a with the latest reports from this southern ukrainian port city of odessa say several rockets have hit the local military infrastructure there. 3 people reported to coming up today, the u. n. c. it has not documented patterns that i'm going to genocide in ukraine. country to the repeated claims of western leaders. berlin explains its hesitancy in not sending heavy weapons to ukraine, saying it's because the risk of provoking world war 3 is too great about this further spits emerge in the nato alliance over their response to the conflict. on the destiny of the european union comes under the spotlight on something as friends

votes in the presidential election run off, but challenger marine la pen, promising to reform the block. if she with one minute past 6 in the evening here in moscow, this sort of day, wherever you're at catching the program from today at home or on the move. welcome to the news our on our local reports claim. several rockets have hit the ukrainian port city of odessa on verified video, posted online claims to show one flying over the city. the for this on verified footage is said to portray the destruction left after the stripes. report say 4 rockets targeted the cities military infrastructure. the one was reportedly shot done, hitting a residential building, 3 people are said to be dead, but again,

we're waiting clarity and balance. there's also allegations and it was a defective ukrainian anti aircraft missile that may have hit the house of a similar situation, helping them here earlier. it's train the rockets were rushing caliber class massage. moscow has yet to comment on the let's bring you to the neighboring region of her song. the russian defense ministry has released footage of a destroy ukrainian weapons store. the m o. d states ukrainian troops for using a school, a storage for a wide variety of weapons, including mortar bombs, thousands of rollins of munition, grenade launchers, portable empty or cross missile systems, and empty tank installations. and let's show you the ne core cough regional. the footage was released here of russian soldiers helping to de mine settlements at the request of locals, sapir units of beam clearing residential areas high sol plots and farm land. the

exclusive devices are then moved safely to a trench and destroyed using t n t charges. and something else to tell you by today it's been confirmed, one crew member was killed on another 27, remain missing. following the recent sinking of the russian flagship cruise or the mosque of russia claims a fire on board caused an explosion. ukraine sees it struck the ship with missiles, the russian defense ministry. how's express? condolences to the relatives of victims, surviving crew members being redeployed elsewhere in the navy. and let's turn attention out to mario. both many people in the city have decided to remain in their home time relying on humanitarian aid provided by russian and, and yet group public forces. for those unable to reach the distribution centers,

volunteers are operating on the ground ortiz from on cost revenue. his team are also helping, as well as assisting in the search for those missing relatives. the city of mario fall, as you can see, is almost completely devastated. and the people who used to live in those buildings on are forced to live in the basements, or may shift bomb shelters. we're trying well on a daily basis to deliver humanitarian aid like food to water, medicine, hygienic items. it's happening every single day. i go with also and people are coming up to me. and so they're asking to send her. there's no network here. they like medication. so they're asking me to send

a video messages to their loved ones in russia, in the ukraine, or in other places around the world. this woman that i'm about to speak with. she wants to record message for her sister. no, i was from my mom has been in poland for 2 years lately. she's been crying a lot because people who are coming there and showing our hands, we're not reporting on the victims. we might visit them so people didn't know anything. yes ma'am. sell my house and cried because she thought that neither me nor my kids were alive, but she is calmer now. she knows we're not dead. hello kids. i wanted to tell you that we're all alive and her staying in our flat, even though it was bright. we're now back from mario paul, back here in my hotel room in jeanette's, and as always, i received her many video messages from the residence there who want to let their loved ones all over the world. they want to let them know that they're okay. gotcha. all future media among causative has is that i bought

a new skill. would you believe she would be able to wash mammal with some of the while ago when you tell no palmer she would. yeah. but she was a beside lamar video. absolutely. yes. alex, such as english in an old sibling, the liquid or prospered leading them. what center, when you are it was weaker unit on that. a minor there will be sleeping better to night knowing that their moms are healthy, they're safe and sound. grandma calls for a party, the nest people republic. ah, can other story the bring you today? the russian defense ministry is claiming the u. s. is preparing, quote, provocations to accused moscow of using weapons of mass destruction in ukraine. and the reason supposedly to persuade states who did not follow washington's lead on sanctions to join the economic fight against russia. eustace palmer, this is katrina sanders calling the possible scenario for the development of the situation is to exert pressure on countries loyal and friendly to the russian

federation. including india and china, sharing with coercion to impose sanctions against our country. also nothing much astonished in moscow claims the u. s. could conduct the provocations at chemical and biological facilities and har cove and key of that, adds this apply to ukraine of antidote, to at toxic substances box. that theory, the russian defense ministry also say 2 days ago, a container with glass miles filled with chemicals was dropped from a drone. on the position of russian troops. was geopolitical military analyst and the indian army veteran colonel ro had. dev believes india is not a state that can be easily manipulated. it cannot be slid any mall. we had a country with the largest global market keeping the chinese outside the largest emerging market. and do you think the, the, the americans, or the germans or the french, or the russians, or the australians, or the museum and on a japanese,

or anybody can put a picture of an india what to do. and to say that something will happen and they will abuse actions of a chemical attack and india will big of you, i don't think so. you know, we are so naive in terms of a national interest that we for most b, 2, be guided by a propaganda. things can be stage, things can become door and venue. leave one side of the story out of the question that you are enforcing a propaganda for the world to believe. if you go to the media voted across it is a stack of nearly 8 people said media. what says the 21st and in that 20? yes. 10 percent of media like the media in india and other countries which don't have a site to favor, but the only broadcast what the see coming out. so it is really easy to create a situation. it is very easy to send and pick the situation and make it look like that. i should going western countries aren't just providing high grade military

equipment and weapons to ukraine. some of also bye key abs claim that rushes guilty, genocide dictator declares war and commit genocide, half a world away. i'm afraid when you look at what's happening in, in butcher the, the revelations that we're seeing from. what putin has done in, in ukraine, which, you know, doesn't look far short of genocide or to me, we don't know what is it possible to have negotiations was such a kind of an old conchee or, or it was such a kind of terrorist who would like to kill own people to make henderson against of ukrainians. a lot of these legal qualifications, crimes against humanity and genocide at the end of the day would be for a court of law to determine. but no, we have not documented patterns that could amount to genocide all the while more a weapons are heading to ukraine. u. s. president joe biden announced them thursday

of further $800000000.00 military aids that will include high with susan army vehicles to tow them on routes of thousands of runs of ammunition. and more than a 120 phoenix ghost tactical drones recently developed by the u. s refers while britain will send a further 100000000 pounds of military support, including more star strict anti aircraft, missiles of british shirt short re enter the fences or civil rights attorney. robert patio believes the west is using allegations of war crimes and genocide to justify increased weapon shipments to ukraine. sing prisons, zalinski ah, wanting a full court press. were western aid. i'm this when we started seeing these pushes for quote unquote, war crimes, crimes against humanity. just today, frozen body of mounts another $800000000.00 or $800000000.00 military directly to be ukraine. germany is backing this of all sitting more on missiles and bombs and tanks to the craniums are also seeing big $29.00 fighters being shipped there. so

the more that zalinski gets on western television and claims that they are under the threat of war crimes in the russian government, the more money being pushed down thing. we're near 3 or 3 trillion dollars from united states directly to those zalinski at this point in time. just a military aid that another i think $1500000.00 g mediterranean. so the end of the day, the same government, the both president trump and president bite and call when the will corrupt governments in the world is getting massive amounts, billions of robert adrian from the west. and this is why they keep pushing the story about war chronicle. very little evidence to back it up with something else, all not german liter left shows his facing increasing pressure over berlin's refusal to send heavy weapons to ukraine. the chancellor argues a confrontation with russia must be prevented while citing the rest of world war 3 . we must do everything possible to avoid a direct, military confrontation between nato in a highly armed superpower like russia,

a nuclear power. i am doing everything i can to prevent an escalation that leads to a 3rd world war. there should be no nuclear war. law must be planted, i ne, so member states aren't all reading from the same page when it comes to the response to the ukraine conflict. some states are refusing to follow the official line of the alliance, and as ortiz, maria finance, the reports are instead choosing to prioritize their own national interests. united and determined. this is how joe biden describes nater in its readiness to confront russia, our unity, who, our unity with our hours and partner in our unity with you, kind of people are sending the unmistakable message to prudent. he will never succeed, dominated, and occupying all the crime. he will not, that will not happen was sweden and finland intended to join the lions, nay to might seem to be getting as monolithic and strong as ever and ready for war,

which the u. s. that alliance is actively pushing for, according to fellow nate to member turkey. but following the nato foreign ministers meeting, we got the impression that there are those within the nato member states that want the war to continue and let russia get weaker. they don't care much about the situation in ukraine, and shortly after germany announced 8th will no longer send arms to ukraine either . while hungry is in no hurry to take sides. and as calling for peace talks, we still believe in the diplomatic solution. that is why we cherish and really respect the efforts of the president of turkey and the foreign minister of turkey to facilitate peace talks and to convince the parties to come to an agreement. because the sooner we come to a negotiated agreement, the sooner this war will end in, the less people will die. this is the most important issue for us. poland is down scaling its relations with hungary of budapest sans on ukraine with war. so also criticizing french president micron for his attempts to mediate peace. mister

president, micron, how many times have you negotiated with putin? what have you achieved? have you stopped any of the actions that have taken place all this at a time when europe is divided over how to approach and embargo on russian energy supplies and proposed e you deal to sanction russian oil and gas is up in the air of a disagreement among the unions, members, i can't give a date. as far as i know, there is no proposal on the table, but there are options on how best to do this. there is no unanimity on any of these proposals. meanwhile, baris johnson, his country is in the middle of its deepest energy crisis in years. a saying there is a realistic possibility that russia can win the war, even though his german counterpart has recently said that kremlin must be defeated . however, a london has gone even further threatening in nuclear strike against russia without the approval of nato allies. if weapons of mass destruction are used,

the u. k. reserves the right to strike back independently without consulting other nato countries. it's clear that h native country has its own interests and is not ready to neglect than for the sake of their lions. the idea of unity that joe biden is so into seems somewhat exaggerated. the question now is, will new members how bring native together or cause even more discord them on the block? moreover, nato's intention of enlargement is only stirring the pot thought is, according to political come to their gene, brick mall who believes pro american politicians in finland on sweden or pushing their countries directly into the arms of the alliance. the pressure we didn't need do we need you at least to apply a sanctions to crochet is very, very strong and very difficult to resist it. so and the day of the mystic. and i'm afraid that when you come to finland and sweden,

the pressure inside these guarantees to join, they do is a strong, most of the highly doubtful american. and there's very little the push it can do about it. i think what will happen in the long run is that the sanction we back tray on people of the union? but i don't think they will. they. she paused at the heavy weapons, we'd be either captured on these toys. they the russian army, but i don't think they're going to prevent me from sending a heavy weapons on another pillar of trans atlantic unity. the european union could be under threat this sunday when they 2nd on the size of round of the french presidential election is held. the result could be on thinkable for bustles, challenge, umbrella pen as promising a complete overhaul of french foreign policy and a radical shakeup of the year. her opponents incumbent president emanuel micron still has a firm lead according to the latest pulls his team. i've also been promoting these

campaign posters, which suggest france will have an alliance with russia if the penguins artie shaw dubin ski explores whether the tactic will succeed in putting millions off from voting for the right wing candidate. the 2022 presidential election is just about the 2 features that france faces. the choice of voters make here on sunday will have for wider reaching implications for the feature of the you project to. mat corn is a keen you are a file opening presents is image of an ever closer union. much a quote on your, i believe in europe, and i believe in the franco german relationship le pen has softened her anti you stance, but he's still adamant that she believes in putting france 1st. just with her stay . i want to stay in the european union. what i want deeply to have it modify to actually bring about a european alliance of nations. the changes she wants to make include

transformation of the european commission, giving french citizens priority for certain jobs and access to public goods and services. and she wants to include the change in treaty which allows the free movement of people and goods. so the idea that she could win is making many across the block shake in their boots, in a big to persuade the undecided voters that they feature is in trouble. you leaders are openly calling for the french to turn out for mack on the 2nd round of the french presidential election is not for us an election like the others. it is a choice between a democratic candidate who believes that france is stronger in a powerful and autonomous european union and a far right candidate, who openly sites with those who attack our freedom and our democracy. however, while some new leaders have voiced concerns, there are other european heads of state who would probably welcome

a le pen presidency or bon would probably welcome her from hungary other more conservative leaders. i think you would. you might see it in bracer as well. the, perhaps even poland, they're speaking more, were the values of their country rather than following blindly on what other brussels puts out. so you'll see countries coming together and not perhaps not on all issues, but on some issues, to provide a more stronger, a stronger voice. to counter brussels policies that are made that may not be in the interest of the european citizens can please lie. it's really hungary, poland, have all previous re elected years, skeptic, governments. but the idea that france, one of the original block members would shift in such a direction is the brussels be thinkable definitely could come to

a challenge for the euro. the european concept, the euro project here. but also on the data side, it could become a threat to the nato structure as well. so it could actually cause some fractures within the nail nato will. i meant to also you could see turnover across multiple countries. you may see changes occurring and as result a weakening of their, of their union of a whole concept under is another concern to le pen has said that she would look to block sanctions when it comes to russian energy, saying that it is the french who will end up paying the price of this b e u is already in a difficult stage when it comes to getting new and more restrictive sanctions put in place against moscow approved than these are agreements that have to be

unanimous across the u. l. append presidency would bolster support for leaders like hungary and victor albany, who has called this a red line. so how likely is this to happen? or the polls have seen macro on pulling ahead. this rare intervention by the leaders of germany, spain and portugal shows that they are worried that she still has a short of winning france and therefore the european union is at a crossroads. the choice of which turning to take is simply too close for some for complaint. charlotte deven sky r t. paris 23 years ago today, nato forces bomb the headquarters of serbia's main broadcaster r t. s. 16 civilians were killed and another 16 reentered canadian serbian film director borrowers muller gorski has been looking back out the tonic anniversary.

on this day, in 1999 nato bombing serbia's public broadcaster radio television, serbia nieto justified the attack by saying r t, as was a part of slow. but i'm a low so much is war propaganda, which is why they killed 16 workers, a makeup artist, technicians, artists, and security staff. was this a legitimate military target or a war cry? think why was serbia bombed in the 1st place? the u. s. want to serbia to give up its southern province of kosovo, where guerrilla groups are waging a war of secession. us envoy to yugoslavia richard holbrooke, made it clear to yugoslav, president slow, but i'm low so much. what would happen if milosevic fail to accept the american's

offer a sat in that big room in the palace? and i said to him, you understand that if our delegation leaves here today, and you haven't changed your position, that the consequence will be the beginning within a few hours of very swift, severe and sustained aerial attack by nato forces american diplomacy. and while much of the west was convinced that by their propaganda machine, that bombing serbia was the only way to stop the serbian counterinsurgency in kosovo. the bombing of the national tv station polarized public opinion a report by amnesty international said nato had violated international law by targeting areas where civilians were certain to be killed and added that the bombing of the rti us building quote was a deliberate attack on a civilian object and as such, constitutes a war crime and quote noam chomsky called the bombing of art. yes, an act of terrorism made

a commander wesley clark tried to downplay what they had done. there were actually 6 people who were killed. i recall, i recall sex 7, i know the family. i mean think about it. this wasn't an attack on some tv tower in the middle of nowhere with nobody working there. this was the bombing of the state television headquarters in a heavily populated urban area in serbia. as capital belgrade was killing innocent people who are working the night shift, if that's not a war crime, what is clearly the goal was instigated terror because r t s resumed its programming less than 24 hours later from a secret location. can you imagine what it was like for the people working there, knowing what had happened for their colleagues knowing they might be next isn't, that's a goal of terrorism. this wasn't a one off thing. any people don't know if it's a state television building in the major serbian city of nova side was also hit by nato on may. 3rd 1999.

the bombing happened on world press freedom day and that tv building was bombed a whopping 5 times. nobody was held accountable for the attack, but it reminds us of the alternative to press freedom in the modern world, right of everyone to hear a different opinion before it was bombed. r t s allowed foreign journalists to report from r t. s. a studios, some of those foreign journalists supported the bombing nato, didn't give r t s the right to disagree with the bombing of their own country. i say we hear everyone and decide for ourselves. nato showed directly attack russian cities. that's the fame of a former sweeter step amount is also work for the planting. consult, think can organization, with close ties to the military alliance. my humble advice to nato would be,

give all the arms you can do. ukraine. opened the black seaports of ukraine for normal shipping bomb relevant russian cities, preventively to make sure that putin does not use chemical arms or nukes wake up. we are at this stage, although tweets since been deleted. so unders oslander call to bomb russia, appears to be at odds with his own diplomatic record as well. in the 1900 a work does a senior adviser to the russian government under then president boris yeltsin. and the swede also has experience in ukraine. he was appointed to the supervisory board of one of the major bikes in 2016 west. when 7 guthridge believes the tweet revealed a lot about the views of political leads in the west. these calls are above everything dangerous. they are irresponsible and the they are a thing a lot about the state of spirits in the,

among the political ha wessa, especially about the we are speaking about the elite. ah, because at what i see here is this peroration, i don't expect things to think his whole series the at this phase, but it certainly sounds volumes about the way that people that some people in nato are thinking this faith. and the whole course reminds me and everybody and say not only in serbia, but in the countries out of for me with la via over a brutally colonial approach. doors us one, the law is calling for is actually war crimes against civilians. ah, no social media on the big tech is in desperate need of more regular, a tory oversight. at least that's the view of former u. s. president barack obama. in a speech at stanford university,

he warn misinformation is threatening democracy around the world. are more of us search and social media platforms aren't just our window into the internet. they serve as our primary source of news and information. no one tells us that the window is blurred, subject to unseen distortions and subtle manipulations. however, barack obama, his speech was criticized after he was introduced by former u. s. diplomat, michael mcfall, who himself has been accused of misinformation on multiple occasions. welcome everyone to the keynote address for a conference today called challenges to democracy in the digital information realm . yes, i am michael mcfall. the disinformation expert chosen by the stanford spooks and to to asterisk, introduce obama. the historical record is clear, hitler killed millions of germans. we treated our parts of an inaccurate statement

made last night by former ambassador michael mac full without attribution, and we regret doing so. we've since removed the tweet was ourselves. the latest gallop poll on trust in the media is an old time low, but just 14 percent of americans believing what's news reporters helped to say. the c o all the cozy dot tv streaming platform. nicholas for winters, believe trust has been eroded in the media due to their increasing censorship. but i think it's very indicative of how the political culture in the united states is changing. what you're saying is that the american regime is completely clamping down on any kind of political descent in the country. i think there's a big division in the united states and in europe. i think that americans and europeans are waking up to the fact that war with russia is not in our interest. conflicts with russia in ukraine or elsewhere is not in the interest of the united states, germany and france, the united kingdom. and i think that the westerners are tired of paying for this

conflict or tired of paying for these wars. there is virtually no representation of the russian position in american media. and that is not by chance. that's not a coincidence. when you look at american legacy media and american social media, they have made a concerted effort to block out any alternative narrative to that which is being pushed by the state department. the d o d, the white house made. and basically they've created a media ecosystem where it's impossible to challenge the claims of the government. and it's pretty ironic. you know, they say that russia is this police state of russia. are the propagandists. but it's america, it's completely clamped down on anything that isn't american propaganda online or on television, radio or branch, the american until agencies in the american state department, they are, i think you could say the biggest purveyors of misinformation or dis, information in the entire world. and of course, latimer said, i think earlier in the.