an engagement to close the trail. when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look so common ground. with headlines right now and i'll tend to national as moscow strikes key targets in several ukrainian cities, including the capital key f. it's all a response to terrorist attacks and rushers around for region, according to russia's ministry of defense. not a fascination attempt in moldova trans, nice to region targeting senior officials has been thwarted, according to local authorities, who, se ukrainian agents were behind the plant. o political opposition in the republic of georgia refusing to en masse demonstrations

despite the national parliament pulling the controversial legislation that kicked off the protest of correspondent witness the chaos from the capital. protesters here there, 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. at the foundation of the us dollar is being chipped away as india and rush just at a new record for oil trade, using national currency. the paper ah, it is quite the spread of your stories with this. i was program live from moscow right now just off to 5 pm local time on thursday. that's a kick off this hour straight to ukraine. now, as the russian armed forces have struck key targets in several ukrainian cities, including the capital t f,

the russian ministry of defense says the operation was in response to key terrorist acts inside of russia earlier this month. or his own, if at all, in response to the terrorist actions organized by the cube regime on march. second, this year and the brians grecian, the armed forces of the russian federation inflicted a massive retaliation strike high precision, long range, air see, and land based weapons including the dagger hypersonic missile system hit key elements of ukraine's military infrastructure enterprises of the military. industrial complex. as well as facilities that provide energy to them to target the strike has been achieved. all assigned objects have been hit. according to the defense ministry, russia launched a 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. we're hit now apart from that, the defense ministry says that ukraine in attack drone vases were also destroyed.

also, the strikes disrupt to the rail, a transfers of ukrainian army reserves and foreign weapons and 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 own it's august critical military infrastructure. now on thursday afternoon air raid alerts remained in place throughout ukraine earlier and thursday morning online footage showed smoke rising and the one of the districts of the crate in capital mayor and form a professional boxer vitale, clinical confirmed explosions and emergency electricity blackouts were introduced. now, a desa harkell for 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 the next q crane used american maids, multiple launch rocket systems called hi marcy and 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 are now to the up break away moldova, regional trans. nita, 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. renaissance multiple suspects have been detained. the story gets picked up now by marina casa rafa. this saw terrorist attack, or assassination attempts was supposed to take place in the sensor off terrace ball, which is of the capital of the breakaway region trans. mr. and it was targeting the leader all for trans mr. vadim accustomed sales ski that wanted to use

a land landrover, and that's where they had the explosives, 8 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 are confessing from what we hear from the regional minister of defense. and they claim that it was ukraine 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 nist jail. what he had to say about this attack, mr. deductible would to sean the place where this terrorist attack was supposed to occur, show. so study was meant to target top government officials and to no less extent in foot numerous civilian casualties. the terrorist attack was prepared to be conducted in the center of the city of toronto, paul, among a large number of our citizens. now a criminal case has been opened. and also we know that the head of transmission is back in his office with maximum security, as you can imagine. and they are planning for possible scenarios or were reaping to make sure that they are ready. they also want answers from ukraine based on what the suspects have told them mainlines moldova, the government there. busy says they have no idea what has gone on that for nothing about any terrorist attack in trans nice or so this is where we're at right now. we

spoke with cornell, trudy, a political analyst based in moldova, who states that officials in key f, a falsely claiming that trans nice to is seeking to tack ukraine. libby also we see the transistor doesn't have any meals for this question, but keith says otherwise seen a certain threat there and they are afraid. or at least they say that the trans mr . troops, which are still not so numerous, can launch a strike on a desk. but as we see the trans nister's forces are not that powerful. i think the trans mr. any turns will maintain a cautious policy towards ukraine, behaving a special way toward them. perhaps the kind of protest note will be sent. explanations will be required, but nothing more. nato general secretary un sultan book says that allowing the court around to be burned should not prevent sweden from

entering nato. this comes off the courtesy to find that its decision to block stock homes membership pointing out the fact the country allowed the holy book to be set on fire. the i voided his jaw. this is an issue there was not included in the agreement and should not prevent sweden from becoming a member of nato. i have conveyed to turkey that people can have different opinions on quran, burning levels. in many countries have laws that restrict such actions. but you can't been everything you don't like. who was long muslim, was um, been in this you top, but we will not say yes to your entry into nato as long as you allow our holy book, the koran to be burned and torn apart, as well as allowed us to be done with the approval of your security personnel. it was a late january when a political activist had asthma's pollute done, but the holy koran in front of the turkish embassy in stockholm. at the incident fog wide spread criticism across the islamic world. it also set back sweden's bait to join nato,

with turkey holding veto power over sweden's ascension to the military alliance. and this, while many europeans over been calling the act and expression of the freedom of speech. multilateral talks between sweden and finland, antonia due to be held in brussels on thursday to discuss this matter. earlier ankara stated it will not support stock homes application objecting to the way sweden handles groups like the coldest on work is party and organization that sort of yet considered to be terrorists. international law professor, my suit cason says sweden does not fit the all for one nato principal. the say by them is an independent state and aim to be to be another member. however, if they want to be not to a member, they have to be open. the mean idea of they do net their 1st glass 1st, they have to apply things together to international terrorism. and they provide, even though the situation, they do somewhat back and they continue. forgotten that,

against the cherokee, especially against our president. and it and when looking on acceptable situation to our whole, the biggest grub, when it looking the you know, right there, idea, i'm not accepted to submit an application really can article why. former commander in the took a sharp courses cost us good. there is stealing arctic appli one for all the for a one. how can you coming see but then to protect our nation? the western media outlets promote the idea that a pro ukrainian group is likely behind the tackle the north stream pipelines. the kremlin doesn't seem to be eager to accept the narrative, saying it's only meant to divert attention away from well, what actually happened? as for some pro ukrainian doctor abel organized all these, it's hard to believe it was too difficult a task and was probably placed on the shoulders of a well trained state, special service of which there and so meaning our world. we can't allow tension to

be diverted to all the unlikely. high porpoises, moscow's reaction comes on the heels of a series of new articles published by western media outlets. the reports that tempted to draw attention away from previous claims of western involvement in last year's pipeline blasts, and suggested a pro ukrainian group was responsible for the attack. the claims contradict the recent investigation by award winning journalist seymour hersh, who pin the blame for the attack directly on washington or the western narrative to draw attention away from washington has raised some eyebrows. however, one american activist has asked a couple of inconvenient questions about the sabotage to the wife of the former polish foreign minister. seymour hersh has published with xpo say that the united states was responsible for the destruction of the north stream one into pipelines. now, you're talking all of this stuff about ukraine. you're not mentioning that we had

planned this attack on the pipelines in advance, much before the invasion. and this is an act of terrorism against germany and against russia. so how is it that you can lie to all of us and say, we're the big word standing for democracy against this aggressive russia when we're just as bad, where terrorizing people all across the world and we've destroyed their piece of infrastructure. why did your husband say that? it was a joke? why did he delete it right after than the job? one more now across live to kind of fissile white color student and activists with the international surely institute is joining us live on the international great to see today. thanks very much for coming on the program. you find yourself in the middle of all story here. we have seen many recent controversial articles about the whole nord stream sabotaged. what's your take if i may ask you on what many according the western blame games on the pipeline sabotage. it's basically some

saying is taking place at the expense of a real investigation. your thoughts? well, i mean it's obviously meant to deflect from real journalism and from the extensive xpo say that by hers published, i mean, it's for years, you've had our government trying to cover up what real journal journalists have actually done in glenn greenwald. you know, on the story of the and it's an essay surveillance, julian assigned the various war crime committed all over the world. i mean, that's really it, you know, they don't want real journalism out there. and this is what this new article was trying to do. cover up what sy hersh actually did kind of the teaching g thing. do you think the, the truth will ever, i guess not just get out there, but ever be embraced by the public at large or you think it's always going to be brushed under the rug? well, i mean,

you see statements from like the polish president, for example, better said well the north stream pipeline damage. that's actually a good thing because we won't be relying on brushing gas anymore. and you have similar statements over here in the u. s. government, victoria know and saying that, you know, with the wonderful thing that the pipeline is now off of metal, under the ball. 60, i mean, the statements really reflect, you know, just the evil mindset of the people. you know, i don't know. i don't think they want to get the truth of it, but it's up to, you know, it's up to us the people to actually go out and do what i did do my friend jose vega is doing, go out and confront these people and ask them the real questions because they don't want to actually answer these questions. but it's, you know, it's one thing, you know, politicians perhaps are being very diverse if with answering these questions. but also, i mean, kind of what about the western media, the western media, it seems to be missing the boat on this one. and if it doesn't miss the boat,

it's kind of tap dancing, or around the main focus all of the story. i mean, to me personally, i used to work for the western media. they seem very complicit in this case. yeah, i completely agree. and you know, this recent article by the new york times just the test to that. you know, i mean, you really got to laugh at this kind of stuff. how is it that, you know, these private individual? i mean, who is it, you know, i mean, an old friend of mine. he tells me about the tv show called gilligan's island, where you had 5. i think it was like 7 people. they got they, they were on a yacht and their ship crashed and they got abandoned by the and they, and the rest of the tv show focuses on them getting off the island. so, i mean, was it them that blew up in the hard stream pipeline. you know, it, it's really it completely insane. i mean, kind of come, i can just jump in because you know, the west and politicians and the press, they like to say that it's russia's north stream pipeline. this is

a russian pipeline. this was a massive european consort, him, switzerland was involved, franz austria, spain. i mean, it was almost a europe, ian collective was involved with russia to put these pipelines together. multi 1000000000 euro project taken years to get done. one of numerous russian pipelines though, and european pipelines feeding that part of the continent. you mentioned victoria new for example, saying that she's glad to see the northern pipeline is a hunk of metal, the bottom of the bowl to you mentioned joe biden saying, you know, in one way or another, we will get rid of this. but i mean, kind in the end of the day, it wasn't truly a russian pipeline. it was a russian european pipeline feeding europe, russian energy, the backbone of the european industry. why would someone blow up a pipeline that really belong to europe as much as it did russia? well, you bet there, there is what they call this rule based order. you know, and you see, you know, the united states,

western europe just voicing the on other nations, saying that you got to follow the rule. well, obviously there are no kinds of rules. if you can go out and do things like this, the sovereign nations, i mean, now we see that the nato, the, you, they're not that hide alliance, which they protest themselves to be. i mean, this is just the united fake failing countries. listen, we're going to violate your sovereignty. we're going to make you, we're going to put you under our boot, you know? and there's nothing you can do about it. they don't care if the germans are going to freeze next winter. they don't care if they're going to be paying double, triple what they usually do for gas? i mean, that's really it. these people think that they can do whatever they want and not get away with it kind of before i let you go, just last question. why do you think no one really wants to stand up and point the finger at exactly who they think was behind the south coast?

because that's be honest about this. i mean, when it comes to intelligence state apparatus and all that, the intelligence committees around the world, they know damn well, who is behind the sabotage, know of the north truman, yet all these different european presidents, chancellors prime ministers, they refuse to identify the culprit. why is that? do you think? well, they have a lot to keep. they have a lot to keep from the public. i mean, i'll say what i heard that himself. i think just recently, he, you know, pointed out that the president of the united states, he has multiple agencies that could have prepared report, but did not that the president has enormous powered and he could do something called pat, asking, he could pass the bureaucracy the huge american bureaucracy, and he can pass the military intelligence to be in touch and they damn well know what they can do to get to the bottom of this stuff. you know, but there's just one. there's one question. i'll ask myself. i mean,

because i live in new york city and i was born right after the year that the world trade center was blown up and you had 3000 people that were killed. now, if someone else who is not a government actually has the capability to block the pipeline, and no one knows who they are. when that mean they would be as dangerous to the whole world as the people that destroyed the world trade center. so why would the united say not work together with russia? what other countries to insist that it be publicly exposed? did this as my question and date is interesting. you bring up 911. kind of, in fact, in the immediate moments after 911, president prudent was one of the 1st world latest message george w bush, junior, and offer russia, condones is a kind on 5th away, a college student, an activist with the international shirley institute. remarkably clear and well thought, how staples for me today. thank you very much for your time. we enjoyed that. thank you. thank you. thank you. well outrage against the proposed law to

require foreign influence to come out of the shadows. that's what settled the political opposition in the republic of georgia who say mass protest will not end despite the parliament scrapping the controversial foreign agents bill, the legislation was cancelled off the 2 nights of coordinated violence in the nation's capital with western partners condemning the ferry that n g o is under like, should need to show where the money is coming from. there are many levels to this story here. over now, to ortiz donald quarter. 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 tra past this draft law and threatened them with sanctions if they did not repeal that. so i've been here throughout the action to speak 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 it 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. ah, i see the protesters here, girls 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. it's 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 mixed up with or right there is a greater that makes it barricade out of it. this is practice similar stuff that we've been seeing since these test riots again last night. they were doing exactly the

same thing with fireworks. the police and the police are responding with water hoses on them that's leaking. you can hear on the loudspeaker 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 growing up your gas back at the police

with that a lot of your gas 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 views about you politically. analysts look as motion as well as a serbian historian. now boys of mileage on this current situation in georgia happen. this is the vast majority of law makers in the parliament vote in favor of a law. how is that not democracy? i mean, 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's 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 inactive, foreign against political opponents and dissident. so and then you have the u. s. embassy. think oh, this is an attack when democracy. what gives if you feel attacked 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 an act 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 something to hide, because essentially the that i put 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 foreign influence is going on and then affecting our country and our stuff ready because it be weekly when you've got clothes, the money coming in. other countries and influence going on. that really is an invasion that back on the reality of a country and have we have we seen that earlier and ukraine? maybe we wouldn't be in the situation that we are today. india is oil

imports from russia. hit an old time high last month, reaching 1600000 barrels a day. that's a pos is the combined imports from us to other major crude suppliers, iraq and saudi arabia. this made reports of the dollar has lost its use in the oil trade between new delhi and moscow. as the 2 half resorted to using domestic currency to settle their account. and this comes as western sanction, so forth. moscow to find a way to continue to export the russian black gold and its india front and center. happy to continue buying russian energy at a discount, saying that business is good. russian supplies will find some other banks for receiving payments. as it is, the government is not asking us to stop buying rush, no ill. so we are hopeful with an alternative payment mechanism will be found in case the current system is blocked. when russia and india increase their economic cooperation beyond energy and the number of spheres from the defense of medicine to

manufacturing and textiles. this comes as western countries were counting on the quote, international isolation of moscow. with now, many officials are admitting that plan has failed. voices are now heard in europe, that one complete separation from russia. we have to be careful, now, desires. russia will not disappear, but it will remain the used largest neighbor pretending that the country can be economically isolated. like north korea is a fallacy. this is simply impossible. i was speaking ellia without orlando, sasha, if a president of image india institute think tank. he says that western states still believe sanctions work despite russia finding plenty of alternative routes for trade. if the u. s. and the west things that the sanctions on not working. i'm and see the sanctions according to the list all working in the long. so they're looking at a long don't play. right. so what they will keep doing is increasing the sanctions

of the ambit of the sanctions will keep on increasing in the coming months of that of perhaps there is no doubt to my minds. ah, and they're looking at the long term perspective. so to my mind, yes, i mean, that's the only tool the vest has actually, you know, economic sanctions, they don't have any, any other methods. the more the dollar decompose from various interact grade and all what it will do is that it will shut the interest rates on the us treasury bills, u. s. as a debt of about cut the aud trillion dollars. so if the interest rates on the, the bills goes up, it will hurt america. so that can be a brand which will continue and grow far. so just to be clear here on the program is to wrap it up here. europe cuts off russian energy, but it is still buying russian energy, how it's buying it from india and china. those 2 are getting it discounted from

russia. but those 2 also jack up the price to professional partners in the west. you see, you just want to hear this in the main street, but it's the truth. you program a ton of at the top of the hour. ah, ah luis to come to the russian state will never be tied up on the nose. landscaping with house not send up with within the 55 when. okay, so 9 is 25 and speaking when else calls with will ban in the european union. the kremlin, yup. machine. the state aunt rush up to date and archie spoke that given our video agency roughly all band on youtube.