a a with an r t crew survives a sniper ambush, while reporting from the streets of war torn city of mario bull. this road, just before this building is also covered by you, crated with to watch shorted us. rushes top diplomat meets with his counterpart in india as the countries strengthen their relations. but britain's foreign secretary has also traveled to india in a reported effort to derail the talks. germany chancellor pledges to end e dependence on russian gas by the end of this year. brushing off prudence warning the cutting supply could plunge the block into recession. and we look at how

middle eastern powers are switching focused from the us to china as they pursue better business deal with broadcasting from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. glad to have you with us. now, a massive blaze has erupted at a fuel depot in the russian city of belgrade, near the ukrainian border, injuring to employees. their local authorities say the fire was the result of an air strike by ukrainian military helicopters. nearby residential buildings are being evacuated, emergency workers are at the scene, trying to extinguish the flames. they say that there is a threat that the fire will spread further. an investigation is currently underway . ukraine's president zaleski has issued sharp condemnation against the

you for not cutting off a business ties with russia. he is also insisted that you admit ukraine as a member state and demanded more supplies of weaponry. nations, e r, defenders deserve to receive from europe for the freedom of which they are fighting the weaponry that will definitely stop russia's offensive. and therefore, the onset of tyranny when we're talking about aircraft tanks, artillery systems, anti ship weapons, we are talking about what is really needed and what the countries of the european union, the countries of nato have our defenders deserve the european companies. finally, stop making money together with those who are trying to destroy us. our defenders deserve not to think about the criteria, but to know that ukraine will become a member of the european union because if they lose, if we lose mar uber in other ukrainian cities, there will be no strong european union anymore. these drone images show the devastation in marble where

a local residents have been struggling to evacuate amid the ongoing fighting. meanwhile, archie is what guys you have reports on what's been happening in the streets. through the streets, said roads of mary. you both are fraught with danger. here at the scene to section the snipers, bullets wheezed by meters from us. and then again, this is the eastern side of murray. you book city the sight of vicious battles just days ago, these are chechen fights as they commanded to leap has let us go closer to the front lot, barely 500 to so meters that way west of us ha,

ukrainian military positions. but of course, predominantly nationalist battalions such as as of the fighting here was, was absolutely ferocious as you can perhaps tell a time crowd yesterday impacted that building over there. but again, everywhere here are bodies of ukrainian fights as nationalists to which haven't been yet removed. devastated neighborhoods shops, apartment buildings, offices, and houses stretch for miles. no structure here was sped in the fighting in the midst the rubble of countless bodies of ukrainian nationalists surrounded by bullet casings and shrapnel. this is unfortunately it. this is as fuzz as we go. this is right on the edge of the front lombard, this wall. everything's covered by ukrainian stipends from as of steel,

the factory that's spots a huge area of the city. that is where you put in forces and stop as a still concentrated we have had enough of was for the day. so basically, just just the edge of these building is it the other direction, the chechen farthest would be what, what kind enough kind enough to less exports us to what you are. a lot of these building, for example, liberated just yesterday there was a lot of people, many people, pigeon as women, children hiding in the basement and the basement. unfortunately, access to the building for the basement is on the other side of this building that ruins structure in the distance is the last of what is controlled by russian forces by chechen fights as here. unfortunately, the role the pre leased building and that building is also covered by ukrainian snipers fighter russian fight earlier today was killed while attempting to cross.

they still haven't been able to get the body out. the fight is here, knew what urban combat, eas, few things in our world are worse than this. lack of autonomy don't just go for, we're moving ahead without losses. sure. we're working very efficiently. the civilians that we liberated, they kiss us, they rejoice, and they say thank you says that there are elderly men, women, we evacuate people every day and give them food i did. and in these hell, barely a minutes walk away from the front lines haggard. couple sift through the wreckage horses. hey russert. they said we're in a bad state. we'll. we've been living in the basement since march 10th. sometimes we stick our heads out, but our building was on fire. it took a day to put out the blaze on the 1st floor. got with everything was destroyed, unconscious did it. for us, it was time to go,

which meant running the gauntlet in reverse. here we are again. this road just before this building is also covered by ukrainian cycle who has now twice twice sorted us built on the new thing. we've got a wave. see how sulaiman 1st and then follow him. ah, the battle here will rage hottest and likely end at the massive as of iron and steel works complex, which is the economic heart of the city. but that's a battle for another day. more i'd get the of r t for mario bull, tanya, task remaining residence in mario bal are on edge as they try to cope with food and

medicine shortages. if i have been in the basement for 21 days and ask, how long do you think we've been there? most of the cities that pre war, population of half a 1000000 people are believed to have fled, but some still remain trapped. him at the intense fighting children, the elderly and other vulnerable individuals have been trying to receive deliveries of food medicine and water. there are burned out buildings and hungry residents scrambling to get food on the streets. many haven't left their basement shelters in quite some time. my apartment is here. we have a bomb shelter. down here in the basement. there's still no humanitarian aid here. those supplies have gone elsewhere. we've had something but the food is already running out. i have a child in the basement. my mother in law's, in the basement and my wife is right here. someone took the wheels off my car on

the 2nd night after this started and we were unable to leave a major force opposing the russian military's advance on marble is a reputed neo nazi group. the as a battalion, which western media outlets have glorified as freedom fighters. but before the conflict, that group had been widely condemned to internationally sanctioned by the u. s. and even banned from social media are teased on quarter reports. like a chameleon, it changes colors from a group of neo nazis to freedom fighters with ease. it's the as off battalion, at least the way the western media portrays it back in 2014 the times. described as off as a group formed by white supremacists. now it's headlines feature a quote from the organization claiming they're fighting the real nazis as of deeds though. tell a different story though. it's useless. sheila gruesome, milton host, who you originally reason for people with eyes and ears. there's no doubt about who

these people really are. but for the western media, it doesn't matter if an armed group believes in genocide or is guided by some insane ideas. if they're fighting washington's enemies, it seems like no expense will be spared to make them look like angels. look at all the terrorists. western outlets have either tried to look tones down or supported in the past. i will mohammed al gilani is a former member of both al qaeda and isis the same man that p b. s gave a platform to as the leader of the most dominant armed anti government group and syria. even osama bin ladin was hailed as an anti soviet freedom fighter by the western media for many years. the same man who is responsible for this. ah ah, we can go as far back as 922 when the western media literally glorified at off hitler for as long as he was only talking smack on juice and communists. of course,

he was hailed as a new popular idol, the anti red. it just goes to show as long as other guys are paying the price for these people's actions, the western media will sing their praises. and right now it's as of in the spotlight. and right now the a's of battalion is ha, we like them there, and we want to know more. we like it, they're patriotic, they're standing up to burden. ah, russia's top diplomat is to meet with his counterpart in india today, amid reports that britain's foreign secretary has also traveled there to convince the indian government to reduce its type with russia were joined by local journalists. wrong to a ron. tell us what's expected from these diplomatic talks. i believe, you know, these docs come by later docs come on the bag, dump off to important, but it's by the us deputy national security adviser delete saying who is also in

america. and also you can afford to be elizabeth ross and our expert, as we can understand the development over the past 48 hours in the us seems to be very cautious than despite pressure from both the us and you get they do not want to see the dies with russia as far as is concerned. and if you look at the shipment off one and mr. jackson. but yes, the at the joint visit at a joint summit. e and you get one ticket to be present together. you get that whatever it takes to do, continue with it, bought from russia as far as the opposite emanation. i've done an oil done despite the sort of a bid trek, which is coming from both us and you get and this visit,

i believe by the russian. mr. is. it's also important reason because seems to have to buy decision not to not to bought into the, the directed by the us and you and i also have a reason to believe the meeting in the woman has handled the diplomatic patient. it's white evident that they do not want to sort of ego very belligerent stand on the statement issued by either the president, mr. biden. all for that matter. busy also that you get prime minister, i believe that the diplomatic relation between russia and india continue as they were before considering that russia has be one of the biggest supporters for the emission. and also i believe that one of the largest factory, which is coming up in india in july, and i see it all there. but there's there the,

where the prime minister comes from the parameters to get, get elected by missed up one of the famous back piece, which is developing the making up on that emission isn't a joint venture with the russian manufacturer. and then some sort of development happens, i believe that the dies must you and because that i, i gather from my own sources that is not going to be done on, on any of these issues. local journalists, ron, do a reporting from new delhi, thanks for that. presented pakistan's prime minister iran con, has accused us of orchestrating a plot to oust him from power art. we received a message on march 7th or march 8th from america. i'm from abroad and actually i won't name the country and we got that kind of message. and was sent to an independent country amounts to an attack on the prime minister in an attack on our

nation. i message said essentially that if i remain prime minister while he will not have good relations with pakistan and the country will face difficulties, con, revealed the alleged threat letter amid mass protests that accused him of perpetuating corruption and managing the economy. the political opposition is insisting on a vote of no confidence initially planned for thursday, but now postponed to sunday. the prime minister has blamed the political turmoil on outside influences. thing the opposition is being manipulated by foreign powers in response to his close ties with russia. u. s. has rejected those claims. he are closely following developments in pakistan. we respect, we support pakistan's constitutional process and the rule of law. but when it comes to those allegations, there is no truth to them. in what appeared to be a slip of tongue, he named the u. s. as the country behind the threat. we heard from a pakistani journalist who says that the u. s. is meddling in the asian countries

politics in an effort to enact regime change. the park st prime, mr. was adjusting the country live on national media. and he has category clearly stated that he will not allow this conspiracy against him or against the country to succeed in the controversy. is that why pakistan did not condemn the military action in ukraine? and brian, mister has stated at them that buckets on has a nuclear policy and party found doesn't believe in was it was peaceful resolution of all issues. so the message to the american side was that, that we will not condemn or we will appreciate anything on your directive. and now it is a matter of official conformation, also data. brenda, same non con, government was, can really message by us that you should not with the ratio. so everything which is

appearing now in park inside the politics is that data who us intervention park is on for regime change. as america pushes its allies to punish russia and impose more sanctions on it, middle eastern powers have started to turn their back on the us in favor of better economic deals with china ortiz, rachel blevins. as the story, the political world is fast pace. you can lose an ally almost as quickly as you can, gain one, head for washington allies in the middle east. they are losing patience. take saudi arabia, for example. us saudi relations, the back 70 years, their brothers in arm quite literally and then with the u. s. supplying the saudis, with hundreds of billions of dollars and weapons, the alliance has led to the kingdom because they want to be us armies, most strategic phases. and they've also been strategic allies in the energy sector, but they might be changing. it is the biden administration's determination to

resurrect the iran nuclear deal that has most convinced saudis that america is determined to dismantle the regional order that it created. no matter what demons it may unleash. while saudi arabia has become frustrated by the many contradictions that come with american policy, china is presenting a path that is rather straightforward. beijing is offering riata, simple deal. so as your oil and you can have access to whatever military equipment you want from our catalog in return, help us to stabilize the global energy market. in other words, china is offering a deal that appears very similar to the one shared by the u. s. and saudi arabia for decades, but the kingdom hasn't been you bond, the president bite it, especially after comments he made when he was campaigning for office. and which is that when he was president, he would force the saudis to pay and make them the pariah that they are. well that doesn't seem to be, were by them is actually doing now that he's an office, but his policies have a concern for saudi arabia as he works to bring one of their main rivals back to

the table the washington jeffery ship to hit moscow where her new cut off their oil supply for the rest of the world has pushed the us to look into working with countries. it currently has your sanctions on such as that is where a lot of hand of course are wrong. and that would mean a resurrection of the iran nuclear deal, leaving saudi arabia, which is still actively a war with the iranian back. goofy is not happy. meanwhile, another one of washington's closes allies in the region who is currently feeling betrayed. is israel at the same time, israel will do anything we believe is needed to stop the random nuclear prob program. anything from our point of view of the random threat is not theoretical. the rain is wants to destroy israel. they will not succeed. we will not let, despite the recent summit in israel, where secretary of de antony blinking that with top arab diplomats and tried to reassure that washington is still their protector. it appears that the american

spell has been broken because despite the by an administration continued requests to boost oil offered him is during prices. the message from saudi arabia is clear. we won't let you drag us into your political games. i know how we manage to compartmentalize political differences from which is good for the coven. good, because common good to prove us. as a result, israel has shown caution when it comes to following washington's lead in prime minister bennett has traded carefully on the topic of ukraine, expressing his solidarity with the country, but not issuing an outright condemnation of russia. instead, he's taken a neutral stance, which is seen him involved in mediation, sending humanitarian aid and taking in refugees. but that's not good enough for the hawks in washington who, speaking the language of weapons and want to know why israel isn't sending any to

ukraine. israel's reaction to ukraine will have bearing on future aid from the u. s . to israel pay it forward. well, even with the harsh, where is israel is not budging, at least for now. and it's also following saudi arabia by increasing its economic ties to china. as it benefits from the belt of initiative. so is this just the beginning of countries turning to a world power like china, which is seen as offering stability in comparison to washington's turbulent and could the tide returning even for the closest and u. s. allies in washington, rachel blevins are g germany. chancellor sholtes has pledged his country will phase out russian, coal and gas this year as he laid out a plan for the you to drastically cut its reliance on russian fuel, vandalism, indigo, discuss at 1st thing up. awesome. if we will need a little longer regarding gas, we are working very hard to create new infrastructure to be able to transport gas

and pump it into the european network and from ports on the northern germany coast . this will be beneficial not only to us, but to many other countries. perhaps it will also send a last message to the russian president than an essential basis of his economic justice models disappearance by putting has said that countries that sanction moscow will need to pay for russian gas applies in rubles through an account at a russian bank. and threatened to sever contracts, if those payments aren't made immediately put and warned that a gas shortage in the you could in fight a recession and caused mass unemployment ratio. the us will try to capitalize on the current global and stability by attempting to move europe over to expensive american liquefied gas as a result, europeans and not only forced to fork out more, but to also undermine the competitiveness of their companies with their own hands by removing them from the global market to europe, this means large scale the industrialization, the loss of millions of jobs,

and addressed decline in the standard of living of its citizens. this is the price, the ruling western elite are offering to pay people for their ambitions. for the economic war they're trying to unleash against russia or haven't leashed. european gas futures have sorted to about $1450.00 per 1000 cubic meters falling and put in a statement about rouble payments. germany is already preparing for a potential gas shortage, implementing an early warning face of an emergency plan. that's mid speculation that the use biggest economy could slide into recession due to skyrocketing energy costs force and companies to cut back production. meanwhile, in neighboring austria, chancellor ne hummer insists that enduring the economic impact is nothing compared to what is happening in ukraine if you want on how many men and in seen, sanctions only make sense if they are imposed in such a way that we hit the state they are supposed to hit and do not weaken the state that issues the sanctions on the sand, but the pain that the austrian economy is suffering as

a result of the sanctions against russia is nothing compared to the pain that ukraine is suffering at the moment. austria, just like germany, has acted an emergency plan to secure gas supplies. amid rising fears that russia may cut off supplies. if western countries refused to make payments in roubles, we heard from former austrian foreign minister, a current denial, who says that a reduction in gas applies would hurt european industries. the time the most european union, harrison berlin have already stated, no, we will continue. the currency steps, we have concluded the contracts in, but it remains to be seen. what will then happen whether this will lead to either an embargo by the customers saying we are, we will not allow, laid our own sanctioning machine, or whether there will be a supply stove gas supplies. a 1st and foremost for the industry and households come next about it's all about natural gas supply for the manufacturing. and that

goes from fertilizer petrochemical industry in to the automotive industry, which is the most important industrial bronchial germany exporting industry . so without natural gas supply, it's not only about freezing or not freezing, as some voices have been blaming over the last few weeks. it's really about how can the industrial manufacturing still be done? headlines about skyrocketing gas prices have been plastered across the british press, accusing vladimir putin of black mailing western powers into paying for russian gas in rubles instead of euros in dollars. it seems that the british press is forgetting that you k. they're the ones that have long been trying to phase out supplies of russian fuel. russia,

defense ministry has released documents the claim to prove hunter biden. his involvement in alleged ukrainian bio labs or to kill them up and has more. the russian defense mastery says they have a smoking, gun, email correspondence, showing that the u. s. defense threat reduction agency and pentagon contractors in ukraine worked with hunter bite and present joe biden, son in financing, bio labs. the son of the u. s. president allegedly secured funds for metal iota and black and vetch. the contents of the latter show the hunter bought and played an important role in creating a financial opportunity. pathogen work in ukraine to publish correspondence. in the case of the true goals of the pentagon and ukraine are far from scientific and one of the letters the vice president of method by alter, noticed that the company's activities will be a that ensuring quote, the cultural and economic independence of ukraine from russia,

which is rather strange for biotechnology company. the russian parliament is inviting joe biden and u. s. under secretary for political affairs, victoria newland, to be part of their investigation. not sure, she earlier the chairman of the state duma instructed our international committee to begin the procedure of preparing an invitation for explanations from us. officials sees a mrs. newland and bite in junior, earlier we heard from the russian defense mastery that rosemont seneca hunter, biden's investment firm, had been involved along with george soros open society institute, and financing biological research facilities and ukraine. moscow says these labs are involved in developing bio weapons and one of these labs was even involved in research related to nuclear weapons. washington and kia have both denied that these labs served any military purpose and after mrs. new and mentioned them in congressional testimony, u. s. media has done everything possible to shut down any mention of their

existence as for a 100 bite and his laptop created a scandal during the 2020 elections. but mainstream media shut down any mention of it saying it was russian. this information and donald trump was attacked just for bringing it up. why did the mayor of moscow his wife give the biden's most of them 3 and a half $1000000.00 and that's a lot of money. she gave me 3 and a half $1000000.00. so now i would think, put, who would know the answer to that? i think you should really should. i think we should know that answer. what kind of american let alone an ex president thinks that this is the right time to enter into a scheme with vladimir putin and brag about his connections to vladimir putin. there is only one, and it's donald trump. now the washington post in the new york times both admit it was real. they are back tracking and acknowledging hidden truth cnn, the federal investigation into hunter biden's crooked business dealings as

a very real, very substantial investigation of potentially serious federal crimes. there is a realistic chance this could result in federal charges. i think it's as bogus as it was before. trump's appeal to russian president vladimir putin to find information about biden as despicable u. s. media is now trying to retail and re interpret a story they previously claimed was false. meanwhile, russia is raising very serious concerns about bio labs. and at the same time, many are optimistic hoping that negotiations can brain and the hostility and ukraine. we certainly live in a world of free flowing wild information with different forces scrambling to try and control it. caleb martin, r t new york. that does it for me this hour, stay with us. throughout the days we have more news and commentary about the war in ukraine. this is archie internet. ah

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