a soft american final goal you've seen revolutions to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. a top headlines on on t and the russian defense ministry says ukraine has lost more than 6 thousands of soldiers over the past month. as the u. s. and it's western allies do seek to prolong the conflict. meanwhile, russian troops faced fierce resistance around the dawn bass ton of moderate income, although they've captured at least 10 prisoners as we understand. we'll hear exclusively from russian fighters on the front line just to touch later in this program. a more off to shop. so i think sort of the after effect of devastating with the

brakes ravaged the country destroying homes and leaving thousands that i did. the program on historic visit today is the russian foreign minister visits his counterpart in marley, where they discussed the increased strategic and security cooperation. one of the very same time criticizing weston interference on the african come with pushing back on the main street narrative on setting the record straight from moscow. welcome to your news at saucy international. so the russian military has assessed key abs battlefield losses over the past month. the russian defense minister survey show who said that within that time ukraine has lost over 6500 troops. and more than $600.00 military vehicles. he also said the u. s. and it's western allies have been trying to drag out the conflict with the ultimate goal of

hurting russia. sanisha they 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 are those groups of russian troops are working to eradicate all the weapons and equipment supply to care for both on the delivery routes and in combat positions such a gym. 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 ukraine su,

snatch russian territories, and that they are actions that us and its allies, their actions are actually dragging nato countries into the conflict and escalated, thinks the point where we could see it, reach an unpredictable level. that sounds a quite scary, but again we're seeing this, 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 continued to grind all the weapons and equipment. they find that a supply for the key of regime, both on the battlefield and also on the supply route. then he spoke about the key aversion continuing to intimidate people in the territories that have recently come on, the russian control. and they're doing that by striking hospitals. why striking residential areas. then he moved on to say about how over orthodox christmas went. both sides was supposed to observe a truth period, a ceasefire. because as we know in the 1st week of january, russians and ukrainians, of course they observe,

that's when they observe christmas and still, despite that, ukraine's armed forces carried out over $550.00 artillery and more thorough types during that period. so the defense minister said that this shows their barbaric nature that they don't care about anything, even something as sacred as 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 oakland are in are almost, is developing successfully. well, the head of the donuts republic says russian forces have gained a strategic advantage around the embattled city of our troubles. also known as buck, mood that says the russian troops happening, advancing on ukrainian positions all up and down the front line. and that's from where we get this report now from our senior correspondent, kiev admits back mortar is on the brink, rushes. wagner group has launched an assault from 3 directions, north, east, and south, who actually myself,

our arthur will get out of this house called barton. it's all burning. we're barely got out in small groups. our command is don campbell, and 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 to the, the battle for back. what has been utterly savage. it is claimed. thousands, if not, tens of thousands of ukrainian troops killed endangered rare slips from ukrainian journalists and troops paint a terrible picture. yeah, elephant i spect people who transport the dead and wounded out of back much and they told me that according to their estimates and unprepared ukraine in fight to survive and 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 look ganske. russian forces are pushing forward slowly,

but surely with lease is the 2 s for 2 lip. a 240 millimeters mortar used to level fortifications, a garage rewards with blue particles with austin in this book. before i may be huge. they certainly are, but they function much like their smaller cousins them. those are read. regular more does sell. 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, it is somewhat rare. see, 2 of the think 2 of these guns, phone together, one is usually 30 enough. mm. but it's a little finishing us to your. nothing remains of the enemy's positions of the shot . this system fire strictly of major targets and leave nothing standing. the tulip is just one of the weapons that ukrainian troops and nationalists are running from in bombs and elsewhere. and every day, more weapons and vehicles arrive,

rushes military, industrial complex is in overdrive and key of understands time. he's not on its side more at gazda of r t. logan squeezen levy fighting has been taking place around the town of america . that is also in bon bass, in the face of what said to be intense resistance. russian forces say they've captured 10 ukrainian soldiers and we've spoken exclusively to some of the russian troops fighting on the front lines. for we get there though, i should warn you. you may find some of the following images disturbing. ah, the intensity of the battle was very focused compared with battles in the city of papa, now here and mary inca, this struction is much more serious if you look closely here. almost every house is destroyed a some didn't want to be

a brochure. in fact, the ukrainian force is dumped a lot of their colleagues here and left them with our studies. we always pull out the dead soldiers, liam, for ukrainian soldiers. a dead soldier means nothing. beautiful episode. he left him and he is still lying here unmarried, inca yours, of this quote. it was a letter from a dog of whom when you melissa blood for 6 days was stormed. some animal position was if that was the most difficult about those, that there was an enemy sniper name, ugly, and our men was killed when we covered the area with the machine, gun and allies on the right house in destroying the enemy and taking their comrades into it and so within an hour or 2 jenny jo, we collected our dead. we do not leave our own who either wounded nor killed him. loosen you. fortunately, you were to give up rarely, and only in extreme cases when their commander or another commander of the

stronghold simply runs away from yourself. let us leave them when we took prisoners . we tried to send a request ourselves and exchange them for our fighters, but it was useless. they didn't care, but still they do have reasonable people. apparently, when they understand there are no options except when we recently took 5 prisoners and reasoning came to them as well as the themselves said. the commander ran away, but they stayed. either they make a panic decision on their own and sit at a strong point until the last soldier. and then that soldier runs away and leaves behind the bodies where they have a squad behind the lines that does not allow its soldiers to retreat. but in any case, they fight to the last soldier, ukrainian soldiers whose drugs after which they cannot sleep or eat for 3 days. how many times it happened that we threw grenades and the infantry took direct hits to their hands to their legs and they continued to resist. i think it's impossible to do this without being drugged. usually personally, i think they definitely use narcotics. it is because no sane person is capable of

this turkey has been struck by another series of earthquakes just a day after a huge 7.8 magnitude on the richter scale rocks the country and broke havoc as well to neighboring syria just in the south. the southern part of the map, the talk is president of the one described. it is the strongest earthquake in nearly a 100 years. so far more than 4000 people have been confirmed dead. on the following footage, it's from one of the areas hardest hit. should warn you, you may find this disturbing. i'm with

elderly residents. my nursing home are forced to flee into the freezing, cold is the for so that he was heavily damaged outside temperatures ranging around 0 degrees celsius. this is what it shows that men others ultimately exposed to the 11th with very little warm clothing and images circulating on social media, showing people in tears as a wait for any news about their loved ones in the affected areas. oh, i hm. mm hm. they have torn my hotel out, were completely broken. no,

for the new modem. ah . does it? does it monday? so give me. ah ah, i miss ross was lou families 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. i'm gonna be my 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 12th floor. we can't reach my family, my grandson. this is gina at this moment, just after a building collapse was filmed by a john left during a live broadcast and se, utopia. many video circulating online showed large residential buildings coupling

in the country with residence, forced to flee their home, showing a norma felt like upsetting for that really speaks for itself. frankly, the audio i spoke with took a fuel if you're starting to allow sion, your, the comment on, on reports that are the countries shifted 3 meters in the earthquake out there is a local shift for about 3 meters, but that doesn't be the whole of turkey shifted to earthquakes rather were called by 2 fault. one of them is a continuation of the dead sea transform fault that comes from these. well, in fact it comes from the red sea. it goes through gulf of october. why the ariba dead sea? and that is through galilee, into lebanon, and from lemon on through the syrian coastal areas. it comes into turkey too hot i and then veers slightly to the east to join the east anatoly in fault. but when it drives the east on it all your fault and other fault the exec fault joins it the

earthquake activated these 2 faults. and these 2 folds showing at the count amendment i trickle junction where they create a little basin. 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 what has to be really prepared for these things? you have to monitor the many carefully look at the distribution of the aftershocks . we have to have that as 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 it, and unfortunately the organization has not been exemplary. it hasn't been exemplary,

but again, 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 in turkey. what we understand her turkey is getting a lot of help now from the international community. but the people we've spoken to in syria as saying that they're having a difficult time getting aid from the international community simply to you to weston sanctions. i mean, don't you think politics should be pushed aside in the wake of such a? 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. so at the end of the day, a 10 turkish provinces have been impacted. the tremors though could be felt for

hundreds of kilometers away. and among the ne, via countries affected that of a neighboring syria just down here in the southern part of the map already crippled by years of conflict. it suffered massive devastation when the seismic shocks. ultimately, stam slammed in northern regions that along that would be a turkish border. now, just a moment here on the program, let's have a closer look at what is essentially the extent of the destruction. now, so far over 3700 deaths have been confirmed in courier, with over 22000 injured assyrian authorities reporting more than 800 killed. and more than $1400.00 heard of a syrian city of alameda, near the turkish border was one of the affected areas. one of the ones that got hit the hardest residents, they were forced to free their homes. they been gathering at shelters where they were given food and blankets. the facilities were chosen because they're far away from tall buildings. as residents fear, there could be even more collapses. and we heard from some of them as a shared where essentially are the terrifying experiences. a lesson on the

smile that now look at, 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 do, and i'm a baby. i believe people slept from their homes and we decided to come to this comment. this is there more area and there are no tall buildings there. we went out to the street to see old people standing there. there were in a disastrous condition. hi leon. alack that was there were 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. as a serial tries to cope with the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes, the u. s. has refused to lift sanctions against the country. the us state department spokesperson recently deflected a question about this policy saying of the end of the day, even in the,

in the aftermath of the earthquake, the syrian government has no one to blame except itself and government, they are out there doing the spectra ration or ration and so it would be a great gesture and just show it to perfection that basically you know, suffocated it would be quite our 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 gasping them slaughtering them, being responsible for much the suffering that they've endured. well, you'd imagined human rights groups have warned that western sanctions, particularly from america, a blocking a from entering syria in the aftermath of all these quakes. a media outlets reported the transport companies are reluctant to make deliveries to syria due to a risk of punishment from washington. and i had this discussion with mohammed on lee, a local reporter from syria,

who says western countries ignore the humanitarian crisis in the country. and the refusal to lift sanctions is just one glaring example. western confess continue to impose those sanctions. those sanctions, not just now, but even during the years of for prevent the syrians from getting there a basic mean. for example, if, if the syrian government wants us 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 such sentence. this is just one example of what those thanks and have been doing an effect. how would they have been affecting the life of the syrian people to us and western countries in general? do not care about history and people's about the lives of the syrians. how can you, how can n syrian civilian or individual here believe that the u. s. care is about 3 and people while the us itself and the us listen killed, hundreds of syrians doing the crisis in airstrikes on syria. the story house of the

u. s. looting resources, the u. s. dividing the country by occupying parts in the north and the north east and giving that oil some of that oil to the so called through the product forces. former us president donald from said you said we're keeping the oil, we're not allowing the through government to get that all those statements and those act, but they not have a clear prove 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 country to, to stay divided 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, molly's foreign minister has welcomed his russian counterpart sort of a law for off to the capital of the west african country. and while pointing out, but a western colonial powers have left the continent of the top diplomat reported that

press conference, the wide field of cooperation is best to cultivate ranging from economic, agricultural and military spheres. molly and diplomat said the russian presence in the country is based on his country's direct request and has a chief successful results in fighting terrorism in the region. and now from our sister tunnel author from his correspondent viewed a kaufman in it, is in the makeover that they had to rush in 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 counterparts under the idea of the 1000000 transitional president. i seek good dog and the heart of the talks is bilateral corporation with other key issues on the agenda and the regional and international level. particular tension was played to russian deliveries a week, fertilizes and petroleum products to the west african country. where the go to las,

for those rugs where greta 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 bureau live infrastructure and agricultural development relations between russia and milly 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 go in by microshare a similar vision for the creation of the multiple or world architecture and refuse to comply with the policy a western dig dot and black mail league of good. when you go to new york, susan, we agreed that we do indeed see negative responses by western states to these are a cooperation 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 your a visit here is really wide the mowing people wanted to see minister. we decided to strengthen now word, cooperation 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 a 2nd, russia africa summit to take place next july saint petersburg, the head of 1000000 diplomacy. abdulla job has already visited russia twice in the past 2 years in the 2021 and in may 2022. regarding russian diplomacy for gay lovers visit to my lee is a new opportunity to strengthen bilateral corporation. it's good to have your

company for this program. now as we understand at least 4 people have been killed off to a residential building collapsed in the west of russia. are these that had happened in the city of fm off, which is it that's basically in the tula region. local authorities play my gas explosion. i say it's the likely cause a through other people were portly injured in the blast, which destroyed at least 8 apartments. before we wrap up this program clashes of erupt in india's capital as hundreds of activists demanded the government investigate one of the country's largest companies. oh. 7 the demonstrators of claim that indian billionaire gold. com, a donnie committed financial fraud. or this comes off the shares of his company. the, a donnie group plummeted in recent weeks. some major investors, including ones, backed by the state of a portly,

attempted to prop up the stock price, raising phase of potential government collusion. or india's financial regulated has said the shares are being closely monitored and the overall banking sector reportedly remains stable. all thought of stories still coming in to us here at o. r t international headquarters in moscow. appreciate you joining us here for this program. a, my colleague union o'neill here with the desk at the top of the hour to update you on the quakers from turkey and syria, and the rest of your world wide use. ah ah, when this conflict ends and it will let it must get,

there will be again, commercial relationships. they'll be social relationships, they'll be family relationships. it's going to take some time, but it's natural. and you know, there isn't going to be a great wall built between ukraine and the russian federation. ah ah ah ah

ah, people likes and in most cases is good to be as close to one as possible. but of course, the world freedom in quinton, is all the allies of united states, or in the top b index all in complex or in the bottom. what does this say about the credibility and the criteria of the ranking system? for this addition of $316.00 we're going to ask is the world of freedom index. just a ranking made by the west side justification into involvement and foreign complex

since 20 spelled and index of civil liberties has been published by candidates frasier institute. germany is liberal as institute and the u. s. based cato institute. now the annual freedom index created rankings based on measures of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, individual economic choice, freedom association, freedom of assembly, violence and crimes. freedom of movement and women's rights. at switzerland, new zealand, denmark, estonia and ireland rank in the top 5 were syria, venezuela, yemen, sudan, in egypt at the very end with iran being 6 from the bottom. but just like with almost everything, there are sometimes a large difference between what is being presented and what is actually occurring. sure, leaders from countries like the united states, great britain and france, can almost never go in entire speech without dramatically saying the word freedom. but ask the citizens and those countries how much freedom they enjoy and their answers would be different.