the, the the, the light sky over israel, a robertson to a blaze of light. as a huge new wave of rock, it strikes is launched against garza and 21. people have been killed and at least 42 wounded. in the past 2 days, the lo, the army has been deployed in pakistan as protests, turn violent over the mast attentions of opposition leaders and the arrest of former prime minister in wrong cause. also a head human who according to our data, the americans have begun to so called the syrian army. the goal is to use these militants against the legitimate authorities on the syrian element. public entity stabilize the country, presses for administer, warns of extra and all attempts to undermine the authorities in damascus that says

he hosts is counterparts from syria tortilla and they're run for peace. tom and india cries file all over the world, press freedom, ranking stuff to the country is placed below even afghanistan, the just about 10 p. m. here in moscow when you're watching r t international. my name's donald quarter. welcome to the problem. our top story is really military continues, it's shield and arrow operation with air strikes on palestinian weapons manufacturing facilities. the tax on gaza started 2 days ago and have killed $21.00 civilians and wounded at least $42.00. that's according to the palestinian health ministry. egypt is said to be working to broker a ceasefire between israel and gaza for it from the israeli defense forces reportedly shows earlier airstrikes on target,

some gaza fighter jets and helicopters have had more than 40 sites. the tel aviv says were used by terrorist organizations. footage also shows hospitals and gaza under rocket fire, taking in the dead and wounded with sirens blazing across the region. and retaliation. palestinian forces have launched missiles at tel aviv with more and more than 400 rockets fired according to as real. people are fleeing to coast and media reports say a residential building has been hit. is rarely city have skill on near the cause. the border has also been attacked for it shows air defenses, intercepting around the ship. in other news, pakistan's army has been deployed to the capital. i made an escalating protest over

the mass, the tensions of opposition leaders and the rest of the former prime minister and were on con. the supporters have denounced the corruption allegations against him, saying they were fabricated to prevent his return to power. a local journalist sent us this report about how the protest arm folding the can you set the right now? suppose is the package. so moving for justice or attacking government property, they've set vehicles on fire. they've completely punch a monument to the countries and you click testing program surrounded the radio practice on building, then they forced themselves inside. the whole setting finds the offices, the civilian authorities have pulled military troops and putting jap and k b k programs. and in the federal capital is i'm about to control the protests. it's a major development. as we've witnessed that police were completely unable to control the violence. the situation is tense. standing here, the lady reading hospital where an emergency has been declared, hospital sorts, he said the treating 77 injured protests. this whole site received the bodies or at

least 3 of those who were shot dead during the process. the situation is getting worse each and what was the impact. so i'm moving for just as supporters are unwilling to return home at any cost that targeting or government properties it's, i mean to damage them. if the issue is corruption, then why don't they arrest the rulings for re family? what wrong has aren't them wrong condo if they don't movies, have i believe that i'm ready to stand for him here in the face, the pool? if i have my chest yet, what i would were here for our legitimate right to protest that they use your gas. it doesn't tell it guns followed by fire and straight to probably just and this is barbara, is they have arrested. they were on con without any crime and will continue protest in industry it. the support for the ousted prime minister has also been seen in new york city, for hundreds of people gathered in times square holding flags and shouting slogans . back in pakistan, authorities have restricted access to twitter, facebook, and other social media platforms. the government says it intends to punish those

causing trouble, saying con supporters are now quote, exposing the country to anarchy with their unlawful actions. and also stressed the rest of the former p. m was carried out legally and is not politically motivated. this is and it asked which is not motivated by any political demonization. as a sportsman. he ought to be championing sportsmen, spit tolerance and respect things a little slow. but instead he is jaws on a box of spreading in oddity chaos and destruction in the country, only to protect himself from accountability. geopolitical expert doctor is a he'd shot hob off man, believes the case against him or on con, threatens to destabilize the whole country. i think the timing, dan is very crucial because the coolest people. what had already issued orders that

the elections in 2 of the key prevents especially in the punjab for wins, who would be organized within 90 days of when their assembly was dissolved. that has been named on cons in a part of the workers, they all resign from not only the national assembly but also from the assembly and job. and i think the political calculation back then was that that would professionalize the current government to go on for an energy election, but that did not happen. so the timing, in this case, a forces to show that this was well, the 1st time to do, the goldman has tried to estimate on and march, we saw the fed and police was sent to his house in level. and then of course i went on phones, bar the workers, they came in the way and it was of course, a lot of orleans and collections back then as well. but eventually the police pin to capture him on the page and see you if he needs to be involved in domestic

politics. a focus on has been medically ruled by military indicators for more than 30 years. and even when there are some of the enrollment, the ones or across the back to our top story now, where are these rarely, military is continuing its shield. an arrow operation with air strikes on palestinian weapons manufacturing facilities. and we got our correspondence here right now. maria and austin us, so we're gonna cross live to her right now. hi there, maria. can you tell us more about what's happening right now on the ground where you are? are the attacks escalating to oh yeah, the attacks are escalating. these real thing to use as large scale offensive against gauze all more precisely and against is lumnick jihad colleagues. thing in the militant group based industry, dozens of fine to s, and helicopters are involved in shield and error operation. move and safety targets have already been heat, including tara tunnels, militant spaces,

and the rocket launch side to id. if latest reports is real earlier, eliminated 3 top military commanders of palestinian islamic jihad, including the one responsible for northern regions and the one in charge of directing operations in the west bank. that's a very, very important person. and a truly dramatic escalation on the ground. i have to say these really foreign ministers of cultural change visit to india and to return back home due to security situation earlier, prime minister and defense minister of israel. how does security assessment praising united efforts of the country's military and intelligence? and they both stress that then go off. this operation is to counter terrorism, adding again, both that it is not to yet over israel is in the middle of shows an error operation . let's take a listen to what benjamin ethan yahoo had to say is we will do whatever it has to

do to protect our state and to protect our people. israel's policy is clear, and our message to the terrace is also clear. you can run, you can hide but india and israel will get you for a total of $21.00. people have been killed in guys in these rarely operation, including civilians, women and children, among them, dozens of others have been injured. that's according to published in health ministry. the international community has to be very much alarmed about what is going on on the it down, because really actions these really all besides shoes, come down, stressing that age row had it's right to protect it. south china, russia and the united arab emirates, or repeatedly calling on the un security council to convene,

but no exact information on when it may happen. and this is what people, residential guys who have been living on the strikes. and the last 48 hours. i said, let's say can listen because all of this situation in gauze is very tragic and confusing, especially since children and women are terrified by the aggression and bumping up the gaza strip. children leaving the state of terror and the prevention because of this into your aggression as well as god that this address and, and the resistance in gaza will not stop just because israel bombs the buildings in dollars on your own. we have to them that resistance out there that the strong of the policy in young people was 24 hours of to these really operations heard from the idea we may expect more as more intelligence officials, climbing a toy, russian information that the race russian. this information and they went ahead

with this and they claimed that this was the case and they said this, the mainstream media despite not having the evidence to back it up and main screen media ran with it. here's what they said. to me, this is a, this classic, a textbook, a soviet russian trade class. it work. we do know that it's a very active russian campaign that's according to the us intelligence community. who do you think is behind this? well, the russians would be my number one guess if i had to guess see it on report on friday the us authorities are seeing if those emails we just talked about are connected to an ongoing russian, this information effort. now james ratcliffe, who was the director of national intelligence at that time and had access to all classified documents, he heard these claims and he came forward and said this hunter, biden's laptop and the e mails ometer are part of some russian. this information campaign, i mean,

be clear. the intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that. despite the official spokesperson, the office of the director of the national intelligence of the united states coming forward in saying this was not the position of american intelligence, the former intelligence officials, mike morel, others of anthony blank, and they continued with their story. and mainstream u. s. media continued to act. oh that was the committee hearing focused only on the laptop story or were they talking about something else? well, the latest development is the, the emails found in the laptop shows a more interesting scandals. it appears that it's not only hunter by but 8 other members of the biden family who received for an income. and now the house judiciary committee is asking whether or not this makes them in violation of the for an

agents registration act. and they're receiving money from other countries in the best possibly having an impact on policy. here's what they said, that we have now established a network of over 20 companies formed by the biden's and their associates. most of these companies were l. l. c's informed. when joe biden was vice president, now when the committee had their press conference this morning to come forward with these findings based on the contents of the emails and a 100 biden's laptop, it's worth noting that only the only major news network in the united states to cover it was fox news and that's nbc and cnn boycotted the congressional press conference to describe possible criminal activities and the need for investigation into the crimes allegedly and international connections with bind. so the media bias seems to continue here are these caleb map and bringing us those details from new york. thanks for joining us. versus top diplomat claims the us is

trying to destabilize syria by creating a revised so called free syrian army, partly comprised of terror groups, surveyed lab rob was speaking as he hosted his counterparts from syria, turkey as syria tortilla and ron. to discuss peace plans, the, the model of justice the when you for good my can help a comment on the information we received that the us is no longer satisfied with supporting the self proclaimed curtis authorities and pumping weapons into the legal arms groups they created. so according to our data, the americans have begun to create a so called free syrian army, with the participation of local aram tribes, isis militants, and other terrible organizations. the goal is to use these militants against the legitimate authorities of the syrian arrow republic and to destabilize the country so that they may think took place in the building right behind me. and wouldn't grab this spotlight was the security situation in the region. so naturally the

topic of syria dominated the agenda and mostly the relations between tuck in damascus lately. they have been taking baby steps, the diplomats of these countries to revive the relations that have been well tarnished by the years of conflict in syria and will war under. so here this meeting, he was aiming to lament that and to build up on the progress previously made so naturally the security situation in syria. that was, that's what was discussed on the as circuit lab. real rush is still diplomat accused washington of trying to destabilize the situation in syria in the country by what you've just had by creating this by well, reviving this for you, syrian army and uh, well speeding it with the terrorist and all sorts of fringe groups. and militants, here the diplomats, they tried to do something on the contrary to will help syria become parts of the

big regional family. and of course, took each has a lengthy border with the country and a big chunk of series under the control defacto on to the control of the kids whose military wing is considered terrorist by encourage. so there's plenty of help sports to sort out. but well, it seems that the diplomats that they have a progress on that they vowed to continue to do the work and to bring anchor and damascus closer to each other up to the countries they share. so many of the same problems and delays as being of course, with tragedy. uh, that happens right after that was caused by a massive a quake. tens of thousands of people were killed the in the into a key and does if it goes up smaller, but still absolutely horrific in syria. and as the international community rushed to help to key, well, the kind of ignored serial, though again to thousands of people go thousands of people died. and this is

something that was mentioned at the meeting today as well as the lead, as they pointed out, the well, even this tragedy, even this massive loss of life, it did not prompt the united states not to know even to lift the sanctions, but to even ease them just a little bit and those sanctions let me just remind you. well, if they do affect the shipment, the shipments of medicine and well humanitarian, cargo and humanitarian goods as well. and now internal tech is relations. they will . so we're on the table, the russian for administer. he wished luck to his attack, his counterpart be so, but plenty of plenty of things on the table, plenty to discuss. and this was just a small step towards a bigger, a bigger goal. the tool for administer sitting behind the same table seemed to be pursuing local journalist stevens. so who in, in syria believes washington is still intent on trying to topple the assad government in the united states foreign policy. a dad met the by then

administration funded as supported the syrian pre army 10 years to the over 10 years ago when the world serious started. and they sent every radical stomach to spider from um, over the world, through uh, through libby after. they used him in libya and they destroyed them in libya. they sent them to syria, either through a turkey or through jordan. today we are seeing the same scene in the end stage of this war a new chapter as we can say. they this funded the supported as i said, the so called c and c. army, they supported head hurdle shot almost at all. and ours is to day, there is isis cells in the syrian desert, be protected and trained. i'm funded by the american or by the american, the mid database. and they'll send us into use of syria and do attacks on the scene . an army or onset, a civilian buses. this is a,

this is how the american foreign policy works and they, and the american white house, by using their advocates. sloane the i, the terrace mercenaries did their doing the same thing and ukraine when they supported the nazis the as the as off nazis in the killing, the and doing massacres into siblings. india is hit out at the latest world press freedom rankings after replace the country even below afghanistan. it depends upon who does the ranking. it depends upon the person i can have my own report and give india the 1st place. so i guess reaping in a 2023 south wald press freedom index health flipped even for the 2161 out of 180 countries. and i'd say that in does not shocked. it's become rather predictable. these readings of course, have done all 5 of portals of dollars for the that is a non for profit organization. also a global, a watchdog. so to say,

but it doesn't shop for you are off to you. are we seeing that in dallas? we things are only going down on that list and does need to ship, has shopped, me, reacted to it. i was amazed at our number in the ranking. i thought we had the most uncontrollable press. somebody is getting something fundamentally wrong. now what could have gone wrong? i'll for this for those click the slip, which is even below you. green below, focused on below got a son. it is essentially because remember earlier this your, in the, i haven't gotten into a conflict with the bbc. what happened was, bbc had really is a documentary on mr movie and dropped the riots that took place in 2002 now in the band with that document for you to be screen from india and subsequently with india . i also did was they were read that were conducted on a bbc offices in new denny in, in room by as well. of course what india said was that they were simply just

following the law of the land and that is needed to be done. also, india has been pushed behind you agree? and then of course you create the member has a long history of silencing voices of defense. what we saw recently was that you create a federal authorities. they had stormed into a, not the news, all collision of the media outlets, which was suspected of being in the off position. and now this time it was this guy on news outlet that you know, this off that came under attack the solar removing the most visible citizen of this. if it's trust

me, one western countries are rated higher up on the list of the world. press freedom index, which simply doesn't make sense because remember they have a history of silencing. for example, say that, what's the, what's gone, forget the theme whiskey is over to the song. also remember the recent campaign of silencing oxy across the euro. how is that for press be well, today is the 29th anniversary of nelson mandela ascending to the south african presidency, which harold, at the end of the decades long apartheid regime in the country. prior to coming to power, mandela had been a dissident. he spent 27 years in political prison errands, a struggle against the authoritarian apartheid government, which was, which were press the black majority in south africa. and della was the 1st black

president in the country's history. and his reforms enabled a peaceful and democratic transition with reconciliation found between whites and blacks despite centuries of colonial oppression. and to get more on this now we're gonna cross live to our guest, south african poets, elani mckeever, who personally knew mandela, thanks a lot for joining us on the program. sir. you're famous in your country for writing poems, including the poems about the man we're talking about today. just please tell us what was he like personally, and what do you think about his legacy? you know, thank you very much. i am at fault for having me this evening, good things to you and things to the viewers. indeed, i had the privilege and the owner of being acquainted to president manila as the 1st african president in a post up at the top of chicago. i had the, you know, an incredible on all for watching the past with him from the time he was released

from prison and to the time when he became the president on the 10th of main 1994, i introduced him to my order. i trudged no poetry condition in front of the thousands. also the pretends where that the millions of people, if not billions, that way of viewing that event to the try them of to the vision a, nelson mandela. for me, it was down to as she was a really and lead a very cut as much as tessin leader. we lived poorly to a teach related aspirations in the interest of the don't for that he was very accessible . he was a very kind man, very pushing the age of, of life, very call me to didn't improving and better in the lives of those that were poor. his dedication to the freedom and deliberate asian of south africa. and is quite

very clear because he spent 27 years behind the above j, which was an up at the age. and now he's this j do as far as getting a getting so racism fighting for the free domain that you quality of the people of this country. he was one score for it to be released with conditions. but you rejected those conditions because they did not amount to what you are listed for, which is the tool which are the months vision of these people. so he was a man who believed to please, but he also believed that he's pushed against the war. and he has got nothing else to do except to defend himself. he would take up anything that would make it possible for him to defend his live, the life of his people in the life of his country. so he was quite a very far on split. it, he caught his pointed to go deep in leadership. the institution of touch, not the leadership in philadelphia, because he comes from a very strong bedroom of

a family that is deeply rooted in the institution of touching the she she was part and parcel of the students by those when he was at the university or for to which is the 5th university truck slipped up, you're getting students. so he became a lawyer. and when he became a lawyer, he became that people's lawyer was prepared to represent the poor. and those that were in the margins of society for free of charge. and this made him a tool in boardman and an icon for freedom. she was sent by the amc to go and negotiate with the african leaders were already leading the kinds of virtually by the judge at the time she went across the length and the parental, i forgot the end of facing with those lead up galvanizing support. and mobilizing resources and he actually lives in the forefront for the formation of the military

. we of the agency at the time she was given a task. as the fiscal, mundane cheap for the formation of the liberation on, which is called on condo is easily a dispute of the nation. nelson mandela is, is, is now well renowned, they in the whole with because he is a poor example of eventually that he lived without thinking about himself. he was selfless. he was tired, left. he had 10 of the 2 in the image, but his employer forwarded through but it's not. he is embraced by people over the world. he's an example of the leader. that is the end of the pool. if you told me, well, fairly of the voters not. okay. with him, mr. mckayla i, i'd like to hear longer. sorry, but we just don't have anymore time in the program. i really appreciate the words that you've given on this and and anniversary for nelson mandela.