of the, the congress doubles done on its claim that no french mercenaries are fighting in ukraine against russia, the spied premises defense minister, how being admitted to the country just days ago. and the mysteries that shaped the week president fighting pledges to keep holding him in pulling up the same time. admitting strikes by the u. s. u. k. coalition failed to prevent a hoo teeth from attacking ships in the red sea. the plus, the idea destroys the last university in gal another know military targets and reduced to rubble, the end of the

heavier catching the program from today across the world. welcome to the global you signed up here on our to international. frances foreign minister has once again denied that any of the country's nationals have traveled to ukraine as mercenaries . that's despite the french defense chief earlier admitting that some of the citizens are indeed fighting their against russia. here's the take of our 2 country peter ritual morrison. earlier this week, rushes defense ministry said that it hit a nest of 64 and fighters and have called, specifying that they were mostly french nationals. the french foreign ministry was quick to dismiss the whole story as totally fake news from the helps you bring with supplies of military material and military training in full compliance with international law. france has no mercenaries, neither in ukraine nor elsewhere, unlike certain others. all right,

so no french writers and you pray that all of them, right. let's just say if the identities of those fighters ever got out there, absolutely would not be any friends names on that list, right? because that would be really awkward, having just denied that there are any french marks at all and you, for and when even french domestic intelligence acknowledged last year that they were over $400.00 french fighters in ukraine. they even admitted that about 30 french fighters in ukraine. are known neo nazis just as an example. one french guy previously accused of killing an argentinian rugby player, was pulled over in his car in hungary, in 2022 and said that he was on his way to fight and you frame. then last april to french mercenaries in their twenties got off of boston, paris from live golf, flagrantly toting band assault rifle, magazines, and optical sites, and were subsequently sentenced to prison almost on the spot for that both have been tracked by french intelligence. so paris is hardly blindsided by the reality

of who exactly is over there fighting for so called democracy in your trade. and why were these 2 already on french entails radar? well, because one had previously been featured in reporting on neo nazis in the french army. he reportedly also has a tattoo of the access loyalty fledged adolf hitler, and to send you a written on facebook in 2018 that migraine should get a quote good bullet in the back of the head. he was a soldier in the out line hunter, mountain operations division of the french army. they trained in the alps, but no, there's absolutely no connection whatsoever with the french military. the french defense minister said in a tv appearance on friday, who was issued from the french civilians who went to fights in ukraine wearing ukrainian military uniform. these people have no connection with the french armed forces. they do not wear a french uniform and they have no association with french military institutions. we

combine them from doing so. we're still a democracy weaknesses. oh, so now there are french fighters in ukraine is just that you see in france, mercenaries are like sparkling wine that cannot be called showing time you, if it is not from the show time, the region of france, that's just the law. and likewise, under a french law, dating back to 2003 higher guns from france who have been folded into a foreign countries military like cranes cannot be called mercenaries. and it's this detail that conveniently allows forensic guns for hire to circumvent francis and time mercenary law, which punishes any offences by up to 5 years of prison and or of 75000 euro fine. so moscow is now sunday and the french and master to explain the

french has announced this week that they'll be sending. he has more long range missiles, howitzers, and artillery ammunition. so maybe the french and pastor can also explain to moscow how, like french mercenaries, french weapons, aren't really french either or any of paris is responsibility if they serve any ukrainian military unit. and just to out to out earlier this week, a french tv channel also appeared to confirm that the country's nationals are fighting in ukraine without official approval from paris. excuse me, it new to you. if you read to see, is it public knowledge, the dog saw sense? possibly hundreds, so french fight to send ukraine today. if it's in, wanted a new toy, a tribute. indeed, it's mostly crude, this precious nationals. i currently find some ukraine. according to the said, he had still money who regularly because of the troops and ukraine between the 6th

and 7th, the frenchman, are integrated into ukrainian units, hired for a minimum wage. he also mentioned that between 20300, the french nationalist was dual citizenship. might, could previously subs into for the religion and no fights for kids. in the very early days of divorce, the printed president raised what he calls the international legion of territorial defense. so this frenchman, may well have belongs to these formations. all these french moment is going on with the approval of the 1st born ministry, or is it actually a private initiative? well, no, under no circumstances, would they go with the official approval? oh, no french soldier is officially fights in ukraine on behalf of france. ok, just to point out the figures cited the in the french t. v report is on the a triple man is an intellectual war. blogger, uncommon tutor. meanwhile, florida and phillip pool leader of francis patriots party has accused nato of actually inciting. it's member country citizens to go fight against russia.

friends must clean up each act and stay away from this war. stop pushing propaganda that encourages crazy night people to go and fight their peace soon. well, we manage to get reaction to all this from former c. i a, unless laurie johnson, who told r t french mercenaries have been involved in the war from the outset on part of the system. nothing to prevent. this is not news that there had been frenchmen, englishmen, americans, since rowley, the start of the special military operation. let's say that in march of 2022 and france has made no effort at any point or over the last, almost 2 years. to put a halt to this, the sort of enabled to allow that to go forward. i think this is more than just a vague, pursuing a paycheck. i strongly suspect that this,

this number of mercenaries, and particularly in this kind of concentration, reflected a covert action by the part of french intelligence and the french military to try to send help to ukraine, to replace deficit set and skills that they no longer have or that they are in short supply of the well, let's move to the middle east where several american military officers and a member of the iraqi security forces were injured during an attack on a call issue base in western iraq on saturday. this is what we know, or at least what the us central commander say about the ng outside base was hit by ballistic missiles, fired by a reading, bach militants from inside a rock. now the pentagon claimed most of the rockets were interested, but admitted some did hit the base since the outbreak of the warning gals that the u. s. military in the rock has come under attack almost 60 times and on scores of

occasions to in syria for american troops or section to legally for staying in the region. on friday, the u. s. military launched a 6th round of strikes on the cookies in. yeah, i'm in a situation bubbling away there. the attack came in response to the rebel group, firing on an american own cargo ship and the red sea us central command again claims the vessel wasn't head, but the hooting sail device, the human and naval forces. i've carried out an operation, i guess the us vessel came ranger and the goal of adding using a number of naval ms. so thanks to god, the most precise and direct you have any um forces to emphasize the responses to american and british defense has a negative vote. and any further offense will be made by retaliation and punishment . for the american and british miller trays long strikes on human almost every day . this week targeting cookie sites in the mission of washington calls self defense

. the western coalition assault came after a series of hootie attacks on cargo ships linked to israel over its invasion of gaza. president biden say, is the usaa is going to keep on bombing in this spike. this strikes, failing to the turn, the hutus so far the well among the wider reaction to develop bins rushes for administer a tuesday american. the coalition of a legally bombing in on further destabilizing the mid east releasing the us along with the u. k. and some of its other allies have violated and trampled on every conceivable rule of international law. including a security council resolution that nearly called for the protection of commercial shipping. nobody gave anyone the authority to bomb young and what is being done regarding young men is may him the excuses coming from washington,

i would say sound pathetic. so, following the western military strikes, thousands of locals rallied in the many capital. so now in the supports of gas at the cruelty movement, demonstrators held bonner's on shunted slogans, branding america, i quote, terroristic protesters where it ottoman the attacks will not bring done. the spirit of its nations, people, re, to when i met at the tyranny by the american enemy, slowly increases our strength, steadfastness, conviction, adherents. our principles and the development of our position, as well as our defensive offensive capabilities to disrupt the americans and bring victory for our nation. and people like to get out of the case of the american decision to designate and so a lot as a terrorist movement reflects that american failure of america has failed to terrorize and strikes fear into the amenities using all the means that its disposal, including threats, political pressure and mobilizing

a fleet in the red sea. and so it has resulted to this political and economic steps believing it with limits or n d made it position and prevent the amenities from supporting the brothers and palestine in gaza. but this is impossible. well, some background to all this, the who tcs, the sign a city a decade ago, the outset of the civil war and the m and the rebel group has since for 5 years of a saw the lead bombing campaign that's failed to dislodge its games or to charlotte duban ski takes a closer look at who the who teams are and what they're seeking. this is the 1st time america has attempted to bring those who fees down. it previously backed saudi arabia, which tried for almost a decade to fight the great, but failed time and time again. so who are the, who sees the group? it takes its name from the so name of its early lead to this is who saying i'll, who's the, of the detroit a crating to permanent spelling

a civil war in him. and that the term on in the country eventually led to the removal of precedence law. that was back in 2011. now he was replaced by a new government which was backed by saudi arabia and the us. but the new president had the i'm good money with plans to change the way the funds were being dvd up across yeah, many regions the opposition groups including the city fees claimed this would see the countries oil. welf, confined to the to least populated preferences. the who sees claim that the government was corrupt and based managing the country. it took control of the capital son, forcing president harvey to fleet and read and only thing a civil war. we are forming a revolutionary committee and the transitional national council, which will replace the now the solve the house of representatives and the office of the president in transitional phase. things started to really heats up with saudi

arabia on the us. good, even more in fools. now, as the who's these power expanded, the gain control over nearly all of the countries north. and as you can see, this land bowed his head with saudi arabia, the kingdom and other countries in the gulf corp counsel offered that backing to president hottie. the security and stability of the admin have been shaken by cooled. the who is the malicious, carried out against the legitimate authorities. these developments of constituted a major threat to the security and stability of the region and the threat to international peace on security. over 8 is the saw. the lead campaign initially launched with the monica operation decisive stool boomed. areas of you had been held by the who fees. it was supported with the us logistics and intelligence. while an array of western countries provided weapons to saudi arabia,

the intervention helped push young men to the brink. what followed was a humanitarian, does all stuff. human remains the world's worst communitarian crisis. an estimated 4500000 people are permanently displaced. the risk of a large scale farm and in the country has never been more acute. it was costly for the saudis to, it's estimated that the kingdom was spending some $200000000.00 per day to sustain the at ground in cl peroration. but despise it, all the saudis failed to make a dent on who sees power and it's military bases. now in 2022 a ceasefire. it was agreed who sees, have since consolidated, holding control of much of the west, and also the newest of him. and the business went up to 80 percent of the country's

population lives in these lands. and yet, despite the clear failure of the saudi light of ration over many years, and one that was back to the health by weapons from the west. hey, we all again, western countries, giving it a 2nd shot and seemingly unable to learn the lessons from the past. charlotte davinsky will speaking to us from the who t health capital of human journalist enough sir, or by said the western attacks are ineffective because they are the country has already been hardened by a decade of war. it does not work, i told because a lot of these have been under sacha bombings, uh for 10 years now. um and uh now what does that um, recons on the furthest bowman. yeah. uh is only the bones out things and they've been, they've been out. so the of,

of the effectiveness is almost 0 and people don't care at all because they see that what they have to, i mean the amenities and the pro fees are things out. what they are doing is a duty is a religious and morale under human need. that in duty towards the end of it or of brothers and sisters, invalid scheme via the tax, the tax on the and then the read see not are you in this the innovation they are not identify the shipment. they are not giving us any ship. the tax, all right, in this very specific things, they are a very, very specific i'm very limited to that a, to the ships, the hitting to israel and to the ships link to israel, and through the ship's own devices. right. and the seas and it'd be blue said they would do their best to make it very safe to make very, very safe turning attention to in buffalo gas and where 4 people have been killed

in a report it is really strikes about hit a car in the southern city of a rough frontage from the scene shows the locals inspecting the remains of the bloodied wreckage. the bodies of the victims were taken to a local morgue where relatives gathered to more. the attack comes as the idea pushes further size. after announcing it's dismantled, they from us command structure in northern cal ser and not a lot of our region earlier this week. the is really military said, it had used more than 300 minds to blow up on the back you way to tell us than in university building the euro mad at human rights monitor, watched on say is it was the last university still standing in gas and according to local authorities, all education facilities in the strip hop either being thought they damaged or completely destroyed. meanwhile, some idea of troops are clearly enjoying their work. they've been posting,

mocking videos, sparking are great job social media. so addressing casually playing board games while blowing up, all of a sudden in bridges, buildings, others ride children's bicycles inside on abundance home. and the following for they chose is really trip laughing or trying to play basketball in the midst of a ruined neighborhood. the old gals in scholar i'm a time or a bu say that believes he's really is trying to make the palestinian territory on livable. now the seeking to raise its history is the status of this is why you the water goodness, the gauze of the is where it has been very much pounding and the bombing of

civilian interest structured without it's a palestinian civilian homes for hospitals. the clinics most are you name is the one of those institutions that is run has gone also also felt i'll send you an address at the beginning of this is why the bomb boost and it's going to there's the end of the university where i used to or was also uh, have really done as a result of this bothering. and now the bomb the on this on university stroudsburg has also on bob some of the who stood. it comes sites and goes, well, some of the most and girls are uh, like more than 500 years old, or some of the archaeological uh places like acosta little bass. uh and, and the old scipio of gauze. also, it does uh also as well as trying to uh, wipe out the, the, uh, history of god. but not all is released or happy with the war. protesters have

rallied in the northern city of fifa. worked last year is with police, were witness. the scuffles erupt it after the officers tried to seize empty work banners from the demonstrators. hundreds, fill the streets there, urging the government to end the invasion of gals to secure an immediate cease fire on prioritize the return of all is really hostages. while in egypt, capital, hundreds of media workers protested against the war and gas outside the headquarters of the egyptian journalist union. last monday, demonstrators. to cry. bees really assault on the policy and says across the border there, according to the committee to protect journalists, n g o, at least 83 medial workers have been killed in gaza since october 7th,

unless the idea of gives no guarantees of safety in the world. so casualties among those who cover the deadly conflict are only expected to grow. look, a reporter mohammed some of your file this from the protesting carmel today, 100 visits, and as one of us now gather to for the test, the ongoing is really slow did. and because of the trip, and so the data to use the spinning and people quoting for the international community to put the stuff to the this genocide that it contained by, as ryan calling for the unconditional the flow of aide into the besieged. does this trip we on participating in the house before the analysis indicates to people, what does vegas and people are feeling about with what's happening? so my name's pinions and that gives us through. we are denouncing what's happening for our process. and as i said, we are calling that it's in government to increase. it's

a to the people inside the sign on the desk. we are calling the international community to push it from the ongoing escalation and a sofa getting the product premiums inside. i guess that's great. yeah, i'm in the 100 days after the start of operation alex the floods we are today, you know, certainly representing journalists, but also the egyptian people. the time has come from egypt to play a great to roll over the conflicts in gaza. it is the time for people's voices to be heads and for the country to express itself. we hope the war of extermination that has been going on for 4 months will end. the arab states will like swift and decisively and that we will soon celebrate victory of the palestinian resistance of the nazis are in his terrace. and the sorry about this. for 100 days, children have been dying of hunger exposure service and it attacks women who cannot meet the most basic needs are being killed. the streets in front of everyone we call and egyptian government opened or

a false crossing to bring an age and the law posting of the need medical assistance to enter egypt where they can receive the best possible care. the ultimate goal for the expulsion of these really in bassinger and embassy from egypt, which is the absolute least good. we can do and sold our to with the post. you know, the united nations has allocated just over 3 and a half $1000000.00 in a to the democratic republic of congo with the country devastated after months of deadly flooding. the worst such disaster there in 60 years now the un say's that's around one. in 5 people affected need urgent life saving assistance. 9 of the countries 12 departments have been effected, especially those bordering the congo river. hundreds of people have died. the government saves it's working with the red cross while warning the floods are expected to continue until at least march. we heard from some of the locals,

caught up in the disaster. we're sleeping outside with our children, please, please help us. we have lost everything and we might fall ill. president, please help us. otherwise it and say the flooding loved them vulnerable as they have lost every spring, they're calling on the government to assist as well. there are many people who sleep outside who do not have the money to pay the rent. the government or people of good faith can come and help us because we are sleeping rough. we have been sleeping outside for a month, a youngster of just 18 years old, died here. this is the 1st time we have seen flooding like this. even the waters of the nearby beginning to rise. it is the 1st time o generation has experienced this. the older generation said this happened in 1961 . when the water rose to 4 meters, the day was sold, the water rise to 6 meters. no authorities have come to visit us. they're busy with their campaign. many people have lost their property,

the ghosts and houses. things are not going well here and there is no hell from that sort of this was, i know that depends on we pay 1000 convo least francs to cross the river and come back by canoe. we have lost a lot of things and people have moved away. the children cannot study when there is a drought, the government in humanitarian organizations can come and help us because we lost a lot of things. okay, next here in our tea on exclusive sit down with a senior most official in moscow, hotels or associate the militant group are seeking a comprehensive prisoner swap on an engine, the conflict motion for all the big interviews and try to pull. it is a great pleasure to have joining us here in the russian capital today. dr. bass him that he by you are a member of a how must political bureau in gaza joining us here in the russian capital? i, i like to say very well welcome, and i'm so grateful for your time today. i'm so grateful for you to come in and

speak to us here at the international. it's, it's, it's almost difficult to imagine we're past $100.00 days now. office conflicting gaza. a lot of people didn't think it would go on this long, even more people didn't think it could prove to be the shocking as to what we've seen now for the past few months. gaza northern gaza is basically in ruin. people who were told to flee to the south ended up getting caught up in bombs as well. we'll get to the future of gauze or in just a moment. but i just want to kick off our discussion just from a russian point of view. we understand that the russian foreign minister, we did send a list of 8 russians to hum us who may be among the hostages taken in israel. did you have any information you can share with us regarding these 8 possible russian hostages we have received today in the me thinking the so far enough is the name of a list of names of some of the russian citizens for the nationalities

russian on this slide is uh we, um, really need to convey this message to our brothers and leaders and does because it is extremely difficult now to give any informations because with this very complicated situation on the ground. uh, but we have in, in the 1st uh, attempt to reach a seas fail. we have exhibited a lot of efforts to respond to the russian, a quote, specially from president fulton to release some of the russian hostages in garza. and we have also did the clear, did you want to clarify how complicated this has origin on the ground this to the as you have seen, the, the northern part of the survey is totally destroyed. and the,

the most of the self about this also is under attack most of the time, therefore, to move to search for the capture to sort of jones or hostages is extremely serious and dangerous because of the continuous bombardment. so this, the caption, most, the sole jones are in the hands of different groups in different places. and you have seen that even though so he, the attempts will to release these hostages have coasted the life of those. but isn't those because again, it is, you're talking about a very complicated and a very serious and dangerous situation on the ground. it is a very competitive, very serious and dangerous situation on the ground. but it is how mass actively trying to get these russian hostages back. sure, we have from the, the one see that clearly the, especially when we are talking about civilians,

men or women, we are ready to release them immediately as long as we can reach a seas fail so that we are able to move around to seats for the capture of the people and to be sure that we kind of release them and safely and secure them. and those of you talk about the seas far as i, as i understand there will be no new ceasefire agreements since november of last year. what are your time frame new sci fi? would you tell us that we have both a lot of proposals and the from different mediators, categories, egypt shows about it's important to cease felt and based on our experience with the 1st ccf, which has been violated by the so he was a total events when it comes 1st to the humidity of it. we would love to.