ah ah, the 6th day of violence you crane with civilians court between the front lines we report from the board, turned on yet for public were homes and life. the being lost every day. with more than half a 1000000 people fled ukraine since last week, taking refuge in neighboring countries. poland small dave romania,

russia positions, voice with the plan to meet again. russian and ukrainian delegations concluded that 1st round of negotiations and by the ukrainian florida the pledges support the ukraine, including ammunition, medical supplies, and weaponry. even traditionally neutral switzerland has joined european sanctions against russia. ah, this is all internationalist 1 pm here in the russian capital. fighting continues across ukraine as the russian military operation. and this 6 day video post on social media shows cars destroyed and key f on the almost empty streets of the capital. amid warnings of escalating crime in the city, as the government is said to be hunting out duns to civilians,

the russian military is calling for residence to leave key as my a designated route heading south west is video show smoke of ukraine, 2nd largest city hall cove with a massive explosion reportedly caused by a projectile in the city center near the regional administration. building local authorities are blaming russia. but media report say there were no russian forces in the area where the projects, how reported became from waiting for comments from the russian military officials. his other footage from the city under warning he might find it disturbing. explosions were reported in the city also on monday with locals filling huge plumes of smoke commit what they described as ongoing bustles. russia has denied responsibility saying it wouldn't target civilians, and instead claims that ukraine is positioning forces in the apartment buildings to you. civilians as human shields is nakeesha, asian, that key of how strongly denied this map shows what's been happening with the red

dots highlighting b major cities where fighting is being reported. russia defense ministry say fellow dance committee. last year has advanced against the ukranian army by the 3 kilometers beyond monday's front line. well done, yet the forces have reportedly advanced 16 kilometers. people from various parts of ukraine are fleeing the ongoing conflict, almost $400.00 thousands of thought, refuge in neighbor and poland. these images show ukrainians at a railway station in the western city of la valls hoping to get a train across the border. according to the un, more than half a 1000000 people have fled ukraine since last week, seeking refuge in neighboring countries including romania, moldova, and russia. other countries in europe of also announced their willingness to help the refugees with charities, collecting donations for humanitarian aid. key of accuses moscow of aggression and phase around 5000 russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in recent days with

dozens of russian plains, and helicopters shot down about 200 tanks destroyed. mosca receipts the claims without disclosing concrete figures and says, has been making major advances against the ukrainian military members of the o. r. c. special monitoring mission are leaving. don't you ask the mission, use to monitor and report violations of these 5 agreement between key of and militia forces? the mission said on sunday that it would relocate, stop you to deteriorating security conditions. what is the latest footage from don yet showing the aftermath of shelling civilians are trying to survive in the conflict zone as cities and towns. a quote between the front lines with battles raging on. local residents are terrified with homes and lives lost every day amidst the conflict with some cranium. soldiers had taken a step closer to conciliation and decided to lay down their arms and now special

shelter in the guns. could maria, if a notion of went back to get to know whether it's possible for the warring side to establish peace, we cannot fully verify the statements of these people because they were talking in top 70 just days ago, these military man from ukraine's army were on the front line, fighting hard against the forces of logan's republic to day they are hosted by their yesterday's enemy. we came here when they were just served lunch. the head of the la guns republic promised all of them and others, if there are more, will be sent home as soon as war is over. and before that kept here and treated well. here in la guns, they eat the same food as local military. they sleep on the same beds and linen in similar dorms, and apparently that is the treatment. they didn't really expect, luminous with whom we had expected, worse treatment. but also, it is a rare situation that we, the fighting sites had

a dialogue. now those up there should sit and talk to to seek not in the hordes who is up, they are treated well and, and god conditions for the man have quite a bit. a shadow and many visitors, father let him her himself spent 113 days in ukraine's capture back in 2014. and after speaking to those people, he says, it's so different from his experience about her with coastal europe. but they took me to the prison and i lost 45 kilos to force or the new nickels of course. who would know they're like prodigal sons, let them come back to their family. they can be useful. back home, these ukranian service members will most likely be treated as traitors. but they said differently and believed by that decision. they saved lives. that the so because of the social, i was the head of the group and i made the decision to give up. i gave that order to 14 people to save my life,

but most importantly to save there is that they are so young. yeah, i can't call for my comrades fighting out there to lay down their arms. but i believe those who armed them should do so. surprising as it may be here, conciliation between previously bitter enemies seems not only possible but real and will be seen as an example to those who hope that when the current conflict ends, the 2 size can finally find common ground. where even ocean r t from logan's great public watches top diplomat has addressed the un disarmament conference speaking remotely because several european countries blocked his pain from flying to geneva. and guess what correspondent aicpa trying to now get the latest earlier. could you talk us through what says a lot of hard to say it was a specific context of his statement. nicky, hello there. well, this is indeed a very important message from the russian foreign minister, mr. surg,

a lab ra. that's something you don't hear quite often. this is pretty much moscow making demands unprecedented demands about the us nuclear arsenal in europe. now, according to the russian foreign ministry, it's absolutely unacceptable for russia that the american nukes are stationed in europe and indeed, mitchell lab. rob also said that right now, it is high time to return that arsenal back to the united states. now, besides this, another thing that mr. library went on to say, is that currently it's very important to prevent the world from entering into some kind of new stage of an arms race. and russia is calling on the us and its allies to somehow join a moratorium. so to say, to station the missiles that are medium rage and short range

in europe. so these are the latest messages from the russian foreign minister. which like i said, come as rather surprising and unprecedented. and the context of this is, of course, the conflict in the ukraine and also an announcement by a lot of our potent that en reaction to the latest deployments of nato forces in eastern europe. we remember how mister putin put russian nuclear deterrence forces on high alert area. many thanks for wrapping up for fontes electronica. then the 1st round of negotiations between russia and ukraine have concluded in but of reasoning, the ukrainian border with both sides saying they presented their positions. he's constantly washed cove reports with the latest. well, at this point, the main outcome of these talks is that the, these talks to play sound,

the 2 sides agreed to continue dialogue. it's not much, but it's something that creates room for cautious. optimism is going to be a 2nd round. maybe it'll bear more solves, but for now it's a wait and see approach. this is what the cranium president vladimir polanski said about the rep top talks and balances and asked him either why we do not have the result. we would like to see russia has stated its position, and we have voiced counter points to end the war. the west a department that he would discuss the 1st round of talks with the craniums. now, the members of the russian delegation were also cautious talking about the outcome of the meeting. the head of the russian delegation reported to vladimir potent yesterday, and the russian president already gave instruction so that the necessary war can be done before around 2. let's listen to what the russian delegation sat about, the talks. social workers are going to go with negotiations with the ukrainian 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 polen, bella rouge border was a 2 size negotiate the military situation on the ground remains tense. key effect users. russian troops of shelling, residential areas in cities across ukraine. moscow says it's specifically instructed, it's military not to do so. russia's ministry of defense of land, key for using civilians as a human shield by placing military hardware next to residential buildings, provoking the russian military to respond and hit these areas. at the same time, the shipment of legal weapons and t crane has reached alarming rates you and nato countries, and in thousands of anti tank and air systems as well as ammunition. there is also been a lot of talks about providing keys with fighter jets ukraine's ministry of defense at it's expecting up to 70 fighter jets from bulgaria. poland, and slovakia bulgaria has already denied. but poland seems to be on board and could

even provide its air fields for ukrainian pilots. grains authorities really use prisoners with a military background and handout weapons to civilians without any supervision. this has already resulted in the spike of street violence and looting, according to russia's ministry of defense, gave of course, put the blame on russia for 4 days. but nonetheless, moscow thinks that sending more and more military equipment into crane in this situation is reckless human. the fates ascending weapons to ukraine, along with our munition and medical supplies. if you have got it another 26 people to its functions list imposed against russia over the conflicts. meanwhile, the decrees signed by ukraine's president to allow foreigners to enter the country without a visa to fight for ukraine against russia has come into force correspondent pizza . all of reports for the european union has stepped up deliveries of lethal aid to ukraine following russia's invasion of the country b. hi,

representative for foreign affairs of the european union. yo separate al says that old member states need to step up and provide ukraine with what it needs in this situation or support for the canyon are forces is crucial. crucial. they need munitions, your new healthcare material. they need to defensive purpose arms of any kind. and we are going to provide them together by with the member to stage germany provided its 1st delivery of weapons on monday that marked a major policy shift for berlin. they'd previously said that they wouldn't be sending weapons into the conflict. the arrival of russian troops in ukraine. well, that changed everything as far as berlin was concerned. denmark is also as sent deliveries as well. 2700 anti tank weapons have been sent from copenhagen,

sweden as well, have been sending weapons neutral, sweden, its worth pointing out. 5000 anti tank weapons coming from them, as well as field russians, helmets and body armor of russia has been extremely critical of the actions of europe when it comes to these deliveries. now the masks are off, the e is revealing its true self with the decision on february 27th to send lethal weapons to ukraine. this means the end of european integration as a passive his project to bring europe ian nations together after world war 2. the ear has definitely taken the side of the cranium regime, which has committed genocide against part of its own population therapy in union has also expanded its sanctions list against a number of russian figures. these include the ceos of energy companies and airlines, as well as government officials, including the kremlin spokesperson. the sanctions have taken

a heavy toll on russia as economy causing the national rouble currency to plummets and stirring panics. throughout the country with russians queuing up at cash machines to withdrawal their savings. people are worried that the new western sanctions will trigger cash shortages and disrupt payments. as some russian banks are to be cut off from the swift at global payment system and central bank assets to be frozen. the e. u is also bound russian flights into its territory, exacerbating concerns about russia becoming isolated. moscow central bank has stepped into stop the flight of foreign capital abroad on that from egos on a 1st and foremost latimer to to sign the 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 residents 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 to surpass the $100.00 rubles per dollar mark. so it was worth less than a cents. in fact, one russian rouble was worth less than a cent. but following these measures, following the announcement of these measures a kind of back tracked and recovered at least a little bit. and now it is. well, it's still, the official rate basically is not, 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 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, businessmen, they have criticize this because of course, with this with, with the key rates. so high money is so expensive. borrowing money is so expensive for the companies. well, but, well, the russian government says it has to be done, but again, unfortunately for the russian economy, the west is saying that while this could be that there's more where that came from . so they might impose more sanctions. and they have this intention. germany's largest operator of energy networks has rejected demands to shut down the node stream one gas pipeline, as part of sanctions against russia over the conflict in ukraine. local media have reported that the operator, germany eon has refused to suspend the pipeline as poland has demanded. but the newly built note stream to certification process remains frozen. the on reportedly say that stopping the pipeline would have serious economic consequences as it has accounted for 37 percent of the total natural gas imported in germany by russia.

since 2011. we mall these sanctions against russia have cause a dip and other european markets with financial institutions bearing the brunt of it. the pan europeans, the u. k. stock indices have fallen by more than one percent with french and german stocks, giving up about 3 percent reduction. meanwhile, crude oil prices have increased about 5 percent major investment firm goldman sachs expects over price inflation in europe to reach 5 percent. this year we had from former austrian top diplomatic curren county. so and economist ica, hama, who have expressed concerns about the sanctions, repercussions on the market. prices went up because the market was a big stretch of that one the ruble. you can look at the strategic commodity flag on. yes. and so the price hikes there, this heat up inflation just cuts about purchase power people if no natural gas is

transported through the existing more stream 1st and 2nd cube, when this will have an impact even more to the plane, the heating season is nearly over. spring, but let us recall the gas is not only for heating, it's really over for production of electricity. if you take all the sanctions who they set into place, it means that germany is paying a price for the gas and it's or it and everything. and ross, i can sell the gas and the, or wherever they want to be in the world, in china. i mean, everybody takes it so it doesn't hurt russia primary primary germany. and this is what we see all the time already. the only thing is that the americans wanted to prohibit the europeans to look eastward toward russia. they don't want the europeans to work together with russia because it would make them independent on

raw materials from outside. with social media giants, including youtube, takes hawk and massa have announced today on mass that they plan to restrict access to russian media out this r t and sputnik in the we have received requests from a number of governments and the e. u to take further steps in relation to rush and state controlled media. given the exceptional nature of the current situation, we will be restricting access to our tea and sputnik across the e u at this time. i mean, our tea on sputnik will no longer be accessible in the platforms within the european union. twitter has also said it would put warnings on tweets sharing, links to r t and take steps to significantly reduce the circulation of that content. microsoft has also taken measures in recent base to restrict thought he for making money from odds on his platforms. online platforms have been under severe pressure to shut down r t following in announcement by the use commission. you commission president about

us he from broadcasting in the you that taking a crucial step to turn off the tap before the russians. information manipulation in europe may, banning russia today and sporadic broadcasting into the p and union polish on the stony and regulators have already banned russian television broadcast as well. the u. k is reviewing its policy regarding r t. now, mainstream media coverage of situation has shifted to the angle that ukraine is not iraq or afghanistan because this conflict is now in europe. and i'm not talking about syrians who are fleeing the assad regime supported by vladimir putin. 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 killed. children be killed

every day. she is not a developing bird. well, they said it can. your we heard from political analyst on journalists, daniela's, all, he says, russia is now facing the same allegations that the u. s. is facing, is conflicts in recent decades. the implication is that it's okay and far off, there were world countries that were free to bomb them as much as we want because they don't have blue eyes and blond hair. i mean it's, it's appalling. the american journalists enjoy the show. that was great fun. this 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 our, i don't support this invasion. let me make that perfectly clear. but nonetheless, the us and nato gets the theme. you know, so shocking, not a lot of fun, as long as you're not the one being shocked and awed, but when you are on the receiving end, this terrible really western hypocrisy. well, we will say got comments from

a veteran german politician who says media is choosing size and even exacerbating the tension, submit the conflict, he believes that should be a return to objective journalism. ethics done should side on common soon, tortured site and came out last weekend with the front page article about the put an enigma. there are 3 pages inside with pure regression. even on the children's page, i put in this picture there and it says, does he want war? an underneath it says for weeks has been sending tanks and soldiers to the border with ukraine. the world is worried. that's what they're putting our children through. there you can see what all this agitation looks like. it's no longer controllable journalists, obviously aren't controlling themselves. anyone. that's something i couldn't imagine. and i live to the cold war in the fifty's. i live through and participate in the debt on the policy. and we will have fallen over in a corner in the sixty's if there had been such an awful media as the one there is today. back tends towards the side to help to make the detox policy. so they knew

how important was for germany to have peace and they supported such things today, they are stirring things up well, we can bring in a gas now of course, live to early risk journalist, political commentator, and contribute to to news outlets. i wanted to thank you for joining us on the program today. mr. risk. tell us. while social media companies matter youtube and take up blocking our tea and sputnik on their platforms in the you to talk us through it, please. well, a basically where in the age where we have something which is called information warfare information has become my vital element in this modern age of warfare, in addition to other factors like cyber warfare and cybersecurity. so it's part of the modern age information. as i said, there is i vital element, and i think that the west is using the advantage. it's at the house or in the realm of information to score some points all through on the further increase. it's

escalation. we honor the influence. facebook has over with the influencer, the west has over facebook and regarding facebook in particular, i can give you an example. our previously, the us off battalion, which was a well known the janese group in ukraine. facebook had prohibited any material being published by the us off battalion on its platform. now, after the recent events began in ukraine, after the beginning of the russian or a military operation, facebook decided that on the group couldn't publish the material on facebook, provided it doesn't inside, inside hatred. so that i think is a very or a significant element. it also shows how, you know, the on social media outlets are closely attired to the political agendas of certain western countries. so on yet are basically, this is the, as i said, this is

a new age of information. the west does have some advantages when it comes to information, although the gap is closing, but one vital point in information warfare is at, at galvan eyes as public opinion. so if the west wants to demonize russia or great some, cried the sympathy or maker with your current president zalinski and to were hero, that's the way to do it to monopolize in information which, which steered public opinion in favor of their policies and incredibly powerful tool. as well, and what are the implications for freedom of speech here? one of the implications for freedom of speech is that tom, i don't think we do have the freedom of speech in the real meaning of the word. i think we have a selective freedom of speech. i also have to point out that on there are some oppressive regimes like saudi arabia, for example,

who have previously used this tactic in the war on yemen. saudi arabia also proceeded to close down or ban outlets to a consider, to be sympathetic to the opposing side in the amity war. saudi arabia also the your way. so the united states or the west. let me a saying in general, is adopting a tactic from the playbook of countries, which i can, is it to be oppressive. countries, those countries which i and the trend which i mentioned. and this also responds 0 question about freedom of speech. as i said, we have a selective process when it comes to freedom of speech. but the very fact that outlets like a r t and spot they can, others are being targeted. i think this is a testimony to the fact that they are being influential. otherwise, they wouldn't have been targeted in the 1st place said all to so that also i believe is a significant development. how do you think it's for the future of news coverage?

while i think the. busy news coverage as time goes by news coverage is becoming more and more biased. previously there was journalism meant something meant something about integrity. about telling the truth. citing the facts. we've seen that to situation deteriorate. more and more we're seeing news outlets being affiliated to way certain the and that's, that's increasing. and i think that now with the era of, you know, we're going back to what the, you know, the sense colson, great power competition. what you're going to see is going to see more and more west from the outlets demonizing the opposing side be in russia to be a china being other countries. so grant power competition doesn't really been competition politically, military and militarily economically. i think we're going to have great power competition as role in the information field, which i believe it is no less important than in the fields. i, you know,

we're being incredibly careful here at our t to show only fox to show both sides of the story. however, the west is obviously very skeptical about ortiz reporting. why do you think that is? well, you know, that's the west west approach. sure. the west is skeptical towards any other alternative when to view in general, particularly when it comes to a countries or players that are considered the pay part of the quote unquote the evil camp. again, i mentioned, hey, russia, china, in addition to countries like iran and north korea basically, ah, there's an automatic reflects of approach that dismisses anything which is being said are by that may be out this in his country is or by these countries. in general. there's just automatic psychological response, this sir dismissal but tom. busy you know, i think people are waking up,

there are other ways to find the depression. there's always a way to find the truth and you know, from my purse and experience, there are more and more people who want taking what they seeing on the dish on the traditional western outlets at face value. so that i think is a welcome approach. sure. but it has to be said the west still does have some advantage due to the controlled. busy and has over some media outlets, despite the fact that you know, again that the gap does appear to be closing. hello asked and less political commentator and contributor to news outlet. i want to say thank you very much for your time. my monet's coming up after that very short break, stay with us. ah ah.