ah, with a terror attack on russia thwarted all new year's eve? that is walter countries, m. o. d sage, ukrainian forces were planning using drones before the russian military, neutralize the weapon. manufacturing side, with preemptive strikes, were not into 2023. but what will the new year bring? we delve into the pressing social, political, and economic trends that will define that coming on. well, the new year bring

a new world order, increasing numbers of countries look towards a more equal structure in relations. 2022 saw correct emerge in the long standing dominant, unique polar system with from the evening here in moscow this new year's day. welcome to the recap of the big news stories from the week that was plus right up to the moment developments oscar. we begin this hour and on bus were a hospital in the luke ganske region was shelled on new year's eve. local officials say the attack was carried out by ukrainian forces using us supplied high march rockets. in this footage from the city of purple mice, you can see the damage cost to the building. according to authority, 6 people were injured. here. how can come is on the instant that yes i'm,

we're going to leave on our take true mileage to visit the scene rights after the attack in these exclusive pictures. you can not only witness the extent of the damage done to the hospital, but also the patients being prepared for evacuation along with the 6 people said to have been injured. other sources are reporting a fatality to although we are unable to independently verify them. here's what one, hospital worker, how to say warning. you may find the following images, mister gerald bluetooth the modem and the 1st rocket stroke during an operation we drug, the patients who stomach was open out of there and sent them for further treatment . thank god, all the medical personnel survived in the operating room. a all there is the human body. when the rubble is cleared, it will be understood who that was. the hospital was struck 3 times. this suggests that they wanted to kill as many people as possible. we kill on the front and they kill here behind the front lines. unfortunately. meanwhile,

rushes armed forces say they've prevented a quote, terrorist attack on the country by ukraine's military. the russian m. o d state. it was to take place on new year's eve than was prevented by preemptive strikes on a facility. manufacturing groans and launch sites. now and more details emerge on this will bring them to across all 11 times zones from moscow to vladivostok. russian flocked onto the streets to welcome in the new year this weekend. thousands of people celebrated in the russian ringing in 2023. and despite many roads of western sanctions, putting economic pressure on moscow over the past year, russia was able to stabilize its economy. r t, steve sweeney, takes us through our we've all seen,

the sensation is headlines. moscow is ground to holds him completely shut down. life in russia will never be the same again. and the country has once more retreated behind the iron curtain wall. i'm here in the capital i with the opportunity to show you what life is really like have on the ground. and a spoiler is very different from the so called iron curtain portrayed in the western media. first of all, no, we're not hit by some kind of social media blackout. cut off from the outside world . a good vpn, get you everything you need. i'm even up to speed with the light is going on in our square. after february, the 24th. the news came flooding in about shots and businesses leaving the country in some kind of mass exodus. if you believe the headlines there were no shops left in russia at all, but that's not quite true. many of those it didn't leave, did so at great cost. but more than 1000 foreign companies are still doing business

here in russia, starbucks has simply rebranded itself as stars. and mcdonalds has a new owner and a new name. but it's pretty much the same. and we're still loving it. we spoke to people in the streets and asked them if they'd noticed any differences. you can keep it there are many local transit unknown winston horn ones. we found a replacement for them. we started to support ration brands that maintain quality. all of the little of coca cola is gone, but we have a replacement is in the local brand, aubrey color. a lot of beverages, good ones have appeared since coca cola left russia and i almost see no difference without mcdonald's either. i don't expect that brand to return, and i think the russian version, tasty, full stop is quite delicious. did you see that we managed to partially substitute for the brands that left for furniture, for example, ikea. we've replaced a portion of their products. it will be silly to deny the impact of sanctions on the russian economy of core things on quite as they were before the special minutes

your ration. but at the same time is not quite as the wes hote, i think ramped up the pressure. remember biden as result of these unprecedented sanctions ruble almost immediately reduced to rubble. well, soon after the military operation began, the rubel did indeed tank 30 percent to the dollar hitting record lows. but the situation is stabilized. it's now $65.00 to $70.00 roubles to the us dollar, meaning that russia currency is now stronger than it was before the military operations began. in fact, according to bloomberg, the rubel is the best performing currency in the world this year. but now, as the situation has stabilized, so has the west 3 alizay's been that it's over played its hand. take the economists, for example, back in february, it was reporting dubin gloom, that the collapse of the rouble was continuing and compounding the isolation of

russia. yet just months later in august, it was asking the question, how does the ruble continue to defy expectations? well, maybe the answer is a simple one. perhaps those expectations shouldn't have been lowered in the 1st place, but not to say that there's no awareness of what's going on in the conflict though . it's a topic this not just discussed 80, but also exist in the public spread. across the city you'll see billboards adorned with as ed logo. posters like this one declaring glory to russian heroes. different pictures, different faces of different soldiers of all run a q, r code. how to find out more information. was there a serious discussion about how best to support those on the front line? this new year will look different for many russians. a lot of towns and cities have scrapped by celebrations altogether. here in moscow, a compromise was,

i citywide boat was held the outcome. well, a tune down, celebration without firewood, but the mer says, but it important to keep those traditions, ally, to day when thousands of men husband's fathers and sons are fighting for the independence of our motherland. when blood is being shed, when hundreds of thousands of civilians are suffering, we also face a choice in the name of the economy in the name of compassion, to abandon these holidays. or to spite the tragic circumstances to still remain human. people who adhered to their national traditions do not lose their spirit. they do not get discouraged. they believe in victory, not with tears, but with deeds. they support those who are on the front line to day. so yes, there have been some hiccups along the way. and for many, life will never be the same. in rucker again bought rushes,

total isolation on its collapse. i predicted by the west a seemingly file to materialize. steve sweeney with the focus on russia now on a global level 2022 was a year. that's what tracks emerged in the long standing uni polar system. news rolled in essentially every month that appeared to show the balance of power shifting and the newer shared world order rising. when i should listen before our very eyes, the world is changing and really becoming multi polar. however, some countries are trying to preserve their teetering had gemini, at any cost using a wide range of political, military, economic, informational, and other methods and means. since the end of the 2nd world war, it felt like the world was ruled by a very few power, seemed concentrated in the hands of the global north and represented by the g 7

group of economies, all singing to the same west than him. but this year and you, horace is rising, the biggest new block is coming up and with a tidal wave. this is rick's 25 percent of the world's d. d p. that the court of the was gross domestic product and 40 percent of its population. when measured in land was, it is a quarter of the world, this is what you and i, and the rest of us have been waiting for. a multi polar world is rising. and along with it many more keen to join in african biggest country by land mars and the continents biggest guess export algeria once in. iran is also key. and it was right here in south africa that president settled on the plaza, told us about saudi arabia's interest as well. egypt and turkey allured and pondered why it's the spirit driven in co operation and inclusiveness

heightened in trade finance supply chain and mcmurry factory. here no one is more over another with in the group, and there's no meddling in each other's business or dictating how they should handle their own, a face each with equitable global governance. radio, not a new world is coming to san antonio. t was the ear the word dollarization went a bit of ira, just sd geo political ask about changing with new regional powers emerging. the global financial system is getting a bit of a make over to, for example, major. his people rush energies with national currencies and even 5250 splits between rouble and new that. and if the plans of shanghai corporation of an invasion come to life, we'll only see they strand accelerate with alternative payment system. also on the

horizon, the reliance on the dollar as the instrument supporting the world economy is not so very promising for him to speak. and that is not by use of them. the more and more countries are shifting through or using cur, alternative currencies, shifting to use national currency more and more and then the lease process so we will be, will be gaining momentum. we have see how washington says to hundreds of billions of dollars of fresh assets. we know promised that there'll be return. i am of the day to shall dare. trenice un. i counted for almost 3 percent to the highest level since the day to began in 2016. at the same time, the dollars share job to, to below 59 percent to the lowest level in 25 years or 2022 saw the momentum growth tours break in his dominance and age are ringing. a new fear word odder.

when the conflict in ukraine started, western leaders said that anyone who doesn't sign up for their sanctions will be on the wrong side. all the history. india did not speak sides. in fact, in that position been cleared the position of utility. after all, school been an old friend to new delhi and also all trading part. so what india did instead was it started building new banking channels to be able to trade with more school. in ruby's india as appetite for russian crew also increased from mainly around one percent in ports in february to almost 22 percent now, which is nearly $1000000.00 barrels of crude d. now in the own going geopolitical shift as far as india is concerned. it's view or more school is not defined by how western countries see it's we have to be

confident about who we are. i think it's better to engage the world on the basis of who we are rather than try and pleased the ones as a limitation of what this idea does define us somewhere and we need to get the approval of the waters. i think that's it. all we need to put behind in the us foreign policy has been very, very clear that is to promote its own interest. first, for despite western pressures and more judgments, india has been very clear that it's not going to be dictated by anyone. while i was 2023 gets into your people or run the globe, or hoping for a more positive your head. it follows a previous 12 months of muff. protests, military conflicts, further fall out from the pandemic and all amid a deepening economic crisis. my colleague nikki,

or an earlier discuss the prospects for the new year with a number of guests. just when i think i have figured that the human race has somehow exhausted, every possible means of destroying itself or its culture already and or its saturday. i'm disappointed because there's a new way. no, i think things are going to be much worse. and, but the only thing that will help most people is the diluted effect of the social media platforms which allow people to recess and to revert from reality and go into la la land and take pictures of their food. while society collapses famous, the astrologer nostradamus, he made many interesting and unusual prophecies, as we know, he said, to predict the 3rd world war being on the horizon next year. what's your take on that and doesn't look like tension between some of the worlds and major powers reaching that critical points. i say the possibility of potentially

for a forefront war facing the united states, especially because it's out there with it's a gemini, stirring all of the sub has created the mess and in 2022. and i think it's, it, it just doesn't know how to help itself, and it's going to continue on that path and it's going to create even greater tension. so in 2023, we got to be watchful and any think and there can be something out of nowhere that could absolutely cause a, a catastrophic event and a cascading event that could lead to, to this war front war that i just mentioned. they stem from the middle east to the, to, into in the pacific to or of course europe, europe could see in a 2nd war next year. and that what, what is that war?

that is basically co kosovo. serbia, that was announcement recently, for example, that a td bank, one of rushes, largest bank, has currently developed a new payment gateway that goes between russia and iran and allow people to lose money more or less instantly between the 2 countries. that's where we're moving. the dominance of the financial system, which at the moment is controlled by a private company called swift, which is basically how most of us move our money to and fro around the world. now that's gone. now we've seen that gone. we're going to see, i think, a whole bunch of new and exciting companies from china, russia, india, iran, or b as everyone thing or the new company. these new companies that will be stopped in this new multi poder waldo. that will start developing really exciting payment technology that we've been stopped for in the financial industry, for generations now. ah, dark secret supposed to be for their eyes only during the year just on the lawn must brought into the spotlight. the so called twitter file revelations,

laying bur previous management's bias on the u. s. government attempts to censor dissenters and promote its own narrative. but as the documents went viral, the mainstream focus instead shifted its considerable gays. on the new twitter chief himself ilan mosque, anyone must be on matthew on mas, $44000000000.00. twitter take over is just about a done deal with a recons bursey theory that people had about twitter turned out to be true. if it's

a conspiracy theory about twitter that didn't turn out to be true. so father bolted out to be true. and if not, maybe more true than people thought. a really long time and i did you have with you on both . ah, we see the says in interesting or a coincidence. if i made this is true, so haphazardly push this distraction, that is a that is a full of old news. i think just generally

the i'm looking for something that's like like said really as early, inclusive as possible. ah, anything cited or recoverable war with reading during both with okay. something else to talk about today? 2022. so no end of instability only energy markets with commodity prices all over the place. western sanctions on russian energy supplies led to spikes and fluctuations. and the sector is expected to get even rougher next year because of

any u. n. g 7 price cap on russian, or let's focus on not because moscow says it won't play by the western ruth, i'm will bon exports to any country complying with the cap. we are prohibiting supplies of russian oil and petroleum products to foreign legal entities and individuals provided that the contracts for the supplies directly or indirectly apply a price kept mechanism. thanks a really not looking very good here in france right now. and moscow's response to the g 7 in european union's price cap on russian oil. that is to band deliveries, to countries that abide by the cap. does even kick in until february 1st. and the useful embargo on russian oil also hasn't been fully felt yet. because there's also a grace period there until january, so ships don't get caught out at sea, but already there are some signs of trouble here. hey, you know the fairy tale of cinderella, where she had to be home by midnight, or else her magic carriage turned back into a pumpkin?

well, friends, drivers have until midnight on december 31st before their own pars risk getting bricked turning into pumpkins because of sticker shock at the pump. because the discount that alive drivers here, france weren't even aware that the government had built into the price of fuel for the past few months to help offset the rising cost of energy is coming to a crashing halt. and at that point, the prices are set to go up by $10.00 to $0.20 per liter for everyone, except about $10000000.00 french citizens who will qualify for the help that's replacing it in the case of workers who make less than $14700.00 euros per year, who will need to fill out a government form to get on a whopping $100.00 euros to cover the entire year of energy price heights for 2023. meanwhile, french factories are already planning to ring in the new year by not reopening

after the holiday. citing skyrocketing production costs, one manager of the company that produces isolation material, told the french press that he seen. i 100 percent increase in material costs and 500 to 700 percent spikes in energy prices. oh, and this, the french energy transition minister, i guess penya, who now she tweeted on tuesday that if you hear home with wood in france, the government will now offer you assistance of between 50 and 200 euros. the state acts against rising prices from this tuesday, december 27th. if you want timber to help you warm up, you can benefit from assistance ranging from 50 to 200 heroes is just so surreal. this tween that you think you're looking at a parody account, but nope, and apparently the energy transition minister, i guess, is going to help france transition straight back to the cave mandate. hey, maybe the government can type in a free bag of marshmallows so that at least french citizens can all feel like

they're having fun. camping out at home rather than huddling around the fire. like they're back in the stone age. maybe we can even like, since production is troublesome right now, because that am replies me. we can like start bashing on rocks in the fire to hobbled bad. it's hard to believe that this is supposed to be one of the world's most developed countries, which at one point prided itself on its nuclear energy independence. before we get to this, when the perception that when russia is being sanctioned, left right and center, i'm not able to this point. so this, there is phones for, from the russian president from the russian federation does, will send over a quote straight to does not going to come in here and play your games as if now the oil and gas or the energy has controlled won't in washington, especially the european countries have the ones that i have to suffer from dis decreased by the ones that are really sticking to russia. i'm going to give you after them bed, mom, and she's only the western countries that are more of an issue that i shall. yes,

it would benefit him from the persistence of russia brother going to suffer. now during his new years speech chinese president, she jumping address one of the most pressing issues. his country faced in 2022, the coven, demik. he also called for unity jingo, jenco, ga eleanor the from our colossal efforts we overcame unprecedented difficulties and challenges which were not easy for everyone. now the prevention and control of the epidemic has entered a new stage. every one is working hard, persevering, and the dawn is ahead and in persistence in unity is our victory loans. or recently china accused western media outlets of misrepresenting this situation in the country after it's strict anti cove measures were lifted. no number of nations that previously urged beijing to remove those barriers are imposing travel restrictions on chinese nationals, ostensibly amid renewed fears of the virus spreading. our teeth. marina customer of

us being taking a deeper look into the issue. it's the case of damned if you do damned the if he don't. now the china is relaxing. it's spread 0 cov at policies after 3 long years, which it says that informs as the expanse of its economy. but for the sake of its people was for me the are having a field day with headlines like these. but did you know that as of may this year, more than 1000000 people have died from cove it in the us. we learned that more than 1000000 americans have now died from the disease and milestone. we didn't want to think about, but new was coming. yet a pandemic that's far from over. that's more than any country in the world now did was see the same hysteria in the media as we're seeing now with china. of course, not as the u. s. took that headline, lead in the number of deaths and cases during the pandemic or american singled out

and forced to be tested more than other war travelers. no. china's asking how come a small number of western media have deliberately hyped up and even misrepresented china's covert policy? adjustment 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. just a few weeks ago when we saw dozens of protests across various cities in china against the country, strict cove and measures, western leaders were keen to push bathing to compromise and meet the protesters, demands calling season, paying an authoritarian dictator. china has to figure out a way forward on dealing with was covered a way for that answers the of the health needs, but also answers the needs of people. locked down is not a policy that we support here. but obviously there are people in china that, that have concerns about that and their protesting that. and we believe they should

be able to do that piece for i think we're seeing the chinese people speak up for more freedom against the coven lockdown policies. i support that, well, what happened? you got what she wanted, didn't you? and now people are a change in their soon applaud in china's original success in containing the virus and saying that now it's a disaster. even japan, which was asking china to relax its quarantine measures just a month ago, is now afraid of chinese travelers and in america. as always, the double standards are comical. remember when the by the administration was sneer in trump's, china travel back at the start of the pandemic as racist. no republican president nor democratic president, we have racist, and they've existed, they tried to get elected president. the 1st one that has the man was like chris, this is we're a credible year president is most needed. that explains what we should and should not do. this is no time for donald trump record of esther

xenophobia her circles. jennifer, fast forward to this. if you've been to china get ready because the covert costs are back even for those who have been vaccinated. so what was the plan, or is it more of a make it up as you go along kind of approach, as long as it's against china? who knows either way, it's clear that in today's reality, whatever beijing comes up with, it's wrong. it locks people up authoritarian. it opens up its reckless and a threat to the world. but maybe it should be about letting countries sort their problems out themselves a new year, another deadly day in afghanistan and explosion has taken place. the entrance to a military reporting cabal, according to a spokesman for the taliban run, interior ministry of warning, disturbing images are ahead. at least 10 people were killed and 8 more seriously

injured. tell about authorities say the attack was carried on by a suicide. busy bomber, but no one has taken responsibility for it as yet. although on a small mac state affiliated group has increased this attacks in the country since the telephone returned to power. in 2021, a local reporter sent us this report from couple bomb the embassy action bar on sunday, january 1st at around 745. in the morning, a suicide bomber attacked the entrance. gates of italy by military base and cobble spokesman for the telephone confirmed at 10 people were killed, while 8 were injured in the powerful explosion, almost dead or injured our local african people. according to the statement, government officials refused to provide further details. when we approached eye witnesses, they were scared all the taliban and avoided being filmed on camera. the scene. we were told the explosion could be heard of the 15 kilometer away. unofficial.