ah, ah, this is a notice board right here where people are leaving a note. some of them say i'm looking for my mom and some of them say i'm looking for my father. my grandmother, my sister is thousands of people finally escape from her. you pull one of the most contested cities in the done. yes. republic are the visits a refugee camp and hear from people about their plight and their hopes. the future russian forces begin clearing huge mine fields that have already claimed the lives of many civilians after they were left by ukrainian soldiers. our correspondent reports from the ground is seemingly an ordinary ante plank mine visit. this is what, what's known as a mine with a surprise and we'll of bug or nato bombing of yugoslavia which started 23 years

ago today. the air strikes lasted 78 days, killing hundreds of civilians. ah, from moscow to the world, this is our international. i'm peter scott. and these are the top stories this hour is exactly one month since russia begun. it's offensive in ukraine, and moscow claims more than 4000 sites of ukrainian military infrastructure been destroyed. and that is made significant advances thrown in key cities with multiple becoming a flash point. ah, battles continue there between russian lead and ukrainian forces. the army of the denotes republic claimed they fully surrounded the city and control most of his territory. and as you can see,

the city has been all but destroyed in the fighting. those civilians who were able to flee mario full have been accommodated in temporary, comes built by russian under nits republic, emergency services. refugees have been given food and water, which is something they all liked while they were sheltering in basements, art sees roman corso visitors, one such sensor and spoke to the people about their fight. over a 1000 refugees were finally able to make their way out of fur maribelle last month they spent in a basement so they weren't allowed to evacuate by a sulfur battalion who encircled the city and prevented the locals. so peaceful civilians are from my leaving the city. they had absolutely no information. and finally, some of them were able to use their own cars, found were actually walked to checkpoints which are now controlled by russian. the nest people's republic military,

or who told them where to go and how to evacuate. now once they arrive, i hear on the outskirts of maribelle, they register to go to either genetics or a stove where it's not as dangerous. i was able to speak to some of the people here in this say q and these other stories of their evacuation from variable you got going out of my cinema. of shinnecock with my ceiling was acquitted daily. you know when the money which adventurous level dora, but the most to present up. caleb and i was thrashing i had though to say, i'm not a good you know, did you additionally some of which were to for use it a productive magazine? yes. my simplest way, whenever lenient, picky voice. no don't, but the shower was litchell's address is to for your next door mores now liberated at my mom of the time several of us have received ca such to additionally they need to win. yes, because i can you piggy such is cleared the yard mika,

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hundreds of people who are arriving from ru paul. they're giving their passport information and how many people they have in their parties. however, many people have left their loved ones to behind those who couldn't evacuate those who didn't have any information to evacuate. now they're hoping that they will arrive here soon. this is and notice board right here where people are leaving a note, or some of them say i'm looking for my mom and some of them say i'm looking for my father, my grandmother and my sister. of course, they're leaving these notes say here in hopes that very soon there will be reunited with their families once again. and you said you, my dear to you? ah good, don't you go to cooper? you do swim, you've no, you can choose her. do you look so nice to have dinner? good. are you? i'm melbourne, celia, jim. she has been me a human fits your dealership while in

a nursing facility to their studies with kids of always that i'm come on. i'm going to give us a quote on the flu with hundreds of people who arrived in here on the outskirts of murray, who paula territory. now under control of the next people's republic. i spent how weeks without food, electricity, or running water here at this temper or refugees center, all of their basic needs are taken care of. there have been fed. there are plenty of children i hear as well. once all the basic needs are taken care of, they will be forwarded on to either russia or deeper to the territory, often as people's republic, where they will be once again, safe from shilling, and nothing will threaten their life from lancaster of r t. the less people's republic in the areas where it's retreating, the ukrainian army is not only leaving behind some of his military equipments,

but it's also large mind fields which pose a huge threat civilians are, sees broad gas. dia visit once the chair in the head of san region where russian suppers are working to neutralize the devices. weeks after russia's special operation began, here in ukraine, russian sappers and engineering brigades are still clearing mine fields left behind by ukrainian troops. we're talking here about a thousands upon thousands of anti tank and the anti personnel. mine is mine, karen vehicle behind me. it is about to go on a new route. 8 years ago. this was sleepy farm land in the years since ukrainian sappers turned it into a death trap soon with mach cobb gardens of minds. and if that wasn't bad enough, ukrainian forces less deadly surprises behind the complicates any

d mining operation. this is seemingly an, an ordinary anti tank mind, but it isn't. this is why what's known as a mine with a surprise. because on the top you have an anti task find that it's now ready to be fish. roy. underneath you have the surprise, another mine a lesser charge. so what this is intended to do is to kill sapaulas who have no experience, perhaps new, perhaps less than cancel and cancel. the mine below is supposed to blow sap up, tries to remove the anti tank on top of the day in day out. the air reverberates with blast after blast. the only safe way to remove a booby trap line. so here is to lay a charge on top of the mind to tie

a cable war veteran for the mind underneath a yank it and to cause a detonation at a safe distance. mine fields are relatively straightforward in comparison because ukrainian forces have picked up a new habit. one perfected in syria and iraq. another striking thing about ukrainian military tactic this power. remarkably similar. they are. what syrian rebel, the jihadists employed, that is blunting improvised explosive devices, along roads and highways, used by the russian military, but also by thousands and thousands of civilians already hundreds and hundreds of tons of rows of have been found and the sob every day, more and more ideas of found and destroyed, they can be anything, an explosive charge buried in nuts and bolts, a mortar round, who even

a tank shell like this one full chance for money if you need any throwing her dont going of course i forgot. let me see, just if wor, wooten each dessert with it. there were 3 kilowatt mccloud neu charge comparing secession am. 50 seconds is how long we had to get safe, which is when the fuse was set to blow 50 seconds. but there you go. these particular tag just has now been destroyed all of this in just a few hours with just one sap, a unit in just one ukrainian province. assurance that in as of today we have

identified and destroyed more than 12000 explosive objects, some of which were a foreign origin. in all likelihood, it will take years to clear up what the ukrainian military spent years planting. and even then, many civilians will continue to lose their lives to these mines. and i d 's where i'd gas div from here. so region ukraine. meanwhile, the ukranian president volume is zalinski has made an impassioned plea for everyone to show support for ukraine. i thank everyone who acts in support of ukraine in support of freedom, but the war continues. the ex, after or against peaceful people, go on one mass already that long. it breaks my heart heart all. busy you grants and every free person on the planet, i ask you to stand against the war,

starting from march 24th, exactly one months after the russian invasion from these day and after them, shawl you're standing. well, one sates her which does show it standing it is the western mainstream media which stands united and his desire to see the russian president assassinated. and is not just the tabloid press either, but reputable outlets like business inside and the times. and they've all been mulling the idea someone from putins in a circle will do the job. most of the theories are based on the claims of ukraine's military intelligence. it is known that bordner cobb and some other influential representatives of the russian lead are considering various options to remove prudent from power in particular, poisoning, sudden disease, or any other coincidence is not excluded. while earlier we taught a journalist and author, daniela's czar who believes the modern media runs such or williams types of stories,

because many people just buy into them. i think the purpose of that stories is, is to, is to drum up our war fever against russia to prepare the, the public for, you know, for further military actions. it's really all rally. and i mean reminds me of those themes in the 1984 where the, where the crowds would, would, would call for the death of emmanuel goldstein. the enemy of the state. since since at least 20112010, the americans had been demonizing. vladimir potent and potent was out maneuvering the u. s. in a number of areas in libya in 2011 when he opposed the the, the air war against gadhafi. and in 2014, when he took control of the crimea and safe guarded these of sebastian poll naval

base and in 2015 when he, when he intervened in syria and each one of those acts made the u. s. more furious. and it took out its fury on, on puting potent, you know, in particular a demonized him. it's just been completely bonkers. and while the west rails against bush on a daily basis over offensive and remains conveniently quiet about the atrocities committed itself in the center of europe is 23 years to the day since nato begun his bombing of yugoslavia, the strikes lasted $78.00 days and left hundreds of civilians dead local correspondent, boys, smaller girls ski reports a rhythmic bombing campaign. ah. and it started on this day in 1999. today our armed forces joined our nato allies

and airstrikes against serbian forces. support for nita was illegal. war on serbia was almost unanimous among us politicians. i have supported the nato bombing. what advice would you give president clinton this very morning? just don't lose your resolve. not to say there wasn't any criticism. and the most obscene chapter in recent american history was the condom to the cost of a conflict. when the president on stage refused to prepare for ground operations. how obscene american not sending in ground troops right away. what to occupy all of serbia, we should go to belgrade, and we should have a japanese german style occupation of that country. and we should have public trials. does anyone even remember any of this path? i was in serbia. when the bombing started, i was 10 years old and i remember the air raid sirens to me. this came out of the blue, but the stage for this was set before and nato's bombing started throughout the 19

ninety's, american politicians and media outlets were bent on waging war against the serbs in the balkans can. i was suggesting we bomb belgrade. i was suggesting that we send american pilots in and blow up all the bridges on the drain. when nato 1st bomb the serbs in bosnia and herzegovina in 1995 time magazine said the massive bombing attack opened the door to peace. but in $1099.00, the excuse was cost of serbia, southern province in which the so called cale a or kosovo liberation army conducted terrorist attacks on serb civilians and security forces with the aim of coastal seceding from serbia. as a pretext at serbia was using excessive force in their counter insurgency operations, the u. s. cited with the albanian kaylee rebels. our goal at the beginning were to read casa of serbs and rid they did. following the bombing campaign over

160000 serbs were 75 percent of them fled to kosovo. but that still wasn't enough. so in 2008, much of the west recognized kosovo as an independent country in violation of un security council. resolution 1244 and serbia's territorial integrity and sovereignty. america's pledge to militarily intervene in the balkans went beyond serbia's borders. i will continue with every fiber in my b to keep america involved with troops that can shoot and kill to protect the rights of the albanians where ever they reside. in the balkan. many warned nato's bombing would set a dangerous precedent for me as a 10 year old kid. just watching serbian television was scary enough to to nato me . cells fell on the village with on the residential parts of the village. were striking hard and serbia's machinery of repression, while making

a deliberate effort to minimize harm to innocent people on the hit list were local hospital and primary school in 78 days 420000 missiles including depleted uranium bombs and band cluster bombs fell on serbia, they fell on our infrastructure factories, television stations, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, an innocent civilians, nobody ever apologized to serbia for the bombing. nobody was tried nor punished for the bombing. you probably forgotten about this, and most of us have moved on to more pressing topics. but i can't move on, i will always remember what nato did to my country. i don't think there war hawks him come peace doves without recognizing the harm they've done to millions in the past. is about in yvonne of its yugoslavian foreign minister during the war of used the nato campaign as both the legal and criminal lay po, aggression on you were slammed me. i actually own serbia in 1999 was 1st

war on european soil and the 2nd world war. but it was also for us to war gays to europe dissipated by you or nato aggression on you will. so 23 years ago was a national strategy of extension one, a russia a contrary to un resolution to has since the final document to a new made presuppose and many international conventions. it wasn't actually not aimed at peace. it wasn't aimed at giving the car for military presence of nato on the back. i mean, it wasn't come up for me that i was asian about them as

a part of nato military extension with germany in poland. have accused russia of violating the terms of his gas contracts after vladimir putin is ordered. it's so cold on friendly states would now have to pay for the gas deliveries in roubles loop. and as it is showing of, so i decided to influence a sets of measures in the shortest possible time to transfer payment for a natural gas supplied on friendly countries into russian roubles. that is to abandon the use of all compromise currencies. at the same time, i would like to emphasize separately, the russia will continue to supply guess in accordance with the volumes and pricing principles indicated in the previously concluded contracts. unlike some colleagues, we value a business reputation as a reliable partner and supplier, which dorothea or russian president vladimir putin, is basically ordered all payments for russian natural gas being sent to what he called unfriendly countries to be made in russian roubles. in the past,

russian companies have it, except the vast majority of payments in u. s. dollars actually, but since the beginning of the military operation in ukraine, russia had to contend with an unprecedented level of sanctions. and one could say that this is moscow's response to the west to vladimir putin, even specifically said that overall trust in foreign currencies had deteriorated because a number of countries illegitimately decided to freeze russian overseas assets. that was li musical. if you needed, over the past few weeks, the number of western countries have taken illegitimate decisions on the so called freezing of russian assets. the collective west is essentially ended, the reliability of its currencies crossed out the trust in these currencies. now everyone in the world knows as they suspected, and now everyone knows for sure that obligations in dollars and euro may not be fulfilled. and to be honest, moscow could have responded in a much harsher way. it could have perhaps turned off its gas taps that supply europe, but the decision had ended up taking looks very reserved in comparison. really. we

have gotten a number of reactions from european energy companies since serv latimer prudent statement there. and they do not seem very excited to start paying and roubles. no one has reached out to us yet. we also have existing contracts, said that is not agreed. we will continue to pay in euro. we have no other contractual basis. this would constitute a breach to payment rules included in the current contracts. we have noted with grady rotation, the news that russia only wants to process gas deliveries in rubles at this stage. we cannot yet estimate the concrete impact this will have on gas trading. and it's also likely that this decision was tank taken to strengthen the russian rouble. let's not forget that it's significantly depreciated in relation to the dollar after those western sanctions. i mentioned earlier, but ah, when the moscow stock exchanged open today just moments after it opened up, the price of $1.00 actually was below $100.00 rubles for the 1st time since march

3rd of this year. and it's also important to note that european energy prices have been skyrocketing since hooton's statement. so these are just the immediate effects of russia's demands to be paid in roubles. and it's likely this will continue to shake european economies in the near future. all students form a foreign minister carrying can i? so believe we're seeing the rapid speeding up of a global trend of d dollarization. it's all about an acceleration of something that they're already beforehand the franchise. the fragility from a say of the dollar in commodity trading was very clear in the year 2008, 2009. ever since the gilbert financial crisis of 2009 of which we moved out thanks to a very strong chinese economy. the has been of rigidity of the dollar going off. the u on our station is, is moving on the d dollar i station, it's not something that will happen now in a very swift move, but it's

a regional thing that the external reading like it was the example of saudi arabia and some other oil sellers. we have had that to pause, even when the case was iran, wishing to move out of the goal of to, to euro. for instance. a topic has been on the agenda and what we see right now, but this reason statement represent, put in is a tremendous exhilaration. it's so it will definitely open up the new chapter of world trade. and washington's traditional middle east allies are also unhappy with us at times to control the global oil supply. some of the world's biggest crude exports are increasingly resisting washington and looking to bypass the use of the dollar in their trade ortiz. rachel blevins explains after years of involvement in the middle east, the u. s. now appears to be losing his grasp on some of the closest allies in the region on one major area energy. the vine administration has been much calling on

the opec close alliance. you increase production by more than plan in order to tackle storing energy prices. but they have repeatedly said no. now the king of the credit card tell, in one of the top oil producers in the world, saudi arabia is responding to the latest tensions by strengthening its ties with china. while it is currently beijing, the largest oil suppliers. saudi arabia is reportedly considering accepting the chinese you on for oil self instead of the us dollar. now this idea has been around for years, but it could soon become a reality. and it stands just rattan, the u. s. dollars dominance as the world reserve currency. so why would saudi arabia consider a move like this right now? well, they're not too happy with the u. s. and west year now lives for him. housing, unprecedented sanctions against russia, which just happens to be one of their most important opec plus allies. they're also watching countries like china and india actively looking for ways to work around

those things, which means moving away from the us dollar. but while the us in saudi arabia have maintained in alliance on the surface, they're also competitors when it comes to oil production. and the saudi, they're finding out just how much power they have right now. unlike the government of nearly every other major oil producing country, including saudi arabia and the other opec states, the u. s. government cannot open and close its own oil taps. it cannot compel oil companies to drill more. so when the war sent oil prices soaring, the government was powerless to bring them down to say that us all occasions are not too happy about saudi arabia having the upper hand on this one would be an understatement. i hate the fact that we have to ask the saudis to produce more oil . i hate that the bite and administration has to figure out how to leverage our relationship with saudi arabia to get them to do that so that my constituents aren't being squeezed at the pump. however, the white house denies that the saudis have turned their back on washington after

reports that the kingdom was denied, calls for president bite it. the president spoke with king solomon on february 9th, in that call. they set forth in affirmative bilateral agenda from climate to security. to energy cooperation. since that important call, our teams have been engaged at every level. there have been no discussions of subsequent calls at the presidents level given this regular and ongoing engagement . but it's not just saudi arabia that the u. s. appears to be losing its influence over the u. a has all their reportedly declined biden's call. and instead of turning to the u. s. for support. well, they're turning to a leader that the u. s. has been years trying to overthrow. that's right. this week officials host is syrian president bashar assad and his 1st visit to the country since 2011. and that's how they say the us hasn't tried to use the current tension through their boards, even noting that the vitamin ministration sent a new batch of weapons to saudi arabia after denying them last year. for pottery

viet continue to increase the dominant as it moves away from the us. they are showing that they can live without america, but can the current american economy live without them? in washington, rachel blood than archie, retired general and military analysts. mohammed a bus believes our states will look for new oil alliances with countries like russia and china. i'm hoping that receive are going to change. i'm going to look for the new changes, or you change the word, the uprising of russia, russia, russia, and china. i think they never said from the other came from us today for russia and china

on this on said i'm really sure you know by on the wedding of whistleblower and wiki leaks found a julian sanchez finally been held in the case belmont prison a year after it was granted commission. the wedding withheld in the prison assange has been detained in since 2019 softer. the us took legal action to expedite espinoza's charges and the whistle blows. the forces gathered to the prisoners gates to celebrate the wedding ceremony was attended by just take get the no press allowed inside. assange. his new wife della morris claimed the media was being blocked because the authorities don't want her husband to be seen as human.

independent journalist taylor who died believe it's shameful. the u. k. has such a high profile political prisoner let this be a reminder that there is a political prisoner in the west in the u. k. and that is julian assange again and award winning publisher. in here we have western media in western entities, celebrating this man to lindsey, who is a us puppet. and then after, by the way, he's also an actor, but he's absolutely a puppet of the us government in the west. and he is being applauded by government around the world. it is just so shameful. meanwhile, julian, his arms, who bowed to war crimes and rom, doing by the united states and other governments in want to be worth prison in the u. k right now. and that is our present, this wedding should have taken place to add a location of the choice of julian assigned and his fellow warrants. they should have not.