ah ah ah, up storage this, our analogy international 3 civilians are reportedly killed and to power plant taking damage and the ukranian shelling all gone back. they're all current fears. more people could be trapped under the rubble. the capture of leap documents reported by the great news outlet shows how british intelligence spies on russian forces on behalf of ukraine. quote, a violation of free speech on the rights of john list. that's how russia's foreign ministry describes the attention of the regional director of the sputnik use agency by authorities in latvia and south korea once. but excuse me,

i should say south africa, i beg your pardon, wanting more countries now to join the bricks. family group is now assuming the blocks rotating presidency this year, promising to promote that of a more multi polar world. with the top stories over the weekend. today's immediate headlines for this hour. welcome to the week gets on to you to national as we understand now, here at the channel, 3 civilians have been reported killed in ukrainian attacks on energy infrastructure in the door. next republic we got some of the latest details of correspondence remaining in the region is oddities, roman, casa ref, ukrainian military continued sar, getting a civilian areas here in dunbar plus civilian infrastructure as well. overnight saturday, going on sunday to thermal power plants had been attacked. now one of them is

a right behind me. this is located in seattle basheba, near john as, according to officials say here, this plans was attacked by 6 rockets of the high mars multiple launch her rocket system. as you can see, the plant is still in operation, so it was the portrait damaged. now, according to the information from the local administration here, one woman just celebrated her 60th birthday on the 5th of january. and the other woman was much, much younger. in her twenties and now once again the power plants, the thermal power plant is currently in operation. we can get access there because emergency workers are still trying to extract to more potential victims from the rubble this in use or for how they're doing will be coming out all throughout the day. but so this power plan wasn't the only one that was attacked.

overnights in other area about couple of hours away from here towards logan's. and now the thermal power plant was that fact, however, tosca missile, which is an old soviet missile, capable of carrying a nuclear weapons. while it was intercepted by air defense. however, there was still damaged by the plan itself is an operation. now, this is not the 1st time that ukraine is attacking a civilian. the infrastructure here in done boss. not just a power plants, but water plants and electricity and other objects as well. now, thousands of people are currently without running water without electricity, and even gasp, awful. pipelines have been targeted as well. for example, in a neighboring lugens people's republic, a local emergencies, minutes 3 are suspect, saying that somebody actually blew up a gas pipeline. and these things are,

of course, i happening all the time. and besides, the civilian infrastructure, civilians are also falling a victim to ukrainian artillery shilling, who are using nato supplied weapons against civilians just over the last 24 hours decides the victims that we have here. and another 2 people were wounded by ukrainian artillery shilling. so ukrainian forces are allegedly being helped by british military and intelligence. that is though, in collaboration with a u. s. tech, that's according to a cash fleet. documents reported by the great, so news outlet. it says the u. k. provides data for key ubs forces to fight 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. the report said a u. s. fung cold anomaly. 6 has been providing intel on russian military movements in real time. the data is allegedly sent to a british intelligence via the private military group, prevail partners and is then handed over to ukraine. we discussed concerns with grazer and editor clarin bug using normally the technology, the defense intelligence. and she said, by extension, the ukranian military can very easily identify the small firms of, of very, of individuals whether they are civilian military or would be kind of it's one of the specific and talk. but there was also

a higher risk of cation to be. this might be why barrier alexander was mad, you bet. but yes, does it mean innocent russians to be innocent? brains were wrongly identified enemy soldiers or spot or collaborators. and then guess, i mean not to losing context is almost never to be getting to meet or indeed that capture and torture the pregnancy compunction about brutal consequences to capture war carrying them on mass, which is a great war growing serious if it ends up killed as a result of this, when that completely is i think they get the counselor type could be quite something. well, this is not the 1st time the greystone has reported on involvement of

u. k. intelligence and the ukraine conflict. back in october, the alpha said that prior to the deadly attack on the crimean bridge, senior british intelligence officers had allegedly already drafted an elaborate plan to blow it up. now in a separate report, the grades are also said that obtain documents revealing plans by the british military intelligence to train quote, covert ukrainian troops, instructions to attack other russian targets in crimea, with a greater ins kit clara bug. again, he says that western powers are lacking accountability for the consequences of the espionage operations against russia. well, i will listen. there has been no iteration of the limits or restrictions, but london places that shall be the crime. these files make pretty clear that there is none of you trying to do or anything like should be health every step way. what prevent prevail was heavily involved in the blood bridge explosion. and what did

you guys will actually have? the 0 recollection of the on the all of these to almost every month. another european implicates the style of the activities is activated. the job listen is civil civil civil society widely and there is 0 accountability and there is up to, you know, consideration what happens in the doors box. and that was anyone use use equipment typically preserved for, 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 in the far but also the governments become companies that will be consequences. dotted lines. what's good to have your company on this sunday? so south africa has said the bricks group of countries, including brazil, russia,

india, and china should admit more members. it asserts a prominent position on the world stage. apparently, there are more than a few who want to join this family. as a south africa has assume the rotating chairmanship of the block this year. or the correspondent catabolic tattler has details from joe book. 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 take the reins 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 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 the african continent when we have the opportunity to check. so we will use though, a chair shipped to a 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 amplify 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 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 president within the g 20, where regional organization they have been 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 lastly, also showed a growing group of countries like saudi arabia, algeria, egypt, 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 brings 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, for energy, for climate justice. and i think these are the issues that they look are no longer looking at the wish for they are looking eastward because solutions will be coming from the as this formation becomes will fall. 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 so that are growing faster pace. 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 assaulting trudy bricks, countries were not growing to space, while a number of countries were going to recession this year. in his 15th year of partnership and co operation. 2023 will be the year that bricks propels it's 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 mega and powerful breaks gonzalez's philosophy in china.

quote, a violation of free speech and the rights of journalists. that's how are russia who describe the detention of the regional director of the sputnik news agency by authorities in latvia? the journalist mad up, cast sam as a latvian citizen. he was detained on charges of violating e u sanctions. but our senior correspondent says this is actually part of a broader e you crack down on media outlets that have not followed in lock step with the blocks mainstream narratives. the freedom of expression, then 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 died 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 online, 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 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, 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. 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 of stuff with cnn. he now faces, decades behind bars, charged with violating sanctions because he worked for russians and reportedly espionage because why not 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 chargers such as espionage or treason. and we've dealt with this before and we shouldn't rule out such dark perspectives and of african america for that to matter which affects every gen less. because if anybody can be taken in custody for their opinion and be charged with espionage which is not uncommon these days, then nobody safe. so all people should stand together in this situation lack sam

did not violate any laws. he did his job as a journalist, legally. he provided to an unbiased information and had nothing will 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 for writing things in a way. they don't like to think that that these people, once leg should the world been lush, new to poor,

been in 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. there is an oddness in the charges of violating sanctions. the fact is that the european union has no sanctions against sputnik. they have personal sanctions against dmitri castle of who was the chief of rossi, a subordinate media group, 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 bad 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 us. the accusations of espionage and the threat of imprisoning him for 20 years. as an e. u citizen are in fact a pure policy of the european union of the east african nation of tanzania lifted a ban on political rallies this week with the president catering to demands from prominent opposition. politicians why you went to our responsibility is to protect is so that you can hold political rallies peacefully to finish them well and li safely. it is your responsibility as political parties to adhere to the rules as required. it is up to us as consonants. i beg you, as will give you permission to hold political rallies to do mature politics. while the banner had been imposed as 6 years ago by a previous precedent on the premise that it would actually increase national stability and promote economic growth. well,

now officials are discussing constitutional reforms to well, basically facilitate democratic processes, but also provide more checks on presidential authority. we heard from a representative of a major opposition party who says the countries politics are entering a new chapter after freedom of expression was long since suppressed be the most expression ha, was oppressed, and that these are one of the, a, a constituent that i to which was the night before the last 6. yes. so let me do this. you said you chapter for the country and sure. we did political parties because normally the political parties are the hope, a government, how to govern it. ordinary would to government governance because we able to do the government, what the government to be done. and if the, if they the listen to our again, does in accept though,

what do we have building them on top of that daddy's have nothing to do with the economic growth. so the government us to do ease to have the appropriate parties of the economic growth, which has nothing to do with the probably counties. so if we don't have the proper economic plans, e e, u, of we're prepared to say which form for, from my personal perspective, he, it is what we as a bit weapon dean into a, in does any of the last 6 he has russia has said his natural gas supplies to china, a rising to an unprecedented level this year. that is not the head of, of the russian export. a gas from this describe china as well, 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 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. so russia is set to crank up its natural gas exports via the power of siberia pipeline to china. the new extension of the route cold or the power of siberia to unless of course, part of an effort to replace capacity that had, of course, been slated for the nordstrom route to europe following sabotage that devastated the system last year. aussies rachel blevins has more 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 it 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. there will be no longer nor steve to we will bring it in. 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 nord 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 months. that was up until late september, when both pipelines were crippled with explosives right on the c bad and

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 the twitter to write quote, thank you usa with a photo showing the aftermath of the damage. in fact, russia wasn't the only want 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 that they need to 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 month. 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 is 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. i just happened to be near the area the pipelines were damaged just a few months later. tom was born when nader exercises using d. c. equipment were also held there in the boar and whole mile and area. in general, the region is filled with major infrastructure. isn't that

a factor or will know we're notice 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 northridge pipeline . then there are the reports from flight radar, which showed that u. s. military helicopters circled over the northridge pipelines 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 saved them from soaring energy prices. and speaking of high prices and who benefits from the profits us 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 in cells of ellen g from the u. s. to europe. now, as for that investigation, a swedish prosecutor determine 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 terror is up by roches president who blamed the u. k for carrying it out. yet somebody at the middle nettled north. your eddies, there is no doubt that this is an act of international terrorism, aim to undermine the energy security of an entire cotton. and the logic is cynical to block sources of cheap energy and force them to buy a much higher prices. satellite 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 a european countries on a large scale, which is clearly less competitive with russian pipeline gas. and 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 well, it's about a minus 16 degrees celsius here in the russian capital. let's get you a bit of a winter weather news from russia. it's about an airline with more than $180.00 people on board that are well, it slid off the runaway during a take off attempt and ended up getting stuck and basically a snowdrift. this was an airport in the central city of harlem, other facilities you had to briefly close and authority is still investigating the

incident. as we understand that nobody was injured, no one, no injuries reported, and the court has actually already resumed its normal operations. well, the dozens of people of airport will it kill and a devastating collision of 2 buses in the west african nation of senegal. and the president said that at least 40 people died and dozens more were injured in the incident, which reportedly occurred in the central catherine region. the president declared a national period of mourning of 3 days with a victim. as we understand and investigation is under way go with the top stories of today and off the week you watching the weekly here on our team to national thanks for sharing your sunday with us here in moscow. all the stories you can catch up on available. you know the most stuff a website on the, on the news.