the, the, the february, the main objective of the armed forces for the outgoing year was to forward the counter offensive and loudly announced by ukraine and its nato allies. this task has been successfully accomplished. moscow says that much hypes ukrainian counter offensive has been a complete failure, as the russian military takes the key city of modernity and killed that isn't that don't? yes. group public the bed. we did not have a report for ot fines and that i have one year old girls diary under the rubble after she was killed and that is really struggling to refuse g kind of big gaza, also a head for you this hour. we're not stopping and we will not stop until

victory because we have no other country and we have no other way. but the relative is all the officers are still held by how the space of me losing patients is really 5 minutes of miles to continue the war and still be also in the program. a series of attacks over the weekend and the central nigeria came in the lives of over 100 people, then leaving nemo untrustworthy. the alright, got you covered here at all to the international pushing back all the main street narrative was and always questioning more. your needs and thoughts right now. so most concerned is it ukraine's counter offensive, which was widely promoted by nato powers has completely failed ruptures. defense minister presents that assessment in the annual review of the military's results.

as long as this sort of work, the main efforts of russian armed forces in the outgoing year were concentrated on achieving the objectives of the special military operation. the main one was to smart, the counter offensive, loudly announced by ukraine and its nato allies. this task has been successfully accomplished. the russian defense minister spoke about. so what actually help to achieve the goals that seats also about earlier in the day. and that's, of course, the increased combat capabilities and the use of russian equipment. the complex system of defensive lines, uh, a major increase in the production of weapons. and that's just a few of the things that you spoke about. the survey showed do also pointed out that russia's own military industrial complex had challenged the much raised and wanted made. so military technical potential, also he's said it'd be all v as in saying that russia continues to seize the

initiative and is constantly expanding it's controlled territories. and the latest example of that is of course, muddy and cal, which is just outside of the city of done that so far away from where i'm standing for years that's out and remains and may just phone cold for the ukrainian army. ukrainian military spokesman claims in response that the fighting there was on going, however old and use regarding old minutes. reparation from the crate inside had to disappear from the media. let's say can listen. so what's a sugar set to put in about somebody income? so during active offensive operations, assault teams of the southern group have completely liberated the city of narrow income. it is located 5 kilometers southwest of the regional capital dentists. over the past 9 years, ukrainian armed forces build a powerful stronghold there. thanks to the decisive actions of our service men, the stronghold was breached. the liberation of that city naturally reduces the

defensive capabilities of do crating on forces and gives us additional opportunities for further actions in that direction. this defense minister also praised the skilful and decisive actions of the russian armed forces, saying that they selflessly insure the security on the inside country and all of its citizens. meanwhile, ukraine continues its own successful attempts to decrease russia's administer. we capabilities earlier hit a tax, a russian landing ship and a crime being dock, reportedly using major supplied miss. sorry, i was according to official information that sac uh, caused some damage to the vessel while you creating the officials claim that it was completely destroyed. also, local authorities said that in that attack, one person was killed and several were wounded. turning now to a war ravaged gauze away, more than a 100 pounds of citizens confirmed. killed in

a christmas day is rarely stripe on a refugee camp in the central part of the region that is, according to an official at the local l x. the hospital which was receiving the data and the wounded, the palestinian, the health ministry. morning, the death toll at the marseilles a refuge account will rise. i wouldn't say many of still trapped in the rubble. the lack of heavy equipment is making it nearly impossible to rescue any survivors. of course, those casualties are including numerous children. the report for r t has found an 11 year old girls diary under the daybreak after she was killed in an as riley as drive on a refugee camp and gaza. at 3 of the girls friends, aged $56.00 and $8.00 were also killed. and they attack, she had mentioned them in the journals final entry on the inside of the tree.

in my bed, we did not have chosen and then we had 109 out of every 10 gods, a residence i now living and shelters. and comes, the un says more than $100.00 united nations operated shelters and gone. so i have been damaged. half of them directly hit hundreds of palestinians who had sold refuge in those locations, i believe just being killed. then the idea strikes of the shipment. and again, we moved from the north to the south pole request, due to the bombing of our houses, the mazda them,

of all brothers loved ones and children. we kept going, folding all to the south in search of safety, with no food, no drink, no profit. clothing. we have no homes. there's all the crowding. no flour, no water, and no electricity. every day rain falls and all children, all women, all elderly dynamism, and just as some of these are the circumstances, winter conditions or conditions of fear. panic and cold responded to the instructions of the occupation army. they asked us to leave our homes for our safety and that they would secure our homes and lives. the question is, do they secure my home in life? i risk my home during the war and to date i leave in the open air. 60 years of efforts were destroyed by bombs in seconds. meanwhile, the south dorothy and clay of the situation, frankly, it's not better areas that israel had previously said would be safe stones. and now being hallowed with strikes, latest overnighted tackle now shut, bought

a record. jake, i'm kidding, 114 year old boy. and basically the end of the day surviving refugee, so they simply don't know where to go anymore. and when the, when were sleeping, who woke up suddenly and heard something hitting the houses, we're rest onto the streets and most of the house fell on us. as you see, you were in the street, we don't know where to go or what to do around the 2 a m. uh, is there any aircraft the targeted as a residential house? unusual my uh, neighborhood, and uh, coast and casualties. people prefer to sleep and nothing fewer or every they're all sleeping in their houses because now there's a bunch of houses as lot safe at all here in drop off and how new and is indebted. but off you will find thousands of dance in the street in the open areas and it's actually very harsh reality to see. so very cold right now in gaza strip. and the

people here are actually fighting to survive during this harsh reality. as the families of hostages are held by hama, still waiting for the return of their loved ones, the is ready. prime minister has evolved to continue his war campaign at a speech and the national paula, which was interrupted by protest, is demanding the israel rescue. the hostages right now the same to you, idea of troops into the hurting families and relatives of the object. these, i say also on the stage we are not stopping and we will not stop until victory because we have no other country and we have no other way as well. these really prime minister went to gaza to meet the country's military on the ground and made war. this is back home and

a israel that he faces real fine traverse peoples hearts and minds that he seems to rather be losing pressure is mounting on miss and yeah, over the return of the hostages housing together straight for almost 3 months. for now, 129 people remain interested to you. that is, of the idea for me to, to mistakenly q 3 hostages during a calm. but in the north of the in clave a spar and wave of anger as you remember for us, especially given that it was reported that the 3 men were waving white flags or were speaking hebrew, but the army still miss identified them as a frag laser. another 5 dead bodies of the caps as were also returned from the gas as 3 from him as tunnels by the army. it is reported that they were killed, but i'm clear and what circumstances when london isn't yeah, who addressed a special session ethics. nasa is really parliament where the hostages families were also invited and it was tough as you have just heard before that to yeah. who

tried to convince the parliament vendors and the relatives of course that's new ask for it. has these parents bring hostages back home, specifically mentioning approach and world leaders he believes are able to help in visitation, like presidents of russia and china. as you remember most go earlier, assisted in the release of those inc of to physics to hold rushing past for instance. and yeah, went on saying that the rest of the hostages wants to be released without mills refresher on him. as adding that these really are many more time to feed fighting, and that is one of the relatives all the catches for in the same hall almost exploded and shouted at the prime minister down, calling for their loved ones, immediate release, shop, or now in hebrew it was the end of things in the space he left the stage after such a harsh reaction from the relatives and opposition leaders. folk next say that

while with 2 objectives, all the war destroying him, mass and returning the hostages home, were equally as important. secure in the release of the captives is at priority, and that comment was matched with applause. from the hostages families, people have been demanding more actions from the government. of course, massive prototypes on the so called hostages square intensity have become a rather unusual reality here. and became even louder of today's really military shots we hostages in the gaza strip. frustration is mounting amount of people for us over the captive safety team, wednesdays, really notes, reparation, including air strives containing. let's try to listen to what people have to say. they feel like they're doing anything by

those would be back on the road. me and many more hostages. i still had health the i don't remember the do not forget over there and they need to come home while nathan. yeah. who keeps vowing that the fight will continue the war will go on relative sexually criticized the government for lack of progress when it comes to the potential prisoners swap, deal with him as his ro is. you know, he's using 2 parallel lines of communication with him as ones for agents and one for the cause. her early age was reported that they just shouldn't be. da's her is backed by the south is and the in the ross's offering to, to, to wait ceasefire and exchange for the release of. forty's rarely hostages with him,

not losing his power in this trade, allow him to hold elections and reports suggest that him us is rather reluctance to accept such a deal. the militant group passed the message through the contrary, mediators that they would agree to release the hostages. if israel lay down arms, it's something that israel is not ready to here are now for us as a national reservation. it's crucial to maintain mil, to repression on him. as many sites, he will continue, and it also go 5 minutes to wrote earlier for the wall street journal. he put the 3 conditions of peace between israel and its spelled is seen in neighbors and gather say, a mass must be destroyed, guys must be the militarize and palestinian society must be the way to collide emphasizing israel will continue to add, in full confines with international law with many global players 1000 already because they this price that they know to for ration of these really army guys as

an act of genocide. more than 20000 people have lost their lives and then plays from the palestinian side according to health ministry. and guys, wholesale, almost 500 i d. s military dives in 7 to look for her. so as the working to use more and more concerns and merge with these ran it either. she's having really hard time to dress them. the gentlest accompanying it is rarely, military and gods are releasing of video repeatedly shouting, detain the palestinians. you continue watching the pictures, you'll see that just about, well, nearly naked in there on the way with soldiers around them. a numerous pot of thing is captured by is ready for it is all routinely stripped down and searched in other incidents. but we pulled this up with a permanent and south african clergyman who recently visited bethlehem as part of a church delegation of the west bank. according to him, he says, israel isn't, in fact, eager to end the war on the side of the government is as i understand,

the custom bench that does not want palestinians in by this time at all it's i base needs full. they get to all the b, that's those are the options that given and the private. since i've said we can't be told by the inside these 2 development. and so it is, it is not possible and that's why they have medicaid. so me and, and this general cited somebody to prove it was where people have to pay that where people are denied food, where people have no medical supplies or speaking. so i'm getting phone churches, i've been palmed. i mean, this is a cry, cry want is to ready to shut up. and in fact, they should begin tubs ation across the atlantic. meantime, in new york, at least 6 people are arrested off the cost of, of the police. this is during

a pro palestinian demonstration extensions escalated officers. polls the back of thousands attended the reality show the solar directly with the concept, but also take a moment to condemn us. the full israel approaches as much into a rock. i felt a sense of demonic an immediate cease firing guns when they said it was unjust for americans to celebrate the holiday season. the state government supports a trust that no one can go on to celebrate any kind of celebration why these atrocities are being committed against innocent civilians. enough is enough. we. we can't keep going, why nothing is happening and turning a blind eye to what's happening without somebody about our kids. like any guns, that's 3, whatever. on the other side of the world in australia, many people are equally supportive of the palestinian struggle. thousands right? that marching through the streets of melbourne, expressing dissatisfaction with a government's support of israel,

their old quoting for an end to the war. well before we go into a guest, iran has vowed to retaliate against israel. but what it says was an idea of strike the killed a top iranian come on to in syria. domino, this is an on just action in violation of international conventions. by design, this regime, the right of retaliation is preserved for the victim. and the sign this regime will receive its response at the proper time and location of undoubtedly the is up to and savage, z, any swishy will pay for this crime. this action isn't all the sign of frustration, helplessness and inability, all the occupied z and this machine i was hired as the most savvy was a senior officer and it runs as logic, revolutionary god, he's believe to have been killed in that ass drive on the outskirts of damascus. meanwhile,

the u. s. is conducted as strikes this week on what the describe that iranian link militias in iraq reports saying at least one person killed in 2000 and injured, are these images or believes to show some of the altima. and the us defense secretary, so it is the strikes with retaliatory u. s. military forces conducted necessary and proportionate strikes on 3 facilities used by country. it has the law and affiliated groups in iraq. these precision strikes are response to a series of attacks against us personnel and iraq and syria, by iranian sponsored, malicious including the attack by iran affiliated cut that you've has the law and affiliated groups on airable air base. well, that's that possible. i've now the jury a political expert. i saw you then we'll have it by randi a professor at the university of to around that. a very well welcome to you today. so thanks so much for jumping on the program here. you know, the story is, i mean, i just wanted to kind of take a step back and look at the broad a picture here because iran says israel killed in iranian,

come on during syria. meantime, washington says it's targeted iranian like militias in iraq. mr. merante just what exactly is going on in that part of the world these days? the problem is that the united states has, from the very beginning, illegally occupied iraq. it never really left despite the fact that the will of the rocky parliament was for all of us military base is to lee and the united states has an occupation force in syria. they occupy one 3rd of the country illegally us and they are taking 90 percent of the oil in syria for themselves as well as the grains especially wait for themselves and ex, courting a lot of it. so the problem is us occupation with regards to the is randy regime. the problem is the genocide in gaza. the mass killings in the west bank,

the concept bombings of syria, the support prices. and i'll kind in syria during the last decade. and the regular aggression carried out facts of aggression carried out against 11 on a day. if there's ready, we can continue so occupied bits and pieces of lebanon. so this regime has a problem with everyone. the united states in our region is occupying countries for the sake of israel. and then the americans complain about iran. and that's a very intriguing comment. i appreciate you saying that, well, what, what do you think about iran has value to retaliate against israel in quote, in due time for the killing of it's come on to in syria when it, when it comes to retaliation, what do you think that could entail? i think it's become very clear to everyone that israel is a weak and vulnerable and overwhelmingly hated regime it. it's

intelligence and military have failed in gaza. it is constantly killing people in the west bank. it is failing in this military assault in gaza now and is carrying out genocide it is vulnerable of the many armed forces are blocking is riley ships in the north high school. the is giving them a hard time, so it's rarely, as we can valuable. and it's very foolish for them to bring about the escalation because they only give greater opportunity for their opponents, which include the wrong to, to punish them. yeah, i mean, an interesting enough, you know, we, it looks like we bought another. i mean, talk about iraq pods. who bought another coalition of the willing right now profess them around in the red sea, you what america there's been putting together this uh, this uh, show a force with this icon for this, for today, where they bought 10 or even 20 countries to help to school these ships,

as you were saying through the red sea, the many on forces, but who with these off targeting, some of these is riley link ships as well. but it does seem that um, on the broader scale of things, the red sea is potentially firing off. let me ask you about this because america put together this coalition of the willing through, i don't know, bribery, blackmail, corrosion, you name it, whatever you think it might be. but the point is that now already, it least backed out, spans, backed out front, is backing out, australia is back now, saudi arabia said no, no, no. so what's going on with america's, i guess, image in the region because it's always being this, you know, the circle beacon of light is always being that as 5. like to say it's the most amazing ministry in the world. and yet here we have this coalition of the willing and the red sea that is actually falling upon it is a sign of the decline of the united states. the fact that it is unable to force countries to join it in

a coalition. but we also have to keep in mind that when the united states was much stronger, for example, during the period after $911.00, none of its coalitions succeeded the amazing it. but i found this on the invasion of the rock, the destruction of libya, the genocide that they held carried out carry out in government. none of these succeeded. and now the americans are not going to succeed in yemen, where they failed for 7 years after imposing hunger on the people of young. and so i'm sorry, a lot of the, i mean the armed forces will, without a doubt be able to block is really shipping. and they're blocking the shipping of this really regime because they want the genocide to saw. so instead of the americans creating a failed coalition in the red sea, they should stop the genocide. what the americans want to do is they want to allow or to help is really ships to get through to facilitate the genocide in gaza.

lots, an intriguing comment and date progress. morality before i let you go. i mean, you mentioned, for example, the americans was, let's just be frank about it. americans ministry fairly as a. i've gotten hist on iraq, libya, syria, you talk about yeah. menu to talk about vietnam. what about the korean war? let's talk about ukraine as well. i mean, all these contents, i mean, how can you get your head around this, you know, after how many decades of this imperialistic power basically being the source of aggression around the world. and yet every time it gets aggressive, it actually fails. it loses in its ministry campaigns, professor, is that gonna be a day when the united states and it basically the heads them on wakes up to what it continues to fail out on a global scale. and i'm pretty sure that we're almost there to recent events. i think our quickening the pace of us decline in the decline of the western empire. one is ukraine,

where the united states has failed miserably after spending huge amounts of money. and europe is destined to become extraordinarily weak and fragmented, and they will no longer be the sort of player that it was before. and the 2nd his casa, gaza, has the, legitimize this really regime, in the eyes of those we thought it was legitimate. but more importantly, it has destroyed the credit ability that already tattered credits credibility of the west. because the west claims to be the supporters of human rights. they preach to us day and night about human rights. but they are the ones who are supporting this genocide. they are the ones who are enabling this holocaust that's taking place live in front of our hinds. something that we've never seen before. so the west has destroyed their soft power capability. they diminish themselves in ukraine

and alongside that. and i think that with all the previous problems that they've created for themselves, which has led to an economic crisis and internal and the different internal difficulties that we see across the board in the 2 countries. i think that soon we're going to see the united states pay the consequences. you know, it's a very strong and provocative comment tree. but all the while fascinating, a side might have been more on the idea of the expert and professor of the university of tyrone. thank you for your time. thank you. i shifting gears out a central nigeria way more than a 100 people killed and a series of attacks that began on saturday. it's all according to local officials, the. the region has been play for any number of years now by internal conflicts, but they say the past 6 months, the most intense as a local correspondent committee is a ripple. the police commission,

i can part of the state said that the paper tray doesn't based on this, that tags are yet to be identified, but it's a huge on but i've seen, you know, um, just local, i'm groups and they're going to see as bad. it's, you know, i have seen attacks from these valued spin years and so far the police said that the have deployed and response team staff to see that, you know, there are no further attacks of the villages are protected. and also the police is i'm promising but it is because the stop investigations angel might be responsive. ready for the fact it's a region that has the same, you know, um, series of attacks in the past months and years we'll see about the area i talk often, you know, between, i'm predominantly mostly in my practice and um, you know, christian pharmacy and almost in the east west linger for many years. also it's important to note that, you know, there's also a claims on the government child, you know, safety that these attacks have lingered for so long. and that's the lack of

accountability from those in authority is the reason why the attacks have continued . i'm being the yesterday, i miss the engine. our stuff said in a statement of the stock price, then by the end of what has failed, just to deliver on the promise that he's made, you know, to secure the country. now that these attacks have been happening. and we've also seen comments like these, you know, coming from various places here, and they are blaming the government for the, the persistent attacks. for now, the police also says that, you know, search on risk to a freight sensor ongoing. we do not know if there will be more bodies to uh, to get in contact, but the police police has promised, you know, to keep the probably could you know, informed if they have any more information from tops development a. yeah. more details on that story. right. now waiting for you at all to you dot com also across the all to use a vast number of telegram channels too, but it's just about a 5 30 pm here in the russian capital. so could it be to show you that's fine with us? yeah, we're back at the top of the hour with more of your world wide use the

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