[000:00:00;00] ah ah, breaking news, there are not the international multiple explosions reported in the ukrainian capital here early on friday. as part of the city are left without electricity, also coming up, lakes have them set up a foreign position here. a variety of caliber empty shell casings, but also as in many places that we visited empty syringes as the battle for murder you pull into this final stage is not the crew takes a closer look at positions left by ukrainian soldiers. the head of the european central bank owns the faces rising inflation and economic instability. if they

abandon russian gas import. on the cia confirmed the usaa expanding its intelligence sharing with ukrainian forces. this comes up the u. s. senate select committee, urge the by the ministration to ramp up with welcome to r t international. my name's peter scott and wherever you join us from, welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis. and we start with breaking news. this. our multiple explosions have been reported in ukrainian capital as air raid sirens bled out across the country. part of the city are also left report to live without power. his art sees roman course read with ball. the situation is developing as we speak, and indeed we're getting reports from a social media in ukraine. that's indeed part of the city of key of is and now

would that electricity as bombing and shelling continues there, there are multiple explosions and people are panicking on social media saying that the shilling is really intensive. and people are saying that today they haven't heard such explosions. we haven't, we are receiving a similar reports from the city of har golf. and also we are getting reports that the last oil refinery. that is, they're working great right now in the city all for you on a front cost is now also out of commission. now this is developing story. we haven't heard any official statements as of now, and we are following this information very closely. meanwhile, local authorities in the brians region of western russia accuse ukraine of carrying out an air strike in the border region. the russian investigative committee claims it was carried out by to combat helicopters equipped with heavy weapons. a people including

a pregnant woman and child are reported to have been injured in the attack with 2 in a serious condition or sources in the neighboring belgrade region. also accused of, of shelling, with no casualties reported ukraine's national security and defense council rejects of the allegations, blaming russia for the incidents. this comes amid warnings from the russian defense minister that moscow could target kids. command sensors, if russian territories are threatened with, did you see we see attempts of sabotage and strikes by ukrainian troops, some objects on the territory of the russian federation. if such cases continue, the armed forces of the russian federation will strike the decision making centers, including care, what the russian army has refrained from doing so far so. well. political and social commentator alexander povich says there's reason to believe care could be attempting to escalate the conflict, the entire strategy of zalinski, and i must say,

his western handlers can be summed up in 3 words escalade escalate an escalade or anything too long, drawing more weapons into ukraine. anything that ah digs an even deeper divide between russia, russians and ukrainians. dusty order of the day. they now need of pictures. they need video. they need video clips of russian missiles hitting care which they will immediately on broadcast over the western mass media shine with the russians are now more apparently attacking civilian targets in historic here, you know, this is now now they're willing, obviously they're willing to yours. not only ah, ordinary people, a civilians are sworn to their own capital city in order just to gain further

sympathy for for themselves and to drum up more hates against russia. fighting in the nearly destroyed ukrainian city of murder, you pull, continues with the russian defense minister, send ukrainian troops have been surrounded our season rod. gasdio takes a look at some apartments in the poor city where ukrainian ship forces will hold up at every crossing on every street in every yard. the scars of battle are apparent. and today we followed in the footsteps of ukrainian nationalists as they tugged people's homes into firing ranges. as ukrainian troops retreated deeper into the city. they would then we single residential building. they would break down the doors into apartments to set up new foreign positions. again, during fire on these apartments on themselves, leaving people with no way to leave. tens of thousands of civilians now live in the

basements of their apartment blocks. it's warm of a one, but also much safer that upstairs is another apartment in a residential building that ukrainian nationalist set up a firing posted all over the pay all over the place, bullets empty show casings, but also here a primed grenade launcher. it has been prime to the, as i said, it may have malfunction, but it would be very dangerous to touch it or disturb. but in any case, this is the job, the suppose the high you are, the better the view, the father you can see and shoot. even if you have to climb over the heads of civilians really was busy with it. there were nationalist hiding up in the top floors over their lease snipers to one of them shot at people walking down the

street. he just kept shooting but missed. a young woman walking by was in absolute shock. she hid in a local shop for osmond with conf. we sat in the closet and prayed to god, or because any one of those shells could have hit our apartment when we didn't understand who they were shooting at. there was no one here. no soldiers, no separatist love, no russian troops. they just kept shelling here from the factory. you go everywhere you'll find magazines unexploded shells, bullets, even grenades that failed to designate. and occasionally the vile syringes and beals, that fueled nationalist regiments. here is another apartment broken into by ukrainian nationalists that have a great view out of this window and they set up a set up a foreign position here. a variety of caliber was empty shell casings, but also as in many places that we visited empty syringes, apparently the end of

a vile here. no idea what this was put in. many of these places apartments, the where they were at station where they fall from where they have there been drugs that were seized by the, the nets police that have cleaned up the place off to them to an extent. but we know for a fact that euclidean nation so heavily dependent on on that means this is something we had seen in syria in iraq, whether it was isis fight as will syrian rebels. they, they would take these unsettled means and they could keep going without sleep without rest, without food or drink or, or water for days and days when we found drugs during the inspections captured, ukrainian soldiers admitted that they use drugs to make it easier for them to fight the population of mary hugo was always seen as pro russian by ukrainian nationalists. for years they tried to beat and bully loyalty into the locals. isn't the river? 2 of my friends were having

a drink and nationalists walked up to them and told them to say, glory to ukraine. one of them refused, so they broke his fingers. this isn't a story from the internet. this happened to my friend from him. but that went both ways. the civilians here never understood the fanatical habits of as of and other nationalist battalions. i knew basil, they were all tattooed and they had these rituals. they had these torchlight marches over there. they also had rights. they even put up a fence so people wouldn't see what they were up to. the end result was utter disregard for civilians among nationalists, they never saw them as equals as fellow countrymen and women. but as fodder. human shields expendable bodies for the glory of ukraine. or, i guess the of r t for mary you pull will 8 years ago care of announced was

a called an anti terrorist operation in dumbass. this was preceded by turbans, events in ukraine's capital kia known as the euro. my done, maria financing looked back at the roots of the conflicts 80 years ago. ok of announced what had called an anti terror operation against 80 then eastern most regions of denotes and logan's ukraine's own regions. the reason there disobedience to caves, new rulers that came to power after the brutal events known as euro. my dun and the overthrow of the president traditionally have enclosed ties with russia. the area known as don boss in east and ukraine accused kids new authorities of a rooster phobia and refused to recognize them as a legitimate power. and to government protest raged in all major cities in the east key of branded the regions separatists. when they entered tara operation was declared, i was in danielle, and 4 months later travelled all across don boss. it was

a full scale operation with abbey asian tangs, heavy artillery and thousands of boots on the ground involved. while it was supposed to target terrorists, innocent civilians, often elderly and kids, became victims of this blood emission the would you do. ringback with you or do we need, you wouldn't deal him with an issue with the did, did call my or b, or bob o butler browse quarter. you remember when you of the brutal military operation against its own people, burned the bridges literally and metaphorically, for any peaceful solution between kia and the countries east. that tragedy in the black sea port of odessa became the final straw

for 8 years, the slaughter of so many civilians in the dawn boss has gone almost completely unnoticed by the international community. since april 2014, the ukranian side has been shelling residential areas in the 2 self proclaimed republics using heavy, offensive weapons. at least 5500 civilians have been injured. more than 2600 civilians have been killed. more than 2200 objects of civilian infrastructure were destroyed or damage. for 8 long years, russia called time off to time for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, but that lead to key of always fell on deaf ears. amuse skew. the minsk agreements were killed long before yesterday's recognition of the people's republics of dumbass and not by us, not by the representatives of these republics, but by the count authorities in kiev, ukraine's current president vowed to finally end the war,

but escalations continued and hatred also grew the republics, backed into a corner, seemed to have little choice but asked a big neighbor for protection, but helping them. russia is also secure in its own borders and interests. mosca says ukraine, strongly enter russia policies, and it's alarmingly fast, milder is ation posed a serious threat to russia's own national security. and it was determined to do something about it. so that should give folks a demilitarization and denazi's application of ukraine or a compulsory component of the agreements we see 50 days on both sides have lost many lives, both military and civilian, and seem to be close to losing hope for a quick and non military solution the aim was to try to be empty. my movement, which was eastern ukraine, south to print. and yeah, what was interesting on the operational, the beginning of the search of april is that when the security council of your

trade made the decision to stop this to terror, opperation d. c a was, was at the table which is officially recognized. and so the question is, where to decision from ukraine or us from the point of view of her operation. this was a nice name to cover that they started to. i really don't want to call it and teacher opperation somewhere because it was you don't pick a detour operation with the tanks and planes to 2 cities. this was, that was from the very beginning. started by key against the dump us after my done know, your trading government was able to make any decisions without the us 75 percent of the civilian casualties because of ukrainian arby. this is something let me, doesn't want to show that we know that the u. s. a don't care what you again victims. look at the iraq a dash, 600-0021 1000000 people died on the operations of the u. s. a. and after that,

but obviously the u. s. 8 wanted to warn you, said ukraine, for one simple reason from jude political interest of the u. s. u. s. wants to divide ukraine from russia. and what can be right to countries better than the civil war with ethical rushes to the door best against your credit government or why? so was the russian president vladimir putin and slammed western states for delaying payments for russian energy exports. little doses were 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 is 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 last month, the russian presidents, order companies to switch to rouble payments for energy expos made on the decision,

was met with a backlash from the west, which accused moscow of breaking contracts and circumventing sanctions over there is still no agreement among member states on bunting. russian, oil and gas, but he puts in also reiterated, that's an embargo on russian energy resources will primarily impacts european citizens stuff, which is up at least on the thames 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 are constantly talking about refusing russian supplies, which further destabilizes the market and inflates prices themselves, primarily for their citizens. earlier we spoke to stefan gadget your professor at the institute of european studies in belgrade, and he thinks that the european leads are,

aren't fully considering the impacts of their policies on their citizens. these elites have the agenda that are quite the opposite from what the, the state interest will be additional sense or what the interests of their population are. so that is why they're ready to harm their overall relation and their own economies, only to confront russia for somebody else's interest. and we already see a way of protest, and i think this is only the beginning. this is only a little breeze compared to the hurricane that will happen. and of course the political hurricane which will follow if they continue conducting there as a suicidal on policies. and unfortunately,

this will hurt the average the average citizen of western european country. and i honestly don't see how this will change. i mean, i do see how it will change, but i don't know whether these elite can survive politically. what is going to come and what we will, we will see is more strikes or more civil unrest in western europe. that is provoked of course, by this economic handbook being posed by the european countries themselves. the president of the european central bank because one sanctions and the one ukraine impacts in years zones economy, trade disruptions and soaring energy commodity prices are affecting the outlook for the region is continuing, fighting creates economic uncertainty. sho, davinsky takes a closer look. it's a storm warning for the urine project action is needed to tackle inflation or that

could lead to loss of trust in the currency. and in the european central bank, that is the call from a former pcp executive b e c. b faces. the biggest challenge for any central bank that it could become in itself an important risk factor. and he is not the only one wanting the cd to make a radical change towards policies over inflation. inflation was a sleeping dragon. this dragon has now awoken the e. c. b has contributed massively to this trap in which it is now caught because we're heading towards the risk of a stagflation area, environment. inflation measures how much more expensive a set of goods and services have become over a certain period. higher inflation means that the cost of living is going up. so unless your salary also is increasing at the same rate, you're going to get less bang for your buck. now the you see be aims to keep inflation to plus 2 percent,

but across the u it's risen by plus 7.5 percent. and some countries are experiencing even higher rates. germany's rate to inflation has also reached record highs. vendors at the nuremberg fest say they all feeling the strain of those increasing costs. my mother you believe the energy costs, you can see it with the gas prices or 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 cost is rising, but we were leading it to guns. 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 needs to be on foil. i mean, 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. now while inflation is lower here in france, they still has been a traumatic rise in the cost of living too. and that scene is being one of the biggest single factors as to why the hard left and the hard right candidates scolded so well. in the 1st round all the french presidential election, though the war in ukraine has contributed to rising inflation. but then i mix of higher inflation were already apparent in the summer of 2021. as the world economy was still battling with kobe 19. some economists say the c, b should have acted in greasing interest rates back then. it is incomprehensible that the european central bank, unlike the u. s. federal reserve, is taking so much time with the monetary policy turnaround. i don't think it is helpful to wait so many more months, given current inflation rates and inflation expectations. i have been saying for

more than a year that we have an inflation problem, a more rapid tightening of monetary policy. thank you. sci fi says it's working on a crisis tools to support countries facing those. increasing boring costs is the rates right? for the concern is that it's too little too late and a more radical approach may be needed. the longer the see be way, the more difficult the course, maybe to navigate geology, boesky, aussie paris a residence of some of us most developed economies are longed by the ramifications of anti bush and sanctions. we spoke with some german business owners who have been expressing their frustration as storing prices on the impacts is having on their livelihoods. ma mazda, you believe, ally, the energy costs you can see it with the gas prices over 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, when 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 guess the director of economic corporation of the russian foreign minister dmitri bid. a chess key says that sanctions on russia are a double edged sword. while it is obvious that the new restrictive measures will have an adverse effect on the european economy, the sanctioned, the so called sanctions will definitely on demise. competitiveness of the u. they will further disrupt remaining value and supply chains is to gain price growth. hope commodities are all materials, food and other critical goos,

european metal interest. they will also have to go through a painful process of changes. well, there are, there is the use of that, but people in 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. as energy prices are skyrocketing, according to some estimates, the living standards of population, how the way down to minimum levels record since 19 seventies. in 2021 and in 2020 of world food program repeatedly was that the road facing current of virus pandemic was on the age of hunger. and that could lead to multiple lines of biblical proportions. i quote, this estimation, let me emphasize it was made last year, not now. so russia has nothing to do with this us. the lights committee, unintelligence has sent a letter to the director of national intelligence requesting more information is

shared with ukraine. essentially you have the senate intelligence committee requesting that intelligence from the united states be shared with you crane. ah. and they give a, an intended purpose what they are helping ukraine to do with that intelligence. and this is the words of the letter. as we watch russia turn its focus to southern and eastern ukraine, we urge you to ensure that our intelligence agencies proactively share intelligence with the ukrainians to help them protect, defend and retake every inch of ukraine sovereign territory, which includes crimea and the don bass. these stated goal was just sensually, you know, our effort to help you crane retake, don bass and crimea flies in the face of peace talks. as these are one of the main points of negotiations with russia. and we also have gen saki, the white house, the spokesperson, claiming that the united states support the b stocks, piece ox or something. we're always going to support the president, secretary of state or national security adviser,

always going to support and we support the ukrainians in that effort. so we're having mixed messages coming out of washington on the one hand, it seems like they want to fight to the bitter, and they are holding onto some very extreme territorial claims on the part of the ukrainians. on the other hand, it seems like the united states is telling people that it does favor negotiations, and it does want the piece talks to move ahead. it does want to deescalate tensions in the country. so the united states seems to be talking out of both sides of its mouth at the moment, not a clear message about where washington stands in regards to the ongoing conflict. the world health organization chief has said the world treats crises differently depending on race. how did that people come up short when it comes to documenting conflicts in the global south? i don't know if there were little really gives equal attention

to black and white lives. the whole attention to ukraine is very important, of course, because it impacts the whole world, but even a fraction of it is not being given to him and i've got to stand syria and the rest a fraction. the w h o chief also note said that in his home country v c o p, a particular in the t great region. people right now are the risk of starvation. you said not enough is being given to them and they are short on humanitarian aid. this comes in china claims that the west has been silencing the costs of us. lead was in iraq, afghanistan and yugoslavia. we spoke with a university of south africa professor who says race is inextricably linked to the issue. logged in to the w h o chief was correct or state wide. yes said because the da da da da da da da. we find aust, especially as blacks in their coat,

context of global politics where the color of your skiing are determines how you should be treat bend or your treatment. i did the 2 of us, li god. i did the t of south on the other guy and 80 ada coin demands what we find if people of a different color scheme that differently they are disrespected and there is no k in as far as the needs are concerned. and i think he's justified based on our has not experienced as pleasant, but it is god, it will fade out today. current in the as is only bored by they are, own interest to what he's there for them to get at this particular moment i just by to block our juncture. but we know that any other count the day when the, when he's done, it dumps you because they would have achieved whatever they want out of that

particular situation. and we wore less p as a see if you can, there's another dime they want to move away and move to the next target. well, that's a wrap for now. my name is peter scott, and i'll be back again with more of the top of the hour. but in the meantime, do feel free to head over to our t dot com and our social media pages. more stories analysis. ah ah, with a

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