as a new business with an open to ship company that were still a win win a bundle with a dollars top headlines on our team international as the russian, terribly true group. wagner reports having full control over a strategically important town in the suburbs. all are tomas, it's also known as black mood locals to what safety evacuated to grateful for the health is a few months i'm from. our team was yesterday. wagner evacuation forces came many thanks to them for pulling this out. otherwise we would have died there. ukrainians were shooting at us civilians because most likely they have political issues against a through america. acute is washington of giving approval to key f for a tax on russian territory including crime. yeah. what some,

according to potentially wiring escalation. also in the program, a religious research group sounds the alarm over a rising number of christians killed in africa because of bad faith estimate concerns of increasing religiously motivated violence in some parts of the world with it. so good of you to join us for this. our program live from moscow. this is auto international with your latest about headlines, straightened out to the frontline on don bass, the head of rushers, wagner, power military group has set his forces, have gained full control over a strategically important suburb of the city of actual mobs which is also known as black mood, latan of a cliche of cap is less than 10 kilometers from october, which has been a vital transport hub for the ukrainian military. the head of the wagner group said fierce fighting is ongoing and nearby areas. privacy, the russian defense ministry,

confirm that the wagner group made a solid contribution to taking the city of solid out another strategically important location in the region. meanwhile, locals from the city of our trouble, so widely known in the back move, have thanked the wagner group for helping them evacuate. he is rural, that if you're musk, i'm from or to musk yesterday. wagner evacuation forces came many thanks to them for pulling us out. otherwise we would have died there when we left the house and came under fire from the cracking ukrainian nationalist group. we had to drop down to the ground during the shelling. we crawled about 3 to 400 meters during the day . and at night we walked a very long distance and my grandmother couldn't even walk. we carried her on a stretcher. we're very thankful to the wagner group brew during the vacation were taken out by the wagner group. god bless them. the shelling has not seen for a 2nd or the last 4 days. although we showed no signs of being part of the military when you and was ukrainian forces that were shelling, fortune to the little, it's very difficult in our channel mosque right now. just like in more you pl may

be even worse since august. we have been living in the basement of our house, not going out anywhere. ukrainians were shooting at us civilians because most likely they have political issues against us. we were evacuated by the wagner group . they came at night. they said we need to leave urgently. we were getting out of the ruins, as soon as we came out of the basement, the ukrainians started shooting nearby. meantime, a rush as ambassador to the u. s. as washington has given key of direct approval for attacks on crimea using american weapons. he made those comments in response to an assertion by the u. s. state department that crimea is ukranian territory and thus not off limits for a ukrainian military offensive. commentators nameless hume that russia will not retaliate for attacks in his territory. it should be obvious to everyone that we will destroy any kind of weaponry supplied to the zalinski regime by the americans are native. isn't it clear that pumping a crane with more weaponry,

no matter where it is produced in the us, are any other ne to country will only lead to an increase in the deaths of civilians? the rhetoric of u. s. officials is becoming increasingly belligerent. after hearing such remarks from washington, the criminals and key it will feel complete, impunity, the reeks of the conflict, escalating will increase once again, both the actual supply of tanks from the u. k. and potential supply of tanks that we could see from other countries in the west really does present a serious possibility for an escalation and the current conflict. according to reports, france is already getting ready to send tanks to key of and like i said, just now the u. k. has said it's sending tanks officially to ukraine, and it's actually been pressuring germany to do the same. now at the same time, there's not everyone in the west has been expressed, such willingness to take this conflict to the next level because we saw berlin say that they'll only send their tanks to ukraine if washington agrees to do so. and washington is saying,

we're not going to do that right now. what interesting again as you, as you say, so, so sholtes some say show might actually be pushing back in a sense by saying to america, we're not going to send all leopard tanks to ukraine into you guys send the abrams . but donald, i understand the abrams are very heavy, very expensive. they require a remedy to, excuse me, renovation very, very quickly, after 100 hours. right? that's right. these are actually very complicated pieces of machinery and the united states military, of course, has an enormous budget. so they're able to do that, and it's very likely that the high command and the pentagon and us officials aren't so sure they want to risk sending that super expensive high tech machinery to ukraine just for it to get blown up by russian missiles essentially. and that's why we have heard from washington, that they're, they're not ready to send these m on abrams tanks yet. let's take a listen to what they said. we just don't think we're there yet. the abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment. it's expensive. it's hard to train on, it has a jet engine. i think it's about 3 gallons to the mile with jet fuel. it's not the

easiest system to maintain. now naturally, this stance at washington has taken has actually upset quite a few germans who basically think that the u. s. is trying to sacrifice other people at the altar of its own foreign policy agenda, one german m p basically voice that opinion and also suggested that this is really risky, bringing us closer to a nuclear confrontation look. i mean, you know, so, so, so let's get, he wants the german leopard tank and in fact play the leper tank is in a class in and of itself. it's a very, very high tech tank. the u. s. abram tank up to 70 tons and weight goes through a huge bunch of gasoline and you need to keep re wiring the system and renovating it. the u. k. wants to stand challenge times and the modern times as well. but don't, it's not just times we're talking about america wants to train ukrainian soldiers to operate the patriot missile systems as well. i read a report somewhere in order to operate these defense patriot missile system. you need 90 people to operators. right. that's why we've heard a lot of talk actually. russian president vladimir putin said once brought

attention to the fact that this is going to take tons of effort and manpower just to train the ukrainian military on how to understand how to use this mit this machinery. if it were given patriot missiles and all these tanks, i mean it is possible, of course, that they're already being trained to do that in right now than we just don't know about it. but it's also possible that they're not. and that this will take a lot of effort and likely the, you know, the people who are going to be making that decision. it's going to be in washington and they're going to be asking their european friends to help out with that. and this is again, why this we heard from one german m p that this is actually, you know, risking escalating everything and the combination of this just blank check of these weapons from the west. going ukraine is really risking a nuclear confrontation. let's take a listen to what you said. western tanks could ultimately provoke the use of nuclear weapons, primarily against germany. that seems to be the deeper reason why washington is so

reserved on the subject of supplying tanks. but as forcing its ally to make those sacrifices like a vassal. now it's also important understand that the new york times has reported that the u. s. is ready to help key of strike targets in crimea. this is a real 180 degrees 180 to return from last year when the u. s. said ok, well supply ukraine with high mars long range rockets on the condition that they will not strike russian targets on russian territory. so apparently, joe biden, from what we can read from this new york times report has kind of backtracked on that saying that, you know, it's ok for them to strike targets in crimea because number one, the west doesn't recognize crimea as russian territory, despite the fact that they had a referendum there and voted to become part of the ref, the russian federation. and obviously the united states government wants to strengthen ukraine's position at the negotiating table in the future. like okay,

that i guess that i get that point, that makes sense. would they eventually it is inevitable when they do get to the negotiating table. i guess that would be a good little buttering piece out of crimea, i guess kia would play at that. but, you know, we've already seen plenty of reports. donald, in recent weeks and months about about ukraine using drones to go off to certain parts of premier or step a star hole, for example. not that far away. we're talking rushes black c fleet, correct? and this is like the biggest russian naval fleet that and yet certain western professional partners think it's no problem to take that area back from russia and give it to ukraine. but it's, it's roger's black sea food. i mean, we talk instead of stop, we talk in that region. it's immensely important. and yet, what 24 hours ago donald 48 hours ago i was reading on our t telegram channels about these drones being shut down by russia as a defense systems down there. now we thinking drones one thing. but this next idea from washington could be a massive escalation, right. of course, especially because, of course, like you said, there have been already numerous reports as the ukrainian drones making their way

deeper and deeper into russian territory. but tanks are of course, another, another situation. they're heavy military hardware and that's, that presents the same kind of risk that long range high marks us supplied rockets would have, would have presented if the u. s said okay, just go ahead and strike russian territory with them so, so that, that's, that's definitely something we have to understand. and one of the main questions we have to ask is why, why is the west ascii or i'll allowing for such an escalation right now? and actually the german chancellor, i said pretty explain pretty well the west position on, on this. and it's quite simple. basically, they see the west as good, and they see russia as bad. so let's take a listen to what he said. in order for the war to end russia's aggression must fail . that is why we are continuously supplying ukraine with large quantities of arms in close consultation with all patmos. it is extremely important that president

putin doesn't win this war. partly because it would be a tragedy for ukrainians, but it will be very dangerous for us. because then the message to alter the italian, it is not only to putin but also all the author. thank you. this is that when the use group of force, when they're violet international law, they achieve what they want. and that will be very bad and dangerous lessons. it'll may make the world more dangerous and also more vulnerable if we want a negotiated peaceful solution to the ward of ukraine. we need to crew wide military 40. okay. that's the only way a weapons are. they are the way to peace. so the nato chief against oldenburg right there, donald basically saying that more weapons and more death, other way to peace. and just before him, donald r o left shoals german chancellor, the man looking surprisingly optimistic, didn't his job, didn't his defense minister just quit? yeah, that's right. and you know, this,

this kind of rhetoric combined with these recent developments of the potential massive future supplies of western tanks to the ukrainian military. all that combined really makes it scary to wonder how far will the west go just to spite russia at the end of all this you know, representative in charge of coordinating peace efforts in the middle east is called for israeli soldiers to be held accountable for the violence committed against palestinians. he described the issue is a dangerous cycle. the perpetrators of all acts violent. this must be heading. the counter will be brought to justice. security for this was exercise, maximum restraint. the use of the course of all the boys to believe that life. despite mounting international pressure, israeli authorities have been withholding the bodies of killed palestinians. the families of the deceased have condemned practices of violation of human rights.

open out 2 r. r t middle correspondent, more if an option or she can shed some light on this troubling story. on a sunny day like this 121 years ago, mohammed sun shoddy left his home in a village near nobliss in the west bank and never came back. 2002 was the time of the 2nd intifada and massive palestine in uprising against israeli occupation. mohammed was told shoddy, had been killed by these railey military during clashes between protesters and the army. the family started preparing for a funeral, but more than 2 decades on it still hasn't happened. the garage doors in southern culture of almost 21 years have passed. and until now we do not know where his body is or how he was mod shirt. but we want to take him and bury him here in the town and read a prayer over his body and know that we return him god, this is all new. wish before would be for a while to this world, with their son still not rested in peace. the parents pain and anger has not been

buried either and will not go away before you another beyond these rarely so doing this to torture us more hot. if i had got back his body and buried him, we would have been able to move on. but since i have not got him bag, how can i forget give you the pin? so the nicer is, are one of around a 1000 other palestinian families who have corpses of dead relatives, been withheld. base railey authorities had practiced that 1st began in 1967 man women and children are among them. hussein from jerusalem legal aid and human rights sent a tells me those who were killed and clashes and rage, but also died in his railey prisons or hospitals. i left in area for any occupation authorities claim they will use these bodies as pressure and bargaining chips in future prison exchange deals with armed groups in gaza and as a policy of collective punishment for the families. we also expect this is the way to conceal evidence,

in cases of extra judicial executions carried out by the occupations soldiers in the cities of the west bank and $48.00 territories. the also says among palestinian families about the issue of organ theft were little bit forgot to be on the market . the center helps the families get the buddies of their loved ones back they go to israeli courts negotiate with the army, police. some cases have 0 progress like shot is one for others, legal battles take months and years as of today, more than 300 but is still haven't found their way back home, captain israeli morgues, or buried at so cold cemeteries of numbers em near la mon autobahn mccoy, i only know about 4 known cemeteries which are military areas that have forbidden to enter. these corpses were buried in an inappropriate manner at a close distance from the surface of the ground. in this cause, many cases of corpse is being washed away and lost in heavy rains and through predatory animals that could dig up the graves. bob, the mission of israel says it has legal authority to hold it,

but is palestinian families seed as a violation of international laws and they are human rights. all those we talk to while film in this report told us they thought that bearing their beloved ones is the worst thing. but now they see that losing them forever without a chance to say a proper good bye is a bit more painful. but even when a family is successful and receives a body back, they could still be issues. a sam awaited for 37 days for these railey army to return the body of his youngest son, but could not recognize him. it was froze in his was cooper, vice doctor sir 5 days to defrost the body because we need the pick up, sued for for him. what did you want us to show? show he was good for by you 3 bullets from back and close distance. i saw much shows me i'm just room and the clothes he was returned in with holes from the bullet. he believes his 14 year old son,

a regular protest against israeli occupation, was assassinated by special forces in an ambush prior to and after his death. israel arrested menu of i'm just friends. some others also died. some of the buddies were never returned. it's crime against humanity when someone kill your son and stole his body. is that what you perform for his brothers? his cousins is fans to do something. and that's what's happening. the 10s of these to, to fuel the violence in the area. we conduct a different israeli institutions asking for a comment on the state practice of detaining buddies. they didn't reply back very from optionality from the west bank. we did come to you lie from moscow now. our new report claims the persecution of christian said on the rise globally with thousands of people killed last year simply because of their faith. and the report by the religious research group opened doors. it says that $5600.00 christians were

killed last year. said many of the crimes being committed by islamist extremists was wanting the more than a 120000 people were displaced due to the anti christian violence. and at least $15000.00 christians became immediate refugees. now the report when, as far as to say that in some regions, for example, violence against christians is actually condone the african nations of somalia. at a prayer nigeria were listed in the top 10 countries where christians reported the face the most violence. the head of the research group says the rates of crimes against christians in africa is deeply troubling. i think even we were shocked by our own numbers. 7 out of 10 countries where there is the greatest violence against christians are in subsaharan, africa. violence can mean killings and a large percentage of those who were killed for their faith in the last year were in africa. but it can also mean rate. it can mean a reduction,

it can be the destruction of property. the report says 360000000 christians, faith persecution, non discrimination, basically because of their faith, that is a one in step in christians worldwide. let's break down the numbers for you quickly here. that's one in 5 christians, persecuted in africa, 2 in 5 in asia, and actually the numbers in latin america, one in 54. we discussed all this with the head of the jury and christian association. have a listen. it is signed and unfortunate that in a country it has a constitutional in the country that has a government from google citizens when you have nothing be picking up in the school and could not really do it. if you're not going to do it actually being in the on more than line, maybe a gets in of we've done that and i'm killing some of them. that becomes

a good concern. if nothing is ever we get, why killing the please. why do you plan to bring that to do with government? what kind of there was under that could have been in thank you see what was going towards and not what i can to get. 2 of them. i miss enough to know so much as a bit concerning the christ community. but generally what it because now given seems not to be secured at this moment. despite rising, religiously motivated violence in sub saharan africa, local christians and ethiopia in northern t grade region, happily celebrated the epiphany holiday. this week, of course, is dedicated to the baptism of jesus christ. a 1000 christians gathered for the event known locally as him cat, widely celebrated by ethiopia and orthodox christians, the period of religious revival and an occasion to give thanks for that of personal prosperity. and here in moscow epiphany celebrations in full swing of crowds of

russian orthodox faithful gathered to take the traditional dip in freezing cold waters on the eve of the holiday ride after a church service. and as well as tradition here at our new correspondent is always forced to take the plunge, his poor steve swim well as predicted, the temperature has dropped slightly. i can feel rain floating down to my body while i'm making my way now to the ice. poland, i'm going to dip myself into the freezing cold water. there are a men and women of all ages are here to day, and many a row already made the plunge into the icy water and the skews a people. now as you can see, i'm prepared, it is very, very cold. and this is, as i've had visited about the celebration of epiphany, which is an commemorating the baptism of jesus christ. there are many health benefits that come with diving into the water. so i'm told i'm, i'm about to go in,

so i'll let you know what it's like when i come out and, and, and how i feel like it. i feel a little bit invigorated. it's quite refreshing getting into the water and i'm plunging my head under 3 times. i can see the benefits of it and i can see why many people come here and do this every year. i'm not promising the i will come back and do it again. you can see many, many people here still waiting to, to get into the po, see, as we saw, it's not the 1st time i've dipped myself in the waters. it's the 6th time there are always emergency workers here. everyone helps, almost identical. what's my youngest son and i tried to dip ourselves in the waters every year? i think this is very important holiday for orthodox christians. it's a symbol of our faith. so good to have you with us for this ours program as well to stand enormous protests interrupting in the rest of eastern region of the democratic republic of congo. it's very near the border with rwanda. a hundreds of

local residents have been demanding the withdrawal of canyon lead international peace keeping forces, saying that simply not doing enough to protect them from radical militants. now a police report will use t, a caster, disperse the crowds as demonstrators approached a major administration building. all of this, you're watching up pictures from the city of goma awareness journalists covering the events that they were injured, perhaps to even reportedly detain. at the unrest was fueled by news. the additional troops were from south sudan were arriving in the area. gomez mer has banned the demonstrations meantime, saying the local government has been besieged by protesters. what we heard from residency say that the international key peacekeepers are not doing their job. they need more protection from the militant group known as m 23 room. so wanted to day were demonstrating against the a see her have come to us, but so far we have found that they are ineffective soldiers and do nothing on the ground support from serving as a shield for the enemy on march. first of all is supporting did the r c. army so

they can launch operations against the m 23 and show the e a. c. all me that it has no reason to be here. we are in the process of claiming all rights in relation to the regional force which had come to intervene in favor the g a c. all me. we want this e. c force to be able to wrecked the fronds or go home. when i got up, what is here? we surprised to see how the police are refusing to allow us to demonstrate. we do not want to see canyons marching in the streets of gomer. again, who are asking the government to say if they do not want to go to war against the m 23. and if not, then leave our city of goma. we don't want them to come like monasco. part time for a right stink a hair on the program of french farmers protested against the e. u. constraints on fertilizer usage. by burning heaps of manila on the streets of the country's 4th largest city. the demonstrators in the southern city of to lose spoke out against the

e. u. environmental policies encroaching out on that of the agricultural industry. they blocked an entrance to the city and set fire to stacks of manure. also been a wave of dissatisfaction against e. u. agricultural restrictions in the netherlands and in poland as well as we understand france. we also faced nationwide strikes this week of upcoming pension reform plans. another headache for the french president, emmanuel mack, ron. so the ego has been pressuring serbia to join the sanctions against russia. despite opposition from belgrade, the european parliament has issued a decree that serbia's foreign policy must be aligned with that of the block if it wants to continue to pursue membership. so be, as president spoke out about the measure, saying there's only one viewpoint accepted by the west and that is it's on as they've come to understand. no one wants to hear or see that there is a different point of view. the only thing they are interested in is an independent

castillo and sanctions against russia. sophia does have traditionally very close ties with russia as moscow support spell grades claim to the disputed cause of our region which some western powers consider an independent country. by 80 percent of the respondents, in a recent poll by a serbian newspaper expressed opposition to imposing sanctions against russia. fewer than a 10 were in favor. a clear majority said that even the threat of punitive actions by the you against their own country wouldn't make them one to support the anti russia sanctions where we took this conversation further with us. so be an american journalist and our senior writer and a boy of knowledge. and he questioned why the e u was demanding that an external government conformed to its policies while the block can even get all of its own members to obey its orders. i don't think it's going to have any influence on the serbian government, or at least it bought, nudged into direction that the resolutions authors intended. if anything,

it will harden to serbian opposition to demands from brussels because let's face it . it's not a good look to have a german author and ultimate him to serbia. and the author of this resolution, despite as scottish sounding name is in fact german and the key amendments demanding and compliance in belgrade were also often by corporations. which again has historical issues attached to this. so if, if, if brussels and the european parliament were trying to persuade serbia into actually doing this, they, they couldn't have gone about it in a worse. in a worse way. the resolution is not binding even 40. you will let alone 2 on countries that are not members. and so it's going to be one of those documents that, you know, brussels bureaucrats are going to pound and point to bite 5. you were 5 members of the you haven't recognized coastal and here's resolution. we're also demanding that they all do. so we'll see if you know, how can, how can you demand

a non member to harmonize policy when they can't even force their own members to, to will be their own, dictate, ridiculous. so as our guests were saying, the e u has been pressuring serbia to join the sanctions against russia. despite opposition from the great, very similar sentiments, by the way, in both hungary and croatia. they are also firmly opposed to the sanctions, which essentially europe more than they do. fresh news returns the top of the ah ah

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