ah ah, with the headlines anaki international b e u parliament scandal coin cut out a gate now shifts to morocco. that's as an italian court agrees to handle with a former wife of an e. u lawmaker suspected of receiving bribes from the country. wild islamic terror groups continue a taxing but a keynote fast. so he speaks to the countries in 25 minutes about security and the search for new allies. we would like russia to become our allies here, as well as all of those. and we know that russia is a great policy that brush wants to can help us in this area. electricity is

restored in russia's belgrade region. off the ukranian, shelling, leave the civilian wounded, and knocks out power to almost up of the entire city. also with the program, twitter filed number 7 drops, hod, showing no trace of russian meddling and the hunter bite and laptop saga. but it does show lots of meddling from the f b. i a good to have your company for this. our program from moscow. this is our t international with your top stories, and e u, a parliament scandal now ships to morocco with an italian court agreeing to hand over. the former wife of an e. u lawmaker suspected of receiving bribes from the country. the arctic contributor rachel marston lifts the lid on this. so there's this european union corruption scandal that led the belgian authorities. turning the european

parliament into basically a crime scene. seizing data before it could potentially be destroyed and hauling suitcases full of cash out of hotel rooms and apartments associated with you. personnel allegedly including a parliamentary vice president all because queen ursula hasn't specifically told parliamentarians how to avoid doing shady things. but she does say that those ethics roles are coming. that's good news. i guess at 1st the scandal was all about allegations of improper lobbying relationships with cutter. but now morocco has been caught up in it as well. former italian euro deputy pier antonio and series wife, maria, delores cali owny. and her adult daughter sylvia henry, who have been held under house arrest in italy, are now be transferred to belgium. in the wake of an italian court ruling on monday, they're both suspected of involvement with what belgian prosecutors call and alleging, quote, participation in criminal organization, money laundering, and corruption. now the arrest order for these 2 family members of yet another euro

deputy, a former member. this time, recall that current will reset former you vice president eva kylie was arrested, charged and stripped of her titles last week. this refers to suspicions of payments to pan vary from caught her and morocco, and it's been a unopened secret for a very long time among brussels insiders that morocco has really lobbied hard in europe and in the west, more generally in support of its occupation of western sahara morocco has been fighting for decades against that, spain and us back to pull assario fronts, fight for territorial independence in the western sahara backed by moroccan neighbor algeria. so it's not surprising that western sahara has now entered the chat with its national commission for human rights, lambasting the e u. this comes in the context of continuous fraud operations to circumvent international law and decisions of the european court of justice regarding sarai

resources. and also in flagrant violation of the fundamental principles applicable to the conduct of e u institutions. so the soap opera continues with even more characters being added to the cas. really, who knows how many more there are yet to come. but with something like this unfolding every single day who needs netflix series? right. well, a director of studies at the university of santiago, they compass fair says it's no secret that morocco has been lobbying, e e. u legislators. the patient of western honda has not only course a task of political jabrisa the chameleon, but has also the kind of meaning the worst since the horror. now is the souls of the huge benefits for the kingdom of moral house, nor number by mental organization, or with her, ourselves,

watch the task calculated the amount of the money that morocco receives exporting the phosphates from western sahara and old. so we know the money the neural can do new give to morocco to get allowed. fishing in the occupied waters of western sahara morocco exports mainly to the european union not only but mainly at $4.00 to $10.00 unions. this is just the one issue where we know exactly that, that is corrupt corruption, your opinion level. and actually, as i said concerning the members of the european parliament, this is not the secret that and morocco has been been them. a huge explosion at a gas pipeline in central russia has left at least 3 people dead and others wounded

as well. the line connects siberia with central and western europe. that's countries such as slovakia, hungary and romania and their old runs through ukrainian territory incident promot gas market price fluctuations, which later stabilized as the fuel was switched to another line. a rush of gas promise promised to investigate the incident, which apparently took place during maintenance were this comes off of the european union on monday, adopted the highest level. it'll pay a gas at a $180.00 europe megawatt per hour. give you a sense about number gas prices, briefly top 340 euros in august. but since deflated at the move was decided despite opposition from several influential states within the block, including the likes of hungary and the netherlands. meanwhile, a number of companies in poland and germany have already apply to secure deliveries of russian oil over the next year. despite the western price caps on sanctions

targeting, the russian energy sector of the german economy, ministry, meanwhile, has denied any of its companies were involved. the head of a russian oil pipeline company, trans, yes, believes businesses in europe are, if not quietly, increasingly looking 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, which is and 360000 tons for december alone. and germany has already applied for deliveries in the 1st quarter in that curb. but the application comes as the e. you sets a price cap of $60.00 per barrel on russian crude,

or the limit to applied early this month is said to be aimed at depriving moscow of funding to conduct his military operation in ukraine. however, the capital so sees existing sanctions relaxed, allowing european countries to buy russian oil, albeit at the cap price of the most vocal proponent of the plant. poland had in fact early a sort, a higher price ceiling than that it was 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 was euros in dollars or so that put in, in russia could build a war arsenal. and could attack its neighbors sitina other. today we are presenting the most radical plan in europe to move away from russian hydrocarbons away from russian oil rushing gas from rushing coil. we understand this most radical plan is needed. emoji. china's karone of iris toll is of concern to every one globally due to its effect on financial stability that is,

according to the us state department, which also express hope the beijing gets its covert numbers under control. the whole of the virus is of concern to the well given the size of china's pdp given the size of china's economy. it's not only good for china to be in a stronger position because it, but it's good for the rest of the worlds as well. we, the united states continues to be a leading force for countries around the world, and the provision of vaccines and helping countries overcome the phase of the virus. we certainly hope that will be the case before long in the early as well. ned price, the spokesperson for the us state department, and he was criticizing shina and talking about how at this point they hope china gets their numbers in order because the impact that co good rising in china could

have on the global economy. and people are noting the irony of what's been said as his boss, the head of the us state department, the secretary of state anthony blank and was just recently calling for 0 coded policies in china to be live and calling for the release of protesters. let's review what's been said by us officials. china has to figure out a way forward on dealing with what's covered away for that answers the, the health needs, but also ashes the needs of people. i think we're seeing the chinese people speak up for more freedom against the co lockdown policies. i support that the a, a lockdown is not a policy that we're going to support here. so when china had stringent anti coban policies that was declared to be repression, we have the u. s. government speaking out of gas did describing china as the repair . and now that those restrictions have been lifted and coal good cases in china are

rising. we have china once again being can down. now the claims and the condemnation, china from us officials are laced in hypocrisy. one will note that the united states leads the world in terms of coven related deaths. whereas china, despite having the world largest population in 98 in the world, in terms of cobra, dest, nowhere near the united states, in the number of colbert related gas. so it's quite, quite hypocritical for us officials to be criticizing china for cold related gas. i'm talking about it, but this all fits a pattern with how the united states covers china, no matter what china does. china is condemned when kobe 0 coded policies were put in effect, they were described as brutally authoritarian. and then when those coded policies were lifted, we heard that this was a sign that president, she's in pain, was weak guy. and that this was, that was a sign that he was giving in and didn't have authority and power that no matter

what the u. s. media and the u. s. politicians look for any excuse to condemn china and can damage policies and portrayed in a negative light. and this latest statement, this latest flip of the script, if you want to call it, that is just a really blatant example of how hypocritical and nonsensical us narratives are the usa does not like a particular government, no matter what they do. they find a way to spin it in a negative way. so good to have with us for the program, a 6 civilians, and at least to book an op, a soldiers of died in separate attacks and but a keynote fossil. now since 2015, but it also has suffered from scores of g. how does the tax that have killed thousands of people and well rooted to 1000000 others? according to the countries army, $39.00 terrorists linked to islamic state handle keita had been killed in operation since the start of december. when my colleague spoke with the countries into a prime minister, who said that security continues to be

a main priority. along with that of also the search, the new lives to drive in new. yet what are your priorities now? is it perhaps insecure to sector we son today? yes, definitely. currently security is a priority of bertina faso and we talked about it. but in addition to the security sphere, we discussed other areas as well because the problem of security is complex with many parties. we hope that starting from now we will begin to resolve it apart from that, it's necessary that our relations develop because we are all interested in the winning as close if we think russia could become an ally for broken episode in the fight against you to help us, we says who's with us and we would like it. we would like russia become our ally here, as well as all our partners. and we know that russia's great power in frushell wants to. it can help us in this area that france has condemned, were one beth, a backing end. 23 insurgents who are fighting democratic republic of congo forces in the countries east of paris as cold, for a regional peace process to be established by the neighboring countries. france

condenser on to support for the m $23.00 group and calls for the luanda, and they were all be processed to be fully implemented. was i speaking just been earlier in the program with our africa correspondent, catabolic tattler who told us about, well relations between paris and rwanda. but also he well to the broader perspective on that of the french roll in the history of that region. front of andrew 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 communication. but this was the 1st time since then that front has openly i choose the government and of supporting the m $23.00 rebels. but paul, who is used to having such i choose ations 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. one that has always had a problem with the role that it says front flayed during the genocide in 1994. in rwanda, then they have made, they have opened cases against people that they deem to be responsible. and we're talking a cadet makes priests were talking, see me 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 is $995.00 from to dig a later, we still have to have a trial in france or an extra edition of these would be accused persons 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 these rebels just for a 2nd. moving back to that of the democratic republic of congo, wera and 23, insurgents are wreaking havoc. the latest attack, they actually cut off a major supply route to the dfcs eastern city of goma, or bringing the danger of a looming hunger crisis to the forefront for residents who are there now situated very close to the rwandan border. a myers, a major regional economic hub. it's been the focus of the conflict between the d. r . c forces and the militia group which has intensified in recent months. but m 23, the latest advances cut off the national road to highway, which leads to go more from the north to actually a key link for produce in coming from the northern farming regions. bit earlier we were speaking to a martin, you a senior research at south african based security think tank. he says that this is the situation in the d. c is complicated at best, but if or one does involvement of the conflict is officially proven. the entire

regions security is at stake. dericks are getting hi. 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, us, we know that it's actually provides opportunities for terrorist groups to take advantage. we've also seen in the past how some of the countries have actually utilized 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, wanda, has, of course, was completely denied its 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 it's recent. i am 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 from now to i. russia is at belgrade region where ukrainian artillery shell, the border area, leaving at least one person wounded. we still have details in coming from local authorities. a power outages have also been reported as a result, but the electricity supply has now been restored. we understand a shrapnel damaged, warehouses and production facilities in the industrial zone, and emergency crews remain in that region. meanwhile, ukrainian artillery has also had a civilian hospital in don. yet,

for the 2nd time in 24 hours, local authorities say residential buildings and a kindergarten of also come on to fire is an a report now from the regional correspond that remains embedded there. it's robin cost. ukrainian artillery struck the city of the nest shortly before midnight on monday, once again, one of the largest hospital here in dunbar had been targeted were standing right next to the 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 your surgery department was a stronger as well. now that 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 grabbed missile. and we actually found the shell that was used. and i spoke to a ballistics expert. now this is a modified or modified solved yet. shell are produced in slovakia, it's a $122.00 millimeter, a shell. and once again made in slovakia and supply to ukraine by made. so countries and these are the kinds of shells that have been used against a civilians. i hear internet over the last 2 months 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 civilians. here in dennis

their ground missiles like what i just showed you, and of course the other calibers are much higher. $15552.00 millimeter andrea of course they cause a lot of destruction. many of the weapons that are being used to include the cluster ammunition as well with that is designed to inflict as much damage as possible all calls us in the loan yesterday around a p. m. there was the 3rd shelling in a week in the hospital and administrative buildings were damaged. mutual, doctors provided assistance to them. a doctor on duty managed to hide behind the safe of yours. johnny put it to the water almost completely damaged. about 90 percent of the windows have shattered in of immune there's no heating, 3 artillery strikes and a small area within one weeks. time is already qatar, shooting out a hospitals, a war crime. the staff are fighting for the lives of those wounded here. 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 neuro surgical building, which the staff are continuing their work. no matter what, so today they all came to work to help people about our duty is above all offices. so the f. b, i met old in the hunter biden laptop scandal and then quickly sought to censored are all on twitter. that is, according to a new series of revelations. the 7th try to of twitter file show that despite hysteria over russian meddling in 2020 elections, twitter so little to no indication of that. we are removing 2 distinct networks of accounts. the 1st network of accounts totaling approximately 345 will launch the inactive. the 2nd network of accounts total approximately 10. the accounts included in this informed action had little reach and low follow accounts . one, what we saw in these twitter files is basically an admission from twitter that

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 saw a lot of insinuations, but not a lot of evidence. stone, or what about what about the letters address that have 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 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.

this is justin from experts which brings through is there was a had that happen separately and they loaded the hack materials from the laptop the magically appeared at the repair shop in delaware, were recommending a warning plus the investigation 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 a 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, do 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 uncoordinated effort by the intelligence community to push us to share more

information. they are probing 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 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 israel has been slammed by the united nations as for deporting of palestinian human rights activist and well, stripping him of his residency. the organization called the move quote, a war crime, mores deportation highlights the vulnerable situation of palestinians living in east jerusalem as the occupy empower has granted them

a revokable residency status under israeli law. it also marks another serious deterioration in the situation for palestinian human rights defenders for you and human rights office calls on israel to reverse the deportation order and to stop using such allegations to halt legitimate human rights work deporting to protected person from occupied territory is a grave breach of the 4th geneva convention constituting a war crime, palestinian french sala. hm. lord, a was deported at the weekend to france, capping a year long attend by israel to expel him. the jerusalem borne advocate had been in detention without charges since march. the french foreign ministry had previously said hummadi must be able to exercise all his rights and lead a normal life in jerusalem, which was both his city of birth and residence. the human rights lawyer previously served several years in jail for a role in an alleged assassination plot that he is always denied from the very beginning of palestinians in jerusalem are generally only granted residency,

not israeli citizenship. and that status can be removed if they leave the city for a long amount of time or of their a sudden security issues. muslim palestinians can apply for citizenship which is automatically given to jews. but they do have to face some burden. some legal hurdles, palestinian human rights organization, legal research. a spoke to me earlier saying that even french citizenship doesn't help when it comes to israel. this represents a tax against all palestinians who are defending their rights in palestine and other cases the palestinians are forced to read a case to the other cities in the west bank and the occupied palestinian left bank . and in this case, they are actually stateless, though they do not have the legal status to have political and civil rights. and in the case of the law, unfortunately, the fact that he had a friend,

citizenship did not help him to kind of hold is your account. but for this work, right. and not even friends, who as far as the citizen of had done enough accent to kind of reverse this work crime, the international community as a whole has not there 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 since the last case, but for 73 years against ongoing work crimes and ongoing crimes against humanity committed by by that's are enough held accountable. they are not sanctioned. and they are not even recognized as the way they should be by the international community. i just about wrapping up this our program here from moscow and international just having a quick look at our t dot com right now. a lot of new articles popping up every moment here, especially in the op ed section where people really get their opinions out and

maybe every bit of that dirty laundry. none the less, thanks for joining us here on our team to national we are back to with the news for me. ah hello and welcome towards the part the russian military operation in your credit will soon mark its 1st anniversary having demo, catered millions of lives on both sides of the conflict into before and after. how well do the protagonist understand the child, their motives and goals and with the damage already inflicted?

is any reconciliation even possible? well, to discuss that i'm now joined by geoffrey roberts, professor emeritus of history at the university college cork. roberts is great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. free to say she, as you pointed out in one of your articles, western media are still a wash with the theories and narratives of what was on vladimir put his mind when here authorized is incursion into your brain. but according to you, they all missed. one important factor we just put into apocalyptic vision of a nuclear arm, few brain embedded in nato. what do you mean by that? and do you think that vision as apocalyptic as it may be that has any grounding in reality? what was it will it will i described a decision to go to what would you quite as a decision to try to take a prevention right? to prevent the.