for join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, a fire at europe largest nuclear power plant in ukraine has been fully extinguished with no casualties and radiation levels said to be normal. ukraine claims that month was hit by russian time. go ahead in the program, owns are caught in the crossfire in the loop, ganske and done yet republic following a battle between ukrainian military and local militia forces. well, 2nd round of peace talks ended in ballard, was both moscow and kiev agreed to the setting up of humana, cherry and car doors for a vacuum ease of the possible temporary cease fire to allow the citizens to leave on. while the west continues with its indignation towards russia's actions,

a french journalist is covered the conflict and eastern ukraine for years. claims the ukrainian government has been targeting the dns. there. isn't that all those people are you crazy showing. it's also conducted by ukrainian definitely with for all moscow to the world. this is art a pleasure to have you with this on this the 1st friday of march, my names you to know neil. heavy fighting continues as it rushes military offensive in ukraine enters it's 9th day with europe's largest nuclear power plant reported to help become a battle ground security camera footage circulating in the media showed smoke rising from the suppose year nuclear plants with management at the site saying it

was caused by a fire out on administrative building ortiz from on call. sir, i have join me earlier to shed more lights on the incidence. raymond were talking about europe's biggest nuclear plants. so obviously concerns take us through what is reported to have happen. well, it's probably safe to say at this point, according to a local officials that there is no disaster to speak of right now. but so we were getting an alarming reports earlier in the day. that's a flyer, didn't the break out in this largest nuclear facility in the city of ukraine, and now there were reports that russian troops to control office surrounding areas near that nuclear power plant. however, the facilities management from the get go there. we're saying that nuclear power plant is a fully operational and now we are getting reports that the flyer has been completely

extinguished than the fire took place actually at a training facility on its territory. so the fire at this moment is completely extinguished, and we were getting reports that it was a shelf, however, that's unconfirmed. so we requested a comment from russia's defense ministry and the waiting on that right now. but as you say, the nearby region is contested. any continuing security concerns there for the plan trauma? well, at the moment, there are no security concerns according to local officials. once again, that radiation levels are completely normal. one of the power units at the plan was shut down as a precautionary measure. none of the crucial infrastructure was affected at all, and according to the international atomic agency on the world watchdog, if you will, they contacted their ukrainian colleagues who said that the fire hasn't affected

absolutely any of the essential infrastructure. this of listen. ukraine regulator tells international atomic energy agency. there has been no change reported in radiation levels, episode or asia nuclear power plant site. ukraine tells international atomic energy agency that fire at sight of his opp or asia nuclear power plant has not affected essential equipment, plant personnel taking, mitigate, or reactions. of course. so the reports about 5 a fire, the nuclear power plants were very alarming to the rest of the world. of course, everybody remembers chernobyl. and of course everybody drew parallels with that. so once the report about the fire began as surfacing on this friday morning, i prompted all kinds of bullets to politicians to spread panic without really delving into what actually happened and what, what's actually going on there. now we have a u. s. u k. they even cold for an urgent security council meeting on this

incidence. and that despite all the reports from the ukraine's emergencies ministry that they have everything under control. and there is no threat of a nuclear kind of consolidation. of course, ukraine's the president's that of letters. lensky was a 1st with an anxious message to the world. this have a listen sheets we believe to come. we're getting that said be a nazi. i'm new book you. yes, i would have, we will say, can may seem unit you will, can say of why i sent you. probably, you know, i need you. roby wasn't simply mean risky. sca well once again, locals report that the fire had been extinguished, no casualties, and no threat for man culture as well. in the western ukrainian city of laval, volunteers have been building a bomb shelter in one of its parks. it's designed to hold on 100 people. one of the

workers explained what he was do. we are all in here and here, and we help in to clean about bomb shelter because the leap is still not in danger, but we have to be prepared for russian invasion, iverson change in one all or so. mom explosion and i live in santa, i live in peaceful district of a c t and it was immediately i understood that the order started, the injury is different. moreover, in the polar city of the mosque, a school has also been turned into a refugee shelter as headmaster seats. it will be able to take more than 20 refugees. you pay for more personal hygiene products. ne long life, food bandages and blankets to be sent. that says more and more refugees are arriving into this city which lies near the ukrainian border. while

249 civilians, something killed, and 553 wounded in the 1st week of russia's offensive against ukraine. those figures from the un human rights office. most of the council teams were caused by missiles or a strike shelling and other explosive impacts. after 8 days of fighting around $1000000.00 residents, subnet fled ukraine to bring countries. ukraine's president has again requested not a no fly zone, be set up over ukraine, or more fighter jets be delivered. he also made a personal, please vladimir putin while claiming he didn't understand the security guard in tease moscow seeking ukraine to give guarantee. a storm of not me when you are not near stillia, those guys come with us. the dive younger my name was sad some more by godaddy. she went to my ears and on the other side of the conflict in the loo,

gowns con dynette peoples. republics, residents continue to endure intense puzzles between the ukrainian military and local militia forces. we have received footage of some of the damage in the loft in the don boss region where shelling was reported. the city's mer published this video of a home hit during the fighting emergency services, helping, trying to restore the basic utilities like water and electricity. we also got some video from 2 villages in the loot gowns for public who's forces say they've taken control of ukrainian army struggle on a vehicle check one local authorities, same ukrainian soldiers have not been forced out of more than 40 towns and villages in the maria phenomena file this report from one of the we're now driving closer to the frontline to the area is that the army here calls liberated areas and it's completely different picture here we just left legans. we arrived in

the town of nova, i dar about a 100 kilometers north of logan's, just day off to the russian army. took it under their control. you can see doesn't look like there was any fighting here and we were told that's because the ukrainian army was not to actually resisting. they were abandoning their positions, living behind weaponry vehicles, armored vehicles, and actually everything looks absolutely peaceful. yellow and blue ukrainian flags us tail everywhere here for a tiers since key of launched its counter terrorism operation against wordsworth. then ukraine's east and most regions of the nearest and logans. these town, as well as by the way, all the towns and villages in the area has been living under ukrainian rule. and we heard from locals. what was that like? see this one is cross. that means the run you rouelis here will go to his appointment. well, of course,

at 1st it was hard when you crane came and then every one just got used to it. fighting is hard and the attitude. we've never been loved here cuz it was nice to pin road him if you know at 1st one of my grandchildren who was 2 years old, kept saying grandma there booming. i'm scared. well, i come him down. every one is scared. it's very difficult time. we're worried about people on that site and the other side, and also worried for you were told that this is where her ukraine's security service headquarters were in this town. here's the ukrainian flag. as you can see, we're going to go check. they say it's in the basement. things are scattered all over the place and clear people were live in this place. in a hurry. this is where the office of the head of this little region used to be. locals used to call this building a white house, and there are signs here in ukraine,

and he says, attention attention, attention. it's about evacuation of local residents. if you want to leave this place, they say there are buses leaving from central square every day at noon. yeah, and you could then you for you, why would i leave my beloved? is it the cemetery here we help peaceful come here because say that live, he's slowly coming back to this town. but the military vehicles are the only will i've seen in this town. there are different forces fighting here on one side. this is the army of the republic of logan's. they are now going to the front line to rejoin with the russian army. these forces were advancing from different directions. now when they meet, we can shakes pat on the back. they will continue together. murray from ocean r r t from the elegans quit public. and amid the fierce fighting taking place in

ukraine, we got an exclusive interview from a ukrainian soldier, and the tension had been captured by russian troops. it is possible he was speaking under duress. the soldier was injured in the facilities on his now in hospital. this is his account of what happened the board. yeah. actually, i mean, it was it was the way, but when we put those stuff, we don't show up much he get physical polish. it just it was this, i mean law, moscow say ukraine is deliberately putting its civilian population at risk by using

them as human shields. president clinton made the claim at his security conference, not only fish he in your not to give nationalists and neo nazi groups with foreign mercenaries and their ranks also including those coming from the middle east. you citizens as human shields. i've already told you that there is solid evidence. there are image is clearly showing them deploy military hardware in residential district, kilometers. all of a 2nd round of piece talks wrapped up yesterday, thursday in dollars with both sides, agreeing to set up humanitarian corridors for civilians. with more on the wall, it means the ramifications here. chartina constantine rush comes as well. it's pretty significant. these humanitarian corridors are especially needed in urban areas affected by heavy fighting stuff that the people there who stranded their can have a safe way to leave. both sides also agreed to deliver food in medicine to these

areas, as well as to impose limited and temporary c fires. they would only be maintained during the time when people are evacuated. they had the russian delegation, letterman in ski, urged how many cranes do actively use these passages, or he added to do something that the fighting isn't necessary for any presidential aid me here. who was also present at the meeting, welcomed the 2 sides, agreeing on humanitarian corridors. however, he said that key of hasn't achieved the goals. it's saw it leading up to this meeting. that means that the fighting in ukraine will continue. however, now there is a way for civilians to escape earlier. moscow accused of using civilians as human shields by placing hardware, military hardware in residential areas next to schools and hospitals. it's also worth noting that the 2 sides shook hands before the meeting. the head of the russian delegation, bladder remedy, and ski was the 1st to reach out his hand. there's going to be

a 3rd round of talks where the 2 sides will meet up again to firm up these agreements as well as to put them on paper. now i want to bring you this, we also got to take up the former director general of the united nations office in geneva on the conflict thing. ukraine as the oldest, like negotiations for the go spaces like for report administer group made that much better to have 10 years of negotiations. one 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 times

the publicly, privately dawkins misstatements. you're going to have your grade. you read the aggression against that. yes. can look, ask lou course the russian response to the russian population. and we cannot tolerate such an enemy board the will will be used as a entity as a semester, down in the politic and they're going to in whatever a french journalists has been criticized for, claiming locals in the dumbass region are being targeted by the ukrainian government and laura ben has been filming in the war torn eastern ukraine areas since 2015 and spoke about her experience on air in france. second,

you are dead and wounded. i filmed them every day. i take photos every day, save us proof. i do not 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 ukranian and they're extremely surprised that europe is now aware of the situation. all of the shelling, hiding and living, and basement heavy artillery everywhere. i was filming this back in 2015. but i repeat, this has been going on since 2014, on the, on the computer. sorry to interrupt. not all of us know about the situation as much as you do that since you've been following for so many years. something you said, surprise him. he said that all those people are ukrainian and 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 of 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. so today the showing is being carried out by russians where ukrainians, the craniums are shining, where i am now. the ukrainian government bombed it said, since children had to live in basements 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 to come into play. did this photo facebook. i met elderly women who 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, report say the french president, among the will mac kron was left for straits it following a phone call with lot of we are putting over rushes, actions in ukraine. according to the kremlin, the russian leader rejected the majority of crowns, arguments during a 90 minute conversation. charlotte davinsky can tell us more the worst is yet to come. a very stark assessment by frances president on the situation in ukraine. now that followed yet another long phone call with his counterpart president putin, of the russian federation with an aide to mack on saying that apparently the french leader believes that putin is intent on seizing the whole of the country of ukraine . now, a french official also suggested that preaching told me that the war in ukraine was going to plan. but macklin was pretty blunt. when he told him that he was making

a major mistake saying you all lying to yourself. it's understood that preaching continued to assert that russia is trying to demilitarize and to de not sci fi ukraine, but president michael was holding back very bluntly saying that ukraine wasn't a nazi regime. microns own assessment of the cool was pretty pessimistic. according to this tweet, i spoke to president putin this morning. he refuses to stop his attacks on ukraine at this point. it is vital to maintain dialogue, to avoid human tragedy. i will continue my efforts and contacts. we must avoid the worst, but corn is then said they've spoken to the ukrainian presidency lensky, to say that he believed that the russian leader was determined to pursue a military operation. right to the very end. now, following that cool between mack on impeaching and elisa official also told

reporters here in france that the country is thinking of toughening sanctions even more against russia. they said that the current sanctions 1st though needed to be evaluated and then that they would be complimented and the sanctions have already started to bite those who are here in france, a c p. your belonging to one russian oligarch was seized by customs officials on the mediterranean coast. in other developments, you ministers have also been meeting she approved for the very 1st time the use of the temporary protection directive. now it will give those refugees who are fleeing ukraine, temporary protection of it suggests. it will also mean that they'll get you residency and the rights that come along without presidency, access to health care and education for me. and that will be able to be

renewed. we manage to have a unanimous decision on the temporary protection directive. there's never been used, even those been existing for 20 years. when this comes into force, everybody can have the protection directly. they can work. they can have their, they can have the help with their commendation children can go to school. there will be no wasting time here. and this is really, really important. now he was hyped up has been a 40 major announcement, but there was some in the press room. the question whether actually this had been watered down. that's because the scope of the directive is actually a lot wider than what is being implemented. it is white enough to include giving those protections to food nation nationals. that means individuals from other countries who were working in ukraine studying in ukraine legally, who've also had to flee the country as a result of the war. however,

the directive assets been and actually it will only be a political ukrainians. now there's also a warning that won't be you is seeing an inflexible round $1000000.00 refugees in just one week alone. that many more could be on their way. you shouldn't be naive, the commissioner said, millions of refugees will create challenges. however, she believe that the e was in a much better position. since the migration course is in 2015 to ensure that those protections would be upheld, that least ukrainian citizens with the showing a united stance in its efforts to help you cleaning refugees. protests have been health rights. europe buns around the worlds rushes actions in berlin, 5000 students out there say outside the finish, 9 calling for peace. while in the both gary and capital of fear, people celebrated its national de holding ukrainian flags. demonstrations also took

place in london with those rallying carrying anti war banners up trafalgar square. and in israel, dozens of protesters gathered to collect humanitarian aid for the ukrainian. it is peaceful. the smile claims by western politicians, not the crippling sanction slumbered. russia won't effect ordinary people. the international council specialist network, unquote, are separate all cooperation with russian doctors out of solidarity with ukraine, the world's health organization. needless to say, list cancer as a leading cause of death worldwide. uncle alerts is a network of colleges whose compensated goal is to end the disease. nevertheless, a recent social media post shows they will now be helping to do that in russia. the head of the russian presidential counsel for human rights believes no matter the circumstances. people's health should always be kept outside of politics. this is

some kind of revenge, not just on the country of russia. it's revenge on cancer patients who live in russia. this is beyond good and evil. less by the decision by uncle, alert, fleeting, russian on colleges. under capron, sage, russian doctors are still cooperating with many other international organizations. we cannot say it's a wide spread story. we maintain relationships with the largest and best known uncle logical organizations. and we haven't felt any deterioration in our relationship yet. of course we hope that this will not happen well rover. i believe the on co alerts organization will return to cooperation with us and reason will prevail in soviet times we will isolated for a very long time. and yet we have excellent medicine. some of the best doctors, none of us are insured from ending up in a sick bed. no one is protected from cancer, not even doctors. that is why there should be no politics. hale. ok, something else to bring you. a former us diplomat has provoked anger after claiming

civilian casualties caused by the u. s. and conflicts or an accident or russia does a deliberately that lead to a chinese column is to highlight the starkly different attitude towards i'll scan on ukrainian casualty the us drone strikes, killed at least thousands of civilians and they can't be explained away or by accidents or much else the media has been following a similar line when comparing the events in ukraine to the middle east. me, i'm sorry, it's really emotional for me because i see europe and people with blue eyes and blown here being here. this isn't a place with all due respect, you know, like iraq or afghanistan. this is a relatively civilized, relatively european. i have to choose those words carefully to, we were in the 21st century. we were in a european city and we have cruise missile fire as though we were in iraq. and a syrian refugee is calling it the fact. europe opened its doors to hundreds of

thousands of ukrainians in less than a week while he fled the word 310 years ago, but has still not been allowed to enter the continent to start a new life. we are wondering why were ukrainians welcome in all countries while we syrian refugees is still intense and remain under the snow facing death. and no one is looking at us. the european union is urgently preparing to grant ukrainians, the right to live and work in the blocks member states for up to 3 years with germany. interior minister calling for a non bureaucratic way to quickly chicken. those on the move, but syrian refugee augment, i'll hurry expansion. reuters his concerns on bob's contrast. and the western reaction to the ukraine crisis with the way europe has sought to hold back millions of syrian and other refugees in 2011. while we got the thoughts on all that from political homeless, alice, under,

bruno on from the ment, press news editor in chief and minora knew her, which when comparing the crisis in ukraine or yemen, any bombs being dropped anywhere deserves full media coverage. and the plight of civilians, whether it's in ukraine or in yemen, should be prioritized and de escalation should be the message, but from, you know, media pundits alike. but perhaps right now, the biggest hypocrisy in coverage that we're seeing is the complete outrage at russian's millis. russia military actually been ukraine by the western mainstream media, while simultaneously being completely silent for the last 7 years to the nearly daily bombings by saudi arabia and the you are a completely hypocritical. and part of that reason is because our media in the west has become the product of the military industrial complex. we conducted

a study in mid press, actually looking at all of the up as an article published at the new york times, the washington post. and the wall street journal, when found that 90 percent of those articles have taken a hawkish view on the ukraine conflict, written by pundits tied to the national security state, promoting nato as a defender of the free world, the lives that are being lost in the, in our lives that are being lost by weapons that are being manufactured and created by the west and natal allied countries. human life is a human life, no matter where war is waged. and we have to end this very blatant racism. i've never in my life felt a conflict so close to almost physically close even though i'm in canada now and the fighting isn't ukraine. in fact, i have to say, i'm quite frightened. i'd never be because the media coverage has been much more

not only intense, but it is skewed in a way to, to show that the victim than the conflict. this is europe. the conflict is happening in civilized europe and the contrast with the conflicts that took place in iraq and gone, it's done serial libya we could go on. and of course the one that continues to occur in yemen and which most people know absolutely nothing about. there is a certain government agenda that needs to be followed. i know 1st hand that i, i've spoke about syria and libya in ways that on, on the western t. v and media in ways that were unexpected. because i explained the reasons of the syrians, for example, for what was happening or the libyans. i was critical of the attacks

and they find, i found certain resistance later in.