what matters most is the generation of political and strategic facts. for example, the induction of 4 ukrainian regions into russia and the sabotage of the north stream pipelines. these realities will determine the outcome of this ah, 23 people are killed and dozens more wounded downs, a column of civilian vehicles. moving towards a russian controlled portion of zappa. rogia comes under fire with the exact curry dyed by ukraine's armed forces, according to the regions. officials also a head on the program. following this month, referendums president vladimir said to incorporate this opportunity and personal regions and also to dumbass republics into the russian federation. later today

we'll go live short corresponding on that and moment also ahead today also has evidence separate appeal to western footprints and organizing at r a i. the recent attacks on both north stream pipeline nowadays, according to that of russian intelligence services involved with sakes funds to tackle rapidly falling apart. infrastructure still struggling with for colonial un sanctions imposed over 30 years. it's that easy living in a degree we have no choice. we can't afford to pay rent anywhere else with life from moscow. this is our international my name. do you know really good to help you with this friday we begin the program with breaking news and humanitarian convoy of civilians leaping territory controlled by key ebs forces. and this up, a routine region has come under ukrainian. shelly with many dead,

according to local officials, a warning disturbing images are ahead. let's indeed just bring you what the head of this up irosia region has stated that a column of civilian vehicles moving towards russian controlled territory came under fire a little time ago from ukraine's armed forces. as we say, a deadly day $23.00 people are reported, killed up to $34.00 more badly wounded and total up to 15 explosions at where reported in the attack. a story we will of course be following closely. for more developments on us, we await. at what happened to the injured as well, there will a backdrop to all that being the, to, for me, ukrainian regions along with the republics of the don boss, or to officially become part of russia on friday. rather than earlier signed an order declaring this up with her some territories to be independent. it all comes

after a vast majority of people voted in favor of such a move. in recent referendums, some parts of those areas still being contested by ukrainian on russian lead forces . later today, the heads of the 2 regions are the 2 republics. are set to meet vladimir putin and sign a treaty to join russia. mm . but for more or less, let's cross to ortiz, maria finacialow, who is following offense for us in moscow. hi maria. a big day. certainly. tell us what to head. yes, indeed. you know, that big day in the latest development library, fulton has signed, decrease declaring independence of the 2 regions of hips on ends up or roger. and this is a final formal stat before these territories, along with the dung, bus republic self. danielle and logan's become part of russian officially. it comes you're right. you've just said that tough to 5 day referendums held in all these 4

regions, showed that the absolute majority of the people there are those who cast their ballots. i have to say risk in their lives, go into the polling stations under constant shelling, want to be with russia. they voted in favor of joining world's biggest country. but the west, he's not ready to recognize the results of these votes. many western leaders already use strong words to say that they will never recognize rushes claims to what they believe is still the ukrainian territory. and we now hear that nato secretary general is about to hold an unexpected press conference later on friday. the topic of it was not officially announced by judging by timing, right off to library, put in speech and all the sightings, we can expect that the focus will be on the joining. the un secretary general also told the reporters that the move would violate the united nations charter and has

no legal value. moscow, though, believes that it does stay with the un charter particular with its part that states the right to self determination. late on friday, we expect an official ceremony in the gorgeous the order gives key hole off the grand kremlin palace, the largest than the most beautiful reception hall. there were waterbury put in is expected to sign all the necessary papers and treaties together where they had they had on bus republic solve for logan's and danielle to finalize the joining. and also later in the evening we expect mess of celebrations and concerns here in moscow. and the red square waves, hundreds and hundreds expecting to attend to celebrate, of course, and the great new member is in big family back to you. right. thanks very much for taking us through all of our cheese, maria phenomenal. live on the program. well, in terms of kiev view, ukraine, i'm,

it's allies of the smiths. the referendums refused to really recognise results out . all he has said, international observers of both will be put on a global wanted list and help them sanctioned at we spoke to one of them the international relations german of the african national congress youth league, cooler county school fellow. it was in this up and rosie region, he explained why his organization decided to observe the referent. we are here because we sympathize with the people of don, but nobody can be okay with being picked for a t as if you are being shot at bonded for this long. you are bound to be hungry for your freedom and this is what we found on the ground. the people really, really wanted this for a long time. and we've seen it leads to speak for the people have done. but they haven't had a chance to speak for themselves. so there's that for them for us. was that opportunity for us to hear exactly what to the people have to say and what do they

want? and i think they've spoken very loudly. i think rush, i've never had an intention of wishing any claims in a way, but we cannot sit and watch while people are being killed. cannot sit and watch while people put into a vision can sit and watch while people are not allowed to think for themselves. so we are saying there's no human being who's a subject here. unlike the petition, we don't subscribe to king house. we believe in demo classy, we believe that a vote is quite a way to express yourself as a citizen, and that is why we will fly any time 18 to 16 hours to come and assist to the process of the people voting. we believe in the vote, and we think that the vote in eliminating the con, so we are in solidarity with the people of us, and we congratulate them for going out in the numbers to gwinn vote and

vote progressively in support of this, or if and as we've seen it outcomes while the referendums took place during constant ukrainian shelling, which was documented by international journalists who travel there to observe the voting process. one french journalist who he saw their covered attacks on civilians in dumbass. he himself was seriously injured. after being attacked in turkey, adrienne bucky is a former friend service men are reporting and shedding light on key and actions in the region r t 's maria phenomena again how the chance to speak with him. the v as formula de z m to men attacked me. the 1st pulled my head back and the 2nd tried to cut my throat with a knife. fortunately, i reacted and pushed him back. so the knife at my cheek instead of my neck, they are so sliced my hands several times and i was stabbed 3 times in the stomach . have a cut of about 15 centimeters. i managed to escape and run and hide. i knew that

they had been looking for municipal, and unfortunately they found me and tried to kill me. i'd like to emphasize that they were professionals because only a professional tries to cut the throat and a very precise place. i am a former member of the french armed forces and i know how you can kill a person with one blow with a knife. i think they were ukrainian security service agents. are some ukrainian activists that were bossy. do you think the attack was in any way connected to you work on the conflict in ukraine? yes, yeah. i'm a freelance military journalist for several months now. i have been working in the dumbass, where i've shown american infringe bombs that have killed civilians. ukrainian armed forces in the security service demanded my death and offered money for my murder, and said that this amount would double if i was killed in russia for almost 3 weeks now, ukraine wants me to be killed. if i, you scared knowledge of uphill. i am not, and i say to you now that i will return to dumbass. i will continue my work and continue to show the truth. bombs are falling daily aunt annette's. i'd like to point out that in the center of the city and dennis, there are no russian rockets,

no military units. civilians are dying because of these bombs. i propose what's your assessment of the results of the referendums recently held in the danvers and harris awnings and parachia thought i wasn't on bass for 3 months and i met very few people who were against it. at the same time, people who opposed the referendums were not tortured or thrown into prison. more than 90 percent of people want to become part of russia. this is normal because right now ukrainians are killing their own compatriots and dumbass using european bombs to think the population of don boss wants to remain a part of ukraine, which was to kill them. this is absurd. therefore don boss needs russia to survive leisure, kenya? well, we'll keep you updated, of course, throughout the day as the residence of don bass, ms. oper, rogia and hers on those regions to determine their future. ah,

you know their story to bring you today. the head of russian intelligence, sir, again, irish kin has said that moscow has evidence showing western involvement in the sabotage of the north stream pipelines. the issue was brought up during a meeting with intelligence leaders of c s. countries. rushes security council. secretary said that washington has more to gain than any other country in undermining in north stream gas pipelines which at were badly damaged during bloss . on monday earlier, president putin call they explosions an act of international terrorism and noted that russia is putting the issue up for urgent discussion with the un security council. when this comes after former foreign minister, poland deleted a controversial tweet that he posted following a. the recent blast, half the nord stream pipeline, we've just mentioned that it red. thank you usa attribute in the sabotage to washington on wednesday. let's look over here on our other news. wal rather slobs,

the course he wrote another post. the polish politician clarify that for he was glove. the north stream is paralyzed saying that it's good for poland. but as you'll notice there is no mention whatsoever in that statement about possible u. s. involvement. law school as a cruise, washington of playing a part in the instant seeing it's the most possible beneficiary. while america has denied the accusation. with that by new doors, we will benefit from this situation that european was hardly the destruction of these gas pipelines. will love us to increase light over liquefied natural gas to the you know, they have never concealed the fact that their main task is to tear off europe from russian amateur resources. another aspect of vis us officials done play the impact of the incident would have on europe, even though the energy prices store across the continent. on tuesday,

the us secretary of state anthony blink, and however, noted washington's aspirations to end, the use dependence of russian energy promised the surgeon supplies of liquefied natural gas across the atlantic were working to continue to search l. n. g supplies to europe in cooperation with global partners, including, i mean a pacific towards noting that our own oil production is up by more than $500000.00 barrels per day. this year. our energy exports are up more than 20 percent since last year. in fact, we became the largest elegy supplier to the european union in the u. k. this year. as we said earlier, russia will hold an emergency meeting tonight of the un security council regarding the sabotage on the north stream pipelines. though scott ritter, a former us marine cord intelligence officer, believes that the former polish minister stated the truth in his deleted tweet, and that washington is likely responsible for the attack. i don't think sikorsky

said in on any meetings, i don't think so. of course, yet any insider knowledge, i think of course you're just stating the obvious with the pipeline was blown up. he knew it was the united states. i think in this case we just go to the one party . you actually made a confession. that's the united states president joe biden february, 8th of this year, stating very clearly that if russia were to send forces into ukraine, that united states would shut down the north stream to pipeline. and when asked why he could do, how we could do that, it wasn't as a german allied cetera. he said, we'll shut it down. it appears that joe biden is, in this case, at least a man of his word. there's no other party that you know that a would have the political clout to carry this out and be have the incentive of, you know, the united states was confronted with the fact that the german people were beginning

to rebel against the u. s. dictated policies that were being implemented by the german government regarding your russian energy, not purchasing russian gas, et cetera. and we're going to demand that the north stream to pipeline be opened up so that they wouldn't freeze to death this winter. and by blowing up the pipeline, united states taking that possibility, know off the table. so, you know, the united states is not only the likely a candidate, but all of the circumstantial evidence would convict united states. virtually any court of law would hear this case. ah, well, if you feel you haven't heard about sanctions in a while, i'll put that right now because the european union is preparing to implement an 8th round of them against russia, including bringing in tighter trade restrictions, but with past measures, boomerang on hurting the you, brussels has been forced to backtrack on some of its earlier decisions. here are t contributor ritual margins. hey, you know what?

they say 8 times a charm. they say sions were actual divorces, and not just geo economic or geopolitical breakups than the european union would be hollywood legend. elizabeth taylor, if she had divorced any single one of her ex husband's 8 times. and i guess that makes russia richard burton then, because brussels has just announced that it's breaking up with russia yet again with an 8th sanctions package. and the brass says that it's really going to make moscow pay the price this time, which frankly would be a nice change from previous sanctions, packages which have mostly just made europeans pay the price. so today, we're together proposing a new package of biting sanctions against russia. so what's going to be the game changer this time around? well, these new measures are set to ban russian toilet paper and other hygiene products from being imported to the

e. u. russia has the natural resources that the you largely lacks to make such things which are particularly important right now in light of german toilet paper. manufacturing giant haggle, declaring bankruptcy as high energy costs start taking their toll on european manufacturing. so europeans who have been encouraged to shower with like 3 drops of water to save energy because the big brains and brussels cut off the supply display . russia may now have to cas whatever's left of their basic hygiene overboard for keith to how many squares of toilet paper per use are required to stick it to vladimir putin according to the you. all them might be about to tell us. previous you sanctions have worked so well that they've had to constantly backtrack on them to save themselves and their allies from total strangulation at their own hands. in july, for example, brussels amended sanctions against russian banks to allow for food trade, east sanctions on russian companies,

selling oil to certain countries. and on the provision of insurance for russian aircraft and sea vessels. and their components which are, are critical part of the global supply chain. the u. k. did pretty much the same thing the following month. brussels backtracked on russian coal sanctions just a few days ago to avoid harming its own energy security even more than it already has. next up, reportedly backing off on russian fertilizer and cement sanctions. but you never know it from listing to each commission. president ursula vander line, and i want to make it very clear. the sanctions are here to stay just a little more effort. and maybe they can actually find a buzzword to wriggle out of the sanctions they imposed on their own energy supply . but it's all about the principle of denying russia revenues to pursue its interests in ukraine, right? if that's the case, then why have e u and us imports of russian metals from aluminum to nickel surged

over 20 percent in some cases over the past year. the sanctions don't really seem to be hitting their stated target, but at least may be europeans can find comfort in the notion that as the winter energy crunch sets in, they can rev up their metabolism and stay warm by laughing at the seemingly endless e u. clown show just don't laugh to tears though, as it risks wasting tissues. ah, or i don't want to turn attention know to africa because them bob, it needs $40000000000.00 to develop its collapsing infrastructure according to the countries deputy finance minister or funding requirements for infrastructure covering all sectors of the economy and the 14 priority areas. amounts to $40000000000.00, but having looked at our financing options and the fiscal space that we have, we are constrained in that area. indeed, constrained that is how herrera essays had feels after 20 years of us led sanctions

affecting the lives of millions of zimbabwe and at the un general assembly several now african leaders asked washington to remove the burden while the countries president has called for a quote, immediate end to the restrictions he says are illegal. the ongoing dilatory us efforts of the ellipse will sometimes wanting to draw humper and slow down our progress. and fidel is the sure sustainable and intrusive development. we wowza again core for their immediate and unconditional rib over the sanctions imposed in 2001 have severely hampered the countries development zimbabwe liter say's they've prevented the country from climbing. i top an economic crisis leading to thousands of people fleeing with many of those left behind suffering from severe drives and starvation. correspondent, carrabas. let topler as more zimbabwe is buckling,

and the sanctions imposed by western nations and lead by the united states. the press up continues this by the poor economy situation in the region. and while these sanctions continue to be palpable on the ground, the us says that they are not targeted at ordinary citizens. that is not our view as the u. s. government not to say that the economic situation is not a problem. in our view, the sanctions are very targeted. this is a crucial point on distinction on what we believe is misinformation. but is it so? the reality on the ground tells a different story, doesn't bob? one government says that the sanctions have absolutely better the economy. there is no way any investor comes to an economy or a country which is under sanctions. we also haven't been able to access affordable loans from the international monetary fund and world bank because of that,

which could not be attended to because of sanctions. most people was formerly employed. they are paid in the local carriage or to juice above in dollars. but most of the services in what ducts you normally buy didn't use dollars and change it to be an ah saturdays, injurious dollars which afforded him i've in those it's not working. so i did of the day that ended up or to move out or rented out and see those or quality places like goods ordinary them bob with the ones feeling the desperation and poverty of the situations. i'm not exactly thinking the u. s. government for the sanctions? sure. you are. yeah. we are wish is that the legal sanctions imposed in our nation be removed because of them we have been live in a difficult life. our kids are not going to school school, sorry, demanding that we pay thiessen the is dollars and we cannot afford that because

there are no jobs. it's not easy living in a cemetery, but we have no choice. we can't afford to pay rent anywhere else. but that i am as a retired widow, i can no longer afford to pay the rent that is being demanded in us dollars. as youth, we're disgruntled, we went to school on the 10 various qualifications which we are failing to use because there are no jobs. hence, most of us are engaging in activities like bricklaying or leaving for south africa to find better employment prospects. i don't know why it's not easy to be evicted from one house to the other. dear the feeler to pay for, and therefore i opted to even a cemetery, so i can have somewhere to lay my head. must go, is concerned about the sanctions against them bubbly and believes that the country as a sovereign independent nation, has the right to make its own decision and truth its own political partners, african leaders to as recently as the united nations general assembly were all firm and united in the call for the sanctions to be lifted. so while the u. s. seems

convinced that the sanctions are targeted and not hurting ordinary them, bob was the situation on the ground. looks rather different. got a bill is out of t. angel is back the u. s. senate has agreed on legislation to pass an additional $12000000000.00 and military and economic aid for ukraine, and also pledged to send on and bumps or defense systems. just to go through this re key and it's been pushing for months for the pentagon to supply the advanced nussum surface to air missile systems says the u. s. has already allocated nearly $55000000000.00 of spend to support ukraine, including high mars, multiple rocket lorn systems, the local authorities and don boss say, have been used in a tax and residential areas. law ukraine's president landscape rejected. peace talks with russia sing, negotiations are impossible, at least that he rushes,

implementation of the so called crimea scenario. and another attempt to an extra cranium territory will mean that there is nothing to talk about with this president of russia. this is clear and obvious occurring could tell scare, retired us or forced lieutenant colonel say that piece is still a distance away as washington doesn't seem to be interested in conflict resolution . united states is controlling and pulling the strings in many ways for government. so they are not going to be allowed to negotiate, even if the majority of the korean people want the war to and it's united states, i think that's standing in the way. and i say this because we have multiple examples of putin and lever, reaching out to talk. and those a been rebuffed and every and every teacher politicians in washington

d. c. would like to see continued war. and they would like to see ukraine dominant in that region. because we own ukraine, i mean united states. oh, you green streams. this is, this is a known fact. it has been for, since, since before, 2014. and that, that's, that's clearly evident. i mean, that's not even news. we know this. ah, sending a message to katara to protest its record of human rights. that's the goal of a newly unveiled kid by a danish sportswear brand, which is unveiled. it's designed for the countries football team to work during the upcoming fit for world cup. and the reason behind it alleged abuse by the guitar, a government of its migrant workers with the danish national teams, new jerseys, we wanted to send a dual message. they are a protest against guitar and human rights record. that's why we've torn down all the details for denmark's new world cup jerseys. we don't wish to be visible during

a tournament that has caused thousands of people their lives. we support the danish national team all the way, but that isn't the same of supporting guitar as a host nation. the repeatedly said, claims about workers dying because of unsafe conditions in the country. provoked a response from faith in which world football governing body rejected any responsibility for the situation was the mission state. been for the tournaments said the event is supposed to bring countries together. the clothing manufacturing question, hummel may be violating a cardinal rule of the firs under which quotes equipment must not serve any political statement breaking it could mean sanctions against the danger. squawk a back in may fif, achieve jelly infantry. no strobe doth concerns. after a reporter us about 6 and a half 1000 migrant workers reportedly dying during could tours preparations for the tournament. he said the issue was all of fif is jurisdiction. when you give

work to somebody even in hard conditions, you give them dignity and pride. now 6000 people have died and other works and so on. and of course, faith is not the police of the world or responsible for everything that happens around the world. will say for chief hand to apologize for that statement later. earlier we spoke with the radio host, curry, harrison. he said that the whole controversy is more about business and money flow surrounding the world cup. i think the entire mechanism of sci fi, it's like being a member of a country club. you're not going to leave that country club and lose all of it spoils the recognition and such an at the end of the day, hummel's name is all over the news right now. what a good day for hummel but it's all about creating stuff that sells that creates energy and focus more on these games. remember these games bring in tourist money. they bring in merchandising money every click, every blog article,

everybody that writes about it makes the brand bigger and stronger. and it doesn't matter if it's good or bad. it's the brand and the algorithms eat it up and you and i are going to watch. even the more controversial it is, the more you and i are likely to watch. but the cats out of the bag and for fif at a claim that it has no jurisdiction, they're doing business. like you can say, no, i can't do it. if we do business with you, you have to, by the way, reveal all the new things that you claim you're doing and could tar cutter. however you like to pronounce it where you have given human rights where you are protecting your workers. you claim you're doing this, let's see the evidence. no evidence. we're going to increase that contract and make sure we're even tighter. police people are not blind. people watching right now are not blind. this is why we're talking about it. recognizing the sound of shelly knowing when to run to the basement. it's not enough bringing any chance that that's been the reality for the past 8 years and done by the next me,

her nurse to die with ah, ah good back in 2014, citing the military danger the ukrainian authorities ordered the evacuation of old children who had lost their parents and don bass. this is denise delgado, nadia kimble labeled quiet avenue.