the, the the mass power outage is rocky crane. following reports of russian strikes on energy infrastructure in multiple cities across the country. also ahead, the idea of strikes, platinum building and southern bay route as earlier on saturday i. d. s claims has a lot fired 80 projectiles at israel was a lot mazda set to be donald trump, to advise, or the tech 1000000000 there is already mocking. vladimir zalinski is claims that you have is totally independent from the west. the and a possible investment deal sparks and fears protest in a positive. i'm with the president as promising to step down as crowds,

degrees of vacate government buildings. deposition claims, the agreement will only benefit a select few well placed citizens. this will be that says what is being offered behind such a screen to attract investments is actually nothing more than a kind of new superstructure overall. this, this setup is aimed at ensuring that individual, all the guards receive additional super benefits the live in moscow. i'm rachel ruble. you are watching r. t international. ukraine's energy minister reports mass power outages across the country after russian missiles and struck infrastructure in major cities sunday morning. right for more details less cross live to our to senior correspondent, broadcast the of rod. what else can you tell us as well, this is one of the longest one of the longest air raid sirens their lives,

the big hub, who will you credit over? well, those, the talk country repaired of 5 dollars according to the netscape russian to install most $200.00 dro uh, drones as well. it's a me solids, cruise missiles, us procedure may solve as targets you crate. these include, well though we haven't yet heard a statement from the russian military about the intended targets, but from what the ukrainians to say. these also included energy distribution, energy generation, energy transmission infrastructure, sub stations, as well as energy plots and that is hydro power plugs. apparently have been heat whenever you create a geographically speaking, they but he's in the east of the north, the south, and a dresser in the west of the country. in virginia, it's a region over

a period of about 5 hours. again, let's click a lift. they had shut down a 140 of the 200 on the targets over you cried move as far as the experience shoes large the lose those claims are untrue. especially given that these talking about the, the credit inside is already set across the use hypersonic weapons. these are a typical control me solids which, which travel of the mac 11 max had a and all impossible to shoot down. so said he, we must wait and see what the damage is to you grade. previously, the previous such attack happened about 3 months ago where brochure, he's amongst other things, energy infrastructure, which most who claims feeds the credit in one machine. that's all i'm seeing the

street and provides the, let's give a she with a power to wage these conflicts. a r t correspondent raw does to have more od. thank you. all right, moving now to the us where the president elect is already sending shock waves through washington trumps recent controversial cabinet nomination. c, tech billionaire eli must leading the new department of government efficiency. the future presidential advisor is already poking fun up. lot of resilience skis, recent claim that ukraine doesn't take orders from abroad when there's a legend. ok, right. we are independent ukraine, so i think that you're in the swell all people and i personally negotiations with the united states of america with trump and bite. and you are the latest to me, you were to prove that the rhetoric of sit down and listen does not work with us. and this is not because we, i like that because this how we should treat any country, any people that tend to leader with respect to,

to the she quality is one of the values as westside. and for today when we needed most disciplines, joe outland, host of the conservative daily podcast, says kids actions prove there are strings attached to washington's funding. i think it's absolutely, sir. this is started as a proxy war anyway for the united states and $270000000000.00 later. if they were independent making their own decisions then why in the world did they step away only because. busy washington stated that you need to step away from the table. you have more hawks and washington on the democrats side. and now the trump is coming in and he wants to posture. and frankly, i don't think he's in a position to posture for anything. and i believe what, what he loved must said is that he's got quite that sense of humor. referring to the facts, it is a wednesday, is a previous comic that turned into a politician around the country. so i don't think anybody takes the wednesday seriously. frankly, i don't believe that the united states will have any tolerance towards them, not coming to the table. and i look forward to seeing uh, the united states. take

a different posture in this, in this nonsense and try to get to the place where people can stop dying of the surprises keep coming. as donald trump rolls out, the short list for his new administration, one of the choices is still think alberta, former democrats, who quit the party, accusing it of war mongering. she is tapped to serve as a director of national intelligence. sophie has been a rare voice speaking out against issues within the us government. there's a representative landsman from ohio who said, quote, why are we being asked to ban american officials from trying to stop propaganda from for an adversaries like food? wire some proposing. we leave syria, which proved in once. why is the call to a band and ukraine continuing to emerge from some members? he goes on to say, remember, and i'm quoting him. remember, hitler did this. he used americans to spread his propaganda and it cost

millions their lives. putting is doing the same thing. so to be clear, this congressman from ohio feels that americans who dare to say, hey, we need to stop writing blank checks to fund this proxy. war against russia via ukraine must be silenced. he feels that anyone who says, hey, we need to bring our troops home from syria, our russian propagandist, and must be silenced. this is dangerous because this is coming from people who are in great positions of power to actually act on this nonsense. a dialogue that has over and over i said that she believes russia had legitimate concerns when it came to ukraine. and despite that, she was sent to in the price,

she was told to shut up by her policy and others. and that's something that's become really important to her. and she's a former democrat, she's not just any phone with them is that she was actually voice chest of the democratic natural policies that was housed in stones. she was within the democratic policy, she even runs to be president in 2020 overseen losing out eventually. right. at the, into jo, fight and, but she has long had problems within the policy problems that she has. oh you for those repeated, she said that they needed to get rid of the work. it's within the democratic policy, but just paperless and back in 2020. when she was going to be that presidential candidate, what you have to say about the problems within her own policy, you have criticized hillary clinton as the quote personification of the rights that his stick in the democratic party. what is the right you see in the democratic

party that our democratic party unfortunately, is not the party that is of by and for the people? is it a part of it is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign policy establishment in washington represented by hillary clinton and others foreign policy by the military industrial complex and other greedy corporate interests. senator harris, any response? oh sure. um i, i think that um, it's unfortunate that we have someone on the stage who is attempting to be the democratic nominee for president of the united states who during the obama administration, spent 4 years full time on fox news criticizing. president obama. this is the 1st time she'd criticized the policy actually when a ball no was in the office, she was shoes li, critical of his policy. when it came to syria, actually criticizing his administration for the money. it was given to the so

called syrian rebels, rebels who later ended up selling will becoming terrorist group, such as, i'll call you to an ice. and she said that the time that it was the, the decisions by that administration. that's cool. so much have a in the world over the past 2 decades. that's just take a listen to what she said in regards to that specific issue. why is it such a difficult position to take to say that we should stop army streaming service? it's really not a difficult position, nor should it be. i think every american would be a surprise to know that for years our government has been providing both direct and indirect support. to these are militant groups who are working directly with or, or even under the command of terrorist groups like all tie dyed nicest all in their or their effort and fights over throw the syrian government. well, e glide fuse may have spoken to the fact that that was an odd scene and like the

she gave an interview to us, those who exclusive comments to aussie at the time. but i think it gives you a sense of who this individual is. she somebody who is happy to speak her mind as a result of that. she has been criticized massively within their own policy. and here she is, a former democrats now going to be the national director of us intelligence ahead of what 18 agencies with some $17000000000.00 at her disposal. this is a massive appointment, and she will be back shaping the donald trump foreign policy playbook. no, to speak her mind as she knows a thing or 2. i mean, she has slammed so many things that the by didn't administration has been doing over the last b is what to start off with in bio labs, biologics, awesome thing. russia is accused ukraine of having for very, a long time in saying that the us funded them that was denied over and over then back in 2022. victoria new and to at the time was the and the secretary of state kind of notes that the us was involved in some biologics in ukraine dialogue.

poundstone, this was like say you go with what she was telling the truth. yes, there were these by lapse in ukraine by lives with the us is funding. she was a time everybody was like, you are lying, your russian stooge. that system to comments on the bio lapse. here are the undeniable facts. there are 25 to 30 us funded bio labs in ukraine instead of trying to cover this up to biden harris administration needs to work with russia, ukraine, nato, the u. n. to immediately implemented cease fire for all military action. the vicinity of these labs until they are secured, and these pathogens are destroyed. so completely verified in the price, but then just a few months later, the pentagon had to come clean and say, yes actually, it wasn't. the twin tool that she mentioned was actually 46 point lab. so the us was the funny thing. so i mean, she was under playing it, but according to the democrats, she's

a russian stage deposit the fact that over and over she's being proved. correct. and i just want to add 25 brief points here. she has window for know for the bite and administration is both the will of close to, to a new clear will the napa before we now have reports in the last 24 hours that show that ukraine is considering building a new clip on despite the fact that it's a signet change, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and as a result of her not being pointed, she has been put on the ukrainian death list. them are totes list in the last few hours. i think that gives you a sense of what she is thinking and essentially proofing its puns at the idea of somebody who's coming in, who's willing to listen to a russian point of view. the other trump, nominators include mount gates for the post of us attorney general. and trump has turned to media figures as well. choosing veteran and fox news anchor tag, set for his secretary of defense to has a lot to say when it comes to the conflict between russia and ukraine.

the friends who probably agree with us on most things are like, well, if you don't stop them and you pray and then you can go over the holidays or i don't, i don't think she's, i mean, maybe in a perfect world where he had unlimited capabilities and he couldn't from himself, king of europe. he would, i think he's probably knows enough to know that as probably not going much further in the case of ukraine who are poor, what he's talking about, if he wants to award. and now as a business man, he's not going to tell you about his negotiating tactic to bring it to a close. but i don't understand why we would not want to war like that. and if we do not stop them, no, we must do it the my was so furious, but not surprised when i saw the bloomberg news report that the biden

administration is now considering draining $200000000.00 out of army reserves to send more money to ukraine i can't even believe this is a controversial view to take on this for, but i believe that the us army reserves should actually be for the us army. archie contributor and former sent an aide to joe by the entire read expressed cautious hope for some figures expected to take a lead roles in washington's incoming administration. chelsea gab or do you know i've met her at rage against the war machine when we spoke out against the ukraine conflict. this is in washington dc. a couple of years ago. chelsea was there, had an opportunity to speak to her, and she is very committed to ending on 4 and more. she's been in the us military. she's talked about the waste and the mismanagement and, and the need for the she talked about the horrible things that happened with scott us down in iraq. con, she's a good person and she's going to be in

a good position. she's also advising. you have mac a is she was going to be attorney general who's going to be, um, he's going to be going after the d o j an f b i, there's going to be some n c i a. so there's going to be some big turn over there. you have you on, must you on must, who's going to be cleaning house. and what they're going to be doing is going after the bureaucrats, the beer cat crowds are usually have been. the ones behind a lot of the talk is more monitoring because they benefit from it financially. that's all about the change. if, if this happens, the election needs to be certified. january 2020th is winning, and all gratian is you need to get to january 20th, and we need to get these people confirmed. now i think they have the votes to confirm. many of these mat gates is more controversial, even with a magazine, but i think you have enough support for him to get through. the building believe to, to be on a residential block in the southern bay root has been flattened during an idea of

the attack. distracted the area sunday morning and the clouds of smoke rose above the city. it followed evacuation warnings issued for 3 sides by the israeli army just one day after a series of raids. their notes cross live now to r. t correspondence to sweeney who joins us from beverage. steve, can you bring us up to date on this morning's attack and the situation in the capital now? yeah. so they really woke up to a series of is why the strikes in the southern suburbs of the cops where you can probably see just behind me, the smoke billowing. this was from one to talk in the how does the region of the southern suburbs, the attack flats and a residential building and apartment block very, very close to saint george's hospital. they were 3 strikes this morning including

another striking, a pause. oh, but as navy is ready to defend itself when it issued these of our curation orders, but this was very early in the morning. these are evacuation orders of being labeled in adequate and misleading by amnesty international. you have to imagine that this area is an area where internet connection is very poor, so people don't often receive these evacuation warnings. what we heard this morning was a church bells ringing on the gun shots being fired into the 2 in the local residents to these way the bombing. now, one of the areas that we're starting to how that the every, this is the majority that christian heavier is the 1st time really that this area has been struck in these lady a bombing. we're now seeing this shifted in passing of these, right, the a tax on such a day. of course that was very violent attacks in the southern suburbs. a number of residential and civilian buildings were destroyed in those attacks. and now taking place across the course of the day,

a change and from the passing of the evacuation orders issued in the early evening will 9 or 10 o'clock at night. but today's sundays, the tax well they took place just about one hour of the evacuation orders were issued. some of these areas all still populated. that was still people living in those areas. so of course i was panic and chaos. now we've just heard from this very defense volts in the last 30 minutes. that full more areas of the southern suburbs all due to be struck. they've issued maps. outlining the buildings are going to be taught the doors. we were expecting those attacks to take place any minute. now, steve, can you give us an indication of what for both the stray well, yes, we can. the, the, the attacks have intensified over the course of the week, the bombardment of the southern suburbs if they route is now taking place across the course of the day. so there's no time ready. uh, the people,

the living in those areas or the people that were 10 to those have used to collect the belongings or search through the rubble of their apartments, whatever they can plot. there's no time of the day now with the southern suburbs of baby all sites. now i've spoken to officials and they have said that they are expecting an intensification over the next 2 months. not a head of the, you know, the ration of the president elect. donald trump. now there's been a flurry of diplomatic activity. he's hoping to secure some kind of sci fi as a victory over most before he takes off the post of president. in january is ralph rich, paul, what is intensifying those tax districts in its position in negotiations though a, an outlined a piece proposal or a c. 5 agreement has been table to the lebanese side, 13.6 being linked to the washington post. but there are some points where the,

the 2 sides oppose a part party to do with the disarming of has the law south of the tony river. but also around is valves ability to strike a winnable most in southern lebanon. and the policies that will be involved in maintaining that sci fi, particularly the united state prison, is also lebanon, is rejecting those proposals. but also in the meantime, that has been a series of attacks by has been all crossing into it as well, particularly those in the as well. the port city of haifa, 100 miles or more than $1100.00 missiles and look into a fight over the course of such today this included drug and strikes has the law says it's targeting is those military capabilities. these are all military targets . the is very defense for so long. it's probably said the has blah destroyed synagogue, of course, as be no evidence presented for that. the is very defensive. most often lights such statements without really any kind of evidence to bucket top. on the other hand,

in a separate use that has been an attack on the residents of these very prime minister benjamin netanyahu. 3 people have been arrested off the flask with fire. this is a fairly serious a breach of security. there is being taken very serious. the inside is valve, the president of the soldiers called a dangerous escalation. while the justice minister had said, well, this is a, a chip part of a chain of a knock events. i used to either box the assassination of netanyahu. it is fighting over throw in a crew. of course it was d for the rest. now inside is round up sled out to protect the officer. the dismissal of the defense ministry of gun gallop. he was, he was very popular inside as well. that way, he's protesting tel aviv on jerusalem, so the trucks are beginning to show inside as well. meanwhile, hearing babies, while the phones continue to full or to correspondence, steve sweeney. steve,

thank you. stand off between the sitting government and of has the a and opposition leaders. as the black sea coast republic is relaying from 2 days of unrest over a proposed investment deal with russia. protestors have occupied the parliament and official buildings, and president assign begonia has said he will only meet demands to resign and hold snap elections. if protesters leave our correspondence, he goes down our reports from the capital city to whom on the stand of the style made between the opposition and the incumbent. government continues, we are just outside the parliament building that is still occupied by the opposition. they've been here all the way through the night. you can see barrels like this one here, and a few over the in the back. they deliver them over the overnight to keep themselves room. now the opposition's demands remain the same. they basically say that the

president and the anti government has to resign and the president sofa has refused to meet to meet these demands. he has suggested that they should 1st vacate this building, and then only then he would step down and announce snap and elections. there was a lot of pressure on members of parliament to making a legal decision about the resignation of the president. firstly, such a decision will not happen. and secondly, if it does happen, it will not be followed through. i don't want people to think that i am holding on to power, but rather that we need to find a constitutional way forward. if we don't comply with the constitution, our country will not survive. those who have taken control, those who attempted a cuckoo must vacate the buildings. after that i will be ready to call an election and resign. the vice president will run the country and i will run in the election . what caused this old story basically being company, government, they've come up with an initiative that they call an investment initiative with

russia basically an investment project. and by definition that project would allow for and as to purchase land here in a project. and the opposition says that says this would allow only galks to basically buy out the entire very small republic. and this is what the people say here. they don't want this, they fear that they will lose the say in how the country is governed. and this is what caused about maybe 5000 people. these are the estimates given by the opposition itself to come out in the to come out and most of this price makes. but right now, given that the opposition that has, it seems they have reached, at least in that, in that book are the, some, like preliminary goals of the protests. right now. the showing is significantly smaller. of course, the leaders of the opposition who i've spoken to on saturday, they say that they are ready to drive all these people back in the streets. also node how? uh there's no presence of any law enforcement. there's no,

there's no ride police here or anything of the sewage which here showcase is that. so 5 seems besides trying to reach a civil and group solution tools. uh, but uh, the interior minister himself has said that he has no plans to resign to all developments. several parisian, normally under the command of the president, no one is going anywhere. i see the statement that i'll position is making that i should resign. i have a commander in chief who is entitled to give me such an order and i will obey his daughter's until now the people because i chose the president and we serve. and now one message that the opposition has also try to get across repeatedly and very well as a monthly fee, monthly is the fact that they do not see this process as an anti rushing to move i . in fact, the leaders have told me that if things go their way, basically, they will continue with the friendly relations with russia. they will continue to build up all of these relations,

give them that russia is our tool. the biggest allies that applies here has right now, in fact, the protest as they even rules russian flags on friday along side with the flags of the republic with them he had to showcase that this is indeed an internal dispute. and right now this the few disputes, it seems they are ready to sol piece, which is something that most cool has cool to on both sides as well. now, as for how negotiations fast the opposition and the president on talking to each other directly, instead the public chamber of, of project has taken upon itself the role of the media on saturday. the way the end of this building hearing out what the opposition has to say, then they traveled to a small, small village about 40 kilometers away from here, where the president and his cabinet off right now they delivered this message. will robin ultimatum? heard what the president and the cabinet i have to say, and so far, well, it is a stay on may to the, the decides on meeting,

meeting each other off way. but again, the representatives of the public chamber, i have said that they will continue their work and they will continue mediating this complex and they will do all in their power to resolve it peacefully. speaking exclusively to archie and i'm paused opposition. leader is quick to point out that protests are aimed at specific local officials, not against russia, done as it was, but it was but also to make this situation was provoked by the illegal actions of the previous government. we often hear in the russian media that those gathered here are against russian investments. this is completely fundamentally and true. i would like to inform you that we already have an agreement between the russian federation and the republic above the cause, the on the protection and promotion of mutual investments from 2009 more over. we have domestic legislation, the lawn investment activities from 2014, which provides for benefits, tax holidays, guarantees and so on. it's

a whole list of preferences. that is, it all exist. what is being offered behind such a screen to attract investments is actually nothing more than a kind of new superstructure over all this. and as we are all convinced, this setup is aimed at ensuring that the individual, all the guards, as we call them here, receive additional super benefits in order to implement major investment projects here in collusion with our government, which is and at the same time, the called state the out because people will receive practically nothing. this is that's what caused the whole protest. it should develop dynamically only forward the we have a very serious contractual basis. no, that's not even what i'd like to say right now. we have a common past, and today we have very close cultural social and economic ties. and russia is our main ally, and we are only focusing on russia in this sense. so therefore we will develop the closest relations with russia. by the way, some media outlets are trying to introduce

a narrative that there are some anti russian forces enough because the i want to draw your attention to the fact that this narrative and such a formulation, a combination of words appeared in our practice in the information space just with the appointment of the incumbent president before his appointments. such conversations on this topic did not exist in our relationship at all. and this is such a kind of political manipulation as it seems to the authors that using this narrative, they are trying to fight their political opponents and european studies experts defined guy, it confirms there is little indication and t russian sentiments are driving the policy in protests well, i think it would be really uh, pretty much sure to say that these are anti russian protests because we have seen the protesters coming with the russian flags once it's seems to be the biggest concern is basically the fear of, of how the house, uh, from uh the only only gar overtake.