a with creates a picture like in hollywood, there is an absolute evil and absolute good and absolute good is embodied in the character who is the screen right to this action. movie brushes, foreign minister warns that western media and politicians have taken a totally unbalanced approach to covering the prices and ukraine with de 8 of russia's military operation and ukraine. local to flee. the fighting at scores of homes are destroyed by shelley key city in the done yet people who are public is ukraine's latest organ. european union is preparing a 4th package of anti russian sanctions that could significantly hit the economy of the you with the west continues to push

a heavily roof of public narrative of french journalists steps forward. to note, the ukrainian government has actually been targeting civilians and don boss and said that all of those people are ukranian. it's not showing. it's also conducted by ukrainian definitely with watching r t international, special coverage of the war and ukraine. i'm your whole stomach quarter. welcome to the program which russian foreign minister survey lab rob has given an interview to r t and other international media outlets to address the current crisis in ukraine . he says, coverage of the conflict has been artificially scripted. this is gonna una ukraine has long been made, an anti russia springboard for undermining everything russian. i'm thinking about the diplomatic talents of the west. people have been dying by the thousands. none of the western media had the idea to go to the dumbass to see how people lives from

the ukrainian regime declared terrorists. although they did not attack anyone. the west creates a picture like in hollywood, there is absolute evil and absolute good. and absolute good is embodied in the character who is the screenwriter of this action movie. when moscow is trying to explain it's motivation and now or what is called a military operation against ukraine. it seems that the questions that follow from western media are, are completely ignorant of what russia has been saying all along. so to that, mr. lab rav replied that he believes that at the moment the west is listening. but it's not hearing russia. i'm good at what you allude. we're being told, don't worry, the exception of ukraine or any other country tonight. so won't be a threat to russia security. why on earth should the west define what russia requires? foreign security. they hear us that they're not listening and they're trying to

impose upon us their own understanding of how to continue living in europe. you. well, we do have to understand that it's not really being activated. it's something that they're calling here in russia to make it ready for some kind of potential response . and i guess response is the key word here. again, if we listen to what exactly as being said by the russian officials, this, according to the kremlin, is in reaction to the military build up of nato, its forces, its hardware on russia's doorstep. so it's not really something that could be interpreted, i guess, as russia banning the drums of nuclear war or something like that. and this is what sir elaborate has been explaining. it is up to the idea of nuclear war is constantly bouncing around in the heads of western politicians. not ours. i assure

you will not allow any provocations to throw us off balance. now just to follow up on what i've been saying a little earlier, the messages have been coming from moscow not only this time around, but in previous years, was about how the russian side is worried about the expansion of nato. eastwards. and also we heard from sergio la ra, that nato really needs to follow up on its own mission statement that it is a defensive alliance. and if it's about defense, the russian side, ben cannot understand why it keeps edging closer towards russia's borders. because i need to speak to show that it can dictate orders in europe. if the alliance with defensive then it would have to defend itself. but no one has attacked. it has been constantly expanding eastwards and each time union actually determining the so called lines of defense so that it has already come close to the board of the

russian veneration. i do quite a few things being said by foreign minister loud rob about nato, about the actions of western countries in the past. and during this conflict as well, that leads to consequences. but he also had a few things to say about the negotiations that are either about to start or that have just begun. the next round in bell rose between the delegations of russia and ukraine. according to certain law, robs kia, found a pretext which is unknown, to somehow change the time and at least try and change the location of these talks. according to the russian foreign minister. again, crane is completely not independent in this particular situation. like it's been since 2014 after it was what moscow keeps calling the military to in kiev

when president jacobi was austin. right now i just want to make sure that we understand that most these were the latest comments of surg labrons before the next round of negotiations between key of moscow and bella. ruth was very important right now is to hear from both sides when they come out of that negotiating. meanwhile, ukraine's delegation has arrived for a 2nd round of peace talks with russia. ortiz constantine ross called he is at the negotiation site for us. hey, there cost. yeah, what's the movie there at this point? hello don. well, the talks between russian and ukrainian delegations are set to start shortly. the helicopter is carrying the members of the cranium. delegation, landed and delivers. next to the border with poland. a few minutes ago. only a handful of media representatives including r t were allowed to film the delegations, and i guess now it's anybody's guess how long moscow and key will negotiate for

this time. the 1st round lasted 5 hours, with no immediate result. both sides have stayed quiet over what exact points are being discussed. although the head of the russian delegation of latimer medina ski said that a cease fire is on the table. he also said that russia has a military many, terry and, and political demands without getting into specifics. there has been a lot of conflicting information leading up to these talks. initially, there were supposed to take place yesterday when the russian delegation arrived. but then the timeline was moved back at ukraine's request. the negotiations were put off even further reported me because the ukrainian delegation wanted to rest in poland before going to valerie. then there were reports that you wanted to change the location, but this hasn't been confirmed anyway. officials in moscow seem to be disappointed by what the believe was a deliberate attempt to delay the meeting. the information that members of the ukrainian delegation board of the polish helicopter and headed towards valerie,

appeared several hours after the cranes present gave public contrasts. his statements were interpreted, vice, i'm suggesting his country has a strong position ahead of the talks and waters laskey for instance, said that $16000.00 former service members and mercenaries are headed towards the crane to fight russian troops. letterman put and also showed his determination to follow through on russia's military campaign and a phone call with the president of france. he said that moscow is gone, remain the same. the military is ation of ukraine and ukraine's atrocity while thanks a lot for that. our key is konstantin ross called with the details. now we're going to go live now to special gas survey are just needs their former director general of the united nations office in geneva. to me, let's get him on the screen there. hi there. sorry for watching you butchering your

name there, but let's, let's start with the, the 1st question we have, which is russia's foreign minister notes the fall out from nato's eastwards expansion. but could do you think a serious nato dialogue finally can happen given the ukraine crisis? well, to, to, to, to be so big i would say that there is no other possibility for the west to have a look reduction. because the after the ukraine go in, there are position, you know, again, political position will dramatically be changed. and russia will speak from the position of much more than before. what are your hopes for the 2nd round of piece talks?

what do you think is going to come out of them? well, i hope i like negotiations for the go spaces for report administer group and they said that they would be there is much better to have 10 years of negotiations. one dale war, but history group war is inevitable. whether you would like it to not work in, in this case was there was no way to warn civil publicly privately misstatements. you're going to have your grade. you

read the aggression against that. yes. can look out, will course, the russian response to predict russian population and we cannot tolerate such an enemy on board will will be used as a n d b as a, as a tool to, to get a semester done in the political unique. i'm going to in whatever one other thing the russian foreign minister said was that ukraine has long been made to or turned into an ante, russia direction. he also said the west has been creating something akin to a hollywood picture. do you think that that's true? of course it's true because you know, each minute they complain all this is all this

is for pulled up by the rep. again, they can take annual or they can work, let's say in this century, due to interest in this kind of information convey and again the complaint for the sake of especially for the sake of getting those leverage over the. busy ringback beach but up against the weight is of course is important, but it could not substitute favorable, indigo. and i hope that diplomatic efforts will liver and should never

be substituted by some kind of propaganda. we are seeing some appalling attacks on russian people and institutions abroad that have absolutely nothing to do with political decision making. what's your reaction of that? i think those decks russian citizens, russians rations in god's shirt. they say one, the people and the, and the only people you have to be together. you have to be because there is a judge run against because you know, i think it's a very stupid because because whatever,

which is not it is the ideal such a complaint is to have a kind of diverse the end of the day worship in this is say, do let's say to influence the public opinion of this is say, but what is going exec? exec, opposite the sex, for example, as a think i got a she decided to president will be taken away. it's such a stupid, stupid thing. but, you know, act against famous russian conduct, we get to get like famous lessons and

they, they show that there is no limit the other side. we don't to hire russia and russian people while sergei argent kids, a former director general of the united nations office in geneva. thanks a lot for giving us your input on that. think it is day 8 of russia's military operation in ukraine, with many civilians fleeing the fighting and others trying to escape the rebel. that once was their homes. this map shows what's been happening with the red dots highlighting the major cities were fighting is being reported. the russian defense ministry says the grand people's militia has advanced 75 kilometers against the ukrainian army. and yet the people's republic has reportedly advanced, 58 kilometers since russia entered the conflict last week. now a warning we are about to show some images that you may find disturbing. received some footage of the destruction in the city of garden,

of the don boss region where heavy showing has been reported. the city mayor published this video of a home, guarded by the fighting as emergency services tried to restore basic utilities like water and electricity. another warning these following images are also quite disturbing. this is a video that shows the bodies of killed ukrainian soldiers and burnt military equipment done yet the people's republic forces entered the settlement and are now trying to clean up the area. local, have taken shelter and basements as well. we received this footage from 2 villages and the guns people's republic whose forces say they've taken control of a ukrainian army stronghold and a vehicle checkpoint. authorities add that more than 40 towns and villages, and the don boss have now been liberated. this video was filmed in ukraine, 2nd largest city of cargo, showing that intense shelling has been lighting up the night sky. the o. s. c e, which was monitoring the conflict,

said one of its members were killed in the city this week. neither russia nor ukraine has yet commented on this in the city streets and ukraine have descended into chaos as the government is said to be handing out firearms to civilians and released prisoners of bennett's residence, stuck in the ukrainian city of kirk of says he fears for his life is pulling up everywhere. here. there is darkness, like in the films of world war 2. it is dark in the street because the lights are turned off everywhere, including the residential buildings. i experienced the same in 2014, 2015 and 2016 because i am from mckay of car and don bus. the ukranian nationalists came to us brother against brother. and now they are saying outragious stuff in the media. the putin is hitler, for example, is not, is not from they are trying to rewrite history, to be honest,

i've been waiting for this moment for the past 8 years, but not at such a price. on the other hand, there is a proverb, a wedge has kicked out with a wedge. and so sooner or later this was going to happen, especially because so many people have died in the next gulf and lu, hands during this time. there is looting here. ukrainians of robbing stores was it was expected, they will give them weapons. and now the other hating is if everything is permitted . but if you challenge them, you just get a bullet and they say russian that it, i haven't eaten anything for 2 days because i can't buy anything. we have a curfew overnight from 4 pm to 6 am. if i go, i could be a catastrophe for me because i have ukrainian passport. but the next people's republic registration. this is a terrible situation here in hong kong. i don't know when and how it will end, but i would like that to be peace and justice for those who died in 2014 to prevail . and this footage, you can see a small village,

devastated on the outskirts of the ukrainian of ukraine's capital resident say, a bomb destroyed several homes on was wednesday morning. ukrainian side has reported that 2 people have been killed and 12 injured in the village over the past week. and these are russian armed units advancing and the key of region with buildings and infrastructure burned and damaged. following intense shelly ukraine's president says that more than 6000 russian soldiers have been killed or wounded. over the past week. moscow has denied the claim, but says it has inflicted heavy casualties among the ukrainian military waters. lensky added, that key needs security guarantees from the west if it's not allowed to join nato. and it also insists that ukrainians have rallied since the start of russia. special operation. thing to move, which is that get on or see if we could go for am. russia invaded the territory of independent country of ukraine. this is an act of aggression, megalomania, persecution, rockets, artillery tank, and other armored vehicles coming like

a swarm of locusts. first hours and days of a full scale war were really difficult, but we, we united, which means we were strong and thus we survived. and so it will continue, we will stand, he'd stay. a french journalist has been criticized for saying that don bos residence are being targeted by the ukranian government. she's been filming in the war torn region since 2015 and told about her experience on era. the anchor was quite skeptical about what she said. sir continued about dead and wounded. i filled them every day. i take photos every day, save us proof. i cannot have any political message to compress, but just so you know, this conflict has been widely discussed for a week, but it has lost it already a tears and caused the death of 13000 people. people are devastated. all of them are ukrainians, and they're extremely surprised that europe is now aware of the situation. all of this is selling, hiding and living in basement heavy artillery everywhere. i was filming this back

in 2015, but i repeat this has been going on since 2014, 20. i'm sorry to interrupt. not all of us know about the situation as much as you do that since you've been following it for so many years. something you said, surprise him. he said that all those people are ukrainian people about the showing is also conducted by ukrainians. definitely. this is something really important and somehow it's being ignored. presidents of the don't best begin to be targeted by their own government in 2014 russian speaking citizens fell victim to shelling by key or governmental. it's true, i have proof. i can show it as soon as i go back to france. i have a whole documentary. it's undeniable. it's only a showing has been carried out by russians where ukrainians, the craniums are sharing where i am now. the ukranian government bombed it said, since children had to live in basement for months. the film that i made in 2015 has proof of these crimes against humanity. i take responsibility for my words,

an edge to watch it. the other day i was at the school, 2 teachers were hit by explosion. they're both these were caught in applauded this photo facebook i met elderly women could not leave this area. civilians are falling victim to heavy artillery. rocket launches. i'm not very good with weapon, but i can confirm that here in the don't best in the russian speaking part, residential areas are still being show today. yesterday the net square. and you think these bombings are being conducted by the central ukranian authorities. so yes. meanwhile, that you've been preparing a 4th round of sanctions against moscow over the ukrainian crisis, as announced by austria as foreign minister. that's despite some leaders, including the french president, admitting that these restrictions already imposed on russia will backfire with more on that. here's ortiz, charlotte have been sky president, mac horn of france warned a very difficult days ahead. and he said the whole of europe would be impacted now

in that address, which was made on wednesday evening. here in france, he put the blame for the war in ukraine solely on president putin of russia. and he said the pretext that president putin had outlined for that war was false. now he saluted what he said was the ukrainians, who were fighting for their country. and he said that there would be a plan developed to try and mitigate the impact of the sanctions he in europe. and he said that they would be a knock on effect. and that would include price rises for every day products such as buying fuel or even foods. let's have a listen to what else president icon had to say. no low de, sick, too many economic sectors are suffering and will suffer either because they depend on imports of raw materials from russia and ukraine or because they export to these countries. our growth, which is currently at its peak, will inevitably be affected. the increase in the price of oil gas and raw materials

has and will have an impact on our purchasing power. so i have asked the prime minister to drop in economic and social resilience plan in the coming days to address all these difficulties on his own. president mike on also address the record g crisis at the moment saying that france was ready to open its arms, its hands to those who are fleeing the war in the country at the moment. just to give you a sense of the scale of that, at least here in europe, at the u. n says around 1000000 refugees have had to flee ukraine. it's describe this as being an exodus. and his call for the guns to be put down for the war to stop if only for humanitarian assistance to be able to get in to the country to help millions and millions of others at. meanwhile, companies here in the you are offering free flights and free train to those are from ukraine who had to flee their country in order to help them get to destinations elsewhere in europe. we have also heard over the last few days of

other european politicians, also warning about how those sanctions against russia will come to bite here in europe to and as airlines are facing restrictions with them not being able to fly into russia and russia having band some airlines from the you coming back into the u. this is this tit for tat over who can fly in which air space at some airline see that they are already feeling the pinch of this bypassing, the russian air space lengthened flight times to asia considerably. and thus, the operation of most of our passenger and cargo flights to asia is not economically sustainable or competitive. there's also the fall out of course of those individuals who are listed on the sanctions list just for example, in the u. k. or roman of brom, of it. she has been the owner of chelsea football club i. he's normally arc, he says he's now selling the club and there are reports that he's trying to offload

at several of his multi 1000000 pound properties in london as a result of at what's happening at the moment. in germany, our reports that as a super york over a russian billionaire has been seized, that cb ot said to be worth over 600000000 euros. and there is also been ultra backlash. so at least postpone a course on dostoevsky. the russian writer at saying that with these tense times that you know, they could be strong, internal and disagreements and tensions. as a result of that. however, there was a backlash to that decision, including from the italian ex prime minister, mateo renzi, who described that decision is insane. and as a result of that, just a ascii is back on the menu leading, multinational corporations, or quitting russia or suspending their activities over the conflict in ukraine.

apple was among the 1st corporations to announce its departure from the russian market, and the airline industry is being hit as well. with the likes of boeing, an air bus halting supplies of aircraft parts. major european carmakers have also stopped exports the country. but to get more on this, now we're going to go live to benjamin. charlie is a professor at the power school of technology and also a business professor and china's southwestern unit at univers china, southwestern university of finance, and economics. thanks lot for joining us, benjamin. the 1st question i have is about the potential for blow back from these sanctions. do you think the west has underestimate how underestimated how much these sanctions could hurt their own populations? oh yeah, because this war it's quite unexpected from the web. so do current response from the west might be overshooting a little bit beyond one's imagination, especially the thing if they think about it, the russia,

you said vitally important supply of oil, natural gas and metals. you're right now we live on russia for nearly 40 percent options. natural gas and 25 percent of august oil. and a lot of calculation has estimated that a 10 percent gets rationing. sha could treat the euro area g, d p by a point 7 percent and a $10.00 per barrel increase in the price of oil could race us inflation by $20.00 basis points. and also it would drop the u. s. g d p by a slightly under 10 basis points. well as a result of the sanctions, what parts of the economy do you think are going to see deeper the most deeper cooperation between russia and china now? well, china has a few deals with russia in the last 30 days

to deal with it's it's liam of the gas and oil is almost equivalent to that was supposed to be sent to the west. so that's one thing. and, and perhaps an expected consequence of all this session is that the simple, simple logic will tell us that the russian will be trading with china more using your maybe more. and in fact, we have a question 7 bang spin kit, all this week. system. russia is relying more on the china so, so to my system course, the i p s, and also do the counterpart in russia, and that would, in the long run could severely challenge the status of the us dollars.

what do you think about the potential of russia and china creating a wider economic block, perhaps even resembling the you, with like customs, free trade and so on. china is certainly moving towards the direction of free trade, not just with russia, but also we have other countries as well right now in the china together with india and also u e r. the 3 major countries to abstain from the un sanctions. again, again, again, worship. so i think that these countries and to go to get to, we have several dozen countries with no sense in russia. we continue to trade with china, russian, and you know, your euro. we will also continue to trade with brush up.