hey, lisa ah, in the headlines this, our, the russian defense ministry says here is blocking the main utilitarian corridors towards russia as this by moscow and kia, strike in an agreement on monday to begin evacuations. also ahead. this is where most of the buddies discovered in a mass grave outside la guns were ribeiro a can i say, but is because 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. european leaders discuss dependence on russia's gas today and brussels aware that any price increase would be hard to swallow for already cash strapped european citizens. ah,

you're watching international. my name is peter scott, on wherever you joining us from. welcome to the program with the conflict in ukraine now into it's 13th day. let's start the program with a quick recap of some the latest developments. the russian defense ministry says humanitarian car doors from 5 ukrainian cities would you to open to day? russia now says car doors, evacuating civilian towards russia have been rejected by kid. previous attempts to evacuate civilians would disrupt the 3rd with moscow, claiming ukrainian nationalists had refused to let people out. while kevin, this evacuation failed due to sci fi violations by russian forces. agreements on the opening of car doors was reached during the 3rd round of talks between moscow in kiev. on monday, rush express hope to the arrangements would be accepted by ukraine, which agreed to do so. the previous arrangements fell short. ukraine in turn has

said so far that it's all been produce any positive outcome, but consultations will continue and over in europe, energy prices, i think old time records, amid sanctions against russia. this is the european commission is about to announce a raft of emergency measures to coats reliance on russian gas. according to moscow, 10 humanitarian corridors from 5 cities were agreed on june. yes, these sorts in kiev, ukrainian officials have claimed only 2 car doors were open to day, insisting they haven't agreed on any of those leading to russia. the russian defense industry, however, has said that only one corridor has been confirmed open from the city of sue made to the polish border. say, is she currently due to unprecedented security measures taken by the armed forces of the russian federation? 723. people have been evacuated along this corridor, 576 of them,

indian citizens only 115 from china, 20 from jordan, and 12 or tunisian. the opening of those humanitarian car doors is one of the main topics of yesterday's talks between moscow and kev. ukrainians vowed the evacuation corridors would work and russian negotiates. but the minute medina, sky as express hope that will keep its word is a question awful. of a life who cares where they go? do they go west, east, north and south. the purpose is to lead 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 situation will change and i do hope they will keep their vote . here you can see refugees who manage to travel from the port city of mount or you

pull where fis battles have been taking place to the city of tegan rogue in southwest. russia really use military operations. that's what's happening. military operations are being conducted in civilian quarter say, 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. running below they said that there was a green light for mary. you fell citizens to leave in cars for zap, 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. you don't get sick? soldiers walked around the village and said that it was better to evacuate. maybe we wouldn't have survived the next night. while those he managed to flee from matthew, pulled to the safe zone in the dom bus, which is close to the russian border shed. well,

they've been through claiming ukrainians, were hitting civilians with mortars, politely, but upstream with her bow chairs sniff slickest on billy's. but we do, sir. he'll membership number show creature of the i'm the mentor, all star mother and father just made out the move. 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 skilled guns forces are advancing into

for the areas that says another sci fi is attempted to allow civilians to escape. the russian defense minister says nearly 2500 military targets have been destroyed in ukraine since the beginning of the conflict. and here you can see video from the russian m o. d shown is attack helicopters, which overnight was said to destroyed an anti aircraft system and arm and vehicles . this unverified footage shows a fire at 2 oil plants in the sheets, amir region, west of kia and cranial authorities said it was the result of air strikes and one fi has already been contained. unfortunately, there are no reports of injuries. at the same time, the ukrainian army has allegedly been forced from almost the entire territory of the guns people's republic. with $73.00 towns and cities sees both as the front lines of redrawn. some harrowing tales are emerging as told to ortiz, maria phenomena with war, raging,

bringing death and destruction. those alive dream about peace. but here it seems. this is something even the dad cannot find. these are local experts zooming bodies from what they call this montagnier. graves of those who died in shelling and hostilities, one of 4 such resting places across the republic of logan's cook, the more readily when we saw that those pits with approximately a meter of dead one new literally a 4 by 4 square with $10.00 to $15.00 bodies in each room, but just listen, it's just not right small. we lifted out $292.00 bodies out of it. sure the name should be remembered with fat, 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 morgan 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 all storm give. we're

a small trailer but we examined old bodies, took dna for further matching regularized the remains and re buried them with moth numbers with accordance to dignity and orthodox norms. who 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 does a cemetery with 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 shelling continued for days, again, the experts have received information about new mass graves along the frontline. she was submitted for nurse must. we want to be wrong,

but our experience of working with nationalistic battalions, in the ukraine security service shows it could highly likely be true. and you will 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 reef national arty. from the logan's republic. the european commission has announced a new plan to slush is dependency on bush, an energy before the end of the year. more not, let's go live now to charlotte to bend skin, paris, charlotte, what were the main takeaways from the commission statements? well, that's why you leaders a meeting to have discussions on tuesday about this idea of reducing the reliance on russian imports of natural gas and also of oil. just to give you a sense of how important they have been to the block over. ringback 40 percent of the gas that comes into the, at the moment is from russia and around 25 percent of the crude oil is also from

russia. so these are significant portions. what we heard from the vice president of the european commission. this is france timmons at that press conference, is that the block is now going to look to reduce massively. it's dependency on those energy imports from russia as this war in ukraine continue to run along. now france, him and said that again, the war and ukraine is solely being blamed at the foot of president putin, not at the russian people. he said ukraine was fighting to freedom and that the regime was being at all the regime in russia was actively undermining european values. and it was part of this by the european union. right now feels it has to reduce this dependency on russian energy import. and he said that a part of that was defending europe against it's in the abilities this, he said, is one of those vulnerabilities. and the answer for the future would be looking for

security when it comes to renewable energy, and also diversifying supply away from russia. let's have a listen to what friends to mom and had to say in that press conference. by the end of this year, we can replace $100.00 museum of gas and ports from russia. that is 2 thirds of what we import from them. this will and our over dependency and give us much needed room to maneuver todd bloody hard. but it's possible that we're willing to go further and faster than we've done before. is not entirely clear where those supplies will come from. in the longer term, the suggestion it could be liquefied natural gas from the united states or from other supplies. but that is something that you leaders are currently discussing and working on right now in that meeting. or there was also a sense from france to moment that they need to be protection from those who are

going to be impacted, particularly as that dependency on russia is weakened as prices in a price is right here in europe. so that's the gas and electricity bills that households and businesses will have to face. we already know that prices have been hugely high since the last autumn. and the, you said rushes aggression against ukraine had exacerbated this energy crisis. and because of these extraordinary circumstances, the suggestion from the commission that governments across the block will be able to look at regulating energy prices, not just the households, but also for businesses. and they said that they would be the possibility of state aid being able to use to compensate businesses for increases in energy prices as a result of this war. however, france him and was also asked about the diversification in what people could do. and he had this nugget of advice in the short term lease for people to look at

reducing their energy at home and help the european union it's dependency on russia. also i think with kathy said earlier about m asking citizens telling them your choices and how much energy you consume, decide how st. call decide how strong we are in our reaction to russia. you know, by, by lowering the temperature in your house, if you can, by being more conscious in the choices you make that lead to energy consumption, you can substantially contribute to reducing our energy consumption and thus make a stronger visa v rush. now there are a couple of other reasons why the e wants to reduce its dependency on russian energy imports. and one is the fact that ukraine has called on the european union to do that to target at these gas and oil imports as part of perhaps extending,

expanding the already damaging sanctions. but also the e. u is concerned that by continuing to buy energy from russia, it is a sense at financing the war in ukraine. so those are some of the reasons why the e wants to do this. however, they have been countries that have been massively resisted to these sorts of sanctions on energy, particularly germany, which has a higher dependency when it comes to russian supplies coming in. now we heard earlier this week from the german foreign minister that such sanctions could be devastating for german households and would sick sanctions work in the long term if they were so painful, might they have to be reversed? we've also heard from some energy providers who say, you know, the idea of doing this will be incredibly difficult and such measures will really impact europe not right now, but they'll impact europe next winter where people could see their prices really

significantly increase unless government are able to do something to mitigate that and is also just to bring up to date, some reaction that's just come in from friends of youth in regards to this. they say that the announcement from the european commission offers little more than a strategic joke. and essentially they say is it's calling a member states to just accelerate measures that were all ready planned out in the european green deal is expected discuss much further these ideas on tuesday. and of course, if those sanctions are implemented will be keeping up today here or solid. thank you for bringing the latest on our statement by the commissioner's office. shonda bens drupal to live from pars. thank you. as the conflict continues, russia says it will keep is energy supply flowing as usual. thus, despite threats by western countries to impose embargo, under russia's deputy prime minister says any serious restrictions could lead to

disastrous consequences on global markets. gas, boom, boom tuple need. so we 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 crisis 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 notes 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 that 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 resources from russia, that's ok. we know where to redirect these volumes. meanwhile, oil giants shell and british petroleum say they will stop buying russian crude oil and across the atlantic. american politicians seem to be determined to reject all

oil exports from russia. however, the whites are says, any decision is yet to be made, are seized on call to repulse and how 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 in the float. 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, export or 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 then, if they've ever suppose being taken a st. joe's, you pay 10 cents more gallon to support to people's ukraine. stop basically the support of russia. i would gladly pretensions more again, 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 and 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 band isn't even an effect. and yet the economic consequences show just how reliance the u. s. is on russian oil. last year the us doubled its crude oil imports from russia, bringing them to their highest level into decades that totaled over $4700000000.00 . so what we will get to the big, big crisis. everybody wandered across the ocean and you know, new york and so on. so what we, what we would see now is that with nice price increases the, the entire financial system will 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, if the price is right and people are in the us,

don't know how to pay their bill anymore. so i'm very, very concerned of the democracy in, in the us. and 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 blink, and it's been busy trying to get your opinion leaders on the anti russian oil bandwagon. president bite and said nothing is off the table when it comes to sanctions aimed at russia. ok, but can americans president afford such a policy when he is 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 and accountable is to take every step to the

maximum impact that will impact president putin, the russian economy. we are looking at options, we could take right now to cut us consumption of russian energy. but we are very focused on minimizing the impact families, if he reduce supply in the global market place, you are going to rise, raise gas prices, you're going to right, right, 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 by to will need to play nice. earlier we spoke to daniel shaw a university of new york professor of latin american studies, who says the political leads in washington have dug themselves into an energy crisis. public ins 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 gas in oil reserves from russia. they've gone as far as to reach out to nicholas mabood when the p s u v. and so i'm here, it was leadership in caracas, in venezuela, they forwarded the idea of new grounds of talks with iran. the china employ the old colonial tactical divide and conquer. but the season in time period was leadership in caracas is going to know how to deal with the situation in venezuela. any oppress, blockaded country has every right on in the international scene to have economic relations with any major power to alleviate the suffering of this blockade. this existed since the time of barack obama in 2014. so i, 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. or given the events of the past 2 weeks versus warning for nato, it's a whole to expansion through the territory. seems to have been all but forgotten boats. they were, i knowledge by the west more than 2 decades ago, when the current us present warned that need to expunged into 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, expanded into the baltic states. and despite there still be no direct confrontation

with russia, the military alliance is open. it's combat readiness with lat, via decently announcing an increase in his military budget to reach nato target big . as a former nato supreme allied commander said, president putin's actions have reinvigorated the alliance. 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 to mind. and i would say to dan, you've got to raise your defense spending. and i got nowhere in 4 years in 48 hours . flattered, mere 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. we can cross live now to all the and

russia analyst multi mccully mossey. welcome swats international. now, what do you make of nato countries? plans to boost that military budget? that's in lights of the current war in ukraine. it was, in fact, as the previous speaker said, i, as reinvigorated nato. it's made nato now more relevant because until last year, until the end, eventually the war in your ah, many people in europe questioned. ah, the viability, what, why, why do we have nato? the cold war is over is not going to be a war in europe and so on. and, and nature was saying, you have to, to present to present judy be, should be spent on defense. and quite a few countries said that's not necessary. we don't see a threat from the outside world. now who's going to take us? another situation can reach james and the jim gentler shows as in fact

tend, angular merkel is policies upside down. and they're talking about retaining to nuclear power plants in service if that's possible. and trying to import more natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas from america and other places. so natal now has become very, very relevant and has been reinvigorated and has a sense of mission. and they believe that they have this mission know, to protect the, all the countries, all the member states of the o for the nato alliance. and they don't to do that. those states will have to increase the defense funding. because russia is a very, very formidable opponent. it is a very pop, military lead

a nuclear power. and therefore they have to be very careful in their relations with russia. but they have to argue, you have to think that they have to strengthen their own defenses and insecurity operators, so that they will not be big nice enough, the little little people. how do i so i tend to charge you expect russia to react to this increase in spin ending as well as the possibility of sweden and finland also joining or getting closer to nature. at least, i think that what the russians will be were just wanted to put and will attackers and fantasy warlike act. because why are they rearming? why are the increasing amundsen song? because russia has no intention of intervening in all waging a war against the native members. and we are very disappointed by this.

i also mean that from a russian point of view, the gym, the also will have increased immunity spending because of the lungs now which are being placed upon it. so the various countries leave the key country has germany and they've completely gone from one point of view. there is no misery said to us, you know, military to nato native doesn't really need to exist the french and then you will crawl. he said with a joke, native is weaken, and so on. or that's changed and no pressure to every country saying is agreeing to increase military expenditure is going to do this in the long term. you can't do this from over the next fortnight or next 3 months and so on this as we planned as be spent over the years to come note.

the other thing is if they expand the military expenses. yeah. another part of the budget will of course lose money. and this will be very disappointing for many people because it will mean that the budget will in fact become if you like a war budget, emergency budget. and everything else would have to give way to military spending. so you cation health services, and john chuckle because i honestly want to have a budget deficit. are these countries will have to reduce expenditure in these very, very important a lot martin. it would be great to talk to you more about this for i'm afraid we've run out of time. thank you very much for your insight. those martin mccauley author and russia. analysts, thank you. thank you. now, recent weeks have been challenging for r t. r. channel and subsidiaries were taken off across europe. this promotes

a wide range of opinions, including discussions about mainstream media, double standards, and questions about so called freedom of speech. as a part of a wider package of sanctions, brussels announced a band and r c signals via cable and satellite. the channels licenses in the you were also suspended. that specifically targeted our broadcasts in english, german, french, and spanish. bought such controversial e decisions haven't been totally unanimous with melissa jewel, javits leader of the serbian party. the oath keepers claims western media are guilty of double standards. i'm pursuing political aims, something out of your style. pre version of the subs 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 organizes and the motives of the nato.