military officially there come a issue to whitish process. if so to somewhere, petrie, who she was really room with because she was chris. you say it's a score it of course. okay. it's a with her the. it's like a mental cause actually more dome. she doesn't or dishes with him washing is with chris, are you that are for, for here with so i will the issue of ukraine and russia's incursion and how we all got to this point. we did go for the opinion and get that old american. john listened

documentary producer, mr. dan kohen. this is been an absolute horrific war waged by the ukrainian forces and orchestrated by the united states funded by american dollars on the people of the don bass, who have suffered immensely, who they've seen their, their homes, their schools hit by mortars indiscriminately, and many civilians killed with really no ability to, to mount a proper defense and despite locals, enlisting and militias. and so now we've seen a basically repeated deceptions lies manipulations and refusals to abide by the minks chords from basically the west from the united states, nato and ukraine. that basically provoked russia into a going on this denot to vacation campaign, which is what president putin has called it. and i think is,

is absolutely accurate. well, i don't think the u. s. is really interested in diplomacy. it's only interested in, in the appearance of diplomacy, but at the same time it's sending weapons and training to ukrainian alter nationalist hit larry and nazi forces. we've seen actual swastika flags flying on the side of ukrainian military that has been attacking the don bass region for the last 7 plus years. and so there has to be some kind of recognition from brussels and from washington of what exactly it's doing. because the, the way that, you know, politicians and media are speaking here in, in, in, in the united states is the disconnect is with reality. and so the fact that, you know, if i think if americans understood that our government, that my government is actually funding nazis in order to attack russia than you know, we'd have a very different view. but i think it's a necessary operation in order to remove these ultra fascist dangerous elements

that i think i believe are a minority of the ukrainian armed forces. and i hope peace will prevail. the opinion there of dan cohen the in you added media have been lambasted vladimir putin for his ultimate invasion of ukraine, even going so far as to say, they want to get their hands on putin's personal finances. who have now announced a raft of sanctions against russia following deliberations. leslie, monochrome motto, correspondence a shallow to biscayne piracy policy, or in london, sharla 1st to you. very strong rhetoric coming from e. you politicians, it kind of makes one wonder if the russian president is starting to feel the pressure well, that's why huge condemnation from all leaders of the european union, essentially standing by leaders of the g 7 who said that president putin had re introduced rule in to europe, a huge raft of sanctions have been announced, is ish, want to take you through some of those are when it comes to the european union's

point to be, they say that the russian banks, business to them is essentially over. now, the individual tract infections will be alive when it comes to things like payment for gas, but pretty much everything else is off the table. when it comes to that. francis said it's going to block the bank accounts of those russians who have been sanctioned by the e u and there is a massive list of those who would be hit by that. it's not just them, but also their family members to and there's also been a bad know in the export of air croft and spare parts, which are the e was hoping will make it difficult for russia to maintain it. croft, ursula vaughan delane described this package is being wide ranging and something that really will hit russia hot. now we have to meet the moment. we will hold the kremlin accountable. the package of massive and targeted sanctions

. european leaders to night clearly demonstrates that this package includes financial sanctions that cut russia's access to the most important capital markets . and these sanctions will increase rushes, borrowing costs raise inflation and gradually erode russia's industrial base. however, they were called for even tougher sanctions. and it seems that some e u members are still unhappy that that hasn't happened q, poland, prime minister at the moment, mathias mode of i. it's keith, who wanted that to be a band on all of buying of russian gas and talking about polish politicians. don't altos cuz the former president of the european council has also hit out of those european countries. the refused to back tougher sanctions. in this

war, everything is real. putin's madness and cruelty ukrainian victims, bombs falling on cheer. only your sanctions are pretended. those governments which block tough decisions, germany, hungary, italy, have disgraced themselves while the impact and fear of those sanctions is already hitting the russian economy on thursday. just to give you an example, the ruble fell to its lowest level against the us dollar. and almost a 3rd was wiped off the moscow stock exchange. here in europe. there have been protests over the last few days outside russian embassies against that action in ukraine. but not everyone is blaming what's happening. ukraine at russia's doorstep at the moment we've heard from british politicians. we've also heard from french politician our presidential hopeful eric some more. who's essentially said that while he condemns the actions in ukraine at the moment,

he feels that the west is essentially let this happen by it own actions new zone to if we could have avoided this catastrophe. i have been saying for years that the west has responsibility for the escalation of violence in the east, and i must understand russian demands against 92 expansion of unfortunately we have done nothing to prevent this escalation. well, a yearly does a still meeting on friday. it looks like they're going to thrash out more of the language when it comes to those sanctions. so stand by to find out exactly what else the use got in store for russia. was over now through paula standing by for us in london with the u. k. a reaction day which paula has been almost breathless, ethically has we have heard today from the british defense minister said defending the you case decision not to put boots on the ground in the u. k. saying that this would only trigger

a european war earlier this morning. the british prime minister by his johnson held a telephone call with the ukranian president zalinski, in which he promised further british assistance. now it does follow what the u. k. has turned its biggest event sanctions that it slept on russia yesterday, and this was an attempt, johnson says to hubble the russian economy, it does target bangs the sanctions also target the russian president vladimir putin in a circle. and at the same time, wealthy russians who either live here in london, or have extensive businesses much negative about the u. k. as in nancy, the largest and most of your package of economic sanctions, the russia has ever seen with new financial measures. we're taking new powers to target russian finance. in addition to the banks, we've already sanctioned these powers. when will they will not totally to exclude

russian banks from the u. k. financial them, which is of course by far the largest in you're stopping them from accessing sterling and clearing payments through the u. k. now we're looking here at a 10 point sanctions package that includes acid freezes on some major russian banks, including the 2nd largest state own bank which is known as the t b. major russian companies are also no longer be able to access or raise finance in britian. at the same time, the russian airline era thought will no longer be able to operate and land in the u . k. the sanctions also include the suspension of dual export licenses to russia, and at the same time the export of some high take goods. also yesterday in front of downing street, there was a protest by ukrainians, many of them clad in the ukrainian colors. hundreds of people gathered there and

they expressed their anger against the russian military operation. and also court on the u. k. to not only impose sanctions, but many of them also wanting burton to send in military assistance or author policy and charlotte duplicity. both of you thank you. we just speak with a r t host of going on the ground option return. see now he argues that the u. k. sanctions on russian bangs, he says that misguided, he says they'll just end up hurting the wrong people. the dice was the big headline figures v t be the 2nd biggest bank in russia, full asset freeze in britain. maybe there'll be some going to legal action by v d. b, a ban on a raising sovereign debt. i'm not sure whether any of the politicians currently in the house of commons understand that russia has reserves of 630000000000 dollars estimated in foreign reserves,

that the debt markets for russia haven't been. then they're not that necessary to the russian economy are all, be it that the j b, morgan funds say in emerging markets, there emerging bond market 6 percent of it is in russian bonds. the 4 x version is 3 percent. i have no word from j. b morgan or any these funds that they want to reduce that amount because the oil prices are spiking. so while the rich seem to be doing ok, and while her rusher of course is doing okay, in terms of reserves from the oil, the poor bear the brunt of war as they always do through history. we also spoke with austria as a former foreign minister kirk and i. so now she says that if the e u does sanctioned russian gas, it'll simply have a nasty blow back effect. there is german officials, including i think even the minister economy have said we are able to substitute russian in gas imports. i'm not so sure that this would really be possible because

we are speaking of huge white house of gas oil and also coal affects in summer. even announcing that in this final stage of renegotiating the agreement with iran, that iranian gas could substitute ration natural gas. i mean, this will be the irony of history to, to substitute rush and gas, natural gas or so the pipelines with better gas from, from iran, given also all the warranty insurgencies that you have with iran, apart from the technical aspect to why you can these williams really be substituted, the immediate impact is already seen on the stock exchange market. it's a tremendous price hike. and we might even see a situation where the average german households will have to spend maybe 50 percent of the income on utilities. i mean,

this is something that has never been happening before. there's always, there's any kind of conflict situation you have to bear in mind the domestic front . and in that case, high energy prices will put a tremendous pressure on the average german, the average german is the electorate. and it will decrease even furthermore and already very fragile purchase power dead. the inflation is only galloping so, so the has to be a balance of strike by the german officials or how to, how to find that balance. so we will, we will see, and as much of the world condemns the russian incursion into ukraine. joe biden is also weighed in unveiled what he's calling devastating sanctions. a kind of muffin explains, 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 later in the press conference he was pressed about. this is 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 states might want to kick russia out of this web system, it seems the 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. 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 intent 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 report, joe biden revealed some rather interesting lack of knowledge when it comes to

events. one of the reporters actually asked him, it is potent 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 that he doesn't know if nuclear war is on the table. now of course, russia has not threatened a nuclear strike, a nuclear war is simply not on the table. russia is engaging and an operation to protect don ask and lu ganske 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 with, i don't know, is something that a lot of americans have got to find very concerning. and the vote short on opinions as legal and media unless line old of course he has his position on today's ukraine crisis. when i ask people, why is it that we or other countries can invade or san invading or was entering okay. ready well, it wouldn't, it entering. no, he's invading. is it a partial of 8 latino?

is he occupying was a partial occupy, and there's all these, these little dispatcher of the words, and i'm a lawyer and i love to pars words. but when it comes to go grenada, when it comes to the falkland islands or vietnam, or iraq or afghanistan, we don't need justifying from anybody. we don't have to explain to anybody who matter carriage, who's killed, we're right in their rom for 5 years. we've had nothing but dish drumbeat is rochelle phobic, anti russian. lou mine said that basically made people show easily convinced that this must be wrong. and by the way, i'm against war. i think everybody is. that's not the issue. i was a one asking why are we going to a rack? why are we going to have get instead? what did they have to do with 911 shut up. don't euro. you're an american, you're not patriotic. or nobody asked any questions. eric?

nobody. what did afghanistan have to do? and i'm, and i'm in new york and i was here on 911. i remember it. what did afghanistan have to do with it? doesn't matter. we've been there for a long dish war. isn't it funny? the hypocrisy isn't a funny whether it's the falkland islands that lead the grenada. i mean these little skirmishes and military ashes, whether it's syria, middle east, target assassinations of people. nobody says a word, but now all of a sudden, well, we're all pacifist and that's good. but please consistency the hacker group anonymous has declared a cyber war against the russian government. anonymous is, are not globally for it's or ideologically motivated cyber attacks. it's are brought down a number of russian government site has also taken aim at r t dot com. we've been having some pretty, pretty serious difficulties with a log on to our website today. i roger k, a technology analyst,

i shared his thoughts on this. i was just looking at anonymous record of all of the attacks that they have launched over time. and they seem quite medical in the sense that they are happy to hack into anyone they identify as those. well it's, it's mostly that they feel like they're defending the week. so they identify, in this case ukraine is the week. and russia is the strong and so they feel like they're coming to the defense of the week. and that seems to be the pattern because they don't follow any obvious political tied or they don't seem to be working for a particular group or in a particular ideology. other than something like robin hood, you know, they're trying to defend the weak against the, against the strong. and they are the ones who identify who they think is weak and strong and then they act on it and they're rather independent about that. so,

so that's so that's their normal modus operandi, but i think that the answer is that they were taken by surprise. but if you do find that our website is not working for the time being, you can always follow artie on telegram for updates. it seems a cyber war is likely a full effect and probably has been for some time already. well, we do continue to feel the latest details now with fielding, all the details and rushes military incursion into ukraine, west and officials, and the media recording for putin to have his personal finances seized, to stop the bloodshed. now work the media, i've been reporting possibly over 400 russian soldiers a dead during this conference. we haven't got any confirmation of that right now, and we are in direct touch with the ministry of defense here in the russian capital . so we are working very hard at our team to national, to bring you all sides of the story with total transparency and always confirming the details and the facts for the meantime, your program returns in about 9 minutes.

ah, in moscow, repeatedly warned, it would not tolerate ukraine being used by nato to threaten russia's national security. those warnings were not taken seriously. even dismissed out of hand. what we are witnessing is the cuban missile crisis in reverse and this could have easily been avoided. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such orders at conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. at the point obviously is too great truck rather than fair with the area

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a headlines right now here. well, it's a national, we are working to confirm this, but according to militia is in the don't yet republic. ukrainian army shelling. i said a local school killing to teachers. we understand the school was not in operation. there were no children that today. so russia is so called military operation in ukraine is continuing now into it's 2nd day reporting on the latest incursions into ukraine. now we're bringing that is from the grub in just a moment understand more ukrainian troops to render it out of the russian military, or the russian defense military says they will not be harmed. ukrainian soldiers can go home if they refuse to fight and ukraine's at president asks president putin to sit down the negotiating table to end the bloodshed.