ah, with censorship of russian media, the targets are these parent company with another round of sanctions. quoting a freeze of the company's assets in europe un condemns a terror attack on versus humanitarian offices in the central african republic. just left the head of the mission seriously wounded with the thought, the claim us manufactured on supplied drones. we used by ukraine in recent strikes on russian territory. despite washington saying that us weapons had not been used to a project in russia with

the system 1 pm on saturday, here in the russian capital, peter scott and his how the world is look in as we can get some to way welcome to the program. the use tightening the screws on media freedoms. the latest package of sanctions are frozen, are european. i states, in an effort to silence russia earlier, my colleague funeral, isabel, discuss the developments with ortiz, marina calls for all. this is now the nines package of sanctions, and they're supposed to be hard heading as the european union has called them. and basically what we're seeing with our t's that they're sanctioning ours, he's pan company are now to the novice the in europe. so basically brussels is season phones and acids belonging to r c as well as some other over channels. and not only that, they also want to make sure that there are no funds or economic resources made available to them,

whether it's directly or indirectly and not only affects entities, but also people associated with the company. this is what's interesting and also another aspect to this is that there are more russian channels being sanctioned as well. some of them have just one news broadcast every day, for example. and what else do we know about this latest round of e u sanctions? well it's a huge list of. busy not only people being sanctioned, but also different industries. so for example, we have now the latest, the number is up there. $1386.00 people who are sanctioned in total and $171.00 organizations. and they're really wants to make sure that it, it hits rush out where it hurts according to them. so for example, there are really targets seeing the rosters military industrial complex. they're looking at export restriction when it comes to technologies that contributes rushes, military takes abilities and also its ability to work on certain technologies.

they're trying to, we can russia when it comes to its military, there is also and other, and the energy sector, for example, no new investments can be made by foreign companies within roches energy sector. there's also a v, a sions. and for example, more banks have been added and what's interesting, they're cutting rushes access to drones. so not only is the direct exports of drone engines now forbidden to russia. so to other countries that may circumvent this. and then for example, through other countries, exports it to ross so, so that's also not allowed. so this is a multifaceted attack on russia. absolutely. and through different industries, but particularly the military industrial complex, this is what they're really focusing on. and they want to make sure that russia is weekends on the battle ground, and some experts have already come out and set it. for example, with the freezing of the assets when it comes to our table. clearly what they've

done so far by binding the channel on soup, for example, that hasn't worked. we know that there was a pole in germany recently where people that still want to watch, it's still find a way to watch it. and you, and i know that you can watch a r c, not just on satellite cd, but you can go online and people have been posting lots of videos. so that's what they're not happy with. and they're trying to make sure that it's sub found by cutting any funds that are made available to r t or any ways in which russia concert convent the sanctions and is remaining up and running that. and also the military aspect is very important. that's what they're trying to do to weaken it, but also the same time, this is what we're talking about. the european union has been saying all along that it's all for freedom of speech. well this doesn't look very much like freedom of speech when you're trying to completely shut down the other angle of the story. executive vice president of the erasure center. oh rasmussen. well, he believes the function code keep on the out of europe for years,

but he won't stop people from tuning in far as r t back in europe. i don't see. i don't actually see that occurring for a long time. maybe a generation maybe less, but will it stop people from renewing? no, i think it actually will increase it. it's the 1st thing i personally i do in the morning is actually check a r t. and i have multiple vpn setup and thought, you know, i'll check the, the physical side or i'll check the news quotes if i can get them through a telegram or other where he is, because they're banned on youtube. but people will seek out the truth. and they know this is just another example that they know that governments are trying to lie to them and trying to control them. and i think this will light the other series, the sanctions. this will backfire on the government. and, and i, it saddens me to the europe turning into a hotel, a carrion government,

and that's exactly the direction they're going in. on the same day, the targeted russian media, germany, foreign ministry, rushed to protect press freedoms. so they could not be quote, switched off enough in reference to the suspension of switzer accounts of several us journalists. freedom of the press must not be switched on and off at will. as of today, the journalist below can no longer follow comment or criticize us. we have a problem with that. in other news, the united nations has condemned a terror attack on the russian humanitarian mission and the central african republic. the left is chief and hospital author possible exploded in the hands on that particular incident. oh, we obviously very much hope. oh, that is germany mixer recovery oh we have not been asked or in any way to assist with with the investigation. we obviously condemn these types of of attach the

local police in the central african republic. continue to comb through the scene of the incident that injured her, the head of the russian mission in central africa with the dmitri city, if understood from what we know, that the local police have found. pieces of evidence, things like notes that were part of the package that exploded in the hands of mister c t and they are right now as far as we know, the only authorities that are investigating this and the russian foreign ministry has re urged them as of the speed with regards to finding out who is behind those, then gathering some of the evidence, but missed the cta. evidence to have been a person of, of great influence, especially with regards to warming relations between bang ye and moscow of recent years. russia has really been a partner of choice for many of the conflict laden countries that are former french

colonies that have really decided to turn their back on and on france, because of the way paris has treated their governments. and they, in the way they felt that they haven't been listened to over decades following this attack unless that dimitry city, a quick statement was issued by a russian business, lynn and co founder of the private military group. wagner, on november 11th, dmitri city received a package from togo with a photograph of a son who lives in france. it contained a note saying that next time he would get the head of his son. if the russians do not get out of the can continent and open the doors for the french to day, he got another package. despite all the instructions for observing security measures. dmitri city, being in an emotional state, open to the parcel. there was an explosion before losing consciousness. dmitri sitting managed to say that he saw a note saying,

this is for you from all the french, the russians will get out of africa. the russian foreign ministry have come out to all with a favor and they go on further to say that this was not only an attempt to to so other relations within the central african republic, but to do so with, with that malicious intent by those that do not wish for peace in the region and the warm relations that bang ye and moscow now enjoy. we strongly condemn this criminal act, which is clearly ain't against activities of the russian house in bungie and more broadly against a successful development of friendly relations between our 2 countries. lest the 50 were fed to be a moderator of some side between them of the local rebel groups and government forces. and this is the role that he has said to have played in twin t lane team for a manually averse with the current situation in central african republic. and that

is what has led to saw my speculation as to who could be involved. but a man who knew mister city or well is his colleague in the russian house, who also told as the following thing about when can 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, so we need his help in our work to bring peace to the country. we hope state and law enforcement will conduct the proper investigation and punish those responsible for the attack. these people are enemies of the central african republic. we count on our government and those ready to assist us to pay the way for peace. many

thanks to those who have been asking about me to his condition, look, we hope he will recover as soon as possible. what we know so far is that the police continued to gather evidence at the ration house that security has been ramped up at that particular facility and that the investigation is ongoing. but doctors have fed that mr. city remains in critical condition in hospital, in the central african republic, and then he is now facing a fight for his life. u. s. has produced and supplied drones to ukraine to targets russian infrastructure according to arti sources as this bytes. washington claiming this, that weapons have not been used to hit russian territory. it's been determined that the avi onyx and control stations of the drones were manufactured by american company scepter works, which performed their initial calibration and testing at scottsdale airport and arizona. analysis of the electronic units of intercept drones showed that the

ukrainian military also used these you avi's to attack infrastructure facilities in some stop all as well as the belgrade curse can varone as regions of sources. familiar with the story. claim that the final drone assembly in test flights were conducted near polish airports, which, which, which was used as a main nato hope, falsifying weapons to key. if you are, these are said to have been launched from the ukranian cities of a death and cree void rogue. the allegation contradicts washington's claims, that weapons supplied to care have not been used to bomb sites in russia. we have not provided ukraine with weapons that is to use inside of russia. we've been very clear that these are defensive supplies. we are, the president said very clearly some time ago. we're not enabling ukraine to strike beyond beyond its borders. what side u. s. falls,

lieutenant colonel turn kolscott says that the use of us manufacture drones will be a dangerous step. it is concerning and alarming. and it is consistent with some of the other things we've seen leading up to this point. you know, the intelligence sharing that has been going on us intelligence and that kind of thing. i certainly the assistance with some of the american weapon systems that are been sent to ukraine along with american operators and trainers for that equipment . concerns about special forces being forward being forward located in surrounding countries including colon, but also the a lat, lithuania. let those guys are analyzed there. so this is just one more step in a very dangerous direction. providers of arms, they're making a lot of money. their stock is growing it's, it's doing well they're,

they have guaranteed contracts well into the future in part because of conflicts around the world, and specifically in due to the kind of money that's been spent on their company's products. going into crane and going into this war effort relating to ukraine to them. this is good business of asked for comments from the pentagon books though, yet to hear anything back ah, the least at san explosions that have wrought the dungeons capital overnight. local authorities saying that the number of grad missiles were fired as a residential area. one of the buildings that was hit was reportedly on fire, while windows were blown outs, and in fire, floor was destroyed in another. when is to say that miss r fragments also struck her car in during the family inside. we heard from local residents about life on the siege. lorraine, serious evenness. abdulla the auction, the ukrainian regime ignores all the rules and targets purely civilian areas. there are no military personnel, they're only local residents,

small children leave here. i have no idea what they're doing and when it will end those to leave. i mean there was massive shelling, 2 old women got so scared they fainted. we hope someone will help us. not a day goes by and, and ask without casualties and destruction. and the reason for this is the key of regimes heavy shelling of residential areas. this shelling only grows more powerful day by day and bob ukrainians, shelves on fires and western weapons are raining down on the heads of civilians, folk residential neighborhoods in places of worship, and hospitals that have become legitimate targets of the key of regime. oh, the shelling by ukrainian forces of this church and the center of damascus, irrefutable evidence of caves, deliberate and planned crimes. america whose lists of targets is consuming more and more sold at the curb and was eaten. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin, has visited the command center for the operation in ukraine. there he heard report on the progress of the military operation and help meetings with

a number of commanders. while he became acquainted with the work of the joint staff on russia's armed forces, could sorry, officials have been banned from the european parliaments chamber that's up to the gulf country. it was suspected of trying to financially influence decision making their members of the parliament this week suspended because i representatives on suspicion of having offered quotes, large sums of money and substantial gifts to any peas and their assistance. those under suspicion of receiving payments include ever kaylee, a former european parliament vice presidents, its army while has rejected any impropriety. the state of guitar categorically rejects any attempt to associated with accusations of misconduct. any association of the contrary government with the reported claims is baseless and gravely misinformed. the greek politician was charged following 16 raids across brussels, in which cash with $1580000.00 was found around $159000.00 euros was

found in her flats of 630 $6000.00 at her home. and 795000 in her brussels hotel room. you parliamentarians are set to be furious about the situation . the european union loves to give lessons to the entire world. it would do much better to start cleaning its own house. the european parliament is not a transparent institution and support for socialists like eva kylie exposes the values of the european parliament and ridicules this he you institution. let's cross live now to nicholas markovich, political analyst, nick, hello, good afternoon, c. a thanks for joining us today. not 1st of all, i just want to ask you what you make of the fact that the you has denied access to the buildings to, to representatives of could saw. and even though the represent, cuz our interests, well this is something which is quite unusual in the european union and then within the parliament, i think this shows that may be the police in belgium to have substantial evidence

or some sort of information needing to implicate the direct implication of, of could talk in this in this a specific deal. i think it may be also a way to reassure people within the european union that the european parliament is taking specific measures to tackle this case in any, in any case, this is something which is quite unusual and quite exceptional to bad. political members from a foreign state within the european union, so it before with russia, but this is, this is a 1st for guitar was was to be a big partner of the european union. well, yeah, that the whole situation is quite unusual for sure. and how much of a blow do you think it is to the reps, the reputation and the integrity of the parliament? well, this is a huge blow. we're talking about the vice president of the european part and we're talking about different members of the european party miss. a lot of people are saying today that if we pull with the strings a bit more, we will be finding a commissioners or people working with the commissioners. and the, this is,

we're talking about a lot of money over a $1000000.00 and a half euros in cash in, in the, in the, in the premises or in the houses of european parliament members. this is a huge blow. let us not forget that are just couple of months ago. there were a lot of questions concerning or sort of underlying and her relationships with to pfizer, just to name that company. the, at the worst estimates is which have been exchanged between are sort of in the land that head of the european commission and this american pharmaceutical group. she doesn't want to disclose this, and there is, are people who are saying why, why she's not disclosing this information. is there corruption? i'm not saying there is, but why she not releasing this information. now we've got this guitar gate. we've also seen that a lot of people, politicians in western europe who are, i would say pro e you are trying to downplay this, this issue saying that we have to wait for the, the, for the to see what the,

the belgian police say. what would, if this was russian rubles, that we had found that vice president wouldn't be? this would be all over the place in western european media better. i think this is too much of a blow. they can't hide this under the rug. and so it is extremely interesting and shows the way the european, some people within the european union work today. i certainly does the, do you think the previous decisions involving the approach tickets are and legislation might have to be scrutinized. now retrospectively given what may have come to light, definitely this is that we have to but we really have to go very far into the investigation to know exactly what has been said at what moment who has been paid? what types of part, what kinds of policy has the european union been conducting under the influence of katara money? this is extremely important. this is a way that the european people are being rob from their democracy. and we know that there are thousands of lobbyists in brussels today, each one defending his own view, his own opinion. and if we find out that there are so many and we probably will

have a lot of the decisions taken in brussels, they are done under the influence of foreign money of corporate money to sway the decisions of the european parliament to sway the dishes. and especially of the commission as in europe, we must not forget the importance of the commission. this means that we are extremely far from the dream of a european parliament and of assembly of european peoples taking decisions in our own interests, the root in people's union. the european union of the european peoples is being robbed, deprived of its legitimate, legitimate rights for democracy. this is something which is extremely shocking. and i do hope that investigators will be free enough to go as far as necessary to reveal what is really happening within the european union. and why are we doing this a for katara, where then i would have done a fork retard. and if he's politicians, a kind of the included are found guilty, most distressed, the investigation is still under way,

and we don't know exactly what's happened yet. but if they are, what sort of consequences do you think they would face? well, they will have to be judged like ordinary citizens. i mean, it's not because you're european politicians that you're supposed to be above the law and i will see that we'll see how that goes through. i think that there's a lot of this credit in the european union and the european union is having a lot of, i would say internal problems that they're, that they're not managing the situation. that is not forget that just a couple of days weeks ago they were choosing hungary of bribery and then allison. and we found out that the, the ones who are really are using a foreign money and who are correct are within the european union. so this is giving a very bad image, very opinion in globally does not have such a good image in many european countries to data does not forget that in the recent elections in different countries, anti e u, or people who have strong views against the way things are working within that you have been elected. this is a serious go to the you. i really do hope that the investigation will go through

that. we find out what really happened and that the reforms which are necessarily are taking place with democracy is given back to the people of the european union. i doubt it if we don't change the rules fundamental rules and if we don't have pre investigations. but that is the only way the european union could survive on nicholas markovich. political analysts. thank you very much going on today. i'm sure we'll have you on the program again as this investigation progresses. thank you very much for your time. thank you. ah, the director of the u. n. world health organization has accused a retrain troops of killing his uncle along with all the civilians in ethiopia. as warren told t gray province. back in october, the direct to claim that the international community wasn't paying enough attention to the conflict stressing that is on spawn to health crisis that's now affected some $6000000.00 people. me, while a you foreign policy chief, you'll said burrell has expressed his frustration with a situation more than one month after a ceasefire. came into

a fight in the region. then one thing that has kept me very busy, very sorry and very frustrated is ethiopia, not enough people talk about it. we don't talk a lot about ethiopia. yes. from time to time when their piece discussions. but what is happening in t grey's, the deadliest war we complain rightly about what is happening in ukraine. but what is happening in ethiopia is really awful. war stems from a long standing confrontation between the governments on the authorities of the autonomous t great region as spots a huge monetary crisis, which has left more than 5000000 people facing starvation. even though sci fi agreements has been in place since november. if the opens have criticized the you foreign policy chief, accusing him of not doing enough to help and the suffering. what i understood from burrell statements is that they don't want us to stay united by dividing us along ethnic lines, religion and language. it is because they don't want peace to prevail, that they are going back and fanning the conflict so that we go back to war and

remain weak. so now we have peace in our country, but they go back and try to bring up old wounds so that we go to war again. they look like they are helping us to reconcile. but then you see them working hard to take us back to war. and there was no time that the west stopped conspiring against us in old times or to day let alone ethiopia, they don't want to see africa developed. this is a fact that they could have done a lot in the past to stop the war. but instead they come and start fanning the conflict by exaggerating things. instead they should work on preventing future conflict. there people of video understood the conflict or understand the conflict relative your policy to what they open on the way. so now ours her understand or perceive their conflict into grey when it comes to with an em. they're soft decatur ality. so he said in his speech that her from 602800000 people

have been keyed to for so. so for our forces and d to gay forces are in the process of implementing that throws, it's obvious that hero can confess, or they look in union would take her seriously ukraine and african her country. so we can rule that even aid has significantly decreased and not, not necessarily because of the conflict in europe and, but also on the occasion generally given to the africa. and finally, beijing has lashed out a japan accusing it of hyping up the so called chinese threats while stressing their claims that it's an unprecedented strategic challenge are completely groundless to go farther under the japanese side. ignores facts deviates from its commitment to china, japan relations and ground. lastly described as china. we once again urged the japanese side to adhere to the principle that the 2 countries are cooperative

partners and do not pose a threat to each other. i bring up the china threat to find an excuse for its mil to rebuild up is doomed to fail. this allegation comes amid a planned military spending spree by tokyo, that many c as violating is post world war 2 demilitarization policy. japan has adopted a $350000000.00 military build upon bring this armed force investment to the 3rd highest globally. prime minister fumey oak is shita, said the changes are needed due to the destructive activities of its neighbors. as an innovator working unfortunately in the vicinity of our country, there are countries carrying out activities such as enhancement of nuclear capabilities. a rapid military build up and unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force in the next 5 years. in order to fundamentally reinforce our defense capabilities. we will implemented defense build up program worth about $315000000000.00 in 2027 with reinforced defense capabilities and

complimentary initiatives. we will secure a defense budget of 2 percent of gdp. according to japan's constitution, after world war 2, the country renounced war and the use of offensive weapons. but since the end of the occupation of the country, the 1950s, the u. s. has pushed of japan to revise this article of their constitution encouraging the islands. you upgrade its military capabilities. however, in 2014 the change of policy, the japanese government allowed their military to fight in support of allies under its height. and now some long who's the vice chairman of the shanghai center for international studies thing. thank. he says that the world should pay close attention to japan as it builds up his military. japan is using what they call a strategic challenge from china to increase its defense budget.

and this is something that i think the rest of the world will all have to watch very closely because japan is not supposed to to do that. and it's cost to ship. and this is an obvious pushing of the envelope using something that, that doesn't really make sense. it's not that china is going to respond. china should not be the only country that respond to this happening. i think most of the countries or the countries in the region in the, in asia. but just to have a clear memory of what happened during the 2nd world war and that they should all come up to respond to this upcoming incident. that's how the world is looking at 1 30 pm on saturday. i do feel free to check out our website as well as our social media channel, all the latest news on updates, and with the right back here again at the top of the hour with

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