a ah, engine mount in don't bass with a massive explosion going off near a tv station in dawn, yet the newly recognized public accusing ukraine of rochester pitch selling attack . a fresh wave of function targeting most go what triggered by the west, put russia warns if the global energy market on which the most pain will be inflicted vasquez, it defends its decision to protect the russian speaking population of go back with more than 90000. have fled to violence there in recent days, by crossing the border into neighboring russia. he speaks to some of the refugee were extremely terrified. really. that's why when we heard about the verification,

we gave up everything and came here. volunteers helped a lot and even organized a little show for the children when they don't. the 1st day was very emotional, helpless to cheer, with a very warm welcome from all of our team here in moscow, you're watching all t international with the very latest world news update and dominating the headlines this out is the full out over the ukraine crisis. so we start in dumbass. the civilians have been killed by ukraine's force is over the last 24 hours according to authorities in the don't yet for public. until a ganske, the militia reports to civilians were killed. that's when i call was hit by an anti tank missiles with tensions in the dumbass region. high ortiz were mom calls earth and more. i'd go staff report from the 2 republics. it is a little bit comic here in la guns than it was yesterday. for example,

on the night of the early hours of the morning. but again, a comma is a very relative time here that's still telling. the violence will start back up again. it could be in 10 minutes, it could be in an hour. and there is no telling how long it would go on for the artillery shelling the gunfire closer to the front bloods. over the course of the night, there were multiple shells that impacted on the outskirts of the city. and that they were very loud exclusions, especially about around 3 am. we've also seen the remains footage of the remains of a car vehicle, allegedly hit by a guided missile, which killed 2 civilians while they were traveling along the road. this is according to local authorities. there was also a depot here in lugens that was here. we heard that the explosion. this is not a long way away from us, but this was incredibly loud explosion. the chatted glosson caused all sorts of damage at the depot, given that it was in the early hours of the morning,

there are no reports of of civilian casualties. a civilian house was also hits it, it bugs entirely its own as to the vacuum. it again, according to locals, just a day before the russia, as part of the say are as part of this general evacuation that we've seen in the dumbass region. aside from that is also of course, optimism that soon this could be added. people here are todd, after 8 years of hard enough violent shelling and and more that psychologically exhausted, mentally exhausted. physically, todd, and, and all they want these east for this war to finally end. they believe. russia's recognition of the 2 breakaway republic, hip lugens can, could be the beginning of that end. we saw the callers region 14,

i think is a nice nice of us that you saw a book with us. especially with the new the shots, even though it's michelle immersion. doesn't get dragon with the movie yet on the seminar. so yet, but who so you did not senior. who do i give you a blue which no one has done with this as normal and what, what other movie do stone, what beach hotel do or $10.00 cash that if i should stay at the worst opinion

she'll? is this sheila, of course, and the optimism is being tempered by, by reality here. and reality is such that there is no telling when and how this will and said you, there are no indications that there's going to be an end to this to this violence any time soon. we've seen the collapse of negotiations the, the minsk agreements, and perhaps something here in the solution will be a, a military one. the blast occurred here in on ask at around 1 am it was it happened at a guarded tv station and not far away from my where we are right now. the blast. well, when it took place, there were employees there, the tv station, the station is called the 1st republican channel around or doesn't sound please were at work. at that point. fortunately, no one, no was heard was heard sir, in the blast, sir. and apparently it was an explosive device. now we went to the scene where it

happened, sans as spoke to some of the employees of this is what they told us about their experience. we previous earliest months 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 who the person with whom 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 where yogurt was closed. i think it is be a threat to journalists to say there will be further terror attacks against them. now us shelling hearings anesco hasn't been as a frequency, and so the sun came up, however, over the last few days. so it was so quite a lot of artillery duels along the front lines. and on tuesday we received a report that so multiple a rocket launchers had been used by the ukrainian or military now around 4 o'clock

or this morning from the village of spar talk on the outskirts of the city. was the shelled as well as the result of several houses. so court ugh, were caught on fire and apparently a mortar fire was used by the ukrainian military also cease fire violations had been recorded by the o. s. c, a monitoring mission the here in done as can the ball across the front line. however, ukrainian authorities are denying and he sees far violations and also denying allegations by the republics that their army is preparing for an offensive against the elegance, kensington escort republics. meanwhile, the red cross are also a working here in a don boss, and they been here since the very beginning of the conflict in 2014 and their, their mission is that their task is to deliver for food seating coal. oh, drinking water technical water to all the residents that live are closer to the front

lines. and we went on one of their emissions a on a tuesday when that they were delivering a water tank said to the village of you lenika, that was a shell. the multiple times, and as the result there, her water supply had been cut all fund a round, the 20000 residence in the village and around that area have no access to drinking water or technical water whatsoever. now we spoke to the head of the international committee of the red cross submission here in dunn as can. this is his view on the current situation. the international committee of that i cross is very concerned about the developments we have witnessed in the don bus 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 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. now the last recorded shelling here in annette scott took place around 4 am like i mentioned, and it has been relatively quiet since then. we haven't heard any artillery fire here in a sense or like what we've gotten used till the last few days. of course, local residents are hoping that said piece will remain, are hoping that the shutting will stop and they can finally return to their normal lives. on tuesday, the federation council rush as the house stayed the president. permission to use the military movies abroad to conduct a peacekeeping mission. ukraine blasted that the fishing calling is an act of

aggression. but let him have thinks that it didn't mean troops will be deployed immediately. that decision will depend on the situation on the ground. earlier my colleagues, daniel hawkins and the elite trying to discuss the situation but piece where you took us, but everything that's been said doesn't mean at the moment that the russian troops are marching across the border. that there was an army hardware is currently being sent over to the republics of don bass. mr. 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, the peoples of don ed skin lugens, these 2 don bass republics voted to be separated from ukraine. so mister prudent

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 junior . the 1st thing that must be done by everyone is to recognize the will of the people who live in sylvester poll and crimea. and i have said that many times and want to underline it once again. how is this referendum worse than what happened in kosovo? nothing was in kosovo, they made a decision through the parliament and here through a referendum and i want to underline it one more time. no one did that at gunpoint, no one forced them to go to the voting stations. they did it voluntarily. when they made this decision to join russia and we should respect decision and now something else that was very important that mister putin made clear it was that pretty much the minsk agreements don't exist any more. but despite what the western leaders are

saying, present, vladimir putin says that the key of is entirely to blame ford doing him. and that was really making a step towards resolving the situation by peaceful means. and yesterday, during the security council meeting, it was said that thanks to the efforts of the current care of authorities, this is all been reduced to 0. that's why the minsk agreements were destroyed long before yesterday's recognition of the people's republic of the dumbass. if we look at the 1st 2 key elements of the minsk agreements, they are giving special status to the donors 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 porsche ankle hon there was an ent, zalinski. none of these steps had been made by keir after clemens decision to recognize the independence of legans scanned on. yet the west rounded

on russia and trigon a barrage of punitive measures the latest countries to join this functions best against russia, australia and japan martinez was though that the measures are 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 f 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. let's go live to our correspondence in berlin now paul, asleep. paula, good to see you. now the western countries seem to be lining up to punish russia.

what's all the latest sanctions that hit the country? what was that heard from the french finance minister who has lashed out at the north stream to the pipeline project. and this is quite surprising because he was one of those. one of those who overwhelmingly supported it initially, we've also heard from him, and this is to quote that they will be infinitely more damaging sanctions coming rushes way on friday and saturday. you finance ministers are to meet to discuss these sanctions. it comes as the e u has agreed to impose tougher than initially expected sanctions on russia. we have 351 russian parliamentarians who are being sanctioned. they were the ones who voted in favor of recognizing the provinces of new guns and the next. and in addition, 11 lawmakers who proposed the initiative. they will also be

a ban on trade with the dentist and new guns and sanctions imposed on russian banks that are linked to the military and to the government as well as russian sovereign bonds. now, the german chancellor has halted the certification process of the north stream to project that was supposed to bring natural gas directly from russia into northern germany. it is a 750 miles under water pipeline and its indefinite suspension has been met with anger and in some quarters, disbelief here in germany. fun. should people here live? he mentioned, do we want to buy fracking gas from the usa or us america in canada, also getting gas from russia? no one is talking about and yet they want us to turn our top surf. i honestly don't think it's right and that doesn't have anything to do with the region. that is just my opinion. and i just think it's sad, but again,

it's being played out as political level because of course, you need to have some sort of leverage. but russia has always been a reliable partner. can the person in the high personally think it is a power game between the involved parties and personally, i have the impression that we as individuals have little influence on the outcome. now the german industry association, b d, i has issued an unusually harsh warning saying that any kind of further increases in energy and gas gas prices will threaten to crush the economy. we've heard from the nato secretary general young sultan burg saying that the most dangerous moment for your opinion, security in a generation is what is transpiring now. he has accused russia of being active in the dumbass region since 2014. he says that covert russian military operations have now become overt and that he has evidence of

a large scale planned russian invasion into ukraine. but the same time we are hearing from frances foreign ministry that they don't see signs of a invasion happening anytime soon or as of yet at the same time, we know that more than a 100 nato croft on high end, those and some 120 and ships are underway. there have also been rumblings from canada, japan and australia. overnight. they announced sanctions on moscow. now the washington basset to the united states has said that history has shown that sanctions do. can he says that russia will not revive her foreign policy under the weight of restrictions. they have always been restrictions from the waste on russia . he says, this comes as the united nations continues to refuse to call what is happening in the don bus region, a genocide, which is the terminology that the russian president vladimir putin used, of course,

will continue to monitor development and bring them to you throughout the course of the day, we appreciate that paula, the floods of sanctions against russia is showing no signs of slowing down just yet . but for now, picking life from berlin, i thought he's honestly a thank you. well, meanwhile, the us secretary of state, anthony lincoln, has cancelled a meeting with his russian counts. puts a laugh. ralph saying he sees no point today. it's after moscow recognize that dumbass republics. it comes with the u. s. unveiled it sanctions. these will target to large financial institutions as well as russian individuals on their family members equivalent claims. these punitive meshes to like you are paying ones will only back fire president joe bind and also vowed to send more troops to nato member countries in eastern europe. well, let's give a thought now of all guess the journalist and author thomas fan spend to thank you so much for joining us on the program. so we'd love to see you. so let's start with nord stream too. it's been on the construction since 2016 is finally ready,

just waiting on the final go ahead. billions of yours have been poured into it and it's less space at germany, and indeed, europe desperately need this pipeline. so now germany is taking the decisions, pull the plug on it, were you surprised when germany for a long time protected the pipeline project? not only the old and the outgoing american government, but also the new chancellor shoals. but as things developed scholes gave about a week ago, so when he was in the u. s. gave his word that upon the 1st move by the russian government on ukraine. they would scrap the project or at least scrap the licensing process. and the west germany interprets the recognition of the 2 papers republics, and in particular, any possible move off,

rush admitted into these republics as a, as an evasion, as the, the move on your grad triggering the decision that child took yesterday. so give us a sense of how much of an impact this is going to have on businesses as well as ordinary household's already struggling. and this energy crisis, which is short, less short term, but definitely mid term long term. the missing 55000000000 cubic meters per year will have an impact on the energy supply and the guests applied to your being to the european union and not only to germany, we have a relative new. why is min winter mild winter? the peak of gas prices is pos that was 2 months ago. so for me now, immediately in particular, because the pipeline is not, has not been in operation yet. i don't think we've, we will see an immediate effect on the market. but again,

the 55000000000 cubic meters will, will be missed. and as long with, with germany stepping out of nuclear apology and or asian end of out of cold impala generation, there may be diet times i had to tell me what you make of this because the is foreign minister. 3rd, a law for of, has just alleged that the un secretary general's recent remarks when he refuted rushing claims of a genocide. the russian mission isn't about peacekeeping. were made on the western pressure and were incompatible with his position. that's a some usual time for him to step out of be the narrative. you think? well, i think we have a situation here where the west is almost desperately defending its west dominated global order, which has been under attack by china. if you take the south china sea, a conflict which is now also under attack by, by russia,

by not being with compliance on the west and view that ukraine can freely choose their alliances, military alliances. we have a conflict about the interpretation and the validity of international law. so does natural that the un secretary general takes a position off the validity and the challenges like china and russia, in this sort of uphill battle in that respect and rushes ambassador to the u. s claims that the sanctions will is not just going to be impacting europe. it's going to be a global is going to impact the global financial in energy market. so how, why and how do you assess that potential impact to be depends on what will be published on friday and saturday, as was announced, immediate sanctions against the people to be with the republics in the dawn bus or the people connect with them will not have a major effect,

so i expect that there would be much more to come. the whole word is to is changing from the globalization when, when project to global rivalry lose lose project. this is all about who will damage, who more? thank you for joining us. nazi international today, it's been great to hear your insights, your thoughts on this, thomas spend a journalist and all the thank you. welcome. and while the west is busy condemning russia for his recognition of the dumbass republics, it seems to have forgotten a recent page in his own history. in 2008 cost of it became europe's youngest country, off the nato's bombing gulf. the former yugoslavia, he's dining, armstrong takes a closer look at how that all 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 has rushed to brand rushes, recognition of the guns and the nets. republics, as a violation of international law. who in the lord's nameless prudence gives them the right to declare new, so call countries on territory the belonged, whose neighbors? the so flagrant violation of international law and demands of firm response from your national community. however, a look not too far back into the annals of history suggest that it might not be about respect for the law at all in 1099, nate, so completely bypass the u. n. by not seeking authorization for a bombing campaign in bel, great. even just one day is a long time in politics, but for $78.00 days straight, that the bombs rained down in serbia. it seems that no one in the west took time to ponder its legality. but then the killing of hundreds of civilians was handily explained the way as reasonable force under the chart 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 council should be involved in any decision to resort to the use of force. and not long after that history repeats itself. the usa didn't fancy waiting around for you and clearance on the invasion of iraq or whether it complied with international law. they simply went to war, that didn't exactly err on the side of legal either. a wall 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, 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 text. 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 peaceful 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 a total lack of awareness means they blindly accuse others of repeating their own history without ever gazing back at their own checkered past. or with a life becoming increasingly dangerous in dom bass, due to shelling by ukraine. many have been fleeing to russia are the visited, one of the temporary accommodation centers and heard from refugees about their hopes and fears. ah, your listeners, my children have grown up. my daughter works at medical university. she can't leave

and the grandchildren left with their mother. god willing they will stay safe. ah, i have arrived was just placed little bag and my sized back back. you know, we only brought the sensual 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 in the scene of them in 2014. we were harshly sheldon b cells were flying above our heads. we were constantly hiding in sellers. we were extremely terrified. that's why when we heard about the evacuation, we gave up everything and came here. ah,

we had children for the all fish come. we lot fun volunteers helped lot and even organized a little show for the children when the dodged the 1st day was very emotional. it helped us to cheer up, blah correspondent on quarter a. that's a temporary can for the evacuees in russia right now we can cross lie to him, dawn. good to see you. now. we've been told that thousands of people are making their way across the russian border. can you confirm that for us and just describe the situation at the camp for us? hi. there, nikki. well yes, that's true. actually, there have are now estimated to have been 810-0000 around 100000 evacuees from the don bus region that have fled into russia and made their way either to temporary areas for housing in the roster region or have made their way farther throughout different regions of the russian federation, but like you said, there is a temporary housing facility here where people basically come here from the don

boss region. and they spend only several hours in this specific camp. it's got tensed because this is actually where they register. they find out if they have relatives that they can go to in the russian federation, if they don't, than the authorities provide them with the location of a temporary housing facility where they could stay a little bit longer until they move on. we're actually right now you could see behind me, this is the border between the russian federation and the lugens people's republic that was recently recognized as independent by russia. we've been seeing people coming through this. you can see right now that's actually a bus of people coming through the border from lucon skin. they're going into the russian federation. this is mostly where we've been seeing people come in even by foot by car, but you know, it's also interesting. we also saw several groups of people going back to the login's, the people's republic. we can't confirm that they're going back because they felt

that perhaps where they lived was safe enough. but we have heard, actually, from tasks that yesterday, the rate of evacuees coming into the russian federation decreased for the 1st time since the evacuation began. so that could potentially be a good sign. we don't know, you know exactly why they were going that way, but they could be deciding to go back home. that could be what some people are deciding to do. now. don, thanks opinion is the latest from there and you'll be staying there of course and, and bring in as more throughout the coming hours and days. but for now, asi correspondent, don't quota. oh, thank you for joining us here in our scenes, national. we'd love to hear your thoughts on this story and everything else is to get in touch by following guys on social media and join is again the top of the article ah mm.