a, with the self proclaimed, the republican rogowski is hit by 2 powerful explosions the latest in eastern ukraine in the past 24 hours after a vehicle earlier blew up in the center of done yes, another self proclaimed republic. and with your molly page for when you were to where you live on both la guns and had done yeah, start a mass evacuation of civilian to russia saying people's lives are at risk due to ukrainian army showing the 1st buses have already cross the border and rushes

foreign minister says western propaganda and false claims of impending attack on ukraine are merely an attempt to portray moscow as an aggressor. he spoke exclusively to r t. a. this is probably get you fake some things. but the main thing is that the wolf is it takes them selves believe in what they say. if russia withdraws its troops, the threat will not dissipate. the bricks for the future are already being laid with broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our 2 international. i'm sean thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now we start with breaking news of this. our 2 powerful explosions. light up in the night sky and the self proclaimed republic of lucon skin, ukraine's troubled eastern region. a gas pipeline is understood to be on fire and emergency crews are at the scene. the blaze is said to be almost extinguished, and local authorities sabotaged to be behind both of those incidents.

the blast 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 don. yet another self proclaimed republic. sirens have been blaring since the afternoon and those regions with local leaders reporting shall fire from the ukrainian army. the on friday afternoon school children were taken out last 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, the region in which done yet. and guns are located, have accused of violating a peace agreement in place since 2014 so much

for your parallel to their but you molly? i mean, when you were in the government, a line 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 done yet. so i could start a full scale invasion of the dumbass any moment now the evening explosions, following the earlier blasts in the central done yet sc, where a car exploded outside the local government building or, or among custody of reports from the scene, only evacuation that had indeed, begun here in jeannette 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 around the 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 sell 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. your 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 of 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 dentist peoples republic announced a evacuation of women and children, and the elderly. he said, the president of ukraine vladimir zalinski is all bought, read he 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 to the nearest neighboring a region of forestall with whom he had he had already. meda arrangements where

a shelter and food and all the necessities will be provided. let's take a listen to what denise bushland, the head of the dentist republic had said earlier, for your bill or what i feel like on the film equipment that we have when the enemy shells the populated areas of the don. yes, republic. all the life and health of our citizens is endangered. it will so from today, mass transportation of civilians to russia has been organized. look for one, the 1st of all, women, children and the elderly ought to be evacuated. what should it, what was a little bit so right after dennis per shill in his ha ha, counterpart in elegance, people's republic earlier need positioning also announced an evacuation of look, ask 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 hear foods and i in moscow said that the kremlin is also observing at 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 been indeed working here in don boss for quite some time now actually will be coming 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 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 and, and as scanned in logan. they're here in force. i was at their base a little bit earlier. oh, the vehicles i seem to be in place. looks like none are on petrol, but 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, all 1st civilians from dennis collagen, 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, so 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 regents through military means. and one government minister called the ongoing panic,

a russian provocation. krajina in the year ukraine is not an enemy to peaceful people in the temporarily occupied territory that our enemy is the russian occupier . so we see the russian occupiers escalating the situation, making up information as a pretext to spread panic and cause and evacuation. all this coming with informational support from the russian media disinformation bikes, which of course, there's alarm and panic. we understand that's russia's main go to law. the end of 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 kellum up. while 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, 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 today for tray. you know, the key of government as, as the victim, when the latest development is the 2 massive explosion that we won in, reclaimed republican, don't ask. and the other in which however, 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 ukraine in the dumbass. we also continue to see more and more disinformation 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 evidences, assertions in 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. and 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 4th in don asked and new hans saying that they anticipate that the government in here will be cracking down on them very soon. now, mass evacuations are underway. people from ukraine's eastern regions are being evacuated into russia. due to these fears that the force is based in the west will continue to sweep in will will march in an attack. others have been quite

a bit of upset and, and panic following these explosions of 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. or let's cross a live now to lawyer den covalent who's the author of no more war. thanks for being with us here in our to international your, someone who i want to talk to when situations like this come up. so what do you make of the explosions that occurred in the last 24 hours and done yet? chemical ganske do? do they move us any further towards war? of course they do though this has been going on, you know, sporadically since 2014, we know this 14000 people have died in the da bass region since 2014 once the government took power in 2014 through a qu,

which the u. s. back of course they outlawed a russian, the language in the schools and a they at some point began attacking the dog bass region. of course there's neo nazis in the military aligned with the government of keith, who openly talked about attacking russians and jews, et cetera. and they did. and ultimately 14000 people died through this type of shelling. so but. 1 now, given that the u. s. has claimed the rush is going to invade, it seems to me that the u. s. with key the government and key of that is aligned with us is trying to now create a situation that may provoke some sort of response. so point blank, i guess who do you think is responsible for all this and where does it take us?

i mean, i put the responsibility firmly on the west, on the united states, on the government and key of on nato. you know, we have to go back. well, we could go back to many places, but we have to go back to april where when the government and kiev said they wanted to retake of parts of, of ukraine including the dom bass. and that's when a lot of the escalation of the military forces of russia along the border. but within russia began and the, the west supported what they were saying that they were going to force li, retake these regions. right? um. 1 and now of course, the u. s. has seized upon troop movements in russia, which odyssey are not much more than they have been happening since april. but i did so i have to,

to blame the west. i think they want to provocation. i think they want some sort of conflict um and maybe ill get one. i don't know, but i, i blame the west for this. well, if you look at the narrative that we're hearing from washington, it's mirroring that of care of. so why isn't the us taking into account any part of the point of view of the self claimed republics that are clearly feeling threatened right now by ukraine? well, they never have, right. but by the way, let's talk about something we have to it of. there's 2 important words here. the men sca agreements which have were approved by the security council. the u. s. is a member. has vito power in the security council that approve the minsk agreements, which was supposed to give a level of autonomy to those republics in the dom bass, which was supposed to allow for free elections in those 2 republics. but the u. s. and ukraine have never abided by those agreements, even though again the,

you un security council, which the u. s. is a permanent member of approve that, but they never wanted to allow this. so in that is one of many big problems that is leading to this crisis. so it seems logical when biden points the finger at done yet scan logan sk as they are directly involved in the conflict, as you mentioned, since 2014. but why is the west so focused on dragging russia into all of this? i think, honest, see, because of the western economies are collapsing, the u. s. has failed to deal with this pandemic. it has the worse numbers in terms of cases, fatalities. i mean, honestly, you are seeing an empire in collapse right now u. s. empire. and so they are trying to divert attention domestic attention here

towards europe. but i also think there are some people in the ruling class who think a war. busy may be a way to re shuffle the deck on the titanic and salvage the economy. and that is quite frightening. right. interesting to hear. thoughts done very like who is a lawyer and the author of no more war. thanks for being with us here on our tech national to help wrap our minds around this. thank you very much. all right, now the escalation in eastern ukraine comes amid western claims of an impending russian invasion. russia's foreign minister gave an exclusive interview with r t, saying those allegations are entirely false. yeah, we didn't store all this is propaganda fake some fixtures to the suit. but the main thing is that the wharf is if these fakes themselves believe in what they say. so if it's pleasant for them, why not gung, but of course, all this causes a smile,

no adult spirit predict lens and cells every day. at the same time, the nato secretary general states that they have no information about an absolute probability of an attack. and at the same time, the foreign office also declared that no matter what happened, we must be on god. if russia withdraws, it is true, the threat will not disappear, gonna go the bricks for the future are already being late. looking at the topic is being habit forever and ever. no police. canadian authorities launch a crackdown on freedom convoy demonstrators with hundreds of officers in riot gear, some carrying automatic weapons breaking up crowds in ottawa, mounted police are also called into action to route out. any trouble makers, some utilizing pepper spray ah, blue

o . 7 protestors resisting arrest were forcefully taken away by officers with several pinned to the ground before being handcuffed among them. movement organizers, the term ottawa police chief noted in his statement that a number of arrests were made while the capital was required. however, we began making arrest the key individuals who were responsible for organizing these unlawful activities this morning, public order units and a significant number of officers were deployed to support our operations. as of 3 pm today, we've arrested 70 people. they have been charged with a mob with multiple various offenses, including mischief work is underway by the city of ottawa to remediate and clean up the area that we've gained back today. and emergencies act, which is now in force, 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. opposition. lawmakers say the prime minister is acting like a dictator. people lost their wages. citizens were harassed, 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 at his word with his plans are not consistent with fundamental freedoms. the government should not have the power to close the bank accounts of canadians on a whim. canadian authorities are also cracking down on descent within their ranks with an ontario government aid losing her job after it was discovered, she donated $100.00 to the movement. the professor in criminal justice told us that the use of the emergency act goes completely against democracy. if financial

institutions, if banks at possibly payment processors become aware of people who are perhaps donating to the go fund to be or have donated who might be providing financial resources in support of this initiative. the triggers protest, they could be given permission or they are given permission essentially to freeze those accounts. or it is designed to ensure that people who are actively protesting are unable to continue their protests from a material perspective. not having access to your funds makes it very difficult to survive day to day. there is a system of surveillance and policing offered by the fin track regulation. the government has been able to exploit in a very creative and unforeseen way using it in this way. especially if it is allowed to continue, will offer the government

a much more tidy and less visible way of bringing protests to heal. then we have seen it historically with the police. i think that this is undemocratic and have handed, and i think it is a poor use of the emergency act by the federal government to bring in otherwise legal protests to an end. the way that this has been handled is contrary to our tradition of the democracy. russian figure skating star camila valinda has been given a hero's welcome on her return to moscow from the winter olympics in beijing, a crowd of supporters gathered to greet her at the airport and the 15 year old had a smile on her face. a relief for many after the meant pressure she had been under is widely regarded as the world's most talented figure skater. but her showing at the olympics is overshadowed by a building scandal and she miss 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 fail to drug test was damaging for the athlete and other competitors as well. this has been the results of the relevant unsaved 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 believe 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 the lever went from favorite to 4th, the pressure must have been immense. we'll have to tell you that last night broke many hearts not just knows, openly rooting 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 now in the middle of the olympics on february 8th, despite the bro was taken on december 20 fit in russia. so it's big questions as to how white this and it 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 our 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 time lines to then 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, surprising you, 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 they were 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 poisoned 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 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 . i speak the 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 thomas back in 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 upon from believe is fate. of course, is the fate of the t metal team. a gold metal that's russia. figure skating team one almost 2 weeks ago. now,

the award ceremony has not been held ios. she promised that once the case is resolved, i will be held appropriately at a different place at a different time. obviously, that is the biggest question right now. of course, there's no question about it, i believe a will go to open her be sample. it may have been an accident as been confirmed by cas and i only have to wonder why the all those people criticizing an 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. and my colleague collin brace, speaking with alexia shasky, our correspondent in beijing right now. earlier. now this is our international. i'll be back in about $31.00 and a half minutes with another full and 1st lecture newsday with us. ah, join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. and i'll be speaking to guess of

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