ah ah ah, for just information that tank was witnessed in the city of boucher and the key of region following withdrawal of the russian troops, rushes foreign minister, a slums of fake disturbing footage from boucher which had prompted p at to blame russian forces for the mass killing of civilians we hear from a reporter in covered the situation on the ground from the outskirts of the ukrainian time. cuz i know for sure that the troops left the cd and march the 3rd. the march 31st is that this was confirmed by the mayor of you see general didn't mention any body lining this true. ukraine's media polls its own fake

news reports, blaming russia for the gruesome killing of a woman in the dumbass city of mother. you both speak with the american journalist who 1st wrote this story. i think that it's just normal for anti russian propaganda from ukraine. but we know it for a class. this happened in the base number 25, which was used as a base for grading course. and also ahead on the program this hour, i love free, an energy company molds the possibility of paying and rubles for rushing down. and they died fries from you neighbors to stop importing any rush and energy supplies puddle with one minute past 6 in the evening. here in moscow on this, the 1st monday of april,

my name's unit illegal hon. you're welcome to the global news updates on our team national a disinformation attack. that's the response from the russian foreign minister to footage that's emerged from the ukranian ton of butcher, which shows disturbing images of the dead bodies of civilians lying in the streets found others piled in mass graves, ukraine's defense ministry phase. the killings were committed by russian troops, but speaking to the un under secretary general for humanitarian fors sir gale of ralph claimed the spread of the footage as an anti russian agenda aimed at western audiences. a disinformation attack was witnessed in the city of boucher, the key of region. following the withdrawal of the russian troops, our troops withdrew from the area and accordance with the plans and previously reached agreements. several days later, there was a staging this snowing, spread across the media and social platforms by ukraine and its western patrons.

van inclusion was to expression forces 40 retreated from the city. on the 30th of march, on the 31st of march, the cities man made a statement saying everything was in order. in 2 days later, we saw that stage footage from the streets of boucher which they now are attempting to use for anti russian purposes. or in a couple of weeks ago, there were attempts to misrepresent the situation. and one of mary opposed maternity hospitals as a crime committed by the russian troops. eliza became clear those attempts had been made to cause a provocation. the materials presented were later exposed as fights sooners, while the stories about the credit and town of butcher north west of ki, if that has been under severe fighting for weeks. it fell under the control of the russian army on the 3rd day of moscow's special military operation on the ground. and last week it was recaptured by ukraine's forces. and some time off to that, to the deer's, started emerging from that town, allegedly showing piles of dead bodies lying on this trace. very disturbing images

indeed, and there was also information about mass graves have reported that the round 300 civilians were found bad there. and was quick to accuse moscow of war, crime and massacre. russians, defense ministry earlier reported that their forces had left the town of boucher on march 30th. the day after another round of peace talks on ukraine and wild boucher was under their control. not a single civilian was hurt. moscow calls caves, claims and provocation, and the whole footage a fake. now some meters, speculate that the recent contradict in russia's defense ministry's report regarding dates. and they say that apparently they had troops were still in town after march 31st. but on that very day, the city may have posted a video on social media show and he said an in front of local administration building happily announcing that the town is now cleared from his words, russian occupants. and in that we did,

he never happened to mention any dead buddy line on this trees. larry hill rosier. dear friends, the owner community of butcher march. the 31st will become history for our city. and the entire territorial community is the day of liberation from the russian occupants by the armed forces of ukraine. i state that this day is a great day, a day of great victory. and you also wrestle defense ministry now says that it's still control some of the territory around they eat a pain river and is still in the region. and that is also used by some media as proof of the allies, but being in the town. and in the region is not exactly the same thing. also ukraine's national police posted another video on april. the 2nd showing that troops clear in the town of fulcher, after the russian forces. it's an a 2 minute long veto and will now show you part of it, but you can easily find a helpful thing on the web. and as you will now see, the picture is completely different.

ah, well, it is clear that the story should be independently and immediately investigated. and russia called in the un security council emergency meeting on the issue. but russia's request was denied his freshest. foreign minister said gay lovegrove with demanded that an urgent meeting of the un security council be held on the matter since such provocations, pose a direct threat to the international peace and security. so that's a good question. the president of the security council this month, the u. k has a so far confirmed there is such a possibility, but we will continue to demand that the presidency fulfill its role. but it's really sad to see how they story develops. i have to say we, as journalists, i used to be very cautious with information is partially, you are in wars,

i just returned from logan square, spent weeks covering the conflict. i had to say that it has become a rule and i remove all journalists working there. not to report about anything before. official verification, even if you see an explosion with iran eyes or you hear the artillery fire, it's really hard to say what is really happening while false reports may actually heard russia's deputy permanent representative to the un now says that russia will insist on the emergency a special meeting on boucher on monday and also added that to london does not wanted to be discussed separately because it may disturb the western reputation. while some reaction, the french president emanuel mac roll no said russian forces are responsible for the killings in boucher on that mosque we'll have to answer for it's crimes. just to reiterate, no investigation has been carried out. british and us officials have called for

a probe by the international criminal court. while they polish president states, the image is emerging from the city are assign ukraine needs more weapons. but the russian ambassador to the u. s. claims it was ukrainian battalion to shell baton after the russian military left and that washington is ignoring the possibility. journalists, alexander caught who was embedded with the russian military shared his thoughts with us on the situation. yep. oh, but you, mrs. but i all, i spent almost a month here, the city of bootstrap. and so what sort of relations there were between the local people in the russian military, it was not aggressive, it was normal and you believe and at business, there was an exchange of military dry ration for daily products. there was no aggression or conflict between the russian military and local residence. the people whose bodies that are now shown on ukraine and television were killed not long ago . and i know for sure that the troops left the city in march to 30th on march 30. first. this was confirmed by the mayor of the city of butcher who didn't mention

any bodies lying in the streets. there is white bandage on the sleeves of many dead people. this is the identification mark of the russian troops with local residents, just in case tight white bandages to show you. i'm one of you don't shoot at me. of course, for the craning military were nationalists, such a bandage is a symbol of the enemy. from a u. s. marine intelligence officer, scott ritter told r t. he isn't convinced that the ukrainian government is interested in a thorough investigation of the butcher killings. we've seen the of the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, a talked about his intent to investigate. why isn't he knocking on the door demanding access to these bodies, demanding the absolute necessity to, to do these forensic examinations of the dead to find the data that would point a finger at yahoo? the perpetrator was wild blue, the ukrainian government, when i met

a thorough investigation, olga incident that was with ukrainian government in bad life. look, they've already achieved a propaganda. the entire west is outraged. at the voucher incident, the entire west appears to be blaming russia. so the ukrainian government does need to do any additional work. ukrainian media has tried apparently fail to pin the blame on moscow for the gruesome killing of a woman in the dunbar. city of maria pole, the victims briskly mutilated body with a swastika cart into her stomach was fined by russian lead troops after they cleared the ukrainian neil now sees of battalion forces from a civilian building a week ago. please be aware, disturbing images are ahead. picking up the story from the ukrainian media player, president landscape advisor lead the charge on social media. posting an image of the victim unclaiming, she was killed and gone to mel. in the key of region, the advisor then updated the description to say the atrocity and possibly happened

and more useful before deleting his own post altogether. shortly after ukrainian media admitted they'd gotten the details or wrong and pulled their own reports on the scene of the killing in murray. the last week has since been visited by international journalists, including our t reporters. again, the following footage is disturbing. i had so snow had asked him, and this in fact is the corpse of a woman by the look of it she was raped and a swastika was carved into her stomach. the body has been here for quite some time, for now they cannot get out and barriers because there are a lot of courses throughout the city. this corpse was discovered relatively recently, soon we will try for the information. we would take it out of here. that the american journalist packed lancaster, who was the 1st to break the disturbing story from the city, offered his use to the program earlier. i think it's just the normal anti russian propaganda from the grain. it's really just the way it is blamed inside. blaming

the other side, but we know it for a fact that this happened in the basin of to number 25, which was used. busy as a base for grading forces, we're going through building to build and just seeing everything guestimate and just talking to the local talking to some of the d p. r. mobilization soldiers, one of them who happened to show us this basement of this school school number 25 and there you go. busy he took it down, we couldn't see many, many miles of cranium uniforms and patches and flags and the huge stash of weapon which in the purchase we heard. unfortunately we found this. busy woman partially covered, actually with uniforms and uniforms as well as her

stomach wage had a swastika on this just being a shock from hard to tell what it was, carved or painted on with blood was needed. if you could see what had happened there, this woman had been tortured and strangled to patrick lancaster. meanwhile, there's been a new scandal over an image circulating on social media, apparently showing a swastika broadcast by a polish tv channel. the notorious symbol is purely seen in the background during an interview about ukraine. that comes after ukraine's president refused to condemn atrocities, allegedly committed by pro key of robert colas during an interview on american t. v. when asked about some brutal cases attributed to the neo nazi a self battalion on the mirrors, lensky simply said, the extremist members of the group are what they are. 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. it will need, you know, they are what they are. yet during mount interview and fox news, lot of years, a lensky also said the a self battalion is fully integrated into the ukrainian military. however, the fragment of the interview was later deleted from all of the american networks online resources. the ukranian presidents later stance on the a's off nationalist is a far cry from his own attempts to pressure them to disarm back when he assumed the presidency in 2019. take a look. yeah. president of the son please. me a sort of a yes. you will yet to be a british list because on auto 0 meeting at the me p one gy knocked pressure really funny was up. uh huh. what do you live with when you minute movie?

no, pardon. what are you so should be good to look to say the bit it was me. i'm on the with young a demo moser, that my ment ups would you let them slip the she mozilla. we showed a little key to me because it will show us new from here near the nice to me ahead of the conflict in ukraine extremist forces like the haze of battalion had been widely condemned by human rights groups. in 2014 amnesty international called for an investigation into possible war crimes carried out by such ukrainian at forces during their military crackdown on civilian descent. in don bass, the journalist, project lancaster, again at sais. the latest events, though, her trust these in mario pl are not getting enough international attention on questions asked about them being and maria bowl. i talk to the people and i tell them what is being portrayed in the lecture, mainstream media, how the western says that everything is the call of russia in russia,

showing everything showing all the story areas and their words. tell me when i can these facts what the west is saying is that it's not true and this can be seen in many of my reports. i took my interviews up without it cuts can be no misinterpretation. locals on the ground in there. you are telling me that the as a battalion fire on our buildings fired from their buildings and fired on civilian civilians, tried to leave. this is what the locals are telling me. another story to bring you today, a lovely and energy company as mulling over whether to pay moscow for gas in rubles, the move which could potentially violate current anti russian sanctions. the firm has a long term contract with russia for natural gas that goes on until 2030. but the fact it's even considering paying in russian currency is leading to roars of disapproval from elsewhere within the u. r t. charlotte dubin ski picked up the

story. it going to becoming a bit of a shock that's a deal. it's being moulded the moment. the baltic states in particularly who've been pretty cool at the moment, making a big deal about the fact that they have stopped apparently all in ports of russian natural gas. and we heard from the lithuania, president of the weekend, who took to twitter to actually call on other you countries to follow suit. and according to the ceo of lat fees, natural gas storage operator, the import stopped on april 1st. if there was still any doubts about whether there might be any trust in deliveries from russia, current events clearly shows that there is no more trust since april 1st, russian natural gas is no longer flowing to latvia, estonia in lithuania, and know that it wasn't an april fools joke, so it's pretty hard to tally. have both countries have stopped imports with russia

when we hearing from this laughing company in the last 24 hours that it's looking to sign this new contract for russian natural gas with gas pom. that will take it all the way to 2030. now this comes as well as much as in europe is experiencing this unseasonably cold snap at the moment is pretty freezing here in paris right now. and that has prompted some governments to have concerns about energy security in the future and very soon in the future. so much so that they've told consumers to think of turning the thermostats down or even avoid using certain electrical appliances at certain trigger points during the day. we've also seen countries like germany and austria triggering alert systems due to their concerns about energy and leaders who have previously opposed very tough sanctions

when it comes to russian gas in oil. and no changing their tune falling were discoveries, and just outside to kiev of the weekend. does mccaul, bas scenes in the area around butcher? this is what president micron had to say, a 100 to 6 them. what has happened in boucher calls for a new round of sanctions and very clear measures. we will coordinate with our european partners, especially germany. and we will take further individual measures. and i'm in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on cohen petrol. we need to act good, good. the present, michael has also said that france could look at taking measures owner countrywide level to even some german ministers have conceded that sanctions on russian energy may actually be something that can't be avoided. and that's lead to a bit of a split in the government because we know that the german economy minister has

continued to say that a ban on russian gas would cause much more harm and good. and this is something that you ministers having to choose through at the moment as they meet on monday, tuesday, in luxembourg. but it's not just germany that could be the ones that need to be convinced on this level. hungary to has been opposed to sanctions on gas in energy coming from russia. and with the win over the weekend. victor open. that is unlikely to change. always good to welcome live on to the program. geopolitical analyst on sherman of the local branch of f day, linda reiner, rod for sea reiner welcome to you. many european countries say bail gradually phase . i had all russian oil and gas. is that a realistic possibility? and what could that due to the russian economy? if they achieved it, we just see about the united states are increasing their imports of oil from russia,

about 40 percent plus. so the question is, who will win? when europe faces out oil imports from russia, and other beneficiary will be india, india. i have now made contract with russia for a lower price than usually paid on the international markets to import oil from the biggest country on earth. so the question is, where are those and sanctions of the european union where they are leading to? so will they really hurt russia? will they really change russian policy to what's ukraine or the. busy will those sanctions should contribute to a restructuring of the world economy where the european union europe at large court? well be one of the major losers. losing wealth, losing future opportunities to. yeah,

the hop for industry for production and not only for services for energy intensive production, and all of this is at risk. all that which had been the source of our wealth in europe for the past decay. if the sanctions aren't working as the polish prime minister states who wants to take it off a notch, what else reiner can we expect? europe the you to do can tighten the screw and moscow even more in other ways. a vague curd but the, the costs for the european side are what matters of what shouldn't matter to governments in the west, at least if they care for the needs of the population who have to pay much higher prices now for natural gas, for oil, for at the gas station when they fill their tanks. so this is the question,

how much will be the cost for the european side and well, this is a great doubt that i have that these sanctions are really useful. and i also doubt that the public really understands what is the basic major risk of those sanctions. the major risk is the long term harm for the east west relationships in europe. and i see of course, russia as a part of europe. of course it's because country on earth, it's the biggest provider of oil and natural gas for western europe. and so this is the main issue. what will be the future perspectives for cooperation because we cannot survive isolated on the ration continent in the future. the western european part of your asia is only

a very small percentage in terms of land resources, the market that the drug. so where will it lead us to? we need russia, we need good relationships. again, how can we rebuilt then run or do you think that you was just in such a rush to punish russia for its actions in ukraine? it did it think about the potential for those sanctions to bite it back. and when i say by that back, i mean about citizens. if you have mentioned there are people paying their electricity bills, their gas bills going to the petrol pumps, or do they just not care on the want to be an instinct with washington and dumb the rest? i think this calculation was not properly made. what will be the consequences for the population in terms of a rising gas energy prices and also a crisis in the productive sector, which will hit all the back onto the governments. i mean, we saw it in the gary an election that

a country which kept neutrality. what the government was honored by a real great victory. so i think the government in western europe did not make this calculation and see now that they got into trouble. but i really see a big challenge here, how we can back get back to the negotiation table because the discourse in this heavy conflict in ukraine has gone into a direction where you can see only a debt and abroad. ching, not really a perspective for re re opening the negotiation, and this is really about them. many thanks for your take today as always. geopolitical analyst reiner roth, 1st life on r t. thank you. ah ok. let's say move the program or not because confusion, rains over the future of pakistan's prime minister. him run,

come after members of his party, blocked a vote of no confidence in the pm on sunday and the sold parliament protesters being taken to the streets in a show of support for his blame foreign powers. quote. particularly the u. s. for trying to intervene in his country's domestic policy and forces the portrait, washington rejects the allegations. meanwhile, the high court in islam abroad met on monday to discuss whether the blocking of the no confidence felt was constitutional. a decision is expected on tuesday, or the, or our team world's depart, who's 6 l. a boy to join me in the she due to discuss the unfolding, rapidly unfolding situation in the country. well, let's try to make sense of all the going on with our team worlds that part ho stokes on a boy who joins us live in this shoot auction. if you do have a good to have you on and you've recently returned, i just came back today. yes. so you'll have

a good feeling of it. and really just looking through the story here, we've had a new confidence vote block, the parliament dissolved. the high court today, monday, waited in on whether that move was constitutional or not. how would you see this and full and give us the background? it's pretty clear that pakistan is going into her early elections within the next 3 months. i think the main question now is whether in run hon will participate in that or not. and it's a very interesting her here is case of democracy because he has a pretty wide support among the people. and you can see that both in terms of, you know, public rallies that he can gather and you know, support on social media. but he faces pretty strong opposition in the parliament and the national assembly. and you know, it's a, it's an interesting case for political scientists. what is more representative, the popular will of the people, the majority of the popular vote, or the majority of the parliamentary both. but for now, we will have to wait and see what the supreme court has to say if it's on hand is

allowed to, to participate in the, in the next elections. i think he sounds a pretty good chance of winning, if not, than perhaps the, the countries facing a full blown constitutional crisis i'm just interested in, watched him run. come, said himself recently that the turmoil seen in his countries connected to his refusal to follow western rhetoric and condemned russia over the war in ukraine. as far as you are aware, are those calls grounded in reality. it's not just about following western rhetoric, pakistan for quite some time has been fool. he integrated into the so called american war and terror. they contributed tropes. they hosted the american military and the during the, you know, the war in afghanistan, the soviet presents and garrison, they were the primary force of farming. jackie deemed that for the soviet salad that the americans, you know, were very,

very eager to see that. but i think over the years, pakistan has developed the sounds that they have given the law to the americans and received very little in return. so once more i'm home came to power in 2018. he said that we need to be to have a more balanced relationship, not only with the americans, they still want to cooperate with them, but they also developed the pretty strong relationship with china. good relationship with russia on han was here in moscow on the 24th of february. why? why during lunch? the military operation in the ukraine, and just a few days before that, i had a chance to interview human rama. but then i ask you whether it's politically sound decision to travel to most these precarious time. and he said that i don't care, i have national interest in my own, my mind, and i'm going to pursue them no matter what ad. but that have been speculations that certain powers tried to dissuade him too, from travelling to moscow from associating himself with russia even though

definitely there is no military alliance between moscow and as i am about this point of time. now as news of the conflict in ukraine beams to the world, still not many know the history of an area targeted by clear forces for the past 7 years. next in our short talk trap, we hear the story direct from the residence itself, goodbye. ah, ah. the.