for a, a accusations of russia involvement in the killing of civilians, ukraine's boot ship calling the incident a staged fate. russian had ford edge close at the victory of the city of mario posting. they've now taken a full control of the local port. o correspondent is on the ground tanks rolling to assault the final stronghold of ukrainian radical trip with the opec group of oil like sporting factories, one, the other potentially was to have a supply shock. if brussels intensifies its sanctions against russia.

ah, hello and welcome. this is asi international. with the latest news headlines, our president, putin has dismissed the allegations of civilian masika and booty, calling them fake during a media conference with his beller russian counterpart. because then you go to woodson. when i talk to my western colleagues about boucher, i asked them if they saw what happened in rocca, did they see how that syrian city was completely destroyed by american aircraft? and there really were a lot of corpses there decomposing for months. but nobody seemed to care about it and nobody recalled it, just like they don't recall the hundreds of peaceful civilians killed in ghana. stan, when a single strike would kill hundreds of people. but nobody talked about it. but they sure did talk about all the staged provocations and syria,

like the imitation of chemical weapons used by the government. and later it turned out that it was all fake. just like boucher really why report and statement is the most recent reaction for most go to the situation around the quinn and town of butcher and key of accusations that earlier russia's defense ministry already called provocation. and a disturbing v do. apparently showing dead bodies lined on the streets of butcher, but key of presented as the unique evidence to atrocities committed. they said by the russian army a fake. meanwhile, germany already says that the west is about to increase already imposed sanctions against russia, following boucher again. and the countries media seems to be in his terry over what they think happened there and voices calling on punishment for war crimes. they talking about russia, of course, total embargo on russia's energy and more weapons to ukraine, louder and louder every day, and all that before any independent investigation into what exactly happened. while

it seems that all the conclusions have already been made and russia is already been punished right now, including economically, some, he'll talk about benito fact checking and proper investigation. here is germany's foreign minister. we have massive indications of war crimes in the, in the courts will have to decide. but for, for us, it is central to secure all evidence. while some already investigating and turkish outlet has just recently published the results of their research to reported the debunk, the new york times report which has been widely used recently to push accusations of atrocities in butcher onto moscow. the thing is that new york times presented images from max or satellites, claiming it was taking between march 9th and 11th. but the investigators apparently proved that on these particular days, these particular satellites were covering a different area. and they proved that using the sun called program, it is

a special program that can clearly show that. and another image presented also by new york times. also showing dead bodies lie on this tree, claims to be taken on february 28th. but again, the investigators proved that it was taken much later on april, the 1st day after the mayor of butcher officially confirmed and his vizier message posted on social media that the russian army had already left the town. so there is still more questions than answers, and it is clear, it seems for everybody now that it should be investigated exactly what happened in the battle for the dawn by city of mario, pleasant and its final stage with russian lead force is saying they've now fully taken the local polls, the remaining ukrainian radical trips are reportedly hold up inside the as well still factory with russian tanks. now moving in, full decisive strike on the stronghold is more against the reports from the same

way. several of the 3 of the feel of our work. gosh, which is the last front here before the gosh, will go. the last the may we're going to try follows aside these buildings are amongst the lost still held by ukrainian nationalists on the east bank of mario bull outside the industrial zone. they are also a nest of radical nationalists, snipers and machine guns. hooley tanks can reliably dislodge these buildings, fortunately are devoid of civilians. more than

a 100 still held as human shields by nationalists have taken refuge in a nearby school school number 56, the tanks, a careful not for far at it. the people inside are among the last held hostage by euclidian nationalists. or if you were speaking about the situation in mary u. par the residential parts of the city have been liberated. some individual pockets of resistance remain, such as snipers and other troops hiding in basements and multi story buildings. but it isn't over yes. fierce combat. most of it's close quarters, still rages across mario bull. unlike regular ukrainian military troops in the city who have surrendered in their hundreds, the nationalists show no such eagerness to end this with

oh, with he'll be back with you. as you can see the light which these tide is replacing. this one's work drawing to the rearm, resupply and take a short break that's in here. those are then with the liberation of the last few residential areas. still held by radicals. a new phase will begin a full out assault on the vast as of steel and iron works complex and they're, the nationalists will have no more civilians to hide behind. more. i'd gaz the of

our tea for mario bull. the pentagon says it cannot confirm allegations of chemical weapons use in mario paul, of the, as of neo nazi force is inside the city accused russia of attacking them with some sort of chemical agents with at least 3 people allegedly hospitalized. as a result. here the defense ministry saith is trying to verify this information while the russian military has not commented on the claims. the opaque group of oil exporting countries have warned the european union of a potentially worst of a supply shock. if the e u intensifies it sanctions against russia, we could potentially see the loss of more than $7000000.00 barrels per day of russian oil and other liquids. exports resulting from current and future sanctions or other voluntary actions. considering the current demand outlook, it would be nearly impossible to replace a loss in volumes of this magnitude. in the u. k, a new study from the center for economics on business research studies. the cost of

living crisis has well and truly arrived in the country. and sent to predicts the biggest dev afforded living standards since the 1st day it was recorded 70 years ago. meanwhile, a member luxembourg has warned that the new package of sanctions currently being discussed within the union would heavily impact germany's industry and late to spread across europe, ortho and russia. analysts mostly macaulay, believe some countries will not be scrambling to hold oil ahead of the imminent economic crisis will be you can in fact say no future investment, financial investment in russia. well, that's very weak and so on. but what they are banking on, what your opinion and americans are banking on. that reduced or, and gas revenues from russia, which would result from the european union by less oil and gas from russia. this would gradually have such an impact on russia that it would, in fact,

reduces activities in ukraine and perhaps even withdraw from ukraine. because at present russia he said exporting more gas, more or to europe that ever before. because the europeans want to build up preserves, they opec. of course, russia is a major player and make the american devoss the saudis to increase are good. and they basically said no, because relations in saudi arabia and united states of a sour impression that the own situation is not seen by most europeans has really go point because they have been estimates. and by the end of the year, because of increased output throughout the world, wow, pressure will come down to about $900.00. but opec of course, has an interest in increasing prices. and because it's laser cartel,

and therefore one has to listen to what they have to say. and it would mean that every country now will try to get as much all as possible in the short term. in case there are no shortage is later on this year as fresh for lance over the ukranian presidents recently televised speech to greek parliament, which included an address from as of neo nazis. parties. were mon cars, or if the pores from a historically greek village inside don bass with reaction from locals. the village of stella is located about 50 kilometers from donetta. it's known as a regional center for greek culture, where locals still honor their ancestors. traditions this order on the 1st, which has had a showcase room, but since 2001 has become a hall, greek museum. all the exhibits are household items by greeks and steel. many of them are hand made over the last 8 years,

the crane civil war stealer saw a major economic decline duties for online position, and many have opted for life elsewhere. despite the fact that troops were never stationed within the village boundaries, it's been shelled continuously by the ukrainian military. civilians have been killed, homes destroyed, and critical infrastructure damaged. the roof was damaged by shrapnel, but we received donations and managed to fix it this year. the greek flag on the roof remains damaged, though we'll restore everything when it becomes peaceful. here we've seen who's been firing at us. it's the ukranian army. it was very scary. locals were outraged when the korean prison zalinski appeared in greek parliament via video conference, along with 2 members of the us, all battalion and militant structure accused of neo nazi affiliation and war crimes by the united nations. or he, russian troops have brought death and destruction to

a place where ukrainians and greeks have enjoyed peace and prosperity for centuries . moreover, russia has begun to porting people from the south of ukraine to door. it's a matter of days so on. and now i asked you to listen, not only to me who is far from marry you paul, but also to these 2 defenders of mary you, paul, who are there right now? that's the whole history is being erased. the concentration camps have been forgotten. everything is being forgotten, but we know about it. we learned this history, we remember it, but ukraine has a completely different history. one that has beneficial to them. how is it possible to accept that we're not against the ukraine, but there should not have been this new emergence of nazis. some of the wrestling, the worst thing was the abruptness. it could have been quite for a few days and then there was shelling all of a sudden. we don't know why there's no military personnel in our town. there's economic hardship here. we have to survive the residence, so the village of still, i've been living on the front line for the last 8 years. and so i've been visiting

the locals for all this time as well. and each time i've never seen any soldiers over the nest people's republic army here, they've always been ha, located on the outskirts of the village. nevertheless, this place has been continuously shelled that many people civilians have been killed as the result. so we can still hear the sounds of shelling of from far away, but so low calls hope that all of this will end very soon, and they will get a chance to finally rebuild the place of birth. remark author of archie stella the next people's republic. ah, ukraine's parliament has praised the vandalism of a berlin memorial to soviet troops who had fought nazis during world war 2, saying here now agrees with the spray painting graffiti. the russians are, quote,

the real fascists. you claims parliament with reference to phrases scrolled on the, on the memorial saying the ukrainian blood is on rushes. hans and putin is starlen . the russian embassy and berlin has requested germany's foreign ministry to make sure there's a swift response to the vandalism, including that the perpetrators be held responsible for the damage. here's some of the latest footage of a soviet era war. monument being torn down inside ukraine has public anger against russia, spills over, seemingly anything and everything connected to the country is now being taunted by ukrainians, including monuments to legendary russian writers like alexander pushkin. that bill says no me while russian on belive russian officials were not allowed to attend a ceremony in germany last weekend. commemorating allied forces liberation of the book involved in nazi concentration camp. the museums administration says it took the measure because of russia's current military operation and ukraine. reparation

. 77th anniversary was walks on sunday. the concentration camp was freed by the u. s. army towards the end of world war 2, acting on information supplied by polish and soviet prisoners. the soviet military liberated numerous concentration camps during the war, including the biggest comes, might the neck and our weights. well, as people from around the world, what they know about the allies liberation of the nazi concentration camps. the earlier it was the allied forces, the us, france, britain, in the soviet union, the red army liberated the concentration camps. primarily, i guess maybe perhaps the americans a little bit. the soviet army was held by lindley, there's no way that the british american army could have liberated the concentration camps without also having an army attacking from the east at the same time. i think that i mean like, and then they will be in liberated. the question comes forms, the where the and maybe the ration from days. i'm not sure some of the can for

a live right by russians. others, primary kids stand by british. it's important to know the fact what happened and it's important to be aware that many different people participated. not news, i'm afraid, because in 2015, shortly after the events in ukraine, the year after the events, a new kind of 2014 the allies. the western, the western powers did not invite and president putin to the commemoration of the liberation of outfits. the fact that the russians who, of course, the soviets, obviously, we're the ones who liberated auschwitz, the fact that they weren't out. it went invited to that in 2015, shows the extent of the revisionism which the western powers are determined to bring about concerning the history of the 2nd world war. no, for many decades now, they have energetically pushed the idea that in fact of the war,

the 2nd world war was between western democracy and totalitarianism. i which term they mean to blow the distinctions between the nazi regime and the soviet regime. and in doing this, they of course reduce and indeed in some cases, almost to nothing. the role played by the soviets, which to be honest, is largely, i would say not known about in the west. i mean, you've shown reports from people all over the world who all seem to know the red army liberating the camps. but i can assure you find plenty of people who had no idea at all at the soviet army who was heathen involved. so there's nothing new really and a in a way i think that this decision is petulant and childish, but it's also an expression, really of the impotence, i think of the west in the face of the russian invasion of ukraine hearing now. so

i top story the situation over ukraine president putin has dismissed the allegations of a civilian massacre in boucher calling. been fake, wes, bring it i guess to discuss this with dr. george samuel, a senior research fellow at the global policy institute. thank you very much for joining us on the program. and now it with dr. family. germany's foreign minister has stressed them, has now stressed the importance of scrutinizing all evidence of alleged war crimes . impeach a despite the well, you're being very blatant about putting the blame on russia. does it look like there's been a u turn herron's moscow's position is now being seriously considered in europe. and how did it happen if i i don't think there's been any serious change, i think is more of a kind of a political move. i think the west really has always been wedded to the idea of war crimes. it makes liberals feel good about themselves. it makes the west feel very good about it. so with some superior,

we don't commit walker. i'm day these horrible russians. they committed war crimes . it's a tried and true method. they did this all the time in the balkans, constantly discovering walk rhymes that they were always pinned on the demon of the average. that was because they tried to stop in iraq. they tried to stuff on libya, so it's something that, you know, it's a go to weapon for the west. it was always just a matter of time before they would come up with this. despite these very serious allegations against russia, president parents and it's been quite confidently that the events in pitcher was staged. how do you think the international community should go about getting to the bottom of this? well they should do is. busy us have an impartial investigation, which means that you would have to have investigators from all over the world of investigators, from india,

investigating from china to balance on the west and investigators. but that's what should happen. but of course, that's not what's going to happen. what's going to happen is that there will be investigators in scotland yard from my sex cia at the i, the boom does not freeze from germany. they quote, a crime scene, unquote will be secured by the ukrainian artist and they will control investigation . and if you goes, they will publish their reports, a russian committed war crimes. and we have evidence that the russian leaders all the way to the top to bottom it himself were involved in this crime. it will be of course, a completely worthless investigation. but that's the way, unfortunately, that the native powers always play this game. considering the latest round to all the sanctions were tied in with the events in which still haven't been properly

investigated, as we know. and how legitimate are the sanctions in the 1st place? well, none of the sanctions has been a sanctions. i have no legitimacy whatsoever unless they are authorized by the united nations security council of unilateral. ready moves by the western powers, but in this case, what so obnoxious is that in terms of hard evidence of war crimes, there's only so much evidence of the war crimes committed by ukrainian forces. we've all seen footage. busy of prisoners of war being tortured and executed a point blank range, and no such evidence as a most of russian walk rides. all of these stage the scenes with bodies being nicely laid out. ok, you know, basically we don't know anything about who these people are. you know,

what were the circumstances of that day? indeed, there are questions just looking at the footage with some of them. and then, you know, we already saw that number of the dead bodies had the white handkerchiefs, which is usually a sign of people who are not ill disposed towards the russians. so therefore, it would be very strange for russians to execute people who are well disposed towards them. the timeline of course, makes no sense. you know, when we heard about our bodies were supposedly lying there for 3 weeks. nobody claim the family and a relative claim. these, all these, no signs of decomposition on the one is no sign of any animals, you know, eating these bodies. so, the, the actual story itself makes no sense why the, as i say, the evidence of ukrainian right? is that, i mean it's, it's something you know, nobody's even attempting to deny. and, you know,

ukraine is supposed to be nato's great. i. whereas the russians supposed to have committed the war crimes, they're the ones subjected to these sanctions. there been cars in the west. the top russian officials, including vladimir putin, go on trial over events in ukraine. but as you would say, in considering all the documents, the trustees, we think committed by ukrainian force is why on the calls for any of them to stand trial. well, because the way things that they can control the, the narrative better through these trials. so they think that what they're going to do is collect some evidence and then have some kind of a, a phony trial, maybe of international criminal. or maybe they'll set up an ad hoc or like the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia. and then they'll control every single bit of the trial. the prosecutors. busy will be for major countries, all the evidence will be presented just from that collected from nato countries.

and they think that that's going to fly in the media. and it probably will. i mean, as far as the official western media concerned. yeah, they'll, they'll buy into any evidence we've seen how they buy into evidence like the and the 17 shoot down story. go buy into it. but of course ukraine, you have to maintain the narrative when you grain a gallon ally. and therefore, you have to just suppress whole evidence of the war crime. so you just have to keep that narrative go, you have to give it there. these are the bad guys. and these are the good guys. you know what the west is very good at is winning propaganda was. it's not surprising. they control most of the, of the media, but in all of the big media outlets in the world will the, cnn, bbc, you guys, guardian, and so on. and they also control the social media, so they can always win the propaganda war. then also going to winning actual was

talk to george samuel, a senior research fellow at the global policy institute. many thanks, phil. tommy, appreciate it. thank you very much. i will be celebrating the international day of human space flight named russia as cosmo takes day. i put the 12 months 61 years since you're a good guy, went above and beyond. when the man had gone before corrine's journey to the stars on board. the vall stock spacecraft lasted for 108 minutes during the launch, he said, be a famous phrase, pir holly hole. let's go. but later became a symbol of a new era in the history of mankind honoring the gardens legacy father put in his stress that russia is currently at the forefront of space exploration. he also announced a restart of the country lunar program with a planned, unmanned landing on the moon you later this year. however, this year celebrations of the garden slides have been overshadowed by the west's

apparent attempts to cancel the 1st man in space himself. and the political fallout over the ukraine conflict last month, the us foundation changed the name of this event from your res night to just a celebration of space. we spoke to a former soviet diplomats who met you were to go right off the historic flight. andre vill oh sais the west and attempts to cancel the cosmo achievement of shameful know as a boon i yeah, but can yes now it was at the end of november $961.00 half a year of the year regarding made his space flight. i was summoned by the us ambassador to india and told that i was to work as a translator for gar, and during your visit that it was quite a surprise for me. for me, travelling in the same call with him was like sitting next to church of stolen or roosevelt. that meant sitting next to the greatest man on earth. at the moment we have been together from dusk till dawn for 10 days. what struck me maybe not at that time, but years later was the fact that he was a man who you mediately, felt like trusting he was kind of needed to talk to. he wasn't pretending it was

his true nature. his other trade left me astonished with his self control. he had to speak of 40 or 45 meetings during those 10 days. you managed to be himself an open and absolutely calm person. he always knew what to say. let's just go from history to the present. after the beginning of the ukraine conflict, it's emerged in the news that you are a guarantee name has been removed from a u. s. event dedicated to the exploration of space govern was the fact to canceled the world's 1st cause and not as a diplomat how appropriate to think. they says with the self who would be a new torrie this rosa, flu. the was not only the current russian government, but also tools russian culture and russian and soviet scientific achievement is a damaging and ridiculous trend. it's especially typical for the united states where it's taking some very amusing forms. it's like an evil teenager who's willing to home his own parents. we're seeing this in their attempts to counsel russian writers concert. it looks stupid. i've been thinking about that. you know, i've been watching the series called the crown telling the story of the british ro,

family as well film the act is really good. but one it said let me puzzled. he was dedicated to lay prince phillips interest. he was very fond of space. when i started watching that episode, i thought they would show gardens visit to london. we know that he was welcomed by the queen and they had dinner. there were huge crowds there, but the whole episode was dedicated only to the american astral and the moon landing. it didn't say a word about garden and it looks very strange and even pathetic. as always, benjamin stories to be found on the website. archie dot com. ah, with what issues is possible? sure, doubly new industry to restore can just look up some of natalie mussels around noon. she kitty doesn't being in the green shell on

a nice to me as possible. mama cook go through cit, get somebody to look at that. i put a his ashley, uh this morning with wonder if it's sort of cool. jason did. did you bring out an up up with cheenum bronze medal for phones, the right, something like that. and then we got that boy. did i see with the men good old was signed on february, the 12th 2015. it was meant to end military conflicts in ukraine between government forces and don bass militia groups. the agreement stipulated that.