on the the we waited for you for so long. we didn't believe it at 1st because there were incidents where they would change clothes and kill people in the basement of an apartment. move to them. the ukrainians who else civilians in the dunbar, city of throughout have a detail as properties committed there before russian forces for you to the area are corresponded reports exclusively from the ground in the wake of the battle won by moscow. a normal p g fluids relate was by russian part. so basically down those destroyed this multi media and western supply of wood personnel car at least will cut off this has it in somehow diplomatic way. i just don't think it's realistic to say

we're going to expel every russian for every interview premium loyalty. a wakeup call for the donald trump national security advisor tells you crane to accept the reality. while announcing plans between the incoming us, the president and vladimir, put plus a slip out, parliamentary delegation comes to moscow for talks to get russian gas flowing to the you again after you brain and shut down friends that well, that's the some european politicians cried foul over the continent smiling energy crisis. i then started to put it very clearly once again, the sanctions have nothing to do with morality. they have nothing to do with human rights. they have nothing to do with miles. they are simply an economic stimulus program for the us economy the

lives in moscow. you're watching archie international. i'm rachel ruble. with a look at the top news stories from around the world. the civilians are being safely evacuated, a deeper into russia from a key front line done bescedy taken by moscow's troops. some citizens of 2 or i'll have a describe the now former ukrainian occupation as lawlessness. that's top many atrocities ortiz more. i guess the of imbedded with russian ships to free the city is the 1st international correspondent reporting from the ground. there it is. early morning we our own roof to put off the lock is on our side. the

it is warm 5 degrees. which means that if you need to in the plaza, oh, and you drove the tool, condensation will very quickly blow the camera. so it is incredibly evans that ought to be incredibly, cause the most i briefly where are we and what's the situation to deal with the quote, if you could look we are in colorado for the situation. it stands most stable. so don't bun child school, just don't bunch of stretched out to school just as they'll take them. i said if something happens to you most high, he's battalion come on the fees, gods brigade, 51st. me. he had his units took good. awesome. it was a brutal yet unexpectedly quick victory. now he's charged with

safeguarding and marshalling, deluca folk who there are so many. all right there. hello please. where could i charge my phone? i saw the generator, but i don't know the way to the basement to come inside and go right here. yes. we've heard what. how are you holding up? young lady, young lady with no old woman. no, you're a young lady. oh boys. how are you holding up? we're managing boys. we're managing these is the results of an attempt to ukrainian towns where they mess with it. out. bush or normal. p g launched rocket propelled grenade was by russian finds a way secret on bush the stored the small to medium west and supplied almost personnel carrier. and these are those,

it never cut off your roles of repeated attempted count of attacks by you create in forces. once you call one of our groups gaming quiet during the night and set up 2 entered thing, mind small percent the car workshop in the morning the enemy decided to carry out or taishan supers. we woke up to the scene 200 maces down the road. another german made mazda ahmed personnel carrier as on the loan side, the yamma account was cool to sit in camouflage abandoned by you cranes retreated, and there are many, many posies visit whatever crossover, both ease of you, kate in soldiers abounded here by the retreating comrades. they are being collected, the situation is much calmer than usually ease off of the captive big

city the these year in the com. the city again ease unexpectedly who we are currently less than an hour's walk away from ukrainian positions you crate in front spaces. the red zone as we were told, the danger zone. but what is spending ease? this doesn't feel like the red zone, it doesn't feel like the ukrainians are a mere hour away. we have seen bible fields and cities. what move from are you able to box more modern guitar 2 days, you know, and it is never looked like face the entire cities virtually impacts, other than broken windows and busted roofs. everything else could be easily repaired. it is a testament to how you premium resistance has weakened that

ukraine's army has lost pollutant. see is new secrets, russian forces and now far beyond the city pushing further and further ahead. morale is high level to him with a ball. my call sign is to bowl. everyone here knows me. we gave those developing and we're off again. we're going forward. rise, stay strong, boys. the. but the other surprises how many civilians choose to remain in court. oscar want to risk it more and the wait for the russian troops i've done it was which is we waited for you for so long. the soldiers told us not to close our windows that they'd come soon. we didn't believe it at 1st because there were incidents where they would change clothes and kill people in basements and apartments who would kill them, hopefully the ukrainians. who else? what do you mean? killed how i would just like that. we would think they were russian soldiers. we

would go out to hug them. we waited for you for so long. we were so happy that you came here. so it was revenge. yes. they shot at people because we were waiting for russia to moves for 1000 people. near enough foreclosure of the population, to stare, re skits, and stay in cross of a stooping greed russian troops. it is a stunning figure given the reef. yes. now, all of them have horror stories. they will describe the haze and the abuse yourself with the hands of ukrainian too. is i do yes, it will do for you that they would come into apartments and execute people. they would throw grenades into our chimneys. you couldn't go outside, they'd get you with drones. if you went outside to throw out trash, there would always be someone killed and injured. if you tried to get to the bodies, they'd shoot you right. there was

a father and son were walking down our street and the father was killed. they then hit his body several more times. they wouldn't let anyone get close. they didn't care if it was an old woman, old man, a woman or someone disabled. they shot us off like hairs. good. that's really, really good sizes for what their store for. what? because we are traders because we were waiting for russia, but they wouldn't even give us aid. some volunteers wanted to bring us food, but our may or told them that we're traitors, that we shouldn't be fed. not system with their with nazis. they were obvious nazis . how could you tell one of its obvious, they'd be tattooed up the neck to this? they'd have the crosses and chevrons, they sold them openly at the market. aside from the swastikas, they also had feagles, but with the ukrainian trident in the middle of the source. was that normal? how could it be normal? normal, how they told them openly at the market, there will be new mod,

swastikas. nazi symbols sold in put rock of its future has changed. and then the coming months, many more ukrainian towns and cities will be the knots of fide and cleared up. zelinski is troops, a regime, the tables soon, many of the 2 people, what you could hold the ford for city of cut off come up, fell in badly a month. the city was completely unprepared for defense. and the fight that you create and pulled up was nothing close to what we have put up before more i'd gas v of oxy from good rock of any of the people's republic of the situation on the ground. a new crane has been acknowledged by yet another trump team official, the designated us national security advisor has urged him to forget about beating

moscow on the battlefield. well, that's as michael waltz announced, an upcoming phone call, followed by a face to face meeting between donald trump and vladimir putting. and everybody knows that this has to end somehow diplomatically. i just don't think it's realistic to say we're going to expel every russian from every entry of ukrainian soil even cried me a president, trump has a knowledge that reality. and i think it's been a huge step forward that the entire world is acknowledging that reality. interesting enough, he's also now dismissed. this idea that the whole conflict could be result within 24 hours. that was something we heard at from pre election, stating, oh, for an over my quotes and others now saying look, that's not going to happen. this could be something that's a bit more protract if not, and that's because they need to get the 2 sides together. however, he admitted it not in speech, but for the very 1st time, zalinski is now pretty much backed into a corner. and as a result of that,

because time is running out on the battlefield, few quite old of those losses that we've seen over the last few months at that. so lensky is now ready to work to find a solution at the same time. we also know that the trump administration coming in and most go on talking about potential tool, cuz that's possibly a telephone call as we heard that it could be a meeting face to face. and interestingly enough, we know that mike waltz has previously talked about, the pressure being put on both sides. so on the one side, they st. you quite yet. you need to sort out what's going on, need to come to a compromise, a window open to support you. on the other hand, they've also suggested to most go for the last most go turns up with indigo facing hazelynn is also willing to find some sort of compromise that the americans and the don't from would continued on the clean up on them to the hills. but the big issue here, and this is something that will lead you to in, not in to be that you've just given, is my power,

the mountain power issue. a new queen is one that we've heard over. no, but as being proper plastic volts admitted that without having the soldiers the, the boots on the climbed doesn't matter how many weapons, how much need to send to you? quaint, it's simply called when i will say the other thing that we're going to need to see is really stabilizing things on the battlefield. and one of the things that will be asking the ukrainians is they have real manpower issues in their draft. age right now is 26 years old, not 18. i don't think a lot of people realize that they can generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers. so when we hear about morale problems, when we hear about issues on the front line, look, if the brain is about the entire world to be all in for democracy, we need them to be all in for democracy. now. so the 1st time we've had calls from washington is the key of to lower the mobilization age,

but that was on the side and now we're hearing the same from the trump team. so what does those spells the situation? well, i think it's quite clear. i mean, the usa, regardless of who is in control, knows that the big issue ukraine has, is this manpower she and it's what we've discussed so many times because, you know, we have had reports that, that have been something like 100000 you point in. so just deserted that post. we keep hearing these stories just in the last week. i think we heard about us. so just of ukraine who training in paris and may when a will make coffee fund. this is becomes such a problem. we know that guns are having to got in the streets now to try and catch the men who are not wanting to be mobilized those within the current mobilization age. and they sustain a massive ation ukraine. so much so that last week from the great to this, so cool a little and based basically allow sold us to discuss once. and then if they say, oh, sorry,

we'll come back. they will be prosecuted on some upset that even gave so just comp, phone to desert 1st time month anyway. so yes, huge issues, manpower, and it's clear regardless who is going to be in the white house. you quite was to address that and get the line from k f as being that's not the way as a lensky is personally against lowering the mobilization age any further. so what kind of reactions you get, we might expect to these latest messages from washington without swipe. so when we heard back and you tell them that washington wanted ukraine to lower the mobilization age, as you said, that's a lot to me. so that's good enough for success. no, no, on the natalie, we're not doing this. we now haven't missed again from the meetings that come between stations, just come in and i think we're going to see some resistance to that as well. now we have had the former ukrainian for administer talking about that reduction in age, and he has to make sure that it is likely to happen, but not all the way down to 18. he said that that would just be too much for many ukrainians to, to suffer, and that they would be

a huge outcry in the country if it was low, it straight away down to 18. however, you did say that the person who knew who's been particularly happy if that was the case and that says 18 year old son who is jumping up a bit to foster parent. and i think the only the only person who wouldn't be happy was going down to 18 with my son who's, who's 18 years old. and he wants to, if he wants to fight, does he is. yeah, he's digging me with the classes. and so i, i barely convinced him to continue with his studies at the university at this point . so collab of the saying, but he was the one that's trying to keep his son from fighting. very interesting when you've got games going around. he lives of literally kids, nothing mental, the streets and the queen saying it's desperate. and so just we've got a form of for administer to sit down any way to move last year, if to himself is not fighting for ukraine and is trying to prevent his own son from

doing exactly the same. very, very strange. especially considering that it was to level who has previously stated that they have for ukraine. and we think prepared to be fighting on the front lines with shuffles that they couldn't get weapons from the west. and hey, we see that she's still know thing. now let me see if she's still not on the front line. i'm not is actually drawing some criticism. he in russia collab a who wants permits to fight with crunch and shovels overcame his desire to go to the trenches and left to the us. and he barely talked to son who wanted to find out of it and sent him to study in london instead. and now speaking from the us, he says, ukrainians have to be mobilized from the age of 18. that's what the currents ukrainian elite is all about. they want their country and their people to pay for their wellbeing, but they want to leave very differently themselves. when they might be wondering what he is doing, he has just been appointed as an associate professor at science ponied invest the empire state to had that's the spring to teach clauses. so it looks like the man

who wouldn't say that for you came in would be prepared to fight for his country. is a man who certainly is perhaps a group of senior lawmakers from slovakia. as in moscow for several days of crucial tox. they're pushing for a deal to restart russian gas exports to the country after cab stopped all trends that through ukraine, but some western states are not happy about the prospect says are to contribute original. marsden explains as soon as i came, delegation arrived in moscow over the weekend to talk about the obvious question of how or if they can keep getting cheap for us and gas. now that ukraine is turned off, the tap on the pipeline that runs across the country and into europe. vayas will back you and getting to moscow apparently wasn't even straight forward. one of the delegation she's dyslexia and by speaker andre demco says that poland wouldn't let this fellow e u. countries delegation fly over its territory. because while the was just one

big kindergarten class in poland is apparently the self appointed hall monitor. so this will vacuum plane had to had west on that ariel scenic tour of germany and the czech republic all the way around hole in just to then go north and then east to russia, a real dream for frequent flyer point collectors. anyway, the group of lawmakers is now in town to meet with russian parliamentary representatives, ministers, and also gas prom. clearly hoping that there's a solution here somewhere because the e u seems to have totally lost control of it. spoiled, foster child ukraine, the european commission asked to participate in a working group with slovak, here to find the solution. and it said, no, we're good. seems like a solution actually would have been to just not back key of in shutting off the gas

top in the 1st place and the you do the exact opposite of that. cheering it on the especially since it was, it's really a good thing for you. frame either, i mean it was really the only pain job that zalinski had and he didn't even have to get out of his job is to do it as we've seen it every single day for the past few years. now, you frame is now losing 800000000 euros in transit fees that the west will now have to make, of course, because soleski just couldn't sit there and watch gas transit and collect money from russia. but no problem says money goes on trees, right? or rather, on the cash interest of western health, russian assets that can just be stolen as shining moment for market capitalism there. so that came president peter pelligrini says that because kia can't be bothered to show up at the you to work all of the so then he can't be bothered

going to ukraine for a plan trip either because people out see it in a situation where the ukranian government and the ukranian president decided to cut off our gas supply and refuses to transit it to slovakia. that's fundamentally threatening really the energy security of slovakia. and in a situation where the ukrainian parliament passes a law that is supposed to prohibit the transport of oil as well to slovakia, let's say we have a valid contract. so under such circumstances, my trip to you frayne is out of the question at the moment. if i have to go there just to take a picture and they tell me that not a drop of oil or a cubic meter of gas is going to go to slovakia. i really don't need to go there and foot. cool. so the foster kid just does whatever he wants, and some of the other kids and the big dysfunctional you, family seem pretty fed up with it. this lucky and prime minister robert feet. so sounds like he's tired of keeping up appearances and watch queen ursula and the you do you start kennedy notes. spicy high fives, t zalinski little backside can. yes,

i'm not sure. but i'm not here to hold has was present, savanski indulge meets. i'm sick of him. sometimes he's going around to europe just begging and like met, and all the people asking for money. this has got to stop almost a squatter. single also said that the doesn't seem to grasp the quote for portion of slovaks to this. since we're beginning to have a negative attitude towards the you. so what he's saying there is that the lack of energy and the rising price from this tap shut off will least will that he is icy cold. all in more ways than once. and the hungry has also raised the issue of the use insistence on digging holes for itself to then just fall into the medically on the bottle stuff. outgoing presidential administration, which suffered a heavy defeat in the us presidential election, has recently implemented a new package of sanctions on the energy sector. this package of sanctions has once again been imposed on central europe. here in central europe. we face the challenge . it is that the amount of crude oil coming into the region will decrease. so the

fuel market is facing challenges. this means that less oil can be processed in the region. so there will be a much greater demand for finished refined fuel in the region, petrol and diesel. so the sanctions now being imposed on the energy sector by the outgoing us administration could lead to a serious fuel price increase in central europe. meanwhile, abiding administration on its way out. the door has just sanction serbia's only oil refinery, which just happens to be russian gas problem controlled. sounds like they just might need more pricey shipped american alan gee, now like the rest of europe. it's like when someone's tires get slashed and sons, she do just happens to be there to sell you some new ones. or when germany's nord stream pipeline gets mysteriously bombed after by the news is about it aloud, right beside german jazz. are all i've schultz at the white house and all luck, american elegy is just all ready to ship to europe. germany's right wing a f d party leader. so she wants to reverse course on that one. in the event of

a february parliamentary election when van we will put nord stream back into operation. and you can count on that. we have already drafted many of the necessary laws and introduce them in parliament. all other factions have rejected them. i can tell you that when we are at the home, we will tear down all those wind turbines. those windmills have changed on the and the populace left in germany also is seeing a very similar to what and so my guns, sorry to put it very clearly once again. so the sanctions have nothing to do with morality. they have nothing to do with human rights. they have nothing to do with love of needs. they are simply an economic stimulus program for the us economy and the killer program for german and european company and quite simply a killer program for our company. that has to be said clearly, and they also have a very clear purpose. the purpose is to increase the united states share of global

value creation again at the expense of germany and at the expense of your on via truck. that's what it's all about. so if the americans sell us gas at competitive prices or yes, please want. then i think we should also by our gas from the americans, but not at 3 times the price of what american companies pay in the usa. and please, also not at 3 times the price of what we would get delivered here in europe from russia. so while the e u is trying to publicly put on a sho in support of ukraine, in reality, it's important. russian gas or heating record highs. that gas has just be laundered through intermediary countries with europeans paying for the markup. a virtue signaling tax, if you will, the average european is funding this whole charade. so the, you can keep drooling over zalinski wells and keeps bagging them for more caching goods. like he's the contestant on a rig game show where every single answer is yes. as

wild fires ravaged southern california, the does towards risen to $24.00 with thousands more reported. missing. gusty winds are making it hard for us emergency forces to contain the mass of laser. so the 3rd is to say 16 people died in the 8 and the area of los angeles with another, a $600.00 confirmed engine policy. today, those are fires, have destroyed more than $12000.00 structures, including many homes owned by how they would stars. the unprecedented disaster has reported they inflict more than $150000000000.00 worth of damage. the critics are demanding accountability was some urging california, as governor gavin newsome to resign for clients and for the serious new rulers, had been quick to renounce their terrorist past. and western officials are now lining up to meet them. many refugees are returning to the country in the wake of last month's h t. s power grab, but some have been forced to sleep. we spoke exclusively with the syrian youth

activist who sought refuge in russia after receiving death threats him on nebraska lee was targeted for her as efforts to forage humanitarian ties with moscow. and don bass level i showed i k. and how did you feel after the warrant, serious started again? i am officially and so this will be that i was very satisfied. i remember the beginning of the war when we had the sounds of gunshots in the street explosions and schools being blown up. a man members and us, and i left him on. you started corresponding with president vladimir putin 3 years ago, as well as with the children of don bass and began collecting humanitarian aid for syrian refugees. and residents have done best with the how did you come up with the idea to help those in need to get all my idea came from the feeling is have any child, especially considering that terrorism is now present in don't baffle it has. it is

the same terrorism that was in syria and killed syrian children. now, this terrorism is killing the children of dumbasses and that i collected my close personal savings and toys and sent them to the children of don't boss and drew pictures for them. i wrote matches to the soldiers and don't bass, who are fighting terrorism. so what does the children have dumbass swamped? they just want to return to the homeland and feel the sort of peace showing the neighbor that had in on that. and how did, how did the mon, during this war, you had russian flags and you burned letters already sent to the children of don bass and to president putin because you received the threatening letters to you and your family. do you feel safe today when think the business that i was really hiding? the latches and the flags. i was very sad. it was like i was hiding a piece of my heart. i'm finding them. it's very sad because it's a part of my memory. a part of my childhood that i love these lines to pick them eyes the not between me and the children of russia and don't boss. because those who loves peaceful, never fail. we children are a bridge of peace, love,

and culture for the whole world. and i see that the other side might not understand that these lines symbolize a me friendship and love not keeping the image of the man. what do you think of the new government in syria was just, it is very sad to realize that terrorism, which some time ago, took the lives of children and destroyed high as this has now come to power. i have the military to change and become examples of i'm for future generations in syria and example of love, ambition, justice, culture and peace. the hands of the day you called yourself in and passenger for the children of syria and visited moscow with a group of syrian children. and how did you spend your time in moscow with the children? i really enjoyed who parts of the russian capital, especially as far as children services, a consent children, all the 9th of our route. and i genuinely fell in love with the children of last year. we had a mutual sympathy and shed culture and understanding with each other. i felt i was

the most good kid and them syrians and about i heard that some russian officers in charge of reconciliation and syria visited you. what did they seem like to you? when i looked at the offices, i got the feeling that they are really a symbol of culture peace and they came to syria to help the country defeat terrorism and protect minorities. all right, well do you stay with us here on our to international? i'll be back with much more in about half an hour in the meantime. be sure to visit our website or to com for the very latest breaking news and updates by the .