for a, a days off battalion that is said to be nazi affiliated organization, operating as a militia in your country. you know, they are what they are. they are what they are. that's the ukrainian president's response to the far right. as of the time, the alleged atrocities with comes as human rights watch or just an investigation into ledger torture of russian soldiers by the ukrainian military also had a, an angry crowd booth german chancellor of shoulds during his speech in the city of ethan. that as a german politician to ask people to reduce energy use a mid soaring crisis following anti russian sanctions,

we get reaction on the streets that simply outrageous as usual. i don't know what to say to that outrageous, everybody should resign. now the way things are going with ukraine and stuff is not so nice view and condemned to britain that censorship of russian media outlets including r t as the west launch is yet another volley of sanctions against moscow. ah, broadcasting lab direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. are now fighting continues in the danielle republic city of mario ball, which has been ravaged by intense battles for over a month. according to the city's mayor, there are still around 170000 people trapped in the city with no food, water,

or electricity of the russian defense ministry says that the u. s. has refused to help facilitate the humanitarian corridor from arguable claiming the organization isn't ready to help. red cross also paused evacuations as fighting in the city intensified and blamed a russian blockade for preventing humanitarian deliveries. russian officials also accused the ukrainian military of failing to carry out its obligations to open humanitarian corridors from marble and fed nationalist battalions continued to target the evacuation route. we heard from people who were trapped in the war, twin city. evelyn, my husband and i were in the basement. i stayed and he went out to feed the poppies . he didn't return for a long time. i began to shout, he didn't answer, so i followed him. i saw that he was covered in blood. his arm was broken, he had severe blood loss, a young guy came to help. he cut off pieces of key and that had come off my husband's head. the showing was so strong,

i myself was covered in charge of glass. soon i want the gunfire to stop. it is so scary. 3 though the situation in mario police. they should constantly. i had to remove the car from my broken leg to pull people out of the rubble of the burn dollars building. and after all that i had complications and need a surgery. thing god, i managed to get some people out of the city. is shocking admission from the ukranian president about the far right. as a battalion, pressed by a fox news anchor, vladimir zalesky acknowledges the severity of the atrocities that they are accused of a soft battalion that is said to be nazi affiliated organisation, operating as a militia in your country said to be committing their own atrocities. adults was one of those many battalions, the key of what they are, what they are elsewhere in his interview, he said that the, as a battalion is fully embedded into the ukrainian military. he said that before joining some battalion members broke the law and were imprison. meanwhile,

human rights watch is calling on give to investigate, alleged torture of russian prisoners of war. this comes in response to the publication of footage on line claiming to be of that incident. the kremlin has slammed it yet has received mixed rhetoric from ukraine. a decision was taken to hand over captured russian troops to their mothers if they come to collect them in ukraine. unlike putin's fascists, we ukrainians are not waging war against mothers and their captured children with the brochures. not about to remind everyone that abusing prisoners of war is a will crime that does not carry amnesty on their international law and does not have an institute of limitation. we are

a european army over european country. we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. me the stage videos with inhuman treatments of russian prisoners of war by the ukrainian military are being distributed in order to discredit the defense forces of ukraine. i know that the service men of the cranium on force is strictly observed, international humanitarian law. we need proof in the military from the ukrainian side guilty. we will investigate them and take them to court. it is important that these types of videos and that any treatment that may happen be stopped immediately. ukraine complies with all the rules for the maintenance and treatment of prisoners of war. in accordance with the geneva convention,

that's where it was that someone tortured some. no single fact has been confirmed. these are movies that the russians themselves are making, and then spread in his fakes. ah, she has of italian r, a major force opposing the russian military advance on marble. and the narrative about them within western media has shifted dramatically since the war began. are used 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 all the deeds though. tell a different story the most you brought me in

and i'm trying a 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 toned 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 was responsible for this. ah, i,

we could go as far back as 1922 when the western media literally glorified ad 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. they're in, we want to know more. we like it, their patriotic, their stand it up to burden. a young woman that appeared on images showing what ukrainian officials claimed was a russian air strike on a mario poor maternity hospital has finally broken her silence. after almost a month since the incident took place, she claimed the building had been taken over by ukrainian military incidents sparked red concern in the un with the secretary general calling on the sides to

abstain from senseless violence. mario ple officials said the attack left 3 people killed in 17 wounded. moscow however insist that there were no civilians in the hospital. the woman in the photos shared by the media shed more light on the incident. you have a good fit about a normal woman, her and maternity hospital number 3 said that they were initially in maternity hospital number one, but the medical stuff told them that they needed to be evacuated because the military had to go there. since the building has solar panels, there has been no watch electricity in the city since march. the 2nd, the military turned out to be more important to them. so they moved the pregnant women to the only remaining maternity hospital when there was no electricity. there is only generated that talked only finance official non ventilator. the military did nothing to help us. once they even asked for food, they said that they hadn't eaten anything for 5 days. that there was no communication between the trips and they were not helped in any way. they took out

food. i'm sad that we would go far. sounds later on launched and non coverson was quite, there was no vaccination after lunch. we were talking when we had to shall go off instinctively through on the blanket. when we had the 2nd shell, the windows were broken, my face was luckily, but the angels were mine. a doctor said that everything would chance by itself, which could do after the 2nd explosion. the crowd started miss and i didn't see it, but it seems to me that many women were injured just them. i was pushed my stomach against the mouth, but i only have a small scratch. we were evacuated to the basement. there were already husbands of those pregnant women who were in the hospital called in supply witnesses. the 1st explosion founded in the distance. so people managed to escape inside meal, it was definitely not a ne, right, because no one had the planes neither those who went outside to know the women in labor. he can how but he had the plain even in a dream. the projectile came from somewhere. it didn't fall in the building itself,

but on the hospitals territory that was because trees were pretty cause bent out of which of the women's gleaning building was black. we're lucky that the project tiled in a flying town building because it simply remained without windows near procedure the. there were no more explosions, literally 10 minutes late, and a military came and said it was possible to have back a de, when did it, there was such an mothers with children. i saw a soldier in the hamlet and there to something in his hands and realised that he was taken photos. ask him nazi and he walked away. but later when women living the same reports and was there again life, he was asked not to take pictures, but he ignored deal classes. my to my husband sat, he saw the associated press accreditation. when the situation come down, i realize from the photos that the report is it, be it immediately after the explosion? ah, those more we can cross live to jennifer britain legal analyst, an anti terror expert. jennifer, nothing is clear through the fog of war. but if we break this down,

we now have eye witnesses say that the building of the maternity home had been taken over by the ukrainian military? ah, why would they choose such a location if this is the case and what he thinks going on here? well, this is a big deal because one of the main eye witnesses is reportedly has now come out even with video footage is the main woman who was picture the ukrainian influence or woman saying that it was in fact the ukrainian military that took that over. so a couple of things when i started my, when i started research into extremism, antibiotics, extremist elements in the middle east, specifically hamas, and, and some of these regions. one of the things that i studied and i found from in, for news outlets out of india out of multiple other international new sources, was jack some, a jihadists, as part of hamas, a known international terrorist organization, would set up shop,

would sit at military camps inside of preschools, residential areas of churches, hospitals, hospitals, was one of their key emo's. i mean, there were actual talking points. they would set up their either their weapons depot or their arms on either clearing out these hospitals or setting up inside of there. because the moment is really, technology would shoot a projectile or do something a defensively or against the military component. the media reports would immediately come out with a propaganda that israel has attack a hospital, israel's attack the preschool. i mean there was actually one indian journalist at one point on the back. and one of the intifada is that witnessed hamas set up something inside of a preschool and then quickly dissemble and go out after they fired a rocket out of there hoping for backfire. so, i'm bringing up the story, sean, because it reminds me of hearing about this hearing about the ukrainian military, or are these military factions, likely part of the aides all the time, or others that it took over an entire maternity ward that anthea will people leave?

and instead of using the hundreds of other buildings in different areas, told them specifically to move out of the maternity ward. and it was one of the largest explosive stories that saw for lack of a better term. that is one of the largest stories that we saw in many of these media outlets. the all russia blows up a maternity ward look at all these poor grieving women in these maturity, women, when in reality i mean from what we're hearing now from some eye witnesses, is that they were actually asked to leave. it was emptied out and cleared out to the military, can make it a base to me. and this is so reminiscent of what we saw from hamas up from other a terrorist organizations that it's the exact same type of thing. it's set up the situation. go to a building that is vulnerable either and need out our building, whether vulnerable people or medical needs and, and make sure that there is return fire or something there so that those stories can be against you. so the public narrative can be against you. to me,

this is extremely concerned specifically in a place as large as, as ukraine, where there are other buildings they could have set up at and where these women were forced to leave by the crating military. now jennifer, recently the ukranian president in his interview 2 fox news admitted alleged atrocities by the as of battalion. he added that the group is now a part of ukrainian armed forces. should people turn a blind eye to the activities of this battalion? i mean, why do you think that the fragment with this answer was later taken down by fox news in that interview? you know, it's unfortunate and thankfully there are some, there are some people that were able to capture that. i thought i think it was conservative tree out there, a couple other couple other outlets are able to capture the actual live stream of that. there's interview with president zalinski on where he discussed, acknowledging the is our battalion has been incorporated into ukraine now. so your 1st question talks about how can they be allowed to get away with that?

are we kind of turning a blind eye? the truth is, it was bipartisan, many democrats in u. s. congress. and he was congress several years ago that actually stated that the u. s needed to stop funding of terrorist or nazi groups in ukraine. and so they were actually talking about the ada battalion back then. this has been known to congress as a public record. if you were to actually have the time to look up congressional minutes or, or very old articles, i mean, this was something that has been known within the united states, within our actual elected leaders. yet now they are there. on the flip side in the narrative is that they are now the good guys. so i think this is concerning. there's been lots of research on is up battalion what they have done on to the people in the democracy in what they had done to ukrainians. in fact, it was the lindsey that was trying to drive them out of some of these regions and then kind of seems to have just thrown up his hands or given up. but he admitted, as you stated on fox news on a live stream, that in fact

a novice. now instead of being this kind of terrorist group that was attacking ukrainian citizens attacking the innocent people in different or undisputed territories and don't boss and all these other areas instead of trying to go against. and it almost seemed like zalinski was acknowledging that he's, he's given up and now they're incorporated as part of ukrainian military. so i think this is something that shouldn't be ignored by the international community. it's something that i think we should get a little more on because the ones we clearly ukraine's president crazy president was clearly not trying to hide this fact. he knows he can't hide the fact that he has been trying to calm them down to stop them from some of these attacks. and now he seems to have incorporated and into the military. why does this happening? what is changed? and is this really dangerous? because somebody has made the point the other day, and i think this is important. john, somebody made the point that no matter who you grow for no matter who you know, cnn or the mainstream media or the western medium us tells you who you should be.

routing for in this war, so to speak, p o w is that our tortured shot or abuse in any way is never okay. it is never ok. so regardless of the decide as or who the injured or with the who the victims are, who the torture victims are. we have to consider the peer w status must be adhered to in accordance with the geneva conventions and laws of war. and jennifer briefly, why do you think there has been such a you turn on the meters note of, of the as of battalion. i mean it's clear night and day from one to the other. they've completely flipside of you mentioned why a flipside because they because they think the rest of us are stupid. they think civilians are stupid. we've come to a point with most of the media, specifically in the united states where we have been, we have been so fabricated to believe one thing that they really don't think we're gonna research any of this. like i said, i'm using open source information, open source reports of from our actual congressional leaders from years past. but

they don't want us to ask questions. they don't want us to think for ourselves. the media wants us to believe a specific narrative and they think that we are stupid and until we start knowing that it's okay to ask questions to research for ourselves, to look into actual government public archives. we're continue, we're going to continue to be manipulated. so that's, that's the unfortunate truth of it, that they think we're stupid. they think we're not going to know it. and they think really the narrative changed to them how to go forward for whatever reason. do jennifer bruton legal analyst and i've heard her expert are supposed to have you on our team international. thanks. question more. would you be audition or in german chancellor. all of shots was heckled with cries lyre as an angry crowd boot germany's leader during his speech in the city of s. and the the incident happened at a rally to mark the beginning of the social democratic parties,

state election campaign. the chanting apparently began when the chancellor spoke about the ukrainian conflict and refugee crisis. european governments have faced growing discontent since the start of the conflict in ukraine and subsequent anti russian sanctions that have led to rising food and energy bills across the continent. authorities have taken the opportunity to give their citizens some advice on how to cope with the crisis. everyone is asking what can i do? you can do 2 things. ah, control your own and your teenager sat showers. and when you turn off that, what do you say take that putin. you can withstand 15 degrees in winter in a sweater. no one dies of it. and so i will say this, we must turn off pollutants, golden tap, stop the supply of gas and oil. so that europe gets a chance for freedom again. if possible, we should write a bike or take a bus or train instead of using cars. given the high energy prices and strong

dependence on russia, i can only advise you to do so. in one fell swoop, it would be possible to save a lot of energy. tell people in our hardship, germany is that parliament has promised to provide a 300 euro relief payment. however, the money will still be a subject to tax. meanwhile, the sum will be even smaller, but german officials are unlikely to feel the pinch as the chancellor and some ministers. wages are set to rise starting this month. we ask people on the streets what they make of their governments helping hand. oh, you do well from what they're saying, there's going to be tax on it. it's so stupid, given that it's been created for families that are not doing so well in need, the money. they have been hit hard here in berlin, where the cost of living is so high already. it's not a good situation. once i so i don't touch him talk well, that simply outrageous as usual. i don't know what to say to that outrageous,

really outrageous. some of yob, i love it is. oh it is that so? well, it's not members of parliament that need to worry about how they're going to get to work tomorrow. actually everybody should resign. now the way things are going with ukraine and stuff is not so nice to get that money with when he says it's at the 1st you country and guys prom client to completely stop russian gas imports. the countries president said the move was an example for other you members. lithuanian officials also noted the move away from russian supplies meant that the country was protected from a recent demand from russia to pay for gas in roubles. meanwhile, poland prime minister has admitted that you, sanctions on russia, aren't working after the rubel bounced back to pre war levels of the p. m. also accused brussels of failing in its goal of crippling rushes economy. some e leader is a treating the science as a smokescreen for their inaction. the sanctions are supposed to bring the grain piece, not to it, be easier of guilty conscience. the sanctions are supposed to stop working. if they

haven't, it means that they're not robust enough. rushes rubel currency has been strengthening in recent days after taking a hit amid a harsh new western sanctions imposed at the onset of the conflict in ukraine last month. while the exchange rate reached $120.00 roubles per u. s. dollar on march 11th. it now stands at around $83.00 roubles per dollar of e. u foreign policy chiefs, a former adviser, has spoken to. archie is going underground. allister crook, warned many europeans will find it hard to cope with the sanctions. its own leaders impose have on russia. you can watch the full version on our website r t dot com. in the meantime, here's a quick preview. it was only in the beginning of march. the french finance was saying our aim is to collapse the russian economy. and now one month later, we see in the financial press,

many commentators talking about this is beginning of the end of the global monitoring system. just showing the and russia together have the kind of infrastructural clout, to be able to save the world from global famine. russia is the key pin of all commodities, food resources, oil, gas, precious metals, everything comes from russia. europe cannot manage as it is. they cannot get gas from anywhere else that will substitute for russian. yes, that's just obvious. i don't see any sign that the europeans did any, gave any thought to the strategic consequences of what they were doing. some of the sanctions on russia have affected important areas of fertilizers, other things that are necessary in food production. certain gas is necessary

also. and people are going to feel a huge amount of pain. the costs of gas and electricity like can the you are going to go up 50 percent. they've gone up 50 percent. they'll probably go up another 100 percent before the end of this year. how people going to survive with this? the sanctions in many ways, europe as not sanction russia, it's sanctioning itself the the un secretary general spokesperson condemned britons. censorship of a russian media outlets including r t, suggesting that the measures violate quote, the right of journalists to do their work everywhere. that's after the british government vowed that russian news network r t would quote, not be able to find its way back on you. k televisions announcing a raft of new sanctions against russian individuals and entities. today, the u. k. government announced the sanctions against the number of 1st states

russian state media, including journalists, those sanctions employ as as its freeze. just any comment regarding that, how does that correspond with the principles of freedom of media we've, you know, we've seen a lot of bilateral sanctions being imposed or during this conflict we feel we are, our field is really the un un impose sanctions as a matter of principle we'd very much do believe in the right of journalists to do their work for everywhere. that isn't for me this hour. i'll be back in about 33 and a half minutes with another phone. fresh lecture news. this is our international guy that with us lou.

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development, only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be

successful, very political time, time to sit down and talk with i mean, ah, with i'm after in regards in welcome to going other guy. we're back in coming to you for now from a new location today. exactly 40 years in several 1000 argentine troops sees the falkland islands or malvina back from great britain before margaret thatcher is

british army took it back 74 days later. this is the annual e u china summit. it's scheduled for the 2nd day of to friday's p. storks, between ukraine and russia, all this while the u, as band this program, this tv channel, still broadcast all around the world except in nature were lined countries. while joining me now from rome for this episode of former advisor to the european union's high representative, a common foreign and security policy and conflicts forum found alice to crook. alistair, welcome back on going underground. let's begin with perhaps the need for you to remind us what you think is the start of this conflict in the reasons for the conflict given that certainly in the european union where a descent is arguably band. we are told almost hourly poochie and invaded ukraine without provocation. oh no, it's very clear. what we're dealing with is really something and it's much broader

than just ukraine. and both presidents pull in and she have both made said that this is about reordering. if you like the security architecture of the, the global security architecture away from a simple rules based order that is set by the united states in order to give these other states see to the board of life. to be able to have a discussion. there is really no communication for that. there was a very good analogy made by someone that it was like a chessboard and united states that at one end of the chessboard. and someone said, well to, to play this game of chess. and it was present sky back to present, he said, not to want. there's no other at this game. we just simply turn the board round and then we play from the other side. and that's been going on really the whole for

a long time. and now russia and china one.