oh, there's no medical reason why you should be alive new to find something to believe . john story is a story of ho mystery of victory and whatever i can do to help him with headlines stories this hour. ukrainian artillery fire hits this same civilian hospital in done yet for the 2nd time in 24 hours. as heavy rollins also strike residential buildings on the kindergarten, according to authorities shooting a hospital to war crime. the staff are fighting for the lives of those wounded people are being helped as much as possible. we continue to work as much as we can, the union state of russia and bella ruth, arguably the closest eastern european allies agree to expound military cooperation

that made escalating tensions on their western borders. moscow condemned the use decision to restrict natural gas prices as the move exacerbates a rift between the blocks member states. that's all ahead this news hour with de moscow. this tuesday, december, the 20th. welcome to the news our on our t. let's get to where it top story, the city of done yet kind of some friends yet another series of overnight artillery strikes by ukrainian forces with a hospital caught in the line of fire for the 2nd time in 24 hours, ortiz ramon cost red is there and spoke to the program earlier, all ukrainian artillery struck the city of the nest cas shortly before midnight on monday. once again, one of the largest hospital here in dunn boss had been targeted,

were standing right next to building number 10 that were suffered direct. i hit by a mo, from a multiple launch a rocket system. as the result, at least one person was heavily wounded as the result of this attack a day prior to this. so 2 people had been killed as another building building number 6. and you are surgery, department was a struck as well now the building behind me, it houses administration as well as a day time clinic. now it shuts at 4 pm and opens at 7 o'clock in the morning. so thankfully there was no one there except for the caretaker. now once again, it was struck by ukrainian artillery by a grad missile, and we actually found the shell that was used and i spoke to a ballistics expert. narrow, this is a modified, modified,

solved yet. shell produced in slovakia. it's $122.00 millimeter a shell. and once again made in slovakia and supplied to ukraine by nato countries. and these are the kinds of shells that have been used against a civilians here in den eskoville last month or, or so, of course, many people people had been killed and many more were injured as the result of these a chaotic and indiscriminate attacks against the sensor various calibers of weapons are being used against dividends here. and then as i grabbed myself like what i just showed you, and of course, the other calibers much higher. 15552 millimeter. and of course they caused a lot of destruction. many of the weapons that are being used to include cluster munitions as well with that is designed to inflict as much damage as possible.

so calls us in the loan yesterday around a p. m. there was the 3rd shelling in a week. the hospital and administrative buildings were damaged, doctor's provided assistance, a doctor on duty managed to hide behind a safe. only the walter almost completely damaged about 90 percent of the windows have shattered. there's no heating. busy 3 artillery strikes in a small area within one weeks. time is already a pattern, shooting or hospitals, a war crime. the staff are fighting for the lives of those wounded people are being helped as much as possible. we continue to work as much as we can. yesterday there was damage to the neurosurgical building. the staff are continuing their work, no matter what. today they all came to work to help people. our duty is above all else. meanwhile, there are figures within the you who are examining allegations of ukrainian attacks on civilians, areas and on bass. lisbon has hosted

a forum called the dumbass witnesses conference with dozens of speakers detailing claims of key as atrocities in the region. participants discuss the use influence on ukraine on the 2014 government qu, that resulted in 8 years of conflict between key haven't done us photos on show or tre the aftermath of just some of the documentary ukrainian attacks on residential neighborhoods. we heard from a number of speakers who expressed outrage over the actions of ukraine's military i think ukraine act like these because they know that the last part of population in don't boss. they are pro russian. are they speak russian ease their culture. a big part of this population felt betrayed by the main leaders of ukraine and by the west. and they decided to power her repeating in the same way in the

west of your grand deeds. seizing the power in kia. and that's why i think you grain, they shell every day, cities like than yet, school ah, cooling and enduring civilian people right now. one that over the master. seeing could that sir shocked. b. demoss. the was the fact that i seen a how am ukrainian now are me, is a shelly anger against her against people law. because when the for example, i was he and then yes go or a in go to love car. it was not mouth to see that's where a people killed or in the street to saw. it is something that we cannot to accept her and we can not accepted that at this is opinion. good. also, because of westerner weekends,

a former italian prime minister has said the global community has forgotten the path of peace for resolving the conflict, and instead has been fueling it with more weaponry. or the latter is something we've seen in a recent pledge by british p. m. richey sumac, who said that u. k would send another quarter of a 1000000000 pounds worth of lethal a ticket. our t's marina cost river looks deeper now at the war versus peace rivalry among western politicians. while more and more prominent figures i encourage and peace talks between russia, ukraine, the west, is trying to make sure things stay as they are. we must be clear that any unilateral call for a ceasefire by russia is completely meaningless in the current context. i think it would be a false call. we have no illusions that to a 2 piece negotiation. that would be possible in the immediate future. it's our job

to continue to sustain our military support to ukraine. so they are in the best possible position on the battlefield. so that if and when diplomacy is ripe, they will be in the best possible position at the negotiating table. that moment is not right now. of course, it's not now that send ukraine a few more $1000000000.00. sell some more weapons, try to ostracize rush a little bit more. and who cares how many more people lose their lives? well, this time, it was former us secretary of state, henry kissinger, who spoke in favor of peace talks. the time is approaching to build on the strategic changes which have already been accomplished and to integrate them into a new structure towards achieving peace through negotiation. how their, who that was pretty much their reaction from key f, straight away. unfortunately, even after 10 months of war, mister kissinger did not understand anything, neither the nature of this war nor its impact on the world's order. henry kissinger

has stated that last may he propose the same fire line along the borders existing before the special military operation began, which would see russia abandon these 4 new territories and hold on to crimea. and that would become subject of further negotiations after a ceasefire. and we've already heard a similar proposal from elan mosque. remember, it also didn't go down very well whether one likes it or not. crimea is absolutely seen as a core part of russia by russia. crimea is also of critical, national security importance to russia, as it is their southern navy base from their standpoint. losing crimea is like the united states losing hawaii and pearl harbor he was ridiculed, scrutinized and dismissed. as of who had some propagandists were proposing and negotiated solution, and now we have a political heavyweights with decades of experience proposing as similar plan. and everyone's mocking him for it's all supporters of simple solutions should remember

the obvious an agreement with the devil. a bad piece at the expense of ukraine in territories will be a victory for put in and the recipe for success. for autocrats around the world, the preferred out. com for san is a russia rendered imposing by the war. i disagree for all his propensity to wireless. russia has made decisive contributions to the global aqua libra young and to the balance of power for over half or millenium is historical role should not be degraded. but it seems that the west is seeking exactly that and will not stop until russia is degraded weekend and humiliated. something which is highly unlikely at term that the west like seems so how many more people have to die. how many countries have to suffer before the west realizes that it is time to encourage peace talks instead of arm sales. we also got the thoughts from an investigative

journalist who says, ukraine has essentially become a tool of the us government. i think negotiations are, are, should, should definitely take place. they're more urgent now than ever. but they've got to be realistic in order, in order to succeed and realistic needs. recognizing that there are certain territories that russia will not and really cannot give up the u. s. a know, extended nato, farther and farther to the east with the idea of essentially surrounding and crippling. right. and eliminating it as a major military power. and so, so certainly that, that tendency that long march has led to the lead to the war and is leading to the destruction of the ukraine. but the u. s. doesn't care because it's perfectly happy to sacrifice the ukraine, to its own interests. but then again,

it's also happy to sacrifice the e u to its own interests. and that's exactly what we're seeing. right, something else to tell you by today, the russian president has visited neighboring bella bruce for a summit with one of his closest allies, lot of mere putting express support for training bell russian forces to use the latest russian military technology, particularly in view of the rising tensions on both countries, western borders the stay she would even like to come back. ordination of the military units of our countries is being carried out on the territory of fellers. a unified air defense system has been created in his on duty. he, i consider it possible to continue the implementation of the proposal of the present of belarus on training the crews of combat aircraft, of the bell russian army, which are re equipped for the possible use of munitions with the special war head. i emphasized that this form of co operation is not our initiative. the u. s. has

been conducting similar activities with its nato allies for decades. such measures are important in connection with the 10th situation on the union states external border soon after a total of 4 hours spent together including face to face and with their delegations, wagner potent and alexander lucas shanker, came out to journalists to brief the media on the results of monday's intensive talks, deep and constructive, as both leader is described, that that trade turnover between moscow and means has already heat the rack heard, and he is expected to reach $40000000000.00. these ear not only in economic butting defense and security spheres as well. moscow means vacuum teetering, talk operate very closely. to de luca shanker announced that beller is put, is, can there an s 400 complex is provided by ration. com, but duty. so the relations will always be strong, and no one will be able to drive a wedge between us as lucre shenker said,

although they tried before, like my poisons visit to mean square, heard a lot from key at about potential ames of monday's talk, same including moscow's apparent attempts to convince lucas shanker to join moscow's special military operation, as well as even launch had joined ground offensive against the crank from the territory of belarus. i have been able to speak about that with the russian president spokesperson. dmitri p scoff. this is how he commented on that was teacher. i didn't waste key again yet. elsie ukrainian general said that moscow is preparing to gather with bell, or is the ground operation against ukraine from the belly ruffian territory. and that's why vladimir putin came to minsk. can you comment on that? what is the name of the credit in general? i guess to lose any zillow's me and is to rest. he's overworked, russia and bella rose, have historically had very close ties always, but especially after the beginning of moscow special military operation in ukraine

. they borders belarus as well. this is what republicans 1st visit to the capital means since 2019 before their pandemic. but far from a rare meeting with hayes beller, russian counterpart as lucas shanker said, i meet booking very often and some western countries even are warren about it. the bell, russian president, stress that mondays talks come, he meets the very loud outside skepticism about the nature of the relationship between moscow and mean sca particularly eats equality with some claims. heard about belarus, being observed by russia, look a sion guy sure that the relations are based on mutual respect and interest. he said that the relations have always been strong and will only be getting stronger. a bellow ruth, as a member of the russian by a collective security treaty organization on alliance of post soviet countries. minsky is to chair the group next year with a number of large scale military drills planned on its territory. now we heard from

former senior u. s. defense policy, unless michael maloof, who sees president putin's visit to bel ruth, should serve as a warning to keith. i suspect this is beginning to do is send a signal to the worst that if ukraine continues to hit a russia with missiles as it has been doing and that they could activate c s t o, which include members of, of kazakhstan, are media, kyrgyzstan, and tajikistan. that would be a and under the c s t o, like nato's article 5, c s t o has article for an attack on one is an attack on all. i think it's mr. brewton signaling that this is going to be the next step. short of nucular,

of course he's, he's already stated he's not going to be using nukes. so unless the main, unless the federation itself is massively attack, and i would presume that is by nato russia slam the use decision to impose a price count on natural gas supplies, calling it a violation of fundamental market principles. the kremlin has warned its not considering appropriate counter measures. this is a violation of the markets pricing process. any talk of a ceiling is unacceptable. it will take some time to carefully weigh all the pros and cons to develop counter measures. it's worth noting that several e u. member states have also expressed strong opposition to the decision by the use at leadership, the netherlands for one save the restrictions will make it harder to secure much and needed supplies of natural gas. here's the take of our tea contributor,

rachel marson. while the ink is even dry on this new gas price caps struck to day and already the hungarian foreign minister is sounding the alarm on more potential tinder, being added to this total dumpster fire of bad policy that the block has created for itself. it's too bad that doesn't keep us warm here in the you because everything would be all set. so have a listen to the hungarian foreign minister. what he had to say. the price come to be introduced to natural gas is bud harmful and dangerous, but it's still being introduced despite this. so today it's another big bottle with brussels now hungry knows what it's talking about. when it comes to price caps, they tried imposing a cap on gasoline and diesel prices just in the past year. specifically to protect hungarian households in the run up to the countries parliamentary elections in april. and they ended up having to nick, sit earlier this month. why? because foreign companies cut their fuel shipments to hungary, causing supply shortages. now that led to panic, buying and long lines gas station. so it's no wonder that hungry voted against the

european union. now trying to do pretty much the same thing and capping the price, it now says that it will be willing to pay for gas ostensibly to protect european households. so this price cap of a $180.00 euros is well below the $275.00 euros that the european commission wanted, which would have been so high that you have to wonder. it's almost ridiculous. you have to wonder if they just wanted to make a symbolic p r gesture with all of this. just to be able to tell your opinions, look, we're doing something for you while actually doing nothing. if only because doing virtually anything else. risk screwing up, supply and pricing for the e you more than they already have. every time they pound the desk, slap on anti russian sanctions than wait to see what other damage they've caused for themselves. this time, a handful of european countries wanted a much lower cap and the energy minister of one of those nations reese cost us

struck us has said that quote, anything between $150.00 under $190.00 euro's to a 100 would work. i think a 188 will give the right signals to the markets. not sure that the european union has inspired much confidence as the market whisperer when energy and inflation are so high as resulted thrown policies. the german gas lobby had said earlier today that the idea of controlling gas prices was a quote, political illusion that was destined to fail in practice. that sounds like a pretty logical assumption if one was looking at this through the prism of actual, you know, logic and reason. but as usual for the e u, it's all about virtue signaling about unity cheering, about having come to an agreement, whatever that may be. making europeans think that they're doing something to help the average person, even though the whole reason, the average citizen is in this whole mass to begin with is precisely because of the

use constant tinkering. ah, the dutch prime minister has formerly apologized for the countries 250 years of colonial slavery. however, the gestures spark criticism from both the netherlands, former colonies and dutch residents, who claim the statement like substance. it were long, however, they don't. response was afterward for snap, for men, for centuries to dutch state and its representatives have enabled, encouraged and benefited from slavery. for centuries, people have been made into commodities, exploited and abused. in the name of the dutch state. to day, i apologize. we don't accept the apology, the weight was presented. first, we're going to evaluate in discuss it internally and then give advice to the searing them as government. they must accept the apology, where to accept it. and when to date was old by the netherlands. and i think you have noticed from the reactions that we all felt very uncomfortable with that. but

the intention saw good though. suppose you came to late, man, there is so much suffering on so much hatred in the people we got in slavery that he cannot be settled with one date. it will take time whether it will ever be okay, is the question, floyd, there's still a lot of discrimination there. and the people of that netherlands are not aware of slavery. now. it's about the money. the apologies are all in the wards out and with those wards you can buy anything those people want a look on the people on to be compensated on. they and it's been so long. but dutch were engaged in the slave trade for on 2 and a half centuries. from the early 16 hundreds, a large share of the nation's prosperity is said to have come by way of shipping captive africans to colonies in south america. estimates but the number of enslaved people transported on dutch vessels from africa to run 600000 and native populations from sir anom to indonesia were all so brutally exploited under the

dutch empire. but we heard from a south african political analyst and activist to phase and apologies, simply not enough, as there needs to be concrete acts to reconcile the past. i hope that it's not just eh, petronela is once off gesture dance. you can sing clean freaks decades and decades and sensuous or sorry, as a result of pressure to just an announcement that says we sorrow. we must see something else somewhat similar to what you seen. germany do in particular to watch juice, comprehensive restorations as part of the package

guess and 2nd one stress loss and repentance a u. s. official. her suggested a ban on crypto currencies in the u. s. after the failure of the f t x exchange. last month. we want them to do what they need to do at the same time, maybe banning it, although banning it is very difficult as it will go offshore and who knows how that will work. so this is a complicated, unregulated ah, potter pot of money at the x file for bankruptcy last month, sending shock waves through the industry. it's been accused of numerous corporate missteps, including misusing customer funds frauds and keeping an accurate financial statements at funder has been a top donor for the democratic party surpassed only by george soros. earlier my colleague research, she spoke to crypt currency expert, chris hems. he says,

part of the problem is that washington puts too much responsibility in the hands of those without proper experience. we look at sort of the history of, of this guy. he kind of came out of nowhere. no one had really heard of him. suddenly he sponsoring massive american football teams. he's the post to boy, and the s he sees commission, and we found out that he's committed this absolutely astronomic fraud said it's very difficult to understand. again, back to our point that they're now saying we want to ban everything, but it's kind of like add, they've caused the, they've caused the problem in a way, by elevating someone that was never on any industry panel before. that is very young and didn't really seem to have a proven track record in running large businesses and mate in the head of that, that regulates re sort of oversight committees and things like that. so. so yeah, it's a very tough. it's pull this one out and no one ready encrypted can quite understand why us officials are now saying that the crypto market is, is a threats. when is it, isn't that part of a whole free market economy?

when you think that from a country that a pines, that it is the, the leader of the free world and the free market that they wanna would bought a band. something that it was essentially designed in order to encourage and increase trade in commerce around the world. it's a very weird thing for them to do, but i think the real reason is, i think they're starting to understand now how much cryptic currencies could be a real threat to the u. s. dollar. for example. it's not just difficult to buy, and it's actually impossible. so, and in order to bankrupt the currency, just to make a very basic prevalent un heim, you would have to shut down the whole internet forever. because the way that crypto works is, let's say you've got a crypto wallet that you could download on your phone right now. an id. it's impossible for anyone unless we reveal our identity to an institution be that's a way if we want to catch it out in said, what we call theat money, but real money dollars, roubles, et cetera. that's the only reason that we would ever need to provide any of that information. so this is complete and utter nonsense. it's absolutely impossible. collado reaction to this neck story. the new york times are spar controversy with

the shape of its crossword puzzle that some say resembles a nut c swastika. the game was published on the 1st day of the honeycomb jewish celebration. disgusting. only the new york times would get hanukkah going with this is the crossword puzzle. imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them. i'll give them the same benefit of the doubt. they would give those people exactly 0. the new york times has had a hard time telling the truth about israel in jews. this week they published a crossword in the shape of a swastika, today's new york times crossword as making me nervous. just the notes before world war 2, the u. s. newspaper of record actually had a rather positive fight luck on rising fascist leader hitler, as you can see in the headlines her. a number of other outlets have reported about the swastika controversy, including the jerusalem post, which affirmed out the puzzle. did indeed bear an oncoming resemblance to the nazi

symbol. the times house responded by saying the cross word simply has a common design for the genre. journalist n p r. specialist john thoroughly says he doesn't believe it was just a coincidence coming as it did on a major jewish holiday and the daily having been implicated in similar controversal cases. it's absolutely not a coincidence. did senior editors approve this highly unlikely? did a radical anti semitic group within the new york times create the sick? absolutely throws this joke? yes, most likely. they knew what they were doing. they wait for the 1st day of hanukkah to release this, you know, and this is the 3rd time it's happened in the new york times crossword section in 9 years. so they had been warned before about this or 20142017. and they did it again, i mean someone signed off on that someone obviously who knew what they were doing, signed off on that and then don't forget the context. busy you know, this is,

this is a newspaper that is the bastion of abiding administration, which has been really quite a, has a very dubious policies towards israel george towards the jewish community. and which we know supports a radical far right regime in kia, that glorifies nazi collaborators, the new york times glorifies the you know, the regime in kia. so in some ways, maybe we shouldn't be surprised. ah, not argentine as football team now returned back home to a hero's welcome having claimed the world cup on sunday in cats are the streets of the country's capital. look at this were so lutely job. those people cheered the squads return to make it more impressive. by the way, captain leno. messy and co touched in the middle of the night, but that made little difference to the football mud country. the nation's president has officially declared the 20th of december this tuesday, a bank holiday,

so that the celebrations can continue on hinder. that's the way to do it, isn't it argent here beat france on penalties and what's been called the game for the ages in the world cup the side or do we have an ex neil nazi skinhead on their rum from his former gang mates because he was found to be true or sons like the plot of a movie, but it's been john daly's lived experience for years. is extraordinary journey, not just geographically, was told next. here are tantrums. ah ah ah.