[000:00:00;00] the, the distressing images from the central guys where at least a dozen people have been reported be killed by is rarely bombing raids. palestinian officials sound the alarm over an escalating humanitarian catastrophe. pro palestinian protest, mobilize across western countries as the devastating is really war on gaza enters the 13th. we also have the 1st there will be no revolutions, no violent seizure of power. secondly, the people have made it completely clear as to who their supports and to whom they give their vote. the survey and presidents directly addresses pro western or protest or to want the results of the recent parliamentary election,

scratch the line for moscow. i'm rachel ruble. you're watching archie international overnight is rarely strikes on central. does that have reportedly killed at least 12 people in the town of as a way to here's how a local official described the grim after mass. i'm not sure what fold out 9 march is when members of a very peaceful family to adjacent houses where a target to the civil defense doesn't have the necessary equipment. in particular, i haven't machinery like bulldozers, silver lining volunteers, and private companies. distressing images from the scene show the body of a child being taken away from burial. locals have been scrambling through the rubble destroyed buildings, desperately hoping to find survivors well in the nearby central guys in the city of their law. at least 6 people, including a journalist, are killed by,

is really showing on saturday. that's according to the red crescent humanitarian group. for this find the mounting civilian casualties, israel's prime minister says the on slot will not be ending any time soon. and then come up, the war is in full swing, we are fighting on all fronts with great success, but we are also paying a painful price. achieving victory requires more time. as the chief of staff has said this week, the war will continue for many more months. my policy is clear, we will fight until the completion of all the objectives of the war and above all, the elimination of from us and the release of all these really hostages. who, meanwhile, in southern gaza, the idea of says it has rated hamas headquarters and the city of con eunice. israel claims the facility belongs to the militant groups intelligence chief. so the

region's largest city has become an area of intense fighting after as well extended as military operation to that part of the enclave. and the locals have since been forced to flee. and while there is no festive spirit to speak of in con units, here is what the some palestinians have said about their wishes for 2024. so look for their consent as be value. and we hope the new year brings peace and prosperity without was will fighting. hopefully no more children or women will be killed. a widowed father. we pray that peace is fulfilled all over the well and then send and lock on the off in the shadow. no reasonable person can have, we should have made the current conditions, except for also volleyball from this catastrophe. we had hardly suffering from. we refused to be looked at with pity among the salon item by which piece for the whole will and the guns return safely to the homes with the families enable the displaced return and enjoyed peace and tranquility. i wish the world a happy new year and may join the shad globally. i wish the goals and this can be

happy together with this free will talk about local reporter on criminal satari, told us more about the situation in con eunice and the sentiment of people and gaza entering a new year. if there is any progress reports which has been started this area from the south, from the east and also from the hospital to advance into the area. they have been kind of getting different. the place has been choosing from municipal. could you come that off of which slides off for me, for off on, on most top of which i suspect and bear with many of the display people attend. the fire could be hit to out the whole night, but it doesn't feel like up to this particular moment that isn't, is getting dropped behind as they have been describing. it doesn't have been a cubing great things and the sense of the military perspective, it looks like they have been continuing to buy the same policy or targeting civilians. the starting to entrust upsets and houses and planning 9 of innocent civilians who are giving them the whole people them to do on its own people and

doesn't get an order was a mistake. they understand that they have been subject to to that because of the patient and they hold patient comfortable and it's very difficult to be optimistic fucking guy that i can tell you that people are extremely of the one body for palestinian refugees is warns that gaza is just a weeks away from a mass famine that says nearly half of all civilians there are already said to be on the verge of starvation. my godson, house, ministry straits, that nearly 2000000 people off almost in enclave. his entire population, black and basic necessities come into the house, ministry warrants of a prospect of famine. um, do you hide ration or more than one point? 9000000 displaced people select proper accommodations for more medicine and safety . you will find me what an increasing number of palestinians are also arriving in the southern guys in border city of rafa,

exacerbating the humanitarian crisis there to this so that it shows the local school which has been converted into a mixture of the shelter. just one of many for hundreds of display civilians, families are forced to live in 10 submit a critical lack of access to basic supplies. the one says israel has been obstruct in the delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid. several refugees and rough i spoke to us was slim asked palestinians. we refuse to accept the suffering we are currently enduring. even palestinian children are rejecting the harsh realities we face the landline we dom on the reconstruction of gaza. as the situation has become extremely grim and difficult to create a model, even children can no longer go to school or live a healthy, normal life. oh, well, because the key and let's see what is happening in gaza today. and the current situation is much larger than during the knock about comparing the number of casualties in this war to those who are in the knock. but the number of displaced

people living garza is much higher when people talked about displacement for one to say to resist. and none of us will be forced off this lines. he and you look more of sure why of sure we can die on this land. no one will take us away from this land. i came from the giant and was done from here. we can die of this land and we will not leave palestine. the pro palestinian demonstrations are gathering the men's and around the world with the war and gaza. now into it's 13 we won. such protests took place in london where hundreds of people turn to the streets of the british capital to demand a cease fire in the palestinian enclave. today so solid it so there was a fighting gun is a minute really during the holiday time,

especially because it's very easy for these not really because this is a cold against imperialism dining with how the patient is says i'm the show that we touch isn't is a genocide so that's them. instructions for also held in australia and it's faint as well for us and marched and waved palestinian flags. hundreds of people gathered outside the latter's foreign ministry, demanding court justice and a truce in gaza. or tens of thousands of us trillions and number and calls for an

end to the is really killing of tell us the news. let's acknowledge them. it is not reflecting in stride in people these threatening people, one pace, these running people say images of children, big killed a family, things on it. but i think kids without parents being discharged from the hospital with no, i'm the guy to and i was out government related support. and it's great the in the bombing and the kelly that we want to sign this and then says stop the cleanings and that, that'd be fine now. and that's in yahoo and his accomplices should people before the international criminal court, we will see them on the spanish government to add more effectively to scope the genocide in palestine. and there should be sanctions. and the boy courts in the israel, israel should not be part of the international community or civilized nations of to what it is do a no, this is the only option we have left to protest against the genocide that israel is

committing against the palestinian people. we citizens have no other option well, in his christmas day speech to the world earlier this week, pope francis do cried, would he call to quote, appalling harvest of innocent lives in the us. um, it's really permanent store, however, had a very different message to share about who his troops are, apparently targeting of the christian friends around the world. merry christmas christmas was supposed to be a time of goodwill to all men and peace on earth. while we don't have peace on earth, not on our part anyway. and we certainly don't see good will to all men were facing monsters. i want to thank you for your support. i want to thank you for your prayers. traditional christmas facilities in the west bank were cancelled this year in solidarity with the war victims and gaza. r t 's. maria, for notion of reports now from where the season was 1st threatened to being over 2000 years ago, a beautiful and decorated stream the middle of best. let him and the spirit of

christmas throughout the city where jesus was believe to have been born and full of celebrating proud. h was last year. this year, christmas celebrations all across the west bank have been officially canceled with what is happening in guys, the palestinians here say they do not feel like it's time for facilities in downtown bethlehem where they usually hand and the strings of christmas lights. the workers pull up a pen or a reminder of tragedy unfolding in the palestinian and clave. antoine, son of mine, is best the hens for me, or can we cause same decisions were made at least twice during both in default as violence palestinian mass uprisings against israel. and it is notes about solidarity. we are and both of them or in jerusalem or in my love, i've bought over there, but i stand in the people and we're, i'm not the sort it is so and so did that. it was dollars of we also have the same

stuff inc, and we have the, the same could i in the middle of the square where a famous christmas tree is placed every year. preparations are on the way to set up an installation of a different kind. nativity on the rubble this not that they wouldn't be shown as bombarded by the is the alien aircraft. we are showing the baby jesus. why virgin mary carry out him. do it on a way to egypt in order to protect him from the decision that has to be taken by her or those to can or kids and bethlehem. and it is very similar in what's happening and goes through nowadays the people, the families of taking the kids to assess a class to protect them from the is that are in occupation. christmas is usually high season in bethlehem with crowds of children, foreigners from around the globe. the city has accepted around 1500000 visitors and the 1st name, 9 months of this year, with

a 1000000 overnighted stays in local hotels. the israel have mass for has changed everything. the financial losses for the city which mainly depends on tourism are tremendous. every day, every single day we lose $1000.00 new us dollar because of the war because of the absence of tourism. kind of stunning janetta. losing 2500000 a day, much it from the tories ministry says the biggest challenge is that the workers, thousands of them involved in all those affected industries. tories themselves souvenir production have lost the source of income. if you go to the social media, you'll see post people asking for how for financial help for financial support, which is the 1st time that i see such kind of such kind of messages going from out from inside a lot of houses and how what time it is and i'll come in, it is most of the shops in the city. i closed it so

a new job to see the streets of bethlehem empty. and the iconic blue gauge shot one location we found open has a history and the reason not to locate stores. 3 generations of one palestinian family have been running it for almost 100 years. they say it is more than just a shot because this place also, it's part of our heart. so we don't want to go with both. we come. we open, we see our friends or family, especially this place is opposed to the best place of jesus. so that's gives us more hope, religious ceremonies and literatures alterations remain intact during this dark christmas. even though the usually packed churches are far from being. so right now, a church backyard is the only place where we found some decorations and answer as to how the religious community sees the conflicts between israel and thomas. the church is always against the i. let's judge that the same. that's not the same as,

but also we cannot generalize if a positive philistine in or 5 to visit alien mic violence. you cannot say both, but a scene is violent and all is that i didn't inspire if i that's father. rami says human history has always seemed dark and wide pages. prayers these here he tells me, we'll all be about wisdom and the will to make the right choices. what is the solution? uh, we pray and this christmas for the peace and the to eliminate the mind the have to for the leaders of the word. so they will save the humanity, not save their interests. and only god knows how many more palestinians in gaza and his rarely soldiers will die before the long awaited peace. well, this is not the 1st time that's best. let him and all of palestine. i'm going through hard times. people say this current crisis is by far the most painful and hard breaking. but as always, especially during christmas, the ra hopes here, that's the hard shapes,

like the ones of the past will be overcome and the light will shine through the darkness. reason ocean are all t reporting from bethlehem and merry christmas the russian military has responded to the deadly showing of civilians in belgrade by bombing and military sites and inside ukraine. that's according to the latest from the defense ministry in moscow, which says the ukrainian officers responsible for saturdays across the border strike have now been killed to the unit yesterday. ukrainian armed forces use multiple on trucking systems to strike the city of bel girl. this result of the killing of civilians including children. in response to this terror attack, the russian armed forces he has command and control centers and military objects used by the criminal key for the team in the city all parties. on saturday, he had his military and least

a mass of indiscriminate round of selling on the russian border. city of belgrade, many civilians were hit with at least 24 dead and more than 100 others wounded. parson officials say the trans used cluster munitions and have called it an act of terrorism. the business is over to the book, and today we witnessed the heaviest consequences of showing by the ukrainian armed forces of the past 2 years. i sincerely offer my deepest condolences to all the families of the victims. i understand that there are no words that can come for that grease. i want to make it clear that the enemy will not escape retribution.

for safety tv cameras in belgrade captured this dramatic scene of another using her own body to shield her children during the attack. afraid of being caught in the fall out, she pulls her infant from the stroller and grabs her other child as they run for shelter. well, here's what one person have to say about the attack just days before the new year. a misery. well, you know, i said it was, i wasn't home at the time of the explosions because i have guests from the neighborhood. but i work here in the central market some i'm an intent for now. my call was left me for the night. i came to where i wanted to take my child home, but now it looks like this is a city that the call was damaging. but at least where i live to and i have to serbia where i met ongoing anti government, protests president bush. it has told the pro western opposition that their desire for toppling the leadership in the bulk and country will not materialize. the 1st, there will be no revolutions, no violent seizure of power. secondly,

the people have made it completely clear as to who their supports and to whom they give their vote. and this is of key importance and certainly will try to form the government of the republic of serbia before the end of february or the beginning of march. so that we can start addressing the problems, continue developing survey and see how to raise the growth rate and how to make serbia must be thousands had been rallying in the serbian capital, demanding a rerun of the recent parliamentary vote, which didn't come that the president's party officially one protest this time, the election was stolen, an accusation vehemently denied by belgrade. and while a number of the demonstrators waved serbian flags for western slogans were out in force to some of the protesters violence with an attempt to the storming of the government headquarters seen earlier in the week

the . this was an attempt to its violence. takeover of the state institutions of the republic of serbia. i can only say thank you, but perhaps this will not be understood in the west. but tonight i especially feel that it is important to stand up for serbia and thank the russian special services who have this information and share it with us. the, the attempts of the collective best to shake up the situation in serbia using the techniques of the might done cool. this is part of the hybrid war. i would like to stress that on type bells, right? forces actors almost single tenuously the operate onto frost. this is the situation and costs of attempts at the might not cool. here in belgrade

the most celebrated australian journalist john richard pilcher, has died at the age of 84. he was known as a strong critic of american australian and british foreign policy and a vocal supporter of julian assigns. all right, let's get more on this now from journalist option latan. see who joins that may live action. this is certainly a big loss to the world of journalism. what, what can you tell us about him? it's a mass of loss. we knew he was on, well, i was cars funding with him, but we didn't know it is going to have on new year's eve 2023. when he is needed by so many people we have a special going on the ground going out tomorrow. i mean, and which i call them one is a great is john was in all of history, judy and assigned you needed them a visit to them in bell marsh,

maximum security prison after his torture, by british paul, a british authorities, it's a, it's a terrible loss to a truth tellers, there's an inspiration to people all around the world and so many different languages to so many leaders that came under fire from the u. s. military industrial complex. and he knew the lies told by networks like the bbc, cnn. it was a vocal course, a couple fake of journalism that is so on display today when we look at gaza, when we look at you crane. and of course, that's why you found r t as an outlet that he could speak to, because he was band defacto by old british media where he, he moves the officer all the awards, the one of the, all the great films he made starting out talking about all of us, he had an ecology right through to the vietnam war to cambodia. just out of the staging was to finally talking about the coming war on china,

his amazing film, which would hardly even get released in cinemas in britain. i mean western europe, and it's a shame, i suppose, in his last dying, daisy, sol, how debased society in western europe was as it backed a new or cost of something that has inspired him in his journalism. some of the great reporters of the 2nd world war and war coincides just a terrible loss. and mr. filters. professionalism, and dedication, certainly known world wide. uh, what would you say is legacy to the world or? well, i suppose as we do in the less working today takes a bit of jump. georgia with them is legacy is i suppose i sondra survival. these are fighting for a junior massages survival in him not being killed in the village ca, plots, and so on. but every journalist, even though they may not know it as

a desk to jump coach, why should viewers learn more about and remember people like mister pilcher as well . the great thing about his a belief that you must not take as gospel the press release is coming from the us state department from nature of capitals from politicians. but he was never a just contrary. and for the sake of the yet a moral compass in which he looked at everything from the bottom up from the average, because not from the elite. and of course, as he was banned again in the game, he was homeless life, the british authorities, and the british secret intelligence services attached to him. he told me personally of how many law as he used to have to employ is going back decades in doing one film after another. the great thing is you can go on the web now to him, build you to come and see all of his films is amazing films that spanned latin

america have brought to the middle east, south east asia of the far east. and of course, the, the, the center of what he saw as malevolence, the nato expansionism and the need to protect elite power amongst nato countries. the so called democracies against the working classes of those countries . in the name of the weapons companies more. and then genocide, he talked about the cambodian genocide, i guess in sharing the americans was so involved in that in the hospital in london, he must have been seeing another genocide. it must be hoping that some journalist were inspired by all of his work to do what he would have done now and expose the lies coming from washington and its puppet states in western europe. hey, you talk about him being a contrary in which i always thought was the job of journalists. well, i don't think he was actually, he wasn't the contrary, right?

maybe. so something was truly do you know, these aren't be okay with it wasn't like kitchens or any of those people. uh he, uh, he had a belief, right. but he's, he was also banned in the west, as you said, because of him bunk in the narrative as, as we will. um, his product set though that mr. builder liked objectivity. what, what's your take on that he lacked objectivity. i think he was very quick to realize that every journalist carries with the biases and the idea of a june list of trying to pretend their objective in effect is concealing their own bias, which is probably a worse crime then propagandizing. but of course one strives to be fair, and i think he always said, fan, this is very important. and an important thing to believe that to powerful forces in society tried to hide why they are so powerful as they engage in

war against the rest of us. and so i think the firmly believed in that any firmly saw that the west and ideas of objectivity and journalism with just a way to conceal the mass. murder of so many uh so many people around the world that is continued throughout is joining us to career. it was, it goes to the opponent of the rock that more so we sold allies right through from the 19 sixty's right through to the, to thousands. right? through to ukraine, where he saw that angel expansionism and the lies told about what was happening in ukraine in western media. i was so a part of it. and as i say, i think got so many people will be so sad and, and also so sad that to, you know, the fact that sense to ship to factor sensors, you, because they meet to people, they don't actually say jump villages is missing more. it's to build your is a band,

but even in fact he's banned. what that took away from. he was always productive. but how much more work he could have done imagery? how many institute should it be named off to him? which one this would to real journalism don't the journalism told in journalism schools and listen, you're which basically glorified public relations schools for nato wolf, our expansion ism, and the banking industry on a, on a personal level, as you knew, mr. pilcher, what was the most important less than that you learn from him? i suppose is optimism. i couldn't to what he had seen as a war correspondent, a veteran will corresponding in the killing fields in vietnam. where he famously over through the ideas that were being dealt out to the american press, how we manage should be optimistic in the face of what he had seen so much florida, so much deaf and still optimistic. but still questioning when he campaigned against

nelson from nelson mandela, one can watch is a program on south africa, his documentary on his website. he wasn't afraid to immediately ask nelson mandela, why he done the games? what else? the nelson mandela or when he was a young person would have done as regards economic reforms in south africa. so he was never blinded by individuals. he always to systems structures and realize journalism is about to illuminating things for the organ reprice and not for a late had snow for awards, but but, but he'd always be up to visiting. he'd be in the offing and laughing even laughing with julia. massage of use of afraid and is not killed by the british head of extradition. i'm sure juliet sondra level of to say because we got here. what do you need? so just to say about the death of john pilled you because the bridge government to torturing him. i see you. they die right. journalist option raton,

say on the death of john pilcher at the age of $84.00. thank you for that. all right and do stay with us. i'll be back with more news up here on our to international coming up in about 30 minutes time by the the the