a scared out and go home and do not. she didn't do the really desperate. wonderful. lucille, my last lot a lot. you then to sell been been in fun theater. the layout ah, belgrade accuses the self proclaimed, were public a pulse of seizing the majority. 3rd sense and the regions north that comes down off the christina officially applied for e u membership. we report from the ground the u. s. u, this africa summit to highlight what it calls that russia and china is quoted, these stabilizing activities in the region. on that says washington's shift from africa as acute issues, leaves staging, thoughts on please. contact with africa is not gonna re enough. a big public games, let alone the target of all the treat prussia from any country. old person.

washington should respect the will. the african people with the latest ukrainian shelling of russia has done yet with public leaves. at least one person killed and several wounded correspondent catches up with russian troops on the front lines as if with simple stoves like this one. they provide the much needed under the hint comforts. i'm at the very difficult conditions here with a very room. welcome to you. it's just turn 7 pm here in the russian capital, and you're watching. i'll see international with the latest world news update is great to have you with us. now tensions are spiraling in northern kosovo with a 30, a representative to the region has accused pristine as governments of seizing power in the majority sub area of mitchell. with help from local police,

this comes to the hours of the officials of south proclaimed cost, about applying for a membership. with belgrade condemning the move and judging brussels to blow kids. let's get the latest now from mich visa, for the latest, from aussie contributed nicholas job. many, thanks for joining us, nicolette. now. so tell us about the situation on the ground at the moment to what exactly spoke, such a strong accusations from belgrade. ok, so things like this, i was there when happened in front of the building, basically you had strong police presence and you had several people coming in and now every few minutes. and if i'm close doors 15 or 30 years without any lived in oregon or even had the respect for their own laws, they chosen the new city council, 60 new members. and there saw this war north, and they were elect to power without any democratic procedure. so basically,

a month ago when all the sort of left the sort of got those positions, the election new elections were held and the non union left early to share a new city or forces. and they did so by bringing in from the side their own additions, who are now the city council, and amongst, amongst them there is even one in so just to have that multi cultural perspective. and they did, as i said without any, any law or spent for, for the standard procedure which can be implemented. and that came as a shock local serbs because they feel check again. and they feel that the, they are, they are again, being played out because then they said new election games occur and they are now being governed by people nobody chose. and they were elected basically by brutal

for, since they were there was launch presence of police and army, securing this whole event in the center for this, for me to finish everything mostly by serbs. and how do you see things playing out in the coming days and weeks? well, from the back of the people that are on the barricade, they are looking of course toward better algorithms. there may not protector and they are observing carefully the meetings, the serbian government, and president, which is our having with foreign representatives, especially the ones from the you, and therefore they are not really satisfied. today's result of serving government meeting with special envoy, gabriella, and me to select from the you. but the fear that they will be played out again, and that of the barricades in their means of seeing that they are they are

basically forced into, into bad bad situation. forced into this bad the bad occasions that they feel corpus and relentless regarding the future events and the for so be a big beschler into bringing on popular measures that are against the people's wheels. but then again, the chance to do with the brother japanese situation, not just in the region, but in the whole of europe revolving 1st and foremost, they bring in crisis. so everything has to be through that perspective. many thanks for speaking to us and bringing us the latest from metro visa and northern course of that was all he contributed nuclear tanks. now with the us africa summit in full swing, while washington is already pushing it, so narrative accusing russia and china of the stabilizing activities in the region

as the 3 day event. his 2nd day, the us defense secretary sets out his own priorities. we're witnessing the purity, expand its footprint a on, on a continent on a daily basis. and that creates problems that will be eventually destabilizing if they're not already. or we see russia continuing to puddle, cheap weapons, employ mercenaries across the continent. and so the combination of those activities by those 2 countries i think are that bears watching. and certainly i think their influence, again, can be the stabilizer, is really disappointing to hear these kinds of warnings. still being lamented when american president joe biden, from is a relationship of mutual respect with africa and one that will be different. but there are to, rick is still pretty much the same. the commons by you as

a defense. he really was almost expected by african countries. i mean, african countries have only as for one thing, and one thing only can you, can you let us make our own decision when it comes to who we want to trade with? who we want to be friends with? because only we are the custodians of our own development, but there is not america and true to american form. they cannot engage in much without necessarily dictating terms. now is true that america has lost much of its ground here on the continent, particularly economically. as you know, to, to the likes of china who move in was the americans created that way. but it's kind of rich for the americans to start talking about things like that. when you know the immediate actual needs of the continent are still there within their reach and within their growth, i mean, you look get countries in this a hell that are going through really difficulty in terms of,

in terms of conflict in terms of people being displaced and food insecurity is really acute in areas like that, but that is not what you're finding what you're fine. it is that america did not invite their leaders to this washington shindig, where they will be at availing the new relationship with africa is pretty much the same old, same old and very, very conditional. i was a bit surprised when i, when i saw, especially the kinds of comments that have been leveled to was russia and towards china. the russian comment is that the are peddling cheap weapons on the continent and they could lead to a civilization. and one don't really know, one written one, there's just how long the american memory is. i mean, taken situation like libya, libya was a stable country and warmer godaddy. come 2011 denito led coalition, which was during obama's administration. you look at libya now. no paused, conflict funds, no post conflict plane,

and it's really been left in ruins and china. on the other hand, i guess it, it came with the territory that it had to be a choose like evasion. here is that china is lending a freak tennis themes. the money and an unsustainable debt and sustainable rates, getting them in a death threat. but, and that's not according to death justice the u. k. based organization to love that african state. oh, more to weston banks, asset managers, as well as oil traders than they do to china. in fact, almost 3 times more that says something about the, the open temp that the west thin banks and institutions have had to as africa. what china and righteous entry into africa than is allowed the continent to move on to look is to explore other friendships and not only be tied by friends that hold and know where you're finger. only to tell us what we can't engine or do. but here is

the chinese official res ones to that accusation about easy and available chinese money. porter, one me a see what we hope the us could view china africa cooperation with an open mind. africa is not an arena big power game. so let alone the target of arbitrary prussia from any country. all person washington should respect the world, the african people, and take concrete actions to help africa's development art. instead of concentrating its efforts on smearing and attacking other countries. and that is really ally in that america, this i lud, used to, they used to dictating term. they, they still look at africa in separated means and in their engagement. even the renewed engagement is filled freely, much feels like the same mode fail mode script. americans have been devoid of the continent the they've left a voice here that has been filled because it will eventually had to be filled. they still didn't seem like the people who recognized a potential of africa, especially youth demographic, to come into the fall and be

a real force over the next couple of decades. that was seen by friends in the east africa analyst kofi quark. he believes it's the west. so though, initially washington's broken promises that have let the continent into the dire situation, it is in today. it is really sad to see the united states having a strategy best place for you. the only concern for the nice thing is if concerned by cross, because other powers are going to africa, like russia, like china, like tricky, like arabic countries for the past 6 years, 70 years or so. they've been all of these promises by the west suppression stage that, that you want, if you look at, it's very little been done. the african nations who sort of, you know,

trusted the states to help to bill to find ways for the economy. and if the partnership with the united states, both the west, where really what their promising african countries would be, where they are today, this very complicated and paradoxical situation. where you know you rich, rich and resources, somebody else's, extracting ah, an organization founded to protect the rights of journalists worldwide, has refused to support russian media outlets and individuals and reports of blooming e sanctions. asked by r t if it was support rushing reporters, the committee to protect journalists said it does not view them as i'm biased and would therefore do nothing to help. c p. j protects journalists facing reprisals for the journalistic activity as long as they adhere to the principles of unbiased objective reporting. when we look to the names of people associated with the media outlets you mentioned in your e mail and who can be included in the new list of sanctioned individuals. we found

out that they did not follow this rule of unbiased journalism. therefore, we cannot protect them. i drove the you blacklist, reportedly includes r t as well as state television and radio company v g t r k, which could potentially have their assets are frozen, and e u countries will receive one. the ren tv and other channels could lose their broadcast licenses over $100.00 russian media personalities, including popular tv present. it could also be functioned. meanwhile, the committee to protect journalists continues actively supporting global pro western media outlets. early this month they demand the band be lifted on us funded broadcast, the radio free europe, radio, liberty, and afghan stone. while last month the group demanded access be restored to the western world, tossed his website for care against them. the committees failure to live up to its international promise comes as a member of germany's main opposition policy attempts to start to have her own campaign against russian media. christine social union representative,

andrea lyn told, has proposed the creation of a committee to control this by the russian media influence the danger of russian propaganda and his information in germany should not be underestimated. especially now when everything is getting more expensive, there is a risk that people will become more receptive to pro russian fakes. according to some media report thought his german language channel uses 3rd party outlets on future channels to spread information. journalists who publish so called pro russian information said to be connected to moscow affiliated media. well, let's discuss these developments with ortho, and we'll correspondent thomas roper now many things to do when he gets on the program. now what do you make of this proposal to create an office reporting on a ledge rushing this information? well, this is quite interesting. i'm that when we think we have some kind of a free speech or free media and germany them that when we now have a shell, become shell, have an office which registers lee or media or even users

who just express, express another opinion that the government has the most interesting thing in this is in them, germany, article about it is that the reason why they want this is that the price is exploding in germany and people under these conditions might start protesting. so it means in fact, that everybody who and germany starts protesting or complaining about the explosion of prices, is somehow rational disinformation. but well, maybe the german government should solve the problems they didn't determine he, instead of hunting for other people with opinions it's, it's crazy. what's happening and what he make of the german government crackdown on the arts. he in the country and kidding the freezing of assets. yeah, well, let's start with this. you know, in germany we have one in the, in the constitution of germany,

there's written that no censorship is happening in germany. it's written that are the fact that the, the european union with just some kind of decreed could, ah, or force germany into censorship. is already something very interesting that they are now also whatever freezing are cheese as the assets and so on is just the next step, but it doesn't have anything to do with what is called democracy or even freedom of speech. freedom of media. this is obvious. as you know, he's low guy, we say question more. we're known for giving you a blow to a view or take on events in ukraine. don't boss as well as the energy crisis and everything else in the u. s. so does it look like berlin is prepared to tolerate such a broad viewpoints? there's no tolerance anymore. this is the problem in the west. they have no tolerance on opinions or people or media who have another point or just ask

questions. it is not a lot to ask questions. you have to believe the dresser is evil. you have to believe that ukraine is very democratic country and so on. if you don't believe it, you get it, you get problems and this is what's happening. so again, we can talk about about free speech or whatever in, under these conditions. the husband, some growing frustration in europe though, hasn't, there would be perceived failure of the western media to report more extensively on things like the protests, against the backlash of the sanctions against russia. well, she'll take or not criticism if it going to continue to grow, it, will it be silenced. but i think the criticism will grow that the problem is they have so many organizations already in the you and so on. what hunting for sole code are actually propaganda? disinformation so they will gone and criticizing the problem is they have no way back if somebody start to start censorship. this is the point that he has no arguments and this is the problem which we have. we are ready to discuss. i know

from myself, i always offer that many german media already made tv reports or whatever. i wrote articles about me was that i knew best. perfect. i'm just i always say, hey, i'm ready to talk to you. let's make a live stream. let's discuss the topics they don't mind. so that's the point. and so now we have this talk of a creation of so called anti disinformation offices, which would of course neither come for free. they're going to come an expense. the repeating tax pay is already ready have an economic burden to deal with. is rush of media influence really that big of a deal in germany and other countries you countries that they would do that. that's the funny thing. after the censorship of russia today of r t and nick is not much left to look at germany. i'm the biggest, biggest website now who just, well 5th tells the rational arguments and the political arena. and what

do i have? 30043 or 4000000 clicks a month in what? 18000000, you know, the german speed has 220000000 click. so we have very small and even an effect the don't these small media, like my website already fearing these people so much that they think they need to organize whatever offices. well i dish really seem to fear many thanks for talking to us today. we always appreciate you are in 5 thomas right off and we'll correspondent i have, i think, you know, several us lawmakers have announced bipartisan legislation for ban that chinese on social media platform. take talk, the american politicians claim the app can be used to spy on us citizens. this isn't about creative videos. this is about an app that is collecting data on tens of millions of american children and adults every day. we know it's used to manipulate feeds and influence elections. we know it answers to the people's

republic of china. tick tock is digital fentanyl. that's addicting americans collecting troves of their data and censoring their news. the bipartisan anti social ccp act as a strong step in protecting our nation from the nefarious digital surveillance and influence operations of totalitarian regimes. let's get more details money. oh correspondent kayla. more pin. now caleb, nice to see it today. does it look like this? move from the u. s. lo make it. it's really all about security concerns. that's the question. well, it's very hilarious to listen to those words because what they're describing, how they're arguing about how chic talk seems to be operating bits pretty closely with the details that are now emerging regarding how twitter and meta facebook and other outlets interfered in us politics take for example, the hunter, by the laptop story. this was a scandal regarding the son of the president united states and his business deals

and is relationships with his father. and will recall how it's been admitted that us social media giants worked to suppress it in coordination with the f b i. here's what we heard from mark zuckerberg. the distribution on facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it. so you could still share it, you could still consume it, but we weren't sort of as black and white about it as, as twitter, we just kind of thought, hey, look, if the f b i, which i still view as a legitimate institution in this country. it's a very professional law enforcement. they come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something that i want to take that seriously. now a new poll shows that 71 percent of americans say that a truthful interpretation of the 100 by the laptop story may have changed their vote and good change the outcome of the election in the united states. so the effort by facebook and twitter to suppress that story certainly had an impact. now,

it's also interesting to hear the owner, the tick tock, accused of new suppression. let's not forget that social media outlets the damned r t, all throughout western europe. r t is being widely suppressed, it's been shut down from youtube. ready cetera, and then you want to get into the other accusation that they make about data that. let's look into the details. they've been revealed by edward's note about how data collected by us social media outlets and tech companies get handed over to the f b i and how there is a coordination with the f b i. and this information regarding users activities is provided to the american authorities without any warrant, no warrants or are needed. they simply go to the tech outlet and get the information. there's actually been a 260 percent increase in the providing of this data to us officials.

and they've been getting it without warrant the amount of data that they've been acquiring on us individual has increasingly gone up. this is the information that's been revealed and we also know what they tend to use this information for that's recently been admitted. david's description of what you can do with metadata and quoting a mutual friend, stewart baker, is absolutely correct that we kill people based on better data. so the hypocrisy in us condemnation of tick tock, allegedly suppressing new, the lashley interfering and us politics or allegedly collecting people data for nefarious purposes. the world can hear the hypocrisy and what the us lawmakers are saying. as they found the podium against chip talk. caleb many thanks for that update. that's on t's at new correspondent caleb more in there with the details.

well now to some news from the ukranian capital, whether man has said this, several explosions have rocks care of suburbs and censor leaving air raid sirens ringing out across the city. officials say that one administrative building had been damaged when a while in rushes don't. but at least one person is being killed and see wounded. and so off the ukrainian artillery launched in early morning. on the don't the actual public, local officials say key of troops reigned dozens of shells, many of them supplied by nato, unto residential areas. similar trying from the republics capital city on choose, they left 3 people bed and the shelling has reportedly been ongoing through wednesday. well, that's a fierce bottles. rage across the front lines where russian troops are reported the making some progress on the east coast on a visit could be treacherous to rain in which one such regiment is fighting and don't pass. getting to rushes, frontline positions his to day a challenge in itself. only

a fraction of civilian vehicles are capable of winning the struggle against these muddy country roads. with him, from this spot, there's only about 3 kilometers of sludgy to rain and patches of pine trees between russian and ukrainian troops. put a love upon you. oh i was lou deal. was it a vehicle of did one thing that the 2 armies have in common here is having to facilitate their survival, amid mud, under a mutual hail of bombs are p, jeez hand military optics. they neighbor here with simple stoves like this one. they provide the much needed warm, and they hint at comfort amid the very difficult conditions here, basically,

temperatures here, they drop into freezing territories regularly into changing with down pose. all of that adds as yet another item on the already very long list of hardships. the most mundane of tasks like keeping close, clean and dry, turn into a gamble with death at the front line. now whatever dangerous there were, they have increased by an order of magnitude. the kitchen vehicle changed its route and went to collect the injured from another position after the shelling the roads in trenches or muddy, the weather changes, sometimes it rains and then it's freezing. we have to fix them all the time, some fight as he learned the ropes of life and the war zone as they go. crane soldiers have been shuffled here with those who have been recently mobilized in of all parallel hardship. though few of them regret crating the comfort of civilian life. for this croaky, our task is to protect the homeland. i packed my things and went to the front line

though i could have stayed just like many of us could have. but were there with winter being only into its 1st month, no one here, hob as the illusion conditions will improve any time soon. it will get worse before it gets better. and whoever it doubtless best will have the upper hand and combat over the enemy. survival of the fittest has never been more real makers done of reporting from the dumbass r t a majority of the european union supply of russian seaborne crude oil has been redirected to asia as after the e u. bonds the import. earlier this month. as according to data by bloomberg x, both of true to a to reportedly recess staggering $3000000.00 barrels per day. and the week to december 9th, us almost 90 percent of oil ship from russian ports during the period. it also follows the e g, u and g 7 countries setting a price cap on russian oil of $60.00 per barrel. a day to shows that china and

india on the main recipients of russian oil with the volumes shipped to the 2 countries increasing by more than fourfold since the 1st batch of western sanction the get sanctions against russia. in late february, this comes with some developing asian countries, including pakistan, are in talks to import more fuel from russia. the head of the pakistan house. think tank face the ear decision to ban russian oil will definitely back fire this winter . you did not need to go to that far, i'm sure did as a political decision making. but to shop also take can consideration the budget to their, you know, they're all spending now. i'm sure you of course, has missed the bus definitely facing challenges domestically and also financially as well. i mean, we to look into the social perspective into another dilemma of the printer is the biggest dollar by men. someone was asking that the dark winter

who is responsible for that. of course, the european union itself is responsible for the dog, and the expense of it for their citizens has nothing to do with the russians, never to refuse to supply oil to european union. and especially to germany and other countries. so i think it is the loss of the european union. and on the other hand, at the cost of they said the you, the developing countries, you couldn't afford the russian prior to this had managed to buy oil to do 5 to 40 percent or 30 percent discount money. thanks for keeping his company out. the international will be back at the top of the hour with the very latest news that date doing is that if with

ah, are we witnessing the end of globalization as we have known it for about the last half century? it would certainly seemed so the west ability to shape the world and its own image also appears to be on the way. as a result, should we expect new regional and block globalization ah.