on the on the policy us yes. again, strikes, governments capital just out will talk to you as security council. imagine me thing on fridays, initial attack, and ends in asia, a march of solidarity with palestine democratize 100 days of waiting called to take the old protests all around the globe to jamal on this route and divided them plus the us state department confirms the task of a to be an american john with a new prey, put him on solve a saying he was tortured to death in prison. over his criticism of presidency, landscape poles have close to counting is underway in taiwan. and what could prove a have a tool by the result suggests the candidates on the voting policy. i know position

currently, neck on the hello from look good. this is all to international. it is great to see you. welcome to global news update. i'm going to start off with news in yemen. washington has, can fund the u. s. the military conducted another strike on the nation's capital of the sauna, or the strike was conducted by the us us carney. he's in tomahawk lunch, but talk me solves and was a follow on action on a specific middle to a target associated with strikes taken on january 12th, designed to degrade the who, the stability to attract maritime vessels, including commercial vessels in the nightstands. i knew he has conducted the edits to the icons and i at both id. let me it'd base an order phillips. and i mean, we headed the lot of the explosion assume that it's with the one had been the

yesterday. and as the united states, as the ad declare to deal with, they say that they have actually targets induced uh they say me side and a does instead of defense this exactly what the united states has been doing throughout history. many has make it clear that the retaliation against the united states it will come and it will come on. they will actually had a united states, i knew ok, and they should not expect attack on. but the zip ice, i think after this 2nd the attack on the m and you have any folders as they wouldn't do before. maybe they would be starting to get in a united states and u. s. commodities ship because yeah, my now is on that i thought for them the united states is the united states actually, who would support in a is it i in the genocide against the policy and, and you may need them on the, on the request is to allow food and medicine and to lift the locate guns because the if they are going to do so, this will get the money out of his book. but does it have said yesterday that i

talk, i guess is that any ship? is it a link table, any ship that is headed toward, is it a enclosed or related to, is it i by any way, they will still continue and they will come under attack as the 1st round of western strikes on thousands of minutes, the sides across the m and were launched early on friday from will play. this is one of the ships on submarines in the red sea. the usaa and you k have called it a necessary response to recent attack. spice's. he fights us on commercial shipping as well. the group itself said it's read, see a tax what a show of solidarity with the palestinian people. and he stopped when israel and i was 8 and took awesome. destroyed by the west from combination killed 5 rebels and wounded. 6 more. okay. defended the attack, saying it took place to put and maybe 810, all right, and it's very clear, it's to de escalate tensions and to restore stability to the region. and that's why

i lives over the policy weeks of issued several statements of combination of what's happening, courting on the duties to desist and that type of stability might prove elusive. because arkansas, it's why he felt the escalation for sea level. and he does have a promise, washington, then london, a swift response of the criminal aggression against our here many people will not go unanswered and unpunished. this brutal aggression will not turn them in from its supportive position would be wrong to palestinian people. on the new round of start came to sal is off to a un security council emergency meeting cooled by moscow. the russian ambassador claims the attacks, what a new phase of western minute tree of question against them, at least the clear violation of international rule. the zillow is easiest to so the white house has stated that it resolves the rights, the resume, military action shouldn't receive any new threats. you don't need to be a clairvoyant to understand that the us will perceive these threats and determine

its response to them. i would try really without the slight disregard for international law, the right to self defense cannot be invoked in order to ensure a freedom of navigation. our american colleagues are well aware of this. this is yet more military aggression by the collective west, the latest and a long line of raids on the suffering middle east. the pseudo legal justification give them by the white house does not stand up to any criticism. while the un security council, the 15 member body that leads the united nations net to discuss the recent us attack on yeah, the united kingdom also involved in that attack and at the meeting of the united kingdom and the united states said that their action was justified because they had to protect the red sea, they had to stop the blockade that has been put up by the who the forces in yeah, the attacks by hutus on vessels and the red sea must stop. we have made this clear

to the who cheese. and we call on them to de escalate. the united kingdom is committed to continue working with the international community. and this counsel to come by this international threat. these strikes were necessary and they were proportionate as you just heard from my u. k. colleagues. they were consistent with the international law and an exercise of the united states inherent right to self defense, as reflected by article 51 of the un charter. and they were taken only after non military options, proved inadequate to address the threat. still, any strikes of this nature is a decision. the united states does not take lightly, as she said, she didn't take the decision lightly. but it's been pointed out that from the beginning, the united states was threatening, military force was not offering to negotiate with it. with the forces,

etc. there who's there is, have been saying that all they are asking in exchange for this, you know, opening up with the red sea is the israel stop bombing garza. but that is something that despite the global prize for a ceasefire, the united states is simply not open to even discussing. there was a resolution passed by the un security council that russia of days on voting for as did mozambique. and china, 11 countries voted for it. they simply come down to what that these were doing and defended from freedom of navigation during the maritime trade route. never gave any authorization to the united states and the united kingdom to carry out strikes. but it was that resolution that the usa and the united kingdom, he used to say, gave them a legal justification for carrying out these strikes. now, they also in both the right of self defense under the un charter. but as the russian ambassador pointed out, that right of self defense applies to an attack on one's country,

not simply the blocking of trade routes or maritime trade routes. freedom of navigation, meanwhile, demonstrate to the new york blocks 1st avenue right next to the united nations of plaza. they showed best support for the victims about joint the american and british attack on young men demanded an immediate stop to destroy over and the many capital demonstrations will also hold protest as voice as fury on hold for an end to west. and the question against the country all the cities across the nation. so . so here is protests with locals. clayton strikes of early we have farmed that commitment to palestine, former us public and state senator richard black leaves. the current policy is coming out to the white house. well, obviously the menu square moved hostile to the collective west. and i think it's very important to understand that the find it ministration has been remarkably blood thirsty and the mirror against and everything they've done across

the globe. the leaders of our foreign policy now are rather rather crude, just simply blood thirsty, very arrogant people. and what's happening is that the middle east is beginning to your 9th against the west. and you see this with the around the beginning to link up with saudi arabia and with the turkey. turkey has one of the largest most powerful armies on earth. and the people in turkey are very stirred up about this. so you just see this rising off of the middle east, and it's largely due to the incompetence of, uh, of the, by the administration. you know, there is a surprising amount of discord within the us. political system over this, what has happened is that divide administration has just insisted on

going to war with every body that they can find were threatening war with china were threatening more with russia more with it ran more with everybody. the american people are growing very weary of this incessant war and these, you know, we're different than most countries we're insulated by 5 or 6000 miles of, of open. see that there is no threat to us except the one coming across that the southern border from mexico, mexico is our greatest strength is not china. it's not roger. it is mexico. busy buttons and, and yet the body administration won't defend order with mexico is, is quite bizarre. and i think americans are very frustrated. they, the government that we have now is, you know, it's the,

the most incompetent one of my entire life. and i've seen some dues, it's, i mean, i've seen some governments that you, you, you were not brag much about, but this one, this one really sets a new standard for low cities around the world of gearing up for demonstrations of solidarity with palestine as a whole. and goals and does it's $100.00 day and the intimation capital of to call to crowd top, already taken to the streets. and i'll correspondence in the region some this report the see the wire now. policy. those are the magic, is that the protest with people on trending during the prop cal's plan? this saturday morning in thousands of, for testers have gathered in front of the american advocacy since 530 this morning . they show solidarity as well for the. busy

first time in 2020. as you can see, our reading now these my are preventive at all. actually the also we're black and white and the traditional rather than the sisterhood from, you know, this is part of the day of action. a 100 or between and is higher per minute. this is for humanity and for my consciousness because palestine remains under occupation by israel. this doesn't sit well with me because palestinians are muslims. after all, it has already been a 100 days. when will this end?

the victims are not only mothers, but also children, even toddlers, nobody is safe. we cannot accept this. well, i did because i think i came with my 2 children. i want to teach them the meaning of humanity by showing stone the guarantee. what time is 9 also because the biggest victims in this will all the children by carrying that feeling with me. this is a very painful feeling that the children we loft, care about and raised full victims to the bomb parity of these radio. ok, patient delivered, or the impala sign, as well as not, has warner on how the data on the sofa leads into sports calls for. now,

from now to casa, what is really on, boardman continued throughout the night, killing thousands of civilians. what across young tape, including women and children, the south as being the main focus of the idea of operations recent in video, it shows well mass destruction of an hour that not long ago has been deemed a safe. so moving to 1000000, displaced by the students, and now struggling to survive, right, bob? back in october about the us v tote, un security resolution on humanitarian pools is the blood check continued until the end of november. because that's when a truce between is ro on from us payment falls was $2.00 and a half 1000 palestinians were killed to move in full files and wounded during that period. let's look a little bit farther because civilian casualties, they still, i walked in the sun bus off to the safe spot and,

and another un resolution was blocked again by washington. the 2nd period which is ongoing, has so far claim to move in its $6000.00 lives plus $13000.00 wounded. so that is a port out of the total desktop in gauze, so that could have been avoided if it wasn't for those us vito's. so the decisions led to the desktop district, but $6000.00 women and children would be un reporting that around 70 percent of all depths and goals are full into these 2 categories. you add on the sex 2, general mosse and griffith has raised concern over the unfolding situation. a staggering 85 percent of the target population traumatized. i'm forced to again and again as the bottoms of the massage, racing down on the faces of residents. we are as close to the statements is very name and this is regarding trans drink coverage to mass

transfers, civilians, guys, up to it said countries these statements res, great concerns about the possible forcible mass transfer of the protection of the palestinian population from the causes for something that would be strictly prohibited, of course, on the international. we can hold to allow this to meta size for the consequences of by the configuration. as if this is not bad enough, would be unimaginable. the us state department has confirmed the death of a chill in american john list in ukraine. gonzalez, there was 55 years old and it's while the claims hassan was tortured to death in prison. why for criticizing president savanski? i cannot accept the way my son has died. he was tortured extorted incommunicado for 8 months, and 11 days,

and the us embassy did nothing to help my son. the responsibility of this strategy is the dictator zalinski with the concurrence of a c. now american president joe biden, a while to correspond that shape of space keeping an eye on this. i mean, when i wake up to the news, i was obviously shocked, and most people weren't necessarily surprised because for those who have been following the war in ukraine, if they've been active on twitter, people will know the name of console and they're up for those who don't you just give us a quick introduction? who is this deceased? john les blog active as almost yeah, well, gonzalo was a very colorful character, very outspoken. he had a very distinct style. and i just say anybody following on twitter, he had a big twitter following. most of the uh, the dissenting sites on social media, twitter, youtube tell around, would know the name comes out of there and he was almost unique and that he was on the last dissenting voices. certainly foreign voices in,

at ukraine. saskia and colorful background. he'd worked in film making yeah, script writing, writing some novels as well. so an amount of great experience, 55 years old. and crucially, an american citizen says, i mean, despite, obviously claims from western political needs and the media that ukraine is, a nation that likes to use us embraces the freedom of speech. we've seen indications in the long time in the making. the thought is not the case. so what is it specifically that thoughts? uh t, it's a bit wild up. why was near a high boss? yeah. well essentially i think it was, but because he was based in the car called a predominantly russian city at quite eastwood's in, in ukraine. and he had continued to broadcast from pat within calls even threatened, of course, but he had persisted and his content to become ever more critical of the pain of

corruption, of the missing money in ukraine of the just the system. so actually have a look at some of the content that actually landed them in hot water. so she can get the wes all the a propaganda. i said that the, you know, someone sees a hero a winston churchill figure. no. and i can't presume or just change orders and stuff like that. know the bumped her fever, but i'm telling you right now. so in the aftermath of this and the view ukrainian, the secret service, if you like, with a very fierce some reputation, they came calling it gonzalez address. they found out where he was, they arrested him. he uh, went through here. he faced the trial days. now it was during this period of house arrest if you liked that, he was informed that the outcome of this may not go the way. he thought that the americans weren't going to help them. that this american citizenship, which he may have taught them no easily, was going to protect him in your brain on his high profile as well. a lot of people

following him, but that wasn't the case. he was informed, so he decided to try to get out if you find, he made a break for the home very and border. and this was very dramatic. he live stream much of this on twitter as well. so i asked you, and it was huge followers of this, and this was quite exciting stuff. unfortunately, he was detained by the pregnancy, and this is where his troubles really begun. he was done imprisoned and it was from the prison that he began to give these revelations of extortion, and i'm terribly brutal at treatment. she also wrote a letter about his decreasing health and his difficulties regarding accessing health care from within the prison. we actually will look at the letter he wrote from within the prison that i've had double pneumonia by flags as well as name a tourist and a very severe case of a dma swelling of the body. all this started in mid october but was ignored by the present there in the admitted i had pneumonia at a december the 22nd hearing. i'm about to have a procedure to reduce the edema pressure in my lungs,

which is causing the extreme shortness of breath to the point of passing out often minimal activity or even just talking for 2 minutes. so you know, and in addition to this, uh, uh, quite detailed descriptions. gonzalo talked about the brutal treatment torture that he received in ukrainian prison. now, it's important that the viewers understand the ukraine has a listening you have problems with it's a criminal justice system. it was the you the state department of 2019. so i ask you to actually pointed out the chronic dysfunction within, do you find in prison system just the system corruption at torture, a extrajudicial killing and dump someone comes out. those revelations, from within the prison are quite brutal, and i think we should have one of us. i don't know before we have a look at them as the responses between taking a beating and my time. so show it how it like help, but it was manageable, but then at 1.2 folks held my head and use the to speak to scratch the whites of my

left eye while asking me if i could still read. if i had just one, go to correct rabid my 1st cell, but it wasn't too bad. the west stretch was it my fault? so from 1 pm on june, the 21st until 7 pm, the next day 30, i was always beaten and sleep deprived my alms, twisted the wrong way around the shoulders in germany beaten pretty bad as luck would have it. 2 days later, when the bruising was in full bloom, the senior god came to give me a wellness check this lightly because of the chilean embassies efforts the last time as he called me 3 times. but gave me nothing but support. and the bromides so such as you can see, gonzalo was a quite capable communicator. even in the midst of his troubles, he was still able to portray the real situation of your training. and that's why he really was still in an issue for the key version. well, i'm going to ask a question now. sherry is the us outraged at the desk of one of the

tone citizens in ukrainian costs you. i mean, i'm presuming that it is shouting from the poll pets about the oppression of john and this, and this be kind of democracy. you crate? well, quite the opposite. and it's important that the viewers understand gonzalieras, a polite had been highlighted to the us state department on many occasions. they were well aware of what has happened. he had previously said that it was highly unlikely that the united states would exchange him, that she's actually 7 victoria newland a hated his guts and that it was a funds people to suggest that he would be rescued or exchange in exchange for a i know the detainee on the, on the russian slash you for any inside that it was all likely to happen. now we know that as far back in august the 23 that matthew miller, the state department spokesman, was well aware of this. i guess i, you'll for the exchange with these ask the bill comes out on the run some questions

to put 3 via greys on report of the him cause grave about the whole situation regarding some sellers and some a look at something else that we learned last night through a series of tweets by him that he had been tortured in the ukrainian prison. and he was now on a motorcycle with a broken rib trying to flee the hunt gary in border. and so i'm wondering, you know, if this is true, a given the state department knew of his arrest and his detention. how has this been allowed to occur? we have a us citizen being arrest being detained, and perhaps tortured in the prison of one of our strongest allies. well, you, you lost me with the perhaps, and if this is true, i think i'd want to verify those reports before i commented on alex, go ahead. to problems whereas the state of broadcasting, i think i just want to verify anything before i kind of go head out there. so you can see the awkwardness with which this was field the by matthew miller. and i should say, the united states is on a crusade for democracy, freedom just as an individual rights and ukraine when it comes to one of their own

citizens. and they don't seem that interested in his welfare. and in the aftermath of his report, a death which they've confirmed, and this time you have confirmed very savvy. and they also haven't made any statements about this. just been ok. the questions to the cab regime, about the welfare of their citizen and their obliged to look out for the welfare of an american citizen. but there has been some reaction from russia and that's i'm look at that now. we're deeply outraged to learn of the death of the united states generalist comes all the later and ukrainian custody according to the information available. he was in prison and tortured. we're also not surprised to learn that the usa did not make any efforts to release of citizens. moreover, we are sure that these champions of freedom of speech with double standards of morality will try to hush up the gentlest stuff. so as you can see at this leads us with maybe some more questions than answers. number one, at obviously gonzalo, who i knew and i had very close relations with, by other friends who knew,

he believed that his american citizenship would guarantee him some sort of protection. that he would be protected from the corruption and from the brutal a treatment of the, the detention system. and you find he was not even he was wrong. it turns out the other question is if evan gertrude beach, or as a western journalist, was to receive this type of treatment in a russian prison fast you. so this would be front page news across the west and media. and as of now, as of today, gonzalez, the tragic debt is absent from the narrative in the west. layers is of course just one of many stories which call style folders. tales that were told about 2 of the 2nd one of the most vivid probably thought was the shape. those are to correspond to thank you very much. shay. and finally, accounting is underway in taiwan presidential election candidates from the routing party. i'm no position to courtney not connec according to ty, one's central election commission. polls closed about an hour and

a half 2 hours ago. the island patient you wait, the final results. each contender has a distinctly different view on the domestic and foreign policies of the territory. the us post heads of ty, ones holding party, have started to gather in the capital type pay ahead of the official results being announced. i'll just try to do, but it talks us through who's, who and what's up state who was gay is, is focused right now on the small chinese island. why? well, because how the people on taiwan vote this weekend could have to take global implications . island is a choosing whether they will forge close. it ties with the mainland china or take a step closer to breaking away with the packing of washington. china will surely be re unified and all chinese people on both sides of the taiwan straits should be bound by a common sense of purpose. i'm sharing the glory of the rejuvenation of the chinese

nation. so unlike ukraine to be clear, sir, us forces us men and women would defend taiwan in the event of a chinese invasion. yes, the decision over what happens next lie is in the hands of one of 3 candidates. so who are the man who could hold the power in this piece? a new election? first step, it's like going to, he's a current to v p from the ruling democratic progressive policy. he's a set for to his tooth looking to shake things up and pushed that independence. the 2nd favor to in the races who you e. he's a candidate for the k n t, which is the chinese nationalist policy. he's a former police chief, i'm being company met of a new type pate city. he's called a dialogue with beijing to reduce tensions. cool when j is shaking up the to paul, the traditional race. he heads up the c p. p, a full

a matter of type pay, he's focused on bread and butter issues such as the cost of housing, which is going well continued in recent years. on the big issue at stake, he favors maintaining the stages quote with the mainland. the idea of one country to systems while this should be a loopo election and just that it's not many see what's in folding in taiwan as a proxy will between china, i'm the us. it's a d p. p can to the winds and pushes ahead with independence. he will do so with the support of the us military. one year ago, our congressional delegations arrival into one sent an unequivocal message. america stands with taiwan as a defense itself and its freedom. the election is january 13th inauguration won't

take place until may. so what we need to do as a country is to provide study unwavering, resolve and support of taiwan democracy. and of course, we need to continue to critically enhance cross straight. the turns showing that has a two's the us of interfering in the election. and america certainly has a long track record of doing just that in many parts of the globe. beijing also fired a warning show to washington over the military, a that's being provided to taiwan. the us side leads to take chinese concern seriously and do more things that contribute to the growth of the military to military relationship. the chinese site emphasized that china will not make any concession or compromise on the taiwan question and demand that the, the us to bytes by the want.