[000:00:00;00] the who's breaking news on r t a to train the self proclaimed republic thought evacuating civilians to russia . michelle fine from the framing on a recorded line from the nest where there's been a powerful explosion. a president bush invoices alarm over the latest marathon from ukraine, and you can sit down and negotiate with a donor. can new draft leaders if there are math violations of human rights and you crank what camp has to do is just sit down if the negotiating table with representative of the done that. unfortunately, we are now seeing an escalation of the situation in the down, in an exclusive interview with russia. foreign minister says western propaganda and full claims of an impending attack on ukraine. i mean,

an attempt to portray moscow as an aggressor with all this is propaganda fakes and fiction. but the main thing is that the authors of the stakes themselves believe in what they say. if russia withdraws, it's true. the threat will not disappear. the bridge for the future already being late. the low from last go. thanks for joining us on our team to national i'm daniel hawkins . where you all right, welcome through the program that we start with breaking news here on the channel for me from ukraine. the self proclaimed finance can log on to the republic, suffered a massive occupation of civilians to russia, the leaders of the 2 regions, se there's an ongoing bombardment coming from the ukranian military for children can be seen gathering outside using finance,

preparing to be transported to safety the regional leader says residential areas have been hit by ukrainian shell fine with just received the explosion in the city center. for let's go live now to our team and close to the internet. hska as we speak o rama. thanks for coming on the line there. just tell us what exactly is happening, where you've been, what's the atmosphere on the ground? well, let me give you the latest. what's been happening over the last half an hour or so . i was approaching a one of the places where people were together to evacuate to are russia as per statement of the head of the people's republic when i heard a huge explosion. and so what happened was an explosion actually took place about a couple of 100 meters from where i was, and it was a near the dentist city administration, mom, i'm at this place right now. unfortunately, i was asked to turn the camera away from the place where the explosion occurred.

and what happened was, an explosive device blasted a car. they belong to a chief of the people's militia. here in the self proclaimed the netscape republic . uh, there were no casualties as the car was empty at the time at the moment. what is happening as we speak are army engineers. so along with a bomb sniffing, dogs are working here to make sure there are no more explosive devices. so here there's another car apart, right next to the car that exploded and it's been, it's been checked right now as well. so the situation is, looks to be under control or no casualties in this particular case. but such army engineers are currently a working and they have a court on the off this area. meanwhile, earlier on friday heads off for bowl slogan, scans and the nest people's republic announced a mass temporary evacuation from the your respective

a republic civic you ation to her russia molar for our women, children and the elderly. the heads of both republic, sir said that said they made an arrangement with the government in raw store for region in russia, where people will be provided foods, a shelter, and basically all their needs will be taken care of. now let's have a listen to what's denise pushin and i had to say about today's evacuation. but he appeal up, but i think you're gonna fill on the quote that we have when the enemy shells the populated areas of the town. yes, republic, life and house of all citizens is endangered. so from today, mass transportation of civilians to russia has been organized a little one. first of all, women, children and the elderly ought to be evacuated. what should it look? what denise? pushing in the head of the self proclaimed on his people's republic also said that the president of ukraine vladimir zalinski, is, has m at

a master. a major troops along the line of conflict between the 2. a warring size and heavy artillery is on the line and basically zalinski is ready to give an order ah, for a major offensive at any time. and this is why he had asked the citizens to evacuate to russia. those who can is not mandatory. but he said, in order to preserve everybody's health, it's better to evacuate to russia for now. temporarily the head of the elegance, people's republican anita position equal, he said, those men who can pick up arms should stay in defender and motherland. otherwise, the rest of the people can also temporarily evacuate to russia. ah, meanwhile, earlier on friday, a russian president vladimir putin said that indeed kremlin is witnessing an

escalation here in dunc boss. but he has called on both sides of the conflict to sit down for a dialogue and to settle all their differences through negotiations and, and not through fighting. now, earlier i here on into anesco. as we were, reporting were heard, a siren said, going all throughout the city. as we understood later on a was an air raid or anything like that, it was just, it says of a civilian defense. now, several points throughout the nets were designated as places where people would say gather in order to evacuate. now we haven't seen a lot of people wanting to evacuate on friday thus far. perhaps as to be attributed to the fact that not everybody completely understands what's the head of the republic is warning them about. but i was told that major accusations will be taking place on a saturday, both in logan's and the internet can. meanwhile, our group,

we've been working here almost 247 for the last week or so. and indeed we have also witnessed the major escalation here in don barza. we've seen a lot of damage to civilian infrastructure. a couple of people have been wounded. basically the mood here are people wanting peace and stability, but they're denied of that as escalation, continuous even always see monitors who are here in don't ask and in log off, they have also confirmed i escalation along the front lines are always c, members are here in de anesco, i was at their base a little bit earlier in the day and all of their cars are there. that means they weren't on patrol, but hopefully we'll, we'll hear something from them as well in the coming hours or days as it's been originally. and of course we will continue working here and delivering you the latest use as soon as we get them roll. my thanks for that up april 1, cause that if their lawyer from been at school get back to you as

a light goes on think it could be a long one to not the escalation in easton ukraine terms. the midwestern claims of an impending russian invasion. russia's foreign minister gave an exclusive interview without a saying those allegations are entirely false against the all this is propaganda fakes and fiction. but the main thing is that the authors of these fakes themselves believe in what they say. so if it's pleasant for them, why not? but of course, all this causes a smile, adult spirit predictions and spells every day. at the same time, the nato secretary general states that they have no information about an absolute probability of an attack. and at the same time, the foreign office also declared that no matter what happens, we must be on guard. if russia withdraws it's true, the threat will not disappear. the brits for the future already being laid. the topic is being habit forever and ever. the leaders of russia,

belarus are both void. the law over ukraine's power attempts to escalate the situation in the don't bus. they gave a joint press conference here in moscow in the last few hours bought ethos to taylor has the retail, alexander lucas sanker. just the latest head of state to make a flying visit to moscow. quite literally, we did see his helicopter taken off from the kremlin just behind me, off to those 2 and a half hour talks wrapped up. now he had brought him a putin did. in fact, meet recently only in december, but friday's meeting comes in a much tense context. and that is because the historic friendship between minsk and moscow has come on to increasing scrutiny since the 2 countries are currently holding joint military drills cooled. i liked resolve 2022. on fact, before the talks got started, they hugged they shook hands and they agreed that most likely on saturday, both of them together would actually actively participate in those wargames and announcement that i'm sure will send western media into an absolute tizzy. now the

west has viewed these training drills as very hostile. these are the ukraine, that is despite, of course, that being foreign representatives on up to shape on the ground to observe them. and despite the criminal consistently saying that they will most likely wrap up on sunday with equipment being shifted out. very soon afterwards, both presidents and the press conference said that unfortunately, these wardrobes have become not just crucial but almost necessary in light of what they describe as nato pumping weapons into ukraine. now on the issue of ukraine, the 2 leaders were very much on the same page. sharing that concern about the military alliance is increasing expansion eastwood. president putin especially talked about the ongoing deliberations. he has, of course, trying to get legally binding agreements in response to the security proposals put forward by russia. that would, for example,

see the u. s. withdraw at 65000. so troops from central and eastern europe and to see the removal or least reduction of certain types of missiles on the continent. however, it seems that there are still some major sticking points to show you that again in the us and other native members. so for show, no desire to adequately address the core elements of our initiative, we are willing to engage in negotiations of these issues are considered together as one complex without separating them from the main russian proposals, which are a priority for us. another important moment related to concerns raised by that it's failing to fill its obligations under the midst agreement. just remind does that is a 13 point document signed in 2015 to help and the conflicts in easton ukraine president who made special mention of how to look. and yet the regions are yet to be awarded the special state which they were promised under the protocols. and how to this day,

we all still witnessing discrimination against the russian speaking population all over the ukraine in general. in fact, what we heard was lamenting how the situation on the ground. it's only to carry around the phil located air mass violations of human rights in ukraine. what camp has to do is to sit down at the negotiating table with representatives of the don bass and agree on political military. he can amik and humanitarian measures to end the conflict the sooner the better. unfortunately, we are now seeing an escalation of the situation in the darkness while these very serious and concrete concerns have been raised 5 minutes and moscow. what are we carrying from the west? a promise to consider them a recognition of the serious issues. know what we're seeing, it's a continuation of the hysteria and a session with promising that war is just around the corner, despite of course, all the prophecies of the russian invasion of ukraine on the 15th of february, on the 16th of february, proving to be false. our information indicates clearly that these forces are

preparing to launch an attack against ukraine in the coming days. we don't know exactly the formal take. it could be a fabricated so called terrorist bombing inside russia, or a fake even a real attack using chemical weapons for moscow though all this rhetoric pointing the finger act up, put film oscar though all this pointing the finger at russia is simply a deflection and a willful ignorance of the reality on the ground because we got 3 attempts to place the blame and russia are futile and baseless. i must say that we are very disappointed by the ostrich like position of our western colleagues who are try not to see obvious thing. we've also briefly raised the west favorite new foreign policy told i'm talking about sanctions now here both we decide that they will not only illegitimate, but they have also turned out to be fruitless. since both countries have developed with fortress economies and immunity, you could say to them, the better russian had a state though, did out the if the you and the u. s. what,

when pose any further economic penalties than that would be a merit response? so yes, as you would expect, top of the agenda out today's conversation and press conference was ukraine and the increasingly hostile and aggressive rhetoric on foreign policy coming out from the west. but it would be remiss if i didn't say that there was some positive moments. that's of course not forget that russia and bad russia, 2 countries were tied together historically culturally, but also economically too. so that will always be areas where they can deepen that relationship not was something that both leaders made a commitment to today. also at that 1st conference, the president of been always accused western powers of inflaming the situation. a new crime, a push shown there as people privy to the issue. you can see that all of this is not even in the hands of our neighbors, including ukraine. go was, it's also obvious to you who is responsible for aggravating tensions. we can see in

all its glory, the accountability, excuse me, my direct words to the don't mindedness of a number of western politicians up with the behavior from the leaders of our neighboring country. that is irreconcilable with logic. and they're almost morbid desire to walk on the very edge. but let's bring in a political commentator, an economist, dr. hama, joining us from germany. thanks for joining us. good to have you on the program today. you heard, there are reports from our correspondent alex arnold. shank, blaming western volunteers in this for aggravating a conflict in ukraine. is that a fair accusation? well, it is. the thing is that they are, they are treat forces driving the accusations. number one is the vitamin ministration is the bring up call ups within the us. so they beat some foreign policy to escape from the big huge problems inside. secondly,

and has written this for ages already. we expect the event because the financial industry, the, anglo sec, sony and financial industry is breaking apart. and they need an excuse to free up billions or trillions of dollars subsidies for their own banks and financial institutions from the taxpayers. people who are not willing to do this. so they need a war or something, some event to, to excuse their, they are falling apart. and the 3rd party is, of course, the nato, who needs the nato, when there is no enemy. so of course they are, they are threatened me. and, and in this part of the military, industrial complex and black, the 2 forces who, who is strengthened though the biting the ration of the major forces brought by met ministration. they are both thinking they haven't, they have

a benefit of any tensions in ukraine like rock because of high or low prices. they heavily invested oil infrastructure and so on. and they don't seem to have any costs as long as they can keep their investment in china. and so on. and the military industrial complex of course, wants to sell weapons and of course, and even more important ones to keep the western people paying 2 percent of their g d, p, or weapon expenses. what is their benefit? we've seen a lot of stirring of the, of the threat of war, but speculating on when russia would invade ukraine. when the company will happen. the ukrainian president does what he said, that this is damaging to ukraine in terms of the, the panics on the market. just how damaging is this for ukraine is hugely damaging for ukraine and for the markets. and you can see by the creation of the done by region,

that they have no intention at all to invade into ukraine. this is ridiculous. nobody who wants to attack is accurate. its own population is only somebody who wants to defend. but for ukraine it will cost the next big breakdown of the entire country. they already lost millions and millions of citizens who flew to poland to other countries, to russia, to other countries out of was own. and if then now comes the next to war, this country will entirely die out of people. not, not only because of the war because of the way so far. ukraine, this is, this is the catastrophe. and i think the land knows that, but apparently he is not in power courses. maybe with west on support who are in power and who do whatever they like ukraine and letting a person as a choose ukraine of on $800.00 commitments under them. it's grievance for su, crane,

and endangering civilians. i guess 2 fold question. why is there so little concern in the west about that? and why is it so hard for all sides to sit down t of the separatists leaders the the monitoring mission and come to some sort of understanding and compromise to say civilian life. i think there are 2 reasons. number one is the media is far more on your life than we thought. so we have a propaganda in the west on the media area that goes 247 wall mongering threatening russia or blaming roster and so on. and so on. so politicians who are dependent on the media are had hard times to go against this and come this situation down. that is the 1st thing. why i think west on politicians, the 2nd it, the most west on concrete,

like germany for example. bad if they get the information for langley or to washington, so they don't have a clue on what's going on. they might think that they are not well informed of they don't, they don't do anything again. so they are more concerned of keeping the lines or keeping their network card notes of breasts will be, frankly, with their network card. not then it being a good for the country in my opinion. all right, so we have time for, for now we'll, we'll, commentator and economies talk to i get home with thanks for your time in the program today. we appreciate it. you're welcome. thank you very much. now several western states have started pulling their stuff out of a monitoring mission and ukraine run by the organization for security and cooperation in europe. that's apparently down to safety fears. meanwhile, russia said it will not be taking part of our meeting on the conflict cooled by t of the head of moscow. delegation to the c explained that decision ukrainian,

the requested according to these meetings and consultation according to the vienna document. 16 saying, which is unusual, mealy directv. we have normal plan, usual military exercises, this bella, russia, union. the result 22 were announced. it in this in january. we are now sit here in vienna. they don't want to listen to us. and with lisa scenario orchestrated by us and britain, the joint and ukrainian is to put a text to dry out so that the allegedly be invaded. this is 6 sizes they have these aims. that's why we explained with can it use of in a document in this situation. it's an appropriate and we announced that we can't participate in discussion. it's kind of we're media not only media,

it's official representative of this is obsessive lunacy, explaining everything they don't want to listen to us. we tried to make it, but it's useless this way. russia didn't participate and other headlines. canadian police have tried to break up a protest camp in the capital and the rest, several truck drivers demonstrating against cobra vaccine. monday, we saw more than 4 boxes with our load all the all the with the boxes. why not get ready over a $150.00 plus least garden prisoner transport wagon. there's 6 boxes getting ready to load guys up, build up symbolizes unlawful operate and unlawful order. because this is not an emergency. after, you know, there's not a place that you do more levels of parliament, they cannot act on that they are acting lawfully. and they're acting under

a lawful order. so she is resisting arrest or forcefully taken away by officers with several pin to the ground before being handcuffed. one was protest leader christ bob who was also research before being placed inside a police vehicle. interim auto police chief earlier in the protest is we're not peaceful and a crackdown was imminent. we've been bolstering our resources, developing clear plans and preparing to take action. the action is in imminent. in the past few days, we've been communicating directly with the unlawful protestors. we've told them they must leave, and we have warned them the consequences of disobeying these rules. we will never stop trying to get people to leave our streets. that's exactly what we want them to do. just know that there's a deliberate plan. there's commitment and there's the resources that we now have in place to actually finally end this or the motion is exact, that is now in force, allows the government to bind the router and suspend protest as bank accounts for up to 30 days. it's supposed to be invokes only if there is

a national crisis. the authorities are also cracking down on descent when their ranks with an ontario government aid losing a job off, it was discovered she donated $100.00 to the movement. opposition. lawmakers say the prime minister is acting like a dictator. people lost wages. the citizens were harassed and the potential for violence group. and the federal government instead of acting, argued over jurisdiction. canadians can't be expected to simply take this prime minister out his words. his plans are not consistent with fundamental freedoms. the government should not have the power to close the bank accounts of canadians on a whim. well, the purchases are continuing to make their presence felt in also from the truth, accuses them of threats, violence, and hatred, and waiting racist flags. now, canadian banks have started freezing accounts linked to freedom, convoy activists. but we can go live now to recall

a freedom convoy organize joining us from way back. canada, thanks for joining us. a good se when the program today now the government made for the opportunity, the government set cracking down with this emergency acts. bank accounts have been frozen. are you concerned about what's happening? is there any shots of the progress is backing down? yeah, it's it's, it's an extremely large concern for all of us to been part of this for so long. it's, it's, it's very disturbing to see where federal government has big enough and, you know, and bulky and emergency act for simply having just the thousands of people peacefully protesting in this country is the exact opposite of what a democracy should look like. so yeah, we have great concerns. i'm part of an a protest and want to take not a troll by the legislature building. but we're doing this in unison with ottawa. we're all protesting for the same thing or in our game and all the same. we're

asking for provincial and federal mandates to be listed so we can go back to working without discrimination and many other things in our lives without discrimination. so yeah, it's extremely concerning. and we can't believe that our 3 country people, country like canada, has gotten us to this place. your movement as been described by some in power is a threat to democracy. in turn, the trudeau government has also been accused of the same thing. d, v. these actions of a threat to democracy and do you see how your movement, which has been accused of disrupting the economy, is a worry to some it are movement in regards to, i think 1st with our movement showing a prime example of how a free democracy should work and to be able to practice the right, the peaceful protests when it comes to not being democratically

correct. i think that our, our, our federal government and is showing a prime example of that there, that they've denied so many of our rates the last couple years. and now that the people have taken action and saying enough enough, because because our provincial and federal leaders, you know, they wouldn't stand with the people over the past couple years now that you know, we're practicing our, our race a piece of protest. that's the one last freedom that we feel we have left in this country and now even the script away from us. so it's very concerning and very disturbing. there awesome, warring reports of people who denatured to the freedom. callaway, having their bank accounts hacked, leaks on a line. the details lead online people who gave money being a power it threatened one official, was even losing their job over donating. why do you think your supporters and

yourselves of use body authorities as such a threat? you don't want it that's. that's a hard question for me to answer, but i'm not quite sure why this. the us is being threatening again. i can't iterated enough. i mean, all these proto, they've been conducted in a peaceful, unifying, loving, law abiding way. and i don't understand why this being such a trap. birth, simply just asking for god, given rights and freedoms back. nobody's out that, that harm anyone. you know, at this, it doesn't make any sense for us. i'm, i can only speak for myself, but i, i feel that our federal government is basically trying to control each and every single canadian at this point that they haven't even as much as open up an opportunity to dialogue with the federal government. i think it's very disturbing in the exact opposite from what we should see from a democratic peaceful country right now. so we have time for today recall organize all of the when in fact freedom convoy,

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