[000:00:00;00] ah, in the headlines this hour, the russian defense minister says here is blocking the main humanitarian corridors towards russia as this by mos going here. striking an agreement on monday to begin evacuation also had this is where most of the blood is discovered in a mass grave outside lugens were ribeiro a can i say blood is because if you have been identified so far, uncovering the grim secrets of the past, the mass graves containing the victims of 8 years of war in the dawn boss. president biden bonds all russian oil and gas import saying this will hurt

americans as petrol prices will continue to rise. this comes, as russia says, any serious embargo will leave a disastrous consequences on global markets. and european leaders also discussed the dependence on russia just today in brussels. aware that any price increase would be hard to swallow already. cash drops european citizens ah, coming to ally from moscow, you're watching out international and wherever you joining us from. welcome to 30 minutes of news and views with the conflict in ukraine now into his 13th day. let's start the problem with a quick recap of some the latest developments. the russian defense minister says humanitarian corridors from 5 ukrainian cities were due to open today. which analysis corridors evacuating civilians towards russia been rejected by keir

previous attempts to evacuate civilians were disrupted. with moscow, claiming ukrainian nationalists had refused to let people out, or kevin, sis, evacuations failed to cease fire. violations by russian forces agreement on the opening of those corridors was reached just during the 3rd round of talks between moscow and kiev. on monday, russia expressed hope that the agreement would be accepted by ukraine, which agreed to do so. both previous arrangements did fall short. ukraine insert has said so far that the talk didn't produce any positive outcomes, but consultations will continue. energy prices are hitting all time records and mid sanctions against russia. and now president biden has decided to abandon all us imports of russian oil and gas. missing prices will search even further and blaming president vladimir putin. that's while the european commission is about to announce a raft of emergency measures to cut reliance on russian gas. according to moscow,

10 humanitarian corridors from 5 cities were agreed on during yesterday's talks with key f. ukrainian officials have claimed that only 2 corridors were open yesterday, 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, and that's from the city of sunni to the polish border. no se is she would even curly that 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, 115 from china to 20, from jordan, and 12 or tunisian year. the opening of those humanitarian corridors. one of the main topics of yesterday's talks between moscow and keith ukrainians avowed. the evacuation corridors will work and russian negotiates of that he may have met in ski as express hope. the key of will keep its wet is a question awful of

a 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 of this cities. that's actually is absolutely understandable by us and by ukrainian delegation. i hope the starting from tomorrow. they promised it, the situation will change and i do hope they will keep their vote. and here you can see refugees who managed to travel from the poor city of matter. you pull it where fierce battles have been taking place and i've been shoving to the city of tegan rog in southwest russia. william lee 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 are from mere 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 pol citizens to leave in cars for is f rosie, but i was told that people are not allowed on this app rosie highway. the soldiers took us to russia, but we lived on the outskirts of mary. you, paul, 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. those who managed to flee from are you pulled to the safe zone in the dome bus, which is close to the russian border shed? well, they've been through and claimed the ukrainians where hits and civilians with malta fire a bodily bud seriously. sir. bo chairs seems to be kissed on billy's billy day sir. ian when ashley number show creature of the i'm at the mentor. all star marietta, my father,

just my dad in lieu of britain liberty. i'm was mrs. did me so booth does a shipment. this with little is good when you choose to work with battles, continue to rage throughout ukraine. according to the russian military done, yet, gallow guns forces are advancing into further areas that says another sci fi is attempted to allow civilians to escape the russian m. o. d. as nearly 2500 military targets have been destroyed in ukraine since the beginning of the conflicts. and here you can see video from the russian defense minister showing its attack helicopters,

which overnight were sets of destroyed nancy aircraft system and armored vehicles. this unverified footage shows a fire 2 oil plants 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 were no reports of injuries. at the same time, the ukrainian army has allegedly retreated from almost the entire territory of the guns for public with 73 towns and cities falling under republican forces control boats as the phone lines are redrawn, the some hiring tails 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 yet find. these are local experts zooming bodies from what they call this pontine years. graves of those who died in shelling and hostilities,

one of 4 such resting places across the republic of logan's cook, the more vigilant when we saw that those pits with approximately a meter of dep. you literally a 4 by 4 square with $10.00 to $15.00 bodies in each what we're just listen, it's just not right now. 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 more g refrigerator is we're totally packed with courses and as the city was shout, 4 weeks nonstop, they were not working properly. has power was cut off. committing bodies to the earth was urgent. see austin kibbler, a small to in lieu, we examined old bodies, took dna for further matching regularized the remains and re buried them with mach numbers with accordance to dignity and orthodox norms. 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 4 days again, the experts have received information about new mass graves along the frontline. 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. and you will make now they are waiting for the fighting to stop, to start rescuing those alive. healing those injured and to re barry,

those who are dead. marie phenomena arty from the ganske republic. president joe biden has announced an additional sanction package against moscow this time putting all oil and gas imports from russia to the u. s. this comes as petro prices, it's all time records over in america. those costs live now to ortiz kelly moore, pin in new york. kayla. can you break down this latest announcement, please, by the us president? sure, joe biden spoke about how the united states will be ending all oil imports from russia. russia will not be able to send oil to the united states any more, and this is a move that is going to be taken with the intent of punishing russia move involved with economic sanction. it comes with efforts to cut off access from russia to prevent russia from being able to get technology. it comes with taking moves against the russians who have assets it in the united states. however, joe biden,

his speech got a little bit defensive because he started to point out that it was going to affect america than the cost of gasoline was going to go up ears. the turn joe biden speech took. this is a step that we're taking to inflict further pain on food, but there will be cost as well. here in united states, i said i would level with the american people from the beginning. and when i 1st spoke to this, i said defending freedom is going to cost foods or is already hurting american families. of the gas pump says prudent began, the military build up and ukrainian borders just since then, the price of the gas, the pump, an american of $0.75. and with this actually is going to go up further. now from there we saw donald trump taking the social media outlets that still allow him and basically calling out bite and saying, do you miss me yet? and calling out the impact this will have on the lives of average americans. we're

seeing the cost of fuel increase with inflation already taking place in other areas like food and other, other parts of the market. we're seeing the value of the us dollar go down. and now in addition to that, joe biden, in his remarks pointed out that europe was unable to take this move. europe would continue to take off from russia, receive oil exports from russia, because in jo biden's word, europe is quote, to dependent. he said that europe is too dependent as united states as a net energy exporter. here's how joe biden described how europe would not be joining in this boycott of russian oil. we're moving forward this band understanding that many of our european allies and partners may not be in a position to join us. united states produces far more oil domestically than all of europe. pretty can all the european countries combined. now at this point, it's important to note that the biden administration is being widely criticized for

the rising fuel costs than biden wants to dislike the blame and say, this is the fault of russia. this is necessary to support ukraine, et cetera. how ever a lot of unrest is boiling beneath the surface. americans are not happy about paying more for their gasoline and the, the rationalization that we're hearing from the democratic party and its leaders, that this is some kind of duty to support the ukrainians. this is, this is a necessary step to punish russia. it will be seen how much that is taken seriously by the u. s. public. donald trump's reaction and the rising anger that we've seen across social media. the outcry we've heard from republican seems to indicate that some americans just don't buy it. ok, thank you for breaking down the latest announcement by joe biden on the possible fall out from. it's not thought he's kayla more pain reporting live from new york. thank you. earlier we spoke to daniel shaw, excuse me, a university of new york professor of latin american studies who says the political

leads in washington had dug themselves into an energy crisis. owens and the democrats are blaming one another. it's a full informational war, a media war against russia, no matter what president and your 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 nibble asthma on the p s u v. and so i'm here, it was leadership in caracas, in venezuela. they forwarded the idea of new rounds of talks with iran, the china employee, the old colonial tactic of dividing conquer. but the season in time period was leadership in congress is going to know how to deal with the situation in venezuela . any oppress,

blockaded country has every right on the international scene to have economic relations with any major power to alleviate the suffering of this blockade. this exists since the time of brock 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. and it's not just the u. s. and it is back on russian energy. the european commission has announced a new plan to slash is dependency on russian energy as before the end of the year. and the u. k is following suit thing. it's will face out in ports of russian oil and oil products by the end of 2022 shall. davinsky has the latest you need is a meeting to have discussions on tuesday about this idea of reducing the reliance on russian imports of natural gas. and also just to give you

a sense of how important they have been to the block over. ringback 40 percent, the gas that comes into the e. u 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 rule in ukraine, and continue to run along our friends him and said that again, we're in ukraine. so lee, being blamed at the foot of president putin not at the russian people, was part of this quite the european union right now feels has to reduce this dependency on russian energy imports. and he said that a part of that was defending europe against it 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. by the end of this year, we can replace $100.00 museum of gas imports from russia. that is 2 thirds of what we import from them. this will end our over dependency and give us much needed room to maneuver todd, bloody hard. but it's possible if we're willing to go further and faster than we've done before. there was also a sense in france, tim, and that they needed to be protection from those who are going to be impacted, particularly as that dependency on russia is weakened as price. rices in a price is rise 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 e,

you said that russia's aggression against ukraine had exacerbated this energy crisis. and because of these extraordinary circumstances, france him and was also asked about the diversification and what people could do. and he had this nugget of advice in the short term, at least for people to look at, reducing their energy at home and help the european union reduce its dependency on russia. your choices and how much energy you consume, decide how strong co, decide how strong we are in our reaction to russia. you know, by lowering the temperature in your house. if you come by be 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 v russell. however, they have been you countries that have been massively resistive to these sorts of sanctions on energy, particularly germany, which has

a higher dependency when it comes to russian as supplies coming in. now we heard earlier this week from the german foreign minister that such sanctions could be devastating for a german households and would sick sanctions work in the long term if they were so painful. christie b. first, 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 you next winter where people could see their prices really significantly increase. unless government are able to do something to mitigate that elite is expected, discussed much further. these id is on tuesday. and of course if those sanctions are implemented will be keeping up to date. here. as the conflict rumbles on, russia says it's will keep its energy supply flowing as usual, thus is despite threats by western countries to impose an embargo and rush, as deputy prime minister says,

any serious restrictions could lead to disastrous consequences on global markets. every one knows that oil supplies from russia, the most competitive for the european market is get. the search in prices will be unpredictable. if you want to refuse the delivery of resources from russia, that's ok. we know where to redirect these volumes. given the events of the past 2 weeks versus warning for nato to hold expansion towards these borders seem to have been all but forgotten. but they were acknowledged by the west more than 2 decades ago. that's when the current us presidents warned that nature expansion to 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, well, nate, so nevertheless, went ahead with his expansion in the baltic states despite the still be no direct confrontation with russia. the miniature alliances open his combat readiness with latvia recently announcing an increase in his ministry budget to reach nato target figure. as a former nato supreme allied commander said, president putin's actions have reinvigorated the alliance. i spent 4 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 merkel of germany and the minister of defense for sullivan to ryan. and i would say to them, you've got to raise your defense spending. and i got 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 putin may be the best thing that ever happened to the nato allies. you have the information that last year leader is going on with the sort of living in a fiction world. heavy, heavy years old who are disasters is in notice it. 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 and in russia is a virtue signaling. and these leaders are not looking out for the welfare of their countries at home. they're just taking wild risks. there's also people calling for actually just gillian or 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 sensible people in the west. in the united states, there are sensible people, but they are very far on power. in marginalized recent weeks have been challenging for r t. r. channel and subsidiaries were taken off for across europe, and this promotes a wide range of opinions, including discussions about mainstream media is double standards and questions about so called freedom of speech. as part of a wider package of sanctions. brussels announced a barn on r. c. signals by a cable and satellite, the channels licenses in the the you are also suspended. that specifically targeted our broadcasts in english, german, french, and spanish, bought such controversial in new decisions, haven't been unanimously supported 1000000. sergio javin leader of the serbian party owes keepers claim to western media are guilty of double standards and

pursuing political aims. something out of the are so prevalent 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 conflicts since the very beginning. uh huh. we know who started it. it's organizes and the motives of the nato imperialists. nazi, their 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. a. 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 to the 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 with us are up for this. our man is peter scott, and i'll be back again with more in just over 30 minutes. thank you for watching. ah. with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy. even foundation,

let it be an arms race group is often very dramatic. that development only really i'm getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time to sit down and talk a christina, it isn't with the whole and you know, maybe a month

with no difficulty getting a lot of damage here as a aah. ukraine a big and rich country. the julie's been hand in hand with russia until recently 2014,

a qu divides ukraine and leads to fratricidal war and on a war that continues to this day. on the edge of a large field near lo ganske, the mass grave. local say that the people buried here are mostly civilians who are allegedly killed by ukrainian paramilitary groups in the summer of 2014 or does this what with a mr. alcorda? what did of stuff? don't batista merely as it would be the when the british got okay, what's the crayon said things of a sudden inform you not to uninstall? rocca leads a special committee for collecting evidence of the ukrainian government alleged walk, grimes against the people of la ganske. when you go about doing his,

i'm really impressed. there are many burial sites like this and done bus. i'm here for 5 minutes and then i'm told the 1st 5 people they found it was 5 decapitated head. they were all civilians. who does this to people? you can't say that there isn't. there wasn't walk right for in the area around venetia, verifica, a village and, and against the people's republic. 36 civilian bodies are being assumed. mm. georgia license and american journalist claims he repeated, he sent reports of alleged crimes like this to european and american media. my hope is that this begins the process to bring this into an international forum. but when you see these brave travesties,

you want to help bring that closure to them. that's why i'm here. unfortunately and most conflicts that we find around the world atrocities have been committed, extra judicial killings. ah, this is how charles cook, john who served a special assistant to us president barack obama explains the situation in don bus . unfortunately when you have conflicts of this sort, those kinds of, of incidents take place. you can't walk into this and say, well, it was war, it happens. no, doesn't. people don't have each other's heads off and especially not civilians. armies don't do this. maybe i should do this and what do you do with groups like