Catch our Fault Lines show, where we provide updates and analysis on all the most vital stories! Here's our line-up for Tuesday:

🔺 To kick things off, we’ll be previewing Biden’s State of the Union Address
🔺 Next, we’ll talk about the aftermath of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, as well as a huge train fire in Ohio that prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents
🔺 And finally, we’ll discuss some highlights of Matt Taibbi’s interview with our colleagues from Political Misfits

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Sputnik footage from Diyarbakir, Turkey, where residents had to spend the night on the streets after devastating earthquakes

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⚡️Earthquakes in Turkey affected provinces with total population of about 13mln people, Erdogan says

‼️ Erdogan declares state of emergency for 3 months in 10 provinces affected by earthquake

📹 Russian 2S9 Nona self-propelled and air-droppable mortar in action during special military op in Ukraine (Russian MoD video)

The artillery crews neutralize the enemy's strongpoints, manpower and foreign-made hardware. Target reconnaissance, fire adjustment and damage control are being carried out by UAVs.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️Russian troops eliminated more than 100 Ukrainian servicemen in the Krasny Liman direction;

▪️Russian forces eliminated up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen and destroyed a self-propelled howitzer Akatsiya in the Kherson direction;

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 90 Ukrainian servicemen in the Donetsk direction;

▪️Ukrainian forces lost more than 80 soldiers, two D-20 howitzers, two D-30 howitzers, and a Gvozdika howitzer in the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions.

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Sputnik spoke to Matt Taibbi, a journalist and “Twitter Files” co-author, about Twitter’s collaboration with the FBI, DHS, White House, and CIA prior to Elon Musk's purchase of the platform.

💬 “In the case of Jim Baker, who is the former general counsel of the FBI, he figures in the story in a number of places. He popped up in the first Twitter files in the furor over the Hunter Biden stories. We found emails back and forth on that first day when they blocked that New York Post exposé. And some of the people in the company were saying, “Can we do this? Like, why are we banning this?” And the excuse was "hacked materials". They knew right away that these materials were not hacked.”

🎧 Listen to more of Taibbi’s analysis in our podcast Political Misfits: Turkish Earthquake, Sports Betting Addiction, Taibbi on Twitter Files

⚡️Note handed over to US embassy on Tuesday demanding to stop interfering in Russia's affairs, a source told Sputnik.

According to the source, US embassy makes inappropriate statements about Russian leadership and spreads fake news about Russian armed forces.

🇷🇺🇲🇱 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has become Commander of the National Order of Mali, the highest of the country's honorific orders. Abdoulaye Diop, the head of Malian diplomacy presented his Russian counterpart with this distinction

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Matt Taibbi calls the censorship of the Hunter Biden story “a landmark moment in the history of digital censorship”:

💬 “It's not a legitimate reason to censor a news story, even if the source is dubious, it's legal to publish stolen material in America. A lot of very valuable journalism has come out that way. And they didn't have a good reason to do this. And they probably on some level knew it. But they had been prepared for this moment by all those meetings that you talk about.”

🎧 Listen to more of Taibbi’s analysis in our podcast Political Misfits: Turkish Earthquake, Sports Betting Addiction, Taibbi on Twitter Files

Taibbi speaks about the relationship between the FBI and Twitter executives:

💬 “We know from Michael Shellenberger that the FBI in one of these years paid Twitter $3.4 million for a "processing request". There was an understanding that they were essentially acting as a subcontractor of the FBI. We have these remarkable exchanges where one day they get a pile of requests and there's a slack chat between the Twitter employees. When they finally get done clearing them, they're sort of high fiving each other and saying, congratulations on finishing that monumental undertaking.”

🎧 Listen to more of Taibbi’s analysis in our podcast Political Misfits: Turkish Earthquake, Sports Betting Addiction, Taibbi on Twitter Files

Taibbi details how requests from government agencies were processed:

💬 "There was a moment in time just before the election in 2020 when all of the companies came together and they essentially settled on a new system where the FBI would act as a waystation for all the other outlets. Now, this resulted in a compromise on both sides. "

🎧 Listen to more of Taibbi’s analysis in our podcast Political Misfits: Turkish Earthquake, Sports Betting Addiction, Taibbi on Twitter Files

‘North Korea-linked’ Hackers Made Off With at Least $630 Million in Crypto, Report Claims

The report, to be made public either later this month or sometime in March, said that the $630 million figure was based on South Korean estimates. However, a cybersecurity firm cited by the monitors estimated that North Korean actors may actually have made off with over $1 billion in crypto. “The techniques used by cyber threat actors have become more sophisticated, thus making tracking stolen funds more difficult,” the report indicated.

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Dozens of Lawsuits Over L'Oreal's Hair Relaxers Filed in US Federal Court

According to court records, the lawsuits claim that the products made by the companies to straighten textured hair contain dangerous chemicals and that the manufacturers were aware that those chemical were unsafe, but marketed and sold their products nevertheless.

Last year, a US National Institutes of Health study claimed that women who regularly used hair relaxer products were at higher risk of uterine cancer.

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Toppling Dollar Hegemony? India May Lead by Example in Global South

🇮🇳💰 India’s decision to be paid in national currencies came amid geopolitical and economic tension, as the US restricted trade with Russia and Iran in the dollar. The move was also made with the hope that it would promote the growth of global trade with an emphasis on Indian exports and increase the interest of other countries in the rupee.

Experts weigh in on the topic

❗️UN experts found no evidence to corroborate the US' allegations North Korea supplied weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine, a diplomatic source familiar with the report submitted to the UN Security Council committee told Sputnik.

The experts submitted their confidential report to the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea, according to the source.

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Treaty of Shimoda: Not Cause for Protests, but Proof of Russia-Japan Permanent Peace & Friendship

On February 7, 1855, the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan signed the Japanese-Russian Friendship Treaty in the city of Shimoda, Article II of which demarcated the border between the two countries for the first time.

However, behind the subtleties of demarcation that Japanese nationalists are eager to escalate today, the main point of the treaty remains unnoticed. The key statement is contained in Article I of the treaty, which reads: "Henceforth there shall be permanent peace between the Empire of Russia and the Empire of Japan, including the security of persons and property of both nations."

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