general, really nervous. so now michael has just announced that he suddenly does not believe in military contest 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 the africa should not be reduced to grounds for a military measuring contest. so he's declaring a quote, end of

a cycle for france in africa. francis 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 of frances big contributions to the continent. but here's what italian prime minister, georgia maloney sat about, the ca, park in 2018 where so monday, you know, this is a child who acts in a gold mine in burkina faso. it's one of the poorest nations in the world, france prince colonial money from kena faso, which has gold in return. they moaned at 60 percent of everson, burkina, faso exports and jump in the coffers of the french treasury. the gold, this child goes down the channel to extract mostly ends up in the coffers 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 these people to leave of what they have. so now michael wants to build on that when 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 that michael 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 knock hall 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 it 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 lee influential by using sweetness in handy instead of bombs. literally, that is what you asked 1st lady joe biden did recently in namibia 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. good guy, image of candy and rainbows, all white washing,

their militaristic, failed, militaristic, and background of militarism, all kind of trying to portray russia and china as the bad guys. quote, i'll fright bullying and double standards. those words from the chinese foreign ministry reacting to what it called, the false us rhetoric about china's plans to supply rushers, military in the ukraine conflict may fall while the u. s. has intensified its efforts to send weapons to one of the parties to the conflict resulting in an endless war with peace, nowhere in sight. it has also frequently spread false information about china's supply of weapons to russia. taking the opportunity to sanction chinese companies for no reason, this is outright bullying and double standards. all this comes as china has recently accused america of jeopardizing peace and stability and the taiwan strait . after o u. s. navy recognizance fright just flew over the area in response,

washington said the flight was conducted in accordance with international law, potentially have been hi, between china and america since corona virus. recently, the chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman a cold for washington to stop smearing china in response to recent us claims that cove, it was likely china's fault. the u. s. energy department has concluded that the coven pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak. according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the white house and key members of congress. the energy department made its judgment with low confidence, according to people who have read the classified report. she and she see a lovely is extremely nighty. this is an authoritative scientific conclusion that experts from china and the world health organization reached after visiting the relevant laboratory and through hon and holding in debt exchanges with relevant researchers. the relevant party should start playing on the lot. league theory,

stop smearing china and stuff. politicizing, the issue of origin tracing the report sites, only 2 officials from the u. s. department of energy and they say they have low confidence that this comes from a lab that it was a who on lab league, but that hasn't stopped all the major us mainstream media outlets from running with this story. now the report also says it's based on new intelligence, but none of the articles presented have any new evidence decides. and it seems like this is being used currently. republicans are bringing this up and using it to call out the bible ministration and demand more hostility to shine. the chinese communist party is not only a menace, but the nature of these regimes as the lights of the world. and we need to make that clear to people. the chinese communist party is evil. it's forest killed millions and see we'll stop at nothing to destroy the u. s. it's time to hold this

evil regime accountable. i'm glad the department of energy recognizes this reality . it's past time to make the chinese communist party pay. it is critical that ministration also begin to work immediately with our partners and allies around the world to hold the chinese communist party. accountable. iming is of course, very suspect. we see prominent cia and us intelligence officials stepping forward and calling out china for the possibility of china, giving weapons to russia. we see a wide spread demonization of china. and now we have this story about leaks, you know, getting into the media. it's certainly interesting timing and it fits in with a full court all on anti china hysteria from u. s. officials. fact that they're going to meet next week chairman, she important to discuss this unholy winds that they have to put weapons in the ukraine to me is very disturbing because well, maybe ukraine today as can be taiwan to morrow. note that at this same time,

we have united states pumping weapons on the island of taiwan into the philippines, up playing up the idea that china is a danger. certainly parallels a similar escalations that were done with ukraine. why if we achieve the level of success we've achieved in ukraine a big part of that has been because after russian aggression in 20142015, we honestly got off to preparing for future conflict training for the ukrainians. pre positioning of supplies, identification of sites from which we could operate, support, sustain operations. we call that setting the theater. and we're setting the fits in japan in the philippines in other locations. why before we wrap up a solid program here on auto international, a touch of breaking news, reaching out here in moscow as we understand to nigeria, an opposition parties of cold to cancel the results of the presidential elections, claiming the vote has been manipulated. so as, according to preliminary results, abolla to new booth from the ruling old progressive congress party is closing in on

a victory to become the next president. a 100 of nigerians have also hit the streets and protests calling the elections. a sham will stick around to the con, the next hour. our correspondent will bring us a full report from the ground with us just about wrapping it up for the mean time here from moscow and auntie international from all of us here. thank you. as always for sharing, it's fine, we are back in about 25 minutes with more of your wealth light headlines. ah, [000:00:00;00] with ah,

church hills goal was to preserve the british empire. the united states wanted an open world in which american dollar could penetrate, which american trade would have access everywhere and to market had to labor, had 2 resources around the globe. so they had very different kinds of conflict. the interest with john chill installing of an impending attack on the u. s. i saw in the face of great danger. he seeks an alliance with russia stall and doesn't reply. he doesn't trust churchill with