[000:00:00;00] a year with $23.00 people are killed and dozens more wounded as a column of civilian vehicles moving towards russian control, a territory. and the upper road year region comes under fire. local officials say the attack was carried on by ukraine's armed forces from a deadly incident. kansas vladimir putin is sent to incorporate this upper rogia and her son regents to don ballast republics into the russian federation. later today, following the referendums held there. this also ahead sco has evidence that reveals western footprints in organizing uncovering night mondays. attacks on both lord stream pipeline nowadays,

according to the head of russia's foreign intelligence serb, zimbabwe, 6 billions in films to tackle rapidly falling apart. infrastructure in the country while still struggling with draconian u. s. lead sanctions imposed 2 decades ago. it's not easy living in a senate tree. we have no choice. we can't afford to pay rent anywhere else. with 60 m and lima. 6 pm in jakarta and 2 in the afternoon here in moscow this friday, september, the 30th welcome to the news hour. we begin with breaking news. a humanitarian convoy of civilians leaving territory control by key ebs forces in the upper rozier region has come under ukrainian shelling with many dead according to local officials. a warning, disturbing images follow officials in these upper was here. region have said the civilian vehicles moving towards russian control territory came under fire from

ukrainian, says 23 people are reported killed. and a further 34 winded, over a dozen strikes were heard in the head of the results of the referendum kremlin spokesperson dmitri pest golf one that any shelling directly the territories that become part of the russian federation will be seen as an act of aggression against russia itself could an attack on the new russian territories be considered inactive aggression against the russian federation. it would not be considered anything else well to former ukrainian regions along with the don boss, republics are expected to officially shortly begin the process of being incorporated into the russian federation. president potent earlier signed the order to carrying up the supper and her son, regions as independent states above the majority of voters, cast their ballots in favor of such a move. in recent referendums, over the past 10 days or so with some parts of those areas,

still being contested by ukrainian or russian lead forces. later today, friday, the heads of the 2 regions on the 2 republics are set to meet. let me put in and sign a treaty to join russia. ortiz maria phenomena, as more or not why my food has signed, decrease declaring independence of the 2 regions of his son and the per rogia. and this is the final formal stab before these territories, along with the boss republic. so then you can look guns become part of russian officially. it comes, you're right. you've just sad 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 the balance. i have to say risking they alive, go into the polling stations on the 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 recognise the results of these votes. many western leaders

already use strong wards to say that they will never recognize rushes claims to what they believe is still the ukraine. inter, are we now hear that nature? secretary general is about to hold an unexpected press conference later on friday. the topic of it was not officially announced by judge and by timing right after important space 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, the belief that a 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 your gifts. keyhole off the grand kremlin palace, the largest, and the most beautiful reception hall. there were waterbury put and is expected to

sign all the necessary papers and treaties together where they had all the don bus republic solve for lugens and need to finalize the joining. and also, later in the evening, we expect massive celebrations. and a concert here in moscow and the red square waves, hundreds and hundreds expecting to attend to celebrate of course, and to greet new members in big family. yeah, very busy day ahead. not ukraine. this western allies have dismissed the referendums and refuse to recognize the results of additionally has said, international observers of the vote will be put on a global wanted list and we'll have them sanctioned. we spoke to one of the observers, a frenchman, who said he's been supporting the people of john boss since 2014. yeah. that the referendum results didn't come as a surprise given the depth of feeling currently against key of their was jo, i'm of those french people who have been supported the dome bus since 2014. so i'm

not surprised at the results of the referendums. i have had an opportunity to speak with the people in the don bus, and i have been profoundly impressed. i've been most depressed by the children there. those children have been growing up under shelling attacks for the last 8 years. you can see the trauma their eyes. i believe that any father and grandfather would become an easy by that. look. i believe that people of the dumbass are resolutely determined. they have had enough of the suffering. they just want to move on to think about freedom and peace. first and foremost, to day these people are thinking about their lives. as the more reaction to bring you, we heard from several members of the russian parliament about what they call the importance of the referendums for the people who live there. and yet in the store, a souvenir 8 years under bombs. and it is clear that people in dennis can, le ganske, will run to the polls and will do everything to get away from the ukranian oppression. cadell will look welski when i was in lou ganske,

i saw with my own eyes that it had been through suffering that people were really tight of the wall of the extermination of children that had been going on for 8 years. so i expected such results. ah possible good after a long separation. finally such a long awaited event as for the residence of don bos, honest and simple people who have a character of steel, they have not run away for these past 8 years. they have remained in their homeland . they have chosen their own fate in their future and voted to return to russia. yeah, it wasn't straightforward vote either the referendums, people went to the polling stations there and to take place during constant ukrainian shelling, which was documented by international journalists who at travel there to observe the voting process. one french journalist who's covered attacks on civilians and don bass was seriously injured after he himself was attacked in turkey. i've been boquet is a former french serviceman reporting and shedding light on the fence in the bottle republics r t 's. maria finished and again had

a chance to speak with him as afy as 11 does m 2 men attacked me the 1st pulled my head back and the 2nd try 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 also 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 meanest, humble, 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 throw in a very precise place. i'm 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 there were ukrainian security service agents are some ukranian activists, though wasik. oh, do you think the attack was in any way connected to work on the conflict in ukraine? yes, yeah, i'm a freelance military journalist for several months now. i've been working in the dumbass where i've shown american infringe bombs that have killed civilians. the

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 other 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 internet'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. oh boy, what's your assessment of the results of the referendums recently held in the don barza and had his awnings and parachia. 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 dumb boss wants to remain a part of ukraine, which was to kill them. this is absurd. therefore,

dumbass needs russia to survive. a will keep you updated thrive the day as the say of people in dunbar on the upper russia and her son regions watch the initial process veiled of the future that they chose for themselves. ah, another story to bring you to day the head of the russian security council. nikolai patricia has said the u. s. could have been involved in sabotaging the nord stream pipeline system. as the u. s. is the main country to benefit economically from the gas supply root being rendered inoperable. those claims were also raised in the later statement by the head of russia's foreign intelligence surface on women's up . in my opinion, the west is doing everything you can to hide the true perpetrators and organizers

of this international act of terrorism. so we already have some evidence, the points for western footprint and the organization and implementation of this terrorist attack. our prosecutor's office is investigating the incident. sorry, again, no risk and now it comes after a former foreign minister of poland, deleted a controversial tweet that he posted following the recent underwater bluff, the north stream pipelines. the statement, as you can see here, finished with the words. thank you. us say, attributing the sabotage to washington on wedding stay though rather slum sikorsky wrote another post. we can take a look at another news wall here. the polish politician clarified that quote, he was glad that the nord stream line is par ally, saying that it's good for poland. but as you'll notice here, nor in this statement, is there any mention of i possible american involvement? officials in washington also don't play the impact of the incident would have in europe, even as energy prices store across the continent. on tuesday, us secretary of state anthony blinking however,

noted washington's aspirations to end the use dependence on russian energy and promised the surge and supplies of liquefied natural gas working to continue to search. ellen g supplies to europe in cooperation with global partners, including, i mean the pacific tours noting that our own oil production is up by more than $500000.00 barrels per day. this year. our elegy 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, russia will hold an emergency meeting of the un security council and friday regarding the sabotage sledges on the touch on the nord stream pipeline. scott ritter, the former us marine corps intelligence officer, believes that the at former polish foreign minister stated the truth in his deleted weight and that washington is likely responsible for the attack. i don't think sikorsky said in on any meetings,

i don't think sikorsky at 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 he could do that, it wasn't as a german ally, et 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 in 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, the united states has taken 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 that was here. this case, the russian turk stream gas pipeline operator sees of the netherlands has withdrawn its export license amid wider use functions against moscow. the pipeline delivers over 30000000000 cubic meters of natural gas eventually to europe, and it will keep doing so the operator se, stating that transportation of the gas won't stop so its customers will not be

affected. 2 or 3 months also requested the resumption of the netherlands license, which essentially covers western europe. the developments are especially significant following the legend, sabotage of the north stream, 12 pipelines which took place last week. me. yeah. so a lot of issues surrounding that and to try and answer some of them. we welcome into the studio political scientists on her son grew to turn at good to have you hear good to see you in our yeah, the netherlands. i'll just read that. saw the netherland central import and export office has recalled his license from gas problems to surgery. company managing the truck stream pipeline. what do you think are the reasons behind that move for the food supply just to be august 20th and about this your kitchen? i can't say that i think it's the 2nd step of american innovation to europe, asia. the 1st step was that just a few days ago, they be attacked through

a pipeline, not tim pipeline and baltic sea. and i think this statement from the dice sites is the 2nd step of american intervention to our region. i mean, they are trying to relate russia not from just the european sites, but also from the turkey side. because as you know, turkey and russia has really good relation in energy levels in military level, for example, the 400. and now we have a lot of turkish and some company working together, such as banks were working in russia. we have good trees him and really mean in turkey. so i think this, this, this, this statement from the dice site is like kind of the beginning of a trade from the american site. yeah,

you suggest there is that some actors may be interested in jeopardizing rushing gas russian gas supply. what goals then? what would be the overall reason for doing such a thing? look, we start with a letter from the us treasury department to the turkish business men association. that they trade them to do, do not cooperate with russia. and just off this american side, they trade also turkish bunks. that's why you know, some of the bunks stop using near the cart system. the trouble cards, the disguise. and i thing know the u. s. wants to intervene also to the energy sector because it's one of the strategic sectors on this war. i think now we've become a like a kind of a, we're not just between russia and green, but russia and you russia and this collective with. so i think that's

why they are now instead of getting even begun few, even because the pipeline like not stream and now the turkish stream. that's the plan of the american and be solely using the european allies. an interestingly, whatever happened with the north stream pipelines right after it, washington came out and said, don't worry europe, we've got your back. we've got liquefied natural gas, which we can supply you. the timing of that is interesting, at the very least, can they cover what is coming from russia to europe? look, i think that united states provoke the korean conflict. and the main target was to cut the relation between europe and russia. but still, i think that the russia and the europe have relations,

i mean 3 relation and different kinds of relation. so that's why now they are targets, think openly the energy energy pipeline to push europe, to have an energy deal with united states. i mean, it's called the strategy of, of washington, and that's why they are attacking through the pipeline source nor to the dream. and the, probably, they're sick and tired of that will be purchasing. where do you see then turkish russia relations right now, if i can give you an example. and turkey may consider buying jets from russia. if the u. s. refuses to provide them with f sixteens, but that's a pretty big statement. big statement of intent, isn't it? what does that, what does not portray from turkey's top defense agency that they may be willing to do that?

look turkish government following balance policy between west and east. and they have to main type it on this policy. and following this policy, the 1st is to to keep the distance between turkey and the west because the west and countries united states and most of the european countries. now they are sporting to terrorist organisation which are acting against turkish nation of 70. that's the 1st point and the 2nd point, white churches for loving this balance. police took keys. the government wants to be a global paul. it's on in the, in the global st. that's why turkeys following this policy. and as a result now as a member of need to we have for example, with relation with the, with the russia and eat on also that and this country like considering as the enemy for the, for nathan and for the with. so i think that this statement from turkey sites are

government about the fight. there is also a resolve of balance. well the see which is like for living for like more than the 15 years now. but the other side of the coin, as you mentioned, is that there's been a hesitancy towards doing business with russian banks in turkey. so do you see that more as you're just laying out there as a balance, a delicate game as turkey is in the middle and looking after their own interest? or is there really a fear in america, in turkey, that america may target them? look from 50 to 2 now that we are a member of nato. and natal is not just the military aliens when you become a member of nathan natal, in for 3 to all your organization, like even in the political elite, even in the, in the business sector that you have still sort of that still be the

influence of natal so it's not easy for churches, governments i can say for the churches faith itself to to have like kind of a return with, with natal and with, with, with. so that's why i think that the turkish government is using this balance policy to have kind of a soft transition from with to if. so i think that is not in like the principle targets of turkish governments when they are following this, but policy and turkey is ready for any blow back from the united states. you think that might come from the united states is supporting the tentative organization against turkey for more than 40 years. and they are supporting pitcher k y, p g in the sea, in syria gland, paradise organization. the leader is still living on pennsylvania and united states

. and also now they are provoking the greek sites against turkey in the agency and also in the mediterranean field. so everybody know that in turkey, everybody know that united states is no more our partners. but as i, as i told that our business and economic infrastructure, phil or some of some point, dependent to, to with that's why touchy is full loving this balance for the see. but at the end, i believe that there will be a strong group between turkey and the united states. that's why corporation, for russia is really important for us just in the overall global situation today. and while we have you on nato's head in storage and berg is going to hold a special media conference today,

we understand. do you see that as being related to the former ukrainian territory? is the republic said don bass and all supper? rogia hurst on to, to join russia. do do foresee that being a major issue? i think now the level 4 is already change. now it's normally a conflict between russia and crane, but it, as a russian defense minister showing, he told it become a war between the russia and the collective. we see the results in the subaltern america several times. i think the medical civil case because there is no reason that the rational they'd make it several times to get pipeline. so we see already the result in this, in this public. and i think the thing on coming days with could be more and more aggressive. the reason i'm mentioning nato in particular it's, as you mentioned, it's, it sees in its mission statement. it's

a defense block. that's what it does. why would it be perhaps, sharing its view on issues like referendums, not told, never been a defense block, not to was kind of an organization which interfered to the international conflicts. like, for example, in libya, what the natal we're doing in the nuts when need to members are doing in libya? so, i mean natal organize a military coup also like the 10s of military coups in turkey, 2016. we know that united states and also natal natal officials were behind the attempt in turkey. so i mean, i know that is the paradox. turkey is a member of natal, but also turkey. is it target of need to in same time? so i know that it's a paradox, but i mean, i think in the near future that there will be

a route between turkey and the natal and about you to fit them in don't boss and the all the other reason why the interfering because i think that some elements in nato, they want open war between russia and, and the best. so that's why probably they are preparing a new kind of publication against russia. ok, thought provoking analysis from own our sin and who are so clinical scientists joining us live in a program. thanks for coming the studio today. thank you. with this another story to bring you to the headline story. indeed, zimbabwe needs $40000000000.00 to develop its collapsing infrastructure according to the countries deputy finance minister or funding requirements for infrastructure recovery in all sectors of the economy and the 14 priority areas, amounts to 40000000000 dollars. but having looked at our financing options and the

fiscal space that we have, we are constrained in that area. yeah. constrain that's how the se african nation save it feels after 20 years of us lead sanctions affecting the lives of millions of them. bob wins the un general assembly several african leaders asked washington to remove the burden while the country's president has called for a quote, immediate and to the restrictions which he says are illegal the on going to the tell us if it's of the legal sanctions wanted to humper and slow down our prob, if and the realization of sustainable and intrusive development. we was up again, pour what they needed, an unconditional wearable form. the sanctions imposed in 2002 have severely hindered the country's development, zimbabwe, his leader essays restrictions how prevented the country from climbing out of an economic crisis,

leading to thousands of people fleeing with many of those left behind suffering from severe droughts on starvation. others say economic mismanagement by local authorities on the seizing of farmland from white farmers, us exacerbated bodily. the situation are corresponding carrabas. matlab has more than bob way is buckling, and the sanctions imposed by was the nations and led 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 and 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 does in babylon. government says that these 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's which could not be attended to because of sanctions. most people was formerly employed. they are paid in the local cards or to juice above and girls lodge. most of the services in products you normally buy didn't use dollars and trying to convey to them. i started yes. dollars each in afforded him a windows is not working. so at the end of the day, i ended up or to move out off rented houses and see those or what the place is like gay yet. what did i resolve?

bob with the ones feeling the desperation and poverty of the situations? i'm not exactly thinking the u. s. government for the sanctions. right now 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 thesis. 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'm as a retired widow, i can no longer afford to pay the rent that is being demanded in u. s. dollars. well that 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 failure to pay for rent. therefore, i apted to live in a cemetery so i can have somewhere to lay my head. must go is concerned about the