belief systems ology are removed, it was very impactful. when someone finally came along with no fear, no judgement, you heard my story did nothing to challenge. validate with we begin with breaking news. there have been reports of multiple explosions across or wrong. the country's defense ministry has confirmed managed to report a drone attack on immunization depot, ukrainian forces, drug or hospital in regards to republic with us supplied. hi, marge rockets, killing over a dozen civilians that according to the russian defense ministry. and as civilian infrastructure is again hit and don bass like he has forces, hundreds of berliners take to the streets to protest against germany, decision to deliver tanks to ukraine.

a coming to you live from the russian capital. this is r t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the hour. welcome to the program. and we begin with breaking news. there have been multiple reports of explosions and iran. we got the latest details from local journalists use after a lowly on saturday evening, around 11 30 pm local time in iran. a huge blast was heard in the iranian central city are based on apparently, and based on reports and military facility belonging to the iranian defense industry was targeted by 3 small drones. soon after the run in the defense ministry released the statement announcing that the attack was unsuccessful. one of the draws was, was hit by the air defense system built inside that military complex and 2 others

were shot down, intercepted and shrugged down before they carry out their strikes. so the iranian defense ministry says that that attack was unsuccessful with no casualties. only there was a minor damage to the ceiling of that military complex. so now the defense ministry is investigating the cause of the incident. and the elements behind that air raid against its military complex. there are some unconfirmed reports, so by some unofficial new sources, claiming that there was a similar attack taking place in the capital one as well. and those reports have not been confirmed by the iranian defense ministry. so we still need to wait and see what the iranian defense industry will announce later during gets investigation of the problem of the incident. meanwhile, there are also reports of

a fire breaking out an oil refinery in the northwest of iran. that causes still unknown firefighters have been working to extinguish single areas. as you can see in the video on your screen, there is a massive blaze around large cylinders on the plan. although there is no word on whether there is a link that fire broke out at the oil facility near an area hit by an earthquake around the same time. the earthquake is reported to have killed at least 2 people and injured more than 500 others. tremors were fault throughout the regent business footage of the aftermath and near rania and city of coy, near the turkish border. you can see houses destroyed and to breathe in the streets . emergency services have reported power cuts and some of the affected areas. russia defends ministry says that the ukrainian artillery barrage and logan's for public struck a hospital and nearby civilian housing,

killing 14 people and wound in 2 dozen others. our senior correspondent, mariah garcia, is in the region. with more details. we've had the statement from the russian ministry of defense which has come out and said that. 2 you can you chide, launch a surprise, nice all attack multiple walking to with using you estimate and supplied by mas resolve all the local hospitals global. i got to the hospital, i will stop by booth civilians and military doctors and treated both the local population. this is the local clinic also, as well as troops at injured and the fighting on the front lives and taken there for further treatment. the attack left 14 people dead for what you understand 24. you get those numbers may well rise up with, with keeping up to date with information from the russian ministry of defense of

that there's also be another strike currently targeting a medical facility law at the hospital, which is who the way him saw region the city will have to hold his beat up. i'd listen, taking chilling for the past month and she says again, shilling that facility obstruct before, but again, we don't get no about casualties. edris a debt. unlike even mobile, i don't reach the russian side already. the incident, a bow club saying look, who's responsible? it's wooded. the strike carried out. the strike will be identified and will be punished. rash as deputy, a master to the you at has firmly condemned the attack, stating that the u. s. shares responsibility for the data as it supply the weapons used and coordinates attacks with key at another ukrainian heinous war crime. 14 civilians killed in

a hospital by us supplied missiles and as we know from ukrainian officials, the targets of high mars are greed by washington. so it makes the u. s. directly complicit us taxpayer should be aware of how their money is used. german journalist thomas roper believes public opinion on ukraine would be different if the western media wasn't ignoring such incidence. that's the way it works. there are so many walk runs from ukraine, which, which are what there's no doubt about them. they have one big civil targets in the next. well, not only since, the beginning of the preparation, but even before. so this is nothing you we have seen in mario plan while i book i've been there, i've talked to the people who just came out of the out of their houses. and we have seen that they are the credit army, use them as human shields that they didn't let them out. that lizzy lensky announced officially that he was prohibiting any kind of recreation in these kinds of cities in the west for the decisions. decisions are made about whatever they

will, delivery of weapons and all this stuff. they have the people who will not get to know, and that's the point that the people would know what's happening really there. there are public opinion would be absolute different in the west, but it's the job of the western media not to cover it, not to talk about it. and this is what we see. and yeah, we can discuss about the role of who was the media at this point, but there will be nothing you because of this we see for, for since the beginning of operation. so ah, as moscow slams key adver, quote, deliberately targeting civilians. protesters have taken to the streets of the german capital, angered at the government's decision to supply ukraine with as leopard to main battle tanks, ortiz, dominic reichert reports from berlin. a few 100 people here today, a one might expect more to be on the streets actually because goals indicate that around half off the german population as strictly against weapon deliveries. the

people here are demanding an immediate cease fire, as well as peace talk, so that they are against the aggressive foreign policy that the germany is taking. currently. the important reason why they're not that many people is that there's a lot of pressure actually on peace activists. and germany right now, just a couple of days, we found out that a peace activist was prosecuted for saying basically that i am in a war like this. all sides need to be heard in this water sina supporting russian aggression by german authorities. and he was therefore prosecuted, so there's a lot of fear as well amongst german people to, to protest against these issues. but nevertheless we're looking at the new nika, security council next week. and we're a lot of a key and need to officially come together. and we are expecting to see a large protest there was at least a several 1000 people joining it. president biden's decision to send 31 abrams main

battle tanks to ukraine isn't winning universal back in congress. republican congressman paul, grosser released this statement urging against such supplies, going to kiev, joe biden's decision to send american tanks to ukraine brings us one step closer to dragon america. directly into a massive global war. america should not send any tanks to ukraine or any war material at all, or help to prolong a needless war and adding to the body count. despite the promise of the tank, it's believed it could still be months before they're delivered. pentagon officials say they 3rd generation vehicles require a lengthy training program to keep them maintained. the u. s. also states logistics to logistical supplies for the tanks will be complex and take time to sort. a however, ukraine's president has said, washington lacks time to supply the heavy weaponry. moscow has condemned the decision of the biden administration, saying it would make the u. s. directly involved in the war. tennessee base to

international attorney kline preston believes the u. s. intent to provide key with tanks demonstrates washington's direct role in the conflict. now that the republicans are in the majority in the house and hopefully we can have some same decisions made with respect to this conflict. so it doesn't turn into world war 3, which it appears to be doing as we sit here, i think the delivery, the tanks, change the dynamics of the united states as involvement in this conflict and pushes us closer to the red line that the kremlin has spoken of and very well may change the relationship of the united states to russia with respect this conflict because, you know, at some point our country becomes less than 8 or,

or a better. so ukraine and more of a, an active participant. and that is really the dangerous step with the supply of these abrams tanks, sabre rattling in u. s. military circles over china appears to be reaching new level. a senior american air force general has warned that he thinks his country will go to war with beijing within 2 years. i hope i'm wrong. my gut tells me we will fight in 2025. she secured his 3rd term and set his war counsel in october 2022. ty, once presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer she a reason. united states presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer she a distracted america. she's team reason an opportunity are all aligned for 2025. in a week memo, the general laid out his goals to build a quote for to fide ready integrated and agile joint force maneuver team and air

force spokesperson has verified that the email is authentic. all those that it hadn't been intended for public reading and doesn't reflect us policy on china. beijing earlier said that despite their difficulties, the people's republic always tries to find a way to cooperate with washington does, claiming china is a threat in the region. u. s. actions that have led to a spike intention. washington significantly strengthen, is military ties with japan and a move that china seizes provocative while last year's visit just high want of been house speaker nancy pelosi saw beijing respond with huge military drills around the island territory. earlier. the u. s. had agreed to sell taiwan more than $1000000000.00 worth a weapons, a deal wholly criticized by bay jane. there have been tensions in trade to as american and dutch officials recently struck a deal to impose new restrictions on the export of advanced micro chip technology to china. agent affairs specialist victor doubt says any talk of war by us

officials is a gross misrepresentation of where relations between washington and beijing actually stand. this general is a wall manga, and what he is saying and telling his troops is very dangerous thing for world peace and stability. china does not threaten the united states at all. and if washington believes china threatens the united states, because china is growing larger and larger, then they will lose all their sanity because china will continue to grow larger. i hope washington will realize that war is not and should not be an option between china and the united states. because a wall between china, the united states will soon get out of control and lead directly to armageddon. china and the united states need to get along with the, with each other. china wants to treat with every country,

including the united states as an equal rather then and handling any of these countries. therefore, such fantasies are false to start with. you unmasked efforts to lift the lid on the previous inner workings of twitter, have delivered yet another revelation, namely that an online dashboard concocted by the f. b i listing so called russian bought was a hoax. moreover, the accounts highlighted were legitimate, right? leaning accounts of ordinary americans, my colleagues, marina cusser and worry sushi talk through the story earlier. these later slinks, basically show that the western mainstream media were all duped by one source, one dashboard. in particular, we mentioned this before. during the previous twitter leaks, they mentioned this hamilton, 68 dashboard, and this is the source that all the mainstream media use. the when the came to talk

about russian bots, russian misinformation online. now this is a real time monitoring the site and what they do is they found that there are 6 hundreds, what are accounts which they found to be russian bots are, or people who are associated with the russian so called propaganda. and the problem here is, is that, as it turns out, these bots, these russian bots have nothing to do with russia. the hamilton dashboard falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right, leaning accounts of being russian butts. virtually any conclusion drawn from it will take conversations in conservative circles on twitter, and accuse them of being russian. so essentially what we're seeing is if you happen to share rushes points of view than you will be labeled a bots, you could be in canada, for example, you could be writing a word sweetened from the united kingdom. but if your points of view coincides with the point of view of the russian government that you will be labeled as

a bought will exactly all these so called russian volts. well, let's take a look at one of the photographs. because according to this dashboard, hamilton, 68 of these are your russian bots. now, let's have a look at some of these people. for example, you have chicago based a lawyer, dave stalkers, and he says, i've written a book about the u. s. constitution. how i made the lists like this is incredible to me, that's what one of them is saying, oh and american. another one is an organ native and he says when i was growing up, my father told me about them were car side blacklists as a child that would never have occurred to me that this would come back in force and broadly in the way designed to undermine the rights we hold dear, another person who was surprised to find himself on the list of so called russian bots. there are some more. there is no evidence to support the statement that the dashboard is a finger on the pulse of russian information ups. it's hardly illuminating a massive influence operation as twitter try to up interfere or get involved in

this problem somehow that they try and when did see it in the past leaks, and we've seen that they're addressing the issue. they're not stopping the activity . there are still spewing washington's propaganda their misinformation, as it turns out now, but they're not stopping it, i guess. because if you take a look at who's behind this, this, hamilton, 60 a dashboard now who founded it? it's headed by former f. b. i counter intelligence official and current. emerson, we see contributor a clean, so watts and it's funded by a neo liberal thing tank. a cold alliance for secure and democracy. so this is who the dashboard belongs to the found a $600.00 account. and what's interesting, and in a way tragic, i would say is the fact that who are they listing as russian balls anyone, rory, anyone that happens to agree with the russian, what they call propaganda, sort of knew that and it was trying to address it. but i guess there's only so much

they can do real people need to know they've been unilaterally labeled russian stooges without evidence or recourse. it's a major problem, i guess, is better late than never bought. it got the job done that it had lots of people millions around the world. who are we thinking that russia was responsible, for example, on a number of issues. this wasn't just isolated towards what's happening in ukraine. there were other issues as well. for example, russia was accused of a pumping up support for bret cavanaugh on the debit. newness memo as well. we had the parkland shooting. there were a manipulation of black voters. these stories raised fears in the population and most of media. so all we're used to smear people like tulsa gilbert as foreign assets and drum up sympathy for political causes like jo biden's campaign by describing critics as russian aligned anything so that they can push their agenda and trying to use russia to push their points of view further on, and this is something that we've seen before and once again. and this is not going

to make mainstream media or am sure it will not. and let's take a look at some news from around the world. police officers and havi have taken to the streets, angered by government inaction after violent gangs, tact, their colleagues, the rebel officers barricaded roads, burn tires and damage vehicles. more than 10 officers have been killed since the start of the year. also in world stories, in brief, the czech republic has elected a new president who has been a vocal backer of ukraine, the former nato general peter powell has pledged his for one support. yeah. and the military alliance, his defeated rival had sought to broker peace talks between russia and ukraine. judge ego activists tab chain themselves together to block the main road into the hague, part of a protest against the government climate policies. police made a number of arrest at the scene, detention earlier this week sparked claims that free speech was being infringed

upon in the european country. and a neighboring belgian firefighters have been saving a rally in the capital of brussels, calling for improved working conditions among their main demands, or better pay and social security along with a bigger budget for the force. the african development bank group has pledge $10000000000.00 over the next 5 years for ending food insecurity on the continent. it even envisioned africa becoming a net export or of food supplies for world markets. the banks president says africa needs to raises the ambitions for economic development. we must raise the bar. we must raise our ambition. we must arise and sage our selves. it's time to feed africa. the timing is right and the moon is now feed africa. we must the u. s. has estimated that more than 35000000 people,

including over 6000000 children, are unable to meet their basic nutritional needs in western and central africa in the near future. that number is expected to rise to 48000000 people elsewhere in eastern africa across ethiopia, kenya, and somalia, 24000000 people are now facing dyer water shortages. we heard from economist charles, bogey and uganda. he said that while the international reaction to africa, hunger crisis could be more proactive is up to the continent to solve its issues on its own. i think they do. national reaction in my queue is still are quite, you know, lukewarm in certain areas. and i'm saying, but because most of the time it's more reactionary and more proactive if i may say. and that's why i again, i would like to maintain, but it has to be sold by africa. the others can communists friends to support and

help where they can. but that if what you know, needs to be really pushed father, i've had that by african countries themselves. i've got, he does. all he does for that matter. as africa struggles to cope with hunger and energy issues, the use foreign policy chief justice burrell has arrived on the continent for a working visit. in a speech in south africa, he emphasized europe's interest in the regions, natural resources. just a basic bunch damn areas where we were to and could do more that way you could work in a more strategic way had to move to like total demand. the levels instrument is the interest to move forward. for example, the partnership of sustainable roma g deals, values change, and ration on renewable adrian, which these new studio should push forward. europe in power have been buying oil

and gas from africa. they distance themselves from russian supplies and in the ukraine conflict. but while europe imports fossil fuels, b e u is still pushing for africa, just we're sure, greener agenda. in the meantime, many african countries are struggling with an energy crisis as they try to cope with shortages of electricity economists charles boogie and uganda again says that while the e u via fossil fuels should be trying to push africa to make the jump to renewable energy specifically if you talk about the clinical difference between the you and africa, ok from where i see it, i believe it's more literature, but you will have as the peer to peer relationship, it's more beneficial benefits, relationship which in my view is not really the best way to deal with an economy relationship, i think we need to some level this will be fanning in, in that regard. but if you still buys for so many should end up should be push

african countries, you know, to jump into the space of renewables at this moment. because i didn't know, did i to crush us? we haven't to get the muscle, you know, to make that report. so what i can say that it has to be fan and you know, both sides and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour. the i'm my name is frank. i'm originally from philadelphia. got in the movement in any age, 13 or 14. we were violent towards those people because we believed that we're in this race. we were here 1st and this is our country being part of that movement. i

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