[000:00:00;00] a full year investigation starts. watch on our t o headlines right now here on our team international as moscow strikes key targets in several ukrainian cities, including in the countries capital key have to respond to terrorist attacks. and russia is brianne region. according to the russian ministry of defense, a fascination attempt in moldova trans, nice to region targeting senior officials, has been thwarted, according to local authority to say ukrainian agents were behind the black o

and political opposition in the republic of georgia refusing to end the mass demonstrations despite the national parliament holding the controversial legislation that kicked off, the protests of correspondent is on location in that south 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. also in the program, the foundation of the us dollar is being chipped away. india and russia set a new record for oil trade using national currency for payments. no more with well, it's an enlightening and controversial program we have for you this hour here with our team international lifting the lead and pushing back all the mainstream

narratives is time for your news now. the russian armed forces have struck several t targets in various ukrainian cities, including in the capital key of the russian defense ministry says the operation was in response to key of 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 2nd, this year in the brians region, 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 were hit. now, apart from that, defense ministry says that ukraine, in its ag, 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 former professional box service. i like the skull 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 done ask ukraine used american maids multiple launch rockets systems called hi marcy and civilians. one person killed and 2 were wounded at a civilian bus depot, near the net sca, according to official 6. hi marce rockets were launched for were intercepted and to reach the civilian target. to be a break away mult open a region of trends. nice to ride along the ukrainian border. now we're authorities say they've thwarted a terrorist attack electrically perpetrated by ukrainian national security agents targeting several senior local officials. we understand multiple software were detained as marina cosser. f. a 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 for trans me serve, i deem a cost. i sailed ski that wanted to use a land or a 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 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 heads of tries ministry, 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 afford said, now let's hear some more from what the prosecutor of trends nist, cheryl, what he had to say about this attack. mr. did little bit to sean. 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 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 when know that the head of a trans mistress back in his office with maximum security as you can imagine. and they are planning for possible scenarios of a reaping to make sure that they are ready. they also want answers from you based on what the suspects have told them in mainland moldova,

the government there 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 and key ever falsely claiming that trans nice to rous, seeking to a tac ukraine living up. so we see that transistor doesn't have any meals for this position, but keith says otherwise, when you seen a certain threat they are and they are afraid. or at least they see 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 that trans mr. ne turns will maintain a cautious policy towards ukraine. will behave in a special way toward that. perhaps the kind of protest note will be sand explanations will be required, but nothing more quote,

the european economic model for growth based on cheap russian energy supplies is over and it's not coming back. that's the warning coming from the director of the international energy agency. that while the e u commission president praise the blocks policies with sky rocketing prices just a side note. russia cut it gas supply to europe by 80 percent in 8 months, sending energy prices in europe soaring last summer. our energy bills rose by 300 percent, however, pollutants blackmail was unsuccessful. we replaced the short fall in russian gas by increasing in ports from reliable suppliers. let's take this further now across life to want to contribute. rachel moss and standing by 1st empowers this is rachel . always good to see you. so cheap. russian energy has fuel the e u growth for decades, but now, well, you've got to quit it like cold turkey. how's that working out? all right,

so it's official vondell line says that we're paying 300 per cent more for gas here in the e. u. and it looks like idiocy finally has a price tag. it's costing europeans, 300 percent more now for a front row seat to the brussels bureaucrats melodramatic spectacle featuring bonder, lying clutching her pearls and pretending that europe was the big victim of big bad moscow guests that plays better on tour to places in north america like canada than the other act we've seen from brussels, which is a clown show, where the genius is in charge. like vander line, actually make gran proclamations about cutting off their own russian energy supply . being their deliberate strategy, we must become independent from russian oil, coal, and gas. we simply cannot rely on a supplier who explicitly threatens us. we need to act now to mitigate the impact of rising energy prices, diversify our gas supply for next winter and accelerate the clean energy transition

. so, judging by what vander lines said, they're almost exactly a year ago. brussels actual strategy was to shove a stick into the spokes of its own bike wheels. and now that they've successfully launched their behinds right over the handlebars, they're blaming russia. but hey, it's all good mondor line says because they have reliable suppliers. yeah, the u. s. and norway price gouging them. and while vander line was in canada, the executive director of the international energy agency was giving everyone else in brussels. a reality check. winter 23, trying to fall, march b. even much more challenging. done. ed dementor. we have not, the european industry is facing huge pressures the european economic model, which is based on abundant and cheap russian. and i just supplies is plus it is

although it's not go back there. so the good news for europe is that it's still able to buy russian fuel, but those molecules have to take the long way around and have their russian identity laundered through other countries that the e hasn't sanctioned. and they have to co mingle with molecules from those other countries. so there authoritarianism is adequately diluted and doesn't dirty out europe's prestige shores and values. poland was buying brushing gas at the same time as it was bullying every one. and that was still importing russian fuel, notably oil, when the tap was turned off. now the ceo of the states energy giant orlin said earlier this week that they're suing moscow and all of that over the suspension of the oil supply through the jurors by pipeline. so now they don't have to worry about russia getting any more polish oil revenues. the russian foreign ministry

also weighed on that particular situation in yellow, yet, i've said this is an ideology, clearly articulated and imposed by the west, which will poses the resources of our country. should not be managed by us. but by those who believe that these resources are theirs by some right, the resources of russia had become a goal to be aggressively attained. and there is a desire to take them away and divide them among the chosen ones. what there is this perception that our country must hand over everything to secure the west in their growth rate, and will only get d stabilization on our borders. in response, ashley, the united states contributed to this idea at the beginning of the story. they believed that europe does not need a common energy agenda. it should not represent a single energy system and that american resources are the only ones who have the right to dominate in this region, so, so on us. but that is, but as normal, seems like this friday for both poland and the e. u is to try to sit comfortably with each half of its behind on

a different chair. and it's, they're basically finding of now what happens when one of those chairs just gets yanked away and they're both basically now left screaming at moscow as a result of their own poor choices and resulting consequences. rachel, thank you. outrage against a proposed law to require foreign influence to come out of the shadows. that is what settled the political opposition in the republic of georgia. now saying the mass protests won't end despite the parliament scrapping the controversial foreign agents bill, that the legislation was cancelled off the 2 nights of coordinated violence in the nation's capital with certain western partners condemning the theory that n g o z and the like neat to show with a money is coming from a disturbing but enlightening report coming away now from ortiz, donald corta,

despite the george and parliament caving into the main demands of 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 a 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 dawn who data and t at 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. a protesters here are alarmingly organized, like they know how to move as a unit. they know when to retreat as a unit. they don't leave anyone behind. they advances the unit. they're playing basically like guerrilla warfare with the police here it's, it's crazy. it's never,

it's not like any sort of protests i've ever seen in my life. i you can see here the front of the protest, they just picked up 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 protest variety and last night they're doing exactly the same thing. oh, i see with fireworks the police and the police are responding with water hoses. oh, i them that speaking you can hear on the loudspeaker is basically warning all the protesters to

leave. otherwise the laser going to run them down with you can see a number of people were just arrested with growing up your gas back out the police ah with got a lot of your guess basically the entire street even where they're not shooting tear gas is already filled with tear gas being pulled by the

with where we got the views about geo political analysts alert us motion as well as a so b and historian, voice mallet sure. the guy who's on essentially the current situation in georgia. if the vast majority of lawmakers in the parliament vote in favor of the 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 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 an agents and they've literally censored and band and confiscated property of people that they consider to be interfering. the american themselves are inactive for us against political

opponents and dissident. so and then you have the u. s. embassy saying, oh, this is an attack on democracy. what gives if you still attack on democracy, why? why do you have your own law? why do you keep the forces light home? you can't possibly be that this law is terrible when enact that 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 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, a pro european pro western president and the party that basically control of 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 then affecting our country and our stuff ready because it basically when you got close the money coming in other countries and influence going on. that really isn't invasion that tack on the reality of countries and have we have we seen that earlier and ukraine? maybe we wouldn't be in the situation that we are today. india's oil imports from russia hitting all time high last month. we're talking at 1600000 barrels a day, and that's the pass is the combined imports from 2 other major crude suppliers, baghdad, and re add. now this comes out as the oil trade between new delhi and moscow is set to drop the dollar. there's the 2 of resorted using domestic currency to settle accounts, western sanctions of force moscow to find ways to continue to export the russian

black gold india's front and center and reports on the west has been hesitant a sanction this russian partner, because it's sales some of its imports back to the west, india for its part that trade with russia will continue growing. russian supplies will find some other banks for receiving payments. as it is, the government is not asking us to stop buying russian oil. so we are hopeful that an alternative payment mechanism will be found in case the current system is blocked with russia and india increase their economic cooperation beyond energy and a number of spheres from defending some medicine to manufacturing and textile trade . now this comes as western countries were counting on the quote, international isolation of moscow. but now many officials admit 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 neighbour pretending that the country can be economically isolated. like north korea is

a fallacy. this is simply impossible. although they are speaking with a robin to such dev, president of the imagined, dia institute think tank. now. he says that while western states believe sanctions will work over the long term, it's going to cost them dearly as more countries drop the american dollar. if the u . s. and the with things that the sanctions on not working i'm in see the sanctions according to the list all working in the long they're looking at a long plea. 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 perhaps there is no doubt to my minds and they're looking at along to them. but stick to so to my mind, yes, i mean that's the only 2 of us has actually, you know, economic sanctions. they don't have any,

any other methods. the more the dollar decompose from various interactions. great, and all water to do is that it will shop the interest rates on the u. s. treasury bills us as a whole. boat could be all really in dollars. so if the interest rates on the b bills goes up, it will hurt america. so that could be a brand which will clunk in you and grow. nato secretary general again, stolen bug, says that allowing the quran to be burned shouldn't prevent sweeten, from entering nato. it comes off to turkey to find that its decision to block stock comes membership, pointing out the fact that the country allow the holy book to be set on fire. been in this tub, 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 allow this to be done with the approval of your security personnel. the volatile,

this is an issue there was not included in the agreement and should not prevents, wouldn't from becoming a member of nato. i have conveyed to turkey that people can have different opinions on koran burning life. in many countries have laws that restrict such actions. but you can't bend everything you don't like to long was it was late january when political activists, rosmer pollute, done. but the holy koran in front of the turkish embassy and stock home. that incident spoke wide spread criticism all across the islamic world. it also set back sweetens bait to join nato with turkey holding rito power over sweden's attention to the military alliance. this, while many europeans have been calling the act and expression of the freedom of speech. while a trilateral talks between sweden, finland and turkey, i do to be held in brussels today earlier anchored stated that it will not support stock homes application objects into the way sweden handles groups like the coders,

done work as party and august. the organization that he considers as terrorists. now, international law professor my suit, catherine was on the program earlier today. he says that freedom does not fit the all for one, nato principal. the other one 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 off, they do net their 1st glass. first, they have to apply things together to international terrorism. and they provide, even though the situation, they do a sabbath and they continued forgotten that, against the authority, 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 on kara, will not accepted the submit. the application really can article why former commander in the turkish are forces costs are still there, is stealing arctic, apply one for all the for a one. how can coming see,

but then to protect our nation? the us secretary of defense has held talks with his israeli, a counterpart, lord austin, reaffirm washington's iron commitment to put israel security 1st. however, when press during a news conference about a recent suggestion by an israeli official to wipe out of palestinian village secretary austin, appeared to evade the question. secretary. the current israeli government is the most far. it's been in its history. one of its ministers called for a published in palestinian village to be wiped out. and that was during the about meetings. do you feel comfortable working with and trusting a government that has individuals who have these beliefs? thanks, leaders i at the top here, let just let me say that i defer to my colleague here to

comment on the readiness of the israeli forces. but in terms of our ability to work together, you've heard me say a number of times in various places that our commitment to the security of israel is ironclad. or they have been great partners throughout and they will continue to be great partners going forward. and our commitment to the security of israel, i will not waive it will not change. it is not negotiable, as i said earlier, time to learn more crossing live to jerusalem right now where it's nearly half past 6 in the evening, bears autism. or if an ocean of maria, can you take us through the key points of that meeting? yes, the us defense secretary arrived to israel to frankly discuss the circle of balancing the occupied was to bank and to consult on what steps these rarely leadership can take to restore calm before the upcoming holidays,

jewish and moses. but as you just heard, some of the answer is all mr. austin, the have been very vague. these rarely palestinian conference has recently ended a very dramatic violent stage with casualties from both sides deadly terror. attacks were followed by intensified idea of raids to which palestinians responded with even more violence. both sides blamed each other for these dramatic and dangerous escalation. speaking through the media after his meetings with these rarely leadership pentagon chief said that america recognizes and respects israel's right to defend itself and to counter terrorism. but it condemns any step that would push to state solution away. let's take a listen. as we always have, we're calling on the palestinian leadership to combat terrorism and to resume security cooperation and to condemn incitement. and as i always have,

i was very clear about israel's right to defend itself against terrorism. i extend my deepest condolences to the families of israelis who were killed and wounded during recent terrorist attacks. and i am here as a friend who was deeply committed to the security of the state of israel. but the united states also remains firmly opposed to any acts that could trigger more insecurity. including settlement expansion and inflammatory rhetoric. and were especially disturbed by violence by settlers against palestinians. so will continue to oppose actions that could push a 2 state solution further out of reach. these

railey defense minister who is known as one of the most moderate politicians. officials in these railey right when government sad that israel is very much interested in palestinian peoples prosperity and stability in the west bank and gaza. but israel is, will always come 1st. let's take a listen. as for the palestinian arina, the state of fees, well 6 stability and security. we are interested in the economy prosperity and the well being of the palestinian people in judah in somalia and in gaza. this should never comes at the expense of the life of a single season of ease. we have the tensions in the west bank escalated again on tuesday when these rally military