tv News RT February 19, 2022 12:00pm-12:31pm EST
12:00 pm
ah, with breaking news tonight, a camera crew process, the chan lottie are a big, narrowly escaped shelling the cranes break. who i don't ask. republican people are fleeing is to be crated with warnings that gives military escalating violence to the region that communities have been crossing the border to russia with there's such a tension here in the morning. there was an explosion again, let's hope for the best russians. don't abandon their home. also, the seller, russia goes ahead with annual testing with nuclear capabilities, and with threats from the head of nato. but what he earlier called aggressive actions by moscow. so if a criminal name is to have less, nate on its borders, it will only get more than 8 ah
12:01 pm
. 7 the canadian authority cracking down on the antique mandate protest is with hundreds of police, deployed at the capitol, at least 70 people been arrested with a good evening life smart internationals h q. moscow will welcome to our will be today with me, kevin. oh it and it started with more on that top headline than a camera crew from our sister chandler tiara makes narrowly avoided being hit by shelling. well, filming in the don't at screech and just the lawyer got this footage in from the same with just talking about it because it was about some dormer this little self serial. but it wasn't, but he's call,
12:02 pm
would you not be going to suffer because this he did backups that he also said only grounds. god, i mean or silly. wait, so all right, sir. or what else? alice are still annoy felicity. who is the really slump aka? hoarded, sir, see this, what mongo have so difficult constitution wasn't the key missouri with that's the one before you went to the booker my seats in thousands of people, having evacuated from the self proclaimed dumbass republics in easton, ukraine, after officials, wall that kiev could attack them at any moment with both sides reporting frequent shelling across the front lines. putting schools in orphanages, her 1st in line to be rescued and children of her being taken into a bus that'll take them to safety and russia, women in the elderly. i've also got priority status in the move
12:03 pm
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 everything. we are very worried our entire family is going to rush at 5 people for kimberly, for their such attention. here in the morning, there was an explosion again, let's hope for the best russians don't abandon their own. reminder of how we got the current situation. the breakaway republics declared independence after west about uprising over through the government in care. in 2014, that marked the beginning of an ongoing conflict with ne by q have controlled territories. don't ask in a ganske or in easton ukraine on the border with russia's rust off region were evacuated, being taken when he hope they can one day return to their homes without the constant threat of shelly yesterday. but as i came here from dom bass together with
12:04 pm
my children yesterday i was walking to work, but it's impossible. so much showing you. they told us about evacuation and in an hour we gathered everything that we can and came here just when you get to. i don't want to come back, it's very dangerous there. i live there and don't want to anymore. if don't das forces are there, it's okay, but as soon as they leave valan bait immediately, he doesn't know how that out. they say if they get to our territory to done that, no one will be left, they won't even stare. children still destroy everyone. they want our land, our men won't let them in, that's what we pray for. and yet they are holding up. have been holding up for 8 years, not letting them in. so we hope we'll be able to return home. put villa because of us. it shouldn't be good if we had anywhere to return to you and that our relatives were okay, their lunch. well, no, my boy, my grandchild. when we were under shilling, we ran outside and there was a shooting star. he asked me, granny, what did you wish for? and i asked him back, what was his wish? i did, he said,
12:05 pm
i want this war to be over sooner because he was 4 years old. then i said, i wish the same thing before i get the war has been going for 8 years. now you more, you should be let steady hood. but we're 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 a stove to basically house 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 parked with a 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 a 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 returned to the heavy artillery bombardments that characterized the years of
12:06 pm
20142015 in these people's lives. this region is just one of many that have been set up across russia's russell region to house between 500700000 potential evacuation 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 done boss fleeing the outbreak of hostilities between the breakaway regions and been boss and key of forces. another 27 russian regions, though, have also agreed to open their doors to potential done boss. evacuees and,
12:07 pm
and that number is actually growing as time goes on, is growing very quickly at their 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, a war situation. of course, the people of done boss are very grateful for all that. but the main thing they really want right now is to be able to return home. yeah, i mean tom, the 1st train from la guns to russia says 20 full teens proto, vacuum to safety as well. local officials say the trains carrying will the 600 people stopping at 2 other locations before crossing the border. it comes as the heads of the don bus region announced, said general mobilization artes roman casa for pulse. next on that for central dennis. over the last couple of days actually the situation on the front line had
12:08 pm
indeed intensified. we've been hearing the sounds of for shelling throughout the city of a done as can of course the rest of the self proclaimed people's republic was shelled as well. 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. uh, just on a friday night there was a blast rightness sensor of the city. one, a car was blown up, a car belonging to the head of the peoples at militia. when i arrived on the scene, there were engineers working. there were all the cars apart nearby and had to be very careful while working there. oh, so it's a center of the city, of course. a lot of us 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, the and a water pumping plans were old,
12:09 pm
sold damaged by shelley. and as the results of nearly 2000000 people are now left without any water supplies. and those people live in 40 sounds on both sides of the conflict. nevertheless, the leaders of both the republics have announced mobilization off armed forces in both republics. i'm actually standing outside o, one of the sensors where people are coming over to sign up. and this is what denise bushland, i said when he thought about mobilization. okay, coma with somebody in your view, no matter what scenario develops, we will be able to fend off campus aggression. we must unite all our efforts. i urge my fellow countrymen who are in reserve to come to the military. com, 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,
12:10 pm
so organized evacuation the continues here in the net scanned in logan's, people are using any means and necessary to leave those who do once a evacuated praying, a private garza organized the buses. however, of most of the people who are leaving, that's women, children, and the elderly, of course, and they're being ha, that they're, 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. let's see of the boy i am seeing off my sister, my mother and nephew. so you, there's pain in my hard, 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 willows to children. 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,
12:11 pm
the most important thing is that everything will be fine with my family there. the number of those people who could be evacuated to a russia stands at around 700000. people are 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 try 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, we saw people drinking coffee on the streets and well could on, on could only be described as the courage probably. so despite the threat or for full scale war, people are trying to continue on with their lives in room across refer reporting moscow being times out of the criminal investigation into ukrainian shelling that's
12:12 pm
hate, russia endangering local civilians. these are images of a shell that exploded kilometer inside rushes, borders just a few 100 meters from residential areas or at around 4 am. a civilians for sleeping areas, been called doff as low enforcement, examines the scene, no casualties, thankfully reported. anytime in washington, jo biden's address the nation of the crane crisis despite the fact that they break away republics that are being shell. the president's claim that kevin is suffering from russian aggression. and again, without providing an evidence over the last few days, we've seen reports of major uptick in violations of the ceasefire. i rushing back fighters attempting to provoke and craned in the dom boss. we also are 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 don boss. hello,
12:13 pm
there is simply no evidence. these assertions in devise defies basic logic. however, russia said multiple times, it is not planning any offensive on ukrainian territory. although several russian officials did say moscow would do everything possible to defend civilians if needed . if ukraine uses its army to resolve the conflict, the russian defense minister has also been releasing videos of troops returning to their bases of to concluding and military drills. and you will campaign a, david swanson shed his thoughts on the craig crisis. 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 us 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,
12:14 pm
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 u. s. 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. ah, meantime another news. russia successfully conducted an annual testing with nuclear missile capabilities was led to food and i was seeing the latest drills. so could taylor give us more details? but earlier of thought, he a busy sat today in the kremlin situation. room was a long side, his better washing counterpart,
12:15 pm
overstaying those joint military drills. i'll be forced, as well as the northern black sea fleets or participated, but undoubtedly the biggest crowd torah while they practice launches of the intercontinental ballistic missiles. now despite the announcement of these drills being and top 2 by the west as an open declaration of war against ukraine, it's important to note that not only with a pound well in advance, they also to happen on an annual basis. the main goal was really just to test the readiness of forces, and of course, the reliability of weapons, flattened putin. ernie holmes himself. and he recently reiterated, there's no aggression him what the, what it is, if it's in the light of the growing military activity of nato countries on the external borders of the union state. we jointly gave a high assessment to the allied 2022 exercises that are purely defensive in nature and do not threaten anyone. a crucial moment to add about this being defensive images of nuclear warheads, exploding,
12:16 pm
or of course terrifying. but russia's military doctrine on this is crystal clear. first off, it does not strike preemptively on like, for example, the u. s. and 2nd meet nuclear weapons used only if and when russia feels that it's very existence is on the threat. despite that, those saskia, i mean there is concern, isn't there in the west, particularly if you listen to what's being said that the current unique security conference is taking place? well exactly. i mean, this form has drawn it more than 100 ministers over thought. he had some state lots on the agenda from ukraine to climate change from cobit to crypto currency notice be absent this year. and the russian delegates, partly because washington box is yet to be recognized by the u party. of course, because of this was in communication with the west. now russia might not be that, but it is still the topic on everyone's lips on. fortunately, what we seem to have seen is really just a continuation of the rhetoric of the last few months,
12:17 pm
which is some top wheel for diplomacy. it's russia here that is being the aggressor . but let's just break this down and look at the facts because moscow is taking concrete diplomatic steps to try and diffuse the current tensions. i'm talking specifically about the ongoing deliberations to get a signature and a legally binding document. that would stop nato from expanding for the eastward and would stop it from hosting such troops and missiles near russia. now from start, moscow is consistent. he said, all we have wanted was for you to sit down and talk to us about all very serious security concerns. now to his credit force, johnston in munich said that he was willing to lay hooton's fears and give him a little lesson. and how kind loving nato is data is a piece school and a defensive alliance. and we are willing to work with president putin to demonstrate that point, and to give him the assurances that he may need. but it seems that nato chief himself seems to be aware about this primarily defensive character of his military
12:18 pm
alliance. so if criminals name is to have less laid on its borders, it will only get more natal. now, i'm not sure how want it to friends oneself, by encircling and not the country, but that is the logic that we are dealing with her. and certainly over the last few asked to, we've seen a pretty big uptick in violence in easton ukraine as anything we set on that while obviously i think we're not surprised. rushes allegedly hostile intentions towards ukraine. our course front consent to hear, even though the covenant has consistently said that it has never had any plans to invade its neighbors. and even though it has withdrawn a significant number of those troops that were causing alarm along the border with ukraine, about full, those political big hitters and munich thought is not enough to fall. stephen goes a bit farther because while benito chief has issues with russian troops being stationed on russ russian territory,
12:19 pm
he claims that the presence of tens of thousands of his forces alongside of course, we're on 6065000 us troops all over europe really right up to russians borders that is legitimate and defendant said not just thought, apparently without them that would be no weld peace. to rural wars on the cold war has totals. there is no real security near without the strong trans atlantic ball standing together in europe and america will continue to keep the peace while good. don't goodness for nato one can say, but it's not just the nature forces that are breathing down, rushes next. we've also heard from us the common harris who has warned of this planned functions package that will suffocate an isolate russian unprecedented manner. sentiment was echoed by poorest johnson too. it really does seem that for a conference that claims to be all about diplomacy and communication. there seems
12:20 pm
to be very little thought at the moment. instead, what we seem to be witnessing is really the latest installment of this almost war mongering hyped up hysteria that, of course there's been bombarding us from all sides in recent times. those people who on this former senior pentagon security policy analysts might come loose with a say that michael. yeah. and yet again on helpful talk as far as rushes concerned them from the head of ne, to about his further expansion. tonight. i don't think the russians are plan in any expansion anywhere, but nato certainly is. and nato is, has been defiant. that's unfortunate. and it's bringing about the, the greater instability in the region as far as i'm concerned. and as far as other observers are concerned, because it, it's define certain rules that were laid out years ago about indivisibility for of security,
12:21 pm
for both countries. namely that security in one area will not be bolstered at the expense of the other. and that's what we're seeing right now. and with these exercises that we're now seen by russia, which are annual, in that, in that area. i think it's is to demonstrate that there are areas where the united states, particularly, and russia can negotiate. particularly on intermediate range, missiles and, and, and creating buffers, buffer zones for true for trip deployments, as well as over flights of strategic bombers as well as ships in the black sea. and we're not seeing any of that. and, and you have stoughton berg who's rent, randy on about that nato is, is necessary for him,
12:22 pm
but not. but the same time we go far as jumps and say that nato's ready for dialogue. i suppose as she's saying these big annual drills that been happening on the russian side, the judo and today supposed to be crucial to see what happens over the next 2448 hours, whether they do go back to their base or not. but so jen, so berg talk and tough forest. johnson said there's still time to talk. who do we believe? well, i think there is time to talk what moscow is as pushing and which the united states in particular, refuses to acknowledge and to uphold is compelling ukraine and to live up to it what it signed in terms of the mens one immense 2 agreements, number one but number 2, they, they made a when they became a nation state back in 1990. they pledged not alignment. not about nato, it's only belonging than they belong to nato. they put their constitution after the
12:23 pm
co occurred back in 2017. i think if, if ukraine can declare that it's that it's not aligned, i think that that will help to offset a lot. we didn't occur. we got president landscape today asking nato for security guarantees for money and more equipment that way. so it looks like that's not the way it's going into the current leadership way. it's not. unfortunately, it's not. that's what's going to jack up even more concerns. because one of the stipulations of moscow is that we're put the united states and nato is pouring more and more arms in. and i would also question the, the stoughton burg statement that nato is a defensive alliance. it's not, it's got nuclear weapons and that is offensive. and it's also deploying intermediate range ballistic missiles in the, in the forward deployed countries that now belong to nato. and that's of concern to
12:24 pm
moscow. what she got feeling when he read the papers looking at in britain and through europe, the grim headlines. do you think this face off is going to get worse? is it going to come down anytime soon? who's going to blink 1st, if you like, is there any way forward where russia could be happy? ukraine could be happy, europe could be happy, nato could be happy. america could be happy. 70 ions in the fire. so yeah, it's a very complex situation. unfortunately, when you begin hostilities, it's very difficult to to stop them and they could just easily, easily ramp up and that's what we're beginning to see happening now. now there has been efforts to support for mr. lab ross and lincoln to get together, i believe next week again, to, to sit down and talk seriously. that might have hopefully some cooling off effects . but moscow has not indicated that it wants to invade. contrary to what biden has said. instead, what we're seeing is ukraine itself. it keep continuing to show all
12:25 pm
the autonomous region and other means to agreement. they're not supposed to be doing that, especially with weapons which were barred by the men's to agreement. and, you know, russia says this is happening to get the impression, the nato leaders care, even though the civilians are these new crane face showing every day. well that's what's interesting from the western press. we're not getting one iota information of what is happening by, by ukraine toward the contested regions. unfortunately, we're getting only rambling on about black flag operations occurring from the russian side when in fact ukraine is also fully capable of doing the same thing, particularly since that as the as a battalion, which would love nothing more to do this. and, and you also have a lot of a number of other neo nazi elements malicious which are,
12:26 pm
are now incorporated into the ukraine military. it's, and this is what i'm concerned. it could actually excite everything and really create the spark that we're trying to avoid. always any near a full scale confrontation tonight and we were a week ago. what do you think it will come down to the final word? well, i think i think there's always a possibility. i'm hoping that we can continue discussions and that there could be a pause in some of this rhetoric that's going back and forth, but this weekend is not, not looking good. you know, we've got to be very, very watchful of that and work with all the showing that's going back and forth and who's to say who's at fault it's, it's very, very difficult once once the artillery starts line. yeah. for my senior pentagon security policy analysts, mike maloof, things coming on the program, give me a show of you. thank you. all right, now we're gonna, we're take a look at some other news because life pictures come in from the freedom convoy in canada's capital, or 2 hundreds continuing to rally against no job, no job cove,
12:27 pm
it mandates their despite canadian authorities launching an unprecedented tractor on demonstrated a hundreds of offices in riot gear, some carrying automatic weapons. i broke up the crowd so sometimes in pretty disturbing circumstances to one group of mounted police being filled, knocking protested to the ground. ah, my goodness, i look good you. mm oh i for protest is resisting arrest her forcefully taken away by
12:28 pm
offices with the several pin to the ground before being handcuffed among them. movement organizes in trim or 2 at police chief confirming that the dozens of arrests had been 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 model 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. freedom convoy organize a rig wall believes the government's actions violate candidates, democratic values. it said it's very disturbing to see where a federal government has taking this and you know, and bolting in the emergency for simply having the thousands of people peacefully protesting in this country is the exact opposite of what
12:29 pm
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 and is showing a prime example of that there, that they've denied so many of the last couple of years. and now that the people have taken action and, and seeing 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 though it's been stripped away from us, so it's very concerning. and i'm very disturbing. that's our world news to a pam from oscar with me, kevin. so across any developing breaking stories and our main sites are t dot com,
12:30 pm
but for now, for me in the team a very good evening. i was pretty shocked by this. really. i mean, i knew that dollar was vulnerable and i knew the dollar was in trouble, but i didn't know the us dollar was in discipline to travel that country like salvatore. as you point out, it's a $3540000000.00 economy by them making big claim legal tender. what the senators are suggesting is that it threatens the entire us world reserve currency, the dollar, the us dollar gemini, the the news.
24 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on
![](http://athena.archive.org/0.gif?kind=track_js&track_js_case=control&cache_bust=963127873)