ah, ah mm hm. this hour is headline stories over 200000 people pack into a moscow sports stadium to celebrate the 8th anniversary of tri mia rejoining russia . also ahead, british media regulator off comp revoked, started broadcasting license, citing the current conflict in ukraine on the channels quote, relationship with the russian federation party slums. the watchdogs news as politically motivated on russia, provides un security council members with new evidence that it say's further cement claims that biological weapons were being developed on ukrainian territory under

a u. s. and nato program. we are the russian representative to the u. n. p points on the matter. ah, lie from moscow, this is our t. my name's unit o'neill and 30 minutes of news and views start. now. we will indeed start with the latest developments in the ukrainian conflict. in a phone call with german chancellor, olaf shoulds, president putin accuse key of, of trying to drag out negotiations with moscow by putting forward more and more unrealistic proposals. he also underlined the ongoing shelling now residential areas in done yet by the ukranian army and slammed the leaders of western countries for ignoring quote war crimes. meanwhile, the west cracked on an russian media continues with the u. k. media regulator pulling or broadcast license with immediate effect. that comes after 6 countries,

including the u. k. a new s accused russia deliberately targeting civilians and ukraine with london insisting it has very strong evidence of law. mere putting himself is behind such actions. the kremlin has rubbish. the british allegations and the russian ministry of defense has reported that the lou ganske republic no controls more than 90 percent of its territory. not the ukrainian military earlier attacked residential areas of melee kopel with cluster warheads, russia, essays, it helped repel the attack. we'll dig deeper into all this. our you're in moscow. over 200000 people packed a stadium on friday to celebrate the 8th anniversary of crimea, rejoining russia. the concert kicked off with the russian anthem of the capital's biggest sports complex, the loose nikki, with thousands of people watching on from the styles. those in attendance got the

chance to take part in a video call with the crimean city of service. the whole event is called crimean spring dedicated to the historic referendum when the peninsula officially became part of russia. again, one of the many in attendance was president. vladimir putin who had this a slew duke elderly but a jew l. u brochure, no done by it. the people who lived and still live in the dumbass did not agree with the qu, punitive military operations, when immediately launched against them and not just won. they were immediately plunged into a blockade subjected to systematic shelling from canons and air strikes. to mike, this is what is called genocide. 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 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 was 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 this holiday. it's their holiday. congratulations, i'm not the were martha dudley? she doesn't look good. okay, let's bring you some developers now on the conflict in ukraine. the south east city of mario paul has been under land cliffs bombardment since russian troops are under that. on march, 2nd, the russian defense ministry, se ukrainian nationalists forces they've attempted to capture the cities infrastructure, and some 90 percent of buildings have been damaged. on monday, moscow said it had sent 450 tons of medicine, food,

and essential supplies to maria for up to 400000 people are so thought to be trumped with supplies running arch. when many are trying to flee the war twin city using a she military and corridor, tis up a ratio which was opened 3 days ago, according to local authorities, as many as $30.00. and people have managed to escape through the roots so far using personal vehicles. those flame told us what they had been trying. we were in the cellar for almost a week, did not try to get out with strikes were so hard that it was impossible to go outside. now a large flow of people will go through the corridor. it will only increase. there is no city there any more than that. there are no means of communication or radio in the cellar. there was no water. absolutely nothing. we saw the dough nets, people's army, they kept open the corridor. the evacuation was organized centrally. she 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. it is pure luck that we got out of

mary. you, paul. we rushed out of the cellar at our own risk. as soon as we left the city, we saw the nets, people's army, children and women were placed in buses. i know nothing about the men. i let them. soldiers of the ukrainian army were very violent. people were taken hostage. they didn't lead us out, just to hide behind our backs up people in odessa. meanwhile, another city on the countryside coast. i've been building sun bank defenses and barricades in order to defend the region from the arrival of russia forces. the port city is home to run 1000000 citizens. although an estimated 100000 were really left since the conflict began. and that's the un said more than $3000000.00 refugees of the fled ukraine. since the start of the conflicts, almost 2 thirds of escape to nibbler in poland, which is overwhelmed, the country's public services. while the czech republic, i said it's no longer the capacity to accept those fleeing due to lack of resources

. the refugee and successes by humanitarians is one of the very worst in entire european history. as the war and ukraine continues into its 4th week, we had an opportunity to discuss recent events with the senior figure thrushes federation council konstantin casa. charles said that the russian offensive and ukraine was inevitable. since nato has only been increasing its expansion to the east, the military infrastructure of nature is coming closer to russia. they are direct orders to be more needs. you can't just like the 3 baltic states and polar and the development have not stopped sooner or later. we could have seen countless, like ukraine, like most dover, like ga, become members of nato, receiving political, economic,

military support from the alliance and by their getting an illusion that they can attack russia. these perspective could have become very dangerous, being already not a conflict between russia and ukraine, between russia and georgia in russia and some other separate countries. but between russia and major that would never be local conflict. that would be disastrous development. and probably with the use of reference of destruction on all sides in form of next world war. these development was rather predictable and of the current special operation of russia and ukraine is the most efficient way to prevent that scenario. to take place. another story to bring you to de britain's media regulator has decided to revoke

r t license the broadcast in the u. k. with immediate effect off come cited the current conflict in ukraine on the channel. quote, relationship with the russian federation. r t has slammed the movers politically motivated, calling the watchdog a to know of the u. k. government policy or talk me through developments earlier. normally when a channel is banned, he would imagine of his band in relation to the content that is forecasting. and what we see here is that in fact, instead of citing any kind of reasons related to our content, it rather talks about the fact in terms of who funds the channel. the fact that the, the ban order comes and is 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 recognized that 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 from the russian states own news narrative, in particular in relation to the invasion of ukraine. we consider that given these

constraints, it appears impossible for our to, to comply with the jew impartiality rules while broadcasting code in the circumstances, just to pick up and wall of those remarks. then by off come that line. seeing as regards the ukraine conflict, we cannot be satisfied that our t can be a responsible broadcaster, in the current circumstances. now, in their own words, their investigation into alleged bias. some $29.00 separate probes hasn't even concluded. so how did they justify the move? that's an important point because as you say, these investigations are ongoing and in the past and they reference the fact that they have been investigations in the past. a fair number of those investigations have found that he was actually ok. so they haven't actually mentioned that there is the possibility to clear our t of wrong doing. what i want to think is significant is they making a statement, a big deal out of the fact that they respect the freedom of speech and that they not against different point of views. and again,

they haven't mentioned any kind of particular reasons why they banning us these are v are content. if you take a look at this, we recognize the art is currently off or 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 da 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 you case, broadcasting regulatory regime. so i definitely think that banning 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 us 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 our t itself was to the channel said, well, the channel expected, 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 associate to taught he's 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. well,

on this we spoke to arthur and former british diplomat, william mullen, said, who insists the people not the states should have the right to the side. watson formation they absorb. i'm not the least surprised from the country when the government that has been holding has a political prisoner called julian sounds. who, who told the truth and america instructed england, britain to keep them as a political prisoner. this is a purely political move devoid of any intelligent thinking. it makes the demonize ation of a very good people. the russian people increases that demonize ation. it's also let me tell you my view, extreme insulting to people, because people should be allowed to use their brain. and in order to use their brain, they need to see all information and compare one against the other. well,

as the russian military offensive continues to unfold in ukraine, the u. s. army held one of its largest ever combat training sessions with japan on tuesday. last year, u. s. government announced that would boost military spend in the region and impose a missile network on a chain of islands including taiwan, but japanese island, vulcan, our, the philippines, china for its part seas not more time to retrieve that line of defense and is striving to prevent american missiles from being base their typical elicits into a true thinks the u. s. is trying to contain china anyway can so this is so always did not help at all to see the least. and also actually it is, you know, basically adding to this growing this trust or lack of transportation into countries. if you see the problem like a nowhere went by then came to always remember a lot of people, not, i mean china, but also in the us. they expect that by the government to reverse the course of the

very turbulent relationship between china, the us and trump administration. then when biting came to power one year lease with the that he has no intention to change course. basically the use data, they have the at the trench, the type of policy that beautiful at the number one opponent or number one bible or human kind of enemy. so the doing whatever the crime basically to private contain china and try to keep china dom this is a part of the effort to say. meanwhile, the french embassy in china has posted a quote, online by a famous chinese writer, which some saw as a reference to the current russia ukraine crisis. the move provoked a backlash among chinese users. now, the embassy post that the sentence a lie written in ink, can never hide a fact written in blood by writer lucian, which refers to an instant in beijing in 1926. when the government clumped down on

chinese students, protesting and imperialist 8 nation alliance, the brother lives included france. dozens of people were killed and hundreds more injured in law lucian, called the darkest day in chinese history. comments on the post were scheming of paris as use of the renowned writers line to make a political point. no culture that's really scary. on march 18th, 1926 more than 5000 students in bay gene gathered to protest an 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. will not latter point political

unless into a true, again say there's clearly a lack of cultural understanding amongst embassy employees that fast it will because you know that that's, that's, you know, that, that when the chinese business refused to accept the arrangement from those western powers, the you know, and then they went to this race to protest the government for being sought for not the fault being. and they both too busy to claim their. so pre rice add to the conferencing power is i believe. and then the students that was the testers. what basically, what cracked down by the big government so that it shows visited the last picture is that china was being bullied. china right, was ignored kind of solar and he was ignored by western powers. we don't quote a sentence like that without the knowledge of the bag rhonda, i'll just say that to say the least is a very awkward. what are the chinese public? the majority of them at least a complaint,

a lot. you know about the quotes. russia has provided un security council members with new alleged evidence that it's safe, proves the development of biological weapons on ukrainian territory under a u. s. and nation program. let's bring in our corresponding killer my pin in new york who followed the virgin session forest. hi, there can indeed take us through at what was said by the russian delegation. sure, well, the 15 member body that leads the united nations convened and russia presented evidence of what it says were biological weapons facilities tied to the pentagon. they were operating in ukraine and have significantly put the health of the people in the region in danger. this is what russian representative and ambassador benzo had to say before the un security council about what sounds like a very, very serious matter. and i miss you and you will be the security council

document that we distributed this morning. and you see in that material you can see the so called to take technical assistance plan for certain recipients of the ukrainian ministry of defense. i recommend you to look at this document very carefully. it confirms direct funding and supervision of the pentagon, its defense threat reduction agency of military and biological projects and ukraine . quantity of the funding was $32000000.00. the direct money went directly to the following. the bar retrieve in the, from the ministry of defense of ukraine, when, according to the many planets i mentioned, or technical assistance, the donor is the us ministry and defense. based on the time the tasks and the workload with as part of the project, you can interpret, treat what we'll do now in the band via anticipated flat out denial from us

officials. they would dismiss that concern, the simply the propaganda of russia, as they routinely do with concerns that russia res. so he presented real evidence signed document, etc. you went on to say there is very, very solid evidence of the united states working in ukraine to set up these bio labs for military purposes. and it has had an impact on the health of people in the area. this is what ben z a went on to say when addressing the security council of know the name of the document that we found have a signature, a real signature of officials from the us. particularly many of them are signed by the head of the ukrainian office of the threat reduction agency joanna winter role . this is a pentacle staff member and well mode and well known in non proliferation circles. before your crane, she supervise the destruction of chemical weapons in libya. if jen, it's really interested in the verifying the documents that we provided that you ask her directly. is that really her signature now as

a band via predicted the us ambassador and representative before the security council simply dismissed these allegations as conspiracy theories propaganda did not respond to the very solid claims that were made by the russian representative. anything that comes from russian officials is simply dismissed by the united states . here is what we heard from the u. s. representative in response to some pretty solid evidence that was presented. you gave us the exactly what you gave us last week. and last week we heard from the russian representative a tirade bazaar. conspiracy theories this week were hearing a whole lot more where that came from. things that sound like they were forwarded to him on a chain e mail from some dark corner of the internet. you just saw the us representative does not seem to share rushes concerns about public health, and this is building

a pattern. we recently saw former u. s. congress, woman tulsa gathered widely attacked was she raised concerns about the bio labs in a video that was circulated on youtube. we saw not only allegations that her assembly bringing it up, proved to her to be a russian asset. we saw calls for her to be prosecuted simply for talking about it . and then in the states, there is just a refusal to engage with anything that russia is saying to examine the evidence that russia is presenting. there is, seems to be no concern about the real threats to public health in this situation or the reality that it appears that the united states was working with ukraine to develop biological labs that were carrying out military operations. this is a very, very serious issue in the united states seems very concerned about the use of chemical and biological weapons in other countries and has repeatedly raised that the security council. however, when russia raised this concern and presented real documents signed by us officials,

a lot of evidence to back up their claims, we saw the united states simply ignore it. britain echoed some of what the united states said. why to divide between officials in the global community, china made clear that they are very concerned about the danger of biological weapons and the threats to public health. but the allies, the united states, they seems to just simply dismiss rushes words and ignore them. call them propaganda and conspiracy theories. taken us through that story, r u. s. corresponding kill above and thanksgiving. sanctions designed to punish russia for its actions in ukraine are also starting to hurt further afield. moscow's begun to retaliate against the western measures by bombing, the export of more than $200.00 items to so labeled on friendly states. u. s. consumers are among those feeling, the economic consequences of the anti russia sanctions. a bond on russian energy announced by president by the last weeks on gasoline prices rise along with the

cost of living in general. so checks come on top of an existing inflation problem, which the biden administration's been struggling with for months. while consumer price inflation in europe is seeing its fast, this annual jump on record, according to the euro stance statistics agency, the highest spikes were recorded in the energy sector followed by food, alcohol, and other goods fuel prices of the pumps almost doubled in march. so i'm sure some of you watching know on experts war and things are only going to worsen. it's also predicted, russia could be forced to cut crude production by nearly a 3rd threatening, a global oil supply chart that says the u. k. fail to get the middle east producers to increase supplies in a bid to mitigate some of the impact the use agreed to subsidize high source. the companies get hardest by spiking energy costs. with more now on how the crippling sanctions on russia being felt in pockets much further afield. your charlotte dubin

ski. the west has repeatedly said it's not at war with russia and susan penn. again, we are not weighed in the war against russia ass europeans to day, but we support the grain. we arnold part of this conflict, nato is not seeking a war with russia and we are not interested in getting into world war 3 in a conventional military sense, such as boots on the ground that is exactly true. but unlike the warfare that is unfolding in ukraine at the moment with troops and soldiers, war doesn't have to be full like that these days into a new dimension in warfare. crippling economic sanctions. ok, so waging economic sanctions isn't exactly a new idea. in fact, u. s. president woodrow wilson once described such measures as being more tremendous than war. what's different this time around is the unprecedented

nature of the measures. western countries have let all hell break loose as russian banks have been cut off from the international systems. big businesses have withdrawn from trading in russia and the rubel has nose dived and in this new battlefield, everyone is feeling the sharp end of these economic weapons finished are certainly ordinary people, primarily suffer, but we all are on the ship together. so it's a common responsibility. these sanctions are not reasonable. the matter should have been tackled through negotiations. anyway, we've already been there in 2014 and back then we managed to handle it. yeah, i guess this time around we will get through with even more success with bushing. of course there will be arise in prices. however, we shouldn't make a drum out of it. you know, i'm 82. i've been through so much vogue. i remember postwar times. so now i'm

reassuring all my loved ones with the main thing is that we have our country with sanctions for a long time have been viewed as a non violent strategy to deal with a whole host of threatening actions. but the economic impact of those, some experts say, isn't that different to a physical conflict, both in the underlying goals and in their effects on civilian society, immigration, starvation, disease, bankruptcy. these approaches to sanctions come produce measures whose function and consequences are identical to war. what's interesting though about economic sanctions is that the impact can have a strong blow back. russia is one of the world's top 3 oil producing states, sanctions and companies refusals to do business with it. and now curtailing oil supplies, pushing the price up at the pump across the world. and for the us sanctions

couldn't see the door let take a dive established as the world's foremost reserve currency in 1944, it's long being seen as a safe bet. many sovereigns, including u. s. a line countries have realized owning massive amounts of dollars lead to an illusion of stability. in any moment, a political decision could lead to that dollar reserve being frozen or seized. the big winner from all of this is likely to be the chinese you want, but of the current sees may also get a beast, russia, and india all looking at a ruble, repeat trade agreement. the ruby is gaining traction elsewhere to the my and my government and tends to initiate similar currency converse, ability for the indian repaid for trade along the border. it shares with india. such changes may see countries reduce dependency on the green back its 6. i think the 2nd world war has been based on the foundations of its credibility. if that's

lost, then it could crumble. solid, even sky artsy, paris, a falling asleep to the signs of artillery fire. not knowing whether you survive the night, that's what life has been like over the best part of 8 years for those who live in the so named gray zone separating dumbass from ukraine. can they no dare to dream of better days ahead are short, dark trumped explorers not and were in moment. ah ah ah ah a

wrong one? i'll just don't hold any world to shape out becomes the advocate an engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common brown a.