[000:00:00;00] the real good news, what just happened and built around is definitely a terrorist act if it was a targeted attack on civilians. whoever put remarks on kias definitely attacked on the russian city of belgrade, which killed the $24.00 civilians and wounded $108.00 more. don bast comes under heavy selling from ukraine on new year's eve night with at least 4 civilians killed in more than a dozen wounded ends on the deadly is rarely miller transport. and dogs are rolls over into a new year or well, some time to sit in on the per piece against all odd the content. of course, i hope that this year will be a good one. that good will come to everyone that the war will end soon. and we will

return to our homes in our country the most of the tragedy that we are suffering, the most of the destruction that has be following us. we are morning and we hear from us from all the a man who has relatives were killed in the us. drones strike back in 2018 is still seeking justice for his law. it was a charge of so many. we did a lot of companies to pay attention, but no one, we ask up to no commit to this us the, you're watching archie international. i'm rachel ruble live in moscow. as we start with breaking news president vladimir putin has condemned as an act of terror. the ukrainian strike on the russian city of build a rod which killed $24.00 civilians including 4 children. he commented on the

attack during a meeting with veterans of the conflict, a new crime. let's take a listen. for the good news. what just happened in belgrade is definitely a terrorist act. under the cover of 2 rockets, they struck using a multiple launch rockets system. this kind of weapon hits indiscriminately and they used it to strike the city center where our people were walking around just ahead of new year's eve. it was a targeted attack on civilians. of course, it's a terrorist activity. you can't call it anything else. must we now respond to me the same way? we do have the capability to strike the central square and key of or any other ukrainian city is. but why would we respond like that? there are children walking their mothers with problems. it's hard for me to even imagine the situation do we really have to act like this? to hit city squares. we are striking with precision weapons and locations where the ukrainian forces have their command centers, where there are concentrations of military personnel, mercenaries, and other military centers and facilities of this nature. and the strikes are quite

sensitive for them. this is how we will continue to act. all right, to discuss, let's, let's go live down to our correspondence chart and what were some of the key points that bloodwork put and made during that meeting. now from that clip that we just saw, that was during the president's letting me put in his address to russian military veterans uh on his visit to the hospital where they are recovering after taking part in a special military operation. now there were some very important points that he gave out in his address, and he also took questions from the veterans themselves. that of course, naturally, one of the very 1st questions was about the belgrade attacks, which he called terrorist attacks. and he elaborated that ukraine has use multiple launched marseilles against civilian population. that will follow up question was, of course, well, how is russia responding to this? and he says that russia definitely has the ability to respond the exact same way.

and he has the ability to as try kids and ensure thousands of civilians. but that is not russia's goal. russia's focus here is to strike military infrastructure, and that is exactly how russia is responding. and to conclude the question on belgrade, he says that this was, this was an attempt to try to scare ross tried. this was an attempt to plant seeds of this trustworthy in russian society, and that this will not go unpunished. but another very important, an interesting point that he made in this address was that he highlighted that ukraine is not the enemy. he specified that ross shaw has been bothering the west for quite a while. and that was essentially using ukraine as a tool or as a way to simply fight russia in directly in this situation. let's take a listen to do it. it is not that they are helping our enemy. the west is our enemy . they are solving their own problems using the hands of ukrainians. it has been like this for centuries, unfortunately,

and still it continues. ukraine itself is not our enemy. our enemy is those who want to destroy russia and achieve, as they say, a strategic defeat of russia. they are mainly western countries. there are different people in the west. there are those who sympathized with russia. there are also the so called elite for whom the existence of russia and its current size and state is unacceptable. to their mind. they wanna break russia up and have been talking and writing about it publicly for decades. that's why they have no to indicate regime and created this conflict. and unfortunately, they succeeded in fostering conflict the way they are trying to manage the task of finding russia using the hands of a crime. you can probably see that dual credit is losing on the battlefield. how the situation is changing. and that's despite the fact that the whole so called civilized world is fighting against us. now another question that was asked to the president was on the progress of the s v o. and to that he says they do. russian

armed forces are becoming more and more effective. the capital at ease of the armed forces are arise that another topic that was discuss of went in this and he's address was of course, it called of me. and he was asked about the outcomes of the russian economy in 2023 . and he laid out results the president laid out results from the russian economies performance in 2023. and the take away from last year was the economy was kept alive, this fight harsh western sanctions. now we must remember that these sanctions were really sudden and the g d, p of russia really shows it all. and it showed that there was a 3.5 percent increase in 2023. and that really alone shows that the russian economy is city and functioning. let's take a listen to keep the mueller, to push to the fundamental point is that we did not just protect the country's economy. we did not allow it to be destroyed as the enemy had hoped, in answer to your question,

it was not you claim that was counting on destroying our economy. it is incapable of doing so. it is completely destroyed itself. there is nothing left there and survives only on handouts. all their officials go around with announce stretched hand begging for an extra $1000000.00. our situation is completely different. we have recovered from our fall and move forward. rush, it was disconnected from the international swift payment system, assuming we hope that everything will collapse to supply our traditional exports. right. and how do we settle accounts? no, no big deal. everything is working. all of them thought that enterprises would stop because they stop supplying us with components. but it turns out that everything is possible. yes, they have created problems, but nevertheless they are being overcome. despite the fact that we are in a state of armed conflict, all the main indicators of the countries viability and efficiency have increased. and this is probably the most important indicator of the state of russia. and now when western companies left russia, they expected russia to crumble and be on its knees. but russian companies stepped in and uh,

sanctions were unable to bring russia down. and rochelle was able to adapt to the current situation. now, staying in the topic of economy, the russian president briefly pointed out and talked about the employment unemployment rate and how the unemployment rate is that a historic low in russia right now. of course, he says that russia has the challenges. that is, it is facing, of course, but these are not really challenges that russia cannot overcome. and today he also met with military service man at his residence in moscow region. there were representatives of different areas of the front lines present there. and he exchanged a few words with them and also congratulated them on the new year as well. are to suit them as shar. oh man, thank you. in don bass, the celebrations have been marred by dudley ukrainian shelling of the city of dunn at school, which occurred just minutes into the new year. local officials to at least 4 people

have been killed and more than a dozen wounded arteries. remind customer of reports from the scene. this is a central street here, and the city of them that's as far as targeted by the ukrainian military. shortly after midnight on new jersey. several stores here for damaged and some buildings were completely destroyed. right now, i am walking on the shattered glass and the debris from the building and in the background, i can still hear the sounds of our children, shedding tears and ask to the boss who my mother and i celebrated the new year i went on for smoke in the balcony, sometime after the midnight explosion started somewhere nearby, very low, and in the very center of the city. to be honest, it wasn't comfortable that i'm from the rubles with leaf through all of this. i cannot stand on my feet because of it. then a car caught fire, a shelf, flew into the side of the house. in addition,

there were several explosions nearby glass shattered in several houses. it was unpleasant to say the least, the center of the nest clicks like a more so. right now, there is still a fire for the riding holes throughout the city. was the flyers caused by m c. c. the shelves are simply laying around everywhere. just it was attacked shortly after midnight on new year's eve from uncle astray varsity. and this republican all right, let's cross now to nick, allow me for rich author and political analyst and good to have you on with us, we heard the russian president called the deadly attack on the russian city of build a rod,

an act of terror. i'd like to hear your thoughts about that attack which occurred on saturday. well, that's exactly what it was. i mean, that's amy targeting a sibling district within a reference city is actually a, it's an act of war. it can be considered developed as tara can be brought into national, civil and the utility free of military can be condemned. and this is a, this is definitely the definition of a, of what we could call a terrorist attacks. and when it's handed to organized by states, this is a, this is actually a war crime which has been conducted to because the, a west to kill civilians and where no military targets. and the presidents also pointed out that ukraine is not the enemy of russia. he says it's the west that is behind the cycle of violence. what do you make of that statement? well, i think a sort of stuff. forget that the slow farmer, ukrainian, a prime minister because arrows a set that's events, he was a puppet. and if he's the puppet, and then that means as a puppeteer somewhere. and we know,

unfortunately that ukraine has been used by the west for a long time. there. i've been to organize a color oceans in caps, which what we know funded, organized, helped by the west, by it managed organizations by the sort of fund nation. and that they're using to west is using ukraine to uh, to, to them address that they had to, to, to, to make pressure either fall or make buster collab starts to harm restaurant. that's the, that's their purpose. and unfortunately today, hundreds of thousands of ukrainians, whatever side they're odds are, are dying on the battlefields. a lot of them are for the, because of the west i would say interferes within the sovereign state of ukraine. and so of course what i mean, everybody knows today that the west is behind us. if the west, the collective west would stop blending as i see if there was stop giving out arms weapons, satellite counselors, all the specialist which i helping you printing over today. there would be no more war. so this is definitely, this is

a proxy were organized by washington and need or just to make it to international to make it easy to understand. that's the situation we are in today. what's your reaction to the slightest ukrainian attack? woodson took place and just minutes into the new year, i think just shows how desperate ukraine is getting today. and jeff is that i scanned the west because i don't think there's much that. so that's the can do without the authorization of, of, of somebody from nato. and the fact that there again, a mean targeting downtown did not. and there was no specific pat military objectives that are killing silver. ready means that they just don't care if you look at the western media this morning, not a lot of them, you know, talking about this, i would say these blind attacks on civilians which are again, more crimes. and it looks like the west or some people i would say in the west, i would really say the war hawks,

they're trying to drag restaurant to something deeper, bigger rushes, always invest. i would say cautiously into a special operation in this war that we can come. they don't want it all out more and are about ready to put and has said several times, many times that he's not what do you create in people? and he's reminded that ukrainians and russians are, are actually actually brothers very close. so i think some water hops in the west really want russia to do that, to lose it off lose this i would say just caution and, and reacts react via the do the same thing that you create is doing so that way they can say look, look, what versus doing? we need more, i munition, we need more funding, we need maybe just the boots on the ground and battle directly the russian army and the so far. and i think this is the, this isn't the strategy or the russian army, they have not over reacted to these blind. i think of this that did the blind attacks on the civilians. and of course,

a lot of people are unhappy when they see this is damaging the skirts. but uh, the last thing i think people would want people work for piece any cases that restaurant over reacts. and that they showed that these warehouse from the west a will not get the same type of a, a tax on ukrainians. so it's on your brain as soon as the civilians that you create an army is not actually perfect any against the reference of events in belgrade or don't ask for even from you. why do you suppose ukraine would resort now to striking civilians? both of these attacks the one on saturday and the one just into the new year, struck exclusively civilian infrastructure and civilian residential areas. why would they do that when it, when we know that it is a war crime? well, i think they felt safe that they can get away with it, that there would be no combination that i think they, they should, they really twice because nothing says that the people who have organize these attacks will not be judged one day. so they should be cautious, and i think they're doing it because let us not forget that their counter offensive

has not worked. it's actually backfiring. we've seen now that the russian army is progressing along this front. that people in the us we've seen in the house of representatives, the people in europe are reluctant to send more help, more financial help to ukraine, and the people in ukraine programs, events guessing, we made really lose everything a year ago they made of signed to a treaty with russia, which would media protected most of ukraine for the uh, the territories anyways. uh now they're saying that they may be losing even more territories. we don't know what ukraine will be looking like in the most into use to come. and so they're trying to try again, restaurant to something bigger, should justify for that. so that's the lesson where i would say what costs are justified in asking for more money more finance more help, more military days. and so they want as a reference to overall. yeah, or is it because they're losing it from the military's perspective,

nato has not succeeded in helping ukrainian army to combat the restaurant to make the retreat. so if they're using the military field, they have to resort to semi or i'd say put. busy terrorist activities to get rush up to over react and do something regretful, which could help public opinion be swayed into agreeing to spending more money to zalesky. so i think the last thing for them ask us to do now is exactly overlap because that's the, that's the purpose they want to hurt and russia, they want to do. and then they think they can get away with your work, what kinds, but they want to hurt russia badly enough, so that old restaurant will only maybe lose it and do something really credible and that, and that will help them get more and more financially. so i think the best thing to do is just to keep calm. i mean, stay focused on what's happening on the battlefields and there will be more, actually, there will be more activities. there could be actually terrorist bombings or other attacks also within cities and inter months to come. i think fortunately the. ready map that yes and collect the west a dentist and in any case have drawn for,

for russia in 2024. okay. unsettling thought there. nicholas america of its author and political analysts. thank you. thank you. well, there is a little cause for celebration in gaza as the as really military takes off 2024. with a fresh round of strikes on the enclave. whoever some palestinians are hopeful, they will eventually see peace at some points in the new year. but one, the one element of how to hope that the world will end as soon as possible, god willing. and that will return to our homestead were destroyed. if there are any homes for us or not destroyed. and i hope that my children will be released. now. we hope that the new year will come and we will return to our home. we wish for peace of mind and to return to our homes. to review our message to israel is to withdraw from gaza. enough of the tragedy that we are suffering the enough of the destruction that has be following us. we are morning. they have wiped gaza off the

map. no, i will show in the category. i hope that this year will be a good one. the good will come to everyone that the war will end soon and we will return to our homes in our country. we are very optimistic that the war will end to my message to all the arab countries and all the countries of the world. and i hopefully will hear me and we want to return to our country in the north and live in peace. this is what we want. even if we only live on the sam, the little part from the staggering child death rate in gaza. international and shows are also raising the alarm over the mental state of young palestinians trapped inside the war zone. the children have been exposed to limit dramatic episodes. we saw patients recovering from physical interest on some having those pamela members, that cobra strategies had been taken away from them. there was no safe place and no

sense of security. it messed up now. the suffering of many young gardens began long before october 7th in 2018 teenager is it in the last row? lost his leg after being shot by it is rarely sniper a year later he was able to walk again thanks to a prosthetic limit, courtesy, a volunteer groups in the us after returning home to gaza. is it in to part in helping other amputees there? but his life was ultimately cut short last week when he was killed in an as rally or stray. steve supposed to be, who help is it in, in the us, shared the young and defiant palestinians that story with us. and i in 2018, he joined thousands of other palestinian refugees in gaza and protesting peacefully at the gaza borders for the great during the great returned march is a sniper is really soldiers. and that shot him from a very far distance in his leg. his leg was amputated, organization brought him to the united states where you had

a new prostate prosthetic legs built for him to enable him to walk and return to school and finish school. and then we hired him to become a field worker and humanitarian aid worker. he was quite interested in photography, so he was a practice. we were training him in that field to support our communications team. and just on christmas day, while him and his family huddled together in fear, i suspect as most palestinians do at night, their home was bombed in demagogues a refugee camp in central guys a by an air strike and his entire family was killed. his body remains under rubble today and there's no way to remove it due to the lack of heavy equipment that can remove large cement blocks. and it's just a terrible, terrible tragic i. tragedy. i knew him very well. he was a good kid. very positive, very smiling all the time, always ready to um, to do anything you can to help even during the last few weeks,

when i was in touch with him, he was expressing his desire to do more on the ground there to help his people. this to assess of, they also told us that a total of 6 young palestinians who had been treated in the us by his organization have been killed in does. it says the american people largely do not support washington's endorsement of the is really military onslaught. and there is a sense of irony, i guess i already wouldn't probably be the right word because it doesn't convey the human tragedy behind the lives of these children being destroyed. you know, being killed, being the amputees, having their parents killed, losing their homes, living under these horrific conditions as a result of the policies of the us government. and also then coming to this country and benefiting from the treatment that americans provide them. i guess there that would be considered ironic, but there's also and probably other more strong verse words it could be used in any

case. i think it symbolizes that the american people themselves are maybe not behind this or they don't believe that killing innocent children in injuring innocent children like as a dean and others is in any way justified. and that when you go, the people who are treating our kids is not the us government fits the american people, their private hospitals, their private doctors, for extending their services on a humanitarian level to help. and i think that that shows a significant disconnect between the policies of the government and the will of the people. we also spoke this morning with journalists, the criminal satari, who's in the southern guys and city of con eunice, where more is really bombs, felt as the new year came into being a what do you guys are husband slipping? i got a dog, they fucked. a few of the south and bucket garza where the bottom is for a continuous and it is and we are continuing to advance the accent. i'd like to do

the city and defend signature's there, so they can do it there. it'd be fire week for 3 years. in this particular area in east, pardon the people have been budman specific to the assembly fire on. so the whole fire, which was indicated with an ongoing and confrontation between groups. i just didn't know if i needed sufficient bandwidth. that comes the group number or by the experience as well, because that is under this. i've been losing the home, losing the nice. i'm losing the whole check with the word. it's in the 1st thing, the new year and before the senior got some new bombardment settings and lots of taken care of all and science. so basically the end result and now to germany, where riots broke out in berlin on new years eve leaving 15 police officers injured and at least $250.00 people arrested.

the despite and official ban honor rally more than 2000 people gathered for a pro talestine protest in the capital on sunday. the situation reported they appear to come in the afternoon, but ended up with clashes with place on new year's eve. some protesters shot fireworks and officers, while others reported they tried to throw molotov cocktails. the 24 international human rights groups have appealed to the secretary of defense, demanding justice for civilians killed by the american military in somalia. we spoke with a relative of some people who died in a drones drag near mogadishu in 2018. a. my says done. i gotta, uh, the house load it on by mistake. uh, she was freezing to uh, near town where my other brother was

a resident. so she was there for 15. uh, that's how it happened. uh, it was a charge for our family. and until now, after 5 years and a half. uh, we have a just spoken with those. okay. and my sister and her daughter, i have tried to contact them. so for those times and money to noticed with the data they have contacted them, sends the email. we have also contacted with the us embassy. any additional uh, we are late, we have tried to engage with the joe noticed the markets. so we did another company, took care of the attention. but no one we have of to know uh, committed this to us to even at least to give us

a so kind of the of, of like j as in, in the us has been bombing as long as targets in somalia for years. according to the intercept investigative outlet, the trump white house authorized a relaxation of the rules of engagement for the 2018 strike. the anonymous americans run operators were reportedly unable to identify their targets and no one has been brought to account for the killing of civilians. and last spring, 7, members of the victims, families distorted, that in spite of numerous requests made the us has not offered them any compensation or even an apology. and in fact, claims that no civilians were killed in that strike. the undeclared american war on small in militants has been slipping below the radar of international law for quite some time. over the past 17 years, the us military has carried out more than 300 attacks across the african country. the strikes reportedly left more than 2100 small ends killed,

including 121 civilians who bought for the here again says washington is doing everything possible to avoid accountability for the dots. and i think this office charlie's the military officers. they always try to create to keep their uh, reputation creed. so they don't want to really define level franchise gift was money. uh so i think the only reason is i'm not sure about that, but uh for sure. yeah. doing a lot of for kia, eliminating the terrorist just uh, because a lot of people are facing money. john just include the terrorism. so does the side . it's a good. yeah, we're a good thing of offended from them. but when it comes for the fee,

and it's i think almost to service the, the or over a 10 year. they didn't do anything. they didn't have to give anything be, is this, i think few incidents a day off of the, just the can sicilians. but we think that there are hundreds of security certificate of these kid so not a warning has been issued by japanese authorities after a powerful 7 plus magnitude earthquake hit the central part of the country. monday morning metre. high waves quickly reached the islands west coast with even larger ones expected to follow the what's the numbers, the whole image it so not a warning has been issued for not so you should count would prefer to. we are observing a lot. so normally, if you're on the coast or along the river, please evacuate to fire ground immediately. so when you, japanese tv stations canceled new years, day shows as

a switch to covering the natural disaster. people across the country is west, have been told to move to higher ground ahead of a potential tidal wave tremors have disrupted supplies of electricity leaving thousands of homes without power. meanwhile, authorities say nuclear power plants are operating normally and have not been effected down playing fears. of another focus she might like incidence to people were part of like held as the earthquakes struck the island nation. that's what it shows the after mass with houses destroyed and roads broken army units have been dispatched to help with rescue operations. according to a government spokesperson, shortly after the earthquakes struck prime minister for me. okay, sheet a warrant. residents to be prepared as the disasters may continue to stray. many motor ways have been temporarily closed following the earthquake. this video