the the, a pakistani court sentences, the country's former prime minister in wrong punches 3 years in prison on fraud charges at the last defense chief agree on military action in new jersey without revealing their invasion plan. that says people in the west african country protests against the regional blog, sanctions, and interventions. i like the media and the people of major to understand what echo us is doing is nothing more than implementation. we have to keep our new year in spiritual lives and the us we can get us out of the intimidation. united. russia sees to naval attacks in 2 days with a c drove, reportedly causing damage to a russian oil tank or in the purchase straight. the

riots, dozens of a rest in debris in the streets as thousands rapids in new york union square, hoping to win a free playstation 5 console from a popular stream or the just afternoon here in moscow. this is our t international with the latest and world news today of your allies about welcome to the program to. and we start with breaking news this. our a pakistani court has sentenced former prime minister in wrong con, to 3 years in prison on charges a fraud. the prosecution accused condo reselling valuables from the state treasury, including gifts from other state leaders. the former leader is now also banned from political activity for 5 years. cons lawyer says the politician was arrested in his

residence. we will bring you more details as we get the the, the echo was defense chiefs have drawn up a plan for military intervention in new year, but have made it clear they will not disclose any details. the west african block has given the countries to impose government until sunday to reinstate the president or face an invasion, a lift gate we pointed to allow the use of the disruption. all the ridges means full of democratic consolidation in the region. it was a smoke going to tell the poop loved it. when on the when, where we are we interest, right? that's is out of pollution load. this is saying that to be taken by the hassle see week to be like the home of this and t for this operation. this meeting was age

a rate to be a cause. she makes you, reprint, is urging hope peace to add a cost by the simplicity. assume the change the democracy, seeing that if the dialogue space, which you call us will take the last strike after you see if these died also failed to be best. the cool, they will not tell the rascals of the stage to clear the shape when and when they will strike. the decision would be made just fine. the states, it's very dangerous statements of myself and the manual people also things along the terms of those people who was it with lots of said that to me she vision would be completely different and dangerous. i mean, comparing to the license all the gotta be out, which has a relatively weak army and the chaise of both countries as it was the poorest

countries about the tubes. the very experience in the wall to the side, in the museum and large number 2 in the shape. and the only makes it a bit difficult to cause. and they say that when you compare, it's a vision that you do. so with all these options in mind, to move into a quick maintenance issue on monday and picking up also waiting to join the statements of the country, the one that a needed to be done it gave me she is need is listed as a total different races all gave this being the to all those pertaining to college. and both of them have been suspended from the college decision making of this. well, the vision is very low. i could be very dangerous and turned into a hole at this point. all options made on the table as to the line is that you have

to be asked deadlines coming in. deadline that was given by hallways, the following, which i'll set to 6 to 9. the pcm probably and the neighboring countries are particularly a 9 to students. any here took to the streets, marching and waving national flags in protest against a goal was sanctions and for an intervention calling on citizens to protect their state. local say the block is no longer a friend to their country. you with the updated leg, the media and the people of a major to understand what that cost is doing is nothing more than implementation. we don't believe that means they are armed interventions. you know, we have to keep our non german spirits alive, and then the us, we can get us out of this intimidation method, distorted to sit and to meet us. you. so some threads on the 2063 years of age,

nothing. we are already booked on the degree of less than every kind, and yet we have told the new share is the origin, but then show what was, what was the point of for an aide. we'd be resilient behind our defense and security forces. the cameras, our independence when you independence. that's yes. and earlier we discussed the recent developments in the region and the possible effects of vehicle was intervention with a panel of guess the terms by their cost. and they, many of these are not the task. it is based on gun does the fact, i think our mazda is all of its own positives. of course, we will know that there has been an attempt to entice you nicely to knock fast by france or countries such as france an odd us in time because even or as far as trying to have media dotted and our friendship. and it is important for you to talk to him because you're not in the task and i didn't, you know, i mean, but the deluxe shouldn't be able to impact been doing it or not fast enough. yeah.

so, um it is to give them to the negotiating service because of those, if you have given someone 7 days and what you're trying to do is say, okay, okay, um, let's talk. i mean, you know, let's go back to scotland square and fox news. yeah. it's called uh and so it's for clubs. right now it's, i think it's a demo. uh, i'd like to know like, you know, when i supervise guys somebody's private news and which of course i'm unfortunately airport because i don't see united air force anymore, which would be all to be a just or for them to intervene. there is no reason thus far. a qu, data within the country is quite a violent change of legitimate governments. perhaps the government, however,

depends on the people that governs and to, to dates. the opposition and many other parts of government civil service seem to support this change. they support this change primarily because the previous government is seen as a tool of western domination. speed the government does wireless or the comes from the new york. oh, my gosh. no from from know from blessings from the us or the u. n. and so it isn't on justified words who's been a justified worth the escalations between this year and echo last has taken a toll on local companies as the block in post sanctions on the country, including border closures and suspension of all financial and commercial ties. the harry and business owners have called out the blocks restrictions, especially the closure of the border with the name, one of the blocks member states. they say disruption of trade only worse is the crisis in the land lock states. frontier, the closing the borders is not

a solution because we faced a lot of difficulties. and you know, normally it takes us 2 or 3 days or a week to collect parts. us from been a good key the but now with the closure of the borders, it take us more than a month to collect our parcels due to as you do the frontier, everything comes from outside. that's the difficulty we have the closing borders for our landlord country is not a good thing, but we're trying to adapt to like molly, we're not going to die. i believe that our country exists and will continue to exist. whatever the decision taken by echo was. what i have to say to echo was that it must be for the people not against them. so it's a system that we denounce and us tensions escalate. washington has announced it's the spending a to the share following the examples of the european union in germany will also coast financial aid to the country. france has also rejected a decision by the qu, government to denounce military pacts with paris. meanwhile,

in contrast surface president ergo, one has praised africa's efforts to en co operation with its former colonial boss, france who yes, this is. of course this is not the 1st thing francis doing. the practices and algeria in the past in rolanda are all now available in records around the world. africans notice very well, this completely stopped the shipment of gold and uranium. it's the reward for the oppression inflict on these countries. we're just trying to maintain our positive relations at once, frances largest supplier of uranium new year has now banned its exports to paris. the you now faces the threat of power shortages in energy disruptions easier, has also banned to french data on media outlets. france $24.00 and radio france the uses it considers the 2 governments band unacceptable. calling get a violation of free speech. the e u considers unacceptable. the suspension of radio, friends,

international and friends 24 in the share. this measure is a serious violation of the right information and freedom of expression. the strongly condemns these violations of fundamental freedoms. yeah, they're strongly in condemning denisia you think maybe actually giving them button award or something. this is really rich by brussels own standards cracking down on media platforms you don't like is critical to preserving democracy. so why aren't they congratulating these for grasping the concept of what the you did itself when it banned rushing media across the whole block. instead, the brass is upset that media has banned from state media and not your fault and the us are not unfortunately, cats in the wake of the crew and is crying now about that attack on press freedoms . but here's what the chief diplomat, joseph brown had to say last year in attempting to justify the blocks blanket top down, ban, onrushing media platforms like r t,

i believe in. it seems to them delay be those that we have connected with a few registered this information. press one when able's to impose restrictive measures on the kremlin propaganda machinery and effectively banned from updating without or so sorry. we said you to be due to band them for more but i think was ended up being on doing that. we are not attacking the freedom of expression that just affecting the freedom of expression. that sounds temper deborah products. so basically what he said there is that the, you collected evidence on their own and then charged it and then implemented the bad. i'm pretty sure that, you know, the new crew leaders in the jail probably can say that they did exactly the same thing. so censorship, according to use of ralph, is actually just protecting free speech by rebranding descent as quote this information way to open the door for any and every country to spin to send as

a national security threat. the french foreign affairs ministry also reacted saying that the french media, censorship in the shaft, quote, takes place of the context of authoritarian repression. where were they? the french government, when he was doing exactly the same thing to russian linked media, the platforms, french journalists, i wonder if these big european defenders of free speech. i've noticed that the list of websites that now require europeans to use a vpn within europe in order to circumvent european censorship efforts, has never been so long. so now the same folks responsible for information crackdowns at home are positioning themselves as protectors of the free press. and free speech in these yeah. oh and speaking of which, later this month, the use of orwellian digital services at sounds pretty benign, right. it comes into mandatory effect under the guise of keeping the internet in europe quote, safe and accountable. but when twitter owner,

yvonne must pull twitter, the platform from the currently voluntary compliance with you, moderation and content control measures under the, at the blocks internal market. commissioner jenny, but i don't, we did quote, you can run, but you can't hide, which totally doesn't sound threatening or controlling or the exact opposite of the freedom that the block always claims to be defending. what he means is that under these new measures, platforms life twitter connected with quote, fact checkers, civil society and 3rd party organizations with specific expertise on this information. well, they're going to have to all work together mandatorily. now, in other words, avenue gatekeepers of the establishment, narrative are going to be policing media platforms. and on august 25th and here it's will no longer be voluntary. you know, the,

you should really consider getting out of the control freak business if it really wants to help free speech. because despite constantly paying lip service to the idea, it's really setting the example for the rest of the world. when it comes to press crackdowns, that he's democracy as a pre text, and it's still like would need to have is now doing then. maybe they shouldn't have set the example as the censorship gold standard to follow. the developments in new year could shake up the balance of power on the continent and beyond. and as french influence waves in africa, it's not clear how the troops could develop with negotiations or an armed conflict, both on the table to get all the latest on the events in the year and in the wider region. check out our website, r t dot com. the ethiopian government has declared a 6 month long state of emergency following clashes between central security forces and the militia group known as far know in the northern region of hara. it has

become necessary to declare a state of emergency as a situations has emerged where it has become difficult to control these unacceptable movements. under current law, the threats activity is imposing on national security and public peace is increasing day by day. most of the country country shows that change into 2 gigs, endorsing desktop access times assembly cox. and because of the, the government is not is because the government has declared emergency only these are just the you guys. so there's a guy who's there. was it last you tune to can meantime for us and for a month which is not as fun road. so. ready the be engaging is the government

because there was no source discount for a mazda peter because w that's i'm not convinced, has been marginalized from cornerstone, and the kind of weak the company sees a new government to probably have to control the same as a part of this entire government is to the office. they come from anyone, even the companies for us to, to a decent start as the forces of the independent competition, competition with agent. so the clash, the xerox strong, the, and the loaner will in turn right? other parts of the region is the, the, the deputies for these emerging,

we find on the initial, to kind of just the pharmacy in the sense that agency is almost a gotcha. so everybody's every household goods. so when things come along with the government drawings, i think that's a change of all the states that use their dentist to to purchase items. the guy who owns the government to attack from the one because front of them just as of it, but it's part of it now to crimea, where a ukraine enable drone reportedly attacked a russian oil tanker overnight. officials reported new casualties as the vessel remained to float with a crew of 11 pumping water from the ship following the damage. emergency services had been sent to the scene. the head of you create in security forces in directly took responsibility for the attacks. any bank that goes on the russian shapes of

the current me and breach is an absolute, legal and effective step with regards to the enemy, more or special operations i get out in the 3rd total of what the civil crane and the company is illegal. this wasn't the 1st attempted attack on crimea in recent days. on thursday night, a ukrainian droned strike was prevented with 10 you waves destroyed by russian air defense systems. 3 others were suppressed by electronic warfare, with no casualties reported. the ukrainian forces also attempted in a task on the nova row 6 naval base on thursday nights using 2 on man c vessels. that's according to the russian ministry of defense. the vessels were spotted and destroyed by russian ships guarding the perimeter of the naval base. the footage shows a russian patrol ship as well as one of the flaming drones after the resulting explosion . ukrainian troops of also shall don. yes, good again, with officials reporting,

13 western supplied shelves used in the a top and as subsidies continue to face relentless shelving. others have started to recover from the attacks are to steve sweeney was in meribelle and reports on the cities rise from the ashes. the matter you poll, a city destroyed often more than 18 days of fighting that will faces a new bottle for its future. the city is full of my bed, has teamed up with a rich ukrainian businessman to spearhead my review for rebel a multi $1000000.00 project. using you are paying cash and us aid to effectively eradicate the russian culture and identity. as like trying to achieve what they fail to do in months of fighting. but local said the plan to diversify my view, pope would fail. we are in russian speaking population. we have always consider ourselves russians. we are in favor of restoring our city with

russian culture. this is our history. visa, our parents, grandfather's great, grandfather's. this is our past, and without deposits, there is no present. and there will be no future model of what some of what the most up to this is important is because this is, i will culture these we roots these out which additions, this is a lot for russian culture. therefore, it must be preserved to perspective russian culture will survive, develop, and grow. the coming back says matter, you will be rebuilt in 3 years. ambitious targets, but he has every confidence it will be met. i think that within 3 years we will completely finish the restoration of variable. by this year we will have to move mountains, locals. i played a major role in shaping the numerical having a stake it multi is the city rolled into some bosco and some petersburg, almost like joined the regeneration efforts. this university is one of the biggest

redevelopment projects that was here. that local was hate from ukrainian shedding, writing messages of desperation as they took sheltering the basement, is this the university musing will be here in this building? i think this part of the building was completely troy bike ride me so so that but it's very soon there will be windows, floors or roof. everything will be restored. ukrainian snipers use coffins positions from which to shoot russian soldiers dead. bodies have been found during the regeneration openings tools next september for the new academic year and become a bustling central of life, learning and hope. once again, the story of matter you follow is it contested. one, no more so than here are the as all style sale phones. according to the west. it was the last refuge of heroes where the defenders of mary paul made that law stand for locals. there's a very different story for them. he says west, all right,

policies and forward investments, head like cowards using the local population a human shield. we spoke to a number of them who angry over the recent decision by tacky to release the as i've come onto the very people that have to arise the local community for the past 9 years, there's actually endorsement of each. each person must be responsible for the actions responsible for what they have done here. i. so with my own eyes, how the be people here. how to use people or somebody game. yeah. someone you know was over at the release of those of come on. this was the wrong decision. these people had driven digression and hatred towards all human is they should be punished according to zillow. across the city apartments of being able to reconstructed new hospitals and medical facilities will say, even open. the 1st steel shipments recently left the port for real stuff on don't. what african nations expressed

a wish to buy coal from don't boss. during the recent russia, african summit and green shipments. i've also left the bolt. life is slowly returning to matter. you poll, but just like is post is future is also contested. it is inexplicably linked to the ukraine conflict on why the false is what it can become. a leading world set into central to russia is developing relations with african nations. and indeed, the world, along with the economic development of a region ravaged bible. this is steve sweeney and matthew po for all t. the ukraine's economy faces yet another challenge. it's increasing debt. that's according to david wu, a form of wall street strategist, an i m f economist in the latest episode of going underground with option returns the. he talks about the expectations on the us to handle ukraine's economic problems and rushes,

technological development in the ukraine conflict. you can watch a full episode throughout the day here on our tea for now. here's a short preview. your queen in government gets a 16 percent off the price of appreciation and you have a $55.00 ukrainian government bond. maturing on 2041 diabetes going up 50 percent. that thing has out everything including all the big pack monopolies. and the reason is because yeah, more people are thinking while ukraine is going to kick them off to the binding. said that ukraine, the ford has already lost the war. yeah, i've got, by the way, investors may be thinking that, you know, maybe you know, as you as get the rug deeper and deeper into ukraine. ukraine problem becomes americans problem. maybe the us tax pay us. it would be on the hook for ukraine, government, debt and liabilities, and everything else. i urge anything to the next few weeks, you will see that ukrainian basically counter offensive run this course. i think the russians what has really impressed me again,

this is not about me being pro actual greatly increased just as an objective observer has been based on the battlefield. the russians are constantly learning from their mistakes. and you look at the development of new weapons. the lens of drums, the cases need to basically helicopters. you're talking about basically the film $34.00. i mean, you're talking about the night vision goggles, the rushing, basically go through the technology has been live totally like going through a revolution every 3 months. there was a no finding with weapons or the who have 18 months ago because they didn't exist 18 months ago. and not to me is the most impressive thing. this is the reason why, why so why has to walk around the same circle? roger is getting better and better, and this more is going to be won by technology in the, in the china has confirmed it will send a special envoy to saudi arabia this weekend to attend talks on a piece plan for ukraine. the meeting into dies expected to attract the officials

from some 40 countries, but russia wasn't even invited. that's despite the fact that moscow has repeatedly warren, there can be no peace in ukraine without security guarantees for russia. however, the saudi lives summit and adult is expected to focus on the ukranian president's demands, and as western back division of peace. a member of egypt sworn affairs council says the meeting will not lead to any serious results due to the absence of moscow. and i just think that's a new consensus. it can be, it should without the presence of fresh. so actually if it has nothing concrete to talk about 2 points that's related to it, and in this game. so genet of a though it's in the details of a walk to the ukraine, propose that to sits into the conflict. so maybe more countries wouldn't, wouldn't attendance because the invitation a come from a so d b a. but i didn't think that the will reach any concrete resolves without that

change across some demos that is mostly used to a new brand new b s. so the russian point of view under that russian prison is very important if we really wanted to see peace, that is no peace without the dresser. how would that be imagined? so i, i think of just to show another show like copenhagen, without any of these are the results. this comes from a lack of international consensus over the conflict. during a recent summit between the e u and the community of latin american ad, caribbean states, the countries were unable to agree on a joint statement on ukraine. a senior brazilian official says many nations wants to stay neutral due to issues surrounding cab space plan, as well as the one sided western stance on the prices they have set. what are the, a regular round of talks and saudi arabia will be follow up to the copenhagen meeting uranium,

which ukraine invited developing countries kind of go shade for the 1st time. however, t of nearly wants to discuss its own proposal during the discussion involving major developing countries such as india, south africa, brazil, saudi arabia, to some extensive, and even needle member turkey a. it became clear that it is impossible to shape a consensus around. do you creating a proposal? what is there from the last the meeting between c lock, the renewals, the last annual review and community they all of the trans, for all of the congress of the representatives, quoting the plan, a situation over the table. this is the momentum to spread the risk. this is the momentum to overall did you 7 lobby, i would say. so as you great is not understanding what we do, man. brazil demands. the solomon follows demands a basic phone negotiation. so we cannot go forward then. uh, and inflation on weeds on bodily, on another culture,

commodities. our interest now is to the, the, the, the provisional off, the original 50 lasers and the cultural commodities. and the free, the navigational for the black sea. nothing more than this. this is lower interest interest of ukraine in may. so then you is other thing a video console give away cause chaos in new york city rights. and the streets lead to at least $65.00 arrests and multiple injuries among protesters and police officers in classes that are wrapped in union square. thousands flocked to the area hoping to be a lucky winner. as a popular comedy twitch streamer announced sounds good when free, playstation 5 consoles the.