i ah, without headlines right now when our genes are national pensions mounting in dawn bass with a massive explosion going off near a t v station in yes. and the newly recognized republic accusing ukraine of ratcheting up telling us that a fresh wave of sanctions target moscow. russia wanted the global energy market on which the most pain will be inflicted. that has a defensive decision to protect the russian speaking population of don bass from shunning, attack, spending, violence, resign more than 100000. people played the danger there in recent days by crossing the border into neighboring russia. there on this, china, we speak to some of the refugees. extremely terrified. that's why when we heard about the vaccination, we gave up everything and team here. volunteers helped low and even organize

a little show for the children with the dogs. first, i was very emotional, helpless to cheer up. with questioning the mainstream narrative and a 100 countries worldwide 24 hours a day. this is ancy international, ukraine's at security and defense council has declared a nationwide emergency. it also made a point of excluding don, yet scan lugens from this. the position that still needs are not from the countries parliament before coming into full force. meanwhile, the tension in dawn bass remains high. this video was a shade exclusively with r t and boss to show the shelling of don. yet, according to local authorities, 3 civilians were killed by ukraine's forces in the last 24 hours. and over new guns, the militia reports 2 civilians were killed when a car was hit by an anti tank missile. of correspondence from cause a ref. and what i'd gas d a report from both of the republics. it is a little bit comic here in la guns that it was yesterday for example,

or the night will 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 lines. 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, a 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 la guns 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 glass and caused all sorts of damage at the depot. given that it was in the early hours of the morning, there are no reports of civilian casualties. a civilian house was also hits, it's course and the optimism is being tempered by by reality here. and we ality here is such that there is no telling when and how this will and said, knew 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 that the means agreements and perhaps something here in the solution will be a military one. the blast occurred here in john s get around, so 1 am, it was a, it happened at a guarded t. v station and not far away from our where we are right now. the blast. well, when it took place, there were employees there, the t v station, the station is called is 1st sir republican channel around bo doesn't. so employees

were at work at that point. fortunately, on no one, no was heard, was heard in the plaza, and apparently it was an explosive device. now we went to the scene where it happened sans and spoke to some of the employees. and this is what they told us about their experience. we previous earliest monthly 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 to proceed with them off 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. active as we understand, the war is not only at the front line, 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. now are shelling hearings, anesco hasn't been as the 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 said multiple, a rocket launchers had been used by the ukranian, a 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 label across the front line. however, ukrainian authorities are denying and he sees far violations and also denying allegations by their 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've been here since the very beginning of the all 6 in 2014 and their,

their mission is their task is to deliver of food. i heating coal. oh, drinking water technical water to all the residents that live closer to the front lines. and we went on one of their emissions on a tuesday when that they were delivering a water tank said to the village of u lenika, that was a shell the multiple times. and as the result there, a water supply had been cut all funded a, around the $20000.00 residents in the village and around that area have no access to drink in water or technical water whatsoever. now we spoke to the head of the international committee of the red cross submission here in dunham kenda. this is his view on the current situation. the international committee of the red cross is very concerned about the developments we have witnessed in the dorm bus over the past few days. and times of conflict and violence. it is essential that old 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 content, if you cation 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 without 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 the 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. and 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 life. on tuesday,

the federation council of russia's upper house gave the president permission to use military forces abroad to conduct a so called peace keeping mission. ukraine blasted out, calling it an active aggression of lot of my food and said it didn't mean that troops wouldn't be deployed immediately. that decision, according to pro 10, will depend on the situation on the ground. if you'd like me to let you know that now after the criminal decision to recognize the independence of new guns and on yet, the west accused russia of launching an invasion and swiftly triggered a barrage of punishment. the late this countries that you're joined the sanctions against russia, australia, and japan. moscow's warm 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 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. meanwhile, the u. s. a secretary of state anthony, blinking his council meeting with his russian counterpart soaker, laughed off, saying he sees no pointed it after moscow recognized that don bath republics come to us unveiled at sanctions a little target to large financial institutions, as well as russian individuals and family members, the criminal claims these are punitive measures to like the european ones will only back fire of the e. u is also rolled out. fresh sanctions are pumping its top diplomat to joke on twitter that there would be no more shopping in milan and parting in central pe. joseph burrow seems to have regretted that though he swiftly deleted that tweed with more on the whole european reaction, his correspondent policy. this is her sunday st finance minister who has last out

at the north stream to 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 there 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. now, the german chancellor has halted the certification process of the north stream cute project that was supposed to bring natural gas directly from russia into northern germany. it is a 750 mile under water pipeline, and its indefinite suspension has been met with anger and in some quarters,

disbelief here in germany. fun is all. what should people here live off? you men shout, do we want to buy fracking gas from the usa or did us america and canada also get my gas from russia, but no one is talking about it. and yet they want us to turn our top. so foster, 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 sir, that again, it's being played out as political level given because of course, you need to have some sort of leverage. but russia has always been a reliable particles, kelly, which bathroom 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 outdoor now the german industry association bd, i has issued an unusually harsh warning saying that any kind of further increases in energy and gas gas prices was threatened to crush the economy. we've heard from the nato secretary general yonce,

ultimately saying that the most dangerous moment for european 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 at the same time, we are hearing from frances foreign ministry that they don't see signs of a invasion happening any time soon. or as of yet, at the same time, we know that more than a 100 nato, a croft on high end of it, and some 120 ally ships are underway. now, the russian ambassador to the united states has said that history has shown that sanctions do not work. and he says that russia will not revive hooked foreign policy under the threat 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 developments and bring them to you throughout the course of the day. so with our life becoming increasingly dangerous in don bash due to the ongoing shelling there, a huge number of people have been fleeing to russia. a correspond that is donald quarter, he reports my temporary shelter. the new arrivals around the recent estimate suggests that around 100000 evacuees from the don boss region have made their way into the russian federation. since this evacuation began and right behind me, you can see the border actually between the russian federation and specifically the lugens people's republic that was just recognized as independent by russia. there's also the dynamic peoples republic, but that's a bit farther away. now you could see i'm wearing

a bullet proof vest here. the border situation is fine it's, it's very actually safe. but there have been a couple instances of shells falling on to artillery shells falling on to russian territory. so, you know, it's just for protective measure, but like you said, there is also a temporary housing facility here, just about 500 meters away from where i am right now from this border where the evacuees are being sent to for just a number of hours to basically register and for the authorities to find out if they have family members that they can go live with in the russian federation. and if not, they are issued an address of another temporary holding fee of housing facility enrol, stove region, where they can go to for perhaps a day or 2. and then they're going to be moved on to other russian regents for longer term state. now, we have also seen here a lot of people still coming out from the lugens people's republic into the russian

federation. we've seen people traveling on foot in groups. we've seen cars coming even buses. so obviously a vacuum are still making their way into russia. but we did hear something interesting yesterday tasks reported that the rate at which the, the evacuees are coming to the russian federation had decreased for the 1st time since the evacuation. and actually we have seen some groups of people coming from the russian side into the logan's people's republic side. and we saw several buses make their way there and asked, asked one woman if she was returning home. and she said yes. so that is something we've seen here that we can't confirm it. that's why everyone, if, if that's why all the people going to the lugens side are doing that. but it could be a good sign. it could mean that people are finally are starting to see that the situation is perhaps better and that they can return to their homes. but of course we can't confirmed that. that's just what we're beat, what we've been seeing at this border and it's just a one border checkpoint of many that that are on the border between the longest

people's republic bank people's republic and russia. well, it is also a visitor, one of the temporary accommodation centers and, and how it from some of the refugees that 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 a right, let's just place little bag and massage back here. we only brought essential documents and if you close, we didn't managed to bring per saw. thanks such

a shampoo or so we're given that here. mm hm. i do not see them in 2014. we were harshly sheldon. he sells were flying above our heads. we were constantly hiding in sellers who 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 love fun. volunteers helped law and even organized a little show for the children when they danced the 1st day was very emotional. it helped us to cheer up. that's across live now to foreign affairs journalist. i daniel that all of these joining us from rome to take this a discussion a bit further here on our, to international a very good afternoon to use. our thanks for coming on the program with us. i'll just ask you a very straight question. if i may have the western media is, are right now, reporting that

a russian invasion of ukraine has begun. the russian president vladimir putin as calling it a peacekeeping mission. in that part of eastern ukraine, who is right. i don't know, probably the looking decision to go inside a region 2 years ago a to 2 days ago. hm. now what's gonna happen really happens, so many 30 in community is now going to norma. we peacekeeping functions bought them from the western powers point of view. these got on the animation too, so probably, and then that's why i'm not trying to grab an agreement policy field because from the russian point of view is not an invasion. but is that a key is keeping me shut, and on the other side of the, of the,

of the facts. you have the western power train, of course, that doesn't want to allow that. you gave russian army is guy is going to go inside the region. 130 in the u. s. secretary of state i was suppose to hold talks with his russian counterpart that's been canceled. i washington now saying there's absolutely a 0 point. do you believe it? can diplomacy still prevail in this crisis? good job. i didn't just yesterday, a diplomacy an opportunity and through this, this communication field and communication battle between boston and russia and the day after that he's now going to, he's meeting and so the next few days,

there's no chance that the 2 box can can meet each other and try to wear some diplomacy and the field, the policy time and the policy. but i hope i'm, well, it's going to happen in the next the next week. probably. and i hope that the policy is gonna restart again. your new way to solve this, some of these are the points in the new decrees that were signed by the russian president, president vladimir putin, is that a russia on these republics can share, can share all sorts of things, including economic stuff, also that of military hardware as well, it does even clear the way for put into set up military bases in these regions. if, if that is, if that is the case. and it does seem that although put and causes a peacekeeping mission, it does seem that all of his western professional partner counterparts are all saying something quite quite different. do you think the likelihood of war in the

wake of putin's recognition and announcement has now increased and probably something i think so when the counterpart, so the ukraine a now the, the black sea and also a better was a mass of the region and to try to protect a big rush, i'm hoping that russia is going to go back to protect them. so i think it's kind of an aftermarket situation with something that wasn't our b,

russia to a who so from, from now on, it's to say, when and where in the russian army going off and who made the most reach them and to try to really protect people leading that and the sure peace between you, great and dom us regional or if you're russian, all of these are not going to go there to try to go where mom every easy and even here only days yet a journalist daniel de la go joining us live here on auto international. we appreciate that. thank you very much here. so while the west is busy, punishing russia for its recognition of the don bass. republics, it seems perhaps attention spans nowadays are running fairly short. back in 2008

cause of a became europe. youngest country, author nato's bombing of the former yugoslavia. a correspondent, danny armstrong, takes a closer look now 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 is worst of bran. russia's recognition of the la guns and the nets, republics, as a violation of international law. who in the lord's name was prudent, gives them a right to declare new, so cor, countries on territory the belonged, whose neighbors? the so flagrant violation of international law and demands of firm response from the national community. however, 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 textbook. washington was full of congratulations for costs of 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 it's hopeful, lack of awareness, means a blindly accuse others of repeating their own history without ever gazing back at their own checkered past. or shifting gears to canada. now where there's continued public anger from coast to coast, after a high profile organizer of riley's against covey restrictions was denied bail.

peter oliver fall. this report from ottawa, walter, with streets to remain clear from protesters, but the repercussions from the major police operation that went in to clearing the streets while they continued to rumble. all lawyers representing some of those who were arrested during that operation, say their clients rights may have been trampled on the police right now and are out of control. the current interim chief that took over from the departed chief slowly, whoever's dealing with their social media and the, the threats, the sort of type threats that are coming across from the, the ottawa police twitter account. and then the police down on the ground are completely out of control right now. there is no doubt that the emergency act gave the police greater powers. there's no doubt about that. but they didn't give the police unlimited powers protest leader, tomato, late to was among those arrested by police was denied fail on tuesday. she's facing

challenges that could lead to up to 10 years in prison. also was acting police chief and candidate deputy prime minister. both said that there will be retrospective charges against those who took part. if you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges. absolutely. our country has been in this state of emergency many times before, 911, the shooting at parliament hill tonight, a couple. and we have never invoked the emergency act as scans simply has stated. this is a necessary government overreach going after people for prosecution after the fact has drawn comparisons with the storming of the capital in washington, dc, and 2021, something which should be avoided. the law is what we saw in canada. particularly auto was nothing at all like what took place in the united states and there january 6th. i know a lot of people from dishonest brokers from before the protest even began. we're

trying to frame it that way and wanted it to be can as january 6th. that certainly wasn't the case earlier this week and a vote in the house of commons m p. 's upheld prime minister just intruders decision to invoke the emergencies act. it gave police the power in order to get people out of their camps in the streets of altura, but opposition politicians have said it was akin to using a sledge hammer to crockett not ha, lowered the temperature across the country. the prime minister clearly wants to raise and it comes up the cost to canadians, rights and freedoms. speaker, parliament should not allow the prime minister to avoid responsibility in this way . i think what we're doing today, the president, we're setting to be able to freeze bank accounts of political dissidence. the be important about cannot be understated. the conduct of offices towards the protest is, remains controversial with

a number of people looking to bring cases against the or to a police, the heavy harm the tactics. then we see now with the next leg up where we've seen a very aggressive police presence in police operation, the use of mounted police units, one woman was trampled out. we've also seen our c, m p. text messages that were going on in a private chat where they were, where they were sort of making light of the use of force of the tactics that were going to be used. oh, the so called freedom called voice, which wound its way to walk to was started out as a protest by some truckers against mandatory coven vaccinations. across the us border for work they spiraled into demonstrations encompassing a host of people angry with the current canadian government. hundreds have been arrested. then numbers may be added to the prime minister trudeau and his supporters continue to insist that the emergencies act was necessary. he,

while hundreds of people who came here to also add to protest left wondering if that next knock at the door may well be from the police coming to arrest them. be sure all of a r t, all to canada. i just talking a half or 2 in the afternoon on wednesday here at moscow half past 1 in don bass republics where we are keeping our correspondents embedded in the region with updates throughout the afternoon and the evening here when arching international, appreciate your spending your time with us here were baxon with more ah ah ah.