boomerang, ah ah, [000:00:00;00] with headline stories this hour done yet, officials say the latest ukrainian artillery attacks have killed one person wounded to others. in this city, we hear from a local woman who narrowly missed being called, strikes also ahead ukrainian politicians. it's called red handed with a fake news story. she posts an old photo of an irish boy claiming he's a child victim. all the brain conflict on south

africa experienced as a record number of power outages this year with a total of $200.00 days of electricity cuts. we'll get into that with 247 use for moscow. this is our team. great to have your company today. my name's union neil. we'll get to those headlines stories in just a moment, but 1st today i must have blaze out a hotel and casino in come bow. dea has reportedly killed at least 10 people. an injured dozens for i gas tank explosion is believed to have caused the fire, which occurred in a resort town near the border with thailand. media report say that several 100 people were in the building when the police arrested on the ground for work before it spread to other areas. some people reportedly jumped from windows to escape the

flames. a one person has been reported killed and 2 others wounded in the latest ukrainian shelling of residential areas in the city of them yet. so this footage shows the moments on apartment building was hit by a rocket attack. the shell fragments appear to be from a soviet design grad rocket. the merced said key halves forces fired at least 16. busy of those projectiles into the city. in the latest shelling, local officials say the ukrainian military has been increasing artillery attacks on residential areas. allegations that key of authorities deny we heard from a residence. this is she was lucky to survive after a shell exploded near her. which he did, he came no idea you couldn't use it by you, but that was going on. that being that mama was who sits him yet and any who we at

b m o o e digital ukrainian military continues to, sorry, get civilians on a daily basis here in the people's republic. right now i'm in it sounds of yes, you live on a satellite city. oh, for republic. capital. oh, done. that's now this house here was completely destroyed. the woman that i spoke with. she says she was making dumplings late at night. and then this explosion took place. if you let me know i was making something, some lender was a now bank. initially i couldn't even understand whether i was scared on nothing. so i waited for a beep and then leaked out of the window. so my kitchen wasn't fire, it was dark already, so i couldn't see what exactly was blown up. i called the imagined to services immediately they quickly arrived and began to now defy the autonomy cinema that has

been under ukraine shelling every since all day right now. as i'm speaking with you, we can still hear the sounds of art, so, reselling by ukrainian military was ortiz, romano costs are reporting in the done yet republic. at me most something else to tell you about today. authorities in the black sea port of odessa have toppled a monument to the russian imperial leader. he funded the modern city. the demolition was conducted nights during a curfew that monument depicted russian empress catherine the great, as well as several of her associates who established the city. in the late 18th century, the current ukrainian authorities have alleged up the monument was a symbol of russian colonialism last washington is supporting and the russian narratives being amplified throughout former soviet

republics. it all centers on the launch by ukrainian new sites of a platform called freedom hub, to quote, spread awareness about russian colonialism. it's financed by a prominent u. s. states funded organization previously accused of supporting cuz the national endowment for democracy is a nonprofit group funded by the u. s. congress for what they describe as promoting freedom in foreign countries. it's been accused of facilitating cruise and insurgencies. in the former. you can flavio, as well as georgia, ukraine on several arab nations. the organization has even admitted to taking on some roles previously conducted by this cia. a lot of what we do today was done covered lee 25 years ago by the ca. the biggest difference is that when such activities are done, overtly the flap potential is close to 0 open. this is its own protection. i don't think it's funny as we get humorous, but i think it's funny from the fact that america talks about colonialism or that

ukraine talks about colonialism in 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 earth. and we find ourselves in this place where they are exactly what they say they are fighting against. and when they speak about what russia is doing, in large part, that's what they've done across the world. they use the word democracy, they use the word freedom, they use the word that we want. we want to protect freedom of speech. but in actuality, everything that you see even down to the twitter files, which we weren't supposed to 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 the proper propaganda lives. we are dealing with them playing out and planning and using things like nonprofits in order to lie to people. and so they can perpetuate the very thing that they're saying that other people and other people are doing rushes. foreign minister, circular for office issued

a stern warning about western attempts to maintain imperialistic type dominance across the world. he made those comments in an interview with russia's channel one and introduce 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. 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? 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 see 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 show you the collective west

is at war with us. led by this western power, the united states of america daniels, 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. 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 the 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, either a threat or a task, and then given their weight on the world stage, global processes become hostages, or a 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. lucas reported to social ah, none. what's been a notable aspect of the past number of months, social media users have debunked yet another fake news story from ukraine. it's after a local lawmaker tried to pass off an old photo of an irish boy in a no deleted tweet. now, so suppose a child victim of the ukraine and don bos conflict 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 context, they thought people might want to know. this image predates the conflict in the 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, 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 nail 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 like 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 an al switzer. now we've seen a lot of these face going around the internet, but just to give you an idea of this year 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. special military operation, 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 department long after this faith content has already made its way across the internet. my colleagues, nicky, are in and donal quarter not while a senior, a key of official pushes a fake story. britton's telegraph newspaper has published the photo showing

a ukrainian soldier proudly displaying a nazi symbol. the skull and crossbones icon in a patch on his sleeve was used by nazi german ss forces during world war 2. we spoke to jim chambers, a journalist, and activists who said western media outlets have simply turned a blind eye to blatant extremist sentiments in ukraine. at some point, when the members of the media intelligentsia 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 it's some other form of national, it's the same way they say. so let's use jewish, you know, they say, well of course we don't support not says, you know where the, where the reasonable progressives of the west were about freedom, freedom of speech and free value. ok. there's no way that, you know, this is crazy, but they would be not is that symbol means 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 churn out propaganda in relation to ukraine. but no one feels the need to fact check to pay attention. ah, all right, let's turn attention on the program, not to africa, where side su donhauser nines. it's sending $750.00 soldiers to the democratic republic of congo. it's part of an international effort to restore stability in this central african nation. it begins voter registration for next year's presidential election. there has been intense fighting between congolese national forces on the n 23 and searching for in recent months and eastern regions of the country near the rwandan border. the d. r. c s president of face harsh criticism for being unable to stop the violence with i foreign intervention. he's expected to run against 2 prominent opposition. candidates with national security concerns very much in focus. well,

the m 23 militant group has been accused of abducting at least 50 civilians and mid the violence. the insurgency, which includes numerous arm factions, is believed to proven thousands of people to flee their homes. the d r. c has accused wonder of financing in 23 an allegation. the neighboring country ultimately denies. we heard from a regional political as to say, the presidential candidates must focus on the security concerns. i think the most critical issue from the issue of the economy plus each one of the forest country was the g d p 6. and if that, if any of you, so you have initial state that is not in a position that local tech itself, you don't need that. can you protect instances? yes for, i mean you as a result, you have all my nads or groups militia rubin, you know, tell it yourself especially, you know, we have also be that kids in that we've got to check off their break. if people who

have been also active, if you ever see up like in that box, you know empty, you cannot talk about empty tray. would be the one that from that committee. it's on the every 3 sick and then i need for any of it because unless the political suspicion you don't have to collectively by get about this is that they need to see if your country that is the only way. electro scott minnes thing on the continent. south africa has undergone record power outages this year with black guy. it's occurring for a total of $200.00 days due to persistent breakdowns in the energy industry. local reporter at capital a go miss, so may on location of a power plant in the country dells further into the current crisis. not more than 200 days of power cuts in 2022 alone. that's south africa's latest struggle

record. rotational blackouts due to ailing and repair infrastructure, have what the country to its knees with just 12 hours of power a day, leaving many without heat and i'm able 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, the number of different factors. some of them are operational relating to is comes in ability to maintain as cold fleet. you also have issues with a cough fleet, boiler, tribune or maintenance, m u boiler tube tube leaks. a call that's being delivered on site. you also have what the term sabotaged, but ultimately issues vandalism, 5th of the infrastructure, which was obviously affecting the 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 spirit 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 keeping the lights on. but schools are already cash strapped with no additional fees. it's been

a nightmare. i'm especially with the economy. it is right now. what is high cost of living and high and adding mulch, adding on to the mix. what is getting spoiled medication? it's just, it's been a nightmare. i installed for a 3 k v. a solace system where now the s glum becomes a back up rather than the primary source of power. the state and company has warned that the 1st 3 months of the year will be difficult. for many south africans. it simply means that adjusting and bracing for yet another powerless year ahead is what needs to be done. hm. so me for our teen johannesburg. fly. 14 people have been killed and more than 20 injured in nigeria, southern city of chela bar where authorities say a drunk driver, lost control of his vehicle and crushed into

a crowd at an annual biker festival. the month long caliber carnival describes itself as africa's biggest street party as it brings together locals and tourists to right december from africa to asia. and the philippines were flash, flooding amid days of heavy rainfall as killed at least 29 people. another $25.00 are believed to be still missing with more than $3000.00 homes reported damage. look at that. while some 90000 people remain in emergency shelters, rescue operations are underway throughout the region and in china is ginger. at least one person that has been reported killed and several others injured and a massive pile up of vehicles on a bridge amid extreme fog. look immediate say that more than 200 vehicles collided on police have closed the crossing while the dangerous weather conditions persist.

ah, belgrade has called on ethnic serbian protesters to remove the barricades. they set up in this self declared republic of costco. it's a sign of tensions, possibly de escalating after fears of another on the conflict would erupt in europe or t contributor nicholas, which takes up the story. the seasons regarding the very kids have been changing basically from our to our president, which was their president, you know, the winery, the middle here in the local serbs and the staff was there to discuss the further actions and situations. firstly, it was planned, serves, we will take down the barricades because as a judge said that he got firm guarantees from the western partners. then everything with the service one will be fulfilled after the meeting will go serves

and their political representatives. and they agreed to leave the americans for a few more days at least because now the for the man was so filled by the coastal side. so neither was then bondage released from the gross and coastal police forces didn't draw from the north as land and assigned the brussels agreement. and last, but not least, municipalities the so called as a saw or a substrate austin, i was in the process of being form, signed by the bosses agreement in 2013 president bush came out with a vacation saying that the subject serves agreed to remove the barricades early morning is not clear exactly the morning because the local say that many serves feel very frightened and that the better the removal of barricades will need that they will be basically without any protection or any guarantees that you know and

their partners will go through with the agreement the next few days will be quite interesting. first of all, the questions on barricades will be removed by morning or will they remain for the next few days or even weeks. nothing else seems clear at the moment. little more information on the cost of storage has previously demanded that the real blocks be removed. the tensions rows over the arrest of a prominent member of the ethnic serbian community belgrade has deployed troops along the administrative border, ordering and stormy to be on high alerts to be ready to protect ethnic serbs in the brick away problem. cost of an official is also denied entry to the head of the serbian orthodox church during the holiday season. with attentions having approached really a boiling point, the european community is worry of the potential for a military conflict. rubbing in the balkans, cost of all authorities have tried to pin the blame for that squarely on 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 necessity, living in kosovo, moscow house and does deny those allegations answer be, as president said, bel, great as committed to preserving peace and stability in the region. we heard from belgrade base political analyst, alexander pub, she said christina, is accusing russia doing that. which nato has long been you know, that's such a blatant lie. it's, it's really hard to comment on that in on a mighty $99.00. it was nato that bombs, serbia. i was nato sponsored the k away uh, b albanian terrorist organization which was fought alongside nato troops in 1999. it was nato. it was the west that sponsored the unilateral declaration of

independence by priest in a 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 took totally turning things upside down. it's falling white black. you know, it's like or, well, you know, wars piece. slavery's freedom. russia. if anything has been calling for respect of un security council resolution 1244. nobody's listening to russian on the west. they walked serbia to agree to the succession of its historic province. that's the entire problem. russia has tried to be part of the solution. the was doesn't allow it to be in the state. the accuser of something that the west itself is doing now and made rising tensions between israel under round the ide going is really defense minister has warned. there will be attacks on the iranian nuclear facilities within the next number of years. a tame assumed awful to the shop and 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 iranian nuclear plants. well, israel's incoming prime minister benjamin netanyahu has topped a long time ally to become the head of the national security consol. know that veteran lawmaker. previously taft with overseeing is really intelligence agencies, has told a major domestic television channel that's nesting. yahoo will probably order attacks on a rainy and atomic facilities. if turan cannot reach a new nuclear deal with the u. s. a lauren's leadership has a long pledge to conduct retaliatory measures against israel. in the case of such an attack, a runs president ry easy also recently accused the israel's close ally the u. s. of attempting to destabilize the western asian country by inciting deadly riots. we heard from international 1st specialist psy abraham admin on the of the university

of tehran, who, se, if israel conducts an attack on it, 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, hiram's retaliation would be very severe. the israel 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 iran, the retaliation would be very harsh. it would be much they would receive much more than bay and 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 the same manner, they won't attack you long, but if they want to be foolish, then they will have to deal with the consequences. all right, for the time, that's in it. next, we cross to ortiz new show, the cost of everything. gotch, christie, i guess in moments for an examination of the pressing concerns on our pockets season. ah ah ah ah ah

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