ah, ah, in the headlines this hour, the russian defense ministry says kiev is blocking the main humanitarian corridors towards russia as despite moscow and key of striking an agreement on monday to begin evacuations. also i had this is where most of the buddies discovered in a mass grave outside logan square read barrett. and i say blood is because if you have been identified so far, uncovering the grim secrets of the past, the mass graves concerning the victims of 8 years of war in the dom bus. also in the program of russian cultural figures are being cancelled in europe for refusing to take sides amid ukrainian conflict. ah,

from moscow to the world. this is our international i and peter scott's. and these are the top stories this hour with the conflict in ukraine into his 13th day. let's start the program with a quick recap of some of the latest developments. the russian ministry of defense says humanitarian corridors from 5 ukrainian cities. would you to open today? boucher now says those corridors evacuating civilians towards russia have been rejected by keir previous attempts to evacuate civilians were disrupted with moscow, claiming ukrainian nationalists refused to let people out. while care of insists evacuations failed due to sci fi violations by russian forces. agreement on the opening of those corridors was reached during the 3rd round of talks between moscow and kia on monday. russia express hope that the arrangement would be accepted by ukraine, which agreed to do so. bought previous agreements, fell short. ukraine in turn has said so far that the talks didn't produce any

positive outcomes, but consultations will continue in europe. energy prices are hitting all time records amid the sanctions against russia. that's as the european commission is about to announce a raft of emergency measures, a cut reliance on bushing gas. according to moscow, 10 humanitarian corridors from 5 cities were agreed on joan yesterday's talks with key of ukraine. officials have claimed only 2 corridors were open to day, insisting they haven't agreed on any of those leading to russia. the russian defense ministry, however, has said that only one corridor has been confirmed open from the city of sumeet to the polish border. she would even currently due to unprecedented security measures taken by the armed forces of the russian federation and he's 723 people have been evacuated along this corridor, 576 of them. indian citizens usually $115.00 from china to 20, from jordan,

and 12 or tunisian year. the opening of those humanitarian corridors was one of the main topics of yesterday's talks between moscow and key of the ukrainian side has vowed. so the evacuation corridors will work and mission negotiated that he may, may, didn't, ski has expressed hope that kia will keep his word is a question of, of life who cash, where they go. do they go west, east, north and south. the purpose is to let civilians women seniors case to let them go out over the cities. that's actually is absolutely understandable by us and by ukrainian delegation. i hope that starting from tomorrow, they promised it the suggestion of all change. and i do hope they will keep their vote. thank you. you can see refugees. he finally monies to travel from the pole

city of mount or you pull with this bustles, have still been taking place to the city of tegan rogue in southwest. russia are unit use military operations. that's what's happening. military operations are being conducted in civilian quarters. can you understand that in civilian neighborhoods where people live, ukrainian forces were positioned in civilian quarters after they retreated? how did we manage to get out? we were there to the bitter end. we're from near mary. you call? no one. let's any one out of mary you paul itself. we were just lucky. it's just that if they place weapons near your yard, it's a bad sign. oh, they said that there was a green light for mary jo pal citizens to leave in cars for his f, rosie. but i was told that people are not allowed on this app rosie highway. the soldiers took as to rush after we lived on the outskirts of mary u. haul. the donut 6 soldiers walked around the village and said that it was better to evacuate. maybe we wouldn't have survived the next night. those who managed to flee from mo, you pull to the safe zones in the dom bus,

close the russian borders shed what they've been through claiming ukrainians were hitting civilians with malta fire politely, but upstream with her bow chairs sniff slickest on billy billy. this eel mentioning a bushel creature of the i'm in the metal star. my father just made out the movie, but is a little young, was mrs. did me so, but it does issues with battles continue to rage throughout ukraine, according to the russian military done yet. and lou guns forces are advancing into

further areas that says another sci fi is attempted to allow civilians to escape the russian m o. d says nearly 2500 military targets have been destroyed in ukraine since the beginning of the conflicts. until you can see video from the russian defense ministry showing its attack helicopters, which overnight was said to have destroyed an anti aircraft system and armoured vehicles. this unverified footage shows and fired through oil plans. in the g tamir region, west of kia, ukrainian authorities said it was the result of air strikes. one fire has already been contained and there are no reports of injuries. at the same time, the ukrainian army has allegedly been false from almost the entire territory of the guns people's republic. the $73.00 towns and cities seized both the front lines of redrawn. some harrowing tales are emerging as told to ortiz, mary, if the notion of with war raging, bringing death and destruction,

those alive dream about peace. but here it seems. this is something even the dead cannot yet find. these are local experts, examine bodies from what they call this containers. graves of those who died in shelling and hostilities, one of 4, such resting places across the republic of la ganske park. the more visually when we saw that those pits with approximately a meter, a demo of near literally a 4 by 4 square with $10.00 to $15.00 bodies in each draw up or just listen. it's just not right small. we lifted out $292.00 bodies out of it. sure the name should be remembered with. that's the price of our freedom. we witnessed the 1st of these grace when we worked here back in 2014 on those hot summer days. local morg refrigerator is were totally packed with corpses, and as the city was shelled for weeks, non stop. they were not working properly. has power was cut off. committing bodies

to the earth was urgent. see austin, keep we're a small little boy examined old bodies, took dna for further matching regularized remains and re buried them with moth. numbers with accordance to dignity and orthodox norms have really previously really hope the remains will be identified soon. this is where most of the buddies discovered in a mass grave outside lugens were re barrett and i say, but is because few have been identified so far for now. who to the cemetery was simple crosses and numbers. no names. work has begun to turn it into a large memorial to the victims of ukraine's aggression, its official name. it lies across from another monument, right there to a local civilians kill here by fascist back in 1942 and it is also called we will not forget, we will not forgive. that was in 2014. now with shaelyn containing 4 days, again, the experts have received information about new mass graves along the front line.

she which period the nurse left, we want to be wrong. but our experience of working with nationalistic battalions and the ukraine security service shows it could highly likely be true. your me now they are waiting for the fighting to stop, to start rescuing those alive. healing those injured and to we bury those who are dead. the reef national. arty from the la ganske republic. russia has long been an established producer of high arts and culture in the western world. but amid ukrainian sanctions, a situation has drastically changed with many of his cultural figures being canceled. a shout davinsky explains the wes anger towards russia. over the warring ukraine is now spinning into unexpected sectors with culture caught up in the geo political fray. anyone who doesn't speak out against president putin is being considered to be no longer neutral and needs to be cancelled. that's leading

to many renowned international artists being dumped from their positions. positions which don't normally come with a slice of politics at the site. a boycott is underway, some that is more stringent than that during the cold war. even at the height of the cold war, cultural exchanges between russian, american and european artists continued what's happening, today's different, it goes beyond the cold war. it's a real war. a strong words from an or perhaps that he's now buying into the canceling of high culture with the met promising that equal sever ties with all through putin, russian artists. and some of the most prominent names in their fields are being singled out. take the lady, get gave, considered to be amongst the greatest conductors of all time. his refusal to take a political stance has seen him stripped of his role as conductor of the munich

philharmonic, as well as other roles. now alter singing and in the trigger has had all appearance is suspended until further notice despite being vocal that she does not agree with the war. that denunciation apparently didn't go far enough for the met, who wanted her directly to denounce president putin. even institutions like the bolshoi and the marine sky are expected to behave. they have public funding and in the eyes of the world talking about the bolshoi and talking about the russian state is the same thing. the pressure is so intense that some are quitting, rather than being forced to make a declaration that includes the musical director of the to lose orchestra and the bolshoi theatre. over the last few days, i've witnessed what i thought i would never say my life in europe to day. i'm forced to choose and prefer one member of my musical family to another. individuals

who refused to denounce the war are one thing, but russian culture is now under a much wider attack. barley performances such as sworn lake, have been pulled compositions by chick kosky, had been removed from orchestra's and ties by some european museums to their sister institutions. in russia have also been savage, once unfolding has been described as a new form of mccarthyism. russia has even been banned from you revision. the decision reflects concerned that in light of the unprecedented crisis in ukraine, the inclusion of a russian entry would bring the competition into disrepute. some points to the move is mirroring the situation in russia itself. with some art workers have taken a public stance against the war conductor, even villainy cove from paris was apparently sacked by a moscow theatre,

often using a performance to oppose the war in ukraine. but his boy coating performance is actually going to help the situation in ukraine. or will this move only go further to isolate russians who are already beginning to feel that they are part of a witch hunt? charlotte, even ski arte paris as the conflict continues, oil and gas prices remain at record highs for a 2nd day in a row. while some european leaders are rejecting coals for a ban on the impulse of russian energy, the bulgarian prime minister is among the latest saying his country is dependent on russian energy sources. meanwhile, it rushes deputy prime minister says an embargo on russian energy would have disastrous consequences on global markets. gas boom, boom is to pull need. so you can guess from a fully fulfills its obligations to supply gas to europe. moreover, the supply through the ukrainian gas transportation system has been increased. at the same time, we understand that due to unfounded accusations against russia regarding the energy

crosses in europe and the introduction of the ban on note stream to we have every right to make a mirror decision and impose the embargo on gas pumping through the node stream one gas pipeline, which is 100 percent loaded today. everyone knows that oil supplies from russia are the most competitive for the european market. it is obvious, the rejection of russian oil will lead to disastrous consequences for the world market. the search in prices will be unpredictable if you want to refuse the delivery results from russia, that's ok. we know where to redirect these volumes. meanwhile, oil joins shell and british petroleum is say they will stop buying russian crude oil and across the atlantic. american politicians seem to be determined to reject oil oil exports from russia. however, the white house says any decision is yet to be made or teased on coal, to report on how it's such a move could affect the west all around washington. the call to ban russian oil can

be heard. america's big wigs also claiming its prudence main source of revenue, food, news, weaponized, energy. i don't believe this country should be importing any thing from russia by banning the import of russian oil here, united states. we the opportunity to work with our, our allies, to stabilize the energy market across the world, safeguard our nations energy security and boost our own energy independence. it's time to ban all in ports of russian oil. never in the history of warfare has a bad guy been so exposed as putin is today. the revenue from all and guess keeps them afloat. if we can isolate the oil and gas sector produce more here at home, that will do more to end this war than any single thing i can think of. banning oil imports from the world's number one, ex porter will no doubt come at a cost. nevertheless, some on capital hill are ready for americans to pay even more at the pump. i would, i would them if they've ever supposed be in taking. they said joe's, you pay 10 cents more gallon to support to people. ukraine. stop basically,

the support of russia. i would gladly potentials more ago, someone should probably lead mansion know that americans are already paying not 10, but $0.30 more per gallon. in fact, just a week after the most recent waves of us sanctions against russia were launched, the price of oil nearly reached its 2008 all. busy time high, which caused more than a little anxiety across the us. as nations increase economic pressure on russia, president biden has warned that some of those moves could also end up hurting. you ask consumers, as we all know, prices, americans are paying for the basics, food gas, housing are all high and they could go even higher. ok, get some bad news for you. the u. s. gas price has reached a national average of $4.00 a gallon the highest in over a decade as a byte administration now considers banning russian oil a ban isn't even an effect. and yet the economic consequences show just how reliance the u. s. is on russian oil. last year the u. s. doubled. it's crude oil

imports from russia, bringing them to their highest level in 2 decades that totaled over $4700000000.00 . so what we will get is the big, big crisis. everybody wanted across the ocean in, you know, new york and so on. so what we, what we will see now is that whitney price increases the entire financial system was fall apart. and i think this could already be the stone that brings everything into into a crash. the midterm elections are gone for the democrats, the crisis rights and people are in the us. don't know how to pay that bill anymore . so i'm very, very concerned on the democracy in, in the us a now due to the sanction due to these things, we're not really necessary who are voluntary and i think they are planned for ages

already, but not the well thought through. i think while banning russian oil would almost certainly mean even higher energy prices for your average american washington's energy giants could be looking at some mega profits. anthony blinking, been busy trying to get your opinion leaders on the anti russian oil bandwagon. and the european commission seems in favor tomorrow. the european commission will table proposals on how to quickly get rid of our dependency on russian fossil fuels. this means diversifying suppliers, switching to liquefied natural gas and pipeline gas re powering the e u by investing and renewables, improving energy efficiency. not everyone in europe is on board though. that's mostly because it's simply not possible to do what washington is suggesting. the federal government has been urgently working for months with its partners in the european union and beyond to develop alternatives to russian energy. this cannot be done overnight. it is therefore a conscious decision on our part to continue the activities of commercial companies

in the field of energy supply with russia. president biden said nothing is off the table when it comes to sanctions aimed at russia. ok, but can america's president affords such a policy when he's also promised to keep gas prices low? the white house seems less than willing to find out how the president has been approaching. any of the steps we've taken as it relates to russia and the actions of russia and holding president putin accountable is to take every step to the maximum impact that will impact president putin, the russian economy. we are looking at options, we can take right now to cut us consumption of russian energy. but we are very focused on minimizing the impact to families. if you reduce supply in the global market place, you are going to rise, raise gas prices, you're going to right ride the raise, the price of oil. and that is something the president is very mindful of. and focused on washington. got plenty of strong words for russia, but as the recoil from western sanctions causes more and more collateral damage. it

may be only a matter of time until bided. we'll need to play nice area. we spoke to daniel shaw a university of new york professor of latin american studies, who stays the political elite in washington has dug themselves into an energy crisis. republicans and the democrats are blaming one another. it's a full informational war, a media war against russia. no matter what president biden does, or any republican does, they blame one another for not being, quote, unquote tough enough on, on russia. but the truth is objectively, they've dug themselves into a crisis because there is a certain dependency on yes, in oil reserves from russia. they've gone as far as to reach out to nicholas my load on the p s u v. and so i'm here, it was leadership and i guess in venezuela they floated the idea of new rounds of talks with iran, the china employee, the old, colonial, tactical,

divide and conquer. but the season in time perilous leadership in income is going to know how to deal with the situation in venezuela. busy any oppress, blockaded country as a re write on in the international scene to have economic relations with any major power to alleviate the suffering of this blockade has existed since the time of barack obama in 2014. so everything has changed in the past 12 days since the russian or intervention in ukraine. and the reaction out of washington is, is surprising. it's a very dynamic situation right now. earlier today, chinese president, seizing ping, discussed the situation around ukraine with 1st president manuel macaroni and german chancellor olla shoals. he called on the european council was to take into account the security curtains of all countries on respect sovereignty. the chinese

leader called the conflict in ukraine alarming and coal for maximum restraint. stressing the priority should be to prevent the situation getting out of control. he also noted that all 3 countries should support a peaceful resolution of the conflict. know things sanctions would slow down, global economic growth, benefiting no one that's cross live now to benjamin sha professor, the paris school of technology business and south western university of financing economics. welcome to the program. benjamin i was the china latest position. the cover of the government towards the ongoing conflict in ukraine. china, it's again calling for diplomacy from the very famous book, there are the more you said it is best to force the enemy to surround with toby assisting. the best war plan is to win with a strategy, followed by a diplomacy, followed by destroying the enemy in a while. the worst is to see the enemy's cities and distribute the loud option

while now russia seems to be trying to avoid the last option. the u. s. seems to be using the 1st option of strategy. now, simple, china knowing all these by heart today, chinese presents each in p, talked to the french and german meters, urge all sides to use the promises to the result. the complex and china already promised earlier on about sending humanitarian a to ukraine shortly. the china has been building up the chinese into ukraine also . as you said, he called maximum restraint to prevent a large scale humanitarian crisis, urged us to size to maintain the momentum of negotiation. and we emphasize china's position already extreme by china represented to you and also the foreign minister, the 2 days which is that china supports the safeguarding of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the old states. and to ask them to abide by the un charter

. but equally important china that the west has to face strictly at russia's security concerns, especially about the expansion of nato and asked them to engage in equal foot by law with russia, by the balance. if i keep and sustainable european security mechanism will, china obviously understands versus the security concern surrounding nato's expansion. but it's china concerned by nato's expansion. and it does what it's a faith is nuts into national interests. way. in fact, people thing dead. the worst is building a new tool version into is already the, the quad, the office and, and all the said you, you can singles, china has me please stated the audience shadow juice of

the west and sanction and so on. on not really winning the hearts of many people in the world. if you look at the stations this time to russia, asked by to the west. we see that actually about 80 percent of the wolves population have not joined the session so far. countries like india package time and also they often countries busy except singapore and the middle eastern countries and most of the country african countries are not joining was to sanction russia. perhaps they have seen not just the ukraine, the hub and people have already died in was in afghanistan, iraq, serial libya and so on. the scene to the post ended up the west on for charlie's today. you know, china also asked us to explain to 26 by less pentico allegedly control in ukraine. so i think people really need to be to be concerned about the lashed of this kind of consequences. well,

benjamin shall professor the power school of technology and business and southwestern university fund is next. we thank you very much for your insights on china's position and the ukraine complex recent weeks have been challenging for r t. r. channel and subsidiaries were taken off air across europe. this promote a wide range of opinions, including discussions about mainstream media is double standards, and also questions of so called freedom of speech as a wider parts as a wider package of sanctions. brussels announced a band on r c signals via cable and satellite. the channels licenses in the you were suspended to that specifically targeted our broadcast in english, german, french, and spanish. but such controversial decisions haven't been unanimous military just j, which lead of the serbian party oath keepers claims at western media are guilty of double standards on pursuing political claims. so skin out of the or so clever is

on a vehicle, sobs remain faithful to the fellowship they have with russians. and a very concerned about the crisis in ukraine and what has been happening there over the past 8 years. we have been closely following the ukranian conflict since the very beginning. we know who started it, it's organizes and the motives of the nato imperialists. not the goal is to encircle the russian federation. come close to its borders, use the people of ukraine for their own purposes, and draw them into conflict with the fraternal russian people. the serbian public knows that 3000000 ukrainian citizens were forced to flee to the russian federation . unfortunately, western media did not report on this wave of refugees. today, the u. s. and nato, a hippa critically talking about the russian invasion and aggression. however, in recent political history, washington launch $33.00 aggressions against sovereign states, of which the un security council approved only 2. meanwhile,

the same media which accused russia to day rejoiced in the $78.00 days of bombing and aggression against our country. when serbian citizens were fired upon with cluster bombs, which are prohibited by all international conventions, given the events of the past 2 weeks in russia's warnings for nato to halt expansion towards its surgeries seems to have been over forgotten. but they were a knowledge to buy the worst more than 2 decades ago when the current us presidents won the nato expansions, eastern europe, could provoke russia. i think the one place where the greatest consternation would be caused in the short term would be to admit baltic states now in terms of nato, russian, us, russian relations. and if there was ever anything that was going to tip the balance, were to be tipped in terms of a vigorous and hostile reaction. i don't mean military in russia, it would be that nate, so nevertheless,

did expand into the baltic states. and despite there still be no direct confrontation with russia, military alliance is opening his combat readiness with the lat. via recently announcing an increase in his military budget to reach nato target biggest, a former nato supreme allied commander said president putin's actions have reinvigorated the alliance. rush and for years, the supreme allied commander of nato, at every conference, every meeting of high level nato officials, i would find my way to chancellor angle of merkel of germany and the minister of defense 1st lavonne ryan. and i would say to them, you've got a raise your defense spending, and i've gotten nowhere in 4 years. in 48 hours. vladimir putin has inspired the germans to effectively nearly doubled their defense budget. a smart move on the part of germans. vladimir food may be the best thing that ever happened to the nato alliance. do have the impression that russian leader is going on with

a sort of living in a fiction world. heavy, heavy years old, who are disasters in notices. i mean, as good as they're heading for economic disaster. they're heading for world war just in order to, to show that they are more democratic to learn other parts of the world in russia is old virtue signaling. and, and these leaders are not a true well share of their countries a talk. and they're just me taking wild risks. there's also people calling for actually getting new nato into the war with russia over ukraine, which is of course, totally in seen but, but that exists and i don't see a sensible people in it. i mean there are.