we choose to look for common ground in the me. 2 people are reported killed and another 10 wounded. does ukrainian artillery hits a hotel and restaurant complex holiday in the city of military, all the programming and divisions and merge again in the western alliance. both sides, korea urges europe to join together to hold a protectionist us law in belgrade. prepared to officially inform me so that will send troops into the self declared republic, a pulse of vote to support ethnic groups who have been protesting on much against the local authorities. the

need to talk stories from the 7 days and right up to the moment of elements as well . this is the weekly an artsy hello, and welcome. we begin with the latest developments in the done yet, the republic where officials say at least 2 people have been wounded by ukrainian artillery, targeting the regional capital city center authority. se, residential areas across the republic were hit by a natal supplied rocket garage that started from the morning. multiple apartment buildings and stores were damaged, as well as a local university and hospital. well, it follows numerous ukrainian attacks in the area over the past 24 hours, at least one civilian confirmed dead in those attacks. 3 others wounded up is according to local authorities. our school and on. yes said he was also dollars. was a bus station and multiple residential buildings. while officials in the near brings

up i was your region say key of sources used us supplied high mars rockets to shell a holiday camp. in the city of melli topo, 2 people were reported killed on another 10 wounded of the artillery barrage destroyed a restaurant there. a large fire erupt, it up the location which is in a forest with emergency workers searching through the rubble. 3 of the survivors were taken to hospital in critical condition, according to local officials on the situation on the front lines in the done yet, the republic has been intense. increasingly, in recent days on our t crew got exclusive access to some former ukrainian army positions. now, under russian control, after uninsurance or correspondence from our cos, read the visited the sites and awarding you may find some of the images in his report. district. here in a front sir line. right next the city hall for my your so that was

a liberated by the next army just a couple of weeks ago. ukraine positions are not that far away. well, williams, her re, we're now at the former positions of the ukrainian troops. they had a strong line of defense here. the area around the railroad was heavily fortified. so i was in a new nautica. now we've taken this position, it will be more difficult for ukraine to supply its troops in art. your mask, they can't move ammunition, food or troops using this road as it's now under our control nearly as we're walking along these trenches. the soldier told me to be very careful and look down all the time because as ukraine retreated from this positions, they mind the entire territory. in addition to that, there are many prohibits anti personnel mines as well, so called a petal. mine's once a person's steps on one of those, he may lose a limb and take a look there also, unexploded weapons like this on the ground as well. so we have to walk very,

very carefully. this looks like a jacket that used to belong to the ukranian soldier. bodies of ukrainian soldiers are absolutely everywhere here on the front line. they're not being claimed by ukraine, and we'll probably her probably considered as a missing in action. but there are literally dozens of bodies all around these trenches. when you were for the lea abandoned their dead and left. this happens often you to ongoing fighting in as this area is still quite dangerous to give them a proper burial. but i've been assured by the duct republic or soldiers that are all of these men from the cranium military, or will be buried. ha, well, according to or look. so christian law and all the necessary dna also will be taken. so that says their relatives, if they want to find them and to reclaim them,

we'll have that opportunity. now this used to be a former checkpoint sir, offer ukraine in the town of my yours can. these are the kind of things that are absolutely everywhere here. this is a ne, till made grenade launcher, still intact, is still workable. and that the soldiers here are prepared to use it at any time against their enemy. ukrainian military have been fortifying these positions for the last 8 years that they've been using this town of my york to regularly fire against their civilians in the city of gold garlic,

which is not far away. well, at the moment, everything here has been destroyed and stray dogs and cats are the only inheritance. all these french us had the moments from one quarter of arte don't ask republic. ah, no other story to bring you today. american authorities have charged a ukrainian parliament member with money laundering in the u. s. they have also accused them of working as a russian intelligence agent supposedly interfering with the u. s. electoral process. kremlin back to cranium, politician and oligarch. andre dare kotch was sanction for his efforts to influence the 2020 us presidential election on behalf of the russian intelligent services. while participating in a scripted russian disinformation campaign seeking to undermine us institutions. dear cot, simultaneously conspired to fraudulently benefit from a western lifestyle for himself and his family in the united states. when the

charges emerged after the lawmaker expose the potential act of corruption by joe biden, while he was vice president biden, allegedly, so to remove the ukrainian prosecutor who was freezing assets in his san hunter's company. ortiz, marina cos river picks up a story from there. it's been a good week for the by the family, as one of the people who accuse them of some shady deals and ukraine has now been charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and money laundering over the purchase of sue luxury slots in beverly hills. this is the 1st time the criminal and forfeiture powers has been used in the us to uncover the concealment of ownership by foreign political officials. so while this must be a very significant case, let's break it down, shall we? who is this man? andre just dutch is a current member of ukraine's parliament, and has been repeatedly called

a russian spy and even sanctioned in the us for his alleged efforts so influenced the 2020 us presidential election. why? because he leeks an uncomfortable phone conversation featuring job by then. we'll get to that in a minute. now, in the obama administration, one of joh biden's jobs was to oversee us political activities in ukraine, primarily advocating for anti corruption reforms in the countries energy industry. you have a historic opportunity remembered as the right of the finally infernally late in place. the pillars of freedom at your people of long 4 yearned for for so many years. and then his son became the board member all for his mom, one of the largest natural gas operators in ukraine, and tore a company with a doughty history marred with accusations of fraud, with its owner even investigated by the you case. serious fraud office makes total

sense, right? but when you cranes prosecutor's office. so i said, sees in britain was assets. joe by then got mad and turned his attention on the prosecutor himself. it was after we started seizing prisma assets and ukraine, when porsha called me and said, listen, that's all have you stopped already. jo biden's temper is overflowing. why then apparently wanted him gone and issued an ultimatum. fire the prosecutor or ukraine will not get its promise financial aid, whereas the proof, well this is where mister gosh, stepped in leaking and the ledge phone conversation between the warmer you praise them president petra portion go. and joe biden is a new government and a new general i am to to do a public and signing of the commitment dollars. so i

need prosecutor was found and hunter biden's job was safe once again and water job . it was $50000.00 a month apparently, but that's nothing compared to the full amount. he received, allegedly, of course concede, you know, still with like 2019 a major corruption scandal, but the ex us vice president joe biden broke out. let me remind you that joe biden, his son hunter, and their partners had been receiving millions of dollars for political protection for years and reports into the matter by the us senate highlight start off visuals in washington. a good no, or the concerns of a conflict of interest for biden, in ukraine, state department officials had to clear indications of corruption. but joe biden was specifically advised not to make that accusation. and what's more, what a young aspiring by than on the board of bruce ma, it's owner, it's said, according to the son that report you have paid

a $7000000.00 bribe to the ukraine prosecutor. so close the case. and now the man whistleblower who lead that all has been charged with money laundering convenience . meanwhile, the us continues to send billions of dollars see frame and has just floated to not audit where the money and a has ended up in $1.00 of the most corrupt countries. in the world, the splits appear to be emerging among western countries over a trade protectionist, taurus, and sides are picking their corners. one of washington is closest allies in the asia pacific side korea that's called on the european union to push back against the recently enacted us inflation reduction. now the nations trade minister said the measure could have a serious impact on both so on the use business interest, particularly the car industry. we have a huge room for the e,

u in korea to work together and to make the inflation reduction access to more compatible with a world trade organization. so as not to cause unnecessary trouble to strategically important parts of our industry. the u. s. is kind of constrained by the discriminatory structure of the law. earlier, a consensus of the use top officials among the 27 member states on the blocks head or live underlying express their deep concerns out the act. they said protectionist measures will harm the blocks. auto industry may force european companies to relocate their manufacturing overseas. and a recent meeting with french president emmanuel mccall, joe biden said he wouldn't apologize for the tax law. even though that you threatens to take the issue to the world trade organization for resolution or investor. financial commented, or jim rogers told me the europeans and koreans are doing the right thing that is pushing back against washington. a pretty rare thing. i would suggest. so

making public its dissatisfaction with the u. s. and urging brussels to come on board to fight back. will it work? well, i'm a us citizen, but i don't like it either. i don't see any restraint of trade, whether south korea, europe or the united states. so i would certainly support the people who are saying this is a restraint of trade and should be done away with we've seen over the past year or so, a pretty united western front of we can call that in terms of pushing back, perhaps from washington. they're what they want to take, maybe it's not in the same interest as brussels before. that seem to be completely instinct. maybe not so more any more is this sign of a, of a wider a global break in the western alliance. just as you know, there are many things going on in the world. we seem to indicate we are having

realignments of countries. it's happened throughout history often throughout history that time or supposedly permanent alliance is break up and start over again . and it seems to be with what's going on now you crane china in the middle east. lots of things are happening, which may be changing the world. how it all ends up. i don't know. but back to your point here, the europeans and the koreans are exactly right in this case, is a case where america is forming a restraint or right now i don't think did you do the same thing? i don't think south korea knew the same thing, but in this case, i would agree with korea and you're on who does europe side with, do you think in this argument? well, mr. by the president and you know, some people would say he's not a very smart guy and he. busy always panders to whoever's around and it is clear that he is patrick to some of his constituents now. not good for the world,

not even good for the united states. certainly not good for europe and started. i good for korea, but we have to deal with fact if we can change it. i hope we get scores of moroccan, a football funds have been arrested in the french capital. unrest broke after their teams victory over portugal in the world cup quarter final. the police deployed tear gas to disperse the supporters. he took to the st. setting of fireworks aim the authorities. they chaotic images descended into clashes with police reports. they fight 12 in the 20000 funds in pars after the final with the blue and morocco is one to win over portugal in tar next. stop as well from versus morocco. on wednesday, in the last for the tournament,

police forces by the way, also deployed in the netherlands, where in the united i side to celebrate the moroccan historic. when again they're setting off fleurs on fireworks police though mainly although a few rest. as you can see here, mainly observing the situation in patrolling with can i know more people setting is pain. belgium and cats are seen merely dancing, singing waving flags in support. all the nation fee prepared to do or try to make history again on wedding faith in the semifinals of the world. ah, the russian blames the youth for conspiring to escalate the crisis in costco. tensions in the balkan at nation. i've been rising

in recent days with mass protest erupting that i've sought to prevent a prominent serbian national, who served in the constable police from being taken into custody. serbian prime minister on the bernard beach says the surveys on the brink of war because of the cost of a prime minister and the inaction of the e. u. well, why the inaction? this is exactly the situation that has been essentially modeled for years. well sir, b as president has accused the authorities in the break away republic of kosovo violating mutual agreements and that the e u has turned a blind eye to those concerns. now, soft costs of an authority sent hundreds of police officers into an ethnic serbian district. and detained a serbian national without charges at the border. alexander pritchett said, christina can call them whatever it wants, but must abide by the accords fulsome young. maybe i'm stupid, maybe i'm crazy. maybe i'm intoxicated. all of that may be, but one thing is certain, and that is you signed the brussels agreement and the european union signed the

brussels agreement together with us. and it is certain that you must fulfill it. whether i'm childish, stupid, drunk or mad, that's all fine. what is certain is that you have to fulfill disagreements. patrols from the ears peacekeeping mission in the self declared republic have arrived at barricade set off by ethnic serbs who have been seeking to keep the classical police eye to all their neighborhoods. the officers helping accused of theft among other things. protesters are also attempting to prevent a prominent serbian national from being taken by authorities to castillo's capital attentions, how been escalating for almost half a year leading to fears that yet another military conflict could erupt in the volatile balkan region. a capitalist has been at the cost of vo authorities, prohibition of serbian, issued license plates for local resident. recent reports say our raid sirens were blurring in some parts of cost of over the past 24 hours. by the way,

surveys leader also said that cost of owes application for a you membership as a direct violation of agreements with belgrade. we heard from a serbian parliament member from the ruling progressive party. he believes western powers that were tasked with maintaining peace in kosovo. ha, basically taken the side of the breakaway province. you thought you have a place to go to. so you said your son, no one in the european union takes this issue seriously because they have control on the ground in the brick way province through kosovo. police officers, troops, the nato army, the crucible force international mission, simply protecting the interests of christina, and not acting in accordance with resolution 1244, and not respecting the brussels agreements. we cannot strongly influence this process that may be done by the european union and the united states, which at the karen tours of the agreements. they can influence christina. but we see that this is not going so easily. we want to resolve this problem peacefully

through negotiations so that each of the parties fulfills its responsibilities. but it turns out that the albanians in kosovo do not want to do anything out of what was signed. we see that the rules of the european union and nato are unjustifiable in the situation. serbia makes concessions while pristina simply finalizes its own state hood process and is awarded by the european union russian businessmen, victor boots recently freed from a u. s. prison after more than a decade and custody sees, he bears no animosity towards americans. he described the u. s. as once an example to the world, but said the countries in her, in strengths of being jeopardized by a slew of self serve and governments. mister bood was freed earlier this week in a high level prisoner exchange between moscow and washington in 2012. he was sentenced by us authorities to a quarter of a century in prison on charges of arming terrorists and conspiring to kill american citizens than i 55 year old has always strenuously denied those accusation. he was

traded for american basketball player, brittany greiner, who had been convicted of drug offences in russia some months ago. upon being freed, victor boot gave his 1st t v interview explicitly to r t their head, morgan not, you know, in fact and knowing many names, i figure out who sharing way more common. meta america is very much sin miller. look, it's a sin size if they have a, it's the same kind of this and when you talk to them, there is nothing they even to beef about. we are naturally, you know, bore not to be enemies. and whenever this conflict, it's a leads you not every, you know, american i met in a prison who is from rural area, was very easy to deal with. she has no problem with russia. and he was curious about russia, despite all propaganda, they losing their christian values,

losing their families, they losing literally their country. it stopped any more, the same country. we knew america who used to be a model for entire world and lead and be an example in all like they say, a shiny town on the, you know, sparkling town on a hill. and this is of course pity. it was a strong country who was really age in on industrial. might you know this one and look for city, for 2 years, the industrialization, drug problem crime waves. you can understand and i feel more empathy to american off from her experience than i would feel in hate. what would you consider as the most important event? all the years that his past and in prison, i wish events are international. well, there's no name international supporting. oh okay. bye. well, it's,

i guess i would be in her history as a turning point. it's a 20 point of russia finalist thing about that nice. proud, strong, 14 years ago, when you are, if you would have known that it's going to happen with you, i mean you're going to spend 14 years away from your family, family, a lot of land. what do you have? what would you do something differently in your life? it's difficult to leave on the calling social ha. but if you listen in your heart, no, no, yes, you're gonna. sometimes you get into trouble. but you're never betrayed yourself. you know, in this inner peace give you enough strength to go through everything. why? because you don't have a conflict inside of you, doesn't matter what you have decent from quality because you're trusting your heart,

your trusting callings of your blood, your trusting and you know, fighting who you are. so what was life like for a high profile, russian figure in a u. s. prison for those 10 plus years, you'll find the answers to that more. besides in our full exclusive interview with victor booth, can we find an rti thought tom? now there's another american who's currently serving a 16 year sentence in a penal colony in russia. paul whelan was detained in moscow in 2018 and convicted of espionage. 2 years after that, the former us marine recently expressed frustration about the boot griner prisoner swap, specifically decisions taken by the biden administration. the pointed 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'm still sitting here. many of you will be well aware, it's a cold december out there in the spite of the wes price cap on russian oil supplies has come into force along with a total bond on russian exports of the commodity to the u by c, russian ad deputy prime minister alex under novak who oversees the countries energy sector has reiterated that moscow will supply oil to countries to try and enforce the price restriction. and i suppose it's in use me in our position on the oil price cap remains unchanged. it is a crude tool. moscow was working on mechanisms to ban the use of the price cap for russian oil, regardless of the stablish level. russia will supply oil and petroleum products only on market terms. even if we have to cut production, opec plus stressed its readiness to get together at any moment and make a decision to correct the situation on the market. but now this isn't necessary.

well, the statement comes after a meeting of opec plus states during which the oil producers agreed to keep the current. i put levels in place that's the spied speculation of the russian oil price camp would trigger a further production code. the g 7, the e u under strictly earlier agreed to limit the price of russian crude oil to $60.00 per borrow. that's roughly 20 percent below current market rates. western powers claim that the move will impact rushes military efforts by limiting its funding. by the way, ukraine wanted the price camp to be even lower of $30.00. while india has brushed off western pressure saying it will continue buying oil from russia, which is the saw asian countries largest supplier of the commodity. big increase as well significant once it's fuel exports here at to new delhi in the past number of months. jumping such as that. our teeth are in june sharma. it takes us through why

india has chosen to side with moscow and what some are calling an international energy war. while school remains talk or supply or to new delhi. and this is the 2nd time interval detail suggest that in october, that was the very 1st time that russia have become in dallas, talk or in supplier. and now in november again, for the 2nd time in the, in fact has been importing oil from russia. so paul, seeing its traditional dominant oil suppliers that of saudi arabia and iraq is appetite, in fact for russian crude oil. his fact has been searching since february off this year from about one percent oil that india was in bushing now. it's about 21 percent in dallas import basket. when it comes to the g $7.00 price cap on russian oil, which is at $16.00 a barrel, india has been very da signed from the very,

very beginning. despite pressure from the west, firstly to notch by the standard oil from law school. and then secondly, pressurizing, india to come on board to sign up with the g 7 countries and you, as far as this set price cap on russian oil is concerned about, of course india had said no, thank you. india has been very clear that india wants to make sure that the need of this country of this developing country, the need of these, the people of this country. it's in no g requirements and it's in no g security. that is number one for india. in fact, in the us, been very, very clear. india has and so many's words said that india will not be dictated by the west who to buy from how much to buy from what to buy from. in fact, listening to what india's petroleum minister very recently said, i would say the india does not see that the west proposed price comp could

constrain shipping and impede the flow of russian oil. i have no excited about that and i am sure the market will be, will buy from whoever we have to. so there is enough indication from the government of india that india will continue to buy russian crude oil despite the cap, which has been put in by g 7. and does that, you, in fact are, if you remember prime minister named more the, in his biggest on, at the su somewhere that when asked about the cap on russian crew, it had some very clearly that oil anyway is something that you procure from market . it's not a government government thing really. and as far as russia concerned, it sells oil for around $79.00 per barrel in asian market. and as far as in dallas concerned, it's been very, very clear that it wants to do business with moscow as usual. the latter recap of

the week that was more advanced on today's development as well. again in 30 hope to catch you then to live from moscow. this is margie ah, a wrong one. i just don't need any new room just to shape out because to an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds important, we choose to look for common ground this evening.