ah, when so many find themselves will to part, we choose to look for common ground. ah, the russian military, you claim this taken control of this if you them out of your poll after a month of incense fighting china lashes out that america's methods in the war, claiming it was the instigator, the conflict. we discussed ages position on russia regarding ukraine crisis with a panel of guests. there's this desire to malign are china. china poses sanctions of all forms. it poses threats of sanctions. and it supports a position in their trial that we have a monthly nature. what we have lead the market for a job india, historically fund the u. k is left red faced and demanding youtube,

remove the video of a phone call, in which the british defense minister sold for the russian practices and gives them crucial information on the conversation. it became clear the u. k. plans to states naval fleet into the black sea. ah, coming to alive from our headquarters in moscow. you're watching. the international is just come for you. i'm here in the russian capital. mine is be to scott and here are the top stories this our, the war rages in ukraine. china has put the blame on the us, claiming the washington seeks to shift responsibility for his actions on the others . the bins of also voice, the support for russia taken for the streets of belgrade in a mass protest. meanwhile, european commission chief earth live on de leon,

says the book won't let russia circumvent sanctions and use energy supplies as an instruments of blackmail. that comes after moscow announced quotes unfriendly nations would have to pay for gas in rubles with western sanctions on russia. already put in global food supply chains and the pressure french presence. manuel macaroni has found the alarm over the possibility of an unprecedented food crisis. more and all of that, of course, coming up later in the program. well, let's 1st break down what's happening on the ground in ukraine. russian officials claim they have taken control of the city of murder, useful thought the a month of incense fighting. this is some of the latest footage from the city showing that many of the residential buildings have been completely raised to the ground. locals claim the infamous of italian and ukrainian forces have been putting civilian lives at risk sockets in the building that you can see in this video. the severe fighting has left many locals caught in the crossfire on thursday. the

officials reports that they have evacuated more than 2000 medical residents. ukrainian authorities have also accused moscow of illegally deporting around 15000 cities residence to russia. what were the humanitarian situation? this is the dia. russia says it has started distributing aid. meanwhile shelling was heard in the northern part of ukraine, 2nd largest city car curve on thursday. the incident left at least 6 civilians dead and more than a dozen wounded at the carpart of a local shopping mall. that's according to local authorities. thick smoke was seen billowing from residential neighborhoods as well and was quick for the blame on russia. moscow get the comment from the incident and over in the done yet the republic local authorities say almost every building has been destroyed or damaged . in the city of on the voc locals, clay militias use the hospital to fire from leaving the people inside effectively

as human shields. as the sellers of they were firing from the 2nd and 3rd floors, we were hiding in a basement. there were more than 300 people there, though. the soldiers knew that we were there, though i don't know. maybe they were using us as a human shield owner. they did not explain anything. just said that they were told to stay in our hospital. we called for the troops to leave the hospital territory, told them not to use it as a battlefield, but they refused. but we tried to rebuild the hospital and we are getting a lot of help. we're so thankful people donate blood volunteers help us to fix windows, which cellophane doesn't the hopefully, we'll get electricity back soon. and finally, we'll be able to work. a number of western reporters have headed to the done yet, scandal, guns, republics. to cover the situation, the in the water on region, or correspondence from unco serves photo, canadian journalists, even bartlett's explained to why so important to report from the ground. eve is just so one of many foreign journalists who are arrived here in the dentist to try

and see what is actually happening here. so i have um, so what was the, this your 1st time here? imagine me. so you've been here several times once before in 2019. i want more time in guar lufkin, the areas north of there. i've been working here for about 8 years and i very rare to saw any western journalists here. oh, why do you think that is and what is your opinion of impression of from coming here now in 2020. so i think the reason that ye saw very few western journalist is because they were all reporting them from the ukraine side from in care of and elsewhere or abroad. not even bothering to come to the region that's typical of their reporting. we saw it in syria reporting from turkey, from beirut, from jordan and not from syria. so it's, i could, they, they operate in the same manner because it, their agenda is never to actually come and meet with the civilians who've been suffering under. whether it's ukrainian forces or not, 2 battalions or terraces,

syria at the agenda. most corporate media journalists is to come here already with an idea in mind. take a few sound bites, get some shot, especially if there's destruction that fits their narrative very well, and never give any context as to why there's destruction. for example, just a moment ago he said clearly as hospitals been bombed, i said, why, who is n e? you said, well, clearly the ukrainian forces, right, but that's a kind of context that is devoid in western media reporting and they'll only say the hospital is bombed. and furthermore, they'll say there were civilians inside when it was bombed. and i think to showing them without any sort of white helmets type theatrics and stage scenes showing, ah, yes, showing this kind of scene, but then interviewing people to give context as to why it's like this. i showing the people that we saw in the, the, that a town square who were there to receive aid and speaking with them to, to hear from them what their lives were like was their life really wonderful and democratic and free under the ukrainian forces. we're being told in western media,

the problem is that, you know, there's a media conglomerate today that all have the same message and the same messages. ukraine is, like i just said, democratic and bringing freedom to the people. russia is bad and of course the people here that just want to be free of the ukrainian and nazi rule and if their lives and speak their language which happens to be russian. ukrainians know western media will vilify them. china has lost out of the us over the ukrainian crisis. thing is trying to shift responsibility after igniting the war. china's actions clearly contrast the u. s. method to artificially create a crisis to shift responsibility and to make profit from it. however, what country is the main instigator of this crisis, every one knows, while despite much anger from the west, the position of many asian countries towards russia remains unchanged. the chinese foreign minister is set to conduct trade talks with russia in india, and he comes as pressure grows on new delhi to sanction moscow over the conflicts

in ukraine, which the indian prime minister now render mowdy has so far, refused to do ot see that donald quarter has more basically this chinese diplomatic tor is taking place on the backdrop of a massive pressure campaigned 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 really just recently. that's the heretic effects that these anti russians sanctions are having on the world economy. let's not forget that both phasing and new delhi are facing pressure by the united states by washington for publicly coming out against the sanctions. 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 with the g 8. so let's take a listen to what both washington and beijing had to say about that. on the question of the g 20, i will just say this. we believe that it cannot be business, as usual for russia in international institutions and in the international community are switching. the g 20 is a major 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 campaign is going to end up backfiring. well, earlier we asked analysts in both countries just how significant those talks between china and india could be regarding the current situation in ukraine. it seems to be a major grace is involving all the partners. all the countries offer asia and europe and the u. s. is open just docs open to dialogue and india is also a started at the moment in gabby, not take anything blind down. 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 . i'm hopeful that this meeting for shadows a significant warming of relations between the 2 countries. as it's clear, they have a lot more in common than not, and perhaps points to a new era of friendly relations that will deeply unsettle washington's so called pivot to asia. india has always maintained strategic independence between on the back. no, it has. and india is going to place you with that approach because that's been the brought your india historically. and i don't see any point changing on doctrine because india would like to retain that independence because we, how fundamentally believed in a multi nature was we have no multi point on what china poses. sanctions of all forms. it poses threats of sanctions and it supports

a position in the trial the now that we have this conflict in ukraine, there's this desire to know, malign china, to associated with a conflict in some sense. why is the us trying to impose this on, on china and this? i think there are, there are 3 possibilities. the 1st is a few excited fears of sanctions. regime won't work without china's compliance or 2nd. it wants to expose china to even greater inflationary pressures. if china does comply in their mike damage china's economy, and 3rd, if china doesn't comply, then again, it wants to add this to this course. it's already got in place of maligning china, essentially blaming the world china and somewhere. and so now that the u. s. has the stabilized ukraine and fed this conflict. the u. s. expects china needed to abandon their strategic self interest for fuels. eric and neither prime minister mowdy nor president she can ping are fools. ah. now with

a meeting of the g. 7 group of riches, nations taking place several new leaders condemned to russia's demands to pay for the natural gas and oil in rubles, the sum his main focus is an action plan for further sanctions against russia. issues on bush, an energy will also on the agenda you lead is claim they will not allow russia to circumvent the current sanctions. nazis shall davinsky has more. e leaders were also discussing on thursday the issue of russian energy that follows demands from the kremlin. that energy contracts for the future must be paid in roubles. the chief lavon the land said russia will no longer be able to blackmail use energy as a blackmail for the continent. this would be a unilateral decision and a clear breach of contract and it would be an attempt to circumvent the sanctions. we will not allow our sanctions to be circumvented. the time when energy could be

used to blackmail us is over. and that was a view shed by the german chancellor to that you need is are due to discuss further . an idea that was muted on thursday will be really paid through on friday. the id, the block could in fact purchase energy as one in the future. if that's agreed, it would be a blueprint for building a supply buffer of the known russian gas. and that's something that they're hoping to achieve. ahead of next winter, the reset, it wants to win itself off russian gas within the next few years. and this could be one way that it does that well, following a hugely fluctuating few weeks, the rebel has strengthened against the dollar in recent days. while you gas prices of spikes, more than 25 percent, with global oil costs increasing as well. much of that is believed to be because president putin ordered the quotes on friendly countries use the russian currency

to pay for their gust imports. the theo of russian investment companies, sputnik alexander loss, if things the decision will weaken the euro on the european markets for the union of the countries of the total economic war against jason was formal appraisal wars. during the cold war on censure, there is a net or call correspond to current banks in boxes. so guess wrong and some companies have no problems kind of thing. doors under euros, internal, this is some weakness of euro, i guess, door will continue on and kind of into national threat and settlement. but i expect huge problem. well, when they come. meanwhile,

western sanctions on russia puts in global food supply chains under immense pressure. the measures for thrust the wholesale weeds exports until the end of the year, or ukraine has also stopped his export to avoid a war time food crisis. together the countries contribute some more than half of the wheat and corn exports to the middle east and africa. and french president, manuel macro and said the community is on the verge of an unprecedented food crisis over the conflicts. he also noted africa and the middle east, off at securely endangered terms of food. our son has warned food affordability has become a huge problem. indeed, the 18th ukraine crisis has been a big blow to the east africa honda crisis. at the moment. it has sent prices over key commodities such as a laser oil rocketing. and we do know, for example, that east africa imports 90 percent of the tweet from ukraine and russia. so when

the prices rising, explanation, it's really impacting, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, who are struggling with the 14. they are challenges with global system. so at the moment, one of the things we are highlighting is the fact that affordability for debility is the biggest challenge for many people in the region. and so people, especially from low income countries, cannot afford the prices for example, of such as bread, you know, and which are made from wheat and a sense of stress. especially because people's coping because have been stretched to gambling and some are having to resort to skipping meals or buying food on credit to be able to feed their children or having to you know, marry off their young daughters as they look for resources to pay for food and medicine, nato is

a secretary general claims. russia is creating a pretext to use chemical or biological weapons by accusing ukraine the u. s. so nato are preparing to do so. the same time joe biden has warned of a direct response from the alliance. if, if moscow deployed such weapons, however, he wouldn't be pushed on. what exactly that response would be when the u. s. or nato respond with military action? if he did use chemical weapons, we would respond. we will respond if you use it. the nature of the respond to depend on the nature of the use. in 2017 russia officially stated it's had destroyed chemical weapons, stockpiles is now urging the u. s. to do the same. but at the same time, washington itself is under fire, over weapons of mass destruction is being bringing the alarm over security threats . claims opposed by us bio labs, comes out the rest of the defense ministry, claiming joe biden, still holding to the direct link to legit bio labs in ukraine. lose

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. president 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. ready sources open society institute and open society foundations, which are also involved with them and as well as the ministry of defense of ukraine and the ministry of health of ukraine and the u. s. department of threat reduction . all of them seem to be tied in with these bio labs, and it appears that there,

that rosemont seneca partners are the reason that they would be involved is because they have a relationship with meta 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 with which 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. new scientific supervision is carried out by leading research organizations, including the los alamos national laboratory, which develop nuclear weapons is part of the manhattan project. all these activities are carried out under the full control of the pentagon. now the over 30 bio labs are accused by russia of being involved in weapons development and trying

to developed biological weapons. now the usa denies this and insist they are simply research facilities. and we did here acknowledgement of these facilities existence from us under secretary victoria newland. ukraine has 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. so if these labs are not involved in military purposes, 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 comment on it. joe biden is currently touring europe and he's not in the united states. he's meeting with nato allies. well from all on this, we are joined,

alive now by michael mullis, a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary defense. michael, welcome to the international with job and says, there'll be a response if she uses chemical weapons in ukraine and the nature of the response depends on how they are used. what do you think that means? well, it suggests that he has information which he will not reveal that there was that, that, that russia is threatening the use of chemical weapons. we haven't i don't believe we've heard anything of the sort. but it was intriguing by what newland had to say. the other day and you recall victoria newland and her history. she was very along with then vice president biden, very instrumental in the 2014 qu,

in in ukraine. the fact that that she expressed his concern about their possibly getting into the hands of russian forces does suggest that these are pathogens that can easily be weaponized. and it does raise the fundamental question that was raised earlier. why is the defense department funding them? and why are they even, why do they even exist in ukraine? i might add that there are similar labs in the country of georgia in tbilisi. and russia has pointed this out many times. and it comes under the auspices of the defense reduction agency in the department of defense. i know a d t what we call d t s a i. i was affiliated with it at one point during my defense department career. but it was meant to when it was designed to do as

a entity was to oversee the the d nuclear is ation and, and adherence to treaty obligations against the spread of nuclear weapons and biological, chemical, biological weapons. so for d t s a to be involved then something like this is rather incredible in my opinion . now we've seen also speculation in the western media that russia could resort to the use of chemical weapons to break what many in the west see the stale mates in ukraine? what do you think the chances of the likelihood of that is the use of chemical weapons? i don't think so. i think that that will absolutely raise the may put in put this out but this conflict

into at another level altogether. and it definitely would amount to a much larger war. and it's, it is problematic. i is the fact that they was even raised, i think is problematic. i recall that when saddam hussein who has used chemical weapons against his own people, threaten to do it against the us forces. he was warned that if, if it happened to him, if he did use them, he how they would be used on him. and his courses and, and also that i recall that this occurred even during the period of hitler, hitler was warned not to use chemical weapons considering that world war one was in, during trench warfare. chemical use of chemical weapons was,

was extraordinary. in fact, my, my grandfather was gasped with in world war one, but mustard gas, so it is a very deadly approach and it is regarded as will work as well as certainly songs i ran this micro malice, former senior security policy analyst in the office of the 2nd, defense. thank you very much for inside today. i'm afraid that's all we have time for. okay, my pleasure. thank you. thank you. you k defense secretary has demanded the youtube take down a video of himself being caught out by a host called ben wallace with phoned by 2 russian pranksters, one of whom posed as ukraine's prime minister. wide range of topics were discussed, including ukraine, potentially launching a nuclear arms program. we would like to continue the nuclear program in order to protect ourselves from russia. it's a difficult question, but we think to start it. okay. do you think?

i mean, i think more than being neutral, russia would really have that for sure. where we are. i know that we know this, of course, but it's the one of the question that we're interested. but if you could help us in this regard, it would be really, really important. ok, well if i missed prime minister on all those big questions, i think there's a question i need to speak to my prime minister that the principal is we will support ukraine as our friend in the choices you make. a part of the video was censored by the pranksters themselves, as they say ben wallace gave away information that would compromise britain's national security response. donnie st says the entire video is a risk to the country security, and it believes russian states as were responsible for the prank that claim was directly rejected by the committee. douro information revealed by the defense

secretary included plans to move you k ships closer to ukraine. we or we will go into the black sea, i think were due to go soon and the black see how close we go to ukrainian waters where the russians currently have a blockade. i think we will be open to discussions about looking at that. i think the whole questions with the prime minister, including the security dialogue security guarantee. we are happy to look at all of them with you. so we're not going to rule anything out. when earlier we spoke to one of the pranksters alex, they still yada, also known as lexus, and he's just concerned it's such a high ranking person can be contacted so easily. some my friends from from the u. k, they told the sake he could not be in person who is responsible for the national security of such a great country like they. okay. and the country with the nuclear

weapon and she's a responsible person for all all those areas. so and if it's easy to reach came by just a private person. so just you could, you could imagine what would happen easter, some persons from intelligence try to reach him and to get all the necessary information. so i think i could only advise to be careful in such moments when they are let or they mentioned that this is kind of propaganda kind of thrashing propaganda. but we did not add, it's his words, he's speech. so if it's a purpose and so then its purpose for secretary was if he's words, we didn't change anything while that is it for now,

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