college annual tuition at that school is advertised at $60000.00. if accepted, he likely pay only a small portion. his financial need would qualify him for more scholarships. he just has to make the grades and depend on free food and supplies until then. i basically rely on those like provide lucon and says the best part of his day is putting on the mascot costume of montgomery college, which is one of his jobs. it's the only time he forgets about the financial stress . because he's having fun and making money. i did your castro al jazeera tacoma park, maryland. ah, who else is there? these are all top stories he was present. joe biden has condemned russia's decision to cool up more troops in ukraine air. russian president vladimir putin announced $300000.00 reservists are being mobilized to boost his so called special operation

in ukraine. rushes, calling, calling up more soldiers to join the fight. and the kremlin is organizing a sham referenda. try to annex partially ukraine. an extremely significant violation of the un charter this raul, should she, these outrageous acts for what they are putting claims he had to act because russia was threatened, but no one threatened russia. author vasquez to james bass has more. president biden, though invoking the un charter of the founding documents of the united nations, which was set up 77 years ago saying that russia was breaching the very basic principle of the united nation set up at the end, the world war 2 that you don't invade another country and take their territory. he

said this war is about distinguishing ukraine's right to exist as a state and ukrainians. right? to exist as are people. and the address, the 193 countries there in the chamber that should make your blood run cold. and i've been small protests in russia as people there opposed the military mobilization. these pictures show people being taken away by police in the west and says here via terran bag, more than 400 people have been arrested. new york's attorney general has announced made a lawsuit against former president donald trump and his company, as he said james as alleging business fraud involving some of trump trump organizations, most valuable assets, including properties in manhattan, chicago, and washington d. c. how can fianna is still gaining strength as it rips through the caribbean is now being classed as a category for storm harkins left, a trail of destruction and the dominican republic and puerto rico and in a rare area of cooperation between washington and moscow, us and russian astronauts,

i've just blasted into space at their 1st joint mission to the international space station since moscow embedded ukraine on board. the saw as capsule are 2 russian cars, notes and, and nasa astronaut, there's iow headlands. we're back with more news here on out to 0. that's after inside story to say with us. ah rushes present cause 830-0000 resists to join the warren cray. and vladimir putin is giving his full support to referendums in occupied areas. could the moves raised the stakes in this 7 love? this isn't a story. ah

hello, welcome to the program. i'm him wrong current. it's believe to be russia's 1st military mobilization since world war 2. up to 300000 reservists are being drafted to join the war and ukraine. russian forces have suffered setbacks against ukrainian counter offensives and east president vladimir putin announced the so called partial mobilization during a rare national television address. he also gave his full support to referendums on occupied ukrainian areas joining the russian federation. separate his planning to hold the votes from friday. hootin says referendums are needed to protect civilians from what he called neo nazi government of ukraine and his supporters in the west. moscow recognized desk and the hands as self governing republics just before the will. but alignment, the metal of them but parliaments of the people's republic of don bus and also

military civilian administrations, of the care saw in separation regions. took a decision to hold referendums about the future of these territories and asked us to support such a step with. i will stress that we will do everything to provide safe conditions during the referendums, so that people can express their will. we will support their decision about their future, which will be taken by most residents of the next in the homestead peoples, republics, militia and care sun reach you back in 2014 rushing back separatists held a similar referendum when moscow, annex crimea, from ukraine. most countries deemed the vote to be illegal. i was there, as gabriel. alexander has more from keith to key aspects of lat, amir put in speech. the 1st one being the fact that he's calling for a partial mobilization of the russian armed forces. his defense minister saying that as many as 300000 russian reservists will be immediately called for more

training and then put into this war with ukraine. now how ukraine has responded to this has been sort of a shrugged shoulders, ukrainian president, while the mayor zelinski saying that nothing really changes with this announcement by putting that he will continue with his main objective to help the ukrainian armed forces get the weapons that they need and also the main objective to expel all russian forces off all ukrainian land. also, the 2nd major announcement by vladimir putin was the fact that he is pushing forward with a referendum in for ukrainian territories. there either fully or partially controlled by the russian military. the response by the international community to this is that any referendum would be illegal and that ukrainians also say they will not recognize it. the referendum would ask residents of those areas. one question,

do you want to join the russian federation? ukrainian say that this question is simply a sham, and that the results are already pre determined by russia. the bottom line is, it's unclear that if these new initiatives buy food and throwing more troops at this fight and trying for a referendum that would lead to certainly an annexation of ukrainian land will be enough to change the tide of this war for the russians. and for potent, but what is clear is that this war is certainly taking on a new direction. gabriel is on too for inside story. let's take a closer look at the situation on the ground areas and read a held by russia and it's separatist allies. these include landscape denette, zap risha and curse on, while the referendums will be held. ah, that's bringing our guests in the russian republic,

a dog. astonished survey. marco former russian m p. m, public spokesman for president vladimir putin. he's now the director of the institute of political studies in moscow in dublin is that demarco buchan professor teaching post soviet politics at dublin city university. he's also the author of an upcoming book, the domestic politics and post soviet unrecognized states. and in vancouver island is michael bore, secure senior fellow at the atlantic council, and former spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation in europe, all will consume. i'd like to begin an dog, a son with survey markov. there are 2 things to discuss. let's discuss the 1st one, this idea that there is a partial mobilization of some, nearly 300000 reserves. that has to be an admission that this invasion of ukraine was a badly run. and a mistake if the calling up that many people the largest, i call up since the 2nd world war a, you know,

how was it is a, a now to why less than, you know, it's a part of it because actually relation 5 times more than anybody or sure why i saw her is because i was just normal. i mean, is it but a, you know, a society as a musician, you get 10 times more a. so i, so she is use a boss, a c, a see kind of a 1000 or a mobile. i saw just

a about 2000000. well, i just want to get her to be how was it or, you know, sort of a switch rule to create a new opportunity or not. i mean, to come back to offensive and the vision of you, we got a house because you can't with it. you create a search to study, but you, all of this 7 months ago. you, you, well, the state of the ukrainian military was, you knew how much of a challenge it was going to be. you still went and underprepared. you couldn't supply your own troops. this is been a disaster for you. us your questions? i others obviously a few articles. even on march,

army mark must throw in a we used to see and it's because you could in as the way except to be in touch on our hands would be much more what you meant with jim, i think because he made this possible member decisions element should be done because you want, anytime you don't want to make a decision because if you want to continue to leave normal life and let me put, you could be contracted with who is what charity now i can see it create a new generation where, you know more than, wow, you seem to make it clear competition

and who can be that you might not be in your in your conscious or out what does this no good tonight, but you're going to put you saw to well in my previous i mean if you let me bring both the kid is in vancouver island to buy anything that's more of the same. absolutely not. you know, with due respect to the survey, you should get out of time to say land, but maybe that's the goal for him because he's probably still in the kremlin payroll look. the only terrorist here is let them put on, you know, people have to understand that when the so called special military operation was declared, put inside is going to liberate russian speakers and ukraine. well, the most fierce opposition are among the most curious opposition to this illegal invasion. i'm just divided asian were russian speakers in eastern central and

southern parts of ukraine. you want to talk about terrorists? go to the russian soldiers who have burned villages bumps goals, raped women, children, grandmothers, who have committed war crimes on a scale we've never seen before. the, as for the partial mobilize ation, i think this is the role of the dice for mr. potent. i think it shows that that's peroration is very, very risky for him domestically because what's going to happen? he's going to throw more men into the spire. they will come back, sad to say in boxes and 2 zip codes in russia. federation, which have never received them before because what on this type of cale men are going to be called up from key centers? i'm think st. petersburg and bosco. and the other thing, you know, a lot of russians, especially middle upper class. i've tried to not collect themselves, ignore this war, but with this huge globalization,

there's no way they can ignore it any further. and one final thing that's going to trigger, especially because of the holding of the legal sham referendum, is that the crossing of the red line as far as the international community is concerned. and that will bring even more sanctions on rush up further pushing them into prior state data. somehow get your reaction to that in just a 2nd. but i do want to bring in a dental co buckland, who's in dublin florida. augustine, vancouver just mentioned the referendums that it's the next biggest talking points . they're going to, the russians want to hold referendums. it's very simple question. do you want to join the russian federation? now if those are referendums happened the lucky to begin on friday, is that the end to diplomacy? is this no more diplomatic efforts between russia and ukraine? the, the whole idea of holding a referenda at this time, or indeed at any time is, is farcical. it would be, it would be comedic, if it wasn't so tragic. i mean,

russia doesn't have even control over the territories that it proposes to have referenda in these are, these are occurring during a state of war. and of course, they're being called it a few days silvas. and we know well that these results are already known to the kremlin 100 fans. this is just to give a veneer of legality to what is an old fashioned imperialist land crop. and in terms of liberation, ukraine, which was the term that survey markoff used. i mean here in ireland, which is not a member of the military lines. we have tens of thousands of people who have fled this liberation and who are giving their, their stories 1st hand of what they are feeling from a 3rd of the population of ukraine are now displaced from their homes, all as a result of this imperial aggression and i tell you here an armed we know imperialist aggression when we see it. europe is united as never before. we heard from, sorry, mark off about, you know, the west applying ukraine, an aging ukraine. the reason why the west is sublime ukraine and 80 ukraine is

because we have faced this crossroads before in europe. the united nations is meeting at the moment. the united nations was established because a dictator should try to unilaterally change boundaries in europe by force. and we're seeing the challenge again and you're is uniting against russia and raja is feeling the full force of european pressure on this issue and he will not assuage over time. i know that they're trying to put pressure, of course on your using energy as leverage. but i think they will see as this winter poses a back, will not work either as it hasn't worked in ukraine. i think i mark of these referenda being a being taking, taking place rather under the barrel of a gun. they call be legitimate in any way, shape or form. why even bother it is now in russia. here i've been in the united states and yet can you come in and get it? well? well done or done because we conducted ideal. if you get

a minute, can, i mean, i've been an hour and i saw or even, you know, your slides are going to be to be puzzled against you and what i deal with what i've had to know why you should care about your opinion because we know that you all and and so that whole success is great about it. what i want to know is that you can, you know, i mean, even i'm not supposed to look like terry should. i just wanted to know always, but nevertheless with some countries as to why we don't care about this. but we need to know because we want seek, you know for sure. it's real.

real advice about these people who use that 90 percent of the caption letters. if you may know that you're back to us, which it agency in media, not yourself. that's why he knew not to you why i was doing the research. all of these yet and parcel was a lose, was joining ration that created by russia. yes, he said he has agree ah, but to sophomore associates of an impassioned defence. you've just given us why when i go to michael next, michael m b u. s. is really out of options when he comes here there west is out of options. russia, like survey says, doesn't care. you've done your sanctions. you,

you've put pressure on russia yet. the war still continues. sug, is right. there is nothing you guys can do. well, 1st of all, i'd like to correct sir guy survey scientists say lions. i've spent a lot of time in odessa, which is primarily russian speaking. i visited chinese hills, mostly russian there. and guess what are gay? all you see on every blog in odessa now, are you creative flags? if there's one thing mister putin has managed to do to these areas is he's really stocked up, the patriotism there. and finally on to me. healed. talking about russians being terrorists. i visited a community on the outside of germany, where a $500.00 pound bomb was dropped by the russians in a densely populated settlement shredded toys shredded teddy bears in that balm hall destroyed homes. i asked people i looked into their eyes in russian. i

said, who did that, they said the russians, number one, what do you need most is rebuilding and salvation from. ready terrorism, as for the united states and western lives around, i think, what needs to be done immediately is for the administration to grow this bind. and finally declare rush, state, sponsor of terrorism. and the big reason for that is exactly what's happening at the supper is a nuclear power plant. this is nuclear black male, that's a nuclear terrorism conducted by the russian federation, not by the russians, but not by the ukraine. and it's the russians who have parked their military vehicles and put ammunition very close to the reactors themselves. you know, it's really sad when you think about it, but the russians have never learned anything from their stupidity and lying from 1986 in terms of what happened for novel. when the invasion happened in february, they took over turnover again. what did they do? dig up, contaminate, so all that sort of thing. so it just goes to show how irresponsible they are and

how to, you know, when a nuclear disaster, god forbid happens. we're not only effect ukraine, it will affect russia, but it seems the russians don't care, but they're on peoples. let me bring in to darker hair, darker um there is precedent to this. there was a referendum in crimea in 2014. it was criticized widely. there were no independent election observers. it was done some say under the barrel of a gun. is there any legitimacy that the russians can point to in this new referenda that is actually going to convince anybody? no, absolutely not. and. and that will be illustrated by the fact that you won't find any you and member states who will be recognizing this and going back to crimea in 2014, which of course is a template for this survey mark of i think said it was an a kind of an ideal type of referendum and again that was held under under dressing, was held during a time of war and it was, it was held by 10 days. notice i don't, they don't seem to know how to hold referenda. we have

a lot of experience of it here in iron, and these are very laborious processes which take place over time. and you certainly don't do it while occupying a territory. mean important speech. today, he was talking about the territorial integrity of russia, which must be protected, but what the international community is concerned about is protecting the international, the territorial integrity of ukraine. and that's not something for us to decide what the boundaries are. the borders are of ukraine into conflicts as survey has done. russian speakers with pro russia is ridiculous as saying as that because the majority people in this country here and are in speak english that were, were pro english and english and should, should come and, and, and re invade the country. it would be an absurdity. and that's the kind of logic that's been used to take over these regions and was taking them over, rushed through these artificial referendum. does that have no international legitimacy ago to bring you in here? by do you want to talk very specifically now about president vladimir putin? you used to be his spokesman. he's gone from being a very strong character on the world stage to look increasingly isolated. he's not

at the un general assembly, which is taking place right now. he said his foreign minister, ah, he's a junior partner now to china, which is now holding a big influence over what the russians are now doing. where is vladimir putin is, or is he seen in russia as being the strong, manly ones? was what do you which of course don't command, but she's not the war to try to look at people demand towards the center she threw in 2014000 out of your great rational and you know, our colleagues with punch it said to be good news to be, especially like russia will be shipped in

a country. it's not to be the same, but the different beef that russia, you know, sorry you were example would be candidates and you will see that showing different canada you would be a games. i didn't do much, right. you have somebody in canada. let's bring him to get into the. i mean, michael, you've been shaking your head. told me what you think. well, look, again, i spend a lot of time recently in odessa and i and kian elsewhere. rushman is widely spoken and is anyone trampling on their rights arresting them? no, absolutely not. what you're finding, however, is that because so many residents are realizing what a horrible war this is. again,

women and children, grandmothers raped and killed, that this is really triggered research and patriotism, where actually a lot are switching over to ukraine and thank you very much for to put in a lot or hoisting ukrainian flag every single block that i've walked in odessa, that i've liked, you know, 10 tons of kilometers around the city. has you created flight painted on the buildings and up? no one's being persecuted for that and listen. i'm a former, as the election observer, i'm a former spokesperson though. it's in ukraine and we have, we have seen what kind of sham referendums the russians and the russian back fibers in good hands are capable of holding. no one's going to take it seriously. and i think again, it represents the desperation of mr. newton. i don't even think at this point that his voters in russia would take it seriously. it's a, it's a dead end avenue for him to know. okay, almost doesn't matter though whether anybody in the west takes it seriously. these

referendums are going to happen. they're going to go the way who tend once them to go, they're going to give him the, just me, certainly in the eyes of his own people. there's not a huge amount we can do. there's not huge amount the west can do. here's about the welcome to charlotte. well, these referenda aren't going to make any difference at all. i mean, they're completely gestural and they're inactive desperation. they're pollutants belated response to the huge territorial gains that the ukranian army managed to achieve during the last month for they took back several 1000 square kilometers of ukrainian territory and liberated their people there. so this is, this is a response. it's trying to, to take back the narrative to take back control of the narrative, because this is the 1st speech of its kind that, that boot has made to the people in russia since the beginning of the war and is trying to signal to the west. again, you know, booth was angry, he's not laughing and he was again, thank you your card and eat our guest today. a survey mark of did the same on b, b, c. this morning we're britton's. woke up to find that they were being threatened again with nuclear strikes and we've seen on russian t v here in ireland,

ireland and britain being blown away in simulations of nuclear strikes. so you know, we know what russia's capable office. we also know that, and this is been here over the last 7 months, i'm going to cut you show, i'm going to tell you, show that because we are running out of time and i do want a very quick response from pseg. michael is anything that you've heard from, i guess in dublin and vancouver and you have been critical of vladimir putin balls, is anything you've heard today, changed your mind on anything that might be going on right now, including the calling of the reserves. ah, so i see good, we don't need to rush is the biggest challenge is a role, but we'll have to practice those people from general. so our demand was at peace and with activity i was real. a people want to order. so on a what you do with you as a whole,

do would be all done. well, if you don't please us, you created of those. but if you who are read what you're going to be ready to have 2nd, due to you, which is the language off my joy. if you create a some kind of a to dismiss all to groups, including your football, you know, message a day or a fascist. i should be all name street, name of the process will be a change i and also a want to get a conscious we have actually run out of time,

but i do want to thank all, i guess a said a mock hope do not go back and and michael, both acute, i don't want to thank you as well, but watching you can see the program again, any time by visiting our website out there don't call and further discussion, go to a facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story. and you close, i joined the conversation on twitter a inside story for me. around on the whole team head ah, ah.

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