ah ah ah, ukraine targets residential areas in the low gods region with applied high mark rocket launchers, killing 3 civilians, and leaving 5 wounded plus to the stories that shaped the week a term to be crated forces to cross before it's that it's surrounding all of us as fighting continues in the don bass, our correspondence follows russian troops on the front line battling for key positions in the region. the head of the world bank and other economic experts,

crazy indian economies performance during global turbulence. forecasting that the world's top firms will double down on investments in the country. the africa leader summit wrapped up in washington with america's top diplomat, bringing up the west colonial past to criticize russia. ah, hello from our international a few years in moscow for wherever you may be watching, welcome to the weekly bringing you this hour and the week's top news stories world wide. i'm carol isabel. but 1st to the don bass, which has again come under ukrainian shelling the latest strikes on the loo, gone, were public killed, 3 civilians, ukrainian forces fired 3 missiles from us, supplied high mark rocket launchers at the town of shaw stay. local officials,

reports civilian buildings were destroyed in the attack. 5 civilians were also wounded in the strike. this comes after heavy shelling struck the don. yes, republic on saturday. local authorities say a number of grad missiles were fired at a residential area by the ukrainian army. we heard from some don, yes, locals about life in the line of fire. as one of the rockets fell in my yard with the whole houses, correct? the windows have been blown out, but my neighbors house has suffered more damage. i shot my thing, they need to be destroyed as quickly as possible. this has been going on for 8 years. these has crossed all lights already on you chew. and when you martha new media impenitent, they say the rights hecta southern in the military. but is the same thing, they all the same, the savages. meanwhile, the russian defense ministry says its forces destroyed a ukrainian weapons depot,

taking out a number of rocket launcher systems that carried out attacks on don yeske. several ukrainian assaults have been also repelled in the logan's republic. r t corresponded eager stano follows russian troops on the front lines as a battle for key positions in the region. 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. and you need to put on there for the ukranian forces, cross the river, and their mobile units show 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. with

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 and 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. with globally this move is to quench any attempt of the ukrainian forces to cross the

forest is surrounding all of us. ah, 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 fire power 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. i'm is done of reporting from the don dash o t. the ukrainian conflict is affecting even those who are

not directly involved in poland. 2 people including a police commander sustain injuries in an explosion at the police headquarters in warsaw on thursday. reports say the blast was caused by a grenade launcher gifted to the country's police chief by ukraine, arteries rachel mars and has more details. well, it's that time of the year again when everyone's ripping open holiday gifts and is either genuinely thrilled with what they get or they're putting on their best acting performance to pretend that they are out of politeness. just imagine the absolute worst gifts that you could get this year, maybe an ugly christmas sweater or ugly socks, or a self help book. that leaves you wondering if maybe people think you have problems that need fixing, or perhaps the world's cheapest drug store chocolate. now, however bad, all of those might be, at least they didn't blow up right in your face and send you to the hospital with minor injuries like the gift that some officials in cave,

reportedly gave to the commander in chief of poland. warsaw police euro's love syndic. now why would a gift explode? well, because it just happened to be a grenade launcher, according to the polish press. quite the novelty gift certainly beat, so would be cushion, i guess. now the chief had been in ukraine earlier this month, according to poland interior ministry, where he quote met with heads of the ukrainian police and emergency situations service and received some gifts. one of which exploded um exploding gifts are something that you wouldn't even expect from a crazy acts. may be from ice says, or you know the uno bomber, but not from the officials of a country that you're bending over backwards to help. as is the case of poland amid the conflict in ukraine. so warsaw has now asked ukraine to clarify what happened.

usually when something is sent to a police station that then blows up on the police chief. it doesn't usually just result in the cox politely asking for an explanation. what's even weirder is that poland zet radio is reporting that the grenade launcher had arrived from you train to neighboring poland by train. so where are the customs and border checks there? and how does something like that get off the train in poland, in the border town of sham shall and then make it all the way to the warsaw police headquarters over 400 kilometers away without any one clue in? says the european union not have any borders any more between itself and ukraine, or at least not poland. what is this santa's magical train that just sales right across the european border, right into another country with

a grenade launcher for chief heroes. love who's been a good boy all year. it has to make you wonder what else is being sent through to europe by train, from ukraine under the radar. it's not like the west has been able to reliably keep track of where all the weapons that it's sending to achieve ultimately end up. and the incident certainly will to anything, to reassure those who worry that they could very well end up spilling into europe. ah, the russian foreign ministry has called them olden government's decision to ban sakes, opposition, russian language, tv channels, a crackdown on free speech. we can see that these been an unprecedented active political censorship. an outrage against the principle of media pluralism and the gross violation of the right to freedom and access to information to which the political leadership of the republic regularly declares its commitment in light of the unprecedented consequences of its implementation for the russian speaking part

of the country's population will also qualify it as a cynical infringement of the rights of national minorities would demand international organizations to give an adequate assessment of what happens and take all appropriate measures to correct decent acceptable situation. officials claim the media outlets were closed due to the threat of pro russian views being broadcast across moldova, as well as inappropriate coverage of the ukrainian conflict. one local journalists was even blocked on facebook after describing her frustration at the decision in a post. here's how she responded to the media ban. camecia, but she was the chain. they said, let's say the emergency situations commission, husband, the broadcasting of 6 channels in the republic of moldova, i consider this to be lawlessness. it's pure dictatorship in our country. unfortunately, this is happening to day when the republic is fighting for development in democracy . this has all been trampled by our government. so we'll do florida. well,

dove as parliament is also mulling over a bill aimed at limiting the country's soviet era. legacy as lawmakers seek to rename the nation's official language from all dull then to romanian. many pro western politicians have been pushing for the move ever since moldova declared independence from the u. s. sr in 1991. this comes, it made ongoing protest against president maya san do. and her government's handling of the country's economy marches, have been organized by the main opposition figure and owner of the band channels. demonstrators want their country to stop backing western sanctions against moscow, which have already led to spiraling inflation and an energy crisis. another journalist who's channel faces a ban says the government has crossed a red line. used to go to prospect sla wanna do in simple words. what happens is what we feel the most and hoped until the last that it would not happen because

there are certain red lines that no one has ever crossed, no matter what regime is in power in moldova, it seems to me that whether it's, if you channel works well or not, should always be decided by the audience. the fact that these channels had not covered the agenda the way the regime would like to be heard. sorry by one of our freedom of speech. what about european democratic norms? what about the variables truism of opinions that they talked about during the election campaign? we all remember how the current leaders recently spoke in russian during their election campaigns. and the fact that they are now in power suggested the russian speaking population of moldova believed them. we spoke to the leader of one of them, all dove in opposition parties to thanks. maya san du has authoritarian tendencies . which western countries should take note of when you initialed all is your position. they are destroying their position and all the media that gives their position port is point of view. unfortunately,

we're seeing maya sandra and her party break the law and not for the 1st time. there are not only silence in their position, but trying to law cobb their position leaders since they came to power. they have locked up the prosecutor general and a director of the anti corruption agency. a week ago, we held a protest near the u. s. and the u embassies. i wrote a letter to both of them pointing out these illegal decisions. unfortunately, to this day, there is been no reaction. i believe that with this decision and others, maya santa has managed to unite all of their position, pauses and the people of moldova, to fight against her government because it is impossible to live like this. so in gas and electricity prices, we are the poorest european nation that have locked up all the major positionally dis, things can't get any worse when you build that at the side. now to attentions in

the balkans, serbia has asked nato peacekeepers to allow the country to dispatch up to $1000.00 police and military personnel to kosovo and make mass demonstrations which are wrapped in belgrade. on friday, demonstrators and the serbian capital burn separatist flags and announce western backing of the territory tensions erected when ethnic serv demonstrators barricaded streets to prevent the transfer of the serbian inmate to the countries capital. here's what serbians had to say. a persecution of the serbian population is taking place in kosovo. people are being arrested for defending their homeland to the judge. the serbian army should go there and the whole nation wants the mer, since they can no longer endure the terror and cast me travicia. a similar sort of i came to support our brothers in kosovo, who are now going through a difficult period. lee, my family is there and no one knows who will be arrested. who will be taken to

preach tina and terrorized narrowed it out of a serbian representative has accused the pristina government of seizing power in the majority serb area of major which f o hours after officials from south proclaimed kosovo applied for e. u. membership belgrade condemned the move and urged brussels to block it. the russian ambassador to serbia said co, suppose e u membership bed was apparently sanctioned by brussels in advance. yeah, she, she and not all members of the european union recognized kosovo as an independent state. that means the e, you does not have a unified position and cannot achieve overall consensus when it comes to this issue . however, if we take any country in the balkans as an example, even the process of submitting the application for you membership and a public declaration of such intentions is always agreed at the very political top of the you in brussels. this is not something that is done by the balkan states themselves, like other candidates for your membership. but in this case,

the european union does not allow any kind of independence. that is why we should not exclude the possibility, but rather we should actually assume that some kind of agreement was already in place beforehand to leave. brussels has not objected to this, and pristine air received permission to publicly formulate such a request today. ah, russian president vladimir putin has held a call with his indian counter partner and a modi to discuss bilateral agreements including trade and energy cooperation. that comes days after the russian foreign ministry called reports that mowdy refused to meet with putting a quote, simple misunderstanding. meanwhile, india's retail inflation rate has dropped to an 11 month flow and the country's prime minister doesn't want to stop there, urging tax specialists to ensure the 4th industrial revolution doesn't leave the country behind our cheese rooms and sharma has more always in the us economy,

managed to do well amidst that to buy global prices with a read all the nations here with a detailed analysis of india's growth project tree and how rigorous experts analytics and agencies are breathing in there for being successful amidst the global economic turmoil. let's start with the world bank, which recently said that the indian economy is not only better pleased to handle global headwinds than it's emerging market count box, but lifted up in dallas g d p growth for the current fiscal year to 6.9 percent, slightly higher than the 6.5 percent, it projected for the year at the end of september, india's economy has been remarkably resilient to the deteriorating external environment and strong macro economic fundamentals which have placed it in good stead compared to other emerging market economies. while the world bank bumps up

india's growth projection, it also dropped in dallas october inflation to 6.77 percent from 7.41 percent in the preceding month, mainly due to easing prizes in the food basket. the world bank forecasts inflation in india to keep declining next year to 5 point one percent. but it's not the world bank alone praising india's economic development as and be global as well as morgan stanley have recently showed their forecasts on in the us economic future. and it looks bright. india has the conditions in place for an economic boom field by offshoring investment and manufacturing energy transition and the countries advanced digital infrastructure. these drivers will make india the world's 3rd largest economy in stock market before the end of the decade. meanwhile, india else prime minister, larry the more the recently said, the country canada for to miss the 4th thing is to

a revolution ago. when the 1st industrial revolution came, india could not take benefit from it. we lagged behind in the 2nd and 3rd industrial revolution, but to day, when it's time for the 4th industrial revolution, india cannot miss it. a long term vision is pivotal for stable growth and development. india cannot miss the 4th industrial revolution. opportunity won't come again. no, despite the current economic unrest in the world, india has managed to become a safe haven for multi nationals according to analysis by the economic times, nearly a dozen multi nationals such as nestle, pepsi go, coca cola l'oreal and others are doubling down on india with higher investments increase spending and selective hiring in their annual operating plans for next year. having identified it as amongst the few markets that are growing. economic

growth opportunities, a huge. we're adding newer investment categories and incrementally increasing spending. as we, michaela plans for the next year. we have identified that this is the decade of india, and that's not all yet, according to goldman sachs, india is about to overtake the u. s. economically by 2075, and by 2015, india is expected to be in the wolf top 3 economies. as the global economy currently isn't titles, all eyes are on india. luncheon sharma artie new delhi washington has wrapped up its 1st. i met with african leaders in 8 years, and despite the event officially being focused on addressing issues affecting africa, washington insisted on bringing russia into the equation. it's very powerful because you hear countries that are, we're here in washington this week, gonna kenya. so many others that have been the victims of interior. listen in

the past and who see that now happening to ukraine by russia. during the 3 day summit, the u. s. declared the importance of africa in solving global problems in a bid to compete with africa's other partners. china and russia. washington has already signed deals worth $15000000000.00 and voice support for the african unions bid for g 20 membership. the u. s. secretary of defense also try to accuse russia and china of the stabilizing activities in africa. she explains yang, responded by urging washington to stop using africa as an arena for power games. however, not all african countries were allowed to attend the u. s. hosted summit guinea sudan arethia molly and burkina faso didn't receive an invitation either because they've been suspended from the african union or because they lacked diplomatic

ties with the us. we spoke to a number of people from these countries who shared their opinions about us intentions and africa. we've worked a lot of it, france in the usa, a rejected in africa. it's due to their politics. this initiative is a way to preserve their image in africa, all wishes to have a trusted partner, who is honest and to bring good ideas and the right equipment to help us to fight this phenomenon on our territory. monday afternoon. oh, it's an opportunity for joe biden. to bring the us back to their former position in africa because united states of america are trying to take advantage of if i was doing it for a long time, we've been under the leadership of europeans. it's them who colonized this and they all the origin of all these things. i believe the u. s. is targeting europe's place in africa even for that. i'm john kerry, aka host of our team. the whistleblower says the u. s. had another reason for not inviting those countries to the summit,

even when the new governments of these countries have pledged a return to democracy and of in some cases scheduled democratic elections that still wasn't good enough for the united states. and so these 5 countries weren't invited, and i'll add that these 5 countries are 5 that in which the united states can't make any money right now, russia is very popular in africa. china, china is very popular in africa, and the western countries are not. there not because they ignored the needs of the child of the african people and the african governments for many, many years. the u. s. presence is literally a one of, of war. the only real us presence in any of these countries is a paramilitary force. look at molly, for example, or mauritania, or any of the other of this a hell countries needs year. we only know by accident because of a leak,

that the united states has a military presence there. a military presence that has not been approved by congress, whose job it is just to, to kill people. and to try to keep these host governments in, in power. the iranian foreign ministry has slammed the un resolution condemning the countries human rights accusing the sponsors of the document of using international institutions to put pressure on the islamic republic. the resolution was adopted with 80 countries voting in favor of it. $29.00 against and $65.00 abstaining. the assembly also expressed concerns over i spike in recent death penalties. we looked at how western countries use a selective approach when voicing their condemnation, our teeth kaleb mop and explains the narrative from both western media. and politicians is outrage that iran is executing political prisoners. moral

condemnations are pouring in from the highest levels of power. the german foreign minister wady, an he's a him, victims. these executions are blatant attempt to intimidate people, not for committing crimes, but just for taking their opinions to the streets. just the wanting to live in freedom. we denounce this draconian treatment in the strongest terms of east harsh sentences. and now the 1st public execution, at least are meant to intimidate iran's people. they're meant to suppressed a sense. and he simply just underscore how much ron's leadership actually fear is its own people killing someone for speaking up against the government is certainly an outrage. the problem is that when you look into the details, that's not actually true. my g rezo ron of ard was not executed for protesting. here's what actually happened. in this video, you can see the man stabbing to boss. see jeez, the boss siege is

a volunteer force. it's a branch of the islamic revolutionary guard core. so you could say that he essentially did the equivalent of stabbing to death to police officers or members of the national guard, stabbing to law enforcers to death. that's a bit different than simply raising one's voice. and speaking up and all summer saying this decision by iran has to be condemned. others are pointing to a similar case in the united states. where was the. busy moral outrage when kevin johnson was executed back in november, he was scheduled to be executed for killing a police officer. but then his prosecutor stepped dan, asking for the death sentence to be vacated because it was imposed with racial bias, the state of missouri and disagree. the surviving victims, johnson's crimes have waited long enough for justice and every day longer that they must wait is a day. they are denied the chance to finally make peace with their loss. now you

might expect to see a huge amount of. busy moral condemnation poured on to the united states from europe, except there wasn't any that seems to be aimed only countries that the west isn't aligned with iran and its allies. we can see the an acceptable de use of capital punishment as a tool to repress, to the protest ish in the new package of sanctions for human rights for your nations. we are targeting don't responsible for this continued repression against protest as at 21st 21 listing. and these are the lines, the support of european union to the daniel people and responding to the deliver of danielle drawers to russia. 8 persons and entities has been listed. is there really any room for european officials to condemn any one for mistreating protesters after all, we can recall their crack down on anti locked down demonstrations in the past. ah

. so we have 2 different countries. iran and the united states, both countries executed some one for killing police officers. one countries action was met with widespread condemnation. and the other was met with deafening silence from the world community. so that raises questions, is the so called world community concerned about spreading violence and chaos in some countries and not concerned when similar cases come up along its friends, ala bobbin, r, t, new york. those are the hour and the week's top news stories for more up to the minute coverage. head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey rumble and gab, thanks for tuning in. we'll see you again next hour. ah,

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