the, the, who's the non, yes, you're a public authority say russian troops have almost in circles ukrainian helps out of dar as intense battles in the area. continue. fir, keno also, and molly joined forces to counter the ongoing threat of terrorism and made frustration at the french forces failure to tackle militant insurgency in the region. it's a situation that really saddens us. it's awful that armed men can cowardly attack unarmed civilians. more than 200 people were killed by israeli forces in the occupied west bank and gaza in 2022. according to the latest report by the palestine health ministry. the

good morning for march international use in moscow, and welcome to the hour's top stories worldwide. i'm fear allies about news just and from the russians up arose region where one person has reportedly died in its terror attack in the city of an article that are following reports of a car bomb explosion, we will bring you all the updates as soon as we get them now to the latest news from the don bass front lines local authorities in the russian don. yes, republic say russian forces have almost encircled the key town of dar south of the republics capital. this comes as russian forces continue to ramp up their offensive in the area. meanwhile, ukrainian force of shells residential areas of done yes, with an apartment building, taking heavy damage. in total, 8 pounds were shelled by ukraine on thursday, leaving one civilian dead or roman close or of reports from the town of yes,

you know, but which has been shelved by ukraine almost daily. ah . this city or yes in nevada has been under constant ukrainian shilling since 2014 and it only intensified in the last year or the last 12 months. at least 40 local residents were killed by ukrainian artillery shilling and hundreds were wounded. vicious love was right in the next room, drink and see when a shell landed right into his house. this is what it looks like right now. according to local officials, there were at least 3 shelves that around and right next to his house. now he was doing maint maintenance works here and he just stepped away for 10 minutes to have

some t and of this happen. so he survived this strike miraculously scar. i started, they tried to kill more people, obviously to scare us like, well, we have lived here since 2014 and don't plan to move nickel. then i even managed to join the army. now i'm in the reserves and came home to try to fix this. the sipes of pictures are absolutely everywhere. now, in that, yes, according to the mayor of the city, me trisha jenko, at least 2000 private houses and multiple apartment buildings were destroyed as well. you can show hulu and pushing and push logo when settlements are liberated from ukraine. ukraine shells them to the ground. destruction in such areas is at 90 percent, or even 100 percent. if we're talking about those killed, 40 people died during the previous year and about $130.00 people were injured. i'm on them civilians, public service, and rail walkers. we sent of us. i used to be

a major railway hub in eastern europe. however, right now, it's not really functioning and that means that thousands of people are currently out of the job. they're hoping that peace will come very soon, so they will be able to support their families once again from on cosser of r t. then that's republican and then continued ukrainian shelling of don bass civilians are literally being left homeless as her homes are destroyed, we visited one of the many refugee shelters in the russian. lou gone republic to speak with people who until recently found themselves in mortal danger. but not on ship a little hook. there is a war in my town. everything is destroyed. my house is destroyed, the ceiling has collapsed. it's good that i wasn't there. when it happened, i would have been under the rubble, but it's good. here the food is good. the treatment is good for cup willing in our

focus of the shelling has started. now i'm here with my mother. she has high blood pressure and stomach problems. now it's better the medicine has helped, but all the same, we need to continue the treatment and asthma, the ritual of you. i was caught in the shelling. there were 3 people, one was killed and i was wounded. we were all civilians from the same village. at shim went to rome, didn't she pledge for them to everyone reacts differently. everyone has their own psyche. some survived under the bombs, literally all people here in a poor, psychological state. but now as we have been living with these people for 2 months, we are already like one family, leisure, and ear ukraine summit that took place in kev on thursday. had brussels top ross preparing diligently for the trip. b. u has reportedly sent out a memo, instructing officials to not wear anything green, cocky or too brightly colored, essentially anything that could distract from the camouflage. go to worn by ukrainian president. why mears,

the lensky such fashion statements aren't rare for the e. u, with e. u. commission president ursula van der lan, wearing a bright yellow and blue outfit mirroring the ukrainian flag in the past. please. the west has long sought control of ukraine's policies and not just in the fashion sense. a lease reporting has revealed bite and vice president at the time pressuring the former ukrainian president on the countries banking policy and hinting there could be financial consequences if the advice wasn't followed. caleb bob has the story. the investigative journalist goes by clan das di has shaken up social media once again. this time reminding people about the leaked phone call that took place between them, vice president joe biden with them president of ukraine. poor shank, back in 2016, the american v. p was on the phone with for a shank, discussing aspects of ukraine's financial system. biden had some very specific

demands regarding certain banks in or where you think about so any right to call year long forward or last that's apparently sounds a bit like a threat. this the way you would expect the sovereign leaders of 2 independent countries to speak with one another. why is it that joe biden would speak this way

to a foreign head of state? and what is biden getting at when he says sophisticated enough to know the details? so many questions. and so few answers. anyway, for a shank reply, he was simply waiting for the auditors report from ernst and young to come out. and once that happened, he would assemble the head of the national bank of ukraine, government officials, and the minister of finance. they would all get together and make the ultimate decision. the only reason we both wear on those and why do and they're launching the rules and then biting promises. he's going to keep everything a secret. and on december 18th, 2016. everything went ahead just as planned. private bank was nationalized.

justice biden had stipulated. now the main stock holder mentioned by a poor a shank, go ukrainian oligarchy, ego or polar moist sky. he was outraged and said it had been done without proper procedure and was purely a government graph. but who actually cares, especially when the international monetary fund, which provided ukraine with $17500000000.00 in aid in 2015 back to the decision to nationalize, prove our bank. now some critics look at this and say the whole thing looks like a giant fraud with the ion math and the ukranian government that supposedly sovereign playing along with by and who can forget how joe biden bragged about getting a prosecutor fired in ukraine. prosecutor was investigating his sons company or the whole western media would have us believe the brain is a totally independent country, and the russia is rolling in to take it over. however,

leaks like this suggests that ukraine has been firmly in the pockets of certain people, not people in kia, bought on wall street and in london. and of course in washington, d. c. caleb martin artsy, new york, or russ me. as in eurasia centers, executive vice president says ukraine lost its sovereignty back in 2014. with the u . s. dictating its policies. well, ukraine is the, is known to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world. the most corrupt in europe. also we had, the ukraine is, is been for decades and has been a target of the us to to contain russia. and, and it's goes even before 2014 that goes there. even before them. we've got to remember to is the at the time vice president biden was the he basically was

appointed governor, i guess you could call a map or the viceroy or the basically was responsible for you. and, and let's say that ukraine has not really been a sovereign country since since and, but my don qu, that occurred in 2014 so, so it's, yeah, i biden was the point, ma'am. perhaps, perhaps he had his hands in other things going on there. perhaps the president obama wanted to keep a distance. the prime minister of, or quino foss visited molly on thursday to discuss cooperation against the threat of terrorism. as the countries continue their years long battle against the hottest insurgencies, the decision comes after both nations expelled french forces frustrated by their failure to defeat the militant insurgency. we could create

a flexible federation that would be mutually reinforcing and respect the aspirations of both sides. our forebears tried to create groupings like the molly federation, which sadly did not last, but they showed us the way creating a new federation should be undertaken. now, on sunday, thousands of demonstrators rallied in burkina faso capital to celebrate the withdrawal of french troops following a 5 year since in the country. protesters waived slides chanting down with imperialism and down with french policy and africa. since a deployment of french troops on burkina soil in 2018, the country experienced a huge spike and terrorist attacks with a rising deaf pole that's according to human rights watch. a local correspondent told us more about the suffering caused by the bullets insurgency in the region. 20 a person killed in 2 different attacks. monday, the government, a book, you know,

fossil unnoticed, but good buddies of 15 pair from out by saying is of the bass. good luck by terrorist group. last week, where discovered in man go data area 545 kilometers, west will kin, facile, sadness and cost a mission. refilling of walking abbey, this is deployed. it is very sad to see an identified people attacking civilians. the situation in our country is not easy, but with the new president who took off is 5 months ago. i hope it will be fine. the man, it hearts are high, it's an human, but all we can do is be strong. i know one day it will end and there will be no more terrorists in our country and in the world, we mustn't despair. we must be strong and support each other. it's a situation that really saddens us. it's awful that armed men can cowardly attack unarmed civilians. these men act so because they can no longer gain the upper hand

over our defense and security forces. so they have no other choice but to attack the population. following good tune in the novel, booking fossil 360 kilometers of what got to go well and so time did it by terrorist failed to pass on, were killed, death, 4 days after, but told us where defeated in then up to the plan. again, the min minutes came of the city, according to tell john alice and elise, no doubt, till his have decided to increase the fear in the population don't call. so i think that the strategy of terrorist is, can people, terror is about creating as many victims as possible with any means they can use. and unfortunately, it is ordinary civilians who are suffering and dying. another ways of fire, but packs, but the keynote fossil as of november 2022, around 1000000,

810000 have left their home cities and villages, according to you and reports 60 percent of these internally displaced persons in fort lately. keith's seams of toddlers in biopsies stayed by tourist repeatedly reported last week. 2 buses are reported, picked were passing is in the southwest volcano. in the village of saint k. c goes to the borders of toggle and got however of late towel. he believe that there is no reason to lose hope about the situation of booking a facile to do this is your school. i don't think we should despair. everyone knows that we're at war against terrorism. our goal is to defeat the evil. so to fall in despair. now that means we're given up to 124 people have been killed by israeli forces in the occupied territories of the

west bank and gaza strip in 2022 according to the latest report by the palestinian health ministry. this comes made a rising death toll among palestinians civilians following multiple israeli raids in the region since the beginning of this year. last cross live now to our to maria f. a notion us, maria. the report is very revealing. what more can you tell us? well, good morning. yes, i have to say that there is human rights organizations. you'd both palestinian and israeli as well as the us, have already stated that in 2022 railey military killed mol, palestinians in the west bank and gaza, than in any other year in the last 2 decades whose records were cast. but the latest report by the palestinian health ministry gave a really gruesome picture. 224 people killed, including 53 in gas and 171. in the west bank,

including is jerusalem. mostly in violent clashes with these rarely army military res or incidents with settlers, with jeanine in the north of the coupon by the bank and novice being the main. percenters also, the ra, $53.00 children among those killed, including minor is younger than 10 years old. also, more than 10000 people were injured, with half of them utilized ammunition and other reports by geneva base you are mad human rights monitor. also revealed this 125 of all those killed were civilians and were not involved in any clashes. dest toll from israeli side is also a alarm. and according to the armies foreign ministry, polish tina in attacks including ball knives and shooting in the tel aviv in downtown jerusalem and all across the west bank killed $29.00 israelis in

2022 including soldiers and civilians again. but how dramatic last year was it seems that these here a 2023 is on the way to hit all the records. january the 1st month of nathan yet was government was the bloodiest for palestinians with $35.00 people killed in the west bank. and you can imagine this is more than one deaths per day, and also for is rallies, were 7 civilians killed in a major terror attack in the sea to the war since 2008 near has seen a gold in his rally settlement to palestinian authority and actually a number of human rights from both sides, blame his rallies, the excessive use of force, and it's open fire policy for escalation. there were cases when palestine is were killed. whoa carrying

a toy gun or using fireworks. and ramallah is now urging the international community to interfere with, with more pressure on israel, but official, jerusalem says that it is going to fight hard what it believes is a terrorist threat. vaccine ortiz maria for notion. i thank you very much for that report. as a war in yemen field by western weapons supplies to saudi arabia drags on a british government lawyer has argued in favor of continuing arms sales to riyadh, while being grilled at the u. k. 's high court. the barrister says it's hard for the saudi military to avoid committing war crimes, but blamed it on the yemeni rebels. who said 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 you surveillance and civilian infrastructure as shields. the court case began after a u. k based angio,

the campaign against arms trade brought legal action against the government over its lucrative arms. sales to saudi arabia, re adds, military has been accused of committing multiple war crimes during its 8 year intervention in yemen. civil war, however, london and its defendants insists the u. k is not a party to the conflict since 2015. the u. k. has license at least 8000000000 pounds worth of military aid to saudi arabia for use in yemen. some estimates say the actual sum is much higher, and if all additional licenses are taken into account, the real figure could be closer to $23000000000.00. the british weapons include military aircraft and bombs, which have been used against cities held by the booth the rebels. some 9000 civilians are said to have been killed by the saudi led coalition. political analyst, alexander, my case says the war is yet another example of britain serving its own interests

via proxy conflicts. the british government claims that is not a party to the conflicts. it starts as laughable as there are other clay, which is that not a party to the conflicts in ukraine, either without british government support in terms of arm sales and also in terms of the operations of the saudi air force which operate under a heavy advice and coordination from british shanda american offices, and in a coordinating center that operates in inside saudi arabia. britain is an integral part of this war and has been for many years now. the british government wants to continue as well, because not only is it targeted against the yemeni movement, which you dedicated to fully restoring the sovereignty of that country. but the british and the u. s. government also see this other war by proxy against iran, as well. the profitable nature of the british arms, treva saudi arabia is there for all to see if you just look at the sheer numbers

involved. but more than that, this is about the british government using an alliance with the saudis, to maintain the influence over these regions, which they can't directly occupy anymore. and this is why the 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 and you haven't. 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. the russian president has joined celebrations and will go garad, formerly stolen, broad marking the 80th anniversary of victory in arguably the most decisive battle of world war 2 solemn grabs, saw the armies of invading nazi. germany stopped and thrown back with the red army . then going all the way to berlin, delivering his speech at the ceremony bladder mir. and said, it's shocking that german tanks are again,

being set back to ukraine decades later. neither you get a yes, no, no fucked. it's hard to believe him, 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 been terrified those who drag european countries, including germany into a new war with russia and expect a beat 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. in general, it has been a couple of days that the locals here have been celebrating this. well, very, very emotional date for so, so many of them because so many of them have relatives have grandfathers and some even fathers who fought, who took part in this well, very bloody and hard fought battle that ended up with the soviet troops who soviet

soldiers taking the city back from nazi germany, from the troops of vermont. and basically this is just one of the venues where the people, the locals can come and world celebrate and see what the local authorities have prepared for this big, big day. he and of course, with the russian president coming here and this was significant. a date on this anniversary just adds to the symbolism. and of course, we could see and hear the russian leader while drawing parallels between that date and that battle, and that fight that fight during the 2nd world war against nazi germany and would russia sees it is doing right now in ukraine. meanwhile, the pentagon has thought it what it believes to be a chinese surveillance balloon encroaching in u. s. air space. the military is considering taking immediate actions to protect homeland security. you can read this story and much more on our website and our key

dot com. those are the hour's top stories for more up to the minute updates head over to r t dot com. and up next germany has been at the center of 2 world wars and the cold war. now it seems berlin has abandoned us policy of non intervention and russia is the enemy again, while that discussion on our case process coming up with at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from great pain with proof, we will bring to the people,

food and medicine. his supplies and freedom with ah ah oh, what else?

seemed wrong when all 3, just don't want to see out these days because the advocate and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground. ah ah. hello and welcome to cross stock where all things are considered. i'm peter labelle for over a century and a half. the german question has been hotly debated during that time. germany was at

the center of 2 world wars and the cold war. now it appears berlin and its abandoning its post hitler policy of pacifism and non intervention. and again, russia is the enemy. ah, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guests. matthew eric in montreal. he's a senior fellow at the american university in moscow and director of the rising tide foundation of canada. in munich, we have ralph new meyer. he is chairman of the council for constitution and sovereignty. and in belgrade we have stephen guides. he is a research associate at belgrade institute for european studies. are a gentleman cross type roles, and in fact, that means he can jump in anytime you want. and i would appreciate it. let's go the route, the 1st. rather my introduction. i didn't, i don't want to be too extreme here, but it seems there is a major shift going on in german foreign policy since the end of the cold war. and

the, the pinnacle i think the most well known foreign policy trajectory of germany in the postwar years was off power teak specifically, which is meaning basically essentially having some form of reconciliation with the soviet union. then later russia that appears now to be completely off the agenda since the foreign minister of germany better. bob says that we are in war with russia boss. yeah, it is terrible of what they are saying and also doing by committing to send arms into a conflict. it is actually a departure as you just said. it's a departure from a post $945.00 agreement with the word we as a always a banging on it's we are not fully supper. and so i'm in the u. s. americans are still very active in ramstein air base and they do tell us what they want from us

actually. so it's not entirely b drummond decision, but i agree with you. it's a break with our post world war 2 position in this. and i'm definitely opposing that to as many other drama do. i mean, we want to have peace with everyone that, that stuff so clear. you, ostrom, population, 80 or 90 percent would rigidly say no, we don't want to have annual with nobody. ok, we may want to defend to will, right here and there. that's what we have done. and somalia and other places in molly at least that's what we were being joke. but, but to go to ukraine and send arms into a conflict and have the conflict with the russian federation. the majority of drugs was and know what was it. they go to bell bass. stephen, it's, it's, you know, it to make it of the point even more clear when the unification of germany was happening. and the in the.