the, the, this is the w news, live from bell in russia's flat, and it posts, and warns nato of the ukraine in his annual states of the nation address, who's in hints, nuclear weapons could be used. if nato countries send troops to ukraine, he chooses the west of trying to destroy russia from within. we'll say coming up on the program warnings of russian interference in mold david's break away region of trends. this trio pro russia separatists, the off most goes to health, claiming discrimination by the pro western government. and the homeless for on health ministry and gaza says more than

a 100 people have been killed. well wasting a fishing monetary, an 8. they saved the death toll from nearly 5 months sufficing. as now cost the see $1000.00 the . i money to just make it in gustave with us. it's not him, it's susan has wanted to nato countries. they risk that nuclear war. if they send troops to ukraine, the russian leda has been delivering his annual states as the nation address 2 weeks ahead of a presidential election that he is expected to win. mistletoe, no opposition stands in his way. bruce and told russians in his speech that he'd be stationing most soldiers and russians west close to noon. they so many members, finland and sweden and new persons. nuclear warning came up. the front says president refused to rule out the possibility of western nations sending troops to

ukraine. this was late to rejected by the us and germany. here's some of what person had to say. and you, those are the consequences when you, when they should eventually understand that we also have way fitness and they know ways of it. i just said it now myself. fit in weapons that can hit targets on their territory. but are you doing everything that the waste is coming up? you know what they threaten the world with? it can result in a conflict with the use of nuclear waste in some good idea. and they for the destruction of civilization. i'm not sure, but when you're searching and civil is that's now as a head person's fail, nicholas red came off to president a money order my call fronts, and they say, member suggested it might eventually be necessary for allies to consider deploying ground troops to ukraine. now that idea was quickly shut down by other western leaders, including german, trump. flo will efforts and a new video message show. it's again sort to allay and the concerns among german

votes has of direct involvement in the will. the not to east of nato is not and will not be party to the will. that remains the case. we do not want to rush as war against ukraine was to become a war between russia and nato, and we agree on this was all allies. this also means no german participation in the will to put as bluntly as german chancellor. i will not be sending any members of the german forces to ukraine. all soldiers can count on that and you to come come to him dolphins these each of us. so now ukraine is warning against, quote, destructive external inputs, errands in mould, dove as break away region of transmit street. now this comes off to pro russia, separates us that off to moscow, full protection. now this is the same over truly used by separatists in east and

that ukraine. a decades ago, the self proclaimed republic is a tiny sliver of land located between ukraine and moldova. they were both the soviet republics. trons of history broke away from molto. but during the collapse of the soviet union in the early 19 nineties, of people identifying as russian many of the holding russian citizenship make up a sizable minority and transmits true intentions have been rising, ever since russia's invasion of ukraine of 1st and nearly 2 decades officials meeting for a rare special congress entrance in history is capital to rascal the pro russian separatist, asking moscow to protect it, break away region from what they called with right from october. the move has many more buildings concerned. you're still in a mighty city. it's really dangerous what's happening and harass, pull their declaring war. moldova model. many words the kremlin backed officials are waiting another push to join russia in 2000. and 6 more than 9 and 10 transmit

dream voters back to similar call. but the referenda, woodson recognizes into naturally entrance in history of remain part of motel the bushes influence in the break away region is undeniable. this is me, roches, the presence, both militarily and financially one. it's a special pensions click on some these trends, but it also supplies gas to the region to the kremlin, says it considers protecting transmit streams. the top priority, while of choosing west and powers of interfering. and motel was internal affairs. nothing but a. i'm need to tell them they're trying to mold the republic into lead through a 2nd ukraine country to the mood of the majority of the modelling population lapse and in general apartments without thinking about the consequences of this for the country and for the region on the whole body, russia's invasion of neighboring ukraine has fuel fears that mold over could be next, especially as a countries precedent. my ascent do, has been pushing to join the you meeting with ukrainian president and all pena san

do set you was worried face today. thanks to the but a buddy of the ukrainian sold days and we are very grateful to them. the attention though, also costs and concern in washington. good afternoon, given russia's increasingly aggressive and destabilizing role in europe, we are watching rushes actions and trans needs through it. in a broader situation, they're very closely just one of several west invoices warning the rush is trying to the stabilize the region even further. merchant barbara, who is a freelance journalist who just returned from a visit to transmit street. i asked him if transmits trends of worried about pro russian set protests. i'll ask the most go for help. i will say there are concerns . they're actually quite happy and keen to gain support from must go up. as you rightfully said, about half of the population holds the washer and citizenship on the streets of the

russ full. you can give russian speakers in 99 percent of the cases. so people are very keen and they look up to must go for what they want and what the cold protection from. mold the interference inter business. and what i say business means the economics ok. now we know that russel already has a small military presence and trends in history a. how likely is it but more russian troops and will be sent to as well. it's highly unlikely and not because it's a matter of will. but this is a matter of geography logistics. at the moment, both devices alone and lock country and frozen this route is an enclave within a land lock on the street. the board that would ukraine was shop between trust me. the and ukraine was shot. i believe 3 months into the wall. so the only access into the same place is through moved over at the moment unless rushed up plans to evade . we'll go back to the airport or somehow through the black sea through a desktop,

which means they would actually have to pick this up. i don't see how they can send more russian troops into transmission oregon to move over the at the moment. okay, so that will for now be no more russian troops likely to be fed into and a trends in history. i wanted to ask, i mean if that were a, put the, the possibility would that then have knock on effect on the conflict. and you say, of course, i mean anything that happens at the moment in ukraine, or in the, i'm sorry, there's a bit of noise if anything that happens at the moment, not only on the 2 countries, but of the legion itself. and that's because, so is this just been a fun bed ever since the war in the early ninety's? there's a huge, i mean, nation people cold, combust small, the largest,

the rush of holes in eastern europe. we talk about russian citizens, half of multiple this population. so obviously there are security implications for everyone, including for romania because at the same time a lot of moved over this whole romanian passports. and romania is a native country as your old know. so definitely huge implications at the moment for anything that happens interesting or to a large extent in moldova, much above the, in most over. thank you so much, much of this stuff. nice thing inside this. now we're going to go back to the top story again. now president pollutants annual states of the nation speech, and his hint that nuclear weapons could be used if nato countries send troops to ukraine and we can get more on that from jade mclinn. she's an expert on russian politics and foreign policy with the department of all studies at kings college london. welcome guide. now today's speech was possibly vladimir putin strongest warning yet about the risk of nuclear conflicts. it's not a new threat, is it?

so i wanted to ask you which parts of his address did you take most know, 12 i think in the past, the address, the i to chris nato was his confidence bordering on, well, i hope would be hubris, but which i am afraid. i tread is probably quite well placed, his confidence in dismissing the us any no, just the us. but any assets of diplomacy is just political, fostering his insistence that rusher is facing somehow and come to colonial rule against the west. and just his general confidence about the bustle field, which of course is slightly rose tinted, given he's not mentioning the enormous loss is enough to have co, but somebody who just recently got back from don't boss, i'm currently in keith. unfortunately, the situation at the front is very, but for those of us who would like to see you crying when and

a lot of his confidence, i'm afraid she actually didn't feel quite has misplaced. this is obviously good with clinton said that russia strategic nuclear forces are in a state of full readiness. and he mentioned new generation hypersonic weapons. so you mentioned his self confidence to what extent does all of this take things to the next level of trust? i didn't think it does take you to the next level up front. i think we're still on the level of, you know, rhetorical braggadocio or she will. and we get to lots of that from russia. this is, as you referred to you, and your 1st question, this is, this is nobody's fast radio, in terms of russians, nuclear threats, when russia, if russia what to push its nuclear weapons into an actual, stationed readiness for use. there were many, many signals that would come and you know, many west and governments would be aware of that. so we have to be careful to separate what region says, which is obviously aimed at based

a domestic audience. drawing up support for war that has gone on well today, 2 years longer than originally planned. and of course, frightening the west and in particular sending a message to those. the escalation is, in particular in washington dc, who understandably have a very great fear of nuclear escalation. he's playing on the stairs. the person dismissed washington's recent claims that russia was considering pushing nuclear weapons into space. he said that they will, unsubstantiated allegations, he describes of his ravings. how would you assess that? i'm not really in a position to assess the, the rushes capacity in space, but i do find it rather cheeky of him to dismiss anybody after 5 to one minute on. so you are slow off the wires in the origins of cuban re, i find it quite cheeky of him to dismiss anything. can anybody else say, is ravings. all right, well we'll have to leave it there, but thank you so much for that analysis. james mickland from king's college loans

and thanks for speaking to us. and here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world a new little made because they've been sworn in to pack as tom's parliament as the 1st time the national assembly has met since and election 3 weeks ago that was mont, by allegations a vote reading the new government is facing an economic crisis and security concerns. a permanent position politician has been killed in the central african nation of tried the country's state prosecute. so says yeah, yeah, deal o died on wednesday during an army, a sold on his policies. headquarters is being unrest and try to head of a presidential election set for may and june a 2 day public transport strike has taken place. and a number of chem and cities, including here in the capitol balance, workers have work. so the jo ball tents, collective bargaining talks take place as a pay and conditions. gemini is being hit by

a series of transportation strikes in recent weeks. of the health ministry and gaza, which is controlled by hama, says the death toll since the status of the war has now taught. so as he 1000 people, the ministry says more than 100 people were killed on thursday while they were wasting fishing, monetary in age and gone to see many of the more than 700 wounded were rushed to hospital is really media, say an initial military pro found that is really sold just did open fire on the crowd leaving. they posed a threat dw, as tanya fema joins us now for move from jerusalem. tonya, what more do we know about these goals and those who were apparently killed while wasting for aid on says they a very devastating scenes that bird just described by the eye witnesses, but also conflicting reports on what happened,

especially when it comes to the timeline. now we understand that was an age conway conway, with goods coming from the south to the north on the coast road. that's along, you know, the, the, the coastal line of casa, going into a news and gauze are passing a, a sort of check point there of the, is really military, no eye witness. and a said in device service that you know, and you, you could also see it on uh, footage that was released by the it's really military that hundreds of people seem to approach those trucks. so trying to get a to this, a trying to get to the food a to the goods that is on these are on the trucks. now i would say there was shooting and balls and the people were in panic running. also the trucks were trying to get way and there was a panic that happening, and that's why the house ministry in garza said that over

a 100 people were killed and several 100 injured. and this incident now the, i to f has a different account of, of what has happened there. and, and can you remind us what these really military is saying about that? so yeah, they're saying basically in the statement they're released early on. they say also this, the incident is still under investigation there. we're saying that in the 1st incident, and that's why they released this footage, as they say is, you know, their people were swimming towards these trucks and there was a panic. there was a stampede of basically and then they're talking about another incident that happened not far away from the area where they say that the military responded was nice. why as they felt threatened. so the incident is still under investigation. we also heard from a government's books person, he put uh, you know,

the a numbers that the house ministry, and garza put out the in question and he described it as a tragedy. but of course, we should not forget and we have been hearing from 8 organization, some of the united nations in the past days. especially warning of this extremely dire situation is especially in northern goals are because they have difficulties to reach cause and you see on these pictures and coming out to a desperately a people are trying to get the need tanya claim and jerusalem. tanya, thank you very much. for that update now farm is have been protesting for weeks against the policies and countries across europe. and some of the biggest process of being in poland. west palm is also angry about cheapest food imports from neighboring ukraine. of the issue has been straining relations between the 2 countries, which have been closed upon as since russia's invasion of ukraine polish authorities

have even to, to use russia of influencing the found the protests. the don't use, christine, when blood reports now from poland. we're in 3, it's cool that it's sky 60 can on which is outside of also people from this region like to think of it as your biggest fortune mateusz diversity is family has been growing apples here for a century who we get all the different overboard variety of apples like gala golden, delicious, or something that businesses test these days. and mateusz is unhappy about e u roles aimed as addressing climate change and the cheaper agricultural impulse from ukraine that are coming into the polish market. nicholas case, i don't mean is it polish pharma speaking for myself, but it comes to the green d a in the oldest book received the actions of the european official. i'm certainly concerned and could even say more then concerned with the bodies it was number of

uses and the these issues has been growing in poland. it's seen from is blocked traffic from ukraine, that the board is. and this week, they staged this big demonstration and also by so we went up our main point of this to try and stop the import of food products from ukraine. this is the 1st and the most important point. unfortunately, the government doesn't want to talk to us. that's why we came to or so we want to show the power of the polish farmers, because the farming community has been mobilizing online mutations on facebook. groups with other farm is in his region and beyond. but the government says it is on into it as a possible russian infiltration in the process through social media, your social kilometers, i'm sure that protein and as people are reactive in europe, and they take advantage of such protests. so i know it's enough to take your phone and start reading comments from the federal home ex, with a facebook on facebook,

even on my own phone. see how many comments i made to the point by the fake accounts. i'm going to run this use in sort of months if the site is gone. independent of service, also concerned with russian propaganda doesn't know we're conscious pulling fluid is they are, is facing our novices, our social media, our public discussions and public debate, looking into it rather co statements statements with play with our emotions. well thursdays are investigating some anti ukraine and pro russia slogans that have been spotted and recent demonstrations. but tell you save those on, not his way to farm is not there for no i didn't post it on. you certainly know polish pharma who cares, as i believe, is it over that they're going here? benjamin will make you mine said directly attacked a lot. ukraine and support team i think we own

the best for you to know. uh okay, not just did i own a patina. poland has been one of the few cranes biggest back is in the us, but the issue with the farm is, is causing tensions between keys and also a database. christy manuel who falls that report told us more about the suspected russian influence on these farmers demonstrations. old ortiz here in poland or convince that russian trolls has infiltrated social media feeding. this information to, to farm is as the official toby, the deputy agricultural minister, they've observed your allstate accounts on the platforms, facebook, and it's, these accounts are disseminating as sort of conspiracy theories. this information specifically targeted at farm is, who are protesting. there has been some incidents at demonstrations. one in particular is being investigated with a fall, but had a post on his track to explicitly encouraging the russian president vladimir putin

to finish ukraine. this raised along here in poland, that particular incidents and other related ones are being investigated. so there is absolutely no doubt on the part of polish will forward, sees that russian influence has made its way into these protests. hence, some of the stream is views that some form is expressing at these demonstrations for statement let reporting that now last month for the w investigation revealed widespread human rights abuses at what are being called, scam factories on the me, and mont, tight border. thousands of human trafficking victims a trap to launch compounds with a false to take part in online crypto currency scans. the target people in europe, the us, i'm trying, i know if they refuse that, tortured allegedly, or sold to other factories. now, china thailand, i'm in law,

have rescued more than 1000 people. to get more information on this, i'm joined now in the studio by uni a by a, a report that indeed the use investigative team you, you're welcome to the c. yes. and can you tell a small festival about what's going on at the border between me and montana and right now? so what we know so far, what's happening at the moment is set of, of thousands of victims of several skim components where recently released in my body. so and most of them are coming out of take part. so that's the scam component you just saw in the report and be investigated today. the 1st 150 chinese victims were transferred from me and my to thailand. we obtained images with buses where we see where they are going to the friendship, which in most thought and then buses waiting and time, and transporting them directly to the mesa at the airport with sweet plays today,

a free plans from china waiting for them and printing them directly to china, which we also confirmed by flight flight data and these kind of hand of us i happening in the next 2 days more and more. okay. and i just wanted to clarify, so we're talking about scam factories here. so these are places where people of force to, to, to get on the phone and trick people into doing something they don't want to do. can you just find exactly. so why we also calling them victims this because these people were forced to do these trucks being traffic into these components in me and my in other countries. and they have been trained and forced to reach out to people in your, in the us, in china to beat up a relationship and then to persuade them to invest mostly, encrypt the cone, see fake websites, and then they're leaving them with. and the people lost a lot of money, which was up to quite

a big picture really. mm hm. okay. and why now, why are all of these rescues happening now? so it's, it's the 1st coordinated release between the officials for me and my thailand in china, in this specific region. but it also follows i clicked on that recently happened in the northern part of me and much on state. and it's their criminal. it's have been arrested, international pressure is increasing on these countries and more media reporting about it. so what do we know from people involved? it's out of fear of silver compound secrete without getting any ransom to release more and more victims from these compounds. and what is going to happen to these victims? i mean, as a now going to be able to, for the are they going to be free to go back to their own countries or what does the future hold? i mean, that would be nice, but unfortunately it's not going to happen like this. so usually once you're in thailand, you have to go um, hold on process. i'd like you can decide to, to,

to undergo a so called victim identification process. or you will be charged with immigration violation for over staying your visa. in this case, it's interesting that the, the, the chinese victims are being transported directly to the airport, which we heard is due to not enough resources was tight integration at tight integration. and so the question is, what would happen to the chinese victims in china, and we know or be heard that on to, to fair regulations. they've ab chops with nico, the crossing the border, and scamming, and no one would get any hasty treatment or any support in the country and to receive now the release of, of so many victims at once. they have thousands of victims to kept in these components and me on my right, usually at via from dw is investigative say. and thanks so much for shedding light on the story for us. and with that you are up to date. and so we have time full

focus on your is up next. i my new coups mckinnon in berlin, and i'll be back at the top of the next hour. thanks for the

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