[000:00:00;00] a, with the latest footage from the port city of mario poll shows, another group of civilians being evacuated to safety. earlier un on the nets republic official said more than 500 people had left the area overnight. we heard from some of the bacteria, emergent we seek peace. how long will this go on? our apartments burned down. we live in the basement. it's time to stop. we want peace fuel. we would like to enjoy the holiday and have a victory parade here. like in moscow, we are waiting for peace also add on the program and you can bomb dropped on the states economy. bounce out of the hungarian prime minister has described the total

of bond on russian oil proposed by the diesel prices. hit record highs in the u. s. that biden administration puts the blame squarely on vladimir putin. not all including those in the farming industry except a bowl. it's, this isn't our fault to see all it is your fault. you're hurt and everybody in america and everybody in america knows that it's telling don't, don't pay attention to what's happening behind the curtain. they want us to focus on other things with doing kate so midnight in hanoi and 18 evening here in moscow. welcome to the global news update on r t. i'm you know, we begin with a developing story from cuba. now, at least for our reported dead after a huge explosion rock this started toga hotel in have found that 13 more people are

missing a gasoline cal has been named as a potential the massive blast, the historical town suffrage. as you can see here, extensive damage with so my witness a con, stating that the exclusion happened on the 2nd floor and then read through other levels. we will bring you more updates on a possible reason and other updates on casualty levels in the coming hours. ah, to the latest on the ukraine conflict now, where 12 civilians, including children, have just left a besieged steel, planting more youthful. this is the latest footage of that evacuation overnight. more than 500 people, including 67 children, were evacuated from the port city. now, according to united nations on done yet, republic officials, it comes after new humanitarian corridors were open to allow civilians to leave the besieged as alf style plant. the un started

a 3rd evacuation operation from the sites on thursday with the un secretary general saying quiet diplomacy helped complete the process. we heard from locals by the current situation. maria, 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, lloyd young, forgiven of me. 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 piece and tranquillity ukraine has accused russia of violating the ceasefire, alleging moscow broke gets promised to stop all hostilities during the civilian evacuation. russia hasn't as yet commented, but done. yet. people's republic officials claim key of forces shallow territories

in the region 35 times in one day leading to 4 civilian debts are correspond and visited an area used as a firing position by ukrainians. workers. gusto work krinski. this is how ukrainian militants turn any courtyard. any residential building into 45 firing positions when they retreated them with right behind me, you can see a gap and the fence is been created for easy, quick movement between positions here is a snap, his position with a good view. these comfortable coverings are made from furniture. multiple holes for firing have been made in the walls. the whole areas covered with such positions were. you got that? are you? great, get way to get in. yes, the cranium 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. look at the technicians get both. another area which has seen

fierce fighting is this sprawling zaria chemical factory. earlier, the russian military said the ton of rebellion lawyer located close to the plants had been taken under control. locals are now trying to return some semblance of normality to the devastated region, which still has no running water or electricity ortiz. maria national is there for us. frontline now moved from 5 to 7 kilometers. that way hand 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. my rental, do you have water, electricity, there is no water, no light, 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 shelley, he doesn't talk. lou bombed, he's close in on himself. out of this cars of recent battles are everywhere. graves,

hain, 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 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, there's i had planned on the city's outskirts as the ukrainian forces last position, and the joint russia, la guns, republic army. he's moving steadily forward. i see those of her. 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. 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 shelling, 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 so some people hiding in 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 faster than what you see for the gym is arbitrary. is it when you move on to person watching what debris, according to this rule, 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 and monitoring them up. there are no hospitals, we have nothing. we help all citizens. all pharmacies have been looted. there is no medical help. we received $63.00 wounded in a month and a half, not one died. we treated everyone, 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. reef notion r t. that'll be as now another story we're across today. there is continuing division in the e. u. concerning brussels proposed neurons of sanctions targeting russian energy, the hungarian prime minister as compared the blocks plan, total battle on russian all to

a nuclear bomb for the central european nation. as a doctoral brussels oil embargo proposal is equivalent to a nuclear bomb being dropped on the hungarian economy. so it is unacceptable. 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. 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. ringback be seen for at least 4 to 5 years. there is this boundless confidence from ursula vaughan delay. now. she outlined the package on wednesday in front of the european parliament saying that it would include a complete embargo on importing russian oil by the end of this year. it would be

swift, 3 more russian banks. it would also add, disallow accountancy firms and p, all firms here in the european union, from doing business with any russian firms in the future, and 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. so the commission seems to be very confident that he can pass these new sanctions, but they may have to, we write them a little or even water 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 a unanimous vote. and those already a sense that if this package is not approved by the end of friday,

at least over the weekend, that yoseph burrell, the foreign policy chief, is already ready to call an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers. next week, news outlets in britain today are flooded with grim headlines, warning of rising interest rates and looming inflation in the country. the u. k. media shared their pessimistic predictions on the economic growth forecast. does the bank of england raise interest rates with concerns the 13 year high will affect mortgage and loan rates for millions. families will apparently have to tighten their belts of the recession looms some express their concerns on social media. the conservatives appear to be a great deal more relaxed about 10 percent inflation than i am. rapid inflation. rising interest rates, a looming recession and households feeling the squeeze. i ask again, where are the briggs that dividends we were promised? you are funding the russian ukranian war still, while we are applying tough sanctions,

which will hit our economy. it will in germany, a poll is revealed fully around 14 percent of german industrial firms are able to completely replace import cuts from russian dollars less than half can partially replace her in port with her own 14 percent. again, saying it's not possible at all. many companies are also affected in directly because their own suppliers get their imports from russia. me last, ross live now to george zamarelli, senior research fellow, the global policy institute. think tank welcome, george. it seems like you came media, have suddenly forgotten about the ukrainian conflict coverage and turned their eyes to the current to u. k. crisis. what cause they shift in attention? do you think was the local election day? and the boris johnson has disastrous the badly. and this is of course,

entirely in keeping with all other reasons the elections, whether the primary in ohio in the united states. this week weather was making a hor, election in april exam. the teacher's election also in april. all of the candidates who are against sanctions, against getting involved in this war in ukraine are doing well. and all of the candidates who want greater involvement in ukraine are doing very badly. so i think there is a definite message that is coming from the public. apparently it didn't take long for the anti russian sanctions to have an impact on european states. how do you think countries will cope with growing import cuts? well, i think they just going to ignore. i mean, the, you doesn't really have any kind of course, love mention is also on the line is the president of the european commission. so

she's technically the chief executive all the you. but she doesn't command the police or she doesn't come on the on. he doesn't go on any of the security forces, so she can't pay for anything. so countries are not going to destroy their own economies or just happens to be more explicit about what he said. look, i mean we're not going to release you clear bomb, garron economy and other countries are going to say the same thing without just going to stop and freeze because of ukraine. so while they going through the motions, you're going to affect how are you going to do it? how are you going to make the european stories? if you'll done salvation, they're not going to take it. european leaders have call for their citizens to cut their energy on goods consumption to help produce depended on on russia. do you think people are going to, you know, maybe short term them i, but as the months go on,

people will accept those lifestyle changes. the politicians are asking for well, sometimes they do that when particularly little the goody 2 shoes types, you know, like everything green, i don't want to use too much electricity and i want to use diesel too much. and yeah, yeah, we'll come back on our picnics in the countryside, but most people under to make a decision like that for you crane the really is no support among the public, whether in europe or in the united states to make sacrifices for ukraine. it's better this whole ukraine venture which obsesses the media. it's an elite concern, it's not a public. and so when it, when people make a decision as to whether they're going to make sacrifices, they might do it for a green environment. they're not going to do it for you grain. george marielli senior research fellow at the global policy institute. thank you. the price of diesel said an all time high in the united states of the country

continues to struggle with fuel distribution amid the continuing conflict and ukraine. the average price of diesel is approaching $6.00 a gallon. there was less than 4 over the past year. the fuel is crucial to the us economy of its powers, big rig trucks for motors on ships that deliver the vast majority of goods, so market as the biden administration shifts that blame for inflation levels to the russian president. one trucker told us, it's hard to fully buy into the narrative. 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, right? 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. when recent polls i've indicated americans of the worst, the expectations about the u. s. economy and decades on thing, joe biden bears responsibility for the rising fuel prices as inflation was on the increase well before the ukraine conflict. earlier, i discussed how the current fuel crisis has affected the u. s. farming industry with undone. monticello, owner of a 3rd generation family business in california, with the price of fuel being so expensive, everyone's going to pay more for everything. no food holding doesn't matter what it is. it's salvo enough. it cost us more to put in our tractor cost more for to produce on the truck to drive the truck, to whereever it's going on. 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. yeah. obviously are aware by saying, oh yes, we understand there's inflation. it almost feels as if they're doing it on purpose because they don't seem to be bothered in the least. the entire country is suffering greatly because of it, and it's become the economy is the time everybody's number one concern. don joe biden believes the so called putting price hike is wholly responsible for the situation at rising fuel and living cost. what, what do you say to that when he say something? well, that's ridiculous and everybody knows it. i mean, they shut down the troll him industry. first thing they did when they got into office, they're going to, oh it's this isn't our fault, this is my fault. well, it is your fault and you're hurting everybody in america. and everybody in america knows that today the vitamin got elected aren't gas prices in california, one up a dollar. so it's like we, everybody knows where it's coming from,

taking into 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 out front and center? i think to, to pull attention away from what's happening to domestically, 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. so it's, 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. the u. s. has cut energy imports from here, from russia. story that we've been fallen quite a large diesel stockpiles have hit record lows. do you think the government can make up the deficit? the stock price is rising further. they could, if they wanted to. they don't want this. you know, their happiness. they need to cut more get away from fuel under percent, clean energy. well,

that's great. but if the technology isn't there in the meantime, while you're developing that technology, media, keep people healthy, keep the economy healthy. everything else are you optimistic at all? things will improve the wanna change things, people wake up and say no more of this, like that guy screaming out the window and it means i don't, i'm not going to take it any more. people 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. it is extremely important to confiscate russian offsets on transfer them to ukraine. that's the statement made by president of the european council, sean michelle. according to the politician, the process could be difficult, but it's a question, a furnace. in my opinion, this is a question of fairness, not only idea to freeze the assets, but confiscation to make this money available for ukrainian or socrates for their

trust fund. and for the all these goals that i mentioned, especially for the rebuilding of the country. i recognize because by profession i used to be a lawyer that's on a legal level. it's not so simple. there are $27.00 legal systems across the european union. and in many you members states this needs a decision taken by court in order to make it possible. it takes time, it's a difficult and long process. well, those statements come after her and half of russia's gold and foreign exchange reserved, amounting to $300000000000.00. were frozen up the set up the ukraine conflict. russia has condemned the news, citing a violation of existing international laws. the kremlin has also said russia was prepared for the so called economic war, waged by the west. the european union is not the 1st to consider transferring russian assets to ukraine. the u. s. congress earlier approved a bill allowing the use of assets confiscated from russians to partly assist

ukraine. washington has also previously seen funds belonging to run off get this done in less cross live. now a tour, i guess, benjamin chow, professor up the power school of technology and business on the center for china and globalization. welcome to you. the west is considering the possibility of transferring frozen, rushing offsets to ukraine. do you think those plans will workouts? i think the colonel michelle's comment echoed proposal for by day last week by the us president job by them to streamline the seizure and the future of russian. all the cards sanctioned assets under the current law the united states can fulfill the proceeds of sanctions violations. but he cannot for fit property used to facilitate such sessions violations. so this proposal is intended to close that gap,

but fisher is not the same as confiscation. now the fight in proposal is asking congress for expend authority to confiscate and liquid h russian property. but even sanctions can also be challenge in the court of justice of the european union. where do you has frequently lost such cases? for example, former ukrainian president? yeah. nicole rich and palmer egypt and trusted mobile rick have one question related lawsuit against the news. now, many legal critics have actually argued that this proposal creates some repercussions about presidents and how this will apply in other cases excerpt, because there's no really puts the recent debt. did you create situation? we consider so much more special cases than other crisis being being argued by other governments have been penalized, we've session, including those in a, libya and iran, and equally to

a backlash. because effects are already showing that many people stop us. they are stopped by an asset investing countries. and there is this double extended one on one hand. yeah. while we had to assume that those russian, all the guns are in the excess monday with the due process. but at the same time open, he denied the rights of the process. now the s s a being frozen. you've touched on it already, but do such actions have a legal basis under international law? well, free assets of a nation. you know, how you navy, due to claim it is a moral or whatever reason. it's one issue, but, you know, freezing as of private individuals. it is completely another level. in fact the, even in america, the american civil liberties union has one. and the legislation, in that sense, corvalle to due process protections as the targeted audi cards would have no

recourse to challenge the convocation and war. now we know that the west has hung down and grab yards medicines, bank accounts, helicopters, artworks owned by russian. all the guards, ascension, by the word that there are also ways to possibly get around it, including using could to come and see, show companies holding assets by relatives and so on. so fundamentally, for every session or confiscation of, we really need to out this fundamental question whether whether, what kind of crimes have been violated by decent visual? it's, he or she given the right to depend. and don't forget to, well he's do a fresh with what the us has done to upcoming 10 point research. yeah, a lot of food for thought and those answer is benjamin. thank you, benjamin sha, professor at the park school of technology and business on the center for china and

globalization into china cause cold arm japan to stop. so cold provocations, accusing tokyo, exaggerating threats in order to boost that's military development. that's after the japanese prime minister claimed a similar situation to ukraine. conflict could emerge in east asia. we must collaborate with our allies and like minded countries and never tolerate a unilateral attempt to change the status quo by the use of force in the indo pacific. especially in east asia. ukraine may be east asia to morrow. the prime minister raised the question of taiwan, saying a peaceful resolution is crucial for the region. china seas the island does its territory. however, it's under control of a separate government which has limited recognition. the topic of alleged chinese threats against ty pay has received widespread media attention. in recent weeks. i'm delighted to welcome live onto the program packet. none wong senior lecturer

out the department politics language is an international studies at the university of boston, the u. k. welcome to you. is it accurate to compare the situation in ukraine with east asia? why does tokyo feel there are similarities in the 1st pays, i don't think he's acreage to compare the situation in your crane with taiwan. number one, russia, it's not china. right? china seas nigh teeth up in the ny, when she had condra coffee at nom china has been refrain from conducting or even thinking of any kind of massive, massive intervention. like why she has done in places such as you can call me georgia and many reasons the in, you know. and so i don't think it is in live would be chinese force you to think

about and to conduct this kind of mosse scale and intervention. and so i don't thing russia and china has that a day to say. now, on the other hand, i don't think i want is the same as ukraine. taiwan is not even a member of the united nations general assembly. and taiwan has an entirely different kind of political, economic security configuration with china and also with the united states. and again, it was the 19th of denied and taiwan entered into a treaty with the next day, which we call the taiwan relations act. now, although there's no explicit language in ensuring the and the time on these are all t,

the top 40 that united states will indeed defend taiwan by force if it was attacked by china. but it was, has been generally been the consensus that the united states has these kind of informal obligation. so because ukraine has not entered into this kind of treaty with the united states, as all i don't think is comparable, alright, in china, accuses another aspect of this back long chinese uses japan of exaggerating threats in order to justify its own military build up high further for his doctor's ation. ok, now it's interesting because we need to ask, what is the motivation of mr. shita is he's proposing these kind of repeating ukraine product, east asian context, referring to china. what is he trying to pay up or up to? obviously he's because that that was excited to contact people in london. he was

talking with the u. k prime minister. so it has to do with these larger narrates of the china threat, not just in europe, but also in these asia. and dad narrative is praying into the kind of job by the name, expressions of your containment of china, russia since last year. now, how, what are we going to get from it? and obviously, japan nice, very open to reason the expelling russian. diplomats a joining some of the other your european countries. yeah. and actually japan is probably the only ones so far exposing, rushing to promise and enter into these kind of mental pro russia. and so it is, i think i think it is as us as japan's position as it is. and she has been economic and tre weiss has been trying to get the best from china up at the same