ah, with i consider the proposed storming of the industrial zone in practical, i order you to cancel it. breaking news here on our t. vladimir putin holds the storming of the opposite stall, steel factory, and the besieged port city of mario polt, insisting that the lives of russian soldiers should be preserved. the coastal industrial area is the last stronghold of ukrainian forces in the city that says, the russian, russian defense minister says mario paul has been captured with the eyes off stall plans blockaded. earlier we heard from locals who managed to flee from the vicinity of the factory. reason i chose to judge now we walked out to get water, and snipers shot me in the leg and i didn't see who it was. but it was in an area

controlled by the ukrainians. dissolve, militants told us that anyone who goes on to the russian control territory would be shot dec veteran italian journalist angelo dorothy stands up against the western narrative saying the u. s. is to blame for the war and ukraine. he shares his thoughts with our t. technically, it's russia that unleashed the war. but in my view, it's the united states that prompted russia to do that. it states the number of publications, including with nato expansion, the thought of throwing anyone overboard is simply unacceptable. and china's president slams western sanctions against russia as bricks. countries prepared to introduce their own alternative to the western lead swift financial system, which has restricted russian access with wherever you are in the world. you're watching r t international. my name's donald quarter. welcome to the program. now we start

the program with breaking news. vladimir putin halts the storming of the ass off stall steel factory in the port city of mario. particularly, to promotional houston, i consider the proposed storming of the industrial zone impractical. i order you to cancel it. this is a time when we must think, we must always think, but even more so in this case, about preserving the live and health of our soldiers and officers. there is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl under ground through these industrial facilities block off this industrial area so that the fly doesn't fly through. once again, invite everyone who has not yet laid down their arms to do so. the russian side guarantees their lives. putting such an important center in the south as mary you pull under control is a success. congratulations. are joined here in the studio by artes eager, dan,

of whose, across a story for us eager tell us a little bit more about vladimir putin's announcement will. absolutely. the key thing to understand about this whole decision is that as of style or as of steel, as it can be translated into english was the final and is, remains the final stronghold of all the ukrainian, you know, forces troops, nationalists that remain in the key port city of mario, but it's been days since the russian forces and are while the forces of the da nets can logan's people's republics, have been methodically and meticulous the kind of clearing out this particular area . but the key thing to understand about what as of style or as of steel is, it's not just your regular factory. imagine a 9 story building, but going all the way under ground. so these are the catacombs. this is what the catacombs under, under this plan, to what the liz, this is what they look like. and some passages, for example, some hallways, there are large enough to fit a whole truck. so it is a very well, it's

a very well easily defended area. and you can just go under ground and you need a mother all of all booms to do at least some damage to the people and to you know, to the, to the soldiers that will be, that are right now, hiding under ground. so to storm a, a well, a stronghold like this would mean would mean casualties and quite likely, basically, the amount of troops you'd need to just surround and besiege this plant, which is what the russian president has ordered to do is probably roughly equal to the amount of men that russia would have lost if it was to go unto well, to go for an up front attack and for an up front storming. so this was, this was the decision that vladimir putin made. basically a very, a good old world. medieval. i could say tactic that has been, has proven effective all the way from the dark times. you besiege people, you cut them off from, you know, supply rains and eventually they run out of food. they run out of water and they

have no other choice but to come out because just imagine image of the psychological pressure you feel you live and under ground, you are cut off from such basic things like taking a shower for example, you know, going to the bathroom and private. and how long can you, how long can a person, you know, withstand such psychological pressure? and also imagine how much food you need to have stored to feed, say 2000 people if they need at least twice if they need at least 2 times to, you know, to have to have a meal a day. that's a loss of count goods and that's a lot of preservatives. but russia has insisted that it will create and continue to create opportunities for them to lay down arms. and, you know, join almost 2000 of their brothers in arms who have already chosen to lay down arms and become prisoners of war. and what have we heard about russia, about the situation there from russia's defense minister? well that if the defense minister surgery shot was showing go,

he has essentially laid out the situation, what it is like and mar, you pull. and basically what the russian army faced in the city so heavily with nurses with russian and domestic republic forces have liberated mary you paul. the remaining nationalist forces are sheltered in the is austell plant. when it was the 11th of march, the number of ukrainian troops nationalists and foreign mercenaries was around 8100 people. during the liberation more than 4000 were killed, 1478 captured the others. more than 2000 are blocked in his austin nationalists turned almost all the residential buildings into permanent firing positions. in the lower stages, there were armored vehicles in artillery in the upper snipers and anti tank missiles in the middle. and in the basement, there were civilians, as human shields and retreating, ukrainian, and nationalist forces were hiding behind civilians. as of now the whole, mary,

you, paul, is under russian and donetta republic control. nationalists and mercenaries in his av still are blocked firmly. traditions, of course, we've been reporting from the area for quite some time now since the beginning of the russian military operation there, what information do we have on the ground will absolutely will a, from the 1st glance, the city of mario to looks like a ghost town essentially, because almost all buildings have been well damaged in the course of war because essentially we as, as we've been reporting from the city. and as we've been hearing from the locals, who were evicted from the apartments and whose apartments were turned into, you know, firing positions by nationalists. they have been describing some of the horrendous stuff that they've had to go through as they were essentially held hostage by the ukranian. nationalists have listened. who is that not hosted? it's neither. we want doubt to get water. a sniper shot me in the leg. i didn't see who it was you that it was in an area controlled by the ukrainians. as dissolve,

militants told us that anyone who goes on to the russian control territory would be shot dead. please let him look like you didn't. the soldiers kicked us out of deck . we grabbed our passports and money. when we came back to our apartments, we saw our belongings, food. everything was stolen, corrugated as of soldiers, have taken everything. but i don't do shred nasha. deborah, i did not let us out of the least shot at the legs of any one who tried to get out . well essentially there are concerns that there may be civilians hiding in the as of steel plant in the catacombs as well, according to the russian defense ministry. those are the relatives of the fighters who are, who remain there. and again, according to the russian defense ministry, every opportunity will be provided for everyone willing to, you know, lay down arms and willing to come out safely. every opportunity will be provided for them. are tizzy. christina, thanks a lot for walking us through those the details. dmitri babich is

a political analyst, and he says that the decision has been made in order to spare lives the lives of soldiers and civilians. as far as i understand, the decision, not for storm, the other plan is due to the desire to spare the lives long. so i don't see if there are some there. would you, you know, in big doubt, but in general, i wouldn't call it a stop, which i would call it just a more humane and more soft approach to any of this back up if the last door some could go from there. well, i won't, i won't read too much for one. but the west will interpreted it's all the holes that can be said for sure. staying with mary ople, dozens of dead bodies have been found within the vicinity of a public hospital. russian federal investigators have opened

a criminal case on the suspicion and ukrainian forces are guilty of war crimes. a warning you may find these images disturbing. this video was provided by russia's investigative committee and shows the destruction of the mariel hospital allegedly shelled by ukrainian forces according to russian. and yet, people's republic authorities, they say 26 dead bodies were found elsewhere in the den. yes, people's republic, fragments of ukrainian missile, intercepted by a local air defense system, rained down on the city of shock. george, with at least one person, reportedly killed the son. verified footage reportedly shows the destruction in the city where authority say a child was killed and for other people were wounded. the missile is believed to have been a tortuga you missile widely used by the ukrainian military in other news, prominent italian journalist angelo dorsey has suggested an alternative view of the

ongoing conflict in ukraine breaking with the western establishment media narrative . he says the u. s. is to blame for the war. he made this point on italian national television. good memory go to the but we must remember that this war, besides, every thing that we're talking about is a war of the united states against europe. the u is the real object of this war. the united states is interested in severing ties between russian europe and also china, a contributor to top italian media outlets. dorsey has over 40 years of experience and journalism has track record, includes being a founder of several magazines with a focus on history. and last year he ran for mayor of the italian city of turin and spoke with dorsey and got his insight on many aspects of the conflict. ah, i'm amended wherever come each other little. technically, it's russia that unleashed the war. but in my view, it's the united states that prompted russia to do that. it states

a number of provocations, including with nato expansion, the united states figured out that it's losing cloud as a global hagaman. so it's behavior is a kind of a reaction. it definitely doesn't want to put up with its new role amid a shift in to paula centric world. in my view, zalinski is now the main obstacle to achieving peace. it's obvious that he's ready to sacrifice his country in his people in order to stain power. he's also hindering a diplomatic solution if we want peace talks to succeed, then the compliance with uminski agreements should be the starting point. but zelinski as opposed to that the sort of, i think that today we're seeing 2 wars being fought simultaneously. one is being waged with arms bombs and missiles on the battlefield, whereas the other is unfolding in the media with newspapers, television, and the internet. and the latter one is no less serious. media outlets are being shut down and employ to weaken arrival power. zelinski himself basically silenced

the opposition. so it's not correct to say that the war in defense of zaleski equals a war in defense of democracy. i have never before seen must media acting as indecently as they do now. i'm struggling for the truth. seeking to my own opinion without buying into the official version. we don't have a my daughter was in crimea during the referendum. she worked. there is a photo journalist and sent me images showing people's joy about returning to russia that the referendum, embodied in national unity that it was considered liberation back then, while covering the situation and the don bass, she managed to survive miracle asleep while her 30 year old colleague was killed in a mortar fire, she was very upset to see the violence that the authorities and key if used against the people of the don bass sanctions never heard governments. in fact they heard the population and because of that they are moral. they are also inefficient if their objective is to shift power and moscow.

furthermore, the sanctions have already impacted european economies. the italian economy has already suffered and it's going to get worse. only the united states will manage to get away with it. probably for now the you doesn't see that i'm surprised by how short sighted our politicians are. china's liter shipping ping, as warned against to western moves to disrupt international unity. the iep meeting on the contract is for ship to navigate a storm and sail towards a bright future. all the passengers must pull together. he shoots the thought of throwing anyone overboard is simply unacceptable. when that happens, both the victims and the initiators of such an act stand to lose in this world, unilateralism and an excessive pursuit of self interest are doomed to fail. you can get the bricks, emerging economies that brazil russia, india, china, and south africa are planning to hasten the introduction of their own financial system to rival the western lead. swift network that says western powers have

lashed out at moscow with sanctions, including cutting. some russian banks off from swift rushes finance minister says the new system will help countries shift away from dollar dominance and create a buffer again shocks in case of a global economic downturn. bricks, countries also planned to use their national currencies for import export operations and more closely integrate their bank card systems. the director of the geo political economy research group says the dollar dominated system has been hindering the world economy. europeans in launching the euro was the 1st set of countries, and in fact, it goes back a long way back when the dollars linked to gold was broken in 1971. that was when the europeans began, a long journey to was monetary union who spoke was, was precisely to eliminate the dollar from their mutual payments. the euro, euro doesn't look in great shape right now. but that is just the way these things

work out. so i think the russians, the chinese, for the indians in many ways different countries are trying different ways in which to assert that independence from the dollar system, which has been extremely destructive. because the donor system rests on a sort of, of a band of financial ization, which is precisely what has been doing the 2 biggest economic, 2 biggest sorts of economic damage to the world. number one, increasing inequality to such an extent that demand remains a problem in the world. and number 2, ensuring that the vast, that vast amounts of money, we just rushing around the financial system and not invested productively, but are rather invested in speculation and parasitical creation on the, on the incomes of a, of those who actually work for a living donor system has been deeply contradictory from the start. people just stop as though the dollars dominance was completely natural when they forget is

that it has required. and as i said this, this, this, this, this a foundation of a financial ation which has been destructive china is increasingly providing alternative trade partnerships, alternative investment relationships, and alternative payment systems and other such infrastructure. and of course, the russians, the indians. it's if i'm not, you know, i'm just saying that china now provides a competing goal. so you can, you know, in a certain sentence, you can look at and look at the map of this, the americans and european, you know, acolytes, i try doing what they're doing. that is putting sanctions in russia, et cetera. in order to scare the rest of the world into coming and becoming part of that system you know, into, into steven, close to the west. in reality, the effect of these action is to actually not unite the world under the domination

of the west. but actually to divide the world between a small part of the world, which is essentially the old imperial core of the world economy, which is centered around the decaying financial ais, predatory speculative american economy. and on the other hand, the rest of the world which consist of the vast majority of the was countries and over helping majority of the was too late, which will be centered around a more dynamic china. and of course, if russia and china get closer together as seems to be the case, then it may be a very off will do. busy because what china has, in terms of its labor force, etc. and what russia has in terms of her resources and also was rush of highly trained labor force. i think this is going to be the most dynamic, dual ever seen not seeking to lecture moody or india. that's what british prime minister boris johnson's office has said regarding his to day visit

to india with russia expected to be at the top of the agenda. johnson's office and she does not want to pressure new delhi over its close relations with moscow, but may still try to convince them to change their course. johnson has already arrived and is expected to discuss boosting economic, defense, security and technology cooperation between the u. k. in india, he said to meet with business leaders in the western city of metabolic on thursday, and then is to go to new delhi for his summit with modi on friday. our corresponded rtp, seeing told us what you, it's back from the meeting. we are expecting that there are many still borders johnson, although he has said that he is not going to lecture robin is still not in there will be on your grade as russia, but we are expecting reiman is still about to johnson to explore opportunities to explore drain relationship with india, read drive in shelby,

and perhaps especially in 2 major sectors which is defense and emerging because there is a certain viewpoint in the u. s. and, and in the you need your country that india also needs to rally behind b. m. ok. countries as against russia, in the ongoing crisis where you're great. so we are expecting that, i mean, bought a john, so he's going to not be she guys, but he's going to explore opportunities read. he can push india in a different direction based from russia, with rich india actually enjoys a strategic partnership and corporation and has so far as being a new teacher has abstained from working against russia in the united nations. we had also expecting friends, job board is johnson, do us?

yes, you will reduce its dependence, although it does not really dependent on russia, but it has just been full for operation on strategic partnership with russia. historically, i'm traditionally china and pakistan have announced they're expanding their partnership as part of a new economic corridor, a new pakistani nuclear power plant, nuclear power unit, rather powered by a chinese developed reactor has also started working this week. the new round of cooperation comes as pakistan's, newly appointed prime minister forms a coalition government p. m. ship was sharif, has also hosted china's envoy to pakistan for talks in islam abroad. geopolitical analysts, to san slum shot and paris school at technology and business. professor benjamin shall say, close ties between the 2 countries. go beyond the current change of power, the new government, any government,

when it comes back on there are certain capital with chinese on definitely one of the bank is funding governments have reached out to in the past it's non subject to the genome governments. it's beyond the governments, it's a strategic state to state relationship. so this was really much expected. and the 2nd thing in mind is the start and he's a part of a good relationship working with in the past before driving this to even begin to follow up his algebra and chemistry was of the for him for good 4 years, 5 years. and it was during that time also that the chinese to women would relationship a relationship with the on any change economically the, the china pakistan economic corridor is of power mal importance. decoy is not just about connectivity,

is about cooperation industrialization of your culture and tourism. it is estimated that decoy dog would create 2300000 jobs between 20152030. and he would add 2 to 2.5 percent h points to the pakistan. so any quote, the value of this project is worth about $62000000000.00 us dollars as of 2020 more than all the foreign direct investment in pakistan. since 1970 we can leaks round, or julian assange is now one step away from extradition to the u. s. as a london magistrate court has ruled in favor of the move. it's now up to britain's home secretary to confirm the decision which would c assange handed over to the u. s. where he faces up to 175 years in prison on espionage charges. were he leeks editor and chief christian provinces says the latest ruling could essentially amount to a death sentence for assange. 16 months ago this port ida

answered. i didn't know songs would mean a risk to his life that it would be equal to a death sentence. not his court has been ordered will issue that done sentence. that is what happened here today. not julians alive is in the hands are pretty bottle and borders. johnson. they need to do the writing. you need to make sure they do the right thing. they have the power to step is to end this to save a man's life and stop this attack on the freedom of the press. julian, the sanchez adamantly and repeatedly denied the allegations against him. the london court had earlier admitted that assange might face harsh treatment in american costly. he got reactions from carlos pay, border alberta. i was sanchez, lawyer in ecuador, who, which previously gave him asylum. and international journalist richard met hurst

ave said that there's been a clear bias to resolve the case in favor of the us. this is very, i always say political political trial honestly, given a pretty patel's policies. you know, i, i don't, i don't really hold out much hope for sancho because it's just last year where she was trying to make recommendations that journalists in the u. k. be imprisoned for up to 14 years for you know, publishing government secrets, things that embarrassed 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, she has the power in her hands right now, as does lawrence johnson to take a stance for press freedoms to show that the u. k is not working at the past of the united states. and, and to stop a, you know, a journalist being shipped off to face 2 centuries in jail, but a few brazier is going needle. the united states has provided some guarantees to the british supreme court. but from our point of view, there insufficient that came off to a court of previous instance, refused extradition. the guarantees do not employ any real control, and in other similar cases, such guarantees have not been respected. nevertheless,

they became the main argument on the basis of which the supreme court agreed to the extradition and accepted the u. s. appeal. we have until may 18th, to submit our arguments for consideration to the interior minister, pretty patel. after that certain procedures for repealing the verdict follow and this also has to do with the decision on next tradition. the last instance will be the european court of human rights. so as you can see for yourself the means for an appeal, a gradually being exhausted, and the deadlines are coming to an end. there is a clear intention to continue this case against assange and eventually make a decision in favor of the united states or whatever it is obvious that this case will lead to a conflict of enormous proportions in the political arena. and in the field of human rights protection on behalf of the art international team. thanks a lot for watching. and we hope you have a great day. ah,

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you have to see how this thing becomes the advocate, an engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground. ah, north atlantic alliance, reconnaissance aircraft wolf shipped, cruising close to russia's borders, have become commonplace ah, along with military hardware redeployment and large scale exercises. nato has also developed its offensive capability near the russian borders. mm.

every year a russian backed resolution is submitted to the un against the glorification of not system the outcome is always the same view as votes against it. and in recent years with ukrainian backing with typically the u. abstains. ah, but with most countries voting in favor, the document is accepted. but it's only advisory lou meter causing a writer in history professor with the american university in washington summarizes the usa official position. mm. united states says that we're not going to prevent freedom of speech. the united states as that even neo nazis, have the right to speak and to assemble the german journalist and filmmaker mark,

but all my sees the ukrainian and u. s. positions differently. that certainly i'm like on our knee. my knee does torn, he's out of it for a name or game car, you know, shown garnish via the building damage for all time vasey zips tune and the mountain western world generally considers hitler's naziism to be thing a typical, if you are a fan democracies the fear is, doctrinal, superior and inferior races, rather appeared out of thin air in europe due to an unlucky turn of events, a pre requisites for it had never existed before. but here's the pre world war, ma'am. the u. k. ad colonies in africa, india, china. the commonwealth of australia, asia, north and south america.