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a fake news story. she posts an old photo of an irish boy claiming he's a child, the victim of the conflict in ukraine. more than 20000000 children are at risk of hunger and deadly infections in africa. that's the latest form units that we heard from that regional direct. fortunately, i'm going to do 6, a rating c said making the situation even worse, and we really need to prepare for the worst case scenario. less than the appropriate pharmaceutical companies. off the gambia claims and indian made cough, syrup killed at least 60 children, which new delhi denied. a welcome from all of our team here in moscow. this is asi international with the latest world news updates. good, happy with that we started with the russian city of don. yes. where lodge

residential buildings have been hit by the latest ukrainian shilling that's according to local officials. footage from the scene shows damage to an apartment block with one appears to be the fragments of a granite rocket on the ground near by. the man i've done yet, says the ukrainian military father. we at least 16 such rockets into the city. here the troops have been accused of stepping up the shelling of civilian areas, but have previously denied that involvement. social media uses on debunk yet another fake news story from ukraine, posted online by a local law maker who tried to pass off an old photo of an irish boy as a child victim of the conflict in ukraine. the saddest part there are no children in ukraine any more, only little humans with very grown up eyes old to even somewhat tired of a life. yet. unlived pictured mark 8 years old, just survived

a russia artillery attack. readers added context, they thought people might want to know. this image predates the conflict in the ukraine and it p is on a novel published in 2013 the ukrainian m p. that posted this photo on the 1st co in the 1st place, straight up, lied about it. i mean, she said that there was an 8 year old boy there that survived some sort of russian artillery attack. when in reality this kid was an irish orphan. this was a picture that was taken from the cover of a book, a 2013 spanish translation of the miss, remembered man. so while you definitely shouldn't a judge, a book by its cover, you most certainly should not take what ukrainian officials are saying at face value about this kind of stuff. the photo is lifted from a 2013 book by christie mckenna, more broadly, it is true that the crimes of nazi regimes bring disaster on their own children. do ukrainian officials and pundents nails for vass image such as to keep posting such

fakes. the tweets glaring and accuracy didn't stop it from getting widespread distribution though i mean, after all, the ukrainian m p that tweeted it has over 330000 followers on twitter and the u. n's head of global communications even responded to it with a broken heart that despite the fact that her account said that all the information there is verified and based in science, i mean this time it clearly wasn't. so it makes you wonder, just how often were being duped here. well, i don't know. could this not have just been an honest mistake by this particular? i me. well, i mean, we have actually been seeing this pretty consistently, children being used in the western media and by ukrainian officials to manipulate people's emotions, to change their opinions on the ukraine conflict through bought through that way. and we actually made earlier this month, a report covering all these stories, just how many of them are either fake or actually the fault of the ukrainian military with

doesn't stop there either. earlier this year we saw another ukrainian m p, or a ukranian official, rather post a picture of a drawing of a girl on twitter who apparently was from ukraine and she had cut her hair to protect herself from being raped by russian troops. so the story goes, except we saw no evidence come with this story, and the drawing was essentially a copy and paste a job from an actual photo of a girl who died an al switzer. now, we've seen a lot of these face going around the internet, but just to give you an idea of the sheer scale of this fake information war,

we can look at an australian report that was published about twitter activity towards the earlier days and weeks of russia. a special military operation, it said that over 80 percent of tweets from that time were part of a covert propaganda operation. and over 90 percent of the accounts that were making these tweets were pro ukrainian. we found that between 60 and 80 percent of tweets using the hash tags we studied, came from bought accounts during the 1st 2 weeks of the war. we found that 90.16 percent of accounts fell into the pro ukraine category, while only 6.8 percent fell into the pro russia category. i think it goes without saying that in our day and age, the information war effort is just as important as that of the conventional war. and no doubt social media platforms play a central role in that one of the major problems is that often these myths are debunked. long after this faith content has already made its way across the internet. the number of children suffering due to an extreme drought across the

ethiopia can you answer? malia has more than doubled in 5 months, according to the un children's fund unicef, more than 20000000 children are at risk of hunger, thirst, and steadily infections in africa. well, collective and accelerated efforts have mitigated some of the worst impact of what had been feared. children in the horn of africa are still facing the most severe drought in more than 2 generations. according to unicef, at least 2000000 children in ethiopia, kenya, and somalia will need urgent treatment for acute malnutrition. does a 24000000 people face water shortages, while children across africa face labor exploitation that agenda based violence, and sexual harassment leakage van to vale, unicef, deputy regional director of easton and southern africa as these that the situation is deteriorating, admit a shortage of funds. we have for our colleagues all across the 3 countries, seeing

a tremendous deterioration of the situation of the children in these countries that are affected by drap. and unfortunately we are going to to 6 field rating c said making the situation even worse. and we really need to prepare for the worst case scenario. so less rain is again, less overall term, less livelihoods, and increase the acute malnutrition disease outbreak. and of course, food insecurity across those 3 countries that are really affected severely by the draft. actually, the youngest, really are at risk for severe malnutrition and for us to really help them, there's only one particular intervention that is really required, which is ready to use to republic feeding. and if children are molnar race,

the risk is much higher if they catch me so that they would actually pass away. so they're not only uni 70, have a un family that they're looking for money. everybody has their own mandate and they need to find a funding together in the warren and it is not an easy environment to raise funds, especially because the funds that we need are constantly increasing and they are. * also increasing not only because of the number of children our affection, but also because of some of the inflation and the price increase that we see across the world. so we, we are also need to deal with those those challenges at the same time to india. now, where drunk factories across the country are under investigation by the pharmaceuticals regulator of the gambia claims there was a link between children's deaths on the indian made cough. syrup. new delhi say the

medicine was not to play. i'll tease. india corresponded wound and show my husband . firstly, india is recognized in the world as the pharmacy off the wall. and now these reports, 1st from gambia and now from us based on assure, are denting in the pharmaceutical industry. in fact, let me also point out here that in the last decade or so, the exports as far as pharmaceuticals and india, are concerned, they've more than doubled or so. and essentially what happened in october, the world health organization linked the death of around $66.00 children with indian made golf syrups, quote, unquote, contaminated indian mean golf through ups. and essentially, very recently, on the 13th of december, the drug regulator of india wrote to the world health organization, seeing that samples from all of these pharmaceuticals were collected. and all of these pharmaceutical samples that were collected. in fact, they were tested in

a government lab and all the samples were found safe and also complying with quality specifications. essentially said that the world health organization made a very pre mature, sort of link between the deaths of children in gambia to these cough syrup that was applied for india. also they said that they were only supplied in west part of africa. having said that, india is conducting searches, india is conducting inspections, country wide across the country. do you have a need by the drug regulator, all india and v inspecting pharmaceuticals company both big and small. in a sense, to assure the world that india does care about processes safety, it's not going to compromise on that. russia is bonding the export of crude oil petroleum products to any foreigners complying with the price

copy imposed by the west, which moscow has brought the violation of international law. we are prohibiting supplies of russian oil and petroleum products to foreign legal entities and individuals provided that the contracts for the supplies directly or indirectly apply a price kept mechanism. earlier this month, western nations pays a $16.00 per barrel price limit on russian oil purchases. the new cap is designed to force 3rd party bias such as india or china's fall in line with the west foreign policy goals. since the announcement that rushes respondent prices of crude oil, petroleum have risen across the board on western energy markets. and if you journalists, arena slot and geo political commentator mooney con, se, russian oil will continue to be traded internationally due to high demand. china and india were the main target price gap. remember us treasury

secretary l and traveling in asia, trying to been facing new delhi to, to agreed to comply by and both capital made it abundantly clear that they will not because they are both being for magic rather than lexical. because both countries, huge oil consumers and equally huge oil importance, they need the oil to survive and so that to them is really which of gaping their economy is going. it's not a question of politics, the butcher signaling with regard to the frame conflict. rational will be solved internationally as we have seen and continue saying, just wanna be traded by western western traders, and it won't be shipped by a western shippers. and insured by wire insures it won't make any difference to russia. russia has exposed already new markets

and the increasing consumption all russian oil to china and india. and also pakistan is negotiating with russia on a phone call portion, crude oil and trying to make good to this as you changes into the refineries and air force that com. so both countries come to any deed and that is most likely in the, in the next year, maybe in january. and it will increase the consumption of formation or in practice and ratios, all of negotiating. what of the other countries as well? calling from the local factories say they were main closed even after the christmas holidays, as the current coast of energy is too high to keep production. they now when come

the fuel prices in france are expected to rise due to the end of a discount on car fuel and gas stations on december 31st. all he contributes rachel marston is in paris with the details. things are really not looking very good here in france right now. and moscow's response to the g 7 and european union's price cap on russian oil that is to band deliveries to countries that abide by the cap. doesn't even kick in until february 1st and e, useful embargo on russian oil also hasn't been fully felt yet, because there's also a grace period there until january. so ships don't get caught out at sea, but already there are some signs of trouble here. hey, you know the fairy tale of cinderella, where she had to be home by midnight, or else her magic carriage turned back into a punkin? well, french drivers have until midnight on december 31st before their own pars risk getting bricked turning into pumpkins because of sticker shock at the pump. because the

discount that a live drivers here in france weren't even aware that the government had built into the price of fuel for the past few months to help offset the rising cost of energy is coming to a crashing halt when the clock strikes midnight on january 1st, and at that point, the prices are set to go up by $10.00 to $0.20 per liter for everyone, except about $10000000.00 french citizens who will qualify for the help that's replacing it in the case of workers who make less than $14700.00 euros per year, who will need to fill out a government form to get on all whopping $100.00 euros to cover the entire year of energy price heights for 2023. meanwhile, french factories are already planning to ring in the new year by not reopening after the holidays. citing skyrocketing production costs, one manager of a company that produces isolation material, told the french press that he seen. i 100 percent increase in material costs. and

500 to 700 percent spikes in energy prices. oh and get this. the french energy transition minister. i guess penny, who now she tweeted on tuesday that if you hear home with would in france, the government will now offer you assistance of between 50 and 200 euros. the state acts against rising prices from this tuesday, december 27th. if you want temper to help you warm up, you can benefit from assistance ranging from 50 to 200 euro's. it was just so surreal. this tweet that you think you're looking at a parody account, but ah, nope. and apparently, the energy transition minister, i guess, is going to help friends transition straight back to the cave mandate. hey, maybe the government can toss in a free bag of marshmallows so that at least french citizens can all feel like they're having fun. camping out at home rather than huddling around the fire. like they're back in the stone age. maybe we can even like, since production is troublesome right now because of them,

he paused. now we can like start bashing on rocks and the fire to hobbled that. it's hard to believe that this is supposed to be one of the world's most developed countries, which at one point prided itself on its nuclear energy independence to the mounting tensions in the balkans. now, well, forty's in northern kosovo, have closed a key crossing with serbia of the serbian protest to set up road blocks on this side of the check point. activists have blocked several roads inside northern coast . though this month, the local cert minority is protesting. the arrest of a former policeman accused by course of all sorties of assaulting other offices, several shooting incidents that be reported in the area while christina has demanded the removal of the service barricades on the soviet 5 belgrade is deployed troops along the coast of a border ordering its army and police to stay on high alert and be ready to protect to ethnic subs in the breakaway province. christina has also denied entry to the head of the serbian church ahead of orthodox christmas. either his refusal to

recognize that cost of those aspirations for independence and with tensions of kosovo at boiling point, the european community is wary of a new military conflict in the balkans. meanwhile, the authorities in pristine are trying to blame the escalation on none other than moscow. it is precisely serbia influenced by russia that has raised a state of military readiness and that is ordering the erection of new barricades in order to justify and protect the criminal groups that terrorized citizens of serb ethnicity living in kosovo or moscow. how strongly, what but to the accusations from christina, for his part, serbian president alex on the v church, faith belgrade, is committed to preserving peace and stability in the region. while the safety of some 50000 ethnic serbs in northern kosovo were main, the top priority, full belgrade, to teach faith the serbian barricades a clear sign of the discontent and struggle of locals. let's discuss these

developments with belgrade based political analyst, alexander povich. now many thanks for joining us on the program. now what do you like think we can expect from the protesters in the coming days? well, just a few hours ago the serbian president said that he thinks that they should remove the roadblocks because of the rest of the serb policemen has been released from jail to house arrest. also another young, serbian man who was arrested last june for celebrating the serbian national day and coastal, wearing a t shirt was also released. and so he supposed to have a meeting tonight, right, about this time with representatives of coastal search us to explain to them why he thinks that they should remove the robe walks. we'll see if that happens because you know, the demand was for a lot more than that. it was also for the i was a special police forces of so called costal to true withdraw from the north. so

we'll see what happens after tonight's meeting with by the serbian president and the coastal server representatives will know much more. the option to negotiate seems to have been pushed aside at the moment. but could that perhaps change at the conflicts continues to escalate? well, really, please can i hasn't shown any willingness to compromise anything so far. they've been making unilateral moves. they've been sending special police forces to the north. even though there's an agreement where they can go to the north, the cost of only with by prior agreements from k $4.00. and they go there and intimidate the local population. they are building new bases in a north which they're not supposed to be able to do. and all the was done,

we backs the entire was back. you know, they want me, they haven't really tried to put any pressure on them to do anything. whenever they condemn anything, they always make sure to condemn both sides as though belgrade has done anything wrong. so you know that things so far can, has been allowed to act with total impunity. and so far that hasn't been any, any science from any of the western capital that down will change, maybe well, but so far it hasn't. again, nato and the international peacekeeping forces in kosovo, seemingly being quite passive amid these tensions. so why is that? yeah, they totally pass it. well, the thing is, these are natal last 4 sits. and just about all the nato countries excluding for have recognized me independent of so called cost of all. so you can, you and of course, the main, the main nato country. the us not only has recognize so called cost of all,

but they're the sponsors of their, of their are succession. so of course, the soldiers in k for from nato countries, they're not going to get orders to really do anything to our worst relations with the audience. so, you know, they let them pretty much do what they want. yeah, they've been extremely passive. they haven't been working a lot with mandate. so that's another problem. but you know, that's the only think nato took responsibility for peacekeeping after $999.00 according to un resolution of the security council. 1244. they haven't really done that. all they've done is allow christian to slower we ethnically cleanse course of all from serbs. to intimidate local population, also re monks, non then they didn't allow the patriarch of the serbian church to cross

administrative border the other day. so really natal has totally failed and it's in its mission as defined by the un that they've done very well to help taste and ethnically cleanse, as many serves they can cost no person or is open the accusing russia of stating the flames of the conflicts. but there are any other foreign powers with a vested interest in seeing unrest in kosovo. you know, that's such a blatant lie. it's, it's really hard to comment on that. on a mighty $99.00, it was nato, that bombs, serbia. i was nato to sponsor the vehicle, was the k allay albanian terrorist organization which, which fought alongside nato troops in 1999. it was nato. it was the west and sponsored the unilateral declaration of independence by priest leaders in russia was against it the entire time. so, you know, to accuse russia,

it is the same as hitler using, you know, the allies of starting world war 2. it's a total, you know, it's a total, we turning things upside down. it's falling white black. you know, it's like, or, well, you know, wars piece of slavery is freedom. you know, it's, it's absurd. it's, you know, russia, if anything has been calling for respect of un security council resolution 1244, nobody's listening to russia and the west. they walked serbia to agree to the succession of its historic province. that's the entire problem. russia has absolutely. russia tried to be part of the solution, the was doesn't allow it to be. instead, the accuser of something that the west itself is doing. many things to bring an edge or insight into the situation we've been speaking to belgrade bass, political analyst, alex, on deposits. thing to denounce russia and

co putin essay to another message from the head of ukraine's national security council to the leaders of the countries orthodox church, which has recently become the target of oppression by the key of government. nurses fused us a blue piece. now, society after february 24th requires justice, and if you hide your affiliation to the moscow patriarchal to connections with people who pray on the territory of russia for russian soldiers to kill us. then how can even lucas in the eyes, you must 1st look into your conscious. why are we hiding? your name is some fair people should know where they're going or what your, if you don't have a relationship, then officially deny it. say that put in a satan and a satanist girl, call a spade a spade, and then it will be fair. lewalma. ukrainian politicians should stop dictating when people should celebrate christmas, and in which church they should pray. as according to the vice, to rent of the key of perchance gland for also known as the monastery of capes, is also asked to lensky to stop the crack down on the orthodox church and remove

a ban on the clergy, access to religious buildings. metropolitan, pavel says the church has nothing to do with politics. so he is a borrowed sir. thing they confiscate relics from the faithful of the orthodox church almighty from their citizens, but we don't interfere in politics. if we don't interfere in the economy. we only ask that the lord preserves us, our church, the church for us and in our country. may the lord help those people who have nothing in common with the church of the night to tell us when to celebrate christmas, or which church to go to looms yet corrupt there? that is the worker. earlier this man, president lensky signed a bill banning religious organizations affiliated with moscow which targets the ukranian orthodox church, traditionally linked to russia. some 850 people have been investigated so far and more than 350 buildings searched according to the church. more than 70 restrictions

have been issued blocking its activities. at least at 17, at senior clerics, including the head of the key of caves, love for it, has been sanctioned so far. raids on diocese and bands on clergymen seemed to be just the tip of the iceberg. ukrainian intelligence agents even crushed the funeral of the ukrainian soldier, leaving the mother, devastated, begging them to leave in peace. your pursuing? he's a, with the very reverend doc, overstuffed chair guy from the serbian orthodox church. faith is necessary for ukraine's military dictatorship to break old times with russia, including spiritual ones. we need to, to say player to said simply, a sense ukraine has become a military proxy of the political west. now increasingly it's becoming de, also

a cultural proxy and also a religious proxy. so basically it d are so formed which was very present in, even in past decades which, which unfortunately has a long tradition at least 30 gaining of ukraine independence in 1990 s. there so far the arc has become basically, you know, social 5 recall ukraine. it's very necessary for the military dictatorship in care to break all that ice. it's not only russia, but also because it's don history and its own spirituality, which is connected to rush in each step in each historical moment for them it's, it's a matter of life of life and that basically to break any, even the possibility of, of carrying any kind of spiritual relationship to russia. thanks for your company here in asi international this wednesday. as always you can find the latest news

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