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ah ah, 2 people are reported killed in artillery. shelling in east and ukraine admitted the escalation of the conflict in the region. meanwhile, i would never have left. when i had a stroke, i had to come here. my wife was so afraid if my health would have allowed me, i would have joined the militia 4th to leave their homes due to the fight thing, both with hopes of coming back. more than 40000 resident that eastern ukraine have crossed the board of the state in russia, where the government is providing accommodation for the evacuation bloss in the news. that's why you're going to keep the protest with defiance. protest is
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a push back by police. in also the canadian government seeks to stamp out weeks long demonstrations against the coby vaccine mandate. with your watching our international, my name is peter scott and wherever you join us from, welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis to civilians were reportedly killed in artillery. shelling this morning in easton, ukraine. it's happened in the break away. luke guns, republic, the village was sheltered, 5 a. m, as people slept. and you can see here footage of the house where the civilians were apparently killed for their homes are also destroyed in the shelling. little guns people's militia blames the attack on kids forces. the heads of the cell proclaim, look, guns condensed republics. earlier announced
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a general mobilization of the armed forces. text messages have been sent to all men age between 18 and 55 to show, but meeting points to join the army. these broadcast div has more another violent night here in the nets. we heard the last we had shelling was at 6 30 in the morning were about a dozen or so rounds impacts you could tell by that the unique sound that they make were her to the west of the city, which is sir, the location of the nearest airport, which is where the front lines are and which is where much of the violence in the near city. a city of 2000000 no less. which is where much of the violence is sent to the u. s. c. registered more than a 1600 cease fire violations yesterday, which is a huge escalation given the in past months. you could go days without hearing an explosion. it is. it is now mia alice, that you can, that you can wait for and
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a good to hear an explosion just just to just for reference in the past and 201560 . the entire city would vibrate every few seconds that be another explosion with heavy caliber weapons. nevertheless, it is restless. here people are fearful of another escalation of rounds falling into the city so far the, the violence has been centered on the outskirts of vignettes. this also the mobilization ongoing, whereby all men of service age 18 to $55.00, being urged to join the defenders. they feared here that an invasion and offensive by the ukrainian military is imminent. in fact, just a few minutes ago, iron law, the mobile phones here in the nearest, received the another as a mess. message text message urging males to join the ranks of the defendants. she'll sit at my, i'm a volunteer,
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i decided to come head because in any case it will be necessary if the enemy, as we say is on our doorstep, we must fight back on it and no one but us can protect ourselves. i came voluntarily to protect our home. i have no other thoughts and emotions. this has been happening here since 2014. i'm tired, to be honest with you. the usages, this is puzzled against. i've lived into nats all my life. i'm a lawyer by education. they called told me to come to the military enlistment office. i have combat experience. 201-415-1617. i'm trying to be ready for anything, but i don't see any recent worry. i hope this time the conflict will be resolved in our favor. ukrainian officials have said multiple times now that they don't plan an offensive operation here in the near school lugens just to the north of than yet. nevertheless, wall preparations here are underway. local authority said that the concentration of
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ukrainian troops, as well as heavy armor weapons artillery on the front lines along the front lines, is unprecedented. they haven't seen the like, they say more than a 100000 ukranian troops aligned up on the board. then we have seen the same image replay the over the past few days, time and time again, and that is tearful, good buzz wives and daughters saying good bye to their husbands, who have gone to enlist the join the ranks of the defendants. we've also seen our correspondence from our arabic says the channel come under fire yesterday while visiting an area near the front lines. a town that was shelled by ukrainian troops over the phone over the course of the last the week or so. we also heard from a foreign journalists and c, n n, a p, saying that they was shell on the other side of the conflict line on the ukrainian side. so suddenly she's for violations of being registered. both in the breakaway
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republics and on the ukrainian side of the conflict, lud, the, the theories of courts. he and now that there could be an escalation right away escalation, that would be very difficult to stop, given the concentration of forces now in the region. well, only a spokesperson for the red cross his delegation. moscow told us how the escalation, nice and ukraine is affecting the civilian population. reportedly we saw that 2 of the beak bumping station in the dawn, yet gray gen been here and damaged by the hostilities currently which got or about 1000000 people from the access to water. and that's really worrying because to that one meal. and it also includes access to for hospitals and others, special services. and this is really important and we keep repeating our message to all sides. that civilians and civilian infrastructure must be sped. because this is key for the survival of the population. you to speak about the people that arriving
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on the touch of the russian federation to what we know is the russian which cross. i'll main partner here is already conducting a needs assessment to be able also to respond and help people who have really hope that people who suffered so much already don't have to suffer more. it's now been 2 days since the rescue operation begun in the break way. dawn bus republics with more than 53000 evacuees having cross the border into russia. crowds have gathered at the railway station in the town of golf in the self proclaimed don. yes, republic, the 1st trains have begun heading towards russia. one of the areas suffering the with shelling with officials warning the been a tax on sunday as well. many men are sending away the families of those happened in previous spikes and the conflicts. yes, i'm you. i'm not evacuating my grandchildren now. i have a big family yesterday since we're a few grandchildren today,
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other grandchildren because it's very scary. 2014 was very dangerous. they were injuries among our family, then we're worried for our children. i'm staying because i can't leave the city. i'm working in a facility that provide heat to the city. i can't leave people in the cold is scary, but what can be done is scary, but everyone's scared. walking around the scary. going to work on the shilling or back in 20141516. we were living on the shelling and dropping to the ground. if there was a whistling sound and now is whistling again and again, it's scary. multiple temporary shelters have been set up in different regions across russia to accommodate to thousands of those arriving from ukraine. ortiz dollar or quarter report. now from one of those shelf this, this is, this is da children's camp. it was once a place where kids came to have fun. now the only children you'll find here are among the 700000 to expected evacuees from the don bus region of eastern good. i
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wouldn't have left. it's just that i had a stroke. i always stayed her. now i've left everything. everyone behind kittens, dogs, goat was my go to supposed to give birth. everything's left. it is perfect. were being fed well there's a tv like home they call us saying this heavy shelling. why are they shelling? i'm not afraid, but you couldn't leave me alone. i can barely walk. my wife is scared. she came under a heavy shilling. i wouldn't have left. i stayed there in 2016, not leaving. for you. i wouldn't have left. i'm not afraid of anything. it's all the same to me. i'm used to it. i was a soldier in the pass, i'm used to it. but her, she's shaking stuttering for
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you. if i were healthy, i would have joined the militia right behind me. you can see the sheer number of evacuees that are waiting to get into just this area. it's only one of many spread across the russian region of ross thought earlier i spoke to a staff member here. she said that already since yesterday, 500 evacuees from the don bus region have arrived and have settled here. now this is the temporary settlements cafeteria. it's already 10, 15 in the morning and breakfast is coming to a close, so you can't see too many people behind me. but for hours already, the staff here have been providing be evacuees with breakfasts free of charge. earlier we saw a large cues waiting right next to these vans right here with the logo from rushes largest bank spit bunk. they were actually waiting for stipends of $10000.00 roubles around $130.00 that the russian government has promised evacuees, fleeing from the don boss region. over $40000.00 don boss evacuees have already
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reached the russian federation. and in the roast of region alone, almost $100.00 areas just like this one have been set up and are accepting more and more people as every hour passes. of course they're very grateful for what rushes done for them, but the thing they want most of all this to be able to return home donald quarter r t rust off around 30 russian regions are ready to host people who fled the escalating conflicts in easton, ukraine many of them are currently being housed in temporary comes in, which has roster region which borders that through self proclaimed republics and hazel people. there. how to fellows with the conditions here a good we had breakfast, lunch, we've been provided with beds. everything is on a good level. the only thing is that there are too many people here. scores of bosses awful. we spend the whole night sleeping in buses. i'm here with my grand daughter. people are good here. they help us a lot. my husband, son, daughter,
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and grandson, state, and don boss. they don't know if it's worth coming here. we're afraid that 2014 may repeat itself. russian president vladimir putin on his french counterparts, a monroe my crone. i have agreed and a telephone conversation to take urgent measures to hold the escalation of the conflicts in easton ukraine through thin, again stressed the nate, those actions are pushing here towards a military resolution of the crisis native countries and go in pumping of modern weapons and ammunition into ukraine is pushing cave towards the military solution to the so called dumbass problem as a result, civilians in the done yes, kind of guns republic suffer and have to evacuate to russia to escape the intensifying, showing. the u. s. secretary states has threatened russia that you will pay a huge price if it's invades ukraine, moscow's, and void the u. s. was once again forced to points out the to the, the kremlin has never had such funds. and that was in response to antsy, blinking warning, prepared with a response that will have massive consequences for russia. it actually carries the
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through. there is no innovation. and there is no such bless. we're not trying to r t, a tory or for foreign countries. i would like to confirm the last couple of hours is a part of ukraine. the ukranian president's volume is there, lensky says kia could reconsider the countries non nuclear status. he made the comments during a speech or this weekend's munich security conference. yeah, yeah. but then i have instructed the foreign ministry to convene a summit of the budapest memorandum 63 countries. if it fails to take place or refuses to provide security guarantees to ukraine, care will regard it and the closes, signed in 1994 as no and void. we all know that the land used to be a comedian, but this really does seem a joke too far. just to be clear. tearing up the budapest memorandum means that ukraine goes out quite literally. and the backdrop to this is that as the sergent
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union was collapsing, he of pushed by the u. s. and the u. k. gave up all its new kid austin all. so everything from strategic bombers to was had to intercontinental ballistic missiles were handed over to russia. the successor, of course, to the u. s. a thought it was, in fact, one of the conditions on which washington recognized unsupported ukrainian independence said, you're good to go. just 2 things. one is to weapons and to please just please don't turn into a hateful nation. americans will not support those who seek independence in order to replace a far off karen with a local despotism. they will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred. while bush senior was likely came back to haunt him because in 2014 off to the crime in referendum union to mishenko former ukrainian prime minister,
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how one of the house phone calls leaked. and what did we have from the countries political establishment to a pledge to continue the nonproliferation and tolerance? no, unfortunately what we hud ports of thought, and i'm telling you, i hope all use all of my connections and the whole world will rise against the russians. and bombed them into oblivion. we need to kill them all with nuclear weapons, and she wasn't one rogue voice. we heard this occurred by ambassadors and the people to in fact, at that time in 2014, almost 50 percent of ukrainian supported nuclear re armament falls forward. a is to the music security conference, and this isn't the landscape chatting on the phone to his friend about his wild fantasy to massacre ethnic russians as it was with him, a sankoh. he is in all seriousness standing before the global meat and thing i am considering renee king on one of the most significant documents of the 20th century . and it's really not far from being political blackmail, because essentially that sky thing, unless you all in front of me do more,
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send me more weapons, more money, more troops, preemptively function moscow for what we're not sure. then i will fire up those new killer factories again and while to put it mildly, especially at the moment the west is not rush as big as fun. i think even it recognizes that this would be total madness. the budapest memorandum is indeed a format without legal obligations under international law. i think that now we need to try everything to avoid war. i mean, i would say that it's disappointing, that we're not hearing more outrage and condemnation from the west new genes that and stephen rescind such as century statement. but then maybe it's not surprising, unfortunate. we've seen that every single time how nato and it's allies of failing to press key of to side by those very simple fighting points in the midst agreements, instead, claiming that the criminal is the only violated up despite independent monitors on the ground eastern ukraine, saying, well, that's actually not entirely the case just so that we understand back in the day ukraine. what had the world stud, biggest new kid,
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austin. all just one of its warheads is exploded. was about $37.00 times the size of the hiroshima atomic bomb $37.00 times. as part of the budapest memorandum, those facilities were destroyed. so yes, it would be a stretch. now that said, crucial elements are still in place. i'm talking about uranium mining. obviously the expertise a research reactor and the capability to build delivery vehicles, missiles and aircraft. yes, it would be costly, crippling, in fact, especially for a country already on the brink of economic ruin. yes, it would be time consuming. i know it would never be anywhere near the levels that we bought here and russia were in the us, but it would still be new connect capability at a time of global tension, an instability in europe, in a country that's ready in the throes of civil war and in the hands of a government which has passed to show us by selling its own citizens ready displays a disregard for peace, ensuring messes, dance. he was,
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should fill the global community with horror, especially if, as it claims its on the side of diplomacy and de escalation earlier, i guess, told us about the possible implications of president zalinski statements service. and he says so many different things on the same day that it's incredible, wants to meet the president. and then he says that he doesn't know what russia wants. all, isn't it clear yet? and the 3rd, he says that he wants a date for joining nato. and then he speaks of the depressed memorandum, of course, which is incredibly dangerous because the hot heads in the west, a few crane are really dangerous people. i wonder if the european union understands who they support. it's to me that the real surprise is how little or chill out on the land and deciders in brussels understand about the human geography of ukraine. you know, most populations east of the doubt,
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russian speaking forever. and the use of language is in your brain is a real scandal. i think he's trying to upgrade a government, a major itself was victim in this story. the care of as the, as the government which sacrificed its chance to be a nuclear power. and believe, you know, those now been turned over in this even so that's really what he's trying to do. he's trying to put that on the map and therefore to effectively claim more i was going forward as a result of this sacrifice that be made in the past. i think that's what he's planning. and that's what he's positioning with a statement. while amid the ongoing crisis, russian, belarus have extended join military drills to both the security of the western border with more from the shop of oliver. ah,
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we, i'm boundaries in the breast region that borders poland and ukraine. since february 10th, the launch scale joined russia. deliveries, military exercise called the allied result 2022 has been held here. according to most good. these are the plans, exercises the presence of russia and deliveries agreed on the band of last check class and have been repeatedly emphasized the drill that totally defensive and absolutely transparent. officially, the exercises goal is to work at the top of repelling external aggression. strengthening the protection of board is blocking the channels for the supply
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weapons as well as countering terrorism and protecting interests of the union state of russia and deliveries as many as 5 training grounds. and 4 ad fields are in the road and there are many, most of them located in the south, west of beller is 170 kilometers on the border with ukraine. and poland. bay area is considered champions due to the facts that foreign troops have concentrated on the other side of the border. including the u. s. military and other nato forces in europe. according to the bela russian foreign ministry, nato has conducted 3 times as many exercises in the region ever to pass. by the way, this place is located far away from the de la garza republics where the inside of conflict with ukraine has been brewing for several years. part of the exercise has already been completed as trips has fulfilled, that talks in canada,
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police in riot gear have sweat through the capital, arresting 170 demonstrates into dave and throwing away trucks, taking part in the freedom, convoy lots as the government tries to. finally, stump out the process that they've gone on for almost a month and they're against the no job. no job cove, it mandates. all correspondence speech all over is out the scene just over my shoulder. i can see the remnants of the comments that were here in the center of the kitty, the capital, off to all, almost all of those protesters it'd be occupying the city have now being moved along or left of their own volition over my left shoulder. maybe see the flushing lights of a police. ready ready cruiser that that's where they've blocked everything off the red zone. they're calling it now they've put up a fence around the parliament building to allow m p. 's to go about business on
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a harassed they say is the emergency act has been implemented, they moved out the people over the last few days and things that have been so the last full full but today be and can certainly trend pretty ugly and times i my oh my goodness, good, good, good, good, good, you the, the. 7 we made some very important progress in safely removing this unlawful protest from our streets. we backed up those warnings with a deliberate and methodical operation using lawful and safe tactics. and that's why
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implore all the protesters who remain there, go home. this occupation is now over. we will continue with our mission until it is complete. as the authorities moved people out of this particular part of the canadian capital protest, this spoke to the media and said that they were sure that this protest of the had been was over for now. but that they felt something had changed in canada. mandate does not know people out there. we need to change to mind. we need to hold people accountable doctors for aubrey as this room. the whole titian, for selling out our freedom to measure their gender. i've been here 20 days and they're being very heavy here today. they're pushing back dream. this is not candidate guys. this is a dictatorship, you know, is running our country. get here, don't be afraid to stand with these people. the protest movement started out with
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anger from that took a group's over a vaccine monday that was required for travel across the border between canada and the united states. and then snowballs. being in upsets over covert 19 mandates and restrictions and measures in general. other to the, to the time visceral anger towards prime minister, just in true done that we've seen born out here on the streets of the canadian capital. we've seen. ready an awful lot of criticism old mister trudeau from sections of canadian society, including an open letter from christian ministers. there is no national emergency and to invoke one to crush peaceful political descended the totalitarian act of repression. displaying weak as not strength. these tyrannical actions are exposing this government in people to the judgment of god. and we are deeply concerned that you do not appreciate the significance of god's wrath upon a rebellious and wallace nation. the prime minister himself is sticking to his guns though he said that this wasn't a legal protest that it was. ready an illegal blockade of the city and that is why
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he. ready su d emergencies that he put that into place, which among other things gave police the extra powers they need to block off areas like that over my left shoulder to remove those protesters from the streets of also the blockade and occupations are illegal. there is threat to our economy. lation ship was trading partners there, a threat to supply chains and the availability of essential goods, like food and medicine. they're a threat to public safety. but there is a lot of political capital to be made here as well. and mister, true, those opponents have not missed an opportunity stick the knife in her mind, the prime minister. this is canada. this is not a dictator. gasoline on embers, things are de escalating as we speak. so why is the prime minister using this
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hammer on canadian? isn't it true, he's doing it just to save his own political skin. he has politicized his pandemic and divided canadians at a time when we should be working together. when we should be supporting one another . his lack of leadership has divided, stigmatized and traumatized canadians races. misogynist fringe, who quote, take up space and he said, shouldn't be tolerated. isn't this really about the play minister taking a sledge hammer to canadians and he thinks are unacceptable. parliament will continue that debate on the emergency act with a boat expected on monday evening. jury, not they could choose to make amendments to the current situation or and the state of emergency entirely. certainly though this is to isn't going to go. busy away any time soon, even if the protesters have left the streets of ottawa,
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these roll up the, the canadian capital video posted on line shows processed as kneeling in prayer and in a parent show of peace. and unity of freedom convoy protester told me that now fighting to protect the most fundamental global rights. they're never gonna stop there. nobody stuff, these people see it. there's the same that says that there's gotta be a he'll be willing to dial. well guess what? the majority of people, i don't know, but majority majority people i spoke to believe that this is hilda dia because if we don't do it, not only do we lose our own country, but the world news is their way of life and that's just, it was still expecting to see the international response to this, and so damn encouraging. so we can't stop now. i mean we, we knew that the government didn't, both aspects of the government didn't want us there. and we knew that we were going to be attacked. we knew that they take any, any chance that they could, we can us either financially, morally or otherwise. they got rubber bullets, they got tear gas, they got the times and they did. a lot of these people did the police have,
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you'll notice a lot of them didn't have names on their, on their things. a lot of them, there's private contractors coming in. there are corrections officers that are given temporary resting powers. there's all levels of army, there's people coming in from out of the country. so basically, our leader, the prime minister, has decided not to talk with the conway people instead employ all of his financial resources to bring in the force to just make them do their, his will and 80. and going to work. what's happening is we were the fringed minority with unacceptable views. if you'll remember what the pm said about us massage races, french majority of unacceptable views. well now what's happened is the middle market, all of the people that were just kind of sitting on the fence, maybe had a couple of vac seen, maybe out a booster. they're starting to clue into the fact that unless they are on this regiment on an ongoing basis, they're vaccine passport, or whatever your country's equivalent is is no longer going to be be valid. which that means you are on a needle program for ever. if you want to continue to work or do anything else
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productive. and that's just something that middle market is starting to come into. and now you're seeing it used to be people were anti max or anti masters and 9 more . this is engineers, doctor. every single walk of life who see that this is a real threat. well, those are the main stories at half past 10 this sunday evening. moscow time had oversaw see dot com or a social media pages for more. my name's peter scott, and i'll be back again at the top of the hour. thank you for watching. ah ah. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it, tracy. even foundation. let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic. development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down.

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