a national z m known shylie yours is when you buy, when you sit down with a ukrainian troops fire over 3 dozen rockets done yet, the hitting, the city itself include in a kindergarten parties. correspondence is on the ground and here is about the danger you need to understand that it landed had a kindergarten. it has a blast radius of a minimum of 50 meters. 50 meters is from here to the kindergarten. all the children who are within a radius of 50 meters would have died. the russian for ministry slums, the moldova government's decision to shut down version language, tv channels, and a crackdown on free speech. the african liter summit to wraps up in washington with

america's top diplomats, bringing up the west colonial past the confines of russia with thank you for joining us for the weekly here on our team. it's a national mine is peter scott to bring you some of the top stories from the week. just gone. welcome to the program. but 1st of all, we start with the latest form, the completes in ukraine, where in the russian city of belgrade defense systems have intercepted an attack from keith's forces. the head of the region says the part of the rocket fell to the ground after being taken out. overhead. reports coming in suggest the 4 people have been wounded and are being treated by medics. and of course, will bring you more information and when the gets it ukrainian troops fired over 3 dozen ra kids are done next. done yet because it's

a target in the cities infrastructure and hitting a kindergarten ortiz, rama costa has more at least 2 civilians have been heavily wounded here in the next republic as the result of ukrainian artillery shelling right now. i'm standing in a very heavily populated area. this is a kindergarten, and this is a crater made by a grad missile multiple launch rocket system. this is just her, one of the fragments of the missile. now, this is a, a crater right here. there are many, many smaller ones, as you can see here is a children's playground. according to the caretaker of this, a kindergarten, many windows which were just recently installed here, have been damaged as well. ballistics expert from france who worked so closely with a join coordination center here in dunn ask, says that it's very important to understand that the ukrainian strike occurred in

a very heavily populated area. well, didn't double unit back to non could do today. we had rocket impact here. i think it's a $122.00 millimeters, which is extremely dangerous for them. we have a very small piece here. so unfortunately, does not allow us to determine the origin. well, it's likely either soviet or american origin of you need to understand that it landed at a kindergarten and has a blast radius of a minimum of 50 meters that i'm 50 meters is from here to the kindergarten. cool. all the children who are within a radius of 50 meters would have died cycle. it's not normal to have a rocket land in kindergarten yard. it's really very dangerous and you have to show to the whole world, but especially to the french and the americans. indiscriminate san, chaotic artillery shelling of a civilian areas here in the nest, his happening on a daily basis. right now. we're in a house of our leg who sustained a lot of damage to his house. now this is a shell from

a multiple launch rockets system called ah, grant, thankfully no one was hurt in this area, but his property was almost completely destroyed. this sunday, most of the world will be watching the finals of the world football championships in carts are well right now. i'm standing right next to a stadium in done net that host it. that's when seats wealth a euro football championship. and this stadium came on the fire this sunday at 6 o'clock in the morning. now these are the kinds of craters that can be found all around the stadium. and according to the director of the don bos arena, at least $25.00 glass windows have been completely blown out. room on costs or have r t done ask republic me while russian defense minister survey show you has

finished in spacing groups of front line russian forces. that's after recent new york report, the claim to key if i had tried. busy eliminates another official on his visit to the bottle front. last april. ukraine's presidential advise also confirmed the attempts and the washington asked he had not to carry out the assault. fearing an escalation, the ukrainian complete is effects in even those who are not directly involved in poland. 2 people, including a police commander, sustained injuries and an explosion of the police headquarters in warsaw on thursday. report suggests the blast was caused by a grenade launcher, that was given to the country's police chief by ukraine. archie mitchell marston has more. well that time of 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 colin's warsaw police yarrow slugs 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 what 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 situation 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 ices or, you know, the unit 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 wieder 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. yen says the european union not have any orders any more between itself and ukraine or at least not. busy 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 law, who's been a good boy all year asked 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 keep ultimately and up. and the incidence certainly won't do anything to reassure those who worry that they could very well and up spilling into europe. the russian, the foreign ministry has cold, the moldova, and the government's decisions, abundance 6, opposition, russian language, tv channels. across down 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. an 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 would 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 a decent acceptable situation. officials acclaimed the media outlets were closed due to threats of pro russian views been broadcast across moldova, as well as inappropriate coverage of the conflicts and ukraine. one local journalist was even blocks on facebook after describing her frustration of the decision in a post is how she responded to that, been kamicia, but she does the chain. they should watch. the emergency situations commission has

banned the broadcasting of 6 channels. in the republic of deva, i consider this to be a lawlessness. it's pure dictatorship in our country. and you know, unfortunately this is happening today when the republic is fighting for development in democracy. this has all been trampled by all government. moldova, as parliament is also mulling over a bill aimed at the limits in the countries of soviet a legacy of law makers seem to rename the nation's official language from all over and throw manian. many pro western politicians have been pushing for the move ever since most of it declared independence from the u. s. s. are back in 1901. now this comes, i made ongoing protest against president my son due until the government handling of the country's economy marches have been organized by the main opposition figure . and the owner of the bun channels demonstrates is one that country to stop bonding western sanctions against moscow. which i've already led to sporting inflation and an enterprise to another journalist to channel faces abundance, as the government house across the line. we can find you some good things like that

in simple words. what happens is, what with you 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 the power in the old over. it seems to me that whether a tv channel works well or not, should always be decided by the audience. the fact that these channels had not covered the agenda, the way that we would like to be heard. story by what about freedom of speech? what about european democratic norm? what about the very pluralism of opinions that they talked about you and the election campaign that we all remember how the current leader recently spoken russian, you and their election campaigns. and the fact that they are now in power suggested the russian speaking population of modot and believe them although of isn't the only country restricting media freedoms and the round of sanctions, the years freezing ortiz, european assets the season after the long and parties parent company are not 7 novice to in europe, as well as sanctioning

a number of other russian channels. all of this is in an effort to silence russia by leaving outlets without the means to operate financially. the move comes as part of a new round of antique russian sanctions agreed by the european council as well as media resources there also said to targets rushes miniature industrial complex by expanding the export ban on technologies for the aerospace industry, including aircraft engines and spare parts the drones, the you are also been any new investments in the russian energy sector and freeze the assets of 2 russian banks. the 9th package of a u sanctions on russia follows similar moves that their faith has been questioned . the former austrian vice chancellor says that the use shooting itself in the foot with the restrictions that we've been through a lot lately. we've survived the sanctions policy that misled us under the pretext that the sanction policy would bring russia to its knees. the russians have doubled their business. there is no question of bringing russia to its knees. it's over. on the contrary, we see how austria harms itself and how europe harms itself,

where we ourselves actually suffered more from the sanctions. and we see rising prices for electricity and gas in for food in europe. more and more people will suffer from this fall in a comment to r t. austria's vice chancellor x vice chancellor, excuse me, explained how europe is bearing the burden for anti russian sanctions. ah, did you do that? i get a busy day. today we are experiencing dramatic shortages in the raw materials sector in the gas sector in the electricity sector in the energy sector, but also price explosions, which of course affect industry the economy. but above all the citizens and the people who then have to experienced massive price increases. in some cases, households or experience a 6 fold increase in prices. and people are really severely burdened and struggling with poverty. many companies are on the verge of closing down,

which is accompanied by rising unemployment. ah, so we'll all face. due to the sanctions. we're doing without sheep rush and gas, in which a lot has been invested. russian gas was essential for central europe's economic and industrial prosperity in the last decades. also, thanks to the good price that's brought prosperity, not only to germany, but also to austria. and now we're seeing that, of course, due to the sanctions policy. we're suddenly supposed to switch to american fracking gas, which is very expensive, which is also not environmentally friendly. and which will then be transported to europe by ship. ah, so is it, it's only will come out to show the situation is becoming more and more dramatic. and this leads to many protests and demonstrations in the streets where people peacefully point out this undesirable development and say, it's not acceptable. we damage ourselves by imposing sanctions. yes. and in the end,

people are confronted with the catch phrase that they have to freeze for peace. and then you come to the conclusion. well, freezing doesn't help because unfortunately, there is no peace because there are no negotiation initiatives. and then you become unemployed. and unemployment has not brought peace because there are no nego jason initiatives. and that is what people naturally find very repulsive and very questionable. in other news this week, washington has wrapped up its 1st summits with african leaders in 8 years. and despite the event officially been focused on addressing issues affecting africa, washington still 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 had been the victims of imperialism 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 african helping solve global problems and a bit to compete with africa of the partners, namely china and russia. washington already signed deals with $15000000000.00, as well as voicing support for the african unions bid for g 20 membership. the were secretary of defense, also tried to accuse russia and china of destabilizing activities in africa. beijing hit back by urging washington to stop using africa as an arena for power games. on the me a huge me, but not all african countries were allowed to attend the u. s. host, at summit guineas to danbury tre. molly and became a facet, didn't receive an invitation either because they've been suspended from the african union or because they like a diplomatic ties with us. but we did speak to a number of people from those countries, and they share their opinions about us intentions on the continent. walk a law firm in france in the usa rejected in africa due to their politics. this

initiative is a way to preserve their image in africa. my wishes to have a trusted partner who is on it now to bring good ideas in the right equipment to help us to fight this phenomenon on our territory. ringback 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. if i go by for a long time, we've been under the leadership of european with them who colonize this, and they are the origin of all the us. i believe the u. s. is targeting europe in place in africa, and john kerry, aka, who's the host of art, sees the whistleblowers program says that 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 have 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 bad in which the united states can't make any money right now, russia is very popular in africa. china, a china is very popular in africa. and the western countries are not there, not because they, 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 u. s. 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.

and now to tensions in the balkans, west, serbia is aust nato peacekeepers. to allow the country to dispatch up to 1000 police on military personnel to kosovo, not submit, must demonstrations that the ropes had in belgrade on friday. demonstrates as in the serbian capital, burned a separatist flags and denounced western backing of the territory. tensions a rope sent when ethnic serv demonstrates his barricaded streets to prevent the transfer of a serbian inmates. the country's capital has also been up to say also so little persecution of the serbian population is taking place in kosovo. if people are being arrested for defending their homeland, to the, to the serbian army should go there and the whole nation wants them there since they can no longer endure the terror in castillo's me travicia to reassure us, i came to support our brothers in kosovo, who are now going through a difficult period. boy, my family is there and no one knows who will be arresting. who will be taken to

preach tina and terrorized and out of the serbian representative has accused the pristina governments of seizing power in the majority serb area of metro visa hours after officials from the self proclaimed kosovo applied for e u membership belgrave condemned. the move and urged brussels to block it, the russian ambassador to serbia, that the cost of those e u membership bid was apparently sanctioned by russell's in advance need. she, she and not all members of the european union recognized kosovo as an independent state. that means that you does not have a unified position and cannot achieve overall consensus when it comes to this issue . and from 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 even 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. brussels has not objected to this in pristine air, received permission to publicly formulate such a request today. ah, yes, b, i treated twitter as if it was a subsidiary. well, that's the conclusion made by investigative journalist. mad cb has revealed links between the bureau and the social media giants and made accusations the threat. it was banning accounts for the f b, i's request to his contact with the f b. i was constant and pervasive as if it were a subsidiary federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into twitter included the department of homeland security, which partnered with security contractors and thing tags to pressure twitter to moderate content between january 2020 and november 2022. there were over 150 emails between the f b i and former twitter trust and safety chief, yo roth,

and screenshots you can seen a legend, f b. i accounts identifying a number of other accounts to be scrutinized, including those that promotes that republican party candidates during mid term campaigns. as a result, twitter subsequently suspended many of the accounts mentioned house republicans are now considering opening an investigation into the scandal. the vials pandora's box of leaks revealed the platform violated many of its own rolls. among them, the infamous hunter bided. lots of scandal, which was allegedly censored by the company. and the former us present don't trumps account, which is banned at the request of top management. meanwhile, former new york university professor and author michael read some old slums such free speech violations. so it's a violation of the 1st amendment of the united states, which does not permit the government to dictate expression to dictate speech. and we're seeing plethora of data that shows, in fact, that they did that and

a lot more. and one has to wonder whether they're actually meddling in elections themselves. and whether they're, since they are basically an organ, the democratic party, the f, b i, that is. we're starting to wonder whether the f b i in fact has some call culpability, with reference to covering up election crimes on the part of the democratic party. it's utterly illegitimate and it's known as economic fascism. when you have this kind of collusion between the state and these corporate players and you're saying they're so tightly knitted together, that there's almost no extricating them. and it's as if we have a state run media here. this is very, very reminiscent of totalitarian regimes. there's politicize ation here. they said that they were looking at domestic violence, extremis. and we know what this has to do with this is about utterly silencing

the opposition to the democratic party. to get more about the latest installment of the threats of files on the previous 5, we have more details over on our feed dot com. you can also find the latest developments of the scandal and leave your comments also on the incident. so do head over me while isla most has been on his own burning spree, the accounts of truth with his rivals, master john and q have both on themselves, tweet less, see wonder sharma pixel. the story ellen mall switzer abruptly spends india and i was cool with query. he had to do this, but to get a handle on call was recently created. it will be a few days ago. it was crazy, posted by celebrities and we, i'd be wanting to join the platform as it comes, a dance off to mock suspended. it doesn't look down so prominent. joining us,

covering him, including those from cnn, washington, both as well as the new york time. however, must listed suspension or some journalistic goals. after running a boy on the platform, as he usually does now cofounder, have planned for the suspension all of this particular query handle and then also question the rationale behind the small one of the cool handle. sunswyck just got banned for what? because we compared with twitter. so master on the also got blocked today. how's this free speech and what world are will even in me my nation from well as you know, can union has threatened to sanction mock on actions taken by twitter recently as far as twitter or twitter india can sub there has been a norris forms on the suspension or who handle us yet

the iranian foreign ministry has slammed the un resolution that condemns the countries human rights accusing the sponsors of the documents of using international institutions to put pressure on these lumnick republic. now the resolution was adopted with 80 countries voting in favor 29 against on 65 abstaining. assembly also expressed concerns of our recent spike in death penalties . we looked at how western countries use a selective approach when voice in the condemnation of certain events, ortiz kennimore pin 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 casa, 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 jesus. 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 in asking for the death sentence to be vacated because it was imposed with racial bias. the state of missouri disagree, the surviving victims. johnson's crimes have waited long enough for justice and every day longer that they must wait as 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 bored 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 couldn't see the an acceptable de use of

capital punishment as a tool to repress, to the protest us in the new package of sanctions for human rights. for your patience. we are targeting go responsible for this continued repression against protest as at 21st 21 listing. and these are the lines, the support of the dap in union to the daniel people and responding to the deliver of daniel drawers to russia. a person's identity has been listed, is there really any room for european officials to condemn anyone for mistreating protesters? after all, we can recall their crackdown on anti locked down demonstrations in the past. ah, so we have 2 different countries. iran and the united states. both countries

executed someone for killing police officers. one countries action was met with wide spread 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. let's wrap for now. what have you doing this weekend? i hope you're having a good one. i'm pizza. scott's, let me back again and around about 30 minutes time. do stay tuned for more great programs going on next. here with blue.