a loop ah, 3 guided rockets away targeting muddy, muddy good news, perhaps. fortified circle. but you have the it's controlled r t follows an anti tank crew near the city of muddy in rushes done. yes, we're pop like that. that's russian forces continue their advance in the region. despite strong fortifications built by care over the last 8 years. the used foreign policy chief calls on military ships the sale through the taiwan strait, maintaining a provocative approach and risking an escalation in the region. as the pentagon looks, the strength and security in its intelligence services following allegedly,

it seems western math media also has an easy access to a probe, super documented. and china is celebrating its 7th face day from launching its 1st satellite 52 years ago to conducting large scale space mission. beijing continues to reach new pipe in this space sector. ah, coming to you from moscow. this is our international with the latest world news updates i'm fiorella is about. it's great to have you with us. we start with the latest from crimea where the russian black c fleet has repelled a ukrainian maritime drone attack on the port of sebastopol. the me local authority

say one drone was destroyed by russian forces. while a 2nd one exploded, the attack didn't cause any casualties or damage in the russian lugens republic. a huge fire erupt. it after a ukrainian drone attacked a local fields depot. no one was injured in the it's tough with emergency services putting out the blaze. a suspected you korean drone loaded with explosives has crashed near the town of the kids in the moscow region. the incident happened close to the russian capital. here are the images showing the drone. it had several western made explosives on board. a local resident reportedly founded in the woods . according to media reports, the drone could have been caught up in tree branches. it's not clear if it flew directly from ukraine. meanwhile, in russia's on yes, republic, the russian defense ministry says wagner fighters have taken over to city blocks in

the embattled city of art. the most also known as black moods. this comes after reports that russian forces have taken control of a local train station in the western part of the city. western media on the ground have also confirmed that ukrainian forces of had to withdraw from the last central areas of the almost the russian defense ministry also stated that a large field depot of the ukrainian army was destroyed in the area on monday. r t is mariah garcia, reports from don bass. we approach through ruins and along trenches. the weather remains miserable. mud and sludge are everywhere. we accompany a squad armed with a guided missile system, their destination, the top of a slag keep their target ukrainian positions in mud, inca free guided rockets away targeting that might,

inc. muddy gut is perhaps the most fortified settlement that ukraine has under its control. for 8 years, they spent shoring it up, digging underneath setting up far positions to make sure that it holds on as long as possible. only about 25 percent of monica remained. sunday, ukrainian control coordinates missiles, common multiple variants, armor piercing fragmentation, and sometimes with the dreaded thermo barrick warhead. roberson was shows lulu what we just did was planned and put together or 2 days. our people were constantly on watch and we confirmed a large and me presence about 20 soldiers. the best case scenario for them is that they get burn on the probably the fight for mighty anchor is the longest, ongoing battle in the ukrainian conflict. it building remains untouched. many no

longer exist. it is slow going. speed is not a priority here for my don't get so m bowlin on hold. we're moving forward. it isn't quaker, but i'll notice a minimal. our objective is to cause the enemy maximum damaged him while minimizing our losses, depending on location, tactics and strategies very wildly, nearby and backward. the pace is much quicker, much more savage and apparent radio intercept of ukrainian communications has sparked outrage in russia. good. we're going to work together on joy, away to 40. did you what brand new did your grandchild you? yeah, i know that not only does it take a look in the morning on his game keke where we live in the battle already

infamous for its viciousness dubbed the meat grinder by key of officials. these boots eel, recently the wagner private military company and ukrainian forces had conducted a prisoner exchange. it now seems unlikely that there'll be another one. here for this radio, you have to hold until we see cranium size. if we are, prisoners, has great humanitarian significance. humanitarian law begins when you take someone prisoner, you have to take care for them. we want while in that law, so we won't take any more prisoners moodle killed only when we meet on the fields of battle. we won't take any one prisoner. this will come as unwelcome news to ukrainian families ready on the edge from the horrendous casualty rates among ukrainian troops. they've dead challenge the military leadership. ah, wow.

in can you boy rob the relatives of ukrainian soldiers the missing and the injured gathered at the military office to protest. they accused the army leadership of sending there under trade products, husbands and sons, to their deaths under equipped and lacking even food. and he on leasing, and people were ignored. the military officials shut the doors and said nothing in all the front remains static. ukraine continues to prepare for its being offensive, and russia further fortifies its already formidable defenses. on both sides pension mount the head of a battle which made this side the conflict more ad gasdio ot, from monica than he had squeegee. the ears foreign policy chief has encouraged the sailing of military ships throughout the taiwan strait. a region of

contention with beijing. r t contributor rachel mars then has the story. in our view, there is only one china, but not under any conditions, and certainly not through the use of force. in reality, europe must be very present on this issue which concerns us economically commercially, and technologically. this is why i call on european navies to patrol the taiwan strait to signify europe's commitment to freedom of navigation in this absolutely crucial area. so each chief diplomat, yoseph burrell wrote in his office in france's eulogy demolish over the weekend. that on one hand, he went to european countries to send the warships into china's backyard. but on the other, he says that quote, china doesn't directly threaten our security. he also reiterated europe when china position, which is aligned with china. so then why does he want european worship on the other side of the globe in the taiwan strait are china's coast,

if there is no. while he says that it would be to, quote, signify europe's attachment to the freedom of navigation in this crucial zone. so basically, he wants european country sees their military hardware and personnel for virtue singly escalate the president imagined. if all countries sent soldiers and heavy weaponry around the world as a symbol of their coat attachment to use browse term l just selling some chocolates or maybe some long stand red roses like normal people would do. it would be a lot cheaper and wouldn't risk inadvertently provoking yet another armed conflict somewhere in the world. remember that the one a ukraine popped off after western countries had loaded up its border with russia with weapons. and then they were absolutely stunned when russia actually acted on it. burrell doesn't seem to recognize that they risk repeating that. here with china. also morale went on, is op ed to blame china for europe's lack of economic competitiveness, saying that beijing subsidizes it's companies like we're supposed to believe that

europe doesn't. suddenly he calls china values the opposite of europe's guess. it depends on what european valley he's talking about. today does he mean that blanket media censorship, without due process of outlets like r t, or does any dictating europeans hot shower time in, or she stick it to russian president vladimir, put in, or i'll also tells china that quote, isn't in your interest to support russia saying that doing so. busy only quote increases the polarization of the international system that you otherwise lean to want to fight. that's ironic because french president emanuel michael literally just argued that europe by blindly following washington during the polar agenda for its western allies on matters light. taiwan. when does itself exactly the same kind of disservice to the detriment of its own strategic autonomy? is it in our interest to accelerate cries to some tie one? no. the worst thing would be to thing that we, europeans, must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the u. s. agenda and a chinese over reaction. so barrels remarks and now clearly set up

a clash between european leaders like michael, who are saying that european countries shouldn't just jump on the taiwan bandwagon because america says so, particularly when it's against their own economic interests. and on the other hand, bureaucrats like burrell here, who seem to be placing the need to virtue single european unity at all costs above everything else. but in that home does have this longstanding fantasy of building a collective european defense. and any european navy patrols would depend heavily on france, so it remains to be seen if mac home is ultimately tempted. seduced by barrels offer to use the china taiwan issue as a showcase for those european defense fantasies which could end up being a big display window. that risks getting a huge rock tossed right through it too many people have access to the u. s. government. close the secrets. that's according to senate intelligence committee

chairman, mark warner. the statement comes as a u. s. national guardsman was charged with leaking classified documents earlier. this month, this is a problem that, that we shouldn't be totally surprised that we've known for a long time. we way over classified documents, in many cases, what may be classified within intelligence community, maybe different types of documents than the dude. the 3rd thing is, once we get to that highest level of classification, we maybe have too many folks taking. look at him over 4000000 people with clearances. but it shows the arrest of 21 year old jack to shera accused of being tied to an online group where the leak secret documents 1st appeared. but to share i was 1st identified not by security agencies but the new york times are t correspondence. shay bows looks into why mass media could have identified him 1st and how they could apparently have such easy access to the secret documents. the

recent spate of apparent u. s. intelligence leaks have preoccupied the western media since the washington post 1st broke the story. dozens of highly classified documents have been leaked online revealing sensitive information intended for senior military and intelligence leaders in an exclusive investigation. the post also read scores of additional secret documents, most of which have not been made public the leaks hand. washington, a convenient get out of jail card when it comes to ukraine's much hype, spring offensive, and key of insistence on trying to hold by what all, no, apparently key of ideas carried out against washington's advice. so basically, a kind of, you know, we told you so that will absolve the u. s. of blame. if you cranes, much anticipated fight back fails and backward falls. this ties inconveniently with the media hysteria around the leaks which draws attention away from the realities

of ukraine's precarious situation on the ground. why are you telling people, what's in this information that you say is, is violated of secrecy? why are you telling me information that supposedly is harmful? i don't have to know of it. why are you telling me? i don't understand that you start to see certain story lives presented in the wash and post in the new york times and their own sake. it reflects, oh, was likely some sort of intelligence information operation. let's face it. there's plenty to be skeptical about when the same newspaper just so happens to stumble on to highly classified documents that it conveniently languish completely unnoticed on a, virtually, on known gaming server. for months. the washington post was able to trace their vide dispersal. back to a small private group, made up largely of teenagers and led by a men initially identified as

o g through contact with discord users. the washington post has been able to review about 300 pages of classified documents, many previously unreported and strangely. the apparent cobra jack tech zera is now being cast as a fire, right. going on with anti semi tendencies, the same man that was recently passed for one of the higher security clearances in the us. it seems there's more and more questions than answers. the men behind a massive league of u. s. government secrets is a young, charismatic gun enthusiast. who shared highly classified documents with a group of far flung acquaintances, searching for companionship amid there's the lation of the pandemic, the arrest object sarah follows the posts account of how detailed intelligent documents about an extraordinary range of subjects found their way unto discord. an online chat platform popular with gamers before they circulated across the internet . and of course, for the washington post, the big secrets it likes to brag about knowing means big business. another supposed

example of being in the right place at the right time. but on like the old days when it was famed for exposing scandals that challenged the u. s. government and now seems to be eagerly volunteering itself as an investigator and she for washington, with the cia apparently nowhere to be seen. china is celebrating its 7 space day to day. more than $200.00 science events will be held as part of the series of ceremonies. china has been celebrating, cosmetic stay since 2016 on this day 52 years ago. the 1st chinese artificial, or satellite dawn on home one was sent into orbit. thanks to the launch, china became the 2nd country in asia to have a space program. the history of man cause manadis and china began in 2003. when ty cannot yang leeway completed china's 1st flight into orbit on the sions who 5

spacecraft since then, china has conducted 10 missions with 16 representatives of the countries space program blasting into space. you can see footage of mars with china releasing its 1st my a be entire surface of the red planet. the data was collected by the time 11 spacecraft . in the pictures you can see small craters, ridges june's and other features on one of the earth close the neighbors. in 2021 china landed a spacecraft on mars for the 1st time in history. c g t n correspondent woo lay visited an exhibition dedicated to space day and gave us the details. as you can see behind me, these are the motto i'm trying to long, much carry a rocky have you can see from the very last the trying to sell law much spot. the currently most powerful kevin iraqis. and here is a law much 3 b. and this one is

a lot of stuff and carrying rockets is mentally use the poor launch the central cargo ship. and this is the vision is only part of me. here is activity for the space day of china. actually this morning after the opening ceremony. we also met some, our colleagues from our last cosmos, and a lot of international organizations found a space agencies have also come us to celebrate to the face of china. we, the chinese colleagues had many small town called young from the national space, but in the region has that china have a sense from lunar sam posed to russia as well as from this year for the benefit of human high. so yes, there are a lot of activities, including high level discussions, and also forums will be field hungry problems. we promise to celebrate the space, day of china and the to promote the peaceful use of our space with mankind. so

a number of national slogger scholars and offer actors. let's talk about your face grew once we, their counterparts. now over to sudan were the evacuation of foreign nationals is underway as ongoing military clashes in the country enter their 10 consecutive day. the violence ranging in the country has force foreign governments to evacuate their citizens. these include the u. s. u k, france and germany, as well as egypt, china, and others. russian citizens are also awaiting extraction from moscow's embassy in cartoon. hundreds of evacuees and 4 planes landed at a military airport in jordan's amman earlier on monday. leo, men at the hud that on today, we're talking about 343, george daniel citizens who were evacuated from sudan in addition to

a number of arrow brothers from palestine, iraq, syria, and to citizens from germany, electrical algebra. unfortunately, there would deaths in the streets my factory was broken into and some equipment was stolen. praise be to god, lord of the world's. i do not know what to do in such circumstances. we have not seen anything like it in our lives. on sunday, more than a 100 evacuee center judy by the french military, one frank national was reportedly shot during the evacuation process. the sudanese military accused the paramilitary rapid support forces of opening fire on a french convoy, while the r a staff claimed it came under attack by military aircraft. the french foreign ministry has not commented on the situation. the ongoing violence has paralyzed to dan's main, international airport, destroying civilian plains and damaging at least one runway local journalists. abdullah hussein brought us the latest developments. unfortunately,

the plastic window offered support for us as military. our school picking on the ongoing is science, harmful model for in other words, are, own sedan. nice was finally to get some sleep. but also there were some, there was a lot of fun. find the vital locations, especially especially around the areas near to the army, to any doctor that has just your pocket this morning that the more people were killed yesterday. so this makes the thought of someone that's all. and so down about 273 people who are was into more than 1500 around for another one. besides the army did not mention anything about offering

the buyer also the wrong person didn't mention anything about already. also learned that there was some who were there will be a 70 days, but the not because the previous the fire on the previous, those who are not, we're not implemented truly between the 2.15 that they have broken the last the fire fire, fire fire and also our fire and there was our fire. all of these are broken because the side on friday, both the army and the paramilitary are ss and nouns, se would uphold the 3 day cease fire. yet the violence continued. the international community has been vocally calling for a more secure truce. meanwhile, one of the r assess commanders has reportedly joined the rival army,

encouraging his former comrades to do the same oh, in the name of god, the most gracious, the most merciful i am, are a serf major hussein m. o savvy in our now. and so i am joining the armed forces and this is my military cod. now announced that i have joined the army by the decree of the commander in chief of the armed forces. and i have 100 and 24th personnel and 25 mill through vehicles. i appeal to all my brothers cedar rapids support forces to join the army, to add the bloodshed. head of the association for media development and south through dan kong. pol chang says people are having hopes that your booty and kenya could help resolve the crisis. c, i a,

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ah, the 9 session of the bricks, conference of deputy ministers and special envoys has kicked off in south africa. the session will be held over 3 days in cape town and will focus on peace processes in the middle east and developments in north africa and the gulf. the meeting will lead up to the breaks any all heads of state summits set to take place in south africa. in august of this year, archie's problem, the top law has the details. well this particular breaks me thing of deputy foreign minister, special envoys into the middle east and north. busy africa is of paramount importance here, especially with regards to the host in this case of south africa, of the chair of bricks for the year. south africa saying that they very much want polarity of voices and florida to your views in order to bring back the stability

and bring about peace in the middle east. not, of course, ignoring how important this area is, as well as north africa with regard to global economics. most of those economies are really what drives the economies of the world, major oil producers and the lakes. and they continue to occupy a very important part in the world that you cannot mix, but also in the phase of where the situated and currently where the hot bed of conflict has been. the feeling here amongst brick members, is that it cannot be a single, a voice that is leading within the middle east, the north african primarily being that of the united states, which to this day remains a conflict and partner and has been achieved by more than one country as a meddling nation with in the middle east, south africa is also trying to not only us or in the,

the importance of the middle east, but they're looking forward looking at this as one of the events that will be taking place, leading up to south africa hosting the heads of state of the bridge club later this year in august. and this will be happening in johannesburg in august. now what we understand is that we have a situation way, way and not only south africa is looking at hosting that, but they're looking at inviting the bigger african countries south africa. the very same when it's held the church ship 5 years ago. we saw a white african family representation, and that is very much expected to happen again. this year archie spoke to the head of the south african bridge delegation, who said that brick stands for peace and wants to actively participate in addressing global security issues. this is our 9th meeting and the middle

east has always been one of the global hotspots merged in conflict. and as bricks we fall, that is important that we add our voice and focus on the middle east, north africa region, to see how we can bring about peace and approach money between the conflicting parties. bricks, very much would like to see a multi polo world. as against a uni, paula bipolar what we would like to also be an active participant in addressing the global security challenges, including in the middle east and other areas. because brick stand for peace, brick stand for birding, a global community that is inclusive, that is shirt, and where no one is marginalized, like we have presently, the global south is on the periphery of the global geopolitical joke, and i'm at feel financial architecture. so this is the focus for bricks to bring

about peace to bring about corporation to bring about an inclusive global society. that's our, up on the hour and coming up in light of nato's recent assertion that ukraine will be a part of nato. does this mean that the alliance plans a direct military intervention and ukraine, and if so, it would be admittedly at war with russia. the discussion next on cross paths with with ah,

ah hello and welcome to cross stock. were all things are considered on peter level in light of nato's assertion this past week that ukraine will be a member of the military alliance? is natal planning for a direct military intervention in ukraine? if yes, better it intends on going to war with russia? ah, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess martin j in marrakech. he is an award winning journalist and commentator and in budapest b cross with george samuel he, he's a podcast her at the goggle which he found on.