this to finish the sewerage, no seekers to go with with them, you know, i'm on the key of authorities and their real masses in the west to hear me so that everyone remembers that the people who live in the next game, the game is on hands that rogia regions have become us citizens for rent and give the passionate speech during a ceremony beginning of the professional, but to don about republics apology and proton regions into russia. a big event is right now, being planned to be held on the red square in central moscow across live soon, wide area and maria fin ocean resigned. 23 people are killed and dozens of others are wounded as a column of civilian vehicles. moving towards russian controlled territory in this apology region comes on the fire, locals, blame ukrainian forces i'm down there. sure. the north stream got 5 lines appears

to be in a direct attack from western powers. that's the claim of the russian president. the accused, the west of sabotaging europe's critical energy infrastructure with was that great to have you with us are full this our program and what is basically an historic day for the russian federation and it's brand new siblings. we continue on special coverage here. we're not in international. so vladimir putin does say actually that the west has violated security agreements by fabricating hypocritical anti democratic rules that russia will not follow. the president made the comments during his speech or the ceremony to just to stop the accession of for new territories into the russian federation. rusty silicon was smokers in strategic security agreements, fly into the trash shall we hear is the west defends in order based on rules. where

did these rules come from? who's ever seen these rules, solid deception, double already triple standards? it's easy to count on fools. russia is a 1000 year old civilization and it will not live by such false rules. the west uses suppression, exploitation, and enslavement instead of democracy. the unipolar, well that is built is anti democratic, deceitful and hypocritical through and through by the other. all right, heading down our crossing live to water. maria phenomena who's basically right around red square, where crowds are gathering to mog today's event. so maria, good to see you take us through some of the key points of food and speech a bit earlier. oh hi, truly he story day. earlier on friday, why report has signed the truth? is that actually make the don bus republics of de la garza as well as the 2 regions of gibson and supper ra, your par to all russia?

are now russian regions. it's don white with sad and russia will never betray them. these are the words the president gave very indeed emotional speech before the signing. and he talked to lot about the people of the don bus region and off here saw and ends up our raja. that they feel and they are connected to her, russia by their hearts and minds by their called her and traditions by their mentality, by everything are equally gradually. her. yeah. why don't we put has said that they are now is starting this friday, this citizens all russia for rubber because that was, they are, will the real 1000000 a just for you to know a republic, a combined population of

6000000 people with losing those who lot of these areas playing the fighting and the violence, and they are now part all right. sure. and these people have made their toys loan has that he talked to bothers to revive de referendums that were held in all these 4 regions that showed actually that's the absolute majority of the people they are on the ground. oh, those who cast that balance. and i have to say very often the risk in their life and go into calling stations under chalet in the situation of beer is fighting one to be with russia. they all are voted in favor of joining our world's biggest country. very sadly, these, all these celebrations of this case is garrick mom and comes with he has another blood you escalation on the ground to fight a continuing,

but also intensified and we are very claims from western countries about more military aid to believe and why recruiting talked a lot today about harry's move, all those people right in with a separately. thank them the lot with all nice. all right and read cold on t. keep come back with feel, be resolved peacefully. this is what white booking had to say. is the ramp you get is you need, we call on the key of regime to immediately cease fire. all hostilities the word on least back in 2014 and returned to the negotiating table. we are ready for this. it's been said more than once, but we will not discuss the choice of the people in the gans denette here so on and zap rogia, it's done. russia will not betray them. oh wow. russia will never betray these 4

regions as white middleton has said, the west is not ready to even recognize the real. all these people they are, they are not ready to recognize the results of the votes. and we heard from many western leaders already. they said using very strong words that they will never accept and recognize rushes claims to what they believe is the ukrainian territory . we know that nato secretary general is having an economy with press conference later today. it's topic we do not know what it is going to be about, but judging by the timing very soon after this signing and off to white with her, we can expect that the focus will be on the joining and also the un security general earlier sad to told reporters that this move violates the sacred congregation openings national organization. the united nations, charter and policeman has no legal failure. i had to remind you that russia's

position is always the same. most with does stay in line with the un charged with people are in with our current where it is stated that the people have their right to self determination and why report has talked a lot today in his speech about the west. and it's a desire to rule the world and he read to rated once again to thrush, or will never live according to someone else's rules. let's take a listen with got off the west is ready to step over everything to preserve the neo colonial system that allows it to parasite ties planned to the world with the help of the power of the dollar and technological dictate, listed to collect a real tribute from humanity, countries have surrendered their sovereignty in favor of the united states. as a worker responded and who has been covering the finance conference since 2013. i can tell you that that field will hold the don boss and i witness that had been

waiting for the moment. but we are witnessing today for at least 8 long years. they have been suffering. they have been living on. when bergman sent constant pressure, i lose authorities happening, conducting openly and to russia policy while the don barza gets on and as well, very much connected to russia, they have very close to this country. and of course it has been very hard for them at all today. i've been living in a psych no surprise celebration are unfolding now in all of these 4 regions and here on the red square in the heart of moscow as wow, back to you know, it is very often it on the live on grow square. thank you. so i show some video now, some video footage from my lugen square. people have been reacting with chairs and tears, pertinent elves, the accession of the region into russia. and people in heard

a song also took to the streets and celebration, although not for long due to security concerns. more issues now or details with ortiz, senior correspondent, but i'd gusty f. immediately after the end of his speech, during the applause that we heard, at the end of that speech, people began honking their horns. we heard people shouting out of their window, certainly a lot of joy, but, but i must say, it is muted this morning. there were several rallies in support adjoining russia. people waving russian flags but dispersed again. for security reasons, have son is a hot spot. there have been multiple strikes to day aimed at the city high mars missiles supplied by the united states launched by the ukrainian military today. the 1st deputy of the head of your son, his he 2nd in command,

i missed the salvo vladimir salvo saga was next to vladimir putin during that speech at the end of his deputy was here. he was killed earlier this morning by a strike, a ukrainian military strike. there is now an alert across the province. it is believed that ukraine will launch more munitions, that there will be attacks on the city vengeance perhaps. perhaps targeted strikes and people are being warned. not to congregate in big crowds to tell a void, ah, to avoid. we were told to avoid standing all working close to offices to administration officers, to the civil military administration. that is currently in power here in care of san province. i mean, we saw what ukrainian strikes alike 1st hand just less than a week ago. ukrainian missile impacted our hotel. thankfully,

over most of the 3rd floor which we are staying on was erased. we managed to get out alive, but the strike was aimed at a civilian activist who had nothing to do with the military, with a conduct of military operations as a former ukrainian parliamentary, who change sides and who was killed by ukraine for what he did for supporting rush, there is hope there is optimism that now that your san province is finally about to be part of russia. technically, it, it already is de facto, but technically, at lupin to the russian military might many more avenues for the defense of its people. russia has a lot more, i add in its arsenal than the nuclear weapons. if moscow, what a wish to do so to escalate the situation to lever more weaponry, advanced weapon, destructive weaponry in this conflict to now protect your soul, which is now part of the russian federation in all but name, well,

i mean time rallies and concerts of being held all throughout russia, in support of the accession of the new regions into the russian federation. you can see the pictures, people waving flags while thousands in flooding on to the streets to celebrate leslie mall right now with a month about joining us there on the program and american political scientists and expert on international security issues. great to see you today, mark that's coming on the program. yeah, i mean, let me ask you the 1st question because i just want to get off my chest, the russian president, putin. today he accused the united states if pushing its own rules in the international arena, while ignoring the will of other states to develop independently why, why would put in say something like that? well, i mean, the russian government, along with many other governments of the world has long criticize the us government's reference to a rules based order or quote unquote that evidently they decide the rules

and whether or not they and their own allies have to bay them. and of course, when he's talking about their own development, he was specifically referring to the events of 2014, with the openly us back porch, which over through the last legitimate, democratically elected government. and you, crane starting off the civil war as the new regime attempted to subjugate the east of the country to their violent and unconstitutional seizure of power in kiev. there is that was only the culmination of a long period of us meddling in ukraine. and the russian government feels that that original thin has snowballed and led up until this moment with west fact regime in kiev repeatedly refusing possibilities of political

reconciliation with the men's chords. and attempts at peace negotiations. what about president joe biden? he said that the united states will support the time to regain the former ukrainian territories. by all means, taking into account the now russia will defend these territories as its own. mark. how will this military situation develop? do you think? yes, escalation. that's that, that's the word that we, that we are now entering a new, new phase of the war. i think you can say that there have been, we're on the 3rd phase. the 1st about 6 fate, 6 weeks of the war was in a russian attempt, basically to thunder run through the country and to get the regime and key to come to the negotiating table. that saw the south fall almost without fighting many,

many a authorities in the southeast, just even changing sides or standing down at the 2nd phase when, when that failed and kia was basically herded away from the go. shooting table by western leaders, including boris johnson, then became the long hard slog grinding through defensive fortifications in the done boss that the regime and kid had built up over 8 years and continues until this day. but after that, the coverage is through a policy of forced conscription, mass mobilize to their entire country. they say a 1000000 man army. it's at least in the hundreds of thousands while russia had limited their special military operation to just around 850000 troops. buttressed 54250000 east ukrainians from the don boss. clearly outnumbered, russia couldn't defend everywhere at once and continue their offensive. and don

boston that led to the tragedy of being outmaneuvered and forced to withdraw from har cough. by wishing forward with the referendums, russia and the incorporation of these areas into the russian federation, russia will now be able to employ it's the full weight of its 1000000 man, active duty army plus the 300000 reserve us to have been called up to defend this new territory, i believe also the rules of engagement with the special military operation will change. once key every refuses to vacate this territory, probably to a counter terrorist operation or something of the like. and we will see russia begin to target the kid regimes infrastructure at a much larger scope and scale. and the west will do their best to respond and we're on an escalator re spiral and for all right, so, so we're on,

we're on an as glittery spiral as you say mock and you would know could considering your geo political experience, your background of the military as well that let us talk about the issue that a lot of people are worried about right now. mock, not just in russia, because a lot of us here in moscow, for example, we have friends, we have family in ukraine, they're, you know, they're russians and ukrainian spread all around the world. but more importantly, they're off humans all around the world. and as it's rhetoric of the use of nuclear weapons that is pretty intense at the moment, the mainstream media is escalating the situation by accusing moscow of threatening such attacks. it was put a new said that the, you know, in the interest of protecting rushes, a inter, an integral territory that they would use old means possible. now let me ask you this, considering your background, you said escalation is now in the works. what is, what is the and game is, is it nuclear or all the other, other options here, mog, i think there's other options certainly from the russian side they've only used about 10 percent of their conventional forces up till this point and, and

a whole lot of military gear, a large portion of their air power has basically been sitting on the side lines of the conflict so far. so russia has a lot of room, a lot of room for conventional escalation before they would never think of going nuclear. the russian military doctrine for a nuclear use is not changed. which is either a 1st strike, a nuclear strike by an opposing power, or in invasion of russia of significance. conventional force that threatens the very existence of the state. and i don't believe that either of those are on the table here at all. however, the west has been pushing for more usable nukes, effectively the tactical nukes for years, and has started to deploy them all the rhetoric that's coming out of the west right now, that they would perhaps directly intervene in ukraine. in the event

that russia uses a tactical new trying to paint russians position as very different from the way the russian president has presented. it makes me believe that there is at least the possibility of a false flag of a dirty bomb or a tactical nuke being detonated in you cream by western forces. and using this as an opportunity to escalate and send nato forces directly into western ukraine. that's a possibility that's a pretty disturbing possibility to mux the voter american political scientists, an expert on it's a national security issue is always great to see you. thanks for your time. thanks . now during the accession speech, vladimir putin also claimed the west was behind. this week's mysterious damage to the north stream gas pipelines are running from russia to europe. no, anglo saxon was a mile. the sons and the anglo saxons have not had enough with their sanctions. they've moved on to diversions, unbelievable, but

a fact by organizing explosions on the international gas pipelines, the north stream, which run along the bottom of the baltic sea. in fact, they begun to destroy the pan european energy infrastructure. is obvious to everyone who benefits from it. u. s. dictatorship is based on brute force. now that is, or shortly after the head of the russian security council said the u. s. could have been involved in sabotaging the notary pipeline system, claiming it would have the most to gain from it. those claims are also raised by the head of russia's foreign intelligence sons, bombings up, in my opinion, the west is doing everything you can to hide the true perpetrators. and organizers of this international act of terrorism is up. we already have some evidence that points to a western footprint in the organisation and implementation of this terrorist attack . our prosecutor's office is investigating the incident that the author, a former foreign minister, a potent deleted a tweet. he had posted about the pipeline sabotage that finished with the woods. thank you, usa. you later wrote another post,

clarifying that quote. he was glad nordstrom was paralyzed saying it's good for poland. meantime, officials and washington had been down playing the empire of the incident would have had on europe, even as energy prices sore. when tuesday us secretary of state antony blank and noted washington's desire to end the e used dependence on russian energy. i'm promised to search and readily available supplies of very expensive liquefied natural gas. we're 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 energy supplier to the european union in the u. k. this year where the russia will hold an emergency meeting of the un security council on friday regarding the alleged sabotaged on the north street pipelines for us marine

corps intelligence offers, as scott ritter, he believes that deleted treat of the former polish foreign minister. was the truth . i don't think sikorsky said in on any meetings, i don't think gorski 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 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 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 us dictated policies that were being implemented by the german government regarding your russian energy, not purchasing russian gas, etc. 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 that was here this case. ah, the european union is preparing an 8th round of sanctions against russia, including something that's going to hit a trade restrictions with pos, measures boomerang and ultimately genuinely hunting the you brussels?

well, it's basically at the back track on a number of it's early a decision. so it's my opinion, a thought to monte contribute a rachel marston. hey, you know what they say 8 times a charm. if sanctions were actual divorces and not just g o 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 u bras 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 they 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 u. s. 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 maybe 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, that's a shift gears here on the program on o t, as in bob boy, now that needs $40000000000.00 to develop its collapsing infrastructure. that's 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 her financing options and the

fiscal space that we have, we are constrained in that area that constrained that south. the southeast african nation says it feels off that 20 years of western sanctions ultimately affecting the lives of millions of zimbabwe ends. the un general assembly of several african leaders asked washington to a well let a lift. the burden of the country's precedent has called for a quote, immediate end to the restrictions which he says are illegal. the ongoing, deleterious effects of the ellipse will sometimes quantity of dro humper and are slow down our progress and villas this grove sustainable and intrusive development. we was up again core of what they needed and unconditional would have over the sanctions imposed in 2000 or 2 have severely affected the countries development as bobbers leader says, the restrictions to prevent the country from climbing out of an economic crisis,

leading to thousands of people fleeing with many, those left behind, suffering as severe drought and malnutrition. others say economic mismanagement by local authorities in the seizing of farmland from white farmers has exacerbated the situation. is a correspondent catabolic tattler with details them. bob away 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 been quality. 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 format employed, they are paid in the local cottage to just dollars. like most of the you know, money by dollars and change it to the i thought i didn't use dollars which i didn't, i was not working. so i did the day that i ended up to move out of entered thousands and came in those quite the places like putting a reason bob with the one feeling the declaration and poverty.