a with the blood ortiz, what are god? you have reports from the heart of the besieged city of marble outside the as of steel factory in which russia and its allied forces are trying to pin down you legit remaining ukrainian nationalist troops. party gets access to alleged audio recordings of alleged conversations, the premium security forces, and foreign journalists near t f. that reportedly contradict the mainstream media's claims about russian troops killing civilians. russia top diplomat says washington is pushing to you have to

continue fighting despite the ongoing piece, talks ah, broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is art international with top news and commentary on the war in ukraine. no harsh fighting in the city of mario pal as the russian army and its allied don bass forces, seeking to pin down the last remaining ukrainian nationalist troops. ortiz, my god. you have reports from outside the as of steel factory where the russian military has been advancing on the last pocket of resistance. most of mario passivity, a neighborhoods have been liberated by russian forces some unscathed, some scarred and wasted by urban combat. ah la alleys

and yards, we walked as far as was relatively safe in the distance that $200.00 or so meters, he's the out of steel and iron works plant, which is where most of the fighting is now concentrated here on the left bank of mario full city a vast number, thousands of ukrainian troops as well. and this is the majority at nationalist nationalist bud the as off, but that it is russian artillery struck it the plot. from here we launched our drone to witness rockets and shells pounding ukrainian nationalists positions. jose was another one of them over the situation as intense. we're engaging and gun battles as combat at close quarters, almost face to face. the distance between buildings here as 50 to 70 meters of

sometimes even closer. we've been advancing from the very morning all along the front line. the enemy is fighting backwards, but we're pushing the rest of them out to the as of steel factory linea. it'll be much easier when all of them are there. governor person are sending somebody for studying. now that fighting has moved out of populated areas. russian and allied artillery is playing a greater and greater role of the positive motor them civilians in the plot itself which is opened up on hooks from open charities for russia to some russian artillery. they don't have to be so warri of civilian casualties. now the fight is moved into industrial zones, but with the 5, the supply say that they have heard on radio, ah, english voices, so english and which voices which says that there may be are the woman peers volunteers inside the plug, but they have also the room as of nato instruct, the,

the come in the alpha industrial complex laddies, according to various report to get and verified instructors will offices from nato countries such as germany, britain frauds, as well as neutral sweden. according to the latest report suffice here as you can, yes, is still very much fierce verbal dude, but his son, they worked professionally in small groups, it would have been impossible to train locals to that standard. even in 8 years, we've seen foreigners, even dark skinned individuals run through twice. now ukraine has launched high risk helicopter evacuation missions to mario both several helicopters have even made it out, though most were destroyed. window of opportunity though is closing. with every day,

more and more of mary, you will, is liberated, and chances are high that soon we'll find out just who these, that ukraine and its allies. a su, desperate to evacuate. more ad gasdio. arti from mario both civilians in a designated safe zone. and mario bull saying that ukrainian troops forced them to leave their homes than use those locations to set a fire positions. leslie, this was the esl, docile with of one will be as if it were all going to bomb shelters will. yeah, people were forced out of their homes by the ukrainian military. they just came and said, get your things get out. we asked where we should go. they literally said that they don't care and that is their building now. with her new mom, i've buried my mother and decided to stay here with the wounded. the scariest moment was when the is off fighters came, some women asked them to leave, but they said, don't worry. we just need to check something out. and then they started firing, i don't know who they were firing it,

but then they just left us. they used us as human shields. our location was then shell. or she has gotten access to lead to audio conversations, allegedly recorded near tea, ever, where russian troops had been stationed. they contradict the ukrainian governments version of events that saw russia accused of deliberately killing civilians. are these murph notional comments? recently our troops kicked out the russians. okay. school in the troops went further. so the territorial defense force went in and they looted the village. they were looting houses and shooting, taking everything they looted. absolutely. everything was the 1st order is a conversation between people of ukraine's security service known as as b u. and one of them is apparent the on the ground in the little town of co heidi, that's not far from the capital key of the around 100 kilometers west of it. and what is he basically doing? he's describing what he saw there, what he discovered, they, well, why don't

a walking around maybe talking to residence, but that's unlikely because again, it's a little village and a task spain and fears, fighting and fell under the control the russian army at the beginning of moscow special military operation and around a month later, in mid march, it was were captured by ukraine's forces. and shortly after that so called territorial defense forces, how 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 great. he sounds surprised from what he found out and before we play another great, i have to tell you that there is another i town mentioned in this order. the town of marlin knights not far from hardy and apparently these are these people. this battalion came from that place. let's take another miss. you could from march 24th

to april. 3rd, after the russians were driven out of here with the territorial defense force came in from mo, and we're still in short during these days they were looting. will they looted everything they could. they kicked in the doors, they kicked everything over safe, were open cars were taken away, the stuff, the cars with everything they found and took everything out to shoot. it turns out that the musket lights did not take anything with ours. went in and can really plundered everything with that a little. there wasn't anything here already because of the fighting was no houses were left even what was left was completely looted by our own interest. and is that, that this man can paris russian troops with these people from territorial defense. and later in this conversation, the one from the ground also have colleagues, whether these crimes and this behavior by these people should be documented. and he get the answer. yes, they shouldn't be fall on it. so maybe we're going to hear any like, i don't know the official statement from the side soon. and there were many journalists,

but we have to understand that there were only particular western journalists apart from ukraine and on the ground there. so these audio is a conversation between western journalist it's in english. and again, one of them is on the ground in another town, 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 proofs of crimes committed by the russian troops. and you will now hear that he actually fails to find any evidence to that. let's take lessons. so basically just explain wayne both already anchor. so that, that place further on from boot check, it's been shell to pieces. besides missing whatever. there's no bodies in the streets a call. i've just spoken to the police forensic experts that he hasn't seen. they

think that probably people are under the rubble or whatever they've been killed in the shelling evidence for any right. have you here told one of the gen, a french guy said that he'd seen a been killed by selling, but so in some other we haven't found that. but no excuses, nothing like that. so i don't know what the prosecutor i was going want about to be honest. it's true, this place is golf far more selling damage than butcher. but in terms of extra additional killings, there's no evidence at all. and in fact, the, to some of the old ladies in spoken to said the russian trees are really nice of them. they gave them food water that interested in actually set to say if you look for news reports coming right now out of the town of but i don't know that these journalists mentioned, you will say completely different picture. you will read about piles of dead buddies. line on the streets again, like in the town of and you will hear accusations and you will hear about mass

killings committed by the russian troops. but these surely 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 reality, 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 more than 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. some what certain media outlets have overall been devout and their support for kids. they have now started to report on allegations of war crimes committed by ukrainian soldiers after footage surface

purporting to show you cranium forces shooting, captured russian troops. these claims have been largely ignored by western powers, was now take a look at what the new york times published recently. a video posted on line on monday and verified by the new york times appears to show a group of ukrainian soldiers killing captured russian troops outside a village west of give he still alive, film these marauders look, he still alive, his gasping. a man says as a russian soldier with a jacket pulled over his head, apparently wounded is seen still breathing. a soldier then shoots the man twice after the man keeps moving. the soldier shoots him again and he stops at least 3 other repairing russian soldiers, including one with an obvious head wound who has his hands tied behind his back can be seen dead near the victim. it's not only the new york times that appears to be changing its narrative about ukraine. the washington post has also examined the neo

nazi roots of ukraine's as of battalion, suggesting that white supremacists integrated into the ukrainian military, could pose a future threat to the country. political analyst, alexander poverty, says, these reports are only small departures from an overall narrative painted by western media against russia in an attempt to present a semblance of objectively. i definitely think there's a lot of people are becoming aware of the media bias. so this is damage control. this is a way to make themselves look objective, fair minded. but in fact, what they're doing, what's happening is that they're kind of, they can't control the narrative to way they would like, you know, in that, in the ninety's. you know, you could control the narrative because there was no internet. and so you could more tightly control or, you know, now they're just too many alternative means of information and real information and real truth doesn't get out. and they know it. so the only way to deal with it is to

admit part of it. and then make themselves look objective. but without changing their main narrative. and their main narrative is the enemy. and just about anything that's done against russia is allowed. russia's top diplomat sergei lab has cooled hopes for a breakthrough in peace. negotiations with ukraine. think he has backed away from previous promises. was system beula. the symbols told in response to the sprouts of realism in the cranium position. because our forces conducted the escalation in the directions of kiev and china as a gesture of goodwill and to help with the movement towards an agreement in response, there was a provocation in which is immediately used by the way to announce a new sanction, as well as the trustees against the russian prisoners of war by ukrainian near nancy christian when still moscow has said the talks in these tumble were

constructive with ukraine, appearing inclined to remain outside of nato and not acquired nuclear weapons in turn. russia, the defense ministry promised to reduce its military activity around t of and the northern city of chattanooga of also russia and ukraine were to postpone any decision about the future status of crimea. and the dumbass foreign minister lab rob says kid has shifted its positions. however, in a signal that someone else could be pulling the strings by the name, need to go to specify the inability to negotiate. once again, characterizes the true intentions of care and its 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 for lensky to continue hostilities for those in a reason. washington post article claim to some nato countries wants to see ukrainians fighting until the bitter end in a proxy war against moscow. us president joe biden has been open about arming and

training ukrainians to engage in combat against russia. meanwhile, life is defense minister and a senior fellow at the atlantic council are also calling for more military support for ukraine. now, besides the fact that the u. s. has already handed millions of dollars worth of weaponry to give resurrected the world war 2 era, lend lease bill to more efficiently lend out military equipment to ukraine. that's as western powers have also accused russia of committing atrocities against ukrainian civilians, including the town of butcher near kiff. but there has been little coverage of kias failure to evacuate people to safety, ukrainian, president's own advisor, alexi savage has claimed that they knew about the approaching war, but didn't reveal anything to their citizens. most of the war it was possible to tell you crannies 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 retired us air force, lieutenant colonel ken could. talkie isn't convinced that nato actually wants a peaceful resolution. nato feels, it's, 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, 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 live there in order to kind of bhangra shut 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 she would call it nato has been holding a meeting of its foreign ministers in brussels, but ahead of the gathering the alliances, tracy on stoughton berg already made it clear that more military aid would be heading your grains work or just give them up and comments, so in his remarks, the head of the ne, till meeting, one particular theme stood out, which was that nato does not seek to have a direct line confrontation with russia. wow, there is support for ukraine coming from nato countries. so they don't want the nato alliance to go head to head with the russian federation. here's some of what he said and what they dollars towards support to crane at the same time natal. so

main responsibility is to protect and defend a loss on the on to prevent this conflict from escalating to full fridge war between a nato on the, on russia, on the reason why we have all week. so the deployed $40000.00 troops on those direct net to come on to, to these them for 2 lines and also added more a to shoulder national command, including a more use troops in europe. and this presence is to help prevent escalation, older 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 goes on in the john boston 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 of challenges you for them on the responsibility of impressed them to, to, to end this ward. now, the nato chief, also expressed concerns about growing operation 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 there. the intention of, of the west is basically to contain russia. it has a far greater geo strategic purpose. and ukraine, as i said, there's just a cog in this and this machinery of a western of the west of the us lead unipolar world order. and, and trying to maintain that leadership and the face of the, of a, of this alliance of that come in about now that we basically through a self fulfilling prophecy, pushed mascara toward beijing. and that's what i think washington fears the most. because their control, their in lawrence, their control of the, of the dollar and the, and the, and the western financial system is at risk right now. because that new polar, new multi polar world orders created its own independent financial system as

a result of the sanctions that have been employed. so we basically drove them to this conclusion. and that's what we're seeing, the merge for us broadcast nbc has caused something of a stir bi reporting on how often the biden ministration makes bold intelligence claims without backing them up with any solid evidence. allegedly, us officials said they had indications, suggesting russia might be preparing to use chemical agents in ukraine. president joe biden later said it publicly, but 3 us officials told n b c news. this week. there is no evidence. russia has brought any chemical weapons and ukraine. joe biden has repeatedly claimed russia's planning to use chemical weapons in ukraine even so. busy washington was drawing up a response, but the nbc report claims those statements were never supported by any creditable evidence, but also spoke about china, potentially supplying weapons to russia. again, nothing was found to back up that suggestion. investigative journalist mo

d bay madiba says governments are walking a risky line when they supply stories to the media based on. so if you fax, authorized to issue immediate situation or brain injury to use changes to the public and she knows what they're doing and i'm responsible for the government. over the years you choose to teach why once

and once the place you must you know how to become so to get people to see. but we often could focus on european countries are set in this year to pay more than 9 percent of their gps on energy sources. the highest share since $981.00 that's as industry struggle to cope with. soaring fuel prices and regular people tried to make ends meet amid the surging inflation. the u has been trying to cut imports of relatively cheap oil gas and coal from russia, and increase more expensive supplies from the us, norway and cutter. we know why examines who could really benefit from that. take

a look what to do with russian gas, the question, keeping brussels bureaucrats up at night. a 3rd of the use gas supply comes from russia, a literary fuels, the european economy, the when the war and ukraine started, the block had a change of heart by speeding up investment and energy efficiency. every one can contribute in reducing our dependency on russian gas. and who was ready waiting in the wings to help win the you off. it's russian. a gas habit. washington, the war had belly broken out, but already had dollar signs in its eyes. it's tragic what's going on in eastern europe. and it saddens me to see the satellite images on the new screen that we've all witnessed this morning. but if anything, these high prices, the volatility drive even more energy security and long term contracting before the war, u. s. companies just couldn't compete with russian fuel, which was cheaper, closer, a more plentiful american ellen g hung around in the shadows,

like the expensive cousin. no one in brussels wanted to ship gas across the ocean of massive tank as oh, by expensive terminals for loading and unloading for the events in ukraine. changed all that. and washington smelt the perfect opportunity to rest the e or away from russia. after 8 years of trying to tour earlier this month, i announced the united states with van all in ports of russian energy. to make it clear, the american people would not be part of subsidizing puny, brutal, unjustified war against people ukraine. at the time, i notice that we were able to take this to us when others could not because united states is a net export or energy. the strong domestic interest and united states welcomed the european news powerful statement early this month, committing to rapidly reduces to penance on russian gas. today, we've agreed on a joint game plan toward that goal. sure enough, us allen g exports is are already reaping. the benefits is reported that they'll be

sending out 11400000000 cubic feet per day. this year. that's roughly 22 percent of the world's demand for l. n. g, almost a double it share of the global market in 2020 an added bonus is that it will overtake the australians in guitar, eas, another added bonus. it's brought the fossil fuel industry, some breathing room. europe had been moving away from fossil fuels, while state side, the calls to go green, grew daily, the oil and gas execs thought that time was up, but not enable. we commend the administration's focus on addressing climate change and share the goal of reducing emissions across the economy. but we cannot let that objective detract from the clear and present need for continued responsible investment in oil and natural gas development. the only people who won't be so pleased the ones picking up the tab. we have to be aware that the companies who have signed long term contracts with gas prom do receive gas at significantly lower prices than we have to pay in the l. n. g market, so there will be impact on our energy prices. for the u. s. t o a win win. not only

will rake in the dollars at home, but now abroad soon, he gets it p o boost, by seeming to be a reliable pon an ally in times of trouble. plus it becomes much, much richer. that's for europe. well, it's simply shifted, it's dependency from one country to another. and in its drive for energy security, it mites, ironically have found itself more insecure than ever. reports say a considerable amount of iranian assets that have been frozen because of us sanctions are expected to be released soon. the concrete about the nature of the deal and the countries involved haven't been disclosed. but iran in media have equated it to several times. the more than $500000000.00 that the u. k. recently paid to iran to settle longstanding debt. the total quantity of the frozen iranian assets has been estimated at up to $7000000000.00 in foreign banks. the release is expected in

a few weeks, but there's been a lack of confirmation by the us and other western powers. iran has been heavily sanctioned over allegations that its nuclear program was being secretly used to create atomic weapons. it agreed to deal with world powers in 2015 to regulate the program and have the sanction lifted busch, b. u. s. unilaterally withdrew 3 years later. now the west is trying to restore the agreement. investigative journalist, a lender thinks the asset release could be done to facilitate the negotiations. i think that the u. s. is in a situation right now where it has so many enemies, russia, iran, china, north korea, that it's trying to clear the deck. in a couple of cases, i heard that the negotiations were getting closer with the ran on it's getting back into the nuclear agreement. so maybe this is one of the sticking points and they're

trying to clear it up. i think what it may also have to do with this getting access to it. well, you know, to keep the price down in the us. because one of the things that will really hurt the u. s. is that, you know, that politically, the people in power, including the president would be if a gas prices, which i've already gone up substantially. where to go up significantly more. because if the u. s. pressure on an embargo in russian oil or that has it for me. i'll be back in about 29 minutes with more news and commentary. this is our international ah brewton is the aggressor poon chose this war.