a rush, it said you're taking control of matter. you're pull 50 whole after a month of intensive fighting, although battles with ukrainian forces are still ongoing with what country is the main instigator of this crisis. everyone knows china lashes out at the american method in the war, claiming it was the dates of the complaint it come to china will hold trade close with russia, despite all the pressure on asian countries by the west. we put the issues of to, i guess there's this desire to malign china. china

poses sanctions of all forms. it poses threats of sanctions and it supports the position in the trial. we have a india, historically the leaders, scoffers brochures demand to pay for an edge in re both the g $7.00, some it takes place in brussels. meanwhile, the reba begins to call back some of what is lost in the crisis. and the case left red faced and demanding youtube removed a video of a phone call in which the british defense minutes, the folks in the russian pranks. this gives them crucial information on the conversation. became clear the u. k. plans to sell it naval fleet for the black sea . ah.

the, from moscow to the world, this is art in national. my name is peter scott. and these the top stories this hour is being claimed. the administration building of the southern city of mario pal is now under the control of the russia military and is war rages in ukraine. china's put the blame on the us, claiming that washington seeks to shift responsibility for his actions on to others . meanwhile, you european commission chief earth lavonne de lion says the book won't let russia circumvent sanctions, and use energy supplies as an instrument to blackmail that comes after moscow announced quotes unfriendly nations would have to pay for gas in rubles where the western sanctions on russia already put in global food supply chains and the pressure french president, manuel mccrory has founded the alarm over the possibility of an unprecedented food crisis board. let's start the program with a breakdown of what's happening on the ground in ukraine is being claimed and

russian forces have taken control over the city. holy mary, you. pl. after a month of intense fighting, i can see in a screens now some of the latest footage from the city showing many of the residential buildings have been completely raised to the ground. locals claim the infamous of battalion and ukrainian forces had been putting civilians at risk targets in the building. in this video, the severe fighting it has left many locals caught in the crossfire on thursday, kiev officials reported they have evacuated more than 2000 murder. you poor residence, ukrainian authorities have also accused moscow of illegally deporting around $15000.00 of the city's residence to russia, with the humanitarian situation in the city. dia russia says it started distributing 8. meanwhile shelling was heard in the northern parts of ukraine's the 2nd largest city hall curve on thursday. the incident left at least 6

civilians dead and more than a dozen wounded. it's a car part of a local shopping mall. as according to local authorities, think smoke was seen billowing from residential neighborhoods as well. he have blame moscow, but russia has yet to comment on the incidents. over in the done yet republic, local authorities say almost every building has been destroyed or damaged in the city of on the vodka or the rebuilding work has already begun. local hospital employees earlier claimed ukrainian malicious use, their hospital to fire from and 6th civilians died on the shelling. they also say over 300 people who id inside were used the fates of the as human shields. but as michelle listen, i thought they were firing from the 2nd and 3rd floor seeing we were hiding in a basement. there were more than 300 people there on the soldiers knew that we were there though. i don't know. maybe they were using us as a human shield go along. they did not explain anything. just said that they were

told to stay in our hospital was butcher. we called for the troops to leave the hospital territory, told them not to use it as a battle field, but they refused, but we try to rebuild the hospital and we are getting a lot of help. we're so thankful for to people donate blood volunteers help us to fix windows, which cellophane doesn't, hopefully, we'll get electricity back soon. and finally, we'll be able to work. now, while the conflict has been raging in the dom bus region for the past 8 years, western journalists have been notable for their absence. but amongst after full scale war, rooked in ukraine, a number of reporters have since arrived in the done yet can look guns. republics over the situation, all corresponding roman, coarser, and spoke to canadian journalist of a bartlett's explained the reluctance of many to cover the conflict from the ground before eve is just so one of so many foreign journalists who are arrived here in the dentist to try and see what is actually happening here. so i have um, so oh is this your 1st time here?

imagine these so you've been here several times once before in 2019. i want more time in your left cotton areas north of there. i've been working here for about 8 years, and i very rare to saw any western journalists here a why do you think that is and what is your opinion of impression of from coming here now in twenty's? when is it? i think the reason that ye saw very few western journalist is because they were all reporting them from the ukraine side to from in care of and elsewhere or abroad. not even bothering to come to the region on the agenda of 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 given context. there and i think just 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, to hear from them what their lives were like was their life really wonderful and democratic and free end of the ukrainian forces. as we're being told in western media, the problem is that, you know, there's a media conglomerate to that, 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, you know, free of ukrainian and nazi rule and if their lives and speak their language which happens to be russian, you know, ukrainians and no western media will vilify them. the instigator of their crisis, that's how china has labeled the us blaming the west for the war in ukraine to run the tool up, trying his 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? everyone knows. despite the anger from the west,

the position of many asian countries towards russia remains unchanged. the chinese foreign minister is said to conduct trade talks with russia in india, and it comes, the pressure grows on new delhi to sanction moscow of the conflict which the indian prime minister ranger modi has so far, refused to do. see that donald call to discuss something with my colleague union o'neill. 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 both phasing ad 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 basing 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 and petitions and in the international community. which if i share 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 than 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. earlier we asked analysts in both countries just how significant those tours between china and india could be regarding the current situation in ukraine. it seems to be a major crisis is in boarding all the partners, all the countries for 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 lying down. there is a lead editorial in china daily today titled 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 foreshadows 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 broad 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 month later was we have leading a multi word,

china, hoses, sanctions of all forms. it poses threats of sanctions and it supports a position in a tragedy. now that we have this conflict in ukraine, there's this desire to, you know, malign china to associate it with a conflict in some sense. why is the us trying to impose us 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 doesn't imply 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 war on china and somewhere. and so now that the u. s. has the stabilized grain and said this conflict the us expects china to

a band in their strategic self interest for fuels era, and neither prime minister modi nor presidents shipping or fools with a meeting of the g 7 group of richest nations taking place several in you leaders condemned russia's demands to pay for its natural gas and oil in roubles. 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. this is basically a breach of contract. this is important to understand. i don't think anybody in europe really knows how rubles look like. nobody will pay in rubles, falling a hugely fluctuating few weeks. the rubel has strengthened against the dollar in recent days. while you gas prices have spight more than 25 percent with the global oil cost increasing as well. much of that is believed to be because president putin

ordered that, quote, on friendly countries use the russian currency to pay for their gas imports. economist on the ceo of russian investment companies. sputnik, alexander, lot of things the president's decision will we can both the euro on the european market for the union of the countries of the total economic war against jason was formed. trade appraisal was done during the cold war on censure. there is a net or call correspond to call to banks and buffer. so guess wrong. some companies have no problems kind of thing. doors under euros, internal, this is some weakness of euro, i guess, door will continue on them and kind of into national threat and settlement.

but i expect huge problem. well here for next year and on, when we get to know that is no i didn't. what sort of crisis we will see new records will be seen some shortage on the oh guess market. because g m green economy affects negative on the new project in oil. and guess now while the west is targeting russia with crippling sanctions over the conflicts in ukraine, it's also set to land countries in the middle east and africa with some major humanitarian difficulties. russia and ukraine contributes a more than half of all wheat and corn exports to those regions. and french president manuel micron said the will community is on the verge of an unprecedented few crisis because of the conflicts. new some autonomy settles in,

please getting closer to an unprecedented food crisis because the middle east and north africa dependent on feeding their population with what's being produced in russia and ukraine. focus you africa and the middle east is a result of having difficulties buying, wheat, and serials. some of those countries are 80 percent dependent on russia policy policy. the chart y'all's farm has warned that food affordability is going to become a huge problem. indeed, the 18th ukraine crisis has been a big deal to the east africa crisis. at the moment. it has sent prices or commodities such as a oil rocketing. and we do know, for example, that east africa imports 90 percent of the tweet from ukraine and russia. so we then 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, affordability 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 brent you know, and which made from wheat of stress. especially because people to coping because have been stretched to get some or having to resort to skipping meals or buying food on, created 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. and while europe is trying to put pressure on russia, ukraine's president followed him. is the lensky. he's doing the same to nato states asking for more military aid, including tanks and aircraft. however,

the u. k. p. m boys, johnson said zelinski last request, thoughts of providing ukraine with one percent of nato's weapons would be difficult to accomplish logistically, despite the reticence, ukraine is still being supported by the west, economically and politically. and we discussed zelinski is moved with fermi funny co day, a leading member of the ruling all progressive congress party and nigeria. lensky, going to all the parliaments of the west and having audience with them. and there cheering him on the encouraging and it's not destitute, but it being fun. it's felt that people that are being killed installed this soldiers that are in the field. he wants to be the hero, but in fact, he's a very, very bad man. he's a man that does not care about the consequences of what she's doing and about the suffering that his people are undergoing. and i simply people, this could have been avoided, but he was pushed into it and he fell for it. and now he's already so you need a new leadership, they need an honest, decent leadership for the pragmatic, a ready to ensure that they guarantee the neutrality of ukraine. they give the

people of, from ukraine the right to determine the future where they want to be an independent state, or the once we part of russia, the lease quite near a lot of seated. so russia are, they give a clear undertaking to the entire world that they will never join neutral and they will never be part of europe. nato itself is currently holding an extraordinary summit over the situation and ukraine. but his leaders making a joint statement condemning russia and warning of the consequences of using chemical or biological weapons. joe biden did the same, however, he wouldn't be pushed on. what exactly any response would be? what the us 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 response to depend on the nature of the use. well, the same time, washington itself is on the fire over weapons of mass destruction. after the russian defense ministry claimed it had obtained data on a legit biological weapons developments in ukraine with the latest revelations

lincoln, joe biden, son hunter, to those a legit, bio labs 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. ready 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 problem with the scale of the program is impressive. in addition to the military, that the u. s. agencies for international development, the george soros foundation, and 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 the fact that she expressed this 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 do they even exist in ukraine that comes under the auspices of the defense production agency in the department of defense? i know of 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 designed to do as a entity was to oversee the de nuclear is ation adherence to treaty obligations against the spread of nuclear weapons and biological chemical, biological weapons. so for d t s a to be involved in something like this is rather incredible. in my opinion. over in the u. k, the defense secretary has demanded that youtube take down a video of himself being caught out by a house call. that wallace was filmed by 2 russian pranksters,

one of whom posed as ukraine's prime minister. a 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 a that for sure, we are 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 i missed prime minister on all those big questions. i think there is a question that i need to speak to my prime minister that the principal is we will support ukraine as our friend in the choices you make. 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 in response to stunning st says that the entire video is a risk to the country security and it believes russian states it says we're responsible for the prank. that claim was directly rejected by the comedy do. oh, information revealed by the defense secretary included plans to move you case ships closer to ukraine. we or we will go into the black sea. i think we do to go soon in 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. well, earlier we spoke to one of the pranksters alex, a study out of also known as lexus. and he's just concerned is such

a high ranking person can be contacted so easily some my friends from, from the u. k. they told that to say he could not be in person who is responsible for the national security of such a great country. like the u. k and the country with the nuclear weapon and she's responsible carson 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 could happen in some persons from intelligence try to reach him and to get all necessary information. so i think i could only advise to be careful in such moments when they are lectured. they mentioned

that this is kind of propaganda kind of thrashing propaganda, but we do not. it's, he's words, he's speech. so if it's the purpose and so then it's propaganda or secretary was it, he's words, we didn't change anything. the u. s. has warned, it will punish any countries helping russia to bypass crippling sanctions. and interview too artsy, unreal, novice, the, the former russian presidents and current deputy chair the security council to meet you mid video said he believes the u. s. will no longer be able to influence world politics as before. and when answering a question from ria nova, he said that sanctions unite, people not divide them. the full interview will be ad tomorrow, but his brief preview. i used to go to thinking more to the problem and if we kill, can i interrupt finance said i'll take business men. did they have support regarding the military offensive taken in taken to fact, if now. well,

just the maximum number of national have been taken against them. there has to flee coast, yours and everything else have been taken from them. sure. how do you generally feel about us taking into account the fact that the west he said at private property should be on it? and in general, is it normal to block a can't and populate houses with refugees, relatively speaking to make it clear that they will be unpleasant to anyone that might get dismissal. wouldn't that keep it? but i think it was kaiser security business in it though. if we talk about business, this is also part of our society, including big business. they are, as they say, guilty without guilt less ask ourselves a question. in general, at least someone from this big business is at least to some extent capable of influencing a small fraction. one iota of the position of the countries leadership. i'm telling you straight away no, no way, because we have different tasks or anyone who manages the state 1st of all, focuses on the interests of the whole country on the interest of the people of

russia. the one who manages his own business as is a very important task, but he only does this, therefore, the calculations that by limiting russian business, they will somehow influence the authorities. they're absolutely meaningless is simply stupid and they're also trying to improve the sectors of the economy that a behind this big business might. and he's a hundreds of thousands millions of people. in fact, with these sanctions, the western world is trying to influence the citizens of our country to heart shop and of course, try to incite them against the course of the states leadership gates the course of the president in the hope that in the end it will result in some kind of trouble for the authorities. this will create some problems for the authorities. but it seems to me that the people who generate these decisions absolutely do not understand our mentality. they do not understand the attitude of the rushing people in the is sense of the word lawsuit. they do not understand the incentives that when such pressure is applied in this pressure is not on large entrepreneurs, not on big businesses. this is pressure on any one. and every one society is

consolidated with some of even those who are offered in some way, or believed that they paid little attention or some wrong decisions were made in this situation. he says, well, yes, yes, they probably made a mistake in something. but in general, in this situation, i will stand for the state community list. it seems to me they absolutely unable to understand just as they were not able to understand 70 years ago and 100 years ago . and during various kinds of armed campaigns that were carried out, including against our country and when you want, what kind of restrictions, deprivations, they only unite people that consolidate people, but to not divide them. and this is then main miscalculation. this is the weak point of the stupid sanctions from that so well, those are the main stories, this our header with our t dot com or our social media pages for more money is peter scott's and i'll be back again with all the latest at the top of the hour ah.