gonzales will depart. we choose to look for common ground. ah, behind my back with the system of just for our correspondence, rod goes d of reports mario paul, as the battle for the city, enters its final phase. the meeting of the un security council is convened by russia to discuss us funding, bio labs operating ukraine that has us denied any wrongdoing. ukrainian president compares russian troops to islamic state terrorist. and as despite reports revealing ukraine itself has for years used, ice is competent in conflict and brazil thess. the co hungry is eve

funding that says prime minister, all gun remains firm and his decision to pay for russian gas in rubles and them of them of the sanctions against hungary or not democratic. we are a small nation and we are vulnerable to others or the punishes because it annoyed them that we just do it. they say, ah welcome to our international. my name is peter scott bringing the latest news from our headquarters here in moscow this thursday morning. it's great to have you with us. the siege of murder you pull appears to be entering its final phase with ukrainian forces, allegedly hold up in a steel pants in the city osmotic sd of reports from the area. with most of mary,

you polls urban areas liberated that east apartment blocks and suburbs. housing fighting here has changed civilians out of the way. artillery has let loose with abandon the here holly outskirts of variable, a battery of self propelled how to the far in the way it ukrainian military positions or masses. positions inside the as alpha, iron and steel works block, which is where thousands of nationalists are making their last stab. as off militants have lost their capacity for counter battery fire. these russian and allied forces no longer have to maneuver off to each volume, which gives them an advantage. accuracy that i blip amplewood, we are launching strikes on his av steel factory on the nationalist bizarre battalion. we use pinpoint strikes,

we don't put local residents or infrastructure in danger because these are our homes in our families. you, while artillery shakes the ground, the very air vibrates from a very different sort of weapon. behind my back, ah, that's what's it multiple? well, it was a system of just thought it's ukrainian nationalist positions again, when the industrial zones have marable, you'll just one. busy solving this goes on day and night. russian grad, emerald systems have been unleashed at areas where civilians are no longer present . ah sh, chill jia must still be careful. the vast industrial complex lays at the heart of the city. misses are intolerable from the on of the battle. ukrainian nationalists

forbids any sort of civilian evacuation, even shot at civilians trying to flee to the disgust of russian and allied forces. were mirror with our new that of we tried to evacuate people out of the city, but they've been forced to stay by the local militants who would do such a thing. who would use people as human shield on the fascists? perhaps there is a crisis here. people have no electricity, no food, no water, while we see it, and it's just not right. every soldiers, duty is to save people to protect them. at the end of the day, artillery is a tool with limited use. leveling variable is not an option. russian forces have come to literate that not the sure, which means this battle will be settled the hard way, with a bit of contest between infantry and very nearly face to face. more i'd gazda of archie for mario bull. while amid 1st battles over recent weeks,

more humanitarian aid is now reaching multiple. however, many civilians continue to leave their homes in the city that's been nearly destroyed. with so amusing art seems helped to get to russia, where they'll be met by family members. roman casa reports on that. not been getting hundreds of messages from people around the world. her looking for their loved one, say here in variable, trying to find out their fate. there's no communication, as you can see, the, the city is a devastated. i will try to find as many people as possible. aah! woman from st. petersburg contacted me through social media. she's looking for her mom and her and they live in this building. this building is in fact, so i have hold the very alive and doing how well

with eulu from st. petersburg wrote to me asking that i help evacuate her mother. i, rena, sacramento. and irene as a rubinez, is that you? yes, that's us. are you ready for evacuation? yes. ah. now he's next week. i don't even know how many blankets we have here. i sleep in a sleeping bag here spy. we'll get. we'll one that we are using our bathroom is afraid because it's the coldest place in france. water supply has become a problem. port irene is kidneys are causing her agony and i'm suffering from dizziness. it's hard to juggle of a congenial digital. ah.

the man in the city of for ra stove in russia is looking for his mother. he contacted, he contacted me some time ago, and just now i was able to reach this address actually, i'm good there, right now. i have a map right here. we are only 2 minutes away and hopefully she's still there. and if she's ready to leave with me, go take her to her off off and reunite her with her son a mum. hi. thank you for getting in touch. we're doing fine. i assure you that you can trust these people and all come as soon as i can to pick you up with

. we are now exiting the city. how far mario val. i can finally take off this helmet. as you can see, we have some passengers with us. these 3 ladies have escaped the fighting in the city of maria full and very soon while in about 34 hours, i will make sure they cross the russian border and meet their relatives. meanwhile, we'll come back here and we'll continue delivering humanitarian aid and helping all those that needed. some nato countries would rather see ukraine focus on fighting rather than sign a peace agreements in the near future. that according to reports in the washington post, the piece claims, not all countries in the alliance bike ongoing piece talks between moscow and keith

. meanwhile, nato secretary general, you installed some burgers outlined plans for the further army of ukraine, including heavy weaponry. i also expect up ministers when they meet today and tomorrow we'll discuss how we can further support ukraine allies are providing both anti tank and to air or air defense systems, but also different kinds of advanced weapons systems and also both light and the heavier weapon systems to ukraine, our congress personally saying what have you done? and he basically go look at him. what do you think we've done? why do you think you're able to fight wave, train them, and we've given them a weapons. that's what's happened. it is de facto a western policy, and no one should be ashamed of it. this is a war of rushes choosing, and as long as you craniums are willing to make them pay for their decision,

we should help them. i hope they will be hard to steal. i support maximum military support to maximum sanctions. russia must lose, and criminals should standing court. the united states who really put ukraine up to this over the last 8 years. they put them on a, a deliberate collision course with ra shops. and i think that they fully intend to have ukraine fight until, until the last ukrainian until everything has been spent. every drop of blood that can be spilled is spelled and i think they make that abundantly clear their support by shipping weapons and money and facilitating the war effort in every possible way . i think they're trying to harm ukrainians and russia, the whole nature of the united states relationship with ukraine fence. the u. s. a top over through the elected ukrainian government in 2014 has been one of self interest in washington. they most certainly do not want the piece they want. they

want russia to pay a price for standing up against us. encroachment and nato encroach. washington is said to send more weaponry. the ukraine, such as the switchblade drone, which is equipped with the unsee armor warheads. us the sexy of states. antony blinking also said ukraine would soon have 10 anti tang systems for every bush and st. anders or the western states. also supply weapons. the key of german officials have reported the claim. they've run out of alms to send all these comes amid continued russia. ukraine. peace talks, international security affairs commentators. shaheed rather believes that swamping the country with weapons could lead to more civilian casualties. rooms are actually gone, it causes suicide gone. so there are classified as an offensive weapon because they have a very signature and key armor su personnel role. so what these drones will do is they will increase attrition against the russian forces in your brain,

which will in turn escalate the conflict in your brain because then russia will also commit itself to escalate the pos they want the ukrainians to continue fighting to weaken russia because russia as much, is a biggest threat to, to nato as they perceive it, as opposed to the ukrainian bio weapons to your brain. it's not going to help bring down the conflict. what it is going to do is the infusion of advanced weaponry, like these kamikaze. busy drones americans are providing the ed, if s missiles provided by the british or french entities. missiles provided by the british and the americans. they are going to only increase accretion against russian forces. it will lead to controlled escalation where there will be a lot of casualties. and there will be, there will be no tree per se, or our graceful exit for your korean artifice. so remember, this is your premium lives at risk, that is ukranian territory at risk of this american,

not british treat miss. so it is for your premium leadership to decide what they want to do, what their own future ah, of to the un security council meeting held to discuss us funded by a loves and ukraine. versus ministry of defense shed more lights on how the bio loves, allegedly operates on their parents, impacts ortiz, kelly. morphine has more nuts. the meeting was held at the un headquarters in new york in the eco sock chamber. and at the meeting, we heard from the russian ministry of defense describing a lot of information they have about these bio labs in ukraine, how they operate and how they have impacted the local population of the country. this is some of what we heard from the russian ministry of the zan shoes. used to be according to the ministry of foreign affairs of china. the pentagon controls 336 labs in 30 stage outside of the national. we're going to use

such modern i fire, department of defense are located throughout the territories bordering russia. and now there were some allies of the united states that did what they usually do and respond to any talk of these bio labs and simply dismissed the entire thing as a vast russian fabrication here some allies of the united states. yet again, we are witnessing the russian federations misuse of the united nation, and it's privileged position within it. as platform for this information. we regret that russia is once again using the united nations as a platform for this information. now the united states and the united kingdom made a point of not attending the media. and we heard russian officials express somewhat

disappointments about the fact that seems like there is a big effort to selectively look over the information that russia presented to just desperately tried to argue that these labs, that somehow they don't exist, or somehow these labs don't pose any threat to public health when the information presented by the russian ministry of divest speaks for itself. but there are many countries around the world that share russia concerned that these bio labs don't only exist in ukraine. they're in many other country than potential health rich risks associated with them. the fact that military kind of activities could be associated with these labs is something that many people around the world are concerned about. while us officials seem to argue, it's not important and accuse anyone who brings it up of being a crazy conspiracy. theorist. ukrainian presidents volume in the landscape recently said that russian troops are no different from isis. that's dest, by numerous reports, including from western media claim, and ukraine itself doesn't shy away from resorting to help from islamic states are,

sees maria, financial reports here, has compared russia with terrorists, from the so called islamic state, speaking at the un security council earlier this week, president lensky said, russia is no different from the notorious terra group in digital molig of limbs, the throats were raped and killed in front of the children. the tongues of pulled out only because the question did not hear what you wanted to hear from them. how is it different from what these luck states harris are doing the occupied territories? not similar, but worse, according to ukraine. foreign minister, what we've seen in recent weeks is that russia is much worse than isis when it comes to its atrocities and massacres. serious accusations are made before any independent investigation or any solid evidence of russia's actions apart from delayed, disturbing, the dears from the ground that moscow insists a fake warning. they'll be more to come for what the zone and little monster,

according to confirmed information on the evening of april. 4th in the town of mush, june 23 kilometers northwest of kiev little service men of the 72nd ukrainian main center for psychological operations conducted another stage killing of civilians allegedly caused by the violent actions of the russian armed forces for subsequent distribution through western media. similar events have now been organized by the ukrainian special services in sumi connote up and other cities. speaking about i says, cave seems to know they subject rather well. ukraine is law known as a safe haven for his logic stage. he had his back in 2015, the new york times reported their president in east and ukraine. they were fighting on key of side. we like to fight the russians, said the chechen who refused to give his real name. we always fight the russians. the war for us never ended. we never ran from our war with russia, and we never will, according to different estimates their number could amount to hundreds,

including ukrainians who joined isis in syria or iraq. and also foreign jihadists fighter is sick in a place to hide that same year. a hateful is mateo saline tried to ring the shoe to the european parliament. to date the ukrainian authorities have made no attempt to deny the reports and have neither disowned these fundamentalist ice as combatants, nor sought to remove them from territory. ukraine has been claiming as its own, given the serious danger posed by isis in islamic terrorism in general. does the vice president hi representative, not consider it appropriate to rethink or stance regarding the conflict between ukraine and russia and engage in closer dialogue with russia? with a view to containing this fundamentalist threat key of didn't seem to be bother it is lamar terrorism is not typical for our country. that is why the ukrainian special services do not focus on it. they act only on the basis of the fact. if another state asks to extradite a person or when information about the militant falls into their hands. so when in

20191 of his learning states, key figures, namely it's deputy minister, a war known as al shiny of georgia, was detained in kiev after leaving happily in ukraine for years. it came as a bitter surprise that the arrest of one of his la mc state's top commanders here in kiev right under our noses would surely suggest many of the world's most dangerous men. do think of ukraine as a safe house. corruption in all state bodies. the police courts, prosecutors opens doors to abuse. it seems the i says, key of refers to when describe in russia has something ukraine is already more than familiar with itself. will. earlier we spoke with scott ritter form us marine corps intelligence officer. you said his thoughts on the issue. i think the ukraine knows its history with isis very well. they're just denying it because they understand

the, the predicament that it will place them in the eyes of the west. you know, most european nations, the united states view, isis is the mortal enemy. and it's, it's difficult to square ukraine's cosy relationship with isis. but, you know, ukraine hasn't tried to hide this very well. there's a former presidential adviser to the lensky who is given you a interviews where he talks about of the the isis use of terror, of murdering civilians in terrible fashion to make a point to, to control a population using the vehicle of terror. and he says this in a, in a very, you know, approving manner. and this is important because it's not just talks about the link between ukraine and isis, but to level to which ukraine has adopted isis practices as

a mechanism of population control. and when you consider that in light of what we seen in the book and other places, it becomes clear that this kind of terrorism that's being inflicted on the cranium population by its own government, is, is the isis playbook. and ukraine has openly endorsed that i split the european commission has moved to activate a mechanism which could isolates budapest from me. you funding? this comes right off the prime minister, the to all buns, recent re election and was followed by hungry making the decision to pay for russian gas in rubles, as well as voice and concerns about potential blow back from anti bush in sanctions . no more closer. it wouldn't be a problem for us to pain roubles if the russians want to be paid in roubles, we will pay them in re boucher. i think the most important contributing factor of the european economic crisis is the sets of sanctions that we have imposed on russia. we are going to have to pay the price for that as well. and we have to

prepare to actually pay the price of this. and to manage the european economic prices with you and me. peas called on the you commission to sanction hungry over concerns about the rule of law under moxie. the mechanism which followed several years of tension between budapest and brussels could potentially result in suspended voting rights for hungry and guardians. we spoke to felt the country is being punished for its noncompliance with the you as the assembly rights against what he wants. and well we don't represent the use values and we don't comply the way they would like us to. and we don't do what they say. i'm them of them of the sanctions against hungary are not democratic. we are a small nation and we are vulnerable to others. are they punishes because it annoys them that we just do as they say get. i think there was a can do so. obviously if there had been a new government, they would have negotiated. but the way it is now, i don't know. it feels like justice has been served. the said,

the good if the european union would handle it quite differently if there had been a new government, as things are now, there won't be any changes and we're just getting closer to russia. meanwhile, the european countries which have joined anti russian sanctions have seen street protests, demonstrates as rally didn't sophia, calling for an end to weapon shipments to ukraine? depending bulgaria, take a neutral stance as well as an ent and nato's presence in their country. are those cold for the government's resignation? protestors in it, so they lit flies during prime minister mario drug is visited sir, and on tuesday, police wrong stand by his anti war. demonstrators joined older groups to protest them. policies including further nato aid to ukraine and thousands came out across greece during a day long term nationwide strike as a deepening economic crisis, unfree sykes, which had been exacerbated by sanctions against russia. it's keith was pockets the

strike left fairies in ports. the capital without transports on hostels with just skeletons stuff. germany has seen a similar pitcher emit inflation rising to 7.6 percent. that's as the european union has reportedly failed to agree on his latest 5th batch of sanctions against moscow. with the main issue been disagreements on a total ban on russian coal impulse, former austrian foreign minister, karen, can i so says the stumbling block on coal impulse is not surprising. as a resource is vital to the german economy. we know that coal has gained importance for germany with the energy transition, actually, germany with all its commitments to climate change nevertheless, or the last 10 years ever since the map had announced energy transition had been relying more and more on coal fired electricity. the power stations then on nuclear and germany is actually in dire need of coal because it needs some back up whenever

the wind doesn't blow, the sun doesn't shine. it needs coal fired power stations. otherwise it's, there is a risk of power cut as of a germany, it's weitel, it's not just the metal political, joyce, or, or, and that's a joining the drum beats. that is there. but it's really something of white necessity. bolan's prime minister has criticized french president micron for talking directly with the demon uprooting. the 2 leaders are polar opposites with micro on making an effort to media to cease fire. and the polish premier st. diplomacy is dead in the water for your president, your micro, mister president micron. how many times have you negotiated with peyton, if you achieved? have you stop any of these actions from taking place for criminals and not to be

discussed? to negotiate with criminals must be full to get. nobody negotiated with hitler. would you negotiate with hitler? would you negotiate with style and would you negotiate with whole party study them? russia announced to the start of the conflict that one of its aims was to quote d, not si, fi ukraine. thousands of far right radicals of reports that have been active in the country on parts of don boss since the 2014 governments overthrow earlier polish tv channel found itself in whole water, swastika was apparently seen on one of its programs. the symbol was spotted in the background during an interview on ukraine, and it was not immediately clear that cv channel was aware of openly showing a swastika during his broadcast of polish political analyst. we spoke 2 things, war souls dismissal of a diplomatic solution to the conflict is a reflection of its allies policies. but i think a following

the example. they are a senior partner as well. so in, so several times the russian president are for duration. and this is a way to point to practically destroying all kinds of relations with duration that i think that the police are already making a mistake and doing statements both. it's not just diplomacy that was all once cancelled, according to polish minister, russian culture should be completely removed from the public. i feel the green sky things, it's no time to be appreciating classics such as russian ballet or any of the countries legendary authors. it's a, it's a fiscal, see, again,

weighs in on warsaw approach to all things russian. this is royce, a single one minister of culture in the word or to say, such works. i mean, we have a lot of that versus a lot of even worse in sometimes in the history of you. nevertheless. no one never called for the cancellation for total cancellation for a kind of a looking to do it. i mean, we got the political been yes, we have to acknowledge that the russian country is that one of the most important part of the european cultural heritage, as well as the russian science as the russian. she was a fi. well,

that's the latest from the war in ukraine. my name is peter scott, and i'll be back again at the top of the hour. but do you feel free to with the r t dot com for more stories and analysis in the meantime. thank you for watching. ah, in the united states, a news and tax on other countries. we have a responsibility for the whole world. and we need to make rules for the rest. because without out there will be, can do a

problem is the aggressor who chose this war. today i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions with becoming louisiana. mostly mind the branding, all imports of russian oil and gas combined in imposing these sanctions. i brochure you as destroy the american. in fact, there's a boomerang by where you're suffering the i just really hitting people in the pocket book. moses is only a router visitor unless you this is going to impose severe cost on the russian economy immediately and overtime. as i stated the that on there, i thought it by the we have list.