a hostile molding for a head on to not see a camera crew for us is to channel out arabic, narrowly escaped shelling in ukraine's breakaway den. yes, republic. while people are fleeing each new trying to make warnings that keeps military is escalating violence in the region. vacuum ease have been crossing the border into russia. very good for their such tension. here in the morning there was an explosion again, let's hope for the best russians don't abandon their own. thoughts are to come. russia goes ahead with its annual testing of its nuclear capabilities and meet driving tensions with nighttime and ah . 7 canadian authorities are cracking down on the anti mandate. protest is with

hundreds of police, deployed the capital, at least 70 people have been arrested with good afternoon, just gone for o'clock here in moscow, you're watching arte international. now, thousands of people are being evacuated from the self proclaimed dumbass republics in east in ukraine. now south for officials born that kiev could attack them at any moment with besides reporting frequent shelling across the front lines. our boarding school was an orphanage is a 1st in line to be rescued with the light still from each being evacuated from the again screeching children being taken on to a bus that were drive them to safety in russia, women and the elderly also have priority status in the mood diversity, we're going to russia running away from the shelling with my wife and our daughter and granddaughter. i hope they'll meet us and receive us,

which it really hurts. i don't want to leave. we are worried about every thing. we are very worried our entire family is going to rush at 5 people in brazil, there's such tension here in the morning. there was an explosion again, let's hope for the best russians don't abandon their own or t v. some background, the self proclaimed vignettes and against republics, are located in east in ukraine, on the board with russia's roast of region. the breakaway republics declared independence off for a west and backed up prizing over 3 the government in kiev, back in 2014. and that month, the beginning of an ongoing conflict between the self proclaimed republics and thereby key have controlled territories. let's get light, snow from east ukraine and go live night. jeanette can speak to our correspondent roman casa, ever. good afternoon again. ro, man, let's just go through some of the latest developments that we know that have happened and let's just start with that near miss. for the r t crew that works ra

sissy channel. archie arabic who almost got caught up. i understand in the shelling matinees. i survey yes, the village offices side of our it's located near the town of fall of k. it's about an hour and a half away drive from the city all for generic. now the village of zyden, i had seen quite a lot of shilling of the last 8 years and that's because the village is divided in half and the front line goes right through the village. half of it is on the ukrainian territory, and the other half is on the territory of the self proclaimed genetics people's republic. our crew headed by a mock seam altieri was there earlier to talk to film or what's happening in the village, and about the lives of people that remains in that village. and once they were there, while they were filming out the area, once again came under

a mortar fire. from what i understand. after talking to some locals, there were $82.00 millimeter mortars. thankfully, the crew didn't come under fire, it was right around them, and they quickly got their things and left the area safe and sound, of course, where we, they're on their way back, we're waiting for them. and so hopefully everything will be okay. but we got we weeds, we touched base with them and they said we are fine and healthy. so good, good, good, good thing for that. meanwhile, the situation on the front line has certainly intensified over the last few days and even prompted the leaders of the self proclaimed republics to ask their people to evacuate to russia as soon as they can. and indeed, the organize the buses and trains and other means of transport to deliver them to the, to russia, to restore for region were camps had already been set up and people are receiving

all, all the necessities, food, shelter, and other things that they might need. our reporter don quarter is a working in the roster region right now, and he sent us this report over here at this vista children's camp that has been turned into a temporary refugee camp. it's one of many that have been set up across the russian region of, but a stove to basically housed people temporarily that are fleeing from the people's, the self proclaimed people's republics of danielle and logan's can see right here. there's some cars parts with done yet, sc license plates, and you can see behind me that some people have already arrived, but this is just the beginning of the flow of evacuation. actually when we got here, we saw buses, convoys of buses that were likely intended to transport them to facilities like this one. we even saw people walking across the road that were likely coming right

here because people are afraid of a potential full scale ukrainian offensive. they're afraid of a return to the heavy artillery bombardments that characterized the years of 20142015 in these people's lives. this region is just one of many that have been set up across russia's russel of region to house between 500700000 potential evacuees from the don boss region. people fleeing that area, rust of region has been put under a state of emergency, and according to the governor, they have a concrete plan of already in place on how to, how's all these people temporarily already they've established enough areas to house, 13000 refugees across the the region and they are have also appealed to hotel owners to help in the effort of temporarily housing these people. it's also important to note that this area already has experience from 2014, when there were all at that time. also refugees coming from don boss,

fleeing the outbreak of hostilities between the breakaway regions and on boss and key of forces. another 27 russian regions, though, have also agreed to own their doors to potential done boss evacuation. and that number is actually growing as time goes on, is growing very quickly there. they've already said that they're ready to help out with food, housing, and anything else that people might need to live. we also saw a lot of individuals, russian citizens on social media saying they're ready to open their doors and help out for anyone who is potentially fleeing a war situation. of course, the people of dunbar are very grateful for all of that. but the main thing they really want right now is to be able to return home. kind of remind just listening to don's report there from the roster region, it's clear that sizes of people have decided to leave the ukraine and, and search for safety and russia. and this is all happening pretty much over the last 24 hours. what, what is sparks this sense of urgency?

well, our group will, we've been working here for a, for a couple of weeks already. and so over the last couple of days actually the situation on the front line had indeed intensified. we've been hearing the sounds of a shelley throughout the city of done that. and of course the rest of the self proclaimed peoples. a republic was shelled as while it was all happening on the front line, the representative of the people's militia of the self proclaimed people's republic says that the ukraine is ready for a full scale of war. he said that those civilians, some of the civilians to live in a front line have been killed. some have been warned. did he also edit the? his name is edward bizarre in the representative of the people's militia. he added that at least $25.00 of special forces, groups from ukraine are ready to infill,

infiltrate and organized that center is act. so all these kinds of things are heard of all over the place. and of course, this is a very, very alarming a just on a friday night there was a blast, right? in the center of the city, one, a car was blowing up a car belonging to the head of the people's militia and happened right in the center of the city. i was actually a couple of 100 meters away from the phone from the incident myself. when i arrived on the scene, there were engineers working. there were all our cars are parked near by and we had to be very careful a while working there. also it's a center of the city, of course. a lot of 1st civilians are walking around, but so thankfully no one, no was heard. also what we're getting from the local press service, a power station, a and a water pumping plans were old, sold damaged by shelley. and as the results,

nearly 2000000 full are now left without any water supplies. and those people live in 40 sounds on both sides of the conflict. now i'm both the leaders of the self proclaimed monasco. my gosh, republics are saying that the ukraine are ready for a full scale offensive for a full scale war. and so he, crane and officials are denying all those allegations and just denied that the cease fire violations is, are taking place on their part. nevertheless. so the leaders of both the republics have announced a mobilization off armed forces in both republics. i'm actually standing outside o one of the centers where people are coming over to sign up. and this is what denise bushland. i said when he talks about mobilization, fucker cuomo booth to lead in your view, no matter what scenario develops, we will be able to fend off key of aggression. we must unite all our efforts. i

urge my fellow countrymen who are in reserve to come to the military commerce, sorry it's today. i signed a decree on general mobilization, i ask all men of the republic who are able to hold a weapon in their hands to stand up for their families. their children, wives and mothers. so organized evacuation continues here in the net scan. in logan's, people are using any means necessary to leave those who do want to evacuate. praying for private cars organize buses, however, of most of the people who are leaving that's women, children, and the elderly, of course. and they're being that they're seen off by their loved ones by the men who are staying behind. now i spoke to some of them a little bit earlier, and this is what they shared with me. the world i am seeing off my sister, my mother and nephew, so you fair as pain in my heart,

we will fight back will be invincible. i know that russia will not let us down. we will always be with them by heart and soul will lose the child. chris, i'm a russian man. my wife and child are leaving to russia. we men stay here, of course, if necessary, we will defend our country, our city, our homeland, the most important thing is that everything will be fine with my family there. while law, the number of those people who could be evacuated to a russia, stands at around 700000 people so far. only tens of thousands have actually taken that opportunity and gone to the roster region. now the rest, they remain here, there remain in their homes and to sell you honestly what we've seen on the streets of the nest. earlier in the day, for example, we saw a wedding party and we saw people drinking coffee on the streets and well could

on, on could only be described as a courage are probably so despite the threat of full scale war, people are trying to continue on with their lives. okay, well thanks for the insight that that was that roman costs that have reporting from east in ukraine. now. meanwhile, moscow has opened a criminal investigation into ukrainian shelling that has hit russia endangering local civilian caesar. the images of a shell that exploded a kilometer inside russia's board is just a few 100 meters from residential areas that around 4 am. civilians were sleeping. the area has been cordoned off. as dorm force works at the scene, no casualties have been reported. while in washington, joe biden has addressed the nation with the crying crisis, despite the fact that it's the breakaway republics that are being shells, the president claim the key of his suffering from russian aggression. and again,

without providing any evidence over the last few days, we've seen reports of a major uptick in violation of the cease fire 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 holo, there is simply no evidence he assertions in devise, defies basic logic, however, russia has said multiple times is not planning any offensive own ukrainian territory itself, although several russian officials did say that moscow would do everything possible to defend civilians. if he crane uses his army to resolve the conflict, the russian defense ministry has also been releasing videos of troops returning to their bases after concluding military trills. she wore campaigner,

david swanson shed his thoughts on the ukraine crisis staff 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 claims. you can't 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 anatomy. 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, and the united states would be making the exact same demands. russia is if the roles were reversed. now, russia has successfully conducted an annual testing. that's nuclear missile capabilities. miss flanagan, putin overseeing the latest trail which we can get more and what's been happening to engage the username and speak. this ascii taylor there are correspondent and fast. just give us some context and background to these exercises because obviously they did coincide with growing tensions with the west. well, a busy afternoon in the criminal situation room, where on saturday, vladimir putin long side has been a russian counterpart over thought joint military drills in which the air force as well as both the northern and black sea fleets, all participated. undoubtedly though, the big crowd drawer, while the practice launches of those intercontinental ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. now despite the announcement of these drills being taken by western media,

essentially a declaration of war, it's very important to note the not only what they planned well in advance, but they also do happen on an annual basis. that primary goals really just to test the readiness a full says on, of course, the reliability of weapons. and i was president putin and recently reiterated. they are purely defensive. but it is if we have agreed to continue to collectively take all necessary measures to ensure the security of the 2 countries in the light of the growing minute track 70 of nato countries on the external borders of the union states. in this context, we jointly gave a high assessment to the allied resolve 2022 exercises the active phase of which will last in bella. ruth until february, the 20th. i must say that these exercises a purely defensive in nature, and do not threaten anyone when a crucial point here about being defensive, of course, images of nuclear warheads exploiting might be terrifying,

but russia's military doctrine on this is crystal clear. it does not strike preemptively, unlike the u. s. for example, nuclear weapons we use only when russians, very existence is undone. threat that said, i'm sure that images from those drills were causing alarm over 2000 kilometers away over in germany, where the annual unit security conference is on the 2nd of 3 days. now this form has drawn and more than 100 ministers and 13 heads of state and the events organized to say that never has that been so much to talk about from ukraine to climate change from covert to crypto currency. notice, be absent and need russian and delegates, partly because our russian co vaccines are not yet approved and recognized my d. u party. of course, because of this breakdown in communication with the west, what we can say though, as russia is not bad, but it is still the topic on everyone's lips on perhaps on surprise. and what we've seen and heard so far. it's really

a continuation of the rhetoric of the last few months which summed up his we are for diplomacy. russia is the aggressor that said, despite, of course, a rob. it being moscow who is providing very concrete diplomatic steps to diffuse. the current tensions just take, for example, moscow's bid to get legally binding promises from nato, about no farther eastern expansion or withdrawal of satin missiles and troops from the european continent. all, it's that from the very beginning that wants to sit down and discuss it. very serious security concerns. but very diplomatic onset from nato. forget it. so isn't brimley's aim is to have less nathan, on its borders. it will only get more natal or some went even farther, claiming that russia's security proposals are not just not diplomacy, but they're also part of an evil plot to town. the whole world upside down. this is

what the cremeans policies mean in practice, to instill fear and call it security demands. we're facing a blatant attempt to rewrite the rules of the international order while russia's legit hostilities towards ukraine have also of course been front and center even though the crime in has consistently said that was never on the cards. and even though it has withdrawn many of those troops that was causing concern along the boards out with ukraine. but apparently for those and munich, that is not enough. so it seems that the nato chief has an issue with russian troops being stationed on russian territory. but the presence of tens of thousands of its forces alongside around $65000.00 you escripts all over europe, right up to russia's borders are only legitimate and defensive. not just thought he claims that without them. apparently, that would be no wild piece. it is not too late for us to change

course to step back from the brink. stop preparing for war and start working for a peaceful solution. while it's just, it's not just nato forces that a breathing down rushes neck. the u. s. v. p comma harris also talked through the unprecedented planned package of sanctions in case of an invasion that will apparently suffocate and isolate russia. it definitely seems that for a conference that claims to be all about diplomacy. there is very little of it. and what we seem to be witnessing at the moment is really just the latest installment of this one with war mongering hyped up hysteria that weeping but followed by in recent months. ok, thanks for that, he, saskia. tell you. now another news today. canadian authorities have launched to crack down on the freedom convoy demonstrates is hundreds of offices in riot gear. some carrying automatic weapons broke up. tribes in the capital. distressing video

has been shed online to showing mounted police forces, sorry, mounted police forcing their way through the protesters. ah a blue i . 7 will protest is resisting arrest. we are forced free, taken away by offices, and several pinned to the ground before being handcuffed among them. movement organizes inch remodeler, police chief concern thing that dozens of arrests were made during the clear act.

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 multi 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. we're freedom, come whole you organize a rick full belief that the government's actions didn't violate canada's democratic values. i said it's very disturbing to see where federal government has big enough and you know, and bolting in 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 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, 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 that's being stripped away from us. so it's very concerning and very disturbing. well positioned to make his branded prime minister justin to day a dictator early this week after he triggered emergencies act to clamp down on the protesters reporting next his keller poppy. 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. justin trudeau seems to blame every one but 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. 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 they support people with swastikas.

conservative party members can stand with people who wave swastikas. they can stand with people who way. i am a strong jewish women and a member of this house in the descendant of holocaust survivors. and i have never made to. it's never been singled out and i have never been made to feel less except for today. when the prime minister accuse me of standing with swastikas. i think he owes me an apology. i'd like an apology and i think he owes an apology to all members of this house. 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 and the republican party has 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 follow their lead. and i get to say those canadian truckers are awesome . ok. 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. i support truckers because of the important role they have in our society delivering all our goods that we need to survive. but also because truckers are peaceful patriots who have the ability to enter tyranny through peaceful protest. now just internet has been playing up before and 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 out of the way. it's not only conservatives, some leftists 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 coded, as in any way contributed to the burning anger. the world is now watching on the streets of ottawa. if financial institutions, banks at possibly payment processors become aware of people who are perhaps donating to the go find to be or have donated who might be providing financial resources in support of this initiative, the truckers protest they could be given permission. they are given permission essentially to freeze those account, or it is designed to ensure that people who are actively protesting are unable to continue their protest from a material perspective. not having access to your fun is makes it very difficult to

survive day to day. there is a system of surveillance and policing offered by the contract 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. and that brings you up to like void. he says, i father and i just approaching possible here in moscow, but back again in 30 ah

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