ah ah, russian troops take control over most of the ukrainian city of mario full civilians begin to leave the basement and receive aid after weeks of best. fighting with an investigation reveals the legit plans by the ukrainian security service to assassinate the landscape. political opponents, with allegations of torture and the detention center. we speak the author behind us investigation. the u. s. as they won't return the frozen russian assets, if private individuals back to the owners, even when the conflict and ukraine and also coming up 1000 say to the streets of belgrade to protest against the government's vote. to suspend russia

from the un human rights council. with moscow to the world, this is all the international. my name is peter scott, and we start with the latest from the war in ukraine. the russia military says it's prevented an attempt by keith to destroy an electric hydro electric power plant in the southern city of kept song, to ballistic missiles, where a pound is shut 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 that the failed attack could have led to uncontrolled flooding of multiple settlements in the region. he has not yet commented on that incident. we did her 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 green truck driver. i love my country. i was a patriot after this. what can i say? thank you, mr. zalinski. and in the city of murder 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 or water since the beginning of march, and humanitarian aid is at last, now making his way through ortiz roman casa 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 don't have the 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, subdural modernist rule. but while it, but more than normal, my were near mediately with digital shocked me. what did you do? what just log on to read? those are actually rules value. would you do it? i did when you put the what though is a clear book which thought were young in the only digital phone? good news that the, the way it does, boy, what the deal will you need did? what would the use of the room room, what you will do it to one door, you know,

lead to of just the warranty. what good bridge we associate generic gun is a wireless voyage. 11. assume you dongle shipped from long island. oak. the american gillian, busybody ball molla, you do not belong to doraville darling cross timber, which is thrash number viola postilion. the sheila spawn 2 i la donna, senior problem villamor. john no. mcdaniel clinton will, 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. berman cauthrin, archie, done as peebles republic, a new report to the ledge, 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 of detention in one such prison. they used a lighter to heat up

a needle than put it under my fingernails. the worst was when they put a plastic bag on 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 passport, 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 accused of sympathy for russia. so anyone who speaks russian, anyone who is, is thought to be, i'm 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

an extreme torture. beatings were where prisoners were bleeding from their mouth. one man had a high 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 amnesty international and united nations that the ukrainian security service, the s b u, tortures, prisoners, ukrainians, secret services use of torch imprisons, has previously been covered by the united nations and amnesty international in their reports, according to those documents, the s b u has a number of compounds in several cities across ukraine where people have allegedly been unofficially detained, unfortunate fighting pro russian views. we spoke to the author of the report,

danco, and you 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 protested took to the streets of belgrade to show anger and support for russia, suspension from the united nations human rights council. ah, you wrote, this is gathered in belgrade city center, holding russian flags and portraits of the russian president. once, according to reports, police didn't take any action. the organizes of the protest demanded the government immediately stop all actions hostile to russia and international organizations. we heard from some of those protesters also from a chat of bob 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 nozzle. ow stuck where the zealous it'd be

of 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. 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 on the human rights council over the war in ukraine. serbia was among those voting for the exclusion. but 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. ah,

the u. s. says it will not be returning the frozen assets of privates russian individuals but to the owners. even when the conflicts in ukraine ends. auto correspondent, rachel blevins explains loading was part and parcel of medieval warfare. you came, you stole you left. but even with the introduction of new weapons, a technology it appears 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 seize 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 us and its allies. but in addition to more than $300000000000.00 in 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 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 road $7000000000.00 where it's not. dana stands assets. after the taliban came sweeping to power. that couple the crushing sanctions lead to a humanitarian crisis that is put millions of people at risk in response, trying to call about 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 u. s. military quickly claim was part of a $500000000.00 stash 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 assets from saddam hussein's palace and baghdad, 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 promise will 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 is self admitted and 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 national history. plus, there was only after 18 years of the u. s. finally agreed last year to return more than 17000 and stolen artifacts to a rock after they were looted from the countries, museums by the u. s. military, another oil rich country that has received similar treatment is syria. but in that case, former president trump never hit 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. if we secured the us military still has true station and theory is northeast region. as report suggests, the oil continues to be smuggled from the country with the hope of the 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 assets and 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. the opposite leader. one. why doe and 2021,

who washington recognizes the countries 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 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 what 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 death kind of what you're seeing over here. but i'm not even sure there's 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 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 cuts 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 citizens limits, energy use and replace private cars with public transport. in order to quote,

punish putin asi shall do. buns give 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 presidency lensky. but it is now asking citizens to do their bait, 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 lower the room temperature by one degrees celsius, it's around 6 percent. well, germany has been one of the loss 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 out that would you say, take that putin. so what more could people do to stop funding?

preachings war? well, the war and sanctions itself already had a pretty big impact on certain products. some flower oil bought good 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. so 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 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 foregoing 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. cotton is growth forecasts to 3.8 percent and raising inflation predictions to 5.2 percent for 2022. officials do say this could rise and over in spain, supermarkets continue to face shortages of so shortages of certain groceries with sunflower oil milk, flour, salt, and rice among the products in short supply. in march authorities temporarily authorize the rationing of some food items to prevent shops running out completely amid the war in ukraine unstrapped by truck drivers. our correspondence wrote to people on the streets of madrid. you said 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 for euro's 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's to blame for 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 us. ambassador to the un linda thomas greenfield, linked bushes, actions, and ukraine. humans dire hunger crisis. the diplomats went on to praise saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for the humanitarian assistance of the country . while failing to mention ads, ongoing bombing campaign that, that allegedly deliberately targeted food production site and vital civilian infrastructure. the more than 7 years the human food crisis and consequences have been ongoing for years now. and despite humanitarian assistance,

up to 19000000 people in the country off food insecure with 1300000 pregnant or breastfeeding women, and 2200000 children under 5 require treatments for acute malnutrition. russia responded to the 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 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 the 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 28000000 people across to east africa are at risk of extreme hunger due to the conflicts and ukraine. countries in this region import 90 percent of their weights 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. on helping either with russia being the world's top weeds. exporters, shipping around $38000000.00 tons of the grain last year alone. the countries also the world's biggest supply of fertilizers and exports, many chemical components needed to make them moscow says western sanctions or damaging global supply chains and financial channels, which are also affecting exports. meanwhile, president putin as already is dead. not all countries will be able to purchase the required amounts of fertilizer. this year you said developed countries had made areas in the 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. we spoke to people in kenya, which is one country facing a shortage of some products and rising living costs. and some said they can't even afford 3 meals a day. i mean, i'm glad you am with you. 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 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 emma wheat floor has 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 if it's true. not everyone is capable of having free meals per day. and as you can see in my shop, i don't have much stock. even sunflower, oil and wheat flour, nowhere to be seen, things are getting worse on a daily basis. a man 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. russian foreign ministry says north european stability would be jeopardized by the possible a session of finland and sweden and nate, so 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 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 session does happen, russian will have to reinforce the baltic sea region by deploy nukes in it's european next great clinton grad in order to quote, restore the balance. nato expansion does go against russian security concerns highlighted during talks before the war and ukraine begun. but the ones that were dismissed by western powers were during the cold war. these country is alongside austria, island, and switzerland decided not to join the political and military alliances. both in the 1990 s or neutral states, became part of nato's partnership for peace program that allows them to cooperate militarily and peacefully with the block without full membership, the government of sweden and austria, now claim things have changed due to the war and ukraine and they are now reconsidering deposition. the european security architecture have changed

fundamentally after russians invasion of ukraine. we have deepened our native partnership until now hand in hand with sweden. ever since russia is legally an exit crimea. there is no other way to have security guarantees done under nato's deterrence and common defense as guaranteed by date of article 5. we discuss that issue with geo political strategist and diplomacy consultants to the u. s. department of state johns to delete these. and he thinks the northern states are unlikely to join nato in the near future. even if sweden and fill in both submit their applications in time for the madrid summit this june. the process will still take anywhere from $4.00 to $12.00, maybe 18 months 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 board of 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 depend on the scale and scope of any russian reaction. well, that's all for this. for more stories in depth analysis do head over to r t dot com on our telegram channel. my name is peter scott and he's been grades help you with those. thank you. the.