ah, ah, tensions mountain don't boss with a massive explosion going off near a tv station in don't yet have ukrainian force is step up the shell and get the newly recognized republic. a fresh wave of functions targeting moscow, a triggered by the west. but russia was this, the global energy market on which the most paid will be inflicted. that is, that defend this decision to protect the russian speaking population of going back 90000, to fled to violence. there in recent days, by crossing the border into neighboring russia party speaks to some of the refugee we're extremely terrified. that's why when we heard about the vaccination,

we gave up everything and came here. volunteers help and even organized a little show for the children with the dogs. the 1st day was very emotional. it helped us to cheer up with a very good morning to you. this is on the international broadcasting line from moscow. it's great to have you with us this morning. the newly recognized republics have done yet scans look down, remain under attack, sustain shelling, house disrupt the water supply in a number of areas across life. now, to all correspondents law tease more down, the i've been look down, scans ramon caused off. he's in don't yet for his 1st to you more ads. there are reports of guns being more calm than done. yes. how do you assess the situation on the ground? but perhaps at this moment, slogans may be a little comma, but throughout the life of the night long into the night we heard the exchange of

heavy caliber munitions by both sides of shelling on behalf of local fighters shelling ukrainian positions and vice versa. we have reports of footage also released from from local in have been able to verify this of a civilian cough vehicle being hit by a guide. it's near the front lines these with bearing in mind, but many tracks of road here in la ganske, off with in light of sight of ukrainian positions that you paid your troops have a variety of guided results. some that they had before. some that have been supplied to the allegedly, to civilians were killed. all we've seen is the footage of a burning car or what remains of a burning cough. there was also a house not far away from me, just on the outskirts of la guns, which is hit by shelling a civilian, how students had apparently evacuated just to stace before. but the challenge,

as i say is see says there are perhaps laws such as now the might loss for an hour for 2 hours. but ever since we got into the city which was mid day just off the mid day yesterday, that you can constantly hear the rumble of artillery at being 5. and this is what local authorities have been saying that that yes, we are witnessing an escalation that just keeps getting more violent. we have also heard reports from the ukrainian side of lou, god's region, where they are you creating military controls territory that indeed a civilian may have been hut there as well. we've also heard about the militant so fighters on the ukranian side and even lugens the local, malicious who have been hurt again, it is very difficult to verify much of this information because is that because it is so dangerous to go near the front lives tempers here and passions of

a high and there is very little tolerance for people and in body are more. anyone appearing on the front lines of people are very trigger happy year here. we certainly does a nice little guy cuz i saw that you saw a book with us. i see, but i see it on over listed. and you said that it with him in motion to get those done with the new the shots, he withdrew. they shot immersion vision jackson with he is true. i still love to live here. we are on the some with him still you didn't. our senior would like to buy new da the

which no one has got messed up with no more than a hood. what out of would he boost of one beach who to june or july august that it? oh, i shit, the war stoughton opinions, the sort of sheila, this suez this is of course the flip side of the coin. after 8 years of this people are, people are thought that psychologically exhausted. they no longer want to hear this and they are prepared to give to extraordinary legs. and these and many people here civilians see the recognition of the independence of gods could dependence by russia as the 1st step, the 1st real step give it a failure of the mens agreements. the 1st real step towards peace. they believe that finally finally,

shells will stop raining down here on the gods. okay, more i thank you very much for that now from la guns. let's go over to don. yes. can to remind cancer of remind good morning to you now. we know there was an explosion overnight and on. yes. can you tell us more about that? absolutely. well, it has been relatively quiet to here and done as scribble this morning, but a shilling is still taking place. and indeed, there was an explosion at the local tv station, the it's the home of the 1st republican tv channel here in done that sca apparently there was an explosive device that went off at this so guarded mind you tv station employees were there, they were working fortunately, no one was hers and of course we went to the scene and managed to speak to some of their employees,

some of the employees. and this is what they told us we previous earliest must be after the explosion. we came to have a look and saw broken glass. i didn't see evidence of it containing anything additional, so it was likely just an explosive to the person was after having a look around, we felt it's most likely that someone through the explosive, over the fence. it's not a shell, maybe it's an intimidation act, as we understand the war is not only at the frontline, it's also in the information space, yoga, pasco, i think it is be a threat to journalists to say there will be further terror attacks against them. while a shilling hasn't been as frequent as it has been in the last few days, it's still continues. we were getting reports that on tuesday, multiple rockhill launch systems had been used on, on the outskirts of the nist by the ukranian military, around 4 o'clock in the morning, the village of us part talk on the outskirts of the city was a shell as well. oh,

we are getting reports from the always see monitors, that's a ceasefire. violations are indeed taking place. meanwhile, ukraine are denying all of those allegations. they're denying that says fire is been violated, and they're also denied that. so they're preparing for an offensive against the dentist. republics. meanwhile, via international committee, the red cross are continuing their work here in the nest. i've been here from the, from the very beginning of the conflict from of the 2014 and continue supplying a building materials. i heating kola drinking water, technical water to all the residents that live here on the front line. now we went along on their mission is the sound of a you lenika on tuesday where they delivered 5 water tanks, a village that was water supply had been cut off due to shelling at least 20000 a residence there in that area generally are now without water and of course,

so we managed to speak with the head of the international committee of the red cross here in don't ask, this is what you said about the situation. the international committee of that i cross is very concerned about the developments we have witnessed in the dumbass over the past few days and times of conflict and violence. it is essential that all sides ensure the continuous supply of a sufficient quantity of drinking water as well as other essential basic supplies to meet the daily needs of the civilian population on both sides of the line of contact. unfortunately, the recent intensification of the fighting has again with certain keys central services at risk of coming to a full stop. the ice r c would like to stress that we vowed urgent action to protect essential services . in areas where the hostilities take place, we might face humanitarian implications at the large scale. well, like i said earlier,

the year last sound of the shelling that we heard here and in that skirt around. so for a look in the morning that was in the outskirts of the nest has been relatively quiet since then. of course, a local residents are hoping that the shelling will stop and the piece will finally come. but of course, everyone is bracing for anything that might happen in the near future. indeed, there are many, thanks to both of our correspondence that might, that might gauss, you have in the ganske forest and among culture of in don. yes, thank you. and according to russia's freshly inked agreement with the republics, moscow will act as guarantor of their security. on tuesday, the federation council, russia, is the upper house, gave the president permission to use military force is brought to conduct a peacekeeping mission. vladimir putin said this didn't mean trips would be deployed immediately. that decision will depend on the situation on the ground. earlier, my colleagues, daniel hawkins and elliot, katrinka discussed the situation. everything that's been said doesn't mean at the

moment that the russian troops are marching across the border, that the russian army hardware is currently being sent over to the republics of don bass. mister proven, went on to talk about how important these decisions are in the context of the actual will of the locals. and he went back to talk about how the referendum in crimea happened. when overwhelmingly the population there voted to join russia. we remember that about to 7 years ago that the peoples of don ed scan lugens, these 2 don bass republics voted to be separated from ukraine. so mister putin reminded the west of how important it is to listen to these people and called it the highest form of democracy. referring to these referendums,

the 1st thing that must be done by every one is to recognise the will of the people who leave in service topple and crimea. i'm no good, i said with them. and i have said that unmet which in many times so how different is this when you, jim has these for a friend and watched and cost with his will you expressing this will? how different is it from what happened kosovo? because there was a referendum there, and i would like to reiterate one more time to review. no one did that at gunpoint, no one for them to go to the voting stations. they did it voluntarily, and they made the decision to joined russia. and we should respect their decision now. something else that was very important that mr. put made clear, was that pretty much the men's agreements don't exist anymore. but despite what the western leaders are saying, present,

vladimir putin says that the key of is entirely to blame for you. and it was really making a step towards reaching. this fell agreement, resolving the situation by peaceful means. and yesterday, during the security council meeting, it was sad with the average, so the current keep authorities, it was all brought down to 0. that's why the mains agreements really will meet the they were destroyed the long before yesterday's recognition of the people's republic. call the don that we look at the 1st 2 key elements of the minsk agreements. they are giving special status to the dawn as can lugens credence, and also making changes to the cranium constitution that would give these 2 regions more autonomy and independence from key of in many decisions. but under petro porsha ankle, hon dimmers, and

n lensky. none of these steps have been made by key a lot of the criminal decisions you recognize, the independence of the guns. camden yeske, the west rounded on russia, i'm triggered a barrel of punitive measures, the latest countries to join this sanctions 1st against russia, australia and japan. oscars warns though that the measures all likely to end up hitting unintended targets. there is no doubt that the sanctions imposed against us will hurt the global financial and energy markets. the united states will also feel these sanctions. prices will rise and ordinary people will feel the consequences. over the past 7 years, the u. s. has done nothing to convince the ukrainian leadership of the need to comply with the men's agreements. instead, washington has encouraged inaction within the key of regime. washington looked on as the russian speaking population in the country face persecution. we could not

keep allowing threat of destruction and the death of civilians and don bass. i meanwhile, the us secretary of state antony blank and has cancelled a meeting with his russian counts post a laugh ralph saying he sees no point in its off the moscow recognize the dumbass. republics. it comes with us, unveiled, its sanctions base, will target to large financial institutions as well as russian individuals and their family members. president joe biden also vowed to send more troops to nato member countries in eastern europe. we have no intention of fighting russia. we want to send an unmistakable message though, that united states together with our allies, will defend every inch of nato territory. you create a nato is really been an argument and excuse to mask the fact that what this is about is present to you that ukraine is not a sovereign country. but we spoke with journalist and the analyst keaton mansfield,

who says that biden has conceded that sanctions against russia will also have an impact on the american people if severe sanctions go through, you know, biden, in his address. his very short address that he gave today said that he wants to minimize, the pain felt by the, by the sanctions on the american people. so he's already admitted on live international television. that these sanctions are going to hurt the american people. and in my opinion, that is just going to further turn the american people, his constituents that have elected to, into office against binding did portray this as an invasion. the problem with that kind of rhetoric that what has happened is an invasion of ukraine is you cannot invade a country that you are welcomed into by the people and the government, not invasion. it's a peacekeeping mission. the,

the government of the don bass region has been asking russia to recognise them since the euro maiden who that put in the anti rushes lensky government, ukraine, and don bass declared itself sovereign. no more shopping in milan. putting in sandra pe, that's what the use took. diplomat, joseph burrell tweeted before swiftly, deleting it after brussels slapped sanctions on a list of influential russians with more on the european reaction to russia. decision to defend the people who don't pass his policies. leah started by talking after a press conference in belgium. he did say that moscow has moved from covert to overt military action, saying that the nato, a lion has evidence to the court that russia is planning a military attack on ukraine. and in fact, he said, all the way back since 2014, russia has had a presence in the don bus. now he accused rushes,

recognition of guns and the knit as to quote, a serious escalation by russia. that is a flagrant violation of international law. he says that the ukraine is a highly valued partner who nato supports an. any attack on an ally would require a response from all. he also said that made her welcome the sanctions and the hope of the naught stream to earlier today we could hear from the german chancellor that they were putting on hold any kind of ratification process for this and water pipeline. that until now, the german republic have been reluctant to include the north stream to any kind of sanction. but now it has. and we are hearing that nature has increased its presence in the baltic states and has plans in place to reassure and defend its allies. so

that's what we're hearing at the moment out of brussels. we got reaction from con, most about india is former foreign secretary. he said, germany is decision, comes as a surprise and could aggravate europe's energy crisis. when i think they are being pressured by the united states, i will be surprised that when john charles was in the lighthouse standing next to him, president biden saturday categorically that the not to buy line will be stopped . and he said, i promise you it will be soft as if the germans have no agency in this. and i'm sure it may be chancellor of germany look very small, very unfortunate. now, already the gas prices are gone up by about 400 percent in the last few years. and the, and the public and the consumer in europe is all very suffering very heavily from high gas prices. and if they're not going to hit stopped, this will add up to the best that is already dead on the ground and the consumer,

it just doesn't make, make, make sense. on the one hand, the logic is that some kind of interdependence already that kind of pushing against things going west. but in this case, there is a neutrality is a clear, morality, resources, godson, sources your needs don't meet the interests of both sides, keep the gas vices achieved. so, and then the pipeline has been big. while the west is busy condemning russia for his recognition of the dumbass republics, it seems to have gotten a recent page in its own history. and 2008, kosovo became europe's youngest country, marked 14 years of independence last week. coast of always recognized by more than a 100 countries, including germany, the u. k. and the us, he's daniel armstrong. take a closer look at how that came about. the old saying goes,

those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. but in the west, it seems that those who don't know their own history are doomed to accuse others of their own wrong. doing the west is worst of bran. russia's recognition of the guns and the nets. republics. as a violation of international law. who in the lord's name is prudent, think gives him the right to declare new, so call countries on territory the belonged to his neighbors. this a flagrant violation of international law and demands of firm response from the national community. however, look not to fall back into the annals of history, suggest that it might not be about respect for the law at all in 1999 need so completely bypass the u. n. by not seeking authorization for a bombing campaign in bel grade, even just one day is a long time in politics, but for 78 days straight, that the bombs rained down in serbia. it seems that no one in the west time to ponder its legality. but then the killing of hundreds of civilians was handily

explained the way as reasonable force under the charge of the security council has primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. and this is explicitly acknowledged in the north atlantic treaty. therefore, the counsel should be involved in any decision to resort to the use of force. and not long after that history repeated itself, the usa didn't fancy waiting around for us clearance on the invasion of iraq or whether it complied with international law. they simply went to war, not didn't exactly err on the side of legal either. a war waged without a clear mandate by the security council would constitute a flagrant violation of the prohibition of the use of force. security council resolution 1441 does not authorize the use of force. now, no. okay, we may not be talking about war here, but the recognition of breakaway regions as independent. but if we take another look back, can surprise surprise. we see another example straight from the usa textbook. washington was full of congratulations for costs off to recognizing its

independence in light of the conflicts of the 1900 ninety's. independence is the only viable option to promote stability in the region back then they said it was the only piece of resolution, but it seems there is no adhering to tradition as regards lugens and annette regions now. so those who do not learn lessons from history may be doomed to repeat it. but when it comes to the west, the u. s. and nate, so it seems it's hopeful, lack of awareness, means they blindly accuse others of repeating their own history without ever gazing back at their own checkered past. was life becoming more dangerous in dumbass due to shelling by ukraine? many that have been fleeing to russia over 90. 3000 refugees have now cross the border to use donald quarters in the russian city of ross van dawn with a group of volunteers helping the new arrivals up to 90000. don bos evacuees have made their way across the border into the russian federation,

1st arriving at one of the many temporary housing facilities in ra stove region until making their way to another longer term location. now, what we see behind me are trucks that are carrying the 1st massive delivery of humanitarian aid here, organized by the united russia party. because it takes a lot of supplies to make sure that many people can live as comfortably as possible . now accompanying this humanitarian aid delivery are the emergency services of russia to help the situation as well as thousands of volunteers from moscow, the suburbs of moscow and from other regions of the russian federation. as more and more don boss evacuees had been making their way across the russian border. they've been telling us that these temporary housing locations have been well equipped. everyone's being provided free lunch breakfast, dinner. they have a warm place to stay at night. and this delivery of humanitarian aid is going to make sure that situation stays that way, donald quarter r t rosters. and with the large influx of new arrivals to russia's southern

wellstar region, some 125 shelters had been set up there. asi visited, one of the temporary accommodations sent, hasn't heard from refugees about the hopes and the face. ah, misnig. my children have grown up. i daughter parks at medical university. she can't leave and the grandchildren left with their mother, god willing, they will stay safe. ah listen, i have a right, let's just place little bag and massage back back. we only brought essential documents and if you close we did manage to bring per saw. thanks such

a shampoo or so we're given that here. mm. she is doing the scene of them be in 2014 over hostile sheldon b cells. we're flying above our heads, but we're constantly hiding in sellers. we were extremely terrified. that's why. when we heard about the vaccination, we gave up everything and came here. ah, we had children from the all fish come. we love fun. volunteers helped law and even organized a little show for the children when the dodged. the 1st i was very emotional. it helped us to cheer up. stay with her naughty international for all. the latest on breaking news stories will be back in 30 minutes with the latest to see them. ah,

ah ah, to bring you the very latest every hour the day. this is all taking up snow from everyone here with all those driven by dreamers shaped by 10 percent of those with

there's sinks. we dared to ask join me every thursday on the alex salmon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then by the way. i am if jenny. yep. okay. the more gunner, with the assault section of the 2nd platoon 3rd special forces, unit blue, we're always only alert for an armed conflict because if we get intelligence of f militants in the neighborhood, it's usually reliable with the squadron has played about in conflict before or but

this was the 1st attack of its kind on to rain like this. we would expect from them . we were ready for them at any moment. but it was a very difficult area and they were able to open fire 1st. was not working with with one for a special forces. soldiers the thinking is paramount. but that's how he makes the right decisions during that 5 minutes and tried to outflank the 3 soldiers, led by a puffer and started throwing hand grenades at them. sergeant eugenia puff covered one of those grenades with his own body. of course i was frightened, but i tried to compose myself. i was thinking somehow i had to come bank because mom was waiting for me. this is a thought, the cams you down moms waiting fit

. your thanks is here is none before that because every one of us is ready for it. well perhaps not completely reading it. it's hard to prepare yourself for death, but we do know the risks, moves them. we know what our task is and above all now where it is that we serve. when we necka commended that was the 1st last my unit ever suffered to them. and the 1st loss under my command, in general, due to go, sir, comrade maids with india to grant a spray of tim shanker, china. good morning, comrade mitchell clay. how are your comrade, major? you're sick. i often think of the moment, especially of gaining elsie's. he was different to all the other near recruits. well.