once again in, in this region and saw that it was one to the limits i've water, that is, it's possible ah, we have never intentionally violated any countries territory. well, that's the message from china as the u. s. suggest the beijing is deliberately using blues to spy on them. inside thing at starts on russian regions. are moscow condemned to us delivery of long range rockies to ukraine that could potentially hit crimea? g 7 nations, impose the price up on russian oil pick up muscles and revenue. present newton says the country will not fix both o 2 states to support the miller with

saturday afternoon here in the russian caps line. he just gotten his how the world is looking as we had it's the weekend. thanks for joining us. now. china has slammed the rest for taking advantage of its balloon in american air space criticizing. what's it called hysteria regarding accusations off spying on u. s. territory. this was a complete accident caused by a force, missouri, and the facts. a very clear, china has always strictly abided by international law, respected the sovereign in territorial integrity of all countries, and has never intentionally violated the territory and air space of any sovereign country. some politicians and media in the united states have taken advantage of the issue to attack and discredit china. china firm that opposes this or this, unverified footage appears to show a 2nd chinese balloon troubling or blocked in america. the pence again, has labeled its another chinese surveillance device. john is not commented on the

latest developments, but chinese balloon was previously spotted floating over the city of billings in montana. this unverified footage was spread on social media and some uses believe the balloon exploded with a video showing that moments the u. s. officials denied there was any blast while some media linked it to the balloon. it's unclear what exactly caused the explosion . meanwhile, the internet has exploded itself with the hash tag chinese spy balloon. as panic spread overfit, the such balloons could actually been used as surveillance tools. the us president has still not commented on the incidence. the lot the caliber been does deeper into the recent spots over china's believes china has confirmed that this is a chinese balloon as a weather balloon used for media logical research by the chinese authorities. now

they have made clear that this balloon serves no military purpose. it's not being used for spying or anything of that. a fact, it's simply for monitoring the weather. this balloon is of chinese origin. it was 1st over the aleutian islands than it was in billings, montana. there's some concern about the possibility that it's near nuclear sites that it's also been confirmed by a number of experts in the united states that there is nothing that could be obtained from such a balloon that couldn't easily be attained by china with satellites. i was satellites, they could just as easily get any information and that there is no threat to civilians posed by this below. this is not a weaponized balloon. this is not a drone or anything like that. there is no danger to civilians by this balloon. now, it is worth noting, however, the antony blanket, the u. s. secretary of state did cancel his meeting with the chinese president and i cancelled it saying that this balloon is the reason i made clear that the

presence of the surveillance balloon in u. s. her space is a clear violation of you, a sovereignty and international law that it's an irresponsible act, that the p r c's decision to take. the section on the my plan visit is detrimental to the suction of discussions that we were prepared to have. now the language that's being used by us officials and by us media is there referring to it as a spied balloon, and there are reports of another balloon somewhere in latin america, possibly another balloon of chinese origin. and it is worth noting that beijing has apologized for this balloon. they said it was not their intention to violate us aerospace this balloon went off course. however, beijing has been pretty firm to denounce the anti china town and the antique china hysteria, the wave of hostility to china. we're now hearing in american media now there is a social media bonanza going on. of course, all kinds of names and images, people, invoking star wars, the death star, all kinds of science fiction. you know,

there's memories of, of sputnik and the panic in the united states. back in the 1950s, in response to the soviet union was launching the the spacecraft and you know, people are making all kinds of comparisons. it's been the talk of american media. however, at this point, china is pointing out. this is the unintentional violation of us aerospace by a balloon that could not really threaten to anyone that has no danger, even according to us experts. they're saying that their territorial integrity was intentionally violated by nancy pelosi. she went on to china's territory and i won without the permission of the us recognize chinese government. the u. s. government recognizes one china. so china is pointing out that while they are not intentionally violating any countries, territorial integrity or airspace, it appears the united states is ban on continuing to haunt china with their

provocations around taiwan that are definitely intentional and involved more than just balloons. and this point high ranking officials and there is also made people pointed out that us drones and other us aircraft have violated character integrity . and aerospace of countries throughout history of this kind of thing has happened from the us side. however, this has not stopped american media from going into an anti china overdrive. there's all kinds of very fierce allegations and the language being displayed on us media from us officials and according to the us military, the chinese bloom has changed its trajectory and is now moving east japan and demonstrates that they can actually maneuver legal and media unless lionel says the us are deliberately blowing things out to proportion with the use of the word balloon having strategic meaning. in this case, american mean stream 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 some of the fly across the sky at hypersonic rates and make right turns we don't call it a u. f o we call in a weather balloon. these weather balloons are all over the place. are swamp gas. now, here is 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. let me tell you the will use of the word balloon is strategic. is 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 recall 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 the 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 innocuous, a sound anodyne, sacred. so what is a mistake and n n o, and not only that, it's that asia payment below it. so either below, you know, whether climate change, good rain america was 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 a can't be intercepted? the us officials are sounding the alarm over face the chinese balloon could be used by on american nuclear missiles and montana. we get more on this story under the

news you had over through our c dot com for all the latest moving no russian service men have been returned from ukraine and a prisoner swap nuts. according to the russian defense ministry. the video of the exchange was posted by deputy of the state duma showing the service men returning from top to see the go stations were conducted with the help of the united arab emirates, the ministry defense. out of this, all the soldiers are getting all the necessary psychological and medical assistance on his some of the feelings they want to go home so badly. what's called the support from all nearest and dearest. it's all right. now we are finally home songs to everybody who rescued us from captivity. many thanks to those guys. and to the phone line now where the 50 of the net has been shown by ukraine this morning, saturday, at least one person has been injured. according to local officials, linda smoke could be seen above. nearby buildings located in a residential area of the city of the latest attack comes as washington has pledged

to send ground, launched small diamonds that bomb a long range rockets to ukraine, which would enable kids to strike much further than their current weapons. moscow has criticized the delivery, stating that the u. s. is pushing ukraine to its fact. russia washington sees no boundaries in seeking to inflict a strategic defeat and russia. the transfer of increasingly powerful weapons of the keep regime is a deliberate escalation of the conflict by the united states. that ministration has been almost everything on the credit cards, its own national authority, the money of american taxpayers, and the lives of ukrainian soldiers at this rate than other states could go to opposite madness like given father, jess, washington is defect installed in its procedures to protect russian regions the ground launched small diamonds, a bomb has a range of around a 150 kilometers, which is twice the distance of ukraine's current high miles walk launches,

which will also supplied by the u. s. the long range missiles are said to be highly accurate and can be fired from hidden positions to avoid detection. washington says they will enable ukraine to attack russian territories, including crimea. the small diameter bomb in the latest ukraine aid package has the potential the target crimea. is that the intent behind providing it now? so thanks for the question, joe. so, so yes, as part of the usa i package, we will be providing ground launch small diameter bombs to ukraine. this gives them a longer range capability, long range virus capability that will enable them again to conduct operations in defense of their country. and to take back their sovereign territory russian occupied areas. we discuss the topic with the code, our rights of the international auction center. there are flounders who says the us intent on dragging out the conflict as long as possible. us isn't ignoring the

warnings they are deliberately, deliberately provoking further and further, or they know the consequences of this. and they're more than willing to push ahead . there's an enormous number of weapons and us, you know, inventory to big lots of choices. but it's clear that each choice is meant to expand the war, to do more damage, not in any way to reach a resolution. it will also mean on, on russia's part that they will have to go further into ukraine in order to secure their borders to russia. as much as borders. so it's an expansion of the war. it's very dangerous. there's no reason for it. it's more money, but higher grade of weapons that actually have doubled the range and outcomes amid

more of a nice charts by ukrainian forces on the region of the gangs with multiple high mas rocket civilian areas. you couldn't force is also targeting rushes heavy flame through a systems of the senior correspondent, smart because the of brings this report and the phone lines on the battlefield. there is nothing that ukrainian troops and nationalists fear more than this a machine that has instantly broken in car battalions and turn the tide of countless battles. it's yo as one of our barack multiple, a rocket larger system. and perhaps the deadliest weapon currently fielded on the battlefield. and you cried. 24 rockets, 270 kilograms, eat fargo distance from 6 to 10 kilometers and absolutely fatal to anything

within a 150 meter radius asked only silly are main talk is how large concentration is a family troops of 20 or more people you can also vehicles, if anyone caught within the bus radius has particularly no chance of survival. thermo barrick munition, cru, vacuum bombs on nothing like conventional munitions. it isn't shrapnel that kills but flash burn and crushing over pressure which causes instant death. you can't hide from this behind a wall. only a hermetically shield bunker offers protection and there are none here. the 4th round sound is always for the purposes of gregoire. it's out. eyes in the sky, draw more spot where it landed. that new gordon that and off they go again.

20 full rockets, 6 and a half tons of annihilation. ah, these rockets are usually fired in ones or twos as little point of full barrages. a single rocket practice as shown is usually overkill. almost nothing survives within a 150 meters of the impact site. listed on the survey, leroy, where all this ready. we get a job done. when i fight for my family and those close to me, we're all here for our homeland. we're here to help our voice. the san say book translated, a sunburn or sun,

fire is always the top. priority for ukrainian forces cannot stay anywhere long. it cannot far from the same place twice. here, spares no one and nothing to fight and destroy these machines. after all, they have devastated ukraine's ranks like nothing else or at gasdio. archie danny, a screeching g 7 states have agreed to impose a price cap on russian oil, which will take effect on sunday. and the new price for products such as diesel will be $100.00 per barrel on $45.00 for fuel oil and nafta. the presence of the european commission praised the decision as a move aimed at stabilizing global energy prices. we must continue to deprive rush of the means to wage war against crane used import, barren russian petroleum products comes into force on sunday. with the g 7, we're putting price caps on these product,

cutting washes revenue while ensuring stable global energy markets are rushes would tell you if he measures on the g. seven's crude oil. priced cap imposed in december of last year came into effect on the 1st of february. and that means that export to countries supporting the price cut are no longer possible. where should president body met boots in early states that russia will only trade oil with countries that have hits what he called fair market rules are to contribute to chris and discusses the drawbacks of the price come. we've got a $100.00 price tap on what we call premium oil. oh, you know, premium or like diesel and $45.00 on on. you know, other products that that may be used. and the interesting thing about this is this price cap predominantly is been imposed by the but by the presidency, sweden. so sweden actually uses it relies on 60 percent or even more of renewable energy. they not soil dependent compared to that. they're both take european partners like yeah,

and even touch like potent until the beginning of the special military operation. but more or less totally dependent on russian oil in terms of that trade in products they were in. so really that and the baltic states now said look, ok, we'll take this for now, but we want to review every 2 months on this price gap. it's very, very hard to see how these countries are going to be able to depend on oil from the united states, or from the opec, plus countries like saudi arabia that have said, look, we cannot, we will refuse. so all capacity we won't give you any more than we are using right now, which leads them in a very sticky spots, looking at where russian, russian, oil, and gas exports are going these days. ever since the start of the special military operation, even before then, russia has already started trading with that there are other partners they want. so the dependent on the west, china is buying more russian oil and gas than ever before. the chinese economy can eat up as much as possible. if we go to india, for example. we've got a lot of western states saying that buying indian oil,

but we're pretty aware that indian oil coming in, originated in russia, where the majority of it. so it's very hard to see how this affects the russian economy whatsoever, and only really the part of me, those, those are, those are those western countries that saying they're buying it, staying with sanctions. europe's latest round of restrictions presented a chance to sanction media freedom as well, with brussels restrictions, forcing office the channel archie, it's a closest production office in germany, but to ortiz, german language channel will continue to operate on broadcast internationally from his headquarters in moscow. and his statements are c, d says the move came as a result of the betrayal of the fundamental rights and freedoms by the u on the gym government. r t d e productions regretfully announces the decision to cease the company's journalistic activities in germany. r t. d productions has faced immense pressure from government media, businesses and others who have sought the 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. the archie, the production office located in berlin, has created a wide range of contents for german language channel. now let's house face immense pressure ever since it was launched from moscow in december 2021 of these german language stream on youtube was also bought the same day was laws according to r t d, the latest you sanctions effects of because of oxygen for our remaining staff in germany, r t, managing direct sally say, nicola says that international viewers won't have any trouble chin in oxy. despite of western bugs. they are afraid of fair competition. even though our resources of so much smaller,

our finance is so much smaller our abilities to broadcast our in comparable even so they got so scared of somebody challenging their agenda that they are just doing what they're doing. and this really shows how weak they are, how weak is their agenda? people overall are not stupid. they're not it. they don't like to be treated as it is. if they are right to access the independent information, the alternative source of information is being stopped. they find inevitably, they will find the way to get this information. it's already happening, including in germany. it's so funny. the germans almost did not use any of the pan to access the forbidden band. i internet addresses at all. now the,

the usage of the dance has grown exponentially in germany. i, it was very rewarding to hear that and somebody who believes that you can completely block access to alternative information to alternative views is making a huge mistake. and they will learn that very fast and finally, residence in northern kosovo, have opened a petition, demanding the media suspension of building works. village messina plans to build a police space in the area following an increase to police presence. we heard from some locals who voiced the concern about the plan. this is bonnie booker. so the wrong or the learning little nauseous annual. as you see, we're trying to defend our lennon prophecy to any of those. they came with machines . i started digging into the, there is a village cemetery here, there for houses, everything ceiling, their police coil told us that they had been in a vase for, for the police. and that's, it was on. if they already decide to where to put the border or let them build the

base is dagma and not here. in the middle of our village is what they didn't do anything to us or not to know which of them. but we just asked to know what the uh, building here, and what other building is awesome. and we will be here to defend our rights as much as we can, as you see where unarmed we don't have any other options. we'll continue gathering like this is not allowing them to work. that's it. bother to one, throw rocks and them voters or anything else for sure. if we could come to a peaceful agreement, great. similarly, if not, then they'll do it is proven again that there is no life osh here, despite what they say, nissan with raj remote as then saw, also demanding that the exit pro, creation of their land is stopped by the government in pristina construction of bases for the board of police and several locations in the north of crossville begun in september last year. at least 5 facilities have been built so far. and early we heard from the casa vote forces representative. he says that police presence there is mandated by the order of authorities. dear your doll,

the idea that we have warner police and police station here. we have information that the works have been stopped for the day. and we will see what happens in the following days. i have no information when the work will continue. if that happens, we need to be here to secure the continuation of their work. we spoke to the residence with the citizens that are protesting, were understand and said they can complain to the government of kosovo and to the courts. and then they will decide what to do. we are here to make sure that works can go on without any disturbance. well, that's her up for now. whatever your to this weekend, i hope you having a good one. i'd be to scott's on the back again in around 30 minutes time. do stay tuned for margaret program sale nazi ah ah, museums are important for preserving our history so that it is lost to future

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