ah, a number of locals that are not to republic are killed and wounded as the area. once again comes under ukrainian. shelling a dizzy and the stories with sheep will week. we look at the timeline of the bomb attack and st. petersburg, which kill the high profile, russia, more journalists, and it around 40 other people in a renewed effort to engineer, decade long, complex key delegations is ivan gehman for peace talk with coming to you live from the russian capital. this is the week week on our t international. i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of this week and

today. welcome to the program. civilian areas and the donnette republic have once again come under shelling from ukrainian forces. a town near the regional capital was hit, leaving a number of locals dead and wounded ortiz roman. closer of sent this report. 2 civilians were killed and 14 were wounded as the result of ukrainian strike in the city of yes, in nevada. now at least 12 house, as private houses like this one were destroyed according to officials, ukrainian nationalists used to multiple launch rockets systems, as well as 155 millimeter caliber, nato made weapons. and this is the scene that sir, who had been witnessing absolutely everywhere in houston, nevada, as of the sound, has been under constant ukrainian shelling lately. why?

why don't we shoot duper, did you shell the residential area? a young fellow decided to fry pancakes for his grand dead. so luckily we had driven back to my place right after that 2 minutes later it has all been shelter. his grandmother and grandfather were hit and wounded in their legs. we went to the hospital and saw 12 people there, then we brought them to mchale fca, where god saved the grandson. it's rewarding sometimes to fry pancakes for your grandfather. firing indiscriminately against the peaceful civilians has become somewhat of a trademark of ukrainian nationalists now. ah, this crater is set right in the middle of a kindergartens play ground all around me. are people's houses, apartment buildings right next door to the kindergarten is, has school. as you can see, the kindergarten here. all the windows had been blown out. thankfully,

there were no victims here has all the kids at the moment or on distance learning. syrians could have been with you who were standing next to the sports ground. i was on the phone and then a sudden blast occurred. i got twisted and fell down after that i saw my arm was just hanging brother and 3 other people were there with me. one of them was very near me and i'm sorry he died and i lost my arm. it's a civilian area. and even despite that, it has already been shelled 3 or 4 times. they might have been targeting the hospitals. it's located close to the site where the shells fell. sergei is just one of 14 civilians who were wounded as a result of ukrainian artillery. shelley here in use in nevada, as i haven't spoken with him, it looks like he is full of confidence that he is going to pull through. however, he said that at least one person was killed. the person that was standing right next to him, all in old. on saturday,

2 people were killed and 15 wounded as the result of ukrainian artillery strikes from one cos room. artie the next republican, an extremist group which calls itself the national republican army, has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the high profile russian war journalist la glinda tar sky. he was killed in an explosion out of st. petersburg cafe last sunday, which left at least 40 other people wounded for his on the national republican army claims it was acting without foreign help. above where the bomb hidden inside exploded in the menu. during an event, the radical group was founded with the stated aim of over throng the kremlin. back in august, the same group said it had carried out the killing of another russian journalist. daria do gonna outside moscow. however, russian officials claim ukraine was directly responsible for both murders, a charge key of denies. this is footage from inside the cafe. it shows

mr. to char skate being handed the boss with the suspect even being invited to sit close to him. it's not clear if she knew the object contained a bomb and a warning, you may find the following footage, disturbing. a what we're seeing here, survivors from the attack outside in the street as passers by. try to help. the main suspect was spotted leaving the scene. moments after the blast, the man who was killed loudly to tar steep, was an influential war blogger, before 2 year olds. real name was maxime from me. he was originally from don bass and fought in the early stages of the conflict in 2014. as part of the lugens people's militia, that experience led to him later filming reports from the area and posting online artes donald quarter breaks down how the events unfold. it. on a sunday evening like any other russian war correspondent bloodline to tar sky was

hosting an event centered around war zone journalism. here at this cafe, it was open admission. anyone could have attended and a starsky told his audience of his stories of war around 6 15 pm. his life came to a sudden end after an explosion reduced the cafes interior to rubble. mm. me. believe he just took the suit usa to a terrorist attack. has just happened while vlad lend to tar ski was speaking. there was an explosion in the bar. it seems that our speaker got up. according to eye witnesses, the explosion came from a small statue that

a woman brought to the event a gift, apparently intended for to tar skeet rushes. investigative committee said it was looking into this incident as a murder and the police were on a man hunt to find the woman in question. media reports began to suggest that the main suspect in the case was a woman by the name of daria trap of a, someone who had been arrested before at anti government demonstrations. and had transferred money to an extremist organization called the anti corruption foundation. around 700 police officers were deployed across the city in search of trap of the police showed up at her door with automatic weapons and even rated the residence of her mother and sister. for the time being though she was nowhere to be found. the next day, the authorities found daria trip of a at a 4 rent apartment where the russian investigative committee later confirmed her detention. not long after that the interior ministry released a video confession and which daria trip of a admits to bringing an explosive statuette to tar ski's event. do you understand

why you have been detained? i am detained, folding at the scene of flatland petoskey, killing. what have you done? i pause sachi, they explode at us. oh, who gave it to you? good. can i tell you later, rushes anti terrorism committee has determined that this was a terrorist attack organized by key of with the help of agents from the aforementioned extremist organization. the anti corruption foundation here for its part has denied any involvement in this attack. as it did a year ago, when there was overwhelming evidence to suggest that key halves agents had killed another high profile russian journalist. daria do gonna, with these civilian assassinations piling up and the west, turning a blind eye to key of roland them. it looks like the people who risked their lives to show the world. the truth are going to have to sleep with one eye open until this conflict is over donald quarter r t st. petersburg. the funeral of mister starsky was held on saturday. mourners

gathered at a cemetery in the capitol. he was posthumously awarded the order of courage from bravery. one of russia's top honors ah, the bbc's been slapped with the tag of government funded media by twitter. but it's provoked an angry response from the british broadcaster which rejects the claim, saying it's the people and not the government that pay it's money. who's speaking to twitter, to resolve this issue as soon as possible. the bbc is and always has been independence. we funded by the british public through the license fee. bbc is funded by the license fee, a compulsory charge for each household amounting to $159.00 british pounds annually . the amount of the fee, though, is set by the government, twitters previously slapped similar tags on various russian and chinese news

outlets including r t earlier. the american npr network was given a state affiliated media label. although that was later changed to government funded after you on mass face backlash in the media. so to go further in depth on this, let's cross live now to award winning journalist martin j to discuss twitters decision on the bdc. martin is gray tabs on the program today. now it's a bit of a peculiar turn of events. i mean we have the b, b, c. now being branded as government funded on twitter. so what is your take on that decision? it's really old, isn't it? that they don't mask has gone down this road, i can only assume that he is feverish, attempting to raise some new business model to bring in revenues for twitter. and one of the ideas behind is brandy or ranking, not just media, but all organizations and individuals. and it's, it's an easy 1st step. it's

a cheap shot to put these labels on the meter out. he's also visual journalists. i mean, they're gen this in the you k who previously worked for see who got that. russia state affiliated tag on the twitter account even though they finished years ago. so you know, it's an, i think it's another chaotic day in the most come twitter it's, it's been panicking since that they bought it because you paid for it. and then this is just another example of the erotic business suppression. yeah, there really is never a dull moment when it comes to mosque and twitter. now of course, the b b c has responded, they rejected the claim saying that the british people fund the network, not the british government. now do you think that that's fair considering that it's the government that decides on the level of the licensee, at least at the very base? yeah, it's, it's, it's tricky because unlike state broadcasts in france and germany for example,

which are funded directly and controlled by central government. the bbc isn't, it's the sort of independent political entity of its own. however, just say that is completely independent is not really true. i mean, we noticed in recent is that the government does have some control, have some influence on how the nation is run and in particular, who is chosen to, to run it. so like to say it's completely independent, i think, is stretching things a little bit too far, but i can understand why the previously responded in such a way because it, it is a certain certainly unique set up that the b c has him in person. right. and now do you think that this new label on twitter is likely to have any impact on the bbc's reputation here? i mean, we know that the network has already been rocked by a number of controversies lately, including this suspension of one of its star prisoners over criticism of the

government migrant policy. to do things, this is going to change the public's view of the b, b. c. in any way, no, it isn't because about this year in prison, bbc is so incredibly low at the moment. i mean them would never reach such a low point. you know, there are more and more people are asking why they have to pay the fee a tool many people best are asking for the business both to be reject and try to become commercialized and whether people can choose to pay or not, or even as a pay as you go model, you know, it's an a crisis and, you know, you touched upon something. there is, there was also corruption scandals that the baby she's got to now, you know, the recent appointment of it's of its top shop who was a friend of johnson and who actually help or johnson secure a so called loan from a company, canadian business money to help on some of these new lavish lifestyle. these sort of thing to people like reduce their birth for johnson and then become the chief

executive officer or the, or the secretary general, the b, b, c. you know that that's the sort of scandal that people are now beginning to accept as normal at the pbc because corruption is something that is becoming noted by media more and more the b, b, c. and it can and it's murky connection with government. so just say that this is going to affect public opinion, i think public opinion only too low. presently, i don't think it has that much impact. so yeah, that's fair, especially given the number of controversy surrounding it. now, how do you think that the latest decisions when it comes to twitter, anyone must, can trying to label a number of networks. who know that this will likely go beyond just the b, b, c and p r. what do you think will be the long term impact of that and how do you think that the public is likely to respond to it? well, i think this is going to be i think it's going to back fire on twitter. musk amuse already coming on defiance from. from the french today, you know,

little little french people are getting on to twitter and saying, hey, you know, most can you brand. the pvc is state funded broadcast. what about our fire? what about france? 24. and so i think he's going to have to talk to people and actually come up with something a bit more intelligent, a bit more comprehensive when it gives these these particular rankings. all of these dentists size major around the world. i mean, it's a bit rich really. i mean he, he, he likes present himself as a political. he presents himself as somebody who doesn't mix it with, and it's not influenced by politics. he's completely, non partisan, is not so true. i mean, when you look at twitter, it's very, very political. you know, if you don't follow the, the state department line, for example, on the wall, then you will be punished by which and i know many people who have been and i've also been punished, but which is there are various different levels. well, twitter punishes people who don't stick to what must consider to be the narrative,

which is more or less indirectly dictated by the state department. if you look at the cnn web site, there isn't a banner saying for the last 2530 years. i can remember as a journalist how cnn has followed religiously, the state department lie, no, just but every single conflict, every single intervention the americans gotten into. so i think this is very early days and i think he's just dipping his tone the water and seeing what reaction is going to get. he's going to have to be got to come back to the drawing board, i think, and actually look at this again and be much more comprehensiveness smarter approach to it, i think. right, so do you think it's essentially one of those cases where people who are reading don't cross the b, b, c, or, and you're going to keep not trusting them. and i mean, the same goes for a number of different outlets or even journalists, i guess it's one of those cases where people already kind of have their minds made up when they're following them in the 1st place. isn't that the case?

i'm not sure. i mean, i think we'll have to see how this pans out of the next few days and a few weeks. but i definitely think he's made a blunder with the b, b, c. and also i'm not looking at other major organizations around the world. i don't think that gives much credibility to twitter, which is already having a tough time as it is, you know, with new stuff coming in and a number of point people is fired in the last couple of weeks. so, you know, we'll have to see how this pans out, but it's a, it's a, it's an a one of many blunders the most because made and not a good day for twitter. not a good day for his own public opinion. certainly be interesting to see where this one goes and continue to follow and journalists, martin j, thanks so much for your time. and inside the e, you may be overly reliant on it's time would be us. that's a concern that has been expressed by the french president during

a trip this week to china. menu on the chrome said europe master void following washington's lead into a potential conversation with beijing over taiwan. the paradox would be that overcome with panic, we believe we're just america followers. the question you will be in need to answer is it in our interest to accelerate on taiwan? no. the worst thing would be to think that we, you repeat in small, become followers on this topic and take our cue from the u. s. agenda and a chinese over reaction. recently the chairman of the us house foreign affairs committee, so there would only be a conflict with china if it had the support of the american people. michael mccaul had been asked how far washington would go to defend his interest in taiwan. speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan. now before there is any sort of invasion. what about u. s. troops arctic? you know, then you're talking about an authorized use of military force. what would come out

of my committee or a declaration of war which we haven't you license war 2? would you support that? i think if, if the of china commerce, china invades tie one, i think that is certainly if the american people support this, the congress will follow. the words were delivered as a u. s. delegation visited taiwan on thursday. back in washington house vicar, kevin mccarthy, hosted the islands leader despite objections from china on saturday, beijing launch 3 days of military drove around the territory. the chinese foreign ministry also issued a statement that sought to clear up any confusion regarding the one trying to principle payment. he say one is an inseparable part of china. china sovereignty and territorial integrity has never been divided, and divisions won't be allowed. some countries hype up to false narrative of democracy versus authoritarianism, and used a pretext of democracy to support and connive with separatist forces and tie one

for independence in order to contain china. this approach is extremely dangerous and will not succeed either in political analyst nicola america, which believes that my crone statement suggestive visits within the atlantic community. this is typical emanuel mack, when we know that she likes to tell people what they like to hear. so we like to see a macro abide by his own principles if he's afraid of going to war with china by, by following what the us and policy is. why was you not afraid of following the u. s. policy and ukraine in going to war in directly with russia. i do think it is quite interesting. however, because in such a circumstance it does show that within the atlanta community, there are divisions and the fact that manual macro open the says to draw is that he does not want to follow everywhere. the u. s. policy is something quite interesting . i think also that china has identified emanuel macro as

a weaker spot within the atlantic community in the west. and they've paid on that. we've seen how existing being has a greeted mental macro in china with a lot of honors, a lot of important meetings, sidestepping. ursula, vendor ne and clearly showing that china was betting more on macro than it was on the european union. reducing the dollars dominance. that's the clear goal, stated by iran. how's the country welcome the russian president, special a to tell you we're on on sunday. terror on argues that reducing the role of the dollar in both regional and international transactions. what help lessen the western dominance of the world economy are on also underline the north south corridor. as the most important part of his development project at plants, you can act transit routes for goods from moscow to india through ron, bypassing western nations and their sanctions. the ideas voice by the iranian

official is trending under the name d dollarization. and iran and russia are the only ones pushing for that. turkey has central bank has recently announced steps to boost this move away from the greenback and keep down the yield of turkish li. are government bonds on wants to encourage the use of the local currency in bank deposit, as well as the central banks lyrics ation strategy. moreover, china and malaysia are also weighing a potential asian monetary fund as counterbalance to the dollar dominated international monetary fund. and finally, saudi arabia said in january, it's open to discussing oil trade and currencies other than the dollar. that's moving away from the notion that the dollar is the sole currency to trade oil with . the secretary general, the agent mirrors forum, listed 3 major reasons behind the valuation of the dollar over the last 30 years.

first, the, the financial surprises, the cards in 2008. and he was the one which many countries, especially you and all the countries where one way or the other connected to the dollar system. the other one was the curb for currency, which was out of the hands of the americans. and again, out of the dollar system and the 3rd one which i consider that the most important one is the already use up to date from the united nation off dollar putting sanction on the country in that country over and over again. and actually, let's say we can't, they help the country, they the sanction countries to go to are working together. so you almost sanction brush or thank you all or thanks and and try no thanks for the many, many other countries realize that they couldn't work with each other. this find the

sanctions and there would be no further sanctions won't be home. and they don't need actually the us all that works with each other so that it would be sanction or it could be limited by or controlled by these people are thought to be trapped under rubble after 2 buildings collapsed in the french city of marseilles, following an explosion, fire at the scene has complicated rescue efforts. video footage shows clouds of smoke rising from the ruins as firefighters tried to bring the situation under control. one excavator attempts to dig through the piles of bricks and concrete. at least 5 people were taken to the hospital with serious, but not life threatening injuries. the cause of the explosion is not yet known. the delegations from saudi arabia and oma have arrived in yemen for peace talks

with hooping rebels. it follows a reconciliation between saudi arabia and iran in a deal brokered by china. this is part of renewed efforts and the nearly decade long conflict, and which saudi led force have been fighting against the insurgency which is supported by iran. it is assumed that the piece talks will focus on a potential see fire, and then end to a saudi blockade of gemini ports controlled by the who piece. there is also speculation that the negotiations will include the possible withdrawal of saudi lead forces from yemen and efforts to rebuild the country. efforts to establish cooperation between the parties are already under way with a recent prisoner swap conducted between the sides. thor are wrapped it in 2014. when an uprising by who the rebels toppled the government, it escalated into a broader conflict between the asylum coalition, supporting the government and a wrong backing. the who these who want to establish a religious state,

china diplomatic efforts which all saudi arabia and are wrong restore ties have boosted hopes, the lasting resolution to the conflict in yemen. more than 23000000 people are estimated to need immediate humanitarian help. journalists uses marjorie, has more on the development we have to recognize that saudi arabia is taking this initiative to come to yemen, something which they have never done. i think saudi arabia is starting to see the downward trajectory that the u. s. and western powers are heading, and i think that, you know, they're sort of on this cross path where they are being forced to jump off the sinking western hedge a monic ship that they have relied on. we have to keep in mind that from on saudi arabia, the u. e. they all have us and western military bases in their own nations. they are part of the western force to implement western policy in the entire region.

this initiative that they're taken is geared at establishing better partnerships, not just in yemen, but throughout the region with also iran. you know, thanks to the china brokered agreement that they assigned to 3 weeks ago. right. so i think saudi arabia is on a precipice where they are forced to jump off the ship of western colonialism. that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour. ah ah, ah ah

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germany, thousands of demonstrators demand to stop supplying weapons to ukraine. sanctions against russia have drastically reduced living standards for austrians, and they've taken to the streets of vienna check citizens or demanding the government resign that the country withdraw from nato and the european union and begin to go shay from some cheap russian gas. and this is a protest by italian bakers, a british being forced to give up the most basic things, jude and he, russian sanctions. europe is now 3, plunging into darkness. it's freezing. ah, but what does the us have to do with it?

ah, i will ensure that joe biden does not receive 4 more years in order to make america great and glorious. again. i am tonight announcing my candidacy for presidential by november, the 15th 2022. donald trump announced he would run for the american presidency in 2024. we must conduct a top to bottom overhaul to clean out the festering rod and corruption of washington dc. but why is donald trump convinced the u. s. one survive another joe biden presidency? i was deep for says trump once again talking about with.