right, we choose to look so common ground with we will take serious steps to provide an adequate response, can measure it with the levels of threats to the russian federation. no one should have any doubts about that because i am a person compares ukraine's actions primarily in crimea, and the both regions to that of terrorism against russia warns they will evoke a policy response. the remarks calm as russia conducted an enormous missile strike operation on ukrainian tockets, including military command centers and energy facilities and from the white house to westminster. russia options are widely condemned by the west. with the estonian

prime minister, even accusing rusher of deploying tara tactics with covering all corner of the globe here. what naughty international we've got all of your top stories lined up. welcome tooth and breaking news does continue here on this channel. it's vladimir putin has vowed a serious and reciprocal response to any threats made to russia. he made the remarks during a meeting of the national security council competing on the latest round of missile strikes against ukraine. to this morning, upon the initiative of the defense ministry strikes using high precision weapons from land sea and air carriers were made against objects in the cranium territory was do we will take serious step to provide an adequate response? can measure it with the levels of threats to the russian federation, yet no one should have any doubts about that. meanwhile, the latest media reports claim another wave of miss all strikes in kiev,

another ukranian cities. earlier today, russia launched dozens of missiles targeting critical infrastructure across the country. the defense ministry and moscow says all designated targets were hit the we understand targets were struck and at least 15 cities, your credit officials report that 5 regions are currently without power. of the country says it will now stop exporting electricity to the european union from tomorrow. president lansky also confirm key energy systems were hit, has been assigned of a thermal power station in key of author of strife with large plumes of smoke billowing above the facility. as in nancy, advisor reported that miss aisles had close to the presidential officer and ukraine . security services headquarters in the capitol authority say 10 people kill dozens

more wounded in key f. and locals have been sharing footage and reactions to the missiles strikes they witnessed. ah yeah, better footage of than appropriate cross right there where the cities thermal power plant has been badly damaged in a missile strike. melissa had west side now the western ukrainian city live off where the summit of footage shows smoke caused by a missile attack. there, as we understand the cities been left without power and water supply as well. just a very short time ago, i spoke with a correspondent egleston off. he remains in don bass. he, he talked us through all the major developments of the missiles stripe numer you today, the ukrainian military that they have decided well to resume the military activities in the, within the russian territory at least one unmanned aerial vehicle bullet. combat

drone has been shot down over russia's crimea, the very border between crimea and, well, the regions that have been recently added to russia to the territory of russia, the town, the little town of john coy that drone was shut down and well, the debris they had a residential area and at least one small girl, 11 years old, was wounded up. so there you, there you have it. it seems that everything that russia has done to day it with, well, keep is defying that because basically rushes reasoning. and that was something that president vladimir putin had said early in the day that basically ukraine has recently stepped up its attacks. it has escalated its attacks on russia's territory, shelling russian towns shelling russian border villages and so on and so forth. the even shall the monastery, the sorta crowning jewel of all this, if i may say, so was the bombing of the crimea. bridget, that was something that we could,

that cave did not really directly take responsibility for. but according to vladimir putin, according to his, one of his most recent addresses and statements, basically all intelligence that he has at his disposal shows that well, it was indeed key of and indeed ukraine that were behind the bombing. so again, the crimean bridge is more than just her and infrastructural object. that is, how well it is a subject of pride. it is a statement if you, if you like, basically it's a message that crimea is russian. it is tethered to the motherland to have it to the big land, and it is not going anywhere. so when i, the ukrainians attacked the crimean bridge, that was the, that red line that russia has been talking about 4 months now. and so, well, you can see what it resulted in, i mean, key of crossing this red line. basically what we've seen today was a missile attack over an unprecedented scale. we haven't really seen anything like

this in the past while since to since the 24th of february, i should say that was it was that massive, according to ukrainian sources. and according to the ukrainian statement, more than a 100 strikes were carried out on the ukrainian, on various ukrainian facilities. that includes both missiles of various sorts. and well, of course, ah, unmanned drones are that russia had apparently purchased from iran. so there you have it. ah, well, a lot of ukrainian energy infrastructure has been well not taken out, but rather badly damaged and it has already in started the lives of ukrainians. they have been officially advised and asked to well conserve energy to not light up . the lights are in their homes and basically do everything in their power to not use more than the bare minimum that they need to well to for their households to

function. also, they've been advised to charge their phones in advance to charge their power banks and to get ready their warm clothes. at least 5 regions of ukraine have been completely cut off from the energy supply or because of the missiles strikes that includes dozens of vase cities and towns and including major cities like laval, for example, of how to come. even in key of the connection i should say, and the access to the energy great is very, very limited. so, and that is not all are basically a lot of places have been cut off from the water supply. or the cellular connection has been very unstable across the entirety of ukraine. and the country has even announced that it will stop all energy export to poland and to europe in a few days. because because that's how badly their energy infrastructure has been damaged or so. again, there you have a very significant,

they're very significant step, which also coincides with a new commander, are basically taking up the, taking up and becoming in charge of this whole operation. now again, we'll have to see whether or not it was a one time event or in the cook. if in the coming days we will see more attacks, maybe not of this massive scale, but something will at least comparable. again, today we've seen not one wave, but several waves of attacks. and again, the rushes message here was stop shelling russian towns stopped shelling and operating behind the lines and stopped shelling, rushing, towns, villages, and cities like here. i've been covering dorm bass for quite a while. i, i've seen the hardship that the people here and look guns, but even more so in the nets have come across and that they have to overcome. because basically bennett's doesn't have access to, to water doesn't have access to stable water supplies. it has been like that for 4 months now. right now you can only get water in your tab so once every 3 days

briefly for a few hours and that is due the direct result of ukraine shelling, civilian infrastructure in dynette school in defiance of all rules. of war they have taking out they have taken out a pump station. so that's, that's the main reason why the netscape is cut off from war to supplies and they have been shelling residential areas then ask is a very civilian town. there's no military infrastructure there. they simply don't have enough to put it in the city. so all of that, all of that military infrastructure is very much closer to the front lines. and the network is not, the only town are like that the little are little towns like you seen, a vaudeville girl of care. they are being shelled relentlessly as well. civilians basically have to live in their basement. so that was the message from russia. stop shelling, civilian infrastructure, stop shelling civilians again to those shillings are deadly. are they were the russian missile strike?

it was deadline ukraine to but it is in comparable to the human loss of life that the dorm bass has witnessed since the 24th of february. and over the years before that, and so and, but again, the just the very appearance of this sir, ukrainian drone and there are using combat drones to the very appearance in russian air space. it is a, an important indicator that while ukraine probably is defying this message, we did hara earlier from a former new zealand deputy foreign minister mat robson. he was speaking to my colleague union o'neill. he said that the crimean bridge attack, which was one of the reasons why russia is currently stepping it up, russia has had to widen its response. and that's understandable. the bombing of the, the, the attack home on the crime in bridges. the one aspect, the, the build up and the constant flow of arms and weapons,

and training and intelligence by the united states and the cell eyes to consciously try and widen the war. i can see myself look at the no choice. so it's not just the bridge, it's the whole escalation that's been fostered by the united states and nato. the head of the region says ukraine has targeted the nuclear power plant there. again, with one shell landing just 10 meters from a radioactive fuel storage container. it comes as blood and proof and confirm that the explosion on the crimea bridge was a terror attack that was committed by ukraine. he also gave more examples of actions including a claims of nuclear terror and equated the country to that the terrorist organization. here get him was a, you can have regime has long resorted to terrorist methods, such as the assassination of activists, is the journalists and scientists, both in the brain and russia. you know,

this also includes the terrors shelling of the best cities and also nuclear terrorism. you artillery showing of the separation nuclear power plant, who benefits from these attack. kev regime has placed itself among the most atoria international terrorist organizations. there have been multiple acts of sabotage on our power planet. several high voltage power lines have been effective using the damage was contained as soon as possible. so there was no significant aftermath, willow property. there was also a number of attempt to terrorist attacks committed on russian electricity and gas transport infrastructure. now the russian missile stripes on ukraine came 2 days after the attack on the crimea bridge. the head of the russian investigative committee informed president putin, the key of security services, as well as russian and foreign citizens were involved in the incident. also revealing, but the main suspect came from bulgaria, crossed the caucuses before reaching the bridge. well, we spoke earlier, it's a canadian journalist, even bartlett, who has been in the don yet for public since march. she gave her take on today's

retaliation strikes on key degree. russian leadership has been the cool that's, i mean, we've seen people been saying, why hasn't russia retaliated for months now? right. and particularly since the terror hackerman bridge, there was a lot of people last, you know, but i mean, i really feel like, and i'm here in done. yes, i'm in the don't people here of them thing for over 8 years. why? when is it enough? when you print stuff showing up and, you know, russia, the russian leadership did push for negotiations and they, all right, until the session military operation began. there were options for to take people out and they, because of their backers, because there are literally didn't take the options. people in your brain less be terrified and i am very sorry for them. i really am. and i, i'm, i'm sorry for any loss of life. however, i will say that according to one source i read,

it was citing ukrainian police. it was on r t actually same 10 people had been killed. that is a normal day here on september 19th, for example, you printing shelling of the center of done yet killed 16 people in the face of less than one week from the 17th of september to the 22nd. the pregnant showing killed 26 people lester. in the next top or you know, i'm not talking about 4 or my keys or other areas, the dumbass or, or the, again, this is the terror that people been living here for over 8 years. and i've been here often since march, you know, and there been a huge cranium, tara terrorism is exactly the word to be using here. let me put in is not wrong. and that terror attacks on markets in the center to and yes, in areas where there are no military infrastructure. so i hope that maybe the people that were politically taking selfies and photos in front of images destroyed, person, destroyed bridge. i hope that those people maybe can now step back and have

a little passion about like this from the european commission chief sullivan de lan, she says rushes using strength. cathy as a weapon. when commenting on today's as strikes russia once again as shown to the world, what it stands for, it is carol and good talent t. those who are responsible have to be held accountable. ukrainians will not be intimidated, and ukrainians know that we will stand by your side their side as long as it takes . well, in other reaction, germany announced it'll be providing ukraine with cutting edge air defense systems . but u. k is foreign minister branded monday's missile attacks, unacceptable. while the estonian prime minister depicted rusher as a country used to deploying terrorist tactics and also approached full support for ukraine, despite literally few days ago, his own foreign minister congratulate in ukraine for blowing up the crimea bridge willis and lets her bring in some live coverage right now here on our t international crossing live now to new york and the un general assembly getting

underway. the russian speaker was taking the podium house just the issue, having to do with the secret ballot on the recession. we were planning to do that immediately before of the passing of the resolution, but the fact that albania, res, sta, was talking about a one single procedural possibility in $87.00 b. in other words, requesting a recorded vote. whereas my delegation was money and is planning to raise the issue of making a decision by a secret ballot by suspending the rule 87 as a whole. that's almost 2 way in order to understand a procedure id, age 72. it can be used when you to find out 1st whether or not this rule is being active or suspended. and therefore, of course, is not the 1st proposal that needs to be considered as

a russian proposal. any other order of consideration will make no sense. but even have against all logic, the decision is made to 1st bow to bond and individual was point under 8 on $87.00 point b. so we would like to immediately underscore the following. this does not prejudge or cancel the consideration of a self standing proposal of my delegation, which consist of suspending the rule of 87 as a whole. so as to conduct a secret ballot with and we will introduce such a proposal. i think you will lose the representative of the russian federation has made an objection to them. what they alive are feed right there for me, like the nations, of course, in new york we just had the i russian speak of the russian ref by you and rep i got selena bens here. he was talking for a few moments. said now we're going to hear from all the rest of them. it's got

a lot to do with the referendum is that were recently held in the fall, former republics of ukraine that are now essentially russians territory. and. and so we'll keep you posted on this. you can also monitor this online at r t dot com for the meantime. yes, 11. well, ukrainian presidential advisor has demanded more weapons from key allies in response to today's attacks. and the u. s. foreign policy chief has promised more support. it's on the way deeply shocked by russia's attacks on civilians and ki evan, of the cities and ukraine. such acts have no place in the 21st century. i condemned them in the strongest possible terms. we stand with ukraine, additional military support from the e. u is on its way. meanwhile, germany is preparing measures against iran than in support of local anti government protests in that country. but it comes out of it basically ignored protests at home over soaring prices. let's look at the thoughts and opinion of odyssey contributor ritual master. the european union is keen on sanctioning one of the west long time

regime change targets. iran and mid ongoing protests in the country. and berlin seems eager on leading the charge with the demand for and you wide travel ban and asset freeze of those it considers responsible. berlin should know 1st hand how sanctions can backfire and inadvertently target the people of the country. since that's pretty much what's happening right now in germany and across the u under the blocks own anti russian sanctions, which were supposed to target to russia, but ended up ultimately targeting their own energy supplied resources. but it doesn't sound like the german foreign minister is going to let reason get in the way of her ideological bender. we will ensure that the even poses entry bands on those responsible for this brutal repression and freeze their assets in the you. we say to people in iran, we stand and remain by your side, france, denmark, spain,

italy, and the czech republic have joined germany and tabling 16 new sanctions proposals against iran. maybe germans and other you citizens in the streets, protesting the exploding cost of living as a result of russel's cellphone po, sanction straight jacket. she just pack up and head over to iran if they want to be heard or cared about because of german foreign minister. apparently doesn't have much of an interest in their plate when they protest the actions of their bureaucratic overlords. here at home in europe, here she is speaking at a democracy conference last month. i give the promise to people in ukraine. we stand with you as long as you need us. then i once to deliver no matter what my german vote a thing you leaders routinely but selectively proclaim their solidarity, was citizens all around the world slapping on sanctions and shipping weapons in the interests of defending democracy. freedom and human rights. but when you're a p in citizens try to catch the attention of their own leaders by demonstrating

against western policies, then the same establishment considers them the threat when the same citizens choose leaders who don't blindly cow to brussels as they did recently in italy than european commission president ursula vander line starts referring to quote tools that can be used to get the centers back in line. in other words, sanctions, or constraints of sorts, against europeans who diverge from what brussels wants. let's face it, the you really couldn't care, less about western values, either at home or abroad, beyond using them as a crowbar to pry out of power leaders who refused to bow down to the western agenda . meanwhile, in germany, small businesses are being hit hard by inflation and of course, spiking energy prices. for the country's leading economic institutions, predict the nation will slide into recession, at least within the next year. and according to the head of india,

its federation of export organizations, the e u crisis is now impacting trade ties with the south asian country. there are visible symptoms of recession in the u. energy crisis is looming, their buyers are delaying orders from india. they are concerned but hopeful an editor from the india today, newspaper believes the economic recession in european countries has only just begun and the situation will intensify. the european union account, which is 15 percent, is already hit by our bob outbound shipment, which is down by 3.52 percent already right now both the commerce minister of india and several hills probably have pointed out that given the fact that in your debt is no future at this in the next one and a half years. the only seems to be in russia, in the,

our homes to increase the exports of what i pointed out. you know, things like chemicals in merchandise. for example, dec styles got names rise and several of the major exports india wants to push into russia and maybe maybe other countries, maybe china ah, as investigations, continue into what recently damage the nordstrom gas pipelines to europe, the russian energy joint and gas problem is reminded that back in 2015, a nato explosive device was actually found under the pipeline. the switch you could actually use them on november the 6th 2015 during a planned visual inspection of north street, one of the nato underwater c fox mind destroy, was discovered when i was lying under the gas pipeline, 40 meters, the meal. it was then removed and diffused by the swedish armed force in the gas

transportation we had been stopped due to the emergency within resumed, nato said that the underwater device had been previously lost during military exercise in these and nato exercises. when a military explosive devices turned up exactly under our gas pipeline had been comes as the north stream. pipelines was seriously damaged last month. and what is believe to be a deliberate attack, separate thought was cited as a likely cause of the damage by both russia and the west and investigation into the incident is being conducted by denmark, sweden and germany as part of a joint team. but moscow was questioned, why is not allowed to join the prob, with suite, and now announcing that they won't even share the results of the probe with russia . also adding that off the almost 2 weeks of investigations is now opening the area to vessels from other states. let's learn more. our processing live to mr. smithson, executive vice president of the erasure cent. a great to see you today. thanks so much for coming on. is it surprising at all the investigation group is blocking

russia from investigating the explosions to its own pipelines? rory, i do not think though it should be no surprise, because i think they know what they're going to find. and, and they definitely do not want the russians to know about that. so it's, you know, it's, it's the political game. they'll come up with some story just like you've seen the media accused russia going up their own pipeline. when there's no evidence whatsoever. evidence point completely to the other direction, then i think highly likely that the u. s. was either directly or indirectly involved as well. and very few countries have the capability to do that. i wanted to ask you, those sweden has now opened the incidence area to a foreign investments. if russia decides to conduct an investigation itself and do you think it'll find anything after? as you were saying, almost 2 weeks of work conducted by sweden, denmark,

in germany. what would russia find? anything they, they may find something, at least they're allowing them to do an investigation there, but i'm sure that they will try to clear up and cleanse the area as much as possible. so you know, especially if there's devices under water devices that were used or are tracking devices in order to target something or such things as well founded. 2015, the mind destroyer would be a perfect tool of potentially used in this case as well. so i'm sure those types of things are fragments, they'll try to cleanse and for out of the area very quickly before they release it to outside party to look at. do you think? just curious, do you think that the russians security services or the russian investigators got there almost immediately within 24 hours or so, of the blas actually happening? you might imagine they got that quickly or have they just backed off,

hands off and let, let the europeans and americans do their investigation. do you think russia knows anything more than it's already saying? i would think, i think russian knows a lot more than what they're saying. i think the intelligence services and i would suspect the company had to be involved as well to some degree i. i would, i would be surprised if they don't already have information that that definitely confirms who may have been involved with this. at least at least narrow it down significantly. who's involved with this? i would say it definitely is an international act. cara. what about? what about this, and what about this story though? because the russian energy, john gas problem, it has actually publicly commented all the incident with a nato mine, apparently from 2015. we've been covering the story here. we're not even showing the pictures of the mind they, they've been shy. but what, why do you think gas prom decided now to, to remind people of such an old case it was 7 years ago. i think the

that type of technology would, would be very easily used to carry out a similar type of action that, that happen here. i mean basically it can be dropped by ship if we dropped by a low flying aircraft, you could typically a ship, then you can have fiber optics. it can be remote control as far as video and control of it. and you could be, you could drop it days in advance and control it from a distance remotely. and at the right time, causing a close. and a lot of times those devices carry and explosive, they have sonar capability, they've got video capability. they've got communications capability. and they, they can carry, closes with them as well. so it would be an ideal thing other than otherwise you'd get more complexity having divers down there by close of that could have been done

too, but you'd have to have the deep water divers, a special gear to do that. or let's, let's discuss the fact that russia is essentially being blocked from the investigation of the north stream pipelines and not even allowed to investigate the damage done to its own pipelines. but it's not really the 1st time the west is it excluded? russia from being a part of an investigative committee. for example, let's go back to you can think of the script pals and of all me and age 17 with america refusing to release the rate off footage that we know where that miss all came from. the book miss all why, why does the west ultimately refuse to work with russia during such controversial programs? it's, it's interesting on why not surprising knowing the knowing what the west primarily the us actual foreign policy is and direction here. they basically want to sever any type of coordination between the europeans and the russia, especially germany, the but, but yeah,

fact when i heard about this incident and i was actually thinking the same thing. the m e 17, the cripple case, only faith all barry. the russians affect the triple case. there's a treaty there, the guidance guidelines on investigating youth, the biological type weapons, and they are completely thrown out the window and, and russia was completely blocked from them. and we still don't know what happened on that really it's very, very suspicious. and i think was if you look at the timing and all these things to look at this case here, you've got you have the, the opening of the baltic pipeline to down to poland. you've got, you know, the, the conflict going on as well. so, and there's some type of back there was some type of back channel and discussions with germany to potential.