[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, don't yet republican doroty say russian troops of millions circle the ukrainian held town of nuclear doll as intense financing of the area continues over the u. s . secretary of state blink and counsel if it's a beijing following hysteria in american media caused by a chinese weather balloons. straying into us as space and leaks. documents claim a british intelligence project spied on palestinian refugee using a group previously alleged to have provided funds to al, played with, and became faso, and molly joined forces to counter the threat of terrorism amid frustration at the

failure of french forces to tackled militant insurgency in the region in it's a situation that really saddens us. it's awful that armed men can cowardly attack unarmed civilians. a very welcome to you. this is on the international with the latest world news update. it's good to have you with, as we saw it with russia as apple. she a region where according to reports from local officials, a police officer has died and a car bomb explosion. the bloss happened in the city of america and to hear some of the latest pictures from the scene. there was no information yet on what caused the explosion or who could be responsible. however, the regions of zappa all she and her son have previously seen similar incidents with russia saying local authorities and activists are being targeted by the ukrainian secret services. the town of america is also close to these output osha

nuclear power plants, which both sides of accused each other of shelling. for now, the latest news when the dumbass front lines oh, forties and the dawn, yes. what public se, russian forces of almost encircled the key town of nuclear dod, south of the republics capital. this comes as russian forces continue to ramp up their offensive in the area. meanwhile, ukrainian force is reportedly shouted a residential areas in don't yes, with an apartment building, taking heavy damage and so to late towns was shelled by ukraine on thursday, leaving one civilian dead according to local authorities. ortiz at raymond, cause it cost to have reports from the town of yes and of messiah ah,

the city. oh yes. and the lots has been under constant ukrainian shilling since 2014. and it only intensified in the last year of 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 there 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 car and he started, they tried to kill more people, obviously to scare us. well, we have lived here since 2014 and don't plan to move. 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 im of arthur according to the mayor of the city, me trisha jenko, at least 2000 private houses and multiple apartment buildings were destroyed as well. you could machine holder and pushing and pushing will go 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 you in the previous year and about $130.00 people were injured. i'm on them civilians, public service and railway walkers, which is in nevada, 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 piece will come very soon, so they'll be able to support their families once again from on call for

a r t. then that's cru public. the latest round of e u sanctions is now forced to outlet to cease the activity of its production office in germany. how at the ortiz, german language channel, will continue to operate and broadcast internationally from its headquarters and moscow. in a statement, a r t d e says the name came as a result of the betrayal of fundamental rights and freedoms by the european union and the german government. r t d e productions regretfully announces the decision to cease the company's journalistic activities in germany. archie de productions has faced immense pressure from government media, businesses and others who have sought to curtail as journalistic work and to silence the voice as it brings to public attention. the e. u. in permitting the imposition of sanctions on media. freedoms has shown that the very values claims to define the core of its existence are without any substance. the freedom of the press to operate without hindrance does not exist in

germany today. b r t d e production office located in berlin. house created a wide range of content for our german language channel. the outlet house, faith, immense pressure ever since. it was launched from moscow in december 2021. germany persuaded the european satellite tv operator to shun our channel ortiz. german language stream on youtube was also blocks the same date was launched following the stores of rushes, operation in ukraine. a year ago, forties took unprecedented steps to shut down ortiz activity inside europe. in march, a burning co signed with germany's media regulator and funding channel in the country . according to our tv, the latest, the sanctions, effectively cost of oxygen for our remaining staff inside germany. let's discuss this with a veteran greek diplomatically, anita chris, some populous nominee. thanks for joining us on. the program is very nice to see.

so as you heard, due to this huge pressure from the e u, the r t d production office has been forced to see if it's activity. was your reaction to this development? well it, it's a configuration of the passage of the fastest measures that you husband adopting on concerning the freedom of the press. and these are measures adopted by germany. and it is, these are totally fascist measure, but maybe it is because of the 80 years of the reparation of stalingrad. i grow because we must not forget that we are now some amine cell celebrations are being based in russia for what happened in sterling where the german army schanzer but that's not the issue. the issue is that

there is no freedom of the press or statement that you mentioned before. mentioned there is no freedom of the press is all of the of the you're a big you're going to including my country grease where we can, where we have no information on what is going on in reality concerning the ukrainian issue. and that is something terrible as it goes against the legislation that goes against the european union, pre g o for this. been where all of these were the liberty of information in the office of both the british are guaranteed. so you will be a union at this moment in the measures that it's taken me concerning the freedom of the press, but all the other measures they are hitting themselves and they are weakening

themselves to here to be in good. but it, but i mean, the leaders of the european union, i don't think that they can think correctly anymore on, on what they are doing. if, if that is the case, right, as you say, there's no free speech and media freedom across the u. everything's being restricted. what does the future hold? where are we headed? in 2009. they gave an interview to a to a greek newspaper. the title of the of the interview was never again a fascist european union. that was the type that they gave back in 2009 at that interview. and i'm afraid that we are heading towards the fascist european, which is a disgrace for the people that are good. because the european union husband was

granted to support it to people and so many thanks for joining us on a program. really appreciate your inside. think the mass we've been speaking to veteran greek diplomat leaning live need as chris on buffalo many. thank you. i mean, thanks. thank you. of your commission president has praise ukraine for what he believes to be an effective response to its existing corruption challenges. i'm comforted to see that your anti corruption bugs are on alert and effective in detecting corruption cases. i also commend you on reacting so rapidly at the political level to make sure that the fight against corruption is delivering tangible results . and it is further stepped up. and this reaction followed a series of an expected anti corruption, detentions, and grades which have intensified across ukraine in recent weeks. kids, the 13th of these huge amounts of shady cache and several government agencies,

as well as when the private homes of some civil servants who have been accused of taking bribes. one case apparently involved the countries deputy defense minister who's sofa reportedly stored millions of dollars worth of ukrainian cash. however, some contradicting media report suggests that incidence actually took place last year. meanwhile, some high profile, ukrainian officials, hop in facts, been dismissed in recent danes amidst the anti corruption crackdown. according to research from transparency international, last year ukraine came in at number 116 on a list of 180 countries in the public sector. corruption index. he has neighbors on the racing include countries like zambia and the philippines with the closest the nation. hungary, being 40 positions higher up on the list, meaning it's much less corrupt than ukraine. the anti corruption measures were launched 2 days ahead of a summit between

e u officials and ukraine's presidents in kiev. however, ukraine's hopes of a fast track accession to the union have been dust. is the commission say there's still plenty of work to be done? ukraine is at an early stage of preparation for implementing the e. we and applying european financial control standards, full alignment with the e u act, we will require reform of the accountant chamber of ukraine in order to make its independent explicit in the constitution, broaden its mandate and apply international standards in its own procedures. overall, internal audit is not yet well stablished in ukraine. let us down deeper into these developments with our take contributor rachel martha now. rachel, nice to see you. so with us, some it's now wrapping up in k up. does it look like your credit is getting? what it really wants from brussels, even after all of presidents landscape blitz efforts to show he finally serious about stumping out corruption. well,

you know what this whole thing was? well, 1st let's talk about what it wasn't. it wasn't a summit in the history marking since it wasn't like reagan and gorbachev in reykjavik or geneva, or the vienna summit between cru shevan, j, f. k. this whole event will be forgotten by sometime next week because it was just brussels on tour, like when a broadway production leaves new york and takes the act on the road. same lines, same rules. and this production even had a costume director, apparently since a memo, reportedly went out ahead of time specifying a dress code for the trip for the delegates, telling the brussels bureaucrat to where quote, usual business attire. and to avoid quote, green khaki or 2 bright colors. so that leaves out things like wrapping themselves in the ukranian flag, which is bright yellow and bright blue or dressing in anything resembling army fatigues. presumably, such direct as were necessary after french president, a mentor in my home, was photographed walking around the eighty's

a palace last year in a zalinski style hoodie and a 5 o'clock shadow looking like he was there to paint the walls instead of run the french republic so leaving this traveling circus was ring leader and european commission present. ursula vander line, who sounded like she just put all the usual talking points into a box, and then drew them out randomly to determine which order they'd be in her speech. this time to discuss also at the summit, how to make russia pay for the brutal destruction it is causing russia. society and economy is already paying a hot price because of the sanctions that we impose the 10th packages on its way. how many times have we heard that line about russia paying a high price for sanctions? the price is apparently so high and the sanction so effective that the e you feels need to go rummaging around in the sofa cushions to see if there are

any more crumbs left. a sanction in this 10th round we're talking about now, you know, was, are buying or vendor lines trying to sell the western press and western analysts for one. cnbc for example, concludes that western sanctions on russian crude have quote, failed completely. and analysts told the network that the crude price cap was quote, pretty inconsequential, and another expert described it as quote, invented by bureaucrats with finance degrees. and that none of them really understand oil markets. and just a few days ago, the international wise hurry fund predicted economic growth for russia of 0.3 percent. as a result of moscow refocusing trade away from the west and towards other countries . meanwhile, it seems like the e u is sobering. up on their talk when it comes to the timeline and prospects for ukrainian integration into the block. here is european council president, shut me, shed a recent exterior wheels of you bringing some

treatment reforms. i did the full lisa, a process where this music configured fusion is i don't remember. cisco intermediate bought 7 me saw also said ukraine is the e u, the e u is ukraine. nice word salad, which doesn't seem to me much. wenzel, in cities, appetite is for nothing less than the meat and potatoes of e. you integration, you right so many thanks. mazda, thousands, auto contributor, rachel mazda. ah, no us at state secretary antony blank and has counselled his upcoming trip to china . announcement comes after what the chinese say is a weather balloon was 1st spotted floating near the aleutian islands and then again seen hovering a nuclear sites in the u. s. the american state department is referred to. the incident is a violation of its sovereignty. we have noted the people's republic of china statement of regret, but the presence of this balloon in our air space is a clear violation of our sovereignty,

as well as international law and isn't acceptable that this has occurred. the u. s . insists the aircraft is a surveillance balloon, despite china saying it's a weather device went straight off. course banking added that it regrets the unintended entry of its actual often so american as space. the airship is from china. it is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes, affected by the western winds and with limited self steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course. the chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into us air space. or some us officials on media outlets were initially hysterical and in a panic i for an identified balloon flying over the country. we begin today with the breaking headline late today. the suspected chinese spy balloon is floating over the northern us suspected chinese spy balloon. a suspected chinese spy balloon . there is

a suspected chinese 5 balloon. that balloon is the size of free buses. and it was spotted over montana and montana of course, home to several sensitive nuclear sites. bring the balloon down now and exploit its tech package, which could be an intelligence bonanza bite and shoot down the chinese spy balloon immediately. well as discuss this with the legal and media analysts line on now, many thanks for joining us on the program line olympic to see you this evening. so you asked a secretary, blank ins. upcoming visit to china has been cancelled over a weather balloon of stairs or china says doesn't look like it has found a pretext to cancel the visits. well, 1st of all, i must spend some time over the euphemistic weather balloon. it's a bologna you should, que nina 99 lift below. it's an airship. it's no big deal. it just got loose. what are you going to do? a force, missouri. they're actually saying,

oh my sorry about that. we lost control. you know how these balloons are now, what you just saw right now, which was the most fascinating american mainstream corporate media, actually reacting in a way that is roughly commensurate with the situation that is going on. normally it's, i, what are you going to do? and i must say something, because i am a cultural scholar when it comes to balloons, that word trigger something. whenever we see somebody fly across the sky at hypersonic rates and make right turns we don't call it a u. f o, we call it a weather balloon. these weather balloons are all over the place or swamp gas. now here's the question. does anybody understand what this means when you have a balloon fly over a sovereign country?

may i also ask the question if ins, jones, of china, we replaced the country with another name or do you think the reaction might be a little different? it's incredible to nonchalance. somebody said, well, you know, would so high up. i don't think it would pose any threat to it. civilian air travels and we're not talking about air travel. it's surveillance. what do you, what do you want? i did 5 minutes. i googled it took me no time that if ever and i'm just say and i'm, i'm no expert in this. but if ever there was going to be, let's say, perhaps a w, m d or a w m e, a weapon of mass effect. this unconventional platform to, i don't know, a loose of perhaps, maybe a i a, an electromagnetic pulse device, something that could take out the grid of huge swats of real estate. it's not just

though balloon the implications of this. and i don't understand the, the seeming oh well, you know, maybe we're going to, we'll interrupt with that meeting. we'll, we'll do put it on hold for while, until we get to the bottom of the balloon. and my favorite was, he said, well, we not sure we want to blow it up or, or, or shoot it down because after all, we don't want to hurt anybody. it's a book, it's, it's not a play on the, i don't understand. if anybody truly has any clue as to reality anymore, look, i don't want to have international conflict. i don't want war over this, but it's not but alone. it's not it, it's, it's for all practical purposes. i think you should anticipate and believe it as some type of surveillance equipment that violated the sovereignty of a country. this is what rational people think, but you never know,

but listening to certain people so that balloon has been a top story. top new story in the us in the past mother throughout the day, really with them. though. morning, media pundits on panic, politicians even quoting, to show the balloon down, and of course, plenty of means already doing is circulating on the internet. so why, why are mainstream media making such a huge deal out of their story before things have been established? why are they trying to create such a panic over this chinese balloon? now, lest i am confused, was someone who was a conspiracy theorist or a conspiracy analyst. as some might say, i always ask the question, what stories are not being covered when something is of interest, whatever. is there just incredible focus on something, i think wait a minute, ah, what are we not covering?

and as you know, the most folks of follow social media like, like starlings enumeration, like huge swats of birds in the these o'clock critic. movements of hordes of people act like like, like animals like pools of fish, spools or fish. so whenever there's a mean, if it's funny, if i'm tele, low hanging fruit, easy to digest. but can you think of the other stories that are not being covered? oh, we could do a whole show on that one. so that's number one. remember, i'm always fascinated by by media slight of hand and, and presto, digitization and slight of hand. experts will always show you. it's all about distracting your attention. i'm not really doing anything that great, but if you're not looking at what i'm doing, i can hide everything from you. now, here's my prediction. remember this, the 3 day rule, lionel's 3 day rule,

3 days maximum. a story has any potency because we have the attention span of a gnat. so by monday i'd say mid, mid saturday, it's over with because it doesn't, there's no on there. but if it's filled with mimi and memetics in gifts and music in tick tock, it's great again, perhaps to down place of the which may in fact, i hope turn out to be nothing or to distract the attention of people from pointing to other things. and we also ask the question, remember what if this were another country? and number 2, why do you think when it comes to the certain applications of conspiracy theories, which is of course, the word that we use whenever somebody's on to something. why is it not that we used to be very suspect of international, intriguing espionage detection and surveillance and big brother?

not any more. we've lost our interest in it. do you think that perhaps is by design? i say yes, i know might some observe as be seeing the headlines to day and then thinking, well you at the us house of representatives speaking nancy pelosi freely face to taiwan, which is officially a part of china, thus violating chinese solver and see if you like and the u. s. can be furious about military drills, beijing conducted back then. but then, when what china says as a weather balloon unintentionally enters us as space, the pentagon, call it a violation of us thought warranty. might some people be saying? is that fair? white, well, anybody would to working neurons will be saying that, but also think about this whenever there's been a, whenever there's been a plane that has, that has veered off course. and god forbid history is replete with tragic examples of what happens. it's always a mistake. does that excuse, doesn't work. again,

let me tell you the we use of the word balloon is strategic. does that? can you imagine being attacked by a balloon? gets it a part i, i know i'm making too much out of this, but i know how people work. devoted my life to what it does, any kind of anticipatory or reaction for rica formation to it. there is no put teller, wait a minute. when you hear missile rocket plane, you know, then you, you, you, you react, but to part of your brain, which normally turns on this as i think i better investigate this more does not activate. when you say boulogne is sound in ocoee was a sound anodyne, sacred. so what is a mistake and an o, and not only that, it's not a shot. i went below it. so either below, you know, whether climate change, good rain, inaccurate. we made a mistake, and here's the best part. wait and show. china says, can we have our balloon back? and do you mean to tell me you can't be intercepted? you're just gonna say magazine. oh, look at that. well,

it's over them is over our country, right? now, oh, you think we should get it? well, i don't know. maybe what do you think, dave? i'm not sure. this is the way we react. i and not, not to be even more. ooh coy about this. but if i were running the show, i might just say, let's just say something bad had my door and then pretend you know, knowing anything about it, did you shoot our weather balloon down? what weather balloon the balloon we had? you had a weather balloon. and while we did, but we didn't shoot it, i don't know what you're talking about. did there's, there's no reaction at all. but remember, nobody cares because it's a balloon. and balloons are fun and nice. nothing to worry about. it would be interesting to see you running the show line. oh many thanks for joining us on the program this evening. that line on logo and media analysts. thank you. thank you.

now a british intelligence project allegedly targeted palestinians, utilizing a contract to previously accused of supporting al qaeda in syria. that's according to lease documents published by the electronic intifada news outlets. our approach will use a mixture of offline and online primary research and seek to distinguish between whether the palestinian issue is in that miss vibrick issue or a key inflection point on the path to radicalization. using social listening technology, the team will examine the relevance of the israel palestine conflict. these findings will be integrated, establishing a rough estimation of palestinian issues, broader salience in the context of the region. radicalization revelations claim that the intelligence contract has worked directly out of the case jerusalem considers. and the same group which inadvertently provided funding to al qaeda in 2017. their agents were sent to several refugee camps in jordan lebanon on the west bank to interview palestinians, under the pretext of academic research would, in fact,

they were there to monitor critics of western and his rating foreign policy. earlier we spoke to one of the investigative journalists who broke the story assa winstanley, who told us how the contractor had funded terrorists seeming to impose sharia law. scandalous, really, that the british government is still using this organization essentially to combat al qaeda when it has this proven track record of support and al qaeda. now of course they say that it was done inadvertently, but that denials at the time were very incongruous. i think they were very in my view, very unbelievable. because at 1st they said all this is completely untrue. but then, you know, under questioning they said, well, you know, some of it did happen, but it was by accident. so why is the questions have to be asked? now, why is the british government still using this contract? it doesn't make any sense if their actual aim is come by outright. 20 percent

of the budget was going to have to pay to actually protection money to these al qaeda affiliated groups to do to, to give them the security that they didn't have themselves. so you know, what that meant in practice was the british government money was going to fund al qaeda. this was only one instance of that. one example of that happening. the so called free syrian police. and you know, the b, b, c even came up with an instance whereby they showing these the so called free syrian police were involved in al qaeda, supporting our car, the courts, quote unquote civil courts, courts where they are imposing their theocratic penalties on the population in the