so sort of all the about the attacks over night in one way or the other are designed in a way to provide psychological pressure. there's another explosion, the correspondence, the southern favorite directly come under heavy fire as the latest wave of idea for a strikes. it's level one tuesday around launched must separately atory strikes against israel. we delve into about an older development stuff this week. whitening the middle east. russian forces a culture of a stronghold, city of blue, blue star, t logistical. psych intone, boss. spelling a major last for you. print the,

bringing you this sunday's top stories on the news that shape the past 7 days. welcome to the weekly here on our introduction, we begin in the lebanese capital for a new wave of us really are a strikes us hit the southern suburbs of a route. the following is footage of the overnight to bombardment. witnessed by our correspondent the about the attacks over night in one way or the other are designed in a way to provide psychological pressure. there is another explosion, the. well, let's hear more from yes and are bringing us right up to date on the latest developments in and bought the 11 on these guys of a root under normal circumstances are clear. there are no clouds in the skies

except for the black clouds in the background. there are many sites across the city skyline, where black smoke is radiating from sites that were attacked by the is really air force. one of them right behind me was a gas station. these rarely jets fired upon the gas station, which resulted in a large blaze and a large fire. just to my right, there was another target that was attacked which was no more than 2 kilometers from our current position. and we felt the pressure of the wave of pressure essentially hit us where we're standing at this given moment. and these attacks continued. i lost count after about 30 or so air strikes and the explosions, which resulted of course, continued until the early hours of the morning. there was, of course, about 2 or 3 hours where the is really military did not conduct those strikes. but the targets of some of those positions were,

of course munitions depots and it exploded time and time again for the course of maybe a few hours up until the early morning. what we do know, of course, the attacks come, of course, after a week or 2 of very deadly attacks. and this is of course in response to the fighting in the southern parts of the country. but the attacks were not just limited to the southern suburbs of the lebanese capital da here, which is a residential and as well as a strong hold for has valesa, residential complex. it's a residential area. and the attacks, of course, do come at a cost of civilian lives and casualties. but the attacks on not just limited there for the 1st time. these really air force conducted airstrikes in the north of the country targeting area surrounding to the police. there was a refugee camp, a power steering refuge account that was attacked and very similarly there had been a number of targets within the beta city. skyline which are currently which is and the under fire. it's another refugee camp in around the body shop. but as enough

and this ongoing, but one thing that is interesting is we were receiving reports suggesting that one of the strikes targeted a gas station. and it was a total energies gas station, which is a french company. but we have confirmed that that is not necessarily the case. it was a gas station, but it wasn't a french company and the reports emerged because there's been a great deal of back and forth between french president obama crone and fee is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the french president had called for a cease of weapons deliveries to the is rarely states. and the is really payment is to refer to that as a disgrace. the access of terror stands together, but countries were supposedly opposed to star axis, call for an ons and ball going is what, what a disgrace. well, let me tell you this is will move in with or without their support on saturday is really media suggested. israel's response to a ron's barrage strikes over the weekend is going to happen within the 1st 48 hours

. we understand that october 2nd and october 4th was the rush of hush on of celebrations. is the jewish new year, saturday mark the shutout, and we can expect monday, which is october 7th. the 1st kind of bursaries of the october 7 attacks, which really resulted are really led to all of this. the 1st place to pick up pace . we can expect the escalation, we can expect these attacks incensed by, as time goes on, is really forces help separate a major blow in southern level according to his bowl, a fighters, the militant groups, media chief claims, the idea of has lost a significant number of trips in the invasion, well good lives, i mean the number of dead in the enemy forces is large. they were forced to confess, since the losses are evident. i assure everyone including the press and media, the great resistance people, these patients sacrificial and unwavering people, as well as our allies, the resistance allies in lebanon and around the world that the resistance is fine.

and that the command and control structure and that the military resistance capabilities are fine. in addition, the war is in rounds. and if you manage to get us in the 1st round through assassinations and devastation, remember we are just only in the 1st round. israel also came under a barrage of iranian messiahs, fired in the writ, tellier tory strike on choose. they the most odd intelligence agency headquarters to military bases. and then this really tied death over the targets, according to the union. the victory chief of stuff video footage shows dozens of rockets reading down across the night skies around claims. many missiles penetrated the iron dome defense system with some hitting tel aviv. but israel states most where interest set that i'm show done yours are to use use of july into run with more the die arteries. he said that it has moved past. what's it called uh its strategic self restraint after it saw that israel has been on this

suite of assassinations targeting different qeylee. there's from the resistance access one by one, and that with their watches that propagates game. so unfortunately i'll be, i'll just see what these 2 statements in the 2nd statement is said that it claim dot more than 90 percent of those fired missiles heads their designated target. some of them 3 major military bases and his realm, including god mean never our team air base, which is the largest air base possessed by as well on the i r d. c. claims that this air base is used by as well to target has but loss positions in lebanon. so this is one of the air bases that was hit by yvonne's missiles on tuesday night. and of course, it won't take square pride in using it's fun to hypersonic missile for the 1st time . it has just recently been unveiled by the i r g c a. now it was used in this latest strike. now one is warning that if israel wants to retaliate

or again, once again, intrude and a breach of on sovereignty it's, we'll try even more stronger this time or more strongly this time. so that's based on comments recently made by it was for the minister, i boss out chief who made these comments during phone conversations with his european counterparts. he received several phone calls last night. so by different your pin nations insisting that everyone needs to de escalate. but he said that that was a legitimate act off of self defense, given the fact that is smart and how many of the former chief of how mosque was targeted by as well on the audience. so, earlier this evening we exercise self defense under article $51.00 of the un charter targeting solely military, every insecurity sites in charge of genocide in gaza and lebanon. we did so after exercising, tremendous restraint for almost 2 months to give room for

a cease fire in gaza. our action is concluded unless the israeli regime decides to invite further retaliation. in that scenario, our response will be stronger and more powerful, or ron's legal rational and legitimate response to the terrorist acts of design is regime which involved targeting iranian nationals and interest and infringing upon the national sovereignty of the as lumnick republic of iran has been duly carried out should design, is regime dear to respond or commit further acts of malevolence. a subsequent and crushing response will ensue, regional states and design is supporters are advised to part ways with the regime. so nobody imagined that all the ronnie and missiles would be able to penetrate and info trade, the iron dome. that is why now we see the users are mocking the iron dome using and funding a hash tag paper don't instead of fire. and so i'm trying to say that this has been

big, close to the security and defense system of israel get breaking news coming into us this sunday from southern 11 on one person has at reportedly being killed and a further h wounded and a shooting on stopping incident at a bus station in beersheba at that is the largest city in the size of israel. i run the 5 kilometers away from the at southern tip of the west spine cows. we were just here with a correspondent earlier. this attack happens days after the jewish new year and of course just 24 hours before the 27th at terrorist attack anniversary on israel at more details as and when it comes in to us on the shooting. on stopping, i talked in beersheba, israel all right,

moving the programs on for now to i forget where protestors and nigeria this week held must demonstrations on the countries independence day, october 1st to speak out against economic policies linked to the us based international moncrief on those riley demanded better opportunities for young people as the west african nation. mark 6, the 4 years of independence from british pulling the root demonstrators calls for the government to scrub, newly installed economic policies to push the inflation rate to a 28 year high president bullet to new. the however defended the measures as a necessary step for progress. instead, the voices of those struggling are being heard. i mean is, trish knows that many of use trouble were i think cause on the search for meaningful employment. how long do i sure that your forces hot as your present?

i show you that to we could we did to find is also enable solutions to evade the suffering of our citizens. we spoke with a leading member of an organization fighting for labor rights in nigeria. he says, the dollar economic situation in the country has been caused by policies directly imposed by the washington based. i have no idea as to when we bought the product page. so the pro string of the exploded i must, i've seen this case briefly, but it is beyond that. no, it's the the only thing. now i gotta say the hold of the, of the list for the retained refers to easily space. so united states of america to canada, i guess the just to that we've got so i'm going to pay is on the 5th of october, 1960 austin is due to limited by funding comes out. you have this situation.

we asked the policies it is use. well actually it will be, i mean i'm going to damage the just much the went from russian for it. so i've taken control of late dar, a key logistical sites and don't boss on a local stronghold. mosque was military also captured several fortifications that ukrainian forces spent close to a decade building, taking us through how significant those gains may be your chart to use the course of them. it is very important that even when you look at the symbolism and at the symbolic, important send of the symbolic weight of a rush of finally liberating the town of hopeless. basically, this mocks and, and to ukrainian attempts to stay in control of that town. and the fighting has been going on for good for over 2 and a half years. now there's several factors at play here. we should both at 1st

played in ukraine's favor and then the to basically just to the collapse of their own defense. so here's the thing to understand about over the while it is a small place. it is a town that is pretty much it because it's pretty much of the soviet be around apartment block residential quotas and the buildings. it is very compact. and at the same time, it is situated on the dominating the heights in that area and is at the same time again, is surrounded by open fields with scars, free lines which may the very approach to this town for the russian forces. incredibly, incredibly difficult. there's very little places where you can take cover also at the same time, from booklet you can see via pro, you can see pretty much everything that is going on too long because in tens of columbus is all around, this was what allowed the ukrainians to stay in control of that place for so long.

but basically what i'm saying this, and now the especially now that rush, he's in control of that town. and now that russia can see everything that is going on around it. of course, the russian commodities will try to capitalize on that. so it is one tactics wise when it comes to tactical success, it is quite important for russia, but that might be not the impression you get if you listen to western and ukrainian sources, it seem is they are acting in accordance to the old playbook that they would kick into the 5th. yeah, the rest week would kick into the 5th get the and basically they would say that's no good. in fact, was not that important. that they wouldn't give russia much advantage when it comes to the battle field. and when it comes to the fighting, we have seen that sort of rhetoric repeated time and time again when you can be ukrainians, had to had to flee from back, move now to almost when they had to flee from money and go from solar. and to basically a whole range of other over other towns and cities and villages,

which they will just throw everything that they have. i mean, talking about the ukrainian forces to keep, to basically stay there to keep these towels onto the control. but the moment that they realize that they simply can no longer hold onto all these places. no good. uh they would just say, oh, it wasn't important. in fact, this is something that might be coming out of washington because this sort of line the of these talking points have be repeated by the most high profile, washington officials have a list. we don't know how it's going to go, so i'm not going to predict failure or success here. but even if the both back moved in. so with our fall to the russians, it's not going to make a, it's not going to have a strategic impact on the war itself. and it certainly isn't gonna stop ukrainians or, or slow them down in terms of their,

their efforts to regain their territory. now the russian official confirmation of liberating the town of goods comes a few days off to videos. begin to emerge online coming from russian brigades and coming from russian drogo practice showing russian soldiers putting flags on top of the buildings. and basically all across that town, which was already interpreted by russian military experts and international military expos that the town fell and the town was in control of the russian armed forces. but now that the russian ministry of defense has confirmed it, it is safe to say that the clean up operation of the town is done that the old would, that nobody is hiding in the basements on that. well, basically the town is under the russian control. well, i'm delighted to say joining me now in the studio. is that the program us human rights lawyer done public or for all of the new books,

the case for palestine. why it matters and why you should care done great to see you. it's normally through a television or computer screen, but we're here in person. good to see you. great to see and, and thank you. use that recently made a trip to work torn done boss. you've just come here recently from there. why did you decide to go? what did you expect to see and did what you expect to see? not much those expectations. well, i wanted to go because, you know, it's a very critical time in the us, russian relations when we're moving closer and closer to a direct confrontation. and i think the key is the don bass for americans to understand what is happening in the dom bass most don't even though it exists. and if they understood what the dom bass was and that most people in the don bass wants to be part of russia,

especially because of the war that they've suffered since 2014. that they might change their minds about continuing to support ukraine in this war. what did i expect to see? i, i been there before. i should say this is my 5th time to the don bass. the 1st time was in november 2022. and i was curious to see how well the towns were dealing, whether they were still war torn, weather, you know, there were still active conflict in the towns. and what i was surprised to see, particularly in marietta, which we visited, which had been fairly pretty much leveled during the conflict. i was really shocked to see how much should have been reconstructed since the last time i was there. about 2 years ago. i think rushes put in about $5000000000.00 and it shows, i mean, just gleaming new buildings, new apartment buildings, new hospitals, uh new schools. and that was pretty incredible. um, it's

a pretty stellar looking city at the moment and that, that surprised me. the 5th time you visited, so you'll have spoken to residents a different times there. but one of the constant is that they've been living under the threat of, of messiahs bombing fear. essentially, what is their state of mind not going forward? are they any more hopeful? are they thinking this conflict with last? what are they saying to you? i would say people are definitely more helpful. and again in the, in the city centers of like the nets and new hans. and again mary, opal, people are definitely more helpful. things are definitely. com or the desk. it was shelled while we were there and in fact it was shelled the day before we got there . there was a big celebration there on the anniversary of them rejoining russia. and there was a terrorist attack by ukraine against that celebration in the town square. so,

so, so it's not that the war is completely ended, but it's a lot safer than it used to be. and people do feel a return to normalcy. and i didn't see that, i mean people out go into restaurants or we're going to work streets. we're busy with cars with people. and so there certainly is more life and there certainly is more hope there at the moment. there, there is one big issue hanging over that is near though they the chance the low range weapons will be used by ukraine western and supplied long range weapons at which could, of course, be used against those people and deeper into russia. your thoughts on that? what it would do to, to the conflict right now. yeah. well, clearly it will escalate the conflict um, well, and vladimir put and it said that he said that if you can use this as a long range missiles, which by the way would have to be programmed by either the british or the, or the,

or, or us personnel, depending on who gives the the missiles that is to say, they could not just be launched by ukraine without help from the us or britain. so that means any missile launched on russia, of that type by ukraine would have us and british and direct involvement in. and in response to this boot and said exactly what kennedy, instead of 1962 during the cuban missile crisis. kennedy said, if the soviet ms solves, were launched from cuba on any country in the western hemisphere, who would treat that as a direct attack by the soviet union against the united states in the us were responding kinds exactly with boot. and is that the reverse? if those weapons are used by ukraine against russia, he will treat that as a direct attack by the west upon russia. and he will respond and con, not against ukraine, but against the west. again, it's the reverse cuban missile crisis. so we know that the us and britain and the

west are on notice that if they, if they do this and they fire long range missiles deep into russian territory, they are risking the beginning of, of world war 3. something i've noticed in the past number of weeks, a word in particular that hasn't been used a lot in mainstream media when it comes to at ukraine conflict is peace, or that key of is going to have to do at give off some, some land in exchange for us, the ability you know, that has never been ushered before and legacy media as far as i can see, it started to be talked about a piece plan though. where do you see that coming from? because a number of being rejected by the ukrainian facto leader, of course he's and beyond his term in office, not mister so landscape. he's still there, he's rejected the brazilian chinese lead one. do you see any that could work and go

forward? i think that in the and this will be settled by the interest that ukrainian surrender to, to russia. there was a chance at a peace deal as we know in march of 2022. apparently, there was at least a framework agreed to be between the parties, which would have allowed ukraine to keep all of its pre s m o land, including the dog bass that is not on the table. now. there's no way the russians would agree to that. there's no way the people, the don bass would agree to go back to you and given that, and given that it's certain that ukraine wouldn't agree to give up sal, and i don't see a negotiated settlement, at least at this moment. a very we'll, let's, let me get this. just moving now to the gal is a complex one. you are on from the tobar a 7 an attack. are we any closer to seeing it into the bloodshed? 12 months old?

no, no, sadly this war is going to continue. we see it escalating into 11 on now or israel's doing did love and on what they've done because it for the last year. do see 11 on this becoming a new guys. yes, sadly, i mean we're seeing it happen. we're seeing entire neighborhoods being like that we're seeing is where use a, you know, a bombs up to 5000 tons on and whole neighborhood. so yes, i think that is israel's plan for lab and on. and of course, now iran is signaling that if, if, if they're attacked again by israel that they will now enter a new phase of the war. so now ron is likely to be brought into the, to the war. so no, this is not a conflict. it's going to in any time soon, i don't, and i say that very sadly, because that means a lot of people going to die between now and the end of this war. it appears more and more stark what washington is saying and doing the contrast at billions more,

at least so a tough gone to israel just this week, according to west jerusalem ad. but the official word i divorce and is that we, we want to see peace hide. you see that the object to the position of such yes, i mean i would see it as a or well in, in fact when they talk about when the us talks about the escalation, what they really mean is escalation, right? the us is not trying to slow this down. what they are trying to do is make statements for the benefit of the electorate, because we do have an election coming up in a month. that makes it look like they're trying to, to broker piece in the middle east, but all of their actions are leading not to peace, but to an expansion of the war. the you of the last figure i saw is that the us is giving military send shipping military supplies to israel every 16 hours. okay. that is not the escalation, that is not a move towards piece. it is

a move towards for the or is it time therefore it for another state, another actor to take a leading role in trying to push for a lasting piece there? well, i think so. i mean, again, a lot of countries are involved. you saw the french president mc round saying there should be in arms embargo against visual, which is true. and i hope more countries will follow suit and listen to that. but yeah, someone asked to get involved. but if there was ever, by the way, a case for humanitarian intervention, this is one someone needs to step in and stop this at just one other aspect of this, ultra 0 is released, the report in which the q, cnn, bbc, other outlets of pro is really bias and among the are journalist just have polarized you see the media landscape right now on, on where could this lead to? it seems to say whatever kind of you, what stance you have at,

that's the spence we're going to to put in there and objectivity. be done, yes. the mainstream press, i can speak mostly for the united states is, is utterly lost in the subject of it when it comes to any foreign policy when it comes to russia, ukraine, when it comes to gaza, it runs interference for israel as much as a can it writes articles with the passive voice saying, you know, many palestinians died on a certain day, not, not wanting to say that israel actually killed them. right? so and you're not seeing the images in the mainstream process that you're seeing on social media of, of the baby's being killed in gauze and loving on. you're not getting a full sense of the horrors of those wars. can i just point to i thought the be, for instance, cnn might say that that's okay. coming from you, i'll just hear you have good, no opposition telling you that what you're saying is wrong. we're hearing it from

the other side in, in the west thing that we're to pro palestinian. yeah. why think so objectively speaking, when you look at the coverage, it is to pro is rarely there, but i'm sure there are, is railings there. we're saying it's to pro palestinian but objectively speaking it's not it is pro. busy is rarely get is pro us government, which itself is pro, is rarely so with that, not only covers of israel's primes, it covers up the us is support for those crimes. so they don't have a leg to stand on and just define their other captivity to, to the us. and his railey policies. can i just link and something else and all that big issue coming within the next at month, less than a month. the us presidential election, whoever wins that campbell of harvest, donald trump, when we see a major difference in their view point on the gas a conflict,

it appears not. i mean, they are stumbling over each other to claim who is the more belligerent and would be president towards the people, the middle east and who was the more, you know, part us in support of israel. i do not see a change coming out of numbers. either administration, when it comes to the middle east, in general, do you see much of a change in stateside policies no matter who's in charge? well, states i policies, the democrats are always going to be a little more. you know, of, however you want to call progressive liberal on social issues, give a little more money for social programs. that's about it. you know, that that's going to be the difference on foreign policy. it's almost going to be indistinguishable with the possible exception of russia. ukraine where at least trump is stated that he.