very good, i think it was time to sit down and talk with you. crane and it's western backers reject russia's offer of a christmas truce after vladimir putin ordered a unilateral cease fire to begin on friday, a violation of free speech and the rights of journalists. that's what russia for ministry calls the detention of the chief editor. but nick, lithuania, news agency, by authorities in latvia, we heard from the communications director of sputnik parent company, welsh could close. you, read the baltic states, or a testing ground from wallace. the attic either on direct instructions or into ordination for superiors and the european union and in the you with and anti russian sanctions back fire. as the u. k face is rising, access that charities war and storing energy costs to meet household space. a cold

winter with no central heating. mm. with hello, good morning for martine or national studios in moscow, and from wherever you may be catching us. welcome to the ours top news stories from around the globe. i'm bureau, eliza bauer. jeff has rejected prudence calls for 36 hour christmas seats. fire that began roughly an hour ago, are tease rome on culture of brings us the details from the conflicts. so orthodox christmas is coming. and russian president, vladimir putin has ordered ceasefire after an offer from the head of the church patriarch. you're ill now. the ceasefire will last for 36 hours beginning at noon on friday, and ending midnight on saturday. as a large number of orthodox christians reside in the area of hostilities, we call him the ukrainian side to declare a ceasefire to allow them to attend church services on christmas eve,

as well as on christmas day. however, the truth is more than likely to be unilateral, because president zaleski, as well as his western backers, were quick to refuse this offer of peace. he just, any had to now they want to use the christmas seuss far as a cover to at least briefly stopped advanced fall troops in the don bus and bring military equipment, ammunition and soldiers closer to all positions. so this is far proposed by prison hootin and ukraine for the orthodox christmas lunch on her 6th. 7th. have you heard about that? you have a reaction? i mean i think she's shown fi sl oxygen. this says the latest dismissal of the orthodox christianity by the key of government, despite both ukraine and russia, sharing orthodox values throughout history. the modern government in keith has initiated a crackdown on religion. first he of broke centuries old traditions and organized a separate church back in 2018. and starting last year, key of began using police and enforcement agencies to make sure all orthodox priest

than the country follow the party line. many refused and suffered forward facing arrests and even death. however, the schism that was enforced by key have resulted in the suffering of the ukrainian soldiers and their families as well. a video from last year where a woman begs to bury her son according to orthodox traditions, went viral, raising questions about how wide is the support for the zelinski back church in ukraine really is. i turned a corner with a love to live on here and on boss. the people are used to constant shilling by key of regime that's been killing civilians for nearly 9 years. judging from social media post and having talked with the people here on the ground, it's clear that no one here expects ukraine to go down

a peaceful path. local officials have already said that should give decide to attack during the announced truth than the fire will be returned. but of course, there's always hope that this christmas will pass without any casualties. remark offer archie the next republic. some news just an ukraine has sheldon? yes, just half an hour after russia declared a unilateral christmas truce. that's according to city officials. there has been no information on the impact. and whether or not there are any casualties so far. let's cross to yaneth the conan editor in chief of finished news. i may lay he what do you make of caps, rejection, and welcome of the ceasefire for orthodox christmas, which is celebrated both by the majority of russians and ukrainians alike, especially since uh, we just got this breaking news. of course, the peoplesoft dornbush, especially the truth would be

a great gift. and i think that the whole world who is stealing their senses up loud to this decision to put forward of the the truth, the decision of the truth even go. oh cranium and the western leaders has been against it and it shows the whole nature of the conflict. once again, people are not appreciated. the truth is not appreciated. the war wages on and the pro keisha's are the one what we see now from the give side. and this all comes amid a vast crack down on the russian orthodox church in ukraine, despite the fact that most of the country's citizens are orthodox christians. what do you make of key abs? possible motives here. oh, of course a go crazy now in the situation where it up, lots of a delivery of a new armament, new tanks,

new every the each on the war. mood and they are doing everything they can to be struck the fact and realities all for orthodox, both sides in the conflict. of course, everybody understand the patriarchy rules. oh, they talk for the truce and everybody wants it. everybody needs it. and especially ukrainian soldiers who are in the lead grinder for day, for them to have a moment. the break in those g like these would be highly needed. we all know that the situation in ukrainian side of the front line is terrible. and though the losses are huge, and ju, ju, now you don't, you that god turn to the journey should turn to beast is exactly the message, the will and crane. yes. and dawn was people and russian people each and i really, really appreciate the food you see should go forward,

forward with these even though the, the of here were she was not ready to. yeah, i mean, and just the ha, a half hour after the cough, the beginning of the ceasefire. ukraine has reportedly bomb to don. yes, i mean, clearly they are in some ways taken advantage of this truce. what do you make of this latest deb, this latest happening? the western western media will stay quiet about these latest shelling of dawn. it's, i'm hearing who ganske and ando we are expecting for location in the, in the, in the whole front line. and of the western media do what it has been done for over 8 years. it lets us cranium forces to start propagating. they keep quiet and when our guys start to respond to the fire, they are claiming that we started showing. and then that both sides are claiming disorder, even though we have facts on the ground that who started again and again and again,

we have seen this happening hundreds of times since 2014 and from the beginning, u. s. officials did not give this any validity. u. s. official said that they don't have much trust in this russian truth offer offer. what sort of thing know, does this then to washington's allies and can i think that the russia shows to the multiple, are world the rule of the real skin off the washing on war makers and bent the god strategists. a booty offered for to truth is the thing, what china, what india, what everybody the, all the countries which has feeling their senses and not it either. oh, battles of the western power structure. they really appreciate these kinds of moves . they haven't your whole ethical and feels tragical amenities and seeing those. and this is a tron single. you all ice for russia that russia is not the aggressor and,

and in the same time, the usa showed their real face. they are sending bradley fighting vehicles. they are pushing ornaments to the and they want to keep, continue the fight to the last to cranium, and that is what is going law. hearing dawn was any great. and as all of this is happening in the forefront in the background, the pentagon has confirmed it will announce yet another military, a package for kids. what do you make of the timing of this move? no. this juice you certainly rush in response to these. oh, and you know, over $100000000000.00, which has been sent in 2022 dual credit. it's double the amount, what is the russian military budget? and oh, certainly, russia is facing the strong enemy, which is weaponized by the wish. and go to showing you the scene of truth is

a real oh, political heroism. because that is, does connect or understanding that what is the true on the ground been craving for? i'm, i'm really happy about your knowledge, but even though we, we cannot expect that the cure troops will follow this. oh, you, any journalist yaneth for conan? thank you. thank you. ah. the editor in chief of the lithuanian branch of the sputnik news agency has been detained in the lobby and capital of rigor. morocco them who holds a lot, being passed, or is reportedly being accused of breaking each thanks against russia. moscow has branded the journalist arrest a violation of international law. morocco sam says he has been the object of harassment and persecution. my number of baltic states for many years. he said that he personally experienced the repressive machine and the actions of the collective

west. and now, unfortunately, his fears and assumptions have become a reality the international community should and is even obligated to do everything to make these presumptions. regimes returned to the rule of law. we spoke to the communications department, chief of sputnik parent company who says the charges against murat has them are groundless while the baltic states are being used as a fright for the ease crackdown on media freedom bill nationally. 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 and the charge was a while letting you know. i mean, you were a fact is the european union has no sanction against personal. thank you again the metering chancello, but it was the chief of avoided media route,

which includes sputnik little bit here for sending 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 lawlessness. concerning really harsh measures, such as intimidation, a bad on the profession, and criminal prosecutor for journalists, latvia, stony and lithuania, do not act on their own. they, as we assume, act either on direct instructions or in ordination with their superiors and the european union and telling us the accusations of espionage under the threat of presenting him for 20 years. as an you citizen are in fact your policy of european union earlier the head of but next parent company called the journalists, the rest unlawful and absurd. he also said the case is politically motivated. my colleague, nicky, are and discuss the incident earlier with our tea senior correspondent moran 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 me think he should of he is on the european sanctions 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, in each organization that they are violating the entire blocks sanctions. this is something that had been laughed at in years prime by european media groups amongst others who had urged stony ins, latvians lithuanians to try 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, 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 block, the but channel, the network on line that they pulled their domain name off so that the, the, 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 state security agents urged to uh, follow inside their resignations to stop working for sputnik then you had people

arrested. you had journalists arrested for working for russian news networks. this is all in the face of a fact that the european and human rights charter, least the freedom of expression. and the freedom of expression is defined. it is the freedom to hold beliefs, to share opinions and to receive opinions. and this is a journalist who had been doing just that. he was also working in moscow for years now. he travelled back to latvia to, to, to meet with families of reasons we don't yet know at the spite him being well aware that he was being politically persecuted, that they were out for him is able to finish a slit. it would take me several hours to simply name all the journalists who 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 is bad. carl should go to the bad one shouted at me when you're working for a kiss alone. 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, but they're not really people who rush as a peculiar country. and 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 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 switched off of a night, kicked off online platform. you know, the already parallel to 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. though disc the keep them all contained within this bubbles and as of that is fed by european news agency. again fed with americans, news agencies improve western views. we spoke to bryan berlin tag, kale, political analyst, is that the journalist detention highlights the western campaign of clamping down any alternative narrative. i think it's a continuation of western hypocrisy. and more specifically, this campaign,

the specific campaign of censoring any sort of information coming from russia's point of view, or anyone agreeing with russia's point of view. and this is essentially shutting down what the west has always claim that stood for freedom of speech. and they do it under increasingly ambiguous and irrational grounds. it absolutely is a violation of international law. just one of the, the pillars of what the u. s. claims is this international rules based order is the self proclaimed leader of and yet it has done the most it and it's like the gun the most to demolish these pillars. one by one, freedom of the press being one of the news news organizations like r t, r raced off of youtube. and this is all i think is fine of desperation and weakness on the west part. they cannot afford alternative narratives and

alternative points of view entering into the conversation because they have no way to defend their own point of view. and at least $35.00 civilians, including women and children, have died in the latest attack. by all, shall have bob terrorist group militants that needed to car bombs in central somalia, targeting a residential area. the number of attacks has risen since government forces and militia groups began pushing. i'll show bob out of the territory. this comes amid warnings by amnesty international of a rising civilian death toll due to us air strikes in the country. a local reporter dig deeper into the somalia conflict, all kind of philly at all. sure. bob currently controls more than 20 percent of somalia, with its forces and training camps, mainly in the south of the country and along its border with a kenya. whilst the islamist militant group is accused of bringing the east african

nation to the brink of civil war. busy the somalian governments counter terrorism, if it finally appeared to be bearing some fruit, some 16 years after the insurgency began. government forces recently took control of the town of renewed god. the last remaining i'll ship up stronghold in southern somalia. now, it is the 2nd major town that has been liberated in less than a month. our country and our people are out of place and time we're going back and accepting defeat are not options. we decided to commit in order to liberate the country from the hawaii's. i'll, shall ivan forces strict rules and areas under its control. including banning smoking, forcing men to grow beers and prohibiting films and music deemed un islamic. those who disobey are subjected to severe punishments, including stoning, as well as amputations. at least 100 people were reported killed by the group.

during attacks in october, the capital of mogadishu, our people who were massacred included mothers holding their children in their arms . fathers, to what medical conditions students were sent to study businessmen who were preoccupied with the lives of their families. despite that, the ssl, melina forest is all slowly gaining successes, and they are fight against the extremists and the lingering u. s. military prisons in the country is now and a question. the nation has been subjected to intense american intervention since 2003, with washington's usual narrative of an age old war on terror. so be applied, the united states remain steadfast and our support of east african and african union lead efforts to counter the threat from al sure, bob, one about kite as most dangerous affiliates which has killed thousands of people including americans in somalia and across east africa. in an october statement to

the u. s. secretary of state anthony, blinking designated the leaders off al shabbas terrorists with a list of names posted in an executive order, but the heck amid fight for democracy over the past decade and a half in the war torn country seems to have had no significant successes. so molly, as one of the walls most terrorism racked countries ranking in the top 3 of the global terrorism index behind afghanistan, as well as iraq. now, despite the u. s investing billions of dollars in the fight against terrorism. somalia has come closely to resemble the so called afghanistan scenario where it's nation building efforts have largely been a failure. that situation has been exasperating by the reported mass killings of hundreds of people in u. s. s. strikes biden recently announced that the u. s. wipman taina contingent of 500 troops in somalia despite rising opposition of the u. s. military presence in

the region. u. s. strikes in recent weeks have killed 15 people in somalia in the tax reported as targeting arshebra militants, but the actual number of civilian casualties from what the u. s. military described as convict of self defense strikes in africa remains unknown with human rights group. amnesty international. having accused washington of an appalling disregard of civilian lives with its bombing campaigns, initial reports on civilian casualty assessments, published in 2020, highlighted that the u. s. miniature command in africa, african examined tween to reported us strikes that cause civilian casualties in one year to us is strikes in somalia in early 2020 reportedly kills even civilians at an apparent intervention of international law. subsequent to that, another is struck, reportedly killed one woman in her home and another attack, elijah could killed 5 men and a child in

a minibus. this seems to suggest that you as soon as you operations in somalia and not farrah, impartial or transparent as there is an evident disregard for the loss of civilian lives at home. so me for our t johannesburg, the british office for national statistics has revealed that more than 700000 people across england and wales lack central heating while advocating for anti russian sanctions. the u. k. now faces the possible deaths of thousands of citizens this winter due to the cold. back in march, the u. k, announced the country was 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 ma. so 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 that's that priority. yes, the over riding clarity, the wealth of the regular people, the everyday people have written, doesn't even come 2nd behind that. so we've seen of course, energy prices go through the roof over the last 12 months. and we've seen more and more people fall into what's defined as fuel related poverty here. and the sanctions regime that the british government has infused asked to 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, particularly though 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 that has been facing along with 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 as well as with economy in your 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 still are these? i am a fighter, a knife i'm 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 and back to our top story rushes announced christmas cease. fire began over an hour

ago with ukrainian forces. shelly don. yes. just half an hour after it came into effect, that's according to city officials will be keeping you up to day as we get more information on the story. and that's a wrap for the top stories for this our, for more up to the minute updates had over to r, t dot com, and up next surviving the cold war required the western russia to respect each other security. but now it seems the west is unwilling to do just that. find out more on our t's cross, so we'll see you back next hour. ah with oh, what else shows seemed wrong?

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