ah, ah, nato publicly misled russia into believing the block was prepared to accept you crane as a member, despite privately telling t as that it cannot join the u. s. lead alliance admit president lengthy. it is all these large caliber. oh, got it. for example, what the point of the shippers with drugs port troops, heavy equipment we were poured from ukraine, he poured hub, danced recently captured by the russian military and now being useful humanitarian relief to help civilians and the embattled city of mario and farmers truck. as on trade, unions take the strength of europe to protest against soaring prices as a result of sanctions imposed on russia by the u. ah.

a warm welcome you're watching our t international. it's good to happy with us. let's get straight to the latest developments around ukraine. president zalinski is nato had previously refused to accept ukraine into the alliance, but still kept telling russia that the door into the u. s. lead block remained open for keith. well meanwhile, zalinski has been slammed by some israeli officials off. he can pads the ongoing conflict in ukraine to the holocaust and cold on television to put pressure on moscow. plus the e. u is reportedly discussing an embargo on russian oil imports as part of a 5th package of sanctions against small sco over its operation and ukraine. nato's refusal to rule out from ukraine's membership in the block is to blame for the conflict in russia, which could have been avoided. if only the u. s. let. the lines have made its will

position on ukraine clear to moscow, to take away from president the landscape, latest interview to west and media. i requested them personally to say, to say direct please. if we're going to serve antonio or nato in a year or 2 or 5, and the response was really clear bridge, we're not going to be an a 2 year member, but publicly was the doors will remain open. so basically, it turns out that there was a chance of avoiding this conflict altogether. zalinski saying that nato has essentially been bluffing about the possibility of accepting ukraine into the military alliance. all this time comes as a real shock. basically, the west could have potentially stopped this whole situation of an escalation of tensions into armed conflict between russia and ukraine if it just told moscow the truth. and let's not forget back when joe biden was actually a senator, he also warned against the further eastward expansion of nato, he said it could have possibly lead to an open conflict between russia and the west

. and in 1990 nato. actually promised the soviet union, but it would not expand any farther east than the older river in central europe. and since the western media began its hysteria campaign late last year, russia's main negotiating point has been to hold the military alliance to its promise. little new conflict with juno, one's own conflicts of bloodshed. we want to resolve the situation by political and diplomatic means. we should at least have some clear and understandable legal guarantees. this is the purpose of a proposal which has been written and sent to brussels and washington time and time again. moscow has said that accepting ukraine and to nato would be a violation of several treaties of the council for security and cooperation in europe. agreements that specifically states that a country cannot enter military alliance at the expense of another country's national security. in response to this washington just called that a non starter and negotiations. and of course, moscow itself was not very happy about that. the new book will know they literally

put the principle of freedom of choice, of alliances at the forefront. completely ignoring the conditions that were agreed at the highest level on the inn admissibility of infringing on the security of the states. and has been a negative response to our security proposals about the non expansion of nato eastwood. this cannot satisfy us. they maintain the rights of any country to choose, joined and change alliances. it's non negotiable. after zalinski is recent statement, we now know that ukraine never had a real chance to become a member state of nato. but if russia knew that it's very possible that diplomacy could have diffused this situation that's exploded into a serious escalation. and the don boss, conflicts that are already been going on for some time. now, instead, nato just decided to tease everyone. basically, nicholas door remains open. oh, the enlargement of nato has been a great success that helps to spread the macos of freedom. we will not compromise

on our core principles. now, one more thing that's a bit embarrassing for zalinski is that he just kind of laid down and accepted. the west's rejection of what was one of his government's main goals. and when these hostilities with russia broke out, the washington said no to sending troops that said no to opening a no fly zone. it basically said no to any serious direct help to ukraine. and basically left to fend for itself. a ukrainian medical official has been forced to take back his own words after claiming he ordered the castration of captured russian soldiers his wont, doctors are not ages and co tony ukrainian tv channel area. yes. cuz i know i instructed my doctors to castrate all men because the cockroaches, not people russians who die here in large numbers. i don't such as anchors comment, sparked accusations of violating the geneva convention which caused for the humane treatment of prisoners following the backlash as unco went on the record to

apologize for his words, which he says were no more than an emotional outburst. he's the director of an n g o called mo ball hospital, which has reportedly been linked to the us government is going to stay on the human rights watch slammed. ukrainian authorities for publishing images with russian soldiers being humiliated income city. well thought the and russia analyst marcy mccauley for his take on the latest scandal he created, authorities should stop posting on social media and messaging apps, videos of captured russian soldiers that exposed them to public curiosity in particular those that show them being humiliated. such treatment of prisoners of war or pose, violates protections under the geneva conventions intended to ensure dignified treatment of captured competence on all sides. it some like a doctor should not say, and he's bacon who geneva convention or the treatment of prisoners of war. and why,

why does he come out and say, such a thing, greatest thing for a doctor to say one mind because a depth of hatred which he now feels towards rushing into a rushing shoulders because of the warm because again, the killing of civilians and women and children and show him and all these things of playdoh in his mind. and each now in a state of thought and hatred towards russians and everything russian. ah, and this may be shared by others ukrainians. and therefore this is one of the results of war. unfortunately, that people react like this and the change and opinions on this statement is very credible. the doctors don't make that statement, but he's made it a lot of all the creating who say, right, that's a good idea. so why did we supported russia?

defense ministry said ukrainian forces on the defensive nikia have been using civilian buildings as bases. these are some of the latest pictures released by the russian military said to show a shopping center being used by ukrainian troops to store ammunition for heavy weapons. moscow, se ukrainian nationalist forces have been targeting civilians and residential buildings while maintaining the russia use is only high precision weapons against the military targets. earlier the mass of kiev said that the shelling of a shopping center in the city on sunday killed at least 8 people. the building was left, charred and smouldering with daybreak littering the area. ukrainian emergency services said quote, enemy fire had caused the destruction. while ukrainian forces in the embattled southern city of mario paul have refused to surrender after the russian military ordered them to lay down arms. moscow say a local key of back to thirties have created a humanitarian disaster. an estimated 130000 civilians remain trapped in the city

amid intent shelling of gunfire. the name rous buildings had been destroyed with civilian force to shelter in basements, while struggling to obtain food and water due to a disruption of supply chains. despite daily attendance by the russian military to secure safe stones for residents to evacuate moscow as a key of forces, have been effectively holding local hostage, preventing many of them from leaving mary paul with some of the relief efforts to help civilians in mary. oh paula, now coming out of the port hub of bird beside was recently taken by the russian military of the local ukrainian forces fled without the fight. nothing more gas. you have got an exclusive look at the operations that by land air. and now sea russian troops continued to advance and reinforce into ukraine. this is

a unique sight, a russian naval armada at the port which ukrainian troops had abandoned without a fight, leaving its facilities entirely intact. the as of sea with its ports and towns is now honda, russian control, all save several districts and the coastal city have mary jo pal, which has allowed russia's black sea fleet and the ost landing ship to stage this operation translated from russian. this is a large marine ship code named alligator by nato. it is armed, the sludge caliber, odo cannon, for example. but the point of this ship is to transport troops and heavy equipment . it can fit as many as 20 tanks or 40 armored personnel carriers along with hundreds upon hundreds of troops. this conflict is one of the most intense in

recent decades. both sides of leverage, sophisticated and highly destructive weapons, for russia's operation to succeed. it is paramount. the troops supplied and reinforced non stop, but at which it was our arrival here is a milestone event. it opens up completely new opportunities for the black sea fleet to use existing ukrainian infrastructure for our logistics operations. this logistics operation is not only geared for fighting. it is also humanitarian. millions of ukrainians and liberated territories must be fed and supplied with essentials. just kilometers away. thousands of scared and battered refugees pack the roads leading from mario bowl. the russian military has set up camps for those who want to stay and supplies fuel for those who wish to drive to. i mia all elsewhere off of what they had been through after what ukrainian nationalists had

put them through. they need the help. she is the prosecutor, there is no fuel in mary you, paul. all the fuel was stolen by looters. one of the root was difficult. there are no roads. the bridges have been blown up. the city itself no longer exists. this is a chance for people to go somewhere wrong. we're really thankful there's a little in the root was difficult, there was no green zone. we drove at our own risk. so there were a lot of dead bodies and blown up cars along the way. or the petrol is now more expensive than gold. you can't go anywhere without health. i'm thankful for russia's help. i'm very thankful you hiding among the refugees. a ukrainian military desert, as they will say that once they caught. but it is feared that some may be lying and may have other goals such as the staged terror attack. so acts of sabotage in liberated areas. the units commander told us in a message to change into civilian clothes, joined the civilians,

get into the vehicles, taking them out or simply joined the civilians in the green zone and leave mary paul. with that song, we joined the civilians who were being released from the city and left with them. many have been identified, not all wish to appeal camera. whether not that telling, the truth will be up to russian law enforcement to judge their here enforce center d not supply ukraine. that and to bring those nationalists and neo nazis responsible for killings and atrocities. to account for i'd gas the of o t forbid ganske the u. s. has reportedly increasing supplies to saudi arabia of patriot anti missile interceptors, which have been used by reactive and devastating war in yemen. the pentagon being ramping up supplies and waste weeks and has been delivering the saudi lead coalition because you began its military intervention in yemen against the rebels

in 2015. according to the latest numbers between 102017, and last year alone, washington, the delivery of major weapons to the saudi shall taught by 106 percent. while another key western supply b, u. k is said to have license more than 20000000000 pounds in weaponry sales to react since the start of war in yemen. which in 5 minutes are recently traveled to saudi arabia for talks on energy security and ending the u. k. 2 alliance on russian oil and gas from a power stones and critics have slammed him for the move, fighting the issue of human rights violations in saudi arabia. listen, support for re answer military efforts in yemen has been accused of contributing to what the united nations call the humanitarian crisis and the war torn country. we should warn you, some of the following images may be distressing. however, the un has so far managed to raise barely a 3rd at the sum required for humanitarian crisis management, india. and this year,

with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates among the top 3 don't as last year. not providing any funds at all this time. the when say such a failure and pledging is due to the ongoing conflict in ukraine and push it omar the red cross spokesperson on yemen beliefs. the shifting of global attention may cause devastating consequences. the world is shifting attention to words or other conflicts in like the conflicting the do you, we are like worry simply the conflict in, in no crane and they are and we call the international community at the, to the powerful countries tune not to abandon the crisis in yemen, any you know, in a shift in attention from the conflict in them and that would lead to get to strategic results. and the, the civilians across the country will fill it in the near future. if the world doesn't pay more attention to the light of year,

many people around $20000000.00 east 2 thirds of the country's population already require humanitarian aid and our food insecure. this year i my again say the m and cannot cope without international humanitarian assistance. this situation will lead to, to aggravating the situation, the humanitarian situation of, of, of 1000000 avia many people across the country. i am millions of all families in yemen are relying on international organization to provide them with food and, and food items. i mean a few, a few see the whole picture of the humanitarian situation in yemen. we see like 20000000 are many people are in need for human, a theory, an assistant, we have more than 60000000 albumin, the people who are food insecure and we have like 4000000 women and children are minorities. we have also 70000000 yamini. they don't have access

to a health and the water and sanitation across the can to the country is functioning with 50 percent of all of its health facilities and capacity. therefore, any shortage in defined would, would, would really, would greatly appreciate the, the humanitarian situation in the country. ah, as rightly lawmakers have reacted with horror at the ukrainian president's bid to compare the current conflict in his country to the holocaust. in a speech to the is wally parliament's zelinski came to russia. wanted to exterminate all ukrainians. like the nancy's plan to do to choose as well, had maintained a neutral stance towards the conflicts. but zalinski is out as was branded outrageous with and pace pointing out ukranian ultra nationalists massacre thousands of jews. and the 1940s shall known. but of these says,

but the answer is still up to you. dear brothers and sisters, not old. and you have to live with this answer. people of israel, ukrainians made their choice 80 years ago to save jews. that is why the righteous peoples of the world are among us. people of israel, now you have such a choice. his criticism of israel was legitimate, as was his raising expectations of us, but not his infuriating and ridiculous comparison to the holocaust in his attempt to rewrite history and to erase the role of the ukrainian people in the attempts to exterminate the jewish people. the war is terrible, but the comparison to the horrors of the holocaust and the final solution is outrageous. war is always a terrible thing. but every comparison between a regular war as difficult as it is and the killing of millions of jews and gas chambers, as part of the final solution is a complete distortion of history and his speech. the lensky thank at his jewish heritage alleging that ukraine saved choose in world war 2 and a spouse at now. we pay the debt. but

a holocaust historian said ukraine should be ashamed of what it did to james in world war 2, and not proud to him. to say only a ukrainian sell juicer. now of course is a gross distortion. other stock record because far more ukrainians may participate in the mass, murder of jews during the holocaust than those who help as a completely source false comparison is no question that there is no similarity. and we're not talking about the same things. the invasion is not, well, of course the invasion is an act of war, but that is not the holocaust, these phenomenon of those, these 1st comparisons. and not only least in europe, i mean eastern europe notorious for these things. but throughout the world dera, chance by various people, have a cause. who want to attract attention? one would listen. one, list a. in other words,

contributions. they claim that the issue that they are representing is similar to the holocaust way. this is actually a tremendous compliment to the people devoted their lives to try to teach, educate the world about the holocaust. it's important lessons are our course and all of that. and basically, the reason that people want to compare themselves to the house was because many people know, well, we understand that al close was the worst tragedy in the annals of man. car thawing prices for food and field due to the harsh sanctions against russia has sponsor protests around europe with thousands taking to the streets event that anger about the spiraling bird. and i see corresponding geology been schema for the more ukraine is already pushing up the energy costs across europe,

whether that is impacting the price of fuel fuel costs for gas and electricity, homes and businesses. and there are also shortages of agricultural basics such as fertilize and all of this is driving up the cost of food pretty much across the board. now in the u, that have been protests over the last few days, people taking to the streets to demand action from they governments, we saw in spain immigrate thousands of individuals on the streets that were growing social discontentment, over the spiraling cost of living in germany and $82.00 truckers what out on the roads they with the reassume for the price of petrol, saying it's pretty much putting them out of business and increase farmers. we stay consumes 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 rues,

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. he still interested you, kathy, when this isn't justified, speaking about a war is something different. the fuel price hawks are unfair and unrelated to all . this is something else about with all the way the 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 euros, with a euro, 60, or euro, 70 in taxes on think they destroy our entire existence, they destroy us. that's it lies and deceit laws to hold it management. now they said course is likely to heat quite a 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 the sanction against russia because of that invasion of ukraine. but the cracks on that

beginning to show we've heard from poland and the baltic states who really keen for what they describe is the maximum pain against russia, against the kremlin, than other e. u countries such as germany, italy, and hungry. i seem to be pretty wary about this and for those countries that want this pro punishing faith 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 essentially, what is the use economic engine at with the suggestion as a result of 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 now assigned a new deal for a gas with cattle, but that 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 you, we've been seeing specifics, wobbles between countries take france and spain, for example. the 2 are apparently locked horns over this ideal plans for new gas pipeline at that would 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's 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 is needed to connect that pipeline of gas to the trunk system. an e 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 not in the you are listed oligarchy, them or leg digit, passcode on it lists. but the eas decided not to follow c to why you may be asking whether it's been suggested that the found of the major metal produce e and plus group has got huge assets in countries like austria and also in cyprus. and there are concerns freezing his assets 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 after that original strength, there is now a limit as to how much pain individual countries want to endure as a result of the war and ukraine. for the latest that day, she can check our website, r t dot com. but will be back in the top of the hour with the latest we'll see then ah ah, to start a fresh military operation ukraine. the west has talked about russia and russians, russia side of the story is essentially absent and intentionally. so on this

edition of the program, we talk with who preeminent russian scholars about their own country and ukraine. oh, when i was shopping wrong when i just don't hold any world. yes. to shave out disdain, because the advocate and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. tonight is for your book because ac not blowing. mm. are still open yet still can scott, i don't know who to support what kind of ports got missed this deal with

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with time option or it has, you know what you're doing on the ground for the final show in the studio and 19 years to the eve of an invasion of iraq by the u. s. u. k, australia and poland that would arguably capitalize the killing, wounding, displacing of tens of millions. all around the world was of course, george w. bush, a secretary of state, colin powell who held a vial at the un security council to make the florida case for war in iraq. that is the world today teaches on the edge of a global conflict that could be even more deadly than iraq. afghanistan, libya or syria and join are from falls church, virginia by pals, former chief of stuff, colonel larry wilkerson retired colonel wilkinson. thank you so much for coming back on the show. just in the past few days. i think one reporter said to jen saki,

the press secretary for the white house. why are you sending in short, guns, pistols, grenade launchers, and the like to the ukrainian people as defensive weapons. what do you make of the massive amounts of arms on top of the ones given before i rushes invasion? what it, what do you make of this arming of ukraine? well, 1st of all, it's a domestic political requirement of the president biden. and he has to be very outspoken about it because he said he's not gonna establish an applies on or do anything that would provoke a wider or possibly a war with russia. so he's got it. on the other hand, show that he's doing everything you possibly can do is electorate because they want him to do more. so that's part of it. another part of it is, is military advice, is probably these are the kinds of weapons simple to use, easy to use any.