what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is on authentic, staring, dramatic development, only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical time. time to sit down and talk with the headline stories this hour. at least 6 children are killed in heavy fighting in northwest syria. president biden hales this deal and bravery of american commandos naming. they killed the leader of islamic states at the same time in the same location. russia shut down the moscow office of joy chic vela day after germany's media regulator, a bomb dar, tea sister channel r t d and in the u. k,

the government left that price count on energy and it bid to stimulate the sector, leaving consumers to bear the brunt of the cost down for years. so fuel hub with across the globe, i run the clock. this is our t great to have your company today. my name's you know, me, the pentagon has acknowledged out at least 3 civilians were killed in a raid on terrorists in north west syria. while unicef has said at least 6 children died in what appears to be the same incident. earlier president joe biden healed a successful operation targeting the leader of islamic state, r t senior corresponded murat gas div, told me more earlier. half a dozen children killed as well as 4 woman locals have described these speech

battle that took place at one a. m. just off the midnight syrian thought, and that lasted for hours in which presumably these half a dozen children as well as for women, were killed as well as the leader of isis. w. bohemia. i she, me, i crazy. she the 2nd lead the vices after the death valley baghdad in 2019, also the result of an american operation strike against him. during that episode, also, a number of children were killed, but in this instance, locals, the scribe, how helicopters hovered in the air for hours. soon as i left them, there were helicopters flying at low altitude, about 4 or 5 aircraft. then we saw soldiers landing, the soldiers targeted a house near where i live it. the house was surrounded. they spoke through loud speakers, telling people to surrender or the house would be destroyed. then the fighting started near or inside the house, and after about an hour, the helicopter carried out 4 or 5 machine gun attacks on the house. 11 came on

a lawyer preparing to go to sleep. and suddenly we heard wind and the sound of helicopters on my end went out to see what was going on. she found the sky totally red. they asked us through the loudspeakers to go out. we didn't at 1st, then we went out, they searched us and handcuffed my father. they asked for our names and what we knew about our neighbor. we said we don't know anything. they asked us to move to the neighboring house and started rating hours. and then the united states says that he designated a suicide vest, while together with members of his family, we still have no verified information as to how will these children perish? these, the civilians, as well as women, whether it was american miss aus 5 by helicopters. small arms far by us special forces on the ground, or indeed, these suicide vest. what we know is that these casualties have occurred. multiple sources of said this, including unicef. unicef confirms that at least 6 children were killed and one girl

was badly injured over night in the border town of at my, in the north west of syria due to heavy violence. all of this happened in serious it live province, which is where i will barker baghdad. the founder of isis was killed in 2019 a similar us rate. again, a number of children killed, died in that grade also, but he was killed in italy province, which is ruled by pro turkish rebels. many islamists among them indeed the dominant faction there is h. cecil news for a front, which is seen as a branch of al qaeda in syria, the town of acme, where the, the, the 2nd lead of eyes this was killed is just 2 kilometers away from the turkish border. where the founder of isis was killed was just 5 kilometers from the, from the turkish border. and despite these are reports of civilian casualties, we have heard a president biden tell audiences about the strike, which he called,

precise or forces carried out the operation with their signature preparation of precision. and i directed to partners fast to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. this information about civilian casualties, while tragic comes at that, especially bad time for, for barden who's administration has been rattled by, by calls for resignations, as well as accountability following the, the deadly drone strike in afghanistan, in kabul in august when the united states was pulling out evacuated from afghanistan, ne, a stripe that killed almost a dozen civilian 7 children. among them there had been colds again for resignations, in full accountability. and just a week ago, lloyd austin, the secret of defense, had, are ruled, had issued a call for the pentagon to form rules to do more, to prevent collateral damage or will civilian casualties. because he says that

doesn't represent the values of the united states or, or it's paddlers. and he called in the pentagon to come up with concrete measures on how via the pentagon should conduct war, whilst minimizing civilian casualties are. we spoke with julia tumor, the unicef advocacy and communications chief in the middle east. she told her said so far on clear how those 6 children died in north west syria. but the surgeon fighting is taking a deadly til it is very hard to confirm the exact circumstances or the reason behind the fact that 6 children the case and one girl fixed children were killed. one girl was injured due to the time the violence that we witnessed the overnight in a, in the northwest of syria, perhaps staying on escalation and violence in that area on what this means is that

children pay 1st and they pay most. and if we compare the number of casualties of children during the month of january in comparison to say, december last year, the number is so it's in the higher. and this has been the case since the beginning of the year. and this has got to stop children continue to be the 1st and most to pay in this 11 year long conflict. at least 90 percent of the theory of population lives in poverty and start to in comparison to how it used to be before the war began. 11 years ago, the war house car, i've got to come to an end that come conflicts have got to stop. we call an all sides and all parties to the conflict in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children and its future even if the war stops today. the picture is so

bleak for. busy millions and millions of people among the many children. okay, know the story to bring you today. the russian foreign ministry has published a list of retaliatory measures against germany. it comes a day after the german media regulator blocked her sister channel r t d. my colleague, re sushi, discuss the latest developments with our t correspondence. charlotte dubin ski on 1st don quarter deutsch. avella, its offices are going to be closed throughout russia. its journalists are going to have their press accreditations taken away, and all of their russian language broadcasts are going to be taken off the air. now, darcia bella has since responded to this, they put out a media statement. they said that they're not going to take any action until they get official confirmation from moscow of these measures. and when they do, they are going to appeal them. but this isn't where the rushes retaliation stops. actually a blacklist is being set up of german government officials,

media regulators, basically anyone who is possibly involved in this enormous censorship campaign of r t d. russia is drawing up a list of representatives of state and public structures in germany involved in restricting the broadcast of r t d, and putting pressure on the russian media outlet, who will be denied entry to the russian federation. now this development comes just one day after germany's top media regulator. rules that are tv must stop all of its broadcast. that means via satellite via internet, social media, basically everywhere. the required media lo license was not available. the organization and distribution of the tv program via a live stream on the internet via mobile and smart tv parking news and via satellite must therefore be discontinued. of course, r t d e can still appeal this decision, but this is just one episode in a drawn out pressure campaign aimed at obstructing r t from broadcasting in germany. i mean,

the german government says it does. it's not playing a part in this campaign, but banks have not been doing business with our channel. and germany's top regulator seems unwilling to compromise on this issue. and this is all the while as r t has a legal broadcasting license in the european union. there's generally absolutely no broadcasting happening from berlin at all r t d e. the tv channel is oh, broadcasting right here from pasco, via a license that was obtained with absolutely all according european rules and regulations, according to the european convention on transferred to your television. and we are free to broadcast via that license in the 30 plus territory across europe. now, going back over the past several months, what we mean by pressure campaign, of course, is for example, the fact that our tv set up an account on youtube and it was almost immediately taken down by the platform when it started attempting to broadcast over satellite the signal was so poor that people weren't able to tune in. and on top of that,

german government officials have described r t v as a quote, irritant. so it's not too difficult to imagine that these setbacks could have been set up on purpose to stop our tv from being successful in germany. and this is something that even the russian president vladimir putin has commented on before. i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics. they're using se r t d cons operate, they're infringing on freedom of speech and that's very bad. now, like i said before, russia's foreign ministry takes this violation of freedom of the press very seriously. and it says this is only the 1st stage of retaliation that it's willing to dish out. so you know, we could see couple of things play out in the future. perhaps a back and forth between german and russian media authorities, or maybe everyone will come to a compromise a lot to see, you know, or on, as you say, on t t e taking flat from the german authorities. but it's not just confined to germany over to france. stunning by live in paris,

charlotte dubin ski. apparently our t. frogs is also in the cross charlotte, arte from seas in the cross has of the audio visual and digital communications regulator hearing from stacy's all come now. this was something that was put out in a magazine article that magazines called challenges hearing, france, and in it, it alleges that all come is about to start looking at how r t phones are assist. the channel here has treated several subjects since it started broadcasting. the subjects in the yellow, vast protests, also stories from syria and stories from central africa, all pretty sensitive topics in the country at the moment. now they have any official confirmation from all come about this. in fact, they checked out their website on tuesday afternoon. nothing on that even called the press office and they didn't have anything to say about that notification in

the magazine challenges, all the fonts itself says it hasn't received a notification that this is about to happen. but we have had reaction to that from the head of the channel. according to the challenges website, the french media regulator, all com has opened a probe into our tea, france. perfect timing right off to the situation with our tv. if it is confirmed that the regulator is investigating sensitive topics concerning associations, let's welcome a new world of censorship. while she went on to refute that there have been complaints against the channel and said that there was one issue that was dealt with by the csc, which is the old regulator. and that was to do over an issue for miss translation of something from syria, which was a genuine mistake and since been resolved. now we have reached out to all come, but we have not yet received a response. as soon as we get, we are of course, bring that she here on auto international. but what is interesting is this

a parent did get the channel comes at a very crucial time. here in france, we just 2 months now before the presidential elections take place. and we know that my call president microns party is extremely concerned about what they've described . spin foreign digital interference and misinformation head of those elections. artie france in auto international selves here, i've actually been denied entry to the elite, a polished a couple press conferences to be able to question the governmental decisions that are made. and that has been the case now for the last few years since president mac call was elected that has been flagged up as being of serious concern by the national union of journalists and proxy described. this is having a flavor of the censorship about it is clear though as we get closer and closer to that presidential election,

there are likely to be more attacks on all channels simply for doing what we do and that is questioning more. okay, some more big figures for u. k. high schools to deal with energy bills for british homes are about to search by an average of $700.00 pounds a year after the national regulator lifted a price camp. it comes mid soaring, natural gas prices right across europe. and ortiz shandy edwards dusty can pick up the story while as being described as by now pe later scam. essentially, that's the feeling of the opposition in response to the government. so cool package of support that it's offering to people to try and alleviate the heavy pressures of this absolute mammoth hike in energy price cap. now just to run you through the thick is then what we're seeing is the energy price will rise by 54 percent in april to just shy of 2000 pounds. now tens of millions of households and we'll face

paying $693.00 pounds more. every single year, which is double about of last year. so it's a huge, huge height with absolute huge consequences. but the government says it's stepping in, it recognizes it needed to do so. and offering this package of support. what we can do is take this thing out of a significant points shop for millions of families by making sure that increase in prices is smaller initially, and spread over a longer period without government intention. the increase in the price tap would leave the average household having to find an extra $693.00 pounds. the accident i'm announcing today will provide to the vast majority of household just over half of that amount. well, versus your next thing to reprise the role of being the rescuer of the nation coming forward with a package of support. however, it's all as generous as it may seem. so to break it down, it's 2 tid. first off,

they'll be a $200.00 pound discount. however, that's not exactly a freebie, it's a loan. i will have to be repaid in 40 pounds installments over 5 years, so that money could just simply accumulate for people that are already struggling. then they'll be a rebate and tax and council tax. so that's just a $150.00 pounds. plus risha sudak fell short of scrapping b a to many people were hoping he was going to do that because if you take that lump sum that 2000 and, and a 100 pounds of v a t. so that could be a significant amount of money. it could have really helped. now all of this has gone down like a lead balloon. many people are highly, highly critical, especially looking at people that are struggling to make ends meet. the chancellor has offered cold comfort to families in poverty to all ready rationing what they can spend on essential, such as heating and food. this support will not get people through the next few months and it will not protect those most at risk of hardship. a day after the

leveling up fanfare, the government's piecemeal measures won't protect low income families, either now or in the future. surging energy prices are only the start of the crisis . to help announced for these families today won't be enough. we're going to see more children going hungry as parents struggle to make ends meet. while the government says this is beyond party politics blames the pandemic, but also blames the global search and demand. 1 hiking up all of these gas prices, but analysts, they're quite worried that this could actually happen again. come the autumn and that the government could have halted all of this. instead, the prioritizing profits over living standards. now today is really from bad to worse because the bank of england are now raising interest rates from 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent, which just add to this cost of living sweet. now everybody's going to be affected by the announcement earlier today. we're going to see high middle income families

taking a quite a hit, but of course, as those low income families are going to be hit the hardest for them. they're already in a di. lemme thinking about eating or heating. but with this announcement, it seems like they might not be able to do either. canada, as prime minister, her said there are no plans to call up the military to disperse the truckers protest over mandatory vaccination. it comes as the capital city also was chief of police suggested bringing in the army. one has to be there very cautious before deploying military. as of now, there have been no requests and, and that is not in the cards for will they truck our protest coin, the freedom convoy movement, broad parts of all, to several other regions to a standstill. the border crossing with the u. s. was one of the main focuses because of the rules for quarantine. upon return from working in america,

the truckers are slamming government demands to be fully vaccinated in order to work their standing firm. they say they will job less. the government makes truck drivers of the blood life. they are the lifeline to an economy. when our existing politicians have failed miserably and divided nations and countries, it to us versus them. like just if you go to the truck driver, it goes that's supposed took the 1st step down the road in which so many people have fallen. they've done something that politicians can only dream of. and that's united country and united people. you stop a truck driver. you stop the right meanwhile, the go fund me website has blocked donations to the driver's citing legal issues. so far the campaign has raised around $10000000.00 canadian dollars for the convoy

. facebook has also made a move. removing a page promoting the truckers campaign critics and slump that of censorship at its finest. the full, i'm delighted to welcome live onto the program. connie cody canadian, conservative party member on community africa colleague, thanks very much for taking the time today. the mainstream media has been one of the biggest critics of the protest and of course the ruling government have made their feelings clear as well. are you fearful where this could lead for the truckers if the powers that be are all against them? i think that in canada this one thing have to be really grateful for is democracy still exist here and we have thought truckers have a lot of support and i know that our whole country wants unity and a peaceful resolution to all of this. so i think that eventually the ones at the

top will get together and have a discussion, and that's when the things will end when i read the articles about them though in canada and, and to large degree in the u. s, there's a lot of opposition to what they're trying to do. it seems as if people forget the truckers are one of the most important people during upon demik without them food medicine except for it doesn't get there are so should there are there worries there. fears not be listened to more closely her. oh, they definitely should be less than 2 am. trucking is, are transportation, like you said, for everything and, you know, for 2 years they provide at all the services, everything that we have me, char groceries, our shelves were stopped and that's a very important function. and we can't just like it even goes beyond the truck drives that feeds the jobs for the grocery stores, the clerks to make sure that all the homes and the people have money coming in to support themselves during the summer and amec. there's a lot of people there, it's struggling financially and by shutting down more and more people and our

businesses are shutting down. we're having to have an economic decline which is very critical for our country. so we have to move forward the in terms of the truckers finances as well that around i think $10000000.00 canadian dollars has essentially been frozen by the go fun, me page, a lot of money coming in, not just in canada, u. s. and across the world to support their calls. do you think that was a decision made outside that company has, has political pressure forced it? well, i do know that the go find me is going to be, has been invited to the house of commons to discuss things. and the convoy have their lawyers and accounts looking at everything. so i'm sure like i can't speak on their behalf, but that things should be or is, is done on the up and up and everything should be okay with it. what about facebook, though? they've used their editorial muscle to try and disrupt the movement. how much of a challenge has up been as a huge challenge? there's a lot of censorship that's going on. they seem to want to have one narrative. and

if you are a question that narrative or disagree with that narrative, or you just have a difference of opinion, you're shut down currently, right now they have uh, turned off the disabled, the facebook page for the convoy. and not only that, but the administrators i have been in contact with and they turned off their personal pages. they're not able to access their personal facebook pages and some of these amends user facebook for business purposes. and they have personal information, photographs that they can't access, and facebook will not allow them to be up and running and says it uses their addresses. and there are serial numbers on their phones. they're unable to create a new account to move forward on facebook with their business culture. you've been talking to the organizers, people involved in the convent, what's their mood after days? all this on, on constant opposition from the media, from government. you know,

i'm sure the get pressure from, from maybe members of their family. what's the mood or there are the going to continue doing this is their real resolve. they are definitely going to continue it . so they didn't move into this with a faint heart. they knew that was going to be a long along stand and to be heard and i would think that so many truckers have traveled to like 1000 miles to have their voices heard. and instead of being heard, we have a prime minister that is not speaking to them. and instead of saying a lot of hateful, discriminatory comments about these truckers and that just for the device and segregates community and our country. and at this point, the whole purpose of the convoy is to move forward united country and make sure that we have a resolution that is successful so that we can actually continue. ok, well we'll continue to to keep a close eye on development. so we have been doing for the last number of days, connie, thank you for your time today. connie cody conservative,

counted of record community advocate speaking to us from canada to that. thank you . thousands of russian soldiers are non beller roost for a large scale military exercise. the 2 nations are moving to bolster their alliance amid tensions with nato and ukraine. ortiz constantine ross cough is in the thick of the action the all the military maneuvers invalid roots are in full swing. and as you can probably see behind my back, there is a tank column that is rolling towards its firing positions. now elsewhere on this training ground, which is by the way, located next to the bell ring college board or we're going to see a be a motorized insurance for unit parent server. so all in all there's going to be

a pretty intense, an action packed day. both for rushes and valid versus military. now, this is a com, but readiness path. i've enjoyed russia bell, russian task force. the military said their main goal here is to see how quickly they can deploy combat units, valid routes, and secure key infrastructure as well as the valet versus land border and air space . it's reported that 12 russian su, 35 fire jazz long with a number of air defense complexes, including at 400 triumph have been sent to valerie from russia to support these exercises. now the number of troops involved doesn't require the 2 countries to notify our nations that russian defense minister showing you. however, russia did let everyone know including native members about the exercises in advance as a gesture of good will minister sugars visit valor is today. he has already had a meeting with his bell russian counterpart, as well as the country president for both rated people the military cooperation.

in salisbury, as you rightly noted, the 1st stage, which consisted of the transfer of large groups of troops with equipment over a distance of almost 10000 kilometers, is coming to an end. we have more than 20 events ahead of us this year, including the 2022 exercises where a large group from the armed forces of bella routes will participate. the joint training centers or your idea. we implemented it so that we could fly to there the car, the borders together, you know, searching but still it is very important for us that our armed forces not only see the equipment in the pictures, but also learn how to use it together with their russian brothers, this is very important for us because we plan to purchase all the equipment that will be here. this is very important for us, not only for us, but for the union state due to the way both nato and ukraine are behaving and so on . ah, happening here. the preparation for large scale it's called

a lot of money to test it out. a lot of hysteria in the western media recently with some album instead of waiting that russian troops are being deployed to bella ruth in order to put pressure on ukraine's northern border. now we know that the families of us diplomatic staff have been told, evacuated bella roost with nato chief john stockton burg, claiming about russia is pursuing a military build up and beller is under the disguise of a natural size. well, both rushes and valley versus military can that have rate are rated that these exercises as well as the upcoming allied resolved. wargames are strictly defensive and shouldn't be considered out of the threat to anyone. as russia and valerie have maintained close military ties for decades with joint exercise like this health annually. but this year, as it happened, they coincident with allegations coming mainly from american and native officials that russia is molding and encouraging and to ukraine. now the most active part of

the exercises between russia and valor versus expected from february 10th, defax, early 20th. that's when the drills are going to be held across 5 training facilities and for air basis. invalid bruce punctuating the message of the united font of moscow in minsk in troubling ties. now, not many industries saw growth during the past 2 years. one that did is private mercenary groups, especially those who use child soldiers. next we look at the shocking links between the 2 and our short doc. it begins syndrome ah, poor bieber over ukraine continues unabated with the u. s. and you pay, taking the lead. however, not all made from members on board, even ukraine is attempting to dampen expectations of it on conflict with russia.

will washington in london.