ah, ah, with the army of the done yes, republic says it has taken control over half of the embattled city of marble, the mid intense fighting that included raids of residential buildings. they say to sweep out ukrainian forces has local resident for main trapped in their basement. u . s. army manufacturers are reaping hefty profits from the ukraine conflict. as nato countries ramp up, spending to strengthen their military. that's as vast armaments, including 4600 javelin anti tank missiles have been sent to ukraine. e, and we are not so any longer 3 to think or to say to the,

to write down like the big hand an italian member of the european parliament, caesar facebook page blocked after she refuses to vote in favor of using humanitarian aid funding to provide weapons for you credit ah, broadcasting live from our studios in moscow. this is aren't international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now, it has been nearly a month since the war and ukraine erupted. here are some of the most recent developments. the u. n. 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 say 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, too tall energies, nevertheless says it is decided to stop purchasing petroleum products from russia. intense fighting for the embattled city of marble and the done yet republic. as the local army says, it has taken control over half of the city from nationals ukrainian battalions despite fierce resistance. dynamic forces have been rating residential buildings going door to door to sweep out the enemy combatants. so they say the i've done yet. army says the ukrainian forces, which include the reputed at neo nazi as of battalion, have been using civilians are human shields as they open fire from people's homes.

residents have been forced to hide in their basements to escape the violence. local airport has also turned into a battlefield as the done yet. army seeks to flush out ukrainian military forces in the facility the head of the done yet republic has said it would be impossible to take the city within a few days as several 1000 ukrainian fighters are believed to have taken up positions there. they say snipers hide in residential buildings as the combat rages on, russian forces are backing up. they've done yet, the republic in attempting to gain control of the city. now, amid dire conditions for civilians, a local official and factory director has asked the russian and done yet. authorities for humanitarian assistance. russia says they have evacuated more than 68000 civilians from the city despite the ukrainian side. 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 heard from some of those who have endured the hardships of the besieged city become a proceed. is it on a guided thought nationwide. gov. it's a spirit near sling alice my all polo green on the national. your makia was solutions. i need of either were just because i used to wish us be xa video to the d. an awkward. so to see of us, boston not us, not us reload. washer dog was ng w. w. i did you perceive i did that, but i did hear as to the alley nation nationalist relented. you know, grindsley g void, you the could really was landolfus who has not worked on military acquittal via ftp 13 with cpg. we sent over the art i nissan inside. yeah. easier because he actually still left for you with them with him to leave. it will be the video on you know, who the media debug will give to with the contributed edge out of the previous little go to the money will follow us. good royce, ill,

i style you day. let's only miss. it's b. as brad looked at vidalia b as b. b, it's gotta be done. yeah. mystery at that because god them, yes. just leave it in a clear. but i applied leila. what opened a dozen shanie estoppel sent those machine you would have been present. so i was wondering if that wasn't true enough, gretisca ard me, but young lady blanca of our blocker, the seat of a block of the conversation blocker that will not need, she wouldn't be at my new plan. and she was asking us, visible like sheet is that asked at all or martha when it's absurd, it was think it was because i put a smoker on you believe so. i don't think we're pretty teela. i started on the other side of the globe. canada is now taking center stage in western efforts to send more weapons to ukraine. canada, as foreign affairs minister says, or country is bringing in the private sector to help on cubes forces. but the diplomats speech at a recent conference was interrupted by a political activist and writer to accused melanie usually of provoking

a global conflict. and if you are killed are made up my 3rd world war 3. shame like you we spoke with with that activist use on glare, who says that the west is trying to turn ukraine into enough chemistry like quagmire. why hasn't the canadian government, which provides all kinds of support to the government and key? why hadn't we been pushing them to incorporate the their obligations under the mince, minced records and, and basically talk about how canada has help precipitate this conflict from its role in, in the, my 2014 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,

which is probably correct. and they would like to see something equivalent to what happened in the navy. 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 ministry li. yesterday i said that we need, we need to 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. while nato countries wrap up spending to strengthen their military submitted the ukraine, conflicts, us, arms, manufacturers are raking 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. new 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 complementarity with nato, which remains certainly the cornerstone of the territorial defense of europe. but some in 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 and 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 programs. 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 did not of page was later unblocked earlier. facebook's parent company metal was banned in russia because of quote, the phobia company has authorized users in some countries to call for violence against russians over moscow's operation in ukraine. meta even briefly allowed death threats against russian president putin. but have since prohibited such cause . we spoke to francesca denado, 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 funds, europe, your font for as many terry and a 2 by white people and to support ukraine against russia in europe. me. 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 a public opinion that is not aligned to that formally decided line by the european governments. that's the demonstration, that's why you repeat in the government accused other governors not to be crappy, can nasa they 1st are not told. meanwhile,

intense fighting continues around the ukrainian capital. the smoke in these images is from the ledge to drone attack on an educational institute in cheer. the local authorities said 3 people were killed at the same time as western media outlets. the savy conflict has reshape ukraine to become a stronger democracy. president, landscape titans, the states grip on t v. news and benz 11 opposition parties are to remind culture of reports. 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 base free 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 shimmery and included in your he agreed that he ought to have pages that would allow you to an immediate grandson. understand awesome, now im when i put that he needs right now with auto right now, president vladimir lensky won the ukrainian 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 donetta and logan's. 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 are 1st and foremost pro themselves and have autonomy,

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? believe 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 political structures have with the state each to suspend any activity of a number of political parties for the period of martial law. moving onto the ukranian medium a year ago, 3 ukrainian opposition to the channels were shut down and say, a single information policy for all use and analyses and poles and all channels. very democratic, indeed, 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 about, you know, preventing them from getting. this is what we suggested you is all you crania, and charles ukrainians, who dare to speak up against the accordion. treatments 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 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 of those who wanted to protect their loved ones,

well and belongings, decided to take the law into their own hands with the 3 digit cust together. 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 benedict's of claims that it's important to uphold the law at all times. however her words or 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. and society has been brutalized itself has been get more and more cruel. and of course the current tried

to be, and students who ukrainian security services they used. they use the rash involvement as a pretext to go after the government. i mean, let me remind you of that just recently present it to the largest political party. great. so there is absolutely nobody because freedom, any political opponent now can be arrest the people disappear without cri, you know, these names from a pension or the western television, but these are very well known. they just disappear. and no one cares. and of course, such thinks public beating such things as public weavings. they're taking place right now. the following allegations of us involvement in biological weapon research in ukraine. joe biden emphasizes the u. s. has absolutely no bio weapons

in europe 30 that we'd america, biological, as well as chemical weapons in europe. simply not true. i guarantee you that's after the u. s. under secretary of state for political affairs, victoria newland said there were quote, biological research facilities in ukraine. and the u. s. was concerned about them potentially being seized by russian forces. ukraine has a biological research facilities. we are working with the ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of russian forces should they approach. former usa diplomat, jim johnson says there's no good explanation for the u. s. to allegedly have bio labs in ukraine. deputy secretary of state victoria newland confirmed that these

labs are there and of course you do not say their weapons labs and maybe they're not weapons labs as such. but they are certainly research or, or facilities dealing with biological agents that have no good explanation. the idea that somehow they're simply processing agents left over from the soviet union 30 years ago doesn't pass the last test. so something that's going on there, there's a reason those labs were there and there's reason they were kept secret. and by the way, this is not the only country in which those labs exist. so it's hard for anybody to say they were there for some innocuous purpose. meanwhile, u. s. officials have warned that russia could potentially conduct a chemical attack in ukraine and the u. s. would thus retaliate, we need to be very clear that we are considering options at the chemical weapons is certainly something that would alter our calculations. we are concerned that they

may use chemical weapons in, in ukraine. we've been clear if they escalate to this level. we will respond aggressively to what they are doing all science and chemical weapons. nobody use them because militarily, it was disadvantages to do so. even what was on the verge of collapse. nazi germany did not use chemical weapons because simply would not have helped their military situation. i'm trying to think of an instance perhaps. i think egypt use them in yemen and 960 or 70 s. other than that, they are generally not used because they are not militarily effective, but they are really great as a false flag for accusing your opponent of atrocity. and that's why we have the world media just acting as bulletin boards for western governments and selling the phony story that couldn't is losing his plans are falling apart there. they only have 2 weeks worth of emulation. oh my god, oh my god, he's desperate. now what will he do when we do and that's,

that's building the narrative for this. and they will also been giving further signals of this with the funny stories about firing on. so the way is when, in fact, we know from some of the, the interviews you broadcast about people from playing model, that this is what the us open tally has been doing. it's an almost complete version of the truth, but it's not your foolishness. it's just not true, kennedy, it is in my opinion, all aim to the purpose and that purpose, purpose. i think we will see fairly soon. the serbian president has called on each member bulgaria to continue transiting russian natural gas to his country. despite the blocks plans to cut back on the russian fuel, meanwhile, another you country hungary has threatened to veto sanctions against russia, energy imports, but he's tro depends. he picks up the story. bo gary's head this plan? and the idea is 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 city, and that also gets its gas from the bull can stream, which is this pipeline that runs through both area. and so being presidents, alexandra, which is said, his country pays for transit fees for that gas to 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. hold a called on those plans by the director of assume been gas company who said that bo

guerria as plans are pretty much m t 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 grease and bulgaria, and that will see guess that could be pumped in from as a by shown. so it's already looking for gas supplies elsewhere. and the pressure on buying russian energy in with it acts that is really been ramping up since the story of the countries invasion in ukraine. we've heard from some you countries that say they want and all right. ban on trade with russia and also right back 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 the 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 blog, and that we understand would cause massive issues in germany. they talked about a whole thing of the supply, which would see mass unemployment and also poverty. so some really big issues.

however, so far it does seem as if the doesn't have quite the appetite to make such a bold move. that could change though, when you, as president joe biden, head to brussels this week, he wants to push them into a total and ball going to follow in the footsteps or the u. s. and essentially band all russian energy pakistan's prime minister, iran con, has pointed the finger at us for a move by the islamic bods, political opposition to hold a vote of no confidence against him. he says it's 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 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 that he would not condone bribery and the government pocket on has been struggling with economic troubles in recent months. and some key members have left cons party. he says that he would welcome them back. we heard from to return pakistani generals about the political situation in the country. barcus bond by what's the other solution? is what contributes can be ignored by, by the best in run it a grievance. yes ma'am. he has been taking this can take this sometimes i think the more than what is required, but it is,

is principles are saying, i don't see that he's going to why they compromise on those principles. and that is, that he has to take the c and 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 odyssey 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 have had a very bad experience when the conflict was on focused on get to go to really will

not give a base because by giving a base you are in fact getting yourself enrolled with the complex rich. the superpowers are major bars and get into with other bars that has it for me this hour i will be back in 30 minutes with another full and freshly extra news. this is art international. quite happy with us. ah ah, it was in the 1950s that our secretary of state john foster dulles proclaimed our policy, his global.