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the united nations general assembly met again to debate the crisis between russia and ukraine, reflecting widespread demands for a ceasefire along with escalating concerns for the millions of ukrainians. archie correspondent, caleb martin, tells us more we heard from russian ambassador, near ben z a. 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 nazis in ukraine when the ukranian president zalinski 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 what was said by the russian ambassador and events. yep. and it appears the

real power in, in ukraine is with the military and with nationalists forces and at the present really has no ability to control them. so simply pointing to zalinski is identity and heritage is being jewish to deny the reality of the, as of the italian of the forces that are tearing down world war 2 memorials of the, you know, of the, of the extreme anti russian and pro nazi sentiments. the torchlight marches for a step on bendara to point to zalinski is heritage to deny all that is simply is simply a facade. now, he went on when confronted with allegations that, that russia had bomb civilian areas. he told the other reporters asking those questions to verify the reports because there's quite a bit of a 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. i made that point. so that's, that's the rush ambassador speaking to reporters in the un press briefing room. now this comes after debate that took place at the un general assembly hall that the un general assembly, the ide 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, et cetera. this is what we heard from the un representative of ukraine when he spoke at the general assembly. all deadly astrology dropped on civilians, parents across the entire country. and the russian troops gross through cranes borders from the territory or russia, billers and the occupies bars of ukraine, dunbar and crimea. does it remind you of something indeed

very clear parallels 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 1945. now it's also important to note that in the un general assembly hall and a benzine, 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 the benzine said when speaking to the un general assembly hall. because if she'll be moving in, would you look those to who'll direct dialogue between key of and the don't bass was needed. however, this been getting more confirmation by the countries leadership, little grain. he's not ready for such dialect for taking steps to rhonda don't bass specials out at us as provided by the men's, ke agreements. in the end, this convinced us that we simply have no right to make the residence of don bass. suffer no video in the school. wow. there was a lot of podium pounding from the 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 i did states in their efforts

to demonize russia and obscure the real roots of the conflict. while much of the world stands united against russia's military operations in ukraine, china is taking a different approach on the issue. although not showing support for russia's actions, the asian superpower has made clear that it believes blame for the crisis does not end with moscow. here now is our teeth alex mile, a bitch as the west plains to send more weapons to ukraine. china is calling for diplomacy and restraint on all sides. montana has managed statements made by all parties. i'm a new killer issue. i want to emphasize that on the issue of european security, reasonable security concerns of all countries should be paid sufficient attention. that after the continuous 5 rounds of each were expansion of nato, the legitimate appeal of russia out of its security concern should be given attention and approach properly through you all the relevant parties should remain

calm and exercise restraints. so as to further avoid escalation of the situation, russian president vladimir putin has a world on edge after putting his nuclear forces on increased alert movie and many fi is a major escalation of tension spiked with the u. s. and need obviously, however, amongst other comments from have forgotten that just a couple of months ago, spread nuclear talk was coming from the washington dc. in december g o p, senator roger wicker suggested that the us should consider launching a nuclear strike against russia to defend to ukraine. china has voiced its displeasure with all the rhetoric when i want to affirm that china has always believed that no one can win a nuclear war, and no nuclear war can be fought. meanwhile, it's safe to say that while showing understanding for russia security concerns, staging is not fully backing that countries actions in ukraine at a meeting of the united nations. secure council instead of siding with russia, who,

along with india and the united arab emirates via will china, abstained from voting on a security council resolution, which was aimed at ending the war in ukraine. that said, trying to made it clear that it believes a true diplomatic kind of run by all parties involving deeply is the best path to resolve the issue. again, looking, china supports equal foot, a dialogue between the you and russia on european security issues and upholding the principle of undivided security to eventually form a balanced, effective, sustainable european security mechanism on q. when it comes to the multitude of sanctions against russia, china, as opposed to the measures, not only has it lifted restrictions on russian, we imports to counter measure the efforts. but it has made multiple statements against the use of such penalties. to help with enter your china disapproved of using thank jones to solve problems. we are against unilateral sanctions that have no basis in international law. each of acts have long proven the sanctions to do,

but could not help solve problems which will create new one. the limit on sunday, the united nations security council voted for an emergency meeting of the 193 member general assembly rod order to address the ongoing crisis his behavior ukraine, the world court for news on our t america. i'm alex mileage. well, the break it all down, we are joined by former pentagon official, michael maloof, and independent journalist, ben norton. gentleman, great to see you both tonight. michael, let's start with you. the fact that china called for diplomacy on the situation which is kind of a thing that i think anyone would want. why does the united states see it as such a threat? well, i think china, the united states probably feels that china has basically taken sides with russia. but i thought it was interesting, the way china came out with a, whether it's a position, it was a 5 point position. and at the same time, it recognized something very, very critical in, in spite of all of the, a chaos that's going on right now. that,

that is the idea of indivisibility. you don't increase the security of one side at the expense of the other. and indeed, there is a whole litany of history and agreements that support that argument, all of which have been violated. and that's why russia is upset about it today. it doesn't believe it. and he pointed out that the nato has expanded at least 5 times . not withstanding the fact that there were these assurances in these agreements, and i think that that's, that, that is notable. but it, but he did call for direct negotiations between the 2 countries, russian and ukraine. ah, protects civilian life and a respect for territorial integrity, which i think i think what china is trying to do is be, be the adult in the room and trying to position itself to be that of to be that adult. that other countries may gravitate toward to come to look for

a referee. if you will bookmark that, thought ben, i want to say this article, it came out just before the weekend hit from the new york times, saying that their anonymous sources say the biden administration gave china intel on the russian true build up to deter them. china, those anonymous sources, se, then turned around and gave this intel to russia. now we cannot independently confirm this, but it's interesting though, on the timing of this article been, is this the convenient, you know, way to kind of get that hate snowball on china? moving absolutely, and we see an incredible extremely hypocritical and cynical strategy by the white house. they have been accusing china of genocide, imposing sanctions on china, saying that, you know, president, she is, is a bulky man under americans beds and then immediately they, they expect china suddenly ally with the u. s. against its own ally,

russia. this is a ridiculous policy and of course china is not going to ally with the country that is antagonizing that, that is accusing it ridiculously of, of genocide and others to pose a crime. so the reality is that the white house acts as though every other country in the world is just going to abandon its foreign policy and go along with whatever washington wants when it's convenient. but know, china and russia have a strategic partnership. and yes, it doesn't mean that china always 100 percent agree with russian everything. but they understand that they have a mutual adversary, which is the united states and china has repeatedly throughout, not not just this conflict over ukraine, but for many years now has called for abandoning the cold war mentality. constantly . we hear from the chinese foreign minister when ye and other top diplomats, they constantly repeat that phrase, abandon the cold war mentality. but unfortunately what we see from washington and also brussels is they keep pushing for new cold war. and not only are they pushing

for a new cold war, they're actually accelerating the hot war right now. and ukraine by sending more weapons to ukraine. the u is now sending warplanes to ukraine, so they really are, you know, we were talking about this narrative a few weeks ago of the u. s. in the european union trying to fight until the last ukranian. well, it really looks like they're, they're trying to fight to the last ukranian and instead of pushing for diplomacy, they're trying to accelerate this war, even more supporting fuel on the fire with more weapons and we're war planes. now an interesting parallel, i want to give you each kind of a minute to respond here. but, you know, you have the situation with taiwan. the u. s. has also supplied taiwan with anything militarily that at once. but the difference is, is that of china where to attack taiwan, americans don't know this or many of them down. the united states has a pack that it would go and fight for ty, one, we have this pack with taiwan. not with ukraine. put in his said, is to mans. as you said before, michael, you know about not being

a part of nato as far as ukraine and ukraine would. demilitarize. why do you think the u. s. has a pact with taiwan, but they're not doing the same for you crate. i'll get each 30 seconds mike. well, it's not. ukraine's not a part of nato. we had a separate agreement with taiwan that goes back many, many years. but there's a question of just what does that support mean? does that mean we're going to send in troops and that would be total suicide on the part of the u. s. and that, and it, it more than likely means military assistance. but i also want to point out that the, that, that the united states regards russia and china as allies. and that, that they're going to criticize china equally because they do see this military alliance. but developing between russia and china, even though russia, even though china rather paper, is playing it cool and, and not not showing its hand, but there is cooperation. and i think that this is where the united states is

trying to build that case of, of its world order. now being challenged by this new multi polar world order by russia, china that's emerging. and this is, and this is threatening to the inside of a quick, 30 seconds. do you think side of the one that is going to be the adult in the room and saw that absolutely. china has been calling for diplomacy. and as i said, the u. s. and the you instead of pushing for diplomacy, they're trying to accelerate this war in ukraine. and it's the ultimate hypocrisy. i mean, this war is very tragic. they're the ones that pushed russia to militarily intervening . and now instead of trying to push her diplomacy, the e u and the u. s. are accelerating this war and ukraine. they say they don't want to warn ukraine than why are they sending more weapons? why are they sending warplanes? it's china, not united states, it's china and other responsible countries that are calling for diplomacy and a peaceful resolution to this conflict. my caballo been norton, great to have you both on as always. thank you. thank you. and so how we're going to get the latest on the ground and ukraine. 5 days since the fighting 1st began,

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that it is nationalist elements that are putting up the stiffest resistance and the 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 rooms have been mind. we have received reports from the city of 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 devastated advancing force as it is very difficult to reach mario below the vicinity of variable. 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 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 severe is 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 authorities, with the good, the good with the, the administrations of various villages and towns that has been contact. they have a been somewhat responsible have tried to fight 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 allow 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. there is, of course, also also the fact that the russian military has been keeping us up to date on its statistics, which is how many various military infrastructures side subjective they have destroyed, which is at this point over a 1000, as well as the majority from what we understand of ukraine samples has been destroyed many huh. before being able to take off many jets, many got us before being able to take off in strikes, directed at airports, and as heels and hangers and other objects belonging assets belonging to the ukrainian air force via west bank of the west bank of kia. this also said to be

either the controller, the russian military, viv cook, the situation and care of his of course desperate made much more so after thought 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 that only a passport was required. the nav, it was footage of people just coming up to the boxes and trucks picking up guns by the dozen and leaving which has resulted in as we have seen on social media, get a verified footage anaki in the, in the capital capital of ukraine. nevertheless, the russian side says that he's making rule assets to avoid civilian casualties, which, which includes a bad on bombing look at the solves as

a discriminatory at cities drug to people, stripes, procedure, stripes, to military infrastructure science. and again, have reiterated that they are offering ukrainian forces. those that don't, don't belong to nationalist neo nazi, what kind of they're offering them a chance to surrender that they will be treated with respect and allowed to return to that fabulous. we're already seeing the effects from the ongoing violence rippling across the world. specifically the energy sector has seen a jump and the result of these sanctions levied on russia. now, one pointed 8th, brent crude rose to as high as $105.00 a barrel. the west texas intermediate crude features reached above $99.00 per barrel. prices have since ease but some experts say the rise may still persist. the last time both contracts rose about around, excuse me, above $100.00 as a barrel, was in 2014 during the whole crimea situation. so joining us now to kind of discuss,

we have co host of boom bus christy i. christy, thanks so much for coming on, you know, given the ban on nordstrom to and large on investments and rushes oil. ringback and gas sector by foreign entities. what do you think we can expect to going forward? does this mean that russia will be more reliant on eastern bloc countries? specifically china? and do you think we'll see a massive spike in gas prices possibly higher than we're already seeing now? well, as of now, sanctions on russia are not targeting energy markets for fear of disrupting the very delicate willing gas markets and causing a massive inflation spiral. so this is something that can change very quickly though, depending on if the officials are willing to escalate the situation. right now, the disconnection from swift announced on saturday is partial leaving room to escalate penalties later on. so the current sanctions will make it more difficult, but not impossible for russia to export energy and other commodities. so rochelle likely become increasingly relying on china for trade going forward. as all these

sanctions come into place, it remains to be seen how much china is willing to help them. china will be willing to trade with russia so long that it is in their best interest to, and they can source cheap oil from them. right now, beijing has been very careful not to explicitly endorse nor condemn russia because while it wants to trade with moscow, it also has its own domestic concerns and desire to retain a working relationship with euro. so right now to of china's largest state on banks are restricting financing for the purchases of russian commodities. which underscore the limits of beijing is pledged to maintain economic ties with russia. so amazed to just some sort of back pedaling. with recent, a sort of pastoring alongside russia and despite their efforts to limit the impact of the energy trade, the prices it was already jumped by roughly 40 percent in the last 3 months over concerns. i'm a disruption, so prices are definitely spiking on the rise already. so then christy, how long do you think europe could go without rushing gas and oil?

i mean, is this even possible? i think it will be very difficult for you to survive without russian energy. seeing as europe trades about 80000000000 euros with russia annually, which is 10 x the amount the u. s. does. so on average, the relies on russia for about 40 percent of its natural gas. and some countries are even more dependent than others. so europe can probably get by for a little while without russian energy, as there is storage since tension had begin building up. last year, european work leaders have worked to coordinate increased in ports of l. n. g liquefied natural gas from countries like us and cutter. with spring being only a few weeks away, the region could make it through to autumn without shortages, even if russian supplies were cut off. but in the meantime, europe options to reduce its need for russian gas are very, very limited. in the short term, l and d shipments are helping right now. but europe may struggle to keep these imports at the current high levels, once the cold weather and demand returns. you know,

christy really quick, 30 seconds, what do you think the prospects of ever bringing back nord stream to your hearing? these politicians here say that it's a hunk of steel at the bottom of the ocean is if it's just garbage. do you think it could actually ever get turned back on 30 seconds? i think it is a likely possibility, but that will be further down along the road right now in the near term. there's absolutely no possibility of that. but in terms of in the future, who knows? because that is a significant amount of investment, a significant non infrastructure and a very significant amount of time dedicated to building this. and right now, europe wants to roll out other alternatives to replace its dependence on russian natural gas. but those are not going to be ready for about a decade, thier decade out at best. all right, so low in terms of what will happen in 10 years, most likely you will have to which resort back to it will leave it there. christy. i cause the boom bus, thanks so much. and that's our newest folks. we know you have

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