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247 news views and programming, this is our t international. thanks for joining us for the news. rob, but mid day here in bhaskar. explosions are being reported in several major ukrainian city, including the capital key of targeting critical infrastructure for electricity and water supplies. this footage is circulating on social media reporting a show at those attacks. plumes of smoke going into the air as well. the ukranian military has declared that our defense systems are operating throughout the country are and see based missile attacks have been reported. the block c port city of odessa has been experiencing water and electricity shortages while the metro in ukraine, 2nd largest city, car coff has been temporarily halted. allen,

russia explosions have been reported in the western city of belgrade city near the ukrainian border. this city was taken by local residents authority say that or defense systems are operating against ukrainian attacks in the earlier updates to bring years while from don't boss. one person has been reported killed on to others wounded in done yet sc city. and what local officials say is the latest round of ukrainian artillery attacks on residential areas. this flooded shows them moment on the apartment building was hit by a rocket attack. the shell fragments appear to be from a soviet design grant, rocket, the mercy. he has forces fired at least 16 of those projectiles into the city. in the latest shelley local authority say the ukrainian military has been increasing it's artillery attacks on residential areas. allegations which key have denies. we

heard from our corresponded indian yet. romano customer if one person was killed and 3 people were wounded in genetic as the results of ukrainian artillery. shoving ukrainian nationalists used multiple launch a rocket systems and fired against civilian areas. here in the midst, i'm standing in one of the houses right now. the suffered at direct hit by those grad missiles. now the woman that was killed, she was in her bed during the attack, according to the neighbor. she didn't die instantly. she was administered 1st aid. however, later on, she died, ukraine's indiscriminate shutting off civilian areas. here in damascus, taking place on a daily basis with last a few weeks to have been using multiple launch a rocket systems. this is a fragment of a show that landed in this residential building. several apartments here had been

destroyed. and once again, as the result of the shelling, at least 3 people were wounded and one person was killed from one cause for if archie, the less republican. well, to something that's become somewhat of a common occurrence over the last few 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 and a no deleted tweet. i suppose a child victim of the ukraine conflict like 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 and ukraine, and if he is on

a novel published in 2013 the ukrainian m p that posted this photo and 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 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'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 envy? 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 by 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 to 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 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. my colleagues nikki, are in donal quarter now while a senior 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 pouch on his sleeve was used by nothing german s. s forces during world war 2. we spoke to jim chambers, a journalist who's been following the issue for some time. he said, western media outlets are simply turned a blind eye to blatant extremist sentiments in ukraine at some point. so 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 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 wet. we're about freedom and freedom of speech and free value. and there's no way that, you know, this is crazy that 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 turn out propaganda in relation to ukraine

that no one feels the need to fact check to pay attention. ah ok to another over a headline stories today, south africa has undergone record power outages this year with black guy it's occurring for a total of $200.00 days to to persistent breakdowns in the energy industry. local report, her account legal miss, so may on location out a power plant in the country tells 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 unable to work, correction, crime and sabotage at power plants have been cited as factors leading to the mobilization of the military to protect the countries electricity plots. 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, tribune or 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 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 sated or 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 spammer in the woods. now the rolling blackouts remain

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 100000000 in history. so we really are in trouble as frustrations continued to grow among south africans. many on looking to alternative to keeping the lights on. but schools are already cash strapped, with no additional fees. it's been a nightmare. and especially with the economy, it is right now, half what is high cost of living and high and ending no 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 and bracing for yet another power this year ahead is what needs to be done. that's a home. so me for archie and johannesburg. all right, another story to bring you to the western media reports have portrayed china's hospitals as being overwhelmed by kobe patients synch beijing lifted at tough nation wide restrictions meant to stop the spread of the disease. know these are the, was reportedly show a surge on new cobra infections in chinese hospitals. western media reports a medical staff have been unable to cope with the influx of patients and can't provide adequate essential care. some stories put the blame on. busy shine as

strict code 0 locked on policy, which was east this december. amid a spate of protests, what headlines in recent months up the scribe, the countries coven situation of disastrous with at cremation centers? for example, unable to keep up with the demand for disposing corpses. some publications have claimed the reported new wave of infections has also spread panic with patients essentially left to die by over whelmed medical stuff. aging that's lost, thought out those claim saying they're nothing more than an example of double standards being pushed by a 2 faced western media establishment. a small number of wester media have deliberately hyped up and even misrepresented china's covert policy adjustments, and yet avoided reporting on the deficiencies and heavy price paid in their own countries called response. this is nothing but double standards and is clearly against journalistic ethics. while china has now relaxed its policy,

some countries have set up a new restrictions of the room. washington announced new measures will apply to all travelers coming from china, including obligatory testing beginning early next month. other nations, such as japan, malaysia, india on site korea have also an on similar requirements for chinese travelers, which are reported to include trucking on surveillance measures. but for more on the situation, we cross live now to see g t n corresponded young fe joe in beijing. thanks for your time today. young fe, firstly, the overall cobit situation in china. how are things, what say, main measures are being taken to curve the spread? well, it has been a couple of weeks since the adjustment of the cobra policy. and as you described, there was a search of the cases in simply because over the past 3 years,

before the lift of the travel restrictions were locked downs, they were just a few thousands of people ever got infected. so it's, it's an, it's a process, it's a normal thing that as soon as the adjustment of the policy, there is a degree of certain degree of search in trouble cases as well as the infraction cases. and that the 2 people are curious about it and nervous about it and went to the hospital. but a lot of the cases that local health authorities described is a mild cases. so they don't even need to go to the hospital. and when the people, when people are certainly adapting this kind of new adjustment and they realize that, oh, this is not something that can cause pneumonia anymore. so that the fever will be gone in a short period of time. and that will bring more calm and relaxation. and if you look at the hospital now the situation is getting much better now. but if you look at the western reports, those pictures and the media circulating on social media,

appearing to show hospital park with patients which comes after the chinese government and launch their decision to live some of the restrictions. what's your take on the because it's either fear mongering or something else is the situation to control from the grind. what's your take on it? well, once again, because over the past 3 years, china has been practicing practicing measures of reducing people's infection because the previous variance were very threatening with the delta variance, i say the original off of your very threatening. so china is doing all the best to try to prevent people from getting infected. and people learn from the news and learn from each other, saying that this is really dangerous. so when people got positive, they certainly will be nervous about it. however, this is the alma chrome variant and threatening has really be weakened and it's not the death rate is no longer high despite it would bring challenges

to the those who are poor and honorable. so at this moment, chinese paying a lot of attention to protect the elderly well, or those who have a regional disease or other diseases, to prevent them getting infected, including boosting the vaccination rate, as well as creating the capacity of pcr test. so these are also very active measures taken by the health authorities. what were the reasons the government decided to live some of the restrictions this month in particular? well, that depends on science. that depends on statistics because all the practice that china has been conducted over the past 3 years are based on the death rates, the how much threatened threatening it would bring to the society, or also the capacity of the medical resources. if you take a look at the offer very and all the beginning at the beginning of the price is

early in 2020 i was in the center of will hon. the country really locked down the entire city of 11000000 people. and that's a really brave vocation, decision making, but really saved a lives through the invest a part of the country as well as the entire world. and that reduce the possibility from people to getting infected with the offer variant. and then the delta variant is also threatening when it comes to overcome. china do have experience facing the army, including the outbreaks in shanghai and joe, and realize that hey, this is no longer threatening anymore and the death rate is really relatively low. and you have to make a balance between the social economic development versus the epidemic prevention and control. and that's why prompted the health authority to lift such restrictions . as we mentioned that there on wednesday, chinese foreign ministry blasted western media for what they call quote, distorted at reports by the, the new are implemented this week koby policy,

claiming that those outlets have deliberately hyped up. and even mis rest presented, china's coven policy adjustment. and china really not taking that criticism at all, not accepting it, saying that, you know, we haven't been really cautious. we're not doing it. we're doing it for a reason. trying to not standing on on, on ceremony here. they're heading back or if you listen to the ordinary people, because there are do, there are some people got in fact they also got in fact, a few weeks ago. and a lot of people, when they really experienced the whole process of coven, and they realize that, hey, this is something that really bring a certain degree of attacks to your body. do any body system. so they realize that it is dangerous. and when they experience it, the, a lot of people would realize that how important it is for the government to

protect them over the past 3 years. and also you mentioned about the western narrative because the original idea that china health authorities is conducting cod don't cartooning. it's described as 0 corporate policy, but actually when you really translated into english, it's more like a dynamic 0 policy. and this is really to pin 2 things because 0 copay, it's absolutely none and dynamic. deborah colbert, a simply because the government wants to su, or people got infected as possible to fit the medical systems and the capacity of the medical system. and that is certainly a good for the people. and it's just simply because of the changing narrative that really make them image is not, not good. it does appear just finally china account when young fe, previously, you had both people domestically, other countries criticizing china for a strict covert policy. you know, the measures are relax,

china is getting bad press in the media for doing what those had earlier wished for . it's difficult to to in if you're the chinese government right now. now. well, exactly. so because a lot of people will claim that the american, according to the western narrative or a lot of politicians from the western world, are really taking advantage of coded as a political thing. and then think about the beginning of the panoramic, let's say take the you as an example. i mean, a lot of the politicians were really nor the threatening of the virus itself and sacrifices so many people's lives. and if you look at the entire process or how chinese practicing respect finds it respect to how the country is making efforts to boost is medical reserves and pcr capacity. and that really when the battle over the crisis and k, thanks very much for breaking all the time,

including those distinctions about 0 color policy as well. we much appreciate you coming in the program as always, young phase with fi g, t and correspondent live from beijing. ah, can the story to bring you said day at least 6 people are dead and 37 more injured in a devastating fire in the elevated highway in south korea. we've received the are some pictures have been circulating, at least from a ball of on what occurred there really looks devastating doesn't, according to local, maybe the fire erupt. it following a collision between a passenger bus and a cargo truck heavy traffic on the road where hindered other cars and their ability to fear the scene leading to really a destruction of 40 plus vehicles, emergency services are working up the scenes at nar will bring you more details on this story from south korea and when they come in at least 6 dead though from

that. all right. now, amid the rising tensions between israel under run, the outgoing is really defense minister has worn. there will be a tax on iranian nuclear facilities within the next number of years. a k must. so you know, so 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. israel's incoming prime minister benjamin netanyahu has topped a long time ally to become the head of the national security council. that veteran lawmaker previously tough with overseeing is really intelligence agencies, has told a major domestic tv channel that netanyahu will probably order attacks on the really an atomic facilities. if to run cannot reach a new nuclear deal with the us,

runs leadership has long pledged to conduct retaliatory measures against israel in the case of such an attack around president racy also recently accused israel's close ally the u. s. of attempting to destabilize the western asian country by inciting deadly rights. we heard from international affairs specialist side mohammed mirandi of the university of toronto, who stays if israel conduct santa taco and run. 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's 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 attempts to strike, you run their italy, asian 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, friendly 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. ah, now what should be a time of celebration over the christmas period is any thing but for christians in series, north western id lib region, a new report by a human rights group saying they were being brutally depressed in the province under afraid of practicing the religion the organization, syrians,

for truth and justice, save the properties, have been season moscow by islamist militant groups in the area near the turkish border. some christians helping, abducted for ransom, and even killed indiscriminately by armed in surgeons in what appears to be religiously motivated crime. according to the report will western media reports have described insurgents who control much of the lab region of legitimate political opposition to the u. s. opposed government and damascus. there have been multiple ceasefire agreements implemented for the region with a fragile truce still in place. with our t spoke to independent investigative journalist, vanessa bailey, who's based in damascus, she sees up the groups report contradicts the western narrative heavily. this report is a refreshing change from the usual protectionism that we have from western

align human rights groups like amnesty international or human rights watch. who still protect the image of the so called rebels, which are in fact varieties of service groups affiliated to or dominated by trade. or even though they have been rebranded multiple times, the white how much came in with the armed groups, and they effectively kicks or the christian or communities out of their homes in order for you to be able to occupy those foam stretches are also being occupied there not only being desa crated and people are not only being prevented from worshiping in those churches that are being used as military centers. i mean, nation centers and so on. this level of prosecution of the christian communities, the desecration of places of worship, and the prevention of christian festivals and christie and worship is something that has been ongoing in the terrorist held areas. now, of course,

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