think for we dare to ask in ah, 19 people die and 63 others are injured in a huge place that a high rise in new york apartment block 9 children are among the dead ortiz correspondence is that the scene so i'm walking around here near where this fire happened this building behind me that you can see that it just been totally burned out. 19 people dead, 9 of them children. in our news review of thousands of suspected terrorists have been detained, uncovered, gone after protests, over fuel prices descended into deadly violence. with gunfire in the streets, authorities say many foreigners are among those arrested. this for example, was food shop left to side for a few bro couldn't gadget,

mayhem looting, tremendous economic damage. r t reports from the riot stricken commercial capital comics. done a anger up in europe over new code restrictions. there is unrest in germany and austria with protesters in paris, facing baton and tear gas with broadcasting lab direct from our studios in moscow. recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program. this is our international are now at least 1000 people have died in a huge place at a high rise bronx apartment block in new york city. 9 children are among the dead. 63. others were injured with 13 remaining in a critical condition in the hospital, new york mayor eric adams talked of the tremendous suffering the fire had brought to the city. this is a horrific of writhing,

painful moment for the city of new york. and the impact of this fire is going to really bring a level of just pain and despair in all city. now, art is count. mauppin gave us details from the scene. so i'm walking around here near where this fire happened. this, this building behind me that you can see that it's just been totally burned out. 19 people, dad, 9 of them children. and this is, this is a serious situation. we have the mayor of new york city, eric adams, calling this the most serious fire in modern new york city history. now there was a huge mobilization of the new york city fire department over 200 firefighters were mobilized. as you can see, this is a fire truck here behind me, you know, and they're still on the scene. at this point we have folks in hazmat suit in front

of the building. we have like kind of immobilization of people in hazmat suits to clean out the wreckage. that has happened. it's a very serious situation. 19 people are dead. 13 remain in critical condition. the new york city police department is on the scene. questions are being asked. this is the 2nd fire that we've seen just this week, and there was a very serious fire that happened on saturday as well. quite, quite a scene here. still a lot of law enforcement on the seeing a lot of fire department officials, a lot of media here to cover this. the whole community is kind of shocked to see what has happened here at the blaze has been put out at this point. but still a lot of serious questions are being asked a very serious fire that happened. switching gears to the week's top stories now and one headline dominated dozens of people have been killed during a week of riots in context on authority. say that they have rounded up about $6000.00 people on terrorism charges and claimed that there are many foreigners among them. here's how that country started 2022.

ah, ah. the group of unidentified people attacked the mir tv and radio studios and l much. the attackers destroyed the tv production complex and workplaces of journalists. dealing

with the protesters, ransacked banks and shops. now everything is broken, the money was taken the window smashed, military helmets are lying on the ground. there's lots of rubbish. ah cassock stan will complete it. anti terrorist operation will destroy those who do not surrender. i have given the order to open fire and kill terrorists without warning. well, peacekeepers from the multinational. c, s t o military alliance are currently in the cars like city of bike, nor is the location of the cosmic jerome, where russia launches rockets to the international space station. local authorities

say the city is secure, but for the time being the terrorist threat level has been stepped up. now elsewhere, sweeping anti terrorism operation is underway in cars exams, commercial capital, and the largest city almost. it has been the hardest hit in recent days with writers, including stores and setting fire to government buildings, many of them carrying firearms yesterday to damage is more than $200000000.00. dozens of people including 3 children and at least 16 police officers have been killed, disclaimed some of the police were even beheaded with authorities. stressing groups of writers were highly organized and used. 2 way radios president kind of responded with an order to shoot suspected terrorists off site video has now been circulating on line of men from cuter guest on claims. he was paid to come to cause exam to join the riots. security forces, believe he is a terrorist. here's the footage. it'll slow me know, some this on january 1st. some strangers called me and offered to participate in

the rally over $200.00 since i'm unemployed. in kurdistan. they bought my plane ticket on january 2nd, i flew to my t and i was brought to an apartment where there were also citizens of tickets and was based on there were about 10 people. i didn't understand what they were talking about when the relative began. i got scared, returned to my apartment, spend the night, and the next day i decided to go home and i was detained by the military. also. meanwhile, relatives, friends and colleagues have identified the man in the video as b. crum russo, who now a kid is jazz musician reclaiming. he's being tortured and don't know his whereabouts . authorities in his home country have said that he is not a terrorist and have sent a protest note to the cause like empathy was reportedly invited to give a concert in alma t before the protest broke out. a crowd gathered at the embassy in the care is done . capital. bish kept demanding his really because it's done is central asia as the

biggest republic and shares long borders with russia and china. the protests have been driven by long simmering resentment over disparities in wealth with the most violent classes are opting in. almighty. in the south east of the country. reporting from there is our corresponding garcia with the details of the destruction that has been unleashed. it had been said to say that the peaceful protests in kazakhstan caused all that much economic damage. it, it was of the peaceful protests. it was the riots the mayhem and the looting afterwards. that of a scant days has caused more than $200000000.00 in damage to the country. mostly here in the city of amity and those are preliminary estimates. the real damage is expected to be much, much more. kazakhstan has said repeatedly that it believes this wasn't spontaneous, it was organized, looting with more systematically hitting shopping centers and businesses at the

shopping center, c. c, t, v. cameras court, the may him in this shopping center and elsewhere. looters, of course, went for easiest pickings. first that his electronic shops, jewelry stores, as well as a t m. this, for example, was a food shop. not a lot left aside from a few broken gadgets. shelves were cleared in minutes. security could do nothing but watch and police were engaged in fatal fire fights with armed gangs elsewhere. and the looters went to town. there's very little doubt that this was plaid because the people that came here and did this brought the right equipment. it takes a lot to get into cash machines, but they manage to do. it's taking the cash cassette. push the stucco bullshit. well, i don't want this to be happening. of course it was scary. we stayed home. almost

these were not all people. we were all resting after the new year's celebrations. some foreigners were doing all this is we were waking up. people just went out to the square to peacefully protest and then left, and then it all erupt. it got there. i heard some kind of running around voices, so i looked out and most likely they knocked out the doors of some shops. there are many electronic stores on the street level, and then they got into the car and left. there was no police which was a lot of when they destroyed everything, people were in danger of being killed. it was scary. it's good that we live far away. it didn't reach us. everything was awful, that there is no street lighting yet. and people are not turning on the lights in their homes. the people are afraid. there were different people on the streets. at 1st the protests were peaceful. this is there still worse gazette? what can a pensioner say? i'm sitting at home. i'm afraid to go out. good, it's good that we have peacekeepers now. it was

a terrifying time for civilians. many hidden their homes turning off the lights to avoid attention as gags lay waste to the city of alma t. there was nothing they could do. no, when they could call for help, until the peacekeepers came. ah mm mm. mm mm mm. mm mm. mm. mm. mm mm. mm. mm. of the now secure airports of almighty evacuations are underway. russians and other nationals that being evacuated abroad, charter flights and military cargo planes. what they went through can only be described as an ordeal thrash my book, and yet it was scary. of course,

there was no informational communications. russia helped me along so, but i'll get back to paris. i have to explain that how bad the situation here is. they don't report it on the news. france is not organizing anything yet. i do not think, as they say in france, that it is bad that the russians have arrived. this is assistance to the country, the situation, and the citizens of russia. yes, more than that now it's a more or less normal situation. thank god. we were waiting for these planes to evacuate us, where stockton, with his, with face the crowd, was armed, lived in the hotel next to the square. we saw however, she was burning flash grenades were frown. so it was very scary. almost like scary because i was born here and it has seeing all the events that happened and that happening. but everything seems to be getting better. of them is the classical socrates could have put down the rights on their own. and but how long would that take? perhaps there would have been even more casualties. all and all about

a 100 people are being evacuated on this one military flood. but altogether about a 1000 people have contacted the russian culture and thus to be evacuated out of our mighty alone, just just one city and they will be evacuated over about 10 or so flood. what authorities have told us that they expect more people to contact the call to listen to request evacuation among them for a national. there's no more fighting in alma t, though occasional flights are still being reported outside. the city now begins a long process of healing for a population that truly believed. nothing like lease could happen to them. ah ah, in what could be seen as a caustic opener ahead of the crucial talks this week,

u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking has claimed vladimir putin wants to restore the old soviet union, and russia has a gun to the head of ukraine. former defense secretary leon panetta said a few years ago that what he believes drives putin is a desire to restore the old soviet union. do you agree? i think that's right. to make actual progress. it's very hard to see that happening when there's an ongoing escalation. when russia has a gun to the head of ukraine, with a 100000 troops near its borders, the possibility of doubling that on very short order. moscow and washington are currently embroiled in a diplomatic and political crisis. the u. s. accuses rush up of a build up of troops at the border of ukraine. moscow in turn, has pledged to defend the dunbar region if there is a military escalation there. some are concerned that the u. s. is trying to occur. brushes legitimate activities in the region. yes, to this is of course a reflection of the general us strategy. they have their national interest in every

country. russia can't have its national interest. but all the while the united states has its national interest all over the world. i have no doubt that the west, as in the case of but a roof will use the situation. first of all, in terms of propaganda. all right, in moscow, ahead of wednesdays talks between russia and nato says it won't succumb to pressure from washington. it follows reports of the by did ministration, is working on tough sanctions against russia. if it invades ukraine, russia will not bow to you as pressure and will not accept any concessions. the unilateral approach proposed by the u. s. a. nato can't be used as the basis for discussing security guarantees. these high level talks to avoid further escalations over ukraine are set to take place between the united states and russia on monday. but before anyone has even sat down at the negotiating table, the u. s. is already threatening big economic sanctions. biden's administration

says that russia is planning to invade ukraine, even though moscow has time and time again. it is said, it is not planning to do so. so it did sure seems interesting that the white house would say it's going into these negotiations without optimism. while it seems like it's ready to torpedo the negotiations before they even began. we are going into these meetings with a sense of realism, not a sense of optimism. we are willing to see whether or not russia comes to these talks with a spirit of seriousness. willing to discuss these issues in a concrete results oriented way. but you want to try and you will lead them cheer themselves up somehow. if you know all these talks are set to be held on the backdrop of heightening tensions with ukraine, they're also set to take place alongside a proposed treaty by russia for security guarantees between itself and nato. moscow's proposal primarily seeks to stop the for the further eastward expansion of nato into the former soviet sphere. this is something that russia said it was

guaranteed many years ago. back when the former soviet president mikhail gorbachev was in power. however, the us state department has called moscow's proposal a list of non starters and nato officials have also echoed that sentiment saying they will not outright reject any countries that are looking to join the military alliance. so with nato officials in washington, seemingly unwilling to consider russia's terms, it remains to be seen how effective these talks are going to be. former pentagon security analysts, michael maloof, says blinkin statements pave the way for moscow to be vilified by the west once again. but i think he definitely lay the groundwork for a negative approach. it. many of his allegations of follows a particular narrative that they have to maintain to show that russia remains the bad guy just, just like they blame russia now for bringing in troops into cars. it's down when it's part of a, of a general military alliance that exists there. these guys just have this problem

with russia, and they want to try and contain moscow from all, from all sides. russia has legitimate spheres of influence in that region. there's no question about it. they got russia, russian ethnic people living in those areas, the same and dom, boston, ukraine. those 2 elements are not unrelated as far as i'm concerned, because it's my belief that like we saw in ukraine in 2014, with the, with the coo from the west, instigated by the west. we're seeing the same thing and cause it's down right now. in preparation for these talks, switching gears to france now, where fierce protests erupted in major cities across the country this weekend. many saw clashes with police over mandatory vaccine passports and to other covered restrictions. thousands demonstrated nationwide with riot police,

resorting in some cases to buttons and tear gas to try and restore order. ah ah. protestors took to the streets of songs on saturday in the cities of paris. nice. and i've been on to protest against the covert pass. the seems turned violent with police using tear gas and battens against many of the protesters, a similar throwback to the scenes that we saw in late december. now this is despite the fact that on monday you had as many as 400000 people testing positive for covert in france. it comes as the french president emanuel macklin used vulgar language against people have chosen to be unvaccinated. his comments were to clyde

across the french public and across the political spectrum, and he made them as the national assembly debated a law that would c, unvaccinated people being banned from much of public life. it is expected that that law will be introduced in the coming days. this comes as massive protests against covert continue across europe. in vienna. they were fumes and a lot of noise as protest has demonstrated against the vaccination and against covert restrictions. here in germany, in the city of magda burg, thousands of people took to the streets, however, ah, that seems to line and with the police using tear gas and battens to try and

disperse the crawl, there were scenes of protests in many other cities across the country including the capital berlin at the same time, the german hotel and restaurant association has issued a statement saying that these latest restrictions are a disaster for businesses and have a negative impact, particularly on restaurants, who rely heavily on wilkins. and they have urged the government to provide urgent assistance. the deed is being guided by the latest message from the world health organization stating that although the latest variant, omi called is less severe than the previous variant of delta, particularly amongst those people who have been vaccinated in no way. can it be classified as mild? just like previous variance, omicron is hospitalized people and it is killing people. in fact, the soon army of cases is so huge and quick that it is overwhelming health systems around the world. it is expected that there will be more protests in the coming days,

as governments across europe continue to tighten restrictions and introduce mandatory vaccines to try and stop the spread of covered. when you think of green energy, you may think of solar panels or wind turbines. however, amid a fuel crisis that you now wants to include natural gas and nuclear power, that plan however, has attracted plenty of criticism with germany, calling it green washing of his troll davinsky has more in store a new year. and a new spat is brewing between new members. bickering has erupted with states split over how energy from nuclear and gas sources should be classed in the future. the you want to categorize investments in some of these projects as being green, but others argue this is essentially green washing label in nuclear energy as sustainable is wrong. this is a high risk technology. it is questionable whether this green washing will find

acceptance on the financial market at all. that we think nuclear technology is dangerous. we still think a waste issue. as a result, we expressly reject the assessment on nuclear power under the commissions proposal investment in new nuclear energy facilities should be classified as a group if they meet certain technical standards. now that's led to accusations that the commission is he destroying the credibility of the european eco label, financial investments with germany leading the charge of nations against these proposals. that could put it in direct collision, of course, with the blocks or that heavy weight. that is france, 70 percent of energy here is generated from nuclear power. so convinced is president black on that nuclear is the way forward. he's announced a 1000000000 euro investment, expanding the industry for gallant yolanda,

in order to guarantee france is energy independence to ensure our country's electricity supply and to achieve our objectives in particular carbon neutrality. in 2050 we will for the 1st time in decades, will really launch the construction of nuclear reactors in our country and continue to develop renewable energies. i'll d has the support from some austin block nations with slovak as prime minister agreeing that climate neutrality just can't be met without clear energy. but australia is furious over the plan, saying it will take the commission to court if it moves ahead with them. will examine the present draft carefully and have already commissioned illegal opinion on nuclear power in the taxonomy in these plans are implemented in this way. we will sue because atomic power is dangerous and not a solution in the fight against the climate crisis. meanwhile, germany is also coming and the pressure over its anti nuclear stance from the czech

republic. berlin has just did the closure of haul from germany's remaining nuclear power plants, as part of a plan to withdraw completely from the technology. that proc describes that as being a radical step. our government will have to work patiently and hard look for allies in europe and convince partners. finally, it also has to move forward with the construction of nuclear units and to encourage investment in other reasonable renewable sources. that is the way out of the energy crisis. the alternative is under development and poverty, and nobody wants that. all of this comes as europe is in the midst of an energy crisis, with some expert suggesting crunch will last roy the way until 2023. that move by germany, including nuclear react is also could push up prices even further. and as prices in german neil was twice as high as they could be. there is an energy crisis that the

prices of the rising rising cost means that the industry need more energy and that heating your home becomes expensive. we need cheap, stable energy to politician the run our country a lot focused on the interest of german industry in german customers. but that's the hello id, logical agenda and de paula to audiological agenda. the 1st is that they think they don't need gas because they want to do everything with the nubile. it's a kind of magic. they believe that they can do that. you can as the 2nd audiological agenda, they follow that there are hard core intro, rushing one solution to that coin. this could be the approval of the nord stream to pipeline that would supply got us directly from russia to germany. however, we've tension tie you between the you and moscow,

the green light for that project. these fall from certain, leaving the u, scrambling to find the money to pay increasing energy bills, while members remain bitterly divided over the future of energy policy. charlotte, even sky artie. paris, why that does it for me? the sour i will be back in, let's say 33 minutes with another full and fresh look at your weekly there with the search engine. ah, ah ah

ah, ah ah . with mm. welcome to well the part it's been 80 years since philosopher eric from identified 2 types of freedom. freedom from to be no one slave and freedom to to be the master of your own faith. and while we all idealized the latter achieving, the former,

the freedom from use and abuse is no small feat in this day and age, especially for africa, which has been exploited for so many centuries under various pretext. what needs to happen for the continent to truly take its deserve it place in the wild, old to discuss that i am now and join by vice president to fly beer, jewel hoard taylor. madame vice president is a great on a great privilege. glad and great pleasure. for me to talk to thank you very much for allowing us some time. thank you for this opportunity. i'm really truly grateful. now i most countries including russia have their names given to them by history. it's, it was shade by certain chain of historic events, but you represent one of the very few countries in the world that consciously chosen its own name, and they're very meaningful, as well as somewhat controversial name. liberia, the land of freedom. is that still an aspiration, or is it already a reality? well, you know, we were deliberate about the name that we chose. liberia,

the land of liberty and freedom, were the 1st country on the continent that was free. we were not colonized anyway, even though those who came to create liberia have been sleeves. but i think the freedom that there's sort of from which they have been denied for more than 400 years, definitely played into what they decided to do in the end. so it's no longer an aspiration as it relates to freedom to be the issue that we're dealing with now is economic freedom. how do we now make sure that we use the resources god has given us human natural resources to benefit and encourage our young people to take control of their destinies? we will definitely touch on the economic issues, but i have a few historical questions because i think, you know, the history of your country is fascinating and very timely in a way. i know that liberia was founded by former african american slaves on the land purchase with the help of the american colonization society,

which was an all wide group more.