sacrificing effect is interrogate with at least 3 people have been killed in the shelling of residential areas, including several schools in the city of don. yes, that's according to local officials who accused the ukrainian military of deliberately targeting civilians with weapons supplied by the you. with an explosion, the left to aid was injured in the ukrainian city of mila. toefl currently under russian control was an act of terrorism stays the local administration and ot correspondent witness the incident. i am now at the my little hotel in the center of the city where an explosion took place just 15 minutes ago. that left windows

broken on all 5 floors, such things have never happened before in mila total. and a 2nd explosion is still possible a whole that we remember hold your country, say the block will not be able to negotiate a band on russian oil imports. as a high profile, european council meeting goes into full swing in gruff with a very well welcome. this is on the international with the latest headlines. it's good to have you with us. now russia is a turkey is prepared to help mediate a peaceful solution to the conflict in ukraine, but only if most go care of and the united nations accept that role for anchor up. so keys, president, voice the proposal during the call with vladimir putin on monday, the russian presidents that mosca was ready to facilitate a c corridor that will allow for gray next sports from ukraine. and can them say

russia is prepared to explore significant volumes of fertilizers and agricultural products. as soon as western sanctions lifted, the turkish president stressed it's important to establish peace in ukraine as soon as possible and to eliminate the negative consequences of the conflict. don't ask officials say at least 3 people have been killed and 21. others wounded including children and the shelling of the capital city of the dog bass republic. ukrainian forces have been accused of intentionally targeting civilian areas, including several schools. ah, shelling has left 3 educational sides, damaged, local authorities, say 2 people were killed and 12 others wounded inside full number 22, a director of the facility say several teachers were injured in that attack. and here's some of the latest the teach from another don. yes, school also left damaged by shelling. there's no word on casualties so far. the

math don't. yes, says the ukranian bombing was carried out with the use of heavy weapons supplied the keys by the us. ukraine has not yet commented on the allegations of correspondent women cause direct reports from outside one of the shells schools. i am standing right now next to the school number 22. the as you can see, it's almost completely destroyed. and this is where one of the ledge of ukrainian rockets had landed. fortunately they were, there were no people nearby here. but we are getting a difference reports about the number of casualties a year and an s gets anywhere from 3 to 5. and i think that's because a couple of people are yet to be identified the truly or if it's season anesco this monday morning, one of the people who is yet to be identified had been decapitated by the us. troy

and people are trying to id her at the moment. local authorities. now several districts here in the next came under fire on monday morning and indeed a couple of schools vis one and another school in the same area have been damaged as well. local officials are saying that the crating side used 165 millimeter millimeter artillery against civilians. here, as the result at least 20 people have been wounded and there are children among among those people as well. now, one of the principles of one of the schools spoke to us a little bit earlier in the day, and she said there could have been a lot more victims. let's have a listen. see, we're going to deliver water here and accept human tearing 8 nearby. but they was cancelled early this morning at 9 30 am around 50 people were supposed to gather here, adults and high school students. at the time of the explosion i was inside,

we were having online classes. now there could have been a lot more victim is just like this principal said plus may the 30th or this monday is the day of this state exam. so a lot of fun children had sent it to their schools. and fortunately those calls i had not been hit. so thankfully there is a children are now on the distance learning. so many of the schools had indeed been emptied by teachers and technical staff were all there elsewhere. any ukrainian 50 military pull currently under rushing control, has also be rock spine explosion and at the local administration has called terrorism to humanitarian aid. workers were injured in the blast. early this morning when they car drove over an explosive device, an anti correspondent was at the scene. go see the movie. horrible. i am now at the

miller topple hotel in the center of the city where an explosion took place just 15 minutes ago. that left windows, broken on all 5 floors. this behind me is the building. this is the restaurant and the car was parked behind it when the explosion occurred. the sound was so loud that afterwards i felt like i had lost my hearing. the police have now co don't of the area to find out what happened. such things have never happened before and never topple and a 2nd explosion is still possible, so it is not safe to go to the car. now, there is also a chance of people getting hurt by glass from the broken windows. the bomb had been placed in a mile hall and exploded when the car with the 2 victims inside drove over it. the subsequent blash shook the windows and walls of nearby buildings and black smoke could be seen rising from the city. investigation into the explosion is ongoing. russian troops that took control of the city at the end of february. and his, the latest on advance is on the ground over the weekend. fighting has been intense in and around at 7 wrote on. yes,

one of the last ukrainian controlled cities in the loop, guns, republic, and further south rushes of his forces and allies have expanded their presence around the city of federal dusk in their republic. a don yeske, a correspondent, egleston of reports from a recently seized form ukrainian artillery position there. this is one of the main artillery positions of the login's, the people's republic militia, just outside the town of smitley. darcy, as we were heading this way, we completely missed it because even from a short distance, this looks just like shrub, but when we were pointed at them and actually showed that this is big guns with, well, lots of family. oh mm hm.

good question. you still so none of our reservists panicked and they completed their mission with valor. those are not just empty words. are part of the frontline has been stretched out and we keep moving from one place to another, but nobody is complaining. everyone is enduring the hardships with honor since the ukrainians fled the don boss army could say good bye to the former long held positions and moved their houses further and witnessed the results of their efforts 1st hand. this was one of the most heavily contested strongholds of the ukrainian forces. here before they fled that way, beyond the town of smitley. darcy, when the militia made the decisive push to take this place, hundreds of bombs hail down on this bastion

yesterday. good. she missing? i was shooting at this position for 7 years and to be here now and look at all of this. it's a special feeling also, which was it's hard. i remember those who have fallen while taking this hill as well as those who were killed before right ago. we suffered a lot from this ukranian position. you can see it has a great vantage points so they could see us from here. here they fought here. the brothers in arms fell. finally, they can see that no loss was in vain homage donna reporting from baton bass r t a and then was hungry and estonia say the block is failing to negotiate a band on oil and pool is from russian. european lead is the thing down in brussels to try and agree on a nice sanctions package. is the hungarian prime minister ahead of the meeting? that is looking for my retirement. oh that remember all energy it's

risky. serious. so therefore we have to change your approach for solutions, and i literally, well optimism is something that seems to be in abundance with some leaders and not with others. as we go into this summit, they're a hugely mixed messages about who or what will be done as a result of this. we know the ursula vandalay and the commission president went into the meeting saying that she was cautiously optimistic that they would be agreement on this 6 sanctions package. i in not in the next 48 hours during the summit, but in the days after that. and as he heard back from victor, albany, leader of hungry, he says, oil will not be something that he can agree to. the question is, will that you have to completely change the sanctions package? will have to take out oil if it's to get agreement in the next few days. that is, something clearly doesn't want to do the, the, all subjects of the russian oil embargo has been a topic of debate for some time has in it. why is the ease still yet to come to any

agreement there? well, it's difficult to oversee to get $27.00 members nations to come together to agree on anything. but there was this sense when earth lavonne de leon almost 30 days ago, stood in front of the european parliament and said, look, we're going to ban these in ports of russian oil. there was this optimism that they would be able to pass this pat sanctions package again very quickly as they had pretty much with the other ones. however, what we've seen since then is the e leaders are unhappy about certain elements of it and, and can't agree on that out. we know that oil is the big issue for certainly central european countries. but even as far back as last week, we're hearing from the german economy minister saying, look, we're gonna get this package given the green like it's going to happen. and now we're hearing a very different tune from that minister after roches attack on ukraine. we saw what can happen when europe stands you right. let's hope it continues like this for the summit, but it has already started to crumble. now the spanish foreign minister has been

pretty clear about what the use goals are. each time it looks to push through a set of packages at one he says, look, this has to hurt the war machine, the financing of the war in ukraine. so this is directly to hurt at putin here in russia. and the 2nd thing is to ensure that sanction packages don't destabilize the you any more. and there is a question. now when we seeing these huge rises inflation increasing food prices. whether in fact the sanctions are doing what they set out to do. i suppose that what are the biggest bones of contention here is that not all of these countries in the block or in the same situation, are they some of them are more dependent on russian oil than others. so surely it's easier to call for a complete bag if you're one of the countries that only relies no little bit of russian oil. absolutely, and this is really one of the issues with her time and time. again, it's hungry that is saying no hungry say no, we heard from victor oven previously about a month ago saying your idea of banding in ports of russian oil would be like

exploding a nuclear bomb on his country economy. and it's something he is not prepared to do . but what we have heard in the past few weeks is that you is sort of been thinking about diluting this package, making concessions towards hungry and those concessions include may be allowing oil to continue flowing through into central european countries, which is something that the check republicans slovakia of also said that they would be appreciative of them. we've opened this huge can of worms because other countries have said, well, if you allow that, then we're going to have to shoulder even more of the burden in future if these concessions are given. and that has been something that countries are unhappy about . this is partly some of the reason why we're in this situation now and that you cannot approve this sanctions package as it is at the moment. we've also seen the e. u has been trying to reach out to non member states, such as serbia to say, look, come along with us for this ride when it comes to sanctions against russia. and they had hoped that they might be able to do that. however,

we've heard today from the serbian president that actually his country's da signed a long term contract for russian gas. what i can tell you is that we have agreed on the main elements that are very favorable for serbia. we will sign a 3 year contract and not a one month contract as some anticipated that sees the surgeon side very well for them. there's a gas, of course, is another big issue. it's what the e was said, all along a wants to buy or a ports of russian fossil fuels over city. it's managed to do that with coal. it struggling with oil and gas is next possibly on the chopping block. but as we have seen each time the e wants to move its sanction packages to be harder to push the russian economy further down the line. what we're actually seeing is the repercussions of those sanctions are having a much wider impact on european countries and european politicians and are looking ahead to their own elections and saying, is it good for us to be in a situation where inflation is so high record highs?

in many countries, food prices going up, we need to perhaps appease our own people and not could see sanctions, not being given green lights in the future. i'm joined now by dr. george samuel. he a senior research fellow with the global policy institute of london. many thanks for joining us on the program. so it says that talks is about done and when we one more day to go, how optimistic are you about the meeting? well, i don't think there's going to be any kind of agreement. i think that just going to get down the road. i mean, for some of the reasons that your correspondence pointed out, hungary has pretty much said, no, we're all going to go along with anything. and the latest iterations of the plan is that will sanction the russian oil that comes by tankers, but will leave the. busy oil that comes by a pipelines and while the czech republic and a told that, well,

we'll give you 2024 to cut yourself off completely from russian oil. or if i'm they had car launch. i mean there's no deadline. $1100.00 just on a. 2 oil, you know, for as long as it was a racial issues among other europeans, i mean, if you know, these countries get a free pass, you know, why should we have to stop? so i don't think there's any real prospect of a kind of agreement coming anytime soon. do you expect to be blocked to reach any compromise during this today event? no, i don't. i mean, i think that there will be some way to talk about some plan along these lines. but you know, if, if the pounds are 8 and then the check probably going to get this re pub. then i

think many countries are going to say, well, this is bad, we're already suffering enormous burden. as a result of the sanction. why should we have to carry all of the heavy burden? and one of us can just simply walk away and when it comes to russian energy, germany earlier stated that the process of phasing out russian energy would be gradual. not instantaneous. does that sound like a pragmatic approach to well, it's realistic, but it's not going to happen. i mean, you know, these european leaders have been convincing themselves of absolute long years and years. oh, we're going to go to 0 carbon initially. emissions by 2030 and early, absolutely unrealistic ludicrous plans. and so they got used to just saying this kind of nonsense. so they are still under lions that were just a bit of

a russian oil influence. by the end of the year. it was just childish. i mean, was a ludicrous ridiculous plan and it's, you know, and i think now they're realizing that 1st of them there's not going to be 0 carbon emissions by 2030, but that they can't do without russian oil. it was lost in all of this, a j is what is the central issue here, which is one of the sanctions supposed to achieve less the bus to hurt roger, but it's clear and also a wonder lion admitted as much in her interview for the weekend with n b c that will actually. 1 if we don't import load from rock rush will be doing very well because they don't sell elsewhere. so actually we need to import oil as a way to punish russia. so, you know, the, the actual underlying policy,

which is, well, let's hope russia is clearly failing the only people who are being heard of the unfortunate europeans west and gas is also going to be up for discussion during this meeting with prices skyrocketing this, when you think europe will be ready for next winter. no, i don't know because they're going to have to stop by filling up their tanks. now. it doesn't look like they're doing so, and there's just no way they can go without natural gas. i mean the job on the set, so as much, i mean, and he was your own shows. we'll be talking and talking about going to getting a cell phone. but the, all of the big industries on germany, i've gone through shoals and said, you know, you, couple of guess and we're down german economy goes back to where it was in 1945.

you know, this is just nonsense of it. there's no way in the world that germany can operate as the economic powerhouse of europe and couple of it. so yeah, because they're on the gas appliance, you can't just simply say, well, again, russia will go to cut because it's already bought. it doesn't have any spare, no natural gas to the german economy. and joe and germany. so, you know, it doesn't have to be the facilities to, to take liquefied natural gas. so it's a, it's just all been in this fantasy. well, the european leaders of the living in a level of crease a, some of the realities, getting them in the face. talk to joe, somebody a senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london. many thanks your time. me appreciate it. thank you. ah. and i'll stay on politician has blasted,

suspected ukrainian draft dodgers off the 2 tanks to drive it were beaten up in a sense of vienna by a group of men traveling in cars with ukrainian license plates. some like net, the head of the vienna office of the freedom party slammed the suspected perpetrates on twitter. instead of fighting for their country, ukrainian men are beaten up. taxi drivers in front of the luxury hotels in vienna get out of our country. according to license plates, the vehicles were registered in ukraine's denette for 12 region reports say that one of the taxes dr. is may have passed out during the violence as he wasn't moving . when the attack is dragged into the side of the road, austria police are conducting an investigation. with the instant is that the 1st time the behavior of ukrainians abroad has come under scrutiny. early this month, the war thought resident died off to a fight with ukrainians and in prague some stores and now refusing to accept ukrainian customers after an increase in fests in recent months. earlier former

european parliament member godfrey william claimed that such problems can be caused by open to immigration to welfare societies. a conversation between locals and refugees are getting worse in the west for a number of reasons. first of all, we have been swamped by a number of bogus refugees who are economic immigrants. so welfare benefits and freebies and free handouts. government handouts are extremely generous, and of course in the welfare society, immigrants coming in means there's less of the cakes to go around for locals and being specific problems. for example, in sweden, with an almost open door immigration policy that have been sorry to say, very serious crime problems involved with that there is only a certain amount of hospitality that you can give to refugees. you know, it's limited resources are finite. i'm, when governments throw the doors open,

you get you get problems with the locals and when people are realizing the cost of this in all sorts of different ways, i think the resentment will grow. not necessarily against you credit refugees, but their own government maneuver them into this crazy position. well as the us and its allies putting more money into ukraine, kia says it has already received more than $5.00 and a half $1000000000.00 in foreign aids. earlier this month, joe biden approved the release of another $40000000000.00 of us tax payers. money for ukraine package includes both military and humanitarian assistance when. meanwhile, the e. u is also ramping up at support the key f with 500000000 more euros in 8 on the way or sentence form and busted to moscow is among the vocal supporters of sending weapons to key. if some of us want to increase arms to ukraine is a means to hasten a diplomatic solution. not arming. ukraine prolongs the war. however, questions i've been raised about the accountability of all that western funding

ukraine. washington and brussels have so far failed to explain how exactly they going to follow the money. when. meanwhile, the washington post has released an article about the foreign volunteer who has recently returned from ukraine, who states his military unit was provided with american weapons that didn't even work dakota cohort. the foreign volunteers was attached to ukrainian military units and brought by yellow school bus to keith, from which they were sent north west into num battled town outside the capital. it was early march, they were issued, entertained weapons, and devil in miss elves. but no batteries for the loss unit. well, non functional or not the flow of american weapons, the ukraine has already raked in some half the profits for the u. s. military industrial complex with a net worth of raphael technologies wise about almost $15000000000.00 since the start of the year. while located, martin has sold by more than 25000000000 during the same period. we got reaction from independent investigative journalists, vanessa bailey,

who questions were the best quality weapons provided by the wes, will end up. the capability of the ukrainian forces is not that which they would like you to believe these mercenaries are claiming that the weapons they were given were faulty. we're not working, then you have to ask where the best quality weapons have ended up. they ended up in the hands of only or the, the as of, and also nationalists brigade, or have they effectively gone through ukraine into other countries in the hands of the u. s. proxies. number of people in the west are starting to question an investment into a war that really they call it when there is no way to us or do you cry or any country any night. remember, they can give assurances, but these are huge. financial packages are going to be followed

through that full accountability is going to be provided to the public for those countries that are effectively providing this money. ah, pakistan's prime minister claims he's ready to sell the quote clothes off his back to help sold. one of the was taken on the crises in the country's history. shout sharif told a chief minister that if he doesn't bring down the price of wheat flour and just 24 hours, he'll put his outfits up for sale to satisfy the needs of his people. i repeat my words, i will sell my clothes and give people the cheapest wheat flour. i solemnly declare to you that i would give my life to put this country on the past to prosperity and development. loyal and protests walks pakistan last week are to the government's increased fuel prices and must be reported as a bid to unlock. i am at funding some protest is who clash with police. many of them subsequently arrested was the port is of ousted prime minister and run con.

he's now called for early elections, while also blaming us intervention in the countries internal affairs for the crisis . well, that's the claim. washington denies. shahida resides hasta and dean at the institute of business management in pakistan sees things differently. i think the prime minister linked to the galleries are, he's trying to show that he feels very strongly about the people's ready for it. and that, you know, he's the one who has in please the prices of her choice. and now he's trying to give the people that he is ready, ready, concerned about their rhetoric. and he's prepared to part with his personal belongings. just to make it a good. i can get a lot of nonsense. i don't see why. i miss insist on increasing the prices. whichever that you meant druck in fact, onto the common people at the i before insisting that he has to increase the price of the fit to it. then i don't think we'd necessarily have to go to the i'm, if,

because you see that are much better than it gives a reader route that it is not going to fit in by that you wish. and you did event as a government for pakistan. the point of i ministers and or we'll finance, especially the economic it can make manager. i've heard the chief of staff and all of the walking dead bank before governance banker party. they're all appointed from washington. i think we need a break and we need to bring in people who are really honest and who are the objects and who would like to develop and you know, close the relationship with the situation and with the people's republic of china, armenian opposition, supporters of classroom police during protests against the government handling of a dispute with as a by john 2 offices were injured in the country's capital, yet event on monday. and more than $100.00 protest detains classes broke out off.

the demonstrated attempted to break through police cordons and to enter the government building opposition. parties have been staging, rally the week demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister, accusing him of mishandling negotiations over the disputed region of nicole and kara. back in the past. 35 years on media and as a by john her was to was over the region. the last ending with a russian broke could cease by agreement. many thanks to keeping this company here in asi, international as always, plenty most be found on our website. dot com ah ah, ah, ah ah

ah mm. oh, well it shows the wrong one, okay. just a to shape out these days because the advocate and engagement equals the trail went so many find themselves worlds apart. we choose to look for common ground.