this is alexis with a ukrainian president's office confirmed. the 2nd round of talks with moscow was set to start on wednesday evening. kiev adds, it's ready to negotiate, but not except to russian ultimate with de 7 of russia's military operation. and ukraine. moscow confirms that attacked a television tower and hit russia also claims to have taken control of the southern city of kirsten. but the ukrainian side says the fighting is still ongoing. with the hand from the other side of the conflict. horrific destruction of homes in the aftermath of a battle in the dawn boss region where the wounded, including children require medical assistance with very scary. but i'm afraid my room is me as a basement and there is a whole rank there. sandy,

you politicians demand even harsher sanctions against moscow after the block bands are t and associated networks with brussels. also moving to cotton, some russian banks out of the international financial transaction system. with hello and welcome to our international special coverage of the war and ukraine. i'm your host donald quarter, ukrainian president's office has confirmed that a 2nd round of peace talks are set to take place on wednesday. that's after the 1st round concluded with no immediate deal with russia. ortiz constantine rush, called reports from bella. ruth's, which has been hosting the negotiations. these are probably the most anticipated talks in the world right now with russian and ukrainian negotiators scheduled to sit down, face to face for the 2nd time in 3 days. during the 1st round, moscow and 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 admitted equally about claim that keeps ready for target . but not for adoption of ultimatums, rushes foreign ministers here to live. rob said that moscow is also ready to sit down for negotiations, but he believes that key of deliberately drags 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 source sources in the bella, russian foreign ministry, but they finally confirmed they will participate publicly though neither side has changed. its dance are key, wants an immediate cease fire, and a complete withdrawal of russian troops, including from the don bass region and crimea. moscow wants a crane to assume a neutral status without align with the western powers,

as well as recognize crimea as russian territorial bony ups can. lugens gas independent republics imprints, president ladders. the landscape has also claimed that he is ready to negotiate directly with a, with the latter potent but the kremlin hasn't signals any interest in having talks at that level just yet. so it's anyone's guess whether the 2 sides could come out with anything. after this session process, military operation in ukraine is now in 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 poland bella reporter, despite some report saying that the talks could be postponed. he says that it's ready for talks, but not for ultimatums. and that date for the 2nd round is still unclear. russia's top diplomat though says moscow is ready for peace talks, but ukraine is following instructions by the us to postpone survey lab roles emphasized brushes position that there should not be offensive weapons on ukrainian

soil. and that russia will never allow the key of to have nuclear weapons. he echoed us, president joe biden sentiment that the alternative to sanctions would be war and cautions that a world war would involve. nuclear weapons are also ongoing reports of battles in ukraine's eastern hark of region with russian troops attempting to advance. and the footage you can see a massive explosion that took place late on tuesday with plumes of smoke filling the sky. it was reportedly seen near a ukrainian air force base and as of now, no information is available about potential casualties. here's another video from the region in ukraine's 2nd largest city of hanukkah. you can see flashes caused by intense shelling throughout the night. we heard from a local woman hiding in a basin. mccord says it is all ready the 5th 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 and it seems with you from the inside very strongly. this cannot be explained with words. i says military has confirmed that it conducted a strike on television tower and key f, 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 battles are still going on. ortiz maria. phenomenal. has the details. brushes offense ministry spokesperson, major general griffin, a shank of 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 happen 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 the control. and he also said that at all, well, 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, said procedure, removable, or 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 actuation train organized apparently by this warranties, 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 a spreading. the un estimates that these whole crisis could for is around

4000000 people to flee ukraine. that's 10 percent of the country's population. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says that more than 6000 russian soldiers have been killed or wounded over the past week. moscow has denied that claim and says it has inflicted casualties among the ukrainian military. meanwhile, zalinski says she have need security guarantees from the west if it's not allowed to join nato. and in the logan's convenience people's republics, residents continue to endure intense battles between the ukrainian military and local militia forces. this map shows what's been happening with the red dots highlighting the major cities were fighting as being reported. russia's defense ministry claims, the login's 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 reportedly advanced 16 kilometers beyond previous lines. 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 could see that homes and infrastructure here have been destroyed. and this is footage we're getting from the don boss region. i made a parents shelling by the ukranian army. missile has destroyed cars and residential buildings in the capital city of the done yet people's republic. the number of casualties is not yet known, but the city of done yet has warned that there may still be many victims under the rebel as rescue operations continue. this for the cheer shows and abandoned t 64 tank and the dynamic region after ukrainian troops apparently left the vehicle with all of its equipment and ammunition intact. showing them the conflict has left homes destroyed and wounded people who have required medical assistance. mother and her 2 children were rushed to the hospital in the diana type peoples republic. this week after their home was struck by intense shelley. a doctor said the kids were wounded by glass shattered from the window. we spoke with

the fence at the mostly but well, it's not very scary, but i am afraid my room is near the basement and there is a hole right there. the stone wall was broken and the neighboring building could be seen through the hole where a ran into a hallway where everything was still intact and call my mother. she arrived and started to evacuate us and called an ambulance. we learned it's cool what to do at home when there is a shelling going on. we couldn't get into the basement. so we here in the hallway. i was sitting in the room when i heard shelling, i was glad it wasn't in our house. and then i got into a house plaster felt into my eyes. i couldn't see anything above 3 in the away. li, we're seeing an escalation of the war. we were offered to evacuate and war over. there had been fake messages that the hospital was mind way for continuing to provide assistance. we're not going to leave to anywhere, no matter what other level does so far, where we can normally, but we are ready for anything to happen at any minutes with prepared older ways to

evacuate the children. if there is a large attack, we've done this already in 20142015 world ready trained. some employees to live in heavily shelled areas even spend the night there in hospital. sometimes i allow that because the situation has been very dangerous. now we've received exclusive footage room, what used to be a resort of the don boss, regional embassy of aus off that now commonly is now completely destroyed and was used as a base for ukraine's neo fascist as all fatality. and before being taken on monday by forces of the dynamics of people's republic. more and more reports are appearing in the meeting in the media and on social networks about russian citizens facing discrimination in western countries. due to their nationality ortiz, policy clear, explains it's one thing to blame the russian government for ordering movements in ukraine. but it's quite another to put the responsibility on the shoulders of ordinary russians who are now feeling discriminated against and isolated. not to

mention being banished, russian, conductor valerie, get, give, has refused to condemn his own country. and he's paying the price with immediate effect. there will be no further concerts by the munich philharmonic orchestra under his direction. other countries of also refused to cooperate with dead give and for not playing they accuse his korea is crumbling. internationally, fame, performer net, net trip car has also been banned from the bavarian opera. russian sport is also under attack. and football is, are no longer allowed to play fee for, and you a for have to day decided together that all russian teams, whether national representative teams or club teams shall be suspended from participation in both fee for. and you have competitions until further notice. and the olympic committee is following suit. the international olympic committee executive board strongly urges international sports federations and organizes of sports events worldwide to do everything in their power to ensure that no athletes

or sports official from russia or bel ruth be allowed to take part under the name of russia or bella. ruth, russian or bell, russian nationals, theaters, individuals, or teams, should be accepted only as neutral athletes or neutral teams. no national symbols, colors, flags, or anthems should be displayed. and not to mention the eurovision song contest whose organizers say russia participation would bring the competition into disrepute. it's certainly flies in the face of the european union and sustained that it's not targeting ordinary people. i want to stay where we are not targeting russia people. many of them focus against the senseless war and i want to salute the courage. meanwhile, ordinary citizens are being discriminated against just for being russian. i'm not ashamed to say i'm russian, but i'm a bit afraid i'm worried society will have this perception that all russians are

bad. and they were many cases of people being put to shame borrowed from political . there's only one way to counter this barrage of bruce phobia. by drawing attention to the double standards that are employed in the west when doing russia. this is currently the only way to release cooled or collective sentiment in regard to russian citizens. in my opinion, the term double standards is widely used. now we see how they're applied in math when russian speaking ukrainians were discriminated against ukraine when the main right the right to life russians. and the don bass was violated. nobody paid attention to that. they thought it had nothing to do with human rights, and that it was a domestic affair with an ukraine. this reaction has led to what ukraine has been doing for a long time. today. they've forgotten what's been happening in the dom bass for over 7 years. they're forgotten. what's been happening in ukraine lately. now they just talk about russians as the main violators of human rights. this issue requires attention in terms of our athletes. i hope those are just emotional steps that international organizations are taking. i hope that soon people will realize that athletes have nothing to do with politics and with the current situation,

i hope the international organizations will considerately, in regard to our athletes. appointment and powerful african proverb says that when elephant fight, it's the grass that suffers. it's one thing that the you and western countries are pushing back on moscow, but it's not clear why they choose to punish ordinary people. and what that can achieve. joe biden has focused his 1st state of the union speech on the ukraine conflict. surprising critics who note mounting domestic problems in the united states, he said, washington has joined the you enclosing its airspace to russian flights, but specified that american forces will not be participating in the conflict with russia. are inflicting pain on russia and supporting the people of you. crank prudent is now isolated from world more than he has ever been. i'm now seeing that we will join our allies in closing off american aerospace to all russian flesh. her

i, sasha. this is please let me be clear. our forces will not engage and will not engage in the conflict with russian forces in ukraine. our forces not going to europe to fight ukraine, but to defend our nato allies event to put into size, 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 e. u has already band news outlets r. t and sputnik, as well as approved excluding some russian banks from the swift international transaction system. the block is also considering restrictions on oil and gas imports, as ortiz shortly to pinsky reports. will these restrictions directly impact archie international and also our sister station, arty france, here in france? what it means is that our channels are no longer allowed to podcast. whether that

be on applications on a telephone via the internet, or even on television subscription services across the european union. those are new sanctions that have come into force on wednesday. now it comes as the e u says it has to stand in solidarity with ukraine as this war plays out. really able to the other 2 are very pretty, into the south of surgeons whist message constituencies for russia. but also to be honest, the through the ivr just for us, where the secretion of turn veterans is additional for democratic principles, the suppression of international law. well, the ear is using a special sanctions regime to bypass the ordinary media licenses that apply. so to give you an example, arty france or says the station was given a renewed license to boot cast in france, just back in 2020 a. but despite that, under the sanctions regime, that can be taken off immediately. now archie frances denounced the action as

saying that this is simply censorship. the decision to banner channel, which currently has $176.00 employees, including more than $100.00 journalists, 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 over 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 are thinking of is the freedom for themselves. now in a separate development today, european energy mean this is 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

t used here in the you 35 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 lee on 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 key, boeing and foot wool said that they have now suspended as their sales their transactions in the russian federation. and in another development. we know in tuesday that president zalinski ukraine once again calls on the european union to look at immediate ascension for his country to the block. as a result of thought, emmy peas on tuesday voted at to ask for you institutions to start looking at how this could happen. now, this is a non binding vote. it doesn't mean that ukraine is about to join european union. what he does signal though 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. and despite the use ban on rti and spruce, nick, some in the west were scrutinizing the decision even before it 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, the head of the united nation says the current situation and ukraine requires a much faster transition to a green economy, ditching fossil fuels, which she called a quote, dead end. as current events may call to clear or continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to your political shocks and crises. instead of flowing down to the car, what is ation of the global economy? now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to renewable energy, future fossil fuels at a dead ends for our planet, for

a minute. and yes, for economies. now to get more insight onto this, we're going to go live now to geopolitical analyst, reiner roth for us. thanks a lot for joining us. reiner, do you think europe is ready for a quicker energy transition or removing reliance on russian gas? well, after all, it's an issue of a physics and with renewable energy, you cannot really feed our industry, meet the demand of energy in all the factors we are depending on in our european economies. the bullet tile energy sources that we need, of course, the table and that she supplies and gas has been natural gas have been like the backbone for the planned energy transition because it can level out shortages in renewable energy. and at the instant which you cannot do with coal

supply with nuclear power supply, you need natural gas to level. busy out those volatile energy sources in the renewable field. so for me, it's the question of physics and not only of politics and ideology. what do you agree with the un secretary general statement that fossil fuels are a dead end for the economy? well, i think green ideology, if quite popular at the moment, but as i said before, you need to prove 1st how you can supply the energy for our industry, for society. and this is not something that the united nation can declare in their political statements. we need a stable energy provision systems. and so far, we don't see any perspective also here in germany for

a 100 percent transition to renewable energy. and therefore it would be very, very risky to talk further. countries into this path, which is quite cost intensive. it has been cut intended for germany, we pay the highest energy prices for electricity in the world. and other countries depend even much more on irrational, reliable, and also an economic energy provision than germany. we have wealth here in this country. our economy can afford all to, to invest in green energy project. but in the transition countries development countries, it's vitally important to rely further on also on fossil fuel energy. but what do you think about the timing of this report? do you think leaders, world leaders are just going to rush out to carrie is call?

well, i think, of course, different actors are using the development at the moment to both their own agenda. for example, the green party, he in germany, which forms part of the government now seems to be even happy to skip the notes room to project because they this pipeline project which is may logically of utmost interest and importance. but germany for the german industry, for the german gas consumer who has paid end of last year, almost double of the price he paid a year before. and the green party thinks in, in india, logical way, it says that natural gas produces c o 2. so it's bad and it needs to be skipped. but what is the alternative? i mean now they even start off thinking, going back to use the nuclear energy, which was in the particle totally, and the ology of the green party. so i think much of the debate now is overloaded

with ideology, and not really following the rational that the consumer of natural gas. and yeah, it's has to look for when it comes to costs and the rationale of the industry, which of course needs to be guaranteed that energy provision will always be stable . otherwise industry would desert a german market and invest somewhere else abroad. let's move on to other reactions from brussels to the ukraine conflict. i mean r t was banned from broadcasting in europe. how legal do you think this decision is? and is it compatible with principles of freedom of speech? it's not at all, and this is of course, a fat to see that obviously the european union has turned into a war logic on its behalf as well,

and is trying to curb free speech and center of programs stemming from russia. i think this is the last and most important resource or that i need to be able to receive information about an on call going conflict from both sides and then to make up their minds themselves. and this is really a great loss also for the european journalism real. i would say that the russian and tv programs of r t. s. a ne sputnik have been a sensor in europe. so i think this step need to be reviewed immediately and we need to get back to the negotiation table to find ways of dialogue. this is in the interest of russia and of the west. and we also, the europeans, will gain from such a move to a political analyst. ryan, a rough foss, thanks

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