ah ah, the latest runs of ukrainian artillery shelling reportedly kills 3 civilians. local authorities say residential areas where targeted homes are destroyed. also had on the program following recent admissions from top western officials. russia's president says it's clear he had never intended to abide by previous ceasefire agreements. latimer pollutant also say the west is continuing to fuel the conflict by sending arms into the party speaks exclusively to victor boot the mon dub, the merchant of death in the west. following his release from a u. s. jail in a prisoner swap between moscow on washington. for sure,

you are going to still need to realize these feelings. i lack the words to describe it all. my wife is here with me now, so we have finally reunited with more revelations emerge from the so named twitter files linked documents. now purport to show the company's decision said palm donald trump was a long time in the making with staff members having allegedly spent months looking for a presentable with from moscow to the world. this is our team. my name's union o'neill. hello and welcome to the news our. this saturday. we begin in done boss where 3 people have reportedly been killed zones, ukrainian forces, unleashed barrage of artillery fire on residential areas in the regional capital done yet bothers according to local authorities. now this house was engulfed in

flames after it was hit by shelling allows you can see complete the raise to the ground. an apartment building was also heavily damaged and fires destroyed near by vehicles. the entire neighbourhood we're showing you here is residential without any military installation. the official se ukrainian forces repeatedly shell this city on friday. this is some more of the aftermath multiple buildings in the city center where damage authorities also stayed ukrainian broad rockets artillery system was used in the attacks. now that type of weapon is generally not precise. it's used to target large areas, cause massive destruction. russia pointed to the ongoing shelling of, than yet in the latest un security council meeting, in which there were also concerns raised by weapons supplied to kiev, ending up in criminal groups, hands moscow's ambassadors, said ukrainian forces now been using western weaponry to kill civilians are crossed

on bus was when he did have done this, a real massacre with the use of western weapons has been taking place in den that's can recent weeks as ukraine forces pushed by western countries are trying to literally destroy the city. they conduct daily attacks on residential areas where there are no military targets. crowded places are being hit during rush hour. there have been significant crandall cheese and destruction just before the un security council meeting began in manhattan at the you and chamber. i'm just before it began, the attack on done asked, had already begun. so the remarks made by the russian ambassador were quite relevant. as he was describing what was going on. he described attacks on civilians . he described a how the forces based in cuba, how they've been using the weapons provided to them by the united states, the crimes against civilians they have committed. here is some of what the russian

ambassador sad when addressing the un security council. so did you pull soto, board of among the supplied weapons, the u. s. high mars multiple launch rockets. systems are particularly noteworthy. we know for sure, and key of and washington have repeatedly indirectly confirmed this, that american specialists are involved in the operation of these installations. the targeting with the high mars is conducted with the help of u. s. military satellites. while u. s. military personnel on the ground coordinate with the intelligence forces representatives of chief themselves have admitted that not a single attack with a high more system has taken place without the consent of the united states. now, the russian ambassador describe the atrocities being committed against civilians and how the united states claims that the weapons it provides are very accurate and precise. and so if that is the case, our all these civilians being killed. if the act weapons are as accurate and precise as the act states claims they are, it would seem that the number of civilians killed in dannetta can launch,

can other places, eyes, perhaps intentional. he went on to say that rushes carefully documenting the war crimes that are being committed and says that such crimes do have legal consequences. furthermore, he went on to describe what was the point that was raised throughout the meeting, which is the danger of these weapons that the states is supplying to the criminal government and possibly flowing into the hands of criminal organizations, terrorists, and other groups. there could be a security concern and could pose a danger, not just to russia and ukraine, but to many countries throughout europe. again, when a major difficult topic is a weapon sent to ukraine or being smuggled around the world, we have already warned about the risks of weapons falling into the hands of terrorists and other criminal groups. this is not speculation if it is a warning concern expressed by european states themselves. the problem of theft of weapons from ukrainian military warehouses appeared a long time ago. the situation has already got out of control weapons intended for

the key of are surfacing on the black market. not only in europe, but also in the middle east and africa. now, when the representative of the united states spoke before the un security council, he responded as is typical. when u. s. leaders respond to russia, he simply dismissed everything that russia, that despite all the evidence and the careful documentation dismissed at all, is just this information. and it's also important to note that russia brought forward experts to speak before the un security council. some of those experts were able to speak, but others were blocked and prevented. russia wanted to bring forward a number of experts to testify before the 15 member body that leads the united nation about the dangerous flow of weapons and how, you know, the usa unloading all these weapons and how it could have global security implications. that could threaten many countries, not just russia and ukraine. so that was the meeting that took place in the un

security council chamber. another story to bring you today. the use top diplomat has put himself in an awkward situation after insulting the intelligence of africans who express support for russian usurper l said during the week. they probably don't know where don boss is or even if not, we're putting it. but russia is able to, the fled, blame twist reality and to find an audience in some part of the world. i have seen in the tv screen, these are african young people on districts, obama, gold, where the billboard same foot dean sang. you have saved a don bus and now you will save us. it's a really shocking. well, you can consider this. people don't know where the dorm versus maybe then don't

even know who is 14. but they are getting more relied on districts. and they see is some of capital over a country who is a, a candidate to become members that have been union. you have to go to one, michael, have to go to the balcony and you were in the balcony. so thanks. happy birthday mister, put in while these comments by joseph burrell, do not surprise many on the continent, and they explain why africa keeps looking eastwards for corporation as well as development. these come as well as the burrell really and not just racist which offend many on the continent, but they also come to be expected the kind of cake thought they have led many european countries to come up africa, divide a people support conflict and only really come to africa when they bring the

cameras and aid europe has never really held africa in terms of is development and for what they have taken from the african continent. one would imagine that they would give back mr. burrell and the history of commons really put, paid to what we on the continent. that was what you thought we've won, did what kind of skills you need to have in order to become a policy chief, let alone and policy chief. mister brown does not have the wherewithal with was he keeps saying the same thing. statement is not only about africans, but people of the rest of the world. true. how is he able to travel the world and still represent europe on a global phase of community that consider itself need us and such commons and such guys? this is still a buffle to many of us. the rest of that will, must of the rest of the goal. it's a jungle and the jungle could invade the garden. the gardeners have to go to the jump. the to be in. this has to be much more engage with the rest of the world.

otherwise the rest of the world will invade us less w l was not the only mind in the house. some sanity prevailed with the man who actually represented with a new kind of europe should prevent. i do think that this eric and tone and the lack of respect that is coming from the european union towards africa is part of the problem leading to africans. perhaps thinking that saving the salvation is going to come from russia. and that is the kind of european mindset that africans would like to at least engage with. and not that i can tell it that we've seen from mr. brown, people in africa, the european for what they are. we see them as the divert aid that would have

otherwise helped people in africa and the pilot on all in the drugs. the one time that had gone to ukraine following the conflict has really opened the eyes of, of the rest of the world with regard to where we are placed in terms of priorities for the european continent. they opened up for the following. that conflict well come ukrainians with open arms while africans get chase bank one, they had small little pinky boats, and they have to make that fade for crossing again to the motherland. of loving. putting also reacted to burrell statement by pointing to the traditionally close ties between russia and african nation and urging the west to stop obstructing russian agricultural supplies to the continent. big issue, currently, the president also said germany broke the previous promise to uphold the minster agreements amid revelations,

from top western officials that ukraine took advantage of this cease fire to regroup its forces. i'm tucked on, boss ortiz dollar quarter can tell us more. vladimir putin just wrapped up a press conference after a meeting of the supreme council of the eurasian economic union. and at the top of the agenda were subject specifically focused on trade and energy. but i also heard a bit from vladimir putin about the kind of support that russia's been getting specifically on the african continent. i was able to ask him what he had to say about a recent comment made by just set burrell, that people who support russian africa support vladimir putin and russia because they don't exactly know who vladimir putin is. or don't know where don boss is on a map. well, in response, vladimir putin pointed to the deep historical ties that russia has with africa, dating back to soviet times when much economic aid was delivered by russia to the continent for industrial and economic general economic development. now,

the russian president also touched upon the subject of former german chancellor angle and merkle, and he said that she had deceived russia. and when it comes to the minced protocols that were supposed to end the war in ukraine. years before russia launched its special military operation, let's take a lesson. but shriek, lorelle is a major political figure of the contemporary era. like people, one said about bresner with african knows what russia ease, what at ease, african knows russia's role any slip, duration from colonialism. there is almost no single african country that has not received our political media, economic and mil to support. we have very persistent, friendly relations with african states. if those officials, you mentioned earlier, nowhere africa ease and what conditional the peoples of africa are in, they wouldn't obstruct the russian food and fertilizer shipments to africa on which the crops and the rescuing of hundreds of thousands of people from death from starvation to pans, just the grid of them it was to be honest for me,

this was completely unexpected. this is disappointing. frankly speaking, i did not expect to hear that from the former chancellor. i always hoped that the german sheep was genuine. yes, they were a new quaint site supported it, but nevertheless, it seemed to me that the german leadership had always true. and for settlement that we agreed upon in particular, during the mains negotiations or what we have heard only confirms that we did everything right in terms of sort of the special mutual operation. why? because it turns out that nobody wants to fulfill the men's agreements. former ukraine and present porsha unco said he signed them, but didn't plan to fulfill them. why am i putting also spoke a bit about europe's decision to establish a price cap on russian oil exports, saying that this is going to be a bad decision for the entire global energy market. and specifically for consumers as well. he said a few words about the ukraine conflict, saying that it's going to take a long time to regulate the conflict and the situation there,

as well as the nuclear doctrine. he also spoke about russia's nuclear doctrine, saying that russia would only launch a nuclear weapon if one was fired at it. that's in contrast, of course, to washington's nuclear doctrine, which takes a preemptive approach. so that's basically a wrap up of the main points. the vladimir putin made at this press conference here . now the mon dub, by the west, as the merchant of death, has been released from a u. s. prison following more than a decade in custody and is not back in his homeland russian. the businessman was freed in a high level prisoner exchange between moscow and washington. mister brutes landed avener port in the russian capital on thursday night. he was sentenced by u. s. authorities to 25 years in prison back in 2012 on charges of arming terrorists on conspiring to kill american citizens. that i 55 year old staunchly denied those accusation. he was traded for american brittany greiner,

who had been convicted of drug offenses in russia. the basketball player pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 9 years behind bars. earlier this year, the swap was conducted in the united arab emirates. after months of negotiations, rti was the 1st i'd like to interview victor boots following his release with a phone conversation recorded for us by russian parliament member maria britson. m yourself had served a prison term in the u. s. mister boot shared his thoughts and bites his long and difficult case. tell me please, how are you feeling, mouth at your back home, so shoot him another was of a still need to realised these feelings. i lack the words to describe it all. my wife is here with me now, so we have finally reunited because it wasn't what do you think of the timing of the exchange? why now leaning out, you know, when it comes to american politics, any view and why something happened would be inappropriate. and it just happened and thank god it did what you, what you it was up and then what is that new western media claims you. i a very

important person from the russian government. interestingly for president potentially. what would you say to that? then you don't. i don't think i'm somehow important in the sphere of russian politics. the thing is all this time i have been supported by moscow by all of you here. as you see, we understand what is happening to russians abroad now, and russia simply cannot stand it. and it was important because just that russia does not abandon its own people, right. la, distasteful. do you see yourself as a victim of the west? serious a fall dash thing, commercial i don't think so. you see, you have to be very careful with the terminology here. i think it's just a consequence of the fact that the west believes they didn't finish us off in the 19 ninety's when the soviet union began to disintegrate. and since they see that russia is now striving towards independence, choosing its own life, depending on what people want that shocking for them. and they think they can just well break us up again, divide russian to many parts, so discord among the russian people of various nationalities so that some kind of civil wars begin again in thus gain control over russian territory. pneumonia. go at at store some believe that exchanging new for us basketball player is

a sign washington's weakness, which do you think they caved in? americans of 6 as for americans, all their politics always take place at a childish level of street boys. look, you're weak. you didn't stand the challenge, i'm sure the russian leadership and decision makers don't think by such categories, whether you're weak or you're aren't weak, mother to power never needs any kind of cheap manifestation. there's no point proving this exchange as a sign of weakness or strength. i think the very fact that this swapped you took place, 1st of all means that common ground was found. otherwise the steel would not have happened to me. now, there is another american who's serving a 16 year sentence in a penal colony in russia. all wheelin was detained in moscow in 2018, non convicted of espionage. 2 years after that, the former marine expressed disappointment about the recent prisoner swap specifically about decisions taken by the biden administration. i am very disappointed that more has not been done for my release,

especially as the 4th anniversary of my arrest approaches. i was led to believe that things were moving in the right direction and that the governments were negotiating and that something would happen fairly soon. i was arrested for a crime that never occurred. i don't understand why i am still sitting here. will commentators home alleged up the release of brittany griner was more suitable for the current us political agenda? indeed, american news outlets. cnn was gushing in its praise of her during a recent broadcast. brittany greiner represents everything in this country. she's female, she's l g b t q. she's black and she's extraordinary. when she walks off that plane, when her wife hugs her, when that moment happens, that is going to be decade defining people will remember that and it should show us what we can do when we stand together. this is all politics again. why was she chosen and not all well in purely politics. again,

she fit the stereotype of abiding political base of support. right. so he wants to cater to them. he, he's free. he's brought home one of their own. it's entirely political the suit and because certainly ok, she's a very talented and successful. amazing basketball player but aren't all lies equal him. we all be equal. i mean, paul, well, i'm not a great basketball player as far as i know and, but isn't he also have rights as an american citizen? why did they choose him? well, again, this is purely political. it was a political decision why she was chosen and not him. he's someone who is most likely we can probably guess is probably probably a conservative. so we can leave him in, in the president of moscow. but let's say the l g b t, save the lesbian basketball player, that's very important. not the so called twitter files recently revealed by american investigative journalists have reported more exclusive claims, including the social media giant have been looking for ways to bomb donald from

long before the 2021. capitol hill writes that it's cited as the official reason twitter executives removed trump in part over what one executive called the context surrounding actions by trumping supporters over the course of the election. and frankly, last 4 plus years, the bulk of the internal debate leading to trump's band took place in those 3 january days. however, the intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the capital riots. the twitter files were initially published last week with support from the social networks, new boss, ilan musk. they alleged that some of the platforms highest ranking staff members conspired to suppress information that could have been harmful to jo biden's presidential election campaign 2 years ago. in particular, the twitter sought after time to stop the spread of corruption allegations about

biden's on hunter. but we spoke to michael rectinwald's, author of the google archipelago. the digital grew like the simulation of freedom. he is, the recent revelations proved twitter based the being functioning as a u. s. government agency. well, it shows that they have been, they had been targeting trump for a long time. and this is just part of an overall establishment campaign to destroy him. i mean, they ran a legal operations to attempt to connect him to russia in the russian collusion narrative and some of the people that worked at twitter, including james baker were also active in that russian collusion expedition. so it tells me that the twitter has been operating as a state agent, and they had a definite they have prompt in the crosshairs,

just waiting for him to step over the line or what they consider to be over the line. he never violated twitter rules. they just associated his speech with the violence or the mark violence really that took place on january 6 at the capital. so they were what they were laying and wait, looking for an excuse to ban him from from the platform. yet it really does get interesting when he goes through the details of those twitter files. they also claim that the company shadow bond users to course conservative right wing opinions and then tried to cover it up. breaking down how bout supposedly worked our cheese, severe nunez, a new twitter files investigation reveals that teams of twitter employees build black lists, prevent disfavor tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts, or even trending topics all in secret, without informing uses. so we now know that twitter employees are allowed to build

blacklist, prevents certain tweets from trending and limited the visibility over the entire accounts and all that done in secret without you, without knowledge. and also it turns out that shadow banning is a real thing and not the conspiracy. what many people who shadow banning to which are executives and the employee school visibly filtering all the f multiple high level sources confirmed its meaning. we control visibly quite a bit and we control the amplification of your context quite a bit. and normal people do not know how much we do. one twitter engineer told us 2 additional to which amp luis confirmed. it's worth noting that the 2nd batch of so called twitter files game just a few days after ill a mosque fire, the company that's or any who is also a form. i have buried there between the general counsel who had reportedly filtered what went in the 1st batch of 2 e mails without ellen's knowledge of it. if you will take us back. what did twitter say before?

in the recent past about the whole shadow by an idea, did they, did they recognize that the company limited account or, or that of a post visibility? did they admit to this? no. and moreover, in 2018, they denied the allegations made by vice news that twitter was leading appearances of prominent republican account. we do not shadow ban. you are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow, although you may have to do more work to find them like go directly to their profile. and we certainly don't shadow band based on political viewpoints or ideology. bag vance. weird. i see, or jack dorsey its weight, it quote, ah, we don't shadow ban, and we certainly don't shadow band based on political viewpoints. his bands must be on fire right now. sofya, the little man, the middleman, the big man. what about blowback? what about reaction yet? what can you tell us about that? as people have been doubting the transparency of tech companies for a while now, for example, the 20th 20 pure survey revealed that 75 percent of americans thing that social

media platforms sensor political views did they find objectionable. and not surprisingly, the right wing that especially outrage given that they been accusing twitter of having a liberal bias and muting conservative viewpoints in a searches for a while. now, i can't even come up with a hyperbolic way to describe how big this now is. and i feel like they're just getting started in terms of their revelations, this needs to lead directly to criminal prosecutions. and they need to paper all of this because there were wise in congressional testimony, there were wise in all sorts of public statements where you are not allowed to be why, under the government rules, i want these guys to be charged with crimes. this, if this is going on a twitter, it's going on it facebook, it's going on it instagram, it's going on. you tube, it's going on a google. let's talk about blow back, sophia. what about consequences these revelations could have, i mean,

what about twitter potentially changing policy? well, it's hard to say, but as it all comes down to section $230.00 that provides social media platforms with immunity from being suitable was being published there. because the lord treat them as a public forums and not as publishers, but ill in moscow, proposed an idea that that would give users more control over their accounts. twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status. so, you know, clearly if you've been shadow band, the reason why and how to appeal. well, hopefully how's, because let's face it, the sex censorship is just out of control. my colleagues worry to share sophia nunez there while michael rectinwald's again. faith further details in the scandal will soon be revealed, but only to an extent. because elan, musky believes isn't fully independent of the u. s. government. twitter operated as an organ of the democratic party and the state that they run unilaterally in the

united states. so it tells us that twitter has been a propaganda, oregon, and a censorship, oregon, and a surveillance, oregon for the state. and for the democratic party that runs it. we suspected this or rather we knew it now, it's merely just been verified. more information is bound to come out that will indict twitter for these practices and more and probably show collusion with the f b i and the department of homeland security these. this is already in the news that homeland security and f. b, i officials both met with social media executives to instruct them as to what content to suppress and ban. so we'll expect more at some point since, you know, it's not as if elan mosque has no connections with the state. after all,

he's got contracts for his space x program with, with the government. so there could be a moment at which he'll reach where he can't go any further with these revelations . we'll see right. time to check in with former a c i agent turn to r t house. john carrie aucker and his show the whistle blowers next. then i'm back up the top. do hope to catch you then to buy from? ah ah ah

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