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ah, ah ah, 2 people are reported killed in artillery. shelling in east ukraine admitted to escalation of the conflict in the region. meanwhile, i would never have left. i had a string. i had to come home, my wife to so afraid if my health would have allowed me i would have joined the militia forced. busy to leave the homes to, to defy thing for with hopes of coming, but more than 40000 residents that the ukraine across the board of the safety in russia, where the government is providing accommodation for the iraqi. we lost in the news . that's why you're going to keep me with desperate yet defiant,
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protest is pushed back by police. it also were the canadian government, this done pilots, weeks long demonstrations against the cove with from moscow to the world. you're watching r t international. what's been quite a busy news day. my name is peter scott, and it's great to have you with those 2 civilians were reportedly killed in artillery shelling this morning in east ukraine. it happened in the breakaway lugens republic. the village was shelled at 5 am as people slept and you can see the house where the civilians were killed in this footage. for the homes were also destroyed in the shelling. the la guns people's militia blames the attack on key ebs forces. the heads of the self proclaimed look guns can denise republics earlier announced a general mobilization of their armed force forces. text messages have been sent to
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all men age between 18 and 55 to show, but meeting points to join the army ortiz broadcast. df 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 impact. you could tell by that the unique sound that they make were her to the west of the city, which is said 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 hours 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 in 2015, 60. the entire city would vibrate every few seconds that be another explosion with heavy caliber weapons. nevertheless, it is restless. here a people are fearful of another escalation of rams falling into the city. so far, 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 will of the mobile phones here in the near to receive 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 voluntary i decided to come head because in any case it will be necessary if the
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enemy, as he 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 who i'm tired to be honest with you as says we special than history. i've lived in and that's all my life. i'm a lawyer by education and they called told me to come to the military and lisben office. i have combat experience in 2014, 1516 and 17. i'm trying to be ready for anything, but i don't see any reason to 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 the nets . nevertheless, wall preparations here are underway. local authorities said that the concentration of ukrainian troops,
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as well as heavy armor weapons artillery on the front lines along the front lines, is unprecedented. they haven't seen the light, they say more than a 100000 ukranian troops aligned up on the board. then we have seen the same image replayed 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 undefined 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 week or so. we also heard from a foreign journalism cnn a, a p saying that they was shell on the other side of the conflict line on the ukrainian side. so suddenly she's 5 violations being registered. both in the breakaway republics and on the ukrainian side of the conflict blood the,
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the fear is of course he and now that there could be an escalation right away escalation, that would be very difficult to stop given the, the concentration of forces. now in the region, a spokesperson for the red cross, his delegation in moscow told us how the escalation in easton ukraine is affecting the civilian population. reportedly we saw that 2 of the big bumping station in the donnette screech and been here and damaged by the hostilities currently which got 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, is to speak about the people that arriving on the touch of the russian federation
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to what we know is the russian which cross our main partner here is already conducting a needs assessment to be able also to respond and help people on the other side. 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 began in the breakaway dawn bus republics. with more than 53000 evacuees having cross the border into russia, crowds have gathered to the railway station in the town of got a love in the self proclaimed near the republic. the 1st trains have begun heading towards russia. it's one of the areas suffering, the worst shelling with officials warning the been attacks on sunday as well. many men her are sending their families away as happened in previous spikes and the conflicts just some you are not evacuating my grandchildren and i have a big family yesterday i sent where few grandchildren to day other grandchildren because it's very scary. 2014 was very dangerous. there were injuries among our
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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 provides heat to the city. i can't leave people in the cold. it's scary, but what can be done is scary, but everyone's scared. walking around is scary. going to work on the shelling 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 regions across russia, taken the thousands, flynn ukraine's violence. are these dollar core to reports from one of those shelters? this is, this was dar 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 expected evacuees from the don boss region of eastern young her that i wouldn't have left. it's just that i had a stroke. i always stayed her. now i've left everything. every one behind.
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kitten's dogs go was my go to supposed to give birth. everything's left there it is perfect. here we're being fed. well, there's a tv. like at home, they call a saying there's 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 heavy shelling when you, you know i wouldn't have left. i stayed there in 2016, not leaving your. yeah. when you were here. yeah. i wouldn't have left me. i'm not afraid of anything. it's all the same to me. i'm used to it. i was a soldier in the past. i'm used to it. but her now she's shaking stuttering, or, you know if i were healthy, i would have joined the militia right behind me. you can see the sheer number of
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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 boss 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 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
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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've fled the escalating conflicts in easton, ukraine many of them are currently being housed in temporary comes in russia's roster region which borders the 2 self proclaimed republics. hazel people there how to tell us what flu could 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 bus, it's awful. we spend whole nights sleeping in buses. i'm here with my grand daughter. people a good here they help us a lot is going to my husband, son, daughter, and grandson state and don boss when they done. now, if it's worth coming here to, we're afraid that 2014 may repeat itself. russian president vladimir putin in his
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french counts about a manuel micron of agreed in a telephone conversation to take urgent measures to hold the escalation of the conflict. nissan ukraine. peruthiune again, stress that nate, those actions are pushing here towards a military resolution of the crisis. nature countries and go in pump enough, modern weapons and ammunition into ukraine is pushing keith towards the military solution to the so called dumbass problem as a result, civilians in the done yes. kind of a guns republic suffer and have to the q a to russia to escape the intensifying, showing. the u. s. secretary of states has threatened russia that it will pay a huge price if it's invades ukraine. moss goes on board, the u. s. was once again forced to points out the crumbling has never had such plunge in response to unzip. lincoln's warning or prepared with a response that will have massive consequences for russia. it actually carries this through. there is no innovation and there is no such plans. we are not trying
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to take a tory off of foreign countries. i would like to confirm the last couple of hours is a part of your credit. the ukrainian president followed him. is there lensky says, here could we consider the country's non nuclear status? you made the comments during a speech this weekend 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 void for 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 union was collapsing he of pushed by the u. s. and the u. k. gave up all,
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it's new kid austin all. so everything from strategic bombers to wall has 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 the 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 for me ukrainian prime minister, how one of the house phone calls leaked. and what did we have from the country's political establishment to a pledge to continue the nonproliferation and tolerance?
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no, unfortunately what we had port of thorns. 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 road voice. we had this occurred by ambassador friends. and this isn't the landscape chatting on the phone to his friend about his wild fun to see, you know, to massacre ethnic russians as it was with him a shank. oh, 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 the sky thing, unless you all in front of me do more, 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
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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 stephen resend such an incendiary statement. but then maybe it's not surprising, unfortunate. we've seen it every single time how nato and its allies of failing to press key of to abide by those very simple fighting points in the midst agreements . instead, claiming that the kremlin is the only violated us despite independent monitors on the ground east in ukraine, saying, well, that's actually not entirely the case just so that we understand back in the day ukraine, what had the world's thought, biggest new killer arsenal. just one of its warheads, its exploded, was about $37.00 times the size of the wash. my talk been 37 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
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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 ready 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 in russia when the us, but it would still be new 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 of parts has shown us by selling its own citizens ready displays a disregard for peace, ensuring messes, dance. he was, should fill the global community with horror, especially if, as it claims its on the side of diplomacy and de escalation. lily guest told us about the possible implications of presidency. lensky statements service. and so he says so many different things on the same day that it's incredible,
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wants to meet the president put, 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 to date for joining nato. and then he speaks of the budapest memorandum of course, which is incredibly dangerous because the hot heads in the west of ukraine 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 lavender lane and cyrus brussels understand about the human geography of ukraine. you know, most populations east, a russian speaking forever. and the use of language is in ukraine. it's 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 sacrifice the chance to be a nuclear power and believe,
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you know, those now being 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 this statement. over in canada, police in riot gear have swept to the capital, arresting $170.00 demonstrators in 2 days and throwing away folks taking part in the freedom convoy the us is the government tries to finally stump out processes have gone on now for almost a month against no job, no job cove, it mandates. all correspondent peach, 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
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of 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 that business on 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 canadians can certainly trend pretty ugly. and times i my, oh my goodness, good, good, good, good, good, you the,
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the. 7 we've 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 implore all the protestors 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 who are scared. we need to change to mind. we need to hold people accountable doctors for this room. the
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whole titian, for selling out our freedom to measure their gender. i've been here 20 days and they're being very happy here today. they're pushing back. this is a dream. this is not candidate guys, visit 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 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. it then snowballs, now being in upsets over covert 19 mandates and restrictions and measures in general. other to the, to the times visceral anger towards prime minister just in true though that we've seen born out here on the streets of the canadian capital. we've seen. ready an awful lot of criticism of 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
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descent. is it to tell a terry, inactive repression, displaying weakness 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 an illegal blockade of the 50. and that is why he. ready su d emergencies that he put that into place, which among other things gave police the extra power 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
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a lot of political capital to be made here as well. mr. true, those opponents have not missed an opportunity to 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 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 canadian sally time when we should be working together. when we should be supporting one another, his lack of leadership has divided, stigmatized and traumatized canadians. recently misogynist fringe, who called take up space and he said, shouldn't be tolerated, isn't this really about the prime minister taking a sledge hammer to canadians and he thinks are unacceptable. parliament will
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continue that debate on the emergency act with a vote expected on monday evening. jury. ready 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 away any time soon. even if the protesters have left the streets of ottawa, these are all over the and the canadian capital. a video posted online shows protesters kneeling in prayer, in an apartment show of peace and unity of freedom convoy processor told me they're now fighting to protect the most fundamental global rights. they're never gonna stop there never and stuff. these people see it. there's a saying 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 the 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 so unexpected to see the
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international response to this. and so damn encouraging, so we can't stop now. i mean we, we knew that the government didn't, aspects of the government didn't want us there. and we knew that we were going to be charging, you 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 tires and they did a lot of these people did the police, if 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 getting 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 com, where people instead employ all of his financial resources to bring in the force to just make them do their, his will. and it ain't going to work. what's happening is we were the fringe minority with unacceptable views. if you'll remember what the pm said about us massaging us races, french majority on acceptable views. well now what's happened is the middle market,
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all of the people that were just kinda sitting on the fence, maybe had a couple of back seen maybe out of booster. they're starting to clue into the fact that unless they are on this regiment on an ongoing basis, they're backseat 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 productive. and that's just something that middle market is starting to come into. and now you're seeing it used to be people who are anti max or anti masters as 9 more. this is engineers, doctor, every single walk of life who see that this is a real threat. well, that's the route for now. what's have you during this weekend? i hope you having a good one. my name is peter scott, and i'll be back in the thank you for watching lou lou. oh,
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