ah, ah, the crane 2nd largest city half cove. it's now at the center of fighting with a huge explosion reported a numerous claims of st. battles with russian troops. meanwhile, hope for a diplomatic solution in ukraine is talks between ukrainian or russian officials begin on the belly, russian border. united nations meanwhile, call for a rare emergency special session on russia's military operation in ukraine. as western powers try to isolate moscow and the you close to say space to russian flights and the 9th and the ban on these agencies are t and sputnik and they're subsidiaries with

hello, good afternoon. you're watching the international now as the conflict in ukraine enters its 5th day, the country, 2nd largest city car. gov has seen face fighting. another explosion has been reported in the area with locals filming huge plumes of smoke billowing above the city amid what they described as ongoing battles. a legit artillery shelling near a shopping center has been reported to in the northern part of the city claimed to have come from a nearby residential building. now this map does show what's been happening in the country, the red dots highlight the cities where the russian army is currently fighting with ukrainian army and nationalist formations. you can see such large cities as her cove there in the east, odessa, in the sac where of the country and to mirror in the northwest of the country. the

russian defense ministry says the against militia has retaken territory territory from the ukraine, unami 60 kilometers beyond the previous front line. washington yes, forces have reportedly advanced by 21 kilometers. nike accused moscow aggression and says around 5000 russian soldiers have been killed in recent days with 30 russian plains and heavy cop to short time and about 200 tanks destroyed moscow, though, refused the claims, although doesn't give any concrete figures and says it's been making major advances against the ukrainian military diplomatic talks. meanwhile, homer, solving the conflicts have begun with the ukrainian delegation, arriving the board with better route to meet with russian officials. he said it's seeking an immediate cease fire and the troll of russian forces, while the leader of the rest and delegation as express concerns about the talks

having been early postponed, saying that such delays have cost lives in the conflict parties. counseling gross gulf will bring us up to date. i think if we've got him this time, we have a good afternoon. she constant scene just spring is up to date then with what's happening because these talks, as we understand it, have started. yes, you're right andrew. the talks between russia and ukraine started an hour ago, and we're here in ballard, close to the border of ukraine near the previous river to my left, really not far from the government residence. where are these meeting is going on right now? we know that this meeting is being held behind closed doors. we were only able to see the, the beginning of the 2 sides were walking into the room and sitting at the table face to face. no opening remarks for the media were made. but we're expecting to learn about the outcomes of this. so when it's over and perhaps the 2 sides would

want to make public statements. of course, the main question now is whether this ah, summit is going to yield any tangible results. ah, and i got to tell you expectations of have been really low judging by public statements of the 2 sides. their positions are far apart. the office of the ukranian president said earlier this morning that the countries main goal in this negotiation, sir, with moscow, is a, an immediate cease fire, and that moscow of pulls all its troops from a ukraine. some members of the credit delegation also tried to act as if they have an opera coming talks. and as they put it up, because as they put, their country has been successfully repelling the russian invasion. this also echoed in the most recent of public appearance made by the ukrainian president vladimir zalinski, but he also had to admit that he's country has been forced to resort to desperate

measures. let's have a listen. crystal, alina louisiana, where dedicating every hour to strengthening our country. any one who can join the fight against the invaders must do so. therefore, a decision was made not easy from a moral point of view, but useful from the point of view of our defense was under martial law participants in hostilities. ukrainians with real combat experience will be released from custody and will be able to compensate for their guilt in the hottest spots of the war. on moscow has an absolutely different perspective on its military campaign. russian military officials claim that keep losing swathes of its territories, that the ukrainian armed forces are either retreating or getting circled. a spokesman for rushes, ministry of defense said that ukraine's ukraine's authorities are dashed for it as they've been handing out fire arms to civilians which lead to quote unquote,

looting, gangs rampaging throughout the ukrainian capital. so quite a contrast between the 2 sides perspective, but this is also why this talks are so crucial, so important because there is a chance to stop the hostilities and bloodshed. okay, well thank you for the update. they're constantly in that bizarre to continue roscoe reporting from batteries on those piece talks that have just started that. meanwhile, the you and other foreign powers are providing hundreds of millions of years worth of military supplies, t cry. and you saying it will give 450000000 euros of weaponry. germany is sending a 1000 anti tank weapons and $500.00 sting or anti aircraft systems. while denmark has also announced plans to send anti tank weapons. sweden, meanwhile, is sending 5000 anti tank weapons as well as body armor and over a 100000 field rations. now we spoke to guests about nato stance on the conflict.

i'm very concerned about that. i mean, so, 1st of all, let's face it, it seems to me that nato, and in particular, the united states did everything they could want to provoke this war to provoke russia into it, and to egg ukraine on, into acting in aggressive ways themselves. for example, with zalinski saying very recently that maybe she get nuclear weapons again, that's what i understand, may have tipped it. so in the meantime they provoke this. then when it happened, they basically stood back and watched it had been an ab watching, had happened. and now that they're entering peace talks, they're sending and lethal military aid again, what's nato due to me? this is only adding fuel to the fire. it does not contribute to peace talks. and again, it's just or provocation. the aggression has been ramped up,

a nato continues to say, we are not a threat to russia. well, in the meantime, they're providing billions of dollars with the u. s. together billions of dollars in weapons for ukraine to kill russians. so as a rural proxy war going on here between the u. s. e u and russia ukrainians are in the middle. they're the ones that are the ones getting shot on. they're fighting and dying for the us, not for their own independence. now this video is heavy rocket. artillery has come in from the southern training and city of nevada. clover about 80 kilo misses from crimea. the man has reportedly said that the city is under the control of the russian military, although locals are describing on getting fighting in the area. and this video shows an apartment building we think electrically hit by an overnight rocket attack in the north and city of cherry. gov, that's about a $150.00 columns is from kiev. the lower floors were damaged when

a fire erupt. it reports say that woman was injured hair and the by so has been put out. now in the capsule here, these unverified images are coming in from there with where locals, the excited air defense systems are actively operating. kev authority said the city was surrounded and then back down from that claim. and now i say that groups russian saboteurs are trying to bring chaos to the streets. although that is being denied in turn by rushes, military is just the key of is flooded with armed gangs of looters, robbers and radical nationalists. they were given guns in an unlawful decision by the authorities to hand out lethal weapons to any one without checking. i am addressing all residents of g f. everyone can leave the capital freely by a designated road. this road is open and safe. i want to emphasize once again, the russian army is attacking only military targets. the civilian population is not under threat. now the united nations has called

a rare emergency meeting to focus on the conflict in ukraine with the u. s. and it's western allies seeking to further isolate moscow. russia recently used its power as a permanent member of the council to veto a resolution condemning moscow's actions while china, india, and the united arab emirates. all abstained with more from new york is caleb martin . 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 new killer forces on high alert. even though he is invading a country with no nuclear 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 d, ask elation they urged dialogue from china supports and encourages or diplomatic efforts conducive to a peaceful settlement of the ukraine crisis and welcomed the earliest possible direct dialogue and negotiations 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 to 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 and a band via was fake news than the fact that there are videos circulating throughout the internet. that purport to be from ukraine showing russian atrocities. when in reality, some of them in been filmed in libya, some of them have been filmed in syria. some of them have even been filmed, come from video games and united states. and these, 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 eye to the crimes perpetrated by the ukrainian nationalists 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 ads, 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 it seems like everyone wanted the conflict to come to an end. everyone wanted there 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. what kind stone from me, hamilton coalition,

to stop the war does say that western media less have not sufficiently conveyed to suffering that the people, the don boss, have endured for years in the conflict with the ukrainian military. for one thing, people in the west, i have no idea generally about what was going on, the war against the people of the don bass region. it was head for them, hidden from them by the mainstream media here. but hopefully they all now learn that out of the coo, that was sponsored by the usa in ukraine and 2014, brought in a government proceeded to take away the autonomy and language and cultural rights of the russian. speaking minority in the don bass region in the east of ukraine, there was an uprising, and the government was to wage a war against a russian speaking people in the don bass, which is right on russia's doorstep. and 15000 people died and tens of

thousands were made homeless and had to become refugees. this is not known. this is not well known at all in the west. okay, now, well, let's just turn to rushes. economy and the sanctions because it's been a rough day for russia, the economy following those sanctions over the ukraine conflict implied mid tooth and has been meeting with senior officials to address those matters. let's listen so called western community will know who it was. like a cold, in my statement, i called them and in the fire of lies, this is either the sanctions they're trying to impose in our country. let's begin now. ok. i think we might be able to go back to that a bit later, bella was present patient about redress some of his delegation airbags the russian economy, which is suffering immensely at the moment. the reward is dropped over 30 percent

following those sanctions on moscow. so that was the opening of his address there, and we do hope to go back to it when there is more to show you. now in the meantime, you can see the 2 don bass republics recently recognized by russia as independent countries on this map. red dots are locations that russia's military with groups of net can against troops is currently fighting for intern. yes, there are battles for the times of tele cove cur. commend cur vollmer. vol. nor vaca, and in la guns. fighting has been unfolding in the times a half of novi di what over to the don't bass front lines. this video proportionally shows and explosion in the south eastern city, matthew pool, the target, which is still unclear. we're working to confirm what has been going on in that area. that forces all seat and yes can against publics are advancing westward with

economy shrink supposedly him retreats among the areas taken is the village. if we can get here. where an elderly woman said she narrowly escaped shelling with a new discovery. he crane intrigues. meanwhile, i believe i have been surrounded by russian army forces near the sat, eastern city of matthew po, reporting on this, and other developments on the front line hes more aghast. if what we are hearing is that the city of mario pl, which is ukraine's largest port, is, is now almost surrounded with the garrison. that is there. the russian side has said that it is nationalist elements that are putting up the stiffest resistance.

and that those units belonging to the regular military to regular formations, that they are choosing to negotiate. and in some cases, 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 frog lines where it is extremely dangerous. the situation there is that many roads have been mined. we have received reports from the city of the dance, which is a half way between the crimea and mario ball, which is the, the axis of a rush of the advance, which is, which is where you credit units have planted in the city itself. and in the outskirts mines, for example, to, to surprise that the devastated advancing as it is very difficult to reach mario

below the vicinity of mario pal. at this point, there have been, according to reports, more than a dozen civilian casualties here in the city of the nit victims of fun directed find, and the neighbourhood civilian neighbourhood, spare places where, whither 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, 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 the good the good with the, the, the administrations of various villages and towns there has been contact. they have a been somewhat responsible. i have tried to fly 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 soften left behind after military operations and the lady, 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 in your po. 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, many helicopters before being able to take off in strikes,

directed at airports and airfields antagonists and other objects belonging assets belonging to the ukranian air force via west bank of the west bank of care. this also said to be under the control of the russian military, viv cook, 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. there was footage of people just coming up to the to 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 anarchy in the, in the capital a capital of ukraine. nevertheless, the russian side says it is making all efforts to avoid civilian casualties, which,

which includes a bad on bombing blog, launching a rocket missiles at indiscriminately at cities and trying to keep will stripes, procedure stripes 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 surrender that they will be treated with respect and allowed to return to their fabulous were against the of their will. law has done yet, scandal against troops to advance. it has allowed soldiers to reunite with their families. and one of them is alexi to do it off. who managed to see his parents for the 1st time. after years of being separated by the conflict with. ready

so if you were, you don't, you know, mom, you have a couple students though with some of the of a fortune you. okay. i love them much. yeah. i was, we mentioned earlier you has imposed severe sanctions against russia, including freezing a large amount of the country's financial reserves with more on the measures being taken. his peter oliver. these are some of the most forcefully u sanctions that we've seen so far. we heard from the you commission, president earth lafond ally and he said that there would be some potential economic blowback on european citizens, but that the sanctions and the measures that were taken were necessary. now, one of those measures is the cutting off of russia from the swift banking payment

system. we heard from jo, said burrell, who's the, you high representative for foreign affairs, pretty much the european union's foreign minister. and he said that it wouldn't involve all russian bank slow to disconnect the financial system of a country, which is a strongly interrelated with other countries. another economies cannot be done late this with 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 dunwoody, the degree of disconnection, s carefully calibrated in order to create the maximum damage to the financial system of russia. on the line confirmed that all russian aircraft would be banned from entering u. s. space and a comprehensive move from the block. we are shutting down the 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 fly the territory of the european union. and that includes the private jets of oligarchs to hi representative for foreign affairs. burrell also announced that all tea and sputnik would be bound from broadcasting in the european union. he made the announcement on sunday night. we also heard from ortiz, editor in chief, following, not news that taking a crucial step jordan off the tap before the russians. information manipulation in europe lay banning russia to date and sputnik from broadcasting into the p and union. you were to say you are scott, i'm not going to ask the e u that for years has been selling the whole world. how much they treasure and

love freedom of speech, how they appreciate and loved diversity of thoughts, diversity of news, and information to day in response to the actions of russia. ukraine meant to protect russian speaking citizens. there. the e. u announced that we won't broadcast there any more for what the president's decision to start. the operation has to do with us is unclear. it's absolutely obvious that no matter 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, our audience, because it's against freedom of speech anyway. and now a convenient excuse appeared and they decided to get rid of the long lasting uncomfortable issue of us. and our huge audience in this way grew. we'll find some other way to communicate with our audience, for sure, with our direct broadcasting thing. but the people of the european union today can see how much that lot of talk of freedom of speech costs. yes, be more the you have promised more sanctions while russian troops remain in ukraine, would be looking to see what form they will take or political expert. john laughlin

has expressed concerns about the banning of r t saying it would raise a disturbing precedent for freedom of speech. what's wrong with it is that it's totalitarian, or 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 but, 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 as claiming to be operating under the, you doesn't have that authority any more than as the authority. by the way,

as far as i know, to close air space, as 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, galks in london. well, 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 full, namely the rule of law and democracy while amid the sanctions russia cerebral currency has plunged about 30 percent in recent days as the u. s. and other western

parish, steven pays harsh sanctions. either. he crying conflicts as he, he got hit on a scale, more details to peter scott. quite a day on the markets. i woke up this morning, check the news, check the exchange rates and the roubles taken quite a bit. what's going on? well indeed, it is by far the worst day for the russian markets for the russian economy as a whole. because over the weekend, of course, the united states, the e u and their allies, they imposed the harshest and the most hard hitting sanctions by far targeting the russian economy, targeting the russian central bank. again, a bunch of russian banks, including the biggest ones, have been excluded from the swift system. so yeah, it is, it has been quite bad for the russian national currency, the rubel. i mean, it does, it hovers around a 100 rubles per dollars. now, just to put it into some context before it was, it was standing at around 76. so it is a pretty big dive,

and the 100 rouble it is. well, it is. that's how it's trading right now. but at the beginning of the day, it passed that mark and was well over a 100. so yeah, it is, it is a very difficult day. and the russian government has already announced the russian central bank has already announced a bunch of measures that it will take to help the russian economy to help the russian bank. because a lot of foreign capital has been well extracted from the country right now. and according to the russian prime minister, the government is preparing its own set of measures again to help the russian economy in a very difficult time, which is now for it. now, for example, the russian stock market, it has been officially announced that it won't start the trading session today. so today's trading session has been effectually cancelled. but if we turn to london over there, the over there, the russian companies, some of them.