oh, i a disturbing images up ahead. civilians are killed in the latest ukrainian bombardment i've done now. as kids troops show the russian regions 39 times in the past 24 hours. we were report for the scene of the attacks. a u. s. military base and theory comes under attack, i mean, rising tensions between nato allies, turkey and the us. and, and the latest news from africa gonna announces this shift towards using gold instead of the us dollar world purchase with,

from lumped out of the world. this is our to international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the hour. welcome to the program. we begin with the latest from the ground and rushes, her song region where 6 people have been killed by the latest ukranian shelling of the city of no via co, according to local officials. he has troops or setting up their bombardment residential areas across the region, which recently joined russia after a referenda. in the dawn bass ukrainian armed forces have shelled the region $39.00 times in the last 24 hours. one strike headed cotton factory in the city of dusk, and a warning you may find the following. images disturbing. local authorities say at least one civilian was killed and at least 3 others wounded in the attack. our correspondent roman coaster was on the scene right after the shelling and sent this report. daily artillery shelling of the next continued on

friday. one woman was killed as the result. that is her husband's and her brother standing right next to her body. another 3 people who are wounded in this area and now this is a food storage unit here in the nets. not a single military object in sight. they the shelling of don't ask, continue on a regular basis. as the result, there's a lot of damage to infrastructure. we haven't had any running water here in the last 6 days. also, many places are without electricity. no, the husbands of this woman is a familiar person to us to r t a few months ago. as you can see, he is on crutches a few months ago. he came under shilling had the same time as our crew was shelled

as well had that time. our correspondent helped him the 1st aid. did everything possible to save his life? her now just a couple of months later, this man was his wife from a quarter of hearty don't escrow public. meanwhile in ukraine power outages continue to be reported across the country. authorities can only meet 30 percent of its electricity needs, adding that in the event of an emergency, the city's population could not be evacuated earlier long ago stated the air stripes on an infrastructure are in response to weapons deliveries from the west. with the goal of undermining the combat capabilities of the countries army. lot of we are speaking to the mothers of russian service men on friday, reiterated that he doesn't care about his losses on the front lines. according to the russian president, those who supply ukraine with weapons expected to continue to fight for as long as

it takes you to get. miss cronin. soldiers are used as kennedy porters. without an exaggeration, the commanders, they're paying no regard to losses at all. and those who behave incorrectly, to be shot in front of the rally with our guys sold with their own eyes. and the bodies are lines around. they don't even collect execute aid, and there is a completely different moral atmosphere. going to check, i said earlier, we ask former virginia state senator richard walk about the situation. he says nato countries have no interest in the wellbeing of ukraine as long as kid continues filing moscow. i think there's a lot of truth in what the president prudent is saying. there's very little evidence that the nato, any of the may, the european countries have the slightest interest and the well being of ukraine.

the ukraine economy has collapsed. the people are in darkness. tens and tens of thousands of ukrainians have been killed. many more ukrainian soldiers and russian . russia has suffered a lot of casualties, but ukraine has had just incredible levels of death and, and woundings. so i think, i think that the, the men of ukraine, the soldiers are being used as cannon fodder. and i don't really think that the nato and the western cares at all about the country of ukraine. i think it's, it's simply a place to advance their, their strategic objectives. but the people don't matter at all. not the men talk to women, not civilians. no one in ukraine matters. denito u.

s. military base in northeastern area has come under attack being hit by at least 2 missiles. a 3rd unexploded rocket was discovered near by the pentagon hasn't reported any casualties or damage to facilities with us central command, condemning the attackers who have yet to be identified. friday's incident comes days after the u. s. express it concerns over turkey as military action against current militias in the region, which in kara shrugged off, claiming the right to self defense. recent air strikes and syria directly threatened the safety of us personnel who are working in syria with local partners to defeat isis and maintain custody of more than 10000 isis detainees. no matter who tourist clued with through care will always hold them accountable for every drop of blood they shed. no one to lecture trickier, which is the only day to ally that food dies hand to hand and was victorious.

turkey out launched a series of air strikes against alleged militant targets in northern syria in recent days. the attacks come as a response to the deadliest and bold terror attack on the 13th of november, which in cora has blamed on kurdish groups. president air to one also threatened to ground invasion amid calls from the international community for de escalation political scientists, owners, and on his own sense, said the u. s. and doesn't want any states in the region pursuing independent policy. united states doesn't once strong and independent countries in our region from bulk comes to me, the least. let's take it from the 91 they attacked. so they provoke a 3 voting yugoslavia. and after the end with the dissolution of for he goes lawyer . and after we had the in 2003 had the war, the occupation of iraq and the device iraq to the 2 different parts. and now they're trying keep the same think in syria. and now they're also the belief in

iran. and turkey is one of the main target off united states. also, they don't want to, they don't want the wrong church in this region. and turkish army and to state is really this thing against the police. so that's why we have bad relations with united states. and i think that it ends with that new features probably useful and key could leave natal gone as vice president has announced the government is considering adopting a new policy to use gold instead of the us dollar to make oil purchases. the government is negotiating a new policy regime where our gold rather than our us dollar reserves will be used to buy oil products. the barter of sustainably mind, gold for oil is one of the most important economic policy changes in ghana. since it's independence. the decision is aimed at protecting gone a foreign currency reserves. as the demand for dollars,

oil importers has the effect of weakening the country's currency. using gold as a payment method would stabilize the currency situation as retailers would no longer need to exchange dollars to import products. chris hart, a gold and global currency analyst from south africa says that gone as initiative indicates that solely dollar based international trade could not be working for all like before. the pitcher towel is one of those things is linked to, to help support the dollar will produce tend to what will that the good arrangement with the total that they are. so that also helps to, to now gone, is gone to the point where it's now looking at this arrangement.

and i think they're saying that it doesn't seem to work. and i think in, in one sense, with the rise of arrival of currency to see there are alternatives to the dollar a private initiative. but going to store a monetary instrument. oh, this matter says fire announced on wednesday by east african leaders. i'm 23 rebels . continue fighting the government of the democratic republic of the congo with militant saying the agreement is of no concern to them. they don't roll out direct dialog. m 23 has seen the document on social media. there was nobody in the summit from m. 23. so it doesn't really concern us normally when there is a ceasefire, it is between the 2 warring sides if tomorrow at 6 pm or in the morning. the government doesn't attack us, we will still be there. otherwise we are defending ourselves. we are always ready

for a direct dialogue with the congolese government to resolve the root causes of conflicts . a safe fire was declared after the d. r. c's president, and there were wandering. foreign minister attended a summit in the capital of angola in wednesday. as a result of the talks, hostilities in eastern d r. c were supposed to be stopped from friday evening and $23.00 revel group has been on the attack since last year. seizing territory in the east of the country, d r. c. officials, along with other east african nations. they rebels are directly supported by rwanda, which denies the accusations. east african nations have fledge to fight the rebel forces if they refuse to lay down their arms. meanwhile, hundreds of congo leave citizens took to the streets of go much protest against the cease fire agreement. demonstrators called for more action from the international community to assist windy r c. in his fight against the rebels. we spoke to the protesters who told us they want the government to continue fighting against the notice. see,

we don't want to cease fire in the withdrawal of the rebels because there had been many dialogues that it never brought a solution up on the puzzle today. the only solution for government is to fight gun . he could have been, we want them to remove the ceasefire, and to be able to fight with the m 20 larry and chased them from where they came from because they are not congolese one woman, even the regional force. we don't, don't wanted it up and i want the armed forces of congo to be able to put an end to the m 23 through war so that we don't listen to delegate anomalies. we don't give the enemy time, which is why we don't want to cease fire with our brothers are suffering and rupture. lottie want to in via the d. r. c. the government should do its best to finally put an end to the rebels. the, the russian foreign ministry has praise, growing african independence on a global arena, while also condemning french accusations of moscow pursuing a predatory policy in the region, saying that parents shouldn't speak from the continent. the african continent has its own voice. african countries in the continent have the right to speak for

themselves with the right to develop relations with those it wants to, you don't need frances mediation services for this. with france, apparently losing ground across africa. paris is shifting the blame on russia. while it's all facing criticism or explaining ties with former colonies for its own interest, as well as being accused of de stabilizing north africa with this years long military operation. and so how, meanwhile, uganda phases pressure from the you are an energy project with hands in the, at the you issued a resolution urging the countries who hold the development of the world's longest heated pipeline back in september, saying that it would harm the east african region business journalists, charles boggy, says that it's up to africa to decide its own path of relations with other states. why? other bizarre bishops homie at this point in time,

was if you notice one of the plans within the company out of town best, you know, the ears space. so idea, anyone would want i'm, you know, just to ask you to be hard to know what the motivation about as a continent we should be able to, you know, put across our interest. and then the rest of the was kind of common that by the decision to actually make you know, to be met. maybe if you're going to come to the continent, you decide which direction they want. israeli forces have demolished or palestinian primary school in the southern westbank. it comes as it is really court declared that it was a legally built in an area designated as a closed military firing zone. children were forced to flee their classrooms, climbing out of windows before israeli forces flattened the school. here's our

t maria the notion up with more. teachers help children leave the building through the window while trying to calm them down at the same time. the kids luc last and in state of panic. and this is what happened next. the, this building is to be a school in the occupied west band. israel says it was an illegal construction. on wednesday, the enforcement authorities that the civil administration carried out enforcement steps against a structure that was built illegally and firing zone $918.00 in the south hebron hills. yesterday we were sitting at the school and learning suddenly the israeli soldiers entered the classroom and through gas bombs and broke the doors. we tried to escape from the windows, but they shut them the also hit the teachers in the school and very old man and a woman who had heart disease. we try to prevent them from doing this that they

continue to do so. we are feeling frightened stress. there is another school, but it is so far away. hours after these rarely demolition local residents set up a tent on the schools ruins, but they don't know what will happen to him next. this is what's left over in elementary school here in the village or west fi south of hebron hills in the area known in arabic as must have thought he had. it used to be home to $23.00 boys and girls. here they are. they now have to find another place to continue their study, but this school in the mountains is just the tip of the iceberg. this whole area covering miles of rolling hill tops is so cold, firing zone 918, a closed military area that serves as a training ground for idea forces. since it was declared in the early 19 eighties, these rally authorities started clear in it from any construction. after the also decided to relocate the people in 1999,

the palestinians went to the high court. a legal battle lasted over 20 years. earlier in may, the court delivered the decision not in favor of the palestinians, nor head out of look of the phone. they have their own places to train, but they want to occupy our land and say they want to train them. in july, a judge came to us and said that this area was a military firing zones, and they want us to leave based on the court decision. but we will not abandon this land because our ancestors were here. they say that this land is a firing zone month, but it is not massive her yet to several villages, with a population of more than a 1000 people. i said to be cleared out, they had more of the season lee with the ship, which is something that the 11th wreck organized because it's a western society that doesn't necessarily and the thin seasonal movement and running. but it's just how people live. people have lived there in caves, way before the occupation, and where before is i was even established something

a bit clever that they're doing. it's not like in 1999. that what they did is just to take people from their homes at night, put them on trucks and throw them at the end of the fine zone. and i think the understand that it doesn't look so good these days and are doing in or so outside of this so called the fire is on is just to make life so miserable that people that it won't be livable, a tie isn't israeli june and inactive is defending the rights of the people. his state he believes is a pressing. when does equality and like, and the decision is made on a democratic and equal basis. if people decide that they want this somewhat of a 2 state solution or confederacy, or one democratic state, everything is fine with me if it's, if the decision is taken democratically. but these rarely government disagrees with the allegations. it's not only for policy. well it, it was also for israel, if you have

a court decision. so army bill executives is court decision. oh, they destroyed schools, they destroyed a synagogue, and so on and so on. it's not only for others, denise, please have a spectral score. each of you have a status, what you should not to try to break it. no von should do it. if you have a student error, you may not build a school. you may not build, turn any buildings, you may not leave there. it's an earth defect era, a stick that means restricted. now after the decades long chords battle is over, they fight it seems will continue here on the ground, on the very land which both israelis and palestinians claim as their own mission option r t from west bank. day 3 and the breakfast gathering is underway in russia. st. petersburg with the walks member states presenting their projects

and investment opportunities all over the globe. the forum is also hosting delegations from partner country from around the world as well as bricks plus members. during the meeting participants discuss their management experience and the potential development. i've joined projects. the president and the association of italian entrepreneurs in russia says that only with a joint effort by all countries, can there be a solution to global problems? trying to propose to pump many ideas and proposals of corporation were boys to the form. i hope that relations between europe and russia and especially between italy in russia will improve a lot of this would mean that we have overcome all moments of the crisis together. it is, we have a lot of european companies that operate on russia done. economic diplomacy plays an important role in our mission is another form of diplomacy. is the cultural relations between the countries that is exactly what was discussed with the forum. i think most important is that people should fight hatred level and contribute to overcoming such moments of political crisis. i believe that we should look or would

peacefully call existing. that means we need to find a form of dialogue with every one and every country. i believe that this is the only way to solve problems as an international level. unfortunately, this is not have them. recent closer, former german chancellor anglo merkel has admitted she used the men's agreements as a tool against russia, while russia hope the protocol would help bring peace to the don bask western countries regarding the deal as a way to buy time to prepare ukraine for war against russia argy, contributor rachel mars them has the story. the west keeps saying that it wants peace in ukraine, but if that's really the case, then widened the western guarantors of uminski hordes, france, and germany enforce that particular piece deal signed in 2014 between ukraine and russia that was supposed to end the violence by he's against the people of the russell phone, don bass region. something just doesn't add up. not only did the violence persist,

right under the noses of paris and berlin. but they stood idly by as nato moved in with its training and arming of as of neo nazi proxies. so why didn't they just seize the opportunity to secure peace when they had the chance and the agreement? so the tool to do so? well, we're now starting to get a better understanding of what was really going on. in a recent interview, former german chancellor angela merkel admitted that she used the p steel to better prepare ukraine for war with russia. i believe better than and still now the doland uminski agreements. i believe the time ukraine could use to better assist a russian attack. it is a stronger and more resilient country. now. now imagine that after signing the paris peace treaty to end world war 2, the access or the allied countries had decided to just use it to get ready for yet another go at or former ukrainian president petra sankoh. also let us look last

week that minsk was used to by time to build up ukrainian forces with nato, which is a strange thing to be doing right after he had just literally agreed to work to secure peace by signing the deal when i needed the minsk agreements to gain at least full and a half used to build the ukrainian forces to build the ukrainian economy, to train ukrainian forces alongside nato, to create the best armed forces in eastern europe, according to him ne toes, mangled. sure. so now this a lot more sense why washington was able to freely pump $21.00 and a half $1000000000.00 into eastern ukraine's at 2014. the region served as a de facto nato base, right up on russia's border while the west was more focused on training for conflict, rather than defusing it, as they had agreed to help do. meanwhile, russia consistently sounded the alarm over the fact that keith was in constant breach of the peace deal. the process of conflict resolution is still failing

despite all our efforts. keith is not complying with the mask agreements and in particular, categorically refuses to enter direct dialogue with the mask and longest thus sabotaging the implementation of agreements on all the key issues of the main sc agreements. the amendments to the constitution, the special status of don bos, local elections and amnesty. nowadays, western officials are quick to repeat the mantra that the conflict in ukraine is the result of unprovoked russian aggression. but every so often a western official let slip that backing ukraine is really about taking the fight to russia. here's democratic congressman adam shift, for example. we can speed that end of the fighting by helping ukraine defend itself . providing generous aid to the wars many millions of refugees and tightening sanctions against russia until it can no longer afford such brutality. we should do all we can to hasten the war's end and ukraine survival. seeing as how this prior

peace deal was never actually taken seriously by the very western actors who promised to enforce it and was just exploited by ukraine and the west to better prepare for war against russia. what guarantee is there now that history won't simply repeat itself? remember, when nato countries wanted a no fly zone over libya about 10 years ago, and promised to therapy, no mission creep. but then there was so much mission creek that president lamar gadhafi was murdered. do the same actors truly want peace or do they just one that other chance to regroup and rearm mean papacy been? peace is possible, but haul near the peace. those will crania, will decide at peace that will respect their rights as a sovereign people. russian officials the said that they're ready to negotiate, but how was it possible to make good faith deals when the parties involved have already proven that they can't be trusted to keep their word. former us marine

corps intelligence officer scott renter says nano has been preparing ukrainian forces against russia for at least 8 years. uncle merck was admitted that she was buying time, buying time for what to make ukraine stronger out through nato training. and it was just nato's united states to so america was involved in this as well. it's clear that all the nations that are accusing russia of being the aggressor, or in fact, a guilty of premeditated war of aggression. this is something that the conceit of in 2014, 2015, you know, the united states put a training facility on the ground and ukraine, where american military personnel bragged about how every 55 days. they were training a ukrainian battalion to nato standards for the sole purpose of singing that battalion east, so they could fight russians in the eastern ukraine. this has been the goal from

day one, ongoing miracle lud, emanuel mich, chrome lot, the west light. it can never be trusted again. that's all for now. we sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour. ah. with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms. race is often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk with

i met, representative sikes at a rally in washington, d. c. o t introduced his dentist. why do it gather it? of mississippians who had travelled there to demand a new state flag over by lawrence as i love this because, and the thing is, you know, we had a discussion about that i saw this flag and fell in love with that. and i really liked it when i found out that the designer was laura's then is lauren is the. busy granddaughter of senator johnston is he represented during the time of jim crow where they thought that separate but equal was okay. is just so important to me who

i felt that over time and through the generations, are people change? i'm a hip hop artist. i use their pop when lie in and inspire. i respect honoring your ancestors. i honor mine and that's kind of i feel where the clash happens because no one's going to back down from that. but i need you to acknowledge the brutality that was carried out under that banner. and once you can do that, then hopefully a dialogue can begin. and we can come to some sort of agreement because i'd rather have you as my neighbor than my enemy. a

pretty flag that's about the extent of it. it does not replace what we have now understand, you know, the 20 stars the significance of what the meaning of it supposed to be, but nothing about it. honors confederate veterans. the soldiers, nothing. the cemetery that we're going to go and i say cemetery, it's not much of a cemetery is just a few grades. but to me this is what.