ah, ah, a outside losing jobs, maybe one of the locations with a child to offensive counter offensive. rob archie is more of explains how russian border of cruise break down ukrainian forces as cap plans, an offensive in the loo gone. republic. china says the military drills around taiwan were intended to send quote, a serious morning to separate forces, a growing pro independent rhetoric with washington backing them. russia's ambassador to the un calls on the west to abandon if neo colonial habits in africa . following criticism for strengthening bilateral ties with molly and theory in

iran, or restoring relations with saudi arabia, turning from mutual disdain to unity and cooperation as ria to discuss as damascus returned to the arab league. with good morning from moscow, this is our teen or national with the latest news updates. i'm fiorella is about great to have you with us. as ukraine troops prepared for a push near the disputed village of belo, garasco in the lugens republic, russian warder crews and drone operators are methodically breaking down key ranks. archie is more gosti. ab sends us his report. spring has arrived to our batter. dawn bass, trees and greenery are blooming. it changes much drones will lose their edge. nature will conceal entire armies. these men anal veterans. they have been added

since the conflict began. with the middle of the room, the situation is tense, yet stable. we see them dig in in moving about, but we are in sleeping. we watch them. this is a 122 millimeter mort, our squad slaved to a drone operator. in tandem. they pommel the enemy to see dellagorzo just outside. lucy chance may be one of the locations where grading forces are planning to launch their much i counter offensive counter offensive from there's been a, a build up of troops there just a few kilometers away from us. as well as all manner of antennas,

electronic electronic warfare, radar jamming equipment that has appeared there, which is why they watch the strewn footage shoes. a rush, an artillery strike on the house taken over by ukrainian troops within seconds. ukrainian soldiers rush out of a nearby house and head to the sheen. they are struck on route with a how it's a shell. through the smoke, they stumble to the scene where an evacuation vehicle has pulled up 3 head for the house on the right. the rest mill about what exactly that moment. another shell comes screaming in directly on target her garbage work. i remember when we came here last year, we were all fresh and green. we've learned a lot over the past year. there are lots of things to work on, but only he who does nothing makes no mistakes. ukraine's much hyped counter

offensive is expected soon. and the soldiers know that the more of the enemy, they whittle down. now, the easier it will be china intends to close airspace over taiwan next week, but only for half an hour. in contrast to its earlier announcement of implementing a 3 day no fly zone regime. the restriction is said to be a safety precaution connected with the plan launch of the satellite. that comes those tensions between beijing and taiwan. have escalated following this high one is regional leaders visit to the us. they ging responded with drills to send a serious warning to pro independence forces. on tuesday, the chinese president inspected the navy southern theater command and called on armed forces to step up military train. archie is caleb up and brings us more details. the government on taiwan says that china is preparing to launch

a war and they say this in response to the latest drills from the chinese military stimulating and circle many of the islands look at the military exercises and also the rhetoric they seem to be trying to get ready to launch a war against taiwan. beijing says these drills were a warning to the government on taiwan and to independence forces. similar drills were conducted after the visit by then speaker the house nancy pelosi last year, but rather than trying to de escalate this anyway. recently we saw they had of the us house foreign affairs committee visit the island of taiwan and compare chinese president. she's been paying to add all hitler, talking about a provocation, but taiwan foreign minister doesn't seem to concern about what these actions might lead to. he says china has no right to dictate how taiwan chooses to make friends. what. what is it that these friends of taiwan really wanting? she assumes she manufacturers 90 percent of the advance global supply of

advanced semiconductor ships. oil was so important for the economy is, is this sort of the 21st century version of that? i think it's about democracy and freedom. the usa has been in circling china with military bases for over a decade. and recently the u. s. military just conducted its largest real yes. today with the philippines, the usa is now selling tens of millions of dollars worth of weapons to taiwan. and at the same time, we've got a meeting coming up in may. 25 representatives of pentagon contracted corporation are sending representatives to taiwan to discuss joint production ventures. for drones and ammo. needless to say, things in the pacific are rapidly escalating so rapidly, in fact, that some of washington's friends in the west are not sure they're down with it. the question you repeat is need to answer is it, you know, interest exhilarated christ. since i won. now the worst thing would be to sing that if we, europeans,

must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the u. s. agenda and the chinese overreaction the ours in dental hutton. corona's right. we must be careful not to become a party of the conflict and grand the united states enables republic of child europe last tried to plan an abundant troll as far as is possible and not took beers and abundance of the usa. by it. only 13 countries in the world still recognized the government in taipei with honduras being the latest to drop taiwan. they threw their support behind beijing last month. washington whose relations with taiwan are on official and who still claims to adhere to the longstanding one shine a policy has been escalating things as much as possible who really benefits from these moves. caleb martin r t new york co director of the international action center. sarah flounder says that china is simply responding to the u. s. is violation of its tie. one policy china is responding to what the un 3 major things one is to his mom and cooperation

. know, it's that have been made to real working by then a similar saudis obligation is. iran has been in iran since saturday. he's doing the same works. it is doing the same work and the procedures to try to reopen the saudi embassy in the capital one and also the launch consulate for the review are in the one in city of mesh out of course the p. c. o came. they told you in early march this year, and it was broken by china as part of efforts to try to deescalate the regional troubles in the middle east, and also to build mutual trust between one and saudi arabia and to security. in the ukranian court has placed an archbishop from the canada ukrainian orthodox church under house arrest for 2 months, requiring the holy man to wear an electronic ankle bracelet as well as turn in his

passport that comes as separate as orthodox 1st. protesters full for the explosion of fanatical freeze, which is part of a larger persecution campaign launch by ukrainian authorities against the canonical orthodox church. several priest have been accused of anti ukrainian activities and are now facing sanctions and even criminal charges. watch ortiz, full interview with russian orthodox church, bishop metropolitan lee, and need later. but for now, let's take a sneak p. as the genus with every passing day. the developments in ukraine produce more and more misery. it pains us as these are our brothers and sisters. the other day i posted a video of my telegram channel showing 2 elderly women, one of them very old and using a walking stick, making their way towards the church through a crowd of nazis. young people chanting down with mosque vite priests,

the frenzy states. these people were in, it wasn't just unnatural. it was outright satanic, demonic, yes. a demonic fervor, and a vitriolic hate for everything russian. everything orthodox, to understand the cause of all of this. i believe we have to look deeper into the past before the developments of these recent years. in my mind, we are dealing with the aftermath of certain ideas that have not been completely stamped out in the 19 forties fifties and 19 sixty's. it is the ukrainian a band to write ideology which managed to survive in a latent form, slowly, poisoning the minds and memories of generations. and it's now sprouting and bearing a fruit. still, i do not think that one or 2 or even 3 years would have been enough time to re right the minds of young men and women of thousands of people. yes,

that's the unfortunate reality. we are saying you priests, physically assaulted temples, is seized, and as we all know, this persecution is directed against the ukrainian orthodox church. what a tragic period. this is truly my. and yet here we are witnessing the acute phase of this tragedy unfold on holy week. what we will continue to monitor the situation as it develops. but my wish is that it's stopped. ah, why is it in as praise it's relations with warsaw saying ongoing thoughts are based on democratic values. that's despite the u. s. and e is consistent slamming of authoritarian polish policies throughout recent years. poland is a valued ally, a partner and a friend, and we have an enduring relationship based on shared priorities and democratic values. you see what's happening,

everything from bella roost to poland, to hungary, and the rise of the toilet terran regime in the world. and this president, in braces, olga fox in the world. when you look at what's happened in places like hungary, hand in poland, that obviously did not have the same democratic traditions that we did. they weren't as deeply rooted. and yet as recently as 10 years ago were function democracies. and now essentially have become authoritarian. the polish prime minister is in the u. s. for meetings, despite previous statements from european officials criticizing the former critics like the french president who just last year called the polish p. m. a quote right wing anti semite who bands l g b t, people in reaction to polish laws which restrict l u b t writes and contradict western culture. the visit is taking place as warsaw is increasing its nato armaments senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london george on

walley believes a reason for the u. s. is warmth towards poland. is it's shared anti russian rhetoric? well, of course he hasn't changed any of those values now, but the issue really with poland is that as far as the united states is concerned, it is the most loyal most forthright and most predictably rely heavily. angie, russian, natal member state, there is. so of course, the united states, and particularly under the biden administration, which detest is domestic policy, is both of the social conservatism and even his economic nationalism would detest all of that. but he loves absolutely. love is russell phobic and boosting for nato policies are around. so that's why he comes to the white

house. he's warmly welcome. on wednesday, russia celebrated cosmo not next day, which mark to 62nd anniversary of the 1st person to ever make a flight to outer space. good afternoon, the soviet union announced it had launch would make number 2, what were, what with

fine, no problem with let's take a look at the history of the soviet union's achievements in space. in 1957, the country became the 1st to launch a satellite. what sputnik wine, 4 years later,

uri garvin became the 1st man in space. while in 1963 ballantine and parish, colbert became the 1st woman. alexi lee own also took the 1st space walk 2 years later, which lasted for just over 12 minutes. and in 1986 construction began on the 1st permanently man space station called mer, meaning peace. in english, it played home to cosmo knots and astronauts from around the globe until 2001 vladimir putin took the time to praise generations for working together on the space program. did assure you a but only as others. russia has its own unique solutions for solving defense tossed in space. exploration behind that is the hard work of many generations of workers. engine isn't scientists. we were the 1st in space because people who worked at space exploration enterprises devoted their whole lives to the interests

of the motherland to serving their people. i'm here at the kremlin state palace were an enormous ceremony, has been organized to celebrate day of the cosmo knots here in russia. vladimir putin even personally congratulated russia space industry. at this event, he said that russia needs to continue to master space. it needs to send missions to the moon and to different planets as soon as possible. the russian president also said that 100 accident free space launches have been conducted in a row. this is a figure that speaks to the i'm the fast pace of development that the russian space industry is undergoing right now and the russian orbital station prepared to be launched in 2024 was also mentioned, putin said that this must become the frontier outpost of russia in space now, one of the main events at the ceremony today is the 1st ever screening of the russian movie called on the challenge. and it's also the 1st ever movie to be filmed in space. vladimir putin said that this was

a unique moment in world cinematography is supposed to be the weedy shania using advanced technical solutions. we need to make our creation of offs that will embody the dreams of the future generations about discoveries, about a feat that has place in every profession and suddenly always exists in space. such a civil human act was also committed by the team for a film which has a very symbolic name challenge. it has implemented a wonderful scientific and educational projects, who are the 1st to shoot a full length feature film in orbit aboard a spaceship. here to we will.