[000:00:00;00] a he's off battalion that is said to be nazi affiliated organization, operating as a militia in your country. you know they are what they are. that is the answer from the ukranian president when quiz that by the alleged atrocities of the neo nazi a's of battalion which blog emerged. lensky admitted in the same interview fights as part of the country's forces. the latest efforts to evacuate civilians dropped in the devastated courts to the motor vehicle and failure, fighting intensifies about as russia uses ukraine of breaking pledges. we hear a local sharing with us so strong. i myself was congregate shar to glass.

i want the gunfire stopped. he so scared the situation in my real police down, they shoot constantly. i had to remove the cloth from my broken leg to pull people out of the rubble of the burned out building. and also coming on the program, the you feel the heat of soaring fuel and food prices as the crippling sanctions against russia impact more than just the energies ah live across the globe. i run the clock, this is our t pleasure to have you with us today. my name's unit o'neill. let's begin with a recap of recent developments in the ukraine conflict. the russian military said it struck an oil processing plant on fuel depos in the strategic ukrainian port, city of odessa,

columns of smoke could be seen rising from different areas of the city. meanwhile, ukraine's re taken the city of butcher near the capital. the local authorities say there are scenes which quote to look exactly like war crimes, with allegedly the bodies of executed civilians and must rage on me while russian army vehicles can be seen in this footage, destroyed and abundant in the village of when you come your key of ukrainian forces claim they have taken all territories around the capital after russia said it would steal back, it's operation in the region. meanwhile, the russian defense ministry has confirmed a strike on the printing oil terminal and 3 fuel storage facilities near the city of odessa, in southern ukraine. for the shows terminals of the facility ablaze, smoke below skywards emergency. workers are bustling to bring the situation under

control. russia previously said that would target facilities which ukraine uses to replenish, as were accurate. and the red cross has paused evacuations as finding in mario pl, intensifies lemming, a russian blockade for preventing humanitarian deliveries. the russian defense ministry however, has again stressed. it's the ukrainian military, which is not allowing humanitarian corridors to open. moscow also reiterated that national battalions are continuing to target the evacuation route. something keep denies. we heard from people trapped and the war torn city envelope, but my husband denied law in the basement. i stayed in, he went out to feed the poppies. he didn't return for a long time. i began to shout, he didn't answer. i followed him. i saw that he was covered in blood. you were, his arm was broken. he had severe blood loss. a young guy came to help the cadillac

pieces of skiing that had come off my husband's head. the sharing was so strong, i myself was covered in charge of glass soon i want the gun fire to stop it is so scary. still though, the situation in my real post and they shoot constantly who i had to remove the cast from my broken leg to pull people out of the rubble of the burned out building . and after all that i had complications needed surgery. but thank god, i managed to get some people out of the city. they are what they are. the answer of ukraine's president when quiz by fox news about the new nazi a's off battalion on the atrocities. it's accused of a soft battalion that is said to be nazi affiliated organization. operating as a militia in your country said to be committing their own atrocities. razzles was one of those many battalions did. the key of will need they are what they are. will i discuss those remarks earlier with r t corresponding to remind custer of who is in done yet key go over some accounts

from local residents on the alleged crimes of the a's of baton. oh, it is indeed a very, very painful subject to the people of dunbar sits azar battalion ides, our battalion and numerous other names in that interview. president zalinski is also talking about the fact that some members of the us all battalion actually received the prison sentences. however, since the raw rushes special, very minutes, reparation and ukraine began. most of those people had been released along with other harden criminal criminals, and they have been remodeling into the ukranian army. well, as a battalion, they have been accused of committing a war crimes by the united nations before as well. now there were for several documentaries, news reports made about them as well. no, just as all battalions, but other battalions with the neo nazi affiliations, of course,

are plenty of 1st hand accounts here and on boss as well, including yours truly. i've been working here for the last 8 years and i've seen a mass graves left by these nationalist battalions as they were retreated retreating from the oncoming donetta peoples the republic militia. now i've seen one of those that footage that say you've shown i've seen something like that with my own eyes. i remember a pregnant woman with her arms tied behind her back and she was dug up and her hands were tied behind her back and it was absolutely horrible to watch, of course. so over the last a month and a half, the fighting has been taking place in murray who pulled many of the local residents have also witnessed the atrocities that have been committed by us off. and they told me earlier as well that that's been happening, not just over the last month and a half, but over the last 8 years as well as they've been the station there. let's say here,

some of the accounts about us all over the eyes and fighters were defending them, is not asked to give a look at the destruction they left. what they had been here for 8. yes, they killed local people to pick it up or know which one man had his throat cut by one of their members. then he had a daughter. well, she is 7 or 8 years old. are they meet people? abducted them with bags on their hands switch go. yes. oh, it will. this is what was left by their middle full. they were running here on the 3rd floor with guns in their hands. duncan, then there were tanks, shooting thought, we were afraid to go to the toilet is below. i want you to comment on the can you turn the cameron showed the ground floor. this is the ground floor lukewarm. this was my flat. the 1st shell hit my room, my belly managed to stay alive than they used. farmable liquids in the house burned down. they knew people were hiding. i basement of swallow. while the fighting in marie will have been taking place for quite a while now, over a month and the numerous times a russia provide a humanitarian corridors in order for the people to leave. but each time local

residents were not allowed to do so. as the city was encircled by the us all for a battalion, they were preventing the people from leaving and using them as a human shields. and that's according to locals who gave their own a witness accounts. now at the moment, according to a local authorities and 90 percent of marine, people is finally a liberated major. fighting at the moment is taking place at adults steel, ha, metallurgy, bland. and it's, so it's situated on around 7 heck, there's of land in the city of marine apple. so that's where the heaviest fighting has taken place. but according to a local source of local authorities and the russian army, that should be ending very soon as well as people are finally looking to rebuild the city of maria full and start a peaceful life. once again retired u. s. her forced lieutenant colonel current gitovski believes ukraine's leader will

find it hard to hold the eyes of battalion to account publicly. zelinski is saying that he wishes he hopes to hold them accountable for any or if it's proven, or if we get more information he intends to hold them accountable. but unfortunately, the track record that he has this is a political situation is such that it's highly unlikely that he will be able to hold them accountable. they're part of his political support structure on it, not to say that he agrees with them all the time, but he is dependent in some ways with, with their agenda is independent on their agenda to some extent. so it's not like he can simply just get rid of them. i mean, as he said, they are integrated into the military. there was a reason they were integrated into the military and not rejected from it. certainly americans are anti nazi. they don't want to hear in the government doesn't want them to hear that we are in effect aligning with nazis. and we don't want to ask

too many questions because we aligned with them in 2014 and we've aligned with them since 1940 in many ways to see a has a long history. that's well reported and well acknowledged of working with nazis in europe. in particular, ukrainian nazi group, ukraine is getting wrecked. it's getting wrecked because united states wishes to sacrifice it for to the altar of anti russian propaganda in preservation of the of the dollar is the rules. reserve currency. i mean, this is so much larger, i think, than ukraine, if it doesn't fit into the unit polar maintenance of the united states as a unit polar power, the top dog on the planet. if it doesn't relate to that in an anti russian way, we really, they were not interested in united states. media is not interested in anything but supporting the u. s. agenda, which is really not caring about ukraine at all,

or the ukrainian people or the ukrainian agriculture your or the ukrainian resources. this is really about us versus in particular, russia and then in a larger sense, rushes allies. now video as emerged on a ukrainian military commanders telegram page, claiming to show an officer, apparently permitting the shooting of non soldiers, if they can't be identified as ukraine. and you can imagine the ramifications around dance. let's get into it with our correspondent dull quarter, i should say at the outset dawn, and not a lot of verified information on this at this stage. in terms of what is coming i'd, what's known. well this, this kind of news comes at the same time as the russian ministry. defense has actually accused the ukrainians of committing mass killings of civilians in this specific town of boucher. it's located northwest of kiev and it was just recently recaptured by the ukranian army. actually a couple of days ago,

that's why it's interesting that when these videos came out of corpses on the streets and the russians were accused of this, it was, it did come off as a bit strange footage allegedly, from the area had been released by local officials there this was published on social media and we're going to show them now these and just a warning. these images are a bit disturbing according to key of part of the carnage that has been going on there. that according to key, if there's been a mass grave in which a $300.00 civilians were actually found that's according to kiev again. and it's important to note a note that boucher has seen some very fierce fighting over the past several weeks . so going back to that ukrainian military commander from this region, we have to keep in mind what i just mentioned when looking at what you had to say.

it wasn't for you now, it is also important to note that before the ministry of defense, the russian ministry of defense cues, key of these mass killings, we did hear that from certain russian notary observers that it could have potentially been staged and everything. but again, this was before we heard the official statement from russia's ministry defense. yeah. also talking that certain parts of the video could be put together with a view to putting now to a western audience and getting reaction from that. it will tell me a bit deeper into that in the coming hours. don't. thanks very much for bringing us through what is known at this stage. now the criminal spokesperson said the west has gone beyond reason when its sanction the russian president, personally, dmitri pasco, father. he was also surprised when his own children were targeted. meanwhile, the crippling sanctions aren't just causing pain in russia and german show. so love shows with heckled as an angry cry booed him during

a speech in the city of s and on a related theme. take a look. the the incident happened, got a raleigh to mark the beginning of the social democratic party state election campaign that chanting apparently begun when the chancellor spoke about the war in ukraine. european governments of face growing discontent over rising food and energy bills across the continent to help people with their bills, germany, parliament has promised to provide a 300 euro relief. busy payment, however, there is a clause, the money will still be subject to tax, meaning the final some is going to be smaller than german officials. they are unlikely to feel the pinch of the wages of the chancellor. some ministers as well are set to arise from this month. we ask people on the streets of berlin for their

thoughts and what they make of their governments helping him 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. i don't want to shame time. well, that's simply outrageous as usual. i don't know what to say to that outrages really outrageous. some of you know if it is all, 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 a moment of what people are saying in germany over in neighboring belgium. meanwhile, paper also witnessing soaring fuel prices, pushed in part by the relentless sanctions imposed on russia. locals complain it's

not only energy being impacted prices for food every day. products continue to rise, week after week and mid a 39. your installation high in the country. and this is italy, we're demonstrators gathered in genoa to protest against weapons, seals them in the ongoing ukrainian prices. people voice concerns about what the arms would be used for the also call for peace on an end to civilian casualties. the foreign policy chiefs, former advisor, has won the many europeans will find it hard to cope with the sanctions. their own leaders have imposed in russia. i was to crook who i'm speaking to ortiz going underground. you can watch the full version on r t dot com. here's a p. it was only in the beginning of much the french finance and was saying our aim is to collapse the russian economy. and now one month later, we see in the financial crisis,

many commentators talking about this is beginning of the end of the global monitoring system. does chilling 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, i cannot manage as it is, we cannot get gas from anywhere else that will substitute for russian. guess 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 in the u. k, are going to go up 50 percent. they've gone up 50 percent. they'll probably call them up 100 percent before the end of this year. how people going to survive with this? the sanctions in many ways, europe as not sanctioned russia, it's sanctioning itself the ukrainian army is bigger and better equipped thanks to nato with the results being demonstrated on the front lines against russia. adopt is the assessment of nato secretary general in stilton berg, who is giving the alliances unusual report her. over the years our lives have trained tens of thousands of ukrainian troops, provide the mod done equipment and supported reforms. ok, another story today to keep you abreast of protesters have gathered across pakistan and

a show of support for the prime minister. em run con. he calls on the country's president to dissolve parliament on whom fresh elections just minutes after him moved to hold and no confidence motion in the p. m. was rejected as unconstitutional by the national assembly and a recent speech to the nation. m. ron can blame quote, foreign powers for trying to intervene in the countries domestic policy in response to it from about close ties with russia. he claims that political turmoil has been orchestrated by the west. specifically, the us washington rejects the allegations, the prime ministers, opponents accused him of economic management and bungling foreign policy, local correspondence, medulla, a bead reports 9 for r t from the pakistan company. getting in front of the find the man who is gonna be job. this is one of the 4 major road leading to the parliament building. these are

the support of our prime study mom who just, i'm or to before, has you using is a cost is that it's already has asked the president of pakistan to dissolve the national assembly. because 2 minutes before the speaker, the upper house, god nationalists are really declared the no country dose motion by the opposition unconstitutional and rejected. babies already ward because it was sponsored by a foreign country me the law firm i t t v. islam about let's say in this i'm about because we gazed opinion there from people about the current situation in the country. let's hear what they think. i get your ocoee. how do you think the thief will be back and take away what belongs to our children? this is not possible, we will not allow this. i will never let my children be their slaves younger than me. and i'm calm when prime minister in wrong. com said absolutely not in a media interview on the americans got angry and they sponsored our opposition for this. so it was

a conspiracy and iran con defeated them at last game it on fine on. well, let's welcome on to the program independent analysis on commentator on international security for shaheed ross to discuss the political turmoil in the country are very welcome. the move to bring about most of no conference in the p. m . as we mentioned, it's been dismissed while em run can himself is demanding that the president dissolves parliament on hold elections a lot going on. how do you see this unfolding in the immediate future shade? when i was to call you in such and such an interesting day and bought some just re it's, it's been a complete now it's on for the box on it for the past 2 weeks or more. we've been seeing this drama unfold and finally climaxed because the speaker of the national assembly acting on the article 5 of the box on the constitution which prevents any

foreign intervention inside box on eternal matters, coursed no confidence motion, and declare it, declared it null and white no wanting took place on the motion. the motion was not even accepted for rotting in boxers national assemblies. and as you rightly described from this or iran con house called snap the snap elections and advise the pro president to dissolve families. and judging from the trajectory of the current events, it is not hard to predict whether things are going box on is headed for a snap election. the current government is not going to fulfill his terms and they are going to be new elections invoice on in the short term. the details really are interesting. once you get into the weeds of what's happening there are shaheed, for instance, the prime minister of pakistan claims that the west, specifically the u. s. is august treating their term or not, in your opinion, are his concerns solidly grounded? well, ellen, 1st of all,

these are no longer claps because the memo or the letter which was received by the box on implementing cor, in washington, it was shown to a forum in ferguson called the national security council. the national security council is the most empowered forum in buying some that includes all stakeholders, the government, the military, the bureaucracy and intelligence services, everything, right? so they saw that mammal and an issue, the statement stating that this is, this is an assault on bias on sovereignty. so it is a collective waste of the back a sunny state and no longer a, a claim by the government. so it's not a political stunt. as the detractors of fran mr. mon corner tried to portray it's actually a very feeble fact that bias on has received sort of an automated from it. sir. you know, it's align oh, it's trying to force by a full policy change upon by august on the box on has been trying to diversify foreign policy. as you know, we've been trying to call to a strategic relations with russia, which i know with our,

our regional partners box and has actually focused it's foreign policy towards a regional agenda, which is not in line with americas do strategic interest. because they would rather see box on as a subservient junior partner to india, which is simply to not acceptable to buy san at this point or any point in the future. so trying to remove him on conduct the champion of sovereignty or regional integration or regionally focused alliances. and it's just, it's just an attempt by washington to try and preserve some of its interest which remain in the reason. and i don't see it succeeding because box on today has sent a very clear and loud message to washington. that box on will not be bullied. it will not be held hostage or, you know, to, to, it's regime day to change tactics. but let me put this too as well, because last week we spoke and em run. can't key coalition ally streaking

a deal with the opposition. you're moving away from the government. how big of a blow in hindsight, now as he look at the developments of the last few days, was that to the p n. first of all, premise from home did not have a majority in the parliament. so he had to run a coalition government. therefore, it was not surprising to see those coalition partners break away from him on con, when they saw him, con government was being pushed out by the i a superpower. so they were under great amount of pressure because a lot of those political parties have overseas interests. they have overseas stakes and all that. so they were scared that they don't want to be on the left side of washington. and you know, if they did, they wouldn't have to be a price. so they, they moved away and this is part of the regime thing to change process to kind of bully and scare away these coalition partners in order to weaken the government. right? but in hindsight, premise remote con has benefited greatly from this internal site. he held the

largest political gathering in slumber box on capital history around $70000.00. people showed up to support him not too long ago just just about a week ago. and he has created this type of public opinion where people are saying that this is no longer about politics. this is about politics. this is about august on this is about sovereignty. this is about becoming, this is about approximately i did say because we're a new election if a vote of confidence is held in the future, you think mr can would overcome that? would he be guaranteed to get back into office in your opinion? the unit, there is no real replacement for him. non con in august current political landscape . but iran con leaves the only true federal party in august. so there's no real political alternative to mark on number one. number 2, he leaves a very high tide of public moral support. so he goes to his political, you know,

but he goes to the snack election saying that, ok, look, i stood against the americans. they didn't let me complete my term. i wanted good terms with them, but they've, they've tried to overthrow my government. and instead i have sort new lessons to seek new mandate. and in return, i believe that iran convo come back with a significantly empowered government in a few months, and he's likely to continue his policies to interesting just the notes on the. the turmoil then same run comes refusal not really to follow western rhetoric and condemn russia. over the votes the war in, in, in ukraine you see that, that issue. what's happening now when you create as one of the, the problems he had. why, what we're seeing right now in pakistan playing out is if i'm a bad saying, no, we're not going to condemn russia to the extent that western countries and in

particular are doing lucas. it's certainly one of the major reasons. it's so there is the score that keep broke the camel's camel's back. i mean, a funny song was a major reason why the joe biden distraction did not have a one on one direct contact with the, with the han administration because they saw him as a, as a french and a box on sa, independent foreign policy with regard to ukraine and refusal to all greatly condemn russia with a for, you know, the events in ukraine. it kind of has ex, exacerbated an existing process under which the americans were trying to overthrow the premise from on con. but let me sure, let me tell you this. right, there is an increasing sentiment in boxes on so thinking community and box on the think tanks and boxes, intelligentsia that the future of the pakistani state being a very important country in our region. it is with regional integration. it is with creating a regional economic alliance with china, the russia, but central asian countries,

including the fontas on and other countries in the region. so we can actually leverage our own strengths and create regional connectivity. that is the new project based on our beliefs in and the independent. the hallmark of functions depends on what it is to become a hub off regional trade. and russia is a center piece, all one of the center pieces off that visual connectivity. rachel group, a regional trade paradigm, which is unfolding, right? so it includes energy includes a rolled rail vision and other networks that will connect all of these, these very important emergent countries well into the future with resource bike lives, with transportation value chains, when investments, and maybe even some sort of for some sort of a european union style lose alliance, economic alliance between these countries. and remind you this, this will be the biggest alliance in the world by far because it's roughly half off the in, off the, of the resources that european union has. and by far, i did the greatest alliance in,

in the region history actually. so this is something that will change geostrategic dynamics for the western allies. and this is, i think this is what's playing out at a strategic level because they're trying to prevent that kind of lose alliance from forming because then they won't be able to exert their influence when the sort of liberty they are able to do it. yeah, fast, and maybe just to recap, i guess we have been talking on a lot of different topics over the last few minutes. you think the term or we're seeing the worst is over right now in pakistan. oh, do you see difficulties ahead from ron count? you know, this has been a very peaceful, political process environment. i'm it as a box tony overall very confident and very proud that you know, going across bipartisan lines across party lines in august on there's been no political violence of any kind. nobody has di and nobody's been heart. there's been no violent protest so far. and the transition into