will see a ran and saudi arabia, again reestablish diplomatic relations. this could be a step not only to reorder the middle east, but also usher in an air of stability in the region. today. washington is the odd man out. ah, okay. city all dark mode is further encircled with the russian wagner group releasing footage from inside the area. strong hold on blunt facility with web underground passengers through president bashar, all a sudden in moscow for talks with the mid putin leaders are discussing bilateral corporation in the face of western sanctions. also head this our aah! pales ropes outside the form of pakistani prime minister in long cons residents as

police attempt to arrest the former leader on a legit corruption charges with july from our headquarters here in moscow, you're watching out the international. i'm peter scott and here the top stories at 4 pm today. thanks for joining us. a russian forces have taken control of the small hamlets azelli's young sky near the city of bark, much further in circ minutes. that's according to the wagner p. m. c. chief. now backroads has been the focus of intense fighting for over 7 months now. the ukranian troops flights on both sides, but he had a bad despite the lack of ammunition and the most difficult battle. our assaults are completing in circle minta bus route this morning. the pmc wagner, salt units gained control over the village of cell is 90 scans. well, the russian army reportedly attacked the rear of ukrainian reinforcements in the

area overnights. that's after president zalinski office announced that it would keep defending the city, which is a major logistics help for the ukranian army. earlier versus wagner group reports they took over parts of the industrial zone of us on embark, which verified online footage, apparently confirmed rushes, control over the vosta. mush once, as you can see, the footage wagner has taken the facility in the north of the city. and this is the same plants where president volume is the landscape commanded ukrainian soldiers for the defense of the city last year. the implant is one of the city's main strongholds with its underground tunnels vital for defense. meanwhile, in the co ganske region, russian forces have partly taken control of an industrial zone. the soul groups capturing 3 hungers as the russian army continues is offensive in other areas where time metals made on the ground and drones caution, the skies are eager to done. it brings us more the soil here in the spring time. dawn bass is very close to quicksand parts of this forest we say complete.

ah, not many vehicles, this terrain freely and safely. thank i, sadly among those that can ah ah, these tanks belong to the euro separated, sold battalion to say the know the enemy in the face is hardly an exaggeration. 100 meters is sometimes school that separates the sites. caves all seeing eyes focused on the battle for both moat and russian troops. here in the la ganske

republic have been trying to capitalize on the distraction. ukrainian command has drawn reinforcements. both are often gathered out of yesterday's trainees without real combat experience. who become easy prey, such accuracy would be impossible without drones. there's such a swarm of them in the skies every day, every minute that it's not uncommon for russian and ukrainian birds to meet and duke it out like this. one is down this time the russian drone literally came out on top and intention, the entirety of the russian force shares with every heart in their ranks. and magus done of reporting from the don bass r t went to the new syrian president bashar la suds in russia for talk to the demon putin and moscow and damascus have continued to strengthen their relations with both countries subjected to harsh western sanctions. artes steve sweeney told

us more about what to expect from the talks. well, president assad arrived in moscow yesterday for what is his 1st visit outside of the country since the devastating earthquake that struck last month getting 4 and a half 1000 people, leaving more than $4000.00 buildings destroyed, and many hundreds of thousands of people are displaced now course russia was a crucial to those relief efforts in the immediate aftermath, helping to dig people out of the rubble a cent more than $300.00 service personnel and 7070 tons of humanitarian aid. and so this is likely to be very high on the agenda because this is in stark contrast, of course, to the western response with president assad, accusing the united states of pressuring countries not to help a situation. foreign ministry spokesman bearers, however, describe as inhumane, and something that would lead to more suffering and more death are the 2 leaders had likely discussed bilateral relations. of course,

both countries are heavily sanctioned by the western series facing a severe oil crises. so there'll be some discussions around how to alleviate that situation, which has been made worse by the united states, which is again accused of stealing up to 80 percent of serious all in shipping it out of the country via an illegal crossing in iraq. also on the gender, quite crucially is going to be the syria turkey relations. and it really underlines russia's. rollers are both a mediator and a piece, make another to lead as a to, to meet at some time in the next 2 hours. and i will keep you updated with developments in the news record highs of violence at the hands of islam militants. is ravaging africa with us. according to a recent africa center for strategic studies analysis. last year alone, the consonant reported nearly 7000 attacks and 20000 casualties. and

thus a 48 percent increase from the previous year of 2021. now the area had the hardest is the style region where an 8 year parsley intervention as only worsened the situation. less cross live now to the ferry that the sack senior research fellow at the burg institute for advanced studies. thanks very much for joining us this afternoon. now 1st of all, i just want to get your thoughts on what you think is behind this huge surge in jihad is violence and africa this year. then in broad turns, what we see is the unraveling of the various interventions approaches in what often emerged as regional conflicts or country config, but very, very localized and the response of what is usually frame quite erroneous lee as

the international community, which in this case consist largely of the united states and france and in their own interventions in the struggles for what are the reasons we may have time to come? and day approaches has been entirely related to securitization military interventions and occasionally accompanied by handing out lollipops and so on to the local populations. so in the unraveling of the, in the same ways that we see, for example, the failure in other countries such as iraq and afghanistan. now we are seeing those countries paying the price or the unraveling of there are quite a militaristic approaches to, to local conflict. but more importantly, advancement of their own geopolitical interests in those countries. and this of

course, started really after $911.00 when the united states looked around the globe for what they called weak states ungoverned spaces. oh yeah, of course i mean the, the fact that they met with so much failure, it doesn't stop that, particularly in the light of the engagement of what they engage in. what they think is chinese already. because anybody else coming into every case over each if it steps on their toes. and so, yeah, basically is the unraveling of the u. s. military pro. it inside the, the rica african country. so talking about the saw hel region, to what extent has the withdrawal of french troops are impacted the activity of john sta after the 8 year operation in the region? yes, so i mean a apologist. full, i mean, been on the right,

as i've written about this, that it is precisely the withdrawal of the french tubes that has led to this escalation. this is like saying, you know, and the taliban emerge stronger in, in afghanistan, after the united states withdrew. the point is, what were the dynamics inside afghanistan, before the u. s. invasion. and what we're parity with b, u. s. in the very 1st incident. so i, what this things, this french ur smear on its own geopolitical interest in africa. so yes, to some extent has her. but the french presence in the 1st instance was never in a, a morally or politically correct. her position. the french would never have been in africa in the 1st instance with colonialism, and certainly not in, in

a so called post colonial every time. so, so do you believe that these, these countries in africa needs to be enabled themselves or to deal with these are these just domestically rather than, you know, with, with outside intervention. i'm not entirely domestically in the sense of just a country itself. because much of the islamist impulse, it's also international, although largely in the case of africa, different from say in the middle east, there aren't nearly the kind of ideological or theological coherence between different entities. so that can't entirely be local as in country specific. how ever those regions are looked to be responsible. i mean, they have the model of like to be responsible to cooperate with each other. the problem is when, when the quote unquote global know, the so called international community when they continue to take ownership. and of

course, there's nothing else rustic about the ownership that they want to take all these different conflicts. they are in, i mean, largely in some ways responsible for the escalation of all of these things. and so the regional cooperation is one way to deal with it. i think the one example is how are the southern african and the southern african regions in the form of study get into being in say no, that was in b with some success. but that is a local law is the region is entitled to it with those struggles and responses to them being manipulated to further entrench in the, the old and new the old, such as french and the new homes of imperialism. through that of the united states

. professor fired a psych senior research fellow other johannesburg institute for advanced studies. i'm afraid we're gonna have to leave it there, but thanks very much for sharing your thoughts with today over to pakistan. now we're cautious between the nations, police and supporters of the former prime minister among con, have escalated outside his home in law hall. but his offices of once again felt arrest the opposition leader for not appearing as a court hearing on a legit corruption charges the least. and part of the hall has seen a lot of the violence which has spilled into a 2nd day. the unrest which began on tuesday as transport, has gathered outside his residence to protest against his arrest. local journalists, jo ya has more on the story. guzman parking. i am standing outside some on park where just 24 hours ago. there was an operation launched by

the poor job and then some about police to arrest former prime minister run. com that is still ongoing. this whole area looks like it was on. they deployed paramilitary troops, fire to gas, an open file, and protest us many p t. i walkers were injured and went to hospitals. a state of emergency has been imposed in hospitals. schools have been shut down. all roads leading to examine pock adjacent streets and wall contracts are completely close to the public. it looks like an occupied valley where no one is allowed to answer or access it. even the journalist who left last night and came back in the morning until till all in the area they approved job police say they will continue this operation until they arrest him, run hon july. the all can use law for the, you know, for a bit of breaking news from your banking site. so trading of several companies stock, including credit suisse. i've been temporary holstered from trade during the morning

due to steep losses. european stop markets dropped sharply on wednesday with credit suisse taking a 28 percent dive. the fall has caused a wider banking sell off following the sexes. modest recovery on tuesday. we'll bring you more details as and when we get the the us labor department has reported inflation in the country was 6 percent in february compared to the same period last year. moody's investors services, part of the big 3 rating agencies has flushed outlook for the entire us banking system to negative that the country's economy is shaken by financial turmoil. this comes off, the 2 major american banks collapsed over the weekend. and now the federal reserve, which overseas, the banking system and the rest of the economy is faced by a choice either to raise interest rates even more or talking to inflation by reducing prices for consumers. speaking on monday morning, president biden tried to reassure americans with their money safe for the white

house press. secretary gen saki chimed in, saying that is difficult about him to do anything in the morning. but he did so because it's important. now it's important to note, president biden does nothing at 9 am. she is a night owl. so the fact that he is doing this at 9 am anyway, speaks to how vital the white house recognize that it is for him to have his voice out there. conveying that to the american public. well, we discussed the current years banking system crisis with former us treasury assistant secretary on wall street journal. it's paul craig roberts and he shared his take on the challenges. the u. s. financial system faces the 5 large banks, the 3 giant new york banks, the 2 giant california banks. these banks have trillions of dollars of derivatives. the value of bridge is twice the size of the g. d. p of the entire world. yet their capital

base is only in billions, so they are holding their they are exposed to risk in the trillions of dollars, and they do not have the capital base to support that risk. so if something happens again in these derivatives as it did earlier this century, when we had the big crisis, those banks will be in jeopardy if these big bikes get in jeopardy from their derivatives. it will spread into europe when the president says something like biden, that's his job is to reassure people, so they calm down. they don't rush to the banks and pull out their money. but i doubt if biden, or anyone in his administration or even the federal reserve has any idea

of the extent of risk. if one of the very large bikes, the job banks, if they get into serious trouble with their derivatives, it will impact the rest of the world. ah, the, it's like, they're crippled the nod seem pipelines last september was committed at the state level. well, that's the message from the russian president vladimir putin. numbers to susan. the fact that this is a terrorist attack is no longer a secretary. moreover, it was a terrorist act committed at a state level because no amateurs could commit an attack like this. if you could shoot his music about month ago after the hersch investigation, there was a media campaign with o to goes appear in several newspapers allegedly staging some ukrainian activists had organized the attack. and it was especially emphasized that these activists had nothing to do with the ukrainian government. how do you feel about these versions? luckily,

you're the most reviewed institute. i'm sure that this is complete nonsense. an explosion of this kind at such a depth could only be carried out by a specialist supported by all the power of the state, which has the required technology. so right now russia is trying to get the united nations to launch an independent inquiry into the north stream, sabotaged or as russian president vladimir putin says, terrorist attack, the only enquiries they're happening right now, are the equivalent of suspects to a crime, having their friends say that they'll look into it and then let everyone else know what happened and the west just seems to think that that's fine and that they can investigate themselves. and in the mean time float this narrative all across the mainstream. lester media, citing unnamed intelligence officials in each country like the u. s. in germany, for example, who are all conveniently blaming the whole thing on some quo pro ukrainian group with no identity beyond that, but which magically absolves absolutely all actual countries and states from any and all responsibility were supposed to believe that some random dude came up with

a bright idea to get together 5 other random deeds to load massive amounts of explosives onto a boat at a port in germany. sale out into nato waters and blow the steel pipes and their concrete encasement. 20 days after their excursion, remotely investigative journalist seymour hersh, who attributed the attack to a u. s. leg special operation in conjunction with norway isn't buying it. they're trying to divert attention from story that i wrote, which included enormous specifics. i was describing a process that began before christmas of 2021 involve the, the national security advisor, jim sullivan, of the white house of the, for the president. they had a series of meetings at a secret room in the white house. meanwhile, there's a total lack of outrage here in europe from the establishment. their silence is deafening. considering that the north stream network is a joint project with major european energy companies and russia gas problem to

secure europe's energy needs. now, according to what's been seen recently in the russian media, sweden, denmark and germany, 3 countries near the attack. and that should have had some information about it or not engaging with russian authorities trying to figure out what happened. that was very difficult for us to conduct our own investigation. if we're not even allowed to access the side of this terrorist attack. only gas from received permission from danish authorities to investigate the side of the explosion. the gas problem did not limit itself to the study of the very place of explosion along the gas pipeline itself. the ship rented by gas pro moved on, and at a distance of about 30 kilometers from the explosion site. a column was found which stood at a similar spot to where the explosions occurred. these are the most vulnerable places in the gas pipeline. the junction of pipes, experts believe that this may be an antenna for receiving a signal to activate an explosive device that can be placed beneath the pipeline. and now of course, we would like to get permission from danish authorities to independently together

with them, or even better by forming an international group of explosive experts to carry out the necessary research. and apparently, several explosive devices were planted. some exploded in some didn't the reasons are unclear. and so obviously some neutral authority really does need to intervene here like the un and a letter has been sent from the russian and bachelor to the nations to the security council to that effect. but the west certainly doesn't seem interested in demanding its own answers. well, for me, yes, marine corps intelligence officers, scott ritter bleed. washington committed an economic assaults on europe. germany. economy has taken a big hit right now. in a large part of that is because of high energy cost, united states has not been able to supplant russian gas. so it, you know, the quantities and the pricing that makes it viable for germany. and germany was stabbed in the back by the american partners or american allies

o carried out an economic pearl harbor on germany. sweets claimed to find explosive traces at the floor of the baltic sea near the explosion device. but compare and contrast are these the same, they come from the same source but, but they're not talking. what is the sweet say they can't talk about it because will harm their national security. what threat could possibly exist? the sweden's national security? expose he? russian malfeasance. no sweden will get a. did a metal for that job expose in american involvement. there's the problem. the sweets have to be quiet because they want to be members of nato. the people who want to be members of nato don't go about exposing the largest member of nato as perpetrator of this terrorist act of this act of war against germany and europe. we know who carried it out. we have a confession from the american president joe biden, to the back february 7th of last year, where he promised that if russian tanks entered the ukraine north street to be

taken out, he guaranteed it ah, electronic waste has become a growing threat to kenya's ecology as the east african nations struggles to cope with the growing pollution problem that the amounts of a waste products both produced domestically and imported from developed countries as increased by more than 17 times since 2012 with less than 20 percent of it being disposed of safely. local journalist census this report and how the country is still going to cope with the mounting problem. in kenya, the largest source of you is, is from discarded electronic equipment. and a plan for these items often imported from developed countries, a 2nd on equipment and end up in the canyon informal recycling sector. when some of the e with is converted by kinetic self, many develop nations are using this country and its neighbors of a dumping ground electronic worst is becoming a significant environmental concern in kenya and the rest of the african continent . the amount of view is generated on your knees exponentially growing with an

increase. you said your electronic gadgets when huge golf exist in the properties parcel of the ways with only 4 lines as recycling companies in a country of nearly 50000000 people. most of it often ends up in the landfills. our italy says mercury lead and other toxic substances. one of the kenya's u. s. companies elite is trying hard to reduce the swelling tide, looking forward to the pop up. the electronic trash used. we should have tenure is a non governmental organization, which was started in the year 2015 and got registered in 2016. ah. our core business is electronic waste management, fitness, specifically in the form of our business, because we realized that the 0 to be with being mishandled in the informa. second, i so we, we are is that is a busy need to thought an organization that can create or we enlist. among the

informal devious contrasts, electronic waste poses detrimental had the hover to the canyons and the environment, if not properly addressed. these calls for action by the government on this the corners to find proper ways of dealing with the problem. i think decisions, but yeah, there'll be seats. and on working around, you find a lot of weights and the waste in them you at least you'd find ah, he was in them. so the specialness was a neatness burdened big citizens and the government is not doing enough in and he's supposed to do it. so i think about that we had a bad thing because you'll find out you'll find a day with one to let him out with a lot of hunt with metal mentor, humans, homeowner, tino art news, nairobi. when i jerry an economist on blogger told us more about the problem,

a more kenny needs to do to tackle it be here in africa sort of seed as a 2nd or secondary, tertiary market. we tried to rescue some of the gadgets. we tried to reuse some of the metal phone with the wires and so on by the process of dispos are least devastating on the environment. and a lot of that ends up polluting the air. i'm also and supplementing the worth of table, if not window, even something to the reverse and so on and so forth. so even if sort of invoke the pixel off fuck of africa beam right at the bottom of the, of the, of the pecking order of the food chain as to where the size, the guest dumped into africa. e ways these, the size of 3 of the 50 cruise sheeps ok, it gets dumped into africa in terms of e with every year. that's the 2019 figure. as a huge number, we made a tie in our laws and began to, you know, and evades. i think in this regard,

fighting our laws, uninsured, or whatever. it's called me me here. um, you know, where i switch any down here and we need to step up and, and sure would push back. you know, again this, this semester dump enough toxic waste across the continent in west africa. devastating dumping activities are also having some serious consequences in senegal, waste recycle in sharpeners are facing an open bottle in reading the country of enormous detroit detritus, domes and streets ah, classic galaxy dallas of plastic, buried onto the ground makes the soil in the tiled just this morning he there were cows grazing, had since they can find grass, they eat the plastic cows shaped coats and alike. gondola has many protected

terriers of you to the lang, the barbary national park, where they all see totals those totals. for example, confused, discarded plastic with jelly fish and eat it as well. oh hm. with that was that up to a pre wash. we used this machine, which is a grinder with a capacity or 500 kilograms per day for the plastic comes out in, pallets mixed with powder. then we use a safe to separate. it's after that it proceeds to a 2nd wash. ah . ah, casey,

i said, one of the idea is not only to come and work at different, but also to provide environmental education that they will in turn be passed on into homes, families and neighborhoods. what we are doing is important that a municipal level thus erupt phenomenon. peter scott's, i'll be back again at the top of the hour with all the latest news views analysis white's head on oxy out to see them with ah.