very dramatic and get into this. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk ah, we have never intentionally violated any countries territory. that's the message from china as the u. s. the justice facing is deliberately using a balloon to find them fight thing attacks on russian regions. that's how moscow condemned the u. s. the delivery of long range rockies to ukraine, which could potentially hits crimea on the g 7 imposes a price cap on russian oil to cut moscow's revenue. resident pollutants as the country will not think sport oh, to say supporting the limits with

just gone at 3 pm on saturday afternoon here in the russian capital. i'm peter scott. and here's how the world is looking this weekend. we start off with china, which has slammed the rest for taking advantage and it's been of it, some fight, excuse me, to take advantage of the hysteria over the, the, the, the, excuse me. he said we got accusations of spying on u. s. territory. this was a complete accident caused by a force, missouri, and the facts. a very clear china has over strictly abided by international law, respected the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, and has never intentionally violated the territory and air space of any southern country. some politicians and media in the united states have taken advantage of the issue to attack and discredit china. china form that opposes this. this unverified footage allegedly shows a 2nd chinese balloon travelling over lots in america. the pentagon has labored,

its another chinese surveillance device. son has not yet commented on this latest development. the chinese balloon was previously spotted floating over the city of billings, which is montana. there's some verified footage was spread on social media on some uses believe the balloon exploded with a video showing that's moments you officials denied there was any blast while so media linked to the balloon is still unclear exactly what caused that explosion. meanwhile, the internet has exploded itself with the hash tag chinese spy balloon. as panic spread over is that such balloons could actually be used as surveillance tools. the president has still not commented on the incident. the lot these kellum open does deeper into the recent spots over chinese believe 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 this balloon serves no military purpose. it's not being used for spying or anything of that effect. it's simply for monitoring the weather. this balloon is of chinese origin. it was 1st over the aleutian islands, then 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 satellite. so 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 anthony blanket, the u. s. secretary stay did cancel his meeting with the chinese president and

cancelled it saying this balloon is the reason i made clear that the presence of surveillance balloon in us aerospace is a clear violation of us sovereignty and international law that it's an irresponsible act. and that the p r c decision to take this action on the my plan visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have. now the language that's being used by us officials and by us media, they're referring to a spy book. and there are reports of another balloon somewhere in latin america, possibly another balloon, a chinese origin. and it is worth noting that beijing has apologize for this. and 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 anti china hysteria, the wave of hostility to china. we're now hearing in american media now there's 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 spot neck in 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 comparison. there'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 sy juan, 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 aerospace it appears the united states is bent on

continuing to kind of 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 may be pointed out that us drones and other us aircraft have violated territorial integrity. and aerospace of. ready countries throughout history, 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. ready very fierce allegations and heated language being displayed on us media from us officials, according to the us military, the chinese blue and hasn't changed is trajectory and is now moving east, which apparently demonstrates that it cannot the maneuver legal media and lift line says that the u. s is deliberately blowing things out of proportion with these to the word balloon, having a 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. if 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 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 am 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 an o, and not only that, it's that a shark mainland below it. so why they're below, you know, weather climate change. good rain america was, we made a mistake. and here's the best part. wait, and joe, china says, can we have our balloon back? and do you mean to tell me a can't be intercepted him? i'll u. s. officials are sounding the alarm over. fear is that the chinese balloon could

be used to spy on american nuclear missile sites in montana. get more in this story and of the news you head over to r t dot com, our websites for all of the latest updates. moving on now, russian service may have been returned from ukraine in a prisoner swap that's according to the russian defense ministry. the video of the exchange was posted by a deputy of the state duma showing the service when returning from captivity. negotiations were conducted with the help of the united arab emirates, the minutes defense also added, as all the soldiers are receiving all the necessary psychological and medical assistance, is what they shared with us. he wanted to go home so badly with called the support from our nearest and dearest. it's all right now we are finally home. thanks to everybody who rescued us from captivity. many thanks to those guys. are the front line now where the city of done yet cars been shelled by ukraine this morning saturday. at least one person has been injured according to local officials and

plumes or spoke could be seen above near by buildings located in a residential area. but this latest attack comes, as washington has pledged to send ground, launched small diamonds of bomb long range rockets to ukraine, which would enable kia to strike much further than their current weapons on moscow's criticized. the weapons delivery in the u. s. is pushing ukraine's attack russia. washington sees no boundaries in seeking to inflict a strategic defeat in russia. the transfer of increasingly powerful weapons to 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, the noted states could go to opposite madness like given father. jess washington is defect in southern its procedures to attack russian regions. the ground launched small dam. it's a bomb, has a range of a 150 kilometers,

which is around twice the distance of ukraine's current simon walk launches, which will also supplied by the u. s. low wage missiles are said to be highly accurate and can be fired from hidden positions to avoid detection. washington says they would enable ukraine's attack russian territories, including crimea. a 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 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 and russian occupied areas. earlier we discussed the topic with the co director of the international action center. sarah founder's,

he says the us is intent on dragging out the conflicts for 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 is an enormous number of weapons in the 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 rushes part that they will have to go further into ukraine in order to secure their borders. the rushes lashes 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, a weapons that actually have doubled the range. this comes amid them all over nice

targets by ukrainian forces on the region of lou ganske with multiple high miles rockets as well as civilian areas you couldn't force. there's also targets in which is heavy flame through systems. the senior correspondent, my gusty of brings this report from the front 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. our main talk is how large concentration is a phantom troops open of 20 or more people. even they can also vehicles in a different animal court 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. ah, the 1st round is always for the purposes of corrected florida, 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. oh, 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 boys. the sunday book translated as sunburn or sun,

fire is always the top. priority for ukrainian forces cannot stay anywhere long. it cannot far from the same place. twice he ab spares, no one and nothing to fight and destroy these machines. after rule, they have devastated ukraine's ranks like nothing else or at gasdio archie that he had screeching. the g 7 has agreed to impose a price cap on russian oil, which will take effect on sunday. and you price for products such as diesel will be $100.00 per barrel and $45.00 for fuel, oil, and nuts are the president of the european commission praise the decision as a move aimed a stabilizing global energy prices. we must continue to deprive rush of the means to wage war against ukraine, import bed and 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. rushes retaliatory measures to the g. 7 price cup imposed in december last year came into effect on the 1st of february, the exports to country supporting the cap are no longer possible for some president that he may pretend earlier stated that russia will only trade oil with countries up and hits what he called for market rules also contributes a chris and discusses the drawbacks of the price come. they've got a $100.00 price cap on what we call premium oil premium, or like diesel and $45.00 on, on other products that that may be use. and the interesting thing about the price tap predominately has been imposed by the by the president, sweden. so we didn't actually use it on 60 percent or even more of renewable energy . they're not so dependent compared to that, that baltic european partners like,

even like potent until the beginning of the special military operation. but more or less totally dependent on russian oil intensive trading products that really, that, and the baltic states now said look, okay, we'll take this for now. but we want to review every month from this price. the, and it's very, very hard to see how these countries depend on oil from the united states or from the opec, plus countries like saudi arabia said, look, we cannot, we were to pass the, we won't give you any more than we are using right now, which leads them in a very small way, russian, russian, oil and gas exports to going these days edited the son of the special military operation, even before then, ross has already started trading with that there are other partners. they weren't solely dependent on the west china. we buy more russian oil and gas than ever before. the chinese economy can eat up as much as possible. if you look at india,

for example, we've got a lot of western states saying that buying indian oil, but we're pretty aware that that indian oil coming in originate in russia, where the majority of it does so it's very hard to see how effective whatsoever, and only really hurts the part of me, those, those, those, those western countries that saying that the state of emergency has been declared in several regions of central southern chile after delhi forest fights have left 13 people dead and 9 injured the fires which respond by a devastating he wave have reportedly destroyed more than 200 homes and 47000, says of forrest, according to authorities that the casualties include the crew members of a helicopter fight in the blaze, as well as 155 to 2300 emergency service men and 75 aircraft are to be involved in containing the inferno. official say a state of emergency will allow south american countries to make more resources available to assist. a teenage boy has been killed

and hundreds of voting materials destroyed in the latest attack on an electoral commission office on the police station in se nigeria. and that comes just weeks before locals had the poles to cost the vote in the countries presidential elections. the national lead total commission has voice concerns that violence could impact voting, at least 50. it starts against this stuff, and offices by armed groups have been reported over the last few years. and the majority of the incidents in the so the south eastern part of the country west separatist sentiment remains strong instability. it remains a key issue for nigeria, northern provinces, where the security forces are fighting a 13 year war against the hottest and crib, no malicious. aussies nigeria correspondence takes a closer look at what awaits the country in the upcoming election. on february 25th 2023. my jillions will head for the polls for like a new president,

outgoing precedence mohammed who ruled for years. however, the increased abductions in killings in the north. in addition to separate his tensions in south eastern parts of the country, of great concern to the citizens and post a good place to the elections. i will not advise you to watch that police will be, you know, security the body, the closer before you come out, we'll keep many people. the government has however, insisted that the spice to grow with insecurity, the elections will not be postponed, nor cancelled as insensitive and extensive security will be provided. also, the election process is shredding the safety and security of vote does normals. this responsibility has become more challenging in the context of the current security situation. you can not showing any, any one test one to bring the little. we don't,

we decisively 18 presidential candidates are contested. we are all aware of the security issues on a promising to resolve it before any of the 8th and candidates come to class. when f has to have the highest number of boat nationwide and more than a quarter of ballot costs in at least 2 3rd of the my jewish states, my jury has over my 2000000 registered voters. i'm almost 40 percent of these number a youth between the ages of 18 successful. so countries witnesses are renewed youth engagements in politics like never before. amid the current security issues, nigeria, which is africa's largest crude oil producer, is facing a worsening shortage of petrol locals. you are queueing for hours for petrol, with the new national currency swap, only adding to the turbulence we can go live now to jo, walkway, nigerian oil and gas consultants based in lagos. nigeria, thanks for joining us today. now nigeria is africa is largest accrued, or produced as we've just said, why they're facing the spectral shortages. well,

thanks for having me. so this is, it is been on since october and it's basically a supply problem. so now you has the domestic refining capacity of about 5000 barrels, but none of it is working, correct? yes, to speak. so we've, we've had to depend on what the pedro and what that has meant is that the infrastructure to bring in phase from tomorrow to the dep was the shoreline there was and then of course distribute from there is highly limited. so that's, that's kind of the underlying reason we have the shortage is currently the n n p, who is the single input out too long for those right now claims they have sufficient and no one is optional. then went into the church and that the

infrastructure is fragile, is, is limited in terms of capacity. and that's the problem that refers to how long is this this christ is expected to last? now, this is not too bad. so one thing to note is that when you have a to date, if this will go out to the model, this will to load to the lightweight and delay for 2 days. it takes like a week to get the con the band with again. so the challenge has been the limited infrastructure that will allow him to be brought into the trance and from then to the patient to that. and there has been an ongoing conversation for years. but this is not there does it does for the list that we've, we've listed for a long time and the answer has been that we need to do it lead to settle,

allow private investment really. and that's as what b, p a, the new law of the land requests that we do, that the government has to be slow in implementing be a little analysis of the ordinary people. we have some risk stories of people sleeping in their cars over nights in keys to fill up. the things is difficult for most people. so where cues mean limited traffic and then it will sleep in stations to get the july. remember that the tuition is not very good luck. it would depend on petrified generators for their businesses and, and lack of their homes so that has had significant negative impact on it. now this obviously all comes against the backdrop of the upcoming presidential elections. and some of the troubles and violence surrounding dots,

as well as the swap of the national currency. how do you think all these crises are going to impact the elections later on in february? interesting i think be i think you do have minimal impact if you asked me. i do recognize that some people will blame the government for the suffering current. no suffering. and i was maybe not one to look for the candidates of the ruling party. but i think that that, that very limited. i think that for the work, let me do understand that this problem from c trans vents governmental. it's something that the little i've been dealt with the long term and we just get you can become down the road and get them back to battle. so i think that it will have minimal impact on, on, on how people would on election day. but again, we'll see and find just one last question. do you think any insurgent groups in

boca will try and take advantage of the mall in the country or will it not have an impact in some the northern areas nigeria? i think that it kind of should them down to if they can get it limit the ability to move around. so i suspect that we haven't had very serious incidents in the last couple of months. i suspect that might be a fact that has been significantly reduced. well, i don't expect said positive may be from this crisis. joe. no. are quite nigerian oil and gas consulting. thanks very much for sharing your thoughts with us today. thank you for speaking was thank you very much. ah, hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the pakistani city of peshawar in a peaceful protest on friday, advocating for unity in the fight against terrorism. oh,

hello, sarah. type on a moss. on monday, the killed at least a 100 people and injured over $200.00 more people. if i studied taliban commander initially, claim responsibility for the type of the organization late to deny them involvement . events caused a stir with locals unsuccessful to the streets with slogans against terrorism. and encouraging peace, we spoke to some demonstrators who are concerned about the situation. and we are demanding peace from our current government and state. why our only passions being massacred whenever there is protest, we ask the question, why passions or bomb a little bit. but guess my concern is peace. i did not allow my children to go to school today because of the fear that it is friday and there would be an attack again, migration said horse of his work. the only reason we came out is because we're one piece on our land hebert back to qua and petula against terrorism, and whoever is behind it. it is unacceptable for us to start. so look,

got it. that's how the world is looking at 3 30 pm. this saturday, moscow time for more on any of those stories as well as all the latest full days. do you head over to our telegram channels on our website? i mean, i'm on is be to scott's probably back again and around about 30 minutes. ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah, with i

oh none of what is be spoken by the united states all by you when he's really cool that fighting a war, essentially to prove it, the better done the surgeon. so rushing forward once again in, in this region, and saw that it was warned to the poor that its limits. i fought as it is, it's possible, ah ah, as i've been doing news for 30 years and 2 languages around the world and here in the united states, i've interviewed for presidents and co founded a $1000000000.00 business. and i believe after. busy that that news should.