a shift with not mitchell i to the people off with, with russian troops gain ground in the don yet for public as they advanced and did they key frontline town of google. adar lost those lands nato's latest weapon provision. calling western heavy tank delivery to ukraine. a direct involvement in the conflict as the rock currency plummets to new lows, locals rally against that 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 would be as dollars which had started to affect many social classes, iraq and happy republic. day to india,

as the country celebrates the 74th anniversary of its constitution with a grand parade. we're russian military kid that sports supposedly 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 ella is about we start with the latest updates on the ukranian conflict. russian troops have caught off the main roadway leading to the key town ogle, a dark southwest of donna city. that's after local authorities said the army has secured a foothold, paving the way for a bigger offensive and circling ukrainian forces. are teeth, roman cars that have, has the details? according to our, my sources from the guys are fighting integrals are right now. they've been on the outskirts of the city for the last 2 days in the they have established

a foothold just outside of the city, which is about to 70 kilometers away from don't ask where 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 the nest, a republic. now once again, according to my source, they are not planning to storm the city streets. so they are planning to execute a so called pin cert, movements will where they will circle the ukranian 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 and aviation, as well as ground troops. meanwhile,

elsewhere in ukraine and several explosions were heard in the city of ikea in odessa and in as up our osha part controlled by the ukraine at the moment. so former boxer now mayor of kia, it's alex, wish gore had confirmed that there were indeed explosions in the ukrainian capital . we caught up with a russian tank driver when his crew returned to base to re arm before heading back into the fray near dark. he operator shared his perspective on how the battle is progressing, also weighing in on how much of a fighting chance the new western change will stand against the russian. who knew it was because the water 3 goes up. we just returned from the combat mission 30 minutes ago. you can call the situation tense. after all, there's 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. but 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. the kremlin has conducted the newly announced delivery of germany 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 in 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,

was marked as reaction comes after the u. s announce that we'll hand over 31 of us abrams tanks and other armored vehicles to ukraine for an expected counter offensive against russia's forces on the front lines. germany also made a decision to send at least 14 of its main battle tanks, ukraine. after months of pressure from nato allies and give berlin and washington have both pledged to train ukrainian crews, t user tanks before they can be deployed. but while the to nato allies are in unison over their military supplies, so they're not on the same page about the stated aim 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. but the most important in 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 proxy 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 high mars and the triple 7 were going to make all the difference. and here we are back to square one, looking for wonder weapons suspend 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.

meanwhile, russia is also warned against the potential use of depleted depleted uranium shells by western tanks and ukraine. nato, infamously, unleashed 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. masika will consider the use of such weapons as a dirty nuclear bomb attack. for now, 3 different types of natal main battle tanks are going to be delivered to the ukranian army. washington promised to send 31 of its m one abrams. although the white house at the delivery will take months, germany is going to send 14 of its most modern leopards was 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 are me can actually handle such 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 used diesel fuel, the m one uses a jet fuel which 2 different engine too. so, you know, even though the numbers of tanks might look impressive when you add them all up, fact is a because of the, these 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 crews of 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 take deliveries to ukraine on air and on our website at r t dot com. or you can get plenty more opinions and in depth analysis plus live updates. the u. s. has been training the ukranian military for years,

according to former state secretary and c, i director my pale who says he visited ukraine multiple times during his term as washington, spite chief the ukrainian defense forces have been trained by the united states for an awfully long time when i was us, the director i was in southeast ukraine on more than one occasion. we were helping them with the special operating forces stuff. my palm paper 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 state also stated that americans don't even know where ukraine is on a map, executive vice president of the, your agent center earl rest news and says, washington provoke the russian special military operation as it has been involved in ukrainian affairs for years the us have been probably the primary

instigators 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 was even before 2014. we've been a new frame the both with the modifications to the bio laboratory facility, as well as the arming ukraine and training there for this. and i think the, the areas increase significantly in 2014 and beyond. i mean, mr. palm paid, you know, we've been looted to 6 years, but i would say we've been there longer than that ukrainian opposition leader

victor med. but chuck has spoken to r t in his 1st appearance on international media since he was freed in a prisoner swap deal between moscow in kiev. and september. he shared his take on the future of ukraine and his relations with russia, against the backdrop of western meddling with our t marina cooperative a. you can watch the interview in full later on air or right now on our website at r t dot com. but here's a quick clip. while the war is being waged in ukraine, that this war is not for ukraine. but in the interest of the west, the u. s. the u. k. and many other countries, which are settling their scores in russia, riggins talk to you. they have made ukraine of the war under lensky government, a kind of testing ground, either or a launch pad in a standoff with russia. yes, as up. 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 of live in russia, euro the valley war, turkey, them,

that they are ready to continue to fight and have their say. thank you, me, sir. perfect. that's exactly what i laid out in my article concerning the situation which is unfolded what you do. you know, what if i make the case for the voice of another you crying to be heard in russia, ukraine, and the west. and we know for sure there is another ukraine like, but it's zalinski claim to represent the united nation. but that is a myth invented out at dinner. this unity has been built on by an exotic authority . he represents ukraine, claiming the ukrainian people have come together and stand strong in the anti russian narrative. and robert ross, a phobia of the world. this is not true apart from the anti russian voice of life, 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 or russia as emerged to day. these people, ukrainians, or just like me. i believe it is a direct violation of the constitution robbie and to deprive me of my ukrainian

citizenship authority. but 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 i'm not green's, but it also contradicts an international convention which forbid such an act. if a person is left cyclists as a result thinker, yeah, they should also, ukraine is signed up to this international convention. this, despite this such, zalinski continues his efforts to crush his political opponents through political repressions and a legal criminal prosecution is up and yelling. it is a goal that he has set for himself, awesome, and he's pushing towards it on his graph. the same goes for everything to iraq now, where hundreds have taken to the streets of baghdad in protests, against the devaluation of the nations currency, which has hate locals, hard demonstrators. mainly young people gathered here the central bank carrying

flags and banners in a bid to pressure the government to act. the iraqi dinar has hit a new low to the us dollar, losing almost 7 percent of its value since mid november, protest her se life in the country. it has become a nightmare because of the economic crisis as they accuse the central bank of serving american interests. the whole bank of america, we're here to send a message to this lien in week bank that doesn't protect its national currency. it is subjected to terms and dictations of outside banks and especially american banks in the f. b, i are messages. but if you go with these terms, then what are the poor people supposed to do? the math salad do not have alec ma 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 fact. his and the lower classes have reached a situation where they can no longer survive a little bit higher than the arctic. contributor chris, i'm investigates why iraq faces such economic turmoil. despite being one of the world's top oil producers. iraq's prime minister has fact to the head of the country, central bank, over the total collapse of the national currency, the iraqi dinner. today the central banks, governors requests 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 them, 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, get in the pie yet again. most of iraq's oil wealth is still helping us dollars. instead of in its own suffering, currency is 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 keeps billions of dollars of its assets offshore with the americans fed holding the basketball combat money off the bush and blair illegal invasion of the country. their so called partners continue to rob the bank and get away with it struggling in iraq by literally holding it runs. not just imagine the western out quite as russia and china did the same thing, the country in which they hold significant interest. so was 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 quit,

so 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, a you an agency for palestinian refugee has appealed for $1600000000.00 worth of financial support to provide aid for those a need under funding global crises and rising of the property are among the major problems the agency deals with, according to its commissioner general, who's got a meeting in geneva, the un relief and works agency provide aid such as food medicine and social services for palestinian refugees. the bureaus media advisor says it's on thinkable the agency may not be able to provide house to the most vulnerable a 1000000 when that when we are talking about, well in the community, you know, with the students, you know, and it's time to feed even. and celia live on and, and gaza on the bank and they are embed, need of increasing our services, our,

our help to these communities in all sectors. not only talking about food, 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's just a political issue and we need politics. you know, it's going to be me to stop all of them to get all part is, you know, get all the boxes to work or in to corporate it to find concrete solutions. you know, that, you know, we believe that the collation, the collation will, will be in the interest of no one. and now to india, which is celebrating its annual republic day, a grand parade that has been held in the capital of you. deli rushes president has

also sent his congratulations as he highlighted the importance of national friendship with india. part of the why you see, we highly value the privilege strategic partnership between our states. i am sure our joint efforts will ensure the further development of mutually beneficial bilateral cause ration 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 festive event at the parade in the capital indian troops. tanks and other hardware were rolled out on display thousands of soldiers march through the streets of new delhi showing off the country's military might gather from different nations, also took part in the event, including a russian cadet coreley. we asked, look at that for their take on how important such cooperation is for relations with india, server, scottish market, international communicating and learning, the history of which other contributes better understanding charter and melodies

isa significant for international relationships are. so in this way, this is a really good that her week these we have december 20 to get closer as from you address our, we have lots 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'm so happy to be there coursera really. i'm excited about it because ah, for us, i'll be the special guests and is a really good. i'm very satisfied as everybody that our kids have

a very good direction. it's very important because in my opinion, in these age, they're tough to has started. and so you can prolong for the whole life and hopefully these visit and they put dissipation of this contingent in the republic day and state new those every 75th, some of those 3. 04. your national credit score is improve more and more our richer sheep. you've made it through. sphere. canada's ambassador to the u. n. was hack old during a conference in ottawa, as the official was bombarded with a slew of 12 questions he couldn't answer. raging from nato's proxy war in ukraine to voting against the resolution to condemn neo naziism. here's how the incident unfolded from the perspective of the protagonist. canadian journalists, and activists. e best angler. mr. re, you're lying. you know, if 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 opposing 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 on elected. unpopular unconstitutional leader. is that true? is the way that you barbara didn't respond properly to the questions. of course we didn't expect him to respond and on his 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, it isn't going to 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 speech

rules. you know, there's politicians are relatively accessible at these, you know, for public forums. but the dominant means of communication allow for very narrow spectrum of debate. so i have, you know, published in books on canadian foreign policy from a critical perspective. the dominant media, this country absolutely refuses to ever, basically ever 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 know to nato campaign conference has been called off after low on didn't venue home. conway hall was pressured into canceling. the booking that's despite the iconic calls, official stands of openness and inclusive 80. the venue claims to be

a hub for free speech and independent thought. one supporting even radicals and suffragettes. the hall says it celebrates the benefits of many viewpoints and has now been panned for scrapping the anti nato conference. as critics say, the venue has the come to an anti democratic cancel culture. no to nato is an international movement calling for an end to the arms race activists also want the west to stop its confrontations with moscow, which had been marked by native maneuvers at russia's western borders and increased military presence in neighboring states. the anti war group had been scheduled to gather at conway hall on wednesday until the venue suddenly said it could not host them 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 blumenthal, the grey zone editor in chief who was among those do to speak at the scrap 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, which were you seeing across the board? i've witnessed it events where i've been due to speak for the past several years

when they relate to the wars of regime change in proxy wars that the west is waging around the world. it's become sort of impermissible to speak out against these wars and 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 the elements behind these organized trolling campaigns function, essentially as a proxy for a collective west, which is according to german foreign minister. and alina burbock and her comments this week, waging war with russia. those were the latest stories for this our, for more up to the minute update, had over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey rumble. and gab, thanks for tuning and we'll see back next hour. ah ah

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