ah, he's with possession of those states to pump the military equipment into a crate is cynical, and it doesn't hide the fact if they wanted to please, we can rush it by prolonging the commonplace rushes. foreign minister blamed the west for deliberately escalating the conflict and you, frank, and accuses the international community of closing their eyes to human rights violations. by it. we bring you special coverage as to don bath republics and to ukrainian regions. start to vote today on whether to join the russian federation and the u. s. congress woman says washington is

covering up the killing of a palestinian american journalist plan is really forces insisting on a transparent investigation with from moscow to the world. this is our key international. i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with russian foreign minister survey live robs, addressed to the un security council. he said the collective west has escalated the conflict in ukraine, adding that is the ultimate goal is to weaken russia. nathan fornia said in a solution that was in the position of those states that pump military equipment into ukraine is cynical. and it doesn't hide the fact they want to plate and weaken russia by prolonging the conflict. the collective west, kendall's, the fire, and it is with impunity. you won't really punish yourself, will you?

this is not latent racism against russia, but outright racism all eyes were on the security council chamber when we heard from the russian foreign minister, sir gay lavern. now he choked to the floor of the 15 member body that leads the united nations. and he gave remarks, exposing all of these facts that are widely ignored and international, and us aligned media. when he spoke, he pointed out that while the united states seems to continue to maintain the idea that the government based in kiev is some kind of democracy, the reality of their actions on the ground with their food blockades and their suppression of political dissidence just doesn't match that narrative, here's what we heard from the russian foreign minister at the security council. below we go a few months. so the kids is imposed of financial energy and transport blockade of dumbass. his residents were cut off from social benefit, pension salaries, banking services, education and health care. they were deprived of basic civil rights under the claim

of the fight against russian aggression and separatism in ukraine. the persecution of distance is intensifying. we have no doubt that ukraine has find he turned into a totalitarian state of the nazi kind where the gnomes of international law flouted with impunity. now the russian foreign minister also described other realities of what is taking place on the ground. he described the burning of both books and people by forces that admire those who collaborated with the nazis during the 2nd world war and are pushing pro hitler narratives in ukrainian society. he went on to furthermore describe ha, how weapons provided by the united states are being used to commit crimes against civilians. and how there has been a huge effort by russia to document these crimes despite being ignored largely by international bodies. here's what he said. but at the new cookie, william, no military or strategic targets were hidden. this settlement shall by ukraine. any

civilians have dumbass sofa is not surprising that ukrainian armed forces employ terrorist tactics using civilians as human shields. now, the russian foreign minister made a point of pointing out that soon the people of these eastern regions will have the ability to determine their own future in upcoming referendums, where they will vote on the future of their regions. this ability to determine their own destiny as people was deprived of them when the united states imposed a government upon them in the 2014 year o maiden cooper. it was quite an important moment when we heard from russian foreign minister, sergei lab rav. he was able to point out all kinds of realities that the united states and its allies have worked very, very hard to obscure and prevent the world from seeing in their efforts to demonize and isolate russia and continue this war. staying with the news from the un general assembly u. s. president joe biden, an u. k. prime minister list trust. both emphatically claim that no one had threatened

russia couldn't claims he had to act because russia was threatened. but no one threatened russia. no one is threatening russia. the reaction cons as president latimer poon has warned that russia has all the means to protect itself from a potential nuclear threat. something both by an an trust rejected as you just heard. however, threats of using nuclear weapons against russia have been voiced, officially at least 5 times since last winter, and vaccines february, moscow has been worn that the nukes are on the table if needed. i think that vladimir putin must also understand that the atlantic alliance is a nuclear alliance. if the americans asked us to store us nuclear weapons in poland, we would be open to that. it would significantly increase deterrence towards moscow

. nato needs to prepare for the use of nuclear weapons in advance. it's an important duty of the prime minister. i'm ready to do that to unleash britain's nuclear arsenal to defend the country. meanwhile, russia has had concerns since february, when at the conference in munich, zelinski threatened to reject the budapest memorandum of 1994. the agreement expressly said ukraine will not become a new clear state. zelinski stated that ukraine must be made a full number of nato, otherwise it would acquire nuclear weapons. former us pentagon official, michael maloof, says nato expansion and offer of membership to ukraine were red lines for russia. mr. zelinski has threatened to go back to a new killer posture through production. they probably have the industrial capability or they did it, but they certainly have the know how,

because they used to have nukes stored in in ukraine. this kind of talk just accelerates and causes greater escalation of tensions, which is totally unnecessary. this is far greater than just ukraine. nato has like 8 or 10 different expansion periods from the end of the cold war 2. now, in which the west gave assurances and a group and made agreements not to expand nato. and this is what mr. put was referring to. and then once they started coming in to ukraine and offering nato membership, that's probably the and that, and having been warned numerous times that this was a red line for russia. russia had to take, had had no other choice but to take action. and i think that and again, this is part and parcel of a policy director from washington,

and particularly by neoconservatives within the, by the ministration. and what we are having to do now is the world is suffering because of a hoax perpetrated by the democrats in the united states that russia is, is all bad. but what's happened is it's force moscow now to look more eastward and unite with china on many aspects. and which is something the united states really did not want, but it but through its own actions through what we would call a self fulfilling prophecy is just done. the very thing that they've tried to prevent, ah, today we start our special coverage of their referendums and the don ask and they've gone people's republic as well as in his opera, she and her san regions and ukraine on whether to join russia. voting will begin today. aah!

who's the voting in these 4 regions comes as ukranian troops continue to shell residential areas killing and wounding civilians, rush and back. the local authorities say he wants to terrorize residents ahead of the referenda. meanwhile, moscow says they will support the decision of the people and also increase its defensive the regions the 5 days of voting will continue until tuesday. we ask

people and the don bass and in the hearse on region, how they feel about the referenda. here's what they had to say, almost at the nick at the course thing of the ship. this is a state of mind that has been going on since 2014, when we held a referendum for independence from ukraine. we will restore justice returned to our historical homeland for 8 years. we tried to get this done. and you guys didn't, they got to fill in some of this even until 2014 were considered ourselves part of russia, which said the time has finally come been use night. the vash enough. we have been waiting for this for 8 long years. maybe even 30 years after the soviet union collapsed, plural, that is a water for us. this is important because russia will give us more jobs. and at the same time, there will be concrete protection from ukrainian attacks and from europe, which helps key after that of the did it not last piece will prevail? again, my child is 9 years old, but she has been living and eternal war all her life. and took her to ship it. we are waiting for only good things. there will be no inter ethnic strife as was the

case in ukraine. i am for it with a beard is hawaii. this is a victory and historical justice. we will speak our native language without fear of terror. i choose to leave freely my younger brother for when we are returning home for 30 years, ukraine has destroyed what the u. s. s. are left for it. i expect russia to restore our greatness shuttle for your ukraine's escalating political crisis since the might, on coo and 2013, has led to countless tragedies for the russian speaking population protest across southern end, eastern ukraine against the new government and key as for harshly suppress this includes the tragedy in odessa, where 42 people were killed by ukrainian nationalists. ortiz, mariah garcia, takes us through those 8 years of waiting. anyway, you look at it, this is going to be a historic referendum. the bay geopolitical make up of the u. p. and continent is

likely going to change and people are going to be asked go, data ads are very simple, deceptively simple question. what flag would they like to live under? but i'm in the middle of the fiscal gland busted. the promise of though a ganske ended in escrow publix and the registrations of his approach yet. and here some regions have made a decision to carry out a referendum about their future. and they appealed to us russia to support this decision. we would like to emphasize we will do everything to provide safe conditions to hold a referendum so that they could express their wheel and make the decision about their future, the guns could than yet. sc made that choice years ago in 2014, shocked by the rise of ukrainian nationalists who sent tanks and jets to suppress them. pro russian east. they held a referendum and voted to leave ukraine. 90 percent of vignettes 96 percent in la guns. it was hoped that secession could be peaceful moscow respects the will

of the population of dennis can lu ganske regions and proceeds from the fact that the practical implementation of the results of the referendums will take place in a civilized way without any recurrence of violence. and through a dialogue between the representatives of t. f de ness can le ganske. there was no peace crated authority. he sat down on po, russian sentiments who catechism activists with kidnapped and never seen again in odessa, nationalists burned pro russian activists alive. oh, oh, toms, have changed old hopes the peace and reason from kiev have evaporated. russia's only choice it believes is to fight for the millions of civilians who want to leave ukraine, the west,

which had shut its eyes on kev's atrocities. the will of the people of the dumbass for years. this typed up on the caesar's shine the front end, and it is very, very clear that the sham referendums cannot be accepted and are not covered by international law. was so emotionally still, though a lot or i wish to condemn in the strongest terms the annexation referendums in the occupied territories. these false referendums would constitute a new violation of the international law by kootenai, as the results will never be recognized us as foreign minister. so gay lover of offered very simple explanation for these referendums. he said he's referendums in the nits, cooler guns up at ocean hill, said allan answer. i then said the ukrainian president schools for russians who make up a significant portion of the gradient population for them to leave the country. and to get more insight on that on bass path to independence and self determination

. checkout, art is brand new documentary. i'm alive telling the story about what the local population in the region has had to deal with as ukrainian force is attacked for years. the full version is on our website r t dot com. ah . so what the results for you as you come to is the holes. i really thought, well, if you talk about this unit a short but that's all i thought for, but i see you got my dog. oh boy, you do you like a yellow a

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for keep you updated with the latest news as a historic 5 day wrapper. read them to decide the fate of several 1000000 people gets under way. the ukraine has offered up itself as a testing ground for a new u. s. weapons systems. that's according to ukraine, deputy defense cheap whose terms thing washington arms manufacturers with increased profit to battle tests their pilot projects. if you have some ideas or some pilot projects to be tested before mass manufacturing, you can send it to us and we'll explain how to do it. and in the end, you will get the stamp proved by the war in ukraine. you will sell it easy. has

already received tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons provided by a number of western states and includes a wide range of military equipment from small fire arms to heavy armor and artillery systems. in particular, the u. s. has been supplying ukraine with multiple launch rocket systems known as high mars, widely used and attacks on civilians and done nest, luke off and her san regions. meanwhile, the constant flow is becoming a problem for european security with both europe pull and interpol organisations warning that a large amount of weapons are being smuggled out of the combat zone. or marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter, says the proposed testing is likely to backfire on the cranial army. it sounds copacetic, bring the weapon in, test them in combat, and then you'll get a stamp of approval. but the reality is, bring the weapons in, turn them over to ukrainian military. it's not really configured to incorporate

them and watch my soldiers dying. that's what it should be. same, watch my soldiers die because that's the result. if i was ukrainian, deputy defense minister, i'm sure i could have wonderful glossy photographs taken of the ukrainians, receiving these weapons and the trains using these weapons. but the russians would be able to counter with imagery of ukrainians di trying to use these weapons because that's the end result. ukraine is losing this conflict. you're going to use this loses conflict and there's no amount of weaponry whether proven or to be tested, that can change that outcome. and any ukranian who touches an experimental weapon in a combat environment is basically setting them sentencing themselves to death. anybody in congress believes that what they're doing is designed to help you grade. they would have to and that using ukraine as a testing ground for weapons that are on proven is just an invitation for slaughter

. us congresswoman is pushing for a new investigation end of the killing and palestinian american journalist sharina away calling out the lack of commitment by washington to properly investigate her death is nothing short. outrageous inter government continues to refuse to hold israel accountable to these parents. i know they will continue to push for full transparent us investigations to these murders and full accountability. the congress on the call comes after a recently published investigation by a london based research group and a palestinian rights group that uncovered new evidence and the death of the i'll just, you're a journalist for reporting from the west bank in may. she was shot in the head by israeli forces the investigation there just that the killing was deliberate, the prob, examine the size angle of fire and concluded the shooter was able to clearly see

there were journalists in the area. the findings come on the same day that the journalist family formerly submitted an official complaint to the international criminal court, demanding justice for her killing. earlier this month, israel conducted its own investigation and concluded there was, quote, a high possibility the journalist was accidentally hit by israeli forces, but added it would not be launching a criminal investigation. the usb department acknowledged the findings and refused to condemn tel aviv. the family of the victim is outraged and insist israel must be held accountable. the general director of all hoc palestinian human rights organization in the west bank who is part of this new investigation claims. israel statements are logical, as they contradict themselves. these ladies, this is, you know, they contradicted themselves 1st. they said that this raises them up behind. you

know, these are your soldiers, them beyond just killing a sick and they said that might be ready to soldiers, but look in continually how they concluded intentionally, a looking continually forrester, if they are 100 percent. sure that the killing is probably gonna put me through by the israeli soldier, or the sniper. how hold comes even the americans, when they said that there is no intention behind the killing, how our investigation carried out by our expert to colleagues and we use old, so i plan to pick. i also tools or this is not paternity. literally say yeah, conclusions. no, this is the reality on the ground because these raises the throwing. what to do. i'm the official on professional investigation and they're americans to you to what they did this just forensic 40 bullet. and that's it. tell you conclude that there

is no intention under the same time you didn't investigate the person. the us treasury department has announced a new position to be filled, a chief sanctioned economist. the job would be to give advice on what effects any new sanctions from washington might have. those guns as current sanctions are back firing on america in general. according to the job description, duties will include advising on things such as the design and implementation of sanctions, policy and providing analysis and potential collateral effects. different position offers a $150000.00 salary and as a part of the freshly created sanctions, economic analysis unit. a reason whitehouse report showed a 9 fold increase and sanction issued by washington. since september 11th, 2001 legal and media analyst,

lionel says that only heads of state can change or deal with sanctions. not economist. the question is to very good question. will a sanctions economist change either the sanctions themselves, the efficacy of the sanctions? the appropriateness, i go now. i would think the best people to be doing this in any particular country would be heads of state and not somebody who is making a $150000.00. again, not, not to belittle the position for somebody who is not merely 8th, a civil servant, a person involved. we don't hear about sanctions anymore. we don't hear about them. nobody. most people have forgotten all about it. so i would think after 7 months of, of focus in this, we're getting around to this now. somebody now said, you know, maybe we need,

i want to have somebody look at these sanctions. we've been sanctioning since 911 north korea. ugh, drug of our country devolved in, in drug importation, an export. what is left to sanction? i don't know. the best thing that can be done, and you know this, everybody knows this is negotiation. face to face negotiation. it's old fashion. and the reason why it's old fashion, it works, and over to your pakistan, where a court has suspended a contempt case against former prime minister and moran con mazda had of a rally, he is set to hold this sunday, and his mom about demanding snap elections. here is a local journalist job at ronna with more. i'm standing there zone in capital lombard. behind me are the buildings of the following business fellows and other street entities. these are the shipping containers which are being bought in front

of these buildings because the former friends from around hon as long as that he's going to start a long march and lay of the shoot off capitalist on bud. particularly, particularly this ready venue. he wants to block and force a government to design and for 1st general elections, the form of them serve on believes that he has to go to caring. on time to you, my concern can, we can focus on the unprecedented mission and why fi? because of which you can afford from your lectures, not too far from newton, doesn't want, at least at elections before us government. we want a regional lesson feeling that they would remove the elections by giving you all the procure barcas on seems to be not on the in terms american pressures. particularly if you have tremendous pressure on country spots to contain china. because china has mid tens of millions of dollars invested in focus on it as link

boss of china with countries. countries was reporting this whole rest of the concrete, written written at a, b, and c. in that conduct. americans believe that in the event of wanted to try not, it would log this whole china c back to found rules which are linking link showing up with that sort of as an alternate route cleared rule and clear dude and nuclear root font of the china and that is why that the americans have been putting water pressure and pharma french about that is government was dislodging food this year because it was a park and part of the american dream to agenda and no develop all the time. so about kind of launch. it's a mess up, come across, focus on he's got a hold of people is a fit within the belief that the he will get it done but bought and that is why they are delaying the elections. the military had this. you could negotiation with them to prevent him not to go for the long march. it seems that the former prime

minister is settling. it's probably with the, with the confuse, the judicially. i'm today, he offered a apology or to a high court contempt for curious against him. it seems, has been pushed for now, and he's likely to be exonerated, his guess is likely to be dismissed in next week, because the course seems to be seems to be more inclined to accept his apology after he had factored a female judge. that's all for now. we hear check out our t dot com for all and believe is breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour. mm ah. the next stage of brushes, military operation in ukraine is about to commence. a partial mobilization has been ordered, and importantly, referendums are to be held in

a number of ukraine's regions. their goal is to become part of russia. nato's war on russia just escalated. ah ah ah, russia is the aggression?

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