politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. ah gotcha top headlines for this hour live on audio international. the pictures show it right there. we understand a residential tower block in the ukrainian capital is reportedly hit by what looks like a missile strike. comes as local residents film them in the sky and report powerful explosions in that air. the russian president, he alleges ukrainian radical nationalists are using civilians as human shields by deploying heavy weaponry and densely populated areas. with ukranian radical nationalists to deploy heavy weapons security, multiple loans, rocket systems, right? in the central areas of the large cities, they planned to provoke a response from russia to strike systems on residential areas. and a un security council resolution condemning rushes military incursion in ukraine is

vetoed by russia. moscow's complaining about double standards in the united states sets the bar when it comes to invasions. i will refrain from listing the aggressions that the united states has committed in its history, but it has no right to preach morality to russia. ah well very well welcome to you from all of us here at alta, international in moscow, our days of special rolling coverage continue. here. we are working very hard to bring you all sides of today's top story. as all eyes do remain on ukraine, it is now the 3rd day how of what russia was calling up military operation in ukraine. the violence is worsening. more explosions are being reported in the capital k f. now, these images show what appeared to be a missiles strike on

a residential tower report li, just on the outskirts of the capitol. i, several floors have been damaged, is unclear right now? are there any victims? the house located close to kias juliani airport, the these unverified pitches that reported the showing shooting and explosions and the violence and key locals are showing videos of fire and smoke all along the capitol central victory avenue. and the surrounding areas fighting is also taking place just kilometers away from my down square. of course, the staging of the anti government protest, that's where it all went down in 2014. now regarding a case of officials, they're still telling residents that take shelter. and there's another unverified video from one shelter. you can see the locals, the sleeping, standing sitting and ultimately going through all must be an awful time. our residents are also seeking show safety in that of the cities metro stations. now. meanwhile,

the ukranian president has chosen this time of crisis to edge the european union to make up its mind about his country stuff. will you send me a moment? the decisive moment has come to close once and for all the issue of ukraine's accession to the you. i hope that germany and hungary will have the courage to support this decision or getting some of the latest comments from the russian president vladimir putin. he is alleging that ukrainian radical nationalists in the army using civilians as human shields, by deploying heavy weapons and densely populated areas of food and claiming that it's happening at the direct instructions of us advises us. according to the russian president, been the ukrainian radical nationalist deploying heavy weapons, including multiple loans, rocket systems, right in the central areas of large cities, including care. and hark of they planned to provoke a response from russian strike systems on residential areas. in fact,

they act in the same way as terrorists do. they hide the truth and hope leaving the russia. it is reliably known that this is happening under the direction of foreign consultants. primarily americans that uses that are designed to the time to here we can show you of a 1st image are supposed to be verified photo. now the ukrainian military artillery squad. right there in the middle of a residential area. a russian defense ministry spokesman says that the russian side will not be drawn into provocations. and that was from the official russian side. well, meanwhile, ukraine has scrapped the age limit, needed to join the army, and the banding old men between 860, from leaving the country. ukrainian authorities are also is doing guns to citizens who will stand up and fight. in the key of region alone is reported that more than a 10000 rifles had been handed out to volunteers. and we did discuss all this with a former counterterrorism intelligence officer. charles schubert, however listened to what you had to say to give out weapons to

anybody the office to use them against somebody is poverty. quite a record odyssey sparks of desperation, of course. but the problem comes when weapons are given out freely. that festival you're given it to people who may not be poppy trying to how to use them in the 1st instance. and secondly, you've got an issue that you've only got it on trusted as people are going to use those weapons against the invader. after all, they could be going to actually, anybody, once you introduce those weapons freely into an environment half yet will you kind of keep control of those weapons. are working hard to bring you all the angles of today's break and you store your naughty international that what is essentially a military crisis at the latest. now from the russian defense ministry, the defense ministry, claiming that a ukrainian force is off targeting civilians and new guns, claiming that residential areas came up a heavy rocket fi with a number of people killed. as i understand, we cannot get a report from don bass. with ortiz, roman cousin,

russian defense minister report starts the ukranian nationalist forces, use multiple rockets, launching systems against the city of sarro belsky in la ganske region, currently under control of ukraine. now they're calling it's a provocation, and the russian defense ministry said that they are aware of similar plans against the other cities of the donors kilograms. people's republics that are still current under a ukrainian control who are fighting is taking place. this a series of chroma tours can slogans, could also be a targeted in these provocations by ukranian nationalist or the head of the people's republic of the nest. and he's pushing also war and that's a intelligence shows that these, the cities could be targets of the ukrainian nationalist force. and he warned the residents there to take necessary safety measures and leave or

hide in the bomb shelters when this starts happening. meanwhile, shelling here in the next republic where we are continues to, to this day for the city of dun nest, we heard several explosions during the day. meanwhile, the city of whirl of cas shelling, continuous non stop to this hour and the mayor of the city of fall of reports that several explosions, several shillings have taken place. on friday, 2 teachers have been killed as the result of artillery fire on thursday. another 2 people were killed and there were attacks during the day on the saturday as well. and this is what the mayor of the city said about those incidents yogurt middle school. i have repeatedly said that ukraine's forces awaiting genocide against their own people. today at 8 15 am, the area was by

a large caliber project house cuz we didn't have time to identify into them. 3 houses were damaged to the emergency services and local officials arrived swiftly at the scene when it was at exactly 931 a at they attacked the same place again. there about 8 strikes with the ukrainian side knew perfectly well that the emergency services would be the official story all talking about. so what's happening in the u grey, according to the defense minister, year rushes operation to neutralize. the ukraine's military infrastructure are continues and earlier there were a reports that says scores offer ukrainian soldiers that had been neg, killed on the island of as mean the in the near the city offer. odessa are killed by the, her, russian military in a, in a combat situation. and they were how quickly proclaimed the heroes of fo ukraine by president of latimer zalinski. however,

a footed sure emerged from the defense ministry a showing at least soldiers, alive and well. and apparently they have just if simply a surrender to russian troops and they are now in a civil stobel in the crimea completely taken care off and they've been promised a safe passage back home once the operation of ukraine concludes. now russian defense ministry stress that their sole authority, it is the ukrainian military infrastructure and not the civilians less of a lesson receipt given us worship. re my in russian servicemen are taking all measures to ensure the safety of civilians and exclude provocations by ukrainian special services and nationalists. our fire is directed only as the military infrastructure of the armed forces of ukraine, or we do not target residential and social infrastructure. the colla fighting continues here in logan's region in jeanette creegan,

the head of the republic denise. so bushland in dynamics says that the operation to liberate the rest of the nest people's republic. willis soon ends, but the forces will not rest until uh that happens. so now a heavy fighting is said taking place in the south of the republic and near the city of murray will pull its about a couple of hours drive away from my here now are apparently nationalists militia group called us off off ukraine is controlling the city they have in circle it and prevented a preventing the civilians from evacuating. now that group has been associated with a neo nazi believes and had they were accused of war crimes. and they're now preventing civilians from leaving agreed to making them into a human shield. a basically meanwhile, elsewhere, several settlements and on boss have been liberated by leads on net sca army. and

we've even seen footage of for local a soldier swishing ukrainian flags to those of the de nest people's republic and syllable their wants again to fighting continues. and we're hearing explosions, say here in don't ask as well the closer to the center of the city, but they have not been happening as frequently as they have in the last couple of weeks. taken a step back, let's open up for you here on the program will show you in the red and the blue. these are the dumbass republics, according to their borders as a recently recognized as we all know, independently by russia. and that essentially kicked off where we are today. and the russian defense ministry associates assisting, local forces, retake areas from ukrainian troops as we understand actually penetrating 25 kilometers beyond what was the contact line. and zooming out just a little bit to the rest of the country, we can show us some of the cities that that are mostly claims to have seized or is report lease, still fighting for let's get some analysis now political commented on

a risk. joining us live on a rolling coverage on auto international trying times ali, a lot of people finding themselves in the middle of a historic conflict. there must be a very difficult time for those involved in those residents of ukraine's da lensky . apparently, signaling the is open to diplomacy. it seems that putin has left that door open from his side of it. do you think? do you think that a chance of that well, i think there's always a chance of the diplomacy, but my fear is the, the influence. so the sway, the, the new object 0 corresponding just spanish in the off battalion, which is a well known as a group that has been active in the dorm bus region for quite some time. human organizations like human rights watch, shap, documented the at the violations carried out by such groups. it's been said, it's repeatedly said that it's not necessary necessary to the case of julian ski

has the final say in matters that is under the sway of right middle elements like are groups like well, if i can jump in for a 2nd, i do apologize. but i don't have enough time to really have a massive chat. what you, what you mentioned, the as of battalion, we've heard putin referring to what's being called neo nazis. are they, are they really as widespread as it's being said and any idea the size of the battalion i've, i've never heard it put into that context. well look again, movie also has been active ever since the beginning of the scituate when the escalation begun and lead on bus region. it was incorporated. busy into the ukranian national guard groups like the still fall group, for example, discipline group, which is an american group or an american institution focused on the politics, inter, an intelligence. it has documented the presence of the house of battalion and the fact that many people,

many right wing is from outside ukraine have come to train with the house of battalion. for example, let me give you a quick example. brent and terence to the who committed the crush just magic, got the straight national. he reported receive training training. sorry. what was off battalion. so ukraine has become a hub, not just a lot, but tony itself, but for a larger trans national right wing network and has, has been instrumental in attracting these forces. so when the president protein refers to demilitarization and the notification at that in itself, point to i was necessitated, it wasn't necessary to take such action because the emotions have been naughty states with you strongly hom, that's like saying for example, the totally abandoned, i'm going to say what, when it was it was, it certainly has been what i'm sort of jumping certainly has been one of putin's points and that is to, to the not defy ukraine. that's one of his talking points. but originally that the

main argument goes back to russia's red lines, no ukraine, nato membership and, and enough of these eastern european countries putting them in on the border with russia. those are really the main red lines here. now look where we all today. look where we are today and witnessing history in the making in ukraine with, with millions of people going through a very difficult time as we understand. in fact, civilians and ukraine are trying to put up a fight. they've been hanging out weapons as i understand to civilians that in the capital city they're going to be able to put up much of a fight. no civilians are not going to be able to put a bunch of idea cranium military. i think also recognize that. com match the russian forces, but let me just quickly point out something, you know, when you're, when you have these weapons coming in, we've heard today, announcement that nato and the americans are going to send more weapons. what happens in the case these weapons can fall into the hands of any party. we sought such policies in syria, these have these weapons filling the ends of extremist groups. like i'm also in the,

i'm and i fell into the hands of groups like a car inspected a case. i expect the same scenario that these, some of these weapons inevitably will fall into the hands of the image or nausea. so we're seeing again these same same. busy mistakes being repeat the question about, you know, a night night of expansion. it's been clear that this is a red line for president put in the fall roster, especially ukraine, which is right next to the board. in ukraine's case, it's not just met the expansion, it's the emergence again, i want to emphasize that the emergence of a neo nazi might have holler know any, any country what an extra such a state being right on its board is ski. as time passed, he was on boxing more and more of that, right. the green truck was under the sway of the green. impose racial laws in the region like imposing language, etc. well, yeah, i get it. i get it. look, you're right. i mean, there was an economic blockade that was essentially put up from kiev onto the,

onto the stone back. don't bass republics, of course, after the 2014, my dime qu, these are be these areas. these regions announced their independence from camp and goes back to 2014. this does, but look where we are now. we're hearing, we're hearing reports of what, what, what can only be compared to what guerrilla warfare down on the, on, in the streets of, of the capital. and i know you make a comparison to the weapons going into the wrong hands. and so it was done in the middle east, but ukraine is essentially considered, you know, eastern europe, southeastern europe. and this is pretty shocking that what we're seeing is that not your brain is considered to be eastern european, correct. but in the end, you have different kinds of extremism, but extreme as it is extremism. personally, are considered the neo nazis to be the equivalent of groups like al qaeda, like i like isis. you have to remember that these groups and these have aspirations like to watch, for example,

which extend the way beyond the crane itself. the leader or the founder of the household battalion has referred to the white race. so that's similar to the kind of fade project of isis. and i think that we have an equivalent and an extremist equivalent now in eastern europe, that they have to be action bar, the russians preemptively. in order to prevent the situation from, i get that, i appreciate the thank you for clearing that up. i appreciate that. what, let me ask you, let me ask you about the nato reaction at the moment. that's the nato member country to find themselves under the gun right now that there was talk about $40000.00 nato, treat troops being put on to some sort of special reserve alert. does it look like? does it possibly go kinetic this way? between russia and nato? what's, what's coming up next right now, i mean, the world is watching. i think a confrontation between russia and it was highly unlikely whether it be, you know,

these nitro contingency plans or whether it be the sanctions which are being posed . whether it be the weapons. i think this all reflects bankruptcy, basically. i think what the united states and its allies are trying to do, they trying to say, look, we're doing something, at least we're doing something, but the steps which they taking. i don't think we'll have any effect on the situation on the ground. bankruptcy, as i said, as you know, there's some european nations they'd have to even object to, to the suggestion made by the british to cut off russia from the swift account. so, you know, i think these western countries have no choice but to stand and watch as the situation on the goals. one can only hope the president zelinski maybe has more of a say over his affairs and maybe can sideline some of these more while being extremely big as a new client in government. and then things might be headed towards a dialogue kind of diffusing of the situation. but i, personally, i doubt as to whether lensky has that political clout, which,

which would allow him to stand up to the more extremist elements in you're creating leadership. what about all right, so let's discuss where we are today, lee and, and, and, and wanted to ask you, people talk about the russian president vladimir putin as a player of 5 g chess. he's a master when it comes to geo politics. save even trump through his hacking the ring describing what's going on today as genius make about what you will. but i wanted to ask you ali, and in all seriousness, you think, you think putin to think he might have miscalculated a little bit. and again, not have to repeat what i was telling you. i think that there was basically no choice. this was a war of necessity. it wasn't the war of choice, or some people are depicted depicting to be, you know, they were talking about russian national security. what country would allow for the emergence? you know, ever since 2014 or might be the trump administration if i want to be exact same

stop time. ironically, despite trumps cordial personal relationship with court and it was then that the united states began to send in those weapons those i can never weapons to ukraine. that coincided with the release of the national security and national dependence. refugees during the ministration which referred to great power competition. now this is when the situation thought that that's when the weapons become began piling him to ukraine. at the same time, you can continue to take this me or knology turn, and the lights are on the situation, i think which to a point whereby the russians couldn't just stand by the cranium were receiving advanced weaponry. for example, turkey was providing would providing when we're drones or one particular thing in the or the states the atlantic council had put together or, you know, had released some research referring to i opperation of regime change in russia. and it is said that the atlantic council also does have some influence with

a bought in ministration. so we could take all this together, i think. and again, it was just, there was no, no way to avoid this situation, particularly off that we have that escalation, just days before the parent has said he said that he said on the recent past, all that he has to do something. but i don't ali, i don't really know if anyone thought that it would go this far alley, risk of political commentator. joining us here on our team to national appreciate your opinion. thanks very much. appreciate you being with us here on the program. now, when it comes to you on a political, the payoff front, i think moscow is, is feeling the pressure and now the e, u, u. s. and u. k. a announcing a raft of sanctions against russia, following deliberations between european leaders in brussels. we can learn more, crossing live to london on the policy are joining us. can you bring us up to date on the latest sanctions? how are they, how they spelling out polar? while they set the spelling out in some kind of spiral, as you correctly say,

they are growing with the u. k. imposing harsh sanctions on russia. they've now imposed an extra travel ban in terms of not only russian aircraft not being allowed to land here, but also private chests. at the same time v t b bank, the 2nd largest state own bank and a number of other russian banks have also been sanctioned. the u. k is no longer accepting visa applications from ukrainians who are stuck in their country unless they have close family. here in the u. k. and the beller was ambassador to london has been summoned and told that new members of the ruling elite also to be sanctioned. for supporting russia's military moves, the opposition leader has said that more sanctions are necessary, as one of the members of parliament from his party has started receiving death threats for search for criticizing and speaking out against nato expansion. the prime minister by his johnson earlier recorded

a twitter video in which he called for an end to what he has termed a crisis. it was also an opportunity for him to show off his knowledge of the russian and ukrainian languages. the previous prime minister, hooton's actions are leading to complete isolation for russia, shuttled by the rest of the international community, hit by immense economic sanctions and facing a needless and bloody war. these already costing countless lies from innocent ukrainians to your russian soldiers who will never see their families again. and to my russian friends. your new view store davina advanced over empty this crisis. this tragedy can and must come to an end to show its v tupa prima villa, what a no brainer. slow grainy union also says that it is

imposing harsh sanctions that these that says will cripple the russian economy. they include sanctions on individuals, state owned companies, and key sectors of the russian economy. all members of the russian parliament will now face asset freezes and travel bands at the same time and an extremely rare move . the e u has frozen the assets of the russian president vladimir putin and his foreign minister. so gait live rav, although neither certainly not at this point, are being subject to an e. u. travel ban. the european union and european leaders saying that one of this is necessary but to want to for decent, we're adding president prudent and foreign secretarial of rob to the list of sanctions. they are responsible for the deaths of innocent people in ukraine and for trampling on the international system. one that we as europeans do not accept that, i'm in canada, the united kingdom and the united states have also decided to freeze the assets of

president putin and minister liberals. and sophie, this is part of a co ordinated action. but one step further is being taken by the united states who has also imposed a travel ban on the pair. only a television, a telephone conversation, a president biden held with european commission president of underline. and an alignment with the decision by our european allies, united states will join them in sanctioning president and foreign minister live rather than members of the russian national security team. these expansion, these, these sanctions are expected to trickle down and effect ordinary russians solely in the u. k and elsewhere in europe. russians are wondering what impact will have on them and on the families back home or later on the western sanctions. there are these policies here. thanks for, i'll probably be seeing you very soon again. when it comes to the whole issue of our russia potentially being cut off from the swift system. i'm sure you've heard

about this has been talked about actually on an off for many years. what with this latest crisis now there is renewed, talk about cutting russia off from the, the swift global international banking system. what we spoke to economists, richard wolf, he said i wouldn't just hug one country in a global world more globally interconnected than ever before. if you blocked this with the system, you are declaring a kind of economic warfare that will damage and destroy all kinds of economic relationships. the reason mister shows in germany did not want to can stop the attempt to freeze russia out of swift, was because it would throw the price of oil and gas up in the food beyond what it has already been. because you couldn't pay russia for the oil and gas through swift, and they wouldn't send it any more. and no one knows where that's going to go. so

if they do that, if they actually go through with that, they will disrupt global trade. they will drive inflation through the roof. and let me remind everyone, russia, china, iran, and many other countries don't like the domination, the united states as over the swift system. and it really is only a matter of time before there are multiple systems. bitcoin is already functioning to a degree like that. so this would be a very dangerous step because it will accelerate the end of the swift monopolies too, bud. well, despite what we're seeing with the ongoing battle is on the streets and on the city outskirts and various battlefields too. as we understand as potentially a glimmer of hope for what many are asking, hoping for that of a diplomatic solution. a kia is now saying is ready to talk with a kremlin about a possible ceasefire. reporting out from a tech on the rock in southern russia,

at ortiz donald court. the kremlin is ready to sit down at the negotiating table. they've put forward 3 very clear demands. the 1st one is demilitarization of ukraine. it's pretty self explanatory. they don't want ukraine to be a military threat to russia any more. and they especially don't want it to have nuclear weapons. this is something that a members of parliament in ukraine were openly talking about before this russian offensive began. now the 2nd point is d knots, vacation of the country. russia has already actually started an investigation into war crimes carried out at the hands of neo fascist organizations. within the ranks of ukrainian military, they want to help hold them responsible for 8 years of indiscriminate bombing of the people of don, boss, men, women, and children. and the 3rd is making ukraine a neutral country. they don't have to be friends with russia, but russia does not want it to be part of the nato military alliance. this is something that russia said for months already. it's been

a demand of theirs for months before this operation started. but unfortunately, uh, the west nato, uh, the, the u. s. europe, they've all rejected that proposal. now prudent also said that it would be easier to negotiate at this point with the ukranian military actually than, than the government in kiev. he's called on the military to take charge so that they can come to the negotiating table. you sure of the shoes gwyneth wu, ocean, gloom, zullie. and once again appeal to the military personnel of the own forces of ukraine . do not allow neo nazis to use your children, wives, and the elderly, as human shields take power into your own hands. it looks like it will be easier for us to come to an agreement. kia has also said that it's willing to sit down at the negotiating table. they have one main demand, if they're gonna agree to what russia is saying that i just mentioned their demands . they want 3rd party security guarantees. after all, zalinski has basically said that although the e u,

the u. s. nato say they said for ukraine, they've left it to fend for itself on this and, and at the same time, wednesday has been saying that they need to work towards peace. everything needs to be done to work towards an end to the bloodshed, but contradictory. he's also saying that people from europe, with military experience should come to ukraine and joined the ukrainian military to fight russia. yes, sir, william, you will be my advice if you have a combat experience in europe and do not want to look at the indecision of politicians. you can arrive in our state and protect europe with us, where it is now urgently required on sharpie. now, as for where these negotiations are going to take place, it's still unclear. first, russia had suggested men, skin bella, roo, says a potential location, but key of then rejected that. came back with a counter offer of war saw in poland, but russia doesn't want to have them there. as for, as for right now, it's unclear, but actually a israel is the prime candidate right now for potential 3rd party mediator of these negotiations because it's one of very few countries around the world that has

a good relationship with both ukraine and russia. so television has yet to respond, but we're gonna have to see what comes out of that. are going back to a continued commentary coming out of a, the russian foreign ministry. it's a maria is a hot of, of the oh spokesperson the she's saying that moscow is always ready to negotiate. so hot of also claiming though that it was the ukrainian government's decisions that have led to this current crisis. we will always respond to request for negotiations. we always hold them even with the most aggressive opponents you. it's important to understand that the person stood as the president of ukraine is inadequate for the job when you are in recent years, the decisions that ukraine has meet brought it under the guise of national interests, contradicted the interest they alert that would serve. and that's leading the country to disaster than they are the endless provocations in october and november 2021 alone. there were 5 provocations in the air space above the black sea that needed an answer. and it's being given. and we should note we're all connected.

perhaps by friendship, by business, but when the security of the people both ours and the people of ukraine is at stake . these connections will be redundant without demilitarization. so the goals are set and the operation is implemented. and so with international condemnation of russia's incursion in ukraine, mounting a un security council meeting was conveying a member states including the us, russia and ukraine, the old issued statements. there was a vote on a resolution condemning moscow's actions. russia vetoed it. this is naught, self defense under article 51. it is naked aggression. it is an unprovoked unjustified war. and this council must condemn it. russia's latest attack on our most fundamental principles is so bold, so brazen that it threatens our international system, united states,

that's the bar when it comes to invasions, i will refrain from listing the aggressions that the united states has committed in its history, but it has no right, to preach morality to russia, i will ask all of you to pray for so. so those who has been already killed for souls. oh, those who may be killed station with i do apologize. but before moving to a moment of silence, i want to include in the list those people who perished over all these years in don bass. they also are worthy of being mentioned to us. all human lives are valuable. let's not forget them either. as round the santa india, a sleigh, china in the united arab emirates, abstained from that burnt of sand, winced restructure rushes. military actions have been roundly condemned by the u. s . media, but when it comes, when it was a, i say a washington or when washington was a war,

is the coverage was rather different. let's bring up a bit of a comparison for you during these tough times. as a correspondent, candid open u. s. media coverage is always so fair and balanced. i am angry at this evil act by this evil leader attacking an innocent nation, a democratic nation. we wake up this morning to a war in europe, a deadly one. he wasn't just threatening ukraine that significant enough, but he seemed to be challenging that the post cold war order food and wants to take over ukraine, faces on the screen, are filled with pain, anguish, and empathy for the people of ukraine. as russia moves in to try and stop the bombardment, the people of don ask and lugens can been facing for the past 8 years. now let's recall how these same outlets and voices responded to us missile strikes on syria in 2017 and act without any justification under international law. as us outlets cover russia's talkin ukraine, remember how these same outlets cover?

u. s. a tux when the u. s. bombs, syria in 2017 m. s. m. b c's, brian williams called the footage of the stroke. beautiful. he then quoted lena cohen, i am guided by the beauty of our weapons. cnn's for reads, a curry with simeon, susie austic about trumps, to tuck on syria. i think donald trump became president of the united states last night. he talked to a institutional gnomes in social rules about america's role and enforcing justice in the world. who can forget the invasion of iraq in 2003, based on lies about weapons of mass destruction. on the left is the economist of to push invaded iraq on the right is the economist of, to putin invited ukraine, spot the difference. this is all about one evil dictator who possesses a brutal weapons with which he will threaten a and, and hurt a lot of people, including a lot of americans. will us who take them away from him. all of us, including the iraqi people, are gonna be very fortunate. did i think was the smartest thing george bush did?

how about when barack obama rallied the world to destroy? what was then the most prosperous country on the african continent with nato bomb? i'm been asking this question over and over, why would we intervene in libya and i still haven't received an answer that totally satisfies me, but the most consistent one is because it be the right thing to do because people are dying for altruistic reasons. some u, as bombings don't even get coverage if it wasn't for african tweeting it out, people would have no idea the united states was currently carrying out strikes in somalia. somali us forces engage insurgents and supports of the federal governments of somalia. why criticize what your own government is doing when you can just as easily virtue signal and block heart strings, feigning outrage about something that a government on the other side of the planet is doing. if only the russian military was headquartered in washington than perhaps mainstream u. s. media would be educating us about the beauty of the weapons. caleb martin,

r t. new york. you know, we discussed some of these historical issues with a john list under contributor. a richard met hust. yeah, i mean the, the hypocrisy is unbelievable. i don't think we can possibly count the number of countries. the u. s. m, u k, have have together crude invaded bond since world war 2. it's quite staggering. we, i literally con, name them all us was bombing, syria and bryan williams was, you know, foaming at the mouth on live television. it's not isolated, they all do that on every network. i am old enough to remember when they were invading iraq and they were doing the same thing. you had a live stream from a tank on cnn. this is who these people are. they are spokes a person's. they are the mouthpiece for the weapons manufacturers. so it's their job to sell war, and i know this must be very frustrating for americans because when they see bombing on live television, they're used to seeing their own troops do it. so when they see russia doing it to defend itself, it's weird for them. they don't understand it and it causes a lot of it's, there is a lot of emotions. and you know,

israel is bombing syria almost every single week. and i don't see anyone i'm seeing uncovering that as a matter of fact, a few hours before rush along the operational ukraine. israel bonham, syria, and there was no coverage at all. so there okay, with violations of international law and sovereignty and territorial integrity. they're okay with bindings, they're working with wars when they're the ones doing it and that's most of the time. so how do we really get to this point where we are today it, it ultimately does go back in many parts of that of the older men. agreements that were well they were agreed upon. some years ago, off the 2014, the both sides agreed to honor the minsk agreement. but it has not been put into effect with essentially among many other things, drawing back weapons from the front line. so as he does have a documentary following lives of people who have been caught up in the conflicts of don bass over the 8 years, you can watch the full version and r t dot com good . like most who live in the grey zone. the v ruskie family tries to pay little

attention to the wall that came straight to their house. they're getting used to their usual village life on the fire. their legible gardens have long been turned into mine fields in 7 years of civil war. the basement is where they mostly live now, and they are well aware that any time they venture outside, it could end in injury or death. mm. i work with

a, with a peak with them to see that, you know, if they don't voice a bit. but that was a short a de villages who ended

up living on the front line. don't want to leave a date with now, a turning point for ukraine came back in 2014. that was when the government was toppled and then uprising back then a phone call was leeks, which are the us to provide victoria newland was her talking to the u. s ambassador, deciding which ukrainian officials to put in which government posts that same phone call as we understand that rhetoric, linda was also heard saying f, the, you know, mike's blumenthal editor of the gray zone, a grade i was just as an independent new sites. he says these actions by newland and her house and her team,

where he says he's actions but ukraine on the path to war. so if you watch you as coverage of this war, you will not hear about my done, particularly in that context that is career suicide for any corresponding or any reporter to provide that context. and that is the most critical context, the context of what has happened to the people have done it. and lugens. since b a, my don regime came into power. the 13000 dead majority on the don bad side that is forbidden to discuss in the u. s. and so potent is this, the entire conflict is reduced to one person. vladimir putin who is just portrayed on m. s and b c by their top correspondent, richard angle, who is pretending to be in the field, but is actually far away as a bond villain. and this is all being done in the words of joseph biden to restore the soviet union. that's how this has been portrayed to an american public. and the american public is tuning out. they're focusing on their kitchen table issues

because they are unable to afford the basics of inflation and gas prices skyrocket . why not regarding the different ports of violence in coming to us here at our international in moscow, in different parts of ukraine and where different regions of flaring up at the moment of the english channel. now whereas we understand, france says it intercepted a russian vessel there in the english channel were totally not really clear. some sort of sanctions violations might be working to combat comes off to the you did hit russia with a fresh rafter, punitive measures over it's of course, it's a military action incursion. and ukraine, the into a set of vessel as we understand was shipping cars and was heading to russia. st. petersburg is now being pushed back to a coastal city and northern france. we've got a correspondence on the ground and all different positive ukraine inherit auto international. we are working very hard to bring you all angles of this historic military conflict. we appreciate you joining us here in nazi. we'll be back soon

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