a with shelling is reported on the done bus front line as ukraine's president zalinski says, russian forces have started a long prepared offensive something. moscow has yet to comment on an italian journalist slams ukraine's president zalinski as an obstacle in the way of peace. and it says, q leader is neglecting civilian casualties. lensky seems like a very dangerous character. he is leading a campaign that can actually bring about massive destruction and casualties among the ukrainian people. i consider zalinski, one of the main obstacles towards achieving peace. and the,

the strategy of economic blitzkrieg has failed. furthermore, the sanctions have now swung back to hit. the initiators themselves, vladimir putting ways in on the west sanctions policy as europeans struggled to cope with skyrocketing cost of living. we discussed the issue with the panel with, from this particular economic sanction. i actually read the book, people are suffering across europe because of the increased the price of fuel because of the increase in price of food that european countries i'm not in a position to aim co sanctions or russia aim culture is not to the ext folger, which offers the most with broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. and ukraine's president zalinski says, quote, the battle for the dumbass has begun. with shelly reported on the front line and

verified footage, posted on social media, purportedly shows a tax on ukrainian positions ah, explosions have also been reported in the major ukrainian cities of huck of and nick alive. at the moment. moscow has not confirmed whether it's begun in an offensive r t correspondent. but august, you have reports from danielle asking about the latest developments on the dumbass phone lines. this claim just ceased to of the russian operation here in ukraine has begun. earlier during the night during another artillery rock is austin re salvo that apparently stretched across the front lines from nikolai in the south to the dom, basta havoc of in the north. while that is a claim that has been made, but by president zelinski along with, with several experts, there has been footage and verified as of yet online showing these launches,

showing missiles and artillery shrieking towards ukrainian positions. also images of exclusions designations on the ukrainian side, but not quite as many as we show on the 24th of february. when the celebration i kicked off, of course the, the epi sent a political and military api said to of what is happening ease in mary opal for now the spot. the fact that in mary's bill that was about $20000.00 to so you create the nationalists and, and regular army troops in the dont bass, which ukraine believes russia once the surround. there are many as 100000 ukrainian troops battle ready veterans of the 8 years civil war in east than ukraine. we have spent most of our time in mary. you both watching the ukranian nationalists there thousands of thousands of as all flies is supplied and trained

by nathan nations. we have watched their numbers dwindle. many of them fallen battle many, many surrender. now at this point, they have foremost entirely been confined to the as of steel industrial side, which is at the heart of the geographic heart of the city. the battle lay easy, still very much ferocious, but the nationalists of loss. most of the residential areas that they controlled and all the civilians, the 10s of thousands of civilians that were trapped and forbidden to evacuate from those areas by nationalists who use them as human shields. earlier while in maryville, we went as far as just outside the as of steel, industrial complex. there we spoke the fight as we saw the plumes of smoke rising into the air and the fighters there told us that they believed soon. this'll be over as the situation for nationalist ease, critical order,

the ruler. there have been many civilians in the city whom the nationalists have been using as human shields. that's why we couldn't shoot at once. they retreated to the factory. we easily took it under control. there are no reports coming in from the nationalist themselves. the a. so i'm a new owner. uncertain amount of people are still trapped civilians in the as of steel industrial side. but from what we have heard on the front lines that is just several 100 people. and most of them ha, supporters and relatives of the nationalist fights is trapped in mario pl and some news just in right now. ukrainian forces have reportedly shelled the russian village of go up, you know, just beyond the ukrainian border. local residents say, buildings were damaged and at least one civilian was wounded in the attack. our newsroom is staying across it, and we will bring more information as it comes in. while most western media outlets

seek to demonize russia over its military operation in ukraine, amber don bassett, prominent italian journalist, has gone against the flow, accusing ukraine's president the lensky of hindering efforts to establish peace. then it can be simple and not remote to pity. lensky seems like a very dangerous character. he is leading a campaign that can actually bring about massive destruction and casualties among the ukrainian people. but this doesn't really bother him. therefore, i considers a lensky, one of the main obstacles towards achieving peace. but we must remember that this war, besides everything that we are talking about is a war of the united states against europe. the e. u is the real object of this war. the united states is interested in severing ties between russia and europe, and also china for james face to face meetings between russian and ukrainian officials, have halted after the reported killings of civilians in the key of suburb boucher earlier this month. the e u and u. s. were quick to accuse rush out of war crimes after images of dead bodies on

the streets emerged in the media. moscow has dismissed those allegations as a provocation, meant to derail the peace talks independent political analyst under bruno says, zalinski should have made some concessions, including recognizing crimea and the don't bass republics long before the war. independent political analyst, i was under bruno, who we just mentioned there, did saying that the lensky should have made some of those can sessions about crimea and john bass, long before the war started. as i just mentioned, if a proper diplomatic solution were truly sought for and if zalinski truly had the ability and that willingness. and of course the permission to do it, he would have done so before the war began. i don't really think he's in charge. this is the, in the entire problem. there is no interlocutor on the other side for, for the russians to seriously negotiate

a treaty that would allow for an exchange of territory. and then, and the declared the agreement not to join nato, but this is not happening. so i would, i expect that zelinski will continue to go along with the statements that he's made so far, which is that ukraine will fight to hold it till the end of whatever the end will look like. so at this point, one can only hope that the fighting goes quickly so that this war can end as soon as possible. vladimir putin says russia has endured the west, latest economic onslaught with the rubel strengthening back to its pre conflict levels. despite the sanctions, the russian leader pointed out that such measures have actually backfired against the west end of the u as regular people struggle to cope with skyrocketing costs. but i sure will not close the book. the aim of the western countries was to quickly

destabilized the financial and economic situation in russia to provoke panic on the markets to make the banking system collapse and to create a massive shortage of goods in our stores. but we can now confidently say that this policy has not worked. the strategy of economic blitzkrieg has failed. furthermore, the sanctions have now swung back to hit the initiators themselves. i mean, the inflation on employment rates, the plummeting economic dynamics in the u. s. and in europe, leading to a decrease of their living standards valuation and so on. russia has withstood this unprecedented pressure. the situation is stabilizing. the ruble is now being traded as it was in the 1st half of february and is being defined by a positive trade balance. e leaders have suggested that people cut down on their personal spending and an effort to cope with the soaring prices. as western governments seek to cut russian energy imports. germany's agriculture minister, who is a vegetarian himself, as even suggested that people eat less meat to help make their ends me. a german

newspaper has said that skipping a shower might also help reduce dependence on russian energy supplies. but some you officials have admitted that the sanctions against moscow are having a severe effect on the cost of living in europe. as france struggles with its highest inflation rate in 3 decades, there are warnings that potential energy sanctions against russia could burden europe even further ahead of the 2nd round of the french presidential election opposition candidate marine la penn has even demanded that washington compensate france for economic losses if the e complies with u. s. recommendations for energy sanctions against russia lose it, as you never know supreme in the us wants to stop the power of rush and guess it will have consequences to gas and electricity prices will probably multiply by 6 fold for the french. the americans would so liquefied guess and will therefore make significant profit, so they should probably compensate france for the difference in prices. if i can't

imagine the us paying such compensation, even if i didn't want to do that, the republicans renew our. so i can't imagine that happening for and ukraine is profit, a certain businesses in the united states in europe, industrial, military, industrial, complex. and some of the energy companies are making money as this. i don't think there's any question about that. mostly or countries have supported the u. s. is in union there. if look 10 as elected then that, that will break down to some degree and we'll see what happens with the rest of the countries. but i think it's been a real attempt to keep native together and to get your opinion union together here in the countries, and you're not want to aggravate the united states at this point in time. meanwhile, in the u. k, a new poll has found the number of those who would accept fuel price hikes as a result of the sanctions against russia has plummeted to 36 percent down from 50

percent last month. furthermore, 54 percent of respondents believe the financial situation in the u. k has deteriorated since the latest wave of sanctions. this comes amid soaring fuel and food prices in europe as western sanctions hit russia's transport and energy supply lines. we discussed the effect of the sanctions against russia with a panel of guests. i think the europeans underestimate the resilience of the russian economy, which is quite foolish because they should have known from their experience with the wrong that sanctions targeting women and children basically are not going to bring him out the sort of change that europeans and americans look for the you, the european countries are not in a position to and co sanctions or russia in particular on energy sector, usually as the importer, not to the ext port ex portrait which suffers the most if there is

a disruption of this energy supply. and this is what's happening to the european countries, the some photos from this. what piccolo economic sanctions are actually the poor. it's the poor who gets the major blunt of it. and the biggest plus the leaders in the ural who's claiming that people should be eating less of need. and you know, having less or bob, they'll be the 1st one to have ab waste water in having a full bought the new thing beat every day. people are suffering across europe because of the increased price fuel because of the increase in price of food and because of the general rapid increase in inflation. so when leader speak in that sort of language, calling on people to shower last or to eat. last, i think it's more insulting to the bulk of society than anything else. and normally

people who will probably take him or her seriously. or he leads like themselves when the harsh reality bites the people's leaving standard. i thinking, you know, as we fun out in the u. k. i some other countries probably as time goes on, people is really match up a whole lot. people will tolerate that kind of situation. with a refresher, a rising prices, all, you'll flip prices focused on so it's really a match upon the people. i think the government will feel the pressure from the public imposing sanctions against russia would cost serbia dearly. that's according to the balkan countries. president bill great has come under heavy criticism for refusing to condemn russia over the conflict in ukraine president alexander, of which it has also defended serbia's continued airline traffic with russia as neighboring countries have banned flights. every little thing we earned,

we no longer have. we keep flies go into russia out of principle, because we are a free country. we decide for itself, for those who speak to us about bloody hands, because we are still conducting those flights. i have to say shame when you. oh, all of your analysts are also liars. did you cancel your own flights when 19 countries were bumping our country? nobody helped us. nobody. all of you kept silent. earlier serbia did vote in support of russia's suspension from the un human rights council that move sparked protests in belgrade where thousands of protesters were seen holding russian flags and portraits of vladimir putin. demonstrators demanded the government to cease all actions against russia. we heard from alexander povich, a political analyst in belgrade about how he believes serbia's neutrality is considered hostile by the wes, being neutral in this atmosphere. that's just poisonous atmosphere that's being

developed in europe. you know, you're, you're considered to be taking the russian side, you know, because the west is now in the modem. either you're with us or against us and they only accept neutrality. and they do have the verse against us. most of our trade is still with europe, so you know, you can close off its markets to serbian goods. also lots of european companies, especially german one. so open companies here have. busy plants here and you know, the president of serbia, which is said live on tv, that he's been threatened by various western governments that they would pull out of either their investments. so yeah, they still have various leaders and we're various instruments to, to blackmail us. you know that i can't use a better word than that. there has been

a storm criticism at the u. k. is newly announced planted important masses of migrants to the east african nation of rwanda. it has raised allegations of double standards as the government rejects asylum seekers from africa and the middle east, while simultaneously welcoming refugees from ukraine. u. k. government rightly provides asylum refugee ukrainians, fleet war, but wants to send others seeking asylum, thousands of miles away to rolanda for processing. and you still question whether this heartless, tory government is institutionally racist. such arrangements simply shift asylum responsibilities of aid international obligations and are contrary to the letter and spirit of the refugee convention cannot carry the weight of our national responsibility as a country formed by christian values. because sub contracting out our responsibility even to a country that seeks to do well, like for wanda,

is the opposite to the nature of god. who himself took responsibility for our migrants trying to get to britain illegally in recent years have resorted to dangerous efforts. organized by people smugglers hiding on trucks or fairies and even trying to cross the english channel. inflatable boats that appear hardly worthy the new deal would see such migrants transferred to lawanda thousands of kilometers away from the u. k. the one that has said it would receive $120000000.00 pounds sterling under the agreement funds supposed to provide boat opportunities for rwandans and migrants. meanwhile, the total number of ukrainians who have fled at the war is estimated at around $5000000.00 people with neighboring poland, taking in a substantial portion full and has provided the refugees with accommodation and financial support. both by the government and regular citizens. as polls have

opened up their homes and raised funds for revenue premiums. but as pope francis has unfortunately noted, the printing refugees have been much better received than migrants from other parts of the world. suggesting a potential double standard tinge with racism. it is true, refugees are subdivided. there's 1st class, 2nd class, skin color. if they come from a developed country or one that is not developed. we are racists. we are racists, and this is bad. political sociologists, eunice abby says that the double standards in the treatment of refugees, based on whether they are from ukraine or the middle east and africa, is unethical. we've seen how your premium, i refugees have been welcome to which is a good action in and in a way, but that doesn't mean that the, the other migrant or other refugee is coming from other countries who happen to be of a darker skin coming from the global south shouldn't be discarded or treated like criminals . dealing with this issue just ship in my room abroad will not solve the problem

again. just turn in a blind on a situation and shifting the responsibility on other countries which are already kind of the burden of the development and problems of the on the u. k. is doing is basically not ethical and does not help solve the problem. it will make it worse, actually not within u. s interests. that's how the white house has reiterated that joe biden does not plan to send american troops to ukraine, to quote, fight a war with russia. but the u. s. intends to continue to provide ukraine with military aid despite moscow's warnings. against that, the white house statement came in response to a suggestion by a high ranking democrat that the u. s. must act against russia to prevent ukraine from devolving into the next syria. i deeply worried that what's going to happen next is that we will see ukraine turn into syria. the american people cannot turn

away from this tragedy in ukraine. i think the history of the 21st century turns on how fiercely we defend freedom in ukraine, and that putin will only stop when we stop him. the world knows that the situation in syria is largely the fault of the united states since 2011. the united states has been meddling in syria, trying to expand and expand discontent in the country and ultimately try to topple the government. between 20142017 alone. $12000000000.00 was spent by the united states on trying to conduct regime change and intensify the conflict in syria. if the congress is so concerned about not having syria and their situation become something similar to what's on the ground and ukraine. why are they talking about sending more and more weapons? we now know the united states is looking to put heavy artillery into ukraine that will only exacerbate the fighting years. some of the reason announcements,

it is true that we believe will be able to begin a process of training, ukrainian armed forces on the howitzers that will be shortly heading over that training will occur outside of ukraine. it will be more of a train, the trainers kind of environment, so it'll be a small number of ukrainians that will be trained on the howitzers. and then they, we re introduce back into their country to train their colleagues. these words about not wanting ukraine to become the new syria are quite hypocritical, and absurd on the part of us leaders. as it was the united states that exacerbated and prolonged they conflict in syria, which created all kinds of refugees and all kinds of suffering. and it's also important to know that in syria, the united states promised there would be no boots on the ground to the by the time obama had left office, he had broken that promise. i. and there are us troops in syria even up to today. so these words from a member of the u. s. congress just kind of fall flat for anyone familiar with the

situation now to the middle east where tensions have been rising as nato member turkey has launched a large scale offensive across the southeastern border into iraq targeting kurdish militants. the turkish defense ministry released this video of air strikes against kurdish forces, saying that it was conducting an offensive because kurdish milton's had been in the final stages of preparing an incursion into turkey. there has been no comment from iraqi officials so far. although some local media has reported that baghdad had been briefed on on crows plans ahead of the cross border operation of the offensive came after us congress members met with senior turkish officials in assemble on monday. meanwhile, in pakistan, protests continue of the ouster of prime minister iran con. with the latest rally in the country's largest city, karachi, drawing together thousands of people who refused to recognise the parliament's newly appointed leadership con,

earlier this month became the 1st pm in pakistan's history. to be removed from office by a vote of no confidence in parliament, he has condemned to move as a u. s. orchestrated conspiracy against him because of his friendly policies towards russia and china. the political situation in pakistan remains shaky and cons. successor, reputedly, pro western politician shivers shareef, is facing challenges in foreign policy making. also pakistani forces in recent days have conducted air strikes on bordering provinces enough to stand targeting the taliban associated p t p group, which package on considers a terrorist organization. at least $47.00 people were reportedly killed in the strikes on the cost and coon, r provinces, and tele, bon political spokesperson mohammed name has warned pakistan that there will be harsh consequences if the attacks continue. we've heard from journalist david runner about the issue. this is the 1st time that i have heard such as likes in

which around 30 to 40 people were killed. so of this incident, can you know, jeopardize bucks on size with the new government in kabul, which has been pro barkus on the then prime minister has a history actually said bring t as long history he's, he's been opposing us war inside on the song. he's been opposing spill over a fax because of the buck a phone. joining american war also called water starter. he was the one who at one point of time about 10 years ago, he blocked the notice fly line from bucket sort of another song, an american new way to write in the beginning. or that the, this man is going to cause a lot of problems about because we're very unhappy with the former prime minister because she had to refuse them to provide will be vision barcus on to carry out or tax inside of lunch on the installment and other military groups, and that does it for me, this hour,

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