a with breaking news on off he the you talk gates off. he's parent company under the latest rounds of sanctions, which includes the freeze of the company's assets in europe. as her attack on russia, humanitarian off within the central african republic leaves the head of the mission seriously wounded plus the russian indian leaders to stuff bilateral times over the phone. following media room is that the indian p. m back south have a meeting with lie to my parents in which the kremlin dismissed as a misunderstanding with

very welcome from all of our team. this is the all t international with the latest world news update. it's great to have you with us that we start with breaking news as the e. u has frozen the european assets of r t by sanctioning our parent company on ot tv. novas say the restrictions are part of the latest and not at the round of e u sanctions against russia. this comes off the western politicians on the mainstream media, repeatedly criticized to russian outlets including r t and german spanish french language channels for airing, while the europeans called propaganda and kremlin talking points. well, we're now joined by georgia, samuel, a senior research fellow at the global policy institute george when he, thanks for joining us on the program. i'd just like to know what you make of the latest sanctions on our parent company, including the freezing abbas is what are your thoughts? well, it's very amusing that on this very day, a number of e, you politicians,

sounding of about twitter, suspending a few journalists in the united states. they're very indignant about that. in the meantime, they're essentially outlawing a whole bunch of tv and radio networks whose only crime is that they're providing information that the e u doesn't like. of course it in violation of all of the international covenants that you sign in violation of the charter of the mental rights of the youth and violation of the treaty. but they are they, and they say, well, you know, it's a propaganda. well, you know, one man news is another hands propaganda. a lot of people might think that what you get on b, b, c, and cnn is also smacks of propaganda. so it's just part of the course for you and

u. s. offices. so what do you think this mean this as a free means for the future of our see in europe? well, to be honest, i don't see t returning anytime soon. because fundamentally, the break between europe and russia is now so fundamental that it's hard to see how any kind of normality can be restore, at least we'll, we'll be able future, he's maybe for the next generation. so, and of course it's a great shame because it means that the europeans don't get to hear the other side of the story. and given that was a serious conflict taking place between nato and russia, given that this conflict could easily escalate into something even more theory. it now is the most important time to get to hear the other side of the story. and the you is absolutely determined to prevent europeans from hearing jose,

can we wait in the timing of the sanctions in any way? why is this as a freeze happening right now? well, i think it's just that there is an ongoing need to keep ratcheting up the pressure . i mean, to be honest, the you nice so the nice, but they don't have anything very much going. all of them. the war isn't going particularly well for them. so they have to keep moving along the suggest that they are actually doing something and they're somehow making a difference. the one thing it was they don't want to put any circumstances, is to see some kind of a negotiated outcome as possible that that is always will about. so the u. s. tried to justify sanctions by claiming that r t spreads this information will feel take on lots explanation. well,

what they call this information is information that they don't like. you know, it's a perspective that they want to deny to the european public. now, you know, anybody look at the b b, c's website, they can go to c n n and go to deutsch of l. f. and what do you get there? you get propaganda and you get this information. you wants to somehow suggest that that, that very one sided presentation is somehow objective and it's sort of a proper information. well of course it isn't. so essentially what they call this information is just simply the information that they don't like that doesn't contradict their take on what's going on the ukraine. so suppose you can look at this one of 2 ways. it's either about fighting so called propaganda or cracking down on media freedom. well, of course it is driving down the media freedom,

but i think what, what's so important for them is that they want to make sure that nobody gets to hear facts and the information that challenges the european nato united they interpretation of what's going on in ukraine and the origins and history of the conflict, very important that nobody gets to hear, then instead they just hear the propaganda line, which is ukraine. god, russia bad, made a wonderful and that's that they want to just keep banging it into the heads of the european. i mean it's no different from any kinds of people who totalitarian state, where you just have a state of propaganda mouthpiece. and everybody has to accept the true what the propaganda spokesman declared to be true. what was that can happen, george? if people are informed from all angles, was the big risk here?

well, the big risk and it's a very serious ways. the still of the lions of the world is that people will wake up and ask, why the hell are we here? how on earth did we get ourselves into this for ripping conflict in a country that is not a member of nato, is not a member of the european union and over an issue that has never been a matter of vital interest to europe. namely, the eastern border of ukraine. how did this suddenly become existential matter? full hundreds of millions of european. and once you ask that question, then of course there's the danger that people are going to get angry and they're going to go out into the street. and you will leading us into a possible nuclear war. you are ready let us to an economic disaster. and for why, why, why are we here?

and it goes that, that this is the questions that also look on the line and use the barrel and show me show those questions that they're absolutely determined to prevent people from asking. i do feel like in the past few months, i made the economic situation. a few people in the minority, of course, are asking more questions like how to get here. what, why do we, why, if we chosen this situation, but do you expect any western journalists to now question or even criticize this latest asset freeze? no, no, i don't think the western journalist will criticize it there. you know, as i said there much too busy getting indignant about a handful of journal. this getting suspended by twitter completely unimportant, is absolutely trivial. dispute that they got into with isla mouth, that the western journalists are very agitated in an indignant about. but the idea of the essentially banning broadcasting networks that provide

a contrary view at the very moment when it is absolutely essential that we do here are gone for review before we go down the path towards nuclear compet that the publicly happy with they don't operate criticism just as they haven't the mainstream media, but not also the criticism of the policy of the you and the united states that has led this continent into a horrific economic match. but above all, into a very dangerous confrontation, the kind of compensation that's what decades western leaders have tried to avoid. it's no secret that author carries an alternative viewpoint. our slogan is question more. we always aim to bring the stories that on in the mainstream headlines. and of course that includes what's happening in ukraine and across europe right now. but the thing on western view is we'll continue watching regardless of the

sanctions when i think so. i think if people one to find out the other information, things that they have available are in western media. yeah, there are, there are ways to still find out, you know, either you know, they're of channels where he is available or away still to receive the, you know, you know, what kinds of things that you can do to play with on the internet. i don't want to spell them out and they'll be certainly people want information, they will go and get it. but unfortunately, it means that it's very limited. who gets it and want to point out that there is a persecution of people who want to appear on the will get invited to their on tape they, in some countries and now you know, could,

could find themselves in danger of legal prosecution. that's. that's another aspect that should not be the government that there's a real serious threat to anyone who wants to take, take barking off the shows that they could face. that could be legal jeopardy. well, we always appreciate your low, it's annual time. george, thank you so much. for joining us on the program now george sunny with a senior research fellow in the global policy institute. thank you again. thank you . while to other news now, the head of rush of humanitarian mission in the central african republic is being treated in hospital after a powerful bomb exploded in his hands with attain this exclusive footage from the crime scene. well, i can investigate so now 53 forensic evidence by african republics. police have called the incident. they terror attack. the russian humanitarian official opens the explosive package right in his office. most of those foreign ministry has condemned the attack. we strongly condemn this criminal act,

which is clearly aimed guesstimate use of the russian house in van d, and more broadly against the successful development of friendly relations between our 2 countries. images from the office also show a note left on the table is written in russian and say this is b u, from old. the french, the french foreign minister, has denied allegations of involvement in the bombing russian business man and co founder of the walk in a military grade. can a pre goes in and say, this note came with the package? and that goes similar threats in the past. on november 11th, dmitri city received a package from togo with a photograph of his son, who lives in france, is contained a note saying that next time he would get the head of his son. if the russians do not get out of the african continent and open the doors for the french today, he got another package. despite all the instructions for observing security measures. dmitri city, being in an emotional state,

opens at the parcel. there was an explosion before losing consciousness. dmitri city managed to say that he saw a note saying, this is for you from all the french, the russians will get out of africa. among the other things that we know is that unless somebody goshen has as lobby russian foreign ministry to launch an investigation into this particular incident. but he also goes further to say that he would like to see france in particular being declared as they'd sponsor of terror by the russian federation. from what we do know, the puzzle itself was sent from low may the capital city of toll. it was also delivered by the h l. this is what we understand from our reliable sources on the ground in, in central african republic. but i thought it was very interesting. the statement that emanated from the russian foreign ministry, and our as myself, in whose interest it would be to carry out this kind of

a tag. and what we do know is that mister 30 dmitri settee, that is, has long been in the central african republic. and from about 2019, he has been a moderator in the conflict. the ongoing conflict between the central african republics authorities as well as the many reb. busy groups in that country, the country itself has really been in the midst of, of instability since the civil war veteran occurred in 2019, despite the former colonizer runs, deploying some 1600 troops to that country, to restore peace and stabilize some of the conflicts we have seen in that region there has been systematically and over a long period of time, tension between north and south which have led to some of the conflicts that we

have seen. and the area itself that the central african republic is around the sa hell region, which has really been dealing with insurgency for the better part of the decades. and it remains a political and conflict hot bed in the african read it. the administrator of the russian humanitarian mission essential i from african republic is called the bombing, and attempts to hinder peacekeeping. peace making efforts in the country versus the best thing about it, but hopefully, there isn't any good in what happened. i know dmitri, he works for the benefit of peace in the central african republic. he works around the clock for the betterment of our society, those who want to bring chaos and make our country vulnerable, do everything to stop our society achieving peace locals. no, dmitri, everybody knows him. people ask us how dmitri feels, and i can assure you that our hearts and thoughts on our with him. we hope he gets better soon. we need his help in our work to bring peace to the country. we hope

state and law enforcement will conduct a proper investigation and punish those responsible for the attack. these people are enemies of the central african republic. we count on our governments and those ready to assist us to pay the way for peace. many thanks to those who have been asking about demetrius condition not, we hope he will recover as soon as possible. thank you. russian president vladimir putin has held a phone call with the indian prime and asked it is due today to discuss the 2 countries bilateral relationship, including trade and energy cooperation. last day is also the russian foreign ministry called reports that mowdy had refused to me put in a simple quite misunderstanding ortiz. when jan sharma hassle though some thought to is assist telephone a conversation of between the premonition or into more di and president vladimir putin. of visio for the 1st time they spoke on 24th of february when the conflict had begun after that twice in march, shaw, then on 1st of july,

and then to the 16th of december, but to the conversation in fact, as a follow up of their raft in person meeting, which happened on the side lines of the se, will summit in a summer gunther are now. as far as the indian read out is concerned, are it sees that prime minister no more. the briefed president dub law, the mayor fulton on india's ongoing presidency of g 20, highlighting the key priorities for india are, but also looked to afford to both countries a walking to the other during india's czar share ship. all of the, if you are also, as far as the 2 leaders are concerned, they reviewed our there'd bilateral relationship on several of spec, some of the p 3 key areas being god, of course are freed a no g as well as our defense saw our but it's interesting because this news, arkansas diaz after a rough they were talk, so feminist denoting drew more, the not traveling to moscow, the c o for the,

an indian russia from it. and of course so in that sense, this conversation becomes very important, very critical of the 2 leaders in fact have agreed to remain in regular touch. slovakian coalition government has lost no confidence vote following months of political crisis and thought to the opposition accused of failing to cope with high energy costs and sky rocketing inflation. the countries highest in 2 decades. artie contributes to rachel marston has the story. well, it's like the longer the conflict in ukraine drags on the higher the chance of key regime changing its own allies right under power. so here's what just happened. in slovakia the center right, freedom and solidarity party withdrew from the governing coalition of the prime minister. also sent her right last september. now that seems center right, ally of the center right? prime minister edward hugger is also the party that just tabled and one this non

confidence vote which succeeded due to the leftist opposition pushing it over the line. quite a stunning case of cooperation between ideological opponents on the right and the left to oust the current government. so what was so bad that they all wanted to do that well, despite their opposing ideologies, both sides seemed to agree on one thing that the prime minister edward harker wasn't doing enough for the average person amid the energy and cost of living crisis, sparked by the european union's anti russian sanctions. now over the summer, the prime minister seen as very much pro western, made it clear that supporting neighboring ukraine was top of his mind. will support ukraine. they must win, will support them with the human adriana, but also military because they defending themselves ukrainian present virus. zalinski even made

a point of thanking slovakia for its support earlier this month. but the opposition has been growing increasingly skeptical about continuing to supply weapons to ukraine. remember, slovakia and journey cut that deal over the summer for slovakia to give up some of its soviet era tanks to ukraine in exchange for some german leopard tanks to replace them. but fueling the conflict rather than pushing for a trip to the negotiating table, is not without consequence for the slovakian people, not only as the country dealing with refugees coming over from ukraine re next door . but it's also contending with an inflation rate of 15.4 percent a to decade record high. a 2.6 percent cut in industrial production and an 18 percent drop in electricity consumption by businesses. the result of higher energy prices. so businesses and citizens of sal lakia look over to hungry, which listen to whatever the you says about anti russian sanctions and then cuts

new energy deals with russia anyway. and you can imagine that they might be tempted to compare their government's policies and management with hungers and unfavorably . so now the chairman of the party that triggered than on confidence vote certainly sounds like he's pretty fed up with the direction of the government's been taking. the country since the onset of the conflict in ukraine for half a year, we have witnessed constant chaos, an unacceptable style of governance. this government does not deserve our trust. now elections, art set until 2024, and $2.00 thirds of parliament would need to vote to trigger that any time before. now in the meantime, the slacking president can decide to either let hoggard continue in a limited capacity as prime minister, which should make him a lame duck ultimately. or she can decide to give some one else a shot at governing. but that person could also lack sufficient parliamentary confidence to get anything done. now in the mean time,

it looks like political gridlock for one of keith's biggest allies, leaving a big question mark over the future that support amid the political instability that it's generating for one of its best friends. her with he to her thought relations with russia. that's what turkey as president is asking on as he slammed the use foreign policy che, for questioning, anchorage ties with moscow. it's an ugly statement. burrell can't define and formalize our relations with russia. she has neither the qualifications nor the ability to make such decisions. who is he to assess our relations with russia, with respect to sanctions, which i've heard one last out at the u official while speaking to reporters on his return from a trip to turkmenistan. i think that joseph beryl has no right to try and interfere in relation between encore and moscow. i do on also underlines diplomatic protocols stressing that barella should only be addressing foreign ministers and not

presidents like the turkish needa. we discussed the story with alief a saturday or glue foreign news editor, a turkey as a hobbit tv when you. 9 look at some to see when you have the hierarchy between the international institutions. you know that a war was the chief would not actually refer to the or initiate any kind of movement about the position of the president. the end of the may. this is going to be the position off the coordination. so if you're t one, they go on and be alive to everyone, you know, find a needle place in which you've tried to do for a long while. will continue to do it is going to happen. he did, in fact initiate writing did in fact try to become

a great fit speaking us and russia, the mass and the eat, the cars for the actually the me, the one thing. so the trick you raise young fever about is here while breaking news story. the latest package of sanctions against russia has targeted r t for using the european assets of outlets. the parents company were doing me in the studio now is ortiz. marina called her with the with the because marina, thank you for coming in. so what are the details of the move and how is it being justified by brussels? well, this latest round of sanctions brings the total number of people who are sanctioned to a 1386 people. when it comes to organizations, it's $171.00. and among those organizations is our parent company and all tv and all the c, as well as a whole list of other russian channels. and basically we'll brussels is doing now. it's seizing the funds and assets belonging to

r c in europe include in legal persons associated with it. so the statement reads all funds and because the resources of belonging to own held all controlled by any national personal legal person associated with an all to the novice, the therefore r t c will be frozen and taken sees. and when you asked why, well, you claims that and i'll read out again r t, r to news undermines the territorial integrity sovereignty and independence of ukraine. so this is why we're seeing this asset freeze and more sanctions. and what else do we know about the latest 9th round of e u. sanction so far? well there were, have been talking about this for the last couple of days. so we were expected spot . this list is incredible. sold our targeting the energy sector, for example. so e, u business companies are no longer allowed to buy and surprises within rushes

energy sector. they are targeting the military industrial complex. we're also seeing, for example, even rushes of federal service for supervision of communications, information technology and mass media. they accuse them of censorship and not showing what they're like to see ross and channel show and apparently, but again, what they're doing is they are trying to block and freeze ortiz assets and therefore, so about their viewers. don't see this side of the story. so this is how they're trying to force that, and they're saying that after food and the hunger putin is now weaponized in the winter by deliver it to the deliberately deprive and millions of ukrainians of water, electricity, and so on and so forth. so they're trying to hit russia where it hurts, and this is where they believe it will hurt russia by doing the assets, freeze of r c by targeting also energy sector, a. v, a sion rushes military banks,

navy, you name it, the list is endless. and bringing again the total to a wall thing, a $1386.00 people, $171.00 organizations. so this is what their hope and will really do the damage. marina, thanks for coming in with those details. ortiz marina culture of while you can continue to find all the latest news updates on our website, or r t dot com, we always appreciate you joining us here on the channel for all the latest. thank you for being with us today. ah. fresh in the west, survive the cold war because both recognize and practice, the concept of indivisibility of security. one country should not attempt to attain security at the expense of another country. this is exactly what the west has done against russia to the point of claiming russia has no right to any security

guarantees. ah with ah, ah, well,

i mean, i, i, i, ah, i get a few gum milan. i feel awful. i was good to me after willi become wise man, very wise mom and he find a piece with

a dad. i feel happy for him. i'm not too worried about it. when i feel like grammy is good with really so i will be appreciated for really thankful for winning a a. busy you got to read you a highly are see how goes are.