a doing my a graves hey, in the backyard, had a playground inside residential area is horrible, but suddenly rather common see here all the cross on boss and pain, the town of revision a to our correspondent reports from a region in the loop. guns republic. not cleared up nationalist forces from the war and much needed humanitarian aid is being delivered to local. 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 help with a nuclear bomb dropped on the states economy. outside of the hungarian prime minister has described the total bound on russian oil proposed by you

with diesel prices hit record holly's in the us. that by the administration, puts the blame squarely on loving their potent though not all, including those in the trucking industry, except that's normative. they blame things on other countries like russia. i believe that personally 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 with around the clock across the world. this is our t pleasure to have your company today. my name is you to know neil. we starts with the latest on the ukraine conflict. we're more than $500.00 people, including $67.00 children, were evacuated from mario full overnight. that's according to the united nations

and done yet. republic officials that comes after new humanitarian corridors were opened to allow civilians to leave the besieged the a's off style steel plant. the united nation started a 3rd of actuation operation from this site on thursday. with the un secretary general saying, quiet diplomacy help. complete the evacuations. we heard from locals about the current situation in mario, all you cookie was we see peace, how long will this go on? our apartments burned down. we live in the basement. it's time to stock. we want peace being forgiven. i mean, we want to celebrate victory day on may, 9th. my grandfather fought in world war 2. he 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 peace and tranquillity. ukraine has a queue, is russia violating this cease fire?

the alleging moscow broke its promise to stop all hostilities during the civilian evacuation. russia hasn't those yet commented, but then yet people's republic officials claim it was ukrainian forces shall territories in the region $35.00 times in one day, leading to 4 civil debts are correspond and visited. honoree, i use as firing positions by ukranian soldiers asked by a water grave. this is how ukrainian militants turn any courtyard. any residential building into fortified firing positions. when they retreat it right behind me, you can see a gap and the fast is been created for easy, quick movement between positions. here's the snipers position with a good view. these comfortable coverings are made from furniture like multiple holes for firing have been made in the walls. the whole area is covered with such positions. recruit bookish, you got that. i you. great. you break it in. yes, the ukranian fighters didn't try to stop the advancing russian troops. the hidden

houses and residential buildings they hid behind civilians trying to inflict casualties and retreat. these are the tactic they used. don't cook that you can just get bread coiled will another area which has seen fierce fighting as the sprawling zaria chemical factory earlier. the russian military said the ton of the rebate. noah, located close to the plant, had been taken under control, local to know, trying to return some semblance of normality to the devastated region, which still has no water or electricity ortiz. maria phenomena is there for us to put the frontline now moved some 5 to 7 kilometers that way and to life and 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, do you have water, electricity? there is no water, no lights, no gas at 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 sharon, he doesn't talk. we were bombed heath closed in on himself. out of this cars of recent battles are everywhere. graves, hain, the backyard 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 peace his back here, they will be re 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 and plant on the city's outskirts is the you quin and forces last position and the joint. russia le ganske republic army. he's moving steadily forward. i see those of, oh 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. we will live with russia in 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 in its basement theresa's civilian shelter for local residence. this is where they've been hiding. during heavy shadowing, we go to check whether there is 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 still 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 grown. um light is for the day miss robertson was this woman,

wasn't grossman watching what the break ordered to this room. 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, but it says in monitoring them up. there are no hospitals, we have nothing. we help all citizens. oh, 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. 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 are t,

it'll be as now. well, as the fighting continues on the front lines, ukrainian prisoners of war helping talking about the conditions they face as always we should note such comments may have been given under duress, doctor clemons bookings, of course i was afraid before being captured, they told us the russians would torture and abuse us, but i didn't see any of that in the prisoner's camp with quite the opposite. i was surprised. we hadn't drunk water for 3 days before being captured, and those who captured us gave us water. when we got here, we saw clean and comfortable beds, 3 daily meals, they gave us cigarettes. of course you can't just run along the camp, but the treatment is normal. i'm rushing yo yo's though i didn't expect such treatment. i thought i would be killed almost, but the russians treated me humanely. ukraine didn't treat as well as they brought us and through us in trenches like cannon fodder, it feels like we have no value for the ukranian armed forces. we are like human shields for them. i'm very unhappy about the strange strategy of our army,

and every one else is unhappy on tv. they said soldiers will receive a salary of a $100000.00 grievances. i've been serving for more than month and a half and nobody received this money. i don't think any one will receive it then. well, they, russian investigative committee has said it will prob colds to kill russians. thus, after ukrainian soldiers posted video, a message saying they will not be taking prisoners away. this is a war of extermination. and our soldiers, all our people know that there shouldn't be any prisoners in one prison. as a moral and graveyards are there to make profits. so we will give you graveyards, not prisons. there is continuing division in the a you concerning the blocked proposed new round of sanctions targeting russian energy. they. hungarian prime minister has compared brussels plant embargo on russian oil to a nuclear bomb for the country's economy. as a dental brussels oil embargo proposal is equivalent to a nuclear bomb being dropped on the hungarian economy. so it is unacceptable.

ah, less cross live, no, tory, your correspondence. charlotte to ben sky, either charlotte, so diverging opinion once more over the approval of a new sanctions package. but this time, as we just heard, the splits are pretty vocal. take us through it. yes, that's right. if you listen to the commission precedent test to say, you would think that this sanction package is about to be signed off. there is this boundless confidence from ursula vaughan delane. now, she outlined the package on wednesday in front of the european parliament saying that it would include a complete in banjo on importing russian oil. by the end of this year, it would be swift, 3 more russian banks. it would also disallow accountancy firms and p, all firms here in the european union, from doing business with any russian firms in the future. and it lists

a number of new personalities to be put on the sanctions list. she says that this will be approved by the weekend. i am confident that we will get this package on track. if it takes a day longer, it takes a day longer, but we are moving in the right direction. well that confidence hides some very difficult talks, as you've already mentioned. there are some diverging voices who are unhappy with some of the elements in that 6 sanctions package. we know that several e u countries have said that they might have difficulty, particularly with that embargo on russian oil, particularly if that's instigated by the end of the year. and they have asked for some flexibility which it seems that the commission is willing to offer. however hungry is a completely different ball game. it's outright refuse to accept that they could be

this ban on russian. or would victor all been making that really strong statement that that would be tantamount to a nuclear bomb. going off on his country's economy, he says hungry is willing to be flexible, but the proposals of an extension by one or one and a half years by the commission. just fall short of that. we know exactly what we need. first of all, we need 5 years for this whole process to be completed. one to one and a half years is not enough for anything. i don't want to confront the you but to cooperate. but this is only possible if they take our interests into account. well, he has questioned also with the feasibility of spending so much money on getting this infrastructure in place for these new resources of energy. when the results will be seen for at least 4 to 5 years. he has also said that he is against a ban on putting the russian head of the orthodox church on the sanctions

less. he says that is completely unacceptable. so the commission seems to be very confident that it can pass these new sanctions, but they may have to, we write them a little or even watch them down before that they can get countries like hungary on board. let's not forget that sanctions packages have to be approved by all 27 member states. this has to be unanimous vote. and those already a sense that if this package is not approved by the end of 4, i do least serve the weekend that uses burrell the blocks. foreign policy chief is already ready to cool an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers next week. or your correspondence, charlotte do been steepness through all the fund charlotte the price of diesel has had an all time high in the united states. the country continues to struggle

with fuel distribution and may be continuing conflict in ukraine. the average price of diesel is approaching $6.00 a gallon. there was less than 4 in february. the fuel is crucial to the u. s. economy as a power as big rig trucks, locomotives, and ships about the liber, the vast majority of goods to market. as the biden administration shifts the blame for the inflation to the russian president, one trucker told us, it's hard to buy into that norris's. they blame things on other countries like russia. i believe that personally comes right straight down to, to the administration. being the reason for the price are they seem to be very keen on letting it go as high as possible. it affects all. busy drivers as well as myself, so where, 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 a 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 park my truck until this is solved. recent polls have suggested, most americans have the worst expectations about the u. s. economy and decades and think joe biden bears responsibility for the rising fuel prices as inflation was on the rise. well before the ukraine conflict. after winning the republican nomination for the ohio senate seat this week, j. d van said us politicians need to focus on domestic problems, not get involved in foreign conflicts. what the u. s. state department is saying is a major problem with russia. at the end of the day we serve to defend our own country. i got your list that we're focused on this border in ukraine. i don't, i got to be honest with you. i don't really care 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 fentenol is coming across the southern border. 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? well, let's go live now to undone, mano wrestle farmers, and owners of monastery ro farms in orange county, california. it's a pleasure to have you both on the program. thank you. for talking to us today, n did tell us what the current situation is like with diesel prices and how it's affecting the the farming industry done. can we go to you 1st? sure. well, it all starts with the price of fuel everything. so everything is going to cost you more, write down the line. so it costs more to put it in our tractor costs more for the photos on the trucks to drive the truck to whereever it's going. a lot of our produce in california. it goes across the country all over the country in the

canada also. so i mean, you know, with the price of fuel be and so expensive, everyone's going to pay more for everything. you know, food coding doesn't matter what it is, it's all on us. and that's the thing with you, isn't it? you're a successful but small business. you can't rely on on the help of mega supermarket chains to get you out of it. either. no, we've, we've switched our model almost a 100 per cent to well, so in everything we grow, but that's, you know, we're, we're small or little farm and we can supply a lot of people. but these big chain stores, you know, like bonds are kroger's or whoever they're, they're getting all their stuff truck did, and they're paying more for everyone is, you know, just, they have to get the price of fuel down and they can do it. you know, there isn't there if they have a will they just want to get it. people need to speak up enough. the thing on isn't it. you take great pride in having from farm to play quickly so that you know that

the fresh of the food it's not going to stay fresh for a long compared to perhaps other as supermarkets, with bigger coolers, etc. so did the price of transport, the price of fuel affects you greatly. absolutely. and it affects it like from where, like, damn, was saying from the price, putting it into your putting gas into your truck. also how much it cost us, just for boxes, for incense and like the little plastic boxes that we pay, that everything and everything is petroleum based. so our costs go up and there's only so much that you can pass on to your customer. but you, you have to raise your price is just to be able to stay in business. and what kind of response to the looming crisis have you seen from the government, be it local in california or federal on what response do you expect? well, i'm not seeing any response, it's almost like they, they act like that. it's not a problem. it doesn't affect anybody. so did it. they obviously are aware by saying,

oh yes, we understand there's inflation that there's absolutely nobody's court plan to address it at all. so i think they, it almost feels as if they're, they're doing it on purpose because they don't seem to be bothered in the lease that the entire country is suffering greatly because of it. and it's become the economy is become everybody's number one can serve done. joe biden believes the so called pertinent price hike. it is wholly responsible for the situation. rising fuel and living cost. what, what do you say to that when he say something with was ridiculous and everybody knows it. i mean, they shut down the trillion industry 1st thing they did when they got into office doesn't matter. it's joe biden. there, you know, pick any democrat ro, i love drones that are programmed for one out and insert the other one. so which is, it's just, you know, they, they, they could turn this thing around in

a dime and they know they're going to, oh it's, this isn't our fault, this is not all. well, it is your fault and you're hurting everybody. and american, everybody in america knows it and they know it, but you know what we're going to do. they don't care today that by haven't got elected our gas prices in california and up a dollar. so it's like we, everybody knows where it's coming from. and in california, we got our own special little group here that they're adding. we have the highest gas tax in this, in the country. i mean, and it's going up again, i heard in july. and they won't even, you know, they won't even cut back on a scale back on that as bad as things are mistake, you know, they keep pushing and there were some politics that were saying that they wanted to try to do a gas tax holiday. and the legislative leaders here wouldn't even consider that. no, that's not on the cards. is it kicking in the consideration on the challenging economic situation? the country?

why do you think many in washington are so focused on the situation in ukraine instead of solving domestic problems? why is up front and center? i think to, to pull attention away from what's happening, the domestic place, the more, the more that they can focus on other things it's, it's kind of like, don't, don't pay attention to what's happening behind the curtain. they want us to focus on other things. and just like in the last few days now they've switched from ukraine because ever everybody's getting that we're getting inundated with news about ukraine. and so now the last couple of days is switch over to what's happening with the supreme court and road. the way that lead decision that came out, so it's almost like they're doing every single thing that they can to keep everybody's attention off of what's happening domestically with our, with our prices and with what's happening in our borders. done what your thoughts on the situation nationwide. the u. s. has cut energy imports from here from russia . story that we've been following quite a lot. detail,

stockpiles have hit record lows. do you think the government can make up the deficit? the stock prices rising further. they could, if they want to do that, they don't want this, you know, they're happy is they, they need to cut will get away from your 100 percent and go clean energy. well, that's great, but is the check knology isn't there in the meantime, while you're developing that technology, you need to keep people healthy, keep their economy healthy. everything else on your farm has been going minus 0 for over a 100 years and you're not very well. let me say nothing or a 100, but you keep seeing some, some, some changes on the years. for the past 10 years, there's been a democratic governor, have hubs, things got worse, have the improved since then in the last few years. what's the recent forecast for, for farms like yours, but there's, there's a lot across america like you struggling well,

it is getting more and more dire. every year i feel like the, our minimum wage here is $15.00 an hour. and that's just the base price. when we're on the employer stand, point of view, it's more i 25 percent on top of that because we have to football day related payroll taxes, workers compensation and unemployment insurance. all of those things go along with, with, with people pay. so for us, it's more like $18.00 an hour that we're paying for, for every employee, every hour. and so that on top of fuel prices and everything else make, make it really difficult to stay in business. we have changed our business model to being where that we are rather than distributing what we grow, we grow, we grow as much as we can sell within our own stands. so it's,

we've had to completely change our business law down just to find a couple of are you, are you optimistic? it all things will improve. now not what this meant, legislature and inherent governor. absolutely not. they just, they refused to. ready even acknowledge that there is a problem. yes, you wanna change things. people have to wake up and say, you know, no more of this, like that guy screaming out the window at it. and i don't, i'm not going to take it anymore. you know, but people are starting to wake up because the gas prices certain we're talking the other day, i was talking to a guy and he said, people's are making 20 percent more right now than they were 3 years. and they're worse off. that's how bad things are not just here, probably across the country. well listen, we wish you every, every luck because it's, it's a tough industry. you're in and you're on the front lines of that's on and on. mama, 0 farmers and owners of monastery reforms in orange county, california. thank you very much for your time and your thoughts. thanks for having

a family receive it. thank you. an explosion has reportedly occurred in a residential building in the center of madrid. the cause of the blast is still unknown. the emergency services are up the scene and investigating around 12 people we believe have been injured. that's according to initial reports as well. so we'll keep a very close eye on that story and try and get some verification into it as soon as we can that story from at madrid, just coming in to us on the program. ok, locals have been laying flowers out a military at cemetery in the netherlands, which was recently vandalized to honor the memory of soldiers who fell in world war 2. just to give you a recap of what happened this week on wednesday graves on monuments, us a military memorial in may and where to filed with swastikas and covered with

ukrainian flags. the graveyard was close the following day, but local residence brought flowers to the scene of the incident. police in the city are looking for those behind the act of vandalism. well, we know that the military sir cemetery holds the graves of more than a 1000 soldiers. it's a large one who lost their lives during world war 2 must belong to british troops. however, many at graves also hold soldiers from other countries of the british commonwealth . the murder of the city called the state disgusting. okay, before we go, i just want to bring you this. it's a 3 days to go now, before rushes, victory day celebrations moscow's preparations there are in full swing. the history of this is the 1943 bottle of styling grub was one of the major milestones in the

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