this little boy's school give us with one ah tremendous fireworks display celebrating the historic defeat of naziism are held across cities in ukraine and the dumbass where russian forces have taken control. victory day celebrations in the dumbass are freely held for the 1st time since the qu and give 8 years ago. we hear from an american journalist who describes how things work during that time in the city. look on ever since my down have been, they've had free reign and murdering ranking, robbing people. and quite thankfully, russia and ukraine president zalinski and if the military post

a photo on social media of a soldier proudly displaying a nazi symbol and a message about victory de commemoration with catherine live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our 2 international. i'm john thomas, in the guy the chatty, with right now as a peaceful life is starting to get back to normal in the ukraine, and don best cities taken by joint russian don bask, done yet. can lugens forces fireworks for world war 2 victory day celebrations? have replaced the front lines shelling ah, the southern ukrainian cities of guns and a good are, were russian forces are currently position for the 1st time in many years have joined in on the main knights celebrations, residents of the done by cities of done yet, scandal, ganske also took part in the festivities. dahl across russia,

fireworks illuminated the sky lines of dozens of major cities. take a look. ah mm. a

mm. magnificent sight there. another 77th anniversary of the victory over nazi germany was commemorated in russia not only with brilliant fireworks like you just saw, but also military parades and widespread civilian celebrations, all across the country. huge crowds turned out for the annual immortal regiment must march in moscow and other cities as well, with people carrying photos of relatives and loved ones who took part in world war 2. a commemoration was also held in the southern ukrainian city of had a son. it was the 1st time that a major celebration could take place in the city since the russian military establish control more than a month ago, amid lingering resistance from ukrainian forces. the festivities also took a deadly turn as the russian military says, a ukrainian missile attack on the procession was forwarded by a russian defense system. a city in eastern ukraine also held its 1st immortal regiment procession for the 1st time since the 2014 who in chief locals with many

children and will war to veterans among them, flooded the streets of milly topple, carrying portraits of relatives who fought in the historic conflicts residence also brought flowers to the brothers a great memorial where the eternal flame has been relieved after a 70 year. absence of the city has been under the control of a new administration since the 3rd week of the print in concert and in the dumbass city of marble, recently retaken by russian led forces. victory day was also celebrated, but differently than it was in 2014, when the ukrainian military entered the city. this year, as you can see on the right, a massive 300 meter long, st. george ribbon was unfurled in the city, and an eternal flame was solemnly lit. people carried portraits of their relatives and laid flowers at a monument to those fallen and world war 2. many locals said that they are happy to be able to openly celebrate victory day for the 1st time. in 8 years. it cries

me, it's a holiday. it's not even a longing. this is a joy that overwhelmed the soul because for all 8 years, all this was forbidden here. and if there is a holiday in my soul now, because we have been waiting for all 8 years, we were waiting for victory day when we wouldn't be afraid to go to the monument and lay flowers. ukraine had been dismissing the viewpoints of people in don, yet scan langon screens for years or t heard from george las on a american journalist who moved to the don best in 2012. he says, the start of the russian military operation has been a huge relief for the people as a dumbass who had been oppressed by neo nazi groups integrated into the ukranian armed forces. ukraine was coming across the gray line in mass, and the people of dumbass would've just been devastated. and what i'm talking

about them murdering everybody where they stood wherever they found people. that was their plan. and quite thankfully, russia acted and it's been ah, unbelievable for both morale. and just the fact that everybody here knows that it was russia a save their lives. so what's going on right now, and the fact that russia recognized lance people's republic and honest people's republic. this is a great thing and everybody here celebrated that how do i feel about as of and the other national battalions and what they've done over the last 8 years. it will, it makes me very angry. ever since my down happened. they've had free reign and

they've been murdering raping robbing people across ukraine, across dumbass wherever they're allowed to, to stand. they're involved in criminal activity. these people need to be brought to justice one way or the other, and the people that have suffered under them. and by them need closure, they need resolution so they can get on with their lives. this is important because of all the people that as a lot of skills and they just talk to people just disappeared. the families right now don't how that closure. the good spirit of victory day was it not reciprocated across all of ukraine. however, kim's president zelinski and the national defense ministry, posted a picture on social media of a soldier, probably displaying a nazi symbol. but later that photo was deleted from both accounts on twitter and telegram. this symbol was used by an elite nazi german pens division and other

fascist forces during world war 2. but it appears that western media outlets have preferred to conceal those details. a sky news anchor had to urgently finish an interview with russia, deputy ambassador to the un. after that official drew attention to the nazi symbol that zelinski is account has posted. we'll show you what was today as the official page of president landscape. here you can see it in instagram and then this is the emblem. you see it's like right now, i will make it bigger. so that's the molina, what it is, is some, some ambling for if a german division and cell division in the 2nd world war, the u. k. now he's covering ukrainian authorities. we display these, these symbols during the victory they. and these, these symbols were used by the same arrangements that killed british people will be,

i'm sure you've heard you say we've run out of mr. paul or the ascii. thank you very much indeed to talk. and that should just say that those images that say was shown by mr. polanski, we haven't been able to independently verify them. we discussed the topic with serbian american journalists and historian, new butcher mileage. who says it's not surprising that the west is ignoring his ties to neo nazis because that doesn't fit their agenda. the fact that they're simply not vetting these posts because they don't think anything of it that is perfectly normal for their forces to be displayed. the symbols and they keep getting caught in it again and again, the fact that they can't help themselves, but actually show off assess symbol just goes to show that this is one of those things that's background noise. nobody bothers noticing. so i, for 1 am grateful that they did this because again,

it's very revealing. it's one of those for i didn't slips. that tells you who they really are in the west stands with ukraine and they keep saying, and, you know, ukraine represents freedom, democracy, human rights and all the good values that the west officially embraces and stands for goodness. and you're not against good to, sorry. i mean, that's the narrative. it doesn't matter that these very same outlets in some cases, very same journalists just a couple of years ago, were writing about us off being this problematic nest of white supremacists, racist fascists who aim to spread their toxic ideology in europe. and linked them to the new zealand mosque shooter as well as other terrorists around the world. and now did the same. i was like, no, no, no, that's fine. you know, they were different. even though they're not different. and that back then they actually interviewed be let ski who's, who's the founder of us off and who literally told them yes, i chose the symbols. and i chose them because they were not the symbols. and you know, they're basically eating their own words because the narrative has changed. because

right now, and as of and ukraine are useful to the geo politics of the west. and if you know, if truth gets in the way of that well too bad, it's despicable. russian president vladimir, put in a solemn speech in honor of victory de thanked, allied forces for their contribution to the defeat of fascism in the 2nd world war such as american veterans who wanted to come to the parade. and moscow for essentially prohibited from doing so. but i want them to know. we are proud to view exploits and your heroic dean of your contribution to the victory. we all know all soldiers of the allied armies. look at your store and use not britton's defense. secretary ben wallace was quick to criticize, put into speech accusing russia of dishonor in its military past with the war and ukraine, in which, while his claims that the russian mil kerry will be defeated through the invasion

of ukraine, put in his inner circle in his generals and marrying fascism and tyranny 7070 years ago, repeating the errors of the last century is to tell terry and regimes and for them . and for person that can be no victory, day, only dishonour and surely defeat and ukraine. what's interesting is the, it's very inappropriate for the state of victory day. i mean, if you look at president for mark stephen, he thinks the allied forces he actually specifically pointed out the american involvement and how lot of veterans are not able to come for that would have liked to come. i mean, he actually embraced the whole allied movement to defeat naziism and then to have the, you and the u. k. politicians, the staying with very, very bad, very bad message is very poor example, especially on this, on this day on the celebration. because this is not about the war and ukraine,

it's about what was done 70 some years ago, and the defeat of nazi germany and their, their countries would not be where they are today. it was not for russia. when i listen to mr. wallace it's i don't know if he's in a different world, if he's delusional. but definitely it's not describing rush at all. if anything he's actually describing what the alternation are doing and the and what many would if you're look at fascist, i mean and fascism. it's essential what ukraine is actually evolving into with the alternation control and so many things. i mean, the definition is right there, it's definitely not russia. and i think mr. wallace is poorly very badly misplaced . and some of the verbage was very unprofessional,

and uncalled for by any supp diplomat. several missiles have reportedly hit the ukrainian port city of desa on the black sea, destroying a number of buildings allegedly used by the ukrainian military. now this on verified video purportedly shows the targeted area, some unconfirmed sources say that this was a hotel which had allegedly been occupied by ukrainian troops. that's after another resort, allegedly housing for an mercenaries was fired upon. another huge explosion was caught on video in jessa. check this out, reports to say a shopping mall and warehouse with ammunition inside were hid. it seems, the explosions continued for some time after the initial strike suggesting the buildings could have indeed been used to store military arsenals. despite immense pressure from western powers, urging the rest of the world to join the sanctions against moscow, china's imports from neighboring russia set new record highs last month in ports of

a number of goods. were double last year's figures and were up substantially from the previous month. well, and gas led the growth with a russian deputy prime minister, who overseas, the energy sector saying exports to the asia pacific region in general have especially risen. but at the same time, there was a drastic drop in chinese export to russia, particularly in the technology sector. including smartphones as international sanctions have complicated business ties between those countries, sparking discontent among chinese officials. we oppose any band or restriction on china's normal trade activities with other countries. china will take the necessary measures to firmly defend the legitimate interests of chinese enterprises. russia and china recently established a framework for direct trade operations without involvement of a 3rd state. it's a move away from us dollar dominance with several large energy deals signed in

early february. despite mounting pressure from western leaders, beijing has repeatedly refused to impose sanctions against russia over the conflict in ukraine, and has pledged to maintain a neutral position, hired on a job center. so there is an argument that china stands on the wrong side of history for not joining the united states and other western countries in condemning and sanctioning russia to china pursues an independent foreign policy of peace and determines its position based on the merits of the matter. king china never follows, you know, this is footstep lead us one, the director of the center for european studies at china is redmond university, says china won't came into western pressure and imposed sanctions against russia. because that could hinder the huge potential of their bilateral economic ties. china, i'm there, rush us, economic relations that way. complimentary. uh huh. huge potential china new type labor relations. so mutual respects you and i'm not talking to any sort of

party. we have a normal trade relations with russia. we can not pay the cost of player lesson sanction to russia. and sanctions means you only walked the water is yours. so you can send from anybody that's actually i thought it was the, the pow wow. i'm 6 acceptable by the chinese and other countries for long term under russia, political relations that way go to funding economy conditions not to catch up, always to the level of the political neutral trust. so both sides, not just under printers, and even a local governments to think of more to need to go back to, to president sat about the trait e u foreign policy chief justice burrell says the block should consider using,

sees that russian assets to pay for the reconstruction of ukraine, western powers have already frozen the bulk of the russian at central banks, foreign currency reserves, as punishment for the conflict in ukraine. archie's charlotte davinsky explains how to make russia, hey, that is the burning question in many western countries and with sanctions. not perhaps, hitting as hard to russia's economy as they may have hoped. what next? now the use top diplomat wants to donate into rushes, frozen foreign exchange reserves. a method already used by the us with afghan funds in afghanistan. i would be very much in favor because it is full of logic. we have the money in our pockets and someone has to explain to me why it is good for the afghan money and not good for the russian money. if they did this, the you would have access to hundreds of billions of dollars to use as they wish to

now under barrels plan, not money would be used to rebuild ukraine, a sort of war compensation scheme, all reparations of song without choice. other ideas muted include selling the sees property of russian oligarchs. the u. s. is already pushing for this and the idea hasn't gain traction in brussels to personally, i'm absolutely convinced that it is extremely important to not only freeze assets, but also to make it possible to confiscate them to make them available for rebuilding the country. now he went on to say that he's already instructed the use legal teams to find a way to make this possible, but he may come unstuck. some experts suggest, at least if he wants the you to continue to respect international law. certainly it is a threat, but in this day and age where the rule of law and its national laws seem to have

receded quite a lot particularly and by the us and its allies, want us to take that thread seriously. however, it would be a dramatic departure from a so norms and standards and such. so perhaps piracy might spike alone of quotas. the u. m. b u. s. have a fruit relations with some countries, not just russia, the idea that they could just no fees, but also use the funds would be a traumatic move. if china sees this is dustin will hang on. actually these europeans and americans are not trustworthy. they could just decide that we're now an enemy, and in fact, you know, we do find various statements from various politicians that seem to suggest such an idea. then china and also many of the countries could start to withdraw their assets from. what essentially is the u. s.

c of influence and that could precipitate a dramatic collapse in the use of the us dollar and also the euro. now such a decision could also back fire for the you. functions of course, can be challenged in court. you court and the book doesn't have a great record of winning such cases. ukraine's former president janet cove ich egypt for president mubarak both won sanction related lou seats against you. meaning the idea of spending rushes seized money could be just a lot of hotter. show levinsky r t. paris. amid the ukraine conflict, thousands of people have sought refuge in neighboring russia. that is, despite intimidation by the key of government echoed in western mainstream media saying that that move could be dangerous,

as it was done of comments. nothing good awaits you in russia, the message sent to ordinary ukrainians couldn't have been clearer. i appeal to our citizens who are preparing for the evacuation. today. we have just received information that the occupiers may be trying to organize their own corridor for evacuation to russia. so please be careful and vigilant. do not succumb to deceit and provocation for the ukrainian troops. it was much better if they could mingle among civilians. dozens of witnesses have been describing how the zone battalion gives house trained neo nazis, have been actively holding them hostage done when it, if we knew about the humanitarian corridors we knew about the evacuation, but they just didn't let us out. since the thinker they were hiding in a 73rd house in the basement on the 1st floor, who was hiding their hip, not teeth, not his her. as off the cbo, they said maryville is a separate a city that we should have got what we deserved. well sorry to this,

the world said this is my house. as of militants burned it, wendy nest forces advanced. some did manage to escape key of control territories and the flea to rush up like a lorna here while she wasn't held back in ukraine at gunpoint. like many, she says the authorities were deliberately keeping them in the dark about evacuation options. my uncle dan until 2nd week, the when the conflict begin on february 24th, we did not leave until the last moment since they did not let us out. there was no vacation and there was no information about vacations monthly. we did not understand that we could evacuate at all, and then it became clear that there was an opportunity to move somewhere when some kind of communication was restored. we didn't have that communication at all before . i contacted a friend and she cried with joy that we were alive. so she took matters into her own hands and headed to russia. a place ukrainian major calls literally nothing else than more do itself. but she found something else entirely. you know ukrainian

troops help you, but we did not see a single your green and volunteer. and the 1st aid received was from the nav colon 2 years. we didn't need help with evacuation. we arrived the russian refugee center ourselves, volunteers, medicine the border and offered us water and food, even our animals. and while there's no place like home alone, i can definitely see a future in the small russian port city. she's in right now, though i would like to return to see the city restored. i would return to normal live, but maybe here and talk to rogue. i can find something of value for myself and feel at home. i know wonder if i should go back. i the with 90 percent of the votes counted ferdinand marcos has taken the lead in the philippines presidential election. he is the son of our former president who had come to power more than 50 years ago. the

elder ford, a man, marcos was president for more than 2 decades. from 1965. then he was deposed in 1986. for nearly a decade. he rolled under martial law until millions of filipinos rose up in protest against the government. now, 3 decades later, the marco's family appears, set to return to power with a margin of victory, of more than 15000000 votes. and the current election is of great interest to both china and the us as washington struggles to hold influence in manila to challenge beijing's authority. in the endo pacific region, the philippines was long a traditional military ally of the u. s. but 6 years ago, it shifted ties in china's favor and dramatically declared a separation from washington. international relations expert, joseph gregory mahoney, says manila may keep from picking sides in an attempt to maintain a balance between the opposing powers. well, you know,

i think that the high question of course is what are the implications with philippines relations with china? and on this matter, we've seen mixed signals from arkansas. he's indicated he favors continuing bilateral ism, which many interpret is a win for china. and so much that means manila and beijing will deal with each other directly and not through other organizations or international partners. primarily, it's largely assumed you'll continue the policies of outgoing president and turkey given their political alliance, which includes the turkey's daughter, sarah as marco's vice presidential running mate. marcos is acknowledged, popular concerns of those of the military that the philippines should stand. tough with china on some points. but he's also sensitive to the popular desire not need for more economic cooperation with china. now, manila isn't naive, it knows china won't be the grand solution to its development needs, but it also knows that china is not a significant danger to phillip insecurity if relations are manage well. so

ultimately, i don't see marco's, yes, please joining a sheet of things, recent call flow security mission, which major has promoted as being led by china and starting in asia. but i also don't see him following the u. s. into a new cold war. all right, that is it for me to stay with us throughout the day as we bring you more news and commentary. this is our chief international with ah

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hello and welcome to worlds apart. there's little doubt that there was when you just 3 years ago is no more and it keeps just forming very rapidly. even the nature of change is changing. how have you from china, a country with at least 5000 to your long history, and yet a very adaptive, very agile approach to shifting grounds. to discuss that i'm now joined by and the more senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization. it's americans, great to talk to you. thank you very much for time to be here. now i think that would both agree that the conflict in your brain while still localized is a symptom of much broader process. how do you see it? what is it about for you? well, i think the conflict in ukraine is a tragedy, certainly for the civilians that have been effective, but also for the military from both sides. we know that war kinetic conflict is

a terrible thing in terms of the human cost of lives, lost people hurt named and also the economic destruction. but i would not agree that it is a localized conflict because as i've written and spoken about other venues, i believe that this really is 3 different conflicts are wars. there is also a media or propaganda war being waged up by the western countries. the angle phone countries at its core, and perhaps most significantly, there is an economic war that is being waged, initiated by the us and its allies, its russia. and it's the 3rd war that i think in particular, is having a global impact. and we are only starting to see the beginnings of it.