ah ah with 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 russia. well, i am russian to urology international. we bring you our special coverage as to don bathroom publics and to you crating and regions of voting on whether or not to join that up. the russian federation the chief threatened to take action against road. this is indeed the election that this weekend results in the government taking the country in a quote, difficult direction. for when the program tensions rush it up between canada and india off the auto refuses to stop. canadian seeks conducting a referendum for

a separate seek homeland and the weston indian state of couldn't job with a very well welcome to you. this is all t international, the 1st 5 days of voting and don bass and 2 other areas on whether or not to join russia has now come to an end for day one. we have special coverage of these events . ah, who's

so the map will give you a better idea exactly what's going on? the referendum is being held in for regions. the 1st 2, you'll know, of course don't yet scan the lucas group. public state did essentially announce their independents back in 2014. they declared themselves independent after that of the, the key ever when the key of government was overthrown in 2014. that was the my dan qu, thursday was also the 1st day when people cast their ballots in that of the upper orgy region and her son as well. now, the voting does come off the days of intensified shelling of residential areas by ukrainian forces. the russian back local authorities claim that key was tried to scare people ahead of the vote. meanwhile, moscow says it will support the people's will and decision. and so show some pictures now from polling stations in the don bass region. people in both the don't yet, scandal guns, republics. they say they've been waiting for this moment ever since the ukranian

government was overthrown 8 years ago. now as the polling ends its 1st day turn out and the look out for public is almost 22 percent. the head of the lugens peak people's republic has encouraged citizens to get out vote and make their voices. yes, we didn't store. 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 and right. la 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 russia. 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 q of people, they enter the bus through the front door. and then over here, there's

a makeshift pulling 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 well places in traditional, alongside or around traditional polling stations that they might become targets of attacks of its over missile attacks. by cave or terrorist acts even still some huddle back in 2014. to be honest. most people here in la guns had been inspired. we had a desire to get away from all this band, dera stuff. the people went to vote for independence with great enthusiasm. they were accused polling stations. people wanted to come back to their roots, get back to russia. these i years, we've been waiting for this moment to say it was and is a difficult part. and i would have liked it to have happened back in 2014. but

fight decided otherwise. maybe we had to go through everything in order to reach our dream of re unification with the great russia. i'm very happy about the referendum it is beautiful, the stork i'm so in the law, i'm submitting amber in 2014. there was confusion, fear we didn't understand what was going on, but we hope that for would be taking him to russia back then. i left then returned to my family and they were peer for all this 8 years. then we experienced confusion and fear. so now we have hope, we hope that they will take us. no, i said i just im sure the level as is in that i felt very positive in 2014, but now i am completely happy. everything is okay. we have been through it all right near snellville. i must see it on the atmosphere was festive back in 2014. why we wanted to re unite with russia today. we finally got at whipple cheese. we are returning home. we have come a long way, but everything has come to

a logical conclusion, yet when the war will finally end. whenever i see which, another region that has been voting on whether or not to join russia is that of hudson. whereas we understand around 15 percent, how voted, according to local officials. and the following footage shows queues are polling stations and heart of san animal a couple of the military and the police are ensuring security as we understand they've done a good job. no violence reported on day one. now we're, all of the a polling stations were swept for explosives before they open. but despite the potential threats, people have been king the cast their ballots. yes, the shall is the revolution. i believe that only with russia will be able to revive our region, raised the economy, medicine education, revive the industries that her son region was famous for in soviet times in give a new impetus to our economy. i cast my vote for joining russia, mac, and yet some omission finally were together. and finally, we are at home. the mood is excellent. i altered for russia from my home for my

motherland. actually young, i shall. i want to come back home. i just want to come back home to the lease on his always been a russian city. they say that for a person, the native language is the one in which his mother read fairy tales for him in childhood. they read to me in russian, where now had one of the voting stations here in cat 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. they've been threats acts of terror. and there is ceases, of course bombardment of your song with, with missiles, with rockets by the ukrainian military. the ukrainian side nationalists have also threatened people. they have told them to stay away from looting stations for. busy

their own safety taken at face value. it is believed 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 voting with every hour. several events have been held all across russia to support the referendums in don baths. right here you can see that's the city of camera, but that's in central russia and then to the russian capital moscow, right here with thousands showed up on red square waving their banners and their flags. and then from moscow all the way to grows in the, of course, the capital of the church and republican southern russia. all of these events have been attended by representatives of public associations of political parties as well as civil activists. now, earlier in the program, i did speak to a professor at the institute of a european studies in belgrade are 7 gauge. he believes the safety and the well

being of those people who are voting is more important than western reaction to the referent. i don't see what kind of other sanctions are going to be in polls. i mean, west is a fully involved in a proxy war. it is arming one of the sides heavily and i think that there will be increased growth similar to what we've seen in 2014 with the premium case. but i don't really see any kind of escalation that we haven't seen so far. of course, the west will be very disappointed and there will be a lot of a lot of, i would say, a vein barking by the politicians that are already discredited within their own societies. but i don't believe that russia and especially people who

live in these areas, should be particularly worried about the western reaction. i think that they should be concentrated on the future. i had them and rebuilding our lives and of course of the infrastructure that was shattered. and of course li, rebuilding our functioning side of the awesome new trauma that started with the euro. my done, if not even with the breakup of the soviet union in 1991. now of course heard all the international we will be fully informed and up to date on the very latest news . this is a 5 day referendum, ultimately deciding the fate of several 1000000 people. ah. well poor old italy,

e u chief of angela and has warned italy of consequences should it via away from liberal democratic principles ahead of the elections this weekend. where. right when candidates are expected to win, will see the outcome of the elections. we have just elections in sweden to if things go in a difficult direction. i've spoken about hungary and poland. we have tools there. she saying basically hey, if they want to be wise guys, we have tools you commission, president ursula vander line, spends a few hours at princeton university there in new jersey and starts talking like tony soprano like some kind of mob boss. what kind of tools should or could she be talking about? well, we've seen how the e u has used financial blackmail against member states by threatening to withhold funds and harassment by branding them as authoritarian pariahs when they don't adequately adhere to the agenda, dictated by the unelected bureaucrats and brussels for italian vice prime minister

mateo sal vini part of the conservative coalition that's favored to win in the election this weekend was outraged. 5 underlines remarks. what is this a fret, shameful arrogance. respect the free democratic and sovereign vote to be italian people, a couple of euro deputies from selves. these league party have also now demanded that the european commission clarify what vander line was, meaning when she was making those remarks. we've already seen how the u. the self styled arbiter of all things democratic treats its members states that don't fall in line with what it considers to be acceptable. just last week the you moved to cut hungary funding under the pretext that it was no longer a quote full democracy. well, ukraine isn't either, and vander lane keep saying how badly she wants it in the you. and how keith is fighting for european values like democracy and that european business cache and just freely flow in wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that ukraine is on board with the use anti russian agenda. we're as hungry as ignored the blocks

anti russian sections, so called undemocratic hungry is actually set to pull its own citizens to gauge how they feel about sanctions. that's obviously more than he said for other you countries who have had no qualms in downloading the increased costs of sanctions, policies cooked up in brussels on to their own citizens and warning them of looming energy rationing blackouts and de industrialization and then giving them absolutely no say in the matter, which is why we're seeing an increased number of protests across the block from france to germany, degrees to the czech republic. they have no democratic outlet to express themselves on this issue. remember what german foreign minister and the lena bear box said, added democracy, conference of all things in prague earlier this month. have a listen. we sent a wis ukraine, as long as they need us, no matter what my german vote to thing, but i want to deliver to the people of ukraine. and this means every measure i'm

taking. i have to be clear that this holds on as long as ukraine meets me. me, me, me, i, i am democracy. that's the kind of lingo he get constantly from taught. you officials from bare bach to vander lane. sometimes the truth just comes out and judging by the remarks democracy in the minds of e. leaders is apparently something that only exists within the narrow confines of what they allow the little people to do or to have it is good to have you with us today. that diplomatic relations between canada and india have become wrote more tons is the canadian government allows, seeks living there to conduct a referendum for a separate seek homeland and the western indian state of pudding job. it's got some clarity here. a correspondent is doing john sharma on the 19th of this month, 7 men from the sea community in ontario and canada boss updated in a retroactive what was this referenda?

it was essentially seek group saw and what it for whether or not the indian and job should be a separate coffee, a canadian citizen, not india is trying to decide what should or shouldn't be done in india. as far as the one issue over separate state for the c community, you all call the sun is concerned that talk the difference in how that india and how the canadian seeks view it. i thought of canada's concern, it's more from a political positioning. now in india, the issue is somewhat day. the main question is, why should it be kept alive in canada? the indian government has taken all objection to it and expressed the canadian government for action, so called, call a stand referendum as a farcical exercise. the farcical exercise was held by the extremists and radical elements supporting the so called call as dan referendum in canada and elsewhere.

we find it deeply objectionable that politically motivated exercises by extremist elements are allowed to take place in a friendly country. remember, canada was a hot bed of qualifying separatism from the 1980. it also led to one of the dentist or dice. in canada. 1985. he saw all the de mom was called on, who was the know? so someone it comes and leaves, it comes up and down. he comes up again. and if he has taught us anything, when it comes off, he takes a toll with their lives, especially in the community. now despite india, expressing its concern very clearly to canada, the canadian government wide canadian nationals have every freedom to express their views in every manner possible as long as it follows the canadian laws on right to freedom of expression and right to free an assembly. no, danny is a silly. what's happening in tommy's ave cluzee, as long as the sunny separate just exists in the fall offenders of canada. by that

time between the 2 countries will naturally follow a report commission to buy facebook's parent company matter has been released in which it admits to violating the free speech of palestinian uses. the probe was called a following wide spread complaints about facebook and instagram monitoring of content during a flare up of violence. this happened between israel and gaza in may of last year met his actions in may 2021 appear to have had an adverse human rights impact on the rights of palestinian users to freedom of expression. freedom of assembly, political participation and non discrimination. and therefore, on the ability of palestinians to share information and insights about their experiences as they occurred. the clashes ultimately triggered by israel evicting families from a neighborhood in east jerusalem. so $256.00 palestinians killed. as we understand

and included more than 60 children, and as israel launched as strikes, many palestinians took the social media to raise awareness of what was going on. they found that posts were either deleted and pro palestinian hashtags were repressed. now meta claims, there was no intentional bias, but does admit a great deal of work still needs to be done. meantime, the israeli police commissioner wants a more radical re thing. this is already wool. the social media networks were the ones that drove people out. i'm talking about a broad shut down of the networks, put out com everything down when the situation is come open back up. we are a democratic country, but there is a limit. out there i spoke with a varnish tire, a palestinian digital rights to find the. she says it's very important for matter to implement all of these suggested recommendations have a listen. but there is like something

a little bit so surprising about this saturday port, which as they said like there is a bias like meta as having a bias against palestinians. but this is an unintentional bias. however, we have been calling unmet time cooling and method. attention to a that this proportionality and he gets at the impact of its content migration policies on palestinians for years now. and they've never lie. they, that was, it took a strict measures order that needed measures to and this digital discrimination against palestinians. therefore, even as best buy is started as unintentional and bias, i think now of years of asking them and trying to and grab their attention to this a kind of a bias, then it would be intentional one. so that's another thing because the other thing behind or is it with causes of a of this open with ation on the palestinian content. and under litigation of that

is really content that was mentioned in the super, as there are like fisher and directed from the israeli cyber. you in it's on facebook where they are escalating hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of he says, a request to so to the social media companies annually and social media companies unfortunately are complying with most of those. some report said they are complying with 90 percent of the sequence a few minutes, all those a commendation because it's crucial to end the discrimination against it. here are shifting gears here at all to international to the bankers in britain who are now looking set to be rolling in the cash all over again after the government decided to scrap the cap on their bonuses. so part of a far reaching plan to deregulate london's financial industry, the new british finance minister quasi quoting, the,

claiming the move will enhance the cities competitiveness among other global financial scientists. we need global banks to create jobs here, invest here and pay taxes. yeah, no power is not in front foot. i know you owe the bonus got did was to push off the basic salaries of bankers or dr. activity outside europe. we're going to get rid of it yet. of the cap was introduced in 2014 all across the european union. when the u. k. was still a member, it limited the bank of bonuses to a 100 percent of basic salary, even up to 200 percent approved by shareholders. this measure was part of an effort to curb unjustified risk taking off at the shocks of the 2008 economic crisis, which of course, ended up with taxpayers bailing out the banks. and although lifting the cap is

designed to attract the best bankers to london, slow down the rise of their basic salaries and stimulate financial activities in london. some that accused the government of being out of touch and rewarding those who are already too rich. so that's it. who are the winners from this budget? bankers, city fat, cats, fossil fuel giants, the extremely wealthy who are the loses every one else at a time when ordinary families are having to choose between heating and eating. this government's focus on giveaways to bankers and corporations is totally the wrong priority. funny. i really thought we'd reached the bottom of the barrel with boris johnson. i was wrong. i'm not sure i have any blood left to boil. i just spoke with a professor, richard, one or from the one for university. he says, the well given the current crisis facing the u. k. economy, this is not particularly the best time for such a decision at a time when clearly, the economic situation has turned again very much for the worse. is this really the

time to, you know, way encourage the bankers to, to pay these excessive bonuses? again, there's no imaginable mechanism by which taking away the bank is bone is going to help the economy. i mean, that's completely and it shows that the city of la corporation continues to dominate u. k. policy making and concerns of already people continue to get ignored. they want to attract bankers and banks to come to the u. k. that's a very silly view because you know, you don't need foreign banks to come in. you, you better establish domestic banks. foreign banks are not really interested in lending to small local firms in the u. k. that's what's needed. and the chancellor was referring to foreign banks as a result coming in and paying taxes. but we know that the international banks and global banks, they're the ones that are least likely to pay taxes. and anyone don't sell because they have a close all over the globe. and they rearrange the business structure such that the

revenue comes in based mainly in tax havens where this no no taxes to pay and they pay very little taxes are less out of the program. with this story, as china has accused america of theft claiming its been illegally exporting oil from syria woman diesel, me wouldn't. where's the u. s. and other countries to stop unlawful, military stationing and actions in syria? stop imposing unilateral sanctions on syria. stop stating oil and grain from the country and give the syrian people that true human rights, freedom and dignity. according to her syrian officials, america takes a large portion of syrian oil each and every day damaging the local economy. the average oil production rate during the 1st half of 2022 was around $80300.00 barrels. but day while u. s. force is on their mercenaries stole up to $66000.00 barrels every single day in that same time period,

basically absconding with 82 percent of serious total oil production. in the meantime, syrian citizens have had to queue up and lines to to the petrol stations. and more than 14000000 people need humanitarian aid. now, gin do shoe a senior fellow with a pun golden situation. as mal, you will wonder if it's not in the u. s. is another country in particular, it's a rival country, the us always targeting ad and you, you will be sure of the theme of the sweeping car ready to walk, walk, how rage of how this country, the speeding all your from a country where you have a forward rate of 90 percent 90 percent of the people leave under poverty live. this by this dire situation. the us doesn't care much about the people in that country to act to, to steal oil and also grain from that country. if you look at to the region with example occupied by the us of several,

i would say there is similarity to this as mentioned to colonial practice or like a colony. this flux sample, the military that is in the throbbing area. now, under the control of the united states, despite the fact that the beam the syrian territory, the ar and the control of washington, thank so much for joining us. you are not keen to national, for our special coverage of the wretch referendum, voting in the to republic, send the 2 ukrainian regions as well. boating for potential independence and that of possibly joining russia. special coverage will continue to, ah, ah, the

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ah, [000:00:00;00] with hello and welcome to cross out. were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle. 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 was to become part of russia. nato's war on russia, chest escalated, ah,

cross tucking the evolving situation in ukraine. i'm joined by my guess, the boy mileage in washington. he is a blogger and calmness in budapest. we have george w ali. he is a podcast or at the gaggle which can be on youtube and locals. and in lugens we crossed to janice with cotton and he is chief editor of and the media. all right, journaling cross stock rules and the fact that means you can jump anytime you want . and i would appreciate, let me go to george 1st in budapest, george, what do you make of the partial mobilization? and importantly, these upcoming referendums, which is a game changer in my opinion and shows resolve on the part of moscow go head george well on. they are indeed game changes because the end result, i think, is clear. the vote will be in favor of joining the russian federation of the president who can make clear that russia will respect that wishes. and they will be the members of the russian federation, in which case,

any further attacks on donuts and low guns perpetrated by ukraine with the assistance on the united states. and nato will be attacks on the russian federation . and will obviously then be treated as acts of war. and so therefore, that effectively russia is making clear to nature that, you know, within a few days you will be in direct war with us. is this the way you want to go? and naturally, nato is coming up with all sorts of ridiculous last 3 comments. sham referendum, sham referendum. well, this is one of the issue that we realize is that nato itself had run its sham referendums and loves referendums. when they work in natives favor when they don't work in native favor, then of course, then nato cries sham referendum. open to still. let's rule out referendums altogether. as was the case recently when sweden of finland, rice said that it would join be joining nato. and nate to him is that no referendum