like, essentially by need specific solution. could simon he's with day for a voting in the dawn bus 0. hassan regions is underway at our special coverage, international observers share their assessments of the referendums to join russia. good. okay. honestly, i expected to see a different situation with people panicking. being scared to vote, but i see voters calmly coming to express their will. it's clear to me that people have been waiting for this for a long time. as residents take to poll, incentives in here to saw in the region comes into heavy shelling by ukrainian forces. local authorities say the cube is doing all it can to disrupt the

referendum. thousands of protesters in germany demanded the government's resignation over the energy crisis. with many calling to open the notes streams to pipeline and the rising energy cost on damascus accuses washington of stealing more than half and serious oil and other resources emitted severe economic crisis in the country. serious foreign minister speaks exclusively to our tip woman. the a 5th murderer. syria will hold the americans accountable for every drop of oil they have stolen from us in front of the international community and the american people who should not support an aggressive policy towards another people. with committee alive from our studio in moscow, you're watching all the international i and pizza scott's here with all the latest this monday morning. and we kick off with our t special coverage of the referendum in don boston,

2 of the regions. nice. the 4th day of voting locals are deciding whether they want to become part of russia ah turnouts in the referendums currently underway in little ganske underneath republics, as well as in apple, roger region have passed the crucial 50 percent milestone,

and that means the moscow will now recognize the outcome of voting, the valid official, say the turnouts on the 3rd day of holding in l. p r is 76 percent with over 1000000 residents casting their votes in the done yes, republic of 800000 voted on their future while over half of all eligible voters said yes to russia and as opposed to region. now, western countries have already said that they will refuse to recognize the results . international observers who visited a number of polling stations over the 3 days shade, the assessments with us. what i have seen, this is pretty good. it's going all right. you know, in western media, they say all the time, we're soviets are they're trying to, of forced to people to felt. well, i didn't see that can. okay. i got, honestly, i expected to see a different situation that people panicking being scared to vote, but i see voters calmly coming to express their well being confident in their decision. i have visited the participation so far and my impression with those

stations is that there's quite a free and fair process that is going on. there is no meddling with the process and there is actually explanations that have been bad for those who do not understand how the process is to unfold. so i think so further from what i have observed in both his patients, the addresses is quite transparent. crowded in america zillow, i like that there are multiple pulling stations at the referendum, so people can vote at any convenient location and don't have to go a long way. i see that people can choose freely. it's clear to me that people have been waiting for this for a long time debugging valcall, and they were to polling stations in the de ganske republic. i'm one in maria poto that in my view, don't fully comply with international standards. that's because they allocated outside the ability to vote confidentially, wasn't provided since there were no booths. and maria po government serves is explained to us is for security purposes. but still, that's the only violation i've noticed so far. la correspondence in dumbass have been following the votes,

and we go live now to rome. acosta. have in the done yes. great. public and eagerness. done of who's in de la ganske republic. very good morning. see a gentleman and he go, let's starts off with you today. is august the 4th day of voting. how is it going so far in logan's will here in the la guns people's republic, the vote can already be held of as successful. now again, more than 70 percent of all the population that is eligible to vote have already done so, and that's more than enough to close the polling stations right now and start counting the yes and no votes. but those who still haven't showed up those who still haven't attended the referendum, they will have a chance. they will be able to seize their chance to change their future to day and to morrow. now this has, it has come against the backdrop of major security concerns because key of authorities and the key of military has been trying to intimidate the local population. here they have been shelling in cities,

towns and villages adjacent to the to lu, ganske to the capital for the past 4 days. and before that as well. obviously, sending him messages do not vote in the neighboring town of al chevy. people have been voting in the basements because while they couldn't go outside out of fear of shelling and, but as you can see by the official figures, this has failed to hamper this has failed to strong arm people into not voting into staying home. now, again, some western media outlets they have pointed out the fact that armed men are accompanying are following members of the mobile election committees. those men and women who are going door to door to collect signatures to collect votes. and they have been trying to, i mean, the journalists, western journalists, some of them have been trying to portray this as that the people here are being forced into voting by armed men. but in fact, this couldn't be further from the truth. again, as i said,

security concerns are very grave here and the authorities are taking them very, very seriously. so such armed entourage, if i may say so, is for the purposes of making the road safer and to prevent any tragedy from happening. so again, our today is today's, the 4th day and tomorrow is going to be the final, and that is the most decisive day because so far, all of the voting has been around the mobile voting commission. so pulling and stations, they have been coming to people and not vice versa. so they have been coming to the locals and providing the opportunity to safely vote without the necessity of collecting large crowds of people to morrow will be the day when will traditional stationary voting booths of and voting polling stations will open and that, well, the authorities fear that, that creates the possibility for will something nasty to happen that this,

that they might, that large crowds of people might attract terrorist attacks and might well, basically become security vulnerable are vulnerable security wise. but so far they are, the vote has been very streamlined, very smooth, and everyone here, the authorities and the population. hope that the vote will close that the referendum will and up, safely, securely. and while successfully, well eager, thanks very much, that updates from a little ganske roman over to you. now, how are things look in? am in the polling stations over in daniel st all despite the fact that the cranium nationalists continue shelling the city of the nest. well, in the rest of the, the nets people's republic referendum is going according to plan. and all, 1st of all, i have an update on the numbers that say you have given at the moment. so more than 3 quarters of the population of the next people's republic have cast their votes

already, and that percentage should translates into about one and a half 1000000 people who have of voted. now, according to international observers, according to russian observers as well, all the voting is done in accordance with the laws and regulations. now this is the 4th day of the referendum and mobile referendum. cavities continue going a door to door and offering people to vote. and this is happening all over the republic. now those are referendum or committees consist mostly, or for teachers or from high schools, lecturers from the universities. of course they're accompanied by one member of the police trying to ensure the safety. now i walked around with these mobile groups as well. my and you, it's not very safe anywhere in the nest people's republic, for example, in a girl of co which is only bad,

so 40 kilometers away from where i am. 2 of the members of this, a mobile referring to groups were received concussions as they were shelled, trying to, to form their jeezy. nevertheless, the referendum continues and like i said, i walked around. so would these groups are the atmosphere is of festive at times. it's tragic at different times because a shelling of the city of the nascar continues even now as we speak. and just over the last hour we received the news that said to children were wounded in the city or far girl of god. and at that sir, one of the cities that's continuously shelled by ukrainian military really, really heavily. and the, the result of the shelling of course, is a wounded people, people who were killed. so there was a lot of damage to critical infrastructure. nevertheless, there is

a very high high turn out. so over the last of 4 days, as we're answering this for the day, and people are happy to vote and people are ah, happy to, to show their free will. we spoke to some of them and this is what they had to say . one of the choices, when the conflict started, i was only 14 years old. and now i'm another one of his vote in favor of joining russia, even though since the 99 test we've been thinking about why we're here and why we've had to take a different path of development. but now it seems we're finally going to return to where we all came from. could keep a worker and i feel so happy. i hope we'll finally join russia. we've been through a lot these past 8 years. i'm an assistant to the local deputy. so as soon as we join, we'll work on recovering everything to forward it over. now ukrainian nationalists continue a shilling done as to people's republic over the last 24 hours. at least 300

various shells landed in the city of the nest girl of god and the other towns as well. now those includes a high caliber shelves including those supplied by nato countries. finance terms of casualties. we haven't had any lethal ones over the last 24 hours . nevertheless, or at least 5 people were wounded. and they're now being treated at its height is former ukrainian law and been in opposition to the current ukrainian government since the 2014 my done uprising, an ot crew also came under fire as it was staying in the hotel that was struck the building as you can see here on your screens was heavily damaged and the roof collapsed as a result of that missile attack. but it was not the only attacked in the region where voting in the referee continues. as russian backs, officials say that ukrainian forces have destroyed all the bridges connecting the city of harrison with the rest of the region.

ah but alco select what to look right after the armed forces of ukraine destroyed all the breaches. connecting the city of harrison with the rest of the region was shelling. residents began to use river crossings to reach the opposite bank of the denise upper ukrainian troops. however, continued shelling people and the fairy which transported goods and civilians was and there was another incidents in the russian controlled parts of the supper orgy region. as a car exploded in milly, topple city center while voting on the referendum was taking place. now thought his claim, the explosion occurred as a result of mishandling of explosives by ukrainian saboteur who was then killed in the blast. earlier, 2 other blasts occurred in the same region in the city of billions. the local authorities said that improvised explosive devices were used in what they described

as terrorist attacks by ukrainian forces. now ortiz donald called to dig deeper in so why don't boss people may vote in favor of joining russia. like the people's republic and on boss her phone and hark of are mostly inhabited by russian speakers . parker even declared its own independence in 2014. but that was crushed by the ukrainian intelligence services and now and it's recently retaken territory. ukraine is once again in repression. mode to ensure that such descent does not happen again. nothing matters for the ukrainian nationalists. they will eradicate all citizens who lived under the russian administration. they will call them traitors, ukraine's intelligent services promised a reckoning after its troops return. pro key of authorities are calling its filtration, but at the end of the day it's all just text book terror. residents can no longer leave their passports are being confiscated in mass. and report suggests that

thousands of people could all ready be an extra judicial detention as for what the word trade or even means for ukraine could be anyone who accepted humanitarian aid from russian forces or just communicated with them. we know that from the many pro key channels set up on the telegram messaging app aimed at hunting down potential collaborators. and you category of those who support and so the enemy hesitates now register in addition to the traitors, those individuals who violated their oath and went to so the enemy and collaborators, those individuals who went to work for the occupying authorities. we add the category of assistance of the occupies alexander and his girlfriend. fanatics of the russian world, from the city of lucy, chanced upon liberation. we need to save this child from these parents. the people of dunbar had nearly a decade to become acquainted with the key of regimes iron fist following the 2014 year old, my don qu, day top, according to russia's investigative committee,

over 22000 civilians became victims one way or another of ukraine's military activities. primarily its indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas. russian forces discovered a prison operated by the neo nazi barrier battalion tornado. it was used as a dungeon for rape, torture, and murder. the detainees were beaten on their legs, buttock styles and genitals. the men were torched with a stun. gun those detained in the basement was stripped naked, placed them to a concrete floor and towers with water. then, with wise attached to various parts of their bodies, they were administered electric shocks. even the united nations and amnesty international have widely reported. the crimes would be the ukrainian, neo nazis, members of ukrainian forces, and paramilitaries, also subject to detainees, to torture and other ill treatment, and use detained civilians as pawns for prisoner exchanges between the warring

sides. credible allegations emerged of torture and other agree just abuses by ukraine, so called volunteer battalions. i dar and does off as the wes unconditional support for these arms, neo nazis shows no sign of letting up its main foreign policy principle is becoming increasingly clear. they might be a bad group of guys, but they're the west, bad group of guys was voting in the referendums. and for the, for the day, of course we'll keep you updated on how voters decide the future of those regions. ah, moving on now with the cold winter months in europe just around the corner, thousands have taken to the streets in leudemann, germany, and they've been demanding to open the notes stream to pipeline and restart corporation with russia. and so the, i believe they wanted to hurt russia,

but now they are harming us the citizens. and we will continue to fight for nord stream to, to be open. but innovation, fantastic dodge of yours or german government should hear that our objective is to open. nord stream to and reconnect with the russian government as it has been for centuries. this is the only way russia and germany can bear through road dog more than 3 and a half 1000 protesters gathered for the rally. according to local authorities, the people were seen waving flags and condemning the sanctions imposed on russia. we can also see accounts of protest denouncing russian gas imports amid the conflict in ukraine. they were, however, did unmade to leave the demonstration. and it wasn't the only protest in germany, it's thousands also rallied in the city of clown demanding that the resonate little german government resign processed as waves. russian flags criticizing the berlin administration for skyrocketing energy prices and also demanding the reopening of the northern to pipeline auto contributor rachel marsden brings us details

apparently asking west airs to jump through ridiculous hoops like showering together or with just a splash of water band. take that poo it isn't quite getting the job done via the machine we are experiencing a severe energy crisis triggered by the loss of energy production. russia has stopped delivering around 55000000000 cubic meters of gas. the amount that came via or trim one new gas now has to be procured on the world market. in france. more than half of the nuclear power plants have failed is causing major problems to the grid, which is also driven up prices between the 2 issues have triggered and external shock that has hit the country hard on both german consumers and companies. happy singing a much more panicky tune than he was at the beginning of september when he tried to down play concerns of catastrophic economic failure. by explaining to some kind of magic math, how german companies could avoid insolvency by just stopping production. like if

you just play dead and don't move, you'll survive. sounds like he got confused with advice on how to handle an encounter with a wild russian bear, rather than a lack of russian gas. the western press, including forbes bloomberg, andy economists have been warning since the summer of de industrialization and a factory exodus from germany in europe as a result of the block, suicidal energy policy. and now european manufacturers of steel, fertilizer and other industrial staples are reportedly shifting operations to the u . s. it looks like europe is d industrialized itself and sending those jobs to america. clearly the big winner here is a cave. it's washington. no wonder the biden administration encouraged brussels to adopt only the most severe and suicidal sanctions. meanwhile, german chancellor off schultz has continued his global door knocking tour to beg for gas this time to saudi arabia, in a race against the clock before the german economy tanks. and having tried pretty much everything else with halloween coming up. maybe he could just throw on

a disguise a costume, go knock on gas from the door and just tell them to flip the switch on the existing pipelines to germany. that berlin was foolish enough to let brussels sanction speaking of which another talk european official seems to be changing his tune. well, back in april, the blacks chief diplomat, yoseph burrell said of the ukrainian conflict that quote, this war will be one on the battlefield. in announcing more european weapons in cash for keith. but how to listen to what he's saying now when people say it is not a bluff, you have to take them seriously. a diplomatic solution that preserves the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine must be reached. otherwise, we can finish the war, but we will not have peace. summers barely come to a close and already europe's authoritarian anti russian. dogmatism is showing cracks, as it repeatedly smashes up against pragmatic reality. but exactly how far the blocks and elected officials will go in imposing economic devastation and social

suffering before pulling from their self imposed nosedive still remains to be seen . u. s. forces are allegedly stealing more than half of serious oil production, transporting tankers over the bases in iraq. thus, according to an exclusive oxy interview with the syrian foreign minister, woman, yes, mirror. do you as continues to steal oil, gas, wheat, cotton and all the resources in some areas of syria? in a recent example, over $2.00 to $3.00 days, the united states move more than a 1000 oil tanks towards northern iraq. despite my understanding of the situation in the north, a south of iraq, we hope our de brothers there that they will not allow the u. s. to attackers from a rocky territory and plunder serious natural resources. i want to say that syria will hold the americans accountable for every drop of oil they have stolen from us in front of the international community and the american people who should not

support an aggressive policy towards another people. i'm had injured that are the syrian foreign minister says the us is allegedly stealing around 80 percent of serious daily oil production, causing losses of, of a $100000000000.00 of serious oil and gas sectors. around 900, your soldiers are still based in syria after launching a campaign against i fill back in 2014 with former us president donald trump admitting the mission was eventually mostly focused on serious oil fields. or we're keeping luella, we have the oil, the oil is secure, and we loved tubes be i'd only for the oil. syria has raised the issue with the un secretary general urging the us to stop violating the syrian people's rights. the foreign minister again says that the us presence should end as it no longer helps fight terrorism in the country on, since i have one agilent modular, come out to you as must restore its army soon or later they will withdrawal. that's

a fact. they will no longer be in syria. they can leave the country with minimal losses because the u. s. is not fighting terrorism in syria. this is a lie, syria, together with its allies and friends, represented by russia, is fighting against terrorism. it was with them that we fought against isis and job, but on no, sir, and also liberated many syrian territories and you know, and over to nepal now, which hopes to become a fully fledged member of the shanghai cooperation organization. the countries ambassadors said that as he shared moscow and kept him under his plan to develop a mechanism for mutual agreements in their respective national currencies, begin making began him left a message of his versus a committee because it will be really loving booking. it really kind of borrow money based under

our one good knocking money out of that. yes. because the central proper banking generally has to be stuck in bank or presume that they've been unpleasant with them. at the recent shanghai corporation organization, summit, china and russia agreed a road map to expand trade in a local currencies. and last week, india announced that it is to trade in rupees with russia after developing a payment mechanism, enabling it to do so. our last month, turkey and russia signed an agreement for economic cooperation that was see the russian rubel used in bilateral trade between those 2 countries. the area we spoke with nepalese journalist around buddha talkie, who says that u. s. dominance on the influence of the dollar. a both in decline, given the fact that the student does not engage in a very deep manner with nepal. i think it's fleet towards these, you know, local currencies in a setting. i think it will make the,

the ma school start listening to ting. ting, more like to engage with, with nepal and maybe tried to create a presence ex, not economically. now, the wall is like multi polar b, u. s. dominance and it's superpower is declining over the years. over the decades of, partly because of china's rise to the global forum and the movement of the dollar i use and can be seen among many, many countries in the war. executing russia and china. they're now trading un and rural. and recently, i think russia in india also had to use understanding to do business in in ruble. well, that's how the world is looking as a new week gets under way to head over to our website for more data information on those referendums on p. discard some of the back again at the top of the thanks for

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2007. that e, me, of hooton's munich speech is a milestone in contemporary history. many consider his famous address of the security conference to be a turning point in relations between moscow and the west. with president putin spoke about major geopolitical issues in no uncertain terms and harshly criticized the uni, polo world model u. s. foreign policy and unjustified use of force against other states that says not to go to shooting it. mimi it mika. what national wondering you that say? so my only answer elecom is between your bizarre bus miss you are, you are now about to look at the sheer using up. what are, what pseudo issue, fucked up. she is a she wouldn't zane that would then you do. you want us? yes. pretty with you or what i, what i am the spreadsheet, ga, ga what it thought a shitty and you're still, stella, stevie.