ah, it ah de 7 of russia's military operation in ukraine. moscow confirmed it attacked that television tower in kiev rush also claimed to have taken control of the city of person. but the ukrainian side says the fighting is to longo . and from the other side of the conflict, horrific destruction of homes in the aftermath of a battle in the dawn, both region were wounded. residents have required medical assistance the most people, it's not very scary, but i'm afraid my room is near to pavement and there is a whole very fair handy you politicians demand even harsher sanctions against russia after the block has banned party and moved to cut some russian banks out of the international transaction system called swift.

ah hello and welcome to our to international special coverage of the war in ukraine. i'm your host, donald quarter rushes military operation, and ukraine has entered its 7th day with heavy fighting and explosions reported in cities across the country. a russian delegation is meanwhile, heading to a meeting place for negotiations with ukrainian officials near the polish bella russian border. despite some report saying the talks could be postponed, he says that it's ready for talks, but not for ultimatums. and that a date for the 2nd round is still unclear. versus top diplomat circ a lab. rob says moscow is ready for peace talks, but ukraine is following instructions by the united states to postpone lab rav emphasized rushes position that there shouldn't be offensive weapons on ukrainian soil, and that russia will never allow key of to have nuclear weapons. he echoed us,

president joe biden sentiment that the alternative to sanctions would be war and cautioned that a world war would involve nuclear weapons. there are reports of an ongoing battle in ukraine's eastern hark of region with russian troops attempting to advance. and this footage, you're now going to be able to see a massive explosion that took place late on tuesday in the city of julia with plumes of smoke filling, the sky was reportedly seen near a ukrainian air force base. as of now, no information is available about potential casualties. now here's another video from the region in ukraine, 2nd largest city of harker. you can see flashes caused by intense, showing throughout the night. we heard from a local woman hiding in the basement. there's some criminal court that says it is all ready to see the day we are here in the basement. we are worried very much and it is very scary. we have small children, elderly people, and frankly speaking,

it is very frightening. it is a nightmare review from the inside very strongly. this cannot be explained with words at the russians. military has confirmed that a conducted a strike on the television tower and key of and it says no residential buildings were damaged. it has also reported taking control of a regional center in the south of ukraine, but that has been denied by ukraine's defense ministry, which says the battle is still ongoing. ortiz maria phenomena. as the details pushes offense, ministry spokesperson, major, generally going to shenker said that his son, a big city on the black sea in the south, original capital, is now under total control of the russian forces. he also added that the civilian infrastructure hasn't been effected anyhow, hasn't been damaged and that the negotiations are currently on to go in with the local authorities on how to organize further cooperation in order to prevent any bad things happened on the ground with local residents to provide security and to

meet their every day needs. plus, he added that the armies of danielle and logan's republics advanced 60 and 75 kilometers. accordingly, since the beginning of the special military operation here with several towns and villages taken now under their control. and he also said that adult will, 1500 ukraine's military infrastructure objects have been damaged and that they'll continue striking military targets uniquely. and yes, mr. cronner shank of also confirm that russia is behind, keeps tv tower. i tag hate said that it was done to prevent information attack against russia. let's take a listen sort of brazilian role in order to end information attacks against russia, technological facilities of the ukrainian security service, and the 72nd main center for psychological operations were hit by high precision weapons. and key of the broadcasting of a television tower has been disabled. the strike did not destroy residential

buildings versus defense ministry war and about this attack on tv tower, our as before, that called in a local residence. and especially those leaving a near relay stations to emitter to leave their homes. and of course, clearly it's parked a panic in the ukrainian capital. and we started receiving many videos, especially from the cities railway station showing people trying to get on an creation train organized apparently by this horses while it's already packed, and people riding with bags and the children and pads in a panic. although moscow has always been stressing it has no plans of occupying ukraine and it is not going to target residential areas, but it didn't prevent panic from spreading. the un estimates that these whole crisis could forests around 4000000 people to plea ukraine. that's 10 percent of

the country's population and all that comes at the time when the world is waiting for the 2nd round of peace talks between ukraine and russia. president, a zalinski as spoke to american media from his bunker, saying that he is ready to meet vladimir putin to remind you of the leaders of the 2 countries did not take physically part in the 1st round of negotiations, of leyden were potent and mr. zalinski did not meet there were not on the ground. there were no that the table maybe this time is going to be different. but mr. zalinski also said that the rock conditions that russia should accept to continued talking. you have to speak. first of all, everybody has to stop fighting and to go back to that point from where it began 56 days ago. we also hear from russia that moscow does not, she, ukraine is ready and willing to find balin solution to this crisis. but of course,

let's wait and see what the piece talks will bring. and the very latest is that we hear that it could possibly be delayed. and we can see the 2nd round only at the end of this week. but we still have to verify this information. actually, all the information that's coming through ukraine's president zelinski says that more than 6000 russian soldiers have been killed or wounded over the past week. moscow has denied that claim saying it has inflicted more casualties among the ukrainian military. meanwhile, zalinski says he needs security guarantees from the west if it's not allowed to join nato and in the grounds can done yet. people's republics, residents continue to endure intense battles between the ukrainian military and local militia forces. if you see this map here, it's showing what's been happening with the red dots highlighting the major cities were fighting has been reported. russians defense ministry claims. the guns people's militia has advanced against the ukrainian army by another 3 kilometers

beyond monday's front line. as for the done yet people's militia, they've advanced reportedly 16 kilometers beyond previous front lines. now these are the latest images of a village that is claimed to have come under the control of the guns people's militia with residents showing the aftermath of the fighting. you can see that homes and infrastructure have been destroyed. and now this is footage we're getting from the don boss region. i made a parent showing from the ukranian army. a missile has destroyed cars and residential buildings in the capital city of the done yet people's republic. and the number of casualties is not yet known, but the city of done yet has warned that there may be victims under the rebel as rescue operations continue. now you can see footage showing an abandoned chief 64 tank near the settlement of bo goss after ukrainian troops, apparently left the vehicle with all its equipment and ammunition intact.

showing amid the conflict, has left homes destroyed and wounded people who have required medical assistance. a mother and her 2 children were hospitalized and the dynamics, people's republic, after their home was struck by intense shelling. a doctor said the kids were wounded by shattered glass coming out of a window. we spoke with that family at the movie, but was not very scary, but i'm afraid my room is near the basement and there is a hold right there. the stone wall was broken and the neighboring building could be seen through the hole, where ran into the hallway where everything was still intact and call my mother. she arrived and started to evacuate us and called an ambulance. we learned at school what to do at home when there is a showing going on. we couldn't get into the basement. so we have in the hallway. i was sitting in the room when i heard sharing. i was glad it wasn't in our house and then it got into our house last or fell into my eyes. i couldn't see anything in the street in your way. me. we're seeing an escalation of the war we were offered to evacuate. and moreover,

there had been faked messages that the hospital was mine for continuing to provide assistance. we're not going to leave to anywhere, no matter what, wouldn't still fall, we're working normally, but we are ready for anything to happen at any minute. we'll be bred old ways to evacuate children. if there is a large attack. we've done this already in 20142015. we're already trained some employees to live in heavily shell area stevens spend the night there in hospital. sometimes i allow that because the situation has been very dangerous. now we have received exclusive footage to be in a resort to the bus region on the sea of ass off it now appears completely destroyed, refused as a base for ukraine's far right. as all the battalion before being taken on monday by the forces of the done yet people's republic. in a disturbing you turn, facebook users will now be able to express praise for a neo nazi ukrainian military group previously band along the same lines of the

atlantic state and the ku klux klan. but meanwhile, facebook is banning r t in the you while promoting ukraine's neo, fascist as all the battalion and appeared to improve coverage of ukrainian forces. for the time being, we're making a nero exception for praise of the as a battalion strictly in the context of defending ukraine or in their role as part of the ukraine national god. the policy tweak though, still forbids any praise of violence committed by the extremist group, but the battalion merged as an anti russian militia and joined the ukrainian national guard back in 2014. it is infamous for its neo nazi ideology and usage of associated symbols. the un has accused b as off battalion of committing torture and rape. and the u. s. has blocked military aid to the group due to its nazi ideology. ukraine's army has released a video showing a soldier from the neo nazi regiment, dipping bullets into pig fat during a threat to kill russian muslims. we can't,

of course, show you this video because of it's offensive content. but we've requested a comment about it from facebook, and we'll let you know if they reply. meanwhile, we talk to independent nash, independent journalist, benjamin norton, who sees in facebook's decision and obvious adherence to the us stance on the conflict. i wrote an article i, my independent news website, mostly poly stuff about the streets of the national guard. the official verified twitter account of ukrainian national guard sharing a video of a neo nazi from a's off dipping bullets in pig fat to kill chechen muslims from the russian army. i wrote an article about this completely factual as a journalist, and then i posted a screenshot of that article and instagram and instagram censored it, and said that it violated their content on, on promoting violence and hateful groups. but i radically meadow which owns instagram says that it actually allows people that praise is the ultimate irony of

this is that the european union is attacking russia, claiming that russia is authoritarian and it doesn't care about human rights and press freedom and freedom of speech. meanwhile, the european union, which claims to be democratic, is violating the freedom of speech of its own citizens is violating the freedom of expression and the freedom of press by preventing its own citizens from having access to journalism. not only done by russians, there are a lot of europeans, there are people in spain, people in germany, people in france and britain, who worked for archie, they're not russians. they are journalists who are doing journalistic work. mid the chaos and ukraine. right now there's an information vacuum about what's been happening and the positions of each side with conflicting reports about who is responsible for which attacks this footages from tuesday morning from ukraine, 2nd largest city of hark, of the plumes of smoke rising into the sky from a massive explosion reportedly caused by a projectile that landed in the city centered near the regional administration.

building local authorities have blamed russia, but media reports say there were not even russian forces in the area from which the projectile had reportedly count. come were still waiting for comments from the kremlin and the military about the situation. we heard from military journalist and retired, colonel victor baron, that's who says ukrainian side is probably aware that the projectile came from their own forces. those whom the usability just got to talk to experts on the nature of the heart of bluff. they say look like an artillery hit by a $152.00 millimeter gun, highly explosive, with enhanced gunpowder the charges considering the position of russian and ukrainian troops. everybody, even the ukrainians, came to the conclusion that the administration building had been hit from the ukrainian side. it's interesting to know how precisely the building was hit, considering the density of construction in height is clear that ukrainian intelligence worked on it. the strike might be part of the ukrainian operation. the reasons for that are obvious. it was

a provoke to step while ukraine to play out an anti russian show. they took the fact of the explosion and spread it across social media, blaming russia. however, the russian side claims that it is a priori impossible. joe biden has given his 1st state of the union speech, choosing to focus on the ukraine conflict as domestic problems. mountain the u. s. you said the u. s. has joined the you in closing its airspace to russian flights and specified that american forces will not participate in the conflict with russian or inflicting pain on russia and supporting the people of ukraine. prudent is now isolated from world more than he has ever been announcing that we will join our allies in closing off american aerospace to all russian flesh. her i say, adding additional spruce on her. but let me be clear. our forces you are not engage and will not engage in a client think with russian forces in ukraine. our forces not going to europe to

fight ukraine, but to defend our nato allies, the advantage to decide to keep moving west. meanwhile, you politicians have called on the block to impose even harsher sanctions against russia over the conflict and ukraine as the you has already. bands, news outlets, r t, and sport nick, as well as approved excluding some russian banks from the swift international transaction system. the block is also considering restrictions on oil and gas import, says ortiz charlotte pinsky reports. will these restrictions directly impact archie international and also our sister station? artie france here in france, what it means is that our channels are no longer allowed food costs with it. that be on applications on a telephone via the internet, or even on television subscription services across the european union. those new sanctions that have come into force on wednesday. no, it comes as the

e u says it has to stand in solidarity with ukraine as this war plays out. we are able to get it to where we treat lee and to decide death sanctions. we message constituencies for russia, but also to be honest, it will have a just for us. but the secretion of convictions is attrition of democratic principles. the depression of international law. well, the you is using a special sanctions regime to bypass the ordinary media licenses. that applies to give you an example. artie from assist the station was given a renewed license to boot cost in france just back in 2020. but despite that under the sanctions regime that can be taken off immediately. now our t francis denounced the action saying that this is simply censorship. the decision to banner channel, which currently has $176.00 employees, including more than $100.00 journalist, is

a violation of the rule of law and goes against the very principles of freedom of speech. nothing can justify the censorship. now there has been criticism of that decision, not just by one union of journalists, but also by the president of serbia. of course, serbia is not an u country, but the president saying, this is what he said when they talk about freedoms. what they mean really in terms of freedom of the press, is the only freedom that they're thinking of is the freedom for themselves. now in a separate development today, european energy ministers are going to meet to basically look at the use reliance on russian energy supply. so just to give you a sense, 40 percent of gas used here in the u. 55 percent of crude oil. more than 40 percent of coal supplies all come from russia and the e. u is desperate to win itself off those supplies. as a result of not just the sanctions,

but the fear that they say that russia could potentially turn off the gas supplies to europe. we've also heard from germany that says it regrets it's heavy reliance in the past on russian energy. as for germany, we have to admit that in the past we were like 4 to one sided leon energy imports from russia. germany is more dependent than other european countries in this regard . this means there is an obligation to get rid of this quickly. now other sanctions coming to bite on wednesday include the fact that certain russian banks are going to be excluded from the swift messenger service. all of the sanctions, the idea from the european union and the u. k. is to have a heavy financial and economic burden on the russian economy. we do also know that there has been further help for that via companies from the united states, such as apple keep bowing and forth was said that they have now suspended. they sales their transactions in the russian federation, and in another development,

we know on tuesday that president landscape, ukraine once again cools on the european union to look at immediate ascension for his country to the block. as a result of thought, m p's on tuesday, routed to ask for your institutions to start looking at how this could happen. no, this is a non binding vote to doesn't mean that ukraine is about to join your opinion. what it does 2nd also is that the e u is showing that it has solidarity with ukraine and it does see crane potentially in the future, being an e member. now despite the use ban on r, t and spoof make some in the west where scrutinizing the decision even before came into force saying it would set an undesirable precedent for censorship. it sounds like a sensible move to restrict russian war propaganda. but such, censorship would be fundamentally wrong, not only because of the freedom of the press and the freedom of expression,

which even applies to false and incorrect information, but also with a view to the future. because any one who sensors once will do so again, we heard from russia's permanent representative to the european union commenting on moscow's complicated relations with the block as well as restrictions imposed on r t. he says that the u. e. u sanctions are designed to push the russian government into making policy concessions. if all the aim of the sanctions is to influence are rational state policy and the are the views of the russian president. that is irrational because of that aim will not be achieved by these symbolic sanctions and trying to locate non existent assets of president boot in, in europe or elsewhere in the world is really just ridiculous.

russia you relations have seen their ups and downs over the years on the line, but what we witness to day is certainly beyond any one's comprehension. far perhaps the european union of one through its relevance and the situation financial war on my direct other countries, or if russia, oh, to prove proceeds to certain countermeasures along their track. our team is so i would say beloved target for our western oh regulators and western governments is portrayed as a propaganda channel. ok though,

i believe with beyond just the current crisis, i believe it's a case of unfair competition from those who find themselves lagging behind in terms of popularity of oh, b, like in behind r t. we also spoke with eager juergen, so board member of the russian union of industrialists and entrepreneurs, he told us that the global economy will surely feel the impact of the sanctions. would be my you to say that nothing happened. because for the 1st time in my history and he's still bilateral and multilateral relations, the essence of the central bank of a given country approval. we have the measures to come through. and the technological stress test took place,

both in the financial system of the russian federation and in other branches of our industry. but nevertheless, we have to sacrifice somewhat in the standards of living and that will be filled by the population. definitely the one that can enable it will feel the impact because we are i would say 20 percent of the world energy and that definitely be already in london. the price of energy quadrupled and people are paying for the apartment for the electricity for the heating system, 4 times more than then for the crisis. and i believe that and to easily circumvent that is not possible at the moment for the west, also trying for some news just in ukrainian. president vladimir so lensky is office,

has confirmed that the 2nd round of peace talks will take place on wednesday. that's after the 1st round concluded with no immediate deal with russia since then . besides agreed to meet once again. more on this, we're going to go live to our correspondent r t r t corresponded konstantin ross call. thanks. so thanks for joining us. konstantin. so bella bruce, what's going on there? he has done hello. well, these are probably the most anticipated talks in the world right now with russia and ukraine in negotiator scheduled to sit down, face to face for the 2nd time in 3 days. during the 1st round, moscow and ki, failed to secure a cease fire, although both delegations didn't rule out that some progress might be achieved during round to lot of things have been said since then, ukraine's foreign minister me that equally about claim the keys ready for target but not for adoption of ultimatums. russia's foreign ministers there'd be a lot of offset that moscow's also ready to sit down for negotiations. but he

believes that key of deliberately dragged speed on the meeting because that's what had been told to do by the u. s. anyway, the russian delegation is headed to bella ruth and we'll be waiting for their counterparts. the trainings were out of reach and didn't pick up their mobile phones according to our sources. sources in the bella, russian foreign ministry, but they finally confirmed they will participate publicly though neither side has changed. its stance key wants an immediate cease fire and a complete withdrawal of russian troops, including from the don bass region and crimea. moscow wants to crane to assume a neutral status without align with the western powers, as well as recognized crimea as russian territory and bony african lugens gaz independent republics, france, president, latter marizza landscape, has also claimed that he is ready to negotiate directly with a, with the latter, more important, but the problem hasn't signaled any interest in having talked at that level just

yet, so it's anyone's guess whether the 2 sides could come out with anything. after this session, ortiz constantine ross called thanks a lot for those updates. well, thank you very much. for sticking around with us here on our team international, if you'd like more updates on the war and ukraine, they're coming your way when our special coverage resumes, and just about 30 minutes. ah ah ah.

ah brush a special military operation in ukraine has changed the world in many ways. it is forcing the u. s. and its allies to rethink and reassess global security. we should not be surprised by this. after all, the post cold war era is over. what will replace it is still open to question with

time action returns in you're watching going undergrad has nations around the world continue to react and punish russia over its invasion of ukraine in violation of the un charter. but if the un secretary general was convinced that moscow had violated international law, why when joe biden arguably watered down the condemnation of russia for so called chapter 6, violation seeking peace, did not just china and the u. e, but the world so called biggest democracy, india failed to support washington. joining me now as a marriage is professor of strategic studies at new delhi center of a policy research, rama celine. thank you so much for visiting me for coming on. what have you made of putins, violation of the you in charge and why have you said india will not be able to escape the largest or the larger strategic ramifications of the ukraine war?

first, what's happening is a watershed moment in international relations. this marks that went of a new law was from if occasions will extend to every corner of the world, the russian invasion of ukraine and the sanction centered reprisals of deal with. and it's eyes are compounding the national crisis because the politics was already quite lucky in for the russian ambition. but things have become tragic and all the time since the nation began. and the cutting prices have the making of a grown out and dangerous confrontation between russia and the west, particularly nato. and as we all know, the crisis is already affecting the global economy. with high energy prices and supply chain disruptions said to fuel inflation then slow and growth and india cannot escape the.