very dramatic development only personally and getting to disease. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk a ukrainian nationalist use multiple launch or rocket systems against civilian the once again. here, in my case, one of the shelf is still stuck here in this house. we report from the ground in russia has done escrow public, multiple civilian wounded, and the latest ukrainian artillery attacks which destroyed the homes of local residents with the court before waking up to put a there's 2 of us to sleep so far. this is a good decision with and our team here from russia, the master to the un about rising condemnation of western arm supplies sticky. yeah

. and how western powers are turning a blind eye to that criticism are wrong marks the 44th anniversary of it's. it's a long make revolution and they can memory shit, the countries unity and a reminder to the u. s. failure to contain the will of the iranian people with coming to you live from the russian capital. this is our international i, rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. and we began with the latest from the conflict in ukraine as several substantial attacks were reported on friday night. these are unverified images from ukraine, 2nd largest city of harcourt, where a local air defense system apparently tried to repel a drone attack, powerful explosions and a large fire were also reported near the national capital in the key of 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 zapper, oci, local officials say air defense systems repelled ukrainian artillery attack that u. c. u. s. supplied high mars rockets, however, some rocket fragments fell on residential areas, damaging homes, at least one civilian died as a result and another was wounded and in the neighboring done, its regent. the latest ukrainian artillery showing has wounded at least 2 civilians, residential areas in the city of mike. he have cat came under intense ukrainian fire. our correspond roman coast wrote reports from the scene. ukrainian nationalist use 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 but lord, steroid, rochelle hit. then the 2nd i realized that i was alive. the dust rose, none the showing stopped, enjoyed. i went outside with a neighbor and another shell hit. i fell down again. i could feel blood running down my elbows go, you are 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 to go to her grandma's or had she been here. she would have probably died because the shell struck directly into the house. tell her i was at work, my husband called me and said oh hollis 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 the 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 art series showing by the ukrainian military. now the soldiers of the key of regime are using a various weapons or for various calibers against civilians including multiple launch rockets system supplied by nato countries. missile defense systems have been

working nonstop or 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 ukrainians. her fled to neighboring poland. se president, as long as he is to blame for failing to fulfill his campaign, promises to enter the nearly deck a long conflict in the dawn valley, which led to the current fighting with russia. this is steve zalinski is more of an actor. he doesn't understand politics. well, people simply felt for his promises that there would be peace in the dawn bass and that ukraine would change dramatically. i think a lot of people were wrong about him started. you got another guy, roberto for toronto, ukrainian sir, very chide of the school. it has been going on for a long time to see felton 14. unfortunately, there is foreign influence on zalinski, but zalinski won't election. it's true. it's legitimate. can yourself coolest

people are tired of the bull, the resource mobilization, but not no, says his own you must have that. yeah. like a feel all slobs ukrainians. russians beller russians are all tired of this conflict if there had been no. my don qu, in 2014, there would have been no problem in crimea or the don bass, if we look at other countries that the former soviet union has extend. beller as for example, they live peacefully. the, my dawn was a mistake. we do not yet know what further consequences await us in the future. as ukrainian forces suffer heavy casualties of fact and minute by many western politicians and mainstream media outlets. key at is compelling the country's population to join the army and mass western powers have largely ignored complaints about the force mobilization as well. and ski says ukrainians are fighting for supposed european values,

but scores of videos posted on the internet show how the ukrainian military has been abducting people right on the street in broad daylight a political activist from odessa currently and hiding in poland says the numerous ukrainians have been jailed for simply speaking out openly against zalinski government is affordable stored in order to live. there are many videos on the internet showing young men who have fled from the military draft. if you see people being caught on the street, don't you think that is because people don't really want to go to war? a lot of men have gone to poland to wait out the mobilization. now people are afraid of expressing their opinion because they may be consequences. they can be beaten or even killed. there are a lot of oppressions. it's dangerous to openly oppose the authorities. even when the electrical power is off and people go out and block the road, they're being called to the security service afterwards and intimidated. they can even be sent to prison. people are being hunted for their social media posts. i

know several people who were arrested and no one knows that it happened to them afterwards or dinner. citizens are tired of the conflict. everyone wants peace so that the conflict does not come to them. but unfortunately, other people are making all the decisions. meanwhile, washington keep sending weapons and money to kiev with ukraine's president zalinski . now asking his western allies to provide fighter jets and even more battle tanks . that's as roger waters, a peace activist and co founder of their renown rock. man, pink floyd has spoken out against the increasing arms, apply the key of an address to the un arts he heard from russia's un ambassador about that speech, and how western powers remain silent when russia reaches are to negotiate laws. hopeful we're cleaning up, but ah, i'm afraid bill, there's 2 fast asleep on the admit. we just had to. we her good security council,

griffin, which we requested close to a this week, and it's actually this week or on the i'm supposed to clean and where does it lead enormous efforts money that falls into ukraine, that the, the o thieves, the conflict. oh, you know that we invited roger woods. so without briefing them, and there were doubts that he could be a brief on that letter, which he brought. he could have quite a quite able i would say we, he was not the pro ration when he spoke. he spoke from what he's saying, we never when we invite brief us to the security council will never dictate them condition on what they should be saying, not writing scripts for them. you have what, what happened the, at the meeting. indeed. so we're so far, this is a conversation between the deaf and the blind. ah iran and celebrating the 44th

anniversary of it's is la mic revolution. as a can memory sion as the unity of the nation. an reminder to the u. s. of its failure to contain the will of the iranian people. i saw every tory rally as taking place and a runs as adi square, which was once a hotspot and the revolution 4 decades ago. thousands of people waved iranian national flags and held posters denouncing washington's meddling. sang down with the you, as we heard from you, from archie. contributor, you said jo, lowly about the importance of the anniversary. and what it means to the iranian people. 44 years ago, although the square roots at 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 mam khomeini, when the mom returned from forced exile in 1979, it meant that thousands of years of monarchy would make way for religious democracy

. former monarch mohammed resolved out of he known as the shot, had already fled the country. just a few months later, these law mac republic became aaron's new ruling system in a nation wide referendum. the flemish 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 warming convolution was driven by anti imperialist sentiment when the public fed up with the u. s. and u. k. pondering the country's 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 tools. 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. m khomeini chanted the slogan of independence from superpowers. something which would put an end to the british and american dominance on eras. oil. the 2 countries had already overthrown the democratically elected governments of mohammed mo, signed by orchestrating the 1953 co, and restating the shot 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 then 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 seem 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 this defeat the worse resorted so many ways to deal abroad. announcement is monica baba, casing point this logistic and financial support for iraq. the 1980s you want or for today's hostility toward the wrong continues of the formal fashion economic measures. price wisely. these long republic, i'm the global stiff use of the early party tech ra. despite the u. s.

failing, it attempts to stop in 1979 revolution. iranian authorities continue to express concerns about foreign meddling, particularly from the u. s. and the islamic republics domestic affairs. last year, protest wrapped it following the death of a 22 year old woman in police custody. the secretary of ron's national security council says the demonstrations were fueled by outside powers and a hapless attempt to topple the state. the americans themselves have admitted this . they steal not only afghan money, but syrian oil is well this economic strangulation is a manifestation of the inhumane nature of the u. s. which unfortunately manifests itself not only in terms related to nuclear weapons, but also in terms of economic pressure. enemies use all instruments available to them. the media, psychological warfare, linking the develop of relations with the west, with a decrease in the level of relations with russia, inciting,

internal discontent. stigmatizing the development of cooperation with eastern countries. the think tanks in the west, particularly in the u. s, are developing plans to undermine our relations and are sending those plots to their decision making centers. however, as my meetings with russia's leadership have shown, all that is in vain. we always consider all our people, especially rainy and citizens in total, comprising all the layers of society. unfortunately, ideological attacks, as well as some of our own miscalculations have led to the sort of protests, some mistakes were made on the anniversary of the victory of these law mac revolution. it was decided that these mistakes which were caused by incitement and miscalculations, would be forgiven. this, of course, would anger our enemies, but make the people of iran happier. meanwhile, in central america, nicaragua has released more than 200 attempted coup authors from jail. they had

tried to overthrow the national government back in 2018 and what was believed, the v a u. s funded operation. it wasn't about negotiating. anything that has to be clear, we're not asking that they leave the sanctions who are in to asking for anything in return. the united states should take their mercenaries. an investigation by the grades and media outlets showed that american government agencies such as you as a id provided funding for the insurgency. hundreds of people were killed at the time in chaotic scenes as armed gangs attempt to destroy the presidential palace with apparent plans to kill the head of state. those jailed over the co, it's act were later labeled as political prisoners by the us state department. we heard from nicaragua, base independent journalist, ben norton, whose as the washington has links to violent extremist all across latin america that it states was the main sponsor of the violence. very right wing elements that

tried to overthrow nicaragua democratically elected government. i personally have interviewed a man who is a security guard at the mayor's office in the city of messiah, and he was tortured by these coupla daughters. and he lost one of his arms. so there are very many victims of his violence to attempt to 2018. and we have document showing that many of the leaders involved in this co attempt were funded by the u. s. government through traditional caea cut out to like the u. s. agency for international development, usa id and also the national endowment for democracy. the any d, one of the co founders of the any d, i'll 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 entity and usa i. d spent tens of millions of dollars funding opposition groups that opposed this on the nice to government and the elected president, daniel ortega. and of course, anyone who knows the,

the more recent history of nicaragua, going back to the 1980s knows that this is not new united states in the 1980s through the ca, armed and trained terrorists the conferences they, they burned down schools and hospitals, according to one of their former leaders, they used terrorism as a systematic tactic. they put the cia help the controls put mines in the porch to blow up nicaragua, ports. so for many people, nicaragua, unfortunately, it wasn't surprising to see that the u. s. government returned to those same tactics that it had used in the 1980s, so that the stabilization attempts never end, but the responses of the governments has been different. right. so if a government, which is sovereign, tries to prevent these coo plotters funded by the u. s. from overthrown their government, then the u. s. deems them authoritarian, the u. s. imposes 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 at all from the recent earthquakes, inter kia and syria has risen to more than 22000 people rescue operations are ongoing dis by rapidly fading hopes to find more sir. potential survivors in war torn syria. the search through the rubble continues. and the areas devastated by the earthquakes for western sanctions are making the situation even worse. international help couldn't reach syria and the initial days after the disaster and the moments when the aid was needed to save lives. after several days, the u. s. agreed to ease its sanctions on syria, amid mounting international pressure. that's all russia and arab nations were the 1st in line to help the middle eastern country with life saving efforts. argy correspondent, hussein yacht has the details. as he reports from aleppo, 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 air of and or other friendly countries appeal to the americans to lift the blockade from us. hello you. so our people are suffering and die. g to dan fabricate the necessary 8 was not delivered to syria, the home. so the effect of families have been destroyed or severely damaged. these residents have no shelter, though only shows us at mosques and schools. struggle dozens of victims, ally here in the our ozzy hospital in the city of a lap. both many stories are told about the catastrophe, 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. our whole family lived in the same house. 2 sons and daughters survived. god save them. as you have seen, there are many victims with serious injuries in the hospital who needs 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. what 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 are 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 to walk 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. syria is facing a severe humanitarian crisis as it remains under strict western sanctions. even before the earthquakes, the syrian economy was in decline, and hospital struggle to get medication and other much needed supplies. there are concerns about the sanctions impeding not only did the delivery of aid, but other efforts as well for recovering from the natural disaster. you can find out more about that on our website, r t dot com e warriors say the blog has apparently failed to trace more than 80 percent of the russian financial assets. it is frozen. that's, as officials are seeking to give the billions in cash to ukraine, claiming the move is entirely legal. it produces it commodities. 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 programs, according to estimates based on a bank of russia report. nearly $300000000000.00 worth of russian acids are currently frozen in you, but as of yet only a few tens of billions have actually been traced by the box member states. archie contributor chris adams during my colleague, worry sushi earlier to discuss the implications of the 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 see $258000000.00 of russian asset gold currency. and they were running that really based off the, the numbers from, from the russian government. but coming back with their reward at which they come back with the way they've only found $36400000000.00, which begs the question, whereas the rest of the money gone, i mean, it looks like it's probably or would be effectively being taken already. or there's a massive, massive or the thing era, but you wouldn't really expect from brussels,

you know, that has its own currency the, you run by its own central bank. it just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. you know, obviously we've had zalinski during this well into right now if you're a london in 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 going to be as fast. why now? well, i think you've hit it on the, on the head, right brigade. some going around thing. 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 number one, the ukrainians come fly them a number to the very expensive piece of kit that they need for their own national defense. so i think that's part of the problem and then just thought just this constant constant issue that we're seeing over and over and over again of just just pepsi 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 the, to make the world see that, you know,

i think also it's for the taxpayers and all these countries to face them, hey, you know what? it's okay, we're not gonna make you shut out for the next lot. we're going to give them money that we're 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 saw the bank of england did 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 outside from the international community and doing it, you know, that's quite frankly, a legal you may not like the policies of government. there are many governments around the world. but you and i probably don't like the policies of but we don't advocate that you should steal that money. it turns out that that sudden are already benefiting from those frozen russian assets, belgium based financial services, company, euro clear has reportedly made more than 800000000. europe's off the back of the russian cash alone. last february, the restricted the company from maintaining ties with the customers that had in russia. so a mid, rapidly rising interest rates,

the firm decided to invest the russian money that had been locked up. and as systems euro clear is now facing lawsuits from clients who have been trying to access their own funds, german economist, i keep him. eric says that the incident raises many questions about the use commitment to international law. it is not shocking in the concerning international law, but it's shocking for european citizens to why. because normally the european union itself has no right to seize anything. no, right to do anything like that. it is the national government of national states who have to do this, and they didn't do those yes, making profit unsold. and as something this is beyond explanation and who is next. now they claim this is, these are rational funds next, who is next. and the funny thing is they are already preparing that every german,

for example, has to declare what s s t got. so are they next? it should teach everybody that these people are not committing to international law. so get your money back home. this is my, my thing, it is the same with the us, us at the same stuff. so for every european, every german it is essential to get your money home, not leave it at the people. and this is now breaking apart the entire concept of the so called globalization. it shows only the strongest is right. the other one has to accept whatever the stronger dictate and this is not the international law. this is not the structure of the international law. we wanted i had of a key russia africa conference for next month, and masters from range of african countries have gathered in moscow to discuss increasing cooperation. then

b as envoy believes that enhance ties with russia will open up new prospects for africa. economy on the whole, africa is looking for investment in key sectors such as energy and agriculture to guarantee image security, as well as food security. we have oxidative deficits of energy, in many african countries. so we are bunking on the russian technology to develop infrastructure for energy so that i would like to confirm that we are looking forward to the upcoming russia africa in to put them in for a conference. and the from the briefing that we have received a, we are eager, but these conference will come up with conclusions. rita, practical and beneficial to both russia and african continent.

poland. sports minister has added to rising western calls for russia and bell russian. apple is to be banned from next year, summer olympics and france. that is unless they join a so called refugee team and publicly denounced their country's leaders. most of which propos, it's not a neutral team, but a refugee team that 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 io see to come out of the situation, but with their heads held high. this as a group of 35 countries, including the u. s. germany and australia are all demanding a ban on russian and bell russian athletes from the upcoming games. the move cranks of the pressure on the international olympic committee were just trying to avoid a total boy call from participating countries. the mayor of paris, who at 1st was in favor just a month ago now wants to completely band russian athletes because of the conflict

in ukraine. my wishes that they will not be here for as long as this war goes on. it's not possible to parade as if nothing was happening to have a delegation arriving in paris, while bombs are raining on ukraine for its calling. miss allen morris says it would be disgraceful for the international committee to ban russian and bell russian athletes deal signing athletes. because whether it's the exact same as binding athletes because of the color of their skin or the shorter the mosque or whoever de, whichever god they pray to it, it goes against everything that good sports goes against the principles of the o. c. and i really saw him believe the end of the day. i see said by tom, we'll get their way out of this. he was talking spencer. he knows his way around sores. he knows what to do, what not to do. and i do believe that at the end of the day this discrimination can lead to.