ah ah, the kremlin that says ukraine is refusing to negotiate and the military operation will continue while an advisor to ukraine's the president says key is not satisfied with the conditions. russia is offering for peace talks. the eu has decided to disconnect to some russian banks from swift system as well as a freeze assets of the russian central bank. a source in russia's defense ministry rejects allegations that the military hit, the residential tower block in ukraine's capitol with both sides blaming each other . meanwhile, artillery and gunfire is reported in the city this kindergarten in one of the annex districts. it's just one of the places that was shelled on saturday morning.

corresponded reports from the dawn bass conflict zone where kindergarten has come under fire. fortunately, no one was heart with our testing live direct from a studio in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. and 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 18 miles south of kiff. this video which we cannot yet independently verify shows the result of that explosion. and 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 key. if earlier, our teeth corresponded in the upper tranquil, spoke with my colleague, dan hawkins. here is what they discussed the adventurer videos of the fighting

that's already going on in the residential areas of kiev. they began to appear as it became dark over the gradient 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 that in circles key of with the city center. and again, i'm looking at reports on telegram candles that i can see that already the russian 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 constant confirmation of that from the russian military officially, but the situation in kiev is very difficult. also, what i look at the maps which showed traffic and you know how you usually see these green or red lines. they're, they're almost not a good to anymore because apparently the cars are not out in the streets. many, many people saying god have left the capital 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. 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 several floors have been damaged. it is unclear if there are any casualties at this time. the russian defense ministry sources say that it was caused by a missile guidance failure in ukraine's air defense system. although key of denies that saying that it was a russian missile strike, a russian military expert gave us his views on ukraine's tactics. history. the reason of miss l guidance system of the grain onto this complex and one surely gram media will represent this

case as a russian attack is a big according to trail the track bath and the nature of the damage. we can surely identified as an anti miss weapon. it is very difficult to establish a serial number, but possible identified. and the main reason is that they are gray and forces on deploying armies in formal conditions directly threaten. so this is the main problem in ukraine's capital officials are urging residents to take refuge and bomb shelters. residents are also seeking safety in the cities metro stations. meanwhile, also where in ukraine are

unverified footage has emerged online showing, fighting in the heart of region which borders russia and the don best plains have allegedly been flying over the city of bella clare and shops and powerful explosions have been heard there as well. russian forces have reportedly destroyed ukrainian army warehouses, ukrainian presidents officers. kiev is not satisfied with the conditions being offered by russian forces fire negotiations. this is after the kremlin spokesperson claim to ukraine is refusing to hold talks at all, and russia will continue what it calls a special operation. now russia stresses, again that the army is not targeting any civilian areas to read me on. yesterday, when we were expecting negotiations with the ukrainian leadership, the russian president ordered a suspension of the russian armed forces 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 prime minister has branded the removal of russia from the swift program as a stepping stone with 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 to disconnect, select russian banks from swift, and major tool for being able to operate in the international transaction system. or she's policy or has more it's very significant, if you remember, there has been some discussions between european capitals for quite some time now as to whether or not to remove russia from the international monetary system. the u

. k. has already made that move and we're now hearing from the european commission president from the lions and saying that they are now moving ahead and can make things some rush and then from swift, so that they wouldn't be able to operate global each. it was issued as part of a joint statements that were signed off on by the european union, the united queued in the united states and canada taken list. and i will now propose to 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 uprooting 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 trans atlantic task force that will be set up whose primary goal will be to ensure the effect an infant in taishan, of these financial sanctions by identifying and freezing the assets of sanctioned

individuals and companies that exist within european jurisdiction their b o organization will also set up coordination against disinformation and hybrid wolfy. all of this coming on the back of the u. k. prime minister ball as johnston announcing that the u. k. while now accept refugees from ukraine. economists richard wolf claims the bar in russia from the swift banking system would cost huge financial problems. world, what 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 into the roof 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. but as for other measures being taken in response to the special operation,

france is going to boost at supplies of military equipment to ukraine and germany. you turns on its weapon export policy by confirming that it will deliver arms to ukraine as well. and she shall kapinsky has more or we heard on saturday from president macro on at some very great words. indeed, he said that the war in ukraine would last and that there would be consequences. now, mack on has been meeting with his defense counsel 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 cease fire. 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 e u. we just heard from yoseph burrell, this is the hughes foreign affairs chief who is 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 roanoke fight. they're also a very big u 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 airport,

but also from flying over their air space. estonia, poland, lack 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 put to eject their sporting links with russia at the swedish and sporting minister saying that that would be the case as long as the invasion lasts. and just finally, 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 balloon soon there, which is the largest port in northern france. in fact, in france itself and the crew there 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. after 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 to requesting information about what's happened to that cargo ship and says that it will do everything it can to protect the security of the crewman of that ab . for the moment, it will be up for a court to decide if that cargo ship remained seized, or whether it can go back on its journey towards st. petersburg. as pressure on russia is mounting abroad, russian diplomats are under strain. russian embassy staff in lithuania says that one of its diplomats was bitten by protesters who were rallying against the military operation in ukraine. meanwhile, embassies in poland and his sonia reported, acts of vandalism with personnel receiving threats as well. and in dublin, red paint was smeared on the russian coat of arms outside the embassy with staff

saying, police are not doing enough there. in 4 months, you put spruce, you come to learn some irish pays, and an irish member of the european parliament, or the pro, just the politicians have been more aggressive than ordinary processors and spoke about 1 o'clock, the functioning of the russian embassy. we're concerned over how the police responded. they turned down or requested the curb to protest and secure, normal functioning of the embassy. we've addressed the irish for ministry and wait their response while most have strongly condemned the russian special military operation in ukraine. china was one of the handful of countries abstaining from voting on a un resolution against moscow. the chinese embassy in russia echoed remarks made by the russian envoy to the us by calling out to the us. they posted a u. s. bombing list of wars of armed conflicts. they say the u. s. has been involved in since world war 2, and they display data which ledges 81 percent of the conflicts were us initiated. meanwhile, this video shows

a rally in the serbian capital belgrade. the demonstrators lined up, reportedly in support of putting and his allies from the dunbar and bell of serbia is largely for a russian with its leader, alexander richardson saying that it will not back in sanctions against russia given their close historical time to be. meanwhile, the russian president, himself, let me put in, is alleging ukrainian radical nationalists in the army are putting civilian lives at risk by deploying heavy weapons in densely populated areas. but not the ukrainian radical nationalists are 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 of playing the russia. it is reliably known that this is happening under the direction of foreign consultants. primarily, americans that uses that you hear some major images for you. on this 1st image you

can see the ukrainian met our tillery squad, reportedly ready to open fire in the middle of a residential area. now the photo itself is verified, the source is not so we cannot confirm what the intention is. a russian defense ministry spokesman says that the russian side will not be drawn into provocations and will not attack heavy weaponry inside cities as was shown. meanwhile, ukraine has scrapped age limits for farming entry and band to all men. between 18 and 60, from leaving the country. ukrainian authorities are also issuing guns to any citizen who wants them. in the region alone is reported that more than $10000.00 rifles were handed out to volunteers. and in the northern city of charles gulf, it's mayor is calling on citizens to take of weapons as well. you shouldn't see me as fellow citizens of churney. cough i have urgently address you. we need to prepare for fighting on the street. that's why anyone who knows what i'm talking

about. prepare a lighter fluid is another thing committed citizen, you guys, i'm asking you to proceed to the dislocation center of territorial defense. living in charles issue bridge, a former counterterrorism intelligence officer says, there are risks to simply handing out weapons like this to give out weapons to anybody the office to use them against somebody is probably quite a records odyssey sparks of desperation, of course. but the problem comes when weapons are given out freely for 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 any body once you introduce those weapons, freely into an environment. yes. well, you kind of keep control of those weapons people living in the done yet. so

people's republics are being subjected to regular shelling attacks from the ukranian side and also reportedly from the russian side. now these 3 story, residential building was largely destroyed and a bombardment earlier on saturday, who spoke with the woman with your can, i was know when day glass was shattered. when we covered at our south that was back in 2014 and jessica. and now this happened. rubio, i was near the entrance. all right, our case were among closer off his end on yet with the latest on the stand off between local militia forces and ukrainian army. full about 7 p. m. local time. we heard so really allows sounds of artillery here in jeanette scanned from the reports that we're getting from the officials. here are those were $152.00 millimeter or harvard servers or, or they said it could be multiple rocket launcher systems that were shelled at

said genetics a little bit earlier. now this happened near the airport about 6 kilometers from a where i'm standing a right now is 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 what had happened. now earlier on saturday in don't 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 to the nurse because the result of the ukrainian shelling of course, scores were injured as the results are as well. now civilian infrastructure on the

outskirts of the nest has 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 so this is the footage that i came back with less kindergarten in one of the next districts is just one of the places was shelled on saturday morning. you can see shattered glass all around me. pieces that i fell off the building, at least the 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,

i 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 a 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 the next is being shelled. throughout the 8 years since this conflict existed, room on call for a hearty donuts. and in the logan's cook people's republic, a massive fire has engulfed a fuel depot. reportedly there was a huge explosion earlier. and 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. now, according to don, yet republic officials, local militia groups have taken control of settlements around the city of calais.

and these are images from there. they also claim to have taken to territory on the way to mario, as well as nearby roads. russian defense ministry says ukrainian nationalist fighters are using truck mountain motors, williams and 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 and more of the latest pictures from the done yet people's republic, local forces, it can be seen moving through the area with support from the russian military. and in the past few hours, they claim to have taken 3 villages. every time, march 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 lugens forces

have retaken territory from the ukrainian army. 46 kilometers beyond what was the contact line and done yet the forces have advanced by 10 kilometers. meanwhile, the russian defense ministry has shared the following video. now this allegedly shows a dam blown up by russian forces. 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 has suffered severe water shortages ever since, but the russian defense ministry says supplies will soon be restored in full. meanwhile, all is calm in the turn noble exclusions on around the remains of the nuclear power plant there. 2 days ago, it was taken under the control of russian forces and now ukrainian and russian forces are reportedly jointly keeping it secure. the facilities,

safety personnel continued to serve their and radioactivity lovers are reported to be normal. meanwhile, we are getting reports of shelves, reportedly falling in rushes, rushed off at region or cheese don quarter is in the area. luckily nobody was injured. infrastructure wasn't damaged either 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 raw 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. i 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 ra stove 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 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 they're going to put them so that they can make sure to continue their education? why that does it for me this our, i will be back with another look. and let's say 32 minutes. this is our international stay with with

ah, with long welcome to wells apart, the former evil empire, standing off to the employer of life. let me put him. it was announcing his decision to the potentiate ukraine's military infrastructure. it wasn't just resurrecting the ghost of the cold war. he made it clear that the use russian

animosity never really ended how hot and bloody could still get. or to discuss that i'm now joined by timothy board. i shall program director of the old di discussion club to his group to see you again. thank you very much for finding the time. good to see again. thank you for inviting me. now. when ronald reagan 1st used the expression, evil empire, it wasn't just the political invention. it was actually a statement of political believe he truly believed that the cold war was a battle between good and evil. when vladimir putin alludes to that trav today by calling the west the empire flies. is that just rhetoric or do you think he is also caught in this battle between the forces of life and the forces of darkness? are well innocent and we way yes. when we speak about their nationalism, their violence, aggressive nationalism which is present in ukrainian society for many years as us

and especially of.