a numbness listening cuckoos a school. some delusion will look a little booklet, you know, the most with after months of intense battles and russia takes control over the eastern part of the city of our tomorrow. that's according to the head of the wagner group. our correspondence has an exclusive look at the situation on the ground behind. this is the forward most of the most of and god, position of the fact that troops here in the book moves basically across the river . there's already points over ukrainian troops. the times newspaper points the finger of blame at ukrainian sauce back within stream pipeline blasts, as western media release, alternative versions of the sabotage. a month after journalist seymour hersh tend

to blame for the sabotage on washington. also ahead with dancers in georgia, i tend to storm the countries parliament. i've been clashes with police as they rally against or draft law that would brand some media outlets and companies. i'd, as for an agent with coming to live from the russian capital. this is our key international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. and we begin with the latest from the city of r to mosque also knows back move the head of the wagner groups. those russian forces have taken control over the eastern part of the key city. he added that the russian army now has the most modern military capabilities. and that taking control over the city will allow russian forces to advance further into the don bass. use

valuables has not yet encountered the russian army, being so well trained and equipped with units that have not yet entered the battle, which have a multitude of modern weapons and intelligence capabilities. perfectly prepared there, waiting in the wings to make an entrance. after wagner hand aren't tied out to the capture of buck munt, i wanted resolution n's landscape. i am grateful that you have decided to fight in bachman. we ask you to take the elderly and children out of bachman and said, normal comic ready units. for months. archie last has been a focal point at furious battles between ukrainian and russian forces. art easy, garage it on, up, followed wagner, fighters and an exclusive look at the situation on the ground. these 3 apartment block buildings around me, they were ukraine's 1st line of defense in the southern district of the city of bar, moot, or thomas. among the wagner fighters, they got nicknamed as the 3 arcs. basically,

they provided perfect cover for their foes. and well, the battle for this particular neighborhood, while it was very difficult, you can hardly walk the streets here. mortar shells were overhead and dropped a few blocks away. an occasional stray bullet whistles and smacks into a brick wall and overwhelming aria of death in which wagner place the main part, natures reliable. it was hard to push down. i'm out of here. look at them. braziers on the houses, the animals ready for our attack, and we had to keep our wits about us, their clever removing bricks, to make positions for snipers and machine gunners. you can take them with regular ammunition. we had to use artillery to smoke them out. this is how the animals tillery targets us. there was a house here. now there is nothing. in formerly these fighters are known as musicians, courtesy the company name. they are often the 1st to meet the full force of new nato supplied equipment. caves,

thirst for their blood is unmatched. what you see here is somewhat a novelty. honda dumbass front, these are american claymore mines that have been well they are quite legendary among those who play video games. here they are very real and they pose a very real threat. last week wagner's strike teams kicked cave troops out of their positions at a local damn. as we approach the new front line, ukraine spares no ammunition to batter the foe. no caliber is too large, so the dam behind us is the forward most. and the most avant garde position of the wagner troops here in the southern districts of buck moot, basically across the river. in the red holding, there's already a reconnaissance and surveillance point over the ukranian troops by yes, commotion pointed to by checking the crates, we know who produced the mines for our opponents mortar. in these boxes were clearly produced in ukraine. see the labels. all of them are green. these ones are

made in the czech republic. somebody else makes the one in these boxes, maybe the americans. the whole european union works for them. oscar, and you can see the proof here. here is the dam. you can see what's left of it over there and that red 2 story house is the enemy observation point when key of forces chose to hole up in the city civilians walk up to a new reality. now they were unwelcome guests in their own homes, mortars rockets and guns to launch them was pawned in their backyards as an eviction notice all road junctions and intersections in back move even minor ones like here. they are fenced off by barbed wire by the ukrainian forces. it clearly shows the sort of resistance the wagner company has to overcome and well that the ukrainian forces have really turned the city into a fortress. overcoming heavy opposition inevitably comes at

a cost musicians showcase the price the ukrainian side had to pay here. rose wandered here died because they couldn't evacuate them. like this one. for example . there were about 8 enemy combatants here and yelled at hunger is not as suitable shelter. and you can see where the roof caved in. it was a direct hit and some of those who could ran away the strikes moved further down the road. but these 2 guys couldn't get away, i'm glad. somewhere. there is the 3rd one buried under the rubble. they couldn't reach their comrades as they left them here. now they're being eaten by dogs and susan. wagner's troops might be just paused the overtures to the back move symphony . this nary a doubt among them though, they'll be the ones to strike the final victories. code amish done of reporting from the dumbass. ot not they americans, russians or polls, but a private venture originating in ukraine. that's the latest allegation coming from

western press over the north stream. pipeline blast with reports alleging the culprits were known a week after the attack. it hadn't been carried out by the americans, the russians of the poles. their intelligence service apparently told them, but by a private venture originated in ukraine, there were told this would not be made public and to deflect any questions about why the official investigation into the destruction of the rest the german pipeline was moving. so slowly. the article says that the suspected private sponsor is not connected to president lynn's give government, however, their name has been circulating and intelligent circles per month. without being revealed. the identity was reportedly kept secret to prevent ukraine from having a public dispute with germany and major donor of aid and weapons to kiev. so to go further in depth on this, let's cross live now to gulard back our german politician and member of the european parliament for the alternative for jeremy's party. sooner it's great. have

you on the program today. now let's start with the latest allegations. what do you make of this recent report about the north stream pipeline attack? well, it's late, it's the 1st report to be released by the investigators involving german investigators. it's very difficult to assess at this stage. there's a lot less detail in the seymour hersh article. what can i say? it's possible, but what we've seen so far is not sufficient proof. there's certainly far less circumstantial evidence than nbc bowl hersh article. my initial assessment. well, you know, it's interesting because if you look at see more hearses report, it alleges that there is direct involvement from the u. s. government. if you look at the new york times report, it's almost kind of saying that some private individual out there just carry this

out all on their own with no intentional backing from the ukrainian government. do you think that that could actually be possible? i know technical expert, i cannot tell you with any degree of certainty, but on the face of it, it seems less most of all there's a 2nd consideration. of course it be report released yesterday where to read. if indeed it were group small group of independent sub associates more or less with your grade, then that will be a far more convenient explanation than that provided by seymour hersh. so on the pace a bit, it's less knowledgeable, but it will be a lot more convenient for me based with the gum. right,

that does seem to be the case now. many mainstream media outlets didn't really want to talk about seymour hersh is report, but in this version from the new york times, i guess you can see that the main revelation there is the fact that western intelligence knew who stood behind the nord stream, sabotaged but decided to keep silent in order to protect from a public spot with germany. if this is true, why was keeping this under wraps such a priority? and do you think that that is a major revelation? if that's the case, if it is the case of the whole thing, what to be confirmed? yes. i think that will be a major revelation. it will be the uni in could be the piece that explanation or western governments because if it were true, then of course the reason behind it would be that german for support. at that point was pole was perhaps

a more fragile at least 2 external observers that it is right now. john's, for, for you, craig. i mean that to that extent they wanted to prevent any doubts the german government may have in increasing its support for ukraine. that's my preliminary interpretation with this particular piece of possible news. yeah, definitely a delicate balance there. now we hadn't heard a lot from germany in direct response to the north stream attacks. however, the german defense minister has said that the country's position on army ukraine will never change. let's have a listen to what was said. i do not command on hypothetical investigations. it could just as well have been a false flag operation as it was clear from the messages, in other words, to blame pro ukrainian groups and present everything that way. the probability of

one or the other is equally high. so now we have to wait and see how events will develop. you don't have to think about the consequences for our support of ukraine on the basis of such an investigation, which of course was conducted carefully and scrupulously. so as clearly downplaying those allegations, they're not making any indication that germany is going to change its policies in the near future. do you find this a satisfactory answer to these allegations is clearly not a satisfactory response to the allegations. but i think the main point at the dependence minister is making is that job and support or i should be more precise. the job of government support for ukraine will be unwavering. i'm afraid that's likely to be true because the german government, i think everyone's realized by now is noted upon them is actually the same way in

which say the us government is, or even the french government is the german government is constrained not only, but of course also by external pressure, but i'm not one of those who say explicitly determines the external pressure. the 2nd element is of course, internal compulsion. germany is caught with a tradition or shall we say a circa many years of moralizing international relations rhetoric. it's middle, but it fell into a position where you crave is played as the holy innocent party in this conflict. and the germans always, always, that has to be seen on the good side have now i think for the future and committed themselves to supporting ukraine. what ever bad news about

your grade may surface and i should add that of course, in my view, this is a weak gradual development. it's not one that i regard as being a japanese national interest, economic all otherwise. right? that is certainly a commitment there. and i mean, what do you make of the decisions that are being made by german leaders right now, especially in the face of been worth through me attacks. and when it comes to that response, i mean, because we have these articles coming out now. but at the same time, we've also had months of more or less violence on this issue. do you think that there should have been a much bigger reaction on germany's part given the fact that they are directly affected by this? well, let's look at the facts for the no st. pipelines. well, i think the largest shareholder was gas problem, but germany was the 2nd or german companies were the 2nd largest shareholders. so

what we've seen is that someone has blown up infrastructure, which was partly owed by german companies and which was essential to germany's energy supply. so it's a major attack on the job and economy. and the german government has been 80 to teen. stand by say nothing and just let it happen. i think it's candice. yeah, it truly is a major attack with an impact that we likely haven't even seen the beginning of. and there is a lot at stake here, but we really appreciate you joining us to break it all down. lunar back, a german politician and member of the european parliament for the alternative for germany party. thank you so much for your time and insight. my. my pleasure, ann rushes foreign ministry spokesperson criticize the alleged nordstrom investigations stating that washington and london leak information to suit their

own agenda. i would not be surprised if as a result of the elite investigation, the west and its newspapers established that the north stream pipelines were destroyed by dolphin boma, escaped from crimea to ukraine. seriously. washington london, a going down the beaten path of using controlled leaks in this matter, forming the agenda they need. this was the case will so spree and amesbury, nevada, unovia, chuck and so on. but the truth is yet to come. i'm sure. moscow's reaction comes on the heels of yesterday's articles by the new york times and the z which drew attention away from previous theories of western involvement and last year's bombing of the russian pipelines. these claims also contradict the recent investigation by award winning journalist seymour hersh, who alleged that the u. s. government was involved in the attack. officials who have reviewed the intelligence, said they believed the saboteurs were most likely ukrainian,

or russian nationals or some combination of the 2 u. s. officials said no american or british nationals were involved. the boat that was allegedly used for the secret operation is said to be a yacht rented from a company based in poland, apparently owned by 2 ukrainians, legal and media analysts. lionel says the mainstream media has resorted to repeating, instead of reporting while failing to carry any actual facts. i have read this story. 10 times, i keep thinking they, they must have cut off a portion of this. this doesn't say anything. 3 authors, 3 from the once vaunted heralded new york times, mainstream media today, i don't of it's american of western by mainstream media are repeaters, not reporters. they repeat their proxies, their agent here, they're correspondent,

they're there. they're propagandist who had the modem. if you ask somebody nord stream to a pipeline, to russia, germany who would have the motive, who would benefit from this coin, bono, we pro dest, full benefit, ask yourself. and the 1st thing is, i was russia. how does that work? well? because they are so evil. what. what? yes. because this evil knows no nose, no sanity is what is evil, apparently doesn't know. so now you have this which all of us that now let me also tell you, i don't want to to make it even work be complicated or, or seemingly complicated because to so obvious. when you have 2 leading officials saying, if you do this, that nord scream is through and what happened? now come on. come on. why are we even discussing this?

how is it to people? what do they happened to say that that really? that was just an expression. when i said something bad would happen, i didn't think it really what happened. and the 3rd question which nobody is, may be explaining to me. and i'm just a layman. i'm just, i don't know anything about demolitions. i've never destroyed anything under water or above water for that matter. doesn't it? take a lot of effort, aren't these pipelines really encased in concrete or steel, or when you leave something that important, unattended in the ocean? how is it that these people happen to go out in a road to dive down? i don't know how many meters use whatever equipment is available to story is so

preposterous from the beginning. and meanwhile, nobody has ever said to seymour hersh. you're incorrect because of such and such, are your fax or that that paper. it's the very fact that we're discussing. this is a testament to the power of whoever is controlling the narrative. because this is obvious, narrative, the capital of georgia or riot police have been dispersing protesters using tear gas and water canadas. thus, after rioters broke through a barricade near the country's parliament, wallace hemmed in disarm the building and a protest against a new foreign agent law. ah,

road traffic in the city has been blocked with mass arrest also reported. some of the protesters were seen throwing molotov cocktails and stones at police, leaving several officers injured. ambulances arrived to help treat any casualties on earlier on tuesday, the proposed loss sparked clashes between george and lawmakers inside parliament that despite the initiative, which the u. s. embassy in the country has described as kremlin, inspired being approved by a majority of antique artes. marina coaster has more details. this, a foreign agent law basically means that any organizations receive in foreign font didn't have to register as foreign agents, basically that they are working in the interests of the country that is given them those funds. we've seen in the past how such situations have been used by other countries that want to influence the politics within a particular nation. and this is what they use. they fund opposition movements

either through various n g o z, or they try and form public perception by funding, for example, even private news organizations. so the absolute majority, however often piece voted in favor of this bill. this just passed the 1st and reagan, so there will be more, however, the president of the country already spoke out and said that she's absolutely against this bill. and she's such fears for the country's future with the west. if this passes, it's gone. this law can be cancelled in any way you want from day one. i said i would veto this law and i will veto it. i do not care about its article, my article discussion. it's similarity to the old american law, which we well know, serves as completely different purposes. those who support this and dos promoted for this law or violating constitution. you're taking us all away from europe also . so that's a sense next to the post office is with them to support them. and she said that they were presented towards us today at georgia that sees itself, that sees a future with in europe. this is why we can see some of the crowds there waving the

flag and then chanting slogans of support. they're now even though she said that she could repeal the law for crosses her dad, the ruling the dream party are said to have the parliamentary majority. so it's unclear whether she will be actually able to veto that georgia has already been warned by the wes regarding this legislation, for example, on tuesday, the 11th statement saying that this draft legislation is incompatible with your values and sanders. and it could have serious precaution on the country and their relationship in the future. and of course, the united states, back in february, they also service statement that the us department of course and said anyone boats . and for this legislation could also jeopardize towards his relationship with europe and the united states. and also let's have a look at the statement released by the u. s. embassy enjoys, they're basically echoing the same sentiment today's

a dark day for georgia. democracy parliament's advancement of these kremlin inspired laws is incompatible with the people of george's clear desire for european integration and his democratic development. presume these laws will damage george's relations with his strategic partners and undermine the important work of so many georgia organizations working to help their fellow citizens, the process, and the draft laws res, real questions about the ruling party's commitment to euro atlantic integration. so we have the stand off, it seems which resulted already in classes that were seen sort of early, echoing what we saw in kia back in 2014 and after they didn't want to sign the e association agreement. so we'll be monitoring the situation and see how it ends, how it unfolds. if this is it, or if will continue, the georgia in parliament speaker warned that the 2014 might on unrest has only brought chaos and destabilization to ukraine. and georgia does not want to go down

the same path. what about am i done, and what did it bring to ukraine? that last gray mia and most of logan's can denounced the continuation of fall. this is the war that is going on in ukraine today. this is the result of the process, is that the radicals in georgia want, we will act not in accordance with the agenda of the radicals, but in accordance with the interests of georgia and society. there is the course of the rivalry between the government who was to have more dependency decision making north looking at western allies. the other hand there. people feel that the device is old colleague from the west to something that helps us to get better get closer to your future. residents are coming in for having lisa western idea. so she's probably, she's to do, the protested, but i don't think that even president has more than you think that our, than our government rest georgette might be really slow. so it may be a bit more complicated to be involved. the political life of georgia society. that

is why not fiscal medical, which has the same what was true to low is again this was because, you know, just for america insufficient, don't want to have some obstacles. the same is with you. but i would like to mention that having annual doesn't mean they can make some barriers. and so both execution of the role in north about accepting the flow in general us defense secretary lloyd austin, made an unannounced trip to iraq on tuesday just days before the 20 year anniversary of the us led invasion. austin met with a rocks prime minister and stated that washington wants to strengthen the partnership between the 2 countries. do i look forward to continuing to consult with our valued iraqi partners and to advance sure, sure. interest, and to improve the lives of the iraqi people? i am optimistic about the future of our partnership and the united states will

continue to strengthen and broaden our partnership in support of iraqi security, stability and sovereignty. the pentagon chief's visit to baghdad, as part of a 3 day trip across the middle east. he also met with king, i do law and jordan on monday and this that to travel to israel and egypt to hold talks with top officials. i had of that. you are the u. s. and now the discussions would focus on the growing threat iran poses to regional stability. we spoke with iranian affairs analysts who says the us feels threatened by china is growing present in the middle east through tutoring. again, the increasing presence of china with, with and it's corporation with the middle eastern countries, including iran to be a b, which takes place in a very different context. because i think china,

the nature of corporation in the west, asia is basically on a actually economy principle. while when it comes to united states, it's a totally different story. and people has people have this negative approach. and this, this intervention is picture of the country. so in this situation, china and the united states are in a very serious competition to win the hearts of the people in the west asia and the state. and that the same time to their, their own national interest and china actually initiative. in order to achieve this, at this particular objective, our atlas, they look more attractive for some of the country within the west asia and the united states feel quite threatened as a result of this situation. busy and that's all for now. be sure to check out our

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