a, a ukraine refuses to accept russia's plan for evacuating civilian for mar, you pull, where an estimated 130000 people remain stuck amid intense fighting. this is my vest, my cover. i'm not going to be wearing it because it's hard to believe instead. i think he's going to say well, more or less suitable philip archie reports from the outskirts of chia where russian and ukrainian forces are getting ready for a fight. farmers truckers and trade unions to take to the streets of europe to protest against soaring prices due to sanctions imposed on russia over the ukraine conflict. and archie obtains evidence that the u. s. was pushing ukraine to lower russia into

a conflict and spent millions of dollars on preparing ukrainian military forces with by cathy lived direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. glad have you with us as we covered the latest in the war in ukraine. now russia alleges that ukrainian forces have brought about humanitarian catastrophe and marble. as an estimated 130000 civilians remain trapped in the city amid intense fighting. in recent days. the numerous buildings have been destroyed as civilians, hyde, in basements, and struggle to obtain food and water due to disrupted supplies, despite daily attempts by the russian military to secure safe zones for residents to evacuate. russia says ukrainian forces have been effectively holding local,

hostage in their homes, preventing them from leaving the city. those who have managed to escape have told harrowing stories. when the troops were on the move, they started shooting through the french, my grandmother and i wound it. she was taking the legs me in the arm and we ran into the cellar during the embodiment a concrete slab collapsed onto my father and my child. my father wasn't even taken out from the daybreak, and my child was screaming for 5 hours. he was taken out later by neighbors who brought him to us, but my father recently underwent surgery. i'm not sure where he is or whether he can walk. about 60000 people managed to evacuate, the embattled city at the weekend, rushes military says it's opening more humanitarian corridors on monday, both to russia and ukrainian side, and even promised to spare the lives of ukrainian forces if they lay down their weapons and leaves. but in response to moscow's initiative to provide safety to force civilians,

ukraine has emphasized its forces will continue to fight for the city the russian and chinese journalists covering the battle for my you have allegedly come under fire from ukrainian or killer even with one chinese reporter wounded the journalist, you say that they were walking on the street when they heard the sound of an explosion. a shell landed just 50 meters from them, forcing them to the ground and been sick shelter. meanwhile, kiev has been preparing for a siege by russian forces with residents fleeing and mass end of the government. mobilizing troops from mayor italy critical have surveyed the aftermath of alleged strikes on the ukrainian capital within a remote one. the, the building is destroyed, windows are blown out completely, cars are burned up. thank god, no one was killed. several people were hospitalized. it was intended to frighten people, but that won't happen. ukrainians are not afraid. these actions, insight,

more hate and a stronger desire to oppose the aggressor. russian forces have reportedly been gathering on the outskirts of kids and a parent push to take your cranium capital. artic correspondent, you got done of comments from a russian army encampment there. so was come right behind rushes, positions outside key of we are literally behind the line of contact. we've come here to spend the night for the 1st time we're doing so, but this time we'll try to show you what it is like here. so we're going to switch to filming, and night mode, so that you can see everything because the nights is usually when it's most busy here actually. so we'll see if it holds true now as well. so here's a little glimpse into how we're going to be spending the night here. this is the back of a russian military truck several sleeping bags because obviously i'm not alone here . my crews sleeping here with me. this is my vest, my kevlar vests. i'm,

i'm not going to be wearing it because it's hard to sleep instead, i think it's going to serve as a well more or less suitable pillow. a very heavy gun site has broken out just at the perimeter of our can't be 100 meters away. so i guess was quite expect to leave the 1st time we wake up to hearing his, the incoming shots from the ukranian sub photos and

now the russians are turning to 5. normally after that, the artillery comes next. ah, well i guess any sort of comment would be redundant here. you could hear everything yourself sleepless nights for key of sleepless nights. full well, troops on both sides of the front. we are gonna try and get some shut eye and head back. don't eat meat to beat russia. that is the message from germany's agricultural minister, who just happens to be a vegetarian, as he suggests what his countrymen can do to post the conflict in ukraine. germans have been panic, buying groceries over fears of shortages caused by supply chain disruptions due to the war in ukraine. there have been rumors about deficits of major food items,

including meat, sugar, cooking oil, and flour. the countries, agricultural minister puts the blame squarely on russia. we have to buy responsibly only what we need. no one should hold anything at home, no toilet paper, nor sunflower oil. otherwise, prices will skyrocket. putin's insidious strategy is that there is a shortage of products and he needs photos of empty shelves. i advise you not to unnecessarily weaponized his propaganda. despite the fact that i'm a vegetarian, i will not preach that everyone should switch to vegetarianism. but let's put it this way, eating less meat would be a contribution against mister putin, that you no longer considers russia to be a favorable nation for food supplies, putting the country on par with iran and north korea. we heard from a research fellow at the university of hamburg, who says ordinary people are paying a high price for their government position on the conflict. it was your opinion that imposed sanctions was european union and that we vote the most favored nation

status. that is an illegal act under international law. they did it anyway. and now we, the citizens of europe and germany. we have to sacrifice their responsibility for their mistake. many tactics in germany already have close due to the rising prices . and if we see mass on a vitamin, they want to put the blame on russians. it's all right and fall. but the truth is an em grantees that it's german than european politician for, for i'm calling this ridiculous legal action. and people might even stop to in reality, the improper of europe, but certainly rules the people in the top of the world like in africa, was already suffering from food insecurity. be affected by this. i mean, this is just ridiculous. the government has to respond to the needs of the people and not just blame everyone back human needs, like being warm and ho for helping pooty. this is ridiculous and this has to stop.

and if they don't put a stop to themselves, then i'm sure that people will at the coming elections, swearing prices for food, food, and fuel, excuse me, due to the harsh sanctions against russia over the ukraine conflict. have provoked protests around europe with thousands taking to the streets, events or anger about the burden. some costs are to show the benefits of course award. ukraine is already pushing up the energy costs across europe, whether that's impacting the price of fuel fuel cause for gas anal, christine homes and businesses. and there are also shortages of agricultural basics such as fertilize and all of this is driving up the coast old food pretty much across the board. now in denver, in protests, over the last few days, people taking to the streets to demand action phone, they governments, we saw in spain, imagery, thousands of individuals on the streets that were growing social discontentment,

over the spiraling cost of living in germany and italy to truckers. were out on the roads, they were furious. so for the price of petrol saying it's pretty much putting them out of business and increase farmer's voice. thank and sue's over the anger of high production costs, which are a result of the sanctions. we demand that farmers don't pay for the war in ukraine . most fertilizers are imported from russia and bella rouge. and we don't want farmers to bear the increased costs. we want the production cost to be cheap so we can cultivate our fields and feed our animals overseer. the full interest of you, kathy, for going on with this, isn't justified. speaking about a war is something different. the fuel price hawks are unfair and unrelated tool in this is something else about with al, aware about your polio. take on that on what it's outrageous for politicians to destroy our transport business with pointless taxes. if you take into account

a fuel price of more than 2 euro speak with the euro, 60 or euro 70 in taxes, because they destroy our entire existence, they destroy us. that's it lies and deceit, laws, audit management. now they said course is likely to heat quite low pressure on politicians. and from the you have at least until the last few days shown, this pretty solid wall of strength as they've been bail sanction of sanction against russia because of that invasion of ukraine. but the cracks are beginning to show we've heard from poland and the baltic states who are really keen for what they describe is the maximum pain against russia against the kremlin. then other you countries such as germany, italy and hungry seem to be pretty wary about this. and all those countries that want this pro punishing 5th round of sanctions. they say that all trade with russia must, and poland is proposing to add

a trade blockade to this package of sanctions as soon as possible, including both of its seaports, but also a ban on land trade. fully cutting off rushes trade would further force russia to consider whether it would be better to stop this cruel war. well, that might not work for countries such as germany has a big issue because of its heavy reliance on russian energy imports. and even the country's economic and energy minister has recently won the cutting energy supplies just immediately overnight would bring mass unemployment. and it would also bring poverty to century what is the use economic engine at with the suggestion as a result, that people would just simply be unable to heat their homes. and that's something that they don't want to see. we have heard that germany has been assigned a new deal for a gas with cattle, but duck kind of and you won't take of the dependency on russia immediately, so that's not going to happen overnight. then elsewhere in the u,

we've been seeing specifics, wobbles between countries take france and spain. for example. the 2 are apparently locked horns over this idea of plans for new gas pipeline at that wouldn't link the 2 countries at these plans had previously been put on. i seen as being unprofitable, but they've been raised again as a result of the current war. but as that views change, spain, the ease, husing, francis dragging its heels when it comes to the investment that is needed, that pipe in the same way that we have been struggling to accelerate electrical interconnections. what cannot be is that the pressure to accelerate this infrastructure stays from the pyrenees down. because on the other side of the pyrenees, a fairly large investment as needed to connect that pipeline of gas to the trunk system. and the use also having a bit of trouble when it comes to seeing eye to eye over who should be on the sanctions list. now we know that the u. k, which is no. and the you,

an estate oligarch, am, or lake, get a passcode on it, lists at, but the eas decided not to follow a c to why you may be asking whether it's been suggested that the found of the major metal producing ian plus group has got huge assets in countries like austria and also in cyprus and there are concerns freezing his assets and could actually have repercussions that so not so keen to do that. sanctions have to be approved by all members of the block. if one says no, the sanctions don't go ahead. and what we're really seeing now is off to that a ritual strength. there is now a limit just to how much pain individual countries won't to endure as a result of the war and ukraine. meanwhile, fighting martial law ukraine's president zalinski has temporarily banned 11 opposition party saying that they are to pro russian even accused them of collaborating with moscow. would you got finished bully activities by politicians

aimed at discord and collaboration will not succeed, but they will face a tough response? it will. that is why the national security and defense council of ukraine has decided that given the large scale war unleashed by the russian federation and links between it and some political structures, the activities of a number of political parties is suspended for the period of the martial law only the major opposition party, the 4 lives platform, swiftly denounced the ban as unlawful. russian senior officials have also called it a violation of civil rights. this decision has no legitimate grounds. all accusations are made up by the government to justify their inadequate actions. the only explanation for this move by the authorities as an illegal political take over and a bad faith political fight against their main opponent. europe, for its part, is hiding its head in the sand. we were right to leave the european council. what is the point of this organization if it does not fulfil its main task?

when it stands aside while observing obvious violations of ukrainian citizens writes, zalinski has finally figured out the intricacies of true democracy. the most democratic president in modern ukraine has taken another step towards western ideals of democracy, pierre emanuel tallman of the french institute of geo politics. questions whether ukraine's leadership is respecting freedom of opinion in the country. she f regime under or pressing this sea of mister zelinski order would need but pass as shown, but to is the fate state. and we for huge pressure on the on fredo for opinions. there is no freedom, opinion valley or would need to pass or the june that is to where any mean a cheap in ukraine because i saw that you opinions, there were assassinations, zelinski is or easy make is using the west as a sort of the role for to make sure of

a repetition of rashaw. com. pretty disinformation campaign in the west about mr. zalinski also, or some media last year or so spoke about to the link of mr. in his queue in pandora, paperless, we've huge corruption cases and no, it doesn't exist anymore. nobody speaks about any mo, it repeated cia offshoot the national endowment for democracy has allegedly been deleting records about financing, ukrainian military forces. an archived web page purports to show the organization has provided more than $22000000.00 to ukraine since 2014. that's amid claims that the u. s. trained members of ukraine's controversial 8. our battalion ortiz marine phenomenal, takes it up. they say russia invaded ukraine. they say russia is the aggressor. but working here in the la guns republic for weeks, we found many things that tell

a different story. one discovery was made at a former base of the notorious. i'd. our battalion, it appeared in 2014 as an armed volunteer group that fought on key if side, but slowly fell out of its control. too many weapons money and impunity did their job. now it's part of ukraine's ground forces. those roots have a sinister foreign influence. this is what was found among other things here at the ide. our battalion bays a very interesting piece of literature titled, tutorial for participants of russian ukrainian war. it was published in 2021. ukraine's defense ministry is among publishers. but here we see something more interest in national endowment for democracy. america is non governmental organization, allegedly affiliated with cia, it actually says they was re published last here. so apparently there was previous version of this book. there are multiple chill in facts about this statement from

last year. if the title russian ukrainian war refers to the 80 or bombing of don vas, it chooses to ignore that the conflict was not russian ukrainian, but ukrainian ukrainian with the east of the country being shelled by its own government in p. if and if the title hanes at no age of an upcoming war with russia, which would conventionally break out a year later in february 2022. this raises even more disturbing questions about washington's role in fermenting the current conflict than there is the central role played in it by the infamous ca offshoot, the national endowment for democracy or an e d. instead of having just to say, i am going round behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process secretly by inserting money here and instructions and so forth. they have now a psychic, which is, is national endowment for democracy. and loss of what we do today was done correctly 25 years ago by the cia. we should not have to do this kind of work cover,

lee. it would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the cia. we saw that in the sixty's, and that's why it has been discontinued. we have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment was created. it seems that whenever they see i couldn't, but wanted to manipulate the process. the n e d has been there to help for the last 4 decades. what finally drew public attention to ned's meddling and foreign elections was an aborted attempt to provide opposition candidate violette, a chamorro with $3000000.00 in funding for her 1989 election campaign against nicaraguan president, daniel ortega in 1988. for example, the endowment had given $600000.00 to organizations working to defeat chalet and leader a gusto pena shea. ned was involved in similar activities in 1990 in czechoslovakia, meaning interfering in elections worldwide, and nurturing uprisings globally. a number of the groups and individuals directly

involved in the revolts and reform. sweeping the region received training and financing from groups like the international republican institute, the national democratic institute, and freedom house. they were created by congress and are financed through the national endowment for democracy, training and financing, financing and training. yeah, news has made a series of reports. quoting former us intelligence officials revealing this yeas secret training initiative for you quentin in special operations forces that began attention in 2015. as part of it ca, paramilitaries had even secretly traveled to east in ukraine to assist forces loyal to here in their fight against the don boss. the c i. a operatives taught the ukranian counterparts, the best skills for regular warfare. we tried to really focus on operational planning than really hard military skills like long range marksmanship,

not just the capacity to do it, but to know how to do it on a battlefield. there are many videos that appear to show i'd our members been trained by instructors from nature countries that ukraine can hardly afford without support. and here's 1st hand testimony from corroborate. the instructors came from denmark, canada, the u. k, and the u. s. so loudly, they taught us infantry tactics. let y'all know, but 1st we met all the participants. simpson, and then on the 1st day we learned an ambush over move. i spent a total of 2 years doing the training with her was a fully jo. it was hollow for years long before rushes operations on bass. and there is a part about the financing to this man says he was in the group's lawyers cast. but his salary was far from low for the region mccord position. every month i received a $1000.00 salary, and i also got a $6000.00 bonus. what does matter? christie says about that. let's go back to the book. there was

a whole list of tasks that the credit military would get paid extra for well paid. like 15000 u. s. dollars per brigade for accomplishing a convent mission, successfully. $5000.00 for destroy an airplane or $3000.00 for destroyed armored vehicle. the question is paid by who moscow says it has proved ukraine was planning a mass military attack on the don bus in february, march this, here he is ukraine's former premier free full decisions were made the day before the starts of the war to exterminate the russian speaking population in dullness, the korean army, under the leadership of the nationalist battalions, was hiring to start a military operation in the numbers of february 25th. evidence upon evidence that moscow's operation was to prevent caves imminent vast strikes on russian speakers in ukraine, leading to dramatically more civilian casualties. murray, phenomena arte from the la guns people's republic. nonsense from abroad. who,

who share the neo nazi sentiments of the ukrainian far right have been rushing to join ukraine's foreign legion, including fighters from brazil, raising concerns about extremist views in their homeland ortiz, their patrol reports the distance between ki, of, and rio de janeiro is almost 11000 kilometers that's further than tokyo from london . so perhaps you'd be a bit surprised to know that a group of right wing supporters of brazilian president bull scenario from brazil obviously joined the ranks of militias in ukraine to defend the key of an motherland. brazilian missionaries in these environment con, could then moment of fame and glory as it was a great reality show. i think that's what happens. and we have to understand our era, just south ideology hallmark of our era and how this social

media, how they do this. so show her how depressed is presenting ukrainian in the western world? i mean i, there is a kind of a putin as a lance. he and his follower around the world as he rose often no go cause. so it's is kind of environment is very strong and to put many people shown themselves to fighting is traveling alongside with key if that's, that's what's happening therein. balls to save the grain from putin seemed to diminish after our call bowed. housing for an armed pro key of volunteers was destroyed by a russian air strike the light, jeremy's transfer. there were special forces from all over the world, from france,

from all over europe, south korea, chile, the usa, canada. and simply the information we have is that they all died. you guys the, you don't understand what it's like to have a fighter jet fire, a missile. thank god, i got out beforehand. perhaps real war turn out to be quite different from the street protests where right wing activists would take on police. but why would sympathizers of ukrainian nationalist movements appear in brazil and the 1st place? well, 1st of all, you gotta realize how serious the political strife between the white and the left in brazil has been in recent years with the impeachment of former left wing president dillman bruce f and then the rise of white wing. i can also narrow some observers there are pointing out how even before that the far right in brazil used ukraine as a role model where 1st and nationalist movement toppled the government. and then

the new authorities went on to with the country of pretty much everything. communist, that's how the term you coronado using brazil was born. as some groups of the right wing use it this expression in order to say that they would like to expect to expel from the political life the lastest groups. this expression was very famous during the battle to the 2014 who did that in new crane like in kiev, you coordinating brazil hasn't ever led to government coups or civil wars being started. but the appearance of ukrainian nationalist symbols some with an apparent nazi background, ad street demos has become a cause for concern and the south american nation set aside is demonstrate that that around $500.00 nancy groups in brazil bringing together some think like

$10000.00 people there was an enormous growth during the both scenarios. goldman scenes 2019. some of these groups are come from south and brazil where there is an important ukrainian community. several of its members belong to me, the highest or security forces. where for, right, i know all of g is very strong. this is the environment in the week there scenarios there scenarios, willing to fight alongside the key of goldman united states and the nato are rec cupid as if it were, this is it's banjo against communism. oh ho, this nasty group is mo, at they are banjos and they have really a very important and mobilization capacity. me sarah winter,

her see me. so to say includes being a member of the feminist group, fair men of ukrainian origin, which she's been thrown out of eventually. however, i also questioned the numerous magazines with the figure of hitler that she has at home. sarah said that she admires hitler as a person that he was a good husband, that he loved animals, but that she doesn't admire the public hitler. i found it a bit strange. also reportedly part of her experience leading ports wielding march is like the ones led by neo nazis, a new grain shooting fireworks at the brazilian supreme court being arrested more than 20 times ads traveling to ukraine to learn from the local. all right, a police probe found many more disturbing links between brazil's radicals and ukraine's extremis. ah,

it's all had extremely inflammatory, makes to say the least and it's unclear if the shelling of the compound that i mentioned at the very beginning will scare or we energize brazilian. want to be radicals. does it for the news this our stay with us throughout the day here on our international as we have more coverage of the war in ukraine? blue a .