ah ah ah say crane try to track them. they didn't test. i think throughout the 1st week of this year, there's hundreds of so there's a report, it killed a cache link, still people people to buy. the green zone use outlets shows how the british intelligence boy is on russian forces on behalf of the play. why they should a free speech and the right content that power rushes pharmacy described to the attention of the region director with south i fill out so that more can his join the bricks group as it seems the blog

through taking pregnancy this year we promise is to promote a more job multiple. wo i good morning. good evening where ever you are in the world. welcome to our teacher national. i'm a mom and it's just gone 7 a. m g m t. today we have a round up of the weekly top stories. so let's get started. a massive explosion has erupted in a major gas pipeline in the loop, gaps the public temporary li, leaving an estimate of 13000 people about supplies, the fuel emerges. he was quick to respond and put out the fire. local officials say the pipeline was damaged by explosions and has been completely repaired. elsewhere in dom must in test fight scene between ukrainian and russian troops

marks the 1st week of this year, including a devastating attack on russian barracks and the dentist republic. fee artillery barrage voy ukrainian forces using us equipped high mars rocket strokes shortly after midnight on news day. killing 89 russian troops, authors defacement, if he has said it will provide all necessary assistance to the victims, families, ukrainian forces reporting to use mobile phone data target the facility as soldiers that attempted to call but of the holiday hours later, russian missile attack destroyed ukrainian military base packs with ammunition and high mas rocket launchers, more than $100.00 soldiers were killed in the strike. it was captured live by a french television crew. his footage of the incident a league lay what multiple

ukrainian tags on residential areas and don't last with full civilians killed another 14 wounded as dozens of apartment building who destroyed the strikes violated the orthodox christmas truce. offered by russia. we heard from local residences, a paid in full, has deliberately fire at civilian areas who chose you. somebody do. a street was bombed here yesterday to women were injured, but thank god, now seriously, there's also house there 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 bird hands with the record heat the house directly. it's nightmare here. ukrainian army on the bumps civilians that there's no military and no warehouses. russian falls is this wanted to those attacks on civilian areas with between 3 strikes on ukrainian emphasis and military facilities. air raid sirens could be heard throughout the country. moscow

report to the hundreds of cubes. troops were killed and dozens of tanks and other military vehicles were destroyed. you great war effort has allegedly been supported by the british military intelligence in collaboration with a us tech firm. but according to a cache of lee documents reported by the greason news outlet, it says the u. k. provides dates of accused 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. the leaked files raise serious questions about whether anomaly 6, the 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 certainly you are

a firm called anomaly 6 has been providing intel on russian military movers in real time using smartphone trucking devices. the data is allegedly sent to the british and others via the private ministry group prevail partners, and is then handed over to ukraine to help his all me target russian forces, gray zone it is a kit clara burg says those bridge intelligence tip off could need to collateral damage using anomaly, 6, the technology, the defense intelligence. and she said that she was extensive. the ukranian military can very easily identify the small firms of various individuals, whether they are civilian military or has it's highly specific and tug, there is also a higher risk of cation. this might be why barrier was mad,

but yes, it's innocent. russia, innocent brains were wrong, the dentist and the soldiers or spot for collaborators. and then yes, i mean, not to was any context was inevitably go to lead to that, that or indeed, that capture and torture you pregnancy. compunction about who told folks to capture war detailing the mass, which is a great war crying series, you know, if it is killed as a result of when that complete. and i think that the counselor could be quite some place where this isn't the 1st time the greys and has been pulled the involvement of u. k. intelligence agencies and the claim conflict. back in october,

the the outlet says that prior to the deadly attack on the crimea bridge, senior bridge intelligence offices and legend, the draft and elaborate plan to blow up the critical infrastructure in a separate report, the greys and also said is obtained documents revealing plans by the british military intelligence to train coolers, cleaning troops with instructions to attack other russian targets include mayor, the great cloud bug again says western powers luck accountable for the consequences of their espionage operations against russia. there has been no consideration. all the limits for restrictions, but london places shall be crowned these files. make pretty clear that there is none of you trying to do or anything like should be helped every step of the way. what prevent prevail was heavily involved in the bridge explosion. and what did you

go far? what actually happened? there's 0 recognition or the on the all of these 2 almost every month. another european government implicated in style of the activities of activation. john, this is a civil civil society more widely and there is 0 accountability and there is up to, you know, consideration what happens if you dollars box. and that was anyone use use equipment typically reserved for. ready for intelligence agencies, or indeed yes, you know, $200.00 and something really, really needs to be done about is just for the sake of innocent people in the are, but also the governments and become companies that will be consequences, down the line, brightness switch, switch. switch gears is by now south africa has said the bricks group of country,

which also includes brazil, russia, india, and china should admit more members of prominent position on the world stage. south africa has assumed the rotating chairmanship over the rocks. this year, all the correspondent, caterpillar cutler, has the details from javascript, 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 that the african power house pays the rings following successful hostings in 20132018. as it 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 that will be high level need things, conferences and summits through this championship. which will all focus on sustainable

development. but what does that really mean in real terms? gives us an opportunity not only to advance or national interest, but also to advance the interest of the collector if 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 they have in continent when we have the opportunity to change. so we will use our chair, shipped to bird on the successes of us presidencies 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 the leaders have instructed us to do? so it's a different scenario. you already have a president within the g 20 were regional organization being in union member. so there's 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 wold following 5 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 that i came to join and become part of the alternative to the west. 30 paul chrissy and narrative. but breaks 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 the quest for power, for energy, for climate justice. and i think these are the issues that they look are no longer looking at the west for they're looking eastward because solutions will be coming from the as this formation becomes will powerful. and south africa has a stronger voice within the g 7. i'm no longer the most important largest global economies. china and india. i rank amongst the top 7 global economy is today. you

can take not these. and so you have major economies from the global cells that are growing faster pace. if, 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 i m f and world bank predicted in terms of global growth. the countries of the global start including bricks, countries will not grow at the foster space. while a number of countries we're going to recession this year. in his 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. crow, wary and eager to find an alternative. 2023 is finally here, and with it

a chance. and a more bigger and powerful breaks gonzales at 40, enjoying what asia free speech of the rights of janice. but how russia ascribed the detention of the regional director of sputnik news agency by authorities in latvia, the journalist merits cassim, is a latin citizen. he was detained on charges of violating ease sanctions. all the correspondent rog dozier, says this is part of a broader e. you crack down on media outlets that haven't followed in lock step with the blocks official narratives, the freedom of expression than press but 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 spook nick 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. so 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 kissing hills hunger. why did you come here? the other one asked me that you're a latvian citizen, so why are you working for them? you know, they are, they're not really people rushes, a peculiar country, only. 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. a month for reference. merit cas m is an e. you national,

a laughing citizen. all he did is, is she worked for years as editor in chief of sputnik lithuania. one of his work is on line. there's nothing crazy there. you'll find strange of stuff with g n n. he now faces, decades behind bars, charged with violating sanctions because he worked for russians and reportedly espionage because why not own was admitted to some of his merits can possibly lose his freedom due to allegations of violating anti russian sanctions. i mean, the sanctions are a lawful as well as the arrest. this is lawlessness in europe when a person can be arrested for his journalistic work opinion or the information he provides. there can be even harsher charges for such as espionage or treason. and we've dealt with this before and we shouldn't rule out such dark perspectives. and of course can sort of get to matter which affects every turn less. because if

anybody can be taken in custody for their opinion and be charged with espionage which is not uncommon these days, and nobody's safe. so all people should stand together in this situation. america, sam did not violate any laws. he did his job as a journalist, legally he provided to and, and vice information and had nothing. what kind of spies a person who works in the public eye for the media and hides nothing. the accusations are false 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 looked 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, been lush, new to poor. beneath this case is totally political espionage charges against merits are complete nonsense. 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 journalists. because there was an oddness in the charges of violating sanctioning. the fact is that the european union has no sanctions against sputnik have personal sanctions against dmitri kelvin was the chief of receive subordinate media group from it, which includes sputnik 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 ban 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 in the european union and in the us. the accusations of espionage under the threat of imprisoning him for 20 years. as an you citizen, are in fact a pure policy of the european union, though. the latest round of the twitter files is claimed, washington, prussia, the social media company to come up with evidence of russian meddling in u. s. elections. even if there wasn't any finished with investigation 2500 full manual account reviews, we think this is exhaustive. $32.00 suspicious accounts and only 17 of those are connected with russia. only 2 of those have significant spend one of which is russia today. you'll recall back in 2016 how there was all this hysteria in

american media that somehow russia had meddled in the election that was responsible for donald trump. victory say, well twitter was in dialogue with the intelligence agencies with the f, b i and others. they were being told about all of this russian meddling, they had to deal with the cetera. but they came forward with the result that did not match the media area years. what they came forward about their own research about their own platform. twitter search finding only 2 significant accounts, one of which is russia to day, was based on the same data that liter inspired. panic headlines like russian influence reached 126000000 through facebook alone. the failure of the russia task force to produce material worse and the company's p r crisis. so the u. s. congress responded the threat of regulation and there was a lot of pressure plays on twitter in order to find what the intelligence agencies

in the american media claimed was there. they were basically being pressed and threatened, and almost forced to produce results that did not match reality. let's continue with what's been reveal. as congress threatened costly legislation and twitter was subject to more bad press, healed by the committees, the company changed its tune about the smallness of its russia problem. the cycle threatened legislation wedded to scare headlines pushed by congressional until sources followed by twitter caving to moderation asks, would later be formalized in partnerships with federal law enforcement set to relax its restrictions on political advertising. now these are restrictions that were put in place amid this hysteria, and we're expecting to see a change in policy with twitter regarding political advertising in the coming weeks . now, please keep in mind, this is just the latest of so many revelations that com sense ilan mosque to

control and twitter. they revealed quite a bit of meddling in the u. s. political process, not by russia, but by us social media giants in coordination with the u. s. intelligence corporation and the intelligence apparatus. quite, quite shocking. what's been revealed so far. today i made a page to see back in 2016 for the extensive advertising campaign on the platform, but actually turned it down for miss c. i. a analysts, larry joseph says there's no accountability in washington over the failure to find anything substantial to justify the russia. allegations is remarkable that the amount of psychological projection that's going on here. and what i mean by that. ready is that the united states accuses russia of what the united states is doing. and in fact, russia was not interfering or meddling in the u. s. election. it was the washington

d. c. establishment. the democratic party has no credibility and it has become again, it's just, it's good at taking care of its own and making sure everybody who plays with them gets rewarded. they get a pay off. you and the republicans have the loss, was adaptive to us, and that was, that's the speaks of it. there are still some principal people within the republican party and you're seeing some of them today. we're opposing the election of drug. kevin mccarthy is the speaker of the house. so this is this concept that accountability. it needs to take place, but that's the problem with washington. there is no accountability for miss deeds because you've heard the, the lies repeated that it was russia doing this in russia doing that. so musk is that he's putting his money where his mouth is, and i want him for that energy news out. russia said, is natural gas supply? china rising to the level this year,

that's as the head of the russian. it's called a gas from has just from china as it was 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 is a responsible supplier and a reliable partner. it also shows the interest of china, the most promising gas market in russian pipeline gas supplies. a ramp up, it's not so gas ex, via the power of siberia pipeline system to china. the new extension of the route called power of. so i b read to that's part of an effort to replace capacity that have been stated for the no stream route to europe following a series of devastating explosions on that line. last year, i think correspond rachel blevins as the details. just one year ago,

construction on the nordstrom to pipeline has been completed, and the $11000000000.00 project was ready for youth. its 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 it would benefit the economy, it also went into 2020, to dragging its feet on the process of certifying the pipeline that says, 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 north room to washington was very clear on where it stood. if russia, ukraine, one way or another nord stream to will not move forward. there will be no longer a nor steam to we, we will bring it into. and there was no one happier than the us 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 non masked move on the people's republic. while the flow on north stream 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 month, 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 pro, which is the owner of the pipeline was not allowed near the western lead prob, raising questions of its legitimacy. and those weren't the only question surfacing, especially as a former defense and foreign minister from poland checked a twitter to write quote. thank you, us say 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. the danish authorities have said that this, this is not an accident. this is something that someone has planned to do in the economic, so sweet and then the market. 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. 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's spent billions of dollars building,

and there was very little set about the evidence that came to light in 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 area the pipelines were damaged just a few months later. tom was born when nader exercises using the equipment were also held there and the board whole mile and area in general, the region is filled with me to infrastructure. isn't that a factor or will know when noticed that? that also wouldn't be the 1st time as gas problem 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 through pipeline for 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. and speaking of high prices and who benefits from the profits, u. s. secretary of c, 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 in 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 present.