appraisal, i did just the low cost of cost to get the group when you, when you're speaking with dr. numbness, listen, go to the school, some delusion with the food, a booklet lucille, inquisitive in ah, ukraine, conflicts escalades in the dumbass as russia and ukraine exchange strikes up the scores. all russian soldiers were killed in a recent attack by ukrainian forces, using us supplied high mas rockets intentions, rise in western sahara as the conflict between moroccan forces on the south broadway people's liberation army escalates and less than 0. well, that's how an official describes the effects of antique russia sanctions, amid the blocks reports and showing them out the increase in revenues to russia

from the e u countries last year with moscow to the world. this is all t international. my name is peter scott taking over from federal isabelle and these the top stories at 2 pm. moscow time this tuesday, thanks for joining us. i, russian air defenses have reportedly been activated in the skies over the russian city of baroni, unconfirmed footage of objects in the sky has been circulating on social media earlier to drones were full to lee shot down over the crimean city of sever store pl. according to local authorities, there have been no reports of any damage or casualties. and now to the situation on the ground to hospital in the city of mark in the upper ocean region was shelled by ukrainian forces. the city of ruby, ashley and little guns for big also came under fire, where a 14 year old child, an elderly woman, were killed, and l. a ukrainian forces hit the city of makia in the 20th republic,

with the russian m. o. d confirming the 63 soldiers were killed enough, attacked americans applied highmore. rockets were used to strike the soldiers living quarters or egos done 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 de nets. 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 had to hi mazda projectiles that were intercepted according to the russian defense ministry. now this confirmation has come talk to at the very bottom of monday's major,

released 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 worrying on the side of king of the so called foreign legion. now also, but the incident in my cave ca, 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 so 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 or fighting has been escalade, sing along the ground, on the ground, along the front line of the dom boss, a series of explosions have been reported in ukrainian controlled areas of climate source and resolve co. oh, here you can see footage circulating from the aftermath of those explosions. a ukrainian military base which was located in an ice arena, reportedly came under fire in the neighboring city of tom at source. another explosion was reported and that incident was caught on camera by a french t. v. journalist during a live broadcast do not catch it now where crossing live talkers pon pon ok. now to complete that seems no closer to resolution. the moroccan armies positions in west africa have suffered increased in attacks by the western sahara liberation army in recent days. a robust forces currently occupy over 80 percent of the region

which the sarai or a democratic republic lays claim to ortiz trouble. its outlet digs deeper into the decades long conflict. 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 rooted in colonial and slavery prisons. and this was no different ah 6 months of the incident, the governments of spain and moral gl denied responsibilities for the death,

similar 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 changed, public animals with little to no welfare climb up 6 me to long. i am fences that led to precious with police. scores of migrants were left, did. many died, wavy fell the governments of morocco and spain under 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 in racism,

spain ruled over western sahara 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 digit morocco waged war on the surrounding people. and for 16 of those years, the poly sadie of france and national liberation movement lead the defense of the so widely 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 denounced former you as president donald trump's recognition of morocco's claim over with 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 all of shoals became the new chancellor, the country seemed to assume a much more relaxed than using energy issues caused by the ukraine conflict as an excuse. germany sign the hydrogen deal with morocco. berlin now to begs moral has claim over sarah. we left 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 western privilege. the united states, the so called defenders of democracy and liberty in the world also recognize morocco's claim. in a quid pro quo, the deal is a bite. has 2 men in diplomatic ties with israel, even though the united nations recognized the poly, sorry, of front as the legitimate representative of the seller. are we people, the west only cares about it, interests and narrative. but for many in the global south, it would be a moral any justice if west thin interests are allowed to subjugate an entire people without a rebuttal. cannibalization for r t and jennifer miller, sarai i to this things to the you stand from the conflicts violates international

laws and conventions. be acquainted, set up by sentiment dorothy spade in germany did not directly recognize american sovereignty. and so horrible 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 america. because according to the un international law and international tribunal, morocco's presence in western sahara is considered an occupation. so this means that human rights international laws are all the principals at the e u in the u. s. have been talking about, or just tools in the hands of a dominant power that uses them when it has certain interests and the whole. unfortunately, i'm in support for western sahara does not correspond to the interests of western countries over to indonesia. now we're heavy. rain on year's eve has caused

flooding and significant damage to local infrastructure in the city of semerano, storm slums java island early on friday, leaving several areas inundated re well communication in the northern part of the island that was temporarily disrupted, no casualties have been reported under emergency services 100 to deal with the effects of the rising war. and it was a europe where the effects of brussels sanctions against moscow has been described as less than 0. those are the words of an e u. parliament member. as the blocks o report shows a marked increase in revenue to russia from e u countries last year, arthur contributed rachel marston 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 is 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 is keyboard tweeting furiously about the need for sanctions. prudent brings europe 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 during 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 east 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, lot. fia, estonia, sweden and ireland. in terms of euro's germany was russia's top. you customer in 2022 with 20700000000 euros worth of russian in ports. 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 o trash us. war against ukraine were prepared for this at the beginning of the war, rushes pipeline gas was 40 percent of all imported guess. today it is only 9 percent of our gas 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, and 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 shut downs, 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 vladimir putin. no, well that's was joe barton's rather curts response to his self korean count spot statements. the plums underway to conduct bilateral miniature drills involved in 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. while that's announcement came after north korea study plans increase its nuclear arsenal. this year young young has been testifying missiles as his neighbor to the south ramped up military drills with the u. s. in recent months. months the south house warned that they would retaliates if north korea conducts a nuclear attack. and sir, 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 u. s. and other hostile forces precisely targeting the democratic people's republic of korea, valencia, we heard from regional geopolitical expert, vic to go. he says that joint military exercises only served to escalate the already heights intentions and the korean peninsula. and just like united states

and our okay. also need to really think about why dpr j had to develop its nuclear weapons. i think dpr k concluded that it needed the nuclear weapon to prevent the color revolution that the united states as being doing to many other countries to prevent a kind of military assault on dpr k aimed at over throughly the dpr 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 resort to diplomacy, to solve the nuclear weapon 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 in our she,

me, d, no garage zation on the korean peninsula. in other news, us how speak and nancy pelosi stepping down from her role as speaker this year. but staying in congress, as you remember, the official made waves back in 2022 with her controversial visit to taiwan. which stokes tensions in us is already fraud. relationship with china. ortiz kennimore been hospital 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 u. s. 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. women, you do have repeatedly made clear, often opposition to speak, a pitiless visit to taiwan. if you ask, insist on challenge and china's red line,

it will be met with resolute contra measures. so may the u. s. mos in show full responsibility for any serious consequence arise in both these young. the world braced for war as pelosi, blatantly disregarded u. s. foreign policy and took its dig. beijing. 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 galatian of been shown in k one vs. they were not the indian, 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 wall, but a lot of wall games. los is moved,

not only threatened china, which considers the island to be a renegade 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 sat at 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, sir. 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 ty, ones, economy, and make up for increased pressure from the government of china. taiwan has already paid the co field visit and is likely to continue to do so becoming days and weeks . what concrete tangible benefits can you promise taiwan? offset the cost of your trip went to the same time as the ship is taking place in

recognition of our common interest. economically, we just have kids and science at the taiwan policy act or 2022 now sits before the u. s. congress. this isn't so much a pro taiwan bill as it's a 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 pretty big setbacks, seems pretty clear the people on the island do not want war as much as washington enjoy taunting beijing and playing with their lives as pawns when it comes to how country is conduct themselves in the international arena, there are certain standards the various games that the by the administration is now playing, despite insisting they haven't abandon the one china policy that is longstanding,

are certainly anything but professional. the world is not impressed. caleb martin party new york. those nancy pelosi hands over her house of representatives. leadership, the republicans, it seems a politician stint in office may have created more critics than funds get more this story under this on our website oxy dot com. moving on now the death toll in kashmir has risen after an explosion. killed a child and the 5 people injured at the same location of a previous attack in the disputed region. the militants are suspected of setting off explosives in an indian village near the disputed border with pakistan. the explosion came less than 24 hours of the 2 men open fire 3 houses on the sides of the bluff. the attacks left 6 people dead and 11 injured. and it's still unclear whether or not the explosives were left behind by the gunmen. under the people came

out in protest, blaming local authorities called the lapse insecurity. the regions lieutenant general is offering financial compensation and government jobs to family members of those effects i. and finally, 2022 was a politically intense year for pakistan. former pm in ron con, was ousted from office on he's been holding nationwide rallies ever since against what he calls an internal and external conspiracy. let's take a quick look back at the timeline of events as unfolded in pakistan last year. ah.

demarcus, dodd man, better. now the pakistan nation is awake. we'll never be slaves again. it will have friendship with all but no slavery. yeah. we have, we are defending. do fascism, we have are a government which has no credibility amongst the people. are it? it is it we call it an importer government. that cipher exists. i brought it in front of the governor. i, we, i presented it to the national security council because it was blatant him to ferret from outside of suits 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 do it all my life. i have always did within the law and one of dick's, i've been for 26 years. i have always all my protest, everything i have put the look of between the limits of the law. as far as i'm concerned,

it's over. it's 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 mazda service 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 us that's are up for now. my name is peter scott's not be back again at the top of the hour, with all the latest news and views rides here on archie, i hope to see them. ah ah

ah . in 1898. the island of puerto rico became a u. s. colony, but still retained its own cultural identity. we can speak in favor of in the pantry, be thrown into prison today, close to half its population live in poverty. moreover, residence in puerto rico have no representation in congress and con, vote in the u. s. presidential elections like okay, you know, make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for. even if we were offered citizenship with the head and we would prefer a wrong one, sega is in his twenties, he chose to fight for his homelands independence. we felt that we could generate

more of a spirit of resistance rather than of submissive accept oh, reality that we fell was like, shockingly unfair. my sorry that i decided to fight for my country. no one could have done things differently. yes, absolutely. do i now think that violence is not the means to achieve anything? absolutely. today i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions. i'm his, i'm soon thank you las glycine. so the social we've hoppey jermel lewis, russia, a special military operation in ukraine, has triggered a wave of anti russian sanctions from the west. and it keeps coming up with new ones. almost every day package will include financial sanctions that harshly limit russia's access to the capital markets. foreign companies quitting russia, atm cards were brought in banks disconnected from the international payment system

. char fluctuate in dollar and euro exchange rates followed. can russian business overcome this min app when i travel up on a couple more stuff so carbon would know what the 20th should i land on the cello modification from when you for the mileage the deal it. but i'm not sure jim radio, whatever it was was or what he meant that he woke up the pillar on the cell is the current. can you say it fancy? near i bought it didn't nasty to huddle. she instrument that i am his mother. he took to my of the guard mother bullied my arc, nor was most misty that will soon the issue of miss lou 2 is a discourse bootable boy will. so she can move stony. the ball of some was loosing them a new computer. this little mobile, a bus of to mysterious, be good from somebody moving but kind of makes a big move quickly, the shipping of metal. so you think soup also is something to bugs that about. it is a forward, usually submission due to sanctions,

foreign clothing and shoe stores in russia, closed one out for another. a times customers formed huge queues. in many cases, foreign companies decided to stop working overnight, creating even more panic. a shoe shortage in russia. we went to douglas down, looking for an answer, where some, 600 entrepreneurs are in the shoe business. moran july of is one of them. so 1st of august, i was at the interest published for the loop because before we shoemakers they're going to hard times wiring about shortages of materials imported from abroad reserves on them loosen, give them the pull of simple sort of mazano toxic to the mobile with new thought women the nic, what could complete to shut the plays also, the fornia poodle, some or female global book could cause clear recoil. no, no. and what's it short or that's how we can actually no grain, you or so? no. so what she's more similar.