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is no medical reason why you should be alive for you to find something to believe. john story is a story of ho street victory, and whatever i can do. to help him with a top headlines right now. one out he international in russia is belgrade region. electricity is which stole off to ukrainian. shelling left half the city without power and wounded. at least one civilian not to have gotten to local authorities from following similar accusations from the us chooses through one the supporting intelligence and the see ultimately setting the stage for a deterioration of relations. it's something we're one though has been denying companies in poland and germany apply to secure deliveries of russian oil for next year despite warsaw being one of the most vocal supporters at the latest
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e. u. price cap on russian energy export and twitter file number 7 drops showing no trace of russian meddling in the hunt. abide and laptop saw that button lenti of input from the f b i with already lifting off into a busy tuesday here in the russian capital. this is our t international and if everyone welcome we saw the program now in a rush, belgrade region where ukrainian artillery shells the border area leaving at least one person wounded or that information coming in from the local authorities in the region. outages have also been reported as a result of the shelling with the electricity supply has now been restored, shrapnel, though, from shells damaged warehouses. i'm production of facilities in one industrial zone . emergency crews are currently working across that region.
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meanwhile, ukrainian artillery fire has also hit the very same civilian hospital in dawn. yet for the 2nd time in 24 hours. it's heavy, round struck residential buildings and the kindergarten. 2 according to local officials or are these roman culture ref fall? this report? o ukrainian or artillery struck the city of the nest cas, shortly before midnight on monday, once again, one of the largest hospital here in san vos, had been targeted, were standing right next to building number 10 that was suffered at 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 departments was a stronger as well. now, the building behind me it houses administration as well as
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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 grabbed missile. and we actually found the shell that was used. and i spoke to a ballistics expert narrow, this is a model 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 made. so countries and that these are the kinds of shelves 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,
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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 have much higher 15552 millimeter. and of course, they cause a lot of destruction. many of the weapons that are being used to include cluster ammunition as well with that is designed to inflict as much damage as possible. so called 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. but the walls are 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 out
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a hospital is 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 neuro surgical 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 are now to our news of that enormous explosion that rock the republic of chew, vatcher in central russia, which according to reports, left, 3 people that and one person in judah and show you a video right now which we understand were shot at the scene where you can just see the pictures themselves, well, swear emergency service a, a leak in an underground pipeline led to the blast. and subsequent blaze that line transports gas from western siberia to europe and crosses the russian ukrainian border in the chorus region. and user the explosion caused the price of gas to jump in europe. meanwhile,
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a number of companies in poland and germany have applied to secure deliveries of russian oil over the next year. and as despite the western price caps and sanctions, the target, the russian industry, the head of our oil pipeline company, trans nafta, as businesses in europe are increasingly starting to look out for themselves. a good deal of political assume if force come up with the politicians from poland are one thing, but they're also the rational representatives of business and authorities who understand very well the consequences of this absolutely absurd rhetoric on their economy. although they announced that from the 1st of january, they would not be taking oil from russia. we've recently received applications from polish consumers for 3000000 tons of oil for next year, and 360000 tons for december alone, and germany has already applied for deliveries in the 1st quarter. and then your curb application comes as the e u. s. at a price half of $60.00 per barrel on russian crude,
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moscow says it simply won't deliver the resource to those that do that. the limit applied early this month is said to be aimed at depriving moscow of funds to conduct its military operation in ukraine. however, the measure has caused soaring in fashion within the e u, an spark mass protests, the most vocal proponent of the plan, poland. now i find that sir, close constituents are knocking on the russian door for energy, but had earlier sought a higher price than that eventually agreed upon you most abuse, but used both dorky. we cannot go back to this stupidity to this bad in criminal policy, which turned countries dependent on russia and offered putin petro dollars, euros in dollars order. so that put in in russia could build a war arsenal and can attack its neighbors. sitina. today we are presenting the most radical plan in europe to move away from russian hydrocarbons away from russian oil, russian gas from russian. coal we are so this most radical plan is needed imagery. so in addition to the oil cap of the european unit on monday,
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adopted the highest level, it will pay for gas at a $180.00 euro per megawatt per hour. give a sense of that number gas prices briefly reached 340 euros in august, but have since deflated the move was decided this by popular backlash and even governmental opposition from several states within the block. and this includes, for instance, hungary, which was underlining the negative consequences for the european economy. while the netherlands said the restrictions will make it harder to secure the much needed energy resource. in response, the prevalence spokesperson has said that russia will now consider retaliatory sanctions on the e u. so let's, at the very least got to take of a contributor. it's rachel mazda, while the ink is even dry on this new e gas price kept struck today, 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
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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,
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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 europeans, 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 a $150.00, under $190.00 euros 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
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so high as resulted. there are policies that germany 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 signal, ang, 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, what is good to have you with us? this program, a france has condemned rwanda for bucking and 23 insurgents who are fighting against the democratic republic of congo forces in the eastern part of the d asi. paris, as called upon the size to follow a regional peace process established in neighboring countries. france condenser on
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to support for the m $23.00 group and calls for the luanda and they will be processed to be fully implemented. or of course alive out a job bug and as odds, he's africa correspondent, catabolic tottle a great, good afternoon to you. so great to see you as always talk to us about the story, if you will, what is a, what is rwanda had to say about these accusations. and if you can perhaps just give us a little sense of the 2 countries relationship if you will. alright, that's exactly the lab of what the situation is. france, andrew and i have had to test the diplomatic relations and they've only started throwing about 5 years ago as they started opening lines of communication. but this was the 1st time since then that france has openly, i choose the government of rwanda of supporting the m $23.00 rebels and london.
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government has always maintained that they are not part of the of supporting the m $23.00. and they've gone as far as to not only repeat them on numerous times, but i thought it was pretty interesting that during november 23rd, when there was a lawanda summit on the peace between rwanda and the v r c that these rebels were not represented there was no official or any kind of representation from m 23, but the peas deal deep go ahead. it did hold for at least a little bit before. busy it broke out again in the north eastern part of the d r c . but here is the president of rwanda polka, gummy. the problem was not created by wonder, and it is not drawn this problem. it is congress problem. i cannot be responsible for congolese or rwandan descent in congress who are being denied rights of
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citizens. part of the problem is the fact that the one that has always had a problem with the role that it says friends played during the genocide in 1094. in rwanda, they, they have made, they have opened cases against people that they deem to be responsible. and we're talking academics, priests, we're talking semi arranging, military officials of the hutus who committed these crimes on the, to the minority in rwanda. now, despite these cases being opened as far back as 1995, so 2 tickets later, we still have to have a trial in france or an extradition of these would be accused persons to stand trial in rwanda. now, fresh courts have given many reasons as to why this is not happening, but by fi and large. the biggest reason seems to be the fact that they believe that
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these people would not enjoy a fair and free trial. in rwanda, this has been the source of the test, the relations between the 2 countries and france is also i choose along with other world powers. of course the u. k, the u. n. and the u. s. among the reasons that they will choose that front of military operation, there in 1994 called operation to cooperation to turquoise, if you will. and during this operation, it play the, the reports. many numerous reports claim that for us not only provided an escape route, but the facilitated the same theme of these horton nationalists. then these people who just wanted to go on the killing rampage of the 2 of these in the congo. therefore, feet giving further ground emphasis with regards to these people being able to come back, regroup,
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and still carry on with their genocidal mission of taking out the truancy in that country. now i expect that relations will not be getting any better following this particular open accusation. of the rwandan government supporting these rebels. alright. africa correspond to catabolic catalyzed joining us live, appreciate the report. thank you. well, let's give you some updates here on the programmer m. 23 insurgents in the democratic republic of congo are again wreaking havoc the latest attack. they were cut off a major supply route to the b c's. eastern city of goma is bringing the danger of a looming hunger crisis to the forefront for residence that now situated near the rwandan border. gomez is a major regional economic hub, being the focus of a conflict between the d. r. c forces and the militia group which have intensified the recent months. i am 23, the latest advance of cut off the national road to highway, which leads to go mar from the north and is
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a key link for protrude from the northern farming region. well, we were speaking earlier to martin you a senior research at south african based security thing. thank you. says the situation in the d. c is difficult and that if for one is involvement and the conflict is proven, the entire region security will be called into question. dear reeks, are getting high on this is because of the political situation in the region. we've seen recently detention in relations between the democratic republic of congo and rwanda. this in my view, as we know, it actually provides opportunities for terrorist groups to take advantage. we've also seen in the past how some of the countries have actually utilize groups and terrorist and in this kind of political
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tension. we don't know the fact yet in terms of these allegations against rwanda, wanda, has of course, was completely denied it involvement or any support to this group that's i think we still get to know the details and the fact around way that this is actually true because this will be extremely damaging to the effort of the d r. c. this country has seen a fair share of conflict. it has been destroyed by conflict and therefore its recent attempt trying to stabilize it so to eliminate these factors of instability which the m 23 has been a constant presence in the past 10 years. so when it comes to the scandal of hunter biden's laptop, apparently the f b, i was meddling and saw a sensor. it on twitter, that's according to a new series of twitter revelations. the 7th truck shift for the fall shows that
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despite hysteria about russian meddling in the 2020 elections to have so little to no indication of that. we are moving 2 distinct networks of accounts. the 1st network of accounts totaling approximately 345 were largely inactive. the 2nd network of accounts total approximately 10. the accounts included in this enforcement action, little reach and low follow accounts are at ortiz total court. joining us on this tuesday afternoon here live and you to take this story further, the tranches they keep on dropping dawn and some people are calling. that's a revelation. a lot of people are saying, no revelation. so we knew all along, but the accusations against russia were very intense from the get go. and at the end of the day, i think a lot of people did actually buy it, hook, line, and sinker. right? well, one, what we saw in these twitter files was basically an admission from twitter that russia's social media diabolical, social media, threat to american democracy,
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was very much imaginary. actually, still, that didn't stop the f b i from pressuring twitter into giving the mainstream media, whatever it possibly could to point the finger at russia, but pretty much every time it came up empty, and every time it came up empty, twitter was forced to admit that it saw a lot of insinuations, but not a lot of evidence. don't know what about what about the, let's just address that. have hunter biden's laptop the whole, the whole scandal around that. because at the end of the day it's getting mentions . now, although it was essentially swept under the carpet when it all started coming out, right, right, well, i mean, this is actually a key issue in the last us presidential election. and it was also something that us intelligence officials almost immediately back then denounced as some sort of fake russian propaganda story. i mean, it was the perfect justification for the f. b, i to pressure twitter into suppressing that story. and that's exactly what it did.
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the suggestion from experts which brings true is there was a hack that happened separately and they loaded the hack materials on the laptop the magically appeared that a repair shop in delaware. we are recommending a warning and the amplification pending further information. not those even speculation that twitter got a heads up about this story ahead of time because actually twitter was sent 10 different documents from the f b i just the day before the new york post published this story and just hours after the article went public, twitter suppressed, of course, again, we don't have any confirmation of that, but doesn't seem unreasonable. so, i mean, do you think you think it's fair to say that the f b i was putting a lot of pressure on twitter or what are your thoughts? well, based on what we've seen in these twitter files, the f b, i did everything it could to get as much as possible from twitter. and there was even talk of them, potentially bringing in congress people into it. let's take a look at what that said. we have seen
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a sustain different coordinator that by the intelligence community to push the share more information and change our a p. i policies they are probing and pushing everywhere they can, including by whispering to congressional stuff and the pressure from the f. b, i seems to have been so frequent and so intense that twitter was even paid over $3000000.00 just to process the bureaus requests. a lot of a lot of these request even were met with demands from twitters management for a warrant that they, they must have been so it potentially in breach of people's privacy. right. so this journalist that released all this, he's already calling for an investigation, and i'm sure you know, a lot of people who are following the story would be unlikely to object to that. well, this is the trunk number 7. so we'll just have to see what comes next. art is done a quarter. thanks. ah. well, meanwhile, e you figures are examining allegations of ukrainian attacks on civilian areas and
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boeing, bass, dozens of speakers at the dawn bass. witnesses conference being held in the portuguese capital. the detailing claims of atrocities in the region and participants of discussed the use influence on ukraine, on the 2014 government coo and key that resulted in 8 years of conflict with a don. yes. can look out for public photos on show, portray the optim off. if you creating a tax on residential neighborhoods in don't pass. and we heard from a number of speakers at the conference who did express outrage at the actions of key as forces. i think ukraine act like these because they know that in most parts of population in don't boss, they are for russia. oh, 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
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her repeating, in the same way in the west of ukraine deeds seizing the power in kia. and that's why i think you grain the shell every day, cities like than yet, school ah, cooling and enduring civilian people right now. one now over the master think that's her shocked. b demoss. the was the fact that her i've seen her how am ukrainian now i'm me is a shelly anger against her against people. because a, when the, for example, i was he, in the yes go or a in go to love car. it was not math to see that's where people killed or in the street to saw it is something better. oh, we cannot her at sceptre. and we cannot accept a better at this is opinion girl also, because her over westerner weekends le,
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former italian prime minister has said the global community has forgotten the path of peaceful resolve in the conflict instead is just been fueling it with more weaponry. the latter is certainly something we've seen now in the recent pledge by the british prime minister re she soon act who said the u. k was and another quarter of a 1000000000 pounds worth of leave the late the key of so for a moment here, artesia correspond marina cause her of anal doing a bit of a contrast looking at that the war verse is peace, rivalry that has been expressed among various western politicians, while more and more prominent figures are encouraging peace talks between russia and 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
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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 tried to ostracize rush, i 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 the 2 in piece through negotiation. how their, who that was pretty much their reaction from key f. straightaway. unfortunately, even after 10 months of war, mister kissinger did not understand anything,
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neither the nature of this war nor its impact on the world order. henry kissinger has stated that last may he propose the safe fire line along the borders existing before the special military operation began, which would see russia abandon these 4 new territories and hold on. so crimea, and that would become subject of further negotiations after a ceasefire. and we've already heard a similar proposal from ellen mosque, remember, and also then 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
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a 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 of the expense of ukrainian territories will be a victory for put in and the recipe for success. for autocrats around the world, the preferred all calm for song is a ra sheranda. important why the war? i disagree for all is propensity to wireless. russia has made decisive contributions to the global act. will libra young and to the balance of power for over half will, millennium 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. a term that the west like sees so how many more people have to die, how many countries have to suffer before the west realizes that it is time to
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encourage peace talks instead of arm sales. we did hear from investigative journalist daniela's are on this and he basically said that ukraine hasn't been independent since the western back. my dan qu of 2014. i think the negotiations are or 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 means 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 lead to the war and is leading to
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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. so many angles to that conversation and they do continue in a, in a broader perspective of writing the op ed section of author dot com as we can catch up and all sorts of interesting opinions and attitudes meantime go, thanks for joining us. we return to the top of the, the ah, there was a place in ocala, florida, baseball which was a pool hall but also placed behind.
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