i am time to sit down and talk with a violation of freedom of speech on the life of journalists. what washes foreign ministry calls the attention of the chief editor of good neglect the waning news agency file 40 than last year on the ledge to espionage and sanctioned breach charges. we had from the communications director put, makes the parent company a espionage charges against merits or complete nonsense. the baltic states are a testing ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions or in coordination with their superiors in the european union and in the u. s. despite the promises of the you went to investigate the math, murder of the prisoners, in the yellow line of car, the un secretary general has decided to dissolve the mission with no,

with the iran, some and the french ambassador, a recent call to stick to the islamic country supreme leader and what it called a quote insulting. i think decent with welcome to you wherever you're tuning in from it says 10, 10 pm here in moscow. this is our to international with the latest world news. good to have you with us. now the editor in chief of the lithuanian branch of the sputnik news agency has been detained in the latvian capital, riga, morass. consent who holds a lot. van passport is reportedly being accused of espionage and the violation of e u. sanctions against russia. moscow was branded the journalist's arrest, a violation of international law. morocco sam says he has been the object of harassment and persecution by number of baltic states for many years. he said that

he personally experienced the repressive machine and the actions of the collective west. and now unfortunately, his fears and assumptions have become a reality the international community should and is even obligated to do everything to make these presumptions. regimes returned to the rule of law. earlier they had asked that next parent company has called the journalist's arrest, unlawful and absurd. dimitri keslie also said that case is politically motivated. i discussed the details of the story in the studio without his senior correspondent, mike garcia. we have fall requests for information, it is unclear when ah, details will emerge will be shared with us. nevertheless, as things stand now merits casem. a citizen of latvia has been detained by latvian security services, state security services, suspected he is under suspicion of espionage and also

ah, of violating. and he, russian sanctions of the european union. this is, this is an argument violating sanctions that the latvian serv used, had lithuanians and estonians have used for years to try and justify these blanket brands on russia. news sources, russian cultural channels are at this point. he is in jail detained. ah, the request for bail was denied without any reason, given his lawyer hasn't yet received any information. we don't even know if she's been able to talk with him. we have heard of cas reaction from the head of sputnik mythic. he said of he is on the european sacks of the, the logic that the europeans have gone by the baltic states have gone by. is that if someone works, even a european citizen works for someone who's under sanctions,

no matter how removed, you know, a journalist in a niche organization that they are violating the entire blocks sanctions. this is something that had been laughed at in years. crime by european media groups amongst others who had urged estonians latvians, this radiance to, to relax their wording, ooh, their views and how this law should be implemented. while the law should be implemented . there's a sense that the baltic states, there's be the concentrated effort to block the population off from anything russian which is year, which is an undertaking, given that a significant percentage of the population. no 3 states, latvia, stoney, in the through a near is russian. how do you think this case fits into the bigger picture of how the ball 2nd are they? each countries have been tracing the media. this goes back way before the special military operation that russia launched in 2022 this. this goes back to 2015

at which is when this, this pressure started to build in 2016, for example, lithuania blocked. sputnik locked the channel, the network on line that they pulled their domain name off so that that, that the pressure just began to build and build. so employees journalists were what threatened with prosecution. they were also persecuted. so they were pulled out. they were, they were arrested, taken for talks by your state security agents urged her her follow inside their resignations to stop working for sputnik then you had people arrested. you had journalists arrested for working for russian news networks. this is all in the face of a fact that the european and human rights charter, least the freedom of expression. and the freedom of expression is defined. it is the freedom to hold beliefs, to share opinions and to receive opinions. and this is

a journalist who had been doing just that. he was also working in moscow for years now. he travelled back to latvia to, to, to meet with families of reasons we don't yet know at, despite him being well aware that he was being politically persecuted, that they were out for him. he's able to finish his slit, it would take me several hours to simply name all the journalists have come under pressure in eastern europe. here is just one of my own stories in brief, back in 2019, i was detained at villainous airport, searched and questioned for 5 or 6 hours to state security officers performed a role play of good cop bad cop. the bad one shouted at me, you're working for kissing health. why did you come here? the other one asked me, you're a latvian citizen, so why are you working for them? you know who they are? they're not really, people rushes a peculiar country. finally, he said, you're lucky, you're not a russian citizen,

or we would be having a very different conversation. and now we'll just kick you out and close the border for you. for 5 years. it appears that he was right. nevertheless, we should wait to to learn the details and see just how drummed up these charges. ah, now we're seeing the same story in moldova, for example, across the european union arch, he was switched off of a not kicked off online platforms. you, you know, the already parallels being drawn between what the soviet union did, which is jam radio, liberty as signal which is, which is try to build a wall between the soviet people. and then he outside information. and that is what in reverse is happening again, except it appears that it's europe, which has for many years prided itself and on freedom of speech and human rights. now trying to restrict information human opinion, even opinion,

news from its own people though disc the keep them all contained within this bubble that is fed by european news agency, again fed with americans, news agencies improve western views, the communications department chief office, but next parent company will see a subordinate say the charges against mart cuz some groundless, with the baltic states being used as a testing ground for media suppression within the block. on the report, we knew this case is totally political espionage charges against marriage or complete nonsense pressure on journalists working in the baltic states is the standard matter. it is an obvious fact that the baltic states are a platform for testing new methods of fighting against journalists. there is an oddness in the charges of violating sanctions. the fact is that the european union has no sanctions against sputnik. they have personal sanctions against dmitri castle, of who is the chief of receive subordinate media group,

which includes sputnik and therefore extending these personal sanctions to all the people who work. there is a strange precedent. many european human rights organizations oppose this interpretation of sanctions. the baltic states are a testing ground for lawlessness concerning really harsh measures, such as intimidation, a bad on the profession, and criminal prosecution for journalists, latvia, stony and lithuania, do not act on their own. they, as we assume, act either on direct instructions or in coordination with their superiors and the european union and in the us. the accusations of espionage and the threat of imprisoning him for 20 years. as an e citizen are in fact a pure policy of the european union. the un has reportedly wading on the case urging for respecting the norms of law human rights lawyer martin don't say the suppression of media freedom will only feel more animosity between nations. i think

in the moment the freedom of speech and that situation of war between ukraine and ukraine, some european states, freedom of expression, freedom of press to endanger because we see as far as i could preserve tomorrow. catherine was doing normal june of journalists, look at no length on hughes for doing. it's the notion, of course, that's a fine line in between that up. it's 59. not if you express different thoughts of the mainstream in another country. you, spite, i mean that would undermine every freedom of preston. every every journalist, when we go on like that, there will be only escalation and enemy pictures in all fields of society. we should reject that and clearly say that must be justice. and if that is clear

evidence, but as far as i can see, there's no clear evidence the un chief has decided to despond. a team that has been investigating last year. deadly shelling of a detention facility in the don't. yes. were public, 53 ukrainian presents of war were killed in the attack in july, moscow, key of accused each other of orchestrating the atrocity. let's get the details from our correspondent among cause ref now among good to see you now. you were at the scene in yellen, off co, shortly after the mass killing of p, o w to play. so what can you tell us about the us decision to scruff is investigation? and want to warn our view with the following game, because we're going to show of the incidents in yellow, off our graphic and some view as much fun and disturbing. well, decision by the bench, the disbands at this mission to find out what exactly happens in the regular guy is surprising to say the least. probably more, sol, 204 of those are prisoners or fall war who suffered,

who were wounded. there were at least 72 people 72, as all battalion members who wrote as a result of this strike. yes, i was at the place i walked around later on, i spoke with those appeal w's who were all treated and the healed at said the next car hospitals. and of course they were wondering why their own comrades would be a shooting against their, their own. so it's really surprising to say the least now in terms of investigation right away, we heard from the un that they want to investigate this case as much as possible. they're going to send the mission out here to the nest republic to try and find out what happened. well, if they did, if they could make it a here that would have certainly found out that that's the strike that took place with the usage of 5 nasal made high morse,

multiple launch rocket systems because there were plenty of fragments of those rockets at the barracks that were struck and killed at least to $53.00 people. of course, the blame would fall on ukraine right away, had they come. of course, this is not happening at the moment and reminds you this was at one of the 1st times that ukraine used high morse a multiple, a launch rocket systems made by the united states. of course, as since then, we've seen a lot of usage of these weapons in other areas in don boss as well as in zebra, georgia and her son that took the lives of many, many civilians, were mommy, thanks their dad's house, their thoughts he's from on cancer meeting on iran is outraged by recent casting depictions of the country supreme leader in french magazine shalley

up though paris has remained silent on the mass, while a round foreign minister slammed the pictures as highly offensive and as summoned its french envoy, the insulting and indecent act of a french publication, publishing cartoons, opposing religious and political authority will not be left without a decisive and effective response. we will not allow the french government to cross the line. it is definitely chosen the wrong path. so it's a contest launched by infamous frank satirical magazine, shaheer though that has sparked a diplomatic incident now between france and iran. the french ambassador to iran has been summoned and iran has announced that its ending the activities of the french institute for research in iran, quote, as a 1st step. this is a french cultural, historical, and archaeological institute that's based in tehran, that's part of the cultural wing of the french embassy. now the magazine itself has already been sanctioned by iran on december 12th, as part of

a list of entities accused of founding the protest. flames in iran, we're talking about the anti, he's our protests that have been ongoing. the position of the french president, emanuel mac hall and his government towards shortly ado, cartoons in general, has always been to defend them as free speech. michael was particularly vocal about that in october 2020. when school teacher samuel patty was murdered in the wake of having shown the shot via bdo cartoons that sparked the 2015 headquarters shootings to his class as part of a lesson. and on thursday, french foreign minister, kathleen could. busy not double down on that position saying quote, let's remember that in france, press freedom exists. sure, unless you count all of the sweeping and unqualified censorship imposed on russian media outlets. amid the ukraine conflict by the e. u. across all 27 member countries, including france, in that case,

the french government has nothing at all to say in defense of press freedom. last month, shabby doke called for submissions of caricature of iran, supreme leader riding on the magazines website that quote, cartoonists and caricature wrists must support iranians who are fighting for their freedom and quote, make sure that ali come in ne is the last supreme leader, the iranians have to suffer. the statement is an obvious reference to the unrest in the country related to the ongoing anti you shop protests. now, the submissions to the magazines, contest, hashtags, mullahs get out, have just hit french news stands and it comes the very same week of the anniversary of the attacks on the magazines, paris headquarters on january, 7th, 2015, during which the publications employees were targeted in a shooting by 2 gunman, who self identified as members of al qaeda and whose motive was found to have been

the publications of cartoons of the prophet mohammed. now that incident resulted in 12 deaths, murders, and 11 other people being injured. so all this has escalated now rather quickly with this new incident between iran and france. the british office for national statistics has refilled at more than 700000 people across england and wales, a lack central hating on advocating for anti russian sanctions. the u. k. now faces the possible death of thousands of citizens. this when says due to the cold. according to figures, over 360000 households may be quite literally left in the cold with those age, 65 and above with chronic health conditions, making up 10 percent of those without central heating. national charities won't have an increase to the already $10000.00 preventable deaths related to cold homes each year. back in march, the u. k, announced the country is going to phase out russian oil ons liquefied natural gas.

3 months later, impulsive energy supplies from russia dried up for the 1st time in his modern history. in a 12 months to imposing sanctions on moscow, britain spent nearly 500000000 pounds on russian fuel import. i found to make a political analyst on that. it's a red star radio said the british government has other priorities besides the wellbeing of its own citizens. the overall priority is to try and leverage the situation that is going on at the moment in ukraine and try and turn it into a regime change possibility directed against the government in moscow. and that's that priority. yes, the over riding piracy, the wealth of the regular people, the everyday people have written, doesn't even come 2nd behind that. so we've seen of course, energy prices go through the roof over the last 12 months. and we've seen more and more people fall into what's defined as fuel related poverty here. and the

sanctions regime that the british government has infuse yesterday, supported measures against russian energy, which have only added to the rise in the price of energy for domestic consumers. in this country, so they have actively made life worse for particularly though is that they, the lower end of the income scale in britain. and the sanctions regime, which they continue to support, will only cause more instability. and more price rises on the, in the international energy markets as time goes on. keeping warm is not the only struggle. the u. k. has been facing along with a political upheaval and the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd. we take a closer look at last year brought to the united kingdom. hey, we have a vision for this country and economy in europe because we are going to unite and label them. i want you to know how sad i am

to be giving up. the best job in the world, how some of the stuff i was beta, i am a fighter and i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. i will work day in and day out to deliver for you. mm. a u. k, like in other countries, is now in recession. why is britain set to pay the 1st country into recession and the last country out there with us? okay, you're going to get into mines. here

for christmas. british military intelligence inclusion with a u. s. tech company is apparently spying on russian forces and sharing the data with ukraine, helping his troops targets the russian army. those are the claims made by news outlets. the greys of which is published in leaked classified documents through aggressive harvesting of data. the technology has enabled the planning of military offensives in artillery attacks, assassinations, asset recruitment, and other measures. the leaked files raised serious questions about whether anomaly 6, a technology has been used throughout the ukraine conflict in an array of targeted operations against specific individuals in infrastructure. if it has britain bears ultimate responsibility for the outcome of these disturbing actions, which in some cases amount to crimes against humanity. according to the report,

a u. s. t firm called anomaly 6 is providing intel on russian military movements in real time using smartphone tracking devices. the data is allegedly sent to british intelligence via the private military group, prevail partners, and is then handed over to ukraine to help its army talk at russian forces. the grey zone editor kit klein boxes u. k. intelligence tip offs could lead to collateral damage using a normally fix the technology, the defense intelligence. and she said she extension the ukrainian military can very easily identify the small firms of various individuals, whether they are civilian military or it's highly specific and talk. but there is also a higher risk of cation. this might be why barrier was met if you

bet, but yes, it's innocent. russian innocent brains were wrong, identified, and the soldiers were spot for collaborators. and then guess, i mean not to losing context, this is almost inevitably go to that desk, or indeed that capture and torture the pregnancy compunction about the brutal approach question to capture war, telling them or mass which is a great war, cry and serious if it's not killed as a result of when that completely is i think that that yes, the counter attack could be quite something where they were the 1st time the grey zone is expose the involvement of u. k. intelligence agencies and the ukraine king and the ukraine. conflicts over the outlet revealed the prior to the deadly terror attack on the crimean bridge,

senior british intelligence officers allegedly drafted in elaborate plans a blow up the crossing using specially trained ukrainian troops in a separate report. the grades and also city to obtain documents revealing plans by british military intelligence to train covert ukrainian troops with instructions to attack other russian targets in crimea. the grey zones kit clever and bug again, phase west, in faith, lack accountability for the consequences of their spying operations against russia . there has been no consideration. all the limits or restrictions london traces shall be the crime. these false made perfectly that there is none. and you try to do always liked positions, should be held every step of the way what prevail prevails. heavily involved in the plot bridge explained. and what did you guys what actually happened? there's 0 recognition of the only all of these to almost every month. another

european implicated the style of the activities of occupation, john, this is a civil civil civil society more widely and there is 0 accountability and very up to, you know, consideration of what happened to the $10.00 box. and that was anyone used to use equipment typically reserved for, for intelligence agencies, or indeed yes, click on to something really, really needs to meet needs to be done about just not only for the sake of innocent people, but also the governments become companies that will be consequences down the lines of latest here on our end to national many thanks for joining us. we'll be back in 30 minutes with the

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i is the aggression to day. i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions today. russia is the country with the most sanctions imposed against it. and um, but as constantly growing i think go to church of look almost of course. sure. does he speak on the bill in your senior most of mine or will sheila were banning all imports of russian oil and gas a suffering. the price for a crunchy fulfills, was lowered with the little kirk miller with regard to joe biden and imposing these sanctions on russia. has destroyed the american economy. so there is your boomerang self ah,

with winter fast approaching the cost of natural gas and ways to heat a home or become a big burden to bear for many european household. the european natural gas import prices of 15 and 233 percent during one year ago. so why of a sudden surge and prices? and more importantly, why does natural gas costs so much more in europe than it does in the united states? i'm christy i and you're watching the cost of everything. where today we're taking a closer look at natural gas and breaking down the supply chain that is so crucial to our global economy. so why exactly is natural gas so much more expensive in europe then? basically everywhere else, while surprisingly the natural gas market is not as global as he might think. the european benchmark known as dutch t t. s is priced in euro's per megawatt hour,

making it hard to see just how much more expensive it is. in the u. s. natural gas is priced by henry hub in millions of thermal units. now, after converting it to get apples to apples comparison, europeans actually pay a staggering $9.00 for higher cost for natural gas than americans. so what caused this huge increase? while part of that actually stems from supply and demand, the e. u and the u. k. liquefied natural gas import set an all time historical record high in april 2022, averaging 16500000000 cubic feet per day. europe had an unusually cold winter last year, and then russia started curtailing supplies through the pipeline. and then on top of that, you have the green agenda push to reduce coal consumption, thereby lower, and greenhouse gas emissions pushing for even higher demand or natural gas to.