ah, ah, india prime ministers, european tour concludes with an a render moody staying neutral in the ukraine conflict, despite the waste, pressing new delhi to pick sides. meanwhile, the russian military has announced a pause and australia teeth at the office. don't plan to marry yoko promising to open a new monitor in corridor for civilians. and the unity is put to the taste of a plan for a total ban on russian oil by the end of the year. with cervical warning, it will destroy the blocks economy. with hello and welcome to our international. you're coming, we're coming to live from our studios here in moscow and policy. and i'll be with

you for the next 30 minutes. we stop at the latest from the ukranian conflicts, the russian defense ministry has announced the opening of humanitarian corridors. one more time for civilians from the as office will still plant in mario pl. it will be open for 3 days, starting at 8 am. today. our facilities will be stopped during this time. the united nations has been helping with the evacuation of civilians from the site and says more than a 100 have now left the plant. people have been taken to nearby villages, indian prime minister and arrange for moody has met with emanuel crohn on the final leg of his diplomatic tour of europe. although india's neutrality on the warn, ukraine has come in for repeated scrutiny. mowdy received a warm welcome becoming the 1st leader to have a face to face meeting with the french president since his re election. with more in the bilateral talks his charlotte to pinsky. in this prime minister ended his european tor here in paris meeting with president emmanuel mack on the 2

leaders were of course discussing the war in ukraine. the lease a saying that the objective was to continue dialogue with new delhi to insist the consequences of the war on the international order well beyond the european union and also in asia. now, india's neutrality under the conflict in ukraine has come under intense and repeated criticism and scrutiny from other countries. it, of course, abstained un boats. and despite the efforts of the you this week, moody has not been seemingly convinced that he should be condemning russia's actions. moody has continued to cool for ceasefire and talks between russia and ukraine, saying that this in only this is the way to resolve the crisis. now,

while india sees russia is being a vital partner, let's not forget that moscow is a major supplier of arms. she deli, it is also said that it believes that no country would emerge victorious from this conflict. in fact, morning that all will suffer losses and that there would be no serious impact on developing and poor countries as a result. and it seems, despite the very big differences over ukraine, macula, moody, we're least able to put those aside to discuss some other issues the idea of the meeting to aimed at and deepening the franco indian strategic partnership. the 2 leaders are certainly very comfortable with each other and have repeatedly described each other as being friends. now, france is also keen. it seems to be getting in on that idea of selling weapons to india. with the elisa saying that france wants to help the indians to diversify

their supplies. french diplomacy perhaps using your carrot and stick approach here as it also added the i to wasn't to put indians in an impasse. busy but to perhaps offer them solutions such deals will no doubt be welcome on both sides. but regardless, it is pretty clear that moody is likely to continue his policy of neutrality. overt ukraine, believing perhaps in just keeping all his countries options open. geopolitical analysts, good with share, does not believe that india will bow to western pressure to change at stance on the ukrainian conflict on anything else. mr. macaroni last monday. very well. what did you bring? what is his current policy for 40? so nobody can, i should raise the primary stuff like that in there will be to had people lot of

support in india, new belize, the way to the bank in front of the pressures. because i believe in the freedom of foreign policy as well as the read them also policy. and what is it, what these bring in the do? what if things is right in the i will go what it came to right, was to blish priest in the wall. i put it into mario, pull now where the russian military has announced a port in hostilities at the awful plant. they have also promised to open a new humanity in commodore for 3 days straight for civilians were sheltering at the sight earlier, more than a 100 locals where the quarterly evacuated from the plant. additionally, moscow claims militants and the plant had attempted to use a recency fire to the group that were prevented from doing so by russian forces. while the russian defense minister claims the situation in the city is now under

control. this is virginia here, in accordance to the order of the commander in chief, the remaining militants and the eyes of tall industrial plants are firmly blocked in along the entire perimeter of the territory. several offers made to the nationalists to release civilians and laid down their weapons along with guarantees of safety and dignified treatment are in accordance with international law where was nor if we continue our attempts to persuade them, no you. meanwhile, the criminal has said there's been a little progress and peace talks of ukraine due to what it claims is kids inconsistent position on the negotiations process. with more details, here's ortiz where we have a national april, 15th hays, when moscow sent its proposals for a peace agreement to key of 3 weeks on no answer has yet been received. russia's foreign ministry says crumbling a's war and a lot about the progress of peace talks between the 2 countries, or rather, the lack of any dynamic. this is how the president's spokesperson. dmitri preschool

describes the processes he doubts, they could be productive outcome if things stay the way they are right now. while school has never refused negotiations with key of on the opposite has always been pushing for talks. key of has formerly agreed, but the statements harsh and controversial that we hear from the ukrainian capital did not help and actually show a little bit different approach. secretary of ukraine's national security and defense council called on russia to surrender as soon as possible to minimize losses. and in no peace talks are possible at this point. as with the west, help ukraine will when he of regimes chief military speaker has also made it clear only because we to lation that's talking about russia. of course, he has intelligence officials went even further saying russia would have to give part of its territories to ukraine. and other countries,

so it seems peace talks is something that this suffering region needs urgently. but not everybody agrees and not everybody is interested in that reef notion a hottie from logan's you countries have faced a tough challenge to their unity in agreeing to the proposed plan on banding. russian oil hungry in slovakia who both voiced their objections were presented with an extra year to pay. but, but to slavish, says that when work this is unfortunately not enough. we are expecting at least 3 years. this will destroy our european economy. so that here is almost fully dependent on russian oil and hungary together with slovakia, being so reliant on russian oil raised major objections to the ban proposal from the european commission and say they may not be able to support the sanctions package. the italian prime minister maria druggy, called for the you to abandon the unanimous approach to foreign policy. instead,

he supports a move towards pragmatic federalism to better deal with a security humanitarian energy and economic crisis in one bill shall grow if we must go beyond the principle of unanimity ridge, which gives rise to an inter governmental logic of clashing veto and move towards decision is taken by a qualified majority, which is you only praise. but italian journalist and historian angela dorothy fears pragmatic federalism would only lead the you down a path of disunion. dorsey has been disappointed by the coverage of the ukrainian conflict in the western media, including in his home country of italy, and as even refuse to continue cooperating with the major national newspaper le stumper. hey, so i said i'm given so that this decision could usher and the end of the view because the principle of anonymity only is one of the pillars of the blog. so it's dangerous and such a decision can have negative consequences by the union could transform into disuse . your ag, i believe, is the idea to switch to the principal of the majority,

gets their way. those nations oppose will take a different stance from the rest of the union, and thus it will trigger serious crisis which could foreshadow leanne if she did him also. in fact, today to states her dominant within the year, france and germany even without angle america, either with the outbreak of the warning crane, these countries try to react an irrational fashion. whereas edaly took a hard line position in relation to russia. it's frustrating, read the idea of sending more arms to ukraine doesn't facilitate the to say sions of the warranty. great piece of ukraine should now be the principal objective. steve, if we provide arms to ukraine, it will keep the war go away. maybe just contributes to extending suffering, he devastation. so it is also a step which puts us against russia big and then we shouldn't be surprised why russia would take a hostile step against us. we should act as mediators the favorite diplomacy, done god middle grade. meanwhile, in a speech, during

a meeting of the opec class group of natal oil producers, the secretary general reported, he says that there is no spare capacity to replace russia supplies. dashing brussels hopes of a fast transition. russian oil and other liquid exports account for more than $7000000.00 barrels each day. and in another update, the national president has find a decree. introduce inc, but tele acreage economic measures as a response to western sanctions than you document vans, trading with individuals and entities from so called him and friendly countries and also for a certain will materials to be exported to those states. we discussed the issue with the founder of an international strategic energy consulting thing. i should talk of measuring whether they should remember state had a certain amount of land to do. now. clearly the political messaging is that, you know, we're all together in this like not. and indeed they should be, i mean, you know, what happened is absolutely costly and, you know, it is the last thing you,

no one expects. the policymakers have appeared to have become that decision that you know, that costs will be ball and europe appears to be prepared to pay the price. but it is a very difficult situation. one really has to look at the final investment decisions that i've been reading every day, which i've not been given the prevailing uncertainty. good, good logic strength by confusing or mix signaling from the honest community. well, the next new bottles will come from surely people are there on the stuff, the guy and a few other places where, you know, supplies likely to come up. the question is going to be sufficient enough. meanwhile, fuel prices in the us continue to skyrocket. and that's despite efforts from the biden administration to tackle crisis, the u. s. president plains quote, putin's war of choice for washington's economic woes. although the crippling factions placed on moscow have certainly dealt a blow back. and you can watch how they are affecting the cost of living and more

now, short documentary sanctions boomerang effect throughout the day here an r t. it's also available to view on our website. who is the aggressor today? i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions today. russia is the country with the most sang shows imposed against it. and number those constantly growing. a list of course renewed as we speak on the billing is certainly more streamlined, the will ship. we're branding all in ports of russian oil and gas, new g i. g over with the literature were already given jewel by imposing the sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. so there's a boomerang. ah,

china is reportedly held in emergency meeting in order to figure out ways to protect its trillion dollar foreign assets from possible us late sanctions in order not to suffer the same fate as russia over the warren ukraine. the chinese government has apparently held a meeting with officials from foreign and local banks as beijing, as reportedly while you did that, russia fell penalties could be introduced against it in the event of a regional military conflict or other crisis. china currently has an estimated 3 trillion us dollars in its foreign reserves. just to put it into context. the west froze more than $300000000000.00 off rushes foreign assets after the conflict began in ukraine. meanwhile, was searched by the international monetary fund, shows a recent decline in the shade of the us dollar being held in central, banks will wide. it also found the other major currencies that are the british pound, the japanese, the, and the euro are not making up for the loss of the dollars share. this comes with many countries are trying to step away from the dollar. for example,

saudi arabia is in talks with china to pay for oil in $1.00 i'll, china is buying one russian oil and coal with the state media claiming the us dollar. is it wisc, after sleeping sanctions imposed against it? russia demanded western countries by its gas in roubles, the director of the political economy research group where the cause of death. i speculated on the kind of actions that china could take to protect its assets, aboard. they have been in there been increasing stress or self reliance in the economy that has they have already created their own payment systems, which will scope. they are widening their, including more countries when it will financial institutions. and it's of that can go on china as you earlier pointed out in one of your reports, there is a diversification of foreign exchange reserves. shiny compared to russia. china is even more deeply integrated into the international economy, into the u. s. economy into the european economy. et cetera, then russia is. and so in that sense,

it will be very difficult to disentangle these relations. it is, are, you know, china and hedge china can make differences at the margins, but doing anything more would be essentially to break its relations with the world economy before sanctions. and a 2nd thing is that, of course, any sanctions that are imposed on china really as. 6 harmful if not more harmful for the country, imposing the sanction of the united states sanctions, china, it's going to lose as well as the united states is already suffering from a high level of inflation. so if it were to sanction china, imagine the economic damage. imagine where inflation we go, the more the united states acts in this fashion, the more it is essentially a bushing countries to enter into these sorts of agreements with china to trade in the you on all the remedy. and out to something seemingly lost in the midst of time,

but holding deep resonance to day weeks before the cranium, parliament decayed its independence back in august 1991. then he was president george bush, senior, visited kiff and spoke of extreme nationalism in the country, sparked by ethnic hatred. americans will not support those who seek independence in order to replace a far off tyranny with a local despotism. they will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred. lay been human rights lawyer. den kovachick believes the washington doesn't view supplying extremist groups within the ukranian army with weapons as problematic. they know that the neo nazis are they are in fact a c. i is been working with them, training them to kill russian. they see these neo nazis is their allies. just as they have seen, the radical jihadists in syria as their allies,

they wanted to stabilize the world. they wanted to stabilize countries, they see as rivals, so that the u. s. can maintain her germany in the world, and they see these nazi groups as an instrument that they wanted to weaken russia. and they thought that working with these groups in ukraine, her would do just that. the one ukraine has been made a challenge for the media with fake news stories cropping up on a daily basis. and russian, the waste, locked in a battle to ban each other's outlets. so the publication by the, by reporters without orders organization of its world press freedom index, has raised more than a few hours after it put some baltic states in the top 10, estonia is ranked as a for, even though the country has blocked russia media since 2012 lithuania is a 9th and the index. but again, access to russian media sources is limited. we talked to the chief editor of belt

news, a russian language, news agency, who shared his views on the situation with press freedom in the region. the letter to swa board, you fool that your nino, it is impossible to talk about freedom of speech in the region now that has been no freedom of speech in latvia, lithuania, and estonia for a long time. this is total censorship, which is maintained by methods of criminal prosecution. they have all the ratings of freedom of speech in the region to value the very essence of such bracing organizations. the writing now looks like a mock of marriage, not in freedom of speech, but on the country and censorship. in lithuania, our colleagues had to leave the country under the threat of criminal investigation, or being under investigation. friends from sputnik estonia had the editorial staff disposed also under threats of criminal prosecution. i made the pressure and working conditions we faced. the new rankings from reporters without borders. look like a bad joke. a situation with the russian media and the west has become increasingly

difficult in march, 2020 to a complete band on the will. confession state media and the e was introduced in response to the wall covering among others are t. sputnik and they subsidiaries. again, balconies chief editor who fears with censorship in the west is heading dorsey, dillard's. i need wait, you please can rusher is not even close to the scale of censorship. not only in baltic states, it's total there, but also in western europe, france or u. k. they shy at nothing, they don't care about formal procedures any more. the latest example is the foreign office giving an order to block everything connected to art in sputnik, not the regulator, but the foreign office. in latvia, bolt news lost its domain name, not because of the regulators decision. they had nothing on us, but under an initiative from the foreign ministry, we see the same in lithuania and estonia, the media market, there is for a long time controlled, not by the regulator, but by special forces and political leadership. that decides what's right,

what's wrong and initiates repressions against journalists and media that are not favorable to the local political landscape and go against the mainstream. in latvia, we have 14 colleagues and friends facing criminal prosecution. they're accused of violating sanctions despite sanctions having no relation to our agency. this is arbitrary, treatment and unlawful. political persecution does look into need that, that of main marked world press freedom day supporting media channels and providing unbiased information. and reminding governments to respect press freedom. art he spoke to paula, an american micro blogging service that goes to prominence for freely publishing uses opinions on the us political situation. paula has the cabin alternative to the big take mainstream media in the united states. some uses have also quoted a safe haven for free speech, but the platform also found itself temporarily band, after some uses voice concern about the state of politics in the u. s. we talked to

at c o, george farmer who shared his views on freedom of speech. i think that free speech is not solute. and that free speech needs to be held equally applicable to all organizations. if you start putting yourself into a position where your subject could be judging organizations upon the merits of something that you will having to decide, i think that that ends up in a very slippery slope. how long before you decide that there are other organizations or news companies or whatever it is that you don't want to hit the points. soon as you start shutting down the conversations, as soon as you stop coming to judge yourself, then that's a very to interest position to be in. it is an absolute right to free speech is an absolute twitch as being the flag barrister, the work crowd. and that i think is something that very frightened of losing

the left has not respected the principle of free speech for a long time. this is part of the problem. part of the problem is that they don't perceive free speech to be right. they don't receive free speech to be something that should be respected. in many ways actually want to shut down speech. they want to control speech. they don't want to give freedom of opinion. they don't want to get freedom of the press. they don't want to get freedom of dialogue and so you're seeing it right now. you're seeing it today. you're seeing it in the past. you so don't from removed from twitter, they would lose the ability to do things like that. that would be very concerning for them. and this is why it's and it's such a harsh reaction from the less and, you know, so this is such a dangerous backlash against 40 on, you know, mosque was trying to do well, that's how we find it for now that state co says it's a lot small coming up from moscow, this is our to international. thank you for joining us.

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