time to sit down and talk with russian troops take control over most of the ukrainian 50 of murder, you pull civilians begin to leave that basement and receive aid after weeks. fighting with an investigation reveals a legit plans by the ukrainian security service to assassinate zelinski. his political opponents, delegations of fortune and detention center. we speak to the author behind the investigation the u. s. says it won't return the frozen russian assets of private individuals back to the owners even when the conflicts and ukraine ends on 1000 and take the streets of belgrade to protest against the

government vote to suspend russia from the un human rights council. a committee alive from our headquarters in moscow this saturday morning. this is our international. i'm peter scott. we started out with the latest from the war in ukraine. the russian military says is prevented an attempt by key f to destroy a hydro electric power plant in the southern city of camps on to ballistic missiles were apparently shot down by russian air defense systems. fragments of the missile fell in residential areas. damage in the houses with several casualties reported the russian defense ministry states that the failed attack could have led to uncontrolled funding of multiple settlements in the region. he has not yet commented on the incident, for we heard from one man whose house was damaged by the strike. hey,

this is my house at 7 in the morning. my house was hit by our glorious ukrainian military. i am not a military man. i am a civilian, i work as a green truck driver. i love my country. i was a patriot after this. i say thanks, mr. zalinski. and in the city of murray, you poll, which has almost been raised to the ground, civilians are starting to leave their basements. that says russian troops have taken control of most of the city. many people have been trapped in shelters with little food, all water since the beginning of march, and humanitarian aid is now just about starting to make his way through ortiz roman casa reports from the city. well, once again, we are here in myrtle. once again, we are delivering humanitarian age things like food medicine, hygenic items and basically anything else that people here have been lacking for the last, almost 2 months. as you can see,

many parts of the city are devastated. people are on the street, there is no electricity, no running water. and of course many she went to terry and missions are here now trying to help these people out at a distance. you can see people are registering within you the next people's republic authorities over there, people are receiving humanitarian aid from other organizations. i hear we can see a field kitchen where locals are lining up in order to get well, their daily meal, some drama marvellous rule. but while it, but more than normal, my one year old, mediately with digital shock, really what the get to watch is logan. that read those are actually losers. earlier, would you do with idea? would you put the what the ways of liberal crunch daughter were young in the world? the digital phone? good news, the better the way it is. boy. what the deal will you need did? what would the use of the room room door, the eula void?

one door, you know, lead to abuse the warranty? what good bridge wister said during their gun is a wireless warriors gelatin. assume you did a worship from one guy from dr. mary shilling. visit the div, blah, you do not belong authority to control and across the board, which is trash. number village postilion there. sheila's from do i la donna seen. i'm from vienna move, which is on now. mcdaniel and i will continue working here until the situation is, are finally over. and of course, like in many others, we'll continue bringing necessary items that people here need vermont calls for oversee the nest people's republic. a new report has alleged the ukrainian security services used a detention center to torture prisoners of war and ukrainians. suspected of having pro russian sympathies. the report contains testaments of people who shared their

experiences, the dissension in wants to prison. they used a lighter to heat up a needle than put it under my fingernails, the worse to us when they put a plastic bag over my head and suffocated me. and when they held the muzzle of a collection of rifle to my head and forced me to answer their questions, it was like a small guantanamo. i was told if it wasn't for my 2nd pass, but i'd be killed. i don't know how much of that was to influence and scare me. oh, how much it was real. currently, the s b u is rounding up. any one choose of sympathy for russia. so anyone who speaks russian, anyone who is, is thought to be in support of the russian offensive inside ukraine is likely to be put into this torture prison and interrogated and beaten my investigation contains testimony from 2 men who were tortured inside

the s b. u. headquarters and a sports complex or gem attached to it. and they gave me accounts of extreme torture. beatings were where prisoners were bleeding from their mouth. one man had a hot needles stuck under his fingernails. he said that there were 2 men from bella, russia who were tortured to death. so it's clear, and it's been documented not only by myself, but by mc international and united nations that the ukrainian security service, the s b u, tortures, prisoners, ukrainian secret services use of torture in prisons has been previously covered by the united nations under amnesty international. according to their report, the s b u, as a number of compounds in several cities across ukraine,

where people have allegedly been unofficially detained and tortured for having pro russian views. we thought to the author of the report, danco, and he said, such practices should have consequences. we need to see reporters asking the lensky, where are these prisoners who have been disappeared? and we never, and we've never heard from again. and if they've been killed or tortured, as they obviously have their need to be, these are, these are crimes that need to be, there needs to be accountability for them. this sort of torture fits a geo political agenda in support of the united states and european union against russia. and so well the u. s. and you claim to be supporting democracy and, and for freedom it's obvious that you know, anyone who's unlucky enough to end up in one of these torture prisons may not come out alive. so there's a very clear double standard,

and this has nothing to do with human rights or democracy. it's all about us. empire. meanwhile, in serbia, thousands of pro russian protest is took to the streets of belgrade to show anger as a support for russia, suspension from the united nations human rights council. ah, the broth is gathered in belgrade city center, holding russian flags and portraits of the russian presidents. according to reports, police didn't take any action. the organizers of the process demanded agreements immediately stopped, all actions hostile to russia and international organizations. we heard from some of those protesters, but also from a chat of thought with him. i came here to support the russian federation and to protest against the shameful decisions of our government. as well as because of serbia's vote against russia in the un nozzles, thought craigslist,

would it be if serbia voted against russia 3 times in the united nations vi than there is indeed great concern from the serbian public that the next thing will be the imposition of sanctions on russia to reveal that would be something that would be completely contrary to entire serbian history, not claw, serbia must not be on the side of nato or against russia. and i sort of the sonata earlier, the un general assembly voted to suspend russia from the human rights council over its aggression in ukraine. serbia was among those voting for the exclusion boats. the serbian president says the decision was made under pressure from the west. serbia, as the only country in europe that has not imposed sanctions against russia. as for the vote, our initial decision was to abstain and then you get huge pressure that has nothing to do with personal pressure. they are black mailing serbia. now the fate of serbia is being decided, whether we will be excluded from the package of sanctions on oil. us says it

would not be returning the frozen assets of private russian individuals but to the owners, even when the conflicts in ukraine ends. as archie correspondence, rachel blevins explains loading was part and parcel of medieval warfare. you came, you stole us. but even with the introduction of new technology, it appears as the practice of looting is just as much a part of 21st century warfare president is actively looking at how we can deal with the fact that as we see these assets, our goal is not to give them back, our goal is to put them to a better use than that. but i'll be careful in what i say today because there's an ongoing kind of policy process around how we end up dealing with that question. but rest assured that the goal is not just to sit on them for

a while and then pass them all back. the white house has been officially stated, the total were the russian assets these by the u. s. and his allies. but in addition to more than $300000000000.00 and foreign exchange reserves, they also include you off in real estate and other countries. but now washington is saying that it has no plans to return the private assets of private individual back to their owners even when the conflict in any other circumstance that would be considered that. and the person who did it will be charged accordingly. but it seems as though when you are america, you can do whatever you want and then do it over and over again. after all, it was washington last year, the prose, $7000000000.00 where it's about dana stands assets. after the taliban came sweeping the power that coupled with crushing sanction luxury humanitarian crisis, that is put millions of people at risk in response, trying to call out the hypocrisy from the us without the consent of the afghan

people. the u. s. willfully disposes of assets that belong to the afghan people, even keeping them as its own. this is no different from the conduct of bandits. this latest example has once again laid bare that the rules based ordered. the u. s . claims to champion is not the kind of rules in order to defend the weak and uphold justice but to maintain its own had gemini. and that's not all following the 2003 invasion of iraq photos service showing us soldiers posing with gold bars, which the us military quickly claim was part of a $500000000.00 stash found on the truck during a routine traffic stop. however, it was a different case for the, for us soldiers who were arrested after they were you trying to steal $1000000.00 worth of us from saddam hussein's palace in bagdad just one month later. as for what happened to all of that gold? well, we may never know, but the us didn't stop there. back in 2011 or rock submitted a letter to the united nations calling on the us to return $17000000.00 in profits

from the sale of a rocky oil, which washington had originally promised would be given back to the country for reconstruction effort. all indications are that the institutions of the united states of america committed financial corruption by stealing the money of the iraqi people which was allocated to develop iraq. and that it was about $17000000000.00. the department of defense itself admitted in a 2011 audit report that it had lost more than $6600000000.00 worth of iraq's oil and gas money with a special inspector general for iraq reconstruction, calling it the largest active fund and national history. plus, there was only after 18 years of the u. s. finally agreed last year to return more than 17000 stolen artifacts to a rock after they were looted from the countries, museums by the u. s. military, another oil rich country that is received similar treatment is syria. but in that

case, former president trump never had is mode it when it came to plan for serious natural resources. we're keeping the oil. remember that i've always said that keep the oil . we want to keep the oil $45000000.00 a month. we secured the u. s. military still has true station in theory is northeast region. as report suggests, the oil continues to be smuggled from the country with the hope of those us forces . and on that syrian president, bashar assad says there is one major reason it's about money, and it's about oil. of course, we are angry. every syrian is angry. this is looting. it was the same in libya with the u. s. and the u. k. freezing nearly $50000000000.00 worth of the countries out in 2011 and then refusing to give the money to the libyan people. following the overthrow of mo, mark adolphe and venezuela were the us for more than $340000000.00 worth the countries assets in 2019. and then announce that it would release $150000000.00.

the opposite leader, one by doe and 2021 who washington recognizes the country's president, even though he's an elect, it in their criminal adventures, to plunder venezuela's gold, oil, and other lucrative resources. both britain and the u. s. are exposing themselves before the entire world as having no interest at all in supporting human rights freedom and democracy in venezuela. on the contrary, both britain in the u. s. continued to demonstrate their utter contempt towards the venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future so much for role based order and so much for the american constitution as the us has shown time and time again, that one of ledges to defend freedom and democracy in a country, what it actually means is that it plans to seize and control the assets of the people, leaving them was a humanitarian crisis. what you're seeing is kind of like the equivalent of a major, abusive policy that's been happening in the united states for decades. now called eminent, sorry, called what basically what happens when, when,

if somebody is accused of a crime, their assets without the there are, there are, there are convicted. if they're accused of a crime, their assets can be taken. and that's kind of what you're seeing over here, but i'm not even sure there is an actual accused of accusation happening. but rather people property is being stolen. so it's not new, but it is absolutely morally disgusting. it is absolutely reprehensible. it goes against a spirit of american law. it just goes against the spirit of law. generally, i mean the most basic part of law. if somebody is accused of a crime, they're accused, then they have a trial, then they're found guilty or not guilty. and if they found guilty, yes, they might lose some property. that's part of law. but doing that without a trial isn't a law that's barbarism. an attempt to quickly coach reliance on russian oil and gas could cause recession and res poverty within the you know, that's a warning from experts you politicians urging cities in the limits,

energy use and replace private cars with public transport in order to quote, punish putin. ortiz shot davinsky explains germany may not be big enough to put an immediate hold to all of those russian energy imports, which is the call from ukraine's president zalinski. but it is now asking citizens to do their bit, to stick it to president putin. now how can they do this? well, the biggest suggestion is at lay could cut down on energy. you spine around 10 percent . so how exactly could they do that? it starts with personal behavior. if you heat your home and draw your curtains in the evening, you save up to 5 percent of energy. if you low the room temperature by one, see it's around 6 percent or germany has been one of the last holdouts in the european union in regards to that immediate band of russian energy and with good

reason to at leading economic in states have said that if it did that it would lead the country into a shock processional. we've heard over the past few months from german ministers saying that it would also lead to mass unemployment and also widespread poverty in the country. however, germany has been doing what it can to reduce its dependency on russian energy. at the moment it sat around 40 percent, that is down from 55 percent before the war in ukraine started. now the cutting of energy. this is just the latest of suggestion of ideas that are coming up from politicians across the u. here in france, we've heard from the economy minister suggesting that people perhaps could dial down the thermostats in their homes by one or 2 degrees. and on walla days, there is also this option. you can do 2 things ah, control your own and your teenagers are showers. and when you turn off that would

you say, take that putin. so what more could people do to stop funding preteens war? well, the war and sanctions itself already had a pretty big impact on certain products, sunflower oil lot because russian steel. so outside this idea of oil and gas. what else could people be looking to? well, it's pretty obvious also. it's precious metals. some 46 percent of global exports of palladium come from russia and germany import some 25 percent of its palladium from russian mines. what's palladium used for? well, everything from catalytic converters to dental fillings, to electronic components. it has massive wind spray use. then let's have a look at nickel. this makes up something like 39 percent of imports into germany, came from russia back in 2020 nicholas used for everything from batteries,

to mobile phones to category. so the reality is, if you really want to make a huge contribution at the moment, turning down the thermostat, maybe one thing having cold showers is another. but maybe you could think about foregoing that next mo bile upgrade in the greek capital members of trade and labor unions to, to the streets on thursday to rally against price hikes and privatization. the country has taken an economic hit with the bank of greece, putting his growth forecast 3.8 percent and raising inflation predictions to 5.2 percent for 20. 22. the officials do say that that could rise over in spain. supermarkets continue to face shortages of certain groceries with sunflower oil milk, flowers, salts, rice, among the products in short supply in march or forty's, temporarily authorize the rationing of some food items to prevent shops running out completely amid the war in ukraine under strike by truck drivers or correspondence

vote to people on the streets, madrid you said living costs are out pacing their salaries, florida. oh it's sad. politics is ruining us along boil mainly oil flour. rice, mainly the cost of living has risen by at least 30 percent and salaries are the same. gasoline and diesel have risen $0.20 at one uniform. i have to come every day to see if they feel the shelves for the most common milk oil, sugar. the sliced bread has risen $0.25 1st $0.15 and then 10. we worry if there is a shortage. what do we do next? and the worrying is that when products are missing, the prices go up. i'm latin and i cook more with sunflower oil than with olive oil, sometimes pasta rice. every time i go shopping, i become more aware of the increase in products. sunflower oil is bought from 5 leaders. i always bought it at 4 euros and $0.79. then i bought it at 6 euro's and $0.79 of $7.00,

and today it is worth 16 euros and $0.80. a senior us official has accused russia of driving food shortages in yemen. and beyond suggest in moscow is to blame for rapidly rising prices. the world food programs march report identified yemen as one of the country's most affected by wheat price increases and lack of imports from ukraine. this is just another gram example of the ripple effect rushes unprovoked, unjust unconscionable war is having on the world's most vulnerable. the u. s. ambassadors to the u. n. linda thomas greenfield, linked russia's actions in ukraine. the humans, dia, hunger crisis. the diplomats went on to praise saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for their humanitarian assistance. the country while failing to bench roads ongoing bombing campaign that is allegedly debris, deliberately targeted food production sites and vital civilian infrastructure for more than 7 years. you haven't feel crisis and its consequences have been ongoing

for years, despite humanitarian assistance, up to 19000000 in the country all food insecure. with 1300000 pregnant or breastfeeding women. and 2200000 children to 5 required treatment for acute malnutrition or russia head back out. those charges during the un session, claiming was american sanctions harming the supply chain and causing global food shortages. the main factor for instability and the source of the problem today is not the russian special military operation in ukraine. but sanctions, measures imposed on our country seeking to cut off any supplies from russia and the supply chain. apart from those supplies that those countries in the west need. in other words, energy. this is an outrageous accusation. the entire world knows why yemen has no food. it has no clean water, it has no medicine. and that is because of the u. s. backed war. there is an old saying that if you repeat ally often enough,

it becomes the truth. and i think that's what we're seeing here. this war in yemen, led by saudi arabia, participated in by the united arab emirates and with the military backing of the united states has been going on for a long time. and it's because these 3 countries just refused to accept the fact that the government of yemen has changed. now, what they are able to do in order to choke off the new government. if yemen is to stop shipments of food and medicine, they can bomb 24 hours a day. and that's exactly what they've done. they're hoping now that the world will be distracted by another war in the ukraine, and will ignore the war, crimes and crimes against humanity that have been committed by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates in yemen. meanwhile, aux from says 28000000 people across east africa are at risk of extreme hunger due to the conflicts in ukraine. countries in this region,

in port 90 percent of their weeds from ukraine and russia. the repercussions of the ukrainian conflict on the global food system will reverberate around the globe, but it is the poorest and most vulnerable people who will be among those hit hardest and fastest. rising food prices are a hammer blow to millions of people who are already suffering multiple crises and make a huge shortfall and aid, potentially lethal or sanctions against moscow and helping either russia is the world's top. we've export shipping around $15000000.00 tons of the grain last year alone. the countries also the world's biggest supply, fertilizes and exports many chemical components needed to make them. moscow says western sanctions are damaging global supply chains and financial channels also affecting exports. meanwhile, president putin has already said not all countries will be able to purchase the required amounts of fertilizer. this year he said developed countries had made errors in their economic energy and food policies. over the last 2 years,

leading to shop rises in food prices, which also claimed western nations will try to re direct food supplies to themselves, leaving others vulnerable to the food crisis. well, earlier we spoke to people in kenya, which is one of the countries facing a shortage of some products on rising living costs. and some said they can't even afford 3 meals a day. i mean him, guy, jim we, we are living in a difficult moment here in kenya, and everything is shooting up in price getting daily bread or even meals for a day. as a miracle, there is a shortage of foods, especially for people like us who depend on hand to mouth. blair. russia has been highly boosting the economy of ordination and wheat from there is used in making animal feeds. may be that is why all this is happening. of course, so many of them are wheat floor as not affordable. and especially for us who live on the outskirts of the nairobi area. we don't have permanent jobs, and yet we must provide for our own families at home. politics and war and other

places like ukraine has played a major setback in our suffering that i should a good. it's true, not every one is capable of having 3 meals per day. and as you can see in my shop, i don't have much stock. even sunflower oil and wheat flour are nowhere to be seen . things are getting worse on a daily basis. i had in my day a metal it affording 3 meals in a day. no, not yet. the little money i get can only sustain me for a day. then i look for another alternative. either visit a friend of mine at least to share a little, but failing that, i will sleep hungry. oh no, no. the russian foreign minister says north european stability would be jeopardized by the possible session of finland and sweden, to nato. janelle, considering applying for membership it's no secret that the territories of these states have long been claimed by nato. with large scale military exercise is being held that the motives of the alliance are clear. but it's unclear while bull take region neighbors, finland, and sweden want to turn into

a new frontier of confrontation between the nato block and russia. the negative consequences for peace and stability in northern europe. obvious earlier, moscow also stated that if that a session does happen, russia will have to reinforce the baltic sea region by deploying nukes in his european ex, clave kalynne and grad in order to restore in order to quote, restore the balance. nato expansion goes against russian security concerns, which were highlighted during talks before the war and ukraine begun, but were dismissed by western powers. while during the cold war, these countries alongside austria, island, and switzerland decided not to join political and military alliances. however, in the 1990 is all neutral states became a part of nato's partnership for peace program, which allows them to cooperate militarily and peacefully with the blog. but without full membership. the governments of sweden and austria, now claim things have changed due to the war ukraine,

and they are reconsidering that position. but european security architecture have changed fundamentally after russian's innovation of ukraine. we have deepened our native partnership until now, hand in hand with sweden, ever since russia legally and exit crimea. there is no other way to have security guard and tease done under nato's deterrence and common defense as guaranteed by nato's article fife. we discussed the issue with your political strategist and diplomacy consultant to the us department state. john said the ladies who think the northern states are unlikely to join need. so in the near future. even if sweden and fill in both submit their applications in time for the madrid summit, this june of the process will still take anywhere from $4.00 to 12 may be 18 months of, for nato to decide whether to accept them. and that has to be done unanimously. i don't think it would be dangerous for russia in any meaningful way. i mean,

right now, there are nato troops in the baltic countries and in poland across the border from bell ruse. and so i don't think there's any significant escalation of tension in the region. sweden doesn't border russia at all, so there's no direct issue there. finland, of course, has a very lengthy border of more than 800 miles with russia. but nato troops will definitely be stationed in those countries on probably a sort of rapidly deployable, but rotating task force. i don't envision any significant new nato basing or military deployments in those countries that would take time and would largely depend on the scale and scope of any russian reaction. well, that's all for this off any more on those stories do checkouts are websites and social media pages include not telecomm channel am on his pizza scotts on whatever you're doing this weekend.