or a with ah, the headlines right now on our team international as russia rings in the new year with president vladimir putin delivering his traditional mid nice speech to the nation. and other parts of the world, of course, welcoming in 2043 with spectacular fireworks displays and masses celebration with although apart from the celebrations, we understand blasts are reported across ukraine. explosions have been seen in the nation's capital po, tell dominated with unconfirmed report, saying that hotel has been housing foreign military advisors. and as we understand here at our team,

more than an 18 russian soldiers are returned from ukrainian captivity, where they were in, quote, mortal danger. that's according to the russian ministry of defense, the men are set to receive treatment and rehabilitation on homes. so help with, as we are entering the very 1st hours of the new year, it is finally 2023 here on the russian capital. so good to have you with us as we go straight to our top stories right now. and as we do celebrate the arrival of the new year, let's listen in for a moment to what the russian president vladimir putin had to say in his traditional annual address for new year to the nation at the bull. good by east. this was the mayor of the pivotal bun lawson and faithful events that set the foundation of our common future and our true independence of noble national option or buddhist shiver . lashley eastern these abc missed. this is what we are fighting for to day this

year for executive our people, not in our historic lands, new constituent, territories of the russian federation. we're building and creating together globally, the fate of russia is above all that shit, our sacred duty to our ancestors. all in generations to come to this to protect our homeland raft. we are right morally not. and historically, where she outgoing year has brought significant change to russia and the whole world in lithuania on will napoleon vall, even though it was full of worries and anxiety, are multi ethnic country. it has demonstrated what it's at her age and dignity, yet i see it as it always has during times of trouble. for russia in the foyer, they have supported in word and lead. the defenders of our homeland are soldiers, that officers and all others engaged in a special military operation. we have always known as,

and this is confirmed to day that a sovereign independent and say a future for russia depends on us who and no one else on our side regularly and our will. for years, the western alliances and hippa critically assured us all that their intentions were peaceful. don't including attempts to address an incredibly complicated crisis in the dom boss of in reality, however, they promoted neo nazis who continued to wage war and carry out terrorist attacks against civilians. in the people's republic of the dumbass, i the west lied about peace while preparing for aggression that you're today, it acknowledged this this openly and is not ashamed of it. you're not a cynically exploit ukraine and it's people lobbying to divide and we can russia will not allow this to happen, but we never did. and we never will. that was dear friends,

it just sounds. it's time to leave our grudges and disagreements behind you. leave me to share our true feelings with our loved ones, william roughly to tell them how much we love them, how important it is to look after one another, always and any time, but in glitter kind words. and when all feeling the sea level and still emotional strength and confidence that together, we can overcome any hurdles here to preserve the greatness and independence of our nation. that we will never turn back and will always prevail for the benefit of our families and russia. for the future of our one, he moved and only beloved homeland. i happy, new year, friends get happy. 2023. let. meanwhile on of course, some other locations have already been welcoming in 2023. and of course, there earlier time zones starting with australia, it's already past 9 in the morning and sydney, they've been partying from many hours into the new year. the city celebration

started with a vast pyrotechnic display from the sydney hobbit bridge. it continued with enormous fireworks. a thousands of fi works is said to be settled, worth millions of dollars. so from sydney hobble all the way to new zealand. charming in the new year, of course is now just after 11. am there. the show was held in oakland with a sky tower behind the river bridge was lit up with a light show on 8th iowa display from australia to new zealand to china as well with crowds of people enjoying the atmosphere. have a look at these pictures on enhanced addition of a lights symphony with a colorful fireworks display lighting up the capitol, beijing. some amazing pictures right now. coming out of china tonight as it rings in 2023 and all the way to tie one's capital. city, taipei, the city government organizing new year's eve. count down the events, to usher and 2023. and i'll have a look at this tie. pay one,

i one that's the towering skyscraper in the city. loaded with fi works, i guess they let them off and hope for the best. it looks like they did it through the top of that building. amazing pictures right here or not. you international just a bit more from asia went thailand kicked off the new year just about 3 hours ago now. celebrations are taking place and bank call, where they definitely know how to do the fireworks. we understand all the canals, the base, if the pictures all the boats were forced to the sides to avoid some sort of calamity, life pictures they, i should say by works from 2023 new year fireworks are naughty international. hm. and so the chinese leaders using paying, he summed up the result of 2022 in his new year's address to the nation. in that he underlined the importance of unity on that of the tie. one straight jing long,

you want the 1400000000 chinese work with one heart and one mind to and send an unity with a strong welcome which 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 don't he? i sincerely hope that our compatriots from both sides of the straight ship will work together with a unity of purpose to jointly forced to last and prosperity of the chinese nation. as one of the highlights of 2022, g shaping on july the success of the winter olympics and the power limpet games of course, station and beijing. he added, china's yearly accomplishments include the launch of its 3rd military aircraft, carrier fujian. and the 3 sions you spacecraft, chinese leader also touched on the countries worked on this year and its battle against cove. it is a little bit more on that story. with a marathon battle against the corona virus. china's campaign to contain the spread

of coven i, teen has lasted for 3 years. saving lives has been the utmost priority. the country is transitioning to wars, a whole spend that make recovery. covey 19 has taken millions of lives worldwide. and 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. county, though only that she did say so. joan mean the heroic battle against coven? i t improved once again. that the common pursuit of beauty, our community, was a shared future for mankind as the right way for tackling humanities, common challenges and beauty. a more prosperous, find beautiful world. here since the beginning of the epidemic, china has revised is colby 19 control protocols. 9 times the measures are all backed by science. china has also been accelerating the research and development of

vaccine medicine. so yeah, so what's a good, a key to china's anti academic efforts in the past 3 years is prevention. now we have come to a stage to upgrade the efforts with more targeted meshes. it's a normal process engine. 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 enterprises were announced at the national and local levels at the central economic

more conference in december, general secretary c or effort to optimize the coven. i. t was false, taking time as circumstances into consideration, so as 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 as measures facing a. we can strain of coven 18 and enhance immunity among the population. china describes the battle against the coven. i teen as a peoples war. it's a race against time, and also reflects that wisdom and unity of the people. and so the outgoing year 2022 was certainly marked not only by technological breakthroughs, but also by a violent clash as a struggles for political power. and of course, the deaths of common and figures to just for my maternity international. taking a look back at the year that was

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let's are going to have your company for this program from moscow. let's go straight out to the ukraine conflict where a series of attacks reported all across the country in the past 24 hours. we show you a video out of key of what several explosions have been seen. a hotel near city center was damaged with unconfirmed reports that foreign military advisors were staying there at the time. meanwhile, ukrainian authorities say electricity in the city and surrounding regions has been partially restored. the strikes aftermath was also captured in this video from the city of cml litski in western ukraine as well as in nikolai, of our senior correspond that is more at gusty f. with this report regarding the letters strikes all across the country. in kiev ad 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 capital. it wouldn't be the 1st time ukrainian missiles ad defense besides have struck at urban areas, fallen on people's houses. nevertheless, and key of itself, uh, we've seen the remains of one strike at least one miss al, 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, nasal member states 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 to ah, we've, we've seen images showing plumes of smoke great plumes of smoke above buildings, which again says that at least part of the missiles struck home. 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 this, today's wave of strikes is being launched with cruise missiles launched by strategic bombers from russian as space. they've also been reports of tactical missiles, iskander missiles launched from the vicinity of the frontline, the, the, the, the range and loses ease my shorter. but again, strikes in care of in odessa, down on the black sea coast in kotik of bordering rushes. but bill, good region strikes and come a doors which is very near the fly, front light 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. what? meanwhile, in don bass, i, local officials say a terrorist attack on the look on republic has been foiled. a warning you may find

the following images disturbing. ukrainian, a special services agent was planning to attack government offices in the regions capital. but he was taken out by russians special forces before he could do so. reportedly, amid his attempts, he killed a regional serviceman and a civilian. and the russian at security services discovered a cash of ukrainian weapons also in the suburbs of new guns, city stock bars included an anti tank guided missile grenade launchers. and more than a 100000 rounds at last count. so for the meantime, $82.00 russian soldiers have returned home from ukrainian captivity interest in time for the new year of the russian minister defense as they escaped. mortal danger, the men are set to fly back here to moscow and receive both mental and physical rehab. an equal number of peered abuse were exchanged by both sides. some of those

returning to russia agreed to speak about their experience in ukrainian captivity. perceiving me, let me fill full bottle of thanks to russia and thanks to the ministry of defense, someone on new year's eve. this is the best gift they gave me a phone, contacted my mother and told her everything was fine with me. she knows that i am alive and well, and that's the most important thing. they beat me with an electric shock. we were adding drink for 2 weeks for adding sleep. i didn't eat. i was in captivity since november 25th. when i was with others, i so they were beaten up very badly. it was the blood is already pouring from the ears. we set naked in our underwear and they mocked us. thank you to russia that we can celebrate the new year. you know native plants to maria, hold now, a city which certainly suffered an awful lot this year. and the conflict though it set to usher in the new year with some optimism, at least the city is being rebuilt by the government and is being rebuilt very quickly. the arctic contributor eva bartlet picks up the store. 2022 is coming to

an end. it was here of great sorrow for the people of the don bass, and especially here in mariel. mariel paul is a city that sy massive battles to victor, 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 that the trouble official for this school existed for the last 40 years has been here since 1982. during the war of the school suffered 6 direct hits. the offices assembly hold and the school was significantly damaged. life is great, everything is being restored now. and as you can see, literally this school was restored in 2 months. plus, was it already has frederick lies, st. lighting, electricity in all houses?

what a 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. early douglas era, big construction projects happening, life is getting better slowly. everything is fine for yourself with your clothes that are sitting with 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 and 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 i thank you. in syria and late 2016 after al qaeda and other terrorist groups were expelled from the city of a lap o, 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 come to get this venezuelan members

of parliament have vote to do de sold. the interim governments well formed under the western bred leader. one. why don't this coming off the years of cropping up what many of called a puppet of the west, whose only purpose was to oust and replace the democratically elected president mister madura, the so called into him president, christened in 2019 with the blessing of the us and it's media is now set to leave on january the 5th. so audio kilo papa now brings us more on one guy. dot's 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 expansive down as well as 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 bought. 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 recognize interim president, wan 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 table. all options are 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. masked thugs, civilians killed by live rounds and the burning of trucks carrying badly needed food and medicine. this 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 mister guido inside a glittering miami high rice representative sort of in his well known position, sat in the room don't, with summarized sorts, and listened to a pitch. they had been appointed by opposition leader who on going door to explore all options in there. you aspect 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 as well. and 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 madura 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 you worldly or is this going viral? former secretary of state john kerry seen shaking hands with venezuelan leader nicolas my doodle. oh no, that is wrong with

it live with. but what about the pony america picked one greater that 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 wide ho this his message that you memory problems more like rising oil prices, venezuela has got lots of oil and the ukraine conflict and 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 that was just about wrap up this our program from moscow on this, the 1st day of the new year. it is january the 1st here in the russian capital. all of us here at austin international. we wish you'd love, happiness and success in the new year. and with that, with with

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