to ask ricks, the 1st one lasted for 30 minutes, as you know, the last one which resulted in thousands of death and thousands of wounded people. but that is another earthquake, which has been hitting celia for the last 12 years. and here, i mean the her by f wake the foreign occupation, american turkish, israeli as well as the a, a, the terrorist war against assyria plus the european and american sanctions by imposing the search so called the sanctions which are illegitimate and illegal according to the un charter, the u. n cords, these sanctions, unilateral coercive economy measures, so they are illegal and illegitimate but, but by imposing the sanctions on, on the see it in people,

the west in general is targeting to suffocating the city and people from the day one they were lying. but, but we compelled them to acknowledge that we had in syria and iraq foreign terrorist. and these foreign terrorists were sent by them because they were collecting them from all over the world. you see how, how the dearest network is made. it's made by the western intelligence services as well as by the israelis are themselves, are in, i'm in and growth corporation and a cohesion that as we say, robot at the nephew or something bad might be good this earthquake. these close further the hypocrisy of the west to watch celia to south africa now where the country has held its annual military parade to commemorate a tragedy that happened during the 1st world war about so when hundreds of troops

lost their lives when the ship known as the ss mandy signed on its way to france, a troop smart in the streets of richards bay and the east of the country. tanks and planes, robed through the streets, were seen overhead. are the countries president, there is a serial and i'm a forced to participate in the event. a greeting. soldiers with metals, armed forces, day is held every year on the 21st of february. so commemorate the 1st world war naval tragedy. went over 600 african troops died, the steam ship that had been transformed from civil duty to take part in the war, but signed poor weather conditions, quarter ship collision, causing its demise. but it's been such a busy day here on our international with of course, the russian president vladimir putin speaking today. the national federal assembly addressed it and you will speech a lot of hot topics discussed in his speech today. you can read all about it on our website, it's ah,

i ah, the number one more day with hello and welcome to the sweet african now program. i'm portfolio and the team and i are coming to you from an undisclosed location. i'd like to say that i can tell you where we are, but they not have to, can you? but that sounds a little too double. 07, james, bond dish. but i'm more so than america announcing to new actions that we are going

to be taken to counter the russian private military company known as wagner. the department of treasury will be designated. wagner has a significant transnational criminal organization under executive order. 13581 as amended in coordination with this designation. we will also impose additional sanctions next week against wagner and its support network across multiple continents. these actions recognize the trans continental threat that wagner poses, including through its ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity. with these actions, and there'll be more to come our message to any company that is considering providing support to wagner is simply this. butner is a criminal organization that is continuing wide. i'm sorry, committing widespread atrocities and human rights abuses. and we will work relentlessly to identify, disrupt, expose, and target those, or assisting wagner, a little bit rich, considering that there are dozens of american private military companies currently

operating around the world. so what's the defense? wagner is russian. and at the moment, anything russian is bad news. these, you know, there is a rush. i said, well, i'm in africa called the wagner group. it's pronounced lag. now, if you've never heard of the rag now group. now italian wagner has been hired by the government for security services into gar, diamond in gold mines. also invited by the government of molly in west africa and they are suspected to have been involved in a massacre in mora, molly, and what they do is they do dirty work. they do assassinations, they do, military admissions, extortion, all kinds of things like that where rushes want to distance themselves from, from their maybe the regular army aided navy sales and guy known as wagner group. a navy seals mainly do special operation. the wagner group, they've taken over our whole country,

your while with our forces were officially requested in a number of african countries, including molly, an the central african republic of the hill. from these countries, i've repeatedly stated the importance. the help of the wagner group has provided in conflict written regions, the central african republic parliament leader once again explains the significance of wagner's activities in his country. he are killed, a people were killed here, the c a r's army couldn't cope with it. but now thanks to the presence of our friends, the russian army, through wanda's army, the minutia troops were able to achieve peace in the central african republic. i don't know the wagner group. i only know that when our government signed an agreement with russia, the russian government provided us with the soldiers that, i mean, i'm not trying to find out which group president putin decided to send us to insure security in the c a r. for us, it's just russians who have arrived in the ca or for those of you not familiar with

the terminology. wagner is a p. m. c, a private military company. now this is not something new for decades. governments have been hiring pm seniors to assist the military with operations, names like black water, triple can a p, a loss, and frontier services group are a few that might be familiar to you. all of these are american owned and wait for it. interestingly enough, not considered terrorist by washington. so what's the difference for security reasons? i'll next interview, we ought not to be seen on camera. he is a private military contractor who has worked with wagner in africa. keiser. thank you very much for joining us. when have you been in africa and who have worked for? well, my korean contracting started in africa, they moved to the middle east and then come back to africa and i 2 years and the jobs all very similar. it just depends which country which come into working for at

the time. how much do you get paid if you don't mind telling us to pay not as for pregnancy, we're very so much from contract to contract and job to job. you know, you're doing stuff regarding it's one salary and if you're doing job b. s d work, the studies are completely different. but i think in general, you looking at anything from starting salaries from $8.00 to $12000.00 a month going all the way up to $20000.00 a month. and in special circumstances, you do your cases where the guys are and in $2.00 a day, which gives you another indication on why the gods drew the contract. and what is the most interesting thing or things that you've done the 1st time that i go to the wagner, guys was ignored, emergent because i had received a contract from the government to help con, stop terrorism activities. and the most they received a counter dorothy for me dormant time. it wasn't because we were not employed by

wagner, but as consultants on the side to help him with understanding of the area and sort of as locally as an officer just to assist him in performing the duties molding was a big at that time. there is your 4 different pm, she's operating the same area. but all those wagner was the biggest one. probably one of the best example shoes problems usually used to be restored in the country was in northern ontario when those letters were calling on a telephone in the north of the country. even kidnapping, over 200 school girls of one point. the larger an armed forces couldn't stop them, and she was hired and it took them a couple of weeks that were pretty equipped bit armed or better trained than what's an order and security forces were. and was in a couple of weeks though, able to push the surgeons right out of the north and called the whole situation down. something that the niger and armed forces couldn't do for 6 years. in what

capacity have you worked with wagner? i think for each contract of the on, so pretty similar at the end of the day is that most of us on a golf in the armed forces. and once we lifted, we had a certain filtered retreat. we couldn't apply anywhere else, but to go to contracting. and if we take into consideration at the time, you know, the release of spring up was iraq, afghanistan, syria, that was happening. so there was huge move on military gods, who are the right age going through some of these countries. ballenger arg was probably the beginning of contracting as we know today. on a big scale, there were pmc that existed years before that but not on the sco lock resorting iraq where governments were contracting. pnc is to do government work for the these reports about wagner doing all these bad things. have you seen them?

i assume you have and what do you make of them? i pushing, we haven't seen any of the atrocities at wagner were accused over there working and was i know that every time a pnc does go into an area, there are a lot of horror stories. nature was on my cellphone and seen that normally when you're dealing with pmc such as wagner, well, the top pimps used to talk cause the folders that org, routed into those organizations on the exceptional soldiers or conduct themselves that way. you know, war situation are going to say that it has never happened, but are myself not unit, especially not with regular. how does the process actually work? so wagner is invited by a government to come in assisted what happens from them. what would happen if you get contracted at africa? it's a government that doesn't, so the government would put out a call for help or directly conduct a pmc with a specific job. there may be civil unrest, there may be violence,

it may be ripples in the area which the government cannot handle, can deal with that may not be equipped to deal with that that will that employ the pmc, whether it's wagner or another one to come out under the government, so there were directly with armed forces of the country. they were under the government and they were governments or internationally recognized by the united nations. so the government employs them under jake. they then go into the area and perform the duties, making the reserve, making sure that peace gets clipped in the area. perhaps it would be in a lot of african countries. we have situations where the resources are all being exploited by rebels in order to buy weapons to find government. in those case, the pmc would then go and protect the natural resources that the money goes through to the government and not fall into ribble hands. this would be, the more work is or amc being hired in africa. exactly what happened in wasn't be,

it's happened in so it's happened to rescue public lot extension of the seat. so the evidence is there were over that she's all hired by government directly to come and perform the duties that the government can perform. one of the amazing things that everybody talks a lot toward the future, but nobody mentioned to us companies, casey and academy, among the most prominent probably were the 2 companies operating in africa today in conjunction with the armed forces in african countries. what do you think of the us trying to brand wagner a terrorist organization? i think you my experience working across africa and in the middle east, i think whatever doesn't shoot united states is branded as terrorism. wagner is no different to any other american pmc. that's or breaking africa, operated in iraq or afghanistan. it's exactly the same principle. it's just that i

don't think research them are good narrative. i don't think the american agenda, which is why they take everything with a terrorism brush. i think a lot of people would agree, anything that's got to do with perception and perhaps the monopoly that the waste has on the mainstream praise. we do see a lot of crews, well, where we have troubles are now starting to be painted with terrorism brush. and this allows for maximum force to be used in those situations because it all falls under the umbrella of combating terrorism. what is the difference between wagner and an american pmc like black water? if it's g does a difference between a she's operating today, whether it's wagner group, where there was black water from the old days. if you are in a frontier soon, she can read dragon out of china. i don't think there's a difference at all. the companies are started the same way more or less the same sort of people. there's actually no difference short and there's

a difference at all. i just think nowadays that if you don't agree with a wasted narrative, you're completely branded a terrorist and outside of every single day. but even, no matter what functional who you're working for. today's double standards in calling one, a peacekeeping force and the other one a terrorist organization. so i don't think there's a difference in the companies at all. i just in goods calling the shots that becomes, that are french. how often is that the government to use the p and c? and how do you see the future of war? is that government versus governmental government versus rebel forces? or is it going to be pmc versus pmc? regina has been used relatively extensively in africa with great success. they've been very successful in operation that they've undertaken across africa and entities into the organization. i think there will be utilizing more and more the

country see the benefit of having a well trained, well armed entity in your country under the government control. i do think that that's going to it's going to spread out across africa. the more and more countries are going to use that to their advantage. and i think we will see companies like we're gonna just get bigger, bigger and stronger. it happened with black water if that happened in iraq, it happened didn't have any stand. so it has happened wherever the theater is available, the companies will react and the companies will grow. so that's definitely what we see happening in africa at the moment the companies are growing exponentially. the demand for the companies is growing exponentially. and i just don't really be going into that. i don't think anybody can stop that. the future of warranted changing and contractors are playing an ever increasing role. the united states is more than a rock and gun is done with such that for every american soldier, it was at least one contractor. and the height of those was contractors made up

between 50 to 70 percent of the u. s. for structure. by comparison, only 10 percent of the force was contracted in world war 2. contractors did most of the bleeding in iraq and afghanistan at the height of the was more contractors were killed than military personnel. mocking the 1st time in history that corporate casualties outweighed military losses on us battlefields, wounded or dead. contractors save clients money, because they do not have to pay contracts. his hospital both or veteran benefits. ultimately, contractors are disposable people. back mercenaries in the past. whitening is currently in several african countries. nist sudan, marlene mozambique, bettina foster, and the central african republic. we spoke to people on the ground to gauge their opinions, a little bubble up with the but it is,

it is always with on the loop with both of what you don't get to that with other good stuff. it will reset itself all the other sub with this that you didn't, you know, that's why the deal is because i said, well bob, it's still probably a big on these. yeah, i do see that, you know, i see that it's under was that up. i've got one that was it was sort of like the back

up, you got it or whatever, but the most people by the, by the went up with it. so what i did do is look up the bye bye. no bye. i thought, well this one's gets in logic didn't issue, but it is a, it's a little more of a,

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a lot with it just wasn't up with you regarding the par bet. only what was the group. i'll actually show you that wrestling no use of our company. listen. i've been, i don't see. do you remember i'm the gallons on the left, so i live on but i like this group. this is it? yeah. black white that yellow sheet and just sunday iptv signed it. be like this will assign. yeah, yes. yeah, the park labs. yeah. been busy while you defer specifically the song they couldn't have no, no proposal deal so much you. that sounds that the latter me whiskey and that of yet dallas is offering a platform up on up or as

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looks close now to a political analyst, molly, who has extensively studied p and fees, especially wagner. yes, it is white copy of what we give them. why with them? countries including us to receive against the price, the timidity company, vanetta because he's in it fight off in freon says if fight for it to do $3.00. because the, you know, if we talk about the background, for example, in the sixty's when day after. so moffitt and counties were having data in

dependency. countries like my li, nick, when likely gonna and so on. we're too close to russia months, few years ago after some quoted, that a good shift. there was a change and do with come 3. it went back again with france or re t, n r u s day written day m riddle. and they left big or why atmosphere, where there were some countries with the extra credit union and some countries with us in european countries. that's why now the wisdom countries, including who a thing that african should continue to belong to them for data interests for debt investment. and they should they gets advantage from the

african it resources. that's why they don't want washer troll it's private committee. did a company to involve in africa and also benefit from some of the gum bristles? the only thing ease because it belong it belongs to wasa. why if it belonged to a western county like us lake australia like found la yag yuki or a european, a classical european country. they won't say nothing that was set up if it's something normal because if it worthy in what they wants in what they wish that you these, that interests. but if it is vanetta, because these, but the interests of west thus wide out hope was it induct. if not wary of their abilities, the conflict of some a insecurity waiting on some countries a part for some private military companies. sometimes it's long,

but sometimes sometimes unknown. oh, they don't talk about it. i thought we'd some people living in descent that'll from my lead the region of multi for example, i said, what about diffusion of wagner? because we have a living in da. com, like i said, a what, what is going on better? yes. when with another came to support ed in 1000000 military. it's else a lot. i said, oh, it didn't do, no doubt it's out. they say that it for the whole default, people would use their guns, their weapons. and after that, they hide that weapon day emerged in the normal population. lake ha m hes bear lake ha. in normal farmers and him much the 1000000 sold just normal 1000000. so jim ford didn't notice that they are japanese. artillery is or an army group. people involving in the normal population. but to read finance this it

up? did it is the days. sorry. janice of veneer. have it kind of devise a kind of machine if they put into point that off to woody of someone. dakin. no doubt. if the person has been using it weeping on a gun few days ago, even few weeks ago. and if this is the case, they take the person and they bring it or they can to pass on. thus, why did he's the look of change when a button that never came in different of money? well, that brings us to the end of the sweet show. we'll keep an eye on washington's efforts to classify wagner as a terrorist organization. but i leave you with the same question we asked at the beginning, what is the difference between wagner and other private military companies? why is wagner alone being singled? art is the answer simply because it's russian. we'd want to hear your feedback.

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