ah ah, with russian troops gained ground and they've done yet for a public as they advance in 16 frontline town or google adar, moscow lands nato's latest weapon provision to cab calling western heavy tank deliveries to ukraine. a direct involvement in the conflict as their acts, currency plummets to new lows, locals rally against the country, central bank, accusing it of serving american interests at their expense. a country wants to liberate itself and li, like the rest of the world. the step wasn't eligible in order to reduce the price of the solar which had started to affect many social classes, iraq,

and copy republic day to india as a country celebrates of $70.00 ports, anniversary of its constitution. with the grand parade were russia, military cadets were exclusively invited. ah, good afternoon for moscow to wherever you may be, watching welcome to the hours most, pressing new stories from all around. i'm fear, allies about russian troops are pushing deeper into the key town of o. glad dar, southwest of john. yes, city local authorities say the army has secured a foothold. they're allowing them to mount a bigger offensive to encircle ukrainian forces. ortiz, roman call, sorta has the details. according to our, my sources from the guys are fighting in the gloves. are right now they've been on the outskirts of the city for the last 2 days in the they have established

a foothold at just outside of the city, which is about to 70 kilometers away from an esquire i am right now. now, according to officials, russia, the marines of the pacific police are fighting there as well as offices of the former officers of the ministry of the interior of for the next republic. now once again, according to my source, they're not planning to storm the city streets. so they're planning to execute a so called pin cert, movements will, where they will encircle the ukrainian army from both flanks. according to the russian defense minnes free, one of the roads leading to lazar is now under a full control of the russian forces. now, once again, fighting, incense fighting is continued over there. and according to officials, russia is using both artillery ends, aviation, as well as ground troops. meanwhile,

elsewhere in ukraine and several explosions were heard in the city of give, in odessa and in as up our osha, part controlled by a ukraine at the moment. former boxer now mayor of kia it's alex, wish god had confirmed that there were indeed explosions in the ukrainian capital. we caught up with a russian tank driver when his crew returned to bass to re arm before heading back into the fray. near dar, the operator shared his perspective on how the battle is progressing, while also weighing in about how much of a fighting chance the new western changes will sand against the russians. because the was the 3 goes up, we just returned from the combat mission 30 minutes ago. you can call the situation tense. after all, there is an offensive going on, but we're moving forward successfully. i'll be at slowly, due to the fact that the military command want to save as many troops as possible. the soldiers are in a good mood because we're advancing. we're successfully destroying the enemy. if we

come up against leopards or challengers that were made the same year as our tanks, i think we can handle it for one simple reason. a lot depends on the crew. will be opposed by people who have been trained only now. who will be unfamiliar with their western tanks? so i think we can handle it to the kremlin, has condemned the newly announced delivery of german and american tanks to ukraine, calling it direct western involvement in the conflicts statements are constantly being made from european capitals and from washington that the delivery of various weapon systems including tanks, ukraine in no way means the involvement of these countries where alliances and the fighting, but it's taking place in ukraine. we strongly disagree with this. moscow perceives this as direct involvement in the conflict. we see that it is expanding moscow's reaction comes up for the us,

announced that we'll hand over $31.00 of its abrams tanks and other armored vehicles to ukraine for an expected counter offensive against russia's forces on the front line. germany also made a decision to send at least 14 of its main battle tanks to ukraine. after months of pressure from nato allies and berlin and washington have both pledge to train ukrainian crews to use their tanks before they can be deployed. but while the 2 nato allies are in unison over their military supplies, the key have, they're not on the same page about the stated aim. it is not an offensive threat to russia. there is no offensive threat to russia. and therefore, i've said already in the last days, yes, we have to do more to defend ukraine. yes, we have to do more also on things for the most important. and the crucial part is that we do it together and that we do not do the blame game in europe because we

are fighting a war against russia and not against each other. thank you. many people in the german governments are making decisions that favor washington at germany is expense, and fighting, being a part of this proxy war fighting this oxy war for and with the united states is part of that. i think they will continue to search for weapons to send ukraine. it will obviously make no difference. we were told that hi mars in the triple sentence, we're going to make all the difference. and here we are back to square one, looking for wonder weapons to send ukraine to turn the tide, which we were already told turned already. so they're going to continue to go through this process. apparently oblivious to the fact that these weapons take years for a army to incorporate and use on the battlefield effectively. so unfortunately, we're going to watch this process continue to play out and watch matters escalate.

mean, all russia is also warned against the potential use of depleted uranium shelves by western tanks and ukraine. nato, infamously, unleash such ammunition in some previous military conflicts leading to both civilians and western soldiers. being exposed to radiation, according to russia's arms control, chief and vienna. moscow will consider the use of such weapons as a dirty nuclear bomb attack. for now, 3 different types of needle main battle tanks are going to be delivered to the ukranian army. washington promise, and 31 of its m one abrams. although the white house said the delivery will take months, germany is going to send 14 of its most modern leopards with several other nato states, also committed to sending their own stocks as they had been waiting for a green light from berlin. finally, the u. k. will be delivering 14 of its challenger to tanks. we asked former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter if kids army can actually handle such weapon,

advanced weapons. those are 3 completely different types of tanks with 3 completely different types of maintenance and logistics and sustainability issues . you know, the challenger and the leopard use diesel fuel. the m one uses a jet fuel. it's 2 different engines. and so, you know, even though the numbers of tanks might look impressive when you add them all up, the fact is because of the he's the different kinds of change being provided. we're actually making it very difficult for the ukrainians to, to incorporate these tanks and use them on the field of battle. tanks are very maintenance intensive. a fresh us in the, in one abrams tank for every hour of operation. you need at least 3 hours of maintenance support and that's just piece time operation. now you throw in the complexity of combat and you're probably looking for every hour, you know,

456 hours of maintenance support, and that's with a well trained maintenance crew. ukrainians don't have well trained maintenance cruise capable of supporting the, the m one abrams and i just think that we're creating a logistical nightmare. was this be frank, your russia has spent decades preparing for the possibility of vo war between nato and russia. what i mean by that is that russia's developed weapons and tactics that are designed to prevail in combat against the nato. like enemy, we've got you covered with all the details on the ramifications of the western tank deliveries to ukraine on air and on our website r t dot com. or you can get plenty more opinions and in depth analysis plus live up dave with ukrainian opposition leader victor med. but chuck has spoken to

r t. it is 1st appearance on intern shuttle media since he was freed in a prisoner's thought dale between moscow and k. as in september, he shared his take on the future of ukraine and its relations with russia, against the backdrop of western meddling with our teeth. marina casa, rather here's a quick taste of the interview, which you can watch and for later on air. but for right now on our website and our tina. com, while the war is being waged in ukraine, that this war is not for you. great. but in the interest of the west, the u. s. the u. k. and many other countries which are settling their schools with russia. they have made ukraine of the war under zalinski government, a kind of testing ground, or a launch pad in their standoff with russia. as us and so have spent all these months putting a team back together, a lot of people came from kia villainy is many people who are outside ukraine in russia, europe, the holly will turkey them. they are ready to continue to fight and have their say,

thank you. we sympathize. that's exactly what i laid out in my article concerning the situation which is unfolded. i make the case for the voice of another ukraine to be heard in russia, ukraine, and the west. and we know for sure there is another ukraine like but who zalinski claim to represent the united nation. but that is a myth invented artist dinner. this unity has been built on bayonets, pick up what he represents ukraine, claiming the ukrainian people have come together and stand strong in the anti russian narrative and rabbit was a phobia. this is not true. apart from the anti russian voice, there are people in ukraine who are afraid to talk about it publicly, but have never supported the nature and dynamic of the relationship between ukraine of russia as emerged to day. these people ukrainians. just like me, i believe it is a direct violation of the constitution hobby and to deprive me of my ukrainian citizenship. and it's not just my opinion. it is impossible to deprive

a citizen of ukraine of his citizenship except in the event of a voluntary request. it contradicts not only the constitution, greens, but it also contradicts an international convention, which forbids such an act if a person is left stateless as a result of the yeah, the she girls of ukraine is signed up to this international convention. they, despite this at the lens, he continued his efforts to crush his political opponents through political repressions. and a legal criminal prosecution is that it is a goal that he has set for himself and he's pushing towards it on the same goes for everything to iraq. now we're hundreds, had taken to the streets of baghdad in protest against the devaluation of the nations currency, which has hate locals hard demonstrators, mainly young people gathered near the central bank carrying flags and banners in a bed to pressure the government to act the iraqi dinar. has a,

a new load to the u. s. dollar, losing almost 7 percent of its value since mid november. protesters say life in the country has become a nightmare because of the economic crisis. as they accused the central bank of servin america's interests. the co banking market, we're here to send a message to this lien in week bank that doesn't protect its national currency, is subjected to terms and dictations of outside banks and especially american banks in the us beyond our messages. but if you go with these terms, then what are the poor people supposed to do? a salad, not that i like the june, the dollar price is uncertain for various reasons, unknown to us, the people. but what we do know is that the main reason for the dollar increase is the smuggling of the currency outside iraq to certain countries which has impacted our economic situation. i hope all of this stuff was inevitable in order to reduce the price of the us dollar, which had started to affect many social classes in iraq. our country wants to liberate itself and leave like the rest of the world to poor, have been affected,

and the lower classes have reached a situation where they can no longer survive. it's a little bit higher than the r t contributor. chris ems investigates why iraq faces such economic turmoil. despite being one of the world's top oil producers. iraq's prime minister has facts, the head of the country, central bank over the total collapse of the national currency, the iraqi dinner. today the central banks governors request for discharge was approved, as was the request for retirement by the president of the trade bank of iraq. despite being one of the world's most oil rich countries. iraq currency continues to plummets. unlike its fellow oil rich nations in the gulf, such as saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, which were enjoying all time highs as they capitalize on rising oil prices. iraq is suffering from unprecedented levels of inflation with the cost of living, becoming unaffordable for most people. but why is this happening? you guessed it, uncle sam has its thing to in the pi yet again,

most of iraq's oil wealth is still helping us dollars. instead of in its own suffering currency, it's still they've been held inside the countries own central bank, but it a current account in the us say, this means that the oil revenues that should support iraq sulfur currency, a propping up the u. s. economy. instead, everyone knows how the americans use the currency as a weapon to star people. iraq kids billions of dollars of its assets. offshore with the american sped holding the boss bulk of money. off the bush and blair illegal invasion of the country. their so called partners continued to rob the bank and get away with it struggling in iraq by literally holding it to ransom. now just imagine the western out quite if russia and china did the same thing, the countries in which they hold significant interests. so is it really any wonder why so many nations are moving away from the so called petro dollar, and seeking to trade in alternative national currencies, or even crypto times running out frontal sam and his rules based order. and it's no

longer a question of if, but when the clock strikes midnight, the a you, an agency for palestinian refugees has appealed for a $1600000000.00 worth of financial support to provide aid for those in need. underfunding global crisis and rising levels of poverty are among the major problems the agency deals with, according to its commissioner general, who spoke at a meeting in geneva, the un relief and works agency provides aid such as food medicine and social services for palestinian refugees. the bureaus media advisor says it's unthinkable the agency may not be able to provide help because she's the most vulnerable way in when we are talking about but in a book, you know, communicate with the parents. you know, when it's time to review, even in celia, live on and, and gaza on the bank. and they are embed, need of increasing our services our, our help to this community because in all sectors,

not only talking about with an indication, but also the need psychological support. very important element. so i think, you know, to, to leave or to see that is not able to provide services. they need help. we try to provide help, not only under but also other station, but it is a political issue and we need politician, you know, it's going to be me to stop all of the to get all part is, you know, get all to talk or, you know, to corporate it to find concrete solutions. you know, that, you know, we believe that the galatian collection will, will be in the interest of no one and now to india, which is celebrating its annual republic day a grand parade has been held in the capital, new delhi,

russia. the president has also sent his congratulations as he highlighted the importance of national friendship with india. hi to do i use in ocoee. we highly value the privileged strategic partnership between our states. i am sure our joint efforts will ensure the further development of mutually beneficial bilateral corporation in all areas. this certainly meets the fundamental interests of the friendly peoples of russia and india. more than a 1000000000 people are celebrating the festival that at the parade in the capital india's troops, china and other hardware, were rolled out on display. thousands of soldiers marched through the streets of new delhi, showing off the country's military might. gathaway from different nations also took part in the event, including a russian cadet court. we ask the cadets for their take on how important such cooperation is for relations with india, scottish market, international communicating and learning, the history of which other contributes better understanding charter and and

nowadays that is significant for international relationships are. so in this way, this is a really good that her, we could these, we have decent paternity to get closer if from you address our we have a lot of opportunities to find out, you know, just about our, our miss about armis, of different countries and of course in india, ah, we have made a lot of friends, we can share our knowledge about our country and it's nice to make friends and just, i am so happy to be there. coursera really excited about it because for us be the special guests is really good. i'm very satisfied as everybody that our candidates have a very good interaction. it's very important because in my opinion, these h,

the tough time started and it can prolong for the whole life. and hopefully this visit and the participation of this contingent in the republic day and they knew grocery, 75th anniversary of your national, candid or even proof more and more our relationship in the military theory. ken is ambassador to the un was heckled during a conference in ottawa as the official was bombarded with a flu of tough questions, he couldn't answer raising from nato's proxy war in ukraine to voting against the resolution to condemn neo nazi is up. here's how the incident unfolded from the perspective of the protagonist canadian journalist, an activist, invest angler. mr. re, you're lying. you know it, you're using ukraine as a proxy to weaken russia. you don't, you don't care about international law at the united nations just recently. you

voted against multiple resolutions up holding international law, upholding palestinian rights. you voted against the resolution condemning neo naziism. you voted against the resolution supporting the treaty on the partition of nuclear weapons on haiti. mr. ray, you're propping up your propping up and on the left, did i'm elected. unpopular unconstitutional leader. is that true? the way that you barbara didn't respond properly to the questions. of course we didn't expect him to respond and an honest marriage between government and barbara himself do not care about international law. they care about advancing the u. s. empire, everything. and these things are scripted. there's not gonna be no opportunity for a real exchange of ideas. there is relatively open speech in canada. what we have is quite a, quite an impressive propaganda system where you have very open we speech rules. you know, there's politicians are relatively accessible at this,

you know, for public forums. but the dominant means of communication allow for very narrow spectrum of debate. so i have published 10 books on canadian foreign policy from a critical perspective. the dominant media, this country absolutely refuses to ever basically i've been on of course, but basically ever hear my perspective on canadian foreign policy. and i'm just, this is one example of how the critical perspectives are just excluded from mass communications. a note to nato campaign conference has been called off after london venue host conway. all was pressured into counseling. the booking, that's the spite. the iconic called the official stands of openness and inclusivity . the venue claims to be a hub for free speech and independent thought. one supporting even radicals and

suffragettes the hall says that celebrates the benefits of many viewpoints and has now been pans for scrapping the anti nato conference. as critics say, the venue has come to an anti democratic cancel culture. no to nato is an international move make calling for an end to the arms. race activists also want the west to stop. its confrontations with moscow, which had been marked by nato's maneuvers at russia's western borders and increased military presence in neighboring states. the anti war group had been scheduled to gather conway hall on wednesday until the venue suddenly said it couldn't wholesome, despite previously pledging to do so. the reasons for the move were communicated by the hall in a private email, but excluded from its official statement. conway hol can no longer host your event as we are now unable to ensure the safety of our building and our staff on and off line as well. the only detractors were actively seeking to conduct

our funders, partners, and hires. and as a charity we cannot jeopardize those income streams which are vital to our survival . we appreciate that this will be disappointing to you and we had hoped even conway whole history of hosting similar events that we would be able to go ahead with this booking. we have reviewed this booking, which was a 3rd party hire of our venue and not part of our program and informed the organizers that it will no longer be taking place at conway hall. should you have any further questions or comments about this event or it's content we would ask you to direct them to the organizers, max blue with all the greys own editor. and she was among those students speak at the scraps conference, says freedom of expression doesn't really matter. for most venues, unless it falls strictly in line with the narrative of the establishment. cowardice, political cowardice. that which were you seeing across the board? i have witnessed it. events where i've been due to speak for the past several years

when they relate to the wars of regime change and proxy wars that the west is waging around the world. it's become sort of impermissible to speak out against these war isn't about the ravages of nato. it's sort of a political 3rd rail and in this case, and in many other cases that i've experienced, we've seen organizers who profess liberal values and profess to uphold free speech. principles immediately cave when they come under attack from online trolls . what just shows up against the wall. the anti war movement is inside the supposedly democratic west. and what we're up against. there are very few venues that are willing to host us. there are very few. if any media outlets that are willing to entertain our views, and yet no one ever is willing to actually stand up and debate us on the same stage or explain exactly what we're getting wrong,

it's about silencing us and be organizations. to the extent, did the elements behind these organized trolling campaigns function, essentially as a proxy for a collective wes entered, which is, according to german foreign minister, and alina burbock, in her comments this week, waging war with russia. the u. s. has been training the ukranian military for years, according to former state secretary and c. i a director mike, palm pale, who says that even he visited ukraine multiple times during his term as washington spy, chief, ukrainian defense forces have been trained by the united states for an awfully long time. when i was a c, i, director i was in southeast ukraine on more than one occasion. we were helping them with special operating forces stuff. my palm page says that the current successes of ukraine can be attributed to the us and in a 2020 statement to national public radio said that america doesn't care about

ukraine. meanwhile, the former us secretary of say, also said that americans don't even know where you create it is on a map, executive vice president of the racist center url rath newson says washington provoked the russian special military operation as it has been involved in ukrainian affairs for years the us have been probably the primary gators, and i would say behind provoking this, this special mental, very operation that we were, we're behind the cooler 40, most likely we are behind, very suspiciously. you have our hand, potentially in the north stream explosion. and we've been in ukraine for quite a while, i would say even before 2014, we've been in your brain the both with modifications

to the bio laboratory facility, as well as the arming ukraine and training there for this. and i think the, the area increased significantly in 2014 and beyond. i mean, mr. palm paid it on pay. we've been looted to 6 years, but i would say we've been there longer. and russia, top diplomat has praise moscow's growing relations with the african continent during his latest official visit to angola survey live off went on to criticize western financial pressure on developing states and their hypocritical approach to the continent is up with his actions. the west has proved, as it can trample at any moment on old values and mechanisms of globalization that it self created and promoted. including the invite ability of property fair competition on the presumption of innocence, just as it can betray its allies at any moment. which was proved not so long ago in

afghanistan in iraq, undoing the so called arab spring sunni, a self respecting countries, a when aware of what is at stake. they see what the owners of the coven, international monetary, and financial system are capable of. and want to create their own mechanisms to ensure sustainable development, which will be protected from outside dictates the whole north africa is undergoing power rating changes in it's regional job one because dynamics and it's, it's from now security law to skip in the backdrop or shifting international system and m growth, regional and global affairs active from the middle east region, gulf, him internal power houses, including the u. s. china. russia in the policy believe that you are currently competing for employee salve, resource, and the head of money in the region. beside all the competition and the w. stablish involved in your colonialism in the region. bratia have it be grumpy property. the

peer to peer to al integrity of these countries in the home rather than the with survey leverage continues his tour of the continent which began in south africa. on monday. moscow in pretoria agreed on joint see military drills for next month. he then visited the kingdom of as while teeny, formerly known as towards the land, where the russian foreign minister and his counterpart agreed on these. the free travel for diplomats afterwards live ra, visited angola, where he praised the thing, cooperation and growing ties with the country. later on thursday, russia's top diplomat is due to sit down with officials in eritrea. stay with us for the latest on labrons moves in the horn of africa. across in south america, the bolivian president has called on neighboring countries to improve their relations with russia and other members of the bricks group. especially make it a little human weakness is or is extremely important for the community of.