the rise of asia as it were, the war in ukraine has only accelerated that trend with this information attack was witnessed in the city of to chit and the key of region following withdrawal of the russian troops. brush is foreign minister, islam is as fake disturbing footage from boucher which had prompted kiya to blame russian forces for the mass killing of civilians. we hear from a reporter who covered the situation on the ground from the outskirts of the ukrainian time, which i know for sure that the troops left the sea and march the 3rd march 31st. this was confirmed by the mayor of you see will channel didn't mention any body's line in the st. louis. also head on the program, ukraine's media polls its own fake news reports, blaming russia for the gruesome killing of a woman in the dumbass city of mario paul. we speak with the american journalist who 1st broke the story. i think that it's just the normal anti russian propaganda

. you grain it for a flat. this happened at the base of tooth number 25. it was used as a base for gradient portions. sounds a lot, 3, an energy company, moles, the possibility of paying and roubles for russian gas not submit. i prize from its neighbors to stop them boarding any russian energy supplies at all. ah. across the globe around the clock. this is your r t pleasure to have you with us today. my name's you know, neil a disinformation attack. that's the response from the russian foreign minister to footage that's emerged from the ukranian ton of boucher, which shows disturbing images of the dead bodies of civilians lying in the streets

and others piled in mass graves. ukraine's defense ministry sees the killings were committed by russian troops. but speaking to the you ends under secretary general for humanitarian refers. sir gala froth claim the spread of the footage has an anti russian agenda in but western audiences. with free through this information attack was witness in the city of boucher and 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, and was to expression forces 40 retreated from the city. on the 30th of march. on the 31st to march, the cities now 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

a couple of weeks ago. there were attempts to misrepresent the situation and one of maria poles, maternity hospitals, has a crime committed by the russian troops. it later became clear those attempts had been made to cause of provocation. the materials presented were later exposed as fakes, songs, while the stories about the current 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 special military operation on the ground. and last week it was recaptured by ukraine's forces. and some time after that, the dns 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 grades. he reported that around 300 civilian were found that there it 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 while butcher was under their control, not a single civilian was hurt moscow. coals caves claims and provocation, and the whole footage a fake. now some meters, speculate that the recent contradiction in versus defense minister is 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's standing 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 very here. rosie is from dear friends, the on a 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. also rushes defense ministry now says that it still control some of the territory around the pain river and is still in the region. and that is also used by some media as proof of the allies, but been 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 show in their troops clear in the town of fulcher, after the russian forces. it's an a 2 minute long video and will now show you part of it. but you can easily find a whole footage on the web and as you will now see, the picture is completely different with ah, well,

it is clear that the story should be independently and immediately investigated. and russia cold in the un security council emergency meeting on the issue, but russia's request was denied. he is russia's foreign minister, said j lovegrove with demanded that an urgent meeting of the un security council be held on the matter. since such provocations posed a direct threat to the international peace and security, so that instead of the 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. well, 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, especially if you're in wars. i just returned from logan's quest, spent weeks covering the conflict. i had to say that it has become a rule and i ran roof role journalist working there. no, to report about anything before. official verification, even if you see an explosion with iran eyes or you hear the authority far,

it's really hard to say what is really happened a while false reports may actually heard russia's deputy permanent representative to the you are 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 weston reputation. just to bring you some wider reaction to this, the polish president has stated, the images emerging at from the city are assign ukraine needs more weapons. however, at despite a general anti russian sentiment in poland, some politicians don't share the president stance expressing doubts about the foot . have you observed that houses are almost intact? i bet you didn't. so why bodies are buried in the mass graves instead of being buried by relatives and why they were not removed from the lane by relatives,

look and think it doesn't hurt. while french president and money all micron has said, russian forces are responsible for the killings in butcher. the mosque will have to quote, answer for its crimes. british and us officials have call for an investigation by the international criminal court to but the russian ambassador to the u. s. claims . it was ukrainian battalion to shell. the time after the russian military left about washington is ignoring thinking about possibility journalist alexander cops who was embedded with the russian military, shared his thoughts with us on the situation up, pushed emissions. but i know i spent almost a month here, the city of neutral. and so what sort of relations there were between the local people and the russian military. it was not aggressive, it was normal and even did business. there was an exchange of military dr. 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 cd on march 30th on march 30. first. this was confirmed by the mayor of the city of router who didn't mention any bodies lying in the streets. there is a white bandage on the sleeves of many dead people. this is the identification mark of the russian troops and local residents, just in case type white bandages to show. i'm one of you don't shoot at me, of course, for the ukrainian military when nationally such a bandage dissemble of the enemy. a former us marine intelligence officer, scott richard told r t. he is not convinced that the ukrainian government is interested in a thorough investigation of the butcher killings. we've seen the, the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court talk about his intent to investigate. why isn't he knocking on the door demanding access to these bodies, demanding of 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, why don't do the ukrainian government funded emit a thorough investigation incident that was with you, bringing government in bad lights. look, they've already achieved a propaganda. the entire west is outraged. at the future incident, the entire west appears to be blaming russia. so the ukrainian government does need to do any additional work or another story to bring you to de ukrainian media has tried and apparently failed to pin the blame on moscow for the gruesome killing of a woman in the don bass city of multiple the victims, brutally mutilated body with a swastika carved into her stomach was fined by russian lead troops after they cleared it. ukrainian, neo nazi ays of battalion forces from a civilian building a week ago. please be aware, disturbing images are ahead in this report at picking up the story from

a ukrainian media outlets presidency. lensky advisor lead the charge on social media posting and image of the victim and claiming she was killed in gus to mel in the key of region. the advisor then updated the description to say the atrocity hard possibly happened to motor you pull before deleting his own post all together shortly after ukrainian media admitted they've gotten the details all wrong. pulse their own reports. the scene of the killing in mario, the last week has since been visited by international journalists, including r t reporters. again the following footages 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. about the

american journalist pub tricked lancaster, who was the 1st to break the disturbing story from the city, offered his views 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. blame each side. blaming the other side, but we know for a fact that this happened in the basin of to number 25, which was used. busy as a base for ukrainian forces, we're going through building to build and just seeing everything guestimate and just talking to the local talking to some of the g p. r. mobilization soldiers, one of them who happened to show us this basement of this school school number 25. busy busy he took it down, we could see many, many amounts of cranium uniforms and patches and flags and

a huge dash of weapon which in the purchase we've heard. unfortunately we found this. busy woman partially covered, actually with uniforms and uniforms as well as her. her stomach wage had a swastika on this just being a shock from being hard to tell what it was, carved on, painted on with blood blood, meaning you could see what it happened. this woman had been tortured and strangled . meanwhile, there's been a new scandal over an image circulating on social media, apparently showing a swastika during a broadcast by a polish tv channel. that atoria symbol responded in the background during an interview about ukraine. it's not clear if the polish channel was aware of openly showing a swastika during its broadcast, but it was, as you can see here,

quite prominent. and it comes after ukraine's president refused to condemn a trust. these allegedly committed by pro key of neo nazis during an interview in american tv. when asked about some brutal cases attribute to the notorious a's of battalion blood, where is lensky simply said, the extremely members of the group quote 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. during the interview on fox news, latimer zelinski also said the elf battalion is fully integrated into the ukrainian military. however, that fragment of the interview was later deleted from all of the american networks online resources. the ukranian presidents, the latest stance on the a's off a nationalist is a far cry from his own attempts to pressure them to disarm back when he assumed the

presidency in 2090. yeah, president of the son please. me a sort of. oh good. yes. you will yet to be able to because on 0 beating the beating like, you know, for sure if i mean was up. uh huh. what do you live with them? yes, i do you when you mine movie? no partner or so if it is good to look at the video with momentums for julia, i'm slid the she mozilla we showed you know, and it was a little key to me because it will show you a while before the conflict in ukraine broke on extremist forces like be a self battalion, had been widely condemned by human rights groups. in 2014 numbness, the international call for an investigation and to possible war crimes carried out by such ukrainian forces during their military cracked on civilian descent. in don bos journalists, patrick lancaster again sees the latest events and more you pull are not getting

enough international attention and questions asked. being and maria go, i talk to the people and i tell them what is being portrayed in the lecture, mainstream media, how the washington says that everything is the fault of russia in russia, showing everything, showing all the story areas and their words, tell me what i can for the fact what the west is saying that it's not true. and this can be seen in many of my report, which i put my interviews up. oh, without it cuts can be no misinterpretation. locals on the ground in variable are telling me that the as a battalion fire on our buildings fired from their buildings and fired on civilians and tried to leave. this is what the locals are telling me. longer over the situation in ukraine spilled over into sport over the weekend was when left you in

in basketball fans. and for the banner with the nato and ukrainian flag proceeded to bu they're serbian opponents. the the incident happened on sunday. those mom, hey, serbian fierce refused to hold the premium slide with the inscription stop the war before the start of the much just to give you some background, serbia has seen a number of pro russia demonstrations since the conflict began with you and in firms in the turn unfurled, as we said, the nato flag began shunting empty syrup slogan on a lottery and energy company is mulling over whether to pay moscow for gas in rubles

move, which could potentially violate current anti russian sanctions. the firm has a long term contract with russia for natural gas until 2030, but the fact it's even considering paying and russian currency is leading to roars of this approval from elsewhere within the u. n. picking up the story. first, ortiz, charlotte gibbons, it going to becoming a bit of a shock. that's a deal. it's being melted the moment. the baltic states in particularly have 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 precedent over the weekend, who took to twitter to actually call on other you countries to follow suit. and according to the c, e. o. of lack of is 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 how baltic 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 the oil. and no changing their tune following what were discoveries. and just outside of the key of, of the weekend does mccaul, bas scenes in the area around butcher, this is what president micron have to say a 100 to 6 am. what has happened in boucher called for a new route of sanctions and very clear measures. we will coordinate with our european botanist, especially germany, and we will take for the individual measures. and i'm in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on cohen petrol. we need to act get, get 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 chew through at the moment as they meet on monday and 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 and energy coming from russia and with the win over the weekend. victor open. that is unlikely to change. meanwhile, in paris, over the last few days, the french power grid operator was warning of a potential for 10 ration between the supply and demand of electricity in the

country. in the wake of the cold wave, thus hit europe, the power operator house companies and households to reduce their energy consumption starting. today, some parisians told us they have followed the advice of those who are more skeptical of them, not to live, to see whether it's a tricity fuel or anything related to energy consumption. we have already tried to do our best to limit, or in fact, there's only by all ready have an ecological conscience. so i already live through the general reduction of consumption. but if this decision follows the russian ukrainian conflict, it's still implies that it is the consequence of our policies. and there i really wonder about the relevance of this type of statement. today i have the impression that the decisions that have been taken go against the people. i think the war is an excuse because even in italy, i'm italian. the prices have already gone up at the end of last year. so i think that's an excuse. but if they help us reach people, change your habits. that's fine. but it's

a shame that it's on the backs of poor people and excuse me. ok, another story i want to bring you today with possibly a lot ramifications. confusion range over the future of pakistan's prime minister. him run, come not is after members of his party blocked the vote of no confidence in the pm on sunday and dissolve parliament since then. indeed. and the build up to the protesters have been taken to the streets and the show of support. for mister, can we blame foreign powers? and particularly the us for trying to intervene in this country's domestic policy. unforced, is the portrait, washington reject the allegations that a high court met in islam about on monday to discuss whether the blocking of the no confidence vote was constitutional. a decision is expected on choose say. there are 2 worlds apart. host of santa boy who's just returned from pakistan. join me in the studio to discuss the unfolding situation in the country. really just looking

through the story here. we've had a new conference, the block, the parliament dissolved. the high court today monday, waited in on whether that move was constitutional or not. how do you see this and full and give us the background? it's pretty clear the pakistan is going into her early elections within the next 3 months. i think the main question now is whether you run hung 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 than 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,

if han 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. and 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 during the, you know, the war in afghanistan, the peasants and garrison, they were the primary force of farming. jackie deem 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 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 a pretty strong relationship with china. good relationship with russia, a man hon, 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 as momma by then i ask you whether it's politically sound decision to travel to most good this precarious time. and he said that i don't care, i have national interest in my own 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 his mom about this point of time on a boy who taking me through the situation a fast evolving one in pakistan. ok, british diplomats unforeseen by allister crook? is today's guest on going underground catch his child with option and what a growing russia china alliance could mean for the world at large. that's next than ortiz, goodbye for. ah, it will be long debated whether the war in ukraine could have been avoided. what is not really opening debate is how centers of power have been shifting to the east, the rise of asia as it were. the war in ukraine is only accelerated veteran

with a with i'm after that, you're welcome to going other guy. we're back and 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. british army took it back 74 days later. this is the annual e u. china summited,

scheduled for the 2nd day of to friday's peace talks between ukraine and russia. all this, while the u. s. ban this program is 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 or crook. alistair, welcome back, gone, going underground. let's begin with perhaps the need for you to remind us what you think is the start of this conflict and the reasons for the conflict given that certainly in the european union where a descent is arguably band. we are told almost hourly, that putin invaded ukraine without provocation. oh no, it's very clear what we're dealing with israeli something and it's much broader than just ukraine. and both residents pull in and she have both made said

that this is a by 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 if you like to be able to have a discussion. there is really no communication. before that there was a very good analogy made by someone, but 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 10 percent. he said not to one. 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 to.