i was a ah, this ours headline stories russia uses nationalists, ukrainian battalions of launching intensive miss aisle attacks from civilian areas are much of the city with paperwork litters the floor, but high tech areas are left untouched. just one of the contradictions in the claim that russian forces looted law at the church noble nuclear plant. we report exclusively from this to. this is a research complex that focuses on studying radioactive materials. it is in the direct vicinity of the true noble power plant. and what's peculiar about it is that it has been maintained with the support of the european union. screaming about it

are stick has like this placed all over the equipment here. and at the same time as the e u claims to want to deescalate tensions with russia, the block continues to sanction moscow relentlessly. it comes as protests are wrapped in spain against the surgeon gas prices. in some countries urging against imposing sanctions, which they say could hurt europe more than russia. ah one menopause 5 in the evening here in moscow this saturday march the 26. my name's unit o'neill, this is the news. our on our t. russia has said the 1st stage of its operation in ukraine has been achieved, which moscow states will lead to its overall goal. the liberation of don bots, the russian military set on friday validates troops had surrounded har called in

the countries northeast. as you can see here, much of the country, 2nd largest cities and ruins res buildings include schools and residential houses. while many vehicles are crushed and burned dot moscow safe. no, unless ukrainian battalions have been continually firing missiles from civilian areas. and this is a train station in the training civil evolve. hundreds of people have been arriving there. after being model, you pull home to some of the heaviest bottles of the war. locals describe what they left a living. hell. yet the rule just had never seen such horror. whenever there is no marine people. what are no hospitals? there is no c appear, no galleries, nothing more. you pro is i gross me. no schools nursery is used. everything is destroyed. my house. i destroyed the horner. i have escaped about to i have my family, i have lost all my family. i have lost my house. i'm. i'm desperate. meanwhile,

ukrainian president, florida lensky has accused rush of abusing its position in the international arena of threatening the use of nuclear weapons against key which could destroy not only ukraine, but jeopardized life. he stays on the entire planet. russian army engineers, they are continuing their d mining operations in ukraine, southern her southern region. nationalists, you printing battalions had planned mines on roads as they retreated. you can see here a russian soldier making safe what appears to be an improvised explosive device filled with metal. shards at the roadside and this drone footage shows shattered buildings in mario pulse. many of them have been heavily damaged by bombs rocket shelling and gunfire. it's not being claimed. russian forces have taken control over city hall after a month of intense fighting around residents of the embattled region have spoken of the dire situation they've faced over the past number of weeks. you over

the last 10 days here we are exhausted with everything. even the show, it doesn't matter if we hear them or not. believe me, i no longer have any reaction to them was more than 2 o'clock in the morning. they knock, they said that they were from the armed forces of ukraine, and there would be a battle here which we ran out of the house and left. but we hid in basement. we didn't take food, we didn't take anything. you know, we have no bread, no water, no electricity, no heat, nothing. we're all coughing. the situation is bad. no help from anyone for a month. but you know, bread no water. we run through gunfire to get water. there were 6 courses on one road. we were afraid to run their search, so we began to run along another road. there are soldiers, there is more or less come here to double the floors littered with papers, but high tech labs left untouched. that's the condition of

a key research lab. but the true noble nuclear power plant made media reports, it has been looted by russian forces with an exclusive report from the sites on those contradictions. your chart teach, the course of elf. well, this may be only a handful of places in the entire world, as iconic, as the chernobyl power plant. we've come here for a series of reports, published by some ukranian sauce, is that the rob wildfire raging in the area and that the russians aren't letting fire brigades in to let them tackle the blaze. well, hopefully you can see how much fires the rays, how much smoke there is exactly in the air smaller there's none, and you have to take my word for it. when i say it doesn't smell like anything is burning for kilometers and kilometers away from here. so we'll come to see how the power plant functions. right now when there's a russian military operation in ukraine. from the abandoned station, we had to a nearby radiation monitoring lab, following reports,

it was ransacked and looted. true enough were met with this scene. ah . but as we come through the debris, we start noticing a strange pattern. while the office flows are littered with domestic junk, one of the lamps remain unscathed. so this is a research complex that focuses on studying radioactive materials. it is in the direct vicinity of the chernobyl power plant. and what's peculiar about it is that it has been maintained with the support of the european union, screaming about it as thick as like this placed all over the equipment here. but it is hard to see where the money exactly went, because you don't have to be an expert in brady, active science, to see that all this equipment here is very, very all you can see rust all over,

you know, all over the draws basically all over the place, so again, this is clearly all of it, the legacy of the soviet era. the equipment is in a pristine state. flasks and vials are still neatly organized. the marauder to nieto has very deliberately steered away from them. and as we dive into a dog basement, we're in for a worrying discovery. so here what we have is the only piece of more modern equipment that we have been able to find. in this lab. it has been provided by the european union, at least the funds for it. and apparently radioactive materials are still inside to have this dose meter in my hand. it's very old. it's soviet. you can see it reads 00.32, and then very carefully. i move it towards this container. well, you can see for yourself how high the numbers go.

and there are still a couple of containers inside. in nearby rooms we uncover troves of equipment easily worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions. some of it could have been carried away by a single person, but wasn't plenty of offices. he and the storage facilities have been looted. but it's interesting to see what has been left behind, for example, well toilet paper, soap. and if we move just little further down, this little passage, there are bandages sacks and boxes full of them. so the stuff and the items most needed on the front, on the front lines have been left behind. so whoever destroyed this place wasn't in for the money or supplied as more things don't add up. the place begins to look like a massive odd project. there were, nobody will, so that we arrived after receiving information that the russian military had

destroyed undiluted the research laboratory. we found a big mess in all the officers and rooms. but the most striking thing was that all the equipment used by the staff was still there and in good condition papers scattered across the floor suggest that employees made the mess while they were leaving the laboratory. most of the paperwork is still neatly in its place. the last documents are dated february, the 21st. all the expensive research equipment is in excellent condition and untouched. a video surveillance survey turned out to be blank. we detected increased radiation on the 1st floor and basement. i think it was criminal carelessness to leave such facilities unattended. so this places server room, if i may call it that used to be right here, while it has been completely ransacked along with a c, c, t, v, security post or room, whatever you may call it, whoever created all this may. hm was very much interested. nobody finds out who exactly they were with due diligence, this lab can be set back up and running within days. everything with even the

slightest use has been miraculously, or rather intentionally spared by the raiders and biggest done of reporting from tra noble r t. russian sailors returned home as part of a prisoner exchange you, if you train humping. welcome back. in moscow, the 11 civilian sailors rescued from a sunken ship near the black sea port of odessa, where exchange for 19 ukrainian sibilant ship pro members from a rescue vessel. in addition, wishes human rights commissioner confirmed the exchange of 10 captured soldiers from each side. because i knew there are people on the ukrainian side who are ready to empathize with other people's pain in grief and do everything possible to return their loved ones to their home. there was the core of negotiations on prisoner exchanges. i saw an understanding from the ukrainian side and procedural issues have already been dealt with in the zone with the minister of defense and with the

ministry of foreign affairs. to our treatment was good, hospitable. we were in the hospital and receive medical assistance. when we then lived in a church in the city of chair no more. so i would also like to say thanks to the pastor of the church. he also did a lot to help us. once again, i would like to thank russia, human rights commissioner and all the people who took part for doing everything possible for us. no, it's no secret sky high energy prices have played europe for the past number of months, but no sanctions against russia. fuelling further discontent by telling those costs to never before seen levels and not fled to social unrest in spain. in the time of a monte, near the border with portugal at large supplies of smoke can block the highway. after a run, 40 fishermen set fire to a barricade made of tires to protest aspiring costs so few spain as a whole has been gripped by demonstration stage by various trade union that protest

by truck drivers strong the most the tension in an effort to address the problem the government has offered truckers and rebates one time cash payment. but the group behind the protest has rejected the overtures to keep up protest vote indefinitely. the great, the prime minister has already admitted the huge, unprecedented sanctions against russia quote, do bites while also hurting the european economy. referring to those rising energy costs, he warned the e, you should be hurtful not to let the measures damage you're more than need to in moscow that says, traditionally neutral countries such as switzerland. i've also told the use line of anti russian sanctions. i'm delighted to welcome live onto the broken, not be john to have a solid research fellow at the university of humbert b. john, good to see you. and can i put to you 1st, a topic?

greek diplomat recently said the globally coordinated sanctions against russia. our aim that regime change in moscow is about the use primary goal. what do you say when you hear something that well, i don't think that the european union leaders actually know what the goal of the factions they're pulling it because they have no agency and they are forced by the american to do justice. they say, i mean, at the council meeting yesterday, there was joe by presiding over this meeting. this is unheard of. why is the foreign state actually literally at the meeting and telling the european leader democratically elected leader? what to do? you know, you would think that the european day they would even pretend to have to pay the sovereignty and democracy. but it's so obvious that showing the natal line dictated

by the american side. so they don't know what their goal is and they just see that their economy is collapsing rapidly. now. yeah, as you well know, in germany indeed other you states, they remain heavily dependent on russian gas imports. to what extent is europe actually hurting itself with the sanctions? you are the shooting, it's out of the foot just by putting that's what the everyone is saying. we have in germany at least. oh, we have to suffer a bit because it's for break. i call would cost is that and the suffering. it's certainly great. and, you know, industrial production is down by record numbers, factories shutting down because production is no longer economically possible. and these energy prices and the price is still rising in germany. and you know, we are now at a time where many industry groups are saying that we are unable to keep up those

factions for much longer before we will see lasting and permanent damage to the foundation of the european economy. and a big headlines speech on, over the last few days about russia requesting that you're a pay for their gas purchases in rouble. because, and europe had stopped the use of foreign reserves. russian foreign reserves dollars and euro in international markets. can russia create much leverage with such a move? do you think it was an absolutely g, a move and it really changed with, with one stroke of the pen, it actually changed the, the outlook for the rest currency, the ruble, the war on the russian currency that was ongoing 4 weeks now, actually turned by this one move because as long as the europeans afford to pay roubles, there is last thing, the mom for this currency. and this really the precipitates move away from the dollar at the global currency of freight and commerce. and it

might even really endanger the position of the united states as a global has them on. because this position is very much dependent on their currency and the dollar weakening now and the ruble and other regional trying to strengthening it's really changing the fundamental picture of the world economy. always a pleasure to have you on the program explaining that to be john to have a solely research fellow at the university of hamburg many thanks. thank you. know, with the war in ukraine forcing more than 3 and a half 1000000 people to flee. europe has been quick to threw open the stores, but that stands in stark contrast to previous years and conflicts when those from other countries were denied refuge. charlotte dubin ski takes us through when the wolf started in ukraine, millions picked up their belongings and fled with no sense of what would come

next. they were many women and children. they packed into trains cause buses or just simply walked crossing the border into countries like poland, hungary on slovakia and they were greeted with open arms. sport senses were converted into temporary refugee senses. food and water was handed out on arrival. people open to that home, to the refugees, and governments have even offered to residency permits with working rights and accessed health care and education. it has been a huge, warm humanitarian hug. santa was even there to greet children, traumatized by the conflict with

coming here. i see if he's face the war. this is a said bob to i want to give you the 510 minutes maybe who helped me to minutes sliding. thinking about the toys, about the nicholas notable doing the situation was a far cry from 2015, 2016 when refugees from syria attempted to make similar journeys. a with the demographics of refugees from syria was different. they were many more young men. they were traveling ahead to pave an easy way for that family remembers, but that provoked a sense of caution and fear, especially as they came from a land where the culture and religion wilson. well,

you repeat in now tales have emerged by out how those free ukraine are being filtered with not fitting the european stereotype of being held back. why i was trying to feel you, you, when i got to the rest of them on which is called books on, on the totals on women and children are allowed to and one to 3 board do we are pushing african women also between you are also pushing all young, we're not doing it well. we only if we not on our watch, when we got closer to the quota, there was a bargain. said hope i did it grammatically. school in the market disappointed us to why people under our side. then the africans in gas on the middle is on the other side. so they told us we have to wait till to wipe it for you. so the white before we are moving, we were left there for 3 days. stories have flooded, social media provoking. the u. n. to condemn the ugly reality of racism.

they reported disturbing incidents of discrimination, violence, and racism. these acts of discrimination are unacceptable, and we are using on many channels and resources to make sure that all people are protected equally. while others have been struck by the contrast of the aid that's been given to ukrainians compared to the situation, say on the belarus border just a few months ago, you had to deal with the hostility from the authorities harassing and intimidating . you telling you that actually it's not legal to help people who are crossing the border from belarus to poland. there was a state of emergency introduced no humanitarian organizations, human rights organizations, or even journalists were allowed to enter in false questions have also been asked about the aid that sub available when it's for white people. and geo is working with refugees in cali demanded that centers that have been opened up to help crane

is be open to others too. that demand was slapped back. the difference is that ukrainians are in a regularized situation. all of this is raised. so searching questions. why are alms open wide will ukrainians when the doors have been slammed, shut for others. so many times, the explanation it seems, is simple. it's very emotional for me because i see europe young people with blue eyes and blond hair, big shields. this isn't a place with all due respect, you know, like iraq or afghanistan says a relatively civilized i relatively european. i have to choose those words carefully to continue. so i was told to put it bluntly, these are not refugees from syria. these are refugees from ukraine, the more they're christians there whilst they are very similar just ah, after years of criticizing new nazi elements in ukrainian society,

it appears that that b, b. c is not seemingly prepared to tolerate them. in a news report on friday, the broadcaster interviewed a ukrainian soldier who had a nazi symbol clearly visible on his uniform the essay, the determination and a little help from western weaponry, have gotten this far, would it will, it will mark tells us we have to move the global model, so the patch on the soldiers arm is the symbol of nazi germany. s s division, known as debts head. the division was formed by concentration camp guards up the starts of the 2nd world war. it was known for the mass murder of war prisoners including $97.00 british soldiers captured in france in 1940 no mention of any of that was made during the interview. or contrast not the previous reports in years gone by. in 2014 the b b. c reported on the role of neo nazis in the coo and ukraine. 2 years before that,

that channel me that documentary centered on racism and anti semitism in ukrainian as well as polish football stadiums that came ahead of the euro championships held in the 2 countries. and showed neo nazi gestures being made at ukrainian stadiums. editor of the great news sites, much blumenthal seeds. it's particularly important to report on the issue of extremism in the conflict of the west supply nuclear weapons. as i just revealed at the gray zone, the b, b, c correspondent, and 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 you 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 ah, united nations secretary general antonio gutierrez has pleaded for both sides to

embark on a cease fire in ukraine, calling rushes military operation. an absurd and on winnable war. russia, however, essays its objectives have always been clear. with more on the background, to the conflict on russia's stunts. here's our teachers with weapons. the chief of the united nations is calling on russia and what he referred to as the absurd war in ukraine. so with the current battle and during the 2nd month, let's take a look at how it got to this point containing the water. you could use morally, acceptable, politically indefensible, and militarily nonsensical by any measure. but even the shoe, this calculation is fine to stop, defy, think, know, and give peace a chance if these time to end these absurd walk. so what does he mean by that? well, let's start by looking at the accusation that russia's role in the war is politically

indefensible. to the current conflict has been years in the making with the bases of it surrounding the dynamics. can they've gone republics, which declared independence following a u. s. supported government, who and ukraine back in 2014. the new ukranian government's response was to go to war with the republics. and even when the misc agreement of 2015 promised both the cease fire and t as the recognition of the regions autonomy, it was never fully implement it. in fact, when russian president vladimir putin announced the launch of a military offensive after moving to recognize the independence of the republics in the dawn bass region, he noted that the conflict was pushed to this point because of ukraine's refusal to recognize the 2015 accord, i mean, skew minsk agreements who killed long before yesterday's recognition of the people's republic of don't bus and not by us, not by the representatives of these republics, but by the counsel, thirties in kiev. there is the nino factor, while its members have branded it as

a purely defensive alliance. it has more than doubled in size in the last 25 years as it expanded to the east. this cotton repeatedly assured russia wouldn't do so when for a secretary of state james baker saying there would not be even an inch of expansion to the east back in 1990. if we maintain a military presence in germany, which is part of nato, there will be no expansion of nato jurisdiction of and they took forces even an inch to the east. while russia has repeatedly voiced concerns of the expansion of nato to its own border, would put moscow in a direct conflict with the entire alliance. it is also noted that nato membership for countries like ukraine would give it the ability to gain access to nuclear weapons. to that former secretary of state, madeleine albright noted in 1997 that the u. s. has made no guarantees. i do not believe that the debates about nato should be reduced to

a debate about russia. russia would also like us to make absolute commitments in the charter by the deployment of nuclear and conventional forces on the territory of new members. but we will not compromise on this issue. as for the claim that the current war is militarily nonsensical already has made its demands clear since day one. that is goals are to demilitarize and u. d, not the by ukraine, but this week, usd department spokesperson net price admitted that the u. s. is actively discouraging the ukranian government from making any concessions in his talks with russia. therefore, prolonging the war the by an administration is also viewing the complex signing off on a historic $13600000000.00 and funding for ukraine, nearly half of which is aimed at supporting the framing military. as you as arms dealers rate in the money, russian officials have been quick to note just who is profiting off of the continuation of this complet. washington wants to keep russia in the state of

hostilities for as long as possible. they count on continuing supplying weapons to ukraine. and finally, the claim that the war is morally unacceptable ignores the fact that the ukrainian military has been targeting their republics in the dorm mass region for the last 8 years. during which time it's estimated that more than 14000 people lost their life . as a world wakes up to a conflict that has been ongoing for years, far, right, new nazi extremist and ukraine continue to play a prominent role as is claim that they're using sibling and as human shields. but while the un cheap cause russia is role in the war absurd, he leaves out the reality of the proxy war. washington is now engaging in against moscow, as it says, new weapons to the region while increasing its own troop presence around ukraine. provoking the possibility of a direct conflict with russia in washington. rachel blevins. r t. lots are locked

for now from the newsroom, but stay close because next rti on the re an office, the news agency system with former russian president dmitri med get up to talk ukraine. don't balance on the many issues to running the conflict. the 2nd part of that interview is read ah, ah, with

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