yes, in the world, the politics, small business, i'm show business. i'll see you then in the top headlines right now here with the international according to the kremlin officials are saying that ukraine is refusing to negotiate and the military and coach and will continue. a kia was apparently saying it is not satisfied with the conditions that russia, apparently offering a few, tells me that a source in moscow's defense ministry, says ukraine, not russia to a residential tower block in here, we're getting both sides of the story here. an audience in africa, more details come on that i and go i mean,

find the russian president. he alleges that ukrainian radical nationalists, the using civilians as human shields by deploying heavy weapons and densely populated areas. again, this is according to the russian president with the ukranian radical nationalists to deploy heavy weapons security, multiple loans, rocket systems, right? in the central areas of large cities, they plan to provoke a response from russia strike systems on residential areas of russian congress ship . it's just been in deceptive by fraud in the english channel just to get them out there. it's apparently all district sanctions imposed by the you over rushes, devastating military action. ukraine, the so at a time of heightened distrust in the global media here at our to you to national, we doing all we can to field the very latest reports from the ukranian side. the russian side, of course,

recovering that the continued condemnation for europe. it is good to have you with us today. we just thought this out with breaking news for you and straight to that of the ukrainian side. now in this story, as we understand, the ukranian president's office says kiev is not satisfied with the conditions for negotiations with russia. that's after the kremlin spokespersons said ukraine is refusing to hold talks, and so russia's military operation will continue. let's have a quick listen now to what mister dmitri prescott had to say to you yesterday. when we were expecting negotiations with the ukrainian leadership, the russian president ordered a suspension of the russian army bosses advance. but as the ukrainian side has refused to negotiate, the advance of the main russian forces resumed this afternoon in accordance with the plan of the operations. russia, military and coach in ukraine is now it was 3rd day. the international condemnation

is reaching fever, pitch, and the culture as was in it, we understand more explosions are being reported in the capital k f. now these images show would appear to be a missile strike on a residential tower block just on the outskirts of the capital. a several floors damaged unclear as of yet the victims. now, according to the russian defense ministry, sources bare say it was caused by a mis i'll guidance failure in ukraine's defense system. although the key says it was a russian missile stripes on both sides now accusing each other for that explosion . there are no block of flat key of officials or urging residents to continue to seek shelter in various boma shelters. this is an unverified video from one as well . we can see people seeking shelter. residents are also seeking safety. as we understand the cities underground metro stations as well. so meanwhile, the russian president, vladimir putin, is alleging that ukrainian radical nationalists in the army are using civilians as

human shields. this is by deploying heavy weapons in densely populated areas. again, this is according to the russian president with us is the ukranian radical nationalists are deploying heavy weapons including multiple loans, rocket systems, right in the central areas of large cities, including kiff and harko, 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 of playing the russia. it is reliably known that this is happening under the direction of foreign consultants. primarily americans have a look at this image right here. it's allegedly verified, photo of ukrainian artillery squatted as we understand, we're being told that right, that opposition is in the middle of a residential area or russian defense ministry spokesman says the russian side will not be drawn into provocations and will not attack heavy weaponry inside the cities that's according to the russian side. well, meanwhile, as we understand,

ukraine has scrapped the age limit, needed to join the army, and finding now old men between 18 and 60, from leaving the country. are you printed off already? they're also issuing guns to any citizen who will stand and fight as we understand . and the key of region alone is reporting more than 10000 rifles were handed out to volunteers and we discussed how that can affect and how that can potentially help ukrainians in the middle of this military crisis. we spoke with charles shoe bridge, a former counterterrorism intelligence officer, to give out weapons to anybody that office to use them against somebody is probably quite a reckless policy. it smacks of desperation, of course. but the problem comes when weapons are given out freely festival. you're giving it to people who may not be potty trained in how to use them in the 1st instance. and secondly, you've got an issue that you've only got it on. trusted people are going to use

those weapons against the invader after that could be going to actually anybody. once you introduce those weapons freely into an environment, yet will you cannot keep control of those weapons. are back to our latest breaking news angle here on the international we go to address. so the ukranian side here because we are getting reactions now you're hearing this to autism tracker, joining us this afternoon on this latest angle of the top story. apparently, earlier, the ukranian president's office is saying that kiev is not satisfied with the conditions. want to go. she, asians with russia, apparently, as after the criminal spokesperson said, ukraine is refusing to hold talks on russia will continue with its military of a ration. what can you tell us about this? while rory, remember, there was some confusion late on friday night, as to who is really in favor of these big oceans and who is not. because at

one point we heard a desperate president of ukraine or the muslim ski saying that he's ready to discuss the neutral status of ukraine. then several locations were also mentioned. first, it seems that we're talking about mens then according to the kremlin, there was a desire by the cranium side to move the negotiations to war. so then they decided to have a pause for several hours and then it all moved on to saturday. and now we're finally starting to understand what's going on. and finally, there is a single opinion. so to say from both sides because after hearing doing tree pass, golf, who said that to that one point the grading inside agreed to these negotiations. however, then it seems that they weren't happy with the terms, but again, like we heard from dmitri pasco, the problem spokesperson, a very important element, q. it was that actually late on friday night,

mr. potent told the russian troops to hold on and not to advance further with whatever they were up to. however, when they received the, when the answer from the great inside was no, then they decided to go on with the military operation. now it seems we're getting confirmation not from mr. dunn, he himself, but from some kind of advisor to the head of the president's office. that indeed key of wasn't happy at all with the terms that russia was putting forth, i guess try to jump in. and it's, it's hardly surprising. i mean, right now you've got some sort of drastic military operations going on in this part of the well, you've got the landscape who i read reports. he, when he was high, he, he moved from a key to off. he was hiding in a bunker as he can shelter that. he's clearly feeling like he's, he's the target here. it wouldn't surprise me on

a personal level. he's come out and saying, i'm not going to speak piece of the yet because we've got your military hardware in my capital city. well, 1st of all, these reports that dev oldham as lensky has already been moved to will evolve. and the countries west, that's something that's constantly being denied mccraney inside. and we remember that mr. lensky tried to somehow show the people that he's still in kiev by taking so called selfie videos of himself. were their buildings from downtown key of war? seen. however, according to the russian side, these videos could have been pre recorded. that's something we cannot verify, but this one side is thanks now will. when rory you are telling me that of course the situation is absolutely difficult for mr. do then ski, but many experts will tell you that he has no other choice, but to say that the negotiating table and also make some kind of concessions

because the positions of the crating army in kiev are quite weak. but that's right, i'm sorry, but don't you also think that putin has no choice, but to sit down the peace table for talks as well because i mean, how much further can this guy want him? is it going to go past you crazy? this is one of the things that the european leaders and the european media a talking about the thing, how far is russia going to push this right now? now, if putin is saying so, the landscape come on, let's get together and have some peace talks and landscape saying, no, i'm not ready yet. it should seem, perhaps there are going to be those to say that person should be doing everything he can to encourage piece talks. at this point, people are losing their lives right now. if you check out. for example, ortiz, instagram feed was showing some terrifying violence coming in from different parts of ukraine. right now, it should be, it should be both sides, ukrainian leadership and russian leadership who should be leading the way to that

negotiation table. well, many experts will tell you also that a, given the amount of pressure that russia has received, that not only from the west but from other parts of the world as well, likes to australia, zealand, japan stand together with the major a need to allies that should probably for the kremlin to also be very keen to negotiate. but you see dmitri past golf said that when the crating side isn't agreeing to the terms, nothing can be reached and the military operation is ongoing. but there was also something else. another very important message that came from baltimore's lensky, the gradient leader, over earlier a few hours ago. he said that this was high time to accept ukraine into the you without any preconditions. listen to that, but not stuck with you for

a moment. the decisive moment has come to close once and for all the issue of ukraine's accession to the you are, you mean, i hope that germany and hungary will have the courage to support this decision? and now, no matter how important this particular announcement is, you have to understand that this could act like a rag tag for a ball when it comes to the reaction from moscow. so again, this is all becoming more and more complicated and perhaps it's very important. now for mitch's density to choose what kind of rhetoric he uses before any potential negotiations that moscow might or might not agree to. all right, so basically, russian officials now to meet your pest golf the presidential spokesperson is saying that he is saying the key is not happy already for peace talks with russia that that's basically the nuts and bolts of it. right? well, he's not happy with the terms the terms when the terms are not right for key of

then they're refusing, but the one bar, i mean, perhaps there is some sense of optimism here. elliot don't go far, please. i will stick around the sticker on or thanks for your patience with this. try to do every kind here fielding all the angles. we, we, so we hearing now from the ukrainian presidential side, we're getting reaction from the kremlin. now the russian defense ministry is claiming the ukrainian forces of targeting civilians in lou guns that is according to russian officials. they say that residential areas have come under heavy rocket of fire. reportedly, a number of people have been killed. this is all according to the russian defense ministry of corresponded to end on bast, as roman culture. russian defense minister report starts the ukranian nationalists forces use multiple or rockets, launching systems against the city, or for a bell, skin legged screech, and currently under control or for ukraine. ah, now they're calling it's a provocation. and a russian defense ministry said that they are aware of similar plans against the

other cities of the or the national accounts people's republics that are still current under a ukrainian control who are fighting is taking place. this has cities of trauma tours can slogans, could also be targeted in these provocations by ukrainian nationalists. the head of the people's republic of the nest, denise pushing, also war and that's a intelligence shows that these the cities could be targets of the ukrainian nationalists force. and he warned the residents there to take the necessary safety measures and leave or hide in the bomb shelters when this starts are happening. meanwhile, are showing here in the next republic where we are continues to, to this day, the city of don net, we heard several explosions during the day. meanwhile, the city of world of cas shelling, continue,

is non stop to this hour. and the mayor of the city of far girl of reports so that several explosions, several shillings have taken place on of 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 incidence yogurt middle school. i have repeatedly said that ukraine's force is a waging genocide against their own people. to day 815 a. m. the area was by a large caliber project house because we didn't have time to identify. and 3 houses were damaged to the emergency services and local officials arrived swiftly at the scene when it was at exactly 9 31 am they attacked the same place again there about 8 strikes. 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 gray and according to the defensiveness fear, 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 killed on the island of as mean. the inn, near the city, offer odessa killed by the, a russia military in a combat situation. and there were how quickly proclaimed the heroes of fo ukraine by presidents of latimer zalinski. however, a footed sher emerged from the defense ministry a showing of the soldiers alive and well. and apparently they have just left 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 ellison, or is it given latortia brittany, my 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 at the military infrastructure of the armed forces of ukraine. we do not target residential and social infrastructure. colla fighting continues here in la ganske region in genetic region. the head of the republic, denisa bushland in dynamics says that the operation to liberate the rest of the nest people's republic. willis soon ends by 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 mario paul, it's about

a couple of hours drive away from my here. now are apparently a nationalist militia group called us off of ukraine is controlling the city there in circle it and prevented a preventing the civilians from are evacuating. now that group has been associated with a neo nazi believes and had, there were accused of of war crimes and they're now preventing civilians from leaving agree making them into a human shield a basically meanwhile, elsewhere, several settlements and on boss have been liberated by the don net sca army and we've even the seen footage of a local, a soldier swishing ukrainian flags to those of the didn't ask people, so republic, answer the boat there. once again the 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. let's move it out over now to that of the of ross stuff region in russia. south art is don't call her is in the area with reports of shelling. ukrainian military just fired 3 mortar shells at the russian federation to ra stove region where i'm located right now. you should be able to see on your screen right now footage of the devastation left from it. luckily nobody was injured. infrastructure wasn't damaged either, as you can see with your own eyes. it landed in a forested area. now the ukrainian foreign ministry says that it's military has not been shooting at the territory of the russian federation. but this is not the 1st instance in which bombs have fallen here yesterday in this very same region of ra stove. at least 14 artillery strikes, took place on border areas within the region, and right after the beginning of the russian military offensive. there were other such instances in brand screech, and there were, there was shelling there where houses were destroyed,

and 3 people were injured. the same thing happened in belgrade. infrastructure was damaged, shelling happened, and 3 people were also injured there. interesting, interestingly enough, more recently, near belgrade region, a ukrainian soldier had been trying to escape to the russian federation trying to basically defect and neo fascist groups. there that had their hands on artillery artillery batteries had fired out at him and unfortunately killed him and injured another servicemen in the, in the russian, a federal security services as well. now, because of this violence that's actually been happening on the russian federation, the authorities have taken measures. they've closed down rushes southern air space . basically there's going to be no flights out of this area until march 2nd. that's at a minimum that can be extended. there's 12 airports in raw stove region alone that will not be having flights until after that date for now. another thing they've

done is closed down all the schools that are located in boarder regence of that border. the don boss, people's republics. we have to remember that there are at least 3000 children from done yet can lugens cologne that have left ational institutions in these border regions. so that's another task. the russian authorities now have on their hands. what are they going to do? where are they going to put them so that they can make sure to continue their education or moving our coverage from a essentially southern europe, our old way to the north. whereas we understand france says it has intercepted a russian vessel in the english channel. apparently, this is just simply due to the latest sanctions that have been hit now across across the bow of russia. the european officials are unveiling one raft after another raft of sanctions against russia for this latest military conflict. charlotte do burskey, she and i had a chat about this just a short time ago. this cargo ship was seized at around 7 am local time here on

saturday in france. it's a cargo ship cool. the baltic leader and it is apparently on a list of companies that have being sanctioned by the u. s. as a result of that russian military action in ukraine. now we understand that originally the cargo ship was pulled over by the french officials because they wanted a check documentation. however, it then emerged that it is on that sanctions list. and as a result, the boat was seized and taken to balloon soon there, which is the largest port here in france, just down the road from cali, it's better known cousin 19 crew on board. we understand that they have been allowed to disembark from the cargo ship, and they are allowed to move around freely. now, the russian embassy here in paris has sent a note to the government requesting more information, and it says it will do all it can to protect the rights of those sailors on board.

the 19, now are for the moment we don't understand a winner aware of what cargo that ship may have been carrying. but we do understand that the reason it was pulled over is because this ship belongs to p. s. b leasing, which apparently is on the us sanctions list. now for the moment, the cargo, if there is any cargo and the vessel itself have been seized and the feature of that will be determined now by a french court. well, there's a lot of criticism in the media these days are particularly here at archie international about trying to give a transparent report on what is happening in the world today. we're working very hard to bring you all sides of today's breaking news story and our leading australian paid tv company focused others pull the artsy from its roster of siding the situation in ukraine. so we got reaction from parties. our deputy editor in

chief our teacher was title. if we were to bring valuable stafford use to an audience, really around the world, what organizational government either call 4 or $430.00 to be taken off the air. it's simply highlights the policy of media freedoms in the nation. they were present to look at the association of your injury. analysts, who i'm the one hand, so practically declared themselves as a journalist right yet. so readily turned back on the very founding principle to support the suppression of news and journalists under political pressure ever were time to recognize the importance of all fact gathering news and understanding of all views is now. what does that come in? a growing pressure on this channel. internationally artsy was already banned by poland national broadcasting council. the british culture secretary is calling to reconsider his license. and of course, you may be well aware of our newest us, just a tunnel r t d e is centrally been locked in germany right now. so let's learn

a bit more about this project, right. political analysts and nicola markovich are good to see unit killer, r t, a parent he taking more flag than ever before. we're looking at being shot down in any number of countries at the moment. how. how do you think, how do you think it's got to this point? this is the fabrication of consent missing. let me give you lou anecdote this past days. i've answered a lot of into who's across the world, asia, south america, africa and which means communion. some of those countries, countries are, i get some of the less exposure isn't, isn't the western enable countries they don't want? and if you look on the, on the tv tv sets and you look at the debates that we've got now and what's going on in your credit is practically gotten nobody giving another point of view. they're all going in the same direction. there's very few, there's not room at all for discussion. that doesn't mean defending the russian position. them is explaining the position, expanding history, explaining what's going on and giving a different point of view. normally on the day on such a matter, we should have hundreds of different views on and i can put everybody on a, on

a tv on tv. we have some opposing these. so people get to make their own opinion. they don't want this. we are well known chomsky called the fabrication of consent in the western world in nato countries. they want everybody to follow the same narrative because it's so much easier to manipulate after that. and we knew we've seen it in different boards in iraq. we've seen it in libya, we, even with the whole vaccine mandate, there's still room for the bay for discussion for discussion, all those which have the government ideas are entitled to speak on mainstream media . the do you think often is at fault here? i don't want to try and come across as oscar asking a loaded question here, but i've been working for on to, you know, on the frontline for 12 years and i've had a number of different people say to me, well, we don't like what you're doing. it all see it, and i thought other people say to me, you know what, your ruffling feathers around the world, you must be doing something right. but there is this general distrust in the media

today. and i did spend nearly 10 years working for cnn before i came to international in moscow. and during my time at sienna and i was the recipient of 3 different awards for investigative journalism. but since i've come to r t, i have essentially effected to the communist now and auntie is just bad or she has done a fantastic job. listen, and i've been, i've been a number of debates on r t, and i've discussed many times with people who deal with my disagree on many opinions when a lot of people, i mean, so there are a lot of debates on a lot of different subjects, r t has brought people together from different different political horizons, have brought them to debate, to discuss some agree, some disagree. and that is the purpose of journalism. and that is the purpose of the media meant that people who are watching make their own opinion, people watch r t if they want to go see the b, b, c. they can go read entry information on their own social network. let the people be free to have access to all free speech and then make their own decision. what is happening today in the and r t has helped a lot. and if

r t today is in the cross hairs, is because it's damaging the agenda. it's damaging the narrative of the, of the warmongers of people in the west to want everybody condition and who don't want people think. unfortunately, this is the truth. i think we're much better off today discussing the subjects thanks to media like r t and others and, and a lot of information we're getting on the internet. i remember when i was personally in 1909 in belgrade under the needle bombs, we didn't have access to alternative media, alternate id information with a high quality, no spring, you know, being the alternative meter, as, as, as, as many of you will do call us because we do push back on the mainstream narrative, but it, but it's become really hard days that are to international essentially, you know, ever since we had the sultry olympics and then the 2014 my dad and occurred in 2016 syria. occurred at, you know, russia has been on, on the, on the end of the whipping stick. now for quite some time. however, at this point though, you look at what's happening this military operation and ukraine. many calling it many labeling it and invasion. the western leaders calling it an incursion as well

. let me ask you this, i haven't got too much time left, nicola, but what do you think is the future of policy? we're doing all we can here to cover all bases and to cover all the angles here, but that the future of all the summer saying it looks pretty bleak. now you have to continue. you have to continue because they can't just shut up, shut us out of thinking what we want to think and having people debate again r t is not an ideology. it's a place where people can meet, discuss, debate on ideas. and that's fundamental. if we take that out or democracy is there is no more democracy. so it's extremely important. maybe the mission down tv says patient have to find something on the internet. if it's the internet is about to find something else. it will be taught these times are extremely tough. now, i don't know if they will get better, but we have to continue the fight for free speech. everybody is entitled to free speech or in our democracies. it's based on that, isn't that what we're taught, isn't that what's written in, in our constitution, we've got to fight for the right for to free speech. and i mean, we have access to all the media and that the people choose what is right. and right is wrong, nicola markovich, a political analysts joining us live here on our international thanks for your

opinion. we appreciate it. thank you. that probably won't surprise you to hear that anti war protests are spreading worldwide. it's against what many people view as russia's military and coach into ukraine. it's one of the latest with him. berlin, hundreds of people gathered outside the russian embassy waving ukrainian flies, banners on display falling from nato to help you crane. and for russia to be cut off from the swift financial piece relative also being held up 3 days in russia in more than 50 cities. in fact, if you check out the instagram page, or you can see a lot of some of the latest protests from russia and other parts of the world. well, that's going to wrap it up only for now. we are back in about 25 minutes with more of your braking use coverage. the.