[000:00:00;00] a with a headline story this, our 3 people, including a child, are killed and several others wounded. and what local authority say was a ukrainian artillery attack on a marketplace and they've done yet. republican also ahead this is the percent of the ukrainian forces, just outside of the nets can from there they can well, they can shoot and shell in all directions. i made fierce clashes on the front lines. our t reports from a battle field near a ukrainian army stronghold on the outskirts film done yet. leading italy

newspaper identifies individuals it say's are involved in so called russian propaganda. here from an italian photographer, i bridge to find himself on the list. i am being accused of pro russian political propaganda, but what proof of this allegation do they have? i'm just doing my job by reporting what i see. i had already been following the conflict for 8 years and all these years i had a clear view of who was the aggressor. former mcdonald's restaurant reopened in russia with the new owner rebranding it to the name and tasty will stop. ortiz visited, gone all of the fast food joints to take a look at the changes and try, i think, with revenue catching the news, our from today here in our team. welcome. it's good to have your company. my name's unit on me. let's get straight into the latest from the ground in the ukraine conflict. at least 3 people, including

a child are dead. numerous others were injured. following intense shelling of a marketplace in the done yes, republic. this monday. local authority say it was a ukrainian military attack on the crowded civilian area. kia hasn't yet commented on the little incident. r t, corresponding rum on cost read something. ukrainian military continues to terrorize innocent civilians here in the city of john nets. several districts were targeted by ukraine's artillery on monday afternoon. as the result, 3 people including a mother and a child were killed. well, there was a lot of advantages to houses, apartment buildings, the gas pipeline was damaged as well. fuel depot was also destroyed. now i'm at one of the places that were hit by shelling right here behind me can see firefighters are still working, trying to put out this blaze. now,

a rocket from multiple rocket launcher landed are right here. this is a storage facility, as i understand is sort aerosols and stationary goods as well. so the entire building is now completely destroyed. and now this kind of scenes, we can witness. so all throughout the city of the nest, this monday there had been no damage to any military infrastructure. and his civilians who continued to suffer from an cosser of r t done at people's republic. yeah, and more to bring you in this size, eastern city of melli, toefl for people up in wounded in an exclusion i signed a police station, local officials say ukrainian forces were responsible for the blast and in nearby birdie on scan. exclusion on a power station is cut off vital electricity supplies to the city. no one was

reported injured in that incident. while intense fighting is raging around the key city of several, and yet where lou ganske republic forces now claim they've taken over the residential areas, rushes defense ministry recently said that nearly all of the republic, 97 percent is under the control of russian forces. and there don bass allies and in the neighboring done yet republic, russian lead fighters have also been advancing, recently, capturing more than a dozen settlements fighting though, is continuing on the outskirts of the capital city. done yet were ukrainian forces, whole fortified positions. ortiz eager shut down of he's on the front line and filed this report. ah, this frontline is just outside the city of the nets and according to the military here, the ukrainians, over there, they've amassed

a significant amount of manpower and military vehicles. in a matter of the past week, basically here's what happened. they had to retreat from the north because that's where they're being pushed by the than that people's republics militia. so they have no other option, but to go to of day of car where they have various work, basically stronghold it's a fortress so they can hide that. so they are concentrated in the this is the epicenter of the ukrainian forces. just outside of the nets can from there they can well they can shoot an shell in all directions basically from, with their, their shelling civilians and genetic civilians and other villages and towns here and quite often the use. so this is the remains of a polish shell and its aluminum. and what's very special about it is that you can't hear it normally. you can hear the hissing sound of mine as it's approaching you, or is it or is it flies above you? these don't make a sound, these are silent killers. and in general,

according to the military, they seem the ukrainians seem to be running out of soviet ammunition. because more and more they're finding these western made remains of the armaments. what needless are you watching? pulled on the notion which they've really strengthened their positions in our part of the front in ab dave, in the direction of the village of spartak. we suspect they did this as our soldiers squeezed them down from the north and they moved people here along the only road that can still be driven on. they've brought artillery systems and tanks here and camouflaged their positions. but we're gradually forcing them out. they've moved over here because there are 2 large heavy, concrete fortified areas in a former military base in the area. and you know, the little front line town of spar tuck is tormented like it hasn't been in years. the ukrainian forces are hitting it with all the military might. they've got there . but while it looks deserted,

a handful of civilians still live there. many out of principle of cheer to love nozzle. what of what i've been living here for a long time. more than 40 years, i've lived through the whole war here. i haven't gone anywhere. we started living in the basement when the war began and all the utilities were disconnected. the electricity was shut off literally in a week's time. shortly after that the water was turned off and then a week later the gas was cut off. in the winter, it's clear that the apartment isn't heated, so we've been living in the basement to get that. ah missing luca, those whom decided to stay, they have to live in conditions like this, especially given the increased volume over the bombardments coming and bombs

falling from the ukrainian side. of course, this is no blocked re hotel, but they have an improvised something of stover fireplace. a couple of bunk beds, but notice how neat it is here. little improvised shelves or something like a rack here. so even given that people here, of course, they have to survive and will really die conditions. this is miles better compared to what we've seen. and as of style steel plant, for example, where the as of neo nazi fight as well, this is much cleaner, much better, much neat, and much more of a home. well, as russian troops continue their advance, more and more weapons are being found abandoned by forces a big issue at western states. some been shipping thousands of shorts and medium range missiles as well as empty tank system. armored vehicles on defense units to you've been with t evans requesting further military aid because it's now heavily reliant on those

weapons and ammunition picking up the story for us on our t's dollar quarter key of fear leaders in the western media look a bit down these days, no doubt, the heavy military losses encouraged by ukraine have sent a shock wave of war weariness across its camp. this is an artillery war now, and we are losing in terms of artillery. the sheer number of casualties more than $20000.00 a month raises the question about what state ukraine's army will be. and if the war dragged on into the autumn with a sour ukraine, with tens of billions of dollars, with a seemingly never ending flow of weapons to boot. and still kiev says it needs even more military aid because it's now running out of ammo. so to real, the ukrainian military's western lifeline back into the fray, it's deploying some good old fashioned fear tactics and cooking. if pudding winds 500000 ukrainian troops will join the one and a half 1000000 russian forces. if europe was invaded by russia,

they could not defend themselves all the while jo biden's busy saying i told you so about his warnings to ukraine's president vladimir zalinski back before russia launched its military operation. i know a lot of people thought i was maybe exaggerating, but i knew and we had data to sustain. he was going to go in off the border. there was no doubt and zalinski didn't want to hear it. it's not as biden though. zalinski is cabinets, seems to not like listening to western officials at all. at last month's world economic forum in davos, former us secretary of state, henry kissinger, called on zalinski to make territorial concessions to russia in the interest of peace for that's zalinski said he felt like he was at munich in 1938, preparing to make concessions to the nazis at the same time, ukraine's internet database of enemies of the state. mere authority has accused the former us statesmen of spreading fascist propaganda. more recently, kissinger double down saying a place needs to be found for russia. at the end of the war,

the question will now be how to end the war. and it's, and a place has to be found for ukraine and a place has to be found for russia. if we don't want russia to become an outpost of china in europe, as a lensky continues, his uncompromising position, economic consequences of unconditional support are piling up in the west. and the u . k. many are cutting back on consumption of both food and energy. according to polls, $1.00 and $6.00 germans are skipping meals, a mid skyrocketing food prices and across europe. the authorities are warning of a harsh, cold winter to come, who knows how much longer kia has before the west decides to cut its losses abroad and focus on far bigger problems at home. we don't know where these weapons are landing, some might be being used by the troops, but we know that any are destroyed before they're even deployed by directly in the

polls or even in the trains. and also the concerns for the effects of the war on europe, particularly energy and food costs are going to already having an impact on the population. the similarity between the reporting of the war in the major newspapers. and overwhelmingly, in the last couple of weeks, the stories have changed tone a bit. they've mentioned shortage of ammunition. they've mentioned the some ukrainian losses. they've mentioned difficulty of energy provisions for the, for the winter in europe. and every day there's a new solution as to how to go around the problem of the rush and gas. and what's going to happen in october, nato's chief, her said, ukraine may have to start thinking whether to trade. it's tara 3 for

a piece deal. yet schools and berg also insisted that the military alliance, which he heads, will stay out of the conflict to avoid a potential escalation. this is false wall. that's not the question away. the question is, what price are you willing to pay for piece? how much territory? how much in depends, how much $70.00, how much freedom, how much democracy are willing to sacrifice for peace. and that's a very difficult moral dilemma on it's for those who are paying the highest price to make that judgment. our mon space is important. those remarks come as the german daily build is reporting the leaders of 3 european nato countries, france, germany and italy are planning a trip to key of at the end of the month. none of the governments have confirmed the claim as yet. however, they have hinted that ukraine will have to make some concessions to achieve peace. ortiz rachel marston looks into what might be on the agenda if the trip goes ahead . all 3 leaders, recent words and actions,

have conveyed mixed feelings and continuing to view the conflict in ukraine. zalinski himself is said that french president, a manual back hall, told him to give up land for peace. echoing the position of american diplomatic icon, harry, henry kissinger. michael also said that we must not humiliate russia so that the date of fighting stops. we can build a way out through diplomatic channels. in time prime minister mario druggie has been calling for peace negotiations. and is foreign affairs minister. we did my o presented a 4 point piece plan last month to united nations secretary general antonio gutierrez, involving a cease fire demilitarization of the front lines, ukrainian neutrality resolution of territorial disputes between russia and ukraine . security guarantees and the listing of sanctions against russia. druggie has also said that there's a need to ask how to build peace and ukrainian officials have repeatedly accused

german chancellor, olaf shoulds of dragging his feet on fledged weapons, supplies, pre crane, all free leaders talk tough about russia publicly, but have to also be aware of the harmful impacts the anti russian sanctions are having on the increased daily living costs versus for the citizens of their own countries. the european union had the ability to help prevent this conflict at the very outset, by refusing to play along with washington's agenda, ratcheting up tensions with russia and ukraine. and it still has the ability to alter its course in favor of peace. but will it sees the opportunity to do so, or just continue to serve as an enabler? china as president, she jan paying her assigned an order to strengthen the country's military preparedness that comes amid rising tensions over taiwan. now the order consists of a half the $59.00 articles that come into effect in just 2 days to quote,

safeguard national sovereignty on regional stability. earlier turn is the fence ministry said the country would fight to prevent the island of taiwan from succeeding from beijing. if anyone dares to split taiwan from china, the chinese military has no choice but to fight at all costs and take all necessary measures to crush any attempt by ty, when he separatists, to split taiwan from the motherland. the chinese military will resolutely safeguard national security and territorial integrity. the defense ministry also alleged that the u. s. is stirring up tensions in the region, creating an atmosphere of quote, conflict, and confrontation, beijing se washington should rather work to improve relations between the countries . that's after the bio administration launched an economic initiative last month to strengthen the american economic ties in the indo pacific region with more than a dozen countries. but china was excluded. well, that's crossed live now to independence specialist on china,

andrew long for his pick. andrew pleasure to welcome you onto the program today. so a rub up in military preparedness by china. what do you see is the primary reason for that? well this is the 1st time that beijing has these kind of guidelines for some of the lead on ability procurement. but this time is very significant. coming off of the very strong statement by the chinese events minister and singapore. the shangri la donal wanting the united states not to hold, allowed the promise of the one china principal because the, although the united states, i keep on saying that the owner, the one time principal on the other hand,

the united states and seem to be doing all sorts of things trying to hold while this is trying to promote time on independence and also being involved military, both in on. so by training these troops and of course, applied by one with some legal advance. so i think that this and of course, the c s all ready to make it quite clear that the unification of by one is front and center of china's agenda in the realization of the china 3 by 19, by 2049. at the latest, the 100 and it was of the founding of the people as we can try. but china's preference is for peaceful unification. but all the other hand, it doesn't well military intervention. and i want to declare

that independence all is supported, especially by an embassy, the united states, the articles, the guidelines will be in place in the next couple of days in terms of them, mr. lung did anything in particular catch your eye in terms of what the order contained on just as an aside to that, how will this all affect the situation in the region? well, if you look at the statement, so it deliberately says there's nothing to do with war. it is that just the parents of the military operations that need to be of reason saw or in those getting the personnel and also installation of. busy equipment and, and also military assets ready in case the war breaks out because there was tension not only over time one,

but as well as outside of c with japan. and also the american so called freedom of navigation operations. and of course, the united states is looking more and more military assets. and only recently, united states is trying to build of the world's largest aircraft carrier. in addition to is a formidable m, a fleet of 11 battle groups after carrier rebels. so all the suggest that the united states is upping the ante and costa china has got to respond. but at the end of the day, the chairman all the john cheese on small general motley recently made an estimate. ready in congress saying that tara is not ready to go, possess the full capability, complete whale over taiwan until at least 2027. but against that, there was a more recent study or just to put in there. but why is the u. s. just and what you

said about mark, milly, why is the u. s. so interested in taiwan becoming a sovereign nation? what significance does it have in that region for washington? well, of course the us this is using taiwan along with other. busy busy agenda slicing, daniel given one call to rattle and beijing because and of course strategically, one is also very important. it is seen by the united states and an unthinkable aircraft carrier. and the idea is that the united states idea is to want to the p. like paul compliant, but on the other hand, try to promote ons and freedom of movement in dramatic circles as if one was a separate country. and also feeling high and high level with by one in a way horribly out that promise. one of 11 of the school,

but the reality remains that the vast majority of power people want unification. but also the vast majority of them do not want to offset the status quo. so it's very, very complicated. but of course, at the end of the day, aging doesn't want this program to be kept at the cape, the can and being kick, kick down the road indefinitely. as i say it and see is quite clear that by 2014 at the latest, i want to talk to you like it one way or the other. but of course, the ideal solution is a peaceful vacation. and always she is out of war is also by thing and willing without fighting is the best solution. we always appreciate you coming in the program and sharing your expertise with under lung independence specialist

on china life on rti and the tele and newspaper has compiled a list of individuals it sees are involved in so called russian propaganda. it's published their names along with photos, the article in korea, dela sera claims, 10 individuals among them, reporters, as well as a professor on the senior diplomatic official, or part of a quote pro put in network aimed at influencing political discourse. we heard from an italian photographer shop to find himself on the list of the popular korea, dela sanders publication is something awful because all those who are mentioned in the article are being accused of spreading fakes and supporting what they call russian propaganda. besides that, it doesn't offer any kind of an example of evidence which supports their statements . i am being accused of pro russian political propaganda. but what proof of this allegation do they have? i spoke directly to their deputy director fiorenza cyrus johnny,

who co authored the article i asked her for evidence for at least one example of misinformation which i've ever spread during my career. and she failed to provide any. i told her that the allegations made by the newspaper against me are very serious. the problem is that at the moment we are being compromised among people who follow such newspapers as korea. del sara. people are being discouraged against listening to our news and opinions. and it's a real outrage. the thing is that not a single italian newspaper, a tv channel asked for an interview with us. archie is the only channel which got the idea to call me and ask for my opinion about the situation. in fact, i've never been an unequivocal advocate for russia. i'm just doing my job by reporting what i see. i had already been following the conflict for 8 years and all these years i had a clear view of who was the aggressor. i saw that it was the ukraine which started the policy of aggression against the russian speaking population of dumbass. i would also add that unfortunately in the last 2 years,

russia was somewhere in the vicinity. and that somehow served as a constraining factor to avert reprisals against these people. i kept doing my job . i completed my last mission in april, during which i recorded everything that i encountered, interviewed people. and now i can't figure out how it is possible that my professional view has been rejected in italy. italians continue to vehemently oppose the italian government's decision to send arms to ukraine. the latest polls show that 60 percent of italians are openly against these armed deliveries and favor a diplomatic solution to this conflict. over all the majority of italians are tired of following the war, they show ever less interest in war related news. many italians have become thinking more about their pastime, go into the beach, considering this war to be something alien to their lives. and finally, as western browns leave russia on mass in protest over the conflict in ukraine. the fate of many companies here remains uncertain. after 3 decades in russia,

mcdonald so sold its franchises, which in fact of just reopened under a new name, tasty full stop. r t. charlotte davinsky visited one of the restaurants to take a look at the changes and maybe sample watson offered to it's probably the most popular opening of a restaurant. well, since it originally opened in the 1990 s. and this is what they've been waiting for . the return of the big, well, they spoke a new name is tasty. ho, stop. and it's pretty much what you'd expect from the old franchise. bought the new director general says it will be different. we are completely different, but all the assets have been sold. barnsfield. so when you buy up until you've seen that on them, what is your wild, far as assessment to pos, crosspost to create the completely new fronting, unprecedented. ah, thank russia,

which we successfully managed to do. we don't have any relationship to the conformational. mcdonalds announced last month that it was pulling out of russia. the american big food joints made a huge hoo ha saying it could no longer stay in the country. it was no longer reasonable with it. so your values as a result of the war in ukraine. however, he's keeping it options and the company has the white boy back these franchises within the next 15 years as well. for least friday, looks completely exit the thrush markets. and not only is a former corporate business, but also also when she's stopped working international. so miser in forest long, severe law as a will get a gym law. it's the most cruel cynthia station on april. so can you see a lot of sports are going to open? my eyes are closed,

are equal to fight those 40 percent on brand new stuff. this some say is a sewing of russian resistance to sanctions. and western business is leaving new home growing companies, taking over despite highlighting its losses. mcdonalds hasn't moved away empty handed. and there is this new name changed. but the one question that everybody wants to know is does it still have bad taste that they love so much? um, you're kind of, it seems to me that the taste is even a bit better. oh, and i'm very glad that mcdonald has returned to russia, but it's a mazda 3 decades ago. i stood in the same to you when mcdonald's 1st open, i was a student able us to get to think the new restaurant was unity. that whole stop will develop further and be even better than before. well, there's only one way to find out who i'm loving it. charlotte. stevens gave aussie pushkin's glass in moscow. charlotte

mixing her work with her dinner. there are endless sanctions and punishments aims. russia, but then while he is the rue, both fridays are short documentary. talk of that question. next, stay close. this is our to international. mm mm. with proven is the aggressor poon chose is war today i'm authorized with additional strong sanctions. i think you chose williams senior as we speak on the new student, mostly mind the branding all in ports of russian oil and gas turbine and imposing these sanctions are bratia you as destroyed the american procedures,

boomerang i, where you're suffering the i key interest really hitting people in the pocketbook boys, i guess, was on those there, i see a using the, this is not you, this is gonna impose severe cost on the russian economy. folks immediately and over time, re some, as i stated the, the on their, i thought it by the, we have list for the social menus that for them all started a little bit. he makes this, all the emeralds. remember him very in the opposite. it sort of develop it fixed body hub, did show that 21st century is with asians. it russia is also an asian country and began to develop military cooperation. similar to what nature does in europe propose lower temperature threshold. so to swing by, look here from nowhere or here move on