ah, ah, in the headlines this, our, the russian defense minister says cube is blocking the main humanitarian corridors towards russia as this by moscow and kiev strike in an agreement on monday to begin evacuations. also had this is where most of the buddies discovered in a mass grave outside the guns were read buried. can i say by this? because few have been identified so far. uncovering the grim secrets of the past, the mass graves concerning the victims of 8 years of the war and on bus. president biden chooses foreign policy over domestic well being as the bonds, old russian oil and gas enforce saying this will hurt americans. as petro prices continue to rise, russia says any serious embargo will lead to disastrous consequences on global markets. and the use chief diplomat says the blog doesn't incentive on the

impulse of russian energy carriers anytime soon. ah. you're watching international mon is peter scott and wherever you joining us from. welcome to the program with the conflict in ukraine now in. so it's 13th day. let's just take a quick recap of some of the latest developments. the russian defense ministry says humanitarian corridors from 5 ukrainian cities were due to open today. russia now says corridors evacuating civilians towards russia have been rejected by kia previous attempts to evacuate civilians were disrupted with moscow, claiming ukrainian all janasia has refused to let people out. while on the other hand, kevin sis evacuations failed due to cease fire,

violations by russian forces. agreements on those corridors was reached during the 3rd round of talks between moscow and keith. on monday, russia expressed hope that the arrangement would be accepted by ukrainian side which agreed to do so bought some previous agreements fell short. ukraine in turn has said so far that the talks didn't produce any positive outcomes, but consultations will continue. energy prices are hitting all time records amid sanctions against russia, and now president biden has decided to ban all us in ports of russian. oil and gas are missing. prices will search even further and blaming president vladimir putin. thus, while europe says it has no intention to embargo russian energy imports. according to moscow, 10 humanitarian corridors from 5 cities were agreed on during yesterday's talks in key of ukrainian officials have claimed that only 2 corridors were open to day,

insisting they haven't agreed on any of those leading to russia. the russian m. o. d, however, has said that only one corridor has been confirmed open and that's from the city of su me to the polish border. not the issue. we are 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, 115 from china to 20, from jordan, and 12 or tunisian, or the opening of those humanitarian cardoza's is one of the main topics of monday's talks between moscow and keith. ukrainian side has vowed and the evacuation corridors will work and russian negotiates of the demit. nadine ski as express hope the key f will keep his 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 suggestion of all change. and i do hope they will keep their good well hey, you can see refugees, you money to travel from the poor city of murder, you pull where fierce battles have been taking place to the city. and 2nd, rogue in southwest, russia really use your still believe 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. if we're from near mary, you call them. oh 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 from air. you fell citizens to leave in cars for several years. 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. so as who did manage to flee for matthew pulled to the safe zone in dom bass, which is close to the russian border. shared what they've been through claiming the ukranian army is targeting civilians with motors for bodily but upstream with her bow chairs, mystery kissed on billy's billy. this eel mentioning a bushel creature, the i'm the mentor, little star marietta, my father. just my dad in lieu of liberty, i'm was mrs. did me. so it does issues with, with

battles continued to rage throughout ukraine, according to the russian military done yet, scandal, guns forces are advancing into further areas that says another sci fi is attempted to allow civilians to escape the russian defense ministry also says nearly 2500 military targets have been destroyed in ukraine since the beginning of the conflict captured ukrainian soldiers. he may have been speaking under duress, were wounded during the battles, have shared their stories with us move. this was initially i was on active service, but as we had no work in village but i signed a contract and stayed with the army as we were sent towards mary. you, paul,

where i came under fire and lost my site. they brought me here help me and said that i will live functional. so i served under contract because i had lost all hope . there is no work with on. on the 24th, the shelling began. if i was wounded, we tried to leave our position and came under fire again. that's how i got here, but i couldn't leave on my own as i was too badly wounding hootie boone of indiana . there was an attack on us when we were retreating. i was wounded and didn't have time to get into the car for them, then the dough. net 6 soldiers took my documents and took me to hospital shirt and inclusion gilbert initial evangelist. when the shelling started, i was wounded by shrapnel and the soldiers immediately made addressing and sent here to the hospital. las schumacher with bowman sticky. everyone helped us even though soldiers who were on the spot machine. i was personally assisted by tank personnel near mary. you, paul, who helped bandage me prepare. nope, i mean, it was most likely provide an assistance on the journey when they brought us to do

nets, inc lee registered us at the hospital when it's the doctors are wonderful. the nurses and staff all friendly home, which they give you a cookie and share a smile and wish you good hello to some of the attitude is wonderful. them guys with soldiers, you think with your own heads, what you are doing and what orders you are taking from your commanders. do not follow criminal orders. and here you can see video from the russian defense ministry showing its attack helicopters, which overnights with sets of destroyed and unseen cross system and ahmed vehicles . this unverified footage shows a fire to oil plants in the sheets of may region west of kia ukrainian authorities said it was the results of air strikes. one fire has already been contained on there are no reports of injuries or the same time ukrainian army has allegedly retreated from almost the entire territory of little guns, republic who 73 on the other cities falling under republican forces, controls, boats, as the phone lines are redrawn from harrowing fails are emerging as told to ortiz

maria phenomena with war and raging, bringing death and destruction. those alive dream about peace. but here it seems. this is something even the dad can not 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 le ganske, kirk, the more vigilant when we saw that those pits with approximately a meter of della near literally a 4 by 4 square with $10.00 to $15.00 bodies in each lot, 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. 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 shout, 4 weeks non stop. they were not working properly, has power was cut off. committing bodies to the earth was urgent. see,

all storm give will a small trim level. 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 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 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 2014. now with shelling continued for days, again, the experts have received information about new mass graves along the front line.

she would submitted in years must 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 that 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 notional artie from the la ganske republic president joe biden has announced an additional sanction package against moscow. this time butting all oil and gas enforce from russia to the u. s. it comes as federal prices. it's all time records in america as arts. eas. caleb moore's reports, joe biden addressed the united states about new sanctions. he is imposing on russia . the main focus will be ending russia's ability to export oil to the united states . united states will no longer receive petroleum from russia. now in addition to that, there will be efforts to shut down the assets owned by russians in the united states

. the john just department is involved in that and there will be efforts to cut off the technology and prevent rushes ability to import key technological products. joe biden also referenced how certain corporations are boycotting and shutting down their operations in russia. now joe biden emphasized that this was going to cost an average america for the price of gasoline is already soaring, and there will be a higher cost of gasoline for average americans as a result of this move. now joe biden said, essentially that americans should blame russia for this. this is what joe biden said about the rising fuel costs spawn by his sanctions. this is a step that we're taking to inflict further pain on prudent front. there'll 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 prudence or is already hurting american families. of the gas pump, says prudent began,

is military build up and ukrainian borders just since then. the price of the gas, the pump, an american of $0.75, and with this action is going to go up further. now joe biden emphasized that the states would be taking these moves as the united states, as a net energy ex, border united states, exports energy on the international market. it imports energy as well, but overall, united states can afford to take this move while the europeans cannot emphasize european al eyes that are dependent or in his words, to depended on russian gas and russian oil. they will not be able to take this move . here's what joe biden said, we're moving forward this band, understanding that many of our european allies in 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 countries combined. now these moves are not a very big deal for russia economy, less than one percent of russia, oil exports go to the united states. however, for americans,

they are going to have an impact. the price of gasoline has already gone up. and we recently saw donald trump's speaking up on social media outlets that still allow him talking about basically saying, do you miss me that and talking about the impact this will have on average americans when they go to the car. when they go to build their cars up at the pump . so it's quite an interesting move. we have the biden administration, essentially blaming russia for the ongoing suffering of americans. we have defensive statements from behind, saying that it's not true that he's trying to suppress domestic oil production eyes . his critics are alleging republicans continue to criticize by blaming him, putting lation and for the rising fuel costs. however, at the same time, we abide in the democrats saying this is necessary, this is to punish russia, blaming russia for these moves. so the, quite a divide biden's speaking defensively about his position in the united states. well emphasizing that he is taking more moves or punish rushes economy amid the ongoing

conflict. earlier we spoke to daniel shaw a university of new york professor of latin american studies. he says the political leads in washington has dug themselves into an energy crisis. publicans and the democrats are blaming one another. it's a full informational war, a media war against russia. no matter what president inviting, or any republican does, they blame one another for not being, quote, unquote tough enough fine on russia. but the truth is objectively, they've done themselves into a crisis because there is 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 is leadership in caracas in venezuela. the idea of new grounds of talk with iran. they're trying to employ the old colonial, tactical, divide and conquer. but the season in time period is leadership in congress is

going to know how to deal with the situation in venezuela. busy 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 bravo bomb or 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, is a very dynamic situation right now. the, you won't follow the u. s. lead in, turning their backs on russian energy is the foreign policy chief use a barrel, has made clear that europe does not intend to ban russian energy imports. but the european commission is announced. a new plan to slush is dependency on russian oil and gas before the end of the year. the you k is also following suits and it will phase out impulse of russian oil under products by the end of this year to show

davinsky has the latest you lead as 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 40 percent of 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 continue to run long a france him and said that again, we're in ukraine. he's so lee, being blamed at the foot of president putin note at the russian people was part of this quite the european union right now feels it has to reduce this dependency on

russian energy imports. and he said that a part of that was defending europe against sits in the abilities this. he said, is one of those vulnerabilities. and the answer for the future, we'd 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 from 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 it's 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 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 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 german households and would sick sanctions work in the long term if they were so painful? christy 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 you next winter where people could see their prices really significantly increase. unless government's 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 from the just seem to be more realistic because of the drums. now that without russian gas them, they are to switch of light, it will not be enough electric, even for living. and i'm not talking about the economy and i'm not talking about prices. so we really have to understand that from my point of view in brussels, we have people who are just fighting for ideology, ideology, which is transatlantic. and, and there's no really no reason, no realistic view of the situation. because whatever you want to do it, it's simple. we have a guess on earth and whether you can change it or not. there is no way maybe russia starts to switch of that. because with these changes, i don't know. maybe russia will make a decision. as the conflict continues, russia says it will keep its energy supply flowing is usual enough. despite threats by western countries to impose embargo and russia's deputy prime minister says any

serious restrictions could lead to disastrous consequences on global markets. every one knows that oil supplies from russia are the most competitive for the european market. it is obviously the rejection of russian oil will lead to disastrous consequences for the wild market. the search in prices will be unpredictable. if you want to refuse the delivery results from russia, that's okay. if we know where to redirect these volumes. well, let's cross live now to swiss politician and journalists, guy met and welcome to our international good evening. good evening. now it seems like europe is not willing to follow the u. s. lead and been russian oil and gas imports. but what direction the chances are that they could realistically do this in the near future given years of trying to divide, diversify the energy supply. i think european del now completely insane. they are completely rational decision because they're only new

to apply sanctions and new sanctions and sanctions. nothing else. but i think as a mr. bowers said dell, dell starting to become more aware about the consequences of the european located about gas and. ready ready oil from, from russia. i think you will be and if it, if the maker of your kid there were only should it in there to know. because as it has been said, the in creation will be much higher. and the difficulties for the poor people here in the european countries. we become also more and more important and some events demonstration and anything like that.

we start and we shall see what the europe and governments will do in such and. ready such, but you are the demonstrations. so i am, i'm not sure you all, we follow united states on this matter. well, as you've just mentioned, people in europe have already faced quite high energy prices this winter. and even just talk of banning russian oil imports has sent prices skyrocket in the past couple of days now with the i. so i continue using yes, not only, not only for i, but did. we also do a license because of the lives of our so made with. so it's good, completes a chain of production which will explode, you know, through the, the rising of devices. so oil and gas,

it's not only do not ready for the by products with which are made and gas and that's maybe more important than all that only oil and gas in supply. you. ready know, for instance, if there is a weeds as or shop and, and. ready in major but use of and also to laser, the price of natural resources will also go and it will be a big problem. so i see, i see if your p as now there are very happy from that certainly is because this is or sanctions which will kill the russian economy. i'm not sure it will be the case in for a few weeks or sure months the problem will arise here in europe. well,

what do you think the political and potentially social fall out of this will be, will have higher prices of the problem for consumers will have a higher food prices rising inflation. and how do you think this will affect people domestically? yes, sure. because all the price is. ready the price is that the bumper, as you say, as you mentioned, for sure, is as it has already started in stream. so now we ever, we have 10 percent of how your price mountain just before it was $1.00 frank 18. now it's 2207. the, the price of a lot and it will be the same thing in europe, but it's just the beginning of the rising. ready prices, i'm sure if there is a brocade the price is really exploring literally and in this case how do people, how do a good. ready leader people could come in and go to,

to work if the price of oil is too high. we have seen in france for instance, we do a vote of, you know, just the jackets. we just started with the price of gasoline. same, for instance, in kazakhstan last january. so it's very sensitive and i'm sure a. ready social problem wise, if we call, if you go on and you're going to go and continue on to trend, while a swiss politician and journalist guy met and thank you very much for your insight today on those the global energy markets. thank you. thank you. i'll given the events of the past 2 weeks. russia's warnings for nato to hold expansion towards its territories seems, have been all but forgotten. but they were acknowledged by the west more than 2 decades ago. that's when the current u. s. president warned the nato 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 while nate, so nevertheless, did expand in the baltic states. and despite there still be no direct confrontation with russia, the military alliance is open, his combat readiness with lot via recently announcing an increase in his miniature budget to reach nate. so target's figures a former, a former nato supreme allied commander, said president putin's actions have reinvigorated the alliance. rash spent 4 years is 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 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 alliance. do have the impression that last june 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. they're heading for economic disaster . they're heading for world war just in order to, to show that they are more democratic to then other parts of the world in russia is all virtually signaling. and, and these leaders are not the welfare of their countries. oh,

no, just making wild risks. there's also people calling for actually, you know, what nato into the war with russia over ukraine, which is of course, totally in seen but that, that exists. and i don't see a sensible people in, i mean there are sensible people in the last, in the united states, there are sensible people, but they are very far on power in marginalized. well, that's a wrap for this. our for the latest developments on the conflict in ukraine had over to r t dot com. my name is peter scott and thank you for watching. ah .