ah, with final battles re, john and marty, you pull russian troops continue to evacuate civilians from residential buildings and hospitals previously controlled by ukrainian forces. survivors claim they were used us human shields by nationalism. and my wife told me that a ukrainian tank came and was shooting at a residential house. i have family there 2 kids. they were hiding in the basement like mice. they answered that they needed to stop the enemy and that we civilians were nothing to them. but brushes, foreign minister claims washington is pushing kiev to continue fight thing despite

ongoing peace talks with thousands of europeans protest against the use weapon shipments to ukraine. with some members of the european parliament, openly saying the ear has become a tool of nato. you instead of promoting peace and acting in the interests of the people, europe has become a tool of nato and the military industrial complex. and also ad on the program to former heads up the sputnik media news i split have been detained by police in estonia, after claims they broke recent you financial sanctions on russian individuals with 247 news for moscow. this is archie pleasure to have your company today. my names, you know, new. the siege of mario both appears to be entering its final phase with ukrainian

nationalists forces allegedly hold up in a steel plant in the city. russian forces, along with done yet military troops are currently evacuating civilians from a local hospital. there. the russian defense ministry claims more than a 100 people had been held up the side by the neo nazi adolf battalion. russian troops conducted more than 10 trips to the hospital to evacuate all the injured, including 16 children evacuated, claim the training units, use them as human. she'd gotten thumb, glanced. my wife told me that a ukrainian tank came and was shooting at a residential house. i have family there 2 kids. they were hiding in the basement like my now i don't know where they are. my wife told me she would never go back to the hospital. she says people were shot there in their bass

. ready to book? i'm so sorry. it's so hard to speak with you, hold on your ukrainian truth, we're shooting everywhere. if they didn't let people lead your people were just dying there without food and water, all of them on the, on the 2nd of march, the is of battalion fired at my apartment on the 5th floor. i thought it, but they destroyed the city. the hospital, you know, the soldiers were running past, i told them there are a lot of children and injured. they answered that they needed to stop the enemy and that we civilians were nothing to them any. but now when we have been evacuated, we want to thank the russian army for we don't go to others. is off. troops told us to get ready and get out of there. they took the house. i saw a woman whose son was shot in the eye by a ukrainian sniper. why did they do it, michael gloves, and be like, oh, the civilians continue to be evacuated from the area they apparent final battle in this city. rachel, are senior correspondent, murat, gusty of reports with most of mary,

you polls urban areas liberated that these apartment blocks and suburbs. housing fighting here has changed civilians out of the way. artillery has let loose with abandon this year, holly outskirts of variable, a battery of self propelled houses, afar in the way it ukrainian military positions or masses. positions inside the as of foreign 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 arm. steel factory on the nationalist bizarre battalion. we use pinpoint strikes and we don't put local residents or

infrastructure in danger because these are our homes in our families. you, while artillery shakes the ground, very air vibrates from a very different sort of weapon. behind my back, ah, that's good. 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 salvo in this goes on day and night. russian grad, emerald systems, have been unleashed at areas where civilians are no longer present or 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 than the 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 shields on 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. revenue variables is not an option. russian forces have come to literary that not to which means this battle and settle the hard way. would be to confess, between infantry and very nearly face to face more. i'd gazda of archie from mario bull living all night. russia's foreign minister,

sir gala ralph has cooled hopes of a breakthrough in peace negotiations with ukraine, claiming key ebs retreated from its old promises. was system beula. the symbols told in response to the sprouting of realism in the ukrainian position in our forces conducted the escalation in the directions of care and china him as a gesture of goodwill. and to help with the movement towards an agreement and response. there was a provocation in purchase, which is immediately used by the west to announce a new batch of sanctions, as well as atrocities against russia, prisoners of war by ukrainian near nancy's scheme when the will. immediately after the assemble talks, russia said the negotiations were constructive. ukraine's proposals also confirmed its desire for neutral and nuclear free status. the russian defense ministry promised to reduce its military activity. iran kit and turned off on both russia and ukraine were to postpone decisions on the future status of crimea and don bus

sugarloaf. ralph believes kiev shift in position means someone else is pulling the strings. wagner, you to go to specify the inability to negotiate. once again, characterize is the true intentions of care and its line of delaying and even undermining the negotiations through departure from the understandings reached. we see this is a manifestation of the fact that the key f regime is controlled by washington and its allies who are pushing presidency lensky to continue hostilities for those. another main part of what he said is the fact that the key of is taking marching orders from the west. and that's actually not really a new concept for many people who've been following this conflict long before russia's military operation began. the u. s. in its nato alliance were sending tons of weapons to ukraine and they were sending military advisors to train its troops. it's actually as if the west wanted a direct conflict, a proxy war between moscow and kiya. the washington post even said that basically

the some nato countries want to see ukrainians continue to fight and continue to die in this conflict. and that's only really reiterated by what western leaders have been saying lately. i also expect of ministers when the meat are today and tomorrow we'll discuss how we can further support ukraine, our congress, pers, ah, saying, what have you done? any basic milligrams or what the hell, your degree done? why did you're able to fight? we've trained them and we've given them a weapons, fatuous happen. it is de facto western policy and no one should be ashamed of it. this is a war of rushes choosing, and as long as ukrainians are willing to make them pay for their decision, we should help them even now the u. s. is planning to send even more weapons to ukraine using the land lease act. now for any fan of history, that person would know that the u. s. use this book bill in world war 2 to lend out military equipment to countries that were fighting the nazis. and the soviet union

was one of its main recipient. so it really is ironic that now this bill is being used once again funded by seized russian assets for bank's bank accounts. and the weapons that are sent to ukraine are inevitably going to fall into the hands of actual neo nazis that are fighting russians on the grounds. now, how to add insult to injury. really, alexei aristo, that she's a close advisor to ukraine's president vladimir zalinski. he recently admitted that he knew that an armed direct conflict between moscow and kiev would break out before it actually did. so this begs the question, why did the ukranian authorities not war in ordinary people about this in advance? why didn't they allow them to have the chance at saving themselves and their families well, a restore it said himself that he didn't want them to leave, wasn't a war. oh, so it was possible to tell the ukrainians that russia would attack when, when you for sure that he would. but these would have provoked master flow of 12 to

16000000 refugees. they would have blocked all the roads and then the army would not have reached the defense areas and the inhabitants would have to be crushed with tanks and shot. the statement is really significant because it basically confirms what the russian ministry of defense has been saying about ukrainian tactics since the beginning of its military operation in murray, opal in key of and now we know in ukraine as a whole, ukrainian forces have been using civilians as human shields against their will. don quarter. meanwhile, there is a growing voice among europeans who are urging their governments to stop sending weapons to ukraine in italy. the hashtag not in my name is trending on twitter. the actions of this government of shame are not done in my name and do not represent my will. not even that of many other italians who have to suffer from these criminals . let's say no to sending weapons to ukraine. this is not the way to ask, prudent for peace. italy has failed. it could have been the one carrying out

negotiations, and instead you are sending weapons. it's a bad diplomacy from italy. let's avoid throwing fuel on the fire or we'll take big risks to or europe correspondence. charlotte davinsky looks into how people in europe are trying to show their governments, they're against any escalation of the company. a has been some anger in europe over that military assistance has been given to ukraine. it's fine with some protests that have been held in certain countries like bulgaria and also in italy. now interfere, we're talking about a few 100 protest is outside the parliament on wednesday, you were unhappy that the politicians were discussing these plans to send military aid to ukraine without war unfolding and then interior in in italy. protestors were unhappy that their prime minister mater druggie was there to sign a new idea of fool add the possibility of the city to become a base for manufacturing equipment for native and in the european parliament. such

actions have also been criticized by some m. p. 's including any piece, including this independent member for ireland. we cannot ignore the role of nato and the e u instead of promoting peace and acting in the interests of the people of europe, do ukrainians to you, citizens. and yes, the russian citizens to has become a tool of nato and the military industrial complex class. they went on to describe the worn ukraine as unjust. but she also said that the sanctions, as a result of that would, that have been plastered on russia by the you and other western nations or what is causing the high energy prices, inflation. and also she described what it is as being a catastrophic and drop in living standards. and those sorts of warnings over concerns about things getting tougher also coming from some pretty top european

politicians to market complexion comfort height up, we're facing tremendously high inflation. of course it affects many people. we're all going to get a little poorer in the future. it's really going to happen. we have to be clear about it. there are issues over the cost of living in the crisis surrounding that spilled on to the streets of it. and so when say so 10000 people i took to the streets, let the government know that they are unhappy with some of the ramifications of that war. in ukraine and some people on the streets describing society in greece is being honest needs partly as a result of this. meanwhile, we know that the e u is thrashing out this effect set of packaging of sanctions against russia over the war. and ukraine. technical issues of so far delayed the block and finding a unanimous approval for what the next step is at. but the has been discussion that this could include an outright ban on oil and coal thought if the

e u is wanting to still showed that a packs a punch, it's going to have a difficult time doing that because it does have to get all leaders at to agree unanimously to whatever those sanction packages are and keeping attention on europe on italian m a p has said there is no justification for an embargo on russian energy resources. but i do general a be a tivicay to it, to what i heard that we are talking about a complete embargo on rush and gas, which would be absolutely unacceptable for our economy. and this is based on the facts reported by the ukranian government about the chat, but they are already serious doubts about their veracity. meanwhile, ukraine has accused hungry of directly helping moscow. it comes, as budapest sees, it will pay for russian galsen roubles. it also voice concerns about a potential blowback from monte moscow sanctions on greece prime minister save his country, just wants to remain neutral. it's time for ukrainian leaders to stop their insults

directed at hungary and acknowledge the will of the hungarian people. this is not our war, so we want to and we'll stay out of it. hungry has already come under heavy criticism from brussels, with the european commission, and even threatening to isolate budapest from youth funding. the mechanism which follows several years of tension between budapest and brussels could potentially result in suspended voting rights for hungry. we spoke to people in the country who feel they are being punished for hungry noncompliance with all of the use orders. as somebody, it's against what he wants and well we don't represent the use values and we don't comply the way they would like us. and we don't do what they say. the sanctions against hungary are not democratic. we are a small nation and we are vulnerable to others. are the room punishes because they didn't noise them that we don't do it? they say 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 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. and other story to bring you today to former heads of the news outlets, but nick medium, been detained by police in estonia. nobody's been able to contact alina, cherish sheva, and her husband, mattie dmitri terrace style. since the arrest, alina headed. sputnik news and sonia until it was shut, done by local authorities and 2020. she then created the independent news outlets, but the media which was also forced to close last month. as tony as chief public prosecutor claims the former journalists, bro, recent d u. financial sanctions on russian individuals. but nick, international, the editor in chief, anton, on the some of believes europe may be seeking to provoke russia by targeting. it's journalists, we still have no information, no confirmation on where she's at,

or where her husband is at. and what, so what, what, what their accused of this sort of persecution against journalist is happening? well, the 1st our news outlet is concerned, as far as our organization is concerned, especially in, in, in the baltic states. we had similar cases in latvia where people were now facing criminal charges just for doing their job. as journalists, we see perhaps as the, as the way to provoke rushing this time because baltic states have been very vocal about civilian economic ties and every, any sort of ties with russia. as of now, i really don't think we're talking about proven speech of any sort at this time. it's almost like a new integration of the european reich, appearing right now. because at the they're, they're asking for a dialogue with brush. they see that the dialogue is necessary to resolve the ongoing conflict. but at the same time, they're just breaking and destroying every opportunity for a dialect possible. by many rush news outlets,

their sanctions have restricted russia's ability to pay off it's international debts and foreign currencies. no doubt is meant for the very 1st time, moscow settles almost $650000000.00 worth of euro bonds in roubles. russia attempted to make its bond payments on march 16th in dollars. but because of sanctions, creditors weren't able to receive them. that gave moscow 30 days to come up with an alternative way to pay off the debt or the country with default, hence, the attempt to paying roubles cremeans spokesperson dmitri pest. gulf said if there is a default, it would only be technical and created artificially prejudice . russia has all the necessary resources to settle its debts. you know that a significant amount of our currency reserves have been suspended in foreign countries. if payment in roubles is not possible, then theoretically, that would mean a default. but it would be an artificially created default. there are no

preconditions for a proper default to happen. now there are 2 types of default financial and technical. a financial default occurs when the borrower has not made a schedule. payments on a technical default is when an agreement is violated or can't be reached. jim rogers international in bester, told us that russian default is bad for everyone, especially washington. absurd situation for washington, and for russia, the money is there. it's good money and even then if russia turns around and pays rouble, they're still paying pay their debt, which is money is money. many people don't want the robot because they cannot spend it like they used to be able to. but i find this is artificial and not good for the united states. washington has dictated the russia cannot use and us dollars

to for anything and put sanctions on the dollar and said they cannot use it by the way, this is hurting the us because this driving many people away from the u. s. is the world's international medium of exchange, and more and more people are getting word. we've got to find an alternative. this is a snowball effect. nobody how this comes up is going to be a snowball effect. certainly this month, but more important in this decade. now another interesting development it's being reported is at least 2 indian oil refineries planted by less saudi oil. the unusual in may opting instead for russian crude less cross live now to new delhi based report. a rule hon. do rule out welcome. so what's reportedly led india, or at least some of those refineries to cut saudi oral imports? absolutely. you see the last beat by

a russian foreign minister. so if you loved rob put into prospect the relation between russia and india, what this development refreshed of and up and which cons today, reports to define those. but now be buying less oil from the one of the reasons is that the import or the saudi arabia importer a rampal as it relates to the oil prices, which also essentially means that you have an all be banking the lot upon russia because of the discounted prices we also saw last week's commit spent by a quarter of as ministers about jason, and also finance minister and their feedback on both of whom may be statements that the dies with russia will continue, as they will befall this sort of development on thumbs at a time when the us national security deputy national security advisor, beg your,

pardon, me to spend the leaps thing, and also dust to new delhi. and born in the all function. something which continues even today. as we saw white houses spokesperson and also white official making statements. the breast tickets, the din, saki, that the sanctions will continue and reiterated by the end ministration message was delete, didn't make clear to his counterparts during this visit was that we don't believe it's in india's interest to accelerate or increased imports of russian energy and other commodities. and then also tell you that was in the consequences for buying russian oil. us says why fi or russian crude oil and refined predict before the us band

takes effect thanks to it's iran, sanctions, us is petroleum exports to india. now make up 15 percent of bilateral merchandise trade while threatening india with consequences for buying russian oil. us has quietly ramped up its imports of rushing crude and refined products before us band takes effect. i believe that the rise in domestic comprises due to height to the cost is comparatively lower than the other countries such as us germany wanted to invest. but william, vanessa and the minister has also pointed out that in the usb increase in person. but all right, like 5 percent, get less than 5 percent. what i believe that wants to come, you know, we continue to buy more of food from russia because of the discounted prices

around thank you report everyone talking to us from india, capital city mino, former us marine corps intelligence operator, scott richard who was blocked from twitter for criticizing president, buying and comments about the butcher alleged massacre in crane has had his account reinstated. well, it looks like has been reinstated no official word from twitter about what the problem was or how, why it was resolved. but i'm sure they took notice of the concern expressed by many of you here on twitter. thanks for speaking up in defense of free speech. good night. you can see a screenshot of scott fetish recently blocked the kind twitter itself is not yet commented on the bound. whoever users were quick to collide issues about freedom of speech. we spoke to scott himself about what happened between basically accused the

ukranian national police of being the perpetrators of the heretic crimes that everybody seen in butcher. and then i also criticized the president, jo, buying for labeling russia as a, as the perpetrator of war crimes. in short, i was accused of a harassing people and i was also accused of of voicing threats. of course, as absurd in the extreme i, i just think that this tweet touched a nerve on whatever the fall police process that currently exists in twitter is i know twitter is a private platform and they can lease it to where they see fit. but democracy dies when citizens are no longer able to engage in fact, based debate, discussion and dialogue. sadly, twitter is no longer such a platform as american democracy is paying the price. ukrainian president loving re zalinski and said that russian troops are no different from

isis, not the spike. numerous reports including from western media. now it was ukraine itself who sought the help of islamic state terrorists in recent years. r t 's. maria finacialow takes us through that she, if has compared russia with terrorists from the so called islamic state, speaking at the un security council earlier this week, president zalinski said russia is no different from the notorious terra group. eager to bali, the cut off limbs cut the throats. women were raped and killed. and for the children, the tongues were pulled out early because aggressive did not hear what he wanted to hear from them. how is it different from what these lemming states harris are doing? the occupied territories, not similar, but worse, according to ukraine's 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 is luasa, 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 can no top and other cities speaking about i says care seems to know they subject rather well. the ukraine is law known as a safe haven for his logic stage. he had his back in 2015, the new york times reported their presidents 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 seeking a place to hide that same year. a hateful is mateo saline tried to ring the issue 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, high 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 give didn't seem to be bothered, islamic 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 of war, known as, as she, shiny of georgia, was detained in key if, after living happily in ukraine for years, it came as of bitter surprise that the arrest of one of his la mc state's top commanders here and 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 . everything you.