the, the, the head of the world health organization escapes harm during is really bombing of humans international airport. the one of his planes crew members was hurt. this was a group controlling the airport condemned israel for targeting civilians. this is really attack is evidence of their military bankruptcy because they resort to targeting civilian targets such as airports, the ports and power stations tomorrow online hospital workers, or among the 50 victims or a quarterly killed and is rarely airstrikes on northern gaza. and brazilian delegation is set to begin investigations as authorities recover the black fox from the airplane that crashed in western causes extend

the live in moscow on rachel ruble. you're watching our t international. we're bringing you the top new stories from around the world's view and has expressed its increasing alarm after the as rarely button apartment of human. so not airport on thursday, as the idea of struck the who's a controlled facility, while a un mission, including the w h o chief was there. the secretary general condemns the escalation between yemen and israel is rarely ever strikes to day on sun international airport. the red sea ports and power stations and young men are especially alarming. the error strikes reportedly resulted, the numerous casualties, including at least 3 people killed and dozens more injured. a united nations humanitarian air service crew member was also injured when the airport was

hit, a high level delegation by the un, headed by the world health organization director general. dr. federals was at the airport when the strikes of yours according to the w. h. o shave the mission was about to board their flight when the bombing happens and one of the team is arrow crew was heard. isabel has confirmed it to conducted the striking, identified the sonata airport as of who's the military facilities. witnesses at the airport say the area was full of civilians. some of the strength was carried out without any prior warning or excuse. sienna airport was struck and the civilians were strong at the civilian loungers in the airport tower were struck. and there were also civilian employees from the general authority of civil aviation on the november so so on an international airport was targeted during 2 flights one arrival and one departure. the airport was targeted while it was full of citizens from about. yeah,

to the ports along the red sea coast were also targeted by is really forces in addition to power stations across him. and 6 people were killed and the strikes according to who seat lead authorities. we heard from a senior who, the official who explained to the many groups reaction and the plan response to the latest idea of assault of this is really attack is evidence of their military bankruptcy because they resort to targeting civilian targets such as airports, seaports, and power stations in return, we will confront escalation with escalation and will deal in the same way with the zionist entity in addition to its allies, america, and britain just because they were the 1st to start targeting civilians with striking santa airport while they were delegates from the united nations, there is evidence that the zionist entity does not respect the un or so called international law. we are aware of this fact and the crimes they are committing and gaza have also exceeded all international norms. some of the,

the is really military released, a video of airplanes taking off for the strike against targets in yemen, which they confirmed is in retaliation for earlier whose he attacks on israel. and the idea of official says there will be no hesitation and its response. the targets that the idea of struck include military infrastructure used by the who, the terrorist regime for its military activities and both the son of international airport and the has the us and ross cannot to empower stations. in addition, the idea struck military infrastructure in the all who died to sleep and ross kind of t ports on the western coast. these military targets were used by the healthy terrorist regime to smuggle uranian weapons into the region. northern garza has become another target for as rarely strikes on thursday as at least 50 people have reportedly been killed and strikes on a building near at come all one hospital. and that is,

according to the director of the medical facility, there's been no immediate comment from the idea of multiple attacks in the vicinity of the hospital were reported on thursday with patients and medical staff said to be trapped inside the facility is really hot as party and pay off our costs of gave us his take on why the is really government is pushing for more regional conflict. the government, the fees read is interested in a file and in order to pursue with its own flashy, stay on the top which man, it's a to destroy any of the amendment of a of democracy that still exists in these way. and we're in, as we said the last year, a, unfortunately it is improved, right? this proven right? because that's exactly what it is doing. now. i want to be really clear, isn't it? is that i to the existence secuity and is the right to defend itself. but that's not the case. the case visa be the police stimulus as

a may both. busy most but also because of the labor and on c area in the m and a, the cases of i said before the interest of this government to a business. so one way or another form of violence. you know, that's a survey as a government in order to execute the decisive plan. that these interested in the next agent, the exception of the but a scene that they're always the will by use of act is not against come us from the beginning. it was again the senior people as the court subsidies in the senior police under the doctor, but he'd be by easily and not only does it but also in the west bank and doing the use or was it? i mean, even we thing these, the pop you, you know, the pause is that the incident goes, which is a process towards a bus use big data sheet because of the airplane crash and projects done that killed. 38 people is still under investigation. the coding of the black box or

flight data recorder is set to begin on friday when brazilian experts arrive, as according to the countries and deputy prime minister. the slow, when international experts drawing unambiguous conclusion. the prosecution will be able to present a version of what happens while at the same time continuing forensic measurements. we have received no official version from any country, neither russia nor azerbaijani for constructing aversion in leaning into it would be impossible and irresponsible. right. we can cross live now to our, to correspond as a, as an ac and reporting from baku and honest us, you up a lot. and i and i tell, assess, yeah, 1st question to what are cause like authorities saying well, yes, we all currently, rachel adds that uh the cars that uh at a hospital where people who have survived to be a plane crash have been located what we know. so far as the plane was traveling

from, as it are by john to buckle and 67 people were in both 30, a 2 of them unfortunately, died in 29, have survived to increasing 3 children according to the, to the cause of officials. we don't have the official information of what actually close the plane crash. uh, but the investigation is underway. uh, no fishing versions i oh, we had say solve what happened? cause like transport minister says so. so that's the that was reported in for information to the i tell slide to direct to the, the oxygen center has exploded inside the plane. let's listening to that. you said, you said 31053853, moscow time. the real stuff like direct to inform the act how tell a flight director. there's an oxygen cylinder head exploded in the passenger cabin of the aircraft. the passengers were losing consciousness and requested resuscitation. upon arrival at the end,

you must have put your door. he also added to the emergency services were ready to receive the croft, i will say, stating that they arrived at the scene immediately after the plane crashed. and what we know so far about the foreign citizens is that 9 russian citizens have been evacuated to moscow, as well as 14, either by johnny citizens as well. uh, investigation is currently underway and its a developing story. so we'll have to wait and see. all right, let's go to yeah, so now who is in baku, where this flight originated? and yes, and it's really interesting, the narrative being circulated in the western media. can you tell us about that a good morning, rachel? well, of course, what we understand 1st and foremost is that be developing story is of course, that precarious won't precarious is specifically because of the claims that are being made. any obligations, of course, including 4 different sources when it also be john and governments suggesting that it was an error besides this old system that was,

it was purchased from russia in one form or the other, but these claims the 1st speaking to my local contacts. so just initially originated from the local broadcast or a news, and we understand about based off of uh, the company and its uh, establishment that it has, ties with your own use in your own use was the 1st international media organization that what is that? it's actually broke that story. so here on news has been essentially use the contracts that were available and the resources available to a news every understand that the other johnny officials spoke to them. of course, on the basis of anonymity. but we understand that there had been no major headers with the other big jobs governments as it could not have a police up until this point on board and essentially side as much as these claims essentially suggests. but what we do understand moving forward or of course is going to be just as important because we understand the investigation is currently being carried out. we understand based off of what cause like officials are telling us that the forensic investigation will be carried out by their side. and if, as

a john or russia wants to carry out any form of investigation, they will have to do so not taking into consideration that jurisdiction. but one more thing that's also important based off of the video evidence that is currently out there that is publicly available, is that the general understanding is of course, that it is not definitive and it is not comprehensive. this is why the investigation was just that much more important than ever since this story broke up until this point we had an expert shoot i essentially gave i suggest of it on arching international. a former us army officer gave us essentially the reason of your as to why the fuselage or the airprint or the oh crap may have received damage . it could be some rocks or it could be some other substances in addition to many other after that it wasn't always april, but there's one more thing as i was in part, there were claims that there was a drone in the sky and uh, based off of that you uh, army officer. what he suggests is that the altitude of wishy couple as line is not

suitable for certain drone vehicles to essentially just the right to choose the virginia prob, time dodge. based off of all of this, there are a number of different scenarios and hypothetical sooner is that we need to take into consideration, which is why it's just that much more important to see what the official investigation bracelet word. but honest as c a, it said that you're outside the hospital where survivors were taken. what are you hearing from their relatives? while at the moment, we actually also heard from the cause of transport minister. he says the at the moment there are 6 patients being treated at the hospital that you can see behind me. 3 of them are from i sort of by john and 3 of from care of just on, on. we heard from the relatives of, of the ones being treated less listening to that you should have with them. i heard that there was a plane crash and then they called me and said that my brother and his wife were on that plane. we just managed to get here from us or by shawn to the hospital. there

isn't any news yet. it is unknown whether they are alive or not. i do not know if they are here at all or if they are already in the morgue. we hope that everything will be fine and that they are alive to the, the super computer. suddenly i came here to see my cousin, but i didn't find him here. so the doctor said they had sent him to the morgue. i live in ask for kind of myself and my relatives called me and told me about the disaster. i came here thinking that i would find my brother alive. it is surely as a developing story, as i've already said, and will keep you updated from the ground. and it's actually a miracle. what we have to say. it is a miracle that nearly half of the passengers of not playing across have survived the. and the as soon as want to go back to you and ask you about the black box, as that's always critical in investigations of plane crashes. what do we know so far about that the wrong? fortunately on thursday, we understand that the se shows on the ground as well as your tools are actually

able to locate not just the 1st blackbox, but the 2nd blackbox as well. and we understand that modern day civilian aircraft, as far as that are currently up to speed with uh, it'd be ation security standards. they do have 2 separate black box. and the 1st one, patients in consideration with each elementary data, from the tools and the instruments on board the slides. so that's going to be crucial in that aspect. the 2nd black box, of course, has audio recordings from the carpets, which will not just paint a better picture as to what went wrong with the aircraft as it was crashing into the outskirts of because exxon but also take into consideration what happened on board and on during the slides in the cockpit as it was happening as well, which is why it's important that this investigation concludes. and we understand that as soon as the 2nd black box was discovered on thursday, there was a statement put forth by cuz that because i chose, as well as the aircraft company for the brazilian company, suggesting that they would be traveling to kazakhstan to continue and take part of

the investigation, the investigation of course, is a forensic one is going to take into consideration and that number and multitudes of different scenarios. i mean, storage, essentially paint a better picture as to what really went down as that plane was just essentially losing altitude. and crushed into the citric. i'm ok so, but one thing that's going to be important to note that it's a good again, is that this investigation could take some time. it's going to take a long time to decide for all of the materials in the black boxes. before they can actually have a better understanding of this as you decide for one job. right? r t correspondence. yes. and i can and, and this does seem a lot and i think you gave us a former it because like ation official told us, the survivors have the pallets to thank for managing to crash lines, the airplane without killing everyone on board. a simple mission, probably smoke and inter governmental commission is currently collecting all relevant information, including details about the aircraft. it's crew,

the airports of departure and landing details on the operation of navigation services and information about the technical condition of the airplane. if the plane landed on water, i believe there would have been very few survivors at high speeds. when an aircraft strikes the water, it disintegrates almost immediately. therefore, in this respect, the pilots sacrificed their lives to save most of the passengers. the crew acted very professionally and i believe they did everything they could to get the plane to octo airport. moreover, they were highly experienced pilots. however, the issue is related to the fact that the investigation is not carried out in order to identify who is guilty. but rather to determine the causes. in other words, the investigation is typically a political in nature of questions about resolving the ukraine conflict range during president clinton's media conference after a year ration summit near st. petersburg and the rest and later revealed about his

outgoing american counterpart previously made an offer that the incoming trump team is now pitching. but i'm glad you eh, thing. it's no secret that back in 2021, president biden, who is still in the office today. and proposed to me to do just that, to postpone ukraine's admission to nato for 10 to 15 years because it was not ready . then i reason to believe replied, well, yes, it is not ready, but you will prepare it and accepted later in terms of historical distances and timeframes. such a period of years is merely a moment. so what difference does it make to us whether it happens today, tomorrow, or 10 years from now? there are plenty of other hot topics covered at the event, including the future of russian fuel supplies to european consumers. are 2 political correspondent, geographers cannot takes us through the details. so the president said that the union is turning into a new center of power in the emerging multiple world,

the economies of its members states, and it's made out of russia. guys that's done to reduce done belive who was in our media. these economies are on the rise on like the ones in europe where many economies are currently in recession. also, iran has been officially invited to become an observer of the racing economic care union along with cuba and was becky spend the environment and says that the main result of these meetings here in the go is that all of the member states became much closer. but of course, at the final press conference, after all the meetings, other issues were touched upon as well, including russia's special milledgeville operation in ukraine and whether or not russia plans to use. so originally the latest hypersonic michelle system, which was recently used in ukraine, whether or not moscow plants to use that again, here's how the president replied. he's in the mood, if it is necessary, if we see that more powerful, medium range weapons are required. and then of course, we will use them,

but we already know how to use it. it's no secret that we don't have many of these are rationing systems. we have several of these systems, but we have nothing to hardy to use them unless, because this is a powerful weapon designed for specific tasks. we have already started mass production. so now we will produce the proper amount that we need and we will station some of them on the territory of deliveries. and so that we are acting systematically, like we do not rule out the possibility of using them today or tomorrow. if there is such a necessity, white, so on his recent to meeting with the prime minister off. so i'd like you robert pizza, who just recently came to moscow and he said that energy was discussed. this is quite an important issue for slovakia for hungry and other european states. the supply of russian gas which was basically interrupted by ukraine despite to hold the contracts. and that was discussed and also turns out that slovakia proposed it to become the place for any possible peace negotiations between put in and to trump

if they were to have a little want to go get us pretty or to see was firstly prime minister a little bit feet so it has to be supporting a peaceful resolution of the ukraine conflict. secondly, with regard to the platform. yes, he said that if it comes to negotiations, slovakia would be happy to provide a platform for them. we don't mind if it comes to that or why not, because like it has maintained a neutral position. so from our point of view, i mean, this is an acceptable option for us. now regarding the energy agreement, though, we have always been eager to supply and have called for the politicizing economic issues, we have never refused to supply energy through europe. i have already said it's a 1000 times and i can repeat it. poland is the one that closed the transit route through its territory. it is a functioning route. no one has damaged it. it's working. all you have to do is switch on the button and the energy will go through poland. the pipeline is called the europe switch. it on tomorrow,

and we will supply guess which of the other route is through ukraine. war is war, but we have supplied regularly and paid money for transit. everything was normal and then for some reason to someone in key of thought they should shut it down. so they did it under the pretext that the russian troops took control of $33.00. they are picking from europe send because without europe and support, ukraine cannot exist, not to mention fight or what, but now they are punishing europe by closing the contract for the supply of our guest in transit to you. so it is not easy for them. there is, it is gas prices have already risen to $500.00 per 1000 cubic meters. but right now i can say there is no new transit contract and it is impossible to sign one in only 3 to 4 days. it will not happen. so now prices will rise again, but we are not the ones who provoke this price hike. it is their policy starting about rest of the economy. the president said that they are expecting it to continue growing next year. maybe a little bit slower than in 2024 right now. it's at about 4 percent. he said that's

even perhaps a bit too much. it would be even better if it slowed down a little bit. maybe 2 or 3 percent, but in general, the forecast of the macro economic situation is quite possible. finally, the president was also asked whether or not he expects these special military opperation in ukraine to come to an end in 2025. i must say, some of us were surprised by his reply. first time in the ship. what do you personally believe? do you believe that in 2025, the ukraine conflict will end with our victory. boy you? i believe in god. god is with us. the panamanian president, who is a role marino has ruled out any negotiations with us president elect, donald trump over control of the panama canal united front. i mean there's nothing to talk about. the canal is panamanian and belongs to panamanians. there is no possibility of opening any kind of conversation around this reality,

which has cost this country, blood, sweat, and tears. donald trump has a curious panama charging excessive rates for use of the central american waterway . while the panamanian president has argued that tariffs are formed, openly taken into account market conditions, trump used as christmas message to single out china and accuse of using a military presence in the region to control the canal. present. marino has denied the claim and offered us authorities a chance to inspect the region. instead of the whole world is free to visit the canal, come and try to find a chinese soldier. here i give the personal credit to president elect donald trump for bringing this up. and i'm in the, a merry christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of china who are lovingly but illegally operating the panama canal, where we lost 38000 people in its building 110 years ago. always making certain that the united states puts in billions of dollars in repair money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about anything. but 82 kilometers long

canal was built by the united states in 1914 and that trump's accusations come 47 years after the to re host carter treaties. an agreement signed by us president jimmy carter and the panamanian president omar to re host over the gradual withdrawal of us control of the canal, the final transfer to panama, to placed in 1999. a dozens of protesters gathered outside the united states embassy in the capital to protest against us present. i liked to donald trump recent threats to attempt to regain control of the canal. for that shows the demonstrators gathering outside the embassy with flags and banners, chancing and seen a national anthem of panama. several banners bearing from space are set on firewall security. personnel are deployed to guard the compound. we heard from some of the protesters, most of the we almost, we categorically repudiate the imperialist pretensions of the united states view of

wanting to continue perpetuating its military presence. done not only in panama, but i'm not. but it is also interested in greenland and is interested in turning canada into another us state. the response of this group of patriots today on december 24th is a response to that mentally ill. trump. this is panama. this is our territory. we have a flag and we have self determination, a waste that the former administrator of the panama canal, jorge tihano. he says donald trump's threats to require the panama canal are legal, and the panamanian government must hold as sovereignty and financial authority over the canal. you'll see how many i believe the threats made by president elect. donald trump, regarding the potential react position of the panama canal, because he's unhappy with the price is panama charges calling them a legal. there's no way to do this legally. after his saturday comments. we've seen

other countries come forward to support panama in its sovereignty over the canal, panama, as sovereign over its territory in the canal as part of that territory. while the canal is a state owned enterprises, it operates completely independently from the central government. it has a constitutional title that granted considerable financial economy. i think these disputes are primarily rhetorical and won't lead to any real issue. so sort of the threats and rhetoric from the president elected the united states are reminiscent of the things we've seen in the past regarding various topics. not just panama, but it really does say with us here on our, to international up next on inland visions. my colleague peter scott, takes us to colorado here. i forgot the name wrong just to shape

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