ah ah, over 200000 people pack into a moscow sport stadium to celebrate the 8th anniversary of crimea, rejoining russia. also ahead on the program, british media regulator off. com revoke star t's broadcasting license siding the current conflict in ukraine on the channels quote, relationship with the russian federation party slums. the watchdog to move as politically motivated with russia provides un security council members with new evidence that it saves further cement. it's claims that biological weapons were being developed on ukrainian territory under a u. s. on the nato program. we hear the russian representative to the un key

points on the matter that's all ahead in the program. ah, with a warm welcome to the news round up here on our t international pleasure to help you with this. i'm o'neil. we begin in moscow, where were 200000 people packed a stadium on friday to celebrate the 8th anniversary of crimea, rejoining russia. the concert kicked off with the russian anthem fe, capitals biggest sports complex to lucian nicki. of thousands of people watching on from the stones. those in attendance got the chance to take part in the video call with the crime in city of some estoppel. the event is called try me in spring, dedicated to the historic referendum in the peninsula officially became part of russia. again. all of the many in attendance was president vladimir putin with this

lucas group. but actually pursuing pnl done by the people who lived and still live in the dumbass did not agree with the coo punitive military operations when immediately launched against them and not just warm. yet they were immediately plunged into a blockade subjected to systematic shelling from canons and air strikes. if you mike, this is what is called genocide. also it is to save people from the suffering in this genocide. that is the main vest. the principal reason, the motivating reason and the goal of the military operation that we have launched in the dumbass and of ukraine locally. we are a multinational people of the russian federation, united by a common destiny on our land. this is the 1st line of the constitution of russia, and every word is filled with deep meaning on their own land, united by a common destiny that this is what people in crimea probably thought when they went to the referendum on march, the 18th, 2014, they live and live on their own land,

and wanted to live a common destiny with their historical homeland russia. they had every right to do so and they achieve their goal. let's congratulate them on the holiday, their holiday. congratulations, i'm not the were martha. ok, let's turn the program to ukraine known as south east city of murray. you, paul, which has been under a lent las bombardment since russian a troop surrounded it. on march. the 2nd, the russian defense ministry seize ukrainian. nationalists forces have attempted to capture the cities infrastructure and some 90 per cent of buildings had been damaged. on monday, moscow said it had sent 450 tons of medicine, food essential supplies to maria. pull up to $400000.00 people are still thought to be trapped with supplies running outs. when you're trying to flee the war torn city using a she military encourage or 2 separate rogia which was opened 3 days ago. according

to local authorities. as many as 30 fellers and people molest to escape at through the route so far using personal vehicles who's fleeing told us what they've been through. we were in the cellar for almost a week did not try to get out. strikes were so hard that it was impossible to go outside. now a large flow of people will go through the corridors. it will only increase. there is no city there any more. there are no means of communication or radio in the cellar. there was no water. absolutely, nothing was what we saw, the donuts at people's army. they kept open the corridor. the evacuation was organized centrally shows. soldiers of the ukrainian army were standing on the highway in front of everyone and putting on civilian clothes in order to join the column. yes, it is pure luck that we got out of mary. you, paul, we rushed out of the seller at our own risk. as soon as we left the city, we saw the dough nets at people's army. children and women were placed in buses. i know nothing about the men behind them. soldiers of the ukrainian army were very

violent. people were taken hostage by they did it, let us out just to hide behind our backs a people in odessa. meanwhile, another city on the countryside coast, being building some bike defenses and barricades in order to defend the region from the arrival of russian forces. the port city is home to around 1000000 citizens. although an estimated 100000 have already left since the conflict b laughs of the un season with 3000000 refugees. i've now fled ukraine since the start of the conflict, almost 2 thirds of escaped to near bring poland, which has overwhelmed the country's public services. while the czech republic has said it no longer has the capacity to accept those fleeing due to a lack of resources, the refugee in flux is seen by humanitarians as one of the very worst in european history. ok to another story. now,

britain's media regulator has decided to revoke our t license to broadcast and u. k. that is happening with immediate effect off come cited the current conflict in ukraine and the channels quote, relationship with the russian federation. r t islam. the movers politically motivated, calling the watchdog to of the u. k. government policy or talk me through developments earlier. normally when a channel is banned, you would imagine if a band in relation to the content that is full costing. and what we see here is that in fact, instead of fighting any kind of reasons related to content, it rather talks about the fact in terms of who funds the channel. the fact that the, the ban order comes and he's related to russia's military operation in ukraine. this investigation has taken the count of a number of factors including artes, relationship with the russian federation. it is recognised, the art is funded by the russian state which has recently invaded a neighboring sovereign country. we also note new laws in russia which effectively

criminalize any independent journalism that the parts and emotion states news, narrative, and particular relation to the invasion of ukraine. we consider that given these constraints that appears impossible for artie to comply with the jew impartiality rules while broadcasting code in the circumstances, just a pick up and wall of the was remarks then by off come that line saying as regards the ukraine conflict, we cannot be satisfied that our see can be responsible, broadcast her in the current circumstances, not in their own words, their investigation into alleged bias. some $29.00 separate probes hasn't even concluded. so how did they justify them? that's an important point because as you say, these investigations are ongoing. and in the past and the reference, the fact that they have been investigations in the past, i say number of those investigations have found that art was actually okay. so they haven't actually mentioned that there is the possibility to clear r t of wrong doing. why don't want to think is significant is they make and they

statement a big deal out of the fact that they speak the freedom of speech and that they're not against different point of view. and again, they haven't mentioned any kind of particular reasons why they banding us. these are v are content. if you take a look at this, we recognize that he is currently off air in the u. k. as a result of sanctions imposed by the use of the invasion of ukraine commenced, we take seriously the importance in our caustic society of a broadcast, his right to freedom of expression and the audience his right to receive information and ideas without undue interference. we also take seriously the importance of maintaining audience trust and public confidence in the case broadcasting regulatory regime. so i definitely think that finding a channel that is effectively only explaining its ideas is, is no way against freedom of speech. it's also significant in terms of the, the timing of this, it comes off to conversations were held in the british parliament and the british government that effectively pushed off come to make this decision to ban us. and

there have been cause in the past by british official publicly calling to silence the channel. so the 50 is a, a, a political kind of impact. the reason for the decision, i'm one of the rti itself, what the channel said. well, the channel, the expect of the decision to come forward, of course, is it points out the freedom of speech. and the fact that the british media regulated is supposed to be independent art. he feels that it is censorship. and it's at the bob's, the public of the right to know of calm, has shown the u. k, public and the regulatory community internationally. the, despite a well constructed facade of independence, it is nothing more than a tool of government bending to its media suppressing will, by ignoring ortiz, completely clean record of 4 consecutive years, and stating purely political reasons, tied directly to the situation in ukraine, and yet completely an associate taught is operations, structure management,

or each tauriel put off. com has full c george artie to not be fit and proper and in doing so rock d u. k. public of access to information. we spoke to arthur and former british diplomats, william mullins, son who insist that people not the state should have the right to decide what information they absorb. i'm not the least surprised from the country when the government that has been holding has a political prison called julian sounds who, who told the truth and the americans instructed england, britain to keep them as a political prisoner. this is a purely political move devoid of and any intelligent thinking. it makes the, the demonize ation of a very good people. the russian people increases that demonize ation. it's also let me tell you my view extremely insulting to people because people should be allowed to use their brains. and in order to use their brains,

they need to see all information and compare one against the other. russia has provided un security council members with new pillaged evidence stuff. it's a proof the development of biological weapons on ukrainian territory. andrew, u. s. a national program rushes permanent. representative to the body of silly the bends here introduced the motor. did you, missouri was up also this is a week ago on the request of the russian federation. that was the 1st to catch a council meeting held on this topic. here we asked our western colleagues a series of questions, but they haven't yet responded to them. the representative, the u. s. wasn't able to explain how the statements of the american officials about how there is allegedly no u. s. controlled by laboratories on lee crane. how that tallies with the fact of the present of documentary proof of this kind of cooperation between kevin washington over last week. a new details have come to light,

which allows just state that the components for biological weapons were being created on the territory of ukraine. the dog security council document that we distributed this morning and you see in that material you can see the so called to take technical assistance class for certain recipients of the ukrainian ministry of defense. i recommend you to look at this document very carefully when your book will go, it confirms direct funding and supervision of the pentagon and it's defense threat reduction agency of military and biological projects and ukraine. the overall quantity of the funding was $32000000.00 and the direct and the money went directly to the following. the borrower trees in the, from the ministry of defense of ukraine. but good, good. so the compensation provided for working alongside dangerous biological science. this is not to the noble assistance ukraine at the american representatives talk about is a cynical use of its territory and population for dangerous research,

which washington does not care out on its own territory. so it doesn't run a risk of hurting his own people who left cross to worry about urgent session took place, new york and speak to a journalist and author a daniel lazar. daniel, welcome to the program. do you find the points made by the russian diploma? credible in particular, what did you make of the agreement? he said had been made between the ukrainian health ministry and u. s. military agencies. well, i think the u. s. essentially paying the price for its w. m. d. propaganda against iraq more than 20 years ago. and so the us made these allegations based, spurious evidence and therefore when those those charges were exposed as. busy false, the u. s. suffered and immense below to its credibility. so now the u. s. has revealed, is confirmed that it has more than a dozen bio labs in the ukraine. it's offered various explanations for the

existence of these, these labs, which makes sense. so we're seeing really quite dubious, and it seems to be quite shocked and surprised that the world is not accepting it. explanations at face value that it wants to know more. and the the u. s. tried to blame this on our far right, when conspiratorial. ready websites, et cetera, et cetera as a whole thing is like nose as they made up controversy, but it's not true. the world has reason to doubt the u. s. explanation. it wants to know more, it's concerned to know more. and i think these, these concerns are entirely legitimate. they deserve to be given a thorough erring. and i think the un security council should make that clear. i would suggest, particularly, so after coming out of a 2 year pandemic, i don't think there's any better time as you say, the dell of into that in terms of diplomacy though,

is it constructive at all to simply dismiss rush is point as just incredible. i think the words were used by washington. no, it's not. it's not an all constructive. i mean, is it the u. s. essentially and the u. s. and allies, nato are trying to create a black and white world where, where truth is entirely on the side of the united states and fall side is entirely on the side of russia. and this is obviously a comic book of view of the world and may work in hollywood, but it doesn't work in there and the real world and the, the real world, definitely perceives contradictions, ambiguities, etc, and wants to have a more thorough explanation. and that strikes me as entirely legitimate and by the way that it pertains not only the question of bio labs, but to a lot of other issues raised by this war, such as the influence of neo nazis and the ukrainian government. just to put

something to as well word a term that's been used a lot recently. false flag operation done the some international representatives interpreted, rushes speech of the council as a prelude to, to just that is not assumption. something that you could 1st see is russia trying to divert attention away from the conflict with this, or is this something bigger than that? well, 1st of all, the u. s. has offered no evidence whatsoever about flaw thought flag operations being planned by russia. and this is something the u. s. did, can constantly during the, during the g, hardy assault on syria, after 2011, it constantly accused the b. assad government using poison gas planted, use poison gas, etc. of course, the accused saddam hussein, the same of the same thing prior to the 2003 invasion of iraq. there is no

evidence of non whatsoever the u. s. has offered, suggesting that rushes, engaging in a false flag operation and 12 in the use of w. m. d, 's weapons of mass destruction. there's no evidence at all. and there's no reason to think that russia would do that. so the u. s. u. s. charges are completely unsubstantiated with just to wrap up on the wall. you touched on it. why are so many western diplomats so sure that these by weapons programs do not exist? no chance of it. because that they, there's a war going on and, and war definitely is truth that the, the, the 1st victim, but so as, so as you know, ambiguity questioning, critical thinking, etc. so you know, so the idea of looking at a problem, both sides is completely, you know, goes completely out. the window assumes the bullet starts flying. so i,

so the, the western nations, nato, are the know what they are told, towing the u. s. line back in the us up completely and, and essentially repeating every outrageous charge that emanates out of washington. the thoughts of journalist a, north, 3rd down the lists are live in the program. thank you tony. thank you. ok. despite the international pressure to isolate moscow, pakistan is pressing ahead with plans to finalize a multi $1000000000.00 gas pipeline to be built by russian, the pockets on stream pipeline, also known as the north side. project will transport liquefied natural gas from the southern ports, the karate, to pakistan's north, according to the countries finance minister, a deal with moscow to build a pipeline is almost done. we heard from islam abad base political analyst, shaheed rosa, who compared pakistan on germany's policies and said the former can separate

politics and economics. well, this is the current reality of our time, the germans and the rpm continue to buy gas from russia. so if the rpms are allowed to me to separate their economic policies from the legal policies, i think the same standard should extent other countries as well. and that is exactly what box on it's holding. it is following an independent foreign policy that is independent of crisis and contracts, which do not directly threaten bug spawns interests, which ukraine, in no shape or form directly threat historian, dark infections, bought something for so i understand there's a lot of pressure on the current government issued by the sun because they've taken such a bold stance. they're not, they're not openly coming out and taking a position, but i think what they're doing is consistent with what its own country would. thank you. ok. now, as the russian military offensive continues to unfold in ukraine,

the u. s. army held this 1st combat training session with japan on tuesday. last year, the u. s. government announced that will boost military spend by 2022 and impose a missile network on a chain of islands that includes taiwan. the japanese island to book an hour on this philippines, china, for its part, sees the territory as its line of defense and is striving to prevent us myself from being base. there me, let's trust live now to political unless chinned out true for his take its pleasure to have you on the program. do you think the u. s. new to strengthen its military presence in the region? is going to see really tense relations with china. just further deteriorate. oh, mediately, we know that the us has established the quad system. you know, there's a secure different word with india, with japan,

with australia target in china. and then last year they had this office, they know with the okay. and also earlier to provide to nuclear number in to all really up, again, cargo in china. and of course, the latest days about the base, the defense program on the so called the 1st the chin island dana target in china again. so this is always did not help me at all to see the lease. and also actually it is the, you know, basically adding to the growing or lack of speech in the 2 countries. if you see the problem like a nowhere went by then came to always remember a lot of people in china, but also in the us. the expect, the by the government to reverse the course of the very turbulent relationship with a ton of the us and trump ministration. then when biting came to power one year lease with that he had no intention to change course. basically the used data,

the hobby at the trench, the tunnel policy that beautiful at the number one opponent or number one bible or some kind of enemy. so the doing whatever the crime basically to contain china and try to keep china. this is a part of the effort to say, yet you've touched in a lot of the points i was going to bring up, but just the overall picture. then why do you think the u. s. is boosting its military presence in the indoor pacific region. just to summarize it. i think, you know, the us is the country. it was hard to understand just for a lot of chinese bits. they be from how they have to find that the enemy. pardon the reasoning that say like attorneys growing so rapidly, trying to replace the us to become number one, economy to become the number one most opponent country in the world that's from the u. s. cannot accept. remember in the mind, many americans that will, that will be the number one and it will remain number one in the word like the us

will continue to lead to the world for another 100 years. so the never think of like a become yet. number 2, that's a problem when it be okay, china's economy is catching up with them like 70 percent of the u. s. g b. somehow it is becoming acceptable and that will do things like that to build the all the beauty of the alliance against china. that all or creates a log book bank. why are you cited? we'll do everything we can to protect the national interest in special, vicious cycle. because competition in the, remember the us policy toward china is competition confrontation and corporation. but if you look at closer, corporation is amenable. it was the basically restrained in the area of climate change and it's all about competition. and the competition is run out of control in conflict and just

a word perhaps on the timing. what do you think about why it's happening? no. i think of the us. you know, i guess the u. s. the, the another release sufficient information about this, you have to confirm the story or to deny the story. but my guess is that they could be a part of the effort into pressure china. remember us officials official is blinking at the style event and spokesperson racking your china if you don't side with us on the ukraine crisis. if you there are to do business as usual, probably with russia. we will, and post functions on your company on business. and i think this is, you know, sometimes it's, it's amusing like, you know, i don't think any country, if they need help, assistance from china speak to. i mean, super economic power at this way. they don't know, like how to speak in

a respectful way and don't know how to treat other countries as equal to be respectful. this is the basic a political of the problem with the internet. let me just bring you another story because i want to get your take on it as well. regarding china. if you just hold on in the program for just a moment, i'll go through it. the french embassy and china has posted a quote, online of a famous chinese writer, which some see as a reference to current russia, ukrainian at ties relations crisis. the move provoked backlash among chinese users . now, the embassy posted the sentence, a lie written, an ink can never hide a fact written in blood allusion. but chinese followers of the embassy were quick to react and slammed. the move. the quote refers to muscular 1926. when chinese students protesting and imperialist 8 nation alliance were killed, that alliance included france. you know, the mosque, your help,

and in 1026 in beijing, when students gathered to protest, imperialism, and on equal treaties with european countries, including france. dozens of people were killed, 200 or injured us. the government violently curved the rally. the writer, as i mentioned lucian, called it the darkest. stay in chinese history. comments on the post were skiing fronts, in particular. no culture that's really scary. on march 18th, 1926 more than 5000 students in beijing gathered to protest and ultimatum by 8 countries, including france. as a result, these students were massacred by the government after that chinese writer lou shoe and wrote the sentence above. nato countries have to apologize for their previous aggressive acts before talking about justice. unless the block is inefficient. i wonder why france wasn't ashamed to publish that. ah, yeah,

that's an interesting question. let's put a to tendo to political unless to join us again on the program before we left you, you were talking about basic respect for a china. your thoughts on this? why would france post such a court without even checking its origin? well, obviously the twain to win the support from the chinese side and from the ukraine crisis basically beneath us, you know, be love to have the chinese public support to be on their side against the russia. but unfortunately, they quote you that something by austin with chinese writer, there's a lot of grant, the background is like the western powers believe the china, you know, basically storm with the and the brand to as they can get summer pallets the older some a palace the lack of them are acknowledging chinese people have a long history and we remember what happened to us. so, you know,

when china looks at the issue in ukraine, chinese people in the 8 not only as this class as it felt which in russia ukraine is the larger picture chinese public kinds to see the larger picture. that is natal easterwood expansion revenue, the national security of russia because also china feels to asia to you know, i mentioned about o'clock. i mentioned about ox and other groups of similar groups . the, you know, the china, china feel the pressure to, from the us led to, you know, all, you know, all kinds of groups that include the military one. so, you know, people ask, why do, why do, why can't you country contribute to this piece instability? by doing investment by doing trade, like what china has done. china doing the r e p, china is applying to dawn, d p d b, it's federal, latan i d, n a to or so case of the say by more and more more, more,

more development. sure. contributes piece of lety. look at the us, it is always but you know, and they do it. so there's no reason for me to read this because cold war and the water impact has been gone for years for decades. just having an age. not sorry, sir. yes, just the, i'm interested to know what the chinese public reacted to this french move. you're in beijing. what's said you talk that the chinese public have a long memory. they look at the bigger picture, but is it the offensive them? what do they say? that the fast it will because the, you know, that that's what, that's, you know, that, that when the chinese business refused to accept the arrangement from those western powers, the, you know, and the band, they went to the space to protest the government for being sought for not being and able to claim their so pre rice add to the conference in paris, i believe. and then the students that was for testers,

what basically what cracked on by the bank government. so that it shows visited the last picture is that china was being bullied. china rights was ignored, kind of sovereignty was ignored by western powers. we don't quote ascentis like that without the knowledge of the bag rhonda, i'll just say to say the least, it's a very awkward no wonder the chinese public, the majority of them at least complained a lot about to the quote. sure. well, thank you so much for coming on the program and sharing your thoughts on a whole range of issues today. we appreciate your time. we're speaking to chinned out to chinese political unless thinking well, we're back cross talking again in moments. catch peter on guess. shortly when i'm back in 30 with all your local news updates.