and colleagues who not only are present in a minute those negotiations, but effectively you literally gave, keeps carte blanche to carry out any actions or status that would be unthinkable to refer, dangling, removed, civilized, the worst. you move to a minute. does anyone with crew tales being school bon about the crime for democracy and ukraine? them? i don't know, nora. he's in national. i am engaged in deborah with impunity murdering political opponents, persecuting opposition, shuddering opposition. television outlets. elsewhere. there should be a relatively objective information. relied 6 of those television channels were shuttered, 100 millions came alone. and how could we failed to mention the fact that the country with flooded with weapons which were then turned on with glue peaceful civilians in dunbar? the responsibility for was taking place right now lies at the theme of the current ukrainian leadership as well as our western colleagues was viewed today. it today

we wish to emphasize that this is manipulated by the live, the seed miss information from the ukranian armed forces and the nationalist western media outlets. increasingly shamelessly are portrayed in our military operation as a result of negative consequences. we constantly here lies fakes about in a good shelling of ukrainian cities, hospitals, schools, kindergarten, with the russian army does not post director listed billions of ukraine, which is not yelling civilian areas in areas and cities where a russian armed forces have taken control. and these areas are being buses in a living, their lives normally. basic infrastructure transportation, local infrastructure, and lauren order's being held. venice includes the pathological station, the power plant, which is georgia care patrol. my russian representatives in the special ukrainian police who are present in the area chernobyl plant is also oper is normally

a threat to the residence of ukraine presently is post by the ukranian. nationalists was effectively taken hostage the residents of the crane and they're using them, their hiding cells behind them using them as human shields. there's a abundant evidence from ordinary ukrainian nationalists despite their approach as to who have been deploying heavy equipment and multiple rocket launchers, new residential areas. this is an egregious violation of international humanitarian law which needs to be duly condemned effectively. this is the same tactic that is being used by iso terrorist, all of the responsibility for the possible recovery cautions for the lives and the the my laundry and the residence of ukraine are also threatened by unfettered uncontrolled, a radical elements giving to all of those who wish including criminals, what specifically been released from prison. they are now receiving weapons and the looters and mara, doors, and criminals and are using them to target civilians are a sufficient and abundant evidence for of them from residents of ki,

of in other cities. this demonstrates the recklessness of ukraine authority to be there, women. just now we received a letter from the ukrainian, a human rights organizations with social policy and social protection. and the name of being in a bit of noise is not for 8 years. a body has been informing international instructions about how and then new not system was born and proliferated in ukraine and how it has been and continues to we have held at the state level. i briefly quote, today he'd be speaking with lpg of the recklessness and ukraine. was that condemned criminals have been released from prison. they have carried out a grave crime, murders, et cetera. only of those who are willing to receive 25000 machine guns without any documentation, but rulings looting crime is ongoing. those schedules so territorial defenders of

the brain, a shot at a car, killing it, killing parents and a girl. a young girl, 2 children are in hospital, critically, a former, acting up president following the unconstitutional cool. in february 20 1414. of course, on all the years, we say that it's, we're not indifferent to law, deter russians throughout the territory of the country and list them just by the fact that the most recent course bus at document free credit 2019. that's out that 16 from almost 17 percent and actually far more people are russian. won't you there? now, against the russian federation in social networks, information war has been on least in so far as evidence of destruction of civilian infrastructure. a russian military does not exist. ukrainian attack and book and accidental

a board mayor on the fact that ukrainian nationalists are carrying out violence. social networks have been training manuals about how to create fakes to pain tower military operations throughout ukrainian social networks. is there 1200000 such pieces of fake news news? and the correspondence that was read out by the ukranian a bachelor. so that, that, that, that, that part, that conversation that was run out is also part of these macro. this is these things as well. and then we also did not support the draft resolution for this issue to move from the security council and debbie address you i the general assembly special session today. we were guided by the fact that this measure proposed that we register and then the security council failed to comply, to uphold its main responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. and that the same time, there was not even a human hand at attempt to find

a council attempt to circumvent the position of the russian federation to disregard . one decision of the russian federation runs counter to the very bad rock of the united nations. there is a need to find common ground regardless of our western partners, attempted to avoid this alluding when they disregarded our legitimate concerns in connection with nato policy and western countries. breach of the core principles of the o. s. c. e. on in the visibility of security to conclude mister president, i wish to state that the russian federation did not begin the hostility of the hostility. oh, were unleashed by ukraine against its own residence to residence of dunbar. and all of those who are dissenters and russia is seeking to end this war. thank you. i think a, me un ambassador for russia. richard,

let's contextualize this a bit because he has been very much just echoing the kremlin rhetoric and propaganda throughout his entire speech. yeah, i mean, i mean that's to be expected of course, but the russians to now face the prospect of international isolation on because of the invasion that they've, they've just mounted the war that they are fighting. and this is to be expected. they are using this occasion to maximum effect is to try to get as much of their spin of what is happening across to the world. and it was a kind of wall of the talking points that we've heard also from vladimir putin in the speech is the extraordinary speeches that he made last week in providing his justification for what is happening here. placing the blame on the government in ukraine,

describing them as nationalists and nazis. so essentially de legitimizing that a democratically elected government. blaming them for the long running war in east and ukraine of war. which is supported by the russians themselves, where they support a separatist in the east of the country where they are effectively parties to that war and blaming the west for what they described as inciting and pouring weapons into ukraine. and ultimately, i think one of the key for statements which he made was all of the responsibility for what happens lies at the feet of the my don regime. and by right, my don regime, he means ukrainian, which russia ceases having come in illegitimately after the protest in the revolution, the 2 plays in 20132014. now of course you have to sort of step back

a little bit in thing. all right, what are we hearing here? and you have to be struck by the by the sort of brass neck here of standing here, 5 days after russia invaded ukraine and say that everything that happens in ukraine and any of the damage and destruction that is really is reach that it's not our fault it's the responsibility they never want. right. that's what yeah. so, so yeah, it will be interesting to see how this goes down among all of the other delegates with $193.00 countries in the un general assembly. we're expecting to hear a lot of statements from a lot of different countries. this is the 1st chance really for the whole world to get to say on what is happening. we were just talking before about the un security council was the sort of 1st round on this international level, just 15 members there. i think perhaps the most powerful statement in that it was some few as may have seen. this was from the ambassador from kenya who

made a really extraordinary statement to the un security council. drawing on the lessons of, of kenya and many other african countries experienced with colonialism. and they became a nation states with boundaries and borders that had been drawn by other powers. but in the post colonial era, they realize that we just have to accept these, even though we may have brothers on another side of the border. and we may have relations and people who are from the same peoples, but we have to accept these borders because if we don't, then the african continent will slip into chaos. and, and re essentially, so throwing the ball to the rush, think that's what they're doing. they don't accepting a border that they simply don't like they're not accepting a democratically elected government that they don't like. so i think we'll be

watching it. of course, we carry those speeches from good, cherish and from the ukrainian or russian ambassadors, life. people who want to follow this whole un general assembly debate can watch it on, on youtube channel, look up d w. news on youtube because we're going to be carrying that in full. of course, we've got a lot of other things to cover here. so we're not going to be covering it, but i will be watching out for statements from countries that may seem far away from this conflict, but have their own lessons in their own national stories that are pertinent to what's happening here. and just to see whether any of this kind of wall of spin coming from from the russians, they're really rubs off whether it's more the message from the pregnant baset of beforehand that has more of an impact. i think the canyon ambassador said when elephant fights a fight, it's the grass that suffers. right. thank you so much. that was our chief international editor, richard barker. and steven beardley from dw

business is here now with the latest business news related to the war. any crane for the newly announced western sanctions against russia are already taken at all on the economy there. the rural, plunging to a record low on monday, dropping by a 3rd against the us dollar. russians are scrambling to withdraw money from banks with long queues forming a cash machines. in the attempt to prop up the currency, the central bank has doubled its key interest rate to an unprecedented 20 percent. export companies, meanwhile, are being, are being told to sell their foreign reserves. those mergers driven by an unprecedented raft of sanctions announced by the us in europe, the intern, nothing less than the cut russia off from the global financial system. european stock market fell steeply as the financial sector reacted to the lead to sanctions . among those major russian banks would be kicked out of the global financial

transaction network swift at a cost not only to russia, but also to its trading partners. over the weekend, german chancellor will have shots made it clear that things could get even worse. bungie on finished for let's not kid ourselves is putin will not change his course overnight. but very soon, the russian leadership will feel the high price. it is paying your worship already in the last week, the russian stock market sank by more than 30 percent. that shows our sanctions are working and we reserve the right to impose further sanctions on the was on thornburg. so far, sanctions against russia include the exclusion from swift, making it impossible for sanctioned russian banks to pay for and receive goods from abroad. there are also restrictions on major banks with immediate consequences. the europeans subsidiary of russia state on spare bank is facing bankruptcy. last week's initial sanctions also included asset freezes and travel bands for

individuals. as well as the blocking of rushes access to semiconductors, computers and other high tech products. experts consider the sanctions against russia harsh and expect them to possibly cripple the russian economy for years to come. or if you don't businesses, clifford could and joins me here in studio for more on this dramatic day for the markets. clifford, by every measure, the rouble falling dramatically. what does this mean for normal russians as well as the russian government? would imagine if you're a russian saver and you wake up this morning and the value of your savings is down 33 percent. basically it's, it's our 3rd much is that it's a very dramatic, very disastrous day in many ways. and it's going to push inflation. probably higher price is higher because russia relies on imports for a lot of goods, as well as exporting energy and, and other products. but imports are big factor, so it's going to lose a lot of going to the low price rises there. and just generally it said we seem to run on banks. people are trying to buy dollars. there's no dollars available at are

trying to get cash. i'd say a hoard cash and it's causing chaos by the looks of these rafter sanctions that we're seeing and they've, they've, they've come one after the other from announcements to actual implementations. it depends on what they are, some of them against entities, some of them against people. i want to talk about that just a moment. but 1st we've just learned that switzerland, in the last hour to that they've actually agreed to these u. s. and you sanctions, is this symbolic? is this important? how should we look at this? well, i think 1st of all, don't expect it. i don't think people were people were it was likely unexpected, given us has this neutrality and i and also a lot of, i think about one percent of foreign direct investment in switzerland comes from russia. officially, the question is always because of switzerland's tough secrecy, long banking secrecy laws, you know, how much is there through shell companies, through holdings, through the family of ali, galks, or whatever. so maybe if someone is not named in the sanctions or an entity isn't name to the sanctions, you still might not be able to get to them or to say, yeah,

exactly. i think that, i mean, there were 5 oligarchs close were close to 2 were named today in this raft of measures on the really are aiming to, to, to present, you know, that they are trying to implement real sanctions. but we have to wait and see how the, how effective those are. but it's, it clearly did what's really seeing is this sort of from a mental building with sanctions. i think that's really kind of remarkable. let me just see how dramatic and how quick this sort of united front that the west is showing is in terms of sanctions is really fascinating. and so much of the focus in recent days has been on the swift messaging system critical for international financial transactions. and yet, i want to talk about one of the other ones that is getting more and more attention . and that is the right for nations to essentially block russians from liquidating their foreign reserves. how significant is this decision? both the u. s. and the e one board for this, that's right, the u. s. came on board today matching very much what the, what the europeans did in the, in the past couple days. a lot was made in the run up to this invasion of how the

war chest of $640000000.00 that russia has about 40 percent of its, of its reserves are held overseas. it's going to be very difficult to actually asset the asset, access these. and it's got a big this. it's also just turning your how do you get access to dollars when you can't use your central bank and it's going to be very, very difficult. i think for russia to, to deal with a situation or a clipper phone and he doesn't business. thank you very much. we go over to barcelona now. it's normally one of the biggest events of the year for technology fans, the mobile world congress starting today in spain. of to $60000.00 trade visitors are expected at the world's largest mobile communications, trade fair. but as with other events, has been overshadowed by what's going on in ukraine. and the massive economic sanctions on russia include something not seen in decades. a ban on technology

transfers. i tech companies at the fair are discussing what that could mean for them and to discuss that with us is our own chelsea, delaney in barcelona. chelsea. good to see you. to what extent are the events and ukraine really overshadowing? what's happening right now in barcelona? well, of course, this is on everybody's mind are now and, and we've heard from the organizer of this event, she has the made that they really condemn on russia's actions. here. they said that in comparison, this trade fair is really immaterial. but at the end of the day, this is one of the most important events for the global technology industry. i'm actually the biggest gathering of government ministers outside of the you. and so there are a lot of them here today, and they're striking deals. they're finding new supplier, so all of that is going on. none the less than a lot of people here say that, you know, the past 2 years, they haven't really had a full event because of the pandemic. now they're back together and there

definitely is. there is a lot of excitement among companies among, among all of those here at the that they are able to once again meet in person and strike these deals. chelsea, this talk of as export controls. what does it mean for this in the industry, which are so contingent upon supply chains that stretch across the world? here, there's going to be a lot of different ways in which i'm the sanctions on russia. the war between the ukraine and russia impact the technology industry. first and foremost, you have russia likely going to be cut off from most to western technology crucially, semiconductors, that's basically going to freeze their technology at today's levels. they won't be able to update things like military equipment and even consumer technologies could be hit. at the same time, russia is a major supplier of some key materials for making semiconductors and other technology. they actually account for about 40 to 50 percent of these crucial

materials are palladium and also neon. those you can't make semiconductors without that. so analysts say that it may be in 6 months, 3 months that we could actually start to see this making the supply chain issues, even worse that have been heading the technology industry for about a year. now, the other big question is what the, what the fundamental changes was can bring to the technology industry. so western tech companies are under a lot of pressure to choose aside. there. there are under a lot of pressure to acknowledge the fact that their technology is being used as a weapon here. so companies like you to google a facebook, twitter there. their platforms are being used for propaganda for censorship. so those companies are having to take a stand and, and a lot of analysts say this is, this could really be a landmark moment for high tech where they have to acknowledge that they do play a role and geopolitical events and the outcome of that can be really a splintering, a, fracturing of the internet. some people are calling it, you know, the splinter, not where technology is no longer something, you know,

that really is connecting the world. but we see more and more different national technology in it, and mobile platforms around the world. chelsea delaney, of the mobile world congress in barcelona. thank you very much. as we spoke about earlier, thanks from the swift global payment system or the move is widely regarded as one of the toughest measures to put pressure on the russian economy. here's why. what is swift? the acronym stands for society for world wide into bank financial telecommunication, a global network found to process international financial transactions. it's been around since 1973. 190 countries used the standardized system as well as banks and commodities and securities traders. last year, some 42000000 transactions were handled best swift every day. each swift member is

identified by its bank identifier, code or big. the big ensures that money transfers are paid into the correct account . a big is familiar to any one with a bank card. it allows bank a in germany to carry out transactions with money. shares of precious metals with bank b in the u. s. ever big court is blocked, the member is shut out of swift. barring rushes, access to the swift network would sever the country completely from the international monetary flow. rushes companies would no longer be able to pay for or receive foreign goods. russia's trade where the rest of the world would be suspended, but it means the trade in urgently needed goods from russia would also be interrupted . the result rising energy prices worldwide, and russia is not only a major exporter of oil and gas, but of iron and steel, to still being shut out of swift would harm russia most of all in the catalog of

sanctions. it's the instrument that cuts the deepest nicole foolish welcome. 1 to our rolling coverage of the war in ukraine here on d. w. news, a reminder of our main news today. ukraine and russia have begun their 1st talk since russia launched its invasion. ukraine is demanding a cease fire. and the withdrawal of all russian troops from its territory. negotiations are underway in bella bruce, close to the ukrainian border. ukraine has sent its defense and deputy foreign ministers. russia's former culture minister is leading its delegation, raising questions about how seriously moscow is taking the process. and other developments, the united nations secretary general antonia good terrorist has worn humanity, is facing a moment of truth. opening an emergency session of the un general assembly in new york, he said core values of dignity, equality and justice were in the crosshairs. and in ukraine rocket strikes have

killed dozens in the 2nd biggest city har keith hundreds more, were wounded. a warning, some of our viewers may find the following images distressing it looks, looks like we don't have server port that i just promised you. but i have something better here, right, and the though is emily, sherwin she used to be one of our correspondents in moscow until the russian government withdrew her journalistic accreditation. but all the better for us now, because we have you here in the studio to talk about all of this. there is of course, a lot of suspicious going into these talks that are happening today in bella. bruce, what do you expect? we can see as an outcome, if there might even be any or getting initial media reports that those talks may have finished and that the 2 delegations are going back to their capital, their respective capitals before another round of talk. so it doesn't seem to be

that there's any immediate result that we'll have to wait and see. and again, that's just media reports at the moment we had going into these talks on the one hand, the ukranian government saying that they're demanding a ceasefire. and that they're demanding the retreat of all russian forces from ukrainian territory, including from the crimean peninsula, which russia annexed from ukraine, back in 2014. and actually vladimir putin, in a phone call with emmanuel emmanuel. my call, the french president, said that he actually is demanding that crimea be formally recognized as russian territory now. so it seems that when it comes to crimea, at least there's a contradictory positions. he also is demanding the neutrality of ukraine. you might remember that he was demanding that ukraine never join nato and so on saying that that's a threat to russia. so it seems like putin is still very much in charge of these

talks, watching them from afar. and we'll be deciding, you know, back in the capital potentially about the talks going forward. events on the ground are moving fast and we're all glued her phone to the internet ever since. all of the started last thursday. how are russians keeping up with the information verified information? i think the thing about verified information is, is, is really important right now, you know, both ukraine and in a way, russia, as well are in a state of war. of course, fighting is actually taking place in ukraine, but that means that, for example, in russia, state tv and is in this very kind of heightened mode and the narrative there at least is that this is a war of liberation. that's how they're framing it. that the civilian population is being freed from what they called neo nazi occupiers of kind of very strange narrative there. and they're saying that russian forces are not targeting civilian

targets, civilian infrastructure at all, almost this kind of perfect military operation and, and critical media outlets are increasingly alright and gonna have to get you off here. that's it from us. thank you so much for joining us. today ah ah, ah, ah ah, ah ah ah, ah ah

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for decades. the people of iraq countries devastated. and there's no end to the final how did he come to this with key witnesses reveal and president story who they were freeze up in the u. s. they knew what the consequence of these sanctions are. and they've lied to the world about does he make it? let's say that someone could kill his friends and as a fee and so easily was a really he behaved exactly like to have done. and the poison spread fair on ah, lush, my 0 in the great documentary series

destruction of a nation starts march 4th on d, w. ah. the crisis surrounding rushes invasion of ukraine, suddenly seems even more frightening than before. and people have begun to think the unthinkable. this is russian president vladimir putin threatened to the world of lodge, suggesting perhaps that he could be ready to use nuclear weapons. it's a move that is triggered. widespread fee is unparalleled since the cold war. so the question we're asking here on to the point is put in threat. these rush.