ah ah, question lead force is close in on remaining ukrainian positions inside the dumbass city of mario pope, or at least 5 nationally soldiers reportedly surrendered on wednesday. we report from the front line with british code rules 2 extra time jailed. we can expand a julianna's songs to the us on the espionage charges, despite an early decision by the same court saying a songs could be treated harshly and american pass today. at this hour, with the west concern for ukraine and ukrainians is opportunistic, unselfish. ukrainians are needed today only as cannon fodder in a proxy war with russia until the last ukrainian exchange of the un security

council as russia land western efforts to increase that weapon supplies to you. right? ah, welcome to you. this is on the international with the latest world news headlines. it's good to have you with us. and has reaffirmed russia's commitment to keep up is operation and dumbass until locals can return to their normal lives. a sort of the tragedy that took place and john boss, including the le ganske people's republic, force russia to begin its special military operation. and like i said at the very outset is the goal of this operation is to assist our people live there. we will take gradual action until we bring about a situation when life will gradually normalize their. and the embattled don bassetti of marielle pulse 5 ukrainian soldiers have reportedly surrendered on

wednesday as comes as russian lead force is step up. their results on the last stronghold of keeps troops in mariel pope. the remaining defenders are still holding these sprawling territory of the as of scull industrial plants, their exact number is unknown, but they are reportedly in short supply of ammunition and food. russian lead forth is say they have been making very cautious, moves towards the enemy positions more local civilians have managed to take advantage of humanitarian corridor with and flee their homes off the hiding in face mints the week. some of them have said that experience, little city room and we really need medicine and more humanitarian aid in order to deliver it to different parts of the cedar. for the elderly people, there was my longer so much the most important thing is that our children all study in russian. it was a nightmare. how they torched us to russian speaking population. i feel so sorry for the children mutual enough. i'm listening but like i know that we were living in the basement for 2 months. we are very happy to see you guys. stay alive. when

did, if everything was bombed and burned down, we lived in a basement, no water, no food, which is grabbed. we could get in there which could deal on your voyage. there was a pregnant girl was killed, she left 2 kids and this girl was wounded. we've been treating her since the 7th of april. and i think that she never moved like this before doing it. and now you are evacuating bright history. my sister and 3 nephews. oh the as russian lead forces evacuate any remaining civilians from the area. the trips are now moving in for a final decisive battle against the ukrainians. in mario poll, i'll see more against you have reports from the c. this is the last residential neighborhood, or what's left of it that still controlled by ukrainian nationalists in mary opal. and they have done everything to hold on to with these machines out to change that

with her. okay. the other side bought me with a movie. yeah. close to the as of still what industrial called her mom for norco with just fine. those buildings with infantry can only do so much against fortified positions. heavy armor is called in for the heavy lifting and the troops, chechen volunteers in this case,

know where the weak points. ah right now, these are the fighters, are covering this tag crew. they're receiving, targeting directions from troops here on the ground once once they have those, all fish die goes that do its job. once everything is agreed, the action begins. that is how in position has the target inside what tack is going through that unit withdrawn a bmc heavy vehicle has south take its place, firing a nationalist to keep them. keep the price of day in day out for weeks on end. fighting for every building, every floor,

every room off to the heavy vehicles finish up. the infantry moves in digital de la la task is to follow the soldiers and provide cover for them. we are on the lookout for any enemy movement. every one knows exactly what they're doing. the as off nationalists in the industrial zone at the heart of the city, are in sorry, shape. they're short and food, water, ammunition, and morale. chechen fibers here fighting on russia. sud and who the nationalists promise to humiliate are pressing on. we literally go to their co buried. we remember all the videos that they made saying they were going to shave our beards off. you can see who's being shaved now. their morale is low, many of them want to surrender, but some of their allies won't let them. russia has repeatedly offered them a seas fog and the chance to surrender. the nationalists have refused in some

places. ukrainian troops were crowd shot in the back by their own as they attempted to surrender. it is clear that despite this situation, as of nationalist mentality has not changed and the most fanatical of them are still very much in charge. more i'd gasdio ot from mary. you both but we are joined at life. i larry c johnson, pharmacy i analyst seo of burg associates and a commentator on national security topics. many thanks for joining us on. the program is good to see. now let's start off with the u. s. role in the conflicts and ukraine and dumbass, if we could, at some american politicians describe the situation as a proxy war between nato and russia, even though western officials have not gone quite that far in their statements. what's your take? i think that's exactly right. well, this is insanity. as far as i'm concerned,

one part of the united states and made of this conflict could have been avoided. and instead, you know, it is pains me to say my country has been in the lead of trying to destroy russia. and i can fully understand why russia felt the need to, to strike back that this far, you know, when you go back and look over the last several years that military exercises. ready united states has been conducting under the auspices of the nato, where the european command off there's a video of us maureen's landing and the land graph on the shores of. ready praying and the black sea well, that's not a defensive exercise. so this, this need for war on the part of the west is, is being fed and i think unfortunately down. ready ross, or they've been off whether they've been to and dealing with russia yet. but you

recently wrote an article about how quote going to war with russia. ukraine might be suicide for america. could you tell us exactly what you meant by that statement? well, the fundamental concern is the economics, the, the sanctions imposed on russia in theory were supposed to damage lecture so badly that the people would rise up and throw off its having exactly the opposite effect . and it really reflects genuine ignorance of the part of american policymakers. you can't show me a single instance in the last 50 years where jacket, mac sanctions of work to change the politics of the country. didn't happen in a lot of the apples. your korea didn't happen to you and yet, rushes vertical supplier of resources that the united states does not have all the furniture. i know the farmers in the united states right now, you're paying for that, they're paying for fertilizer

a year or that that fertilizer comes out of both russia and roost. they palladium critical for making catalytic converters and other other essential products. you can come in the united states and go to car, wash, car lot are empty, not because people are buying them up because they can't get the supply. so i think this is the damage. it's been done right now. economically, united states. it's going to grow and increase, and this ultimately turn out to be devastating. here. yeah, we've already seen the fall out of the sanctions against russia and other countries seen inflation and storing oil and gas prices. food insecurity to name, but a few. how much do you think people are prepared to put up with before they say enough? is enough not prepared to put up with it at all. this is, you know, what americans do not understand is that the russians for fighting to defend the mother like this is there. and in the, the ignorance was displayed on the part of so many people in my country about

russia. and it's history of their, you know, they continue to refer to them as communist today. well, as you know, the communist party is a minority party now with the washer. and yet the americans persist in that. so as this pain increases, the americans are going to turn on the politicians. they help create this mass and every, every time job bite and tries to blame it on. most american voters aren't buying it, so it can be blaming biden. do i mean the democrats and potentially blaming the republicans? if they don't step off and try to sell things right? as to weeks, the pentagon refrained from sending fighter jets to ukraine despite please from kias. but washington is not reversed. it's don saying it will send the jets. what do you make of this that you turn? and do you believe it will really make a difference? at this point, we're going to send the records to, they'll send those sent. god zillow,

the imaginary monster. where do you land those fly? the reality is russia controls the aerospace in ukraine and anything that's flying up there that the russians don't want to fly up there is going to get shot there. so that's, it's foolish on that for the reality is the ukrainian military is really cease to follow the function as an effective force. yet within the united states, there's this continued, don't be the propaganda touting major successes by the ukrainians. you can't see any of it on video because it doesn't exist. and the russian military machine continues to just grind into dos, but creating a tsar. so this, these are, these are provocative actions. i think as soon as the question while i was in the grade, rush is going to destroy the missile strike as they have been doing over the last 7 weeks. so it's just, it is

a empty political gesture to convince people in america that the administration is doing something that is not going to handle one bit of influence and change. ready what the outcome of this conflict in frame? how exactly does pouring weapons into ukraine think to say the goals of american political establishment? well, the defense industry, i mean this, the corruption and corruption in this society. look, i'm a, i'm an old man. i'm old enough to remember the old cold war when the soviet union. it's the kind of corruption we used to accuse the soviet salt is now ramp and it's in damage. in the united states, politicians go into office, become rich militant generals in the pentagon. they leave those post gifts move for positions with the defense industry, and they get paid to produce weapons that are frankly not very effective. and without any regard really what this means to the strategic picture of the united

states or the world security. there's an increasing concern about where the weapons provided by the west will end up. since there's not actually a system in place to trace them was you will take on the possible ramifications was not only possible in sampling. i, i know from sources in france, for example, that the french and arms are, they've actually recovered firearms and showed fire surface. there are missiles in paris that have been that went to ukraine, the black market, pick them up there, now sell them to other groups around the world. and this is, this is turning into a business that, that the real irony here is the united states. insist that we've been fighting a war on terrorism for 20 years. now, what we're doing is we've actually affectively created a system for our international terrors around the world and create

a greater threat to american last months. we have a, the events and ukraine are being framed as a battle against the uni polar world lead by the us. and it's so called rules based order. do you believe we're witnessing a new world order in the making here? oh yes, no, i bet if it is, the expectation was that the imposition of sanctions and the russian rule were crumbled. the united states with petro dollar would have continued to be effective . what people are monitoring, one of the things i do is i've been involved with financial investigations. the international drug traffickers used to cover us all. that's no longer the case. they're moving into other currency, especially the euro. so that's just a, that's a sign if you will, of the wraps, leaving the sinking ship and u. s. ability to enforce it's well on countries like saudi arabia, pakistan, india, china, i think it's being exposed as really an empty threat. so we've gotten away with

bullying people for many years. i think the, the butcher is bill has come due on that. and what russia has, why they decided to do is wives in terms of serving rushes, national. and i, last week, us officials admitted that a lot of the intelligence the release is not actually solid, for example, that russia was allegedly planning to use chemical weapons in ukraine. and then the americans even said it was all part of some sort of psychological game with seismic . who was your input on this? considering your experience at the cia, our intelligence community is broken. he would call on the 30th of march, us, defense officials will leak into the media. that all there's dissension, there's chaos and inner circle. they lied to him, he's been deceived. and in a 2nd, i'll make pressures growing and deceiving the russian people. so the, and i noticed for a fact that senior military personnel in the pentagon seized upon this is true.

what turns out it was just, it was, it was fake in, so i believe bad by russia to the was just confused and diverse. we've, we've really lost a serious ability to analyze what's. ready going on, and just as a very simple example, the fact that russia now has effectively sees the entire southern supposed to be praying music ukraine, a major economic life life. ukraine is cut off. this is like having an artery and your leg separate, who can survive long with their x. that means you creams economy. debt is not just suffering its debt because without imports or exports, its ability to peters people. and you keep getting kind of viable economy is going, going is reduce, the intelligence community here is just oblivious to the trying to get focused. there is more often the focused on identifying the specific veins in

a leaf as opposed to looking at what's happening to the force. now so far there's been more as time dedicated to the conflict in ukraine on mainstream american outlets. and that was on all the was combined over the last 30 years. why do you think basses? well, if it bleeds of leaves, i mean this you've, you've seen, you've seen the media has actually in particular cable news channels in the united states have been losing audio share. so anytime you get a hype, violence of bloodshed, that suffering, that makes it to the floor. ready where you can show video images, what they find sort of interesting. and it's telling me, is that normally you guys do with the mirage or you're for a sponsor to is out in the mario full. you see him, you see the canons for the change firing is your killer going off. this is soldiers movie tactic. you don't see any kind of those. ready video images from the

ukrainians. none of the western media is embedded within the u. rainy and military units. because frankly, i think if they did videotape what's going on, it would be just, just terribly destructive to morale. cannot conduct a war simply with psychological operations that appears to be what ukraine has relied upon. making outlandish claims. a fighter pilot is shot down. 6 russian jets turns out that's from a video game while that they've been killed or captured the 20 russian generals. i mean, the, the lives go on. what i find shocking his, i know for a fact that some of the key analysts in the us intelligence community have been buying this last question of skepticism towards this. flames was not even a risen. so i think really, united states is become just a big,

bloated, overfed, or unhealthy blog. and it's got the way with, you know, we've been beating up on little brown people for 30 years. people that didn't have real air forces, didn't have armies. we've imagined ourselves to be extremely viable as a military force, but coming up against where essentially i see it. the gradient army is fighting a proxy war coordinator for the united states. we're finding out that everything that we thought you created to do, they can't do it. russia has been pretty effective. what a appreciate your time with us today. larry c johnson form a c. i a analyst, theo, of association commentator on national security topics. we appreciate your time. oh, now breaking news story, this our jailed wiki leak found julian sanchez,

one step away from extradition to the us and us off to london magistrate court ruled in favor of the move. so to put in time, secretary to confirm the decision which would be a san 100 over to the us, what he's wanted on espionage charges. we can make the editor in chief, kristen reference and claims the latest decision amounts to a death sentence for sons. 6 months ago this, i'm actually writing a song would mean a risk to his life that it will be equal to a death sentence. now there is, court has been ordered issue that sentence, that is what happened here today. not alive is in the hands or whatever board is johnson. they need to do that. i mean, you need to make sure they do the right thing. they have the power to stop it to and to save a man's life and stop this attack on the food or the press. shooting assange faces

up to 175 years in us prison. if found guilty, the activist has denied the allegations against him. wednesday's ruling comes despite an earlier decision from the same code, sang a song should be, could be treated harshly in american custody. we got reaction from international journalists, which had med, has, he believes the latest court decision was made without proper consideration. what we had this morning was really a rubber stamping. i was in the court of virtually this time and i still the judge . he actually had to legally speak directly to us on her breakdown. what's happening right now. and he told them that, you know, this is not really up to me. i'm duty bound to send this to send your case to pretty but tell the home secretary for her to sign off on the extra mission and you have a right to appeal. but you can only appeal after she has made her decision. so that means in about 4 weeks, cuz a sondors lawyers they have until may 18th to make submissions super duper tell her to make their case for it to not sign off on the extradition cuz the ultimate

decision does line her hands. and after that, assange could appeal, if she does order the extradition honestly, given a pretty patel's policies, you know, i, i don't, i don't really hold out much hope for science because it's just last year where she was trying her office was trying to in make, recommend ations that journalists send the you k be imprisoned for up to 14 years for, you know, publishing government secrets, things that embarrass the government. so i don't really think she's much of a, of a friend of freedom of the press. again, i do hope she does the right thing because she, she has the power in her hands right now as those boards. johnson to take a stance for press freedoms to show that the u. k is not working at the best of the united states and to stop a, you know, a journalist being shipped off to face to centuries and jail. this is very obviously a political, political trial. when you have a journalist being, you know, being charged with 17 counts as a spy, that's political by nature. and so when you have a political case like this, you can just when it, in the courts,

you really have to win it through public opinion. it's a battle that has to be for us with lots of stamina, long term, and it's very good to see these assange activists coming out a quite often that they're very determined, they're very driven. it's actually, thanks to them that i and other journalists were able to get in the courts during a song just extradition hearing because they would queue up since 5 in the morning . and thanks to them, we were able to report on this. so i think it's crucial, i think there has to be a pressure on the boards, johnson government to, to block this extradition. they can do this. they, they, you know, under the extradition treaty between the use in the u. k. that was signed in 2003 under article 4. you can block in extradition if it's for a political offense. and again, charging a journalist as fi is the classic textbook, political offense, and so forth from some pretty fidel. they really do have the power to block this. if the, you know a sanchez health is not a concern to them. if press freedoms are not a concern to them, they still have the chance to block it for, for its political nature. and so i think it's, it's, it's power amounts that people put public pressure on the government back to one of

our top stories. now the conflict in ukraine ons, dumbass, a russian official at the u. n. has slammed west and efforts to send more weapons to key f as positive an apparent proxy war. what the western concern for ukraine in ukrainians is opportunistic, unselfish. surely ukrainians are 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 benefits, it will give you so weapons manufacturers in western countries, a joyfully rubbing their hands were in accounting, their own profits. from the increase in defense orders 15 member body that leads the united nations convened a meeting, the topic of which was refugee was created by the conflict in ukraine. now, united states and its allies unloaded a lot of allegations and accusations against russia. but there are dmitri poll janski's, he took to the floor and defended russia and called out an debunked

a lot of the accusations that were being made. now, he went on to say that russia has actually taken an refugee's darting since $1.14 when the united states and its allies toppled the ukrainian government and total $2500000.00 people have fled to the russian federation as a result of u. s. actions and ukraine that he went on to talk about political repression and ukraine and how 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 regions. and 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 united states claims that he cares about. he branyon lives, but at the same time i'd seems to be trying to prolong the conflict and drove

ukrainians lives away in an effort to hurt russia. he based on that, he argued that he calls for a ceasefire coming from united states and their allies, siemens, sincere and there is a legit and this is simply an opportunity to let the extremist, not the forces regroup, and continue their efforts not just against russia, but against ukrainian civilians. 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. high 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 harms 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 extremists anti russian forces that have been armed and trained by the states and ukraine. now it's also important to note that at the security council meeting shina up to the floor and talked about the dangers facing that level

economy. and how the targeting and manipulation of current it 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 moved by the united states. and the escalation of the conflict. so i was quite a meeting at the un security council. a lot of allegations against russia. russia did 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 with 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 obscurity counsel, not a lot of unity among the countries. there. clearly some very different understanding of the dance on the ground in ukraine as a lot of people are becoming refugees. and a lot of people are clearly suffering. but thanks for joining us here in asi, international web, back in 30 minutes with the latest for

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