with in larger office companies would lose millions and millions more business and businesses good. and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fascist. the headlines right now and if you into national philosophy reported across ukraine with explosions, seen in the capital where a hotel was damaged with unconfirmed report. saying that hotel has been housing foreign military advisors for the 80 russian soldiers, a return from ukrainian captivity, where they were in, quote, mortal danger. according to the ministry of defense, the man are set to receive treatment and rehab back on home soil and the western by the interim leader all venezuela, one white over it's been voted out by venezuela lawmakers and we'll exit stage right next week. and while here at moscow were still awaiting the arrival of 2023,

the new year has already come to parts of asia celebrations in china. and the so as much of the eastern world has already been ringing in the new year. we'll get to that coverage shortly as for now, here went into national, straight to ukraine. we go. and starting in ukraine is where multiple stripes have been reported across the country. this saturday will give you some video out of kia, where several explosions have been seen. hotel in the city center was damaged with unconfirmed reports at foreign military advisors were staying there. meanwhile, ukrainian authority, se electricity in the city and surrounding regions has been partially lost. now the strikes off them off is also captured in the following video from the city of melamine sky in western ukraine as well as in nick elias. so straight over now to

our senior correspondent with more from ukraine, it's more, i guess the f and defense weaponry is active. there are exclusions around the city. those may be explosions incoming missiles or outgoing air defense, anti missile rockets firing into the sky. we've already seen the wreckage pictures showing the reported wreckage of western supplied and t. m. missiles on the streets of key of the capitalist wouldn't be the 1st time ukrainian missiles ad defense. besides have struck at urban areas, fallen on people's houses. nevertheless, in care of itself, ah, we've seen the remains of one strike at least one miss all reaching its target. a hotel in the capital of ukraine, where, according to reports, again, this is our verified information. but where there may have been foreign advisors,

presumably, nato member, state advisors, people who are on the ground advising the ukranian, ukrainian military. again, this is, this is something that needs to be verified of them that there have been strikes all over ukraine, east, west, south and north, the city of haddock, of left without pallet. we've also heard of strikes in the outskirts of how to come in kiev region 2. ah, we've, we've seen images showing plumes of smoke great plumes of smoke above buildings, which again says that at least a part of the missiles struck ho the cranium. a ministry of defense has a tendency to come out and. 3 and claim that you know, the vast majority out of 90 missiles they've taken down 80, which year which has turned out in the past to be untrue. they have also been complaints from the ukrainian military regarding the air defense weapon system

supplied by nato countries that they've been unable to shoot down russian cruise missiles. and this is presumably what these, today's wave of strikes is being launched with cruise missiles launched by the strategic bombers from russian as space. they've also been reports of tactical missiles, east gun that missiles launched from the vicinity of the front line. the range on those as ease my shorter but again, strikes in the key of in odessa down on the black sea coast in kotik of bordering rushes. but bill, good region strikes him, come out doors, which is very near the flow front line in the east of the country and also strikes in the west of the country. again, these are, these are ongoing. so perhaps we learn more details. official comment from the russian side, which there hasn't been much by way of. well, i mean while in, on bass, a local official say,

a terrorist attack on the no guns republic has been foiled of avoiding you may find the following image is disturbing. ukrainian, a special service agent was planning to attack government offices in the regions capital was taken out by russian special forces before he could do so. reportedly, amid his attempts, he killed a regional serviceman and a civilian. and a russian and security service had discovered a cash of ukrainian weapons also in the suburbs of new guns city. the stock while included at least one anti tank guided missile grenade launchers and more than a 100000 rounds at last count. well meantime, 82 russian soldiers have returned home from ukrainian captivity just in time for the new year. of the russian ministry of defense says they escaped mortal danger. now the men are set to fly to moscow and receive both mental and physical rehabilitation. the exchange of peer w's was held on a one for one balance with the same number returned back to ukraine. meanwhile,

vladimir putin has visited the southern military command, very close to the ukrainian border. where the president, speaking to the service men and women, said that russia must fight and can't give up anything. he awarded the military officers with metals, including the general sort of can, who are back in october was assigned to lead the special military operation. by to mary awful. now a city which did suffer heavily this year and the conflict though it set to usher in the new year with certainly some optimism for city has being rebuilt by the government. alt contributor eva bartlett has more on this. 2022 is coming to an end . it was here of great sorrow for the people of the don bass. and especially here in mary ople. mariel. paul is a city that sy massive battles to evict ukrainian forces and the nazis that were embedded with them. consequently, there was much destruction. but in contrast to what western corporate media would have, you believe the city was not destroyed. western corporate media also would not like you to know that in fact, there are positive developments like massive reconstruction projects,

including new hospitals, new and rehabilitated schools and new apartment complexes. this is one of them at that global official for this school existed for the last 40 years and has been here since 1982. during the war of the school suffered 6 direct hits. the offices assembly home and the school was significantly damaged. her life is great, she, she, everything is being restored now. and as you can see, literally this school was restored in 2 months. applause was it already has frederick lies. st. lighting electricity in old houses, water supply and gas supply is already returning to many houses in the city. and communications are working. there was work, but we will wait. we are happy and we like everything already douglas are big construction projects happening. life is getting better slowly, everything is fine for put your clothes that are senior will. of course, after the destruction it was difficult, but now you can see the massive construction going in the city. this can be called

the construction of the century. life is getting better, life is becoming more interesting. it's even easier for you to breathe. everything is great. it feels good to know that we're under the care of the russian federation for which our thank you. in syria and late 2016 after al qaeda and other terrorist groups were expelled from the city of alamo, a leper residents erected a christmas tree in christmas decorations, and celebrated the new year and their freedom and their future. so to our residents of mary, up already to celebrate their futures now that the city has been restored to com. of course, while the conflict in your current has certainly dominated the world agenda throughout 2022, this period was also marked by violence classes worldwide. struggles for political power and the death of prominent figures. so just for a moment, let's have a look back at the year that was ah

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on the russian capital. and while we are all waiting for new year and o'clock to strike 12 here at moscow, some countries of course, are already celebrating the arrival of the new year. starting with australia. it's already past 5 in the morning and sydney. they've been parting for at least the last few hours. city celebration started with a pyrotechnic display from the sydney harbour bridge and continued with massive fireworks, a 1000 fireworks. instead of being set off during celebration and from australia to new zealand were chimed in, of course as well. whereas now, just off at 7 am sure it was held an oakland where the sky and tower behind the river bridge was lit up with a light show. and why was this? what you can imagine, of course, china is already celebrating as well, with crowds of people enjoying the atmosphere and han addition of a lights. symphony with colorful fire was lit up. the skies of aging,

really impressive, displayed, coming out of china. new year celebrations came to taiwan capital, city type pay for the government, organized new year's eve of the count down events of usher in the new year. a type, a one i one, the towering skyscraper. and the city loaded up the building with fireworks and hope for the best. looks like the new, the blue, the top off. and just to move from asia where thailand kicked off the new year, just about an hour ago i celebrations, took place in the country's capital buying coke with a definitely know how to do that fireworks. in fact, even boats on the river were loaded up with the fireworks and blew them all up during these festivities. great pictures right now coming in from mostly eastern part of the world. as we know, the chinese leaders using things summed up the results of 2022. it is new years addressed to the chinese nation. and if he underlined the importance of unity when it comes to that of the tie one straight,

she was even the 1400000000 chinese and work with one heart and one mind and send in unity with a strong will. but no task will be impossible and no difficulty insurmountable. the people on both sides of the taiwan strait are members of one and the same family. i sincerely hope that our compatriots on both sides of the strait will work together with a unity of purpose to jointly force or less than prosperity of the chinese nation. as one of the highlights of 2022 is huge and paying on the line the success of the winter olympics and paralympic games held in bathing. he added china's yearly accomplishments included the launch of its 3rd aircraft, carrier fujian, and the 3 sions. use spacecraft, chinese leader also touched on the countries worked on this year and it's battle against cove. it is a bit more on that story. ah, a marathon battle against the new labourers. china's campaign to contain the spread

of cobra 19 has lasted for 3 years. saving lives has been the utmost priority. the country it's transitioning toward the whole make recovery. colby 19 has taken millions of lives worldwide. in china has been one of the safest places from the deadly virus. it has kept severe cases and death rates among the lowest in the world. how you doing with 5, john mean, the heroic battle against coming i t improved once again. that the common pursuit of beauty or community was a shared future for mankind is the right way for tackling humanities, common challenges, and building a more prosperous and beautiful world. since the beginning of the academic china has revised this, toby, 900 control protocols, nighttime, the measures are all backed by science. china has also been accelerating the research and develop and vaccine and medicine. so young, good up. so key to china's

n t average amec efforts in the past 3 years is prevention. now we have come to a stage to upgrade the efforts with more targeted measures. it's a normal process. more than 90 percent of china's population is fully vaccinated against corona virus. among the highest rates in the world, the total number of i c, u beds in china has reached a 138000 close to the level of one bed for every 10000 people. there are 80000. i see you, doctors, and 220000 nurses. china's average life expectancy rose from 77.93 years in 202278.2 years in 2021. china also played a positive role in tackling the global pandemic to maintain social stability. china sought to reduce the economic impact of the academic policies to support business enterprise. if we're note at national and local level at the central economic more conference in december,

the general secretary see are efforts to optimize the coping response, taking time and circumstances into consideration for us to better coordinate academic prevention and control with economic and social development. after 3 years of resistance, the country has come to a time to revise is measures facing a weaken strain of coven 18, and enhanced immunity among the population. china describes the battle against the coping, itin as a peoples war. it's a race against time and also reflects the wisdom, unity of the people shifting gears here, venezuela, members of parliament, have voted to dissolve. the interim government formed under western bred leader one . why don't this coming off the years of profit? what many of called a puppet of the west, simply aiming to austin, replace the democratically elected president. mister madura. the so called the interim president, christened in 2019 with the blessing of the u. s. and it's media is now set to

leave on january the 5th parties. kellum often brings us more on one why dos eviction that is, waylon opposition has voted to remove juan guido, as the leader of itself, declared interim government. now this is a significant blow to us efforts for regime change in venezuela, a policy that was quickly followed by europe. the usa has tried almost everything possible to remove the socialist government of venezuela. there been 2 attempts economic sanctions. none of that has worked and now the false president that they'd conveyed recognition on the expanse of down his way was actual leaders as come crashing down one. guido was one of the wealthy pro you asked students who took to the streets to protest against socialism. he took his cues from facebook, twitter, and none other than the u. s. state department. eventually, he was elected to the legislature,

u. s. media loves to promote the anti maduro protests, but it chooses to ignore the very big mobilizations to support ham and to support the united socialist party. once more the old world can take a stand in support of freedom in the new world. time has come from the united nations to recognise interim president, wand granado as the legitimate president of venezuela and seat, his representative in this body. with all due respect, mister ambassador, you shouldn't be here. you should return to venezuela and tell nicholas madura that his time is up. it's time for him to go. oh law. i'm mike pence, the vice president of the united states. and on behalf of president donald trump and all the american people, let me express the unwavering support of the united states as you the people of venezuela. raise your voices in

a call for freedom. all options are on the bed. all options are on the table. all options are on the to call options or on the table. who can forget when humanitarian aid became central to the regime change narrative about than his whale? the story was that venezuelan leaders had lit a food truck on fire to prevent food from being delivered to their own people. mast thugs, civilians killed by live rounds and the burning of trucks carrying badly needed food and medicine. yes, has been maderos response to peaceful efforts to help venezuelans, countries that still recognize maduro should take note of what they are endorsing with announcement doris refusal to let humanitarian assistance reach venezuela. what kind of a sick tyran stops food from? get into hungry people? the images of burning sharks, filled with aid, are sickening. but later the facts came out. we learned that it was actually the anti maduro forces who lit their own food truck on fire,

in the hopes of provoking an uprising. and let's not forget the qu, attempts and conspiracies to kidnap that, as well as legit president and replay. sam with mr. guido inside a glittering miami high rice representative sort of in his well known position, sat in the room. don't with summarize sorts and listen to a pitch. they had been appointed by opposition leader who on going door to explore all options in the u. s. back quest to asked when, as well president nicholas madura, but the language of the agreement left no ambiguous tea on the objective. an operation to capture, detain or remove nicholas maduro, removed the current regime and installed a recognized when his well president, who on guido venezuela's assets around the world, had been frozen billions of dollars, had been stolen outright. as part of us efforts to weaken the government, washington offered a reward of up to $15000000.00 for information leading to the arrest of nicholas madero maduro remains wanted on the us state department website on the basis of

widely disputed claims about drug trafficking. only a few years later, we have u. s. officials now willing to shake his hand after all these years and all these efforts of demonizing him and calling the dictator. a quick handshake between 2 worldly or is this going viral? former secretary of state john kerry seen shaking hands with venezuelan leader nicolas my doodle. oh, a with with. but what about the pony america? picked one greater the person that you recognize as a leader, democratic leader in minutes and he's not here. what do you think about this of one

way they'll hear by him one guido is to press with memory problems more like rising oil prices. venezuela has got lots of oil and the ukraine conflict am subsequent sanctions. backlash now driven the prices sky high. desperate to import, washington put a big crack in the embargo. they placed on venezuela, chevron. the only american company allowed to continue operating in the country was told they can go ahead and start pumping all this democracy. rhetoric doesn't scream as loudly as the u. s. economy. venezuela has got oil and the united states needs it. so it looks like finally one guido is out of the picture. caleb martin r t new york. and thanks for joining us so far for this program from moscow india,

it's called a global help for that of a crypto currency regulations. as saying a common approach of some sort as needed. it was, are brought to attention by a financial stability report. it was actually issued by the countries reserve bank . oh, well, the group to acid market remains volatile. they have not yet been any spill over onto this ability of the formal financial system. the accumulated experience, however, suggests that they form an unstable ecosystem to address potential future financial stability risks and to protect consumers and investors. it is important to arrive at a common approach to crypto acids. well, a crypto assets are currently on regulated in india. but new daddy has declared the issue of focal point. it says there are roughly a 100000000 active users in the country. so we heard from the deputy chief of a notable indian crypto currency platform, who says, regulation is imminent. the army i had said is nothing new. you know, every 6 months the bay, she was

a similar statement and some love warnings about on crypto things get interesting in 2023 because india has become the president of g 20. what that means is that, you know, india against your global discussions on crypto, the indian prime minister b, m o. d, as well as the frame at the finance minister. but i see that i may have been speaking about the need for a concerted global effort to regulate crypto. so i think that in 2023 you will see a lot more action on those lines. all of us know that cannot be signed by regulation is a step in that direction because it was a frame for all the corridors to abide by. ah, the former pope benedict, the 16 cars passed away at the age of 95. he was ahead of the catholic church from 2005 to 2013 before unexpectedly residing. in fact, he was the 1st pontiff to do that in 600 years. now some suspect that it was

perhaps due to a creeping allegations of sexual abuse in the church abuse that was seemingly ignored when benedict was in charge of that department. he spent his final years within the vatican walls of the monastery. the vatican said that bend against body will be lying in state in st. peter's basilica, starting on monday, a court in the west african nation of molly as imprisoned a group of soldiers from neighboring ivory coast on anti government conspiracy charges offered coasters, maintained that those $46.00 soldiers would serve in a un peacekeeping force. marley says they were mercenary, seeking to get that regime change. there was sentence to 20 years in prison. the economic community of west african states union, which previously included marley but suspended the country because of a number of military coups there. last year. i said it will impose restrictive measures unless the sole, because a fried. so we have this report now from a local john must 2 days of old. yes. book with the and contradictory debate.

the trial of 46 i was in, military's was not up to the public law. witness sees only law is where allowance the main question was the law if they are mentally or not. in by marco, the question is low reason to be asked the just the law. i wouldn't say that this trial will be able to definitively solve the problem. this premise is stated by the molly and government. the government has evidence to say that they a mercenary. within the documents we received, it is specified that they are ivory and soldiers. somali and government maintains its mercenary premise. they have their evidence more here. well, i think it's political since the beginning. we can imagine that it was politics. so it continues on the same path. we can only wish for a good outcome in any case, but the way it goes, it looks like an arrangement met on december 22nd. the foreign delegation left

karen on december 29th. the trial began. so we can say it's like that because if it's expedited like that, we can imagine that it was a gentleman's agreement that the verbage to follow up around 2 p. m. local time. 20 years of criminal and presentment for before the c i would immediately in addition there will be to media on look. can i see air on $3200.00. the verdict is to copy that. and according to our sophie, this is a part of what he meant concluded, getting rid of president going, so we'll give it later, saturday evening. it probably fits every new year where he could get a presidential pardon group in google. the topic is on the top of mills and people artillio to see going to be the outcome of the story. i like the molly

injustice system, wants to go the way it took up the case. this is the sensitive you have to know what really happened, what nice people wanted before releasing that. i don't think it's an arrange trial . i don't think that the deal, and i think it's more part of a separation of powers. the justice system will do is to check whether the information primarily provided by the money. and for example, thing that they mercenary is true or not. we have seen the names that have been attributed, the mercenary, and the john table. the response was given your. we saw that at the very beginning, the master was neglected. we see with the information revealed by the monumental tara, this is serious quoting. my military is out of the beginning. there were finally $46.00 at the end. the 3 we live of the group where free for human italia. louisa. back case was in court room. thursday and friday, and they were sentenced to death penalty in

a safe way. then we will see what i do. well, it is summer time in antartica. while the penguins are having a field day scientists and travelers like you might enjoy some downtime. can i shoot into one of 14 russian tv channels, which has started broadcasting to the southern most continent? thanks to a repositioned russian of human communication satellite? the signal will, i'll give polar explorers a chance to unwind and catch up with the latest tv from home. russian and other nations, scientists often stay for long periods, and one of the coldest places on earth doing experiments at their research bases, but no word yet on whether on all the animals will feel neglected during prime time . so what is russia's strategy in ukraine? what about censorship in the western media and the chances overall of a new cold war with china? you can learn all that and more with ashley to return. see his program going under ground at the full version is on our website. and for now, we'll give you

a quick teaser after which though we are back at the top of the hour. i better start then with the fact that though we don't do no in detail what lee kremlin strategy is in ukraine, given the so progress sometimes fast progress. again, it is the fog of war. how you think the, the idea of humane war may be affecting kremlin policy? much as you've written about it affecting washington policy? well, i'm no expert, but from what i have seen, at least in the initial weeks of the war, it seemed as if they're the russian audience really did care about the reassurances given by the kremlin that the, the fighting was humane. ah, and that's changed to that ah and, and burn.