[000:00:00;00] ah ah, done yet. republic forces claims have taken control of a district in central mario. both the evacuation of civilians is under way. our correspondence witnessed people who were trapped in the war phone city now getting humanitarian aid. her out in the outskirts of our evil. some, a lot of these people have lost their homes. they spend the last couple of weeks hiding in the basement. under shelling mass rally, sweep europe over, surging energy prices caused by punishing sanctions slapped on russia. some government to suggest the people even simply turn down the heating. we get reaction

in paris. it's not as that should reduce our heating and reduce our consumption of petrol or other things. there are a lot of houses that may become harmful for help when it comes to energy efficiency . and the u. k. cancels a trip of high ranking officials to india. emit boys. johnson's unsuccessful attempts to get the country to take action against russia, despite pressure from the west, new delhi, stay neutral, both in un, under bilateral relations. ah, the weekends just begun here in moscow. my name is peter scotts, and welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis here on our international. now straight to the main developments in the ukraine conflict, the russian defense ministry has said it has achieved this primary objective in the

1st stage with operation. and that's namely reducing their cooper see the capability of ukrainian forces, which it says will lead to russia. achieving may name the liberation of dumbass. russian officials also stated on friday that more than 1300 of his soldiers have been killed with almost 4000 injured. while it's being claimed that the fighting multiple is moving closer towards the sea, meanwhile, must protest over soaring food and fuel prices are seen in europe, caused by the crippling sanctions imposed on russia. versus break down. what's happening on the ground? done it's republic forces claims have taken control over one of the districts in the center of mass you for fighting with ukrainian forces on the adult battalion is said to be becoming more sporadic. the done yes, military is conducting a building to building search, looking for military reportedly pretending to be civilians. meanwhile, locals claim ukrainian forces aren't letting people out of the city and

deliberately targeting them. an elderly woman seen in this video and her granddaughter both have done shopping to the legs and claims. they were attacked by the ukranian army. we heard from the daughter of that woman. we just wanted to leave the city, at least the left bank. we were not let out, they shot both of our cause and told us to return back. so we returned back with the wounded. a nurse has just helped us with 1st aid. my mother has 2 penetrating bullet wounds. we took her to hospital, but all the windows were broken there and the poor doctors are doing everything they can. there are not sees in our neighborhood. they kicked us out. thank god, we met russian troops. they helped us to evacuate the wounded. or despite the difficulties, more than $600.00 civilians, including $100.00 children, were reportedly evacuated yesterday from a youthful that are receiving humanitarian aids, nazis,

roman coarser reports from the ground. we are now skirts of the city of mario pl. here the nest people's republican. there are hundreds of for refugees here who managed to leave the city. some of them came by foot. so some of them are using their cars that we brought some humanitarian aid here along with the soldiers of the nest people's republic. there are food items of bread, jan foods reserves and dry goods. others also clothing here as well for those people who left their homes in a hurry. oh, well probably with that anything just with their documents and some cash in hand. now once again, we are out in the outskirts of variables. so a lot of these people have lost their homes. they've spent the last couple of weeks hiding in the basement on their shelling but valley city level. but those than you . but while we were hiding in a basement near the factory right in the hot spot,

if not for our men, we would have died of hunger along with our children. it's really scary now in our city. it's in our apartment and the whole building has burned down. the shelling started and we had to hide in a basement for $23.00 days. yeah, with a keys with president bush. we have nowhere to go. we have lived here for 6070 years, and now we're homeless. all my relatives are now in. marry you, paul. my nephew with his 4 children are in. marry you, paul. now i can't leave before i know what happened to them. i don't know whether we will be able to go back. i hope they will rebuild at least some houses. but now as i understand, so their lives are no longer in danger. but we're still hearing sounds of artillery here, but i've been told by soldiers of this area is pretty safe. now at once, they get their humanitarian aid here, they will move onwards either today or next, or to a rushes ra stove. but at this point,

their lives are no longer under threat. russia claims to be seized, ukraine's can largest city of harker. most of the buildings that have been completely destroyed. local authorities earlier stated that russian chiefs intensified their shelling of the city with more than 50 strikes, been reported the previous nights with peace, those between russia and ukraine going on through the week. both sides have started an exchange of prisoners, 11 crew members of the millennial spirit ship, which was attacked in the black sea. a returned back to moscow at been detained for a month. some of them didn't have any identity documents, and you can see crew members signing papers to get them. nevertheless, that of russia's negotiating team says talk to still have a long way to go to sucrose with us who are representatives. the ukranian delegation talk about optimism and great progress in the negotiations. but i don't share that optimism because there is no movement on the principle positions that the russian side insists on. unfortunately, we see

a desire on the part of our ukrainian colleagues to delay the negotiations with it . they take their time and frankly say that they have many decision making centers which certain positions have to be coordinated under an interview for the b b. c, members of the ukrainian delegation directly say that the leadership of ukraine coordinates all its positions with foreign advisors. this is quite frankly and very self revealing, like, you know, it may have warned about the issue of neo nazis in ukraine in the past. but it seems the bbc is still a little more quiet now. the broker is interviewed a ukrainian soldier with an infamous nazi symbol, clearly seen on his uniform. with a bullet will mark tells us we have to move a couple of the patch on the soldier's arm is the symbol of nazi germany. is s s division known as death head. this is the division was formed of concentration come guards. the thoughts of the 2nd world war and it was known for the mass murder of

prisoners including $97.00 british soldiers captured in france in 1940. there's no mention of any of this during the interview. and conscious that with the past when back in 2014, the b b. c reported on the role of neo nazis in the conflicts in ukraine. and in 2012, the tunnel made a documentary over racism and anti semitism in ukrainian as well as polish football stadiums. that came ahead of the euro championship held in the 2 countries and showed neo nazi gestures be made ukrainian stadiums and it's the grey zone. marx blumenthal says, it's important to report on the issue of extremism in the conflict, especially as the west is giving his weapons to ukraine. as i just revealed at the gray zone, the bbc correspondent in fixer who is shaping that networks coverage of the events around mar, you poll, is actually a ukrainian nationalist. public relations operative who is involved in creating

a viral app that is being called by the washington post, one of the top ukrainian information weapons. and so i'm not surprised with the white washing. it is unfortunate though that western audiences are deprived of important context on ukrainian politics. and what brought the situation to this point. ukraine is one of the only countries in the world that has an officially neo nazi unit with nazi inspired insignia incorporated into a national guard who civilian wing. the national corps has operated under the auspices officially of the interior ministry when arms are pouring in. and we are seeing british made light anti tank weapons in the hands of fascist right sector battalions. and the as of battalion, we should be concerned about what will happen with these weapons after the war, what they will do, and whether they will carry out their plans for a civil war or a wider conflict beyond ukraine. and that's why it's important,

as well as the fact that they helped inspire this conflict and accelerate the push to war with their actions in eastern ukraine around the don bast, consistently attacking civilians and violating agreements. the today, european council summits has wrapped soap in brussels leaders, met to discuss the conflicts in ukraine, as well as security and economic issues. and all agreed on giving the unwavering support to ukraine in the face of quote, russian aggression democracies of the world stand together against putins were. we will further increase our support to ukraine. we will sharpen our sanctions, and we will break free from rush and fossil fuels. wishes moves to resist the current sanction slap from the country were also covered at the summits. what goes demanded quotes on friendly states, use the russian currency to pay for the gas impulse with flattened by the you leaders object into vladimir putin request. they say the move would breach exist in

supply contracts or policy a discourse. the issue with my colleague, you to know neil earlier we heard from the german chancellor olive shalt saying that they won't do that. he simply said, we refused to pay for russian oil supplies in rubles. his argument was that there are contracts in place and those contracts are in yours and dollars. the same sentiment coming out of the poland state energy company, saying that they won't. and also they said that they can't reiterating that contracts have been signed and that to quote them that one party cannot modify a contract according to his will. and we've heard from several, you leaders, all of them saying that at and that this is a breach of contract. some of them also scoffing at putin's quote, mention of unfriendly countries. 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. but let's just expand on that. we heard there's some claiming it's a breach of contract by moscow. but the e u has frozen russian assets on an unprecedented sphere. much of which by road is owned by the russian people. so is it up there are wanting it both ways? well, there certainly is the point that it's max of double standards, because for example, you have france which has just frozen the central acids belonging to rushes bank to the tune of 22000000000 years. at the same time, they have frozen private property that belongs to roughly 30 russians, and that is to the total of half a 1000000000 euros that's also been frozen. and the same kind of steps been taken in the netherlands, for example, where there's a letter that was written from the the finance ministry to the parliament there.

and that was dated march. the 21st saying that to the total $392.00 in euro's was a russian assets and transactions had been frozen. so certainly does seem that we looking at a case of double standards and i think that's a valid point against the reaction that is that the you eat the, the eat leaders and west meters are putting forward now just finely. then the rubles seems to be regaining. ground on the back of the president's demand after some big fluctuations in the past few weeks. the rebel is doing better. 8 and briefly left to a 3 week high pass. $95.00 against the dollar at pod gains, but it stayed well below a 100 closing at $97.00. and it is actually down now or more than 22 percent since phoebe the 24th. so it is still quite a a wiring situation. we have a situation where putin has made a quite clear, if you want to buy russian gas, well, then you have to buy our currency. what is not clear though,

is if he can unilaterally withdraw from these contracts that are in euro's and in dollars. and that's something that we'll have to look into. german economist and publisher, oklahoma bikes, the prisoners move to us, are payments and roubles. i think b, u was totally caught on the wrong foot by this measurement bay. thought everybody, once the euro, everybody wants a dollar and they couldn't imagine that russia does this master piece of move. russia said no, i don't accept this anymore because they had no other option that europeans and the us to froze their assets for an asset. so the 1st one who, who broke the international agreement, unspoken agreement, off of a reserve currency were the us and the european. so this is just logic that russia says ok if i can use the currency anymore,

it doesn't make any sense for me to deliver my gas and my oil for, for free, for, for nothing. we need the oil, we need the gas. if we want to keep the economy running, otherwise the economy is declining, so easy and we could face, but most people can't afford a car anymore in euro. so the great and wealthy west is a hoax without this. and if the germany economy goes down by these measurements and europe will fall apart and talking of which sanctions currently crippling the russian economy could not be compared to the problems caused by the 1st wave. the cobra pandemic. that's where the former russian presidents and current deputy chairman of the security council. dmitri media of claimed, in an interview to artsy and we are novice de answering a question from me. a novice, the he claimed the current challenges are not catastrophic. the full interview will be at today, but here's a quick preview. some says that from the left side of says theater. he, so the sanctions have been applied to put pressure on every sector. our economy

feels as if now in contrast to the situation when the soviet union put out the iron curtain to shut itself off from the west of a telling whale. russia has been forced to put that curtain up and become so to the new north. korea is like people don't want it. no one wants it, but the big powerful machine is already working and someone is pushing the buttons . i'm saying is like north korea because north korea was buried under the sanctions . was like cuba, where people still drive cars maintained in 196 says. so maybe someone once russians to start going through scrap metal and repair in olds approach, it's caused to drive them. she said, go look here. what a shame that i sold mine. i used to ownership julie car from the 1980s. i guess i could use it now, but get yours. think of a letter that was probably the idea which they, sir. so what do you think has a worst case scenario? could this kind of thing happen in russia? because a slightly like newman, i think everyone understands that it can't. even though in the course of this interview, i did question the intellectual abilities of the people who come up with all these sanctions against russia. i must say there are different people there and some

realize very well what's going on. you see, all of them understand that with all due and utmost respect to our friends in cuba and the democratic people's republic of korea. russia is no. cuba and no north korea. russia is russia, the world's largest country, a permanent member of the un security council, a huge economy, and a nuclear power, which is why all these ideas that russia can't be curbs, like cube, or north korea once were. and that it could just be kept that way. don't have a leg to stand on. it's impossible. it's just utterly impossible. even if some in the political circles and the lights of the west would want it that way. below yes, there obviously challenges and we'll have to overcome them. unfortunately, they exist both of the governments and every day level. still it's nothing new for us and it's not catastrophic. it pales in comparison to the hardships that our country had to go to in the 20th century. i tell he won't. he's not even in the same league with the problems we face during the corona virus pandemic. back then

we really felt uneasy from time to time because we had no idea how this virus would behave regardless of where it came from, kill off most of humanity. like in some sy, fi books back then things were much more tense. i'd say the tragedy of course, is that the virus caused so many deaths. but this is a different story and there can be no illusions here. got they trying to put us into the rogue nation or rogue country category. as for its etymology, i think it was reagan who came up with that term. russian translation for it is outcast, but rogue is actually close in meaning to outlaw. in fact is the u. s. as the rogue nation here is not because we don't like americans here because the u. s. is constantly launching, was a conquest across the world. they are the outcast and the outlaw, ah, and over to europe now, where thousands of lori drivers have hit the streets of madrid to protest against skyrocketing prices, of food and fuel,

they were brought about by the unprecedented sanctions slapped on russia. ah, the demonstrates is blocked the main avenue of madrid, demanding the resignation of the spanish transport minister as since he rejected a 1000000000 euro support package. in this alleviating the surging fuel prices which surpassed the benchmark of nearly $1.00 euros per liter. early this month, since stringent sanctions have been imposed on russia, european countries are struggling with increased food and fuel prices. demonstrations have also been held in germany, france, spain, and greece with protesters throwing burning tires on to a highway and blocking roads. some governments have even suggested people reduce their heating in order to cut their bills. we asked people in paris what they think of those suggestions. look what it is. one taught all students. i don't know at what point it is going to impact, and i don't know how long will it continue. we have to see how the situation is

going to evolve him or if it lasts long. it's not us that should reduce our heating and reduce our consumption of petrol or other things to issue when i dollars professionally, just reduce heat. yes, of course. but in paris, in a small apartment, it is easy, joseph, but there are a lot of housing that may become harmful for health when it comes to energy efficiency is i'm was, which is pretty good. i'm not using gas already. what else can i say to you? less heating? well, we will see, since the winter is more complicated than summer, it was the situation in other countries as even worse than here in france. my boy, but we are going to play this game. we must be off on, on my luck, and this not only europe hits by domestically increasing prices due to those sanctions on russia in the us fuel prices have searched their highest numbers in 14 years. inflation rate is going through the roof to the latest data shows. inflation is us, is highest in 40 years,

which is 7.9 percent is what some people in the us had to say about the situation. not so great is it, you know, because we fall on a limited budget struggling definitely concerning. i mean you, you really everything. this is nancy easy. it's a 7 british delegation there was aimed to persuade india to take her an anti russian stance. cancel his trip to the country at the last moment. earlier, the heads of the 2 countries discuss the ongoing conflict in ukraine and the position towards russia. voice johnson urged india to stop at hearing to a neutral position and condemned and condemned moscow's offensive. and remote face parts expressed hope for a cease fire, but refuse to take any action against russia. moreover,

india has abstained on all united nations general assembly resolutions against russia. so far, there is also didn't support russia's recent resolution on humanitarian aid. induced representative to the un said the resolutions don't reflect the crisis on the ground. we discussed india's actions with deli based gen, listen, ortho left and p. india doesn't want to play a list or, you know, become a junior partner. really big part of this delegation was certainly enhanced to include what it appears to be rushing for, imposing sanctions on russia had the behest off need or hand that united states. so that was not agreeable. and that will not be agreeable to india in. yeah,

of course respects the un charter a application has to be, you knew us and you can have a different application of you and charter for the rest and something really different for the shower after you've seen. great, you pretty a to work and we haven't seen sanctions imposed on a lot of countries that have encroached on 2 sovereign nations and read it to countries under one project. so they are not being punished was demanding western countries send more help including lethal aid. ukraine president followed him in the lensky as being comparing the conflict in the country with the selection of pass disasters. while speaking with israel, he compared russia's offensive to the holocaust. then in an emotional addressed the u. s. congress,

he referred to 911 in pearl harbor. so his country experience is the same losses every day. and her dressing japan, he a vote, memories of fukushima and accused germany of allowing russia to recreate the berlin wall. we got reaction from international affairs specialists which had met hurst i think it's absurd and for the ones in my life, i actually agree with the israeli on something. i don't think it's right to compare the situation in ukraine to the holocaust, both in nature and scale. that was quite the awkward exchange. and you know, everyone from the foreign minister to the prime minister and after the bennet are all kind of taken aback for this bizarre comparison. and it really just comes across as crazy because he goes and does this with every country that he speaks to . ironically when he spoke to the japanese, he didn't bring up here a she of are not a saki which are arguably the biggest tragedies and disasters. and in modern japanese history, probably because the americans, you know,

dropped those nuclear bombs. it's weird though, because the west already supports ukraine, so i don't know why he feels the needs zelinski in his government. i don't know why they feel the need to go to these lengths to try to appease each each country. i. busy you know, hearing someone quote, martin luther king task for world war 3 is under the guise of a no fly zone. it just comes across is really weird. well, that's a rap for this are feel free to head over to r t dot com or our social media pages for more stories and in depth analysis. my name is peter scott and i'll be back again in just under over 30 minutes. ah. the law attendant consequences is in play. and in

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