ah ah ah, russian troops gained ground that the don, yes, republic as they advanced into the key frontline town of ogle. adar mall so slammed nato's latest weapon provisions secure calling, western heavy tank deliveries to print direct involvement in the conflict as the racks. currency plummets the new los lobos rally against the country central bank accusing it of serving american interests at their expense. a country was to liberate itself and li, like the rest of the world. the step was inevitable in order to reduce the price of the u. s. dollar, which had started to affect many social classes in iraq and happy were public data

. india, as the country celebrates the 74th anniversary of the constitution with a grand parade to which russian military cadets were exclusively invited. ah, good evening for martine or national studios in moscow, and from wherever you may be watching. welcome to the hour's top news stories from around the world. i'm fear l as about. we start with the latest updates on the ukranian conflict. russian troops have cut off the main roadway leading to the key town of ogle, a dark southwest of the regional capital. don, yes, that's after local authorities said the army has secured a foothold, paving the way for a bigger offensive and circling ukrainian forces. ortiz, roman casara, has the details. according to my sources, from the guys are replacing in the goods are right now. they've been on the

outskirts of the city for the last 2 days in the that have established a foothold just outside of the city, which is about to 70 kilometers away from tennis court. i am right now. now, according to officials, russia, the marie, is on the pacific, please are fighting there as well as offices of the former officers of the ministry of the interior of for the next a republic. now once again, according to my source, they're not planning to a storm. the city a street, so they are planning to execute a so called pin sir movements, well, where they will encircle the korean army from both flanks. according to the russian defense minister, free one of the roads leading to lazar is now under a full control of the russian forces. now, once again, fighting intense fighting has continued over there. and according to officials, russia is using both of 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 a ukraine. at the moment. former boxer, now mayor of fuck ye of 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 ogle. adar, the operator shared his perspective on how the battle is progressing while also weighing in on how much of a fighting chance the new western sanction will stand against the russians. could i build new republic? wilma dwelt cities with me look was 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, it's 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 animators will let us know if we come up against lepers or challenger's that were made the same years our tanks. i think we can handle it for one simple reason. a lot. depends on the crew. we will be opposed by people who have been trained only now will be unfamiliar with their western tanks. so i think we can handle it as part of the kremlin has condemned the newly announced delivery of german and american tanks to ukraine, calling it direct western involvement in the conflicts registration statements are constantly being made from european capitals and from washington that the delivery of various weapon systems, including tanks to ukraine in no way means the involvement of these countries were alliances in the fighting that is taking place in ukraine. we strongly disagree with this. moscow perceives this as direct involvement in the conflict. we see that

it is expanding adversely must moscow's reaction comes after the u. s. announced it will 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 lines. germany also made a decision descend at least 14 of its main battle tanks to grain. after months of pressure from nato allies and kev, berlin and washington are both pledged to train ukrainian crews to use their tanks before they can be deployed. but while the 2 nato allies are in unison over the military supplies, 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 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 government are making decisions about 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 7, 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. meanwhile, russia has also warned against the potential use of depleted uranium shells by western tanks and ukraine, nato, infamously, only 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 nato main battle tanks are going to be delivered to the ukranian army. washington promise to 731 of its m one abrams. although the white house that 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. and finally, the u. k. will be delivering 14 of its challenger to tags. we asked former us

marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter if kids army can actually handle such advance 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. it's 2 different engine too. so, you know, even though the, the numbers of tanks might look impressive when you add them all up of the fact is of because of the use the different kinds of change being provided. we're actually making it very difficult for ukrainians to, to incorporate these tanks and use them on the field of battle. tanks are very maintenance, intensive francis and the m 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, of 456 hours of maintenance support, and that's with a well trained maintenance crew. ukrainians don't have well trained maintenance cruise, a capable of supporting the the m one abrams. and i just think that we're creating a logistical nightmare. was this be frank? you're russia has spent decades preparing for the possibility of vo war between nato and russia. when i mean by that, is it 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 at in depth analysis plus live

updates. the u. s. has been trading the ukranian military for years. according to former state secretary and c, i a director mike pon, pale, who says he visited ukraine multiple times during his term as washington spy teeth . the ukrainian defense forces have been trained by the united states for an awfully long time. when i was just the director, i was in southeast grain on more than one occasion. we were helping them with special operating forces stuff. my mom pale says that the current successes of ukraine can be attributed to the us and in the 2020 statement to national public radio said that america doesn't care about ukraine. meanwhile, the former us secretary of state also mentioned that americans don't even know where ukraine is on a map, executive vice president of the erasure center or russ newson says, washington provoked the russian special military operation as it has been involved in ukrainian affairs for years. but us have been probably the

primary gators, and i would say behind provoking this, this special military operation that's occurring 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 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 admittedly in 2014 and beyond. i mean, mr. palm paid it here. we've been looted to 6 years,

but i would say we've been there longer than that. ukrainian opposition leader victor med. ver, 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 its relations with russia, against the backdrop of western meddling with our teas. marina closer, you can watch the interview in full later on air or on our website at r t dot com. but for now, here's a quick clip. while the war is being waged in ukraine, that this war is not for you, great mother. but in the interest of the west, the u. s. the u. k. and many other countries, which are settling their scores in russia. we starting in stockton, they have made ukraine of the war under lensky government, a kind of testing ground, either or a launch pad in their 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 of many people who

are outside ukraine of live in russia, euro the poly war, turkey, them, that they are ready to continue to fight and have their say, thank you me see above i. so 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 the reason or the ukraine like, but it's zalinski claim to represent the united nation. but that is a myth invented out of thin air. 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 rabbit was 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 of russia as emerged to day these people, ukrainians of just like me. i believe it is

a direct violation of the constitution robbie and to deprive me of my ukrainian citizenship authority. 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 i'm green's, but it also contradicts an international convention which forbid such an act if a person is left stateless as a result, thinker yeah, nation glasses, ukraine is signed up to this international convention. this, despite this such zalinski continued his efforts to crush his political opponents through political repressions and a legal criminal prosecution is up and yet it is a goal that he has set for himself. awesome. and he's pushing towards it on this graph. the same goes for everything. no western rivalry with china has reached new levels of absurdity as a washington base consultancy firm is calling on the people in the u. k. to be wary of spies right in their kitchens, in the form of chinese made refrigerators. our

t contributor rachel mars is and explains, do you ever worry that your refrigerator could be watching while you stand there in front of it, in your boxes, chucking milk straight out of the cart, midnight. new fear unlocked. while a new report warns the household items could not only be spying on you, but basically fronting for the chinese government. the reports author is calling for the british government to act on his claims. the chinese made internet of things, appliances, and even components of cars. can collect and transmit data through the cellular 5 g network, 2 chinese companies, which could then be ordered to pass it to the chinese government. we are not yet awake to the strength. china has spotted an opportunity to dominate this market. and if it does so, it can harvest an awful lot of data as well as making foreign countries dependent. it's time to wake up free and open countries should band chinese manufactured internet of things, modules from their supply chains as soon as possible. now the story has been splash

sensationally all across the british media, citing a washington base consultancy firm called buddha, that published the report. but the media is also failing to ask any real questions about what that company actually is. it presents itself as a global strategic advisory firm with deep dna and global security technology and intelligence issues. yeah, those genetics run deep, all right, straight to the pentagon and intelligence community, the author charles partin, is described as having spent 22 years of his 37 year british diplomatic career working in or on china. now the biography of one of judas founders matt divorced, explains that he began his career hacking into systems for the u. s. department of defense and intelligence community. the other founder of buddha, bob worley, his 1st career, was as a naval intelligence officer. and he also worked as

a chief technology officer for the defense and tell is agency the da, according to his bio on the nato linked atlantic council website. and here are some of us clients, as you can see, nothing here but little mom and pop shops, probably just turn their computers off and then back on again and still can't get connected to the internet. gall flustered, so the need to reach out to buddha for a little tech support. roemer, all the panic over chinese may components and 5 g networks with former us president donald trump's administration pressuring. then prime minister of britain, boris johnson, to ban chinese telecom, while away from britain's 5 g network. trump, himself, reportedly even went totally nice in a phone call on the matter to johnson that's according to what the western press. but back in 2015 things were a lot different. johnson's predecessor then prime minister david cameron,

had called china the quote, best partner in the west having secured 40000000000 pounds worth of chinese investment deals for the u. k. now it was in july of 2020, the johnson threw it in to reverse, did a complete 180 degree. you'd turn cave to us pression about while away from the 5 g network and got a little pat on the head from washington for its obedience. but did the u. k. good ain't treats for being a good boy. according to former business and industry minister, one who served in cameron's government, it was a net loss. if britain had kept with 5 g, we would now be at the forefront of countries using the most advanced technologies . and we're not the u. k. government's decision to ban while way. 5 g equipment and services had nothing to do with national security. the americans told us we should do it or you will sort of a strain that fear campaign worked once. so could the same strategy work again? in any case,

while you have citizens are giving their air conditioning the side i and wondering if it's tattle tailing on them until the country on the other side of the planet. while the probably not thinking too much about the u. s. defense contractors, right in their own backyard that also happen to make connected items used in the internet of things ah, to iraq now where hundreds have taken to the streets of baghdad in protest against the devaluation of the nation's currency. which has hate local hard demonstrators. mainly young people gathered near the central bank carrying flags and banners in a bid to pressure the government to act. the iraqi dinar has hit a new load to the us dollar, losing almost 7 percent of its value since mid november. processors say life in the country, it has become a nightmare because of the economic crisis. as they accused the central bank of serving american interests. holbrook and my cousin, we're here to send a message to this lien and we'd bank that doesn't protect its national currency

about it is subjected to terms and dictations of outside banks and especially american banks in the f. b i with our messages. but if you go with these terms, then what are the poor people supposed to do? i started doing up about 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, one 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 this. little archie contributor chris and 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 we enjoy 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 its own suffering, currency is still the 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 american 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 to rumps. not just imagine the western out quite as russia in 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 quit? so times running out franco sam and his rules based order. and it's no longer a question of if but when the clock strikes midnight and now to india, which is celebrating its annual republic day, a grand parade has been held in the capital of new delhi. russia's president has also sent his congratulations as he highlighted the importance of national friendship with india. 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 festive event at the parade in the capital indian troops. taylor 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, gets from different nations, also took part in the event, including a russian cadet 40 the africa dads for their take on how important such cooperation is for relations. with alia over there, shamrock, international, communicating and learning, the history of which other contributes better understanding charter and melodies, that is significant for international relationships are. so

in this way, this is a really good that her week these we have decent fraternity to get closer. as from you through this are we have a lot of opportunities to find out, you know, we just about our armies 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 course here. i really excited about it because for us, be the special guest is really good. i'm very satisfied as everybody that our candidates have a very good interaction. it's very important because you might be in these h, the tough time started and it can prolong for the whole life. and hopefully you

defeated 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 sphere. canada's 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 ranging from nato's proxy war and ukraine to voting against a resolution to condemn neo nazi as i'm here's how the incident unfolded from the perspective of the protagonist, canadian journalists and activists, eva's 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, upholding 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? 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, 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 i've been on of course, but basically ever hear my perspective on canadian foreign policy. and i'm just, that's just one example of how the critical perspectives are just excluded from mass communications. a know to nato campaign conference has been called off after london venue host. conway hall was pressured into counseling . the booking that's despite the iconic called the official stance of openness and inclusive video. the venue claims to be a hub for free speech and independent thought. one supporting even radicals and suffragettes. the whole says it celebrates the benefit of many viewpoints and has now been panned 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 movement calling for an end to the arms race activists also want the west to stop. its confrontations with moscow which have 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 up conway hall on wednesday until the venue suddenly said it could not host them despite previously pledging to do so. the reason for the move were communicated via private email, but excluded from the venues official statement. conway hall can no longer host your vent as we are now unable to insure 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 maximum and all the grades own editor. and she was among those do to speak at the scrap conference. so the 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 seen 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 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 be elements behind these organized trolling campaigns for.