the american economy, so there is a boomerang ah, a border region of 3 on scales being shell that a ukrainian or is leaving a number of people injured. despite warnings from moscow that any further attacks on its territory could see key abs quote, decision making centers targeted in response with countries constantly talking about refusing russian supplies. for the d, stabilizes the market and inflates prices themselves. primarily, pedestrian vladimir putin accuses phone calls on friendly state cell, delaying payments for russian energy supplies. the president also highlighted that ordinary europeans will be the ones hardest by the anti russian rhetoric. a brush reveals new evidence of what it claims as the

activity of us funded bio labs in ukraine. dangerous substances were allegedly tested on patients of psychiatric with 247 news from moscow. this is your r t good to have your company today. my names, even only local authorities in the brianne screeching of western russia, have accused ukraine's armed forces of carrying out an earnest strike on the border area. the russian investigative committee claims it was a russian or a strike carried out by to combat helicopters equipped with heavy offensive weapons . 7 people, including a pregnant woman and child, are reported to have been injured in the latest. shelly, to be injured, including the child are said to be in a serious condition. authorities in the neighboring belgrade region, also accused of carrying out shelling there. although no reports of any casualties,

there is yet the incidents come. despite a warning from the russian defense ministry less than 24 hours ago at moscow could target tea of decision making centers. if ukraine keeps bombing russian boarder regence, the rti don quarter joins me now in the studio to talk through the latest on good to see you, an escalation clearly on russian soil. what snow while you and the russian investigative committee is saying that to ukraine an attack helicopters launched 6 different air strikes on the border town of clim of that's located in rushes, brown region, which is on the border with ukraine in the dunbar. peoples republics. as of now 7 people, including a pregnant woman and a child who is now in critical condition, have been injured as a result of this. and according to the local authorities to residential buildings have also been damaged. and the entire region has been put on high alert for potential terrorist attacks in the near future. so there are around the same time

that this air strike our series of airstrikes happened. actually there was another attack on a russian border point, just about 40 kilometers south west of climmer. and they're, the local border guard said that the mortar fire began to rain down on that area just as refugees were trying to escape from ukraine into the russian federation. thanks, thank thankfully that nobody was hurt at that point, but 2 cars were damaged and just to be clear, this is not the 1st time actually that ukrainian forces have attacked russian territory. we also know that the day before these attacks occurred that i was just talking about right now. we heard from the governor of course, who said that a fire fight broke out on another russian border checkpoint with ukrainian forces. and that was that another border checkpoint, this has all collectively, basically provoked the russian ministry of defense into promising harsh retaliation if the ukrainian military continues to attack russian territory vision proper to do

so. we see attempts to sabotage and strikes by ukrainian troops. some object from the territory of the russian federation. if such cases continued, the armed forces of the russian federation will strike the decision making sense, including care, what the russian army has refrained from doing so far out. it's important to note that these attacks we're talking about, occurred after the ministry of defense this statement. and just moments ago we heard from the governor of another region called belgrade that that territory was attacked as well. for ukraine's part. it claims it solely targets the military in such a text. but as you are going through, we had a pregnant woman, a young girl among the injured civilians. this week you spent time in the regions there as well. dawn, what's the reality? that's right. actually, i was in russia's border region of raw storm covering the mass evacuations of people from the danielle can people's republics. in the days before russia began its military operation in ukraine and right after that began actually ukrainian

forces started to shell civilian areas, mostly in border regions in russian territory. so. so these took place in the region of ra stove that i was in. it also took place in the border region, of course, the border region of belgrade and bronze called these regions that we're talking about right now that are still being attacked by the ukrainian military. i even remember at one point that local reports had said that around 40 artillery shells fell in roster of region where i was located just over one night. so schools at that time across the border were closed just as they have been now in clim of a. so there were really talking about indiscriminate ukrainian shelling of russian territory that began back when the russian military operation began just over a month ago. don, thanks very much, particularly through thought to escalation done quarter. ah, vladimir putin slammed western states for delaying the transfer of payments for

russian energy select this is will a failures in the payment of export supplies of russian energy resources. banks from unfriendly countries delay the transfer payments. i remind you the task has already been set to transfer payments for energy resources to the national currency . gradually moving away from the dollar and the euro. in general, we intend to radically increase the share of payments in the national currency in the foreign trade system in the yet just some background to that. or on a month ago, the russian president ordered the states companies to switch to payments and rubles only for energy export. the decision was met with a huge backlash from the west, which it choose mosque of breaking contracts and circumventing sanctions wherever they are still new agreement among members, states on bonding, russian, oil and gas not to be put in. also reiterated that an embargo and russian energy resources will primarily hit european citizens but gives up external attempts by

western countries to replace our energy resources with alternative supplies will inevitably affect the entire global economy. supplies from other countries, primarily from the united states, will cost consumers many times more would affect the standard of living of people and the competitiveness of the european economy. despite these obvious things for every one european countries, a constantly talking about refusing russian supplies, which further destabilizes the market and inflates prices themselves, primarily for their citizens. you are yes, big issue with around with occasions. let's get into some of them with economist ikea hummer who speaks to us from hanover today. hi, i k. one is behind these delays the payments for russian energy resources. firstly, i think the behind to delay is that the europeans are called on the wrong foot. they, on the one hand, they would have to bypass their own sanctions to pay it because they cancel just

the transfer possibilities with, with russia. on the other hand, they count on the wrong foot by now having to pay in roubles. it doesn't matter if rush, i get your 1st and exchange it to rouble after. the main thing is that they cannot lash the route for the menu. correlation of the rule of thumb works is, is stuck. so that was a master piece of moscow to, to order the partners to pay and rouble instead of their, their own currencies. so this is, i think behind the delay they don't know what to do. they are really caught on the wrong foot. and this shows the entire idiocy of the west on politics. they have really no clue what they are doing. they just, they seem just to follow some orders from people who don't have the clue either. so this is just a big, big, huge met enough. the point will they be allowed to make their own decision to use

states, or is it going to be a dictates from brussels, that this is what we're doing. and you've got no choice because we know that he states their divided on whether to ban russian gas or not. what final decision do you expect? will they stick to their tough political, lied, or choose energy stability cross? they can't stick to that line because everything is constant. here we already see the 1st signs of call up thing. and the by the chief of via and of us will say the same already. that, that when they stick to the yacht, eat of energy policy, the many supply chains will call ups in the you. and as everybody knows the supply chain, so delicate, within the globalized world, that you destroy so many other parts of it. that especially a high industrialized countries like germany, france, and so on. well, it will suffer immediately, but even worse is if they now destroy germany,

which many of those advisors and politicians in europe like and we're, we're trying to do for, for ages now. they now realize that they're destroying the anti european union because it's nothing else, just the plundering union against germany. but if germany is done, if the germany economy a colored thing, they have nothing to plunder. and so they enter your pre union will collapse to. and this is what they now am getting aware off and they have no clue how to get out of this, correct? we know as well that the us is positioning itself as an alternative supplier of gas to europe. however, and we've known this for the past 10 days, so europe and countries have had time to digest this. the prices are much higher, is not really the best option on the table. is that the one they're going to go for? it doesn't work because the americans, calm supply europeans lab,

not efficient transport measures. you need to buy build ships for transporting the l. n g to germany or to europe. you need to, you need to part, everything doesn't come in time. it is not an option. the arab told the europeans, they can't make up for the russian gas and the russian or so this is no option at all. and it is a, it is a bypass of older environmental talks. they do if they buy the environmental catastrophic, the freaking gas from the us. so this is no option at all. they c o 2 footprint of this gas from the us is so bad. so i believe that everybody would have to pay millions and millions of penalty payments to the european union because they can meet their c o $2.00 emissions, what they, what, what route they make. so this is no option at all and everybody knows this,

but they just proclaim but somehow it will go. they have no clue back. really no clue on what they're doing and they're destroying the, the industry that has been built up for 40 years and they are destroying and in a blink of an eye now. and the people are getting hurt, but the big prices as well, aren't they economist unpublished. i k hummer live reaction from home where thank you very much. when you were waves of european sanctions against russia are colliding with soaring course. as i was saying in the you, effecting millions of people with a staggering 87 percent of spaniards afraid about the conflict. and ukraine is going to have a large negative influence on the spanish economy. and what's more, business owners in germany have been expressing their frustration at rising prices on the impact on their livelihoods. my most of you are leaking a lie the energy costs. you can see it with the gas prices. the price is currently

25 percent higher than 2 months ago. and so of course, you have to allocate the prices in some way and we cannot avoid increasing costs. so i say we have a leaking it's against. if we have more costs, we have to think about how we can pass them on. although that's pretty bad for us because it's not just millionaires who come here. it's the case that we always want to keep our entrance fee affordable for the people. but we can't do it. nissan rearm foyer. one thing is clear. everything that's happened is always paid for by the individual. it's the same at the gas station at the supermarket. it's the same everywhere. and of course, the prices have also increased in our marquee, and i got no earlier, i got the thoughts of director of economic cooperation at the russian foreign ministry to me tree. bert chikavsky, who believes in use sanctions, he was that came to stress is going to cause great harm to the european economy and people while it is obvious that the new restrictive measures will have an

adverse effect on the european economy, the sanction the so called sanctions will definitely on demise, competitiveness of the u. they will further disrupt remaining value and supply chains is to get price growth, hope commodities, raw materials, food and other critical goos, european metal interest. they will also have to go through a painful process of changes. well, there are various views of that, but people of businesses will certainly suffer from the direct or indirect effects such that inflation, by the way, is on the rise across the u. n. d. in america and japan. energy prices are skyrocketing, according to some estimates, the living standards of population on the way down to minimum levels record since 19 seventies. in 2021 and in 2021 will program repeatedly was that the road facing current of virus pandemic was on the edge of hunger. and that would lead to multiple lines of biblical proportions. i quote this estimation,

let me emphasize this was made last year, not now. so russia has nothing to do with this. can other story to bring you to a russia say's it has obtained more evidence on the alleged operations of us funded bio labs in ukraine. according to the latest report from the ministry of defense, dangerous substances were reportedly tested on patients with mental health issues. and let's get into that further with correspondent remind caution month thanks for the time today. what is being claimed then by these bio lab, take us through it. well, according to the russian army, the special military operation continues on covering facts regarding the existence of military biological labs in ukraine. now, moscow says that's the key of had plans to use pathogens developed in the pentagon

funded by a lab. so attack the republics of done boswell and russia as well. now, these chilling, like really and d, chilling revelations come supported by a document that the army allegedly discovered during the 2 month offensive. the cameras on weekends can these for also during special operation on the territory of ukraine. we found out that from 2019 to 2021 us scientists were testing dangerous biological substances on patients. if the carcass regional, psychiatric winning list of people were specifically selected for the experiments based on their age, nationality and immune status, the staff of the clinic signed a non disclosure agreements. we have numerous testimonies from witnesses of these in human experiments and whose names we cannot disclose in order to ensure their safety. now the commands are off a rush as a nuclear biological and chemical defense forces that says that said the documents

also identified specific officials who took part in the creation of components self visa, biological weapons. now, he also added that ukranian specialists, supervised by their american curators, took war samples from ukraine's major rivers. now that was don, apparently, in order to determine dangerous pathogen sofa cholera cipher with fever and hepatitis. now, moscow believes that this research could be used to undermine the biological situation, not only in russia, but also in the blacks. i see the result, see in villaroo, smola and poland. now a documents and other evidence from the supposedly u. s. funded laboratories in ukraine also suggests that he was planning to use drones to deploy pathogens against the, the dung boss. republics. well, as against russia itself as well. so just to issue,

can you ukraine sent a request to a manufacturer to place aerosol equipment on the bay rock tar drowns. russian intelligence found 3 drones equipped with 30 liter spray containers, ukraine managed to purchase more than 50 such devices. you warn you in the conflict . now the united states has a long claim to that's allegations about sa, military funds, the buyer laboratories in ukraine are russian dis, information in march, however, u. s said diplomats, that victorian moulins testified before the senate, that the biological research laboratories in ukraine did exist and that's in washington was working with key of to ensure that the materials of biological research do not fall into the hands of a russian. ah, forces us still on no other occasions, both washington and give have denied biological research for military purposes.

man, thanks very much for taking us through those. what are extraordinary claims ortiz ramon cos. riv ah the russian defense ministry meanwhile has confirmed that the naval flag ship, the moskva was seriously damaged after a fire broke out, causing some all its amunition to exploit. the blaze has not been localized and its main missile armaments aren't said to have been damaged. the ship and the black sea is not being towed to ports after its crew were evacuated to safety. the cause of the incident is still under investigation, but ukrainian officials claim the cruiser was targeted by its missiles or not on the bottle grants and ukraine. ah, the russian ministry of defense sales published footage of anti tank missiles systems involved in the fighting. in this video you can see bottle vehicles

providing cover by taking up key firing positions before beating back. ukrainian collector attacks or senior correspondent, murat gosti, of who's been following the bottles in more. you poll for some time, reports i from the ground there. the weather here in maryville has taken a turn for the worse. nevertheless, there are hundreds of people here all waiting to receive poets permits to walk round the city. it come here with their documents with various identification to get these permits that check, look good the people who submit these documents up. i actually the individuals written in them and they need these permits to avoid that. he missed of the fact that we must bear in mind the fighting still rages, admirer. you pull this baby one of the liberated areas, but it is still dangerous until avoid any misunderstanding. people here get these

permit. you can probably tell by the state of mary, you pull that many people are having trouble with documents that they've lost them . but did the files and the fighting with we're carrying out a population census issuing people passes so they can move around the city. some documents always survive, we're using them. but even if people have no papers, their relatives can come to confirm their identity. understandably, there of course difficulties getting a city of running the size of mary you pull from scratch from from the wreckage and the ruins that the cities currently in is, is a difficult task. everyone must be clothed. everyone must be fed kept warm. that is in of itself difficult, but getting everyone papers giving out papers, checking people's identities, especially given that people he are still in shock as still terrified from the ordeal that they have to go through. and the treatment that they received from

ukrainian nationalists, we've all heard that testimony. the entire population of mary, opal was held hostage. ukrainian nationalists would shoot at anyone trying to flee . the world hasn't seen the like since isis jihadists held hundreds of thousands as human shields in mo, self. what family will share with i'm around the corner in the afternoon. opportunity to interview with ryan williams of navy to let you know caring opportunity to play with nurse to move my delivered fidelity through forgot or to little does or thought from with them really mostly for quite a lot of work, a coil. you put renewable food, you know, it's not private in akin after closing all day yet, unit nip, shout. every one here went through this,

each and every one of them has their own horror story. but some haven't ended. yes, but you'd want to fed neosha, son didn't have any. yeah. holla, is they gonna look possible? there's no papa. so i was just all i you know what? it's on as a sex. good here. it. oh, you did. a driver who did as a stance against the cookie of the measures. they're more wearing expression of i don't ivy gilmore, but he shook up to see what your wish is. children skita sh gets ye rich gibberish at us. supposedly at your was the new do is at the moment i don't give them to. i mean if you go to them when the games, a lot of them are probably is digital but his muscles. nadine, even with people from all over the world of reached out seeking news of family and friends trapped in mary. you both these lists and permits being compiled now will

help him more i'd guess d a r t for mario po. ah. can other story to bring you today? natural gas giant, algeria has agreed to boost deliveries to italy. now as europe seeks to diversify its imports of energy resources. however, relations between algiers and other western states, they have been strained for some time, much like my voice. meaning deals could be hard to come by here, sar. t's charlotte, who pinsky well that you look eastwards to ukraine in the war there. it's aware that it needs to keep its eyes on other issues bubbling up to yoseph burrell the blocks. foreign affairs chief recently hinted at concerns in africa. now while he specifically mentioned molly, there is another african nation that could be problematic. algeria ah,

that stand off over western sahara could be about to have why did geo political ramifications? what's happened is that spain has moved much closer to morocco's position on western sahara. on this is seen in algiers as being a threat if not a liquidation of the right of the people of western sahara to so the termination under the leadership pol assario. then as noted, you've had the resurgence of heart right forces with in spain. and so i think it's fair to say that in terms of islam of phobia, that is a dash or probably deeper in terms of having deeper roots and spain and france,

believe it or not. because keep in mind that arab and muslim forces rule spain, or for hundreds of years. and that rule is, has not been forgotten as part of traditional contemporary spanish talk more. and algeria takes that quite seriously as well. they should tensions have risen further in recent weeks with spain. a key just doing a massive you tune. now for years winter, it has supported a un sponsored referendum to settle the issues over this disputed territory of the western sahara. now it's chosen site. spain considers the autonomy initiative presented by morocco in 2007 is the most serious, realistic, incredible basis for resolving the dispute that apparently went down like a lead balloon in algiers. gas pump from algeria to spain has been

lowering in recent years, but in 2021 it's still made up around 43 percent of imports. while g is isn't likely to turn off the taps. it has suggested that prices could change spain's position on the western sahara also brings this in line with washington. under donald trump, a deal was struck to recognize morocco's claim on region. in return from normalizing relations with israel under applied in the white house is now pushing algeria to also think hard about it's feature. washington has a very long memory. and even though there are those who might have forgotten the time, and algeria open to stores to the black mountain party of the united states of america, i can assure you that washington has not forgotten. washington has not forgotten that at one time, algeria in terms of a title with recent book,

was considered capital of the 3rd world. that is to say, algeria was seen as a militant, exemplar of arab nationalism, a militant, exemplary about her nationalism that was quite friendly to the palestine liberation organization and indeed, is still friendly to the palestinian resistance. and i think that all of these fact is sent to complicate relations between washington and algeria. and i don't think that's going away any time soon as the e. u is looking to reduce russian energy imports. algeria could be the perfect ally, it's geographically close. it already has pipelines running to spain, and it's thought to have fairly vast energy reserves. but it may not be that simple . a recent policy brief by the european council warned that european leaders seem to be unwilling to stand up to moroccan demands. and in doing so,

are seeing their credibility being undermined in algeria. so unless the block can find and then maintain that very tricky balance plans to substitute some russian for algerian energy could be nothing but a pipe dream challenge even sky r. c. paris you know the story to bring you before we go to break to nordic countries, finland and sweden are now considering applying for nato membership. seeing quote, russian aggression in ukraine has forced them to reconsider their neutrality. the european security architecture have changed fundamentally, after russians invasion of ukraine. we have deepened our native partnership until now hand in hand with sweden. ever since russia is legally in exit, crimea. there's no other way to have security guarantees done under nato's

deterrence and common defense ass guaranteed by natives. article 5 during the cold war, finland and sweden and also austria. arlington, switzerland decided not to join any political or military alliances. however, in the 1990 s all neutral states became part of nato's partnership for peace program, which allows them to cooperate with the block with full membership. now russia saying the a session of finland and sweden to nato goes against its security concerns. reiterated during talks before the conflict in ukraine began, but which were dismissed by western powers. the kremlin stated such a move will be seen as a provocation, and could lead to reciprocal measures. while political consultant and editor lew rockwell believes that could backfire in the nordic states themselves if they're part of nato, if they're under the united states. but it like a polar. they're like a subsidiary of the u. s. u.