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to me where ever you are the world. welcome to international, just gone 6 am here in the russian capital, as always is amazing to have you with us. i'm at one time. all right, let's take a look at today's top stories. our 1st headline, one person has been reported to kill them to others wounded in the makes you think, showing a residential area this. if you don't ask this footage shows the movement of a pilot building was hit by a rocket attack. shell fragments appear to be from a soviet design grand rocket. the mer said the crane military final is 16 of the project files into the city. limits is shunning, local official. so you kind of forces have increasing artillery of facts on a residential areas. allegations of government, as denied, we heard from a resident who was lucky to survive off of shirts booted near her cell, which is good news for you.

but the other thing that mama was who said simply and then you would be more oh digital ukrainian military continues to target civilians on a daily basis here in the people's republic. right now i'm in it's south of yes, there was a centralized city all for republic capital. all done. now this house here was completely destroyed. the woman that spoke with, she says she was making dumplings late at night and then this explosion took place. if you let believe me, i was making something santander was a now bang. initially i couldn't even understand whether i was scared or not. so i waited for a beep and then leaped out of the window. so my kitchen was in fire. it was dark

already. so i couldn't see what exactly was blown up. i called the emergency services immediately they quickly arrived and began pity. now to fire autonomy. cinema has been on the korean shelling every single day. right now. as i'm speaking with you, we can still hear the sounds of our children shelling by ukrainian military was. he's a roman cross, a relative wholesale location, international public. meanwhile, in southwest and ukraine, a ford, she's in the black c port of a desa as troubled monument to the russian imperial leader who founded the more c. the definition was conducted at night to curfew. the monument depicted russian empress catherine the great, as well as several of her associates, established the city, the late 18th century, the car in crane of her if you have a leg that the monument was a symbol of russian colonialism. i wasn't,

it's will the anti russian narrative being amplified throughout former soviet republics as a trade in use. so it has more of a platform called the freedom to quote, spread awareness about russian colonialism. it is 5 asked why a prominent us state funded organization previous the use of supporting cues. the national endowment for democracy is a non profit group funded by the us congress for what they describe as promotion freedom in the phone countries. it has been accused of facilitating q and insurgencies in the former yugoslavia, those georgia, ukraine and several arab nations. the older is asian as even admitted to taking on some rules previously conducted by the c. i a a lot of what we do today was done covered lee 25 years ago by the c. i. a. the biggest difference is that when such activities are done, overtly the flap potential is close to 0. openness is its own protection. i don't

think it's funny if something is humorous, but i think it's funny from the fact that america talks about corneal ism or that ukraine talks about colonialism and america has interfered with more more called imperialism as interfere with more elections and more. the sovereignty of more nations around the world than any other nation on, on, on earth. and we find ourselves in this place where they're exactly what they say they're fighting against. and when they speak about, you know, what rushes doing in large part, that's what they've done across the world, they use the word democracy, the use, the word freedom, they use the word that we wanna, we want to protect, freedom of speech. but in actuality, everything that you see even down to the twitter files, which we worked for ever see, show that they've had a large degree of suppression of in the u. s. a 1st amendment, while walking across the world just spreading these papa propaganda lives. we are dealing with them playing out and planning and using things like non profits in order to lie to people. and so they can perpetuate the very thing that they're

saying that other people and cuz other people doing rushes for mr. so a lover of has issued a stern warning about western attempts to maintain a colonial in dominance in the world. he made those comments and interview with russia's child one. then she looks the sounds in we're talking about the establishment of a colonial order that the west hides under the slogan of respect for the rules based world order. here i have repeatedly asked my western colleagues with whom we were still communicating at that time. can you hand over a list of these rules? where is it all written down? but no one has ever given any references to any specific rules. and the answer why is simple because these rules mean that everyone must obey the united states. that dominance mentality has not disappeared in young people, then you should be. it is not only nato, but also the european union as an associations and not so long ago. claim strategic

autonomy has completely submitted to this western line, which are the collective west is at war with us, led by this western power, the united states of america renewals. this war was declared to us quite a long time ago after the coo and ukraine took place, orchestrated by the united states and in fact, supported by the european union and after the minsk agreements, which as it finally turns out, no one was willing to fulfill. we, we chose those who are reliable, who are able to negotiate as to what we have very few opportunities to talk to the west right now. you actually, there is no special desire. when you read the statements of foreign ministers, or prime ministers, who say that it's necessary to deal with the security of europe against russia, many countries have faced a need to choose what is probably difficult to make such a decision. considering how much everyone was tied to the system of globalization created by the americans and discredited by them. because washington proved it's on

reliability. as a curator of the system. every time there are any election campaigns, americans need to invent some external topic, re either a threat or a task, and then given their weight on the world stage. global processes become hostages, or strongly influenced by their internal political struggle. was a little now, democrats, in the american sense, are those who are loyal, not even to the united states, but to the democratic party of the united states, levinsky political so, so so, so a lady who uses of bung yet another thing you saw from you claim last off, the local will megan lives of pol, soften old phone, irish boy, and then now do the tweet as a supposed child. little civil. the queen conflicts 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. and lived pictured mark 8 years old, just survived a russia artillery attack. readers added contest they thought people might want to know. this image predates the conflict in ukraine and it p as on a novel published in 2013 the ukrainian m p. that posted this photo and the 1st po in the 1st place, straight up light 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 no 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. 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 happy? 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 and our wits now we've seen a lot of these sakes 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's 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 to 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. what is the grain official pushes a think story burdens telegraph newspaper publishes a photo showing, including sodium proudly just thing in nazi symbol. the school and close funds i called in of platform se was used by nazi german assess forces during world war 2. we heard from jim chambers of jonas activists. it says the western media, somebody turned a blind eye to blink to neo nazi, sent to us in nuclear at some point that the members of the media intelligence. yeah. and the ruling class in general decided we can't really hide this. so let's just act like it's not a big deal. or like some other form of nationalism the same way they say. so let's use jewish. you know, they say, well of course we don't support nazis. you know, we're the, we're the reasonable progressives of the, what we're about freedom, freedom of speech and free value. so there's no way that, you know,

this is crazy that they would be not, is that simple mean something else and people just don't really pay attention and sort of believe what their top, i think it's so easy for them to just turn out propaganda in relation to ukraine, that no one feels the need to fact check to pay attention. math africa, fafsa has analysis sending 750. so just the democratic republic of congo. that's part of the international effort to still submit it. see in the central african nation as it begins voter registration for the next presidential election. that has been in times $517.00 congolese national forces on the employees, the surgeon group in recent month, in eastern regions of the country near the little one border. the dfcs present has faced harsh criticism for being unable to stop vines without foreign intervention. he's expected to run is too prominent opposition candidates with the national

security concerns very much in focus. the am 23 wasn't group has been a, he's a w is 50 civilians amid the violence. insurgency which is numerous on factions, is believe, have different thousands of people to see the homes. the d i. c is accused lawanda financing. m 23 allegation that the neighboring country i don't need and i, so we heard about foreign affairs and civil society and this just says the presence of kind of must focus on the security concerns. i think the most critical issue from the issue of the economy. of course it's one of the forest country in the world. the g d p 6 with so you have initial states that just lots to show that you got it. and yeah for, i mean you, as a result, you have all, my, not, i'm groups but it will be, you know, it yourself especially, you know,

you stand receive also be like using that. we've got a people also active. if you stuff like this, you're talking about, you know, you can not talk about it. i think it's one that, from the activities of the every to create a ticket. unless the political suspicion, you know how to collectively by get about this is that they need to see if your country that is the only way electrons got it so that the guy is gone undergoing a record power outages this year with blackouts occurring in total $200.00 days due to the system breakdowns in the energy industry. a so me is on the should not a power plant in the country to show the details about the current events you twice . more than 200 days of power cuts in 2022 alone. that's south

africa's li to struggle record rotational blackouts due to ailing and repeat infrastructure. have what the country to its knees with just 12 hours of power a day, leaving many without heat and unable to work, corruption, crime, and sabotage at power plants have been cited as factors leading to the mobilization of the military to protect the countries electricity plants. it's a number of different factors. some of them are operational relating to is scrums in ability to maintain as cold fleet. you also have issues with a cough fleet, boiler tube, you know, maintenance, m, you boiler tube tube leaks. a call that's being delivered on site. you also have what the terms sabotaged, but ultimately is just vandalism. 5th of the infrastructure, which is obviously affect to be transmission and distribution and some of the generation facilities as well. if come holdings, one of south africa's largest energy companies experienced record rotational

blackouts in 2022 with outdated and poorly maintained power stations. continually breaking down, the company said it will ramp a power cuts from low cheating, which is a way to ease the stress on main power sources went to mind is overwhelming. small businesses are struggling to keep afloat amid the darkness with increased crime throwing a new spam it. in the words navi rolling blackouts, who made a noose around south africa's growth prospects. the south africa at the moment. i think this was unprecedented. we are sitting with an energy availability factor, which is the, is complaints that are available at only 50 percent. this is the lowest, it has ever been in is comes almost a 100 year history in for more than a 100000000 in history. so we really are in trouble as frustrations continued to grow among south africans. many on looking toward tentative to keep him alive on. but schools are already cash strapped with no additional funds. it's been

a nightmare. i'm especially with the economy. it is right now have what is high cost of living and high and adding more cheating on to the mix. what is getting spoiled medication? it's just, it's been a nightmare. i installed it for a 3 k v, a solar system where now the s glum becomes a back up rather than the primary source of power. the state owned company has warned that the 1st 3 months of the year will be difficult. for many south africans . it simply means that adjusting embracing for yet another powerless year ahead is what needs to be done. that's a home so me for archie and johannesburg. meanwhile, the use energy crisis has pushed some factories in france to remain close affluent

to holidays. as the rising cost of fuel proved too burdensome to keep up production, the government is also exposed to the constant for these on petrol. in the coming days, all seeds contrary to ridge of mazda in paris, gave us her take on the issues. 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. does even kick in until february 1st and the 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 cars. 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 a whopping $100.00 euros to cover the entire year of energy price hikes for 2023. meanwhile, french factories are already planning to ring in the new year by not reopening after the holiday. 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 timber to help you warm up, you can benefit from assistance ranging from 50 to 200 euro's. it was just so surreal. this tweet you think you're looking at a parody account. but 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 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 i'm he paused me. we can like start bashing on rocks in the fire to hobble 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. wowza is in brief, from around the world. 40 people have been killed and 24 in nigeria is a southern city of color bar 40 say a drug drive of control of his vehicle crash into the cloud. and i know blanca festival, the month long color viral carnival describes itself as african via st policy as it brings together locals. i'm to this for december in the philippines. fresh flooding m a days of heavy rain full as to these 29 people. another 25 are still missing, more than 3000 homes have been reported damaged. so 90000 people remain in most

shelters. rescue operations are underway throughout the region. and in china, at least one person has been reported killed and several others injured in a massive pile of vehicles on the bridge over the stream fog local media says that more than $200.00 vehicles collided for lisa, close the crossing, while the dangerous weather can 2 conditions possessed made arise intentions in israel and iran, israel, outgoing defense as a has warned, there will be a tax on it. a nuclear facilities within the next few years. i'm assuming so to the shop on 2 to 3 years, you may cross the sky and fly east to take part in the mission. we have been preparing for targeting the rainy nuclear plants. as i was in time for my son, benjamin netanyahu has

a long time allied to become the head of national. so 30 council, the russian lawmaker, pre the seat tasks with overseeing is rain. the intelligence agencies has told a major a vision channel, and he will probably order tanks on eroding atomic facilities if 10 wrong cannot reach a deal. new need nuclear deal with the us. iran's leadership have long close to conduct, retard 3 measures against israel and phase of such an attack. iraq present really see also recently hughes, israel. close. i live the u. s. of attempting to destabilize some republic by inciting. then the reuters, we heard from professor side mohammed, i'm the of the diversity of her says that it is we are conducting attack on iran. it will have to deal with severe consequences. israeli regime makes many claims. but 1st of all,

the iranian nuclear installations are very well protected. and in addition to that, iran retaliation would be very severe. the regime is small, it is very vulnerable. and i think they already know the sort of capabilities that iran has when it comes to missiles and drones. so if there is any attempt to strike you ran, the retaliation would be very harsh. it would be much they would receive much more than they hand out. and in addition to that, they will be the ones to blame for any aggression. so they would be on the losing side of any confrontation with iran. so if they are going to behave in a safe manner, they won't attack you long. but if they want to be foolish,

then they will have to deal with the consequences. ah, i'm a fully go. a massive blaze in a hotel in cambodia has reported the killed at least 10 people on hom, dozens of others. a gas tank explosion is believed to have cools the fire, which couldn't a result town near the border with thailand. media report said people jumped from windows escape the flames firefighters have since contained the blurs a. i'm next is our new program, africa now, and i'll be back at the top. mm. ah ah.

in 1884 that german empire began its colonial invasion into namibia. from the very start, berlin encouraged the white colonists to settle in south west africa and take away the best land from the local drives. the germans were actively draining natural resources and using the local population as a cheap labor source. this was causing major protests and led to a rebellion. in 19 o 4, the hero and nama tribes rebelled against german colonial rule. kaiser will hound the 2nd was fully determined and ordered to suppress the rebellion with the utmost severity against the inhabitants of nam may be a germany through it's 15000 well equipped army. all around the country concentration camps were built. in humane medical experiments over citizens were

conducted within the period of 4 years. the germans killed up to 60000 people among weights. there were 80 percent of the hero tribe, and 50 percent of the nama tribe. the events in south west africa are called the 1st genocide of the 20th century, and not without reason are compared to the holocaust just 2 decades later after the massacre in nam may be a hitler's assault unit boat on the same brown colonial uniform which boyce the world into the chasm of the 2nd world war. who now, what can you give me for stippling bucket. near to nancy, enter them up comes a new book that probably unless she receive

a gets to the young will showcase in under nathaniel. that sounds a little bit of labor plays it up to a boy. ah, a big deal on that number will be what i'm in my chair. the says, laura doesn't want that much extra mom, but there's that whole is the aggression to day. i'm authorized to additional strong sanctions today, russia the country with the most sanctions imposed against it. a number that's constantly growing up in your future.