elation of historians, the french colonists are responsible for the deaths of one and a half 1000000 algerians. a grain and is western back his reject rushes off a christmas truth and by on done yes, 30 minutes after that it puts in order the unilateral cease fire to be going on friday a 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 your news agency by authorities. in latvia, we hear from the communications director of sports devoted to close to the baltic states or rec, testing ground for was the act either on direct instructions were in coordination with your superiors in the european union and in the u. s. and prince harry reveals, he killed 25 people during his mission in afghanistan,

saying that they would just chest pieces removed from the board with the very wall. welcome to you from a pretty nippy moscow. my name's peter scott's here with all the latest on where have you joining us from. welcome to the program. now. so our top story, they saw after rejecting russia's coal for christmas cease fire ukrainian forces have shell done yet several times. shortly after the start of the proposed orthodox christmas tree starts according to city officials, and there's been no information so far and any damage or casualties. let's go live now to the done. yes. republic where are sees, roman cost rep is ready to bring in more details about what is the situation on the ground and can send us a bit more about this reported si fi violation. well this a ceasefire was ordered by president vladimir putin in order for orthodox christians

in russia and ukraine to attend to religious services. hearing this says sacred holiday and the cease fire began at noon on friday and should last until midnight on saturday. so for 36 hours so people can celebrates at this event. however, at exactly noon on friday, ukraine once again shelled civilian areas here in the nest firing multiple a rockets, multiple artillery shells against a civilian areas according to local officials. so they were $155.00 millimeter caliber, nato supplied weapons to ukraine. so far we haven't heard about say, any casualties at this point. however, the news will be coming in throughout the day. now, once again, once this is a temporary truce, was offered by president vladimir putin suggested by the patriarch of the russian

orthodox church ship president lensky of ukraine, refused to observe this cease fire. and was also echoed by the leaders of the so called collective west. as well. now too many observers say here in the dung boss and in russia and ukraine as well, this shows another divides between ukrainian leadership and the orthodox our church. now this has been going on for a while, many priests in ukraine, of the ukraine and orthodox church of the moscow patriarch kates were a question that interrogated by the agent. so the police and other law enforcement but services many times are threatened with death. and in course duration, so there's a very huge divides in terms of religion now in ukraine, but russia,

ukraine have, but traditionally been a orthodox and they shared this so common histories for many, many a centuries. our as say in regards to local officials, say, here in the boss, president, sofa, the head of the, the nest people's republican. he's push it and says that if the see squire will be broken. if there are casualties, they have all, all the rights it to, to respond and to return fire against those barbaric attacks that they place against piece will civilians, riots. roman thanks very much for that all day. does ortiz that roman culture report in life from the dentist for public? thank you for to discuss this further. let's go now to moscow and speech. you don't journalist sonya abundant. and sonya, thanks for joining us this afternoon. i'm nothing at all. i just want to get your thoughts what you make of key of rejection of this, this sci fi proposal? well, i think it was to be expected because yesterday in the western mainstream media,

they already said that ukraine didn't agree to add it to the to so yeah, i think it was to be expected. of course it's a you, it's provocation that they do. it's just often do 12 no, because then the ceasefire would be started. well it's, it's to be expected and actually it's been merrick ac, this is what they're doing all the time already. and they accused russia and it just broke again that they wandered through. but i mean, it was, yeah, and also it's, it's sure if for sure, a big sign that this is my between the ukrainian church and their russian tours is not respected at all. the tears in russia is not respected at all. and like i was last week somehow in the conference and there was a priest who said that he was detained and maybe more than 100 or even yeah, close to 1000 priest and crew. 2 man from the russian orthodox church in ukraine are detained, beaten torches,

so they have no respect at all. it's barbaric actually. oh, do you think this bodes for future negotiations between the 2 sides? if they can't even agreed to hold fire for 36 hours on orthodox christmas. but it clearly is, in my opinion, it shows from the ukrainian science and also to western side that they don't have any. and they don't want and to stay don't one negotiations at all because otherwise they would have said ok to at least respect a holy moly day like christmas. and it's meaningful for russians and ukrainians does date like they do in the west when it was christmas to respect it. and at least, you know, and the idea of christmas is to have peace on earth. this is what they say in western countries. so at least respect that so there, i think there's not much help or really negotiations in short future thing. but both key of and many people in the,

the western press that they said that's key of reject to the offer because they didn't trust russia. and they thought that russia would use the, the, the ceasefire to bolster his defenses. maybe bring more trips and what you made to for those statements. well, if you start to really read writing this in your newspapers, it's, you don't make yourself big effort to already to say, you know, at least we should try because and we all christians and we is the christian holiday. and this bloodshed finally must come to an end. so they were very quick to react, i think in my opinion. and yeah, it's, it's, it's the media, it's just like that. and also politicians there and the same in the west also proclaiming this. and they don't make any effort to, to try it. and it's, this is actually the horrible thing. well, that's jealous sonya of london and a thank you very much for your time, daniel. thoughts on that so far that unfortunately didn't hold. thank you. thank you. thank you. in the news,

the editor in chief of the lithuanian branch of the sputnik news agency has been detained in the lab in capsule. riga, marat's calcium, who holds a lot to be impossible, is reportedly been accused of espionage and violation of the sanctions against russia. moscow's brother, the journalists 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 it's even obligated to do everything to make these presumptions, regimes return to the rule of law. malaria, we spoke to the communications department, chief of sputnik st, parent company who says the charges against smart calcium, a groundless on the baltic states are being used as a funds for the use crackdown on media freedom bill nationally. the poor in 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 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 e, you citizen are in fact a pure policy of the european union. earlier the head of the next parent company called the journalists, arrest unlawful and absurd, he'll said the case was politically motivated. my colleague, nikki, are, and discussed the instance earlier with ortiz, senior correspondence broadcast, df. 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. ah, the request for bail was denied without any reason, given his lawyer hasn't yet received any information. we don't even know if she's been able to talk with him. we have heard of cas reaction from the head of sputnik me think he should of he is on the european sacks of the logic that the europeans have gone by. the baltic states have gone by is that if someone works, even a european citizen works for someone who's under sanctions, no matter how removed, you know, a journalist in 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 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, stoney, in the through a near is russia. how do you think this case fits into the bigger picture of having both? second are they eat 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 yes, state security agents urged to, uh, 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 said, well, the british 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 be 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 chisels. 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, archie 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 has for many years prided itself and on freedom of speech and human rights. now trying to restrict information human opinion, even opinion, news from its own people. vote is the keep them all contained within this bubble

that is fed by european news agencies, again, fed with american news agencies improve western views. earlier we spoke to brian bella, tech geopolitical analysts, who said that the journalist, attention highlights the western campaign of camping down on a neil tentative 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 the international rules based order is the

self proclaimed lead or off, and yet it has done the most it and it's 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 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. they were chess pieces removed from the board while that's the confession from the case prince hurried detailing his participation in the killing of more than a dozen probably by militants during his service in afghanistan. that's an eps, an exit obtained by the telegraph from the clean release of his memoir, spare. it wasn't a statistic that filled me with pride, but none did live mer shamed. when i found myself plunged in the heat and confusion

of combat, i didn't think of those 25 as people who had chess pieces removed from the board. bad people eliminated before they could kill good people. of the last decade, prince harry's afghanistan, souls have been lauded in the media with soldiers and civilians alike, praising him for his bravery and humility. often citing a viral video that showed the prince dashing off mid interview to support his brothers in arms. let's cross live now to martin j award winning journalist. good afternoon, sir. martin. thanks for joining us today. i'm 1st of all, i want to get your take on these latest confessions by harry. what do you make of them? shameful, really. i mean, just so low. can he go to promote himself on his new book, which is supposed to be out next week? i, i think this represents a new, lo and another. you know, there's just been dozens of these anecdotal offerings which have been fed into the british mainstream press for the last few days made

a live website today is absolutely just lost with them. but i think, you know, you give it to us. good. awesome, pretty simple. and rather unpalatable questions about the guys state of health. i mean easy really lizzy's mind, you know, with, with that and can other confessions of using a medium to speak to. diana, do you know a lot leopard being sent to him in africa? this is something i mean, you know, what's wrong with this guy, you know, i think just some up to the reaction of some of his colleagues and some senior army offices. i think they made a very one of them made a very prolific point, which is that, you know, when you look at the british public today, now, one of the last bastions of support, the poor guy houses with the army because he went to afghanistan and he served to put his life on the line, was patchy helicopter pilot. and i think now you know, with the comments from the general today who said look, you know, you really have going against the grain and, and put yourself in a very,

very compromising position. now the target back because now soldiers william support you anymore, but breaking the house rules, you know, took the operations like so do you think this is a common frame of mind for soldiers? they do treat the opponents as, as a chest pieces to be taken off the board. you'll think so after certain point. yeah, i mean, not a certain amount of battles. it starts to become very impersonal. and the enemy starts to become, to humanize show. it's been the number was on myself, and i've seen this 1st hand, but i think it's even more so if you're in the air and if you're, if you're flying a helicopter or, or jet and you're bombing in a certain distance, i think, you know, the, it the humanise ition of the enemy is inevitable, but it's so extraordinary that harris talks about that you know, most, so just come to collect that my so just don't really even go that far because

obviously given a lot of thought and i wonder whether certain public relations experts are putting words into his mouth and forming these, these one line as nice cation is not prince. hurry was of the see quite vocal in his criticism of the media. and it's what he claimed as the, the intrusion in the lives of him and his family. what do you think that he's, he's almost helping feed this media frenzy himself by releasing this book. you can see us. yeah. and this is the, this is the, the funny thing about the print, sorry story or dinah story is. dinah also complained bitterly about media intrusion and this subject to media intrusion was carried on beyond the grave. you know, right till now to, to the, the rule family and person are constantly bang on this drama one, a number of successful attempts to preserve their privacy. but the papacy boxy, i mean nobody works, journalist better in it's in the, in the 20th century,

the diner, you know, i mean, every state, every single stuff that she pulled off was arranged and the germans were tipped off in exactly where she would be. they knew exactly where they need to go to get the right angles with the camera. it's just laughable. the hiring can play this card again when he's absolutely milking the media machine. well, i mean, it does no one else. you know, from a short term perspective. you know, his, his consultants must be opening both champagne pen themselves on the back. we look at the main online web site today, but i think the longest is a hard nut to crack and it will survive. it will anybody by the book, when almost everything, every trinket, information that could have been, you know, remotely interesting as a tweet has already been milk has already been published in this out. you know, so when god knows where it will go, all gonna end up probably in tears. suddenly i've been some janice, frantically typing away when the copies of these these,

these books were obtained. now just to go back to the afghan, it's done thing you did. so actually before martin and colonel lex colonel said they did paint the targets only. but with those confessions towards that, do you think that he's put his own on these families safety at risk with this? well, we just don't know the how the tell a bomb already going to react to this a longer term. you know, it could be elements within the telephone who are not following orders from baltimore to do their own thing as that may well, these comments and, you know, may were inflame some of them to carry out their own acts of revenge on british workers or journalists and going to stuff i think that's one of the selfish things that struck me about this. is that harry at absolutely no regard whatsoever. so any british people were having to do with italy, but we don't know really just of father taliban. we're going to next few years, but we had indications of it this year last year. you know,

the last few weeks with the crept down on women. not even allowed to be able to work now and more atrocities against minorities. and it seems to be the taliban is going back to the old tell about the 1900 ninety's. there's always the case then put into context this this little line of, of use of attacking these the taliban as pieces on the check. just broad. i think was highly responsible and it just shows how, what content harry has for his own regiment and food and for the british people. and of course, let's not forget the afghans themselves because it's really easy for journalists and actually to use this word insurgence. but i wonder how many of those people the did shoot were actually searches always in my experience and we're not going to stun was my experience. you know, when it's such a text carried out, they're always innocent by some of the good in the way. and i'm the victims pine up

indeed. and just before we go much and one last rather expensive question, you might find it difficult to answer. but when it comes to the balance of how the media has covered this book by prince harry, do you think that has given enough attention to this, this, this article or, you know, so there is confession that he killed 25 african fighters in his words or been more interested in the relations with his brother in his family. i think i think will always be the family. i mean because you know the, the more that this fiasco carries alone. prince harry and megan can continue this, this appalling policy of data to, to trash the british royal family as much as possible and sometimes even britain itself. and i think more that, that's drawn out, you know, the most to see some members of the european of the, of the, of the british royal family and a different life. i mean, it's really interesting. one of the anecdotes in the book is that he had

a fight with william. i don't actually believe that. i don't think, i don't believe that will probably 6 top, but maybe william roughed him up. maybe there's a wrestle or something. but immediately, if you look at social media response from british report, is incredible in the amount of support and favoritism that william is now functioning from people who didn't even have opinions about him before he was saying, you don't, you, william, i never knew you had it in you, you know, because there is a level of hatred now, which is beginning to grow really begin to say on all levels. i'm to was. how are you and megan, this is corporation this, this is some, this is, this, does this do it of, of people who just seem to be out to further themselves for their own interest, that any calls whatsoever. and it's also going to be certain interest the if and how booking a palace responds to this book when it's released. martin j award winning journalist pleasure to have you on the program. thank you very much for sharing

your thoughts with us today. that's all for this id. be sure to check out our websites, r t dot com for all the latest news. i know the dates and i'll see a ride back here in just over 30 minutes. and thanks for watching. ah ah ah ah ah, ah, ah

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