ah with headlines on our team to national as moscow stripes, p tockets and several of ukrainian cities, including the capital p f. it's all as a response to terrorist attack and russia, a region according to rochester, ministry of defense assassination attempt in moldova is trans nice. the region targeting senior officials has been thwarted, according to local authorities, who, se ukrainian agents were behind the plant out

and political opposition to the republic of georgia refusing to end mass demonstrations despite the national parliament pulling the controversial legislation that ignited the protest. i corresponded is in the nation's capital on protesters here. they're alarmingly organized. they know how to move as a unit, no one to retreat as a unit. they're playing basically like guerrilla warfare with the police here it's, it's crazy. also in the program, washington sized that china is a direct threat to us national security considering bathing close ties with i just off to 3 pm local time here in moscow and a very well welcome to youth top stories right now. when i see international, sorry, the russian armed forces have key targets and several ukranian cities,

including in the countries capital key, f l, according to the russian ministry of defense, of the operation was in response to previous terror attacks in russia's brianne st . border region by caves forces. earlier this month, a moscow added that he had military infrastructure and the strikes were successful . well, let's learn more right now in crossing life to ortiz roman quarter of study by in dawn bass right now. in the dawn, as republic or roman, getting reports of wide spread strikes across the country. what can you tell us? indeed, according to the defense ministry, russia launched the massive retaliatory strike using hypersonic missiles. officials say that some key elements of you crazy military infrastructure companies or the military industrial complex, as well as energy facilities that supply them with power were hit. now apart from that, the defense ministry says that ukrainian attack drone bases were also destroyed. also, the strikes disrupted the rail, a transfers of ukrainian army reserves and foreign weapons have destroyed

maintenance and repair facilities of military equipment as well as disabled the production of ammunition. ukraine claims that 11 people were killed. however, russia's defense ministries has said time. and again, that it only targets critical military infrastructure. now on thursday, afternoon, air rate alerts remain in place throughout ukraine. earlier and thursday morning, online footage showed smoke rising and the one of the districts of the crating capital mayor and former professional boxer vitale, clinical confirmed explosions and emergency electricity blackouts were introduced. now a desa harkell fall were also without energy, according to local authorities. explosions were also recorded in the various places across ukraine. basically, the entire country is under air arrayed alerts now, several trains of the ukrainian railways have been delayed for hours due to the absence of power. meanwhile, here in dunn eskew and used american maids,

multiple launch rocket systems called high mars against civilians. one person killed and 2 were wounded at a civilian bus depot near the net sca, according to officials, 6 high mars rockets were launched. hor we're intercepted and to reach the civilian target. i want is were man cause a rough thank you are shifting gears now to that of the breakaway, moldova region, all trans nick stair. it's very close to the ukranian border, where authorities say they've thwarted a terrorist attack, allegedly perpetrated by ukrainian national security agents targeting several senior local officials. a multiple suspects have been detained as marina cos, or if it picks up the story. this saw terrorist attack, or assassination attempts was supposed to take place in the sensor off terrace ball, which was of the capital of the breakaway region trans. mr. and it was targeting the leader. all vol translate serve by jim accustomed sales ski that wants to use

a landra landra rover, and that's where they had the explosives, 8th kilograms of hexagon, explosives, as well as wire screws, knots to basically maximize the impact. and the, according to sources was spoken to the impact would have been the radius, hundreds of meters and it would have, would have seen dozens of casualties if in fact this happened. and it wasn't only the head of a trans nestor, but also other high level officials that there were targeting now has multiple arrests. had the made one of them in particular, 40 year old man who was already a local criminal who moved to odessa some 12 years ago in ukraine. and apparently there he joined ukraine security services. this is what he claims now, because the suspects hung are confessing from what we hear from the regional minister of defense. and they claim that it was ukraine's security services who organized this and also coordinated this out. but of course, as we know, ah,

it was a ford said, now let's hear some more from what the prosecutor of trans nicera, what he had to say about this attack. mr. deductible would solution the place where this terrorist attack was supposed to occur. show. so said it was meant to target top government officials and to no less extent, inflict numerous civilian casualties. the terrorist attack was prepared to be conducted in the center of the city of to ross paul among a large number of our citizens. now a criminal case has been opened and also we know that the head of a transmission was back in his office with maximum security, as you can imagine. and they are planning for possible scenarios of a repeat to make sure that they are ready. they also want answers from ukraine and based on what the suspects have told them, mainlines moldova, the government there says they have no idea what is going on there. that for nothing about any terrorist attack and transmit easter. so this is where we're at right now. we only heard from

a political analyst i was told to mark off now he says the key ethics resorted to terrorist attack to so fair among civilians. he also says the kiev will continue to do, sir. so yes, you know, we can see that one of the schools and all that good luck to you. and also we're going to press center. it's going to be slow and getting more conventional so we'll see there's worse

or generating more or should be false. i brush out last week to come to look at to see what your response was to make to your school keepers. you also want to keep

them in their schools and political opposition and the republic of georgia. i said that mass protests will not stop us despite the parliament scrapping a controversial foreign agents bill. the legislation was cancelled off the 2 nights a violent demonstrations in the capital as well as a certain amount of pressure from certain western partners. have a look at this report from ortiz donald trotter, despite the george and parliament caving into the main demands of the, the, the main demand. rather of these protesters to draft that bill. the opposition has declared they are going to continue these protests that have seen writers carrying european union flags and even american flags here for 2 nights in a row. now now this draft bill in question of course, would have seen non governmental organizations in the country that receive over 20

percent of their funding from foreign sources to register as foreign agencies. it's important to understand that the united states has had a law like this long before it threatens organizations that fail to register with criminal penalties and jail time for its employees. so it is a bit ironic that it was the united states that actually threatened georgia with sanctions after the parliament trial passed this draft law and threatened them with sanctions if they did not repeal that. so i've been here throughout the action space specifically last night, and as i said, you know, the protests have been anything but peaceful. we saw molotov cocktails and fireworks shot at the police. we've seen a barricades being built. we've seen protesters to facing government buildings and businesses. we also saw them try to a storm the parliament building. this is, these are events that many have said are reminiscent of the euro. my don coup d'etat back and key of ukraine in 2014. so i was on the ground there,

i saw with my own eyes, and i was regularly caught in the crossfire between tear gas deployed by the police and the rocks and fireworks molotov cocktails that were thrown by by protesters. 80 of the protesters here, alarmingly organized, like they know how to move as a unit they know into retreat as a unit. they don't leave anyone behind the advances unit. they're playing basically like guerrilla warfare with the police here it's, it's crazy isn't never like any sort of protests i've ever seen in my life. oh, you can see here the front of the protest. they just picked up on the benches in or right scooters and created a makeshift barricade out of it. this is practice similar stuff that we've been

seeing since these will test riots again. last night. they were doing exactly the same thing with the police and the police are responding with water hoses on them that speaking you can hear on the loud speaker is basically warning all the protesters to leave. otherwise the movies are going to run them down with you can see a number of people were just arrested with your gas back at the police

with that a lot of your guess basically the entire street even where they're not shooting tear gas is all already filled with tear gas being pulled by the wind, the missed all this, we got the views of political analyst rasmussen as well as serbian historian abortion mileage on on this current situation right now in georgia, the vast majority of lawmakers in the parliament vote in favor of a law,

how is that not democracy? i mean it either. georgia has a state in which there are rules and procedures or, you know, whatever the american embassy says goes, but in that case, don't call it democracy, call it a colonies, call it an oligarchy, call or whatever. but it is definitely not a sovereign democracy. and yet here they are denouncing this is a russian law and saying this is against the european values. but european union has harsher laws for people they regard to before and agents. and they've literally censored and band and confiscated property of people that they consider to be interfering. the americans themselves are acting for us against political opponents and discipline. so and then do you have the u. s embassy? think oh, this is an attack on democracy. what gives if you attack when democracy, why, why do you have your own law? why do you force this light home? you could possibly be that this law is terrible when inaccurate in georgia, but great when it acts in washington dc. it's obviously the rules based order rules

for the not for me. so it's, you know, obviously there must be some type of in for through something to hide. because essentially the, that type of a rule. i mean we've had it in place. in fact, i think there's a lot of rigid georgia suppose one thing here is we've got a pro european pro western president and the party that basically control the parliament has ran on pro western issues. i think a country should have a more, you know, i don't have any problems with that. having more visibility into their horn influences going on and affecting our country and are ready because that basically when you've got close the money coming in from other countries and influence going on, that really is an invasion that's attack on the reality of a company and have we have, we seen that earlier,

and ukraine. maybe we wouldn't be in the situation that we are today to come here on the program on our tea. a narrative propagated by the us media as an insurrection and executed by supporters of donald trump has been turned on its head . fox news host tucker carlson courts controversy by examining new footage of january 2021 capitol hill riots. the liberal major media outlets quickly reacted calling on tucker carlson to be well edited. will bring you more in the program just a little bit later. in the meantime, washington has asserted that china will keep up in cooperation with russia despite pressure from the west. that is one of the conclusions made by a us intelligence committee at an annual hearing addressing the issue of national threats. let's get the details without is caleb martin in new york. we have yet

another hearing going on before the u. s. senate and of course the u. s. senate is being briefed on one of the favorite topics on capitol hill these days. the idea that china is some kind of massive threat to the united states and the world. now, what we heard was basically testimony assessing that despite the efforts by the united states, to whip up hostility to russia and isolate russia around the world. china will continue to cooperate and strengthen its relationship with russia when it comes to diplomacy. when it comes to defense, technology, economic cooperation, etc, the office of director of national intelligence made clear that russia and china are working closely together. now in addition to that, we heard predictions from us officials, the intelligence community, and that china will continue to press taiwan. and furthermore, china will seek to undercut the united states. here's some of what we heard. the c,

c p continues to take and increasingly aggressive approach to external affairs, pursuing its goal of building a world class military, expanding its nuclear arsenal, pursuing counter space weapons capable of targeting us and allied satellites in brief, the c, c. p represents both the leading and most consequential threat to us national security and leadership globally. now we recently heard the chinese president has not done before and directly call out the united states by name. we also heard the chinese foreign minister speak up and say the united states needs to hit the brakes when it comes to the issue of dealing with china or else this could lead to some kind of confrontation. here's what was said by the chinese foreign minister. if you're on a war, if united states has ambition to make it so great again, we should not block the way for the development of other countries. containment and suppression will not make america great, and it will not stop the restoration of china. and we have

a situation here where china is responding to all kinds of trade warfare and efforts to suppress their economic growth from the united states. a continued hostility from the united states, and we have an atmosphere in the united states. of course, that is trying to play up the notion that china is a huge threat that we should all be very, very afraid of china. and it seems like today's hearings also seem to emphasize the growing cooperation between china and russia. so we were discussing all of this with john listen filmmaker shawn stone. now mr. stone says the china is not an enemy of the american people, despite the rhetoric that pulls out of capitol hill. this is a problem for washington in the sense that washington is pursuing this war against russia. visa v. ukraine. it's very much a proxy war. the chinese foreign minister talked about, i think, he said, even indivisible hand. right. that's really guiding and steering this war, that's why there's been no calls by the west for peace and even by the ukrainian

side for peace. whereas china's no calling for it. rush obviously has said they are open to piece talks across the board. i feel like they're kind of there, they're picking and choosing who they want to any say who they decide is the enemy of the week. and, you know right now, maybe it's, it's politically certain serves their agenda. you know, to say that china is their number one enemy, when you're talking about the amount of trade and influence that china has globally . it's one thing to say that when you're trying to basically, you know, stoke excitement in your, in your, in the media or in, up in washington and deploy defense spending in certain areas. but in terms of reality, i don't think that china isn't. that is the number one enemy of americans. well, i'm not really sure if we're going to be surprised by this, but previously unseen footage of january 2021 capitol hill protest has been ed by fox news host tucker carlson. the us house speaker,

kevin mccarthy who released the tapes says he has no regrets about the scandal that erupt it in its wake. however, a number of media outlets in america have demanded that tucker carlson needs to be censored. that's news has tucker carlson is facing backlash for how he used previously unseen video of the january 6th, the salt on the cap of january 6th, fax to way alongside tucker carlson's new january 6th fantasy tucker carlson. took a page from george all wells, 1984 and told his view is to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. kevin mccarthy, who is trans wayland, smithers gives all the footage to tiger tucker, shows only the tame pirates and then trump claims the riders were framed. it's like watching a magic so where the magician is wearing sheer sleeves. i urge fox news to order carlson to cease propagating, the big lie on his network and to level with their viewers about the truth. the

truth behind the efforts to mislead the public. it's a threat to democracy, pull him off the air. what is that? was that outrage? of course it's fear, it's pan. the footage a. it clearly shows how one of the january, 6, protestors and owners, the showman, was apparently given right of passage by police to the congressional building offices was seen leading him around and to quote folks, news acted as his tour guides he woke passed at least 7 policemen without any of them and trying to arrest him. and protesters were later filmed praising law enforcement for showing them in i will give you a bit of background on that incident. it was january the 6th 2021 protesters that the president at the time. donald trump had one to re election a despite authorities declaring joe biden won the vote. a demonstrators enter the

us capital building and occupied for several hours. local security forces were overwhelmed than the military was eventually called in to bring order. one protested was shot and killed a point blank while trying to enter it, while report say several others also lost their lives. hundreds were arrested and the event was branded as an insurrection. american political analysts or john jordan, he says the narrative broadcast by many us media outlets. well, it's all now being discredited by just the latest revelations. well, it certainly stirred up the left and the leads to the american media who would invest in so much, in so many narratives, it turned out not to be true whether it was lab leak or natural immunity, or vaccines work or masks. you're seeing it another media narrative collapse and it's not just the media is the lead on. there are the american left and even in the intelligence and security services of the united states,

one of the things it's remarkable about those tapes is 40000 hours of it is there were a lot of people that were in the capital, alongside people that were arrested but there's a lot of these people were never resar, never identified. is this something that the f, b i or the other or american law enforcement knew about? do they have informants in their fear, right? so, you know, you can't, in one breath you're here, you're here to protect democracy. but here on the other hand, you're out advocating as a public official, a private company to engage in censorship. why not just engage in the debate and say, hey, we're the 40 you chuck schumer, you have access to the same video. why don't you just rebut the rebut? tucker carlson is saying, rather than try to call for his censorship because that's really suspicious. the head of the u. n. has cold on russia and ukraine to extend the international grain

deal, which should expire next week. and so on. your 3rd i so i made the statement office sitting down for talks with ukraine's president think the greasy coming over to the should be on the march and the ordering to create conditions to the possible mules of export me. so that lexie in line, your project is the initiative with a great deal was sealed last july between russia and ukraine with a total p, a and the un acting as mediators and guarantors. the agreement facilitates the export of food supplies from ukraine's black. c ports. the deal also allowed for the blocking of russian fertilizer in grand exports. but moscow says this condition has still not yet be met. brushes, foreign ministry, who is accused western countries and the un no preventing the agreement from properly functioning. moscow has maintained that it's ready to continue up, holding its end of the bargain,

but only if all sides respect their commitments. and political analysts, jo mulanda says the international grain deal at the end of the day, it serves the interests of the west and ukraine. bow at the expense of other nations. you know, like any other wisdom pro ukrainian lead us. he's living in queue talking to the lensky. we were not sure why it's like that, but in the beginning, it was a cheaper type kind of a deal. but now he goes to to, to care, to try and speak to lensky about that. so, to me, and i'm not sure if i shall consent or consider while he's living a conversation with ukraine alone. it's paul with companies for western government start are now seem to be it. it's not something that is beneficial to

russia or it's a deal so to say, so it's not something that it's completely fed how he's putting it out. and it's really suspicious on how he is conducting it right now. at the moment, the center of the congregation should be boarding around the other country, that is russia and its guarantees. and though the western media doesn't like to report it, most of the great exports from those black seaports end up in europe and not to the countries. for example, in africa that need it. the most motels without that online, at all with with

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