i used to miss dog. this is neat, you just saw ah, a violation of free speech and the rights of journalists. that's what brushes foreign ministry calls the attention of the chief editor of button eggs with the way near news agency by authorities and loc via we heard from the communications director of next parent company. well, to put the baltic states are requesting ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions or in the ordination of their superior european union. and in the you with ukraine refuses to join us. the fire for orthodox christmas after vladimir putin ordered a 36 hour arm 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, republic, despite previously pledging to get to the bottom of the atrocity which russia blamed on you, prayed with good morning from are to international studios in moscow. and from wherever you may be watching, welcome to the hour's top stories from all around the globe and your listener. the editor in chief of the lithuanian branch of the sputnik news agency has been detained in the lot be in capitol of radar morocco. sam, who holds a lot in past support, is reportedly being accused of breaking you sanctions against russia. moscow has 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 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 spot next parent company who says the charges against murat because there are ground lists while the baltic states are be used as a front for the use crackdown on media freedom bill nationally. the poor being 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 ordinance and the charge was violating. so i'm, in fact, is the european union has no thanks to get student personal. you don't want to give me drink chancello, but it was the chief of avoided media room, which includes sputnik little bit here ending on personal sanctions to all the

people who work. there is a strange precedent in many european human rights organization as a whole interpretation of sanctions. the baltic states are a testing ground for longer than 6 concerning really harsh measure, such as intimidation, a bad on the profession, and criminal for journalists, lafayette, and lithuania, do not act on their own. they, as we assume, act either on direct and actions or in ordination with their superiors and the european union and dealing with the accusation of espionage and threat of presenting him 20 years as citizen are in fact your policy european union, the earlier the head of but next parent company called the journalist, the rest on lawful and absurd. he also said the case is politically motivated. my colleague, nikki, are and discussed the incident earlier with our senior correspondent, mariah 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 prior by european media groups amongst others who would urge sonya latins, lithuanians to, 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, stony, and the 3 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 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 to or 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 a to meet with families of reasons we don't yet know at, despite him being well aware that he was being politically persecuted, but 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. this new here is just one of my own stories in also my back in 2019 that i was detained at the illness airport. rule searched and

questioned for 5 or 6 hours. yeah. im to state security officers performed a role play a good card. it's a bad call should go to the bad one shouted at me again. you're working for it is a little mad. why did you come here with the other one asked me you're a latvian citizen, so why are you working for the you know who they are and will, they're not really petri dishes rushes, kill your country. or finally, he said, you're lucky or 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 him for 5 years. it appears that he was right. nevertheless, we, 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 arch, he was, was switched off of a night, kicked off online platform. 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 voted 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 court news agency, again, fed with american news agencies improve western views. we spoke to andre star, a cause editor of the chief of bought news, who is sad, marcusson's detention illustrates a lack of media freedom in the baltic. states slow the slow. so there's now freedom of speech and lot villas, winnie or is stony, and this is nothing new. we've been living in this relative for at least 10

detention of murat casem is simply more pra. he's being held in suspicion of violating anti russian sanctions. and that is curious as well, blocking media like r, t or other outlets of their a see a subordinate group. lot phase being tricky when it comes to journalists. it doesn't says to them openly, but journalists are facing charges and economic crimes of alleged violations of sanctions. well, of course it's all nonsense morocco, sam isn't done, and his sanctions list and neither other organizations he worked with. so what happened to him as an intimidation act, aimed at anyone prepared to work with or speak to the russian media, isn't to mandation through fabricated criminal cases. but despite these cases being fabricated with no legal basis, they bring some real problems to people. at the moment, forcing to 6 and journalists faced the same charges, and a lot of those should be protected by international law not targeted by those who are either pushing propaganda or trying to silence the investigative efforts of journalists. but this is something that we've seen consistently throughout this ukraine conflict where president zalinski has silenced his political opposition,

silenced the media in kiev and ukraine, and even the attack the a russian orthodox church in ukraine as well. so this is just the next in a long line of pattern of what we're seeing from the ukranian allies. unfortunately, the pro ukrainian media in europe and in the u. s. c's, anything as misinformation or dis, information that doesn't promote their propaganda efforts. i think it's a shame that we don't see more journalists on the front lines reporting what's actually going on both in eastern ukraine as well as in chia, we only get with the media wants to let get out. rather than having journalists do the traditional job of journalism, being embedded with the troops and actually reporting what's really happening responses have been coming in regarding president putin's orders of a 36 our seats fire in the ukraine, conflicts zone for orthodox christmas, celebrated by both russians and ukrainians alike here has rejected most of those

proposals to temporarily hold fire. the unilateral rushing cease fire comes into effect at noon january 6th and will last until midnight of january 7. however, several ukrainian officials have criticize the initiative saying russia should 1st pull back its troops before any sort of truth can be agreed to the president lensky has even call the fees, fire, offer a cover up from all those plans. political analysts always under bruno says, western policies of constantly fueling the conflict have left you have 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 gradient have 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 will haunt the west eventually. meanwhile, the un chief has decided to disband a team that's been investigating last year's deadly shelling of a detention facility in the don. yes, republic, 53 ukranian prisoners of war were killed in the attack in july. moscow in kiev accused each other of orchestrating the atrocity are to the roman coke of who was at the scene and yelling off shortly after the mass killings of p. o. w has the details, we must form the words his report does contain some graphic, distressing images. this decision by the united nations to disband this mission,

which were supposed to find out exactly what happens in the calling it. and if go where at least $53.00 as of fighters were killed and $72.00 as of a battalion, a fighters were wounded. of course, it's surprising to those wounded in the 1st place because they still don't understand how their own. com raid, so would be shooting against their own and they 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 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. ah, 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 ukraine and 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,

ensure 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, serbian president alexander wu, such has a lashed out at you. leaders over there, relentless pressure to join anti russian sanctions. he added that he is not the type of leader who can be tamed. 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 brutish, i've never seen a wolf in a circus. serbia has repeatedly refused to enact anti russian sanctions, adding that it has no intention of supporting such actions as long as serbia's vital, an existential interests are not threatened. this attitude provoked increasing suggestions from european member states that serbia's membership bed should be suspended until it complies with the blots foreign policies. according to independent journalists, duchamp, bro, oral cove,

each history shows that sanctions are an ineffective political tool and only makes citizens suffer. soviet refuses to impose sanctions on russia for 2 reasons. the 1st, these political serbia has excellent, excellent relations with russia. the 2nd reason is a b. i was on the sanctions for 8 years during the 1990s. and we know that sanctions for ordinary people the most sanctions are not on instruments that can lead to a political solution. process of european integration is also a process of the so that any nation marcy, that are members of the you want to join the you are no longer the summit in seeds of them less so in and then before they had a classic muslim state surgery, i used resisting this for now. a russian law maker has

accused washington of calling for public unrest in russia and interfering in the country. the fairs. that's after the u. s. embassy in moscow urge 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. this isn't the 1st time washington has tried to rally russians against the government. back in 2021. the u. s. embassy published a detailed plan for protest across the country, while apparently implying that demonstrator should march on the kremlin. russian officials also strongly condemned that call human and labor rights lawyer. dan kabbalah says the u. s. embassy is making unacceptable proposals. i think it's disturbing, current embassy located in another country to call for any type of demonstrations

or to try to sway public opinion in that country. 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 the sense 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 really for 8 years or going on 9 years now. right. the us never told the government key of to stand down and tagging it. some people did on bass. now you couldn't get in fact the us has been using 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 rape massacre and torture. those are the claims of

atrocities committed by russian soldiers and ukraine by western mainstream media. however, the facts on which those reports were based have been brought into question on more than one occasion over the last 10 months. one report even when, as far to claim that russia actually attacked poland, leaving the world in fear of world war 3. our t correspondent, pale mop and takes us through the story. it's pretty clear that for western media, whatever the ukranian government says is repeated as undisputed fact. this goes for outlets such as cnn and yahoo news. the reported that the russian military was distributing viagra as military strategy. and united nations representative admitted they had no evidence to back up this claim, but yet it was reported anyway. my rule is not to investigate the investigation is going on by the human rights money deal and the international commission of inquiry in their report sofa. there is nothing of

a bad bad well now this claim was repeated by the united nations. the source was a ukrainian ombudsman who later admitted that she was making untrue statements. she has now admitted that intelligence agencies pushed her to tell such falsities to tell untrue tales of russian atrocities. you're going to tell to ride that there is a jail at the pros. you power plant. they want official sources to provide that information. what kinda market but their official representative doesn't want to provide him because he in the launch in the book, but i don't know the human rights optis man is writing. he was told to my the presidential a year. so has there been any apology from western officials as there been any retraction from the media outlets, as there been any rethinking of a strategy of simply repeating what the ukrainian se? nope, they just continue to do so. the same with the boucher massacre. they jumped on a video provided by the ukranian national police. they said that russia was

responsible for all of those deaths and they didn't do any data or fact checking. western media didn't even bother to go over the basic chain of events. march 30th russian troops left boucher march 31st. the mayor of boucher announces that the city has been liberated and he makes no mention of any atrocities. there was some of which i have a friend and residents of butcher better than ever march 31st. and that will become a milestone in the history of our city as a day of liberation from russian occupants by ukraine and troops on april 1st. and 2nd, the as our battalion, an infamous group of ukrainian nazis entered the city. april 3rd, the ukrainian ministry of defense publishes the video. now the video is very different than what the mayor said. but us media still runs with it in the blink of an eye. it seems that the job of western media is simply to run atrocity propaganda for the ukranian government. and they do so without question.

me ah, the me, i i i now this rapid loose with facts reporting from western media almost started

a 3rd world war. it was widely reported at one point that russia had attacked. poland. the journalist who was responsible for running with this erroneous information has since been fired. and there's been quite a bit of embarrassment for the associated press around the fact that he didn't even bother to get a 2nd source for a claim with very big implicate. yes. now the internal communications that had been revealed by the washington post or the source of even more embarrassment. the reason they didn't look for a 2nd source or do any fact checking was because they assume that u. s. intelligence could never tell a lie. after further discussion, a 2nd editor said she would vote for publishing and alert adding, i can't imagine a u. s. intelligence official would be wrong on this. they didn't even bother to check with the polish authorities about whether or not this attack had happened from russia. the polish president has a very different version of the dance. believe me, i am extra careful. i don't blame and the russian mother

with to have. i don't do it with careful, extra careful all is authorities. were careful that you as media was not, they decided to run with reports of rush and aggression and not let facts get in the way. let's not forget how cnn cut out roger waters view of ukraine from this interview. i mean, a little bit of judicious editing is cool, but all the conversation i had for instance, about the ukraine was heavily edited and a and so it didn't really represent my real views, no journalistic responsibility. mainstream media serving the entrenched power interests in the west, nearly every wall that has thought it in the past 50 years has been resolved. oh,

media rod, the media could have thought that it searched it, they hadn't frequented government began to with it. what does that mean? that means basically populations don't like and populations have to be fooling towards to how much longer are americans going to fall for this fall show that the public is more skeptical than ever of mainstream media. and not exactly thrilled about the idea of more foreign entanglement. all of this lying for mainstream media may add up to a death knell for mainstream media in the long run, ala mauppin, arty new york. ah, the british office for national statistics has revealed more than 700000 people across england and wales lack central heating while 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. but those age, 65 and above, with chronic health conditions, making up 10 percent of those without central heating, national charity is worn of an increase to the already $10000.00 preventable dust 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, imports of energy supplies from russia, dried up for the 1st time in its modern history. in the 12 months prior to imposing sanctions on moscow, britain spent nearly 500000000 pounds on russian fuel imports. alexander mackay, political analysts, and editor of red star radio, says 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

their priority as their 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 and more people fall into what's defined as fuel related poverty here. and the sanctions regime that the british government, as enthusiastically 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 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 market. as time goes on,

keeping warm is not the only struggle the u. k. has been facing along the political upheavals and the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd. we take a closer look at what last year brought to the united kingdom. ah, we have a vision for this country, i economy and your because we are going to unite and level them. i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. i am a fighter, a life i'm resigning as leader of the conservative party. i will work day in day out to deliver the youth,

the u. k. like other countries is now in recession. why is written set to be the 1st called treat into recession and the last country out there with us over, you'd want to get into that with and those were the top stories making headlines around the globe for more up to the minute. updates had over to r t dot com and be sure to also follow us on rumble. odyssey and gab, thanks for tuning and we'll see you back at the top is next hour. mm.