RT News - January 9th 2023 Late

RT News - January 9th 2023

Intense fighting continued near the front-line city of Artyomovsk, Donbass, as Russian troops ramp up the offensive. Local officials say Ukraine has shelled civilian-only areas in Donetsk more than 100 times. Ukraine also shelled two thermal power plants and tried with another which was stopped by Russian air defences. Two people have been killed and two wounded - on the ground report from Roman Kosarev. RT views the aftermath of Ukrainian shelling in Donbass over the past 24 hours, as two civilians are reported killed in those attacks.
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A flight from Moscow to Goa (India) has had to make an emergency landing.
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President Erdogan (Türkiye) is determined that the grain shipments destined for Africa and the world's poorest countries will reach their proper destinations. President Putin said the west and Ukraine have deliberately cheated the poor nations desperately in need of grain and other dry goods for their citizens very existence. Less than 6% of the goods supposedly destined for the poorest, neediest countries have ended up there with the other 94% going to EU and Britain who have renamed the shipments "solidarity shipments" RT talks to Wilcar Dias in Mozambique
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Israel/Palestine : Security minister Itamar Ben-Givr has ordered the removal of Palestinian flags, claiming they are symbols or terrorism. The Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich is to withdraw $40 million in "tax revenue" from Palestine. He commented that he had no interest in the continuance of the Palestine authority to exist. Israeli police broke up a parents meeting with some violence. Israel's new national security minister cracks down on Palestinians hanging national flags in public, claiming they're a symbol of terrorism.
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Amid ongoing riots and rallies in Brazil, Facebook's parent company Meta censors all posts with an anti-Lula slant. RT takes a deeper look at why the West fully backs some protests but not others.
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Tehran slams France for double standards and hypocrisy, after the latest Charlie Hebdo cover depicts Iran's Supreme Leader, sparking angry protests. Paris justifies the publication citing freedom of speech.
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