ah, join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, multiple explosions are reported in the ukrainian capital, kia early on friday as part of the city i left without the electricity. also i had a set up a foreign position here, a variety of caliber 70 shell casings. but also i was in many places that we visited empty syringes as a battle for murder. you pull, enters its final stages and out. the crew takes a closer look at positions left by ukrainian soldiers. on the head of the european central bank was the face is rising inflation and economic instability if they abundant russian gas impulse with

from moscow to the world. this is our t international. i'm pita scott and these the top stories this our multiple explosions have been reported in the ukranian capital. kia is air raid sirens blad out across the country. it was also reported that most parts of the city were left without power, according to local media citing residence. it's the most intense bombardment in the region since the war begun. meanwhile, a car curve is reportedly under heavy shelling. and in yvonne of frank calls, which is in the west of the country, local media claims that the last major oil refinery in ukraine has been destroyed. local authorities in the bank region of western russia of accused 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. 8 people, including a pregnant woman and a child reports it's been injured in the attack with 2 in a serious condition. authorities in the neighboring bill. good region, also accused of shelling, with no casualties reported ukraine's national security and defense council rejected the allegations blaming busher for the incidents. this comes amid warnings from the russian defense ministry. the moscow code target kids command sensors, efficient territories are threatened video to do so. we see attempts to sabotage and strikes by ukrainian troops on 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. on the 14, you can see on your screens now is the aftermath of the legend. shelling in brianne sc with a number of buildings and cars destroyed emergency services all working at the scene. but it's cool and social commentator alexander published gives his thoughts

on the potential ramifications of the alleged attack, the entire strategy of the landscape. and i must say is western handlers is, can be summed up in 3 words. escalade technically an escalate. anything to drawing more lessons into ukraine? any saying that ah, digs an even deeper divide between russian russians and ukrainians. dusty order today, they now need of pictures. they need videos. they need video clips of russian missiles hitting care which they will immediately on broadcast over. busy the western mass media showing that the russians are apparently attacking civilian targets in historical here. you know, this is now now they're willing, obviously they're willing to yours. not only are ordinary people. civilians are

also willing to use their own capital city in order just to gain further sympathy for, for, for themselves and to drama, more hates against russia. fighting in the nearly destroyed ukrainian city of multiple continues with the russian defense minister, st. ukrainian troops have been surrounded. ortiz mod, gusty of takes to look at some apartments in the poor city where ukrainian forces will hold up at every crossing on every street in every yard. this gods of battle are apparent. and today we followed in the footsteps of ukrainian nationalists as they turned 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 nationalists set up a foreign posted all over the pay all over the place, bullets empty shell 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 for 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 what is the receipt there were nationalist hiding up in the top floors over their lease snipers to one of them shot at people walking down the street when he just kept shooting but missed a young woman walking by was in absolute shock. she hid in a local shop for ashlyn with coff. we sat in the closet and prayed to god because any one of those shells could have hid our apartment when we didn't understand who they were shooting at. there was no one here. no soldiers, no separatist of no russian troops. they just kept shelling here from the factory. you go everywhere, you'll find magazines unexploded shelves, 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 nationalist that had 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. he had no idea what this was, but in many of these places, apartments the where they were at station where they fought 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 you credit national, it's a heavily dependent on amphetamines. this is something we had seen in syria in iraq, whether it was isis fight as will syrian rebels. they, they would take these amphetamines and they could keep going without sleep without rest, without food or drink o 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 upa was away seen as pro russian by ukrainian nationalists.

for years they tried to beat and bully loyalty into the locals. isn't that another 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 from sierra 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'd gazda of r t for mary jo pal, will 8 years ago care of announced what is called an anti terrorist operation in dumbass. this was preceded by turbulence, events in ukraine's capital. keith, known as the euro. my done, maria financial 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 denounced 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 russo fabia and refused to recognize them as a legitimate power. and to government protest raged in all major cities in the east

. he had branded the regions separatists. when they entered tara operation was declared. i was in done yet, and 4 months later, and 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. ringback would you or do we need you wouldn't deal him with an issue with the did gabriel farmers co my or be, or barbara? earl 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 got 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. damage for 8 long years, rush and cold time off to time for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. but that fleet to key of always fell on deaf ears. uminski, the misc 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 through public spect 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 anti 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 that you'd give us both the demilitarization and denot suffocation 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 new printer to print. and yeah, which was interesting on the operational, the beginning of the search of april is that what the security council, if you're to make the decision to stop is to terror peroration d. c a was was at the table which is officially recognized. and so the question is, where the decision from ukraine or us from the point of view of her operation. this was a nice name to cover that they started to war. i really don't want to call it and teacher operation somewhere because it was you don't pick a deter operation with the tanks and planes to bump cities. this was a wall from the very beginning, started by key it 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. victims of ukrainian arby. this is something leslie me

doesn't want to show, but we know that the u. s. a don't care what you again victims, look at the iraq. there are 600-0021 1000000 people died on the operations of the u . s. a. and after that. but obvious that the u. s. a wanted to warn you, the ukraine for one simple reason or from geo political interest of the u. s. u. s . wants to divide ukraine from russia. and what can be wide, 2 countries better than the civil war with ethical rushes to the door best against your credit government? or was it was we heard from one family who've been living on the con side line between the don units, republic and ukraine, controlled territories for the past 8 years. news william assumed, well, i don't know, we aren't ready to believe the war will and soon we want to end as soon as possible . but i don't think there's enough will for that to happen in the united states and europe are sending arms digital numbers of you. it's a, it's hard to live here. it's difficult. we are right on the borderline. i

understand every thing, but we want peace. we want to feel protected. you must understand it scary. it's hurtful, especially for the children. we had one situation with a woman. she just went out to wash to the kitchen and a shell landed. she was literally ripped apart. there is so much suffering. we are tired just quite tired. who can we turn to? nobody, those boys are dying. it's hardest for those who are protecting us. turkey has sought a large lead neutral stuns since the starts of the war. and while the country has continued to send drones, an ammunition to keep on kara has also called for peace talks and opinion. polls do show a significant public sentiment, blaming nato. for the conflict arts ease, our son, a boy could 6 a close to look at turkey's delicate political balancing act, they are pursuing their own interest. and it's true that they are not pro russian, they're not pro ukrainian, they're being pro turks. then the war is good for the military industry. the

request for about out of the roles have increased dramatically. many countries are looking into buying that technology because it demonstrated itself to be very, very efficient on the ukranian front lines. but on the other hand, turkey has a very burgeoning, very luxurious trade with rush. i think it's somewhere in the range of $33000000000.00. for example, there trade with your brain is roughly 7000000000. so the turks are pursuing our own interest. plus they want to be given the role of a major not only regional, but global player. i'm pretty sure that president or the one really wants to be the one who settles this conflict on he over the past weekend, he once again extended his invitation, both to present put an end president landscape to go to turkey for direct negotiations. well, i think they had doing very well in settling that old grudges,

both with, with nato and more specifically with the united states and the european union. because i've actually seen a couple of major commentators suggest the, the issue is trying to undermine mr. add on piece making efforts because he's calling for peace. that's a please. turkey official position. we've heard they had of the european diplomacy, suggesting that they could only be a military solution to this conflict. this is the 1st time in history that they had of you. diplomacy ever said something like that. they've never heard that in li be in syria, yugoslavia so it's pretty interesting how the tables have turned. i was interviewing one of the major turkish analyst day and he said like, i couldn't have imagined that even a year ago. you know, all the russian outlets and how in the west do you know, despite its suppose it allegiance to media freedoms, but they are all free to operate in turkey. so turkey also portrays itself as you know, as a country of real liberty right now, let me common shortly on the,

an american, an anti american sentiment because they're, they're fairly strong and target and not only because of the current situation, but it's hard to believe that the americans and i see i in particular have participated in organizing several coups in, in turkey. so they ante american sentiment is pretty strong. there was a recent poll in turkey, which suggested that 48 percent of the turks laid the blame for what's happening in the ukraine, on nato and the united states. and only, i think 37 or 33 percent put direct blame on russia. so it's not just 2 sides of the coin there many, but again, that's turks being typical turks. bloody mid putin has slammed western states for delaying payments for russian energy exports. nurses 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 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 last month, the russian president ordered companies to switch to rouble payments for energy exports. the decision was met with a backlash from the west, which accused moscow of breaking contracts and circumventing sanctions. however, there is still no agreement among member states on bunting, russian, oil and gas. but im abusing also reiterated this an embargo on russian energy resources will primarily impacts european citizens which gives up a list of 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 are constantly talking about refusing russian supplies, which further destabilizes the market and inflates prices themselves, primarily for their citizens. earlier we spoke to steven gadget, a professor at the institute of european studies in belgrade. he thinks that european leads 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 would be additional sense or what the interests of their population are. so that is why they're ready to harm on their ovulation and their own economies only to confront russia for somebody else is 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 warn you crane, i'm faxing, the euro zones economy trade. this options and soaring energy commodity prices are affecting the outlook for the region is continuing. fighting creates economic uncertainty. so to bends, can take 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. he is not the only one wanting the cd to make a radical change to its 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 c. b ames to keep inflation to plus 2 percent. but across the you, 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 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

rising. but we are willing 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 beyond 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 low, a hearing frogs, they still has being 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, we're already apparent in the summer of 2021. as the world economy was still

battling with kobe. 19, some economists say the sep, should have acted in raising 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. but you see, he says it's working on a crisis tools to support countries facing those. increasing boring costs is the rates rise. but the concern is that it's too little too late, and a more radical approach may be needed. the longer the e. c, b, wait, the more difficult the course, maybe to navigate geology. boesky asi paris. the

cia director william burns confirmed on thursday that is expanding its intelligence sharing with ukrainian forces. this comes up to the u. s. senate select committee sent a letter requesting for more information to be shared with keith is ortiz kelly moulton . with more, essentially, you have the senate intelligence committee requesting that intelligence from the united states be shared with you crane. and they give a, an intended purpose what they're 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 goals, which essentially, 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 spokesperson, claiming that the united states supports the b stocks piece talks, is 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 u. s. is ramping old pressure on countries that have so far remain neutral over the war in ukraine, with cuba accuse of echoing russian state propaganda. we denounce cuba,

recycling and repetition of russia's false narrative about it's war against the ukraine to the cuban people in state run media outlets. this includes publishing recent stories that assert that the atrocities in butcher were manufactured in the cuban government statements. blaming the united states and nato for the conflict. cuba was among $34.00 nations that decided to abstain from voting on the un resolution condemning russia was originally an ally of the former. soviet union has long been loggerheads with the u. s. a. no. president obama tried to reduce tensions. trump, from top sanctions on cuba, an approach joe biden also appears to be following a cuba is just one of the slew of nations and the pressure for its position on the war and ukraine. the washington post released and all pad urging the u. s to pressure nicaragua, which has a leftist lead to the white house as openly condemned. and he wants to do the arts of any alignment with russia, a professor of latin american in car been studies we spoke to says that the latin

american states, outside of us had germany. the united states, shooting themselves in the foot every day. they're more isolated across south america or in the caribbean. people looking for a new way forward. they're looking for solidarity. they're sick of the i, m f in the world bank, dumb meeting. their national resources, the labor market. they want another way forward. they're all too familiar with the history of us invasions, occupations, unfettered, pillaging in exploitation. so many of these countries have remained neutral. they haven't taken, they haven't voted in the, in the un against russia for this very reason. they don't see russia. it's chief enemy of humanity. they define the chief enemy of humanity as us imperialism.

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