i the headlines right now, what are the few international, but don't stand off heath powerful explosion going off near a tv station in john? yes. and a newly recognized public choosing ukraine of ratcheting up showing a time. meantime, the leader of the don't. the people's republic denies western reports of russian troops entering the region. however, he does say they could be brought in if the conflict escalate. what the power to russia with a wave of sanctions. while moscow says storing energy prices are going to hurt consumers worldwide. and as we understand, tens of thousands of flat don bass and recent days by crossing the border into a neighboring russia era. naughty we speak to some of the refugees who were streamline. terrified. that's why. when we heard about the creation,

we gave up everything and came here. volunteers helped and even organize a little show for the children when they danced. the 1st i was very emotional, it helped us out with 20 people hours a day and life, and 100 countries worldwide. it's all the international where we like to question the mainstream narratives. ukraine's security and defense council has declared a nation wide emergency. it also made a point of excluding, don't, it's got to do guns from this. the recession though, still needs a nod from the countries parliament before coming into full effect. meanwhile, the tension and don bass remains. hi. this video was shared exclusively with see if a pointing to show the shelling of don yes. now, according to local authorities, 3 civilians were killed by ukraine's forces in the last 24 hours. and over in lieu guns, the militia report 2 civilians dead when a car was checked by and, and see tank missile were giving you lots of updates on the hour throughout the day

here on our team to national for the meantime. straight to don, yet the region with our senior correspondent this is the aftermath of an apparent car bombing that recently happened in the guns city, devastated during the war 7 years ago. violence has come anew to the separatist republic to the city, and the outskirts is another village that was hit over the course of this violent night, say $122.00 millimeter mortar round here, the bits of shrapnel that caused all this damage. cutting down power lines as well as blowing out windows in nearby houses. this happened again in the very early hours of the morning in these village, ironically named mary mountain locals are terrified when this ukrainian shell landed in the middle of their village. many were hiding in the basements,

which may have saved their lives. no people were heard. but the family dog wasn't so lucky. you can see 2 wounds in its head, a piece of shrapnel, apparently that went into either. it's on the back of the head and came out of the other side, given conditions. here are the violence and the lack of money from people here. the villages it is unlikely that this dogs schooling to get any help. this is the harsh reality of war at cheapens the value of life and mead fear and terror. people turn in woods, survival rather than charity or mercy becomes the priority than usual. yeah, i'm going to give you, they have no decency why till people are dying on the other side and we feel bad for them. my grand daughter and son are there and were being attacked hair. they behave like animals. it might make more sense if there was a military base hair,

some so just because nobody but pensioners in you accomplish that. why do you think they doing this out of hatred? this level of violence stretches for hundreds of kilometers. the entirety of the front line is a fire, like near by. 2 civilians were reportedly killed when a guided missile fired from the ukrainian side struck their vehicle, hours of parts. an explosive device apparently went off at the lou ganske tram depot with such force that thousands awoke in the middle of the night. people are exhausted, physically and psychologically wasted by 8 years of war. and so it goes on the violence and shelling and bombardment. it dulls at times, only to start up again with renewed ferocity. and there is no end in sight. diplomacy so far has failed. every one. on tuesday,

the federation council at rushes house gave the president permission to use military forces abroad to conduct us. so cold peacekeeping mission, lot of good and said it didn't mean that troops will be deployed immediately, but that decision putin says will depend on the situation on the ground. ukraine has blasted the decision calling an act of aggression. and the national security and defense council has declared a state of emergency new crimes president. let me, lindsey said, diplomatic relations with russia could now be severed. meanwhile, russia has started evacuating its diplomatic stuff from ukraine. this was confirmed by the russian embassy, and it said its staff ever increasingly become targets of aggression, including threats of physical violence. he can see some of the vans leaving russia a diplomatic mission in here. well, the us government insists russian forces are now in don bass. and that is the start of a russian invasion, or the leader of the don. yes,

people's republic says there are no russian troops in the region. well, let's try and clear this up. now i see the robot culture ref reports from don't you? oh, this was denise porcelain sir. first sir. press conference. a massive press conference, the after the announcement self recognition of an s people's republic by a russia. well, he started by saying that he still can believe that this historical decision was made and it's so still kind of, i think in, in on there were many journalists and the press conference. i included in a local russian and a foreign media as well didn't. he's pushing replied, that's a russian army is not present in finance. people's republic, however, he added that they could be here if they were needed, and that's in accordance with the agreement, signed with russia on the 21st of february. he added also in his bushland that sir denis people's republic will use any opportunity for peace as long as soon

as it presents itself, and indeed has been a far from a quiet here on the front lines ins anesco the last a few days in the special and said that ukraine had started using multiple rockets or launching systems. and also our c monitor emissions have confirmed that cease fire violations have been taken place over the last few days. and those allegations are all denied by official authorities in ah, key of for now, denise bushland ended. so the press conference by saying that says, this war must be ended as soon as possible. and the rebuilding of the economy should start and the improvement of peoples lives. as well, british lawmakers are considering further sanctions against russia over its recognition of the don units can lugens republics, the 1st batch targeted 5 bangs from the 3 wealthy individuals. and now it seems this channel artsy international is in the cross has of westminster,

straight to london. now let's look at the latest without either shot here. and it was actually following developments from the house of commons actually shot you just yesterday. the prime minister was against binding this channel artsy international, the what's changed? well, r t is in the spotlight here in the united kingdom for a 2nd day in a row. that's because m p 's calling for this very tunnel to be taken off. spearheading campaign is the leader of the opposition to kids, sama and in his words r t. s t t, as putin personal propaganda tool. and he's accusing it's jealous of spouting. disinformation. russia to day is his personal propaganda. i can see no reason why it should be allowed to continue to pro cost in this country. so will the promise to now i'll stop. com. to review its license a mix of peak, i believe get my bridegroom friends in the state for go to meet in school has

already all still come to review that massive thought. but what i will say this is speaker is it, is that we live in a, in a democracy, mrs. because we live in a country that believes in free speech. and i think it's important that we should leave it up to off comb rather than to politicians to decide which media roy, organizations a good back. that's what russia goes. so boris johnson says, this is a matter of common, not politicians, but at the very same time, the cultural secretary ne dean doris has written directly to off. com. the british broadcasting regulate to have in the u. k. telling it to take action against this channel. now, um is an independent body, but it does have the power to fine or even revoke the license to broadcast. here in the u. k. of come has already said it is going to investigate. examine complaints about ortiz coverage, specifically about at the crisis in ukraine as

a priority. so it is keeping a close eye on us then, but it's simply not good enough for the government. the government wants to see this channel taken off that because as the letter reads, r t, as part of russia's global this information campaign. and that it's essential the u . k. limits russia spread of state propaganda at home. so it is interesting to see a cabinet member, a high, high, high politician here in the u. k. weighing and despite the problem is the same. it's not as a job on politicians to weigh in such matters and if they do so well, the u. k. would be as bad as russia, but 2 things really are quite striking in all of this fancy. the fact that i'm calling for our kids to be shut down in the 1st quite a slippery slope, specifically about free speech as a fundamental principle, u. k. held itself on the fundamental principles of free speech, the right to tell all sides of the same story and encouraging the british public to engage in critical thinking and not just accepting of the u. k. government line.

secondly, though, for that matter, is this an issue of state sponsorship because if it is an issue of state sponsorship, then we have to look at the b, b. c dot to is sponsored by the state. by the way, just to mention last year, when china bomb the b, b. c world service i was early last year in 2021. the u. k. government slammed that move as an unacceptable tailing of media freedom. they were the headlines at the time, so it does seem somewhat hypocritical at this point, but just to read the off come statement that has been released, all licensees must observe of comes rules, including due accuracy and impartiality. if broad causes break those rules, we will not hesitate to step in so that the rules in black and white and just like any of the news channel here in the u. k. b at sky news, the bbc channel for you name it all to also have the play by exactly the same of com rules shadow. thank you. now after the kremlin decision to

recognise the independence of lugens don yes or the west at suddenly announced this was the beginning of a russian invasion of ukraine and swiftly triggered a barrage of punishment. that is countries to join the sanctions against russia, australia, and japan. and moscow has warmed though that the measures are likely to end up hitting and tended 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. secretary of state antony, blinking his council meeting with his russian counterpart sort of a laugh at all, saying he sees no point after moscow recognised that. don bath. republics. it comes out to us, unveiled it sanctions. these will target large financial institutions as well as our russian individuals and their family members. the criminal claims are these punitive measures as well. just like for europe in ones will only ultimately backfire. well the you is also rolled out. fresh sanctions are pumping its top diplomat to drug on twitter that they would be no more shopping in milan and partying, and found a, a. joe's at borrow seems to have regretted that though he swiftly deleted that tweet or more on the european reaction. now we go now to berlin with artes paul, asleep was heard from the 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 they will be infinitely more damaging sanctions coming back 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, form is or what should people here live off image. how do we want to buy fracking gas from the usa or did us america and canada also get their gas from russia, but no one is talking about it. and yet they want us to turn our taps off. 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 that 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 part. now. we felt food. i 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 auto. 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. wolfe threaten to crush the economy. we've heard from the nato secretary general yann's sultan burg, 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 allied 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 her foreign policy under the threat of restrictions. there have always been restrictions from the waist on russia. he says, this comes as the united nations continues to refuse to call what is happening in the donna best 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 where the reaction to the latest and easter crane is coming in every

hour by the hour here at archie. now the british defense secretary has lost out a president, bowden over his recognition of the don boss. republics. a ben wallace who's a former soldier, went as far as suggesting the u. k. could even fight russia and when, claiming it did just that. the crimean war by the way, we can speak with maximilian craw, a member of the european parliament, representing the alternative germany party. welcome to the program. it's great to see you this afternoon. you've been listening to the reports just now from both us and correspondence. we have to assume that ben wallace wasn't being entirely serious when he said that britain could kick rushes back side. but i guess it a pretty dangerous words on thing. i mean, obviously, and of course you have to ask, but this is the right way to what you late,

but i mean, or do i have to criticize a lot on the rich position i've, i'm sure this is multi official, a british position, at least here in germany, even those are the most with the popes there we will not go to a new eastern front. so they do this early as they are, as the reason and the justification for, for sanction. but even the rest of phillips don't want to to do it to the front. and so far i think the britain just should think about what they say, but that is not on the table. we're getting really contrasting opinions, my wife say in various outlets of the media these days. maximilian, a russia right now says it's only interested in bringing peace to don bass america and the u. k. say russia is already invading who's? who's right here. mister cro? i mean, if you compare it to the last time, chris,

you would say russia because obviously exactly the same game that one neighboring country is accepting, or recognizing a part of another country as independent to protect. people have to same t. so it's clear you can compare us with more pipe group. i have never heard nothing about thanks and again, turkey because of record nation of the republic. but we have seen that we have so much anti russian rhetoric in the last month. and, you know, even gave the exec date of the, the invasion was thought. now they need something to play in, in their home country and to justify the politics they made in the last month. the idea that we didn't see any change in areas they are under control of the

park to republic. now, due to the fact that they are recognized by the russian government, there is no change yet. but it's not just having the better argument about communication and at least in western years of the russian communication when it comes to ukraine. and the tone is to say, politely, not very successful. so it's easy to bring the public up into a mood that is very critical to watch russia and it doesn't matter how to pick mr cross, just about an hour or so ago the we basically witnessed what was the 1st ever international press conference coming out of the eastern ukraine with a denise put she'll in and some other officials at denise being the leader of the people's republic. really had an awful lot of interesting comments to say about the current situation that he was saying that right now there are no russian troops in

this region, although he said they could come in if the situation escalates up a shilling was saying, and he was saying that the troop build up in the republics is a direct response to ukraine's troop build up along the border per shilling was saying, we need a dialogue to piece key of recently saying we're not going to talk to them anymore . now key ever similar saying the channels are open for a dialogue to piece. do you think there can be a dialogue to move forward here? i mean, it was again, the key was cheating. i mean, the medical agreement was very, very favorable. and my wife to the, to do republics gun because the mis agreement that we have direct negotiation between key f and those gun and key has to accept some legislation of autonomy. and he for the separatist movement

and praying parliament did not fulfil their obligation out of me while now almost 8 years. and now with the day, with the union recognition of the independence. here, if you can say free of allegation because they can say, now the russians obviously step down from the reman at no one is asking why he trusted them in agreement anymore. and this is what i say a lot about right or wrong about protection and communication. and politics quite often, perception constitutes reality, the taxi make reality. and the ups truck that the main agreement. now the rushing up that you obstructed for a year. there is no means human anymore. we reco independent and now to say ok, we can talk because they know that meter guns can want to talk anymore.

you know, it's just the trick to create a protection that may have nothing to do with reality. but which is a useful tool to influence public opinion in the way. and that is the big problem. and that is why, why i think that there are many good reasons to recognize the don versus independent, but the way how it was performed and the communication which is being part of the political process makes it extremely hot to, to argue in western public. that does the problem. maximillian. the decrees recently signed by the russian president vladimir putin, after essentially christened the republic says independent or sovereign states. so the decrees make wafer for both republics in russia to share the territory to show he can make benefits as well. it clears the way for russia to set up essentially

military hardware in the regions of these republics. when you look at the western media, the western media describes a very gory russian invasion plan of ukraine talking about blood letting on the streets. and it really, really hard core, you know, it's pretty wiring stuff in the western western media reports. putin keep saying there's a peacekeeping mission. he wants peace in the region who is more hungry for war in this situation. do you think there is? i mean, i'm, you know, brussels and i would say, i see myself among warmongers. there are a lot of colleagues who, who have at least when you listen to them, then they make a policy that leap into conflict. why? because they don't want to have europe rational, especially they don't want to have a german russian partnership, and they created

a tougher conflict in the ukraine, and then they use, this is they know, this is the tool to destroy every partnership. and you see the moultrie him to they destroy him to buy the conflict a created. and so it is clear that there are influential set of them the way that one to have conflict because the conflict is needed to attack partnership debt . that is of you, and if we come to the door, i mean, you know, the ukraine is when you look at economic data, it is a failure. i mean, they last about one 3rd of the population. the consent and their d. p now is about one 3rd of the russian. if you take inflation into consideration, they are down at the end of the soviet union. so the ukranian independence is mother success story and 8 on yep. and no gun become

a success story. this could be on the long term a good argument to show to people that and ukraine, that they may, should think about to change their politicians. but right now, i mean, don't you guys have lost a lot of people in the last 8 years. they have a lot of economic problems to know this is a very long term strategy to say, you know, rebuild, who got going on yet, and make an example on how you could, you could look like when it gets rid of the regime. and here probably that the idea behind it, i didn't know if i'm rushing of course i didn't the russian. but in those we probably, there is no different problem now to the floor. of course, it is a very harsh diplomatic. moved it. and those who want to have a conflict,

they will interpret and frame us in a way that it's really a track to every policy. what was a lot of movement, mister crow, a lot of movement, i guess we could say across that of the geopolitical chessboard. maximillian cry, member of the european parliament hopefully still early days yet no need to panic quite yet. thanks so much for your time. we enjoy. thank you very much. thank you my what, what would life ultimately becoming increasingly dangerous and don bass, due to the ongoing shutting there that is coming from both sides. people have been fleeing here. so russia, we visited one of the temporary accommodation centers and spoke with a few of the refugees. ah, 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, listen of her i have arrived was just placed little bag and my son's back back. 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. ah, she didn't do this scene of them be in 2014. we were harshly shelled. b sales were flying above our heads. we were 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 office come, we lot fun. volunteers helped law and even organized a little show for the children when the dodged. the 1st i was very emotional. they helped us to cheer up with a full day of development out of ukraine. recovering all the bases here at archie international. if you missed the 1st ever press conference from officials in the don bass check, our website, or youtube channel for their comments, they say there are no russian troops in the region, but they said they could come if the situation escalates. we're back soup with ah oh, when i was showing wrong when i just don't oh, i mean you world yes to shape out disdain becomes the advocate and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart,

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