a headline stories this hour, the russian defense ministry slums, as i pro vacation, disturbing footage from the ukranian town of butcher in the key of regent stating that no civilians were killed by russian troops. after you printing officials release pictures of mass graves in the town allegedly filmed after russian forces have left also at asia battalion that is said to be nazi affiliated organization, operating as a militia in your country. they are what they are. the answer from the ukranian president when quiz about the alleged atrocities of the neo nazi a self battalion which vladimir zalinski admitted in the same interview fight. first part of the country's forces your reaction from locals in the eyes and

fighters who are defending themselves. not ass would look at the destruction they left. they had come here for 8. yes, they killed local people. they beat people, abducted them with bags on their hands on the you feels the heat, self soaring fuel and food prices, so that crippling sanctions against russia impact more than just the energy ah for every year, catching the program from today. welcome to moscow and then use our in our t. my name's unit o'neill. russia has dismissed as another provocation, disturbing footage which has emerged from the ukrainian ton of butcher the videos allegedly show the dead bodies of civilians lying in the streets there. and others piled in mosque grades. ukraine insist it's proof of war crimes. ortiz,

donal quarter has more flaw. russia has since reacted, and the russian defense ministry has accused key of, of actually carrying out these mass killings in boots. this town, it's located northwest of kiev. and it was recaptured by the ukrainian military just a couple of days ago actually. and that's why it was a bit strange when key of accused russia of war crimes. since this footage of the corpses in the street, this terrible footage emerged actually, days after the town had already come under ukrainian control. those videos were apparently released by local officials put on social media. and we are going to show them on the screen now. but just a warning to our viewers, you may find them a bit disturbing. now, we do have to understand that future has been under fighting in recent weeks. and according to kiev, almost $300.00 civilians were found in mass graves there. on the other hand, rushes ministry of defense says that when this town was under its control, not one civilian was harmed during that time. so if that's the case,

then there are some serious holes in ukraine story. so let's take a closer look at what the ministry defense of russia actually said. we would like to emphasize that all russian units completely withdrew from boucher, almost the 30th the day after the face to face round of negotiations between russia and ukraine in turkey. moreover, on march the 31st, the mayor of butcher anatoly for the route confirmed as his video message that there was no russian military in the city. but he did not even mention any local residence showed in the streets with their hands tied. therefore, it is not surprising that all the so called evidence of crimes in boucher appears only on day 4 when ukrainian security officers and representatives of ukraine and television arrived in the city. now the whole situation was so strange that before russia's ministry of defense accused key of carrying out these mass killings, a number of military observers actually said that this all could have been staged. that it could have been part of a wider ukrainian propaganda campaign at misinformation around what happened. but

the vice speaker re and oversee also commented on this saying that the west in using this video as a sort of pro ukrainian propaganda would be complicit in crimes if it did turn out to be a staged event. after that footage was released though another video came out, apparently showing a ukrainian officer giving his troops the. okay to shoot noncombatants. let's take a look a little bit with now. there still is a lot that has yet to be confirmed, but i mean, ukraine's narrative really is questionable at best. and if it really is responsible for these mass killings of civilians, no doubt the international community is going to be furious. meanwhile, the russian defense ministry has confirmed a strike on a ukrainian oil terminal on 3 fuel storage facilities near the city of odessa. in southern nuclear footage shows terminals out the facility ablaze. smoke billowed

skyward, emergency workers are battling to bring the situation under control. russia previously said it would target facilities which ukraine uses to replenish its war efforts. and the red cross has paused migrations as fighting and murder you. pl, intensifies blaming a russian blockade for preventing humanitarian deliveries. the russian defense ministry however, has again stress. it's the ukraine in military, which is not allowing humanitarian corridors to open. moscow also, reiterated the nationalist battalions are continued to target. the evacuation roots something keep denied. we heard from people cramped in the war twins. evelyn, my husband and i were 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. 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 keen that had come off my husband's head. the showing was so strong. i myself was covered in shirts of glass. i want the gun fired to the top is so scary. 3 though, the situation in mario police turns they should constantly, i had to remove the car from my broken leg to pull people out of the rubble of the burned down building. and after all that, i had complications needed surgery. thing god, i managed to get some people out of the city. ok, we're going to return to that story then of the footage which is emerged from euclidean ton of boucher were. and the videos that have been released allegedly showed dead bodies of civilians lying in the streets, and others piled in mass graves. ukraine blames at russia and russia says it is a provocation by key of international affairs commented or marco gaston joined us on the program for more on that marco is. so there we have it. we've got

conflicting at reports from either side, seeing what happened. how do you see it? well, it's difficult for me to see anything and it's difficult. do i also see anything at this point? or normally when we have bodies appear somewhere, we have a inquests, we have investigations, police are enrolled, it could take weeks for a single body here with nature involved, it's taken minutes to reach a conclusion. and how surprising the conclusion to claim and blame the other side. so by the very great concerns about the way we're being pushed into a conclusion, we really don't know where these people are, how many of what they died or we have no knowledge. and nor do the politicians are currently trying to push us into believing what they're telling us that their enemies are worth of hating. because of course, if we hate their enemies, we might be more prepared to listen to our positions or saying we should do about

them, including accept all the losses to our own freedoms and living standards involved in, in following our leaders policies. can i put this point to as well? russia knows it's very evident that the whole world is watching it on its actions, especially when it comes to civilians, the suffering of them. so why would mos gloucester stressing repeatedly it takes up most precautions to not target civilians, then suddenly killed $300.00 of them? well, whatever the figures that are being bandied about, the fact is that the russians have no, no, no good reason to be doing anything of the kind for those who wants to accuse them of this so called or is claimed atrocity. have every reason to accuse them. we have to remember that we are not only in a real well, we're also not an economic or political and above all at this point in this discussion. we're information and media war. and what we have here are simple

images, simple claims, designed to create simple conclusions. and we should always be wary of those. i remember the last geopolitical crisis in europe in serbia as possible province. there was a place to rochester where a 140 bodies turned up all dressed in civilian uniform. russia was used as a reason for a peace conference which was the basis of bombing serbia. immediately afterwards, after all the dust had settled, we found out that actually the warriors had been killed and dressed up in seville uniforms by their fellow soldiers. the caly albanian extremists admitted the officers when nobody can. so it's all about the 1st impression make the 1st impression hit and that's what i think is happening here. but i cannot tell. it's too early the investigation needs to be had. but we come trusted to get investigations for the parties who all have every reason to load the dice for one conclusion. yeah, i should point out a quote from the russian defense ministry states. quote, not

a single local residents suffered from any violent actions while this sentiment was under the control of the russian armed forces and claims. the atrocities only came to life after the troops left the city and the ukrainian army arrived. if correct, that leads to a lot of hard questions for key f is sunday doesn't mean it's not least from the fact or the mayor of boucher himself said that the troops, the russian troops left by the 31st of march, we now have 3 days later come to the body of be turning up. what happened to me in the missing 3 days? how can these bodies are now showing? no signs of having been exposed for 3 days. they haven't got any readable just though in the images that we've seen and how to explain the fact that you couldn't see hundreds of bodies in the, in the street a 3 whole days during which time a whole lot of people have turned out there to actually make these claims on day full. the other thing i would actually say i have to be a little bit cynical with use this place called boucher. if we are talking about

english language information warfare, the word bookshop is an extremely poster word. i wouldn't be surprised to st use and reuse and misuse over the next few days. but i also wonder if this, if one is to be cynical will this place was caught was chosen for such claims because of a name has. and the unfortunate people who have died somewhere for some reason or simply instruments after the death of a media warfare mark, just to final thoughts on the reaction in the west from claims that come from key of do you think there are dissenting voices among journalists, investigative journalists, when they, when they see such claims and just print them, but they're perhaps being forced from higher up on the, on the news. i clear scale to say no, we must say this, or is there just a general block out of questioning on whatever comes from ukraine? yeah, that's the truth. will work with journalists in was zones. i worked with them on

lots of issues and they are ultimately the creatures of those who send them where they know what the story is, what the story they need to cover and what kind of effects they need to get it. they need to play on the emotions they need to get people emotionally involved. we know which emotions they want to create here. they will be creating them because nothing else will come out there is in the western world and information blackouts symbolized by the black out of itself. so no other story is allowed in. if they can stop it, they want. they don't want anything to confuse the simple image, they won't. unfortunately, the simple image they want is usually in saudi untrue. and in the ukraine, false claims of being given carte blanche to appear was real, real episode, real tragedies, human tragedies, or people killed them. both sides are simply not important unless they serve the purpose of the propagandist. thanks for sharing your thoughts on our

t international affairs commentator, marco gassett q. they are what they are. the answer of ukraine's president when quiz by fox news about the new nazi a's off battalion and the atrocities executed a's off battalion that is said to be nazi affiliated organization, operating as a militia in your country said to be committing their own atrocities. was one of those many battalions. they are what they are in bound interviews. lensky also san diego battalion is fully integrated into the ukrainian military. the fragments of the interview was later deleted from or fox news online resources. it is not the 1st time either. the group has been whitewashed in western media, as were seen, attempt by a number of our lives to play don athos, neo nazi settlements, all those ice. let's include, for instance,

the financial times. um the b, b. c would show days of troops in one of its recent reports. they were seen wearing nazi symbols such as the skull and crossbones below. the battalion has long been accused of atrocities. like, for instance, the recent, brutal torture and murder of a young woman who lived and more youthful or wanting you may find the following footage district. last year brought me in for school. you usually with just about the russia is investigating the murder of the girl in the video, allegedly killed by new nazis from the ease of vitality. now, earlier i spoke with our teacher on cost, haven't done yet to shared with us that comes from local residence on the ledge claims of that group. paul, it is indeed a very, very painful subject to the people of dunbar. sits azar battalion,

i'd czar battalion and numerous other names in that interview residents. zalinski is also talking about the fact that some members of the assault 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 the other harden criminal criminals, and they had been remodeling into the ukrainian army. well as old battalion, they've been accused of committing a war crimes by the united nations before as well. now there were for several documentaries, news reports and made about them as well. not 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 that were retreating from the

oncoming. done, that's people's a republic militia. remember, a pregnant, so a 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 month and a half the fighting has been taking place in murray. you pulled many of the local residents have also witnessed their shots. these that have been committed by us all . 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 age and fighters were defending themselves, not ass. look at the destruction they left. they had been here for 8. yes, they killed local people to pick it up or no what you one man had his throat cut by one of their members. then he had a daughter when she is 7 or 8 years old. are they beat people?

abducted them with bags on their hands, which go, yes. oh, well, this is what was left by them to put 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 toilets. i want you to comment on the can you turn the camera and showed the ground floor? this is the ground floor on 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 in the basement, while, while the fighting in my room will have been taking place for quite a while now over a month. and then numerous times russia provider 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 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 purple is finally

a liberated major. fighting at the moment is taking place at adults steel. ha, metallurgy, bland. and it's still, it's situated on around 7 heck, there's of land in the city of maroon pal. so that's where the heaviest fighting is taking place. but according to a local source of the 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, just another note, political analysts. dmitri babich believes western media outlets have done a complete you turn in their attitude to neo nazi groups and ukraine. since the conflict started as old, but they're all in the joined the ukranian army. not now, but at least 6 years a goal. the same was true about the so called right sector. just look up the western media from 2014. the western media was scared,

it was intimidated by by the sheer insignia on the right sector. the stream is group during the martin prado, this is part of the strategy of the right sector. and of the i was old, but alien, to intimidate people, to make them scared before committing atrocities. but then the western media preferred to forget that basically a new atrocity committed by also. but they don't know by the right sect is going to be excused by the western media. they can always say that it was russia who is to blame because russia use my tech, and because you know the also, but they had to defend itself for the seat of mario. but the cleaning army is bigger and better equipped thanks to nito with the results being demonstrated on the front lines against russia. that is the assessment of the alliance as secretary

generally and stilton berg, who was giving the groupings annual reports earlier. over the years, our lives have trained tens of thousands of ukrainian troops. provide the mod done equipment and supported reforms. ok to another aspect of things, the crippling sanctions being pushed against moscow. they're not just causing pain in russia. let me show you german chests or old shoals being heckled by an angry cry. during his speech he made in the city of s and the the incident happened a rally to mark the beginning of the social democratic party state election campaign. the jumping apparently began when the chancellor spoke about the war in ukraine. european governments of face growing discontent,

of arising food and energy bills across the continent. now to help people with their bill is germany's parliament has promised to provide a 300 euro relief payment. however, the money will still be subject to tax, meaning the final some will be smaller. german officials are unlikely to feel a pinch though as the wages of the chancellor and some ministers are set to rise. from this month we ask people on the streets of berlin, what they make of their governments helping out with you. 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 on such shame time. well, that's simply outrageous as usual. i don't know what to say to that one. how rages really outrageous. some of you know, if it is all up doing 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. i was going to get talking about these among the thoughts of some germans well in neighboring belgium. people are 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 and everyday products. continue to rise week by week mid day, 39 year inflation high in the country. while in italy, demonstrators gathered in genoa to protest against weapons sales and made the ongoing premium crisis. people, voice concerns about the arms would be used for the also call for peace and an end to civilian council. banking and finance. professor richard berner, give us his take earlier on the current situation. what we see is a pattern of government policy in europe in western europe. dad seems designed to

hurt the economy, and this pattern causes much, much more accelerated with the sanctions. we see now these very dramatic measures that were imposed against russia, but really in practice seemed to be designed to further restrict the western european economies and damaged them seriously. and we could see if this continues and we are likely to see a dramatic deterioration in living standards. if europe decides we're not going to buy from russia, i mean, because in the short term this is impossible. but even if they are willing to pay much higher price for energy from saving us instead, and they managed to make the switch for which will take will years then russia will have many other places to deliver its energy to the world. ah, the protesters have gathered across pakistan in a show of support for the prime minister. him run, come, he called on the country's president to dissolve parliament and whole fresh

elections. just minutes after him moved to hold a no confidence motion in the p. m. was rejected. as unconstitutional by the national assembly and a recent speech to the nation. and i can blame quote, foreign powers for trying to intervene in his country phonetic policy in response to on the bus close ties with russian. he claims the political turmoil is being orchestrated by the west pacifically. the u. s. washington rejects those allegations. the prime minister's opponents accuse him of economic this management and bungling foreign policy. local correspondents, medulla beads reports are briefly 4 r t from the sunny we are sitting in front of the parliament b. smith is gonna be job. this is one of the 4 major roads leading to the parliament building. these are the support of our prime minister, the rom khan, who just, i'm, or to before, has using is

a custom authority. has asked the president of pakistan to dissolve the national assembly. because 2 minutes before the speaker at the upper house, god nationalist really declared the no country does motion by the opposition unconstitutional and rejected by ward because it was sponsored by a foreign country. me the la d t v. it's not about so what are people on the street? i actually think of a we gauged opinion, islam about about the current situation from the public in the country. i get your ocoee. how do you think these thieves 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 con, when prime minister m ron con 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 and on fine on get y'all been

a commentator on international security for a shot. he runs outline for us. we're on the current political turmoil in pakistan . it's been a complete nurse on for the box on it for the past 2 weeks or more women seeing this drama unfold. and finally, it 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, cost no confidence motion, and declared it null and white. the motion was not even accepted for rotting in foxtrot national assemblies and judging from the trajectory of the current events, it is not hard to predict where the things are going box on is headed for a snap election. the current government is not going to fill his term and there are going to be new elections in bias on in the short term. so i think overall the part

20 state has one from this process and a strong message has been sent to, to the western countries and to potential l as in box on that box on is willing to look forward to the future. well that's our news run up for now here on our t, but our programs are only beginning. they close for that's, i'm you. no, no, no. ah ah luis to come to the russian state. total narrative. i've tied as i phone and ignore some scheme development. i'm not getting them up for a group in the 55 with. okay, so mine is 2000 speedy. one else calls go ahead with we will ban in the european union. the kremlin. ca, yep. machine. the state on russia for date and split our t spoke neck,

even our video agency, roughly all band to on youtube with mm. oh is your media a reflection of reality? ah, in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? what is great?

in the world corrupted, you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah ah, and government did say we should impose punitive measures in such a way that only the other side is hurt and all of the people do not so to speak. do not have to make any sacrifices. only the other side has the major sector for us, and we have to push the other side into his shirt, them that action through a kind of collective punishment because that is what the sanctions on this large scale bar. and in that regard, sanctions a few more against human rights. if

anybody's been trapped in an elevator, 20 minutes can be pretty long time. right. and won't trap an elevator for 20 minutes. not knowing what's gonna happen, not knowing where you are sets of sensory deprivation. think about that if you're life 20 visit about an hour, not at all. yeah. on the intercom is nothing i was trying to get you out because keeping you id is your communication. ah, and i think distance who i am i.