ah, with a violation of free speech on the rights of journalists. that's what russia's foreign ministry calls. the detention of a chief editor. put make lithuania news agency file force. ethan latvia. we've heard from the communications director of sputnik parent company espionage charges against merits are complete nonsense. the baltic states are a testing ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions or in coordination with their superiors and the european union and in the us. in crane refuses to stop shooting for the ropes. christmas off the vladimir putin orders a 36 hour russian things fired to begin on friday. and the un chief scraps a fruitless mission to investigate the mass killing of ukrainian military prisoners

in the don. yes, were public despite previously pledging to get to the bottom of the atrocity. a very room. welcome to you. this is our see international with the late as well news out date is good to have you with us as up, sorry. this are the editor in chief of the lithuanian branch of this book, make news agency has been detained in the lafayette cap as a weaker. my cousin who holds the latvian passport, is reportedly being accused of espionage and a violation of you sanctions against russia. moscow has branded the journalists 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 it's even obligated to do everything to make these presumptions. regimes returned to the rule of law. we heard from representatives of split next parent company who express the outrage of the clock down on media freedom in e u. countries like last year there lushly, the poor been in this case is totally political espionage charges against marriage or complete nonsense. some 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 the journalists. because there is an oddness in the charging was violating. in fact, is the european union has no sanction against personal use or want to give me drink chancello. but it was the chief of avoided media which includes sputnik on the ending. i'll use personal sanctions to all the people who work. there is a strange precedent in many european human rights organizations that hold

interpretation of sanctions. the baltic states are a testing ground for longer than 6 concerning really harsh measures, such as intimidation, a band on the profession and criminal prosecution for journalist, latvia, and lithuania. do not act on their own. they, as we assume, act either on direct and directions or in ordination with their superiors and the european union and dealing with the accusation of espionage under the threat of presenting him for 20 years. as a citizen are in fact your policy, european union, criminal justice, this was baltic, special services have been repressing journalists for a long time. and we have seen it happen in 2019. we have long sailed from our own and as well as colleagues, experience that journalists with any connection to russia are repressed in the baltics. so this situation is not surprising to me. that on the other hand, security services previously limited themselves to blackmail and the threat of criminal prosecution. but this is the 1st time it has come to real imprisonment. to

achieve a journalist of espionage is simply absurd to me because it is seriously alarming that people are not afraid of sounding stupid or outright ridiculous. it is difficult to predict further developments. we will do our best to find a legal way out of the situation that will oppose or earlier the head of the next parent company called the journalists, arrest, unlawful and absurd. dimitri kissy love also said the case is politically motivated . i discuss the details of the story in the studio with us. he's a senior correspondent, more garcia. we have fog 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 who's been detained by latvian security services, state security services, suspected he is under suspicion of espionage and also,

ah, of violating anti russian sanctions of the european union. this is, this is an argument violating sanctions that the latvians have used. and lithuanian and estonians have used for years to try and justify these blanket brands on russia, new 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 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 would urge sonia's latvians, lithuanians to try to relax their wording who their views on 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, estonian the through ania is russian. how do you think this case fits into that big a picture of how the bo 2nd or the east countries have been treating 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 blocked the channel, the network on line that they pulled their domain name off so that the pressure just began to build and build. so employees journalists were, were 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 to, ah, 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 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 a to meet with families of reasons we don't yet know. despite him being well aware that he was being politically persecuted, that they were out for him disabled to finish a slit, it would take me several hours to simply name all the journalists of come under pressure in eastern europe. here is just one of my own stories in some 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 tittles. 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 rush as 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, was switched off of a night, kicked off online platforms. you, you know, the already parallels big 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 that it be, is that it's europe, which has for many years prided himself and vote on freedom of speech and human rights. now trying to restrict information human opinion, even opinion,

new from its own people. vote is the keep them all contained within this bubbles and as of that is fed by european news agency. again, fed with american news agencies improve western views. we brought down the case with human rights lawyer, martin delta and international attorney. kline preston. the charges are asking us it's such a big and broad, broadly defined crime that it can be used essentially at any time it allows for governments to assert and lives those, those charges without a lot of scrutiny because they're, they're able to make these charges really under political for political purposes, or what's the difference in let's say a sports trainer who's, who's investigating how the rigor that the,

the lap in national hockey team place. it's information about the company or the country. it, it happens involves sports. what's the difference in a journalist like murat cassim who you know, he was, he was actually kicked out of lithuania. he was investigating a or covering rather an election when that happened. and so what's there might be, there's really no difference. it's a, it's a political to, i think, in the moment, freedom of speech and that situation of law in between the ukraine and ukraine. some european states, freedom of expression, freedom of press danger, because as we see, as far as i could research tomorrow, casa was doing normal, june of journalist work, and no length queues for doing it for you. nation. of course, that's a fine line in between. that is fine,

9 not if you express different thoughts of the mainstream in another country. you spite, i mean that would undermine every freedom of breath. and every, every journalist, when we go on like that, there will be only escalation and enemy pictures in all aspects 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 kev has rejected a truth where the moscow of the president, persian, or a 36 hour sci fi and the ukraine conflicts own orthodox christmas, which is celebrated by both russians and ukrainians, the unilateral russian sci fi comes into effect a new january, the 6th, and will last till midnight of january. the 7th. however, several ukrainian officials have criticized the initiative saying russia should 1st

pull back its troops before any sort of truce can be agreed to precedence lensky has even called the sci fi proposal. a cover up for most guys. plans discuss this with political analyst. alessandra bruno nominee, thanks for joining us on program. what do you make of cabs? rejection of a temporary cease fire for ortho docs christmas? which is celebration, of course, by a majority of ukrainians as well as rations. well, thank you. i expect that the, the you creating a reaction to be what it, what you just said, that is a rejection. because the request came from the pick carol to to recognize the fact that both ukraine and russia share the same central christian roots in christian tradition. and the fact that president putin welcome did not surprise me. when he spoke a few years ago,

i believe it was in 2012. he mentioned how he converted his baptism during the soviet union and secret. so certainly from that side, i expect that something of a sci fi or some kind of truth, temporary truce during the christmas period. of course, the, even if the euclidean had excepted it, they would probably be under pressure to take advantage of. this is for the purposes and i do expect the resume prepared for that. and then i, i think there will be effort on the side to provoke the russian to break that cease fire in order to embarrass this. this comes, of course, this crack down on the orthodox church in ukraine by the authorities,

despite the fights, like we say that most of the country citizens are overlooks christiana, what do you make of kids motives here? well, the, the orthodox church key. if russia have a intricate relationship and historical relationship, because of course it is that the relationship that links here to the most ancient pressing british and that is the rubric, the 1st star going back over a 1000 years now. and the fact that here is essentially in many ways the capital of the russian before long before moscow over a city. so as an effort to really detach themselves from that tradition. and of course, a lot of the, a lot of the drive for the war and, and what i mean by word, i don't,

i'm not speaking about this february 24th, 2022. but more, 2014 are going even further back. a lot of the drive for this war for this war comes from western ukrainians. many of whom are catholic. so there is, i think, a tendency to emphasize the more. so we say western orientation of ukraine rather than its historic and christ and religious links to, to russia and us officials already saying that they don't have much trust in the russian sci fi. what sort of signal is sending to washington allies in kia? do you think well, the position of, of washington and for that matter,

the rest of the west is, well, i will remember reading yesterday about the frances decision to send tanks and then the the, the decision or, i don't know if it's come out yet officially, but us is going to send bradley armored reiko and i was, i remember the feeling of being overwhelmed by the absolute idiocy in the way of complete, of driving this war of continuing to push it every time. there's some effort to stop the rest. take every, every possibility, every opportunity to continue to fuel it. so this was expected and then on the, on the russian side of course should be noted that president added the 130 was

also trying to encourage the cease fire that i want to put this little side note here. there are talk now that i have begun between syria and turkey. so that would be a major success for russia to achieve the bill the in turkey in the context. so the, there are some interesting side operations, diplomatic efforts around the fire between some of the actors involved which go fly in the face of the western part of the car. because of course the, the mass in syria is very much like the met in ukraine. it's been a very similar situation and the idea of attract the rush and get the rush and bug . in fact, i suspect the resonant went into syria in order to as part of

retaliation in some ways for the west interference and ukraine. but that's another, an argument for another day, but it's going on unless i sandra bruno. many thanks for speaking to this evening is very nice to have you on the show. thank you. thank you very much. i mean, while the un chief has decided to disband the team that's been investigating last year's 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 and k of accused each other of orchestrating the actual city was he's wrong cause with he was at the scene and you left off shortly after the mass killing of p. o. w has a details and his report contained some graphic distressing images. this decision by the united nations to disband this mission, which was supposed to find out exactly what happens in the calling it and if co,

where at least 53 as of fighters were killed and 72 as of battalion a fighters were but 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 her, have 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 as an escrow public to find out exactly what happened. now i was of the place myself as well. there is a huge devastation. it was certainly a very barbaric attack. i spoke to the soldiers, so of us battalion in the hospital, all of them were treated by the next 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 moments as well. oh, well,

right now it seems that they will never find out what happened because the u. n. 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, done by ukrainian military because at the place at this prison, we found that several fragments offer multiple launch rocket system called high mars supply to ukraine by nato countries. 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. it was one of the 1st times that ukraine used, the high mars multiple launch rockets systems, of course, since then they've used this death, deadly weapon many times in the here and on boss in here. so on, ends up roger as well. and of course, that took the lives of many civilians to continue to die. to this day,

a russian lawmaker has accused washington of calling for public unrest in russia and interfering in the countries affairs. that's off to the u. s. embassy in moscow urged russians to protest against the military operation in ukraine. we believe that what is happening is not worthy of you, and we stand, install a dirty with each of you who strive to create a more peaceful future. i thought the 1st time washington is trying to rally russians against the government. back in 2021. the u. s. embassy published a detailed sign of protests across the country. well, apparently implying that demonstrators should march on the kremlin, russian officials or so strongly condemned that calls. let's not discuss these developments with human labor wise lawyer done cavallo down. nice to see this evening. was your reaction to such controversial suggestions with the u. s. embassy in moscow. well, i think it's disturbing part embassy located in another country to call for any

type of demonstration, sort of to try to sway public opinion in that country. and the job of an embassy is to represent that nation in communicating with the government of the host country, in this case, the russian government, it's not to be trying to dissent and protest. course we know the us does that all the time, but it's not appropriate. and i certainly understand why the russians are upset about does the you, my son, does he really have the right to call on citizens of another country to take the street to process? of course not. i mean, again, that is not the job, particularly of the diplomatic wing of the u. s. government. their job is to again try to, you know, maintain communications discussions and negotiations with the government of the whole country. in this case, russia not to encourage you know,

popular pro testing and they got not what they should be doing. how did the motion can it would reactive moscow suggested that americans run against the us government? well, we know, because you recall during the so kill russia gates handle, which was mostly based on also there were claims that russia did support somehow the b m protest that they supported even call and kept her name kneeling at the bell games. somehow they were behind the charlotteville protest. no, no, that was true. ok. but the mere claim sent people into a frenzy in russia was denounced as, you know, inappropriately interfering in the u. s. domestic affairs. and had russia done it, they should have been criticized for that, but that was true, but the point is the u. s. government denounces the us media denounced it.

and again, we would not tolerate that type of interference, by the way, the article to 7 of the un charter makes it very clear that nations are not to interfere in payers of other rushes. deputy national security chief dmitri met with the f as a keys. the u. s. embassy statements of cynicism and moral degradation as he pointed to boston sponsoring of ukraine's military efforts. what do you make? is that criticism? yeah, well again, it's ironic because of course. 1 really for 8 years or going on 9 years now. right . the u. s. never told the government kia to stand down and attacking its own people and it on bass. in fact the us has been fueling that conflict. so yeah. are now the us to say, oh, you know,

russian people you should be supporting peace. i mean, it's just ridiculous and hypocritical. does it like american citizens are happy with all those tax pass? billions going to ukraine instead of being used to help people in the u. s, i think americans are increasingly ocean this from now sent or will send, you know, when all the appropriations that are, are being proved go through the us would have sent around a 100000000 dollar 100000000000 dollars a sensibly to new crime for this conflict. meanwhile, you have, you know, infrastructure in the us, it's falling apart. you have record almost is you have a huge number of people who are at or near the poverty level. the last i saw that was around 50 percent of americans that are new all the money to

$100000000000.00 that has been sent. the ukraine can be sent to alleviate those problems and it's not. and i think americans are becoming increasingly upset about this. done many thanks for joining us this evening. human ons labor rights lawyer done cuz i like always a pleasure. thank you. thank you. now the british office for national statistics has revealed that more than 700000 people across england and wales like central heating well advocating for anti russian sanctions. the u. k. now faces the possible deaths of thousands of citizens this winter 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 got 10 percent of those without central heating. national charity is one of an increase to the already $10000.00 preventable deaths related to cold home beach year. well, back in march, the you cannot, the country is going to phase out russian oil and liquefied natural gas. 3 months

later, imports of energy supply from russia dried up the 1st time. and it's more than history. 12 months prior to imposing sanctions on moscow, burton spent nearly 500000000 pounds on the russian fuel import. i found mackay political list on that. it's a red star radio. the british government has other priorities besides the well being of a saying that the overall priority is to try and leverage the situation that is going on at the moment. ukraine and try and turn it into a regime change possibility directed against the government in moscow. and asked 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 upheaval on the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd. we take a closer look at what last year brought to the u. k. we have a vision for this country, an 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, i am a fighter, i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. i will work day in and day out to deliver the youth the u. k. like other countries is now in recession. why is it to be the 1st country into recession and the last country out there was that.