[000:00:00;00] the the army of the republic says it has taken control over half of the embattled city of valuable amid intense fighting that included raids of residential buildings as they say to sweep out ukrainian forces as local residents remain traps in their basement. u. s. arms manufacturers are set to reap happy profits from the ukraine. the conflict, as nato countries ramp up, spending to strengthen their military route. we are not to any longer 3 things to say to the,

to write down what we think and in italian. remember of the european parliament fees or her facebook page blocked after she refused to vote in favor of using humanitarian aid funding to provide weapons for you. great. ah. but kathy live direct from our studios in moscow. this is art international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now, it has been nearly a month since the war in ukraine erupted. here are some of the more recent developments. the un has issued a warning that the conflict could lead to a global hunger crisis. as ukraine is, a major agricultural producer and supply chains are being disrupted. the czech republic has pointed to a drastic rise in corn prices double those of last year. meanwhile, the u. s. and e, you said that they will ramp up their sanctions against russia, with another raft of measures to be imposed this week. and as washington says,

it isn't pressuring the you to follow suit on the u. s. ban on russian oil imports . french oil major to tall energies, nevertheless says that it has decided to stop purchasing petroleum products from russia. intense fighting for the embattled city of marble in the done yet republic. as the local army says, it has taken control over half of the city from nationalist ukrainian battalions, despite fierce resistance. done yet the forces have been raving residential buildings going door to door, as they say to sweep out enemy combatants. now, i've done yet, sc army says the crating forces, which include the reputed not the as of the callian have been using civilians as human shields as they open fire from people's homes. residents have been forced to hide in their basements to escape the violence. the local airport has turned into

a battlefield of the done yet army seeks to flush out ukrainian military forces in the facility the the head of the done yet republic had said it would be impossible to take the city within a few days, several 1000 ukrainian fighters are believed to have taken up positions, their snipers high, the residential buildings as the combat readers on this, according to russian forces. and the russian forces are backing up to the republic in attempting to gain control of the city. amid dire conditions for civilians. a local official and factory director has asked the russian and danielle authorities for humanitarian assistance. russia says they have evacuated more than 60000 civilians from the city despite the ukrainian side. so they say, refusing to allow safe routes to russia. some who have fled, have lost connections with their relatives, and are now trying to locate them. we spoke to some of those who have already been

evacuated, though he's not going to come to let you let it will be a cpd, said she may get nauseous. food yeah, we thought it was very odd. i nissan inside yahoo theater because he and actually still like for you was him with him to. it will be the spirit on you know who the media debug with you. the people who don't most likely it's hook up at home. a good idea. yeah, please. yeah, it's been done. my dear. i think we're good. if you read zoom, i was with you plus you are the know, but i did you this gillian nation, nationalist leonard, you know grind z g voice typical really was little. it was, i don't like blood the heart of a block of the seat of i a block on the coma should come because i will not eat. she wouldn't. you can. when you put in each you asking us visibly sheet is that after all are modified when it's updated, but they did ask that what a smoker you when you took them to quit particular a stress on the other side of the globe. canada is now taking center stage in

western efforts to send more weapons to ukraine. canada's foreign affairs minister says her country is bringing in the private sector to help armed cubes forces. but the diplomats of speech at a recent conference was interrupted by a political activist and writer who accused melanie julie of provoking a global conflict. and if you are going to need a 3rd world war chain line, you know, we spoke with that activist angler who says the west is trying to turn ukraine into enough dentistry like quagmire. why hasn't the canadian government, which provides all kinds of support to the government and key? why haven't we been pushing them to incorporate the their obligations under the mince, minced records and, and basically talk about how canada has helped precipitate this conflict from its

role in, in the my 2014 the decision makers in ottawa, washington, i very much knew ukraine as a proxy against russia, they think that the, the things are going well for the russian military was probably correct. and they would like to see something equivalent to what happened in a really nice meetings. and what that would mean effectively is can us and others pumping in endless amounts of weapons. and so the last, the premium was willing to was willing to fight and die municipal li. yesterday i said that we need, we need to have ensure that even more weapons in the ukraine. we're going to go find weapons from other other sources. they have completely committed to just a fueling the conflict. in war, practically, everyone loses but not weapons manufacturers. while nato countries ramp up spending

to strengthen their military submitted, the ukraine conflict, us arms companies are set to take in a fortune, or to kill them up and comments. in war, almost everyone loses, but for military contracted corporations, a major conflagration can be hitting the jackpot a month before things heated up in ukraine. the ceo of raytheon, a major pentagon contracted corporation boasted that he saw opportunity. we are seeing, i would say, opportunities for international sales. of course, the tensions in eastern europe, the tensions in the south china sea. all of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. so i fully expect we're going to see some benefit from it. it wasn't wrong since february 24th when russia moved in to protect don boss military contracted companies like raytheon, boeing, lockheed, martin, and others have seen their stocks sore. joe biden sent

a $1000000000.00 worth of weapons to kiev in just one week, and he had to buy them from somebody. plus this war has got us military corporations, some new long term contracts. germany is spending over 1000000000 euros to boost its military. it's committed to spend at least 2 percent of their g, d, p on the military, each year by $2024.00. russian president vladimir putin created a new reality with his invasion of ukraine. it's clear we need to invest significantly more in the security of our country in order to thereby protect our freedom and our democracy. shooting commitments to buy weapons are coming in from romania, denmark, france, poland, the netherlands, and italy. the nato countries are planning to build their own many army for western europe. we have to be able to react. and one of the ways to react rapidly is the

e u rapid deployment capacity that has been agreed. we cannot act alone. we want to act in a more coordinated way among us and we want to act in a more integrated way with our partners acting in integrity with nato, which remains certainly the cornerstone of the territorial defense of europe. but thumb that america can smell some foul play. the war drums are beating very heavily because look, it's a great distraction from the political crisis. it rallies everybody around the military, industrial complex, and the media complex as well. what we have is, unfortunately, democrats, republicans, the mainstream media, the washington elite, essentially in the pocket of the military industrial complex, with every war and every conflict, raphael profits multiply, raytheon profits, multiply as bombs fall on schools, wedding tents, hospitals, homes and communities living breathing human beings are being killed, lives are being destroyed all for profit. wars are government run, money laundering, operations from taxpayers. the job of the media is to make the taxpayer agree to

war through aggressive emotional propaganda. people like me, russell brand and tucker carlson are enemies of the military industrial complex. sure. there is some pushback, but the military corporations have a way of wielding their influence. raytheon, lockheed martin and general dynamics fund something called the center for strategic international studies, paying academics big money to plan out foreign policy and advise politicians. the top 5 military corporations spent roughly $60000000.00 to lobby congress and politicians back in 2020. now that's a lot of money, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the billions they make from war. everyone in dc knows that weapons manufacturers are helping skew us policy towards militarism, but they usually try to be less obvious. they are caching in on tensions over ukraine as the u. s. pores weapons into the region. 18 members of the u. s. congress actually have personal stock ownership and military manufacturing

corporations ever notice how hard some on capital hill will fight against government funding for health care for food stamps, other pro rams. we've got to stop this spending. they say, but not when it comes to tanks and drones and tools of death years ago. us marine corps general smedley, butler wrote war is a racket, describing how big corporations makes loads of money from war. what goes on today is far beyond what even he could imagine. caleb martin r t new york and italian member of the european parliament saw her facebook page taken down by the networks managers after she voted against a resolution on anti russian sanctions. francesca donato as page was later unblocked earlier. facebook's parent company meta was banned in russia because of quote, xena phobia. and the company has authorized users in some countries to call for

violence against russians over moscow's operation in ukraine. metal even briefly allowed death threats against russian president putin, but has since prohibited such cause. we spoke to francesca denado and she says facebook gave her no reason for why her page was blocked. they didn't explain anything they didn't even reply to my question. so i didn't absolutely agree with the user all the fans, european font for many terry and a 2 by white people and to support ukraine against russia in europe. we are not to any longer pre to think of to say to the, to write down what we think because there is a very strong censorship against every political message as the public opinion.

that is not aligned to that formally decided line by the european governments. that's the demonstration, that's why europe government accused other governors not to be craddick enough for day. first are not at all from the political side back to the war itself. an intense fighting has also started to happen around the ukrainian capital. continuing, in fact, the smoke in these images is from an alleged drone attack on the educational institute in chief. local authorities said that 3 people were killed. meanwhile, as western media outlets say, the conflict has reshape ukraine to become a stronger democracy, president lensky tightens the states grip on tv. news and bands, 11 opposition parties are. these are among couple of comments. what is more than ukraine democracy or an authoritarian dictatorship?

well, i will let you the viewer be the judge, nothing but facts ahead. some of the world's mainstream media will tell you the key of is a prime example of a free democratic society in the post soviet world. and ukrainian leadership are constantly looking for approval in the west. ladies and gentlemen, average friends, chivalry and food, even in your he agreed with her to have pages that would allow you to hand media grants are understand. awesome. now that when you know what the piece mean right now, are right now, president vladimir lensky, one the ukranian presidential election with more than 73 percent in 2019 and ear. landslide victory was largely based on his promise to and the conflict in the breakaway republics. of done nets and logans, 3 years on and, and not only did he break the promise to the people,

he clamped down on any form of descent in the government. the most recent being the suspension of 11 political opposition parties with what he claims are russia, links free of them alone together 116 to 20 percent of the vote in 2019 parliamentary elections. and most of the so called pro russian parties in ukraine. our 1st and foremost, paroled themselves and have autonomous interests and sources of income in ukraine. they're trying to capitalize on the real grievances of a sizable minority of russian speaking ukrainians that are concentrated in the south eastern regions of the country. would you got finished police tickets for them on the activities of those politicians aimed at division or collusion will not succeed, but will receive a harsh response. and therefore, the national security and defense council decided on given the full scale war unleashed by russia and the political ties that a number of medical structures have with the state. he to suspend any activity of

a number of political parties for the period of martial law leticia party. moving on to the ukrainian medium a year ago, 3 ukrainian opposition to the channels were shut down and to say, a single information policy for all use and analyses and polls and all channels. very democratic indeed to all the most popular channels were shut down. i missed a few months ago now, you know, while on the la la nash, which is like shutting down cbs and abc places. and that was not noticed by that by the west media. you know, mr. zalesky shut down your the most popular television channels and the worst kept saying, oh, this is normal because he, he, in cost no, he already missed or sanctions on these channels. can you imagine mr. by the imposing sanctions all abc and cbs, shutting them down, you know, preventing them from getting on. this is what we, cecilia,

it is all ukrainian and charles ukrainians who dare to speak up against ver, cody, and treatment from their governments. are arrested by security services, and their fate is often unknown. one of the latest incidents is the detention of odessa journalists, europe catch off, who has been accused of treason and spying for asking his social media subscribers to share information about shelly mind you is never given any military coordinates elsewhere. the government's a lack of control has created chaos in the streets. luthers have taken advantage of the police absence and started crushing stores and even people's private homes. and those who wanted to protect their loved ones. well and belongings decided to take the law into their own hands with

the it is very important for us in ukraine that everything comply with the letter and spirit of the law, competitiveness, transparency, and access to justice. you have my guarantee. ukraine's prosecutor general irina benedicts, her claims that it's important to uphold the law at all times. however, her words are falling on deaf ears. the law is practically nowhere to be found. ukrainians have been left alone with the so called democracy, so welcomed by its ruling, elite c, 2014 ukrainian society has been brutalized itself. it has been get more and more cruel. and of course, the current tragedy and the students who ukrainian security services, they use the they use the russian involvement at the pretext to go

after the government. i mean, let me remind you of that, just the recent, the present to or the largest political party. great, so there is absolutely nobody to call them. any political opponent can be arrest the people disappear without cri, you know, the names from a pension or the western television, but these are very well known people. they just disappear. and no one cares. and of course, such things, public meetings, such things as public weavings that taking place right now. the serbian president has called on you remember bulgaria to continue transiting russian natural gas to his country despite the blogs plans to cut back on russian fuel. meanwhile, another country hungry has threatened to veto sanctions against russian energy imports or cheese. charlotte kapinsky picks up the store. bo gary's head. this plan

and the idea to shift away from rushing gas. and unfortunately, that may have now hit this pretty significant hurdle is being described as a potentially historic move the country saying that when it's contract with russians and gas from expires, this year to feel will be looking elsewhere for its energy needs. however, not so fast as you heard that says neighboring soviet that also gets it gas from the bull can stream, which is this pipeline that runs through bulk area. and so being presidents, alexandra, which is said, his country pays for transit fees for that gas through bulgaria. and he wants it to come from russia, bulgaria has announced that it will cease importing russian gas. i'm not sure that this is so easy to execute. we are simply saying that we want russian gas from bulk and stream. you deliver the gas to our gas pipeline for which we pay and what you

want to do next is your concern. this is not our problem for us. so cold haul to called on those plans by the director of assume been gas company who said that bo guerria as plans are pretty much empty dreams. don't bill gary though, like other you countries is i know natural gas applies from other suppliers such as casto on a big to cease purchases from russia. it's also waiting the completion of another pipeline. this is a pipeline that will link greece and bulgaria, and that will see guess that could be pumped in from azerbaijan. so it's already looking for gas supplies elsewhere. and the pressure on buying russian energy and whether to acts that is really been ramping up since the start of the countries invasion in ukraine. we've heard from some you countries that say they want an all right ban on trade at with russia and also right down when it comes to buying,

rushing gas and oil. they say by continuing to buy it from russia. they're essentially financing through the back to the war in ukraine. it was a coalition of countries from the baltic nations to poland, to demanding this. when you ministers, a met on monday, trying to bring countries in line with their views, but they failed. however, islands, foreign minister has been persuaded, looking at the extent of destruction in ukraine. right now. it's very hard to make the case that we shouldn't be moving in on the energy sector, particularly oil and cold. but speaking after that meeting, we heard from the use foreign affairs chief, this is joseph brown, who said he just wasn't the day to take such decisions. the kremlin has also warned about what kind of impact such an embargo could happen, how much that could hurt europe. and there are suggestions of talent remeasure which could seem moscow actually cutting off gas supplies the block. and that we understand would cause massive issues in germany. they talked about a whole thing of the supply,

which would seem us unemployment and also poverty. so some really big issues. however, so far it does seem as if the you doesn't have quite the appetite to make such a bold move. that could change though, when you, as president joe biden, heads to brussels this week, he wants to push them into a total and bog to follow in the footsteps of the u. s. and essentially ban all russian energy setbacks at a major russian port on the black sea have also raised concerns about supplies of oil being sent to europe and markets as a severe storm has heavily damaged to vital equipment at the port of nova fisk. now the facility is a key hub in the casting pipeline, which transports massive volumes of oil. the company in charge of the site says repairs could take weeks with output of the commodity expected to drop significantly. authority say, none of the oil has leaked into the black sea, the pipeline consortiums, c,

e o has asserted that necessary precautions have prevented a spill. losing that security for we will have to reduce both shipments and reception through the pipeline and the reduction will be quite significant by more than half at least that means we're forced to exclude any risks and oil and turn the seas. so of course, this equipment will be decommission for preventive repair. it will take at least 3 weeks to carry out the replacement work. the work is carried out sequentially. we have the materials for it has now, but whether it's enough would depend on the volumes that we haven't changed right now. relation to foreign supply partners quite complicated. so i think that there will be certain difficulties in the future in supplying the same hoses that we will need to replace in other place your order number for you. as you heard nikolai gordon, the ceo there just mentioned shipments through the pipeline have been substantially reduce energy technology expert, kil, roddy,

enough has described the estimated impact. it's a gwents above your most speaking of volumes taking into account the fact that 60000000 tons of oil were shipped through this pipeline last year. such a break down will lead to the fact that the volume of shipments will be reduced from $170000.00 tons of oil per day to approximately $50000.00 tons. there will be a $3.00 to $5.00 fold decrease in the volume of oil shipments by tanker. the pipeline is part of a major international supply chain, largely managed by russia and the central asian nation of kazakhstan oil is transported to the marine terminal in nevada, nevada sisk, and then loaded onto tankers for shipping to other countries. eager to use cough. a senior analyst at the russian national energy security fund says what countries would be 1st to be affected by the drop in supplies. because i don't know, we're looking to growth numero marine kine because exxon is quotes,

a major player on the global markets through this pipeline has. histone has been transporting its main volumes of oil to the west. so it turns out that at least one of the supplies is falling out of the export market for a while. this will be noticeable in some countries which were traditional recipients of all supplies from this terminal, specifically, southern europe including italy, spain, and southern france. most of the oil went there and parts of it went to the usa, around 10 to 15 percent. this is also an unpleasant turn of events for the united states, which has just stopped importing russian oil off the imposing sanctions. and now need to look for an alternative supplier, while another producer is now interrupting its supplies as well as the result fuel prices on the u. s. domestic market may rise. there is already a shortage on the global market. and here a fairly large player is reducing supplies, at least from this terminal. this will aggravate the deficit on the market, almost lightly pushed the prices of oil up pakistan's prime minister imran khan has pointed the finger at the u. s. for a move by the islam abides political opposition to hold

a vote of no com its against him. he says it is retaliation after he rejected a request for pakistan to host a u. s. military base in defending his position. he noted that neighboring india has been able to keep up good relations with the us while maintaining close economic ties with russia. my country's foreign policy should be for the welfare of our people. today i congratulate our neighbor, india, because they always maintained and independent foreign policy. they have an alliance with the united states buying crude oil from russia, who are the people who roam around the country. i was asked if pakistan would give a military base to the united states. i have maintained for 25 years. neither i bow down before anyone, nor will i bow down to anyone. the prime minister has said entrenched corruption is at the root of pakistan's political strife and emphasized he would not condone bribery in the government. pakistan has been struggling with economic troubles in recent months,

and some team members have left cons party. he says that he would welcome them back . we heard from 2 retired pakistani generals about the political situation in the country. barcus bond by what's your location is one going to be going to be ignored by, by the best in the sun. dave and yes ma'am. he has been taking this can take this some time, i think the more than what is required. but so this is principles that i don't see that he's going to why they compromise on those principles. and that is that he has the see. and then the best in the larger in this country, and he is not morally dutifully or eagerly committed to any one country just to serve their cause. i think in tell the foreign policy it has to be in on the line for the policy based on the imagination charter,

based on non interference in each other's affairs and also based on our next interest. well, there is no doubt about to do that. he happy to have a base, but i don't think they expect that focus on would give them a base. and that question has to be answered by all successive governments that they would not give any base to america or to any other country because they've had a very bad experience when the conflict was on focused on get to got it really will not give a base because by giving a base, you are in fact, getting yourself enrolled. uh, with the complex rich, the superpower or major powers, get into with other bars. that is it for me this hour i will be back in, let's say 30 minutes with another full and fresh looks renews. this is our t international.

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