a limb with to weeks of intense fight thing. the russian defense ministry confirmed moscow's taken full control over the city of solid off the greatest mass delusion in u. s. history. the latest batch of twits of files reveals the democrats. i don't make tales of russian bolts on that. despite twitter, knowing there was no evidence, all russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election under clusters robes in palestine as 3 residents are killed in 24 hours during israeli army raised the latest in a series of attack since last year. we speak to a mother who lost her 15 year old son in previous violence. and this is rarely

occupation. army conduct trades to kill our children. my, to relieve my anger, is not like you who killed my son. also there solid germany and france trying to restore relations with ethiopia. the process of disarmament begins after 2 years of heavy fighting in the country with come into your life and my headquarters here in the russian campus. so you're watching r t. i'm peter scott's been here the top stories this hour. thanks for joining us. the russian defense ministry says that moscow has now taken full control of the strategic town of solid dar. the advance opens up the way for russian troops to push towards our chore mosque. an attempt to cut off ukraine supply lines visual love for you. on the evening of january 12, the liberation of the town of philadelphia was completed. the town is of

significant importance for the successful continuation of an offensive internet. scary and gaining full control. solider makes possible cutting off of ukrainian supply lines which are located in the southwest of the city of our team. i was like, you know, after which will result in the complete circle of the remaining ukrainian troops. however, whitehouse spokesperson, john kirby has downplayed the importance of both solid door and our cha, most widely known as back moves in the context of the wider war. we don't know how it's going to go, so i'm not going to predict failure or success here. but even if both bad mood and so that are fall to the russians, it's not going to make a it's not going to have a strategic impact on the war itself. and it certainly isn't going to stop the ukrainians or, or slow them down in terms of their, their efforts to regain their territory. artsy correspondence, roman costs of explains the importance of both solid data and our channel mosque to

the russian forces. all the cities of far solids are and are char moskowitz. sure ukraine have renamed in a box where they're of paramount importance, both for the crating and military and for the russian one as well. now we just heard from a junk, kirby who's trying to downplay that importance. well, the narrative off our western western politicians and western media, if you will, it seems to be a changing every time it says suits them and depreciating the success of the russian military. a seems to be a well then you normal and the even in a western report so they don't even flinch when they contradict themselves. solid are those small in size is strategically important to the ultimate capture of back . moot, salazar is important to this taking of so the dog could have a major impact on his battle the streets of sold. it are littered with debris as wagner fighters, battle for control of the strategic town. well, even if

a person is as skeptical towards their reports, offer a western mainstream media. what is there left to think about when the leader of ukraine prisons uminski himself is comparing the fight for salazar and are tom of to some of the most epic battles in history. bach more additional, just as strong hall that holds bagged the russian army back for the russian army to completely pull out more canons and sales are needed. if so, just like the battle of saratoga, the fight for board will change their dredge of tory of our war for independence and freedom. let's take a look at the reality on the grounds. at the moment russian defense ministry have announced that a salazar had been completely liberated by the russian army on the eve of friday. and over the last to 3 days alone,

the ukrainian army lost at least 700 soldier center over past you week sir. that number is a well in 2000. now us solids are itself, i used to be a town of like $10000.00 residence. it's a home to the largest salt mine in the europa, used to how's the soviets, weapons depot, as well. it's only 10 kilometers away from the city. oh, for our german sold. taking that sound is of paramount importance for russia, as it will now move towards our channels, where on the outskirts of the city, the fighting is already taking place and russian defense ministry also said that's a bite taking on the door. they have cut off for you, creating armies, supply ruth, and very soon that will also result in the encirclement of the ukrainian troops. now there are many refugees in russia from us on the door from a 2 or more scans also from towns of 5th light on synchronous tours,

which are those are the 2 towns, sir, that i mentioned will be the next battle field for russia. with fighting, showing no sign of abating along the don bus from lines the battle ground has torn many families apart. but some have found a way to be unites even if it means risking their lives. ah, it would be across the entire front line. on the down gwinnett everywhere. ah, [000:00:00;00]

with that to work. this wasn't just a surprise for my son, but also for my wife. it was her birthday when i met with our son, and we recorded a video message together and sent it to her with the city that you did. but we want to congratulate you on this remarkable day. we wish you, happiness and good health, let our son come back home alive. although she velez russian, you service was left stumbling for an explanation. thus after it suites of footage of volunteers fighting for the ukrainian army with one fighter, apparently sporting a nazi symbol on his cup. now the video was parts of a reports about foreign volunteers. risk in their lives defending the country against the outlet cold russian aggression. but that it is seemly overlooked the controversial emblem and then swiftly rushed to justify the publication. one of the volunteers had

a black sun symbol on his cap. it's known that the nazis used it in 19 thirty's, members of the volunteer to say it's an old ukrainian symbol of meaning power, which is aimed at destruction of the old and restoration of the new. western media outlets have continued broadcasting, photos on videos of ukrainian soldiers dying, not see symbols. journalist johnny miller believes the dish of l as incident reflects a western media trend of turning down certain elements and key of forces. i think the w said in the soldier told them that the flux that actually originated from old old green and folklore. there's no evidence without any evidence is there to it from the nazis says clearly an attempt to whitewash this. and the reason being is that western media is trying to persuade western people the only way to win this war. and this is to continue funding and pumping weapons into ukraine instead of to see you in peace and diplomacy, western media that

a fantastic job over the last 8 years or so. of running stories about the rise of extremism, not affiliated extremism in ukraine. but now of course, the story is changed and any highlighting of the extreme is problem and u. k is just dismissed as russian propaganda. let me tell you any mainstream reports in the west that you credit knows perfectly well. there is a major extremism problem within you create a propaganda war, hit another day, another bunch of twitter files, investigative journalist, a shed light on the legit russian gate lies on faith. tales of russian bolts, back in 2018, claiming its american democrats on the main. c, media ignored with the findings that there was no link to moscow at a crucial moment and he has long fury. democrats denounced to report about flaws

than tromp rush investigation. sind was boosted by russian boats and trolls. twitter officials were hast finding no evidence of russian influence where a food and congressional trolls not any significant activity connected to russia. put in the guard before the horse, assuming this propaganda or boats. wall once again, wherein tow that there lies and more and more it lies when the comes to these claims about these russian bond. so these latest switzer revelations, basically show that russia was not meddling in the west presidential elections through twitter. it had nothing to do with manipulating the findings in the report, the subsequent report that are that look then to the alleged ties between the former us, our present, donald trump and moscow. and we can see some of the interactions between twitter executives and members from congress and what they had to say. now, for example, these twitter files, all they do is show washington's eagerness to paint russia as the bad guy. so even

though there is no evidence to support them, that's what's what i was saying itself. hey, we cannot find evidence to what you're saying is happening. there are no rush and bought forms. let's take a look at the exchange that is produced that from matt's i b and discuss this further. i think we can push back strongly on the russian component here. i just reviewed the account that it posted the 1st 50 trees with the release the memo, and while a few of them definitely looks pammy, none of them have any sites have been tied to russia. i tried to wave him off of this particular sorry line because we don't leave these bots. this has become if he give a mile. so cookie with the members of congress. nice as someone who's read if you give a mouse a cookie since this weekend, i'm legit embarrassed i didn't think of that 1st. twitter said that through its internal investigation, all it found was that this response to the release, the memo hash tag, the response was organic. so basically people supporting that idea wanted the memo to come out. that memo, they claim detailed f,

b. i abuses and flaws when it was investigating those ties between donald trump and moscow. so they wanted it out. people were tweeting about it. and again, washington was saying, hey, these are all russian a trolls. they're bought farms, it's what i didn't find that's in itself. findings and it reported at to congress, but then sort of continued stating information like banning and suspending accounts and did the report that but to washington. exactly. so they report to the congress and then nothing was done about it because they continued with a continued suspend in those accounts. but you see them work with washington's narrative. they wanted to continue that rhetoric that russia is meddling in our affairs. it's interfering with all these reports. they wanted to skew to skew that information that was coming out there. and again, ah, when it comes to twitter, it had conducted an internal investigation and looked into those accounts. and

those accounts weren't even coming from russia. that's what their findings were reported back to congress and nothing was done. it was just a harsh stuff. and then we'll continue seeing that this information there, this information appearing on twitter and what was the source of they base their claims on. there was just one the one source, and that one source is the hamilton, $68.00 dash board of that famous. yes or yes, that famous source, which by the way is under, it was created by a former f b. i counter intelligence official and this under the auspices, by the way of the alliance for securing democracy. twitter itself called that a coms play. so that to everyone, because this when, as we know, western media got that story and all the headlines were russia interfering and all us affairs. and we had western media outlets reports in this as a fact that russia was meddling not only in the presidential election,

but also in the reports. looking into the alleged links with russia. nothing was being done about it. and this just one source that there were all basin that on and they couldn't dash 6 dashboard 68 couldn't even answer how they knew that these are so called russian bonds came from russia. they didn't produce any evidence. so it's basically one person saying, oh, these accounts they're russian and they are russian trolls and, and they, they bought it and sort of continued issue and statements saying that a, we're fighting misinformation and they meant of course, russian misinformation it's important to note our work to fight both malicious bots and misinformation goes beyond any one specific election event or time period. we spend years working to identify and remove spammy or malicious accounts and applications on twitter. well, in a well we can say that now when, oh, who the real trolls were because we have twitter saying to congress that, hey,

these accounts i have nothing to do with russia whilst continuing to suspend an ban russian account. because as we now know, this is exactly what washington wanted from those previous twitter leaks that were discussing. you and i were discussing just a couple of weeks ago. so there were following along with what washington wanted, but internally we can see that there were discuss and saying we can't find what these as twitter calls or congressional trolls won't from us. we can find any evidence to back that up. but okay, we'll continue suspending. abandoned accounts. moving on now, bloodshed continues in palestine as 3 more residents were killed by israeli troops in the last 24 hours during deadline rates in the west bank. i know flushes have a real good in polish. simian cities are thousands of residents gathered up the

funerals of the killed one of the street waving flags and shouting slogans. the 41 year old man was killed trying to stop israeli soldiers from detaining on another demonstration with the palestinian city of knob. both of locals gathered at the funeral of a 21 year old money. second of those recently filled by the israel military is really army has killed 6 public cities in the west bank since the beginning of 2023 . and since last year, special forces have repeatedly carried out nighttime raids, allegedly searching for members of militant groups. according to jerusalem based human rights organisation last year was the deadliest into decades with around a 150 palestinians killed by israeli troops. maria financial visit to the family who lost their 15 year old sonet during a previous israeli operation. i did my dad was 15. his family and friends, remember him as a kind funny boy, had him had plans and love in life that has been taken from him by an israeli soldier during

a meal to rate of the haitian in bethlehem. in the south occupied westbank. no much what i was asleep. my sister in law came and told madam was injured. i got to the hospital and i was told he was suffering from blood lots. i thought he would live. i didn't think of a die when i had my brother scrimmage inside. i knew right away, my son was matted. i went crazy. i fell to the ground crying. i have no one else, only him and now his gun. the palestinian foreign ministry condemned adams killing and called it a heinous crime of execution. israel says the boy had a weapon and that is why he was targeted. adams' mom denies that saying those are false accusations been used in an attempt to justify the killing. this elected and these rally occupation army conduct trades to kill all children that didn't show that lacks but it hasn't chests and i was won't mind relieved my anger, his knowledge of who killed my son and his rarely human rights group reported that

last here. these railey military killed the highest number of palestinians in the occupied west bank in the past 2 decades. 146 people, 5 women and 34 miners am on them. we contacted the idea for a come and they say the account to terry smith davis. he often leads to fatalities from both sides. lie, fire is meant to be used by the security forces only after all. other options have been exhausted. the vast majority of those killed by idea fire in judea and samaria this year were involved in terrorist activity that posed a direct threat to human lives. adam has become the 3rd palestinian killed by israel's army since the beginning of this year. when we started filming this report, he was the last, by the time of finished it, there was another one killed in the syllabus temple, the occupation army raised the camp no fewer than 15 times a month. we have more than 200 wounded people in the camp, including those with an amputated leg and i am one of them. the whole world is in

solidarity with ukraine even though what is happening to us is more terrible. so why do they stand against russia? but stand with israel, adam was buried not far from his home. he used to work at a bakery and would started for an his daily morning walk to work, was through this cemetery, as well as on the day of his death, william adam adam nearly what happened to adam was a cold blooded execution. teenagers of 1415 and 16 years old. they're all gone. i'm scared that my son or any other young man in the camp would go through this. at the cemetery, we met a family of another boy from the camp who was killed last here. when the army stormed his house and the rest of his brother, omar followed them and threatened to destroy a 27 soldier battalion. if they dont release his sibling. he was shot with 4 bullets and died on this pot. his brother is in jail now. my son died, standing out for himself, he stood up for his homeland. he stood up face family. he stood up for his brother

who was in prison. oh or was adam's friend. they graves a side by side exactly like the boys were in one of their pictures. fear has just started and already they have been several funerals held in the west bank. the new government in israel has been cold the most far right and the country's history. and its 1st step into palestinian affairs. i backing that up. people here fear that 2023 will be even bloodier than the previous hear that so record levels of violence . regional sionna r t had hasha camp bethlehem. the newly appointed chinese foreign minister continues his toll of africa, which is aimed at boosting beijing's ties with the continent. now, having just visited gabon was c g t, n reporter mark tate takes us through all the details of the visit. the chinese foreign minister, king don, has wrapped up his shedding bon as the 2nd leg of the 5 country visit to africa. he has met with the governors president, ali bongo and foreign minister and michael mo. so, she got also held

a press conference with his goblin, his counterpart, after a brief calls door meeting, seems that the 2 sides have similar standpoints. a multiple, international and regional affairs. and that china wishes to conduct to more collaborations with gabon under the framework of international organizations like the united nations in order to achieve real multilateralism and opposed to the basic norms of international relations. he said the 2 sides to maintain communication at all levels. sharing experience in governance and continued to uphold each other's core interests and major concerns, including sovereignty, security and territorial integrity. let's hear more from the scene. so shannon could bon share, traditional friendship, an important partnership with value relations with to bon duplicate, and were willing to work hand in hand with gabon to promote oh, comprehensive partnership to the next level. this is the main purpose of my visit. shine is willing to work with gabon areas,

including biodiversity and green development, were also preferred to dog china's belgian road initiative with good bunch on development goals and initiatives to further explore but units and achieve more concrete results of bilateral collaboration. well this is shingles 1st overseas trib, as chinese foreign minister, as he himself mentioned earlier. this is in accordance with a diplomatic traditions that with the chinese government of 33 years to send its top to the light to african countries, right after the new year. after leaving the ball, the newly appointed chinese foreign minister would be visiting angola, benning, and egypt on friday and over the weekend. and he's expected to meet the state leaders high level officials and pay a visit to the headquarters of the league of arab states. my colleagues in a golden benning will keep you updated uh, the tip medic talks there then finally, a milestone has been reached between the p o p and the governments on the t great people's liberation from the agreement has been in the work for over 2 months. now,

with rebel forces having begun the disarmament process, federal authorities in the north of the province are restoring communications on access to the region. this was followed by a visit of the french and german foreign ministers to the country to restore relations. the t gray region as well as a far region following nearly 2 years of brutal, brutal conflict that broke out between the, the t p a left, which is the t gray people's liberation front. as well as the federal government of ethiopia. it has been, it has really left the scow in africa's 2nd most populous country. and they are widespread delegations that both sides, both the government as well as the t gray forces i guilty of human rights atrocities. and that they have been the systematic grapes that have occurred in the 2 year period. those war has displeased many people in the northern parts of

ethiopia, people that continue to not trust the stability of that area, even as the progression within the peace process continues. if the piece process itself is broken down into steps that will be adhered to on a certain times and this time, as you said in your intro, it was in turn of the t p. i left to another pot to hand over the heavy artillery to the federal government. and it remains one of the major highlights of 2022 for the african continent in leading and, and really guiding their own problems and solving them in an african way as they say. but as we stand right now, they even call by the german minister for accountability and that is only seen according to at least her colleagues through transitional justice. here is the german foreign minister and a lean burbock fish. the survey is got out the it is particularly important to

prosecute the violations. we, germans, and french know this from our own experience. that reconciliation does not happen overnight, but without the prospect of justice for the victims of crimes we consider and lasting peace are not possible and separate. but of course this has been a bruise. oh, and you don't have to to take it from anywhere else because it's, it's a, it's, it's further exacerbated the family crisis that has been all to buying that part of, of, of, if you hear. but of course, there's another factor to the story which is the, the role played by foreign forces. and in particular here we're talking about neighboring a retreat, which fort alongside the federal government of if yoga, now eritrea has not moved it's position even though we have a piece of cord in action. and as the t p a left hand over heavy machinery, they still have to contend with

a tree and soldiers which still occupy some of the sensitive areas in the capital of t gray, which is michaela. and this has not been without is casualties. there's been hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced even neighboring eritrea as they seek for safety. but paths no voice encapsulates the pain that has been there for the last 2 years. then the world health organizations director, tedra, gabriel. the humanitarian crisis in te gray is more than ukraine without any exaggeration. and i said this many months ago, maybe the reason is the color of the skin of the people in te gray. this is the worst disaster on earth as we speak. i am from t great. it is not because i am from t gray. i am saying this, that is the truth. i personally find it very funny that both german and differential and if they claim to have been very involved in the war considering

what they were doing around that time last year. that was a huge focus by both government to try and secure energy from the continent. and that looked like something they were leading with, but apparently now they say that they did a lot of work behind the scenes and that they were not seeking any limelight. but there were other players, namely china, which also just recently had its own new foreign minister in, in the capital city of if you and they particularly had the wrong that soft power with regards to, to the train that they have with, if you as well as the dead that if you will be a has with regards to can or which is about a quarter of the countries total debt. and the, i believe, to have played a much more urging role for the federal government to finally come to the table. or from all on any of those stories as well as the latest updates r t dot com is your place to go. i'm pizza. scott,

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