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business is good and that is the reality of what, what we're facing, which is fashion. with we start with breaking news, the main suspect in the st. petersburg bomb blast which killed a high profile russian war reporter is detained by police. at least $31.00 people, including a 14 year old girl, were injured in the blast, thought to be caused by a device concealed in a statue presented to the journalist. we spoke to a victim of the attack. i was talking to my compatriots, bloodline to starsky. i managed to ask him a couple of questions and then the blast brush and journalists are constantly targeted by the t v. that's the response from the russian foreign ministry to the attack. also condemning the west for turning a blind eye to the witch times against war correspondence
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with good afternoon for moscow. this is our to international with the latest world news updates. i'm pure la, isabel. it's great to have you with gary, a triple bug, the main suspect in the st. petersburg bomb blast has been detained on suspicion of involvement in the attack, which killed war corresponded. blad led to tar ski in a cafe in russia. northern capital let's cross live now to our corresponded dom quarter coming to us from st. petersburg for the latest update dawn, what can you tell us about what we know so far about the suspects darya trip of a well, it's a huge development in the story really, that the investigative committee has confirmed the detainment of daria trap up because we've been her you're hearing about it in media reports for hours already.
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this girl that is suspected to have been involved somehow in the murder of the 40 year old russian war journalist, flawed lend to tar sky. there were media reports before saying that this woman was detained by the police, and that she had been detained many times before. actually had government anti government rather rallies in the past. and that she had even given money to an organization that is considered an extremist group. in the russian federation, that's what the media reports were saying for over the past several hours, but we have only confirmed that she has been detained by the police. as of this point now, it's important to also understand that the, the reason for why dar daria trap of a has been detained in this case. she is a suspected of being a girl that many eye witnesses are saying. a gave a small statue to lad, len petoskey, but right before the blast took place, so many eye witnesses consider her to be the main suspect in this entire situation
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. of course, this is just one of several narrative. several explanations that the investigative committee is looking into right now, because there are also reports that, that her bag was cleared for entry before she entered into the cafe and that no explosive device was found. so like i said, this is only one explanation for what happened, but right now, most eye witnesses and the authorities are reviewing it as the most likely case. now, we have also heard the official reaction from the russian government about this from the russian foreign minister, maria, sorry, russian foreign ministry spokesperson re, as a harvey, who said that that russian journalists are facing more and more threats from kiev and ukraine day by day. it's becoming more and more dangerous for them to continue their work and i just live in public at this point. and the west is basically turning a blind eye to that. let's take a listen. chris and journalists are constantly hearing death threats from the keep regime and his supporters, which are increasingly being implemented,
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they're harassed, branded in the liberal sense with special markings on the digital platforms of american internet monopolies. well, there is a witch hunt in the western media. all this happens with the tactic, disregard of the romans international structures which now can be interpreted as an approval if not complicity. in any case of the violent death of a russian journalist which was assessed by the key of regime and his thugs as a success. neither western countries nor international organizations, nor foreign professional communities, conducted investigations. they didn't even show elementary human sympathy. not so long ago, the west was fighting extreme asthma, terrorism marching with the united from paris in defense of journalists against whom terrorist attacks were committed to day, the lack of reaction, the white house down street, the alizae palace, et cetera. given there, claimed, concerned for the welfare of journalists and freedom of journalism speaks for itself. or ukraine has denied any sort of involvement in this explosion. but that really is not something out of the ordinary as they did pretty much the same thing
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. a with another assassination of a high profile russian journalist last year doria do gonna so with doria trip of a now in custody of the, in the authorities custody. and we're seeing these developments move forward. of course, we're gonna have to see what's gonna happen over the next several hours of the investigative committee is going to give us any new details as to who this girl is . and what role did she exactly play in this explosion? article responded on quarter with the latest from st. petersburg. this video shows the moment the blast occurred at the cafe were the war reporter and blogger had been hosting an event. as you can see on the footage, the buildings windows were blown out by the force of the explosion. an eye witness describes the moment of the attack. a little bit, she's been sure to stick the book. i think my friend and i were walking towards the university embankment and at the time we heard an explosion. it was a dull explosion like a pop. after about 10 to 15 minutes,
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we found ourselves in the heart of the event. we didn't realize at the time that it was a terrorist attack, but we understood that it wasn't safe for us to be there. at the time, we saw that many wounded people were coming out. there were 2 ambulances, fire fighters were nearby. people were being carried out on stretchers. a warning you may find the following footage, disturbing. this for it shows the aftermath of the attack from inside the st. food bar venue. we blurred some other distressing images of the victim. the cafe was left devastated by the force of the blast, the wreckage of tables and chairs scattered over the room among the debris. here we can see some more footage from outside the sight of the glass. this video, released by the russian investigative committee, shows the force of the blast which blew out the cafes windows. the cafes. the interior is almost unrecognizable with the ceiling collapsing in the explosion. we
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heard from one of the victims of the blast who was taken to the hospital for treatment and who spoke to tar ski just moments before the explosion. shows us whimsical. i was talking to my compatriot, blood, lend to tar skew. i managed to ask him a couple of questions and then the blast happened after that i left the building with everybody else. fortunately, the police and ambulance arrived very quickly. i expressed immense gratitude to the doctors. they're just saints. i take my head off to them that harkey was a prominent figure in the online community of war time correspondence. the 40 year old real name was maxing bowman and he himself was from dom bass. he fought in the early stages of the conflict from 2014 to 2017 in the logan's people's militia. this experience led to him becoming one of the most followed war correspondence before his death, amassing an audience of over half a 1000000 on social media. in this cctv video,
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a woman is seen entering the cafe where the bloss happened, carrying a box. she suspected to be the person who brought the explosive device into the building with what's eventually given to flatland to tar sky. meanwhile, the russian investigative committee has conducted a search of the suspects apartments. the federal security service is also reportedly at the scene. according to media reports, a family member of the suspect has been detained. residence of saint petersburg, or bringing flowers to the university embankment or war corresponded. bloodline to tar ski died in an explosion. the actual site of the blast is corded off, while security forces carry out their investigation. we discussed the latest with radio host and political commentator, steve gill and journalist and political analysts, john rowley,
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who said that there is a possibility of foreign involvement in the attack which was aimed at sewing fear in russian society as well as silencing journalists. it is tragic that the u. s. government that the eastern a government western governments in europe have failed to, to speak out and condemn this murder of a journalist. even if we don't know all the details, even if we don't know the full factor behind it. i don't think it's too early to say this is an atrocity that everybody should loudly condemn. you know, i've spoken out loudly for a long time about the lack of journalistic questioning and, and the lack of skepticism by western media when they simply pair it. the propaganda being dispensed by the ukrainian government about what's going on in this conflict from the very beginning. western media has not been curious about what the reality is on the ground in ukraine. i've pointed out repeatedly the lack of journalists on the,
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on the front minds on the russian side of this conflict. the again, they simply repeat the of the propaganda ukrainian side without imbedding journalist, as we see in every other conflict. on the other side, in in bach mood, in the john bass region. and now we're seeing that journalists who have been reporting from that side of the arena are being murdered. as we see in this case, whether or not it was directed by the ukrainian government, whether it was assisted by western european governments or the u. s. you know, they've denied being involved in other atrocities, including the bombing of the nordstrom pipeline of the bombing of the bridge that was referred reference to earlier in the story. the credibility of the west is being lost in this fight, a lot quicker than the ukrainian soldiers. are being lost in this fight. it is certainly an effort to shut up journalist journals for trying to report the truth or the truth over the past 9 years. british and americans are training,
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ukrainian terrorists and sabotage groups. within your time, you poured that. that's almost a year ago. so think of how much they've done, how many people they have trained to commit terrorist attacks sabotaged attack in the past year. goal of these people were behind the attack is to create more fear and panic, and rush to psyche to and for people to russians to start to doubt their own government. so it is also psychological warfare and trying to say that the russian government can keep the states. but what should we have reckless people in power in washington in london, in brussels. and they're the ones who are pushing, trying to push russia to do something extremely rash that could ignite a major war in the entire continent. using the ter, tara method is quite, you know, it's just part of the rule book by which natal operates and fortune again. as an american, i'm disgusted by this earlier are to shave all, spoke to my colleague uno niel about the important role to be played in covering
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frontline stories in the don bass. well, i think it's important to say that there's huge shock and there's anger, i think, as well as friends and colleagues are sort of making statements which are you know, dumfounded at this event in the center of a large city. the 2nd city, if you like to, of russia to free media has become anything but free and those that are portraying themselves as the defenders of freedom of speech have become essentially quite the opposite. in some ways bundling petoskey was the man killed. he's a well known figure, online che prominence as well in his work at ticket through what's known about him . vladin petoskey, his real name. actually maxime, a foam in a 40 years old. and he hails from a place called mackie, in ad dumbass. it's, it's, it's, it's a smaller town and done at s city. but it's, it's adjoining it. it's essentially
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a conservation of $22.00 towns. so he would have grown up in a don asking the don bass a he fought during the initial stages of this conflict between 20142017, in the dumbass. lou haskell malicious. so he would have had a 1st hand knowledge of the conflict or he would have been essentially a local, a man who would have had significant contacts and access to the front lines, which i think would have fed into his huge following. and he was a prominent blogger, and, and a journalist that you say over 560000 followers on the telegram platform. and anyone who uses telegram as millions now due to access 1st on information, they would tell you that the 560000 followers is a significant following on telegram and some breaking news. justin, according to that russian anti terrorism committee, the killing of live lent to tar sky in a cafe in russia's northern capital,
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was planned by the experts believe there are certain parallels to be drawn with a similar attack that took the life of another prominent journalist. daria duke, last year, she was killed in a car bomb attack in august 2022. daria was a journalist and the daughter of a prominent russian philosopher, moscow claimed ukrainian security forces were responsible for that attack, something kiev denies. we heard from former us marine and geo political analysts, john mark, again, who believes there's been an effort to silence pro russian journalists using violent means. i was surprised because, you know, i lost another colleague several months ago. doria, deanna and you know, we had to spend time in dumbass together, and we did some projects together. and now him, and, you know, i have to say,
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maybe some anger because you only see this happening to the russian journalist. you don't see the russians bombing any journalists in the west. there was a lot of thought that obviously went into this fits if the details are correct, that we're hearing now that a lot of thought went into this. and same thing with dory deanna, a lot of thought went into carrying out her attack as well. so certainly it could have been the same group. they had to have some intelligence and they had to have significant research to do this beforehand. we've seen the west, they are doing everything they can to silence the journalists that are either the even neutral or have a pro russian stance. so they're doing everything they can with censorship, democratization or deletion of their social media channels and even resorting to
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these bombings. now, like i said, you don't see this happening to western journalists or ukrainian journalists done at the hands of russian forces. now, you only see this terrorist activity done by ukraine and people from the west coming in in killing russian journalists because they don't want their points of view to be erred. they have no defense against it. so they have to hide the truth if coming out of their mouth. every terrorist attack we have seen in this operation has been done by the ukrainian military for the west and were talking yes, just the not just the car bombings, but we're talking about the bridge to crimea. we're talking about the notary pipeline. every single significant can terrorist attack, or every single terrorist attack has been carried out by these western elements. and it's really, it's, it's disturbing. and in case you missed it,
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some news just and according to the russian anti terrorism committee, the killing of lad lent a tar sky in a cafe in russia's northern capital was planned by the ukrainian special services less cross live. now to our correspondent on quarter, on the ground from st. petersburg with the latest updates dawn, can you tell us more about the latest information that we just received? char fiorella. well, this is yet another major development. in this case. i mean the, like you said, the russian anti terrorist committee has confirmed that or release a statement rather than the anti or that the ukrainian government was behind the murder of 40 year old russian war journalist ballade len petoskey. it said that the official statement says that it was done in collaboration with some sort of agents that have ties to the russian anti government opposition activist flood alexander alex aiden of ali,
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who is currently in prison. and this is an organization that is considered an extremist organization in the russian federation. this goes, this ties back into another recent development in this case that we got not long ago from the russian investigative committee saying that, ah, daria trap of a is, is a woman who was detained by the authorities on suspicion of being behind this murder reports in the media saying that she was detained, not only that she was detained, but also that she had a history of being detained at anti government rallies in russia, of course. and that she was sending money to an, an, an organization in russia that was considered an extremist organization by the russian government. so putting 2 and 2 together, it is very possible that that organization in question was alex seen of all nice anti corruption foundation, which like i said, is an extremist organization within the russian fed ration. now, it's important to understand why this is important. the detainment of daria trap of
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a because i witnesses on the scene. when this blast took place said that a girl or woman actually came up to uh flatland sitarski just moments before the blast took place and gave him a small statuette. many of them are saying that there was a bomb in this, the, in this small statue. so that's the main sort of explanation for what happened that the russian investigative committee is looking into right now as the reason behind why this explosion took place. so now we've got it up with the russian anti terrorist committee as well, that this was something planned with the support of ukrainian security services and went with the help of these agents from the anti corruption foundation. and this is all, despite the fact that ukraine has officially denied involvement in this explosion, but then again, it's not something out of the ordinary with this kind of stuff. because last year,
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when another high profile russian journal historian duke and i was assassinated, pretty much all the, all the evidence, all the information pointed to a key abs involvement in this. and nevertheless, they denied any sort of involvement. so we're getting some major developments in a very short amount of time here. of course we're going to stay on scene and bring you the latest as it becomes available. article responded on quarter with the latest then. yes, we'll be updating you as we get more information. according to independent dutch journalists, sony abandon and de ukrainian security services. want to show they can hit targets, not only in the dom bass, but also in major russian cities. this is the 2nd estimation we can say after that, you know, they were proven, and russian blogger, journalist, a political analyst, and then it's the woman again, i think, don't think it's accidentally there. 2 times. it's done by a woman into major cities, chris, this was the most call,
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and now we have because book. so they clearly want to make a statement that we can do tara attack on russian soil. not only in the don't love most likely it's done by the s b u, ukrainian intelligence service. with the help of western intelligence services, we all know, like me and also on the middle east and all the journalists who are reporting from the dorm us. and this is very terrible. so actually the war has come to a russian soil and not only from ukrainian, but i think there should be a connection with western intelligence services. flatland to tar ski was featured in an rti documentary only last month. dedicated to a fire fighter friend of his who was killed in the battle fields in don bass. it was one of his last interviews. yes. local news. i got to know entre when we had a youtube channel called grayson combs,
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the channel administrator suggest the recording of video with a firefighter from st. petersburg. we talked on line, i liked what he was doing. andre wanted to go to the conflict. so i was trying to convince him not to, he was opinion lead a man of words. he wouldn't listen and came anyway, we were near mario pulled back, then he learned, ready fast. he got into heavy fighting for oglethorpe, and pavlov. unfortunately, he was killed by mind together with his friend, he was also a fire fighter from st. petersburg. stay tuned on our website for a closer look at our top story today. the explosion in st. petersburg, which killed russian war correspondent plugged in to tar. see, find out more about the late reporters background. see eye witness accounts and footage from the scene of the attack, as well as the latest updates on the ongoing investigation. visit our t dot com to keep up to speed to stay tuned. now to the latest developments on the front line and don bass, the founder of the wagner private military group, says the city of archdale moscow,
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so known as back moot, is formerly under control of russian forces. there's been no official confirmation yet from moscow. in this video footage, wagner head, you get a pre go gen can be seen raising a flag over the city hall sir. way up in the 2nd of april 11 p. m. shop there is the city administration building behind me. this is the russian flag with an inscription in good memory, have flatland, taught escape to your a backward is under our control and the commanding officers of the units that took the city hall and he sent over backward will carry and hoist these banners. this is the p. m. g. wagner. banner. these are the guys who have captured the city. the enemy remains in the west of the city while as we have just heard, according to the statements alpha, you have jenny pre gulshan, the head, ofa, wagner, a private military company. his volunteer units are currently in control of our til mosque. and that says city here in dunn escrow public,
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that's the key of regime have renamed as bob, back in 2016. now, the city is of paramount strategic significance, both to russia and ukraine and a win on a battlefield. there allows the russian armed forces to advance further towards the cities of slowdowns can crumb a tourist kanza. that's another major stronghold of the ukrainian military and currently an occupied territory alder to nest republic. now, foresee of it was important to hold on there in order to keep up the morale in the army and keep and sacked. it says 70 kilometer defensive line and efforts to gain control over almost have been the viewed differently by the west overtime in the early stages. western officials and media claim that it's of principal importance to crane and recently with russia's advances in the area. they have been saying that losing are almost bears absolutely no strategic value to key. if
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we talk to political scientists and retired u. s. military officer, spot bennett, who said, if russia takes control over act the almost it would lay the groundwork for further victories. well, essentially the capture of buck moot terms, the end of the war, nearly for a russian victory. this is essentially a turning point that russia and the wagner group specifically, has demonstrated its superior capacity in destroying the ukrainian military. despite its support by nato and its europe, ian proxies. and i think this is a tremendous morale booster for the russian forces. it's a moment of grand liberation for the people who've been living under the tyranny of the ukrainian races, nazi's that were employed and financed by the west. and i think it is going to now
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really avalanche and translate into a quickening operation from russia. and this attack that just occurred in st. petersburg is going to accelerate russia's push for absolute victory and an absolute annihilation of every zelinski nazi radical in the government. so back move is a strategic turning point of victory for russia. but this event in st. petersburg is going to be gasoline thrown on the russian fire that will very quickly accelerate rushes, absolute uncompromising conquest and cleansing of ukraine from this nazi scourge that has been building there since 2014 and that's her up for the hour and out. black australia risk becoming the u. s. as ukraine in asia, as their proxy war against china escalates a discussion coming up on going underground. thanks for tuning in. stay close.
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what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race. is an offense, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk ah i'm african residency and welcome back to going underground, broadcasting all around the world from dubai in the u. e. it may be the beginning of april, but today we're wondering of australia recently announcing a deal with the usa and u. k. to spend billions on nuclear submarines to fight
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a war with its biggest trading partner. china was an early april fool, china's his australia is walking further down the path of danger. so how did it come to this? how could it ever benefit australia to fire missiles, the closest business partner in maybe 20 as time, while amid spiraling poverty at home, subsidizing us arms, companies already profiting from the war on russia through ukraine? can it be stopped? joining me from cambra to talk. orcus is our best attorney, kevin senior foreign policy advisor, and australian diplomat for decades. thank you so much, a bastard for coming on. i think we have a few sound issues. don't know whether that's because a pine gap. i'll get to that in a moment, but just in the past few days, the national center of a social, economic modeling in australia at 1000000 in just new south wales are in poverty, 800000 more than 2016. and that's on top of other reports. why would australia threaten its biggest trading partner? china with nuclear submarines rushing. thank you for inviting me under the program
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and very good being here to answer your questions. australians have always relied on great and powerful friends to great and powerful white friends in particular, britain and the united states. we began as a penal colony, britain, 240 years ago. shortly after america declared independence. mo wise, had great difficulty in not believing in the regularity and the honor of a powerful friend, britons, and increasing listen, says the non 40 united states. so i think that background ask you a question.
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