to my department, to me at least 5 civilians, a dead and $23.00 injured to children among them off the ukrainian forces to shout the city of don. yes. with fixed walk it's according to the local health authority . if you say that 4 people died in an initial block with washington's blessing, poland is pausing to take over weston ukraine, under the pretext of protecting it from russia. that's according to the russian foreign intelligence. the prediction from germany, where a form of government ministers saves the world, is on the verge of the largest famine in human history. as a product that's product prices continue to speak. lee, right, the

very welcome. this is on the international with the latest news. thanks for joining us. of the city of don. yes, has been shown by ukrainian forces, according to local authorities with at least 5 people reported dead warning. you may find the following images disturbing. they don't, us health ministry say 23 civilians were injured with 2 children, suffering moderate wounds. authorities say 4 people were killed on the spartans, one passenger side on the way to hospital at a fixed rockets reported to have landed on the city. meanwhile, the conflicts continues to spill over the border into russia, where at defense systems have reportedly intercepted the ukrainian ballistic missiles, fired into the belgrade region. this on verified the amateur, which appears to show the projectile is being shot down. some of the 1st time ukrainian target has been destroyed by russian ad defense systems. people on the ground in the belgrade region reported at least 3 loud blasts on se,

poland, on the us, the most vocal opponents of russia's offensive in ukraine had been discussing the polish annexation of what was so claims to be its historical possession territory. that used to occupy and west in ukraine, as from the russian foreign intelligence chief, according to information received by russia's foreign intelligence service, washington and warsaw are working on plans to establish tight polish, military and political control over so called historical positions in ukraine. the, according to this report from russian intelligence, the stage, one of this plan would involve deploying polish peace keepers to western ukraine under the pretext of defending the country from russian aggression. that's despite the fact that this area would be the least likely to see any sort of confrontations with russian forces. warsaw, its actual objective, would apparently be to capture strategic facilities from ukraine's national guard and then to create

a pro poland counterbalance to the countries. nationalist forces with the help of ukrainian elites that are friendly to poland. it's also said that war saw would believe that this would lead to ukraine splitting apart, which would give these polish peacekeepers the opportunity to take advantage of the situation of harley. warsaw is looking to get its hands on these territorial claims in ukraine that it made all the way back in world war one. the question here then is why in the world would poland, all of the sudden decide to rehash these territorial claims that were made around a century ago? well, russia says that it's because polish colonial app aspirations have resurfaced in the country and we have what we've also heard that washington is actually working with poland to rally western countries that are in favor of this idea. but so far, there haven't been any takers that may have pets in spec, of how russia would respond to any foreign interference in the conflict to these new revelations point to a further escalation. d, thank putin made actually a lot of very important points with regard to the conflict and ukraine. and one of

the most significant ones was no doubt his promise to the west. that if western countries interfere in russia's affairs, there will be a lightening response to that. it was named it if someone from outside decides to interfere in the ongoing operation and will post strategic threats on accept to russia. they should know that our response, they'll follow at a lightening speed. we have all the tools which no one else can now boast off. i'd like to stress that all the toss of our military operation in don't bass and ukraine will be successfully tackled for sure. our soldiers have managed to avert a real danger looming over russia. now with that statement in mind, poland is also planning military exercises to take place at the beginning of may. at the same time, warsaw is telling its citizens not to take pictures or videos of any troop movements. so it is definitely quite a coincidence that these military exercises are going to be taking place shortly after we got this information from russian intelligence and potent statements about basically staying out of rushes affairs, political science and history like chair,

lecture i, john laughlin, faith, poland, possible involvement in ukraine could lead to a breakup of the embattled country. these territories particularly evolve and rovner were and volleying, were taken from poland off to the 2nd world war. so it's not a secret for anyone that poland would in an ideal world like to have them back. poland is not the only country that last territory to ukraine after the 2nd world war, hungary also lost territory around the town of who's got old and a. i and frankly, so did romania. so this move, if it happened, would quite possibly trigger offer a chain reaction with various countries claiming pulse of ukraine. and if that happened, yes, the country would then stay facto cease to exist. but as i say, it would cut a lot of the legitimacy, the term, poland, and the other nato states claim for themselves if they were to move in, in this way. as in the back to ground as mary l. pole where normal life seems to be

returning. following weeks of intense vi thing locals have been flocking to the streets in an effort to restock. commerce is the sound of gunfire, and explosions slowly declines with rushes. construct ministry, thank it will provide all the necessary health mario pl needs with bow to the local man who say the city is starting to revival, that the situation remains far from peaceful which is cuba. just of course, the fighting is practically over already. we have 2 hospitals working in the city, an intensive care unit, and, and emergency unit school number. 53 is open with more than 700 students. plethora . so what are the biggest problems to day? so there's no mobile connection. without such connection, you could be looking for a person for 2 to 3 hours, even though they're already on their way on assignment. that is very complicated. oh, how dangerous so safe is it around here? now, i cannot say that it is completely safe,

as long as there is more shilling in recent days, there been more attacks on the left side of the river and closer to the city center . the threat is still present and there are still enemy positions inside the as of style factory or senior correspondent, more at dance. the f has been seeing the up 10 in fortunes for himself to see of mary uncle is with her rule. malice can see people on the street 3 homo picked up again. street the traders in school that was free, bringing food from surrounding areas. obviously there's a lot more that needs to be done to bring the city back to what it was. good, as you can hear, there is no more need for body arm and helmet. no gun fall. expose and the city of mario full is slowly, regardless of thought and water, uses the situation. the city has already become better, fewer gunshots can be heard,

but it is still scary to live on the upper floors because you can hear those gunshots more clearly during the night. in the daytime. it's calm, but i have to tell you, it is in comparable now. to what was happening 10 days ago. no one is alisha love houses, residential buildings. they're the main problem at the moment. i'm living in a basement for the 2nd month now. unable to move out. my house was on the seat is outskirts. there are only rooms there now. for 5 hours, we didn't hear a single shot or blast at the heart of the city, the vast as of steel, industrial complex. negotiations are underweighed daily between russia and representatives, and the remaining ukrainian nationalists besieged and side people no longer wish to wait. they want to resume their lives now, however, they can. this is valentina. she is $81.00 death and disabled. she

has chosen to return to her burned out apartment. there are no doors or windows, just scorched concrete. but these her home from you here. what can i do? look well if, what can i do? this is not how it should be, mary, you, bob's new authorities, have promised that the city will be rebuild. the power water and gas would soon flow again. and look by where you will, a city of half a 1000000 once again become the gym, a v as off c. or i guess the a r t from barry you pull. countries across the globe are experiencing a steep rise and product prices with the spike and the energy thank to being the highest in 50 years. as, according to a new report from the world bank and food insecurity in africa is another grim full cost from experts. the constant is that to lose an unprecedented $11000000000.00 worth of food supplies, according to the african development bank. already the price of wheat has gone up

about 60 percent. mays and other grains will also be affected. there may be a fertilizer crisis, as there would be about a 2000000 metric ton deficit. and that will affect food production by about 20 percent. the african development banks president is also warned of the potential for the hunger crisis in the continent to become one of the worst in the world. ukraine and russia have traditionally supplied around 30 percent of global wheat exports. also, moscow has restricted fertilizer exports for a number of countries. auntie was hit by sanctions. that may only exacerbate the problem with the world bank, saying the current high prices could remain for years. meanwhile, brazil's president has said that the countries or agricultural industry won't survive without russian fertilizers. that's off to the world trade organization called on brazil to increase its food exports. western sanctions on russia have hindered fertilizer shipments from the country dramatically impacting farming

around the globe. as russia has traditionally been the world's largest fertilizer producer, we heard from a brazilian journalist to say that sustaining agricultural production in the country without russian fertilizes would mean skyrocketing costs. the most important group of base in brazil in brazil, economy about sanctions against these around for to live there's no. busy doubt about that it represents around 38 percent of all brazilian conception of fertilizers without importation off reference for to laser. there will be a huge probably will be a huge freezing course for breathing agricultural prediction. they may and maybe even lead to laws of pro in some cases, i think suggest for the lasers a very difficult if it's possible to find it's going to be with much

higher prices for my gym and agriculture minister mateo spinning guy isn't optimistic either unsafe the current restrictions against russian transport services could lead to one of the worlds was to international famines and history as he shot dimansky investigate o cloud zone, but the feels why seeds should have been clunky, remain empty. of course, ukraine. the consequences for global food supplies could be catastrophic. this crisis could throw up to 1700000000 people over one 5th of humanity into poverty, destitution and hunger on a scale not seen in decades. ukrainian, russia on known as the bread basket countries they are which in food, all soil, it feed people across the world between the account to something like 30 percent of

the world production. we can barley alone affect the pool. cool, and more than hall for sunflower oil prices are already increasing. there are difficulties finding some basic items, but there are warnings that there is far worse yet to come. the conflict is causing suffering far beyond its borders, including through the twin impact of rising food in energy cost. this is exacerbating pre existing hunger crises for many countries, including in the horn of africa, this a hell in the middle east, which will threaten political stability if we don't act fast. the threat of famine will increase for millions of people who has been clear that these problems have been cause falling, russia. the books, foreign policy chief is said that it is russian soldiers sewing forms in fields or preventing ships leaving ports of the cause, any issues, all those including you and organizations have counted that thing. the biggest

issue facing food supplies, all the sanctions imposed by the west supply chain and logistical disruptions on ukrainian or russian grain and oil. see production as well as restrictions on russia's exports will have significant impacts on food security. as i told the u. n . secretary general sanctions or a double edged sword, as he is grown, that this conflict could become entrenched. the concerns about farming and cries is likely to become rooted even deeper. and just the way things the more military weaponry, there are some that are questioning whether this could fertilize the war and help food insecurity. grow the, the sending of weapons to ukraine. there's only one thing. it's lengthened. the war, every weapon arrives lengthened by some amount,

days, a weeks and months. and so the situation is untenable, and this is a situation that arose from western interference, particularly american interference in ukraine. the sanctions that are being applied and from the west and the weapons that are being sent to from the west, to ukraine, to prolong the war. putting the rest of the world, particularly developing countries that have absolutely nothing to do with this situation at risk, they will pay the of the higher price in the long run. add to that the bands on russian oil causing global spikes in energy cost that increasing pressure on costs. overall, something that i'm concerned about is that sooner or later, many of the populations in europe will start to ask questions of their government,

governments and the sanctions. they're applying to russia on which are causing energy prices, not just food prices, and the 2 are often related because higher energy prices cause automatically caused food prices to increase because shipping costs increase, italian appointed prime minister mario draggy, who, who i would like to stress was not elected has asked italians to limit the air conditioning their thermostat to 25 degrees in the air conditioning and 19 degrees for the heating in order to reduce reliance on natural gas, which a lot of which comes from russia. so now you have, these shall we call that will stop politics sooner or later, just as happened with the vaccine situation and the cold with in the past 2 years, we're going to see protests and, but this will affect more people than the vaccines. the bank is also the food

shortage space following the world could be a tax to be on top of a catastrophe. one that could drive tens of millions to the edge of famine, geology, minsky. ot see paris. well, the u. s. came to be sticking to the un charter, the chinese foreign ministry states that american actions historically say absolutely the opposite is the u. s. claims to respect human rights. but the wars of aggression launched by the us and its allies in countries including afghanistan and iraq killed over 300000 civilians and made over 26000000 people refugees. yet no one is held accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. the u. s. even announced sanctions on the international criminal court, which would investigate the war crimes of the u. s. military. china has also condemned western interference and its internal affairs. joseph gregory mahoney,

a professor of politics and international relations beneath the u. s. has failed to improve the human rights situation in iraq and the dentist on where it has waged was person. he was promoted style, a democracy as the universal gold standard of governance and denigrates other forms including other forms of democracy as illegitimate. second, it has recently used it standard of democracy to try to create alliances between countries. it recognizes as being democratically legitimate to oppose those countries. it considers threats to its ha gemini. 3rd, it has a long history of intervening and the politics of other countries, both democratic and non democratic friend and foe alike. indeed, the u. s. has found it's relatively simple to use its economic power. it's military power and had soft power to influence elections and their outcomes that he considers positive for you as interest. and we've seen this in many places, including for example, the united kingdom, where the u. s. intervene in support,

a brick set forth on human rights. the u. s. justified its wars in afghanistan and iraq as efforts to improve human rights. but in both cases, we must recall the direct historical world us had in bringing the taliban to power and then allowing them to regain power after 20 years of occupied destruction. further, we also have to recall the substantial support the u. s. gave saddam hussein to wage war against iran and to suppress his own people before deciding to punish him for the same when american interest shifted. naked chief has extended warranty co that warm welcome to finland and sweden with both countries. i accession to the us led to military block despite objections from russia, which has warned, against an expansion at the western alliance on board us. we are involved with the siemens written on the it's their decision. but if they decide to apply for financing will be warmly welcomed,

unexpected process to go quickly. what is the uncertainty about filmed on an sweden's right to choose thrown off? because this is for the men to about the rental, every nation in europe to decide its own future. however, some nathan members down quite agree with you in stoughton. beg, the president of croatia says the alliance is provoking russia by inviting his european neighbors to join the block. to go a step further and drag finland, which is 50 kilometers from st. petersburg into that, i think is dangerous quackery. however, we cannot say no for us. finland is more important than croatia and the issue of the croatians in bosnia and herzegovina. as far as i'm concerned, let them join nato. let them stab an angry bear in the eye with a pen. the balkan, as she mentioned by croatia as president, concerns that countries long running political disputes with neighboring both near and hertz. they go because convenor corporation,

politicians say they should be allowed to take time positions in the polls, the government to fight against what they call the discrimination of probations. then croatia is already a nato member. well, both near and it's a good enough. it's also reaching for accession to the blog. let's discuss this topic with them. all right, to serbian american german journalists with the knowledge now, thank you for joining us on the program. what do you make of the geopolitical ramifications of the accession of finland and sweden to nato? well, 1st of all, i think it's a remarkably stupid move and i'll be right. really frank. i mean sweden and finland neutrality, especially finland after the cold war has been a huge asset to both countries in sweden managed to stay out of world war 2 and by agreeing to be neutral. afterwards, finland avoid being dragged into the cold war. and yet they're willing to throw all of that away, all of those decades of remarkable successes on the world stage and join nato at the point where the alliance is trying to take on the rest of the world.

really and not just russia. and it's about a boggles the mind. it's like joining the axis in 1944. so what i'll take on the creation, president's comments that he suggests the nato is demonstrating double standards when it comes to dealing with both countries as opposed to some of rushes neighbors . well, i'll be asleep when he feels a little bit like the proverbial neglected step child. in this instance, curly creation made a big deal out of joining nato some years back. and then nothing happened and they keep, you know, both that in the membership they were hoping to make progress. but it hasn't. he's basically try and say ok, well, you know, because we're a member and we technically have vito rights. we're going to use that to leverage our political position and get this issue resolved. because we've been trying and the other side in bosnia, the bosnian muslims are basically refusing to negotiate because they feel they have the support of the you and the us and belong to the president a lot of issues as well as look, you know, if you want us to approve this then,

you know, do something for us for once. and i can't really say that he doesn't have a point being from bosnia myself and knowing the politics behind this whole thing. but it's, it remains to be seen how washington and brussels. busy in berlin, for that matter will react. so what's your opinion on nathan's role in helping to resolve the political space between croatia and bosnia and herzegovina? what nato shouldn't have any. it's partly made was fault that bosnia is a war wasn't resolved, but remained frozen. it's just that had had the country's holding up natal, specifically the u. s. held up their end of the bargain and the and helped the people in boston. you negotiate in good faith as opposed to giving a carte blanche to one of the sides kind of like what they're doing and ukraine, this problem would have been result years ago. but the problem, the issue in bosnia specifically is that the cro ads are not getting represented properly in the central government because the boss muslims feel like they don't

have to make any concessions because they have support from washington no matter what they do. creation president, it says that an inviting finished in sweden to join nato with a quote stop in the eye of an angry bear was you'll take last statement and how do you expect russia to react? i think russia has communicated quite clearly to both helsinki and stock home that what they're doing is a provocation and will be dealt with accordingly. i honestly don't know what those governments are thinking. are they prepared to, to fight rush? are they prepared for hostile relations? i don't know, i hope that this doesn't lead to a broader war because literally nobody in the world needs it. but again, abandoning neutrality after decades of successfully not being involved in, in your european conflicts and in this transatlantic, her falafel is just remarkably stupid move. i would even go so far as to call it in the arctic because i do work for rush report, ministry, so i could be direct. maybe i am a lead chair,

serbian american journalist. thank you very much for your time. as washington, faith is running out of financing to provide here with new weaponry. joe biden has suggested legalizing the confiscation and selling of russian property in the us to then sends the money to ukraine. that will enhance our underlying efforts to accommodate the russian oligarchy, and make sure we take their take their, their, it'll be gotten gauge, we're going to accommodate them. we're going to cesar yards, luxury homes and other it will be got engaged of prudence cryptography. yeah. cryptography club, the guys who are the club. ta chrissy, producer, bad guys of more details. let's bring in all rachel blevins. rachel, good to see you. could you just talk us through the main points of jo biden's statement that sure your president biden spoke earlier,

and he is now calling on congress to approve 33000000000 dollars and funding for ukraine. about 20000000000 of that would go directly as military assistance. and during the speech that he gave, he referred to this as a small price to pay. and he also says that this is the way for the american people to do their part with us involvement. and a conflict that they never voted for it to begin with. but at the same time, biden is also calling for russian individuals to do their part apparently has the white house now called on congress to give them new sweeping powers. do not only seize assets from russian individuals, but also to them. so those assets saying that they will give the proceeds to ukraine as a new form of assistance. now, when it comes to the terms of exactly what they're asking for, everything right now is incredibly broad. they use terms like money laundering and corrupt dealings to say what new assets they would see. but at the same time,

they leave a lot of room for decisions on their end as to how they would move forward. now we don't know exactly how congress will approach this, but at the same time, this does come as there are a number of countries. it in the past have been very reliant on heavy heavy in the united states, such as a country like afghanistan, they receive billions of dollars in u. s. h for years only to be cut off last year after their us supported government fall apart and the taliban came sweeping back to power. and the u. s. came in and froze $7000000000.00 worth of assets creating a huge humanitarian crisis in their country. so there is a lot at stake here, as the u. s. shows that they are more than willing to move forward with tens of billions of dollars in aid, as long as they agree with the government that's empower. and as biden refers to that, a small price to pay here. so thank you for those details on se rachel blevins.

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