ah ah the army of the done yet republic says it has taken control over half of the embattled city of mario bolt, amid intensive fighting that is included grades of residential buildings too. they say sweep out ukrainian forces because they might be in support, greater sanctions against russia or incomplete embargo on trade. starting with oil as ukraine tries to pressure you into banning russian fuel imports. prices for those commodities have gone sky high through with their mugs a motion. dec. i prices go up. don't go up. most substantially. u. s. army manufacturers are reaping hefty profits from the ukraine conflict. that's as vast armaments, including almost $5000.00 javelin anti tank missiles. have been sent to health care

also you know, we are not any longer free to think or to say to, to write down what we think. and an italian member of the european parliament sees her facebook page blocked after she refused to vote in favor of using humanitarian aid funding to provide weapons for ukraine. ah, broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our 2 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 more 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 reducer and supply chains are being disrupted. the czech

republic has pointed to a drastic rise in corn prices doubled 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 is not pressuring the you to follow suits on the u. s. ban on russian oil imports. french oil major total energies, nevertheless says it has decided to stop purchasing petroleum products from russia . intense fighting for the embattled city of marble and the done yet to 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 rating residential buildings. they say going door to door to sweep out enemy combatants. ah, the done yes. army says ukrainian forces, which included the reputed neo nazi as often battalion have been using civilians as

human shields. as they open fire from people's homes, reportedly that residents have been forced to hide in their basements to escape the violence. the local airport has turned into a battlefield as the done yet army seeks to flush out ukrainian military forces in the facility. the head of the don, yes, republic has said that 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 is also believed snipers hide in residential buildings. as the combat redesigned, russian forces are backing up the danielle 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 had done yet sco stories for humanitarian assistance. russia says they have evacuated more than 68000 civilians from the city, despite what they say, the ukrainian side, 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. got them a proceed, is it on a guided thought? nationwide go, it's a spirit weakness thing else might oh well okay. nationally, your me give a solution again i need of i louise judges because i used to wish b zebedee it to the you know, who it's that i see i was supposed to know, but i started to load washer dog was ang divided as will be. you i do you perceive i did that, but i did, i still alien nation nationalist relented. you know, grindsley g void, you the could really like who is that a work number that you very up with? we thought it was very odd. i nissan is that yahoo is better because he and i, i wasn't sure it will be the exterior onion. who don't we do you bob whiskey give to but almost a home you could you be to the general the previous little go to somebody will

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fuels have skyrocketed. here's what londoners have to say. here's what they're marked as a, as a nation dec i process go up and i got that substantially. my tank is now double the cost as or 6 months ago, 5 pates and he's not gonna make a lot difference. told me people, you know, in the grand scheme of things what it's going to be to off it's going to be worse. 1 and we have no, i don't, i would definitely need a plan and the older man to do something them back to stand for, you know, the people who are going to be in travel show. and it seemed that european leaders are not really sure what to do, vice president of the you commission says they haven't come up with the best solution to be have huge will at the luthey or none of the energy energy market. and that because all 4 of the high gas prices,

so the overall impact on the energy prices is the true mental to, to the, from the point of view of energy. poverty detrimental from the, from the point of view of a competitiveness of the, of the european industry. and then we have to find the best possible solutions to resolve us. as the pressure mounts on european consumers, there governments are also looking for ways to reduce dependence on russian fuel imports. parties. charlotte davinsky examined some rather controversial suggestions . the impact of the war in ukraine is having far reaching consequences. as price rises, hit the energy sector, suggestions as to how we can all do saw dependency are coming thick and fast. the latest is from the international energy agency. it's suggesting 10 ways to cut or usage. these include car, free sundays,

working from home and turning down the air con. these efforts would reduce the price pain being filled by consumers around the world. less than the economic damage, shrink rushes hydrocarbon revenues, and help move oil demand towards a more sustainable pathway. how cool people will be to take such measures though, is another matter. now the i, he a says reducing speed limits on highways by at least 10 kilometers per hour will help in france. that is not likely to go down. well, when the government decided to drop speed limits in 2018, in a bid to cut road dest, the french were not amused. in fact, the issue was taken up by the yellow vest movement that was sparked initially by taxes on fuel. ah and just as you probably gave

a huge sigh of relief that 2 years of enforced solitary home working due to cove, it was at an end. no too soon. the i hear you suggest that home working for up to 3 days a week would cut down on fuels used in your commute, although perhaps not so great for your heating bills, which of course you pay for. and it's not just the i. e, that has no gets of wisdom about reducing energy consumption advice about wearing a few extra layers could be about to make a comeback as politicians demo, and that we turn the heating down to us to scale on the full tooth functional school. we don't one, those i'm the new and if you thought that was bad, spare a thought for our pena. the government is implementing enforced power cuts in a bid to deal with its energy crisis. starting from 12 o'clock at night, the municipalities will be asked to stop the lighting for those matters that are

not necessary. we will turn to imports as we will need to consume as little energy as possible, so as not to run out. if you're a car owner, you know how much filling up at the pump is really hitting your wallet right now. so how about caught free sundays? this would the aye. yay. save some $380000.00 barrels of oil per day. great. if you live in a city with accessible transport networks, however, not so great. well, if you live in the middle of nowhere, and with cause being seen by many as being a basic right that may not be popular, motorists are as well continuing to protest over the cost of fuel fuel for one taxi working more than 60 hours per week costs $400.00 to $600.00 euros per month. so the government is proposing to raise ride fairs by 3.5 percent. but we don't want our clients to have to pay those costs. they're already struggling to make ends

meet. if oil prices don't go down, we won't sort this out. i understand you as president joe biden arrives in the, in you to push for an all out oil embargo from russia. things could be about to get much, much worse. shoulders even ski, aussie paris in 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. we asked francesca donado herself about the reasons behind the move. they didn't explain anything, they didn't even reply to my questions. 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. the 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 and governments accuse other governors not to be credited to nasa de 1st are not at all. francesca to not as page was later unblocked. facebook's parent company meta has been banned in russia due to allegations of xenophobia after and allowed a users to post hate speech about russians over the conflict in ukraine. meta even briefly allowed death threats against russian president vladimir putin. but has since prohibited that donato says anti russian rhetoric in europe is on the rise.

think that we are seeing a very big propaganda by our media that intended to demonize a president. c and all that russian politics. i think this is very unique to the survival of our may same economies because our connections with russia and, and your economy, your enterprise and the markets of russia. important for all the european economic system. for usually most of all, and all of these have to do that will deeply harm us. our enterprise is our life our lifetime, and we will pay

a very big price to these insane position german army manufacturer. ryan at natal expects robust sales growth this year as berlin is set to increase military spending in response to the conflict in ukraine. meanwhile, us weaponry producers are reportedly breaking in a fortune as well, or to kill him up and comments in war. almost every one loses left for military, contracted corporations. the major conflagration can be hitting the jackpot. a month before things heated up in ukraine. the ceo of raytheon major pentagon contracted corporation boasted that he saw opportunity. we're 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 wasn't processed february 24th when russia moved in to protected

on 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 kia in just one week, and he had to buy them from somebody. plus this war has got u. s. 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. a 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. vegason shooting no 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 mini 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 and come 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. canada is now seeking to take center stage in western efforts to send more weapons to ukraine. as ottawa's foreign affairs minister says, her country is bringing in the private sector to help arm teams forces. but the top

diplomats speech at a recent conference was interrupted by a political activist and writer who accused her of provoking a global conflict. and if she wore a 3rd world war 3 shame on you, we spoke with don activist eve angler who says the west is trying to turn ukraine into enough dentist and 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 events, minsk records and, and basically talk about how canada has help precipitates 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 probably correct. and they would like to see something equivalent to what happened in $1080.00. and what that would mean effectively is can the us and others pumping in endless amounts of weapons until the last ukranian was willing to was willing to fight and die. ministers only yesterday said that we need to have insurance 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 following allegations of u. s. 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 was chemical weapons. you're simply not true guarantee you.

russia has published documents claiming to prove the work of bio weapons labs in ukraine. moscow says there are 30 such facilities funded by the u. s. defense department and working with pathogens such as anthrax and even the plague. earlier, the u. s. has even acknowledge the presence of quote, biological research facilities in ukraine, but stopped short of admitting involvement and by a weapons development there 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 u. s. diplomat jim jar truss 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 she did not say their weapons labs and maybe they're not weapons labs as such. but they are certainly research 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 is going on there. there's a reason those labs were there and there's a 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 said 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 calculation. we are concerned that they may use chemical weapons 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 the simply would not have helped their military situation. i'm trying to think of an instance perhaps. i think egypt use them in yemen in 1960 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 using your opponent of trust. and that's why we have the world media just acting as bulletin boards for western governments and selling the phony story that goodness, 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. when 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 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 mario full, that this is what the us open tally has been doing it almost complete in version of the truth. but it's not just foolishness. it's just not stupidity, it is, in my opinion, all a and a purpose and that purpose, purpose, i think we will see fairly soon. meanwhile, intensive fighting also continues around the ukrainian capital. the smoke in these images is from an alleged drone attack on an educational institute into the local authorities said 3 people were killed in this instance. and as western media outlets say, the conflict has reshape ukraine to become a stronger democracy. president zalinski tightens the states grip on tv. news and bands, 11 opposition parties are cheese around coast of reports. what is more than ukraine

a 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 and the post soviet world and ukrainian leadership are constantly looking for approval in the west. if you see any of you understand how we feel like how we fight a all the enemies for our freedom support class to florida along all the with worse, with grabbing direct stat, dewey president vladimir events. he 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 don't nets and logans, 3 years on and, and not only did he break the promise to the people he clammed 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, throw 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 denise 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 over given the full scale war unleashed by russia. and the political ties that a number of political structures have with the state e to suspend any activity of

a number of political parties for the period of martial law leticia party. moving on to the ukrainian museum 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 poles and all channels. very democratic, indeed, the worst kept saying, oh, this is normal because he, he in cost no, he already 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 this does, is it is all ukrainian, any chance ukrainians who dare to speak up against vir cody and treatment from their government are arrested by security services, and their fate is often unknown. one of the latest incidence is the detention of odessa journalist europe cut you off was been accused of treason and spying for

asking his social media subscribers to share information about shelling. 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 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 today. so 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 benedictine 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 welcomes, why it's ruling elite since 2014 great society has been good to life itself. it has been getting more and more coo and of course, the current tragedy and who has who ukrainian security services they use for you. they use the russian woman as a pretext to go off to the government. i mean, let me remind you that just recently the president asked you to all the largest political party. great. so there is absolutely nobody to any political opponent now can be arrest people disappear without you know, these names on

a bench or the western television. but these are where you well know they just disappear and no one cares. and of course, a such a big beating, such thing says public weeping. they're taking place right now. that isn't for me this hour, i will be back in just under 30 minutes with more coverage of the war and ukraine. this is our international ah look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except when such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point obviously is to place.