enough, enough enough. the only real good news. what just happened in belgrade is definitely a terrorist. actually, it was a targeted attack on civilians. vladimir put remarks on king dudley attack on the rest of the city of el dorado, which killed $25.00 civilians and wounded at $190.00. a mass of earthquake and 2 nami, waves fit north and central japan, leaving 2 peoples dad and infrastructure destroyed. and we bring you an explosive sit down with a decorated here versus military operation. the new frame took part in combat of the complex of the institute of the local population is very pleasant, especially now that rushers at the state building road schools and residential areas. the only thing that people are concerned about is how quickly they can go

back to a peaceful life. to forget this terms of periods, which probably scott, the souls of every man and woman and those kinds of people in public turn into that . the i'm rachel ruble in moscow year watching r t international. we start with breaking news president vladimir putin has condemned to the deadly ukrainian strike on the russian city of belgrade as an act of terror. the attack has now claimed the lives of 25 civilians after a child died in the hospital monday, bringing the children's death toll to 5. the rest of the president commented on the attack during a meeting with the veterans of the conflict, a new crime. let's take a lesson for the good news. what just happened in belgrade is definitely a terroristic tool. almost under the cover of 2 rockets, they struck using a multiple launch rockets system. this kind of weapon hits indiscriminately and they used it to strike the city center where our people were walking around just

ahead of new year's eve. it was a targeted attack on civilians. of course, it's a terrorist activity. you can call it anything else. must we now respond in the same way? we do have the capability to strike the central square and key of or any other ukrainian city. but why would we respond like that? there are children walking their mothers with primes. it's hard for me to even imagine the situation do we really have to act like this? to hit city squares. we are striking with precision weapons and locations where the ukrainian forces have their command centers, where there are concentrations of military personnel, mercenaries, and other military centers and facilities of this nature. and the strikes are quite sensitive for them. this is how we will continue to act. all right, let's discuss this now with our correspondence whom is sharper, joins be alive. what were some of the key points about him or putting made during that meeting? now from that clip that we just saw, that was from a jury, and president put his address to the russian military veterans while on

a visit to the hospital, while they are recovering from taking part in the mail is a special military operation. and he laid out quite important points in this meeting, and he also 2 questions from the veterans themselves. and that's really one of the very 1st few questions that was asked was about the belgrade attacks, which the president called terrorist attacks. and he said that the ukrainian military has use multiple launch rockets system, i guess civilians, and that he rushed out when he was asked what, what, how is russel going to respond to the situation? he replied that russia is, it's very easy for russia to respond in the same manner. it's very easy for russia to strike kids and ends up enjoying thousands of civilians, but that is not rushes of gold rushes focus here is to strike military infrastructure. and that is exactly what russia is doing, and just to sum up his talk when it comes to the bell, the rolled attacks,

he also pointed out that this situation was to try to scare ross shaw. this was also to try to plan sees of this trust within the russian society, and that this won't go on punish. and other point is that he highlighted that ukraine is not the enemy, and he specified that russia has long been bothering the west. and therefore ukraine is just a tool that the west is using to fight against russia indirectly. let's take a listen. the lift doors think it is not then they are helping our enemy. the west is our enemy. they are solving their own problems using the hands of ukrainians. it has been like this for centuries, unfortunately, and still it continues. ukraine itself is not our enemy. our enemy is those who want to destroy russia. and the chief, as they say, a strategic defeat of russia. they are mainly western countries. there are different people in the west. there are those who sympathized with russia. there are also the so called elites for whom the existence of russia and its current size

and state are not acceptable to their mind. they wanna break russia up and have been talking and writing about it publicly for decades. that's why they have no to indicate regime and created this conflict. and unfortunately, they succeeded in fostering conflict is the way they are trying to manage the task of finding russia using the hands of a credit. you can probably see that dual credit is losing on the battlefield. how the situation is changing. and that's despite the fact that the whole so called civilized world is fighting against us. we believe he also added that russia wants peace. we do crane under its own conditions, and he pointed out that russia is using modern and warfare mother weapons, which makes it one of the best countries in the world when it comes to this. now, one of the oldest questions that arose in this meeting was about the progress of the special military operation. and so that the president responded that the armed forces are becoming more and more effective, and that the russian armed forces, their capabilities are rising. another topic that was discussed,

the lens in this meeting was of course economy as he was asked to give out the outcomes of the russian economy in the past year. and he laid out the annual results. he laid out the performance of the russian economy in 2023. and the take away from last year is that the russian economy was kept alive despite harsh western sanctions. now we must remember that these sanctions where they came abrupt lea, uh, towards restaurants and the g d. p here in russia really shows that all it had an increase of 3.5 percent in 2023. so this really shows that the economy is functioning and is sitting. let's take a listen. thanks. it been a mueller to push to a fundamental point is that we did not just protect the country's economy. we did not allow it to be destroyed as the enemy had hoped. in answer to your question, it was not you claim that was counting on destroying our economy. it is incapable

of doing so. it is completely destroyed itself. there is nothing left there and survives only on handouts. all their officials go around with an out stretched hand, begging for an extra $1000000.00. our situation is completely different. we have recovered from our fall and moved forward. for us, it was disconnected from the international swift payment system. they seemingly hope that everything will collapse. we supply our traditional exports. right. and how do we settle accounts? no big deal. everything is working. all of them thought that enterprises would stop because they stop supplying us with components. but it turns out that everything is possible. yes, they have created problems, but nevertheless they are being overcome. despite the fact that we are in a state of armed conflict, all the main indicators of the countries viability and efficiency have increased. and this is probably the most important indicator of the state of russia. and now when western companies left flush, the west, of course, expected russia to crumble, but russian companies step in and the sanctions really had no say when it comes to

russia's economy is russia really adopted to the whole situation. now, just to sum up, when it comes to the talk to president, put his talk on the economy, he also briefly touched upon the unemployment rates in russia and how it is that a historic low right now in russia now the employment of the he also stress that, yes, russia is facing challenges, but these are not challenges that russia cannot overcome. now, le, earlier today he met with a russian service man at his residence in the moscow region. and these were all representatives of different areas of the front line. and he exchanged a few words with them and also congratulated them on the new year to write or to use, which are whom i think you all right. in dunbar celebrations have been marred by dudley ukrainian shelling of the city of don't ask which occurred just minutes into the new year. local officials say at least 4 people have been killed and more than

a dozen wounded. are to use vermont close rout reports from the same this is a central street here, and this is all done this before. it's targeted by the ukranian military. shortly after midnight on new jersey. several stores here for damaged and some buildings were completely destroyed right now. working on the shattered glass and debris from the building and in the background, i can still hear the sounds of our children, shedding tears and ask to the little old book who my mother and i celebrated the new year. i went on for smoke in the balcony. sometime after the midnight explosion started somewhere nearby, very loud and in the very center of the city. to be honest, it wasn't comfortable, but i'm from the ruble with leaf through all of this. i cannot stand on my feet because of it then a car quite far, a shelf flew into the side of the house. in addition,

there were several explosions nearby. glass shuddered in several houses. it was unpleasant to say the least. the sensor often ask, looks like a horse. all right, now there is still a fire brigade riding all throughout the city with massive flyers called n. c. c. the shelves are simply laying around everywhere. shortly after midnight on new year's eve, vermont calls for a varsity unnecessary public author and a political analyst to nickle america that says the act of terrorism committed by ukraine against russian civilians constitutes a war crime. amy targeting a civil district within uh, a russian city is actually a, it's an act of war. you can be considered of access to or it can be brought for an

international tribunal and the utility treatment military can be conducted. and this is a, this is definitely the definition of a, of, it's not what we could call a terrorist attack. and when it's handed to organized by state, this is a, this is actually a work crime which has been conducted to because the, a west to kill civilians and where no military targets. and that we know, unfortunately, that ukraine has been used by the west port all the time that i've been to organize a color ocean in cash. which what we know funded, organize help by the west, by it. and i just organizations by the source foundation funding, everybody knows today that the west is behind us. if the west, the collective west would stop funding, see if they would stop giving out arms, weapons, satellite counselors, all the specialist which i helping you paying over to date. there would be no more . so this definitely, this is a proxy was organized by washington and needle this to make it to international to

make it easy to understand. that's the situation we are in today. so no me warning has been issued by japanese authorities after a powerful 7 plus magnitude earthquake. it's a central part of the country. monday morning metre high waves quickly reached the islands west coast with even larger ones expected to follow the numbers, the whole image it. so not a warning has been issued for not so you should current would prefer to. we're observing a lot so no, i mean if you're on the coast or along the river, please evacuate to fire ground. immediately jeopardy is the tv station. is it cancelled their years, they shows as they switch to cover the natural disaster. people across the countries west have been told to move to higher ground ahead of a potentials to nami. there the tremors have disruptive supplies of electricity, living thousands of homes without power. in law stories say nuclear power plants are operating normally and have not been affected. downplaying fears of another

fukushima like incidence. o 2 people were part of the killed as the earthquake struck the island nation. this what it shows the aftermath was houses destroyed, and roads broken army units have been dispatched to help with rescue operations. according to a government spokesperson. shortly after the earthquake struck prime minister for meal because she had a warrant present as to be prepared as the disasters may continue to strike. the motorway 7 temporarily closed following the earthquake. this video was taken by local as in the town of milka where people had difficulties saying on their feet. more footage uploaded the social media as those people in the kind of as our forest shopping mall, huddling together for safety with goods scattered around the floor. however, there was no significant damage reported there. of the

us democratic congressman has slammed a republican lawmaker who recently traveled to uganda to speak out in support of the african countries and type gay legislation. according to democrat den killed the g o p house member to him, walbert has been quote, using our offices to remote divisiveness and hate speaking in uganda. in october, mister walbert urged the east african nation to stand firm against western pressure over its laws. pastor martin, same by you again, the pro family figure and founder of the strait nation organization believes the criticism of uganda is hypocritical. is america? is that in a culture well with africa? so the fact that the american politicians was somehow pretend like, oh, it's terrible too. for, for, for a said a tech team. what was the point chair of the us national prayer breakfast to come

to uganda to support us. this is no personality. the ease, fatty gee, is that they're right as over the summer. one is the sanity, is that the democratic members of congress, i'm senators who want to leap and all the different reality changes. laws based on the financial pressure is that to, to. ringback the whole person that is breaking the laws that i've been legitimately made. and it's a book or a statement as the united states outside a program called deepening democracy in africa. and when you different democracy, us empower people who vote, they elect to lead us. and where they elected lead as possible, which they, the european americans don't like that the americans are like, no, we don't want that. the little pricey. and i just find that's absolutely key, but critical. we must resolve africa's per every to well,

it's no ends inside the ukraine. conflicts troops are bracing from war to fighting on the front lines. we sat down exclusively with a decorated russian military here who took part in a series of battles there. the following is the extended interview with land ed resolves a slice toward the studio. today in our studio, we're joined by 0 of the russian federation brigade. commander lee. i need originally spoke to colonel. good afternoon and thank you for your time. would you like my 1st question? is one that likely crosses anyone's mind upon seeing you, regardless of their age or what you have the hero of russia star on your will, shows it from where you awarded it for you. just because it's vastly, i must emphasize that this storm, it presents the recognition that the heretic aspects of my entire unit. my brigade successfully accomplished the mission of crossing the substitute, and that's with us to my knowledge. we with the 1st to achieve this now with

a unit at done so before us unknown have sent some more of it. we managed this with 0 casualties within obligate. this was down to careful planning, followed by precise execution. they wouldn't have been possible without my battalion commanders, my company commanders, and all the personnel. let's go to the last of the battalion commanders understood the task and commanded the personal expertly pursuing as both an individual and the commander joyful. i'm profoundly grateful to him for this. i can only come on this at every level demonstrated exceptional performance is that includes recognizance and company. come on the major dimitri mirror on his troops laid the groundwork for the main forest across the river systems. plenty of the battalion commanders, known by the code names bid and dusk level the scale and provided a continuous critical assessment to the situation so so, so all of this was achieved through exemplary teamwork. so once again, this star is a testament to the collective achievements of the entire brigade, which is why our leadership on his us with this prestigious award. my so and then

he plugged into the original kernel racial. i'd like to clarify some things for our viewers and the names of townsend settlements for rivers like servers. cadets, for example, the people who have lived and worked in don't bass since 2014. so know perfectly well what service can don't ask is and why it is important for me. they know why we had to put is the enemy out of there. and how later, after capturing this foothold, we were able to liberate a huge chunk of blue gown. screw, republican, i have to highlight these things so that it is clear to our viewers. i'm, i'm on the central explain in simple terms why it was so important to take service get done is keeping it, i guess it was because then you have to come to the river service. keep on it. especially in the sense that it is not too broad. in some places it reaches up to 70 to 18 inches in width. on average, it is around 40 to 50 meters, tim boulevard lot. what made this position in ports and it was that the enemy held a strategic heights, at least the jump sounds and could harass us all the time. and we're going down the road in order to seize a piece of police the chance of front from the enemy,

which we have to carry out consisted operations on both rights and left flanks. while on the left flank, we could advance over land, unhindered by water or other obstacle or the right flank present to the challenge of the enemy. realized that so they concentrated the forces on the left flank, leaving only moderate numbers on the right. for the bigger of that goal was to keep us contained and prevented from crossing the river 19 miles, the land possibly operation, took place on the left flank. so consider the mission was to gain a foothold by the office at the stage for a follow of offensive and in circle the see chance from the right fine. in fact, the originally, the goal was to just establish a foothold. but since we were able to do that very quickly, the mission was updates, innocent costs. and so we took up the offense that was in the practice. in other words, not only to be secure to position, we were also able to advance and surround lucy chance from the right side to this. and this came is a major surprise to the enemy. they didn't expect just to be so assertive in the

area. and as a result, the buffalo supposedly see chance because very quick for you. just a few minus chemistry, this one is depleting. you have to go in, it's speaking of numbers. i wonder if you could tell us how many successfully liberated towns and villages you have under your belt, and can we talk about that? who could we need to give you? is like, this isn't really a secret for anyone who follows the battle path of micro guides since the status of the special military operation. my brigade has liberated $28.00 residential areas, including 2 terms and as we talked about earlier, played a role and the peroration of lisa chance the towns over 2 bedroom only and 7, and then that's also free. now thanks to my name's joseph, was i to, i think it's very easy to see why you fight. why your brothers in arms are there while you serve in the special military operations own. whenever a town or a village is liberated, when you finally have a chance to talk to civilians who have lived under the key of regimes occupations,

these people were forced to give up their russian identity, forced to live in poverty. we all remember the words of their ex presidents and said, you will hide in sellers while our children go to schools like normal people. and then you must have seen with your own eyes the peaceful residence of the towns and villages reading you with their liberators. perhaps you could tell us now, if you can remember, not even the things that they told you knows were probably similar most of the time . but rather what you personally felt into your heart. at the moment you realize that you would actually set these people free and that's what you basically no, yeah, my goal is because i can give some examples of how the ukranian troops treated their own. yeah. they believed we were coming that to occupy the lines. we so for example, back when we were fighting to free revision, right. ukrainian soldiers were well aware that many of the civilians didn't have the time to evacuate. i'm hiding in the school basement or in the cardboard section where there was a bump shelves before in the sports and it's i'm,

there was no secret to anyone. the civilians were sheltering that stuff, but the ukrainians use artillery to demolish all those buildings. i think this summer so that was during the early days of the conflict of the 1st 20 to 25 days. you just based on imaginable to me that someone would treat their own people like that. so the, on the, from the beginning, i told subordinates that our mission is to liberate and every soldier in my unit needs to show to the civilians with his actions his deeds and even his words. i prefer that we are not friends and that we've come to housing and get them to someone the residence, even the ones who are brainwashed by the key of governments about russian barbarians occupies coming to claim that land so much when they saw what we did compared to the actions of ukraine unami, it was obvious to them who was in the wrong many times we'd help the locals spring and water and food. and so one of the ones that came out to the house is the people we met. and they would usually sites was slowing down to us the crating and troops

of fascists on the why that killing the around with you lose. yeah. as you will know later, they tried to betray it as if we were the ones that talking civilians. the people on fools that say it's amazing, we can see where the shots are coming from, but i can see all tillery is firing at robust noise from the subjects because of them separately. and that's of the why, the down blinds. they can see the trajectory that's where the shelves are coming from. you that you use to great ukrainians, knew that there were a civilian still in this area. perhaps it was the training, an army leadership being spiteful civilians. i wouldn't sleep. i'm going to is that stay under the circled invaders with russia on which, so they were angry about that to something like that. or the institute of the local population is very positive, especially now that russia has had to stay rebuilding road schools and residential areas science academy. the only thing that people are concerned about is how quickly they can go back to a peaceful life. to forget this terrible periods, which probably scott, the souls of every man,

woman and those on the people's republic on internet some so we know every civilian . i talked to him, i only had good thing. and then the only negative sentiment was anger of the fact that we haven't yet, why it's always criminals of the face of this is that's the only thing they would ask. events on pipeline such as free drive, these past exams and show, but loved ones. that's the kind of rhetoric we would have a pulse of the perhaps it will be a question for others later on. and not for the ones we're currently fighting with weapons in their hands. but for investigators as to how we can prevent the seeds of naziism and fascism from sprouting again, like they did after 92 and 45 as like other after 1947. this is not a conversation for you and i to how it will be for future generations to with friends. as you probably know, there's a lot of debates now about our multi ethnic country. there was a time when we ignored this subject after the soviet union collapsed. but now we're starting to bring it up again. and our enemies are now attempting to weaponized

this issue against us in different ways. we have seen the incidents in logical last august. now, as well as in several former soviet republics, we have seen the incidents in march clogged august us as well as in several former soviet republics and were proving with our own actions. this is not the case, including in our armed forces. i'm sure you have a very diverse brigade with people of all ethnic backgrounds fighting alongside each other before. could you tell us more about that, but it does come across the list because that's to yes, i was assessed and we had investigate. we've got to be it would probably be easier to say which as nice as these we don't have. we have everyone here from the far east all the way to the dumb us. i have a scrap company, come on, the major middle i'm old of and what a dad and guy he is. is it his blood to fights? injustice? he's a passionate guy, and he uses his hot temper to fight for a good cause. we've got armenians. taja x was backs darkest on these of them. there

must be at least 20 nationalities in douglas down alone. yes. i'm trying to make sure. is that correct? so that he's so no one is offended by the right, so no one is offended. so yeah, dr stands and those who are listening cards since 2023 after the mobilization stuff is over the course of we are working with volunteers and these volunteers come from 11 russian sealants that you bosh, mari buskey and top top people. we have everyone what easy you see, we never look at the ethnic background as c e. so what is it called when we talk about the 6th row or something like that in the passport that we don't look at that the most important thing is to speak decent russian. so i'm going to be able to understand each other what i mean. so we can understand one another, not because the russian language is batch or anything like that. with that song to load them. i read people, for example, have not learned to speak nearly on the radio. i mean,

they talk and then stand the enemy they will not hear or understand. cuz i'm pretty sure there are no married people in the enemy side of seeing anything solution. so we find the solutions as well. we don't store, they speak to their mother tongue. like, you know, show kind of go ahead or mr. originally while we were talking, i remember the story that happens quite recently. there was more showing of a peaceful neighborhood and don't ask me right in the center of the city. we arrived at the scene when the medics had already arrived and the 1st responders from the emergencies ministry were working. the investigators were there too, and it was showing started again after everyone had arrived in the same area. everyone and again then came out again with his but there was showing again the attend a man was standing there, a traffic police man what fenced off the area were standing 10 meters away from me during the next explosion, when i was lying on the ground, he was standing there and he was hit by shrapnel. unfortunately he died later on.

here's the questions from a military point of view. and so what do you call those people in uniforms who are showing the same neighborhood where there are only civilian targets? no sign of military positions or anything like that. what do you call those people in the military uniforms were showing the same area with intervals, waiting for as many civilians as possible to arrive at the scene show up shooting and oh yeah. well actually i don't want to use profanity. but criminal scoundrel, i'm trying to find it was, after all we, the military exist for struggle with the military. and that's what we're trained for by humans, which we are trying to fight on to fight with civilians. i think the shelling of them that is productive in nature to create and maintain tensions, to the residents of the next and i feel comfortable in life. and so they're constantly time giving them out of shelling. and so i wonder we should maybe they

would push the ministry to go further. so there's and that's going to be deep in the rear. so that what, so it's creating, is there a lot of tension with the goal of inflicting shelling so that as many civilians as possible it effective my guess is i think that it's the tension side of everything goes quiet for a month or so. they will not be feel dealing with them and they have to keep teaching it out. i think i've difficult for example, is because lots of these things work out well with if they have to. now this will be a very big help to the people who sit on the ceiling or that will reduce artillery shelling. and so when we talk, so maybe someone will realize that it is not necessary to shoot and civilians if he wants to fight. so we'll think of what the opponents a minute to talk about of some fight with them is that the woods actually seems to me that it is not always possible to understand this. hopefully some say this one, the sound, the criminal you have to think like was it just needs to be calm? thing like that for one simple reason for the direct effect. yeah, it doesn't lend itself to normal. healthy logic. how do you destroy civilians?

what do you want some good times if you have something that's not a lot of things for me to come on, what do you want? there's a little crime, god willing when the special military operation is over. i think military investigators and prosecute is we'll have to investigate every case of showing every civilian killed or wounded and find the scoundrels have committed these crimes to go to 0. we've documented everything down to the gun that fired the shots, the investigative committee who is working. there is some of the, these are people in the military, but they are not to military. and you have to have something new a new way, you know? no, of course it's not the military. we in the military, i used to sharing among ourselves, maybe some of brags about our successes and victories. right. well, how can a man brag in this situation? right, you know, i find them the next today, killing 15 civilians just talking to brag about that. then you know, it seems to me that no matter how much of a brute you don't have to, how much of a scoundrel you're welcome. so that's even.