and then the next part is d. radicalization with belief systems ology are removed. it was very impactful. when someone finally came along with no fear, no judgement, you heard my story did nothing to challenge with a disturbing images ahead. 6 people are killed in the latest ukrainian bombardments have done yet. as gifts, troops show the region 39 times in the past 24 hours. we report pharmacy, a u. s. military base and syria comes under attack that comes amid rising tensions between the nato allies took here on the u. s. over in africa, gonna analysis a shift towards using gold instead of us dollar football coach is also coming up in the program with

india. space research organization has just successfully launched a rockets carrying 9 satellites with on 10 am on saturday morning in the russian capital mont, and speak to scott taking over from rachel blevins and his how the world is looking as we headed to the weekend. welcome to the program. we start this out with the latest from the ground in the head on region where 6 people have been killed by the latest ukrainian shilling of the city of north america. according to local officials, you have troops are stepping up their bombardments in the region which recently joined russia after referendum. which is why the condemned by the west as illegitimate over the dumbass ukrainian armed forces have showed the regions 39 times in the last 24 hours. one strike hits

a constant fight in the city of done yet is wanting. you may find the following: images disturbing. local authorities say at least one civilian was killed and at least 3 of us wounded in that attack. our correspondence roam acosta census. this report pharmacy daily artillery shelling of the nest continue on friday. one woman was killed at 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's 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 hand now just a couple of months later, this man lost his wife from a quarter of hearty don't escrow public. the mile in ukraine continues to suffer power outages across the country after russian attacks on its infrastructure. although as you say, the kid can only meet 30 percent of its electricity needs, adding that in the events of an emergency, the city's population could not be evacuated earlier. moscow states of the air strikes are in response to weapons deliveries from the west,

with the goal of undermining the combat capabilities of the countries army. but the may putin spoke to the grieving mothers of dead russian service men on friday. and he said that those who supply ukraine with weapons expect here to continue to fight for as long as it takes it pulls duty, pushing mrs. quinn and soldiers are used as cannon fodder. without an exaggeration, the commanders, they're paying no regard to losses at all. and those who behave incorrectly, as they believe are shot in front of the ranks, are guy, so it with their own eyes. and the bodies are lying around. they don't even collect executed. there is a completely different moral atmosphere. hello. earlier we spoke to virginia state senningson, richard black. he believes that nato countries have no interest in the well being of ukraine, as long as keith continues to find moscow. i think there is a lot of truth in what president putin is saying. there's very little evidence that good nato, any of the,

any of the european countries have the slightest interest and a 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, 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 in the western care is 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 to nato. in the news, the u. s. military base in north eastern syria has come under its hark, been hit by at least 2 missiles. a 3rd unexploded rock hits was discovered nearby. the pentagon has reported any cause or damage to the facilities with us central command, condemning the attackers who are yet to be identified. friday's incident comes days after the us expressed. his concerns overtook. he has military action against her dish militias in the region, which on congress shall golf claiming the right to self defense. recent airstrikes and syria directly threaten 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 turkey or will always hold them accountable for every drop of blood they shed. no one can lecture trickier,

which is the only day to ally that for dash hand to hand and was victorious to kia, has launched a series of air strikes against a legit militant targets in northern syrian recent days. the thighs come as a response to the deadly is dumb bolts, terror attack on the 13th of november, which ankara has blamed on kurdish groups. residents are due on also threatened to ground invasion and make calls from the international community for the escalation of political scientists. our north synagogues alton says that the u. s. doesn't want any states in the region pursuing an independent policy. united states doesn't once strong and independent countries in our region from bulk of to me to least let's take it from $91.00 attacks with a per walker, 3 voting yugoslavia. and after it and with the dissolution of 4, you go slowly. and after that, we had in 2000 to be had the war,

the occupation of iraq and the device to the 2 different parts. and now they are trying keep the same think in syria. and now they're also this, the believe in iran. and turkey is one of the main target off united states. also they don't, once they, they don't want a strong, churchy in decision and turkish army and turkish state is resisting against the police for the best way. we have bad relations with united states, and i think that it will ends with that's in new features. probably it will end to a key could leave natal over to africa now where gone us, vice president has a know the government is considering adopting a new policy to use gold instead of 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. decisions aimed pets. i think on us foreign currency reserves as demand for dollars by oil importers weakens the country's currency. using gold would mean that retailers no longer need to exchange dollars to import products or chris hearts. a gold and global currency analyst from south africa says the gun as initiative indicates this solely dollar based international trade could not be working for all . but before the patrons on is one of those things that is linked in to, to help support that all of the, the while produces teams to what will that, that good arrangement with actually only get close for the oil that they actually sell. and that also helps to, to understand. now gone is gone to the point we, it's now looking at the syringe meant and i think they said that it doesn't suit us

any more. and i think in it, in once since with the rather arrival of cooked currencies, people are actually seeing there are alternatives to the of the but quinn is you could set profit initiative, but gold us to a monetary instrument when despite a ceasefire announced on wednesday by east african leaders and went to the rebels, continue fighting the government of the democratic republic of congo with millison saying that the agreement is of no concern to them though they don't rule 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 p. m, 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. as he saw, it was declared after the us is president, and the rwandan foreign minister attended a summit in the capital of an goal on wednesday. as a result of the talks hostilities in east in the us, he was supposed to cease friday evening. the infancy rebel group has since been on the offensive last year, seizing territory in the east of the country. yes, the officials along with other east african nations say that the rebels are directly supported by wonder, which is something that denies east african nations have pledged to fight the rebel forces if they refused to lay down their arms. meanwhile, hundreds of congolese citizens took the streets of goma to fontes against the si. fi agreement demonstrates as cold for more action from the international community to assist the de aussie and his fights against the rebels. we spoke to the protesters who told us they want the government to continue fighting against the medicines. here we don't want to cease fire and the withdrawal of the rebels

because there had been many dialogues that have never brought a solution up today. the only solution for government is to fight a gun secret have been we want them to remove the cease fire and to be able to fight with the m $23.00 and chased them from where they came from because they are not congolese. even the regional force, we don't, don't want it up and i want the armed forces of congo to be able to put an end to the m $23.00 through war so that we don't listen to them. we don't give the enemy time, which is why we don't want a ceasefire. our brothers are suffering and rupture. they want to invade the d. r. c. we will, the government should do its best to finally put an end to the rebels. while former german chancellor, anglo merkel has said that she used the mince agreements to buy time for ukraine to prepare herself for war with russia, russia. and so i hope the protocol would bring peace to the dumbass. ossie contributes at rachel marston has won the story. the west keeps saying that it wants peace in ukraine, but if that's really the case,

then why didn't the western guarantors of the minsk accords, france and germany enforce that particular piece, deal signed in 2014 between ukraine and russia that was supposed to end the violence by keith against the people of the russ a 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 jenko. also las la last week that minsk was used to buy 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. with that notion, liberty, i needed the minsk agreements to gain at least 4 and a half years 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 nato standards. so now it makes 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 of the

fact of nato bass 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 against 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 that there be no mission creep. but then there was so much mission creep. the president mar, gadhafi was murdered. do the same actors truly want peace or did they just one another chance to regroup and rearm mean piece is possible. baton is a piece that ukrainians will decide at peace that will respect their rights. as

a sovereign people, russian officials have said that they are ready to negotiate. but how is it possible to make good faith deals when the parties involved have already proven that they can't be trusted to keep their word? from a us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter says that nato has been preparing ukrainian forces against russia for at least 8 years now on. ready merck was admitted that she was just 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 they conceived 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 a in the eastern ukraine. this has been the goal from day one, ongoing miracle light, emanuel mich, chrome lied, the west lied. it can ever be trusted again. ah, and moving on now is really forces have demolished a palestinian primus school in the southern westbank. it comes as an israeli court declared that it was illegally built in an area designated as a closed military firing zone. children though, were forced to flee their classrooms from north of windows before israeli forces flattened. the school is ortiz, marie phenomena with teacher's help. children leave the building through the window while trying to calm them down. at the same time, the kids looked lost and in a state of panic. and this is what happened next.

ah, this building is to be a school in the occupied west bend. israel says it was an illegal construction. on wednesday, the enforcement authorities at the civil administration carried out enforcement steps against a structure that was built illegally and firing zone $918.00 in the south hebron hills with yesterday, we were sitting at a school in learning. suddenly the israeli soldiers entered the classroom and through gas pumps and broke the doors. we tried to escape from the windows, but they shut them the also hit the teacher's kids in the school and a 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 rally 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 of fi south of hebron. hills in the area

known and 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 fire in 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 last over 20 years. earlier in may, the court delivery the decision, not in favor of the palestinians, and rather not give the thought they have their own places to train, but they want to occupy a land and say they want to train them. in july,

a judge came to us and said that this a was a military firing zones, and they wanted 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 one, but it is not necessary yet. is several villages with a population of more than a 1000 people. i said to be cleared out, they have moved. it says in lee with ships, which is something that is or doesn't recognize because it's a western society that doesn't necessarily understand seasonal movement and shepherding. 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 they're doing. it's not like in 1999. that what they did is just to take people on their homes at night, put them on parks and throw them at the end of the fires on. and i think the understand that it doesn't look so good these days that they're doing in or so

outside of their so called the fire his own is us to make life so miserable that people that it won't be livable, a tie isn't israeli june and an activist defendant, the rights of the people, his state who 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 that these rally government disagrees with the allegations. it's not only for policy policy, yes, it works also for israel. e for you have a court decision. so army bill accuses court decision. they destroy schools, they destroyed a synagogue, and so on and so on. it's not only for a school, if you have a status,

what you should not to try to break it, no von should do it. if you have a student era, you may not be able to school. you may not built on any buildings. you may not leave there, it's a decent error. it means restricted. now, after the decades long court battle is over, the 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. and finally, in the past hour, india has successfully launched its earth observation satellites into all bits candidates. 5th space lift off this year is rendered sharp. and rachel blevins followed the mission a big deal for in del space sector. this is really come down, begins to launch off a, b s l, b c, 54. this essentially is paula rock satellite launch where cool. and this reco will

lift off. we'd 9 satellites including about 8 nano satellites. in fact, one of them, interestingly easy. in fact, jointly developed my india and its neighborhood dawn. also let me tell you the mean satellite, which is the of the observation satellite which is also known as the ocean sap fix . and it looks like we officially have a launch. i am so sorry to interrupt there, but the satellite is going up into the air and we're watching that run john back to you on the significance of this and really what it means for india as a whole range, very significant ritual. in fact, let me point out that these satellites essentially are going to be used for ot obligation but also for monitoring water body. there's also a disaster management, big, big dave. we're india, another feather on india as have when it comes to the space sector. of course is

launch right now is happening from the se tawan space center. this is in 300 a quarter in, on the produce. this is the se, and stayed in, in b r o very, very big. they're extremely, extremely excited indians off with this particular launch. but of course, solved from some time from now. we also are expecting a press conference by but is strong, chairman is true as the indian space research organization. that in fact has was really hard. and of course, they're willing to update soon on the landing of this b s l b, c 654. that's the route for now. my name is peter scott, and i'll be back again at the top of the hour with all the latest news unused ride cell nazi so watch this space. ah

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but they're doing so. a great personal risk will speak with a whistleblower from south africa who literally put his life on the line to report on police criminality. i'm john curiosity. you're watching the whistleblowers. 2 2 2 2 a suit is now been filed against american social media giant meta and samar. it's main contractor for content moderation in africa. the companies are being sued over claims of exploitation and a union busting law firm representing facebook whistleblower, daniel mo. tongue, a former content moderator, who was making $2.20 an hour. originally from south africa, he was working in kenya, but then was allegedly laid off after he led more than 100 of his colleagues and a unionization effort for better pay and working conditions. he claims that meta and sam are quote, subjected to current and former content moderators to forced labor and human trafficking for labor, unquote. and he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder as

a result of his work. now in an application, the law firm said sam, i also carried out a deceptive recruitment process by opening up vacancies and failing to mention the nature of the job that successful applicants would do the moderators at the know, i robi hub, our source from a number of different countries including ethiopia, uganda and somalia, and they work day and night working as out source, facebook content moderators. they're basically the emergency response force for social media. they're in charge of viewing and removing a legal or band content from facebook before it's seen by the average user. we are now joined by our e. denique us search cello at blue print for free speech and a fellow whistleblower. ari, we will get to your story in the 2nd half of this show. but 1st, what's your take on the lawsuit that this man and his former colleagues are claiming or victims of forced labor, human trafficking and union busting. this is soaking off,

but you have to see the big picture in south africa. you know, we haven't even distribution of wealth and you have nearly 50000000 of africans living in south africa. and you have a few millions of non africans. and sir, however you have a like i said, the uneven distribution of wealth. so 90 percent of the wealth goes towards whites and, and africans. that's a recipe for disaster. now in recent years, whistleblowers politicians and critics have accused facebook of a slew of things from facilitating drug and human trafficking, allowing extremist groups to coordinate on line fueling conspiracy theories and misinformation and promoting even eating disorders. now facebook denies many of these allegations are they say they're issues that are more complicated than they appear to be former face.