the, the, the, the in russia, defense minister orders safe exit route for you by any. and so if you're willing to surrender as a military operation unfold off of the russian president ordered a so called special operation thing. the aim is to defend the people on bus from a ledger genocide by the ukrainian military, vladimir persian and stress. russia has no clouds for occupation of relations with russia on the west to build an antique pollutant coalition. while the us sign a satellite lamb, the criminals operation as above barrack at tack, and valve the harshest of sanctions me the thought for most good thanks

for joining us tonight and our teams. and i shall, i'm daniel hawkins. whether you are this, our welcome to the program. now are all the tasks assigned for the russian military for the day had been successfully completed. that according to a statement from the russian defense ministry that comes off the criminal began a so called military operation, which it says is aimed at defending with the bus from ukraine. an aggression russian armed forces have destroyed 83 ukraine military targets. according to their statement. i mean, mystery added, no civilian areas were targets and the strikes framed only a minute for infrastructure. also, the safe exit route for you. creating soldiers have been arranged. audi senior correspondent, world gassy, of reports from the republic of luke. this unrecognizable from what it was this morning or even yesterday or the day before with, with the constant shelling for hours now that hadn't been there any exclusions in the god sca oh,

in the suburbs in the outskirts of the city as we had seen in previous days with wisconsin shelling between the 2 sides, so shelling from the ukrainian side and from the self proclaimed all as the now recognized republic of lugens. nevertheless, the operation, the offensive that they have launched this morning following, following a very sustained, very loud and very sustained artillery. shelly campaign this morning as the the operation they say is progressing according to plan. they say they have penetrated 3 kilometers into, into ukrainian lines more i believe on that than yet. side just south of us. nevertheless, the front line stretches for, for hundreds of kilometers and we haven't been able to, to get close to the front lines. we have been turned back because of the dangerous situation that as we were told, nevertheless, the cross you crave as a homeless has been a chaotic day. a complete surprise for every one we saw russian. the

units russian forces launch caliber cruise missiles at various military installations. the for the ministry of defense came out and said it themselves that they lodged positions strikes against ukrainian military infrastructure against air defense sites, as well as against airfields and assets of the air force of the ukrainian air force. there was even a port that was struck multiple arms, depos fuel depos. we saw the fires, characteristic fuzz raging throughout the day. nevertheless, the russian, the russian defense minister came out and said that any ukrainian that wants to surrender can surrender. he will be treated with respect, he ordered russian troops to treat any ukrainian a regular with respect the, the brunt of the resistance, where hearing about a is coming from nationalist battalions neo nazi elements. for example,

such as as off battalion battalion, which for years as used a nazi symbols on its uniform and in its brochures and, and the likes. the organization, for example, is band band in russia and many of its members are of wanted by courts. nevertheless, the, the situation in ukraine is developing very rapidly, very quickly. the russian of the russian ministry of defense or it is also said that they have destroyed about a dozen and fields will strike a dozen or so. and fields are more than 70 various military infrastructure sites around ukraine, which presumably includes those. i am a amunition depots that, that i talked about. and the other side such as a we've, we've seen footage unconfirmed as of yet. and for example, ukrainian military vehicles destroyed a convoys entire convoys of tanks, bassett,

and burning across ukraine. it remains very difficult to, to verify various footage and information coming out. there's a lot of a lot of fake information recycled footage from previous wars that is being leveled here and pushed on social media. nevertheless, the picture will become clear up in days to come the, the, the hot spot now is keith, obviously, where russian paratroopers or russian special forces have been cited at the number of airport, including one just 25 kilometers away from 25 kilometers away from keith authorities in key of have said that the russians or the vladimir putin isn't going to go off to civilian infrastructure, was civilian targets. he wants public support, and that would destroy his public support. they also said that they want that they're going to try to, to night at that beat russian troops out of the airport. i keep of,

i believe airport near keith, which is where they are now stationed. and there have been reports that more russian units, a boat cargo planes could perhaps be headed there again. while the russian president is also calling for ukrainian soldiers to be treated with respect r t obtained this exclusive video from a russian war reporter in the don bass. he claims it shows ukrainian troops surrendering to don't ask republic forces. and the reporter says, there are soldiers, he voluntarily laid down by weapons. now authorities in finance have shed pictures of one of the soldiers whose apparently wounded receiving medical attention. now, russian tanks have apparently been spotted in ukraine's sumi region need the russian border resident cent. assist and verified video of military vehicles that show voiced the building oh,

cust together. oh oh oh boy. he looked to ah yeah. gotcha. but it was tuned. i'm still cooked uncle lucian. good. ah, ah oh, we heard from people living in ukraine, scarce on region near crimea, one of them expressed surprise, the ukrainian army set nowhere to be seen a, with

a well another update. the ukrainian government is saying russian forces have seized control of those for noble nuclear power plants. the facility was shut down. of course, after the infamous disaster in $936.00, there's been an exclusion zone surrounding it. ever since you, craig, an official say russia took the zone after a fierce battle, though, so far we've heard no official confirmation of that from moscow. now russia says ukrainian forces have fallen shelves across the border into russia's belgrade region. the investigative committee believe this footage,

official say 2 adults and a child were injured in the attacks. one residential building was destroyed with others damaged or criminal case has been wrong. well this video was filled while crew on the front line in an escrow public where as when found they had to suddenly flee due to incoming shelf rushers. defense ministry says ukraine force is a firing. it said he's in the ukraine or the roofers out more than $200.00 attacks in the start of the day in the region. now, a series of powerful explosions were reported across ukraine. this morning. loud blas rocks, several cities off the rush, launched. the military operation is being reported. the explosions will cause a missile strike from russia's aerospace forces. now i have just received these images from larry poll. thick smoke can be seen building across the sky. you can

see a damaged ukrainian radar system throughout the day. powerful explosions have been reported throughout the country. well, let's take a closer look at the bigger picture. you can see here the maps of the don't ask a lot of people's republic that in the red and blue, the 2 public schools out there dependent from kiev shortly after the 2014 more than revolution. and have they claim been repeatedly shelled? ever since that's led to numerous civilian casualties. now both republic say they will liberate their territory still on the key of control. up to now they've held only about half of that area. a president booting says russia recognizes these 2 states as defined by this map of president putin announced the decision in a nationally televised speech saying there's no intention to occupy ukraine said if you should get richard with a quote as to the article, $51.00 in the 7th chapter of the un charter with the sanction of the federation

council. according to the friendship and mutual help treaties with the nets and lu ganske, the public's i have decided to conduct a special military operation. the goal is to protect the people who for 8 years suffer bullying and genocide from the key of regime. and 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. your final 7 diplomatic relations with russia over what it calls a full scale invasion ukraine, as president vladimir lensky claims his country did not choose the path of war, but offered ways to restore peace. hillis and made some further accusations against thrush and forces in a tweet. the russian occupation forces are trying to see that your

noble nuclear power plant or defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated reported this to the swedish prime minister. this is a declaration of war against the whole of europe. president the case vowing to fight russia though not only according politicians share that view. 7 members of parliament have called for a diplomatic solution and direct negotiations with moscow. president zelinski, we urge you to immediately start talks with russia, president putin on ways to end the bloody confrontation and negotiate a treaty. while there are scenes of potter, can you find capital key f right now? long traffic jobs a falling as people head out of the city mainly to the west of the country. however, the local officials arising residents the stay at home and not cause congestion on the roads. someone cave, a taking shelter on the ground in the metro systems already have been telling people to use the stations as bomb shelters. as metro trains have temporarily

stopped running we had from local soup and witnessing some of the panic in the capital kiff, which i hear it is somewhere in t. f. sirens can be heard. they are bombing about really, you know, when we landed in the airport, we heard some bangs. it was unclear what they were. we didn't see any damage. we heard the bank while in a taxi. nobody knew what it was, but people started leaving packing their cars into a huge traffic jam. everything was crowded, but most people stayed home. my friends and i hope things will be ok. we hope that kia will not be bombs. that'll still there are huge queues. perpetual stations on the roads, several hours long. it's impossible to refill. it's good that i had a full tank, but i still have to refuel somewhere. we've been leaving for 4 hours already. or european reaction as we're in pouring in the thought of the russian operation and

ukraine. paula slid, breaks down some of that response. the president of the european commission, a shallow funder lion has said that putin chose to bring wool back to europe. now this is factually incorrect, you need to a member of course, that the war has been ongoing since 2014. so that's 8 years. and the western media and west, honestly, i started a folder for not pointing that out. in fact, in the last 4 years, so if we looking at just simply from 2008 alone, that they have been 381 civilians who have been killed in the don best region. and that is according to united nations figures. this is 5 times more measures the, the number of people who have been killed in territories that are controlled by here. and the vast majority of these people who've been killed, in fact, of 80 percent are in these 2 republics. who have the kid independence. this is what

ocean from the lion had to say. my children are dying of fear for their lives. we condemn this barbaric attack and the cynical arguments to justify it. it is president putin was bringing war back to europe. now we have received a leaked text regarding this you meeting that is currently underway. and it says that you leaders will call for sanctions also to be imposed against belive, worse for supporting russia in this military action. and i decided to follow who is g. i representative of the new full for foreign affairs made these comments ready then due to being gone, she'll graduate and michelle high school for our meeting. all due to be and gone. she'll this evening. and they will agree and provide voted to guidance to adopt the stronger baggage the harsh it package. those sanctions we have ever

implemented these not the quick to no blush. this is not a question of deep romantic power games is a matter of life and death earlier, the g 7 made virtually, and they say that they will apport by unprovoked and unjustified attacks by russia . they said that this military action was proceeded by fabricated claims, an unfounded allegations, the g 7 saying that this is fundamentally changed. united atlantic security situation, and that they bring forward severe and coordinated economic on mentioned bang sanction. meanwhile, president partners just unveiled what he called devastating sanctions on russia's military operation. caleb open joining us live from new york to give us a breakdown on what was said. caleb,

you've been following the president press conference with the media. what more do we know about this new trance of punitive measures? well, when we heard from joe biden, the u. s. president, he laid out new sanctions on russia. these spoke specifically of some banks that will be targeted specifically talk to products being outlawed, to export to russia. u. s. companies will not be able to export certain products to russia. now, later in the press conference, he was pressed about the swift international banking system. and he gave kind of a mild answer and said, well, the european allies don't seem to agree and essentially admitted that while the united states might want to kick russia out of this web system, it seems united states is not going to be able to do that at this time now the narrative that joe biden laid out throughout his remarks was the same narrative we've been hearing from us officials all along. apparently, this whole crisis, according to joe biden,

has just happened simply because of russia. there is no other factor. it is simply russia's malign activities that has caused the whole thing. this is what we heard from joe biden laying out his interpretation of the dance. 4 weeks, 4 weeks. we've been warning that this would happen. and now it's unfolding largely as we predicted. now it's important to note that russia has repeatedly raised the issue of its security guarantees. in addition to that, russia has made clear it has no intend to invade ukraine. however, at this point, they are engaging in an operation to protect the people of don, ask, and luc guns, and make sure they do not continue to face the shelling and bombardment they have been enduring for the past 8 years. it's important to note that unlike what joe biden said, these republics were not declared by the russian president vladimir putin. they

were declared by the peoples of these regions in response to the u. s. coup in 2014, and it has been 8 years since then that russia has waited to declare the republics . now, what was also interesting is when pressed by reporters, joe biden revealed some rather interesting lack of knowledge when it comes to events. one of the reporters actually asked him, it is prudent, threatening a nuclear strike, to which biden replied, i don't know what he is threatening, so we have the president of the united states saying, he doesn't know if nuclear war is on the table. now of course, russia has not threatened a nuclear strike nuclear war is simply not on the table. russia is engaging in an operation to protect don ask and lou gone from attack. the idea that this is some kind of nuclear confrontation is pretty outrageous, or the fact that biden responded to such a question, which i don't know is something that a lot of americans have got defined very concerning or kayla but more open with

updates on the response from the usa, thanks for that, caleb. now not public figures support to the mass contamination of russia. australian journalist john pills thinks, worse than politicians, also have a share of the blame the hypocrites on parade. watch them on cnn, the bbc read them wall to wall. now imagine a strategic enclave of britons or french, or germans or americans under violent siege. sheldon, terrorized for 8 years. would this be tolerated by the rulers of the world? were joined here by daniel this app and i think a lot of list and john, thanks for joining us. daniel goods have you on the program today. moving on to that speech should a press conference by joe biden, who said he's got no plans to talk with president putin. do you think that talking actually now may be a rather good idea given the events on the ground. of course,

talking would be very, very good idea in order to calm the situation down, but by the courses in no mood to do so. to me, the most remarkable statement that by biden made today was when he accused potent of trying to reestablish the soviet union. this is such an outrageous, farcical, delusional charge. and yet the fact that biden is making it shows the shows the, the intent of washington to raise this crisis to an even higher level. he was bought and also said the us and its allies are taking steps to limit russia's ability to do business in foreign currency, dollars and euros, et cetera. how serious, do you think that could be for russia? and how serious do you think all the steps such as potentially cutting russia off from swift, from the financial system, could have a back foreign effects on,

on western countries? it, well 1st of all it's, it's very thorough for russia, no doubt about it will backfire if he, if he tries to cut russia off from the swift system, it will certainly backfire on western countries, but also what he did, what he didn't mention really didn't really discuss in any, in any truthful way, is the energy question. i mean, energy prices are broke through the $100.00 bare barrel barrier today. and this actually is advantageous for russia. i mean, russia essentially has, you know, huge energy reserves. those reserves are increasing and value. and the and western europe especially, is facing a shuttle off with natural gas supplies. and that will have a very, very powerful economic effect. and hence a very powerful political effect. just move on to the media landscape of this. this channel is obviously under some scrutiny under some pressure, poland,

those are sent out, so they go into band r t, as one of the number of other russian channels. there is, charles russia may be the same and a tit without exchange. you expect many other countries through the same and is this setting a dangerous precedent for media? freedom in both countries, of course, is certain setting a very dangerous precedent cure stormer, the late labor party leader and britain, actually called for banding or t worldwide. and if that happens the, that the, the damage to freedom of the press will be a mets, it will lead to a very high degree of regimentation of the press in the us and europe and elsewhere in the world as well to very dangerous stuff. clearly events over the last, around 24 hours or so, i guess have shocked many people. nobody wants war on either side. a given the reality though, or where we are now, given the situation on the ground in ukraine,

what do you think is the best outcome here? is it possible for both sides to get back to negotiating table or? sadly, we now pause that point, i think sadly, we're past that point. i think we have obviously entered a new era. i called the the, i call it the israel is ation of international politics. where essentially are countries now will be much more, much likely to try to solve their problems through direct military intervention. so i think we're going to enter into a period of, of growing international anarchy of rising levels of, of military conflict. i think it's a very dangerous turn in international politics. and there are some politicians in ukraine who calling on their governments. and you go say, directly with russia. can you see that happening? and what's the next? move for president lensky. what can he do to try and save? what is a pretty dire situation?

i think the lensky is hanging by a thread. i think i was the one skis are intense pressure by alter nationalist who would, who would strike out violently as he tried to reach any kind of compromise with, with, with russia. i think he is in on very, very dangerous straits. i think he has a hold. ready on power is very weak. this conflicts didn't begin this morning. it's been raising for 8 years in the dawn bus with civilian casualties and shelling and attacks on both sides by the printed government by the rebels as well. why do you think that conflict, those casualties were largely ignored or put on hold, but least by western politicians. and they've been ignored really until now until things have come to a head at this point. well, because i think the, the u. s. politicians and the u. s press as well hope to be able to sort of wait russia out they wanted, they tried to stall on the mist records,

and they thought that russia would lose interest or would be intimidated and would back off and allowing the ukraine to solve the problem. they don't, that's called the hot problem on its own, unilaterally and a wave which would not be favorable to the people and those the residents of those, those battled enclave. so that's what they were hoping for. and meanwhile, they were, are putting pressure on russia, increasing their rhetoric, engaging and all kinds of while charges. and now look what's happened. russia has struck back just looking at some of the international reaction, which we've seen very strong condemnation from lately states from the u. s. from the e. u. china, though, has remained pretty much neutral. that hasn't criticized rushes actions in ukraine . it's called for diplomacy for all 5. why do you think china has taken that position of large neutrality? because china fight itself equally threatened by the united states. i mean,

the u. s. has been as behaving in an increasingly provocative manner towards giant in the south china sea sailing its warships the through the south china sea, accusing china and gauging and genocide against the whigs population and the western part of the country. and that ladder charged by the way is explosive, virtually is tantamount to a declaration of war. so i, so char, i know it is i as greatly alarmed by the, by the direction of us policy. busy and it sees itself under threat, so therefore china sees a joint interest with russia enrolling back us a generally around the time for this our i know is a political analysts and journalist, thanks for your time. it's around the program. i appreciate that. so thank you. well, that's that rundown of headlines for the sal, logan me back at say, 11 pm mosque. so i'm to return to our top story of that process in ukraine. give

you a full picture of what's going on on the ground over the past 24 hour. stay seen with us here on all scenes national ah, ah move when i was showing wrong, when i was just a shave out. this thing becomes the advocate

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