hello, hey, lisa had a ukrainian positions at several towns and john bassett, front lines are reportedly under fire, while tears forces allegedly shell outskirts of the city of done. yet. italian journalist plans ukraine's president to lensky as an obstacle in the way of peace. and says kim's leader is neglected, civilian casualties from lent, he 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. the american foot liquified guess and will therefore make significant pro faith so they should probably compensate funds for the difference in crisis. friendship presidential candidate,

the marina, the pen says the u. s. should compensate france for any economic losses. fresh energy supplies are cut off, as europeans already struggle with skyrocketing costs. we discuss the issue with a panel of get products from this particular economic sanctions product. actually, the poor people are suffering across europe because of the increase in price fuel because of the increase in the european countries. i'm not in a position to co sanctions or russia aimed culture not to the exposure which stocks that most with broadcasting from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now ukraine's president zelinski says russia has begun a long prepared, offensive in the dumbass with shelley reported along the front lines on verified

footage, posted on social media, purportedly shows attacks on ukrainian positions. the explosions have also been reported in the major ukrainian cities of hoc of. and nikolai, at the moment, moscow has not confirmed whether it's begun a large scale offensive. meanwhile, the mayor of the city, i've got a little mirror done yet. republics. capital has provided video of the aftermath of alleged showing by ukrainian forces. several munitions have reportedly fallen on the city. and ukrainian forces have reportedly shelled the russian village of gulf, nor just beyond the ukrainian border. local residents say buildings were damaged and at least one civilian was wounded in the attack or 2 correspondent, but i guess you have reports from done yet about the latest developments on the done by the front lines. well,

this claim that sees 2 of the russian operation here in ukraine has begun earlier during the night during another artillery rocket artillery salvo that apparently stretched across the front lines from nikolai in the south to the dumbass, the headache of in the north. well, that is a claim that has been made, but by president zalinski 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 separation. i kicked off, of course the, the, the epi sent a political and military epicenter of what is happening, ease in maryville for now the spot, the fact that in mario bill that was about $20000.00 to so you credit nationalists

and, and regular army troops in the don bass, which the ukraine believes russia wants to surround. there are many as 100000 ukranian 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 ukrainian nationalists that 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 lost 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 mary you pl, we went as far as just outside the as of steel, industrial complex. there we spoke the fight as we saw the booms of smoke rising into the air and the fathers there told us that they believed soon. this'll be over as the situation for nationalists is critical. go to 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 now reports coming in from the nationalist themselves. the a. so i'm in no uncertain amount of people are still trapped civilians in the eyes 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 flights as trapped in mario pl zalinski has said ukraine won't give up any more territory. he earlier said ukraine could fight for another 10 years. but a prominent italian journalist going against the western media narrative to demonize, russia, has accused ukraine's president of hindering efforts to establish peace. that is, can be simple and personal hon to pity photos. 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 euro, and also china, which friendship presidential candidate marine le pen has suggested that washington

should compensate france for potential economic losses. if the e u complies with us recommendations to cut russian energy supplies, it doesn't even show us wants to stop the power of rush and guess it will have consequences to gas and electricity prices will probably multiplied by 6 fold for the fringe the american foot. so liquefied guess and will therefore make significant profit. so they should probably compensate france for the difference in prices. the pen has previously insisted against anti russian sanctions on oil and gas, saying the french public should not be made to pay for the government's positions that says frances inflation rate is already its highest in $3.00 decades. we discussed le pen proposals with economist john perkins. i can't imagine the us paying such compensation even if i wanted to do that, the republicans from britain of 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 assets, i don't think there's any question about that. mostly or countries have supported the u. s. as in union, there, if look 10 as elected then that that would be, that'll 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 to get your opinion union together here in the countries of europe. not want to aggravate the united states at this point in time. britons are also seeming to lose faith in the sanctions. as a new poll has revealed that 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 measures against russia that comes in soaring

fuel and food prices in europe as western sanctions hit russia's transport and energy supply lines. a russian president vladimir putin has weighed in on the west sanctions policy, pointing out that such economic measures have actually backfired against the u. s. and the u, as regular people struggle to cope with skyrocketing costs, but i sure will negotiable. 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 we decrease of their living standards valuation and so on. we discussed

the effect of the sanctions against russia with a panel of guests. i think the europeans under estimated 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 european americans look for the u, the u. p. companies are not in a position to impose 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's a disruption of this energy supply. and this is what's happening to the european countries, the some photos from this particular economic sanctions are actually the poor. it's the poor who gets the major blunt of it. and the biggest plus the lead,

those in the euro, 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 wastewater 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 the price of food and because of the general rapid increase in inflation. so when leader speak in that sort of language, i'm calling on people to shower less or to eat mass. 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 are he leaves like themselves when the harsh reality bites the people's leaving standard. i think, you know,

as we fun out in the u. k. i some other countries probably as time goes on, people is really back up a whole lot. people will tolerate that kind of situation with a refresher, right? the price is all you know, flip price is focused on whole, it's really an actual pot and the people, i think the governmental will feel the pressure from the public imposing sanctions against russia would cost serbia dearly. that's according to the balkan countries. president bell great has come under heavy criticism for refusing to condemn russia over the conflict and ukraine. president alexander virtue has also defended serbia's continued airline traffic with russia as neighboring countries have been 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 things to say,

shame when you. oh, all of your analysts are also liars. did you cancel your own flight 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 moved sparked protests in belgrade where thousands of protesters were seen holding russian flags and portraits of vladimir putin. demonstrators demanded the government cease all actions against russia. we heard from alexander, publish 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 motive either you're with us or against us and they only accept neutrality and they do have reverse against us. most of our trade is

still with europe. so you know, you could close off its markets to serbian goods. also. busy lots of european companies, especially german ones, have 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 and favorites, you know, pull out of either their investments. so yeah, they still have various leverage 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 of credit. after you case, newly announced plan to deport 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, fleeing 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. they cannot carry the weight of our lash no 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 of 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 in inflatable boats that appear hardly see where they. the new deal would be such migrants transferred to ra wanda, thousands of kilometers away from the u. k. for one that has said it would receive $120000000.00 pounds sterling under the agreement funds supposed to provide quote, opportunities for rwandans and migrants. meanwhile, the total number of ukrainians who have fled that the war is estimated that around 5000000 people with neighboring poland taking in a substantial portion. poland has provided the refugees with accommodation and financial support, both by the government and regular citizens. as polls have opened to their homes and raised funds for arriving ukrainian. but as for frances, has unfortunately noted, ukrainian refugees have been much better received than migrants from other parts of the world suggesting a potential double standard changed with races. 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 sociologist unit as i b u, but says the double standards in the treatment of refugees, based on whether they're from ukraine or the middle east and africa is unethical. we've seen how your premium refugees have been welcomed, which is a good action in, in a way. but that doesn't mean that the, the other migrants 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 the blind dyna 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 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 and ukraine, and that putin will only stop when we stop in 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 intensive lied 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'll 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 on forces on the howitzers that will be a 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 for a long day 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 done yet. the republic officials say a high ranking, ukrainian military officer has been killed in action during the battle for mario done yet. so malicious spokesman has said that the body of colonel vladimir are

a new commander of the ukraine's $36.00 marine. infantry brigade was found after his forces tried to break out of an encirclement at the port of mariel. dozens of ukrainian troops, including other officers, are said to have been killed or taken captive by russian lead forces during that battle. but it seems that the western mainstream media is turning a blind eye to the incident which marked a significant development in the battle for the city of mario and be done yet. the republic. there has been virtually no mention of the death of colonel vladimir pioneer who had even held the title of hero of ukraine. we asked political analyst dmitri babich for his take on how the western media has been spinning the conflict . it's a great situation. well, to get into the details on the web, just resent a very aggressive and soft west immediate need. some of the questions and also for example,

one of the members over the official you bringing delegation at a piece source with right beneath you were by the you. why the bringing to so because he was suspected not being a loyal to the country. this was never who never showed any interest. there were no question. there were no investigations now to the middle east where tensions have been rising. as nato member turkey has launched a large scale offensive across its south eastern border into iraq. targeting kraidish militants, the turkish defense ministry released this video of air strikes against a kurdish forces saying it was conducting an offensive because kurdish militants 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 chris plans ahead of the cross border operation. the offensive came after us congress

members met with senior turkish officials any stumble on monday. meanwhile, in pakistan, protests continue over 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 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 the 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. repeatedly pro western politician shabazz sharif is facing challenges in foreign policy making. staying in pakistan, forces there in recent days have conducted air strikes on bordering provinces in afghanistan, targeting the taliban associated t, t. p group,

which pakistan considers a terrorist organization as long about claims. armed groups are carrying out regular attacks from afghan soil. at least 47 people were reported. killed in those strikes on the coast and coon, our province's itala bon political spokesperson mohammed name has warned pakistan that there will be harsh consequences if the attacks continue. journalist java runner talks about the issue. this is a 1st time that. 1 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 throw 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 or what effect because off the buck to 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 he had refused them to provide will be vision barcas on to carry out or tax inside of lunch on the installment and other military groups that does it for me this hour, stay with us throughout the day as we bring you more news and commentary. this is our contract. ah, i ah

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on the edge of a large field near. lo ganske, the mass grave. local say that the people buried here are mostly civilians who are allegedly killed by ukrainian paramilitary groups in the summer of 2014. or does this a mr. alcorda? what did of stuff? but just thought merely as it would be to when the british scuttle car was from crane said things of a sudden inform you not to under. so rocca leads a special committee for collecting evidence of the ukrainian government alleged walk. grimes against the people of lou ganske. when you go about doing is i'm wondering if there are many burial sites like this and done bus. i'm here for 5 minutes and then i'm told the 1st 5 people they found it was 5 decapitated head. they were all civilians who does this to people? you can't say that there isn't. there wasn't war crimes for in the area

around venetia, verifica, a village and, and against the people's republic. 36 civilian bodies are being examined. mm hm. georgia license and american journalist claims he repeated he sent reports of alleged crimes like this to european and american media. my hope is that this begins the process to bring this into an international forum. but when you see these grave travesties, you want to help bring that closure to them. that's why i'm here. unfortunately, and most conflicts that we find around the world atrocities have been committed extra judicial killings. ah, this is how charles.