ah ah ah referendums on joining russia draw to a close on the final day of voting for the people in the dumbass republics on 2 of the regions on the ceiling from ukraine. the authorities in here are making it abundantly clear that anyone was dropping ballots into the ballot. boxes at the referendum will be persecuted with no mercy. while western media and politicians claim the referendums are being conducted at gunpoint. residence in the for voting regions are facing relentless shilling and threats of reprises with 17 people are killed including 11 children, a devastating school shooting rocks,

a central russian city with moscow to the world. this is the international. my name is peter scotts and here the top stories at 9 in moscow time. the 1st we're going to take a look at the latest on the referendums as a taking place in the republics of danielle logan's until the regions is up at osha and kara song that now it's the final day to day of voting as locals decide on whether they want to become part of russia. ah,

the 4th day of voting saw all 4 regions passing the crucial 50 percent milestone according to local official. not that does mean the moscow will now recognize the results as valid at the high turnouts in the polls has been in the done yes. republic, where around 1500000 people cast their votes. in little guns for public participation, remain steady with over a 1000000 people voting one. in the course on a project regents turn out is roughly the same as 63 and 66 percent, respectively. are these boat some international observers who gave their assessments of the voting. we just crossed the border and directly drove to this 1st point of voting before to surrender russians. your roster are

quite a lot of refugees from this territories here. mr. green us. so we already had a chance to visit a point of holding their interestof. and what we saw there was, according to the normal standards of elections, alaiya artes, roman course, rev who's been following the votes in done yet. well, he took us through the latest from the polling stations. well after or 4 days of the referendum, which was held by mulberry referendum groups that were going from a house to house, asking people to ho terrans who we saw really high numbers. actually, at least 86 percent of the voters here that as people's republic half cast their ballots. and finally, on the 5th day of polling stations like this one have opens up. and of course, this is sampson lutely of free will. of course,

to turn out in old regions that are holding the referendum has been really great. so everyone has passed their 50 percent a threshold. and that means that the referendum i had been declared valid on the old territory. it ain't done boston's up our osha and in the care sawn, as as well. people are turning out to vote in the referendum here and, and s people's republican logan's hind here, solomon's a pearl. yet, despite the fact that ukrainian nationalist are constantly trying to disrupt the voting process by constantly firing their artillery against that peaceful civilians, we all receive reports on a daily basis for civilians being killed off. a critical civilian infrastructure. damaged at this point says thousands of people are still without running water without electricity. now, as several people have been arrested in various regions for a trying to organize terrorist acts as well,

according to local officials in logan skins or pearls yet. well here in done that hska as well. like i said, ukraine constantly shells the city. they fired a cluster munitions in several districts here in john net sca and they spread the so called anti personnel betsel mines. they're very unnoticeable on the grounds on once a person steps and then and then there would be meaningful life. so for at least one more than 7 people have become victims of these battle mines. well, despite all that, people are still coming out to vote in very large numbers in don boss in don, ask alone are more than 86 percent have voted. as for the results of the referendum, i hear in done ask, at least in dance people's republic, we are expecting a preliminary statements a little bit later in the evening today,

while the official numbers will probably come out on wednesday morning. and so we are expecting more people to join to caster volts. now local authorities have declared today a day off, so people have no excuse and not to come and to, to cast their ballot where the referendums have been widely dismissed as chums by many western politicians. with some claiming the votes is being conducted quotes at gunpoint. and this comes as the regions that are voting have faced constant threats and shelling by ukrainian forces. as us eager is done of explains kia has repeatedly claimed ownership over the citizens of don bass. and at the same time has been doing everything in its power to antagonize them. it's military has been shelling the population here with how it is and have you rocket launchers. planes dropped bombs on people's homes and children. and now the authorities and cave are

making it abundantly clear that anyone who is dropping ballots into the ballot boxes at the referendum will be persecuted with no mercy. ukrainian lawmakers have proposed up to 5 years in prison for anyone who dares to vote. and that's just the tip of the iceberg of repression. there's a plethora of ways to lose all humanity in, keeps eyes here, and be condemned with the stigma of being a so called russian collaborator. this can mean a prison sentence of up to 5 years. so i strongly advise the residents of the temporarily occupied territories. do not take a russian passport, do not go to referendums and do not cooperate with the occupiers. about a quarter of the population here are holders of russian passports. just under a 1000000 people whom ukraine is eager to evict to the 21st century gulags. and that's to start with under the proposed bill drawn up in co authorship with members

of the as of neo nazi group. freedom of speech goes out of the window support every whim of ukraine's government will be jailed. collaborators will be considered those citizens who have denied the armed aggression against ukraine and the occupation of its territories, or have publicly called for support for the aggressor, for cooperation with the occupiers. 8 years of war have somewhat numbed the people here to the outright abhorrence coming from caves, government which considers them its subjects. but while they're used to it, it doesn't mean they aren't hard broken. it's such a bitter feeling when your mother land turns its back on you. well, the land you would always thought to be your mother land. it's very sad. you got the one. yeah, i am so angered by this, but this is wool. that's all i can say when you know crane we owns living in ukraine. we are living in the lou guns republic area. and we do hope they won't be able to get the hands on us danasia,

das donald. and sure all these threads could have been a bluff grandstanding at an international level. a tray can ukraine's domestic policy game, but key of itself shattered all hopes of that, by cracking down ruthlessly on the population of the areas abandoned by russia's forces. santiago as of august now that we had armed by the numerous reports of the so called filtration activities carried out by the ukrainian security services and on neo nazi formations in the territories left by the allied forces. as part of their regrouping thousands of people are affected by this. it is frightening to imagine what the queen an armed forces are doing to them now. when 1st and foremost talking about these people been killed. as citizens of the don boss flocked to the polling stations in the millions. it's not just ukraine that remains oblivious to their plea. germany's tub diplomat, adelina burbock ow did caves own propagandists when she suggested the real situation with the vote here resembles a poorly written

r rated movie and it does. yes. people are voting with a gun pointing at their heads. and this exactly what touch referendums are about people are shot at raped and then obliged to very while a soldier onto the kalashnikov is standing right next to them. if we now accepted and let it be, then it will be repeated in other places. it will serve as an invitation to further violate international laws, you know, public areas in the don bass being shelled by the ukranian military. every day. he was under cover hitman bomb pro russian officials and liberated regions on a regular basis. diversion groups are also active behind the defensive lines, but the german foreign minister chose to emit all of that. it doesn't fit ukraine's heroic facade promoted so hard in the west. they're locked into this narrative and it's so been ongoing since 2014, that the people of the mass have no agency of their own that they are essentially

ultimate owns, are doing. so that was obvious. and that's how the west will interpret any election or referendum outcome. the problem is that they haven't come up with any evidence of this. show us the evidence that people are being forced at gunpoint to go and vote murdered. the final, in the most decisive day of the referendum is here. and it's about to show just how many people have decided to personally sign the divorce papers with ukraine once and for all hamburgers done of reporting from the la guns people's republic or t with the voting wrapping up soon. of course, we'll keep you updated on the results. some of the future holds for those regions. ah,

in the news, the central russian city of egypt is in short, after 17 people were killed, including 11 children and more than 20 others were wounded in a devastating school shooting a wanting this next video which does show people trapped in the building during the attack is distressing. ah, seen hulu, which can acknowledge my to, to, to me i'm trying to see what's happening. she very much keeps my mom enough. he's doing with service jackie. this is a 10 down. mm. former student of this school a 34 year old man named are shown because on so if he actually lived just 250

meters away from here. and according to his neighbors, they say he was a calm, quiet, lonely person. he was rarely seen with any sort of friends when he saw people in the street that he knew he would just pass by them without saying hello. now, as for the actual reasons for why he carried out this attack, there are a number of theories because we heard from the russian education ministry. they said that he was actually diagnosed with skits a friend. yes. so, it is possible that there was some psychological aspect to this that may have caused him to take that step to commit this mass shooting in this school. but we also heard from kremlin spokesperson dmitri pest cough, who said he might have been a member of a neo nazi organization, because after all, he was found by russia's investigative committee with a swastika on his shirt. unfortunately, we may never know the actual reasons for why he decided to do this because he committed suicide after killing all those people. and the russian investigative committee has not reported yet that he left behind any sort of stated reasons or

notes as to why he carried out this horrific attack. russia's investigative committee has determined that at least 17 people were killed in this attack. and that's mostly children. students who went to school that day, expecting a day like any other. instead they said good bye to their parents that morning, not understanding that it was their last good bye. i mean, surviving students have been talking to the media, telling stories about how they were barricading themselves in classrooms to, in a desperate attempt to escape the bloodshed. and so these are classrooms that became made shift fortresses filled with crying, fearful children who are going to have to live the rest of their lives with the trauma of what happened here. and the fear that it might happen again. president putin has granted russian citizenship to form a u. s. security contract to edward snowden. following his request, you asked the authorities, do you still want the whistleblower harvard to be returned to the country to face

a criminal trial on espionage charges? are our position as not changed? mister snowdon should return to the united states where he should face justice as any other american citizen would. now, 4 bits of background on the snowden story working as a private contractor in the national security agency. he revealed secrets information gathering programs, conducted by the agency in 2013. the documents revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations. they spent over a month in a moscow airport terminal and applied for asylum in 20 countries, including russia, where he was granted permanent residency. former cia officer raymond mcgovern says that the u. s. media blame snowden for his revelations. well, secure services continue to violate human rights. a put his own conscience above the regulations that violated our constitution. unfortunately, are our media. our major media of the established media isn't under the heel of the

government. so whatever government guidance comes out tomorrow morning, you could expect all the trench and the chronic media to show yes, she violated the law. he let secrets out. those secrets were that the government was violating our essential rights under the 4th amendment of the constitution. he should be applauded for that he should not be brought to trial. the big thing that seemed to me is what mister poaching was. it was to reveal those saying there that nobody else would take him is the quintessential political as fire li, they are international lawyers. mr. poaching happens to be a lawyer that guarantee that countries take in political refugees and that's for us to decided to do the us all authority is do have

a history of prosecuting whistleblowers, former us intelligence analyst, chelsea money, you lead diplomatic cables about the was enough can is done on iraq to the weekly website was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013 was a sentence was later commuted. and of course, ricky leeks co found. a julie nathan's could face of the 175 years in prison in the united states under the espionage arts. former assistant secretary of the us treasury and wall street journal editor paul craig roberts says that anyone who tells the truth in the united states is at risk of becoming a suspect for us to to express facts is, was some very dangerous for people. as william burney learn as edward snowden love, and as julian or sarge, with you see facts in united states that are contrary

to the official narrative new become a suspect. there is no democracy here with those democracy who to function for work requires an inform population with the population has no source of information because the media or any years them official lives. ah, despite pressure from other e, u member states hungry will not close this borders to russians. and that's according to the countries of foreign minister. he says that his government will continue to issue shingle visas to russian nationals is a somewhat more complex and slow procedure compared to when the research treaty. but even when there's no agreement, it doesn't mean we don't issue visas. of course we will continue doing so. in

accordance with the procedure. several easton, each member states, poland, estonia, latvia and lithuania, have been denying entry to russians even if they have sion get visas. and while germany and france have spoken out in opposition, finland which borders russia has decided to quote strictly ris, re significantly restrict entry for russian nationals. not everyone in felons. parliament though, does agree with that decision guy, the guy about gold. ladies and gentlemen, please understand that this type of action is only possible with emergency powers. what can we sink any lower when the shank axis swim and individual rights are already being flushed down the toilet thing? this kind of arbitrariness seems more like a political preparation for war. if anyone at home does not know yet, this country is currently being run from outside finland. and it is clear that nato wants to wage war against russia on our soil. real. i asked, is there anyone in the government who thinks of traveling to the e u m, for a group of people there is no longer a human rights at them. i thought of finish journalist janice with cannon says that

these restrictive measures have a different aim and thus to provoke moscow to close his borders to westerners and build a new iron curtain. corso does against all these principles, what we have heard over and over over again, since bast ticket that the there is a human rights we need to to keep our borders open. welcome redford, she's and so on. and suddenly, when we are talking about russia, it's no oh international obligation, suddenly doesn't stand totally different, the gender going on with the russian and russian population. it's a pro cation for russia to close is borders from the western people, because russia doesn't have anything to hide. and russia could offer people safety, warm, decent life. and when people come to russia, they would see the truth. and that is what the global is our cradle, i suppose speaking luck with the people and politicians from the boarder regence of

finland and to where it's russia. and they are afraid they are seriously afraid the outcome of this. but what is the benefit? what it can be, it just building a next iron curtain between finished people and the russian people in the same time between the western people and the russia. he runs accused the united states of using the recent unrest to try to destabilize the country that comes up to people. so to the streets, following the death of 22 year old kiddish woman masa armine earlier this month, does that, that she fell into a coma falling had detention by the morality. police is our team, severe newness with more as evidence, largest anti government processed in a decade have been spreading across the country. the west continues to poor fuel on the fire. the mess rally started in response to the death of a young woman who died after being detained on accusations of violating they slum

mac republic. she job mandate as she wore it so loosely. iranian women have been the face of the past, week's demonstrations, some reaping of their head, scarves and burning them while fellow protesters have cheered them on. and now terence is claiming that this sentiment has been seized up one by the wes and followers that don't wish iran well. the u. s. is long attempted to undermine iran stability and security to no avail. it can't hide its nefarious designs. loosening communications sanctions while keeping maximum pressure in place, both meant to provoke instability bids to violate around sovereignty won't go unanswered. even though there is no concrete proof or at least publicly available. however, it's worth pointing out a couple of things that would suggest to some, that iran isn't being paranoid, saying the u. s. decision to reverse some of its own sanctions on iran. so the processors could have why their internet access. and that's nothing new for america

. they did the same thing doing 2018, brought us in iran. we worked with technological companies to help free flow of information in provide circumvention tools that helped in last week's protest. we are able to sponsor v p ends and that allows iranians to use the internet. also, the u. s. often begins to amplify the voice of dissidents, of course, without mentioning their financial motivations. in the case of this latest protest in iran, one particular voice has been given special attention presented to public. this is like the berlin wall, if we curtis will job, then does that make the public want exists? and that is why it's different. because clearly iranian want to know chunking, desta dictators, and that scares the regime. we get the message that i start is not a good public, is in power. in america, i am not safe. as far as is something that public is in poverty, no one is faith. this i rang and bore in acts of a sweat to america over a decade ago. and since then, but particular in recent base has been splashed across the covers of magazines and

invited as a guest on mainstream media. all these tonisha men's pouring forth from these lamp republic, perhaps the most remarkable of the fact that iran was brought to this point, at least in part by an unpaid 46 year old mother working from an f b. i. safe house in new york city massey and jobs in the rain in journalist who was driven into exile it in years ago has helped galvanized the country's women and mass in some 10000000 followers and her social media sites. well, that's not quite true on fate. she's on the u. s. government payroll and has been since 2014. when she joined the washington fund that voice of america. she has also to date report the blue received an estimated $628000.00 in federal money. and to be clear, no one is challenging her activism, but all that certainly does not do anything to contradict. parents claim that washington is invested in best of believing i ran the protest have not just revealed washington's hope to see regime change in iran. accelerate passively. but also the europe delusional self perception. here is their latest statement on the

situation in the islamic republic for the e u and its member states, the wide spread and disproportionate use of force against non violent protesters is unjustifiable and unacceptable. people in iran, as anywhere else, have the right to peaceful protest that right must be insured in all circumstances . therefore, we expect iran to immediately stop the violent crack down on protests. and in short, internet access as well as the free flow of information. really. but what about scenes of felice biologically? so for us and corporate lockdown processors, or the french yellow, best movement with many of those protests are shocked by the authority with robert boyce ah

ah ah. and even more so we sam, you state selling muslim women. what to wear or rather what not to wear by banning islamic males in public. and as for the free flow of information, the chances are manual view who are watching r t right now i doing it online, very vpn. that's because we've had our license as we walked across much of the western world as have numerous other russian channels. the speed with which washington and brass or spouse on the misfortunes of their rivals and push for their downfall while pretending to be objective. only further expose as they own hypocrisy. lady i spoke to av involved a vice chair of the libertarian national committee. he said that the u. s.

government funding of outs of is serves to silence one side of the story. i think its would be just impossible to believe. i mean, the united states in the past did have a puppet government in or on, you know, under the shower until about 979. so the idea that the united states is not trying to save lives around when they've worked at the state of live every other country in the area and has also in the past, we have a public government in iran is, i mean it's impossible to believe. i think it's good for anyone to have the ability to speak. i think government funded speech is always problematic because government funded speech itself promote certain views and suppressed other views. now i can guarantee you that if her views are the opposite, let's say she was speaking in favor of very traditional islamic law, which is also a type of free speech. she's thinking this is what i think the law should be. she wouldn't be getting that platform, so we're having essentially is the u. s. government and us media picking and choosing the winners of a debate by making sure that only one side is ever heard. and the other side is

simply invisible. and that's not exactly free speech that's very controlled speech we need to do is get the government out of speech entirely and all regulations on all platforms and all government involvement in the platforms and let real free speech that's market driven speech replace government controlled speech. that's how the world is looking at is 9 28 am moscow time? that's all from me. pizza scott's for nicky. already we'll be taking over the whole seats and about half an hour's time with all the latest world news. thank you for watching. ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time to sit down and talk with

ah ah, i welcome to wells and for being a generous friend and enemies, and maxim advocated by many ethical and religious traditions, which until recently,

also had its place in geo politics, the whole court was of international law was written and upheld on the promise of a minimum of stability that states would show to one another as a safeguard against an old, out, or possibly bring that spirit back to global affairs. well, to discuss that, i'm now joined by jail cassandra at london base political analysts and consulting. agile is great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having pleasure. given the fact that you're joining us from london, which is a very rare treat for me these days, i want to start from a far, as i mentioned, the, the lecture that i attended just this past weekend, about the arthurian legends which very, very popular in russia as well as this whole spirit of dignity and honor the author at his knives.