and there is nothing nato can do about it. ah don bass leader say ukrainian forces have stepped up cross border shell fire in the wake of russia's recognition of the new republics. and the head of the don. yes, peoples republic deny is western reports of russian troops entering the area while saying they could be brought in, if indeed, that conflict escalates further. western powers at russia with the wave of sanctions. but moscow says, soaring energy prices are going to hurt consumers worldwide. and as we understand, the 10s of thousands of people have fled the dorm vast and recent days by crossing the border at a neighboring russia. here on the program, we speak to some of the refugees move stream. the terrified that's why when we

heard about the vacation, we gave up everything and came here. volunteers helped a lot and even organized a little show for the children with it does the 1st day was very emotional, it helped us to cheer up with . so with all eyes on ukraine, particularly after the 1st, i have a press conference with the leadership of the don bass. we continue. our special coverage for you here were not international. ukraine's at security and defense council has declared a nation wide emergency. it also made a point of excluding don, yet scan lugens from this. the position bows still need to nod from the countries parliament before coming into full effect. the where you can hear the explosions in the background. there was

a stand off continues to rage in the new transcript public. this video was shad exclusively without c and, and in the background there. and some of the pictures of village was being bun, local official, say, 2 civilians were killed when a car was hit by an anti tank missiles. and the following exclusive video is showing the the results of a mortar attack on the city of don. yes. authorities, a 3 civilians have been killed by the ukrainian military in the last 24 hours. so straight to the region with our senior correspondent, his mother, i guess be this is the aftermath of an apparent car bombing that recently happened in the gods 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 house. as 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 hurt, 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 its eye or 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 scurrying to get any help. this is the harsh reality of war and cheapens the value of life amid fear and terror,

people turn in woods survival rather than charity or mercy becomes the priority. they have been usually hot and then came of 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 her. they behave like animals, it might make more sense if there was an industry base has some soldiers, there's nobody but pensioners continue to do. accomplish that, why do you think, doing this hatred, these 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 chilling 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, that's russia's upper house, it ultimately gave the president permission to use military forces abroad to conduct a so called peace keeping mission. vladimir putin said he didn't mean that troops would be deployed immediately. that decision putin says will depend on the situation on the ground when ukraine blasted that, calling it an act of aggression in ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has said diplomatic relations with russia could now be 7. meanwhile, russia has started evacuating as diplomatic staff from ukraine. this was confirmed by the russian embassy in kiev,

says his staff of increasingly become targets of aggression, including threats of physical violence. and hey, you can see some mini vans are leaving rushes, diplomatic mission in here. while the u. s. president joe biden insists the russian forces are now in the don bass, and it's the start of a huge invasion, or that the leader of the don't gets people's republic says there are no russian troops in the region. well, parties were man casa refiled. this report from don yeske put all this was denise porcelain sir, 1st press conference, or a massive press conference, or 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 still kind of a sink in, in. um, there were many journalists and the press conference, i included in a local russian and a foreign media as well did. and 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 it's been a far from a quiet here on the front lines ins anesco for the last a few days. any special and said that ukraine had started using multiple rockets or launching systems and they're also always c, monitor emission have confirmed that cease fire violations have been taken place. so 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 as the various sanctions of being announced to target russia. british lawmakers, a considering even more sanctions over russia's recognition of the dawn. yet scan lugens republics. the 1st batch targeted 5 banks and several wealthy russian families. and now this channel archie international is apparently in the firing line, reporting from london shantia. it was dusty. well r t is in this spotlight having the united kingdom for 2nd day in a row. that's because and peace calling for this very channel to be taken off as spearheading that campaign is the leader of the opposition to kiss star. huh. and in his words, r t a c. as putin's personal propaganda tool and he's accusing it's jealous of spouting, disinformation. russia today 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 premise to now i'll stop calm. to review his license, i need to speak,

i believe that my writing friend secretary state for go to median school has already all still come to review that nasa. but what i will say this is speaker is that is that we live in a, in a democracy, mrs. because we live into a country that believes in free speech. and i think that important that we should leave it up to off comb rather than to politicians to decide which media roy organizations i took back. that's what russia goes off. come has already said it is going to investigate. examine complaints about ortiz coverage, but 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, auntie as part of russia's global disinformation campaign. and that it's essentially 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 in despite the prime minister saying it's not the job of politicians to weigh in in such matters. and if they do so well, the u. k. would be as bad as russia. the 2 things really are quite striking in order to, especially the fact that cooling for ought to be shut down in the 1st place. quite a slippery slope specifically, about speech as a fundamental principle, do you pay held itself on the fundamental principles of free speech, the rights to tell all sides of the same story, any courage in 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 banned the bbc world service that 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 con statement that has been released, all licensees must observe off comes rules, including ju accuracy, and ju impartiality. if broadcast is 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, it sky news, the baby c channel for your name, it r t also has to play by exactly the same off com rules after the criminal and decision to recognize the independence of lugens. and on yet, the west suddenly announced that the russian military was invading ukraine just because the western headlines today. so swiftly, a barrage of punishment was dispatched. now, let us countries to join the sanctions against russia include australia and japan.

but moscow was wanting. however, though the measures i'd 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 us secretary of state antony blanket has council meeting with his russian counterpart. so to leverage saying, he sees no point in it after moscow recognized the dawn bash republics. it comes as a us unveiled its sanctions, ultimately targeting large banks and russia as well as wealthy russian families and

their friends. the criminal claims these punitive measures to like the european ones, will only backfire but it doesn't stop there. the e u is also rolled out. fresh sanctions prompting its top diplomat to joke on twitter. now there would be no more shopping in milan and parting in san troy. pe, joseph burrell. seems to have perhaps regretted that he swiftly deleted the tweet, but was more on the european reaction. let's go to our correspondent now. his policy was, 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 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 to 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 on. what should people here live off you mention done? 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 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 serve us 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 partner else can we proceed?

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 outta now the german industry association, b t. i has issued an unusually harsh warning, saying that any kind of further increases in energy and gas gas prices. wolf threatened to crush the economy. we've heard from the nato secretary general young, 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 alike 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 hook 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 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, from berlin to london, where the british defense secretary has lashed out at president putin over putin's recognition of the don boss republics. ben wallace, who's a former soldier, went as far as addressing the u. k. could even fight russia and when failing,

it did just that. the crimean war by the way and get away. i know that's bringing robin taylor burke. now a chairman of the english democrats party joining us a lie from essex. great to see this afternoon. thanks so much for joining us. you've heard you've heard by wallace. they're addressing soldiers and joking about going to war with russia. not all of them seemed entirely amused. do you think, comments like that? could be a cause for concern? let's face it is part of consistent publication, right? as far as concern, ever since the full or the soviet union. when those talk about how russia in fact what, what, what was actually happened is consistent attempts to try and sort of clamped down a rush or push the boundaries back. incorporate many former soviet countries into nato. and there was talk quite recently of bringing the ukraine into nato.

is there is a consistent hypocrisy in the way that russia is treated by comparison. if you think of china, china and all sorts of things that the west would be saying is acceptable, but in fact, nothing happens in the way of sanctions from it. those war business been done that has a business ruling the day that so much chinese money goes into europe. you know, it's no surprise they, they wouldn't respond with sanctions on china, but this is mr. cooper. we've got 2 completely different narratives going on right now. western media, western leaders are saying that russia has started the invasion that it's under way . russia are saying it's just trying to keep the peace and doesn't have any troops in the dawn back to totally contrasting opinions here. what's your view?

oh, i'm inclined to agree that they've invasion, hadn't started if it, if it had started, then i think it would be impossible to deny that it would be they would, they would be able to produce evidence to show that that was the case. and also, what we're talking about is what would be a loss of tanks that could be seen from satellites. so that they'd be able to produce pictures to prove it with the crisis. as you know, it's been building up a month with russia, demanding a whole to nato expansion and, and the us and it's allies basically dismissing that out of hand. it is fair to say that russia's demands what we're sensually ignored. do you think, do you think western powers you should have tried harder to negotiate and perhaps resolve this earlier on? well, i think the, the trouble already started back when they supported the, the coup against the new, the re elected president of the, of the, of the ukraine, who was,

who was somebody who supported alliance with russia. and we, then we then had a situation where russia was being expected to lose its black sea fleet, faith in the crime and for a country that after all, only came into existence in $991.00. and it has always been a ever since then a mish mash of different ethnicities. ready and national identities. so i do think people are talking about in the west and talking about the ukraine as if it's always been a nation state when it hasn't. and that's, that's where limits the misconceptions start with the topic. i wanted to ask you about the latest sanctions, not russia is basically being bombarded with sanctions as you and be a speaking right now. the most immediate result, basically,

oil and gas prices going through the roof, which is actually at the end of the day helping russia. is there any evidence mr. phillip or good sanctions, or a useful tool in diplomacy? no, no, no evidence at all. having said that, basically what, what you've got is western circle, western leaders basically they're, they're posing as if they're doing something. there's in fact, they're not really doing anything. a tool is just the domestic consumption to make out more active than they really are. but i think there's a lot of noise they may, you reported something ridiculous just before where the defense secretary was trying to make out what we could invade the crime air again to talk about a propagation subsidy. what mr. tobler, let's address some of these to crease signed by the russian president ultimately met paving the way for,

for all sorts of cooperation to happen between russia and his republics. and among the certain point of the decrees, it is the allowance of, of the russian military to be allowed onto the territory of these republics. putin, if he wanted to could now set up military bases and barracks and so on and so forth . do you think with the position we're in right now? you think war is more likely or not but well, i can't see the ukrainian being able to attack and if they did, then obviously that would be eliminated. but i should think it would be pretty, pretty quickly. you could. it's not part of nato, so there's no basis on which western armies and scotts garza ms. wallace was talking about could get involved. i can't see how it could become a full, full on suiting 3rd world wars. but the trouble with war. ready is that it's very

predictable and never quite know how far things are going to go, but that doesn't have him look at it. it's potentially early days yet. mr. phillip rocha, there's an awful lot of positioning going on right now when it comes to the geopolitical chessboard, a little bouts of brinkman ship. i wanted to ask you though, at the end of the day or the media headlines, say that, you know, it's going to be a war between russia and ukraine and yet, many is saying, no, it won't be. ukraine will be the staging ground. ukraine will be the battle ground at the end of the day is going to be another proxy war between russia and the u. s . a. nate, so what, what do you, what do you say about oh, what, what one of the things i say to that is that we said they shouldn't go out into the kind of situation where we were trying to interfere things in the areas we had our role been part of rushes to have influence taking right back to the 18th century.

catherine, the great why us would we think that that is an area that we should be interfering with. i just think it's, it's crazy, strategic thinking on the part of western leaders. we saw today mr. phillip or the 1st ever press conference are broadcast around the world from these republics and eastern ukraine. and we had the leadership of don. yes. republic people's republic speak into the press and i'm getting a lot of questions answered that i didn't see any coverage of his press conference in certain western media outlets. i thought i saw 0 coverage. why do you think that is? well, i did see one of the nice, laughable things that was being said in your report earlier about jumping down and moving license for the fact is, russian today is reports all sorts of stories from all sorts of sides. it is, it is far more free speech than most of the media that we have to deal with in

england. you mentioned the b, b, c, vc doesn't, the portal side. it records only its own agenda sides. and so consequently, for instance, in the whole career of ours metro situation that they didn't report and they refused to report anybody who is at all questioning about governance narrative. it's quite a limited reporting of whatever the state supported to support and kissed or talk about free speech. labor's record on that is actually terrible. robin taylor burke, chairman of the english democrats party. joining us live here and archie, internationalist, and very interesting commentary. thank you very much for your time. thank you. so we have a life basically becoming more dangerous and complicated, and don bass due to the shelling ongoing that people have been fleeing to russia.

we visited one of the temporary accommodation centers and spoke with just a few of the refuge. 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, i have her right, was just place little bag and my son's back. you know, we only brought the sensual documents and if you close, we didn't manage to bring per saw, think such a shampoo or so we're given that here. mm.

she didn't do the scene of them in 2014. we were hostile. sheldon b cells were flying above all head but were constantly hiding and sellers were extremely terrified. that's why when we heard about the vaccination, we gave up everything and came here. ah, we had children for the all fish cause we lot fun volunteers helped law and even organized a little show for the children when they dodged. the 1st i was very emotional. they helped us to cheer up while i so while various are western leaders in western countries are very busy, punishing russia right now for his recognition of the don bass. republics, it does seem, perhaps that attention spans these days are running rather short. just back to 2008, cause of i became europe's youngest country, often nato's bombing of the former yugoslavia. let's have a quick but close look now with danny armstrong, 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 at the new ganske and the nets. republics, as a violation of international law. who in the lord's name was prudent, think gives them the right to declare new, so call countries on territory the belonged whose neighbors? this is a flagrant violation of international law and demands a firm response from the national community. however, a 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. me

the news but then the killing of hundreds of civilians was handily explained the way as reasonable force under the char to 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 repeats itself, the usa bit fancy waiting around for you and 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 text book. washington was full of congratulations for cost of off the recognizing its independence in light of the conflict. if the $900.00 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 a deering to tradition as regards lugens and the next 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 nato, it seems a total lack of awareness means they blindly accuse others of repeating.