a, i don't know, i just won't go crazy. the reason that i am a fan of guaranteed income because it is this idea that everybody is deserve and just bad virtue of your being here. ah, what you would like to ask in this regard? what did you expect? well, how else do they treat those who allowed themselves to be treated? as a you officials wake up to the fact that it was the one capitalizing on the backlash of sanctions against russia, government booth, and faith. europeans should have seen it coming and i've been, i thought flor have ukrainian. well kids leave. buildings in the russian city have done yet. a blade most been called the most intense traveling. 2014

a term to be ukranian forced to cross the for a correspondence catching up with a rush and move to crew that's helping push back kids trips from key positions inside. don't back with the ground. restore the video of an indian woman being sexually assaulted single though it violates well, did raise it with very welcome to 6 pm here in moscow, and this is on the international with the latest world news update is good to have you with us this hour. what did you expect us, what vladimir putin is asking you officials who have started admitting that the us is the one caching in on europe. the energy crisis says she wouldn't use it today.

the e u authorities themselves are already saying that the policy of their main partner, the u. s. is directly leading to the de industrialization of europe. they are even trying to present some bills to the american sousa ain over this matter. at times their statements even contain words of resentment. like, why are you doing this to us? which one would like to ask in this regard? what did you expect to? how else do they treat those who allow themselves to be treated? after all, it is their own business. it's important to understand. first of all, that the european union is always ideologically driven. first and foremost, its entire hazel death are forcing a patchwork of totally desperate cultures and countries into a single political and economic straightjacket is totally ideological. so a reasonable person looking at some of the moves that the e u has made recently will be left scratching their head if they're looking at

these things through the prism of logic, reason, and pragmatism. instead faced with any given issue, the e, u, adoption, ideological virtue, signaling approach, and then when it fails, and the g, p. s, navigational system is streaming at them. do a, you turn, do you turn, you're about to drive into a ditch? they then try to correct course. now any classic example of the kind of ideological driven reasoning that risks to being translated into actual policy here in europe. here's polish prime minister mateus more wiki. wondering why some e u countries just refuse through logic to fix the blocks exploding gas prices, which are ultimately the result of their own anti russian sanctions by simply refusing to pay the market price for gas. some countries which have to deal with this crisis from the point of view of the prices of gas on the prices of oil. do this in a very, very selfish way they do. let's see the bigger picture. while they just stick

a cap on it, it side easy, right? actually the selfish thinking that he's referring to is thinking that the whole world revolves around europe and will just bend to its will to mitigate the mass made by its own policies, particularly when the block is making no effort to climb down from the ledge on which it perched itself and its citizens. now another example of ideology above pragmatism, the e, you cut itself off from russian gas through its own sanctions and only then clued into the fact that they'd have to rely on the goodwill of washington for a decent price on american allen. g. not only did the price get jacked up, but then biden, on top of that, to add insult to injury, introduced this inflation reduction act, which he calls a climate act. i guess you're supposed to think highly of it because of that because you know, they're all about the climate. and this thing includes tax and energy incentives

which could be ultimately applied to europe, european businesses that can't afford expensive american gas in europe. so they can just, you know, move to the u. s. and enjoy the low domestic price of it over there. now, french president, a migraine, that whole went to washington a couple of weeks ago, only to try to talk by that out of this. no doubt the americans got right on that straight away boss working on it day and night, which is why the you is still complaining about it just this past wednesday. the u . s. inflation reduction act provides generous incentives for investing in the us, including in some ways that are discriminatory against european companies and other companies as well. we already have war in europe. the last thing we need is a trade war on top. ok, so other than complaining it sounds like a broken record repeating the same thing over and over again and just hoping things

change. what else can be done about it? while european commission president ursula vauder lime said on thursday that the e u is just going to set up a quote sovereignty fund for businesses. nothing says sovereignty like you business is going broke. because of the eas own energy policy fiasco so much for sophisticated policy, it looks like they're just going to start flashing the cold hard cash. now, some european politicians are understandably skeptical of this whole idea. a solution in the multi and the old financial framework comes to late and risks been too small. so wonder line said that the funds should be all set to go for next summer. well, come on. greatness takes time, right? unfortunately, bankruptcy doesn't to the don't yet. we're public now where the regional had has said one person has been killed and at least 11 injured among them, a 10 year old boy out the capital suffered some of his most intense shelling in 8

years. ukrainian force is find a 40 grant walk. it's either night leaving buildings ablaze. the city center was struck by 3 missiles damaging multiple civilian premises, including several residential blocks and the kindergarten, one local shat, his terrifying experience with us. he included in the strike, hit at 7 am, the bang was so loud. it shook the house. the people who lived there had left a few days before. i don't know anything about the other neighbors. shelling also hit a local church living gets dome a partially damaged i'll correspondence was at the scene shortly after the attack took place. books not borders, middle of the world you mazda was seeing the size of this crater. one can understand the type of shells being used to target civilian areas. most city center, windows of destroyed, direct hits on residential buildings. in the morning,

i was walking on the street. when i saw an elderly man with wounded legs, fax to the swift arrival of medics. he was taken to hospital just in time of the will. as fighting continues, the russian defense ministry say several ukrainian attacks have been repelled in the ganske republic. i see corresponded egleston of accompanied russian troops on the front lines as they battled full key positions. in these woods, just outside crim and naya danger lurks around every tree. what used to be one of ukraine's national parks is now one of the most heavily contested swathes of land and the don bass. i need me to put them down for the ukrainian forces, crossed the river and their mobile units shall our checkpoints. our intelligence identified some of their strongholds here. their main tactic is to attack, so they mostly work in mobile groups. artillery is useless here. walking single file, we follow the only path deemed safe towards russia's positions. our

guide leads us to what looks like a long abandoned hut, but the 1st impression of desolation is deceiving. inside we meet russian soldiers from the mortar, battery hidden in the thicket. not far from here. this is our battalions command, an observation point. we gather all the information about the targets in our battalions frontline, we decide what targets to attack with our mortars. i mm hm. with

globally this meet is to quench any attempts of the ukrainian forces to cross the forest that is surrounding all of us. oh, what you see here is the equivalent of close quarters. combat in the world of artillery. this mortar team is only about 2, maybe 4 kilometers away from their targets. bigger guns and tanks provide extra firepower from further away to. right now, the woodland here is in the grey zone. and whichever side concedes the ambition to take it will have to give up neighboring villages and towns to suffering a painful tactical defeat maker's done of reporting from the don bass. r t coverage of the conflict in ukraine is also no one side. it is that all few western

media correspondence reporting from the ground in don't bus, as, according to johnny miller report from a rounds press tv, who recently returned from don yeske. my colleague peter scott, spoke to him earlier in the studio. it's incredibly attention dangerous there at the moment only returned a few days ago from the week before from saturday, 20 civilians have been killed that week alone, and the sense of danielle is being shelves by ukrainian forces. and the important story to realize is that they are intentionally shelling civilians are markets around the area. i've been to the boss stations at bodies in the streets. youth, hostel youth sense was hit the other day with 4 people were killed. and it's very difficult to see any military targets antoniette scott civilian areas. ukraine is trying to sometimes it target ministration, buildings, sometimes they, they often targets or infrastructure like energy infrastructure schools, sometimes just random shelling. so what do you think this is so under reported in

the western media, johnny? well, i think that's, that's the reason i news happens where the journalists are, i think there's been no mainstream outlets from british or american companies that have occasionally been french, german, italian. but any mainstream of what it a little is a lot of fantastic, mainstream, honest reporters working for mainstream channels in western countries. and if any of them were there living under the shelling avenue, apartment bombs going to the boss stations with the civilians in the streets that have no choice to report exactly what i been reporting that the vast majority supports russia and ukraine is intensely selling civilian. so i think that's why it's not been covered. and instagram, video of an indian woman being sexually assaulted by a group of men has been restored to the platform after an oversight board underlined its newsworthiness just by recognizing the video by finally to be companies adult sexual exploitation policy. and also may quite emboldened perpetrators. it will that, that the content should remain to raise awareness. given that the video does not

include explicit content or nudity and the majority of the boards find that the victim is not identifiable, a majority, for instance, the benefits of allowing the video to remain on the platform behind a warren is green. outweigh the risk of harm, let me take you to the timeline 1st. so in march of this year, and instagram account in india, that usually talks about marginalized community posts about marginalized community in india. for stead a video of a tribal woman who was being sexually assaulted by a group of men. now are this we do? of course our or this is instagram account has about $3000.00 or followers are most of them from india are, but then of course, so one user reported this we do after which after a human review mater, decided to remove it saying that advice leads if our sexual exploitation policy, ab, but after that, what happened was that data, this was further flagged of wire met. i employ to a larger committee to

a larger global operations committee. and well, they reviewed it and they thought that in larger public interest and that it was news worthy to restore it. so that restored it this time with a warning in factor and they restricted the content for minors are but of course metals always. i bought also upheld the decision or to restore the instagram account, but there was also a split as far as this, sir, oversight board is concerned. a why law are some of them. i did see that while the woman's face is naught with the bull, while there's no nudity, but a lot of them also thought that i are the content, the risk of putting out the content was not to look at what all of this essentially highlights is that meta has no clear policy when it comes to sensitive content such as this one. what to bam and what not too bad. well, separately,

a new sy fi palestine chronicle is claiming facebook has that warned it with restrictions on the total band for continued quote, community standards a violations. well, let's find out more now that is quite live to the chronicle is chief editor ramsey period ran through many thanks for joining us on the program today. so could you explain to us, what do you think has prompted facebook to warn you, angel? and it says, what are the accusations here? i thank you for having me. mckee, this has been going on for quite some time now at least a year, if not more, but the process that facebook has been following are in, in the way that the are the, are restricting us from using our account kind of windsel stages. you know, where they basically start with the shouting, preventing your host from reaching the kind of audiences we used to each in the past. the likes and shares start going down and you start kind of questioning,

are we doing something is deter really wrong? why are we losing the kind of moment of we've had in the past and then suddenly others things starting to happen. for example, the status of the, of the administrators of the page? who are the people, the team of the palestine, chronicle, the stock lowering your status from that to the administrator to moderate. and therefore you can't really uh, control many aspects of the websites and you can't say become more and more limited . the personally, i have lost 4 different pages on facebook pertaining to my books and speaking tours and all of that because they lowered my status into moderator and eventually forcing me to delete all of my fiscal pages aside from my profile page. no, the same thing is happening with our managing editor of the english page. and i'm the editor of the french website as well. so as a result, we began, i'm asking people who are not even involved in the palestine. if want to go to

accept, to be added as administrators, so we don't lose complete control over the website. and now we are entering yet a new phase. and that is all completely erasing our content, saying that we are violating their community standards and what they are talking about is just you every then you as report about, for example, the lines then in nablus, a palestinian fighters group in which we report like everybody else like is what you mean media like the new york times, like british media, we simply report on what has taken place. the fact that we are reporting on these things are now supposedly violating their community standards. we are not able to, to do our work as doris until yesterday, when the final note arrived, that we are continuing to violate the community standards and that the website will be completely deleted if we continue to do so. so obviously this is something progressive has been going on for quite some time now. and there is

a plan to erase the palestine chronicle. perhaps arguably the most important palestinian english website in terms of popularity. anyone in the world the same way they have done with many other palestinian websites and understand me the organization since 2016. so what do you make of this the oversight board? who's on it and who sets is guidelines and so are they political appointees? this that's a very good question. indeed, there was an agreement that was signed by facebook, and israel in 2016 are following that agreement with the agreed that they are going to control incite mental does flow to think on facebook. following that agreement, as well as stablish the site or unit, which basically provide a large number of palestinian individuals and websites accounts to facebook and others, instagram, others. and these platforms start erasing these pages,

supposedly author verifying that they are inciting violence. at one point, i was personally removed from twitter if it were not for the support of many were respected people in social media, it was eventually restored. hopefully it has to remain the case with twitter for, for a while, but with instagram, with facebook, even with linked in the censorship continues. and, and again, we are the only victims of this were, you know, there are thousands of palestinians. in fact, according to some estimates, the cipher, that is what you decide, but units have flagged over 20000 palestinian facebook accounts that indeed many of them have been deleted by facebook. so in other words, we palestinians feel that facebook as far as palestine is concerned, is now and is really organization little and subtle. and to give you a very simple example about about what we have done to try to every complaint that we have sent to facebook has been rejected. not just that yesterday approve

is were evie user made some violent remarks against palestinians calling for the death of palestinians and so forth. we flagged it to facebook. facebook immediately responded saying that that statement does not constitute if violation of its community standards. so we'll not even talk about double standards per said. we're talking about e, you know, a vague clear policy that aimed at silencing palestinian voices no matter how moderate they are and giving the stage making, leaving the stage open for the pro is what the voice is to operate as the wish. when it comes these i have a side board, you kelly think that the palestinian media is being penalized, if such, boats on cisco to decide on content and who should, should that be a government body or even a well it wide neutral body to decide on want sakes that to pull and what's not actually in 2021 a human rights watch. did you know a thorough internal,

a thorough investigation of facebook, a behavior that was palestinians, and that's precisely the conclusion that they have reached, that there is a decided anti palestinian sentiment that facebook and many palestinian accounts have been wrongfully deleted. now facebook itself, actually a few months later decided to do its own internal investigation. and that's also what they've added. so even facebook agrees that facebook is silencing palestinian voices. now the problem is, you just really, you don't know how to respond to this sort of data because you know, that we have very, very little leverage as palestinians, aside from, of course, raising the issue internationally and hoping that there would be some, some of backlash in which people would put pressure on facebook and these other social media platforms. but for the time being there is no. ringback oversight and is just free censorship and there is no accountability,

legal or otherwise many thanks, i think contest, i really appreciate your time palestine chronicle. it is a round separate and came but the u. s. has slapped a new round of sanctions on vin. bob way accusing the son of the african countries . presidents have corruption on human rights abuses, said bob boyd. the government has head back saying that whitehouse is actually targeting the nation's economy. the intention was never to attack individuals who do not matter any way in terms of interstate relations. the intention has always been to cripple is in far away in economy. and it's not fortuitous that they are picked on supply as of key and puts to a critical sector of our economy, namely agriculture. they did it before. and i can assure you that they will do it in future or several different us administrations have upheld sanctions against symbolic way. for 2 decades. the white house claims the african country has been

carrying out disruptive actions against u. s. foreign policy. washington has also hindered sim. bob weighs ability to ball right from foreign financial institutions which has contributed to high inflation in the country. meanwhile, symbolic way. house traditionally maintains good times with russia, with the african nation, also refusing to support us bank resolutions against moscow. the un well, it's not cross to political scientists, which it when you, when it, when you write my home the money, thanks for joining us on. the program is very nice to see you today. so i'd like to ask you, what do you think washington is intending to achieve with this wave of sanctions? oh, thank you for helping me. i think my 1st point of departure is to clearly states that the continued proliferation of sanctions like n, as in bob way. yes, been a very black and western agenda to revenge for the land reform that

was executed by our people. which of course displays a minority settler role, it was a continuation of the displacement of minority set level. so the intention in number one is to continue that vengeance the, the intention is to continuously paralyze the amount to sector all dimensions of zimbabwe economy. because you would notice that sanctions there. but i think that the l to say that they've affected the education sector, and most importantly as a result of sanctions and public cannot access capital from international financial institutions. so the all idea of the individuals attached to the notion of sanctions that really is choreography. smokescreen by western powers,

and i think everyone that is placed under sanctions in my view carry is a badge of honor or resistance to angle america, any edgy money that continues to be resisted by progressive forces of the world. so with respect to the sanctions imposed on amazon and anger genie, i see that as a badge of honor a t mobile engineer. so at what point do you think washington might consider lifting the sanctions? well, they will consider lifting the sanctions if we bow to their demands with respect to issues of land, they will give up the sanctions if they are fed about opposition. political proxy is in power, but without their whole position, political processing power or not to do that. so what does it mean? it means that functions are pursuing a sick tori. all imperialist agenda is about what it means that sanctions are

pursuing and illegal and democratic agenda. and this is not new. by the way, we have seen our, the americans use several proxies to pursue their foreign policy interest. and until, and unless they approx is we and then they can have assumptions lifted. but the government just been engaged with the policy. a government just been involved in a reform exercise that is in tandem with our constitutional demands in tandem with the immediate demands of the people as far as our enjoying the position value consent as, as in bob way is promoting a political course aimed at partnership with russia, you think this is contributed to the un sanctions in any way? it is, but most importantly uses my board. i mean, if, if,

in any case dismissal relations with the ratio, why? because even the lot is that you don't have very key in the very street or drug court that since 967 russia partner in dismantling worse than imperialism. so without doubt, with dignity, direction with russia. made partially pointed to that by the under one that comes in that in mind. and bob was convinced by your story called questions to maintain the relations with russia and you called it the sanctions a bunch of on a bit. how have the sanctions impacted the country and how was in bob wayne's able to cope with them? well, sanctions come in to make the economy mailed down. and when the, when the economy melts down is structured citizen despondency, days that i odds and all of that. but sanctions did not plainly were not plainly

introduced into this. but when political stays, sanctions came in with on site to west and propaganda. sanctions came in with this subtle opposition political 5 to so the idea is to create a system or a 1000000000 again, elected governments. the idea is to come against to come with this system or resisting traditional values. so sanctions, you have been structured in a way that dismantle the economy, that dismantle the education sector, the l, the sector and allies industry and in the context of all that, the idea is to create that this them. and this is what is of late in zimbabwe. how the us will say that it sad tackling corruption and human rights abuses in zimbabwe. but how would the american sanction supposed to help solve these particular problems?

look, if anything american, right to state about issues of political morality, they are the help of slavery. and today, as we speak of a they, i want you to feel colonialism in many ways than one. you'll notice that 2 in social media has also been used as an upper. it does to extend it. so in any case, no country should be getting political more or less than from any state. so i think the dysfunctions are not only legal, but they are wrong, and they exit an unnecessary in more political bid on the part of the americans. we should not be global prefix of any state in terms of our internal affairs. and above all, the again is the framework of the united nations. and can you see the african union

helping to negotiate in the sanctions? removal for a certain do you recall that as of august 2019 there's been this increase the message, you just escalated to the a you where there was an official declaration of a 25th of october is going to be the am to functions day to ensure that all african countries that go through the schedule sanctions will be vindicated on that day. and the continent is going to express at most displeasure around any country that is going to so to, to be affected by assumptions. so generally what you are seeing is a new consciousness, a new sense of expressed open displeasure by africans to say, we cannot continue to be the underdog. so for our western imperialism, and it's, it's, it's, it's, it's an ongoing initiative.