i thought i was humbled before this really home was your depreciate, life with 2 powerful explosions are understood to a taken place in the self proclaimed republic of the guns. the black would be the latest in the eastern ukraine area in the past 24 hours after a vehicle earlier blew up in the center of done yet another help. the claims republic and with them with both gone and done. yes. can start a mass evacuation of civilians to russia. thing people lives are at risk due to ukrainian army. shelly 1st buses have already crossed the border and rushes.

foreign minister says western propaganda and pulse claims of an impending attack on ukraine are merely an attempt to portray moscow as an aggressor. he spoke exclusively to archie. the old, this is propaganda fakes and fiction. but the main thing is that the office at b, bacon cells believe in what they say. if russia withdraws it's true, threat will not disappear. the bricks for the future are already being late with broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now. we start with breaking news. this, our 2 powerful explosions, light up the night sky and the self proclaimed republic of guns in ukraine's troubled eastern region. a gas pipeline is understood to be on fire and emergency workers are at the seen. the blazes said to almost be extinguished,

and local authorities is suspect sabotaged to be behind both incident the black occurred after more than 80 buses carrying civilians from eastern ukraine, crossed into russia as part of a mass evacuation effort. those vehicles are carrying more than 1500 people fleeing lugens and done yet another self proclaimed republic. sirens have been blaring since the afternoon in those regions with local leaders reporting shell fire from the cranium army who not have a good day. on friday afternoon school children were taken out of the class and done yet and transported to safety. the region leader says residential areas have been hit in a bombardment by ukraine military officials in the dumbass region in which done yet can look on scar, located, have accused of violating a peace agreement in place since 2014 so much the

1st part to their the but you, molly, i mean, when you were in the light of cars is now filling up the roads, heading out of done yet towards russia. but for now it's just women, children and the elderly. young men are being told to stay behind the head of the dog. it says she could start a full scale invasion of the dumbass any moment now the evening explosions. following the earlier blast in central done yet square, a car exploded outside the local government building, which is among costs of reports from the scene. all the evacuation that had indeed begun here and jeanette scans, logan scanned people are lining up at various evacuation points to go to a safe place in russia. but before i get to that,

i wanted to talk about where i am right now. i'm next to the city administration building in done eh, square at terrorist actor will, local administration has called it had occurred at around 7 15 pm. this friday i was actually about a couple of 100 meters away from where this took place. if you can see behind me, there is a vehicle where an explosive device said detonated the vehicle, belonged to the chief of the people's militia of the self proclaimed an escrow public. there were no victims, as the car was empty at the time. and right now the army engineers had already concluded their work here and they haven't found any more explosive devices . but the sound from the blast was heard throughout the city. and you can probably tell the power of this explosion because the vehicle is completely destroyed

earlier. our engineers were working here with bomb sniffing dogs, but thankfully, nothing was found or mind you. the building where the administration of the city of the nest is located is right in the center of the city. and it is a friday night. and this area is usually frequented by a lot of a local residents who come out here on a friday night to enjoy their time. thankfully, there were no people around here at that time, and there were no victims well, apart from this scar. now, earlier indeed, the head of the nest people's republic announced a evacuation of women and children and the elderly. he said the president of ukraine vladimir zalinski is all barrera, to give an order to the truth set on a mass along the conflict line. to go on an offensive, and he said, in order to prevent the loss of life, people should be evacuated to russia at the nearest neighboring a region of forest,

off with whom he had he had already made the arrangements where a shelter and food and all the necessities will be provided. let's take a listen to what denise. pushing in the head of the dentist republic had said earlier for your bill or but i think you're gonna fill on the equipment that we have when the enemy shells the populated areas of the town. yes. republic or the life and house of our citizens is endangered. it was so from today, mass transportation of civilians to russia has been organized a well, 1st of all, women, children and the elderly ought to be evacuated. what, what was it a little bit so right after dennis bushel in his, her, ah, counterpart in elegance, people's republic earlier need positioning also announced an evacuation of logan's people to a russia. but he also called on all the men who can carry arms to stay behind and protect their mother. and for the rest, he says it's better to go on

a temporary evacuation it to a russia. once again, it's not a mandatory, but it's advised to leave for the self proclaimed republic. so for now to stay in safety in russia, where all the necessities will be provided to people now a little bit earlier on friday of let him here put in in moscow, said that the kremlin is also observing the escalation here in don barza. he called on all sides of the conflict to try to start a dialogue and soon solve this conflict with a negotiation solid and load the know a loss of life. now we've been indeed working here in don boss for quite some time . now actually they come in here for 8 years since the conflict began in 2014 and the situation had really intensified over the past week or so. it has been a really loud to along the front line. a lot of for artillery shelling

a lot of explosions, a lot of damage to civilian infrastructure. a couple of people were civilians were wounded as well. now the o. c, monitoring michigan who are also here in the near scanned in la gov. they're here in force. i was at their base a little bit earlier. all the vehicles i seem to be in place looks like none our own patrol of but so we are hoping to hear from them their evaluations very soon earlier. they did say that they are also reporting an escalation along the front line. now from what i understand concerning the evacuation of fus civilians from the next can legacy the major part of it, i will take place on saturday as the information campaign regarding the evacuation is still taking place. and of course, that we will be here to report it for you. as it happens, ukraine has denied that it is attacking the don bus, saying it has no plans to retake the breakaway regions through military means. and

one government minister called the ongoing panic, a russian provocation. ocarina in the year ukraine is not an enemy to peaceful people in the temporarily occupied territory that our enemy is the russian occupiers. so we see the russian occupiers escalating the situation when making up information as a pretext, to spread panic and cars and evacuation. all of this coming with informational support from the russian media disinformation bikes, which of course there is alarm and panic. we understand that russia's main goal to law, they came in the same tone, has been echoing in washington from where president biden recently addressed the nation over the ukraine crisis. with more details, here's our correspondent, killer mom. oh biden's speech wasn't that different than what he's been saying for the past couple weeks. he said that a russian invasion of ukraine was inevitable at this point. i was sure going to happen. he was confident that it would happen. he said that he has no intention of

conducting military operations on fellow citizens. it's quite interesting that he continues to day for tray. you know, the key of government as, as the victim, when the latest development is the 2 massive explosions that we won in brooklyn, republican don't ask and the other in time. so whatever to present a narrative where the victim group is somehow they don't resar. here's some of what we heard. over the last few days, we've seen reports of a major uptick in violations of the ceasefire by russian back fighters attempting to provoke crane in the dumbass. we also continue to see more and more just information being pushed out by to the russian public, including the russian back separatists, claiming that ukraine is planning to launch a massive offensive attack in the dumbass. look, there is simply no evidence he assertions in a devise, defies basic logic. now, what biden is not referring to or acknowledging is the fact that troops at this

point are moving away from the ukranian border. now that the military drills the soldiers were conducting, have concluded troops are actually moving away from the ukrainian border. in addition to that, he continues to portray ukraine as if it's under siege eyes. if you know, ukraine is on the brink of having, you know, moscow send the military in and start marching toward. but the facts don't match that reality. in fact, at this point we have, we have russia coming forward and saying they have no plans of attacking ukraine. however, they would like to see the minced agreements, you know, implemented. and at this point, we are also hearing concerns from forces, then don't ask and to hon, saying that they anticipate that the government in here will be cracking down on them very soon. now, massive accusations are underway. people from ukraine's eastern regions are being evacuated into russia. due to these fears that the, the forces base in the west will continue to sweep and will, will march and,

and attack others have been quite a bit of upset and panic following these explosions. that recently happened, but biden's narrative doesn't seem to have changed at all. he's sticking with the same old script we've heard. he is absolutely sure. russia is going to invade and any, any facts or evidence to the contrary is simply not acknowledged. me. i from on this, let's cross live to david swanson, the executive director of anti war organization world beyond war. thanks for being with us here in our international. so, the narrative we hear from washington is mirroring the one we hear from q. why isn't the us taking into accounts a point of view of the self proclaimed republics that are clearly feeling threatened by ukraine at this point? while the us only takes into account its own point of view and its just risking war whether it wants the war or not very,

very recklessly. i mean that the u. s. now has new bases in slovakia out of this billions of dollars in tank sales to poland out of this huge weapons sales for ukraine and throughout eastern europe. so joe biden is going to be perfectly happy and have a very well funded retirement. no matter how stupid his predictions look. but they're not going to look stupid. they're going to look reckless. you can't line people up for short distance from each other with massive weapons and each side swear that the other side is about to attack and threatened to attack 2nd and expect peace to be maintained. it doesn't work it. this is trying to guarantee this is absolutely predictable that the violence would be escalating. so it seems logical when by the points the finger at done yet can lugens can as they are directly involved in the conflict. but why is the west so focused on dragging russia in dollops? when you can have a proposal, as we just had this week in the,

in the united states, from the president, for the biggest military budget ever with the enemy being a couple of provinces of ukraine. it has to be russia. even china doesn't do that, doesn't do enough. it has to be the russian enemy, people understand russia as an enemy. they've understood it since 1917, you know, and in this is, this is what is not coming through in us media is that there is not an equivalence here. this is on the border of russia. it's not on the border of the united states in the united states would be making the exact same demands. russia is if the roles were reversed. so if we take it further by the claims that ukraine is preparing an offensive on, don bass is in fact misinformation from russian. well, doesn't biden's view seem contradictory? considering that we are hearing more and more news of ukraine aggression and explosions, and the dynamic can move on screens. i don't know any more. what's happening on the

ground than you do, but i know that both sides are swearing, that the other side is about to attack and promising to to counter attack. and you can't keep doing that without attacks happening. people on the ground are angry, they're scared, they're hateful, they're, they're revved up with all of this increase of, of threat. and, you know, the evacuation is a smart move. it's a crying shame. but it's a smart move when the united states is ignoring all reasonable proposals. so you make a very good point about the fact that all of with all of this tension, something is going to happen. something is going to spark. it just can't have that much tension and not have a conflict. but according to biden, russian troops have surrounded ukraine from all sides, which clearly doesn't make sense. how can anyone believe anything that the americans are saying when they resort to such wide claims?

yes, well presumably they main 3 sides that the most, you have to take everything with a grain of salt. in fact, you have to take everything as a lie until proven honest when you're dealing with war propaganda from anybody. but in particular from the u. s. government, whereas we know a couple of weeks ago, a reporter for the 1st time asked for the slightest bit of evidence of any of these claims and was, was just not understood. they didn't even comprehend the idea of providing evidence for their claim. so know, don't, don't believe anything until they prove it. all right, david swanson, executive director of anti we're organization world beyond war. thanks for being with us here on the art international is always appreciate it. thank you. and the escalation in eastern ukraine comes midwestern, claims of an impending russian invasion, rushes foreign minister gave an exclusive inter to interview with our tea thing. those allegations are entirely false. yo against the old. this is probably

again to fake some fiction. but the main thing is that the authors of the fake themselves believe in what they say. so if it's pleasant for them, why not? but of course, all this causes a smile, no adult spirit, predict ones and cells every day. at the same time, the native secretary general state, they have no information about an absolute probability of an attack. and at the same time, because the foreign office also declared that no matter what we must be on guard. if russia withdraws, it's true, the threat will not disappear. go the brits for the future already being late. the topic is being habit forever and ever. no political canadian, please have tried to break up a protest camp in the country's capital and the rest of the several truck drivers demonstrating against covey vaccine mandate. we saw more val, 4 boxes with our load all the all the believe with optic. but why not get ready?

morning, there's over a 150 last leave guard prison transport wagon. there's 6 bus and get ready to load guys up, build up symbolizes unlawful. operates, and unlawful order. because this is not an emergency. i know that not of late that up to do more levels of parliament, they cannot act on that. they are acting lawfully. and they are acting under unlawful orders. protesters resisting arrest. we're forcefully taken away by officers with several pinned to the ground before being handcuffed. the 1st one was protest leader chris barber, who has also searched before being placed inside a police vehicle. the interim ottawa police chief earlier insisted that the protesters were not peaceful, and that a crackdown was imminent. we've been bolstering our resources, developing clear plans, and preparing to take action. the action is in imminent. in the past few days,

we've been communicating directly with the unlawful protestors. we've told them they must leave and we have warned them the consequences of disobeying these rules . we will never stop trying to get people to leave our streets. that's exactly what we want them to do. just know that there's a deliberate plan. there's commitment, and there's the resourcing that we now have in place to actually finally end this. the emergencies act that is now enforce allows the government to ban the rallies and suspend protesters. bank accounts for up to 30 days. it's supposed to be invoked only if there is a national crisis when the authorities are also cracking down on descent within their ranks with an ontario government aid losing her job after it was discovered, she donated 100 dollars to the movement of movement. no opposition. lawmakers say that the prime minister is acting like a dictator. people lost their wages. citizens were harassing the potential for violence group. and the federal government instead of acting,

argued over jurisdiction. canadians can't be expected to simply take this prime minister out his word. his plans are not consistent with fundamental freedoms. the government should not have the power to close the bank accounts of canadian women. the protesters are continuing to make their presence felt. in ottawa, the prime minister trudeau uses them as threats and violence and hatred in waving races flags. and now canadian banks have started freezing accounts linked to activists. freedom conway organizer winnepeg told us that the government's actions go against democracy. it's very disturbing to see where the federal government has taking this and, you know, invoking the emergency for simply having hundreds of thousands of people peacefully protesting in this country is the exact opposite of what a democracy should look like. with our movement, we're showing a prime example of how

a free democracy should work and to be able to practice the right, the peaceful protest when it comes to not be in democratic lee. correct. i think that are, are, are federal government and is showing a prime example of that. they're that they're, they've denied so many of our rates the last couple years. and now that the people have taken action and thing enough enough, because because our provincial and federal leaders, you know, they wouldn't stand with the people over the past couple years. now that you know, we're practicing our, our race a piece of protest. that's the one last freedom that we feel we have left in this country and now even not to be stripped away from us. so it's very concerning and the very disturbing russian figure skating start camila. belinda has been given a hero's welcome on her return to moscow. from the winter olympics and beijing, a crowd of supporters gathered to greet her at the airport and the 15 year old had

a smile on her face in relief for many after the immense pressure she has been under. volume is widely regarded as the world's most talented figure stated, but her showing at the olympics was overshadowed by a doping scandal and she missed out on gold after a troubled final performance. meanwhile, the court of arbitration for sports has criticized the way anti doping agencies have handled the situation. saying the long delay in releasing a field of drug test was damaging for the athlete and other competitors. this has been the results of the relevant unsaid, open bodies failing to ensure that pending cases are resolved before the olympic winter games commence. had that all been accomplished on time and in conformity with the time limits recommended by water than a decision on the merits of miss will leave us case. and her status could have been made well before the game started and before her competition experienced. and that of other athletes was affected adversely. how does the caea statement fit in with

that disappointment last night when valinda went from favourite to 4th, the pressure must have been immense. we'll have to tell you that last night broke many hearts not just knows openly, routing for believe, obviously in russia and everywhere across the world. 1st of august did say that now the now broke the positive probe, which came back with allegedly a doping test or a positive dog dog test off global eva. that itself, the procedure took too long and basically gave no chance for while you were to mount any kind of defense. it came, not in the middle of the olympics on february 8th, despite the probe was taken on december 25th in russia. so it's b questions as to how white this took so long. secondly, and that is a very important statement by cost that athletes should not be subject to the risk of serious harm caused by anti doping authorities. failure to function effectively at a high level of performance. and this is basically exactly what happens to believe if you consider her performance last night. this is a very serious harm,

especially when it comes to my psychological state. and also, let's not forget that our cost is not ruling out that all this may have been a technical mistake. there is a probability that the onsite up in the boardroom might have made a technical mistake, which is compatible with the extreme of low concentration in the sample. this is why the athlete will request the analysis of the b sample since this broke, a lot of people have been projecting what kind of pressure this 15 year old girl might be under a lot of sympathy on the timeline to, to tony. she knows how she fails, trying to perform the top of her game at a winter olympics. and yet facing all this pressure, she said anything about what she's going through. well, surprisingly she seemed call mother and those who actually won the medals last night. so she didn't really have any comments to make, but listen for a week or even more than that of oliver was heavily lambasted by some of the mainstream media, especially in the west. there were people who were calling for her to be dismissed from the olympics. there are people who are calling on the inside

a russian team or the r o c team to be sent home immediately and not compete in the next several olympics. all this pressure by the media has been absolutely severe, and i dare to say disgusting at times, considering the fact that nothing yet has been proven. it's almost set in stone down that a lever will open her b sample. once she comes back to moscow and she's on her way to moscow now, so this story will drag on, of course, but without any concrete evidence of wrongdoing. all those media outlets, all those journalists, seems to have forgotten completely about the presumption of innocence and the result of that, or part of the result of that we saw last night with that performance. probably the worse performance by lever, which costs are an olympic metal. what about olympic chief selection that this is reflect on them because i was supposed to be putting on a big show instead, they've had this canoe blight battle to try and keep the route away from what should be a global sporting showcase over the past couple of weeks will, i will not lie. this issue has boys them to the olympic games massively here for

the last 10 days. or most of the journalists here, we're not even talking about the metals, one by athletes. they were talking only about volleyball, all those endless life hits outside the media ascent, and not about winning gold, but about the doping allegations. clearly that has huge mark to play on the games. and you know what the i o. c president, thomas bach was. beth stood with questions on friday morning, had been waging during a press conference. it lasted an hour. the entire hour was dedicated to believe, just to prove the case. a da book to prove my early a boy. and thomas back basically deflected all the questions there was even a question about whether he felt believe i was bullied by some members of the western press. he said that we should rather talk about doping allegations than that. he was also asked about why he decided to meet with the japanese and the u. s . ice figure skating teams and not the russian team. he deflected that as well. so there are questions lingering among many here about the quality of management of this situation by don't was back on the officials. this is not gonna be the end of

it. it's going to drag on even after we've had the closing ceremony, what can we expect next? on this, the biggest question right now, probably a bond from valley was fate. of course it is the fate of the t metal team. gold metal. that's russia. figure skating team one almost 2 weeks ago. now the award ceremony has not been held ios. you promised that once the case is resolved, i will be held appropriately at a different place, different time. obviously, that is the biggest question right now. of course, there's no question about it that will leave a will go to open her be sample. it may have been an accident as been confirmed by class, and i only have to wonder why the all those people criticizing and ambassador her all throughout will apologize when i have no question about it. when volley was found innocent in any kind of wrongdoing, but of course i'll be keeping you updated on everything happening with it. meanwhile, international olympic committee president thomas bock said that he was disturbed by the way, believe us coach attorney today, but either responded to the 15 year olds performance,

he described to her reaction as tremendous coldness. we discussed this with former russian speeds. gator said lena george, over in my opinion, it's not really correctly to do that because thomas bach, he's ah, a good atlas, his olympic champion. and i really understand his knows how it's going in relation, but been coach and often it's and they, they are building during the money my, you know, years it's not just one year or one once. and they already know how they can speak between each other. you know, if really, personally, for one, oddly it's, it's me, the great be, had the highly it is not screen but may be pushed more than another one. or that does it for me. this are, i will be back in about 31 minutes with another full fresh local news. stay with us

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