for a, a longer range of the weapons being procured by the key. if regime means we will have to push them further away from the territories that are part of our country, russia, foreign ministers, they will still have the only need to complete it. the military operation is pushing to secure its own territory from ukrainian erotic uses. israel of a drone attack on a military facility near the central could be if you want just to respond saying that his wells actions violate international law. south africans protests against the country of law, just utility company accusing it

a failing to provide reliable power. despite a recent energy bill, a very well continue. it's 8 pm here in the russian capital. and this is the international with the latest world news out. thanks. good to happy with us. our top story this, our russian foreign minister, faith moscow has all it needs to complete its military operation and ukraine, and then to be with good news agency. so again, love stated that western supplies of long range weapons to key if means russia has to push back ukrainian forces further away from his buddhist only stood. mm. so the units right now we're trying to push the crane an armed forces and their artillery. so a distance that would not create a threat to our territories. so the longer range of the weapons being procured by the keefe regime means we will have to push them further away from the territories

that are a part of our country bush. and now we have all the capabilities to complete our special military operation. russia is in the middle of a front line. geopolitical battle where they hawaii is trying to maintain its dominant position as it's seen that it's a so called superiority is fading. and it's trying to do whatever i can at any cost to make sure it stays on top. even again, as we're seen, employing dirty tactics and use in democracy to make sure that it sees its values in all the other countries because it wants to retain that lead and position. and once again, we've seen that happen from crane. and what we're seen in ukraine, according to target level, is a proxy war aimed at weakening russia. see united states and all the western countries that are subjugated by the u. s. and that have lost all the signs of independence. it is well known that they are big democrats, that they understand democracy as being their right to impose on everybody else

their understanding of democracy when you talk to them about the need for democratic approaches, international affairs, they show no enthusiasm. so they act in a totalitarian way when that is true, although the young charter doesn't mentioned the word democracy, maybe that's for the best because it mentions the main principle that is the most democratic principle of all the us, things that it's exceptional, which has why assert gillibrand says that we're seeing one set of rules for them and they expect the rest to follow different rules. because once again, it's only their opinion that matters. and they want to make sure that their views on the world, whatever they say, this is how it has to happen. they want to be able to dictate the united states, wants to dictate, see the rest of the world who they did business with, who they can talk to, and what rules they should follow. and now the west is also trying to get to roches long term allies, trying to get them to switch to their sides, to support them. developing nations, for example, they've been quite neutral so far and were seen once again with them. they're

trying to get them to, to go basically to follow the u. s. as leads and sometimes even resorts into france, use the zulu hsu lu course. there are already enough people who want to scare us with china. everyone is trying to prevent us from cooperating. and coordinating together, either in the economy or in international affairs, we have no doubt that the plants line between us and china made the interests of both washing china. they do not define the role of russia as a kind of subordinate. everything is mutually beneficial to us, not only energy supplies to china, but also the spheres of space and nuclear energy. not only these, but many other high tech areas of corporation. i want to remind you that the west has declared russia and china otis, their main threats. russia supposedly needs to be stopped and china needs to be fought with in the long term. the west doesn't want china to help us militarily. so as we can see, there seems to be only one possible outcome for the west,

and that is not a peace deal, or a peace agreement with russia. they want to make sure that russia is defeated. because if russia wins, that means they lose, and they're afraid for their beloved status, of course, that they will lose their sense of superiority and their ability to dictates the rest of the world how things should be done. so basically what we're seeing is ukraine really is a means to an end. iran has blamed israel for a drone attack on a military factory near central issa, which took place at saturday night to ron, his pledge to respond to the sent a letter to the united nations saying at television auctions are a violation of international law. there hasn't been any official reaction to your runs accusations from these railey side that usually has a policy rather not commented on particular incident. but i have to say that iran pointing finger as a rail following the drone attack on a military facility. the central city of han did not come as

a surprise haven before the un left of the happy numerous publications in these rally media indicating that israel with the u. s. support might have been behind the attack. it doesn't no surprise that the 2 countries see each other as speak to the enemies. israel has long said it is willing to strike a run and targets is to policy fails to deter the country's nuclear and missile programs. israel also has repeatedly called on the national community to have no mercy when it comes to iran. the illusion of distance can no longer hold. nato must take the strongest possible stance against the iranian regime, including through economic, legal, and political sanctions, and credible military deterrence. these operational plans extend from route to lee through strike on the ran that will be on related to the nuclear issue, to take him out of the ran in nuclear installation and auxilary sites in the project. and if this situation eventually escalates into

a full fledged campaign than these plants also include the dog, it's ingo mailed through sites and other assets. the relations between the 2 have never been easy, but recently tensions around a ron and israel have really been boiling in the last 3 months. they happening to massive israeli military drills, imitating stripes against the iranian military facility. had his meeting here in jerusalem, boise, you asked secretary of state these rally prime minister hassling, again, pushing very hard against iran, with america saying all options are on the table regarding the reading threat, including military. when benjamin netanyahu was asked about these the handwriting attack, he gave an evasive answer. i never talk about specific operations, and every time some explosion takes place in the middle east. israel is blamed or given responsibility. sometimes we are, sometimes we're not commenting on that. iran condemned israel's numerous and repeated threats of using force and urged the un to pay attention to that. and he

slashed her to the united nations. they ran an ambassador also mentioned another provocative and unjustified statement that followed these, the hon. drone attack for on a ukraine, an official explosive nights in a run drone and miss how production oil refineries. ukraine did warn you. ukraine has repeatedly warned iran, the consequences of supporting aggression against ukraine will be much larger than the benefits of cooperation with russia around called it a violation of international law and urged the un to condemn them to stop tolerated . men again asked the international organization to make israel be finally held accountable for the attack. and for these collation in south africa, hundreds of rally against the country's largest utility company. i was failure to prevent widespread power black house, even despite a recent energy bill hike. ortiz, africa correspondent, caribella toddler,

is that it has come to this, believe it or not, south africa's they'd own the electricity company. escal was once voted as the best power company in the world by the financial ties 22 years later, it is easily south africa's most reviled most frustrating, reliably, unreliable at keeping the lights on. and this energy struggle has been going on for the last 16 years. and what these people here who represent the feelings of millions of south africans, they quite literally cannot see the light and the end of the low shedding tannel escrow minutes. all the health vision good from the citizens. so when we provide solutions is because we have got whole that it can be resolved. currently, we understand what their management issue, that is school. why should we not ahead? was management your lives? are that is, it searches are, are come, report,

so the forward to it, south africa has a shut fall of 18000 megawatts of energy. and this, by building to new coal fired power plants. they continue to perform well below expectation and allegations of sabotage. continue to pin as come down. 2022 was the worst year since power cuts begin the country and toward well over $200.00 days of blackouts. and since the new year begin, not a single day has passed without the power cuts and displayed the best efforts to clean up the ramp and corruption and escal little funds was set aside to do housekeeping on the same problems under spending and ask them as been privatized to launch, buying diesel, as well as bank of i p piece in the independent papa judah, electricity. so there are no technician maintaining the problem,

has not been top priority. and money has been moved away from maintenance. men as well as renewal of the plant to was buying out electricity from independent suppliers. but so that we got is also in a tug of war as one of the big 20 pollutants in the world. the country is intent on reducing its carbon emissions, but it is also well endowed with fossil fuels like coal, and uranium, which makes the park had a bit of a slab across the face. but settle them up with us government if intent on prioritizing renewable energy. and the country was the 1st to enter into the just energy transition partnership with the governments of the waste for $8500000000.00 . but renewables would not be able to contend with the countries high voltage credits, and that means that they would not be able to feel the energy should fall and avert

this power crisis. and some commentators fear that the declaration of the national state of the vast that would mean an end to state own power generation, as well as the use of fossil fuels. we've got massive unemployment. we've got many challenges in this country. and so energy is a necessity and therefore we have to try and balance, you know, fossil fuel use as well as renewables. also from a cost point of view, we want to make sure that whatever form of energy we're using is affordable to our people. look, i think renewable energy will probably be the way to go, but at this point we just went an interested and very green person. so yes, but at the moment we've got no power. no sun, no, and coal. it's going to just let us down competing as a whole, as a country. and so we pretty stack to add salt to a gaping wound and is the regulator knows that recently granted as calm an 18.6

percent harris increased on electricity prices and the phrase goes power to the people. but what of the people when there is no power? the severity and frequency of the power plans breakdown as many in the country wondering if government is interested in fixing the problem at all. that is, reality is that these fall guides are going to be with south africans for months to come. if not, he is gonna have our v join his bag. i made the war in yemen, which is being filled by western weapon supplies to saudi arabia. a british government lawyer has argued in favor of upholding arm sells to react while being grilled at the case high court. the power is to say, it's hard for the saudi military to avoid committing war crimes, but is blamed is on the gemini rebels who sit tactics made it difficult for saudi arabia to operate within the principles of international humanitarian law. they

were no uniform, haven't any differentiation in their vehicles, and deliberately use of violence and civilian infrastructure as shields. the bar of spoken court had made an ongoing case. also a u. k based n g o, the campaign against arms trade legal action against the countries governments over its lucrative arm sells to saudi arabia. whereas the military house being accused of committing multiple war crimes during gets a d into vention in yemen. civil war. however, london on this defendants insists the u. k. is not a policy to the conflict. since 2015 the u. k. as licensed at least 8000000000 pounds and military aid to saudi arabia full use in yemen. some estimates say the real sum is much higher and could be more than 23000000000. if all additional licenses are taken into account. the british weapons include military aircraft and devastating bombs which have been used against cities held by the who's the rebels

. from 9000 civilians are said to have been killed by the saudi led coalition of our countries during the ongoing intervention in yemen. well, let's discuss this further now with our guest, alexander k political analyst and editor of red star radio. many thanks for joining us on the program this evening. it's nice to see you. so alex, on the what do you make the bushes? government lawyers claim that the saudis are having difficulty avoiding war crimes and you haven't well, it's frankly laughable. and another case of the british government, blaming the victims of the atrocities that are carried out by its allies. this just seems to be another case of the british government. do it willing to be saying and doing anything to not only continue supplies to saudi arabia, but also continue to attack yemen and also to continue to target the movement that's called the who, the movement because they are perceived as being against british interests. so it's

not only a lawful argument, but it's also deceptive. whereas you said, anyway, your introduction, the british government claims that it's not a party to the conflicts, it's, that's as laughable as their other claim, which is that they're not a party to the conflicts in ukraine either without british government support in terms of sales and also in terms of the operations of the saudi air force, which operate under a heavy advice and coordination from british and american offices. and in a coordinating sensor that operates an inside saudi arabia. the saudi air force would not have been able to carry out the operations that he has done or not so far has been revealed, even in very mainstream sources in britain like the guardian. so britain is an integral part of this war and has been for many years now. the war that the saudis had been waging against the people again and could not be waged without british and us support. so all of these excuses that the british government is using it,

it's just a shallow, very shallow and very obviously false picture, the painting to justify a continued invoke and with the saudis, with this war, which is a war that the british government is intimately involved in and one, this was the british govern, wants to continue as well, because not only is it targeted against the yemeni movement, which you dedicated to fully restoring the sovereignty of the country for the british and the u. s. government also see this as a war by proxy against iran as well. if the u t a is a where the reality that we had military is committing war crimes against the gemini people, why would they continue it with itself to saudi arabia? because it makes an awful lot of money. i mean the, the, the profitable nature of the british arms trade, the saudi arabia is there for all to see if you just look at the sheer numbers involved. and also the u. s. arms trade with the saudi arabia, but more than that,

it's that saudi arabia has been a key part of british government middle eastern strategy for nearly a 100 years now since the kingdom emerge under the south family. in the late 1920 s, early 19 thirties, the british government has maintained a very close relationship with the saudi royal family. and the saudi state in terms of they are reliance on the saudis to act as guarantors of british interest in the area. and this became even more important after the british were forced out of direct occupation of middle eastern countries in the period after world war 2. and of course, yemen also used to be a british colony on the british, used to occupy large parts of it. and it's not the 1st time that the british government have operated through the saudis to wage war on yemen. and the many people they did this back in the 19 sixty's as well. so this is about the british government using an alliance with the saudis,

to maintain their influence over these regions, which they can't directly occupy any more. and this is why the arm sales will continue that in the, you know, the enormous amount of money being made. and it's why they won't back off this war in yemen. so it say, what is actually going on here is a very brutal, cynical calculation of britain, still operating as an imperial power in the region. you mentioned the crania, to what extent do you think the situation can be compared to that in ukraine? well, it's similar in the saudis are acting as a proxy for the british and the united states governments. and similarly with the if the case in ukraine, the british and the americans are doing everything but fight the russian army themselves. so they pay for the ukrainian government. they have supply ever increasing amounts of arms to the for any government. and the ukrainian government would last a few a couple of days without that support from britain in the united states. in

particular. the same is true for the saudis, the saudis couldn't have sustained this war against yemen without the incredibly extensive support in terms of arms in terms of logistics, in terms of political cover that the british in the americans have given to them. so there is a comparison there and more broadly. nicky, this is how the british in particular like to operate now via proxies via other countries, that i have governments who are willing to do the bidding of the british government . that is how they run their imperial was now not directly book is indirectly as they can in order to keep her sense of plausible deniability when war crimes do occur. and the british will turn round and say, well we are, we told the saudis that they should abide by humanitarian laws wherever they can. and that's their, their voc sticking exercise, or will we told them to we told them to be good and we can't help it if the those

yemenis hide in civilian structures, which is another lie they use, they use to in iraq. oh, well, we had to target the civilian structure. there was a military installation hidden inside it and they use it. are also, when are they doing p r work for ukraine as well, claiming the russians and the russian forces hide in civilian structures when it is an actual fact ukrainian forces that do it. so there's a very similar playbook being applied all over the world by the british and the united states, as well. alexander mackay edison of lifestyle radio on political analyst when he, thanks for your time this evening, really appreciate your thoughts on this. thank you. thank you. a violent protest continue across peru after his congress has shot down another bill and moving up elections from 2024 to this year that we've thought to com. unrest which is left dozens dead and weeks long. anti government protest demonstrates as a blocked roads taken over at pools and said buildings on fire. the demands include

the shutting down of congress that resignation of deena on the wall say the release of form of presence in spanish. i spoke to a local journalist on political analyst, women, me guess about and situation. because he could almost 60 days after the co organize against pedro castillo, perry was still paralyzed. many protests are taking place inside and different regions of the country, and there are also organized groups of demonstrators who have reached the capital that their voice can be heard here in lima. among all the protests, the demand for the resignation of deena boulevard to sounds the loudest people want her gone and a pool was conducted a few days ago, showing that about 75 percent of peruvians. one boulevard to resign is presidents. in addition, the twists and turns, the intrigues that take place in parliament are of little interest to the people. it should be understood, the parent was going through a very strong institutional crisis. i agree with the data of the national institute of statistics and informatics of peru that 96 percent of the population do not

trust congress. this institution of power is completely devoid of legitimacy so that people get nothing from congress. and therefore, the debates and twists and turns of the plot taking place in congress are not a reason for discussion and not in the interests of the peruvian people. the reason why they're postponing the elections is that deputies can only be nominated for office. one is, if there is a call for early elections, they will be able to stand as a candidate only once. it's all about it cannot make motives. they simply don't want to lose their salaries. in addition, political parties nominating deputies are funded by the state, the people's power, and when early elections are called, the funding will end. for the most part, this is the reason for all the delays. they're trying to gain time despite the fact that the population is asking for the dissolution of congress and new elections. in fact, all these legislative debates can be ended with the resignation of sonora boulevard . if she resigns new elections will be organized immediately within 6 months.

russia's president has arrived in vulgar grant, formerly stalling route to commemorate the anniversary of one of the one of world war 2. his most consequential battles. the city stands out of the science of a glorious soviet victory on the turning point in his war against nazi germany. delivering a speech at the ceremony, vladimir putin has expressed his shock. the german tanks will be sent to fight against russia. yes. again, neither neither. no, no fuck. it's hard to believe, but it's a fact that we are once again threatened by german tanks. this time, leopards with crosses on them, once again coming to fight russia in ukraine by the hands of hitler's followers. the button darren writes those who drag european countries including germany into a new war with russia and expect to be rush on the battlefield. apparently failed to understand that the modern war with russia will be completely different for them

. we are not sending our tanks to their borders, but we do have something to respond with. and the use of armored vehicles will not be the end of it. a parade to celebrate the victories anniversary also took place in vulgar grass. a $1500.00 people were involved in making the event happen, which included the display of historical and modern units of military equipment. the parade ended with an exhibition flight of a and to cross over decision. there was also a reenactment depicting the last days of the battle, highlighting the nazi surrender. cities which last dated $200.00 days were the bloodiest of the anti. a war decides that event contributing to the success of soviet troops. we heard from a world war to veteran who shed his 1st person accounts of defeating the germans professionally. and rather when the germans were approaching stalingrad and we were sent out to meet them the 1st time we fought them on the river,

we did not have enough manpower, but we fought back. the enemy pressed on and we retreated to vulgar itself. it was very sad that we retreated, but we did not have the strength. we had to retreat. we had a system when using the cannon, 8 people, 6 engaging and firing to bringing the shells. also, the shells weighed 60 kilograms each. when i 1st arrived at the unit, i could only just managed to lift it. i did not have the necessary skills and strength. the germans pressed us back to the volga. our army entrenched itself on the banks of the vulgar. we resisted as best as we could. our army was already receiving help from the opposite bank of the vulgar. it was very hard. there were not enough shells. the germans, who were there, they wrote letters home. we learned the contents only after the victory. the contents. how strong these russians are, we bombed them and shall them with artillery. they don't give up. they come out

from various positions and attack whatever and pakistan access to sun wikipedia services have been limited due to the websites refusal to when they've, what officials label on a little full content. as according to a statement from the nation, the leading communication authority wikipedia was approached for blocking in the removal of the said contents by issuing a notice under applicable law in court order. the hearing was also provided. however, the platform neither complied by removing the blasphemous content, nor appeared before the authority. while wikipedia was given 48 hours to delete the reported contents. and if the website fails to meet the requirements, the access to the platform will be blocked from within pakistan. authority say they want to ensure safe access to the internet for all of its citizens within the framework of domestic laws. well, let's cross now 2 journalists. shazad was there to discuss this further many thanks

for joining us on the program this evening. so tell us about this wikipedia concept that's called pakistan. so upset and was the significance you need to understand the bucket funny soldier and the sentiment of the people of pockets thought about the religion in the boss when there was several incident when the holy ground was blown. and the last to miss caricature was supposed to do and then published by the british newspapers and other european papers. so there was a strong protest in pockets on and lot of trouble here. and the people the charge draw, they burned the property and the loss of life as well. so the pockets on government and the state and fusion, they are very sensitive and mindful about this situation because ok, fine, this is a very bad thing. would be believe in perceived as muslims. and on the other hand, as a responsible sort of august on the people who are responsible, you know, the lies and property off off the common people to the states and the government.

they believe if they're going to a block such content, or if they don't, you know, issue strong statements or laws, protest with the concern, the parties of the government. but this thing is happening only then they can, they can, they can come the people down and focus on, they can gone the sentiment. so it's more like the the step is also that did gentlemen be, the government believes that it should not happen at the 1st place. and secondly, there was gone the people down the sentiment because the people ask the question, is what exactly the government is doing? and because of that situation and keeping in mind the foster parent and the you know, the violent benson office on this stuff has been taken. you can water, it's against the freedom of the press in the expression. but on the same time, it must be kept in mind that in pockets on the attachment of the people, the common people with their religion,

with the profit with the holy wrong is very very, you know, great. and they give very you know, they're very sensitive about this matter. yes. so what do you make a focused on the decision to slow wikipedia service? do you think this is going to be an effective tool in persuading the company to comply? if i understand your question correctly, the thing is you really cannot put value on the technology. if you've lost the wiki, p, d, and the pages and there are poses of base, the people still can access the particular website, the focused on telecommunication, the part of the blog. but on the other hand, the government, they are showing the people they are, they really be very concerned about this issue. and they will really not allow such materials to be access insights. marcus bond, so religious sentiment and that is basically what the government is basically pinking off at, you know, there's a government.