the fact is, washington is at war with russia, and russia is being forced to respond ah graves hey, in the back yard, had a play ground inside residential area is horrible, but suddenly rather common see here all across on boss and hain, the town of rebellion, i had to correspondent reports from a city in little guns republic. now cleared of nationalists forces when much needed for managerial aid is being delivered to locals. oh, thank you. thank you for the help for the humanitarian aid. we are grateful that you have brought us a glimmer of light and we will soon get out of this hell the price of diesel hits and all time high in the us says the biden administration tries to pin the blame on president fusion or the mini on buying back narrative, who are you with?

we all live in a, in a state of information war or more accurately this information more. and his target is russia. fletcher told the u. n, the west only wants to kill one side of events. turning a blind eye to any pro rational argument over the world. and a risk to the very unity of the e. u. hungary warns the blocks plans for total oil embargo against russia with a historical failure. ah hello and welcome to international. we're coming to you for my headquarters here in moscow. thank you for joining us. we stop at the latest on the ukraine conflict where ukrainian forces have accused russian troops of violating the ceasefire at the as of stole still pound mario pole. but the criminal spokesperson said the russian military had not stormed the plant, but in suppressing attempts by ukrainian miniature to take up positions. it comes

off to new military and corridors have been open to allow civilians to leave the site. and the united nations of stocks are the 3rd evacuation operation from the plant. the un secretary general said the evacuations have been a success. and any $500.00 civilians have already flip is off small area. we heard from locals about the current situation in mario poll. you will see how long will this go on? our apartments burned down. we live in the basement. it's time to stock. we want people to load it in for given a committee. we want to celebrate victory day on may, 9th. my grandfather fought in world war 2. she went from kia to berlin. yo. we would like to enjoy the holiday and have a victory parade here. like in moscow, we are waiting for peace. we wish every one only piece and tranquillity part of another plant around which this been severe fighting is these are yet chemical factory. earlier russian military forces came the city around for business,

situated by the pound, had been cleared of nationalists forces locals anal trying to returns him some semblance of normality in the devastated city, which still has no water or electricity ortiz maria from ocean of reports. where now it will be as near northwest of logan's as days ago, the frontline town, it's relatively safe at this moment. it is under the control the russian forces right now, but it has been seen a fear is fighting for many weeks. the front line now moved some 5 to 7 kilometers that way and like friend people how slowly but coming back here, it's possible to leave here, but there is now communication in the city, but at the moment it's safe here. my rental, do you have one water? electricity. there is no water, no lights, no gas in the yard. we all cooked together. it's good that it's summer now, but if it was winter, most people could freeze. my baby sleeps under 3 blankets. he says, mom, i'm called after shelley, he doesn't talk. lou bombed,

he's close in on himself. out of this cars, of recent battles are everywhere. graves hate in the back yard had a play ground inside residential area is horrible, but suddenly rather common seen here all across don, boss and hain, the town of rebellion had to once piece his back here we will get we buried properly at the city cemetery. but until then, this is where they are going to rest in peace. that may happen soon, the military se visit our gunpowder plant on the city's outskirts, as the ukrainian forces last position and the joint. russia, le, ganske republic, army, he's moving steadily forward. i see. uh huh. thank you. thank you for the help for the humanitarian aid you. we are grateful that you have brought us a glimmer of light and we will soon get out of this. hell, we are like beatles buried in the ground, but still living. i knew we will live with russia. i mean,

the town school number 2 has long been turned into control and command center. you see it's also been targeted, but after the frontline moved further away from here, the military left is building and it's baseman three's a civilian shelter for local residence. this is where they've been hiding during heavy showering. we go to check whether the res life on the ground. we are told not everybody's ready to leave their shelter just yet. there is no fighting right now in the town, but there are so some people hiding in the shoulder because they are houses, have been destroyed. it's dark here, there is no light. so we turn the camera haine to infrared regime thrust the modem for that image, which was it. one woman wasn't sure which one to break what it said the should see

. she used to clip was you so we brought some candles and bread. so we're gonna bring it to these people and i can't even say how many the are here. i was this through a boy voice him, sarah. eat people here in this tiny room and i'm literally suffocating. here, there is no oxygen here at all. terrible conditions. one floor up local volunteers have organized and make shift clinic and pharmacy melissa, monitoring them up. there are no hospitals, we have nothing. we help all citizens or pharmacies have been looted. there is no medical help. we received $6.00 to $3.00 wounded in a month and a half, not one died. we treated every one, even those whom we thought we would need to take to the hospital. i think you are heroes. we have diapers as a madison's can we give them to you? we ask people what they need. of course you can, i'm tired of fighting for medicine. we just don't have any supplies. there is no

place to take them. we leave everything we brought with us, some bread medicines and children's products at the school. these are packages sent by people in russia, packed for those suffering to meet the conflict in the don bus, which they asked us to deliver as aide. in this conflict, journalists often connect those and need, with those willing to help. there is hope that some normality will return to the town in future, but it's cleary, they'll need a lot of outside help for quite some time. ration ocean r t. that'll be as now. meanwhile, russian territory came under fire on thursday morning with the local authorities claiming ukrainian forces shelter town in the belgrade region, located just a few kilometers from the border. 5 houses were damaged with one entirely destroyed . no injuries were reported among the towns. citizens and power lines are also said to have been hit. belgrade governor said, all the homes hit by shilling will be rebuilt. locals have spoken about how they live in the face of constant rocket attacks. i live right there. my house was also

damaged, broken fragments fell a little further. over there you see everything has also suffered. the roof is damaged there. not that it was a doors. there were also damaged. everything was damaged. there were 2 missiles, one, let it outside the village. well, they are often here. the military showed them down only the fragments or landing. oh, we hear explosions that we will leave. what else can we do? we might even leave today. the price of diesel has hit an all time high in the united states. as the country continues to struggle with fuel distribution, amid the ukraine war, the average price of diesel is heading to $6.00 a gallon. the fuel is crucial to the u. s. economy as it powers big trucks, locomotives and ships and bring the vast majority of goods to market. a prominent new show anchor talked on air about out of control inflation in the country and

said truckers are sending him videos of them spending more than a $1000.00 a time. filling their tanks. you put $1200.00 in your gas tank. and just 6 months ago it was costing you 6 or 700, right? the of the exponential reality of it is starting to say again, you can, you, you just can't walk that back. it touches every single thing that matters in this country from food production to transportation. obviously. all of it are truckers, brien. the potent price like the ones i know, art guy said to me the other day. it's like, it's like falling down the stairs in slow motion. you know, it's, we know it's coming, we're watching it happen. it's happening in real time, and it's not just diesels notches gasoline. meanwhile, the biden administration is trying to persuade americans that president putin is responsible for the inflation. however, according to recent polls,

most people don't find that narrative and think, biden based responsibility for the higher fuel prices, as inflation was surging well before the ukraine war. after this week winning the republican nomination for the senate in ohio, 20 vons claimed it was a mistake to get involved in what's going on between russia and ukraine when there are so many problems at home. what the us state department is saying is a major problem with russia, and at the end of the day, we serve to defend our own country. i got your list that were focused on this border in ukraine. i don't, i don't want it to be, i don't really hear what happens to you in one way or another. i do care about the fact that in my community right now, the leading called the death, among 18 to 45 year olds, is mexican fentanyl is coming across the southern board. i'm sick of job by focusing on the border of a country. i don't care about, well, what's the border of his own country become a total war zone? we spoke to, mary, can talk about it and coleman, to get his opinion on the rising fuel prices. and he's convinced that the binding

administration is more to blame than russia. i believe that personally, it comes right straight down to, to the administration, being the reason for the price. they seem to be very keen on letting it go as high as possible. they blame things on other countries like russia. it's hard to put your finger on a single slide. welcome all the stairs. personally, i don't believe that that has anything to do with the, with the, with the price hike of you and gasoline in the united states, not at all. it affects all. busy drivers as well as myself, so where it's where it's hurting the trucking industry is they're the rates don't reflect it. and so that means that there's not profit to be able to pull load and so you're single truck drivers are just, you know, independent operators. just saying i can't make any money. i'm just going to part of my truck until this is solved a diff information war. that's

how much goes representative to the united nations as banded the with attitude towards rush us position in the ukraine war. proceeding the bins, you insist that the with some p doesn't want to hear any argument. and if it's against russia, student rooms turn it into them. we all live in a, in a state of information war or more accurately disinformation war. and his target is russia. the international community needs to hear only one version of the events, the so called atrocities of the russian soldiers. keyless civilians are not the router and yet the international community doesn't need to hear anything about the ukrainian provocations above the way their army uses civilians. as human shields, they don't less civilized use humanitarian corridors, which russia provides. if someone does escape, they are shot in the back by ukraine in forces. there is plenty of evidence for this. you just don't want to hear it are you regards them when the members of the security council, the countries started speaking how it became clear, there were very big differences between the major powers represented are when the

representative of china's folk. he used the opportunity to call for a di escalation, but also to criticize the nato coalition and call out the anniversary of the day on which nato forces attacked into the chinese embassy and yugoslavia to hinder delivering the weapons to ukraine will not to live a peace and the conflict has no witness dialogue with negotiations, the only and inevitable way to resolve disputes. far from making your of any safe up. nato's constant eastwood advance since the cold war. have so the seeds of conflicts. on the 7th of may, it would have been 23 years. it's nate, i find a number of precision guided missiles at the chinese embassy in yugoslavia. china will never forget such a barbaric atrocity and will never allow this to be repeated again. now the representative of the united states, so who was sharing the meeting and her rotating role as she's the rotating president of the security council? she spoke and when she spoke, she accused

a russia of simply like she didn't get into specifics. she just claimed that basically everything russia says is somehow against viruses, theory or ally. russia is even claimed that ukraine is attacking itself, that they bomb their own buildings, attack their own people and assault it, their own democracy. these lies, defy all logic. all evidence in common sense. not all world knows that since 2014, there has been shelling and attacks on don boss and the eastern regions of ukraine . ah, that there has been a huge effort to lock a russian speaking people in ukraine out of the political process. there has been relentless attacks, buys against civilians, i and, and what she's saying simply doesn't match the very well by a verifiable record of events that are taking place in that country where you've learned, you don't know and you don't want to know what insults and hatred was targeted

against everything related to russia, not just the everyday level, but also the level of governmental officials and public figures. you don't know that since you korean gans independence observed ukraine has cool history. books have spawned an entire generation of people full of hatred of russia. bruce, a phobia, has become a national idea. you won't find in russia anything of the soul to was ukraine and ukrainians. grades were again very clear. i and the testimony that was heard as well as from the remarks made by various countries. it became very, very clear that there is a big gap between how the major powers represented in security council of these adapts i. u. s. leaders have a narrative where russia is simply acting nonsensically without any possible provocation. rush on the other hand is pointing out what has led up to the situation and the real crimes and atrocities that have been committed over the past 8 years since the ad states toppled the ukrainian government 2014 and installed

a kind of nato profit regime. and i, and at that point i, you know, there, there just doesn't seem to be a clear point of agreement about what's going on in ukraine among the great powers . i, you know, we have china's speaking up and talking about nato's, our actions around the world that have led to instability in other parts of the world. so quite a meeting, but not really much accomplished in terms of countries are finding common ground, un security council. the us senate has possible there could leave members of the opec group of leading oil producers and a partners open to legal action to become or the both still need to pass the full senate and house and be signed by president biden. it will not federal courts to enforce traditional anti trust decisions against oil producing nations. it's break that down, both pick member states and oil companies are currently protected by sovereign immunity laws. the so called know pick legislation is apparently intended to protect us consumers and businesses from supply cuts and global oil price hikes by

opec, which america is not a member of the bill comes and growing tensions between washington and oil capital members off to opec refused to increase production back in march. the grouping recently came there was no spare capacity to replace sanctioned russian oil supplies. co director of the institute for the analysis of global security doctor gall loft, still believes the bull has a long way to go and could provoke a response from members of the oil cartel. i expect it will not become law and it will never reach the president's desk because it's ineffective, barely legal. and it will bring about considerable retaliation by those opec countries that are targeted by this bill. i think it will backfire because the saudis have already said a long time ago and different alterations of this bill whenever it pops out.

they said that they're going to retaliate by starting to shift all trade from dollars to alternative currencies, which could open the floodgates. expedite the fall of the dollar from a throne is global reserve currency, at least in the commodities market. that's why i think that we cannot discount retaliatory measures that some of those open countries can take especially now when this is not only opec, it's also open plus, which means not only the members of cartel, but also all the other lex 40 is including russia. the u. s. is providing real time, better fine battlefield intelligence to ukraine, helping the army to target russian troops. and that's according to reporting the new york times in response,

masika said it was already aware of the intelligence assistance coming from the west. united states and nato are providing intelligence data to ukraine. this is well known and of course, together with the om supply, ukraine, by the same countries and the alliance hold of those actions and not helping rapidly finalize the operation. although they cannot hinder the achievement of objectives set for the special military operation, washington provided intelligence that allowed ukrainians to locate and strike the russian naval flagship the muskrat. last month to senior american officials told the new york times magazine, the revelation about the sunken warship come from the hills of another report which claimed shade. intel had also helped to crate and kill a number of russian generals. while the pentagon has confirmed that it does say information, it denied it was aimed at striking russian military leaders. united states provides battlefield intelligence to help ukrainians defend their country. we've talked about that quite a bit. we do not provide intelligence on the location of senior military leaders on

the battlefield or participate in the targeting decisions of the cranium military. well decades ago during the iraq war, the us military and intelligence communities gave secret information to saddam hussein and yet did nothing to stop his subsequent gas, the text, some of the worst chemical tests in history. and that's according to foreign policy magazine. we got to take of former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter. clearly the u. s. is directly involved. it doesn't mean that you have to have boots on the ground, but involvement in the form of the provision of near real time intelligence. information that has an impact on the battlefield is defacto evidence of, of, of u. s. involvement. and then of course, there's the ongoing provision of weaponry which has been provided to the ukrainian armed forces a used in combat against russian troops. i has caused casualties amongst

the russian forces. this is a political game being played by the west. most of this is quitman is old. obsolete though it appears to work when it arrives in ukraine, but are rapidly break down. so the sickness equipment is next to useless in the sad reality is the vast majority of the ukrainian soldiers who will be called upon to man. this equipment will probably become casualties, chose this equipment to sold so bad and not function the way it's intended to a potential historical failure that risks, the very unity of the you. that's the warning from hungary prime minister of the blocks plan for turtle embargo of russian oil. it's all been also said hungry cannot support the new packet of sanctions in its kind of form. neither hungary know that use a whole is ready to adopt and implement the measures as proposed by the commission . sanctions should be adopted at a time when all necessary preconditions are met in old member states. ear unity is

under threat. that is, according to hungary prime minister victor oberon, he has made the claim as the block members currently once again trying to thrash out a new deal, the sanctions, a 6 package against russia. now, o'brien has been pretty clear. the budapest will not support the proposals that would undermine its own energy security, and the hopes of a complete embargo when it comes to importing russian oil would do exactly that. he's written a letter to ursula vaughan delane outlining his concerns. if the commission insists on the adoption of his proposal, a will have to bear full responsibility for historical failure in the course of european integration. now, he is also poured cold water on the plan saying that neither hungry knew the e. u as a whole is actually ready to adopt and to implement such measures. now both hungry

and slovakia have been offered the extension of an additional year and this embargo which would take them until next year at rather than at the end of this year. however, this hasn't apparently convinced either of them. now that is likely to put. ringback both countries at loggerheads with poland, which has been pretty clear, its prime minister once again stressing that a complete band not just on russian oil but also on gas is needed. this is motor, bi etzky, who also wants russian assets and federal reserves confiscated. i've always advocated for the harshest set of sanctions. so i know what i'm talking about. we should not look for any kind of scape goat appointed. there saw that country because we know that there were much bigger countries that were trying to stop, to decelerate, to postpone to procrastinate. no motivates. he had said that some countries had

actually wants to be more dependent on russian gas. adding that everyone knows who they are, a fairly thinly veiled reference that to berlin, which had been due to approve the news stream to gas pipeline. this readable gas straight from russia directly into germany. however, more via ski doesn't believe that the difference is about positions that we've seen from some countries over oil and gas will hold that he doesn't believe that they will be a block on sanctions. but of course, those discussions are due to continue on friday and possibly over the weekend to if the 27th member states cannot meet and have an agreement there's only a few days left before the victor day celebrations and moscow. in the midst of rehearsals for the military parade, we're starting our special coverage with the story of ivan napkin,

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