power and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah, this is our future, and the most important thing is the future of my grand daughter's. though she uphold the heart, my mother is russian. my father is rushing well, i am rushing to policy rings. a food on both is and fees. cleaning read is beginning voting on whether to do in the russian federation . russians phone, minnesota, take aim at the west playmates, deliberately escalating the conflict ukraine. united states and this allies have been systematically covering up the crimes of the key of regime for 8

years, building their policy towards the landscape based on a well known american principle. he is, of course, a son of a, but he's our son of a us a little may hold for a transparent investigation to the fatal shooting of a pilot. the journalist is when he pulled it back in may on the with the you and pull in for an international great through to tackle terrorism in africa. so we looked at how far as military mission failed to maintain security in one of the regional states niger with, from also to wherever you are in the world. you are watching all t international. i'm road. hm. army here, all the top stories, all the hour. today we thought of coverage of the referendum to the don't boss. i'm

beyond that. and whether it's in russia or not. voting is now well under way. ah. now the reverend ends are being held in full regions. don't ask and against people's republics, both of those had already voted to declare themselves independent back in 2014 after the government and kiev was overthrown. votes. he also is underway in the

zeros. yeah. and cares on region. the independence to now the voting comes is slight, intense shelling of residential areas by ukrainian forces. the russian by local authorities claim team is trying to scare people from go into the poles. moscow meanwhile, says it will support the people's will and decision. and hair are the latest features from the polling stations in the dawn bath region. people, him both the donates and the gods republic said they'd been waiting for this moment ever since the government was overthrown in the country. 8 years ago, ortiz roman and casa rev looks at how the war on dash republic is hoping. the vote will finally bring peace. be a referendum had just began. it will be held over the next hour, 5 days, but for 1st days to ensure the safety of reverend,

the participants. the appalling will be done in adjacent territories or to the polling stations and at people's homes as well. all that i do like you do, your compatriots, we've been waiting for this moment for more than 8 years. we waited through anxious nights and busy week days at the front and in the back. we waited like to wait to return to family after many years of separation. the holding of the referendum is a historic milestone for going home. mostly, this is the main motive in all of our deeds and battles. a deepest desire and at the same time, an absolute confidence that the day will come when we become russia bow, the main day of the referendum will be held on it's wednesday. a 7th of september when pulling stations will open at 8 and close. a at 10 o'clock in the morning to as we ball people here in dunbar sterile, i happy and are all enthusiastic about going to the polls about of voting to become a part of russia. once again, they say we are finally returning

a back home back to the motherland as they say, but the local authorities, they are ensuring all precautionary measures. her soul that said, no tragedy can take place while the referendum is being held. i'm very happy to be here and feel very enthusiastic to be part of this historic moment. i hope a lot of people will come to vote and change our future. i hope all russians will be able to get back to the real home you. now we've always felt like rations. he's been living in ukraine. he said there are no words. emotions are overwhelming. it's exciting. this is our future, and the most important thing is the future of my granddaughter's. my children's. meanwhile, in the neighboring of the gods, fails of public votes is in full swing, and the head of the region has encouraged citizens to make their voices heard. o m steward, i'm sure the citizens of august people's republic will make their choice in favor

of joining the russian federation. by making ser choice, we will obtain peace and quiet and we're going back home to our historical borders . this is what is just what we write them. will guns people's republic votes. these are the 1st people who decided to show up and cast their opinion officially, whether or not they would like their land to become part of rush. hm. now, what is special pulling stations here come to people, not the other way around. that's all due to safety concerns. now here's how it's organized. there's a queue of people, they enter the bus through the front door. and then over here, there's a makeshift polling booth where people 1st, they sign up over here. then over here they cost the vote. and here's the ann with it with every ballot that has been cost so far. again, this is due to fears that large gatherings of people in wild places in traditional, alongside or around traditional pulling stations that they might become targets of

attacks of over missile attacks by cave or terrorist acts. even my mother is russian. my father is russian. well, i am russian. i know that everything will be fine. many do not believe in the referendum. there are a lot of scared people. i know that everything will be fine and we hope so. god bless another read a vote, zeal. worthers, enjoy russia today is a lover rosier. this footage, as you can see, shows kids at polling stations and cows on an melissa bowl. the mercy and police are ensuring security, all voting stations with slept for explosives before they open. but this why the political threats, people have been keen to cough their balance. yet, michelle is direct lou chelsea, i believe that only with russia we will be able to revive our region. raise the economy, medicine education,

revive the industries that her son region was famous for in soviet times and give a new impetus to our economy. i cast my vote for joining russia. award montagnier from a mr. finally, were together from finally art home of the mood is excellent. i wanted for russia from my home from my mother, london actually. um, actually i want to come back home about i just want to come back home to sorts of the blue this on. it's always been a russian city. they say that for a person, the native language is the one in which his mother read fairy tale for him in childhood. they read to me in russia, where now had one of the voting stations here in had a song. these have been set up all over the city. long with these members of the electoral commission are going flat to flat house to house collecting people's votes. because despite the fact that already thousands of people who have some city in the province itself have voted, there's been a lot of intimidation that been threats act of terror. and there is, she says,

of course bombardment of your song with, with me solves, with rockets by the ukrainian military, the ukrainian sod nash lists of also threatened people. they have told them to stay away from looting stations for. busy their own safety taken at face value. it is believe that they want to target these voting stations to keep people away away from the referendum way from expressing themselves nevertheless. so far things have been. com. security has of course been beefed up. there is a lot of tension, but as i mentioned, thousands have already voted in more and more of voting with every hour. we will of course, keep you updated with the latest years as this 5 day referendum to decide the fate of several 1000000 people. interviews with

for a minute to say a lab, rob, hi, isn't cuza collected west of escalating the conflict and ukraine? i'm turning a blind eye to his war crimes. he made the claims while addressing the un security council. she be, she'll study was more such atrocities, became possible and remain unpunished to, to the fact that the united states and its allies have been systematically covering up the crimes of the key of regime for 8 years. building their policy towards zalinski based on a well known american principle. he is, of course, a son of a. but he's our son of 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 that they are 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. nathan fornia solicitation that was the position of those states that pump military equipment into ukraine, a cynical and it doesn't hide the fact that they want to deplete. and we can russia by prolonging the conflict. the collective west kindles the fire and it does so with impunity. you won't really punish yourself, will you? this is not latent racism against russia, but outright racism. 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 the 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 is what he said. but yet the music you who are, you know, military or strategic targets were hitting the settlement show by ukraine. only civilian residents of dumbass have been made to suffer. it's not surprising that the 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 old maiden cube. it was quite an important moment when we heard from russian foreign minister, sergei labrat. 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. going through circles to the inspirational leadership of vladimir putin us, i've been search leadership a couple of them as an entity fully as a broad voice or thought bully, you came by minutes. even boy stilton had a verbal slip up as he listed the reasons why you crane's counter offensive is proving to be successful, as he inadvertently thank a russian prison for his quote, inspirational leadership. people quickly correcting himself and passing the plays

over to grade. so get more details on bo. joe's the foot in mouth. emphasis on our website oxy. don't com. right, we need to go back. so i thought so it's always very special. guess during of the few minutes we're talking about the referendum of happening in the dumbass and again, regions. now very lucky to be joined by hi, glen decent, he's a political scientists then. thanks so much for joining us here at r t. now, a lot of the day on with a referenda over his top story for us here. ah, me, in russia, but a around the world, people are watching as well. the western leaders of slammed the idea that they sort of said, this is not a good referendum. we weren't no to say, but how the people sort of looking. and i mean, joe public i, they sort of thinking, well, this could be an end finally to the aggression in the region. ah, no, i think her among the public her that it of use of governments are well

also reflected in the media. so her so im most, if not all newspapers and media are effectively condemning this, which also are shapes of use of the public. okay. some countries of course around the world have annexed themselves away from their main country. i mean, isn't this, i'm, or way forward for russia and for to bring peace into the region? good. well, it, it is true. we often have a various in the sessions which have led to peace. you know, singapore. well, since it was my militia seceding effectively, singapore, you had the break up of czechoslovakia, and obviously m 111 can argue, does say that the,

the splitting up of ukraine could lead to more stability. and now the argument behind this is course that ukraine has been, i will patch to get us an artificial state and the but, but of course, the main opposition and problems comes from this not having been done in a negotiated settlement, but instead non union naturally and this is, but of course this is a, a long discussion which has been had the over the years because it will with these 2 different principles. and with one hand, we have the principle of territorial integrity. on the other hand, we have a competing principle of self determination. and often we see that the countries press you, in which principle they choose the tense, often to reflect the power interest. so for example, in the western magneto countries, when it came to kosovo, they were arguing very strongly for self determination. so they showed him at the

expense of the serbia territorial integrity and a similar argument. this, of course, being used in pie one, in terms of pushing for taiwan secession that they should break away from china. again, irrespective of what china once and but, but was seen in ukraine when they did the opposite argument that's being chosen here in which the territorial integrity of ukraine has to be prioritized about self determination. and obviously this was also the argument that was put forward it a crimea session in 2014. and my, my point to simply that we have competing at different principles if you will. and, but they seem to be determined more by power interest, as opposed to necessarily values and, and this is why it, it, it creates the even further divisions between the western russia because of science, arguing that they are acting out over

a superior values. and this is maria reducing mutual understanding are obviously in ukraine as well. well, i mean, we've got, we've had a recent ne, i stay lover of our, the un security council to talk about how the westhal, the busy steve west a sort of fueling the fire. so to speak, now adding more weapon to the region. why haven't there been really dialogue at this stage? well, that's a good question. them to be honest, that has been my pain frustration with this entire conflict as well, which has been the complete absence of any of any dialogue. even though you're studying disagree with the other side. the more disagreements are you should, the more need there is for diplomacy. but again, we haven't seen any efforts to have any diplomacy over the past 6 months. and instead we have this circle of an escalation. and

again, it, there is now in the 1st perhaps to reach some kind of a will make more school council this referendums even though this is to be too late now. but there, by, but it does, it does stand out as a very troubling development because we are now, if we could be moving towards the use of nuclear weapons and at the west, russia now indirectly in a war, in terms of the old equipment coming to you create your respective. once more supports the shipment, the weapons are not. we have to admit that the russia not fighting a war against the weapons. so there the borders between our proxy war direct work is narrowing every day. so one would really think that we should send our best and brightest diplomats to each other and try to work something out. but again,

there is a complete absence of this, which is of course very, very concerned. indeed indeed, that see how things pan out of the next few days glendale and thanks so much for joining us here. see always a pleasure to leave you so thank you right. long mess with one now. ok. this other still is africa now as secure as he cry says in the thought her region is threatening to turn into a global problem with the you and the secretary general. i'm turning with her is a warning. the way the situation is handled needs a new approach. if nothing is done, the effects of terrorism, violent extremism in organized crime will be felt far beyond the region in the african continent. coordinated international breakthrough is urgently needed. we must rethink our collective approach and show creativity going beyond existing efforts. the civility in the region is say he dislikes an ongoing

anti insurgent operation, colon forward. hon. led by the french murphy against is army groups. the instances he has led until large amount of the population becoming frustrated by the deteriorating security situation. we heard from a member of m a c t c to move were responsible for recent protests in niger who believes the presence of the french army in the country is illegal and possess a threat to national sovereignty. ah, once since the beginning of the french military operation back run their forces have acted in contempt of the population of nature in many areas of the country. we find the presence of these forces which are not helping niger to answer security unacceptable. a force that is killing more citizens of our country than terrorists . this is what formed the basis of the m 62 movement. we will fight into our country as truly independent into our country and citizens can enjoy and explored its natural wealth until the government is at the service of the people over fmla

and started back in august 2014. it has been carried out with 4 countries. all of which are form of french colonies that span the sasha, the sy leven were aquino, a foster child, mar, ashanna, and elijah. it consists of $3000.00 members of the french armed forces at is personally headquartered in the capitol. chad, initially intended to follow up on successes, i expand the frenchman of his work. it has not proven to be effective, but as pro voters strong anti french sentiments throughout the region. again, our guest says the presence of the french forces hers his country more than they help and should leave the since the beginning of the french military operation back run their forces have acted in contempt of the population of niger in many areas of the country. we find the presence of these

forces, which are not helping niger to insert security, unacceptable. a force that is killing more citizens of our country than terrorists . this is what formed the basis of the m 62 movement. we will fight into our country as truly independent into our country and its citizens can enjoy and explored its natural wealth until the government is at the service of the people by another. so as our europe congresswoman is pushing for a new investigation to the killing of palestinian american journalists, shewn of aqua, coolly out the lack of commitment by washington to properly investigate her death is nothing short, outrageous in our government continues to refuse to hold israel accountable to these truths, i know that i will continue to push for full transparent us investigations in huge martyrs, in full accountability. this comes arthur a recent investigation suggest the killing of the al jazeera journalist was

deliberate. the woman was shot in the head by israeli forces while repulsing from west frank. in may the prob, it was carried out by a london based research group and a palestinian rights for it, examined the precise angle of fire and concluded that the shooter would have been able to clearly see they were gentleness in the area. earlier this month, israel conducted his own investigation and conducted there was, quote, a high possibility the journalist was accidentally hit by is ready for has been added. it would not be launching a criminal investigation. the usa department acknowledge the findings and refused to condemn tel aviv. my manners cross alive and to as i am told me, is in london days, also commentator form for paris i now as am thanks to join me now was he'll take on

these investigations that were being conducted. we've had the london base of pass indians they've, they've conducted and invested israel. now, how do you find the findings was light from the beginning. there was no shred of doubt. that shipping was assassinated deliberately by a sniper. and now they have actually admitted that that, that, that one of the soldiers must have shot the problem we have here is that all these former imperialist hours and i figure america, or britain here or any of their lives. when they look at it, they see themselves in the mirror because these are the empires that were established along the same lines. that it was the claim

that if you are a member of a certain ethnic group, then you are superior. then you can ask the questions and you can do to others, whatever you like with impunity. and of course, design this project. next time is that all making making these western powers that the thought at the time that the creation of jewish homeland in palestine would enable them to perpetuate that interests in the regions and did right with this the love this in the washington. all we like is really love is, i mean we like to, you see washington ever take action and pops, bring the perpetrators and justice, especially for the family of this journalist. well, there this happens that will be the day the. busy world will change forever, but i don't see it coming yet because it's simply the u. s. establishment,

whether the rulers are from the republican party or from the democratic party. they considered to be this boy child a child. they may not like some of the things that they would never commit size. is that public? it would be at a thing to see or hear from a stablish new america. well, the statement made by the u. s. congress. rashid to live. hello. i'm not sure if i'm pronouncing that right, but are we likely to see us politicians follow her lead? was he really a brave woman? very small minority us established. and of course we are delighted that we have we hear now 3 cutting just. busy voices

which were almost non existent in the past. yes, i don't think that it makes a big difference apart from probably creating better awareness at the level of the public in america, which is, which is not bad. it's, it's, it's, it's a good thank you so much for joining me. i know you're busy and i really appreciate your time and inside. hopefully we'll talk again soon. thanks against well, runs out of this news, our school to check out about t dot com all the leg his days really to say will be next on the hour with stories to be sure to join us. ah

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