ah ah right now we're under salt. our t reports from the don't bottles, bottle ground with fighting raging in the city of our chima. that comes as russian officials report that the takeover of nearby solid door in the done yet republic is not the last point of it. also, i had on the program today love america lensky school to the west. once again, he insists ukraine should be given the candidate status for you membership so that his country and his troops stay motivated with china's

foreign minister, say no world power should force african countries to pick sides because the continent need solid, doroty, not confrontation, sin got made the comments during a 5 nation tour of africa with wherever you're watching from across the globe today. welcome to the news r and r t. i'm, you know, leave in moscow bringing you the days developments. the credit said that the quote successful mission in taking control of the crucial strategic city of solid are in the den. yes, republic is the beginning of a greater military advance. it really massive job has been carried out in solid, are absolutely selfless, heroic actions, and not only in solider, but in many areas where offensive actions are being conducted. they will continue. it's not the time to stop is not the time to rub your hands. the main work is still

ahead. well, let's take a look at why solid ari's of key strategic importance in the ongoing military conflict. it's capture, paves the way for russian advance is on the major city of our cham, also known as back notes in ukraine, which is a vital transportation hub with a network of roads and railway systems. used as supply routes. not head of the done yet for public said moscow's forces will not be able to move towards another key city up here. so versed after that, a potential westward pushed towards that cities of crime, torture on slavery, yonce that comes into focus and as the battle for control of arching mosque, rages ortiz, andre? yes. jenko file. this exclusive report of russian troops engaging with caves, forces ah, with

with looks that we just ran across an exposed area there were showing about a 100 meters away from that bonuses couldn't be more than overseas or to go down bridge. hello everyone. we're here for your piece molar. real quick on my mother. didn't prepare me for this. i think you guys are right now we're under sold

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with with no as with well, the latest ukrainian attacks on 2 cities in the done yet for public have left at

least 2 civilians killed and 4 more injured according to local officials. ortiz from uncle shreds visited the site for us. ukrainian nationalists continued chaotic and indiscriminate artillery shelling against civilian areas in girl of god and in don't ask this house right behind me was shelled by a 155 millimeter shell supply to the ukranian army. boy lay till countries, a man 68 year old vladimir was wounded as the result, he was taken to the hospital almost instantly. he was on the operating table for 5 hours. as saucers were fighting for his life. unfortunately, he died right there. should have no trouble, you suppose my civilian wounded in gore laska was admitted to our hospital yesterday. he had shrapnel wounds in his abdomen as well as potentially fatal damage to his internal organs. the operation was performed very precisely. unfortunately, the wounds were too severe. the patient lost his life,

though is not far from the front line. this area is purely a residential. at least 5 houses. 5 private houses had been destroyed by ukrainian or chill or a shilling on wednesday as result, one person was killed and 2 people were wounded here in coral of care alone. oh, should i put it out of when i was shelling yesterday i was at home. i heard explosions and immediately hid my children. it was terrifying. we'll have close to the front line and that's why we're getting a hit. says written, this is a fresh one. it's a rusty, probably an artillery shell. while we were filming the consequences of ukrainian artillery, shelling in girl of cover receive news that another attack took place in the next call. now we have returned and found out that another civilian was killed right here at this spot. you can still see the blood trace is now for people here were

injured as the result of the attack and abductors are fighting to save their lives . all should be through smoke and dust everywhere. we couldn't see any, you know, we went back to the bomb shelter to hide, we all went down into the shelter and were sitting there until everything calmed down. almost ukrainian, nationalist continued, sorry, getting civilians and civilian areas here in the and escrow public right now. we are in a major transportations apartments for one of the supermarket said changed. this is where they fixed their trucks and this is where they killed their latest victim. one person killed 4 injured. now, these are the kinds of a shall fragments that we're finding on the spot according to the local officials. according to the invest the investigative committee, now the shelf belonged to nato, supplied weapons to ukraine. well, another day, another 2 victims of ukrainian artillery shilling rum on call for i have already

done escrow public critics of, again had i taught ukraine's president over his that mums being made to western countries essentially saying we keep giving him a hand. but he wants an arm. vladimir zalinski is now eyeing up e u. candidate members. status, which he states will give his people and his country's war effort. a major boost to woodville to day. mere support for ukraine from natal colleagues. support in the form of rhetoric about open doors is not enough for ukraine. it is not enough to motivate our state. this became more detail or more specifically. it is not enough to motivate our soldiers. we expect something more than just open doors. you candidacy would motivate our people? did anyone ashley asked the ukrainians, fighting whether they're doing it to join the european union? or would that be news to the fellas actually doing the heavy lifting on the front

lines. whatever happened to the idea of fighting until victory against russia? is that not motivating enough apparently not. zalinski said last summer that ukraine would fight quote until the end. and now the ukranian president sounds more like a personal training client whose beer belly isn't budging. and who's now demanding that his coach find some incentives to keep getting them to show up and put in the blood and sweat while the coach keeps caching in on the struggle. in this particular case, that coach would be nato. and the incentive that zalinski now seems to be demanding is european union candidacy. so zalinski has suggested before that, that's exactly what he wants. he kept saying that ukraine was defending european values. a sentiment echoed repeatedly by the european union's leadership in the same way, patronizing way that you might kind of play kate, a child who just learned to write his name and kind of apply them halfheartedly.

not sure what exactly these european values are, quite frankly, no one ever specifies press censorship and rapidly eroding freedoms. maybe as former u. s. secretaries of state hillary clinton said last month, u. s. a to ukraine is a quote, really good investment for the united states. they are not asking us to be there to fight their war. they're fighting it themselves. yeah. and big beneficiary of their fight is the u. s. which gets to tie up russia while breaking up russian european trade to the ultimate benefit of the u. s. apparently, ukraine is now realizing that it's getting used as a pawn and all of this and frustrations of ukrainian officials are becoming more apparent. the most important thing for us is to continue to receive the military assistance that we require because situations such as that in solid, dark, would have been avoided. you know,

if we would receive those tanks. and since we are fighting the freedom war i, we are fighting not just for some cities and villages in the grant. we are fighting for calm on shared values. we're well named. we're currently carrying out nato's mission. they aren't shedding their blood, we're shooting ours. that's why we're using their weapons. sounds like ukraine is getting a little bit better and tired of paying a high price of doing the west dirty work against russia. the ukrainian ambassador to the u. k. vadim for state po also said earlier this month, quote, we're losing people left and right. we're not advertising. how many of those last are military or civilians? but you can imagine that numbers are huge, indigestible and ukranian cells are fighting in sola. dar said that quote in sold are no one counts the dead. no one will tell you how many dead and wounded there are, because no one knows for sure. not a single person. so a heavy tool for ukraine, which opened its doors to the u. s. to become an outpost for the state department,

then for the defense department before putting the lives of its citizens right on the front line, a hall to fight for what exactly for you membership as the lensky is now suggesting . isn't there a form for that? it's kind of like applying for job by jumping off a bridge. the chain of ongoing global crises, including the conflict in ukraine, is driven by the western desire for global hegemony. that's according to russia's ambassador to the u. n. who spoke earlier in a security council meeting on a debates on what a world based on the rule of law, should look like this. the president, this chain of events, which is a result of western colonial thinking and had germany, those who com completely understand that the russian special miniature operation in ukraine is the result of a not the genesis of the ukrainian crisis. the crisis is at least 9 years old in fact. or for more, let's cross live now to new york,

and ortiz kale up my pin. hi, caleb. russia is representative. certainly not holding back in his speech after listening to repeated western criticism of moscow's offensive take us through it. while the meeting of the security council, the 15 member body that leads the united nations, was convened to discuss the rule of law in the world. and the role of the rule of law, international law, protections were civilians, et cetera. now, china are, they took a moment and they have their permanency on the un security council are they took their time to point out that the united states as hijacked these rules and these rhetoric, rhetorical devices about humanitarian protections, to serve their international agenda. and to politicize, i was as dangerous as what we heard from the chinese representative. okay, so when we have been meaning to ask,

what kind of ruse is the so called ru space international order based upon who create these rules? what we have seen instead in reality is how the so called ruth based approach pursued by some countries, has plunged the world into immense trouble and calles the true intention of a scant few countries touting a ru space. international order is to impose their own standards and will, on others by putting their own narrow interests at the center of the universe and to open the back door to double centers and exceptionalism. now of course the united states and its allies use this un security council meeting that was supposed to be about the vague understanding of air force and enforcing international law. ready rules along the word world, they used it basically to just unload a big tie rate against russia and to accuse russia of all kinds of things to repeat

allegations that have been debunked. but then when russian ambassador and ben came up to the podium, he stole the show. he laid out the reality of how the united states and allies are completely hypocritical. and the random thing they've done year after year in the world, in the name of enforcing international law years what was said by the russian and bassett, nations as to why need to come their actions that were commonplace. aggression through the war of choice were conducted under the fig leaf of the concept of humanitarian intervention, which has nothing to do with international law. you talked about iraq, a country completely destroyed with lies about weapons of mass destruction and talk of bringing freedom and man tearing them. he talked about libya and how the united states maneuvered and, and was able to carry out a regime change job ration. it kept the most prosperous country in the african continent in utter chaos and destruction. now,

the so called war on terror has strengthened to terrorism around the world by overturning governments that represented stability and independent elements. and how he argued that the actions of the united states that it continues to justify with humanitarian rhetoric are really rooted in the colonial path of the western countries and their desire to maintain the gemini, to keep the world poor. so that they could stay on top of very powerful speech we heard from the russian and bassett, or to the un security council. certainly not what the western countries wanted the meeting to be focused on. you know, thanks very much for taking us through that, our ts kit up and in new york. ah, well, china is continuing to develop its relations with african countries with bearings. new foreign minister arriving in gab, hold on thursday as part of his follow nation tour of the continent. c g t n correspondent marquis bringing south this report from the capital liberal. tourneys, foreign minister, single,

has wrapped up his trip to ethiopia as the 1st stop of the 5 country, tor after being appointed, as china, as tom diplomat last month. and he's now heading to gabon in central africa where i am right now. he is expected to meet his counterpart in gabor, michael mussa adamo as well as paying an official visit to the governor's president . ali bungle on dba on thursday. triangular establish diplomatic ties in 1974 and maintained a frequent interactions over the years. and governors president, ali bungle paid, a state visit to beijing in 20162, and half month after getting reelected as the leader of the country. he also attended the 2018 china africa corporation for him in beijing. the most recent high level meetings between the 2 sides was in september last year, when stay counselor want he met gubbins. foreign minister, miko, missouri adamo on the side lines of the annual you and general assembly in new york . well, gabon has been a member of china's belt and road initiative since 2018 and the 2 sides have

deepened. collaborations in areas like infrastructure, education, culture as well as medicine. on tuesday, a batch of medical supplies and equipment arrived at the china gabon corporation hospital, where a team of chinese doctors had been working to their best to improve the treatment of one of capital liberal vales, poorest communities with the meetings happening to morrow more are to be revealed about the direction and focus of future collaborations between china and goodbye. well before arriving gabon singh gang visit ethiopia, where he met with government officials. while there he insisted that no world power should force african countries to pick sides. instead, china's top diplomat said the african continent should be a place for cooperation, not competition. depo shot would african needs to solidarity and cooperation, not confrontation, no country, no people have the right to force african countries and their people to take sides

. africa should be a platform for international cooperation, not an arena for competition between major countries. africa refuses to be seen as an arena for computing influence. we're open to cooperation and partnerships with everyone as long as their respect our principles, our priorities now interests. the partnership we have with china is built on this principles. will after a get ball me, chinese foreign minister will visit angola benning, and egypt. the foreign ministers trip aims to highlight the importance of the partnership between beijing and the african continent. china wants to strengthen its economic ties and dispel the myth they say paddled by the us that beijing is creating a so called debt trap. by offering loans to african countries of chinese affairs, expert andrew lung said his country's approach to africa is more holistic than that of the west. taught us engagement with africa. it's very different. ah,

from the west, tony looks at the relationship in a holistic way. the emphasis always been on building infrastructure and it was capacity building for development. it would help the, these countries to develop. and also of course, it would force crucial ties between china and africa. their so called democracy as defined by the united states is only a facade channel to exciting americans in france to impose the americans more go on on other countries regardless of the m, the stages of development. the internal and political situation are the geography and so on, so forth. the african countries and other developing countries. they are more in debt to weston, commercial lenders, multiple times more than time. thomas become much more careful a price and allow, in some sort of that relief,

but also taking into account all the stakeholders interest. but overall, these loans are here, as i say, towards building infrastructure within the country and connecting these countries to other neighboring countries. it would bring a lot of economic progress something else to tell you about today, a protest out a coal mine seeking to expand its operations in western germany has descended into violence as environmental activist clashed with police. the demonstrators are demanding a halt to the project and so called eco friendly policies put in its place. ah,

the 2nd day of a massive police operation. because the village has been occupied for months by radical climate activists who have the goal of stopping r, w e. one of germany's largest energy companies from mining the coal underneath this village. and because the climate activists have been here so long, they are very well organized, very well prepared for a police intervention. steven put up barricades and brick walls and some of the doors and the windows here. and when the police operation started yesterday, there was some violent escalation with some of the activists throwing stones and even molotov cocktails towards the advancing police forces. since then, the situation has been more stable with the police officers picking off these climate activists. one by one or from the rooftop thought of the 3 houses that they built, or whatever other places they decided to glue themselves too. but even though the

police hath said that they are advancing faster than originally expected, they will be busy for at least another couple days because the climate activist showed no sign of leaving their positions voluntarily. and the police is actually working here 247 because they know that if they were ever to leave the side, other climate activists would come and retake the positions that were already cleared out. we'll just thing with this story, journalist and commented, or charlie boyle says there was no proper plan for green energy transition in germany and elsewhere, and that sanctions on russian gas of backfired policies. and so this is another example of how green policies are really media found. and there was never any days to really probably transition the holes in europe right now. got an energy shortage and

a price problem. this started home a year ago and the situation but it's really your site because the whole idea of operating sanction was to try and raise away from natural gas from russia and certain other kind of price to you directly. and now there's some way to get through this winter and get some news just coming in to us on the program. the u. s. attorney general has appointed a special con, so to look into president job biden's mishandling of classified documents. but if you run medications after that, the u. s. liter earlier commented on the scandal. people know i take classified documents or classified material seriously. i also said were cooperating fully completely. the justice department's review, as part of that process. my lawyers reviewed other places,

word documents and my of from my time as vice president were stored and they finished the review last night, they discovered a small number of documents of classified marketing of storage areas in file cabinets in my home, in my, in my, my my personal library, this was done in the case of the biden pens, is that this was done in the case of the buying penn center. the department of justice was immediately as was done. the barbara jones was immediately notified and the lawyers arranged for the department of justice take possession of the document. a lot of reactions starting to emerge, as you can imagine, following the news. an essay whistleblower among the med student is posted his opinion on joe biden, having a closet stock with classified governmental documents. it appears, stating that others fund with far less are already in jail. earlier my colleagues, very sushi and racial blevins talk through development worth noting that the

president seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers for comparison reality winner was sentenced to 5 years for just one document. meanwhile, biden trump clinton for trace. these guys have dozens, hundreds, no jail, bring us up to speed what, what is the latest in the story? rachel, when we still don't even know just how many classified documents biden had, because we're now hearing that a 2nd batch was found at a different locations to a lot of questions involving that. and just what it is made up, but not nearly much has been said from the department of justice. we haven't heard much of from them at all. and that's incredibly notable when looking at the fact that when it comes to individuals, we're possessing classified documents, especially whistleblowers and publishers. the u. s. government has a tendency to target them even using unprecedented measures. we've seen this in cases such as chelsea manning, juliana sonjee,

and even edward snowden himself. now at the same time, the parallel is also being drawn to former president trump noting that the f b i went as far to read his moral lago estate when he had classified documents. and of course, at the time, joe biden was very outspoken in his criticism. of trump take listen to what he had to say that when you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor of moral logger. what did you think to yourself looking at that image? how that could possibly happen? how one really, one could be very responsible and i thought what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods. by that i mean names of people helped her shoulder . and chester totally irresponsible. the white house is coming out and they're kind of down playing. the situation insisting that biden says he did not know that the cost of my documents were in his possession. and that as soon as his team found

them, they were quickly turned over to the national archives. so there wasn't quite that back and forth that we saw a bare with former president trump. what this is just did rachel, i mean, you know, ok. so when it turned out, was it mark mar logo, as you said, hit his beautiful page complex on a florida thomas complex that they found all these documents. the media went ballistic, absolutely mental over trump, having these classified documents, it happens to joe biden and the media like, oh, well, he just forgot rachel, which, what do we know so far about what was in the documents and basically, how would they discuss it? well, they have continued, you're right, the media has continued to downplay that, insisting that there were less than a dozen documents. they say that there were about 10 documents. and that's incredibly notable because what we know so far is that these documents, some of them were marked as top secret, which is the highest level of classified possible. and yet the media coverage is just kind of shrugged it off. we've heard that they include us intelligence on ukraine or ron and the u. k. what that is made up of we don't know yet. and we

especially don't know about this latest 2nd batch and what that could involve. and of course, where that was found. what about, i mean, certainly when it comes to the public and the people we're all talking about is the media is trying to shove quite a lot of it under the carpet, but tell us about reaction so far. well, republicans are definitely talking about this. that is no surprise and they're treating this is really just the latest scandal involving the biden administration . they are promising an investigation, and there are some republican lawmakers who have said that this is iraq, especially given the fact that bite in was so outspoken when it came to trump. and also when it came to other whistleblowers, when he was the vice president under former president obama, how he mentioned that bite in himself is down playing. this insisting he had no idea that he had classified documents. and at the same time, some other democrats seem to be following his lead. that includes former house speaker, nancy pelosi, who apparently didn't have much to say at all. take a listen. i was surprised to learn.