[000:00:00;00] a headline story with our as final bottles, re, john and mario, both russian trips continue to evacuate civilians from residential buildings and hospitals previously controlled by ukrainian forces. survivors claim they were used us, human, she'd find national my wife told me she would never go back to the hospital. she says people were shot there in their backs. we need to put, i'm so sorry. it's so hard to speak. they answered that they needed to stop the enemy and that we civilians were nothing to them. marty gets access to audio recordings of alleged conversations,

all of ukrainian security forces. foreign journalists near here that predict than mainstream media cause that russian forces massacred says billions their precious foreign minister claims washington is pushing key to continue fighting. despite ongoing piece thoughts, we go through that thousands of europeans protest against the use weapon shipments to ukraine with some members of the european parliament. openly saying the block has become an instrument of nato e. u. instead of promoting peace and acting in the interests of the people, you have become a jewel of nato and the military industrial complex. ah . from moscow to the world, this is our take good to have you with us today. my name's you know, new. the siege of maria bull 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. russian defense ministry cleans more than a 100 people had been held out the site by the neo nazi a's off battalion. russian troops conducted more than 10 trips to the hospital to evacuate all the injured, including 16 children evacuation claim the ukrainian units. use them as human. she's gotta. duncan 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 backs

. mini to papa. i'm so sorry. it's so hard to speak with both of them, although most of the on the 2nd of march, the as av 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 to me. but now when we have been evacuated, we want to thank the russian army for we don't throw it out. this is our 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 bobs. umbrella, how civilians continue to be evacuated from the area. the apparent final battles in this city region are senior correspondent, murat, gusty of his, covering. the conflict from the ground with most of mary opal's urban areas liberated, that these apartment blocks and suburbs housing fire here has changed civilians out

of the way. artillery has let loose with abandon. here on the outskirts of variable a battery of suppose how to the far away it ukrainian military positions or masses positions inside the as of iron and steel works block, which is where thousands of nationalists are making their last, stam as off militants, have lost their capacity for counter battery fire, these russian and allied forces no longer have to maneuver off to each volley, which gives them an advantage. accuracy that i bought them puzzle that we are launching, strikes on the is off steel factory on the nationalists. the as of battalion. we use pinpoint strikes, we don't put local residents or infrastructure in danger because these are our homes in our families. while artillery shakes the ground,

the very air vibrates from a very different sort of weapon. behind my back, ah, that wasn't multiple. well, it was a system of just thought through stadium 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 . ah sh, chill g, a must still be careful. the last industrial complex lays at the heart of the city misses are intolerable from the onset 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 was on the 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. 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, mary, you bill is not an option. russian forces have come to liberated, not destroy it. which means this battle will be settled the hard way, with a bitter contest between infantry and very nearly face to face. more i'd gazda of archie from mario bull. can other story to bring you to day r t has gotten access to lead to audio conversations, allegedly recorded near. keir for russian troops had been stationed now the contradict the ukrainian governments version of the events that saw russia blamed

for the deliberate killing of civilians. let's listen to one of the recordings. you said to you with our troops kicked out the russians. okay. and the troops went further to the territorial defense force went in and they eluded the village. they were alluding houses and shooting, taking everything. they looted absolutely. everything correspond, maria finished has joined me in the shooting. talk through this. hi, marsha. so the 1st audio recording is what appears to be a conversation between ukrainian security service members. can you take us through that? yeah, we're going to play another bit for you in a bit. but yes, the 1st order is a conversation between people of ukraine's security service known as s b u. and one of them is apparent on the ground in the little town of co heidi, that's not far from the capital key of around 100 kilometers west of it. and what

if he basically do, and he's describing what he saw there, what he discovered, they, well, why don't walking around maybe talking to resident, but that's unlikely because again, it's a little village and a task been on the fierce fight and it fell under the control the russian army at the beginning of moscow's special military operation and around a month later in the march, it was recaptured by your praise forces and shows the off to that so called territorial defense forces. they are volunteer battalions within ukraine's armed forces. they came in and this man from the audio he's describing their behavior in their actions while they were there. and you will hear it yourself now and you just heard a bit, right? he sounds the price from what he found out and before we play another great, i have to tell you that there is another a town mentioned in the audio the town for molly. nice. not far from heidi and apparently these, these people,

this battalion came from that plane. let's take another listen. you. good luck as you go. we'll do, thea, from march 24th, to april. 3rd, after the russians were driven out of sheer, the territorial defense force came in from mowing the will in short week, during these days they were looting. they looted everything they could be. they kicked in the doors, they kicked everything over safe, were open cars were taken away. they stuffed the cars with everything they found and took everything out. oh, it turns out that the musk of ites did not take anything but ours went in and completely plundered everything. nobody, there wasn't anything here already because of the fighting. no houses were left even what was left was completely looted by our own. what was the one issue we're interested in is that, that this man compares at russian troops with these people from territorial defense . and later in this conversation are the one from the ground. also, asks hayes colleagues whether these crimes and this behavior by these people should

be documented and he gets the answer. yes, they should be file on it. so maybe we're gonna hear any like, i don't know, official statement from key of side. so there were a lot of foreign journalists in the area where russian troops were stationed, al, i believe there was one conversation in english, at least, isn't there. what is known about that? yeah, this one is even more interested and i have to say, and you mentioned that there were many journalists, but we have to understand that there were only particular western journalists apart from ukrainians on the ground there. so these audio is a conversation between western journalists. it's in english, and again, one of them is on the ground in another town of john co, which is also like 60 kilometers west of kiev on the same road as the town of butcher that we have been here in a lot in the news recently. you remember about that, of course, but further to the west, and we can understand that this man, this journalist was sent there of course, to report,

but particularly to try to find, to, to find proof of bad behavior of the crimes committed by the russian troops. and you will now hear that he's, he actually fails to find any evidence to that. let's take a look. so basically just explain wayne validity anchor. so that's further on from boot check. it's been shell to pieces. pathologies missing whatever. there's no bodies in the streets a call. i've just spoke to the police forensic experts and he hasn't seen any. they think that probably people are under the rubble or whatever they've been killed in the shelling evidence for any right. have you to hear? i told one of the german french guy said that he had been killed by shelling. so in some other we haven't found that. but no excuses, nothing like that. so i don't know what the prosecutor was going on about to be honest. it's true,

this place has gone far more selling damage than vulture. but in terms of extra additional killings, there's no evidence at all. and in fact, some of the old ladies in spoken to said the russian trees are really nice of them . they gave them food, water interest then actually set to say if you look through news reports coming right now out of the town of, but i don't know that these journalists mentioned, you will say a completely different picture. you will read about piles of dead bodies lying on the streets again, like in the town of volta. and you will hear accusations and you will hear about mass killings committed by the russian troops. but this journey says there is no evidence to that at all. and sometimes, i mean, it is journalists, i have a feeling that we live in parallel realities. i just myself returned from guns, whereas spend weeks covering this conflict. and i was surprised sometimes to hear

reports about where i was from my west and colleagues, you know, because it was not true and i just don't understand why it's happening. because when to send that we have to be extra cautious with information where we cover wars and military conflicts because force reports can actually hurt. and now we see again coming back to the town of butcher, we hear about sanctions and like punishment, you know, and you know, all kind of calls towards russia because they have already made a conclusion that russian troops committed lots of crimes. they before, even any investigation. so just, just to briefly then sum up and how do these recordings ship up against the main street media narrative and what was happening is, are so i guess how do the recordings actually ship up against what was what the mainstream media are seeing and you went through it there, but in particular here here, but you know, the story is about another town,

but it is similar to what happened in butcher. again, these towns are on the road that has been on the fears, fighting for weeks, weeks. and of course we hear about ruins, we hear about selling and we have, we hear about destroyed buildings and bus. ok. they strongly says, but in terms of deliberately killing civilians and mass graves or something like that, he didn't find any evidence. so, but you know, what's, what's interesting, it would be interesting to hear the report that face journalist would, you know, send on air off to the conversation. so what would he actually say? so i think what they are trying to do is they are trying to, to find something that actually didn't happen. great, thank you very much for coming on talking us through all of our teach, maria from marston. russia is foreign minister circle of ralph has cooled hopes of

a breakthrough in peace negotiations with ukraine. gaming kids retreated from its all promises. was this dumb beula to the assembled talk in response to the sprouting of realism in the ukrainian position. and our forces conducted the escalation in the directions of camp and china as a gesture of goodwill and to help with the movement towards an agreement. in response, there was a provocation in butcher, 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 while following the dunbar talks, russia said that negotiations had been constructive. ukraine's proposals also confirmed its desire for a neutral nucular free status. the russian defense ministry promised to reduce its military activity. iran key of internal halls, and both russia and ukraine were to postpone decisions on the future status of crimea, and don bus sir gala ralph believes kiev shift in position. mean someone else is

pulling the strings. but the new to go to specify the inability to negotiate once again characterize is the true intention of care. and it's line of delaying and even undermining the negotiations through departure from the understanding is reached. we see this as a manifestation of the fact that the kiev regime is controlled by washington and its allies, who are pushing president lensky to continue hostilities for those in. we will. well, the recent article in the washington post claims some, nate, so countries want to see ukrainians fighting until the end and a proxy war against moscow. president biden has been open up, i'd arming and training ukrainians in the fight against russia. are congress the same? what have you done? and he basically go get me what the hell you think we've done? why do you think you're able to fight wave, trained them, and we've given the weapons. fact 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 ukrainians 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 caught. the u. s. has already handed millions of dollars worth of weaponry to key f, but it's now going one step further. it's resurrecting the world war 2 era, lend lease bill to more effectively landover military equipment to ukraine. west also has accused russia of many alleged atrocities against ukrainian civilians, including those in butcher city. but there's been little coverage of kids failure to evacuate people to safety. the ukrainian president's own advice for lexi arrest of which claimed they knew by the approaching war, but didn't reveal anything to citizens. muslim the war for to was possible to

tell the ukrainians that russia would attack when we knew 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 while retired us or force. lieutenant colonel according petoskey, is not convinced nato actually wants a peaceful resolution. nato feels its, all they can do is to amass forces and, and that kind of conduct a blocking action in case russia is intending to go further. you know, to the west. i'm not sure what they're actually thinking in this regard, but it certainly doesn't seem to be promoting of promoting a peaceful resolution. and it doesn't seem to be geared towards helping the ukrainian people. there are some thoughts that the united states wants to keep russia there, as long as it can to engage

a battle on the territory of ukraine. and again, at great cost to a lot of people who lived there in order to kind of bond russia down to kind of show that nato mean something. it looks like the west, which is supposed to be a beacon of liberty, and free trade is not incorporating those concepts into it. so it's predicted strategy for a defense against russia. i guess you would call it nickos. been holding a meeting of its foreign ministers in brussels, but even ahead of the gathering the alliance is chief in stilton burg. already made clear more military support will be heading your cranes way. ortiz kill him. up in the house. been following developments in his remarks. the head of the nato meeting, one particular theme stood out, which was that nato does not seek to have a direct confrontation with russia while there is support for ukraine coming from

nato countries. they don't want the nato alliance to go head to head with the russian federation hears some of what he said, what they dollars towards support to train at the same time natal main responsibility is to protect and defend a loss on the on to prevent this. a conflict from escalating to full fridge war between a nato on the, on the restaurant, on the reason why we have last week. so the deployed $40000.00 troops on those directed to command a, to these them for 2 lines and also added more. a troops under the national command, including a more use troops in europe, and this presence is to help prevent escalation of the conflict. now, when speaking, the nato chief said that the ideal and the conflict would simply be russia withdrawing its forces from ukraine. ah, however, he said that's very unlikely, and in fact, they are expecting a new russian offensive soon as russian forces are currently regrouping and

fighting those on in the don das region. now he did talk about the humanitarian cost of the conflict. he did blame russia for the situation in ukraine. eyes is echoing a lot of the statements we're hearing from western leaders, members, the nato alliance. here's what he did describing the con, if the war is going to drive wrong, i'm belong than the risk is 1st and foremost, for the people of ukraine, who will suffer more, who will see more damage, more death and more destruction or so this is the 1st and foremost, charges you for them on the responsibility of a person booth and to end this war. now the nato chief also expressed concerns about growing co duration between russia and china, and the need for there to be better cyber security measures to protect computer systems, etc. project data. now at this point, we also did hear concerns about the humanitarian situation that were expressed

blaming the crisis and the situation on russia. people are looking ahead the meeting and seeing what will come out of it. but so far, the remarks that we've heard kind of seem to be setting the tone for what we may be hearing in the future translations are much more trouble for ukraine. because if we look at the preston, i mean the clues in the name you land, you lease what we do find the fall and ask them back. clearly if you use it or if it gets destroyed on the battlefield, you'll have to pay for it is the plan. and it really speaks to a part of the u. s. like to make the nations of which it fights its complex pay for the was which it encourages them to have, essentially is trying to monetize it's. it's giving over weaponry to the canadians . first off, the american washington does not want the ukrainians to reach a deal with the russians once quite my. it wants this water last for as long as possible. and for that reason is encouraging that ukraine is to take the war options instead of the negotiation option. but on the way the us will want any

weapons that it gives to be paid for by those same ukrainians who fall in full the line that they should fight robin, discuss the future. meanwhile, there is a growing voice among european stressing not there governments should not be sending weapons to ukraine in italy, for instance, the hash tag 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 descending weapons to ukraine. this is not the way to ask putin 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 corresponded. charlotte dubin ski ticks us through. not what those calling on their governments not to escalate the conflict or sing, namely the beer,

the ones being hit by these functions against moscow. there 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 into or in, in italy. protestors were unhappy that their prime minister mater druggie was there to sign a new idea full of the possibility of the city to become a base for manufacturing equipment for nature 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, ukrainians, the u 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. ringback 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. off, 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. their issues over the cost of living in the crisis surrounding that spilled on to the street of athens. or when say some 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 on its knees partly as a result of this. meanwhile, we know that the e u is thrashing out this 5th set of packages 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 there has been discussion that this could include an outright ban on oil and coal thought if the e u is wanting to still show that it packs a punch. and 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 staying in europe or in italian

m e p. i said there is no justification for a not right bomb on russian energy imports down, but i do get a little bit of okay to get 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 boucher, but they are already serious doubts about their veracity or related theme. it's being reported at least 2 indian or refineries planned to buy less soda oil than usual in may opting instead for russian crude. you deli, base reporter roulette, drew a report. last one week. we have seen some interesting developments, particularly after the wizard, also rash important lab role report to be now the tools in your final final accompanies, are supposed to be not going to buy more oil from saudi arabia,

in fact to buy very less beginning me this year. is sort of a development comes with the announcement from the previous knowledge is import runcle, which has raised a crude oil prices affecting countries in the nation from the salvation market. this sort of development not only in the up, but also ensures that probably now need more on supply from russia, is going to use russia discounted oil prices. india has already bought 16000000 bottles from russia already, and it's important the oil, russia to the stance almost what would be the same as it was not feel when you draw the combined events exposed to this. you also rule $2100000000.00 in april,

the february of 202122 from the $2650000000.00 report in the last financial significant, the reason to treat as well. so basically comes at a time when it's in the office is pressure from the united states deputy national security. a lot of the lip sync during your daily last year, just to speak last week, i'm sorry, had had announced sanctions for, for india, this sort of oppression continues for india even today. as white houses press 3 and also sanctioned in stock, you reiterated by the decisions sanction on india. what, what 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. considering the development of significant nisha because we straight supply for oil on comes at

a time then also freaking inflation in the oil prices, which ranges between $81.00 to be every day. the height of the pipe and the price, right. the oil is as high as the us to many other countries. however, us, what they have cleverly done is the united states as wifi, its own impulse of russian good oil, and then find for got before the us done big effect. thanks to it's around 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 russian crude and refined products before us band takes effect. one minister has sort of said that domestic right, in terms of percentage increase,