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ah. 1 ah ah, people are fleeing east and ukraine have been boarding that care military is escalating violence in the region evacuated to be crossing the border into russia. i don't know where i'm going. my may name as to save my child. i do not know if there is hope or not that we will never give up. we're going to come home anyway and we're going to live anyway. the u. s. president glosses over violence and eastern ukraine and paint care this victim of russian aggression. while he's talked this about says moscow for planning the chemical attack and ah . 7 violence in the canadian capital as police clash, we protested while the government sets up its efforts to end the freedom convoy
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with here the weekend just turned 8 o'clock in the morning on saturday. here in moscow. my name's collin. brian is the world news we're across for you this our 1st then the 1st groups of evacuees from ukraine, self proclaimed on bass republics have arrived in russia's roast of region after the leaders warm, that care is ready to attack them at any moment. the conflict in ukraine's turbulent east is intensified in recent days with both sides reporting frequent sounding across the front line. tens of thousands of reportedly fled the conflict regions of the past 24 hours. so as i could about, we were told to evacuate. i had to close the flat and quickly get dressed in whatever it was. so i'm generally 75 years old and i'm lonely. i have no one yet. i was very hard. of course. i want it all to end. yes, my yes, my dear. i do not know if there is hope or not, but we will never give up. we're willing to come home any way and we're going to
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live anyway. i don't know where i'm going or where they will take me. they called and said, we need to leave my main name as to save my child. of course, i would like to return or 2 massive explosions. let the skies of lance last night, one of the petrol station and the other which ripped through a natural gas pipeline. the resulting blazes have now been put out and the authorities say they suspect sabotaged behind both incidence. at 10 minutes past midnight, we received an emergency request regarding the explosion of the gas pipeline. our emergency crews headed there and by lowering the pressure, the 1st incident was eliminated. as soon as we dealt with the 1st incident, we heard of another blast. we came here and now our crews are eliminating this incident right here we were talking about the self proclaimed done yet scan lines. republics are located in eastern ukraine on the border with rushes roast of region . the breakaway republics declared independence after western backed up rising over
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through the government in kiev. in 2014. that though marked the beginning of an ongoing conflict between the self proclaimed republics and near by key have controlled territories, let us get alive to correspond to remind cost of it in the next republic right now . what's happening where you are. good morning. well, we are in is censor of the city at the moment at one of the points where people are gathering for an evacuation to their roster of region. one of several points in the city of jeanette sca. we've been here for about an hour already. there are at least 12 hour buses that i have seen well, over a 100 people at the moment. there are all, it's mostly women and children and the elderly who are getting on these buses. and so will be leaving to the rural south region where it was a promise to them that they will receive of food and shelter. and basically all of their on this needs that will be covered. now the announcement about the evacuation
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came on friday when the head of the self proclaimed republic in his portion of that president of ukraine zalinski could issue an order for an offensive on the republic. n z a he said had said it's better to save everybody's cell lies rather than to stay here in the house at the moment. well, at least said, $25000.00 people have already left the login's, the people's republic where they have also announced than evacuation. and people will be leaving from them as throughout the day. of course not everybody wants to leave of their homes. oh we're, you know, everything is so near his ear to them. but we managed to speak to some of the people who are leaving, and these are their thoughts as they are going to russia, because we hope for a better life. but we want to return home class of but they are selling quite often . it's similar to 2014, we packed up our bags very quickly,
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with the decision by the head of the republic of lu gans to evacuate, people was absolutely correct. i owe him. great, thanks for worrying about us. and our children and russia is waiting for us. thank you, russia, but there was still cause i'm leaving with my friends without my parents. my parents are in another city. the evacuation started when i was in the college dormitory. i want to come back as soon as possible because my relatives are worried and it is impossible to contact them. once again, these evacuations are temporary, they're not mandatory at all, and people are leaving add to their, their own a will. once again, the heads of the self proclaimed republics, they've arranged with the government of russia's ro store for a region where there will be a temporary camps set up. and all of their necessities will be covered. but the announcements and also struck the stroke of the hearts of some of the russians who
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are already talking the social media. they're offering their own homes to the refugees from the don boss region. and we're getting these messages from all over russia. for example, this person who says that he is ready to welcome as many people including what he there are alarming reports that there is an evacuation from the unrecognized republics of ukraine. i'm ready to help a russian or ukranian family from those republics. obtain shelter food and get them back on their feet. people, please contact me. i'm writing these in every social network. i read it help you contact me because we have to help each other. have the situation here and then ask intensified after the announcements about the evacuation by the head of the republic. first we heard a civil defense as sirens through for out of the city. then a little bit later on in the day there was a massive explosion,
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right in the center of the nasdaq actually was right next to the, to a government building to the admin administration of then as can, i was actually a couple of 100 meters away from that blast and it turned out it was an explosive device. it's blasted, a car belonging to the chief of the a local people. so militia, thankfully there were no casualties that are that blast. but engineers were working on the scene after the facts and bumps. nathan dogs were also there and the place where the blast occurred. it was right in the center of the city. it was a friday night with the police that frequented by locals, especially on the weekends, but thankfully no casualties there. as you've mentioned earlier, there were, there was a lot of fun damage to civilian infrastructure in logan's people's republic drill. gas tank company reported that
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a couple of gas pipelines have been destroyed by shelly and generally denied that hadn't been quiet for both logan's and had done ned sc as a shilling continued throughout the republics. we're not getting any reports as civilian casualties thus far, but an infrastructure has been damaged, were continuing, continuing to monitor the situation here on the ground. we are going to speak to some of the people here who are evacuating to russia and will bring you the news as soon as it becomes available. okay, we'll let you gather some more voices. we'll check back in with you later. for now though, to my call for a fin, the done yet screw public. thank kevin. across the atlantic, the u. s. president. given a news conference on ukraine saying pretty much the same as before. over the past few weeks. despite the shelling on the territory, the breakaway republics, joe biden says, kev's government is the victim of russian aggression, adding again that a full scale invasion is still imminent. over the last few days,
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we've seen reports of a major uptick in violation of the cease fire. by russian back fighters attempting to provoke ukraine in the us, 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 holbrook. there is simply no evidences, assertions in devise, defies. and basic logic of russia said multiple times that it's not planning any offensive in ukrainian territory. well, there's several russian officials did say moscow would do everything possible to defend civilians. if ukraine uses its army to resolve the conflict, the russian defense ministries also been releasing videos of troops returning to their basis after concluding military drills. and he will campaign. david swanson shared his thoughts with a solve the ukraine crisis. you have to take everything as a lie until proven honest when you're dealing with war propaganda from anybody but
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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 claims. 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 you know 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
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were reversed. yes, intelligent sources being quoted in the washington post saying, the russian pullback from ukraine's border is just a ruse to deceive the west. while secretary of state antony blinkin says moscow's planning a chemical attack. but he hasn't back that up with any evidence of these murat gasdio explains in years past when up was up and down was down. classified intelligence was just that it was classified so secret available to her to presidents and secret services. but that was then, it's just fashionable. now, the united states and its allies has new intelligence that russia could launch an attack on ukraine. before the end of the olympics, we have intelligence that indicates that partners preparing for, for some kind of an invasion. the intelligence we're seeing today is, is still more encouraging. us intelligence says that it has information that russia is preparing what's known as a false flag operation to create
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a pretext for another invasion of ukraine. u. s. officials have obtained intelligence that rushes announced military pullback from ukraine's border was a deliberate ruse to mislead the united states and other world powers. for officials said thursday, we have seen no evidence that russian forces are withdrawing from ukrainian border regions. russia retains a significant military presence that can conduct an invasion without further warning. you must have seen them dozens, perhaps hundreds of maps drawn by the pres, showing how russia would invade ukraine. men, december, that january, now february. and every one seems to have drawn them and dated them based on classified reports. they have come up based on intelligence of course. with the most fantastic scenarios, it could be a fabricated so called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of the mass grave. a stage drawn strike against civilians or a fake even
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a real attack using chemical weapons. some have called into question or information . but let me be clear. i am here to day, not to start a war, but to prevent one. in the past, they say we were wrong repeatedly, but trust us this time just trust us. we remember when american officials lied about ethnic cleansing in yugoslavia, village used to launch a bombing campaign on yugoslavia. we will remember when colin powell wave deval around evidence of saddam's weapons of mass destruction. they assured us. and now they want us to believe that they not only know how. but when i sat here, one day, an invasion could begin, a major military action could begin by russia and ukraine any day. now that includes this coming week before the end of the olympics,
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it would be pertinent if he hadn't been saying the same thing for every week. for 3 months. if west, that media hadn't been turned into a, a loudspeaker for war hysteria, which it has. and people everywhere have noticed, even the word classified has lost its luster. that you talk about intelligence. i think actually these and lots of gems from, from deeply sensitive agent reporting. this is that what has been released the, the, the, the idea that i'm pushing might want to dislodge zalinski and replacing with a puppet government. these have based on a, on a growing understanding analysis of preaching rather than deep secret intelligence reports. these words, intelligence stinks, anonymous sources. they are all supposed to evoke, you trust. big people are saying this, i ought to trust them. it isn't just a news anchor reading off a prompt. it's,
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it's intelligence. someone intelligent must have had a role in putting it together. the sad fact is any classified report that the media is fed was intended for the media. it was intended to be parroted and to be spread to make people believe. but they over used it. and the most remarkable thing has happened. people have finally caught on. most people observe this country, know that you really can't trust what the united states so says in terms of its foreign policy. we are pretty notorious for doing whatever we want and saying whatever we need to say to get what we want, we just don't have any evidence to support what the state department and what joe biden is saying. usually when the united states foreign policy establishment, the defense department, when they are seeking war or conflict and they're seeking to generate support for that. oftentimes we will be provided evidence of some kind even if it's fake
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evidence. so you know, the access to our faked satellite imagery, we're not even being offered that to support some of these allegations. you know, well, one of the big things is, you know, the defense department has put forth its budget request. they want $800000000.00 to operate, and this is during a time of peace in a, in a time of economic crisis from the united states. and i think it helps justify their budget position. mosca repeatedly highlighted that the westbrook promised to not expand nato to the east towards russia's borders. the agreement between the us, britain, france, and germany was recorded in 1991 document guaranteeing the security of the eastern european states. but the current nato secretary general believes that no one in the 90s made promises to rush about the non expansion of nato to the east. it simply doesn't correspond to the truth. such a promise has never been made. there has never been such a behind the scenes deal. this is simply not true. the document refers to a meeting of senior american and western european diplomats in bonn on march the
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6th 1991, focusing on the security of poland and other eastern european states. a poland and hungary signaled their interest in joining nato. but the u. s. and some other members at the time considered that unacceptable. the german representative said in the document that the alliance would not expand beyond central europe's albert river, which the u. s. agreed to a senior german diplomat at the time. very vermont says they were seeking cooperation among european powers. is doing it. i know i'm in a special situation here because in december 1989 i sent chancellor helmut kohl. the statement on the bundles were in nato. and nato in europe, which was completely incorporated into the treaties on re unification. at that time, we were well aware of the problems we are facing today. that is why there was a german decision not to station nato troops on the territory of the former east germany, and to stop nato near the river odor. we will oriented towards moving very cautiously
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towards eastern europe with the european community and towards cooperation with all of them. but this policy of germany in the european community in general was reversed by the famous wolf of its doctrine. in 1992 when hands deatrice ganja had to leave us foreign minister, the east would enlargement of nato began. since then, we've been on the wrong track, contributing to the justified impression in the russian federation, that the west is doing everything to kick the russian federation out of europe to build a new wall between the baltic and the black sea. and to be interested in the destruction of russia and not in cooperation with this great country count or other headline news and canadian authorities of launch to crack down on the freedom convoy demonstrators. hundreds of officers in riot gear, some carrying automatic weapons broke up crowds in the capitol while mounted police were also called into action. some of them using pepper spray against the protested . ah
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lou oh lou. 7 protested, resisting arrest were forcibly taken away by offices, several pin to the ground before being handcuffed among them. movement organizes the interim or to a police chief confirmed that a number of arrests were made during the clear out 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 malt 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 to day. freedom come very organized,
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rick wall says the government's actions violate candidates, democratic values. i said 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 being democratically correct. i think that our, our, our federal government is, is showing a prime example of that. there that they've denied so many of our rates the last couple years. and now that the people have taken action and, and seeing enough with 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,
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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 i'm very disturbing. opposition lawmakers branded prime minister justin trudeau, a dictator. earlier this week, after he triggered the emergency act to clamp down on the protest as reporting next to his kellum open. but truck drivers of canada have been protesting for quite some time. and now the prime minister is bringing the hammer down, while local government in ontario has lifted many of the restrictions. the federal government of canada, led by justin trudeau, the prime minister is invoking emergency powers. bank accounts are being frozen. leaders are being arrested. now, amid all this unrest just didn't, trudeau seems to blame. everyone bought himself for things, getting out of hand. first to blame the protesters. if you join the protests, because you're tired of coven, you now need to understand. you are breaking laws,
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the blockades and occupations are illegal. there are a threat to our economy. there are a threat to public safety. second, to blame other canadian politicians in an epic flop. justin trudeau singled out a jewish member of parliament saying to poor people with swastikas same prime minister, 6 years later as he fanned the flames of an unjustified national emergency to so mister speaker, when did the prime minister lose his way? when did it happen? conservative party members can stand with people who wave swastikas. they can stand with people who way i and there's been an opportunity for trudeau to blame someone else across the border. as in the usa, support for the freedom convoy has been growing figures in the republican party who've been critical of the mandates implemented over here. see the freedom trucker convoy as heroes. and they want essential workers in united states. it seems to
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follow their lead. and i get to say those canadian truckers are awesome. i and they're fighting for american freedom in a way we all should be doing the canadian truckers are standing up for freedom. i think it is powerful to watch. it is an incredible brown swell. it's an organic groundswell from the people like the canadian truckers are standing up not just for the freedom of canadians, but for the freedom of americans. now, just in her doe has been playing up the foreign funding of the protests. but what's not being pointed out is that a lot of this money isn't coming from big conservative foundations. what from private citizens? now the emergency powers act that trudeau is invoking gives him the ability to freeze bank accounts and cut off the funding as the protest is shut down. if you are a member, you know, approach our movement to donating hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars to this kind of thing. many ought to be. it's not only conservative,
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some left us are speaking up in support of workers on the job taking action against what they see as an unfair regulation. however, canadian officials see this as a routing protest that must be brought to an end. trudeau is yet to admit that anything he has done managing the countries and coven, as in any way contributed to the burning anger. the world is now watching on the streets of ottawa. 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. they are given permission essentially to freeze the door. it is designed to ensure that people who are actively protesting are unable to continue their protest from
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a material perspective. not having access to your fund 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 heavy 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 democracy. ah, americans are more concerned about the countries drastically storing inflation than they are about rising crime. all the coven pandemic, according to a new poll,
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the u. s. is grappling with its highest inflation in for decades and not seen as the most urgent issue for the public with more than a quarter saying so in the survey and almost 60 percent of americans say the economy is getting worse under joe biden, economist and also jeffrey tucker, says, inflation is politically disastrous for the democrats in power. i think that the inflation right now is a major cause for the unpopularity of the party that's in power. and we have one party and power in the presidency in the house and the senate. and they are bearing the brunt of all of this, even though none of them know what to do about it. so it's something like an emerging political disaster for the democrats. you know, the thing that's a little bit shocking about all this is that we had been promised by all the usual suspects last year that this to him flesh was rate was temporary, it was going to go away and everything would be fine. but that is clearly not the
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case. some prices are just going crazy. i mean, as gasoline random price increase, you never know it's kind of go become more expensive. you go to the store, your shock to the grocery bill costs 20 percent more. depending on what you buy, some things are become unaffordable. there's reports to people having to chain meet down and put anti theft protections on, on beef. so this is, you know, this is becoming more common. everything you're seeing right now. traces to that initial locked down, which is supposed to be too weak to flatten the curve. and it's turned into 2 years to flatten the american economy and flattened the american household finances to critics a job biden's failure to properly address the issue has undermined his presidency. americans of express the concern about rising prices with many struggling to put food on the table. biden's asked the federal reserve to fix the problem,
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and it's expected to rate interest rates in the coming months. that economists to richard wolf says the american economic systems reached at that end. this inflation comes after a 2 year period. that in many ways has been the most difficult for working class. people in american history over 80000000 have been unemployed for some period of time over the last 2 years, some for only a few weeks. others for a long time. in other words, every family in the country has been hurt financially and economically over the last 2 years. that's the reality for them. now. when they thought maybe the worst was behind them to be hit with an inflation that is as bad as any we've had, we're leased the last 40 years makes this an urgent economic, political,
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and ideological prices for the biden administration. mr. biden's program is as risky in what it proposes to do about the inflation as the inflation is likewise, a risk. it is, there's no way to get away from this. the american economic system has reached out kind of dead end. and that's how it looks. so from moscow's we had into the weekend, i'm calling bry, i'm gonna be back here with your next update here on how to international in a little over half. now. see that ah ah
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