ah, the, with our top headlines on our team international, the russian defense ministry says ukraine has lost more than $6000.00 of its soldiers over the past one month. i think us and its west the allies do seek to further prolong the conflict. with the more off the shop sitting off for a 2nd devastating lakes roberts, part of the country, destroying many, many homes and living thousands also on historic visit today as the russian foreign minister visits its counterpart in molly,

where they discussed increased strategic and security cooperation. while at the very same time criticizing western influence on the continent use with a full tale of your story with us, our life for moscow, with pleasure helping you with us. this is the international we do kick off the program now with news just coming in from the tula region in western russia. whereas we understand at least 5 people have been killed after a residential building collapse in the city of ephram off. according to local authorities, the incident may have been caused by a gas explosion. a rescue operation is underway, report say up to 10 residents may still be trapped under the rubble will bring you updates the moment we get them. for the meantime, the russian military has assessed key every battle field last is over the past one

months of the russian defense minister sort of a showing who said that within that time ukraine has lost over 6500 troops. and more than 600 military vehicles, he also said that the u. s. and the western allies have been trying to drive out the conflict with the ultimate goal to hurt russia. sienna said, i made you say, is it united states and its allies are trying to prolong the conflict as much as possible to do this. they have started supplying heavy, offensive weapons, openly calling on ukraine to seize our territories. in fact, that such steps involved needle countries in the conflict and can lead to an unpredictable level of escalation here, those groups of russian troops are working to eradicate all the weapons and equipment supply to key f. o found the delivery routes and in combat positions such as your move in january, they also lost 26 aircraft 7 helicopters and 208 drones. so that was the end of that list of the losses when it comes to ukraine. then he went

on to talk about those who are supplying ukraine with weapons. and he said that the u. s. and its allies are really dragon out the conflict by supplied heavy offensive weapons. and that their actions also openly calling on you frame to snatch russian territories and that their actions, the us and its allies, their actions are actually dragging nato countries into the conflict and escalated things to a point where we could see it, reach an unpredictable level that sounds quite scary, but again we're seeing that it's not stop in there, just continue and continue. and he also went on to say that the weapons that they do find russian troops are continuing to grind all the weapons and equipment. they find that as supplies the key of regime, both on the battlefield and also on the supply routes. then he spoke about the key aversion continuing to intimidate people in the territories that have recently come under russian control. and they're doing that by striking hospitals,

by striking residential areas. then he moved on to say about how over orthodox christmas went. both sides were supposed to observe a truth period, a ceasefire. because as we know in the 1st week of january, russians and ukrainians, of course they observed us when they christmas and still despite that, the crane's armed forces carried out over $550.00 artillery and more so it's high sir in that period. so the defense minister said that this shows their a barbaric nature, that they don't care about anything, even something as sacred as a christmas. and then he went on to give us a list of the territories, the areas that have recently been liberated. and he said that whites and currently in the area of ugly, dar and arts almost is developing successfully. well, the head of the, i don't ask republic says russian forces have gained a strategic advantage, durango embattled city of our troughs. gotten on his back mood that says a russian troops have been advancing on ukrainian positions all across the front

line, which is from where this report comes from. with our senior correspondent, kiev admit back more ease on the brink, rushes, wagner group has launched an assault from 3 directions, north, east, and south. who actually, my cit though are arthur, we're good out of this hell, cold boston. i see it's old burning wood barely got alt in small groups. our command is don campbell, us. i'm telling it to you. like it's a school that we lost more people to say to dad for injured in half an hour. these are all who are left. it's hell there. north. simply how i'm telling you much sued of the battle for bachman has been utterly savage. it has claimed thousands, if not tens of thousands of ukrainian troops killed endangered. rare sleeps from ukrainian journalists and troops paint a terrible picture. yeah. hi allison, i spoke to people who transfer the dead and wounded out of backlit,

and they told me that according to their estimates and unprepared ukraine and fight to survive in backward for only 4 hours on the front line. yes. that's a very negative statistic. i think they survive longer in zappa rogia than yet. can le ganske russian forces are pushing forward slowly, but surely. ah, with these is the 2 s for 2 lip, a 240 millimeters mortar used to level fortifications. remember with blue, with

the thought ah, i may be huge and they certainly are, but they function much like their smaller cousins. and those are reg, regular, more dog cell. mine is launched out of the tube flies in an arc and lands on target with the ammunition that they're using now are those mines are rocket assisted, meaning that they can cover much greater distances. ah, with it is somewhat rare. see who i think to these guns falling together. one is usually for deep enough. mm. but it's sort of teaching us to your nothing

remains of the enemy's positions of the shot. this system fire strictly. i've made the targets and left nothing. handing the 2 lip is just one of the weapons that ukrainian troops and nationalists are running from in baltimore and elsewhere. and every day, more weapons and vehicles arrive. russia's military, industrial complex is in overdrive and key of understands time. he's not on its side more. i'd gazda of archie lucon, squeezen cartier has been struck by another series of earthquakes just basically a day after a magnitude 7.8, rock the country, bringing havoc. well that ok, but also to as a southern not neighboring country of syria and the turkish president of the one described it as a strongest earthquake in nearly 100 years. so far as we understand more than 4000 people have been confirmed dead. the following footages from one of the areas

hardest hit, i should warn you. you may well find this disturbing. i'm with meantime elderly residents, my nursing home of forced to flee into the freezing cold. if the facility was heavily damaged with the outside temperature around 0 degrees celsius, this footage are showing some of them. huh. well, some of them also seriously injured, exposed to the elements without any serious when the clothing didn't have time put in a on a images are also circulating on social media, showing people in tears. they say,

wait for any news about their loved ones in the affected areas. oh, they have torn my hotel out, were completely broken. no, for the new modem. ah . does it? does it with

me? ah, i miss roswell, and the whole family is under there. my sons, my daughter, my son in law, they're still under the rubble. we hear their voices, they're still alive. there's no way to get them out. there's no machinery, there's no error. ah. but in the meantime, grandson is 18 months, so please help them please. we can hear them have not got any news from them since the morning please. there were the 12 full. we can't reach my family,

my grandson. ah mm hm. it is also collecting online, showing a multi story residential building, swapped, toppling in the country with residents, forced to flee their homes during these rec, or setting up for a debra that i got this, you know, at this moment just offer a building collapse, was actually filmed by john lester, in a live broadcast and southeast, in turkey, upsetting footage of, i guess, really speaks for itself. earlier in the program, i spoke with a turkish, a geologist, j, laotian goya, who commented on reports that took a shifted 3 meters in the us quite dwell. there is

a local shift for about 3 meters, but that doesn't mean the whole of turkey shifted. what's the expectation saffo? the shaking to continue off the shocks and tremors are what people are talking about. now that you say don't forget, these are really big earthquakes. so the av aftershock will continue and usually with such earthquakes. busy is a big aftershock. busy is one magnitude lower than the big shock. and that can come the next day a few days later and in one infected come, or it can come in 6 months. so one has to be really prepared for these things. you have to monitor them very carefully, look at the distribution of the off to trucks. we have to have a sort of earthquake town built as quickly as possible because it's very cold there . now, a lot of people will die if they don't do that as a problem with food. there's a problem with water. there's

a problem with heating. and unfortunately, the organization has not been exemplary. it hasn't been exemplary, but again, them, this is, this is the worst set of quakes in a 100 years as, as we understand. yes. yes. but, you know, turkey should have been prepared for this. you know, people who, including me, have been saying that these things will come and hit turkey. if you draw the, what's called the eye, so size moves. that means the equal shake areas. you, they start in turkey and they enter syria and then they exit. come back into turkey, you know, i'm talk, yeah. they're all serious, seriously. close to the epi central area and there been 2 of these earthquakes was we in a santa turkey is getting a lot of help now from the international community. but the people we've spoken to in syria a saying that they're having a difficult time getting aid from the international community simply to, to western sanctions. i mean, don't you think politics should be pushed aside in the wake of such a day? i mean, i sang shoes under these circumstances are silly. they should stop immediately.

they, they had similar damage. they had similar numbers of people dying. no, i mean, i cannot understand, not helping people that have been hit through no fault of their own. this is nature's doing well, so it was at least 10 cookies preferences have been severely empath and the travis could be felt for hundreds of kilometers away among the countries that deeply affected neighboring syria just here on the southern part of the mouth already crippled by years of conflict, now it suffered massive devastation with a seismic shock slammed into his northern regions close to the turkish border. well, just a moment here on the program. let's take a closer look at what is the extent of the destruction as we know it so far. over 3500 deaths confirmed in 38 over 22000 people injured. syrian authorities reporting more than 800 killed and 1400 hert,

as well. of the syrian city of aleppo close to turkish border was one of the area's most effected. residents were forced to flee their homes and have been gathering shelters where they were given blankets and food of the facilities were chosen because they're far from told buildings as residents sphere that could be further collapses. and we heard from some of them as they shared the terrifying stories a less than this man that now look and feel the ass moving under us. like when nelson the shaking was getting stronger and stronger. all the things in the house were fooling. we could not get ourselves together. we didn't know what to day, and how would we be? i believe people fled from their homes and we decided to come to this comment. this is their mall area, and there are no tall buildings there. we went out to the street to see all the people standing there. there were in a disastrous condition, highly anela act, that was there more than 750 people in the convent. we're providing all we can for these families. we give them breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as providing heating and bathrooms,

and the most important thing for them which is safety her kids now, as sarah tried to cope with the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes, the u. s. has refused to lift sanctions against the middle eastern country. the u. s. state department spokesperson recently deflected a question about this policy saying the syrian government is to blame itself for the current disastrous situation. the country isn't even in the wake of these earthquakes. government, they are empowered to run the specular operation or ration and so it would be a great gesture and i just show it to the function basically, you know, just how think it would be quite are running if not even counterproductive for us to reach out to a government as brutalized, if people over the course of a dozen years now, asking them slaughtering them, being responsible for much the suffering that they've endured. like human rights

groups of warm the western sanctions, particularly the american ones, are blocking aid from entering syria after these devastating quakes. a media outlets, a report of the transport companies are hesitant to make deliveries to syria due to a risk of punishment from washington. and i spoke with mohammed, oddly, a local reporter from syria who says western countries ignore the humanitarian situation of the country. and the refusal to lift sanctions is just one glaring example. less than confess, continue to impose those sanctions. those sanctions, not just now, but even during the years of for prevent the serious from getting there are basic mean. for example, if the syrian government wanted to get some medicine and medical supplies for the country, the central bank of syria will not be able to make any transaction as a result of the sanction. this is just one example of what those sanctions have been doing. an effect, how would they have been affecting the lives of the syrian people to us and western

countries in general? do not care about history and peoples about the lives of the syrian. how can you, how can any syrian civilian or individual here believe that the u. s care is about 3 and people while the u. s. itself and the us coalition killed hundreds of syrians during the christ has an air strike on syria destroyed houses. the u. s. is looting syria's resources. the u. s. is dividing the country by occupying parts in the north and the north east and getting that oil, some of that oil to the so called through the mac product courses. former us president donald from said he said we're keeping the oil, we're not allowing the syrian government to get that oil. so those statements and those act why they not, it is a clear proof that they do not hear about the humanitarian situation and fight, sir. yes, all they want is to implement their agenda over here. they want their political interests to be achieved. they want the conferences to say divide at the end of the

day. they don't care, they do what they want to do. and even if it's at the expense of syrians live, or just tony 20 parts down here at moscow, the ukrainian president of lot of the landscape will not participate in the italian music festivals, son ramo, the move to withdraw his video address of the cultural festival follows weeks of controversy over the landscape planned parents. let's learn more. and course live now to watch. you can contribute. rachel moss and joining us here on the program. rachel, always good to see you. i found the ramo is essentially italy's biggest entertainment show of the year. it seems that the lensky has not been given the grand finale. he apparently wanted. what's the scoop here? well, just to give you an idea, the san ramos song festival is what gave rise to euro vision. it's widely regarded as the longest running music contest in the world. and this year's edition start on tuesday and it runs through saturday. but now we're hearing about the pressure that

the organizers and broadcaster have been under to let zalinski be men and take center stage zalinski the president will not send a video, but a text with regard to preventive control. i think it is complicated to censure. a president control is related to the airing of a television program to view everything before it goes on air. i smile at the idea of censorship. so as long as he has been crashing the velvet rope at various other major entertainment events via pre taped speeches, most recently i last weekend's grammy awards, where he urged musicians to speak out in supportive keith. because as everyone knows, hollywood is full of highly informed people, with absolutely no opinions who need to be prodded very aggressively to speak their minds. there is talk the san ramon festival organizers, perhaps letting zalinski speak on the final night saturday night. but they've been faced with some blow back from prominent italian political figures. i will give you

discovery. i will she really? i love italian songs zalinski i dont know how he sings. i have other preferences. if i have time to watch, right. you know, it will be to listen to songs, not to listen to anything else. as a private citizen who pays his license fee. however, i would prefer that it didn't go ahead. i feel that on zalinski side, there is a desire for visibility, which disturbs me. there's a conflict. san ramo, does not seem like the right context for me. okay, so last month at the golden globe awards hollywood celebrities. listen to zalinski riff on the conflict in between their sips of champagne and muffles of icelandic salmon. they're just so completely out of touch with the average person that ratings have plummeted. and that's pretty much the same as ratings for the rest of these old establishment award shows. people just aren't tuning in any more to listen to a bunch of hollywood left this preach and tell them how to live. so in that context,

it's really not the best look for zalinski to constantly be looking to hitch his wagon to that. failing out of touch, holly, weird scene, a speaking of weird last year, zalinski spoke at the cannes film festival, here in france, but was denied a spot at last year's oscars host. amy schumer said at the time that quote, i think it's a great opportunity to at least comment on a couple of things. i have some jokes that kind of highlight the sort of current condition. i mean, there are just so many awful things happening that it seems hard to focus on which one? yeah, there's a lot of other misery and war in the world to make jokes of, i guess she's saying. so why is zalinski the only one allowed to constantly hug the spotlight at these things, but by the way, oscar winner sean penn did give zalinski one of his own academy awards for best

actor. takes one to no one, i guess fifo refuse to bow to pressure to let zalinski speak at the world cup football. find the last december fee for president johnny infant tino said quote, those fans and the billions watching on tv they have their own problems. they just want to watch 90 or 120 minutes without having to think about anything but just enjoying a little moment of pleasure. enjoy. and now italian citizens are echoing that sentiment in objecting to zalinski san ramo appearance. have a lesson bosses i meant to call it out of the zalinski, but i'm totally against the zalinski thing because russia hasn't done anything wrong to me. neither has ukraine is to us war against the rest of the world. because we, who are in favor of peace have to spend a lot of money and expensive surveillance and honest workers to make war and destruction or india that atom. it's so senators little and i've always been against sending weapons because there are always secondary roads to find and follow . and i mean, we can invest 500000000 in italy for other things. we have many problems,

america and all the other states that send arms have no problem because they have them, their policy is war mongering and always has been. we have to stay out of it was a gun order, there was a, this is a sitting faint event and it must only be about sitting or to politics. must not come in. did you d a me at the so that it looks like italians really just want to focus on something a little more light hearted and fine just for a few days and made the ongoing inflation and energy cost challenges and the sacrifice that the european union overlords demanded them for ukraine. i'd ought to conservative rachel mawson. thank you. will molly's foreign minister has met with his russian count about so great laughter off and after the african states capital. as i rushes top dip amount is on a tour of africa and the middle east, that the focus are expected to be on expanding bilateral ties and various fails are

that includes us economic and military spheres, as well as our deliveries of russian, wheat, fertilizers, and petroleum products, tamani or from our sister, china, lottie, france, his correspondent, viet. gov. it isn't gonna go that they had the russian diplomacy. so gala valve has continued his toe of african, the middle east, a thriving late at night in the 1000000 capital, following his visit to baghdad. the russian foreign minister has now met with his 1000000 count about um, did i job and the 1000000 transitional president? i see me great duck at the heart of the talks is bilateral corporation with other key issues on the agenda at the regional and international level. particular attention was played to russian deliveries a week, fertilizers and petroleum products to the west african country, regardless of producers. we agree to, to continue our joint effort to expand our ties and trade and economic investments . here we decided that now we will focus on exploring and mining minerals and

developing berlin infrastructure and agricultural and development relations between russian milli. have been friendly since of your times. but to day russian diplomacy considers raising the level of bilateral corporation in the political sphere as well as for economic security. and humanitarian issues must going by microshare a similar vision for the creation of the multiple or world architecture and refuse to comply with the policy of western dick dark and blackmail league of good. yes. when you get your new york sous up, we agreed that we do indeed see negative responses by western states to these are a corporation processes because it's so one of the cases where we see the west despising the principle of the sovereign equality of states and trying to impose double standards on its former colonies minister, we been looking forward to seeing you for a long time. and i think you're a busy here. israel, you want the mowing. people wanted to see minister,

we decided to strengthen now word corporation with russia and das. we are showing that we are not going to make any excuses for the partners that we are choosing for our choice. russian president vladimir putin spoke with his 1000000 concert, but assuming greta by telephone twice last year, the 1000000 president notably agreed to go to 2nd russia africa summit to take place next july saint petersburg. the head of 1000000 diplomacy delayed yet has already visited russia twice in the past 2 years. in november, 2021, and in may 2022 regarding russian diplomacy. sergei loves visit to my lee in europe . attuned to strengthen bilateral corporation. it was quite the meeting actually between those 2. and molly today, we had a live coverage over here on arte internationally. if you'd like to see what, what they say, what it really got down to the nitty gritty, what they were saying to the press is head over to r t dot com. the meantime,

your program returns at the top of yeah, ah ah, in 1884, the german empire began its colonial invasion into namibia. from the very start. berlin encouraged the white colonists to settle in south west africa and take away the best land from the local drives. the germans were actively draining natural resources and using the local population as a cheap labor source. this was causing major protests and led to a rebellion. in 19 o 4, the hero and nama tribes rebelled against german colonial rule. kaiser wilhelm the

2nd was fully determined and ordered to suppress the rebellion with the utmost severity. against the inhabitants of nam may be a germany through is 15000 well equipped army all around the country concentration camps were built in humane medical experiments over citizens were conducted within the period of 4 years. the germans killed up to 60000 people, among which there were 80 percent of the hero tribe, and 50 percent of the nama tribe. the events in south west africa are called the 1st genocide of the 20th century, and not without reason are compared to the holocaust just 2 decades later after the massacre in namibia hitler's assault unit put on the same brown colonial uniform which push the world into the chasm of the 2nd world war.