remain in the shallows, ah, ah! miss solid sykes and explosions are upholstered by locals all over ukraine, while battles a waged right on the streets of the cities. meanwhile, a hope for a diplomatic solution in ukraine, as officials from moscow and kia are supposed to meet on the bella russian border. un security council calls for a red emergency special session on bush's military operation, ukraine. as western powers try to isolate moscow. the you close, it is air space to rush and flights. an analysis of pan or news agencies are the spot nick on their subsidiaries. ah,

you're watching all the international monies, peter scott on wherever you're joining us from. welcome to the program. as the russian military operation in ukraine and since it's 5th day, these are the latest developments. mm. yes. videos of what appears to have been a mess solid psych are coming from the south of ukraine, where locals, the reporting ongoing fighting. this video purportedly shows an apartment building allegedly hits by an overnight rocket attack in northern ukraine. the lower floors were damaged when a fire erupt said, report say one woman was injured and the blaze has been extinguished. and this video reportedly shows an explosion, embryo poll the targets, which is still unclear. we are working to confirm what's been going on in that area

. meanwhile, forces other than yeske and dance republics are still advancing westward with ukranian troops reportedly surrounded near the city of mario full morning. as the reports on the course of that operation, what we are hearing is that the city of mary you will, which is you. cadence just bought a, he's now almost surrounded with the garrison. that is their russian side to set this nationalist elements that are putting up stiffest resistance on those to the regular military to make informations that they are choosing to negotiate and in some cases and lay down their arms and return to their homes. but it is very difficult to verify this information at this time because events are developing so quickly. and because there are so few reliable reports close to the front lines

where it is extremely dangerous. the situation there is that many roads have been mind. we have received reports from the city of the dance, which is a half way between the crimea and mario ball, which is at the axis of russian advance, which is a, which is where you credit units have planted in the city itself. and in the outskirts minds, for example, to, to surprise at the devastate advancing force as it is very difficult to reach mario below the vicinity of mario pal. at this point. unfortunately, in the part of fall of this, our civilians who are all over the dentist, people's republic delgado, people drill republic as well as parts of ukraine who are hunkering down in basements and the waiting for the all of this to end ah, cook up with

them they have beat, according to reports, more than a dozen civilian casualties. here in the city of the near victims of fun, directed fire and the neighbourhood civilian neighborhoods, places wet weather, our apartment buildings and, and other houses. we have seen, of course, soon over ukraine. different reactions to this operation. there are certainly civilians who have been happy to see russian forces, but there are. but they have also been those who have been less than happy to see again. russian troops advancing through through you crate on the whole with so far it is with the good the good with that the, the administrations of various villages and towns there has been contact. they have been somewhat responsible. i have tried to try to agree try to negotiate with

russian forces by responsibilities, for example, about joint patrols with police being with police being kept up to speed and allowed to do their job to prevent looting, for example, to prevent crime murders from taking place in the anarchy that is often left behind after military operations. we discussed the actions of the military claim to enter the city and sure order and reassure residence. they convinced me that this would not affect the life of the city in any way. there will be order in the city, our police will patrol it there is of course, also also the fact that the russian military has been keeping us up to date on it's statistics, which is how many various military infrastructure sites objectives they have destroyed, which is at this point over a 1000, as well as the majority from what we understand of ukraine's air force has been

destroyed. many before being able to take off many jets by the helicopters before being able to take off in stripes directed at airports and, and fields and hangers, and other objects belonging assets belonging to the ukranian air force via west bank of the west bank of keith is also set to be under the control of the russian military. viv could the situation and care fees of course. desperate made much more so after authorities there, boosted that they had handed out almost 30030000 assault rifles. 10000000 rounds of ammunition, r. p g 's as well as grenades to the civilian population. we heard at 1st that the only a passport was required than that. there was footage of people just coming up that, that the boxes and, and trucks picking up guns by the dozen and, and leaving, which has resulted in as we have seen on social media, get

a verified footage anaki in the, in the capital, a capital of ukraine nevertheless, the russian side says that he's making all efforts to avoid civilian casualties, which, which includes a bad on bombing blog to lunar rockets, missiles at indiscriminately at cities, and trying to keep will stripes, procedures strikes to our military infrastructure sites. and again, have reiterated that they are offering ukrainian forces. those that don't, don't belong to nationalist or neo nazi battalions. they're offering them the chance to surrender, that they will be treated with respect and allowed to return to their families. the russian ministry of defense will continue to treat all ukrainian armed forces, service men who lay down their arms with dignity. we understand that they took an oath to protect the people of ukraine or some of all who lay down their arms and cease resistance will be returned to their families. but on the whole, of course,

there is a mood of escalation, international escalation, that is the big fear. now, a runaway escalation that could lead to disastrous disastrous consequences. we have heard the european union and nato countries say that they will supply arms, including heavy munitions, to our, to ukraine, to ukraine. some forces via corridors seen west and ukraine. we have fall to her tremendous numbers, thousands upon thousands, tens of thousands of guided missiles as well as anti anti air missiles. and even reports of jets, jets fighter jets that they are planning to hand over to ukraine and is unclear how they will be able to do that. especially in you of a statement by senior russian official, the any such transfers could, could potentially be targeted by be targeted by precision stripes. nevertheless, the situation of course, developing at a very rapid and

a very concerning speed. but we will try to keep up with development here, especially nice than eastern ukraine in that the nets republic as it is recognized by a, by us in russia. laws done yes. can look ganske troops advance. many soldiers have finally had the opportunity to see their loved ones as after the years long conflicts kept them apart. a with with no mom i. this is a fortune a. let's now have

a look at the developments on the ground in ukraine. martin, red and blue on this map are the 2 dom bus republics, according to the borders that were recently recognized by russia. the russian defense ministry says the lu guns militia forces have retaken territory from the ukrainian army, 60 kilometers beyond the previous front line. while the next forces have reportedly advanced by 21 kilometers and zooming out to ukraine, these are the cities that russia's military claims have either seized or to be currently fighting for these on there that are coming in from the ukrainian capital where local, say, air defense systems are actively operating. meanwhile, this footage was filmed in ukraine's 2nd largest city hall cove, where residents have reported hearing gunfire and explosions, overnights. diplomatic talks to resolve the conflict are expected to start soon. with the ukranian delegation,

arriving at the border with bella bruce to meet with russian officials. now our seas cassie roche cove was supposed to be joining us to talk about those negotiations. but unfortunately, we are having some technical issues at the moment. but sir, journalist and political analysis, javin runner believes these diplomatic negotiations are one of the best options for resolving the conflict. good that a good. so within the listener, ukrainian delegation advanced the talks by a long route, tedious through the republic of poland, them for the territory of the republic, apologized for the warsaw bridge border crossing cuz they sent this was down to security issues since off some of things are ongoing on the metal russian border area and in particular in the churney. gov region, just i think that they could become victims of either accidental rocking for michael or territorial defense. actually i know what that is because they distributed tens of thousands of machine gun was grenades and all the g. the

civilians without checking either medical certificates or criminal records on out that up against the united nations security council is called a rare emergency meeting to focus on the situation in ukraine with the u. s. and it's western allies seeking to isolate moscow. russia recently used this veto as a permanent member of the council to counsellor resolution against moscow. while china, india, and the united arab emirates have all abstained on your correspondent killable reports. the representative of the united states hurled a lot of allegations at russia, accusing russia of many things, and blaming russia for the entire conflict. here's some of what we heard. we need to take extraordinary actions to meet this threat, to our international system, and do everything we can to help ukraine and it's people. just this morning,

president putin put rushes nucular forces on high alert. even though he is invading a country with no new killer weapons, we urge russia to tone down is dangerous rhetoric regarding nuclear weapons. now from there are a number of countries aligned with the united states echoed these allegations from the united states, placing the blame for the conflict solely on the shoulders of russia. now we heard china take to the floor of the un security council meeting. and when china spoke, they called for a de escalation, they urged dialogue. china supports and encourages or diplomatic efforts conducive to a peaceful settlement of the ukraine crisis. and welcomes the earliest possible direct dialogue and egos, nations between russia and ukraine. at the same time, china supports equal footed dialogues between the you and russia on european security issues. now from there, we did see russia take the floor and debunk

a large number of the allegations and he did rhetoric we heard from other countries . one theme that was very key in the remarks made by russian ambassador in a band via was fake news than the fact that there are videos circulating throughout the internet that report to be from ukraine showing russian atrocities. when in reality, some of them in been filmed in libya, some of them been film and syria. some of them have even been filmed, come from video games in the united states. and this crisis broke out, not as a result of the launch of the russian special military operation in ukraine, but much earlier when for 8 years you turned a blind to the crimes perpetrated by the ukrainian nationalist in dunbar. and again, today you did not mention at all the suffering of the residence of dunbar. that's the russian ambassador, pointing out that while there is so much concern for the people of ukraine,

there seems to be no concern over the past 8 years for the people of the don boss region, the peoples public of don adds the people's republic of lugens and what they've been enduring, the shelling the food blockades, the dan on their language, the threats against them. we had the russian ambassador taking the floor and just kind of refuting a lot of these allegation. now that was followed by a very theatrical speech by the ukranian representative in which he spoke in both english as well as russian and which she, you know, did a lot of dramatic things and made personal appeals to members of the security council. not a lot of agreement between great powers represented in the meetings, some pretty big gaps in their understanding of world events. but it seemed like one thing that did bring everyone together was a desire for the fighting to and seems like everyone wanted the conflict to come to an end. everyone wanted their to be some kind of resolution. so that is at least

one thing the countries had in common, despite the fact that they had very, very different interpretations of events. ortiz constantino's cove now joins us lie from bella roost with all the latest on those negotiations between russia and ukraine. constantine, do you know anything definite, at the moment about those negotiations are supposed to be taking place soon? as peter, well, we know that negotiations between russia and ukraine haven't started yet, but we're expecting this to happen any minute. now. the balderas foreign ministry has set confirmed that the ukrainians are already in belarus and everything's ready of for this summit. these pieced hawks were ah, how sticky cough. yesterday the delay was caused by complicated logistics. are the ukrainians, are the friendly delegation went to poland 1st, instead of a go into the bell, russian border directly from kiva. and by taken this, our route, they said they wanted to a bypass areas hid by heavy fighting stats,

according to a bow, russian politician who's been involved in the preparations for the summit, kids and a good. so within the listener, ukrainian delegation advanced the talks by a long route, tedious through the republic of poland and them through the territory of the republic by loose through the war sole bridge border crossing, cuz they said this was down to security issues since hostilities ongoing on the fellow russian border area and in particular in the churney gov region. i think that they could become a victims of either accidental rocket, far or territorial defense oxidation, or that is because they distributed tens of thousands of machine guns grenades and all p g to civilians without checking either medical certificates or criminal records on up a good or the meetings exact location has been captain, secret for security reasons. so, but we understand that both sides are going to sit down for talks in the val, russian region of gama,

close to the border with ukraine. the media are not invited, but we expect a public statement from the russian delegation as soon and as the meeting is over, the chances were initially low that these talks will happen. the russian delegation came to minced on sunday only to hear that key has no desire to send its delegation to bella luce down the russian side. well, we're going to wait until 3 pm moscow time yesterday. and after that we leave. and as we were about to depart from moscow, the ukrainian president made a u turn. he found his a bell russian counterpart and said, he's ready to send his people and have negotiations while it's hard to tell if the 2 sides can find common ground here. what key if in moscow said publicly in the past couple of days, indicates that their positions are far apart, the craning side once a cease fire, while the russian side insist that the training armed forces and nationalist and militia units must lay down their arms and surrender well, konstantin, i trust,

you'll keep us up to date with any news from those potential folks. that's the con ross called report in lie from billers. thank you. well, journalist and political analyst, java, ron believes these diplomatic negotiations are the best options for resolving the conflict. if there are, there are no box. if there are no beast talks, that means more liners in the you can know as the situation exist on the ground, it seems that the russian forces will take over the entire clean and maybe in a matter of days and weeks or so, i think it is an option with the u. cleaning government, not to directly speak with the russian government and whole negotiations and get concessions. unfortunately, it seems a bigger a game plan which is being being played up on the ukraine. and that is the vest. perhaps it has been influenced by the military industrial complex be they,

are they want the reference to be short know in the ukraine? and i think that may be a part of the problem because it was very known to everybody that there is no match to the russian military. and nonetheless, there, then there you came, is more often father wishes that that means that the perhaps rest wants more war in the, in the, in that part of the world. you foreign policy officials have agreed to provide lethal weapons with 450000000 euros to ukraine with policy direct to joseph burrell, saying the blog will freeze a substantial amount of vs financial reserves. let's cross live now to correspond and pizza oliver in berlin. pizza was the latest on the sanctions against russia. while this latest tranche of the sanctions is some of the toughest yet in sources invasion of ukraine, we heard for most love on the line, the commission president who said that there would be so mechanistic blowback on

european following. the moves that brussels that take in. but she said that they were necessary. we've also heard from joseph, but l, who's the, you high representative for foreign affairs, pretty much you're seeing union foreign minister who said that you members stated, agreed to cut russia off from the swift banking transfer system. he said that however, even though they agreed on that it wouldn't be all banks or russian banks, it would be cut off from swift to disconnect the financial system of a country, which is a strongly interrelated with other countries. another economies cannot be done late this with a seizures over night. we have to keep the possibility for the financial system to work in order to people. ready to use it and to send money to their relatives. by warning, this degree of disconnection. it's carefully calibrated in order to

create the maximum damage to the financial system of russia. that's the phone line announce that all russian aircraft will respond from e u. s. face in a comprehensive move from the european union, we are shutting down the e u. air space for russians. we are proposing a prohibition on all russian owned russian registered and russian controlled aircraft. these aircraft will no more be able to land in take off over slide the territory of the european union. and that includes the private jets of oligarchs to hi, representative burrell also announced that our t sputnik would be found from broadcasting within the european union. and he made that announcement on sunday evening, and we've also heard from the editor in chief in response that taking

a crucial step to turn off the tap before the russians. information manipulation in europe may, banning russia to date and sputnik from broadcasting into the p. and union, you would say you got the e u that for years has been selling the whole world. how much of the treasure and love freedom of speech, how they appreciate and love diversity of thoughts, diversity of news and information. today, in response to the actions of russia, ukraine meant to protect russian speaking citizens. there. the you announced that we won't broadcast there any more. what the president's decision to start, the operation has to do with us is unclear. it's absolutely obvious that no mother, whether we continue broadcasting or not, the operation would proceed. it's absolutely clear that it's just an excuse. they wanted to close us for a long time, but it would have looked bad in the eyes of their own citizens or audience because it's against freedom of speech anyway. and now it convenient excuse appeared and

they decided to get rid of the long lasting, uncomfortable issue of us. and our huge audience in this way will find some other way to communicate with their audience for sure without direct broadcasting. but the people of the european union today can see how much the lot of talk of freedom of speech costs. yes, 3 more. if you know your opinion, how promised further sanctions, while russian troops remain in ukraine with keeping an eye to see exactly what form they will take us to europe correspond to peter oliver. peter, thank you very much. the dates now political x, the john laughed lunda express concerns about the you bonding of ortiz thing. it would raise a disturbing precedence for the freedom of speech. what's wrong with it is that it's totalitarian. if you don't suppress media outlets, that's a basic principle. if the e u is going to suppress r t and sputnik, that means european union citizens will no longer be able to watch those channels.

no one forces them to watch them. it is a measure that she is announced which drastically reduces the liberties of you citizens. it. i'm sure it doesn't make a slightest bit of difference to russia. ah, but it does make a difference to people who want to watch out in sputnik. and i mean, we've got used to tell attorneys and for 2 years now, with all the coven madness. but this is, this is so this is in the same category. in any case what, what laws is she is claiming to be operating under the you doesn't have that authority any more than it has the authority. by the way, as far as i know, to close air spaces, you mentioned in your report above all, i mean, independently of the issue between russia, nato and ukraine. i think anyone watching this, any european citizen watching this should be deeply preoccupied by the assault on his own rights, his or her own rights. you mentioned just now in your report from london about the seizure of assets belonging to rationale, goths in london or what happened to due process. what happened to property rights.

and we really saying that from one day to the next, somebody's property can be taken away just because they're deemed to be politically close to russia. this is literally dictatorship. i don't want to sound hysterical, but somebody has to a, pull the alarm bell on this and say that these kinds of measures are undermine the very thing which are the british government and other european governments claim to be standing for, namely the rule of law and democracy while that's a wrap for this are, my name's peter scott, and i'll be back again in around 30 minutes with all the latest updates on that ukraine crisis. thank you for watching. ah

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i'm after events in what you're going underground as we again appeal to any journalist or bulletin from ukraine or nato countries who support kiev to come on the show and explain their opposition to vladimir putin. recognition of no hands can donates republics. we have yet to probably hear from the other side, even if they are only too willing to appear in circle nato nation. mainstream media bow while they donation media sees ukraine is the only new story. tomorrow is the one year anniversary of jo biden's defeat agreement with the taliban. so what was it? all 4, tens of thousands of nato dead, a wounded on calculated numbers of ordinary afghans, killed, wounded or displaced. joining me now is prolific journalist and author and ville may guarantee lowenstein, author of profits of doomed is off to capitalism, making a killing out of catastrophe and pills, powder and smoke inside the bloody war on drugs and co founder of declassified australia joins me now from sidney in australia. thank you so much anthony. vera,

coming back on. obviously ukraine is the world story yet, so your declassified australia a piece, appears to suggest that the, the a, well, the intentions of the war in afghanistan weren't quite what the media told us. it was obviously, but they're even quiet and down in a donation mainstream media by the freezing of assets during the winter. so it wasn't about un security council resolution 1378, allowing invasion by nature trees there. there were other aspects to the occupation of afghanistan. i've spent the last 10 years looking at this issue. where can i stand? i've been there twice in 20122015. and one of the things i've been investigating for a long time is the natural resources under the ground in afghanistan. the soviets, in fact, discovered this 50 odd years ago when i were in the country. i couldn't do much with.