ah, the ah, the leaders say ukrainian food stamps are cross border shell. fire in russia. recognize the new republics. the head of the people's republic denies western revolt of russian troops entering the area while thing they could be brought in, if the conflict escalate further. western powers hate russia with a wave of sanction. while moscow says soaring, energy fraud, who are going to hunt consumers worldwide. who's welcome to international law from moscow. i'm daniel hawkins. review this evening. welcome to the program. now ukraine's security council has announced the state of

emergency over the dumbass crisis. the measures which require parliamentary approval are likely to include transport restrictions and true deployments to protect national infrastructure. meanwhile, the stand off continues to raise the nets and against republics. this video from new guns was shared exclusively with r t. it's appears to show the aftermath of a bombardment local official say to civilians were killed when a call was hit by an anti tank myself. all this further exclusive footage shows artillery fire hating. don't ask local authorities say 3 civilians have been killed by the queen military in the last 24 hours or 2 more, i guess the reports. 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 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 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 dog is going to get any help. this is the harsh reality of war. at cheapens the value of life and meet fear and terror. people turn in woods survival rather than charity or mercy becomes the priority. they have been usually hot and lent him. 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 here. they behave like animals. it might make more sense if there was a military base, has some soldiers, the dest, nobody but pensioners continue to do, okay, which is like, 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 near by. 2 civilians were reportedly killed when a guided missile fired from the ukrainian side struck their vehicle, hours apart. 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. now on tuesday, the federation council rushes up, a house gave the president permission to use military forces abroad to conduct a so called peacekeeping operation. let me put in, says it didn't mean troops would be deployed immediately. and that decision president said will depend on the situation on the ground. or you train has blasted

the earth decision, calling it an act of aggression. the national security and defense council has declared a state of emergency. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has said diplomatic relations with russia could be severed. meanwhile, or russia started evacuating the re max off from ukraine. this was confirmed by the russian embassy and kia. it says it's off of increasingly become targets of aggressive actions, including threats of physical violence. a, you can see minivans leading rushes, diplomatic mission in kia are you as president joe biden insists? russian forces are now in the dumbass. and at the start of an invasion though, the leader of the next people's republic says there are no russian troops in the region artes roman, causative reports from been asked put all this was there. denise porcelain sir. first sir. press conference, a massive press conference after the announcement self recognition of the nest 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 i'm there were many journalists and the press conference. i included in a local russian and a foreign media as well as, and he's pushing replied, that's a russian army is not present in finance, people's republic. however, he had a 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 sir, 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 so indeed it's been far from mark wyatt here on the front lines ins anesco for the last few days. so denise bushland said that ukraine had started using multiple rockets or launching systems. and they're also always see, 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 pushing ended. so the press conference by saying that 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. traditional makers are considering further sanctions against russia. roberts, recognition of the republics, the 1st batch targeted 5 banks and several wealthy individuals. now, this channel is in the following line, shudder. it was the ashley hurst the slightest. well o t is in the spotlight here in the united kingdom for 2nd day in a row. that's because m p 's calling for this very tunnel to be taken off as spearheading that campaign is the leader of the opposition to kiss darma. and in his words, r t, a c, as putin's personal propaganda tool, and his 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 promise to now i'll stop calm to review its license. i need to speak. i believe that my writing friends at the state for go to meet in 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 in 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 a good back. that's what russia goes off, come has already said it is going to investigate. examine complaints about ortiz coverage, specifically about 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 dis, 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 hi. hi. hi, 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, but 2 things really are quite striking in order. first. i see that the fact that cooling for our kids to be shut down in the 1st place, quite a for a slight, specifically about free speech as a fundamental principle, the u. k held itself on the fundamental principles of free speech, the right to tell all sides of the same story, any courage 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 band, 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 with a headlines at the time. so it does seem somewhat a hypocritical at this point, of course has now released the statement confirming it will not hesitate to step in and take action where necessary. recognizing the serious nature of the crisis in ukraine. we have been keeping the situation under close review and have already stepped up. our oversight of coverage of these events by broadcast is in the u. k. we are expediting complaints in this area is a matter of urgency and we will not hesitate to take swift action when necessary. while it statement goes on to say and i read it is acceptable for board causes to present issues from a particular perspective. provided alternative views and opinions are also

represented. so it seems as only one condition, and that is that coverage can't be one sided propaganda make of that. what you will, but ultimately, any channel here in the united kingdom, whether that is sky news, the b, b, c channel for i t n, whatever it is, you name it all t is also playing by exactly the same off. com rules. we had royalties deputy editor in chief on belkin, us, she says the shuttle is in full compliance with you cable costs regulations what i have seen. and again, this is all the news or dropping. basically there's any update every minute. but from what i have seen, they have made some comments. you other media outlets. they're reviewing. i guess the letter or the culture minister have not received any asian from them yet. but that they will have, you know, perhaps maybe add some additional scrutiny to review our content and complaints and

things like that. i'm not quite sure what the complaints they have in mind because our team has not had a single breach of the awesome co that is really important for me to reiterate in the last 4 years. all i think the content of the highest quality. busy award winning recognize internationally can happen. there is a pressure to have a special review indicate that it has nothing to do with our firm has to do with our own existence. which means that it is becoming a purely purely political matter for a very long time. b, r, i understand was not even subject to the review by the independent regulator. i don't see any difference in terms of the well, the nature of the funding, the nature of the federal became the vcr. the executives of the b. e, have long proudly said that the be platform carries the voice of the bridge and british values to the world, which is essentially what

a r t has tried to do. among other things, for russia are afforded a lot more latitude and a lot more benefit of the doubt, i'll probably say carrying their point of view to the world. and for some reason, russia and our key are not allowed to. the secretary general of nato has slammed brushes decision to recognize the breakaway door mess republics. speaking a few hours ago, you installed emerg, choose moscow disrupting global security. there is much at stake in today's crisis . the risk of conflict is real. russia is using force and ultimatums not only to redraw boulders in europe, but to try to rewrite the entire global security architecture. the human want to slap travel manns and asset freezes. and members of the russian parliament who voted for recognition was gonna move on to the republics unties fall asleep. as more details you ambassadors in brussels, have those heard

a package of sanctions against russia, and these go further than the sanctions. the u. k and the united states are implementing. first and foremost, we have the 351 russian parliamentarians. they will face sanctions for having voted for the independence of the provinces of la guns and, and it's in eastern ukraine. in addition, they will be as the freezers, as well as travel bands, as well as a prohibition for making funds available to 27 high profile people and entities. now these include banks, they include business people, they include ali, gas, anybody and everybody who had any kind of financial or material support for the lu, ganske, and dentist regions. there was also talk of an intimate, so called tall factory being targeted in saint petersburg. now they are also restrictions that are being placed on russians are on russian government's ability to raise money on the european financial markets. and there was also trade ben that

is being implemented with dynette and low guns. we are hearing from e leaders that further sanctions are likely to be in the pipeline that they could follow in the next few days and, and some leaders have actually expressed the desire to have, quote big bang sanctions to come. now we also heard earlier from the french finance minister who lashed out at the north stream to project, which was quite surprising because earlier he had supported it. the e. u finance ministers are due to meet on friday and saturday to also look at further sanctions. the french foreign minister has said that putin does not, except ukraine's independence under international law, and accused him of revisionism. and we in painting history. at the same time,

we've heard again from the german foreign affairs minister, accusing putin off to quote, lying we moscow's planned intervention in ukraine and, and in terms of what putin said to waste and needed in recent days, the west is said to be preparing for all scenarios including a full russian invasion and then the united kingdom is waiting for more military action and more military support for ukraine. we have heard from the british prime minister by johnson saying that to quote lethal 8 in the form of weapons and non lethal aid will soon be provided by the u. k. to ukraine. and the russian government has accused the british defense, secretary of massage izing, the crime and war, and getting his facts models softer. ben was reached back into history to suggest the u. k. could fight russia and when by the

way and get away. i don't know if that is consistent publication is concerned ever since the fall or the soviet union when there was talk about helping russia. in fact, what, what was actually happened is consistent attempts to try and sort of clamp down on russia. push the boundaries back, incorporate many former soviet countries into nato. and there was talk quite recently of bringing the ukraine into nato as a consistent to cock chrissy in the way that russia is treated by comparison. if you think of china, china and doing all sorts of things that the west would be saying is, is unacceptable. but in fact, nothing happens in the way of sanctions fall from it. there's more business been

done that has been done with a rush as a master to view and is actually trying to stop shelling that on mass republic saying they've been relentlessly attacking the region for 8 years. the city and eventually spoke a couple of hours ago, wrote an emergency general assembly session only you can crisis ortiz caleb open days in new york with the latest. they convened for a meeting regarding discussion about the situation in ukraine and we heard taking the floor, the russian ambassador and a benzo now, and eventually it took the floor. and he pointed out many aspects of the situation that are being blatantly ignored and us mainstream media and a lot of western discourse. he talks about the language in position that has been carried out in ukraine against those who speak russian. he talked about how lies about the 2nd world war are being perpetrated. and the ukrainian government has celebrated collaborators with the nazis as if they were somehow heroes. talked

about the murders of journalists and the shutting down of tv networks that had a different opinion, a different perspective than the ukranian government. and in addition to that, he talked about how the mens agreement has not been implemented and, and the 14000 people have been killed. many of them children and civilians killed in the eastern regions. and he also raised the spectre of a possible new refugee crisis being created by the crisis in the country and by the ongoing situation. so he basically laid out why it was necessary for russia to recognise the don at people's republic and the lugens people's republic, and he made it pretty clear to this international body. now, there are obviously many voices representing countries aligned with the united states that disagreed with him, but many were paying close attention when the ambassador spoke and this was a gathering, this was not the un security council, this was the un general assembly representing all member states and it was an

important moment for russia to take the floor and defend the recent decision to give recognition to the new republics. what we're going know, often for a former vice chairman of the libertarian national committee, joining us from maryland in the united states. so thanks for joining us could be on the program today. thanks just to get some more comment on what the russian of acid said that he did raise a lot of issues from ukrainian shelling of that. and that's the reason to discrimination against ethic russians. why do you think so little concern about that from western powers which are very much focused on russia as the aggressor as the violator international law? so what you have is a situation where a western powers simply couldn't reasonably support the real principle of self determination. i mean, western powers have impeded self determination at home abroad, everywhere they've been involved. so if they were going to take

a position that any territory has the right to self determination and the people have the right to self determination, which is, which is the right position to have. they would kind of be shining a spotlight on their own behavior. so instead of focusing on the real issue, which is that all people everywhere have the right to self determination. instead they're focusing on an issue that, that doesn't bring their own doesn't called bring their own behavior under the spotlight. there are some voices in the west, or at least understanding perhaps of russia's action. donald trump, for one cool. the russian recognition our quotes here. wonderful. saying putin as a genius and pretty savvy for intervening. do you think that's a viewpoint many americans would share or do you think they launch beside with the mainstream media narrative? i think that the spirit of the american people certainly recognizes the importance of self determination. i mean, as a nation that started off as

a breakaway republic, i think that americans have a lot of sympathy for that. now if it's a break away reason, this, then gonna just join rush. obviously that's gonna be a different situation. but if it's in an area that maintains autonomy, it's an area that becomes its own country and a truth and an area that neither under the thumb of russia or the ukraine. then i think you're going to get a lot of sympathy from the american people on that. the same way that when the colonial and private, when catelynn was trying to break away from spain. there's a lot of support for that. among the american people, that idea of self determination from that i think, is really, really strong in the american dna. among other public figures, fox news host talk a call soon as perhaps questioned why joe biden, the, the us president is so supportive ukraine. he said it's one of joe biden favorite countries because i quote here again, it sent millions of dollars through his family. he's now being criticized for allegedly siding with russia being accused effectively of treason. and do you find

that so pattern that any sort of dissenting voices that go against the mainstream narrative, or accuse basically of being shells for russia and for the kremlin? i think you've been saying that in american politics for the, for the last, you know, about 10 years where increasingly, anyone who disagrees with the democratic viewpoint is viewed as either a traitor or as a racist or sometimes both. so it's not at all surprising that somebody who disagrees with the media narrative is going to come under attack. and if you look at the mirror and media and there to understand that there is a lot of companies that both own huge shares of the media and huge shares of, of military contractors that would like nothing more than to see a big, huge, expensive point with military escalation, american defense contractors, american media, the same holding companies own big portions of both of them. so of course the media going to be as prob wars past woman, that's the bottom,

the financial bottom line for their stockholders. so again, what the media has say about this, you have to take the 3rd grade fall because they want inexpensive military intervention. this crisis really has been building for a number of months, hasn't, if not long that russia has previously billed over a year. you need so yeah, absolutely right. russia, of course with the morning a whole the restraint of native expansion and they to a military presence the was it's borders, nature when it solid really dismiss those security concerns. and i think while both sides are to blame for the escalation, there's no doubt about that. do you think that western powers perhaps, should have tried harder to at least see rushes, confirm. see that perspective and to negotiate and resolve this earlier on without things getting to this point. i think we need to get a little deeper than that. i mean, nato has had a mission that was achieved decades ago. and now it's continue to be there is just

a way to act as is kind of worldwide instigator, a worldwide, you know, bullying police force. i mean, it's just, it's, it's use has concluded. and so at this point, the right thing to do for, for, for nato to be does all say, you know, the cold war is over. whatever we needed to do with nato hadn't been done. and now let's, instead of dealing with other nations, with threats and violence, let's use open trade, open communication and said, so nato's very existence, all of that nato has done. the thing is terribly provocative recently, but native, very existence is a provocation because a thing that united states has the right to police the world and flying from the united states has neither of the right nor the responsibility or the financial resources to continue doing that. i'm from united states to get out of nato to produce a huge financial and personal burden that nato membership is putting on the american people. and instead lead through trade and lead by example. i'd like to touch upon

the western response in terms of sanctions, and they've already been brought in both by the you and the united states as well. and obviously it has had an impact here in russia on the rubel, on the russian markets. the other immediate result though is oil and gas prices shooting up 7 or 8 year high is and that's of cool is actually helping russia helping the russian buzzard. is there any evidence and the sanctions are actually a useful tool in the problem we see in resolving these sorts of very much salient their global issues. what we seen is that sanctions usually have the opposite of the intended effect because they further isolate the nation from better ideas to use a simple example. sanctions have done absolutely nothing in north korea other than further isolated north korea from the wonders and creations of capitalism. where if you look at what's happened, reunited states in vietnam that open trade has brought american values to vietnam.

america tried to use the full force of its military and vietnam, didn't work. they use capitalism. these trade, these open commerce, it did work. so sanctions are ineffective, and even worse when we're talking about autonomy and self determination, telling american people and american businesses that they no longer had the economy to trade with whoever they want to. again, show their parker see of the policy if you believe in self determination, as i do, and i think most american people do, then you have to believe in individual autonomy, which has that any individual person has a right to trade with any one with whom they choose or want that so we have time full today. we appreciate you coming on the program. now robin, ivan bore a form of us shaming of the libertarian national committee. like he said, once again, good 7, the program they tried me on are those the headlines for this hour? just gonna 1030 here in moscow going on the ground next to you got you as can catch up with audio commentary programs. we're back at 11 p. m. oscar time with the

latest join us again that ah ah, i, ah, if i'm after attention, you're watching a special edition of going underground. as today back a sunny by ministry. run con is scheduled to pay a visit to russian president vladimir putin in moscow. the 1st time about his sony premier's visited russia in over 2 decades. this is so cold. peacekeeping russian troops had into the breakaway regions of ukraine on yet can to answer the president

putin and the russian parliament recognized as independent. but can a full scale war be prevented? long time. russia reporter and eastern european specialist editor in chief of b. any in tele news benares joins me now from berlin. have been, thanks so much for coming on. i've got to ask you, i suppose i was there any choice for putin, the 14000 dead, the continuous shelling that the ukrainian military spokesman said it's fake news. we always emphasize, we do not shoot that civilian infrastructure into some territory in roster of region or whatever. that's pavlov. koval chuk add putin got any choice but to do something after the do mar also voted for him to recognise the independent republics. well my take on this is that it's, there's 2 camps. i mean, those that believe the person doesn't believe ukraine is a real country and he's help and on storing it that he feels that democracy is threatening him. and then those 2 thing that puts in is what it says in the can

this about security concerns. he's afraid of eventually missiles in ukraine, and those would be on the border. they would have under 5 minute flight times and they'll be able to hit 80 percent of russia's population. and although nobody's offering ukraine membership of night, so at the moment, you know, it could happen eventually, and he's looking to one central fix this. and so this is resulted in a game of chicken if you like, in so much as he made those demands in the rounds of diplomacy that started in january a relatively civilized around and go to flat, know from the west. but he's not going to let this go. i mean, for him, this is an essential security question and he wants to have it resolved. and so the obvious thing to do is escalate. and that's what we've just seen. if he's getting a flat now, then he's going to restart the conversation. but by significantly as.