very dramatic developments, only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk a nationalist use multiple launch or rocket systems against civilian is the once again. here. in my case, one of the shells is still stuck here in this house. we report from the ground in russia, donna public where multiple civilians were wounded in the latest ukrainian artillery attack which destroyed the homes of local residents. or wrong marks the 44th anniversary of it. is monica revolution in a commemoration other countries, unity and a reminder to the us of its failure to contain the will of the iranian people. and

of the central american nation of nicaragua, releases more than 200 people who were jailed several years ago for trying to overthrow the government and the u. s. back who attend with coming to live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. and we begin with the latest from the conflict and ukraine as several substantial attacks were reported on friday night. let's take a look at some unverified images from ukraine. the 2nd largest city of har, called where a local air defense system apparently tried to repel a drone attack, powerful explosions, and a massive fire, also reported near the national capital in the key at region. this comes a day after a local authorities throughout ukraine said a massive missile attack crippled the country's energy infrastructure. meanwhile,

on the other side of the border in the russian region of zap, roshi, local officials say air defense systems repelled ukrainian artillery attack that used us applied high mars rocket. however, some rocket fragments fell on residential areas, damaging hopes, at least one civilian guide as a result and another was wounded and in the neighboring doughnuts region. the latest ukrainian artillery showing has wounded at least 2 civilians, residential areas in the city of mike. he came under intense ukrainian fire. our correspondent, roman coast reports from the scene. ukrainian nationalist g is multiple launcher, rocket systems against civilians. the once again here in my case worker, but one of the shells is still stuck here in this house. as the result of this had sat against civilians, 2 people were wounded. 2 women. right now the men are trying to clear up the debris can see the garage right here was

also destroyed. now the man who the owner of this house, he was lightly wounded as well, and he told us his story. what happened? he was at home alone at that time. beautiful lord fairway blue shall hit. then the 2nd i realized that i was alive, the dust rose, none the showing stopped. usually. i went outside with a neighbor and another shell hit. i fell down again. i could feel blood running down my elbows. got you up here, i went with the ne bud to the basement to sit all the shelling. there was a direct hit on the garage. there's no roof now. the gas supply was caught, the bathroom was destroyed and there is no water. this family has a foster child right now. she is out of school and usually sits right here at this dining table that day. something prompted her to leave the house and go to her

grandma's or has she been here? she would have probably died because the shell struck directly into the house. yeah, i was at work. my husband called me and said our house is apparently no more. i said go and look. if the roof is intact, he says i cancelled as there is dust everywhere. and then he looked and said that the roof was destroyed. thank god, the child was not at home in these. she had gone to the grandmother's, not which, usually if she is at home, she sits here. civilian areas like this one here in the nest public are under constant artillery, shutting by the ukrainian military. now the soldiers of the key of regime are using a various weapons of various categories against civilians, including multiple launch rockets system supplied by nato countries. missile defense systems have been working non stop over the last few days. nevertheless,

civilians are still falling victims to the shelling of ukrainian nationalist room on call for a marty done escrow public. a high ranking u. s. official has posted a photo where he is seen holding the flag of an ultra nationalist, ukrainian battalion notorious for its new nazi ideologies. the emblem of the as all battalions depicted on this banner includes a woolfolk symbol that was used by nazi germany during world war 2. senior u. s. policy advisor paul massaro proudly held up the flag, which was reportedly signed personally by members of the controversial ukrainian regiment. he described them as heroes. but what goes around comes around there are rising concerns about american new nausea is going to fight in ukraine. and then returning battle hardened to their homeland r t correspond caleb mop. it examines the issue the arrest of 2 people, including the leader of a neo nazi group who were allegedly planning to blow up the power grid. and

baltimore has shaken up the american public. the f b, i says that informants prevented the plot that would have left maryland residence without electricity from being carried out. your cues were not just talking but taking steps to fulfill their threats and further their extremist goals. russell provided instructions and location information. he described attacking the power transformers as the greatest thing somebody can do. in her own words, daniel said she was determined to do this. she added, it would lay this city to waste. their actions threatened the electricity, and heat of our homes, hospitals, and businesses. the eye views them is racially or ethically motivated, extremist. now there are some important details about the ideology that those detained pro fast that are being glossed over by u. s. mainstream media,

namely that the ideological leader of this neo nazi group is a big supporter of ukraine. in particular, the as off battalion, they're mainstream u. s. media outlet, newsweek couldn't even obscure this and had to acknowledge the links. we interviewed members of a white supremacy group called adam bath and division, who has sent members to train in ukraine, where neo nazi malicious, have recruited bites of premises from around the world to join their fight against russia and advanced racist ideology. the atom often division thinks there is no hope for reform. they argue that america and the west need to fully collapse in order to bring everything back into balance. and let the racialist utopia they envision, come into being the group. and it's manifesto, a book called see should been the inspiration for a number of different terrorist attacks. essentially, the goal is that with this violence, they can inflame tensions and pave the way for the big collapse. now groups like

adam often and their ties to ukraine are nothing new. in fact, one white supremacist who calls himself bone face even says the cia sent him to ukraine to establish ties with ultra nationalists, may don groups since 2014 links between american, neo nazis and t. fascists have been deepening in case the world wonders what happens. all the real skin hats, they all went to ukraine. those who monitor extremism around the world. and notice the key of is turning into a kind of mecca for white nationalists, including and most especially the very violence obsessed with these networks. share approaches to recruitment, financing, and propaganda with ukraine. emerging as a hub in the broader network of trans national white supremacy extremism. attracting foreign recruits from all over the world. recent research shows that around $17000.00 foreigners from 50 countries, including the united states,

have gone to fight in that conflict. many fighters, particularly from western countries, have taken advantage of the conflict in ukraine to expand the global white supremacy extremist movement. not only are american not involved, but not from new zealand, have also been caught up in this. and at this point, we have time magazine talking about how the as our battalion has a network of supporters that stretches across 3 continents and extremist with ties to the as our battalion recently got arrested in italy for planning attacks that would have killed civilians. she had 5 people were arrested, some members would travel abroad to be trained by ultra nationalists, military groups. one of the members of the order is the fugitive in ukraine, where he had contact with the solve the talia engaging in the war and more of remember how the united states had special stipulations and it's spending bills for ukraine saying that no money could be allocated to the neo nazi as our battalion.

but you'll notice that the u. s. media has turned a blind eye to the presence of nazi forces in ukraine. the nazi symbol keeps turning up in media reports. now since january 6th, there has been a lot of talk among american politicians about extremism and the danger of violence . or maybe it doesn't help that the u. s. government is arming and training such forces and sending them stockpiles of weapons and ukraine. who is to say, they're hateful ideology will stay in ukraine and who's to say that their guns and bombs will only ever be pointed at russia. what goes around comes around many americans or can learned about their safety. caleb marvin r t new york, or on and celebrating the 44th anniversary of as it's on the thread solution as a collaboration of the unity of the nation and a reminder to the u. s. of its failure to contain the will of the iranian people.

44 years ago, although the square root of one was jam packed with hundreds of thousands of iranians, if not millions, to welcome a man who changed the course of history in iran. in mom khomeini, when the mom returned from force exile in 1979, it meant that thousands of years of monarchy would make way for religious democracy . former monarch mohammed results out of he known as the shot, had already fled the country. just a few months later, these la mac republic became iran's new ruling system in a nation wide referendum. this lament republic, as the fruit of the nation void uprising was formed based on the idea of religious democracy, the will and vote of the people. and based on the divine and spiritual teachings of the iranian nation, a nation that throughout history has always risen against the oppression of tyrants . and has stood up to achieve justice and independence and has not tolerated

captivity either for itself or for a nation. this warm convolution was driven by anti imperialist sentiment when the public fed up with the u. s. and u. k. pondering the countries wealth and resources. however, the revolution caught washington by surprise. here at the former u. s. embassy, which iranians called the den of espionage american intelligence service, used to possess the most sophisticated spying tolls. they even boasted they had every single detail about major events, particularly demonstrations and riots on the table. however, the cia did not see the prospects for a revolution. any time so that he was and u. k, were not prepared for a regime change in iran. amount khomeini chanted the slogan of independence from superpowers. something which would put an end to the british and american dominance . only ross oil. the 2 countries had already overthrown the democratically elected government of mohammed mo, signed up by orchestrating the 1953 co,

and restating the chart to power. that's what made toppling the shot in 1979, thinking the unthinkable for washington. as if viewed mohammed was up on the v as a close ally and the best sense of the word, a puppet. this is an enchanted land, in which maternity, thanks to an enlightened young ruler in the presence of an enormous supply of petroleum harmonizes with one of the earliest civilizations known to recorded history. but the will of the iranian nation seemed to outweigh the will of western powers. iran will be an independent country, non aligned, not under the influence of any superpower. and it will only have friendly relations with those super powers that demonstrate that they are ready to respect our national interest and our independence. what we want from the united states is to respect our revolution except its reality, understand our movements, and submit to it. unwilling to accept as the feat the worth resorted so many ways

to deal a blow. the method is monica palmer case in point, is this logistic and financial support for iraq. the 1980s. you only walk for today's hostility toward the want continue to the former fashion economic measures price wisely. these one for calling on the global still use of jolly party chevron . meanwhile, in central america, nicaragua has released from jail more than 200 attempted crew plotters. they had tried to overthrow the national government back in 2018 and what was believed to be a u. s. funded operation. it wasn't about negotiate in anything that has to be clear. we're not asking that they leave the sanctions. we aren't asking for anything in return. the united states should take their mercenaries. an investigation by the great media outlet showed that american government agencies such as u. s. a id provided funding for the insurgency. hundreds of people were killed out

the timing chaotic theme as armed gangs attempted to storm the presidential palace with a parent plan to kill the head of state. those jails over the qu, attempt, or later labeled as political prisoners by the u. s. department we heard from nicaragua, based independent journalist, ben norton, who says that washington has links to violent extremist all across latin america. that in states was the main sponsor of the violent, very right wing elements that tried to overthrow nicaragua democratically elected government. i personally have interviewed a man who is the security guard at the mayor's office in the city of messiah, and he was tortured by these coup plotters and he lost one of his arms. so there are very many victims of violent attempts in 2018, and we have documents showing that many of the leaders involved in this coo attempt were funded by the u. s. government through traditional ca cut out like the u. s.

agency for international development usa id and also the national endowment for democracy. the any the one of the co founders of the any d, l in weinstein told the washington post, that it was created to do basically what the cia had done previously. but to do it out more covert, more overly in the open and the any d in the usa id spent tens of millions of dollars, funding opposition groups that oppose this on the needs to government and the elected president, daniel ortega, and of course, anyone who knows them the more recent history of nicaragua, going back to the 1900 eighty's. no, this is not new united states in the 1900 eighty's through the ca, armed in trained terrorists, the contrast they, they burned down schools and hospitals according to one of their former leaders. they use terrorism as a systematic tactic. they put the ca, help, the contrast put mines in the porch to blow up nicaragua force. so for many people

in the corolla, unfortunately, it wasn't surprising to see that the u. s. government returned to those same tactics that it had used in the 1980, so that the stabilisation attempt never end, but the responses of the governments has been different. right. so if a government, which is sovereign, tries to prevent these coup plotters funded by the u. s, from overthrown their government, then the u. s. deems them authoritarian, the us, impose the sanctions on them. this is the same thing that we've seen in venezuela, cuba, nicaragua, and then other countries that don't take action against the coup ladders. well, they often get overthrown, as we saw in 2019, in bolivia or right now in peru. they confirmed death taught from the recent earthquakes and turkey and syria has risen to more than 21000 people. rescue operations are ongoing. despite rapidly fading hopes for finding more potential survivors in war torn syria, the search through the rubble is continuing in the areas devastated by the

earthquakes. but western sanctions are making the situation even worse. international. how couldn't reach syria an initial days after the disaster? and the moments when the aid was so much needed to save lives, only after several days the you as agreed to ease its sanctions on syria. amend mounting international pressure. that's while russia and arab nations were the 1st in line to help the middle eastern country with life saving efforts are t correspondent who is same e i has the details as he reports, for mulatto syria continues to receive humanitarian aid from arab countries. civil society is taking active initiatives to alleviate the terrible consequences for those who are affected by the devastating earthquake that struck cities in northern and western syria. the city of aleppo is one of the most affected areas. when we arrived here, we saw the level of destruction. whole families are sleeping in the open air because they have left their crumbling houses. for 10 years we have had

a war to go. i demand that arab and, or other friendly countries, appealed to the americans to lift the blockade from us. so our people are suffering and dying, and g to dan fabricate the necessary aid was known delivered to syria, the home. so the effect of families have been destroyed or severely damaged. these residents have no shelter. the only shadows at mosques and schools. dozens of victims are lying here in the our ozzy hospital in the city of aleppo. many stories are told about the co atrophy, the claimed, the lives of thousands of people and left deep scars in the hearts of those who escaped. at 1st, this house was destroyed by terrorists. we restored it and now it has collapsed. i didn't feel anything. the whole building collapsed. a whole family lived in the same house. 2 sons and a daughter survived. god save them. as you have seen, there are many victims with serious injuries in the hospital who need serious treatment. we faced difficulties because of the lack of resources due to the

blockade in a large number of victims. the blockade has greatly affected our capabilities needed to provide medical care. as time passes, there is less of a chance of finding people alive after the cries for help. from under the rubble have stopped. hundreds of victims or in hospitals, families have been left homeless. people here hope to find their loved ones. all these complete the picture of the catastrophe of the syrian people under the american blockade or the end of the war did not put an end to the suffering of the syrians. but perhaps the consequences of a devastating earthquake are more painful for these people who are still counting their casualties as hundreds die under the rubble. lemonade. e raniker say the block has apparently failed to trace more than 80 percent of their russian financial assets. it has frozen that's as officials are sticking together, they billions in cash to ukraine, claiming the move is entirely legal. it please and also it come up to this. we will

also be mobilized to ensure that justice and fairness are applied in relation to the frozen assets. it is right that these frozen assets be mobilized to support the reconstruction of ukraine and be mobilized for fear and legitimate compensation for ukraine. according to estimates, based on a bank of russia report almost $300000000000.00, a russian assets are currently frozen in the e u. but as of yet only a few tens of billions have actually been traced by the box member straits states. r t contributor chris and join my colleague, worry sushi earlier to discuss the implications of this issue. the thing to look at is if we look at these numbers, so the, the european union at the beginning, they reported that they seized $258000000000.00 of russian assets. you know that gold currencies and they were running that ready based off the, the numbers from, from the russian government. and, but coming back with a road, it which they come back this way. they've only found $36400000000.00,

which begs the question, where's the rest of the money gone? i mean, it looks like it's probably all would be effectively being taken already, or this a massive, massive or the thing era, which you wouldn't really expect from the brussels, you know, that has its own currency. the year i run by its own central bank, it just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. but, you know, obviously we've had zelinski during this whirlwind tour right now of europe, london and paris and brussels and all that. but i guess when it comes to the issue of frozen assets or even that the potential for stealing these assets, because that's basically what it's gonna be as theft. why now? well, i think you've had it on the nail on the heads, right? very hate. it lets me going round saying, give us your planes, give us your planes. i don't think any of the european leaders and even the americans want to give these planes because it's completely worthless because that number one, the ukrainians comp fly them. number 2, they're very expensive. pieces of kit that they need for that their own national defense. i think that's part of the problem. and then you've just got just this constant constant issue that we're seeing over and over and over again of just just

petty law. is that the just trying to justify now, i'm really the only way i think to justify is to create another sort of storm of a story in order to make the world see that. you know, i think also it's for the taxpayers in these countries to say to them, hey, you know what? it's okay, we're not going to make you shut out for the next lot. we're going to give them money. that is going to steal money from russia base if you think they're going to get away with it. it's, you know, really sadly, i think they probably will not tell you for why. i mean, we sold the bank of england do this to venezuela. oh, my daughter, gold is still sat in the bank of that or they haven't spent it. but the fact that they were able to get away without, without really seeming much outcry from the international community and doing it, you know, that's quite frankly illegal. you may not like the policies of a government, there are many governments around the world, but you and i probably don't like the policies, but we don't advocate that you should steal that money. poland sports minister has added to rising western calls for russian. and bel russian athletes to be banned from next year, summer olympics in france. that is unless they join

a so called refugee team and publicly denounced their country's leaders, wasn't the which cripples. it's not a neutral team, but a refugee team. the could include russian, a bell or russian athletes who are dissidence from the prudent and lucas shanker regimes. this concept has been received with interest and i think it can be a basis for discussion with the i o. c. to come out of the situation with their heads held high or low. as comes as a group of 35 countries, including the u. s. germany and australia are also demanding a ban on russian and bel russian athletes from the upcoming games. the move cranks up the pressure on the international olympic committee. we're just trying to avoid a total boycott from participating countries. the mayor of paris, who at 1st was in favor just a month ago now wants to completely ban russian athletes because of the conflict and ukraine soon. further in depth on this list, cross live now to alan more sports columnist and co host of capital sports. 3 point

oh i'll and it's great to have you on the program today. now, what is your take on the statement by the polish sports minister? i mean, why do you think that he thinks that athletes should go against their governments and essentially become dissidence? good morning, rachel, thank you for having me on look. i think we have to take a step back last week when you was being up himself and saying that he had an alliance. so good that will make a statement on the 10th of february. and he has 40 countries or more than 40 countries. we're backing him to ban russian companies. you can expand the lympics and you know, this is what he had a big reveal calling yesterday. if this is reveal, i think it's, it's quite a stays. and of course, as you mentioned that the 2 face to face or both face say by the parisian mayor to initially say yeah, okay, will,

will allow me because under lag now saying, oh no, i don't want that in. i mean it's, it seems very political because for the us olympic committee just a week ago said that they are not again or not. again, athletes from russian, russia competing deal to compete underneath the flag and dallas. ok boys. and i think this latest concoction is laces. attack on sports. i think it just shows where we are right now in terms of people using not using their brains. and it seems as though they're trying to set this precedent where the athletes have to agree with everything that their government is doing and they have to basically be the spokesperson for that. but at the same time, i mean, if we look at a country like the united states, their athletes aren't sanctioned for the actions of their government around the world. so why should russian and bel russian athletes be banned? and what do you think about mixing politics with sports here and really the precedent that is by that as a whole. politics and sport. sadly,

rates are intertwined. they will never be torn apart to because politicians sports is a great vehicle for increasing their profile for boosting their ego, for basically relieving dreams that they never, never could achieve themselves. and ask these minute, do this, and the answer really sad, state of affairs, you know, you're right, pointed personally why, why are you not getting the same kind of treatment? we saw the same thing with doping as well where we know, but in russia there was a problem. busy printer is a problem with open a will be a problem with building or doping cannot be eradicated, not in the way that you know, nations are going to today, whoever just focusing on russia. when most of the test page years are coming from like some of us and italy can you put it just doesn't make sense. i think that this attack on athletes and this is one of these isn't talk with natalie,

not just on 4th one. actually come so we saw just released us open when andrew through the ocean, tennessee where when ukrainian funds came in with you. it's like a wave new. can you fight courtside and abusing them using homophobic and races. abuse asked him on court. so he was one of the 1st athletes on russia. we know this, even he wrote and said stop the war. and he was, you know, he was kicked by a few people or say no, you shouldn't be doing that. should we support your coach? we said, no, i do not want to see what that is. and for us, if you want to play into lympics, he will have to even go further. you have to make his statement and this is did not that we saw as well people who, if you want to read it to last few, for example, they were proposing it enough. if you want to be lucky, you need to write a statement saying you're against the war you're going to know are countries been subject to this? and if this allowed to happen, rachel, this is allowed to take place and take hold. this is like the height of

a terrific olympic sport for spectators. the bible rise and rise and rise until eventually people have to, you know, say that they will go to try and, you know, i don't know like active suicide bombers in moscow or something because this is how insane does all these nor countries with objective nor country will be subjected to this and if the i o c, and i don't think they will, i don't believe you will see. change to this. your links are over and we're supposed to say ok again. we want to customize your own course at our own kids health and wellbeing and forget the oh yeah, it really seems is they're expecting these athletes to be political activists. but only if it is politically appropriate to what they say it is at the moment. now at the same time, the international limbic committee has said this week that quote, know, athletes should be prevented from competing just because of their passport. so do you think that this pushed by $35.00 countries to ban russian and bell russian

athletes will actually be enforced at the end of the day? no, i don't believe it will. i think that the people, you know, see for all their failures, for all the reasons that i would criticize them. sports did, they had the best interest sports at heart and also the best interests all the world basically because they want to try and pay people to get into understand what sports can do, how it is a vehicle for good people can talk. remember the last olympics when at the russian hygiene group when gold and ukrainian high job born bronze. and afterwards they, they embraced and they walk around together, celebrating cuz they're friends with mrs. cynthia from say that you are not allowed to be for the brand. the see saw us locked and said no, you are all together and i spoke with just a small.