yes, ukrainian history. why are ukrainian politicians still reluctant to talk about these events? how to modern day ukraine and poland view this tragedy of the past? and why does the memory of valeria still divide people ah, strikes the ukrainian far right as of battalion command center in the front line region of a russian forces almost completely and circle back more often on the 1st wave of protest televi with police using tear gas on water coming on, people who are protesting against proposed judicial reforms that would give the government sweeping you powers the african union is set to be represented in the d 20 from now on as indian prime minister. no, the alongside russian to promote severe law emphasizes the importance of

a multi lateral will order. also, this hour, i protested in africa, don't believe french. president micron claims that he's country will no longer in the confidence as they call for the former colonial power to finally with 7 pm on sunday. and that means is the weekly hey, on the international. my name is peter scott harris from the top stories from the week just on thanks for joining us by russia's defense ministry has said that and as of far right, command post has been struck in this upper osha region. and that comes just days after an attack, by the far right group with ties to the ukranian. as of battalion ortiz, rollercoaster reports from the done yes. republic. this statement, sir, by the russian defense ministry, comes as part of a much broader report about the special military operation. now it gave

a full account of the events on the ground at the moment with details regarding all of the latest. now that included a strike against the command post of the us off regiments. now of this, sir, infamous formation is a neo nazi military units, which is recognized as a terrorist organization. in russia, members of assault have been accused of multiple war crimes like torture, executions, killing of civilians. and today they have officially become a part of the ukranian military. now elsewhere here in the nest republic where we are, while the shelling of peaceful residents continue over the last 24 hours, 2 people, 2 civilians were killed in the city of boil. of candidly 7 were wounded. not here in a sensor of the nets. kids kind of quiet by the outskirts of the city are under constant ukrainian bombardment. elsewhere, a number of advances were made by the russian troops in that area. now,

a number of and verified videos have also appeared on line where ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries are seen leaving the same battle city of ourselves. and so that's mostly on the foot. meanwhile, the leader of the private military company, the of wagner, groups set on friday that russian forces have almost completely surrounded the ukrainian held city over its almost a here in the next republic. and he should have public addressed to ukraine's president vladimir zalinski, telling him to let his troops withdrawal. here we go, walk. the city is essentially surrounded. whereas earlier we were fighting against the professional ukrainian army. now we are seeing more and more elderly men and boys. they last just a day or 2 in fighting. let them leave here safely. the ukrainian army has reportedly been destroying critical infrastructure, a several bridges and exam, and all that in order to slow down the russian encirclement of the city of our cham,

of. meanwhile, allegations of war crimes entrenched fire, i groups and even steer involvements. those are just some of the allegations by a former us mercenary and ukraine, recently, defects a to russia. so markets i a former u. s. private signed up as a fighter in the ukranian army at this time, the conflicts, your partner was shocked by what he saw on the ground became disillusioned. thing for his life after gathering information about what was happening to him is all right, because the with an exclusive interview for almost a year for my u. s. army soldier, john mcentire was a foreign mercenary in ukraine. donna men on voice 30. 0, oh, they weren't good movie gate. 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 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 a harcourt, i was going to summer cross and i found out the header, 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 2022, john served in ukraine's foreign legion and nationalist battalion carpets case hitch. 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 flow crazy? her father, russia. russian. time went home. you know, had to become more nationalistic, more not cystic, you know, doing that actually in 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 him, i got to become them. you know, and doing, you know, hitler salute step in a rush and flags everything. what about will clubs were to start, you know, on my, my 2nd day and ukraine. we were in a level of and so we were in like a school, but we were in like the basement. what they did is 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 bombed a school full of refugees. and this is a common practice and done 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. you know, was the work of nationalist achievers or just yeah, just extremist in different organizations, as all you know, compress,

receive people union. yeah. any of them? yeah. they were foreigners, they didn't take part with any of these. yeah. they told you earlier, they had shot 3 people in the back of the corners from portugal, city, france, and i want 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 he said give you a spot that you handle the 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 in the war when i was in the international legion, there was

a he was like a military intelligence officer from the navy. ah. and he was in. yeah. and he had a, well, he was in the foreign legion and he had a satellite phone and a computer provided by the c i. and every day he would call his contacts and he would get the information about the positions troop movements and so on. and so forth. and jim, his name. yeah, yeah. what was it? oh, wait not, what was his name? is he on so sorry. i can remember 1st name, at least of news like mark and so so 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 did, they're going to see this. yeah. busy people, the people you, you serve. good. yeah. what would you say to them? ah, all fair in love and war. you know, it is what it is aspires exist, you know, and i'm a spar and mission mission accomplished with yes, awesome. more at gas d, f r t, from moscow over in television process are continuing as the new governments bids imposed judicial reforms. the st violence with police using tear gas and water cannon against his own people. ah

more than a 160000 people are taken to the streets to express their indignation at pending reformed by israel's conservative government. thus, according to local media, the process which began several weeks ago follow these really gums decision to put the authority of the nation. supreme court demonstrate just say the move is an justifiable blow to the independence of the countries. judicial branch, as the legislation would give the government great influence to appoint judges, as well as to deny the supreme court, the ability to strike down any amendments to laws. are we supposed to form is ready . council in los angeles yaki diane, who says that the reforms must be changed to prevent further escalation class. they are now with no change, which i find it hard to believe. no, no doubt, they are tearing apart the people. you see israel as completely pleaded the reform

by itself as it stands now, will not watch for a long time because of the fact that the steering of the, the people is already we see not only the rallies, but people are saying that they're not going to share in the reserve duty people are saying that they're going to big money from israel is so the pressure is accumulating reform as it is now. no doubt. busy without having a broader consensus on it, no doubt would, would damage very, very, very much the defy her, the, the sickness, the united united, the united people. so definitely going to damage the reform has to be changed from the way it is presented. now we see that the decides are escalating the

coalition from one side to that's crazy and be a vision from the other side. no doubt it escalating? so the question is, where and when the find the, the, the right timing to, to negotiate on what should be the nature of judicial reform loss. so in the news this week was the crisis of multilateralism. well, that was the key points of indian prime minister movie speech, the g 20 summit, which was held in india with foreign ministers from the world's biggest economies. now, he said the global powers must take responsibility for international people, especially directly affects developing countries. we must all economic died. multilateralism each in crisis today, the extremes of the last 2 years, financial crises, climate change, randomly battle them. and vol. clearly

sol, bag global going nuns had failed. this is why india g 20 presidency has tried to do our voyage through the global south. no little can claim to global literacy. this album, this an eagle, those most abduct thereby h this seasons of russia's foreign minister said. a gale of rav was among the world's top diplomats attending the event, and he agreed with the indian leader that is very important to promote a multilateral world and help developing countries. he also issued some, save the scathing criticism of western powers, accusing them of trying to maintain the historical had gemini, it's any cost. with the school, the west is aware that the current approach has wished an impasse. they say that

that is necessary to inflict a strategic defeat of russia, and that is an existential problem for them. they are attempting to preserve their had your money in the international arena. but developing countries see and understand all this perfectly. the big news of the day really is that there was no meeting of minds of global powers and there was no consensus, no joint community could to be adopted. death. now india, of course, has released a chance summary and outcome documentary on the foreign ministers meet in new delhi . i'm talking russian diplomats, lovegrove held a press conference. in fact, he's a blamed the west for not being able to come out with that joint statement of that was expected dot net as far as you green is concerned. that really was the something you're walking all the conversations and that's where the global leaders will really divided a. but apart from that, dave is one point where there was some sort of consensus as mentioned by laval

there, which is mighty lateralism by c m t m agreement has been reached and all of the issues that were on the g 20 agenda. this includes seeking true multilateralism and strengthening the position of developing countries. in particular, it was agreed that the african union will be a full member of the g 20, as the e. u has been for several years just now. multilateralism was one of the top agenda for prime ministers in the government to show leadership on, in fact, the bottom that there was all the things on the agenda as well. of course food and security crisis being one of the important agenda. remember this, it went the g, 20 foreign ministers, me to was one of the biggest events before as the, the final summit, which will take place in september this year. and the spring was a pre call sort of thoughts to what could happen in september. same lines on what we saw happen in bali last year, but of course, as i understand,

the indian side sees that it when i try and continue to be the problem solver, as it sees itself to be on staying in india, massive fire up to this a chemical factory overnights in the countries western city of butter dara incident raised concerns about the possible spread of toxic chemicals. as plumes of thick black smoke billowed into the fighting officials that he took 6 hours to extinguish the blaze on an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the facility. it was completely evacuated, and there are no reports of anyone in judge. meanwhile in the u. s. state of high it's another cargo train is derailed following a similar incident the in recent weeks, the spots national concerns about the possible spread of toxic chemicals as well. the company that operates the train in the latest incident says that no hazardous materials will import you to report that at least 20 carriages came off the track.

and you can read the details about this instance and much more over our web sites are few dot com to finish present. manuel micron has finished a 4 date for of africa that was made by protests amid rising local sentiment against the former colonial power o local residence in the democratic republic of congo gathered in the streets during his visit to protest against french policies on the continent. micron though, insisted that france has no plans to interfere in the affairs of african nations, even declared during a visit to the west african nation of god bond. that's francis historical stance on his 5th influence in africa, isn't it? oh, it does do this once a week. this age of france, africa is willing trudy over and i sometimes have the feeling that mentality not evolving at the same pace as ours. when i read, i hear i see claims that france has intentions, that it does not have that it no longer has and gilbert as elsewhere from says,

a neutral middle man who speaks to everyone on whose role is not to interfere in domestic policy exchanges. french president, him on yom a crime has reiterated that the french military reorganization in africa was neither a withdrawal nor a disengagement. he further stated that france harboured no desire to return to pass policies of interfering in africa. now, some have welcome the news while others are extremely wary off at this state when saying that my crime is only in the continent to try and create a roof to between russia and, and the african continent, especially after france suffered a series of military and political setbacks in its form, my sphere of influenza. now with the speed it would which a french forces were expelled from miley, but keener fast. so an central african republic as nif menu observe as wondering

which country is next in turning its back on of france. that because just a few weeks ago we saw francis flag lowered for the 1st time, i mean for the last time in between a fossil marking the end of 13 years of prisons by french armed forces in the west african region was also spot to by this speech was the conversations around presidential biden's administration, trying to increase its engagement in the african mass via in a charm aimed at pushing back against a rising russian influence. now it's clear that a mac run once to set the record straight by reshaping france's image as one without any condescension, by adopting a new approach of partnerships based on your quality with african countries. that's just how far president mccall continue what the stands is still and clear. another important story from the week just gone. the race for nigeria presidency

has finally been called with the ruling parties. candidates bullets new. bu. when in the election in africa, most populous nation. with that, it's all commission has declared its new rule representing the center left all progressive congress as president elect after he secured almost 37 percent of the tele that's 8 percentage points more than his rival. he was former vice president execute by car who was claimed that the results were rigged. the p. c party urged rebecca and the labor party candidates pizza or we to concede with bowler to new boot already giving his victory speech. ah lay home food badge for me was a little and

surprisingly the election had been accused of talking points among nigerians, full weeks in the build up and now after the votes, the debates is still raging with the integrity of the counts in process in the spotlight use paper stands have become a focal point where people gather to discuss the latest development. battista corolla, toddler reports from the country's largest city. in this is life in nigeria, it's never easy. and in lagos, in particular, tough is the idea of the day. here on the busy ellen road, it's always thronging with the hustle and bustle of those making their way to and from work school and going about their daily lives. people here gather around, newspaper stands, ready to i'd you, you down. no my bit by lead. ringback about on my and that i needed in is when, when i was more how it wasn't with a

live in north africa as the result of the lecture strickland, the question on everyone's lips is which of the local newspapers people can trust since 2005 although even philadelphia has been selling you papers here and listening to the argument every single day. but why does he do it in and get out a devised dividend? my thing is starting to kind of see it because it has like conference, special, not people. you know, a lot of people let the number of people come here and by that is where you can display. you can see if i've been displayed. i just them thank for 2 decades list. our dozier has been opening up this newspaper stand and listening to the mostly the working class come and read the headlines and discussed amongst themselves the direction in which the country's going. the turbulence and shenanigans of nigeria

is $22030.00 presidential and parliamentary elections have left no mouth close for what we saw in the election. gonna know what you expected. you said it's all with people, as it is what is really happening. i don't like you do, just want to hear what they want to come to must is, don't. they don't do that. you know, whenever he did property that you may leave all the men issues of the off. what is it wasn't really going on like on towards these people can look at this a little know what this election, but in this age of exhibition of them being 1st and on social media, how do you think that the nigerian journalism has conducted itself during this most tenuous of election thieves. well, newspaper outlet out live the much more accessible. so so media and it's cohort is already a threat. not the immensely media. you see fit to the content because the people,

the 100 to show media not provision of the don't take, missed out over himself. it's not just a newspaper merchant, but a journalist for over 37 years. nothing can drown his passion and thought he has them of others who have the tradition to gather around newspaper stands to guarantee a national discussion. got up really fast. for out of t. a lagos nigeria, ah, thousands of people took the streets in burkina, faso on wednesday to demand better security, and that's after an armed medicine group attacked the town of party aga in the eastern parts of the country. and the assault last week left several civilians dead and many more injured with the nation's president phone to deal with the problem oxy correspondence reason louis lawn has more on the story this city. oh,

quite saga was says that by tourists, res norwood degree, besides the city, impossible to go out to olive with so many times by local population. believing for him, i called in to say the saloon books for a little put sarah security forces have left the city a few days before children who have decided to attack and take over rebuilding. it went through an intensive up talk which lead to were killing of civilian. some was shot dead asleep, a horrible movie, requoted witnesses sod less, a moly out of the common feeling of will kill ebay. you it's heartbreaking and incomprehensible to see these attacks. at 1st, they only targeted military infrastructure of the defense and security forces, but are now attacking civilians who have nothing to do with this conflict. it's terrible to see our fellow countrymen as terrorist to attack us. it's one thing

when they target politicians or the army and make some demands, but it's different when they attack their own brothers like this. my feelings are, i would say the same as the feelings of other burkina base right now. we wonder what abyss were sinking into we one day for going to get out of the situation one day, i am completely without words. i would say psychologically devastated in relation to the security situation in burkina faso. we rely on god. we hope that things will change and that things are moving on the side of security forces as a book anal bay. i would not like to have this situation in bettina disappointing. we must remain strong and encourage our f d s and the v d p. so that they can support us and free us from the hands of the so called terrorists. maybe they saw the army trying to overtake them, so they too may have plans to overtake the army to attacks. again, civilians didn't know what's been is oval killer, popularly according to the government. last week. you know,

i have lost my job. i'm seems to military service man. he let complex real work dr . sync up to him. so all the other 2 rules to lead with rule odyssey work flushes have erupted in athens, leaving 70 police officers injured as people expressed anger of the deadliest train costs in crash in the greek history. at least 57 people died sparking nationwide outrage as protest has been the government for mismanaging the rail network there. ah, ah, but this is in the city could be seen shooting fireworks throwing stones as well as petrol. brahms, as security forces are insert retaliated with take us and stung grenades, drank rush occurred when a passenger on freight train collided with grease is the prime minister, leaving the disaster on tragic human error. investigators are looking into where

the charges will be filed by the railway workers unions, points the finger to lack of maintenance, unfold the signaling just, i mean, we have a duty, especially towards to victims to shed light on this to let the people learn exactly what happened of course, we don't believe the only single person is to blame. we believe it is the government's responsibility, though for it, i mean what we ask is for this government and the next to change the way they think they should start looking at profits and start looking at the lives of people, our children. this must never happen again. we shouldn't be afraid to put our children in the metro and trains of our country. those are the new stories a shave, the week, a on r t to head over to our website, r t dot com for more any of them? not all for me, peter scott, but nicky aren't we'll be here in the hot seats in about 30 minutes time. thanks very much for one. ah,

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