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russian information attacks in the project of the chronicle of the information war with olga len, tuesday, thursday at 11:40 a.m. and friday at 1:00 p.m. on the espresso i iryna tv channel blacksmith, mother , wife, host of the espresso tv channel. and i am also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why part of my life today is helping the armed forces of ukraine, and i am very grateful to my colleagues that they they support me in this, of course, for a tv presenter, the main job is to inform people as disgustingly as possible, as truthfully as possible, now it is mainly information about the war, the war has entered the lives of each of us and we want one victory and we strive for victory with all our might

, we donate, we buy walkie-talkies, copters, pickups, bronics and fairy tales and also has a paid net, this is a special help, this is what you do with your own hands and it will go to the front line, it will save the lives of our soldiers, each of you will save the lives of our soldiers and bring our victory closer on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, time, i am yuliya yarmolenko. i congratulate the ukrainian military . training on the american patriot air defense system should begin next week before the installation is delivered

to ukraine . at the base of ford villages in oklahoma, from 90 to 100 soldiers will undergo a training course, that is how much is needed in order to successfully use and maintain one the installation of the patriot training course should take several months, said the raider, according to american military experts, training on the patriots usually takes from 6 to 12 months, however, as petrahedron noted, washington understands the need for wartime and therefore the training will be accelerated, training on the patriots usually takes longer, but as with many things in this conflict, we understand that the longer these soldiers are outside the front line, the longer they do not take part in hostilities, so we are working with the ukrainians to speed up the time training, as for what this

training will be, it will include classroom training on patriot systems and, of course, on simulation devices before these systems are deployed on the battlefield. next week, defense secretary lloyd austin and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark miley will go to germany, where they will hold another meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine at the rammstein military base, sometimes the congress, on which future aid to ukraine also depends, officially started work at the weekend chamber of representatives did get a new speaker, the republican kevin mccarty, and the day before the legislators approved a package of rules according to which the new convocation of congressmen will work the package of rules that the house of representatives will work on in the next two years, not so much attention will be paid, but this year kevin mccurdy had

to make a number of concessions on these rules or republicans who opposed his candidacy did agree to put their vote on the map, so what are these rules and who will they benefit yuli after a long debate about who exactly will take the position of speaker of the house of representatives. yesterday evening, the house of representatives held its first session of the 118th congress and the first question to be correct was the question of the rules by which the congress will act for the next two years, usually such questions are agreed upon in the procedural room quite easily, but this time kevin, ah, kevin, the map had to be entered into these the rules, requirements that his opponents demanded, that did not allow him to the position of speaker , that they demanded to be introduced and that kevin mccarty agreed to them, in order to eventually take this position, among these conditions, in particular, there is a mention of the possibility of an easier, simplified way of dismissing the speaker from

his position, in particular, it is said that now any legislator in the house of representatives can raise the issue of the speaker's dismissal from office to a vote. i will note that such a rule was in effect earlier, but since 2019, nancy palasi, the democratic speaker, has paid representatives introduced another rule according to which it could be introduced either at the will of the majority of republicans or at the will of the majority of socrats, now one legislator can raise the issue of dismissing the speaker, in addition , the procedures for debates regarding allocations have also been added, now regarding the allocation of funds, there will be more debuts and discussions about this and this can theoretically take longer longer time also discusses the creation of new committees, in particular the creation of a committee on strategic e-competition of the united states of america, as well as a committee against the use of the federal government as a weapon, republicans say that such new rules will add more

democracy to the work of the house of representatives on what uh what democrats claim that in fact it reflects the extraordinary and unprecedented influence of extreme 20s uh conservative republicans not the majority of republicans they deserve what both the democrats and the republicans are talking about new rules. i and our colleagues talked to some of them, and the negotiations were related to the possibility of dismissing the speaker from his post, such a possibility always existed above 100 years before the speaker hat was abolished but now any member can bring it to a vote but it is good that legislators can challenge the speaker if the speaker does not do what he should do we can hold him accountable so i believe that the return of such a system - this is very good. also, now we have a more open procedure regarding appropriations, it also existed for many years, but the previous speakers, in order to

make it easier for themselves to control, removed this rule , but in the end, our greatest strength is the state treasury and we have to control spending discuss and think about them if kevin mccarthy doesn't do everything they want a small group of extremists they will initiate his removal and this fact will always hang over kevin mccarthy's head also kevin mccarthy 's problem is that he really has no clear position after storming the capitol 6 in january he first condemned donald trump and then took back his words and now he is the best friend of doneda trump being the speaker of the house of representatives means nothing if you do nothing you will be the speaker just for that to have an office and do nothing to move this country forward. i consider it a terrible waste of time. i will note that many republicans in interviews with various american media complain that in fact, in addition to these additional points of the new rules, which are known to be public, there are a lot

of agreements between the opposition, kevin karte and by kevin mccarthy himself were discussed and agreed behind closed doors and most of them don't even know what kevin mccarthy agreed to what these changes could mean in terms of passing initiatives important for ukraine, and in fact one of the main ones is that there will be more discussions about allocations and allocated money, which can delay this process, and also about more debates among the republicans themselves, but regarding the position on ukraine, they offer to listen to the comments of the republicans, the democrats, actually, they win with weapons. it's a pity, any negotiations are possible only when ukraine has good weapons and we have to make sure that the ukrainian military gets quality equipment as soon as possible, only in this case we can force the russians to sit down at the negotiating table and decide what to do next or question whether to continue

our aid to ukraine. by the way, i believe that we will continue mine, but even raising such a question - it signals to putin to continue his war, instead, the signal from the democrats and republicans should be the only one. putin needs to leave ukraine and respect the rights of sovereign states like ukraine. so we don't know what to expect in the future. but the start of the congress is very difficult. thank you to the capitol. it was already in the spring. the law on media will come into force in ukraine, which approves new the rules of the media market the adoption of the new law was accompanied by criticism both from the media community and international organizations, the critics pointed to the threat of restrictions on freedom of speech in ukraine, the authors insisted on the law's compliance with the requirements of the eu on the way to european integration, the situation was resolved my colleague oleksiy kovalenko

, discussion, the ukrainian authorities adopted a new law on media, which president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi signed on the eve of the new year, the law establishes new rules of work in the media market of ukraine as well are legally and interchangeably associated with the fulfillment of the requirements of the european union on ukraine's path to european integration, however, the reaction of the media community of media representatives and international organizations that protect media rights turned out to be ambiguous, so even in the summer after the adoption of the first version of the draft law, the committee for the protection of journalists in new york was critical of this draft law calling on the ukrainian authorities to abandon the idea of ​​a draft law that, in their opinion, violates the rights of the media ukrainian draft law on mass media seriously threatens freedom of the press in the country by strengthening state control over information at a time when citizens need it the most , legislators took into account the criticism of the journalistic community and international media organizations after the adoption of the draft law in the first reading, but the position of the committee for the protection of journalists

remains unchanged change our position remains unchanged since the summer because we have the same reservations as six months ago when we published the first statement about this and in september when we made the second statement because we believe that the draft law, which became law after the signature of president zelensky, attempts to establish stricter government control over the free dissemination of information. we have seen many attempts to do this since the time of the full-scale war, and we called on the ukrainian authorities not to try to control the free flow of information and not to limit the freedom of the media, the main criticism of the law as regards the broad powers of the state regulator of the national council on television and radio broadcasting, the regulator was granted the right to cancel the registration of media or temporarily block its significant violations for this, as well as for the procedure for electing members of the national council by the ukrainian parliament to the president, the law is also criticized by the european federation of journalists, we see two main problems from

the point of view of european legislation on media freedom, the first is the independence of national regulators. we do not think that the structure proposed by this law is the structure of a completely independent of the political regulator, the second is how the law expands the spectrum of extrajudicial sanctions against the media, this should be a guarantee for the media subjection primarily to an independent media regulator and to court decisions and not to the decisions of politicians with the government, the position of the european federation of journalists is similar to the criticism of the national union of journalists of ukraine, whose head emphasizes the politicization of the process of selecting members of the national council , although he emphasizes that the final version of the law is much softer and takes into account discussions by journalists and by media organizations, at the same time, the key aspects for today, which can be disturbing and which are basic for media legislation, are political dependence

of the national media regulator, the rights should be a basic value, as if they were the same as in democratic, developed societies, and defend themselves, that's why we want the regulator to be politically independent, deputy minister of culture and information policy of ukraine taras shevchenko explained to voice of america why, in his opinion , the strengthening of the role and powers of the media regulator is an important ukrainian regulator was , in general, mostly toothless for more than forty years of its existence, and this can be seen on the example of pro-russian tv channels with which nothing could be done because the authority of the regulator was very limited, strengthening the authority of the regulator is an absolutely necessary step, as well as ensuring the preservation and guarantee of independence, a member of the working group on writing the law on media, maxim dvorovy, emphasizes that in order to avoid

excessive political influence of the regulator on the media market, the working group added in the law, the relevant fuses are actually both authorities that nominate candidates to the national council, they actually represent them one political force in the text of the law, we tried to lay as many safeguards as possible to ensure that the political influence was leveled, in particular, this is manifested in the fact that the competitions for the appointment of members of the national council will now be visited by yakiv in the national council and in the president in the committee for the protection of journalists emphasize the inadequacy the transparency of the adoption of the law and the introduction of the draft laws that preceded it, the ministry of culture and information policy, in turn, rejects the accusations, i believe that the work was very the working group was open and

worked out the changes, but especially after the adoption in the first reading, in fact, separate meetings and discussions were held with all subjects, including the nsg, the media detector or the institute of mass information, which at the first stages also had fairly critical positions, but after approval, they said that this was a compromise version that was significantly improved after the first reading, although the head of the media detector public organization emphasized that the national council will most likely remain a presidential one stresses in the new law about the media that there are more positives than negatives, and most of the pressing questions to the law were removed in its final version, the latest version of this draft law has already removed many questions and left some. but we hope that when these provisions of the law are implemented, well, this is more or less normal could decide then the regulation of this draft law could fall under the eyes of a

dear blogger who just leads his own there to post something on facebook, was on youtube or on instagram or on tiktok, now it is not there it was removed, and it is very important, and it is also important that, without a court, only er can apply some er measures there er is an incentive only to unregistered online media on the way to the adoption of a law in the draft law contained almost 1,000 pages of amendments, including the new one, which was criticized the most regarding extrajudicial blocking of online media, now the nadrada will be able to block registered online publications only by court decision, and not registered ones only after numerous violations and only for a period of two weeks, however, and such softened the norm was criticized by representatives of the international media community there, our position is less

radical than in july, but in our opinion this law is still insufficient to guarantee media freedom in the country, we raised our concerns with the presidency of the european commission, ursol funderlyan, a few months ago, in general, the law follows the main standards, but there are certain questions. i think that if portugal or spain decided to adopt similar laws there would be a strong reaction from the european commission they would tell these countries no it does not meet our standards according to the deputy minister of culture and information policy, all reservations of the european commission were taken into account in the final version of the law, the head of the media critic emphasizes that the reaction of european partners will most likely be positive, the ukrainian and international media community, as well as media organizations, expressed different positions on the new media law, however, everyone with whom the voice of america spoke agreed with the implementation new rules of the game will depend on civil society and dialogue between the authorities and its representatives to ensure a safe and reliable media environment oleksiy kovalenko

oleksiy yasyka - voice of america washington, the day before lviv psychologist marta , together with two activists from turkey and iran, became laureates of the swedish olaf palma prize, their work was recognized for their efforts in the fight to ensure the freedom of women at a time when human rights are under threat of war, violence and oppression will be awarded award on february 1 in stockholm. meanwhile, my colleague maria brus had the opportunity to talk with marta, who has been defending women's rights for more than 20 years, about countering the most acute the problems faced by women and children during russia's full-scale war in ukraine, in particular domestic violence, rape and human trafficking, in an interview on january 9, it became known that you became the first ukrainian e-e winner of the prestigious prize for the

protection of human rights. tell me what for this prize means you. well, to be honest, it was a big surprise for me and it was very unexpected. for me, this prize is like a lens that magnifies what we actually do, how we invest now. in aid of countering the consequences of the war in the reduction of this damage, that is, for me, it is actually such a well, on the one hand, paying attention to this situation, on the other hand, for me, it is such an advance that well, i think that i will invest more and work more, what are your

main areas of work now and how did your work change at the beginning of the war? now we already have seven tributaries and we have already started to organize these tributaries there for more than six months. that is, we concentrate in each shelter, we have other women, women with children, also with certain vulnerabilities, for example we have a shelter where we mainly have women older than 75+. we also have a shelter for women with large families. that is, there are four plus children. for women with mental

disorders, it is now a very big problem to find a place for such to find a person some kind of safe place shelter eh these are women with children eh who have a disability also a lot of eh time takes counseling i provide eh psychological support to women and i work with traumatized with psychotrauma eh women who have eh experienced many eh traumas and this is also, well, a large part of my work, and if we talk about the most acute problems of those people with whom you are currently working, is sexual violence related to war, is it one of the leading problems, is it one of the problems, it is not the main problem with which i work, so what uh

after all, this is a problem with which women are asking for help because there is a lot of noise around this problem, but it is a problem with which we will work more and more and we are watching it more and more because people will understand that this trauma is it prevents me from living, it makes me want to continue living, and there will be such women who apply now, too , there are many problems with loss, experiencing loss because loved ones die , partners die, sons die. daughters also go missing as well, well, it's always in the background

it was and now it is increasing domestic violence to what extent the war may have resolved this problem or exacerbated it because it was mentioned in previous interviews that many men who return from the front also have their own injuries and this is clearly reflected in their families although we already know that domestic violence occurs in such families, but it is not yet some kind of avalanche, you know, which we expect when there will be mass demobilization, and because such experience already exists. when we had e return after 2014 from e from the east e-e ours military personnel, but now we have examples of such sad stories when

domestic violence occurs on the part of a military serviceman who does not receive adequate help and adequate rehabilitation, and here the state must also take responsibility because these are people who have lost their health did they receive mental disorders for the sake of the state and, unfortunately, very often they do not have the opportunity to receive adequate quality help, then the issue of rape by the russian army in relation to ukrainian women occupied or temporarily occupied territories released ah you mentioned that very often the victims do not want to talk about and um because of coercion forcing these people to testify and this is inhumane now it is possible

if people are given the right to testify there biological material or to testify, but uh, that this evidence uh, uh, is stored uh, there for six months or a year in a proper way, and when this injured person is ready, uh, it will be possible to decide whether he wants to testify or not then she has the right to say yes these materials you can take as evidence now, unfortunately, the interests of the state are higher than the interests of the women who suffered, and this in fact pushes many victims away from being involved in this process. if we talk about human trafficking, you mentioned that the number of cases with which there is increasing maybe you are

related or have worked, how acute is this problem in ukraine now, human trafficking always increases when vulnerability increases, we know, we understand that very often these women left without documents, without language, without acquaintances, they could meet any people on the street or at the train station picking them up is also very good that these networks of other protective organizations in europe, first of all, they became more active they started to communicate they started to create relevant informational materials for the ukrainian women in ukrainian, er, hotlines in ukrainian have started to open, it's er, well, quite good, er, response to such a

problem, it was an interview with human rights defender marta, a lot of american veteran green beret, retired, ryan hendrickson, has been helping to demine the territory of ukraine for almost a year as a special agent, ryan had experience in demining in afghanistan, so he could not stand aside after hearing how often mines take the lives of ukrainian civilians, to do something in ukraine and what are the main challenges facing sappers, iryna shynkarenko will tell you, boom, ready, i hate this sound, i imagine it in my dreams, hendrickson plays a green beret, retired in in the past he worked in the special forces unit of the us army, now in ukraine he helps clear local fields of mines left by russian troops after the retreat of the american veteran says he had the experience of eight business trips to afghanistan, so he felt the need to perform humanitarian work to help ukraine. he

created his own non-profit demining group called te povzpland. nuri has a muvel and has been traveling to ukraine and back for almost a year and collecting funds for ukraine when he came to ukraine in march-april in may, i heard a lot about children who are injured and killed by cluster bombs, landmines and the like, and it really brought back to me the pain and everything that i went through and what i saw, what they are going through. these children are mostly children. that's why i do what i do, my husband tells me that mines are found on ukrainian roads and fields, in apartments and in kitchen cupboards, ah, ukraines contaminated, we understand that ukraine is the most mine-contaminated country in the world . this is only in the liberated territories, experts say that from 10 to 30% of russian ammunition never

explodes, and this makes the liberated territories of ukraine extremely dangerous for the civilian population, sappers are primarily looking for cluster bombs and road mines, they lost several days three sappers and four more sappers 5 days ago, currently, according to official data, ukraine has been freed from hundreds of thousands of mines, the ukrainian authorities declare that the demining process will continue for at least 7 years after the end of the war. therefore, the main priority for sappers like henrikson is to create a safe environment. for civilians, the verb so i wake up. in the morning, we get into the car to go to kherson and connect with our unit further on. everything depends on the mission and the weather. if it's warmer there, there may be rain or something else, but if it's warmer, we can dig. they are also trying to help the state