ah ah, moscow calls on care to order its troops in a besieged steel factory and mar you both to release any civilians and surrender. but in the vicinity, scores of civilians have managed to flee through safe routes set up by russia. and we were living in the basement for 2 months. we are very happy to see you guys. stay alive and now you are evacuating right. my sister and 3 nephews, faith evacuation route for ukrainian troops to surrender and marble has gone unused, as fierce fighting continues in the as of stall industrial area. but another cease fire regime is planned for later on wednesday with the west concern for

ukraine and ukrainians is opportunistic, unselfish ukrainians, and needed today only as a cannon fodder in a proxy will with russia until the last ukrainian, with a tense exchange at the went security council, as the russian ambassador says, that while western powers claimed to be peacekeepers, there really fueling the conflict with fresh supplies and weapons with casting from our studios in moscow, this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. and moscow calls on to you have to order its troops inside mario pals as of stalls steel plants to release any civilians who may be there and surrender. moscow suspects that ukrainian nationalist forces inside the factory could be using civilians as human shields to prevent russian troops from advancing after no one passed through a humana manager in corridor set up on tuesday, specifically to evacuate the facility and other limited sees fire is to take place

on wednesday afternoon, but other se fruits within the facility have been used. we heard from some of the people who managed to flee from nearby areas. actually be honest because the the earlier on tuesday, russian lead forces inside variable launched a new assault against neo as all troops. most of the remaining ukraine forces in mario are trying to hold their ground inside the vast territory of the as of stall steel factory. their exact number is unknown, but they are reportedly in short supply of ammunition and food. russia says the safe evacuation route from the area for free and trips to surrender has gone unused . russian lead forces say they have been making very cautious, moves towards the enemy position was going to, as it still has a high density of the building. so the distance at which we are fighting is 100 to

200 meters. we are moving slowly, confidently, our units have identified enemy firing points and directed a strike. you can see the explosion right here. are t correspondent what i got was near the front line at the as of stall factory, the last stronghold of ukrainian nationalists invariable here on the periphery of the as of steel. nod woods, industrial compound. as you can hear, battle rages small arms as well as ahmed close and l. carriers. but few residential neighborhoods of all that stands between total encirclement ukrainian nationalists inside the industrial compound. as you can hear, the fussing is still ferocious. but from what we understand nationalism, ukrainian troops are running as of foods, out of work,

as well as morale is said to be very low there because obviously they're running short and supplies. but also because they invariably a understand many of them that this is the in that the commanders in those and here here which is ordering them not to surrender that they're throwing their lots away . nevertheless, there are a cool radical fanatics among the nationalists in the algo steel compound and they did any sort of surrender, any sort of negotiation. they want to keep fighting, as they hope until a diplomatic bap solution is reached by which they will be given a car door as of mary and i did the ukraine. proper territories controlled by the caribbean military. even though that is that these point incredibly unlikely

russian military expert and retired to colonel victor barnett's says, as of uses, the same human shield tactics and mario pl. as terrorists do in syria. i mean for those they continue fighting because they are ordered not to lead through the humanitarian corridors. this one group of people. the 2nd one is fighting due to their national sentiment and their unwillingness to surrender and recognize their defeat. some are not leaving because they're under a threat of being executed. as people who simply show a desire to get out of there are being shot. the militants are using human shields as a principal strategy. hiding behind the elderly, pregnant women, even children. there were a number of cases when parents grabbed their children and tried to escape through the corridors. the children were shot on their backs. there was a forensic medical examination proving that children were shut on the back. i'm not even talking about adults. this is a principal strategy of militants as well as terrorists. terrorists and syria have

done the very same thing. while the situation in multiple remains tense, the un security council held a meeting on tuesday to discuss the conflict in ukraine. russia's ambassador to the un commented on how he sees the west approaching the situation level. the west concern for ukraine and ukrainians is opportunistic unselfishly. ukrainians needed today only as cannon fodder in a proxy war with russia until the last ukrainian at the same time the west does not forget about its own benefit. so weapons manufacturers in western countries, a joyfully rubbing their hands, counting their own profits from the increase in defense orders 15 member body that lead the united nations convened a meeting, the topic of which was refugee created by the conflict in ukraine. now, the united states and allies unloaded a lot of allegations and accusations against russia. but there, dmitri pollyanna, he took to the floor and defended russia and called out and get bogged. a lot of

the accusations that were being made. now, he went on to say that russia has actually taken in refugees starting since 2014, when the united states and allies toppled the cranium government, and total 2500000 people have fled to the russian federation as a result of us actions in ukraine. he went on to talk about political repression and ukraine and our attempts to portray ukraine as being some kind of democracy. being threatened is just simply not accurate. you know, political opposition forces are being rounded up and repressed and have been repressed. and for the past 8 years, they've been waging a war against their own population in the eastern region than don boss. he called out the u. s. military industrial complex. he talked about how a lot of the military hardware, the united states is given to ukraine, doesn't even work. some of these vehicles have not been functional. they've just kind of been jumping them on ukraine and how the united states claims that it cares about how brownian lives. but at the same time,

seems to be trying to prolong the conflict then throw the ukrainian lives away. i'm happy to hurt russia. he based on that, he argued that calls for these fire coming from united states and our allies seem insincere. and there's a legitimate, this is simply an opportunity to let the extremist, not the forces regroup, and continue their efforts not just against russia, but against ukrainian civilian. now, later after we heard from the countries making up un security council, we did hear the ukrainian representative get up. and he made a lot of accusations against russia. one being that russia is not allowing civilians to leave a factory and basically is enabling and causing civilians to be killed. this is what the granting representative said when addressing the security council. the situation in mario remains the most critical. thousands of civilians are still in the city congress of them, including children,

have taken shelter in the old style plant. they need immediate safety occupation, and the rational forces are well aware of these. instead, the russians deny all requests from the ukrainian side world leaders and the u. s. u n. hi, officials for iraq creation car doors for civilians. major poly and gay, representing the russian federation, spoke and explained very clearly that the presence of these civilians in the factory was hidden. despite repeated requests on the part of russia to make sure that no civilians were in harm's way. and now russia has been calling on to influence the fighting forces there and allow the civilians to leave the factory. so essentially, ukrainians are being used as human. she'll buy, you know, by these extremist anti russian forces that have been armed and trained by the states and ukraine. 8 now it's also important to note that at the security council meeting, shina took to the floor and talked about the dangers facing the global economy and

how the targeting and manipulation of current and as a result of us sanctions is having a very long term and serious effect, not just in russia, but in other places. now the world economy is being badly affected by these moves by the united states, that the escalation of the conflict. so i was quite a meeting at the un security council, a lot of allegations against russia. russia didn't have an opportunity as a permanent member of the un security council, a body that was formed among the countries that defeated fascism in the 2nd world war. they had an opportunity to give their side of the story and they presented facts that are being ignored in western media and ignored in the tirade the western leaders. so i was quite a meeting, a few counsel, not a lot of unity among the countries. they're clearly some very different understand other dance on the ground in ukraine as a lot of people are becoming refugees. and a lot of people are clearly suffering until an american journalist who has been

covering the conflict from inside ukraine and has repeatedly criticized ukrainian government and its armed forces has reportedly gone missing in the city of hark. of fellow reporters now fear for his life, saying gonzalo lira has been out of contact since last friday. extremely troubling that gonzalo lira a u. s. citizen in ukraine has disappeared from social media. he was scheduled to interview me last friday about the lensky s. b u. kidnapping and assassinating dissidence, and now i fear he has become its latest victim. if gonzalo lira has indeed been disappeared by ukraine's s b u, he joins a long list of dissidence. leftists, human rights activists and local officials kidnapped, tortured and even assassinated by zelinski death squads and with key as open support. meanwhile, one of ukraine's nationalist leaders has posted a series of tweets on his private account, mockingly claiming the journalist might have been abducted and killed by quote, some guy with the call sign chiller, and other posts. he shows a photo of neo nazi fighters again hinting they might be the ones behind the

reporters disappearance and even applauding prospects of the journalists being dead . but the radical ukrainian commander has not provided any evidence. so the information cannot be immediately verified. gonzalo era is 54 years old and has been living in ukraine for the past few years. he was in kiev when the conflict erupted in february and then traveled to the 2nd largest city hock of to cover the fighting there. at the end of march tweeted that he called the truth about zalinski regime, adding that he felt he might disappear as did other critics of care of some of whom were later found dead. here is one of gonzalo lira latest interviews before he went missing. in a very real sense the, the armed forces were nature, but they also integrated these new knocks the hyper nationalist elements, not just into the armed forces by the way, also into the government itself. and these new not see extreme nationalist, extreme ukrainian naturalists elements are poisoned to well. allison,

the ukrainian state, you can probably anti russian chillies. foreign ministry has confirmed to r t that they have been informed about the loss of contact with the journalist and are now in touch with relevant entities to get an update on his status and location . we have also requested comment from the west state department as gonzalo lira holds dual citizenship. so far, u. s. has provided no response, but we will keep you posted of your couso primly. a journalist and former european parliament member says washington silence is because the west is deliberately ignoring some matters in ukraine if they would reflect poorly on kids leadership. and i know i'm also not our family that we don't see any reaction from either washington or the major west or media. because that would mean they accept their dealing with a regime that is train every way to restrict the right to free access to information. even resorting to lengthy prison sentences and abductions. thus, in view of a number of the crimes that we are witnessing,

we can say this regime was inspired by new nazi ideas. any war is dangerous in any work or spawn and knows that. but we cannot allow journalists to be turned into targets, abducted or even killed, where developed society that protects the right to free access to information. where we seen ukraine is that only journalists who repeat the official lie like a mantra are locked to work. this is not military journalism, but military propaganda. it should be condemned. austria has passed a new law criminalizing the sharing of content from sanction to media sources, as it's now punishable by a fine of up to 50000 euros. the law does not name specific news outlets, but archie is understood to be one of the bands sources according to the legislation. often media cannot show any foreign programs that have fallen under use sanctions. video sharing platforms would also be breaking the law if they provided access to restricted programs, even providing

a way to circumvent the sanctions is illegal. the wall was imposed after numerous russians state media outlets were banned in the u. following the start of russia military offensive in ukraine, r t and just put new news agency were among the 1st to be prohibited. as the you alleged moscow was using russian media outlets to shape public opinion about the conflict. former us congressional a deter, read, says the austrian law is blatantly hypocritical melissa height of hypocrisy, isn't it? when they're talking about freedom of speech and democracy and wanting to spread democracy, but then stifling any kind of conversation or discussion by censoring and by criminalizing speech, western citizens will not appreciate being stifled and not appreciate their information being siphoned into only one western land. and not being allowed to have an international you, i'm particularly in europe where you share continent with russia. r t is very

popular, i'm in european channels and it was popular here in the u. s. as well before the censorship, particularly on social media and with the younger generation of american citizens. there's an impatience with being, you know, given one you of a situation rather than actual balanced reporting and journalism. berlin does not accept any conspiracy theories from key if that's how former german vice chancellor sigma gabriel has reacted to ukraine's refusal to allow germany's current president frank walter sty meyer to visit the war. one country, a far more dangerous variant of the conspiracy theories is declaimed by the crane and ambassador to germany, andre. mm. and nuke that the current german federal president frank walter sty meyer has been creating a spider's web of context with russia for decades. what is true, however, is that then foreign minister, frank walter stein, wire together with them chancellor, anglo merkel did more than anyone else in europe to support ukraine in an op and

published by dish be gone. sigma gabriel dismiss kim's obligations that time. myra and former chancellor merkel had helped moscow build a pro russian lobby and ukraine. he said those claims were untruthful and malicious, and noted the financial aid that germany has provided to ukraine in recent years. he claimed it is germany's role as a mediator between the ukraine and russia. that's now been tainted with these conspiracy theories. we heard from german, joe political analyst rayner ross 1st, who says berlin should not be blamed for trying to maintain good relations with moscow. germany was always standing by the side of your brain. this is what we could see in the past 8 years. but germany was also seeking a stable relationship with russia, against all the pressure of other western partners of germany who always criticized this partnership. the west seems to stick very,

very narrowly to the narrative that ukraine is, the country which has every right to act in the way it deems necessary up the moment to defend itself against russia. so criticism against any moves done by the ukrainian government is not really well conceived. at the moment the u. s. has lashed out against china's efforts to provide security for the south pacific nation of the solomon islands. as washington's allies, australia and new zealand considered the region to be firmly within their sphere of influence, we are concerned by the lack of transparency and unspecified nature of this agreement, which follows a pattern of china offering shadowy, vague deals with little regional consultation in fishing resource management development assistance, and now security practices. us delegation plans to raise the issue of an upcoming

visit to the solomon islands while discussing the plan, the reopening of its embassy there after a 3 decade hide us. china is security deal reportedly allows it to send police and naval forces to the solomon islands to maintain peace there. the exact details have yet to be made public last week as senior australian official went to the solomon islands to try to dissuade it from finding the pact as camera is concerned about arising. chinese military presence in the region. china, for its part, says western powers have been whipping up hysteria when we are sure. sure. what we want to say is that pacific island countries not anyone's backyard, let alone porn's energy, a political confrontation island countries have actual needs for diversification of foreign cooperation. and also have the rights to independently choose their partners deliberately exaggerating tensions and provoking the confrontation of camps has no appeal among island countries. the attempt to interfere and obstruct the cooperation of the island. countries with china is also due to fail. we heard

from joseph gregory mahoney, a professor of politics and international relations at the east china normal university, and shanghai who says the west wants to create a sense that there is a threat in the region. it's clear that this newly cyber security pack between china and the solvent is red meat for australian politicians with federal elections . now just 2 days away, us wants to support leaders in canberra, who have followed washington against china in recent years. and they want to do this by making a very big splash over what is, in fact, a very small matter in a very large ocean in short, can bear. it would like to imagine this is some kind of emerging close at hand threat like cuba to the united states. despite the solvents in 2000 kilometers away and not ideologically hostile to australia. although the solomon's resent australian had too many more than a few china, what they really want is security support unrelated to either australia or the u. s

. and they want the sort of investment and trade that neither of those countries have provided. consequently, this pack speaks directly to their security needs and reinforces their economic interest. pakistan's new prime minister, who recently replaced the asteroid iran con, as called for better cooperation with the countries neighbor and long time rival, india. we believe that peaceful and cooperative ties between pakistan and india are imperative for the progress and socio economic uplift of our people. and for the region, this can be best achieved through meaningful engagement and peaceful resolution of all outstanding disputes, including the core issue of john moo in kashmir. the disputed region of cashmere has been a key point of contention between india and pakistan for the past 75 years. the countries have fought several large scale conflicts for control of the region. even sparking fears of nuclear war has both possess atomic weapons. but just last week,

india's prime minister congratulated his newly instated pakistani counterpart saying india wants peaceful and stable relations. we got inside on the development of relations between new delhi and islam bought from former indian and pakistani officials. the impact is done and especially when it comes to relations with india, the army plays a substantial role. no, the elected government generally goes by the advice of the military. so that is one continuing factor, but yes, you can have prime ministers who choose to go in a different way, but they would have to be careful. and i have known the present prime minister a long time. he's a very able administrator who was a very good chief minister. he's the brother of mister. no, i should eve. and also he has visited india and met our last prime minister doctor

montmorency. so i think that he will try and keep the relationship on know sort of balanced. we're not under more the writing to the new prime minister suggesting about ways to good relationship in the future. but unfortunately, one of the problems stay as they have always been for the last 7 decades between india and pakistan. i'm at the same time job. i should. it may not be in part for too long, simply because the fractious, critical environment in august is almost pressing and holding for an immediate election might not be as immediate. it could be a few months down the line, but it seems that that could be perhaps the big name of the starting up yet into a government. and yet i had a, we can not say that really because media is a site where we are willing to move one on other areas. but we continue to work on cash made. and that's the thing that goes on. he's like to see. and then the problem isn't for me this,

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a ah ah hello and welcome to cross stock were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . we're told one of the hallmarks of western liberalism is the idea and practice of tolerance. more specifically, it is said, we should not judge an individual or group based on their race color or creed. but that apparently doesn't apply when it comes to russians. bruce, a phobia is the new bigotry. ah

cross talking russo foby. i'm joined by my guess arthur. clearer in toronto, he's a liberty advocate and freelance editor and oh hi. we have all of our, boyd barrett, he is a professor emeritus of journalism and public relations at bowling green state university, as well as author of russia gate in propaganda. and here in moscow we crossed to robert bridge. he's an american writer and journalist based in moscow or a gentleman, cross sack rules in effect. that means you can jump in any time you want. and i always appreciate arthur. let me go to you 1st in toronto. what happened to the liberal tradition? i mean, it seems of all crashed. i mean, every single minority group a marginalized group, we have to have tolerance, we it, we hear it all the time. 247. but there's one exception, it's russians apparently go ahead in toronto. it's, it's interesting because there's a are almost a rejection of that original liberalism that the west kind of developed over the last little while. and it's turn into a new religion. i'm

a new state religion almost in which there's something called repressive tolerance and, and that is based in this kind of neo marxian, postmodern, i'm ideology that is very, very ramp and throughout throughout the western general. so that sorta gets santa oliver. i go to you very early in california, you're, you specialize in these kinds of things here. are you surprised of the, the, the ferociousness of this kind of cancel can, i mean, we, you know, this is canceling of an entire people of an entire culture. now i'm only a few weeks ago months ago is a no, we don't like the good this government, but we like the people. they don't even apply that. now go ahead oliver. yes, i am somewhat surprised by the veracity of it. there's nothing new about raso phobia of course, has gone back or i would put it at least as far back as the crimean war of

185853 and and probably from from before then. and that because we saw the crew, the bolshevik revolution of the long error of the cold war. when we came out of the cold war, we were to discover that apparently communism or the absence of communism had actually nothing to do with us russian relations. but we still had to keep thinking negatively about, about russia. but here's the thing i would say is that when it comes, every nation has gone, it's black periods. some nations have got lots of black periods. but the western media, western establishment thought usually allows some light on to these otherwise black periods, despite the fact of the treatment of native americans as the issue of slavery in the united states. number this, in our history,

is immediate histories of the united states. these things do not loom to the law, but in the case of russia, in the case of russia, no light is allowed, and they, there you have the death, really, of liberal is them and liberal, thought it was got a robert here in mosque. i mean, robert, if you don't mind me say, i mean you do have a russian family, have a brush and wife, you have a children that night depending on how you want to describe russian, american, or american russian. i don't know. um, this must be very painful for you because you know, you and i have lived here for a very long time. being one of the oddities of this, russo phobia as you and i, as americans living in russia, we feel no discrimination against no anxiety, no hatred whatsoever. 0, okay? and but you know, when you look at it, you know, in the west you, you have this, this demon ization of an entire population of people. it's culture and it's civilization.