oh i at least 3 people are being killed in the shelling of residential areas, including several schools in the city of don. yes, according to local officials, who accused ukrainian military of deliberately targeting civilians with weapons supplied by the usa and explosion. the left to aid workers injured in the ukrainian city of military people currently under russian control was an act of terrorism stays the local administration and r t correspondent, witness the incident. i am now at the moment total 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

montalvo. and a 2nd explosion is still possible. a little more than we remember hold your country, say the block will not be able to negotiate a ban on russian oil imports. as a high profile, european council meeting goes into full swing in gruff ah a very warm welcome. beth is arthur 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 moscow key of anti united nations accept that role for ankara. turkeys president, voice the proposal during a call with vladimir putin on monday, the russian president said that moscow is ready to facilitate a c corridor that will allow for grain exports from ukraine and confirmed that russia is prepared to explore significant volumes of fertilizers and agricultural

products as soon as western sanction 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 officials say at least 3 people have been killed and 21. others wounded including children, and the shelling of the capital city of the don't bass republic. ukrainian forces have been accused of intentionally targeting civilian areas, including several schools. ah. the shelling has left 3 educational sides, damaged local authority, say 2 people were killed and 12 others wounded inside school. number $22.00, the director of the facility, se several teachers were injured in that attack. and here's some of the latest footage from another don. yes, school also left damaged by shelling. there's no word on casualties so far. the

math on yesterday's, the ukrainian bombing was carried out with the use of heavy weapons supplied to keys by the u. s. ukraine has not yet commented on the allegations of correspondent milan, cause direct reports from outside one of the shout schools. i am standing right now next to the school number 22. the, as you can see, it's almost completely destroy them. this is where one of the ledge of ukrainian rockets had landed on. fortunately they were there were no people nearby here, but we are getting a difference. reports about the number of casualties here in the next gets anywhere from 3 to 5. and i think that's because a couple of people are yet to be identified that truly or if it's season done as this monday morning, one of the people who is yet to be identified had been decapitated by the strike. 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 vist, one and another school in the same area have been damaged as well. local officials are saying that said the crating side used 165 millimeter millimeter artillery against civilians are here. and as the result are at least 20 people have been wounded and there are children along among those people as well. now one of the principles of one of the schools talked to us little bit earlier in the day and she said there could have been a lot more victims. let's have a listen. they were going to deliver a water here and accept human tearing 8 nearby. but they was own, cancelled early this morning at 9 30 am around 50 people were supposed to gather here adults and high schools to use at the time of the explosion i was inside. we

were having online classes. now there could have been a lot more victims just like this principal said plus may. the 30th of this monday is the day of this state exam. so a lot of fun children had sent it to their schools. and fortunately, those schools that 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 mulatto pull currently under russian control has also been rocked by an explosion and acts. the local administration has cooled terrorism to humanitarian aid. workers were injured in the blast. early this morning when they called dr. of an explosive device and anti correspondent was at the scene. go see the movie. but 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 cordons of the area to find out what happened. such things have never happened before in mila 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 hole and exploded when the car with the 2 victims inside drove over it. the subsequent bloss shook the windows and walls of nearby buildings and black smoke could be seen rising from the city and investigation into the explosion is ongoing . fresh troops that took control of the city at the end of february and have the latest on advances on the ground over the weekend fighting has been intense in and around the 7 vote on yes,

one of the last ukrainian controlled cities and guns were public. and further, south rushes that his forces on the allies have expanded their presence around the city of scotland dulls. can the republic don't? yeske corresponded ecos on reports from a recently seized well. we ukrainian artillery position that this is one of the main artillery positions of the logan's peoples republic militia, just outside the town of smitley dark. 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 shown that this is big guns with, well, lots of amazon, i ah, eve

new toys, nutritional, you still show none of our reserve hispanic. 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't 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 sped la darcy, when the militia made the decisive push to take this place, hundreds of bombs hail down on this bastion. ah

yes you little go to 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 soldiers. it's hard. i remember those who have fallen while taking this hill as well as those who are killed before right ago. we suffered a lot from this ukranian position at that. you can see it has a great vantage point. 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. oh, my gosh, donna reporting from don bass r t. a unanimous hungry and estonia said the block is failing to negotiate a band on oil and pool is from russian. european lead is the thing down in brothels to try and agree on a nice sanctions package. here's the hungarian prime minister ahead of the meeting that he's looking for my the this moment. oh that remember all energy it's

risky. serious. so therefore we haven't changed your approach for solutions than oh, wonderful. well, optimism is something that seems to be in abundance with some leaders and not with others. as we go into this summit, there 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 there from victor alban 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, it's been a topic of debate for some time, has in it. why is that you still yet to come to any agreement there?

well, it's difficult to oversee, to get 27 members nations to come together to agree on anything or but there was this sense when his 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 were 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 lighted. 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're seeing these huge raises 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 bad 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. same 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 then we've opened a 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 state 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 ban 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 their 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 joins now by dr. george samuel. he a senior research fellow, the global policy institute of london. many thanks to join, it goes on the program. so it says our 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 they're 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. busy 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 all a carte blanche. i mean there's no deadline or just go on a. 2 oil, you know, for as long as it was of course, it's a race, all sorts of 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 blog to reach any compromise during this to the event? no, i, i don't. i mean, i think that there will be some, they talk about a plan along these lines. but then, you know, if, if you're under age and then the check probably goes to like you get this report,

then i think in many other countries i'm going to say, well, this is unfair. we're already suffering a, as a result of the sanctions. why should we have to carry all of the heavy burden? and one of us can just simply walk away 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 you? why 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 that 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, this kind of knocks. and so they a alliance that was just a bit of

a russian oil influence by the end of the year. it was just childish and it was a ludicrous ridiculous plan and it, you know, and i think now they are realizing that most 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 r g bar is what is the central issue here, which is what are the sanctions supposed to achieve? last the heard russia, but it's clear and also a wonder lion admitted as much interview for the weekend with n b c. he says that, well actually if we don't import quote from rock rush, we'll be doing very well because they don't sell elsewhere. so actually we need to import oil as a way to punish russia. so in other words, the actual underlying policy, which is western russia,

is clearly failing the only people who are being heard, the unfortunate europeans rush and gas is also going to be up for discussion. during this meeting with prices skyrocketing this winter, do you think europe will be ready for next winter? no, i don't know because they're going to have to stop 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, any, was your own shows will be talking and talking about going to getting a cell phone. but the, all of the big industries on germany, i've gone to shoals and said, you know, you can guess and we're down german economy goes back to where it was in 1945.

you know, this is just nonsense to live. there's no way in the world the germany can operate as the economic powerhouse of europe. i come up with those and yeah, because there are the gas appliance, you can 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 power the german economy. and joe and germany. so, you know, it doesn't have the facilities to take a liquefied natural gas. so it's a, it's just all been this fantasy. well, the european leaders of the living in a level of crease a, some of the realities you're getting them in the face. talk to george, 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 in politician has blasted,

suspected ukrainian draft dodgers off the 2 tanks to drive it will be turned up in a sense of vienna by a group of men traveling in cars with ukrainian license plates. so make net the head all 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 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 taxi driver may have passed out during the violence as he wasn't moving when the attack is dragged him to the side of the road. austrian police are conducting an investigation with the instant is not the 1st time the behavior of ukrainians abroad has come under scrutiny. only this month, the warsaw resident died off to a fight with ukrainians and in prague them stores and now refusing to accept you training customers after an increase. in fact, in recent months earlier for me you were p. m. parliament. number godfrey blame

claim that such problems can be caused by open to immigration to welfare societies . the conversations 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, some 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 they're 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 aid. early this month to buy and approve the release of another $40000000000.00 of us taxpayers money for ukraine. that 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 oceans 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 as 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 a while the washington post has released an article about the foreign volunteer who's recently returned from ukraine. who say it is military unit was provided with american weapons that didn't even work. dakota cohort for volunteers was attached to ukrainian military units and brought by yellow school bus to keith from which they were sent northwest into a number or town outside the capital. it was early march, they were issued, entertained weapons, and devil in this house, but no batteries for the launch unit are 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, by 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 need. these mercenaries are claiming that the weapons they were given were faulty or not working. then you have to ask where the better quality weapons have ended up. i ended up in the hands of only or the, the as of, and also nationalist 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 when there is no way to us or do you cry or any country, any nitro members, 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. pakistan's prime minister claims, he's ready to sell the clothes, clothes off his back to hope. so one of the was the economic crises in the country's history shall, sharif, told a chief minister, but 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 path to prosperity and development. while i protest walks pakistan last week onto the government, increased fuel prices and must be reported as a bid to unlock. i am funding some protesters who clash with police. many of them subsequently arrested. were supporters of our prime minister and run con. he's now

called for early elections, also blaming us intervention in the countries internal asked for the crisis. that's a claim washington denies. so he desired as an ortho and dean at the institute of business management in pakistan sees things differently. i think the prime minister thing 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 really, really concerned about their rhetoric. and he's prepared to part with his personal belongings just to make their life good. i can get a lot of nonsense. i don't feel right. i'm if insist on increasing the prices which have that you met druck in fact, on to the common people at the i'm, it was interesting that he has to increase the price of the good. then i don't think we'd necessarily have to go through the i'm, if,

because you see that are much better than that of the blue. that there is a knock of interference by the way, and you get it from the events of government for pakistan. the point of i'm in is does and or we'll finance minutes to especially the economic or it can all make managers. i've heard the chief of army staff and all of the walking dead bank for governance game, bank of pakistan. they're all appointed from washington. i think that we need a break and we need to bring in people who are really honest and who are really 50 optic and who would like to develop a relationship with that situation. and with the people's republic of china, armenian opposition. supporters of clans with police during protest against the government's handling of a dispute with azerbaijan. 2 officers were injured in the country's capital, yet event on monday, and more than $100.00 protest is detained. the classes broke out after demonstrated

attempted to break through police wardens and to enter the government building opposition. parties have been staging valleys, the weeks demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister, accusing him of mishandling negotiations over the disputed region of may go and i care about. in the past 35 years, armenia and azerbaijan have fought 2 wars over the region. the longstanding, with a russian broken cease by agreement. many thanks to keeping his company here in asi, international as always, plenty more to be found on our website, r t dot com. ah . with the west train prov, again, machine has begun to grab the reality of the battlefield is at odds with

a tightly guarded messaging bed western public's view. courageous voices say the obvious grain should negotiate. now while it still has something to negotiate. if anybody's been trapped in an elevator, 20 minutes could be pretty long time right and a load trapped in an elevator for 20 minutes. not knowing what's gonna happen, not knowing where he wore the sits of sensory deprivation. i figure that is your life a 20 minute about an hour, not the only are the intercom is nothing i was trying to get you out because keeping you in is your communication. oh that's existence. ah.