ok, him that ended quite briefly visiting a bends of their fielding questions at the you and he's of course, the russian un representative, very busy time. it's been very lately the 11th emergency session of the un general assembly that was brought in after russia early had vetoed proposition put forward of the security council. just go over a bit of it for you 1st question. it was how did you feel isolated on the world stage? you said no. russia didn't feel like slated in his view. a lot of countries understand the russian position. then the resist news that came in. i'm gonna talk to a correspondent in that new york city shortly. but this caleb, that the us authorities of undertaken what he said, a hostile actually took a telephone call in the middle of the media briefing announcing that 12 russian diplomats were going to be declared persona non grata, kicked out again. we're going to go and talk to a correspondent about that. shortly. a few responds from him. when asked about

what this whole conflict at the moment terrible conflict. how it started. he said this is nothing new. it went back 8 years. rush has been trying to sort this out for years. another controversial one as well. of course. russia keeps talking about the knots of occasional d nuts if occasion of ukraine and that will, of course, within ukraine be greeted very sternly because there's a lot of disagreement that is actually a problem. and he also wanted the demilitarization of ukraine will. one reporter pointed out a course that president soleski is in fact jewish. so to call him and nazis is of course, extremely offensive. he said, it wasn't to do with that. it was the fact that although mrs. lensky was brought in with a very big ground swell of popularity. he said, there is an undercurrent of not c as in, in ukraine. and these people have been unwilling to listen to him. despite his

popularity and his been fighting to get the minsk agreements adhered to ever since . and let's talk about next than this. so gross violation of america status at the you and let's talk about that. that has been described. are you there? and that so moscow's denounced the u. s. declaration of 12 russian u. s. diplomats. as persona non grata rushes envoy also said, ukraine's president proving unable to resist radical forces inside his country. as i just mentioned. she demonstrated of his weak that he has no political will and power in the circumstances he found himself in or to resist the reasons those radicals who, who are the main, the main political and driving force in current in the 2 days you are you grade caleb open to new york city has promised, but she again caleb yeah. and this headline came through this breaking news just as that a little media conference on the sidelines of the un general assembly. there was

happening. he took the call. the mike's were dead for a minute, but he came back furious. tell us more about what happened. sure. well, it appears that he received the message that 12 staffers of the un mission of russia, which is that new york city right outside the un headquarters part of the un apparatus . every un member state is entitled data un mission. 12 of them have been told that they must leave the country by march 7th. they have been given, you know, 7 days to leave the country. they are a persona non grata in the united states of america. now, that's a big announcement, and it raises questions about the un treating and the united states obligation to enable member states to maintain their staff even countries. the usa has no diplomatic relations with countries like north korea, countries like that. israel at this point have the right to maintain a un mission as a un member state,

but it appears well that un staffers to 12 staffers of rushes un mission are being asked to leave the country. now that came during the press conference that we heard from russian ambassador, no, ben, z i. he's the permanent representative of russia to the united nations. and he took questions from reporters and he made a lot of very important points. one point he made was that zelinski he was, he was basically confronted by a reporter who said that, how can you say that there are not susan ukraine when the ukranian president zelinski is jewish, to which the russian ambassador pointed out that zalinski doesn't seem to have the real power in the country, he took power on a platform of peace and bringing the country back together. however, at this point, at this point, zalinski has proved himself, he's proved himself to be weak and have no real power. that was what was said by the russian ambassador and benzene and it appears the real power in ukraine is with the military and with nationalist forces. and that the president really has no

ability to control them. so simply pointing to zelinski is identity and heritage is being jewish to deny the reality of the as a battalion of the forces that are tearing down world war 2 memorials of the, you know, of the, of the extreme anti russian and pro, not the sentiments, the torchlight marches were step on bendara to point to zalinski heritage to deny all that is simply is simply a facade. now, he went on when confronted with allegations that, that russia bombs civilian areas. he told other reporters asking those questions to verify the reports because there's quite a bit of fake news going around. and there's quite a few videos videos that have come from places like syria or libya, videos from even video games that are being circulated and claimed and passed off as showing russian atrocities. he went on to say the russia did not bomb civilian areas in give. you made that point. so that's, that's the russian basset are speaking to reporters in the un press briefing room.

now this comes after debate that took place at the un general assembly hall, the un general assembly. the states and its allies put forward a resolution before the un general assembly to condemn russia. now, when that resolution was put forward, we 1st heard from the un secretary general after that we then heard from, from the representative of ukraine who thundered and made up heated allegations against russia compared to world war 2, etc. this is what we heard from the us representative of ukraine when he spoke at the general assembly hall deadly and strikes dropped on civilians, parents across the entire country. and the russian troops crossed ukraine, loaded from the territory of russia, billows, and the occupied bars. so ukraine dunbar and creamy. does it remind you of something? doesn't it? indeed, mary clara los could be drawn with the beginning of the 2nd 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 it's also important to note that in the un general assembly hall and a benzo, the russian ambassador had the opportunity to descend some of these allegations. he got up and he talked about the need for negotiations. he talked about how this resolution that was put forward was not a pro ukrainian resolution, as it does not put any blame on the forces that instigated this conflict with their shelling and attacks on don atkin, lugens, and all as well as that. you know, their continued escalation threats of ukraine to join nato piling lethal weapons into ukraine. and from there he talked about the need to not believe everything circulating throughout mainstream media. a lot of the reports coming out of ukraine

widely circulated in american media have been debunked. he pointed out that at this point, what is needed is negotiation. this is what new benzene said when speaking to the un general assembly hall use of suitable movement. but in would you look, does this fool direct dialogue between cave and the don't bass was needed. however, this being hit more confirmation by the countries leadership, medical grain is not ready for such dialogue for taking steps to grant. don't vast 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 further renewables to boston. ye, me. now the un general assembly includes all member states. it's not simply the members represented on the security council, and it's worth noting that a number of un member states have granted recognition to the don at people's republic and the lugens people's republic. nicaragua has recognized the people's

republic and on boss. there's also been recognition from venezuela, from cuba, from iran and other forces around the world have granted recognition. bella ruth has recognized the people's republic. so it is not simply a russia that is standing alone here. russia has allies around the world who recognize are these republics? now, at this point, when looking over that meeting of the un general assembly, it was very clear. there was stark differences, are the allies of the united states, her old allegations at russia. a lot of them very unfounded, based on internet, rumors based on debunked claims that have been circulating around western media. but russia stood firm. i stood for the truth. i called for a d escalation, highlighted the suffering of the peoples of don bass and lugens. and what they've been through for the past 8 years. ah, and it appears that, wow, there was a lot of podium pounding from united states and its allies. this meeting of the general assembly did not really accomplish anything. this was

a lot of smoke and mirrors and theatrics by allies of the united states in their efforts to demonize russia and obscure the real roots of the conflict. or i, thanks for bring this up to speed that a lot was said to night again, was met very heated kellum open. thank you. the 1st run a piece that go see ations between russia and ukraine has concluded earlier on. the better was border after on 5 hours of talks, a lot was weighing on it. the head of moscow's delegation said he was cautiously optimistic with a 2nd rud scheduled for the polish board. as soon as his constantino's cough reports from the goma region, with a talks took place, toggle between russia and ukraine have wrapped up. they've lasted for 5 hours. no breakthroughs, no agreements have been made. the 2 delegations are on their way back to their capitals for further consultations. and after that, there's going to be the 2nd route of talks. the head of the russian delegate can letterman meetings. he's going to report to president important about the outcome

of tonight talk shortly. this is what mr. medina said right after these meetings. i want you 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 della risk. 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 crunch and done. best smasher ones in neutral status free. and the key if officially recognizes crime me as part of russia. tough times by piece is still possible. soap. so britain, foreign secretary says there freezing all russian bank accounts, this trusts may dot announcement over moscow's actions in ukraine. we will bring in full asset freeze on all russian bank in days,

looking to coordinate with our allies. and brussels has widened it's not have sanctioned russian individuals to this was in just last hour now, including the cremeans spokesperson to me, to pest golf and the head of all major russ sniffed. ego section, along with a range of anti employees that says the russian and french presidents held a serious and thorough conversation on the situation in 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 the e. u 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 good. as soon as far as i know, the swiss government has decided to alliance fully with european sanction, to exact the same things as we doing. which is great,

perfect bad news for russia good. now years abroad 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 of france is haven't had discussions once again at with his russian counterpart. we understand from elisa 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 out who has as said that president putin said russia is open to talks in the mean time or a very different story. but still on add this situation in ukraine as

a sailor in the spanish island of min luca, 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. all right, well sir, let's talk about tonight. mike maluso delightful. a senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense. first of all, what about the sir? news of the us is declared 12 russian un diplomats persona non grata russia. so missouri gross violation of america's un host status. is it? well, i think so because they're supposed to be separate. and,

and i think that this is tantamount to what we're probably going to see here in the next few days. and that is a several of diplomatic relations altogether. i would not rule that out, given the way things are progressing in a very negative way. the fact that mr. brewton was personally sanctioned. i heard was a, was the trigger that would prompt such a severin of diplomatic relations sound. know the news, the you said it's going to buy the live a weapons. ukraine for the 1st time in the blogs history is that potentially dangerous president. what do you think about that? it's a, it's, it's a slippery slope. if you have that, i mean, it's like countries of the willing if you will, that we saw over libya years ago. but if you have too much activity from the nato countries, mr. brewton could indeed interpret that as an attack by nato countries. and the

rest will follow in a very unfortunate way. they, how do you, for example, the issue of jets sending jets over there from an aide, a nato countries who flies them? what type of aircraft? and where would they land are? would they be taking off and landing back in the, the nato country model? this is very clear. and this is the kind of thing that we need to be watching very closely. this is an escalation and, and, and when does this stop? and i, and this is really as really become a very slippery slope and it's, it's very concerning. and then talk more about the punishment delta to russia, the freezing, the big one, the freezing of the russian central bucks banks, assets by the e. u. in doing that, it makes, it makes these restrictions on russia are a lot harder because it can't bail itself out. it's a big blow for moscow,

isn't it? oh yeah, sure it's, it's going to be, it's having a very negative impact on the economy on the people of russia on the rubel and, but it also is going to have a, it's also going to have an impact on the west. and we should not be kidding ourselves about that reality we're already seen. but in the west wants to take that doesn't seem to be a lot of sympathy from the west. lot of countries around the world, the majority of the countries around the world. if you believe the headlines you read, read a say the russia is isolated here. well, it is be an isolated, but bravado is one thing, but it's going to be quite another when you actually begin to, to realize the impact, the full impact of these actions. for example, how, how will, what happens if the energy from russia is cut off? you still have russia is going to do that?

it said it will. oh is it so is said it's a reliable partner and it'll abide by it's contracts and the gas is still flowing. no reason for the west to worry about that is there. well, how, how is, how is it going to be, how will russia be paid for that? so if all the banks, this is going to have people in russia want to be paid for their services. they have contracts, this is very disrupt, especially as much as cut off from the not all banks, but a lot of banks cut off from the financial system that, that, that's correct. it when you have, when they cut off from swift, it's going to be very difficult to do foreign transactions. and this is going to make things even more, more difficult on both side. that's why this is not a one sided. this is a 2 edged sword, frankly. and this is going to have an impact on the west as well as the east. it has been a rapidly changing 4 days going to 5 days. now. what do you think the next steps

will be her? i don't know if it's a freefall, we're in free fall right now. the top is ominous about nuclear weapons. all of a sudden that's not good. that's, that's and alerts of that kind and, and now even now switzerland, another neutral countries are planning to send in assistance to ukraine. this is, this is escalating beyond anybody's expectations. and you don't know where it's going. it is having the, the negative impact of, of sanctioning not only sanctioned but isolating russia. and when you, when you back people into a corner like this, you know, they, they tend to lash out. and this is the kind of thing that we have to be concerned about, and especially the fact that both you'd have to super powers here who have the bulk of the nuclear weapons in the world. and this is the last matter. saudis come to

this all sizes, man, micro maloof, former senior pens, again, security policy analyst, most talk over the years. good night 7. thank you. well, there's been fierce fighting ukraine's 2nd city hall cove on day 5, the conflict. i'll tell you about that now. a large explosion has been reported in the area with locals filming huge plumes of smoke commit. while they describe is ongoing battles. and next we'll show you another video from ukraine, 2nd city, but a warning you may find suddenly it's content disturbing missiles or hitting residential areas. russia, of course we had this again, just know from of us in a bens, they're completely denies. this. russia says it's completely avoiding such zones. he says, pictures like this, not saying these pictures, but in his view, i'm not always to be relied upon and claims that ukraine is putting forces in residential buildings and using human shields. something that key have in terms

strongly denies, alleged artillery shelling the shopping center has been reported in a northern part of the city claim to have come from nearby residential buildings. to next. this map shows what's happening further east, the red dots highlight the cities where the russian army currently fighting with ukrainian army national formations. the russian defense ministry says that lu counts militia, while the next forces of reportedly advanced some 37 kilometers. he accuses moscow of aggression and says around 5000 russian soldiers have been killed in recent days with 30 russian plains and helicopters shot them about 200 tanks destroyed. moscow refutes the claims without disclosing concrete figures and says it's been making major advances against the crating military. ok next in the ukrainian capital kiev, these are unverified images showing air defense systems. actively operating kevin

authority said the city was surrounded, but then back down from that claim. a know, say that groups of russians saboteurs, a trying to bring chaos to the city. although that's denied by rushes, military mission 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 legal weapons to anyone 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. when it can see the 2 don bus republics recently recognized by russia as independent countries, red dot saw locations that russia's military with groups of the net scan lucas sc troops. currently fighting for, as you can see, numerous battles,

the towns throughout those 2 dumbass regions. and over to the dumbass front lines where this video purportedly shows and explosion near the se in city of marielle for the target, which is still unclear. where confirming what's happening there. residents of east, in the ukraine liberated by the current operations, say they may finally see their families after 8 years of war and never want to go back to what they describe as ukrainian rule. this is that it will bunch to notice with your system of look under when you read, you should get the example of when you come, your cheese did go to the input i deal with

starting up with i'm we can you, you ukrainian troops who believes have been surrounded by russian army sauce is near the se in city of maria pal reporting on this, another development, some front lines. next, a senior correspondence. what we are hearing is that the city of mary apple, 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 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 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 that the devastated advancing force as it is very difficult to reach mario below the vicinity of mario pal. at this point, they have beat, according to reports, more than a dozen civilian casualties. here in the city of the near victims of fun, directed find and the neighbourhood civilian neighborhoods, places where weather, apartment buildings and, and other houses. we have seen a, 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 than happy to see again. russian troops advancing through through you crate on the whole with authorities, with 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 about 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 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. 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 me a full. 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 stripes directed at airports and airfields 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 could the situation and care fees of course. desperate made much more so afterthought. is 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 the only a passport was required. then 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 anarchy in the, in the capital. a capital of ukraine. nevertheless, the russian side says that is making all efforts to avoid civilian casualties, which, which includes a bad on bombing blog to looting a rocket missiles at indiscriminately at cities and trying to keep will stripes, procedures strikes to.