the, the breaking news this all of russia is set to be striking, ukrainian, or energy festivities throughout the country. with blackouts being reported in a number of areas, the reports say the outgoing bite and administration is preparing the now the $725000000.00 weapons package for your grade. but that's as the polls show, a majority of americans are against pumping. here with more on the islamic terrorist groups long to a large scale offensive in the northern syrian province about lippo strategic army base in the area has report to be being captured. and this by the sea fire,

which has belie usual tobate's lebanese civilians from returning home to the south of the country with the idea of opening fire in one of the towns that prescott, the correspondent also became a talk when we gathered, there was a drone observing overhead, so they confirmed that we were journalists because we did not have weapons. but despite that, we were standing at the round about filming when they opened fire on the radio, watching our team to national reaching you live from our new center with moscow. i have mike up watching. now we start this all with the breaking news. russia is reports of the car right now. it strikes on you trade in energy facilities, according to training and sources. explosions have been hired in several cities, which you can see on the map that blackouts have been reported to in the capital key of a number of all the regions that let's get more perspectives from our senior

correspondent. we're on gas, do you have joining the right now more on what do we know about these report? it strikes on ukrainian territory as well, according to some estimates, most of the 100 me solves have being launch of the past few hours. first we saw a wave of drones get, i'm drilled and striking one across to credit. and this is a daily occurrence. but usually when does a boost all strike? the drones come 1st bed. that was she launch calibus strikes. targeting live old for example of west the most proteins in ukraine, the order of the t of a desa tried to cook. we uh, the insides out the a wave of x y. the, what we saw is all also involved. these takes light, the longer the roots all varied. usually i'll fly out maneuvering

a dodging. ukrainian defense is coming from the rio for barriers. the odds is protected by a defenses. as you know, you, craig says the energy infrastructure he's being targeted. that's maybe one of the targets we have see, emergency power cuts and blackouts in key of the, in the middle, in all the areas of you can boss, ukraine never admits the military targets. hope all is being struck. it isn't tardy, like in it, as usual during these strikes that come on centers as well as military enterprises and defense networks. infrastructure hubs, the traffic will these weapons from, from europe to the front floods that they are also being struck. now, several of them is also, or maybe dozens there, there is to move in a 100 results or inaction. and this strikes that some of those missiles are still

on the roof. uh, what they will it hits and how much damage will be done whenever they become clear . once soon, for media posts, what's reports coming about, the potential damage? now moving to the front lines, how does the situation look better right now? as well as it looks as bad as it's ever before you crate these hemorrhaging, it is losing casually across the front lines to where as in cause region way you can there's lots of 60 percent of what it sees back in may and that is re territorial loss of tens of thousands of to sort of ukrainians best brigades. last 9 pounds, vehicles arguments in that 's and then skis, shylie, and in the u. credit in the russian region. of course, in the near region,

we have russian troops advancing, dreaming and steaming towards a colorado but towards buckled a large city. the population of $70000.00, the major blasted in the view, credit defense, russian forces approaching it from the west. and now from the south, and that seems to be no when the rushes advance new, new way for you, credit and cabal doesn't need to ship located at the bar located. there was a, at the strategic and tactical situation to reverse this strategy to, to stop the russian advances that we de way hearing about with the village of a settlement captured by russian forces. there is now to look at a law belts. we're getting a new credit. the bushes also prepared the last offensive is up our doors, your region, then now i me a 7 columbus from the region of near. but if it's the roles which russian forces that, that you have since the will began in 2022. and this is all in the patch of political

instability for you credit. and that is, uh, you know, there is absolute nuclear alta on lots of support. the ones trump, is it office wise? howard the senior correspondent moran does the bringing us up to speed here. thank you. now these reported attracts on ukrainian territory. follow key of recent strikes on russia with us supplied long rain, myself, moscow's deputy, and lie to the floor of the un security council to one of the direction the war was headed. still in the microscope as well. what can we say? you'll have to wait and see each point of escalation from the west will be accompanied by a strong response from russia. we are sure of our right to use our weapons against the military objects of the countries that attack us. also,

we'd like to mention that there is no counterpart to our modern hypersonic weapons . we have warrant. do you have major choice meetings? while the bottom administration is reportedly preparing a 725000000 dollar weapons packet for key f r, a set to provide a variety of advertising weapons from us box, including non lines, drones, think of myself. i'll be a nation for high boss. now what president binding me staring up, things ahead, the full out of before he steps out of the door. many a painting hopes for peace. on donald trump, the, however, the president elects pledges about ending the war within 24 hours of being called into question after he nominated several foreign policy hawks for his upcoming administration. about for the role of his ukraine and russia. envoy trump has chosen keys kellogg, who was the chief of staff for the white house national security council during transferred to kellogg's plan for ending the war. involves freezing the buffer

lines in the coming positions and forcing both sides to the negotiating table. but that's how small school has repeatedly stated that freezing the conflict is the no goal for russia. a kind of spectra week on the market use of particular interest. they had been calling for the spikes deep into russia even long before that were finally approved. and you have a proud candidate and, and our vice president harris wants to continue what you're doing long range. and what to have done is they've basically given basically to brush and sure is a military background. you'd never given opponent to sanctuary. never, never, never, we do that in the non big mistake. and that's what they've done by restricting the ability of them to use the weapons that we give them. if it's a war, let it be a war. it's hard, but you have to accept that. you have to give more arms to them because you can't trust the russians. you just have to do it. and the question is, do you do this before europe, tires americans tire?

ukrainians, tire 2 and a half years. that's a long war. and the destruction is enormous. sometimes you have to look at what we call in america the long game, and that is security guarantees, financial support, and military support. now, according to a new poll, more than half of the us citizens quays are against pumping key of, of more problems. with this cost to the topic with a panel of guests will say, but trump pledge to end the war is one of the reasons vote as chose to put him back in the white house. but now many off feelings termed by the choice of advice as, as well, if you want a window into why the democratic party loss of the election and the last it severely. that's the reason. the reason is that by our division over ukraine and israel, over the lives and welfare of the american people and the american working class, the fact that people are struggling day to day economic conditions have worst. and

for many american workers, these uh the, our struggles in our cities, in our rural areas, we have academic routes of crime, of drug use, of loneliness, of depression, and the fact that now all of this treasure is hard earned. treasure of the american people is being sent to you green and by extension to israel, to carry on the wars of the american empire clearly showed the priorities of the administration as all the i'd love to hear your perspective on the latest us estimates to escalate the conflicts in ukraine with less than 2 months before the republicans take over the white house. what are your thoughts on the situation? it is very clear that the binding immunization interest is not the american people . it seems. it is just before the interest of the meal funds in states in order to continue to pay money into what gives it back for putting to them. you know, at the end of the cost of the to you, i'm from the ukrainians. not just of the american people to put

a middle card. if you look at the reason why the, what it was doing a song, it was because you wanted more focused integrity. the infrastructure is the team that helped us have tended to gain in all human development index. americans, when people in the home, the top of the countries. so when you look up old listings, the americans want to buy the document to go back and fix the problems. new whites, the target, or the new ones is elected to the templates and you create a whole lot, 5000 miles. we in order for them to decide to introduce our need is the one to be kept to the issue so much so that you may need to go by the next 2 weeks. it will be very difficult for you to get to these black. yeah, that was to how it wasn't that they're there in january when donald trump comes into office. but there might be some kind of resolution to the suffering going on

between russia and ukraine. don donald trump is now top top to retire, that lieutenant general t's kellogg to act as a special envoy. all the ukraine conflicts, his reported tongue would include freezing the situation on the front lines that most go as well. what do you project and so tied, this thing would only give you credit. another chance to re, um, so what do you make of trans latest picking those thoughts into looking at a bit unclear, isn't it? yeah, it's as clear as. 1 a lot of his picks seem to be hawkish. a lot of his pick seem to be people that will continue the war, not only in ukraine, but of course, in gaza, and then possibly opening up a fraud with china. i mean, and i think a lot of people who voted for it from the thought they were voting for peace are very disappointed and very worried about what his 2nd term is going to look like. and whether we're just going to have more all the time that is certainly mind for

years. and that's um, certainly is a peace activist. i know that i would have great job security under trump, unfortunately. coming back to christopher, now, i mean, president biden, it certainly isn't, you know, taking it easy for his last a few weeks and office he's not reported be so you can get an additional $24000000000.00 for the ukraine conflict from congress before he leaves office why do you think such a big deal is apparently happening behind the scenes and not being made public? and, well, i would be buying that administration even have time to spend such a mazda of some before trying to take. so with the white house. so what you are seeing now is you're seeing this last ditch effort to really bolster the ukrainian military capabilities in the event that something comes in and, and cuts off the supplies that you can use can still not negotiate and perpetuate the conflict for even months. so ned, hampering any effort by the incoming trump administration to find peace. i think

that this is an opportunity to also be a decker in the trump administration before they've even coming to the office. well, 1st of all, it's very troubling. it clearly goes against the well, the american people and the people who voted in this election too clearly loaded for peace and an end of this conflict. that's what they were promised, and biden seems to be wanting to do everything he can to prevent the incoming administration from making peace. that is what the goal seems to be. and i do think he understands that it's not a popular move. and so that's why the secrecy, that's why he's not going to goes to congress to get this money, they're just going to re shuffled money. the depending on already has. by the way it should be pointed out that the pentagon is failed. it's 7 audit in a row. meaning you cannot account for the money it is spending, right? so i guess it makes it easy for the president to just go in and use the pentagon is, is piggy back in the meantime, tom's big,

full counter terrorism director has said the washington was threatened to moscow with supply even more weapons to key of then barton had been standing and then a tv interview sebastian go, guy didn't hold back on just what he thinks of allowed them to put a good one tip away that the president has mentioned, he will say to that low risk form occasionally being cut or less fog who runs the russian federation. you will negotiate now. all the aides that we have given to ukraine thus far right will look like p knots. that's how he will force those gentlemen to come to an arrangement that stops the blood shed. the gray zone has published it's investigation into sebastian go. okay. the oddly outlets says that the trump nomination has roots in anti communist activism. was shaped by his experiences in british military intelligence that we had this cost of the prospect

. so the upcoming us administration with agrees those editor match blumenthal. well, trump was elected along with his vice president j. d vance, with a promise to make peace between ukraine and russia and stop the bleeding of the american tax period. if you are failing proxy war, the ukraine proxy war became a salient issue in the election campaign. and it did influence many people to vote for donald trump. because they understood that their money was going out to an extremely corrupt country, fighting a failing war. that was only escalating and putting millions and millions of people, particularly in europe in harm's way. and this was a part of j. d. vance is appeal explicitly through a new york times editorial and again and again and debates in on the campaign trail to the american public. and now we see

a faction with in donald trump's america 1st world by which 60 wants to put nato 1st. and sebastian gorka is going to have trumps here. so it could be, but he said he's not the only one. he's far from the only one is lindsey graham is another figure in the senate who's emerged as a key, trump ally and has said that america 1st actually represents sending is much military a. do you create as possible? because 65 to 70 percent of that a comes back to american defense companies and contractors. so it's actually putting american americas economy 1st with ukraine as a kind of a laundromat. this, this is not what the american, what americans voted for. even democrats who previously supported ukraine against russia have turned against this war. it's just not what the american public

supports right now. the american public also does not support this nuclear possible nuclear escalation, with russia with long range strikes, there are no polls showing that they support it. and so it really highlights the anti democratic nature or on democratic nature of american foreign policy. in syria, several is, lama is tara groups have launched a large scale offensive against the government forces, and i left the province after seasick bays belonging to the syrian army has reportedly been captured by the old keidel lanes. tarry als from faction a several nearby towns of also falling into the hands of militants among the seas. the territories i said to be strategic positions, which now oppose the threats to the city of i level itself. the less

obvious here in the air force has been scrambling to repel the attacks of reports, say the planes that struck multiple targets destroy minutes on the goals and killing flights of some of the military groups is set to be the syrian national army, also known as a free sewer, an army which was previously backed by the us let's get some thoughts on all of these now is speak to a dependent investigative journalist base in damascus. vanessa bailey, vanessa is good to have you join me now. what can you tell us about these terrorist groups and the motives? well, it's very clear that this attack, which, by the way, has been expected in syria for some time now suddenly since israel expanded it's regression into lebanon, so to some degree it was expected. and interestingly enough, of course, what happened just prior to the lebanon and israel ceasefire,

which came into effect to yesterday at 4 am, is ro bombed much of a serious border infrastructure. and the attacks by israel in an around the homes which is in face, which is a military base inside central syria has been going on for some time and the attack flight the terrorist groups took place pretty much immediately after the cease fire came into effect. and about 12 hours of to nothing younger issues, the threats against presidents aside and effectively against syria. and of course there's threat have been also issued and made by a previous design is producing people's lead getting out. so that's including uh, get in sauce who actually threatens the life of president decide if he didn't

abandon support for has the law and the entire resistance access, including of course 0 on. and so they attacked was expected. you've mentioned some times that are full and i would be very wary of saying that because much of this is thorough as propaganda. and i'm being told that the majority of those times that they are claiming they've taken over. i have not been occupied a tool and they're still being held by the syrian or bombing. and in reality, we have to achieve in this area. and i mean, you, that this attack was coming and had preferred to some degree of trust because now what's happening with her as a capitals and in certain areas are being attacked from one side, 5 to 3 and onto the reinforces that are being reinforced by the food for gauge and with special forces and the supply lines and escape routes are now being bones by the syrian and russian force. but why we certainly would keep following this

development that not the us has previously supported the so called free sir and ami, which is report to be among the many friends that has that mean. they need confirmation that the group is also involved in the offensive a yes or as it's now known as the syrian national, allow me, it was a cna which is under the control of a turkey. we also do or did have reports, that is really intelligence had gone to a turkey anchor off the, if you remember, they prevented the plane of friends and hurts of using the turkish s face. so we can conclude that the plan. so this attack was established, but then using the texas proxy forces that have annexed in the pod, particularly the news of syria. but we also have to remember that turkey itself has, i think around now a $150.00 military bases in the north. and in the northwest and is providing

drawing surveillance and support for all of the tire risk groups, including those led by other mohammed gilani who heads up the hyatt to the ocean alliance, which of course is re branding of i'll try it on those for from as it was previously on 9, so yes, they are definitely involved and probably this is other one's way of putting pressure on president of the to come to the negotiation table. and anchor, of course, president decide has always been clear that they will be no normalization with ducky until their forces. and their proxy forces are fully withdrawn from inside syria. all right. what are the risks of the conflict escalating in the region? the risks are high that the conflict will escalate against syria because the rest of it coming from israel, as i said,

leading up to the sci fi has been very clear that, sorry, or is a target to, to, to, to destroy a, basically, syria's weapon manufacturing capabilities because of course, there is no reliance on iran for its weapons, it produces its own, and it has been supplying those weapons to hezbollah. and with the cease fire known and place is route while taking a resupplied from the us would want to prevent any resupplied to hezbollah. so that means now targeting syria targeting the border infrastructure, which is which it has already been during targeting the road infrastructure, distracting, potentially the sir. the terrorist fronts that have been re ignited inside syria to perhaps provide for a ground invasion by design as forces in the south from the occupied go on territories. but also of course, to close the land bridge from iran, iraq in syria,

and then through to lebanon and even potentially, to palestine. so i think now, as i said, the focus will be very much on syria and preventing any resupplied to has a lot. and also a weakening syria in the event of a future re expansion of the war in the region, and also have caused waiting for trump to sit on the for in the united states. because his real nice perfectly well that trump will be on his administrative sion are supportive of is ready aggression against 0. we have to living here now vanessa . bailey, independent investigative don't list. bringing us up to speed here. thank you so much for your insight. a thank you. 11 on the has belie surrounding the cease fire with ease roll. i was

a huge victory. although we said it's fighters remain on a lot of a truce, came into force on wednesday. that was the last, the is ready amended 3, has issued an overnight if you forbidding lebanese civilians from traveling to the south of that country and that's up to thousands of locals rushed to return to the home. even though many of the buildings have carpet, significant damage, people he did to get back to the town of char. yeah, me in the south found themselves coming on the idea of gunfire, a correspondent for the split. the media outlet also became the target to for these ready drones, while reporting from the area of the day you can come in, but it was when we arrived there were still residents entering the town along the way. we documented the extent of the destruction and the traces of the battle which were very evident israeli tanks had crushed cars in the heart of cam, including even an ambulance that was run over by one of the tanks. when we gather there was a drone observing overhead,

so they confirmed that we were journalists because we did not have weapons. we had our cameras which the drone could clearly see. but despite that, we were standing at the round about filming when they opened fire on us. and one of our colleagues was seriously wounded with 2 bullets. and i was also shot in the side and we fled immediately. i did all the us part of the ceasefire deal. they regular 11. these all these deployed into the country south, as has beloved through us from the area he's running. a troops can also remain there for 60 days until the rotation is completed. the agreement was broken by the us and fonts, commenting on the deal. the use ready governments books button took a much to ron lebanon, has become a failed state because iran has infiltrated the country and whatever it wrong gets involved becomes a failed state. so this is an opportunity for 11 and for a brighter future for 11. and yes, of course, for the people which have been used as human shields, but also for the, for the,

for the white community in the lab. and then i will, has never been against the lebanese people. it's always been against his beloved. never the less of a cease fire with half block comes without ease, will achieving the goal was initially set for its operation 11 on those where the element nation, the, all the group ensuring the return of these rarely citizens. julia holdings at the end, a know of a visual and the creation of a buffer. so, the only tangible outcome from the conflict has been thousands killed in lebanon, and more than a 1000000 people displaced for tax reform based democratic factions. both bus and dimitry, delay on any doubts of each roll will ever be able to overcome it's enemies in the region. has failed to achieve its announced objectives. israel has committed war crimes cuz many people, many political leaders, many military leaders,

but at the end of the day didn't line up that. what out as well. i don't just like it didn't wipe out time s. so uh, is real boots up these big goals, but at the end of the day, they're so hard to achieve because this is not, this is a matter that is tied to the do is use military occupation. and there's your keystone beating around the bush. they look for goals and they would think if they ever achieve these goals, their problems will go away. their problems will never go away. as long as there is any available at the occupation of the state of palestine. they have much weaker post ball, but as well under the same circumstances in their deal has built up his uh, argument since 2006. and there is no reason why you were that they, they would not do that to get us freeze beginning this to settle on lebanese oil.

the guy is a base group. promises said he hopes the decision will open the door for and, and the possibilities and kind of find 2. or you can read all about that and more by heading over to our website. our team comes back to us. i hope now with the 2nd day of the russian president's visit to catholic, stand about to kick off. there are more key meetings and they regional security summit on the agenda. here is a look at the highlights from day one. the

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