and that's if it's show, we'll be back on wednesday, the 20th anniversary of the u. s. invasion of afghanistan. code named operation anaconda. until then, keep in touch for all our social media and let us know whether you think nato countries did the right thing in the f canister. a tonight or war of words, reps between the russian and ukrainian ambassadors at the special session of the un general assembly of moscow. special operation, russia and russia alone started the invasion part so great. there are no plans to occupy ukraine. the goal of the special operation is to protect people who have been subjected to abuse of genocide, sightseers from the p at raging russia ukraine. paystubs conclude on the bellows border with a criminal delegation chief. hopeful that common positions can be found. the next round of negotiations is set for the polish border and the coming days. also,

tonight's ukraine, 2nd largest city, how to cope. it's now at the center of fighting with huge explosion, reported a numerous claims of st. battles with russian troops and the u. e. u announces hundreds of millions of euro's worth of support for ukraine, including high caliber arms as switzerland joins europe, sanctions against russia. now to other nato, says he abs, membership of the military block is not currently on the agenda. ah good evening. this is out international. i from moscow watching our world news attend this monday. the 28th of january. just one story dominating the invoice to moscow and kia for, for the heated exchange. the un general assembly in new york to renew urgent session over the crisis and ukraine. everyone in this home and

everyone in the world knows that russia and russia alone started these invasion. these more was not proved. a coupon so graham, there are no plans to occupy ukraine senate. the goal of the special operation is to protect people who have been subjected to the use of genocide sites. he is from the key of regime nursing. this requires the demilitarization and denies of vacation of ukraine. russia is a permanent member of the security council, so they can veto resolutions by the un security council. so the united states hope to circumvent russia status at the security council by taking a resolution to the un general assembly, where every country, every member state is represented. now, the way this works, we have the opportunity for every country that's part of the un general assembly to

give remarks. now the meaning opened with remarks from the secretary general of the un antonio gutierrez, and he gave oddly partisan remarks. usually the secretary general gives vague statements calling for de escalation of tension and peace. however, we heard him mix and pointed remarks, calling for russia to withdraw all of its forces from the internationally recognized borders. that would mean not protecting done african lugens, which is the primary objective of russia's operation in the country. then we recently heard from the ukrainian representative and he took to the floor and repeated much of what he has said over the past few days, making a lot of extreme allegations against russia and ping up his rhetoric, world war 2 comparisons. this is what the ukranian representative had to say at the un general assembly body deadly air strikes dropped on civilians has across the entire country. and the russian troops crossed ukraine's borders from the territory or russia, billers and the occupied bars,

ukraine's dunbar and creamier. does it remind you of something, doesn't it? indeed, medically a perilous could be drawn with the beginning of the 2nd the will will do. it was chosen by someone who is right now sitting in the bunker. we know what happened with the person who sat in the bunker in berlin in may 1940 part. now from there we got to hear from the russian representative. now benzine, the permanent ambassador of the russian federation. and when he spoke, he was able to debunk a lot of the extreme rhetoric being unloaded by the united states and their allies . when he spoke, he pointed out that russia has actually uncovered a manual being used by allies of the united states to make fake videos to take video from libya, syria, other countries,

even clips from video games and pass them off as video of the tri cities committed by russia in ukraine now he talked about how there's a lot of fake news going around the international media going around social media in particular. and he also spoke about how it seems like there has been no acknowledging of the fact that lugens and don ads had been shelled relentlessly for the past 8 years. and for the past 7 years, the minsk agreement that was supposed to reintegrate eastern regions back into ukraine hasn't been implemented now. the russian representative was able to speak and he made some very clear comments about how this is being represented in the media and how this particular resolution put forward to the un general assembly is not really pro ukrainian because it doesn't point out who pushed ukraine into this conflict, here's the russian representative and a benzo is of suitable movement, but in would you look at those to fool direct dialogue between key of and the don't bass was needed. however,

this being hit more confirmation by the conquerors leadership, political grain is not ready for such dialogue for taking steps to rhonda don't bass special status as provided by the men's, ke agreements in the, in this convinced us that we simply have no right to make the residence of don bass suffer redoing those films to repose to new me now the russian representative expressed hope about the negotiations, the possibility of a ceasefire, hoping that tensions could deescalate, in the country of that they could reach an understanding i and that there could be security for the people of the eastern regions, as well as understanding that the nato coalition will not go into ukraine and expand right on to russia's doorstep. ah, but it's also important to note that as this is a meeting of the un general assembly, many countries will get to address it. and russia is not the only country in the world to recognize the people's republic of don ask, and the people's republic of lugens can also they, those countries have now been represented and recognized by venezuela, by cuba,

by nicaragua, by iran. and so a number of countries are likely to get up and echoed some of what russia said, expressing concern for the civilian populations of whose don bass regions and what the people there had been enduring. act going, rushes right rightness in carrying out a needed security operation. to make sure these people no longer faced, the shelling and bombardment also expressing concern about the nato coalition, which has been quite aggressive in its interventions around the world, expressing concerns about natal expanding further eastward in closer to russia. so i were expected to have quite a long meeting. the un general assembly includes every member stay so quite along meeting is taking place. the representative of brazil, a brazil has spoken, were expecting to hear from a number of other countries. quite a long meeting today that will be taking place at the un general assembly hall knob at the resolution put forward by the united states and its allies condemning russia . what is being debated in the un headquarters today and totally understandable why fittings are running so high and all sides. not is kellum open in the un general

assembly new york. thank you. what else were the 1st run to paste the go ca, since between russia and ukraine is concluded on the better of border after i'm 5, i was a talks. the head of moscow's delegation said he was cautiously optimistic with a 2nd round shed yield for the polish border. as his constantine rose cough reports from the gulf region where he talks to place togs between russia and ukraine have wrapped up. they've lasted for 5 hours. no breakthroughs, no grievance, have been made. the 2 delegations are on their way back to their capitals for further consultations. and after that, they're going to be the 2nd route of talks. the head of the russian delegation, letterman means he's going to report to president important about the outcome of tonight talks shortly. this is what mr. medina said right after these meetings, social workers are going should have to go with negotiations with the ukranian side . have concluded they lasted around 5 hours. during the talks, we went through all the details on the agenda,

found some points on which common positions can be foreseen, and most importantly agreed to continue the negotiation process. the next meeting will take place in the coming days on the poland bella. ruth border. one of the members of the delegate schnells who made a statement saying that the 2 sides have found areas where some progress is possible without given any specific details. ukrainian or russian sites conducted the 1st round of talks to day. the main reason was to discuss the ceasefire and the cessation of hostilities on ukrainian soil. besides determined a number of main questions on which certain decisions have been outlined, the sides are heading to their capitals for further consultations. the sides spoke about the possibility of 2nd round talks during which these issues would be developed, and he also confirmed that round to will take place in 2 days at the border between poland and belarus. so we can say that this particular meeting has yielded any

tangible results, but perhaps it lay down the groundwork for the future talks. the fact that the 2 sides agreed to continue dialog looks promising, although publicly keith and moscow's position remained far apart. ukraine once and cease fire and withdrawal of all russian troops, even from crunchy and done best smasher ones in neutral status, free crime. and the key, if officially recognizes crime me as part of russia. tough times by piece is still possible. you can come soon enough full has been face fighting new crane, 2nd city hall call for day 5. the conflict. a large explosions been reported in the area with local filming huge clues as smoke commit. what they described as ongoing battles next to even other video to show you from ukraine, 2nd safety. but a warning you may find this sadly, disturbing missiles are getting residential areas. russia says it's completely avoiding such zones and claims. in fact, the ukraine is putting forces in residential buildings and using civilian says

human shields. something strongly denied alleged artillery shelling, mirror shopping center has been reported to the northern part of the city plain to have come from a nearby residential building. now this map shows was happening further east, the red dots highlight the cities where the russian army is currently fighting with the ukrainian army, a nationalist formations. the russian defense ministry says that the lugens can militia have retaken territory from the credit army. 62 kilometers. now we, on the previous front line, wilderness forces have reportedly advanced some 37 kilometers. he ev accuses moscow with aggression and says around 5000 russian soldiers have been killed in recent days with 30 russian plains and helicopter shot down on about 200 tanks destroyed. moscow refutes the claims without disclosing concrete figures and says he's been making major advances against the cranium military. now in the capital,

key of these are on verify. the image is showing a defense systems actively operating. give authority said the city was surrounded, but then down from the claim. and now say groups of russian saboteurs, trying to bring chaos to the streets. though that's been denied by russia's military. it's just as 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'm addressing all residents of 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. while he and ex, you can see the 2 don bash republics recently recognized by russia as independent countries. red dots, locations that russia's military with groups of nets can against troops currently fighting force. you can see there are numerous battles, the towns on going throat,

those 2 don bus regions. and over to the dawn bus front lines where this video purportedly shows an explosion near the southeast and city of burial pal, the target of which is still unclear, working still to confirm what actually happened there. as it intervene, ukraine liberated by the current operation of their side to say as well, they say they, they finally see their families. after 8 years of war a my never, never want to go back to what they describe, buzz ukrainian rule. this is that it will bunch can that is, it is with you. of course i have not done you, you should get the example up. so when you come, your cheese did go to the interested. i deal with zillow

with luck with starting up with you. and i'm leaving you grades you elsewhere. ukrainian troops are believed to have been surrounded by russian army forces, near the se, in city of mary apple. reporting on that. and other developments the front lines there. how senior correspondent, what we are hearing is that the city of mary opal, which is ukraine's largest port a is, is now almost surrounded with, with the garrison. that is there. the russian side has said that it is nationalist elements that are putting up stiffest resistance and that, 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 event, sir, 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 our mind. we have received reports from the city of dance, which is a halfway 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 that the devastated advancing force as it is very difficult to reach mario pool the vicinity of mary opal. at this point, there have been, according to reports, more than a dozen civilian casualties here in the city of stan. it's victims of fun, directed, find, and the neighborhood civilian neighborhoods,

places where whether our apartment buildings and, and other houses we have seen or of course soon over ukraine, different reactions to this operation. there are certainly civilians who have been happy to seize 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 have tried to fly to agree try to negotiate with russian forces of bad responsibilities. for example, about joint patrols with police being with police being kept up to speed and allowed to do the job to prevent looting. for example, to prevent crime murders from taking place in the aisle key that his cellphone 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. well, 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 the vehicle. 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 air fields and hangers, and other objects belonging assets belonging to the ukranian air force via west bank of the west bank of kia. 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 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 it is making all efforts to avoid civilian casualties, which, which includes a bad on bombing blog to launching a rocket to 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 be tied to that fabulous. meantime, approximately a 100000 refugees are arriving from ukraine to poland every day, according to local officials, the shopping centers being used to host their rivals. it will polish city. britain foreign secretary says there freezing all russian bank assets this trust may done announcement over moscow's actions in ukraine. we will bring in full asset freeze on all russian banks in days looking to coordinate with our allies. brussels has widened its massive sanctioned russian individuals now including the kremlin spokes person to meet your pest. cough this is new in the head of oil. major ross left ego

searching on a raft of r t employees as well. it says the russian and french president is how the serious and thorough conversation on the situation and ukraine, according to moscow. well, we know that the use of burrell, this is the high representative for the e. u. has been outlining details this afternoon in a press conference saying that the you need to spend more money on defense and it needs to spend that money better. he said, this isn't just about supporting ukraine at the moment, but this is also about the stability of the world. now he also talked about the sanctions, which we've discussed over the last few years that have been labeled against russia . and there is a suggestion that even more sanctions are to come. but he warned that while the sanctions are costing having a high impact on the russian economy, they will also have an impact here in the e u. but he said it was better that that price was paid now than paying

a bigger price in the future. and he said the e needs to fight what he called the aggression coming from the putin regime. now switzerland, meanwhile, has also aligned with you and it comes to these sanctions. it says it's going to freeze the assets of individuals and companies. and that includes president putin and his foreign minister, circ a lover of. now, joseph burrell said that he welcomed that decision by the swiss, who are normally neutral in all situations. and he said that this showed solidarity with ukraine. douglas. gotcha. so as far as i know, the swiss government has decided to aligns fully with european sanction to exact the same thing as we doing. which is great, perfect bad news for russia. now use a brawl, went on to say that they would be a hiking sanctions, including against countries like belarus. and he said that there would be warning

for any country that decided to side with putin in this war that's happening in ukraine. now in the mean time, and you mentioned that president michael france is haven't had discussions once again at with his russian counterpart. we understand from the elise a palace, the president, mac on urged president putin to stop any bombings, any strikes against civilian areas. and also says that president putin are promised to preserve civilians in ukraine. we've since heard from the kremlin about that call, or who has as said that president putin said russia is open to talks. in the meantime are very different story. but still on, at this situation in ukraine as a sailor, in the spanish island of my lucca, who is ukrainian, has been arrested by the authorities there after he attempted to apparently sink the super yacht over russian ali ark. this is

a russian ali ark alexander meek. if i, who is the owner of a russian arms exporter. apparently this ukrainian sale had been working as a mechanic on the c p out for about 10 years, but decided to try and sink it in an attempt to have revenge for what's happening in care of at the moment. elsewhere, mainstream media coverage, the situation shifted to the angle that ukraine is not iraq or afghanistan in this conflict. no hitting white people with quote, blonde hair and blue eyes is and i am not talking about syrians who are fleeing the assad regime supported by vladimir putin and i am talking about european, this isn't a place with all due respect, you know, like iraq or afghanistan european people with blue eyes and blown here being children be killed every day. she is not a developing bird. well, they said it to your well, let's talk about that with investigative journalists,

north daniela's. ok. hey, they did hear that cable one major us network corresponding, comparing this conflict by disparaging previous ones in places like a rack. and i've got this time saying with all due respect compared to those conflicts, cabs are relatively civilized, relatively european city. of course it is wherever it is, was arithmetic? reverend concern. but what do you think of that comparison? well, i think it's right at the polling. first of all, and of course, these are, these wars in the middle east are the ones that the us started with, you know, beginning was shocking and iraq invasion of afghanistan. you know, so shocking or a lot of fun, as long as you're not the one being shocked and awed, but when you are on the receiving end is terrible. and so. so i think that the, the shock of the u. s. is now expressing is totally misplaced because

america is guilty of, of the same crimes. i mean, really, this is really western who is this other opposed to similar like this isn't like some far off 3rd world country. it does feel very dismissive of what other nations have endured in the past, doesn't it picking up from what you say in that? yeah, the, the implication is that. busy it's okay and far off 3rd world countries that we're free to bond them as much as they want because they don't have blue eyes and blond hair. i mean it's, it's appalling. you know, the, the, well, you know, i mean, i don't support the reservation. let me make that perfectly clear. but nonetheless, the us and nato set the scene for this catastrophe, nearly are relentless expansion to the, to the east. and now, now they're shocked at the results. it's completely inappropriate, completely hypocritical, and utterly appalling. we'll pick it up again. comparisons are being drawn with the

conflicts and i've got to stop iraq and syria. are they comparable? and what's that designed to show? audiences making that comparison are they come comparable and out in some ways? yes, in some ways. no. i mean the us invaded afghanistan and iraq in order to, to gain control of the middle east gain control of oil resources to, to get rid of unfriendly regimes. so i guess in that way, it's comparable to what potent is doing in, in the ukraine. but of course the iraq and afghanistan were not on the us border. they posed no threat whatsoever to us security. where as russia has had legitimate concerns over the threat posed by, by the ukraine, once again, that's not an endorsement of what russia has done. well,

those security concerns were legit legitimate. well, what difference is an attitude? you see what's happening right now compared to the reaction in previous devastating conflicts in the middle east and elsewhere. the western press couldn't have cared less about the casualties. i mean they were, they. busy were. busy they. busy were thrilled over the use of, of us weapon was the 111 nbc corresponded, referred to the beat to the beauty of our weapons. i mean, they, americans enjoyed the american journalists enjoy the shout. if it was great fun, if there was a wonderful display of us fire power, now it's now it's not so much fun because the fire power is being directed at a us ally will be the day. thanks for your thoughts, daniela's journalist and also thank you. now the sanctions led to heavy slump and the value of russia's currency. the rubel, the central banks moved to stop the flight of foreign capital moran. that from he

goes down off difficult day for the russian economy since the beginning of the operation in ukraine. and arguably, in recent history, the rubel took a plummeted last about 20 percent and its value to the dollar and a well obviously everything because of the batches of sanctions they were imposed on russia over the weekend. so today's monday, so it took the brunt today. um, so russia had no other choice to react to latimer putin. he, well, he assemble his top officials like the prime minister, the minister of finance, the head of the bank of russia. and they all share their plans, their sort of contingency plans, i should say. as to what can be done to stop the plummet. but an interesting detail here is how vladimir putin opened that meeting, have a listen through the prime minister mich, michigan. and i discussed this topic naturally bearing in mind the sanctions, the so called western community. as i called it, to my address, the empire of lies is now trying to implement against our country. now there have

been all sorts of better imposed, but the key ones, for example, is that 1st and foremost, vladimir putin signed a document according to which russian companies and russian nationals are no longer allowed to send the dollars and store them, deposit them in for an account, so basically all foreign currency like dollars for example, they have that has to stay in the side country and within the russian economy. on top of that, russian tax residence like companies that will receive some of the income in dollars. they will have to sell 80 percent of that income and exchange it for roubles. this is done, of course, to support the russian national currency, which it was again, it was falling quite heavily. it soon surpassed the $100.00 rubles per dollar mark. so it was worth less than a cent. in fact,

one russian rouble was worth less than a cent, but follow these measures. following the announcement of these measures, it kind of backtracked and recovered at least a little bit. and now it is. well, it's still, the official rate basically is not, it is, is not reaching is just below just under a 100 rubles per dollar. on top of that, the bank of russia has higher massively, the key rates. so now it's 20 percent and that's a, that's more than double compared to what it was. well, just yesterday. so that is done, of course, also to support to support the national currency. now, of course, some russian, some big russian, you know, businessman, they have criticize this because of course, with this with the key rates. so high money is so expensive. borrowing money is so expensive for the company as well. but while the russian government says it has to be done, but again, unfortunately for the russian economy, the west is saying that, well, this could be that there's more where that came from. so they might impose more sanctions and they have this intention. i spoke to senior politics lecturer

brittany barth, you know.