scott acquiring, growing a settlement with theory about ball to rage all and then ukraine, southern port, the city of mario, both nonsense, done. yes. republic forces continue to take that to the ukrainian military. nothing with china is foreign minister is in india for talked the 1st, the summit between the nations in 4 years. the oil trade with russia and closer tallies among eastern block states for some of the potential discussion points during the visit. also, nato secretary general. yes. stilton berg demands china joined the block in condemning russia's actions in ukraine by turbulent relations between beijing worship best president joe biden. saul hunter, as a direct link to

a ledge. biologic, a labs aimed at developing contagious weapons. you pray with mid day, lima. 5 pm. analysts on an 8 at night here in moscow this thursday, march the 24th welcome to the news updates on our with this thursday, marking one month since the start of the conflict in ukraine. let's begin by taking a closer look at the latest developments there. ukrainian forces have claimed a russian navy shed has been destroyed by a ballistic missile in the country, southern city of birds which russia captured latham locals reported a huge explosion on fire in the cities port thursday morning. russian defense ministry, housing yet commented on the reported attack at the same time residence of the neighboring city. hello,

mario ball are still trying to escape it. through the port city has been engulfed in buffalo for weeks than yet. square public forces continue to fight the ukrainian army national battalions. there are no claim they've captured most of the area. many civilians remain trapped inside the city though in local forces. this exclusive footage shared with artsy shows, the joint military securing reliance is going to keep sending lethal aid to ukraine . the chinese foreign minister has arrived in india to discuss trade with russia, and other issues says pressure grows on new deli from the west. this sanction moscow over the conflict in ukraine, which the indian prime minister in the rend remotely has so far, refused to do the u. s. on that's l. i have been making intention overtures to india, saying they're ready to replace goods already sourced from russia. i talk thing through earlier with our teeth don't quarter basically this chinese diplomatic tour

is taking place on the backdrop of a massive pressure campaign by washington. actually, it's basically intended to isolate russia from countries that are trying to maintain good relations with both sides of the ukraine conflict and basically stay neutral as for what we can expect from this upcoming meeting, we can look at one of the main topics that were discussed between china and pakistan just just recently, that's the heretic effects that these anti russian sanctions are having on the world economy. let's not forget that for phasing and new delhi india for its part is one of the world's largest importers of russian military technology. and washington is trying to pressure the country to just entirely switch over to american weapons. another thing that the india recently did was that it bought around 3000000 barrels of discounted russian crude oil. that's another thing that washington was very upset about in terms of china. it reacted very negatively when

the u. s. called for russia to be excluded from the g 20. as it was, you platform for international economic cooperation with the participation of major economies in the world. russia is an important member, and no member has the right to remove other countries as a member of asian also stood by russia. when it tried to pass a un security council, a draft resolution that all of the other members of the security council actually abstained from. so another important point we have to talk about also is that the 2022 meeting of bricks countries is set to come up very soon. and it's widely expected to take place in china. so, while washington attempts to isolate russia from all of these bricks countries, it's actually starting to look like these threats and demands are actually turning these countries against the united states. so there is a very big possibility that washington's pressure significant re vigor rated eastern block alliance would be it's not i'm, you shouldn't. 2 for chinese,

so for shows to research in b, o are unusual for indian officers to visit china because we one, we are neighbors. we also have, we also share a lot of trade. there is a major standoff between nato countries and russia right now in your dream. we are clearly something major is shifting in the world. it seems to be a major crisis involving all the partners. all the countries offer asia and europe and the us. there's a lead editorial in china daily today. title india not obliged to scratch us back. strongly supporting india's choice to remain neutral and maintain ties with russia. and we see in this editorial a convergence of positions between new delhi and beijing, which are significant not only due to a similar positions on ukraine, but also because spring is coming to the himalayas. the ice is thawing on their

contested border and commander level talks and making progress according to research reports. and now i'm hopeful that this meeting foreshadows a significant warming of relations between the 2 countries. as it's clear, they have a lot more in common than not you and perhaps points to a new era of friendly relations that will deeply unsettle washington's so called pivot to asia. in fact, before the conflict and ukraine started, a president who suggested that he might try to facilitate dia, are the product if expanding exchanges trust and trade, than what strange but wonderful fruit for half the world's population. india has always made game strategic independence between a black nurse or treat allies in the way. and india is going to play with that approach because that's been brought your india historically. and i don't see anything changing on doctrine

because india would like to retain that independence because we have a multi major water. we have no multi point on what you know, china poses sanctions of all forms. it poses threats of sanctions and it supports the position of their childhood. now that we have this conflict in ukraine, there's this desire to malign china to associated with conflict in some sense. so, you know, we see this regime sanctions a why, why is the us trying to impose this on, on china and this i think there are, there are 3 possibilities. the 1st is that the us, either fears of sanctions regime won't work without china's compliance or 2nd. it wants to expose trying to even greater inflationary pressures. if china does comply and thereby damage china's economy. and 3rd, if china doesn't comply, then again,

it wants to add this to the us expects china in india to a band and they're strategic self interest for fuels. aaron, and not countries like india, for example, that has abstained from the united nations security council. woke on russia, they are not being penalized with certain other countries like august on or facing an extreme amount of internal and external pressure. look, i think the rules based international order, as we are told, is not actually based on rules. let me remind you that all is 2 decades ago when the entire world was told that it's iraq has weapons of mass destruction. the entire weather. western leadership came on television, came to the united nations floor and quite literally light. it's the entire world that we need to go to war to. so the, to stop it raucously. wasn't countries expect the entire narrative to be on their

side when they are the aggressors, but not the other way around. i mean, they are selective applicant, keep all the world because that is exactly what they are trying to stop. ah, the eurasian belt led by china, russia, and some of the other regional powers. what the western countries are trying to ensure that the post world war 2 dominance of the western order are from economic strategic political point of view remains. i think that is that that is a. ready larger ambit under which this conference is being fought and to be honest with you so far the americans are absolute be you know, are not succeeding in convincing any offer. south asian countries rushes biggest gas buyer, germany as a ques, moscow of violating gas contract terms. saying payments should be in euro or dollar, while serbian now is a great to work on transferring gas payments into rushes national currency. now

that all comes after vladimir putin ordered payments be switched to roubles for gas deliveries from though on. the seller wants his goods to be paid in his currency. i think this is correct. we are interested in getting gas, and we will agree on what the payment terms will be. and they will be spelled out in the contract. the announcement of paying and roubles as 1st of all a breach of contracts. we will now discuss with our european partners how we will respond to this will after a hugely fluctuating few weeks, the u. s. dollar has again fallen below $100.00 rubles while you gas prices have spike more than 25 percent with global oil close increasing as well. much yvonne is believed to be because president putin ordered that quote, on friendly countries use the russian currency to pay for their gas imports for payment from natural gas supplied to unfriendly 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 our business reputation as a reliable partner supplier, which to see you. sputnik asset management, alexander luther believes russia's western partners, have all the available means to pay for gas and rubles i think that's a, it's been a union of the countries and the total economic war against the situation was foreign. trade appraisal was done during the cold war. on interesting because this little chairs i agreed to my own guess from the rules. oh for die to sleep, normal. if you is it, it, it to return to the middle age. and then this, in your printers,

i believe that you will agree to pay animals and the machines might liquid, there is a net or call want to go to banks. so guess wrong. and some companies so have no problems commenting doors under euros internal. meanwhile, the ease nato. hell, the number of some of today to essentially agree on that action plan for further sanctions against russia and nato secretary general. yes. stilton berg has also been speaking on nato efforts to support ukraine, including more lethal aid to be delivered to key f. r t. charlotte dubin ski picks up the story for us. we got confirmation from in stockton burke, the secretary general of nato. exactly what the plans are for the alliance in the short term perhaps the longer term that he talked about, the fact that the allied leaders of agreed on for new battle groups that are going

to be stationed in country such bulgaria, romania hungry. and so back here that will add up to the food that are already on those eastern flanks, meaning that the down to the black sea. so right away, down the east in front of the nato alliance i, he talked about the fact that at the moment there are 100000 us troops that are currently stationed in the e u. and that there were 40000 forces that were also under the direct control, wanted 5 carrier strike groups from the north of europe, right, the way down to the mediterranean sea. so a real sense of how nature is bolstering it supports in part of bits, alliance member groups at the moment, and they just said the allied leaders that agree to reset their de terrence and defense for the longer term. there was also a warning for china from this meeting of need to, in brussels, at the cool there was for beijing to reassess its role in this crisis,

or message to china is that they should join the rest of the world and clearly call them of the brutal war against the ukraine, and not support a russia an either or with a, with a comic support. or, of course not with the military support. we also heard that nature said it will not be sending troops into ukraine. it does not want to escalate the war even further. he said he wants to make sure it's contained within the borders of ukraine, because anything, the escalating could be much more dangerous and devastating. but with that in mind, i'm given that the kremlin has accused nato over and over breaking promises when it comes to that expansion eastwood in 2 countries after the fall of the soviet union . the fact today we've heard that those countries will see reinforcement more

troops in more defense in the longer term, as a way of dealing with russia. it really does beg the question if that kind of rhetoric, when nature says he doesn't want to escalate this conflict beyond ukraine if that type you rhetoric it, rhetoric is actually a very prudent strategy or not. on earlier we spoke to piano manual to man, jew politics expert on founder of the euro continent analysis site. he sees the west wants to project unity, but seems to be isolated from many eurasian countries. conflict can ukraine was the opportunity for west american a, a, a need to member see to try to, to initiate a economic war against russia. and the surprise, the eas, from them is about, oh, must of your ration countries not to one to sanction russia on actually are looking for an alternative to globalization, which you be,

you're not depend on anymore. on the west, on globalization. we've done that to you. once you rush at quality, sure enough to put pressure on but he's ice or late in the war because or. busy or half of a word in you ratio doesn't want to. to align, you said on the west anymore. candler development of the day, beijing has outline the need to pay attention to security threats from u. s. laboratories and ukraine and other states. it follows russian defense ministry claims that the u. s. president san hunter, by a direct link to alleged bio labs discovered in ukraine aimed at developing a biological weapon. news just a little. the russian defense ministry continues to analyze documents revealing the military biological activities of the pentagon in ukraine, where the incoming materials allow us to trace the scheme of interaction between us authorities with ukranian biological objects. attention can be drawn to the

involvement in the financing of these activities of structures close to the current government of the united states. in particular, the investment fund, rosemont seneca, which is headed by hunter biden. rosemont seneca partners, is the firm tied to hunter by the u. s present san and the russian defense ministry is listing a financial entities that are involved in these bio labs and ukraine. now they also listed george soros. ready ready open society institute and open society foundations are, which are also involved with them. and i, as well as the ministry of defense of ukraine and the ministry of health of ukraine, and the u. s. department of threat reduction a by ota and blacken beach, which are main suppliers of pentagon bio lab materials. now, our moscow is also coming forward and saying that it appears these bio labs are connected with institutions and research organizations that are related to nuclear missiles. this is what was sat, must have

a program of push. the sale of the program is impressive. in addition to the military that the u. s. agencies for international development, the george soros foundation, in the center for disease prevention control are directly involved in its implementation. no scientific supervision is carried out by leading research organizations, including the los alamos national laboratory, which develop nuclear weapons as part of the manhattan project. all these activities are carried out under the full control of the pentagon. now the over 30 and we did hear acknowledgement of these facilities existence from us under secretary of victoria newland. 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 a russian forces should they approach. so if these labs are not involved in military purposes. ready why is the pentagon so heavily involved in setting them up and

wires? there's so much fear of them falling into the hands of the russians. now, at this point, we are not yet hearing anything from the white house. there hasn't yet been comments on it. joe biden is currently touring europe and he's not in the united states. he's meeting with nato allies while the west rails against russia on a daily basis or brits offensive in ukraine. it remains noticeably quiet about atrocity. it's itself committed in the center of europe. thursday, march 23 years to the day. but natal begun this bombing of yugoslavia. the strikes lasted $78.00 days and left hundreds of civilians dead here. local journalists are a smaller gorski who remembers those 11 weeks after 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 present colon 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 states 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 thought 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 would suggest the costs of serbia, southern province, in which the so called k allay or kosovo liberation army, conduct serbia, under the pretext that serbia was using excessive force in their counter insurgency operations. the u. s. cited with the albanian kaylee rebels. our goals at the beginning were to read casa of 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 they, albanians wherever they reside. in the balkan, many warren nato spamming was 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. people with deadly cargo was dropped on the

residential part of the village. were striking hard at 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 some of the a days, $420000.00 missiles including depleted uranium bombs and band cluster bombs, pell on serbia. they fell on our infrastructure factories, television stations, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and 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 can become peace. dobbs, without recognizing the harm. they've done millions in the past. and you can see more stories tool by the relatives of victims of nato bombing campaign in yugoslavia bomb biskin. i'm

with time with kimberly butler with visible kid looking. it taught almost to me, interviewed out the mini mom, be interested music, glitter, racial with your locals with you and some of your buses for most cuz i'm gonna do it with just letting you know both of yeah. talkative testimony, and we also spoke to mulash bunge or a member of serbian national assembly, who survived the bombing of yugoslavia 23 years ago. there yet you'll sir yet do, sir, pristine yet i am from kosovo from christina and on march 24th, i saw my own eyes, a tomahawk missile in the sky. i just couldn't believe i was seeing a tomahawk coming at us. i didn't believe that this could happen. i thought i was in some movie that was film than hollywood. we are

a small european state peaceful. we observed all laws the rights of national minorities and we have always been on the side of the allies in both world wars. but the bombing happened.