dinner, such as like ones with all new buildings, systems to build a what i see the senior boss who's though group you motivation says use a gumbo sub ah, your top headlines right now, one r t as a key. i was fort, it's fire, heavy artillery across bill, florida into russia. the belgrade region has hundreds of ukrainian refugees flee to those areas from cities recently retaken by kia, how some of the asylum seekers site fios of upcoming repressions by key of the authorities in the home with the u. back tracks on imposing price limits on russian energy supplies. it's according to a legal document. as a block struggles with shortages them at the sanctions. it's already imposed against moscow. and

a deadly escalation erupts between armenia and other by john over the disputed and had gotten caught up at region. armenia says, 49 people were killed while azerbaijan denies any claims that attended an integration with . well, it's already been a busy tuesday here when ality international and the news shows no signs of slowing down straight to a top story for your right now. and that will be the latest from the conflict in ukraine. so authorities and rushers belgrade region claim ukrainian force is helping firing artillery across the border, hitting the village of judah heavily of care. now the attack left one person dead and 4 others wounded. we understand old will ukrainian citizens who had recently fled to russia. now this comes as hundreds of ukrainian refugees flee into russia as was recommended by the russian back head of the region

or the russian army and volunteers of help. the evacuation with the belgrade authorities saying the refugees are being provided with all necessary care and they will also be given that of temporary housing. now, this influx of refugees was triggered recently when kia was military forces. they took control of a number of talents in the heart of golf region will bring up this moving map for you right now. as we understand russia, withdrew its troops from ukraine's northeast region. redeploying them southward, more directly here to the don. yes, republic to bolster defense is this is part of the old contact line you can see on the map. meantime, here has retaken the key cities of holocaust, garlic, clara, and is doom. as we understand now with claims of threats being made against any one in those areas who cooperated with russia, clyburn under business, because it all collaborators and all russian specialists who come to ukraine, all russian officials, teachers, kindergarten workers, should know that they are criminals. and that there will be no sympathy towards

them. otherwise, either depth or prison awaits them, but elaborate or must pay the maximum price either legally or physically in terms of combat. now fears about ukrainian action and the reclaimed territories have been growing after the countries deputy prime minister said some russian teachers they had already been arrested. as we understand they could face up to 12 years in prison. the head of the article f region, civil military administration claims the ukranian army and foreign powers of towns many towns into so called lawless zones. so we are now receiving concrete information that looting and killings by the armed forces of ukraine is out of control and a number of towns all this is done under the control of western intelligence agencies. we've received information that mercenaries are driving around cooper. yonce can shooting people are taking this further here on asi, international going live, not a journalist on founder of don bass inside

a christina name joining us here on the program today. a very good afternoon, a good evening to you from moscow. you too, have an awful lot of experience in that region. what's your, what's your take on, what's happening there now an are any locals facing, quote unquote repression. yes, of course, since what happened in which a few months ago it was unfortunately expectable that her he some regions already taken by the ukranian army there would be we can see a clean sea. huh. and that's what we see currently. so it's really, really bad for, for the civilians who stayed there, who did not manage to evacuate. but for me, nothing you, we have seen certain gucia and we have seen that into dumbass into the region. 14, all the areas which were reteaching by euclidean army, interested in 14, we are subject to such a clean sea. so on the, on the issue of reprisal move the or for potentially that have retribution as you

probably just heard in the report here on nazi we understand that some teachers in ukraine have already been arrested possibly facing a decade or so in prison. i mean, is it's setting a standard for, for anyone else who might be supporting that of russian culture, russian, scholastic subjects, russian tradition. yes, of course sir, for them each to make an example to you. ah, frightened, the others to like, stop people working with the russian authorities in the areas which are under russian controls. the aim is really to frighten people to terrorist methods. i mean, it's said the missiles that ukraine uses since 8 years. ah, so unfortunately, as a se needs to ordinary people were suffering from that, just because, as i said, they were just teachers and they were just preparing the children perhaps to, to teach, to be taught to, under the russian. ok. see, practice,

the russian rules. and fortunately that for me, it's really a way to do examples in crystal. it's it's, it's a fascinating and profoundly disturbing in the very same time your photo, these as terrorist methods or terrorist tactics is interesting as well. that you said that, that this has been going on for 8 years, you know, the western press. they say that the war and ukraine started 6 months ago. but actually it really started 8 years ago ever since that of the year langley, virginia, orchestrated bout of regime change with my dan coo. i wanted to ask you, are you surprised at all? and when you've been in this part of the world for a long time, now you're the journalist, you're a founder of the don bass inside a. have you been surprised by any of the rhetoric that's coming out from officials in key f? no. unfortunately, they are there on the way, which is no more and more thorough. ah, we have seen that when zalinski closed all the opposition tv channels fil position

parties. so the repression against people who were not against the presence, just not against the presence of the russians in some areas for them, it's enough to consider them as collaborators. you'd seen the same logic. so for me, i'm absolute not surprised. we have seen the illusion of zelinski scenes. he's president. and we have seen that he became more and more detect dictator or so from, from me eating to continue te over over the, it will lucian of that. and he's, you won't be, is it the, the addictions. now one of the things also that the last he's been doing and recess, muncie, he been basically all opposition parties. so it gives you an idea of his, a political aspirations. there are, well, i wanted to ask you a crystal. but before i let you go, and it's really good to have you with us on the program that i hear or not. and i want to say thank you for joining us. but my, my last question to you would be the people of don yet don bass,

ethan ukraine. they've really been under heavy pressure now for about 8 years. the western press doesn't give them a fair line. it just doesn't. there are never 2 sides of the story. that crystal, i, as you're now on international television, i wanted to ask you, if you, if you could send a message to the people of the world who are watching this, about the state of affairs and eastern ukraine. don. yes, don bass and the people still struggling to live there. what would you tell the world that these people in east ukraine a going through i would i to slide to to say to people that really you have to stop supporting ukraine. stoker providing her weapons. because at the end, the ordinary civilians war struggling, war are killed by these weapons because we see that the ukraine is surely not on the, on the russian territory, but ended on bus. it is shilling cvn pill even in areas since 8 years.

these shillings of made selves and so killed amongst purely civilian people, including hundreds of children. i think really the message i could send to other countries is really still providing ukraine with weapons because it's not a way for her to defend it, to wait for her to really repress and kill civilians. we do not agree simply do not agree with its politics. journalist on founder of the don bass inside a chris failed, nay, on joining us live or not you international. a great privilege having you want to wish you the best of luck with your continued work. thank you. thanks. meantime, several videos are showing western mercenaries reportedly helping ukrainian troops take back control of local settlements, have emerged online, have a look at this. i boys were the doorway. oh, that's a lot of fighting gear. right,

so think washington says recent successes by ukrainian troops on the front line of being the result of western support and guidance. a key of says the backing of his partners have been pivotal to its advance. clearly, we've seen significant progress by the by the ukrainians. particularly in the, in the northeast and that is a product as i said, of the support we provided. but 1st and foremost, it's a product of the extraordinary courage and resilience of the ukrainian or enforces and the ukrainian people without the support, we will not be able to eternal lands and i'm recognize myself. and i'm quite candid about this. meanwhile, us democratic senator mac warner says american intelligence is working very closely

with kia, providing very important logistical information on the satellite footage as well. i'm industry analyst at scott ritter believes, regrettably, the west is involved in a type of proxy war with russia. and ukraine happens to be the unfortunate staging ground the army fighting russia right now in ukraine is no longer a ukrainian or a nato army. it just happens to be manned by ukrainian troops are supported by nato intelligence, by nato communications, by nato command staff, by natal logistics, and by or in mercenary. so there's a large number of them, apparently participating in this current offensive. they played a role in penetrating the russian defense is carrying outraged behind the russian lines and, you know, doing some of the reconnaissance work, etc. so they're an active participant in this conflict. the u. s. is willing to fight russia to the last ukranian. he doesn't care about ukraine when it cares

about is doing as much damage to russia as possible, and they're using ukrainian conflict to achieve their goal and objective. ah, a big news on the geopolitical chessboard in europe. the e u has stepped back on imposing price limits or the price caps on russian energy supplies. this is according to a report li li document showing the blog, opting instead to increase taxes on the profits of various energy companies. all right, his art contributor rachel moss with the painful truth. how such sanctions have impacted the west far worse than they have here in russia? a lead draft of the european union's plan to deal with soaring energy prices across the block suggests that member states couldn't agree on a price cap for russian gas. that's according to media reports out to day. now commission president ursula vaughan verlaya and as expected to address the issue definitively on wednesday. but so far it looks like france and poland idea to cap

the you supply even further is set to lose out to the better reasoning of the netherlands, dan mark and germany and the commission itself, which all opposed the idea of an energy cap for fear that suppliers, well, we'll just sell their product to other customers that pay better for all the talk of us solidarity with the u on ukraine. it's not like american gas companies are going to just give it away. speaking of paying customers, germany was probably hoping to become one of iran's paying customers in the event that a revive nuclear deal could have lifted western sanctions on iranian fuel. because chancellor, olaf schultz seems pretty bummed out that a deal hasn't happened yet or not. so nanda, for unborn i regret that to wrong has not yet given a positive response to the proposals made by the european colo denito and opposed. berlin is also getting flack from sanctions advocates and environmentalists over its unwillingness to stop the shipment of russian uranium processed in germany to

power france is nuclear plants. thankfully the e u. has it sanctioned atomic fuel yet, which would be catastrophic on nuclear relied? france? speaking of which the eiffel towers lights are getting turned off earlier now each day here in paris to save energy. and it was also pretty comical that when cities around the world lit up monuments to pay tribute to queen elizabeth last week in the wake of her death, paris just turned off the lights on the eiffel tower. you know, you had union jack colors lighting up monuments all over the world, the queen's face all over them. and here it's just, well, you know, maybe this is the cheapest way to go. this is turned the lights off. so france may just want to keep looking for excuses or people who pass away need to pay respects to every day by saying the lights off because it looks like the countries energy crunch and europe's could get even more complicated. it turns out that a subsidiary of the state owned energy giant in ex me, seated if also a deaf last 60000000 euros by erroneously selling electricity,

that it didn't actually have on the european wholesale market. the end result possibly power cuts with the u. k. and spain specifically being alerted and while the you is realizing the challenge of breaking from russian energy, the u. s. is worried about where it's going to get its weapons, grade aluminum, and the senate has even sounded the alarm in a letter to the pentagon. emery some weeks the operator of the only domestic high purity ellamin in producer amounts restrictions at the plant due to high energy cost estimating the facility will be shut down for at least 9 to 12 months. us manufacturers who make crucial components for the aerospace aviation and defense sites are now forced to source the product from foreign sources, including russia had an increased cost. despite the multiplication of headaches, that western allies are giving themselves and their own citizens. some still think that they are sticking it to russia and who russian citizens sanctions must be

reflected in the everyday. lots of ordinary russians above. oh, we must continue to provide ukraine with all forms of support and be prepared to impose even stricter sanctions. still, it looks like the most recent serge of western solidarity consists of many allied nations coming independently to the realization that isolating russia from the global supply chain without taking a big hit themselves is not going to be as easy or as cheap as their ideological virtue signaling so apparently the european union can already be called a loser in the ukraine conflict as it acts against its own economic interest in the hold on. that's according to the hung gary and national assembly speaker lazlow cova, who emphasized at brussels is not serving its people today, the european union, which cannot politically prevent the outbreak of war and ukraine restore peace through diplomacy. and under external pressure acts against its most fundamental

economic interest is already considered a loser. regardless of the side, non european interest groups and private capital condemned a european union as a whole and each member state individually to military dependence, political subordination, economic and energy and viability, financial debt, robbery and social division. earlier hungarian prime minister victor, oregon, said that the sanctions imposed on russia were not successful with the e u itself now facing inflation surging and energy shortages. in his opinion, the blog should change as policy towards sanctions. otherwise, both industries and households across the continent will suffer or been emphasized, the e u will weaken off the russian military operation while countries like china and russia, as well as large american corporations will all benefit. earlier in the program, i spoke with dr. georgia, i'm really that senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london who is sure that the block has lost his independence and the economic competitiveness.

as a result of these sanctions, the european union has allowed itself to be manipulated by external access, cheaply, the united states, into a confrontation with russia, from which the e, you derived no benefit than to the contrary. it stopped greatly. if anyone with any common sense would have known that you don't sanction a country. that is one of the biggest energy producers in the world. and he's one of the biggest rain producers in the world. and he's also one of the biggest red medical uses in the world. it has everything the world need. so how the european union will the hope that he would get the better of this confrontation? it's been almost amazing. it's clear that it stop working is coming and the journey that he can make power house in europe is going to, they're going to be closing down factories. they were really closing down plums. and once that happened,

when the economics of europe starts closing down than everything else, shutting down and you have energy prices that no one can afford. so this is an artificial crisis brought about by very, very stupid political decision, essentially eliminate the europe as any kind of economic rivals to the united states around just a few years ago. president trump was hitting europe with paris because he didn't like the economic competition from europe. so that's, that's already gone in. the americans are worried about the european competition anymore. what's really happened is the europe as well. any sense of independence that they're good to have your company with us today for this program. now the european council says a recent escalation and fighting between armenia and john is extremely worrying the counsels president cold for a complete and sustainable ceasefire. that's as armine as prime minister nicole

pershing young has said that at least 49 soldiers were killed in a fierce overnight. the death toll apparently still being assessed. meanwhile, the john defense ministry has disclosed multiple casualties among its own military forces. now explosions from artillery and drone strikes were reported by armenian citizen shortly after midnight. look at those pictures. armenia says it as by johnny forces have been targeting civilian infrastructure. as by john has adequately rejected that claim saying it's only directing fire at military installations in retaliation for quote, proper cations from the armenian side. now the armenian defense ministry says 7 locations, including civilian areas, were affected by the fighting. and the local john list gave us this report about the recent escalation, as were by johns armed forces, use artillery and military drones to attack sovereign armenian territory. and the battle that began around midnight september or september 13 after midnight units of

virginia forces using their jewelry systems more so than you release open contents far as small tenuously on various sections of armenian as a bridge. any border in the direction for 1000000 positions and initial cease fire called for the fighting to end at 9 am. but the answer by johnny army has continued to shell the armenian border in violation of the agreements. according to the official information 49 people were killed on the armenian side. it's unclear how many casualties were on the answer by johnny side. the armenian army is completely combat ready. we will fight for our lands. the answer by johnny army has attempted to move forward from their positions, but the armenian army has succeeded in pushing them back. i mean, you know, the national security council has officially appealed for help from russia, as well as moscow lead defense block. the c s t o and the united nations. meanwhile, azerbaijan defense minister has said the escalation was a response to the armenian military placing land mines on either by johnny roadways . our local journalist has more from back who her sources caused the

missile defense also informed as a result of yesterday's contra measures taken. murdered by john, the armed forces destroyed during an infrastructure that armenia continues to build on the. busy on the us as my journey armenian border, and this infrastructure new could pose a potential threat o 2 as much as security. they added that it will take another for 5 years for a minute to restore it at night sabotage groups of armenian armed forces using the mountaineers to rain and existent gaps in ravines. mind the territories, and supply rolls between the position. so those by johnny army units in different directions. it also said that as it was, an army has taken control over strategic coins on the border, which would pose a threat and danger for the position that was, it was on the military units. it was on the line that as

a my journey army didn't have an intention or go on to a invade into del armenian territory. the u. k is continuing to mourn the death of queen elizabeth or coughing his country lying in state of the scottish capital by tens of thousands of people have been chewing to pay their respects. however, amid the grieving, there are some who have been asking questions about the whole concept of a monarchy. now, although vastly outnumbered by mourners, some signs of protest have been seen calling for the establishment of a republic. however, the issue of free speech has arisen after those protesters were arrested. i do not want to live in a country that arrests people for holding up our offensive signs as though it is some sort of fascist dictatorship. being anti monarchy is not a crime, and freedom of speech is paramount. you can go ahead and mourn the clean all you want, but don't pretend like the longest, raining monarch is some innocent granny and has nothing to do with all the red and

did all over the world. this is not a random point. many conservatives are now actively arguing in favor of monarchy. there is another word for that. it's called a dictatorship. they're trying to convince their voters that it is a better system than democracy and monarch sounds better than dictator. well, certainly some mixed opinions that now the queen's death has once again raised questions about the future direction of countries around the world where the british monarch is also a head of state. australia's muted the idea of one day becoming a republic. while new zealand is prime minister has said how country will become a republic quote. in due time, while in the caribbean antigua and about buddha, also considering possible referendums on the issue, wouldn't take this conversation further. over now to alexander mackay, political analysts and the editor of red star radio, joining us here on auto international. always good to see you. here are the death of the queen. obviously it's a seismic event for the u. k. but let's talk about the implications if we can,

in the countries whether british monarch is also the head of state. i mean, are we expecting any possible, a backlash or after effect here after the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd? well, there certainly should be an examination of the role that the monarchy plays in the various nations of the commonwealth. i mean, if you mentioned australia there in new zealand in your introduction, infamously enough, australia is one of the few countries in the world where the powers of the monarch in the form of the governor general were actually used there to dismiss and elected prime minister in the form of golf whitland back in the 1970s. and so even though the, the monarchy is betrayed as a benign and a political institution, it's still used to conduct and convey british power in commonwealth territories like australia, like new zealand and canada, which still have governor general's bill from the national and the regional level. and that's really what the monarchy is all about. it is not just something that she ceremonial, it is a very real institution,

which still he's able to convey power if, even if that power has now passed from the monarch to politicians. so commonwealth nation should absolutely be examining their relationship with the monarch, his head of state because of the, the power it actually gives british and all by extension, american politicians and interfering in the affairs of sovereign nations. as was shown, india, se trail. in example, alexander what it, what about people being allowed to show a difference of opinion, people having a right to demonstrate, for example, freedom of speech, a british police even arrested some people who expressed their dissatisfaction with having a monarchy at these public events mean that unless i'm mistaken, that would be an attack on free speech would have not. well, yes it is. but the, the free speech in britain is much like british democracy and freedom to protest. you're allowed to protest as long as it doesn't inconvenience anybody who's in power. and you're allowed to tell the truth long after all the guilty parties of

retired and failure to abide by that generally elicits a very unfavorable response from those in power. much like what has happened to julian assange, a man in prison because he told the truth before it was acceptable to do so. and what the british establishment have been saying is that it's ok to protest, but you've got to do it when the time is right. so you can only protest against the monarchy when nobody's paying attention to the monarchy, no more pay attention to your protest. so it just reveals the 1st of all is a great deal about this policy rule as a britain with regard to this. but also that there is a large amount of law on the books in britain that is used to restrict process and previous speech. now, this is not used a lot of the time when the rule is don't require it to be, but it's for when they want it to be in the staff or occasions like this, when they want to project this image of total national unity. nobody can be allowed to interrupt that nobody can be allowed to descend to publicly. i mean, they,

for instance, they cancelled all the football matches last weekend, but they allowed the gulf from the cricket to go ahead and why was that? what, what about every yeah, i've been trying to sort of jump in, but what is it every year that the queen, she would do her with a new year's or christmas speech or the public and. and she'll be telling the public, telling people to, to come together and help the common man share your food, break your bread. and she does this speech from, from a room adorned in gold and silver. can luxury isn't? it just does look a bit bizarre, but i don't listen. i don't have much time. last question please. obviously, monarchs cannot be elected. they're always, you know, typically born into the job. but what about this whole prime minister now let's trust elected by only 10.2 percent of the british population. what are your thoughts on that? well, it's the good old british democracy inaction again, which is that it's the appearance of democracy without the actual reality of it. so less trust can go for another 2 years without reference to the population without

reference to a democratic vote. we have an up a house in the house of laws, which is totally unelected, but which has 900 of members who are political appointees and cronies. of those in power, we have a head of state which is elected. we have a chronic democratic deficit in britain will remain to have one as long and because the monarchy is at the center of that democratic deficit. the monarchy is what holds all these undemocratic institutions together. a watson was, enables les stress and many others before her to become prime minister and exercise all this power and not be subject to any kind of democratic debate for another 2 years. and to conclude on this for rory, the parliament just spent 2 days sharing memories of the deceased queen. when it's supposedly we're in the middle of an energy crisis, have a growing economic crisis and a host of other problems facing the country. the parliamentarian spent 2 days discussing the memory, the memories of the deceased monarch, which doesn't say

a lot for the, the meaningful nature of the prediction institutions when they can spend a lot time doing that. but apparently barely a day on the energy crisis and nothing at all debating the war in ukraine and britain's role in it. so might be calling it a bit of a more bit distraction. alexander mackay, editor of red star radio political analyst, always a pleasure, appreciate it. thank you. thank you. well, thank you, joining us here for the program from moscow. this is asi, international. great to have you got pleasure with us today and thanks for joining us. we are back with .