[000:00:00;00] ah ah, moscow agrees it to drastically reduce its military activity near chia in support of peace efforts following the latest route. negotiations with ukraine. ukrainian children are seemingly caught on camera training for war and stopping cars to identify russians by asking for a code word, reportedly as part of a government supported push towards our international western sanctions against russia. over the ukraine conflict are having unintended consequences. elsewhere in the world as regular people in europe and africa, struggle to pay for food and fuel as product skyrocket. stuff. sure,

sure. i mean it's 90 degrees celsius in my home. i put on to sweaters. i only heat the rooms that i live in. i don't know what else to do. i'm used to this. i don't see what more i can do. and the mexico's president denies us allegations that his country serve as a base for russian intelligence agent. ah, my kathy, my direct my studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. let's start by recapping the main recent events in the war in ukraine. russia's defense ministry has released new footage of what they say is the destruction of ukrainian armored vehicles. in total, russia says it has eliminated more than $3000.00 pieces of ukrainian military equipment, including drones, tanks and artillery systems. meanwhile,

across the atlantic and canada prime minister just an trudeau has warned that the western sanctions against russia will affect the lives of canadian citizens. and russia's top diplomat has arrived in china to meet with his counterpart there for the 1st time since the war ruptured in ukraine. russia says it has received a draft agreement, said, could see ukraine become a non aligned, neutral country as moscow considers the proposal reportedly headed over by the ukranian delegation during the latest round of peace talks. russia in turn, has agreed to drastically de escalate its military operation. near kiff that he and finishing a decision was made to radically reduce military activity and the key of in churney cough direction sitting in the school. we proceed from the fact that key of will take the relevant key decisions and that conditions must be created for further normal work. as we just heard, russia has agreed to significantly reduce its military offensive into parts of ukraine. and on top of that,

the russian delegation has also said that it's received written guarantees from ukraine that the country is committed to being a neutral country, and that it's going to stay away from nuclear weapons. on the other hand, we also heard from the ukrainian delegation that they say they've put forward a concrete plan for security guarantees that will involve a number of countries including some in the un security council to enforce that. and we also heard from the head of the russian delegation, who said that on a meeting may be possible soon between the countries of both russia and ukraine. this is something that ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has long said. he wanted to see happen. all that needs to happen for this to take place is for the foreign ministers of both countries to sign their initials on a piece deal. so, so what if we have agreed and are proposing a solution according to which a meeting of the heads of state is possible simultaneously with the initial thing of a treaty by foreign ministers? especially as meanwhile,

it is possible to discuss political details the night before these talk started to take place the western media was added again, spreading hysterical unconfirmed claims. these fake stories accused russian, a, quote, quote unquote hard liners from poor, for poisoning, a number of people that were connected to these negotiations earlier this month. one of the main victims of this fantasy was russian billionaire, raman abramoff ich, and this guy actually was caught on camera today at the negotiations, looking fine and healthy. i even saw him, he walked right by me and he did indeed look healthy. so i, at least bbc did put a issue in apology for what it's called a mistake, but moscow considers this just one episode in a larger information war. it's a chicken for months on the right. this is part of the information campaign, part of the information war. it doesn't correspond to reality. they are in istanbul now. and this is part of the war and you need to carefully filter the information.

so the story of moscow trying to poison its own people on its negotiating team fell flat. but here is a real story for you. a dennis korea was actually on ukraine's delegation until the ukrainian secret police killed him. and the reasoning they were given that they gave for that they said that he was accused of treason, even though no evidence was given for that and no trial was held. so it's certainly as ironic that the western media are making up stories like that. when this is something that actually happened, journalist and author martin summers says it is telling that mainstream media is going into a frenzy over what he says is implausible. russian poisoning claims, but are practically silent when ukrainian forces are alleged to have horrifically murdered. one of their own peace negotiators losing their great deliverance. this has been denied by the ukrainian solid for example. but of course, a very significant development is the fascination of are curious some 2 weeks ago, which was definitely did happen on the course is hardly been mentioned at all in

western media. well, don't forget an awful lot of money spent taxpayers money and, and also corporate lobbying to try and stare events in the west. and this whole idea of information warfare is itself questionable. i mean, it should be the case that journalists should basically abide by the basic principles of journalism, which is, you don't tell miss miss truce, and the idea that this should be any kind of information war is wrong. meanwhile, russians military says it has completed its initial objectives in ukraine and cannot focus on the dumbass. this is according to russia's defense minister, who recently held a press conference for the 1st time in weeks more that his art, his pulse here. the washing defense minister said that the ukrainian army had been significantly damaged. he said that the air force and their defense systems had been to, quote, practically destroyed, giving the russians

a superiority. at the same time, he said that the naval forces to, quote, had, ceased to exist. as for the ground forces, the assault forces, he said that they faced significant losses. the minister went on to say that this operation would continue until russia had achieved on a subjective and it was being conducted in stages. fill them with some is generally speaking, the primary objectives of the 1st stage have been accomplished with the combat potential of the ukrainian armed forces has been significantly degraded, which allows us to focus on the main object. the liberation of don norman is to say that moscow continues to follow the statements by individual nato countries as to supplying a craft and a defense system to ukraine. and he said that should this materialize at that point, moscow would make a decision in terms of how to adequately respond. he again criticized western

countries for getting involved in this conflict to time because that produces up the we considered the position of western countries which is supplying lead to weapons ukraine to be irresponsible. the uncontrolled distribution of these weapons to the population and mercenaries is only aggravating the situation and could eventually pose a threat to europeans themselves and corrosion, talking about most. and the minister said that in the past 2 weeks alone, some 600 mercenaries had been killed. and that more than 500 had left ukraine, presumably to go back to the home countries. he also referenced the number of conscripted soldiers here in russia, saying that conscription levels this year were lower than they had been in the past . and that note, newly recruited soldiers were being sent to ukraine. former pentagon analyst, michael maloof, says that western media viewers are only being shown one side of the story in

ukraine. it tells me that they fear that russia feels, it has the military objective and has accomplished its military goal in the west, we're here in just the opposite. we're hearing that russians are, are stalemated, we have suffered terrific losses. so we were only getting one side of the story, but it's refreshing to hear the assessment of the military chief on the russian side. give the russian analysis when you're arming your entire population like that with assault weapons and military style weapons. ah, it can be, it can create a condition of insurgency if you will, that that could occur and, and, and actually pick, continue to prolong conflict because of the killings that would, that would,

that would occur on both sides. if they are potentially used in enough offensive fashion, then that becomes and that will mean an implied native involvement. and that could spark even greater hostility and maybe an extension into the nato countries themselves. this is something i know a number of nato countries do not want multiple explosions, have a ruptured in the south western russian city of belgrade, near the ukrainian border. the regional governor confirmed it in a statement. news report said that the blast occurred at ammunition depot. no casualties have been declared, emergency personnel have been working at the scene and an investigation is currently under way and in the coastal city of variable in the done yet people's republic. public new footage shows massive destruction from intense fighting with

devastated buildings and cars throughout the city. russia claims that it has taken over most of mario pool, but st. battles are continuing as ukrainian soldiers and reported neo nazi groups still remain in the city. ukrainian children are seemingly filmed, playing war game, stressing up as nationalist fighters carrying replica weapons and using nationalist symbols and signs. they're also seen checking cars for russians by asking everyone for a code word right up front of me, follow the mason on there because it almost was putting new mark so, but i don't want to think it was in the kids are asking a code word which is said differently in the ukrainian or russian languages. and

such cases are not the only reported manifestation of national sentiment among ukrainian children training them to fight against russians using nationalist symbols and rhetoric. then that of to support a houston, what all's facility felicia was supposed to go on to jerome and monday was the moment with this more than a well this, we discussed the issue with a clinical psychologist, 2 things. it's natural for kids to copy the adults around them. at this age, children are very much like sponges. they're learning everything they're learning how to speak, their learning, what their name is. everything that they're learning about, their identity is coming to them through the adults in their life. so at this very young, tender, vulnerable aids,

they could be very impressionable as far as learning and understanding who is an enemy, who is a friend, who is a pho children, do use play as a way to cope with stress or to feel power fall when they are feeling scared, so for many children, even acting out in a playful way, scenes about war or conflicts can be a way of coping or feeling powerful during extreme stressors. a senior u. s. military official has said that there are more russian spies in mexico than anywhere else in the world. general glen van hurk, head of the u. s. northern command made the claim to a senate committee. i would point out that those 2 largest portion of the g r u members in the world is in mexico right now. those are russian intelligence personnel. and they keep an eye very closely on their opportunities to have

influence on us opportunities and access. mexico's president has brushed off the allegations and emphasized that his country is, quote, not a colony of russia, china or the united states. britain, rumson, mexico is a free, independent sovereign country. it should be known more and more because sometimes it seems that it is not understood enough. we have to send them telegrams, warning them that mexico was not a colony of any foreign country. that mexico is a free, independent sovereign country, that we are not a colony of russia, neither from china, nor from the united states. recently, just a day after the russian ambassador gave a speech to mexican lawmakers about the newly inaugurated mexico, russia, a friendship committee, the u. s a master lashed out saying, such a close ties between mexico, russia, good quote. never happened. we heard from an american political cartoonist who says the us will try to prevent such

a deep ties with russia because washington wants to control mexico. on top of that, just it is the fact that the united states is, is talking out of 2 sides of their mouths that they want to control canada, mexico, the entire western hemisphere through the monroe doctrine. look at what happened back in the early 1960 s during the cuban missile crisis. the united states did it, you know, threatened to invade cuba. it sent anti castro. cubans right wingers to go and try to overthrow the government of cuba at the time because cuba was too close to what was then the soviet union. but you know, they, they don't understand why a country like russia might not want an enemy allied military alliance right on their border. russia says that o s. c, e vehicles are used in ukraine to transport western arms,

saying certain instances have been uncovered by russian troops in the country. this substantial allegation was made in a recent un security council meeting ortiz kellum up and comments. the un security council meeting was convened. the 15 member by that leads the united nations assembled to discuss a resolution regarding the humanitarian situation in ukraine as the fighting goes on and negotiation have begun. now at this point, when the meeting began, we heard from different countries who spoke of the states and its allies, highlighted the humanitarian situation in ukraine. the problems facing refugees are the plight of civilians and blamed russia so long as the siege. civilians are unable to get to safety. this humanitarian crisis will only get worse in ukraine for the russian people and around the world. russia

must abide by its obligations under international humanitarian law on the protection of civilians, including those who are fleeing conflict and those who are providing humanitarian assistance. i regret to say that as of now, russia demonstrates no willingness to give up the strategy of deliberate aggravation of the humanitarian situation on the ground. there is a clear nexus between the heart security, the humanitarian situation, and food security with regard to the rational against ukraine. we then heard the russian representative who chimed in to give the other side of the story, pointing out, among other things that russian prisoners of war are being horrifically abused. and this abuse is not being concealed but rather broadcast on social media and widely available. yet there does not seem to be any condemnation from western leaders. so them me shame taking into account the videos posted by the ukranian nazis on the

internet with extremely cruel treatment of captured russian soldiers. have you seen these shots? in addition to that, he pointed out that russia does want to negotiate and resolve this situation. and that repeatedly russia has brought similar resolutions before the united nations calling for humanitarian corridors and protection of civilians. and these same countries that now rallied around this resolution ignored those resolutions put forward by russia lose the colleagues. it's hard not to be struck by your inconsistency last wednesday. most of you rejected our draft, humanitarian resolution of the security council binding on all our countries with a specific list of steps to be taken to unblock the work of humanitarian agencies. now we heard from other countries around the world, china expressed its desire to see the situation de escalate. and then there was a little bit of an additional exchange between the us representative and the

russian representative close to the closing of the meeting. and the u. s. representative took the floor to invoke the late madeline albright former us secretary of state who had died to call out russia for daring to highlight the role of nazis in the ukrainian crisis and to morally condemn russia for the intervention that which point. another representative of russia took the floor and pointed out that facts are facts. there are indeed nazi collaborators being worshiped and admired by the ukranian regime, step on the dera, among others, there are fascist fighting forces that where nazi insignia among the ukrainian forces and these forces that are building up this ukranian ultra nationalism and admiring collaborators with the nazis had been widely condemn, not just by russia, but by poland, individuals in poland and others. so at that point, the meeting did ultimately conclude the resolution put forward by the united states

regarding the humanitarian situation in ukraine and placing the blame on russia did not pass. russia spoke up about how it is concerned about the plight of civilians. and it does want the crisis to and there was agreement among all parties that food and medical supplies needed to get to those who are in danger. and that there was a need to make sure that civilians had safe passage out of the conflict. the differences between the countries represented on the security council, and in particular, the permanent members was about who is to blame. whereas it seems denied states. britain and its allies wanted to squarely blame russia for the situation as well as for the global economic fall out. whereas russia pointed out that in reality, nato is responsible for the crisis in ukraine up to the point that russia has had to intervene. there was optimism expressed by all parties about negotiations in the hope that some kind of ceasefire could lead to

a conclusion of hostilities in the country. and that was really what took place at the un security council meeting. the economic fall out from western sanctions against russia is now spreading to more countries and continents. consumers across europe and africa are now bearing the brunt of the backlash made to soaring food and fuel prices. now, thousands of truck drivers have formed roadblocks in madrid, calling for the resignation of spain, transport minister over skyrocketing fuel prices. it's the latest development of protest in the spanish capital over the past 2 weeks, and i cannot a backlash over western sanctions against russian. meanwhile, the chairman of the french energy regulatory commission has urged residents to conserve electricity and gas due to a risk of supply disruptions. we must conserve gas and electricity in france right now. otherwise things could go wrong. next winter. it's 1900 degrees celsius in my

home. i put on to sweaters. i only heat the rooms that i live in. i don't know what else to do. i'm used to this. i don't see what more i can do. i guess of course you have to cut back and that's it. you have to reduce everything to reduce your expenses for water and pay attention to everything right now. we'll have to get used to it. so can you see sense if i'm particularly concerned about the industry, about agriculture? because if we have a harsh winter in france, it'll postpone a lot of things, especially the efforts that we're ready to make. there are limits. we'll see. it's ultimately a matter of the collective conscience. i live alone, so it's easy for a family, it's much more difficult. the italian economy has also been hit hard farmers say that they are on the verge of bankruptcy and magically rising costs. they are afraid their supplies might come to an end class could be vested in the key. i know several companies that will be forced to close because of the very difficult

economic situation and others that when they faced the end of their supplies, we'll have to do the math and think about whether to continue their production or face closure. the main problem, since the outbreak of the war has been the increase in the cost of raw materials, particularly cornyn saw the energy costs have doubled. the boomerang effect of economic sanctions is now being felt not only in europe, but on the african continent as well. can yet has raised diesel and petrol prices by 5 kenyan shillings in historic high. the move is expected to significantly increase the cost of living in the east african country, where the majority of household rely on kerosene and petroleum gas for cooking. here's what some locals have been saying. i have come from various places all over this town looking for fuel. we have moved all around a lot. i am even forced to push my motor bike. so that was if this motor bike, i got it on loan. i still have to pay for it. now, you know, i have not earned any money all day. i have not found any work and there's no fuel

in town. i got the price started at $1.00 o, 6 canyon shillings, and just keeps going up. i mean, it's now more than $145.00 shillings. we've been having a big problem here in nairobi with fuel. i just arrived here at the petrol station . there is no fuel left and the price is very high. according to experts, many of the products used to make petrol and diesel come from russia and ukraine. is that so all because there is war there. we're having these problems over here making fuel prices shoot up and also creating a supply shortage. i have traveled all the way from the city of caps a bit and i'm trying to get fuel for my car like it, it has become a challenge because we don't know what is happening last week last week we had the same problem. we don't know if the problem is also in other cities or if it's only like this year in nairobi, my mother, i am forced to leave my car here. now i don't see anything that i can do with it. we heard from a research fellow at the university of hamburg, who thinks that it's up to the people of europe, to persuade their government to stop handicapping their own economies. american

imperialism is once again showing an ugly face, and it's at the most ugly when you look at african nations that are now really struggling and in the future with the lack of tranquilizers. for example, the food situation there will only get worse. yes. when we are seeing at the truck, i protest, for example, those are the 1st signs of people saying no to the politicians because they take their own interest into their own hans and go to the streets. and if this continues, if we see more protests throughout europe, then i believe that your full and p politicians will grow a spine and talk to buy them a different way and they will tell them stop. we must stop this economic destruction and who must save the economic future of our continent. all right, that is for me this hour, i will be back, let's say in 34 minutes with another full infrastructure news here with our

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ah. hello and welcome to cross hawk were all things considered? i'm peter lavelle is peace at hand, russia ukraine, negotiations to end the conflict appear to be a real possibility. compromise seems to be prevailing. will this impact the west offensive against russia? i cross sucking the conflict in ukraine. i'm joined by my guess why it read in washington. he's a journalist with sputnik news in charlottesville. we have david swanson. he is the executive director of world beyond war dot org and in pittsburgh we have dan kabbalah. he is a professor of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia or a gentleman cross sack rules. in fact, that means he can jump in any time he won, and i always appreciate why it let me go to you. i mean, i originally titled this program time to de escalate in light of the i