bad with their late y'all are a violation of free speech and the right 5th journalist about what russia foreign ministry calls the detention of the chief editor, expert nicholas who any news agencies altura season. last year. we heard from the communications director with espionage charges against merits or complete nonsense. the baltic states are recon testing ground for lawlessness. the act, either on direct instructions were in coordination, superior to the european union and with the un to describe their fruitless mission to investigate the mass killing of ukrainian military prisoners and the don't yet republic. despite previously pledging to get to the bottom of the, of the iran summons the french ambassador reasons,

cartoons depicting the islamic countries supreme leader and what it calls an insulting entity piece and play with very welcome to you with 10 to 11 pm here in moscow. and this is nancy international with the latest news updates. get to happy with a top story. they saw the editor in chief of the lithuanian branch of this book, news agency has been detained in the latvian capital, riga, merits past them who holds a luxury and possible what is reportedly being accused of espionage and the violation of e u sanctions against russia. moscow has branded the journalists arrest a violation of international mark. 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 repressed of machine and the actions of the collective west. and now unfortunately, his fears and assumptions have become a reality the international community should, and it's even obligated to do everything to make these presumptions. regimes returned to the rule of law. we spoke to the communications department, chief of next parent company, who faced the charges against the merits custom groundless. well, the baltic states are being used as a front for the e used crack down on media freedom. the lush moody organ in this case is totally political espionage charges against merits are complete nonsense. pressure on journalists working in the baltic states is a 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 was the chief of russia, subordinate media group,

which includes sputnik 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 ban 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 u. s. the accusations of espionage and the threat of imprisoning him for 20 years. as an e. u citizen are in fact a pure policy of the european union, though earlier they had to have that next parent company called the journalists arrest unlawful and abs. ed dmitri kissella alvo's as of the case, is politically motivated. i discussed the details of the story with the 80 senior corresponded mike garcia. we have salt 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 latin 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 latvians have used. and lithuanians and estonians have used for years to try and justify these blanket brands on russia, news sources, russian cultural channels. at this point, he is in jail, detained at 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 me think he should 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 the 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 stony ins, latvians, lithuanians 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's 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 having both? second, 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 of that the, the, 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 our state security agents urged her her follow inside their

resignations to stop working for sputnik then you had people arrested. you have journalists arrested for working for russian news networks. this is all in the face of a fact that the european, a 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 a 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 is back in 2019.

i was detained at villainous airports, 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 chisels. 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 are now we're seeing the same story in moldova, for example, across the european union arts, he was switched off of the night, 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. vote is the keep them all contained within this bubble that is fed by european news agency, again fed with american news agencies and pro western views of politics and international relations. prophetic lendy, since the case against smart consent is a slippery slope for the west. there a dangerous path to go down to tourists, journalists for asking us i would like to see the details of this. but that being

said, i think that this appears to be another step in the decline on the freedom of speech . keep in mind that during the cold war, people here in the west, we knew moscow's positions, we use arguments because we were allowed to know about these days. we don't know, nobody knows. and thrust media has been completely uncertain as shut down. and now of course, with the journal of journalist, the rest of this is quite extreme. no one dares to represent even even explain what the russian position is, because you could immediately be accused of legitimizing the rational decision. and then you would find yourself in a sea of trouble. so for this reason, you know, we don't know the russian position and our own media. we're not even discussing how this conflict began. no one, no one dares to speak about negotiations or piece negotiation to become

a non tor. so it's very dangerous path. i think we're on terms of freedom of speech, which in my opinion at least has been collapsing un chief, has decided to disband the team. this being investigating last is deadly shelling of a detention facility, and they don't, yes were public 53 ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the attack in july. moscow key of accused each other of orchestrating the trusty artist among calls or if he was at the scene in africa. surely also the mass killing of p. o w 's has a details on his report, contains some graphic distressing images. this decision by the united nations to disband this mission, which was supposed to find out exactly what happened in the quality, and then if co, where at least 53 as of fighters were killed and 72 as of a battalion, a fighters were wounded, of course it's surprising to those wounded in the 1st place because that they still don't understand how their own. com raid so would be shooting against their own.

and it certainly was a very barbaric attack un said from the get go that. so this incident will be investigated. they said that they will send a mission here it is and asked republic to find out exactly what happened. now i was at the place myself as well. there is a huge devastation. it was certainly a very barbaric attack. i spoke to the soldiers so of assault battalion in the hospital. all of them were treated by the left republic doctors. and that later released back into prison. of course they don't understand what happened and probably asking themselves this question at the moment as well. oh, well, right now it seems that they will never find out what happened because the un decided to disband this mission if they did come here in the 1st place, they would have found out that said the strike was indeed, ah, john, by ukrainian military. because as the place at this prison,

we found that several fragments offer multiple launch rockets system called high mars supply to ukraine by nato countries. or, of course, the blame would have been pointed to ukraine right away. but right now, i guess this will never be investigated by the way of at that point in the summer. he was one of the 1st times that ukraine used, the hi mars, multiple launch rocket systems, of course, since then they've used this death deadly weapon many times in here and done boss in here, so on. and so for roger as well. and of course, that took the lives of many civilians that continue to die to this day. oh, iran is outraged by recent casting depictions of the country supreme leader and french magazine, shalley at paris has remained silent on the matter. while ron's foreign minister slammed the pictures as highly offensive and his son and his french and 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 front, 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 were talking

about the anti huge our protests that have been ongoing. the position of the french president, emanuel mac hall and his government towards shockly ado, cartoons in general, has always been to defend them as free speech. mac hall was particularly vocal about that in october of 2020. when school teacher samuel patsy was murdered. in the wake of having shown the shock viejo cartoons that sparked the 2015 headquarters shootings to his class as part of a lesson. and on thursday, french foreign minister kathleen cooler now doubled down on that position saying quote, lex, 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 shall be a doke called for submissions of caricatures of iran, supreme leader writing 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 kesha protests. now, the submissions to the magazine, it's contest, hashtags. mullahs get out. have just hit french new 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 gunmen 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. my potential office for national statistics has revealed more than 700000 people across england and wells lack central hazing well advocating for anti russian sanctions. the u. k. now faces the possible depths of thousands of citizens. this, when could use the cold. according to figures, over 360000 households may be quite literally left in the cold with those age to 65 and above with chronic health conditions, making up 10 percent of those without central heating. national charities won't have an increase in 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 and liquefied natural gas. 3 months later, impulse of energy supplies from russia dried up for the 1st time. and it's modern

history. and a 12 month prior to imposing songs on most koberson spent nearly 500000000 pounds on russian fuel and on the mckay, political sun, editor of red star radio, say the british government has other priorities besides the well being 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. over writing piracy, the wealth of the regular people, the everyday people of britain 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 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 there was 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 the political upheavals and the death of queen as about the 2nd. we take a closer look at what loss here brought to the united kingdom. ah, 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 has a faith. 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. 3 you k like other countries is now in recession. why is britain to be the 1st country into recession? and the last country out there with 2 minds about

with chinese president has hosted the leader of the philippines, a key us ally and southeast asia. beijing stressed the need for cooperation with manila as the countries signed at 14 bilateral deals while calling for a peaceful and even friendly resolution to that differences. this is your 1st visit china as president of the philippines. also the 1st for english, the china has received this year. this friendship is very precious. i have been looking forward to this visit. we have to show and demonstrate to the rest of the world. how important the relationship is between fire, philippines, and china, to both our countries. previously, the south china sea had been a source of tension between the 2 countries,

with the philippines raising concerns. i've led jurisdictional violation by the chinese coast guard, the conduct of its fleet. and your fishing band, nelson wong, vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact and international studies, is the meeting between chinese and philipino. leaders is an example of how to speak can be peacefully resolved in the philippines. is a very typical example of how, you know, china is handling its relations with without neighbors. because not only the philippines, as a neighbor of china, is a close neighbor of china, but also its position as being one of the 5 asian partners of the u. s. is also quite unique, makes the philip being quite unique. yes. the philippines needs to maintain very good relations with both china and the us because on the us side it is

a strategic partner. it's a military partner, but also it is a very good neighbor of china. so it actually gives the message to not only countries that are involved, but also to the rest of the world that it's time we give up this cold war mentality because it's not right all left. it's not them. and us disputes between countries are inevitable. but every kind of disputes can be solved through peaceful negotiation. so i don't think this relation of the philippines, which china is going to affect its relation ways the u. s. ah, serbian president alexander v church has lashed out that e leaders over there were length of pressure to join in on anti russian sanctions. he added that he's not the type of leader who could be tame. they say that i have

to impose sanctions on russia. well, thank you very much for meddling in our affairs and when they talk about taming lucas, i've never seen a wolf in a circus. serbia has repeatedly was used to an accent, ration sanctions. it is saying that it has no intention of supporting such measures as long as it is vital and existential interests. are not the lessons miss acetate without increasing suggestions from the states that their b as membership bed should be suspended until it compliance with the blocks foreign policy. according to independent journalist ado shank brokovich history shows that sanctions by political tool and only make common citizens suffer sylvia refuses to impose sanctions on russia for 2 reasons. the 1st, the political serbia has excellent, excellent relations with russia. the 2nd reason is a b. i was under sanctions for 8 years during the 99

and we know that sanctions for ordinary people the most sanction are not an instrument that can lead to do a political solution. process of european integration is also a process of the soviet, any nation, more states that are members of the you want to join the you are no longer a sovereign states or they are less and states then before they are classic a resisting this for now. thanks for joining us. hey, one asi international this thursday. we're back at the top of the alba fuzz, to we had the 1st time to count. of course, we can independence fighter in our documentary last american calling. ah,

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