ah, ah, the long awaited and delayed 2nd round of peace talks between russia and ukraine start in ballard. we will go live to the negotiation sight which creates a picture like in hollywood is, will, don't leave, will not be a good it embody and in the character who is a screen right to them. this infection movie brushes, foreign minister warns that western media and politicians have totally taken an unbalanced approach to covering the crisis of ukraine. ah, the european union is preparing a 4th package of anti russian sanctions that could furiously back fire onto europe's own cotton. while the west continues to push a heavily russo phobic narrative, a french journalist, step forward to note ukrainian government has actually been targeting civilians in

the don boss over the past 8 years. we said that all those people are, you're crazy about it was showing is also conducted by ukrainian. yeah, definitely. with your watching are to international special coverage of the war and ukraine. i'm your host donald quarter now. the russian and ukrainian dela delegations have sat down for a 2nd round of peace talks and bell roofs. we're going to go live now to ortiz constantine rush, cough who's at the negotiation site for us, either cost just so what's the mood there at this point? hello don. well, we're not at the side yet, but we're moving towards towards this place by di, you're right. the talks between russian and ukrainian delegation has just begun how

the helicopter is carrying the members of the cranium. delegation landed in bolivar is next to the border with poland. less than an hour ago. the meeting is going to be held behind closed doors. only a handful of media representatives, including our ortiz camera, were allowed inside to film the 2 delegations as they walked into the room for the talks. and we already seen the footage of the 2 sides shaking their hands. anybody's gas actually, how long moscow and key foil negotiate for this time. the 1st round of talks lasted around 5 hours, with no immediate result. both sides have state wide over what exact points are being discussed. although the head of the russian delegation, bladder remedy and ski said that a cease fire is on the table. he also said that russia has military, military and political demands without getting into specifics. there has been a lot of conflicting information leading up to these talks. initially, they were supposed to take place yesterday when the russian delegation arrived. but

then the timeline was move back at ukraine's required to go to asians, where i put off they've been further reported me because the korean delegation wanted to rest in poland before go into bella luce. anyway, officials in moscow seems to be disappointed by what they believe was a deliberate attempt to delay the meeting. the information that members of the cranium delegation boarded a polish helicopter and headed towards valerie, appeared several hours after ukraine's president gave a public address. his statements were interpreted by some as suggesting he's country has a strong position ahead of the talks ladders. laskey said that $16000.00 and former service members at mercy mercenaries, or headed towards ukraine to fight russian troops better repute, and also showed his determination to follow through on russia's military campaign. in a phone call with the president of france, he said that moscow's goal remain the same. the military's age, the military's ation of ukraine and ukraine's neutrality as well as archie is

constantine roscoe. there, thanks a lot. now the former director general of the united nations office in geneva told us that the current situation was provoked, making it practically inevitable as the oldest. ringback like negotiations for the go spaces for report administer group made that much better to have 10 years of negotiations. one day of work. but history group is inevitable, whether you would like it or not. but we're in, in this case, was, there was no way actually war several the publicly privately misstatements. then

you're going to have your grade. you believe the aggression against that then? yes. can look, ask will course the russian response to protect russian population. and we cannot tolerate such an enemy more than the rule book will be used as a entity as a semester done in the politic and they're going to in whatever russian foreign minister survey live raw has given an interview to r t and other international media outlets. to address the current crisis and ukraine, he says, coverage of the conflicts has been artificially scripted. the look of human ukraine has long been made, an anti russia springboard for undermining every other notion. thinking about the diplomatic hollands of the way people have been dying by the 1000,

which none of the west media had the idea to go to the see how people live in the ukrainian regime. which terrorist attacked anyone? the west creates a picture like in hollywood, the evil goodman and absolute good. it embodied in the character who is the screenwriter action movie. when moscow is trying to explain its motivation and what is called a military operation against ukraine. it seems that the questions that follow from western media are completely ignorant of what russia has been saying all along. so to that, mr. lab, rob replied that he believes that at the moment the west is listening. but it's not hearing russia. i'm going to lose will being told, don't worry, the expression of ukraine or any other country. taneesha won't be afraid to rush just security. why should the weather define what russia requires for security?

they hear of, they're not listening and they're trying to impose upon of their own understanding of how to continue even in years as 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 the 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 can be interpreted, i guess, as russia calling the drums of nuclear war, something like that. and this is what surg. elaborate has been explaining that ability is up at mislead you. the idea of nuclear war is constantly bouncing around

in the heads of ours. i assure you will not allow any provocation throw us off. now, just to follow up on what i've been saying a little earlier, the messages been 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, sorry de 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 borders because i need to speak to show that it can hold as you see a line. so we have to defend itself, and there's no one has attacked in those needs,

has been constantly expanding eastward each time union actually determining the so called lines of defend. it has already come close to the board. russia ration was away quite a few things being said by foreign minister wild 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 ballroom, between the delegations of russia and ukraine. according to survey, live 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

2014 after it was what moscow will keep calling the military to in kiev when president jacobi was asked right now. i just wanna make sure that we understand that most of these were the latest comments of survey lab roles 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 negotiated level and stay 8 of russians, 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 where the fighting is being reported. versus defense ministry says the guns people's militia has advanced 75 kilometers against the ukranian army and the done. yet people's militia has reportedly advanced 58 kilometers since russia entered the conflict last week. now we're about to show you some footage we received of the destruction in the city of

gordon. in 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. try to restore basic utilities like water and electricity. a warning you may find some of the following image is also disturbing. this is a video showing the bodies of killed ukrainian soldiers and burnt military equipment. don, yet the people's republic forces entered the settlement and are now trying to clean up the area vocals have taken shelter in basins as well. now we've received this footage from 2 villages and the look on the 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 liberal for. meanwhile, foreign fighters have just arrived in ukraine to join the conflict against russia. ukraine's president expects 16000 combatants from the likes of poland, lat,

via denmark, croatia, and the united kingdom. he says the new arrivals will fight for freedom, but russia's defense ministry issued the following warning paper for a locally listed on me for missouri's, coming to ukraine command on december saw john raids on russian equipment chromeboys as well as the a club cover. why should they stay else of ukrainians? special studies propaganda video film by welding, claim on local residents. i want to officially emphasize that all mercenary sent by the west to help the key of national regime a not competence, according to international humanitarian law. they do not have prisoner of war rights. the best thing that awaits foreign mercenaries in detention is criminal prosecution. we urge citizens of foreign countries planning to go fight for the key of national regime to think 7 times before traveling more or less on the claim number for this video was filmed and ukraine's 2nd largest city of harko, showing that intense shelling has been lighting up the night sky o s c e, which was monitoring the conflict,

said one of its members was killed in the city this week. either russia nor ukraine has yet commented on the inside. city streets and ukraine have descended into chaos as the government is said to be handing out firearms to civilians and released prisoners alike. daniel resident stuck in the ukrainian city of kirk of says he fears for his life. pullman rope everywhere. here. there is darkness, like in the films of world war to own. it is still in the street and the lights are turned off everywhere. including in the residential building. i experienced the same in 2014, 2015 and 2016. because i am from mckay of car is done by the ukranian nationalists came to us brother against brother. and now they are saying outragious stuff in the media. the futon is hitler for example is not is known from this trying to rewrite history. wanted me 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 wed kicked down with a wedge. sooner or later this is going to happen when you are, especially because so many people have died and then he's got some new hands during this time. there is leading here ukrainians, a roving stone was it was expected, they would give them weapons and now they behaving as if everything is committed. but if you challenge them, you just get a bullet and they say russian, and 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 because i've 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 . in this footage, you can see a small village devastated on the outskirts of ukraine. capital resident say,

a bomb destroyed several homes on wednesday morning. the ukrainian side has reported that 2 people have been killed and 12 injured in the village on the past week. these are russian armed units advancing and the key of region with buildings and infrastructure burned and damaged, following intense shelly cranes press and says that more than 6000 russian soldiers have been killed or wounded over the past week. moscow has denied that claim, but says it has inflicted heavy casualties among the ukrainian military law to me as lensky out of the key of need security guarantees from the west. if it's not allowed to join nato and insists that ukrainians have rallied since the start of russia, special operation didn't know what she did or is he thought we could go for him. russia invaded territory of independent country over crane acts of aggression, megalomania, persecution, rockets out hillary tank and other omen vehicles coming like

a swarm of locust. first hours and days of a full scale will will really difficult, but we will united, which means we will strong and thus we provide. and so it will continue. we will stand, he explained. a french journalist has been criticized for saying that don bos residents are being targeted by the ukranian government. she's been filming, and the war torn region since 2015. and she told her, she told the world about her experience on air. the anchor was quite skeptical about what she said. sir, continued dead and dead, i filled them every day. i take photos every day, save us proof. i cannot have any political message press. so you know, the conflict has been widely discussed. but he has lost that already have caused the death of 13000 people who people are devastating, all of them i ukrainians. and you know, they're extremely, europe is now aware the situation that he's selling high living in basement heavy artillery everywhere. i was filming this back in 2015 for me. and i repeat,

this has been going on since 24 to one on the, on the, on the bars. and not all of us know about the situation as much as you do that since you've been following so many years since, because you said that all those people praying that people about showing it also conducted by cranium. definitely. this is something really important and somehow it's being ignored. so they don't buy their own government in 2014, russian speaking fell victim to shelly government. it's true. i have proof, i can show it as soon as i go back brands i have a whole documentary involved is undeniable. so lisa was showing is being carried out my russian ukrainians. you put the crane into our sharing where i am now. the cranium, government bombed it, fits since children had to live and based on the film that i made in 2015 as proof of crimes against humanity. take responsibility for my word, an edge to watch it. the other day i was a school teacher to a hit,

but explosion. did this elderly women could not needs a hairy apple. civilians are falling victim to heavy artillery rocket launcher. i'm not very good with weapon, but i can confirm that here and don't best in the russian speaking part, residential areas are still being show today. the net square. and you think the bombings are being conducted by the central training authorities? yes. meanwhile, the e u has been preparing the 4th set of sanctions against moscow over the ukraine crisis, as announced by austria as foreign minister, as despite some leaders, including the french president, admitting that the restrictions already imposed on russia would backfire with more on that. here's our t charlotte ben, 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 warn 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. he said that they would be and knock on effect, and that would include price rises, but every day, products such as buying few or even foods. let's have a listen to what else president icon had to say. you'd have from fl, normally to 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 are grove, 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. small i have asked the prime

minister to drop an economic and social resilience plan in the coming days to address all these difficulties. gladys on president michael also addressed the wreckage in 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 from ukraine who have 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 banned 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 airlines see that they are already feeling the pinch of this bypassing, the russian air space lengthens 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. a roman abramoff which she has been the owner of chelsea football club and 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. one university in milan attempted to try and ban, of course, or at least postpone a course on dostoevsky. the russian writer saying that with these tense times that you know they could be strong, internal 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. washington's tightening, the screw on india after russia asserted delivery of 5 as 400 missile systems to new delhi is likely to go through. it's despite the choice in ukraine, and of course the white house says it's now mulling weather to sanction india and warned it against buying any major weapon systems from moscow for years to come.

now to get more insight on this, we're going to go live to deli base journalist and political commentator, who like and p thanks a lot for joining us again, like, a 1st question has to do with india. do you think india is going to cave to u. s. pressure to stop all big military deals with the kremlin is not a rock fashion state of the united states recon hamper the confluence of interest, you know, including strategic interest. but we cannot have that between the end, the u. s. and alignment 9 when the sense of india trying to align it's in just because of the u. s. that is suggesting that india do so, use an encroachment on to the sovereignty of this country. and it also proves and the general assumption we have a for trees that want to be friends with the united states that united states wants

. that uni apartment is not equal partners, but that's not going to work with. i think if it's going to push too hard, it's not going to be just jazz loss, but also that of the united states. because india isn't trained to region that share a lot of questions, interest with the united states. well, with tensions, obviously very high between the, the west and russia. how long do you think india can maintain neutral, neutral relations between them didn't yeah. in the 1st place or not, because this is up to you, but i must say that i russia has never been out for the friendly does been an all weather friend bend in disputable it, and it cannot be conducted by everyone a, anyone who tries to come to us would be completely wrong. so in that sense,

that is a special relationship between russia, india, and indian made it ready category. category really clear. why does that? what does john white abstain in the, what are the resolution that was war against russia. 5 india is more interested in its own f, as it's interested in their friends of other people. what is other people's problem is, what is other people's problems and things that it has to focus more on its problems well balanced has indian media coverage been of the conflict? do you think? i think it was mixed because i didn't get that needs to have it to have easy access to western propaganda. backed up must have had

a lot of a read it now, but all were on the government position. remain the same. and the debate whether what i did was right or not, continues to have some kind of an influence, you know, in india as well. but it does not want to the extent of one sided propaganda. what do you think the war in ukraine might have some sort of a knock off, knock on effect in terms of the struggles that india has been having on the border with pakistan and china? i don't think so because i each govern figure territory has its own set of problems. now,

if you look at the problem that russia has with jamie entirely different from what india has with china, our son, this is come, you know, because of 5 need those extreme regulation starting from 2008. and it precipitated a lot of prices in that 2014. and then, now we have seen the nato continuing to be tre, russia on it earlier, commitments that our school and as early 99, he's not to i, you know, the whole, you know, in the word of the policy was that there was a lot to capitulation on the part of need to and it was a 3 problem strategy of the united states to turn a ukraine in, into

a country that share all of it interest and also on the part of the, you know, make you create in closer to it. so certainly interest and same with it or so it was a 3 pronged strategy that was at work and there were several warnings. and anyway, i wonder what that is. it's not something that india is excessively concerned about because it has its own set of problems to worry about. and so should the united states, which is facing its own existence, your prices, which it has been denied. that was all. i can p deli based journalists to and political commentator, thanks a lot for joining us on the program and sharing your input well, stick around for more updates on the conflict and ukraine because we're going to be continuing our special coverage in just about 30 minutes.

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they've had to watch as the war creeps ever closer to their homes. street, georgia, correct. train you've been us is to run. you don't look, i'm more than you that us lead out to the dodgy george. so went on with deal with bizarre gaze up. i sat down marie, just a little bit left. am i going you fucker say any with difficulties out with a lot of issues with that was a little less name. yes it with you. if you go with always really well, thank you. so over this over to me. uh huh.