[000:00:00;00] ah ah, violation of free speech on the rights of journalists, that's what russia's foreign minister calls lee detention of the chief editor of sport, make lithuania news agency by authorities in latvia. we heard from the communications director of good next parent company devoted to proceed with the baltic states or rec, testing ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions from work into ordination for superior therapy in union, and in the you were going refuses to stop shooting for orthodox christmas. after vladimir putin old is a $36.00, our russian sees to begin on friday with the un cheap scraps,

a fruitless mission to investigate. the mass killing of ukrainian military prison isn't done yet with public, despite previously pledging to get to the ports and of the atrocity which russia flanked on new clay with a very warm welcome to you. this is dorothy international with the latest world news is good to happy with our top story, the editor in chief of lithuania and brought to the sports news agency has been detained in the latvian capital riga morass. cast them who holds a lot via passport is reportedly being accused of espionage and the violation of e u. sanctions against russia. moscow has brown, the journalists, the rest of violation of international law. 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 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 spoke to the communications department, chief of the splittings parent company. he says, the charges against the merits cause them all groundless. well, the baltic states are being used as a front for the use crackdown on media freedom. vilnash report. 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 have personal sanctions against dimitri castle over was 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 bed on the profession, and criminal prosecution for journalists, latvia, stony and lithuania, do not act on the rhone. 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, you citizen, are in fact a pure policy of the european union. the earlier the head of the next parent company called the journalist's arrest, unlawful and observed. dmitri kitley also said the case is politically motivated. i discussed the details of the story in the studio with our senior correspondent,

lord 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 who's 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 mythic. he said of he is on the european section 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 would urge sony ins, latvians, lithuanians to, to relax their wording, who 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 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 block, the, 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 what threatened with prosecution. they were also persecuted, so they were pulled out. they were, they were arrested, taken for talks by 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 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 at, 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 have come under pressure in eastern europe. here is just one of my own stories in pre 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 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, was switched off of a 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 is for many years prided itself and vote on freedom of speech and human rights. now trying to restrict information, even opinion, even opinion, news from its own people. vote is the keep them all contained within this bubbles and as of that is fed by european news agencies. again, fed with american news agencies improve western views, politics and international relations. profess thank lendy sunsave, the case against mad consent is a slippery slope for the west. this very dangerous path to go down to tourists. journalist press can i so 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. give 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 the rush media has been completely uncertain as shut down. and now of course, with the journal of journalists, 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 will 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 again, no one. no one dares to speak about negotiations or piece changed to become a lot worse. 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. the kev has rejected moscow's proposal to temporarily stop shooting of the president putin over 36 on sci fi, and the ukraine conflict, zoned for orthodox christmas, which is celebrated by both questions and you train ins. the unilateral western sci fi comes into effect at noon, january the 6th, and will last to midnight of january. the 7th. however, several ukrainian officials have criticize the initiative saying russia should 1st pull back its troops before any thought of truth can be agreed to the presidency. lensky has even called the seas. far off as a cover up for moscow's plans. political analyst alessandra bruno said, western policies of constantly feeling the conflicts have left care of no other choice but to reject the proposal. i was, i remember this feeling of being overwhelmed by the absolute idiocy in the

west of driving this war. continuing to push it and every time there is some effort to stop the west takes the every opportunity to continue to fuel it, even if the ukrainians had accepted it. they would probably be under pressure to take advantage of the truth for strategic purposes. in general, we have the west in particular, the un always interested in mediating finding a solution. instead, in this situation, we see the very opposite, encouraging them throwing weapons, throwing more fire. it's truly a set of decisions that i think. busy will haunt the west eventually. meanwhile, the un chief has decided to disband the team that's been investigating last year's deadly shelling of a destination facility and they don't, yes, were public 53 ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the attack in july. moscow and key of accused each other of orchestrating the atrocity ortiz remind calls or

if he was at the scene and going off shortly after the mass killing of p. o. w has the details, and his report contains some graphic distress. damages this decision by the united nations to disband this mission, which was supposed to find out exactly what happened in the calling in africa, where at least 53 as of fighters were killed and 72 as of but sadly enough 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 calm 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 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 of ozell 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 u. n. decided to disband this mission if they did come here in the 1st place, they would have found out that the strike was indeed, ah, done by ukrainian military because of the place at this prison. we found that several fragments offer multiple launch rockets system called hi 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 rocket systems, of course, since then, they've used this death deadly weapon many times in here and on boss in here, so on. and so for roger as well. and of course that took the lives of many civilians that continued to die to this day. ah, the british office for national statistics has revealed more than 700000 people across england and wales lack central heating, well advocating for anti russian sanctions. the u. k. now faces the possible death 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 aged 65 and above with chronic health conditions, making up 10 percent of those without central. he saying, national charities won't have an increase to the already $10000.00 preventable dest related to coal times each year. or back in march, the u. k, announced the country,

is going to phase out russian oil and liquefied natural gas. 3 months later, inputs of energy supplies from russia, dried up for the 1st time in its modern history and a 12 months prior to imposing sanctions on moscow. burton spent nearly 500000000 pounds on russian fuel imports. alexander mackay political analyst and editor of red san radio said 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 asked that priority of the overriding piracy, the welfare 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, yes, directly supported measures against russian energy, which of early it 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 the, 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 elizabeth the 2nd that we take a closer look at what last year brought to the u. k. ah, we have a vision for this country as well as 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. how some of these i am a fighter, a no i 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 written set to be the 1st country into recession and the last country out there with us over you want to get into that

with a ron is outraged by recent cartoon depictions of the country. supreme leader in french magazines, charlie paris has remained silent on the matter wall wrongs. foreign ministers, slums, the pictures as highly offensive, and to summon this french envoy, the insulting and indecent act of a french publication. publishing cartoon. supposing 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 the infamous french satirical magazine. shortly ago 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 shockley at dough 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 shock viejo 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, shot via 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 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. a russian law may cows accused washington of calling for public on western russia and interfering in the countries affairs. as on 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 in solidarity with each of you who strive to create

a more peaceful future. is not the 1st time washington is trying to rally russians against the government. back in 2021. the u. s. embassy published a detailed plan of protests across the country when apparently implying that demonstrated should march on the kremlin. russian officials also strongly condemned that cold human ons, labor rights lawyer duncan, val, exceeds the u. s. embassy is making unacceptable proposals. i think it's disturbing for an embassy located in another country to call for any type of demonstrations sort of try to sway a public opinion in that country. and in 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 foment dissent. and protests course, you know, the us does that all the time. but it's not appropriate, and i certainly understand why the russians are upset about really for 8 years or

going on 9 years now. right now, the u. s. never told the government kia to stand down and attacking its own people and the dog bass. no, you cream and back the u. s. has been using that conflict. so yeah, for now the us to sail yet russian equal. you should be with her supporting piece. i mean it's just ridiculous and hypocritical spoke detailing all the latest news updates, discussions and debates. you can check our website on t v dot com. thank you for joining us here in arlington,

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