there is no support from the nomination. i commission of virginia and i finish. i don't care about chug or send people ah ukraine. and if weston buck is reject it rushes off of christmas trees and fire on gun. yes. 30 minutes after the proposed the fire, violation of free speech and the rights of journalists. that's what russia's foreign ministry calls the detention of the chief editor of sputnik with you and use agency by all parties. in latvia, we have on the communications director of clinics, parent company, devoted to the baltic states are requesting ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions or in coordination with their superiors and european union. and in the u. s. a. n. c and russian sanctions backfire as the u. k. face is rising, excess death is charges one,

the soaring energy costs in the household. it's a cold winter with no central heat, with a very warm welcome. see, from a pretty chilly moscow moneys peter scott's here with all the latest on wherever you're joining us from. welcome to the poker starts off with our top story of the day after projects in preachings. cole for christmas cease, fire ukrainian forces have shelled done yet. it's just half an hour after the start of rushes, unilateral orthodox christmas truce. that's is according to local city officials, there's been no information so far on the damage on the casualties. let's cross over to the done yes. republic now where our teeth roemer cost is ready to bring us more details. roma tell us more about the situation. so tell us about this, this, this cease fire for lack of it. well, the ukrainian military, i haven't really a stop shelling anesco this entire day on friday to despite the kola by vladimir

putin to establish this as cease fire. the order that he gave to the russian troops after an offer from the head of the russian orthodox church of patriarch curial library. putin a install this says ceasefire from noon on friday for 36 hours until midnight on saturday. however, 8th, exactly, 12 o'clock at noon on friday, ukraine struck once again and at the moment says several districts in this very large city in the next or under fire. and we are talking strictly about a civilian areas said the area of petrosky by the district. so far keowee key are under shelling by a $155.00 caliber weapons. they are nate, that's a nato caliber supplied to the ukraine by a nato countries. so far we haven't heard about any casualties while on thursday

earlier. there were 2 women that were ah, ah, hurt by the, by this our solution. but so for information is still coming in on friday. we're waiting to hear on the results of today's showing by a ukraine. now ukraine right away, refused to observe this cease fire as it present. zalinski was also echoed by western backers of a key of regime and not to support this cease fire. despite the fact that it is a christmas in russia, it is a christmas or most people in ukraine as well. and this is usually a time for peace. however, it's not to be observed as we can see at all right. now as i'm speaking you, i can still hear the sound, the sounds of artillery shedding at a distance. now it seems that for the car key for the current keeps the regime the observance of this as sacred holiday beans. absolutely nothing. despite the fact

that most of the country is ashley orthodox, a christian, and they have initiated this the white against the ukranian orthodox church at quite a while back after they established a new church back in 2018. and since then, a priest that belonged to the ukrainian or last church of the moscow patriarchal ah, well of they have been at targeted by the police and, and the other enforcement agencies as well. and so, you know, some of them are facing interrogations. some of them i even facing death if they don't follow the official borderline. well, in terms of what's happening here in don't ask. i spoke to some local people i heard from local officials in regards to what they think about. so, but this cease fire whether it will wear as well, but they have no illusions about that. so they know they knew that that ukraine will not the observed this says he's fire. and so they said that if they do not

observe it, we will, she will be sure to fire back at whatever dangerous, coming towards them. let us ortiz roman call, so repulsion live from the dance republic, rome. thank sabrina's, the latest on dots cease find the editor in chief of the lithuanian branch of the sputnik news agency has been detained in the lot. the capital of riga marat's calcium, who holds a lottery. and passports is reportedly been accused of breaking you sanctions against russia. and moscow's brandon, the generalists arrest a 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. earlier we spoke to the communications department, chief of sputnik parent company. it says the charges against murat calcium are groundless. while the baltic states are being used as a front for the use crackdown on media freedom. vilnash moody board, when in this case is totally political espionage charges against marriage are 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 sanction. the fact is that the european union has no sanctions against spook nick, 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 their own. they, as we assume, act either on direct instructions or in coordination with their superiors and the european union. and in the u. s. the accusations of espionage and the threat of imprisoning him for 20 years as an u citizen are in fact a pure policy of the european union earlier the head of but next parent company called the journalists arrest unlawful and absurd. and they also said that the case was politically motivated when my colleague nicky, are in discuss the incident earlier with our senior correspondence markets. dea, we have solved 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, 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 course, reaction from the head of sputnik me think he should of he is on the european sacks

of the, the logic that the europeans have gone by. the baltic states have gone by is that if someone works, even a european citizen works for someone who's under sanctions, no matter how removed, you know, a journalist in a niche 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 would urge estonians, latins, lithuanians, to try to relax their wording, ooh, their views and how this law should be implemented while the law should be implement. there's a sense that the baltic states, there's been a 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 big picture of holly bo

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 names after that 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 her follow inside their resignations to stop working for sputnik then you had people arrested. you have journalists arrested for working for russian news networks. this is all in the face

of a fact that the european human rights, charter, least the freedom of expression. and the freedom of expression is defined. it is the freedom to hold beliefs, to share opinions and to receive opinions. and this is a journalist who had been doing just that. he was also working in moscow for years now. he travelled back to latvia to, to, to meet with families of reasons we don't yet know at, despite him being well aware that he was being politically persecuted, that they were out for him. he's able to finish a slit, it would take me several hours to simply name all the journalists have come under pressure in eastern europe. here is just one of my own stories in by back in 2019, i was detained at villainous airport, 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, archie was switched off of a not 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 that it be, is that it's europe,

which is for many years prided itself and 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 bubble that is fed by european news agency, again fed with americans, news agencies and pro western views. we also spoke to bryan burley take his a geopolitical analyst, and he said that the journalist detention highlights the western campaign of camping down on any alternative narrative. i think at the 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 claimed 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. it is the self proclaimed leader of and yet it has done the most it's and it's all like they've done the most to demolish these pillars. one by one, freedom of the press being one of the news news organizations like r t, r, rates off of youtube. and this is all, i think, a sign 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. over to africa now where at least $35.00 civilians, including women and children,

have died in the latest attack by the i'll show bob service group militants designated to car bombs in central somalia, targeting a residential area. the number of attacks appears have risen stance. government forces and militia groups began pushing off shabani the 3rd story. now this all comes amid warnings by amnesty international of arising civilian deaths. hold you to u. s. s. strikes in the country. a local reporter takes deeper al qaeda affiliate. all shabani, 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's finally appeared to be bearing some fruit, some 16 years after the insurgency began. government forces recently took control

of the, the town of renew 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 at a place in 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 oven forces strict rules in areas under its control. including banning smoking, forcing meant to grow beers and prohibiting forms and music deemed an 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 somalian authorities are slowly gaining successes in their fight against the extremists and the lingering u. s. military prisons in the country is now and the 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 remains steadfast and our support of east african and african union lead efforts to counter the threat from our sher 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, 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 in a 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 wrecked 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 some tuition has been exasperating by the reported mass killings of hundreds of people in us. if strikes biden recently announced that the us whitman taina contingent of 500 troops in somalia despite rising opposition of the u. s. military presence in the region. us strikes in recent weeks have killed 15 people in somalia, in the tax reported as targeting all ship up militants, but the actual number of civilian casualties from the u. s. military described as

collective 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 plumbing 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 course. civilian casualties in one year to us it strikes in somalia in early 2020 reported to kills every civilians with an apparent intervention of international law. subsequent to that, another is frank, reportedly killed one woman in her home and another attack and killed 5 men and a child in a mini bus. this seems to suggest that us military operations in somalia and not sarah impartial or transparent as there is an evident disregard for the loss of civilian lives. come for me for our t,

johannesburg. in the news, the british office for national statistics has revealed more than 700000 people across england, wales like central heating and while advocating for anti russian sanctions. the u. k. now faces the possible death of thousands of civilians this winter due to the cold. okay. march the u. k, announced the country, it was going to phase out the russian orland liquefied natural gas. it was late, the impulse of energy supplies from russia to the 1st time in modern history. 12 months prior to imposing thanks. the moscow britain spent nearly 500000000 pounds on russian fuel imports. alexander mackay political analyst, annette, it's all over red star radio says the business 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

their priority. as their over riding piracy, the welfare of the regular people, the everyday people have written, doesn't even come 2nd behind that. so we've seen of course, or energy prices go through the roof over the last 12 months. and we've seen more and more people fall into what is defined as fuel related poverty here. and the sanctions regime that the british government has enthusiast, tickly, 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 markets as time goes on on keep him warm isn't the only struggle. the u. k. 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 u. k. ah, we have a vision for this country as well as the economy in europe 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. hostile are these, i am a fighter and 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, was written set to be the 1st country into recession and the last country out there with and finally, with the passing of the new year, india has more reasons to celebrate. for example, the mocking of the 75th anniversary since the end of british colonial rule. and in the years since new dallas made notable strides, pushing india to become the world's 5th largest global economy. when his art sees india correspondence, virgin sharma breaking down the country's rise in 2022. neil standing on the global stage has been rising in the recent year. the year 2022 has particularly been an

important one with big economic breakthroughs. deepening political dies and increasing trade in 75 years off to india became independence. the country is no longer a week. i have become one of the most powerful countries in the world. recently, india achieved the fee to becoming the world's 5th largest economy. this achievement gave us confidence to work harder and achieve bigger goals. this is no ordinary progress. it fills every indians heart with pride. we need to maintain this enthusiasm. indian russia, r. o, towing friends in the year 2022 was no exception. a deepening this historical relationship this year bilateral trade between new delhi and moscow expanded despite the threat of sanctions from the u. s. in fact, india build new banking channels, so it's played with moscow would not be affected. in july,

the result bank of india announced a plan to allow overseas trade to be settled in route peace despite the western pressures area continue to by discounted rush. you know, i think it will be prioritizing analogy security put at 1400000000 people. india also rejected the $60.00 price gap on russian seaborne oil imposed by the g 7. the bump. not the european union have been desperate to boost, dies with india, and has bush new delhi to reduce its links to moscow. however, india withstood collect a west and basher as it took a position of neutrality. it is hard fundamental obligation to ensure that the indian consumer has the best possible access on the most advantageous terms to international market. on induct respect are quite honestly we ups in dot i the indian shad relationship has worked to advantage. so if it works to my

advantage, i would like to keep it in, but keep that going. you cannot have a group of countries which unilaterally decide that country ab, yours, she needs to be punished and therefore the rest of the world should fall behind them. we have our own place in the world. we don't have to be dictated to by what the west necessarily wants the rest of the world to do. we do not offer our companies to buy russian. i'd we ask for companies to buy oil. what is the best option that they can get? now it depends on what the market pros up. it is sensible policy to where we get the best deal in the interest of indian people. and that is exactly what we are trying to do. i mean, ongoing geopolitical shift, instead of political isolation, new delhi has continued diplomatic engagements. whitmore school at all levels, and all the formats, including participation in the recent joint military drill, was talk 2022 escape. i want to pay tribute to the foresight to president putin.

corporation between india and the russian far east and various fields is actively expanding. and today this policy has become an important pillar for partnership between our countries. india is interested in strengthening partnership with russia . in many areas. his family has confirmed the corn. they can ukraine with north cross shells offensive out of house consistency. i've seen from you and ward against moscow. tom came russia, president law. the mayor. fulton has, is definitely regarded by preserving new delhi more school from india. but i do look us then the india has come a long way from the british colony to its current state. much has been done in recent years under the leadership of prime minister motive. he is certainly a patriot of his country and his make in india initiative as both economic and moral significance. we have a special relationship with india that emerged or was built on the foundation of

a very close alliance that existed for many decades. we have never had any issues with india, and i want to emphasize this. never all we ever did was support each other who this is what is happening now, and i'm sure it will continue in the future. all in all 2022 highlighted indian strength in different fields. an economic geopolitical boom of india is predicted next year as only of the, almost the d 20 presidency at a time of a global kill from minnesota in the war the same. but you deli wants to play the role of a problem, sol worth more. these g 20 chairmanship will lead to a difference in the blocks approach, which has been dominated by the wife of the western countries for a long time. that's all for now to be sure to check out our t dot com all the latest breaking news on updates. obviously you're right back here

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