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any kind of compromise and to war and he lost territory. loss is not really much. we can mix up, we'll succeed in the lives. mm ah, the headlines on, on the international natural gas prices shoot up almost 10 percent. it's after a block to keep pipeline in central russia that transports gas to europe. we understand free people lost their life while islamic terrorist groups continue a taxing. but kina fossil r t from speak to the countries in term prime minister of the country security and the new allies. we would like russia to become our ally here, as well as all our partners. and we know that russia is a great power. there is a brush, a wants to, can help us in this area. electricity is restored and it rushes belgrade region off
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the ukranian, shutting left almost half the city without power and at least one civilian wounded . and twitter file number 7 drop is showing no trade. so russian meddling in the hunt abide and laptop saga. however, it does show plenty of input from the f b i a that is a busy tuesday for your worldwide stories on elsie international, the entire news team here, hard at work. so it's great to have your company for this. i was so a huge explosion at a pipeline in central rush or the transports natural gas to europe has left at least 3 people dead and others injured. we can get more details now with aunties rachel marston. this is the west side, the area gas pipeline operated by russians. majority of state own gas,
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an ukraine state on natural gas, on the free inside. now it runs from russia in siberia through western ukraine and into central and western european countries. it's the same pipeline to sustain damage in 2014, in the wake of what the press reports at the time qualified as threats from the leader of ukraine's rights sector. radicals. demitra year, osh now gas from has confirmed that this explosion that took place in russia's chavarria region during maintenance. work with 3 people required be killed in one injured. a restoration work is already underway though, and gas is transported through the pipeline in parallel. so there's redundancy built into this system. we saw the gas prices over the day to day here in europe fluctuate and go up around the time of the incident before going back down. but that's not necessarily unusual. as a spot price tends to swing wildly every day, the pipeline specifically takes the gas into slovakia,
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hungry and romania on the european side. so where does those countries stand with respect to gas prices as they stand right now here in europe? now 2 of those countries, slovakia and romania wanted an even lower cap on gas prices than that. $180.00 euros per megawatt hour that the you set on monday along with 10 other countries who also wanted the lowest gas cap possible to protect the households from rising energy costs. hungary, foreign minister said that the whole idea of a gas price kept was unworkable. it's interesting that hunger is one of the end terminal points for this pipeline in europe, because keep in mind, that hungry keeps in came deals to import russian gas despite the use sanctioning of its own gas supply from russia. so there are a lot of unanswered questions. needless to say, swirling around yet another rushing gas pipeline fire explosion. mystery.
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meanwhile, a number of companies in poland and germany have applied already to secure deliveries of russian oil over the next year. as despite the western price caps on sanctions that are targeting the russian energy industry, the head of a oil pipeline company trans nif believes businesses in europe are now increasingly starting to look out for themselves. a good deal of political him if we come up with the politicians from poland are one thing, but they are also the rational representatives of business and the authorities who understand very well the consequences of this absolutely absurd rhetoric on their economy. group was also the announced that from the 1st of january, they would not be taking oils and russia. we've recently received applications from polish consumers for 3000000 tons of oil for next year. and 360000 tons for december alone in germany has already applied for deliveries in the 1st quarter. and then you go back to the location comes as you sets a price cap of $60.00 per barrel of russian crude. or the limit applied early this
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month is said to be aimed at depriving moscow of funding to conduct its military operation in ukraine. however, the capital so sees existing sanctions relapse allowing here o p and countries to buy russian oil. i'll be at the cap price. on the most vocal proponent, hope the plan, poland had only a sword, are higher price ceilings and that was what was eventually agreed upon your most reduced. but useful to you, we cannot go back to pity to this bad in criminal policy. we don't turn countries dependent on russia and offered to petro dollars was arrows in dollars, although that included in russia to build a war arsenal and could attack its neighbors. today we are presenting the most radical plan in europe to move away from russian hydrocarbons away from russian oil rushing gas from rushing. cool. so this most radical plan is needed him ugly dots over dark now to russia. in belgrade region where ukrainian artillery shell, the border area, leaving at least one person wounded soul. according to the local authorities. the
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power outages have also been reported as a result of the onslaught with the electricity supply has now been restored, shrapnel damage, warehouses, and production facilities and one industrial zone. we understand emergency crews are still working in bath region. meanwhile, ukrainian artillery has also hit a civilian hospital in don. yet for the 2nd time in 24 hours local authorities, a residential buildings and a kindergarten of also come under fire. so let's get details now. are correspondent in the region, romano concert all ukrainian or hard so to 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, or 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 modified, modified, solved yet. shell are produced in slovakia, it's $122.00 millimeter a shell. and once again made in slovakia and supplied to ukraine by and made so countries and that these are the kinds of shelves that have been used against a civilians here internet over the last 2 months or or so of course many people and 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
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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 the cluster munitions as well with that is designed to inflict as much damage as, as possible. joe acorda salon yesterday around a p. m. there was the 3rd shelling in a week in the hospital and administrative buildings were damaged. were doctors provided assistance. i'm a doctor on duty managed to hide behind a safe. we have only put if the walls are almost completely damaged. about 90 percent of the windows have shattered and of immune there's no heating, 3 artillery strikes in a small area within one weeks. time is already had her shooting. our hospital is
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a war crime. the staff are fighting for the lives of those wounded here. the people are being helped as much as possible covers that we, we continue to work as much as we can. yesterday there was damage to the neurosurgical building, which the staff are continuing their work no matter what. so today they all came to work to help people of the our duty is above all else as a safe 6 civilians and at least to book an ave soldiers have died and separate attacks and burkina faso. now since 2015, the country has suffered from scores of jihadist attacks that have killed thousands and forced to 1000000 people from their homes. they leave the repeated attack. so lead by groups linked to the islamic state and the al qaeda fight who have showed increased activity in recent months. now, according to the countries army, $39.00 terrorists whitfield, and until she had his operation is conducted since the start of december. my colleague earlier spoke with marchina foss. i was entering prime minister, who said that security continues to be one of the main priorities was country along
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with the issue as well, big we're seeking new or ally. and finally, the currently security is a priority and burkina faso and we talked about it. but in addition to the security sphere, we discussed other areas as well because the problem of security's complex many policy. so we hope that starting from now we will begin to resolve more from that. it's necessary that our relations develop because we are all interested in winning lessons. yes, we would like it. we would like russia to become our allied cure as well as all our, our lives. and we know that russia's great palette is frushell wants to, can help us in this area. the front tires condemned rwanda a backing m. 23. insurgents, who are fighting democratic republic of congo forces in the countries east paris. meantime, it's called for a regional piece process to be established in the neighboring countries. france condense, rhonda support for the m $23.00 group and calls for the lawanda n, a roby processes to be fully implemented. we were speaking with our africa
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correspondent, catabolic tattler who was telling us about the relationship between france and re one that but also that of the french roll in that region. history, france and ruin. and i have had to test the diplomatic relations and they've only started going about 5 years ago as they started opening lines of communications. but this was the 1st time since then, that front has openly choose the government rule of supporting the m $23.00 rebels. but polk gum, it is used to having such accumulations leveled at his government and this was his response. the problem was not created by rhonda and it is not drawn this problem. it is congress problem. i cannot be responsible for congress or rondon descent in congress who are being denied their rights citizens are one that has always had a problem with the role that it says front flayed during the genocide in 1994 in
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rwanda. then they have made, they have opened cases against people that they deem to be responsible and we're talking and condemning priests. we're talking senior ranking 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 $995.00 from to dig a later, we still have to have a trial in france or an extra edition of these would be a choose precedence to stand trial in rwanda. now i expect that relations will not be getting any better following this particular open accusation of the why didn't government supporting the rebel point. moving back just for a moment to that of the democratic republic of congo. it's where m. 23. insurgents are wreaking havoc and the latest attack they cut off a major supply route to the dfcs eastern. the city of goma, bringing the danger of
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a looming hunger crisis. now, so the forefront for the residence that situated near the rwandan border go myers are a major regional economic hub. it's been the focus of the conflict between the dfcs forces and the militia group, which certainly have intensified in recent months. m. 23, the latest advance has cut off the national road to highway, which leads to goma from the north and is actually a very keeling for prod, juice in. coming from the northern farming region we spoke with our mom knew a just a bit earlier. he's a senior, so at your, at a south african based security think tank. he says the situation in the d r c is difficult and that if for one does involvement in the conflict is officially proven . the entire region security is at stake. restart, 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.
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this in my view, as we know, it actually provide opportunities for terrorist groups to take advantage. we've also seen in the past how some of the countries have actually utilize, i'm groups and territories as pawns in this kind of political tension. we don't know the fact yet in terms of these allegations against rwanda. a house of course, was completely denied involvement or any support to this group that's i think we still get to know the details and the fact around where that this is actually true. because this will be extremely damaging to the effort of the d r c. this country has seen a known fisher of conflict. it has been destroyed by conflict, and therefore it's recent. i'm trying to stabilize it so to eliminate
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this factors of instability which the m 23 has been a constant presence in the past 10 years. so the f b, i met old in the hunter biden laptop scandal and then saw a sensor it on twitter. that's according to the latest series of twitter revelations. we're talking about trans number 7 of the twitter files showing that despite his theory about russian meddling in the 2020 elections twitter. 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 and for some action, little reach and low follow accounts. one, what we saw in these twitter files is basically an admission from twitter that
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russia's social media diabolical, social media, threat to american democracy, 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's saw a lot of insinuations, but not a lot of evidence. don't know what about, what about the, let's just address that of hunter biden's laptop. the whole, the whole scandal around that because 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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this is justin from experts which brings through is there was a hand that happened separately and they loaded the hack materials from the laptop the magically appeared at the repair shop in delaware, we're recommending a warning plus the amplification been in further information. now there's 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 the sustained if and coordinated effort by the intelligence community to push us to share more information. they are probing
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and pushing everywhere they can, including by whispering to congressional staff. this 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 requests even were met with demands from twitters management for a warrant that they, they must have been so 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 israel has been slammed by the united nations. it's for deporting a palestinian human rights activist and stripping him of his residency. the body caused the move. a war crime, mores deportation highlights the vulnerable situation of palestinians living in east jerusalem as occupying power has granted them a revokable residency status under israeli law. it also marks another serious
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deterioration in the situation for palestinian human rights defenders. the us human rights office calls on israel to reverse the deportation order and to stop using such allegations to halt legitimate human rights work, deporting a protected person from occupied territory is a grave breach of the 4th geneva convention constituting a war crime, palestinian french human rights lawyer saw law moody was deported the weekend to france, cutting a year long attempt by israel to expel him. the jerusalem borne advocate had been in detention without charges since march. the french a foreign ministry had previously said how moody must be able to exercise all his rights and lead a normal life in jerusalem. his city of both and residence previously served several years in prison for a role in an alleged assassination plot that he has staunchly denied from the very beginning. and what palestinians are in jerusalem are generally granted only
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residency, not israeli citizenship. and that status can be taken away if a person leaves the city for a long amount of time. or there are security issues. a muslim palestinians can apply for citizenship, which is automatically given to jews, but they have to face the well pretty burden. some legal hurdles to get over 1st, let's take more on this not crossing live to legal research and the our palestinian human rights organization. there is a seal of budget. joining us here on our team to national are very welcome to you. thanks for coming on the program. what does the un condemnation mean if it israel and in practical legal times if you would yeah, thank you for hosting me. i think it's important to highlight that this can, the nation came from a specific group and they knighted nations who i called federal procedures. and these are independent human rights experts. now these independent human rights experts that can the nation they do, and the public advocacy they do with states and engagement. they do. it's really
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important in terms of naming and taming the various policies of human rights violations around the world. yes, they do not have that kind of them to enforce the recommendations they called for. so in terms of the case of law where they are calling this work crime and calling for the reverse of the procedure order. this, unfortunately, coming from the you, an expert, does not have enforcement mechanism. another forms of enforcement at the united nation can come from the united nations security council for example. and this requires the international political will of faith to kind of engage within the kind of them to implement potential sanctions against israel, which is not the case. unfortunately, a seal let's, let's bring up the idea. i mean from top of optimism may be, but i mean,
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do you expect more public and governmental attention to be brought to sell mores case or will it just be silenced without any consequences? do you think? i think it's important to highlight that the case of the law is also an exemplified cation of cases of persecution against palestinian human rights. the sender is not an exception. he has been facing repeated attacks the including arbitrary arrest and pirate, patrician and, and the recent revocation of joseph vincy. so this represents a tax against all palestinians who are defending their rights in palestine. and the fact that the law has also do enough. he is also french and the fact that when he was deported in the airport, there was absolutely no french official at 2 to even show fidelity for the law. and to kind of say that the commitment of the israeli crime,
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the work crime that was committed against their own national was not even a just in the right way. so this tells us that not even friends who live as a resident as a citizen of had done enough action to kind of reverse this work crime international community as a whole has not been enough actions to reverse the, the work crime against the law. and this is also part of the biggest and community complicity of the international community. not only philosophy, but for 73 years against ongoing work, crimes and crimes against many committed by by that are not held accountable. they are not sanction. and they are not even recognized as the way they should be by the international community. i guess, i guess at the end of the day though, there is some sort of silver lining to this. and that is that the united nations is taking. you mentioned the global community is not paying as much attention as
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perhaps a could will at the very least the un has been condemning israel, the and i'm calling what is done the expulsion of this, this french citizen, essentially calling it a war crime. you mentioned his citizenship. how old is citizenship being, being a french citizen? do you think that was a blessing for him or perhaps a cuss? the last part come for me. sorry. i was just, i was just saying that with her already having french citizenship teach, you think, having that french citizenship, which was a positive thing or a negative thing at the end of the day. i think i think it did not add any added value in the case of the law, but it's important to understand that in cases of palestinians who are residence of jerusalem, whenever they are actually they had their residency revoked. which is that since 96714500 palestinians had risen.
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so in other cases, the palestinians are forced to read a piece to the other cities in the west bank and the occupied palestinian left bank . and in this case, they are actually state to this, so they do not have the need to have political and civil rights. and in the case of the law, unfortunately, the fact that he had the citizenship did not help him to kind of hold is your account, but for this work, right. and it's important to highlight that in the case of the law, the last words that he said when he was forced to be reported at outset of palestine and he referred to friends as died because the last from the, from to the palestine as an homeland, as his country where he is pursuing a struggle of liberation alongside the had been the people so being in france for the last. now it's the 4th force decision. and he as other men who were
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forcibly distaste along the struggle of the palestinian people calling for his right of return to his homeland palestine. all right, a seal alba, j. they are local legal research. georgia say they are hack palestinian human rights organization sealed albert j. thank you so much for joining us here in asi international. i wish you the best of luck with your continued endeavors. thank you . ah, neo nazis and white supremacists, so the biggest threat to western society today. well, that's according to un secretary general, antonio cortez, who highlighted the role of right wingers in the recent qu, attempt in germany. it has been demonstrated that the biggest swept of federalism today in western countries come from the extreme rights near nazism and white supremacy. these is clearly as threats and we must fight that threat within almost
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determination. and what has happened in german, he's just one of the examples of this, this threats to, namely, to democratic societies that on board, just earlier this month, the $25.00 members of a german right wing group were arrested on suspicion of trying to overthrow the government to terrorize, however, i made no mention of extremists, for example, in ukraine, such as the neo nazi as all for i dob, italian who have been accused of exploiting the war to spread their ideologies. a many, for example, western mercenaries have trouble to ukraine to fight with such forces and then return home. one british soldier who joined ass off has defended them claiming they are, quote, decent guys. by accident i joined the as of unit. that would have been my last choice of a unit to go to, but i'm pretty glad i did. they're not the monsters in psychos that i would envisage neo nazis to be. i mean, they're not all like that. a lot of them are decent guys. well, he's not alone,
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and other ex, british army soldier, chris garrett, has reportedly been training as all soldiers to navigate mine fields for the past 8 years and became an official ukrainian national guard soldier. farther to british citizens. sean penner and ivan oslyn were exchanged of prison swap and sent back to the u. k. after being court fighting with ukrainian military, a thomas roper an author and a walcott respondent says that un cannot deny the existence of quote neo nazi ideologies in the ukrainian military. however, it is in no hurry to change the situation. we see that what the e u and the west is concerned about officially. it's not that what they see a current concern about the reality because otherwise they would act in another way . we see that their words and their actions don't fit well. first of all, it's interesting that quoterush is seeing this i'm just a few days ago. there was a resolution against her new in that system, fascism and it's him
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a phobia in the u. n. in the general assembly, which was denied by the west. so when they say this is dangerous, or i ask why their vote in the general assembly of the united nations against that mom regarding ukraine. yeah, well i have been in one of the headquarters of the as of the deal, a battalion near by your pal. and this was really like like a museum of fascist symbols. there were even icons with hipaa. i haven't seen this before. examples for this ideology. we haven't ukraine very much. i even your nose news, show it a good kids camp wet weather kits of 10 years old and we're trained to who kalashnikov is about. told that brushes. i'm a people that you, you are not allowed to kill people, but this is not, does not concern russian because they are no people. so this thinks and you, craig, western media knows about this, and now they forgot about that. they just have to look at the archives. we have to remember that gutierrez is from a native state and where it came from politically. so then it's understandable,
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but there's nothing objectively right in this what he said. you can get updates on that are flowing story through our artes telegram channels. we're also one i gab odyssey. and of course, naturally a mainstay is actually dot com. thanks for your company. back soon with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on authentic very.
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