[000:00:00;00] ah, [000:00:00;00] a ah, referendums on the cd, from ukraine, on joining russia draw to a close on the final day of both the people who don't pass for public sent to other regions your forties and keep making it abundantly clear that anyone was dropping ballots into the ballot boxes at the referendum will be persecuted with no mass western media and politicians claim. the referendums were being conducted at

gunpoint residence in the for voting region for facing relentless selling and threats of reprisals. with 17 people are killed including 11 children, a good, devastating school shooting walk. they said for russian. ah, hello and welcome is just turned 1 pm here in the russian campus. so this is ality international with the latest world news updates good to have you with us. let's start off by taking a look at the latest on the referendums that are taking place in the public have done yet, and look down to other regions for those. yeah, and kiss on is the final day of voting is local,

decide what that they want to become a part of russia. ah, my the full day of voting so all for regions passing the crucial 50 percent milestone according to local officials. that means that moscow will now recognize the results as valid around $1500000.00 people that caused their boats natania for public by the end of the 4th day of voting and the la guns republic, the latest data shows the turner exceeded 90 percent one and the tests all ends up with osha regions. turnout is roughly the same at 63 and 66 percent respectively. artie spoke to international observers who gave their assessments on the voting. we just cross the border and directly a roster. this 1st point of voting before to see when the russians

rushed off. are quite a lot of refugees from this territories gina green from us. so we already had a chance to visit a point of holding jer, interestof. and what we saw there was, according to the normal standards of elections, or earlier ortiz that remind cars, or if he's been following the vote in don. yes, to his 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 house to house, asking people to ho terrans who we saw a really high number is actually at least 86 percent of the voters here. that as people's republic half cast their ballots. and finally on the 5th day, how pulling stations like this one have opens up. and so of course this is absolutely free will,

of course to turn out in old regions that are holding the referendum has been really great. everyone has passed their 50 percent a threshold. and that means that the referendum had been declared valid on the old territories. ain't done boston's upper osha and in the care san as, as well. people are turning out to vote in the referendum here and, and s people's republican la guns and here san ins, 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, the several people have been arrested in the various regions for a trying to organize terrorist acts as well,

according to local officials in le gaskins, a pearls. yeah, well here in done that as well. like i said, ukraine constantly shells the city. they fired a cluster munitions in several districts here in jeanette sca and they spread the so called anti personnel betsel mines. they're very unnoticeable on the grounds and wants a person steps and then on them there will be meaningful life. so for at least 2 or more than 7 people have become victims of these battle mines. well, despite all that, people are still coming out to vote in the very large numbers in don barza in don't ask alone her more than 86 percent have voted. as for the results of for the referendum, i hear in done ask, at least in donors 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 we are expecting more people to join to caster volts. now local authorities have declared today at day off, so people have no excuse and not to come and to cast their ballad. referendums has been widely dismissed as illegitimate by many western politicians with some claiming the vote is being conducted quote at gun point. this comes as the wages voting of face the air regions. voting faced, the constant threat and shelling from the ukrainian forces ortiz ecos on of explains, give, 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 in

cave, making it abundantly clear. but anyone who has dropping ballots into the ballot boxes at the referendum will be persecuted with no mercy ukraine 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, 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 lives. it's such a bitter feeling when your mother land turns its back on you. well, the land you had always thought to be your mother land. it's very sad me that the one you i am so angered by this, but this is wool. that's all i can say when you know crazy. we owns living in ukraine. we are living in the la guns republic. and we do hope they won't be able

to get the hands on us, not from the standard. and sure all these threats could have been a bluff grand standing at an international level. a tray can ukraine's domestic policy game, but keep itself shattered. all hopes of that, all calibrators who somehow reveal their names, there is a whole list of the surnames. they are all people who have signed that death sentences. we are not bloodthirsty. we are officially saying that will only accept legal decision life sentences for traitors. as citizens of the don boss flocked to the polling stations and the millions. it's not just ukraine that remains oblivious to their plea. germany's tub. diplomat, anna, lena, 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 is exactly what touch referendums are about . people are shot at raped and then obliged to very while a soldier on to 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 fed to violate international laws. as western politicians and media post the narrative of a people voting at gunpoint. reality on the ground points to a very different threat facing those wanting to cost vote at polling stations. public areas and don bass are being shelled by the ukrainian 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, it's been ongoing since 2014, that the people of the dumbass have no agency of their own that they are essentially ultimate owns, are doing busy. 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 that people are being forced at gunpoint to go and vote. there isn't about a quarter of the population here are holders of russian passports, just under a 1000000 people whom you crane 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. 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. i'm again done of reporting from the la guns people's republic r t a with voting thing to wrap up. we'll keep you updated on the results on what the future holds for these regents ah, the central russian city of a chef skin shore coffee, 17 people were killed including 11 children and more than 20 others wounded in a devastating school. she was saying, i wanting be following video, which shows people trapped in the building during the attack is distressing.

oh, i see with all of my to to routinely. i'm fine with tessa. shiva to keep my mom enough. he's doing with service checking his attendance. mm. former student of this school a 34 year old man named r chung kasan. so 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 pay 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 will that there was some psychological aspect to this that may have a 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 fabricating themselves in classrooms to, in a desperate attempt to escape the bloodshed. and so these are classrooms that became, makes 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 us security contract. it would so did not his request. you esl authority, still want the whistleblower to be returned to america to face a criminal trial on espionage charges. are our position has not changed. mister snowden should return to the united states, where he should face justice as any other american citizen would. well, let's get some background on snowden story. while working as a private contractor in america's national security agency. he revealed secret information gathering programs conducted by the agency in 2013. the documents were

veiled vast domestic and international surveillance operations. he spent over a month in a moscow airport terminal, as applied for asylum and 20 countries, including russia, where he was granted permanent residency pharmacy. i officer raymond mcgough and says the u. s. media blames the edward snowden for his revelations. while the security services continue to violate human rights, he put his own conscience above the regulations that violated our constitution. unfortunately, are our media, our major media, the established media isn't under the heel of the government. so whatever government guidance comes out tomorrow morning, you could expect all the french and the chronic media to show yes, she violated the law. he secrets out those secrets were that the government was violating our essential rights on 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. there 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 to us all parties have a history of prosecuting whistleblowers from a us intelligence analysts. chelsea modeling haley diplomatic cables about the war and i can install and iraq to the wikileaks website, was sentenced to 35 years in prison and 2013. but the sentence was laid to commute it. they can exploit found a julian assault could face up 275 years in prison in the united states under the espionage act. for us treasury, assistant secretary and wall street journal, associate editor paul craig roberts say that anyone who tells the truth in the us

becomes a suspect for us to to express some very dangerous for people as william benny live on. now, as edward snowden lug, and as william saw with the facts in united states that are contrary to the official narratives, new book suspects. there is no democracy that goes democracy to fort worth requires. an informed population with the population has no source of

information because the media all gives them of special lives on the u. s. is not fooling anyone. that's how the indian minister of external affairs is the us presidents decision to send military age to pakistan when he, honestly it's, it's, it's a relationship that has neither ended up solving pockets. barnwell, not shoving american interest or someone to say, i'm doing this because it is fall. counterterrorism, when you are talking of an aircraft like a capability of the 60 real, everybody knows where they are deployed and what is the use and what is that paper . so you know, you're not falling anybody by saying this. what india? few mean india is very unhappy or was the f. 16 deep by the us. the

foreign affairs minister when the doctor s. j. shank. god has planned the bite and administration's proposal of providing nearly $450000000.00 worth of fans and military assistance to box time. not every time us provide these veterans to focus on day use against india. f. 16 s 86 f 100 and for a saw fight does all of them have been used against india? the latest, for example, was f 16 being used in india in 20. 19 after the strike one to said india is a lot. did you know the u. s. the to many years? why broad america? knowing very well that is deal with focus on is going to hurt any one of close friends make you a dollar which apply. and now india has made it very clear to americans that

india does not want ethnic students being operational. it is a big headache for india, a headache. india does not want. we discuss this with a policy analyst who says, new delhi shouldn't be worried because pakistan would not use the weapons against india. a concern for india terrorism, as you know, is a lingering threat focused on a significant success within it. and the full that need real honest on the also goodness and improvement in the us distribution. however, the trick is not completely eliminated, which is why a general and box air force in particular needs to maintain typical

credible and reliable counters and give the ability that is by gaining operational capability of 16 years. and in that case, i think these concerns are unnecessary and irrelevant because you're aware of the song mean a during the last one is me. one indian minister of external affairs says new dallas dependence on russian defense equipment, along with a strong relations with moscow. and not linked to any unwillingness to cooperate with american. he stresses that relations with russia strengthen significantly. the 960 s as the u. s. didn't want to supply india with defense equipment. this was not due to a lack of trying on india's part. i know 1st hand what great efforts were made over those years to try to make us understand that it was in american interests to have a strong united, independent, prosperous india in. so we do, and we had

a little chart, the partnership where rush, i'd give everybody that is number one. and then for the basic, if q and the fundamentals of our fighting platforms are all of so we had destroy gression issue and was the rebuild systems come into floors. they last for many years for the 5060 years. so our furniture. so we're doing in a later ratio was back to sixty's when america was completely focused on and i know the box on the other parts of the world. we're not really a fan. so i think that is the reason why we went above the americans did not bust and rush. i was very forthcoming us was the un general assembly in new york now,

where the syrian foreign minister expressed support for russia in the ukraine conflict thing. he believes moscow is defending itself. read the serial reiterates its position on the russian special military operation in ukraine and the right of russia to defend itself and to secure its national territory. we are convinced that the russian federation is defending, not only itself, but justice and rights for humanity, the rights of everyone to reject unipolar hedge moaning is also important to note that in his remarks, the syrian foreign minister expose the hypocrisy of us action usa is currently violating serious territorial integrity with us troops in syria without the permission of the internationally recognized government. here's the syrian foreign minister. then how about us? the war against syria was an attempt by the west to maintain control over the world . but this war, which is aimed at breaking serious will, and isolating it from the world, has failed. illegal military presence on syrian territory violates international

law. and the un charter, this presence must cease immediately. we cannot combat terrorism through international illegal coalitions that violate the sovereignty of states that destroy villages and cities that carry a massacres against civilians and the plunder national wealth and support terrorists. the prime minister of molly, who took power amid recent turmoil and the countries spoke before the un general assembly. in his remarks he thunderously condemned the country's former colonizer france and expose their role in aggression around the world in escalating global conflicts spreading instability. and he then emphasized that he considered russia to be a country that was bradley tamale, a country that molly good cooperate with. now, western leaders seem committed to refrain on the battlefield there for more weapons

in the ukraine. they don't seem enthusiastic about negotiations, but when we heard of the representative of the republic of the congo speak not only emphasized with many countries in developing world emphasizing ations, he went as far as to address both russia and the key of government. this is how he spoke. he actually spoke in russia, take a listen. just a lovely me about the the music movies. it is a protein not just of variety of thought on, you know, what i mean? i still benevolent. i'm glad you're spending glad. gorski is bailey but do my tia my la jose vice should do that on a domain. yes. to do ship back alanine. pretty slow frame. yeah, but it says, i mean, this lovely me about it says i need a date in new nest player shows the world wants

a peaceful, negotiated resolution to the conflict on like western leaders who were pouring in more weapons. and furthermore, there are many countries around the world that recognize russians, right, to defend itself, and in protect the peoples of the eastern regions of the don boss and support their referendum. so there are many voices around the world who show that though the arrogant language the us uses, when it projects its opinion as being the pinion the opinion of the entire international community just doesn't match. we're seeing that the un general assembly. and of course, are you asked in western media are ignoring the many voices we're hearing from the floor of the un general assembly debate. we're saying the opposite of what they present the world is believing. thanks for keeping his company here. and i'll see international will be back at the top of the hour

with 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 on, often very dramatic development. only personally, and getting to resist those 3. how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk with

ah ah, i welcome to wells and for being a generous friend. and the enemy is an axiom, advocated by many ethical and religious traditions. beach until recently, also had its place in geo politics. the whole court was of international law was written and upheld on the premise of a minimum of stability that states would show to one another as a safeguard against an all out war. possibly bring that spirit back to global affairs. well, to discuss that, i'm now joined by a jail cassandra london base political analysts and consulting. agile is great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having my 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 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 and his knives espoused and it wasn't just about the valley, was also about that dedication and loyalty to one another. and that got me thinking, you know, we hear in these days a lot about the western unity and how it's been solidified in opposing russia. but when we look at the bare sacks and the policies that weston countries are conducting towards one another, are they being or generous to to each other or even to that own people are asking you this question. i think that's the 1st of all, i would start with saying that you know,

this on and dignity. it should be placed on the part of the fairy tales. because we are fed with the information that you know, the being truthful to your fellow human being. go to your fellow country, man is something that should be, you know, when you grow up as an other person. but what we could see, and what we can see before our and our own eyes is that, you know, each car and see is for themselves. the european union come have a coherent, important policy because each country has its own national interest. so if you have a sum of all different countries with different geographical positions,