countries are doing everything in their power to prolong the conflict. this approach is starting ukraine into a failed state. ah, mecca breaks its own wolf to allow quotes for violence against russian soldiers amid the ukraine conflict. with the instagram owner insisting the move won't lead to innocent people being targeted. however, the u turn has already spoke concerns of you in human rights office. there's no such thing as fast tracking a station you leaders respond to the ukrainian president good to frankly join the block within countries. they fight against ordinary russian citizen. as the countries, musicians are now bought from international piano competitions and we get feedback from the russian public. if we push it, just very supportive. if we look at what's happening with our cultural thing here at our media, then 1 may ask, where is democracy or human rights here, it's

a kind of recipe, or, and hysteria around the world. it's politics and politics shouldn't affect the lives of people with welcome to the international on policy clear with the team here in moscow cabin use and breaking developments. thank you so much for joining us. but 1st, let's have a look at the latest major developments on the situation in ukraine. bushes military said it would observe a limited cease fire on friday to allow civilians to evacuate to secure wounds proposed by moscow. these are the key evacuation was planned by the kremlin. the russian military ad said it will unilaterally open the boots leading eastward to russia. if we de whether or not you have agreed on thursday, russia off a kid to open as many as 14 car doors,

whether ukraine concerned only 7 when operation, and opposed the evacuation of civilians to russian territory. according to the united nations, 2 and a half 1000000 people have fled ukraine since the conflict erected last month. moscow says that kit has banned, may as of ukrainian cities from any humanitarian context with russia. russia's military earlier announced that the nits were public's army, had gained control of the city of volcano vatcher. vladimir putin has been lit the proposal to transfer military equipment to captured from ukrainian forces to break away don bass republics. and at a meeting with his belly button counterpart and said that all positive improvement in peace talks in the details coming up in the program. but yes, social media giant may have again broken its own rules to allow nationality based hate messages. this time to support public cause for violence against russian soldiers. the firm which owns instagram,

what's up and facebook will also reportedly let users call for the death of the russian and bell russian presidents. the move has shocked even the human human rights office, which says it will talk to the american multinational. and there's already been a massive online backlash. we don't allow hate speech except against certain people from a certain country. is one hell of a can of worms. when hate speech calls for violence, death, threats, and praise for neo nazis are considered acceptable by matter because of war, but only against the enemy. then they are clearly state affiliated media. they're also directly promoting and encouraging conflict violence and war. facebook is changing its hate speech policy so that some users can call for violence against russians. and you can support the good nazis to the company claims. the decision is temporary and comes in connection with russia's special operation in ukraine. metal will reportedly lift its hate speech restrictions for uses only from some european

states, including russia and ukraine. the tech giant, however insist the decision is not aimed at inciting violence against ordinary people. it comes to weeks after matter, established a special operation center in order to tackle hate speech on the platform and remove content that insides violence. yet it's policy you turn will also allow be previously banned. praise for kids in the or nazi as of battalion quotes in the context of defending ukraine. here's a look at the infamous militia group at the heart of the current fighting. ah, independent journalist, thomas hooper, says tech giant simply mirror washington's foreign policy. well there was this an

old nice word for it. it's good, quite receive them. we can even call it fresh, isn't this new nationalist when america to clear somebody, somebody in an enemy, all these companies go that way and money is not as important as politics from and right now we see it with russia. it's not about money, not about business. this denise are not commercial companies, these instruments and, and now we have radical, i'm q, rush, russian policy in the west of these companies. support this and facebook is just the most radical example. the internet companies always care about politics and they always have the same opinion, like what the ukranian refugee movement is described as one of the fastest and largest in recent years by humanitarian organizations. with most people fleeing to neighboring poland, polish authorities estimate that on average to ukrainians cross the border. if we 2nd, you officials have confirmed the blocks already received more than 2000000 people

from ukraine, with germany, l gentle dove, and other countries. they have been overwhelmed by the influx. many who have fled, say they fear for the families live all the time, the shooting. we hear this will be afraid to go to the give my family try to the europe a, shooting out and we shouldn't ready. but by sort of in or just things at a meeting with his belly button counterpart vladimir putin has noted positive changes in moscow key of towards an agreement on evacuation. car doors has been a point of contention between cube and moscow. since the 3rd round of bilateral talks last week, and 2 queens president has repeatedly accused russia of not being a sci fi, a deal for civilian safe students must go in turn saves, it's kids that's been deliberately preventing people from feeling washes, military has announced that the dentist republics army has taken control of the

city of vulnerable her the science of intense fighting in recent days. but civilians having found themselves caught in between the war and fives. worn over her is 60 kilometers from the city of the next a march. the 1st, the russian and ukrainian sides agreed to open humanitarian corridors for civilians . though they still haven't managed to function as intended. an ot crew went to the city in question and talk to locals, who have had to hide in basements. ah, val, navajo is a small town of $20000.00 inhabitants. it's turned into one of the hottest spots on the dawn of us frond with intense fighting going on for days. the situation is changing every 10 minutes. mm

oh, the elderly women and children have been trapped in damp basements for more than a week now. mm. don't ask republics. forces share food and medicine ah, acidic, just you said a hostage elsewhere, relatively mauled as others have sat in basement for a week. now it's been like help for us for 4 days. we didn't think we would leave for if you both yesterday, a projectile peers to the roof where the kids bedroom is even move of sheer 3 of them and we're simply cut off. nobody announced anything i wish someone would have just driven by and told us, for example, when they're going to get people out. but now they just shoot. and that said, we're sitting here and we are afraid to leave me. the cross live now to a un security council meeting that was combined at the request of russia and which

was the gun. it comes off to moscow, says had recently found documents that showed components of biological well as it were made in ukrainian laboratories with funding from the united states. it's listening. i'm the and not a whole to council will now begin it's consideration of item 2 of the agenda. i now give the floor to miss rosemary decarlo. madam president, the war in ukraine is now in its 3rd week fighting continues unabated. the russian armed forces are pursuing their offensive operations and laying siege to several cities in the south east and north of the country. a large concentration of russian forces is reportedly massed along several approaches to the capital. give the situation is particularly alarming, and maria pal harkey,

sumi in cheer and heave, where there is shelling of residential areas and civilian infrastructure, resulting in an increasing number of civilians killed and injured. the utter devastation being visited on the cities is horrific. the numbers bear out the conclusion that civilians are paying the highest price for the conflict. as of 11 march, the office of the high commissioner for human rights has recorded a total of 1546 civilian casualties. including 564 killed and 982 injured since the start of the invasion on 24 february o h c h r. believe's. the real casualty figures are likely considerably higher as information from locations whose intense hostilities are ongoing has been delayed. and reports are still pending corporation. most of the recorded civilian casualties,

which include children, have been caused by explosive weapons, with a wide impact area, including heavy artillery and multi launch rocket systems and missile an air strikes. o h c h r. has received credible reports of russian forces using cluster munitions, including in populated areas indiscriminate attacks including those using cluster munitions which are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction are prohibited under international humanitarian law. direct attacks against civilians and civilian objects, as well as so called area bombardment, in towns and villages are also prohibited under international law and may amount to war crimes. as of 10 march,

the world health organization has verified 26 attacks on health facilities, health workers, and ambulances, causing 12 deaths and 34 injuries. this includes the bombing of them. are you pull maternity hospital, a 9 march. we condemn such attacks without reservation. they cause not only death and destruction, they also deprived people of urgently needed care and endanger more lives. we cannot emphasize it enough. the targeting of civilians of residential buildings, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, is inexcusable, and intolerable. all alleged violations of international human law must be investigated and those found responsible held accountable. madam president, millions of people in ukraine need urgent assistance. this includes 2000000 internally displaced people. we are scaling up humanitarian aid in areas where

security permits more than half a 1000000 people are now receiving assistance, including life saving, food, shelter, blankets, and medical supplies. the united nations in our partners have developed operational plans to meet humanitarian needs, where they are most acute this work needs funding over 1500000000 dollars was pledged to the appeals last week. we are grateful for this generosity and encourage donors to release the funding quickly. madam president, it is critical to urgently achieve a succession of hostilities to allow for the safe passage of civilians from besieged areas and to ensure that life saving humanitarian supplies can reach those or remain on 9 march over 50. 1000 people were reportedly evacuated through 5 out of 6,

agreed upon safe passages. these safe passages must continue. they should be implemented with clear principles and modalities. civilian should be duly in timely informed of the possibility, to leave the concerned areas. and on a voluntary basis and in the direction they choose to expand life saving assistance and services to those most in need, humanitarian actors must also have safe, rapid, unimpeded, and sustained access to all areas. we commend the humanitarian actors on the ground who are staying in delivering, in a highly volatile situation. madam president, the number of refugees from ukraine has reached 2500000 people. these numbers continue increasing by the day. we also come in the countries that have kept their boarders open to welcome and support refugees. all people, flynn ukraine,

including 3rd country nationals need access to state safety and protection in line with the principle of non reform meant and without any form of discrimination. madam president, the need for negotiations to stop the war in ukraine could not be more urgent. we note the 3 rounds of talks held thus far between ukrainian in russian delegations. we call for such efforts to intensify, including to further secure humanitarian and ceasefire arrangements. as a matter of priority, we urged the sides to build on their contacts, such as the meeting yesterday between the foreign ministers of ukraine and the russian federation. and until your turkey, the logic of dialogue in diplomacy must prevail over the logic of war. the secretary general is grateful to the many member states working in pursuit of a diplomatic solution to this dangerous conflict. he is in regular contact with

regional and other leaders. and his good offices remain available. madam president, let me affirm the u. s. commitment to ukraine sovereignty independence and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders as the war girl grains on. there's already much ruth reflection about its implications beyond the tragedy it represents for ukraine. we increasingly here the use of terms such as turning point, defining moment, end of multilateralism. i believe this is not an exaggeration. indeed, some consequences are already being felt economically and politically. perhaps most alarming of the risks, the violence poses to the gullible framework for peace and security. we must do everything we can to find a solution and put an end to this war. and we must do it now. thank you,

madam president. ash got a say the decarlo. i thank you miss decarlo for her briefing. i now give the floor to mrs. lumina, coming to thank you madam person. madam president, distinguished members of the security council. i thank council members for the opportunity to brief you this morning. i am away of reports that certain public health facilities are in areas impacted by on conflict, preaching the safety of those facilities at risk. i appealed to all parties in this conflict to ensure the safety of all such facilities in ukraine. i am a way of media reports regarding allegations of biological weapons programs that united nations is not aware of any biological weapons programs. that is largely

thanks to the 1972 biological weapons convention which prohibits the development production acquisition transfer spoke binding and use of biological and taxing weapons. the russian federation and ukraine are both states parties to the convention. in addition, the russian federation is the depository government. under the convention, all states parties to the convention have undertaken never in any circumstances to develop, produce stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain biological weapons. my muscular weapons have been all flawed since the b w. c entered into force in 1975. a total of $183.00 states have now joined a convention, and biological weapons are universally seen as being abhorrent and illegitimate.

the b w. c. lux, a multinational verification mechanism overseen by an independent organization such as the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. therefore, assessing compliance with its obligations is a task for its states parties. madam president, despite the lack of an international verification regime, the biological weapons convention, thus however, contained several measures to which concerns states, parties can have recourse in order to address situations in which states parties have concerns or suspicions about the activities of their peers. for example, article 5 of the convention states that and i quote, the states parties to this the convention undertake to consult one another and to corporate in solving any problems which may arise in relation to the objective off

or in the application of the provisions of this convention and of coach. within the framework of article 5, states parties have established an annual exchange of information. based upon the submission of confidence building measures. states parties must declare information about relevant facilities and activities on their territory in order to prevent or reduce the occurrence of ambiguous doubts and suspicions between them. the russian federation and ukraine both participate annually in the confidence building measures. the annual report submitted by the russian federation and ukraine are available to all b, w. c. states parties for the purposes of transparency and reassurance.

in addition, and also within the framework of article 5 of the convention states, parties of developed procedures for clarifying ambiguous and unresolved matters. including the possible convening of a formal consultative meeting to consider such matters. article 6 of the convention states that and i quote, any state party to this convention which finds that any other state party is acting in breach of obligations deriving from the provisions of a convention, may lodge a complaint with the security council. if agreed by the security council, an investigation on the basis of the complaint a complaint received could be initiated. article 6 of the convention has never been activated. while these provisions have not been regularly used, they are nonetheless internationally agreed procedures that are available to be use

to diffuse tensions and to address and resolve any concerns relating to compliance with obligations under the b, w. c. in a multilateral setting. i would therefore encourage b, w. c, state parties to consider make, making use of the available procedures for consultation and cooperation in order to resolve these issues. madam president, distinguished members of the security council situation such as this demonstrate the need to strengthen the b, w. c. to operationalize it and to institutionalize it. i would therefore like to take this opportunity to encourage it states parties to come to the conventions. 9th review conference scheduled to take place in geneva. later in 2022. committed to a series of overhaul of the convention to ensure it is properly equipped and resourced

. to deal with the challenge is ahead. madame president, distinguished members of the security council. to conclude my statement, i would like to take this opportunity to address the warring issue of the safety and security of nuclear power plants in ukraine. an accident involving nuclear facilities in ukraine could have severe consequences for public health and environment. and all steps must be taken to avoid it. the possibility of an accident caused by failure to react as power supply or the inability to provide regular maintenance is growing by the day. the forces in effective control of nuclear power plants in ukraine must ensure their safe and secure operation. i am extremely concerned that 4 of the international atomic energy agency i, ace 7 pillars of the safe and secure operations of facilities are reportedly not

being implemented at chernobyl. and sorry, portia communications must be fully restored and operating staff must be allowed to properly carry out their duties and to do so free of undue pressure. i would like to echo the sector general support for i aide director general groceries who efforts to develop a framework to ensure the safety and security of ukraine's facilities and welcome the constructive meetings he held in turkey on 10th of march with the foreign ministers of ukraine. and the russian federation, i thank you very much for your attention. now say the nothing i sang miss like i'm, it's with her, her briefing. i now give the floor to those council members who wish to make statements. i give the floor to their preventative of the russian federation.

i was purpose. madam president, was distinguished colleagues. the grown of ers pandemic, covey 19 pandemic has shown us how long durable human count kind is when facing biological threats. it has already taken and continue, sir, taking a huge number of human lives in 1975 for when the convention on bonding the biological and talks in weapons convention came into force. we had the hope without the world to manage to get rid itself for over at least those biological threats to which are created by men. because everyone saw who signed as understood the huge risk. so using biological weapons and decided to forego any plans to develop it is really unfortunately, we have a reason to believe that these hopes have not been fully fulfilled

week. so what we can even convene the meeting today, because as russia is conducting a special note or operation in college, and your brain away discovered a truly shocking marks of emergency clean up by the key of regime of the traces of a military biological program, which is being implemented by k of, with its support by the united states, ministry of defense was with our ministry of defense, russian ministry, over to benson. and now it has documents which confirmed so on the territory of ukraine. there was a network consisting of at least a 30 biological laboratories, in which very dangerous biological experiments would be conducted, named at his strengthening the pathogenic qualities of the people. li anthrax lead to a re, me are a little cholera and other lethal diseases using

synthetic biology that i will do this work is being done and funded and supervisor by the defense, threat or reduction agency of the united states, including in the interest of the national center for medical intent intelligence, united of the united states minister of defense. the key role in implementing this program was placed by the central referenced laboratory with the bomb biosafety level 3. i was using forwards the basis of the ukrainian scientific or anti plague institute, named after mentioned to go by located in odessa have an active participant here, was also conducted by research centers and other cities of ukraine and key of involvement. hi, coffin napper in have san enter noble in oscar road. and when is the result of this work or being sent to the military biological centers in the united states,

including into the u. s. army medical research institute into infectious diseases into the walter reed army institute. of research into the naval medical research of a u. s. navy and into the u. s. army of biological warfare laboratory in fort detrick's. even though you, which used to be a being key facilities of the american program to develop biological when bondsville, all of these materials are available on the website of our ministry of defense and our minister of defense is a, of describing them in the course of their daily briefings, let me just dwell on the more salient examples. our military became aware of the details of the project you people before which was being conducted in laboratories of key of hot cove and a desktop. the goal is to study the possibility of spreading particular dangers and infections using migratory birds. and this includes a highly pathogenic influenza,

h $5.00 and $1.00 whose aletha valley t 4 people reach as 50 percent, as well as in the new castle disease room. here there was another project, a where the a vector of though potential agents of biological weapon baths were considered good amongst priority areas for a study. they include the bacterial and viral pathogens that could spread from baths to people, such as the plague left us viruses and as well as file virus viruses. and corona viruses. as you can see from the project doc, them in the united states actively funded the biological projects in your brain. experiments were being conducted to study this spread of dangerous diseases using act up, act of parse parasites such as license please. even then mon specialists understand the such experiments, one of the more i, one of the more reckless because they do not give you an opportunity to control how

the situation is going to develop further. similar studies using the lice and fee of fleas as agents were conducted in $19.00 forties by the infamous squad 731 of the japanese army whose members by the way, found refuge in the united states and the escaped justice grandmother. ukraine has a unique geographical location, a whole number over migratory roots cross there for potential spreaders of disease, and many of them go through russia and eastern europe. the research i just mentioned to her was conducted in the very heart of eastern europe and an immediate proximity of the russian border books we did as saw. that other data we received shows us the birds which were ringed and were lisa as a result of bio research in arizona zoo, they were called in ivana.