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1 i me, the o f b e confirmed the use of heavy weapons in the dawn by us after 2 people are reportedly killed in artillery, showing an eastern ukraine amid a severe escalation of the conflict in the region. meanwhile, we never had to come to my wife afraid if my health would allow me, i would have joined the militia, forced to leave their homes due to the fighting, but with hope to return more than 40000 and residence of eastern crane across the border to safety in russia where the government is providing them with accommodation, plots, and other news. if you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges. absolutely. canadian police vowed to hunt down the freedom
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concord protesters so far escaped arrest using video evidence to ensnare those who brought the center of ottawa to a standstill. the captain lives direct from our studios and moscow. this is our international, sean thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now the o. s. c e has confirmed the use of heavy weapons and don bass amid what the self proclaimed lugens republic says is an increase in showing along the entire front line. earlier on sunday, 2 civilians were reportedly killed by artillery in a village in eastern ukraine. the village was hit by artillery at 5 am, as people slept. and this is footage of the house where the civilians were apparently killed for other homes were also destroyed. showing guns, could people militia blame the attack on key of forces? now the heads of the self proclaimed lugens and done. yet republics. earlier announced a general mobilization of their armed forces. text messages have been sent to all
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men between the ages of 18 and 55 to show up at meeting points to join the army parties because the f as more another violent nice here in the next. 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 the, the unique sound that they make. but her to the west of the city which is served. the location of the nearest airport, which is where the front lines are and which is where much of the violence in, 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 seats for violations yesterday, which is a huge escalation given 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 the good to hear an explosion just just to just for reference
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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 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. there's also the mobilization ongoing, whereby all men of service age, 18 to $55.00 were 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, i and all other 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, might find the voluntary i decided to come head because in any case it would be necessary. the enemy, as he sank,
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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 marks and emotions. this has been happening here since 2014 a food i'm tired to be honest, worried for him. but you isn't sure. she's puzzled against lived in the nets all my life. i'm a lawyer by education here today they call me to come to the military and listen. office. i have combat experience in 2014, 1516 and 17. on designing as i'm trying to be ready for any things go potty, i don't see any recent worry. i hope this time the conflict will be result in our favors. 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, as well as heavy armor weapons artillery on the front lines long. the front lines
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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 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 defenders. we've also seen our correspondence from our arab exist the channel come under fire yesterday while visiting an area near the front lines, a town that was shelled by ukrainian troops over the for over the course of the last week or so. we also heard from a foreign journalists and william n a p, say this and that they will shell on the other side of the conflict live on the ukrainian side. so it's at least 5 violations of being registered. both in the breakaway republics and on the ukrainian side of the conflict blood. the theory
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is, of course, here 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 is folk person for the red cross. his delegation in moscow told us how the escalation in eastern ukraine is affecting the civilian population. a, reportedly we saw that 2 of the beak bumping station in the door. that's crazy and been she had and damaged by the hostility, 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 other special services. and this is really important and we keep repeating our message to all sides. that civilians and civilian infrastructure must be fed. because this is key for the survival of the population. to speak about the people that arriving on the territory of the russian federation to what we know is
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the russian which cross. i'll main partner here is already conducting a needs assessment to be able also to respond and help people under really hope that people who suffer so much already don't have to suffer more. it's now been 2 days since the rescue operation began in the break way. dumbass republics, with more than 53000 evacuees having already crossed the border into russia. crowds have gathered at the railway station in the town of a girl of the self proclaimed dani. it's republic. the 1st trains have began heading toward russia. it's one of the areas suffering the worst to shelling with. officials warning that there have been attacks on sunday as well. many men are sending away their families as happened in previous spikes in the conflict. yes, i'm, you know, i'm not evacuating my grandchildren. i have a big family yesterday since we're a few grandchildren today, other grandchildren because it's very scary. 2014 was very dangerous. they were
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injury among a family event, were worried for our children. i'm staying because i can't leave the city. i'm working in a facility that provide for the city, and i can't leave people in the out a whole gary, but what can be done is scary, but everyone's walking around are scary. going to work on the shelf are back in 2014 or 15 and i think we were living on the ling and dropping to the ground. so there was a whistling sound and now is whistling again. and again, you get of the best players, multiple temporary shelters, have been set up in regions across russia to take in the thousands of fleeing ukraine's violence. and she's done quarter reports now from one of the shelters. this is, this was dod 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 ukraine, younger than 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. oh my go to supposed to give birth here everything's less. there it is. perfect. yeah. we're being fed. well, visit tv. like at home. the coolest saying is heavy shelling. why are they shelling? i'm not afraid. but you couldn't leave me alone. i can barely walk on my wife's ged . she came under heavy shelling when you, you know, i wouldn't have left. i stayed there in 2016. not leaving. sure. yeah. when you were here? yeah, i wouldn't have left. i'm not afraid of anything. it's all the sanctuary. i'm used to it. i was a soldier in the past. i'm used to it. but ha, now, yes, shaking. thought eureka. when were you? if i were helped me, i would have join the military 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 evacuated 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 the evacuees with breakfasts free of charge. earlier we saw a large ques waiting right next to these vans right here. with the logo from rushes largest bank sped bank. 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. just one of the many places, housing, those who have fled, the escalating conflict is a needs him in time, not target and rogue in rushes southwest. here's what people there had to tell us. you know 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 losses also spend whole nights with an in bosses. and i'm here with my grand daughter. people are good here. they help us a lot because my husband, son, daughter and grants on state and on boston, or they don't know if it's worth coming here to. we're afraid the 2014 may repeat itself to russian president vladimir putin and his french counterpart of many
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micron have agreed in a telephone conversation to take urgent measures to hold the escalation of conflict and eastern ukraine. pushing again, stress that nato's actions are pushing, give towards a military resolution of the crisis nature countries and go in pumping of modern weapons and ammunition into ukraine is pushing care towards the military solution to the so called on back problem. as a result, civilians who the johnny has kind of gone through public suffer and have to have a q a to russia, to skip the intensifying showing us secretary state has threatened russia that it will pay a huge price if it invades ukraine. moscow's envoy to the u. s. was once again forced to point out the kremlin has never had such plans in response to anthony blankets, warning prepared with a responsible have massive consequences for russia. it actually carries the through very small innovation. and there's no such flat. we are not trying to take any tory off a foreign countries. i would like to come from the don't about campbell about is
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the ukraine ukrainian president. let me when ski says kiev could reconsider the countries non at nuclear status. he made the comments during a speech at this weekend's music security conference. yeah, yeah. but then i have instructed the foreign ministry to convene a summit of the budapest memorandum sickness free country. if it fails to take place, refuses to provide security guarantees. ukraine will regard and the clause is signed in 1900. 94 is not employed until we all know that the land has 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 quite literally. and the backdrop to this is that as the sergent union was collapsing, key of pushed by the u. s. and the u. k. gave up all, it's all signal. so everything from strategic bombers to was to intercontinental ballistic missiles were handed over to russia. the successor, of course,
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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 former ukrainian prime minister, how one of the house phone calls neat. and what did we have from the countries political establishment to a pledge to continue the nonproliferation and tolerance? no, unfortunately, what he had put on, and i'm telling you, so could you just my hope i'll use all of my connections and the whole world will
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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 heard this occurred by ambassadors and the people to in fact, up that time in 2014, almost 50 percent of ukrainian supported new can rearmament 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, you know, to massacre ethnic russians as it was with thomas jenco. he is in all seriousness standing before the global meet and saying 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 he's saying, 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 russia's biggest fun. i think even it
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recognizes that this would be total madness. the budapest memorandum is indeed a format without legal obligations under international law. but 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 jeans. and stephen resend such an incendiary statement, but then maybe it's not surprising, unfortunate. we've seen it every single time how nato, on its allies of failing to press key of to side by those very simple fighting points in the midst agreements, instead, claiming that the kremlin 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 wilds thought? biggest new killer arsenal. just one of its warheads, its 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,
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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 across. 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 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 as past has shown us by shelling its own citizens ready, displays a disregard for peace, ensuring measures incense he was should fill the global community with horror, especially if, as it claims its on the side of diplomacy and de escalation, our guests told us about the possible implications of presidents, the landscape statement service. and he says so many different things on the same
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day that it's incredible wants to make the president put. and then he says that he doesn't know what russia wants all, isn't it? clear yet and on 3rd, he says that he wants a 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 lane and the deciders in brussels understand about the human geography of ukraine. you know, most populations east of the doubt, russian speaking forever. and if you use a flight, which is great, 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,
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as the government, which sacrifice its chance to be a nuclear power and believe, you know, goes on, does now being turned over and deceived. and 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 the sacrifice that we made in the past. i think that's what he's planning or that's what he's positioning with this statement. coming up, almost $200.00 people are arrested after police clear protesters from the streets of canada's capital with authorities promising more attention to come. the story much more after short breaks. this is our international. ah ah
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ah, welcome back. this is our t international. now, in canada, with almost $200.00 people already arrested after officials swept ottawa streets of freedom, conway protesters. police are now warning that they will also use video evidence to go after anyone connected to the protests. the term ottawa chief of police confirmed there could be prosecutions for months to come. if you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges. absolutely. we will, over the next several days, identify what the posture of the police services will look like to see how we maintain a presence and make sure that nobody returns to occupy our streets. again, the ottawa mayor is now encouraging the government to sell vehicles and trucks seized from protesters, saying emergency powers allow authorities to do so. jim watson praised true those
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use of the emergencies act and said that the money raised would recoup taxpayer losses. meanwhile, the center of the city remains at a standstill after police cleared it. of the protests against no job, no job would mandate our correspondent peter oliver. does that seem for us just over my shoulder? i can see the remnants of the comments that were here in the center of the kid eating capital off to all, almost all of those protesters it'd be occupying the city of now being moved along or of left of their own volition over my left shoulder. maybe see the flushing lights of a police 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 of
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the last full, full, but canadians can certainly turn pretty ugly certain times. i was like, oh my goodness, good, good, good, good. the the, you know, 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 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
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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, i realize that people are scared. we need to change to mind. we need to hold people accountable doctors for this room kitchen, for selling our freedom to match our, their gender. i've been here 20 days and they're being very heavy here today. they're pushing back. this is a dream. this is not candidate guys. this is a dictator ship, 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 ciocca groups over a vaccine monday that was the quiet for travel across the border between canada and
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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 an awful lot of criticism of mister trudeau from sections of canadian society, including an open letter from chris to administer as there is no national emergency and to invoke one to crush peaceful political descent is a totalitarian act of repression. displaying weakness not strength. these tyrannical actions are exposing this government and 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 city. and that is why he issued the emergencies that he put but into place,
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which among other things gave police the extra pow is they need to block off areas like not over my left shoulder on to remove those protesters from the streets of baltimore, the blockade. and occupations are illegal. there are a threat to our economy and relationship with trading partners. there are threat to supply chains and the availability of essential goods, like food and medicine, or a threat to public safety. but there is a lot of political capital to be made here as well as the true, those opponents have not missed an opportunity stick the knife in. let's remind 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 canadians? isn't it true? he's doing it just to save his own political skin. he has politicized his pandemic
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and divided canadian sally. time when we should be working together, when we shouldn't be supporting one another, his lack of leadership has divided, stigmatized and traumatized canadians races, misogynist fringe. who quote, take up space. he said, shouldn't be tolerated. it's really about the prime minister, taking a sledge hammer to canadians and he thinks are unacceptable. parliament will continue that debate on the emergency act with a vote expected on monday evening during not they could choose to make amendment to the current situation or, and the state of emergency entirely. certainly though this issue isn't going to go away anytime soon. even if the protesters have left the streets over to a piece or all of a fee in the canadian capital in video posted online shows protesters kneeling and prayer in an apparent show of peace and unity. just one of the many attempts to
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bring the government attention to coven mandate that many believe have stripped people of fundamental freedoms. christian pastors also have joined protesters in condemning authorities for their unprecedented invoking of the emergency powers act . we have signed an open letter to the government, stating such, quote, tyrannical actions should not be used on peaceful citizens. patrick henry hildebrand told us that those forceful crushing of the protest has not only alarmed canadians but the entire world. i think the latter hopes to achieve afford the prime minister to realize that there is a large, large amount of people out there, not a small french minority that sees that this is very, very dangerous. the path. he's all the way he is forcefully crushing this freedom movement is very, very alarming to many canadians to most canadians and alter to the rest of the
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world. while we could say, this is the end of the beginning. this doesn't end here. even though he has brutally of tried to and this, this piece for conway that this, this is not, this is not what, what he, i mean he's, he's trying to show his power by this. but this is not work and it doesn't for me, this are i will be back and let's say 30 minutes with another full and fresh look at your news. this is our international students. ah, a ah ah
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