an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds of warren, we choose to look for common ground. ah, ukraine conflict escalates in the dawn bass as russia and ukraine. a change strikes us after scores of russian soldiers were killed in a recent attack by ukrainian forces using us supplied high marked rockets. tensions rise in western sahara as the conflict between moroccan forces and the self already people's real breach and army as delayed less than 0. that's how an official describes the effect of anti rushes thank can. amid the blocks over fort showing a marked increase in revenues to rush up from e u countries last year. ah,

hello, in a very good morning for mark international studios in moscow and from wherever you may be catching us. welcome to the hour's top stories from around the world. i'm purely, isabel. russian air defenses have reportedly been activated in the skies over the russian city of varnish. unconfirmed footage of objects in the sky has been circulating on social networks earlier to drones were reportedly shot down over the crimean city of us topple. according to local authorities. there have been no reports of any damage or casualties. now to the situation on the ground, a hospital in the city of tokyo mac in those upper raja region was shelled by ukrainian forces. the city of revision and the guns republic also came under fire

or a 14 year old child and an elderly woman were killed, an earlier ukrainian forces hit the city of mucky if in the dawn. yes, republic. with the russian m. o. d confirming 63 soldiers were killed in the attack . american supplied high mar rockets were used to strike the soldiers living quarters, r t z g or son of has more. scores dozens over what is believed to be russian fresh recruits have perished in this artillery attack, launched by the ukrainian forces over the new year's night. apparently under it was targeting the quarters over these people just outside the city of dynette. in the small town of my cave could basically it is believed that all those russian soldiers, they were stationed at what used to be a vacation. oh college, it's building. so they were, this was their quarters. and this is where at least for high mars rockets, according to the russian defense ministry. this is what they hit too high amazon

projectiles were intercepted according to the russian defense ministry. now this confirmation has come tucked at the very bottom of monday's media release by the defense ministry in which they have also listed all the targets that the russians that the russian army managed to hit lately. for instance, they talked how several artillery strikes across the front managed to kill some 74 in the mercenaries, foreign mercenaries that have been doing the bidding of the ukrainian side that have been working on the side of care of the so called foreign legion. now also, but the incident in my cave, for example, it has caused an uproar among the experts among the military experts here in russia . they've been asking questions as to how come show many people were stationed at a feeble or soviet era building. why weren't there quarters located in the basements and the under ground, and there have been repeated calls for

a serious investigation of this so far, the russian defense ministry has already promised to provide all help it can to the families of those soldiers who have been killed or, well wounded as a result of this high mas strike. fighting has been escalating on the ground along the front line in the dawn bass, a series of explosions have been reported in the ukrainian controlled areas of cromwell, or in the risk of car. this is unconfirmed footage of the blast aftermath circulating on social media. a ukrainian military base reportedly came under fire with emergency services tackling the blaze. the incident was caught on camera by a french tv channel during a live broadcast during the kitchen now across and live to postpone hall. and the conflict that seems no closer to resolution. as the moroccan army positions

in west africa have come under increasing attacks by the western sahara liberation army in recent days. robots forces currently occupied over 80 percent of the region which the raleigh arab democratic republic lays claim to our tooth corolla taught. le dig deeper in the decades long conflicts african victims of what moroccan authorities have called a stampede on his border with spanish. not african enclave of molina discrimination and violence from police are often routed in colonial and slavery prisons. and this was no different ah,

6 months after the incident, the government of spain and moral gl denied responsibilities for the deaths in molina, a relic of spain's colonial pass that is still cherished today. the incident is alleged, saw thousands of migrants and refugees, tired of being caged public animals with little to no welfare climb up 6 meter long iron fences that led to precious with police. scores of migrants were left dead, many died where they fell, the governments of morocco and spain and reported the full extent of this horror and denied any responsibility. but not every one was willing to take this at face value, even after enquiries by rabbit and madrid. at this dismal 6 month

anniversary, the spanish american authorities have continued to deny any responsibility for the carnage at miller. there is a growing mountain of evidence of multiple serious human rights violations. the smacks of a cover up and racism train rolled over with her to her out from 1884 until 1975 following international pressure. the un resolution on the colonization, spain was forced to seed control over its territory. neighboring morocco wasted no time in annexing western sahara, illegally flaming. it's part of its kingdom for 5 decades. morocco waged war on the surrounding people. and for 16 of those years, the poly, sorry, of front and national liberation movement lead the defense of the so wily length. the position expressed by the spanish government totally contradicts international legitimacy. the united nations there for can union the european union,

the international court of justice, the european court of justice and origin. organizations do not recognize moroccan sovereignty over the western sahara, but it wasn't just fe. germany also encouraged moral cause ref berlin. now's the former u. s. pres, than donald trump's recognition of morocco's claim over with the, the hara and the united nations in march of 2021. moreover, and foreign ministry severed all ties with germany, including german organizations based in morocco. but as soon as one of shoals became the new chancellor, the country seemed to assume a much more relaxed and using energy issues caused by the ukraine conflict as an excuse. germany signed the hydrogen deal with morocco. berlin now to beg, moral has claim over, sell our we live germany considers the autonomy plan presented in 2007 as

a serious and credible effort by morocco and as a good basis for a solution agreed upon between both parties. this europeans you, paul chrissy, of looking out for your own interest seems more like a west than privilege. the united states, the so called defenders of democracy and liberty in the world. also recognize moral cause claim. in a quid pro quo, the deal is a bite. has 2 men, if diplomatic ties with israel, even though the united nations recognized the police, are your friend, as the legitimate representative of the seller? are we people, the west only cares about it, interest and narrative. but for many in the global south, it would be a moral any justice if west than interest are allowed to some do, gained an entire people without a rebuttal. cannibalization for

r t and jonas were a sarai activist thinks that you stance on the conflict, violates international laws and conventions. you couldn't set up by sediment of his spade in germany did not directly recognise american sovereignty in sahara is a kind of recognition in so called self rule and a kind of excuse for morocco's occupation of western sahara. it is a decision taken by spain in germany, but it violates international law and old international conventions. there was a clear contradiction. we see the western nations defending human rights from ukraine, but at the same time supporting the illegal occupation of western sahara for the benefit of morocco. because according to the un international law and international tribunals, morocco's presence in western sahara is considered an occupation. this means that human rights, international laws, or the principles that the you in the u. s. have been talking about are just tools

in the hands of a dominant power that uses and when it has certain interests and unfortunately support for western sahara does not correspond to the interest of western countries . to indonesia now were heavy rain on new years. eve cause flooding and significant damage to local infrastructure in this city of summer on storms, land java island. earlier on friday, leaving several areas in and dated railway communication in the northern part of the island was temporarily disrupted, no casualties have been reported, and emergency services were on hand to deal with the effects of rising waters and over to europe. now where the effect of brussel sanctions against moscow has been described as the less than 0. those are the words of an e u. parliament member. as the blocks own report shows a marked increase in revenues to russia from e u countries. last year,

r t contributor rachel mars then brings us the details member of european parliament from belgium giver hofstadter tweeted his outrage at a new report detailing how the blocks anti russian sanctions have resulted in an increase of revenues to moscow from you countries. he says that the effect of the sanctions as quote less than 0 and that the e u is quote, rewarding russia for its war against us. or, you know, maybe the use war against itself. but back in february, the same euro deputy was mashing as keyboard tweeting furiously about the need for sanctions. brings your back to its darkest hours, peace and stability are at stake. not only do we need to launch the full scale of sanctions and help ukraine with equipment through the european piece facility. we also need to draw hard lessons, a european defense and energy union. well, actually it's europe. that's bringing europe back to its darkest hours because

everyone's turning the lights off to save on energy bills at the behest of the government. for hofstadter was all in on sanctions at the outset of ukraine conflict. and now he's angry that the very idea for which so many euro deputies just like himself, were lobbying so hard, has backfired. according to the data from the european union's own statistical agency, euro stat, the value of imports to each countries from russia in 2022 has increased and by 346 per cent, from 2021. in the case of sylvania, which imports petroleum products and fertilizers from russia, in fact, the only you countries that didn't send more revenues to russia in 2022 were finland, lithuania, denmark, latvia, estonia, sweden, and ireland. in terms of euro's germany was russia's top you customer in 2022 with 20700000000 euros worth of russian imports. poland was 2nd sending 10400000000

euros worth of revenue to moscow. ahead of italy, france, the netherlands, and belgium. and we've also just learned that poland pledge to stop importing russian pipeline oil by the end of 2022 is about to be broken now as well. so how exactly have you countries manage to send even more cash to moscow despite bragging that they're buying less well, simple supply and demand. a concept that apparently continues to elude the blocks leadership. we must cut rushes revenues, which potent uses to finance this. i'll trust this war against ukraine were prepared for this. at the beginning of the war, rushes pipeline gas was 40 percent of all imported guess. to day it is only 9 percent of our guess imports. he thinks someone who had taken a basic economic course might have spoken up there and said, hey look, if we drastically reduce our own energy supply,

the price will skyrocket. and moscow will therefore be able to recoup the costs of any reduction of export volume. but that would be the logical way of looking at it and measures taken here in europe are 1st and foremost for show, as in look how tough were being on russia, how much were sacrificing our own european way of life for ukraine. here in france for example, every single day bakeries have been sounding the alarm all across the french press over looming shutdowns, due to unmanageable energy costs to operate their ovens. so the e u is even willing to toss the french bag yet under the bus, which by the way, has unesco world heritage status all in order to keep up the charade of sticking it to russia and to russian president via repeat. no, was joe biden's short comment to his south korean counterparts statement that plans

are underway to conduct bilateral military drills and ball. they nuclear forces, amid rising tensions in the region, what we call extended deterrence was also the us telling us not to worry because it will take care of everything. but now it's difficult to convince our people with just that the u. s. government also understands that to some degree the nuclear weapons belong to the united states. but planning information sharing exercises and training should be jointly conducted by south korea in the united states. that announcement came after north korea said it planned to increase its nuclear arsenal this year. the young yang has been test firing missiles as its neighbor to the south ramped up military drills with the u. s. in recent months, the south has warned that they would retaliate if north korea conducts a nuclear attack. in turn, north korea has said the purpose of its missile program is to protect itself against threats from the u. s. and south korea. the prevailing situation calls for

making redoubled efforts to overwhelmingly beef up the military muscle to thoroughly guarantee the sovereignty security and fundamental interests of the republic. in response to the worrying military moves by the us and other hostile forces. precisely targeting the democratic people's republic of korea, we heard from regional geo political expert, victor gao who says joint military exercises only escalate the already heightened tensions in the korean peninsula. and just like united states and our okay. also need to really think about why d p r k had to develop its nuclear weapons. i think the p r k concluded that it needed the nuclear weapon to prevent the kind of revolution that the united states has been doing to many other countries to prevent a kind of military assault on dpr k aimed at over throughly the d p r k. government and therefore i think it really takes the 2 to tango, the united states,

in particular empty p r k, need to negotiate with each other, resulting diplomacy to solve the nuclear weapons program on the korean peninsula. but now if the united states wants to join the military exercise with the r o k forces using nuclear weapons, in addition to strategic bombers, this is not helpful to me. notarized, asian, on the korean peninsula. u. s. how speak our nancy pelosi is stepping down from her role as speaker this year. but he's staying in congress. the official made waves in 2022 with her controversial visit to taiwan, described by many and media as almost leading to direct conflict between the us and china ortiz kellum up and has more. now the by the administration says that it wants to get along with china, but as the old saying goes,

actions speak louder than words. and this year we saw nancy pelosi, the u. s. speaker, the house visit taiwan. nancy pelosi is the highest ranking us official to visit that island in 25 years. and her example was followed in december by a few british m. p. 's. needless to say, china is not thrilled. you do have repeatedly made clear awesome opposition to speak at the last visit to tie one. if you ask, insist on challenge in china's red line. it will the met with roseburg con to measures the u. s. must and shall full responsibility for any serious consequence. arise in there of the world braced for war as follows, the blatantly disregarded u. s. foreign policy and took its dig beige yang. china then launched 2 weeks of dramatic military exercises. the whole pacific region was put on to high alert, but war did not calm. china responded with economic measures and sanctions. the world was not impressed either. the deep us china,

competition. that was not a surprise. but this collation of been shown in k one. yes, they were not the and as you and, and they were treated by an individual trouble over personality that bring the tie when is treated to breach at the age of a i wouldn't say a will, but a lot of war games. los is moved not only threatened china which considers the island to be a renegade. ready province, but it also goes against long standing u. s. policy. the u. s. government says there's only one china and recognizes the government in beijing, but yet biden sad of the people's republic moved to retake the island. he would step in. we are not moving, we're not encouraging or being independent to be clear. sure. us forces us men and women would defend taiwan in the event of a chinese invasion. yes. while on the island,

nancy pelosi reassured taiwan. that economic measures from the united states regarding the shipping industry would benefit tie one's economy and make up for increased pressure from the government of china. taiwan has already paid the co your visit and is likely to continue to do so. with the coming days and weeks. what concrete tangible benefits and you promised taiwan, offset the cost of your trip. went to the same time the ship is taking place in recognition of our common interest. economically, we just pass the chips and sign at the taiwan policy act or 2022 now sits before the u. s. congress. this isn't so much a pro taiwan bill as to bill aim at retaliating against the chinese government. china has slapped a visa ban on a number of officials on the island who helped coordinate the foreign visits. the reason elections on taiwan saw a pretty big suite for the k m. t party that's more sympathetic toward cooperating

with the mainland. meanwhile, independence forces saw a pretty big setback. that was pretty clear, the people on the island do not want war as much as washington enjoy taunting beijing and playing with their lives as pawn when it comes to how countries conduct themselves in the international arena. there are certain standards, the various games that the biden ministration is now playing, despite insisting they haven't abandoned the one china policy. the long standing are certainly anything but professional. the world is not impressed. failed mop and r t new york. as nancy pelosi hands over her house of representatives, leadership to republicans, it seems the politicians and office rated more products and fans get more on this story and others on our website stating that that's all in kashmir has risen after an explosion. feel the child and left 5 people injured at

the same location of a previous attack in the disputed region. militants are suspected of setting off explosives in an indian village near the disputed border with pakistan. the explosion came less than 24 hours after 2 gunmen opened fire at 3 houses on the site of the blot. the attacks left 6 said and 11 injured and it's still unclear whether or not the explosives were left behind by the gunman. hundreds of people came out and protest, blaming local authorities for the last security. the regions, lieutenant general, is offering financial compensation and government jobs to families of those affected 2022 has also been a politically intense here for pakistan. former pm and ron khan was ousted from office and has been holding nationwide rallies ever since against what he calls and internal and external conspiracy. let's take a look back at the timeline of events that unfolded in pakistan in the last year.

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cipher exists. i brought it in front of the governor. i we, i presented it to the national security council because of a late and then the ferret from outside or so i left office 4 months back. never has there been such a public response for, for any political party, as it is for my body to do all my life. let me does that all my life i have always did within the law and

politics. i been for 26 years. i have always all my protest, everything i have, but we look for a but been the limits of the law. as far as i'm concerned, it's over is behind me, the biggest and i want to lead must have good relationship with everyone, especially the united states. our relationship with the u. s. has been a master servant relationship or a master slave relationship and we've been used like a hired gun. but for that i blame my own government more than the u. s. and those were the hours top stories are more up to the minute coverage had over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on rumble. odyssey and yeah,

thanks for tuning end we'll see again and the company our with with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development. i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical. i'm time to sit down and talk ah mm.

turn welcome to well support. a ticket ago when historians were revisiting the origins of the 1st world war, the term sleepwalking became very trendy in describing how divergent factors and self serving actors tangled together to produce one of the biggest catastrophes in human history. as the world enters yet another period of tribe. are we still some be leading, or are we being deliberately lock into an obese? well, to discuss that i'm now joined by benjamin abil, all federal how the was brought war to ukraine. mr. abdullah was great to see you. thank you very much for your time. thank you. thank you for having me. now. the title of your book, how the was brought war to ukraine is quite self explanatory and unambiguous. but

the contrary in me wants to challenge it immediately, because after all, it was russia that launched this military operation on the ukrainian soil. and this is something that both decision makers and opinion shapers in the west are trying to frame as, as an act of aggression. a totally unprovoked act of aggression that goes against international law. and i have to say there is some validity to this argument. why do you think it was the was that was the main driving force behind this conflict? one of the points i make in the book is to try to distinguish between what are referred to as proximal causes. the causes that immediately proceed to war. and the deeper causes that can extend back in history for there's no natural starting point for 1. 1 tries to establish a sequence of events so that while i make clear that the immediate cause of the war was mr. brewton decided to launch the war. he and his military staff for whoever

else in the kremlin, was intimately involved with decision. and that sense, they bear responsibility for initiating the war and if the war could have been stopped and preventative at that point, then he bears responsibility. and of course, the, the russians bear responsibility for how the war is being carried out. what i'm focusing on the book more is not so much the proximal causes but are for the distal causes, the causes that extend further back in time that are now kind of hidden from sight that may have been on the newspaper papers, you know, then the newspaper on the pages of the newspapers years ago and have been forgotten or they may never been on the pages of the papers at all. so it's, i'm focusing mostly on the distal causes and the causes leading up to the current moment. and you know, in your book i remind me reminded me a bit that it's a 1012 best seller by christopher clark on the origins of the 1st world war. be this leap walkers and one of the reasons that book was so popular.