still to divide people. oh, a moscow strikes key targets and several ukrainian cities, including in the countries capital key f, as a response to terrorist attacks. and russia is brianca region, according to the russian defense ministry and assassination attempt in moldova is trans needs to region targeting senior officials has been forwarded, according to local authorities, who, se ukrainian agents were behind the plan. oh, the political opposition and the republic of georgia says it will only and it's

mass protest. if the government quit that despite parliament pulling the controversial legislation that ignited the demonstrations, we report from the nation's capital aah! coming to live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. we begin with the latest from the conflict, a new crane where the russian armed forces have struck key targets and several cities, including the countries capital key at the russian defense ministry says the operation was in response to key adds 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 in the bionic region, the armed forces of the russian federation inflicts at 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 ukraine, 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 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 and 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 crate in capital mayor and form a professional boxer vitale, clinical confirmed explosions and emergency electricity blackouts were introduced. now, a desa harkell far were also without energy, according to local authorities, his 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 officials, 6 high mars rockets were launched. hor, we're intercepted and to reach the civilian target and to the break

away mull jovan region of trans mr. right along the ukrainian border, where authorities say they have thwarted a terrorist attack, the head of transit easter claims ukrainian national security agents were not only targeting several senior local officials, but also out to cause mass civilian casualties. then that it is she, she's got aka this terrorist attack was aimed directly at the elimination of officials of our republic. at the same time, this place was not chosen by chance. this is the intersection of one of the central streets of the city of terrestrial nearby. there is a chain of shops as school and even out of rush hour. there were still a lot of people there. this suggest that the calculation was not only the death of the official, but also on the mass death of people. according to available information, this terrorist attack was sanctioned and prepared by the security service of ukraine. all persons who had detained and wanted. i'll also directly related to the

security service of ukraine. renaissance harris with hack or assassination attempt was supposed to take place in the sensor off terrace ball, which is the capital of the breakaway region transmitter. and it was targeting the leader all 4 trans ne serve. i deem accustomed sail ski, that wanted to use a lander and landrover, and that's where they had the explosives, 80 kilograms of accident explosives, as well as wires screws nests 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 that had alva trans nature, 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 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 secure of trends this sale what he had to say about this attack. mister 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 is 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 ukraine

based on what these suspects have told them, are in mainland moldova, the government there says they have no idea what has gone on. they, they've heard nothing about any terrorist attack and trans, nicer. so this is where we're at right now. the political opposition in georgia is now demanding the current government resigns. this comes after 2 days of coordinated violent protests, which they say won't end despite the countries parliament scrapping a controversial foreign agents bill. the legislation was cancelled after 2 nights of coordinated violence with western partners condemning the theory that antonio's and the life need to show where the money is coming from. the demand from protesters to release. all those arrested during the 1st 2 days of protest was also met by the government, the number of those gathering your that urgent parliament this hour is currently growing by the thousands in what appears to so far a peaceful demonstration we heard from locals about what brought them to the street

. we know that they often light. huh. and we've seen that they have made big promises before, and they've lied to us, so we don't trust them anymore. and we want to make sure that it, they have a history, a strong background to lie to us. and last year they put that in and take away that a law dot product that they're trying to enforce on us. we're not gonna believe in no slides is slow, is also like go recommended from 0 p and union to be was throats. so, but our government against of we, we of its own people approved you slow. so we demanded, we demand the withdrawal of zillow to slow. and though we might do the module in or estimation of governments of true, well,

i'm here in the capital of georgia. and as you can see behind me, that's the parliament building where demonstrators have been organizing protests for the 3rd day in a row to protest. a proposed draft law that the parliament was able to pass. the 1st round of that would see a non governmental organizations in the country that receive over 20 percent of their funding from foreign sources register as foreign agents. but recently we got word from the interior ministry of the country that the government has agreed to. the 2nd demand of the protesters, which is to release all of the people detained in these protests over the last 3 days that was after they also came into the 1st demand of the protesters earlier today to rescind this draft build. but after that happened, the protesters said that they were going to go out on to the streets anyway. and now as you can see, even though the government has said that they will release the detained protesters, the protests are still going on. now right now you can see behind me there's not

any violence going on. it's a relatively peaceful demonstration right now, but this was anything but the case yesterday. and the day before yesterday i saw with my own eyes protesters throwing molotov cocktails, random objects at the police shooting fireworks at them. there were their police responded with tear gas. the protesters also made working in the street and they even tried to storm the parliament both yesterday and the day before a number of people have been arrested and the number of police have also been injured as well. now, in terms of this law, this is coming on the backdrop of threats of sanctions from the united states. if the parliament did not rescind their support for this law, after all, the protesters are actually calling this a russian style law. we've seen a lot of ukrainian flags, a lot of american flags, a lot of european union flags in the crowds, a lot of anti russian sentiment. and that's despite the fact that actually the

russian style law that exists in russia that this proposed george in law was based after is not even as harsh as the one that exists in the united state. the united states has had a similar law that requires foreign agencies to register which has been around since 1938, and the penalties for violating that are much harsher. they include criminal punishments, including jail time, whereas in russia, and this proposed george in law only threaten of organizations that fail to register with fines. now it's also important to understand that the government is divided on this. the parliament obviously wanted to pass this law. but the president has come out against the parliament supporting the protesters. she was actually in the united states and released a video supporting the protesters with on the backdrop of the statue of liberty. when these protests broke out. so i've been caught in the crossfire of the tear gas in the molotov cocktails in the rocks that the protesters have been throwing. we're

going to have to see what's going to happen today because around this time yesterday, it was the same deal. everything was quite peaceful, but come 11 at night or midnight and things got quite violent. so we're going to bring you the details as we get them. and just the day before the protest rocked the georgian capital, the u. s. assistant secretary of international narcotics and law enforcement affairs arrive there to meet with local officials, addressing the media, todd robinson, lamb, the foreign agents law as a russian. one thing that was designed to drive georgia away from the west. this is a law based on russia's interest, not george's interest. and we think it's in george's entry to work, work closely towards euro atlantic integration. this law doesn't do that. we don't think it's the right thing for georgia, more importantly, georgia. i don't think it's the right thing for georgia. i find it condescending

from an american official to comment on what is george's interests. and basically why see here is that the united states is not even trying to hide, that it has its fingers involved in these protests the same way that they were involved back in 2004 in the us actually to happen in georgia. that also happened in key, of course, my don, what is really even more dangerous compared to that time is the attempt that is more than obvious from nato and the us to destabilize at the same time, south get caucasus author. this, of course, it is not surprising that the united states and nato as a whole, are trying to the stabilize countries that are in close proximity to rush up. and maybe even perhaps to open our frontline, which,

which can really escalate the conflict happening in ukraine to a whole different level. 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 praised the box policies with skyrocketing prices, just decide now. russia kat, its gas supply to europe by h. sonton, aked, monsanto manager process in europe soaring last summer. our marriage bells raised by 300 descent however, putin's black male was unsuccessful. we replaced a short falling rush and gas by increasing name puts from reliable supplies. 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. guessed 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 supply who explicitly threatens us. we need to act now to mitigate the impact of rise in energy prices, diversify all gas supply from next winter, and accelerate to clean energy transition. judging by what underline said, they're almost exactly 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 vander line, says, because they have reliable suppliers. yeah, the u. s. and norway price gouging them. and while underline was in canada, the executive director of the international energy agency was giving everyone else in brussels. a reality check. printer tried to 3 trying to fall, march b, even much more challenging. done ed dementor, we have not the european, the industry is facing huge pressures the european economic model, which is based on abundant and cheap russian. and i just supplies is what's it, it is over if you 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 op europe's pristine 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 tax was turned off. now the ceo of the states energy giant orlin said earlier this week that they're suing moscow. 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 the yellow, yet, i've said this is an ideology, clearly articulated and imposed by the west, which proposes 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 was that there is

this perception that our country must hand over everything to secure the west in their growth rate. and we only get d stabilization on our borders in response to the united states contributed to this idea at the beginning of the story. they believe 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 seems like this friday for both poland and the e. u is to try to sit comfortably with each half of it's 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 half moscow as a result of their own poor choices and resulting consequences. the u. s. secretary of defense has held talks with his rally counterpart lloyd aust, it reaffirmed washington the iron clad commitment to but israel security 1st.

however, when pressed during a news conference about a recent suggestion by an israeli official to wipe out a palestinian village, austin evaded the question secretary and the current is really government is the most far right. it's been in its history. one if it's minister, is called for a polish in palestinian village to be wiped out. and that was during the aka, by meetings. do you feel comfortable working with and trusting a government and that has individuals who have these beliefs? thanks, leaders i at the top, your religious let me say i refer to my colleague here to comment on the readiness of, of the israeli forces. but in terms of our ability to work together. and you've heard me say a number of times in various places said our commitment to the security of israel is ironclad. but 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, us defense secretary arrived israel to franklin, discuss the circle of voluntary milky white west bank and consult on what steps these rarely leadership can take. the restore, come before the upcoming holidays, both jewish and muslim. but as you've just heard, some of his answers were very vague. these really palestinian conference has recently end to the very dramatic violence 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 to the media after his meetings with these rare leadership pentagon chief said that america respect recognizes israel's right to defend itself and to counter terrorism

. but it condemns any step that would push 2 state solution away. 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 we'll continue to oppose our actions. i could push a 2 state solution further out of reach this rarely defense minister who is known as one of the most moderate officials in these rarely, right. when government said that israel is very much interested in palestinian

peoples prosperity and stability in the west bank and gaza, but israelis will always come 1st. as for the palestinian arina, the state of his well, 6, stability and security. we are interested in the economic 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 c p. m. of israel. the tensions in the west bank escalated again on tuesday when these rarely mil to rec. hill, 6 palestinians, during the military rate, in the city of ginning in the north of those wide west bank, including those israel claimed, responsible for how war a shooting that took the lives of to his rarely brother is that attack provoked, unprecedented massive and violent pogroms of high water and other palestinian towns and villages by israeli settlers in which one palestinian men died. dozens of cars

and homes were burned. israeli authorities did not analysis arrest the prosecution of the settlers responsible for these attacks and to the international community was very much concerned about it. the u. s. u n. e. you all called for israel to punish those responsible amnesty international was among those warring under israel support the system impunity rains despite the intensity and scale of sunday's attacks, which resulted in the killing of one palestinian and the wounding of nearly 400. and despite a rare show of international condemnation of settler violence, israeli police yesterday released 6 suspects who were arrested in connection with these attacks. the pentagon chief came to israel, the time of huge internal division, massive and to government protests have been shaking the country in the last 10 weeks. demonstrator is taken to the streets in thousands have been protested

against these rarely governments planned judicial reforms that they claimed would bury the countries democracy. if the bills become laws, these railey politicians will have more power in appointing judges and in cancelling decisions by the countries high court. while the prime minister will be more legally protected than ever. so say, has been announced at day of resistance with protests held everywhere throughout israel. speaking to the media, mr. austin did not mention these protests, but he talked about democracy. america's commitment to israel security is our employer. and it's going to stay that way. as president president biden said on his visit to israel last year. the connection between the israeli people and the american people is born deep. israel is a major strategic partner for the united states. it's rooted in the shared values

of democracy and freedom. and the rule of law and those values remain essential as president biden has said, the genius of the markers of american democracy and israeli democracy is that they are both built armstrong institutions on checks and balances. and on and independent judiciary, also visit to israel is yet another 10 by jo biden's administration to play a media role here in the region in hand to try to de escalate the situation. since the beginning of this year had number of high ranking american officials like national security adviser, secretary of state, visited israel, expressing their concerns over mounting tension is trying to de escalate the situation. but as we can see, things are only boiling on the ground. the supposed threat from iran has been a key focus of talk says the u. s. secretary of defense met with who's really

counterpart, lloyd austin. so that t, ron was the main de stabilizing force in the middle east and he pledged washington support for television. now as you'd expect and you heard the minister say much of our discussion today focused on the threat posed by iran. iran remains the primary driver of instability in the region. however, lloyd austin's comments came in the same week that is your old targeted earthquake stricken syria seriously damaging the aleppo airport, which halted humanitarian aid supplies to the country. days before that television conducted several deadly id of operations in the west bank overlooking is really subtler violence towards palestinians. one government official even called for the destruction of a palestinian village. tel aviv also denounced previous promises to hold expansion

of settlements and outpost in october. and lastly, israel threatened to bomb iranian nuclear site if it considers them a threat to state security, claiming that tehran has been producing highly enriched uranium. so to go further in depth on this, let's cross live now to che ron university, professor sayed mohammed mirandi. professor. it's great to have you on the program today. now, what do you make of lloyd austin's claims that tehran is the regions main de stabilizing force as you put it? you know, quite well that the main destabilizing force is the united states itself. the united states aided saddam hussein and encouraged to invade iran and then united states against saddam hussein. and ultimately they occupy a country they occupied afghanistan. they occupy one 3rd of syria,

the united states supports the apartheid regime. the united states is helping the saudis commit genocide or has been comp helping the saudis commit genocide in yemen for years now. and of course, the united states has destroyed along with libya, which was the most wealthy country in africa. so there's really nothing much for the palestinians, like they've done both today. and yesterday, 10 pallets indians were murdered. over the last 40 hours, united states remains pipe and the constant bombing of gauze is something that the americans not only tolerate, but they justify in their statement. so it's obvious that the united states is the main, the stabilizing force. and of course, the apartheid regime comes in as a close 2nd. yeah. when it comes to d, stabilizing countries of the us know is the thing or 2 about that. and whenever

they're talking about israel, us politicians always seem to say that has a right to defend itself of some sort of excuse for whatever it does. but at the same time, we also have the u. s. emphasizing that iran, fine air defense systems was a step towards escalation yet doesn't iran have a right to defend itself here? the united states wants to keep the countries of the region defenseless, and iran is at the top of that list. if the united states was able to attack iran, it would, there's no doubt about that. the united states destroyed iraq destroyed. i find this on it. it has helped destroy so much of syria. there is no reason to believe that the united states would show any mercy to the iranian people if they could, if they could attack the country. so iran has been building up, it's miss our defense capabilities. it's drone capabilities and it's offensive

missile capabilities, and that is what holds the americans at bay. and i think that over recent years, americans have come to the recognition that iran has a very capable defense in the face of potential american aggression. and that makes them deeply unhappy. now i had to ask you about another statement that was made here, which is israel claiming it would bomb or ron's nuclear facilities if it senses some sort of threat. how realistic is that scenario and actually happening? and if it does what would be the potential consequences iran.