ah, ah, russia said sort of taking control of mario for 50 whole after a month of intensive buy thing. though bottles with ukranian forces are still ongoing. what country is the main instigator of this crisis? everyone knows china lashes out that the american method in the war claiming it was the instigator, the conflict it comes to china will hold. trade talks with russia, despite all the pressure off on asian countries by the west. we pull the issues to i guess there's this desire to malign are china, china closes sanctions, a lot of forms. it poses threats of sanctions and it supports the position of the trial that we have fundamentally believe doing a multi major while we have leading the multi word that's been the project india.

historically, you lead a golfer to russia demand to pay for its energy in rubles as a g 7 summit takes place in brussels. meanwhile, the rubel begins to callback some of what is lost in the crisis. and the u. k is left red faced and demanding. youtube removes a video of a phone call in which the british defense minister thoughts with emotion pranksters and gives them crucial information from the compensation. it became clear the u. k . ponds this daily naval fleet for the black sea aah! from moscow to the well this is our international. my name's peter scott, and we're abby. joining us from welcome to the program has been claimed the administration building of the so then the ukrainian city of marty. you, paul,

is now under the control of the russian military. and as war rages on in ukraine, china has put the blame on the u. s. claiming that washington fees to shift responsibility for it functions on top of. meanwhile, european commission chief us lavonne de lion says the block won't let russia circumvent sanctions and use energy supplies as an instrument of blackmail. light comes after moscow announced that quotes on friendly 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 mac ron has sounded the alarm over the possibility of an unprecedented food crisis, but let's start the program and break down. what's happening on the ground in ukraine is being claimed. russian forces have taken control of the city hall in mario pl, last as the one month, very intense fighting. and you can see now on your screen, some of the latest footage from the city,

showing that many of the residential buildings have been completely destroyed. locals claim the infamous of battalion and ukrainian forces have been putting civilians at risk targeting the building in this video. the severe fighting has left many locals caught in the crossfire on thursday. here, officials reported they have evacuated more than 2000 mo you poorly residents. ukrainian authorities of also accused moscow of illegally deporting around $15000.00 of the cities residence to russia with the humanitarian situation. in the city, dyer, russia says it starts at distributing aid. meanwhile, shelling was heard in the northern parts of ukraine, 2nd largest city hall grove. on thursday. the instance left at least 6 civilians dead and more than a dozen wounded with a car part of a local shopping mall. according to local authorities, thick smoke was seen billowing from residential neighborhoods as well. here has blamed russia, but moscow hasn't yet commented on the incident. and over in the done yet republic,

local authorities say almost every building has been destroyed or damaged in the city of all nevada. although rebuilding work has already begun. local hospital employees earlier claimed ukrainian militias used their hospital to fire from and the 6 civilians died of the shelling. they also say over 300 people who are hiding inside were used effectively as human shields. but as michelle eliza thought they were firing from the 2nd and 3rd floors. 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 goes along. they did not explain anything, just said that they were told to stay in our hospital butcher. 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 for to people donate blood, but volunteers help us to fix windows,

which cellophane doesn't know. hopefully we'll get electricity back soon. and finally, we'll be able to work while the conflicts has been raging in the dom bus region for the past 8 years. western journalists have been notable for their absence. but after one month, the full scale war in ukraine, a number of reporters have since arrived in the done yes. can look guns republics to cover the situation. there are corresponded for among costs for votes. a canadian journalist of a bartlett who explained that 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 here, um, so oh, is this your 1st time here? imagine so you've been here several times once before in 2019. i want more time in gore 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. 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 you 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 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, tight pediatrics, and stage teens showing a yes showing this kind of scene, but then interviewing people to get contracts as to why it's like this. i showing the people that we saw in the, the, the 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 under 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, ukrainian. so no western media will vilify them in an interview to aussie and we had nova, see the former russian presidents and current deputy chairman of the security council to reach me via d of said his normal for people to criticize whether the governments had made bad decisions as these parts of democracy boats when answering a question from via nova, see, he said many people in russia still support the military offensive against ukraine? the full interview will be at tomorrow. what's his a quick preview? should say, so do you think the dance you have remained in russian society in russia as a whole, support the operation ukraine. now especially of course they do and this is not my opinion. all the data is made public and no matter what are spiteful, critics say,

or write this support is obviously according to the latest surveys, 3 quarters of the country's population support the conduct of the operation. if we talk about the rating of the highest official, that is the president of our country than this rating is even higher. this, in fact, is the support. i'm not talking about a demonstration of this kind of unity. like, for example, we had recently in lou sneaky, you say this is worth a loss and it shows how people perceive the problems that our country is facing. i will say it again. he may be dissatisfied with certain decisions of the authorities . it is normal to criticize the authorities. this is part of democracy, but he's such a difficult situation is impossible to pursue an anti state line because this is a betrayal and in our country. unfortunately, such things happened in the history of our country. and in a relatively recent period, when people went abroad and began to criticize their state, you know, there is also a cultural code by the way, which is shed in almost all countries. you can criticize anything inside the country. but if you went abroad, then it's not right to scold your country. you can criticize the authorities annual

country, but not in the situation of wolf or an operation that is underway. because there are people who are fighting with weapons in the hands for your country, for your future, for all fatherland. and thus you oppose yourself to these people who risk their heads, in fact, lay down their lives for it. well, this is how i feel about it. ah, the instigator of the crisis that south china has labeled the us blaming the west for the war in ukraine. to run the quarter, 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. but despite the anger from the west, the position of many asian countries towards russia remains unchanged. the chinese foreign minister is said, so conduct trade talks with russia in india,

and it comes as pressure grows on new delhi to sanction moscow over the conflict which the indian prime minister nor render mowdy has so far, refused to do. art is donald call to discuss the topic with my colleague unit o'neill. 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 re, just recently, that's the heretic effects that these anti russians sanction 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 fought 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 a. 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. ours, which 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 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 6 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 about exactly how significant those talks between china and india could be regarding the current situation. ukraine. it seems to be a major price 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 gavin, you not take anything blind down as

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 for shadow is 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 private 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 anything changing on doctrine because india would like to regain that independence because we how fundamentally believed in my nature why we have lead the market warner were china

hoses, sanctions of all forms. it poses threats of sanctions and it supports a position on a tragedy. now that we have this conflict in ukraine, there's this desire to know, malign china, to associate it 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. as i did fears that 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 world china and somewhere. and so now that the u. s. has the stabilized ukraine and said this conflict, us expects china to abandon their strategic self interest for fuels. eric and

neither prime minister modi nor president she can thing are fools. you leaders condemned moscow's demand that the g 7 summits after president putin ordered that, quote, on friendly countries use the russian currency to pay for their gas imports. 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. the decision to switch to, rubles, came in response to the sanctions imposed against russia. it means countries will have to sell their currencies and get roubles on the russian market to buy gas and oil. experts still don't expect the move to have any impacts on energy prices. i'll

after the decision the ruble has strengthened against the dollar while you gas prices have spite more than 25 percent with global oil cost increasing, as well as the result of unseat russia, sanctions economist and ceo of russian investment companies. sputnik, alexander, lot of things, the president, this isn't where we can both the euro on the european market stay is put. ready on the compass of the total economic law against jason petition low worse than during the cold war on. interesting. sure. there is a net or call for a phone to call 2 banks on the bottom. so guess wrong. some companies have no problems, commenting doors under euros. in the see some weakness of euro, i guess door will continue on them and kind of for international

rate and settlement. but i expect huge problem. well, you're going to come and get to know that is no, i didn't know what sort of prices we will see a new record. we'll see some of those shortage on the when you guess markets, because in g m in economy affects negative on the new product in oil. and guess, while the west is targeting russia with crippling sanctions over the conflicts in ukraine is set to land countries in the middle east and africa with some major humanitarian difficulties. russia and ukraine contributes to more than half of all wheat and corn exports to those regions, and french president manuel macro and said the world 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 populous 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. golly, the charity also i'm has worn the food affordability is going to become a huge problem. indeed, a big deal to the east africa crisis at the moment it has sent prices are key commodities such as a boy and rocketing and we do not, for example, that east africa imports 90 percent of the tweet from ukraine and russia with prices rising, explanation. it's really impacting, especially the poorest and most vulnerable who are struggling with the,

our challenges with global system. so at the moment, one of the things we are highlighting is the fact that could be 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 meat of stress. especially because people coping because i've been straight to gaming 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. and while europe is trying to put pressure on russia, ukraine's president of all of them is zalinski, is doing the same to nato states asking for more military aid, including tanks and aircraft. however,

the u. k. p. m boris johnson said zalinski last request of providing ukraine with one percent of nato's weapons would be difficult to accomplish logistically. but despite the reticence, ukraine is still being supported by the west. economically and politically. we discussed the landscape moves with fair me. it funny how your day, a leading member of the ruling all progressive congress party nigeria. lensky, going to all the parliaments of the west and having audience with them. and they're cheering him on the encouraging, and it's not destitute of being fun. it's not their people that are being killed, it's all their 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 i'm at about the suffering that his people are undergoing and i simply people, this could have been avoided, but he was pushed into that. he fell free and now he's on the 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 from ukraine the right to determine the future when 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 parts of europe. nato itself is currently holding an extraordinary summit over the situation in ukraine when the lead is 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 forced 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 depend on the nature the use, the same time, washington itself is under 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

blinking joe biden, son hunter, so these legit, bio labs 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. 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 soros is open society institute and open society foundations. ready 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 partner is the reason that they would be involved. ready because they have 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 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 new let ukraine has a biological research facilities. we are working with the ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of russian forces should they approach 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 when it comes under the auspices of the defense threat reduction agency in the department of defense? i know a detail what we call d t. s a i. i was affiliated with it at one point during my defense department career when it was designed to do as an entity was to oversee the d nuclear zation and adherence to treaty obligations against the spread of nuclear weapons and biological and chemical biological weapons. so we're d t a say to be involved in something like this is rather incredible in my opinion . while over in the u. k, the defense secretary has demanded youtube take down a video of himself being caught out by a hoax. coal. ben wallace was phoned 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 with think to started ok. do you think? i mean, i think more than being neutral, russia would really have that for sure where we were, 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 i missed prime minister on all those big questions. i think there was 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 that video

was censored by the pranksters themselves, as they say ben wallace gave away information that will compromise britain's national security. in response studies to says the entire video is the rest of the country security. and it believes that russian state actors were responsible for the prank that claim was directly rejected by the comedy g o. information revealed by the defense equity included plans to move you case 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 question was the prime minister, including the security dialogue or security guarantee. we are happy to look at all of them with you. so we're not going to rule anything out. we spoke to one of those pranksters alex, a study out of who's also known as lexus. and he's just concerned that such

a high ranking person can be contacted so easily. some my friends from, from the u. k. they told that 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 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 lectured. they mentioned that this is kind of propaganda kind

of rushing propaganda. but we did not add it's his words. he's speech. busy so if it's a purpose, and so then it's propaganda or secretary, what was it? his words, we didn't change anything while that's all for this our for the latest developments on the conflicts in ukraine had over to r t dot com and our social media pages. my name is peter scott and thank you for watching. ah, no one else seemed wrong. when i was just a shape out disdain because of the african and engagement, it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart,

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