live with our landlord and walton, the 2nd they owe me a mature his cosima bach with basically the russian positions, they were maybe 50 to 80 meters away. from here behind the road block, he follows the bonds of russian troops towards the major town of k, naya is intense fighting takes out nearly 600 ukrainian troops. according to russia, ministry of defense, as battles on the don boss, the front lines, rage on 2 years from captured, ukrainian soldiers who decided to switch sides and fight for russia. i never wanted to fight against russia. i had relatives and friends there. the situation is horrible. a desire for peace prompted me to join the battalion. i want to

defend my lands. my family. russia is taught diplomat left off meat with his indian and turkish counterparts. the head of the g. 20 foreign ministers conference in new delhi. and questions are raised about the integrity of nigeria electoral system, as the ruling policies kind of at narrowly secures victory and their presidential election with good to have you with us for this. i was program live from moscow. we've got all your top stories lined up right now. so as fighting intensifies and don bass, the russian defense ministry says that nearly $600.00 ukrainian troops were killed . just on tuesday, ortiz, he could have done all follows the advance now of russian forces towards the major town of credit. and i are in the accounts republic. i should warn you, you may well find some of this report disturbing. we are following russians.

special forces in the forest outside crim and naya, the advance in february here was swift dead bodies. they are scattered all over the woodland. they line up the roads like this guy. he was a middle eastern mercenary, judging by the documents that were retrieved on him. the ukrainian command, his ukrainian comrades simply didn't have time to take to extract this body or come, could have live up this particular soldier. as a foreigner, documents were found with him and they were transferred to relevant authorities. his nationality is from an arab state, which proves once again that we are not fighting with the people of ukraine, but with a rabble of mercenaries who came here to die for a few extra dollars. i only got a boiler. yes, go kill you sniff the bullet of broccoli to the in europe. a few weeks ago the road were following was the exact geographic line separating the 2 armies. not any more . when the russian airborne troops came, keep soldiers didn't even have time to think. so the very soldiers who fought over

the control of these positions, they shared some interesting insight into how they managed to capture these trenches and fox holes. basically the russian positions they were maybe 50 to 80 meters away from here behind the road. and so at night while they took the enemy by the element of surprise, and you can see the result of the onslaught dead ukrainian soldiers and well, the russians are now fully in control of this part of the forest. the front has moved far from this place. this airborne unit is the cornerstone of russia's infantry fist here with just a whimsy. but we are now in the fronds where our positions are located and the enemies behind the field, we observe and destroy them. today, the noise of a ukrainian machine gun pieces this stale, humid air russian soldiers respond with grenade launchers. ah, soon we hear ukrainian soldiers unleashed there's all trifles. they're trying to

shoot down a surveillance drone hovering above the pines. russian troops here have a more efficient weapon against this type of threat. so this is one very interesting trophy that i hold in my hand. this drone used to belong to the ukranian army, but the russian special forces they did shoot it down with a special anti drone gun. he concedes brains have been completely melted by the electromagnetic waves. go from a bit of out of rob work i have in my hands and advanced into drawn rifles with a directed pulse. it burns the electronics of enemy drones. with it. we can land drones to use them ourselves. if there is no way to land them, we destroy them, not that i'm major town of crimson naya is within a 10 minute drive. but soldiers around us can't afford to think in such distances. for them, a few dozen meters is all that separates the place where they sleep from the place where they fight. a mac is done of reporting from the dumbass. r t. r support

for fighting moscow among care forces is not a given. that he has heard exclusively from captured, ukrainian soldiers who have opted to switch sides and join a russian battalion artes roman casa ref. learn why they made this pivotal decision . scores of ukrainian soldiers have become prisoners of war under different circumstances. some of them have deserted their rank sands as some of them or taken prisoner in combat. now, many of those prisoners of war are actually from here in don barza. most of them were mobilized into the ukrainian army at the start of the special military operation. now nearly a 100 of those who are from dun boss have decided to join the ranks of the newly formed volunteer battalion fighting on the russian side. ha colds bug, dun malesky battalion. now i've met with some of those those soldiers who are

preparing to answer combat to defend their motherland. and here are their stories. marie madison. we were in maria full when was surrendered to the russians. they talked to almost all of us about serving for the russian side, and i wanted to join the battalion because my house on the front line, i want to defend my land. i never wanted to fight against russia. i have relatives and friends there on the situation is horrible, not cold. i understand that we need to defend our land, and so that civilians can leave peacefully see me. the west saw this conflict with russia. ukrainians, and russians have always been brotherly people. he done that, and then somebody said that russia was the enemy and the escalation begins with u. as in victor, a colony such as g showed those who is in before the operations thought is who i felt there would be a conflict with it. and i decided back then that i would not participate, but assuring i visited my crane battalion and i was captured after that, i understood that i would be offered to serve for russia and at the mines my

relatives to the state in the login's region. so they were nothing for me to doing you crying, and it helps me that slobs are fine each other. i'm not bad at history because it foreshadowed this. and now this is happening in the fall. i want to coin to understand what the events of 2014 have result attained. what's it, what would you as long, jo, a mirror, a desire for peace prompted me to join the battalion. i want to defend my land. my family. i want to serve for the future. when i served in the ukraine forces back then, there was no anti russia attitude. people were just making money. right. but a lot of propaganda and neo nazi sentiments have emerged lately. many people who got here didn't even understand what they would be fighting for feel, so they say that they were abandoned by ukraine, so some of them were taken to the front line without any preparation. now the people that i spoke with said they have been forcefully mobilized into creating an

army. and as they told me, they never wanted to fight against their own kind. i've asked them whether they have any hatred in their hearts wards the people they will be flying against. and they said that they're all hoping for peace to finally come to done boss. and so that their families and friends, i can finally forget all the horrors of this conflict that lasted for nearly 9 years. roman cauthrin, r t, done asked republic rushers at top. diplomat. so good luck. ralph has held a number of meetings with his counterparts in new delhi and solemn at a conference of the g. twenty's foreign ministers allotted off. i just finished up a meeting with turkey, eyes top diplomat coming just off the sideline. tolts held with the indian foreign minister who is hosting the conference. i rushes foreign minister highlighted y moscow, and new daily stand together against unwarranted measures. restoring your data

filled with the moscow in new delhi are consistent opponents of such neo colonial practices as illegitimate unilateral sanctions, threats, blackmail, and other types of pressure on sovereign states. there is no doubt that the strengthening of intercultural dialogue within the group of 20 objectively contributes to the maintenance of trust, the joint search for effective answers and look to the numerous challenges of our time. if this is a worthy response, took those who would like to abolish the culture of countries? they do not like you. good me. i think over now to was he is a willing to and shot emma with details about the latter office. a visit to the country's capital russian foreign minister allow raw reach you delhi meet last night and his visit is extremely significant in the backdrop of growing bilateral tries between new delhi and ma school. now of course, so as far as freed between the 2 countries is concerned,

all all the factors as well. we seeing that one of all time high. but for the agenda for the foreign minister will meet this week, really is multilateralism food and energy security. also, development corporation need for reforms for november more the government to show leadership on. but of course, there are challenges that lie ahead for india to insure the global followers. they really keep their focus on long term issues. for example, climate change of force, food and, and g crisis that several countries are seeing right now. the continuing effects of the fan demik also, for example, rather than the transitory issue was all such as conflicts and global up and ship something the be so happened last week during the finance minister of me. in bank lou, there was no consensus there. something that also remember happened in our g 20 summit

in bali last november. now of course, so as far as this visit is concerned, it is extremely significant to fall from the g. 20 foreign ministers meet. they're also going to be bilateral, that of course we're going to keep a track all saw about as. 7 as in the l g. $20000.00 been so you can send it comes at a time or a global keels global flux really where the world paul, both all divided all the russia ukraine conflicts and therefore it becomes a little tricky for india. but like the prime minister of the country said it wants to play the role of a problem solver. also, of course, and in the all of them, there's going to be tied to flow, magic balancing act that will be required of school. so all today is going to be an informal d not later in the evening, but tomorrow is also a fall. will fax scheduled? and of course we're going to keep a track with that or not to the latest from nigeria as presidential

election with a ruling parties. candidate bola to new book has clenched a narrow victory over 2 opposition hopefuls and africa most populous state. however, questions have been raised about the results and validity of the book. now the electoral commission has declared mister to new bu, from the center left. all progressives, congress party, or a p c, as the president elect with 36 percent of the funds. now that's just 7 percentage points higher than the runner up. it is fueling claims. the election could have been rigged to new booth though, has attested the election was credible, and he expressed gratitude to his supporters and his victory speech a badge a. as the experience of

a mr bullet to know who wins is the most contested, and by far the most acrimonious of elections here in africa, largest democracy in recent times, people here are really over the machinations of how far we have come with regards to some of the complaints that have been noise, the legitimizing this elections, and they're going as far as to say that they are hoping for a move post this acrimonious us elections. and they're hoping for a better economy. they're hoping for more money in their pockets. they are hoping that they will move on mr. winter. this election with a very, very fine and narrow margin of victory. having won some 8700000 volts.

rich have, which will cost here. mind you, me. this was a country that had some 92000000 voters here that were registered, but only 24000000 votes were said to be valid. miss daniel, who was closely followed by arctic who, alba, one just i'm the 7000000 votes here and he was representing the peoples democratic party. and they were followed by the labor party which only managed some thinks point. 1000000 of votes here. but one thing is, certain as much as nigerian laws stipulate that a candidate must win 25 percent of $24.00 states, that's at least 2 thirds of the states. it also stipulates that the winning candidate must attain 25 percent of the f. c t. the fcc

is the federal capital a territory, and that is where most attainable has fallen a shot. we expect the opposition to go. busy to court, we expect the opposition to decry the fact that this was not a free and fair elections. to say that voters were intimidated, that they did not see transparency. and also that the results from the polling unit that was sent to me that were meant to be transmitted electronically. because of the new bio matrix system that was to ensure that we have a electron that they were not transmitted to the i next serve in a boucher and therefore the credibility of this particular set of results remains in question. the tragic news coming out of greece today where at least 36 people have been killed and 85 others wounded. as 2 trains

collided head on near the central city of la rissa. as we understand around 350 passengers were believed to have been on board when the train smashed into the frater on the same line. it's unclear exactly what caused the incident of a local governor. i said that around 250 survivors were evacuated in a rescue operation continues. one, i witnessed that the trans collided with a high rate of speed. little guy, people naturally were scared, actually very scared. they were looking around searching, so they didn't know where they were and there were many large pieces of steel. the trains were completely destroyed, both the passenger train and the freight train. the passenger train was going about 160 kilometers per hour. and it was a clear head on collision. protests have wrapped it in several israeli cities including television, where stun grenades have been fired at demonstrators as they clashed with the

countries law enforcement. protesters block the main highway that connects television, van, jerusalem waving flags and shouting anti government slogan demonstrations across the country of broken out as israeli officials are proceeding with a controversial judicial reform. it includes the right of ruling elite to limit the power of the supreme court, which currently acts as a counter balance. so that of the executive branch a former british foreign secretary has insisted that western nations need to send more weapons to ukraine to fight russia. you made those comments to a do of russian pranksters renowned for eliciting kind remarks from politicians. that's one of them posed as ukraine's former president petra puerto shanker. but now the judgment has to change a thing to i wrote this week to include longer range missiles. i mentioned a specific type of missile that could be supplied. and of course tanks should

this apply to from germany and elsewhere. and i think some fighter aircraft as well, the bricks will not change its policy without the united states, without agreement of the united states. so the, the key decision is still in washington. this isn't just the form or a foreign secretary, as the sion out his opinion in that clip. he actually says that he spoke to the current foreign secretary, the defense secretary, the prime minister of the u. k. and he said that they all agree that they need to arm or ukraine some more. they need to supply some more weapons bought that they need to convince all the countries to follow suit or in particular who the united states. because as he said, they are the ones that make all the key decisions when that comes to this conflict in ukraine. and he said that that is the only reason why latter mirrors lensky traveled to the united states in december. because that those are the people making

those critical decisions. so again, we can see what is happening behind the scenes. and what's incredible is that in that clip, rory, he also mentioned how it would be ideal if there was a military coup in russia bots. he says that is highly, highly unlikely. there are of course, voices of reason out there in the united states, not many rory, but there are some and some who are encouraging peace and returns to the negotiating table and no more supplies of weapons. and that america needs to bag down from this, and americans are fed up. they're also sick and tired of the never ending foreign wars. but yet, here we are, the neo cons, the biden administration. and unfortunately, some of my colleagues are driving us into an ever growing war over in ukraine. that is putting us towards the brink of world war 3 that no one in america

wants marina. what can we say about the european politicians at this point? i mean, are they all on the same page with washington? there aren't on the same page, but at the same time, we can know how many on the same page, because some i would assume are afraid to speak out. because what happens when countries do speak out, serbia, for example, it has refused to follow washington's our policies. and now we heard from the president of serbia himself, alexander, which, who said that he is being forced to follow washington's lead, basically. and that there are threatened and even economic or political consequences if serbia doesn't do what washington size, let's hear from mister richard himself. but you shouldn't be too niche. that one of so many likely you, every one is in a rush to go on the offensive. they're in a hurry to get results, but no one is asking why. they told me they have a war in europe to publicly who did not admit that. they say we will lose everything if we don't step in line. and i would have to push me over so quickly

and he went further and even said that they basically threatened to terminate investments into the country withdraw farms that have already been invested, closed down companies and even suspend serbia's european integration. basically you could say that as of that as black mel early america punishing its friends and allies in europe for not towing washington's line. exactly. that's exactly trying to withdraw dollars that have already been invested in the economy to bar other investments from going into the account. thus just us just astonishing to me. and then they say that they want piece, but their piece and their peaceful solution is basically russia, weekends and defeats. and they don't see any other way. and the way they see it happening as, let's arm of with, as many weapons as possible so that we can reach the sort of negotiated solution whether that is even possible to give her ukraine at this point, as many weapons as russia. it would be hard to imagine that would require

a lot of again, coordinated effort. and this is, i guess what we're seeing happening behind the scenes. there are trying to make sure that ukraine gets as many weapons as possible so that they get down to the solution that they want and even nato, the secretary general, we have, we heard from him and he's basically out there saying that there is no solution that doesn't see russia defeated, it's either russia's defeated or nothing else, and they don't even mind risking more lives loss. so we must give you credit what they need to prevent. some worry our support to ukraine. risks triggering escalation. but there are no risk free options. and the biggest risk of all is if president putin wins. but if we want a peaceful solution, we need to also realized that what happens around that negotiating table is talk to

the pin on the strength of the situation on the battlefield. so meaning that if we want a peaceful, negotiate the solution where ukraine pervades the sovereign in the pump nation, then we need to support ukraine minute. now, what it sounds like is what they're really trying to achieve as a scare russia into submission. if that's what you're trying to do, make sure that they have as many weapons as russia to make sure that they come to some sort of a negotiated solution. russia has already basically expressed the terms that it's willing to come to an agreement to. but the west, as we've heard before, it doesn't want lensky or ukraine. so continent negotiate and table. yeah, and you know, i was going to pick you up a just in the past 24 hours or so. i was just watching a video of ukrainian president zalinski, essentially saying that soon america will have to send its sons and daughters to fight in ukraine. and so he said they will die. god forbid, i tell you what that got, comments going all around the world right now,

americans are hearing the americans who've been sending billions of dollars in cash and all these weapons to ukraine. and now they're zalinski saying it's never enough, but also you soon you're going to send your children to fight in ukraine. it's really upsetting a lot of people. and we already know that the tie, this change in the united states, and we're seeing more and more people speaking out against all that money that has been poured into crane. and we don't even know where that money's go into because they don't have anyone checking who is getting that money when the weapons are going with us. that will start saw one year of his conflict in ukraine. america has spent more and one year than they did in 20 years in afghanistan and iran. you put that. can you get your head around that and well know how that ended? well, a several, u. s. defense officials have testified that the government is keeping a close eye on the funding sent to kia, also admitting the number has grown to more than $100000000000.00. those comments were made during the 1st open hearing on oversight of u. s. military aid to ukraine. can you tell us roughly how much money has been

given total to the ukraine war effort since we began last year? well, it depends a little bit how you count it, but i believe it's over a 113000000000 approximately. this policy is not without risk. i think we all know that 1st of all, it is costing an enormous amount of money in terms of tens of billions of dollars. why you still believe this is the correct policy to support ukraine in this war? what the implications are for our own national security because i think it's a legitimate question, the american taxpayer, you know, why are we spending money? it seems like a long way away, you know, and not to be overly crass about it. but a lot of constituents asked the question, what's all this got to do with me is the responsibility of congress to ensure that every single penny of american taxpayer money is being effectively used as intended? well, we did provide hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance in the months leading up to the war. and then of course con, actually if we really were rewind the clock, i mean, starting in 2014,

we provided only non lethal aid until 2017 officials hosted by the white house policy that the military support for ukraine is justified and claimed there has been government oversight of the u. s. assistance since the beginning of the conflict. however, that have been numerous claims. the money and weaponry had not thoroughly tracked once they reach ukraine, which before the conflict was for a fact reputed to be one of the most corrupt countries in europe. the u. s. republican congressman called into question whether controversial ukrainian group such as the neo nazi as off battalion have received access to american weapons. remember the a's off battalion getting access to us whether it's not that i'm aware of. but if you have information, i'd be happy to enter into the record the global times investigative report that indicate that talks about training. it's from the atlantic council, digital forensics research lab, citing these are the john was even get stuff as far back as 2018 without objection

sold or any reason to disagree with that assessment. because it's the, i'm sorry, is this the global times from china? no, this is well, that's what you read. yeah, it might be. yeah. would that be a reason i'd as a general matter? i don't take a problem. no, no. yeah, because the allegation is true or false. i mean, i don't have any evidence one way or the other as a general matter, i don't take beijing's propaganda face value wasn't only of a china based global times report that the pentagon official dismissed as propaganda. a similar report was issued by the nato backed atlantic council. it said ass off. militant had been training with us weapons. years before the current conflict even erupted or former un weapons inspector, scott ritter says the claims of having oversight over the money being spent on ukraine are only announced to do one thing to pacify the american taxpayer.

i had to laugh when he said, you know, dealing with ukrainian corruption is at the top of the list notes at the bottom of the list. because if it was at the top of the list, you would never have given you train any money because you can't account for it. or the fact of the matter is, there's little doubt that 6070 percent of the financial resources that the united states provided to ukraine has disappeared, isn't getting to the intended target has been, you know, sequestered by the innumerable corrupt hands that are reaching out to, to be padded by american dollars in on the military side of, you know, again, noticed the, the non answers, you know, we were investigating, we don't have an answer. if you've been on top of this, from the very beginning, you'd have an answer. there are no answers because we're not on the top of it. and the reason why we're not on the top of it is because we wouldn't be able to do this if the truth came out to the american people. about how, over

a $115000000000.00 of us taxpayer money has been squandered in ukraine. the head of russia's main natural gas supply gas problem was held high level talks with iranian officials about increasing collaboration to midwestern sanctions imposed on both of the countries. now this comes as russia and iran have been moving forward on strengthening strategic bilateral ties with a to holding the top spots of the most sanctioned countries in the world. at the meeting follows a $40000000000.00 energy deal inc, between gas pro man terran last year aimed at jointly developing iranian oil and gas fields. also contributed use if generally, as the towns alex miller, the head of the russian energy, giant gas prom, isn't on to visit iranian energy officials. the main objective of his visit is to discuss future cooperation in the energy sector with iran,

and also to discuss and finalize some of the previously talked. and some of the previously signed m, o. u is between iran and russia, 2 sides are increasingly coming together in defiance of the western sanctions which have hampered it wants access to key technologies needed to develop its oil and gas fields as a result of the western sanctions. one has face problems in accessing those major and vital technologies to push its oil and gas outputs. so now russia and gas prom in particular can help iran like circumvent those sanctions and build up its oil and gas industries. they want can also offer important opportunities to rush on to gas problem. you ron, can play the role.