ah, in the kremlin says, ukraine is refusing to negotiate and the military operation will continue while and adviser to ukraine's president says, keith is not satisfied with the conditions. russia is offering for peace talks that you have decided to disconnect to some russian banks from the swift system, as well as freeze assets of the russian central bank. a source in russia's defense ministry, reject allegations that the military hit, a residential tower block and ukraine's capital with both sides of blaming each other. meanwhile, artillery and gunfire is reported in the city this kindergarten in one of the next districts. it's just one of the places that was shelled on saturday morning. our correspondent reports from the don boss, a conflict zone where a kindergarten has come under fire. unfortunately,

no one was harmed with broadcasting live direct, more studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now we start with breaking news from the conflict in ukraine. according to media sources, citing ukrainian official. there has been a huge explosion at an oil depot, which is about 80 miles south of kiff. at this video, which we cannot independently verify as of yet shows the result of that alleged explosion. now, as you can see, there are flames and huge plumes of smoke filling the sky. this comes after reports of artillery and gunfire in the ukrainian capital of keith. earlier ortiz, the correspondent ilia katrinka spoke with my colleague, den hawkins, here's what they discussed. the amateur videos of the fighting that's already going on in the residential areas of kiev. the began to appear

as it became dark over the ukrainian capital. but there are quite a few developments when it comes to what's actually in these videos. and this is very worrying and troubling because we do actually see crossfire last night. it was mostly gotten fire when, when i'm talking about the cross bar here, it could actually be felt that these are either artillery rounds or possibly even missile launchers. and this is indeed much more worrying. although i do want to point out that we cannot verify their authenticity. however, now from the reports that we're getting from the locals and on social media, it has become abundantly clear that fighting is now happening inside of which is the crating capital at the city of almost $3000000.00 inhabitants. and we know that is divided by the nipper river. the russians have closed in on the city from the

western side. and there is a major road that links the highway in circles key of with the city center. and again, i am looking at reports on telegram candles, and i can see that already the rushing forces are halfway through that road. these are all the reports. these are the things that we're hearing on social media . we have not received a confirmation of that from the russian military officially, but the situation in kiev is very difficult. also, when i look at the maps, which showed traffic and you know how you usually see these green or red lines there. they're almost nonexistent anymore because apparently the cars are not out in the streets. many, many people thing god have left the capital. so definitely from that fighting the infrastructure, the residential areas as well, unfortunately,

will be damaged. but let's hope that there aren't many casualties as a result of this fighting which is intensifying. no matter what it seems like these images from day 3 of the special operations show what appears to be a missile strike on a residential tower block on the outskirts of care of several floors have been damaged. it is unclear if there are any casualties. the russian defense ministry sources that we've spoken to say it was caused by a missile guidance failure in ukraine's air defense system. although, must point out. the key of says that it was a russian missile strike. a russian military expert has given us his views on you came tactics. this was the reason favor of miss l. guidance system of a grain onto this complex. and one surely gram media will represent this case as a russian attack. according to that control,

the track bath and the nature of the damage, we can surely identified as an anti miss. so it is very difficult to establish a serial number from possible to identified. the main reason is that they are gray and forces deploying harmonics, form and conditions directly threaten. so this is the main problem in ukraine's capital officials are urging residents to take refuge in bomb shelters . residents are also seeking safety in the cities metro stations. meanwhile, elsewhere ukraine and verified footage has emerged online showing, fighting in the heart of region which borders russia and the dumbass plains have

allegedly been flying over. the city of bala, clare and shops and powerful explosions have been heard. russian forces have reportedly destroyed ukrainian army warehouse or the cranium. president's office says keep his not satisfied with the conditions being offered by russia for sci fi negotiations. this is after the kremlin spokesperson claimed ukraine is refusing to hold talks, and russia will continue. what it calls a special operation, stressing again that russian army is not targeting any civilian areas. so they say cured me on yesterday when we were expecting negotiations with the ukranian 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 operation. ukraine of course, did not refuse negotiations,

but that's about negotiations, which, by the way, have not yet taken place. ukraine and president zelinski categorically renounce any unacceptable conditions or ultimatums from the russian side. britain's prime minister has branded the removal of russia from the swift program as a stepping stone which more sanctions on russian finance to come. this comes after the president of the european commission confirmed the you and western allies would freeze the assets of the central russian bank and disconnect, select russian banks from swift, major tool for being able to operate in the international transaction system or policy or has more it is very significant, if you remember, there has been some discussion between european capitals for quite some time now as to whether or not removed russia from the swift, international monetary system. the u. k. has already made that new. and we're now hearing from the european commission president, she may have funded lion and saying that they are now moving ahead and

disconnecting some russian banks. france worked so that they won't be able to operate globally. it was issued as part of a joint statement that was signed off on by the european union, the united kingdom, the and united states and canada take a mission. i will now propose to you lead us the following measures. first, we commit to ensuring that a certain number of russian banks are removed from swift. this will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally. second, we will stop a protein from using his war chest. we will paralyze the assets of russia central bank. this will freeze its transactions and it will made it

impossible for the central bank to liquidate assets. now swinton also said that they were looking at imaging, the sale of citizenship. in other words, what is known as golden passports that allows wealthy rushing businessmen who are connected to the russian government a come citizens of european countries. and in that way, gain access to your ubs financial markets. we will work to prohibit rational oligarchs from using their financial assets on our markets. all of these measures will significantly harm put his ability to finance his war. this coming week, it will be a cons. atlantic task force that will be set up whose primary goal will be to ensure the effective implementation of these financial sanctions by identifying and freezing the assets of sanctioned individuals and companies that exist within

european jurisdiction. there, the organization will also set up coordination against dis, information and hybrid warfare. all of this coming on the back of the u. k. prime minister always johnson announcing that the u. k. well now, except refugees from ukraine. economists to richard wolf claims that barring russia from the swift banking system would cause huge financial problems. world war in a global world more globally interconnected than ever before. if you blocked the swift system, you are declaring a kind of economic warfare that will damage and destroy all kinds of economic relationships. the reason mister schultz and germany did not want to and stopped the attempt to convert to fries 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 bothered, as for other measures being taken in response to the special operations france is going to boost its supplies of military equipment to ukraine and germany. you turns

on its weapon export policy by confirming it will deliver arms to ukraine as well or cheese. charlotte davinsky has more. we heard on saturday from president mack on at some very great words. indeed. he said that the war in ukraine would last and that there would be consequences now. macklin has been meeting with his defense council ministers on saturday. we're waiting to find out what was agreed on if anything in that defense counsel. but we did hear from the elisa palace earlier on saturday saying that frances main objective, when it comes to the situation in ukraine, is to avoid the collapse of the country and to be able to negotiate a ceasefire. that is something it says it is still pursuing between russia and ukraine. now there are the possibility of further sanctions that could be announced by the you just heard from yoseph burrell. this is the used foreign affairs chief

who said that he's going to convene a meeting tomorrow on sunday in the evening of foreign affairs ministers. and the suggestion is that there will be a new package of emergency assistance put forward for ukraine in his words, to support the her rowing fight. they're also a very big you turn coming out of germany on saturday. and this is the fact that germany is now decided to send weapons to ukraine. it has a long standing policy of not sending armory to conflict owns this is what the german chancellor had to say. it is our duty to do our best to help ukraine defend against the invading army of prudent. we've also seen more and more you countries deciding that they will ban russian aircraft from not just landing at their airports, but also from flying over their air space. estonia, poland at lat, fear, and others at piling in to say that they will not allow that to happen from now on

an in a further blow to russia. we know that sweden is now pushing for all member states within the european union to essentially cut, put to check their sporting links with russia. the swedish sporting minister saying that that would be the case as long as the invasion lost. and just find me on another separate issue, a russian cargo ship that was on its way to saint petersburg, was seized earlier on saturday morning by the french coast guards. it was taken to below ensue matter, which is the largest port in northern france. in fact, in france itself and the crew that have been allowed to disembark, apparently it was seized as a result of the fact that the owning company of that cargo shift is on the list of sanction companies in the u. s. for the moment though, it has been seized,

the crew are allowed to wander around, as they like. the russian embassy here in paris has sent a note requesting information about what's happened to that coca ship and says that it will do everything it can to protect the security of the crewman of that. but for the moment it will be up for a court to decide if that cargo ship remains seized or whether it can go back on its journey towards st. petersburg. while the majority of europe has strongly condemned to the russian operation, this video shows in the legit rally in the serbian capital of belgrade, demonstrators who reportedly lined up in support of fortune and his allies from the dawn bass and bell roost. serbia is largely pro russia with its leader, alexander roche, saying that it will not back sanctions against russia given that their close historical ties. meanwhile, the russian president, vladimir putin, is alleging ukrainian radical nationalists in the army are putting civilian lives at risk by deploying heavy weapons in densely populated areas. the

ukrainian 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 blaming the russia. it is reliably known that this is happening under the direction of foreign consultants, primarily americans. right here on this 1st image, you can see the photo has been verified, the source has not, but it reportedly shows ukrainian artillery squad ready to open fire right in the middle of a residential area. russian defense ministry spokesman says that the russian side will not be drawn into provocations and will not attack heavy weaponry inside cities. meanwhile, ukraine has scrapped age limits for army entry and banned all men between the ages of 18 and 60, from leaving the country. ukrainian authorities are also issuing guns to any

citizen who wants them in the key of region alone. it is reported that more than $10000.00 rifles were headed out to volunteers. and in the northern city of chutney, gulf, it's mayor, is calling on citizens to take up weapons. you shouldn't see me fellow citizens of churney. cough. i have urgently address you. we need to prepare for fighting on the streets. that's why anyone who knows what i'm talking about. prepare a lighter fluid is another thing committed citizens, guys. i'm asking you to proceed to the dislocation center of territorial defense. charles shaw bridge, a former counterterrorism intelligence officer says, there are risks to simply heading out weapons like this. see, give out weapons to anybody that office to use them against somebody is probably quite a record odyssey sparks of desperation, of course. but the problem comes when weapons are given out freely, that festival you're giving it to people who may not be coffee 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 at once you introduce those weapons freely into an environment house. yes. well, you kind of keep control of those weapons. people living in the donnie, it's cook, people's republics, are being subjected to regular shelling attacks from ukraine inside. now this free story residential building was largely destroyed in boardman took it earlier on saturday. we spoke a woman who lived in that complex with your kid, i was know when day that glass was shattered when we covered as how a south that was back in 2014 and jessica. and now this happened. but i was near the entrance. and of course, the shelling is coming from both sides. now ortiz from uncle sort of is in don. yet

with the latest on the stand off between local militia forces and ukrainian army full about 7 pm local time, we heard so really allows sounds of artillery here in jeanette scanned from the reports that we're getting from the officials. i here are those were 152 millimeter or a howard servers. so or, or they said it could be multiple rocket launcher systems that were shelled at said genetics a little bit earlier. now this happens a near the airport about 6 kilometers from a where i'm standing a right now. as the results at the moment, municipal transfer public transportation has been halted in the area and emergency services are on the scene, trying to figure figure out the result of fall. what had happened now earlier on saturday into an ask at least 3 private residences have also been damaged

as a shelling a continued stay here in this city. no, no reports about casualties about what happened earlier on saturday evening, but over the last 48 hours there were at least 7 civilians killed in la ganske and a nurse because the result of the ukrainian shelling of course are scores were injured. as the results are, as well now civilian infrastructure on the outskirts of the nest had been damaged and as a result, thousands of people are now without electricity or without access to any water. now, several buildings, sins and ask, had been damaged on friday as well. going on saturday morning now one of those buildings boys a kindergarten. thankfully there were no people there at the time of the shelling, but nevertheless the kindergarten was heavily damaged. all the windows were blown out and i visited that place a little bit earlier on saturday. and this is the footage that i came back with

this kindergarten in one of our next districts had just one of the places was a shelby on saturday morning. you can see shattered glass all around me. pieces that i fell off the building, at least a 32 windows here, had been shattered. and this is the place of impact if you can point the camera this way. right next to begin kindergarten. thankfully, a was done overnight. no kids were here. no teachers. i saw nobody was hurt, but you can take a look all around me. this is heavily populated residential area. there are people living in each and every one of these houses. and i can see absolutely no military positions here at all. but the front line is located not very far away from here, but this place in desk is being shelled throughout the 8 years since this conflict existed. room on call for

a hearty don't ask. and the in the guns people's republic, a massive fire has in got a fuel depot. there was a huge explosion. earlier officials are saying at least 200 tons of fuel have caught light. they didn't specify what caused the blast. several injuries have been reported, but the numbers are so far unclear. according to don, yet, republic officials, local militia groups have taken control of settlements around the city of nikolai, and these are images from there. they also claim to have taken 2 territories on the way to multiple, as well as your by roads. the russian defense ministry says ukrainian nationalist fighters are using truck mounted mortars value in the nationalist battalions use so called ben derrick cars, which have increased off road capability and are equipped with large caliber, small arms or mortars. let me remind you that this tactic is used by international terrorists in syria city. right. and more of the latest pictures from the done yet,

people's republic, local forces can be seen moving through the area with support from the russian military. and in the past few hours, reportedly they have taken 3 villages on the market in red and blue on this map are the 2 don bass republics, according to their borders, as recently recognized independently by russia. the russian defense ministry has just announced new developments saying, well, ganske forces have retaken territory from the ukrainian army, 46 kilometers beyond what was the contact line, and don, yet forces have advanced by 10 kilometers. meanwhile, the russian defense ministry has shared the following video. it shows a damn being blown up by roughly 40. it was built back in 2014 by ukraine to block a canal supplying water to crimea. right after the region became part of russia.

crimea had suffered severe water shortages ever since, but the russian defense ministry says that supplies will soon be restored in full. meanwhile, all is calm in the turnover exclusion zone around the remains of the nuclear power plant. 2 days ago, it was taken under the control of russian forces, and now ukrainian and russian forces are jointly together, keeping it secure. the facilities, safety personnel continue to serve their and radioactivity levels are reported to be normal. meanwhile we are getting reports of shells reportedly falling in rushes or last off region or cheese. don quarter is there for us. luckily nobody was injured. infrastructure wasn't damaged either could landed in a forested area. now, the ukrainian foreign ministry says that its 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. they're 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 russia,

southern air space. basically there's going to be no flights out of this area. there's 12 airports in roster of region alone that will not be having flights. 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 that and have evacuated that region to the russian federation and are connected to educational institutions in these border regions. so that's another task. the russian authorities now have on their hands. what are they gonna do? where are they gonna put them so that they can make sure to continue their education? you who has blocked access to our videos in ukraine and disabled the monetization of all r t channels is comes after several european countries took our broadcasts off year and earlier on. saturday, australian tv service foxtel announced that it will no longer distribute our tea due to the situation in ukraine. we have heard from ortiz, deputy editor in chief,

our teacher was tirelessly. we're to bring valuable facts and use to an audience williams around the world where they organizational government either call for or for us aren't you to be taken off. the air is 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 the founders of journalists 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 the old use is now talks tell, has sent a letter to our t thing it ended distribution over quote, concerned about the situation in ukraine channel added that it considers it as the right to do. so under the license agreement with this network on thursday, poland made our t one of 5 russian channels to be taken off air and britain's culture secretary

asked regulator off. com to review our keys license. and even before the current crisis erupted, or cheese german language, sr, channel r t d was blocked in germany. a political analyst we spoke to said the situation sets a dangerous precedent. i've been a number of debates on our team and i've discussed many times with people who dealt 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. met the people who are watching make their own opinion. r t is not an ideology. it's a place where people can meet discussed debate on ideas, and that's fundamental. if we take that out of our democracy, there is no more democracy. so it's extremely important. maybe the mission down t v stations. we have to find something on the internet. if it's the internet goes down, we have to find something else. it will be tough. 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 democracies. just based on that. isn't that what we're taught, isn't that what's written in our constitution? we've got to fight for the right for to free speech. and that means we have access to all the media and that the people choose what is right and runs wrong. that does it for me, i will be back, let's say 30 minutes with another full fresh look at your news. this is our to international. ah, ah, is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed what will make you feel safe? isolation for community. are you going the right way or are you being that with what is true? what is great?

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