water, what were they fighting for? nobody father sounds like they, contractors i with at least 6 children are killed in heavy fighting in northwest syria. what president biden hales, the skill and bravery of american commandos, claiming they killed the leader of islamic states at the same time in the same location. russia shuts down the moscow office of deutsch chevrolet a day after germany's media regulates a bunch arts, the system channel r c d ah,

welcome to r t international. my name's peter scott taken over from unit o'neill. and i'll be with you throughout the night, bringing the news from our headquarters here in moscow. and we start this hour with the u. s, which has taken another swipe at russia further stoking tensions over ukraine. washington is accused moscow of preparing a propaganda video to use and a false flag operation to justify an invasion of ukraine. to find out more about this, we can cross lights are u. s. correspond caleb more pin kayla? the certainly quite a bold claim. can you take us through what's been said, please? sure, we have us intelligence officials who have come forward said that the u. s. a is planning to develop a propaganda video that will depict

a fabricated attack on its troops that will be used to justify the pretext of the invasion. now, it is individuals from the administration, speaking on conditions of anonymity, that said the video will likely depict graphic scenes of staged false explosions with choruses with corpses, factors depicting mourners and images of destroyed locations and military equipment . now the state department spokesperson was pressed on this specific evidence supporting the video claims. ned price said that once the white house is sure this information is accurate, then they will disclose what evidence they have. here's how the exchange when what is the evidence that you had that suggested that the russians are even planning with matt. and i'm not saying that they're not, but you just come out and say this and expect us just to believe it. without you showing a shred of evidence, that is actually true. other than when i ask,

or what anyone else asked what the information you said, why just gave it to you, which was just you making a statement that you said yourself. you've been in this business for quite a long time. you know that when we make information, intelligence information public, we do so in a way that protects sensitive sources and methods. you also know that we do so we d classify information only when we're confident in that information. if you doubt, if you doubt the credibility of the u. s. government of the british government of other governments and want to find solace and information that the russians are putting out. that is, that is for you to do. now, there has been a barrage of headlines and accusations from western leaders against russia over the last several weeks. and russia has responded with calm to many of these allegations . now, at this point, we've got kremlin spokesperson dmitri past gob who has pointed out that there have been so many claims over the last few weeks and most of them and all of them really

have not added up to anything, were turned into anything that could be proven now at this point, people are also reacting to the fact that the white house seems to be backing away from using the term imminent to describe their allegation that some kind of attack on ukraine is going to take place. gen saki, the white house spokesperson says that the white house is no longer using the term imminent, and that they stopped using it because they say that it will send a message that they were not intending to sand. that's how jen, saki is putting it, so it seems like the white house is now back tracking on their allegation that there was some kind of an eminent invasion of ukraine. one wonders how soon they'll be back. tracking on this allegation of an upcoming false flag video. well, kayla, thank you for flushing out the story for us us corresponding caleb more in. thank you. the russian foreign ministry has published

a lift vitality, measures against germany. it comes just a day after the german media regulates a blog. it's our sister channel artsy, d e. well, my colleague roy to say, discuss the latest developments with archie correspondence, sha davinsky, and on quarter deutsch avella, its offices are going to be close to the rob 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 ga 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 our tv must stop all of its broadcast. that means via satellite via internet, social media, basically everywhere. the required media, low license was not available. the organisation and distribution of the tv program by 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 or t d e. the tv channel is oh broadcasting right here for moscow 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 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 d 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 using. so 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 will have to see, you know, i don't, as you say, r t t e taking flat from the german authorities. but it's not just confined to germany over to france, standing by live in paris, charlotte dubin ski. apparently our t frogs is also in the cross charlotte artie from seas in the cross has of the audio visual and digital communications regulator hearing from stacy's all

come now. this was some that was put out in a magazine article that magazines called challenges. halem, france, and in it it alleges that all come is about to start looking at how off the phone to 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, 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 any 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 after the situation with all 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 they 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 with 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 described. spin foreign digital interference and misinformation head of those elections. artie france in r t and national or selves. i've actually been denied entry to the elite, a polished a couple press conference, is 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 cone was elected that has been flagged up as being of serious concern by the national union of journalists and products you describe. 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. the pentagon has acknowledged that at least 3 civilians were killed in a raid on terrorists in northwest syria,

while unicef instead at least 6 children died and what appears to be the same incident earlier, president biden hailed a successful operation targets and the leader of islamic state is our senior correspondent, broadcast half a dozen children killed as well as 4 woman locals have described these speech battle that took place at the one a m, just after midnight, syrian thought. and that lasted for hours and in which, presumably these half a dozen children as well as for women were killed as well as the leader of isis. a boy abraham me. alas, she me, i crazy. she the 2nd lead the vices after the death of 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. and then we saw soldiers landing. the soldiers targeted a house near where i live. 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. after about an hour, the helicopter carried out 4 or 5 machine gun attacks on the house. 11 came on a lie, we're preparing to go to sleep. and suddenly we heard wind and the sound of helicopters, my and 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. in the united states says that he detonated a suicide vest while together with members of his family. we still have new and verified information as to how will these children perish?

these, the civilians, as well as women, whether it was american missiles fired by helicopters, small arms, far by us, special forces in 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 syria's it live province, which is where abu bakar bug died. the found 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 t s or neutral front, which is seen as a, a branch of al qaeda in syria. the town of acme, where the, the secondly,

the of isis was killed is just 2 kilometers away from the turkish board, where the found of ice this 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, it's an especially bad time for, for biden, who's administration has been rattled by, by calls for resignations, as well as accountability following the, the deadly drew strike in afghanistan, in kabul in august, when the united states was pulling out,

evacuated from afghanistan, mer stripe that killed almost a dozen civilian 7 children. among them there had been calls again for resignations and for 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 that the values of the united states or its partners. and he called in the pentagon to come up with concrete measures on how the pentagon should conduct war whilst minimizing civilian casualties. the pentagon has acknowledged that at least 3 civilians were killed in a raid on terrorists in northwest and syria, while units of us said at least 6 children died in what appears to be the same incident. earlier, president biden hailed

a successful operation target. seeing the leader of his army states, his artes senior correspondent, broad garcia of o and a, sorry, we spoke with juliet, sama, the unicef. i've seen communications chief in the middle east, and she told us so 5 unclear how the 6 children died in northwestern syria. but the surgeon fighting is taking a deadly toll 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 heavy violence that we witnessed the overnight in a, in the northwest of syria, perhaps staying on escalation and violence and bad air. you know, 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, let's 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 19 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 old fight 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 big for. busy millions and millions of people among the many children. well, to discuss this issue, let's cross live, not so much abrams. here's a politics professor northwestern university in boston. marks. thank you for

joining us. now is the 1st question. can you hear me marks? how's the, the connection, the right. i believe we're having some technical issues with of video. yeah. yeah, i'm going to push ahead and see if we can. the connection works march 1st question, depending on the source around 6 children were killed in the operation is by the right to be hailing. this is such a massive success. well, certainly, biden is being criticized for the so called collateral damage. however, i'm not going to criticize any government for successfully taking out the leader of islamic state. in an ideal situation, there would be absolutely no bloodshed other than the target. and furthermore, the target would be taken alive because that way,

you can get more intel in comparison to when the target is killed. nonetheless, i do this yes and as a major, major success, you have to understand that if i mix like other notate groups, is constantly trying to depict itself as a winner. no, it's been chris need to portray themselves as succeed in order to drone recruit, center, get money, et cetera. but by taking up a liter of ability in crew, it really stops that narrative. it's tracks. it will be much harder now for isis to try to gain momentum and pretend that it's on the verge of, of another caliphate. we had so still not in your previous answer, but given the nature of this terrorist group, you know, just a matter of time until another head of mergers and takes over. there's the question that there are plenty of people waiting in the wings that this guy wasn't all that

special. he himself wasn't the original leader. he was a successor to our daddy to be a successor to him. and the successor can sometimes government call this strategy, or quote, unquote, mowing the lawn, continuously treating the upper echelon, knowing that there will be replacements. nonetheless, it does have an effect on reducing morale of the organization. and as you continue to attribute the leadership, let's really not sure subordinates will have to step up and they may not have the same amount of career or, or strategy or recognition within the group. so leading on from what you've just said, you believe the, the world is more secure place and then there's less risk of some sort of reprisal from my us in wake of this operation. i agree with that question. yeah,

i mean if i'm exceed is the kind of group which is always trying to attack, this is not a restrain group. it's not a scenario where, you know, well now that we bought after its leader and kicking him picking him up. now the group is going to, you know, try extra hard just to attack, this is a group that really why. so when it's college, it's a group that well to attack, frankly, everywhere in the world, every culture in the world, every country in the world, and to do so in the bloodiest fashion, and to talk on video in order to show and intimidate the world. so i don't think we need to worry about the group having more results. now. instead, district needs to worry that we have intro, which enables us to, to pick up its leaders. max will thank you very much for your insights into the operation of max abrams. the policy is trusted,

northwestern university in boston. thank you for your time. anytime, on some more big figures for you, k, households to deal with energy bills for bridges, homes are about to 3rd by an average of $700.00 pounds a year. thus, after the national regulator lifted, a price kept it comes amid soaring natural gas prices across europe. the shoddy i was dusty has 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 called package of support that it's offering to people to try and alleviate the heavy pressures of this absolute mammoth hike in energy priced cap. now, just to run you through the thickest, then what we're seeing is the energy price comp 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 that of last year. so it's

a huge, huge height with absolute huge consequences. but the government says it's stepping in, it recognizes that needed to do so. and offering this package of support. what we can do is take the sting out of a significant points shop for millions of families by making sure that increase in price is if 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 do not seem to reprise that role as being the rescuer of the nation coming forward with a package of support. however, it's soon as generous as it may seem. so to break it down, it's to 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 be 18. 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 that is v a t, 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 they will not protect those most at risk of hardship. a day after the leveling up san for 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 . the 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 talk to politics blamed the pandemic, but also blames the global surgeon demand hiking up all of these gas prices. but on the list, 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 the 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, and 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 dilemma, thinking about eating or heating. but with this announcement, it seems like they might not be able to do either in the news kind of just prime minister said there are no plans to call the military to disperse the ongoing truck, his protest over monday vaccination. it comes as a capital city also, his 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 request and, and that is not in the cards for the ciocca protests which has been coined the freedom convoys movements brought also in several other regions to a standstill border crossings with the u. s. i, one of the main focuses because of the rules for corn seen upon return from america . the truck is the fleming, the government demands to be fully vaccinated in order to work. one of the freedom convoy organize it says that the current situation with the mandate is

a form of oppression. well, what i find condescending is people who talk us, right? these are, these are hardworking kaiden's who pay their taxes. you know, they. ready sit in their truck 1617 hours a day. they don't need to get boxes. but with that said, a lot of the truckers in this convoy are vaccinated. and that's where the public just doesn't understand or maybe they just misinterpreted it. but these people are vaccinated and they simply want them to end because it's a form of depression. now, that's exactly how all of us consider it. meanwhile, the go fund to be web sites is blocked. donations to the drivers, i think legal issues. so far the campaign had raised around $10000000.00 canadian dollars for the convoy. facebook has also made a move by removing a page, promoting the truck as campaign. meanwhile, august, the censorship in canada is out of control. everybody's united with the problem

we're having is we have a prime minister who's gaslighting protesters and people who are simply using their, their right to free speech, the right to protest. he doesn't like what we're doing and it's like you said, you've united the country and they're trying to do everything they. ready can to sensor sensor us, they've been using liberal, biased media to talk to us calling us all these horrible names which is just not true. and even to the point where the product, we feel that the prime minister is using lobby groups to do setups across or across all of the stuff like you facing the war. the war memorial, which was done by in chief of we got the blame for it. so we actually went up there and we have people who are guarding at 247. now cleaning it up. it's deliberate. censorship is i find it's out of control. now, what i saw the wells looking at $238.00 moscow tie. my name is peter scott, and i'll be back again with another locker. today's biggest stories,

and about half an hour. ah, murphy, bro, ukraine continues unabated with the u. s. and u. k. taking the lead, however, not only for members are and or even ukraine is attempting to dampen expectations of an armed conflict with russia. will washington and london get their way? no one else seemed wrong when all through. just don't hold any world yet to see how this thing becomes the advocate and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah

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