[000:00:00;00] ah, ah moscow and kira struggled to agree on more humanitarian quarters for ukrainian civilians as un estimates another 4000000 refugees are likely to plead the hostilities. meta decides to go against its own rules and allow calls for violence against russian soldiers despite the policy imposed just weeks ago. to deal with misinformation about ukraine. foreign companies are pulling out of russia in response to the ukraine. conflict with anti russian sentiments also creeping into international events, even including

a ban on russian participants in piano competition with broadcasting live direct from studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now, russia's military said, it would observe a limited cease fire in ukraine on friday to allow civilians to evacuate through secure routes proposed by moscow and take a look. these are the key evacuation routes that moscow has planned. the russian military now says it will unilaterally open the roots, leading eastward to russia every day, whether or not you have agrees. other directions are to be agreed upon with ukrainian side. on thursday, russia offered to give to open as many as 14 corridors. however, cave confirmed only 7 were in operation and opposed the evacuation of civilians to russian territory. moscow in turn,

says it's killed that has been deliberately hindering the evacuations. ukrainian refugee movement is described as one of the fastest and largest in recent years by humanitarian organizations, with most fleeing to neighboring poland. polish authorities estimate that on average 2 ukrainians cross the border every 3 seconds. you officials have confirmed the block has already received more than 2000000 people from ukraine and the u. n. warrens some 4000000 more ukrainians might leave their homeland in the coming days . many who have fled and many who remained in the conflict zone. they, they fear for their family all the time, the shooting. we hear this would be afraid to go to the give my family try to the europe shooting out and shouldn't be ready. but by sort of the things just situation is dire. we haven't raised our heads,

we've been under fire for 4 days. let the humanitarian convoy go to the city center so that people can at least have something to eat and drink. and at least so that they can send the news that they are alive and healthy, that ukrainian president vladimir zelinski says that around 100000 people in the last 2 days have managed to flee through the roots approved by cave. he accuses russia though, of not obeying a cease fire deal as well as blocking humanitarian aid to the done. yes. republic city of mario full, he says, key of is doing everything required to evacuate civilians. that rhetoric was echoed by the us secretary of state as well are also united in calling on the kremlin to immediately allow ukrainian civilians to safely depart the cities and towns of ukraine that are besieged by russian forces. every country has a responsibility to join us in pressing moscow to do this. this is not the time to equivocate by calling on both sides to allow civilians and ukraine cities to leave safely. doing so option option states,

the basic facts around why these corridors are necessary and who is blocking. earlier i spoke to former pentagon security analyst, michael maloof, who has a cave as well as washington, clearly want to direct the refugees westward. wearily, get in the western perspective over here over here in, in the united states. and we're not, we're not hearing what's going on on the other. on the other side. cave, of course, is looking westward and you have the eastern half of ukraine look in eastward and, and you hear from ukrainian government as well as the western governments. that, that, that, that it's a nonstarter to head into head into russia or into bella, roosters alternative corridors. and, but if they, if there are safe corridors, they ought to be taken to the near from the nearest corridor. i have not heard anything of russia saying that the,

that the citizens cannot return. once hostility cease, europe is going to be inundated here very, very shortly. if as projected some 4000000 ukrainians do head westward, it's going to be entirely disruptive even to western europe. so it's going to be a humanitarian crisis for all of europe as well. later in the program, russian military, vehicles and equipment are pushed to the limits as forces advanced towards give our correspondent reports from a russian military maintenance facility. meta decides to go against its own rules and allow some calls for violence against russian soldiers. reports also say that the tech giant will even let users call for the death of flooded we are putting and below russian president, alexander lucas shanker. as a result of the russian invasion of ukraine, we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate a rules like violence. fish,

such as death to the russian invaders were still willing to allow credible called for violence against russian civilians. the move back tracks on a policy adopted by the company 2 weeks ago to set up a special team to deal with hate speech and misinformation related to ukraine. facebook is among the platforms that have banned the russian state media in the u. end in ukraine. in compliance with government requests, sanctions harming ordinary russian citizens are unacceptable. that's how a representative of the un security general responded to measures taken by western powers against moscow and the acquisition that the sanctions will hinder. covered the vaccine deliveries. our principal physician has always been the sanctions on russia should avoid harming civilians. foreign companies have been pulling out of russia in response to the ukraine situation with major brands, including apple and mastercard, suspending operations. let me put and says that he will make every effort to keep

jobs in the country saying russia is open for business. meanwhile, fox news host tucker carlson wonders how those pushing to punish russia through the exodus of foreign firms will react if the move backfires. well, companies, apple, mastercard, lots of other american companies are taking victory laps or their role in punishing russia. great, punish russia. we're not against that. but you've got to wonder, you've just seen a handful of what corporations crash, a country, and impoverished at citizens indiscriminately. now that country is russia, so most of us aren't even thinking about the present itself. we're fine with it. it's russia who cares. but is it possible these same techniques might be used some day again, someplace or somebody that you care about? what if one morning you woke up and they decide that you're vladimir putin and you must be raised? and the anti russian rhetoric has seeped into international events as well as to

piano competitions have banned russian musicians amid an ongoing cultural backlash over the war and ukraine or cheese charlotte biscuit reports. this is a war against russia. we are told this is a war against puting. we will hold the kremlin accountable. the 25th decent were adding president putin and foreign secretary leverage to the list of sanctions. they are responsible for the deaths of innocent people in ukraine, in alignment with the decision by our european allies. united states will join them in sanctioning president putin, despite thought the west acts continues to fall on every day. russian citizens. whether that be the direct consequences of sanctions or measures that have been taken, he in europe take the situation in flanders in belgium, where new students from russia will now be excluded from a scholarship program that followed a request that came from ukraine. however, according to the flemish education minister,

the ban is about sleeping on the prussia. we're not doing this because we believe that all russians are guilty of the war, but we're doing it because we hope that measures like this will help to put pressure on those in power in russia. oh brussels. they were conflicting opinions on the measure with i don't find that fair in the sense that the russian people have little to do with this. i suppose most russians are anti war. it is not a good thing to do against russian students or any russians, but maybe it will work well. there are both santian pro russian opinions. we should be more nuanced and balanced in our views, which is quite rare and media. i don't think it's fair. i think to everyone deserves or education and i think the most population in russia, they don't want this war. they don't be concerned about this one pocket, very unpopular of the students because they're not responsible for the actual situation, like in the phantom things like that. but on the other side,

they do think that it's a measure need to be thick. and again, it's lucia in order to have a bit of an impact on what they're doing. cancelling all the events related to russia is also continuing in wales in the u. k. the court, if philharmonic orchestra has removed works by check kosky from its program at an upcoming concert, the once planned all tchaikovsky concert is now being substituted in light of the recent russian invasion of ukraine carter philharmonic orchestra field a previously advertised program including the $1812.00 over cio to be an appropriate at this time, though the move was apparently supposed to be in support of ukraine. the idea of cancelling music by a russian composer who died more than a 100 years ago, has provoked ridicule cancelling a tchaikovsky. concert is so deaf, ordinary russians will write it off as mad blad, overdoing the propaganda,

doubly absurd because tchaikovsky spent a lot of time in ukraine and incorporated a lot of ukrainian folk music and stories into his work. well, this is clearly no skin off. the nose of tchaikovsky for up and coming russian musicians being canceled is problematic. in island, the doubling international piano competition has decided that they are not welcome . it told one applicant at the he had been rejected, simply because he's russian. he was left wondering vase. i'm just curious, how will this help to stop the war? the anti russian rhetoric is though, now facing some backlash in the us. conservative commentator candace owens is one voice calling. it's out absolutely appalling. the way russians are being treated in america and rolled that our leaders and government institutions are allowing. busy

for the time calling for this discrimination following the global black lives matter, syria is quite telling russian lives. despite this, the march against russia in all levels of life continues the international cat federation, for example, which describes itself as the united nation of cats, has also got its claws out more keys who have found themselves unfortunate enough to have russian owners have been banned from the competitions. now, if that isn't katty, don't know what is geology. minsky, arti, paris sanctions against russia have already driven prices and other countries. thousands of albanians have held protests over significant price hikes. in recent days. protesters have accused the government of profiting from the price increased . fuel prices have gone up abruptly by 50 percent and food prices have also risen

significantly due to be surging transportation costs. the countries energy minister has urged albanians to cut spending on fuel for their view. senior british royal prince william is being called out over his comments on the war and ukraine. the 2nd in line to the throne apparently contrasted the crisis to conflicts in africa and asia, adding that quote, it's very alien to see this in europe. and the backlash was pretty fierce. so after your ancestors, prince william stole colonized cost genocide on so many lands. you decided to make this statement. your country was built on wars. it's literally your history. how do you have a 1000 gear history of colonialism, a literal 100 year war? launch 2 world wars allow multiple genocides and bama doesn't nation since 911 alone. yet make this type of a statement. prince william's comments regarding africa and asia are truly

atrocious. you wonder if people like him or that an educated or if this is all intentional, it's jarring that someone actually thinks europeans are civilized and superior and the rest of us are trash. at the same time, though, british weapons are playing a central role in the war in yemen. yemen has been ravaged by war since 2014, with a saudi led coalition fighting with the rebels to try and restore the as to government. what's happening in the region has long been labeled as one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with around 21000000 people in need of basic health. and yemen is not the only war torn country suffering massively right now, but receiving little to no attention. irish m e p. clair daily is appalled by the double standards. no wall to wall tv coverage, no emergency humanitarian response. no special cleanings, not even a mention. and dis plenary, no afghani delegations. i'm no statements might caught. they must be wondering what

makes their humanitarian crisis so on important is that the color their skin isn't that they're not white, they're not european, not their problems come from a u. s. gone or u. s. invasion. my god, all wars are evil and all victims to serve support. we heard from the chair, person of the islamic human rights commission, who explained that the u. s. has used models of democracy and freedom as protects for waging all of its wars in recent decades. destroying countries without criticism from the establishment media. when you look at sir hawk west, under the leadership of the united states, has sort of done what he's done from vietnam in africa, honest on in iraq and syria, and going into iraq on the skews of records of mass destruction

and destroying the nation and libya in our, in libya is, is come freely destroyed. it's been all done in the name of democracy and i'm, you know, they're not even ashamed of themselves. i actually think what makes me so frustrated is not they getting away with these murders in the name of to walk in human rights. but they're not even ashamed of the double standards. and they also see i'm sort of racism which on leaching and legitimizing as russian troops advance to the capital, key of logistic challenges have emerged with vehicles and equipment pushed to extremes. are correspondent. but again, you have sent us this report from a maintenance facility for russian military vehicles in premier the russian operation in ukraine. aside from being a colossal military challenges, is also

a tremendous technical challenge. tens of thousands of vehicles from tanks and armored personnel carriers that trucks have been deployed for this operation. and that requires a whole lot of maintenance and repair. the static duration of repair is one day from the moment that these vehicles are brought in to the moment that they are released for service. back to the front lines, we must of course, bear in mind the tremendous stresses that these vehicles enjoy. they can keep running full for days at a time engines life support systems targeting and communications. there's so much that could go wrong and cost lives out factor in the weather, minus $8.00 degrees celsius and southern ukraine. the mud, the snow, the rain and the constant fighting these particular forward bases focused on quick and clean repairs. vehicles damaged in fighting oil, which require extensive work,

are evacuated further back, parked here, also, ah seized captured ukrainian t. 72 types as well as armored personnel, carriers command and control vehicles. now none of this can be used by russian troops because 1st of all, it is unsafe. this hasn't undergone extensive testing in more than that. they are of dubious quality. you can perhaps tell for yourself, essentially as large scale conflicts often um this, he's a battle of logistics, and much of russia's focus has been on systematically degrading ukraine's ability to maneuver supply or even send orders to its troops out in the field. it seems the times it gives advice on how to explain the war and ukraine to children describing vladimir putin as like

a kid who wants to unfairly take someone's toy someone else's toy. in other words, ukraine or cheese on quarter comments. how to explain the russia and ukraine war to your children that the start this recent article in britain's, the times newspaper offers sound advice, remain calm, don't avoid the subject. and then out of nowhere this, he could say he's very angry because he feels he crane should belong to russia. it used to be in the soviet union. and it's as if he wants to take a tie back, a helpful comparison is that the other countries and like teachers and other adults saying, no, you can't take that, tie back. let's find another solution. perhaps the times believes children don't need to be taught more than one side of a dispute. after all, there's no mention of ukraine's neo fascist military brigades that have been indiscriminately bombing don boss civilians over the past 8 years, killing thousands. the 2014 torching of odessa trade union building in which dozens were killed,

key of stated desire to reconsider nuclear weapons. all this is left out. instead, parents are told to redirect their kids to reliable media like the b, b, c. make sure that you point them to be, be c, news and other reliable sources of information. make sure that they know that they can tell you what they have seen a rad without getting into trouble publicly funded british news provider that somehow carries the torture of reliability. more than other outlets. let's hear what the you case culture secretary has to say about that. i thing to be be see to believe they're absolutely right about every saying. and they have a world view and view the u. k, which is i think sometimes there is wrong. and of course we can forget to point the finger at russia for nuclear fear mongering as to the nuclear threat. he could say put and has said that, but his country would be the 1st to be destroyed if he deed. so he would never take that risk. i don't think he could also say,

i don't think other countries wouldn't allow him to take that risk while the blame seems to be entirely thrown on to the shoulders of latimer putin. no mention at all is given to the british foreign secretaries comments, which moscow says provoked raising its nuclear readiness, and it's vitally important that patients ambitions stop in ukraine a where he's put he stated publicly that he won't sing we gain control voss, ways of eastern europe, whether it's poland, mo, dave, in the baltics, we must make sure that we are doing all we can to back the ukrainian resistance. that's for the russian president, taking other kids toys. the times conveniently says nothing about the fact that putin has already said he doesn't need anything new. we have them when i say, when we do not plan to occupy ukraine, we're not going to post anything on anyone by force. instead of teaching parents how to reassure their kids at a time of war, it seems like taking advice from this article. we're just churned out

a new generation lacking critical thinking skills. all things considered though it would make it easier to justify keeping the west's main foreign policy target down . with ukraine accusing the u. s. of abandoning it. washington's allies are now beginning to question the value of america's friendship. our correspondent killed mopping. comments. ukraine seems to have gotten the point. if you're an ally of the united states, you might get left out to dry. you're not a member of the nato alliance. there's no guarantee that the united states will really have your back. i have called down regarding this question a long time ago. nature is not prepared to accept ukraine. the alliance is afraid of controversial things. kosovo understands the same thing. it is imperative that brussels as the capital of both nato and the you rethink a new way of enlargement in the western balkans. both e, u membership and nato membership cannot be done in the old ways. there are plenty

of recent examples of washington washing it's hands. for example, take afghanistan. now this isn't an ally as such, but the united states spent 20 years investing and occupying the country and building up the nato back government. and then when it fell, the united states left the country and chaos. with extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill,

bravely and selfless courage of united states, military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. it was designed to save american lives. here's another example, then as rayleigh, the united states has been claiming that juan guido is the legitimate president of venezuela. they've turned over the venezuelan embassy and venezuela mission's in the united states to his control. but now the united states is reconfiguring its oil imports due to sanctions on russia here this evening. so very brave man who carries with him the hope, streams and aspirations of all venezuelans. joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela won. why do senior official for travelling to venezuela on saturday to meet with the government of presidency? goes madura as the binding administration steps our efforts to separate russia from its remaining allies, emmett, whitening, stand up over ukraine. even

a long term allies of the united states are starting to reconfigure their relationship with washington. saudi arabia may not return biden's calls when it comes to discussing ukraine, but they're happy to speak with putin. whitehouse spokesperson jen. saki is reiterating biden's words about making the country a pariah state. meanwhile, the crown prince of saudi arabia is overseeing a complete flip in foreign policy. he says he wants to work things out with both iran and israel. we don't look at israel as an enemy. we look to them as a potential ally with many interests that we can pursue together. we have to solve some issues before we get to that. they are our neighbors, neighbors forever. we cannot get rid of them and they cannot get rid of us. so it's better for us to both work it out and to look for ways in which we can co exist. hopefully we can reach a position that's good for both countries. and it's going to create a brighter future for this country. and iran,

the united states likes to build up forces around the world that can do their bidding. the usa loves to provide weapons and media propaganda support when it comes to countries that can help them achieve their geo political goals. however, looking over how quickly the honeymoon can and has many around the world, wondering whether or not washington is what they call a fair weather friend. caleb martin, r t new york. the china is foreign ministry has accused the u. s. of spreading this information over beijing's stance on the ukraine conflict, saying washington's only trying to deflect attention away from its own culpability . the u. s. has been disseminating. does information about china over the ukraine issue in an attempt to shift blame, stow confrontation and profit from the issue? the practice as despicable and malicious? beijing says a new york times article falsely accused it of having prior knowledge of russia's military operation in ukraine, and that

u. s. officials were complicit. spreading this information. we discussed the issue with a chinese political expert who says the western establishment media appears motivated to support the u. s. i think there's a political motivation on the side all the america media for sure, but at the same time for what is transpiring now, in your quain and also in europe, ease causing concerns to beating. i read quite a number off thing, 10 res ports from the america, and they were somehow consistently portraying a picture that in russia is being beholden to china because russia has to rely on chinese finance for his energy, oil and other things. yeah, i think these are something burying the u. s. the u. s. is obviously they also want to you make use of the ukraine crisis to, to trying to divide by russia and china. that does it for me this hour. i will be

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