sport does this, i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm hm. oh, we're bringing you breaking news here on aussie international vladimir post and has ordered a special military operation in don't bath thing. the aim is to protect people that the russian defense minister says there is no threat to civilian than ukraine on the russian president, stress. russia have no plans to occupy its neighbor. i have decided to conduct a special the military operation. we do not plan to occupy ukrainian territories. mm. earlier they don't. yeah. scans, luke guns, people's republics, all russia for, quote, help in repelling the ukrainian regimes military aggression comes off the dom boss leaders. ukrainian forces stepped up full support, a shell of fire,

and doing an emergency session of the un security council in new york requested by ukraine. russia down boss. this stress is moscow. has no plans to occupy its neighbour. mm. well, for those of you just joining because you're watching all t international and as you may have noticed, there's a tidal wave of new information pouring in regarding the situation in ukraine. and we're staying with this to bring you all the latest updates from our correspondence across the globe, including live commentary from the dom boss. so stay with us here throughout the days we try to make sense of it all. i've vladimir putin has announced a military operation in don't boss during his address to the nation. this comes off to the people's republic, some dumbass turn to rush if a military assistance and the president said there would be no occupation of

ukrainian territory. a thank you, said the richard with a quote as to the article, 51 in the 7th chapter of the un charter, with the sanction of the federation council. according to the friendship and mutual help with the nets and luc ganske legs, i have decided to conduct a special military operation. the goal is to protect the people who for 8 years, a bullying and genocide from the key of regime. for this, we aim for the, the militarization and the next, if a cation of ukraine will bring to the court, those who committed multiple sanguinary crimes against civilians, including russian citizens. we do not plan to occupy ukrainian territories. i mean, while the russian defense ministry has denied all claims of rockets and our talks on ukrainian cities and ministry spokesperson said that there are no threats to the civilian population in ukraine as high position weapons are incapacitating military

infrastructure, including our defense facilities. and ministry says there's no fines back from the ukrainian border guard on ukraine's ad defense and ad base infrastructure has been neutralized. russia over denies reports, one of its military planes has been shot down. i'm doing the studio now by associates. haley taylor who's going to be making sense of it all throughout the day. and also at joining me for if a commentary says here, what a morning is been, what news to way talk to. i mean, i think everybody, you know, waking up looking into their phones this morning, is going to be either shocked or maybe they were expecting this to happen. why think, why the people were expecting us, or whether they was surprised? one thing we can say is that this is a very fluid situation. it's evolving literally minute by minute. and there is so much conflicting information out for just one example that were reports of russian troops. for example, of a landing in odessa from the black sea that new queen came out and thought she'd

complete a fake news. the key of the saying that cities are being attacked and the civilians are also a target. the russian defense who said that not the case, we are doing precision attacks against ukrainians military infrastructure. so like i said, there is so much information to way through very difficult to make sense of what is going on. i think at the moment or we can do it sort of walk from for example, president putin's address healed. he made thought address, had a vice speech to the nation in the hours of moscow around 6 am. and he was basically giving his explanations for why we had reached the point that we had reached. and i think as you would probably, it's not, this is something that we talk about a lot. pretty much the chunk of the bulk of that speech was dedicated to nato and nato. essentially, the main issue is that russia believes that nato poses an existential threat to its national security. and that nato has shown

a blatant disregard for its concerns. and for 30 years, russia has been trying to say, please, can you just respect it? and for 30 years, it is watched as the military alliance has moved forward through the continent. and he says, the name was broken, its promises, and the assurances that were given back in the ninety's that they wouldn't expand teeth. nato's defense is, of course, that we never made that promise. and in any way, in any case we are at defense of the lights. so again, people on such different sides of the fence here and lose that goes so much information to, to dig through. i will be trying to make sense though we bring in plenty of guests to discuss this whether we also have a correspondence on the ground as out in the past, we've got more i gas, the mon calls you have not remind since on the ask for more i'm in lou downs and this gets a mirage. first video has emerged of explosions in the sky. was a situation like that and now mariah but we had several blustered,

so shells falling on logan's skin. i will at our now, 2 hours ago. so, but the now the, the action has shifted for the north north, north, west, northeast. that is where the front lines to ha. and that is where fortified. ukrainian military positions up because they had spent 7 years at the same lines fortified the place why i'd just like to mention a jet, presumably, a russian jet just sort of the city of lugens. he went over very quickly just a few seconds. we were unable to get the camera out quickly enough. nevertheless, the uh, the escalation here is continuing, shelling, easy, relentless way, hearing rocket propelled artillery. so missiles and guided missiles for being fired grad missiles at endlessly towards a positions while towards the front lines. the, the, the action is ceaseless,

the local authorities have said that they are at now in the offensive to liberate the per the region. logan's region, which has claimed independence. they also say that they have made progress. we've heard from the ukranian ministry of interior, which has confirmed the loss of several settlements, presumably to settlement for the west of logan's promised province. i would also like to say that the, the, the said these violence that we're seeing it for russia's battles. they stretched for the duration of the front lines here in east new gray in easton, ukraine. so so hundreds of kilometers of front lines where now the fighting isa is relentless. we also hearing from my deeper and side ukraine that the most ukrainian and fields of have now been destroyed. though, obviously, we are unable to call that we are unable to to confirm that reports the russian

ministry of defense had previously said the precision strikes had targeting airfields targeting anti air defenses targeting a military infrastructure across you credit. and that has been corroborated by various reports with seen in the us social media as well as a footage presumably made from those as normal. so how are things unfolding that all the night, sir, has indeed been a very alarming. we're been here hearing sounds of artillery the entire night basically spent all evening and this morning close to the windows, listening to what's happening and indeed incense and continuous artillery fire has been happening and we can still hear it now, but it's becoming further and further away and we've been hearing of various kinds of fires from our multiple rocket launching systems to a mortar fire. it's all been different and certain the situation has been alarming

. but here in the center at the moment it has been there relatively calm. we've seen of residents are walking around doing their own regular thing, use municipal transport is still working. but the situation at the front line is a very, very intense at the moment, jeanette sc people's republic. some military are now using all available a methods in order to strike ukrainian are in positions that's. that's according to the representative of the people's militia here in jeanette sca. huh. he also mentioned his name is edward musser, in by the way, that all of that is being done in order to liberate the rest of father john esque region. currently under occupation by the ukrainian military now in test fighting is taking place not only the front line here in the nest, but in other places in the republic as well. for example, the town or for girl of car was struck

a little bit earlier. there were the civilian infrastructure been targeted also the little village of zyden, of art has been divided between ukraine and, and his people's republic since the 2014. and by the way, that's the place where our r t arab corresponded to, narrowly avoided shell, and wealth. it's under artillery, fired as well, and the ukranian army are targeting this sensor of that so little a village, all adored brochure in the representative of the people's militia here in the anesco, he is advising the crane and military to listen to have led marapoo to the who cold on the soldiers offer ukraine to lay down their arms and go home. now, once again, we are in the center of the nest. come on the embankments of the goddess river and the smell of gunpowder is very a pat parents. i can smell it, but nothing is happening right here. now the shelling of funk boss of dannetta

region in particular was continuous over the last few days. and like i said earlier, civilian infrastructure had been started and several water pumping plans and power stations. i had been destroyed by those shutting or damaged on that left the residence here. thousands of residents, mind you, without a drinking water without technical water and without electricity. meanwhile, evacuations continue from a dentist people's republic. we've seen a fire truck a little bit earlier with the loudspeaker informing a residence that evacuations continue. and those who have a want to move to roster regions temporarily can do so. had to various meeting points throughout the city. but i have been monitoring social media here in dynamic as well. and there is a sense of euphoria, if you will,

among the local population who are, who expressed happiness, that this operation had begun. and they are also saying that the network at the moment is probably the safest that it's ever been in the last 8 years of the conflict, because most of the fire, as they say, is now outgoing, and it's not targeting their loved ones. okay, remind thank you very much for that update that for me on calls are reporting to us live from don't. yes. can the more i dance the of the for within lou john, so be staying with this throughout the day with the late is coming out off the bus . thank you for now. both the, the, one of the studio with us ask is, haley ask is going to be staying with me to, to kind of wade through the latest work this morning in moscow. 6, i am president pacing was addressing the nation when now 4 hours later was the latest fall out coming from from that announcement. i mean, i think most people were pretty shocked by televised address,

and i think it's only natural, especially given that tensions have been rising the region for a long time thought the world panics. and this is seen on many levels. not only have we seen ukraine imposing martial law, we've also seen its space closed off pretty much to civilian aircraft. also in terms of the international community, either embassies, our shutting up shop website, embassies and consulates, or then moving them farther west to cities like wolf. what we're also seeing, of course, is a financial full out, particularly in russia. we've seen that the rubel has really tanked, as has the most go stock exchange. and i expect that that's going to happen and continue to happen as this uncertainty continues. and as a lot of people were warning, the price of oil is going to go up for the 1st time since 2014. when i was saying that the price of brent oil has hit a 103 dollars dollars a barrel considering that just, you know, 78 months ago we were looking at $45.00,

but it was kind of the lowest that we'd ever seen. i mean, not really gives you a scale of the kind of to panic that the markets are experiencing at the moment. what we do know, the latest that president lensky has spoken to his western partners. and he said there are discussions about establishing some kind of antique putin coalition. what that specific entails, who don't know this very recent set of eyes to trust, but he said it will likely be relating to military support. i'm sure some kind of humanitarian financial support. and thought to me, he says we will be shot in space to rush across. so this is just what happened in the last couple of hours. but i think we can anticipate that the repercussions are going to be felt in the shock. waves are going to continue over the coming our but at the moment, like i said at the beginning, such a fluid situation, things are literally changing, minute by minute. what? hearing one thing, one minute on a denial the next it's, it's so up and yeah that it's impossible to determine how this is going to end.

well, things might become a little bit more clear as to where we're heading when we have the g 7 meeting that might. and so now it's later today, also the nato meeting, which is going to be held in the coming hours. and of course, you know, we will cut this this morning in moscow. it's fix that. yeah. which is an ungodly hour. really the most people won't be awake. people are waking up to now and of course you typing 3 hours behind was waking up the u. s. and still the middle the night because i can wake up to be hysterical headline sensational headlines about what's going on with the situation in ukraine. and so it's like, it's got to divide. well, hasn't managed to like you said it's not good. yeah. not the correspondence we were caught, but you know, was of the day and night, but it is for the wild community. they need to wake up, look at what's happening, right, assess the situation, assess the intelligence by guessing on, decides on. that's all the actions i think we really got indication from president biden. that's likely a father for that will be full sanctions against russia. and again,

it's not clear. previously they said that everything was on the table, including for example, ukraine suggested pops kicking rush out of the un security council kicking rush out of the swift financial system. i mean, honestly, at this point it's just like they said, all options on the table and i, we just need to wait for that reaction. well, luckily like i say we've got a correspondence course look like we've also got guests coming in every every few minutes. really, we can go to one of those guests. now we're going to go to professor victor gow. thank you for joining us on the program. mr. galloway's say great to have you with us and to, to pick your brain really over what they thought means should not test the ukraine for russia, but for the rest of the world. so we know that nathan was going to hold this emergency meeting later today. what do you think we can expect out of that? thank you very much for having me today is a very significant and profound day in world history. now that war breaks out,

i hope the wall will be brought to an end as soon as possible with minimum civilian deaths and injuries. and then rules of law or rules of warranty to be followed very closely, and eventually peace and stability can be restored. now, china and russia are very close relations, and the 2 leaders of china and russia have declared their opposition to the continued expansion of nato into your crane. this is very important. i hope when the dust finally settles, ukraine will no longer seek to become a natal member. and possibly the best way out of the dilemma is for ukraine to become a country of permanent neutrality, which will really go a big mile in helping solve the dilemma facing ukraine and the region at large. now this war in ukraine will have global consequences,

economically speaking, financially speaking, as well as geopolitically speaking. i just hope this war will be brought to an end as soon as possible with minimal disruption and rules of war need to be followed very close. i should also right, mr. guy, i'm doing in the studio by south get who i'm saw that have plenty of questions for you. but let's just talk about those red lines that russia was very adamant about, you know, we've never changed this line. it. how do you read line? and us and nathan needed to compromise with russia no matter how many meetings were held, no compromises were made. and so is it inevitable that we all where we are today? indeed, i think the positions of russia versus the united states and nato regarding ukraine . joining nato is irreconcilable. it is a dead end. i think a russia as be left with no other option, but to goal to war,

to try to settle this issue. now it is almost impossible for the united states to pledge that they will no longer consider natal membership for ukraine. so this is a dead end on both sides. that's why i think it is time for great statesmanship and vision and courage and wisdom. and i think eventually, if there is the possibility that ukraine can choose to become a permanent, neutral country, all of us need to encourage ukraine to go in that right direction. when we are now in the middle of a war, we need to raise our head and look beyond the horizon to see what will be the end the game. i hope the end game is where you're going to become a neutral state that will solve all the very intra kate and complicated problems facing your crying and it's region. and it will no longer turn your cray into

a pawn between nato and the united states. on the one hand and a gray country like russia, on the other hand piece will be restored in substance. if you're cream, becomes a neutral country. victor, this is darcy. i'm just going to jump in, i want to change track a little bit. we just got news end that latvia has banned anne to russia and channels from broadcasting i in that country, only on a wednesday. we also did hear that on the you. k regulates, i will be looking potentially into the licensing of our own channel. and my question is, do you think that we're going to see a continuation of that kind of thing? and do you think that this is as much as anything also an information war? now indeed we're living in the internet age and the information about. ready what's going on in ukraine will be transmitted to the people in the world and not only by television, radio newspaper,

but also by social media. it will be instantaneously known. 2 lots, all the people in the world. this is the time to protect freedom of press. i think people do need to have a variety of views rather then for example, are terminating the broadcasting right of one television station, or in a country or a terminating their activities in another country. this will not be conducive to allow people to have the real truth of the matter going on. and i would say fall if you, anyone to do that is very dangerous countries. likely lithuania, need to really be very careful above the fact that they live just nearby. a great power, a great super power, like russia. and they need to really walk a very careful line not to become a provoker of tensions between nato and the united states. on the white hand and

rush on the other hand, we all need to do our best to promote peace and stability rather than pouring. busy more fuel on to the fire, to make the war as it is going on, as we speak, even more inflammable, because that will be a disaster for countries like it lithuania and it will be a disaster for europe as a whole. and the coming out of lake to were expecting a well neat is across the globe to house their own response to the situation. ah, how do you expect beijing to react to what's happening happening right now? well, beaching has called for apiece diplomacy negotiations as the right way to solve whatever problems there are. eventually this is the right way to proceed now that we are in the middle of a war. as i mentioned, beijing probably will call for an end to the war as soon as possible with minimum

civilian deaths. and also agent has called for really looking into the root causes of attentions around ukraine. because it's directly related to the continued expansion of nato, into conscious like ukraine. and we also called for other countries in the world to be sensitive and to be on the safe envy of the position of russia because they will not tolerate the prospect of ukraine becoming a member state of natal. this is the bottom line, as far as russia is concerned, all of us need to be sensitive to this spot in line, rather than keep provoking russia. so that war will not only be as it is, but it may even get out of control to bring more ah, destructions, to more countries involved on on me just continuing. but the final question i,

i be interested in getting your opinion on is an we've already seen thought and sanctions on top for the fuel they sanctions. the russians been living under since 2014 fresh round of sanctions president bite and the new acid promising even more. an now china has in the past said that it doesn't support this kind of unilateral function, in fact, thinks that they are a violation of international law. do you think that it's going to stick to that rhetoric moving forward? and what's your take on, on whether the sanctions will do anything? what are they a 2? are they a p r campaign? are they a deterrence tool, or are they really going to punish moscow? absolutely, china opposes the unilateral sanctions imposed by countries like the united states and they will not do their work in terms of let's say, stopping russia to do what it considers the fundamental thing to protect its own national interest. i think eventually,

between russia and the united states and nato members states, they also need to re engage with each other in diplomacy to solve the problems. the sanctions against russia will be painful for russia, but it will not oppress russia into giving up its position of protecting the fundamental interest of russia. the united states is also imposing huge amount of sanctions against china. china stands firm and in the world of to day, if china and russia has stand shoulder to shoulder, low fought sanctions, can force china and russia to surrender their position of fundamental interest. and china and russia borders each other with more than 4700 kilometers of common bothering. and the exchanges between the 2 countries are very extensive in terms of people to people, exchanges and also economic trade exchanges. i think it is time for china and

russia to close rank even mall and to help each other in times of difficulty. and also we need to lead the united states. no. the sanctions do not work. you need to give respect to big countries like russia. you need to understand their sensitivities, and you need to avoid provoking countries like, or russia and to attempt countries like ukraine to become natal member states. as is the bottom line of the situation involving ukraine. i just want to follow up on that. sorry, is a fine, i know i for the last one was the final class. but now i promise you, i've got a final question and it is, and we were talking with my, i'm stuck with my american colleague earlier and we were talking it of course, china is a major green importer from ukraine, right? corn and barley. i'm do you think that that might somehow shake

a beijing's decision here that it might feel that because if economic papa says, asked you, i don't want he's that what, but perhaps side where or sympathize with ukraine? i don't think so. i think her, in this situation of war between russia and the eastern part of the ukraine, which are now called to people's republics and the rest of ukraine. i single china need to fully understand where it stands in matters of principles in matters of cardinal importance. and i think china stands for peace and china wants to a whole for greater level of diplomacy and negotiations. and if there is any roar of goodwill that china can play between russia and ukraine between russia and other countries, for example, so long as it will work for peace and stability. i believe china will do the best. on the other hand, china as firmly opposed to the continued expansion of nato into ukraine. and we

firmly believe this is one of the most important root causes of attention surrounding ukraine. and personally, i appeal on the ukrainian people and the ukrainian government to seriously consider adopting neutrality as the policy for ukraine in the coming years and come in decades and centers and to be a force for peace development and prosperity. rather them be a root cause for tension war and conflicts. professor victor gal, thank you very much for joining us there on the paragon today. we really appreciate you talking to us and bringing your insight to the program. thanks very much. how early are we spoke with independent journalist and political analysts? nebo said mallette, he says he has had 8 years to comply with immense agreements and fix the situation . a created itself speed with which the russian manager has reportedly been moving . i think a lot of the people at the pentagon are scratching their heads tonight. a lot of

the people in brussels, the joint data command are completely caught off guard by this. i think any sort of military intervention plans. i mean, again, vitamin said he doesn't intend to send american troops into ukraine to fight russia . and i think was very, very clear as to what kind of response russia will level if something like that happens. i think there is going to be a lot of rhetoric, a lot of angry rhetoric coming from the west, but i don't believe they're going to actually pull off britain. enter is world war one type thing. i think basically the entire world will have to choose sides, but in terms of public opinion, i guess we're going to see ukraine has been doing this for 8 years. they had 8 years to do something about it. and they kept saying, no, no, no, we don't have to do anything. the west has their back to west has their back. and then in response to, to what they claimed was accumulation of russian troops preparing for an invasion.

they started talking about getting nuclear weapons. president joe biden unflattering the landscape, have discussed a provision of international assistance to ukraine, while british prominence, the bar, i still say britain on his allies, will respond to decisively to the kremlin actions. germany from sounds the european commission have a strongly condemned russia saying moscow must be held to account later chief young stilton book phase, the russian military operation. if a violation of international law under threat to euro at last.