a little bit of what he'll say, did you mention to you that we brought it up? oh, great. when you have a good ah day for the voting in the dumbasses origin. here on regions is underway in our special corporation. international observers share their assessments of the referendum to join russia. ok, honestly, i expected to see a different situation. people panicking, scared to vote, but i see voters commonly coming to express their will. it's clear to me that people have been waiting for this for a long time. thousands of protesters in germany, demands the government resignation over the energy crisis, with many calling to open the knoll stream to pipeline. and the rising energy costs

under bus guest accuses washington is dealing more than half a series of oil and other resources. it is the economic crisis in the country. there is a foreign minister speaks exclusively to offering woman death. murder, 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 the ally from our headquarters here in moscow, you're watching the internationally just got 9 in here in the us and capital b to scott. and here are the top stories this hour and we kick off this monday morning with all the special coverage of the referendum in dumbass into other regions. now it's the 4th day of voting and locals are deciding whether they want to become part of russia.

ah mm . well turned out in the referendums currently underway in the guns gun. yes. republics. as well as in a region half past the crucial 50 percent milestone. and that means that moscow will now recognize the outcome of voting, the valid official se did turn out on the 3rd day of pulling in l. p. r is 76 percent with over a 1000000 residents casting the votes in the done yes. republic over 800000 votes

on the future. well, over half of all eligible voters said yes to russia in is up at osha beach in the western countries have already said they will refuse. recognizing the results did now send them as a sham, international observers who visited a number of pulling stations over the 3 days shed their assessments with us. but i have seen this pretty good is going all right. you know, in western media, they say all the time when the soviets are there and trying to were forced to people to felt well, i didn't see that. okay. 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 apologize. 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's no meddling with the process and there is actually explanations that are being done for those who do not understand

how the process is to unfold. so i think so further from what i have observed in both the stations, the oppressive was quite transparent. i didn't want it cuz 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. a lot of the button valcall, i knew they were to polling stations in the 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. our correspondence in don boss, have been following the votes on here all dates from roman casa, in the done. yes, good public on you got us done, of who's in little guns for public in the legacy peoples 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 cave authorities and the cave military has been trying to intimidate the local population. here they have been shelling in cities, towns and villages adjacent to the, to lou ganske to the capital for the past 4 days. and before that, as well. obviously, sending a message as 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 a shelling hand. 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 are 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 it 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 polling booths 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 one 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 every one here. the authorities on the population hope that the vote will close that the referendum will end up safely, securely and while successfully hold,

despite the fact that the craney nationalist continue shelling the city of the nest . well, in the rest of the, the nets people's republic referendum is going according to plan. 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 the mobile referendum can be teaser, 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 or lectures from universities. of course they're accompanied by one member of father police trying to ensure the safety. now i walked around with these mobile groups as well to mind 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 mobile refer and, and groups were received concussions as they were shelled, trying to, to form their ged. nevertheless, people are happy to show their free will. we spoke to some of them, and this is what they had to say. show us when the conflict started, i was only 14 years old. now i'm an adult. so one of his, of the favorite of joining russia, even though it's the police in the 99 test, we've been thinking about why we're here and why we had to take a different path of development. but now it seems we're finally going to return to where we all came from, keith, 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 forward. now ukrainian nationalists continue a shilling the nest people's republic over the last 24 hours. at least 300

various shells landed in the city of the naz girl of car and the other towns as well. now those includes a high caliber shells including those supplied by nato countries. meanwhile, a president of ukraine of vladimir zaleski said that so when the referendum of finishes and the results are read, there will be no ground for negotiation between moscow and keith will turn out in the house on region is approaching the 50 percent mark despite taking place amid intensify attacks by ukrainian troops. nazi people have been killed in a suspect, said hi mars rock. it's a site on a hotel. the kid hasn't yet commented on that incident. of the victims of the attack is former ukrainian law make alex asia, africa. he had been in opposition to the currency training government since the 2014 my done uprising, an r t news true also came under fire as it was staying in the hotel that was struck.

the building was heavily damaged on the roof collapse. as a result of that miss outside, i wasn't the only a talk in the region where voting in the referendum continues. as russian bites, officials played ukrainian forces destroyed all the bridges can a, from the city of song, with the rest of the region. ah, a to the armed forces of ukraine destroyed all the bridges 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 deeper ukrainian troops. however, continued shelling people and the fairy which transported goods and civilians. and there was another instance in the russian controlled parts of the pros. your region, as a car exploded in milly, total city cents

a while. voting on the referendum was taking place. authorities there claimed that the explosion occurred as a result of mishandling of explosives by ukrainian saboteur who was killed in the blast. lillia 2 other blasts occurred in the same region in the city of bitter dance. local authorities said that improvised explosive devices were used in what they described as terrorist attacks by ukrainian forces. artesia donnell calls the dig deeper into why don't boss people may vote in favor of joining russia like the people's republic and on boss her song. and hark of are mostly inhabited by russian speakers. harker even declared its own independence in 2014, but that was crushed by the ukrainian intelligence services and now and it's recently retaken territories. ukraine is once again in repression mode to ensure that such descent does not happen again. nothing matters for the ukranian 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 kiev. 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 come ready be extra judicial detention as for what the word trade or even means for ukraine. it could be anyone who accepted humanitarian aid from russian forces or just communicated with them. we know that from the many pro kiev 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 size 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 wires attached to various parts of their bodies, they were administered electric shocks. even the united nations and amnesty

international have widely reported the crimes with these ukrainian, neo nazis, members of ukrainian forces and paramilitaries, also subject to detainees, to torture and other ill treatment. and use detain civilians as ponds 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 west unconditional support for these armed 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 as voting in the referendums and says, the 4th day of course will keep you updated on how the voters decide the future of those regions. ah.

and moving on now with the cold winter months in europe, just around the corner, thousands have taken to the streets, in lieu men, germany de moneys opened the north stream to pipeline and restart corporation with russia. ah, well dorothy, i liked 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 fantastically georgia, you are 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, wrote a book of thousands of protesters gathered for the rally, according so authorities to demonstrate the scene waiving the russian flags. and they criticized the government full, skyrocketing energy prices, and also demanded that the reopening of no stream to take place. also contributes

at rachel marsden, briggs as more details, apparently asking west hairs to jump through ridiculous hoops like showering together or with just a splash of water band take that putin isn't quite getting the job done via the machine we're experiencing a severe energy crisis triggered by the loss of energy production. also, 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 has also driven up prices mitigation. the 2 issues have triggered an external shock that has hit the country hard on both german consumers and companies. havoc is singing a much more panicky tune than he was at the beginning of september when he tried to downplay 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, don't move, you'll survive. sounds like he got confused with advice on how to handle an encounter with a wild russian bear other than a lack of russian gas. the western press, including forbes bloomberg, andy economist, had 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 us. it looks like europe is the industrial icing itself and sending those jobs to america. clearly the big winner here isn't keith. 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 how incoming 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 seemed to be changing his tune as well. back in april the blocks 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 stealing more than half of serious oil production. transporting tankers over to the basis in iraq will at least thus, according to an exclusive aussie interview with the syrian foreign minister. woman, the assess mirror. do you as continues to steal oil, gas, wheat, cotton and all of 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 attack us 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 highly injured. according to the syrian foreign ministry, the u. s. is stealing around 80 percent of serious daily oil production, causing losses of over $100000000000.00 to serious oil and gas sectors. around 900 u. s. soldiers are still based in syria after launching a campaign against i sell in 2014. with former us president donald trump admitting the mission was eventually mostly focused on serious oil fields. or we're keeping the well, we have the oil, the oil is secure. we left troops behind only for the oil. so he has raised the issue with the un secretary general urging the u. s. to so violating the syrian people's rights. the foreign minister again says that the u. s. presence should end as it no longer helps fight terrorism in the country on, since i have one agile, an analogy that come out to us must restore its army soon or later. they will

withdraw. that's a fact. they will no longer be in syria. they can leave the country with minimal losses. the u. s. is not fighting terrorism in syria. this is ally, syria, together with its allies and friends, represented by russia, is fighting against terrorism. it was with them that we fought against isis, and japan underscore, and also liberated many syrian territories though it's in nepal now, which hopes to become a fully fledged member of the shanghai corporation organization. that's according to the country's ambassador, as he shed moscow and kept monday's plan to develop a mechanism, the mutual agreements in their national currencies. begin making me can im like a because it is the thing

about based on the one that is not the one that should be closer to proper banking generally has to be stuck. and then go over that with the recent shanghai cooperation organization summit, china and russia agreed a road map to expand trade in their local currencies. last week, india announced that is to trade in repeat with russia after developing a payment system, enable it to do so. unless months at 30 and russia signed an agreement for economic cooperation that was see the russian rebel used in bilateral trade between those 2 countries. earlier we spoke with nepalese journalists around buddha talkie, who says that u. s. dominance and influence of the dollar of both in decline given the fact that russia still does not engage in a bit deeper manner within their power. i think if we hate towards these,

you know, local currencies in the city, i think, or it will make her be the moscow stablish man to paint. you know, thing more like to engage with nepal and maybe try to create its presence. it's not been economically now. the wall is like multiple or b, u. s. dominance and it's superpower is declining over the years over the decades. so 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 wall. and including, including russia and china, the now trading un and rural. and we've seen lea, i think russia in india also had this understanding to do business in rural last all for me, peter scott's. but i'll be passing the baton on to nicky are and will be here with all the latest update on those referendums in dumbass around 30 minutes time. thank

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a personal number here with a ah ah ah. allowing welcome to cross stock where all things are considered on peter level. while the military conflict in ukraine is far from over, the political fate of this country will be determined at the ballot box of the next few days. regents of ukraine are said to reject, gives a rule enjoying the russian federation. once part of russia,

moscow will defend them. will nato escalate? it's war on russia. discuss these issues and more. i'm joined by my guess, wendy's and in our slow, he's a professor at the university of se or norway, as well as author of the books were supposed to be a propaganda in international politics. and here in moscow, we have to meet bob. it is a political analyst and editor against me, internet media project for a gentleman, cross up rules and the fact that means you can jump any time you want, but i always appreciate it. oh, it's start out with glen in our slow. we have as we speak right now the, there's a number of referendums being held in ukraine. a very significant tier. of course, it's completely rejected in the west. i don't want to waste our time on that. they always reject reverend. did they don't like ok, but it's, it's a, we've been following the military operation, but now now the political dimension is coming in to play it,

please explain to our viewers, the importance of these boats. go ahead. ah, well, and the importance is so far when russia went into it was a special, it was defined as a special military operation. and it was supposed to then liberate processor us from the ukraine over the us. the war drives on, obviously, and the resources put into this a cost, the increase on russia as well in the stakes, will increase this also by russia. recognizing this for territory, special guns donors goes on and are a part of russia. it has huge implications for one. russia will have to devote a lot more troops to defend its own soil. again, i know many people all say critical, especially the west was not to really rush as you can. well,

if russia recognize as russia from the russian legal standpoint is russia, and so it will devote more troops to defend its territory. there was a course of partial mobilization, and also it will defend these territories at all costs. that is, this is considered to be intrinsic part of the russian federation. and as when the was low, the russian nuclear doctrine allows for the use of nuclear weapons. in 2 instances, one is attacked by nuclear weapons, but also if the existence of the state they threaten, no one can argue that the 6th of existence, russia was threatened by merely having made in ukraine, but obviously from having from putting its own territory on the line this increases the likelihood of the.