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year. hundreds of soldiers are reported kill cache of lee documentary wasn't great news out. a russian poll says on behalf of ukraine, violation of free speech and the right. so that's how russia coordinates. the describe. the attention of the regional director of the sputnik music feed by thursdays in like south africa, was to lead more countries during the bridge group as it assumes the blocks rotating presidency this year with pharmacists to promote, to move just multiple low i good morning. good afternoon. good evening, wherever you are the world, welcome to og international. i'm right, mommy, just i'm 60 yeah, gmc,

today we have a round up of each top stories. let's get started. and test fighting between ukrainian or russian troops mom the 1st week of this year with a devastating attack on russian barracks, in the domestic republic. artillery barrage by euclidian forces using us good high mas rocket stroke. shortly after midnight on new year's day. kidding, $89.00 russian troops of those defense will fear it will provide all necessary assistance to the victims, families. ukrainian food has reportedly use mobile phone data to target because it is here. so does there tend to pull relative during the holiday hours later? a russian missile soccer just saw the cranium, military base packs with ammunition and high miles rocket launchers. more than 100 soldiers were killed in the strike, which was captured live by a french television. footage of the incident

all the weeks, a residential areas and on boss with 4 civilians killed and another 14 wounded. as dozens of apartment buildings were destroyed, the sex violated the orthodox christmas truce. offered by russia. we heard from local residents who say you put new forces deliberately broke the cease fire. oh charles, you somebody do. a street was bombed here yesterday to women were injured, but thank god, not seriously. there's also house there in them, of course, destroy them like this every day. my aunt was killed a week ago on a neighboring street to live right across the street and just for it has the record heat the house directly. it's nightmare here. the craning army on the bumps civilians that there is no military, no warehouses, worse of all his responded to those attacks on civilian areas with retaliatory

strike. so new clean energy infrastructure and military facilities. air raid sirens could be heard throughout the country. must go to pull to the hundreds of kids. troops killed, dozens of tanks and other energy vehicles were destroyed in war effort has allegedly been supported by the merge g intelligence in collaboration with us tech firm. that's according to a cache of leaps. documents reported by the grazer news outlet, it says the u. k. provides dates of his forces to attack russian troops through aggressive harvesting of data. the technology has enabled the planning of military offensives in artillery attacks, assassinations, asset recruitment, and other measures. delete files, raise serious questions about whether anomaly. 6, a technology has been used throughout the ukraine conflict in an array of targeted operations against specific individuals in infrastructure. if it has britain bears

ultimate responsibility for the outcome of these disturbing actions, which in some cases amount to crimes against humanity. marivel a 3rd, a u. s. firm called anomaly 6 has been providing info on russian movie movements in real time using smartphone trucking devices. the data is allegedly sensitive the british intelligence wire, the private management prevail partner's eyes then handed over to ukraine to help is all the targets promotional forces. grazer, and it's a kit. clara book says louis version toes is tip offs, could lead to collateral damage using a normally fix the technology, the defense intelligence. and she said she extension the ukrainian military can very easily identify the small firms of very individuals whether they are civilian military or it's highly specific and talk

there is also a higher risk for me for the case to be. this might be why barrier was mad, but yeah, it's innocent. russian civilian, innocent brains were wrong. identify the enemy, soldiers were spot for collaborators. and then guess, i mean it was a context. this is almost inevitably go to lead to that, that, or indeed, that capture and torture the pregnancy compunction about the brutal consequences to capture war, telling them or mass which is a great war, cry and serious if it's killed as a result of when that completely is i think that the counselor

could be quite something where they what this isn't the 1st time the gray zone has reported on involvement view k intelligence agencies in the brain conflict back in october. the said that prior to the dead, the attack on the climate bridge c, british intelligence of this is and this is the drafted in the elaborate plan to blow up the critical infrastructure in a separate report. the grades and also said it obtained documents revealing plans by the british military intelligence to train colon cleaning troops with instructions to attack other russian targets in crimea. the grades as kit clambered again, says western powers, lack accountability for the consequences of the espionage operations against russia . there has been no iteration. all the limits or restrictions, but london traces shall be the crime. these files make pretty clear that there is

none of you trying to do or anything like should be helped every step way. what prevent prevail was heavily involved in the blood bridge exclusion. and what did you guys will actually have to deal with or be on the all of these to every month. another european government implicated in style of the activities of civil civil society more widely. and there is 0 accountability and there is up to, you know, consideration what happens if you open this $10.00 box. and that was anyone use use equipment typically reserved for. ready for intelligence agencies, or indeed yes, like, you know, to something really, really needs to meet needs to be done about this just for the sake of innocent people and but also the governments become companies that will be consequences out

in the line. what on the news of violation of free speech and the rights of journalists? that's how russia describe the detention of the regional director of the sputnik news agency by authorities in latvia, the journalist america themes, the latvian citizen, he was detained on charges of violating sanctions. because whatever gas he says, this is part of a broader a crack found on media outlets. but i haven't followed in lockstep will the blocks official narratives the freedom of expression than press what once sacred they are founding principles of the union, protected by the, the treaties of the european union, the charter of fundamental rights. and the european convention on human rights as close to gospel as law can get. every one has the right to freedom of expression.

this right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority. and regardless of frontier us, the freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected. but these principles, these values, have been sick for years. they've been die in spanish, crackdowns in barcelona, in poland as the government monopolized the press in eastern europe, where it had been building up for years and old began many years ago. and 2016 when latvia blocked sputnik on lod, just she's the domain address, no frills. then they began harassing and threatening journalists, e u. nationals who worked for sputnik with jail time, with sentences prosecution that detain them for talks with security age and

state security agents then came arrests and persecution level to finish a slit. it would take me several hours to simply name all the journalists of come under pressure in eastern europe. here is just one of my own stories, in brief, which you saw back in 2019. i was detained at villainous airports like searched and questioned for 5 or 6 hours into state security officers performed a role play of good cop bad cop. the bad one shouted at me that you're working for tittles from that. why did you come here? the other one asked me, you're a latvian citizen, so why are you working for them? you know, they are the, you're not really people as rush as a peculiar country, only finally said, you're lucky or not a russian citizen or we wouldn't be having a very different conversation. and now we'll just kick you out and close the border for you. for 5 years, come on for reference. merit cas m is an e. you national, a laughing citizen. all he did is she worked for years as editor in chief of

sputnik lithuania. one of his work is online. there's nothing crazy there. you'll find strange stuff with cnn in our faces, decades behind bars, charged with violating sanctions because he worked for russians and reportedly espionage. because why not almost admission for some of his or merits can possibly lose his freedom due to allegations of violating anti russian sanctions. i mean, the sanctions are lawful as well as the erotic. this is lawlessness of europe when a person can be arrested for his journalistic work of opinion or the information he provides. there can be even harsher chargers such as espionage or treason. some we've dealt with this before ever and we shouldn't rule out such dark perspective of up roscoe luca fatima to which effect every gen lessons. because if anybody can be taken in custody for their opinion and be charged with espionage which is not uncommon these days, and nobody say funny, as i say,

all people should stand together in this situation. american sam did not violate any laws or did his job as a journalist, legally provide it to an advice, information, and hid nothing from. i will kind of spies a person who works in the public eye for the media and hides nothing for the accusations. a force if you and we need to understand this, there are people who will be overjoyed. those who believe that any opinion, but there's all ones that they agree with should be removed and censored. the soviet union was, was big in this centering on the hiding on restricting. and we all know how that turned out. you cannot restrict expression at was once the european union's mantra, how ironic. look at them now. terrorizing journalists are writing things in a way. they don't like to think that that these people once lectured the world. 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 point of view, or anyone agreeing with russia's point of view. and this is essentially shutting down what the west has always claimed. it 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 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's and it's like 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. busy alternative narratives and alternative points of view entering into the conversation because they have no way to defend their own point of view. south africa, her said the brit scoop of grand fees. we also visit russia, india and china min more members, a prominent position on the world stage, south africa has assumed the rotating chairmanship over the block this year, our team correspondent, caterpillar tetra. as the details from johannesburg, the law and the youngest member to join the bricks group of nations, south africa is again taking over the chairmanship of the club. 2023 will be the 3rd time the african power house caves, the rings following successful hostings in 20132018 ever did before. south africa

is expected to bring along, not only the neighboring countries from the south african development community, but also the greater sub saharan africa community to. there will be high level meetings, conferences and summits through this championship, which will our focus on sustainable development. but what does that really mean in real terms? gives us an opportunity not only to advance our national interest, but also to advance the interest of the collector 5 countries, as well as the interest of the global on various brands. including advancing the african agenda because bricks has always been above south africa and the african continent when we have the opportunity to change. so we will use our chair shipped to a bird on the successes of presidents in addressing some of the key challenges that we are facing. the ongoing challenges facing the global economy, the economy,

5 countries, south africa will be aiming to advance not only the bricks agenda and the role which the new development bank should play, but also the role that the brakes should and can play on the continent. last year, south africa amplified the call for the african union to be made a permanent member of the g, 20 group of nations. and the very interest that both china and russia having on the continent are proving that, that question. once again, it's not out of place, there are 5 so countries and when we looking at expansion of breaks, it will be looked at from the perspective of sovereign nation, wanted to join bricks and looking at how we can take that process. ready what does it as a, as breaks lead. ready instructed us to do so, it's

a different scenario. you already have a precedent within the d 20, where regional organization can union is a member. so there is a good case for the african union to become that 2022 was a year of major geopolitical shift spread on by the ukraine conflict. but it also sent free the idea of a multi polar world. following by decades of western union polarity represented by the g 7. but last, the also showed a growing group of countries like saudi arabia, algeria, egypt, to turkey, and many more than i came to join and become part of the alternative to the west indies. you, paul chrissy and narrative, but break should expect a rebuttal. they will not be thinking that will be business as usual because particularly in an african context, african countries are united in their quest for power or energy for climate justice . and i think these are the issues that they look are no longer looking at the wish

for looking eastward, because solutions will be coming from the as this formation becomes more powerful. and south africa has a stronger voice within the g 7. i'm no longer the most important largest global economy, china and india. i rank amongst the top 7 global economy is today. you can take not this. and so you have major economies from the global self that are growing faster . if you also look at the predictions of global growth in 2023, it's not very positive. but if you look at what the, i'm have and i m f and world bank predicted in terms of global growth. the countries of the global assault including bricks, countries will not grow at the foster space, while a number of countries were going to recession this year. in its 15th year of partnership and co operation. 2023 will be the year that bricks from pell's. it

story forward. the club has not had a new member since south africa back in 2011. the growing double speak of western countries has seen many global south countries grow wary and eager to find an alternative. 2023 is finally here, and with it, the chance at a more bigger and powerful breaks gonzalez's philosophy in jonathan on us brings him an ingenious that russia has said, is natural gas supplies to china. a rising to an unprecedented level this year. as the head of the russian able to gather from as this one, china, as the world's most promising market for the commodity. in 2022 at the request of the chinese side deliveries regularly exceeded the daily contractual amounts. and as a result, we exceeded our annual obligations. this certainly speaks volumes about gas prom as

a responsible supplier in a reliable partner. it also shows the interest of china, the most promising gas market in russian pipeline gas supplies. ross is sent to run . pop is natural gas eggs via the power of siberia pipeline system to china, with a new extension of the root hold power of siberia to last part of an effort to replace capacity that has been slated for the knows stream route to europe for a series of devastating exposure on that line last year. i think correspondent ritual blevins as the details. just one year ago, construction on the north stream to pipeline had been completed and the $11000000000.00 project was ready for use. it's goal was to double the flow of natural gas from russia to germany. but while berlin spent years arguing in favor of the project and all of the ways they would benefit the economy, it also went into 2022,

dragging its feet on the process of certifying the pipeline. that's, as germany appeared to be trying to balance what was best for its economy with what its allies in the us actually wanted. and when it came to nordstrom to washington was very clear on where it stood. if russia they'd ukraine one way or another nord stream to will not move forward. i'm literally talking about rolling back the pipeline is usually to find that, but i mean taking action that will prevent it from ever becoming operational. there will be no longer nor steve to we, we will forget how will you do that? we will, i promise you will be able to do and there was no one happier than the u. s. when germany announced it would freeze all of the work on the project in february, in response to russia's announcement that it would officially recognize the

independence of the don nascar lugens people's republics. while the flow on north street one continued to be reduced with russia, citing a host of maintenance problems that were impacted by western sanctions. nordstrom to state out of the headlines for months. that was up until late september, when both pipelines were crippled with explosives right on the sea bed in international waters near denmark and sweden and investigation was launched the next day. but here's the thing gas prop, which is the owner of the pipeline, was not allowed near the western lud prob, raising questions of its legitimacy. and those weren't the only question surfacing, especially as a former to friends and foreign minister from poland, took a twitter to write quote, thank you, usa with a photo showing the aftermath of the damage. in fact, russia wasn't the only one calling it sabotage. several western officials were doing the same with the prime minister of denmark, even saying it was hard to imagine that it was an accident. at the danish

authorities. i have said that this is not an accident. this is something that someone has planned to do in the economic so in sweden and been lucky. but despite the questions of who would benefit from such destruction, the western media made their verdict on day one and continued to stick to it. russia is most likely behind this. i'm 99 percent. certain of the only people in that region who are both the motive and the capability to have done it are russian or russian forces who sabotaged ignored stream to pipeline the russians. the ockham's razor of it all does seem to point in the direction of the us. what do you make of this? i don't think that i think the outcomes ris reports to russia. this is very much in keeping with guten sudden decision to have this annexation referendum. they of course, didn't seem to consider that if russia wanted to take action,

it arguably could have just stopped the flow of natural gas from its end. instead of causing extensive damage to the pipeline, it spent billions of dollars building. as for the accusation that the u. s was involved all that simply wasn't allowed to be aired and the liberal, mainstream media and the columbia university professor who did suggest it had his bloomberg interview suddenly cut short after he said too much, i would bet was a u. s. action perhaps u. s. and poland, i this is so just dr. that's, that's are quite a statement as well. why do you feel like that? that was the us action. what evidence you have of that usa helicopters, military helicopters that are normally based and danced. i were circling over this area and there was very little set about the evidence that came to light. and the days after the incident, which included the revelation that nato had conducted special exercises back in june, that just happened to be near the air. the pipelines were damaged just

a few months later. dom sure, i think it was tara warden whim, mater exercise is using deep sea equipment. we're also held dear in the born home island area. in general, the region is, feels that new to infrastructure is it? it isn't that a factor or we'll know when know to sit. that also wouldn't be the 1st time as guys prompt noted that back in 2015, nato apparently lost an armed underwater drone right under the north string pipeline. then there are the reports from flight radar, which showed that u. s. military helicopters circled over the north stream pipelines 4 hours before the explosions for several days in a row. the timing of the damage to the pipelines is also notable as it came just days after german citizens were seen taking to the streets, demanding the launch of nordstrom to, to help save them from soaring energy prices. an speaking of high prices and who benefits from the profits, u. s. secretary of state antony blanket,

wasted no time in referring to the damage as a tremendous opportunity. ultimately, this is also a tremendous opportunity. it's a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on russian energy. that's very significant. and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for, for the years to come. so what should come as no surprise that that the incident was followed by an increase and cells of ellen g from the u. s. to europe. now, as for that investigation, a swedish prosecutor determined that the damage to the pipeline was in fact sabotaged the attack on russia's energy infrastructure and the impact it will have all across europe was referred to as international terrorism by roches president, who blamed the u. k for carrying it out. so many. if there is no, no road northeast, there is no doubt that this is an act of international terrorism. aim to undermine

the energy security of an entire not in the logic is cynical to block sources of cheap energy and force them to buy a much higher prices failure light is clear who is behind this and who is the beneficiary but it is now possible to oppose liquefied natural gas from the united states on to european countries on a large scale, which is clearly less competitive with russian pipeline gas. ok. so what action was taken in response? well, nothing so far from the west was sweden, claiming that there is still quote, no information yet to indicate who may be behind this action. but it has not been forgotten. and it was just the start of a number of other attacks targeting russian infrastructure. all of which sent the message that if there's anything we've learned from 2022, it's that nothing is off limits, no matter the dangerous precedent. it sets, as always, is great to have you with us here at r t. ok, little boy. ko is up. next, almost pop, be sure to check that out. i will be back at the top of the hour to the whole

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both about its consumers and societies at large. like any collective preoccupation, it gratified and punishes souls and exhaust, exposes and misrepresent. with points, i've still joined the chunk of internet traffic. what makes point such a symbol of desire guys to discuss that i'm now joined by georgia, 3 kind of call clinical psychologist from house. we'll get an overall law. got a kaleidoscope on orange. georgia is a great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time and congratulations on this amazing book. thank you very much. thank you. now, as i said, you're joining us for i've been live here in russia. it is a subject of many lurid and politically incorrect jokes about the hot finish. ma'am, coupled with the data you're citing your book that 9 out of town finish man up consumers of 4. and i wondering if there.