of any kind of compromise, any process, any, any thing. and so any last thoughts are last not, not really much. we can mix of, we also do the top headlines right now and i'll see international list the kremlin reveals that the vladimir putin did meet with the leader of the wagner group. and it's come on those just days off of their attempted muse. me, because we understand the russian president essentially discussed that's the site washington's position to green light plus the munitions, the key of stokes. i'm during a host of countries including russia and china and kind of bodies, but also among some of america's most as nato prussian chinese relations of rock, solid and cooperation between the 2 will only intensify us the message from the

russian parliament try well enough. the folks in china with the we are spending the world from moscow and questioning old a predictable mainstream narratives. it's always your news or not to you. and i'm sorry with the kremlin that has revealed at the present imprudent did meet with the leadership of the wagner private military company, including his chief. you have any precaution, 5 day softer the attempted mutiny last month. the president had such a meeting, he invited $35.00 people to it's all the commanders of the group and its leadership, including pre gordon himself. the meeting took place in the kremlin on june 29th. it lasted almost 3 hours. the president gave him the assessment of the group's actions on the front, as well as an assessment of the events of june 24th. so as we heard from the press secretary himself, the russian president, vladimir,

put and has met with the commander in chief of the wagner group. if guinea pig guardian just 5 days after the attempt to new and you know, the president has also listened to the explanations of the commanders and has offered employment to them, the commanders express their point of views on the events and has said that they are loyal to russia, in that they're ready to fight for the motherland. none the less. now, just a little bit of background on them. you any, the attentive new in itself. last month, the wagner group has more on the way to the kremlin when thankfully, by thanks to a deal brokered by bella, russian president, alexander lucas, chunk of the rebellion failed. yeah. and so the west has been talking about this now for weeks. what are they saying about the consequences to russia? now, it is very interesting to note that the western media has taken this whole situation way out of proportions, claiming that this is the start of the, in the broad shops that russia is unstable. they're also saying that wagner's

living africa is a sign of moscow purging the room. that clouds are hovering over wagner's operations in africa. but it's really interesting to see that the west has demonized any russian presence in africa really, but it really looks like africans themselves do open the russian presidents in their continents. as we see, the adviser to president of the central african republic has said that if it's not wagner anymore, they send beethoven or mozart. it does not matter. we will take them. so it really seems like despite the immunization of the 5, no. but yeah, or the russian presence in africa uh be, advertise themselves, seem to be very open to it. now the western media has also plans that there is chaos in russia, but we knew it looks like we have the russian president who seems to be very open to this. got to discussing the issues and what happened and to listen to the commanders and their point of views as well. and to present their versions of the,

of what happened now. also, the russian president, as you've been addressed as to the nation previously after this rebellion and has also given 3 options to the commanders of the wagner group. either you go to the russia or you sign a contract with the ministry of defense, or you just go home. that was all the corresponded with my m a. e saw the speaking earlier with my colleague field, her le isabel. meanwhile, the russia and china have slammed the us decision to send cluster munitions bones to ukraine. representatives from the countries suggested washington's disregard for the inevitable civilian deaths close by the weapons constitutes a war crime and ultimately as fuel to the fire. don't come of it. he has the fact to confess to committing bull crimes by the united states. during the crating complex. he agrees, stated that civilians would die from american costs and type munitions and the

perverse of view of the white house employee. this brings less home, then rushes actions, you're responsible, transfer of cluster munitions can easily lead to humanitarian problems. relevant parties should not add fuel to the fire, exacerbate contradictions leading to an aggravation of the ukrainian crisis. yeah, we raised the issue with a, with that have a washington, a dispatching cluster bombs to ukraine. we had a guest, benjamin chow. he joined us from the center for china and globalization. how about us in the us now is supplying ukraine, but what the us call, just months ago, more crime weapons. so it would really be curious for us to hear what moral grounds reasons washington would supply this time, especially so much of the previous us supply weapons according to the markets in ukraine. we must custom home, much caution to us, said he has, as you claim to pay attention to how effective it will be. we are seeing that the us is winning a lot of contracts to rebuild the infrastructure of ukraine. so i think

it is in the interest of some of the interest groups in the us or the west to see even more damage to be done in new pain so that they could get the contract . could we be able to find later on this house, southeast asian nation of cambodia has also come out to condemn washington's plan. it's probably minister because the deadly effects of the bombs that rained down on that region back in the 19 seventy's with repercussions still being felt today. that has been used to release that the united states will provide cost to bones to ukraine, to flight the russian army, commodious headed, sold, painful experience of these from the 1970s. when americans use the cost of bombs, it has been more than half a century. now, but we are still looking for ways to destroy them all. cambodia, allow, and vietnam were fine to buried in millions of these types of munitions. a lot of these munitions are still scattered across the territory and they kill people every

single year in cambodia. i believe it's been about 20000 people killed since the end of the war from these unexploded ordnance. and what people need to remember is that cambodia and prime minister avoidance, and specifically cited what you cried at the beginning of the special military operation, has been supporting you crying all along. so you could say that russia and china big against that. that's one thing. but this is a country that has supported ukraine, and they are condemning this move by the united states to send them these cluster munitions. they're estero design, their mit meant to be real boston survive under combat conditions because there's always going to be a certain percentage of them that failed to explode. and they will persist in the environment unexploded until disturbs because they're made out of modern materials . it's not as if they're going to bio di grade and so they are a persistent brett for years, actually, decades,

decades become as you heard right back, how about it is just one of the many countries that still suffers from unexploded amunition left behind from previous conflicts the, the

now washington's cluster bomb decision accomplish days before and they chose summit kicks off in the way and here, however, the move has exposed cracks in the otherwise unbroken alliance is always contributed. rachel boston now takes a very good look. it seems like a pretty straightforward mission. us president joe biden just had to get onto air force one and show up here in europe this week for the nato summit in lithuania, for the usual photo op, where he and other western leaders could all just ramble on about how united they are over ukraine the usual stuff, but it was also going to make a pit stop

a route to this meeting in london on monday to hang out with british prime minister . reach you soon. ok, maybe try to keep deflecting any talk of that trade deal that the us promise britain, if it's secured, it's breakfast, divorce from the u. then he was supposed to hang out with king charles, who's coordination? 5 in this. because while he's 80 and probably needed his beauty rest, maybe he was just still too tired from the white house. easter april finance visit was supposed to be a big chance for king charles to showcase his climate change projects and leverage biden's presence to philanthropist. and investors seems pretty simple right. what could possibly go wrong? well, how about the fact that right before the trip fighting stumbled to the podium and announced that washington would be sending ukraine cluster munitions. now that might not go over too well with king charles or the royal family. given that the late princess diana made campaigning against landmines precisely like these one of

her life causes, by an effective we cluster on his own trip, with the cluster munitions as you capable of blowing up in his own face at any time . as allies are already condemning to move spain based on the firm commitment it has with ukraine also has a firm commitment that certain weapons in bonds cannot be delivered under any circumstances, no, to cluster bombs, and yes, to the legitimate defense of ukraine, which we understand should not be carried out with cluster bombs. i have followed the media reports for us as a state park to the oslo agreement on the conventional cluster. munitions applies. the year k is signature, e to a convention, which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages that use . now what remains to be seen is how many of these allies are actually voided. call by the know to his face. we're talking here about weapons that are banned by

a legally binding international treaty signed by these allies, but not by the us, russia or ukraine. these new conditions though, are dropped in containers of hundreds, most of which explode on impact, but some of which don't. so instead they end up setting into the ground and exploding on innocent civilians years later and often our children who mistake them for toys. but apparently the pentagon isn't really that good at seeing the big picture. i'm is concerned about the humanitarian circumstance as anybody. but the worst thing for civilians and ukraine is for russia to win the war. and so it's important that they don't. so in disguise logic, it would be a big wind for ukraine if the country was literally littered with pine bombs that could blow up on its citizens at any time in the future. as long as that means having a long shot at defeating russia on the battlefield, sounds exactly like the kind of foresight that the pentagon is shown and pretty

much every single one of its recent failed for and whores. the buyer ministration itself was against cluster munitions before they were for the even qualifying their use as a war crime just last year for illegal cluster bombs and vacuum bombs being used by the russians. if that's true, what is the next step of this in ministration? is there a red line for how much will be tolerated against civilians in this manner that illegal potentially it is, it would be i don't have any confirmation of that. we have seen the reports. if, if the were true, it would potentially be a work crime. this open source reporting highlights the use of cluster bombs by russian forces in several populated areas, including hama and edward's tax. using these in precise weapons, only continue to cause a necessary so where the russians have been indiscriminate,

they've been reckless in syria. they seem to have no difficulty dropping cluster munitions around were civilians and. ready the memo you training present in 5 years, liskey is touring around the world like his taylor swift without any cost and changes, of course. and well, he just is fresh off of flop and bulgaria was a conflict. this conflict has no military solution to say, i do not accept the provision of munition, especially if it is from the reserves of the vote during all me. because like you, i'm the president and supreme commander and i have clear responsibilities. not only can the defense capabilities of demo jerry nomics know to go to see that remark, set zalinski off on the tantrum, which he accused russia of wanting to destroy nato europe, the european union, and bulgaria. maybe you should just focus a bit more on what washington is busy doing to his own country right now and all of it with his full blessing, musical chairs and badging,

as are less than 24 hours off of the us treasury secretary from out of china must go flies in the chat with men of rushes off the chamber of parliament joining the chinese presidents adults and issued a series of statements. a chinese russian relations show a favorable trend for full fledged stables development were steadily promot cooperation in all areas strengthening the social and civil basis of our friendship . the key take away is that china will continue to foster cooperation with russia and preserve the friendship that exist between our nations. china embodies the strong and friendly shoulder rush. i can rely on the head of the russian delegation . here valentina, my bianca has been hard at work since the entire delegation arrived here in beijing on sunday evening. she said she actually just met with the chinese president. she's

in paying and said the meeting went very well. both sides agreed to continue their long standing strategic partnership based on mutual respect, mutual cooperation, and mutual dame. as 2 of the very few countries left in the worlds that are truly sovereign, according to what might be unco said. now, she also called, she's in pain, a very wise leader who's dedicated to a lot of the same things that russians dedicated to actually as well, in terms of, of course preventing for an interference in the domestic affairs of independent countries and again, dedication to the sovereignty of one's own country, russia, russia, chinese cooperation is something that the head of the russian delegation not only said is good now, but he's also looking towards a very bright new future as well. i mean, one of the short term, at least indications of that is the fact that trade volume between china and russia is set to exceed $200000000000.00 worth before the end of the year. so that's a big milestone. and other than that might be and also met with the head of china's

national people's congress today. and she also saw the museum of the chinese communist party here, which had many relics of government importance. according to the chinese government, it's a very high profile museum. so this was really, it's a very high profile visit that's going to continue for another several days. and it actually comes not too long after a number of visits by us officials here to china and that which were attempts to sort of revive relations between the united states and china, which had been at a low that hasn't been seen in decades as a result. of disagreements connected to a security. and of course, over taiwan for example, nancy pelosi is visit to taiwan that the chinese government didn't like very much. one of these high profile visits by us policy, by us officials that i mentioned was a recent visit by the us finance secretary, janet yelling, who actually said that the chinese side was pretty uh,

worried about talks of potentially decoupling the chinese economy from the american economy but she said that there was some sort of difference between the coupling and what she explained as the risking. although the specifics we did not exactly here, there was another high profile visit from us secretary of state anthony, blinking a little bit before yelman's visit, which also yielded very few results. but it is noteworthy to say that joe biden called seizing paying very controversially a dictator, not too long after that meeting came to its conclusion. so the contradiction between these american visits to china and the russian visits a visit to china that we're seeing now, which is looking very, very productive in comparison. it just goes to show that there's a lot of opportunity for russia in china to deepen the strategic partnership. it's already very wide and in many sectors of both economies in the country and the more out of aging is,

are china issues of wanting to america and other foreign actors to stay out of the country's domestic affairs comes after a us and boy met with to bets spiritual the to the dalai lama in india is capital. the tibet affairs are purely internal affairs of china and no extra nal forces have the right to interfere. us should take concrete actions to honor its commitment of acknowledging to bed as part of china. stop. middling and sean, his internal affairs, under the pretext of 2 bed related issues and offer no support to the anti china, separate his activities of the dollar. a clique, of course, at the fed has been an integral part of china for much of the possibility of any denial about it. status is a, is a part of a china, or is considered a interference in domestic affairs. that's according to china is constitution. meantime, no country cars, he recognizes the region as an independent state and political analyst. so it's in to show says that while washington has been warned by others to stay clear of the

issue with a us strategic competition with china, that's the main part that's driving washington's policy. we know that so you know, when did you as a source, as concern and quote and quote, this concern about searching regency and assessing countries. usually people say you've got to be careful because that usually that's a thinking though h, b r is up into an okay. is up under the countries um, you know, the right now, if you look at the maxwell, you know, side of the relationship. but the us is that at using the own words, you know, in a strategic competition with, in china. let's make it to, you know, clear to us, doing everything possible to slow down the development of china, all the channels that, you know, these are all the chinese, a high tech industry, so as to maintain that the global dominance. so as mentioned in the us, the gemini, in order to achieve that goal, the us, he's not only so the pricing, the chinese,

the, you know, companies, chinese developmental ways of the economic course. and you know, basically putting 1000 channel company and to the us that blacklist, they are also using basically all these useful sample, taiwan, hong kong, seen. yeah. now to best weaponized is use a basic lineup. and then you go to further time, you say me, don't find out of some type of development up time that, that's, you know, i think the big picture, if people want a new, understand bash or the us moves that they need to understand is the big picture that either us, the 3, everything possible to slow down to keep trying to doubt that he's at the nature of this relationship right now. the nigeria is president, has been elected as the chairman for the economic community of west african states, otherwise known as the eco, was leading the group with more than a dozen countries bono to post as a regional security. as of a top of the agenda. i really

wish you said one into a slight chance that people have somebody and no more back because seats like to listen to the dog and i will the not jerry and present enrollment to take a pumps on some political i people in west africa, all 3 countries in the region of on the go on cruise in recent years, molly, getting in but i can't a fast so the economic block has called on the military leadership in those countries to comply with deadlines of transferring power to a civilian the is able to him a lot of a political science professor and nigeria says the alliance plays an important role in the region. and nigeria is contribution is very important because the continent for single united front before the audience and passion nigeria

as the on the power showed that more than $0.75 because it is supposed to be because the criteria using that junior 80 service by measure and the budget to a location of the cost is also shown that this proportion and i imagine this is not to say that the imports of not getting viewed some benefit. no, no, you're not really at the expense. so that's what it does with all the sample to midland population. these one of these countries against the dictates of the french for the states of west africa, suggested in me on such as like the sky now, system garcia, i'm psyched my julia. we had a corporation, we have our examination for the 3 point that i was supposed to. ideally,

i seem to see the region was midway. friday, i've been reduced some disturbing news out of the southern russian city of kraft. the dog, as local authorities have confirmed a military officer named has done his lab. urgent sky has been assassinated. the 42 year old officer was shot 4 times in the back during the morning jog. he previously served as the deputy head of the armies local level, his action to pop. and he was a former submarine commander who took part in the crime conflict. his name did earlier appear when a ukrainian so cold peace. keep a hit list just like previously killed, john was started to gonna and level into the tops of the russian investigative committee is investigating the incident, trying to id the killer. this is a developing story here in nazi and we will keep you updated for now in the program. moscow says that kia recruited nearly 12000. busy were in most in areas during the conflict since 2022. the russian ministry defendant says

ukraine has a use those soldiers as quote, kind of in florida a lot for you throughout the games. the backdrop with the same idea of using a wave of mobilize ation, ukraine, and in order to high because a strong think losses of the personnel of the korean armed forces. the key of your dream has stepped up, its recruitment in asia, lots in america and the middle east. so a truck for the missionaries in total since 24th of february 20221167540. and most of these have officially arrived in ukraine to participate in a still. it is on the korean side. however, after the initial loss has suffered, the dynamics of their arrival was sharply reduced for emotion, the wrists are used by the key if we deem a scan in florida. nobody from the ukraine in combined regrets their loss of life. therefore, they have only one choice to escape from ukraine or die. the russian forces during

the special milledgeville peroration will continue to eliminate for than most and the res, regardless of their location on the territory of ukrainian or russian administrator . defend said, the following heavy casualties. there are now only about 2004 in boston or is left . that's just 16, the original number of industries exposed. suppose instead of users, the $4.00 and $5.00 is to attack fortified russian positions. instead of having ukranian troops lead the way, he also said that a evacuating wounded foreigners is not the top priority. meanwhile, the russian troops continue to be trained. hard for the front line is all correspondent, steve sweeney. now absorbs the preparation. they say you snipers joey's alone. the one was spent in solitude waiting for the right moment. it is a dangerous row requiring high levels of concentration, an accuracy. but they are essential for russia. ukraine conflict,

assign to the sniper is a separate unit. for example, one sniper can do more than a company of soldiers because a sniper goes out both at night and during the day he can work in an order of magnitude more people in a day. then the company, the main characteristics number must have is call. they shouldn't react at all, because if any critical situation takes place, it means that they have already been spotted, and something bad could happen. the sniper should work round the clock regardless of the weather. it's a completely different for now. everything is different from what it used to be, including the weapons. sturdy, lightweight equipment is essential to enable snipers to hold that position for hours. with emissions often lasting up to 4 days. and then until the different types of silence are from a company based out of are all its weight is around 2 kilos. part optics are very good and i can see very well with them. it allows detection of troops up to 3 kilometers away. so i can mark the target with this rifle i've worked on targets at

a distance of 1600 meters away. the majority of somebody for the men, but 22 year old nasty, had joined the defense of the homeland to the age of just 18 worship. um, i'm a medic, but i've also been trained as a snipe, but since i was 17. every day we quoted made the work of artillery and all the snipers from dr. surface together. we do tasks that are more or less straightforward. that will start in 2014. when i was 13, i watched a lot of other snipers was pasted on the internet, and then i joined the military patriotic club where they trained us and then i joined the special forces. at the age of 17, i've got a little sister that i look officer and protect. i think i probably became a slide, but just to protect because i love that very much and i grew. everyone reacts differently to me. sometimes they treat me like a child, sometimes is a go and even sometimes the brother will trying to help each other out,

even if it's personal well working as a team or years through the hey, one location is the snipers are practicing. hey, around this open field. how's your crying? his counselor offensive is citing. things may change quite rapidly in the role of the sniper will become ever more important. this is steve sweeney for all t and the don't. yes. republic. just a quick side note for you here is a negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in ukraine are impossible. that's from constantine, gabrielle, of the head of the russian delegation to the vienna adults. governor of saying that, quote, neither washington, all kids have the desire to learn more about that. it's all to you dot com, the hello, i'm manila, chad. you are tuned into modus operandi. as the conflict in ukraine continues and the debate about supplying arms to the care for gene rages on, we'll take a look at what sorts of weapons the collective west is contending with. while the

us and boast itself as the supreme military in the world and the main supplier of arms to ukraine, does its arsenal actually stack up? in terms of modern capabilities, we'll talk to a retired russian naval engineer who breaks down exactly what these modern missiles can do. all right, let's get into the m o. the you may have heard the stories about the ghost of t f or the midst of snake island early on in the ukraine conflict. by now, you probably know they were fake news. there was never a ukrainian top gun fighter pilot who took down dozens of russian jets. the soldiers on snake island never cursed.