[000:00:00;00] ah ah, russian troops take control of most of the ukrainian city of murder. you both civilians begin to leave that basement and receive aid. after with instigation revealed the legit ones by the ukrainian security service for stephanie zelinski, his political opponents with allegations of torture in detention center. we speak the author behind the investigation with the u. s. as it won't return the frozen russian assets of private individuals,

even when the conflicts in ukraine and 1000 say to the streets of belgrade to protest against the government vote to suspend russia from the un human rights council. with coming to life from moscow. welcome to our international, my name is peter scott to bring you 30 minutes of news and analysis. we start this out with the latest from ukraine. the russian military says it's prevented an attempt by key to destroy a hydro electric power plants in the southern city if you have song to ballistic missiles, were apparently shot down by russian defense systems. fragments of the missiles fell in a residential area. damaging houses with several casualties reported. the russian defense ministry states it failed to target could have led to uncontrolled flooding of multiple settlements in the region. he has not yet commented on that incident,

but we did hear from one man whose house was damaged by the strike. 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 grain truck driver. i love my country. i was a patriot after this. i say thanks mr. zalinski. and in the city of murder, you pull, which has almost been raised to the ground. civilians are starting to leave the basements as russian troops have taken control of most of the city. many people have been trapped in shelters with little food or water since the beginning of march, and humanitarian aid is just about making his way through. now ortiz roman cause to have reports from the port city. well, once again, we are here in myrtle. once again, we are delivering humanitarian age. things like food medicine, hygienic 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 streets, 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 with. then 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, there are daily meal, some drama madness is wrong, but while it, but more than normal way, we're near to mediately with digital shockley. what did you do? what just log and that he built, those are actually losers. value would you do? did you put the word though? is a clear book which thought were young in the world, the digital phone. good news is that there is the way it does. boy,

what the deal will you need these and what would the yield of the room? would you like do it to one door, you know, leave 2 of your story or, and you would greet my associate june. they are going as a royalist for is 11. assume you dongle shipped from long island, dr. mary gillian, visit the div. bomb allah. you do not belong to doraville. doyle in across denver. origins thrash number viola postilion through sheila's onto our la donna senior problem villamor, which is young. now mcdaniel, we will continue working here until the situation is finally over and of course, like many others will continue bringing necessary items that people here need. ramon cauthrin archie the next people's republic. a new report has alleged, the ukrainian security service has used a detention center to torture prisoners of war and ukrainian suspected of having

pro russian sympathies. the report contains testaments of people who shared their experiences of detention in one such prison. they use the light to shut up a needle that put it under my fingernails. the worst was when they put a plastic bag over my head and suffocated me. and when they held the muzzle of a kalashnikov 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 passport unbuckled, 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 russia who were tortured to death. so it's clear, and it's been documented not only by myself, but by amnesty international and united nations that the ukrainian security service, the s p u. tortures prisoners, ukrainian secret services use of torture in prisons has been previously covered by the united nations. amnesty international. according to their reports, the s b u,

as a number of compounds in several cities across ukraine, where people of allegedly been unofficially detained, unfortunate having pro russian views. we spoke to the author of the report done. cohen who said such practices should have consequences. we need to see reporters asking 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 it took to the streets of belgrade to show anger is support for russia suspended suspension from the united nations. human rights council. o u. s. is gathered in belgrade city centre, holding bush and flags, and portraits of the russian presidents votes, according to records, please didn't take any action. the organizes of the protest amended. the government immediately stop all actions hostile to russia in international organizations. and 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 stuck where there's a sort of bureau, if serbia voted against russia 3 times in the united nations than there is indeed great concern from the serbian public that the next thing will be the imposition of sanctions on russia. so that would be something that would be completely contrary to entire serbian history of serbia must not be on the side of nato or against russia. earlier the un general assembly voted to suspend russia from the human rights council over the war in ukraine. serbia was among those voting for the exclusion boats. the sevien 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. ah, in other news, the u. s. says it's will not be returning the frozen assets of private russian individuals but to the owners, even when the conflicts and ukraine ends. r t corresponded rachel blevins explains . loading was part and parcel of medieval warfare. you came, you still, you left. but even with the introduction of new weapons, a 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 bike. i'll be careful and 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 seized by the us and its allies. but in addition to more than $300000000000.00 in foreign exchange reserves, they also include yachts in real estate and other countries. but now washington is saying that it has no plans to return the private as, as a private individual back to their owners even when the conflict and in any other circumstance that would be considered that. and the person who did it would 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 not. dana stands assets. after the taliban came sweeping to power. that couple, the crushing thing should lead to

a humanitarian crisis. that is put millions of people at risk in response, china called out to her policy 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 staff found on the truck during a routine traffic stop. however, it was a different case for the, for us soldiers who were arrested after and they were used. you're trying to steal $1000000.00 worth of asset from saddam hussein's palace and baghdad. just one month

later as to 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 2011 audit report that it has 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 us finally agreed last year to return more than $17000.00 and stolen artifacts to iraq. 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 hit is mode it when it came to plans 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 us military still has troops station in syria's northeast region. as report suggests, the oil continues to be smuggled from the country with the help 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 country, the assets 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 of the countries assets in 2019 and then announced that it would release 150 $1000000.00. opposition leader, one by doe in 2021 who washington recognizes the country's president, even though he's been elected 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 when a pledges to defend freedom and democracy in a country would 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 united states for decades now. called eminent, sorry, called the well basically what happens when, when, if somebody is accused of a crime, their assets without the, they're not, and they're out there or convicted. if they're accused of a crime, their assets can be taken and deaf kind of what you're seeing over here. but i'm not even sure there's an actual accuse 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 the spirit of american law. it just goes against the spirit of law. generally. i mean, the most basic part of law is that 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 cut reliance on russian oil and gas could cause recession and raise poverty within the you. that's a warning from experts, the you politicians urging citizens to limit the energy use and replace the private cars with public transport in order to quote, punish putin. odyssey shall davinsky reports. 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 soleski. 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 that they could cut down on energy use by 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 warmer 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 putins war? well, the war and sanctions itself already had a pretty big impact on certain products. sunflower, oil bought that 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. you used for everything from batteries, to mobile phones, to cutlery. so the reality is, if you really want to make a huge contribution at the moment, turning down a thermostat, maybe one thing having cold showers is another. but maybe you could think about for going that next mobile upgrade in the greek capital, members of trade and labor unions took to the streets on thursday to rally against price hikes and privatization. the country has taken an economic hits with the bank of greece cuts and 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 continued to face shortages of certain groceries with sunflower oil milk flowers, saltzman rice,

among the products in short supply. back in march authorities temporarily authorize the rationing of some food items to prevent shops from burning out completely. as amid the war in ukraine under strike by truck drivers, our correspondence spoke to people on the streets of madrid. you said. busy living costs are outpacing their salaries. oh, it's sad. politics is ruining us. a lot boil mainly boil 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, 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. just in moscow is to blame for the rapidly rising prices. the world food programs march report identified yemen as one of the countries most affected by wheat price increases and lack of imports. from ukraine, this is just another grim example of the ripple effect rushes unprovoked, unjust unconscionable war as having on the world's most vulnerable. the us ambassador to the un lynda thomas greenfield, linked bushes, ations in ukraine, the yemen, dia hunger crisis. the diplomat went on to praise saudi arabia and united arab emirates for the humanitarian assistance of the country. while failing to mentioned,

we had ongoing bombing campaign that had allegedly deliberately targeted the production site and vital civilian infrastructure for more than 7 years. the food crisis and its consequences have been ongoing for years now. and despite humanitarian assistance of the 1900000000 in the country, our food insecure with 1300000 pregnant or breastfeeding women. and 2200000 children under 5 required treatment for acute malnutrition. russia responded to the charges during the un session claim it 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 a lie 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 of 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 ukraine and will ignore the war crimes and the crimes against humanity that have been committed by saudi arabia and the united

arab emirates in yemen. on staying with the topic of food shortages also, i'm says the 20000000 people across east africa are it's risk of extreme hunger due to the conflicts in ukraine. countries in this region, in port 90 percent of the wheat 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 sanctions against moscow and helping either with russia being the world's top. we take supporters, shipping around $38000000.00 tons of grain last year alone. the country is also the world's biggest supply of fertilizers and exports, many chemical components needed to make them. moscow says the western sanctions are damaging global supply chains and financial channels. also a facing exports. meanwhile,

president putin has already said not all countries will be able to purchase the required amounts of fertilizes this year. you said developed countries had made areas in the economic energy and food policies over the last 2 years needed to shop price rises in food prices. foods in also claimed western nations will try to be direct food supplies to themselves, leaving others vulnerable to the food crisis. we spoke to people in kenya, one of the countries facing a shortage of some products on rising living costs. and some said they couldn't even afford 3 meals a day. having him guy jim with him, 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. to where 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 when in them of 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 oh my god, if 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. man in my day, mentally 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. the russian foreign minister says north european stability would be jeopardized by the possible a session of finland and sweden and nato,

which are now considering applying for membership it's no secret that the territories of these states have long been claimed by nato with large scale military exercises being held that the motives of the alliance are clear, but it's unclear while baltic region neighbors, finland, and sweden, one to turn into a new frontier of confrontation between the nato block and russia. the negative consequences for peace and stability in northern europe are obvious. earlier, moscow also stated that if a session does happen, russia will have to reinforce the baltic sea region by deploying news in it's european extra cleaning grad. in order to quote, restore the balance nato expansion does go against russian security concerns. the ones that were highlighted during talks before the war 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 military alliances. however, in the $99.00 sees all neutral states became

a part of nato's partnership for peace program, which allows him to go to cooperates militarily and peacefully with the blog, but without full membership. the government, the sweden, austria, now claim things have changed due to the war ukraine. and they are be considering that position. but european security architecture have changed fundamentally after russians, 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 guarantees done under nato's deterrence and common defense as guaranteed by nato's article 5. well, earlier we discuss the issue with joe political strategist and diplomacy consultant to the u. s. department of state john to ladies. you think that the northern states are unlikely to join nato in the near future. even if sweden and fill in buds, submit their applications in time for the madrid summit, this june,

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 bella 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 we'd largely